33048 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 3'0, 1974 offenses against the United States; to the MEMORIALS Buiz. de Vargas; to the Committee on the Committee on the Judiciary. .Judiciary. By Mr. THOMPSONo! New Jersey: Under clall.Se 4 of rule XXII~ memorials By Mr. HORTON: H.J. Res. ll52.. Joint resolution to require were presented and referred as follows: H.R. 16960. A bill for the :relief of Carl B. the Watergate Special Prosecution Force to 54l'r By Ul.e SPEAKER: A Memorial of the Malcolm; to th~ Committee on the Judiciary. make available. to the public a report on an H.R.. 16961. A blll for the relief of Antonio information it has concerning Richard M. Legislature or the State of California, rela tive to rapid transit financing; to the Com DiMaria; to the- Committee on the Judiciary. Nixon in offenses against the United States; H.R.. 16962. A bill for the. relief of Joseph to the Committee o.n the .Tudiclary. mittee on Appropriations. 542. Also, memorial of the Legislature of P. Mahady~ to the Committee on the By Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN: . Judiciary. H. Con. Res. 65.!. Concurrent resolution the state of Callfarnia, relative to gasoline expressing the sense of the Congress with allocaticns; to the Committee on Interstate respect to the banning of high seas netting and Ycreign Commeree. for salmon~ to the Committee on Merchant PETITIONS,. ETC. Marilie and Fisheries. Under clause 1 of :rule XXII, petitions By Mr. FROEHLICH (for himself, Mr. PRIVATE lULLS AND RESOLUTIONS DERWINSKI, and Mr. ROUSSELOT): and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk H. Res. 1397. Resolution to amend the Under clause 1 of rule xx:rr~ private and referred as follows: House rules to require that the repor~ of bills and resolutions were introduced and 521. By the SPEAKER~ Petition of the each House committee on each public bill or severally referred as follows: Board of Directors, Appalachian Regional joint resolution reported by the committee :By Ms. ABZUG: Center for the Healing ArtS", Johnson City, shall contain a statement as to the inflation H.R. 16956. A bill fOI" the relief of Harold Tenn .• relative to local health planning; to ary impact on the national economy of the Alston Dindlal, b.is wife Bernice, and their the Committee on Interstate and FOl'eign Commerce. enactment. of such legisla.ti EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO HAN mittee thereof authorized by the committee Mr. Speaker, I know the 4-H members SEN SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE to. held hearings, is authorized to sit and act in the Second Congressional District of during the 94th Congress at such times and Kentucky. I know what they have ac RESOLUTION 988 places witilln the United States including any Commonwealth or possession thereof, complished and I would not question HON .. HAROLD V. FROEHLICH whether the House is in session. has recessed, their theme for 1 minute. When our 4- or had adjourned, to hold such hearings, H'ers tell us that they can make some OF WISCONSIN and to require, by subpena 01" otherwise, the thing happen, we know that they will. IN THE. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES attendance and testimony of such witnesses Their record speaks for itself. Monday, September 30, 19-74 and the production o:f such books, recnrds, 4-H has made it happen sin~e the correspondence, memorandums,. papers, and early 1900's. As our Nation faced periods Mr. FROEin.ICH. Mr. Speaker, under documents. as it deem.s necessary; except of varying needs and priorities so,. too, leave to extend my remarks in the that neither the committee nor any subcom mittee thereof may sit while the House is did th e 4-H program. Perceived origi REcoRD, 1 include the following amend nally as an organization to serve rural ments proposed to be offered by me to meeting unless special leave to sit shan have been obtained from the House. Subpenas may youth, today more than 40 percent of the the Hansen substitute for House Resolu be issued under the signature of the chair 5 million 4-H participants reside in ur tion 988: man of the committee or any member of the ban areas. Members of 4-H and their AMENDMENT Oi'FEB.ED BoY MR. E!&OEHLICH TO committee designated by him, and may be leaders accepted the challenge of change. THE HANSEN S U BSTTIU'n:. F.Oil. H OUSE R ES served by any person designated by such Realizing that today a single farmer can OLUTION 988 chairman or member. The ccmmittee or any produce enough food to feed 50 people, On Page 25, immediately following line 8, subcommittee thereof authorized by the projects of interest to the young people insert the followtng paragraph: committee to hold hearings shall publish " ( 4-) Each report of a committee on each report s of the hearings, and slull have au on our farms were not shunted aside. bill or foint resolution of a public character thority to report legislation to. the Congress. Rather they were strengthened and up reported by sueh commit tee shtill contain a "(d} The commi:ttee shall report to the dated as new projects to in.vGlve the detailed analytical statement' as to whether House- within nine months after January 3, young women and young num in the the enac:tm.ent of such bill or joint resolu 1975, the results of its study, together with towns were initiated. tion into law may have an inflationary im su ch recommendation as it deems advisable. In Kentucky we are proud of our 3,627 pact on prices and cost s in t he operation of Any such report which is made when the 4-H Clubs and special 4-H groups. Last the natioll!l.l economy." House is not in session shall be filed with year over 147,000 youth and 35,000 vol On page- 50, immediately following line 5, the Clerk of the House. inser t the following new sect ion: unteer leaders took part in the 4-H pro "205.(a) There is hereby created a select gram. Projects such as animal science committ ee to be cmnposed of eleven Mem and _production, foods and nutrition, bers of the House of Representatives to be THE 4- H PROGRAM CO ITINUES TO clothing. and personal development were appoint ed by t.he Speaker, on e of whom. he SERVE popular choices. Other Kentucky mem shall design at e as chairman. Any vacancy bers chose ornamental horticulture, occurring in t h e m embership of the commit home furnishings, or conservation while t ee shall be filled in the same m anner in which t he original appointment was made. HOtt WILLIAM H. NATCHER with other 4-H'ers the preference was for "(6) The commit tee is authorized and di OF KENTUCKY fruit and vegetable gardening or career re::ted t o conduct a full and complete study I N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES exploration~ of the constit utional basis of the January This year more young people will be 22, 1973, Un ited States Supreme Court deci Monday, September 30, 1974 drawn to 4-H, bringing with them new siom; on abort ion, t h e ramifications of such decisions on the power of the several States Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Speaker, 4-H ideas and interests. The program as it t::> enact abortion legislation, and th e need Clubs throughout this country have set has done in the past, will expand to meet for remedial action by Congress on the sub aside the week of October 6 to October 12 their needs. ject of abortions. as their national week and have adopted Last year, in the bluegyass and Mam '' (c ) For the purpcse of carrying out this as this year's theme, ''4-H-We can moth Cave a1eas of our State, th~ exten re:s:Jhition the committee, or any subeom- lVIake It Happen." sion agent for 4-H set up an oppor- September 30, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33049 Result. This needless regulation is based tunity camp for deserving youngsters. Page 59, line 231 strike out "(7)" and insert This remarkable undertaking not only in lieu thereof "(9) ". on the false premise that small producers · Page 59, line 24, strike out "(8)" and insert are being squeezed out of the nation's pipe gave 100 boys and girls between the ages in lieu thereof "(10) ". lines by the major producers, who bul.lt and of 10 to 13 a chance they might not have Page 59, line 25, strike out" (9)" and insert own most of the lines. The fact is that 909 had otherwise to enjoy organized group in lieu thereof "(11) ". companies shipped petroleum products camp; it brought officials and residents Page 60, line 1, strike out "(10)" and insert through 51 of the country's 55 product pipe of the area together in a common experi in lieu thereof " ( 12) ". lines last year. And 806 of these shippers had ence. Opportunity camp is but one ex Page 60, line 2, strike out "(11)" and insert no ownership in the lines. ample of responsible citizenship-a in lieu thereof" (13) ". "Answer". Refuse to allow any but small prime goal for all 4-H'ers, young and old. Page 60, line 4, strike out" (12)" and insert producers to bid jointly for exploration rights in lieu thereof "(14) ". to government lands. - There were other examples: 4-H'ers Page 71, line 1, strike out "and Transporta Result. Less competition and lower bonuses served on local and State community tion". to the government. The premise here is development committees; 4-H'ers stud Page 72, strike out lines 2 through 10. wrong, too. In three recent federal offshore ied, campaigned, and organized projects lease sales, non-majors were successful · in· such as sanitary landfills, and paper and obtaining interests in about 68 percent of the glass recycling; ~H'ers · worked to estab tracts offered. By bidding jointly with larger lish community centers and helped in DON'T JUST DO SOMETHING, companies they can participate -in every STANDTHERE . expensive acreage they couldn't otherwise the restoration of historical sites; 4-H'ers afford. it seems, were everywhere--serving in " Thinlt: we're reaching for some of these the tradition of 4-H. HON. WILLIAM L. ARMSTRONG examples? Believe But if it isn't, the nation faces the need A separate vote of the committee shall be in question was not in accordance with the for an austerity program such as it hasn't taken with respect to each committee or sub relevant provision of subparagraph (1), it seen in many years, he warned. As starters committee meeting that 1s closed to the pub shall direct that there be made publicly he proposed: lic pursuant to this paragraph, a.nd the com available the entire transcript of the meet A return to excess profit taxes on all bus mittee shall make available within one day of ing improperly closed to the public or the iness and a surcharge on individual income such meeting, a written explanation of its portion or portions of any meeting transcript taxes. action. The vote of each committee member improperly deleted from the publicly avail The reinstitution of consumer restrictions participating in each such vote shall be re able copy. used in earlier emergencies that required corded and published. "(6) The Select Committee on Meetings high down-payments on autos, washing "(2) Each standing, select, or special com shall not be subject to the provisions of sub machines, TV sets and other major house mittee or subcommittee shall make public paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4). hold items. announcement of the date, place, and sub As an immediate step, he said, the govern ject matter of each meeting (whether open ment should stop issuing $1,000 Treasury or closed to the public) at least one week notes at 9 per cent rates-these have served before such meeting unless the committee to drain S&Ls of savings needed to finance or subcommittee determines by a vote of a "SONNY" USILTON: THE PASSING housing. m ajority of the committee that committees OF A TRUE EASTERN SHOREMAN business requires that such meeting be called at an earlier date, in which case the commit AMENDMENT TO HOUSE tee shall make public announcement of the HON. ROBERT E. BAUMAN RESOLUTION 988 d ate, place and subject matter of such meet ing at the earliest practicable opportunity. OF MARYLAND " ( 3) A complete transcript, including a. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES list of all persons attending and their affilia HON. BILL GUNTER Monaay, September 30, 1974 OF FLORIDA tion shall be made of each meeting of each standing, select, or special committee or sub Mr. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BAUMAN. Mr. Speaker, the larg committee meeting (whether open or closed est part of my congressional district is Monday, September 30, 1974 to the public) in addition to the record re quired by paragraph (e) (1). Except as pro composed of nine counties known as "the Mr. GUNTER. Mr. Speaker, in order vided in paragraph (D), a copy of each such Eastern Shore" of Maryland. Because of to a1Iord timely notice of an amendment transcript shall be made available for public the Shore's geographic separation from to be o1Iered this week by myself and inspection within seven days of each such the remainder of the State there has Mr. BROWN of Ohio, providing for man meeting, and additional copies of any tran always been a special breed of independ datory open committee meetings except script shall be furnished to any person at the ent and self-reliant individual known in narrowly defined circumstances, I am actual cost of duplication. as the "Eastern Shoreman." The traits " ( 4) In the case of meetings closed to the publishing the text of the amendment to public pursuant to subparagraph (1), the of the Eastern Shoreman since colonial be o1Iered to House Resolution 988. The committee or subcommittee may delete from times have included a strong individual text follows: the copies of transcripts that are required to ism, a hearty skepticism of anything or AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED TO HOUSE be made available or furnished to the public anyone not from the Eastern Shore. and RESOLUTION 988 BY MR. GUNTER, OF FLORIDA, pursuant to subparagraph (3) any portions a great love of nature which abounds in AND MR. BROWN OF OHIO which it determines by vote of the majority its most perfect forms in our area. On page 45, strike out lines 2 through 23, of the committee or subcommittee consist of In recent years a new breed of Eastern and on page 46, strike out lines 1 and 2, material specified in subdivision (A), (B), Shoreman has arisen embodying most and insert in lieu thereof the following: (C), (D) or (E) of subparagraph ( 1). A sep of these older qualities, but also a pro "(g) (1) Each meeting of each standing, arat e vote of the committee or subcommit select, or special committee or subcommittee, tee shall be taken with respect to each tran gressive spirit willing to change with the including meetings to conduct hearings, script. The vote of each committee or sub times and o1Ier leadership in our local shall be open to the public: Provided, That committee member participating in each communities. a portion or portions of such meetings may such vote shall be recorded and published. Such a young man was Ralph H. Usil be closed to the public if the committee or In place of each portion deleted from copies ton, known to me and his many friends subcommittee, as the case may be, deter of the transcript made available to the pub as "Sonny." On September 24, Sonny died mines by vote of a majority of the members lic, the committee shall supply a written ex of the committee or subcommittee present planation of why such portion was deleted in an accident while on assignment in that the matters to be discussed or the and a summary of the substance of the de his capacity as editor of the Kent County testimony to be taken at such portion or leted portion that does not itself disclose News. portions- information specified in subdivision (A). His tragic passing is lamented by me, "(A) will probably disclose matters neces (B), (C), (D), or (E) of subparagraph (1). his many friends, and certainly, most of sary to be kept secret in the interests of The committee or subcommittee shall main all by his wife and young children. To national security or the confidential con tain a complete copy of the transcript of each them and to his mother and family. Mrs. duct of the foreign relations of the United meeting (including those portions deleted States; from copies made available to the public) for Bauman and I wish to extend our great "(B) will relate solely to matters of com a period of at least one year after such meet est sympathies. Sonny will be missed, but mittee staff personnel or internal staff man ings. his life and work will be remembered. agement or procedure; "(5) A poin t of order may be raised against I include at this point in my remarks "(C) w111 tend to jeopardize the present any committee or subcommittee vote to close several articles from newspapers on the or future legal rights of any person or will a meeting to the public pursuant to sub Eastern Shore which embody the represent a clearly unwarranted invasion of paragraph (1), or against any committee or thoughts of many of those who knew the privacy of any individual." subcommittee vote to delete from the pub Sonny: "(D) will probably disclose the identity of licly available copy a portion of a meeting any informer or law enforcement agent or transcript pursuant to subparagraph (4), by [Article from the Kent County News] any information relating to the investigation committee or subcommittee members com EDITOR RALPH H. USILTON KILLED ON As or prosecution of a criminal offense that is prising one-fourth or more of the total mem SIGNMENT; FUNERAL HELD TODAY required to be kept secret in the interests bership of the entire committee or subcom Funeral services were held today for Ralph of effective law enforcement; or mittee. Any such point of order must be Hines Usilton, Editor of the Kent County "(E) will disclose information relating to raised before the entire House within five News, from Emmanuel P.E. Church, Chester trade secrets or financial or commercial in legislative days after the vote against which town, at 2 p.m. Interment was at Chester formation pertaining specifically to a given the point of order is raised, and such point Cemetery. person where- of order shall be a matter of highest priv Ralph Usilton was born January 5, 1937 " (i) the information has been obtained by ilege. Each such point of order shall imme at the Kent and Queen Anne's Hospital, the the federal government pursuant to an diately be referred to a Select Committee on son of the late Ralph H. UsUton, and Mrs. agreement to maintain confidentiality of Meetings consisting of the Speaker of the WilliamS. Collins. Mr. Usilton died when his such information." House of Representatives, the majority lead son was 18 months old. His wife married "(ii) a Federal statute requires the infor er, and the minority leader. The select com WilliamS. Collins, Editor of the Kent Couny mation to be kept confidential by Govern mittee shall report to the House within five News, in 1951. m ent officers and employees; or calendar days (excluding days when the Known by everyone as "Sonny," he at "(iii) the information is required to be House is not in session) a resolution con tended Chestertown Elementary School in kept secret in order to prevent undue injury taining its findings. If the House adopts a the building that has become the County to the competitive position of such person. resolution finding that the committee vote Office building on High Street, from 1942- CXX--2084-Part 25 33060 EXTENSIONS OF-REMARKS September 3'0, 1974 1948. That September he entered McDonogh An accomplished photographer, his camera fered a big loss and the whole Eastern Shore School. Six years later, in 1954, he graduated was at his side. His parting words were "I'll will miss a lot for his not being here. from the Baltimore military school. cover it." . But "Sonny" was a big man and his spirit He entered Washington College in Sep · "Sonny" Usilton died 15 minutes later, the will far outlive the life he might have lived tember and was a member of Lambda Chi victim of what only can be termed a bizarre under more normal circumstances. Alpha. fraternity, the Elm and Pegasus staff accident. and earned his varsity letter in track as a · Why, one asks himself? Why one so full of hurdler. In early 1958 he interrupted his col life, bounding with enthusiasms, ready to lege career entering the U.S. Army. He be tackle any chore, especially when it dealt BURN PREVENTION AND came a lab technician and was stationed in with one great love-the Eastern Shore of t his country and in Germany. Maryland. Whether it be Chesapeake Bay Log TREATMENT He was released from active duty in 1960 Canoes, the Chestertown Tea Party Festival, and returned to Washington College, where the Candlelight Tour, Sonny Usilton's affec he received a B.A. degree in history in June tion for this one small place, the "Shore," in HON. WILLIAM D. FORD 1961. this immense universe was great. He was OF MICHIGAN In the summer of 1962 he became a full concerned that change and progress not alter IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time employee of the Kent County News. the flavor and character of this special world. He had worked there during the summer and To describe him only in terms of his many Monday, September 30, 1974 on a part-time basis since 1954. projects and accomplishments, however, is to Mr. FORD. Mr. Speaker, I would like He was appointed Associate News Editor miss the point of the man. We were con to take this opportunity to briefly com under the late Harry S. Russell jn 1964 and stantly affected, often awed by his sheer en ment on burn prevention and treatment. in 1967 when Harry Russell became Editor ergy, natural exuberance, and talent for fac of the Kent County News, he was named ing a person or a problem head-on. September has been proclaimed "State Associate Editor. In December 1972 when New leaders can be found, but Sonny's Burn Prevention-Burn Treatment Harry Russell died suddenly he was ap humor and energy will never be replaced. Month" by the Michigan State Legisla pointed editor. None will replace Sonny Usilton in the ture. Ralph Usilton's contributions to the area. hearts of those that knew him, whether it be The burn problem has long been one were many and varied. He was an avid here at the Kenty County News, in a goose of the country's large, but hidden, prob sailor, racing Jersey Crickets and Hamptons pit, sailing on the Chester River, or on the lems. More than 2 million Americans are while in his teens. streets of Chestertown. He later became Commodore of the Chester His loss came at a time when he was be burned every year, 75,000 of them se River Yacht and Country and at one time coming accustomed to the responsibilities verely enough to require hospitalization. was also Vice Commodore of the Rock Hall that come with being an editor of a news Burns kill and cripple more children Yacht Club. He was active on many race paper. He joined the Kent County News in every year than polio did at its peak in committees, helped to establish a perpetual 1962 and assumed the editorship ten years 1954. trophy for the annual Down River Race, later at 35 upon the death of ment or Harry In Michigan alone, the people suffering. and created the Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe S. Russell. from burns every year would fill the Uni races sponsored by the Chester River Yacht Monday, September 23rd, one of the longest versity of Michigan football stadium. and CouncU Club. and saddest days in the history of the Kent . He was a past member of the Board of County News began in the morning with an There are 100,000 of them, 3,200 of them Governors of the Chester River Yacht and editor, young and alive at 37. must be hospitalized, and almost half Country Club. He held an active member At midday tragedy struck in the life of a of the 400 people in Michigan that die of ship in the Chestertown Lions Club since newspaperman. burns every year are children. 1965 and was a director in 1971-72. He would have wanted us to say simply "he Currently, only 5 of 200 hospitals in In 1966. he took over the re!>ponsibilities was oh an assignment" and to carry on. the State offer specialized burn tl:eB.t 9f recording. secretary of the Historical So - We wm, but before we go-we bid a hearty ment-hardly a number adequate to the ciety of Kent County. He was elected vice ~arewell and pledge that we wlll do our best. president in 1972 .and was serv~ng his third State's bmn problem. Those five simply term, having twice turned down .becoming [Editorial from the Queen Anne's County cannot admit and treat the 3,200 burn president. Record Observer, Centreville, Md.] accident victims requiring hospitalization . R.aiph was' a member of the boai·d of the A· GREAT Loss each year. · Kent ·and Queen Aline's Hospital. . To solve this problem, we must improve In 1967 he helped launch the first Chester Ralph H. Usilton was a giant of a man. town Tea Party Festival as publicity chair You couldn't miss him in a crowd, and he burn prevention education and burn man and as a member of the executive com was usually surrounded by a crowd, whether medicine. mittee. This past May he was co-chairman it be at a party, a political gathering, or a Currently, the National Institute for of the event and haQ. been elected chairman meeting of one of the many civic organiza Burn Medicine is working to resolve the for 1976. He was also vice chairman of the tions with whom he worked. burn problem. Dr. Irving Feller, presi Kent County Bicentennial Committee. . A career journalist, "Sonny" had a down dent of the National Institute for Burn In addition to his mother, he is survived to-earth touch that made him a successful Medicine, also founder and director of by his wife, the former Darlene Fishbach, a county newspaper editor. Witty and at times the University of Michigan Burn Center, ~aughter, Heidi Lisbeth, 4, and a son, Lewin unpredictable at social gatherings, he never Willis, 3. He is also survived by an uncle, failed to bring a smile to your face. Where believes resolution of the problem can be H. Willis Usilton of Baltimore. modern man is known to reject non-con achieved through NIMB programs within The active bearers were Richard S . Bar formity. "Sonny" stepped right in, donning 10 years. rol, H. Hurtt Deringer, W. Porter Ellington, colonial garb for the Chestertown Tea Party, The Michigan effort marks the begin Allen L. Grimes, W. Thomas Patrick and acting the old salt at regattas, rounding up ning of the 10-year, $125 million NIMB KentS. Price. Honorary bearers were Francis support for cultural events such as the campaign. Many civic groups throughout M. Connolley, David Blackiston, Laurence annual Candlelight Tour and the town band B. Russell, L. Dudley Reed, John B. Spry, concerts in the park. Michigan will be raising money for the III, Charles W. White. and William.B. Usil We are deeply saddened by his death, and campaign, including the Gibraltar Jay ton, and members of t~e _Kent Pt1blishing extend sincere sympathy to his family and cees who have proclaimed September 23 Company. close associates. through 28 as Burns Awareness Week in Services were conducted by the Reverend Gibraltar. A goal of $3,000 has been set Robel't Kurtz. [Editorial From the Bay Times, to donate to the National Institute for Stevensville, Md.] Burn Medicine in Ann Arbor. [Editorial froJU the Kent County News] Loss TO SHORE ~ Another major effort in treating burn 1937- 74: RALPH HINES Usn.TON-"SONNY" The editor of the Kent County News, victims, particularly children, has been The good humor, enthusiasm and spirit Ralph H. "Sonny" Usilton, was a big happy made for a number of years by the that marked Ralph Hines Usilton is no longer man who was whisked out of life at the Shriners, who maintain three burn in with us. time when he was coming to enjoy it com stitutes in North America. "Sonny" Usilton died Monday doing what pletely. he liked best-being a newspaperman. He was always as much a part of a party Treatment is free for all children un An early riser, he had been in his editor's as the eye is of a hurricane. And he was be der 15. Results of their research are seat five hours-stories written, headlines coming more and more an accurate reflection available to other facilities and to physi fashioned, cutlines honed-when he re of the Eastern Shore qualities that we all en cians throughout the world. sponded to a rush assignment at the scene joy. The Shriner-sponsored institute in of an automobile accident near Chestertown. Chestertown and Kent County have suf- Boston has inaugurated a frozen skin September 30, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33061 bank for emergency treatment and has and ·_attended Winona State College. mittee shall be filled in the same manner in pioneered in the development of burn While still in high school at the age of 16, which the original appointment was made. serum. he got his first job in radio at a small sta (b) The committee is authorized and di rected to conduct a full and complete in All the Shriners' facilities-with a $30 tion in Winona. Minn. The pay was not vestigation and study of the role of the oil million annual budget-are operated the attraction-the manager told him: and gas industry in contributing to the re without Government subsidy, and are fi I'll pay you $1 an hour, 45 cents in cash cent energy crisis, in determining the cur nanced by voluntary contributions from a.nd 65 cents in experience. rent availability, allocation and pricing of Shrine members throughout the world. But it was an opportunity to get into energy, and in determining the future avail I rise in support of actions taken by ab111ty, allocation and pricing of energy. broadcasting and fulfill a boyhood dream (c) For the purpose of carrying out this these organizations and through their and Tom took it. contributions we will increase our knowl section the committee, or any subcommittee In 1951, Tom joined the Air Force and thereof authorized by the committee to hold edge of burn medicine and provide ade served for the following 4 years as a mo hearings, 1s authorized to sit and act dur quate treatment for the 2 million persons tion-picture writer-director. It was that ing the present Congress at such times and annually in the United States. service which first took him to Dayton, places within the United States, including where he left active Air Force service in a.ny Commonwealth or possession thereof, whether the House 1s in session, bas recessed. 1955 and became assistant chief of Air or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, and TOM FRAWLEY, PRESIDENT, RADIO Force motion-picture production at to require, by subpena or otherwise, the at TELEVISION NEWS DffiECTORS Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In tendance and testimony of such witnesses ASSOCIATION 1957, he went to work for WHIO Radio and the production of such books, records, TV in Dayton, where he served as news correspondence, memoranduinS, papers, and director until 1969, building one of the documents, as it deeinS necessary. Subpenas HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN highest-rated and respected local radio may be issued under the signature of the chairman of the committee or any member OF OHIO TV news operations in the Nation-a of the committee designated by him, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES position it still retains. The Cox Broadcasting Corp., however, may be served by any person designated by Monday, September 30, 1974 such chairman or member. had decided that its audiences through (d) The committee shall report to the Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, out the Nation would be even better House as soon as practicable during the pres Tom Frawley, vice president for news of served by establishing a Washington ent Congress the results of Its investigation Cox Broadcasting Corp., was recently news bureau, and Tom was selected in and study, together with such recommenda elected president of the Radio Television 1969 to come to Washington to open it. tions as it deeinS advisable. Any such report Under his direction, the bureau has pro which is made when the House is not in ses News Directors Association during the sion shall be filed with the Clerk of the association's annual convention in Mon vided millions of Cox station viewers House. treal. and listeners with a new insight into I have known Tom for many years. At events in Washington that have local im one time we were competitors in the news pact on their own lives. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION business-he as news director of WHIO In 1970, Tom's duties with Cox Broad Radio-TV in Dayton, Ohio, and I as a casting were expanded, with his election newspaper editor. A tougher competitor as vice president for news, while continu HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT than was Tom is hard to find. But it is ing as Washington bureau chief. OF MARYLAND also difficult to recall a fellow journalist Mr. Speaker, I expect that Tom Fraw IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who displayed greater fairness, honesty, ley will continue to have an impact on Monday, September 30, 1974 and sense of true public service and re the journalism profession for many years, sponsibility in seeing the facts dug out, and as such, will influence many of our Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, in recent put together and accurately delivered to lives as public officials and those of many months, the Federal Office of Civil Rights the public. Those qualities stand out in citizens who demand the highest form of of the Department of Health, Education, Tom Frawley today and will serve the responsibility and service from our free and Welfare has undertaker. an investi membership of the RTNDA well under press in the public's need to know what gation of broad allegations of racial dis his leadership in the coming year. I com Government is doing and how it is doing crimination within the Anne Anmdel mend the association for its selection of it. As president of RTNDA and through County, Md., school system. Tom as president and offer my sincere his other offices and activities within his The investigation started on three spe congratulations and best wishes to him profession, I am confident the Nation will cific complaints of racial discrimination in his new office. be well-served. in the application of discipline, which Tom's impact on journalism is not lim was the excuse, but not the reason for the ited to his new office, however. He is exercise. also president-elect of the Associated AMENDMENT TO HOUSE Anne Arundel County has, in fact, be Press Broadcasters AssoCiation, a mem RESOLUTION 1321 come a target for an investigation of ber of the Board of Directors of the what Federal bureaucrats describe as Washington Journalism Center, and a "second generation discrimination," member of the Senate-House Radio-TV HON. BiLL GUNTER which apparently refers to what happens Gallery, the White House Correspondents OF FLORIDA in schools after they are desegregated. Association, and Sigma Delta Chi. It was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES With the assistance of my sta:ff and the my pleasure to administer the Sigma Monday, September 30, 1974 full cooperation of Dr. Edward J. Ander Delta Chi oath to him when I was the Mr. GUNTER. Mr. Speaker, if House son, superintendent of Anne Arundel president of the Central Ohio Profes Resolution 1321 is offered as a substitute County schools, I have been kept in sional Chapter. to House Resolution 988 this week, I in formed of the activities of the Federal He is also past president of the Ohio tend to offer the following amendment agency and the information it was re Associated Press Broadcast Association. establishing a House select committee to ceiving from the school administration. He has in the past, and currently, served investigate the on and gas industry: As for the three specific complaints, on various boards and committees of Dr. Anderson was anxious to review the On page 41, immediately after line 19, in most of these group,s and has been a sert the following new section: cases personally to determine whether thoughtful and respected spokesman for racial discrimination had, in fact, been the news profession. His activities have SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE present in the application of discipline. also included terms as president of the OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY He is totally committed to the cause of "8. (a) There is hereby created a select Dayton President's Club and Dayton Ex committee to be composed of seven members fair and impartial treatment of all stu change Club, and secretary of the Mont of the House of Representatives to be ap dents, regardless of race. gomery County, Ohio, Chapter of the pointed by the Speaker, one of whom he After his personal review of the spe American Cancer Society. shall designate as cha1rznan. Any vacancy ci1ic cases, he has concluded that the Tom is a native of Stillwater, Minn., occurring in the membership of the com- complaints can only be described as 33062 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Septernbe1· 30, 1974 "vague, superficial, and having no basis perPetuate itself and expand its juris who ·have suggested that the Shah of in fact." diction. Iran has been unwise in espousing Formal charges have not been filed At a meeting with ranking administra OPEC's oil price increase policy which against the Anne Arundel County school tors of Dr. Anderson's staff on September today threatens much of the non-Com system. The investigators have spent 12, one of the Federal investigators con munist world with economic disaster. many hours conducting interviews with tinually badgered the staff members with Our difference with the Shah in the persons whose chief problem is an inabil accusatory questions and statements that matter of oil prices, however, should not ity to perceive the justice in rules and exposed his preconceptions and his prevent us from looking favorably on regulations that all must live by. intent. other proposals the Shah may have oc The staff of the school system has Let me remind you of the serious con casion to make from time to time. been questioned at great length and pro sequences that can result from this kind Last week, while in Australia, the duced several pounds of reports, statis of situation. If any school system finds Shah suggested that nations in the In tics, regulations, and other documents that it cannot discipline the students of dian Ocean area agree on a collective for the perusal of the investigators. Dr. one race without harassment from Fed security arrangement for the area. This, Anderson and his staff have cooperated eral investigators, then good order in the the Shah indicated, would permit these to the very limits of tolerance. schools will collapse and education will nations to ask both the United States On September 16, Dr. Anderson wrote become impossible. and the Soviet Union to keep their ships to Peter E. Holmes, Director of the Office Dr. Anderson will not let that happen, out of the area. of Civil Rights in Washington, to advise and we should all fight like fury in the This strikes me as a most promising that- Congress to prevent that from happen idea. If such an agreement could be ar In the a.bsence of any formal charges, we ing. rived at, an expensive and destabilizing consider the matters referred to in this let Congress never authmized the Office of race between the United States and the ter now closed. Civil Rights to manufacture cases, and Soviet Union for naval superiority or Dr. Anderson said that- it is time that we started to investigate parity in the area could be avoided. What The facts do not justify further interrup the investigators. a relief for all concerned that would be! tion of the day-to-day operations of this If the Office of Civil Rights has one Following is the New York Times arti school system, nor the further expenditure of bona fide case of racial discrimination in cle reporting on the Shah's initiative: valuable staff time by your agency and ours. Anne Arundel County schools, then let SHAH OFFERS PLAN FOR INDIAN OCEAN us hear about it now so that justice may If I thought that racial discrimination TEHERAN, Iran, September 28.-The Shah be done. of Iran has proposed some ki.nd of military was being practiced by the Anne Arundel Continuing harassment of the school understanding among the nations in the County school system in any of its activ system cannot be tolerated. Dr. Anderson Indian Ocean area, including Iran and ities, I would tell you so. and his staff must be free to get on with Australia. To the contrary, there is abundant the business of education. The proposal marked the first time Shah evidence that the Anne Arundel County There is more to this situation than Mohammed Riza Pahlevi has suggested a col school system labors diligently to pro lective-security arrangement among the discipline. There have been allusions to countries of the area. Previously he had pro vide equal educational opportunity to all racially identifiable classes and racially children. The Anne Arundel County posed only that the area be declared a "zone identifiable course enrollments. of peace" and that nations in it consider school system has an excellent record of The Office of Civil Rights recently sub economic cooperation that could lead to a desegregation and full compliance with mitted a form to the superintendent's Common-Market-style arrangement. all Federal mandates against discrimina office. It asks for elaborate racial statis The Shah's proposal was made in Canberra, tory practices. tics on a variety of functions of each Australia, which he visited in the middle of Desegregation was effected many years school in Anne Arundel County. Many the most extensive tour he has ever made to ago without trouble. The school system days of staff work will be required to nations east of his kingdom. In Canberra, has been committed to good education for the Shah attracted attention with his refusal complete this form for every school. to lower oil prices unless oil-consuming na all, and the discipline necessary to pro Dr. Anderson advises me that the Anne tions reduced prices on their exports to Iran vide an environment for education. Arundel County school system spends at and other oil-producing nations. But the Office of Civil Rights is appar least $500,000 every year to conduct sur The full text of the Shah's Canberra re ently not interested in that excellent rec veys and make reports required by the marks was published here today. ord. It is interested in making some kind Federal and State education bureaucra VIEWED AS IMAGE-BUILDING of case. cies. Bureaucracy is consuming education The collective-security proposal, though I refer you to testimony given by Mr. at great cost to the taxpayers. the Shah gave few details of how it would be Holmes, the Dh·ector, last May 21 before Education should be a local responsi carried out, seemed designed to build Iran's bility, and secondarily a State responsi image as a nation whose growing military the Subcommittee on Equal Opportunity strength and new economic power were lead of the House Education and Labor Com bility. The Federal Government should ing her to seek more influence in an ever mittee. have no authmity for school or class or widening geographical area. He emphasized discipline cases, and he course assignments, or for discipline in The Shah has said he expects Iran to be local school systems. come a world power of the stature perhaps of refen·ed to a school system where the The inimediate issue in Anne Arundel West Germany within 25 years. percentage of black students involved in County is whether the Federal Office of The Shah made it clear that the purpose serious discipline cases was higher than Civil Rights is running our schools, or is of a "military understanding" would be to the black percentage of the school popu Dr. Anderson running our schools? It is reduce the presence in the Indian Ocean of the United States and the Soviet Union, re lation. an issue that should concern the whole placing their naval power with that of Holmes spoke of "pilot" investigations. Nation, for the Office of Civil Rights has such nations as Iran and Australia. He said: identified Anne Arundel County as the The Shah gave no timetable for reaching The purpose of the reviews is to develop t"est area. such an understanding, but said that Indian techniques of investigation that will lead to I am standing by Dr. Anderson, and I Ocean nations should meet and discuss his making cases based on sound evidence. will be fighting by his side until the abuse idea with a view toward asking Washington of Federal power is stopped. and Moscow to withdraw their ships from Holmes said: the aTea. We need to learn for ourselves just how to ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FmST make a case. NEUTRALIZE INDIAN OCEAN Asked what sort of organization of Indian Anne Arundel County is one of the tar Ocean area countries he forsaw, the monarch said, "Well, the easiest one is the economic get areas. The investigators are here to HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM and eventually the political, but it must be learn how to make a case, and they in OF NEW YORK followed up by some kind of military under tend to stay until they find something to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES standing. hang a case on. It is a fishing expedition. "In the sector of security, I think that Their investigation is not an exercise Monday, September 30, 1974 we have got to do that before we have world directed at finding the truth. It is the Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I have disarmament in order to keep outside coun tactic of a bureaucracy determined to been among those Members of Congress tries from pretending that they have got to September 3'0, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33063 be here because their interests are threatened and hope it is finally approved and im Comments, suggestions, or objections will by the region being insecure." plemented in its present form after com be open to public inspection pursuant to The Shah reiterated his acquiescence to ments have been received and evaluated. 7 CFR 1.27 (b) at the Office of the Director United States plans to enlarge its naval pres during regular business hours (8:30 a.m.- ence in the Indian Ocean to compete with Whether future congressional action 5 p .m.) at 500 12th Street SW., Washington, the Soviet presence there. may be necessary to address such abuses D.C., Room 650. Asserting that there was considerable So will depend both on the final form of the The proposed revision is: viet naval activity in the ocean, he said "How regulation and how effective it is in elim PART 271-PARTICIPATION OF STATE AGENCIES could we tell the Americans to keep 'away? inating these abuses. AND ELIGmLE HOUSEHOLDS But we could ask both of them to keep away At this point in the RECORD I include § 271.3 is amended to add a new paragraph from the Indian Ocean simultaneously." my letter to Secretary Butz along with a (e) reading as follows: "But in my opinion, he continued, "we description and text of the proposed rule: could ask this if beforehand we had met, dis § 271.3 Household eligibiilty. SEPTEMBER 19, 1974. cussed and come to an agreement among the * * * * • riparian states of the Indian Ocean and Aus Hon. EARL L. BUTZ, Secretary of Agriculture, (e) Tax dependency. (1) No individual tralia." . shall be considered a household member for Referring to his economic and political pro Washington, D .a. DEAR MR. SECRETARY: I read with interest Food Stamp Program purposes if such indi posals for the area, the Shah said that "if we vidual: (i) has reached his 18th birthday· have a zone of peace and collaboration-! am in the September 16 Federal Register USDA's proposed new food stamp eligibility regula (ii) is enrolled in an institution of higher not going to put a name on that collabora education; and (ili) is properly claimed as a tion, such as Common Market or common tions for college students. As the author of a nearly identical amend dependent child for Federal income tax pru wealth of nations of that part of the world poses by a taxpayer who is not a member of if we have that kind of coll81boration, we ment to the FY '75 Agriculture Appropria tions bill, I wish to commend your depart an eligible household. shall have stability, peace and security." (2) Definitions. For the purpose of this The Shah, who has been seeking to expand ment on exercising its rulemaking authority to eliminate abuse of the food stamp pro paragraph, the following definitions shall Iran's influence in the Middle East and South apply: Asia, as well as the broader Indian· Ocean gram by undeserving college students. The proposed USDA rule, like my amend (i) "Institution of higher education" southeastern Pacific area, added that "prob means an institution providing post-high ably peace could best be established in the ment, would make ineligible for food stamp benefits those students whose parents claim school education including, but not limited world if all countries kept their influence, to, colleges, universities, and vocational and their power, within the limits of their terri them as tax dependents-that, is, students who are still dependent on their parents for technical schools at the post-high school tory." level. .. That is one way," he said, "of marching more than half their support-provided the parent household is not eligible to partici (ii) "Property claimed" means that the towards world disarmament. This is one way dependent child is claimed by a taxpayer who of making people understand that to live pate in the food stamp program. I am especially pleased that the USDA provides such child with more than half of better in this present world, not only do you his or her support during the calendar year not have to fight, not only do you not have to had decided to take action against student food stamp abusers before being required to in ~hich the taxable year of the taxpayer transgress over other people's independence begms. and interests, but you have to confront the do so by law. I am sure you will agree with me that the extent to which the food stamp (iii) "Eligible household" means a house very grave dangers menacing the world to hold certified as being eligible for participa wards the end of this century: that is, fam program is tightened administratively to eliminate such abuses, the greater the op tion in the Food Stamp Program or Food ine, malnutrition, illiteracy, lack of medical Distribution Program; or one which can dem care and so on." portunites for assisting the most deserving families and for realizing a reduction in pro onstrate that it would be eligible to partici gram costs. I commend you on this initia pate in the Food Stamp Program based on tive and would ask that you file this letter the income and resource standards applicable with the Food Stamp Division as my official to nonassistance households. USDA RULE WOULD BAR FOOD letter of endorsement of the proposed regu (3) Notwithstanding any other provisions STAMPS FOR UNDESERVING lations. of this subchapter, the income and resources COLLEGE STUDENTS With all best wishes, I am of an individual who is not considered a Very truly yours, household member under paragraph (e) ( 1) JOHN B. ANDERSON, above and who resides with eligible household HON. JOHN B. ANDERSON Member of Congress. members or elderly persons, shall not be OF ILLINOIS considered available to the household mem FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE bers or elderly persons, nor shall his pres IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ence be considered in determining the house Monday, September 30, 1974 [ 7 CFR Part 271] hold coupon allotment. [Arndt. No. 34] ( 4) Notwithstanding any other provision Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois. Mr. FOOD STAMP PROGRAM of this subchapter, verification of whether Speaker, I have sent a letter to the Sec Eligibility of Households for Participation or not the household of the taxpayer is an retary of Agriculture EarlL. Butz, com Pursuant to the authority contained in the eligible household will be required for all mending his department on proposing a Food Stamp Act of 1964, as amended (78 Stat. applicant households containing a tax de new regulation banning food stamps for 703, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 2011-2026) notice pendent meeting the criteria in paragraph undeserving college students. is hereby given that Food and Nutritio'n Serv (e)(~) (i) and (11) above. In addition, veri The proposed regulation, published in ice, Department of Agriculture, intends to ficatiOn of the tax dependency status of a the September 16 Federal Register, would amend Part 271 of its regulations governing member or members of an applicant house disqualify from participation in the food eligibility of households for participation in hold will be required whenever such status the Food Stamp Program (7 CFR 271). The is questionable. Because the household of the s~amp program, any student claimed by taxpayer is ordinarily the best source of this h1s parents as a tax dependent-that is proposed amendment would make ineligible an individual who: (1) is at least 18 years information, the failure of the taxpayer to d~pendent on his parents for over half old; (2) is enrolled in an institution of respond to the request for verification will be hiS support-provided the parent house higher education; and (3) is a properly grounds for considering the tax dependent hold is ineligible for food stamps. claimed tax dependent of a person who is as not being a household member, although This rule is identical to an amendment not a m_ember of an eligible household. Only the remainder of the household in which the I offered to the agriculture appropria the individual would be ineligible; the re tax dependent resides may be certified if tions bill last June. The amendment was mainder of the household in which he reoides otherWise eligible. However, the tax depe~d adopted by a vote of 195 to 123 House may participate in the Food Stamp Program ent shall, through the fair hearing proce vote and was retained in the final ver if_ otherwise eligible. In addition, the indi~ dures under § 271.1 ( o), have an opportunity si?n which was vetoed by President VIdual would have an opportunity to demon to demonstrate that he is not properly strate that he is not a "properly claimed" tax claimed and many, therefore, be eligible to Nixon. dependent and, therefore, may be eligible. In my letter to Secretary Butz I com participate as a household member. Interested persons may submit written (78 Stat. 703, as amended· 7 usc 2011- mended the USDA on taking this rule comments, suggestions, or objections regard 2026) , ... making initiative before being required in g the proposed amendment to P. Royal to do so by law. I would like to think Shipp, Acting Director, Food Stamp Division (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department Programs, No. 10.551, National Archives that the . decisive action taken by the Reference Services) Congress m eliminating this abuse of the of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250 not later than October 16, 1974. All comments RICHARD L. FELTNER food stamp program was instrumental in suggestions, or objections received by thi~ Assistant Secr:tary. prompting this action by USDA. I have da~e will be considered before the final regu SEPTEMBER 11, 1974. endorsed the rule as proposed by USDA latiOn is issued. [FR Doc.74-21346 Filed 9- 13-74;8:45 am] 33664 EXT-ENSIONS OF RE-MARKS Septen~ b_ er 30, 197J, TRmUTE TO OFFICER GAll.. COBB, men\s on theh' behalf are far less numer "It was. his first mountain :flying.'' Raney FIRST POLICEWOMAN TO BE ous or noUca.ble~ One prime example is said of the South Dakotan. "and it was the the conUnulng dilenuna between the first time he'd :flown a~ night.H KlLLED IN THE l.JNE OF DUTY lN No cause for ala.rm yet. Raney said Ltvfng U.S. HISTORY House. and the Sena.te over the public ston fllght controners. frequentlY get calls safety omcers dea.th benefits bilL This !rom errant planes. fix the posltton o! the HON. MARIO BIAGGI legialat.ion. bas been tied up somewhere cra.ft. and quickly send the pilot otr In the in~ Senate for the past 4 months. and right dlrectlc:m. Besides_ the Piper had three OP NEW YC>IIE now threatens to be ignored until next hours of fuel on board. I N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ~~ On behali of Officer Cobb"s sur But the pilot. Ra.ney said. wauldn"t listen vivors as well as the hundreds of other to Instructions. MO'TUlay, Septe:m!JeT 30.. 1974 The pilot's speech and hafting respcm.ses survivors. of poliee tiiled in ac.ti~ r can Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker~ on Septem to Raney's questions betrayect the onset' of again on the House and Senate reader panic. ber 20, in our Nation's Capitol, a b'agic ship to pass this vitally needed legisla mi.les.tone in th~ annals. of law enfm:ce "Either tha.t or he was un:rammar with his tion. aircraft and his instruments,• Raney said. ment history was reached with the de&U~ Mr. Speaker, a promising young ca Raney placed quick calls to Bill1ngJJ and of Patrolwoman Gail Cobb of the Metro reer in law enforcement has. been snuf Sa.lt La.'ke Ctty. but neither were ab!e to pick politan Polk:e Department~ the :first po fed out. I join with the members of Ule up the plane on radar. Raney was able to :fix licewoman in U .S. history to be killed in Washington, D.C., Police Department in the plane's positron hlms:eff. though, using the nne of dnty. the radio strength o! the pilot•s calls and the mourning the loss of one of their col position of the setting sun and the moon According to accounts, Officer Cobb leagues,. and I pledge tG them a.s wen as observed two fellow officers in pursuit of telative to the a.il:cra.!t. aU other police om.cers that my efforts in "I was a.ble to establish his position as 15 two individuals who had earlier pulled the Congress will continue toward bring joined to 25 miles north-northeast o! Lrvingston,., a gun on the officers. Miss Cobb ing about better protection for all men Raney said. He gave the pilot a.- compass the pursuit and chased the suspects into and women who serve cur Naticn in the heading to get to the Livlngston airport a.t a parking garage, and close t o the point lai\'\"" enforcement :field. Mission Field. of awrehension, one of the suspec1s :But the pilot became mare confused and pnUed a gun and fired two shots at Offi :frigll.tened. cer Cobb before she even had a chance "The pial()t wa.s certain his ins.trumenJ;s to pull her gun. She died less than 1 hour were inoperative," Raney said, "and his mag MIXED-UP FLYER PROVES VALUE netic compass was of no use because appar later. OP CONTROLLER ently he couldn't read it.'• Patrol o.m.an Cobb's promising caxeer The flyer was able to deSCl:ibe some of th.e in police won. came to a brutal aD£1 ab landmarks 1n the gathering dar~ but "his rupt end. She as only 24 years old and HON. DICK SHOUP des.criptloDS were -u.sele.ss " Raney said. "He had been a member of the Washington OF M&NTA.NA ~uld only say he was sunounded by moun Police Department for less than l year. IN 'TilE IiOUSir OF REPRESEJ!oo---r.6.. TIVES tains, and every clustei: of Iigh:ts was a.u She had only 1·ecently begun her on-the JJI'onaay, September 3.0, 1974 airpOl!t:• street training. after completing her term By tbis. time Raney would have liked to. let Mr. SHOUP. Mr. Speaker, earlier this the pilo la.Jld almost ~roywh~re.. j\lSt. to get at. the Police Academy. him out of the air. In recent years the role of women in year Congress in its wisdom eontinued operation ftight service "I had to keep him away from the city, police departments bas been expanding. the of this sta though, so he wouldn't think it was the Wbile women have been employed by tion. Without a doubt if the station had airport." departments sinee 1911, it has only been been automated. a death would have The pilot was extremely panicky, accusing in the rast 10 years that they have been occurred. I am veyY proud of Glenn Raney of trying to kiU him by crossing him accorded mOie importance a.nd recogni Raney, the flight controller mentioned in up With lnmuctions. ••An I could do was keep him talking and assm& him I knew tio~ and as a result.. there are close to this article. The article follov-"S~ where he was and that. he was okay. 7 Y006 omen currently serving ~ law "I felt by t:1:Iis time he had passed LiTings enforcements. units aero this Nation. f:From the Livingston Enterprise, Aug. I4, 1974] ton, so using -the moon as a reference, 1 gave Patrolwoman Cobb's death points out him a heading to get: to :Bozeman," Raney once aga-in the precarious existenee MIXED-UP FLYI:R PROVES V .tL"UE. OF CONTROLLER said. He instxueted the pilot to switch his which police officers face daily in the ex (By Mik,. Peluso) landing light.s o:fl' and on~ at the same time ercise of their duties. Thus !ar in 1974, The Flight Service Sta.tiftn at Mission Field advising Bozeman flight controllers "tct w atch more than 90 law enf01cement. ofiicers east of Livingston has been hang.ing in limbo ior the plane. have been k.ill.ed in tbe line of duty. and ever since the Federal Aviation Admlnistra ~zeman officia.ls saw the plane an.d ooa.x.ecl the pilot into. coming below his ll,OOO-foQt the :present :pace coniinues, the 1&74 tfon started proposing to eloset the faetllty. n Under the proposal. ftight. sernces. provided perch to :rand. figures are likely m eclipse tbe old rec- at the local :i'SS wO\lld be re-mutetl to- Bclze The pfiot got down fn one pieee, :Raney ord of 128 oftire7S killed which was es man's Gallatin Field througb a. "mmoting" said, but not bef0Fe gi"ring B02re:man ffight tablished just. last year. system, the idea being to cut- cas-ts DJ' elimi controllers a. seve by using ~he entRe :ron I have spoken out on numerous oc nating Tirtually all pa:s Turk~y is now embroiled in a Cabinet crisis, tion. These are the Amel'icans who will and disheartened. Their son sent her with an early election likely. be hardest hit by a gas tax increase. $200 3 months ago but she never received In this situation, the State Department Moreover, an increase in the gasoline it. was putting it mildly when it said that the House move to cut off aid would be tax would cause rises in the cost of trans Mr. Kutchuk's lawyer says he is help " very disruptive of negotiations." Hopefully, porting food and other essential mate less and has stated the only hope for Mr. the Senate can be persuaded to reject this rials. It would result in a "rippling ef Kutchuk is the pressure of public opinion l'igid provision that binds the hands of Mr. fect" that would devastate our already in the United States. Kl~singer in the continuing s-ensitive negotia inflation-ridden economy. People would Mr. Speaker, we must not let the tions. be forced to pay even more for needed Kutchuks and thousands like them down. The President has made a personal items than they are now paying. We must raise our voices loud in protest appeal for Congress to refrain from cut The American people have already suf of this inhumane treatment, and increase ting of! the aid during negotiations. My fered too much from inflation. Any in our demands for fair and just treatment negative vote last week was in response crease in the Federal gasoline tax for Soviet Jews. We must bring the pres to that appeal; however, I will have no which would make matters worse-is sure of public outrage over these actions hesitation in supporting the cutoff re totally unacceptable at this time. It must to bear in our relations with the Soviet quirement should diplomatic negotiations not be allowed. Union. We cannot and must not tolerate prove fruitless. the persecution of Soviet Jews in the In the meantime, the President, Secre name of improved United States-Soviet tary of State, and congressional leaders relations. have worked out a compromise amend INHUMANE TREATMENT IN SOVIET Improved United States-Soviet rela men·i; under which the President would UNION tions will have little meaning if they have to certify that Turkey is making come at the expense of those people who good faith efforts to reach a military look to us as their only hope against the HON. WILLIAMS. BROOMFIELD co:1tinuing tyranny of oppression-the settlement on Cyprus. I strongly urge OF MICHIGAN my colleagues to agree to accept this Soviet Jews. compromise wording in the conference. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, September 30, 1974 Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, in OPPOSITION TO INCREASED FED July I related to my colleagues the tragic ERAL TAX ON GASOLINE AGAINST THE GAS TAX INCREASE story of the Yichil Kutchuks and their attempts to emigrate to Israel from the HON. ELLA T. GRASSO Soviet Union. HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG OF CONNECTICUT The Kutchuks were to leave in April OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to join their son in Israel, but 3 hours before ~heir scheduled departure their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, September 30, 1974 bags were confiscated by the police and Monday, September 30, 1974 Mrs. GRASSO. Mr. Speaker, any in .Mr. Kutchuk was arrested and impris - Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I crease in the Federal levy on ~gasoline oned. For more· than 3 months no one have today written President Ford ex would work an unconscionable burden on was allowed to visit Mr. Kutchuk and no pressing my strong opposition to an3Z Americans in Connecticut and through formal charges were made. move which would increase the ·Federal out the Nation, who are already shoul;. Upon learning of this travesty of jus tax on gasoline. Following is the full text dering the heavy burden of record price tice I wrote to the Soviet Embassy asking :or my letter, and I urge other Members of increases for food, fuel, and other essen for an explanation and received a one .Congress to make a similar appeal to tials. line reply stating that my letter had President Ford in opposition to increased Published reports indicate that the been referred to the proper Soviet au Federal taxes on gasoline. Ford administration is seriously con thorities. I have had no further response. The letter follows·: sidering such an increase. I have consis I have, however, received dishearten SEPTEMBER 30, 1974. tently opposed any such proposal in the ing news from the Kutchuk relative who Hon. GERALD R. FORD, past, and will continue to do so. More first informed me of their plight, Rev. ·office of the President, The White House, over, I pledge to vote against any in Shabtai Ackerman of the Beth-Abraham Washington, D.C. crease should it reach the floor of the Hillel congregation in Birmingham, DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I WOUld lik~ to take House, and to urge my colleagues to do Mich. this opportunity to express my strong opposi likewise. Reverend Ackerman received a letter tion to any move which would increase the It federal tax on gasoline. · has been estimated that a 1-cent-a from the Kutchuk's son stating that the It is my sincere belief that hig-her prices gallon increase in the gas tax would cost investigation of his father's case has and stiffer taxes on the purchase of fuel and Americans some $1 billion annually in ended and Mr. Kutchuk has been accused oil for automobiles and homes is not the added. costs for gasoline. The adminis of being a black marketeer. answer to curbing the rate of inflation. The tration's proposal for a 10- to 20-cent-a The KGB claims to have found parts 'price of gasoline and home heating oil have gallon increase would therefore me'an of a textile machine and a bankbook with been increasing rapidly as it is. If such prices $10 to $20 billion a year in added gas 65,000 rubles in Mr. Kutchuk's baggage. go any higher, it will be especially unfair to expenses for our citizens. Mr. Kutchuk is certain these items were those Americ_ans who live on limited and fixed incomes. They will be the ones who suffer the In fact, in my State of Connecticut planted in his baggage after it was con ·most. alone, such an increase would mean some fiscated from him. When he asked to see Mr. President, in my own State of Florida $140 to $280 million annually in added the bankbook that is being used as evi [which has a . significant population of re costs for drivers. dence against him, Mr. Kutchuk was in tired older Americans), the people have al Gasoline prices have already sky formed it was none of his business. ready been severely affect~d by increases in rocketed. In the past year the national During the hearing, Mr. Kutchuk was the price of crude oil and ele-ctric rates. Some average price for gasoline has shot up al ~enied the ·opportunity to defend him have already been deprived of many necessi ties of life in order to meet spil'aling costs. most 17 cents a gallon-an increase of self, and each time he attempted to say Quite frankly, I don't know how much more over 44 percent. High prices have cut into something in his behalf he was strong they can stand in the way of higher prices demand for gasoline, which is just about armed. Despite this physical harrass and taxes. even with last year, after rising 5 to 6 ment he refused to sign a confession that There are and always have been those in per cent annually for many years. the police attempted to force on him. our Government who advocate more spending There seems to be little question that A trial has been set for the near future and higher taxes as a solution-no matter a large percentage of the people now in the city of Kishinev, although it is a what the problem. This approach has seldom buying gasoline need this vital fuel to been right in the past, for this philosophy foregone conclusion that Mr. Kutchuk invariably magnifies the problem rather than run their cars to work in the morning will be found guilty of this bogus charge easing it. and home at night. In states like my own and will be subject to 10 years in prison. I'm absolutely convinced that such a policy the auto commuter lacks viable alterna In the meantime, Mrs. Kutchuk is_ in would be wrong, and I sincerely hope that you _tives to the car, for necessary transporta- Kishinev awaiting the trial, penniless will place the strength o! the Office o! the 33082 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Septembe't' 30, 1974 Presidency against any move to increase the ter. I would like~ commend the members on erstate commerce of switchblade knives, and federal tax on gasoline. the water resources subcommittee !or your for other purposes," approved August 12, With best wishes and warm, personal re continuing support and expeditious scrutiny 1958 (15 U.S.C. 1241), is amended by add gards, I am of this project. It is a. pleasure to Join with ing at the end thereof the following: Very truly yours, my consistuents in strongly supporting the "(c) The term 'tear gas' means any lacri C. W. Bn.L YOUNG, Cross Creek watershed project, and I urge its mator, sternutator, or screening smoke, or Member of Congress. approval. any device, container, or article designed to emit, spray, discharge, or otherwise spread any lacrimator sternutator, or screen ing TEAR GAS SAFETY ACT OF 1974 smoke." CROSS CREEK WATERSHED SEc. 3. sections 2 and 3 of such Act ( 15 PROJECT U.S.C. 1242 and 1243) are amended- HON. JONATHAN B. BING AM (1) by adding "or tear gas" after "switc:J. OF NEW YORK blade knife" whenever such term appears; HON. THOMAS E. MORGAN and IN THE TIOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (2) by striking out " $2,000" whenever OF PENNSYLVANIA Monday, September 30, 1974 such phrase appears and inserting in lieu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thereof in each case "$5,000". Monday, September 30, 1974 Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, there is SEc. 4. Section 4 of such Act (15 U.S.C. a growing new trend in personal arma 1243) is amended to read as follows: Mr. MORGAN. Mr. Speaker, on Sep ment in this country that is extremely "SEc. 4. Sections 2 and 3 of this Act shall tember 24, I presented the following dangerous. I speak of the profusion of not apply to- testimony in support of the Cross Creek tear gas cartridges and guns now being "(1) any common carrier or contract car Watershed Project before the Subcom rier, with respect to any switchblade knife or marketed through direct solicitation to tear gas shipped, transported, or delivered mittee on Water Resources of the House unsuspecting citizens as a means of self for shipment, in interstate commerce in the Committee on Public Works. I have defense, and to others who might use ordinary course of business, except that worked with my constituents on this them for illegal purposes. The dangers sections 2 and 3 of this Act shall apply where project for a considerable period of time of these weapons are well documented. such a. carrier knew, or had reason to know, and am pleased the subcommittee has In the hands of those who are untrained that any such knife or tear gas was being acted expeditiously. in their use, tear gas is dangerous to both shipped, transported, or delivered for ship The testimony follows: the user and the intended target. In the ment, by such carrier; "(2) the manufacture, sale, transporta REMARKS OF HON. THOMAS E. MORGAN hands of those who would use them or tion, distribution, possession, or introduction Mr. Chairman, and distinguished members convert them for illegal purposes, the into interstate commerce, of switchblade of this subcommittee, I am appearing today danger is even greater. knives or tear gas pursuant to contract with to express my strong support for the Cross The proliferation and d-anger posed by the Armed Forces and, in the case of tear Creek Watershed Project, which has been tear gas weapons, which resemble .22 gas, pursuant to contract with any law recommended for approval by the Soil Con caliber handguns, was first brought to my enforcement agency of the United States, servation Service of the Department of Agri attention by Mike Horowitz, a reporter or of any State or political subdivision there culture. I especially appreciate the prompt from the Co-Op City News, a local Bronx of; and review of the work plan and environmental "(3) the Armed Forces or any member or statement recently submitted to the commit newspaper. Mike sought my aid in stop employee of any law enforcement agency of tee by the Office of Management and Budget. ping a flood of solicitations for tear gas the United States or of any State or political The Cross Creek Watershed Project is and tear gas guns to constituents in the subdivision thereof." located 1n my congressional district and is 22d District. Efforts to secure action by SEC. 5. The seventh paragraph of section sponsored by the Washington County Soil local and State officials as well as Fed 1716 of title 18, United States Code, is and Water Conservation District, Washing eral agencies have only revealed the limi amended to read as follows: ton County, Cross Creek Township, and In tations of existing law and the necessity "All knives having a. blade which opens dependence Township Municipal Authority, automatically (1) by hand pressure applied 1n conjunction with the SoU Conservation of enacting a more potent law at the Fed to a button or other device in the handle of Service. Just recently, I received a petition eral level. the knife, or (2) by operation of inertia, signed by 1,200 residents of Washington The Constitution of the United States gravity, or both, and tear gas, as defined in County endorsing the Cross Creek Project. provides that the Congress shall regulate the second section of the Tear Gas Safety Community leaders and citizens have united commerce among the States. It is there Act of 1974, are nonmailable and shall not be to express strong support for the project, fore incumbent upon the Congress to deposited in or carried by the malls or de~ and I would like to commend my constituents consider the need to regulate and indeed livered by any officer or employee of the for their active and effective participation in prohibit the interstate movement of tear Postal Service. Such knives may be con civic affairs. veyed in the malls, under such regulations Basically, this request for $1,903,000 1n gas and tear gas weapons, because of as the Postal Service shall prescribe- Federal assistance is for watershed resource their potential for violence. To accom "(1) to civilian or Armed Forces supply protection, flood prevention, water supply, plish that end, I have introduced the or procurement officers and employees of the and recreational purposes. The project in Tear Gas Safety Act of 1974, which would Federal Government ordering, procuring, or volves soil conservation and treatment meas prohibit the transportation or manufac purchasing such knives or tear gas in con ures to be implemented by landowners and ture for shipment of tear gas or tear gas nection with the activities of the Federal the Washington County Son and Water Con guns in interstate commerce, except for Government; servation District, as well as three single military and law enforcement purposes. "(2) to supply or procurement officers of purpose flood prevention structures and one the National Guard, the Air National Guard, multiple purpose reservoir for water supply Clearly tear gas cartridges and tear or militia. of a State, a. territory, or the Dis storage, water-oriented recreation, and the gas gun are dangerous weapons that do trict of Columbia., ordering, procuring, or alleviation of flood damage. The improve not protect the general public but are a purchasing such knives or tear gas in con ments should be completed within a seven danger to it. Passage of the Tear Gas nection with the activities of any such orga year period. Safety Act of 1974 would be a respon nization; Mr. Chairman, improved land manage sible action on the part of the Federal "(3) to supply or procurement officers or ment, forestry practices, and conservation Government to protect the citizens of employees o! the municipal government of measures will contribute to the reduction of the United States. the District of Columbia. or of the govern erosion and sedimentation and w1ll improve ment of any State or territory, or any county, farm productivity and water quality in I include herewith the text of my bill: city or other political subdivision of a. State Cross Creek. The communities of Avella, H.R. 16849 or territory, ordering, procuring, or purchas Browntown, and Studa. will be protected, and A bill to prohibit the introduction, or manu ing such knives or tear gas 1n connection economic development in Washington Coun facture for introduction, into interstate with, and use by, a.ny law enforcement agen ty will very likely result from the assurance commerce of tear gas, and for other pur~ cy of any such entity; and of a dependable water supply. In addition, poses "(4) to manufacturers of such knives or the project wUl greatly improve water recrea Be i t enactecl by the Senate ana House tear gas, or bona. fide dealers therein, 1n con tion facllities in western Pennsylvania. and of Representatives of the United States nection with any shipment made pursuant for the 2,000,000 people who live within a. of America -in Congress assembled, That this to an order from any person designated in fifty-mile radius of the area. Act may be cited as th e "Tear Gas Safety paragraphs (1). (2). and (3). Thus, it is evident that the Cross Creek Act or 1974." The Postal Service may require, as a. condi watershed project will be a significant con SEC. 2. The first section of the Act en tion of conveying any such knive or tear gas tribution to Pennsylvania's continuing via titled "An Act to prohibit the introduction 1n the mails, that any person proposing to bility as a. commercial and recreational cen- or manufacture for introduction, into in- mall such knife or tear gas explain 1n writing Septembe,r 3'0, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33083 to t he satisfaction of the Postal Service that He felt that the college had given him ing, and is instrumental in helping a t he ma.Uing or such knUe 01' tear gas wm no-t an opportunity to do something with his number of persons of low income con be in violation or this section... ·ure, and he had told the president when tinue their education and others to he previously left that he would come become self-supporting. He helps more back and spend a few years to help pay people get jobs than any person in the that debt. But the West had gotten into area. A TRIBUTIJ: TO FELIX GAY his blood, so he came back to Goodman, He has a genuine interest and faith Mo., for 2 years, then on west to Okla in people. Whether it be student, teach HON. CLEM ROGERS McSPADDEN homa in 1930, where he has remained. er, or school board member, he helps OF OKLAHOMA He continued his education, taking them build their self-image and con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES graduate work at the University of Ken fidence until they can do nothing but tucky, the University of Arkansas, and succeed. Monday, September 30, 1974 Oklahoma State University, where here Mr. Gay has always been active in Mr. McSPADDEN. Mr. Speaker, a ceived his Master of Arts degree in 1937. community affairs. Whan everyone was few are allowed special time, special He has a life certificate in Oklahoma to discouraged and chances seemed pretty talents and special compassion and teach all subjects from grades 1 through slim for the Foyil Water District No. 3 understanding to reach out in their life 12, issued in 1930; also, an administra getting approved, he was elected chair time and touch the minds and lives of tion certificate for superintendent, high man of the group. Although it was others. Such is Mr. Felix Gay, superin school principal, and elementary princi tough sledding, he got the project ap tendent of the Foyil, Okla., public pal. Probably no other person in Okla proved, and Foyil community has rural schools. Largely self-educated, Mr. Gay homa has as much certification qualifi water. in 1974, is now in his 64th year as an cations. He belongs to the chamber of com educator. We have tried through various He has been supe1·intendent of schools merce, and was president of the orga educational associations to determine if at Adair, Cleora, Lenapah, Helena, Cleo nization 2 years ago. He is chairman of this is a record. Unsuccessful in deter Springs, Minco, Chelsea, and Foyil. He manpower board, district 1, which mining this, we did decide that it is of was superintendent at Chelsea for 12 covers 7 counties. He has been a mem no matter: Mr. Gay's association with years and retired in 1962. It took onlY 3 ber of the community action since its thousands of students through those 64 months to 1·ealize that retirement was inception in 1966, and was chairman for years and through his extracurricular not for him, so he got a job as classroom 3 years. He 1s a member of the United activities, are not immeasurable. With teacher at Big Cabin for 3 months. He Methodist Church, is chairman of the your permission, I would like to pay this then went to Strafford, Mo., for 2 years administrative board, and teaches a special tribute to Felix Gay, an educator as elementary principal, coming home on Sunday school class. without peer and a humanitarian; a weekends. He has three sons and two daughters, great American: The next year Foyil school board all of whom have college degrees. He and Felix Gay, superintendent of schools looked him up and said they were in dire his wife, Vera, live 1n their country home at Foyil, Okla., began his teaching career financial trouble and needed him to help east of Chelsea where they raise cattle, in 1911, and this current year will make them out, and he has been there for the grow a garden each summer and enjoy a total of 64 years teaching experience- past 10 years. country living. 17 years after retirement age of 65. Mr. Gay's three strongest qualities are He was born in the Appalachian probably school finance, building, and Mountains of Kentucky, at Dry Hill, in concern for people. In practically all of RIGHT TO READ PROGRAM CUT 1893, the second of nine children. He did the schools where he has been, the dis not start to school until he was 12 years tricts have been in vt:ry difficult financial old, but he was very eager to learn, and conditions, and he has not failed to bring HON. PETER A. PEYSER a few years later had an opportunity to them out in good condition. OF NEW Y ORK buy a trunk full of books, which con He built new gymnasiums at Adair and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tributed much to his education. Lenapah under the WPA back in the Monday, September 30, 1974 Mr. Gay began teaching at age 18 in 1930's, and had building programs at a country school, Wildwood, in Leslie Cleo Springs, Minco, Chelsea, and Foyil. Mr. PEYSER. Mr. Speaker, funding for County, Ky., after taking a teacher's When Mr. Gay went to Chelsea, the one of the most important programs di examination and receiving a certificate. school district valuation was only $990,- rectly aiding the instructions of school The school was only 6 months in length 000. Through a good public relations pro pupils 1s being reduced to a trickle under at that time, and he taught school for gram and maintaining a good school, the provisions of H.R. 16900. I refer to the 6 months and went to school the other many of the surrounding dependent dis $15 mlllion allocated to title m of the 6 months. He attended Witherspoon tricts were encouraged to annex with National Defense Education Act. College at Buckhorn, Perry County, Ky., Chelsea, increasing the school valuation Two years ago, when the budget for which was a private Presbyterian school. to more than $2,000,000. No buildings had NDEA m was $50 million, local schools in Although he had not attended high been built since 1912, and during the 12 New York received more than $2.5 mil school previously, many of the courses years Mr. Gay was there they built a lion for the purchase of instructional taken here were later accepted for col high school building, an elementary equipment and materials. Last year, lege credit by accredited colleges. building, and a gymnasium. when the budget was reduced to $28.5 After 3 years teaching in county A tough job has always been a chal million, New York's share was $1.6 mil schools, he went to Witherspoon College lenge to Mr. Gay. When he came to lion. Under the terms of H.R. 16900, the for the entire term, teaching part time Foyil, the school was deeply in debt and State would receive onlY $864,000 in :fis and attending school part time. He then the enrollment was so low there was cal 1975-about one-third of the fiscal came back to Leslie County and was danger of losing their high school. 1973 allotment. There are a. number of principal of the Hyden High School Through careful planning, community reasons why I oppose this reduction. which he got accredited, the first high ·cooperation, and State and Federal help, Many of the Members, I am stu·e, are school accredited 1n the county. he increased the school personnel from aware of the omce of Education's Right From there, he went to Goodman, Mo., 12 to 32, built one of the best auto to Read program which is employing as superintendent for 2 years, then back mechanics buildings in the State, a new many innovative techniques in the grade to Grant County, Ky., at Mason, where gymnasium, added elementary class schools to impl'OVe the reading skills of he spent 5 years. He attended school in rooms, and made many other improve pupils. The program is funded in part by the summers and received his A.B. de ments. He established the first Head title II of the Elementary and Secondary gree from Berea College, Berea, Ky., in start in the area and has the only Head Education Act. 1925, the first person from his home start program in the county, which is What is not so well known is that a county of Leslie to receive a college considered one of the best in the State. great many of these Right to Read proj degree. Mr. Gay has concern for people, and ects could not be carried out without the He went back to Witherspoon College particularly those less fortunate. He assistance of NDEA title m funds to pro fo1· 3 years as a teacher and counselor. spends a great deal of his time counsel- cure necessary equipment and materials. • 33084 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 3'(), 1974 For example, a right to read project The greatest compliment and wish baeco ended more than twenty years ago and was launched in 1971 in my old district that the SSSJ's admiring SuPPorters can therefore so did the alleged contamination. to develop a model for reading instruc pay to this group is that the situation of The report goes on to say that: tion in Rockland County. The project in Soviet Jews would be eased to the ex "Satterlee summarized the problem in 1956. cluded establishment of a diagnostic cen The arsenic content of cigarettes has risen tent that they would be allowed to live from 12.6 m i crograms per cigarette in 1932 to ter for screening reading deficiencies, and in freedom and that the persecution 42 micrograms in 1950-51. These levels could inservice training for administrators, which necessitated the formation of lead to rather high concentr ations of arseni c reading supervisors and teachers. A great SSSJ would disappear. in the lung during smoking." variety of audio-visual mat erials and Once again by omitting later data, the im equipment were screened in this project plication is left that the 1950 arsenic level in an effort to initiate a number of differ has persisted for decades. Also omitted is the ent reading programs that would serve "ll~LYING THAT INDUSTRIAL DIS quantity of arsenic actually concentrated in the lung during smoking, or if in fact such pupils with different needs. EASE IS CAUSED BY CIGARETTE measurements were made at all. The project has developed reading in SMOKING IS LIKE TRYING TO The next sentence goes on to say that: structional methods for more than 34,000 HIDE AN ELEPHANT BEHIND A "In recent years, ar sen i c levels i n American public and 9,000 private elementary COCKER SPANIEL'' cigar ettes have decli ned to an av erage of 7.7 school pupils by informing teachers how m i cr ograms per gram of tobacco." to use modern audio-visual techniques HON. CARL D. PERKINS The information comes from a study pub and how to evaluate them. The project's lished in 1969 but the Dow authors fail to OF KENTUCKY specify when the arsenic level dropped below cost was $72,000, including $19,000 in the 1932 figure. They imply it happened only title III funds. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES recently. Strangely, they fail to tell us, a.s This illustration of two programs work Monday, September 30, 1974 they did with the earlier high levels, whether ing in concert bears out the key role Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, 2 years this new low level could lead to rather low NDEA title ill is playing to help improve concentrations of arsenic in the lungs during ago last February I expressed concern smoking. the quality of education in our schools. to the Consumer Subcommittee of the It also illustrates why I believe Congress Finally, the Dow report is very informative Senate Committee on Commerce as to a,bout Peruvian tobaccos, saying that "Ar should adequately fund NDEA title m in why it was so difficult for one branch of senic levels were found to be 22 micrograms line with President Ford's budget request the Department of Health, Education, per cigarette as recently as 1966." Unless for $28.5 million and override the cutback and Welfare to find that coal dust causes numerous Americans travel all the way to to $15 million proposed by the Appropri black lung disease while it was so easy Peru for their cigarettes, this reported fact ations Committee. has no relevance. for another branch of the Department to But there are more serious and disturbing find that smoking caused emphysema. I omissions. And these raise serious and dis observed that this inconsistent approach turbing questions. CONGRATULATIONS TO STUDENT adversely affects Kentuckians in two Why, for example, is there no mention of STRUGGLE FOR SOVIET JEWRY ways-it deprives coal miners who have the conclusion of the 1964 Surgeon General's worked in the mines for many years of Report on Smoking and Health? This defini tive review of scientific knowledge said: black lung benefits and at the same time "It seems unli kely that the amount of seeks to eliminate the tobacco grower of arsenic derived ev en from unfiltered ciga HON. MARIO BIAGGI cash for his crop. rettes is sufficient to present a health OF NEW YORK This same point is made, Mr. Speaker, hazard." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in a statement of the Tobacco Workers Why is there omission of the conclusion of International Union, AFL-CIO, Septem the 1962 Royal College of Physicians study Monday, September 30, 1974 ber 17, 1974, to the public hearing on of smoking and health? That British review Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, 10 years arsenic exposure conducted by the OSHA of the evidence stated: "The arsenic content of cigarettes is 1W'ZD ago an organization was formed in New Committee Management Office of the infinitesimal • • • There has never been York which ha.s made for itself a proud U.S. Department of Labor. enough arsenic in tobacco tor this to be and decisive achievement in the history I submit for the information of my likely to cause cancer by itself., of modern Jewry-Student Struggle for colleagues this statement signed by Rene Why are we not told that the 1972 Surgeon Soviet Jewry. While in 1964, only the Rondou, president; Homer Cole, secre General's Report fails even to include arsenic most informed Americans followed the - tary-treasurer; and Wallace A. Mergler, in a list of "harmful constituents of ciga rette smoke"? injustices and persecutions of Soviet first vice president of the Tobacco Work Could it be for the same reason that the Jewry, the SSSJ, as it is known, in- ers International Union: Dow authors did not tell us about the smok creased public awareness of the plight of ToBAcco WoRKERs ing histories of workers exposed to arsenic. Soviet Jews to the extent that this issue INTERNATIONAL UNION, This data, they say, was incomplete and un has become one of the main human Washington, D.C., September 17, 1974. remarkable." rights concerns in this Nation. Ms. J. FERRoNE, The Dow Chemical Company report is re h OSHA Committee Management Office, U.S. markably incomplete in dealing With to It has been my P 1easure to know t e Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. bacco. Favorable data is ignored; unfavor inspired leaders of SSSJ, Jacob Birn- For Submission to Public Hearing on Arsenic able data is promoted. baum, originally from England, and Glen Exposure: Could it be that insertion of cigarette Richter, his young colleague. Having vis- Our purpose in submitting this statement smoking in such a report is an -attempt to ited the Soviet Union last year and met is two-fold. First, we want to set the record set up a defense against workers who are leading Jewish dissidents such as Dr. straight about the involvement of cigarette the victims of an unhealthy work environ Benjamin Levitch, I can personally tes- smoking in the Dow Chemical Company re- ment? This classic tactic of blaming the vic .! to th 1 f th te t t· ·ty port. Secondly, we want to illustrate how tim is a Widely used diversion. And unfor t 1 Y e va ue o e pro s ac IVI ' cigarette smoking is apparently being used tunately it is successful in too many all carried on in the American legal as a red herring to divert and delay govern instances. framework, of SSSJ and similar groups ment action to clean up the work environ- Paul Brodeur, author of Expenda.ble Amer which have arisen to meet the need. ment. icans, details the story of how tens of thou One cannot accurately measure the ef- Pages 10 and 11 of the Dow Chemical Com- sands of American workers die each year of feet of various influences on political pany report contains a paragraph that is a preventable industrial disease. He describes movements, particularly the situation of gem of subtle innuendo and misleading im- the failure of government action to protect plication. This passage states that: them, as being due in part to the existence Soviet Jews, when a group in one coun- "Until the early 1950's, arsenical pesticides of a medical-industrial complex. If indeed try, such as the SSSJ, tries to persuade had been sprayed on tobacco crops in the such a group exists, the use of cigarette the government of another country, in United States. The use of these products has smoking to obscure the issue of occupational this case the U.S.S.R. Nevertheless, it is led to contamination of cigarettes With exposure would appear to be ta.ilor made for clear that the SSSJ had a definite and arsenic." its purpose. · th h d s · t 1 Entirely omitted is any mention of a.rseni- By the same token there exists in this powerful role m e C ange OVle PO - cal pesticides being used. on a host of other country an anti-smoking establishment icy which now has permitted tens of crops and leading to their contamin.ation at which portrays cigarette smoking as the thousands of Jews to lea~e for Israel that time. Are we to believe that such pesti cause of almost all health problems. It is where they can enjoy a fuller life as cides were sold only to tobacco farmers? therefore not too difficult to see that they Jews. In fact the use of these products on to- are Joining forces with industry and in so Septembe?" 30, 1974 EXTENSIONS .OF REMARKS 33085 doing assisting industry in its efforts to that if Nestor is the highest paid umpire I would like to take this opportunity escape the responsibility of an m1safe work- in the big leagues, he 1s worth every to commend Dr. Heimlich for developing place. , penny he is paid. He also noted that if this lifesaving method and encourage Asbestos workers at Pittsburgh Corning s assignments were given on the basis of wide distribution and publicity so that notorious Tyler, Texas, plant were told their problem was due to cigarette smoking. Coal ability, Nestor Chylak would work the it may be added to emergency first aid miners were told that the primary cause of world series every year. However, the systems to save lives. their black lung problem was cigarette smok umpires have agreed among themselves ing. Uranium miners are cautioned to give up on a rotation system that gives every smoking. And so it goes in occupation after man an opportunity to get into the occupation. series. PROPOSAL FOR A NATIONAL INTER· In this time of inflation, tight money, Nes is a native son of Olyphant, and :Jv.[EDIA'l"'E CREDIT BANK recession, and budget slashing, it is seductive an adopted Dunmorean, both in my and inexpensive to blame cigarette smoking congressional district. He has to be one for occupational disease. of the most friendly and delightful men HON. GILBERT GUDE They hide the fact that it would take OF MARYLAND OSHA, as it is now staffed, more than 100 you could ever meet. When the Senators years to inspect the country's four million performed. at R. F. K. stadium here in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES work places. They just hang up the no smok Washington, before they took off for Monday, September 30, 1974 ing sign. Texas, Nestor would drop by my office, Mr. GUDE. Mr. Speaker, the current They hide the fact that Federal Standards or call when he was in town, to invite exist for only 500 of an estimated 20,000 toxic debate over inflation has produced a my staff out to the ballgame. And it was great variety of proposals reflecting a chemical substances now used. They just to hang up a no smoking sign. a delight see him calling them "like wide spectrum of economic thinking. They hide the fact that research funds for they were." Much of the concern over the causes of occupational health studies are grossly in With a little luck, we may see Nestor inflation has centered around growth adequate. They just hang up a no smoking Chylak calling them in the forthcom of the money supply and the supply of sign. ing wol'ld series. And if it turns out to Blaming cigarettes for industrial disease 1s be "One, two, three strikes, you're out," credit, and this concern has been re like blaming the Johnstown flood on a leaky you can be sure that it is being called :flected in many of the proposals put faucet ln Altoona.. by the best umpire in the "Old Ball forth. The TWIU firmly maintains that the Game." One interesting proposal for a National "Smoking and Health Question" can only be Intermediate Credit Bank has come to resolved through intensive research of prod my attention recently. It has been de uct components. It is unlikely that a mean veloped by John S. Atlee, director of the ingful solution can be found by substituting A NEW LIFESAVING TEChNIQUE innuendo for research. And, implying that Institute for Economic Analysis. The industrial disease is caused by cigarette HON. DONALD D. CLANCY proposal contains some interesting ideas, smoking is like trying to hide an elephant although as has been pointed out to Dr. behind a cocker spaniel. OF OHIO Atlee, it also poses some important polit Sincerely yours, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ical and social problems. I insert it in RENE RONDOU, Monday~ September 30, 1974 the RECORD at this point because it is a President. somewhat different approach worthy of HoMER CoLE, Mr. CLANCY. Mr. Speaker, a Cincin Secreta111 Treasurer. my colleagues' attention. Further infor nati doctor has discovered and proposed a mation on the concept can be obtained WALLACE A. MERGLER, lifesaving technique which has already Ftrst Vice President. from Dr. Atlee at the Institute for Eco saved many lives and which promises nomic Analysis, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, to save the lives of thousands who might l'OOin 916, Washington, D.C. 20036. The otherwise choke to death every year. statement follows: The technique is called the "Heimlich NESTOR CHYLAK-NO. 1 UMPIRE IN A BASIC NEW APPROACH TO ANTI-INFLATION BASEBALL maneuver" after Dr. Henry Heimllch, di AND STABILIZATION POLicY rector of surgery at Jewish Hospital, Cin cinnati, Ohio. The maneuver consists of (By Dr. JohnS. Atlee) A1 though there is increasing recognition HON. JOSEPH M. McDADE standing behind a choking victim, grip that the present restrictive monetary pollcy OF PENNSYLVANIA ping both arms around the victim's waist risks financial chaos and/or serious reces IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES above the belt line, one hand grasping sion, many people stlll passively accept it the other wrist. The method is to rapidly on the grounds that spirautng inflation is Monday~ September 30, 1974 and strongly press the other hand formed also extremely dangerous, and in the false Mr. McDADE. Mr. Speaker, my excel in a fist. into the victim's diaphragm belief that economists haven't anything bet- lent friend. Jimmy Calpin, writing in h1s just below the ribs. ter to offer. : "Looktn Em Over" sports column in the Now, however, there is a better way, if we In the instances where this method has are deeply enough alarmed to try a genUine Scranton Tribute of September 28, 1974, been used, it has sharply compressed the ly new approach--and somewhat sooner than 1·eports what all of us in the lOth Con lungs and expelled the matter which was the 28 years which passed between the initial gressional District have maintained all choking the victim. In all known cases publication of Keynes1an theory in 1936 and along, but has only now been confirmed since Dr. Heimlich announced the meth the m-tlmed tax-cut of 1964. by scientific polling-Nestor Chylak is od last June in Emergency Medicine Thirteen years ago, the prestigious Com the finest umpire in major league base magazine, all potential victims have sur mission on Money and Credit suggested that ball today. vived. Nearly 4,000 persons die annually the potentially most effective approach to The polling was done by the most re sta.blllmt1on pollcy would be "automatlc,. by choking on substances caught in their stabilization tax adjustments (STA's) con sponsible possible group you could pick throats, the sixth largest cause of acci trolled by some mathematical formula which for such a task-the Major League dental deaths. would ensure that they are precisely ap Baseball Players Association. The people Dr. Heimlich developed the technique propriate in both timing and amount--with polled were the ones who would know with research on beagles at Jewish Hos out having to depend on economic forecasts, best-the players on the major league pital's Esophagus Center. He published Presidential attention or Congressional teams whose careers revolve so much his findings in an article entitled "Pop politics. around completely fair and competent goes the cafe coronary," because most Of special relevance to the present crisis, umpiring. these formula-controlled STA's would make chokings seem to occur at a dining table possible, for the first time, precise and con Rating the umpires on judgment be and resemble a heart attack. Also, when tinuous coordination of our monetary and hind the plate and on the bases; atti the method 1s applied, the obstruction fiscal policy-with stable growth of the tude; hustle; appearance; language; po often pops out like a cork from a bottle. money supply keyed to the long-term growth sitioning, and other factors-they found Numerous reports of lives saved have trend of full-employment GNP, combined Nestor Chylak caslly the best umpire in come from such addresses as Chicago, with an effective guarantee against any in- the majors. What ts also interesting is Seattle, Kansas City, Tennessee, Elm ftationary excess credit expansion. i the fact that an oilicial of the American hurst, Dl., Belchertown, Mass., Wash This tormttla jleXibiltty approach (as the League quickly confirmed the findings Commission called lrt) has so far received lit- ! ington, D.C. Republic of Korea, and Al tie professional or political attention because I with. his own endorsement. He remarked buquerque. there seemed to be no satisfactory basis for I 33086 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 3'0, 1974 the formula. But extensive research with the The NICB/STA system would make pos versary is the development of a Medal Flow-of-Funds system of national economic sible the ultimate in "fine tuning" of eco of Honor Grove at Valley Forge. accounts has recently suggested a basically nomic growth and balance-comparable to new approach. the adjustments made by an airplane's auto The Freedom Foundation has set aside Conceptually, the most appropriate basis matic pilot, or the adjustments made to your 52 acres of land at Valley Forge, 1 acre fur STA's is a precise measure of the na steering wheel when driving a relatively for each of our 50 States plus 1 acre tional balance between the overall supply straight road. But it could also compensate each for the District of Columbia and for ~-nd demand for credit--so that "compensa for major administrative or legislative mis Puerto Rico, to memorialize the gallant tory" changes in federal borrowing (not calculations in such fiscal changes as the in and courageous men who have been spending!) will offset any tendency towards stitution of an income maintenance program a warded the Medal of Honor. inflationary or recessionary imbalance. (In or a shift to the value-added tax-or for the the Flow-of-Funds perspective, credit flows financial distortions caused by inflation. The Freedom Foundation has asked precisely complement the familiar income If it were also adopted by other industrial each State to raise $10,000 to develop and spending flows of the National Income countries and coordinated with the Interna and maintain the acre assigned to that Accounts, but are much smaller in amount tional Monetary Fund, it could help greatly State. The National Sojourners have and in many other ways are more appropri to facilitate international financial readjust dedicated themselves to the task of rais at-e as a basis for stabilization policy.) ments such as the "recycling" of Arab oil ing the funds. In our economy, the best way to obtain the profits. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to say necessary credit data is through the estab The NICB/STA system could make three lishment of a new type of financial institu major contributions to stopping the present that two of my constituents are leading tion which would serve, in effect, as a "cen inflation and preventing a new round a the drive for funds in Maryland. The tral wholesale credit pool" for all short-term couple of years from now: chairman of this effort is Capt. George marginal credit flows-a function now per (1) By assuring stable full-employment T. Steele, USAR, retired, of 1080 Bald formed mainly by the diffuse "money growth of the economy beyond the present win Drive, Millersville, and the treas market" for treasury bills, certificates of de crisis, it would tend to reduce the fluctua urer is Maj. John A. Ritner, AUS, re posit, commercial paper and federal funds. tions of business investment which have tired, of 5615 Lansing Drive, Camp This new institution, which we shall call played such a key role in causing the present Springs, Md. here the National Intermediate Credit Bank inflationary shortages of supply-a condition (NICE), would probably operate as an agency which the present tight-money/recession I believe we should actively encourage of the Federal Reserve System. It would policy would inevitably tend to repeat when contributions to this worthy program, accept interest-bearing deposits of "surplus" the economy is allowed to recover again, and we should commend the National funds from all of the main financial institu about 1976. This assurance of stab111ty and Sojourners for their work on this im tions (banks, insurance companies, savings balance would also provide labor with a portant phase of the celebration of our and loan associations, etc.) , and would make credible basis for continued restraint in wape country's 200th birthday. loans to any which have a demand for their demands. credit greater than their current inflow of (2) By assuring an adequate supply of savings. To induce maximum use of the credit for housing it would prevent the de NICB as a central credit pool, loans and de velopment of a future housing shortage, with MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES posits should probably have the same in its resultant inflationary effect on housing terest rate. prices and rents. Likewise, it would facilitate COMMITTEE-VICTIM OF SELECT This "marginal" flow of credit through the the financing of increased capacity in public COMMITTEE REFORM PROPOSAL, NICB would be only a small fraction of the utilities and other key industries that depend HOUSE RESOLUTION 988 total national flow of credit, but the balance largely on credit. between NICB loans and deposits would tend (3) By providing an adequate supply of to correspond very precisely to the balance credit at any given interest rate (if necessary HON. LEONOR K. SULLIVAN between the total national demand for credit by "tax-forced savlng"-which could take OF MISSOURI from · businesses, households and govern the more paletable form of "tax credit cer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments, and the total supply of credit from tificates"), interest rates could very quickly financial saving and the normal planned in be rolled back, if desired, to pre-Vietnam (or Monday, September 30, 1974 crease in the money supply. This balance even pre-1955) levels. Since 1965, rising in Mrs.StnLIJn/~.Mr.Speaker,recently would provide the basis for the STA for terest rates have been a key factor in the there have been a number of newspaper mula, in the following manner (somewhat inflationary spiral, and a dramatic rollback oversimplified here for brevity): now could be a key factor in breaking this articles urging pa...c::sage of House Resolu If demand for loans from the NICB should spiral. It would also help to offset any STA tion 988, the Select Committee on Com exceed its deposits by, say, $2 billion during induced reduction in after-tax income. mittees so-called reform proposal. I hope some month, this excess would be financed But the present inflation is too serious to that the Members of the House of Repre initially by NICB "credit creation"-l.e. by be cured by any one measure, however power sentatives will not be stampeded by this an increase in the money supply above its ful. We need a fully coordinated program of publicity into any unfortunate and in planned growth rate. To bring the demand measures similar to those that so successfully for credit back into balance with supply co1Tect decisions affecting the internal rolled back inflation during the last two years structure of the House of Representa and the money supply growth rate back to of the Korean War-including: (1) selective normal-the STA formula would call for a credit controls to divert funds from rela tives. I think we are all for necessary $2 billion tax surcharge to reduce federal bor tively non-essential uses to areas which are change, but let us not be bamboozled into rowing (or increa....c:e the surplus) by this most vital to expansion of our productive accepting a questionable package which amount. capacity and continued full-employment can only result in chaos and confusion Conversely, if NICB deposits should exceed growth of the economy; (2) measures to in in the 94th Congress. the demand for loans by $2 billion, the STA crease competitive pressure on consumer Recently, one of these articles charac formula would call for a tax reduction to in prices; (3) tax measures to recapture some terized House Resolution 988 as a "work ·crease federal borrowing by the $2 billion of the windfall profits of the few who are needed to bring total credit demand back able plan.'' Anybody who has analyzed unavoidably getting rich from the inflaltion; House Resolution 988 with any care, has into balance with supply-and the growth (4) well-administered price and wage con rate of the money supply back to normal. trols and allocations in areas where supply come to the realization that one of the The STA would take effect initially through is still critically short but not quickly in problems with this effort at change in withholding tax deductions, since these creased by higher prices. the House structure is that unfortunately would have the most immediate comple it is not at all workable. On March 21, mentary effect on consumer spending. A monthly letter from the U.S. Treasury to all 25, 26, and on April 1 and 4, 1974, I in employers with computerized payrolls would FREEDOM FOUNDATION MEMORI serted articles in the CONGRESSIONAL say, in effect: "Take X dollars (or X%) more ALIZES MEDAL OF HONOR HOLD RECORD showing precisely how unwork (or less) out of everyone's paycheck this ERS able House Resolution 988 was as it ap month." The same proportionate adjustment plied to the jurisdictional responsibilities would of course be applied in other people's of the House Merchant Marine and Fish estimated income tax payments and all an HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT eries Committee. On April 24, 1974, I nual returns, although the monthly adjust OF MARYLAND RECORD, ments might often cancel each other cut over inserted another article into the a whole year. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES delineating the almost complete inability Because these tax adJustments would be so Monday, September 30, 1974 of the provisions of House Re!Olution 988 precisely appropriate in both amount and to deal with the dislocation of Members timing, they would usually be very small, Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, among the and staff which would occur as a result particularly after a year or two of reasonable more worthwhile projects planned for the of the Select Committee on Committees' economic stability has again been achieved. celebration of our Nation's 200th anni- proposals. In fact, this so-called workable Septembe1" 30, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33087 plan makes practically no provision the jurisdiction of the United States un ented activities of the Merchant Marine whatsoever for the dislocation of Mem less taken under the authority of a per and Fisheries Committee. It has been, bers and staff, which goes to the very mit issued by an agency of the Federal unfortunately, abundantly clear that the heart of House change as proposed by Government. continued existence of the Merchant House Resolution 988. Perhaps one of the committee's most Marine and Fisheries Committee and its Some newspaper accounts shilling for progressive and important contemporary jurisdictional integrity have been one· so-called House reform push the idea oriented activities resulted in the Coastal of the prime targets of the framers of that House Resolution 988 "would abolish Zone Management Act-Public Law 92- the so-called Select Committee on Com some outdated committees and stream 125-which established a national policy mittees and its House Resolution 988. line others." The original recommenda and developed a national program for All these months, we ha.ve been faced tions of the Select Committee on Com the management, beneficial use, protec with the incorrect conclusions and rec mittees, dated December 7, 1973, called tion and development of water and land ommendations of the select committee for the outright abolition of the House resources of the Nation's coastal and it is especially galling to find the sug Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commit estua1ine zones. Another forward-look gestion in the newspapers that these ill tee, together with the elimination of sev ing piece of legislation sponsored by the conceived changes should be accepted by eral other committees. The conservation Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commit the House Members in the name of re ists and environmentalists, together with tee was the so-called Ocean Dumping form and to eliminate ''outdated com the merchant marine, oceanography and Act-Pubiic Law 92-532-covering the mittees," and to "streamline others," Panama Canal interests, spoke in one subject of waste material transportation when in fact this is not so. unified voice against the proposed aboli and disposal into the oceans, Great Lakes I submit, Mr. Speaker, that on the tion of the committee and the mindless or internal tidal waters. In addition, the basis of the record partially set out dispersion of its unified jurisdictional re committee has recently progressively leg above, and as evidenced by the legisla sponsibilities. As a result, the select com islated in such important contemporary tion produced by the Merchant Marine . mittee, in its final instrument, House areas as game management, conserva and Fisheries Committee, that our com Resolution 988, introduced March 19, tion and rehabilitation programs on Fed mittee is probably one of the most pro 1974, reversed, to a certain extent, its eral lands; implementation of a shrimp gressive committees in the House with previous unfortunate and unpopular rec fishing agreement with Brazil; prohibit respect to the content of its work and ommendation and partially retained the ing the hunting of animals from air one of the most contemporary oriented. Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commit craft; illegal seizures of U.S. fishing ves After all these months, I still cannot un tee with jurisdiction over merchant ma sels at sea; some five laws dealing with derstand the reasoning of the select com rine, Coast Guard and fisheries. It various wildlife refuges throughout the mittee in its original recommendation stripped away a substantial portion of United States; the National Sea Grant to completely abolish our committee and our important and contemporary ori College and Program Act of 1966; the I am equally at a loss to understand the ented jurisdictions such as oceanography, Merchant Marine Act of 1970; the Tow provisions of House Resolution 988, deepwater ports, Panama and inter boat Licensing Act, the Federal Boat which would strip us of approximately 60 oceanic canals, wildlife conservation and Safety Act of 1971; and the Port and percent of our existing jurisdiction and our environmental responsibilities. Waten.vays Safety Act of 1972. take away the very areas in which we Far from being outdated or requiring Our Subcommittee on Fisheries and have been the most productive and pos.:. streamlining, the Merchant Marine and Wildlife Conservation and the Environ sess the necessary staff, experience and Fisheries Committee has been, and is, ment has, over the past several years, expertise. In previous articles I inserted one of the most progressive and contem held two separate sets of hearings on the in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, I think I porary-issue-oriented committees in the problem of "growth and the environ demonstrated quite clearly how the pro House of Representatives. The veracity ment." We have a report ready to be visions of House Resolution 988 would of this statement is demonstrated by the printed and distributed to the various splinter our present unified jurisdictions record of the Merchant Marine and Members of the House of Representa in the areas of oceanography, fish and Fisheries Committee's work and accom tives and the Senate on this subject. I wildlife conservation and the environ.;; plishments. doubt if there is any other committee on ment. The landmark and definitive environ the Hill which has delved into this im I cannot tell what will happen with mental statute, the National Environ portant and critical matter of growth respect to House Resolution 988 or House mental Policy Act of 1969, came out of and its impact on our lives and the en Resolution 1321. This latter document the House Merchant Marine and Fish vironment. This is truly a progressive was introduced by Mr. MARTIN of Ne eries Committee. In a recent editorial, legislative endeavor. Just 2 weeks ago, braska on Auugst 15, 1974, and is a slight the New York Times stated: the Subcommittee on Coast Guard held modification of House Resolution 988. I The National Environmental Policy Act of hearings o~ the problem of recreational cannot fathom the purpose of House Res 1969-NEPA-is perhaps the most important boat hijackings and the connection of olution 1321, but I sincerely hope the single piece of environmental law now on these episodes to drug traffic into the leadership will not allow this to be used the statute books. United States. In the same vein, along as a parliamentary maneuver on the floor As I say, NEPA originated in the Mer with its duties concerning the mainte to prevent the Members from amending chant Marine and Fisheries Committee, nance and operation of the Panama House Resolution 988, should it ever and I do not think anyone can deny the Canal, the Panama Canal Subcommittee come to that. Obviously, I favor House importance and impact of this statute has held hearings concerning drug traf Resolution 1248, the so-called Hansen re on contemporary Amel'ican life. The fic through Panama to the United States, form package, since it quite correctly re Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com and has held hearings in the Canal Zone tains our committee intact and is a much mittee was responsible for Public Law with respect to the problem of discrimi more sensible reform proposal. 91-190 which created the Council on En nation in the Canal Zone and in the op I truly hope, Mr. Speaker, that if these vironmental Quality, with its broad and erations of the Panama Canal Co. reform proposals do come before the independent overview of current and The committee has been heavily in House Membership for a vote, that the long-term trends in the quality of na volved in such current problems as a leadership and the Members will not tional environment. The Merchant Ma 200-mile zone of control at sea and the permit the Merchant Marine and Fish rine and Fisheries Committee was re harvesting of seabed minerals. We have eries Committee to be stripped of its im sponsible for protecting endangered been involved in these matters in inter species by legislating, for the first time national forums and with proposed do portant jm·isdictions, since it has been Endangered Species Acts-Public Law mestic legislation. The committee partic very active in these areas and has pro 91-135 and Public Law 93-205. The Mer ipated in the recent Law of the Sea duced quality legislation. By every dic chant Marine and Fishel'ies Committee Conference in Venezuela and at the same tate of fairness, reason and justice, the again acted on a contemporary issue re time this summer conducted hearings on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commit sulting in the Marine Mammal Protec all the Nation's seacoasts on unilateral tee should not be decimated by House tion Act-Public Law 92-522-to prohibit legislation to establish a 200-mile zone. Resolution 988, and should be allowed the harassing, catching, and killing of These are just some of the examples, to continue to function with all its pres marine mammals by U.S. citizens within Mr. Spealcer, of the contemporary ori- ent jurisdictional responsibilities. 33088 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 3'0, 1974 ONE OF WORLD'S WEALTHIEST cept, Rockefeller lectured the state's voters A third benefit is an obvious one: author MEN-ROCKEFELLER-IS EXPERT on how borrowing money was wrong, an "im ity borrowing, like any borrowing, postpones IN DEFICIT SPENDING prudent policy." In a typical statement, he the day when bills come in. "It allows cap! tal said it "Would have to be paid back, of projects buildings, roads, bridges to be un course, a.nd at a rate of $1.50 for every dollar dertaken without substantial 1mm.ediate use borrowed ... of tax resources," as the state Department of j; ON. JOE L. EVINS "We are in fact mortgaging the future Audit and Control remarked. OF TENNESSE E a.nd dumping onto the shoulders of our chil For example, the $1 billion-plus South dren the burdens which we ourselves should Mall project in Albany is substantially com I N THE H OUSE OF REPRESE NTATIVES bear.... In my judgment it is both finan plete. About $600 mlliion worth of bonds Monday, September 30, 1974 cially costly and morally irresponsible for us have b een sold, mostly in batch es of $70 Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Spealter, to add to their burdens by evading our own." millions. These will be repaid, in instal! By the time he left office, bonds were being men ts, over 23 to 24 years. Furthermore, ac when Nelson Rockefeller, the Vice-Presi sold for one of his pet projects--the billion tual dolle.rs to repay bond -holders on any dential nominee, first ran for Governor dollar-plus South Mall in Al bany-under a of these did not begin to go out until 1967, of New York in 1958, he roundly criti system that would place on tlie shoulders three years after construction began. The cized his opponent for "deficit spend of the taxpayers' children roughly $1.70 for r est of t he money was raised through bon:i ing" and pledged to restore "fiscal integ every dollar's worth of construction they got. anticipat ion notes, which will eventually re rity." Some of the state's fis~al footwork is sult in further bond issues. Sixteen years later when Rockefeller widely attributed to New York Cit y bond The final benefit is that authorities are left the Governor's office, the accumu lawyer John N. Mitchell, who lat er became freewheeling agencies-"streamlined" is the U.S. at torney general and still later one of word used in official pronouncements--com lated indebtedness for the State of New the Watergate coverup defendants. bining the flexibility of a private business York had increased from $879 million to Whoever devised it, it was a factor in the With the power of the state. They can get $11.5 billion-an escalation that defies decision of three private organizations that things done without the involved tangle of definition by percentages. These facts rate state cr edit for bond buyers to lower regulations, chains of comma.nd and hiring are contained in a recent article which New York's quality by a notch. Such a change requirements that bedevil ordinary govern appeared in the Nashville Banner writ usually means that the state or its agencies ment agencies. ten by Mr. William Ringle of Gannett must pay higher interest to borrow money. In its true form, an authority is designed What Rockefeller did, in essence, was to to be self-supporting. Usually it is set up to News Service. spin otr considerable stat-e spending and debt borrow money so It can build and run a As Governor, Nelson Rockefeller de on to a number of semi-independent state single facility-a bridge, a highway, or a veloped deficit spending into a way of agencies. These are known in government port or airport between two different bodies :fiscal life in New York and also gave circles as "authorities," or "public benefit of government. Fees or tolls are charged, and other States and the Nation some les corporations." When one of these borrowed those charges go to repay the money bor sons in backdoor spending and borrow money-and the borrowing was in the bil r owed, usually through bond sales. ings from the Treasury. In establishing lions-this did not appear as state debt, al To maintain this appearance of self though the state had a tacit, or moral, re su pport for his enterprises, Rockefeller ear State public authorities which did not sponsibility for much of it. marked to State University construction the come before the legislature for appropri "He got much of New York's debt off his fees and tuition charged the students. For ations, Rockefeller was able to fund vari own balance sheet," as one Wall Street bond mental hospitals it was the patients' fees ous projects and programs which built expert summed it up. and later federal Medicaid and Medicare up collective deficits of $8.13 billion. F'Or Rockefeller, whether he intended it or payments to the patients. When Mr. Rockefeller took office as n ot. t his had four distinct benefits. Ordinarily, such money would have gon e Governor, State taxes averaged $93 per One was political. It enabled him, in the into the state treasury wit h all other in year in New York-when he left office, early days when he was a national presiden come. Earmarking it for the use of the au tial candidate, to tell audiences in other thorities meant that the legislature had to taxes averaged $447 per person. states that he was undertaking a $1 billion replace it in the state's general funds with Certainly Mr. Rockefeller developed doubling of the State University, or building tax money. deficit fina."lcing and backdoor spending $300 mil11on worth of new mental hospitals, Thus, in a roundabout way the taxpayers' into an art. He seems to be a rather without adding to state taxes or debt. This money was going to pay off bonded debt. Yet unusual choice for Vice President at a gave him the aura of some kind of adminis Rockefeller trumpeted the idea that these time of high inflation and in what has trative miracle-worker, an aura that clings were "self-liquidating." Inevitably, this in today outside New York. creased debt was reflected in ballooning state been d~scribed as a conservative Re Inside the state he was able to make an end taxes. These rose 381 per cent in the Rocke publican administration. run around the cumbersome borrowing proc feller era. Not only did Rockefeller increase Because of the interest of my col ess. He was able to embark on projects that, existing taxes, such as New York's formidable leagues and the American people, I place however worthy, might not have survived the income tax, but he also laid on a statewide in the RECORD herewith the article by Mr. scrutiny of either the voters o:- the legisla sales tax. Ringle from the Nashville Banner. ture. When he took office, state taxes per person The article follows: Like most states, New York has a clause In wex:e $93 a year, says the Census Bureau . [From the Nashville Banner, Sept. 20, 1974) its constitution forbidding the state to go When he left they were $447. into debt. If the state wants to borrow to The number of state employes also soared, (By William Ringle) build roads, State University buildings or and in several directions, by 62 per cent. T he WASHINGTON.-If government spending and mental hospitals, the constitution· must be payroll was up 325 percent--from $42.5 mil debt cause infi.ation-as President Ford ad changed. This requires approval by two sepa lion monthly to $180.6 million. And the num vises-the nation would acquire an expert rately elected legislatures, as well as by the ber of state workers for each 10,000 residents in creating it in the man Ford chose as his state's voters. When voters are on an anti had climbed by 47 per cent--from 69 to 102. vice president. spending kick, commendable projects occa Two bond credit-rating organizations Nelson A. Rock efeller first entered the sionally get shot down. spotted the trend very early, at a time when. political scene in 1958, taking the hide off Rockfeller's system bypassed all that. Rockefeller still said the state was on "pay New York Gov. W. Averell Harriman for "defi For example, the state Housing Finance as you go." cit spending." He vowed to "restore fiscal Agency was created in 1960. It borrows money In a May 10, 1963 report, Dun & Bradstreet integrity" and put the state on ·'pay as you by selling bonds. Technically, these become warned: go." a debt of the authority, not the state. " ... The state, in a shower of politically New York's debt then was $879 million. In this way, the HFA has raised $1.5 bil oriented slogans, is resorting to borroWing Sixteen years later when Rockefeller-with lion which it has turned over to another au through special agencies and is increasingly "pay as you go" a dim memory-left the thority, the State University Construction earmarking revenues for this new debt.... governor's office, the debt was $11.5 billion. Fund. The SUCF has used the money to con A continuation of these policies could even Only $3.4 billlon of it bad been approved struct buildings usually not dormitories, tually affect the state's credit standing.... " by the voters. The other $8.13 billion had which is done by still another, pre-Rocke Moody's Investors Service issued a similar been run up by a number of public authori feller authority on the State University's 30 alert. ties, of which more will be said later. campuses. The following year, in even more strongly In Han-ima.n's final year t he per capita Besides this, the HGA has sold another worded reports, the two municipal bond- state debt in New York, as the federal Census $1.5 billion of bonds for housing and $567 rating organizations-who have since be Bureau measures it, was $128. By Rockefel million more for mental hospitals this money come one-dropped New York from the high ler's last yoo.r it was $646, or 381 per cent is turned over to still another authority, the est possible rating to the second-highest. higher. Health and lVIental Hygiene Facllltles Im Eight years later the other major credit For six long years, before he finally admit provement Corporation, hospitals a.nd nurs rating organization, Standard & Poor's, aloo tt:d abandoning the "pay as you go" con- ing homes. reduced the state's rnting. September 30, 197J, EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33089 MORE WARNINGS ON SPREAD OF The similarities between the Indian and military potential of Latin American nuclear NUCLEAR WEAPONS Argentine nuclear energy programs are ap energy programs. The Treaty for the Prohibi parent. As is true with India, Argentina has tion of Nuclear Weapons In Latin America an excellently trained cadre of nuclear (Treaty of Tlatelolco) signed in 1967 and cur HON. BELLA S. ABZUG specialists-a fa-ct which has contributed to rently in force for eighteen Latin American making it the most advanced in nuclear nations (excluding Argentina, Brazil and OF N EW YORK technology in Latin America (the first Bra Chile) provides for the complete military IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES zilian nuclear power reactor is scheduled to denuclearization of the Latin American area. Monday, September 30, 1974 commence operation in 1977). In addition, The Treaty's machinery-the Organization the Argentine nuclear energy program has for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Ms. ABZUG. Mr. Speaker, as the remained relatively insulated from internal Latin America (OPANAL) with a small sec United States rushes into contracts to political turmoil. However, the most striking ret!1riat, permanently resides in Mexico City. sell nuclear reactors to other countries, and significant similarity is in a common Four of the five nuclear weapons powers (ex we should be aware that we are thereby choice of natural uranium fuel powered re cluding only the USSR) have signed Addi encouraging the proliferation of nuclear actors, rather than those utilizing enriched tional Protocols of respect. uranium (and generally supplied by the The denuclearization agreements has taken weapons. U.S.) . root for a variety of reasons, including the John R. Redick warns us in today's Argentina's first such reactor, constructed lack of fundamental and irreconcilable divi Washington Post that Argentina is about by a West German company, began opera sions among the Latin American nations, the to become the seventh nuclear nation. tion in January 1974; a second Canadian relatively low great power pressure on the There is a disturbing similarity, he says, unit is under construction, and a third in region, and the hitherto low level develop to the Indian method of becoming a nu negot iation. Natural uranium reactors in ment of Latin American nuclear energy pro clear power. He reminds us that India's volve significantly higher capital outlays grams. The latter situation is changing-a than enriched reactors. However, natural fact which has contributed to the lack of recent nuclear explosion was "primarily uranium reactors have certain distinct ad a spinoff of a highly successful nuclear support for the Tlatelolco Treaty demon vantages that the Argentines have readily strated by Argentina and Brazil. Argentina power program initiated in 1969 with a acknowledged, including the utilization of signed the Treaty in 1967, but has all but small U.S. enriched uranium reactor" domestic uranium reserves (Argentina has ignored it from the outset. subsequently accelerated by Canadian ample supplies) thereby avoiding depend Argentine spokesmen privately admit that reactors. ence on foreign (i.e. U.S.) enrichment the failure to adhere can be largely attrib Argentina's reactor was constructed by services. uted to opposition of the miltiary. Thus far, a West Germany company. I might add What is not discussed by Argentine spokes U.S. support for the Tlatelolco Treaty -has men is that natural uranium reactors lend been of a negative nature-constricted by the that the United States has been selling themselves far more readily to military ob nuclear reactors to West Germany since Pentagon-thereby making the agreement jectives because of the greater quantity of appear woefully one sided, particularly to the 1957. Thus do we aid in proliferating nu plut onium produced and the comparative Soviet Union. Yet an objective study of this clear technology and know-how. ease of insertion and removal of fuel rods remarkable and underrated agreement re Mr. Redick points out that we still without shut-down of the pile. Argenth1a veals pot ential opportunities for congruence have "a genuine if fleeting opportunity also possesses a small fuel .fabrication facil ity and is expanding its capacity dramati of Latin American national interests an'i for creative diplomacy" by giving full cally. Currently, Argentina has Latin Amer those of the international community at support to the complete military denu- ica's only plutonium separation plant and is large. . clearization of the Latin American area. developing the ability to produce heavy The Tlat elolco Treaty represents a genuine The Treaty for the · Prohibition of Nu water domestically-both essential elements if fleeting opportunity for creative diplomacy clear Weapons in Latin America already for a totally independent program (peace to constrain a potentially destructive tech ful or military). nological momentum with legal and political · exists but is largely ignored, due to mili norms. U.S. policy makers should carefully . tary factions here and abroad. It is past Like the Indians, the Argentines appear to be building a trained cadre of experts and consider means and methods to support this time for studying these alternatives-we . a sufficient body of experience, through co unique effort at regional nuclear arms con must act to implement them before it is operation with foreign expertise and pur trol in the Americas. We should not neglect too late. I would like to insert Mr. Re chase of natural uranium power reactors un this opportunity to influence those Latin dick's article into the RECORD: til that point when they need no longer be American nations, such as Argentina, with ·a (By John R. Redick) dependent on foreign technology. Bilateral growing nuclear capacity-which may not cooperation with India is undoubtedly en have made up their minds as to the final Grea.tly obscured in the global attention fateful step. generated by India's detonation of an under visioned by Argentina as a means of guar ground nuclear device in May 1974 was a anteeing continued access to advanced nu subsequent announcement of an Indian clear technology, even as their traditional Argentine agreement for the peaceful utiliza source (U.S. Canada, West Germany) fur TRIBUTE TO HON. HENRY SMITH III tion of nuclear energy. An Argentine spokes ther tighten requirements for cooperation. man stated that the agreement could con Yet technical factors are not themselves in HON. MARIO BIAGGI tribute to the construct ion of the nation's gredients in a sure receipe for nuclear weap third nuclear power plan. Although both ons production, and currently plutonium OF NEW YORK nations stressed that cooperative efforts produced by Argentina's five U.S. type re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES search reactors and its power reactor are sub- · would be restricted to the peaceful uses of Monday, September 30, 1974 nuclear energy, the Indian example has ject to the safeguard accounting procedures caused such assertions to be taken far less of the International Atomic Energy Agency · Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I know I seriously by the international community. (IAEA). am joined by many of my colleagues in Moreover, the Argentine nuclear energy pro Furt her, Canada, stung by its Indian ex perience, is demanding explicit assurances expressing good wishes to my distin gram demonstrates a. disturbing similarity guished colleague fl'om New York, HENRY to the now familiar Indian method of be that no Canadian supplied equipment will coming the world's sixth nuclear power. be utilized in the development of a nuclear SMITH III who has a1mounced his in India, the most advanced third world explosive device. However, it is difficult to tention to retire at the end of the session. nation in nuclear technology, ut1lized plu escape the conclusion that each step of the For the past 10 years, HENRY SMITH Argentine civilian nuclear prog1·am has been has served as the Representative from tonium produced by a Canadian built re designed to lend itself more easily to weap search reactor for its explosive device. How ons development than other methods which the 36th Congressional District in up ever, the needed technological expertise was may l;l.ave been followed. state New York. In his decade of service, primarily a spinoff of a highly successful Is Argentina destined to follow India's ex- · HENRY has served with distinction as a nuclear power program initiated in 1969 a.mple? Quite possibly. Like India (and Bra member of the House Judiciary Commit with a small U.S. enriched uranium reactor zil), Argentina has refused to sign the Non tee and District of Columbia Committee. and greatly a,ccelerated through the pur Proliferation Treaty of 1968 and has also HENRY SMITH brought with him to the chase of two small Canadian natural ura defended (although less vigorously than its nium reactors (which utilized India's own Congress a distinguished judicial career vocal neighbor to the north) its light to det which included a term as the Niagara uranium reserves). India has now sufficient onate so-called pea-eeful nuclear devices. Nor experience, through coope1·at1on in the con is it likely that Argentina will sign the Non- · county judge. This prior experience struction and operation of the two Canadian Proliferation Treaty as it shares India's and served him admirably in his work as the units, to have nearly completed a third nat Brazil's interpretation as to the t reaty's dis· ranking member of the Subcommittee on ural uranium power res,ctor which will, as criminatory nat·ure. Criminal Justice. - matters currently stand, produce consider Yet the1·e does exist a regional alternative HENRY SMITH has been accorded a able quantities of plutonium not falling which could prm•ide the legal and political number of distinguished honors and under international safeguards. framework for containment of the growing awards in his years in ,Congress, in- 33090 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 30, 19 ; ·. ~ eluding being named a member of the We are accustomed to the political use of polntment, where the Senate's collateral, United States-Canada Inter>arliamen comfortable ambassadorial assignments for constitutional prerogatives, are explicit, to purposes of canceling a. debt or resolving an look for content in the exercise of "advise tary Group, as well as bein_g ~amed the awkward party problem. The President and and consent" is like waiting for Godot. Leg recipient of the "Watchdog of the Treas the Republican leaders are repaying an obli islative posturing and condemnation of Ex ury" awr..rd. He has also been chosen gation to Haig. He had sensitively gone out ecutive excesses are easier than perusing ef twice by the House to be one of its repre of his way to advise and assist Ford as Vice forts to excuse responsibility. The Haig ap sentatives at the Internationt t World President, a decency to be rewarded. The con pointment, as several senators have pointed Peace through Law Conferences. servative Republican leaders felt indebted to out, obliges the Congress to examine critical Indeed, HENRY SMITH has had an im Haig for his role in Nixon's resignation. questions; the separation of the m ilitary in Hence, a place for him had to be found. Cer from ciVilian activity, t h e matter of quali pressive career the House, a record for tainly the military were not about to accept fications, the question of whether Haig would which he deserves to be proud. As he con back gracefully the 1969 colonel turned in advance American interests abroad. But templates his return to private life, let stant four-star general (Rtd.). We have had then, senatorial laxity should come as no me extend to him my be&t wishes for a a. spate of these cases: the fight against in surprise when one recalls the docile accept successful retirement and the hope that fia tion meant t h at Rush had to be eased out ance of Firestone for Belghun, for example, his successor will serve with the same of town and thus to Paris; Bu sh, of all or Farkas for Luxembourg. dedication and distinction which made things, to Peking; an d, where political obli The American p ractice regarding diplo HENRY SMITH one of our most distin gations are obscu=e, Flanigan, t o aid the matic assignment is bizarre and in stark guished Members. Spanish transition. contrast with the procedu.re of both ally and An essential adjunct to this peculiar, self foreign adversary. Others choose their en serving practice is American indi!Ierence to voys from professional diplomatic ranks, only FINDING OUR AI\.ffiASSADORS foreign sensibilities or foreigners' resentment occasionally bending this practice to name of the individuals imposed upon them. The an ex-minister or distinguished parliamen fact that our allies h ave been discrete should tarian. If we are disinclined to take the"e not be interpreted as contentment With the overseas missions seriously, then why accept HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL Haig nomination. For years Americans and the expense as well as the embarrassment OF NEW YORK Europeans devoted to NATO affairs have to other countries which our practice en IN 'FrlE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sought to make SACEUR an "Alliance" com genders? mander, not merely an American commander If the Foreign Relations Committee were Monday, Septem ber 30,1974 in Europe to take charge of European interested in fulfilling the Senate's constitu Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, the mercenaries in time of military crisis. The tional responsibilities, content could be put appointment of Gen. Alexander Haig to Greek-Turkish confrontation and the pres into those words "advise and consent." With command NATO forces and U.S. forces sure to reduce American troops abroad make a procedure derived from the American Bar t he Alliance connotation more urgent. In Association's informal appraisal of proposed in Europe raises two kinds of questions: justification the administration responds. nominations to the judiciary, the Committ ee First, the wisdom of the Haig appoint "But the Europeans did not protest; they could establish a senior, nonpartisan panel ment itself, and second, the way our welcomed the Haig appointment." For good of private experts to review presidential country selects presidential emissaries reason. Our allies have discovered that, if nominations prior to consideration by the whether or not these emissaries are frustrated in such matters, Washington can Committee. The panel would be expected to formally titled ambassadors. For General be exceedingly nasty. Overwhelming Euro advise the Committee whether the candi Haig will be, in political terms, the Presi pean reservations to Haig were a piece of dates met minimum qualifications for con cake. The trick was first to line up the Ger firmation. The first act of such a panel dent's ambassador to the NATO military mans. They have the greatest stake in could be to develop in cooperation with the structure and through that structure to NATO-geographic vulnerability, plus the committee the criterion to be used in judg the political-military leadership of every fact that they make the principal contribu ing the nominations. The mere establish NATO country. tion of men and money and are most threat ment of such a procedure would have an en Former U.S. Ambassador J. Robert ened by the prospect of American troop With nobling effect on both the Senate and the Schaetzel, who represented Presidents drawal. Bonn's -acquiescence collapsed any President, constraining the President from chance of organized European resistance to the habit of employing diplomacy as the easy Johnson and Nixon at the European way of solving irksome political personnel Community in Brussels from 1966 to Haig. Grudging, unanimous agreement was achieved, but at a price. The episode adds problems. 1972, has written a perceptive criticism credibility to those Europeans who see in the of both the Haig appointment and its Alliance not evidence of an Atlantic partner basis in presidential practice. I commend ship, but rather of an American abuse of SELECT COMMIT'TEE ON COMMIT this article to my colleagues : power. TEES' DISCOMFORT IN DEALING i THE HAIG APPOINTMENT One should be able to assume that the WITH THE FISHERIES AND WILD l (By J. Robert Schaetzel) St ate Department, in exercising its responsi LIFE JURISDICTIONS OF THE bilities for foreign relations, with respect to HOUSE COMMITTEE ON MER The appointment of General Alexander M. senior appointments overseas, would insist Haig Jr. to be NATO's Supreme Allied Com on competent candidates and, conversely, CHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES mander (SACEUR) is offensive on two counts. would protest unqualified nominees where The first concerns the appointment itself. foreign displeasure could be antic.ipated. In HON. LEONOR K. SULLIVAN The second concerns what it reveals about fact, KisSinger has yet to spend any of his Washington's approach to high-level diplo fund of political capital to block bad ap OF MISSOUR1 matic appointments. If the full implications pointments. As he places no stock in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVEG of the Haig appointment can be appreciated, institutions of foreign affairs or, specifically, Monday, September 30, 1974 especially at this time of intensive awareness in the utility of overseas missions, he would of governmental deficiencies, they may serve see no reason for concern over European un Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, on as the catalyst to produce the long-needed ease at the Haig appointmen t. If the Secre March 21, 25, and 26, and on April 1, 4, reform in the way we go about this aspect t ary of State cares little about the foreign of our international affairs. and 24, 1974, I inserted articles in the reaction, no one can expect the White House RECORD in which I discussed the miscon The quality of the previous SACEURs was to take seriously adverse Allied opinion. notable--Eisenhower, Ridgeway, Gruenther, ceptions and incorrect decisions of the I have lost the capacity for surprise, 1! Norstad, Lemnltzer, Goodpaster-and only not for embarrassment, at the callousness Select Committee on Committees with emphasizes Halg's weakness: lack o! com with which the government treats its own respect to its proposals to transfer vari mand experience, innocen~e of Alliance af people. Without a word General Goodpaster ous existing Merchant Marine and Fish fairs, the taint of Watergate. It is one more is thrown from the end of the sleigh. Years eries Committee jurisdictions to other episode in the dreary history of Americans of distinguished public service, many of being assigned abroad for every reason but existing and proposed committees. I also them as aide to Eisenhower, in which he relevant knowledge or experience. Without discussed the select committee's feeble earned the admiration of the allies and the treatment of the dislocations of Mem reservation we send an owner of parking lots Congress stimulated only proforma White to The Hague, a. publisher of "TV Guide" to bers and staff resulting from their so London. This complaint should not be con House acknowledgement of our national debt called reform proposals. Today, I would strued as a plea for ambassadorial positions to this extraordinary omcer. This all too like to comment on the select commit to be the exclusive preserve of the Foreign typical, graceless neglect says unpleasant things to foreigners about the American tee's treatment of our fisheries and wild Service. Left to 1ts own devices the career life jurisdictions which has been as service is entirely capable of naming incom government's values. petents who are the match of those from Vietnam, Cambodia and now Chile have faulty a.nd erroneous as their analysis private life. And the Foreign Service would provoked congressional huffing and puffing and decisions concerning the stripping be hard-pressed to equal men of the quality about Executive Branch license 1n foreign away of our other proper jurisdictions. of David Bruce or Edwin Relschauer. affairs. Yet in the area of presidential ap- Mr. Speaker, in deciding how to carve September 30, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33091 up the responsibilities of the Committee are inextricably bound up with the needs I have known Mr. Rumsfeld since he on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, the of other kinds and classes of wildlife. first came to Congress in 1963, and have Select Committee on Committees has It is for this precise reason that the great respect for his capabilities. The fol never been comfortable in dealing with development of fish and wildlife legis lowing editorial from the Buffalo Evening fisheries and wildlife issues. As it sur lation has taken place at the same time News of September 26, 1974, sums up my faced on December 7 of last year, its and in the same manner. The Fish and feelings: original proposal was to assign all fish Wildlife Act of 1956, and the Fish and RUMSFELD A FINE CHOICE eries and wildlife matters to the Com Wildlife Coordination Act took account In Donald Rumsfeld, young ( 42) , energetic mittee on Agriculture. This proved to be of this fact of life, and dealt with these and experienced, President Ford has chosen a matter of considerable controversy, animals as different parts of one natural an excellent successor-of-sorts to Alexander system. The recent Endangered Species Haig as White House chief of staff. A kind of and the select committee rapidly discov reform-minded conservative, Mr. RumsfQld ered that the conservation and environ Act of 1973, signed into law only last worked well with Mr. Ford when both were mental community was uniformly op December, handles the matters in the House members. He later headed the anti posed to the move. The grounds for op same way. poverty agency and the Cost-of-Living-Coun position to the proposal were that the In its report on the proposed resolu cil staff under President Nixon before getting Agriculture Committee had traditionally tion, the select committee continues to an overseas assignment after running into been production oriented, whereas the ignore this basic factor. On the one hand, problems with former Nixon aides H. R. wildlife needs were more conservation it assigns responsibilities for "fisheries Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. in general" to the Committee on Mer White House sources say President Ford oriented. will employ a less tightly organized, more The next proposal which received chant Marine and Fisheries-page 113- diffused, staff structure than his predecessor, tentative approval within the select but on the other it assigns "all conserva allowing broader access for more advisers. committee was to reassign the respon tion jurisdiction from the Merchant "All senior advisers are equal," a spokesman sibilities for wildlife and for sports fish Marine and Fisheries Committee" to the said. eries to the redesignated Committee on Committee on Energy and the Environ We hope so, and we hope that will include Energy and Environment. By this time, ment-page 108. Cabinet officers too. A President in reviewing the select committee had reluctantly This, it seems to me, poses the essen policy options needs exposure to a variety of proposals and arguments from numerous agreed that the Committee on Merchant tial quandary into which the select com thoughtful, independent people. As an ad Marine and Fisheries should be allowed mittee places the House: It will either ministrator, Mr. Rumsfeld will help manage to continue its existence, but shorn of require all conservation legislation which "the best use of the President's time." In certain key areas of concern. Accord impacts upon fish or fisheries-which is doing that, he can benefit the President and ingly, it was proposed to assign commer most conservation legislation-to be re the nation by keeping the routes of access cial fisheries to this committee. ferred to both committees, or it divorces to Mr. Ford consistently more open for Following this determination, anum all fisheries legislation which is conser Cabinet members and other advisers than ber of contacts were made at the staff vation legislation and sends that to the did either Messrs. Haig or Haldeman. level to allow the select committee to de Committee on Energy and the Environ termine just where and how one might ment. One alternative is impossibly cum legitimately distinguish commercial from bersome, and the other is impossibly ·di sports fisheries. visive, providing the illusion that the AMENDMENT TO HOUSE The point was made to the select com Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com RESOLUTION 1248 mittee staff that it would be difficult in mittee retains management control over deed to distinguish between the two: fisheries, when, in fact, it retains no such HON. BILL GUNTER That in fact the administration had thing. OF FLORIDA made the same effort in splitting the I would submit that there is no sound IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Bureau of Commercial Fisheries away reason why the House should be put to from the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and this kind of question. I am not aware that Monday, September 30, 1974 Wildlife at the time of its Reorganiza we have been criticized as unresponsive Mr. GUNTER. Mr. Speaker, in the tion Plan No.3 of 1970. Ever since that to proper conservation requirements at event the text of Heuse Resolution 1248 date, the different departments have been any time. On the contrary, our conserva is offered as a substitute to House Reso attempting to achieve a rational split of tion record has been successful and has lution 988, the following amendment is responsibilities and a coordination of ef been recognized as such. We are being intended to be offered by myself and Mr. fort, and to this date, they have not been asked to destroy an adequately working BROWN of Ohio: successful in their efforts, in spite of con arrangement for the handling of these AN AMENDMENT To BE OFFERED TO HOUSE siderable work by conscientious and matters, and the benefits of that destruc RESOLUTION 1248 BY MR. GUNTER, OF competent individuals on both sides. tion are invisible, because they are non FLORIDA, AND MR. BROWN, OF OHIO I·~ was pointed out to the staff of the existent. On page 20, strike out lines 9 through 25, select committee that a similar split on This is but one more example of the and on page 21, strike out lines 1 through 7, the congressional level, at a time when consequences of the ill-considered pro and insert in lieu thereof the following: the administration had proposed that posals of the Select Committee on Com "(g) (1) Each meeting of each standing, select, or special committee or subcommittee, the two areas be reintegrated in a De mittees. Other examples abound, but including meetings to conduct hearings shall partment of Energy and Natural Re they generally show the same pattern: be open to the public: Provided, That a por sources, would be a step backward. It The House is being asked to buy, at great tion or portions of such meetings may be was also pointed out that any such split cost, an ugly pig in a poke whose dimen closed to the public if the committee or sub would be arbitrary in nature, and would sions cannot be seen. It is for this reason committee, as the case may be, determines inevitably produce new and divisive con that I am compelled to oppose the pro by vote of a majority of the members of the flicts in the jurisdictional process-for posed resolution, House Resolution 988. committee or subcommittee present that the matters to be discussed or the testimony to no good reason other than the arbitrary be taken at such portion or portions- decision that the areas should be some CHOICE OF DONALD RUMSFELD "(A) will probably disclose matters neces how divided. AN EXCELLENT ONE sary to be kept secret in the interests of na Apparantly, the message got through, tional security or the confidential conduct in at least garbled fashion. The final pro of the foreign relations of the United States; "(B) will relate solely to matters of com posal of the select committee is to take HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI mittee staff personnel or internal staff man all fisheries matters and assign them to OF NEW YORK agement or procedure; the Committee on Merchant Marine and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "(C) wlll tend to jeopardize the present or Fisheries, and to a~sign all other wildlife future legal rights of any person or will rep matters to the proposed Committee on Monday, September 30, 1974 ref:ent a clearly unwarranted invasion of the Energy and the Environment. 1\r:Ir. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, many of us privacy of any individual." "(D) will probably disclose the Identity of Once again, the select committee has were very pleased 1~.st week when Presi any informer or law enforcement agent or ignored reality in the interests of per dent Ford announced the appointment any information relating to the investigation ceived expediency. It is a biological fact of Donald Rumsfeld as assistant to the or prosecution of a. criminal offense that is that fish are only one kind of wildlife, and President to coordinate White House required to be kept secret in the interests of that their needs and their management activities. effective law enforcement; or CXX--2086-Part 25 33092 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS September 80, 1974 "(E) will disclose information relating to raised before the entire House within five about the long-term effects of such technol trade secrets or financial or commercial in· legislative days after the vote against which ogy transfer on our own security and econ -formation pertaining specifically to a given the point of order is raised, and such point omy. person where- of order shall be a matter of highest privilege. Question No. 1: Is the flow of technology "(i) the information has been obtained by Each such point of order shall immediately be a one-way street? the federal government pursuant to an referred to a Select Committee on Meetings So far, the answer seems to be yes. Last agreement to maintain confidentiality of consisting of the Speaker of the House of year when the Soviets were hungry and had such information." Representatives, the majority leader, and the a crop failure, we sent them wheat. This year, "(ii) a Federal statute requires the in minority leader. The select committee shall when we faced an energy crunch, they helped formation to be kept confidential by Gov report to the House within five calendar shut off our oil. ernment officers and employees; or days (excluding days when the House is not Russia needs help in advanced computer "(iii) the information is required to be in session) a resolution containing its find technology. Today Russia has operating at a kept secret in order to prevent undue in ings. If the House adopts a resolution find nuclear research facility in Dubna, near jury to the competitive position of such ing that the committee vote in question was Moscow, a. second-generation Control Data ·person. not in accordance with the relevant provi Corporation 1604 system, installed in 1963, A separate vote of the committee shall be sion of subparagraph (1), it shall direct that and has acquired a third-generation CDC taken with respect to each committee or there be made publicly available the entire 6200 series at the same facility. subcommittee meeting that is closed to the transcript of the meeting improperly closed What has Russia gained? Fifteen ·years, public pursuant to this paragraph, and the to the public or the portion or portions of according to a CDC executive who helped committee shall make available within one any meeting transcript improperly deleted negotiate the sales. For that is how far Rus day of such meeting, a written explanation from the publicly available copy. sia has been behind us in this field. of its action. The vote of ·each committee " ( 6) The Select Commlttee on Meetings A recent press release from Tass ended member participating in each such vote shall shall not be subject to the provisions of sub wit h the words that "Talks are underway on be recorded and published. paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) ." the sale of a high-speed cyber electronic "(2) Each standing, select, or special com computer. A sensitive topic, cyber is a very mittee or subcommittee shall make public high-speed, large-volume, third-generation announcement of the date, place, and subject UNITED STATES-SOVIET TRADE scientific computer." matter of each meeting (whether open or SHOULD BE RECONSIDERED The computer processes a phenomenal 94 closed to the public) at least one week be million bits of information per second. Only fore such meeting unless the committee or eight to 10 such installations exist. The subcommittee determines by a vote of a HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK Atomic Energy Commission and the National majority of the committee that committee's OF OHIO Security Agency use it. The question is sim business requires that such meeting be called ple: How long do we have to wait for traffic at an earlier date. in which case the com IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to flow both ways? And who benefits in the mittee shall make public announcement of Monday, Septembe1· 30, 1974 meantime? the date, place and subject matter of such Question No. 2: Does Russia have tech meeting at the earliest practicable oppor Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, there nology that we need and will we get it? tunity. has been much euphoria about increas Hearings held before the Armed Services "(3) A complete transcript, including a list ing trade with the Soviet Union. Liberal Committee determined: "Important U.S. of all persons attending and their affiliation spokesmen have raised the hope of leads are in computer technology, integrated shall be made of each meeting of each stand changing the Soviet Union by making circuits, telecommunications, ships and ing, select, or special committee or subcom that countt·y dependent on us for tech submarine quieting techniques, and some mittee meeting (whether open or closed to kinds of very strong fiber reinforced mate the public) in addition to the record re nology and manufactured goods. This rial. Important Soviet leads are in chemical quired by paragraph (e) ( 1) . Except as pro theory holds that trade will mellow the warfare defense technology, high-perform vided in paragraph (D), a copy of each such Soviet Union. The only problem with it ance integral rockets and ramjets, capability transcript shall be made available for public is that it is historically false. In the of land vehicles to cope with Arctic condi inspection within seven days of each such 1930's we traded with Japan. We re tions and difficult terrain, and aircraft main meeting, and additional copies of any tran ceived back some of our scrap iron and tainability." script shall be furnished to any person at the technology at Pearl Harbor and through Of the five areas where U.S. technology actual cost of duplication. leads, three are somewhat oriented to the " ( 4) In the case of meetings closed to the out the Pacific. Unfortunately, trade does private sector, thus available for export- public pursuant to subparagraph (1), the not lead to peace. and they are being exported: computer committee or subcommittee may delete from The Soviets want and need our ad technology, integrated circuits and telecom the copies of transcripts that are required vanced technology. They are busy trying munications. But all four areas where there to be made available or furnished to the pub to surpass us in every area. Their navY is are important "Soviet leads" represent clear lic pursuant to subparagraph (3) any por now superior to our own. In other areas cut military technology, the kind we tions which it determines by vote of the ma of weaponry they are going full speed wouldn't export, and which the Soviet Union jority of the committee or subcommittee con ahead. isn't about to. So while there is Russian tech sist of material specified in subdivision (A), nology we need, the odds are four to zero we (B), (C), (D) or (E) ofsubparagraph (1). Astronaut John L. Swigert, Jr., has won't get it. A separate vote of the committee or sub raised some serious questions about trade According to Dr. John S. Foster, former committee shall be taken with respect to with the Soviets. He asks, "Will our pres director of Research and Engineering of the each transcript. The vote of each commit ent course come back to haunt us 15 years Department of Defense, "Soviet scientists tee or subcommittee m·ember participating from now? Will the one-way transfer of are quite capable of matching their U.S. in each such vote shall be recorded and pub technology deprive American workers of counterparts in generating and incorporat lished. In place of each portion deleted from -jobs because of international Soviet ing militarily significant technological in copies of the transcript made available to competition?" novations in weapons systems." And there iS the public, the committee shall supply a ample evidence of this. written explanation of why such portion was At this point I include in the RECORD The Soviet tanks used in the Korean con deleted and a summary of the substance of the article "The High Risks of Selling filet, later in Indochina and more recently the deleted portion that does not itself dis U.S. Technology to U.S.S.R." by Astro in the Middle East conflict have a Christie close information specified in subdivision naut John L. Swigert, Jr., in the Sep type suspension system. The Soviets bought (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of subparagraph tember 7, 1974, issue of Human Events: it from the U.S. Wheel Track Layer Corp. ( 1) . The committee or subcommittee shall THE HIGH RISKS OF SELLING U.S. TECHNOLOGY Christie was an American inventor. maintain a complete copy of the transcript TO U.S.S.R. In 1972 the Soviet Union was finally able of each meeting (including those portions de (By Astronaut John L. Swigert, Jr.) to purchase 146 highly sophisticated ma leted from copies made available to the pub chines from the Bryant Grinding Co. for the lic) for _a period of at least one year after Detente is a synonym for a new era of in manufacture of precision miniature ball creased communication with the Soviet such meetings. bearings, precision to 64 millionths of an "(5) A point of order may be raised against Union and the Chinese. The door is opening to a new era of trade with the Soviet Union. inch, all imperative to the guidance mecha any committee or subcommittee vote to close nism used for MIRVs. In the U.S. we have a meeting to the public pursuant to sub Soviet negotiators are actively seeking Amer paragraph (1), or against any committee or ican goods. But there has been little hint in only 70 such machines operational, today. subcommittee vote to delete from the pub the American press of some of the extensive This and the transfer of American and licly available copy a portion of a meeting preconditions with which Soviet negotiators British computer technology, according to transcript pursuant to subparagraph (4), have qualified their prospective purchases. government sources, advanced the Soviet by committee or subcommittee members Before we continue euphorically into MIRV's operational readiness by two to four comprising one-fourth or more of the total wholesale auction of advanced technology, years. It goes without saying that this tech :rp.embershtp of the entire committee or sub the American people, detente notwithstand nology transfer has grave implications on the committee. Any such point of order must be ing, are entitled to answers to questions security of the U.S. [For more on this sub- Septernber 3'0, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33093 ject, see HUMAN EVENTS, July 20, 1974, Dlinois SENATE-Tuesday, October 1, 1974 The Senate met at 9 a.m., and was E. HuGHES, a Senator from the State of TRANSFER OF CERTAIN ARCHIVES called to order by Hon. HAROLD E. Iowa, to perform the duties of the Chair AND RECORDS TO THE STATE OF HuGHES, a Senator from the State of during my absence. ALASKA Iowa. JAMES 0. EASTLAND, President pro tempore. The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 234) transferring to the State of Alaska cer PRAYER Mr. HUGHES thereupon took the chair as Acting President pro tempore. tain archives and records in the cus The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward tody of the National Archives of the L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following United States, was considered, ordered prayer: to be engrossed for a third reading, read THE JOURNAL Almighty God, unto whom all hearts the third time, and passed. are open and all desires known, our need Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask The preamble was agreed to. is our prayer. Our weakness seeks Thy unanimous consent that the reading of The joint resolution, with its pre strength. Our humanity longs for divin the Journal of the proceedings of Mon amble, is as follows: ity. Thou has put within us a hunger day, September 30, 1974, be dispensed Whereas the archives and records of the for righteousness and truth. Assure us of with. Office of the Territorial Governors of Alaska, Thy presence while we pray and as we 1884-1958, were transferred to the Federal The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem Archives and Records Center, Seattle, Wash work. Take this day unto Thy keeping. pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Overrule our mistakes. Control our ington, in 1958 as part of a records manage ment improvement program and because of thoughts and feelings. Direct our ener a lack of proper archival facilities in Alaska; gies. Instruct our minds. Conform our and wills to Thy will. Make this a day of COMMITTEE MEETINGS DURING Whereas it was agreed by officials of the service to Thee, a day of joy and peace, SENATE SESSION General Services Administration and the a day when the kingdoms of this world State of Alaska at that time that legisla become more nearly Thy kingdom. Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask tion would be requested to return these Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. unanimous consent that all committees archives and records to the custody of the may be authorized to meet during the State of Alaska at such time as a State session of the Senate today. archival agency should be prepared to re APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESI The ACTING PRESIDENT protem ceive them; and DENT PRO TEMPORE Whereas the State of Alaska will complete pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. construction of a State archival facility in The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the near future; and clerk will please read a communication Whereas Federal records created by ter to the Senate from the President pro ritorial governments pertaining to territorial tempore (Mr. EASTLAND). CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN MATTERS ON THE CALENDAR activities have traditionally been transferred The second assistant legislative clerk to the successor State government when a read the following letter: Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask State enters the Union: Now, therefore, be it U.S. SENATE, unanimous consent that the Senate pro Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, ceed to the consideration of Calendars resentatives of the United States of America Washington, D.C., October 1,1974. Nos. 1124, 1128, and 1130. in Congress assembled, That the official ar To the Senate: chives and records of the Territorlaa Gov Being temporarily absent from the Sen The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem ernors of Alaska, 1884-1958, now deposited ate on official duties, I appoint Hon. HARoLD pore. Without objection, it is so ordered with the National Archives of the United
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