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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 2

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CONGRESSIONAL ROUNDUP CARNIVAL CORPUS CHRLSTT CALLER Tues April 3 1962P0gj Pays Brief Party Call Byrd Speaks Against Feature of Tax Bill WHITE HOUSE POOL TO BE WASHINGTON III The walls of the White House swimming pool unadorned line It was installed to the late franklin Roosevelt are being decorated with seascape murals Artist Bernard LaMotte is doing the murals which reportedly are a gift to President Kennedy from his father fanner ambassador Joseph Kennedy The President swims in the pool fast about every sometimes more than once He likes the exercise and doctors say good lot his back The elder Kennedy who is convalescing from stroke in Palm Beach Fla is said to hare admired Parisian scenes painted by LaMotte for a New York restaurant Le Pavilion POLLTAX AMENDMENT ADVANCES WASHINGTON (B-A House Judiciary subcommittee Monday approved a constitutional amendment outlawing poll taxes as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections The measure sent to the full committee is identical with the one passed last week by the Senate No date was set for full committee action on the bill but quick approval is expected Poll taxes still are required In five Southern states as a prerequisite for voting In federal elections They are Virginia Texas Arkansas bama and Mississippi The bill would ban then In voting for president vice president and members of congress The states involved still could require poll taxes In state or local elections however if they desire If the House gives the required two-thirds approval the amendment would then have to be approved by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states to become More Cbngrrwilonal News 1 on Page 1A proposals to sweeping new reciprocal trade powers including authority to negotiate some tariffs down to zero Typewriter Sales WASHINGTON 81 Congress was told Monday typewriters manufactured wholly or partially behind the Iron Curtain are underselling domestic products In this country Edwin Graff vice president of Smith-Corona Marchknt Co in testimony prepared to the House Ways and Means Committee outlined what he said were two such cases Outdoor Recreation budget changes that would result in a net increase of $(433000 for the bookkeeping year starting July The increase comes mainly from a request to raise economic aid for the Ryukyu Islands by $6 from $79 million to $139 million Kennedy also sent up budget changes affecting the Army Reserve forces the Army Conw of Engineers and the District of Columbia Rio Grande Bridge WASHINGTON President Kennedy signed Into law Monday Mil authorizing Dow Chemical Co to build and operate a bridge across the Rio Grande near Heath Crossing Texas The bridge is intended to replace a concrete slab across the riverbed now being used to company-owned ore trucks to bringing fluorspar into the United Stales It would be located between Del Rio and Presidio and be used almost exclusively by the company Capitol Drinking Earlier Attacked In Senate Spceeh WASHINGTON Ol President Kennedy dropped in on a party at thesCapitol Monday and then paid a brief surprise visit to the where a member had Just criticized Chpitol parties Kennedy attended an informal reception given by Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana to inaugurate a new conference room in the East Wing The room had been opened to divert from the old Senate dumber which was occupied by the Senate from 1810 to 1839 and by the Supreme Court from I860 to 1933 the cocktail parties and committee meetings which haw been held there Two-Bar Event After the which featured two bars and a table loaded with the President detoured to a tear door of the present Senate Chamber Stepping barely Inside the chamber he looked over the almost vacant room briefly and left with a wave of the hand Just about the time those present began to realize the President was there While the Mansfield reception was going on Sen Wayne Morse D-Ore called on a Senate speech for a ban against serving hard liquor In any portion of the Capitol Morse called such parties of public buildings belonging to the taxpayers of this He said cocktail affairs do not furnish good example fpr lawmakers to be setting for the youth of this country When Kennedy walked into the chamber he went over briefly Mid something to Morse and then left immediately In apparent reference to the few members on hand he told Morse the way it was when I left the Only lour senators were pre- NEW TUMS FAMILY BOTTLE! sura! I can saa us buying breakfast in London ordering lunch in Paris and bumming supper in Rome!" WASHINGTON (AP) Chairman Harry Byrd D-Va of the Senate Finance Committee spoke out Monday against the central feature of the Kennedy tax revision an investment credit designed to help American business modernize Byrd made his distaste for the proposal clear to Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon at the outset of public hearings on the House-approved bill He sharply denounced the credit estimated by Dillon to coat $1330000000 a year in the form desired by the administration Byrd called it a subsidy a gimmick and an amazing proposal He said the credit would still another dependency on the federal Treasury for something that business should do Byrd announced that staff members of the Senate-House Internal Revenue Taxation Committee have estimated the 1962-53 budget will be $3818000000 in the red instead of showing the $461 million surplus forecast by Presi dent Kennedy Tariff Control WASHINGTON U) Aluminum industry spokesmen Mon da called for legislation that would give the President power to raise as well as lower tariffs in order to bring a aggressive to trade pact bargaining Leon Hickman executive vice president of the Aluminum Company of America told the House Ways and Means Committee: 1 have so largely tradn away the American tariffs of 30 years ago that we scarcely have the tools to achieve the trade equality heeded by American industry unless we further strengthen the hand of the The committee is considering WASHINGTON (AP)-President Kennedy announced Monday the establishment of a bureau of out door recreation In the Interior Department The bureau authorized under a reorganization plan approved by Monetary Support the last Congress will be headed by Dr Edward Crafts now assistant chief of the Forest Service in the Agriculture Department WASHINGTON 11 The Monday approved a bill would authorize the Successor hi Justice Office WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy announced Monday he is moving Assistant Atty Gen Nicholas Katzenbach up to deputy attorney general This would put the 40-year-old former Rhodes scholar and law teacher in the Justice No 2 spot being vacated by the elevation of Bryon White to the Supreme Court The position carries 121000 salary House which United States to pledge $2 billion to a special standby currency stabilization pool that could be used to strengthen the dollar The House vote after brief but brisk debate was 235-91 to the measure and send it to the Senate Capital WASHINGTON Sen Wayne Morse D-Ore introduced a bill Monday to abolish capital punishment to all federal crimes Monument Name WASHINGTON B-Th Whitman National Monument in Washington would be renamed Whitman Mission National Historic site under a bill passed Monday by the House and sent to the Senate Budget Changes WASHINGTON President Kennedy sent Congress Monday Nsw Tuns Family Bottta i Uim dm hundred minty-frh Tumi tablets One bundled feet sure ways to relieve add indif-ties heartburn and Get bottle tar your hone today Economical only 83 sent to hear a debate between Morse and Thomas Kuchel R-Calif The spectator and press galleries also were nearly empty when the President stepped In Kuchel was in the process of calling Morse wrong" and Morse wm calling Kuchel In a debate over the San Lula irrigation project in California At the reception In new walnut-panelled room where such affairs will be held In the future Kennedy did not take a drink However most of his former colleagues were armed with cocktails or highballs when they shook hands with him visit to the reception had been a poorly kept secret Everyone on hand knew that the President was coming back to his old stamping grounds for the first time since he took office Met at Door When he arrived Kennedy was greeted at the door by Mansfield and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois He chatted with them warmly and spoke pleasantly to Republicans and Democrats alike as he made his way through the crowd It was old home week In nse since he moved about among his friends without any semblance of Secret Service protection r' If you plmd to tiiimclo WIFE WORKS FOR POWELL WASHINGTON HI Rep Adam Clayton Powell D-NY Mid Monday a that his wife is on his office payroll at about 512300 a year and currently her in Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico Powell told a reporter because her home is there and expecting a baby and wants to he under the care of her physician in Puerto Rico Powell id the 31-year-old former Yvette Marjorie Flores whom he married in December 1960 is handling much of his correspondence Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry Mo teaser ka annoy or feel Ul-t-mo Kceuao ol too wobbly tala teeth rAITltnt aa Imprarad site-UmlDoo-aelO) powder sprinkled ca your plate holds tbn Ansar ee they foal mar omfartebteATotd mbar-raasmant eauaad hj loos plate QoS FASTKZTB a any ni eouater Adv) New Mavor 0 Urges Drug Talks WASHINGTON Mayor Robert Wagner of New York proposed Monday a national conference sponsored by the White House to tackle the problem of illicit traffic in narcotics Wagner first took up the proposal with Atty Gen Robert Kennedy Later he discussed it briefly with President Kennedy Wagner said the attorney general told him he thinks such conference would be a good VYw Wagner said there will be meeting next week of New York law enforcement officials on the narcotics problem and the federal government will send representatives to it The nominations of both White and Katzenbach a re subject to Senate confirmation Kennedy named White to aucceed Associate Justice Charles Whittaker who retired Atty- Gen Robert Kennedy Hid Katzenbach has ably handled many important matters as chief of the Justice Office of Legal Counsel initiative Judgment and ability have been invaluable in the last 12 the brother said Katzenbach represented the administration in testifying before congressional committees on poll taxes literacy tests and communications satellites He aso provided legal advice to various government departments and agencies father the late Edward Katzenbach once served as attorney general of Kew Jersey His mother now 78 is president of the New Jersey Board of Education She lives in Princeton where Katzenbach spent most of his early life Bom in Philadelphia Katzenbach served as an Air Force captain in World War II He was shot down off Bizerte on Feb 23 1943 captured and held in a German prisoner camp until the war CIXIeQ Returning to Princeton Uni v'- Do's and donts of REVIVAL sity in 1943 he was graduated later that same year and went to Yale for his law degree He studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar from 1947-49 After practicing law in Trenton NJ and serving in the Air Force General Office Katzenbach became associate professor of law at Yale In 1952 Four years later he shifted to the University of Chicago where he was teaching law when the Kennedy administration tabbed Mm for a Justice Department post investing in stocks and bonds taftdlfcu mk ZOOLOGICALLY SPEAKING House Passes Bills On Birds and Bees 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WASHINGTON (AP) Now that here the House rallied Monday to the aid of the birds and the bees 1 Specifically golden eagles and honeybees Not to slight the creatures of the sea ft passed a couple of bills for oysters as well Here's a rundown on bills pasred in the House: A bill to forbid importation of all honeybees except for experimental purposes The aim Is to bar a microsopic creature called the acarine mite from the isle of Wight This tiny pest messages by GLEN NORMAN played hob with honeybees practically everywhere except in the United States Golden A bill to give these big birds the same blanket' protection now enjoyed by the bald eagle It would help the national bird too because the trouble with golden eagles is they look just like bald eagles until they are four years rid Some states allow hunting of golden eagles and because of the close resemblance many bald eagles have been shot Furthermore the golden eagles are getting pretty scarce Two things have been bothering oysters lately especially In Chesapeake Bay and along the Atlantic Coast: A virus that kills them and 2 The recent huge coastal atom that buried a lot of them under tons of sand One of the bills would set up federal program to supply states with oysters resistant to the virus disease This would cost about $300000 a year The other would provide loans to oyster growers to tide them over the damage caused by the big storm The bill will how go to the Senate If pluming to Invest In stocks and bonds these simple suggestions may help you act wisely and well: DO decide beforehand how much you can invest after providing for living costs and a fund for emergencies invest more than you can comfortably afford DO define your investment goals Do you want added income during the year? 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