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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON FRIDAY. AUGUST 30. 1963 Federal Grants in Oregon Exceed $154 Million Last Year Federal grants paid to gov grams amount to a redistrtibu ernmental units and individ-, tion of income among the uals in Oregon totaled S154,-j states. Congressional Quarter 710,000 during the year end-ly has measured this redistri ed June 30, 1962. bution by computing each Based on the state's popu- state's percentage share of lation of 1.864.000 in the 1962 total grants, then comparing census estimate, this amount- it with each state's share of ed to $83 per capita, contrast ed with a national average of S56 per capita, a high of S226 for Alaska and a low of $34 for New Jersey. The largest programs of 1962 provided Oregon with the following amounts: high way construction, $50,163, 326; public assistance $22,004, 094; unemployment insurance $11,428,435; public health re search and services $1,971, 579; food distribution (school lunch program, etc.), $6,202, 653; education $7,427,539; and agricultural conservation programs $5,952,135. Because they depend on tax revenues, federal grant pro- the 1962 federal tax burden as calculated by the Tax Foundation, Inc. Of course, no state received as many dollars in grants as it paid in taxes. But thirty five states and the District of Columbia received relatively more in grants than they paid in taxes, and 15 states receiv ed relatively less, CQ found. At the top was Alaska; its 0.53 per cent share of grants was more than four times its 0.11 per cent share of taxes. Delaware, on the other hand, was at the other end of the scale with .2 per cent of the grants and .52 per cent share of the tax burden. I r ; . i 15, For Oregon, grants received in 1962 amounted to 1.43 per cent of the $10.4 billion total. The state's share of the 1962 federal tax burden, according to the Tax Foundation, was 0.95 per cent. Washington (CQ) Fed eral grants-in-aid to state and local governments and to in dividuals last year topped the $10 billion mark for the first time. Grants totaled $10,385,549, 606 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1962, up 6 per cent from the previous year, ac cording to Treasury Depart ment figures. Included in this total was aid for highw i; s, public health programs, public as sistance to needy persons, ed ucation, conservation and many other areas. A grant-in-aid is a payment by the Federal Government to a state or local govern ment or an individual for a particular purpose specificed by Congress. Usually the fi nancial grant is made under prescribed standards and the state often must contribute a certain portion of the cost of the program or project. The 1962 grants increase re flects a virtually unbroken trend during the last decade. With one exception, 1960, to tal federal grants expanded each year since 1953 as new programs were initialed and old ones expanded. The $10.4 billion 1962 total was more than two-and-one-half times the 1953 level of federal aid. State and local govern ments received the main share of total grants, $7,895,000, 000. This was a $793 million or 11 per cent jump from the previous year. Major increases went for highway construction, $161 million, and for aid lo de pendent children, $135 mil lion. Grants to individuals de creased by $233 million or 9 per cent to a level of $2,491, 000,000 in 1962. The decline followed a whopping 26 per cent increase the previous year due largely to a temporary holds "Rusty," cat HOLDS RUSTY - Kathy Metz, willed her by Edwin A. Benjamin, 89, a recluse who left $500,000 lo the San Diego, Calif., public library. Kathy is . the daughter of Benjamin's closest friend, C. M. Metz, an elementary school principal. (UPI) unemployment benefits pro gram voted by Congress in 1961 in response to the re cession. A decline in grants under this program in 1962 helped account for the over all 9 per cent drop. Highways Top Lilt Federal grant aid goes for a variety of activities ranging from welfare to defense. Treasury figures list 110 spe cific programs, most of which can be grouped under a doz en or so general categories of aid. The largest grant program is aid for highway construc tion and maintenance, total line $2.8 billion in 1962. The money is use not only for the new interstate system, but also for primary, second ary and urban roads. Grants for public assistance were second, totaling $2.4 billion. The major component was $1.3 billion for aid to older persons in need of fi nancial help. Other programs helped persons who are blind or permanently disabled and dependent children deprived of parental support or care. Public Health One of the largest (fourth) and most surprising federal aid programs in 1962 provid ed $720 million in grants for Dublic health research and service. The extent of federal help for public health work is sel dom realized because it is fragmented among many sep arate programs. The total $720 million in grants included 31 separate programs, only one larger than $76 million and less than one-third larger than $20 million. The largest item was $168 million in grants for hospital construc tion. The largest share of public health aid is research into many areas such as heart trouble, cancer, arthritis, health, air and water pollu tion, accident prevention and others. Research aid was al most twice as large as aid for public health services, such as tuberculosis and venereal disease control, waste treat ment works, hospital con struction and similar activi ties. In contrast to a common belief that schools are sup ported only at state and local levels, federal grant aid to education was substantial in 1962, totalling S601 million. This was the sixth largest category of grants. It includ ed aid for the construction and operation of schools in areas where federal facilities had burdened the school sys tem while reducing tax rev enues by removing property from the tax rolls. This aid to "impacted" areas, as it is called, came to almost $270 million. Another important educa tional aid was $150 million in National Science Founda tion research grants and fel lowship awards. Other items included agricultural college aid, vocational education and teaching in education of the mentally retarded. Grants for unemployment insurance payments continued very high, $887 million, the third largest program. This was due in part to the tem porary 1961 program which expired in 1962. Distribution of food pro ducts, such as school lunch, special milk and food stamp programs, added another $653 million to the grants-in-aid total. Other important grant pro grams included those for ag ricultural conservation, the national guard, public and rural housing and urban re newal, other types of conser vation practices and veterans benefits. Relativt Burden Some states received rela tively more in grants, in pro portion to their population, than did others. This is be cause allocation formulas vary from one program to another. Generally speaking, grants-in-aid tend to help poorer states at the expense of wealthier states. Although no state received as many dollars in grants as it paid in taxes, 35 states plus the District of Columbia re ceived relatively more in grants (in percentage terms) than they paid in taxes, while 15 states paid relatively more than they received. (Copyright 1963. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) A 5 muKcslifeWorthliving Krr7 dine, lift Ihmtil put. 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Americans, however, have been enjoying Gordon s for a somewhat shorter span of time. So it is wisc(andproper)to spe cify Gordon's by name. Your first sip of a Gordon's martini will tell you why it's the big gest selling gin over here as well as in England and the rest of the world. J45 $28B. Manier Of U t ft. r..' w " "U1 m1t mm 11 x GORDON'S j p Distilled m r x London Dry tl gin ri Shepplon, Pa. - HJPD-A state mining official said Thursday in his opinion David Fellin helped get himself into the predicament of being entomb ed for 15 days by a mine cave-in. State deputy mines chief G01 don Smith made the state ment in answer to a charge by Fellin Wednesday that he should have, been rescued in five days. "The miners in Ihis opera tion were removing pillars of coal," Smith said. "Fellin showed he doesn't know all there is to know about min ing by getting himself in this predicament." Smith said the miners were not digging deeply for coal, but were taking out coal pil lars "left all these years" to support the mine. Little Hope Smith made the statement at the mine site where rescu ers were drilling to reach Louis Bova, a third miner still trapped more than 300 feet underground. There is little hope for Bova's sur vival. Fellin, a co-owner of the mine who was rescued early Tuesday along with Henry Throne, said Wednesday that he "should have been out by the fifth day." He said rescu ers should have dug through the crumbled mine shaft, in stead of drilling an escape hole from the surface. "It doesn't even deserve comment," Smith said of Fel lin's remark. Smith is a mining engineer who worked in the mines in this area during the depres sion. He said he did not know how Fellin expected to make a living from the mine, which had been worked on and off since 1950 after having been closed since 1929. H. Beecher Charmbury, state mines chief, said Fellin's remark hurt the morale of the rescuers now digging a shaft to reach Bova. I NAMED CHAIRMAN Salem - UPI' - Paul Rowell, ! chief of the agricultural de j velopment division of the j Oregon department of agri culture, has been named chairman of a three - man I rrouD to study marketing and transportation matters that might need the attention of the western association of state departments of agricul ture. ATTORNEY APPOINTED YiUimi. Wah. The jYikima County 9utor Court ThuftcUy ppoititni n ' attorney to feprecot EiXljr Joe Hinigcs. 32, of Gfnrtvlewf who it charged wtfh trtt de gree murder in the Jea:h ct I.ct Icwis, a transient. "It was bad for the morale of the men when Fellin made his statement that he should have been rescued on the fifth day," Charmbury said. Standby Basil "The number of volunteers dropped off sharply. We still have enough to do the work, but the number of men on standby basis has fallen off." Charmbury said Fellin was not familiar with the "condi tions of the slope or he wouldn't have said that. He couldn't be - he hasn't seen it." Charmbury said a volunteer probably would descend the Bova shaft, but that it would not occur until 6 p.m. EDT Friday "at the earliest." He said water was discovered at the bottom of the shaft, and called it "a brand new hazard which makes it tougher." Workers today were widen ing the 12'2-inch wide shaft to 30 inches lo a depth of 35 or 40 feet. They planned to widen the remainder of the shaft to 22 inches, according to Smith. He said they were proceed ing carefully because "this side of the mine is more dan gerous than the other." Bova was separated from Fellin and Throne by about 18 feet of debris and rock. Smith said it a volunteer goes down, he "will be a man of mining ability, agility and courage." 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