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
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ment by building housing and
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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.)
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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.
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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!
When you lease, you are not required to invest a
large sum of money in the form of a down payment
or purchase price. Your total outlay of cash, in many
cases, consists only of the first month's lease pay
ment at the time you take delivery of the new car
or truck of your choice.
ANNUAL LEASE DAILY RENTAL
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