10968 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE April 26, 1967
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS
Texas Aerospace Industry Representation for V/STOL transport aircraft to provide fire loss may be sharply reduced, especially city-center air passenger service. This by the wider use of inflammable fabrics in at Paris International Air Show concept of commercial air transportation public gathering places. will be depicted in the commercial avia In the early years of this century, a bitter EXTENSION OF REMARKS controversy broke out when it was first pro tion section of the U.S. pavilion. posed to protect consumers against the men OF It is interesting to note that all three ace of contaminated food ~pped across ·HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE of these products of the Texas aerospace state lines. This issue arose when food ca.n industry are destined for use by more ~ing developed into a major industry. OF TEXAS than just one of our armed services. Many sincere people believed that it was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES unwise for the Federal Government to enter the field of inspection and control. But it Wednesday, April 26, 1967 was soon realized that the alternatives were Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, worse. Either the death list from contami there are today an estimated one-quar.; Pl,'otecting Consumers nated food would grow to enormous propor ter million employees working in the tions, or the canning industry would be forced out of business by lack of customers. aerospace industry and affiliated supply EXTENSION OF REMARKS Today ,most meat products are Federally and service firms in central Texas. The OF inspected before they move across state industry generates over $1.5 billion in lines. But the standards of inspection payrolls in central Texas annually and HON. JAMES KEE must be changed from time to time to meet direct employment by six· of the largest OF WEST VmGINIA new conditions. firms in the area runs over 86,000 people. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In this century, more healing remedies The 27th Paris Air Show, Salon In have become available for general use than ternational De L'Aeronautique et de Wednesday, April 26, 1967 in all the previous centuries. These new drugs and medicines have brought relief l'Espace, May 26 to June 4, 1967, will in Mr. KEE. Mr. Spe·aker, under leave to from pain and misery to m1llions of citizens. clude a proud display of United States extend my remarks in the REcORD, I in But to avoid obvious dangers, Federal con civil, commercial, and military aircraft. clude last week's public service television trol of drugs moving in interstate shipment Three brand new models designed and and radio newscast, "The Kee Report." was established many years ago. This con built by Texas firms will participate in The subject discussed is "Protecting trol of the drug traffic is now under scrutiny the flight demonstrations and static dis- Consumers." to see if firmer controls are needed. plays. ·• . The report follows: The F-111A variable-geometry fighter This is Jim Kee--bringing you the Kee Re is manufactured by General Dynamics, port. Fort Worth, for both the U.S. Air Force The American people, as we all knew, en Community Goals and -Transportation and the U.S. Navy. This airplane design joy a higher standard of living than any peo ple on earth. We have more automobiles, Policy represents a first in the use of variable and more telephones, than anyone else- sweep wing principles in an operational more washing machines and more cooking EXTENSION OF REMARKS military airplane. utensils, better and tastier food items for OF The newest airplane in the Navy's in the family table, and easy access to the ventory, the A-7A Corsair II, designed world's mos·t extensive system of public rec HON. FRED B. "ROONEY and fabricated by Ling-Temc6-Vought of reation. We are thankful for these blessings. How OF PENNSYLVANIA Dallas, will make its international debut IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by participating in the flight demonstra ever, this bountiful prosperity has brough.t with it new hazards and new dangers. Most Wednesday, April 26, 1967 tion program. A second Corsair II is in of these were unknown when life was simpler the U.S. aircraft display area. and the housewife had to do the family chores Mr. ROONEY of Pennsylvania. Mr. • Especially noteworthy is the fact that without the help of modern kitchen gadgets. Speaker, in recent days my congres both A..:...7 Corsair II's will be flown across These gadgets have taken much of the drudg sional district was visited by a distin the Atlantic Ocean by Navy pilots on a ery out of house-keeping. But even if the guished public servant, the Honorable nonstop flight from the Naval Air Test buyer is careful, he may be defrauded in Alan S. Boyd, Secretary of Transporta Center at Patuxent River, Md.-just 40 buying sub-standard household machines or tion, who addressed the 61st annual din he may risk injury and death in their use. miles from here-to Mildenhall, near To help solve these complex problems of ner of the Chamber of Commerce of London. This nonstop transatlantic modern living, Congress is now endeavoring Allentown, Pa. flight will be made without the use of to draft legislation which will protect pur Highlight of the meeting was the pres inflight refueling. This approximate chasers from deceit, injury or death. This is entation of outstanding service awards 3,500 statute-mile flight indicated the known as protective legislation for con to four prominent citizens of the com confidence our naval aviators have in sumers. How badly is it needed? The ac munity, and a native son whom most of their equipment and airplanes. cident figures compiled by insurance com us know as a former congressional aid panies and other agencies are quite startllng. now attached to one of our regulatory The A-7, incidentally, is the only sin Every year, there are 400,000 accidents gle-place, combat aircraft in the U.S. caused by the misuse or malfunctioning of agencies. inventory capable of a flight of this dis cooking utensils, washing machines, power The Secretary's talk was a well tance without inflight refueling. The lawn mowers, and power tools. In other thought-out discussion on "Community U.S. Air Force is also purchasing the words, the home has become just about as Goals and Transportation Policy." More A-7D for its Tactical Air Command to dangerous as· the highway. than 700 persons from government, in perform the close-air-support role. Many accidents are unavoidable. But the dustry, and business heard his remarks The third Texas aircraft to be flown Government can protect against the ship and were unanimous that this great ment of faulty machinery across the state country of ours is indeed fortunate to at this international exposition of the lines and it can outline safety standards world's aircraft is the XC-142, a triserv which w111 be helpful to local and state au have a man of Alan Boyd's stature in ice V/STOL transport also manufactured thorities. the important position he holds today. by Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. of Dallas, The hazard of fire has existed ever since Under unanimous consent I include Tex. The XC-142 will be transported by human beings learned how to make articles the news story appearing in the Allen Navy carrier to the U.S. Naval Air Sta out of wood and textiles and other flam town, Pa., Morning Call describing this tion at Rota, Spain, where it will be pre mable materials. But in the present day memorable event and a copy of Mr. pared for the flight by military pilots to America, the hazard of fire has grown to Boyd's talk in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: alarming proportions. In one year alone, Le Bourget. This airplane, the world's TRANSPORTATION CHIEF SAYS 0oMMUNITY there were 12,000 deaths caused by flre--a largest aircraft capable of vertical take death rate 20 times higher than in France, MUST HELP . PLAN offs and landings with payloads of more and four times higher than in Great Brit (By Ted Mell1n) than 8,000 pounds, will demonstrate for ain. The proper.ty loss approached $2 bil Looal leaders must join highway engineers the world the possibilities and potential lion. Experts in the field believe that the in planning new traffic routes, Alan s. Boyd, April 26, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 10969 newly appointed U.S. secretary of transporta Valley going to find its own future fulfill Unlimited Skills Workshop at the Good tion, said last night. ment as the Lehigh Valley? Shepherd Home. "It is important for a community to choose "This choice, whichever choice you ulti William D. Reimert, vice president and the consequences--not just suffer the conse mately make, Will have a very basic effect executive editor of the Call-Chronicle News quences," he said. on your transportation needs. It Will in papers, presented "a very special award to a "It is wrong, in my opinion, to allow a fiuence almost every transportation decision very special son of Allentown-Jack . Yohe." decision of such cutting effect on the social you face from tomorrow . on. Reimert said Yohe has distinguished him fabric of a community to be made solely by "Personally, I feel that we have more than self as a news reporter and as a representative one group." enough New Yorks In our country and not of the Civil Aeronautics Board. And, Reim Boyd, who took over as the nation's first nearly enough Lehigh Valleys." ert added, Yohe has "given honor to Allen transportation secretary April 1, spoke at the In retaining the valley's identity, Boyd town, the place of his birth." 61st annual dinner-meeting of the Allentown said a priority decision would be the scenic Yohe was described as "an Allentow-n ,am Chamber of Commerce. and recreation development of the Lehigh bassador to the nation's capital." More than 700 persons attending the event River. Another would be the possibility of . Albert V. Moggio, chamber president, pre in Seegers Union on Muhlenberg College "naturalized open space, providing your com sented a plaque to his predecessor, Alfred campus also witnessed the presentation of munity With a beltway and a green-forested Kramer, "in deep appreciation of the citizens five awards. buffer zone." for all you have done in their behalf." Boyd's audience considel'ed his consterna "I would place these both in the category Moggio said the chamber is entering a tion about the proposed Allentown Spur of forestalling future transportation prob "new era of relationships" between the busi Route and Interstate 78. lems. It is far easier to shape 'the future ness and the community segment& of Lehigh Seven alternate plans have been drawn by than to revise the present day." County. He pointed to the work done by the the State Highways Department for linking chamber to promote the county's community the Lehigh Valley Thruway with mldcity. He also noted that metropolitan areas have college, area technical school, water authority A decision has not yet been reached on which been reluctant to put the additional costs and highway system. of the seven courses wm be followed. on developers for new transportation facili "Joint planning and coordination are es The State Highways Department is plan ties. sential," he declared. "Your chamber of ning I-78 south of Allentown, Bethlehem and "All over America new subdivisions and commerce is people-people joined together Easton. The U.S. Bureau of Roads ·has been high-rise apartments are allowed to go up voluntarily in a common cause, the welfare of in conftict With the proposed routing. with little concern that they impose on local the community ... We ·owe our allegiance The chamber's annual Distinguished Serv transportation fac111t1es. They create more only to the common good." ice Awards were presented to: congestion and a multitude of other side Among the guests attending the dinner Rep. Marian E. Markley of Macungie R. 1, effects. were Robert G. Bartlett, state highways :for "outstanding leadership in better govern "The evil is not real estate developers and secretary; Robert P. Gerholz, chairman of ment and social service." urban growth, for we need both. The evil the board of .the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Philip I. Berman, chairman of the Allen is not congestion as such, for a certain Rep. Fred B. Rooney; representatives of the town Redevelopment Authority, for "out amount of traffic delay in urban areas is transportation industry from Washington, standing leadership in the fields of culture just plain unavoidable. New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and and community development." "The abuse that we must seek to curb in members of other Lehigh Valley chambers. I. C. Gutman, president of the Industrial the public interest is the thoughtless use of Atty. Donald V. Hock, toastmaster, noted Development Corp. of Lehigh County, for his land, land-use which generates additional the theme of the meeting was "Transporta outstanding contributions in industrial de traffi·c where the facilities cannot be expanded tion." He said mobility is the "word that velopment and civic service. except at prohibitive cost." brings us here tonight. We realize that F. E. Hanson, associate director of develop John Henry Leh, chairman of the cham there must be mobility to transport a person, ment at Muhlenberg College and former Al ber's award committee, presented the Dis to transport a .product. To meet that chal lentown Works manager for the Western tinguished Service plaques. He described lenge, there must be in all of us a mob111ty Electric Co., for his leadership and "good the backgrounds of the four recipients. of the mind." citizenship." Mrs. Markley, the first woman to represent Mayor Ray B. Bracy presented a key to the A special award was presented to Jack Lehigh County in the State House, has been city to Boyd and welcomed the visitors. Yohe, public relations director for the Civil active in the Lehigh Valley Guidance Clinic, Aeronautics Board and former Morning Call the Allentown Quota Club, the Cancer So reporter, for his "outstanding contribution ciety, March of Dimes, Red Cross, Needle COMMUNITY GOALS AND TRANSPORTATION to aviation and continued devotion to Allen work Guild, Cystic Fibrosis and other local POLICY town and the Lehigh Valley." campaigns for public welfare. She also has (Re:rp.arks of Alan S. Boyd, Secretary of Boyd told the gathering that it is essential sponsored legislation to aid handicapped Transportation) .that civic leaders "bring a strong sense of children. She is serving as a member of the I thank the Chamber of Commerce for this community conservation to transportation State Board of Public Welfare and chairman welcome opportunity to think out loud on a decision-making." of the Joint State Government Commission. subject that very basically affects our social "In the department a few days ago, a dis Berman heads a number of businesses and and economic life. pute on the location of an urban highway is a member of the Allentown Mayor's Citizen It is the question of improved transporta was under review," he recalled. "A letter Advisory Committee and chairman of Citi tion fac111ties for the. Lehigh Valley, the State was brought to my attention from the head zens for Lehigh County Progress. He has of Pennsylvania, and the nation as a whole. of a local group which said, in effect: "Our been active in Boy Scouts, YM-YWCA Coun As you would expect, the new Department position is that we just want a direct route cil, Allentown Symphony, as a trustee of the of Transportation is deeply involved in the into the center of the city and we're w1lling Lehigh Valley Educational Television Corp.; care and cultivation of this $425 billion pri to let engineers decide where it should go. a member of the board of Baum Art School; vate-public investment.. Wherever people "I was deeply disappointed by this all a trustee of t:edar Crest College, severai travel and wherever goods are shipped-by too-reasonable position, for it seemed to me Jewish organizations, and he and his wife water, land or air--our broad assignment that a civic responsibility was being evaded. have provided works from their art collection from the Congress and President Johnson is "There simply must be a close and for display at Allentown City Hall, Lehigh to bring on transportation progress. And we thoughtful collaboration between highway County Courthouse and in other cities hope to make an immediate contribution. engineers and local leaders." around the world. This summer, not too many miles east of He said a community must set the terms Gutman, president of Modern Transfer Co., here, the rapid-ran demonstration project, of existence for transportation, "not the Inc., has headed the Lehigh County !DC linking Boston, New York and Washington, other way around." since January 1960. Since then the county's should produce some history-making results. "A transportation route or facility may jobless rate dropped from about 8 to 2 per But since the Department was officially born have momentous consequences for a city. cent. Gutman also has been a member of the only eleven days ago, our major contribution It may undermine, or it may bring new Lehigh County and Lehigh-Northampton to transportation progress, thus far, has been vigor, or it may trigger some changes that planning commissions, the Allentown School in the form of shorter after dinner speeches. make no fundamental difference at all." District Authority, Lehigh Valley Junior People and businesses located here in the He said he believed the Lehigh Valley has Achievement, the United Fund and other Lehigh Valley are spending perhaps $350 mil only one "really fundamental" transporta organlzations. lion a year on transportation service and tion problem. Hanson was plant manager of the Allen equipment. So you have a very good reason "And that (problem), in all candor, is not town Works of Western Electric from 1947 to for demanding the best transportation sys a problem that transportation should be 1951 and works manager the following 11 tem obtainable--one that is fast, safe, effi asked to solve. It is a question of your iden. years. He is a trustee and vice president of cient, convenient, and economical. And also tity. This community has yet to determine Allentown Hospital, director of the Hospital one that will preserve the natural beauty of what its economic relationship should be Service Plan of the Lehigh Valley, a director the countryside. to the New York metropolitan area. of the Lehigh County United Fund and the I have been asked by the enterprising om "Is the Lehigh Valley eventually going to Allentown Civic Little Theater. He also has cers of your very civic-minded organization be an extension of the eastern megalopolis? been active in Boy Scout and United Fund to comment on some of the local transpor· Is that what you want? Or is the Lehigh programs and has helped to establish the tation problems of this community. I would 10970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE April 26, 1967 be only too willlng to do so. However, no sidlze urban transit. The industrial plant nistic use of land. Land-use which gen one is really competent to advise you on wants someone else to underwrite the access erates additional traffic where the facilities these matters who has not spent consider road. The developer wants someone else to cannot be expanded except at prohibitive able time on the scene, listening to the pay for the inrterehange. The owners of cost. heartbeat of the community. private planes want someone else to support I know of no major city which possesses, The engineering and economic arguments the airport. And so on. or has the power to enforce, the kind of com are always loud enough for an outsider to 'IIhis is not anyth1.ng to be cynical abourt. prehensive zoning laws needed to defend the hear, but the social and cultural considera It is the nature of our society. It forces efficiency of its internal transport system. tions speak in a very soft register, and these, everyone to pay attention and results in a But congestion, in moderation, is not the in the end, often determine whether people very healthy political life. Nevertheless, villa.in.. Lf the moderate traftlc delays en will approve or be forever re~~entful of a someone has to pay for transportation im countered in the business center of Allen transportation fac111ty. provements. town were thought to be unacceptable, you After the warmth of your reception, I cer The ideal approach, of course, is providing could very quickly alleviate the problem. tainly do not feel like an outsider to Allen the payment for all improvements out of the You would only need to close down one of town, Bethlehem and Easton. But fully government general treasury. That system the nation's great department stores which aware that I could not, in these few hours, is great until you add up all the costs and lures so much of that traftlc into town! become much of an expert on local matters, discover you'd need a hundred times more The value of such a proposed solution, I am going to have to discuss your commu money than there is in the t,reasury. which I assure you is offered in jest, is that nity's transportation problems in rather gen In general, our society seems to follow lots of people suddenly realize how much eral terms. three principles of transportation finance. they prefer to live with the problem itself. Happily, I can be specific about one thing. In one, the user bears the cost of the trans It is safe to say that many of the area's And that is my admiration for this valley. portation system, as our fuel taxes pay for transportation difficulties are local versions of This is a remarkably solld industrial area. the highways. a broadly national experience. with a fascinating history and unique hu Another is called the almost-swear-word, Railroad passenger service, for example. man resources. I know of no urban area subsidy. This simply means that the user Back in the 1880's, I am told, the city of comparable in size which has your locational couldn't afford to pay what the service really Easton by itself had no less than 64 passenger advantages and your growth potential. I would cost. Nevertheless, it is very im trains arriving and departing each day! How congratulate you on having such an able portant to the community, for whatever many are there now for all three cities com and respected man as Fred Rooney repre reason, that this service be provided. So, as bined? Ten. Today, as you kliow, most senting your interests in the Congress. And a matter of public policy, some part of the railroads are eager to get out of the long I congratulate you further on the rare sense transportation costs are defrayed from the . haul passenger business. They can hardly of unity that your seve·ral cities and coun general treasury. This is customary, at the be blamed for that. It's unprofitable. To ties have achieved 1n thei·r common iden present time, for urban transit, local air try to force any private firm to remain in any tification as the Lehigh Valley. service, and the merchant marine. Argu business at a loss, beyond a brief period of Transportation is a force which, depend ments for and against a particular subsidy time, would amount to nothing more than ing on your use of it, can either reinforce are, of course, necessary and desirable. This confiscation of property. or erode that unity. It is essential that is the way we get at the truth. This is the Nevertheless, the disappearance of rail pas civic leaders bring a strong sense of com way in which our society determines what is, senger service for local and intermediate dis munity conservation to transportation de and what is not; in the publlc interest. tances is a matter of serious concern. Among cision-making. The third principle is the conception that ran-commuter operations, there is now only In our Department, a few days ago, a dis transportation is a cost of doing business. one railroad in the entire country that is pute on the location of an urban highway We usually see this applied to the large able to show even a modest profit on a sub was under review. A letter was brought to suburban shopping centers, where free park urban line. I believe we are going to have to my attention from the head of a local group ing and shuttle-bus service are provided. In take some new initiative to promote profit which said, in effect: "Our position is that other words, an enterprise which imposes the ability in those operations. we just want a direct route into the center need for additional transportation facllities On the other hand, I don't think your of the city, and we're willing to let the en should bear those additional costs. geographical area suffers from any deficiency gineers decide where it should be placed." Now, I must say, metropolitan areas have in railroad freight service. Nationwide, the I was deeply disappointed by this all-too been very reluctant to extend this principle rail freight business has enjoyed a very sub reasonable position, for it seemed to me to residential real estate development, where stantial upswing in the past five years. The that a civic responsibillty was being evaded. it logically belongs. All over America, new growth of piggybacking is one of the major It is wrong, in my opinion, to allow a deci subdivisions and high-rise apartments are reasons. But the railroads have been encour sion of such cutting effect on the social allowed to go up with little concern for the aged by other developments, as well, in the fabric of that community to be made solely added burdens they impose on local trans realm of public policy-a very historic labor by one group. Here there simply must be portation fac111ties. In plain language, more settlement, tax credits on investments, a• a close and thoughtful collaboration be congestion. And a multitude of other side more permissive ruling on mergers. tween highway engineers and local leaders. effects. Usually, no calculation is ever made These and other decisions of the Johnson I really think I would have been less dis of these costs. No attempt is made by the Administration have made the rallroads more turbed by that statement of position had it community to obtain compensation from the confident of their economic future, have in concluded, " ... we're willing to let the the developer, in advance. He takes his profits clined them to modernize and rationalize and ology students decide where the highway and the community takes the consequences. economize. In so doing, they have become should be placed." I'm reminded of the tale told about a state more competitive with other transportation For a student of theology does not under legislature in the 1870's. Powerful interests modes. This, in turn, has made it easier for stand construction problems, but he must be were favoring a measure by personal incen the railroads to attract fresh capital for fur concerned with ethical problems, and he tive means that would be fr~wned upon to ther investment. And the upward spiral of should be quick to discern where human day. On the fioor of the assembly, member progress yields benefits for the entire nation. values were being penallzed to abstractions after member was getting to his feet and In jet air travel, this valley holds some very such as efficiency or economy. lavishing praise on this particular bill. And definite advantages. Related to size of com So the first generalization I want to make its passage seemed assured. Until one old munity, your A-B-E airport is the equal of about improvements in the Lehigh Valley legislator who had somehow been overlooked any in the nation. It is only a few minutes is simply this: The community must set the stood up and began ferociously attacking the away from your home or place of business; terms of existence for transportation, and proposal. He lambasted it from every angle, which is to say, it is not only physically close, not the other way around. A transportation for almost an hour, pointing to the evils in but you have no problems of surface access. route or facility may have momentous con every paragraph. Meanwhile, news of this It is actively and intelligently used by private sequences for a city. It may undermine, or opposition reached the sponsors behind the industry, and lllustrates the value of general it may bring new vigor, or it may trigger scenes, and a messenger suddenly appeared aviation, organizationally as well as com some changes that make no fundamental on the floor with a bulky envelope which he petitively. Moreover, your scheduled airline difference at all. It is important for a com casually dropped on the assemblyman's desk. service makes you a next-door neighbor to munity to choose the consequences, not just The old politician, who was waving his arms the great metropolis, with all its cultural and suffer the consequences. in a peroration, scooped up the envelope and commercial resources. Yet your own airport In the Lehigh Valley, as in every live w·ban riffed through its contents. And as he put suffers from none of the air traffic congestion center, there. is a continuing effort to bal it in his coat pocket, he said, "Gentlemen, so that plagues the East Coast. ance the various social an.d economic in much for the few bad parts of this bill. Now In that sense, perhaps, your airport is terests. Usuail.ly, transportation is the ful for the many good parts." under-ut111zed, but by that same token, it crum of that teeter-totter, as each element in The evil is not real estate developers and has great growth potential. In the jet age, the community tries to transfer the cost of urban growth, for we need the enlightened I would say that you folks have the best of movement away from itself. variety of both. The evil is not congestion, both worlds! Thus, the car owner wants someone else as such, for a certain amount of traftlc delay I am left with the feeling that the Lehigh to provide the parking. The merchant wants in urban areas is just ·plain unavoidable. Valley has only one really fundamental trans someone else to atisorb the delivery charges. The abuse that we must seek to curb in the portation problem. And that, in all candor, The pedestrian wants aomeone else to BUb· public interest is thoughtless or opportu- is not a problem that transportation should April 26, 1967 CONGRESSIONAl RECORD- SENATE 10971 be asked to solve. It is the question of your engine. But there are steam engines. And to fulfill speculated growth needs of an identity. This community has yet to deter the wise man of the Stoics ls yet to be born." area, and they must con.form to a pat mine what its economic relationship should I 'believe that life without idealism is a tern of unification and coordination be to the New York metropolitan area. great waste. But I am inclined to agree Is the Lehigh Valley eventually going to with one of the historian's commonsense with other sewage and lateral facilities be an extension of the eastern megalopolis? conclusions: the smallest actuat good. is in that area. Is that what you want to see happen? Or better than the most magnificent p; o mt s~ s New grants c,annot be made under the is the Lehigh Valley going to find its own of impossibilities. HUD Act except in instances where the future fulfillment as the ... Lehigh Valley? The Department of Transportation has Secretary of Health, Education, and This choice, whichever choice you ulti been given a mission that is both Platonic 'Velfare has certified that · any waste mately make, will have a very basic effect and Baconian. material carried by prospective new or on your transportation needs. It will influ We must try to conceive of an ideal trans mode;'"Ilized facilities has been properly ence almost every transportation decision portation system, a system that will ideally you face from tomorrow on. serve your community and the rest of the trea tee to meet applicable standards set Personally, I feel that we have more than nation. up by all levels of government. enough New Yorks in our country and not We must, at the same time, take practical More m01.ey allotted for these com nearly enough Lehigh Valleys. steps to do away with a railroad crossing men iable purposes would enhance the One of the priority decisions, in that con having gates that come down on a main count.ry's pu:lution .and mo(iernization nection, would be the scenic and recrea business street at rush hour. efforts immen::;ely. I hope the 90th Con tional development of the river. Another is Progress in transportation, like progress gress ~rill see fit to pass this bill-or one the possib111ty of -naturalized open space in community life, is a matter of seemingly like it. providing your community with a beltway minor adjustments. A dangerous knob and a green-forested buffer zone. removed from a 'dashboard. Agreement about I place these both in the category of fore the wording on an export form. Getting stalling future transportation problems. It an aircraft to make less noise. Getting a WJAR TV's Film on the Groton Story is far easier to shape the future than to railroad man to say hello to a barge man. revise the present day. I hope that you, in your community work, With bold strokes of a well-conceived, far and I, in my transportation work, are EXTENSION OF REMARKS sighted policy, we can hand down to our granted two essential qualities: OF great-grandchildren a marvelously improved The wisdom to perceive the ideal, and the - . environment. But dealing with current resoluteness to advance by small but useful HON. WILLIAM L. ST. ONGE problems, the improvements usually come steps in the ideal direction. OF CONNECTICUT by small increments. Even the relatively minor changes for the better are hard to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES make. Wednesday, April 26, 1967 The best 1llustration of that is perhaps the Department's High-Speed Ground Transpor A Bill To Amend the Housing and Urban Mr. ST. ONGE. Mr. Speaker, I wish tation project which I mentioned at the be to commend television station WJAR-TV ginning of this talk. This experimental Development Ad of 1965 of Providence, R.I., owned and opera ted rapid-rail link-up of Boston-New York by the Outlet Co. Department Store Washington is the major activity in a $26 EXTENSION OF REMARKS of that city, for producing the half m1llion project. When the Boston-New York hour color film "Undersea University," segment goes into operation, some time in OF July, the running time-if our calculations the story of the U.S. Navy's submarine are correct-will be cut from the present HON. RICHARD D. McCARTHY school located at Groton, Conn., in my four hours and ten minutes to about rthree OF NEW YORK congressional district. hours and fifteen minutes. And when the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In July 1965, WJAR-TV suggested to New York-Washington segment starts up, Wednesday, April 26, 1967 the U.S. Navy that the station would at the end of October, the running time will produce rut i·ts own expense a half-hour be reduced from the current three hours ~r. n!cC~TtfY. n!r. Speaker, today television program about the Groton JLnd thirty-five minutes to a flat three hours. I wish introduce a bill to amend the Do you see the point I'm trying to make? to base and film it .in color, so as to utilize All that money expended, and all that work Housing and Urban Development Act of the station's newly inaugurated color by the best technical experts in the field, 1965 to increase from $200 million to telecasting facilities that serv~ the for a net savings of fifty-five minutes and $500 million the .amount of the annual Greater New London area and eastern thirty-five minutes, respectively. And when appropriations authorized for grants for Connecticut. During August and Septem the project is completed, we will then first basic water and sewer facilities. · ber of that year, a camera crew filmed pe in a position to find out whether the Demand for these facilities has gone thing can be economically justified, whether typical' scenes in the Groton classrooms, up all over the country. Requests for training simulators, underwater escape the public will ride the rapid-rail in sufficient funds this year have exceeded moneys numbers. training devices, and at the submarine In sufficient numbers for what? In suffi on hand by 26 to 1. docking facilities on the Thames River. cient numbers to justify a further invest People in my own western New York Under close Navy security supervision ment in much faster equipment, so that the . area need these basic facilities to replace a fascinating, colorful, and informative savings in time wm begin to get really their wells and septic tanks and to pro film was produced that reflected the dramatic. mote the efficient, orderly growth and highest credit c,n the officers and men Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not development of their communities. criticizing one of my own projects. I know who operate the largest submarine train it is worth the effort. I believe it wm suc The bill I am introducing today w.as ing center in the free world. "Undersea ceed very dramatically. But it is an experi first proposed by my colleague, the gen University" was telecast in color on the ment. There's no other way of getting at the tleman from New York [Mr. DowJ, and Providence television station at 9: 30 p.m., truth of certain transportation ideas. would provide up to 50 percent of the Thursday, March 9, with a repeat tele It may, in fact, be justified on other than cost of improving or. constructing basic cast Sunday, April 2 at 3:30p.m. strictly economic grounds. Perhaps it is in water and sewer facilities for public The station presented a duplicate color the public interest-hence worth a subsidy bodies and agencies qualifying for assist print of "Undersea University" to Rear to have good surface transportation connect ance. ing the nation's commercial, intellectual Adm. J. S. Tyree, Jr., deputy commander and political capitals. That, however, would This would represent still another step of the Atlantic Submarine Force; and be a matter for the electorate to decide. toward the alleviation of water pollu Capt. W. A. McGuiness, the base com - The nineteenth century historian, Ma tion. It should aid pollution control mander at Groton. This film is espe caulay, was once comparing two schools of programs across the country. cially appropriate for showing to visiting philosophy. He noted that Plato's followers All of the money would be used in the civilians and to VIP's who would not (the Stoics) aimed at producing men who national -interest. According to the otherwise be able to see much of the base were virtuous and wise and above the vulgar, HUD Development Act, projects to be in such great detail. This is the first material needs. Whereas the followers of Bacon (scientific experimenters) were only financed have to be designed with an time that the "Groton story" has been trying to satisfy those vulgar needs as best eye to future needs. They have to be filmed so completely and in color. The they could. ready to link up with other independent print that is now in the hands of the U.S. Then Macaulay observed with a sigh of water and sewage facilities when it he Navy will be a valuable public informa regret: "The wise man of the Stoics would, comes necessary. tion aid and may save considerable time no doubt, be a grander object than a steam They must be built on a scale adequate and personnel previously allocated to 10972 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD·--7-:-8EN:A1/E April 26, 1967 public relations briefings on and olf the The "graduates" of the AABC are · We in the House of Representatives base. _ J amongst our leading cit~zens today_. The salute Christian Herter for-his compe . This voluntary public ~rvice project spirit of ' ~ fair play" within the confines tence, integrity, dedication, and friend of"WJAR-TV refiects the high broadcast of a highly competitive sport gave· them ship. standards and generosity oi WJAR-TV a good foundation for a fine life. and its parent organization in serving Many of these participants decided to the needs of the. U.S. Navy and ·the in follow baseball as a professional career Passover, 5727 terests of widespread viewing audiences and the good basic training that· they in southeastern New England, where the received · in the AABC ·· leagues was of EXTENSION OF REMARKS activities of the U.S. Navy have a special great aid to them. ' · OF signfficance. Its most famed graduate was :Probably Hall of ~an;J.e member, Bob Feller, who HON. EDNA F. KELLY played in the first AABC tournament in OF NEW YORK 1935. Among the many others who were IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Akr'!n, Ohio, Is Athletic Minded ranked· as superstars were Pee Wee Reese, Robin · Roberts, and Harvey Wednesday, April 26, 1967 Kuenn. Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Speaker, the Pass EXTENSION OF REMARKS A good all-star team could l)e:·made up over, or Pesacb:, the· great Jewish festi OF of those alumni \vho are now playing val of religious freedom and national baseball'in:t:he major leagues. · liberation, takes place this year from HON. WILLIAM H. AYRES While the AABC is indeed proud of April 25 to May 1. · OF OHIO these fine professional ballplayers, its , On this occasion I wish to pay tribute IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES primary interest is for the over 40,000 to the long history of Jewish devotion Wednesday, April 26, 1967, youngsters who are now·taking the field to the cause of religious freedom, and to in their; leagues. · · . acknowledge the debt America owes to Mr. AYRES. Mr. Speaker, the city of I know that 'we who serve in the Con this tradition of Israel. Akrpn, Ohio, and its environments is gr~ss of'. the United States are' deeply As an American, proud of my own Irish most athletic minded. We believe very concerned about the youth of our Na~ heritage, in thinking· of that historic strongly in those sports in which partici tion. Most of us are 'grateful for the event, the liberation of the children of pation of the greatest number of people years of amateur basebalLthat lay be Israel from bondage in Egypt, I recall are possible. hind us. Therefore, I know that we all the eloquent words of the Irish poet, The eyes of the Nation turn toward us support such beneficial activities as pro Thomas Mool"e: when we conduct the great Soap Box vided by· the American Amateur Baseball Sound the loud Timbral o'er Egypt's dark Derby, the nationally televised American Congress. sea! golf classic, and the great tournaments J·ehovah has triumphed-his people are free. conducted by the well-operated Profes Sing-for the pride of the Tyrant is broken, sional Bowlers Association tournaments. Hon. Christian A~ Herter His chariots, his horsemen, an splendid and The headquarters of all of these public brave-- spirited organizations are within out Now vain was their boast, for the Lord hath confines. EXTENSION OF REMARKS but spoken, And chariots and horsemen are sunk in the Our industry, our unions, and other OF wave. associations have done much· to encour Sound the loud Timbral o'er Egypt's dark age these activities for our youth and .. j HON. JAMES G. FULTON sea; , . their elders. Our great newspaper, the OF PENNSYLVJ\NIA Jehovah has triumphed-his people are !reel Akron Beacon Journal, is always in the _ IN 'rHE HO"q'SE OF REPRESENTATIVES forefront in initiating and supporting .all At this Passover season, well may Ire worthwhile sporting events. , Wef!,riesda11, -April 2·6, 196,7 land and America unite with Israel and · Recognizing tbe benefit of living and ·~ Mr. FULTON of Pennsylvania. Mr. with Jews everyw'here in celebrating this working . in this fine athletic-minded Speaker, America has had her great men festival of the essential freedom of the community, the American Baseball Con and a humber of them have served right human spirit. · gress, the largest amateur baseball orga here in the House of Representatives. One ' On this occasion, also, we would do nization for players beyond junior age of these· truly great Americans was well to recall that history, in many ways, has moved its national headquarters to Christian A. Herter. His life was one of repeats itself, and that some of the Fairlawn Village, a suburb of Akron. devotion to public service. He not only children of Israel are still suffering in The American Baseball Congress served with high distinction in this body bondage. ., founded by the late Mr. C. 0. Brown, in from 1943. to 1953 but also as Secretary I have particular reference in this re 1935, has grown enormously and now has of State-from 1959 to 1961. Chris Herter . gard to the tragic plight of the Jews in over 1,800 teams operating in practically left Congress to serve as Governor from the Soviet Union. all of our States. These teams are 1953 to 1957 of the·great Commonwealth During the past couple of weeks, work divided into two divisions-712 in the un of Massachuse-tts. His lifetime of service ing together with a number of my col limite.d:-age Stan Musial League and to the cause of humanity in"P.ositions of leagues, I have endeavored to focus .t::mb 1,136 in the Connie Mack League for high responsibility and patriotic detlica- lie attention on the suffering of SoViet players under the age of 19. · tion, are a lasting tribute. Jewry ~ . The newly created headquarters is un When Chris Herter was in the Itouse, A number of Members of . Pongress der the supervision of two great public he served well on the Committee on For- have signe4 a letter endorsing a state spirited citizens-:-Leonar Hackim, as eign affairs on which I was a member. ment of the U.S. House of Representa president; and Mrs. Kay M. Brown, His friendship, and cheery smile are a tives criticizing the discrimination prac widow of the founder, who acts as secre cherished blessing. During that service, ticed by the Soviet Union against its ~ry-treasurer. These two dedicated some_, of the most critical· years in Jewish citizen!). people and their staff have given hun America's history, his balanced judgment The text of the statement and the list dreds of thousands of our young people and ·advice were invaluable. I . treasure of. signers as of April 24 follow: @.n outlet for their energies and have pro-. deeply not Only hiS friendship bUt hiS STATEMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE U.S. HOUSE vided millions with great athletic enter outstanding COntributionS to the develop- OF REPRESENTATIVES ON SOVIET JEWRY tainment. ment,1 pf America's intern~tion:al high The undersigned Members of the House of The age of _16 is a· most critical age standing arp.ong our sister nations. · Representatives of•the Congress of the United for our youth. It is at this time that the Mr. Speaker, Chris . Herter will join States associate • themselves with their tel AABC enters the picture and helps in that long list of great Americans-who are low citizens and people of good will through now- a part of" our national heritage, and out the world in condemning the suppression the.formation ofgood character in these of Jewish spiritual and cUltural life in the young people. We know of no case of will become ·a pa.rt of our history ior U.S.S.R. The evidence presented' by the juvenile delinquency in the ranks of the generations of Americans to honor and American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry American Amateur Baseball Congress. revere. leaves no room for reasonable men to doubt April 26, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 10973 that the government of the U.S.S.R. con Robert J. Corbett (Pa.) Joseph E. Karth (Minn.) tinues to pursue a program calculated to James C. Corman (Calif.) Abraham Kazen, Jr. (Tex.) destroy the means of Jewish cultural and William C. Cramer (Fla.) James Kee (W.Va.) spiritual survival, and to break the will of John C. Culver (Iowa) Hastings Keith (Mass.) Soviet Jewry to live as Jews. Such a prac Glenn Cunningham {Nebr.) Edna F. Kelly (N.Y.) tice not only violates fundamental human Emilio Q. Daddario (Conn.) Carleton J. King (N.Y.) rights, it is contrary to the guarantees of Dominick V. Daniels (N.J.) Cecil R. King (calif.) Soviet law and asserted policy. John W. Davis (Ga.) Horace R. Kornegay (N.C.) Alone among Soviet nationality groups, William L. Dawson (ni.) Theodore R. Kupferman (N.Y.) Jews are forbidden the schools and other Ellgio de la Garza (Tex.) Dan Kuykendall (Tenn.) institutions of Jewish learning, teaching and James J. Delaney (N.Y.) Peter N. Kyros (Maine) publishing, that are required if the heritage John R. Dellenback (Oreg.) Melvin R. Laird (Wis.) of Jews is to be perpetuated. Alone among John H. Dent (Pa.) Odin Langen (Minn.) major religious groups in the Soviet Union, Edward J. Derwinskl (TIL) Sherman P. Lloyd (Utah) Jews are forbidden the right to have any Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (Mich.) Clarence D. Long (Md.) form of nationwide federation of congrega John D. Dingell (Mich.) Speedy 0. Long (La.) · tions or of clergy. Alone among major re Harold D. Donohue (Mass.) Donald E. Lukens (Ohio) ligious groups in the Soviet Union, Jews have John G. Dow (N.Y.) Richard D. McCarthy (N.Y.) no formal and official contacts between Soviet John Dowdy {Tex.) John W. McCormack (Mass.) Jews and their co-religionists abroad. A Thaddeus J. Dulski (N.Y.) Joseph M. McDade (Pa.) systematic campaign of initimidation in Florence P. Dwyer (N.J.) Jack H. McDonald (Mich.) hibits them from openly protesting these Bob Eckhardt (Tex.) Robert C. McEwen (N.Y.) inequities. Ed Edmondson (Okla.) John J. McFall (Calif.) Premier Alexei Kosygln declared recently Don Edwards (Calif.) Torbert M. Macdonald (Mass.) that all citizens, including Jews, are free to Jack Edwards (Ala.) Clark MacGregor (Minn.) leave the Soviet Union to join their relatives Joshua Eilberg (Pa.) Hervey G. Machen (Md.) abroad. We await translation of those words Marvin L. Esch (Mich.) Ray J. Madden (Ind.) into deeds. Edward D. Eshleman (Pa.) Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (Md.) These inequities imposed on Soviet Jews Frank E. Evans (Colo.) Robert B. Mathias (Calif.) be George H. Fallon (Md.) Spark M. Matsunaga (Hawaii) must protested by everyone who values . r human rights of all individuals and all Leonard Farbstein (N.Y.) Lloyd Meeds (Wash.) groups everywhere. Dante B. Fascell (Fla.) Thomas J. Meskill (Conn.) E. Ross Adair {Ind.) Michael A. Feighan (Ohio) George P. Mlller (Calif.) Brock Adams (Wash.) Paul Findley (ni.) Wilbur D. M111s (Ark.) Joseph P. Addabbo (N.Y.) Paul A. Fino (N.Y.) Joseph G. Minish (N.J.) John B. Anderson (Ill.) Daniel P. Wood (Pa.) Patsy T. Mink (Hawail) William R. Anderson (Tenn.)· Thomas S. Foley (Wash.) Chester L. Mize (Kans.) Mark Andrews (N.Dak.) Gerald R. Ford (Mich.) G. V. Montgomery (Miss.) Frank Annuzio .(ni.) W111iam D. Ford (Mich.) W11liam S. Moorhead (Pa.) Thomas L. Ashley '(Ohio) L. H. Foutain (N.C.) Thomas E. Morgan (Pa.) Wayne N. Aspinall (Colo.) Donald M. Fraser (Minn.) Thomas G. Morris (N.Mex.) W1lliam H. Ayres (Ohio) Samuel N. Friedel (Md.) F. Bradford Morse (Mass.) Walter S. Baring (Nev.) Richard Fulton (Tenn.) Rogers C. B. Morton (Md.) W111iam A. Barrett (Pa.) Don Fuqua (Fla.) Charles A. Mosher (Ohio) Wllliam H. Bates (Mass.) Nick Galifianakis '(N.C.) John E. Moss (Calif.) James F. Battin (Mont.) Cornelius E. Gallagher (N.J.) Abraham J. Multer (N.Y.) Page Belcher (Okla.) Edward A. Garmatz (Md.) John M. Murphy (N.Y.) Alphonzo Bell {Calif.) Tom S. Gettys (S.C.) W1111am T. Murphy (Ill.) Charles E. Bennett (Fla.) Robert N. Giaimo (Conn.) Lucien H. Nedzi (Mich.) Tom Bevlll (Ala.) Sam Gibbons (Fla.) Robert N.C. Nix (Pa.) Edward G. Biester, Jr. (Pa.) Jacob H. Gilbert (N.Y.) Barratt O'Hara (Ill.) Jonathan B. Bingham (N.Y.) Charles E. Goodell (N.Y.) James G. o•Hara (Mich.) John A. Blatnik (Minn.) George A. Goodling (Pa.) Alvin E. O'Konski (Wis.) Ray Blanton (Tenn.) Henry B. Gonzalez (Tex.) Arnold Olsen (Mont.) Hale Boggs (La.) Kenneth J. Gray (Til.) Thomas P. O'Ne111 (Mass.) Edward P. Boland (Mass.) Edith Green (Ore.) Richard L. Ottinger(N.Y.) Richard Boll1ng {Mo.) W1lliam J. Green ( Pa.) Edward J. Patten (N.J.) Frances P. Bolton (Ohio) Martha W. Griffiths (Mich.) Thomas M. Pelly (Wash.) John Brademas (Ind.) James R. Grover, Jr. (N.Y.) Claude Pepper (Fla.) Frank J. Brasco (N.Y.) Gilbert Gude (Md.) Carl D. Perkins (Ky.) .l r Jack Brooks (Tex.) G. Elliott Hagan (Ga.) Jerry L. Pettis (Calif.) Donald G. Brotzam (Colo.) James A. Haley (Fla.) Philip J. 'Philbin (Mass.) Clarence J. Brown, Jr. (Ohio) Seymour Halpern (N.Y.) J. J. Pickle ·(Tex.) Gary Brown (Mich.) Lee H. Hamilton (Ind.) Otis G. Pike (N.Y.) George E. Brown, Jr. (Calif.) John Paul Hammerschmidt (Ark.) Richard H. Potf (Va.) James T. Broyhill (N.C.) James M. Hanley (N.Y.) Howard W. Pollock (Alaska) Joel T. Broyh111 (Va.) Richard T. Hanna (Calif.) Joe R. Pool (Tex.) John Buchanan (Ala.) George V. Hansen (Idaho) Melvin Price (Ill.) J. Herbert Burke (Fla.) Julia Butler Hansen (Wash.) Robert Price (Tex.) James A. Burke (Mass.) W111iam Henry Harrison (Wyo.) David Pryor (Ark;) Laurence J. Burton (Utah) James Harvey (Mich.) Roman C. Pucinski (Ill.) Phillip Burton (Calif.) William D. Hathaway (Maine) Graham Purcell (Tex.) George Bush (Tex.) Augustus F. Hawkins (Calif.) Albert H. Quie (Minn.) Daniel E. Button {N.Y.) Ken Hechler (W.Va.) Tom Railsback (Ill.) James A. Byrne (Pa.) Margaret M. Heckler (Mass.) William J. Randall (Mo.) John W. Byrnes (Wis.) Henry Helstoski (N.J.) Thomas M. Rees (Calif.) Earle Cabell (Tex.) Floyd V. Hicks (Wash.) Ogden R. Reid (N.Y.) W1lliam T. Cahill (N.J.) Chet Holifield (Calif.) Ben Reifel (S. Dak.} Hugh L. Carey (N.Y.) Elmer J. Holland (Pa.) Ed Reinecke (Calif.) Bob Casey (Tex.) Frank J '. Horton (N.Y.) Joseph -Y.. Resnick (N.Y.) Elford A. Cederberg (Mich.) Craig Hosmer (Calif.) Henry S. Reuss (Wis.) Emanuel Celler (N.Y.) James J. Howard (N.J.) George M. Rhodes (Pa.) .I Frank M. Clark (Pa.) William L. Hungate (Mo.) John J. Rhodes (Ariz.) Donald D. Clancy (Ohio) John E. Hunt (N.J.) Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (Mich.) Edward Hutchinson-(Mlch.) Ray Roberts (Tex.) Don H. Clausen (Calif.) '.'f James C. Cleveland (N.H.) Donald J. Irwin (Conn.) Howard W. Robison (N.Y.) Jeffery Cohelan (Cali!.) Andrew Jacobs, Jr. (Ind.) Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (N.J.) Harold R. Colller (Til.) John Jarman (Okla.) Byron G. Rogers (Colo.) Barber B. Conable, Jr. (N.Y.) · Charles S. Joelson (N.J.) Paul G. Rogers (Fla.) snvo o. Conte (Mass.) Harold T. Johnson (Calif.) Fred B. Rooney (Pa.) .. John C_onyers, JF. . (Mlch.) . Robert E. Jones, Jr., (A~.) :senjamin s. R05enthal (N.Y.), 10974 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE April 26, 1967 William V. Roth (Del.) · ·, beneficiary under age 72, excepting dis the man who has the $150-a-month Richard L. Roudebush (Ind.) abled workers, may earn no more than benefit earned $500 in 1 month and $120 J. Edward Roush (Ind.) Edward R. Roybal (Calif.) $1,500 a year without suffering reduction each month thereafter he would get all' Philip Ruppe (Mich.) in social security benefits. If the bene but $150 of his ,benefits for the year. William F. Ryan (N.Y.) ficiary exceeds these income limits, his Obviously, people· receiving minimum Fernand J. St Germain (R.I.) benefits are reduced by $1 for every $2 of benefits and still able to work are the William L. St. Onge (Conn.) annual earnings between $1,500 and chief victims of the present restrictive John P. Saylor (Pa.) $2,700, and by $1 for every $1 of annual law. Henry C. Schadeberg (Wis.) earnings in excess of $2,700. Mr. Speaker, while elimination of the James H. Scheuer (N.Y.) Richard S. Schweiker (Pa.) There are proposals to again revise so-called retirement test, or earnings Fred Sch wengel (Iowa) this retirement test this year. I am limitation, is needed to eliminate these George E. Shipley (III.) happy to offer one of these today. For inequities, I am not as foolish as to think Garner E. Shriver (Kans.) the record, social security benefits should such a proposal can possiQly pass this B. F. Sisk (Calif.) be paid as a matter of right. - Benefits year. I propose at this time, however, Henry Smith lli (N.Y.) are related to the wages, over the years, an increase to $3,000 in the annual James V. Smith (Okla.) amount individuals may earn without William Springer ( Dl.) of the employee contributor and should Robert T. Stafford (Vt.) be payable without the imposition of any suffering deductions. Harley 0. Staggers (W.Va.) limitation on earnings' in later life. J. William Stanton (Ohio) Mr. Speaker, during the- depression, Tom Steed (Okla.) when social security was first enacted, it Sam Steiger (Ariz.) . was thought necessary to remove older Speech by the Honorable William S. Robert G. Steph~ns, Jr. (Ga.) workers from the job market in order Broomfield Before the Cutting Tool SamuelS. Stratton (N.Y.) to make way for younger ones. · If this W. S. Stuckey (Ga.) Manufacturer.•' Association Convention Leonor K. Sullivan (Mo.) was ever a valid concept, it has long since Robert Taft, Jr., (Ohio) ceased to be. Our depression-ridden Roy A. Taylor (N.C.) economy of scarcity has been repla£ed EXTENSION OF REMARKS Charles M. Teague (Calif.) by an economy of plenty. There is no OF Herbert Tenzer (N.Y.) longer any need to remove older people Fletcher Thompson (Ga.) from the job market. Indeed, the re HON. HASTINGS KEITH Frank Thompson, Jr. (N.J.) tention of the retirement test in our OF MASSACHUSETTS Robert 0. Tiernan (R.I.) social security system, by preventing John V. Tunney (Calif.) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Morris K. Udall (Ariz.) many older persons from working, ac Wednesday, April 26, 1967 Lionel Van Deerlin (Cal1f.) tually deprives the country of valuable Guy Van
LIMITATION ON STATEMENTS DUR ORDER OF BUSINESS SENATE ING TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE MORNING BUSINESS The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1967 BARTLETT in the chair) . The Senator On request of Mr. MANsFIELD, and by from Mississippi is recognized. The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, unanimous consent, statements during Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I and was called to order by the President the morning were ordered limited to 3 ask unanimous consent that the distin pro tempore. minutes. guished Senator from Mississippi may The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown have as much time as he may desire. Harris, D.D., offered the following The PRESIDING OFFICER. With ... prayer: COMMITTEE MEETINGS DURING SENATE SESSION out objection, it is so ordered. 0 Thou God of our salvation, to Thee we lift our hearts in prayer, bringing On request of Mr. MANSFIELD, and by nothing but our need and the adoration unanimous consent, all committees were REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE of our contrite spirits. From Thy hands authorized to meet during the session of ON STANDARDS AND CONDUCT we have received the gift of life, the the Senate today. CENSURE OF SENATOR THOMAS blessings of home and of friendship, and • J. DODD-(S. REPT. NO. 193) the sacrament of beauty. In the fun Mr. STENNIS. Mr. President, on be ness of Thy mercy Thou hast given us RECOGNITION OF SENATOR FONG AND SENATOR JAVITS half of the Select Committee on Stand work to do and the strength wherewith ards and Conduct, I send to the desk a to do it. Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I report of ~ the committee on the inves In the vast diftlculties confronting the ask unanimous consent that during the tigation of the Senator from Connecti makers of peace in these days so full of morning hour the distinguished Senator cut [Mr. DODD], to accompany Senate tension, restore and strengthen and sus from Hawaii [Mr. FoNG] may be recog Resolution 112. tain our souls and lead us in the paths of nized for 15 minutes, and the distin As directed by the committee, I am righteousness: for Thy name's sake. guished Senator from New York [Mr. also reporting an original resolution of Search us, 0 God, and know our JAVITS] may be recognized for 15 min censure of Senator DODD, which I now hearts; try us, and know our thoughts, utes following Senator FoNG. also send to the desk. and ·see if there be any wicked or perverse The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With way in us; for we would come to this out objection, it is so ordered. This report and the resolution are by high and holy hill with pure hearts and unanimous action of the committee. clean hands. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The re May we follow the gleam of the highest RECESS OF SENATE TOMORROW TO port will be received, and the resolution and best we know, as it leads o'er moor HEAR GENERAL WESTMORELAND will be placed on the calendar. and fen and crag and torrent till the IN JOINT MEETING The resolution