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Many Legislative Issues Wait Action Of 86th Congress Washington With only 10 weeks to go before the Demo cratic convention, the 86th Congress is up to its ears in unfinished business. Since the legislators recon vened on Jan. 6, only two bills of general interest have reached the President's desk. The first - a measure almost doubling Federal aid to cities for building sewage disposal plants - he vetoed. The sec ond, signed April 8, cut the cabaret tax from 20 to 10 per cent, effective May 1. This puny record of accom plishment may be traced, in large part, to the civil rights debate, which paralyzed the Senate for eight weeks. That logjam was cleared April 8 when the Senate passed a modest voting-rights bill which is expected to win speedy House concurrence. Lying dead ahead, however, are most of the other top leg islative Issues of 1960. Here is the outlook: Schools - House Democrats expect to pass a school-construction bill carrying grants of $325 million a year for three year. A good bit smaller than one passed by the Sen ate, the bill is still bigger than anything the President is pre pared to accept. Housing - Another Demo cratic special, boosting Fed eral mortgage-purchase funds by $1 billion, has been clear ed for early House action. The Senate may agree; the Presi dent certainly won't. Health of Aged - Democrats are determined to push through some form of health insurance for old folks, under the social security system if possible. The President is just as adamantly opposed. Where this one will wind up no one knows. Depressed Areas Another veto almost certainly awaits a Democratic package of loans and grants for the nation's depressed areas. Passed by the Senate in 1959, the bill Is ex pected to reach the House floor before long. Minimum Wage - Demo crats are still hoping to boost the minimum wage to $1.25 per hour and to extend cov erage to several million ad ditional workers. Although the administration has been cold to a raise in the mini mum, this is one "issue" bill that might be signed. The fate of these Democratic-sponsored measures isn't the only thing to be decided before Congress adjourns. hopefully by the Fourth of July. The President is also in trouble with a number of his major legislative requests. Defense - Congress is cer tain to reshuffle the $41-bil-lion defense budget, possibly adding up to $1 billon for an airborne alert, Polaris subs, more ballistic missiles, etc. Without the power to veto separate items in appropria tion bills (which Congress won t grant), the President will sign. He doesn't have to spend the extra money, how ever. Foreign Aid - Cutting the President's foreign aid re quest has become an annual sporting event on Capitol Hill. This year he is asking for $4.2 billion: estimates of the cut to be inflicted range up to $1 billion. Interest Ceiling So far, Democrats have refused to budge in their refusal to raise the interest ceiling on long term Government bonds. Cur rent odds are against any ac tion before adjournment, bar ring a big jump in market in terest rates. Postal Rates Democrats have also turned a deaf ear to the President's plea for a $500 million increase in postal ra'tes. Some increase may be granted if Congress votes to raise the pay of postal work ers, but that now seems improbable. Taxes - Several of the President's tax requests, in cluding one for a half-cent increase in the gas tax, are all but dead for this session. Con gress will again postpone a scheduled reduction in the corporate Income and certain excise tax rates, but is likely to allow cuts in telephone and transportation taxes to take effect. Farm Policy - The long deadlock between the Presi- V o?. & r ,j i -St X-RAY PICTURE OF SUN Scientists of the Naval Re search Laboratory have succeeded in obtaining the first x-ray pictures of the sun, using an Aerobee-Hi rocket to carry the cameras above the atmosphere. The photo shows the sun rimmed by a bright x-ray halo and several Intense spots of bright x-ray emission distributed over the disc. Because x-rays cannot be focused by lenses, a pithole camera was used. The picture was released in conjunction with the National Academy of Sciences meeting at Washington, D.C. (UPI Telephoto) MAMIE BYPASSES SUMMIT Washington-CPU-Mrs. Eisen hower will not accompany the President to the Paris sum mit meeting next month, but she still hopes to go to Russia with him in June. Associate White House Press Secretary Mrs. Anne Wheaton, answer ing press inquires, said Wed nesday the First Lady planned to visit her ailing mother, Mrs. John S. Doud in Denver on her 82nd birthday. May 13. Washington-lUPI-The House has passed 214-163, a bil lion dollar Democratic hous ing bill after defeating a Re publican attempt to scuttle it with a civil rights amendment. dent and Congress over farm price supports shows a sign of breaking up. Whether the two can get together on a satisfactory wheat bill in the next few weeks seems doubt ful. (Copyright I960, Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Sprays Cleared for Use on Fruit Trees Iron chelates and other nu tritional sprays have been cleared for use on fruit trees by the food and drug adminis tration, according to County Horticulturist Clifford B. Cordy. Cordy said trees should be sprayed in the early leafing out period for the best benefit and the spray should not be mixed with other sprays. Trees which show a definite yellowing due to the lack of iron should be sprayed, he said. The spray should be mixed three pounds of the chemical per acre with as low a gallon- age as practical to encourage rapid drying, Cordy stressed. The rapid drying is necessary. he said, to reduce any pos: sible damage to a minimum. CBS News Will Bring Olympic Games Story To Televiewers New York - CBS News, in unique international tele vision venture, will team up with RAI, the Italian state network, to bring American viewers the full story of the 1960 Olympic Games this summer in Rome. Sig Mickelson, president of CBS News, revealed plans for the coverage today as Wil liam C. MacPhail, director of sports. Producer Pete Molnar and other sports department and technical operations per sonnel left for Rome for de tailed planning activities. Mickelson said that Olym pic coverage for the CBS Television network, which has exclusive American tele vision rights to the Games, will be under the full control of an on-the-spot ChS News production team headed by MacPhail, and will be de signed specifically for Amer ican audiences. CBS News has assigned personnel totalling Jackson School to Present Program The band, chorus and or chestra of Jackson school will present a program at the Jack son school auditorium Tues day, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. The band, under the direc tion of Steve Whipple, will play five numbers. Bonita Denyer will play a cornet solo, and a trombone solo will be played by Donald Wicker. A trumpet trio will be presented by Bonita Den yer, John Pruitt and Mike Pursel. The chorus, under the di rection of Mrs. Margaret Nesheim, will sing eight num bers. The girls' sextet, "The Harmonaires," Karen Spaf ford, Katie Cook, Lydia Or gain, Peggy Singler, Karen Murray and Barbara Kadin, will sing "Whatever Will Be Will Be," and the boys' quar tet, "The Four Jacks," com posed of Patrick Kilby, David Doolen, John Pruitt and Har old VanSickle, will sing "Till We Meet Again" and "You Tell Me Your Dreams." Mrs. Ronald Bartlett will direct the Jackson school or chestra in two numbers. The program is open to the public. 50 for the Olympic program ming. The CBS Television net work has scheduled 20'j hours of Olympic program ming, much of it in prime evening time. The Olympic Games begin on Aug. 26 and close on Sept. 12. Throush the use of video tape and jet transport, many of the events will be brought to American audiences on a same-day basis. Coverage se lected by the CBS News team will be relayed to the Rome airport, recorded on video tape and rushed aboard U.S. bound jets. As an alternate route, a video tape mobile unit will be assigned to Oily Airport in Paris, and mater ial relayed to that point over international lines for record ing and shipment. A mobile transmission unit will be installed at New York's Idlewild Airport, per mitting the "feeding" of pro- I MAIL TRIBUNI, MxNord Or. Friday, April 29, 1960 - A gram material to the CBS Television Network directly possibilities of same-day re on arrival, thus increasing the I ports. World Refugee Bureau Formed Portland - A speakers' bu reau has been organized by the Oregon Committee for ! World Refugees to spotlight j the plight of the millions of i homeless through out the world. j "The purpose of our organi zation is to tell our fellow Oregonians about these wan- i derers who have been forced I to leave their homelands and are now refugees asking only for life and freedom, Don Willner, speakers' bureau chairman, said. Besides providing excellent speakers, the committee can supply a 14-minute film which will help to point up the need of refugees throughout the world, Willner said. President Eisenhower and the heads of 52 other nations joined in setting aside July 1, 1959, to June 30, 1960, as World Refugee Year. The Oregon Committee was form ed to assist in this program, with Multnomah County Cir cuit Judge Arno M. Denecke as chairman. 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