HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, February 4, 1969 the House Met at 12 O'clock Noon

February 4, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 2491 undaunted search for the truth, has Francisco. This year there will be an increase in which every American can take pride. in out-of-town originations, such as New Through his Saturday evening talk ses given television an imposing dimension York and Washington, and, 1n April, Kupcinet sions, Kup has given television a whole of service to the Nation. will emanate a show-business discussion new dimension of meaning. Kup is no ordinary reporter. His 11 from Hollywood during the Oscar Awards Because of his own personal sense of years on television and his many years hoopla. fair play, he has been able to bring into as a columnist for the Chicago Sun The wonder of it all is that Kupc1net can the living rooms of millions of American Times raise him to enviable heights in squeeze so many activities within his al American journalism. lotted working time which takes in most of families discussions and conversations the day and a good part of the night. Besides with people from all over the world It ls a privilege to join today in the his widely-quoted six-a-week column in The whom Americans otherwise would never tribute to Irv Kupcinet, and his wife Sun-Times and his Kup's Show on television, have an opportunity to meet or hear. Essee, on their 11th anniversary as mod he ls also Jack Brickhouse's WGN-Radio The fact that this program bas sur erators of Kup's Show. partner during the Chicago Bears broadcasts vived 11 years in the highly competi Mr. Paul Molloy's article follows: and does numerous radio and television ap tive marketplace of American television HARDIEST TALK SHOW pearances here and in many other cities. ms other public appearances are simply is perhaps the highest singular tribute (By Paul Molloy) too numerous to mention. They include that anyone can pay to Kup and all those The cover picture of Sun-Times columnist benefits and charity !unctions for individuals who assist him in putting his program Irv Kupc!net in this issue of TV Prevue shows as well as civic, business, church and school together every week. him 1n possession of a very ordinary-looking groups and being master of ceremonies or Kup's "secret weapon" is his lovely left ear. This is extraordinary because the guest speaker at countless public affairs. wife, Essee, who does a great deal of the appendage should bear some resemblance to Often, when he shows up late at aJuncheon, research for his programs and who in a cauliflower. it is because he 1s on his third or fourth in her own right stands today as one of That It appears normal is remarkable !or and-out stop-in since noon. Kupclnet, as part of the hazards of being a Kupcinet ls both too busy and modest to the most highly respected ladles of tele newspaper-television-radio celebrity, receives talk about his activities. But Paul Frumkin, vision in America. or makes at least 100 telephone calls each who has been his TV producer since the video Working together, the Kupclnets have day. program started in 1958, puts it this way : made a tremendous impact on our Na "There are many days,'' says his secretary, "Despite all of the things that Kup does, tion. It would be difficult to fully measure Raeona Jordan, "when the calls go as high he has always considered himself (and stlll the enormous contribution Kup has as 135." does) a newspaperman who happens to do made for American televiewers to ob This week, Kupcinet's videoaudience-grab television and radio and other chores. serve first hand the lively of dis ber, Kup's Show, now on Ch. 5, goes into its "A couple of days before the taping of his art 11th year-the longest-running conversation show he does his homework, preparing for the cussion on major issues and problems program ol'.l. American television. For most program, reading up on his guests and their confronting our Nation and the world. of its video run Kup's Show was seen, on accomplishments. He gets to the studio a Kup's own uncanny ab1llty to lead a other stations, at the post-midnight hour on couple of hours before taping begins, still discussion into never-ending facets of Saturdays and, !or various reasons, a good making notes. When taping Is to begin and he excitement has helped build and keep many viewers found it difficult or impossible walks to the set he looks completely relaxed. an audience for more than a decade. to sit through 3 a.m. (or sometimes later) to But he does admit having butterflies in the The National Broadcasting Co. and hear all of his guests. stomach. After all, even Bob Hope, who Is Television Station WMAQ in Chicago Kup's show started as At Random on Ch. 2 supposed to be the most relaxed person on during the first week of February In 1958. television, concedes to a certain nervousness perform an outstanding service to the Four years later It moved to Ch. 7 and, la.st before the show begins. American community by carrying Kup's November, found a more comfortable berth "With him, it's a matter of a good constitu show. at Ch. 5, the NBC outlet. It now airs after tion, an excellent memory, lots of preparation The distinguished television critic Paul Ch. 5's 10 p.m. newscast, a welcome change and very little sleep." Molloy paid a well deserved tribute to Irv of niche for viewers who must be out-of-bed Quite often readers will ask me, or ask Kupcinet in last Sunday's edition of the and-about on Sunday mornings. "Mr. Chicago" himself, the recipe for break Chicago Sun-Times. One of the things that are little known ing into television and making a go of it. about Kupclnet ls that his Wife, Essee, spends I can think of no better response than to I consider it a privilege to reprint Mr. a great deal o! time doing research for him. repeat Frumkin's words: " ... a good con Molloy's article in the RECORD today. Kupc!net's format, whose guests have stitution, an excellent memory, lots of prep- Irv Kupcinet belongs among those ranged from heads of state to hopeful Holly meaningful Americans who through wood starlets, ls now syndicated in Rockford, arai!~n,:edk;;r~i:: :;~el?i::,ts of prepara- hard work, zeal, dedication, and an Milwaukee, Cleveland, Philadelphia and San tion."

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, February 4, 1969 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. THE JOURNAL the National Commission on Consumer The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, The Journal of the proceedings of yes- Finance the following Members on the D .D ., offered the following prayer: terday was read and approved. part of the House: Mr. PATMAN, Mrs. This I command you, that you love one SULLIVAN, and Mr. HALPERN. another.-John 15: 17. Dear Lord and Father of mankind, our APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF THE APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF spirit's unseen friend, we pray for every AMERICAN REVOLUTION BICEN- THE NATIONAL FOREST RESER- effort which is being made for peace and TENNIAL COMMISSION VATION COMMISSION justice, for brotherhood and good will in The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro our Nation, and throughout the world. visions of section 2(b), Public Law 89- The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro Breathe Thy spirit into every human 491, as amended, the Chair appoints as visions of title 16, United States Code, heart that men may brothers be, and members of the American Revolution Bi section 513, the Chair appoints as mem learn to live together in love, with under centennial Commission the following bers of the National Forest Reservation standing, and for the benefit of all Thy Members on the part of the House: Mr. Commission the following Members on the part of the House: Mr. COLMER ana creatures. DoNOHUE, Mr. MARSH, Mr. SAYLOR, and Bless Thou our President, our Speaker, Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. SAYLOR. the Members of this House of Represent atives, and all who labor under the glow ing dome of this glorious Capitol. Pre APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF serve their health, give them wisdom, THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CONSUMER FINANCE INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELA broaden their vision, and guide their as TIONS pirations that together we may seek the The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro good of all mankind. visions of section 402 , Public Law 90- The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the provl- In the Master's name we pray. Amen. 321, the Chair appoints as members of slons of section 3 , Public Law 86-380, 2492 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE February 4, 1969 the Chair appoints as members of the had been drawn up equating commercial Mr. Speaker, at this point I would like Advisory Commission on Intergovern interests with other factors such as con to insert into the RECORD two articles mental Relations the following Mem servation, recreation, and esthetic values. from the February 4, 1969, Washington bers on the part of the House: Mr. But, not surprisingly, oil interests over Post and one article from the February 2, FOUNTAIN, Mr. ULLMAN, and Mrs. DWYER. whelmed other views. The Johnson 1969, New York Times, and one from the administration disapproved of the marine January 31, 1969, Los Angeles Times: sanctuary bills. Let me quote a portion of [From the New York Times, Feb. 2, 1969) APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF the testimony from the Interior Depart THE JAMES MADISON MEMORIAL SLICK OJ'F CALIFORNIA COAST REVIVES OIL COMMISSION ment given in hearings on the bills last DEAL DISPUTES year: (By Gladwin Hill) The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the provi We believe that this prohlbltlon Is undesir SANTA BARBARA, CALIF., February 1.--Just a sions of section 1, Public Law 86-417, able because it would restrict the recovery o! year ago, in one o! the biggest Federal the Chair appoints as members of the valuable and needed minerals and would also oil transactions on record, the Department James Madison Memorial Commission curb a substantial Income to the Federal of the Interior auctioned oil-drilling rights the following Members on the part of Treasury from bonus bids and royalty pay on nearly 1,000 square miles of ocean floor the House: Mr. SLACK, Mr. CELLER, Mr. ments. It Is unnecessary, because t.o coordi off Santa Barbara to a dozen of the country's nate the utilization of the mineral resources major oil companies !or $603-mllllon. THOMPSON of Georgia, and Mr. WAMPLER. along with the aquatic resources of the Shel!, At the time, many Santa Barbara residents the Department has recently developed more and conservationists expressed great con adequate administrative procedures for the cern that the Continental shelf explolta APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF THE management of the Outer Continental Shel!, tlon--0f little local economic value--would NATIONAL MEMORIAL STADIUM particularly with respect t.o the aquatic re besmirch the renowned beauty of the af COMMISSION sources of the Shel!. fluent beach community, with its stucco Actions are ta.Jten to coordinate exploration and red-tiled modem-Spanish architecture The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro activities by industry in order to minimize and the palm trees gleaming in smog-free visions of section 1, Public Law 523, 78th effects on fish and fishing activities. In many sunshine. Congress, the Chair appoints as members areas this Is done through cooperation with Today their fears seem to be coming true. of the National Memorial Stadium Com State agencies; in others by Interior Bureaus There was talk, among the staid clttzens, of mission the following Members on the and the industry. The technology used !or staging a protest demonstration 1n which part of the House: Mr. TEAGUE of Texas, seismic measurements In the exploration for oU company credit cards would be burned Mr. LoNG of Maryland, and Mr. MlzELL. oil ls advancing rapidly so there ls now very in a city park. little use of explosives which have been Offshore, a. runaway drllllng of the Union harmful to fish in the past. Explorations can 011 Company has been seeping for five days also be controlled and timed to avoid con thousands o! gallons of crude oil, forming APPOINTMENTASMEMBERSOFTHE centrat ions of fish and other aquatic life. a slick that spread over about 40 per cent NATIONAL VISITOR FACILITIES The Department wlll take every step possi o! a 200-square-mile ocean area and was ADVISORY COMMISSION ble to regulate operations and placement of dispersing occasional black, viscous stream oil drllllng platforms to avoid pollution and ers lnt.o the green surf pounding on some The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro interference with navigation. When test holes visions of section 202 (a), Public Law 90- nearby beaches. The big questions are whether the exist 264, the Chair appoints as members of :e:!~~i::/~:e~!to:c::;y~e ;:!1~: ing slick can be largely neutrallzed and dis the National Visitor Facilities Advisory are burled to avoid interference with other persed and whether the ocean-floor hole Commission the following Members on sea bottom activities. from which the oil Is coming can be effec the part of the House: Mr. GRAY, Mr. We believe It ls possible to manage the tively plugged. JONES of Alabama, Mr. FALLON, Mr. resource development o! the Continental Beyond that loomed the larger questions CRAMER, Mr. McEwEN, and Mr. Shel! so that the many values such as living o! governmental policies regarding oil ex SCHWENGEL. and mineral resources and esthetlc consid ploitation; chiefly the question, as one vexed erations can be utillzed and protected. This conservationist put it, o! "how far do we will achieve multiple use !or the greatest na go In sacrificing the pleasantness of every tional advantage and there Is no need !or one's surroundings for short-term economic OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION TRAG special Interests to be harmed. EDY MUST NOT REOCCUR gains for a relative few?" That very careful language is both The emergency presented the first full• (Mr. BROWN of California ask~d and vague and misleading. Although the In fledged test of the Federal "contingency plan" was given permission to extend his re terior Department said it would "take for tnteragency coordination in such pollu marks at this point in the RECORD and to tion situations. The plan was drawn up at every step possible to regulate operations President Johnson's instance last Beptem include extraneous matter.> and placement of oil drilling platforms ber, as bllls to minlmlze martne oil spllls Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. to avoid pollution," judging by last were bogging down In Congress. Speaker, a tragic episode resulting from week's eruption, that statement is just a The plan calls for the Coast Guard to take thoughtless resource planning now is sham. Neither the industry nor the Gov immediate operational charge o! such emer taking place offshore from Santa Bar ernment has developed proper guidelines gencies. Secretary of the Interior Walter J. bara, Calif. Frantic efforts by Fed for offshore drilling. Hickel dispatched the Water Pollution Con eral and State Government officials along Nor are there viable plans for combat trol Administration's director o! technical with oil industry representatives con support, Kenneth Blglane, to the scene to ing leakages. Union Oil has been unable oversee remedial and clean-up measures and, tinue to attempt plugging a week-old un to control the eruption and the resulting if ultimately necessary, enforcement proce dersea oilwell leak which has spread oil slick. The company admits it knew it dures. up to 100,000 gallons of crude oil into a was drilling in an area where fissure On Union Oil's "Platform A," a 150-!oot 200-mile-square ocean area. Thousands faults abound, but it took no fail-safe hlgh steel structure 130 feet by 115 feet, of birds and marine animals have been procedures to prevent what has hap anchored six miles off shore, 30 men have affected, and it is probably too early yet pened. The Federal Government has been tolllng around the clock t.o plug the to estimate the total damage done to committed itself to an interagency task leak, pumping down various types o! "mud," beaches by the oil flow which washed force approach, but coordination appears a gooey drtlllng compound, into a shaft that ashore. runs 3,486 feet deep. weak, and some of the methods tried What had happened was that last Tuesday The tragedy of Santa Barbara comes have serious repercussions on all marine morning, a drlll had cut a hole Into a hlgh not only from the immediate effects, but life in the affected area. pressure deposit o! oil and gas. Withdrawing from the fact that prudent Executive Even though Secretary Hickel yester the drill t o renew the wom bit was like pull and congressional action could have day put into effect a voluntary temporary ing a cork out of a bottle. been taken last year which would have restriction on drilling operations, that The underground pressure forced the oU prevented the situation altogether. move ls no more than just that-tem and gas sideways, below the 500-!oot-deep Had Congress approved bills that I porary and voluntary. stronger action ls drilling pipe, into natural fissures. 011 and gaa a.long with many other Members-intro imperative. I suggest that the 1-year burbled up through the ocean at five "boll" duced dealing with establishing a series moratorium, as proposed in the marine points. of marine sanctuaries, not only along the LEAKAGE DIMINISHING sanctuary bills that were vetoed by the Four 01' these were stopped by tapping lnt.o Santa Barbara channel but along our en Interior Department last year. be insti their area o! origin and relieving pressure tire national coastline, the oil industry tuted immediately and continued until with a previously constructed horizontal would have been halted in exploiting off rigid Federal, State, and industry stand pipeline leading ashore to the oil company's shore oil reservoirs until master plans ards can be drawn up. "separation facillty" at nearby Ventura February 4, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 2493 where oll and gas go into different distribu ment on oil extracted. Altogether 110 leases Gulf ls one of Union's partners in the eight-square-mile leasehold where the "blow tion lines. on 540,600 acres were let last Feb. 6. A widely publicized 21,000-gallon-a-day out" occurred. [From the Washington Post, Feb. 3, 1969) Phllllps ls the only company with an oil leakage figure has been entirely speculative, rig on Federal waters otr Santa Barbara based on the yield of an average well ln the lixcKEL VIEWS °LEAK----On. DRILLING HALTED whose wells are in production. These are not area. (By George Lardner, Jr.) The outlook regarding the remaining covere!i by the moratorium. SANTA BARBARA, CALIF., February 3.-Evl Although Hickel had said at noon that he "boll," right under the platform, was uncer dently surprised by the sprawling oil slick he tain today, but all involved drew encourage would ask the companies operating here to had Just seen, Interior Secretary Walter J. '"cease operations,'' he told newsmen be ment from the fact that the fl.ow seemed to Hickel today brough,t a temporary halt to wanted to talk to the oil men first before be diminishing rather than increasing. drilling in Federal waters off the Santa Bar deciding about producing wells. Most are In addition to a contract drilling team of bara County coastline. 24 men on the platform, there were six men within the three-mile limlt, under Califor "The pollution ls much more severe than I nia's Jurisdiction. from Red Adair, Inc., of Houston, Tex., a con anticipated," Hickel said moments after step "There's nothing that can go wrong with cern that specl.allzes in coping with oil well ping off a Coast Guard amphibian. a producing well,'' a Federal oil and gas offi· emergencies. The plane had Just fl.own him over the cial said later, "unless a boat hits it.'' Meanwhile two Coast Guard cutters, the Union OU Co.'s leaking oil well in the Santa The Secretary's press relations on the whirl 95-foot Cape Hatteras and the 82-foot Point Barbara Channel. wind trip, apparently commissioned by the Evans, were circling the 10-mlle-long slick, It has already tossed close to 150,000 gal White House, were nothing short of breath• extending from Santa Barbara to the Ventura lons of oil into the ocean waters here since taking. area, spraying the edgee with "dispersant," a last week when it spurted out of control. He arrived Sunday night saying that he chemical emulsifier that tends to turn the oll Hlekel quickly met with executives of six had no plans to halt any drllllng. Then he into soap. oil companies and a spokesman for Califor implied that he might halt everything untll BAJI.JUEBS AT HAllBOllS nia Gov. Ronald Reagan at the Santa Barbara stricter controls were adopted. Then he Miles of "booms"--<:hain-llke floating bar Biltmore. The hotel, as the San Francisco halted the drllling, but not so firmly in the riers of logs, foam plastic or inflated bags- Chronicle observed this morning, affords "a afternoon as he had indicated in the morn had been stretched a.cross all threatened har fine view of the catastrophe." ing. bors and marinas. Announcement of the drilling halt came Conservationists here had been hoping to Crop-dusting planes engaged by the oll after that, in a release banded out while the "get oil out" of the Channel altogether, company were dousing the slick with dis· Secretary and two aidea boarded an Air charging, among other things, that the area's persant and with talc in an effort to coagulate Force Jet to return to Washington. They had unpredictable geology and earth faults make the oll so that it could be scooped up if it no comment on the announcement, and no it unfit for oil production. drifted ashore. one from the meeting was left behind to In Washington, Rep. John V. Tunney (D This morning Federal officials ordered the explain it. Callf.) called for appointment of a Federal chemical applications confined to the im The one-page release appeared to fall con "board of inquiry" to look into the oil leak. mediate area of the tower, lest the large siderably short of what the new chief at In He said it would appear "the conserva amount of floating compounds create as terior indicated he had in mind after his tionists were correct" in protesting about much of a problem as the oil. aerial inspection. geological faults since before the Federal The restriction came shortly after two lo In the announcement Hickel said that all leases were granted. cal conservation leaders sent telegrams to actual drilling in Federal waters off the coast PULLING PIPE Interior Secretary Hickel saying that the at line here was being "temporarily placed in tempted chemical remedies threatened to a standby condition." The oil companies The oil leak far below the Union Oil plat compound the problem from the standpoint agreed to it voluntarily, he said. form began when its crews were pulllng up of wildll!e. "Our first concern at this time must be to pipe from the 3500-foot well-shaft to get at The two were Frederick Elssler, a national take all possible steps to avoid a repetition of a clogged drilling bit at the bottom. director of the Sierra Club; and Mrs. E. A. the incident I have just seen,'' the Secre Une_xpectedly, oil started to gush up Parkinson, local chapter president of the tary said. He said the temporary drllling halt through the pipe. "We weren't ready for 1t." National Audubon Society. "will afford a breathing spell until it can be said Union spokesman Jerry L. Lubovlsk1. "We weren't quite at what we expected to be Union 011 took several new corrective steps determined whether corrective measures are the producing depth, so we capped it. Blow today. A dr1111ng barge arrived from Los An· necessary." geles to start boring a "relief hole" Monday Hickel had said earlier, before meeting out preventers went on automatically to keep with the oil men, that he felt "stricter regu it from gushing up." obliquely to a point near the bottom of the The oil, however, apparently found a fl..s· shaft, as a new channel for "mud" to plug lations" were plainly needed for offshore oil sure or "fault" beneath the ocean bottom the eruption at its source. operations under Federal leases. for an outlet. With the six-inch pipe capped, A work boat was equipped with a pump UNITED STATES SHAIIES BLAME the oil apparently raced up the earthen sides to begin sucking up the oil, and preparations "It's as much the fault of the Federal Gov of the larger 12-inch well-shaft. There, were made to deploy barge-borne trucks with ernment as anything else,'' he had said of the Union officials theorized, it found the fls· similar "vacuum cleaning" equipment. In ad oil leakage here. The Government's regula sure and burst along that toward the ocean dition a 1,000-foot "boom" was floated out to tions, he said, haven't been overhauled in 15 floor. On the way, the company suspects, surround the tower and confine the emerging years. the gushing oil and gas sped into another oil. In a noontime press conference after the oil pool, added that to its fl.ow, and roared Spokesmen for the state Fish and Game fllght over the oil slick, Hickel also gave the up through the same or other fissures into Commission Administration reported that in· impression that the moratorium he wanted the ocean. Jury to birds and fl.sh had been m1n1mal so should last until more stringent rules could Oil company troubleshooters are now try far, and that at the moment no extensive be adopted. ing to send heavy mud down the six-inch damage was foreseen. The official announcement, however, said pipe, then blast an outlet for it at the bot Conservationists said, however, that the ac each drilling operation would be given tom so the mud will go up the shaft until ti cumulation of oil and other chemicals, even "prompt clearance to resume" if it passed finds and plugs the fissure. if dispersed or sunk, could work severe long individual Federal reviews that have already A metal valve about 700 feet down the term injury to the ecology of the area. been started. Any that fail to pass muster pipe, however, has been holding them up. Some oil has been observed along ab-Out would wait "until collective measures can be As the result, the company has also started 10 miles of beaches--where land ls worth put into effect,'' it said. drlll1ng an emergency shaft, on a slant aimed up to $2,000 a front foot-but no severe Nothing was said of tougher rules that at the old shaft. pollution has been reported yet. would apply to off-shore oil drilling around If it simply comes close, oil men say, mud Smatterings of oil on beaches in the vi the Nation. forced down the emergency shaft will then cinity have occurred for centuries, because Union Oil has already suspended its oper make its way over to the old shaft and flow of natural fissures over vast oil deposits. ations here under a $61.4-milllon Federal up to plug the fissure. There has been extensive offshore oil drill lease, but three other big oil companies have ing in California for at least 75 years, with been keeping "wildcat" barges at work drill· [From the Washington Post] thousands of wells all the way from Santa ing in the huge ocean channel. OIL !NDUSTIIY TO GIVE ITS ENDORSEMENT TO Barbara, 125 miles south to Huntington Federal officials said Humble OU has had LEGISLATION ON 0FFsHOBB POLLUTION Beach below Los Angeles. two barges hunting for petroleum ab-Out 30 (By Spencer Rich) The troublesome well was the fourth miles west of Santa Barbara. Texaco has an The American Petroleum Institute will en drllled from Union's Platform A which had a other some nine miles from Union's oil rigs, dorse legislation to clean up oil pollution projected capacity of 56 wells. and Mobil Oil has one drilling a well 30 from offshore drllllng rigs. Platform A ls the first of four projected miles from here. The API's testimony before a Senate sub· platforms in a 8.2-square-mlle lease desig committee Wednesday is scheduled to follow nated "Block 402," toward which Union paid SIX J'IRM:S IIEPIIESENTED Officials of these three companies together an appearance by George Clyde, a 1mpervlsor $61-milllon in a combination with the Gulf, of California's Santa Barbara County, whose Mobile and Texaco Companies. with executives from Union, Gulf Oil and Phillips Petroleum, met with Hickel at the shorelines are threatened by oil escaping This was a "bonus" payment on top of the from an offshore oil drllling operation. usual 12.5 percent royalty to the Govern- Biltmore. 2494 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE February 4, 1969 The details of the API's position are not porting birds struggling on the beaches with great controversy over the need for such known, but a rellable source said the orga· their feathers fouled by the oll. nlzatlon, which speaks for the Nation's oll drilling operations. In December 1967, Clilford Matthews, patrol captain tor the to industry, Will endorse the cleanup require Ventura-Santa Barbara area of the State Di· prior the action of the Santa Barbara ments "in principle" for the first time. vision of Fish and Ga.me, said most of the oil rights, the County Democratic Cen The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Ed· reports of stricken birds involved either sea tral Committee passed this resolution: mund s. Muskie (D.-Maine), opened hear gulls or grebes. Whereas the Santa. Barbara County shore· ings yesterday on an omnibus water pollu· Matthews explained that the birds pick at line and channel are possessed of unique tion control blll sponsored by Muskie, rank their feathers, thereby ingesting the oil. This natural beauty, recognized by residents and ing RepubUca.n J . Caleb Boggs (R.·Del.), ls often fatal to them, he said. visitors from the world over, and several other Republlcans and a large num Lt. Tom Omri of the Coast Guard said Whereas the Democratic administration ber of Democrats. that as of Thursday night the sllck was in has proclaimed Its support of conservation The Interior Department last week asked the shape of a reverse "J"-about 4 miles and beautification, and for a postponement of its testimony until wide at the hook and 10 miles long. The Whereas the legislature of the State of the end of the month to give It time to work northernmost point of the slick was off Car California, recognizing that this scenic out its position, and late yesterday the pinteria and the southernmost near Pitas beauty Is of greater importance than oil, in Atomic Energy Commission and the Coast Joint, which is about 6 miles northwest of 1958 established a sanctuary from Summer· Guard also asked to delay their appearances. Ventura. land to Isla Vista, and They had been scheduled to appear Thurs The Coast Guard warned that oil might Whereas the prospect of Federal leases in day. wash ashore at Carpinteria and in the strip offshore submerged lands poses a serious Yesterday's testimony centered on "ther from Pitas Point to Port Hueneme. threat to esthetlc values as well as pollution mal pollution"-the overheating of water During the morning the concentration was of beaches and oceans: Now, therefore, be It used to cool nuclear power plants. It can being blown seaward, but in the afternoon Resolved That the Secretary of the Interior damage marine life and upset the ecology of the Wind shifted and ;:>ushed it toward shore. declare a moratorium on leasing in this area rivers and lakes. Union Oil Co. of California, the drilling until It can be demonstrated incontrovertibly Muskie's bill requires Federal agencies, be· concern, transported logs on barges from that oil operations will not damage or destroy fore l.sl!uing licenses for the construction of Long Beach, and shortly before nightfall one of the world's most beautiful and recrea nuclear plants, docking facilities and hydro lashed booms off the Ventura Martn.a at Ven tional shorelines and that copies of this res electric plants, to obtain certification from tura, the Channel Islands Small Craft Harbor olution be sent to each of the following: the states that the proposed installation will wt Oxnard, at Port Hueneme, and at the Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, not violate state water quality standards, Southern California Edison Co. plant at Ox Congressman Philip Burton, Congressman including those on thermal pollution. nard. It was hoped the floating barricades George E. Brown, Jr., National Committee· Joseph E. Moody, president of the National might trap the oil. man Eugene L. Wyman, National Committee· woman Ann Alanson. Coal Policy Conference, testified yesterday An oil company spokesman said a drilling Passed and adopted by the Santa Barbara that a study done for his group by the Trav bit was being retrieved from 3,000 feet below elers Rel!earch Corp. showed adoption of the ocean floor when oil and gas erupted County Democratic Central Committee, De· cooling dev1ces to avoid thermal pollution of through the pipe Tuesday. cember 7, 1967. rivers and lakes by nuclear and coal-electric Thursd.a.y night, oil was surging to the Nevertheless, the oil interests prevailed plants would add 1.5 to 2 per cent to power surface in two major bubbles about 800 feet again. There were solid reasons for Gov costs for the consumer. But he said too little from the drilling platform. There were prob was known about thermal pollution to move ably other smaller flows, according to a ernment support. Both the industry and ahead on legislation yet. spokesman for the oil company. the Government would gain, at the ex Robert Gerdes, president of the Edison Natural gas was leaking in the violnity of pense of taxpayers and conserva.tionists Electric Institute, said there was no need for the drilling rig six miles off Santa Barbara. in particular, from domestic oil produc any special legislation like Muskie's, requir· Workmen were trying to "kill the well" tion expansion as compared to expan ing advance design of power plants to avoid by forcing mud into it, thereby allev1atlng sion from foreign sources--the industry thermal pollution. If any power installation pressures. from its favorable oil depletion allow· discharged too much heat into the water, A crew from the Red Adair Fire Fighting ances, and the Government from its the states could bring an abatement action Co.-whioh battled a stubborn blaze last royalty intakes. under the extstlng Water Quality Act, he month at an oil company field in Granada said. Hills---a.rrlved to deal with this problem. So it is understandable that certain The Manufacturing Chemists Association In Washington, Secretary of the Interior other discrepancies also may have been endorsed the Muskie provision. The Ameri Walter J. Hickel dispatched a team of experts overlooked in the auction process. For can Iron and Steel Institute said it feared to the scene. He said he ls considering tight example, over half of the 75 parcels bid that requiring advance certification for ening the regulations on offshore drilling. on were essentially noncompetitive; 29 building dock!! tor industrial plants would In Sacramento, Gov. Reagan said: "We had only one bidder, 11 had differences force it to submit final plant designs six to must move imecl1ately to do everything possi between high and low bid which eight months earlier than they were nor ble to prevent major pollution of our coast." amounted to no competition, and only mally prepared. He asked that the federal government give the state permission to Inspect all offshore 10 had any real margin. And the final oil platforms beyond the three-mile limit. price paid, $603 million, amounted to [From the New York Times] what the oil industry had itself sug O:a. SLICK SPREADING TOWARD BEACHES When the Interior Department was gested 6 months earlier. WILDLIFE PERILED asked to evaluate merits of a bill to es Even after the auction was completed, (By David Larsen) tablish a marine sanctuary in the Santa there were significant cautions raised in A vast and steadily growing oil slick be· Barbara Channel, the Department said: the State. In March and in June, the gan moving toward the beaches of Santa In reference to H.R. 11460, which concerns California State Assembly and Senate Barbara and Ventura counties Thursday as the study for establishment of all or part of adopted the following two resolutions: workmen on an offshore drilllng platform the Santa Barbara Channel as a marine sanc sought to seal a bubbling leak beneath the tuary, I am sure that members of the com ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 3 sea. mittee know that there was an oil and gas Joint resolution relative to establishment of 011 was said to be fl.owing unchecked to lease sale in February of this year in certain an insurance fund for offshore oil leasing the surface at a rate of 21,000 gallons a day. parts of this area. Our formulation of this Whereas, The United States Department of Late in the afternoon, Ventura County particular program took into account the the Interior has leased certain lands situate firemen reported oil in the surf at Rincon Wide variety of marine interests for this area. offshore of the State of California outside of Point, which is near the boundary line of Activities of military, shipping, fishing, the three-mile limit for offshore oil opera the two counties. recreational, and Industrial users were al· tions; and Conservation officials are concerned about ready blended Into the channel. Onshore was Whereas, The shoreline along the Califor the threat the oil poses to Wildlife. located one of the largest oilfields in Cali· nia coast is one of the state's magnificent The migration of gray whales is at its fornia. This petroleum resource had every heritages, a scene of unrivaled natural height now, a spokesman tor the State Fish indication of extending out under the waters beauty; and and Game Department pointed out. The of the channel. The w1llingness of the oil and Whereas, Any leakage, contamination, or 11oute they generally take is through the slick gas industry to bid $603 mllllon for drllling beach pollution emanating from such oil and whales are mammals which must come and production rights indicates the poten operations, whether caused by negligence of to the surface to breathe. tially large oil deposits that underlie the man or forces of nature, or any other cause, channel area. Proper multiple resource man could cause great damage to the valuable BIRDS TRAPPED ON BEACHES agement dictated that we utilize this re shoreline areas; and Already the effect of the seepage on birds source. Whereas, The public interest would be well has been seen. served through creation of an Insurance fund Mrs. Agnes Parrish, director of the Ven Again, this is a misleading statement. for the protection and preservation of the tura County Humane Society, said her office Even before the oil leases were granted California shoreline; now, therefore, be it had received about 60 calls from residents re- in the Santa Barbara area, there was Resolved by the Assembly and Senate o/ February 4, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 2495 the State of California, jointly, That the Last week's accidental leakage came Bahamas, have no doubt focused publ!c at Legislature of the State of California respect as no huge surprise to many residents of tention upon the future of our ocean re fully memorializes the President and the sources and heightened the enthusiastic re the Santa Barbara area. In his testimony sponse to the sanctuaries bills. It is dramati Congress of the United States to establish an before the Oceanography Subcommlt insurance fund from revenue produced cally evident to those of us who live in the through offshore oil development and pro tee of the Merchant Marine and Fish Santa Barbara region that we need wlse duction, to be used for removal of pollution, eries Committee, Frederick Eissler, a na planning for protection of our offshore en contamination, or debris resulting from such tional director of the Sierra Club and vironment from the many conflicts arising development and operations which affect the Santa Barbara high school teacher, because of the on development progralllS in California. shoreline and for the compensa presented a very revealing analysis of the outer shelf. tion of landowners, including public agen The communities here for over forty years the problem: have protected their hillside and ocean set cies, for private or public property damage; Mr. Chairman, I am a director of the gov and be 1t further ting by a combination of architectural and erning board of the Sierra Club a conserva zoning measures, and prohibition against Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the As tion group with headquarters In San Fran sembly transmit copies of th!s resolution to smoke and fumes. In the near-ocean on the cisco and chapters throughout the nation. other side of the channel lie the Channel the President and Vice President of the As a resident of Santa Barbara in Southern United States, to the Speaker of the House Islands, described by the Park Service as "the California., I am !amllla.r with the Channel greatest remaining opportunity for preserva of Representatives, to each Sena.tor and Rep Islands region that some of the bllls before resentative from California. in the Congress tion of representative seashore values" and you today indicate should be evaluated for designated as a prospective national park In of the United States, and to the Secretary of sanctuary status. the Interior. several bills now before Congress--H.R. 911 The marine sanctuaries proposal adapts (Moss), H.R. 5457 (Miller), and H.R. 6108 the principles of the h!stor!c Wilderness Act 1967. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 4 (Burton) all introduced in The com of 1964 to ocean areas. Our organization en munities in this Mediterranean-type climatic Joint resolution relative to establishment of dorses thls far sighted a.ppl!catlon of these and scenlc areas, with an international repu insurance fund for protection of shorelines principles. Now that industry at an ever tation as the "Riviera of the West", discover from offshore oil development tncreasing pace competes for use of the sea, virtually overnight that their blrthr!ght ls in Whereas, The government of the United particularly for the mineral resources, sec jeopardy. Their renowned attractions are States through the Secretary of the Interior, tions of offshore areas should be preserved being threatened by a forest of twenty-two ls letting oil leases outside of the three-mlle as nearly as possible in a natural state for story-hlgh drllling derricks offshore and the limit offshore of the coastline of the State of scientific study, wilderness recreation, sport pollution from on activity as fabulous oil Ca.l!!ornia.; and and commercial fishing, enjoyment of beau reserves are being developed almost at the Whereas, The Cal!!orn!a shoreline ls of tiful scenery, and similar compatible uses. community's front door. unique scenic beauty and ls highly devel We wtsh to support the recommendations Santa Barbara community leaders, civic oped for res!dentla.l, commercial, and tour ln this matter of the Panel on Oceanography groups, conserva.t!onlsts and the citizenry ism uses; and of the President's Science Advisory Com in general have been dismayed by the !allure Whereas, Any leakage, contamination, sub mittee (Sec. 3.0, "Mod!ftcation of the Ocean of the oil interests and the federal govern sidence, or beach pollution emanating from Environment" in Effective Use of the Sea, ment to consider adequately the masterplan such oil operations, whether caused by negli June 1966). The Panel concluded: "Estab n!ng of the Channel so that all values can be gence of man or forces of nature, or any lishment of a system of marine wilderness given proper weight in a balanced use of the other cause, could ca.use great damage to preserves (would be) an extension to marine various channel resources. The oil companies the valuable California shoreline areas; and environments of the basic principles estab a.re the first pioneers of the shelf and frankly Whereas, Recent events have demonstrated lished in the Wilderness Act of 1964 ... In they a.re pursuing their single purpose objec that there ls a potential danger to shore the present context, specific reasons for such tives at the expense of practically every other properties resulting from shipwrecks occur preserves include: (a) provision of ecologi resource in the Channel. The people locally ring beyond the three-mlle limit; and cal baselines against which to compare modi are seeing more clearly every day as new Whereas, It ls in the public Interest that fied areas; (b) preservation of major types of drilling barges and pla.tforlllS move in that an insurance fund be established to protect unmodified habitats for research and educa this unilateral development ls going to wreck the shoreline against such eventualities; and tion in marine sciences; (c) provision of con one of the nation's most bea.utlful tourist Whereas, There exists a precedent for es tinuing opportun!tles for marine wilderness centers. Thls ls needless destruction when tablishing such a fund ln that the State of recreation". the technology ls a.va.!lable to obtain the oil California haS required that a reserve fund There ls enthusiastic nationwide support without wholesale damage to the scene and for subsidence contingencies, in an annual for thls dramatic and appealing concept. the ecology. Oil rights must not be permitted amount of two milllon dollars ($2,000,000), When we circulated our views on these bills to obl!tera.te the rights of Americans to en be provided for in contracts between the City several months a.go, we invariably received a joy uncluttered ocean views, unpolluted sea of Long Beach and oil developers with respect favorable response, a reaction from editorials, scapes and beaches, and unimpaired fisheries. to oil and gas extraction from tidelands letters and other comments more positive A series of residential communities that have granted in trust to the Clty of Long Beach; than we have received on any other issue re been conscientious about zoning on shore now, therefore, belt cently endorsed by the Sierra Club. are shocked to find thelllSelves powerless to Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of The Providence Journal (Rhode Island, insist on zoning and other orderly balanced the State of California, jointly, That the 8-18-67) observed: "The Sierra Club cor development principles of planning alloca Legislature of the State of California rectly points out that the move ls not tion of uses offshore. They have been com respectfully memorlallzes the Congress of prompted by any deslre to keep oil compa.nles pletely dominated and overwhelmed by the the Unlted States to establish an insurance from developing potential resources." The power politics of the oil compa.nles. fund from moneys derived from the offshore editorial stated that the earlier American And the question they ask themselves as oil leasing and oil production, and require experience of unchecked waste on the west good Americans and as stewards of their that in instances when the person respon ern frontier "demonstrates the wisdom of shoreline for the benefit of all those citizens sible for debris, contamination, pollution, or planning now to save the best underwater in the nation that do not live near an ocean subsidence cannot be determined, such fund areas ... not least along New England's rocky ls slmply thl&-1! we cannot save our coast be available to remove and clean up an} shore". line in view of our devotion to conservation debris, contamination, or pollution, and The St. Lou.ls Post-Dispatch (8-25-67) traditions how can other communltles be mitigate the effects of subsidence, which may continued in the same vein: "Man has only effective elther in saving theirs. In a sense occur by reason of oil leasing, oil operations, begun to learn about the potential benefi the channel then offers one of the most slg or shipwreck and to compensate landowners, cence of the sea, and he will not learn as niftca.nt opportunities in the nation to estab including public agencies, for any loss or much as he should unless some areas of un lish a model or test area !or the protection of damage occasioned thereby to private or pub dersea w!lderness a.re protected from min shoreline resources. lic property; and be it further eral exploitation and shore pollution". Portions of the extensive Santa Barbara Resolved, That the Secretary of the Sen "Most disinterested persons would agree Channel a.re listed in some of the sanctuary ate transmit coples of this resolution to the that undersea. areas of wilderness qual!ty bllls !or study as potential marine reserves. President and Vice President of the Unlted should not be unnecessarily damaged," said Certainly here ls a region ln which an "eco States, to the Speaker of the House of Repre the Baltimore Sun (8-21-67). "It won't be logical baseline" ls necessary, to quote the sentatives, to each Senator and Representa long before Inan starts re-creating h!s land Science Advisory Committee report, "a.ga.mst tive from California in the Congress of the environment under the sea and the Job of which to compare modified areas". The Chan United States, and to the Secretary of the Congress ls to see that he doesn't re-create nel as the meeting place of colder northern Interior. h!s problelllS as well." and warmer southern currents ls especially Of course, by June, it was too late to Here ls but a sample of the editorial reac conspicuous for the richness and variety of affect the Federal Government's deci tion. There was no disagreement in principle !ts biota. with the establishment of sanctuaries; there The Park Service observes that the five sion. The negative response from the was unanimity that studies be conducted, as Channel Islands "exhibit a unique combina Interior Department came in early April, the bills propose, ln order to determine how tion of islands, seashore, and related marine and no action was taken on all the bllls these sanctuaries should be dedicated. values, !ncludlng plant and animal life re dealing with marine sanctuary develop The Torrey Canyon accident, and s!mllar sulting from a mlll!on-year lsolatlon from ment. pollution disasters at Puerto Rico and the the ma.inland, extraordinary marine fauna 2496 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE February 4, 1969 (sea elephants, fur seals, sea lions, sea ot FOUR MORE On. FIRMS REPORT HIGHER PROFrrs As I mentioned earlier, the Santa Bar ters), great rookeries of nesting sea birds, (By Joe R. Nevarez) bara tragedy is disheartening because it and significant geological structures and Four more oll companies Monday reported easily could have been avoided. At the processes .. . Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, Senior Increased profits and revenues for 1968, fol least, it should not be allowed to happen Sc1ent1flc Advisor and Director, Biological lowing the trend set by other industry giants Sonar Laboratory, Stanford Research Insti again. Today I am reintroducing three last week. Two major oll firms, reporting bills which can be a first step toward pre tute, states that the elephant seal rookery Monday, however, aald their earnings on San Miguel Island (Point Bennett) is the declined. venting further incidents. These three most important such rookery along the en Getty 011 Co., Loo Angeles, and Phillips bills, first, authorize a feasibility study of tire coastline of the United States and every Petroleum o1. Bartlesville, Okla., were the two establishing a marine sanctuary in the effort should be made to protect it." whloh showed lower earnings. Santa Barbara channel while setting a 1 These waters at San Miguel Island, for ex Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, New York, year moratorium on commercial devel ample, should be studied cooperatively by the world's largest, led Monday's group of oll opment; second, established the Channel State of California and the federal govern companies reporting profit gains. The others ment under the terms of Section 3(b) and Islands National Park; and third, asks were Union 011 Co. ot Csllfornla, Los Angeles; for a broad study which would result in Section 4(b) of the Sanctuary b1lls, provid Gulf 011 Corp., Pittsburgh; and Standard Oil ing for such cooperation as a basis for eval Co. of Indiana, Chicago. Previously Texaco, an expanded national system of marine uating the feas1bl11ty of establishing a pro Mobil, Shell and Sun 011 had reported record sanctuaries. tective zone. profits. At the same time, I am now working The Sierra Club and lts members along Record earnings of $1,275,000,000 for 1968 on draft legislation to directly affect off the Atlantic Coast are troubled by the con equal to $5.93 a share were reported by shore oil drilling operations. This new filct artslng between all exploration and de Standard of New Jersey, up 10.4% over velopment at such important fishing grounds legislation will aim at setting standard 1967's net ot $1,155,000,000 or $5.36 a share. ized drilling procedures, establish strin as the Georges Bank. The fish kllls from "The earnings Improvement," noted M. L. undersea seismic testing; the pollution dan Halder, cha.irma.n, "was attributed in large gent building codes for drilling platforms, gers from tanker accidents; the flushing of part to record operations, particularly in and require fail-safe systems to prevent bilges in the fishing areas; the constant crude oll production. major leakages. threat of the oily mess from an oU well Jersey Standard aatd changes in accounting blow-out; all of these h azards that can be principles resulted 1n a reduction of $30 mll anticipated when oil activity 1s 1ntens1fled llon or 14 cents a share for 1968. Earnl:ngB SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PROB are a major concern to us. tor 1967, restated on a comparable basis, have LEMS OF OUR TIME~PART I We believe that both the Georges Bank been adjusted downward by $37 milllon or 17 and the Santa Barbara Channel should be cents a- share from the $1,192,000,000 previ mitment by the United States at this time "thin" Sentinel system is presently $5 bil Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, I in· would be a. serious mistake. Whlle I am sure lion. Yet all of us with experience in esti troduce today, with the cosponsorship of you are fa.mUia.r with some of the threads of mates for m111tary systems of this sort expect the arguments in opposition to the Sentinel 87 colleagues, a bill to create a Depart this $5 billion figure to be low; the C-5A is a. ment of Consumer Affairs. I am also system, it may be helpful 1! I reviewed them notable example. There is the further ques as they were expressed at a. meeting la.st tion of expanding the "thin" system to a. joined by my colleague in the Senate, Wednesday evening at the Reading High more extensive one. Estimates of the cost of Senator GAYLORD NELSON, of Wisconsin, School, a. meeting arranged by the Depart expanding the "thin" Sentinel system nm who will introduce the same bill. ment of Army to explain to those who llve anywhere up to $60 billion-a figure which This proposal has been before the Con near Ca.mp Curtis Gulld what the Reading must give us all pause. I do think, conse gress for 10 years since Senator Estes Missile Site Radar facUity involved. In at quently, that we need some further examina Kefauver first introduced it in 1959. tendance at this meeting were some of our tion and explanation of the costs involved in n ation's most eminent scientists, a. number I include below the text of the bill, and the Sentinel project before we proceed too its cosponsors, a descriptive and a sec of whom have served at the highest policy much further a.long. levels of the government. F ifth, distortion of Federal funding priori tion-by-section summary, a statement The questions raised at this meeting, it ties. The budget squeeze ca.used by the costs explaining the legislation which I read seems to me, go to the heart of the debate of t he Vietnam war forced us to neglect our at today's meeting, and a list of the 33 over the Sentinel system's efficacy: domestic program needs, forced us to turn Federal agencies and departments which F irst, technical questions. There is ap our attention away from the problems of the have programs affecting the consumer. parently no conclusive evidence that the world outside of Vietnam, and forced our Sentinel system will work under combat Seventy-nine colleagues also join me economy into a. state of imbalance. There has today in introducing a bill to provide conditions. To be sure, under laboratory con been considerable discussion In the Congress ditions-a. single ABM launched against a of the "peace dividend," those funds which Federal grants to local and State con single ICBM of known trajectory-the would be freed up for purposes other than sumer programs. Similar explanatory chances of an Intercept are good. On the Vietnam when the war there is scaled down. material is included below concerning other hand, we know that a. nuclear explo It Is my own opinion that we would do more this bill also. sion in the atmosphere creates a cloud of to divide the country than unite it, should The material referred to follows: ionized gas, and we know that our ground we apply this dividend-whatever it m ay ba.sed radars-which provide the guidance COSPONSORS OF Bn.Ls To ESTABLISH A DEPART• be--to deployment of an ABM system rather MENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, !NTRODUCED information for the ABMs--cannot penetrate than to our domestic housing employment, this cloud. IDghly-respected authorities be BY CONGRESSMAN BENJAMIN 8. RoSENTHAL, health, education, conservation and other DEMOCRAT OF NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 4, 1969 lieve that during the several minutes re needs. quired for these clouds to dissipate, our en There a.re many other arguments against *Ada.ms, Brock (Washington). tire ABM system would be inoperative. There going forward with construction of the Sen Addabbo, Joseph (New York). a.re, too, many other technical questions tinel system, and I know that you a.re a.ware Annunzlo, Frank (Illinois). which are, in my mind, unresolved--such as of them from your participation in the House Ashley, Thomas (Ohio). the number of ABMs we would need to pro debates on the Sentinel system !Mt year. Biaggi, Mario (New York) . vide an adequate shield against a. sophisti But the five I have Just summarized appear Bingham, Jonathan (New York). cated saturation ICBM attack, which would the most persuasive. Blatnik, John (Minnesota.). include MIRVs, orbital delivery systems, and I am sure that when the fiscal year 1970 Brasco, Frank (New York) . a. multiplicity of delivery vehicle types. budget request for funds to continue the Brown, George (California.). Second, our relations with the Boviet deployment of the Sentinel system comes Burton, Phill1p (California). Union. A number of my colleagues have before the Senate, there wm be an extensive Carey, Hugh (New York) . spoken directly and personally to the leader examination of the wisdom of authorizing Chisholm, Shirley (New York) . ship of the Soviet Union. They came a.way and appropriating the many billions of dol from these discussions with the strong con- lars projected BB needed for the system. *Department of Consumer Affairs blll only. February 4, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 2501

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SENATE-Tuesday, February 4, 1969 The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, and goodness in a nation whose God is tions were communicated to the Senate ;11.nd was called to order by the Vice the Lord. by Mr. Geisler, one of his secretaries. President. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED _L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following prayer: THE JOURNAL As in executive session, The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Eternal Father, wilt Thou now make Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of Senate messages from the President of this forum of freedom a holy of holies the United States submitting sundry and each heart a silent sanctuary. Drive the Journal of the proceedings of Fri day, January 31, 1969, be dispensed with. nominations, which were referred to the out all lesser voices that only Thy still appropriate committees. small voice may be heard. Deal with each The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob (For nominations this day received, of us according to our necessities. Make jection, it is so ordered. see the end of Senate proceedings.) us to know that we live under Thy judg ment, that what we think Thou dost know, what we speak Thou dost hear, MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE what we do Thou dost see. Make our lives Messages in writing from the President A message from the House of Repre beacons which shine for justice, truth, of the United States submitting nomina- sentatives by Mr. Hackney, one of its