25862 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE October 7, 1966 CONFIRMATIONS U.S. ARMY the President under subsection (a) of section 3066, in grade as follows: Executive nominations confirmed by The following-named ofllcer to be placed the Senate October 7, 1966: on the retired list in grade indicated under To be lieutenant general the provisions of title 10, United States Code, Maj. Gen. Ferdinand Thomas Unger, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY section 3962 : 020734, U.S. Army. Vice Adm. Rufus L. Taylor, U.S. Navy, to be To be lie'L!tenant general Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. IN THE NAVY Lt. Gen. Albert Watson II, 018105, Army U.S. Am FORCE The nominations beginning Hubert K. Ad of the United States (major general, U.S. kisson, to be captain, and ending Jerry Ros To be general Army). enfeld, to be a permanent lieutenant (j.g.) Gen. Hunter Harris, Jr., FR624 (major The following-named ofllcer under the pro general, Regular Air Force) U.S. Air Force, to and a temporary lieutenant, which nomina be placed on the retired 11.&t in the grade in visions of title 10, United States C.ode, sec tions were received by the Senate and ap dicated under the provisions of section 8962, tion 3066, to be assigned to a position of im peared in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on title 10 of the United States Code. portance and responsibility designated by September 28, 1966.
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Hon. Leo W. O'Brien when he retires at the end of this session. to roam the dark, mysterious northern His wit, his wisdom, and his willingness seas, returning with news of wonders to see both sides of a question have won previously unobserved. In time, the son, EXTENSION OF REMARKS him many friends-not only in the In Leif Erikson, would surpass his famous OF terior Committee, but on both sides of father, charting unknown regions even the aisle in this Chamber. farther west. HON. WAYNE N. ASPINALL It is my fervent hope that his volun The courage of the Vikings was truly OF COLORADO tary retirement from the Political heart phenomenal. President Johnson, speak IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of ow· country-the U.S. Congress.--will ing last month in honor of Leif Erikson, Friday, October 7, 1966 not diminish his political participation in declared that: other capacities, for this Nation needs Mr. ASPINALL. Mr. Speaker, at this The Viking explorers of a thou.sand years men the likes of LEo O'BRIEN. Like the ago left us an example of courage and daring time I would like to pay tribute to a man mountain in Alaska, named in his honor that will never be forgotten. Their far who has sat steadily beside me during my by a grateful new State, may he continue re·acll.ing voyages across frigid northern seas years as chairman of the House Commit to stand tall and strong among his fel in small boats, guided by crude and primitive tee on Interior and Insular Affairs; and, lowmen. instruments of navigation, are a lasting before that, as I sat as ranking majority When LEO and his devoted wife, Mabel, testament to what man's bravery and deter member of such committee. I refer to depart for home and family in Albany, mination can achieve. LEO W. O'BRIEN who, since the 84th Con N.Y., they will leave behind a legion of The American rocket program of the gress, has served as chairman of the Sub good· friends and well-wishers. Mrs. current era can be said to stem from the committee on Territorial and Insular Aspinall and I join with their legion of Erikson tradition-a bold and grand Affairs. friends in wishing them a serene and tradition conceived by men of steel, to be This is the subcommittee which has happy life for many more years to come. followed by others of their kind. legislative jurisdiction over Puerto Rico, The name, Leif Erikson, shall stand Guam, the Virgin Islands, American forever as a symbol of courage in the face · Samoa, Antarctica, the Trust Territory of mystery and danger-a hero among of the Pacific Islands, and other insular A Tribute to Leif Erikson, on the Occasion the heroes of all time. areas of the United States. It is a sub committee which, in no way, directly of Leif Erikson Day, 1966 concerns the people of his own district. But Congressman O'BRIEN has served the EXTENSION OF REMARKS A Tribute to the Ukrainian Congress Com people of these f arflung islands as ably OF and as diligently as he has served his own mittee of America on the Occasion of constituents. He has been an articulate HON. ROMAN C. PUCINSKI Their 25th Anniversary spokesman in their behalf and he has OF ILLINOIS worked tirelessly on the numerous legis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EXTENSION OF REMARKS lative proposals affecting them. OF Since he assumed chairmanship of the Friday, October 7, 1966 Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Mr. PUCINSKI. Mr. Speaker, this HON. LESTER L. WOLFF Affairs, Alaska and Hawaii have joined week, the Nation celebrates the achieve OF NEW YORK the United States as the 49th and 50th ments of Leif Erikson. The bravery orf IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES States, largely due to his efforts; the Vir exploration is revered throughout the gin Islands and Puerto Rico have risen ages, and rewarded by the ringing Friday, October 7, 1966 from poverty-stricken areas to healthy praises of history. And of all the great Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, the enemies segments of our national economy; explorers, no tribe can be said to have of tyranny are always welcome in the Guam has emerged as an effective strong surpassed, in daring and audaciousness, ranks of freedom's army. The Ukrain hold in our Pacific responsibility. the Viking heroes of the 10th and 11th ian Congress Committee is consequently LEO came to Congress in 1952 from centuries, A.D. held in high esteem wherever freemen Albany, N.Y., with no legislative back Many courageous sailors of Scandi congregate and wherever the will to win ground, but possessing a wealth of jour navian birth were involved in battle with prevails. nalistic experience. He had been a news the great unknown. Of these, the best Since the year of your organization, paperman for 30 years and had won na remembered-the most honored by 1941, the UCC has come to stand for tional awards in the fields of radio and Scandinavians at home and abroad-was many imPortant things in the eyes of television. As a result of this experience, Leif Erikson, the outstanding mariner people all over the world. As critics of he has had an affinity for the news and adventurer of the Viking era, a hero Russian expansionism, you have worked medium which has earned him a reputa of classic proportions. ·to convey the fact that the Ukraine is tion, among newspapermen, of being one The father of Leif Erikson was Eric not by rights a part of Russia, and should of the most approachable and coopera the Red, a man of furious temper and by rights stand free and independent. tive Members of Congress. great imagination. Banished succes As the friends of education, you have "OBIE," as he is affectionately known sively from Norway and Iceland for deeds spansored legislation drawing attention by us, his colleagues, w111 be sorely missed of violence, he deserted the known world to the captive nations of Eastern Europe October 7, 1966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 25863 and to the need for extreme vigilance without getting a look at it, but amounted many employers simply cannot afford on the part of American foreign policy only to this, that those who heard for the to increase their pension plans, either. most part listened and judged it more a fable makers. than that there was anything in it, however Profits will not allow it. Your efforts in behalf of establishing small. Is such a change necessary? Did Con an American Freedom Academy are also gress, when increasing the coverage and highly commendable. A great need for The way in which Columbus set his benefits under social security, intend to such an institution is clearly in evidence. goals and reached them deserve recollec force employers to raise benefits under Confronted as we are by master prop tion as we near the date set for this ob private, voluntary pension funds? agandists, we well could take the time servance, and new understanding and Certainly not. to educate a large body of our citizens in praise for those men who brave the un Any changes made in the formula used the field of propaganda devices and tech known, whether it was 1,500 years ago or to determine if these pension plans are niques. in the difficult, complex world of outer fair to all employees of a company should The policy of Communist aggression, space today. only be made in new plans. Those plans or imperiocolonialism, is one of great already approved by the Treasury De magnitude and cannQt be halted without partment and set up by the companies a concerted effort on the part of all the should be left strictly alone. These com enemies of communism. Private Pension Programs panies should continue to be allowed As the friends of freedom you also are their tax deductions, regardless of any vitally concerned with the need for jus EXTENSION OF REMARKS changes in the social security law. tice and on that ground you fought and OF I urge my colleagues to study and won the battle for a change in our im watch closely the actions of the Treas migration laws, to the benefit of thou HON. RAY ROBERTS ury Department, and if the need arises, sands of Eastern Europeans who now can OF TEXAS join with me in preventing any action migrate to the United States. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which would jeopardize the future of Your influence, as I see it, is beneficial Friday, October 7, 1966 those millions of Americans who are all around, and your first 25 years have counting so heavily on their company been decidedly well spent. Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. Speaker, appar provided pensions. May you do equally well by society in ently the Treasury Department is pro the years ahead. posing to change the rules on priv·ate pension programs to the serious detri ment of small firms with private pension Wheeling, W. Va., Post Office Dedicated funds. Columbus Day In Announcement No. 66-58, dated by Postmaster General Lawrence F. September 19, 1966, the Internal Revenue O'Brien-Cabinet Member Praises Service requested background informa Dynamic Service of Senator Jennings EXTENSION OF REMARKS tion from interested persons and firms OF for developing a formula for integrating Randolph HON. EMILIO Q. DADDARIO private pension and other retirement OF CONNECTICUT plans with old-age and survivors insur EXTENSION OF REMARKS ance benefits under the Social Security OF IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Act, as amended in 1965. Friday, October 7, 1966 In this announcement IRS suggests HON. A. S. MIKE MONRONEY Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Speaker, the a new formula which would result from OF OKLAHOMA world takes occasion on October 12 to using a mathematical approach. Under IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES mark the exemplary courage and deter existing law, as passed by this Congress, Friday, October 7, 1966 mination of Christopher Columbus, an employer is encouraged to provide pensions for his employees through a de Mr. MONRONEY. Mr. President, a whose navigation and discoveries led to 5-year program of cooperative effort was the exploration and the settlement of duction of taxable income contributed by the employer for a pension fund, pro successfully culminated on October l, this great country. 1966, with the dedication of the new post His work has been studied and classi vided the pension plan does not discrimi nate in favor of higher paid personnel. office building at Wheeling, W. Va. The fied as more remarkable than in our result of a project begun by interested own space age, which faces a challenge Under plans previously approved by the Treasury Department, retired employees citizens in 1961, this $800,000 structure of exploration that is testing every sinew has been erected on ground made avail of our national capability. In the age of are receiving pensions over and above any benefits to which they might be en able by clearance of the Center Wheel the Renaissance, when the brave and the ing Urban Renewal Authority. It will adventurous of many nations were push titled under social security, and the em ployer is receiving his lawful and deserv significantly improve the capability of ing forward their travels into the un the U.S. Post Office Department to pro known they employed the new-found ing tax deduction for contribution paid into the pension fund. vide efficient and economical postal science of navigation, and yet it was service to the citizens of the surround often said: "What use is the science of Now, according to the Treasury De ing area. partment, last year's changes in the navigation, if we do not know where In its editorial comment of Friday, to go?" social security law require a change in the formula for determining when a pen September 30, 1966, the Wheeling News Columbus pressed and argued his Register made the following reference to plans. It was a characteristic not un sion is fair, and hence eligible for tax the new Federal building: known to the world today that he was deductions. Existing pension plans, required to submit his proposal' to the so though already approved as not discrimi There is significance attached to this nating, must be changed to meet the event beyond that of the community ob called Talavera Commission of learned taining another postal facility. The story men for review and to justify his require new formula, as well as new plans yet to of the new post office is one of successful ments. They held hearings in the year be approved. civic endeavor and it points up what can be 1486 and issued their rePort in the year According to leading actuaries as accomplished when citizens and govern 1490, 4% years la.ter. That commission quoted in U.S. News & World Report, mental officials work together in harmony. judged that the promises were "impos October 10, 1966, issue, the Treasury The dedication address on this oc sible and vain and worthy of rejection." Department's suggested change would casion was delivered by the Honorable But he persisted and his voyages went require employers, in order to still get Lawrence F. O'Brien, Postmaster Gen down in history. their presently allowed tax deductions, eral of the United States. Approxi But he himself commented on the to either increase the pensions of the mately 800 persons were present to hear values of his trip in a letter after the lower paid employees or reduce the pen Mr. O'Brien ~mphasize the worldwide first voyage in which he said: sion of the higher paid workers. No em significance of the American commit For although men have talked or have ployer wishes to suddenly reduce the ment to freedom which is now being written of these lands, all was conjecture pension of any of his employees, but still, tested in Vietnam. 25864 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE October 7, 1966 He also pointed out that, in the past, include Appropriations, Armed Services, and Our unemployment rate is down from Rules and Administration, West Virginia's seven per cent _to 3.9 per cent, the lowest the volume of mail which moves through tradition of independence is well represented since 1953. our postal system has proven an accu in Congress, as it is in your State House un In fact, a million and a half more Amer rate barometer of our Nation's economic der my friend Governor Hulett C. Smith. icans are working now than were a year ago. strength. Stressing that mail volume Long before I ever dreamed .that I would Wages are higher, 18 per cent higher than today is constantly on the increase, Mr. be helping to move the mail, President John they were in 1960. O'Brien indicated that this is a reflec son told me of an early Pootmaste·r cxf Wheel Older Americans, ones with little or no tion of the unprecedented growth which ing, Mr. Archibald Campbell, who was the bulwark against the high cost of illness, have editor of the only antislavery daily newspaper a new degree of protection. our marketplace has undergone in re in pre-Civil War Virginia. Our bright young people, thousands o( cent years. He declared: As you would imagine, a man who could whom were once denied an education because The new Wheeling Post Office is a symbol p.ut out an antislavery newspaper before the of inadequate funds, have a new opportunity. of the greatest economic boom in our his "West" was added to the most beautiful por The unemployed and underemployed, the tory, or indeed the history of the world. tion of Virginia, must have been an individ untrained and undertrained-more than half The fact that more people have more ualist of no mean caliber. a million of them in the past four years- money to buy more things, and that our And this he certainly was. have received help in learning new skills to educational levels are rising as new pro For at a Republican National Convention in equip them for available jobs. grams and new affluence provide the foun 1880 he responded to certain pressure by So we have more people making more dation for more schooling, are reflected in s•aying, "I always intend to wear my sov money and with more security and more op mail statistics. ereignty under my hat." portunity than ever before. In my view, this one phrase sums up wha·t This factor, more than any other, is re Mr. President, the Postmaster General Americans-and West Virginians particu sponsible for the rising tide of mail volume. also praised the energetic and effective larly-really are. I think m1Jst Americans are pleaised with service in the U.S. Senate which has been Of course, I hope I won't sound too partisan the way our economy has been going. rendered by JENNINGS RANDOLPH, of West if I say that if Mr. Campbell were alive But there are always some who like to say Virginia. Senator RANDOLPH is among today he might well have found himself "in front of every silver lining there's a dark the most conscientious and productive more at home in another political Party. In cloud." fact I would like to submit this suggestion to They might even point to this post office members of the Committee on Post Office your good friend and mine, your Congress and say, "If things weren't so good, you and Civil Service, and is chairman of man ARCH MooRE, for his consideration. I wouldn't have to waste the money building the Civil Service Subcommittee. know he will take it in the spirit in which better post offices in Wheeling." I share the belief expressed by Post it is meant. There are some people, like your elected master General O'Brien that JENNINGS One of the most interesting roles of any Representatives, who see a glass and say that RANDOLPH has demonstrated genuine Postmaster General is the dedication of a it is half-filled, and others who look at the leadership in the Senate. He is an asset new post office. same glass and say it is half empty. This is so not only because each new postal But those who ignore our unprecedented to our committee and an experienced and facility represents another improved link in economic boom look at the glass and worry able advocate of the interests of West our communications network, not only be about it breaking. Virginia and the Nation. cause it forms another step toward our goal They say that prices are higher. In addition to introducing Mr. O'Brien of better service, not only because it is a And they are. at the dedication, Senator RANDOLPH, to sign of progress in the community it serves, But the increase in prices is far over gether with Representative ARCH A. but also for another, perhaps even more shadowed by increases in wages, and profits, MooRE, made the presentation of an significant reason. and farm income, and business income. American flag which will fly over the new New poot offices reflect that our mail vol Every major industrial nation in the world ume is expanding. has faced some inflation. post office. Wheeling Postmaster George Mail volume is a very accurate economic But the record of the United States in re A. Fahey received the flag, which, at Sen and social thermometer. straining inflation is far better than these ator RANDOLPH'S request, had already When times are good, the volume soars. nations. been flown over the U.S. Capitol building When times are bad or mediocre, mail vol In addition, the President has announced in Washington, D.C. ume slows down. significant steps to assure that our economy Mr. President, I request unanimous And when times are dismal, as they were does not overheat and that the upward trend consent that there be inserted in the REC during the Depression years from 1930 to in prices can be contained. ORD at this point the text of the ad 1933, mail volume actually drops. But, as he stressed, "Our goal in America In fact, it dropped from 27 billion to 19 is stable growth. dress by Postmaster General Lawrence billion pieces annually in those dark days. "Stability and growth go hand-in-hand. F. O'Brien at the dedication of the This new structure we dedicate today is a "We must not ever succumb to the tempta Wheeling, W. Va., Post Office Building, symbol of the greatest economic boom in tion of buying price stability at the expense Saturday, October 1, 1966, together with our history, or indeed the history of the of stopping growth." the program of events of the day. world. And then he made a pledge that I know There being no objection, the address The fact that more people have more will be fulfilled: "We will not stop the econ and program were ordered to be printed money to buy more things, and that our omy in its tracks; we will not put men and educational levels are rising as new progra.Iru.1 machines out of work again. in the RECORD, as follows: and new affluence provide the foundation few "We will not stop our effort to improve ADDRESS BY POSTMASTER GENERAL AT THE DEDI more schooling, are reflected in mai.I living standards and essential public serv CATION OF A POST OFFICE, WHEELING, W. VA., statistics. ices. OCTOBER 1, 1966 Despite the most careful plans, our mail "We will not beat a shabby retreat from I am delighted that my good friend Sen volum,e figures consistently increase faster the challenges that face us . . . And this is ator RANDOLPH asked me to come here to than we anticipate. why I ... pledge to you today that we shall join with you in this dedication and to bring Men who have spent 30 o:r 35 years in the not repeat in the sixties the mistakes that you the greeting of President Johnson. pos·tal service and who draw up predictions we made in the fifties." Senator RANDOLPH is Chairman of the Sen based on the experience of a lifetime are And I can assure you President Johnson ate Committee on Public Works and a key proven wrong time and time again. makes the same pledge that President Ken membe.r of the Select Committee on Small For no man has ever before seen the kind nedy made for international afiairs--the Business, the Committee on Labor and Pub of economic growth America is experiencing mistakes of the thirties, mistakes of appease lic Welfare, the Special Committee on Aging today. ment that opened the way for World War II and the Post Office and Civil Service Com When he spoke to the nation last January, and all the turmoil and tragedy that fol mittee. the President reported that our economic lowed-will not be repeated in the sixties. His wide influence in Washington stems growth in the previous year-just our growth I spent much time in West Virginia in from the respect accorded his knowledge of alone-had exceeded the total, the total econ 1959 and 1960. I made several visits and I the problems and his understanding of the omies of all but seven of the more than ioo was here for an uninterrupted six weeks proper instruments needed to solve them. nations of the world. leading up to a historic Presidential pri And I can also tell you that his deep Since that time our rate of growth has mary. I was associated with John F. Ken interest in postal affairs certainly didn't de increased, increased faster than even the nedy for fourteen years. lay this new facility for Wheeling. most optimistic projections. I saw him stand ten feet tall during the I have always shared John F. Kennedy's High growth rate can be transla;ted directly Cuban missile crisis. He did not turn tall affection and admiration for the independent into more jobs. and run. spirits who people this rugged state, and There are nine million more workem on I was with President Kennedy at Dallas. I can tell you from personal experience that non-farm payrolls than there were in 1960. I was with the new President on the plane in Senator RANDOLPH and Senator BYRD, We are in the 67th month of sustained at Dallas while the world waited with baited whose important Committee assignments economic aqvance . . b;reath. I watched the transition. Our ·October 7, 1966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 25865 Democracy was put to the test, and there uents of the Fourth Cong.ressional Dis ary levels. The ceiling on the national debt was continuity. trict of the State of Washington ·with a was increased again. The President, very Just as President Kennedy stood firm in special report at the end of each session late in the session, proposed to 'cancel out for the Cuban missile crisis, President Johnson sixteen months the 7 per cent investment tax will not turn tail and run now. We are of Congress. In this report I discuss in credit for businesses. Congress approved standing firm in Vietnam but we will not general terms the actions of the Con this, but the action was regarded . by many, .act irresponsibly there as some would sug gress in regard to our most pressing na including myself, as too little and too late. gest. We are not going to beat a shabby tional problems, and also discuss con Now the question is whether strong meas :retreat there. gressional attention to problems of my ures like wage-price control and/or an in Certainly, the Vietnamese people have district. come tax increase w111 be recommended. turned the corner toward self-rule, at the Under unanimous consent, I include Civil rights and riots--National unrest same time that all observers feel that the at this point in the RECORD, my end-of over civil rights problems continues un Hanoi regime is almost, if not quite, con abated in 1966. The Congress, for the first vinced that the course of terror and violence session report of the 2d session, 89th time in several years, rejected new legisla they have chosen is, through our resolve, a Congress: tion in this field. The Civil Rights Act of lost cause. END OF SESSION: A SPECIAL REPORT FROM 1966, which included a "fair housing" provi No, I can tell you from many conversa CATHERINE MAY, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, sion, passed the House but died in the Sen tions with President Johnson, that he will FOURTH DISTRICT ate. I am in accord with this final decision. not let the near-sighted and timid and hy DEAR FOURTH DISTRICT FRIEND: As I pre Although I have supported civil rights meas percritical make him beat a shabby retreat pare this end-of-session report, a d.ecision is ures in the past, I feel now that perhaps from prosperity at home or from a just and expected shortly as to whether Congress will our Nation has been moving too rapidly in lasting peace. adjourn until January, or merely take a this area. As I have pointed out many times, We cannot abandon the struggle for free short recess and return in November. Per human prejudices cannot be legislated. It dom-just as we cannot abandon the fight haps by the time you receive this annual has become increasingly apparent, however, to make certain that the blessings of our report a decision will have been announced. that in many ways civil rights advances have own freedom are shared fully by every In the meantime I feel it is my duty to re caused human prejudices to intensify. Much American. main on the job in Washington, D.C. until to our national shame, this has resulted in The responsibilities we must shoulder, at either adjournment or recess takes place. open disregard for law and order by mem home and abroad, require courageous, dedi There is one great difference between this bers of both the Negro and white races. I cated, enlightened leadership, in Congress as 2nd Session of the 8~th Congress and the believe it is time we take a new look at what well as in the White House. 1st Session in 196'5. It's in the volume of has been done in the name of civil rights, dis In my host here today, Senator RANDOLPH, new programs enacted. You will recall that cover where we are, and only then decide and his colleagues, you have men who have last year was a "whopper," when congres what future steps may be necessary and when given you and the nation that kind of leader sional action put our Nation for the first they should be taken. I do not mean to ship. time into programs of general aid to educa imply either support for, or opposition to, In his response to President Johnson's tion, medicare, highway beautification, Ap future civil rights legislation. I do feel a greeting, the President of the the Philippines palachian regional develol¥llent, housing better grasp of the civil rights situation and recently remarked that those bearing the and urban development, and a number of its ramifications is necessary. burdens of leadership are in the loneliest other new programs. A bill to abolish State Crime-In 1'5 months, crime has increased position among men. "right-to-work" laws passed the House and across the Nation 11 per cent. The biggest I think that without doubt our President was pending consideration in the Senate. increases are in the western area of the has the loneliest job in the world and the The contrast this year was marked by the United States and are in forcible rape, lar most awesome. relatively few new programs approved. Con ceny, aggravated assault, auto theft, murder, He is our Commander-in-Chief in these gress, instead, concentrated on problems robbery and burglary. The Supreme Court, crucial times. connected with the continuation of the pro in the meantime, issued a ruling to further He needs your help and he needs your grams begun a year earlier. The bill to protect prisoners from interrogation. FBI prayers and I know you stand at his side abolish State "right-to-work" laws died in Director J. Edgar Hoover said, "We are faced every American stands at the President's the Senate. Whether this continuation of with one of the most disturbing trends I side-as he guides the destiny of this nation. the "status-quo" is good or bad for our Na have witnessed in my many years of law tion will be borne out in future history enforcement-an over-zealous pity for the PROGRAM books. But our national problems are many, criminal and an equivalent disregard for his Presentation of colors: American Legion and I believe Congress could have accom victim." The House of Representatives unan Post No. 1, Wheeling, W. Va. plished more to help solve them. imously approved the President's proposal to National anthem: Wheeling High School The following are five of our most pressing establish a National Commission on Reform Band; Louis S. Cefus, director. problems and what we are (or are not) doing of Federal Criminal Laws, but the hope of re Invocation: Rev. John F. Streng, pastor, about them: versing the frightening crime trend through St. James Lutheran Church. Vietnam-In 1966, our participation in the this bill is not promising. Introduction of distinguished guests: war in Vietnam escalated dramatically. We War on poverty-The House and Senate Harry C. Hamm, editor, Wheeling New Reg now have more than 300,000 troops in rejected a Republican substitute for the "war ister, master of ceremonies. the conflict and we seem to be at least as on poverty" designed to basically reform the Remarks: Rabbi Martin Siegel, Woodsdale far from settlement as we were in 1965. most criticized parts of the present program Temple. All appropriations requested by the President which has now been in operation for two full Remarks: U.S. Senator ROBERT c. BYRD. in connection with Vietnam have been years. Intended to eliminate misuse and mis Introduction of the Postmaster General: granted by the Congress in order to prevent management of certain poverty programs, the U.S. Senator JENNINGS RANDOLPH. the success of Communist aggression in Viet Republican "Opportunity Crusade" was also Dedication address: Postmaster General nam and to supply our troops with food, designed to strengthen such promising pro Lawrence F. O'Brien. clothing and with the arms they need. I grams as Operation Head Start and the Com Presentation of American flag to Post supported these requests. But like many munity Action program. It would enlist the master George A. Fahey: U.S. Senator Americans I have been impatient with re help of the poor, industry, and state and JENNINGS RANDOLPH. strictions placed on our armed forces and local governments for a totally effective job. Benediction: Rev. Thomas A. Rafferty, St. with our failure to use our power more ef After considerable study of the poverty prob Joseph's Cathedral. fectively to bring the war to a satisfactory lem and the need of the poverty stricken for Open house: The public. end at the earliest possible date. I believe better educational opportunities and good that as the Free World's defensive leader, we jobs, I supported the "Opportunity Crusade" must intensify our resolve to win . . package. Inflation-This is our most difficult na OUR DISTRICT tional problem. It is largely government I am happy to report that the Congress did End of Session Report created, and Congress has done very little to recognize Federal responsibilities in our Dis effect a solution. There were many at trict during this session. EXTENSION OF REMARKS tempts, such as the votes of a minority of With my support, the third powerhouse for Members, myself included, to cut Federal Grand Coulee Dam was authorized . . . the OF spending in non-essential areas. By the end of August, had my economy votes prevailed, transfer of Larson Air Force Base to local HON. CATHERINE MAY Federal expenditures would have been re control was e:ft'ected ... the industrial di versification program at Hanford moved for OF WASHINGTON duced by at least $3,974,960,000. For several IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES years in a row, I was pleased to receive the ward ... adequate construction funds to National Associated Busill.essznen's "Watch assure orderly development of the Columbia Friday, October 7, 1966 dog of the Treasury" award. But a majority Basin Project were secured . . . we made Mrs. MAY. Mr. Speaker, it has be of Congressmen did not support such efforts continued progre,ss in our electric and nuclear come my custom to provide my constit- and Federal spending continued at inflation- power development programs as well as our 25866 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE October 7, 1966 other civil works projects· and federal high Congressman, CLAm CALLAN, for inviting me tryside. It provides overall policy guidance ways. to participate in this event. and direction. Our predominantly agricultural economy These fine apartments-for senior citizens This outreach effort has taken firm hold. should be strengthened through participa and for low income families-are important. Our field personnel worked with the tion in the expanded "Food for Peace" pro They are wanted and needed, and you worked Social Security Administration to inform gram enacted this year. The tourist and rec together to get them. Congratulations. rural people of their eligibility for Medicare, reation potential of Upper Kittitas and For me, there is a special significance and and where they could enroll for program Yakima Counties will be increased with the pleasure in this project. benefits. Four million rural senior citizens stump removal and recreation facilities pro Help in financing these units came from have been reached by Medicare. grams being undertaken at reservoirs of the the Public Housing Administration in the We are working with the Commerce De Yakima Project. The railroad boxcar short Department of Housing and Urban Develop partment's Economic Development Adminis age, which created problems in moving our ment. That is splendid. tration to help inform people of the financial food ana lumber production to market, was Why, you might ask, should this particu and technical assistance available from this eased through special legislation by Congress. larly please me? We have a complementary agency to encourage industrial development. The drive by Pacific Southwest States to im program in the Department of Agriculture A similar cooperative effort with the Area port water from the Columbia River was a prograni to help rural people finance rent Redevelopment Administration-EDA's pred stopped, for at least the time being, when al housing projects for senior citizens. As ecessor-helped leaders in our smaller com the House of Representatives agreed not to a matter of fact, the USDA helped to under munities to finance industrial expansions take up the enabling legislation. write a similar project just north of here that created an estimated 160,000 new rural As soon as Congress finally adjourns, I will in Wakefield. Why then, my special pleas jobs. be reporting in my last weekly newsletter of ure in the fact HUD helped make this We are cooperating with the Departments the year (which is sent to all news media Clarkson project possible? of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, in our District) a listing of major bills con I am pleased because this ls an example and with the Office of Economic Opportunity sidered by Congress, how I voted, and of something the President, Cabinet mem and others in a concerted effort to improve whether they became law. And, of course, bers, and other officials throughout the Fed job training and education services in pilot it is my hope adjournment will be soon so eral government are working hard to ac areas of the country. that I can leave the Nation's Capital to tour complish. Water and sewer programs have been sim our District. At that time I can report to That is, to make all Federal assistance pro plified and made more responsive to the you in greater detail on matters of mutual grams-not just those in the USDA-readily needs of small towns and communities. concern and interest. available to our smaller cities and open coun New legislation has been proposed to help Best wishes. tryside. To make them as responsive to the our smaller communities obtain professional Yours sincerely, needs of people in Clarkson, in Leigh, and in planning help and to join together so they CATHERINE MAY, Creston as they are to the needs of indi will have a resource base adequate to support Representative in Congress, viduals in Omaha, Chicago, Kansas City, or a satisfactory level of social, community, Fourth District of Washington. any other metropolitan complex. So I am de and economic development. lighted that HUD has reached out in the A Rural Industrialization program has countryside to cooperate with you good folks been started in the Department of Agricul in Clarkson to make this project a reality. ture to encourage businessmen and indus There is a basic reason for this Govern trialists to locate new plants in rural areas. Rural Development ment-wide undertaking to make all govern We work with local leaders and State devel ment programs reach out to the countyside. opment organizations to help businessmen EXTENSION OF REMARKS Today, there are millions of Americans who find sites suited to their needs. are being deprived of a fundamental right Programs to help finance outdoor recreation OF the right to live where they choose. facilities farmers can rent, and community They are being forced to move from smaller based recreation projects have been ex HON. CLAIR CALLAN communities into the steel and concrete maze panded. I am pleased to take this occasion OF NEBRASKA of our large cities. Forced, that is, if they to announce tentative approval of a $125,000 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES want a job, or a good education for their Farmers Home Administration loan for a children. recreation complex in the Bloomfield-Wausa Friday, October 7, 1966 They are being driven out of the country area. A non-profit group there is sponsoring Mr. CALLAN. Mr. Speaker, Secre side by the opportunity gap in rural Amer the project, which will provide a golf course, tary of Agriculture Orville Freeman was ica-by the disparity in income, in educa tennis, picnic, and other recreation fac111ties in my congressional district last week tion, in housing, in health and sanitation fa for people from six small towns and the sur cilities between Smalltown, U.S.A., and the rounding countryside. end to dedicate a watershed project and big city. The President is delighted that this Gov a housing project. These gaps were caused in part by the fact ernment-wide effort to be more res:Ponsive The Secretary's speech at the housing that many Federal programs-programs that to the needs of smaller communities has project dedication at Clarkson, Nebr., a were passed to benefit all Americans-have begun to get results. small rural community, was an excel not been as effectively used in our smaller More than half of all the families who have lent statement on the need and value communities as they have in large cities. benefited from our public housing and urban of development in rural areas. The The administrators of these Federal pro renewal programs now live in communities grams wanted to serve rural areas. But they of fewer than 50,000 people. Secretary particularly noted in his have lacked the administrative means to Ninety-five out of every 100 urban plan speech the value o!' recreational devel reach out to small communities far removed ning grants go to communities under 50,000. opment in rural areas such as the re from their State or regional offices. Four out of five of the communities now cently approved recreation complex for As a result, President Johnson last year receiving public housing grants have popu the Bloom:field-Wausz.. communities in directed each department and agency admin lations under 25,000. northeast Nebraska. The Secretary istering a program that could benefit rural Ninety-seven out of every 100 ·public facil pointed out that throughout rural people to make sure that its benefits were ity loans to help build libraries and water distributed equitably between urban and systems have gone to communities with fewer America there exist plots of farmland rural areas. than 25,000 people. that can eacily be converted to recrea He directed me to review with the Director Much has been accomplished, but it is only tJon areas without damage to farm pro of the Budget any administrative obstacles a start. Neither local communities nor the ductivity and without loss of prime that might stand in the way of ,any Federal Federal government can afford to relax until cropland. This is only one activity that program reaching out to every countryside, the decline of our rural communities has rural areas can combine and work to U.S.A., where it is wanted and needed by the been stopped and reversed. ward an effort to stem the flow or peo people. This drive to rebuild our towns and small The President directed me to make the cities is more than a sentimental recognition ple from rural areas to our already over field offices of USDA, located in every county of our rural past. crowded cities. in the U.S., available to other Federal agen It is a matter of over-riding national con I would like to submit for inclusion cies in order .to make their programs more cern. The future of our cities is at s,take, in the RECORD the text of Secretary effective in rural areas. too. Freeman's addres1:> and an editorial on I then created the 'Rural Community De For there is one undeniable fact . . . the same subject published October 4 velopment Service to coordinate this so-called -although our sons and daughters must in the Lincoln Star: · "outreach" effort. move to the big city to find a job or a pro The President's Rural Development Com fession ... ADDRESS OJ' THE SECRETARY OJ' AGRICULTURE mittee, which I have the privilege to chair, -although our cities boast the theatres, I am delighted to be in Clarkson today to · includes the Secretaries and Administrators museums, libraries, and public services that help you dedicate your new housing units. of the other ~partments and independent contribute to a higher plane of life I wou~d like to thank my friend anli your agencies with programs needed in the_coun- our cities are sick. Octob.er 7, 1966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 25867 They suffer from too many cars that pol But I am confident that together we will the rabbits scamper in fear, pheasants flush lute the air. Too much crime that makes get the job done. in a natural feeling of security and maybe the streets unsafe. Too many demands on We must not fail. a coyote stands and watches on a high point public programs and too few funds to meet Thank you. near the distant horizon. them. Too lit.tle housing in the center city While not likely to pass through a stand and too much pollution in the water. [From the Lincoln (Nebr.) Star, Oct~ 4, of bluestem grass, part of the original "gold" But behind each of these specific com 1966] of Nebraska, this group of happy children plaints, there is a basic ailment. That is- CHOICE IS THE FAMILIAR will see plenty of goldenrod, perhaps a wild too many people for too little space. rose or evening primrose. If at the right Today, 70 percent of our people are (By William O. Dobler) time of the year, the day may seem br1lliant crowded into urban centers that take up but Millions of people, said Secretary of Agri with the. glow of sumac, and meadowlarks 1 percent of our land. culture Orville Freeman in Nebraska over are sure ·to be fiitt-ing in all directions. If present trends continue, there will be the weekend, are being denied the right to more people stacked up in our cities within live where they choose. He was speaking CLOSE TO NATURE 20 years than there were people in the entire particularly of young people but not of any In the evening hours, their sight extends Nation six short years ago. tyrannical force that holds the individual unbroken to the sunset and the mornings This, to me, is sheer folly. against his will. He was speaking of the glow with the first beams of early lig~t in the The cities will never solve their problems economic facts of life that force young peo eastern sky. In the midst of such vastness as long as people pour in from the country ple to leave rural areas and seek their fu and grandeur comes a healthy respect for side, forced to move by economic necessity tures in the cities of the nation. the world and its marvels, a kinship with the natural state of our environment and an rather than choice. STRONG TIES TO BREAK You can stem that exodus. Throughout appreciation of the role of mankind in the the United States, people in small cities are But what ever happened to that old idea cultivation of a way of life. The focal point seizing the initiative and are working to to the effect that once a country boy or girl 1s the home, as it stands a.s a mark of hope, gether as you have done in Clarkson to build had seen the city, there was no returning a place of total refuge. The nearly constant new homes, industrial parks, water and sewer to the country? It was a farce to begin with. threat and occasional reality of adversity systems, and recreation areas. The fact is that the vast majority of those breeds a spiri't of cooperation and under Wherever people organize and begin to who leave rural Am.erica for metropolitan standing between one homestead and an work toward rural areas development, they areas do so against their true desires. They other. are assured the full cooperation and support leave the areas of their birth only because The individual coming from such sur of their Federal and State governments. th.at area lacks for them an opportunity to roundings 1s apt to have a peculiar mixture Let me cite just a few of the gains that obtain a good job and live a rewarding life. · of forces at work within him. There is an have been made in Nebraska. I pay sincere Once they leave, there is a long period of urgency of conquest born of necessity, a tribute, as I outline this excellent progress, adjustment and the longing for the space serenity born o! constant hope, an inde to State and local leadership. Your Governor and informality of the country never disap pendence born of difficulty and a compati Frank Morrison has been alert and enterpris pears in total. b111ty bo11n of a nurtured spirit of survival. ing. The result is an outstanding example If you cannot understand this, perhaps The rural exodus not only deprives the in of Creative Federalism-a fine working part you have led too sheltered a life. One dividual of living where he might choose, but nership between private citizens and local, needn't have been born on a farm or ev_en it deprives the nation of individuals whose State and Federal governments. in a small town to appreciate life in the infiuence on the scene is ~eatly needed. These range from community-type recrea more thinly populated regions of the nation. tion projects like the combination athletic For such an appreciation you need only have field, swimming pool, club house, driving been exposed to the open spaces at inter range, gun club, tennis court, sled run, and vals in your life. ice skating rink that is being built at nearby Take your son or daughter on a weekend Manion Forum Leigh with a $110,000 FHA loan, to a state excursion into the open country and you will wide campaign to help the rural elderly see why the jump from .farm or rural to city learn about Medicare. life is a hard one to make. Pull into the EXTENSION OF REMARKS farmer's yard and you are greeted by a big One of the Nation's first economic op OJ' portunity loans was ma de right here in dog, perhaps two or three of them. Chickens Nebraska to help a father of three expand scamper about and maybe a few ducks are _telling of your approach with their loud HON. JOHN BUCHANAN his shoe shop. He has nearly tripled h1s OF ALABAMA former. annual gross income of slightly un quacking. der $1,200 a year. Since then, more than You aren't very often greeted by a dog IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 160 economic opportunity loans have been in the city because the animal must be Friday, October 7. 1966 made to low inoome Nebraska citizens. penned up somewhere. If loose, he not only Thirty-seven watershed projects have been infringes upon the rights of others, but ha-s Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, I re approved for planning assistance to prevent his own life in jeopardy from a multitude of cently had the pleasure and privilege of floods, to provide recreation, to stabilize agri causes. There are people who will molest participating in the weekly broadcast of cultural income, to reduce highway mainte animals, others who will poison them and the Dean Manion Forum. nance costs, and to improve water manage heavy traffic to threaten them. In the coun try, the dog is free to roam, to chase rab Dean Manion is one of the outstand ment. Incidentally 23 of those 37 water ing radio commentators of our Nation. sheds are in CLAIR CALLAN's Congressional bits if he likes, to dig all the holes he wants, district. Frankly, -I doubt there is a Con to lie under the porch or the big cottonwood, ·. He is dedicated to the preservation of gressional district in the Nation with more to run to the pond for a fresh drink and to our American heritage and our Consti watershed activity than you will find right be on hand when his master comes around. tution, and the defeat of Communist ag here. Since he can bark whenever he pleases, he gression at home and abroad... seldom does so. Again, he is like people in Six counties in north~st Kansas and The Manion Forum is one of the most this regard. Try to control or stop his bark four counties in southeastern. Nebraska have highly respected program~ disseminating organized an interstate resource develop ing and he goes at it with a vengeance. The dog on the farm is free for something news and facts to the people of our ment organization to promote industrial and Nation, and is a trusted s<;>urce of in economic development for the 103,000 peo eise, too. He 1s free to run at the side of ple llving in the 5,000 squaTe · mile area. the youngsters in the family. Out of the formation-not always readily available Community recreation projects similar to yard, a.cross the feed lot, through the corn from other sources., the one under construction in Leigh are field anq toward the creek scamper boys, girls The forum conducted personally by being built near Central City and outside and dog, or dogs. They have all the room Dean Manion reaches millfons. It just Osceola. in the world in which to run and play, in which to fill their lungs with clean country completed 12 y~ars of broadcasting qn Net farm income in Nebraska is expected air and to stretch their muscles to the ex October 4 of this year with a record of to be up $142 m1llion this year over 1960. tent of their capacity. At the creek, they mere than 600 consecutive weekly broad These are just a few of the things tha.t may· catch frogs, fish for bullheads, g_ather casts. Over 300 radio stations carry the are happening in Nebraska. rocks, construct a dam, wade in the cool water program nationwide. It is the same wherever I go. or pass the time 1n any other of a wide I am including in my remarks the text There is a growing realization by the peo variety of ways--all of this within running ple of the problems that they face, and a de distance of the house, not an hour's drive of the Dean Manion Forum in which I termination to take steps to rebuild our away. participated on October ', 2. 1966. The smaller communities so they can success Upon their return, 'they may saddle up an subject is timely, and the broadcast in fully hold their people and compete for a old mare and take turns riding into the cluded a disc-ussion of a· vitally impcrtant fair share of this nation's economic growth. hills and rglling land that outline the farm subjeet whic;h I believe is of. interest The path will be long and ~cult. - yard in another direction. Along the way, to ncy~ CC?lle~ues . in ~he House. 25868 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD"- SENATE October ?, 1966 The following is the text of the broad documented analysis of who and what descrl bed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is: cast: caused the Cleveland riots. The Jury Chair "A highly militant, secretive organization man was Mr. Louis B. Seltzer, the editor of following the Chinese-oriented Marxlst [A Manion Forum, SOUJth Bend (Ind.) weekly the Cleveland Press, who, I am advised, is of Leninist line, and believes in replacing the broadcast No. 626, Oct. 2, 1966] the Liberal persuasion. capitalist system with Socialism." GUERRILLA WAR IN AMERICA'S STREETS-OFFI Dean MANION. That seems to be pretty The means to this end of replacing capi CIAL TESTIMONY REVEALS REDS PROVOKE solid substantiating evidence. talism has been outlined by Phillip Abbott RACE RIOTS Congressman BUCHANAN. Most definitely. Luce, a former member of the Progressive (By Hon. JOHN H. BUCHANAN, Member of Nor can their warnings be dlslnissed1. The Labor Party, the pro-Chinese Communist or Congress for Alabama) Grand Jury report stated: ganization in this country. Mr. Luce has written, "RAM envisions using the urban Dean MANION. Congressman JOHN H. "This Jury further believes that, even BUCHANAN, of Alabama, believes that Com though what already happened is both re areas as a base of operations. Revolution munists have been and still are exploiting grettable and tragic in every conceivable aries in RAM believe that the black ghetto riots, bloodshed and racial hatred in all parts human aspect, there is a grave potentiality areas of our major cities hold the key to a for repetition of these disorders, or others successful guerrilla war. They specifically of the United States behind the mask of the propose that black people be organized into civil rights movement. If he is right then we like them, occurring elsewhere in this may be up against the same kind of Com community." small guerrilla units which would use the munist guerrilla war here at home that our I believe, Dean Manion, that there ls an night to spread terror through the city." soldiers are fighting in Viet Nam. I have equally grave possibility of severe diisorders Let me repeat that sentence, if I may, Dean asked the distinguished Congressman to ex and riots occurring in other American cities Manion. "They specifically propose that plain his conviction to the audience, and he as long as trained agitators and promoters of black people be organized into small guerrilla is here at the microphone now to do just rebellion and anarchy are allowed to do their units which will use the night to spread ter that. subversive work in relative obscurity and ror through the city." Now isn't that exactly Congressman BUCHANAN, welcome back to freedom. This ls why I have called for a what happened in Cleveland and in many the Manion Forum. Tell us just how much Congressional investigation of what is hap other American cities this summer? Communist influence you believe is present pening to the civil rights movement. That If one questions just how serious things in the civil rights movement. is why I want the facts about Communist have become, let him consider that in a 20 Congressman BucHANAN. Ironically, Dean infiltration and influence to be brought out day period this last July, eight U.S. cities Manion, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and into the open where they belong. were ripped apart by race riots or near riots. Communist Party boss Gus Hall have agreed The time ls most propitious for members The riot total was seven killed, nearly 200 that Communist activity has been present in of all sides to speak out against those who injured, and property damage running into the civil rights movement since its very in are trying to subvert the civil rights move millions of dollars. The riots in Cleveland ception. Mr. Hoover has pointed out that ment for their own un-Amerlcan purposes. and elsewhere clearly suggest a blueprint this is by no means a controlling influence. And the time is propitious also for those in for terror and destruction drawn up by or However, in January, 1964, U.S. Communist high places-those public officials, those min ganizations like the Revolutionary Action Party leader Gus Hall said: "Members of the isters who have been encouraging civil dis Movement. Communist Party are very active in all of the obedience and speaking of unjust laws that Dean MANION. Other organizations were Negro organizations engaged in the civil one need not obey-to change their language also active in the Cleveland riots, were they rights struggle." and begin to take the side of law and order not? And in late June of this year, during the and to combat subversion in the civil rights Congressman BUCHANAN. Yes, the Grand Communist Party's national convention in movement. Jury also received evidence that leaders of New York City, Claude Lightfoot declared the W. E. B. DuBois Clubs arrived in Cleve LABOR UNIONS SET EXAMPLE land only a few days before the outbreaks. that the Party intends to move openly into After all, Communist infiltration and pene the civil rights struggles. Lightfoot, a Negro These DuBois Club leaders, according to the tration have never been tolerated by any Grand Jury, made swift contact with the and head of the Party in Illlnois, stated: "We major movement in the United States. For wm allow no one in ·the civil rights move aforementioned Robinson and Jones and also example, in the 1930's and 40's Communists with two leaders of the Communist Party ment or the white power structure to block attempted to penetrate the trade unions, be such a move." in the Ohio Valley. Such co-operation was lieving that the American working man could only natural because the W. E. B. DuBois The evidence continues to mount that be won over. The Communists erred badly; Communist influence and infiltration are ex Clubs of America happen to be the newest they never converted a significant number of protege of the Communist Party, U.S.A. panding rather than contracting within the American workers but they did succeed in in civil rights movement in this country. Many In October, 1964, FBI Director J. Edgar filtrating and seizing control of a dozen trade Hoover stated: "In its continuing drive to of us have contended that the evil handiwork unions in the United States. of Communists is reflected in the increasing attract young Americans, the Communist The reaction of responsible union leaders Party, U.S.A., formed the new nationalist number of riots and outbursts of violence in was swift and decisive. Communist-con our cities. Marxist youth organization in June, 1964, trolled unions were expelled from the CIO. the W. E. B. DuBois Clubs of America." During the Harlem riots in 1964, the Red American labor cleansed its ranks of those Chinese-oriented Marxist organization, the Since then the DuBois Clubs have become in who had groomed . it for a foreign power. creasingly militant, calling for an end to Progressive Labor Party, was active on the And when American labor so acted, it scene. And now, solid evidence has been U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam, the with strengthened itself, this country, and estab drawal of all American troops from Viet Nam, offered of Communist participation, and per lished a precedent for all other segments of haps even leadership, in the July riots in sponsoring training schools for young peo our society if they should ever be confronted ple and many other activities. The almost Oleveland. Incidentally, in those riots four by a similar threat of subversion. Today, people were killed, 46 were injured and doz inevitable action by our Government came leaders of the civil rights movement should in March of this year when the attorney ens of buildings were burned. move decisively to cleanse their movement Dean MANION. Where do you find evidence general asked the Subversive Activities Con of all Communist taint and influence. trol Board for an order requiring the DuBois to support this, congressman? DEAN MANION. Some of these leaders have Congressman BUCHANAN. Here are the Clubs of America to register with the attor tried to do that, haven't they, Congressman? ney general as a Communist front organiza exact words of the special report of the Congressman BUCHANAN. Yes, some have tion. Cleveland Grand Jury: warned their members of Communist at "This Jury finds that the outbreak of law tempts to infiltrate and direct their organi RIGHTS LEADERS SHOULD CLEAN HOUSE lessness and disorder was both organized, zations, they have rejected co-operation with Dean MANION. The DuBois Clubs and the precipitated, and exploited by a relatively extremtst elements and their siren song of Revolutionary Action Movement appeared to small group of trained and disciplined pro "black power." However, others have stated work hand-in-glove with,. the Communists in fessionals at this business. flatly that they will work with anybody. Cleveland, right? The report of this Jury, appointed to in They have raised strange banners, rarely Congressman BUCHANAN. Yes, and who vestigate the riots, goes on to state: seen in our free society, and they have opened can say how many other riots they have in "They are aided and abetted, wittingly or the door wide to Communist penetration and fluenced, directed, precipitated? Dean otherwise, by lnisguided people of all ages infiltration. Manion, I have discussed some of the facts and colors, many of whom are avowed be Of particular concern to many of us is the here on your program, many others are avail lievers in violence and extrelnism, and some significant number of young people active in able. All of the facts should be brought of ·whom also are either members of or offi these new extremist groups and participating dramatically to the attention of the public cers in the Communist Party." in such outbursts as the Cleveland riots, and so that the civil rights movement can be There it is in black and white-"aided and who trained and disciplined and assigned cleansed of subversive elements. I believe abetted . . . by members of or officers in the these acts of violence and insurrection. Two that a Congressional investigation by the Communist Party.•• men in particular were cited by the Grand House Committee on Un-American Activities This Grand Jury report, by- the way, was Jury report--Lewis G. Robinson and Harlell would be the best way to help responsible based on the testimony of 40 witnesses and Jones. Both men were connected in Cleve 'civil rights leaders clean house. Futhermore, took over two weeks to prepare. It is 17 land with,' among other organizations, the I and many others are deeply disturbed by pages long, and is a carefully reasoned and Revolutionary Action Movement. RAM, as the statements of the new breed of civil October 10, 1966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 2'5869 rights leaders-young firebrands like Stokely it, is that if Negroes cannot enjoy part of to older, wiser heads and to learn from the Carmichael, of the Student Nonviolent that dream they are going to burn the coun textbook of history. Goodwill, progress and Coordinating Committee. try down." Carmichael said that, by the understanding have now been placed in jeop Stokely Carmichael, you will recall, was way, in an interview in the National Guard ardy because a small number of extremists recently arrested in Atlanta for allegedly in ian, the leading Marxist journal in this and militants are accepting the help and as c!ting a riot involving one thousand persons country. sistance of anybody, including Communists, in this city known far and wide for its racial At a news conference here in Washing and are advocating any means, including moderation, in which riots the mayor, who ton, D.C., Stokely Carmichael was asked if violence. is a champion of Negro rights, was knocked "black power" was based on 'non-violence. It is to prevent this tragedy, it is to bring to the ground while attempting to calm the He answered the question with a question. about the full proof about extremists and crowd. The police chief of Atlanta stated, "Can you have power without violence?" subversives in civil rights, it is to prevent and I think many would agree with him, that And at CORE's annual convention this past more and more riots and violence that I will the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com summer, its new head, Floyd McKissick, continue to press for a Congressional investi mittee ought now to be called the "Non stated: "Non-violence in this country may be gation of Communist and extremist influence student Violence Committee." And this, of Christian but it is un-American." I ask you, in the civil rights movement in America. course, is under the influence of its new can anything be more warped or distorted Nor just for the sake of a movement but for leader, Stokely Carmichael, or Floyd Mc than to say that non-violence is rm-Amer the good of the Nation. Kissick of the Congress of Racial Equality. ican? Can anything be more calculated to Dean MANION. Thank you Congressman I wonder just how many Negroes are incite and encourage violence? JoHN H. BucHANAN, of Alabama. I think we listening to Carmichael? He has put the Dean MANION. I can't imagine a more in should have this Congressional investigation matter of "black power" very simply for his fiammatory statement than the one you that you propose. It just might disclose followers: "Negroes certainly see that this is just quoted. that we are fighting our anti-Communist war the richest country in the world and they Congressman BUCHANAN. What a tragedy on two bloody and destructive fronts; one in want to share in the wealth, and the feel it would be if millions of good, law-abiding Viet Nam, the other in the streets of our big ing, whether or not the white press likes people should be hurt by a willful band of cities. If this is so, the American people this, whether or not the white Liberals like young extremists who are unwilling to listen had better know it now-before it's too late!
Lest we forget that Thou art ever . The Chief Clerk proceeded to call the SENATE judge and sovereign over us, make us roll. aware of Thy presence here today. Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I ask SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1966 Make our hearts sensitive to Thy chil unanimous consent that the order for The Senate met at 9 o'clock a.m., and dren's needs, lest we forget the grea,t the quorum call be rescinded. was called to order by Hon. HARRY F. host trembling in the weakness of hunger The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob BYRD, JR., a Senator from the State of and disease; lest we forget the ever jection, it is so brdered. Virginia. swelling numbers of Thy children be Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I yield reaved, wounded, impoverished, and myself 5 minutes. numbed by fear in a brutal and seem Mr. President, I wish to say to the Sen DESIGNATION OF ACTING PRESI ingly endless war; lest we forget the ate that I think we all know this issue DENT PRO TEMPORE millions in other lands enslaved by tyr well. It is a simple issue: whether or anny and the thousands hauntingly near not we are willing to vate in the Senate, The assistant legislative clerk read the on whom the full light of liberty and self following letter: as we have voted six times in the past, to U.S. SENATE, government has not dawned. give more than 800,000 people in the Dis PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, In the pressures and irritations of the trict of Columbia the right of self-gov Washington, D.C., October 8, 1966. day, and in the accomplishment of small ernment, a right that has been denied To the Senate: goods, 0 God, be with us yet, lest we for them. This denial is a great blot on this Being temporarily absent from the Senate, get to hold Thee in a we and to perform country, in that we sit here, as a Con I appoint Hon. HARRY F. BYRD, JR., a Senator yet nobler deeds proportionate to Thy gress, with the power to emancipate these from the State of Virginia, to perform the children's appalling need and to Thy people, in the sense that we can give duties of the Chair during my absence. sublime mercy. Amen. CARL HAYDEN, them the right to vote. This right is long President pro tempore. overdue. THE JOURNAL Mr. President, my remarks in connec Mr. BYRD of Virginia thereupon took tion with the cloture petition before the the chair as Acting President pro tem On request of Mr. MANSFIELD, and by Senate will be very brief. In fact, my re pore. unanimous consent, the reading of the marks were really written for me by the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem Journal of the ·proceedings of Friday, editors of the Washington Post-I am pore. Under the previous order, the October 7, and Saturday, October 8, 1966, sure unwittingly on their part. They Senate is now adjourned. was dispensed with. have written an editorial this morning which, in my judgment, cannot be im proved upon by any use of the King's ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY HIGHER EDUCATION AMEND English by any proponent of home rule. Thereupon