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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.
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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. Lewis' manager, Jud
Phillips, said the 23-yearrold
piano-plunking star would go
to London in September
"alone, not with his wife,"
who gave birth to a son six
weeks ago.
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as New Amsterdam for the
first 10 years after it
founded in 1801.
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Interim Groups
In Seven Fields
Recommended
Salem-fllPD-Seven legislative
interim committeSs were rec
ommended to the Legislature
bythe Joint Ways and Means
committee Friday.
The interim committees and
the amount of money allocat
to each are:
Education: A committee to
study school finance and other
school problems, $75,000, with
$25,000 additional from the
basic school fund. 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. "
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' ' 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.
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Chin Up Club
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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. His nephew, Tom
Delack, was missing from the
scene. ,
Searchers, who landed at
the site 180 miles northwest
of here, said a tent had been
pitched near the wrecked sin
gle engine Super Cub, indi
cating Belack may hav sur
vived the crash.
The plane crashed April 3
after Falls and Delack, had
taken off from Bettles on a
wolf hunt. Sources at Bettles
said the plane was well
equipped with weapons and
survival equipment.
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