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53rd Year Price 10 Cents MedfordTribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Reed College Graduate Credited As Anti-Billboard Bill Author By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington A Reed col lege graduate has been cred ited with originating and gr drafting the " it, anil- Diuooara control law which Con gress has just passed, but Neub e r g e says the creti it should go to Hans Linde his legislative Robt smitb . assistant. Linde said he suggested the idea to Neuberger shortly aft er the senator came to Wash ington when the Eisenhower administration was preparing to recommend a long-range highway program. "I always disliked the darn billboards," Linde explained "and I knew 'that Dick had opposed them when he was in the state legislature. Linde drafted the first bill board control bill during the 84th Congress as Neuberger announced he would, seek to ban signboards on the new interstate highway system This touched off one of the maior backstage battles of Congress in the past several years. War Chest for Fight Advertising agencies, sign rainters unions and business es who wanted to utilize road side space for ads employed experienced lobbyists, financ ed with what was reported to be a $300,000 war chest, to fight the Neuberger proposal At stake was the billboard business which last year in volved ads costing an estimat ed $200,000,000. Bilboard bans gradually picked up wide public sup port. The American Automo bile association, garden clubs and other conservation groups, plus many newspa pers, came out for signboard controls. Linde's original draft got emasculated in the senate public works committee when the big highway bill was ap proved in 1956, then got kill ed outright on the senate floor. Last year he was back with a new version, which lost by one vote in committee. Tide Starts Turning The tide began to turn ear ly this year when Senator Ku chel, who had opposed it last year, announced he would now favor the idea. Linde and Kuchel's assistant got togeth er and drafted a version both senators later agreed to, with a few modifications, and the successful drive to put it across began once more. Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D- Okla.) led the fight against the ban but lost to the Neu- berger-Kuchel alliance by vote of 47-41. Billboard con trols drew support from a bi partisan group, 24 Democrats and 23 Republicans. The house subsequently went along by an overwhelming vote on the eve of the spring recess. The appeal of the billboard control provision in the high way act was that it leaves the ultimate decision on the issue up to the states but offers financial inducements to en ter into anti-billboard agree ments. There is no way of South African Natives Strike Johannesburg, South Africa (IP) Prime Minister J. Strii- dom mobilized South Africa's police Monday to try to break a stay-home strike by four million - natives. The strike threatened to paralyze South African economy. Police with submachine guns and batons were out in force on the streets of Johan nesburg, Cape Town and oth er major cities. Strijdom promised that Africans who ignore the strike call will be given protection on their way to work. First reports from the ma jor cities indicated the strike was at least 90 per cent ef fective. Roads which at day break are often thronged with natives on their way to work were largely deserted today except for the police. The strike was called for three days by the African Na tional Congress, only voice of the country's 9,500,000 Afri cans. It ends Wednesday when the nation's white voters go to the polls in a general election. Only the 3,500,000 white in habitants can vote in the elec tion, and Strijdom's National ist Party is considered a cer tainty to stay in power and pursue its policy of Apart heid, the absolute segregation of white and colored. EMPTY HOUSES COUNTED Washington (IP) The Cen sus bureau reported 2.8 per cent of all dwelling units in the nation were vacant and available for rental or sale during the first quarter of the year. Detroit, Mich. (IP) John S. Coleman, president of Bur roughs Corp., suffered a fatal heart attack here Sunday. knowing just how much Ore gon might get, for she would have to apply for her bonus on the cost of that portion of the federal aid highway sys tem covered by billboard con trols. That is, the state would not have jurisdiction to con trol signboards in some areas, such .as within the limits of incorporated towns and cities, so no bonus money would ap ply to the cost of that portion of the new highways running through towns where signs were, allowed. Bonus Offered The law aflows a bonus of one-half per cent of the cost of a highway covered by a billboard ban. When the high way act was passed, Oregon officials estimated the state would get about $38 million a year. The annual bonus of that total amount would be $190,000. In addition, if the state pur chases from the owners of land adjoining the new high ways their rights to lease space to signboard companies, this cost can be added to the hiehwav construction costs, of which the government pays its share. Not all signs would be out lawed. Those allowed would include official notices or di rectional signs; signs adver tising 'nroDertv on which , they are located for sale or lease; signs advertising businesses along the road, so long as they are not larger than 500 square inches and located within 12 miles of the busi ness: other signs sanctioned by state law not in violation of the intent of the anti-bill board act. Hopes Explained Linde said one of the hopes of the plan's sponsors is that the states would use the bon us money for roadside devel opment. He pointed out that one feature insisted on by Neuberger is that when states present billboard control agreements to the Commerce Department to collect their bonus payments, the- agree ments may include provi sions for preservation of nat ural beauty, prevention of erosion, landscaping, refor estation, development of view points for scenic attractions that are accessible to the pub lic without charge and the erection" of markers, signs or plaques, and development of areas in appreciation of sites of historical significance." So, added Linde, a Reed graduate in 1947, the act should have' these positive benefits and not simply, be a negative act to outlaw sign boards. 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