32254 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 19 7 6 before the Senate, I move, in accordance CONFffiMATIONS ject to the nominee's commitment to respond with the previous order, that the Senate to requests to appear and testify before any Executive nominations confirmed by duly constituted committee of the Senate. stand in adjournment until the hour of the Senate September 23, 1976: THE JUDICIARY 9 a.m. tomorrow. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND Howard G. Munson, of New York, to be The motion was agreed to; and at 8: 03 WELFARE U.S. district judge for the northern district p.m., the Senate adjourned until tomor Susan B. Gordon, of New Mexico, to be an of New York. Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Vincent L. Broderick, of New York to be row, Friday, September 24, 1976, at 9 Welfare. U.S. district judge for the southern dtstrict a.m. The above nomination was approved sub- of New York.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE Toastmaster, Felix Mika. attractive for advertisers to distribute their OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO Introduction of, Jack c. Hunter, Mayor, brochures unaddressed, as newspaper sup Youngstown, Ohio. • plements for instance, than to distribute Introduction of guests, Toastmaster. them separately to specific people or ad HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY Presentation of honoree, Mary C. Grabow dresses. OF 01!110 ski, Commissioner District 9, PNA. "Our members should be able to use pri Main speaker, Aloysius A. Mazewski, Presi vate delivery companies to deliver advertis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent PNA. ing material just as can be done for maga Thursday, September 23, 1976 Presentation of deb't~tantes, Mary C. Gra zines, catalogs and parcels," said Keith Hal bowski, Commissioner District 9 PNA. liday, the association's executive director. Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, on Satur Remarks, Helen Szymanowicz, Vice-Presi The Postal Service said it hadn't yet seen day, September 18, I had the pleasure of dent PNA. the suit, filed in federal district court here attending a testimonial banquet for On stage performance, Polanie, Council 46 and thus couldn't comment. However, th~ Mary C. Grabowski, commissioner for and Group 965, S. Filipkowski, Youth Direc service has been a. zealous guardian of its district 9 of the Polish National Alliance. tor. monopoly delivery rights in the past and Closing remMks, Alexander A. Kopczynski, can be expected to contest the legal attack The dinner was hosted by Council 46 of Commissioner Dist. 9, PNA. vigorously. the Polish National Alliance in honor of Benediction, Rev. Marian Kecik, St. Cast Though the association is disputing the Mary Grabowski's many years of dedi mer Parish, Cleveland, Oh. monopoly status of third-class advertising cated service to the Polish Alliance. Boze Cos Polske, Audience. mail, the suit doesn't question the govern During this testimonial banquet, the ment monopoly on first-class letters. That annual presentation of the debutantes monopoly has been attacked at times in Co1il was also made by the women's division UNCONSTITUTIONAL EXTENSION OF gress, but efforts to repeal it have failed. District 9 of the Polish National Alliance: PRIVATE EXPRESS STATUTES Mr. Speaker, the Polish National Al liance is an outstanding community S. 22-COPYRIGHT REVISION ACT based organization which continues to HON. JOHN H. ROUSSELOT provide a convenient meeting place for OF CALIFORNIA HON. EDWARD W. PATTISON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Polish Americans. Throughout the year, OF NEW YORK the Polish National Alliance brings its Thursday, September 23, 1976 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES people together for the purpose of ~ele brating with one's own countrymen and Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Speaker, I Wednesday, September 22, 1976 women. would like to direct the Members' atten tion to a recent article in the Septem Mr. PATTISON of New York. Mr. Mr. Speaker, the members of the Speaker, the passage of this legislation Polish National Alliance are proud of ber 22 issue of the Wall Street Journal concerning the Postal Service's attempt is not only a great legislative accom their rich ethnic heritage and the con plishment, it is an event of great his tributions that their forefathers made to to extend the provisions of the private express statutes to addressed advertis toric significance. the development of this great country of In 1909, when the last copyright law ours. The Youngstown area is particu ing material. This illegal extension via agency regulations forces third-class was passed, there were few radios no larly diverse in ethnic groups, and I am TV's no cable systems, no computers, proud to represent all of these groups in mailers to use the Postal Service which has raised third-class rates 670 percent no photocopying machines, no public the U.S. House of Representatives. broadcasting, no phonograph records, no At this time, I would like to insert in since the early 1950's. Clearly, this is an unconstitutional attempt to broaden the musak, no tape recorders and no pro the RECORD the program and list of fessional sports as we kno~ them today. debutantes of the Polish National Al original statutory language which applied to first-class mail exclusively. !~deed, the revolution in communica liance. The material follows: tions technology has almost totally oc DEBUTANTES The article follows: U.S. POSTAL SERVICE Is SUED ON MONOPOLY curred since the turn of the century. Dorothy Broski, Group 9, Council 6. OF DELIVERY OF SOME ADVERTISING MATERIAL The impact of this revolution on the Parents: Mr. and Mrs. K. Broski, 9526 S. WASHINGTON.-A group of corporate ma11 rights of creators and users of copy Highland Drive, Garfield Hts., Ohio. rightable works has been profound. It is Julia Galls, Group 827, Council 46. users said it 1s suing the Postal Service 1n Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Julian Golis, 1579 an attempt to upset the government's mo truly astounding that the system has not Country Club, Boardman, Ohio. nopoly on the delivery of certain types of totally broken down without a revision Joanne Grajewski, Group 652, Councll 50. advertising circulars and filers. of the basic law governing the field. It Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph v. GTajewski, The suit, filed yesterday by the Associated is a tribute to the courts and the par 339 Garfield Avenue, Steubenvme, Ohio. Third Class Mail Users, argues that the gov ticipants that it has not. Elizabeth Olak, Group 827, Council 46. ernment's longtime legal monopoly on man One major reason for a lack ·of re Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Olak, 414 applies only to first-class letters and has been broadened Ulegally to include addressed ad vision in the past has been the rapidity Meadowbrook, Youngstown, Ohio. of the technological change as compared Kristine Romanow, Group 261, Council 6. vertising materials. Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Jan Romanow, 1706 The monopoly means that addressed cir with the deliberate slowness of the legis Tuxedo Avenue, Parma, Ohio. culars can't be sent without third-class post lative process. As the latter would begin PROGRAM age being paid to the Postal Service. Thus, to address a change, some other changes businesses wishing to distribute advertising would occur which required a new National Anthems, Polan1e and Youth matter addressed to specific people or loca approach. groups. tions effectively are forced to use the Postal Invocation, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thaddeus Service, which the group says has raised Two years ago, as the Subcommittee Heruday. third-class rates 670% since the early 1950s. on Courts, Civil Liberties, and Admin Dbtner The group also complains that other types istration of Justice began with a totally Musical Interlude, By Sujak. of materials, such as newspapers and catalogs, new membershiP-with the exception of Message of welcome, Walter Chmara. have been exempted from the monopoly by Chairman KASTENMEIER-to address this Introduction of Toastmaster, Pres. of the Postal Service. Thus, it says, a "discrimi legislation, it was faced with a great Council 46. natory" situation exists that makes it more number of conflicts between the inter- September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32255 ests affected. Those conflicts seemed al were considerable in the early 1960s, when number of long-range radars wm remain in most irreconcilable at the time. C~nfiicts our survetllance capablllties reached their operation to compensate. A small but un between authors and publishers. on the peak (see Figure 1 for statistics) . specified number of Airborne Warning and The most direct avenue of approach, then Control System (AWACS) aircraft, sched one hand and teachers, librarians and as now, was from the north. Eighty-one uled to complete the U.S. screen in FY public broadcasters on the other; be Distant Early Warning (DEW) stations were 1978, will add entirely new capabutties for tween song writers and publishers of draped across arctic wastes from the detecting aircraft flying at low levels over songs against recording companies; be Aleutians to the Atlantic as an outer alert land. EC-121s now in operation are effec tween broadcasters and ,Proprietors perimeter. The Mid-Canada and Pine Tree tive in detecting low-flying aircraft only against cable TV interests and many Lines were positioned closer in, augmented over land. others. by a generous group of gap-filler radars. Suspected enemy aircraft or cruise mis The legislative process has produced Navy picket ships, Texas Towers, and Air siles on radar screens stUl must be con Force eariy warning aircraft covered both firmed, since single sorties or small flights a bill full of delicate balances and com flanks. of unknowns may simply be friendlles off promises. All major interests have been That complex has since been cut drasti course. Manned interceptors therefore must accommodated if not totally satisfied. cally. Picket ships, Texas Towers, gap-filler identify friend from foe visually and/or by There is now no major opposition to this radars, and the Mid-Canada line have com other means before firing. bill from any of the interests affected. pletely disappeared. Surve1llance st111 in ex WEAPONS SYSTEMS istence displays technology that, in the main, The result is a tribute to the sklll The world's best interceptor aircraft, in and knowledge of Chairman KAsTEN dates back two decades or more. Remaining ground-based radars can detect cluding F-101Bs, F-102As, and F-106As, fur MEIER, the other members of the sub high-flying (40,000 feet) aircraft and cruise nished air defenses for CONUS ln the early committee, the staff consisting of Herb missiles at a distance of about 200 nautical 1960s (the last F-106A was accepted in July, Fuchs and Bruce Lehman, the register mlles, but would be essentially useless against 1961). At that time, 67 active and 55 A1r of copyrights, Ms. Barbara Ringer, her small cross-section targets (such as cruise National Guard (ANG) squadrons, broadcast counsel, Jon Baumgurten, and the skill missiles) sklmmtng the surface. DEW sta on 42 bases across the United States, were ful and patient lobbyists representing tions and their Greenland-Iceland-U.K. ex backed up by seven Bomarc anti-aircraft all of the affected interests. tension could be easily bypassed unless as missile squadrons. Nike-Ajax, first deployed sisted by offshore airborne patrols, which now in 1954, provided point defenses for some There remain unanswered and un operate only on calL Long-range radar cover thing like 30 key cities before the end of addressed issues. No doubt defects will age in the Pine Tree Line exhibits significant that decade. Those early SAMs, with conven be discovered in this legislation as it gaps, especially at low altitudes. tional warheads, were replaced by nuclear becomes operative. I hope that the sub As a hedge against Soviet bomber threats capable Nike-Hercules, which had a slant committee will address itself to these in the 1980s, DOD presently is experiment range of about 100 miles and "kill'' capabUi matters in the next and succeeding ses ing with Over-the-Horizon Backscatter ties from medium altitudes to 100,000 feet. sions of the Congress so that a major (OTH-B) radars, whose fans would extend Hawk mtssUes were set to shoot down low more than 1,800 nautical mUes from sea level flying Soviet aircraft by 1960. Canadian revision such as this one will never again to the ionosphere (with a nominal dead zone forces north of our border added depth. be necessary. that circles the site for 500 mlles in all di Projected threats, however, never devel rections.) However, several technical prob oped. Soviet heavy bomber strength peaked lems remain. Auroral disturbances, for ex at about 210 turboprop Bears and jet THE BALANCE(S) OF POWER IV(X) ample, preclude surveillance of polar ap powered Bisons in 1966, then steadUy drop STRATEGIC DEFENSIVE BALANCE proaches. ped to 135, the current tally. That fact, FIGURE 1 combined with Assured Destructions policies Dedicated U.S. air defense assets that scorned any shield for cities, caused HON. JOHN BRECKINRIDGE U.S. ·air defense activities to decline be OF KENTUCKY Peak Present fore deployment were complete. They con tinue to do so, despite the advent of Back IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strength strength in 1960's 1976 fire jet bombers, which conceivably could Thursday, September 23, 1976 strike U.S. cities without in-flight refuel Ing, then recover in Cuba or some other Mr. BRECKINRIDGE. Mr. Speaker, Interceptor squadrons: "neutral" country. air defense of the Continental United Active ------67 6 Cutbacks accelerated sharply after ABM States-CONUS--has become a non Air National Guard ---- 55 112 was dropped. Present programs will elimi subject in recent years, despite a signifi SAM batteries: nate six ANG F-101 squadrons by the end cant threat by Soviet Backfire bombers Active ------228 11 0 of FY 1977, reducing interceptor strength now entering the active Soviet inventory Army National Guard__ 52 0 to six F-106 squadrons in the Air National Control and surveillance: Guard and six more on active rolls. All 48 in considerable numbers. EC-121 aircraft______67 6 Nike-Hercules batteries assigned to Army Current articles in open print are DEW line stations______81 31 Air Defense Command (ARADCOM) were nearly nonexistent, according to the A1r Long-range radars______188 8111 Inactivated in FY 1974. Results are re University Librarian, who maintains a Gap flller radars______137 0 fiected in Figure 1. comprehensive catalog. Official requests Radar picket ships_____ 32 0 As one consequence, this country is now by this office for unclassified assessments Texas towers______3 o compelled to supplement dedicated inter from the Department of Defense and lts ceptors with F-4 fighters from the general subsidiaries confirm that none suitable 1 Includes six F-101 squadrons now being purpose force pool. That tack provides useful for this series are now available. phasedout. · training for theater air defense crews, but The following exposition was extracted . • Four Nike-Hercules and eight HAWK their availability in wartime would not be batteries Air Defense Command in Florida assured.. As former Defense Secretary Schles from a Congressional Research Service Inger put it, "a major war abroad, partic study by John M. Collins, senior special currently are under operational command of (ADCOM), but are avallable for overseas ularly in Europe, would require a prompt ist in National Defense for the CRS, Li decision on the allocation of the available brary of Congress, entitled "United deployment. Three additional Ntke-Hercules air defense resources between our needs batteries are deployed in Alaska. at home and our needs abroad." States and Soviet City Defense: Consid 8 Includes 64 radars in the Continental erations for Congress." The complete Attrition of aging F-106 interceptor as United States, 24 ln Canada., 13 in Alaska, sets wlll make 1s impossible to analysis will soon be published. The study and 2 in Iceland, plus 8 civlltan sets belong maintain even the present minimum number is as follows: ing to Federal Aviation Administration. of alert sites in the late 1970s. DOD desires a U.S. AIR DEFENSE Source: Data furnished telephonically by replacement derived from F-14, F-15, or F-16 America's air defenses once encompassed omce of Army Deputy Chief of Staff for by the early 1980s, but has no plans to resur full-scale deployment programs for weapons Operations on November 4, 1975 and by the rect SAM defenses. systems as well as early warning. Threat Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-5) on April and Impending improvements in command and perceptions and budgetary priorities, not June 16, 1976. control provide the only bright spots. technical problems, played predominant Provided those wrinkles can be ironed out, Six Semi-Automatic Ground Environment roles in decisions to reduce our efforts. DOD plans to deploy two sites only if Soviet (SAGE) sttes, the residue of more than 20 AIR WARNING bomber threats warrant: one at Cutler, installed in the early 1960s, wlll disappear Land- and carrier-based aircraft, plus Maine, the other somewhere ln the Pacific by 1981. So will our single Manual Control cruise mtssnes of all kinds, challenge early Northwest. Two additional installations, Center (MCC). Five Regional Operations warning systems from ground level to 100,000 one looking north, the other south, would Control Centers (ROCCs)-four in CONUS, feet or more ln dayUght, darkness, and dis assure complete coverage, but neither is one ln Alaska-will accompllsh peacetime mal weather. now programmed. The remnants of our DEW airspace sovereignty missions in their stead. U.S. assets avallable to accomplish tasks Line (perhaps enhanced) and a reduced Each ROCC reportedly could handle data 32256 EXTENSIONS OF IrnMARKS September 23, 1976 from 15 survelllance radars, most of which TROTSKYISM AND TERRORISM: This has already attracted people to us who jointly serve the U.S. Armed Forces and Fed PART XII-SOCIALIST WORKERS see the party taking the lead in an impor eral Aviation Administration, then control tant fight for democratic rights; it's· a fight all intercepts in its sector. PARTY FRONTS for everyone. And we've already had unprece ROCCs, however, could no more survive a dented results. Never before has the FBI been missile attack than SAGE, since both are forced to turn over some of its files on what housed in buildings open to bombardment. HON. LARRY McDONALD they do to socialist organizations. • • • it U.S. concepts therefore call for one AWACS OF GEORGIA is very damaging to the government.2 aircraft to be based at each ROCC. If an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES attack seems imminent, each A WACS will We have already seen that the SWP update its computer base and embark a bat Thursday, September 23, 1976 regards the courts and the electoral tle management staff. Once aloft, its ability process as "cracks" in the "bourgeois to direct defensive efforts would be much Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker democratic system" which can be used to enhanced. CoMMITTEE FOR DEMOCRATIC ELECTION LAWS advance the SWP's program. SOVIET Am DEFENSE It's a proper and correct procedure to ex Sheppard clearly understands that the Soviet air defenses were largely disregarded ploit every possibility to utmze what cracks FBI, which is responsible for both intel during World War II, because the Luft there are in the bourgeois-democratic sys ligence and counterintelligence work, is waffe's long-range bombardment capabilities tem to advance our ideas. It's like taking were shattered by the Battle of Britain, but part in their elections. It's wise to utmze a extremely reluctant to have the details Stalin took steps to develop an effective ap situation like this to explain our ideas to a of its investigative techniques given to paratus early in the Atomic Era. wider audience.--James P. Cannon, Inter the very organizations it was investi Prototype jet interceports first appeared in continental Press, October 29, 1973. gating. The SWP leadership believes that 1947. Conversion from propeller-powered air Although the Socialist Workers Party the FBI will remain silent and not resist craft was complete seven years later. Early ignored the electoral process during the the lawsuit rather than explain the na warning coverage was extended into satellite ture and extent of the threat posed by countries. Khrushchev added supersonic air first 10 years of its existence, it saw in 1948 the usefulness of electoral partici the SWP and its Fourth International craft, refined control facilities, and intro comrades. duced a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system pation to gain a sort of "legitimacy" and with all-weather capabUlties. In consonance as a ploy to gain publicity and media at Sheppard stated that- with city defense concepts, the first sites tention for its programs. However, in a The government's going to attack us for comprised a ring around Moscow. number of States, the SWP was hin our internationalism. Brezhnev bolstered the accumulation so dered from gaining ballot status by loy By "internationalism" he means mem that Soviet air defenses currently contain alty oaths and anti-Communist bar 2,700 interceptors, featuring high-perform bership in and support of the Fourth In ance Foxbat and Flagon E fighters, and 12,000 riers. ternational and its terrorist groups and missiles, including many that performed well The Committee for Democratic Elec allies. The SWP Organizational Secre against low-level attacks during the latest tion Laws-CODEL-was set up to tary noted that-- Arab-Israeli war. More than 4000 ground ra coordinate support for Socialist Workers Many of the same kinds of issues that dars are in support. Two large over-the-hori Party lawsuits challenging loyalty oaths were fought out in -the Smith Act trial are zon sets, now under construction, are worth and other provisions of State election going to be brought out in this one too. special mention. DOD st111 "cannot identify a But this time we are suing the government. look-down, shoot-down system for the Fox laws. A CODEL brochure said of loyalty They are the defendants, not us.3 bat or any other interceptor," and Moss air oaths: craft (the Soviet AWACS) also show short These carryovers from earlier witch-hunt The genesis of the SWP suit against comings, but concerted efforts to correct de days serve no purpose except to limit the the FBI lie in a burglary and theft of ficiencies seem to be in progress. Even as it rights of radicals to run for office. files from the FBI field office in Media, stands, the aggregate without question is the In fact, the loyalty oaths served to Pa., on March 8, 1971, by leftwing ac world's most comprehensive and sophisti tivists. The stolen documents were pub cated air defense network. The challenge to limit as candidates those who would not lished in WIN magazine, the publication U.S. bomber penetration capab111ties is swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States. of the militant pacifist War Resisters considerable. League, March 1972. These documents U.S. AIR DEFENSE OPTIONS The Socialist Workers Party selected provided the first public knowledge of Threats from manned aircraft and cruise Ronald Reosti, an attorney and Ameri the FBI's counterintelligence program misslles need not be intense to be significant. can Civil Liberties Union member who COINTELPRO-whose purpose was to Defense Secretary McNamara, despite his af was the SWP's 1970 candidate for attor disrupt potentially violent groups in or finity for balllstic missiles, acknowledged ney general in Michigan, as CODEL's der to prevent violence. that antagonists, not knowing where our legal director. The services of Leonard bombers would strike, would have to cover In December 1973, NBC reporter Carl all important targets. Accordingly, he postu B. Boudin were obtained as CODEL gen Stern received FBI memoranda related lated that Soviet air defense programs "would eral counsel. Another SWP member, to COINTELPRO as the result of a Free likely be the same," whether SAC's bomber Judy Baumann, was named CODEL na dom of Information Act lawsuit. These squadrons were few or many. tional secretary. At the 1973 Socialist documents were then used by the SWP That street runs two ways. A few Backfire Workers Party national convention, to augment a lawsuit which it had filed bombers and short-range SLCMs such as Baumann led the CODEL "tasks panel." l on July 18, 1973, in Federal District Shaddock pose threats to poorly-defended . POLITICAL RIGHTS DEFENSE FUND U.S. cities out of all proportion to their num Court in New York against the FBI bers. (Shaddock cruise missiles, with an esti According to a mailing dated Septem and various other officials. The lawsuit mated effective range of about 150 miles, are ber 30, 1973, "The Political Rights De discovery proceedings have since been essentially anti-ship missiles, but their city fense Fund-PRDE-has been formed as used to obtain additional FBI investi killing capabilities are impressive, because an adjunct of the Committee for Demo gative files. they can reach three quarters of the U.S. pop cratic Election Laws" as a direct result The FBI was required to turn over to ulation, which is close to our east and west of a series of disclosures of Government the Socialist Workers Party and its at coasts.) Still, nothing in the Soviet inven surveillance and counterintelligence ac torneys raw investigative data and in tory is innovative. Sound U.S. defenses could be reinstated using technology now at our tivities directed at the Socialist Workers ternal memoranda revealing FBI meth fingertips. Party. ods of intelligence-gathering including At least six options are open: In a report to the SWP National Com mail covers and surreptitious entries of Stand pat with present programs until air mittee, Barry Sheppard outlined the role SWP and YSA offices. Comparisons of breathing threats can be more clearly of the SWP's lawsuit against the FBI: ;informant materials has enabled the defined. The suit supported by the Political Rights SWP to identify a number of those in Improve surveillance capab1lities only. Defense Fund is an important initiative in formants. Expand area coverage with currently avail the context of the impact of Watergate, As a result of these disclosures, At able systems. • • •. Of all the tendencies, on the left, Add point coverage with curre~tly avail torney General Edward Levi has ordered able systems. we've taken the lead in this situation. we the FBI to end all investigation of the Complete R&D on improved models. saw the opportunity and took the initiative. Socialist Workers Party. Deploy improved systems 1f conditions The national staff of the Political demand. Footnotes at end of article. Rights Defense Fund includes the fol- September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32251 lowing SWP functionaries: Syd Staple Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate. Patrick Gorman. ton, national secretary; 4 Janice Lynn, s Frank Askin, corp. secy., ACLU. Sanford Gottlieb, Sane. Dennis Banks, Am. Indian Movement. Father Gerald Grant, World Federalists. and Cathy Perkus, 6 national field secre Richard Barnett, Inst. for Policy Studies. James Grant, Charlotte 3. taries-letterhead, September 30, 1973; Rev. Willie Barrow, v.p., Operation PUSH. Francine duPlessix Gray. A letterhead dated June 15, 1976, shows Geraldine Bean, regent, U. of Colorado. Dick Gregory. that Stapleton remains PRDF national Clyde Bellecourt, Am. Indian Movement. Gene Guerrero, Jr., pres., Atlanta ACLU. secretary; in 1973, he was an alternate Eric Bentley. Jose Angel Gutierrez, La Raza Unlda party. member of the SWP National Commit Berkeley City Council. Andrew Hacker, Queens Coli. tee, and in 1975, was promoted to full Louise Berman. Vincent Hallinan. membership. • The national staff in Daniel Berrigan. Morton Halperin. cludes Cathy Perkus, Kipp Dawson,8 Alvah Bessie. Pete Hamill. Black Action Society, U. of Pittsburgh. Timothy Harding, Calif. State U., Los An- Geoff Mirelowitz, 9 and Clair Moriarty, 1o Abe Bloom, Nat'I. Peace Action Coalition. geles. all SWP members. Bro. Herbert X. Blyden. Sheldon Harnick. The lists of sponsors of the Political Julian Bond. Rev. Dr. Donald Harrington. Rights Defense Fund in 1973 and 1976 Anne Braden. Michael Harrington. are attached as an appendix: Neal Bratcher, dir., AFSCME, Dist. Council Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Ma.ss.). APPENDIX I-PARTIAL LIST OF SPONSORS FROM 19, nunois, AFL-CIO. Tom Hayden. PRDF LETTERHEAD DATED SEPTEMBER 30, 1973 Thomas Buckley, Jr., pres., Cleveland State Dorothy Healy. U. Law School. Joseph Heller. National secretary: Syd Stapleton. Ned Bush, exec. v.p., E. V. Debs Foundation. National field secretaries: Michael Arnal, Nat Hentoff. Alexander Calder. John Hersey. Janice Lynn, and Catherine Perkus. Louisa Calder. Sponsors: Herbert Hlll, NAACP labor dir. Jose Calderon, La Raza Unida party, Colo Lennox Hinds, pres., Nat'!. Conf. of Black Eric Bentley, Abe Bloom, Nat'l Peace Ac- mdo. tion Coalition. Lawyers. Kay Camp. Philip Hirschkop, atty. Ann Braden, Southern Patriot. Art Carter, Contra Costa City, Labor Coun- Carl Braden, Southern Patriot. Julius Hobson. cil, AFL-CIO. David Hoffman, exec. dir., AFSCME Local Dr. Noam Chomsky. Charles Cassell. Ruby Dee. 96, San Francisco, AFL-CIO. Owen Chamberl,a.in, Nobel Laure,a.te. Robert Horn, pres., Arizona NAACP. Jules Feiffer. Cesar Chavez. Ruth Gage-Colby, Women's Int'l. League H. Stuart Hughes. Robert Chrisman, pub., The Black Scholar. Josephine Hulett, Nat'l. Comm. on House- for Peace & Freedom. Ramsey Clark. Vincent Hallinan. hold Employment. John Henrik Clarke, Hunter Coil. Human Rights Party, Michigan. Dr. Robert Heilbroner. Cleveland ACLU. ' Nat Hentoff. David Isbell, vice chmn., ACLU. Walter Collins, exec. dtr., SCEF. Abdeen Jabara, atty. Philip Hil'schkop, Chairman, Va. American Audrey Colom, pres., Nat'I. Women's PoUt- Civil Liberties Union. Paul Jacobs. leal Caucus. Almeta Johnson, pres., Cleveland Black Dr. Salvador Luria. Henry Steele Commager. Conrad Lynn, Nat'l. Conference of Black Women Lawyers. Congress of Afrikan People. Russell Johnson, New Eng. coord., AFSC. Lawyers. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.). Dwight Macdonald. Walter Johnson, secy-treas., Retail Clerks Vern Countryman, Harvard U. LocalllOO, San Francisco, AFL-CIO. David Me Reynolds, War Resisters League. Alberta Dannells. Arthur Miller. Irv Joyner, Comm. for Racial Justice. Ed Davis, Nat'l. Bd., ADA. David Kairys, atty. George Novack. Ossie Davis. Dr. Linus Pauling. Louis Kampf, M.I.T. Emile deAntonio. Murray Kempton. John Roberts, Director, Mass. American Howard Deck, pres., AFSCME Local 590, Civil Liberties Union. Florynce Kennedy, Feininist party. Philadelphia, AFL-CIO. Rev. Muhammad Kenyatta, Black Eco- Prof. David Rosenberg, Harvard Law Ruby Dee. School. nomic Develop. Conf. Margaret Sloan, Nat'l. Black Feminist Or- Michael DelUgatti, pres., Amal, Clothing John Kerry. ganization. Wkrs., Local 86, Pittsburgh, AFL-CIO. State Rep. Mel King, Mass. Gloria Steinem. David Dellinger. Kings Cty. Dem. Coalition, New York City Detroit Welfare Wkrs. Union. I. F. Stone. Fletcher Knebel. Edith Tiger, Director, Nat'l. Emergency Frank Donner. Patrick Knight, pres., Soc. Service Em Civil Liberties Comm. Norman Dorsen, gen'l. counsel, ACLU. ployees Union Local 371, New York City, William Turner, ex-FBI agent. Douglas Dowd. AFL-CIO. Dr. George Wald. John Duncan, exec. dir., Texas CLU. William Kunstler, atty. Dr. Howard Zinn. Mahmoud El-Kati, Malcolm X Pan-Afri- can Inst. Mark Lane. APPENDIX II-STAFF AND SPONSORS FROM PRDF Daniel Ellsberg. Ring Lardner, Jr. LETTERHEAD DATED JUNE 15, 1976 A. Whitney Ellsworth, pub., The New York Christopher Lasch, U. of Rochester. National secretary: Syd Stapleton; Nation Review of Books: Norman Lear. al Staff: Kipp Dawson, Geoff Mirelowitz, Edward Ericson. Assemblyman Franz Leichter, New York. Claire Moriarty, Cathy Perkus, Margaret Assemblyman Arthur 0. Eve, New York. Sidney Lens. Winter; Advisory board: Robert Allen, Ph111p John Henry Faulk. John Leonard, The New York Times. Berrigan, Noam Chomsky, Ronald Dellums, Jules Feiffer. David Levine. Robert Heilbroner, Diana Bonnar Lewis, Eu Abe Feinglass, v.p., Amal. Meat Ctrs. & Mickey Levine. gene McCarthy, George Novack, and Edith Butcher Wkmen. of No. America, AFL-010. A. H. Levitan, atty. Tiger. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Robert Jay Lifton. SPONSORS, PARTIAL LIST Jane Fonda. Viveca Lindfors. David Livingston, pres., Dist. 65, •Distribu- Sam Abbott. Henry Foner, pres., Fur, Leather & Machine Rev. Ralph Abernathy, pres., SCLC. Wkrs. Jt. Bd., New. York City, AFL-CIO. tive Wkrs. of America. Moe Foner, exec. secy., Dist. 1199, Drug & Salvador Luria, Nobel Laureate. Artha Adair, v.p., Industrial Union Div., Florence Luscomb. Oregon ~10. Hospital Union, New York Oity, AFL--CIO. Ruth Adams, exec. dir., nunois ACLU. Rep. Donald Fraser (D-Minn.). Sta.ughton Lynd. Ph111p Agee. Donald Freed. Conrad Lynn. Am. Fed. of Gov,t. Employees (AFGE) Rev. Stephen Fritchman. Bradford Lyttle. Local 1061, Los Angeles, AFL-CIO. Erich Fromm. Dwight MacDonald. Olga Madar, pres., Coalition of Labor AFGE Local 1395, Chicago, ~010. Luis Fuentes. Am. Fed. of St. Cty. & Mun. Employees Ruth Gage-Colby. Union Women (CLUW). (AFSCME) Local1497, Detroit, AFL-010. Oharles Garry, a. tty. Norman Mailer. AFSCME Local 1880, Detroit, ~10. Maxwell Geismar. Albert Maltz. AFSCME Local 1930, New York, AFL-CIO. Russell Gibbons, asst. ed., Steel Labor, John Marks. AFSCME Local 2000, Chicago, AFL-CIO. Unit,ed Steelwkrs. of Amerlca, AFL-CIO. Rabbi Robert J. Marx. Eqbal Ahmad, Harrisburg 7. Allen Ginsberg. Father Paul Mayer. Robert Allen, ed., The Black Scholar. Jose Gonzales, La Raze. Unida party, Colo Kevin McCarthy. Louis Antal, pres., Dist. 5, UMW4. rado. Charles T. McKinney, att;y. James Aronson. Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Crusade for David McReynolds, War Resisters League. Justice. Alan McSurley. Footnotes at end of article. Carlton Goodlett. ed .. S.F. Sun RePOrter. Margaret McSurley. 3'2258 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1976 Carey McWilliams. Studs Terkel. I grieve with the Jews of Kiev who lost Russell Means, Am. Indian Movement. Andres Rodriguez Torres, La Raza Unida family at Babii-Iar. There is nothing Michael & Robert Meeropol. party, Los Angeles. Mich. Fed. of Teachers, AFL-CIO. Twin Cities NOW. anyone anywhere can do to eliminate Arthur M11ler. Edith Van Horn, int'l rep., UAW their sadness. But to bar them from the Joseph MUler, Philadelphia SANE. Community Action Program. ritual of visiting Babii-Iar increases their Merle MUler. Robert Van Lierop, Africa Info. Service. suffering further and is clearly inhu Kate Millett. Ernesto Vigil, Crusade for Justice. mane. Minn. Fed. of Teachers Local 69, AFL-CIO. George Wald, Nobel Laureate. It is my sincere hope that the Soviet Minn. Women's Political Caucus. Robert Wall, ex-FBI agent. ofiicials will reverse their stand and al Rep. Parren Mitchell (D-Md.). Gerald Walker, The New York Times low the 35th commemoration of Babii Jessica Mitford. Magazine. Rev. Howard Moody. Eli Wallach. Iar to be marked by the Jews of the Howard Moore, atty. Bishop AlvLn Ward. region. Jane Moore, Majority Report. Mary Watkins, J. B. Johnson Defense Very Rev. James Parks Morton·. Comm. Nat'l Alliance Against Racist & Political Jack Weir, pres., Cleveland Newspaper REPLY TO HOUSE GOP POLICY Repression. GuJ..ld, AFL-CIO. COMMITTEE ECONOMIC STATE National Lawyers Guild. Rabbi Joseph Weizenbaum. MENT Huey P. Newton, Black Panthey party. Rexford Weng, v.p., Mass. AFL-CIO. Kaye Northcott, ed., Texas Observer. Warren Widener, mayor, Berkeley, Cali- No. Ca.lif. Nat'l. Women's Polltical Caucus. fornia. HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS Herb Williams, Cal. State U., San Francisco. Phil Ochs. OF CALIFORNIA William O'Kain, st:cy-treas., AFSCME Rev. Hosea Williams, Atlanta SCLC. Local 1644, Atlanta, AFL-CIO. John T. Williams, 1BT Local 208, Los IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Operation Push. Angeles. Thursday, September 23, 1976 John Oster, pres., Lake Cty., Ohio AFL-CIO. Robert F. Wllllams Gilbert Padilla, secy-treas., UFW, AFL-CIO. Clifford WUson, pres., St. Louis Coalition Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, on Sep Grace Paley. of Black Trade Unionists. tember 21, the Republican Policy Com Basil Paterson. Wilpf, St. Louis. mittee of the U.S. House of Representa Linus Pauling, Nobel Laureate. Rep. Andrew Young (D-Ga) tives issued a documentary analysis, Juan Jose Pena, La Raza Unida party, New Quentin Young, MCHR. purporting to estimate the increased Mexico. Gilbert Zicklln, pres., Maine CLU. Peoples Party. Howard Zinn, organizations for identifica Federal outlays and increased Federal Philadelphia Resistance. tion. tax rates which the Republican Policy Channing Phillips. FOOTNOTES Committee claims would result during Suzy Post, Nat'l Bd., ACLU. 1 Report by SWP National Organization the 4 years through 1980 in the event Rev. Robert Pruitt. Secretary Barry Sheppard, adopted by the that the American people decide this Richard Purple, pres., Twin Cities AAUP. National Committee plenum, May 2, 1976, November that there will be a Demo Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 33, No.4, June cratic national administration come Marcus Raskin, Inst. for Polley Studies. 1975, p. 21. Paula Reimers, v.p., AFT Local 2000, 2 Idem. January 1977. This Republican Policy Detroit, AFL-CIO. 3 Idem. Committee document, even allowing for David Rein, atty. 'International Information Bulletin, #7 in some expected exaggeration at election Malvina Reynolds. 1973, December 1973, p. 4. time, reaches a new level of public ir AI Richmond. 5 Idem; and Party Builder, SWP Organ~za responsibility, misrepresentation, and Myrian Richmond, Black Women's Coal., tional Discwssion Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 6, confusion. It is an attempt to frighten Atlanta. August 1974, p. 25. the American people, on the false as Ramona Ripston, exec. dir. So. Call!. ACLU. 6 House Committee on Internal Security sumption that the people are devoid of John Roberts, dir., Massachusetts CLU. Hearings, "National Peace Action Coalition Rev. Frank Robertson, All South Church, and Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice," intelligence and understanding. Washington. D.C. Part 4, p. 3601. The core of this Republican Political Margery Rosenthal, dir., Nat'l Comm. to 7 Internal Information Bulletin, No. 2, in Committee document is that the elec Reopen the Rosenberg Case. 1975, October 1975, pp. 10-11; and SWP Dis tion of a Democratic President would Annettee T. Rubinstein. cussion Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 4, June 1975, result in $217 billion of additional pub Muriel Rukeyser. p. 51. lic spending by 1980, or aggregate addi Kirkpa•llrick Sale. 8 Internal Information Bulletin, #7 in Beulah Sanders, chwmn, NWRO. 1973, December 1973, p. 8. tional Federal spending of $706 billion San Francisco NOW. 9 Ibid., p. 5. over a 4-year period. This is stated to Dore Schary. 10 Militant, September 27, 1974, p. 8. represent a 41-percent increase in the Franz Schurmann, U. of Calif. annual rate of Federal spending within Pete Seeger. 4 years, and to necessitate a 64-percent Lauren Selden, exec. dlr., Wash. ACLU tax increase. Evan Shirley, exec. dir. Hawaii ACLU. Even if these estimated increases in Bessie Shute, chwmn., Philadelphia CLUW SOVIETS THREATEN JEWS Affirmative Action Comm. Federal spending were deemed to have Mulford Q. Sibley, U. of Minnesota. HON. WILLIAM J. GREEN some authenticity-which they do not Paul Siegel, Long Island U. have-the estimated 41-percent increase Sol Silverman, pres. U. Furniture Wkrs. OF PENNSYLVANIA in Federal outlays would compare with Local 140, New York City, AFL-CIO. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a more than 60-percent increase during Dick Sklar. Thursday, September 23, 1976 the 4 fiscal years 1973-77, and a 114- Ma.rkaret Sloan, Nat'l. Black Femimst Org. percent increase during the 8 fiscal years Wi11iam Sloane, College Young Dems. Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, I am sad 1969-77, during which years we have Soc. Services Local 535, California, AFL- dened and shocked to hear that Soviet had a Republican national administra CIO. ofiicials are threatening Jews who plan Susan Sontag. tion A large part of these increases have Ann Sperry. to take part in commemorative activities occurred because of the fantastic in Paul Sperry. at Babii-Iar later this month. creases in interest charges against the Benjamin Spack. September 29 is the 35th anniver Federal Budget coupled with huge in Gloria Steinem. sary of the massacre at Babii-Iar of 100,- creases in the national debt, and because Oscar Steiner, Nat'l. Advisory Council 000 Jews. Surely this rings as one of the of swollen Federal outlays due to mas ACLU. most heinous events in. the history of sive unemployment--all due to the Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Oh). humanity, a shocking reminder of man's Chuck Stone. Nixon-Ford mismanagement of the na I. F. Stone. capacity for inhumanity toward his fel tional economy and their concurrence F. W. Stover, U.S. Farmers Assn. lowman. · in the wrongful polici..;s of the Federal Kenneth Sullivan, Oh. NAACP Youth Ad- I believe such reminders are important. Reserve Board. visor. Only if we regularly recall such painful These comparisons shed light upon the Percy Sutton. events Will we retain the vigilance to invalid claims of this Republican cam Paul Sweezy, ed., Monthly Review. guard against their repetition in the paign document as to how much less Harold Taylor. future. Federal expenditures would increase if September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32259 President Ford rather than Governor rates, and a benefit of about $50 billion accord with national economic and social Carter is the choice of the people in in such tax collections in 1980 alone. needs. November. These benefits also include an average In estimating the costs of a revised And even if these Republican campaign annual total national production, during farm and rural development program, document claims as to increased Federal the 4 years, about $180 billion higher the Republican campaign document spending were accompanied by some sen than would result from even optimistic takes no account of the benefits to the sible documentation-which they are projections of current national economic national economy, the fairer treatment not-the claims that this i.I'l.creased policies and programs. of the farm population, and the anti- spending would necessitate a 64-percent It is not my function to comment in inflationary results of a more adequate increase in tax rates is patently ridicu similar detail on all of the other exag- and certain food supply, which would re lous. For no account is taken in theRe gerations and distortions in this amazing suit from modifications in the costly and publican document of the vast increases Republican campaign document. But unworkable farm program of recent in Federal revenues which would result they are all subject to the same defects years and today. between now and 1980 even if the poli as the treatment of Humphrey-Hawkins In estimating the costs of improved cies of the current Republican national in that document. They arrive at results Federal aid to education at all levels, the administration were continued, and the based upon adding up the estimated costs Republican campign document appears immensely larger increases in Federal of 74 categories of programs, including impervious to the beneficial economic revenues which·would result under ana those attributed to the intentions of Gov- and social effects of improved educa tional administration dedicated to the ernor Carter, those attributed to the tional opportunity in its bearing upon restoration and maintenance of a full Democratic platform, those attributed to job performance capabilities and upon employment and full production programs already enacted by the Con- the well-being of our citizens. economy. gress, and those attributed to a variety Strangely the Republican campaign Beyond this and in some respects even of programs proposed but not enacted by document assumes considerable further more important, this Republican Policy various Members of the Congress. The inflation in its distorted estimates of in Committee campaign document bears no duplication and redundancy involved in creased Federal costs, but makes no al semblance to reality in its estimates of such an approach is extreme. For many lowance for the fact that, if such infia increased Federal outlays. An excellent of the proposals mixed into this strange tion in fact occurs, there will be example of this are the estimates of in Republican brew are alternative pro- comparable increases in the dollar value creased outlays if the Humphrey-Hawk posals of a thoughtful and useful nature, of tax collections by the Federal Govern ins bill were to become law early in 1977. while adoption of some of them would ment. This means, in effect, that the The Republican document estimates that necessarily exclude adoption of others. Republican campaign document emits such legislation would increased average Thus, this strange Republican brew puts horror scares as to the impact upon the annual Federal outlays during a 4-year together estimates for countercyclical Federal Budget of well considered pro period by $7.5-19.5 billion. The higher programs, public employment programs, grams designed to improve our economic figure is pulled out of thin air, because public works programs, direct stimula- performance and our social well-being. it assumes that the last-resort public tion to the private sector, and so forth, . It neglects entirely that the $70 billion service jobs under Humphrey-Hawkins without considering that enactment of Federal deficit of today and the would result in about a 40-percent dis any one of these programs in the magni- $50 billion deficit which the Republican placement of privately employed workers, tudes estimated by the Republican cam- administration itself projects for next and that the goal of reaching 3-percent paign document would call for far less year have resulted almost entirely from unemployment by 1980 would apply to of the other efforts than those estimated mismanagement of the national econ those 18 years of age and over. Obvi by the Republican campaign document. omy and from neglect of the American ously, this estimate is either a deliberate Next, a.s to each of these estimates, no people's needs, and that the only road distortion or is based upon failure even compensating benefits are brought into toward the reduction of the Federal def to read the new version of Humphrey the picture. For example, estimates are icit and toward a balanced Federal Hawkins reported by the House Educa made a.s to the Federal costs of national Budget by 1980 is proper management of tion and Labor Committee on Septem health insurance, and these estimates the national economy and alert attention ber 16, 1976. This new version makes it are compared with the current costs of to the people's needs. categorically clear that absolutely nobody .current programs. Yet, every informed During 1969-75, the Republican impact would be drawn from private employment person knows that, under current pro- upon national economic policies resulted to last-resort public service jobs, that grams, the health costs imposed upon in an average annual real economic these last-resort jobs could not be ini American families have been and still are growth of only 1.8 percent, a forfeiture of tiated until at least 2 years after enact soaring at an unconscionable rate, and almost a trillion 1975 dollars worth of ment, and that the 3-percent unemploy tha~ one of the ~ajor consequences of total national production, a forfeiture of ment goal applies to those 20 years of n9:t10nal health .Insurance would be to $8,330 of average family income, and age and over and not to those 18 and brmg these soarmg costs under control. almost 17 million man- and woman- over. The Republican campaign document's years of unemployment above the level Even the lower figure of a $7.5 billion estimates of the additional costs of wei- of unemployment consistent with full average annual cost under Humphrey fare reform compare these with current employment. These developments have Hawkins is a gross exaggeration. It ne welfare costs. It makes no allowance for reduced Federal Budget revenues, at ex glects the new provisions of the bill which the fact that the costs under current isting tax rates, by close to $250 billion. place predominant stress upon the ex approaches are soaring, and that wel- Enough is enough. pansion of private employment, and fare reform accompanied by a full em- which place a variety of severe limita ployment program would greatly reduce tions upon the number of last-resort pub welfare and related costs by reducing PERSONAL EXPLANATION lic service jobs and the pay applicable tremendously the numbers of the unem to such jobs. More important, it neglects ployed. In calculating the Federal costs the conservative estimates of the com of welfare reform, the Republican cam HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD pensating benefits which would result paign document makes no proper allow OF PENNSYLVANIA from all of the t'rovisions of Humphrey ance for the favorable impact upon State ·IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hawkins, designed realistically to bring and local welfare costs. Costs at all levels us to reasonably full employment and are paid for ultimately by the taxpayer Thursday, September 23, 1976 full production by 1980. These compen and the consumer. Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. sating benefits, comparing the outlook In estimating the Federal costs of a Speaker, because I was absent from the under Humphrey-Hawkins with the out subsidy program for low-rent housing, Cpamber, I missed some :r:ollcall votes on look under even optimistic projects of no estimate is made of the employment, August30. the results under continuation of current national product, and national income Had I been present and voting, I would nationa! economic policies and programs, benefits which would result from lifting have voted in the following manner. include an average annual benefit of the annual volume of total housing pro "Yea'' on rollcall No. 671. about $36 billion in differentially higher duction from what it has averaged in "Yea" on rollcall No. 672. Federal tax collections under existing tax recent years to double this average in "Yea" on rollcal~ No. 673. 322.60 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1976 "Yea" on rollcall No. 674. ing and receiving editorials in some com under the seabed and subsoil of the Outer "No" on rollcall No. 675. mercial journals restating the industry Continental Shelf. S. 521 modernizes the 1953 "Yea" on rollcall No. 676. position word for word, and making rash Act by providing specific statutory guide statements about the proposed OCS leg lines, standards, and procedures, for the ex ploitatwn of oil and gas resources in the islation. We are attempting to respond to subsoil and seabed, and by the providing new OPPOSITION TO OUTER CONTINEN each and everyone of these communica authority and mandates to appropriate fed TAL SHELF LANDS ACT AMEND tions so as to accurately state the facts. eral officials to assure balanced and orderly MENTS OF 1976 As to the NOIA advertisement, the development of such resources. major oil companies suggest that the S. 521 details findings, purposes, and poli OCS bill will add 45 more steps to the cies as to our need to increase our domestic HON. JOHN M. MURPHY regulatory machinery and thus add two supply of oil and gas through the develop OF NEW YORK ment of our nation's Outer Continental more years to OCS development. In fact, Shelf ("OCS") resources in an orderly man IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as noted by Senator JACKSON in his CoN ner, so as to protect the environment, con Thursday, September 23, 1976 GRESSIONAL RECORD insert Of Septem sider alternative uses of coastal lands and ber 10, 1976
STIMULATE SMALL BUSINESS fishing, swimming, and surfing. The cost base adjoins the Cleveland National For The fifth area of activity is the special of establishing this park would be mini est to the northeast. legislation I have proposed to give small mal, since the property is already pub The Marines can readily transfer most businessmen special tax consideration. licly owned and roads and utilities are of their gunnery ranges and many of My bill-H.R. 14925-would encourage in place. their other training facilities to their small business to create new jobs on I propose that the new park be named huge base 50 miles northeast of Palm Long Island by giving the smaller busi the Santa Margarita National Recrea Springs. The Twentynine Palms Marine nesses lower tax rates, leaving more tion Area. The 200-square-mile property Corps Training Center is the world's money for expansion. Credit would also in northern San Diego County was orig largest Marine base, covering 600,000 be provided against Federal taxes of 50 inally named Rancho Santa Margarita acres. Gen. George Patton trained his percent of wages of new employees added by the early Spanish settlers. The Ma tank corps nearby during World War II. by small business. rine Corps took over the rancho in 1942 Marine Corps manpower has been A NEW SPffiiT OF CONFIDENCE shortly after the United States entered sharply reduced in recent years. At the World War II. peak of the Vietnam war in 1969, there I am concentrating on jobs for Long President Ford recently appealed for were 310,000 Marines on active duty. The Island, but I am not unmindful of the doubling the size of the national park corps has now been cut by 36 percent interdependence of our area on New York system. In his August 31 statement at to a level of 196,000. Major Marine Corps City and the general health of the State. Yellowstone National Patk, the President bases are in Okinawa, Hawaii, Arizona, For that reason, as the dean of the called for a rapid expansion of the na Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Republican congressional delegation, I tional parks "to alleviate overcrowding and Japan. have worked actively with the Demo problems" in recreation areas. Nowhere A small corner of Camp Pendleton has cratic Members to form a Northeast in the Nation is there a greater need for already been put to other uses. The San Midwest Economic Advancement Coali a new national park than in southern Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was tion so that we can work together to help California. We have no national parks constructed on the beach in the north our New York region get a fairer share there. The closest is at Yosemite, hun part of the base a decade ago. Two more of Federal contracts and funds. dreds of miles away in central California. nuclear generators are now under con We can keep Long Island ahead of the And, like the other parks in the West, struction. And the ut ~.lities are now rest of the area in the job field, and I Yosemite is totally overwhelmed. In the studying the feasibility of building four promise to keep my efforts going strong past year alone, the number of visitors more atomic plants inland on the base. in this area in the years ahead. to Yosemite has increased by more than A State beach was established on 5 60 percent. The California State park miles of the Camp Pendleton coast in A NEW NATIONAL PARK IN SOUTH system is also inadequate. 1971. The San Onofre State Beach has ERN CALIFORNIA The only way we can adequately meet already become the most popular camp the recreation needs of southern Califor ground in the State park system and a nia and the millions of tourists who visit mecca for surfers and surf-fishermen. HON. ALPHONZO BELL there each year is to develop Camp The 700-acre park is already over OF CALIFORNIA Pendleton as a huge national recreation crowded. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES area. More than 11.5 million persons now Unfortunately, the Marine Corps bit live within 2 hours driving time of terly opposed any multiple use of Camp Thursday, September 23, 1976 Camp Pendleton. By the year 2000-less Pendleton. When the Atomic Energy Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I in than 24 years from ·now-the Los An Commission sought the site for the nu troduced legislation (H.R. 15662) that geles-San Diego megalopolis will have clear plant 20 years ago, the Marines calls for a new national park to be a population of 15.4 million. And in the fought so fiercely over the property-less formed from most of the sprawling Camp year 2020 nearly 20 million persons will than 100 acres-that it took an act of Pendleton Marine Corps Base midway be crawling over each other for space Congress to get the land. And when Presi between Los Angeles and San Diego, to swim, hike, and camp. dent Nixon ordered the Marines to allow This Federal property includes 18 miles Camp Pendleton is the ideal location a State park on unused beach just south of broad, pristine beach, numerous for a national park. The San Diego Free of his San Clemente home, the Marine scenic, oak-filled canyons, three moun way runs the lengtb of the base along the Corps even defied the wishes of their tain chains, and several lakes and coast, providing easy access from Los An Commander in Chief. It took the inter streams. geles and Orange Counties to the north vention of Congress and the wrath of the This could be the most popular na and San Diego County to the south. White House to finally force the Marines, tional park in America. There is already There is also easy freeway access from after 16 months of intransigence, to give a critical need for camping, hiking, and Riverside and San Bernardino Counties up the beach. beach recreation areas in California. to the east. The Santa Fe railroad also I expect that the Marines will claim Camp Pendleton covers more than 125,- parallels the freeway. There is a fine net they need every inch of the remaining 000 acres of the last, large undeveloped work of roads-more than 260 miles 13 miles of beach, and every hill and coastal area in southern California. connecting the freeway with the back valley on the base. But it is obvious that It is time for this Federal land to be country valleys and mountains. Because they do not. In fact, the Marines have put to its best use. This unspoiled pre of these existing facilities and the public already opened up much of Camp Pen serve between the ever-expanding Los ownership of the land, the cost of con dleton to camping, sW:mming, fishing, Angeles-San Diego megalopolis is too verting the northern 100,000 acres of the even hunting, for Marine Corps and valuable to be used exclusively as a mili base to a national park would be only a other military personnel and their fami tary base. A portion of the beach and small fraction of the normal cost of such lies. Over the recent Labor Day weekend, the Marine headquarters area should be a recreational facility. there were thousands of these special left to the Marine Corps for training, but This Federal undertaking will ease the private citizens enjoying the miles of the majority of Camp Pendleton is large burden of the State of California, which Marine Corps beach, while the public ly unneeded by the Marines and should is spending hundreds of millions of dol was jammed into San Onofre State be turned into a national recreation lars to acquire beach and park land. The Beach. area. The Marines can readily transfer new park would complement the new Camp Pendleton is a treasure-house of their gunnery ranges and other training State coastline protection act, passed last natural beauty. The 18-mile stretch of facilities to their training base near Palm month by the State legislature to control sandy beach is the finest in California. Springs. development of the priceless coastal area Surfers report the waves are the best in I am introducing a bill today that calls and provide public access to the beaches. the country outside of Hawaii. The off for the Interior Department to make a The public need for recreational facili shore reefs make for excellent surf-fish 1-year study of the feasibility and desir ties now outweighs the Marine Corps' ing. Magnificent, 6-million-year-old ability of the park and its boundaries. need for most of Camp Pendleton. Only sandstone cliffs, carved by wind and ·I expect more than 6,000 campsites could 3 or 4 miles of the beach are used for water, reach up from the beach to the be established in the mountains, can amphibious ·training and much of . the coastal plateau. From there, rolling hills yons, and beaches, as well as enormous inland area is leased for farming and reach into the interior mountain ranges. day-use facilities for picnicking, hiking, ranching or preserved as wilderness. The There are. numerous canyons filled with September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32267 huge oak and sycamore trees several under the first section of this Act, the Secre INCREASING DEPENDENCE OF centuries old. There are many ancient tary shall consult with- UNITED STATES ON IMPORTED Indian sites around the lakes and year ( 1) other interested Federal agencies, in cluding the Department of the Navy, OIL round streams. At the higher elevations (2) the California State Department of the forest turns to pine and alder trees. Parks and Recreation, and Wildlife, particularly deer, abounds. (3) the San Diego County Department of HON. EDWIN B. FORSYTHE Peaceful Indian tribes inhabited the Parks and Recreation. OF NEW JERSEY region when the Spanish explorers ar The Secretary shall consider in such study IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rived in California. The famed explorer any relevant planning activity involving the Gaspar de Portola left San Diego in July area referred to in the first section of this Thursday, September 23, 1976 of 1769 to discover the interior of the Act. SEc. 3. The Secretary shall complete the Mr. FORSYTHE. Mr. Speaker, my new colony. Six days out, the party made study required under the first section of this colleagues in the House should have re camp in a verdant valley which they Act within one year after the date of the ceived today a letter signed by the four named Santa Margarita in honor of the enactment of this Act and shall submit to House minority members of the confer saint whose day it was. The Mission San the President and to the Congress within 30 ence committee on S. 521, the Outer Luis Rey was later built nearby by mis days after the date of the completion of such Continental Shelf Lands Act amend sionaries. study a written report containing the find ments. That letter details the frustra The first owner of Rancho Santa Mar ings and recommendations of the Secretary which arise out of such study. Such report tion of the members concerning the way garita was Pio Pico, who became the shall include- the conference was conducted and first Governor of California under Mexi (1) findings with respect to the scenic, points out the unwillingness of the con can rule. His brother, Andres Pico, com natural, and recreational values of the area ference committee to responsibly at manded the California forces against the referred to in the first section of this Act; tempt to deal with substantive issues. American troops that finally conquered (2) any recommendations the Secretary The conference report to be brought California and made it a U.S. territory. may have for the preservation of such area, before the House for ratification not John Forster, an English adventurer who and (3) the estimated costs of establishing a only still contains the numerous pro had married a sister of the Pico brothers, national recreation area in such area. visions of the House-passed bill with po purchased the rancho in 1864. From his SEc. 4. There are authorized to be appro tential for major delays in leasing and huge spread, "Don Juan" Forster sent priated $200,000 to carry out the provisions development of the OCS, but also now cattle drives to San Francisco each of this Act. incorporates provision for Federal ex spring and horses to Arizona and Utah. ploration for oil and gas on the OCS. In 1876, he sent 1,000 horses to Chicago "OWED TO DOC MORGAN" The enactment of this legislation in its for the Army, breaking them during the present form, therefore, could not only 2,000-mile drive. delay and possibly halt develoP.ment of When Forster died in 1882, the rancho HON. TENNYSON GUYER the oil and gas resources of the OCS so was sold to the O'Neill family. More OF OHIO vital to the national interests of the than 25,000 acres were planted in barley, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES United States but could also cost the hay, and vegetables. At one time, 10,000 Thursday, September 23, 1976 Federal Government billions of dollars cattle grazed on the vast rancho. Even in exploration costs. today, nearly 1,000 cattle and 15,000 ·Mr. GUYER. Mr. Speaker, in recogni Such a bill is not a realistic attempt sheep are raised on the base. tion of the Honorable THOMAS E. MoR to produce legislation which can be In 1942, shortly after Pearl Harbor, GAN's distinguished service in the U.S. signed into law but is, instead, a political the Second War Powers Act was invoked Congress and as outstanding chairman attempt to embarrass the administra and the Federal Government paid the of the House Committee on International tion in an election year. O'Neill family a little more than $4 mil Relations, this original poem was given But while Congress plays politics lion for Rancho Santa Margarita. The at a reception at which the committee instead of responsibly dealing with land today is valued at more than $1 members paid their tribute and high issues, our national energy situation billion. President Roosevelt dedicated esteem. steadily worsens. As the House acts on Camp Pendleton in September, 1942. He It is as follows: the conference report, I would like to was so impressed by the history and "OWED To Doc MoRGAN" bring to the attention of my colleagues beauty of Rancho Santa Margarita that In this earthly transient stream, in the House an article which appeared he promised to return someday for a Few men consummate their dream. in the New York Times on August 17, visit. "Reserve this room for the next 1976. Clearly, we have not learned from ex-President of the United States," Roos Congress, more than all the rest, Seldom paints orie at his best. the experience of the 1973 oil embargo. evelt told the Marines as he toured the The article follows: beautiful old ranch house. Solons come-some ill-begotten, SALE OF ARAB OIL TO UNITED STATES Is Today, it is time to add a new chapter Soon are gone, and soon forgotten. DOUBLED--CRUDE SHIPMENTS IN THE FIRST to the history of Rancho Santa Mar But with us-a rare exception, HALF OF YEAR ACCOUNT FOR 12.4 PERCENT garita. Under the National Park Service, Our Doc's a man of true affection. OF TOTAL DEMAND it will become a place of beauty and rec Esteemed abroad by Queen and King, (By William D. Smith) reation for all the American people. Rulers everywhere, his praises sing. The United States doubled its dependence The text of H.R. 15662 reads: on direct supplies of Arab-produced crude Ambassadors in high elations, H .R. 15662 oil during the first half of 1976, according Credit him for rich relations. to a recent survey by The Petroleum In A bill to authorize a study of the feasibility telligence Weekly, an authoritative trade and desirability of establishing a national Colleagues with impartial smile, Share approval-'cross the aisle. publication. recreation area to be known as the Santa Crude-oil shipments from Arab nations in Margarita National Recreation Area in the Those of us who know him best, the first half of this year supplied the United area in San Diego County, California, Join hands and proudly do attest. States with 12.4 percent of its total oil de whioh presently constitutes Camp Pendle- · mand, compared with only 6.6 percent a year ton Some doctors' sins are neatly found, Safely tucked beneath the ground; earliert according to the report. Indirect Be it enacted by the Senate and House of shipments from the Arab nations through Representatives of the United States of But Morgan's star will not decline, Caribbean refineries and then to the United America in Congress assembled, That the He leaves a record-true and fine. States in the form of petroleum products Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter re further increased American dependence on ferred to as the "Secretary") shall conduct No guile, deceit, or gross deception, Arab sources, according to energy analysts. a study of the feasibility and desirability of His gift, his life is sound perception. The situation leaves the United States establishing a national recreation area, to Time will enshrine his name and face, more vulnerable to an Arab oil embargo be known as the Santa Margarita National But no one will ever take his place. than at any time in its history, as a number Recreation Area, in the area of San Diego of administration omcials have recently County, California, which presently consti Who can know as years increase, warned. What gift he left to lasting peace. tutes Camp Pendleton. Such study shall in In late July, Secretary of Commerce Elliot clude ocean waters which are adjacent to, or What Doc does next, no one can teu, Richardson said, "If another embargo were included in, Camp Pendleton. But in true accord, we wish him well! Imposed the results would be literally SEc. 2. In carrying out the study required -TENNYsoN GuYER, September 19, 1976. catastrophic." 32268 EXTENSIONS OF R·EMARKS September 23, 1976 ABSENCE OF THREAT States of America, was particularly im puters has greatly increased the nation's need for data communications services. These Students of oil and politics are quick pressed with the efforts of our dedicated services are already provided to a. very large to note that the Arab oil producers have not chairwoman, Representative LINDY degree by telephone companies and only to threatened an embargo. On the other hand, BoGGS. She did a superb job of co a. lesser extent by competitive data com Frank G. Zarb, the Federal Energy Admin ordinating the many adivities that munications companies. istrator, in an interview in The Mideast Re formed our congressional recognition of Retail stores, banks and other financial port, a newsletter, noted that the Arab pro this national birthday. institutions, insurance companies, ut111t1es, ducers had not said "we will not resume a po As the majority member from the schools, hospitals, manufacturing companies litical embargo." "Absent of that, I have to and federal, state and local government assume that it is possible," he added. House on the Board of the American agencies, for example, depend to an increas According to the Petroleum Intelligence Revolution Bicentennial Administration, ing extent on the avallab111ty of reason report, crude oil imports rose to 4.74 million she traveled extensively helping com ably priced data transmission services. The barrels a day in the first half of 1976 from munities put together the various seg growth of data. communications networks 3.71 million barrels a day in the first half of ments of what was by any account the in recent years has greatly improved the ef 1975. most unique birthday observance ever ficiency of information processing in these SUPPLIES THROUGH CARmBEAN put on by any nation. fields. Thus, you can understand the grave The entire increase of a mtilion barrels Despite her heavy schedule of con concern felt by all of · us in the informa a day in crude oil imports was met by Arab tion-processing industry with legislative pro oil, which rose to 2.1 million barrels a day, gressional work, her participation in posals which, in effect, would make the data or 44 percent, of the 4.7 million barrels a day many civic and humanitarian organiza communications industry even less competi of total imports. In 1975, Arab producers ac tions, she somehow found the time to tive than it is today. counted for only 29 percent of crude-oil sup- coordinate the Bicentennial. The proposed legislation would transfer plies. No community effort was too small from the Federal Communications Commi.s The first half of 1976 also saw Saudi Arabia for her concern. I particularly recall her sion to the 50 individual states the authority pass Venezuela as the chief supplier of crude willingness to substitute for me as a to determine the terms and conditions under oil and products to the United States, a. posi which data terminals could be connected to tion the South American country has held speaker on the Fourth of July in a small any interstate telephone network. Not only since before WorJd War ll. community in the Maryland suburbs. is it questionable that all of the states would In the first half of this year the Saudis Her remarks were extremely well re have the resources and capab111ty to assume supplied the United States with 1.09 million ceived and she added a great deal to such a complex responsibil1ty, but even barrels a. day of crude oil, compared with the local Bicentennial parade. I am most worse, there is no guarantee of ·nation 578,000 barrels a. day during the first half appreciative of this gesture by our chair wide uniform technical requirements for con of last year. The Saudis also supplied. some woman, and it typifies her all-out dedi necting into such networks. Also, it is quite oil indirectly through the Caribbean. cation to making the Bicentennial a possible that in some states users of data Venezuelan crude supplies to the United terminals would be orohibited from connect States, on the other hand, dropped to 155,000 memorable period in our Nation's ing into the telephone system any equip barrels a. day from 389,000 a. year earlier. history. ment not supplied by the telephone industry Venezuelan crude was also the base for some I join my colleagues on the committee itself. In fact, there was an attempt recently additional 300,000 barrels of products shipped in extending to her our appreciation for in North Carolina to ban such interconnec through Caribbean refineries to the United the many hours she put in, and for the tions even in the absence of legislation such States. successful and impressive events that as H.R. 12323. Canada, the other traditional Western were the highlights of Capitol partici It is not difficult to visualize the chaotic Hemisphere supplier of oil to American results of permitting 50 independent regula markets also cut its shipments, with exports pation in this unique observance. tory agencies to establish the terms, condi dropping to 404,000 barrels of crude a day tions and specifications under which business from 554,000 barrels a. day last year. equipment could be connected into the tele Most Arab producers also increased their phone system within their respective states. shipments to the United States. Algeria. in CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS RE The situation would be somewhat analogous creased its exports to America to 376,000 bar FORM ACT OF 1976 to giving each state the right to coin its own rels a day from 274,000; Libya. raised its to currency. The resulting confusion and the 375,000 barrels a. day from 129,000 barrels added costs to data communication users, a. day and the United Arab Emirates advanced HON. JOE MOAKLEY and ultimately the public itself, would be its shipments to the United States from 90,- OF ~ASSACHUSETTS staggering. 000 barrels a. day to 197,000 barrels a. day. The heavily financed lobbying and public Among the non-Arab producers, Nigeria. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES relations campaign currently being waged by raised its shipments to the United States to Thursday, September 23, 1976 the telephone industry to promote H.R. 12323 887,000 barrels a day from 723,000 barrels a. or simllar legislation seeks to persuade the day last year while Indonesian exports rose Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Congress and the public that unless there to 484,000 barrels a. day from 332,000 barrels James R. Reed, a resident in my Ninth is a. change in the present national policy of a day in the first half of 1975. Congressional District of Massachusetts, permitting limited competition in providing has written to me in regard to the Con data communications services, residential sumer Communications Reform Act of telephone rates wm have to be increased. It 1976. I believe that Mr. Reed presents is difficult to take this argument seriously. Why should the telephone industry require A SUPERB JOB BY REPRESENTATIVE a very strong and intelligent argument a monopoly in the data transmission field in LINDY BOGGS against this major piece of legislation, order to operate profitably? and I would like to share Mr. Reed's re So far as data transmission rates are con marks with my colleagues. cerned, lack of competition would ensure that HON. JOHN J. RHODES The letter follows: such rates would rise out of proportion to any OF ARIZONA DoVER, MASS., future increases in the costs of providing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 1, 1976. those services. In addition, with 50 independ Congressman JOHN J. MOAKLEY, ent regulatory agencies establishing differ Thursday, September 23, 1976 JFK Federal Building, ent technical standards for the hundreds of Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, for many Boston, Mass. types of data processing equipment linked Americans the U.S. Capitol was the focal DEAR CoNGRESSMAN MOAKLEY: I am writ into telephone networks, the costs to busi point of their travels to historical sites ing to you about the "Consumer Communi-· ness equipment companies of developing and cation Reform Act of 1976" originally in manufacturing all of these product varia during this Bicentennial Year. Display troduced by Congressman Roncalio as H.R. tions would result in substantially higher of the Magna Carta, the visit of the 12323. Despite the name, it 1s becoming equipment prices. These higher prices would Queen of England and other chiefs of increasingly clear that this proposed legis ultimately have to be borne by the business, state, the Centennial Safe, all added lation is actually anti-consumer, anti-com commercial and government users of that historic import to the observance by munications and anti-reform. In fact, this equipment. Congress of our 200th anniversary. The b111, or similar legislation if enacted, would The best interests of the United States visitors' center on the Mall was an oasis seriously hamper the future progress of data and its people are, and always will be de communications throughout the United pendent upon the maintenance of a free of conveniences for the thousands who States by sanctioning a. monopoly 1n this and competitive marketplace. That is the came here this summer. field for the benefit of the telephone in only type of environment which requires As a member of the Joint Committee dustry, primarily the Bell System. each supplier of a product or service to of on Arrangements for the Commemora As you know, the advent of new types of fer the best it can at lowest possible price. tion of the :Sicentennial of the United electronic business equipment linked to com- Such an environment will be destroyed in September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32269 the data communications industry if, through the greater part of his life to public serv It surely was, at the least, an unex sanction of the federal government, only the ice for the residents of the Youngstown telephone companies are allowed to provide cusable event that I hope I never have to the nation's ever growing needs in this area. area. Our community is truly a better witness again. If you would like to discuss the repercus place in which to live and raise a fam sions of the proposed "Bell Bill" in greater ily, because of the presence of this in detail, I would be happy to meet with you dividual. I am sure that all the citizens personally the next time you are in the Dis of Youngstown join me in expressing THE HEAVY HANDED PUNCH OF trict. I am confident that you will recognize appreciation to Larry for the many years ORGANIZED TEACHERS the adverse impact which such legislation of tireless dedication he has brought to would have and will want to help alert your colleagues, many of whom have indicated every job he has undertaken, and I look support of this legislation, apparently with forward to being with my many friends HON. PHILIP M. CRANE out having full understanding of all its im in the Italian American community for OF ILLINOIS plications. the Columbus Day festivities. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sincerely, JAMES R. REED. Thursday, September 23, 1976 Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, American CONGRESSIONAL RUDENESS TO A education is clearly in a serious state of HEAD OF STATE decline. Although more money is being MR. LARRY SENA, CHAIRMAN OF spent on public education than ever be THE COLUMBUS DAY COMMITTEE fore, less is being learned. Scholastic OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO HON. CARDISS COLLINS aptitude tests in reading and mathe OF ILLINOIS matics are at all-time lows. Organized teachers, rather than ad IN THE HOUSE OF' REPRESENTATIVES mitting the difficulties and seeking to HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY Thursday, September 23, 1976 OF OHIO remedy them, have often denied that any problem existed. In an important IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ms. COLLINS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I speak at this time on a matter that series concerning the decline in educa Thursday, September 23, 1976 causes me very serious concern. Today tion in the Washintgon Post, Jack Mc Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, on Satur the House and the Senate were sched Curdy and Don Speitch write that- day, October ·9, the Greater Youngstown uled to meet in joint session to receive a Powerful national and educational orga Columbus Day Committee will host a pa distinguished foreign head of state, the nizations ... have chosen not to assume a leadership role in a search for the causes of rade in downtown Youngstown commem Honorable William Tolbert, President of the decline. Instead, groups such as the Na orating Christopher Columbus' discov Liberia. As is customary, we were to be tional Education Association and the Ameri ery of America. The chairman of this honored by having President Tolbert de can Association of School Administrators committee is Mr. Larry J. Sena, a long liver an address to the Members of the have tffnded to avoid or downplay the issue time friend of mine and a distinguished Congress. However, many of my col or they have sidestepped the decline by American of Italian descent. leagues did not have the courtesy to at stressing current accomplishments ... Throughout his life, Larry has held a tend this event. The Senate, after first The National Education Ai3sociation, number of interesting and important po not even courteously terminating busi rather than showing concern about de sitions. During the 1930's and 1940's, he ness in order to attend the gathering, clining standards, says that the decline had his own trucking business. He then answered the call to convene this session is in fact, not important at all. The served 18 years as Democratic commit only after it had been made quite obvious P~st quotes an NEA official as stating teeman and 6 years on the executive to the distinguished guest and the many that- board. In 1950, Larry entered the Ma other visitors to the House Chamber that Tests aren't that important and their re honing County sheriff's office under the the Congress of the United States acted sults shouldn't be viewed with that kind of late Paul J. Langley, where he was as in a manner that was ill-mannered and concern. signed to the Civil Defense Office as di insulting. rector of public service and also to the Mr. Speaker, I wish I did not have to While the National Education Ai3so vice squad. Ai3 security officer under use these derogatory terms to describe ciation shows no interest in whether Sheriff Ray T. Davis, Mr. Sena was in the action of the Congress. But, how else students are learning, it does show an charge of protecting such dignitaries as is one to relate these events? We would interest in partisan politics. The NEA's the late President John F. Kennedy, Ad all be outraged if our President were Political Action Committee has come out lai Stevenson, and various Congressmen treated in this manner by the legislative in favor of the election of the Carter and judges. In 1970, Larry retired from .body of another land. It is simply dis Mondale ticket and will collect some $3 public service as a detective in the po courteous. million from its 1,870,000 members to engage in the political campaign. lice department. I am further embarrassed by these Not content to just sit around in his Discussing the unusual political con events because President Tolbert's visit cern of men and women who seem totally retirement, Larry is presently the chair comes on the eve of the sixth annual con man of the Greater Youngstown Colum unconcerned with their own jobs, col gressional Black Caucus weekend at umnist Nick Thimmesch notes that- bus Day Committee, which consists of which time black leaders will convene 36 Italian American organizations in Anybody who has looked at the scores of to review American politics and black college entrance examinations knows that as Trumbull County, Mahoning County, participation in the entire political sys public education budgets and teachers' sal and western Pennsylvania. He is also tem-both national and international. aries swelled across the Republic, the per president of the American Veterans and This poor congressional participation is formance scores of pupils went down. Last Civic Associations, and vice president of particularly embarrassing because Li year's results of Scholastic Aptitude Tests the Boardman, Ohio, chapter of the beria was the first African nation to es showed a record drop of 10 points. Educa American Association of Retired Per tablish diplomatic relations with the tion has become permissive. and basics suf sons. In addition, Larry is a member of fered . • . There is danger that we are United States, doing so in 1863. I am left spending record. amounts of money to edu the Greater Youngstown Crime Clinic to conclude by the absence of Members cate a generation of ninnies. and past State district trustee of the at the joint session that this body did not Fraternal Order of Police. feel itself obliged to welcome a foreign Teachers are undermining their own Larry and his wife of·33 years, the for head of state who happens to have black integrity by engaging, as a group, in par mer Josephine Albanese, now reside at skin. I surely hope this is not a telling tisan political activity. Mr. Thimmesch 4115 Lockwood Boulevard in Boardman, comment on the congressional attitude asks: Ohio. They have one stepson, Samuel P. toward Mrican political leadership. I Is it right for these teachers' unions to ad Vivelo, who is the director of services hope it is not an accurate reflection of here to a narrow, ideological point of view. for the city of Girard, Ohio, and two especially when education is supposed to al the way we choose to treat leaders of low a wide scope of ideas? • . • If teachers granddaughters, Mrs. Linda Kay Mc Third World nations. I trust it says no think only in terins of their own economic Clay and Sandee Sena. more than that the Congress had a seri and political interests. don•t they become Mr. Speaker, Larry Sena has devoted ous elapse of manners. mechanistic and actually antiintellec- CXXII--2034-Part 25 32270 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1976 tual? • . • Is it fair to have the nation's make phone calls and work the precincts union with Great Britain may be the Conse school children exposed to teachers who are that really make a difference in an election. quence of delay. increasingly ideologically minded and who Nearly all their candidates are Democrats, so Should Spain be disinclined to our Cause, shut out other points of view? the AFT, like the NEA, is a big weapon from an Apprehension of Danger to his Do against Republicans. minions in South America, you are empow The situation is becoming increasingly The NEA is power-minded. Four years ago ered to give the strongest Assurances, that serious. Teachers demand more pay and it formed a three-million-member coalition that Crown will receive no Molestation from less work while students faii to learn even with other public employes called CAPE. the United States, in the Possession of those the basics of reading and arithmetic. And this year it formed a political alliance Territories. Teacher's unions downplay educational with Jerry Wurf's Public Service Employes problems and devote their energies to Union, the United Mine Workers and the politics. Clearly, the American people de United Auto Workers to send delegates to the Democratic National Convention. As it UNION SOLDIERS serve something better than this. turned out, there were 150 NEA members as I wish to share with my coll~agues the delegates and 46 AFT. column, "The Heavy Handed Punch of The teachers' unions are tough today be HON. BOB WILSON Organized Teachers," by Nick Thim cause teachers were underpaid for genera mesch, as it appeared in the Septem tions, and suddenly there was a boom in OF CALIFORNIA ber 19, 1976 issue of Human Events, and numbers of school-age children, making it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES insert it into the RECORD at this time: possible for teachers to demand. Now, with Thursday, September 23, 1976 enrollments shrinking, teachers protect their THE HEAVY-HANDED PUNCH OF ORGANIZED economic interest. They love to get into the Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, un TEACHERS federal tlll, and t~ey hate being asked to der leave to extend my remarks I in (By Nick Thimmesch) account for their fa1llngs. clude the following: Anybody who has looked at the scores of The single most powerful political punch UNION SOLDIERS to be thrown this fall by a special interest college entrance examinations knows that as group belongs to the nation's teachers. Peda public education budgets and teachers' sal (By Howard Flieger) gogues are no longer benign or acquiescent. aries swelled across the Republic, the per To most people, the idea that those in They want more money and say so, and they formance scores of pupils went down. Last mmtary uniform should join a union to ne belong to labor unions. They back Carter year's results of Scholastic Aptitude Tests gotiate the terms of their employment is so Mondale and a big hike in federal aid to pub showed a record drop of 10 points. far out it is silly-but Congress is taking it lic education. So, look out. Education has become permissive, and seriously. If the membership claims of the National basics suffered. Grades have been inflated, The American Federation of Government Education Association (NEA) and the Ameri and students' rights emphasized. There is Employes-an affiliate of the -AFL--CIQ-put can Federation of Teachers (AFT) are danger that we are spending record amounts on its agenda a proposal to unionize soldiers, honest, these two labor unions represent all of money to educate a generation of ninnies. sailors, marines and airmen: our combined but 100,000 of the nation's 2.2 million ele We put good money after bad, but Carter first line of mmtary defense. mentary and secondary public school Mondale are so pleased to have that cam The union motivation is obvious. If its teachers. paign help and those votes. leaders could add to their quiver the right to That doesn't mean that the members are Beyond the strife of the campaign, there represent those in uniform, their power in robot-obedient to the NEA and AFT! but it is another basic question here, and it deals dealing with the Federal Government would does mean that there is an enormous con with fairness. make them one of the most awesome instru centration of power in these organizations. Is it right for these teachers' unions to ments of bargaining in the history of orga The leadership is m111tant and illiberal in its adhere to a narrow, ideological point of view, nized labor. liberalism because it shuts out any conserva especially when education is supposed to al But it really isn't as simple a.s that. Fun tive point of view. low a wide scope of ideas? Is the good society damentally, the issue is whether the Gov The NEA's Political Action Committee which educators have talked about for gen ernment or a union is going to determine (PAC) recommended that the NEA back erations a form of watered-down Swedish so and enforce the foreign policy of the U.S. Carter-Mondale. Some 9,000 delegates to the cialism? If teachers think only in terms of That is why 25 of the 100 United States last convention are presently balloting on their own economic and political interests, Senators are cosponsoring a bill to ban that recommendation, but the outcome will don't they become mechanistic and actually union activity within the armed forces. surely follow what NEA-PAC asked for. Ac anti-intellectual?. The prolabor argument is that, since we tually, the announcement is being orches Is it good for the political process to have now have armed forces composed of volun trated to coincide with a Carter-Mondale visit teachers glued to one p•arty? teers, the present military personnel are not to Washington, so that one or the other will And finally, is it fair to have the nation's so much careerists as they are civilians work be on hand to exude gratitude and receive school children exposed to teachers who are ing in uniform and, thus, are entitled to be appropriate war whoops from the assembled. increasingly ideologically minded and who repre.sented by a union the same as other NEA-PAC will collect some $3 million from shut out other points of view? workers. its 1,870,000 members this year to do political Those now in uniform, the argument goes, war. All but $731,000 will be spent on the are not there because of patriotism but be state and local level. The money is collected cause they want a good job. In that circum by adding a $1 assessment to the regular dues TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY stance, they should be allowed to organize, checkoff. Members who do not want to don safeguarded by labor's traditional and court ate must fill out a form for a refund. There protected right to strike. sult is most members donate because it's too HON. CHARLES E. WIGGINS It may sound reasonable in peacetime. much bother to collect that buck back, and OF CALIFORNIA But what about wa;r? Is a union shop stew besides your name goes on record as being IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ard going to decide whether America's armed a non-contributor. forces will fight in the future? In 1974 NEA-PAC raised $250,000 for candi Thursday, September 23, 1976 Sen. Barry Goldwater (Rep.), of Arizona, dates. It backed 28 candidates for the Sen recently told the Senate: ate and 22 were elected; 229 out of 282 NEA Mr. WIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, 200 years "It stands to reason that unionizing the House candidates won. Heady with this high ago, on September 24, 1776, the Conti uniformed military personnel of this nation batting average, the NEA vowed to go all-out nental Congress approved the draft of would not strengthen but seriously weaken 1n 1976, and it is. · the instructions that were to be sent, America's preparedness for any eventuality, Same with the AFT, with its 475,000 mem along with the treaty plan approved on be it a threat from the Soviet Union or some bers (some also belong to NEA). Albert September 17, to its diplomatic agents other aggressor. It would destroy the military Shanker is president, and he gave you all in Europe. The instructions allowed the chain of command and ruin the discipline so those lovely teacher strikes in New York City necessary for the proper performance of mili and elsewhere, causing the NEA to try to agents to make certain minor concessions tary missions . ... When you project a mili match AFT and its strike power. Nothing in the anticipated treaty negotiations. tary man's right to strike into a combat sit like competition. The agents were further advised: uati·on, you come up with a ridiculous situa Anyway, the AFT hopes to collect $400,000 It is highly probable that France means tion which cannot .be explained away under for its political action fund, although it not to let the United States sink in the pres any circumstances." doesn't use the heavy-handed deduction ent Contest. But as the Difficulty of obtain As a matter of fact, the courts have long technique of the NEA. Some 70 per cent of ing true Accounts of our Condition may cause recognized that, even in a democracy, workers AFT's political money goes for state and an Opinion to be entertained that we are able in and out of uniform are two entirely dif local activity and candidates. The AFT, by a to support the War on our own Strength and ferent beings. Their rights cannot be equated vote of 94 per cent of its delegates, endorsed Resources longer than, in fact, we can do, it one with the other. Carter-Mondale. will be proper for you to press for the im More than two decades ago, the Supreme But the AFT stresses that while money mediate and explicit declaration of France in Court said of the uniqueness of working con helps, it is the teachers who volunteer to our Favour, upon a Suggestion that a Re- ditions in the military:
'· September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32271 "Its law is that of obedience. No question me fight muscular dystrophy. I want peo Non-farm consumer cooperatives, however, can be left open as to the right of command ple to be happy and healthy." have been hampered in their formation and in the officer, or the duty of obedience in the Missy asks for donations too. "If they give growth by lack of access to cooperative fi soldier." I say thank you very much," she said. "If nancing and lack of technical assistance. As recently as March of this year, the they don't donate, I say thank you any A National Bank for Consumer Coopera Supreme Court held: ways. Some people have second thoughts." tives could enable non-farm cooperatives to "A military organization is not constructed "I enjoy doing it," Missy said about col secure adequate financing for operations and along democratic lines and military activities lecting the money. "I see lots and lots of expansions. It could lead to more efficient cannot be governed by democratic proce people. delivery of products and ,services to consum dures. Military institutions are necessarily Missy got a bonus with her newly begun ers and narrow the spread between produc far more authoritarian; military decisions autograph book this summer. Several politi tion costs and consumer prices-benefittlng cannot be made by vote of the interested cal candidates like Congressman James J. both consumers and producers. participants." Blanchard (D-Pleasant Ridge) signed her By involving more non-farmers in coopera This is the thing labor organizers face, book while she collected money and they tives, it could also broaden the base of co once they set out to rally the armed forces campaigned for the August primary. operative understanding-which could be under a union label. Here is one field where This active youngster usually collects the helpful to farmers and their cooperatives. the nation's security cannot tolerate author money an hour at a time. The rest of her ity that is divided between union and man day is filled With assorted activities like agement representatives. A strike in civilian modern dance, tap dance and the piano. She life becomes mutiny in uniform. finds time in between to get the Muscular We have no draft. No one has to serve in Dystrophy funds. TRIBUTE TO THE LATE EARLE CA the armed forces against his will. Those who BELL, FORMER CONGRESSMAN volunteer to do so must accept as a condition FROM THE FIFTH CONGRESSION of employment the fact that they are under AL DISTRICT, DALLAS, TEX. the discipline of a single command. CONSUMER COOPERATIVES If they don't accept that, the armed forces of the United States wm be nothing. HON. RICHARD BOLLING HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE OF TEXAS OF MISSOURI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THE NEWS IS NOT ALL BAD-ASK Thursday, September 23, 1976 MISSY MILLER Thursday, September 23, 1976 Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, this week Mr. BOLLING. Mr. Speaker, helping marks the anniversary of the death of HON. JAMES J. BLANCHARD people to help themselves has been the my good friend, Earle Cabell. OF MICHIGAN time-tested success story of the coopera tive movement in the United States. The Earle came to Congress at a difficult IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES soundness of making available reason time of his death by A. c. Greene, Chan Thursday, September 23, 1976 pillared by national and international able financing to farmers and their co media in the aftermath of President Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, one operatives so they can maintain inde Kennedy's death. He restored dignity of the more enjoyable things about be pendent and competitive positions in our economy was proven as long ago and respect for the congressional seat in ing a Member of Congress is having the which he served. opportunity to recognize outstanding as the original Government loans needed With his charming and devoted wife, achievement or public service by an in to start the Farm Credit Banks were re paid. Dearie, Earle made friends here in dividual citizen. Washington and came to mean much All too often those who excel or who As a cosponsor of H.R. 14829, National Consumer Cooperative Bank legislation, personally to many of us. give of themselves on behalf of all of us One of the tributes paid to him at the go unrecognized and unrewarded. That I believe that the expansion of this con cept--the inclusion of more nonfarmers time of his death by A. C. Greene, Chan is most unfortunate, for they furnish a nel 13 Newsroom, Dallas, Tex., is a per source of inspiration we can ill afford to in cooperatives-is constructive action of the highest priority for the considera ceptive view of Earle's service and ability ignore at a time when apathy and dis whith I would like to share: illusionment are widespread. tion of the Congress. Mr. Speaker, I offer for the review of EDITORIAL BY A. C. GREENE, CHANNEL 13 With that in mind, I would like to NEWSROOM, SEPTEMBER 24, 1975 share with my colleagues the story of Me our colleagues an editorial from the September 1976 Today's Farmer out Earle Cabell was Dallas to the core: but lissa Miller, a 10-year-old girl from Oak Dallas never understood him, even when Park, Mich., who has personally collected lining in further detail the fundamen pulling the lever on his behalf. He was a nearly $8,000 over the last 3 years to aid tal merit of this proposal: loner who did things because he felt like it, in the fight against muscular dystrophy. BANK FOR NONFARM COOPERATIVES? not to get votes-but he had something no The article appeared in the Daily Pending action in both houses of the U.S. Dallas politician today has enough of: char Congress are bills to create a consumer co isma and conviction. If Cabell had started Tribune published in Royal Oak, Mich., operative financing program patterned after his political career a few years earlier and and reads: the Farm Credit System. Passage in this ses had been a younger man, he might be seri OP GIRL, 10, CoLLECTS $3,600 FOR MuscULAR sion is possible. ously mentioned for national nomination be DYSTROPHY RESEARCH Under the proposal, the U.S. government cause he could have been of that level. The 10-year Oak Park girl did it again. would provide $1.25-billion in "seed money" Earle Cabell may be the last Dallas politi Melissa (Missy) MUler topped her own for a National Consumer Cooperative Bank. cian who got into politics from family obli record and collected almost $3,600 for Mus The money could be'loaned to grocery, health, gation. He took it as his burden. His grand cular Dystrophy in a personal campaign. auto service and other types of consumer co father, a Confederate general called 01 Tige And she isn't finished collecting yet. Her operatives. The program would be supervised Cabell, had become mayor of the frontier deadline is Labor Day by a Cooperative Bank and Assistance Ad city almost before he got his bags unpacked It is the third year Missy has collected ministration-similar to the Farm Credit when he moved here in the 70s. Earle's father money to give to the Jerry Lewis Telethon. Administration which supervises Federal Ben served eight years as county sheriff, In 1975, Missy turned over $3,253 beating her Land Banks, Federal Intermediate Credit then· in 1900 became the first Dallas mayor 1974 record of $1,039. Banks and Banks for Cooperatives, all farm to face such modern municipal problems "I've been doing it since Memorial Day'," er-oriented. It would also provide technical as paving streets, laying sidewalks, getting Missy said about her personal campaign to assistance to developing consumer coopera a safe water supply, and franchising the raise money. "I try to put in a lot of hours." tives. transit system, and gas and electrical service. When Missy works long hours, her father From this point of view, the proposal has But once into politics, Earle Cabell saw does too. Jack A. Miller, 23301 Coolidge High merit. things the others failed to grasp. Beaten by way, watches over Missy while she seeks Soundness of the approach has been Uncle Bob Thornton the first time he ran donations outside Oak Park and Southfield demonstrated by the Farm Credit Adminis for mayor in 1959, Cabell made a surprising stores. tration and Farm Credit Banks. By supplying ly strong race against this legendary name "He's like my bodyguard," Missy said. financing on reasonable terms, they are en from financial history. And Cabell discerned The young girl gets permission from the abling farmers and their cooperatives to changes which were not, at that time, ex merchants before she puts on her sign and maintain independent and competitive posi actly blowing in the wind. He sensed popu begins to ask for money. Missy said she col tions in the economy. And government funds lar dissatisfaction with the ruling establish lected $160 from the merchants alone. used to get those banks started have long ago ment, and he became convinced the racial Her signs asks the passerby to "please help been repaid. barriers would fall-and fall quickly. 32272 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1976 Too old to march with them as a political office located in or near the District of wide range of Federal laws apply to career---<>r too old, perhaps, to create the Columbia and met either requirement. State and local governments and to their inner zeal his perceptions called for-he It is my belief that those representa employees. Indeed, Justice Blackmun nonetheless presided over the first steps one of the five judges forming the major Dallas took toward integration in the schools tives of State and local governments having an interest in matters before the ity in the case-issued a separate con and among businresses~and named the first Negro George Allen-to a city commission Congress should be treated on the same curring opinion to state it seemed to him since Reconstruction. Cabell even risked his basis as those organizations and indi that the Court's opinion- political reputation by pushing hard, and viduals representing private organiza does not outlaw federal power in areas such unsuccessfully, for public housing at a time tions and associations. For example, as environmental protection, where the fed when federal money in Dallas, for anything under the bill as reported by the com eral interest is demonstrably greater and but business subsidies, had a taint to it mittee, such organizations as the Council where state fac111ty compliance with imposed worse than adultrery. of Chief State School Officers, the Na federal standards would be essential ... Earle Cabell wasn't particularly enlight ened in philosophy: and he was far from tional School Boards Association, and And he said that- being liberal the way his delightful wife the National Education Association with this understanding on my part of the Dearie was. But he was fa.l.r-not just cau would be covered. The bill as reported, Court's opinion, I join it. tiously 1n public--Gnd he was brave in a however, does not cover those individuals social way. And in Dallas, that's the bravest who represent a single State and its deal If H.R. 15 were amended to include kind of brave there is: to bre something your ings with the Congress. According to lobbying operations of State and local friends and social peers tell you you mustn't information which I have received, 21 governments and their agencies it would be. Earle Cabell was a member of the Citizens States maintain representation offices in still not impose any standards on them Council-which he approved of-but he Washington to deal with both Congress with which they must comply-except as challenged its iron control of the city their activities bring them within the which he didn't approve of. He was a busi and the executive branch. In addition, nessman from a very conservative industry nine State education departments main scope of the act. So there would seem to dairying-but he refused to run on a busi tain Washington offices to deal with be no constitutional argument against ness is best platform. Some of his peers those matters which uniquely affect edu including the lobbying activities of State and friends-never forgave him for this dis cation laws and education matters. I and local government within the scope loyalty, and he bore to his death the hurt suspect that in areas of health, welfare, of the bill on the same terms as the ac from their response. housing, and transportation, similar sit tivities of private entities. He was, perhaps, a politician before his uations exist whereby State or local gov thne---<>r a politician who arrived at success too late to take hold of what success seemed ernments maintain full-time or nearly full-time representation in Washington. willing to grant him. It is ironic that he took THE HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH'S on the two strongest conservative symbols in Questions have been raised from time local politics-Thorton and Congressman to time about the potential legality of PARISH Bruce Alger whom he annihUated-yet never including representatives of State and gained the advantage this oppositon should local governments within the regulations have g·iven him: opponents continued to call HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER proscribed by H.R. 15. I do not believe OF NEW YORK him part of the oligarchy, while others re that those concerns are well founded. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fused to acknowledge he was different from H.R. 15 does not rest upon the com Alger. But he was, and those who knrew Thursday, September 23, 1976 him and worked with him recognized that merce clause of the Constitution, but with a few years and a few circumstances, upon the inherent power of the Congress Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I wish Earle Cabell almost certainly would have to take action to protect the integrity to share with my colleagues a part of the been the first 21st century politician of of its own processes. If State and local "external celebration" of the 75th anni Texas. governments and their agencies seek to versary of the Parish of St. Joseph. A Once in Congress, Cabell sreemed to find influence those processes in the manner dinner-dance to mark this occasion will political life disappointing. Washington came described in this bill they should be sub too late. His dreams and restless plans be held on October 9 in New Rochelle. two things that characterized Earle Cabell ject to the requirements of this bill. This The article follows: the businessman-had been carried beyond would impose no requirement upon the THE HISTORY OF SAINT JOSEPH'S PARISH his reach by time-if not the timres. Time, States that they regulate the activities At the turn of the twentieth century, Italy and the ancient lesson our bodies eventually of their employees or those of their sub was suffering seriously from over-population, teach all of us: the end is nearing. His defeat divisions; it would merely make certain a problem which was solved partially by mass by Alan Steelman was a retirement. requirements of certain employees who emigrations from the most overpopulated Rest in peace. are engaged in lobbying the Federal Gov districts. Because of the apparent receptive ernment. ness and unlimited opportunities available, The argument that the Congress the United States was favored as a haven. cannot constitutionally impose require New York City, the melting pot of human tty, the home of many tongues, took into AMENDMENT TO H.R. 15 ments upon representatives of State and its fold a sizeable ~oup of Italian imml local governments who are engaged in grants, a number of these moving northward HON. ALBERT H. QUIE certain activities affecting the operation to the outlying areas. One such suburban OF MINNESOTA of the Congress and of the Federal Gov district was the City of New Rochelle. In May 1901, the Most Reverend Michael IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ernment generally has no more merit than to argue that State and local gov A. Corrigan, Archbishop of New York, hear Thursday, September 23, 1976 ing of the ~eat number of Italian immi ernmental employees c·annot be covered grants living in New Rochelle, sent a young Mr. QUIE. Mr. Speaker, when the by statutes making mail fraud a Federal priest, who had come to America just one House considers H.R. 15, regulating lob offense. Indeed the whole Federal crimi year before, to establish a parish for the bying and related activities, I intend to nal code applies to State and local em Italian people. Reverend Pasquale Manzell1 offer an amendment which would have ployees as well as to all other persons was appointed the first pastor of the new the effect of including under the Pt:ovi within the United States. parish of St. Joseph on May 26, 1901. The sions of the act those employees of State In League of Cities against Usery, the Italian people received the news with great joy and prepared to welcome and assist their and local governments whose function it Supreme Court held that Congress could first shepherd, in the section of West New is to deal with the Congress on matters not use the power to regulate inter Rochelle known as "Dutch Hill." concerning legislation. My amendment, state commerce as a means of regulating Father ManzelU arrived in June and found which is printed in today's RECORD, would State and local governmental control hospitality in the home of the Brudels. A amend the definition of organizations to over the conditions of employment of small wooden building was rented on the cor include State and local governments. their own employees-it did not go be ner of Fourth Street and St. John's Place. The amendment would cover State or yond that to say in any respect that It was fixed up by the eager parishioners and local employees who, under terms of the it served as a house of worship for two years. State and local employees, even acting The small bullding, which could accommo bill, devoted 20 percent or more of their in their capacity as such, are beyond the d·ate about one hundred people, eventually time to activities connected with the reach of Federal statutes designed to proved insumcient for the needs of the lo Congress as defined in subsection (a) of regulate the conduct of individuals gen cality. As word began to spread that an section 3, or who were employed in an erally. Obvtously, the provisions of a Italian speaking priest was sent to New Ro- September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 32273 chelle and had established a. new Italian par birthday and will always be remembered for A debt of $35,000 was in the way. With ish, the second in the county of Westcheste:r, her kindness and generosity to us and our enthusiasm and cooperation it was liquidated the Italian immigrants who had settled in children. She will never be :forgotten by the . in two weeks. Ground was broken in March, Pelham, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Harrison pa.rishioneTs of St. Joseph. 1948 and Mass was celebrated in the recon and Rye, flocked to St. Joseph's in great Father Manzell1 wlll long be remembered structed Church in March, 1949. The extent numbers. At last, they could express them by his devoted people for his untiring zeal of the modernization included a new, spa selves in their own native tongue and fulfill and great courage in the face of the many cious, sanctuary, new vestibule and choir their spiritual duties. The fa.c111ties of the seemingly insurmountable problems of his loft, and a new bell tower. The rest of the small building became overtaxed and the time. old Church was integ-rated with the new two Masses were more than crowded every He knew that to him was entrusted the construction. There was also a new baptist Sunday. great task of planting the mustard seed of ry, stained glass windows, sacristies and a. His Eminence John Cardinal Farly, who faith in west New Rochelle and that he did · finished basement with kitchen and other had succeeded Archbishop Corrigan as head is evidenced today. That seed has grown be facllities. Together with the Church, the rec of the archdiocese, heard of the great work yond his fondest expectations. Father Man tory received an addition to create the pres of Father Ma.nzelli among the Italian people. zelli was called to his eternal reward on ent offices and above it quarters for the Through the efforts of Monsignor Francis April 29, 1929. parish priests. Soon after, two more class McNichol pastor of St. Catherine in Pelham, The Reverend Louis Riccio, who was ap rooms were added to the school by partition and Father John A. Kellner, pastor of St. pointed to succeed Father Manzelli, arrived ing the old auditorium. Gabriel in New Rochelle, this great need was at the parish in June 1929. During the short Years of consolidation followed. The debt brought to the atention of Mr. Adrian Iselin, time he was in St. Joseph's Father Riccio was removed after a few years. Freed from a. non-Catholic resident of New Rochelle, who added two more classrooms to the school, financial worries, the priests were able to was well known th:roughout the county and built the playground for the children and concentrate on doing more spiritual work the city for his great charitable and phil secured the services of three more Sisters. 1n the hospitals, nursing homes and the sick anthropic work. The improvements that he made cost about at home. Societies thrived and worked to Mr. Adrian Iselin promised to think it over $70,000. He died in retirement as a Monsignor gether. The school reached its peak enroll and do what he could. Within a relatively on April 7, 1966. ment of 400 children in 1945 with a full short time he purchased a. piece of land 100 The Reverend Andrew P. Botti was ap complement of 9 Franciscan Sisters in the feet by 200 feet on the corne:r of Fifth Street pointed by Patrick Cardinal Hayes, then cl•assrooms. By comparison since September, and Washington Avenue. Archbishop of New York, to succeed Father 1974, we have been having two Sisters in the He engaged an architect to draw the plans Riccio. Father Botti, arrived in the parish tn school (an additional one came in September, for the new church and rectory and work was January 1932. Upon his arrival, he did not 1976). At present the school has an enroll started in March 1903. The Cardinal Arch find the affairs of the parish going too ment of 145 students. One Sister acts as bishop laid the cornerstone and one year smoothly. There was much to be done, but Principal. later returned to dedicate the church on little or nothing with which to do it. Many On May 27, 1961, the parish celebrated its January 4, 1904. Because of ill health, Mr. of the old problems still beset the parish; Golden Jubilee. The Most Reverend Stephen Iselin, was represented by his son Adrian Jr., some of the old factions that had tried to J. Donohue, Auxiliary Bishop of New York, who presented the deeds to the new church hamper his predecessors now tried to hamper was the celebrant at a. Pontificial Mass. A din and rectory to the Cardinal in the name of :tUm. Financially the parish was not too well ner dance followed at the Glen Island Ca his father. The land, the buildings, and fur fixed, inasmuch as a debt of $70,000 had been sino. An elegant brochure containing the his nishings cost about $50,000. Among those incurred. Many of the parishioners were tory of the Church was printed and distrib present on this memorable occasion, were without work and other were recovering from uted. This history of the parish is repro Countess Georgine Iselin, and Colonel and the financial breakdown of the nation. The duced in the present history with all nec MTs. Delaney Kane. church funds, too, were lost in the closing of essary changes and additions to bring it up Father Manzelll and his parishioners were several banks in the city, over and above to date. In the following years other addi most grateful for this gift and were ' proud this, the great depression, unsuspectingly tions were effected 1n the church; new stat of their new church for they now had a. was just around the corner. Father Botti had ues, marble waincottlng, air conditioning, fitting house of worship and a residence for his hands full and did not know where to etc. There were also fund-raising affairs their pastor. Father Manzelli lost no time in turn first. which eventually swelled the reserves of the organizing the parish and in looking after With undaunted courage and complete church. the spiritual needs of his people. His con faith in God he faced the future. Little by The time following the Golden Jubilee was gregation began to grow as a result of h1s little, with the help of his people, things be also the time of Vatican Council II. The untiring efforts. In 1909, he felt the need gan to change. As the depression began to decree and guidelines of the Council brought of someone to help with the children, so he recede, his people returned to work; a. new to our parish, as elsewhere, many changes secu1'ed the services of two Sisters of St. spirit seemed to prevail and a religious re• in the Liturgy, especially the use of the ver Francis. There being no other fac111ties avail vival had set . in that taxed the capacity of nacular in the Mass and administration of able, the church basement was used as a the small parish. Several Masses were added the sacraments. These reforms were gradually school. Father Ma.nzelll now realized that a to alleviate the congression. Plans were then introduced and in the main they were well parochial school was needed for he no longer formulated to build a larger church and received by the young. could accommodate his children in the school because the need was great, but they Time inexerable marches on. With the church basement. He also knew that his had to be abandoned due to the heavy finan advancing age, the once strong hand at the people did not have the means to provide cial burden resting on the parish. Mrs. De realm began to relent. Father Carniate's one. Because Mr. Iselin, his great benefactor, lancey Kane, a. sister of Georgine Iselin, died health, after some 30 years of administration, had died in 1905, he appealed to his daughter, in 1938, and in her will left $10,000 to the began to fall. For various reasons beyond Georgine, Georgine Iselin, who later received church. This unexpected help came like anyone's control, school enrollment dropped the great honor of Papal Countess from Pope manna from heaven. Now for the first time to a new low. Sisters were no longer teaching Plus X because of her many CathoUc philan Father Botti saw the light of day and was in the classrooms. thropic deeds in Westchester, nobly rivaled able to meet the financial obligations of the Only three Sisters, the principal and two her worthy fatheT by purchasing land adja parish. others, are in the school now, the rest were replaced by lay teachers. cent to the church and immediately set about But when things looked their brightest the erecting a school of four classrooms, a Time and the elements continued also to storm was on the horizon, World War IT. The inflict severe damage to the entire complex. kitchen, three meeting rooms and an audi country was agaln in economic chaos as The entire plant is now in need of another torium. At the same time she erected a. con many men left families and jobs to serve round of repairs, exteriorly and interiorly. vept to house the Sisters whose number was their country. St. Joseph's future was again In 1973, Cardinal Cooke sent Father Mario now increased to five. In all, Miss Iselin clouded. Father Botti did all that was hu Bastone to take over the administration of spent about $50,000 !or the land, buildings manly possible. Finally, his health !ailing, he St. Joseph. In his two years stay, he orga and furnishings for the school and convent. asked Cardinal Spellman, then Archbishop of nized fund-raising activities, revitalized the On Sunday, May 12, 1912, ms Eminence New York, to accept his resignation. Father societies and the Liturgy and began some John Cardinal Farley laid the cornerstone Botti died in retirement on November 17, work of restoration. In October, 1975, he be · and blessed both buildings. 1960. His assistant, Father Aldo Carniato, was came pastor of St. Joseph's in Poughkeepsie, With a complete plant now at his disposal, appointed administrator. He immediately be New York. FatheT Manzelll set himself to the difficult gan a vast program of updating and repair Monsignor Charles Rosselli was sent as pas task of solldifying his parish. Georgtne Iselin ing. War jobs were now producing more tor to succeed Father Carniato on October 4, always came to his rescue when he needed it funds, and the people showed generosity. 1975. On November 9, 1975, before an over most. . . . Only God knows how much she They also contributed because they saw flowing congregation, he was canonically in helped him and the Italian people of West things being done. Kindergarten was added stalled by Monsignor Edward Connors, Epis New Rochelle. Four times a year she sent to the school. But the church was still inade copal Vicar of Westchester. In attendance her check toward the support of the school quate for the population of the parish. At a were many of his friends from his former and each year at graduation she donated a general meeting in October, 1945, he brought parishes, but more importantly, his new gold medal for Excellency to one of the school to the attention of the parishioners his plans parishioners who welcomed him with warmth graduates. She died passed her ninetieth to enlarge the church. and respect. Through an arrangement with 32274 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1976 Monsignor, Father Carniato retained his THE QUAKERS HAVE A FRmND IN THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, quarters in the rectory and at present he ,MOSHER WHAT IT Is, WHAT IT DoEs remains in residence with the title of Pastor . (By Louis W. Schneider) Emeritus. A joyous reception followed the installa HON. CHARLES A. MOSHER The critical, powerful and dominant posi tion ceremony at which the people were able tion of the United States in world affairs to "get to know" their new pastor. Monsignor OF OHIO and the political, economic, social, and is a veteran of three· former pastorates with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES moral realities out of which it grows-results in challenges for a religious organization, a long list of accomplishments including the Thursday, September 23, 1976 building of a parochial school and convent, such as the American Friends Service Com rectory and Church and total physical and Mr. MOSHER . .Mr. Speaker, as the end mittee, which operates on the basis of com spiritual transformation of parishes in his · of my tenure in this House approaches, it mitments to religious and moral principles charge. Many parishioners remembered him is natural that I begin to think back over central to the Religious Society of Friends . . from several years (and pounds) back dur the past 16 years-unusually tumultous This is particularly the case for a non ing his brief stint here in 1946 to 1947 as an partisan American organization which holds assistant. One of his first acts was to intro years here-assessing many experiences dear the domestic ideals of freedom, equality duce a Mass in Italian. Another welcome and influences that have shaped my atti and the achievement of social harmony change was the substitution of all candle tudes and my voting decisions. which are too often betrayed in U.S. society stands with automatic electric vigil lights, Doing so, frankly I have been sur at home and by U.S. actions abroad. a boon for economy, comfort, esthetics and prised to recognize how highly I have The conflict between American ideals and safety. The new lights were promptly ac learned to respect and appreciate the in American practice is too often resolved on cepted by the parishioners. He soon realized fluences-in the form of good informa the basis of what we consider to be short the extent of the repairs and renovation tion, attitudes, spirit, and inspiration sighted pragmatism rather than basic Ameri needed in all buildings. He managed to ini can principles. At a time when many evaluate tiate a few projects requiring immediate at which are exerted with such gentle per the patriotism of critics by measurement tention for which he received Diocesan ap sistence and quality of insight, by the against immediate pragmatic considerations proval. The rectory which was built for three American Friends Service Committee. and a shallow interpretation of Americanism, resident priests, now has four priests in resi Mr. Speaker, I suspect there may be a it seems important to share an explanation dence. The new pastor's quarters had to be surprising number of others among us of why the AFSC works as it does. prepared, the falllng garage renovated; the who, if they will think about -it, can at The 20th Century has been marked by antiquated public address system in the test to their appreciation and respect for . enormous military, state and random vio church replaced; other additions to the win lence and by a confrontation of national dows of the rectory, to the pews of the the useful, stimulating, sometimes pro vocative efforts of these friends. states wh!ich often breaks into war and al Church, modern lights in the parking lot. ways threatens to lead to nuclear disaster. Confronted with the magnitude and scope of On Sunday morning, July 4, speaking It has also been marked by a division of the the work, he called in representatives of the in my own home community of Oberlin, world into political and economic blocs, lead Building Commission of the Archdiocese for Ohio, at a community worship service ing to the intense frustration of the idealism a study and for recommendations. Hours and sponsored by many denominations, tQ that gave birth to the United Nations and days have been spent with engineers and the efforts to find international solutions to contractors to evaluate all needs and possi mark our Nation's Bicentennial, I stated my own belief, in part as follows: the problems of disarmament, reconciliation, bilities. Their recommendations will be re and transnational cooperation to deal with viewed on location by the Archdiocesan Con I was reared in an activist religious tradi tion, as a Congregationalist. I am convinced human, social, cultural and economic threats sultors who in turn will make their own to a fragile biosphere. It has led to the disas recommendations to the Cardinal. Until then that religious beliefs and attitudes, if gen trous widening of the gap between rich and we can only take care of emergencies and uine, must inevitably, inextricably be a very poor. - isolated items and wait patiently. significant part of all that dynamic com It should be evident that all work to the plex of interests, forces, beliefs which is It is in this alarming context that the four buildings cannot be done piecemeal; it America---certainly including politics and American Friends Service Committee today must be done all at the same time to coordi government. seeks to find practical expression for the nate all the different trades and to assure Religious beliefs, attitudes, intuitions religious and moral imperatives of love, com better prices and better results. should be everywhere an active, influential, passion, the dignity of each person, the non Monsignor revealed that at the time the shaping presence in all the processes by exploitation of individuals who are blessed reserves were around $500,000, deposited with which we make and administer policy. in the sight of God, and the growth of all the archdiocese of New York. pers~ns to the fullest possible extent of their Mr. Speaker, it is from that perspective potentiality, regardless of race, sex, creed, In his letter he explained that the reserves, place of national origin, or present or pre according to the Building Commission and that I now call to the attention of many others in the Congress, the good efforts of vious condition of political, economic, or so the guidelines" from the Cardinal, could be cial servitude. used for renovation work and extraordinary the American Friends Service Commit repairs, but not for the ordinary administra tee-beginning in 1917-to give contem We take it as primary that we should honor all people and see no person as an tion of the parish and the school; the parish porary expression to the religious convic has to raise the funds for the ordinary ex enemy. We agree with the observation in the tions in which it is historically rooted. Gospels that there is little merit in loving penditures and, at present, it does not. Seem This Quaker agency, which operates ingly, the letter was not understood too well one's friends; it is in loving one's "enemies" or it was just brushed aside. The platitude more than 90 projects in this country that one is truly tested. We take it as essen is too pleasant to be broken. Unf·Ortunately, and overseas, is in its 59th anniversary tial that good be returned for evil. We believe the Iselins are not around any longer with year of continuing efforts to reach out to that one should not do violence to one's a transfusion of funds. neighbor if one would not have violence done people of all beliefs with a fundamental to oneself. The parish has to do it alone. And this is respect for personal integrity. one of the priorities the parish has to assign I feel that a report on this organiza Perhaps the matter that makes these be to itself as its immediate responsibility at liefs the subject of persistent criticism is tion telling us something of the Quaker the fact that we do not hold that these ideals the beginning of the fourth quarter of its experience in current U.S. history is of existance if it wants to progress, if it are reserved for purely personal expression wants to regain and retain its solvency, if it special importance in this Bicentennial but, if they are to be really significant, must wants to .keep its school. Year. be extended to all the elements of our com mon life in this world: to our vocations and In concluding, we use the sentiments, the Many remember that the Quakers founded Pennsylvania, but perhaps do avocations and to our public involvement in very words of the previous history. As we the affairs of government at home and draw this history of 75 years to a close, we not realize that Quaker concern for their abroad. We believe in the separation of pray that Almighty God wm continue to fellow persons continues not only through church and state, but not of the state and shower His choicest blessings on the people, the AFSC, but also other organizations the priests and the Sisters of the Parish. private and public, social, and economic which came out of the Religious Society morality. They love Him and His house and they are ever ready to make whatever sacrifice may be of Friends. These beliefs explain our principled op necessary to see to it that the mustard seed Consequently, I think Members will be position to war, the instruments for war, and which was planted 75 years ago and became interested in the following by Louis W. preparedness for war; our criticisms especial an herb and has now blossomed into a great Schneider, executive secretary of the ly of our own government and society 1n tree, shall never die. They want it to live which, as citizens, we have a responsibility; American Friends Service Committee, our desire to make contacts and discourse forever and ever, so that their children, and telling something of the religious roots o.f their children's children, may come and find with all people--whether capitalist or com in it the comfort, the strength and the this organization as well as some of its munist, oppressor or oppressed, conservative varmth of the heart of the All Loving God, current programs around the world. or Marxist; our readiness to do what we can, Just as they found it before them. The text follows: in accordance with our beliefs, to give aid September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF R·EMARKS 32275 to the oppressed, exploited, discriminated THREE CHEERS FOR OUR FARMERS economy where Government involvement against, a.nd those who are feared, hated is held to a minimum and farmers are or held in contempt by others. left free to produce what they want to We find no source of pride in the Biblical reminder that those who seek to carry out HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL for an open market. religious and moral imperatives will ex OF ILLINOIS ESTATE TAX EXEMPTION perience the scorn and anger of others. But IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Farmers simply ask that Government we can attest that this has from time to time treat them fairly and allow them to go been our experience. Thursday, September 23, 1976 about their tasks unencumbered by ex We see in American democratic society the potentiality for translating into human terms Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, agriculture cessive regulation. Farming has long been the principles and beliefs we hold dear. is one of the most important industries based on the family, where farms have It is the faith in this potentiality that en in Illinois, including the 18th District, been passed on from one generation to courages us to criticize what we perceive to and we are all immensely proud of the another. It is simple fairness, as well as be wrong and to act in every appropriate spectacular way farmers have performed good economic policy, that they be al non-violent way to seek to correct wrongs and the contributions they have made to lowed to do this without having their and thus, in whatever small way we can, our country over the past several years. farms confiscated or heavily mortgaged to contribute to the achievement of a human When foreign oil prices were quad through stiff inheritance taxes. The pres society in this world which will incarnate the ideals of love, compassion, human dignity, rupled 3 years ago, our Nation was faced ent estate tax exemption is no longer mutual respect and concern, and the recog with a tremendous potential deficit in relevant to the current situation, and in nized value of each human being, all, as we our balance of payments, which would order to rectify this, I introduced legis see it, children of God. have jeopardized our financial standing lation last year to increase the exemption The American Friends Service Committee in the world. The American farmer came from $60,000 to $185,000. supports people in Detroit who are facing to the rescue, however, by substantially In testifying on behalf of this legisla dire hunger and it provides legal aid and increasing production and the export of tion before the House Ways and Means information to citizens of East Jerusalem. farm products to nations overseas, there Committee earlier this year, I pointed out In Mexico, in the remote village of Laguni ta, Hidalgo, AFSC staff continue to aid impover by almost singlehandedly filling the void that a typical family farm in central Il ished Otomi Indians in developing fruit trees, and bringing about a relative stability linois might average 300 acres in size, but rabbit and turkey projects and a carpentry in our foreign financial accounts. may now be worth $450,000 in value. cooperative. When there was a shortage of beef a When the head of the family dies, the While former staff members in Chile are few years back, and beef prices to the estate tax as presently constituted will meeting with groups in the U.S. to share consumer rose sharply, farmers re likely force the surviving family mem their experiences of life under the repres sponded by substantially increasing beef bers to .sell as much as one-quarter of sive regime of the Junta, AFSC ·staff in San production, thereby stabilizing prices. the acreage in order to pay it, or else go tiago continue to support feeding centers in shantytowns so hungry children can have a At a time when many other groups in heavily into debt. nourishing hot meal daily. this country have been demanding and I told the committee: The AFSC shipped 220 tons of powdered receiving increased Federal funds for We ought to be working to preserve famtly milk to Saigon last year in addition to 33,000 this, that, and what have you, farmers farms, not destroy them. pounds of acrylic yarn to be made into 50,000 have saved the taxpayers nearly $3 bil I am pleased that the legislation in a children's sweaters. The organization con lion annually through reduced support tinues to work with Great Plains Indians in somewhat altered form was included in payments. the tax reform bill recently sent to the this country in their efforts to gain control The success and accomplishments of over the natural resources on their reserva President. The enacted legislation is not tions. American agriculture during the 1970's as good as I would like to have seen it, Work is done with women and men en are demonstrated by the following facts: but it does in effect gradually increase meshed in the justice system, on problems Total acreage for · major crops has the exemption from estate and gift taxes of public schools, on several questions af risen from 291 million acres in 1969 to over a 5-year period to $175,625 by pro fecting the rights of women, and on research 355 million estimated for 1976. on u.s. food aid abroad. viding a unified credit against such taxes. Farm exports have risen from $6.7 bil The credit will amount to $47,000 in 1981. In two seminars this past year in West lion in 1970 to an estimated $22 billion The bill also provides that an execu Africa, the AFSC brought together French this year. speaking West Africans in an attempt to tor may elect to value a decedent's real examine the impact of development on pro The proportion of farm income result property devoted to farming or other longed drought conditions. In Mali, AFSC ing from Government payment has closely held businesses on the basis of staff is assisting long-range efforts to over dropped from 27 percent in 1969 to just such property's value as a farm or close come the effects of drought. 2 percent last year. ly held business, rather than its fair mar Other programs are going forward among The decades-long exodus of 30 million ket value, if this would reduce the value U.S. seasonal farmworkers, in a Zambian Americans from the farms has trickled of the estate. housing project and i·n discussions with lead ers in the Middle East and in Southern off to the point where the decline in farm OSHA REGULA'l'IONS Africa. population is down to an average of just Many regulations prescribed by the Developing public support for govern 1.2 percent annually. Conversely, enroll Occupational Safety and Health Admin mental aid to Indochina, devastated by 30 ment in agriculture schools is rising. istration have been excessive in nature, years of war, is another AFSG program, Mr. Speaker, what these facts demon and this is true for farming as well as which also includes widespread public dis strate is that agriculture has accom other occupations. In the case of small cussion of the lessons to be learned from the plished much during recent years. We farms, however, safety and health really Vietnam conflict. can proudly point to the fact that Ameri The right use of national resources is one relate to commonsense, and they do not cans spend less of their disposable in have to be prescribed by Government reg of the issues being addressed by the B-1 come percentagewise on food than any Bomber/Peace Conversion Campaign, wh~ch ulation. This is why I strongly supported now has the support of 30 national organiza other people. The American taxpayer has an amendment to our Labor-HEW ap tions. saved a substantial sum of money, be propriation bill this year which exempts How critical are questions of national cause of increased farm production, and farms with 10 or fewer employees from priorities is pointed up vividly in some 40 we have witnessed a significant rise in OSHA regulations. I urged support for regional and national community relations farm income, to the point where average the amendment during debate in the housing, discrimination and administration per capita income for farmers is now House Chamber by pointing out that if of justice. virtually even with the average for the there is one thing that causes a reduc In the months and years ahead, the AFSC Nation as a whole, compared with a rate tion in farms, •it is regulations of the will continue-as it has done since 1917- of only 65 percent of the nationwide sort that OSHA prescribes in many in to take positive steps toward the solution averaged during the previous decade. of crucial problems, to support efforts to stances, which drive us further in the di gain justice and human rights, to ease suf This success closely parallels the de rection of large corporate farms: fering, and to work for a more non-violent emphasis of governmental regulation and Our family farmers cannot put up with world. involvement in agriculture, and this is these kind of silly regulations. By enforcing All this is done and wm be done with a no coincidence. It represents living proof these kind of unrealistic conditions on the constant reminder of our religious roots. that agriculture operates best in a free family farmer you just force him to throw 32276 EXTENSIONS OF R·EMARKS September 23, 1976 in the towel and sell out to some corporate A TASK FORCE TO STUDY REAL entity. Added to the grim economic picture PROPERTY TAXES are the increased costs of running our I am pleased to report that we achieved governmental institutions. Citizen de acceptance of this language in a confer HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN mand for government services, fed by an ence with the Senate and that is now the inflationary economy and high rates of law. OF NEW YORK unemployment, has resulted in stagger UNEMPLOYMENT COVERAGE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing burdens on most governmental pro A setback for farmers occurred this Thursday, September 23, 1976 grams: schools, fire and police protec summer when the House passed an un Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, middle and tion, public works, and social services are employment compensation bill which fixed income taxpayers have reached the expensive programs that depend primar among other things would require the limits of their ability to absorb increas ily upon property taxes as the source of coverage of agriculture workers of em ingly burdensome school, local, and Gov revenues, a source that has approached ployers with four or more workers in 20 ernment taxes, the heavy Federal and the limits which taxpayers can meet. weeks or who pay $10,00 in quarterly State income taxes, the escalating pay Within the past decade, the cost of so wages for agriculture services. I opposed ments to the social security program, cial services to Rockland County, N.Y. in this legislation, because I did not feel substantial State and municipal sales creased by more than 1,000 percent: from there was any justification for Congress taxes and to meet the soaring costs of liv $4,500,000 in 1965 to $41,900,000 in 1975. to impose any additional burdens on our ing in an economy strained by high levels In 1965, social services constituted 37 farmers. Not only would this extended of inflation and unemployment. This dis percent of the county's t.otal budget. coverage add to a farmer's ever-growing tressing economic condition and unbear Confronted with such staggering costs expenses by requiring many farmers to able tax burden has contributed to citi for demanded government service and pay unemployment compensation taxes, zen distrust, frustration and apathy. It assistance, it is no wonder that the Town but it would encumber him with substan has abused those who are most in need of Ramapo, in Rockland County, recently tial additional paperwork. Unfortu of assistance: the disadvantaged, the adopted a resolution requesting Congress nately, the regulators, carrier the day handicapped, and the economically dis to federalize the costs of social services. in this instance, but hopefully, we will located. And, Mr. Speaker, it is the mid Since statistics are a cold, impersonal be able to knock this language out be dle- and fixed-income taxpayers who source of information, permit me to pre fore Congress completes action on the pay more than their fair share of income se~t a clearer picture of the urgency of legislation. and property taxes, who feel this bur thiS problem, by sharing with my col ENERGY den the most, and who now require re leagues some of the thoughts expressed In order to produce, farmers need to be lief from this heavy strain. by my constituents. assured of the necessary energy supplies, Our taxpayer's plight is understood in A government employee from Rockland and I have introduced a number of bills noting the extent of taxes imposed in my County states: during the past 2 years which would congressional district in New York. For Taxes in Rockland are costing me my home-You are losing one of your staunchest stimulate increased energy production example, in the last 5 years in Orange supporters to high real estate taxes ... taxes and try to place us on a self-sufficient County, N.Y., taxes soared from $49,923,- are skyrocketing and I can't afford to live basis as a nation. In particular, I have 043 to $90,072,806. Since 1970, property here and be near my children. sought, both through legislation and taxes for the residents of Newburgh, N.Y. through intervention in a Federal Power more than doubled from $2,205,063 to Commenting on my proposed property Commission case, to expedite approval $4,621,522, a tax rate of 58.96 per $1,000 tax relief bill, H.R. 12926, which provides of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska on property assessed at full value. a Federal income tax credit of not more through Canada to the Midwest. We need For many of my constituents, whose than $500 to homeowners or renters the natural gas supplies that Alaska has real estate has been reassessed at 100 whose real estate taxes or rent payments in the worst way, and there is simply percent, it is not uncommon to pay real exceed 5 percent of their adjusted gross no reason for any more delay. estate taxes of $2,500 on a $55,000 home, income, a senior citizen from Pearl River, INFLATION or for a taxpayer in a $40,000 home as N.Y. writes: sessed in 1968 at 50 percent valuation to Your property tax relief bill is . . . a step Inflation is one of the biggest threats in the right direction. I am 73 and its getting to the farm family's livelihood, because it have paid property taxes of $1,584 and in 1975 pay a tax of $3,200 on the same worse each year. I do not want to leave Rock results in increases in expenses and pro land County as we still have good air and duction costs without guaranteeing any home reassessed 100 percent at $80,000. water here. increases in farm prices. Excessive Gov In that same period, others have ex But this year I will have to fork over over ernment expenditures represent the chief perienced a threefold increase in proper $2,500.00 for school and county taxes. ty assessments. The special exemptions cause of inflation, and there is perhaps From Newburgh, N.Y. a troubled tax no single Member who has made a and assessments accorded to our veter ans and farmers have been eroded by in payer writes: greater effort to keep down spending It's about time the government became than have I. I have had to vote against flation and by increased assessments, vir tually wiping out the intended assist more realistic about what middle income is a number of good sounding bills with and how much an average family of 3 or 4 worthy objectives, not because of the ance. needs to live. goals, but simply because the cost was It was recently reported that in Hard My electrJc b111 has tripled, so we build nu more than we could afford. Quite a few enburgh, N.Y., an mster County village clear plants in foreign nations. My food bill good sounding bills were vetoed, because bordering on ·my congressional district, has at least doubled, so we sell food to Rus of their high cost, and those vetoes to property taxes increased three to four sia. We sent rocket ships to Mars and play times in the last 6 years with total as ball in enclosed stadiums. Why not grow food date have saved us $9.2 billion, which has in climate controlled enclosed stadiums and resulted in a lower budget deficit by that sessed property amounting to $21 mil develop nuclear energy here in the U.S.A. and amount. This has helped to bring down lion, of which $5 million is tax exempt. what about solar energy? We can make inflation to just 5.4 percent annually, Their town supervisor reported that in rocket fuel but not gas! I don't under and has made $9.2 billion in loan money 1970 his school taxes were $450 and his stand ... Sometimes I wonder why bother! available for private borrowing that town and county taxes were $350. His Maybe we should all quit work and make the otherwise would have been gobbled up by school tax this year is $2,000 and he "ex U.S.A. a total welfare state. the Treasury. pects his town and county taxes to How about some honest relief for the double that amount." In order to obtain average worker? How about a cut in property We as a nation simply cannot afford tax? or income tax, or fuel bills or electric continued undisciplined' expenditures, relief from these crushing tax burdens, or food or insurance? My God even my in and I for one will be continuing to do 236 Hardenburgh citizens-or half of the surance bills are outrageous. everything possible to insure that our town's residents-have become ordained How about it Mr. Gilman? How about some ''mail-order ministers" in order to real honest moves to help the real people in Nation remains on a sane course, with achieve a tax exempt status for their the U.S.A., the worker, the homeowner, the Government policy geared toward a level "parish house." Unfortunately, this parent trying to put his ch1ldren through of expenditures that will not impose tax places the burden of financing school, school? and price increases on the American town and county services on the re Well, how about it, my colleagues? citizen. mainder of the town's populace. Most of you have heard similar com- September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32277 plaints. How does Government effectively The task force would aiso take a hard September 17, 1976, and an explanation respond to the needs of these citizens ... look at the need for reforming tax exempt appears in the RECORD of Tuesday, Sep the average American, the middle-class property, including the property of Fed temper 21, 1976, on pages 31702 to 31705. individual who is caught in the economic eral, State, and local governments, char The report follows: web of soaring cost-of-living expenses, itable, educational, religious, humanitar FORECASTS OF AUGUST 25, 1976--EXECUTIVE unbearable Federal, State, and local ian, and philanthropic organizations., to SUMMARY taxes, intolerable levels of inflation and determine whether a tax liability could The lackluster 4.3% increase in real GNP unemployment? It is this person who not be imposed on those organizations with last quarter is likely to be followed by an only pays his taxes but who also supports out unduly impairing their activities and equally unimpressive 4.2% increase this the welfare abuses and the unemployed. contributions to society. quarter. The decline in retail sales in July, It is this same taxpayer who is also so These tax exempt organizations place which brought them below March levels, resentful about Government waste and an undue strain on the tax structures of serves as a clear indication that the con excessive expenditures of taxpayers dol local communities. At least 45 percent of sumer has recently become more cautious lars, who violently reacts to bribery and and pessimistic in his views about the near the property in Boston is reported to be term outlook. At the same time, the infla corruption, who is frustrated by the lack tax exempt, 33 percent in both Pittsburgh tion picture is worsening. The consumer of responsiveness of our institutions to and St. Louis, and 32 percent in St. Paui, price index (CPI), which rose 4% in the meet the needs of our citizens, and who Minn. In 1970, the New York State first quarter and 5% in the second, is ex receives a decline in the economic, politi Joint Legislative Committee to Study pect,ed to increase 6Y2% in the current quar cal, and moral fiber of this Nation. Is it and Investigate Real Property Tax ter and 7Y2% next quarter. A similar pat any wonder that this citizen, burdened by Exemptions-of which I was a mem tern can be observed for the industrial com crushing taxes and an inflated economy, ber as a New York State Assem ponent of the wholesale price ind·ex shrugs and asks: "Why bother? Why (WPIIND) which rose 6% in the first half of blyman-found that the tax exempt the year but is expected to climb at an 8% should I participate in the political real property in New York State rate in the second half. process?" amounted to $22.7 billions-or 30.1 per The recent sluggish growth of the econ What can we do to help alleviate this cent of the total assessed valuation-of omy indicates that real GNP will grow at distressing condition? One need is abun which $16.2 billions-or 71.4 percent only a 5% rate for the next four quarters, dantly clear: the Federal Government was tax exempt property located in New down from our earller estimate of 6%. As must take on the initiative in finding an York City and that nearly $6.5 billions a result, the probability of shortages oc alternative to the crushing tax burden or 28.6 percent-was located outside the curring late next year has been reduced. being shouldered by our middle and fixed city of New York. The committee also While this change in the forecast is rela income taxpayers, and it must find an tively small in comparison to the overall found that 39 cities in New York State GNP and employment numbers, the dif alternative to the dependence by State were handicapped by tax exempt prop ference between 5% and 6% growth repre and local governments upon property erty ranging from more than 25 percent sents the critical zone affecting bottlenecks taxes as their major source of revenues. for Peekskill to 78 percent in Watervliet. and shortages. While individual situations Although real property taxes have tradi The amount of real property that re must stm be monitored continuously, the tionally been a State matter-and for ceives tax exempt status, thus eroding chances of shortages occurring for major local governments this constitutes ap the local tax base upon which local gov materials are now much less likely. proximately seven-eighths of their reve ernment draw their revenues, indicates The inflation picture continues to look un nues-it is imperative that Federal, state, that tax exempt property is an impor satisfactory for the next six quarters, al and local officials find an alternative tant area for the task force to examine. though not quite as bad as previously pro jected. We expect the CPI to rise 7.5% dur method of financing local governmental The task force will also be required to ing 1977, down from our previous estimate programs. And we cannot afford anymore submit a report of its findings, conclu of 7.9%, and the WPIIND to increase 11.2%, patchwork legislation on this subject. sions, and recommendations-including d'own from 11.6%. The differences wm be Federal, State, and local officials, togeth legislative proposals-to the President more marked in the second half of the year; er with interested citizens groups, must and the Congress. here our estimates for the CPI and WPIIND join forces to help resolve this pressing Mr. Speaker, there is an urgent need are now 8.3% and 10.9%, down from previ issue. for such a task force to study real estate ous forecasted values of 8.8% and 12.8% Mr. Speaker, in order to help resolve respectively. Because of the somewhat lower property taxation. I welcome the levels of inflation, we do not expect mone this issue, I am today introducing legisla thoughts, suggestions, and support of my tary policy to be quite as ruthlessly strin tion to establish a Task Force on the Tax colieagues. gent as we had assumed earlier. We stm ex ation of Real Property by State and Lo pect short-term interest rates to rise some cal Governments that would study and 250 basis points during the course of 1977, evaluate the taxation of real property by which would indicate peak levels of the State and local governments, the effects CHASE ECONOMETRICS REPORT Treasury bill rate at 8%, the Federal funds of such taxation on certain taxpayers, SHOWS NEED FOR H.R. 50 rate at 9%, and the prime rate at 10%. These estimates are approximately 1% lower than and the feasibility of Federal taxation our earlier projections. and other policies designed to reduce the HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS The forecasts of slightly lower growth, and dependence of State and local govern hence of somewhat lower levels of inflation ments on real property taxation. This OF CALIFORNIA and interest rates, have virtually no effect task force would be composed of repre IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on our forecast of a recession in 1978. The sentatives of State and local govern Thursday, September 23, 1976 natural cyclical mechanism of the economy, ments, members of the academic com plus the decline in real personal and corpo munity, and citizens groups and associa Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, I be orate incomes due to rising rates of inflation, tions concerned with the taxation of lieve that it is absolutely vital for the will accomplish this even without an assist real property. Nation's economic health that the Mem from shortages and another credit crunch. bers fully understand the dismal pros The reasons for this are discussed in this The task force would study the means month's ANALYSIS. by which State and local governments pects for our economy that the next sev eral years holds unless we enact legisla The growth in consumer spending from the could reduce their dependence upon real recession trough in 1975.1 to present levels property taxes including: First, the tion along the lines of H.R. 50, the Full has been slightly above average. Even the waiver by the Federal Government of its Employment and Balanced Growth Act current pause is not unusual, as retall sales immunity to State and local taxes, sec of 1976, now ready for action by this have a habit of stalling in the fifth or sixth ond, Federal grant-in-aid and loans to House. The latest economic forecast quarter of recovery and in fact have done State and local governments to assist for the next several years just released so in every single postwar upturn. As long as such governments in providing services by the Chase Econometrics organization real disposable income continues to rise at that otherwise are supported by real spells it out in clear language that all better than a 4% rate and credit conditions property taxes, third, the utilization of can understand. In essence the report remain easy, we expect a resurgence of con other forms of taxation in place of the indicates that the economy is headed sumption in the coming quarters. real property taxes, fourth, ways to re downward again and will begin to stead In contrast, the behavior of fixed business distribute tax burdens, and fifth, the con By worsen over the coming years. investment has been extremely disappoint solidation of local political subdivisions Note: The full text of the new revised ing. Purchases of producers durable equip for purposes of equitable distribution of bill appears 3lt pages 31021 to 31028 ment in constant dollars stood at $76.9 bil tax burdens. of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Of Friday, lion in 1975.1; last quarter they had ad- 32278 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1976 vanced only to $77.0 billion. It is now clear tomorrow, I would like to include in my abandonments are more likely to occur when that businessmen, stung by the unexpected remarks the full exchange of corres development is by the larger oil companies fury of the last recession, decided to wait pondence in and to the Wall Street rather than by the small ones. longer than usual in order to determine It is unfortunate that you state that the whether the current recovery would be for Journal: industry "may" only get a 7% return on its real. The recent pattern of new orders [From the Wall Street Journal, investment on OCS leases. Calculation of strongly suggests that capital spending will Sept. 8, 1976] bonus costs and exploration costs which rise rapidly from now until mid-1977. How [Letters to the Editor] have so far indicated a small return to pro ever, once the current orders-inventories REPRESENTATIVE MURPHY REPLIES ducers does not take into account the fact shipments cycle has ended, the miniScule Editor, The Wall Street Journal: that the fields already leased will continue amount of momentum remaining will be in Your edtiorial, "Murphy's Law" (Aug. 31) to produce oil and gas for some time with sufficient to keep the economy afloat. As a is, at best, inaccurate, and in fact intention a return to the government of only 16.6% result, we see the rate of real growth dimin ally misleading and deceptive. per barrel. At our hearings, representatives ishing to 2% in the second half of 1977 and Both the Senate and the House have passed of' the oil industry indicated that they actually declining throughout most of 1978. amendments to the Outer Continental Shelf eventually expect to make a return far in The downward-revised figures for the sec Lands Act after numerous hearings. The bill excess of the 7% you suggest ( Stand,ard Oil ond quarter, coupled with our forecast of was not, as you claim, "drafted" by me. It of California and Shell indicated an even medioc·re growth this quarter, now indicate was prepared by all members of the OCS tual net incvme of 25 % to 30%) especially that this recovery is less vigorous than the Committee and by the full House. in light of continually increasing prices for average ·postwar boom. Thus it is even more Your editorial makes it appear that this oil and natural gas. puzzling to observe the steadily worse:fiing bill has no support. Not only is it supported You indicate that the b111 requires the pace of inflation in recent months. As dis by almost all coastal states and environ Interior Department to contract for explo cussed in this month's report, this upward mental groups, but is supported by the AFL ration. There is simply no such provision surge in prices cannot be tied to sharply CIO, smaller oil companies and the gas dis in the bill. The industry and the Interior higher unit labor costs. The increase in unit tributors throughout the country. In fact, Department both agree that the 1953 OCS labor costs would support a rate of infla the opposition to the bill comes from the Act allows exploration prior to a lease sale, tion of about 6%, but no higher. The addi larger oil companies, the seven "sob" sisters, and in fact, such geological exploration has tional inflation is due to higher prices of and not from the general energy industry. been conducted pre-lease since 1953. The energy and imported raw materials, inade It should be remembered that these large proposed House bill does not in any way quate capacity in many key industries, slow companies are the same ones that capitulated mandate government exploration, by con er growth in productivity, additional costs of and are capitulating to the Arabs. tract or any other way. government-mandated programs, and recov You ask, "What's wrong with the current Finally, it must be recognized that the ery of past costs which were not passed along system?" It is anti-competitive, potentialy Outer Continental Shelf is federal land-not during the past two years. unsafe, irrational and antiquated. Present private domain. A lease grants the right to Thus in spite of some minor modifications OCS leasing policies do not consider the re explore, develop and produce-it does not in our forecast this month, our overall out quests for rational protection of the environ grant the right to despoil. It is not only look for the next two years remains basically ment, for consideration of the legitimate the desire, but the duty, of Congress to set unchanged. We expect real GNP to grow at a interests of coastal communities, for balanc policy, guidelines and standards for gov 5% rate through mid-1977, and then decline ing short-term against long-term needs and ernment property. It is not in the public to the 2% range in the latter half of next for improving the safety conditions for interest to allow exploitation of public re year. Inflation will reach the double-digit workers. sources to be determined by a few uncon range during much of next year. These events The OCS bill is recognized by most as a trolled companies. will cumulate in an actual downturn in real moderate attempt to update an outmoded JOHN M. MURPHY, GNP which is expected to last through most 1953 law, which, despite your unsupported U.S. House of Representatives. 1f not all of 1978. statements to the contrary, has not worked WASHINGTON. well. In specific response to your misstatements, MR. NANZ RESPONDS the record of offshore dr1lling is not superb. Editor, The Wall Street Journal: FACTS REGARDING S. 521 By discussing only the Gulf of Mexico, you Congressman John Murphy's letter to you failed to recognize the enormous damage re concerning your August 31 editorial on pro sulting from the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. posed Outer Continental Shelf petroleum HON. JOHN M. MURPHY In addition, you did not mention the serious, legislation contains a number of inaccuracies OF NEW YORK often fatal, accidents to divers and other and potentially misleading statements. For IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES workers on off-shore fac111ties. You do not brevity, I wish to comment on only three mention that the administration has re points. Thursday, September 23, 1976 versed the policy of gradual development it Mr. Murphy refers to my testimony before undertook in the Gulf and has now decided his committee as follows: "At our hearings, Mr. MURPHY of New York. Mr. to accelerate lease sales in all previously Speaker, a few weeks ago the Wall Street representatives of the oil industry indicated undeveloped areas with enormous impact on that they eventually expect to make a return Journal undertook an editorial attack on previously untouched coastal communities. far in excess of the 7% you suggest ( ... and what they termed "Murphy's Law," You stress that OCS administration is Shell indicated an eventual net income of which was the Outer Continental Shelf "financially sound." Yet in the Baltimore 25% to 30%) ...." Lands Act amendments ~eported by the Canyon lease sale, Exxon-the largest aU Unfortunately, Mr. Murphy has confused committee which I chair, .the Ad Hoc company-was able to secure one-third of industry's 25% to 30% share of the "eventual Select Committee on the Outer Conti the leases offered; the top seven oil com net income" with the 7% rate of return on nental Shelf. I responded to the editors, panies, either alone or as the lead party, ob its investment. In my testimony to Mr. tained 75% to 80% of the leases. This is not Murphy's committee, as well as to other gov who published an abridged, but relatively competition. It is oligopoly. ernment bodies, I have repeatedly stressed accurate account of my position, and Moreover, your use of the term "Mom and the fact that industry makes large invest that of the committee's, on the legisla Pop" explorers is an insult to many multi ments for bonuses, drilling platforms and tion. million dollar energy companies, including development wells early in the cycle and The administration has engaged in gas distributors. Smaller companies have must wait many years to recover its expendi delaying tactics throughout the entire been drill1ng most of the wells onshore and tures. The rate of return is the average an legislaitve history of this bill, and has now seek and equal opportunity offshore. Gas nual rate of interest earned on an investment distributors have been supplying natural gas over the entire life of the venture and takes been joined at this late date in a con to their customers for years and now seek into account the time-lag of the receipt of centrated attack by the oil industry and an opportunity to eliminate the middleman income. It is this time-lag which results in a lobbyists on the completed version as ap and produce their own gas. Alternative sys marginal rate of return of 7% for industry. proved by the House and Senate confer tems required by the b111 are not untested; On the other hand the government receives ence committe a few days ago. · they are used successfully by many foreign 70% -75% of the eventual net income. The Such an attack on the bill was printed countries and by states now leasing or li government's share consists of the royalty of in the September 17 issue of the Wall censing their lands. 16.6% per barrel plus bonuses, rents and Street Journal, a date which left little You indicate that none but the seven sis taxes. In particular it gets a significant share ters wm efficiently exploit resources. Pres of its income early in the cycle in the form time for a public response to such an in ent Interior Department regulations, which of bonuses and rentals. The government's accurate and misleading piece of mis would be substantially improved by the share (70%-75%) of the "profits" is certainly information. new OCS blll, provide for strict diligence comparable to the "profit sharing" deals in In the interests of providing the Con requirements and penalties for premature foreign countries which some critics would gress with the facts regarding S. 521, abandonment. In fact, as demonstrated by tout as being more favorable. which we expect to vote upon today or a recent GAO report, shut-in wells and Mr. Murphy states that " ... the top seven September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32279 oil companies either alone, or as the lead oil companies obtained, either alone, or as The conferees agreed that there was a party, obtained 75%-80% of the leases. This the lead party of a group, 68 of the 93 leases place for State influence in the humani is not competition. It is oligopoly." or over 73% of the leases awarded. ties councils and they have provided the As a matter of fact, in the Mid-Atlantic Mr. Nanz states that the eight largest oil States with an option to appoint 50 per !ease sale to which he referred, the eight companies obtained "only 53 % of the owner largest oil companies obtained 53 % of the ship." When a large oil company is the lead cent of the council's membership. If they ownership and the other 32 successful par or principal party of a group, it controls choose to make these appointments, the ticipants obtained 47%. Moreover, 141 com that group, all exploration and production -State must assume an increasing share panies other than the top eight domestic activities, · and the oil and gas found. Re of the humanities council's matching producers have participated in the last 19 spected journals, including the Wall Street requirement. Under current procedure OCS sales and have acquired on the average Journal, the New York 'r:lmes, the Washing this matching requirement may be met about half the interests in all of the leases. ton Post, and the Oil and Gas Daily, recog with either public or private funds. If the Mr. Murphy states that, "The proposed nized this when they reported that the "big House bill does not in any way mandate gov winners" of the Mid-Atlantic sale were Exxon, state should choose to appoint 50 per ernment exploration by contract or any other bidding alone, and these five other majors as cent of the humanities council, however, means." However, the proposed House bill leaders of groups. the State would assume this matching states that "(g) at least once in each fron Finally, Mr. Nanz again raises the ques requirement: 50 percent of the amount tier area, the Secretary shall seek qualified tion of gover.nment exploration. Again, I above $100 000 in the first year, 100 per applicants to conduct geological exploration, state the proposed new OCS law does not in cent of the' amount above $100,000 in the including core and test drilling, for oil and any way mandate government exploration. second year, and the total matching gas resources in those areas and subsurface One provision, quoted by Mr. Nanz, does pro amount in the years thereafter. geological structures of the Outer Conti vide that the Interior Department is to seek nental Shelf which the Secretary ... regards qualified private exploration companies as I feel this is a fair compromise and will as having the greatest likelihood of contain applicants for exploration permits, at no cost insure that those states which wish to ing significant oil and gas consumption." to the Federal government, to conduct drill have a larger say in Humanities will back In looking for intent in legislation one ing operations in the areas of high likeli this up with a larger financial commit looks to the committee report on a bill. On hood of oil and gas. These companies have ment to the program. The conferees have page 93 of Mr. Murphy's committee report on been, for twenty years, obtaining permits for likewise agreed on the location of the the proposed House bill, it is stated that pre-lease drilling off a structure believed to Museum Service Institute. The Senate "Subsection (g) requires the Secretary of the contain oil and gas, and most oil companies bill would have placed the museums pro Interior to secure applicants to conduct ... have participated in consortiums to conduct drilling.... " The House bill says "shall such drilling. Never before has this been gram in the Endowments; the House bill seek"; the committee report says "requires called "government exploration." Now, a re placed the program in HEW arguing that .. . to secure." Is that a mandate or not? quirement to seek "qualified applicants" to the significance of science and technology In summary, this legislation is unnecesasry conduct drilling on a structure believed to museums was great and these very popu and, in fact, would only disrupt the current contain resources is such drilling. The ac lar museums would not readily fit into the sound and productive leasing program. Most cusation is simply inaccurate. endowments' arts and humanities ' in important of all, the legislation would un The House and Senate have now resolved terests. In fairness to the great variety of necessarily increase the federal government's the differences between their respective ver role in the exploration program, result in less museums the House felt the best location sions of the OCS Land Act Amendments of for the Institute would be HEW. The oil and gas found for the nation; seriously 1976. The compromise is a moderate bill that delay the development of OCS oil and gas; would promote the swift, orderly and effi House position has prevailed; the Mu and increase the nation's dependence on im cient exploration and production of offshore seum Services Institute will be located in ports. oil and gas; secure a fair return for the Fed HEW. R. H. NANZ, eral government for the leasing of federal With regard to the challenge grants, a Vice President, Shell Oil Co. lands; provide for the protection of the en new concept designed to encourage great HOUSTON. vironment; insure participation by State and er private contributions to the arts and local governments; and improve safety con HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, humanities, the conferees agreed to a ditions. funding level of $12 million for the first Washington, D.C., September 21, 1976. Sincerely, EDITOR, JoHN M. MURPHY, year and $18 million in authorizations for The Wall Street Journal, Member of Congress. the second. The Bicentennial challenge New York, N.Y. grant, a separate Senate title, has been DEAR Sm: I feel it necessary to respond to folded into the humanities challenge the letter of R. H. Nanz, Vice President of grant program. Shell Oil Company, published on Septem On overall funding the conferees have ber 17, 1976. THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON THE agreed to $93.5 million for the Arts and Mr. Nanz implicitly denies that he told our ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND CUL Humanities Endowments in fiscal year Committee that his company expected to TURAL AFFAffiS ACT OF 1976, H.R. make a return in excess of 7% on its OCS 1977, $105 million in fiscal year 1978 and investment. 12838 such sums as may be necessary in fiscal At our June 7, 1975 hearing, Mr. Nanz year 1979 and fiscal year 1980. The con stated that his estimate of the 5-7% rate ferees also agreed to the Senate proposal of return was based on the 1973 price of oil HON. PATSY T. MINK for an American Bicentennial photog ($4 to $6) and not the 1975 or 1976 price OF HAWAU raphy and film project. The conferees ($12); and that companies bid on the basis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that and believ·ed that increased prices will agreed, however, to scale the project result in a greater rate of return. , Thursday, September 23, 1976 down from its original 4-year length and In an October 1975 study, the Bureau of $5 million annual authorization to a 2- Competition noted that the present dis Mrs. MINK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to ex year program with $4 million authorized counted rate of return of 7.5% does not con press my strong support for the confer for its first year and $2 million for its sider the doubling of the price of oil from ence report on H.R. 12838, the Arts, Hu second year. The conferees likewise 1973 to 1975 and the real discounted rate of manities, and Cultural Affairs Act of agreed to a more modest arts education return will be much, much higher. The Bu 1976. program, placing it in the Office of Edu reau cited Interior Department and econ The House and Senate conferees have cation and limiting its funding to 1 year, omists' studies to conclude that the Govern worked out a fair compromise between fiscal year 1978, at a · $2 million authori ment, under present bidding procedures, may the House and Senate versions of this not be receiving full value on its resources. zation level. Mr. Nanz next states that I was incorrect important legislation. Chief among their I urge my colleagues to give the con in saying that the top seven oil companies concerns was who would appoint mem ference report on H.R. 12838 their whole obtained 75--80% of the Mid-Atlantic leases. bers of the State humanities councils. hearted support. I believe the compromise My statement was that the top seven oil Currently these members are appointed expressed in the report reflects a strong companies "either alone or as the lead party" by the Director of the Humanities En commitment to the arts and humanities obtained that percentage, and it is totally dowment. Their counterparts on the arts and to the very important place of the correct. The statistics are as follows: Of the council are, however, appointed by the endowments in American cultural life. 93 lease tracts awarded, Exxon obtained 30 leases; Chevron's group obtained 13 leases; State government and the Senate-passed The programs are solid and the authori Shell's group obtained 8 leases; Gulf's group legislation suggested that the State be zation levels are realistic. I urge you to obtained 3 leases; and Texaco's group ob empowered to appoint humanities coun join with me in voting for this conference tained 2 leases. Thus, six of the largest seven cil members as well. report. 32280 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1976 MOST-FAVORED-NATION STATUS related materials. Other benefits that might paying less, and with all this giving up accrue from improved U.S.-Romanian trade they must somehow be able to keep a re ·ties include the expansion of joint venture serve for the one cost which always must liON. STEWART B. McKINNEY activity and increased penetration for American products in "East-bloc" markets. be met, the rent or property tax needed OF CONNECTICUT Unfortunately, the information I have seen to keep a roof over their heads. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES indicates a return to a more restrictive emi- Here in Washington we hear a lot Thursday, September 23, 1976 • gration policy on the part of the ;Romanian about "holding the line" on the budget government. In the two hundred years that and the Congress has had to :fight for Mr. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, last have passed since our country was founded adequate support for programs affecting week, the Subcommittee on Trade of the on a basis of individual freedoms and human House Ways and Means Committee con rights, we have encouraged all nations to our older population. Our generation and ducted oversight hearings to ascertain extend this same treatment to their people. the children of our generation are the whether or not this country should ex In pursuing this goal with Romania, both beneficiaries of the legacy that has been the President and the Secretary of State left to us by the senior citizens of this tend the most-favored-nation status to must impress on the Ceausescu government land. They have kept the faith and now Rumania. the fact that freedom of emigration must in troubled economic times, this Nation I am sure that a number of my col be practiced in conjunction with the "most must keep that faith with them. leagues are aware that Rumania has favored nation" status; not used as a tool whereby one obtains that status, only to dis Does "social security" mean doing without proven to be a most active particip:;tnt one necessity so that I can afford another?- in this arrangement. However, Hungarian regard the emigration issue in the ensuing Americans are rightfully upset that our months. There can be little doubt that the sin Government has failed to exert the pres Though the trade issue is tied directly only gle most beneficial program ever enacted to the emigration policy, I do not think it is by Congress to provide some measure of sure necessary to keep Rumania's emi possible for this committee to get a total gration policy open. Since the agreement view of the emigration problems without economic security to older Americans is on open emigration was an important also examining the internal policies of the the social security program. We all have factor in bringing Rumania the most Romanian government. Certainly, the re a stake in this program because both favored-nation status in the :first place, strictive and suppressive policies which are young and old, those who are working I think it is very necessary that both the presently being practiced against the Hun and those retired share in participation. Trade Subcommittee and the Senate Fi garian and German cultures within Romania One aspect of the program which I am do not bode well for any liberalization of nance Committee which is conducting the tightening emigration policy we have all particularly interested in is its ability to similar oversight hearings, carefully re witnessed in the past few months. In fact, respond to increases in the costs of goods view that country's compliance with this the anti-Hungarian actions seem to be form and services that older Americans must agreement. At this time, I would like to ing the backbone for a new "image" Romania purchase. For the most part, social se take the opportunity to share my testi wants to impress on the world. I should think curity is the mainstay of an older citi mony on this issue with my colleagues: that the Ceausescu government would be the zen's budget. fl.rs·t to recognize that this "image" can prove TESTIMONY OF THE HONORABLE STEWART B. very counterproductive toward continuation In recent years the Congress included McKINNEY of the "most favored nation" status. an automatic cost-of-living adjustor in Mr. Chairman, for thirteen months, Ru Mr. Chairman, thousands of American the social security law. In 1975 the Presi mania has enjoyed the "most favored nation" citizens, with family ties to the country of dent recommended placing a 5-percent status in trading with the United States. In ceiling on the 8-percent increase which granting this nondiscriminatory tariff treat Romania, are looking to these hearings to provide a thorough examination of the record was due that July. The Congress soundly ment, Congress attached certain conditions of the past eighteen months. This committee's for the Rumanian government ~o meet as an defeated that attempt. The cost-of-living indication of its good faith. I would like to report, as well as the report of the Senate adjustor was intended to make benefits commend you and this committee for con Finance Committee which has concluded inflation proof and it was nothing short ducting these oversight hearings which will similar hearings, wlll be of invaluable as of cruel to suggest a ceiling on the bene enable the Congress to determine whether sistance to those of us who must determine if special preference continues to be war fit increase. The Congress must act fur this preferential treatment should be con ranted by Romania in conjunction with the ther to provide cost-of-living increases tinued. Trade Act of 1974. Whatever the outcome, I at least twice a year so that older citizens The United States, long a leader in de think it is necessary that the United States will be better able to meet cost increases veloping international trade is committed to continue to emphasize the importance of as they occur. the principle of interdependence among all human rights as well as the economic bene nations. This concept implies an unrestricted fits to be gained from granting such privi Moreover, action must be taken to base trade policy. However, as you know, this ideal leges. Thank you. cost-of-living increases on the real in approach has not always been reciprocated crease of costs in goods and services pur by our trading partners. In recent years, an chased by the older population. Currently other element has been introduced to trade cost-of-living increases are based upon negotiations that goes far beyond such tradi tional issues as tariffs and "dumping". Spe EVERY lOTH AMERICAN the Consumer Price Index. This index is cifically, I am referring to the practice of derived from the purchasing pattern of a linking trading rights to human rights. family of four and in my view is an in When the House considered the "most HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN adequate tool for measuring increased favored nation" status for Romania in July OF MASSACHUSETTS costs to the elderly. Expenditures for of 1975, I felt that Romania's behavior in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES housing, food and medical care constitute both political and economic affairs demon about 70 percent of older Americans' strated that she deserved such trade treat Thursday, September 23, 1976 ment by the United States. Among the East budgets while less than 60 percent of ern European states--the sole exception being Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, in recent younger workers' income is devoted to Yugoslavia-the firmest rejection of the months I have held two forums on the such needs. Moscow-dictated foreign policy line had come economic problems of older Americans They told me there was a cost-of-Uving in from President Ceausescu's government. The in my congressional district. Over and crease coming in my SSI check-but I didn't independence of this approach was evidenced over again we hear that large numbers get lt--:was there some mistake?- by Romanian relations with countries out of older citizens, most of whom are de Through a joint Federal-State ar side the Soviet sphere, most notably, the pendent on social security or other retire rangement, the supplemental security United States and Israel. In addition, she ment income, simply do not have the dol income program was·intended to provide has proven her dedication to the interna lars they need even for essentials. They a minimum income floor for the aged, tional trading system through membership are the most economically disadvantaged blind, and disabled. Because the States and active participation in such organiza group in fighting the battle of inflation. tions as the INF, GATT, UNCTAD and the were never forced by law to pass along World Bank. Instead of being able to enjoy life in Federal cost-of-living increases in the Economically, Romania has been a solid their later years they are plagued by SSI program to recipients, that intent and active participant in various East-West worries about their survival. T:Q.ey give has not been fulfilled. Just this past July trading arrangements. Also, her major ex up a meal or medicine to meet a utility many SSI beneficiaries heard of a 6.4- ports can be helpful in satisfying the de bill, they give up going to the doctor percent cost-of-living increase but found mands for oil equipment and other energy because medicare is costing more and that it did not show up in their checks. September 23, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32281
In the recent past the House of Repre In their middle years many women their homes if appropriate services were sentatives approved an amendment to lose their one source of retirement in available. the program which forces the States to come--wife's benefits under social secu With this in mind, the Congress en pass along cost-of-living increases in rity. This is due to the growing divorce acted the Health Revenue Sharing Act full to SSI recipients. Although Massa rate after 15 years of marriage and the over the President's veto of this bill. This chusetts provided a 5-percent increase fact that the social security law requires law makes funds available for home this year the amendment requires that a 20-year duration for a marriage before health agencies and expands the services in the future the full Federal cost-of a divorced wife can be eligible for a unde.r home health care to include in living increase will be realized. benefit. In my view this requirement must creased visiting nurse care, home aide All I have is the home my husband and be modified. Women who have served as assistance and physical therapy. I bought 20 years ago and they tell me that homemakers and have thus made it easier I have made many friends at the center because of it I cannot get SSI-I thought for their husbands to have careers should where I go for a hot meal and I hope the that program was supposed to help people Congress wlll continue this program- like me- not be denied social security because the marriage did not last 20 years. , Eleven years ago the Congress pro A serious problem with this program The social security law should also be vided the first real momentum for focus is the restriction on home value which changed to provide greater recognition ing our national attention on the unique keeps from eligibility an individual who to the contributions of working wives problems of growing old in this Nation owns a home valued at more than $25,000. and to eliminate those situations in which through passage of the Older Americans Massachusetts' law requires a lOO-per a working couple receive less in social Act. The Older Americans Amendments cent evaluation for tax purposes and this security benefits than a couple with the of 1975 perhaps more than any other fact, along with the rising cost of prop same total earnings where only the hus proposal, symbolized administration and erty, makes the $25,000 figure totally un band worked. congressional differences of opinion on realistic and inadequate for Massachu As pointed out earlier, older women aging issues. setts and most other States. Many other are less likely to remarry but when they The administration sought cutbacks wise eligible older citizens have been do they shortly find that their social se in this program and refused to provide denied assistance merely because they curity benefit is reduced almost in half. adequate funding levels in its budget for have been able to hold on to their homes. This is because the law requires that a the programs of the act. Nonetheless Homeownership among older citi~ens remarried widow revert back to receiving Congress stood by its initial commitment. does not stand as a sign of affluence, but a wife's benefit. Widows should not be Under the act increasing numbers of more likely as a result of years of sacri discouraged from remarriage under the older Americans participate in the hot fice and hard work. I recently fought for soci~l security law nor should they suffer meal program and the Meals on Wheels an amendment to the SSI program which a benefit reduction. program and the 1975 amendments set was accepted by the House that would Has health care too become something for new funding targets for the States in the remove home value in determing eligi the "haves" and not the "have-nots"?- areas of transportation services, in-home bility for the program. services such as general household tasks It seems to me that what I get from one A decade ago the Congress enacted the and legal services. Also the model proj hand of the Federal Government 1s being medicare law and in so doing established ects section of the act was expanded to taken by the other- this Nation's commitment to protect the include ombudsmen se.rvices to nursing Increases in social security have had health of older Americans. Yet health home residents. protection has diminished through soar · the cruel effect o:fi causing reductions in They should not put me out to pasture other programs such as in veterans' pen ing medical costs and the failure of medi just because I turned 65-nothing else care to cover preventive health care costs, changed and I want to keep working- sion. In most Federal programs where prescription drugs, dental and visual care, financial need determines eligibility, and hearing aids. The 1975 amendments to the Older social security increases are considered Americans Act contained the precedent as additional income and can result in Older Americans more than the young setting move of including a prohibition benefit reductions from other programs. er population have a vital need for out on discrimination based on age in em These cost-of-living increases were in of-hospital prescription drugs yet be cause they cannot always afford them ployment under any program which re tended to provide a means for keeping ceives Federal financial assistance. The pace with inflation and in my view are they are likely to do without. In lieu of U.S. Civil Rights Commission was also in no way a bonus. a national health insurance program, the authorized to study the problems of age I voted for legislation which ups the medicare program should be expanded discrimination in employment and re income limitation of the veterans' pen to meet these health needs which place port back to the Cong.ress. sion program so that this past July's an ever increasing drain on the budgets of older citizens. No older citizen should Hopefully this new law will provide cost-of-living increases will not reduce the incentive for a change in mandatory pension benefits. I also supported an be forced to do without health care be cause it involves a choice of one neces retirement policies. A recent poll showed amendment to a housing blll which ex sity over another. that 86 percent of the American people empts cost-of-living increases in deter oppose mandatory retirement. mining the rent paid by older citizens in ~f the program covered preventive health care services such as a yearly As we move through the last quarter public housing. of this century we must adjust to the One person who wrote to me about this physical many older citizens might be reality that more and more of our popu problem stated the situation well when spared anguish and cost further down lation is 65 years of age and older. While he said: the line. in 1900 1 out of every 25 Americans It appears that what is being given by one The Congress rejected the administra were 65 and older, today that proportion hand of the Federal Government is being tion's catastrophic health insurance pro is 1 out of every 10 amounting to 22 taken by the other. gram because in fact this proposal would million citizens. And by the end of this In my view a more equitable solution have increased costs for 97 percent of century it has been estimated that the to this problem would be to remove cost medicare hospital patients. Under the number will increase to 30 million or 12 of-living increases from consideration as proposal a medicare patient hospitalized percent of our population. income in the veterans' pension program. for 30 days would have paid $450 com In the past few years the Congress has I did some work after the kids were grown pared with $104, the present deductible enacted programs like foster grand but they tell me I won't get any social for the first 60 days of hospitalization. parents, retired senior volunteers and security even though I paid in- the senior community service employ The Congress also took steps to prevent ment program. Although the administra Women are more likely to be alone in loss of medicaid coverage due to social tion vetoed an emergency employment their later years, more often widowed, security and SSI benefit increases. appropriations bill which included $30 less likely to remarry and more likely to A Government survey showed that million for the older American commu be unemployed. This group has one of the more than a quarter of all older patients nity service employment program, the highest incidences of poverty and we in hospitals and nursing homes through Congress included these needed funds in must devote our attention to their spe out the United States have no medical another bill. It has been shown that older cial needs. reason for being there and could live in citizens participating in these programs 32282 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1976 have provided valuable services to their difilcult to conceive of broader or more MINORITY BUSINESS PROGRAM communities and coworkers. inclusive language than that used in This Nation must increase its use of section 602(a) (9). Congress obviously in tended to freeze all legislation dealing HON. BELLA S. ABZUG the great resources of the older popula OF NEW YORK tion and should abandon policies which with the criminal laws of the District of assume that the individual can no longer Columbia, including those dealing with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be productive after reaching age 65. gun control for the 2-year period ending Thursday, September 23, 1976 January 2, 1977. The language of sec An added encouragement to continued Ms. ABZUG. Mr. Speaker, the National employment would be the removal of the tion 602(a) (9) prohibits any amend ments, alterations, modifications, or Shoe Retailer's Association have run a restriction on earnings under the social successful program for minority busi security law. Many people who remain supplements of the criminal laws of the District. Thus, the passage of the Fire nesses since 1972. They have serviced employed after reaching age 65 do so be over 575 clients and 275 stores and are cause they need that income to main arms Control Regulations Act of 1975 by the City Council was completely outside currently engaged in the management tain a decent standard of living and they and aid of 162 stores. An excellent illus should not suffer loss of social security the scope of their authority under the Home Rule Act. . tration of this program is the case of or a reduction in benefits because they Edwin Figueroa, who successfully runs have the opportunity to remain in the Furthermore, the recent passage of H.R. 12261, signed into law by the presi two shoe stores in Manhattan and the work force. Bronx. He has just been selecteJ as a di It is evident that there is a pressing dent on September 7, 1976 clarifies the meaning of section 602 (a) (9). H.R. 12261 rector of the National Shoe Retailers As need for Federal action on many fronts sociation. I would like to take this op in addressing the problems of our older amended section 602(a) (9) to make clear that the City Council had no au portunity to insert in the RECORD an population. But legislative initiatives article describing Mr. Figueroa's success: alone will not accomplish the important thority to pass any gun control legisla NSRA's MINBOP DIRECTOR task. Whatever strides we make will tion until January 3, 1977, and to extend serve no purpose if they are not accom to that prohibition until January 2, 1979. (By Irving D. Brown, Administmtor, panied by a change in our attitudes about The amendment will not affect any MINBOP) old age. We must break down the isola then existing criminal laws passed by the "Both morally and economically, we wlll District of Columbia City Council, name not !"ealize the full potential or our Nation tion that keeps our older citizens from until race or nationality is any longer an participating fully in the mainstream of ly those passed prior to the passage of obstacle to full participation in the Ameri American life. the Home Rule Act. The police regula can marketplace." So spoke the President of tions, promulgated in 1969, for example, the United States in 1969, and in October of are completely unaffected by the passage that year, the Office of Minority Business of the Home Rule Act or the passage of Enterprise (OMBE) came to life under Exec DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA H.R. 12261. However, the Home Rule Act utive Order No. 11458. in section 602(a) (9) as amended by H.R. To implement OMBE, affiliate organiza GUN CONTROL tions were created throughout the United 12261 does apply-and was intended to States to aid, in cooperation with the Small apply-to any legislation affecting any Business Administration and commercial HON. JOHN H. DENT subject dealt with in title 22 and passed banks, the procurement of equity money for OF PENNSYLVANIA between January 3, 1975, and January 2, minority businesses. 1979. The Firearms Control Regulations The National Shoe Retailers Association IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Act, enacted July 23, 1976 is a classic ex contract for MINBOP was granted in June Thursday, September 23, 1976 ample of such legislation. 1972. It is administered by Irving D. Brown with four Deputy Administrators: John De Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, lest partisans Despite the obvious illegalities of any D.C. gun control measure acted upon Young, Ignacio Perez, Joel Sparber and promoting the District of Columbia CitY Edward Snyder individually having 12 to 35 Council's harsh gun control proposal during the moratorium, Council gun years experience in shoe store operations. seek to misconstrue the reasons for yes control advocates have attempted to The-NSRA Directors, at the Administrator's terday's action regarding House Resolu manufacture a loophole in the home rule request, volunteer to aid the MINBOP Pro tion 1447, I wish to place this event into law. They have maintained that their gram. Their local support augments the staff perspective with the legislative history of sweeping gun control bill was lawful un by providing supplementary coverage that der the guise of an amendment to the otherwise would be impossible with the the District of Columbia Self-Govern limited budget from the OMBE grant. Since ment and Governmental Reorganization city's police regulations. No matter the label, it is abundantly clear that both its inception, MINBOP has serviced over 575 Act as originally enacted and further clients and 275 stores, and is now actively clarified by H.R. 12261
·SENATE-Friday, September 24, 1976
The Senate met at 9 a.m. and was QUORUM CALL The assistant legislative clerk called called to o.rder by Hon. DICK ClARK, a The assistant legislative clerk pro the roll. Senator from the State of Iowa. ceeded to call the roll. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. I announce Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. Presi that the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. dent, I ask unanimous consent that the ABOUREZK) , the Senator from Indiana PRAYER