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In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS The Oregon legislature is In session. It la beginning to look like it might wind up with an authorized total of appropriations slightly in ex cess of 300 million dollars. To Oregon's approximately IVi million people, that looks like quite a chunk of money and spent for governmental purposes. The California legislature is in session. Its authorized appropriations will probably run up to a total somewhat above two billion dollars. Even to California's 13 or 14 million people, that isn't hay. rpHESE sums look big to us because they are CLOSE to us. The closer things are, the bigger they look. Try this: Take a silver dollar be tween your thumb and your forefinger and hold it up say three or four inches in front of your eyes. It will look BIG. Now take the dollar across the street and stand it on edge on a post. Go back across the street and look at the dollar. It will seem SMALL. It will seem small because It is farther away. CJO much for Oregon and California. Let's take a look now at the U.S.A. In Washington, the Congress is expected to authorize spending of around 77 BILLION dollars. That really IS a lot of money - even to the 175 million people who make up the pop ulation of the United States But Because Washington is a long way off, it doesn't SEEM so big. It's like the dollar on the post across the street. T ISTEN: The 77 billion dollar total spending the congress in ex pected to authorize REALLY IS BIG. And our share of it comes out of our pockets just the same as our share of our state taxes. When looked at In its proper light, our SHARE of it is big. For example: California's share of the federal total, according to figures vouched" for by the non - partisan, non - political Tax Foundation, will be about 7V4 BILLION dollars, or ap proximately three times the total spending contemplated by the California legislature for California purposes. Much smaller Oregon's share of the federal total will be about 670 MILLION dol lars, or somewhat better than twice the total spending con templated by this year's Or egon legislature. THAT is to say: For every dollar Call fornians pay in taxes to Sac ramento, they pay THREE dollars to Washington. For every dollar Oregon lans pay in taxes to Salem they pay approximately TWO dollars to Washington. VET x Although two -thirds of our total tax dollars go to the federal government and only one-third to closer home gov eminent We incline to the belief that heavy federal spending is GOOD for us whereas heavy close-at-home spending hurts. Senate Hearing Final Action On Space Agency, Fund, Draft Washington -(LTD The Sen ate hoped to complete action today on a supplemental S48 million space agency appro priation and on a four-year extension of the draft. The space program author ization was characterized by Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss.) as "sound and well con ceived." It is for the balai.ee of the present fiscal year and would be followed by an ad ministration request for fis cal 1960 of more than $485 million. About half of the supple mental appropriation is ear marked for "Project Mer-cury"-the program intended to put a man into space. The House-passed extension of the draft law appeared cer tain to win speedy Senate passage. It would extend for four years beyond July 1 the authority to draft men in the 18 to 26 age bracket and in duct physicians and dentists. It also would continue a suspension of pre-Korean ceil ings on military strength. The Senate Armed Service Com mittee approved the adminis tration - supported extension Monday almost without change. Chairman Richard B. Rus sell (D-Ga.) had favored some Progress Noied In Health Care Oi Aged Persons Washington - (UPD - The American Medical Associa tion informed Congress today that it is making "solid prog ress" in its effort to improve the health care of America's aged. The report, in effect, was a response to a drive by the AFL-CIO to expand Social Security benefits to include what would amount to a paid-up hospitalization and medical care program for per sons 65 and over. The AMA contends such a program would be a major move toward socialized medi cine. Carrying Oui Policy In a letter to Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the AMA said to day that state and local medi cal societies are acting promptly and decisively" to carry out an AMA policy dec laration. That declaration, adopted unanimously last Decembers by the AMA's House of Dele gates, urged that the nation's physicians expedite develop ment of an effective volun tary health insurance or pre payment program for the group over 65 with modest re sources or low family income It also urged physicians to agree to accept lower fees in order that such insurance plans could be offered at a reduced premium rate. We tend to vote FOR the heavy spenders in congress and AGAINST legislators and city councilmen who advocate spending what we regard as too much. It's a strange complex. modifications in the military uled cuts in Army and Ma- reserve program but said a "time of crisis" over Berlin seemed to be no time to make them. Other congressional news: Foreign; The Senate For eign Relations Committee went behind closed doors with Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter for an up-to-date report on Ber lin developments and other world trouble spots. It was Herter's first session with the group since he took over tem porarily from John Foster Dulles. Defense: President Eisen hower was reported standing firm against Democratic de mands that he cancel sched- House Education Group Postpones Bill on Entrance Salem-dJPD-Action on a bill that would require students to be admitted to institutions of higher learning on the basis of strictly determined standards only was postponed by the House Education Com mittee Monday for further study. The bill would require ad mittance to be made after tests and interviews with no regard to race, color, creed, personality traits or other non-academic requirements. Rep. Vernon Cook (D-Trout- dale) said the bill was aimed at professional schools such as the medical and dental schools where, he said, other conditions such as finances also were considered in screening applicants. Entitled to Entrance He said that all taxpayers, rich and poor, supported the institutions and were entitled to entrance if they qualified even though they had to work on the side to make it. Cook said, that while he could not verify it, he had heard that some minorities were being discriminated against at the schools. John Miscoe, representing the Oregon State Medical So ciety, opposed the bill on grounds that there were many more applicants for medical training than could be han dled and some had to be weed ed out because of what the examining board felt to be unfavorable personality traits. The committee will give the bill more study. A similar measure was introduced at the last legislative session, but failed to pass. rine Corps strength. Republi can congressional leaders said there was no evidence that the President had been sway ed by the arguments. They said the proposed manpower reductions will proceed as planned. The issue touched off a long Senate debate Mon day when Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson announced that the armed services preparedness subcom mittee would reopen hearings Wednesday on defense readi ness and space progress. Spending: Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) said Democratic sponsored airport and hous ing legislation is outside Con gress annual appropriation control and "makes a sham bles of orderly efforts to keep the budget in balance." Labor: Two Republican members of the Senate Rack ets Committee called for sweeping labor reforms to bar "rashly called" strikes, coer cive picketing and secondary boycotts. Sens. Karl E. Mundt (S.D.) and Carl T. Curtis (Neb.) appealed to a Senate labor subcommittee for ac tion. Distressed Areas: Two big farm groups joined organized labor in backing legislation that would set up a big pro gram to help the nation's eco nomically distressed areas. The National Grange and the National Farmers Union join ed the AFL-CIO in supporting the "point four" program in testimony before a House banking subcommittee. ; French Track Down Killer of American Algiers -(UPD- French troops have tracked down and prac tically annihilated the Mos lem rebel band that ambushed and killed American photogra pher Homer F. Kellems, the French Army Command re ported today. It said one member of the band was taken alive and ad mitted the rebels shot Kel lems and his two companions as they shouted "We are Americans." Does The Water From Your Well Wash Dishes And Glassware Sparkling Clean? Ever notice how shiny and sparkling a new drinking glass looks, and then how spotted and cloudy it looks after repeated washings? Blame hardwater, or iron red water, or both. The cloudy film and spots are caused by hard water's impurities. Your glassware, silverware and dishes will look better, washed with conditioned water. 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Mrs. Duncan is charged with hiring Moya and another man to get rid of her son's wife, of whom she was jealous. i Snark Missile Completes Trip Down Atlantic Cape Canaveral, Fla.-(UPD-The Air Force sent a second hand Snark missile streaking down the Atlantic tracking range early today and brought it back to the cape intact four hours and 20 minutes later. The swept-wing Snark, the nation's only combat - ready intercontinental missile, glid ed in with its tail low onto a skid strip at the missile center. The landing appeared to be smooth. Two manned jet fighters accompanied the guided weap on on its return. 1500-Mile Trip It was believed that the; bright-red, 69-foot-long Snark made a flight of about 1,500 miles down-range after its two solid-fuel boosters hurled it into the pre-dawn darkness at 1:01 a.m. (PST). i The Snark, which cruises with the power of a turbojet engine after jettisoning the boosters, already had made one round-trip flight. It could be flown again if it was not damaged on landing. The Snark, actually a pilot less bomber capable of carry ing a hydrogen warhead, is considered ready for firing in anger. But the Air Force is continuing to test the weapon to increase its reliability. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, March 10, 1939 5 Oral Vaccine for Polio Being Tested Minneapolis -UPD- The Min nesota Health Department said today a study has begun to determine the effectiveness of an oral polio vaccine aim ed at giving immunity from all three strains of the dis ease in one swallow. The study is being made among 65 student families at the University of Minnesota. The object is to learn if the "triple-threat" vaccine is as effective as three separate inoculations of Salk Vaccine, each of which provides, im munity against only one type of polio. The cherry-flavored vac cine contains weakened virus of all three .types of polio. It can be given safely to day old infants. 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