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Monday. July as. 1857 Honer' Hemine Se
Power of President to Influence
Bills Demonstrated in Congress
By A. FOERT StrttTTS
Mail Tribunt C.rv Vflek
Washington Te t-
whelming power of to arc
dent to influence the outccswe
of legislative battles on Caitc
Hill has seldom been so clearly
demonstrated as last week jn
three of the most bitterly fought
issues facing Congress.
In each c?s; Hells Canyon
federal aid to education and the
civil rights
bill the out
come followed
the course in-
d i c a t e d by
President Ei
senhower.
The Hells
Canyon bill
was killed
alter passing
the Senate, in
A. Kobe Smltb
the House Interior committee
where a soliJ wall of Republi
cans, aided by two Democrats,
blocked it from being sent to the
House. The rigidity of the GOP
position was due to White House
pressure to vote against Hells
Canyon.
Education Bill
The aid to education bill was
. more complicated, because Ei
senhower had said on several
occasions that he favored fed
eral assistance to local school
districts to help solve their over
crowding problems with new
schools. He sent Congress a bill
to provide an aid program
Democrats wanted to provide
a larger aid program, so the re
sult was a bill that was a com
promise between the two. After
the bill was reported out of the
House education committee, the
Republican leaders took a poll
and found a majority of the
GOP congressmen opposed to
passing the school bill.
On the day the bill was up for
a vote last week, Eisenhower
had a conference with GOP
Leader Joe Martin and author
ized him to say that he wasn't
happy with some parts of the
j qcniDQj Did dui prooaDiy
wouldn't veto it.
(Ztext oi Indication
Tin effect ef this indication
frcw tke White House that the
resident wsuld-n't- be sore at
the Republicans if they ducked
out on the school bill was quick
ly observed. When the vote
came to kil1 the bill. Ill Repub
licans teamed up with 97 Demo
crats to bury school aid. With
the 126 Democrats who tried to
pass it there were 77 Repub
licans. Every Northwest law
maker supported the bill.
The civil rights bill voting
was along similar lines: al
though the bill itself is still be
ing debated, one vital amend
ment has been adopted to whit
tle down the effectiveness and
scope of the bill.
As it came to Congress, the
civil rights bill was entirely
the product of the Justice de
partment and a vital part of the
Eisenhower program. By turn
ing on the pressure in behalf of
it, the White House succeeded
earlier this session of getting it
through the House without any
of the amendments sponsored
by southern Democrats aimed at
scrapping the bill
When the Senate debate got
hot, and southerners attacked in
greatest strength, the president
began to express doubts about
the bill's part III, by which in
tegration of public schools might
have been enforced.
Fought in Vain
Sen. William F. Knowi;ind,
the civil rights leader and the
Senate's Republican leader,
fought in vain thereafter to pre
vent part III from being emascu
lated. The Senate voted 52 to 38
to trim this section ct its author
ity. Joining the sponsors of the
amendment were 18 Republi
cans whom Knciwland can usual
ly keep in line but who defected
this time.
As several congressional ob
servers put it:
u the president had gone
down the line for the school bill
and civil rights as strongly as
lie did against Hells Canyon, it
would have been a different
story."
The results indicate that a
president can usually get pretty
much what he wants when he
is as popular as Eisenhower, and
that when he doesn't want it
very badly he doesn't get it.
n Paris Fashion Report
Paris 0.1 The curtain will
rise on the Paris Fashion shows
Monday and so will Milady's
hemlines. Chistian Dior has de
creed it.
Advance reports and rumors
seeping from the heavily-guarded
showrooms proclaim the day
of the long skirt is past.
Dior, who brought the world
the "new look" with calf-length
skirts, is bowing to the trend
first developed by Italian design
ers at their showing earlier this
month.
Best guess in Haute Coutoure
circles is that skirts will tip the
knees.
7,000-Pound Elephant Goes
On Six-Hour Romp in Town
icial Toll of
Flood Passes 1,000
Nagasaki, Japan SPi The
official police toll of dead and
missing in the worst floods in
kyushu's history today passed
1,000. The area now is threaten
ed with an epidemic.
Health officials of Nagasaki
Prefecture and American doc
tors at the Atom Bomb Casualty
Commission in Nagasaki sent out
an urgent call for medicine.
The U.S. Air Force rushed 85
pounds of antibiotics, vaccines
Robert Strom Wins On Challenge Show
New York W Robert
Strom, 11, boosted his total quiz
show earnings to $224,000 Sun
day night by winning S32.000 on
"The S64.000 Challenge" tele
vision program.
Strom split a $64,000 prize
with his challenger, David Jun
chen, II, Sherrard, 111., when
each correctly answered ques
tions about electronics on the
and antitoxins from Camp Drew,
north of Tokyo, to the flood area
by helicopter and B26s.
CBS show. Strom previously
had won S192.000 on "The S64,
000 Question."
In another match, Gregory Si
monsen, 59, a Philadelphia wait
er, tied at S4.000 with his chal
lenger, Joel Kupperman, 21, Chi
cago, a former "quiz kid."
They will meet next week at
the 58,000 level.
About 60 per cent of the gen
eral adult population needs
glasses but only about 30 per
cent are wearing them.
American Can Company
Employees Back on Job
Portland (IB Over 400
employes of the American Can
company here were to go back
to work today, pending further
discussions of a union grievance.
The employes elected to return
to work at a meeting Sunday.
Workers walked off the job
Thursday night after a foreman
allegedly "shook" a woman em
ploye after the woman talked
back to him.
Five pounds of coal are re
quired to make an army rifle.
State Taxes Nudged
Higher With Rising
Living Cost, Service
By ROBERT G. SHORTAL
United Press Financial Writer
New York (IP) State taxes
are being nudged higher by the
twin pressures of rising costs
and growing demands for new
and enlarged services.
The fiscal problems confront
ing the states and their efforts
to cope with them generally
have been overshadowed by the
dispute over spending and taxes
on the national level.
In an effort to bring expendi
tures into line with receipts,
many states have been boosting
taxes on gasoline, tobacco and
liquor and adopting new taxes
such as those on incomes and
sales.
The tax foundation pointed
out that "the pressures exerted
by a growing, prosperous popu
lation for additional schools,
highways, and other state expen
ditures continue unabated.
Increase Taxes
"Bumper yields from state
taxes are not adequate to make
ends meet and many states have
had to increase taxes."
States, like individuals and
corporations, must pay more to
borrow money these days, and
they also must pay more for
Velfare Chairmaii
Resigns in Protest
Ontario (IP N. O. Richards,
Democratic chairman of the Mal
heur county Public Welfare com
mission, said today he is resign
ing in protest over appointment
of a Democrat to replace a Re
publican on the commission.
Gov. Robert D. Holmes last
week named Leslie E. Downie.
Ontario Democrat, to the com
mission to replace L. J. Kinney,
Ontario Republican whose term
had expired.
Richards wrote Holmes saying
his protest resignation was ef
fective Aug. 12 or sooner if the
governor desired. He said he felt
the new appointee was "better
qualified than most" ?nd would
prove a valuable addition to the
commission.
But Richards said he felt com
pelled to "make clear my per
sonal disapproval of the politi
cal practice which this appoint
ment would appear to represent,
a practice which in any field
considered so impractical and
other than government would be
unwise as to immediately im
press the stamp of administra
tive inadequacy upon its practi
tioner." Richards said he referred to
the replacing of qualified ap
pointive governmental servants
"upon no bcrter basis than po
litical party label and indorse
ment of patty leaders."
The governor's office in Salem
had no immediate comment.
Heavy shade is needed for
mink farms because sunlight
"rusts" live mink fur.
wages and materials.
The tax foundation said these
factors will combine to push
state spending across the $22
billion mark in the fiscal year
which began July 1. That com
pares with just $9 billion a dec
ade ago.
The foundation said 31 states
have increased rates on one or
more major taxes in the past 18
months, in an effort to close the
gap between receipts and expen
ditures. So far this year, it added, 26
states have enacted changes in
major tax rates, with 23 increas
ing one or more rates and six
reducing one each. Colorado,
Iowa and Montana did both.
New Items Taxed
The foundation said the quest
for more revenues has brought
such varied items as prunes and
lightning rod agents to the atten
tion of legislators in 45 states
this year.
But the most popular items to
carry the tax boost are the old
standbys cigarettes and gaso
line. Seven states have raised
taxes on cigarettes, five on gas
oline and four each have jacked
up income, liquor and motor ve
hicle taxes.
Three states each have raised
retail sales and property taxes.
Out of 39 states which have
completed legislative sessions,
the six making reductions are
Colorado and Oregon, higher
personal exemptions for income
tax; Montana and Pennsylvania,
one-cent reductions in gasoline
tax: Iowa. 0.5 per cent reduction
in retail sales and use tax, and
North Carolina, comprehensive
revisions expected to save tax
payers S7 million a year.
New York, the only state to
vote a tax cut in 1956, boosted
the personal income tax credit
to 15 per cent on the first $100
and 10 per cent on thi next
$200 for the 1957 tax year.
Chesterton, Ind. (lf Resi
dents of this "sleepy" Indiana
community breathed easier to
day because Babe, a 7,000-pound
elephant, was back on her leash
again.
The venerable, 61-year-old
lady went on a six-hour romp
before she was captured and re
turned early Sunday.
Few people were able to get
much sleep during the night. You
just can't ignore an elephant on
your front lawn or stomping
about in the garden.
The excitement began Satur
day night when the elephant
roamed away from a Chesterton
super-market where she was sta
tioned as a publicity stunt. Her
attendant disappeared at the
'Mystery Witness'
Arrives in Florida
DeLand, fa. OP) The "mys
tery witness" in the Marilyn
Sheppard murder case turned up
unexpectedly here today to try
to make "positive" identification
of Donald Joseph Wedler, who
claims he is the man who club
bed her to death in 1954.
Ernest J. Kolofolias, 32, iden
tified Wedler by pictures in Wa
terloo, Iowa, last week as the
man with the bloody hands who
picked him up on the outskirts
of Cleveland some 24 hours aft
er the slaying.
Kolofolias and two attorneys
for Dr. Samuel Sheppard, who
is serving a life term in the Ohio
Penitentiary for his wife's mur
der, registered at a local hotel
here under the week end, Kolo
folias under an assumed name.
The two attorneys, William
Corrigan and Fred Garmone,
both of Cleveland, planned to
question Wedler thoroughly to
see if his "confession" can be
linked to the actual slaying. Last
week a Cuyahoga county, Ohio,
coroner came here to question
Wedler and later said the 23-year-old
convict's story was a
hoax.
Kolofolias came here unan
nounced by bus. He had a tele
gram in his pocket from Dr. Ste
phen Sheppard, Dr. Sam's bro
ther, which was to identify him
to Sheriff Rodney Thursby m
case he could not make contact
in Florida with Corrigan and
Garmone.
The telegram indicated that
the Sheppard familys ponsored
Kolofolias' trip here. Only a
week ago Corrigan announced
that he was not interested in
Kolofolias' identification of Wed
ler. Corrigan drove to Florida by
car, arriving with Mrs. Corrigan
Sunday. Garmone has been here
since Saturday.
same time.
So "Big Babe" wandered off,
and it wasn't long before most
of the town was aware of it.
A posse of 60 residents and
three policemen took up the
chase. They had no trouble fol
lowing her trail along streets
and alleys to the northeast edge
of town. But they were wary of
getting too close to Babe, as she
resented the chase and trumpet
ed menacingly.
Outside of town. Babe found
a 10-acre field of soybeans to
trample, and, tiring of that,
ambled into a woodland on the
farm of Lon Snyder. There her
attention was diverted by some
succulent twigs and the posse
closed in.
Grab Dangling Chain
Several men grabbed the ele
phant's dangling chain and
staked it to the ground. Mean
while Babe's owner, C, A. Vern
on. St. Louis. Mo., arrived and
led Babe back to the grocery
store.
Wide-awake residents were
treated to a one elephant parade
as the triumphant searchers re
turned. Since the midnight ram
ble made Babe thirsty, they
stopped at the fire station where
firemen turned hoses on her.
But Babe got in the parting
shot. She squirted the water
back at them through her trunk.
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