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12 A WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1963 MEDKORU MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Status of Congressional Bills WASHINGTON (UPI)-Status of major legislation: . Income Taxes Administra tlon - supported bill would re duce income taxes on inmvia uals and corporations by $11 billion with $7 billion of relief effective on 1964 incomes and test taking effect in 1965. House Committee holding Hearings. Passed. Senate Finance Stocka and Bond Taxes To retard flow of American capi tal abroad. Kennedy has pro posed that purchase taxes be leviea on Americans vnu uuy foreign stocks and bonds from foreigners. House Ways and Means Committee has started closed door consideration. Sen ate 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 Pass ed authorization bill setting ap- Dronriations ceiling of $3.5 bil lion. 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 fi nanced through Social Security taxes. House Ways and Means Committee to begin hearings Nov. 18 but no chance lor pass age this year. Senate Await ing House action. Colleges President asked for new program of loans and grants to build classrooms, li braries and laboratories. House and Senate passed differing ver sions. House Approved com promise that would provide $1.2 uHion over three years, with emphasis on science, engineer ing, mathematics and modern language instruction. Compro mise awaits Senate approval. Vocational Education Ken nedy sought to increase in cur rent annual federal aid of $57 million for job training schools. House Passed bill that would boost aid to $237 million a year. Seante Passed boost to $243 million, added extension and enlargement of National - De fense Education Act; three-year extension of "Impacted areas" school aid. A House-Senate con ference committee efforts to work out a compromise version may resume this week. 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 pri vate businesses, Justice depart ment authority to start school desegregation suits, White House authority to cut off fed eral aid to discriminatory pro garms, creation of federal agencies to fight government related job bias and help medi ate local race disputes and con tinuation of Civil Rights Com mission. House 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 Rights Com mission permanent. Senate Ju diciary Committee hearings on. package bill in recess, no action expected. Public Accommodations Kennedy's proposal to ban dis crimination in use of hotels, res taurants, theaters, stores and other public accommodations. House -Included in Omnibus bill. Senate Commerce Com mittee approved limited ver sion as separate legislation. Employment Discrimination Kennedy endorsed separate FEPC covering private business and labor unions. House Labor Committee approved : separate bill; Judiciary subcommittee in cluded differing version In Om nibus bill. Senate Labor sub committee approved; Com merce Committee p u t labor unio" bias ban into public ac commodations bill. Cotton Administration back ed subsidy plan would provide cheaper cotton for U. S. textile mills; Includes lower support prices for large - scale growers and potential relaxation of plant ing restrictions. House Bill approved by Agriculture Com mittee, cleared by Rules Com mittee, scheduled for floor ac tion in November. Senate Hearings completed. Mexican Farm Hands 12- year-old law permitting importa tion of Mexicans for temporary work on American farms ex p i r e s Dec. 31; administration requested one - year extension with new safeguards to pro tect domestic workers. Senate- passed such a measure. House approved administration - op posed 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 pos sibly up to 35 million acres eventually. House no commit tee hearings set. Outdoor Recreation Ken nedy wants a special land and water conservation fund to fin ance purchase of additional federal and state park lands and forests for outdoor recrea tion. House Interior Commit tee approved bill. Senate hear ings completed, awaiting House action. Depressed Areas Kennedy asked Congress to expand sharply program of federal re development aid to local indus tries designed to create jobs in areas of chronically high un employment. Senate approved additional $455 million authori zation. House rejected, but Banking Committee has approv ed 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 worn in lorests ana parks; Home Town Youth Corps for local civic projects. House Education Committee has ap proved, pending ir. Rules Com mittee. Senate passed. Domestic Peace Corps Presi dent asking for new organiza tion of 1,000 to 5,000 skilled vol unteers to carry out work in this country similar to peace corps projects abroad. $5 million first year cost. House Education and Labor Subcommittee con cluded hearings. Senate COLD WASH NEW YORK (UPI) - Mama doesn't have to labor over a hot wash tub anymore. No, ma'am. 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House Commerce Committee approved pending before Rules Commit tee, senate Commerce Sub committee has' not set date to resume hearings. Enacted: Military Pay President ask ed $1.2 billion annual pay boost for servicemen, reservists and retirees. Congress approved $1.2 billion Increase with some changes Including elimination of boosts for low-ranking enlisted men with less than two years service. Draft Congress granted 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 farmers to hold down surplus production of corn and other feed grains. silver To combat shortage of silver for coins, Congress gave administration authority it requested to replace existing silver - backed $1 bills with gold backed $1 bills. Women Workers Starting next June employers must pro vide equal pay for women workers who do the same work as men; new law applies to jobs covered by minmum 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, telephone calls and airline tickets which had been scheduled to drop to lower levels July 1. ( Corporation tax rales 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 bil lion on national debt. Ceiling would have reverted to $213 billion Sept. 1 without the new legislation. (New extension for increased $315 billion debt limit for last seven months of fis cal year slated for House vote this week.) Rail Dispute Congress auth orized creation of seven man board to arbitrate two key work rules issues, thus averting na tionwide strike. Award to re main in effect for two years, other Issues not subject to ar bitration 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 students. Three year program would cost about $236 million. Treaty Senate ratified treaty with Soviet Russia, Brit ain, 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 retard ation through improved mater nal and infant care. Railroad Payroll Taxes Con gress approved legislation re quiring larger employer and employe contributions to rail road retirement fund increas ed employer contributions only to railroad unemployment in surance fund to avert long range shortage. Mental Health Administra tion's long-range program for community treatment centers; research on and treatment of mental retardation. Plan calls for spending $329 million over first four years. Hoffa's Charges Of Improper Jury Rejected by Court WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court has refused to examine the claim of Teamster President James R. Hoffa that he was indicted on charges of jury tampering in Tennessee by an improperly constituted grand jury. The brief order let stand lower federal court rulings that this legal Issue should not be brought up at this stage in the proceedings. It thus cleared the way for the trial to take place A federal grand jury charged Hoffa and six others with ap proaching jurors and their rela tives in the fall of 1962, offer ing cash and other inducements to acquit Hoffa in a trial then taking place. The trial, involv ing Taft-Hartley Act charges, ended in a hung jury. A federal district court in Nashville had set Oct. 14 for the jury tampering trial when Hoffa challenged the grand jury. He contended that Ne groes, Catholics, Jews, manual laborers and members of or ganized labor were improperly excluded from the panel. He also contended that the "sug gestors" who proposed names of grand jurors were not a trie cross-section of the community. Hoffa also said he didn't get a fair break because the "sug gestors" knew the grand jury was especially established to consider the case of one "who has been the target of an un precedented, well - publicized campaign by the present (na tional) administration." "A presumption of prejudice under these circumstances must arise," he said. Federal district Judge Frank Gray Jr. dismissed these argu ments. He was upheld first on Sept. 30, by the 6th U.S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals on the ground that they had been pre maturely placed before that court. 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