Fight Over Money For Slum Clearance Seen for Congress
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington The Federal
program for clearing away
slums, which marks its 10th
birthday this year, is having
trouble with its legal guard
ians. One guardian, the Eisen
hower administration, wants
to give the program less fed
eral help. The other. Con
gress, wants to give it more.
Standing in the background
like anxious relatives are the
nation's mayors. They are
pulling for more federal help.
They say they cannot clean
up the slums on their own.
Cold figures show that
something will be done. Out
of $1.35 billion that Congress
has authorized since 1949,
only $24 million is left. The
rest has been spent or prom
ised. Cities are clamoring for
federal slum clearance mon
ey. As of Dec. 31, 1958, ap
plications for federal money
totalled $583 million.
Eisenhower's View
- The Eisenhower adminis
tration concedes more federal
'. money must be authorized.
But it has made it clear that
it wants to loosen and then
cut the federal apron strings
on the slum clearance pro
gram. Pending bills reflect
ing the ' administration view
point call for appropriating
an additional $100 million to
continue the program be
tween now and June 30, 1959.
What the administration
wants on a long term basis
has not been announced, but
it is certain to be more mod
est than Democratic propo
sals. . A bill Introduced by "Mr.
Housing" of the Senate,
Chairman John J. Sparkman
(D.-Ala.) of the housing subr
committee, calls for $2.1 bil
lion over six years for the
slum clearance program. This
compares with the $1.3 bil
lion, six-year program that
the Eisenhower administra
tion supported in 1958. Be
sides appropriating less mon
ey, the administration in 1958
recommended reducing the
federal share of a slum clear
ance project's cost from two-
thirds to 50 per cent
. The cities want a 10-year
program of $600 million a
vear. Sen. Joseph S. Clark
(D.-Pa.) has introduced a bill
to carry out their recommen
dations. He contends the cit-
Group May Form
River Boat Trips
Organization of a group to
provide boat trips along the
Rogue river during the Ore
gon Centennial observance
will be considered at a meet
ing of the Rogue Wonderland
association in the Rogue River
Lodge, Shady Cove, at 8:30
p.m. Tuesday.
Representatives of the as
sociation said Monty Axtell,
professional river guide from
Shady Cove, Jim Wallis, a
guide from Eagle Point, and
T. Lilya, Trail, may consider
organizing the group to pro
vide tourists a boat ride along
the river.
The idea was suggested by
Ernie Hood, county centennial
chairman and coordinator for
the Jackson County Centen
nial association,
i Shelton Hughes of Shady
Cove is president of the Rogue
Wonderland association.
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J. Clark Lambeth, Superintendent, Rev. Robert Odell, Principal
ies cannot raise the necessary
money to do the job. Less fed
eral money, he says, means
less slum clearance.
There is no question that
the slum clearance program
will get more money. The
only question is how much
and whether President Eisen
hower will veto a bill calling
for more money than-, he
wants.
Program's Operation
The program has under
gone few policy changes since
1949. Basically, this is how it
works. The city bulldozes
away a slum area and puts
in such facilities as sewer and
water lines. Then it sells the
cleared site to a private de
veloper so he can put up
new houses and shops. The
difference between what the
city paid to clear the site and
the money it got from the de
veloper represents the net
loss. The federal government
pays two-thirds of this net
loss on projects that meet its
requirements
Although $1,328 billion has
been promised to cities for
slum clearance projects, only
$157 million of that amount
has been spent. This is be
cause of the long lag between
the time a project is approv
ed and is actually completed.
All told, 668 slum clear
ance projects in 41 states, the
District of Columbia and Ha
waii and Puerto Rico have
been approved by the' Feder-
Mrs. Gibbs Speaks
At Eugene Meeting
Mrs. W. O. Gibbs, 1011
North Riverside ave., Med-
ford, spoke at the first annual
banquet of the recently in
corporated Emerald Dog
Obedience group in Eugene
last week.
The Eugene group will be
diretecd by Eugene Archi
tect John Stafford.
, Mrs. Gibbs, who has been
active in the Southern Ore
gon Kennel club for several
years, is the only American
Kennel club licensed obedi
ence judge in the area be
tween Portland and San Fran
cisco. Mrs. Gibbs recently re
ceived an additional obedi
ence classification based on
the number of shows judged
and the recommendation of
the AKC field representative.
She will judge the winter
show of the Vancouver Ken
nel club Jan. 25.
al Urban Renewal adminis
tration. Of the 668, only 18
have been completed since
1949.
Local Picture
Oregon since 1949 has re
ceived or been promised $4,
874,505 in federal funds for
four slum clearance projects.
Despite the federal pump
priming, slums are cropping
up faster than they are being
cleared away. Outgoing ad
ministrator Albert M. Cole of
the Federal Housing and
Home Fmance agency pre
dicts the tide will turn by
1970, but says it would take
another $1.35 billion in fed
eral money.
Congress appears willing to
appropriate far more than
that for the second 10 years
of. the slum clearance pro
gram. Its efforts jn 1959 to
authorize a generous allow
ance for . the program shape
up as one of the major bat
tles of the budget.
(Copyright, 1959.
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
Medford Will Be
Central Billing
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Grants Pais Southern
Pacific's plans to "stream
line" some of its office work
by centralizing all freight
billing for southern Oregon
in its Medford office were out
lined at a meeting here last
week.
George M. Joyce, train
master at Medford, said cen
tralized billing is being placed
in operation here as a result
of studies which have been
conducted for some time.
Billing is being concen
trated at three locations for
all Oregon operations, Joyce
said. They are at Portland,
Eugene and Medford. Previ
ously, every freight depot has
been a billing station.
Willamette Valley
He. explained that Eugene
for some time has been han
dling the billing for the Wil
lamette valley south of Al
bany, the Roseburg area, and
the Coos Bay branch into the
coast country.
Stanley Phillips, Portland,
station master for the Port
land division, told the ship
pers the billing change would
not affect dealings with
Southern Pacific "The chief
difference," he said, 'Vill be
merely that there will , be
three accounting ' stations in
Oregon instead of seven."
One billing clerk will be
moved from Grants Pass,
Joyce said, but Ken Brunken
still will handle investiga
tion of overage, shortage and
damage . claims . from the
Grants Pass office.
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Sunday, Jan. 11.
This time last year was the date of my first entry in
the series of these columns. That first column was pub
lished in the Mail Tribune on Monday, Jan. 20. All the
succeeding ones were in the Sunday editions.
Thus I have now rounded out a full cycle of the seasons
in my observations. This seems a suitable time to bring
them to a stop and I intend this to be my last one. I do
this chiefly from lack of time. A person with a hobby can
have pleasure giving no end of time to it, but if he also
has a full time work he must constantly be on his guard
about letting his hobby encroach on his work. The Monday
outing I need for relaxation, but I don't need to spend
extra time writing (since I have plenty of writing in my
work), nor in pursuing the leads that come to me as a
result of my writing. These tend to build up the longer you
continue such a column, so there has to be a stopping place.
Monday, Jan. 12.
Knowing this was to be the last Monday morning bird
ing trip of which I would give a general report, I was
mighty glad it turned out to be a good one. The rains
that had come in the night stopped and the weather was
very mild and pleasant. J. H. came by and we decided to
visit our favorite ponds, especially Hoover lakes and the
string of ponds below them.
Our most exciting find was a swallow yes, a swallow
in January. I usually look upon the first swallows as one
of the surest signs of returning spring, but I'll have to
put this down as a sign of a mild winter. We feel pretty
sure it was a tree swallow. We got a pretty good view
of it, flying straight past us. At the moment it was going
in a north-westerly direction. It didn't linger.
We saw our interesting birds in singles. Another was
a white-fronted goose ("spec") which J. H. watched land
in a field north of one of the Hoover lakes. We then
pursued it on foot and got a good view. I don't know how
many of these geese are found by hunters in our valley,
but we don't see them very often. It was also in the Hoover
lake region that we found a pigeon hawk. These birds
closely resemble the abundant sparrow hawks in size and
shape, but they don't have the reddish coloration. We are
usually lucky enough to find just one or two in the course
of the year.
In the evening I had a phone call from Ralph Brown
ing. He said that he was putting some grease for the birds
on the limb or a tree on their place in Phoenix, and
while he was right there an orange-crowned warbler came
down to take some of it. There are other winter records
for this warbler in Oregon In fact one in this year's
Christmas count at Portland but they must be con
sidered rare at this season. ,
Wednesday. Jan. 14. .
I had a phone call from a friend who said she had
seen a slat-colored junco on her place. I would like to see
it because J. H. and I have looked over thousands of
Oregon juncos this year trying to find , one of this species
among them, and haven't. This is the ' common eastern
"snowbird," but there are only a very few scattered among
the Oregon juncos around here. .
Thursday, Jan. 15.
A final thought about our Christmas count. We didn't
succeed in finding any barn owl on it, although at a couple of
places where they had been. I still would like to know
of any place in the valley where there are some. I. am
really worried about the shortage of this most useful bird.
I have received information that the Oregon Audubon
Society is submitting to the legislature a model law about
birds of prey. It would protect them all except when found
in the act oi molesting poultry or domestic animals. I
strongly favor such a law.
Friday, Jan. 16.
Now for a few last words. I've had a lot of fun writing
these columns for a year. I have been surprised and highly
gratified at the number of people who read them. It shows
how widespread and growing is the interest in nature and
wild life.
I want to thank the Mail Tribune for giving me the
space for this somewhat unique venture in journalism. At
least I have not heard of any other column just like it. I
also am very grateful for the many phone calls and letters
I have received. Some of these have told about birds that
I would never have known about or seen otherwise.
. Also I want to thank Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks (the J. H.
of these notes) who has been my most constant birding
companion. He helped me find and identify a lot of good
birds. Also jny wife. She is my even more constant com
panion and she has saved me from a few expressions in
the writings, even more awkward than the ones that have
appeared. Good bird watching to all my friends, known
and unknown!
Thomas McCamant
A Tribute---
To Our Ministers!
Each Sunday and oftHmes throughout the
week, the minister of your church lifts his
head in prayer and envisions the heaven of
your faith. He is a patient man. He is an
understanding man. He's there, your loyal
friend, in sickness, sorrow. He officiates at
weddings and visits th homes of his parish
ioners. Yet with all his biblical knowledge and
his interest in his sermons, he is a man. A
fine man. And ha should be treated as a
friend and companion; not merely as a cleric
Your minister and his church deserve all the
support you can give them. Attend services
regularly and be generous with your contributions.
TV Set Embezzler
Sentenced to Prison
Portland (DPD A 35-year-old
Portland man, Tony T.
Hanna, was sentenced to 7V2
years in prison Friday by Cir
cuit Judge Alfred P. Dobson
for embezzlement of a port
able television set.
Judge Dobson said Hanna's
police record included three
prison terms for previous
burglaries.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, January 18, 1959 S
BECOMES CAPTAIN
Sweetwarter, Tenn. - CPD -
The superintendent of Tennes
see Military academy said he
understands a student ex
pelled from the school for
having too many demerits be
came a captain in Fidel Cas
tro's rebel Cuban army. Col.
Dwight Haynes said he had
accounts of Angel Banos, 23,
with the Castro forces.
TWO CENTENARIANS DIE
London (DPD Two of Eng
land's oldest women died Fri
day. One was Mrs. Rhoda
Harris, who claimed her 108
years made her the oldest
woman in the country. The)
other was Emma Sarah Agate,
who celebrated her 102nd
birthday two weeks ago.
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