OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN
December 4, 1968 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) had high praise Thursday for
Harry C. Brockel, Municipal Port Director for the City of Milwaukee. Brockel, who
has been Milwaukee's Port Director for the past 26 years, announced Wednesday night
that he is retiring from the job effective December 10, 1968.
Senator Proxmire said: "Harry Brockel has done an outstanding job as
Milwaukee's Port Director. Under his leadership, the Port of Milwaukee has seen a
tremendous increase in shipping— an increase from which not only Milwaukee but the
entire state has benefitted.
"Brockel has been with the Board of Harbor Commissioners for 43 years,
and since 1942 — a period of 26 years -- he has held the title of Port Director.
During this exceptional length of service the Port of Milwaukee has experienced
tremendous growth. In 1946, shortly after Brockel assumed the Port Director's job,
the Port of Milwaukee handled a total of 2000 tons of cargo. That same port now
handles cargo at an annual rate of more than 750,000 tons.
" "There has also been a tremendous increase in shipping lines servicing
Milwaukee under Harry Brockel's leadership. In 1946, only 4 shipping lines serviced
the Port of Milwaukee; today, some 54 lines touch base at this thriving port.
"To accommodate this phenomenal increase in business, Brockel as Port
Director has overseen the construction of 3 new cargo terminals, and many miles of
new railroad trackage. Milwaukee has also built a new stiff-leg crane, which gives
it the heaviest capacity of any Great Lakes port on the United States side of the border.
"Harry Brockel's talent for capable and honest leadership has long been
recognized by his colleagues throughout the Great Lakes. He is President of the
American Association of Port Authorities, Vice-Chairman of the Great Lakes Commission,
a nd Federal Port Controller for St. Lawrence Seaway River Ports. Brockel served
as first chairman of the International Association of Great Lakes Ports. In addition,
he has served since 1954 as a member of the 5-man Seaway Board, an advisory group
for the Seaway Development Corporation.
"In his outstanding stint as the city's Port Director, Harry Brockel
has clearly established himself as one of Milwaukee's leading citizens. By retiring
from the position of Port Director, he leaves a gap which will not be easy to fill." ********** OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1968 (FOR FRIDAY A.M.'S)
Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) today praised the Administration for
taking much-needed action in dealing with the power shortage that has threatened
consumers in southeastern Wisconsin. The President Wednesday night invoked Section
10 of the Railway Labor Act so that coal deliveries to Wisconsin power companies
via the Belt Line Railway could be resumed.
The Wisconsin Senator said: "Since the trainmen's strike began last
July 29, I have repeatedly asked the Administration to take action to deal with this
situation. The president acted just in the nick of time to allow the electric
utilities to get enough coal before the winter freeze sets in.
"Action by the White House was the only way of averting a critical power
shortage in Wisconsin this winter. One company has reported its coal reserves
as more than 530,000 tons short of what is normally required at this time of year.
Without the resumption of coal deliveries before the winter freeze, some curtail
ment of electric service would have been inevitable. Many Wisconsin residents
were faced with the possibility of a blackout this winter.
"Now this threat has been averted. I expect operations to be resumed on
the Belt Railway by tomorrow at the latest, and it should not be too long before
the power company's coal reserves are restored to near normal levels.
"Although the Administration's action requires that railroad service be
resumed for a maximum of 60 days, I am extremely hopeful that the issues involved
in the labor dispute will be resolved during this cooling-off period. I will
continue to watch this situation very closely until the threat of a power
shortage is completely eliminated."
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FOR RELEASE AFTER 6p.M., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, I968 (FOR MONDAY A.M.'s)
Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) Sunday said that the key to the
law and order problem in this country rests with local law enforcement
officers. Senator Proxmire said that "ultimate responsibility for more
effective law enforcement must be assumed at the local level, by officers
who are familiar with community problems and are best equipped to deal with them."
The Wisconsin Senator spoke in Darlington, Wisconsin, at a luncheon
in honor of Lafayette County Sheriff Kenneth Pratt, who is seeking
re-election as the County's chief law enforcement officer. Senator
Proxmire said:
"There has been a considerable increase in the incidence of crime
in this country. Although part of this increase is undoubtedly due to improved
reporting procedures the FBI and other police officers are now using, both
the incidence and the rate of crime has risen during the last decade.
"Crime takes its toll not only in fear, but also in money — lots of it.
Crime and its consequences cost this country more than $21 billion in 1967.
That's more than 10$ of our total national budget for the coming fiscal year.
Think of it: if it were possible to eliminate crime, we would be able to do
without the 10$ surtax, and even have some left over for good measure.'
"But in the past few years, Congress has at last been able to begin
to make a dent in the long run fight against crime. This year's Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act is one of the most far-reaching pieces
of crime legislation ever passed by Congress. There is hope now that the
rising crime tide will be stemmed and reversed provided Congress follows-up
these advances with more vigorous legislation,and especially if State and local
governments exert far more energy to cope with crime. In addition, it will
be necessary to work on the level of education, housing and jobs to eradicate
the underlying causes of criminality.
"The great touchstone of this year's Safe Streets Act is local law
enforcement. The Act authorizes more than $400 million between now and
June, 1970, for grants to states and local communities to help them wage
an effective war against lawlessness. The money will be used to train and -2-
recruit police, to improve law enforcement, to construct law enforcement
facilities, and to develop special techniques to control riots and fight
organized crime.
"To make sure that this money gets to the local level, where its
badly needed, Congress provided that no state plan would be approved unless
it channeled at least 75$ of the crime-fighting funds it received to local
units of government. Furthermore, if the state doesn't come up with an
acceptable application, the local unit can apply to the federal government
directly. This means that Lafayette County should get a good crack at some
of these Federal dollars.
"Sheriff Pratt and other local law enforcement officers are the backbone of our fight against crime. I am convinced that if they are given
our full support and encouragement, we will have civil order and a reduction
of crime. Thanks to Congress, such support and encouragement is on its way."
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FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:00 P.M., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1968. FOR SUNDAY PAPERS.
Senator William Proxmire (D. -Wis.) Saturday called Richard D. Cudahy
"the best candidate for Attorney General of Wisconsin that either party has offered
in years. " The Wisconsin Senator said that Cudahy, if elected Attorney General,
would be a great force for "dispassionate and effective law enforcement."
Senator Proxmire spoke Saturday night in Wisconsin Rapids at a dinner in
honor of Glenn Pascavis, the Democratic candidate for State Assembly from Wood
County, Second Assembly District.
The 7/isconsin Senator said: "Dick Cudahy has an outstanding record of
educational achievement and legal ability. He has achieved a long and distinguished
career in the law.
"He went to West Point, where he graduated in the top 2% of his class.
Following graduation, he enrolled in the Yale Law School, the toughest and most
demanding law school in the country. There, too, he made an outstanding record
for himself. In a class where brilliant students often were merely average, he
finished near the top and graduated with honors.
"After law school, Cudahy practiced law in both Chicago and Milwaukee.
He then took over the Cudahy packing firm, at a time when the business was at its
lowest ebb. Dick infused the firm with his great energy and ability, and raised
the business from the depths into a highly profitable $80 million-a-year operation.
"With his outstanding legal mind, Dick Cudahy has served as a lecturer in
law at Marquette University Law School and later as a visiting Professor of Law
at University of Wisconsin Law School. He has also had important responsibilities
as attorney-adviser to the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D. C.
"Dick Cudahy has demonstrated that he is a fighting champion for civil
liberties and for individual rights. At the same time, he is fully aware of the
necessity for maintaining civil order in these troubled times. He would be a
tremendous force for fair, dispassionate and effective law enforcement in Wisconsin.
I am confident he will make a brilliant Attorney General " OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN
FOR RELEASE AFTER 6ii00 P,M, FRIDAY NIGHTS OCTOBER 25. I960 (FOR SATURDAY A.H.'S)
Senator William Proxmire (D„-Wls„) said Friday night that responsibility
for the Senate's failure to take action on the crucial treaty to ban the spread of
nuclear weapons belongs squarely on Richard M. Nixon's shoulders. Senator Proxmire
spoke at a dinner meeting in Somerset, Wisconsin, in support of the candidacy of
Leo Mohn for State Assembly,
The Wisconsin Senator said: "The treaty could not have been approved
in the Senate without the support of both Republicans and Democrats. 3ut Richard
Nixon lost his way on this one and the Senate Republicans felt constrained to follow.
The treaty thus became the unfortunate casualty of GOP election fever.
!:Mixon has called for delay on the treaty at a time when we haven't a
iioment to lose,
"Vice President Humphrey, alone among the presidential candidates, knows
the urgency of the treaty and repeatedly called for Senate approval before Congress
adjourned.
"N&xon has misread the issues posed by this treaty and we are all the
losers because of it. He said we must delay ratification because of the brutal Soviet
invasion of Czechoslovakia.
"The truth is that this treaty is not a concession to the Soviet Union.
Me have hurt no country more than our own by delaying ratification and we have gained
lathing. V/e suggested the first treaty draft. We have been urging agreement to such
a treaty for four years. And we were the principal architects of the treaty which
has now been signed by more than GO countries,
"The treaty's most important promises come from the non-nuclear countries,
not the Soviet Union. Our hesitation now may mean that the momentum behind the treaty
will be lost.
"And if the multiplication of nuclear powers occurs, there can be, as
Vice President Humphrey has said, 'little hope for our future in this world.'
"We owe a great debt to the Vice President for all that he has done In
his brilliant career in the cause of arms control and disarmament. Because of that
record, no man is better suited now to lead us among the rocky shoals that lie ahead
of us in this field.
"He began making public statements on the need for arms control as
early as 1950, He sponsored a resolution to establish a Congressional Disarmament
(MORE) Subcommittee and was instrumental in persuading the Senate to establish it in 1955.
He became its first chairman and the foremost Senate expert on the subject.
"The 1961 Senate bill which created the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency was a direct outgrowth of a i960 proposal by then Senator Humphrey.
"It was Mr. Humphrey who aroused and educated the Congress and the public on the need for a nuclear test ban treaty and his leadership was a key factor in final passage of such a treaty in 1963.
"And it is his leadership we must follow today and during the nex£ four years in making further progress toward effective arms control,"
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FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 AM WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21ST (WEDNESDAY PM'S)
Senator William Proxmire (D-Wis) Wednesday proposed Senator Gaylord
Nelson of Wisconsin as the best available vice presidential nominee on a
Humphrey ticket.
Proxmire said, "It is clear that neither Senator Ted Kennedy nor
Senator Eugene McCarthy will be available for the vice presidential nomination.
Under these circumstances, Hubert Humphrey - on the very likely assumption he
is nominated - should take a long hard look at Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.
"Nelson has superlative qualifications. He would be the only candidate
on either major ticket in 1968 with experience both as Governor and United
States Senator. Both administrative and federal experience of this high order
are vital for a presidential or vice presidential candidate.
"He was an eminently successful two-term governor of one of the nation's
"big city" states, the first Democrat to be elected governor of Republican
Wisconsin in 25 years and the only Democrat to be re-elected governor in this
century.
"In his remarkable terms as governor, Nelson achieved success although
he had to work with a Republican state senate in both terms and a Republican
state assembly in one of them.
"And yet Nelson won tax reform, educational and public welfare advances
of a high order and established the number one conservation program in the country.
"He was elected to the Senate against a popular Republican incumbent,
becoming the first Democrat to defeat an incumbent Republican Senator since the
popular election of Senators was established fifty years ago.
"As Senator, he has had a record distinguished by his leadership in
conservation, education and consumer representation. He is the author of the
most promising educational innovation to come out of Congress in recent years:
the Teacher Corps.
"He is the Congress' relentless crusader for reasonable drug prices.
(MORE) The Nelson hearings have already succeeded in reducing the cost of medicines to
Americans by millions of dollars.
"He is one of the few men in Washington who can match wits with Senator
Eugene McCarthy. His capacity as a humorist and raconteur is unmatched in the
Senate since Alben Barkley.
"But the prime reason I urge Vice President Humphrey to take the most serious possible look at Senator Nelson is because of his foresight on Vietnam.
"It is clear that Humphrey will have great trouble defeating Nixon, if
Humphrey loses the large and growing peace vote that has supported McCarthy and
Robert Kennedy so enthusiastically in the primaries.
"No one now available could rally that peace vote as effectively as
Gaylord Nelson. He has been one of the very earliest and most constructive advocates of restraint in Vietnam.
Nelson's selection by Humphrey would be a ringing affirmation of
Humphrey's intention to work vigorously and imaginatively for peace in Vietnam.
Finally, a Humphrey-Nelson ticket would deprive Nixon of one of his most critical "must" states. Every analysis gives Nixon Wisconsin as one of the crucial states he must carry to win.
"Nelson's presence on the ticket would make sure that Wisconsin stayed in the Democratic column. And Nelson's outstanding conservation record would enable the Humphrey-Nelson team to make a real challenge in the conservation states of the West and Southwest which are otherwise regarded as "safe" Nixon territory.
"I am writing the Vice President, the President and delegates to the
Democratic convention urging the nomination of Gaylord Nelson as Vice President."
###### OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN
October 17, 1968.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Senator William Proxmire (D. -Wis.) Thursday issued the following statement
in connection with the indictment of Luther Dyb by a Federal Grand Jury meeting
in Milwaukee for violation of Title 18, Section 203, which covers accepting unlawful
compensation while a member of the Legislative Branch.
"It is my understanding that this indictment refers to an alleged action which
took place while Mr. Dyb was employed as a member of my staff. It is also my
understanding that this alleged action is connected with a Small Business Administra
tion loan.
"The following is the action which I took in connection with this matter:
"On May 1, 1968, when I was first informed that the Small Business Administra
tion had received a complaint that a member of my staff had been alleged to have
accepted a payment in connection with an SBA loan, I asked them to let me know
as soon as possible the results of their investigation. I was informed by the SBA
on May 15th that they had conducted the investigation and regarded it as serious.
"On the following day I hired Attorney Martin L. Croak, a Madison lawyer
who had been a special investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for
many years, to make a prompt and thorough investigation of the entire matter.
I also notified Senator John Stennis, the Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee,
of the SBA's investigation.
"When Attorney Croak completed his investigation and gave me his report,
I turned a copy of the report over to the FBI in Washington and I gave another copy
to Senator Stennis, Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.
"I immediately asked Luther Dyb to come to the offices of my attorney, Roland Day, -2- in Madison, Wisconsin, to be interrogated on the findings of our investigation by
Attorney Day, Attorney Croak and myself.
"Mr. Dyb met with the three of us on Saturday, May 25, 1968.
"After a thorough interrogation of Mr. Dyb, he submitted his resignation to me on that same day, May 25th. I accepted the resignation at once. My Madison office, which had been run by Mr. Dyb, was closed the following Jvlonday. Because
Mr. Dyb had accumulated substantial leave, he was not separated from the Senate payroll until June 10, 1968.
"At the outset of the interrogation I told Mr. Dyb that I intended to supply the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington with a verbatim transcript of our detailed interrogation of Mr. Dyb. On June 5, 1968, the day the transcript became available from the reporter, I requested the FBI to come to my office to get a complete copy of the interrogation and they did so.
"At no time have I discussed this matter with any Federal officials or with anyone else except my attorney, Mr. Day; an official of the Small Business Admini stration; Attorney Croak who conducted the investigation; Senator John Stennis,
Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee; Mrs. Peggy Raynor, my personal secretary; and Tom van der Voort, my legislative assistant.
"My communication with the FBI was confined to their acceptance of the investigation report and of the transcript of our interrogation of Mr. Dyb.
My communication with the SBA was confined to their informing my legislative assistant, Tom van der Voort, of the initial charge and of their later investigation and on one occasion an SBA official came to my office to tell me the results of their investigation.
"In view of the fact that this case is pending in Federal court, I have concluded -- based on legal advice -- that it would be improper for me to comment on the merits of the allegation or to make further comment. "
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FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 A.M. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1968 (FOR THURSDAY P.M.'S)
Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) made public Thursday a letter to
President Johnson requesting his help in dealing with a strike by trainmen
against the Belt Railroad Company of Chicago, which normally delivers coal to
power companies in Wisconsin.
The letter follows:
The President The White House Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
I am writing to ask yourhelp in dealing with the strike by trainmen against the Belt Railroad Company of Chicago. The Belt Railroad, which normally delivers coal to power companies in Wisconsin, has been completely idled by the trainmen's strike since July 29, 1968. These power companies are almost totally dependent upon the coal supply which the Belt Railroad carries to Chicago, where it is transferred to lake vessels for carriage to Wisconsin.
As you probably know, Mr. President, Lake Michigan usually begins to ice over by the first week in December. It is therefore imperative for the power companies to store enough coal by that time to last through the winter. As of now, at least one supplier of electricity — a utility that services some 2 million persons in Wisconsin -- has indicated that it is 530,000 tons short of coal reserves required at this time. If the strike persists, its reserves by the onset of winter will be more than 1,200,000 tons short, and curtailment of service to some or all of these 2,000,000 residents will become inevitable. In short, the situation has become urgent.
It is essential that operations on the Belt Railroad be resumed as soon as possible, even while labor negotiations are going on. Although the National Mediation Board has tried for the past two months to bring the two sides to the bargaining table, no settlement has been achieved and none is in sight.
Under Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act (45 USC 160), an emergency board can be convened to hear both sides to the dispute and report on the issues involved. The convening of an emergency board would require the strikers to return to work for a 60 day cooling-off period. During the 60 day period, Wisconsin's drastic coal shortage could be reduced or eliminated entirely.
In my opinion, this strike threatens "substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service." This satisfies the statutory prerequisite such as would justify convening an emergency board.
I know that capable mediators for the National Mediation Board have been working night and day to explore every avenue for a settlement, and my request that an emergency board be convened is not intended to disparage their efforts in any way. But this strike, which will disrupt a vital and essential service in my state, has now dragged on for more than two months without showing any sign of nearing a settlement. In my view, Mr. President, emergency action is warranted.
If more information about this situation would be useful, please let me know. It would be my pleasure to assist you in any way I can.
Sincerely,
William Proxmire, U.S.S. •30- °^y
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1968
In a statement issued from Milwaukee Saturday, Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) emphatically denied the rumors circulating throughout Wisconsin and other parts of the country regarding Social Security legislation. The Wisconsin Senator sai d: "There is an organized campaign to convince the public that a bill now before the Congress would make Social Security benefits contingent on income level or need. These rumors claim that Social Security money could be diverted for welfare programs if the income-needs test is not satisfied. The bill is identified as HR 5710. "In the past 2l\. hours since I have come to Wisconsin I have been approached by literally scores of persons who have been concerned by these rumors. One of the State's leading newspapers carried a letter to the editor on Friday's editorial page which asserted that Social Security benefits could be reduced or stopped if the needs test is not met. "These rumors are totally and absolutely untrue. In the first place, HR 5710 does not contain such provisions. In the second place, no action has been or will be taken on HR 5710, since a bill which amends the Social Security Act has already been .passed by both Houses of Congress and signed into law by the President on January 2, 1968 as Public Law 90-2l.|.8. The 1968 amendments to the Social Security Act contain no provisions for changing social security payments to a needs basis or to permit monies in the Social Security fund to be used for any other purpose than earned social security benefit payments. OMJX
"For several months members of Congress and the Senate have been receiving mail in opposition to this bill. I have been in touch with both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee which have jurisdiction over these bills. They are unable to identify the source of these erroneous accusations. "Whoever is circulating these rumors does a grave injustice to the Social Security program and to all Americans. Their unwillingness to identify themselves indicates to me that they are trying to undermine our Social Security program without any basis of fact. "I have long been a supporter* of our Social Security program and I shall continue to work to see that this program is main tained on an earned right basis." OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN
September 19, 1968
FOR RELEASE AFTER 6;30 A.M. - SEPTEMBER 20th (FRIDAY P.M.'S)
Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) will appear in Milwaukee Saturday on
behalf of Bronson C. La Follette, the Democratic candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin. Mr. La Follette, Wisconsin Attorney General since 1964, will be
Governor Warren Knowles1 opponent in the general election on November 5.
Wisconsin's senior senator will tour Milwaukee with the gubernatorial
candidate on Saturday morning, making stops at a number of downtown and suburban
shopping centers. At 1:00 p.m. Senator Proxmire will speak at a luncheon in Mr.
La Follette's honor, sponsored by the Democratic Women's Club. The lunch will be
held at the Pfister Hotel.
In a statement from his Washington office before leaving for Wisconsin,
Senator Proxmire said:
"Bronson La Follette has done an outstanding job as State Attorney General
since coming to office in 19$4. He has carried forth the tradition of one of
the greatest names the State of Wisconsin — or for that matter, the country —
has even known. Like his grandfather and father before him, he has brought
honor and dignity to the high office entrusted to him.
"His re-election in 1966 by a plurality of more than 45,000 votes attests
to the tremendous job he has done as State Attorney General.
"In addition to his manifold responsibilities as Wisconsin's number one
lawyer, Bronson La Follette has served as a member of the President's Commission
on Consumer Affairs, a position he has served with distinction.
"His interest in consumers also prompted him to appear before the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee during hearings on the Proxmire Truth-in-Lending
bill. The Attorney General's testimony forcefully presented some of the most
telling arguments in the bill's favor, and was instrumental in getting the bill
passed and enacted by the 90th Congress.
"In his capacity as Attorney General, B ronson La Follette has carried
forward the La Follette tradition of excellence. If he is elected Governor, I
am confident he will do the same."
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FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 A.M. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1968. FOR MOND/Y P. M. '£.
Senator William Proxmire (D. -Wis.) declared Monday that the just-opened
hearings of the Subversive Activities Control Board "are an affront to our wisdom
and common sense" and he urged the Senate to "dismantle the Board and relegate
it to the history books. "
The Wisconsin Senator, who led a fight in the Senate last year to abolish
the SACB, said in his Monday speech, which was prepared for delivery on the
Senate floor:
"The Board opened hearings last week on seven persons alleged to be members
of the Communist Party. By holding hearings the Board has succeeded in perpetua
ting its existence for another year. Such is the im*fmmtmmmlmmmdmqmmammmm# effect
of the compromise on the Board that the Congress reached last year. Had no
hearings been instituted by the end of this year, the Board would have died a quiet
and natural death.
"Last week's hearing was the first honest day's work put in by the SACB
in more than two and a half years !
"During all that time, Congress went right on appropriating more than
$300, 000 a year, while Board members and other employees went right on enjoying
what must have been -- and still are -- the softest do-nothing jobs in Washington.
"After hearings, if the Board finds that the individuals brought before them
are in fact Communists, it has the power to register them as such. And that is
the sum total of the Board's function -- to act as a registry for Communists.
No penalty whatsoever attaches to registration by the Board. In fact, no penalty
attaches to Communist party membership without some subversive activity. "Still, the Board acts out its role, taking testimony from witnesses, receiving affidavits and depositions, and hearing elaborate legal arguments.
And all of this occurs with the sole object of filling up some musty file cabinets with documentation having no significance and no relevance whatever to the purposes for which the American taxpayer sends his hard-earned money to
Washington.
"In its 18 years of existence, the Board has swallowed up more than
$5 million dollars -- dollars which might have been spent on education, crime control, housing, medical research -- any one of a thousand useful purposes.
But the SACB has been less than useless: it has not contributed one iota to the nation's security. " OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN
FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 A.M. FRIDAY. AUGUST 2. 1966. FOR FRIDAY P.M.'S
Senator William Proxmire (D.-#is.) said Friday he would introduce legislation in
the next Congress to safeguard consumers against arbitrary or erroneous credit
reports and against the unwarranted and unauthorized publication of credit
information.
The Wiscons in Senator led the successful battle in the Senate for a Truth-in-
Lending Law. He is ranking member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee which
would have jurisdiction over the bill when it is introduced.
Senator Proxmire said, in a statement prepared for delivery on the Senate floor:
"I am sure every member of Congress has received complaints from constituents
regarding unfortunate experiences with credit ratings. I am speaking of cases where
a consumer is unjustly denied credit because of false or incomplete information in a
credit report or because he has been confused with another individual.
"In order to alleviate this type of problem, I intend to introduce a bill next
session which would add a new title to the Truth-in-Lending Act to provide safeguards
in the field of credit reporting. This is an area where, because of rapid advances
in technology, public policy has failed to keep up. There is virtually no state or
federal regulation concerning the credit reporting industry.
"In all fairness it should be noted that the bill's effect would be to make
uniform throughout the industry the already high standards now observed by the best
credit bureaus, I want to make crystal clear that the last thing I want to do is to
inhibit the flow of consumer credit in the American economy. But the increasing
volume of complaints makes it clear that some regulations are vitally necessary.
"My bill would require three things. It would require, first, that credit
bureaus have in effect procedures for guaranteeing the confidentiality of the infor
mation they collect and that no such information be released to non-creditors such as
governmental investigatory agencies without the express consent of the person involved,
"The bill would require, second, that an individual be given an opportunity to
correct adverse information in his credit record at his request and that he be
notified when a derogatory item of public record is entered in his credit record.
MORE "And, third, the bill would require that there be procedures for discarding irrelevant and out-dated information in an individual's credit file,
"I view this bill as another step in our developing tradition of effective consumer protection legislation, of which the latest examples are the Truth-in-tending and the Meat Inspection Acts.
"I am announcing today my intention to introduce this bill next year because I believe the Senate should begin serious consideration now of the great need for legislation in this area and so that the issues may be clearly drawn when the bill comes before the Congress." OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN
July 26, 1968 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.), who two weeks ago severely criticized
the Pentagon for discriminating against Great Lakes ports in the routing of military
cargo shipments, announced Friday that the Pentagon has revised its shipping policy.
The policy change, which went into effect Thursday, promises an important
economic boost for the Great Lakes and constitutes a major personal victory for
Senator Proxmire, who is Chairman of the Great Lakes Conference of Senators.
After learning of the policy revision in a call from the Defense Department,
the Wisconsin Senator said in a statement from his Washington office:
"This is a red letter day for the Great Lakes* The Pentagon has finally
revised its cost-allocation policies by eliminating indirect expenses as a factor in
determining how military cargo is to be routed. This is a very significant step in the
right direction. It provides real cause for optimism that in the near future the Lakes
will share fully in the shipment of military cargo.
"Until now, in making its routing decisions for military cargo the Defense
Department has been assessing a charge for indirect costs. This charge varied from
port to port depending on the volume of business handled at a particular port. Thus,
if the volume of military cargo at the port was high, the indirect charge per
measurement ton was pegged quite low. On the other hand, a low turnover of military
cargo at a given port meant that the indirect terminal expense was sky high.
"The enormous disparity this produced can be seen in a comparison between
charges for the Great Lakes ports and the costs for an East Coast port, such as Baltimore,
The rate for Baltimore is only 10c per measurement ton, while the comparable rate for
the Lakes is $1.30, a discrepancy of more than 700%.
"Naturally, this has been a tremendous albatross burdening the economy of
the Great Lakes region. Costs have been inflated to an artificially high level for the
Lakes, and the Pentagon has routed military cargo through other ports.
"Elimination of the indirect expenses from the Pentagon's routing decision
removes this burden. For example, the port handling charge for Milwaukee, on the shore
of Lake Michigan, has dropped from $6.63 to $4.76 per unit of freight. This represents
a real drop of 39% in the costs assigned to Milwaukee, and brings that port and other
Lakes ports into line with the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico.
"I heartily applaud the Pentagon for revising its shipping policies. Now
that the Great Lakes can once again compete on an equal basis for cargo with ports in the
Atlantic and the Gulf, it should not be long before ships bearing substantial quantities
of military cargo are plying the Great Lakes." it ie -k * * * June 29, 1968
Mr. V. F. Caputo Director for Transportation and Warehousing Policy Office of Che Assistant Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Caputo:
Thank you for your letter of June 18, 1968, In which you set out the cost breakdown for military cargo shipments for ports In the Great Lakes. Your detailed itemization of the five - components which make up the overall cost for these shipments was most illuminating.
In reading through your Itemized co9t breakdown, I noted with particular interest the $1.30 figure contained In item #4, the "Indirect Cargo Expense • Terminal." This figure Is apparently arrived at by dividing the maintenance cost for military activities at the terminal by the total cargo workload. Quite clearly, as the cargo workload at the port drops, the Indirect Terminal Cargo Expense Increases sharply. Such a cost-allocation system operates greatly to the detriment of the Great Lakes, which have suffered a substantial decrease In military cargo shipments over the last few years. The decline has forced the region Into a "chlcken-and-egg" dllemtnai American-flag lines are refusing to compete for military cargo shipping as long as the costs are so high, but without an Increase in shipping the costs have remained at an artificially high level.
The disparity which results from this method of allocation is by no means insignificant. At the present level of military ship* ments into the Lakes, the item #4 expense stands at $1.30 per measurement ton — a rate which bears no relationship at all to the particular vessel that happens to be loading or unloading at the Great Lakes terminal. I understand that the comparable rate for Baltimore, where most of the overland military cargo from the Middle West is disembarked, is only 18c a measurement ton. This enormous dls- Mr. V. F. Caputo Wm June 29, 1968 Dirootor for Transj Warehousing Policy Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Washington, D. C.
crepancy is one of the principal reasons why military cargo ship* ments via the Great Lakes have dropped off as drastically as they have, and are threatening to drop off still further.
If further drop-off is to be averted, and if the expenses for East Coast ports and Great Lakes ports are to be brought into line with each other, a thorough restudy and revision of shipping cost allocation will have to be undertaken by the Department of Defense. To my mind it is essential that our region be relieved of this unfair burden which has been placed upon it, in order that a • free flow of commerce out of the Great Lakes and through the St. Lawrence Seaway can be assured. >
Sincerely,
WP/dwe William Proxmire, U. S. S. OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301
• racJ TS S JUL 1368
Honorable William Proxmire United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Proxmire:
This is in reply to your June 29, 1968 letter regarding the utilization of Great Lakes ports for military cargo.
.For the past several months, we have been conducting an extensive re-examination of our routing procedures for export military cargo with particular regard to that cargo generated in the Great Lakes area. One of the several subjects being considered is the use of the element of expense called "Indirect Cargo Expense-Terminal" as a part of the port handling charge. Since this element of expense is relatively fixed, and most directly reducible as a result of increased volumes of cargo, it would initially appear to be of limited value for purposes of determining that routing which offers the lowest landed costs for a particular movement.
! The Department of the Army, through its agency the Military Traffic 'Management and Terminal Service (MTMTS), is responsible for the routing of most military export cargo within the United States. Because of this, we I have asked that Department to comment on two proposed policy changes in this area. One would be to disregard all indirect cargo, expenses and General/Administrative costs from the routing decision. Alternatively, the other would allocate the element of expense "Indirect Cargo Expense- Terminal" to the total MTMTS workload, rather than by geographic groupings •of ports. We anticipate receiving these comments by the end of July, and will be in further contact with you shortly thereafter. • tIn the meantime, if we can provide any-further information,.please Sincerely, Director/for Transportation 0and Warehousing Policy OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR RELEASE AFTER 6;30 P.M. SATURDAY. JULY 27. I960 (FOR SUNDAY A.M.'S) Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) Saturday called for an oil import license fee to pay for stricter enforcement of oil import regulations including the use of field audits to find out whether the data given to the Oil Import Administration by the industry is accurate. In order to accomplish this, the Wisconsin Senator proposed a plan in a statement from his Washington Office which would provide increased funds for the Oil Import Administration while shifting the burden of financing the program off the shoulders of the taxpayers onto the shoulders of those who profit from the program. Senator Proxmire suggested in a letter to Secretary Udall that he exercise the power given him by law to '^impose a /2 mill per barrel_7 license fee on the holders of allocations of oil and oil products, except residual fuel oil, into Districts I - V and on those who are permitted to ship light products from Puerto Rico to the United States mainland." The Senator said in his statement: "There is absolutely no reason for the /American taxpayer, who is continually taken over the coals by the oil industry, to pay for the administration of the oil import program. Import licenses are worth about $1.25 a barrel to those who hold them. Surely the license holders should be willing to pay a mere 2 mills for this windfall. "A 2 mill a barreli1icense fee should produce about $770,000 a year. This amount of money should enable the Oil Import Administration to hire adequate technical help to check on the industry it is supposedly regulating. It seems inconceivable that an agency which regulates a program which is worth so much money to so many people should have been unable to perform field audits to find out whether the data given it by the industry was accurate. This situation cannot continue. My plan offers a way out. I sincerely hope the Secretary will take such action as is needed to correct the situation. "The treatment J suggested for Puerto Rico is designed to minimize the burden to that Island's economic development and to place the burden where the profit is. However, if the formula appears inconsistent with Puerto Rico's relationship to the federal government under Commonwealth status, then consideration should be given to applying the fee to all foreign oil imported into the Island. Whatever the case, I am confident that the Interior Department can arrive at a satisfactory method in consultat Ion with the Puerto Rican government." •v i ***** * OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN rna BF.FASF AFTFR feUO A.M. WEDNESDAY. JULY 2k, 196G (FOR WEDNESDAY P.H,'S) Wednesday Senator William Proxmire (D,-Wis,)/called for a fixed quota on dairy imports into the United States in testimony submitted to the U, S, Tariff Commission. The Commission Is conducting hearings on the wisdom of placing import controls on condensed and evaporated milk in cans, chocolate crumb, and a number of cheese products. The Wisconsin Senator Said! "Last year I appeared before your Commission on the first day of a similar set of hearings and warned that these administrative proceedings provided for under Section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act were *an inadequate remedy' for the control of destructive dairy imports. Time after time foreign producers have doctored their products to evade Section 22 controls. The only remedy has been further Section 22 proceedings/ "Now the vicious cycle has re-asserted itself. Despite the June 1967 Presidential Proclamation limiting dairy imports we are once again faced with Section 22 hearings because of further import control evasions. "I still believe that the only truly effective answer is a permanent quota on all dairy products such as the type that would be imposed by my Dairy Import bill which sets such controls on the basis of the I96I-I965 import average and permits imports to share in increased consumption in this country, "However, in the absence of such legislation I urge the Commission to recommend the controls requested by Secretary of Agriculture Freeman for several reasons; "First, dairy imports create unnecessary price support expenditures on the part of our government at taxpayer expense. When imported products displace domestic sales the government has to buy the surplus with tax dollars. This will burden the price support program to the tune of an estimated $^8,400,000 in 1968 if the present level of imports is permitted to continue, "Second, dairy imports weaken the domestic industry by forcing dairy farmers out of business. A healthy dairy industry is vital to consumers in a land where dairy products, including milk, account for nearly one-fourth of all food purchases. '^Third, countries exporting dairy products to the United States use a multitude of subsidies to encourage such exports. Import quotas on these products are essential to maintain some semblance of fair trade between ourselves and our trading partners. 1 (I40RE) - 2 - "Fourth, dairy imports represent a substantial drain on the dollar at a time when we are faced with a difficult balance of payments problem. The dollar drain for these imports was almost $7^ million in 1967. "For all of these reasons, I urge the Commission to act soon to further limit damaging diary imports." •>v ft * ft * * * * OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 A.M. JULY 23. 1968(F0R TUESDAY P.M.'S) Senaotr William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) in a letter to Defense Secretary Clark Clifford made public Tuesday charged that profits on defense contracts have risen to "an alarming level." The Wisconsin Senator, took issue with a recent letter from Secretary Clifford to Senator Richard Russell, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee,in which Clifford contended that there is no basis for concern about excessive profits on defense contracts resulting from heavy Vietnam War procurement. Senator Proxmire, who is Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee's Subcommittee on Economy in Government which has investigated Pentagon procurement policies, said in his letter to Clifford: "You conclude (in your letter to Senator Russell) that those who express alarm about profiteering on defense contracts are making assumptions as to the future without a factual basis. I have carefully reviewed the data in your letter concerning profits on defense contracts and find there is a very good basis in fact for concern in this area. "When a Government agency spends about $45 billion a year for procurement, Congress and the public have a right to expect that the agency knows what it is paying for. The absence of facts in the Defense Department regarding actual costs and actual profits is evidence that this is not the case today. "There appears to be no question that the profits being paid on defense contracts have increased substantially. Your own letter states that the actual increase is 22 percent. My calculation shows a 26 percent increase using figures from an April 1967 General Accounting Office report on the subject. "Your letter attributes these higher profits to increased use of fixed price contracts over cost-plus-fixed fee contracts — a shifting of risk from the Government to the contractor which warrants a higher rate of profit. "However, the GAO reported, and your own Logistic Management Institute study of November 1967 appears to confirm that the Department of Defense is paying higher profits on all types of contracts. It appears clear that at least a portion of the higher profits is due solely to the higher rates of profit presently being paid by DOD for the same type of work, I.E. a higher profit for the same risk. "In his testimony before the House Banking and Currency Committee on April 11, 1968, Admiral Rickover stated that the data submitted by contractors are often quite different than the actual data as determined by Government audit. (MORE) "Further, the Admiral stated that large additional profits can be hidden just by the way a company's overhead costs are charged, how component parts are priced, or how intercompany profits are handled. The Admiral testified that, in the absence of uniform standards of accounting, it is not possible to tell how much it costs to manufacture equipment or how much profit a company actually makes — without spending months reconstructing the supplier's books. "The Defense Department should determine costs and profits on a contract-by- contract, and on a company-by-company basis so that profiteering cannot be concealed in statistical averages. "The Department of Defense should require its contractors to report costs and profits on each contract over $100,000. Summaries of these reports should be made available to the Congress and to the public on a periodic basis. "Any company that is realizing only fair and reasonable profits on a defense contract should not object to reporting its costs and profits." * * ft * * ft * ft OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN July 22, 1968. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Senator William Proxmire (D. -Wis.) announced Monday that the Joint Economic Committee will hold early hearings on the proposal of the Federal Reserve Board to throw its discount window open to wider b or rowing by member banks. Proxmire, Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said the date on which his Committee would hold hearings will be announced shortly. Proxmire said, "In its press release reporting this proposal, the FED declared that it is soliciting reactions from the banking community before it acts. "This is far too significant an action to be left to the FED and the nation*s bankers alone. "The Constitution has given the Congress express and comprehensive control over monetary policy. The proposed action by the FED would have a very considerable effect on monetary policy. "It is essential that the Congress inform itself of the full consequences of this change before the Board takes any final action. "Secondly, it is important that savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks be given a public forum to express their views. The FED should not rely exclusively on the views of commercial bankers. "Thirdly, university economists should be given a chance to comment in open hearings upon the FED's far-reaching proposals. We need the best advice we can get on such a major change in monetary policy. "The proposed action by the Board could give commercial banks a sharp competitive advantage over other financial institutions. In recent years, banks have generally moved ahead faster and farther than their financial competitors. OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE .2- WISCONSIN "This advantage could be seriously aggravated to the detriment of the hard pressed home building industry, if the proposed new policy is not broadened and applied equitably. "The Board's committee, in announcing the new policy, acknowledges that the FED is the 'nation's lender of last resort' and might have to pump funds into institutions other than banks during dire financial emergencies. However, the proposal would channel funds to thrift institutions through commercial banks. Savings and loan associations would be expected to apply, hat in hand, to their arch competitors, the commercial banks, for emergency credit. Moreover, they would have to pay a significantly higher rate for credit than member banks. "The Congress should certainly know just how the FED would administer this new and highly potent instrument of credit creation, so that competition between the nation's financial institutions can remain healthy and fair. "Even more important, America's millions of home buyers must be assured that capital available for buying homes will not again -- as in 1966 --be unavailable at any price. " #### OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FCfl RELEASE UPON ""•.;...'.:.¥ C- C?:i*~v - - - - 7/20/68 (MOLD IN EVENT SPEECH IS NOT DELIVERED OU 7/20/68 AS SCHEDULED) Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.), calling the Oakley Reservoir project in Illinois "a pork barrel boondoggle of the most blatant kind", urged the Senate Saturday to strike the $2 million earmarked for the project out of the public works appropriations bill. The Wisconsin Senator, in a statement prepared for delivery on the floor of the Senate, said: "The benefits of the project would be minimal at best. There are feasible alternatives to all of the functions that it might perform. And the damage to the surrounding land end the unique wildlife and vegetation which thrive on it would be severe, "This project by the Army Corps of Engineers is designed to dam up the Sangamon River at Decatur, Illinois. The need for it has been greatly exaggerated. Even under the ir;ost favorable conditions, the cost-benefit ratio for the Oakley Reservoir is only 1.3 — hardly a compelling figure. "The appropriation of $2 million, which seems on its face to be a relatively modest sum, is strictly for land acquisition. By the time the project is completed, the cost to the taxpayer is expected to reach $65 million. "Construction of the Oakley dam just above Decatur would force the waters of the Sangamon back upstream, causing extensive flooding in the Allerton Park area. Aside from its beauty, the Park is most famous for the unique wildlife that live and thrive within its confines. More than 150 different species of birds frequent the area. And there are over 1,000 types of flowering plants there, many of them quite rare. "Over 600 of the Park's 1,500 acres would be flooded to an average depth of five feet of water. Some 52% of the forest area in the Park would be destroyed, including all the lowland areas. "To compensate for this wanton destruction of a unique natural preserve, one would expect the benefits of the Oakley dam to be overwhelming. One would also expect that every conceivable alternative had been thoroughly investigated and rejected. Unfortunately, exactly the contrary is the easel "What are the announced purposes and benefits of the project? The Corps of Engineers cites three: an increase in the water supply for Decatur, dilution of sewage for Decatur and other cities down the Sangamon, and flood control. - 2 - "Of the three, water supply for Decatur is perhaps the most frivolous. Throughout the entire region, underground aquifers (streams) exist which could be tapped to supplement the present water supply without marring the surrounding land, and at a cost more reasonable than that portion of the Oakley project earmarked for water supply. "Sewage dilution cannot possibly justify the Oakley project. Artificial augmentation for sewage dilution is totally unnecessary along the Sangamon -- except at Decatur -- because the river current further downstream is more than three times the minimum flow set by the state for carrying away sewage. And at Decatur, tapping aquifers or constructing a tertiary sewage treatment plant represent more reasonable and, in the long run, less costly alternatives for accomplishing low-flow augmentation, "Lastly, the Corps lists flood control as a principal benefit of the project -- primarily controlling floods on farmlands along the Sangamon, The fact is none of these farmers want the project. Many of them came to testify against it before the Public Works Subcommittee. The dam would result in release of excess water from spring rains onto this farmland at the height of spring planting. Without the dam, flooding occurs well in advance of the planting season and the damage is relatively minimal." * ft ft ft ft ft ft OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 A.M. July 17. 1968 Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.X, who last week scored Pentagon shipping policies which discriminate against Great Lakes ports, said Wednesday that his efforts were paying off. The Pentagon's response to the V/iscons in Senator's criticism — In the form of a letter from the Defense Department's Director for Transportation and Warehousing Policy, Mr. V. F. Caputo,.— indicated that a change in policy is under active consideration. Senator Proxmire, Chairman of the Great Lakes Conference of Senators, has been waging a^campaign to persuade the Defense Department to change its cost-al location policies which have been preventing Great L. kes ports from receiving their fair share of military cargo shipments. In a statement from his Washington office, the Senator said: "I am delighted to find that the voice of reason on this question has finally penetrated the walls of the Pentagon. Those in charge of transportation and warehousing policy are at lest beginning to see the light. "Several weeks ago, I wrote to the Pentagon's top officer for transportation and warehousing policy, Mr. V. F. Caputo, and pointed out the inherent discrimination in the Departments use of an item known as the 'Indirect Cargo Expense-Terminal'. Because of the Pentagon's method of calculating this item, the terminal expense charged to a particular port increases sharply as the cargo workload at the port goes down, "The result has been that ports with relatively little military shipping, such as those in the Great Lakes, are assigned an expense of $1.30 per measurement ton. The comparable rate for the port at Baltimore, where large quantities of overland military cargo from the Middle West embark, is only 18$ per measurement ton -- less than one- seventh the rate for the Great Lakes. "It was obvious to me, as it was to all who were familiar with the situation, that these post policies were diverting a tremendous amount of military cargo shipping from the Great Lakes to other ports. What's more, it was perfectly clear that the Pentagon's methods of allocating costs were completely unjustified. "I have just received Mr. Caputo's reply to my recent letter. There is now real cause for optimism that the Department is willing to budge from its uncompromising stance of the past. For example, in speaking of the Indirect Terminal C~rgo Expense, Mr. Caputo guardedly admits that the item appears to be of limited value for purposes of determining that routing which offers the lowest landed costs for - particular movement/ (MORE) 2 - "The Pentagon's letter also states that two alternatives to the present method of allocating expenses are being seriously considered. One method would disregard the item altogether in reaching a routing decision. The other method would spread the Indirect Terminal Cargo Expense across the total military cargo workload on a nationwide basis, rather than allocating it on the basis of the cargo workload at the individual port. "Either of these alternatives would relieve the Great Lakes of this unfair burden under which it has been laboring the past few years, I am looking forward with great anticipation to the day when military cargo shipping on the Lakes can be restored to its full and proper level." ft * * -!f OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 A.M. MONDAY, JULY 15, 1968 (FOR MONDAY PMS) Senator William Proxmire (D-V/is.), Chairman of the Great Lakes Conference of Senators, Monday called for an international conference to study labor disputes affecting international waterways. The Wisconsin Senator's action stemmed from a lock worker's strike that has tied up shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway for the past three weeks, with no end in sight. The Senator proposed the conference in letters to the Secretaries of State, Labor and Transportation. He also expressed his concern about the strike in a letter to the Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau. Senator Proxmire said in a statement from his Washington office: "The current strike by Canadian lock workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway is only the most recent disruption of this vital international waterway. "In the last few years, commerce on the Seaway has been interrupted on a number of occasions by labor disputes. The international community has been powerless to cope with them, "The lock worker's strike is having a crippling of feet' on American ports, particularly those in the Great Lakes, rt number of cargoes originally destined for ports in the Lakes have been turned back and unloaded at Montreal, Quebec, and other North Atlantic ports. "What's more, the reduced marine activity is threatening the Great Lakes' labor force with large-scale lay-offs. "As matters stand now, the United States is powerless to intervene in this dispute. The striking lock workers are exclusively Canadian, and the Canadian Government is their employer. Quite naturally, our government can't participate on a formal basis in this essentially internal dispute. " The Canadians, I am sure, would no more welcome our intervention than would we welcome their meddling in one of our labor-management hassles. But as a result, the U. S. is forced to stand idly by, unable to protect its Page two vital interest in a free flow of commerce on the Seaway. "To remedy this intolerable situation, 1 propose that an inter national conference be convened to study these problems, and recommend potential solutions. "One possible approach might be the formation of a joint arbitration board. Such a board would be vested with authority to render a binding settlement in any dispute which threatens to disrupt international commerce. "But whatever approach is recommended, we must initiate steps which can lead to a solution of this problem. It is vital that some mechanism be provided so that the St, Lawrence Seaway, and other vital international waterways, will not be subject to blackmail by l«ocal interest sroups who, now hold this power within their grasp," - 0 OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR RELEASE AFTER 6 FM SUNDAY JULY 14TH FOR MONDAY AM'S On July 30th, the Congress will take a major first step towards bringing federal spending under control through a system of priorities, according to Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.), Proxmire referred to hearings to be held by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee's subcommittee on Economy in Government. Proxmire is Chairman of both the sub committee and the Committee. He said, "I am convinced that literally billions of dollars a year of government spending cannot stand the simple test: "Will this dollar of federal investment provide a dollar of return?" "And I am sure that we can show that we have already developed the techniques that can tell us where our money will be wasted and where it will bring a return. 'What is more we can determine what federal investments will bring the highest returns. We can then establish priorities. We can at will reduce or eliminate those expenditures which return less. "American business has been doing this for years. And this is a prime reason for American business efficiency. The federal government can do it too. "Of course the priority system will not by itself reduce spending, but it will provide a framework within which - given the will to do so - the President and the Congress can keep federal spending from leaping out of control as it has in recent years. "the Joint Economic Committee has had a deep and longstanding interest in the question of applying economic criteria to public investments. '*This concern has its roots in the hearings, compendia, and Report on Federal Expenditure Policy for Economic Growth and Stability published by the Committee in 1957 and 1958 and, more recently, in the hearings on the Planning-Programming«Budgeting System, the Report of the President's Commission on Budget Concepts, and the establishment of interest- rate guidelines for evaluating alternative expenditures. ; "Sensitive analysis of public expenditures, has already taught us much about the economic effects of public expenditures, even though we are as yet unable to precisely estimate some of the impacts. Efforts to value these nonraarketable outputs should move ahead much faster. "Similarly we should erase present inconsistencies among agencies in the application of benefit-cost analysis. The Committee will try to overcome the reluctance of the Congress to inform itself on the importance of the Planning-Programming-Budgeting System for effective decision-making. MORE - 2 - "It is to these problems that the subcommittee hearings are addressed. We will examine the problem of inconsistent and inappropriate discounting and interest-rate procedures in Federal agencies, pointed up in a recent Report of the Comptroller General. We will hear suggestions for erasing these inconsistencies. "The testimony should provide insight into the question of the appropriate interest-rate concept, guidelines for on-going calculation by the Federal Government of this rate, and estimates of the current size of the interest rate for use in discounting. "We should learn a great deal about the problems which the agencies are facing in implementing the Planning-Programming-Budgeting System. We will better appraise how we in the legislative branch can assist in the important enterprise of developing sound Planning-Programming Budgeting procedures." 1\tSnrSt%t\iSiStSiSt%MH1Si\i*1%1StSi\'\>S f ?(KAWif K«3t ^ IK W?V f\ Rnnn WWW r. M WKWWW W H " " « w n n ts 1% July 11, 1968 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) urged the Senate Thursday to put people first and machines second by banning non-military supersonic flights over the United States pending intensive studies of the sonic boom and its effects. The Wisconsin Senator, speaking in support of an amendment he and Senator Clifford Case proposed to the aircraft noise control bill (H.R. 3^00), said in a statement prepared for delivery on the Senate floors "The amendment to H.R. 3^00 introduced by Senator Case, which I am co- sponsoring, asks Congress to try a small dose of preventive medicine in dealing with the health of our environment rather than waiting — as we have with air and water pollution -- until the disease rages out of control, when only massive and punishingly expensive surgery will provide a cure, "Without this amendment, H.R. 3^00 represents an effort to do two completely different jobs with a tool designed for only one. It is alright when you are talking; only about aircraft noise control to require, as H.R, 3^00 does, that the Federal Aviation Administrator consider when proposing any standard, rule or regulation on the sonic boom that he consider whether his proposal is 'economically reasonable* or 'techn61ogically practicable1 or 'appropriate' for the aircraft, aircraft engine, appliance or certificate to which the proposal will apply. "Aircraft noise as defined in this bill is a problem that is with us now. Obviously trade-offs and compromises are going to have to be made in solving this problem. You can't start with a clean slate. "But when it comes to the sonic boom, we still have a clean slate. Nothing hinders us from doing what the public interest demands. Why should the Federal Aviation Administrator have to consider whether a regulation he issues regarding the sonic boom is economically reasonable or technologically practicable for the SST. The SST hasn't been built. The shoe is on the wrong foot in H.R, 3**00. The SST should be reasonable and practical and desirable from the standpoint of the average citizen. "The full social cost of the SST have to be written into the equation some where before we can make a proper assessment. By banning overland supersonic flights of a non-military nature pending the studies proposed by this amendment there is at least a good chance that such an assessment will at long last be made. "It is about time that we decided that people ceme first and machines second instead of the other way around." ********* OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR RELEASE AFTER 6 P.M. SATURDAY NIGHT. JULY 6. 1968 (FOR SUNDAY A.M.'S) -Senator Will iam Proxmire (D.-Wis.) Saturday night called the Justice Department's July 1st action giving a new lease on life to the Subversive Activities Control Board a "d-isgraceful waste of taxpayers' money". A law passed last year would have ended the life of the Subversive Activities Control Board unless the Attorney General brought cases before it during 1968, The law also required the Attorney General to tell the Congress why, if he failed to act by June 30, 1968; he had not done so. On July 1 Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced that he had sent seven petitions to the Board and asked it to enter orders finding that the seven persons named in the petitions were members of the Communist party. The Wisconsin Senator said: "Here is a Board created in 1950 and directed at that time to register Communists. In all the years since then it has failed to register a single member of the Communist party, not one. "In fact for the past two years the Board has done exactly nothing. It has not even held a hearing. Meanwhile five commissioners are drawing $26,000 a year for doing nothing in what must be the softest do-nothing job in Washington. "And the Administration has requested $425,000 for the budget year beginning last Monday for this Board. "At a time when the American taxpayer has been hit with a 10% tax hike, and the Congress is struggling to cut expenditures by $6 billion, this Board should be our number one economy target. "This Board has been the most notorious haven in Washington for political cronies and payoffs. "The most recent appointment was 29-year-old Simon McHugh whose only visible qualification for the job was his marriage to a Presidential secretary. "McHugh's absence of qualifications made him ideally equipped for a job in which he did nothing. He is still ideally equipped. "The Board will still be doing nothing of any conceivable value. Last Sunday's citation to the Board of persons identified by the Attorney General as Communist officials is obviously an empty sham. "There is nothing the Board can possibly do with these names that can contribute an iota to this nation's security. Under Supreme Court rulings, Board action, if any, will continue to be as worthless as it has been for the 18 years of Its empty existence,, (MORE) - 2 - "If the Board holds hearings in these cases, it may take testimony from witnesses, receive affidavits and depositions, and, in the process, consume a great deal of time and money. "In the end it may conclude that some or all of these persons are members of a 'Communist action' group. "So what? "The new Supreme Court rulings and the several amendments recently passed by Congress have eliminated any penalty for failure to register as a Communist. "This is the crux of the matter: no criminal sanction whatsoever attaches to the Board's findings of membership in the' Communist party. "In fact I can find only one restriction stemming from the Board's determi* nation of Party membership — that which prevents such an individual from obtaining a sensitive Government position. "For example, such a finding would prevent him from working at the Pentagon, the CIA, or the Justice Department. "But these agencies right now have their own investigative people whose sole job is to weed out security risks. These professional investigators are far better, qualified to protect their agency. The Board is only duplicating their efforts, a $425,000 and far less competent duplication. "The conclusion is inescapable. The Board spends a great deal of time and taxpayer money to label as a member of a 'Communist action group an individual already identified by the Attorney General as a Communist official. The label is worthless. "In Shakespeare's words, the Board's past, present and future is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." * * * ft ft * ft ft ft Use of Foreign Ship For Military Cargo Assailed by Unions Special to Thjjjew York Tlm« WASHINGTON', June 20 — The Maritime Committee of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations said today it had protested to Secretary of De fense Clark M. Clifford over what it called "repeated in stances" of using foreign flag vessels for military cargoes. The committee cited a spe cific instance of the freighter Avis Oris, registered in Gibral tar, Greek-owned and with a Pakistani crew, which sailed from Baltimore last week with trucks and other military goods for United States forces in South Korea. The telegram was signed by presidents of seven unions forming the committee, includ ing Joseph Curran of the Na tional Maritime Union, Thomas W. Gleason of the International Longshoremen's Association, Jesse M. Calhoon of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Associa tion and Lloyd W. Sheldon of the Masters, Mates and Pilots. Union sources said that this was the first time they had protested the issue to Secre tary Clifford, as they had done repeatedly with Robert S. Mc Namara, Mr. Clifford's prede cessor. The telegram called use of the Avis Oris "a violation of the law requiring exclusive use of available United States ships for military cargo." It also said the sailing had been delayed 48 hours last week because members of the Pakistani crew expressed sym pathy with Communist China and reluctance to risk offend ing North Korea. The Military Sea Transporta tion Service, which handles cargoes for the Defense De partment, said the shipment was legal because no United States-flag vessel was available or capable of meeting the particular schedule. Vice Adm. Lawson P. Ram- age, commanding the service, explained that it used foreign- flag vessels only reluctantly because "it does create a dan gerous precedent—in a real emergency we would have to rely on them" because of the shortage of American ships. Standard Form 63 November 1961 GSA FPMR(41 CFR) 101-11.6 Dace Time MEMORANDUM OF CALL c/'. or TO- ~~~T&rY\ Number or code Extension TELEPHONE: ^IpTpL/PLEASl E CALL • WAITING TO SEE YOU • WILL CALL AGAIN • WISHES AN APPOINTMENT • RETURNING YOUR CALL Q IS REFERRED TO YOU BY: LEFT THIS MESSAGE- A" t— Received By— 63-107 C48—16—79534-1 * GPO : 1967 OF—265-598 OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR_RELEASE AFTER 6:30 A.M. FRIDAY, JULY :, 1968 (FOR FRIDAY P.M.'S) Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.), Chairman of the Great Lakes Conference of Senators, charged the Pentagon Friday with using a "double standard" in choosing East Coast ports over Great Lakes ports for shipment of military cargoes. In his second critical statement on Pentagon shipping policies in a week, the Wisconsin Senator concentrated his fire on the restrictions imposed by the Defense Department on the use of foreign-flag vessels for military cargo shipments — restrictions that have had a particularly harmful effect on Great Lakes ports. Senator Proxmire, in a statement from his office in Washington, said: "For years we have been told by the Pentagon that it prefers not to ship its cargoes through the St. Lawrence Seaway out of Great Lakes ports unless American-flag lines are available to carry the shipment. We have been told that Defense Department policy calls for tight restrictions on the use of foreign-flag vessels to carry this cargo. "Yet, I have now learned, foreign-flag vessels are being used by the Pentagon to ship military cargo out of East Coast ports. "The most recent example of this occurred at the port of Baltimore where two shipments of military jeeps and trucks were booked on ships flying foreign flags — the 'Comet Victory' and the 'Avis Ornis'. "To make it worse, the jeeps and trucks without doubt were manufactured in the Mid West. "The Pentagon, in other words, is refusing to make use of immediately adjacent ports on the Great Lakes — on the ground that foreign-flag carriers could not be used — while at the same time shipping cargo overland to Baltimore and other East Coast ports and forgetting about its restrictions and loading the cargo onto foreign ships there. "I protest the Pentagon's use of this double standard. Great Lakes ports are every bit as capable of handling military cargoes as East Coast outlets, and can often do so more cheaply. This is particularly true where the cargo is produced in the Great Lakes Region. "There appears to be a definite preferential pattern in favor of East Coast ports and against Lakes ports. I have already called upon the Pentagon to restudy and revise its shipping policies so that a fairer system can be put into effect. "I will not rest until the entire pattern of discrimination against Great Lakes shipping is put to an end. The Lakes must — and will — receive the full share of the business to which they are entitled." (more) - 2 Senator Proxmire, in a statement earlier in the week, criticized the Pentagon's methods of allocating shipping costs which also operate in a discrimina tory way against Great Lakes ports. The cost-allocation policies, the Senator said, have pinned indirect terminal expenses on Great Lakes ports at an artificially high level. ************** OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN July 2, 1968 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) Tuesday called President Johnson's announcement of U. S.-Soviet talks aimed at de-escalating the arms race a development of such potential significance that its outcome may completely eclipse the Viet Nam impasse. The Wisconsin Senator, in a statement prepared for delivery on the Senate floor, said: "Over the past two or three years it has been most fashionable to picture President Johnson as a great domestic President whose failure to come to grips with the Viet Nam war has cast a pall over his term in office. This facile analysis, in my estimation, overlooks the immense complexities which confront this nation's attempts toput together a viable and practical Asian policy -- complexities that have stymied us for well over twenty years. "Be that as it may, yesterday's announcement by the President that the United States and the Soviet Union had agreed to open talks aimed at de-escalating the arms race is a development of such potential significance that its outcome may completely eclipse the Viet Nam impasse. "As things presently stand the two greatest nations in the world are rushing headlong toward nuclear incineration. A mere halt in this destructive arms race, let alone a reversal of the current pattern, would be a triumph of such magnitude that it would dwarf the foreign policy developments, particularly in Viet Nam, that have formed the basis for the voices of protest and dissent in this country. "We would be wrong to jeopardize the chances for the success of this new initiative by burdening the discussions with premature and unrealistic hopes. "At the same time, let us salute a President with the wisdom and courage to take that all important first step toward nuclear deacceleration. And let us recognize that the world will owe a lasting debt to our President if these discussions, which he first suggested back in January of 1967, truly carry us forward into an era of peace and good will." ********* OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 P.N. MONDAY. JULY 1. 1968. (FOR TUESDAY A.M.'S) Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.), Chairman of the Great Lakes Conference of Senators, charged Monday that figures just released prove that Pentagon cost policies are clearly discriminating against shipment of military cargoes from Great Lakes ports. In a letter to the Defense Department's top official for Transportation and Ware housing, the Wisconsin Senator urged a complete review aimed at establishing a fairer basis for allocating shipping costs for the transportation of military cargoes; In a statement from his Washington office Senator Proxmire said: "The present method being used by the Pentagon to allocate shipping costs is forcing Great Lakes shippers to bear far more than their share of the overall cost of shipping military cargo to and from the Great Lakes region. "There is an enormous disparity between shipping costs for East Coast ports and Great Lakes ports. It results from a totally unwarranted discrimination against the use of Great Lakes ports by the policy planners at the Pentagon. The economy of the whole Lakes region is suffering because of it. "The discrimination stems from the Department's use of an item know as the 'Indirect Terminal Cargo Expense'. The Department arrives at this figure by dividing the maintenance cost for its military facilities by the total cargo workload. This means that as the cargo workload at the port goes down, the Department's terminal expense increases sharply. "Such a method of allocating cost has placed a terrific burden on the Great Lakes, where there has been a substantial decline in military cargo shipments over the last few years. It has resulted in an enormous discrepancy between the rates for East Coast ports and those for Great Lakes ports. "As an example, the rate for Baltimore, where most of the overland military cargo from the Middle West disembarks, is only 18$ per measurement ton. The comparable rate for Great Lakes ports is $1.30, more than seven times as high! "Unfortunately, the Lakes are powerless to extricate themselves from this dilemma. The region is caught in a 'chicken-and-egg' predicament -- American-flag lines are refusing to compete for military cargo shipping as long as the costs are so high, but until there is an increase in shipping the Pentagon's method of cost allocation forces the expense to remain at an artif iicial ly high level. "This is bound to continue, and military cargo shipping in the Lakes is almost sure to decline still further, unless steps are taken to eliminate the rank discrimination which now exists. "Only the Department of Defense has the power to redress this deplorable situation. To my mind it is essential that the Department's cost allocation policies be revised without delay, so that our region can be relieved of this unfair burben which has been ' : :ed upon it,and so that a free flow of.commerce out of the Great Lakes can be r'Surst* OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN June 27, 1968. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Senator William Proxmire (D. -Wis.) Thursday afternoon called on the Senate to act on President Johnson's Supreme Court appointments in the face of a Republican filibuster threat. In a statement from his Washington office, the Wisconsin Senator said: "President Johnson will leave office on January 20, 1969. There are some in the Senate who obviously need to be reminded of this fact. They need to be reminded that the office of the Presidency has not been vacated, and that as long as America has a President, he has an obligation to fulfill the functions of his office. "The President has been doing just that. He is perfectly within his rights to nominate jurists to the Supreme Court. Yet, a few Senate colleagues seem to believe otherwise and are threatening to filibuster any attempt at confirmation. "This is a totally unsupportable position. A filibuster would defy the Consti tutional rights of the President to nominate and appoint Federal officials, and would also impede the right of the Senate to confirm or deny those nominees. "I deeply regret this attitude. I hope some of my colleagues will reconsider their position in the light of reason and rationality. There is simply no excuse for what they propose to do other than crass political expediency. I believe that the Supreme Court should be removed from such a taint of politics. "All of us would like to leave Washington, with Congress adjourning in early August. But this Senator would be willing to stay until Christmas, if necessary, to break a filibuster designed to deprive the President of the United States of his Constitutional right and duty. " OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN January, 1968 SEilATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE • •»'''-"'*'WF« He was elected to the United States Senate in 1957 to fill the seat left va cant by the death of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He was re-elected the follow ing year to a full six-year term and again re-elected for a six-year term in 1964. Senator Proxmire earned his undergraduate degree from Yale and two graduate degrees from Harvard University. He has taught government at Harvard, worked for J,P, Morgan and Company on Wall Street. Iline months before Pearl Harbor, he enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army to serve in the counterintelligence corps, leaving active duty in 1946 as a first lieutenant. Senator Proxmire is Chairman of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economy in Government of the Joint Eco* nomic *Committea* He is the ranking member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee and Chairman of the Financial Institutions Subcommittee of the Banking and Currency Committee. He is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and of the Congres sional Joint Committee on Defense Production. In addition, he is a member of the Senate Democratic Steering Committee* He is also Chairman of the Great Lakes Conference of Senators,, OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 A.M. FRIDAY. JUNE 28. 1968 (FOR FRIDAY P.M.'s) Senator William Proxmire (D -Wis.) made public Friday a letter from the president of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) indicting the present procedures used by Congress and the Architect of the Capitol for selecting architects for Capitol Hill construction projects. The letter from the AIA president, Mr. Robert L. Durham, was addressed to the chairman of the Senate Legislative Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator E.L. Bartlett. Because of Senator Bartlett's illness, Senator Proxmire is acting chairman of the Sub committee. Durham said the process for selecting Capitol Hill architects was "not in the best interest of the Government." In a statement from his Washington office, Senator Proxmire said: "The president of the most distinguished body of architects in the nation said in his letter to the Subcommittee the present procedure for selecting Capitol Hill archi tects discourages most design professionals from applying for Capitol Hill work. "Present selection procedures are designed to play favorites and they have done just that. The result is a virtual monopoly where there should be free and open compe tition among qualified architects. This kind of monopoly not only keeps costs high but endangers the historic beauty of our national capitol. "Senate Joint Resolution 74, which has passed the Senate, is now before the House Public Works Committee. Final passage of this long-needed legislation would provide for a rational, responsible Architects Selection Committee essential to preserve our national heritage symbolized in the magnificence of this historic seat of our democracy." Excerpts from Mr. Durham's letter follow: ". . . . Unlike the Executive agencies, the Congress (and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol) does not have formal rules and procedures governing the selection of architects. Thus it is difficult for interested and qualified firms to know of forth coming projects or to submit their qualifications to the Architect of the Capitol or other selecting authorities with any hope of being considered for Capitol Hill design work. Furthermore, because the Architect of the Capitol has indicated satisfaction with the work of a specific group of distinguished architects, few if any other architects are known to have been considered for Capitol Hill work since 1956. In our opinion, the present practices of the Capitol and the Congress discourage most design professionals from applying for Capitol Hill work and, therefore, are not in the best interest of the Government. more "Although the architects who have been selected for past design contracts on Capitol Hill are highly regarded, accomplished men, we believe it is not in the best interest of the Government to adhere to practices which limit professional competition to only one firm or group of architects. On the contrary, we believe procedures should be established whereby Capitol Hill architectural contracts are the subject of keen professional competition among all interested, qualified architects. To establish pro cedures encouraging professional competition will help assure that architectural excellence is a continuing standard required by the Congress for Capitol Hill work." "Legislation (S.J. Res. 74) has already passed the Senate to provide for an Architects Selection Committee. This proposed Committee would be of a similar make up and function as the agency Board mentioned above, in that the Commission on Fine Arts and the architectural profession would screen the qualification of applicants and select therefrom, architects to design buildings on Capitol Hill. We are confident that the Architects Selection Committee approved by the Senate would encourage all qualified architects to apply for Capitol Hill work. Furthermore, it is our opinion that the Architects Selection Committee would assure that all firms interested in Capitol Hill work are fairly evaluated on the basis of their professional qualifications." OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY - JUNE 21, 1968 Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) announced Friday that the Senate Appropria tions Committee had approved a Proxmire amendment adding $300,000 to the Interior Appropriations Bill for intensified research on the alewife problem in the Great Lakes. The Wisconsin Senator, a member of the Interior Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, went on to say: "Last year the alewife population explosion in Lake Michigan culminated in a massive spring die-off which clogged water intakes, befouled Lake Michigan's beaches and cost the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois tens of millions of dollars, "This tiny fish is estimated to constitute an incredible 90% of all living animals in Lake Michigan. Until we are able to determine why the fish dies in such huge quantities and how best to reduce the alewife population to an acceptable level, the threat of recurring damaging die-offs is a very real one. "The Interior Department's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was allocated $100,000 by the Bureau of the Budget to monitor the alewife stocks in Lake Michigan. Hopefully the Bureau could then predict the size of the die-off on the basis of the quantity of alewife stock in the Lake. This would alert states and communities as to what could be expected and enable them to gear up to deal with the die-off, "However, the Bureau had originally requested $600,000. The additional funds would permit the Bureau to actually investigate what causes the die-offs. It would also permit very tentative planning for a return to a balanced fish population in Lake Michigan. "This $300,000, then, is a start toward these goals. It is the best kind of investment for it will enable the Department of the Interior to begin to combat a die-off problem that could cost federal, state and local governments untold millions of dollars. It Is particularly significant when considered in conjunction with other efforts such as the Michigan Conservation Department's successful program to stock Lake Michigan with coho salmon which prey on the alewife, and Senator Nelson's alewife control bill, which passed the Senate earlier this year and which I co-sponsored." OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOE RELEASE AFTER 6;30 A.M. THURSDAY. JUNE 27. 1968. FOR THURSDAY F.M.'S Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wfs.), at the request of the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Carl Hayden, will manage the Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill in the Senate because of the illness of Senator E, L, Bartlett (D.-Alaska), Chairman of the Senate Legislative Appropriations Subcommittee. The Wisconsin Senator is the ranking member of the Subcommittee. The Legislative Appropriations Bill Is due to pass the House this week. It will then be ready for Senate consideration. Senator Proxmire wi11 be Acting Chairman of the Subcommittee during its consideration of the bill. The bill, in the Senate, will embrace appropriations for the Senate, joint activities of the House and Senate, the Architect of the Capitol, the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, the Government Printing Office, and the General Accounting Office. Funds for the House of Representatives are, by tradition, automatically approved by the Senate. As reported to the House last week, the bill totals $247,497,349. That, however, does not include approximately $50 million in requests for the Senate and Senate Office Buildings. ****** OFFICE OF SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE WISCONSIN FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30A.M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1968, FOR WEDNESDAY P.M.'s Senator William Proxmire (D-Wis.) praised the Pentagon Wednesday for taking steps substantially in line with a bill he introduced early this year to tighten control over the use of government-owned industrial plant equipment in the hands of private contractors. The Pentagon's action — in the form of new regulations — represents the first tangible evidence that the spotlight put on the equipment problem by Senator Proxmire and the Subcommittee on Economy in Government, of which he is Chairman, is bringing results. "At long last", said the Wisconsin Senator in a statement prepared for delivery on the Senate floor, "the efforts of the Subcommittee on Economy in Government and of the General Accounting Office have borne fruit. "The Subcommittee investigated this subject in two separate hearings last year. We established that more than $2.6 billion worth of government owned industrial plant equipment is in the hands of private contractors and that management controls over muqh of this equipment was grossly inadequate. "Our investigation disclosed that a number of contractors have been using government-owned equipment on private, commercial work in excess of a reasonable time; that there has often been a failure on the part of contractors to obtain proper authority $&C the use of this equipment; that there has been a significant lack of uniformity in rental rates actually charged for the use of the equipment; and that the government is not re- ceiving equitable compensation for the use of its property. r. "The Subcommittee made a number of recommendations on these problems following its hearings and I introduced legislation (S.3122) to correct the situation. "The new regulations, which represent the first evidence that these matters are being actively dealt with by the Pentagon, include the following changes: "First, a requirement for the contractor to state in writing his unwillingness or financial inability to acquire the new facilities with his own resources before the Pentagon will furnish defense-owned equipment. " Second, the discontinuance altogether of furnishing small items of plant equip ment costing less than $1,000. "Third, a revision upward of the rental rates when equipment less than three years old is used on non-defense work. (continued) -2- "Fourth, a substantial tightening up of prior approvals required before government- owned equipment can be used on non-defense work. "Although a great deal more needs to be done to bring about adequate control over government-owned equipment, I velcome the new regulations, commend the Pentagon for issuing them and hope that others soon will follow." ####### tiKjZ, ur SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE FOR RELEASE AFTER 6:30 A.M. TUESDAY, -fri/frf 25th. FOR TUESD/Y P. M.'C. Senator W illiatn Proxmire (D. -Wis. ) Tuesday pressed an amendment in the Senate to stop the escalation of B-52 bombing in Vietnam. The Proxmire amendment would eliminate $268 million provided in the Second Supplemental Appropriation bill for increasing B-52 bombing in Vietnam. It would permit the bombing to continue at the level programmed in January of this year in the President's initial budget request. In supporting his amendment the Wisconsin Senator said, That the Congress has done to date is to write a blank check to the President on bombing in Vietnam. The Administration has chosen to curtail the bombing of part of North Vietnam but it has immensely increased the bombing in South Vietnam. . ••Y-. e have already dropped more tonnage on Vietnam North and South than we did in all of >? orld r"ar II in Europe, Africa, Asia -- throughout the world 1 Each year we have massively increased the tonnage. This year will far exceed any other. We have_droppe4.13if>-pouod*-oi bombs iox.evry man, woman and child .living in Nortb..aad South Vietnam. If th^JwrtrdMAtuaage wer* cm-ofte side- of a scale and the entire Vietnam population were on a balancing scale, the bombs would weigh fax more. "Just this past Sunday we dropped tens of thousands of tons of conventional bombs largely on South Vietnam from B-52's. This is the mathematical equivalent of dropping several nuclear bombs, -r "It is the military equivalent of nuclear weapons and to the South Vietnamese who see their homeland ripped to hell-aod-goae it is the moral «qai»alent of nuclear war. "This isn't or shouldn't be a hawk-dove issue. This Isn't amatter mi wanting to pull out or give in. This isn't a throw-in-ihe sponge amendment. This is / ~ " •*fe -2- a matter of using cur God-given sense to limit a policy -- which is sure to destroy everything for which we fight if we don't limit it. "And this is just what unlimited, all-out B-52 bombing can do. Ironically, defeat ue. "This amendment would tell the military that there is a ceiling to the devasta- on of our bombing of South Vietnam. It would let the people of South Vietnam ".vr.ow that the Congress of the United States is very much concerned with what our :"a~itastically heavy bombing is doing to their nation. "It would tell the military that the blank check days are over. It would say 'hat we will not utterly destroy this nation to save it. Indeed, if we are to save it, [•".lis morale-destroying bombing at this crushingly high level must level off. "If we are to win a stable peace, we must above all have the support of the South Vietnamese for a stable free government. Do we win that stability by blasting everything they own and indeed many of the South Vietnamese themselves into eternity? "This is an amendment to attempt to see that there is something left in South Vietnam after this war is over. "Last Sunday the New York Times reported that Vice President Humphrey ,T."d the purpose of our military power in Vietnam is 'to help bring about conditions which would make possible a political solution. ' "Nov, this is precisely what an all-out, no ceiling, sky's-the-limit B-52 bombing does not do. This wholesale destruction of South Vietnam homes and churches, of rice paddies a.nd villages is making America and all we struggle for anathema in the minds and hearts of the South Vietnamese. " FDR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department Is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Suamico, Wisconsin, Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and construct or remodel the building according to departmental specifi cations. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about November 4, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer R. W. Van Sickle, Post Office Department, Box 2673, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214, or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by November 29, 1963. 2C: SE «r s 5 -1 5 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department Is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Oostburg, Wisconsin, Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced yesterday. Under the Department•s program, the bidder shall*provide the site and construct or remodel the building according to departmental speci fications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about November 11, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer R. W. Van Sickle, Post Office Department, Box 2673, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214, or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by December 6, 1963. ^> ^r "D-rtZ? '•' S "i ^ ^ r°~* Hmteb States; Senate MEMORANDUM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ..,„ ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GEMEAALpGRONOUSKI ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR MODERNIZATION OF L$ROVfD REtA£lft$$TERS Modernization of the post office at CarabTi&£*Wi scons in wa8 further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General "John A. Gronouski that a contract has been awarded to Leonard Cupery, Cambria, to remodel and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "Although we are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Gronouski said, "we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program Is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it Is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also In devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program, Mr. Cupery will remodel the building at the Southeast corner of Madison and Edgewater Streets and rent it to the Department for five years. The Department's capital Investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Gronouski said, "utilises the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." - 2 - The remodeling is expected to be completed by March 1, 1964. It will have 2,182.5 square feet of interior space and an area of 3,600 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SELECTION OF A NEW POST OFFICE SITE BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI Plans to acquire a new post office in Greendale, Wisconsin were announced yesterday by Postmaster General John A. Gronouski. "The new building," Mr. Gronouski said, "is designed to carry out the Post Office Department's objective of providing newly constructed postal units where they are most urgently needed in the interest of more efficient postal service and improved working conditions for postal employees. "The emphasis in our lease construction program will continue to be on adequate space for postal operations, not only for current needs but for the foreseeable future. "The Department's policy is to use existing buildings where they can be suitably altered or remodeled to meet the needs of the ever-increasing volume of mail. As circumstances dictate, we will also consider moving our postal operations into more spacious quarters if they are available. "Where neither of these conditions Is feasible we will authorize the construc tion of new postal units, such as the post office at Greendale." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need Is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. The building in Greendale will be located on the West side of Broad Street between Crocus Court and Schoolwsy. Preliminary plans call for approximately 7,000 square feet of floor space, with an area of approximately 10,000 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. When completed it will serve v people in the area, and it will replace the present inadequate facility on the West side of Broad Street between Northway and Schoolwsy, which will then become available for other purposes. - 2 - •I The Postmaster General said the building will be constructett^under -the J*- Department's Lease Construction Program, which utilizes the resou&es^anfcP.Investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings. o The Department's capital investment, Mr. Gronouski said, will be limited to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership while leased to the Federal Government and the owner will pay local real estate taxes. Plans and specifications for the new building, as well as bidding forms and other pertinent data, will be made available to prospective bidders at an early date, at which time the Post Office Department will advertise for bids. The site option will be transferred to the successful bidder, who will purchase the land, construct the building and lease it to the Department on a long-term basis. Umteb States Senate MEMORANDUM roi v\ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANk>§Nt^fENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI ON COMPETITIVE n ir .« BIDS FFOO R NEW OR IMPROVED LEASED CONSTRUCTION n'rIG 10 10 AH'63 The Pqj[trOffice Department is seeking competitive bids for the furnishing OF of post office:i$ft<1fttrs at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for either an existing building or new building, Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced yesterday. Under the Department's Lease Construction program, a contract will be awarded to the bidder who designates a building suitable te *h- r^-r" ^*—"J* agrees to improve it or provide a new building according to departmental speci fications and then lease it to the Department for a basic period of ten years with four 5-year renewal options. Interior space of approximately 2,141 square feet is requested, with a platform of 120 square feet and an area of 3,500 square feet for parking and movement of • *-*' Mil - a: postal vehicles. xThe preferred area is Olive Street on the North, Spring Creek *-< J- i*J. c on the* East, Mm Street on the South, Williams Street on the West. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment^ The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Bidding documents will be available on or about December 16, 1963 and may be obtained from R. W* Van Sickle, Regional Real Estate Officer, Post Office Depart ment, Box 2673, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214, or the local postmaster. The Real Estate Officer will supply bidding forms, building specifications, lease provisions and other information. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by January 17, 1964. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI ON CONTRACT AWARD MODERNIZATION OF IMPROVED RENTED QUARTERS Modernization of the post office at Glen Flora, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General John A. Gronouski that a contract has been awarded to Mrs. Esther Fults, Glen Flora, Wisconsin, to remodel and rent the building to the Post Office Department, "Although we are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Gronouski said, "we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program Is being concentrated in those areas where the need Is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We new have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mall a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program, Mrs. Fults will remodel the building across the street from the present location at Glen Flora, and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment Is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "ThiscfoTlmiti," Mr. Gronouski said, "utilizes the resources and investment **- funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings. The remodeling Is expected to be completed by January I, 1964* It will have an interior space of 602 square feet. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Trempealeau, Wisconsin, Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and construct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about January 2, 1964 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer Marvin W. Clem, Post Office Department, 512 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55425, or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by February 3, 1964. ~ x r- uj o ~ O CC o FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR MODERNIZATION UNDER LEASE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM Modernization of the Finance Station at Madison, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General John A. Gronouski that a contract has been awarded to Thomas Ellestsd, 4405 Monona Drive, Madison, Wisconsin to remodel and lease the building to the Post Office Department. "Although we are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Gronouski said, "we are constantly re-assessing our lease construction program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail. In this instance it was determined that a modernization process would be more economical to the Government and still satisfy the needs of the Postal Service in this area." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's Lease Construction program, Mr. Ellestsd will remodel the building at 4409 Monona Drive, Madison, and lease it to the Department for three years with 2 one-year renewal options. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. - 2 - "This formula," Mr. Gronouski said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." The remodeling is expected to be completed by January 1, 1964. It will have an Interior space of 653.5 square feet, with an area of 7,400 square feet for perking and movement of postal vehicles. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SELECTION OF A NEW POST OFFICE SITE BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI Plans to acquire a new post office in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, were announced yesterday by Postmaster General John A. Gronouski. // , . W '$1 "The new building," Mr. Gronouski said, "Is designed to carry^out^he Post •• • • - or OR pD Office Department's objective of providing newly constructed postal u^Cli^jtfhere they are most urgently needed In the interest of more efficient postal service and improved working conditions for postal employees. "The emphasis in our lease construction program will continue to be on adequate space for postal operations, not only for current needs but for the foreseeable future. "The Department's policy is to use existing buildings where they can be suitably altered or remodeled to meet the needs of the ever-increasing volume of mail. As circumstances dictate, we will also consider moving our postal operations into more spacious quarters if they are available. "Where neither of these conditions is feasible we will authorize the con struction of new postal units, such as the post office at Prairie du Sac." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. The building in Prairie du Sac will be located on the SE corner of Washington and Third Streets. Preliminary plans call for 2,346 square feet of floor space, with an area of approximately 10,000 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. When completed it will serve approximately 2,600 people in the area, and it will replace the present inadequate facility at 604 Water Street, which will then become available for other purposes. - 2 - The Postmaster General said the building will be constructed under the Department's Lease Construction program, which utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings. The Department's capital investment, Mr. Gronouski said, will be limited to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership while leased to the Federal Government and the owner will pay local real estate taxes. Plans and specifications for the new building, as well aa bidding forms and other pertinent data, will be made available to prospective bidders at an early date, at which time the Post Office Department will advertise for bids. The site option will be transferred to the successful bidder, who will purchase the land, construct the building and lease it to the Department on a long-term basis. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI ON COMPETITIVE BLDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Trempealeau, Wisconsin, Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shell provide the site and construct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information aa to bidding will be available on or about January 2, 1964 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer Marvin W. Clem, Post Office Department, 512 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55425, or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by February 3, 1964. •*£ . C5 mm "t at -— u —— o X- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT^ ON, .CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Hazelhurst, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by a Postal official that a contract has been awarded to George Jerutis, Hazelhurst, Wisconsin to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they am needed," a Depart mental official said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear therefore that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." The new structure will contribute materially to the efforts being made by Hazelhurst, in cooperation with the new Federal Area Redevelopment Administration, to help the local economy, it was pointed out. New employment will be provided during the construction phase and the completed building will help community efforts to sell Hazelhurst as a good place for business to grow. This cooperation between the Post Office Department and ARA, a postal official said, is designed to implement President Kennedy's broad program of Federal assistance to area of chronic unemployment and underemployment. - 2 - Under the Department's program George Jerutis will construct the new multi- tenant building on Main Street (200* south of present quarters) and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equip ment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enter prise for needed postal buildings." The new post office at Hazelhurst will be constructed on a site containing approximately 14,200 square feet and is expected to be completed by October 31, 1963. It will have an interior space of 760 square feet, with an area of 13,392 square feet of joint space for parking and movement of postal vehicles. ! POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT gfe^A INFORMATION SERVICE Washington 25, D.C. fe^a^^J STerling 3-3100 Ext. 500 FOR RELEASE WEDNESDAY P.M. °FnpCE RELEASE NO. C-76 MARCH 27, 1963 SE! Construction of the new post office at Beaver Dam, Wis., was further advanced today with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to the U. S. Investment Corp., 8817 W. Lynx Ave., Milwaukee, to build and lease the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our lease construction program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail. "The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a. volume of 67 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is ex pected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's Lease Construction program the successful bidder will construct the new building on the southeast corner of East Mackie Street and North Spring Street and lease it to the Department for 20 years, with renewal options running up to 30 years. A total of 13 bids were re ceived by the Department's regional real estate office. (more) The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." The new post office at Beaver Dam will be constructed on a site con taining 48,263 square feet, and is expected to be completed in approxi mately one year after the plans are approved. It will have an interior space of 13,691 square feet, with an area of 28,550 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. Postal space in the Federal Building at Maple Avenue and North Spring Street will be made available for other es. •30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (l) ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SELECTION OF A NEW POST OFFICE SITE BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY -: *" 27 4 on PR »g3 Plans to acquire a new post office in Owen, Wisconsin OFFICE were annourfcsd yesterday by, Postmaster General J. Edward Day. *tm ,m PROXMIRE "The new building," Mr. Day said, "is designed to carry out the Post Office Department*s objective of providing newly constructed postal units where they are most urgently needed in the interest of more efficient postal service and improved working conditions for postal employees. "The emphasis in our lease construction program will continue to be on ade quate space for postal operations, not only for current needs but for the fore seeable future. "The Department's policy is to use existing buildings where they can be suitably altered or remodeled to meet the needs of the ever-increasing volume of mail. As circumstances dictate, we will also consider moving our postal operations into more spacious quarters if they are available. "Where neither of these conditions is feasible we will authorize the con struction of new postal units, such as the post office at Owen. Wiaconain • The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. The building in Owen win De located at the N. W. corner of Central Avenue and Fifth Street . Preliminary plans call for ***9Q square feet of floor space, with an area of 5000 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. When completed it will serve people in the area, and it will replace the present inadequate facility »S which was destroyed by firs The Postmaster General said the building will be constructed under the Department's Lease Construction Program, which utilizes the resources and in- -2- (1) vestment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings. The Department's capital investment, Mr. Day said, will be limited to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership while leased to the Federal Government and the owner will pay local real estate taxes. Plans and specifications for the new building, as well as bidding forms and other pertinent data, will be made available to prospective bidders at an early- date, at which time the Post Office Department will advertise for bids. The site option will be transferred to the successful bidder, who will purchase the land, construct the building and lease it to the Department on a long-term basis. -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY OH COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Waldo, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the ovcier paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about March 11. 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, ft. W. Von Siefclet P. 0. Box 2673, Milwaukee 14, Wisconsin . , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by April 8, If63 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Random Lake. Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about March 15. 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W, Van Sickle. P. 0. Box 2673, Milwaukee 14. 'Wisconsin . , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by April 12, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2~lt) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at fied&rantte. Wisconsin } Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or-about March 13f 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, ft. W. ¥«n Sickle, P. 0. Bex 2673. Milwaukee 14, Wisconsin ; , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by April 10. 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at 0»trfletd« wjaeonsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about HwnBfc 6. 19? 3 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, 1« »• fan s-tcfclg, t, O. Mm ?673, ^ilwukaee 14« m—wwin . , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by April 3» If61 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENEIfcSi DAY ON COMPETITIVE.MPETIT—,— : . BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTIO?TVDYT N The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved Lannon, Wisconsin postal quarters under a rental agreement at Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. March 8, 1965 Information as to bidding will be available on or about and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, * *_ F, O, Box 2673, Milwaukee 14, Wisconsin , , ; . or the local April 5, 1963 postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by -30- 09-T39/ POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT tt&CEIWI EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE POSTMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON 25, D.C. Fr» 26 3 us PH »B3 OFFICE February 26, 1963 OF SENATOR PROXMIRE The Honorable William Proxmire United States Senate Washington 25, D. C. Dear Senator Proxmire: As you may have read, the Postmaster General yesterday announced that the Post Office Department would initiate its new program for "same-day" delivery of mail within specific downtown areas in 273 cities throughout the country by the end of calendar 1963. The Postmaster General has asked me to let you know that we plan to put this ABCD (Accelerated Business Collection and Delivery) program into effect in your State at Appleton, Beloit, Green Bay, Kenosha and Oshkosh. Enclosed is a suggested press release which you may wish to use in announcing this program. If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to let me know. With kindest regards, I am Sincerely, IijU/^U^^ Michael Monroney I ^Jl*^*** K Executive Assistant to the Postmaster General "A" (The following is furnished as a guideline to be used in informing the public of the new Postal Service. Blanks should be filled in and completed form retyped on your own press release letterhead.) announced today that the Post Office Department will institute its new ABCD ! 4-hour same-day local downtown mail service in (name of city) The effective date for this program will be announced at a later date, said. is among approximately 275 cities that will have the ABCD service for local deliveries of first class letters in operation this year under a program just announced by Postmaster General J. Edward Day. The total program calls for extension of the service to more than 70,000,000 Americans, equivalent to the combined population of Germany, Denaiark, Sweden and Switzerland. The Postmaster General, in announcing the expanded program, pointed out the United States will have more same-day deliveries of mail under the program than all the rest of the world combined. "This year is the 100th anniversary of the establishment of free city delivery service, and it is highly appropriate that we undertake this expansion of ABCD service this year. We believe the total program represents the greatest single step forward in improvement of delivery services since the start of city delivery,'' Mr. Day said. emphasized the service is being placed in operation with little or no additional cost at the post office, but will result in greatly increased service. (more) -2- pointed out that under this ABCD program, mail deposited in certain specially designated mail boxes in the downtown area by 11 a.m. will be delivered within that same area by 3 p.m. the same day. Designated boxes, pointed out, will be at major downtown points, under a carefully-designed plan to assure maximum public convenience. noted the 4-hour delivery time is a maximum. In some cases, mail deposited by 11 a.m. will be delivered as early as 1 or 2 p.m to some downtown points. Special vehicles will be assigned to make a rapid collection of mail from all of the specially-designated boxes -- marked with a prominent decal -- and to rush it to the local post office. This collection will arrive at the local post office before noon and mail will be cancelled on high-speed machines and sent out for delivery by 3 p.m. The Post Office Department has developed new panels to be placed on the side of trucks especially designated for the mail collection under the program. These vehicles will go in operation on the city streets the same day the service starts, helping to acquaint the public with its availability. Further details concerning operation of the program, such as location of the ABCD boxes, will be available later, said. Although "ABCD" is of particular value for within-city commercial mail, the individual mailer will also find it an important convenience, said. For example, he can mail an order for merchandise and the local store will get it the same day, If mailed in the ABCD ares for delivery in that area. (more) And, even though the ABCD service will be limited initially to downtown, was advised that it may be expanded in the future to include mail collections for fast delivery to downtown from key suburban points such as shopping centers. explained that the new 4-hour mail service is part of the Post Office Department's NIMS (Nation-wide Improved Mail Service)program begun by the Kennedy Administration approximately two years ago. ### FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-B) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Footvllla, nTlaconsln Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about May 20, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W. Van Sickle. Post Office Department, Box 2673, Milwaukee 14, Wiacongjn , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 17, 1061 • ' Um> -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Rio, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about Mav 17. 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W. Van Sickle, s Post Office Dent.. Box 2673. Milwaukee 14. Wisconsin , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 14, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Bslaaat, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about Msy 24, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, *» **« V«» Sickle, East Office Department, Box 3673, Milwaukee 14, Jlsconain ( or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 21, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR..NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Hazel Green, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or-about May 29, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W. Van Sickle. Post Office Department, Box 2673, Milwaukee 14. Wisconsin , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 26, 1963 - -30- • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under-a rental agreement at Smith Wayna, wlaenwin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or-about May 22. 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, K. y. v*n H^He Poet Office n^——», m~, ag*^ M<, ..^ Vy *.1ll0nnrjllL , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 19. 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-10 ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Lane Rock, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about May ??, Ui,:-"i and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W, Van Slcklo. S»o«t Office aspartsaent, Mx 2573, Milwaukee 14, ^iaconsIn , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 24. 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) rfECElvfcu ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERALL PADAI,OX -ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FO3R NE^KENJED ^OBS'TOwCBJON OFFICE ft P The Post Office Department is seeking Compatp^rive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Cochrane, Wisconsin f Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner- paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about April 29» If63 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, g« 1. Knapp, Peet Office Department. 312 ^col let Aveaua. Minneapolis 2t Minnesota , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 3, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-S) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Coseo, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about May 1, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W. Van Sickle. P. 0. Box 2673, Milwaukee 14, Wisconsin , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by May 31. 1963 ' 1 o r-o —n o '3 CO -30- 30 o O rn CTl X Jam 30 ** m CO FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Independence, Wisennain was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Northern lnvn>st.mgnf nmrtpany, Independence. Wisconsin to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. ,rWe are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, ,rbut we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program the Northern Investment Co. will construct the new building on NE corner Washington and 2nd Streets and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." -2- (3-R) • The new post office at Independence will be constructed on a site containing approximately 1924 square feet, and is expected to be completed on August 1, 1963 » It will have an interior space of 1550 square feet, with an area of 320 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Lichfield, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about April 19, and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R« w' Van stekle» P. 0. Box 2673, Milwaukee 14, Wisconsin , f or the ]_ocal postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by Hay 13, 1963 JO -30- o o •o-n —' 33 O 3 o m ^ X 3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-L) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW LEASED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids to build and lease the new post office at Owen, Wisconsin ^ Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's Lease Construction program, the site selected on NW corner of Central Avenue and 5th Street will be assigned to the successful bidder, who will purchase the property, con struct the building according to departmental specifications and lease it to the Post Office Department for a basic period of *Q years, ______ The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Bidding documents will be available on April 29, 1963 and may be obtained from F. E. Knapp , Regional Real Estate Officer, 512 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis 2, Minnesota , or the local postmaster. The Real Estate Officer will supply bidding forms, building specifications, lease provisions and other information. Bids must be sub mitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 3. 1963. 2tOO PM . -o •o n r—> •*' je- 3^ ;n ""x\ Ci —',. 2 -" __3 <•" -*- a ~n _l n 3 -30- s' s o 3=* oX ' 5C X -# 3D *"CJ->! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Edgar, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about ______U I9fe3 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, frank 8. Knspp, Post Office Osjwuftessnfc, 512 Nicollet Ave.. Minneapolis 2. Mi-tr^ant* or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by Msv 17. 1963 - • -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Alma, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about April 1H, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, Frank I. Knapp, Post Office |____|•-L) 511 h'icolUt mtaWm% —_WMjB-i_l *, s.n«.. or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by Msy 17. 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-L) ftECElV-B ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT • p_ in Q fftt flfl *g3 AWARD FOR NEW LEASED BUILDING*" OFFICE Construction f©f the new post office at Wautoraa. Wisconsin SENATOR PROXMIRE was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Arthur C. King. Route 3. Box 5, y-,.*-,^, uH_gnn„in to build and lease the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said9 "but we are constantly re-assessing our lease construction program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail. The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construc tion. "We now have about 45s000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion piec©s of mail a year,, By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear,, therefore,, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population," Under the Department ° s Lease Construction program Arthur C. ,i.ing will construct the new building d& g »«« quarters as presently occupied and leas© it to the Department for ten years, with four 5-year renewal options The Department°s capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipments while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. (3-L) "This formula," Mr. Day saids "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." The new post office at \4mif.amf* will be constructed on a site containing 3900 square feet, and is expected to be completed on August 1. 1963 It will have an interior space of 1933 square feet9 with an area of _ 3960 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes, - 30 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY gg CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENim) BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Ohfelfelo, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the amouncement*t$Rfl?ostmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to OnrnHn nwMinri»f iMpMMtlWM Ontario, yiaconsln to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, ,rbut we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction. ,rWe now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program Ontario Development Corp. will construct the new building on SE corner of intersection of Main and Division Streeta and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." -*• (3-R) The new post office at Ontsrlo will be constructed on a site containing approximately 867 square feet, and is expected to be completed on July I. 1963 . It will have an interior space of &67 square feet, "with an area of none square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-R) RECEIVES ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTfiftBEIftN h S7 KM 'K4 OFFICE < ew or The Post Office Department is seeking competitive ^ f|i__9__ft improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will, be made available for other purposes. April 10, 1963 Information as to bidding will be available on or about R. WW,. Van Sickle, nd may be_,obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, f. 0. Box 2673, Milwaukee 14, Wisconsin , or the local " May 8, 1963 postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-S) itECEtVE a ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRIJWgOU 5 «;? PM »C3 OFFICE The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bias for new or imoroved r ; ^QXMIRF postal quarters under a rental agreement at Hubertus, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about April 5, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W. Van Sickle, P. 0. Box 2673, Milwaukee 14, Wisconsin f or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by May 3, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-R) RECEIVED ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRtHWCOft 5 57 P^ 'fi_ OFFICE The Post Office Department is seeking comoeti£iYe_.b__§ for new or improved TCTATOR PROXMIRE postal quarters under a rental agreement at Caledonia, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or-about April 8. 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, &. w. Van Sickle, P. 0, Box 2673, Milwaukee 14, ______; , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by May 6, 1,963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER1- GENERAhffilY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RE^EI^feTOLDING V* .ec\<£ _• Construction of the new post office^k^^^^rairchlId. Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with •fc&fr1 'announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to William C. Atmmdson and his wife. and Gerald Bergerson, Strum. Wise.to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, ,rbut we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volimie of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction. ,rWe now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only In expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program Mr. & Mrs. Ataundson & Gerald will construct Bergerson the new building on the NE side of Front Street, approximately 100 ft. NE of Main and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilises the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." •*• (3-R) The new post office at Fairchild will be constructed on a site containing approximately M9B square feet, and is expected to be completed on September 1. 1963 . It will have an interior space of 920 square feet, with an area of 5700 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-S) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR &EW^SN£gD,,gC^3iyiON OFFICE The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or imoroved -OXMIRE postal quarters under a rental agreement at Eaglau -tl scons! n Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about Jura 10, 136 3 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R, W. Ven 'ilcfela. Post Office Cepa-tw-it, f»ox ?673, "ilvruike? 14. •.•j&consln , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by July &. 1863 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-R) RECEIVES ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS y FOR NM' R3i|lTE3yj OD&H^flON OFFICE The Post Office Department is seeki^^jsomgetitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Wiliiaas Bay, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or-about June 5, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, &» W* Van Sickle, Post Office Department, Box 2673, Milwaukee 14, Wisconsin . 0r the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by July 3, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL.DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW JI_ffl_D^(5CflB--g3tTION OFFICE The Post Office Department is seeking..cqmpetitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Genesee Ospofc, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about June 7, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, I. W. Van Slckls, Post Off.es Dspartaasnt. Boat 2673. Milwaukee 14. Wisconsin , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by Ju*y 5, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PH,E8 C«WO ANNOUNCEMENT BS mSfMAtfffilR GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS t**v p FOR-NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION DFHCE OF The Post Office Department'ls^'seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under-a rental agreement at gguasels, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or-about June 3, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W« Von Sickle, Post Office .^apartment, Sox 2673, Milwau: • . , iseanaia p or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by Jaty l» 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-fi) AX C^V-D ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS l1r . iBOR 'pWcRSMT'fea CONSTRUCTION OFFICE The Post Office Department Is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Vesper, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about Mas' 20, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, F, E. Kimpp, Post Office Department, 512 Nicollet Avenue, ,diiu^poj.ia __ .'ii-u-tjsots , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 3, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ±\\^ (2-R) AmTQUNCEMBNT^^^P(3BTMASTEigJ-^POBTMAS R GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS Ujrt \u ~ FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION fvffVCt e.v ^\RE The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Junction City. Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about May 31f 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W. Van Sickle. Post Office DifHllml! !»• -&73T MU__ik-- 14f m»ea»t-4a , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by June 28, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASiP p 0>V INE ffi f^tfLsTEB GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD ^fc ffiDEifolZATION UNDER LEASE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM Modulation or'g^mc. „ ___„. «•_-___, „„ fu«h«r .*,.nc.d yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Laurence S. Jensen, Arcadia, Wisconsin, to remodel and lease the building to the Post Office Department. "Although we ar* continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "we are constantly re-assessing our lease construction program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail. In this instance it was determined that a modern ization process would be more economical to the Government and still satisfy the needs of the Postal Service in this area." The Construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It Is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's Lease Construction program Mr. Laurence S. Jensen will remodel the building at 312 West Main Street and lease it to the Department for ten years with four 5-year renewal options. The Department's capital Investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." - _ The remodeled building will have an interior space of 2,228 square feet, with an area of 9,440 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-ft) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Maribel, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about April 12, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W. Van Sickle Real Estate Officer. P.O. Box 2673f Mn^auk^ 1_, m**™*** or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by May 10. 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (l) ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SELECTION OF A NEW POST OFFICE SITE BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY Plans to acquire a new post office in r_ JMMJ. Uiaeormlt* were annourtsd yesterday by Postmaster General J. Edward Day. "The new building," Mr. Day said, "is designed to carry out the Post Office Department's objective of providing newly constructed postal units where they are most urgently needed in the interest of more efficient postal service and improved working conditions for postal employees. "The emphasis in our lease construction program will continue to be on ade quate space for postal operations, not only for current needs but for the fore seeable future. "The Department's policy is to use existing buildings where they can be suitably altered or remodeled to meet the needs of the ever-increasing volume of mail. As circumstances dictate, we will also consider moving our postal operations into more spacious quarters if they are available. "Where neither of these conditions is feasible we will authorize the con struction of new postal units, such as the post office at De Forest . The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. The building in Qe Forest will be located on West side of Main St. at Intersection with Commerce Street . Preliminary plans call for 2,150 square feet of floor space, with an area of 6,000 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. When completed it will serve people in the area, and it will replace the present inadequate facility on North side of Commerce Street between Main and Market Strata . which will then become available for other purposes. The Postmaster General said the building will be constructed under the Department's Lease Construction Program, which utilizes the resources and in- -2- (1) vestment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings. The Department's capital investment, Mr. Day said, will be limited to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership while leased to the Federal Government and the owner will pay local real estate taxes. Plans and specifications for the new building, as well as bidding forms and other pertinent data, will be made available to prospective bidders at an early date, at which time the Post Office Department will advertise for bids. The site option will be transferred to the successful bidder, who will purchase the land, construct the building and lease it to the Department on a long-term basis. -30- INFORMATION service -F POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT •Pv-" ^ Washington, D. C. 20260 Sterling 3-3100 Ext. 500 FOR RELEASE SATURDAY A.M. RELEASE NO. C-171 JUNE 15, 1963 Plans for extensive modernization and improvement of the post office in the federal building in Fort Atkinson, Wis., were announced yesterday by Postmaster General J. Edward Day. "This improvement, to be undertaken by the General Services Administration, will carry out the Post Office Department's objective of more efficient postal service, better working conditions and a pleasant atmosphere for the public," Mr. Day said. "Contingent upon the availability of funds, we are going ahead with the modernization of postal space in federal buildings. At the same time we are re-assessing our Lease Construction Program to determine whether existing buildings can be suitably altered or remodeled to meet the needs of an ever increasing volume of mail. "The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction." The project at Fort Atkinson is part of the Department's program to modernize and improve existing government-owned facilities. It will include building and driveway extension, new platform, beneficial lighting and painting and other miscellaneous interior remodeling, amounting to approxi mately $400,000. As soon as detailed plans have been completed, the General Services Administration will advertise for bids to remodel the post office and will be reimbursed from the Post Office Department's appropriated funds. -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-H) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Gordon, t-liaconain Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about June 24. 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, Mr. F. £. _M__ Post Office Department, 512 Nicollet Avenue, Mitmsapolls, Minn, QT% the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by J-ly 8, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-L) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW LEASED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Own, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Celand L. Melblnger. Owen. Wisconsin to build and lease the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our lease construction program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail. The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construc tion. "We now have about 45s000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clearj, therefore,, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of oar growing population." Under the Departments Lease Construction program Celand L. Melblnaer will construct the new building on MW corner of Central Avenue and 3th Street and lease it to the Department for 10 years s Ions The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipments while die building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. (3-D "This formulas," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." The new post office at Owen will be constructed on a site containing 8.100 square feet, and is expected to be completed on December 1T 1963 . It will have an interior space of 2,808 square feet, with an area of 3.854 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. 30 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-L) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW LEASED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids to build and lease the new post office at Kenosha, Wisconsin f Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's Lease Construction program, the site selected <55¥ should be 61st Street on the South, 36th Avenue on the East, 55th Street on the North, and 41st Avenue on the West will be assigned to the successful bidder, who will purchase the property, con struct the building according to departmental specifications and lease it to the Post Office Department for a basic period of ten years, The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Bidding documents will be available on July 8, 1963 and may be obtained from Mr. R. W. Van Sickle Regional Real Estate Officer, Box 2673. Milwaukee 14. Wisconsin , or the local postmaster. The Real Estate Officer will supply bidding forms, building specifications, lease provisions and other information. Bids must be sub mitted to the Real Estate Officer by _ September 6. 1963 . -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Desrfleld. Wlsconain was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Willis E. Lvle. Dearfield. Wisconsin to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, ,rbut we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction. s ,rWe now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program Willis E. Lvls will construct the new building on Nelson Street, 1/2 block from Main Street (Mult1-tenant building) and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr» Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." -2- (3-R) The new post office at ______will be constructed on a site containing approximately *^'Q square feet, and is expected to be completed on October I, 1963 It ^^ haye ^ ^Q-JLOJ. space of * square feet, with an area of «»»«w square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Richfield, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Weyer Construction, Inc., Menomonle Falls. Wisconsin to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, ,rbut we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction. s ,rWe now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program Weyer Construction, Inc. will construct the new building on 150* N. present site (Lot 2, Block A, Laubenheimer Subdivision) and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." -2- (3-R) The new post office at Richfield will be constructed on a site containing approximately 6.000 square feet, and is expected to be completed on September 30. 1963 . It will have an interior space of 1.458 square feet, with an area of 4.420 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Marshall. Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Cvril Motl. Marshall Improvement Corp., Marshall, Wisconsin to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. ,TWe are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present braidings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program Cyril Motl will construct the new building on Corner of Main and Beebe Streets and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." -2- (3-R) The new post office at Marshall r \]±U. be constructed on a site containing approximately 3,149 square feet, and is expected to be completed on October 1, 1963 . It will have an interior space of lt433 square feet, with an area of 1,596 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. -30- INFORMATION service W POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Washington, D. C. 20260 STerling 3-3100 Ext. 500 FOR RELEASE FRIDAY P.M. RELEASE NO. C-214 JULY 5, 1963 Plans for extensive modernization and improvement of the post office in the federal building in Antigo, Wisconsin were announced today by Postmaster General J. Edward Day. "This improvement, to be undertaken by the General Services Administra tion, will carry out the Post Office Department's objective of more efficient postal service, better working conditions and a pleasant atmosphere for the public," Mr. Day said. "Contingent upon the availability of funds, we are going ahead with the modernization of postal space in federal buildings. At the same time we are re-assessing our Lease Construction program to determine whether existing buildings can be suitably altered or remodeled to meet the needs of an ever increasing volume of mail. "The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction." The project at Antigo is part of the Department's program to modernize and improve existing government-owned facilities. It will include building and driveway extensions, a new loading platform, air conditioning, new lighting and painting, and miscellaneous interior remodeling, amounting to approximately $225,000. As soon as detailed plans have been completed, the General Services Administration will advertise for bids to remodel the post office and will be reimbursed from the Post Office Department's appropriated funds. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Hubertus, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Mr. Herbert J. Frigge, Hubertus, Wisconsin to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present holdings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program Herbert J. Frigge will construct two tenant the new building on SE corner of Hubertus Road and Scenic Road and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." -2- (3-R) The new post office at Hubertus will be constructed on a site containing approximately 6.184 square feet, and is expected to be completed on September 30, 1963 . It will have an interior space of 1.196 square feet, with an area of 4*888 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a reatal agreement at _ Hazelhurst, Wisconsin ^ Postmaster General Jo Edward Day announced yesterday., Under the Departmentcs program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct ox remodel the building according to departmental specifications. Because Hazelhurst is located in a redevelopment area eligible to take part in the new Area Redevelopment Administration's program, Mr. Day said, the project will be of particular value,. It will provide needed employment daring the construction phase, and it will add to _ Hazelhurst s modernization efforts t© attract new industry, he said. "This is another example of the way in which the Post Office Department, along with other Federal agencies, is coordinating its activities to achieve the goal of the Area Redevelopment Act, in line with President Kennedycs wish that all Federal resources be mobilized to help revitalize communities of chronic unemployment and landeremployment in order tomke them better places in which to live, to work and to invest," the Postmaster General said. The Department°s capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taaces„ Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be avalfable on or about July 3, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer,, John K' storr, Post Office Department, 512 Nicollet Ave., Mpls., or the local postmaster. Bids must be r ? — Minn. submitted to the Real Estate Officer by July 19, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ^ U ' ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAD PjgrON CONTRACT AWARD FOR MODERNIZATION UNDER^BAk CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM ,\* Modernization of the post office at Frederf&i Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to LeRoy C. Carlson, Frederic, Wisconsin to remodel and lease the present building to the Post Office Department. '•Although we are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "we are constantly re-assessing our lease construction program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It la clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's Lease Construction program Mr. LeRoy C. Carlson will remodel the present building at North side of Oak Street between Wisconsin and Traffic Avenues and lease it to the Department for nine years with two 5- year renewal options. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and Investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." - 2 - The remodeling is expected to be completed on October 6, 1963. It will have 1,362 square feet of interior space, with an area of 1,800 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Edgar, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Herb Gottschaik, Edgar, Wisconsin to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "but we are constantly re-assesslng our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction. ,rWe now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also In devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program Herb Gottschaik will construct the new building on the SE corner of Beech 3t. | Fourth Avenue and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." -2- (3-R) The new post office at Edgar will be constructed on a site containing approximately 3,982 square feet, and is expected to be completed on Noveaber I, 1963 . it will have an interior space of 1»862 square feet, with an area of 2,000 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. -30- INFORMATION service POST OFFIC E"'?'Wi P& fy- 1/^gB N T Washington, D. C. 20260 Sterling 3-3100' Ext. 500 ,—| _ FOR RELEASE SUNDAY RELEftStt NO. C-249 JULY 14, 1963 Plans for extensive modernization and improvement of the post office in the federal building in Menasha, Wis., amounting to $530,000, were announced yesterday by Postmaster General J. Edward Day. "This improvement, to be undertaken by the General Services Administration, will carry out the Post Office Department's objective of more efficient postal service, better working conditions and a pleasant atmosphere for the public," Mr. Day said. "Contingent upon the availability of funds, we are going ahead with the modernization of postal space in federal buildings. At the same time we are re-assessing our Lease Construction program to determine whether existing buildings can be suitably altered or remodeled to meet the needs of an ever increasing volume of mail. "The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction." The project at Menasha is part of the Department's program to modernize and improve existing government-owned facilities. It will include building and driveway extension, new platform, air conditioning, beneficial lighting and painting and miscellaneous other interior remodeling. As soon as detailed plans have been completed, the General Services Administration will advertise for bids to remodel the post office and will be reimbursed from the Post Office Department's appropriated funds. -30- INFORMATION service ) S T O F F I C E> [»(E FJo^R I (j r N T S* IFas/uregfozz, D. C. 20260 Sterling 3-3100 Ext. 500 • ; : FOR RELEASE THURSDAY P.M. RELEASE NO. C- 260 JULY 18, 1963 The Post Office Department has taken an assignable option on downtown property of the Milwaukee Railroad as the site to advertise for bids to construct a $20 million post office, Postmaster General J. Edward Day an nounced today. The agreement culminates months of effort by the Department to find a suitable site. The Postmaster General complimented civic leaders and municipal, county and state authorities for cooperating with the Depart ment in helping to solve problems that "at times seemed unsurmountable." Other areas were under consideration, he said, but the railroad site was chosen because departmental studies showed it was more economically advantageous from the viewpoint of land and construction costs, estimated taxes and estimated operating costs. "We are especially grateful to Congressmen Clement J. Zablocki and Henry S. Reuss for their contribution to this joint effort," Day said. "Their enthusiasm was tempered with a sympathetic understanding of our problems." Themulti story Milwaukee building, which will rival in cost and size the mechanized poet office in Detroit, will be located on West Fowler Street, from 250 feet east of the Sixth Street Viaduct to Second Street, extending south to Canal Street. (more) It will have 440,668 square feet of operating space, with a service garage of 95,400 square feet, platform of 21,975 square feet and an area of 187,520 square feet for parking and maneuvering of postal vehicles. The building itself will cost an estimated $18.1 million, and modern mechanization will add another $1.7 million. The site covers an area of 54,325 square feet and is valued at $1,600,000. Judged on present mail volume, the mechanized equipment is expected to include three Mark II facer cancellers, four parcel sorters, a sack sorter, bulk conveyors for non-preferential mail and space for as many as six letter sorters. "The new building," Day said, "is designed to carry out the Depart ment's objective of providing newly constructed postal units where they are most urgently needed in the interest of more efficient postal service and improved working conditions for postal employees. "The emphasis in our lease construction program will continue to be on adequate space for postal operations, not only for current needs but for the foreseeable future. "The Department's policy is to use existing buildings where they can be suitably altered or remodeled to meet the needs of the ever increasing volume of mail. As circumstances dictate, we will also consider moving our postal operations into more spacious quarters if they are available. "Where neither of these conditions is feasible we will authorize the construction of new postal units, such as the Milwaukee Post Office. (more) "The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction." The Postmaster General said the building will be constructed under the Department's Lease Construction program, which utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings. The option will be turned over to the successful bidder, who will then construct the building according to departmental specifications and will lease it to the Department for a 30-year period, with options running at least another 20 years. Plans and specifications for the new building, as well as bidding forms and other pertinent data, will be made available to prospective bidders at an early date, at which time the Department will advertise for bids. When the new building is completed, the present leased quarters at North Second Street between West Clybourn and West Michigan Street and on East Michigan Street between Marshall and Cass Streets will be made avail able for other purposes. Space will be retained in the present federal building on Jackson Street for finance and carrier stations. •30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2-R) ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENJRiilDAY ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEWrRm^m'OMsWUGTION The Post Office Department is seeking feo##fcitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Cambria, Wisconsin Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or-about August 18, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer, R. W. Van Sickle, Post Office Department. Box 2673. Milwaukee. Wisconsin 53214 , or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by September 20, 1963 -30- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR MODERNIZATION OF NEW RENTED BUILDING Modernization of the post office at Waldo, Wisconsin, was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Wilfred F. Buelke, Waldo, Wisconsin, to remodel and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "Although we are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program la being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program, Mr. Wilfred F. Buelke will remodel the building at Depot and 2nd Streets and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." The remodeling is expected to be completed by August 31, 1963. It will have an interior space of 899 square feet. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR MODERNIZATION OF NEW RENTED BUILDING Modernization of the post office at Vesper, Wisconsin, was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Mr. Frank Swetz, Vesper, Wisconsin, to remodel and rent the build ing to the Post Office Department. "Although we are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program Is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 It la expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program Mr, Frank Swetz will remodel the building at the South Side of Cameron Avenue and rent It to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to post equipment, while the building remains under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula, "Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." The remodeling Is expected to be completed by November 1, 1963. It will have and interior space of 902 square feet, with an area of 1,200 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY PQSTMASTEfr,CMWRAL DAY ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR MODERNIgATIQNn(SF TRESENT RENTED BUILDING Modernization of the present posft office at Dalton, Wisconsin, was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General J. Edward Day that a contract has been awarded to Gordon E. Mead, Dalton, Wisconsin, to remodel and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "Although we are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr. Day said, "we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings con be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program Is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program, Gordon E. Mead will remodel the present building at the West side of Main Street between Elm and Oak Streets and rent it to the Department for five years beginning December 1, 1963. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." - 2 - The remodeling is expected to be completed by November 30, 1963. It will have an interior space of 920 square feet, with an area of 4,100 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT*ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUHJGiENG Construction of the new post office at Chochrine, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by a Postal official that a contract has been awarded to Earl Blank, Cochrane, Wisconsin, to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," the Postal official said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expand ing volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. **We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 It is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department'* program Mr. Blank will construct the new building at the E. corner of Main Street and 6th Street and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula utilizes the resources and investments funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." The new post office at Cochrane will be constructed on a site containing approximately 5,530 square feet and is expected to be completed by January 1, 1964. It will have an interior space of 1,232 square feet, with an area of 4,250 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR MODERNIZATION OF PRESENT QUARTERS Modernization of the present quarters of the post office at Prentice, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by a Postal official that a contract has been awarded to Ernest Carlson, Prentice, Wisconsin, to remodel and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," the Postal official said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it Is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." The remodeled structure will contribute materially to the efforts being made by Prentice, in cooperation with the new Federal Area Redevelopment Administration, to help the local economy, it was pointed out. New employment will be provided during the construction phase and the completed building will help community efforts to sell Prentice ss a good place for business to grow. This cooperation between the Post Office Department and ARA is designed to implement President Kennedy's broad program of Federal assistance to areas of chronic unemployment and underemployment. Under the Department's program, Mr. Carlson will remodel the present building at the E. side of Railroad Avenue (State Highway 13) and rent it to the Department. - 2 - The Department's capital Investment is limited substantially to postal equip* ment, while the building remains under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enter prise for needed postal buildings," The remodeling is expected to be completed by December I, 1963. It will have an interior space of 1,470 square feet, with an area of 1,500 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Brussels, Wisconsin was further 3 f/P advanced yesterday with the announcement by a Postal official that a cohera^ has been awarded to Roger L. Miller, Brussel, Wisconsin, to build and rent the 'R°XMl*a building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed" a Departmental official said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need if urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new con struction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It Is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." The new structure will contribute materially to the efforts being made by Brussels, in cooperation with the new Federal Area Redevelopment Administration, to help the local economy, the Postal official pointed out. New employment will be provided during the construction phase, he said, and the completed building will help community efforts to sell Brussels as a good place for business to grow. This cooperation between the Post Office Department and ARA is designed to implement President Kennedy's broad program of Federal assistance to areas of chronic unemployment and underemployment. - 2 - Under the Department's program, Mr. Miller will construct the new multi- tenant building 30' from East corner Zephirin Station, thence 60* east on Hwy. 57, south 205' from Center of Hwy. 57 - 250' N. E. present site - and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. 1 "This formula utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." The new post office at Brussels will be constructed on a site containing approximately 3,950 square feet, and is expected to be completed by November 30, 1963. It will have an Interior space of 836 square feet, with an area of 3,060 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Poat Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Madison, Wisconsin (Monona Branch), a Departmental official announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and construct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about August 26, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer R. W, Van Sickle, Post Office Department, Box 2673, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214, or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by September 6, 1963. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR NEW RENTED BUILDING Construction of the new post office at Cross Plains, Wisconsin was further advanced yesterday with the announcement by the Poat Office Department that a contract has been awarded to Cross Plains Hardware & Appliance, Inc., Cross Plains, Wisconsin, to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We arm continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," a Departmental official said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mall." The construction program is being concentrated In those areas where the need Is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program, Cross Plains Hardware » Appliance, Inc. will construct a new multi-tenant building on the South side of Main Street and West of Mills Street and rent it to the Department. The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal , equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enter prise for needed postal buildirgp. - 2 * The new post office at Cross Plains will be constructed on a site containing approximately 8,621 square feet, and is expected to be completed on December 31, 1963. It will have an interior space of 1,757 square feet, with an area of 6,640 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. <—1 —• K. C" *** :-: _ * %S £ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT B.Y THE PQST QMl AfelpWfe^M CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seekiijfg competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, a Departmental official announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and construct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about August 21, 1963, and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer R. W. Van Sickle, Post Office Department, Box 2673, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214, or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by September 20, 1963. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BtCCWfei ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE POSJ 0EFjICS|DEPAftIM|9T ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR ^ WANTED™ UTLD TNG Construction of the new post office ax rjjhelps, Wisconsin was further advanced QEN-TOR PROXMIRE yesterday with the announcement by a Postal official that a contract has been awarded to Glenn Linder of Phelps to build and rent the building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," the postal official said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail, "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." The new structure will contribute materially to the efforts being made by Phelps, in cooperation with the new Federal Area Redevelopment Administration, to help the local economy it was pointed out. New employment will be provided during the construction phase and the completed building will help community efforts to sell Phelps as a good place for business to grow. This cooperation between the Post Office Department and ARA is designed to Implement President Kennedy's broad program of Federal assistance to areas of chronic unemployment and underemployment. Under the Department's program, Mr. Linder will construct the new building on the E. side of Highway E between Highway 17 and Coveyvllle Road, and rent it to the Department. - 2 - The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enter prise for needed postal buildings." The new post office at Phelps will be constructed on a site containing approximately 3,200 square feet and is expected to be completed on November 1, 1963. It will have on interior space of 1,428 square feet, with an area of 1,650 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. >i K i •" i "ti,£,VfcQ FOR DftSDIATE RELEASE (?Cf If) o The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bios for the furnishing of post office quarters at Alma, Wisconsin for either an existing building or new building, Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced yesterday. Under the Department's Lease Construction program, a contract will be awarded to the bidder who designates a building suitable to the Department's needs and agrees to improve it or provide a new building according to depart mental specifications and then lease it to Che Department for a basic period of ten years, with options to renew the lease for an additional four years Interior space of approximately 1700 square feet is requested, with a platform of 3500 square feet. The preferred area Is in or near the business section. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Bidding documents will be available on or about October 16, 1963 and nay he obtained from F. 1. Snapp, Regional leal Estate Officer, 512 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 53425, or the local postmaster. The Real Estate Officer will supply bidding forms, building specifications, leasts provisions and other information. Bids must be submitted to the R*.ai Estate Officer by November 15, 1963. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE K£_£IVED ABNOONCEMENT BY POIIIlUISMl^fpSME||^?g|?ONOUSKI ON CONTRACT AWARD FOR QUARTERS IN NEW RENTED BUILDING OFFICE Construction of the new post ofifHce at Casco, Wisconsin was further advanced SENAT IR PROXMIRE yesterday with the announcement by Postmaster General John A. Gronouski that a contract has been awarded to C. J. Schmitt, Farrell Lumber Co., Casco, Wisconsin, to build and rent quarters in the new multi-tenant building to the Post Office Department. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are needed," Mr, Gronouski said, "but we are constantly re-assessing our program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is being concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suitable space cannot be obtained except through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 68 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected to rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal techniques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's program Mr. Schmitt will construct the new multi-tenant building on Lot 14, Block A, Assessors Plat, Village of Casco, and rent it to the Department• The Department's capital investment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the building remains under private ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Gronouski said, "utilizes the resources and investment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." - 2 - The new post office at Casco will be constructed on a site containing ap proximately 5,525 square feet, and is expected to be completed on December 31, 1963. It will have an interior space of 1,273 square feet, with an area of 4,200 square feet for parking and movement of postal vehicles. The present space will be made available for other purposes. is I (j^^^i^ ^_xe_ O-'? _^v_ tfcujj^ ^Ji^JJCA^tri \ Ij *7<0 (7 jU*Jcr^-~ (W ( / DOMESTIC SERVICE \ y INTERNATIONAL SERVICE \ Check the class of sen.ice desired; Check the class of service desired; otherwise this message will be otherwise the message will be sent as a fast telegram sent at the full rate at HE N TELEGRAM V IH'N|| 1 J 211 (4-55) FULL RATE DAY LETTER LETTER TELEGRAM k NIGHT LETTER -S. SHORE-SHIP / W. P. MARSHALL PRESIDENT r NO. WDS.-CL. OF SVC. PD. OR COLL. CASH NO. CHARGE TO THE ACCOUNT OF TIME FILED William Proxmire - Official Send the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to October 28, 1963 Book Telegram to; Editor News i Editor News Editor Sheboygan Press Station WPLY Station WKTL 632 Center Ave Plymouth, Wis. Sheboygan, Wis. Sheboygan, Vis. News Editor Station WHBL Hotel Foest©0 Sheboygan, Wis. SENATOR WILLIAM PROXMIRE TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT WILL POST AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOVEMBER 11 ON SPACE FOR THE OOSTBURG POST OFFICE. SPEFICIATIONS: SPACE MUST BE CENTRALLY LOCATED IN BUSINESS DISTRICT. Interior: 1,768 sq. ft. Pletforra: 120 sq. ft. Outside: 3,500 sq. Ft. mum TO mwm RENTAL *_ tffiu-eX. ^r- c WILLIAM PROXMIRE, ues„s, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT BY POSTMASTER GENERAL GRONOUSKI ON COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR NEW RENTED CONSTRUCTION The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for new or improved postal quarters under a rental agreement at Wonewoc, Wisconsin, Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced yesterday. Under the Department's program, the bidder shall provide the site and con struct or remodel the building according to departmental specifications. Because Wonewoc is located in a redevelopment area eligible to take part in the new Area Redevelopment Administration's program, Mr. Gronouski said, the project will be of particular value. It will provide needed employment during the construc tion phase, and It will add to Wonewoc's modernization efforts to attract new industry, he said. "This is another example of the way in which the Post Office Department, along with other Federal agencies, is coordinating its activities to achieve the goal of the Area Redevelopment Act, in line with President Kennedy's wish that all Federal resources be mobilized to help revitalize communities of chronic unemployment and underemployment in order to make them better places in which to live, to work and to invest," the Postmaster General said. The Department's capital investment will be limited substantially to postal equipment. The building will remain under private ownership with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Postal space in the present unit will be made available for other purposes. Information as to bidding will be available on or about October 28, 1963 and may be obtained from Regional Real Estate Officer R. W. Van Sickle, Post Office Department, Box 2673, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53214, or the local postmaster. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by November 22, 1963. S DOMESTIC SERVICE \ / INTERNATIONAL SERVICE \ Check the class of servicedesired; Check the class of servicedesired; otherwise this message will be otherwise the message will be sent as a fast telegram I w. [HEN VN\ION sent at the full rate TELEGRAM a FULL RATE DAY LETTER E TELEGRAM LETTER TELEGRAM k SHORE-SHIP k NIGHT LETTER ? W. P. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT r NO. WDS.-CL. OF SVC. PD. OR COLL. CASH NO. CHARGE TO THE ACCOUNT OF TIME FILED miMmil ?3iQ£32S2 (OPflCliL) 3-7-63 4;15 Rf Send the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to mx§ mmm3 SIEBCHSO m&ss, 632 CENTER ATCHUB, f-UOfGAV, wmztmia m%z EDITOR, FLmoutB REVIEW, ivanm, wzscosssis 222BS EDITOR, mmim MSS TUBS, SANDO! LAIS, WISCONSIN •n EDITOR, STATICM wns, ___cmn.t WISCONSEI HEWS EDITOR, STATION !*33L, HOTEL FGBSTS, SSE30TGAN, WISCONSIN _M EDITOR, STATICS? !v3TL, 597A - N 8, SHEBOYGAN, WJCflWUI _M___| T^fTTl? \*W? B94 T? 4 .J?'*? S-3_XCR WILLIAE FR053OKE (D-WIS) TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT WILL ADVERTISE FOR BIBS CO A __» POST OFFICE LOCATION HI BAKXM IARE CH MARCH 15 AM) _H I_UDO CM MARCH 11. PROSMIRS SAID THE DEPARTMENT HA3 NO SITE OPTION BUT OURS A LOCATION 23 OS NEAR THE 3USINESS DISTRICT. THE SPECIFICATIONS FOE THE RANDOM LAKE OFFICE ARE: INTERIOR, 1300 SQUARE FEET; PLATFORM, 100 SQUARE FEET; AND PAVED AREA, 3500 SQUARE FEET. BIDS WILL BE OPENED Ol APRIL 12. THE SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE WALDO OFFICE ARE; INTERIOR, 900 SQUARE FEETJ PLATFORM, 34 SCptHS FEET; AND FATED AREA, 2500 SQUARE FEET. BIDS WILL BE OPENED ON APRIL 8. FURTHER DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE FROM R. W. VAN SICKLE, BOX 2673, MILWAUKEE.