MEDFORD MAIL TBTWWl!. MIMOAW. OREGON
TUESDAY. JULY 16. 1963
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Status of Major Legislation
Washington -Jtfffr- status of
major legislation: J
Income Taxes-- President
Kennedy has proposed tax-re-dflption-and-revision
bill that
w8uld , provide net cut of
f 10.4 billion in individual and
corporate taxes over three
years. House-Ways and Means
committee has partly com
pleted draft of compromise
program. Senate - Awaiting
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
fied version to cost $15 mil
lion less and providing no in
crease for 832,000 draftees
arid enlistees in their first
two years of service. House
floor. Senate - No hearings
scheduled.
Man Traniit-Kennedy pro
posed $500 million in subsi
dies to improve city rail, bus
and subway services-. House
Banking committee approved
bill, pending in Rules com
mittee. Senate-Approved $75
million program.
Wilderness-President wants
to establish a national pro
gram to preserve public lands
in their natural state. Senate
Passed, with provision -covering
8 million acres immedi
ately and possibly up to 35
million acres eventually.
House-No committee hearings
set.
Depressed Areas - Kennedy
asKed Congress to exDand
Included controversial $30.5
million "recomputation" fea
ture, for those retired before
1958. Senate - Hearings start
Tuesday.
Fallout Shelters-President
JJennedy wants authority to
nja'ke federal contributions
toward construction of civil
defense . fallout' shelters in
schools, hospitals and other
non-profit institutions. House
-Armed - Services subcommit
tee hearings completed, Senate-Nothing
scheduled.
r Foreign Aid - Administra
tion asking $4.5 billion. House
-Foreign Affairs committee
nearing approval of authoriza
tion bill setting ceiling on ap
propriations below $4.5 bil
lion. Senate - Authorization
hearings under way. (Actual
appropriations to come later.)
; Health Insurance-President
wants hospitalization pro
gram for persons 65 and old
er financed through social
Security taxes. House -Ways
'and Means committee expect
;ad to hold hearings later this
year. Senate-Awaiting House
faction.
: Mental Health-Administra
tion wants long-range pro
gram for community mental
health centers; research on
and treatment of. mental re
tardation. House - Commerce
subcommittee approved, pend
ing before full committee.
Senate - Approved 10-year
$848 million program.
v Medical Schools - Adminis
tration asked long range con
atruction aid for medical-den
tal schools, loans to students
House-Passed three-year pro-
. gram that would cost $236
million. 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 - Education committee
approved $1.6 billion in
grants and loans for colleges.
pending in Rules committee.
Senate -Hearings completed
on omnibus school bill.
Schools and Libraries-Pres
ident wants aid continued for
"impacted areas" and libra
ries. House-Education com
mittee approved in separate
bills, with' amendments for
bidding use of funds for seg
regated - 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 or
iginal request last winter
House - Judiciary subcommit
tee finished hearings on this
request. Senate-Judiciary sub
committee approved four-year
extension of Civil Rights com
mission.
Public Accommodations
Kennedy's main request in his
second rights message was for
legislation outlawing segrega
tion in use of hotels, stores,
restaurants, theaters and oth
er public accommodations in
interstate commerce. He also
asked for new authority to
initiate school , desegregation
suits and optional authority to
withhold federal aid to states
that practice racial discrim
ination. House-Judiciary sub
committee hearings u n d e r
way. Senate-Commerce com
mittee hearings continue this
week on public accommoda
tion feature; judiciary com
mittee started hearings today
on full civil rights package.
Employment - Kennedy en
dorsed Fair Employment
Practices commission legisla
tion to bar job discrimination
by private businesses and la
bor unions. House-Labor com
mittee has approved FEPC.
Senate - Hearings tentatively
planned for later this month.
Cotton - Administration
backed subsidy plan would
' provide cheaper cotton for U.
S. textile mills: includes low
er 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
temporary work on American
farms expires Dec. 31; admin
istration requested one-year
extension with new safe
guards to protect domestic
workers. House-Bill to ex
tend program two years with
out change defeated on House
sharply program of federal
redevelopment 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-Kennedy
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 organi
zation of 1,000 to 5,000 skill
ed 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.
Senate - Labor subcommittee
approved.
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 approv
ed, pending in Rules commit
tee. Senate -No hearings
scheduled.
Laws Enacted
Draft - Congress granted
Kennedy's request for four
year extension of selective
service and doctor draft.
Feed Grains-Congress ex
tended for two years tempo
rary 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 tempo
rary 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 mini
mum wage-hour law.
Taxes-Congress in response
to administration request ex
tended for another year pres
ent temporary tax rates on
corporation profits, liquor,,
cigarettes, automobiles, tele
phone calls and airline tick
ets which had been scheduled
to drop to lower levels July 1.
(Corporation tax rates would
be permanently revised down
ward, if Kennedy's tax-reduction
program is enacted.)
Grange News.
Upper Applegate Grange
Upper Applegate Grange
met recently in regular sum
mer session with Master Ed
mund Ramsey presiding.
Fred West, soli conserva
tion chairman, reported that
a soil engineer would be pres
ent at their next meeting.
Legislative Chairman Anna
Scott reported the various
bills that were passed and
those rejected. She also gave
a comprehensive report on
the state convention of the
Grange.
: Youth chairman stated
there would be a 4-H Preview
fair at Ruch on July 26, and
a 4-H County fair Aug. 10. .
Ways and Means commit
tee served a barbecue beef
dinner at the new recreation
park of the United Slates For
est Service on July 14. Treas
urer Ed Finley submitted his
resignation and Cyrena Davis
was elected to the office for
the balance of the year.
The Master called attention
to the Pomona council to be
at Phoenix Grange July 17,
and the visitation jamboree
at Central Point on July 19.
At that time the winning
Granges of the county will be
announced and presented
with- their prizes.
The Three Graces had
charge of the lecture program,
Grace Buck, chairman. All
played the game Pass the
NO SHIFT WORK
London-JUPP-The Industrial
Welfare Society, which re
cently made a survey of
nightshift workers and their
families, today reported the
most provocative answer they
received came from a wife
who snapped: "My next hus
band won't do shift work."
Fruit. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Krug
gcl entertained with a violin
and piano duet.
Mrs. Wilma Sharp from
Coyote Grange, San Jose,
Calif., was a guest.
After the meeting, refresh
ments were served ' by the
Blacks, with a birthday cake
for those celebrating their
birthday anniversaries during
April, May and June.
5sg
Your Money's
Worth
By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc.
TAX. RELIEF 'IN REVERSE'
' Instead of getting relief from our oppressive, obsolete tax
burden in 1963, let's face.it: the tax load on us as indi
viduals, corporations, self-employed professionals or business
men,' property owners, has been and is being sharply in
creased. We're not even holding our own on the tax front. We are
falling way back, carrying a tax burden much higher than
it was even in 1952, the peak tax year of the Korean war.
Billions more are being drained out of our pocketbooks
and cash registers in taxes this year than last. Considering
the blunt, bitter tax facts, our economy has been turning in
an extraordinarily good performance.
(1) Social security taxes were, as you are aware. Innreasprf
as of Jan. 1. The combined tax on employees and employers
is now up to 7' 4 per cent, us pulling out $2 billion more from
incomes In 1963 than in 1962. In addition, the maximum
tax on self-employed persons is now $259.20 a year against
$225.60 in 1962.
(2) State-and local tax increases are breaking records
from coast to coast. Almost every one of the 50 states holding
regular legislative sessions this year has hiked taxes on
sales, on corporation and individual incomes, on gasoline, on
cigarettes, on alcoholic beverages. At the same time our
cities are boosting their tax take from every source they
can find to tap.
(3) Taxes are going up on millions of incomes simply be
cause we have a steeply progressive tax structure meaning
the higher the income, the higher the lax rate. Incomes have
increased this year, and thus so have the tax rates which
those getting the incomes must pay. This is the meaning of
a "progressive" tax structure and ours is progressive to a
degree which makes no financial sense at all.
If Congress were now voting a tax cut for individuals
and corporations, this would offset this new drag. As of
today, the odds on a tax cut applying in 1963 appear next
to sero. If Congress were working hard on a tax reduction
to apply Jan. 1, 1964, we could foresee an offset soon. As
ef now, any prediction on the liming of a tax bill is strictly
a guess. .
To put it plainly, we are adding to our tax load at a time
when the need for relief is greater than ever, for the 1961-?
economic expansion is getting "old," unemployment is a
serious problem and no new business stimulants are on the
horizonr :":' ;- .
A question I hear constantly is "What's the ponit in cut
ting federal taxes If state, local and social security taxes
rise and sop up the money, leaving the economy no better
off than before?" -
This question misses the heart of the matter so badly it
hurts. Here is the heart'of the matter. .
- - Social security taxes have gone up to finance expanding
benefits which the voting public has demanded. The law on
the books right now would raise the combined employer
employee rate to 9 Va per cent and the self-employed rate
to 6.9 per cent in 1968. The 9' i per cent rate will be mighty
close to the limit many experts believe taxpayers will toler
ate, but there is no doubt whalsover that social security
rates are heading there.
State and local taxes have gone up to finance expanding
services demanded by a skyrocketing population schools,
roads, sewers, water systems, parks, police and fire de
partments, etc. As our population continues to soar, more
services will be needed and slates and cities will raise
taxes to finance these services, for they cannot go into debt
to pay for services. They can go into debt only to pay for
capital investments. State and local taxes will go up futher.
There is only one way we can get offsetting tax relief
and that's via across-the-board federal income tax reductions.
There is only one sure way we can hold consumer and busi
ness spending in a rising trend and thus keep our economy
rising and that's via federal tax cuts.
If this Congress buries the tax bill of 1963, it will be
risking a dangerous business slowdown.
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