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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
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tration - opposed bill backed by
druggists and some other retail
groups is designed to stop re
tail price cutting of brand -
name merchandise. 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. The circuit court said
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month.
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age home has a hot water heat
er which holds 35 gallons; a hot
tub bath requires aoout iu gal
lons; a hot shower uses about
six gallons; and an automatic
dishwasher uses about seven
gallons. So report statisticians
at Lever Bros. i-o.
Hoffa can present them again
when he appeals if he is con
victed. Meantime the 6th Circuit
Cnnrt moved to delay the trial The
until Hoffa could appeal the against
Spni 30 decision to the Su- refusal
preme Court.
lower court ruling
Hoffa also included a
to transfer the trial
elsewhere.
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