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EXTENSIONS of REMARKS January 131 1969 Stepplc EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 131 1969 Stepplc. Richard J., 3225853. Trever, John P ., 3225994. · Worster, Arthur ;r., 3224849. Steverson. Charles L., 322519& Vice, John M., 3225122. Yardley, David-J., 3227170. Stone, Donn E., Jr.. 3227237. Whaylen, Thomas A., 3227191. Yeomans, Leigh s., 3225754. Strahota, Robert A., 3225197. Whitmore, Beth, 3226280. Yorko, John c., 3226089. Teague, James E., 3227058. Williams, Stanley A., 3226058. Yox, Lawrence W., Jr., 3225127. Traylor, Samuel c .. 3225235. Wood, Charles A., 3225239. Zukaitis, Karl E., 3227045. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS FRONTIER NEWSPAPER BOY For a whole dollar a month, I would have that a man could tolerate getting shut off of delivered those papers to Chicago. many of life's necessities, but damned if they Dryer shook his head as he concluded, "All were going to be Q.eprived of their newspaper. HON. PAUL J. FANNIN right, boy, you be here Wednesday noon when So those three ranches of the Triangle united solidly in back of their newsboy, me, OF ARIZONA Jake gets in with the freight wagon." I could hardly wait until Wednesday, but by furnishing me with a relay string of some lN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STA TES I spent my time preparing my pony and gear of the finest J;lorse flesh that ever pounded Friday, January 10, 1969 for the first newspaper delivery into the Tri­ a mountain trail carrying to its waiting sub­ angle country-a mere 116 miles over some of scribers the magic word of the weekly press. Mr. FANNIN. Mr. President, Arizona is the roughest country you'll find east of the And can you imagine it, folks, I was actu­ one of the "younger" States in the Union. Cascades. ally being paid a whole dollar a month for Our frontier days are not long past, and According to my calculations, I would only just delivering a total of 12 papers on a the rich traditions of the West live on in have to camp out the first night, and if my little old ride of some 920 miles-give or abundance today in my State. little pony held up and I rode throughout the take a few for trail conditions. next night I could make the other two Mr. Jack Crane has recorded what I ranches on the following days. consider a most interesting picture of From the last ranch on the Triangle, it pos­ frontier life in his account of a news­ sibly would take me another three days to get SPACE UNIT SEEKS FIRM NIXON paper boy who rode a weekly route with back to White Swan. COMMITMENT, WARNS OF POS­ three subscribers that covered 230 miles Not bad, I thought. Six days hard riding, SIBLE RISK TO U.S. INVESTMENT round trip. but it paid 25 cents a week, and where could For this very interesting bit of Ameri­ I do better? cana, I would like to share with the Sen­ Old Jake arrived around noon with the mail and my newspapers, and 30 seconds later HON. OLINE. TEAGUE ate a story published in the Sun-City I was galloping toward the Leonard Ranch OF TEXAS Youngstown, Ariz., News-Sun, reprinted some 70 miles away. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the December 28, 1968, edition of Edi­ Darkness caught me in the break country, tor and Publisher magazine, and I ask so I picketed and rolled up for the night. Friday, January 10, 1969 unanimous consent that it be printed in As the eastern sky whispered of another Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the RECORD. day, my little cayuse and I cautiously picked Mr. Jonathan Spivak, staff reporter of There being no objection, the article our way down and out of the breaks and on the Wall Street Journal, summarized to the Leonard Range. was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Around noon we came to a wheezing halt well the current state of our national as follows: at the Leonard Ranch, and I proudly deliv­ space effort and the need for crucial deci­ FRONTIER NEWSPAPERBOY ered my first newspaper.· sions in the next year to assure an eff ec­ (By Jack "Burro" Crane) Mrs. Leonard fixed me a good breakfast tive space program for the future. In a and my little cayuse got a scoop of oats. An old editor friend of mine came out to November 26, 1968, article in the Wall This was c~rtainly modern progress on the our spread to do a bit of jaw-flopping, and Street Journal, the current decline in our Western frontier and I was part of it, a national space effort is well described by somewhere in the conversation he asked me newspaper boy with a three-subscription when I first got roped into the newspaper route that covered 230 miles round trip and Mr. Spivak and the need for Positive business. paid a fantastic wage of one silver dollar planning for our poot-Apallo effort is It took a bit of recollecting on my part, but per month. outlined. I ·recommend this thoughtful here's the very beginning of my association I made the McDowell Ranch around 5 p.m. article to all who are concerned about with the newspaper world. that day and again was warmly received, fed, the strength and growth of seience and It was somewhere around the turn of the and well-wished on my way. century in the little town of White Swan on technology in our country: My last stop in the Triangle was the Wech­ [From the Wall Street Journal, Nov. 26, 1968) the Yakima Indian Reservation, and as usual ter Ranch, and thank goodness it had a fairly I was in Dryers' two-by-four general store good trail to it. SPACE UNIT SEEKS FIRM NIXON COMMITMENT, trying to find some sort of a job that a very It was 4:30 a.m. when my little cayuse and w ARNS OF PossiBLE RISK TO u .s. INVEST- young cowhand, like myself, could handle. I staggered up to the Wechter ranch house. MENT Dryer was studying a letter from a news­ We got everyone out of bed for the gala (By Jonathan Spivak) paper from Yakima, the county seat, Sud­ occasion, and they all took it in the Western WASHINGTON .-:Space Agency officials will denly he calls me over, "Boy, you been dinging tradition. present the inco:µiing Nlxon Administration me for a job--how would you like to have a However, as for me and my cayuse, I was so with an ambitious agenda for future man-in­ newspaper route? It's a weekly paper but it saddle sore and my pony so trail galled that space flights. pays a dollar a month to the newsboy." we both stayed in our stalls for the re­ Their aim: To exploit current U.S. space I almost passed out from sheer ecstasy. mainder of that day and the next night. successes and get a maximum return from "I'll sure take it, Mr. Dewey." I answered The trip back to White Swan took us a the nation's huge investment in space facili­ through lips quivering with emotion. full three days more to complete. When we ties. Top officials of the National Aeronautics Dryer studied the letter a bit more and finally arrived at the general store, Dryer and Space Administration are convinced that then with a frown he turned to me, "Now, was fit to be tied. He had sent for the Reser­ without a firm Nixon Administration com­ hold it, boy-according to this here letter, vation marshal to come out and look for my mitment to cop.tinued manned flights, they only have three subscribers not counting remains. chances of assuring U.S. space supremacy will my free issue for being their representative." Through tear-filled eyes and quaking voice, be lost. What a golden opportunity had finally I begged him not to cancel my paper route, "The basic question," says Thomas O. come to me I inwardly thought. And to think mainly on account I hadn't collected my Paine, NASA's acting administrator, "is what I would be paid a whole dollar per month quarter for the delivery. proportion of Apollo (the lunar-landing pro­ for delivering just three papers. Still shaking his head, Dryer 'lowed he gram) should be held together for a national Dryer, seeing my bubbling emotion, low­ would let me make one more run, but if it space program." He warns that "if there are ered his voice to an almost threatening tone. didn't turn out better than the first one, he no new start~ in 1970, we'll end up with a "Now, boy, here's the clinker in this paper was going to call a halt to my newspaper shattered space program." route. Those three subscribers are the three career. Space officlais• fears for NASA's - future ranches on the Triangle-that's a 116-mile And right here, folks, I learned one of the stem from th~ agency's rapidly shrinking paper route one way." basic phenomena of the news media, that of budget. After pr~nlng by Congress and the He concluded by asking if I thought my the loyal sub~cribera. For when they heard President, NASA ~nded up with a. budget of little Indian cayuse could make it. of my predicament, they solemnly declared just under $4 '!>lllion for the fiscal year end- January 13, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 449 ing next June 30; during the mid-1960s the by astronauts. The first Apollo spacemen will APOLLO 8 OPENS NEW SPACE ERA-ASTRONAUTS agency had been enjoying annual appropria­ remain on the moon for only one day and IN FIRST-MANNED LUNAR FLIGHT DEMON­ tions of more than $5 billion.
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