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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1963 Status of Congressional Bills Washington -fflPB- Status of major legislation: Income Taxes - President Kennedy has proposed tax-reduction-and-revision pro gram that would provide net cut of $10.4 billion in individ ual and corporate taxes over three years. House-Ways and Means committee has partly completed draft of compro mise program. Senate-Awaiting House action. Stock and Bond Taxes - To retard flow of American cap ital abroad, Kennedy has pro posed that purchase taxes be levied on Americans who buy foreign stocks and bonds from foreigners; securities of cer tain underdeveloped countries would be exempted. House Ways and Means committee will hold hearing after com pleting action on tax reduc tion 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 million less and providing no increase for 832,00 draftees and en listees in their first two years of service. House included controversial $30.5 million "recomputation" feature for those retired before 1958. Senate - Hearings completed, subcommittee action expected this week. Fallout Shelters - President Kennedy wants authority to make Federal contributions to ward construction of civil de fense fallout shelters in schools, hospitals and other non-profit institutions. House - Armed Services subcommit tee approved limited program in principle only, bill still to be drafted. Senate - Nothing scheduled. Foreign Aid-Administration asking $4.5 billion. House -Foreign Affairs committee nearing approval of authoriza tion bill scting ceiling on ap propriations below $4.5 bil lion. Senate - Foreign Rela tions committee voting on amendments. (Actual appro priations to come later.) Treaty-U. S., R u s s i a and Britain have initialed pro posed treaty banning nuclear tests in air, space and under water; ratification requires two-thirds vote of Senate. Senate-Treaty not yet formal ly received; Foreign Relations committee -will hold public hearings. House-No action re quired. Mental Health - Administra. tion wants long-range program for community mental healtn centers; research on and treat ment of mental retardation. House-Commerce subcommit tee approved $407 million pro gram. Senate - Approved 10 year $848 mililon rogram. Medical Schools - Adminis tration asked long range con struction aid for m e d i c a 1 dental schools, loans to stu dents. House - Passed three year program that would cost $236 million. Senate-No hear ings 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, pend ing in Rules committee. Senate Hearings completed on omni bus school bill. Schools and Libraries-Presi dent wants aid continued for impacted areas" and libraries. House - Education committee approved in separate bills, with amendments forbidding use of funds for segregated facilities. Senate - Hearings completed on omnibus school bill. Voting - Pesident 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 orig inal request last winter. House - Judiciary subcommittee fin ished hearings on this request. Senate-Judiciary subcommit tee approved four-year exten sion of civil rights commission. 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 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 discrimina tion. House - Judiciary sub committee hearings under way. Senate - Commerce com mittee hearings under way on public accommodations fea ture; Judiciary com m i 1 1 e e hearings under way 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. FROM THE GROUND UP By BART BARTLETI By this time any newly grafted trees which began growing this spring should be inspected for excess sucker growth from either the trunk or root stock. Where sucker or water sprouts from the grafted stock are crowding the new grafts, they should be removed. Some crafts or new buds may be erowine too tall and may k.n.i. n,,f in this rase thev v,a (nnwH hv rpmovine approximately one third of their total lengm. This tc nn pvrpllpnt time of year to do budding of fruit trees. Where young stock plants have been properly irri gated and generally are well grown, the budding operation chn,,M nrpspnt nn nroblem. The bark should slip easily at this time. Ripe or mature duos nf mnct fruit STlPrlPB Can be easily obtained at this time. Ant Control There are usually many hnme owners that have a problem with ants of various enrte ahnnt this time of year. ExDerience has shown that their nests may often be fnnr, in thp PSVS Of DUUd ings or even in the moss cov ered areas of snaae irees ornnnH thp home. Once the nest is located an application of chlordane will effectively -nnlrnl thp nntS. ConSUlt VOUf seed dealer for materials and advice. tn control the worms that damage cabbage. Your seed or spray chemical dealer can assist in solving it-tie rT-rth1nm Fruit growers should make rp that all harvest equip ment is in good shape. We can expect the pickers to be very itiai nf everythina this year. It behooves each grower to erase as many picxer b i.(. i nnuible. The most effective way to do this is to have good equipment in gooa COnuiuuii. The courthouse is gradually divesting Itsell oi m"j i .ka nt rotintv Eovern- ment by building housing and r,ffirp for them ai me i. nl cpu hp re. Per gruumia "- - . . ,kp iptinv nf our Jack IIUS l" " , . son county courthouse is to become a museum as did the Senate -Labor subcommittee hearings under way. Cotton - Administration backed subsidy plan would provide cheaper cotton for U. S. textile mills; includes lower support prices for large scale growers and potential re laxation of planting restric tions. House-Bill approved by Agriculture committee, clear ed Rules committee, but not scheduled for floor action. Senate - Hearings completed. Mexican Farm Hands - 12-ear-old law permitting im portation of Mexicans for temporary work on American farms expires Dec. 31; admin istration requested one-year extension with new safeguards to protect domestic workers. House-Bill to extend program two years without change de feated on House floor. Senate -Proposed one-year extension without change scheduled for floor debate Wednesday. 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. Outdoor Recreation Ken nedy wants a special land and water conservation fund to finance purchase of additional Federal and state park lands and forests for outdoor recrea tion. House-Interior subcom mittee action under way. Sen ate-Hearings completed. Depressed Areas - Kennedy asked Congress to expand sharply program of Federal redevelopment aid to local in dustries designed to create jobs in areas of chronically high unemployment. Senate Approved. House - Rejected, but Banking committee is ex pected to approve a ' second try" bill this week. Youth Employment - Ken nedy asked $100 mililon youth conservation corps for out door 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-Pres ident asking for new organiza tion 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 under way. Senate - Labor subcom mittee approved. Labor Dispute Adminis tration requested Congress to assign to Interstate Commerce commission task of resolving dispute over "work rules" which has threatened a nation-wide railroad strike. Sen ate - Commerce committee held hearings on administra tion bill. House - Commerce committee hearings under way. Price Cutting -Administra tion-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, pending in Rules com mittee. Senate-No date set for hearings to resume. Laws Enacted: Draft-Congress granted Kennedy's request for four year extension of selective service and doctor draft. Teed 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 applies to jobs covered by minimum 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 tickets which had been scheduled to drop to lower levels July 1. (Corporation tax rates would be permanently revised down ward, if Kennedy's tax-reduc tion program is enacted.) A 7 4Vwn 1 KXkiH -dAZ: r-HrK PLANE BLOWS TIRE - All 68 passengers aboard a San Francisco-bound American Airlines Convair-990 jot es caped injury when the plane was forced by two blowouts to return to Chicago's O'Hare field a few minutes after takeoff. Ramp agent Paul Cascbolt inspects the blown tires as new ones are installed on the jet in the back ground. (UP1). Salem Man's Trial Scheduled Sept. 9 Klamath Falls - IUPD - Cir cuit Judge David Vandenberg! Monday rescheduled the first degree murder trial of Archia Foster, 26, Salem, to open hera Sept. 9. It originally was set to be gin Monday. Foster s attorney, Charles Burt of Salem, asked for tha change because he was in volved in a traffic accident recently. 73 YEARS OF yv SAFETY fr and sound money management In MEDFORD 513 MxHord Shopplnl Cm. Ttluhonv 779-1221 (O New Draftsmen Are Employed by City Two new draftsmen have been employed by the Mod ford public works depart ment, according to Director Vernon Thorpe. The new employees are John Sethre, 35, of 2708 Ruth ave., and Bob Mitchelltree, 24, of 502 Palm st. Sethre was previously with the en gineering division of t n e Washington state highway de partment, and Mitchelltree was an office engineer for a Eugene construction firm. The men replaced L. N. Dow and Francis Hibbard, who resigned their positions on June 30. John Bodenstab, a seven year city employee, has been promoted to the position of office engineer, Thorpe also announced. CASH and a BRAND NEW CAR TOO! WE WILL PAY YOU CASH FOR YOUR PRESENT CAR! 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