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Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1983 PAGES 1 to 8 Status of Congressional Bills Washington (BPD Status of major legislation: Income Taxti - President Kennedy has proposed tax re duction and revision program 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 compromise 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 hearings after com pleting action on tax reduc tion program. Senate - Await ing House action. Debt Limit - Administra tion requested extension through Nov. 30 of temporary legal ceiling of $309 billion on national debt; under per manent law debt limit would revert on Sept. 1 to $285 bil lion which is more than $20 billion less than the actual debt. House-Passed. Senate Awaiting hearings. 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 and enlistees in their first two years of service. House in eluded controversial $30.5 million "recomputation" fea ture for those retired before 1998. . Senate-Passed bill to taling about $5 million more than House. Broadened eligi bility in House bill to include all lieutenants, ensigns, ser geants and technicians, wheth er in first two years of serv ice or not. Retirement recom putation also included. Com promise between House and Senate measures expected to be worked out in conference committee this week. Fallout Shelters - President Kennedy wants authority to make federal contributions to ward construction of civil de i e n s e fallout shelters in schools, hospitals and other non-profit institutions. House -Armed Services subcommit tee expected to approve bill today. Senate-Nothing sched uled. Foreign Aid - Administra tion asking $4.5 billion. House - Foreign Affairs committee approved authorization bill setting ceiling on appropria tions slightly below $4.1 bil lion. Senate - Foreign Rela tions committee nearing final action on bill. (Actual appro priations to come later.) Treaty - U.S., Russia and Britain have signed treaty banning nuclear tests in air, space and underwater; rati fication requires two - thirds vote of Senate. Senate-Foreign Relations committee be gan public hearings Monday. House-No action required. 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 pro gram for community mental health centers; research on and treatment of mental re tardation. House - Commerce subcommittee approved $407 million program. Senate-Approved 10-year $848 million program. Medical Schooli - Adminis tration asked long range con struction 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 $1.2 billion in grants and loans for colleges, to be considered on House floor this week. Senate-Hear ings completed on omnibus school bill. Schools and Libraries - President wants aid continued for "impacted areas" and li' 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- Vocational Schools - Presi dent asked step-up in federal aid to vocational schools. House-Passed bill to increase aid in this field from $57 mil lion to $180 million annually over tour years, senate - Hearings completed on omni bus 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 open hearings on this request, starts closed-door consideration this week. Sen ate - Judiciary subcommittee approved four-year extension 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 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 dis crimination. House-Judiciary subcommittee public hearings concluded, starts closed-door consideration this week. Sen ate - Commerce committee hearings completed on public accommodations feature; Ju diciary committee hearings under way on full civil rights package. Employment - Kennedy en- d o r s e d 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 - Labor subcommittee hearings under way. Cotton A d m i nistration 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 Bill approved by Agriculture committee, cleared by Rules committee, but not yet scheduled for floor action. Senate Hearings com pleted. 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 floor. Senate Expected to vote this week. Mass Transit Kennedy proposed $500 million in sub sidies to improve city rail, bus and subway services. House Banking committee approved bill, pending in Rules commit tee. Senate Approved Sd7o million program. Wilderness - President wants to establish a national program to preserve public lands in their natural state. Senate Passed, with provi sion covering 8 million acres immediately and possibly up to 35 million acres eventual ly. 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 reo reation. House Interior sub committee action under way Senate Hearings completed. Depressed Areas Kennedy asked Congress to expand sharply program of federal redevelopment aid to local BRILL METAL WORKS Cmmrcfl leeuittiil .Mental Shut Mttsl Werk Stiifiltn, GalvaniMd ana' Ctppm FakricatM 2287 West Main PHONI 772-4440 industries designed to create jobs in areas of chronically high unemployment. Senate Approved additional $455 mil lion authorization. House-Rejected, but Banking commit tee has approved a "second try" $355 million bill. Youth Employment Ken nedy asked new $100 million youth conservation corps for outdoor work in forests and parks; home town youth corps for local civil projects. House Education committee has approved, pending in Rules committee. 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 under way. Senate Labor committee approved; Senate to act this week. Labor Dispute Adminis tration requested Congress to assign to Interstate Com merce commission task of re solving dispute over "work rules" which has threatened a nation-wide railroad strike. Senate Commerce commit tee completed hearings on ad ministration bill, meets this week to consider action. House Commerce committee hearings concluded. - Price-Cutting - Administra tion-opposed bill backed by druggists, and other retail groups is designed to stop re tail price-cutting ol Drana- name mercnanaise. nouse Commerce committee approv ed, pending in Rules commit tee. Senate No date set for hearings to resume. Laws Enacted Draft Congress grantees 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 Dim 10 permit government to borrow money 1. neri in Keen paying hills Congress raised legal isnit nn national deoi to aui billion through June 30 and to 309 billion during July and August. Previous tempor ary limit was $305 billion; f.,-thr legislation will be n.orirri1 to prevent ceiling from dropping to $285 bil lion Sept. 1. i silver To combat snort- age of silver for coins, Con gress gave aaminisuawv" thority it requested to replace existing silver-backed $1 bills with gold-backea i d"- Women Workers Starting next June employers must provide equal pay for women workers who do the same work as men; new law ap plies to jobs covered by mini mum wage-hour law. Taxes Congress in re sponse to administration re quest extended for another year present temoprary tax rates on corporation profits, liquor, cigarettes, automo biles, telephone calls and air line tickets which had been scheduled to drop to lower levels July 1. (Corporation tax rates would be permanent ly revised downward, if Ken nedy's tax-reduction program is enacted.) HAITI CASE STUDIED Washington - IUPB - The Council of the Organization of American States will de cide whether there will be an on - the - spot investigation of Haiti's charges that the Dominican Republic aided rebels, against the Franceis Duvalier regime. Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Reahttt ana' Tritme Syaelcate, :$ Safe Bet That Cockroaches Will Be Around After Man Back in the 17th century folks believed that a sure cure for warts was to force a cockroach to bite them. This was about the only practical use that man has ever devised for this insect. Too bad it wouldn't work. Funny too, that we can t find any reason for this in sect's presence. Perhaps we have never applied ourselves to the problem, for the roach has been present a very long time. He has been here, there, and everywhere. They've been around long enough to become our most hated insect. The cockroach predated the dinosaurus by several million years. They were so numer ous 200 million years ago that today's scientists often refer to the Devonian period as the "age of the cockroaches." Five Inches Long At that time they were all five inches in length and so plentiful in the great forests they left their bodies in coal deposits that were being laid at : the time. Fossilized re mains now dug from coal mines reveal cockroaches so well preserved that their ex act species can be identified. One geological period fol lowed another, leisurely, al most tirelessly, for millions of years, during which time the dinosaurs passed from the scene and primitive mammals developed (the elephant and the meat eaters). Number of Cycles Increases in State Salem-IUFD-Motorcycle reg istrations went up nearly 61 per cent in Oregon last year, but their accident involve ment rate has more than dou bled, the State Motor Vehicles department has noted. Vern L. Hill, director of motor vehicles, said most of the increase in registrations appeared to be due to light weight two-wheelers, rather than the traditional heavy motorcycle.; Statistics for the first four months of this year indicate that the number of two-wheel vehicles of all types involved in traffic accidents increased 114 per cent over the same period a year ago. There were 92 accidents for the 1962 pe riod, and 197 for the same period this year. Then, about a million years ago, the cave man appeared and the cockroach was there, ready to move into the cave with the near-human. The cave man had his hands full with the roaches; the insects nibbled on his toe and finger nails. Elimination HopelesaT . So, with a background like that and a long lasting tenden cy to hang on in the face of all obstacles, our desire for the complete elimination of the cockroach is just about hopeless. In fact, they may outlast us. Instead of a beetle, which a well known entomol ogist has said would probably be the very last living thing on the face of this earth, the chances are it will be a cock roach. They would seem to have the stamina for just such a contingency. Like it or not, we have them with us. So let's see how they accomplish the survival and continuation of their spe cies. First, the cockroach is very active. They do not have to creep, srawl, wriggle or hop, they just run and fast. They hide in the daytime and move around only at night. They are not at all selective In their food requirements. They will eat anything that is edible and when other food is absent they will eat each other. Immune to Infections The female of the species called the "German roach" will deposit her eggs in a tough envelope and carry the envelope around with her un til she finds the right place to attach it, with adhesive saliva from her mouth, to a wall, or some other secluded place. The females of other species must also deposit their dozen or so eggs in an envelope, but they attach the capsule wher ever they happen to be at the time. The so-called "American cockroach" is about an inch long and a light red in color. The Oriental roach may be two inches in length, and will be dark brown. They migrat ed over to America from Asia, and now live in old buildings, The cockroach has a weak heart, incapable of forcing blood to the tin end of the long antennae, so it has aux lliary hearts, or tiny puisn organs in its head, to gi the blood an extra push cockroaches are not bothered by disease or virus infections See what we are up against? Personnel Changes Noted at College Ashland - Personnel chang es for the coming academic year at Southern Oregon col lege have been announced by Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, presi dent. Dr. Wayne Hood, recently appointed director of admis sions, will continue on a half time basis with the science mathematics division, and James Armson, assistant pro fessor of psychology, will serve as coordinator of men's activities along with teaching psychology courses. Mrs. Mary Christlieb will serve as assistant dean of women, and has been promot ed from instructor to assistant professor of business. Dr. Loy Prickett, head of the business department, has been promoted from associate professor to professor of bust- Mail Fraud Trial Set in Pendleton Portland - (UPII - Trial of seven Chicago and Los An geles area men on mail fraud charges in connection with promotion of the Lake Valley subdivision in eastern Oregon has been set for Nov. 25 in Pendleton. Federal Judge John F. Kil kenny set the new date fol lowing arguments on motions by the defendants to dismiss a 17-count indictment on the ground it was vague and un certain. The judge took the arguments under advisement. The court agreed to try the case in the Pendleton district fter attorneys for the seven defendants indicated they would prefer it there. The indictment was return ed last May 31. FAIR DRAWS 169.41$ Gresham -(UPI)- A crowd of 13,219 persons saw the final day of the Multnomah County Fair Saturday. The 10 - day event drew 169,418. ng ve The ness; Mrs. Dorothea Bushnell, associate professor of educa tion, has been transferred from the Lincoln school to the education department at SOC; Esther Oehring will be on leave of absence for grad uate study at the University of Chicago; and Martin Elle has been promoted from as sistant professor to associate professor of psychology and named director of ' guidance services in place of Dr. Har old Cloer, who will concen trate more on classroom teach ing. Other personnel changes in clude: Dr. Clifford Miller, as sociate professor to professor of history; Dr. Frederick Trost, associate professor to professor of sociology; Dr, William McKlnney, granted leave to Wisconsin State col lege at Stevens Point, Wis., for teaching; Douglas Legg, instructor to assistant profes sor of history; Dr. Floyd Tay lor, leave continued to work with the National Bureau of Standards at Boulder, Colo. Dr. Marvin Coffey has been promoted from assistant pro fessor to associate professor of biology; Dr. Franklin Stur- ges, granted sabbatical leave for post-doctoral work at Cor nell university, New York; Russell Whitehead, leave granted for doctoral study at Oregon State university; Mrs. Marythea Grebner, instructor to assistant professor of Eng lish; Dr. Herbert Cecil, head of the music department, from associate professor to profes sor of music; Dr. Theodore Schopf, director of athletics, and Dr. Alexander Petersen, head of the physical education and health department from associate professors to profes sors of physical education and health; Dr. Glenn T. Mat thews, assistant professor to associate professor of music, and Helene Robinson will be on leave to do graduate study at the University of Southern California. 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