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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. (Corporation tax rates ,
would be permanently revised
downward, if Kennedy's' tax- '
reduction program is enacted.)
Daughter of Former
Resident Dies in Texas
Lynn Marie Kldwell, six-weeks-old
daughter of Capt.
and Mrs. James Kidwell,
Corpus Christi. Tex., died un
pectedly Monday.
Plane Captain Kidwell, for
merly of Medford, is located
at the Naval Air installation
In Texas.
The baby died unexpectedly
of a brain hemorrhage, Kid
svpll infnrmprf his sister. Mrs.
Pat Carter of Medford. in
spite of surgery in which
several doctors participated.
SERVICE BILL PASSED
Washington-il'di-The House
has made permanent the six
year-military obligation pro
gram under which youths us
ually serve six r-onths on ac
live duty and the rest in the
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