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10 A TUESDAY. OCTOBER 1, 1MJ MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORU. OKEfiOX Status of Congressional Bills WASHINGTON (UPI ) Status ' ting appropr .(lions ceiling ob l approved strengthened ver- of major legislation: 1 $.15 billion. Senate-Foreign re- income Taxes Administra- j lations committee has partly tion-supported bill would reduce completed action on bill. (Actual , j appropriations to come later.) ncome taxes on individuals and 11 ' . . . I Health Insurance President corporations by $11 billion with j wfJnls hosl,ilaiy.alinn program $7 billion of relief effective on i for persons B5 and older financed 1964 incomes and rest taking j through Social Security taxes. effect in 1965. House-Pdssed. I ous--7Was and Means com- jmiuee expected to noia nearings ' this fall but no chance for pas i sage this year. Senate Await ing House action Senate Finance committee be gins studying bill at closed door briefings Wednesday; hearings later. Slm-Lc nnrl HmH TavM Tn retard flow of American capital j wanls long-range program for abroad, Kennedy has proposed community mental health treat ihai nm-chase tavns he levied nn mo I centers; research on and , , sion of Kennedy bill, including tougher public accommodations, Fair Employment Practices Commission covering most jobs, blanket authority for Justice de partment to act in civil lights cases. Senate Judiciary com mittee .hearings on package bill in recess, no action expected. Public .V'coniniodatinns Ken nedy's proposal to ban discrimi nation in use of hotels, restau rants, theaters, stores and other Menial Health-Administration P"W'C accommodations. ;iouse Strengthened version included in Americans who buy foreign treatment of mental retardation. stocks and bonds from foreign-1 " , nn 6 nave passer, ers. House-Ways and Means I sharply differing version. Corn Committee concluded hearings, j Pr"mlse bwcm sate 10-ycar; Senate-Awaiting House action.!"17 ' ! n program and Military Pay-Administration i Hm,se $-' mlll,(,n P'Wam asked $1.2 billion annual pay j , . . and benetit boost lor service- complete congressional action today. 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 Passed one year, $1!I0 million bill. Senate Nothing scheduled. Foreign Aid Administration asking $4.5 billion. House Passed authorization bill set- men, reservists and retirees. ! alleges Presided asked for Senate Approved final compro-! aid program to build class- mise bill. House ScnedUICd to luimia, uuiiini-s ami lauuia- torics. House Passed $1.2 bil lion loan and grant bill. Senate Committee approved differing version of same proposal. Vocational Education Ken nedy sought increase in ci.rrent federal aid of $57 million for job training schools. House Passed bill that would boost aid to $2.'!7 million a year. Senate Committee approved boost to $24:1 million, added extension and enlargement of National De fense Education Act; three-year extension of "impacted areas" school aid. Libraries President wants construction and operating aid (or city as well as county li braries. House Committee ap proved. Senate Conittec ap pioved. Package Kill Kennedy wanls new safeguards for Negro vot ing rights, ban on customer discrimination by private busi nesses, Justice department au thority to start school desegre gation suits, White House au thority to cut off federal aid to discriminatory programs, crea- i ton of federal agencies to fight government-related job bias and help mediate local race dis putes and continuation of Civil Rights commission. House Ju diciary subcommittee tentative- Justice Douglas Lauds Racial Effort PORTLAND (UPI (-Supreme Court Justice William 0. Doug las said Monday he was glad lllis nation was on the right track in combating racial dis crimination. Justice Douglas, accompanied by his young wife, spoke at the opening of reading week at Lewis and Clark College. He said, "I'm sure that if this country had tried to segre gate Jews and keep, all of them in one school, everyone would have agreed years and years ago that it was unj';st discrimi nation." "But," Justice Douglas added, "with the Negro it was differ ent. His background of slavery and servitude, and of being termed an unequal person, cast a long shadow which has been more difficult to remove. I'm glad this nation is on the right track." Justice Dougla. spoke at Whit man College in' Walla Walla Monday nighl. Omnibus bill. Senate Com merce committee considering this as separate legislation. Emlilovment Discrimination j Kennedy endorsed separate FEPC covering private business and labor unions. House Labor committee approved separate bill; Judiciary subcommittee in cluded it in Omnibus bill. Sen ateLabor subcommittee tenta tively approved; Commerce committee put labor union ban into public accommodations bill. Civil Rights Commission Kennedy asked for four-year ex tension in Omnibus bill. House Judiciary subcommittee voted to make commission permanent. Senate Action due this week on stop-gap extension for one year. Cotton Administration back ed subsidy plan would provide cheaper cotton for U.S. textile mills; includes lower sJport prices for large-scale growers and polenl;iJ relaxation of planting restrictions. House Bill approved by Agriculture committee, cleared by Rules committee, but not scheduled for floor action. Senate Hear ings completed. Mexican Farm Hands 12-year-old law permitting impor tation of Mexicans for tempor ary work on American Igrms expires Dec. .11; Administration requested one - year extension with new safeguards to protect domestic workers. Senate Passed one year extension with safeguards. House Bill to ex tend program two years defeat ed on House floor, Agriculture committee has approved simple one-year extension without safe guard amendments. Mass Transit Kennedy pro posed $5011 million in subsidies to improve city rail, bus and I subway services. House Bank-: j ing committee approved bill, i pending ii- Rules committee, i Senate Approved $:I75 million I program. I Wilderness President wants to establish a national program to preserve public lands in their : natural state. Senate Passed, i :w'lh provision rnvenO It mil-i lion acres immediately and pos I sibly up to 35 miliion acres; ev'tually. House No commit- tee hearings set. ; j Outdoor Recreation Ken-! nedy wants a special land and water conservation fund to fi-! nance purchase of additional federal and. state park lands and ; ; forests for outdoor recreation, j i House interior committee j drafting bill. Senate Hear-' ings cumpleteri. awaiting House action. i Depressed Areas Kennedy asked Congress to expand sharp ly program of federal redevel opment aid to local industries designed to create jobs in areas of chronically high unemploy ment. Senate Approved addi tional $455 million authorization. House Rejed, but Banking committee has approved a "second-try" $.'155 million hill which is pending before Rules com mittee. Youth Em jljijYinent Ken nedy asked new 51110 million Youth Conservation Corps lor outdoor work in forests and parks; Home Town Youth Corps (or local civic projects. House Education commilfte has ap proved, pending in Rules com mittee. Senate Passed. Domestic Pearp Corps Pi esi- t.ent asking (or new organization of 1,1)00 to 5.00(1 skilled volun j teers to carry out work in this country simi'- to Peace Corps projects abroad. $5 million first year cost. House Education ; and Labor subcommittee con cluded hearings. Senate Pass- , ed- Consumers Price-Cutting Administration-opposed bill backed by druggists and some other retail ; groups is designed to stop retail ! price-cutting of brand - name ! merchandise. House Com i m e r c e committee approved, pending before Rules commit tee. Senate Commerce sub I committee may hold further hearings j Awaiting Signature: j Railroad Payroll Taxes Con i gress approved legislation re- 0" and rmirinz larger emnlover employee contribution "to rail road retirement fund increased employer contributions only to railroad unemployment insur ance fund tn avert long-range shortage. Enacted: Draft Congress granted Kennedy's request for four-year extension of Selective Service and doctor draft. Feed drains Congress ex tended for two years temporary program 0 paying farmers to hold down surplus production of corn and other feed grains. Silver To combat shortage of sil'Cr (or cojns, Congress gave administration authority it requested to replace existing silver-backed SI bills with gold backed $1 bills. Women Workers Starting next June emploers must pro vide equal pay for women work ers who do tha 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 present temporary tax rates on corpor ation profits, liquor, cigarettes, automobiles, telephone calls and airline tickets which had been scheduled to drop to lower levels July 1. (Corporation tax rates would be permanently revised downward, if Kennedy's tax-reduction program is enacted.) National Debt Limit Con gress granted President's re quest to extend through Nov. 30 temporary ceiling of $309 billion on national debt. Ceiling would have reverted to $285 billion Sept 1 without the new legisla tion. Current debt about $20 bil li( above that figure. Rail Dispute Congress auth orized creation of seven man board to arbitrate key work rules issues, thus averting na tionwide strike. Award to re main in effect for two years, rjier issue? not subject to arbi tration but strike over them barred for at least 180 days. Mcdicg Schools Congress granted Kennedy's request for federal aid for construction of medical-dental schools and UJgn aid to medical and dental stu dents. Three - year program would cost about $236 million. Treaty Senate ratified treaty with oviet Russia, Bri tain, other nations which bans nuclear tests in air, space and underwater. Campus Discipline Left To Students EUGENE (UPI) - President Arthur Flemming of the Univer sity of Oregon says students themselves will be in large part responsible for campus disci pline this year. Flemming told his Monday news conference the program being adopted this year by tlis university goes as far is any institution in the country in plac ing responsibility for student conduct on the student. A faculty-student condiiu' com mittee may delegate its job to a student court. Among items inciided in the program is liberalizing cli;;ng hiirs (or women students over 21. The program also emphasizes the university will not ask spe cial treatment (or any student accused o( violating city or state laws. PET WELCOMED-. Tina Haines, U, ol Pittsburgh her lost pel, a .io-(oot-long Iguana, back home. ' appeared from his home in an old television sel weeks ago. ,eighbors found him eating tomaloe yard U'l'l) . Pa., welcomes The Iguana 'S moie than Iwo s in their 1kh I serve A SALMON TrimmpjJ) Piocn FINNAN "A HADDIE lb. IQ HALIBUT o QQ CHEEKS lb. Qj FLOUNDER JTA FILLET lb. J J REX CQ SOLE lb. 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