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3 85th Congress Has Makings of Productive One for Northwest By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington This 85th Congress, about six weeks from adjournment time, has ns of one of the most pro ductive in many years in I its output of 1 e g i s 1 a tion ; having a sub stantial effect on Oregon. C o n g r e s- A. Robt smith sional repeal ; of the 3 per cent tax on ' freight shipments is expected I to have a beneficial affect on ' the Oregon economy. North . -west senators, representing the region most benefited by the repeal and most discrim j inated against by the tax, ' have sought its repeal for years. This ye'Sr they had help from Sen. George Smathers (D-Fla.), who earlier led thea fight for legislation to aid the railroad industry. After the House passed the excise tax extension bill without touch ing the transportation ' tax, Smathers got the Senate to knock it out of the bill by a big vote, as well as the 10 per cent tax on passenger tickets. Proposal Offered In the conference com mittee where a compromise had to be worked out, Smith ers offered the House mem bers a proposal to reduce the freight tax in two steps, 1V4 per cent each time for the next two years. They held out gainst repeal. Then he offered to give ground on the passenger tax, but insisted on retaininthe freight repealer. When the Florida senator made it clear that he would tie uo any agreement past June 30 until the House members gave some ground, they finally agreed. If the bill hadn't been agreed to before July 1, all the excise taxes would have expired and the government would have started losing millions. The result means that the cost of getting Oregon prod ucts to eastern markets a major factor in the state's economy will be reduced 3 per cent. Likewise, eastern goods shipped in Oregon will cost that much less in freight charges. Major Housing Bill Earlier this spring. Con gress passed a major hous ing bill providing additional funds for the federal housing agencies to underwrite pri vate financing of new hous ing construction. Housing since then has picked up and is showing a strong recovery from the slump of the past year or more and Oregon's lumber industry is showing signs of renewed health in due proportion to the spurt in home building. It seems certain now that President Eisenhower will this time sign an omnibus rivers and harbors bill, vetoed earl ier in different forxt and thereby permit authorization of two new coastal navigation projects for Oregon Yaquina . bav and Siuslaw channel. - Congress this past week fin- rished work on the new har bors bill. Two less significant bills, ' but each of widespread Ore T eon interest, were enacted i earlier this year the Ft. I Clatsop Memorial legislation, sponsored by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) and Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.); and the Oregon Centennial proc lamation resolution, sponsored by Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.). Doubtful Status Two or three major bills have passed the Senate but are in doubtful status in the House, where action the next six weeks will tell the final story. They are the Klamath Indian measure", piloted through the Senate by Neu berger and being pushed in the House committee by Rep. Al Ullman (D-Ore.): the labor union welfare and pension fund bill, and the recently passed labor rackets bill, which Sen. Wayne Morse (D Ore.) was instrumental in fashioning. Appropriations for North west projects are in better shape, in relation to the presi dent's budget request, than In many years. The anti-recession attitude toward fed eral spending has made most members of Congress more generous than usual. Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) succeeded early this session in getting added funds trans ferred to Hills Creek dam on the Willamette river to pre vent it being shut down. Northwest senators hope in the next few weeks to get funds to start several new dams not listed in the budget. Hells Canyon Death The 85th Congress marked the death, finally, of the high Hells Canyon dam bill, as well as the birth of the Co lumbia River Development Corporation bill sponsored by all Northwest senators. Pre liminary hearings were held by Neuberger on the latter. More polished legislation, based on these hearings, will be introduced next year. The Senate has passed Sen. Warren G. Magnuson's bill for granting federal 'aid to each state for educational television facilities." Oregon would get up to $1 million to purchase TV equipment. Magnuson's commerce com mittee has approved Neuberg er's bill for requiring approv al of fish passage facilities before dams can be built un der federal licenses. This is designed to prevent the Fed eral Power commission from licensing Nez Perce dam with out regard to m&ratory fish damage. . Passes Porter's Bill The House has passed Port er's bill for granting to Doug las County Historical Society the Lillie Moore property in Roseburg, which was willed to the government for a mu seum. Another Porter bill, to increase mileage allowance for rural mail carriers, has been enacted. Both Porter and Neuberger were instrumental in enact ment of the bills increasing both postal rates and the pay of postal employees, although Porter did not favor the high er postal rates advocated by the administration and back ed by Neuberger. Finally, the 85th Congress appears on the threshold of admitting Alaska to the Vn ion O the first time a new state has been added since 1912. The House passed the bill in " May. A Senate vote is expected this week. Ore gon interests, with commer cial ties with Alaska, have long favored making Alaska a state and opening it to greater economic develop ment. (QHPEKWDGIHnrS SHOP FROM 9 A.M. TILL 8 P.M. . bra TWttfe? 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Y. print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. - 10 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, July 1, 1958 Traffic Uses New interstate Bridge Vancouver, Wash. (UPI) Traffic began moving across the Columbia river on a new bridge today following dedication ceremonies for the $7,500,000 span. The old bridge was closed to traffic for remodeling, ex pected to be completed by the end of next year. Tolls will not be collected until the old bridge is remodeled. The new bridge will handle both northbounda nd south bound traffic until the remod eling is finished. The ceremony opened at 10 a.m. with an air salute fea turing the new jet fighter planes at Portland Air Force Base. Helen Kiggins McAleer, Vancouver, and Eleanor Hol man Burkitt, Portland, who cut ribbons to open the old bridge in 1917, repeated the ceremony today'. Above Normal Rain In Northwest Area Washington (UPI) The Weather Bureau's 30-day out lok for July: "Temperatures to average above seasonal normals in the southern half of the country from the Rockies to the At lantic. "Below normal tempera tures are anticipated in the Plateau region and also in states along the northern border from the Great Lakes to the Pacific. In areas not specified temperatures should average not far from normal. "Rainfall is expected to ex ceed normal in the upper Mis sissippi valley, Northern plains and Pacific Northwest. Near normal amounts are pre dicted over New England, the Great Lakes region, the Cen tral plains, and the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts. In the remainder of the nation sub normal rainfall is in prospect." Columbia Land ; Opened for Farms Portland (UPI) Four teen full-time farm units to taling 1,612 irrigable acres lo cated on the Columbia Basin Project southeast of Pasco, Wash., will be sold by t the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Interior an nounced today. ' Veterans will have prefer ence in applying for all units not alloted to exchange appli- CLOTHING MAN DIES . New York (UPI) -Murray Weinstein, 67, vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers : of America, died ' Monday. A native of Russia, he co-founded the union with the late Sidney Hillman. cations under tha act of Aug. 13, 1953, officials said. A 45-day filing period open ed today at 2 p.m. for the fil ing of applications for the 14 farms. Applicants should ap ply to the Bureau of Recla mation office at Ephrata, Wash. He's a Big Boy X'X if Boy's size-2 clothes fit this doll that is 32 inches high. You will find him fun to make. A playmate for a lucky child and the hit of the oaz aar, too! 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