Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 09, 1963, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON IULOUAI, JUL! II. lOOJ Status of Bills in Congress Washington - (UPD - Status of major legislation: Income taxes - President Kennedy has proposed tax " reduction and revision bill that would provide net cut of $10.4 billion in individual and corporate taxes over three years. House - Ways and Means committee has partly completed draft of compro mise program. Senate - Await ing House action. Military Pay - Administra tion asked $1.2 billion annual pay and benefit boost for all servicemen, reservists and re tirees. House - Passed modi iied version to cost $15 mil lion less and providing no in crease for 832,000 draftees and enlistees in their first two years of service. House includ ed controversial $30.5 million "recomputation" feature for those retired before 1S58. Sen ate - Hearings start July 16. Fallout Shelters - President Kennedy wants authority to make federal contributions to ward construction of Civil De tense fallout shelters in schools, hospitals and other non-profit institutions. House - Armed Services subcommit tee hearings resume Wednes day. Senate - Nothing sched uled. Foreign Aid - Administra tion asking $4.5 billion. House -.Foreign Affairs committee expected to approve a trim-med-down authorization bill this month. Senate - Authori zation hearings under way. (Actual appropriations to come later.) , Health Insurance - Presi- . dent wants hospitalization program for persons 65 and older financed through social security taxes. House - Ways and Means committee expect ed to hold hearings later this year. Senate - Awaiting House action. Mental Health - Adminis tration wants long-range, $717 million program for commu nity mental health centers; re search on and treatment of mental retardation. House -Commerce subcommittee ap proved, pending before full committee. Senate - Passed with some revisions. , Medical Schools - Adminis tration asked long range con struction aid for medical-dental schools, loans to students. House - Passed three-year pro gram that would cost $236 mil lion. Senate - No hearings yet. College Construction - Ken nedy originally asked for fed eral funds to build classrooms and laboratories as part of larger $5.3 billion school bill; agreed later to separate bills. House -r Education committee approved $1.6 billion in grants and loans for colleges, pend ing in Rules committee.. Sen ate - Hearings completed on omnibus school bill. Schools and Libraries - President wants aid continued 13 Receive Nod By Gov. Hatfield Salem-IUPD-Three ' new ap pointments and ten reappoint ments to state boards and commissions have been an nounced by the governor's office. Jav A. PhilliDs. Ontario. was named to the Real Estate Board as successor to M. L. Schmidt, Tillamook, whose term expired. Kenneth L. Lewis, Coos Bay, and Howard B. Johnson, Astoria, were named mem bers of the Log Export Ad visory Committee to the For estry Department. Both will serve at the pleasure of the governor. John Wilkens, Aloha, and Arthur Quackenbush, Eugene, were reappointed to the Ore gon Filbert Commission. Reappointed to the Dairy Products Commission were George Hostetler, Redmond, Arthur Hurlburt of Portland, end Otto Schild of Tillamook. Dr. R. L: Whitford, Pendle ton, was reappointed to the State Veterinary Medical Ex amining Board. Reappointed members of the Highland Bentgrass Com mission were Eilbcrt Sanrlner of Scio and Walter McElha jiey of Sublimity. Amost Funrue, Silverton, and Tom Ruckman, Imbler, were reappointed to the Chew ings Fescue and Creeping Red Fescue Commission. for "impacted areas" and 11 braries. House - Education committee approved in sepa rate bills, with amendments forbidding use of funds for segregated facilities. Senate -Hearings completed on omni bus school bill. Voting - President Kennedy asked for controls on use of literacy tests, speedier voting rights suits and extension of the Civil Rights commission's life for four years in his original request last winter. House - Judiciary subcommit tee finished hearings on this request. Senate - Judiciary subcommittee completed hear ings on extension of Civil Rights commission; scheduled to act on that bill Thursday. Public Accommodation's - Kennedy's main request in his second rights message was for legislation outlawing segrega tion in use of hotels, stores, restaurants, theaters and other public accommodations in in terstate commerce. He also asked for new authority to initiate school desegregation suits and optional authority to withhold federal aid to states that practice racial discrimi nation. House - Judiciary sub committee hearings will re sume Wednesday. Senate -Commerce committee hear ings continue this week on public accommodations ' fea ture. Senate. Judiciary com mittee will start hearings July 16 on full civil rights passage. Employment - Kennedy en dorsed Fair Employment Prac tices commission legislation to bar job discrimination by private businesses and labor unions. House - Labor sub committee has approved FEPC. Senate - Hearings ten tatively planned for later this month. Cotton - Administration backed subsidy plan would provide cheaper cotton for U.S. textile mills; includes lower support prices for large scale growers and potential relaxation of planting restric tions. House-Agriculture com mittee approved, pending in rules committee. Senate-Hearings completed. Mexican Farm Hands - 12- year-old law permitting im portation of Mexicans for tem porary work on American farms expires Dec. 31, admin istration requested one -year extension with new safe guards to protect domestic workers. Houses-Bill to extend program two years without change defeated on House floor. S e n a t e-No hearings scheduled. Mass Transit-Kennedy pro posed $500 million in subsi dies to improve city rail, bus and subway services. House -Banking committee approved bill, pending in rules commit tee. Senate - Approved $375 million program. Wilderness-President wants to establish a national pro gram to preserve public lands in their natural state. Senate Passed, with provision cover ing 8 million acres immediate ly and possibly up to 35 mil lion acres eventually. House No committee hearings set. Depressed Areas - Kennedy asked Congress to sharply ex pand program of federal re development aid to local In dustries designed to create jobs in areas of chronically high unemployment. House Rejected. Senate - Approved. House leaders expect to try again for House passage later this .year. Youth Employment - Ken nedy asked new $100 million youth conservation corps for outdoor work in forests and parks; home town youth corps for local civic projects. House -Education committee has ap proved, pending in rules com mittee. Senate-Passed. ' Domestic Peace Corps - President asking for new or ganization of 1,000 to 5,000 skilled volunteers to carry out work in this country similar to Peace Corps projects abroad. $5 million first year cost. House - Education and labor subcommittee hearings may resume later this month. Sen ateHearings completed, Price-Cutting - Administration-opposed bill backed by druggists, and - other retail groups is designed to stop re tail price-cutting of brand name merchandise. House -Commerce committee ap proved. Senate -No hearings scheduled. Laws Enactedt Draft- Congress granted Kennedy's request for four year extension of selective service and doctor draft. Feed Grains - Congress ex tended for two years tempor ary program of paying farm ers to hold down surplus pro duction of corn and other feed grains. National Debt - To permit government to borrow money it needs to keep paying Its bills Congress raised legal limit on national debt to $307 billion through June 30 and to $309 billion during July and August. Previous temporary limit was $305 billion; further legislation will be needed to prevent ceiling from dropping to $285 billion Sept. 1. Silver - To combat shortage of silver for coins. Congress gave administration authority it requested to replace exist-. ing silver-backed $1 bills with gold-backed $1 bills. ' Women Workers - Starting . next June employers must . provide equal pay for women workers who do the same ' work as men; . new law ap plies to jobs covered by mm-; imum wage-hour law. Taxes- Congress In re sponse to administration re-' quest extended for another year present temporary tax -rates on corporation profits, -liquor, cigarettes, automobiles, ' telephone - calls and. airline -tickets which had been ached- uled to drop to lower levels July 1. 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