1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 6721 ing from South Korea to Berlin. It is re­ 90 miles from our shore. I commend I know of several persons who contacted sponsible for the defense, really, of Western him for his maturity. I commend him FHA about defective construction and were Europe. It is responsible for the major for the soundness of his policy. told that this wa.s a matter between builder struggle against the Communists in our own and buyer, in spite of the fact that they hemisphere. For 6 percent of the world's had made several inspections while the house population we carry tremendous burdens. TEXAN STRESSES NEED FOR S. 1200 was being built. I do not think we can indulge ourselves at Another example of FHA's laxity ls in the this point, if that ls the proper word, in con­ WHICH WOULD GIVE VALIDITY TO evaluation of houses. Old John Q. Citizen centrating all of our material strength in one THE WORDS "FHA INSURED" doesn't know the value of a house and is section of the world and be indifferent to its Mr. GRUENING. Mr. President, on generally content to pay what FHA says a consequences elsewhere. place is worth. I will bet you that more Now I don't know-I don't accept the views March 28 I introduced a bill designed to often than not, the FHA evaluation ls higher Mr. Castro is going to be in power for 5 years. give validity to the term "FHA insured" than the actual market value of the house. I can't indicate the role by which there will as a protection for home buyers. Twelve I am. sure that all FHA people are honest, be a change. But I've seen enough-as we Members of the Senate have joined as but if they are not, this would be a real fine all have-enough change in the la.st 15 years cosponsors. opportunity for an unscrupulous builder and to make me feel that time ls on the--that The national response to this legis­ FHA employee to rook the public. Maybe time will see Cuba. free again, and I think ·1ation is heartening, and I will from they do, who knows? when that happens the record will show I surely hope you get some help from that the United States has played a signifi­ time to time bring to the attention of my Congress on this. cant role. colleagues comments which are particu­ Very truly yours, But for the present, and for a great power larly pertinent. which carries worldwide responsib111ty, I Therefore, I ask unanimous consent think our present policy is the right one. If that the text of a letter I have received the American people decide differently, then, from Texarkana, Tex., be printed in the AUTHORITY FOR THE VICE PRESI­ of course, they have an obvious remedy. . But for now we intend to follow this policy. RECORD at the close of my remarks. DENT TO SIGN THE ENROLLED There being no objection, the letter BILL H.R. 4715 Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, the an­ was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, swer, in short, given in colloquial terms, as follows: Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, I ask but with the clarity for which our TEXARKANA, TEX., April 1, 1963. unanimous consent that notwithstand­ President is famous, indicates his strong Senator ERNEST GRUENING, ing the adjournment of the Senate to­ support of the present policy in Cuba. Senate Office Building, day the Secretary be authorized to re­ I call particular ·attention to the fact Washington, D.C. ceive messages from the House and that that he says in his statement, after re­ DEAR Sm: It is my understanding that you the Vice President be authorized to sign plan to submit a bill that will require the the enrolled bill the Senate sensible and commonsense approach to their insured loans houses are properly built adjourned until tomorrow, Tuesday, the very difficult problem confronting us and this certainly is not the case. April 23, 1963, at 12 o'clock meridian.

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Washington R1'port voted for the spending and 33 Democrats (of is the bulwark of our country's economic 258) against it, proving once again that basi­ health, not Federal spending." cally the Republicans stand for fl.seal respon­ DEVALUING OUR CURRENCY THROUGH EXTENSION OF REMARKS sibility and reduced Federal spending. I SUBTERFUGE o:r spoke against the bill as follows: "I oppose this deficiency or supplemental H.R. 5389, to repeal the law dealing with HON. BRUCE ALGER appropriation bill because we are appropriat­ the purchase of silver, passed the House: This action in reality sets the stage for devalua­ OF TEXAS ing money for new projects which is not the purpose of a supplemental appropriation bill. tion of our currency and, in fact, actually IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ·The list of new starts • • • clearly shows does devalue the dollar. The bill's stated Monday, April 22, 1963 the improper procedure. Further, it is purpose is to free silver from Federal con­ wrong to spend additional money for public trols by (1) Repealing the Silver Purchase Mr . . ALGER. Mr. Speaker, under works at this time of deficit financing. The Acts, (2) Permit the Federal Reserve System leave to extend my remarks in the REC­ accelerated public works p~oject was wrong to issue in $1 denominations under the same ORD, I include the following newsletter at its inception last year and restoring money terms and conditions it now issues currency of April 13, 1963: to the program is wrong now. Pump prim­ in $5 and higher denominations. (This ing did not work before in correcting or means substituting Federal Reserve notes WASHINGTON REPORT BY CONGRESSMAN BRUCE for the present $1 bills which are silver cer­ ALGER, APRIL 13, 1963 relieving unemployment and it will not now. "Our country faces fiscal collapse because tificates, backed by 100 cents on the dollar SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION BILL-ADMINIS­ of wild Federal spending. We must econo­ in silver.) (3) Remove the tax on transfers TRATION BOONDOGGLE mize to protect our currency value, gold on of any interest in silver bullion. This legis­ The fl.seal irresponsibility of the Kennedy hand, and our entire economy. We must bol­ lation rightfully comes within the jurisdic­ administration was clearly indicated this ster confidence in our economy and Govern­ tion of the Banking and Currency Commit­ week with the passage by the House of the ment by responsible action now. Let us tee, but because of the part dealing with the supplemental appropriation bill of 1963 con­ reduce Federal spending, not increase. Let transfer tax, it had to also be considered by taining $450 million worth of new public us cut the national debt, not add to it. Let my Committee on Ways and Means. works projects. In spite of determined Re­ us then reduce taxes. Each of these steps The repeal of the Silver Purchase Act is publican effort to cut this $450 million boon­ separately and collectively will bolster confi­ long overdue and I am for it. Federal peg­ doggle from the bill it was passed with 208 dence in our Government's fl.seal self-disci­ ging of the price of silver, instead of a free Democrats voting for it, and 151 Republicans pline and preserve our private economy. market, ls wrong. My opposition to this against it. Only 20 Republicans (of 177) Let us stop financing socialism. Capitalism bill is the lack of guidelines and stemmed 6722 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE April 22 from (1) it actually does devalue the dollar anti-Communist activities. Before it is too to extend an invitation to visit Kalkaska because it provides that our $1 bills which late, President Kennedy should tell the County at any time of year. Its recrea­ are now backed by 100 cents worth of a pre­ American people now what secret deals are tional facilities- know no season.. I as­ cious m 1 (silver) will henceforth be sup­ planned and who and what ls behind the sure you will not be disappointed. ported by 25 cents in a precious metal strange policies, or lack Of policies, which (gold), (2) Secretary of the Treasury Dillon continue to increase the strength and pres­ admitted, though not planned, this step is tige of the Soviet Union a.nd weaken U.S. necessary if our currency is to be devalued, leadership of the free world. (3) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, SPOTLIGHT ON URBAN RENEWAL Taxpayers: Paying More but Getting Willlam Mcchesney Martin, testified it would affect cur gold supply by $500 million, (4) In an effort to expose the direction in Less Presideut Kennedy is selling a capital asset which Federal urban renewal and public ($2 billi. on in silver), to pay curreat expenses. housing is leading this free Nation, I took EXTENSION OF REMARKS the floor of the House this week for another These views in opposition contradicted the OF bland assurances of the chairman of the major speech on this subject. The blll of Banking and Currency Committee that our particulars against Federal urban renewal and public housing includes: (1) Because of HON. PAUL FINDLEY gold supply would not be reduced and that OF ll.LINOIS · silver would not be sold to pay current Gov­ urban renewal, the Supreme Court has rein­ ernment expenses. terpreted the Constitution, and violated the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The further pressure on our imbalance of letter and spirit of the law, (2) private prop­ Monday, April 22, 1963 payments contained in this bill concerns me erty can be taken away for esthetic and and I presented tables showing that as a re­ spiritual reasons for private-not public­ Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, I chal­ sult of five large successive deficits in our use, (3) the Federal contribution results lenged Secretary of Agriculture Free­ balance of payments we have transferred to in Federal control of local government, (4) man-on Tuesday, April 16-to explain foreigners some $7 billion from our monetary local need for Federal help has been fraud­ why taxpayers are paying more but get­ gold stock a.nd added another $9 billion to ulently determined both by local and Federal ting less results in the feed grains pro­ our liquid liabilities. Foreign nations now Government, (5) the financially less able hold $24 billion of our money, callable in cities and States are supporting the wealthier gram this year, compared with 1962. gold ($11.7 billion of our $15.8 billion gold cities and States in the Federal aid distribu­ In my letter to Freeman, I quoted De­ supply must be reserved for backing our cur­ tion, (6) Federal guidelines, procedures, partment of Agriculture reports which rency). In this dangerous position we, as criteria, and formulas are inequitable and predict Government stockpiles will be the world's banker, could not withstand a cannot be made equitable, (7) misuse of reduced far less while payments to run on the bank if our foreign creditors de­ Federal aid is scandalous, (8) windfall profit farmers are up $98 million. mand payment of outstanding obligations. at taxpayer expense is commonplace, (9) The stockpile cutback was 393 million It is long overdue, but let us hope not too public housing is forced on communities that bushels for the 1962 marketing year. late, that Congress immediately direct its want urban renewal, (10) crime abounds in attention to solving the imbalance of pay­ public housing and is getting worse; morals Payments were $842 million, for a $2.14 ments and the gold outflow. This means and moral values are being destroyed, (11) average for each bushel cutback. In cutting Federal spending, an immediate bal­ urban renewal and public housing are being 1963 the predicted cutback will be only anced budget, a reduction in our debt, and use to effect sociological changes in U.S. about 107 million bushels. Payments with that background, tax reform which pri­ society at the planners' whim, (12) when will be $940 million, for an $8. 78 average marily means a drastic cutback in the tax people know the facts and there is a ref­ for each bushel cutback. progression and a reduction of rates. erendum, public housing is rejected. Why this shocking jump in cost for CONFUSED AND BEWU.DERED PRESIDENT NOW 1963? Before Congressmen give the feed PROTECTING COMMUNISTS grains program a new 2-year lease on The United States, on Presidential order, life, an explanation is in order. is now taking a stand against freemen and The 27th Annual National Trout Festival Full text of my letter follows: using our might to protect a vicious and bloody-handed dictator. The end result of APRll. 16, 1963. the confused and bewildered policies of EXTENSION OF REMARKS Hon. ORVILLE L. FREEMAN, President Kennedy must be the complete OF Secretary of Agriculture, Communist takeover of Central and Latin U.S. Department of Agriculture, America and Communist encirclement of the HON. VICTOR A. KNOX Washington, D.C. . OF MICHIGAN DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Next Wednesday t he United States. The brave actions of Presi­ House of Representatives takes up the pro­ dent Kennedy this week included the arrest IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES posed 2-year extension of the feed grains of more Cuban exiles whose crime is wanting Monday, April 22, 1963 program. Before debate begins I respect­ to free their homeland; a break with Dr. Jose fully suggest you explain why taxpayers are Miro-Cardona, Cuban exile leader, and fur­ Mr. KNOX. Mr. Speaker, on April 26 paying more but getting less results in the ther efforts to curtail critics of Communist the village of Kalkaska, in Kalkaska feed grains program this year, compared dictators Khrushchev and Castro in order County, Mich., opens its 27th Annual with 1962. that the administration could make deals National Trout Festival. This is one of According to your Department's "Feed with the Soviet boss. There is no reasonable situation" report released April 10, this year's explanation for the Kennedy failure to en­ the most unique celebrations in the country and Kalkaska County is prob­ feed grain crop will be 151.6 million tons­ force the Monroe Doctrine or to refuse to de­ up 8.5 million tons from 1962. After harvest, mand the immediate removal of all Russian ably the most suitable location in the feed grain supplies wm be only 2 million tons troops and war material from CUba. What­ United States for such an event. less than the year before. Feed grain dis­ ever his motive, the actual result ls appease­ With its 275 miles of trout streams, appearance during the 1963-64 marketing ment of the Communists and history records 85 lakes, 25 of which are abundant with year, according to the report, may "rise a that appeasement always results in victory :fighting brown, brook, rainbow and lake little from the 154 million tons estimated for the Reds and defeat for us. Last year trout, Kalkaska County is a virtual fish­ for 1961-62 and 1962_:.. 63." the Kennedy administration bought the If disappearance holds even, stockpiles Communist coalition as a solution in Laos. erman's paradise, attracting literally would be down only 2.4 million tons when As we all knew, the Communists are at this thousands to this event annually and the 1963 marketing year is over. This com­ moment, after breaking another agreement, throughout the year. p ares with an 11 million-ton cutback in the taking over completely there. What is the The scenic splendor of Kalkaska 1962 marketing year. Clearly disappearance President's answer to this failure? He has County complemented by an abundance would have to rise more than "a little" to rewarded the architect of the Laos disaster, of deer, partridge, bear, and other wild­ match the 1962 marketing year cutback. Averell Harriman, by promoting him to a life gives me a feeling of homesickness, What makes this especially puzzling is the higher position in the State Department fact that payments to farmers in the 1963 where he will be responsible for mapping all particularily at this time of year. program are up $98 million from 1962. our political relationships with the Com­ For this reason I would like to extend In 1962, payments were $842 million with munists. An insertion in the CONGRESSIONAL a cordial invitation to all my colleagues a stockpile cutback of 393 million bushels R ECORD by Congressman J. ARTHUR YOUNGER, in the House to come to Kalkaska, Mich., (11 million tons) for .the 1962 marketing of California, notes the activities of Dr. Walt this coming weekend and enjoy the won­ year. This figures $2.14 per bushel. Rostow and McGeorge Bundy, close advisers derful hospitality that Kalkaska's citi­ In 1963, payments will b~ $940 million. to the President and apparent al'chitects of If we allow "a little" increase in disap-. a new U.S. policy reversing our support of zens so freely off er. pearance, say, 600,000 tons, that would mean anti-Communist exiles which is forcing Rus­ If it is not possible to join in Kalkas­ stockpiles would be down 3 million tons, sian and Baltic exile groups to restrict their ka's National Trout Festival, I would like or 107 million bush els. This figures $8.78 per 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 6723 bushel. Even ~ disappearance should climb President Kennedy would personally help is no other airport in the _world which serves to 155 million tona, the cost per bushel seek a solution to this problem. so many people and so many planes. Some would still be $7.74, compared. with $2.14 the In addition, Mr, Speaker, I should. like 13.5 million airline travelers passed through year before. O'Hare Airport last year. In 5 years it has These cost figures include on1y payments to add here that Mr. Najeeb Halaby, gone from the 16th most active field in the to farmers. Realized losses to Commodity Administrator of the Federal Aviation country to the 1st, like so many other Credit Corporation and administrative costs Agency, and Mr. Alan Boyd, Chairman things about Chicago. During this airport's are not included. of the Civil Aeronautics Board, accom­ daily peak periods, an airliner lands and Why this shocking jump in cost for ·1963? panied the President on this trip and takes off every 43 seconds. Every day, 1 out Before Congressmen give the feed grains witnessed his eloquent statement in Chi­ of every 5 air travelers in this country passes progrrun a new 2-year lease on life, an ex­ cago. I am sure that all the people liv­ through this airport, enough people in 1 day planation is in order. to equal the population of Bloomington, Ill. ing in proximity of major jet airfields Every day, some 1,300 to 1,400 landings and would be pleased to learn that both Mr. takeoffs occur. So I think this airport is an Halaby and Mr. Boyd shared the Presi­ extraordinary national asset, named after an dent's concern over this new phenomena extraordinary American. President Kennedy Urges · Federal Agen­ of jet noise which has followed the ad­ All of this traffic in and out of Chicago cies To Work as Hard as They Can To vent of the jet age in aircraft. proves, as it has since the beginning of this country, that Chicago occupies a most im- Reduce Jet Noise at Major Airfields Both these men have assured me of . portant and vital strategic area in the United their full cooperation to carry out the States, where all the lines of communication President's request. cross. That is why the future of this city· EXTENSION OF REMARKS is so bright. Indian canoes traveled this OP Mr. Speaker, the text of President Kennedy's remarks at the O'Hare Field route from Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River before this was the United States. HON. ROMAN C. PUCINSKI dedication follows: And it will be doing the same thing in the OF ILLilfOIS REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT THE DEDICA­ year 2000. Railroads, highways--all the rest IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TION OF THE O'HARE INTERNATIONAL AIR­ will come and meet in Chicago and make this PORT, CHICAGO, ILL. a vital, booming city. These are all the Monday, April 22, 1963 Mayor Daley, Governor Kerner, Senator things that can be done, but I think a good Mr. PUCINSKI. Mr. Speaker, re­ Douglas, Government and State officials, deal more must be done. One of the prob­ cently it was my privilege to fly to Chi­ ladies and gentlemen: 21 years ago this year, lems is with the people who live around the a. young Navy officer .stood at the White airports. I hope that the National Govern­ cago, together with other members of the House and was decor:ated by President ment, along with the airlines, will continue Chicago delegation, with President Ken­ Roosevelt with the Congressional Medal of to work as hard as they can to make sure nedy to participate in the dedication of Honor for heroism extending far beyond the that the noise from these jets which take O'Hare International Airport which lies line of duty. I remember as a young naval us in and out do not disturb the lives of a. on the very edge of my congressional officer myself how the extraordinary feat of half million people whose homes are in the district. "Butch" O'Hare captured the imagination immediate area. In addition, air cargo is I was very much inspired to hear the not only of our Armed Forces but also of the only beginning in importance. In addition, country. His extraordinary act in protect­ I think we must make a special effort at President make an eloquent plea to the ing his ship, shooting down, while he was O'Hare and all our other airports to WP,lcome Federal agencies and the airlines to work alone, shooting down five of the enemy, dur­ the people who come from abroad. This may as hard as they can to make sure that ing the difficult days in the Second War, gave be the first view they have of America. We noise from jet aircraft which use O'Hare this country hope and confidence not only in want them to know what a warm and vital and other major airfields in the country. the quality and caliber of our fighting men, and vigorous country this is. And I hope is reduced to a minimum. but also in the certainty of victory. we will make every effort to make them at Millions of Americans can find comfort Therefore, 21 years later, I am proud to home, and to urge their countrymen to come in knowing that the President of the come to Chicago, to this airport, to take part and visit us. in this act which commemorates his public Finally, we look forward to the day in avia­ United States, with all of his complex service, his great naval service, and also re­ tion when we are going to travel three times national and international problems, is minds me of how much we owe to those who the speed of sound, and go to any place in cognizant of the way in which the jet age made this country of ours. the world in a few hours. And when that has disturbed and changed the lives of I think one of the extraordinary facts of happens, we want the United States to be these people who live in the proximity of the Second War was this number of men in the lead, as it has been in the lead in Jet major airfields which have jet opera ..... who were highly decorated, particularly with transportation since the jet was invented. tions. The greatness of President Ken­ the Congressional Medal of Honor, who later All in all, I am proud to be here in Chicago nedy is reflected ir_ this ability to under­ lost their lives in combat in later days. taking part in a great ceremony, honoring a "Butch" O'Hare was one of them, being great American to whom we owe much, look­ stand the problems of each individual killed 18 months after the act of honor by ing to the past and saluting him, and look­ American. the President of the United States, when his ing to the future and saluting the city of President Kennedy stated in Chicago: life could have been much easier. John Chicago. Thank you. I hope that the National Government, Basilone, who got the Congressional Medal along with the airlines, wm continue to work of Honor, in the Marine Corps, in Guadal­ as hard as they can to make sure that the canal, and who was later killed on the beach noise from these jets which take us in and at Iwo Jima, was another. But time after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 19, 1943 out do not disturb the lives of a half-million time, men who could have stayed at home people whose homes are in the immediate and felt their duty done, went out again area. and some of them were killed. So today we EXTENSION OF REMARKS not only dedicate the International Air­ OF It is my hope that those Federal em­ port, but we also recall all those who made ployees at all levels who are charged with it possible. This is an extraordinary air­ HON. ROBERT R. BARRY the responsibility for operating tramc to port in an extraordinary city, in an extraor­ OF NEW YORK dinary country, and it is a tribute to the and from airfields will heed the Presi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent's eloquent plea. Certainly, Mr. . constructive action of the Federal Govern­ if ment, the State government, and the city Monday, April 22, 1963 Speaker, the President of the United government, under the distinguished leader­ States can find understanding of this ship of your great mayor, Mayor Daley. Mr. BARRY. Mr. Speaker, 20 years very serious problem affecting the daily To keep these various interests working to­ ago, when power-hungry Nazi forces un­ lives of millions of people throughout this gether and make this the most extraordinary der their evil-minded leader, were on country, it is not asking too much that airport in the world for this great city is an their victorious rampage in most of the his subordinates at all levels of govern­ amazing feat. This airport lives up to its Eurasian Continent, destroying and ment show the same concern. name. · There is no other airport in the devastating everything before them, and It was my privilege to discuss this mat­ world where planes can make instrument terrorizing peoples by the hundreds of landings on parallel runways, simultane­ ter with President Kennedy during our ously. There is no other airport in the Na­ i:µillions, a small band of gallant, stout­ flight to Chicago and I know that the tion which maintains three instrument land­ hearted, and desperately embattled peo­ people who I represent anj who have suf­ ing systems. And there is no other airport ple in Warsaw initiated a glorious fight feJ:"ed indescribable hardship from the in the world, and this should be a source of against their ruthless and unconsciona­ noise at O'Hare appreciate the fact that satisfaction to the people of Chicago, there ble Nazi oppressors. That bold and 6724 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE April 22 daring move marked the uprising of the a 1,308,168-acre North Cascades National Midtown Plaza, a 7-acre business and remnants of once the largest Jewish Park. The Seattle-based council claims shopping complex in the very heart of Secretary Udall suggested it prepare the bill ghetto in Europe, numbering at one time for introduction in Congress. downtown Rochester. more than 400,000 but now, through de­ The proposed legislation, which is marked The celebration of Midtown Plaza's portation, starvation, and death, reduced confidential, calls !or a national park that first year centered around a patriotic to only 63,000. While many of these would extend from Stevens Pass to Ross theme and was highlighted by the raising were not physically fit to fight, they all Dam, including 606,429 acres of the Mount of an American :flag. The :flag was one were determined to carry on the struggle Baker and Snoqualmie National Forests of with special significance attached to it: against their mortal enemy, and they the second district. Maybe the people of It had :flown over our Nation's Capitol. all managed to sell their lives at a ter­ Washington State want another national At the anniversary ceremonies, I park, I don't know. If they do, I'll have rific cost to the enemy. In this unequal no objection!3. However, I don't want to see spoke to those gathered on one of the struggle, in which no quarter was given a decision by bureaucrats in Washington, elements that has made our country the and no prisoners taken, 13,000 fighting D.C., instead of by the citizen owners. great and free land we cherish today. Jews lost their live in the course of 27 I know the national forests belong to all That element is individual initiative­ days, while some 50,000, mostly aged, the people of the United States, but I believe the kind of self-starting action that women, and children, surrendered, and the people back home should have some­ punctuates our national history-the it is estimated that less than 80 escaped thing to say about this proposal, because kind of ·free enterprise which has built through the sewers under the ghetto they are the ones who are really affected. Midtown Plaza. walls. It seems to me another study of the North Midtown Plaza is a monument to the Cascades wm only duplicate what has gone In that uprising and desperate fight before. In 1939, a committee composed of free enterprise system and a challenge the oppressed. and downtrodden Jewish National Park, Forest Service, and State of­ to every urban redeveloper in the United people proved to the world that, even ficials made a study. The people of Wash­ States. It symbolizes the best in the under an impossible and despairing cir­ ington State didn't go along with the idea American tradition, a willingness to take cumstance they still retained their faith of a national park then. a chance, individual enterprise, courage, in the righteousness of their cause, their When Glacier Peak was being considered and faith in the future. right to live and the right to fight for as a possible wilderness area, there were fur­ Midtown Plaza comprises a 1-acre 2- the preservation of their lives. While ther studies. Again, last year a study to story covered Mall; Midtown Tower, an so many of these unfortunate souls lost set the policy for use of our high mountain 18-story, omce-hotel-rest=..urant build­ country was completed. Now, the taxpay­ their lives in this historic uprising, yet ers are being asked to finance another study. ing; and a 2,000-car city-owned and op­ by that very act they covered themselves During 1962, about 450 million board feet erated underground garage. with glory and honor, profoundly setting of timber was harvested in the Mount Baker Midtown Plaza created 220,000 square a moving example to their descendants. and Snoqualmie National Forests. This feet of new retail space in downtown We honor the memory of these unknown volume is capable o! supplying jobs to 4,500 Rochester. More than a million square gallant fighters for freedom, fighters for persons employed directly in the timber feet of retail space is accessible from it. elemental human rights, on the 20th an­ industry and would support another 11,250 Midtown Tower is composed of 13 niversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising persons indirectly. A national park would :floors of omce space, a 220-seat restau­ mean the loss of livelihood for a great per­ rant, and a 3-:fioor, 78-room hotel. It is against the Nazis. centage of these people, because timber isn't harvested in national parks. Unemployment Rochester's highest building. The is too high as it is without adding fuel to Tower building provides 173,000 square the fl.re. feet--more than 4 acres-of new office National Park Proposal Each year the Forest Service returns 25 space in the center of the downtown percent of its receipts to local counties in business district. EXTENSION OF REMARKS proportion to the amount of national forest The 3-level underground muruc1- OF area each contains. This amounted to $304,- pal garage has an average daily turnover 476 for Whatcom, $173,783 for Skagit, and of 4,500 automobiles. $244,199 for Snohomish last year. Any area HON. JACK WESTLAND redesignated national park land would reduce The stimulus to downtown business OF WASHINGTON these payments now available to the coun­ and the assurance of a prosperous and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ties for schools and roads. vital future for both business and the city provided by Midtown Plam, mark Monday, April 22, 1963 I'm for more recreational opportunities and have supported both the Forest Service Midtown as one of the most remarkable Mr. WESTLAND. Mr. Speaker, a and the National Park Service in their efforts undertakings by American businessmen study of the North Cascades area of to provide for the recreational needs of our in recent years. Washington State is scheduled to begin growing population. And, as I've mentioned Midtown Plaza was built with private soon. Much of the area involved lies before, if the people o! Washington State really want another national park, I'll have capital by its cosponsors, the Mccurdy in the Mount Baker and Snoqualmie no objections. However, the decision should and Co. Department Store and the B. National Forests of the congressional be left to the people, not the bureaucrats Forman Co., Women's Specialty Store. district which I represent. The outcome in Washington, D.C. The stores have been close neighbors and of the study, therefore, will have a direct Sincerely, keen competitors for many years. effect upon my constituents, many· of Congressman JACK WESTLAND. The project is a monument too, to co­ whom rely upon these forests for their operation between a municipality and income. private business. In an agreement be­ Because this matter is of utmost im­ lieved to be the only one of its kind, the portance to the State of Washington and Midtown Plaza: The Nation's Showplace city committed itself to build and operate to the Second Congressional District, I the 2,000-car underground garage and have macie it the subject of my current make necessary street improvements all newsletter. EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF at a cost of more than $11 m·illion. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my The owners of Midtown agreed to con­ remarks, I include this newsletter in the HON. FRANK J. HORTON struct a covered mall and an omce build­ RECORD. OF NEW YORK ing at least 10 stories high above the The article follows: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES garage. The happy result for downtown PROPOSED NATIONAL PARK Monday, April 22, 1963 business and the city of Rochester is You know, the bureaucrats are at it again. a revitalized city. Secretary of Interior Udall and Secretary of Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, while in Midtown Plaza today is the home of 33 Agriculture Freeman, with the President's my home community of Rochester, N.Y., shops and services, 6 of them new busi­ approval, have authorized a study of the during the Easter recess, I had the honor area between Mount Baker and the Canadian nesses in Rochester. Midtown Tower border, ostensibly to determine the best way and great pleasure to participate. in the provides space for 34 firms. Of the to use the resources of the North Cascades. ceremonies held on April 15 to mark the 173,000 square feet, or more than 4 acres But, the North Cascades Conservation first anniversary of the Nation's first of space, all but 12,000 feet is leased or Council h as prepared a draft bill to create and only urban shopping plaza. This is occupied. 1963 ·CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 6725 Midtown Plaza is more than a complex It was the time of the Passov.er, a time Jacksonian principles, and how those of steel and stone. It -is the ful:filiment of reflection for all Jews on the greatness principles -are applicable to.day. . . of a community desire to preserve a civic · of their history; it was the evening of For the benefit of all-of those who did asset. - April 18, 1943. The news spread quickly . not_have the privilege of_ hearing my dis­ Midtown Plaza is living witness to the among the remaining 40,000 in the ghetto tinguished colleague of -Indiana, I . ask ability of local interests and local gov­ that tomorrow the Nazis would come to unanimous consent to have his remarks ernment to develop a community re­ round them up for their one-way trip printed in the RECORD. source. This ability has caught the to death. But they had decided that the There being no objection, the _address imagination of other communities end would not come without resistance. was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, throughout the Nation and has been well As the storm troopers, with their Polish ·as follows: · publicized in their news media. and Ukrainian police support, marched JEFFERSON-JACKSON DAY SPEECH But, above all, Midtown Plaza has be­ into the ghetto that Saturday morning, (By Senator BAYH) come a source of pride for all of us who the fighting began. Sirice the invaders Tonight we meet to celebrate a victory, live in Rochester. We are proud of this were taken completely by surprise, Ger­ a victory most Hoosiers thought an impossi­ downtown Plaza. We tell our visitors man dead sprawled on the streets. The ble task only 12 short months ago. Through about it and delight in giving them a Nazi high command was aghast. More your faith and devotion, wit:P your energy tour of it. troops were sent in and repulsed. The and dedication to purpose, together we won Midtown Plaza is durable. It will live situation was serious, and Hitler was in the good fight. Words are insufficient to and grow as part of a dynamic Rochester, a rage at the spirit shown by the Jews. express the deep gratitude which Marvella Finally the local German commander and I feel in our hearts for you who honored a Rochester made more dynamic by its me by bestowing the honor of serving as .presence in the heart of the city. took the last course available-he put your U.S. Senator from Indiana. the torch to the ghetto area. The parti­ Yes, there were those who said Democratic sans were driven from their attic· hide­ victory in Indiana was impossible. There outs into underground bunk~rs, covered are those who utter this same sterile sound­ The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 1943 by the rubble of falling buildings. Food ing slogan tonight. Let us . here and now and water were short, and weakened proclaim to those pitiful prophets of doom women and children were dying. The who declared it impossible to elect VANCE EXTENSION OF REMARKS weak in spirit, willing to sell their souls HARTKE to the U.S. Senate, .who thought it OF impossible to seat Matthew Welsh in the for food and .the chance to live a little Governor's chair, who pessimistically proph­ HON. HERMAN TOLL longer, stole out to the Nazis and gave esied that a young State legislator from the OF PENNSYLVANIA away some of the hiding places of the city of Terre Haute was wasting ~is time, fighters. Rather than fall into German IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES let us say to them at this very hour that hands, sons shot their own mothers, the Democratic Party does not now nor will Monday, April 22, 1963 mothers killed their own children, and . we ever again believe that the election of Democrats in Indiana is impossible. Mr. TOLL. Mr. Speaker, 20 years still the resistance went on. Outside the walls of the ghetto it was Let us start now determined to elect and ago a group of tortured and aban­ reelect Democratic mayors throughout this doned men and women, their children Easter. Spring had come to Warsaw, State. Let us decide now that a Democrat hidden out of sight, gave vent to the and while thousands were dying in the will be elected Governor, that Indiana will desperation of their situation and with flames, the rest of the city carried on continue to have two Democratic Senators, guns, bricks, bottles, and even their own its usual business with only the smoke that Democrats shall control the next gen­ bodies as weapons, took on the might of and ash marring the festive spirit. eral assembly and that Indiana shall cast On May 8 the main bunker was cap­ its electQral votes for John Fitzgerald Ken­ a well-equipped army with but one nedy in 1964. idea-to fight, to the death if necessary. tured and most of the leaders of the movement killed. By the end of May The people of Indiana want good govern­ The Nazi army marched in.to Poland ment and we are giving it to them. Hoosier in September of 1939. Not only did this most of the . ghetto area had been de­ citizens demand straight talk and solutions mean the beginning of a war that would ·stroyed and all but a handful of the to complicated problems. This we pledge. .rock the world for the next 6 years, it fighters vanquished. The end had come, This is our goal. also marked the start of a campaign of but only in Warsaw. The fight was car­ As Democrats we can be proud of the herit­ mass slaughter and extermination that ried on in the woods and hills. It is still age to which we fall benefit. From the time going on today in the creation and pres­ the principles of the Democratic Party were still leaves one stunned at the enormity laid down by Thomas Jefferson and Andrew of the crime committed. Before the ervation of the Jewish State of Israel. It is for us to remember in all honor and Jackson, ours has been the party of the peo­ end of the war 6 million Jews, mostly of humility the brave freedom fighters of ple, the defender of minority groups, the Eastern Europe, would be dead, meth­ party of progress. odically killed under the orders of one the ghetto of Warsaw. A monument to Shortly after the founding of our party, man, Hitler, carried out by his sadistic their sacrifice must be built and main­ Thomas Jefferson defined its goals, charac­ 'henchmen. The center of this slaughter tained in all our souls. terized its philosophy and contrasted it with opposing forces when he said: was Poland. Throughout Nazi-con­ "Men by their ·constitutions are naturally quered Europe, a policy of Jewish ex­ divided into two parties those who fear and termination was carried out against Jefferson-Jackson Day Address by distrust the people and wish to draw all heroic resistance by many of those powers from them into the hands of the doomed. Yet the heart is stirred most Senator Bayh high classes; and those who identify them­ by what happened when the Warsaw selves with the people, have confidence in ghetto finally exploded with wrath EXTENSION OF REMARKS them, cherish and consider them as most against the mass murder camps in the honest and safe." OF In· the span of nearly a century and a half Polish countryside to which the Jews of from Jefferson to Kennedy, a great nation the ghetto were taken to die, just for HON. VANCE HARTKE and the world's oldest democracy has sprung being Jews. OF INDIANA from the waiting lands of a continent and When the first stories began to circu­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES the hearts of a people and has spread around late among the ghetto population of the world. And across this Nation is em­ what actually happened to those who Monday, April 22, 1963 blazened the record of the Democratic Party, were taken off to "work camps" in the Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, on its belief in the people, its belief in the dig­ country and never heard of again, there April 6, 1963, at Indianapolis, Ind., the nity of every man, its belief that there is no junior Senator of Indiana fMr. BAYH] more noble aspiration for a political party was disbelief. When the real nature of or government than to tend to the needs of these camps was established beyond was called upon to deliver the principal its citizens and to promote the basic oppor­ doubt, there was fear. When the word address at the Indiana Democratic Jef­ tunities of each individual American. was passed that the Nazi commandant ferson-Jackson Day dinner. The Democratic Party has pursued these had been ordered to dispose of the re­ The junior Senator ·of Indiana per­ goals with concrete legislative programs. maining Jews of the ghetto in a like formed eloquently, giving to his audi­ Democrats have been responsible for · the manner, there was finally a will to fight. ence a clear picture of Jeffersonian and cornerstones of family security, the social 6726 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE April 22 security program, unemployment compen­ .full American citizenship means ·freedom of will in the future be more cautious on sation, consideration for the aged, the blind, worship, freedom of. access to public places, this tr-eatment of the printed products of our children. Democrats established the freedom to 'Speak without fear of reprisal, the couneil. minimum -wage and throughout the years and freedom 1io vote one's own convictions The council attack on me inserted in we have improved lt and Increased lts cover- in the privacy of a polling place. . age. We have made considerable progress The cold wa.r struggle today finds commu­ the April 4 issue of the CONGRESSIONAL in the field of cl:vil tights,. nistic totalitarianism and democratic free­ RECORD .is by no means the first instance But we need not dwell in the past to talk dom looked in mortal com'ba-t. of the careless handling by the New o! Democratic accomplishments. The Dem­ :A waiting world is watching the American England delegation of matters pertain­ ocratic P.arty is a party o! the present and response to the challenges of this age. Awak­ ing to the question of oil imports. When the future. After 2 years of the New Fron­ ening nations, .searching for a better way of the gentleman from Massachusetts was tier, at the quarter post o! the presidency life, are asking will democracy and freedom recognized on the fioor of the .House for of John F. Kennedy, we can see progress that work'? bas improved life here and around the world. Let us answer with a hearty chorus of ,3 hours last March 28, r sat through­ Great progress has been made. Yet we a.re -yes. Let us answer by renewing our de­ -out the subsequent discussion and was determined to solve problems stm unsolved. termination to keep the United States of frankly fascinated at the coordinated America has long been known for its B111 America a land of opportunity, for all Amerl­ particip81tion of the several Representa­ of Rights. Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke eans. for each American. tives from New England and the Mem­ eloquently of the four ireedoms. Today a bers from other areas they had been able space age America must echo these thoughts to solicit for the meeting that-unless and must rededicate itself to en.sure certain basic opportunities for each American. so well managed-would have fallen Each American must be given the oppor­ A Rebuke to the New England Council completely fiat because of the obvious tunity to secure a job sufficient to provide exaggerations and irrelevancies that for his family. Through the leadership of EXTENSION OF REMARKS echoed time and again through this President Kennedy more Americans are gain­ OF Chamber. The gentleman was so gra­ fully employed toBoston. Appar. tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions­ future through education is our best gua-ran­ ently frantic distribution of the prop..­ of textiles, fish, brass mill products, rub­ tee of meeting the challenges of the space age and the future. aganda is deliberately planned on the ber products, footwear, watches, bicycles, If these opportunities are to be- provided theory that the delegation patently and. and whatever othr~J.· products are manu­ for Americans today, each of us must be reso­ patronizingly serving the couneil will factured in the northeastern portion of lute in opposition to these few persons who. place. the material on public display our country? would deprive them to some Attlericans be­ without questioning its authenticity. I Here is the .fundamental issue. In its cause of race, religion, or ·national origin; for trust that my friends from New England glib reference tO the restoration of free 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 6727 enterprise, does the New England Coun­ New Hampshire is going to cost more at without regard to production and ship­ cil proclaim to want the produc~ of New Las Vegas or Buenos Aires than it does in ping cos~. · the peddlers of foreign oil England accorded the same competitive Manchester. need have no worry about competing conditions to which it would subject Now let us take a look at the New with domestic coal regardless of the ex­ America's coal industry? England Council's own reference to this tent to which delivered prices may be Mr. Speaker, can we expect this mat­ magic figure unquestionably developed reduced. ter to be resolved at the next New Eng­ in Boston's Statler Building. The at­ The increase allowed by the Depart­ land prayer meeting that takes place tempted calumniation of a Member of ment of Interior in residual oil imports here in the House of Representatives? I Congress by the council, as placed in the for the year beginning April 1 amounts to repeat that I do not wish to embarrass CONGRESSIONAL RECORD by my friend from 50,000 barrels per day. To serve the any of my colleagues, even those who Massachusetts, includes this sentence: markets into which this foreign fuel will would give publication to improper and Residual import restrictions have forced move would require the service of a undignified remarks such as those lev­ the cost of residual oil to 27 cents per barrel series of unit trains, two of which-each eled by the New England Council. For more than in Canada and other countries. made up of 100 60-ton cars-would move this reason I shall not name the Mem­ It is my earnest hope that, when the every day of the year from Pennsyl­ ber of the House who, just 5 days after New England delegation next favors us vania's mines to the east coast. Under he took part in the March 28 rumble with its stereotyped routine, an attempt the new order, those trains will not go against oil import restrictions, stood on will be made to get that 27-cent item on into service. Their operating crews and this very same floor and made violent the proper shelf. If it has not been maintenance men will remain idle. The protest against importation of woolen picked out of thin air, then certainly it miners who would produce the coal will goods so destructive of the New England can be presented with some degree of continue to wait for their jobs to reopen. economy that they have been responsi­ lucidity. Meanwhile the New England This prospect obviously meets with the ble for the closing of a plant in the home delegation might want to attempt to approval of· the New England Council. State of my friend who gives currency square its calculations with data released I am hopeful that my colleagues in the to the New England Council's criticism April 15 by the Office of Emergency Plan­ House of Representatives, assuming a of a Member of Congress. ning, the outfit whose recommendations less narrow perspective, will no longer The two-part travesty is available for for abandoning the oil import controls concur in this malevolent philosophy and reading on pages 4951 and 5540. In the program was evidently not politically will no longer stand ready to broadcast first instance, the gentleman stanchly agreeable to the White House. OEP lists character assaults on Members of Con­ assem that New Englanders want to pay the February residual oil cargo sales price gress as perpetrated and effectuated by the free world price for their fuel; the the Council. next week he demands that the Presi­ at $2.01 in New England, a reduction of dent immediately impose quantitative $1.18 since February 1957. You will re­ restrictions on the importation of woolen member that the mandatory control pro­ goods. New Englanders must pay 27 gram, which went into effect in April Chicago's Northwest Side Needs Mass cents more for domestic than for foreign 1959, used the 1957 figure as criteria for residual oil, he asserted on March 28; the quota system. The OEP chart shows Transit Bill 5 days later he said that the Massachu­ no indication that at any time in the past 8 years has the selling price of re­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS setts plant had been closed because their sidual oil in New England been lower fabrics cannot meet the competition of OF Japanese products, which sell for 40 than it is at the present time. cents per yard cheaper. As I interpret The New England Council, as reported HON. ROMAN C. PUCINSKI these remarks, our friends in New Eng­ through the good offices of the gentleman OF ILLINOIS land expect Americans to pay more for -from Massachusetts, quotes me as having IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES said that the import quota system has textiles in order to keep New Englanders Monda11, April 22, 1963 employed. I concur with that philoso­ at no time been used to benefit affected phy. But I should like to hear some at­ coal producing regions. I have indeed Mr. PUCINSKI. Mr. Speaker, last tempt at justifying the position of those made such a charge, and I reiterate it. week the Jefferson-Park Press, which is same New Englanders who are willing to The April 1 increase in quota allocations published in my district by Mrs. Morton see Pennsylvania and West Virginia coal is summary proof that the levels have Steinman, carried a most convincing edi­ miners lose their jobs in order that been adjusted to court the favors of New torial in support of the mass transit bill greater volumes of foreign residual oil England Members of Congress and Pres­ which we hope will come before the may be made available on the Atlantic ident Betancourt of Venezuela without House for action very soon. seaboard. regard to the economic impact upon coal Miss Sally Swanson, very capable civic For the record, I feel compelled to mining areas. If, as the gentleman from affairs editor of the Jefferson-Park dwell briefly on that 27-cent figure to New Hampshire [Mr. CLEVELAND] averred Press, has certainly stated the case in which I have just referred. Here is the on March 28, unemployment in West Vir­ support of the mass transit bill in terms way my colleague used it on March 28: ginia is of concern to all Americans, then which should help every Member of Con­ I ask him to consider the impact of the Mr. Speaker, New Hampshire residual oil gress better understand how the people consumers feel they are being unfairly increase in residual oil imports that went at the grassroo~ level in this country treated by the Kennedy administration. into effect on the first day of this month. feel about the massive traffic jams which They are being forced to pay 27 cents extra For the past year coal companies, rail­ clog our large and small cities daily dur­ for a barrel of residual oil than foreign roads, and public utilities have been co­ ing rush hours. consumers pay. operating in an effort to bring about a I was very pleased to see this frank Now, this difficult-to-understand con­ substantial reduction in the delivered editorial since it has been my privilege clusion is another indication of how the price of coal through the introduction of to be among the first Members of Con­ New England Council has been able to the unit train. The experiments have gress to cosponsor this legislation. . confuse even their protagonists in Wash­ been so successful that some-of the lines Recently, I appeared before the House ington. I would suspect that most econ­ were able to initiate price reductions of Banking and Currency Committee in omists would accept as a truism the as much as $1.50 per ton on coal moving support of this proposal to help America's fact that a commodity-any commod­ from western and central Pennsylvania communities develop a more effective ity-would vary in sales prices according to the east coast-traffic that would nor­ mass transit system. to points of production and consump­ mally cost from $4 to $4.50. This new More than one-half million people liv- tion. A barrel of oil-any kind of oil­ concept in coal transportation has been • ing in Chicago's Northwest Side, most of would be expected to be cheaper in looked to by residents of mining regions whom I represent in Congress, would Saudi Arabia or Venezuela than it is in as the method through which present benefit from this legislation. Pommouth, Pendleton, Pago Pago, or markets could be preserved and others I am including my own testimony in Rahway Junction. It is also likely that regained. Since oil importing com­ my remarks today following the excellent a sheaf of writing paper produced in panies are able to adjust sales prices editorial by Miss Sally Swanson. 6728 CONG~SSIONAL RECORD - SENATE April 22 Mr. Speaker, Miss Swanson's editorial Long delay in the CTA system could be traffic congestion during rush hours without costly. Experience proves that congested some form of Federal assistance. and my own remarks follow: expressways create a demand for more ex­ Mr. Chairman, I consider this legislation MOON TALK MAY GET COOL RECEPTION ON pressways. 'to provide assistance t.o our cities for devel­ NORTHWEST ExPRESSWAY And expressways are expensive. Their con­ opment of rapid transit systems as important (By Sally Swanson) struction costs many times that of a CTA in­ to our national 4efense effort as any single Yesterday the Nation's first astronaut to stallation and they remove land from the appropriation now before us in the multi­ orbit the earth, John Glenn, came to town, tax rolls, to say nothing of incalculable ex­ billion-dollar defense program. signalling the start of Chicago space month, penses from disrupted neighborhoods, dis­ The Chicago Transit Authority has done and for the next 80 -0.ays talk of spaceships, placed homes, and air pollution. a magnificent job in developing what I be­ meteorites, and moon blast-offs should excite And so it was encouraging news when Wal­ lieve to be the finest mass transportation the imagination. ter J. Mccarter, general manager of the CTA, system in the world. One segment of the population may be in­ proposed Thursday that construction of Earlier this year you heard testimony from different. A trip to the moon in this decade? Northwest Expressway CTA have top priority Mr. Virgil Gunlock, chairman of the Chi­ How wlll that strike the bumper-to-bumper if Federal aid to mass transportation is ap­ cago Transit Authority, and also from Mr. crowd known collectively as the Northwest proved by Congress. Walter Mccarter, general superintendent of Expressway commuting public? The bill, which would offer up to two­ the Chicago Transit Authority. I am sure The man caught twice a day in a car­ thirds of the difference betwen the cost of their experience is similar to that of transit choked nightmare, may consider a moon the project and the amount paid by fares, has operators all over the country, whether the launch ludicrous as he stops, starts, dodges, been approved by the Senate. It faces a transit sylltem they operate is privately and listens to his car radio chide: "North­ steep hurdle in the House. owned or publicly owned. In each instance west Expressway congested today." Like yes­ Hence the fate of the urban transit bill they are faced with the dilemma of either terday and tomorrow. this week in Washington is vitally important .raising the fares to bring about necessary A trip to the moon? The trip to work is to Northwest Side motorists. Possibly more improvements and seeing their passenger challenge enough. important than an "Operation Moonlift." volume decline, or leaving fares at their Two and a half years ago when the ex­ present rate and forsaking the needed mod­ pressway opened, the Northwest Side hailed STATEMENT OF CoNGRESSMAN ROMAN C. PU­ ernization programs. a new era of automobile transportation. The CINSKI BEFORE BANKING AND CURRENCY There is no question in my mind that in area has drawn closer to distant parts of COMMITTEE, HOUSE 011' REPRESENTATIVES, all of the large cities of this country, pres­ Chicagoland, with driving time unthinkable WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 6, 1963 ent rates have reached their peak, and any a few years ago. Mr. Chairman, permit me to express my further increases would result in a tremen- But not during rush hours. Disgruntled gratitude to you and your committee for dous decline in rider volume. · motorists insist they make better time on affording me an opportunity to testify in It is quite proper that the urban com­ city streets. support of H.R. 3881, which would provide munities of America should turn to their The congestion could be eased simply up to $500 million for development of mass Federal Government for assistance. These enough, according to experts, by installation urban transportation systems. large cities are the lifeblood of the Nation. of CTA tracks in the expressway's median It has been my privilege to submit identi­ From these large industrial centers flows the strip. Simple enough except ior one prob­ cal legislation-=-H.R. 807-both in the last revenue that makes it possible for this coun­ lem: money. Congress and again in this Congress. try to meet its defense commitments and, About $46 million is needed to install Gentlemen, I have here an aerial photo­ yes, Mr. Chairman, its very struggle for sur­ the tracks, including an extension from graph of my district showing the Northwest vival. Logan Square el, 'to O'Hare· Field. Expressway which goes right through my dis­ We do not hesitate to appropriate an esti­ INFLUENTIAL GROUPS REAPPRAISE STAND trict. It has been our hope to develop in mated $8 blllion a year in this country to the median strip of this expressway a rapid help the people in the rural areas of Amer­ Provisions were made for the CTA system ica remain in the economic stream of the when the road was built, and installation was transit system to relieve the tremendous au­ tomobile congestion which makes this ex­ Nation. It 1s a long-established fa.Ct that expected in due course. The plan toppled when the rural areas of America suffer eco­ in the spring of l961 when four powerful pressway one .solid mass of automobiles every working day during the early morning rush nomically, it is only a matter of a short time business and civic groups which had planned before the economy of America falters. to help the CTA get the necessary money hour and the evening rush hour. Chicago at present has three expressways: Mr. Chairman, nor did we hesitate to ap­ withdrew their support. propriate billions of dollars in our country Instead they asked for a study of the the Congress Expressway, the Northwest Ex­ pressway, and the Dan Ryan Expressway. in m1litary and economic assistance to our Northwest Side's overall transportation sit­ allies because we realize that the survival of uation. We are now in the process of building our fourth expressway, cutting through the freedom could be decided by the rebuilding of It surprised no one when a b111 for the CTA the large industrial centers of Europe in expressway subsidy failed to pass the State southwest section of our city. All of our expressways have been specially designed to making these countries economi'Cally inde­ legislature. pendent. Last November-18 months and several provide a median strip for rapid transit. The Northwest Expressway, the Dan Ryan Why, then, should there be .any strong thousand dollars later-the transportation objection to helping solve ,one of the most survey reported. that the CTA tracks would Expressway, and the Southwest Expressway be "the most effective single improvement were all :financed by Federal grants-in-aid as serious problems facing America's urban areas in public transportation" to relieve the part of the National Defense Highway Sys­ in this 7th decade of the 20th century? Northwest Side's traffic woes. tem. If the local communities could resolve this problem through their own resources, I cer­ The CTA expressway received a second im­ I am sure your committee will agree that portant endorsement last fall from the Chi­ with 78 percent of America's population tainly would agree there is no need for Fed­ cago area transportation study, a 6-year re­ now living in urban areas, the decision to eral intervention. But study after study search program costing $3.ll:z million. extend the National Defense Highway System shows conclusively that these urban areas of into the large cities is indeed a wise one. the .country cannot solve their transportation Principal opposition has come from the problems without some form of assistance Chicago & North Western Railroad, whose This decision to extend the National Defense Highway System in the large cities was made from the Federal Government, and for this officials complain that as a private enterprise reason I strongly urge adoption of this meas­ the railway could not compete with a sub­ in order to afford these cities an opportunity to move huge masses of. people out of the ure. sidized public agency. I would, however, like to can your atten­ Perhaps the protests have been effective be­ city very quickly in the event of a national emergency. tion to some provisions of this legislation cause of the railroad's sincerity in attempt­ which would create very severe hardships to ing to make its commuter business pay. However, Mr. Chairman, it appears to me that under the existing situation in all of ~mployees of the mass transportation in­ It has replaced dirty, 111 heated, and often dustry. overcrowded coaches with doubledeckers that the large cities of America, including Chicago, if an enemy 'force ever wanted to wreak Section 3 of the bill provides for grants or are roomy, air conditioned, and altogether loans to State or local public bodies or agen­ comfortable. It has added more trains to its havoc and destruction on this country, the time for a sneak attack would be during the cies for the purpose of acquiring, construct­ schedule, and inaugurated a river cruiser ing, reconstructing, or improving existing connection from its depot to Michigan Ave­ early morning rush hour or the evening rush nue. All draw the respect of a free enterprise hour when perhaps as much as 60 percent transit systems. society. of this Nation's entire industrial labor force In many States, when a private operation is hopelessly bogged down in traffic snarls has been acquired by the State or a political RAILROADS HA VE DISADVANTAGES all over America. -subdivision of a State, the public body has But railroads best serve the suburban com­ While I hope this· bizarre prospect never taken the position that it 1s legally disquali­ muter-Northwest Expressway ls within the develops, I mention this merely to emphasize fied from entering into collective bargain­ city of Chicag~and it has distinct disad­ to the committee the complete !ut111ty which ing with the collective bargaining agent of vantages for city riders: High fares, few faces the large urban communities of Amer­ the employees and also from entering into stops, no transfer privileges. ica. in trying to relieve this indescribable arbitration agreementfii with such collective 1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 6729 bargaining agent, even where, as is usually A second shortcoming in this legislation training under the Manpower Retraining Act the case, the employee has been for many which I hope will be correc't!ed by the com­ and then be absorbed by the newly developed years represented by a union under a system mittee is its failure to provide protective transit system. of collective bargaining with provisions for conditions for employees who would be dis­ Certainly if we are going to spend Federal arbitration. placed or adversely affected as a result, at funds to develop new mass transit facilities, It would be my hope that this legislation least in part, of the Federal financial assist­ it ls not asking too much that we at least can be amended to include provisions to pro­ ance program. establish in the committee report a rec­ tect public utility workers in the right to One way in which transit employees of ommendation that displaced workers in ex­ union recognition. existing transit companies could be adversely isting facllities, wherever practicable, be It is my further hope that some provision affected is where a rapid transit operation is given priority in applying for employment can be made which would give these em­ undertaken by a public agency with Federal with the new fac111ty. ployees of publicly owned mass transporta­ assistance, and the private transit company I am reasonably convinced that the Fed­ tion systems the right to enter into collective continues in existence. It is inevitable, for eral assl.Stance which urban areas could re­ bargaining agreements and to negotiate with example, that if a rapid transit line is erected ceive under this legislation would indeed management. Certainly these provisions which serves the same area as is presently create so impressive an expansion of mass should include the right to agreements served by a private bus line, that patronage transit facilities throughout America that which would provide some channel for set­ will be attracted from the bus line, and the workers presently employed in this coun­ tling grievance disputes. employees of the bus line will be adversely try would be absorbed into new job op­ Mr. Chairman, if in the judgment of this affected. portunities. However, I am sure that we committee you cannot agree on appropriate Here, also, perhaps this problem can be can understand the concern of those pres­ language to guarantee these rights to collec­ resolved by language in the report estab­ ently employed in the transit industry that tive bargaining of employees working for lishing legislative intent that an effort modernization and automation may elimi­ publlcly owned mass transportation systems, should be made to absorb displaced work~ nate their jobs. It is my hope that the perhaps the committee would consider in­ ers from existing publlc transit systems to cluding in its report language which would newly developed transit systems financed committee will give serious consideration make it clear that the intent of Congress on tb.l·ough Federal assistance. I would sug­ to this concern, and I am confident that this legislation is not to deny in any manner gest that perhaps some reference should be reasonable men can work out reasonable so­ or form, directly or indirectly, workers from made to the Manpower Retraining Act so lutions in this difficult field. exercising their right to collective bargaining that where employees are dislocated from Mr. Chairman, I am grateful to you for if in fact the majority of the workers in a their existing jobs because of new transit giving me this time to appear before this given union endorse such an action for col­ systems, these dislocated workers, if they committee, and I shall be very happy to lec,tive bargaining. need additional training, should get this answer any questions you might have.

SENATE Mr. BARTLE'IT thereupon took the MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT chair as Acting President pro tempore. A message in writing from the Presi­ TUESDAY' APRIL 23, 1963 dent of the United States submitting THE JOURNAL nominations was communicated to the The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, On request of Mr. MANSFIELD, and by Senate by Mr. Jones, one of his secretar­ and was called to order by Hon. E. L. unanimous consent, the reading of the ies. BARTLETT, a Senator from the State of Journal of the proceedings of Monday, Alaska. April 22, 1963, was dispensed with. EXECUTIVE MESSAGE REFERRED Rev. Harry W. Campbell, the Method­ ist Church, Washington, D.C., offered As in executive session, the fallowing prayer: ENROLLED BILLS AND JOINT RESO­ The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ pore laid before the Senate a message O Thou, whose yearning is for noble LUTION SIGNED DURING AD­ JOURNMENT from the President of the United States men and nations, inspire us by Thy pres­ submitting sundry nominations, which ence in these days. Let Thy spirit fill Under authority of the order of the was referred to the Committee on the these venerable walls and touch our Senate of yesterday, the Vice President, Judiciary. tempers and our words. Walk amongst on yesterday, signed the enrolled bill