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JMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Status of Congressional Bills WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1963 WASHINGTON(UPI) -Status of major legislation: Incime Taxes Administration supported bill would reduce in come taxes on individuals and corporations by $11 billion with $7 billion of relief effective on 1964 incomes and rest taking effect in 1965. House passed. Senate finance committee holding hearings. Stocks and Bond Taxes To retard flow of American capital abroad, Kennedy has proposed that purchase taxes be levied on Americans who buy foreign stocks and bonds from foreign ers. House ways and means committee has started closed door consideration. Senate awaiting house action. 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, $19 million bill. Senate nothing scheduled. Foreign Aid Administration asking $4.5 billion. House- pas sed authorization bill setting ap- Sropriations ceiling of $3.5 illion. Senate foreign rela tions committee recommended $4.2 billion, which is now being debated on the floor. Vote ex pected this week, (actual ap propriations to come later.) Health Insurance President wants hospitalization program for persons 65 and older fin anced through social security taxes. House ways and means committee to begin hearings Nov. 18 but no chance for pas .sage this year. Senate await ing house action. Colleges President asked for new program of loans and grants to build classrooms, li braries and laboratories. Both house and senate passed sepa rate versions! Compromise worked out by conference com mittee would provide about $1.9 billion over three years for this purpose. ' ' Vocational Education Ken nedy sought increase in current annual federal aid of $57 mil lion for job training schools. House passed bill that would boost aid to $237 million a year. Senate passed boost to $243 million, added extension and en largement of national defense education act; three-year exten sion of "impacted areas" school aid. A House-Senate conference committee still must work out a compromise version. Libraries President wants construction and operating aid for city as well as country li braries. House committee ap proved. Senate committee approved. Package Civil Rights Bill Kennedy wants new safeguards for Negro voting rights, ban on customer discrimination by private businesses. Justice De partment authority to start school desegregation suits, White House authority to cut off federal aid to discriminatory programs, creation of federal agencies to fight government related job bias and help me diate local rac; disputes and continuation of Civil Rights Commission. Hous- Judiciary Committee approved bipartisan compromise which seeks to end racial discrimination in voting, education, employment, unions and in use of privately owned lodgings, eating establishments and places of amusement; would make Civil Right Com mission permanent. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on package bill in recess, no ac tion expected. Public Accommodations Kennedy's proposal to ban dis crimination in use of hotels, restaurants, theaters, stores and other public accommoda tions. House included in om. nibus bill. Senate Commerce ! Committee approved limited version as separate legislation. Employment Discrimination Kennedy endorsed separate FEPC covering private busi ness and labor unions. House Labor Committee approved separate bill; Judiciary Sub committee included it in omni bus bill. Senate Labor Sub committee approved; Com merce Committee put labor un ion bias ban into public accom modations bill. Cotton Administration back ed subsidy plan would provide cheaper cotton for U.S. tex tile mills; includes lower sup port prices for large - scale growers and potential relaxation of planting restrictions. House bill approved by Agriculture Committee, cleared by Rules Committee, scheduled for floor action in mid-November. Sen ate hearings completed. Mexican Farm Hands 12-year-old law permitting impor tation of Mexicans for tempo rary work on American farms expires Dec. 31; administration requested one-year extension with new safeguards to protect domestic workers. Senate passed such a measure. House approved administration-opposed simple one-year extension without safeguard amendments. A House - Senate Conference Committee must now work out compromise version. Mass Transit Kennedy pro posed $500 million in subsidies to improve city rail, bus and subway services. House Bank ing committee approved bill, pending in Rules committee. Senate approved $375 million program. Wilderness President wants to establish a national program to preserve public lands in their natural state. Senate passed, with provision covering 8 mil lion acres immediately and possibly up to 35 million acres eventually. House No com mittee hearings set. Outdoor Recreation Ken nedy wants a special land and water conservation fund to fin ance purchase of additional fed eral and state park lands and forests for outdoor recreation. House Interior committee ap proved bill. Senate hearings completed, awaiting House ac tion. 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 ad ditional $455 million authoriza tion. House rejected, but Bank ing committee has approved a "second-try" $355 million bill which is pending before rules committee. Youth Employment Ken nedy asked new $100 million youth conservation corps for outdoor 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 President asking for new or ganization of 1,000 to 5,000 skill ed volunteers to carry out work in this country similar to peace corps projects abroad. $5 mil lion first year cost. House Ed ucation and Labor subcommit tee concluded hearings. Senate passed. Price-Culting Administra tion opposed bill backed by druggists and some other retail groups is designed to stop re tail price-cutting of brand-name m e r c e committee approved, pending before Rules committ ee Senate Commerce sub committee has not set date to merchandise. House Com esume hearings. Military Pay President asked $1.2 billion annual pay boost for servicemen, reservists and it requested to replace existing gress granted President's re-silver-backed $1 bills with gold-1 quest to extend through Nov. backed $1 bills. Women Workers Starting next June employers must pro- Mine. Nhu's Father Doubts Role by U, S. FRESNO. Calif. (UPI) - Dr. Tram Van Chuon, father of South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, said Monday he did not feel the United States played a direct part in the mil itary coup that ousted President Ngo Dinh Diem. But, Chuong admitted, the fact the United States cut eco nomic aid in South Viet Nam may have encouraged those who staged the coup. Dennis the Menace retirees. Congress approved $1.2 j(j equal pay' fo. women work. htllmn I n f r a a c o u'lth enmo P . r 7. billion increase with some changes including elimination of, boosts for low-ranking en listed men with less than two years service. Draft Congress granted Ken nedy's request for four-year ex tension of selective service and doctor draft. Feed Grains Congress ex tended for two years tempor ary program of paying farmers to hold down surplus production of corn and other feed grains. Silver To combat shortage of silver for coins, Congress gave administration authority ers 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 present temporary tax rates on corpora tion profits, liquor, cigarettes, automobiles, ielephone 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. re duction program is enacted.) National ueot Limit ion-i 30 temporary ceiling of $309 billion on national debt. Ceiling would have reverted to $285 billion Sept. 1 without the new legislation. (New extension for increased $315 billion debt limit for last seven months of fiscal year slated for house vote this week.) Rail Dispute Congress au thorized creation of seven-man board to arbitrate two key work rules issues, thus avert ing nationwide strike. Award to remain in effect for two years, other issues not subject to arbi tration but strike over them barred for at least 180 days. Medical Schools Congress granted Kennedy's request for federal aid for construction of medical-dental schools and loan aid to medical and dental stu dents. Three - year program would cost about $236 million. Treaty Senate ratified treaty with Soviet Russia, Brit ain and other nations which bans nuclear tests in air, space and underwater. Civil Rights Commission Stop-gap one year extension of commission's authority; would continue it beyond present cut off date of Nov. 30. Mental Retardation Second part of President's mental health program, will spend $355 million over five to seven year period to combat mental re tardation through improved material and infant care. Railroad Payroll Taxes Con gress approved legislation re-i quiring larger employer and employee contributions to rail road retirement fund increased employer contributions only to railroad unemployment insur ance fund to avert long-range shortage. A 7 Mental Health - Administra tion's long-range program for community treatment centers; research on and treatment of mental retardation. Plans calls for spending $329 million over first four years. c. M. Litwiller WE STRIVE TO SERVE ' With dignity and reverence to ill who call, this firm has serv ed to the best of Its ability for a quarter of a century and more. Funeral and ambulance service. Weddings since 1952. , Mrs. Litwiller Economy Ambulance Service, Non-Emergency 'or Medford! 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