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! Byrd Amendment May Block Interstate Highway Program "Bt Congressional Quarterly Washington - Oregon has $43,108,375 at stake in the current controversy over the federal highway program, which includes the proposed Highway 99 Freeway through lledford. That is how much the state would lose, in fiscal 1961 if Congress does not find more money for the program. The problem will be discussed by the House Public Works com mittee during hearings start ing Tuesday. The financial roadblock is known as the Byrd amend ment. It specifies that Federal money for paying state high way bills must come out of a separate highway trust fund. Highway user taxes such as those on gasoline and tires' go into the trust fund. Last year Congress suspend ed the Byrd amendment for fiscal 1959 and 1960. This en abled the federal government to go outside' the Trust Fund for highway money. But the Byrd amendment affects fiscal 1961. The bureau of public roads ordinarily would make fiscal 1961 ap portionments this July. But the trust fund is so short the bureau says it cannot promise states any money for construc tion of the national system of interstate and defense high ways. U.S. Pays 90 Par Cent .- Interstate highways, as op posed to other roads, are those that connect major centers of the nation and are considered vital to the national defense. The federal government pays 90 per cent of the construction cost of interstate highways and the states the other 10 per cent. On most other Hypes of roads, the states and Uncle Sam split the cost 50-50. Congress in 1956 authorized the 41,000-mile Interstate sys tem. It set 1969 as the target date for completion. Estimated cost of the system is $40 bil lion. Oregon is slated to build 717 miles of the interstate system at a total cost of $626,000,000 This works out to a per mile cost of $873,000 compared to the national average of $975, 000. Between 1956 and . April .1, 1959, Oregon had completed Jumping Frog Wins at Pendleton Pendleton - (CPS - "Space Command," an entry of the Future Farmers of America of Pendleton, Friday night won the Oregon Centennial frog jumping contest with three jumps totaling 17 feet 6 inches. Frogs numbering 101 were entered from . Oregon and Washington in the Centennial event. apace uommana s jump was eight inches better than the recognized world's record of 16 feet 10 inches. The frog will now enter the world tournament at Angels Camp, Calif., May 13-17 un der the sponsorship of the rentuexon woundup associa tion. Court Records DISTRICT COVRT Arthur M. Curtiss Jr.. overload S167.50. Lo W. Stuempges. overload. $147.50. Emmltt M. Gott, failure to dim ugnis. ?7.50. Dick L. Chamberlain.' no oper tor's license in possession. S10. Delbert Edgar Seaman, Apple- gaie. unving wnue under tne in fluence of intoxicating liquor, S255. Richard T. Costelow, overload. S201. Theodore J. Daily. 21. of Effie t7 Medford, furnishing liquor to minor, . Charles H. Raymond, failure to yieic ngni ot way, Harry S. Musson, failure to yield rignt oi way, 910.. Howard R. Blair, no motor ve hide license. $10. CIRCUIT COURT Kathleen Louise Ghea vs. Her man-E. Ghea. divorce complaint. Betty Lynn Moore vs. Wilford ieo Moore, divorce complaint. - ... , MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION Richard Dennis Cook, Grants raas, ana .Bertha Pearl Champney, Cave Junction. 159 miles of Interstate high way and 78 connecting bridges. The Federal Govern ment's cost was 524,422,000 and the state's, $7,010,000. More Money Needed The threatened shut -off of federal funds for fiscal 1961 would undoubtedly delay con struction of the interstate sys tem and perhaps halt it alto gether in some states. Some Democrats in Congress have opposed any stretch-out in the program, so they are looking for a way to get the needed money. President Eisenhower in January recommended raising gasoline taxes again to put new money into the trust fund. Democrats are loathe to do that. But the alternative is to suspend the Byrd amendment again, and go outside the trust fund for highway money, Since almost every dollar now on hand or coming into the Treasury is spoken for, raid ing of the general fund would amount to deficit financing. ; Democrats currently are dis cussing a plan to sugarcoat such deficit financing by des cribing it' as . a diversion of other highway-type taxes into the trust fund. They point out the diversion would not take effect until fiscal 1961 and therefore would not dash President Eisenhower's hopes for a balanced budget in fis cal 1960. (Copyright 1959. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) MAY GO TO ENGLAND Memphis, Tenn. (DPD -Rock and roll rage Jerry Lee Lewis, whose marriage to a 13-year-old girl caused a furor in Eng land, may go back to Britain this fall. 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The state board of education must ap prove taking money from the basic school fund. Agriculture: $25,000. Natural Resources Natural Resources: $25,000- for a study which would in clude establishment of a state department of resources and a merger of the state fish and game commissions. Study of criminal law statutes: $25,000. Committee to study labor and management, problems: Committee to meet after Nov. 1960 to study budgets and taxation problems prior to the opening of the 1961 Legislature: $5,000. Timber Taxation Taxation: A committee with emphasis on study of timber taxation, $25,000. Subcommittees were ap pointed to draft resolutions for two other committees, one to study the public retire ment system and related sub jects,' and one to study wel fare problems. A committee proposed for study of highway problems al ready has been sent to the Senate. Ways and means decided to turn a study of state building construction and state reorg anization over to the new leg islative fiscal committee. Home Financing Via Trust Deeds Measure Passed Salem - CPD - The Oregon House Thursday passed, 31-29, a bill to provide a new meth od of financing homes in Ore gon through trust deeds. A similar bill was vetoed in 1957 by tnen-Gov. Robert D.Holmes. The bill, passed after much parliamentary maneuvering, returns to the Senate for con sideration of House amend ments. Help Lender Rep. Keith Skelton (D-Eu- gene said the bill would help a lender of money to a real estate purchaser take over the property in case repayment is not made. It would encourage more building because money lenders would find the Ore gon market more attractive, he said. Rep. George Layman (R Newberg) criticized the bill. He said -At would do away with the judicial procedure in the foreclosure, of property. A trust deed is a document that transfers title of property toa trustee from one seeking to buy it. If payments are not made on the property, the trustees can hold a sale to dis pose of the property. GOOD NEWS Washington - (UPD - Army cooks in the Military District Of Washington are getting ex pert training. Every eight weeks, four of them join the kitchen staffs at two big Washington hotels for inten sive study of food prepara tion. The GFs are graded each week by the hotel chefs un der whom they work. And there's a final examination at the end of the course. . ' The stegosaurus,' a species of prehistoric, dinosauer, was 30 feet long, with a heavily armored body and tiny head. The trustee could advertise the sale 180 days in advance rather than go to court as under current procedure. However, there was a pro vision in the bill that the per son buying the property could demand a judicial sale rather than just receiving a letter by registered mail notifying him of the proposed sale by the trustee. " HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station KWIN 1400 K.C. ' ' Zurich, Switzerland (CPB -One out of every 5?2 inhabi tants of Zurich is a million naire, the city tax office re ported yesterday. The city has a population of 430,000. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, May 3, 1959 The manufacturer of a rust preventive estimates that the nations loss from rust comes to $7.5 billion a year. ADDING MACHINES Priced from We Rent Adders Typewriters Calculators Typewriters New & Used Adders Calculators Portables All Makes VOIGHT'S MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT CO. FRIDEN AGENCY 8th ft Grape, Medford . Phone SP 2-4100 I " Chin Up Club Elects Officers Mrs. Howard Glascock was elected president of the Jack son county chapter of the Chin Up club at annual elections held at the Girls Community club Friday night. Other officers elected were Harry Chipman, vice presi dent; Howard Glascock, re cording secretary; Mrs. Maude Duffy, corresponding secre tary; Mrs. " Harry Chipman, treasurer, and Bert Davis, as sociate representative. Plans to attend the annual national convention in Port land on June 13 and 14 were discussed and it was indicated 12 members of the local chap ter will attend. Two delegates will be elected at a later date Mrs. Chipman is second vice president of the national or ganization and Chipman is a member of the board of direc tors and editor of the Chin Up Beacon, the clubs' official pub lication. IWA Strike Vote To Be Conducted Portland -(DPD- A strike vote will be conducted among the 40,000 members of the Inter national Woodworkers of America in the Pacific North west, it was announced Friday. Harvey Nelson, chairman of the union's Northwest negoti ating committee, said the re gional policy committee of the IWA had approved taking the vote after hearing a report on recent bargaining sessions with employers. Nelson said the union could strike by June 1 if "satisfac tory progress" is not made in contract negotiations. He said strike ballots are to be returned to the negotiating committee by local unions by May 18. Searchers Find Plane Wreckage Fairbanks, Alaska-(DPD- Searchers yesterday found the wreckage of a light plane which crashed in the rugged mountains north of Bettles, Alaska, April 3, with ' two Minnesota' wolf hunters aboard. ' Jim Falls, a veteran bush pilot, was found dead in the wreckage. 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