I
it The
Day's Sews
! By FRANK JKNKINM
IAPOLOOIZK, but Ui Fourth ol
July (till hu ma going. Thrrt'a
' Ui eaa nf Ui PorUand lad who
f suffered n lJ'"T WHEN A
5 FIHWItACKEK EXPLODED IN A
!, BOTTLE.
I Th troubl Willi fireorarkcra mow
) about aa deep lu Dm In oogliuum
i aa It U poaslble to loll la Uiat no
J body ever would ua Uiem u Ihey
were Intended to b used which
u to make a Joyful nolM at a aafa
distant.
The way lo lua flrerratkrre la to
buy a bunch of penny dreadfuls,
with Ilia fuses all twutrd together,
touch a niauh lo Uia plana wher
tha match la supposed to be touch!,
throw Uia bunch out Into Uia middle
of tha street or some bara place wuh
no dry grass around, atlrk ynur
tliBjer In your aara and run l.ke
Blily-be-darned.
Handled that wy. Ihry ara prac
tically aa aafa a a church.
BUT alio In America avar aantrd lo
V ba
? It out
?aafty-f
, be aaler
our ancestor had been of Ilia
iral breed. Uley d never hava
com to this savag wildrrneaa.
They'd hava alayrd at noma In the
Old Country and put up with the
tyranmea of the gang who had the
Old Country in It clutches much
aa tha commlea and then Ilk wan,
to let thla country In their clutches
now.
If our forebrara had beeu aven
half Impressed wuh safety, they'd
hava atared on Ilia coastal fringe
of tha Atlantic after they fut tha In
diana cowed and learned how to
grow corn and beana for aucctiiash
and later learned lo throw the
beam away and us tha corn lo
make bour bun whiskey.
War they satisfied when they
had brouihl thesa Hunts to pf
Not ao Uiat It could be noticed. No
auuner had they whipped things In
to such shape that life waa reason
ably safe than Ihry atruck out to uia
west, brusiiing Indiana and cai
arnounta out of their way aa they
charged onward toward th aetuiif
sun.
Contempt fur aalety haa always
been one of our cardinal character
utica. Nut th universality with
which aa a people we've blown down
tha muaslee of aholguna to ar if
they wer loaded.
JT haa alaas beeu known tu Amer
ican children land a lot of grown
ups that the only runt way to
enoot a firecracker la lu pinch it off
He native chuler. grip H firmly Jr.
on hand whll lighting It with
match held In Die other and OO
ON IIOUJINO IT UNTIL IT EX-
PLODr-H. In that way. yuu set
yourself up aa a bold and determined
characted, utuifraid of danger. An
other slightly mtlk-eouptah way la
to park a cracker under a tin ran.
fire tha fuse and see trie can leap
akyward. This device haa alwayi
been redeemed from over-safety br
th fact Uia l tha tiling might go off
in your far whil you wer gelling
It under th ran after lighting It.
Th Portland boy obviously used g
bottl becaus a botUa la Lisa
safe.
IN lha olden, golden days. prti
stunt waa to light a whole bunch
and throw II under lha feet of a
passing horseman i skltuah mount
That involved lha danger that the
horseman might be able to dismount
and catch you before you could lose
yourself In the crowd.
THS Chines arc supposed lo hava
invented firecracker. Without
knowing th Chines loo Intimately,
I have somewhere acquired th no
tion Uia I they never used firecrack
ers In these ways. I find myself be
lieving that Hale Chinese boys al
ways lighted th bunch with a punk
held at arm s length and then scut
tled for cover and waited aafely
screened from harm until they ALL
went pup.
And look at lha Chines now I
r s
pHS firecracker la In utter dls-
isi-M im niitfiiio. imhi
Illegal as a slot machine. So. around
tha Fourth of July for a week or ao.
all w can do la to muffl our ears
in the pillow when we want to get
to aleep of nlghta and glva thanks
to modern progress and enlighten
ment for th tact that tha darned
things have been banned by law.
Milhorn "Will Go To Yreka
To Stand Trial For Murder;
Investigation To Prove
Red Milhorn "will go lo Yreka
vnhintarlly" to aland trial for ran
lerllon with the El Renrho Tula
rubbery and murder an any date set
for a trial.
Tha former Klamath Fall police
man la now free from Jail becaus
(Inventor Dnuglaa McKay refined to
allow California to take him from
Oregon on extradition.
Milhorn aaid today he waa leaving
for Eugene to do eome Investigating
there on his own hook but that he
waa not running away and would go
la Nlsklyou county whenever he waa
called lo aland trial. He h named
In a frtnnv Information charging
murder and conspiracy lo commit
burglary and Ih rhargre have not
been dropped regardless of Califor
nia's failure to extradite.
' I El Rnncho Title, slate-line road-
' house north of Tulelake, was robbed
; I of aome HS.000 and It nlghtwatch-
I man, Charlie Twlgg, waa beaten to
J death th night of March 3, lota.
JU Nine his arrest her In tha middle
fa 1 of June. Milhorn has elalmeil Inno
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iLik r
nin
FKICK FIVF. K.NTH
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II la"' -Jr I fram the vice president af the tmm-
1 1 I Va 1 ---wf- I ' waay U the Inspector of dining cars
I I s-Jli'lX". i 1 th Wlnema hotel this morning be- 1 r vm
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RAIL IEAUTY GETS LAUNCHED The newest thing in ro.l
rooding, the Shasta Daylight, which stopped in Klamath Falls
(or a preview showing this morning before beginning regular
Portland Son Francisco runs, got on appropriate christening,
obove. Crater loke's famed blue water wos used to christen
the Shasto, with Mrs. Horry Cilk, left, and Dale Motley doing
the honors. At right is the streomliner with an admiring group
of spectators. In its
through the train.
preview,
Russia Cuts Pay
On Lend-lease
WASHINGTON. July 7 tPl Stat
department officials rilarlosrd today
that Russia, without explanation,
shaved about two-thlrda from Its
Litest lend-lease Interest payment
U. th United 8latrs.
Moscow met a July 1 deadline for
Ih payment, but aent a check for
only tl. ill .715. Th slat depart
ment figured mora than SS.000.000
saa due.
Officials speculated the arbitrary
rut waa made becaus th United
ritatea has held up postwar ahlp
rrrnta of machinery and other ex
pnrta originally ordered by Russia
under an agreement ot October 15,
lots.
This explanation waa given last
yar and In 1M7 when Moscow aim
llarly trimmed It Interest payment,
although 10 a leaser extent than thla
year.
cence of any connection with the
crime and haa repeatedly aaid he
believe he ean prove he waa log
ging In I.an county and living In
Lugen on lha dale In question.
He Is going to Eugene to are If he
can find any recorda to prove hi
tt hereabouts. "
Milhorn aaid he waa confident he
could prove hla Innocence and would
eventually have to prove It, but"-)-he
did not want to spend weeks or
months In Jail while walling tor
Indictment and trial.
He aaid h anderatood California
and Hlaklyou county officer were
not going to drop the rase kill that
he probably would In lima he re
quired lo atand trial. When that
time cornea, he aaid, he'll aave Cali
fornia extradition ripens by going
lo Vreka voluntarily.
More or leu the tame promise waa
mad by Leonard Evans, former
Tulelake cafe operator who waa also
arreated and charged with th El
Ranrho Tula robbery and murder,
bvans waa taken from Oregon to
MIK llilll
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2878 Klamath people went
Baseball Scores
NATIONAL LEAl.t T.
PITTSBUROH. July 7 tPv-DIno
DestilU's double aaglnst the left field
rcreen with two aboard In the sixth
today gave the PllUburgh Piratea a
:-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardi
nals. A crowd ot 1503 paid fan
ai.d -' women watched Pitts
burgh Ernie Bnnham pitch his
fifth win of the season.
R H B
SI. Louis . 000 000 0000 I
Flttsburgh 000 002 OOx1 S 0
Staley. Reeder 8 and Oaragiola;
Bonham and McCullough.
FRESH HONOR
ITIIICA, N. Y- July 7 iP low
Stale college won sweepstake honors
today In competitive presa exhlblu
at the 3tlh annual meeting of the
American Asanclatlon of Agricul
tural College Editors. Texaa placed
seventh. Michigan and Oregon tied
for eighth.
Voluntarily"
Making Own
Eugene Story
California but waa released from
th Siskiyou county Jail on a writ
nf habeas corpus several days before
Milhorn waa released here.
When Evans was freed, his attor
ney, J. Everett Burr of Yreka, said
k'vana "would b available" In case
r.ny new evidence against him waa
Uiirarthrd.
Evana waa named aa "brains" of
the robbery plan by Tom Allen, San
Quentln convict, who also Impli
cated Milhorn at a hearing In Tule
lake. Allen and Marvin IMoonl
Morrla, a Folsom convict, are alea
accused of murder and conspiracy
lo commit burglary.
Siskiyou District Attorney
Fred
Purton used only Alien s Irstlninny
at Evans' preliminary hen ring and
Superior Judge James M. Allen ruled
n granting K vans' writ of habeas
corpus that the convict's testimony
contained no evidence linking Evana
wllh a public crime.
Presumably the aame line nf rea
soning prompted tlovernnr McKay
In refuse to agree to Mllhorn'a extradition.
KLAMATH FALLS. ORF.HON, Hit KHDAV,
Crowds Impressed With Many Modern
Improvements Of New SP Streamliner
Be JOY BIGCiS
Thlrtee. Hoatherw Flf te afflcUI. ,
were la Klamath rails Thursday
aaoralng to keep their three-year- the depot oa the guest raa to Part
old aramlae la the Pacific North- land in early alteraoaa.
ky Railing a atreamllo train
oa thla ran th hhaata Daylight. iWnh the large view windows, corn
Vice President Claude E. Peter- i
son and his aasociatea were intro
duced at a no-host breakfast In
Hi Wlnema hotel thla morning be
fore the special preview Inspection
ot the train. Peterson told the l'.o
brtakfasurra a frw o: the highligh.s
of the modern transportation mean-.
Including th baggage elevator,
automatic doors, dry Ice retrigrrs-
For Slayer
Of Crabber
ACCOMAC. Va.. July 7 i. Spt
dai Virginia Deputy David Acre
surrendered in answer to a murder
warrant today ana cauea me snoot
ing of a Maryland crab fisherman
accidental while the fisherman
struggled to resist arret. APPOINTED John Foster
The atocky I-year-old crop-dust-1 Dulles to succeed Robert Wag
ing tiler gave hlimelf up 10 Sheriff -n .,,
uivur v. nu.
ne w as released on i
! ' h nonj'ulio;.h' "
Maryland also is brandishing a
murder warrant at Acree in the lat
est of Ih fishing "border Incidents"
between the two stales. He is
charged with the fatal shooting of
Earl Nelson. 50. father ot seven. In
Nelson's fl.hlng boat In Chesapeake
bay near the Virginia-Maryland line.
Maryland and Virginia authorities
ar In hot disagreement on whether
the shooilng took place In Virginia
or Maryland mater.
Court Rules
Bird To Hang
On July 15
OLYMPIA. Julv 7 iv-The state
supreme court ruled In effect today
that axe slayer Jake Bird should
hang as scheduled July 15.
The high court entered an order
denying Bird's latest petition for
a writ of habeas corpus.
The writ. If It had been granted.
twould have given the 46-vear-oIu
Negro another hearing In the state
supreme court.
Th petition for Uie writ was Uie
latest In a long aeries of legal
maneuvers by Bird to escape Uie
gallows for slaying of Mra. Bertha
Kludt In Taroma two years ago.
Bird la bring held In the death
row of Walla Walla state prison
awaiting his scheduled hanging
shortly after midnight July 15.
Salt Water Suit
Not Satisfactory
HOLLYWOOD. July 7 (P Ac
tress Virginia Mayo Is hunting for
a better-built bathing suit today.
She says the one she wore yester
day waa peeled off by an Inron-
"'derate wave, in the aurf near Mall-
ou. leaving her attired only In salt
water and embarrassment,
Mlsa Mayo was rescued by a friend.
Mrs. Audrey Klrarhbaum, and a
beach towel. A photographer hap
pened to be near by and got, two or
three pictures of Uie scene, after
the towel waa In place. Press agents
at the actress' studio vowed they
had nothing to do wllh th accident.
Jl LY 1. 1M
Telepbera till
Nl
Mion and so forth, before conduct-
Ing Uiem through the train.
lie InsDeetiasi from I a. as. aatil
kmrt
shortly before it
visllnra seemed moat imwwMed
Dewey Names
Dulles For
Wagner Post
NEW YORK. July 7 (i Oov.
Thomas E. Dewey today appointed
John Poster Dulles, hi veteran for
eign affairs adviser, to the United
; States senate aa successor to Rob
ert F. Wagner.
Dulles w ill sen an interim term
until December 1. A senator will be
I elected at a special election No
! vember t to serve for the balance
i of Wagner a term from December
1, IMS lo December 31. 1950.
I Dewev said It was "unlikely" that
' Dulles would run in the November
"P11 l-'lon " ln tne re"
j Pelican nominee.
BULLETINS
NEW YORK. July 7 I"! The
Alger Hiss perjury ease went to
the Jury at S:Zs p. m. IESTI today.
The if men and tw women be
gan deliberating the fate of the
44-year-old former atalr depart
ment official after a 57-minute
charge by Federal Judge Samuel
II. Kaufman.
' Hiss b charged with lying when
he denied to a grand Jury that he
ever delivered secret government
paper to VYhlttakrr Chambers,
self-described ex-courler for a
prewar Soviet spy ring, oe saw
Chambers after January 1, 1931.
WASHINGTON, July 7 oPI
Senator Donnell (R-Mo.l today
urged the senate not to ratify the
North Atlantic pact on the ground
that It will obligate the I'nlted
Hate ta give military aid I
Lurope.
The Missouri senator for the
first time made It clear he will
vole against the lt-national alli
ance. "t have arrived at the eonrlu
aion," Donnell aaid. "that th sen
ate should not advise and consent
la the ratification f th North
Atlantic treaty."
In effect he accused the flat
department ot Inconsistency In
presenting part obligations.
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I f V I !
Lsw S-slSI St. tllk rl.r M.
Mss. 'islvai la Mlo...
rrcleHal.a las S4 bears a
Na. IM
:La
fortable aeata. attractive Interior de-
!'" J
cl'lc Nor th watt and th wood used I
throughout la typical of this region.
Linen for the dining room is alao
made especially for the Shasta Day- I
light and ao la the ailvenrar.
And that' Bet aU! While travel- ;
ing throng h the scenic Northwest oa
lhta spec 11 pleaaar travel train,
aasaencera away din aa aseata aad ,
vegetabtea arodaced la the region, j
The Bess feature Klamath Netted
(jesa pot toe. Columbia river sal
mon. TiUaaaook cheese, .Medford
aeara and aa forth.
Superintendent E. P. Leaviu.
Crater Lake nauoual park-. Roui
KagUnd. prejiident. of the Tulelagg i
crfaoibef" "bf comme're"' and Bill
Shrpard. chamber director; Bill i
Hagelsteio. Tulelake Roury dub
president with Mrs. HagelsKin wer i
j out-of-tow n guesu from this vlcin- I
uy attenaing uie Dreagiut. '
With the vie president, houlhern
Pacific repreaeatativea were A.
MrKenn. chief special agent
' hhaata divhuoa; Carl O. Olaea. as
sist nt graeral passenger agent;
Jerry Gridley, aaaiataai mnger.
dialog ear department; Harry Fee
district faright aad passenger agent;
R. K. RoMaaoa. asaaataat aoperia
teadeal Shasta division; tauael
FitiBalrlrk. editor, BOalhera Pacific
Bulletin; Howard Willi. sUtioa
soperTisor. Paeifi line; Joe Hag-
gerta, aeeretary to the vsrc presi
dent; H. A. Teal, trainmaster. Klaaw-
alh FUs; Waller Anderson, travel
ing passenger ageat; Chart ea Falsi
sal, inspector af dining ears.
Defense Loses
Motion For
Tokyo Rose
SAN rKANCISCOt July 7 i.-Pi A
futile effort by the defense to have
the testimony of an ex-OI thrown
oul
opened proceedings today In
the treason trial of Mrs. Iva Togurt
1 Tokyo Rose 1 D'Aquino.
Defense Attorney Wayne Collins
recalled the government witness,
former army Corporal J. Richard
Kisenhart of Rochester, N. Y, for
! more cross-examination. After ques-
Honing him about a souvenir one
yen note which the woman had
autographed her true name and
"Tokyo Rose." Collins demanded
that Elsenhart's testimony be
stricken as Inadmlssable.
was inadmlssable because the autol
graph had been obtained while Iva
was a U. 8. prisoner and when she
had not been advised that anything
she said or signed might be used
against her.
Eisenhart said he had merely ask
ed the woman for her autograph
and that she had signed It without
protest, aignlng "Tokyo Rose" right
below her own name.
In cross examining Eisenhart, Col
lins wanted to know whether the
American guards iMP'si In the Su
gamo prison, where Iva was con
fined, were armed. The w itness told
him none of those Inside carried
arms. The defendant spent a little
more than a year In prison awaiting
a government derision on whether
to prosecute her for treason.
Federal Judge Michael J. Roche
allowed the testimony to atand.
1.1 1
Suburban Quells
Two Grass Fires
Two grass fires popped out in the
south suburban area Wednesday but
the suburban fir department was
on hand to extinguish both before
any damage could be done.
One alarm came In at 2:05 p. m.
end the fire was at the corner of
Madison and Shasta way. The other
waa a small blase In th 2100 block
of Fremont at 5: IS p. m.
Death Toll Hits
153; Crop Loss
Seen In Millions
By Th Associated Free
It waa mora hat and haeald weather for aaaat f th eastern twa
thirde f the aulioa again today. Na widespread relief waa la eight
froa th week-long heat wave.
Hhowera and cool air brought a measure af relief to soma f th
hot spot but tha L. 8. weather bureau didn't eipeet a general break
In tha steaming heal Immediately. Meanwhile, crop loaae la th draught
stricken North eastern slates aseanted daily and a heavy rain war
foreeaat.
Ilea lha attributed la the hat weather mounted te at least IU.
t'aol air fanned ut over the dry-atrtckea arcs af New England!
and New Yark state yesterday and rain fell la earn part af lha Eaaterm
slates
New York City gat tie hraviest wetting In weeks a half Inch rain
fall. That waa more thaa fell la the aaetropolh) during th entire month
f June. Th Baereary waa a pleaaaat (I yesterday and dropped to 11
early today. He-altered ahowera aroaght relief lo other pari af New
York elate.
New Jersey, where crop have suffered millions of dollars damage
tree 4S daya of draught, alao got ssaw rain, bat not enough to help
the wilting crop. The fall asemaared only about half aa inch at Newark
and waa regarded aa only a "freshener." Crop need three to all inehea
of rain, farm eaperta said, "before a
It will do a good Job." No heavy:
rains were foreeaat.
A heavy downpour hit Philadel
piiia last night and aent tempera
tures down from 89 to 75. But read
ings in the Mi wer forecast today
I ast nights rainfall measured one
inch.
Tbvnderatonaa
There also were aome scattered
tnundershowers In the Great lke
nuion. the Ohio valley and the
Pocky mountain area. But no rain
Irll and none waa predicted in
trie drought area of southern New
fngland.
Crop lasses In Maaaarh Beetle, j
Fbode Island and Connecticat ar i
running betweea S5.M. an lit.. I
COG., farm exaeru eaid. Tbev aaid
they may tola! KM.. If thee at j
ao rain within a week.
The long drought la costing dairy 1
and poultry farmer In Masaachu- I
nd poultry farmer In Masaachu- I
etts $1,000X100 weekly, laid Lester T.
agriculture. Many farm wells and
sources of Irrigation alao ar drying
uc in th state.
Death frsea heal proU-atia
and heart attack aggravated by the
the mat remarleol nth! awih. o.
weather shooed S7 he Illinois
Michigan. I; Iowa aad New York, Framework
g each: Marylaad. S; ladiana, 4; ' Government officials aa well aa
Nebraaka, 1; VirginU and W iacoa- i legislator who have talked econom
sia. each: and Caaaectieat aad ta with Mr. Truman In recent weeka
Tem
1 each.
Steel Strike
Threat Looms
Over USS 'No1
PITTSBUROH. July 7 0P1 - The
nation today faced the threat of
lu first major steel strike since
1S4C
u.
S. 8teel corporation, bellwether
of the industry, yesterday aaid "no'
to demands of th CIO United
Steelworkers for a fourth round
wage Increase and for company fi
nanced pension and Insurance pro-
grama.
The union immediately called
July 13 meeting of lu wage policy
committee to consider
strike July Is.
"-
Contract negotiations between the 1
steel union and the nation's Na 1 1
steel producer were recessed Indef
initely. The talks had Just resumed
alter a two-week recess.
Philip Murray, president of the
CIO and the steelworkers, told a
press conference
"They (the steel corporation)
! merely aay no to the union and they
say ao with an air of complete fi
nality. . . . The conferences are !
1 deadlocked. There Is no hope as I
see It as present of a mutually I rt ported that tne leaerai govern -satisfactory
agreement being arrived j ir-ent now is more than t00 000 in
at on any of the issues." I arrears on tuition payments to
I The steel corporation turned
I down th wage Increase. It told the
j union its refusal to discuss pensions
, could be arbitrated and that any in-
j surance program would have to be
, paid for equally by union and com-
j nanr.
1
Trimmed-Dawn Housing Bill
On Last Lap Of Hard Trip
WASHINGTON, July 7 m - The
i administration's vast housing bill to-
a,T n" I,IUU P OI ,0"
Democratic leaders confidently ex
pected to hand the tiimmed-down
measure to President Truman be
fore the day Is over, folk wing Its
approval in compromise form late
yesterday by a house-senate confer
ence committee.
The bill, marking the first major
success for Mr. Truman's "fair deal"
program, was passed In differing
versions by the senate and house. It
calls lor a mulii-bllllon dollar pro
gram of public housing, slum clear
ance and farm housing aids.
All that was needed before Mr.
Truman could sign the compromise
Into law was its approval by the
two chambers of congress.
Administration leaders, who had
barely anatched the bill a public
housing feature from defeat In the
house, were Jubilant over the proa
pert of seeing It finally enacted.
Housing Administrator Raymond
Foley said he Is all set to swing Into
the public housing program aa toon
at Uie president signs th bill. He
said he hope to get 50,000 public
dwelling units under way the first
year.
Her la what th housing bill
would do:
1. Provide a five-year slum clear-
Truman To
Call For
More Loans .
WASHINGTON. July 1 (At Fraaw
Hent Tra man's anti-depre tsa pr
giam. dwe to reach eongreaa In ks
Ciidyear sconemie report Mooaav.
will be built an wrepoaala fa aaao
la January, edict la predicted a,
day.
They Include federal loan to In
dustry lor expansion, drafting of a
"lu.ly formulated" act of public
f -k-- -7
Icial aecurlty and Job leas pay pro-
1,mI'
These were aaaaag th vevaraiMe'
featarea of Use aUbiltutiea plaa
Mr. Tram a aabealtted to th aesr
caagreaa viz month ago. They wer
ooaewred at the Uas by th -ti-
I lafUtioa" price, wag. aad alloeattoa
agieed in their private forecasts on
th presidential message, that thaw
measure will be th framework of
trvart prcgran. "There may. of
course, be other ones or new twtat
to the basic proposal.
Few officials woold predict that
Mr. Trnmaa will abandoa hi pro
posal for tai-haoating; he might
avftea It. they aaid. And ke already
haa stated in tlx Jaaaary report
that eoase excise Use -aheald bo
I leaealed."
; expected a renewed call for
; a raise In uie minimum wag from
4 cents an hour to 75 cent. It la
I ennaidered llkelv too that Mr. Tru-
j . tlk, note of the saasag
of the housing legislation as an aid
to the building industry.
CaJDrr1 ArllfinrO
reuerai MUVOnCe
To Indian School
Funds Get Okay
i WASHINGTON. July 7 (i Tha
fc"u.e has a on roved legislation to
j advance $150,000 to Klamath county.
I Cie . to improve schools aerving
' Indian children.
The money would be recovered bv
j the government bv withholding over
a 30-year penoa me annual leaerai
payments for education of Indian
children In the Klamath county
ss-hools.
The house public lands commutes
Klamath county for education of ,
i Indian children over the last 31
years. It said one-fourth of tha
children in the county school are
, Indians.
The bill, which passed the house
I yesterday, now goes to the senate.
, ance program, with one-third of th.
1 cost to be met oy tne leaerai gov
ernmrnt and the balance by local
communities.
2. Requires local authorities to
select Uie low-income occupants of
the public housing units, and to set
the rent at what these, families can
pay.
3. Divides the 1.113.000.000 farm
housing program Into Uiree parts.
The first part provides long-term
loans at not more than 4 per cent
Interest to owners of self-sustaining
farms unable to obtain financing
elsewhere. The second part sets up
a similar loan program, with an
nual federal contributions, to owner
whose farms were not at the Uma
self-sustaining. Th third part pro
vides loans for minor Improvement
on farms that could not b mad
self-sustaining.
4. Seta up a research program to
find cheaper ways of building
homes.
5. Provides la', a to-day extension
of temporary government authority
to insure loans by private lender
up to 13500 for repairing a. id re
modeling existing structures; lb) a
to-day extension of authority to In
sure mortgage for construction of
small homes mating up to sftOOO, and
c, a $500.000000 Increase In tha
amount ot morfgag Inauranc that
th government can Issue for slngl
family and multiple dwelling unlta.