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WASHINGTON (UPD - Presi
dent Kennedy emphasized today
that he would accept a tax cut of
$10 billion or larger from Con
gress this year without tax reform
in order to avoid a recession.
The chief executive delivered
an. address to a sympcsiuin on
economic growth sponsored by the
American Bankers Association,
and then participated in a ques
tion and answer session during
which he emphasized his desire
for tax reduction affecting calen
dar 1363.
Only a week ago, Democratic
congressional leaders said the ad
ministration planned to continue
its efforts for the over-all tax re-duction-and-reform
package. This
involved a gross tax reduction of
$13.5 billion with about $3.5 bil
lion being returned to the govern
ment through reform measures to
tighten loopholes and correct in
equities. Kennedy told the bankers today
that "quite obviously" he did not
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By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
A bipartisan Senate group head-i
ed by the majority leader. Demo
crat Mike Mansfield of Montana,
is urging a clampdown on U.S.
aid to Southeast Asia and a thor
ough reassessment of security
needs there.
These senators say $5 billion in
economic and military aid has
been poured into that part of the
world since 1950, and they ques
tion whether much has lieen ac
complished by all this spending.
Senator Mansfield says:
"What is most disturbing is that
Vietnam now appears lo be, as
it was seven years ago when I
first saw it. only at (he BEGIN
NING OF A BEGINNING
in coping with its grave in
ner problems It is most
disturbing In find that after sev
en years of the republic South
Vietnam appears LESS, not more,
stable than it was at tiie outset,
and MOMS REMOVED FltOM.
rather than closer lo. the achieve
ment of popular and responsive
government."
What's in the back of Senator
Manslicld's mind and the minds
nf the senators associated with
him in this bi-partisan group that
is taking a sharp new look, at
our position in Southeast Asia?
These are educated men. They
are (amiliar with hislory and
mythology. They arc obviously
asking themselves if it isn't about
time for Uncle Sam to quit play
ing Old Man Atlas.
Who was Atlas'.'
He was the giant who was or
dered by Zeus to CABBY THE
WOULD ON HIS SHOULDERS.
He did so lor centuries. But.
evcnlually, he became faint with
weariness. One day Perseus flew
by. carrying with him the head of
Medusa, which turned anyone who
saw it inlo stone.
Atlas begged Perseus to let him
look at the Medusa head, and
was thereby changed into the
slone that is now the Atlas moun
tains. There are signs that our old
Uncle is getting weary o( the bur
den of carrying the world on his
shoulders.
This bipartisan committee head
ed by Democratic Senator Mans
licid is one of the signs.
Incidental question
Where docs our word ATLAS
come I mm'.'
It comes from this want Atlas
A picture of him carrying the
world on his sliouldcrs was print
ed on the first page of the earliest
books "I maps.
So a book ( maps is still called
Al atlas.
Let's get on with tiie news of
tie diiy.
In the lounge of a ski report in
the Vermont mountains yesterday,
a local news photographer in the
course of his job aimed his cam
era at Senator Edward M. Ken
nedy, the newest member of what
cynics arc beginning to call the
Kennedy dynasty, and snapped a
picture.
Senator Kennedy giahhed the
camera, tore its leather case al
til scam, pulled out the roll of
exposed film and held it against
a light until it was ruined, and
then dropped it into a waste basket.
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want his reform recommendations
to delay the tax reduction so
much that it might not be suf
ficiently effective this year.
"If we cannot get reform, ob
viously we are going to have to
rewrite the package," the Presi
dent said. "If Congress were to
come up with a $10 billion cut.
we would then have to adjust all
the rates."
The President said that from
his viewpoint a cut of less than
$10 billion this year might be
preferable. But at the same time
he said he would prefer to "err
on the side of a large enough tax
reduction" and thus would accept
a $10 billion reduction without the
reform provisions if it became
necessary.
In Hie formal speech, the Presi
dent said there was "nothing
deeply wrong with our economy,"
but that the nation "must release
the brake of excessive taxation
which has been holding back de
mand and momentum. . ."
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Kennedy's
Press Policy
NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) - Team
ster Union President James R.
Hoffa has compared the Kennedy
administration with the regimes
of Hitler, Mussolini and Khrush
chev in an attack on the nation's
government and press.
Hoffa said the dictators would
not do the things the Kennedy ad
ministration has done to organ
ized labor.
"They will kill you," he said,
but what's the difference if they
shoot vou or kill you with bad
publicity."
Holla spoke Saturday night to
l.ooo teamsters and their wives
at a $50 a ticket tribute to An
thony i Tony Pro) Provcnzano.
president of Jersey City Local
StiO and New Jersey Joint Coun-
il 73.
The testimonial was given for
the Josephine Provcnzano Schol
arship Fund, named for Provcn
zano s motner, wiucn aius cnu
drcn of union members.
Hoffa attacked proposed federal
labor legislation claiming it would
eliminate free assembly, free
speech and right of contract.
He said the administration was
designing a "grand scheme to
carry out a campaign of vililica-.
lion."
The proposed legislation, he
said, indicated the rise of a po-
ice state under officials elected
by the people.
Holfa said a campaign has been
started in the nation's colleges
and universities where the ques
tion has been asked: "Why
shouldn't labor be restricted under
the antitrust laws?"
U.S. Appeals
On Blocking
GENEVV il'PD - The United,
States said today that progress on
a nuclear lest ban treaty is im-
Kissih!e unless the Russians ease
their rigid position on verification.
Chief U.S. negotiator William C.
Foster, who just returned from
consultations will) itcmucih Ken
nedy in Washington, appealed to
the Soviet Union lo remove lis
"substantive and procedural ob
stacles" to nuclear negotiation?.
He urged tiie Russians lo give
serious consideration lo me i ,v
oflcr of seven annual on-site in-
s$ections to police a test ban
He hinted that the I S. position
I other issues at slake in tiie
test ban bargaining also might be
undergoing change.
Foster told the lT-natmn Dis
armament Conference:
"I feci compelled U ask myielf
how we shall find any way to
overcome now tnc suostantive
and proce.lural obstacles which
the Soviet delegation is piling up
on the road to concluding a test
ban treaty.
"How short sighted it would be
to lose tiie opportunity we now
have to press forward and to cre
ate tumething which would be
He called for an end to "squab
bles over who will benefit most"
from the proposed reductions.
He challenged critics of his pro
gram to come forward with a
solution of their own and not con
centrate entirely on "partisan. . .
exasperated. . .rash talk" about
swollen federal payrolls, a higher
deficit and "a crushing debt bur
den." He said he was "not predicting
a recession for 1963." But he said
(hat if no tax cut is enacted this
year, he would be willing to make
his prediction:
"The country will, in the not
too distant future, be struck by
its fifth post-war recession, with
a heavy loss of jobs and profits,
a record-breaking budget deficit,
and an increased burden of na
tional debt."
The President mentioned no
names in asserting that "tax re
duction will not be passed if each
economic group continues to treat
i economic) growth as a melon to
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HOW COULD WE FORGET? Today is the 50th anniversary of the constitutional
amendment permitting the income tax to go into effect. President Kennedy observed
the anniversary by malting a strong pitch to Congress to cut income taxes as the
best route to national prosperity. Here, Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer
Caplin stands in front of blowup of a federal income tax form. UPI Telephoto
Last Ditch
To Avert
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD - As
sistant Secretary of Labor James
I. Reynolds bolstered the govern
ment's forces today in its last
ditch" effort to avert a strike by
railway clerks against the South
ern Pacific Railroad in seven
western states.
Rcvnolds arrived from Washing
ton Sunday night to join Chair
man Frank O'Neill nf Die Fed
eral Mediation Service, who has
been trying in both San Francis
co and Chicago since Feb. 6 in an
To Reds
Test Ban
more valuable than all the bombs
ever built. This opportunity will
not be lost. I can assure you,
through any fault of the United
SLites."
Hinting at possible chances in
the U.S. position. Foster said that
during talks last week with Soviet
First Deputy Foreign Minister
Vassili V. Kuznetsov "I explained
the United States position on a
number of features of the inspec
tion system we envisaged."
'I hope that the Soviet Union
government is now study ing. . .not
only the now U.S. quota numbei
hut also tiie other matters I put
to the distinguished Soviet rcpre
sentative," he said.
Foster did not specify the "oth
er matters" and U S. spokesmen
declined to elaborate.
The U.S. negotiator underlined
U.S. flexibility on all ancles ol
the lest ban talks. He said the
West has issued no ultimatums
and desires negotiations on a
basis of equality.
Tne I S. negotiator said on his
return Irom Washm;ton Sundav
he hoped to ersuaie tbe Rus
sians to reopen earnest bargain-,
ing on tiie nuclear tsiue.
be divided instead of a crop to
be harvested or if each group ex
amines this crop through the
wrong end of a telescope."
ASKS TAX SLASH President Kennedy today asked
Congress for a tax cut of $10 billion or larger. He in
dicated be would now accept the tax cut without a cor
responding tax reform which he had also asked. He
warned that unless taxes are cut, a big recession will
hit the nation. UPI Telephoto
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 23, II163
ores Aid Given Viet
Effort Planned
SP Clerks'
attempt lo avoid a walkout.
Reynolds and O Neill planned
to meet with both sides today,
and union Vice President William
McGovcrn said he and SP local
Chairman James Weaver "will
have an announcement'" this af
ternoon. O'Neill met with both sides in
formally Sunday, but reported no
progress in settling the lengthy
dispute between SP and the Broth
erhood of Railway Clerks over au
tomation.
The 11.000-member union has
for five years attempted to get
the railroad to agree to retrain
men displaced by automation for
other jobs within the company.
The railroad has relused, contend-
such retraining would create
unnecessary jobs and retard tech
nical progress.
The clerks threatened to walk
off their jobs Feb. 6, but O'Neill
Hew to San rrancisco from Wash
ington and was granted time, on
Pity Poor
Millionaire
LONDON 'UPD - Jean Paul
Getty, one of the richest men in
the world, believes millionaires
are the hardest-working people in
the world
"They work longer hours than
any oilier working man." the 70-
year-old oil king said Sunday
night on a television interview on
the British Broadcasting Corp.
Ilul that doesn't mean Getty is
ready to retire.
"Tie never had the feeling I'm
flu.hcd," he said. "I'm strug
gling on.
The Minnesota-born tycoon
spoke from his lfith century home
in Surrey amid the masterpieces
of his private art gallery.
"Of ail the classes I know, mil
lionaires are U hardest work
ers."
"The facts of the matter are. of
course, that the reduction is fair
ly distributed through all income
brackets," Kennedy said. "And I
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Tel jhone
Strike
a day-to-day basis, to settle the
differences.
After two weeks of talks in San
Francisco, national leaders of the
union agreed to transfer the peace
negotiations lo Chicago against
the wishes of the SP unit of the
brotherhood.
Negotiations broke off after
only three days in Chicago, and
union oflicials returned lo San
Francisco "now in complete ac
cord" that a strike could not be
averted.
But the tireless O'Neill followed
them to the West Coast and
asked for more time.
Court Rules
Arrest False
WASHINGTON (UPD - The
Supreme Court, by an S I vote
declared unconstitutional today the
breach of peace conviction of 1S7
Negro students who held an anti-
segregation demonstration on the
grounds of South Carolina's Capi
tol.
The court held that the convic
tions violated constitutional guar
antees of free speech and asscm
bly. The demonstration took place
t Columbia. S C., March 2, 196!
In other actions today the Su
preme Court;
Ordered further lower court
proceedings in the case of Leon
Beardcn who was convicted with
his son of hijacking a Continental
Airlines plane over New Mexico
in 1!W. The 5th Circuit Court of
Appeals was lnsliiictod to lake
further action in tlw case of
Bearden who was sentenced In
u(e imprisonment.
Granted a hearing to Harold
Fahy who was sentenced to W)
days in jail by a Norwalk, Conn
court of painting swastikas on
syua&'gue Feb. 1, 1!j0.
would hope, that all groups would
put the national interest first, and
recognize that the prospects for
tax reduction and economic
growth must not be endangered
by squabbles over who will bene
fit most. For It is the nation that
will benefit most from the pas
sage of this program and the na
tion that will suffer if they de
feat it."
Criticism of Kennedy's program
has ranged from the AFL-CIO
which wants a quicker tax cut
than he has recommended, to busi
ness groups which want its bene
fits allotted differently.
The bankers association and oth
er organizations as well as a
number of key lawmakers have
warned against cutting taxes with
out reducing federal expenditures.
"I do not say that it is a per
fect program, which cannot be
changed by the Congress, which
will satisfy the desires of all
groups, or which will achieve all
the growth we need as fast as
TU 4-811
No. Wi
WASHINGTON lUPD-A sena-
torial study group has reported!
to President Kennedy that alter
seven years of U.S. aid to Soutn
Viet Nam the country still lacks
a stable government.
In fact, the study said the gov
ernment of the Southeast Asian
ountry "appears more removed,
rather than closer to, the achieve
ment of popularly responsible and
responsive government."
Most of the blame for this, the
report said, is due to policies by
South Viet Nam President Ngol
Dinh Diem. But, U.S. action.
especially the aid program "must
bear a very substantial share ol
the responsibility."
Although the report said the
United States has poured more
than $2 billion into the former
French colony since 1955. it pre-
Big Bomber
Controversy
Opens Again
WASHINGTON (UPD - The
House Armed Services Committee
reopened the HS70 bomlicr con
troversy today by voting to au
thorize the Air Force an extra
S(i3 million to build two more
of the planes.
President Kennedy has said re
peatedly he does not want the
authorization and the 31-5 vote set
the stage for anotlier congression
al battle with the administration.
The House committee also added!
two nuclear powered attack sub
marines which the administration
docs not want.
Defense Secretary Robert S
McNamara maintains any more
money spent on tne proposcu
RS70 would be wasted and Ken
nedy has backed him up.
The actions boosted Kennedy's
arms authorization bill, already1
the largest ever Introduced in
Congress, lo $15,856,391,000. This
was M!r7.7OO.0()0 more than Ken
nedy requested last month and
would also Increase Die over-all
$53 7 billion defense budget by
that amount.
Chairman Carl Vinson, D-Ga
said in a slalemcnt afterwards
that it was "a deep and abiding
belief of the Armed Services Com
mittee that manned systems
should continue lo be a majir
part of our military force."
"There is no doubt," he said
'that our missiles, and particu-
arlv our intercontinental ballis
tic missiles, are a major part of
our arsenal. Neither I nor tie
lommittec members would for a
moment Ihink of minimizing their
mportance or cutting back on the
missile program.
'But the committee sees a
growing tendency on the part of
the Department of Delense to
place more and more emphavs
on missiles and less on manned
systems.
''This is dangerous course
si i-.ie whkh the committee In
tends to do everything in Its pow
er to stop."
Vinson said the addition ot two
more JlS70s would constitute a
major itep toward an airpiane
"with most of tiie characterUts
and capabilities of a true combat
aircraft."
The RS70 is a long-range, su
personic bomber which also cou d
have the capabilities of beinj
recxinnais&aiK plane a well.
we wish to achieve It," Kennedy
said.
"But those who admit the prob
lem, but oppose the proposed so
lution of a $10 billion top-to-bottom
tax revision, are under some
obligation to put forward a solu
tion of their own."
He insisted that the nation's
economic growth "will be stepped
up only by lightening the repres
sive weight of war time tax rates
which put a damper on private
purchasing power and profits."
"But it will not be stepped up
by political slogans or homely
analogies, Kennedy said.
Kennedy said no nation in his
tory had experienced a century
of economic growth comparable
to that of the United States in
the last 100 years. But he warned
that if Congress rejects his pro
posals there not only will be a re
cession but there also will be
these consequences:
-"Tax revenues will continue
year-in-year-out to be insufficient
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dieted no end to the assistance
"In the best of circumstances, out
side aid in very substantial size
will be necessary fur many
years."
The report was Die fifth of a
series made following a study trip
to Asia last year made by four
senators led bv Democratic Lead
er Mike Mansfield. Mont.
He was accompanied by Sens.
J. Caleb Boggs, R-Dcl.. and Clai
borne Pell, D-R.l., and former
Sen. Benjamin A. Smith 11,
D-Mass.
The report said victory in the
guerrilla war in Viet Nam is lore-
seen wittun one to three years
by responsible experts, but, bdsed
on past experience, it recommend
ed "caution in predicting its ra
pid achievement.
South Viet Nam is faced with
a "massive job of social engineer
ing, the report sard. Outside aid
will not help the country, the re
port predicted, unless there is a
great mooilization of soilless
Vietnamese leadership in all parts
f the country and at all levels."
The group concluded that U.S.
lid to Laos and Cambodia had
improved conditions (here. It
found no need to extend Ameri
can foreign aid to other Southeast
Asian countries which are not now
receiving it.
Solon Rips
Spend Idea
WASHINGTON (UPD Sen
William Proxmire, D-Wis., said
today that history disproved the
theorists who argue that large
Icdcral deficits contribute to econ
omic growth.
"From 15(57 lo dale," Proxmire
said in a statement, "federal def
icits have averaged a heavy $(j
billion per year. And yet, econo
mic growth has been a slow-moving
despair of current economists
during this very period."
Flu Death Toll Rises
As Epidemic
By United Press International
The death toll edged upward to
lay in (lie outbreak of flu that
has hit 21 stales. Thousands lay
ill from some sort of respiratory
ailments. ' Asian flu was isolated
in II stites.
Health olflcials in New York
Cily reorted that during the first
even weeks of 1!KV!. 818 New
Yorkers died from either pneu
monia or influenza.
This represents about 300 more
victims than normally would die
during a corresponding period in
an average year. The Health De
partment said there was no ac-
urate w ay to distinguish between
the victims of the two diseases.
The latest death figures in oilier
stales included West Virginia 6,
Kentucky 3, Indiana, Michigan
and Florida, 1 each, and in John
son Cily, Kan., several elderly pa
tients in a rest home.
Different parts of the nation
mostly in the East and South-
have been hit by tiie virus during
the past six weeks and millions
have felt the ellecls of fever, fa
tigue. cough and sneezes.
In West Virginia, three more
persons died, apparently from flu'
to balance the budget, no matter
how tightly the administration
and Congress control expendi
tures." "Unemployment and unused
business capacity will remain at
or above their present high lev
els, creating a lack of investor
confidence at home and a lack
of confidence in the dollar
abroad."
"Pressures for a 35-hour
week, for restrictions on imports
and automation, and for large
'quickie' tax cuts and sharply in
creased federal spending will all
grow beyond manageable limits."
"This nation's rale of eco
nomic growth will not match
over the next 10 years the record
of most other industrial powers
or our own record in this coun
try." Kennedy made a contrasting
set of predictions "and pledges"
if his tax reduction program is
enacted this year.
He said his program "will In
U.S. Troops
Shoot First
SAIGON, Vict Nam (UPD-Thc
United States has decided to per
mit its soldiers to shoot first in
the Vietnamese guerrilla war
without wailing to be fired on by
the Communists, it was reported
today.
The move is aimed at checking
the mounting U.S. casualty rate in
the undeclared jungle war, accord-
ng to informed sources.
Another American died Sunday,
young machine gunner was
killed when two U.S. Army H2I
helicopters were downed by Com
munist Vict Cong ground fire.
The machine gunner, a private
first class, was not identified. His
death brought to 52 Iho number
of Americans killed in combat
since the United Stales began ils
military buildup in South Viet
Nam m lOfil.
Informed military sources said
the new "rules ot engagement
will permit the U.S. Army's new'
HU1 Ras turbine helicopters to
open lire on "positively Idcnlifcd
guerrillas without waiting -c tic
fired on first as heretofore.
The sources said the effective
ness of the heavily armed craft,
known by their crews as Hueys,
in protecting the more vulnerable
1121 troop carrying helicopters is
expected to increase under the
new rules.
The Hueys now will be able lo
precede the H21's into a troop
landing zone and keep the gucr
rillas busy while the troop-carry
inz helicopters unload assauu
forces and then get away.
U.S. military observers in Sai
gon feel that if the Hueys had
been able to follow this procedure
during the batile of Ap Bac last
month, the Vict Cong would not
have been able to slioot down so
many helicopters. Two Americans
were killed and several others
were wounded in the process.
U.S. officials denied press re
Flu Expected
PORTLAND (UPI) A spokes-1
man lor the Slate Board of Health
said today as yet no Asian flu
has been isolated in Oregon this
winter.
The virus is expected, though,
and flu shots were urged.
Spreads
and pneumonia complications
Two persons had died earlier.
Doctors in Summers County have
been treating between 75 and 100
patients each day In their offices
and making .15 to 25 house calls
daily.
The Syracuse, N.Y., Health De.
artment confirmed six cases of
Asian flu during the weekend, but
A. Clement Silverman, director of
the Bureau of Communicable Dis
eases, sain he believed the flu
had run its course this winter.
The Mississippi State Health
Department said there were mdi-
alions the Asian (lu was reach
ing epidemic proportions in Mar
shall end Coahoma counties.
Hospitals in many cities cur
tailed visits to patients in an ef
fort to halt Ute spread of germs.
"Send a card or write a note,
liospital officials pleaded.
More tlian 4.000 caret ol flu
were reported in Alabama last
week. Schools In Bullock, Houston
and Macon counties were closed,
but Bullock officials hoped to have
classes again today.
A total of 2,(97 cases of flu
were reported In th Memphis,
Term., area last week.
a short time result in increased
tax revenues and a substan
tial portion of that increase will
be used each year to reduce the
deficit until the budget is once
again balanced."
"Any increases in the federal
debt resulting from these transi
tional budget deficits will be kept
proportionately lower than the In
crease in our gross national prod
ucts, and the real burden of the
federal debt will be steadily re
duced," he said.
The President said "every effort
will be made to continue the
present downward trend in our
balance of payments deficit, and
the present stable levels of our
wholesale and consumer prices."
He added:
"No budget will be submitted
by this administration which does
not continue our persistent and
often unpopular program of cut
ting costs, increasing efficiency
and weeding out obsolete activities."
Get
ports that the United States might
withdraw its Air Force combat
units from South Viet Nam.
The reports claimed the with
drawal was under consideration
because ol charges that heavy
government air strikes against
villages suspected of harboring
Vict Cong were turning the popu
lation against the government
U.S. diplomatic and high-ranking
military officials, including mili
tary assistance command chief
Gen. Paul D. Harkins, said lo the
best of their knowledge no such
decision was under consideration.
Gen. Emmctt (Rosie) O'Don-
nell, U.S. Air Force Pacific com
mander, indirectly denied persist
ent reports that many innocent
civilians arc being killed in air
strikes against the Vict Cong.
O Donnell said Vietnamese air
force tactical fighters and bomb
ers "have been able to locate
positively and destroy targets,
and 1 mean small fleeting targets.
under dilficult conditions."
Timber Tax,
Speech Ban
Bills Offered
SALEM (UPD Timber tax
revisions, repeal of exclusive
electric service areas, and a ban
on Communist speakers in public
buildings were called for today in
bills introduced in the House.
The Senate received bills to
give officers greater powers in
combatting drunk driving as the
legislature began its seventh
week.
Two major limber lax measures
landed fn the House. One would
increase eastern Oregon sev
erance taxes on pine f r o m 5 to
7',! per cent. House Tax Commit
tee Chairman Richard Eymunn,
D-Marcola, said the present rate,
set in I'M, has failed to raise the
expected revenue.
The new western Oregon tim
ber tax biil, also sponsored by
F.ymann, is similar to the
minority report that was defeated
when the present western Oregon
timber tax law was passed two
years ago.
Eymann said in addition to In
creasing revenues on Douglas fir.
the new proposal would move
closer lo tiie prinelplo of paying
njpst taxes at the time of cutting.
It would establish a severance
tax, while reducing the ad
valorem tax on standing timber.
A bill to repeal the 1961 law)
permitting the public utility com
missioner to ratily agreements be
tween utilities for exclusive serv
ice areas was sponsored by Ey
mann and several others. It also
would void any agreements made
under th in .v.
At the request of the Oregon
Veterans' Joint Leglsl.-Uive Com
mittee, Rep. Philip Lang, D-Port-
land, Introduced n bill to prohibit
use of tax-supported facilities by
members of any organization re
quired to register under the in
ternal security act or the sub
versive activities control act.
Communist leader Gus Hall
created a row when he was per
mitted to speak on several public
and private college campuses in
Oregon last year.
Two Senate bills would expand
police powers in arresting
drunken drivers and administering
chemical tests. The measures also
set percentages of alcohol in the
blood that would be Indicative of
sobriety or drunkenness.
Another Senate bill would per
mit county civil service employe!
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