September 27, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32089 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS "CAMP DAVID-WILL THE AFTER duced this "Framework for Peace" will Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and GLOW LAST?" continue to obtain in the delicate and Seventy-Eight. widespread discussions, meetings and ne JAMES A. RHODES, Governor. gotiations that will be necessary to im RESOLUTION 295 (VIRGINIA) HON. NORMAN F. LENT plement it. The "framework" has set up "CAPrIVE NA'I'.IONS" OF NEW YORK a process through which the interested Whereas, the Captive Nations now repre IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES parties can work out their new relation sent the enslavement of more than one bil ship. It will take all of the skill President lion people, more than 30 percent of the Tuesday, September 26, 1978 Carter displayed at Camp David to keep world's inhabitants, and all are oppressed • Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, Can the the peacemaking process moving for by communist-led dictatorships; and spirit of cooperation and good will which Whereas, people living in the captive na ward. • tions are denied such basic human rights as achieved the breakthrough at Camp free speech, free press, freedom to vote for a David be sustained through the difficult choice, freedom of assembly and freedom weeks and months of negotiations that ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR to criticize those in authority; and lie ahead? To me, that is the major un CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK Whereas, the captive nations now include resolved question from the summit at Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Cossakia, Camp David. It is already clear that the Georgia, Idel-Ural, North Caucasia, Ukraine, "Framework for Peace in the Middle HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI Far Eastern Republic, Turkestan, Mongolia, East" has resolved a number of problems. OF ILLINOIS and the Soviet Union, known as the Union of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Soviet Socialist Republics; plus the fiercely But it is also clear that some very serious independent Baltic Republics of Latvia, differences still exist. And settling these Tuesday, September 26, 1978 Lithuania, and Estonia; plus the Eastern issues will be far more difficult and cer 0 European Nat ions of Albania, Bulgaria, Yugo tainly more time consuming than were Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, slavia, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the lengthy meetings at Camp David additional material is driving on the Hungary, East Germany; plus the Asian na which produced the blueprint for peace recent 20th observance of the Captive tions of Mainland China, Tibet, North Korea, in the Middle East. Nations Week. By all evidence, this week North Vietnam, South Vienam, Cambodia was a highly successful one, both here and Laos; plus the Western Hemisphere's ' This is not to deride the very real ac and abroad. Much to the chagrin of Cuba; and complishment of President Carter at the Moscow, Peking and other red capitals, Whereas, other nations including Panama, summit. As one who in the past has it is a constant reminder of the Nation Angola, Mozambique, Somalia, and Ethiopia lamented Jimmy Carter's ineptness in are seriously threatened with communist en alism in over 27 nations held in Commu slavement; and handling foreign policy matters, I was nist bondage. encouraged by the way the President Whereas, such anti-communist govern plunged into the dangerous field of per As part of the record under Public Law ments as Taiwan, South Korea, Rhodesia, sonal diplomacy with determination and 86-90, I wish to submit the following ex Republic of South Africa, Republic of Trans emplifying items. (1) a proclamation by kei, the Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland skill. He saw possibilities that escaped are under heavy pressure to surrender to most everyone else; took risks that were Gov. James A. Rhodes of Ohio (2) An be American Legion resolution, Resolution communist pressures; now, therefore, it not necessary, and came out with a major Resolved, by The American Legion in Na achievement. 295, Virginia (3) an €ditorial, "Incon tional Convention assembled in New Orleans, I was particularly heartened by the sistent Concern" which appeared in the Louisiana, August 2Z, 23, 24, 1978, That we President's decision to try the step-by Phoenix Gazette (4) an article in the De urge the leaders of the United States Gov troit Free Press "Ivan Brucky-Activist ernment as the world symbol of life, liberty step process of working toward peace in Son of Now-Captive Byelorussia (5) an and the pursuit of happiness to speak out the Middle East. He had previously dis article by Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky on forthrighty in support of human rights for dained such procedures, seeming to '"Captive Nations Week and Mock Trials" those enslaved inside the captive nations prefer instead "comprehensive settle whose communist leaders d.eny the existence in the Taylorville, Ill., Breeze-Courier of God and the spiritual dimension of life, ment" at Geneva with all the warring (6) a report on a captive nations rally factions present. But the "Framework and whose avowed purpose is to destabilize for Peace" adopted at Camp David is in the San Diego Union and (7) a letter non-communist governments by destroying in the New Haven Register "Captive Na their purpose, values, traditions, and social structured for the step-by-step process, systems; and, be it further with each step becoming a foundation for tions Week Time to Speak Out:" Resolved, That we call upon the President further progress. It provides the basis PROCLAMATION IN RECOGNITION OF CAPTIVE NATIONS DAY and the Congress of the United States to for the agreements that must be made exert the same political and economic pres to achieve a complete, just and perma Whereas, the United States, as a great sures against communist governments on nent settlement between Egypt and democracy, founded upon the principles of behalf of human rights as has been done freedom, equality and justice for all, is against non-communist governments. Israel and eventually throughout the looked upon by the captive nations of the troubled Middle East. world as a symbol of hope and peace; and We all know the achievement of peace Whereas, Ohio, shares with the rest of the INCONSISTENT CONCERN is not going to be an easy, automatic nation, the concern for human rights and President Carter's rhetoric on human rights process. The President himself, in his self-determination for all the people of the has been inconsistent. remarks at the conclusion of the summit, nations of Eastern Europe; and Speaking out on the trial of two Soviet warned all of us of the "great difficulties Whereas, we, as a concerned people possess dissidents, Carter told French and German that remain and the hard issues still to a warm and understanding sympathy for television correspondents that the trials con the determination of these people to achieve stituted an "attack on every human being be settled." And certainly there are many, who lives in the world who believes in basic as indicated by the PLO complaints, the a just and lasting peace; and Whereas, we must strive to keep the aspi human free:iom and is willing to speak for objections from Syria and other Arab rations of the people of these captive nations these freedoms or fight for them." states and by the fact that even Prime steadfastly alive : Well and forthrightly put. Unfortunately. Minister Begin and President Sadat did Now, therefore, I , James A. Rhodes, Gov this statement came on the heels of another not reach accord on all issues between ernor of the State of Ohio, do hereby desig Carter statement on human rights that was their countries while at Camp David. But nate Monday, July 17, 1978, as Captive Na anything but well and forthrightly put. a fine start has been made. And the im tions Day in the State of Ohio and command Required by law to issue a proclamation on portant thing is to keep the momentum this observance to our citizens. Captive Nations Week, observed this past In witnes3 whereof, I have hereunto sub week, Carter put out a perfunctory state toward peace. s::ribed my name and caused the Great Seal ment. Let us hope and pray that the spirit of the State of Ohio to be affixed at Colum Lee Edwards, executive director of the Na of cooperation and good will which pro- bus, this 10th Day of July, in The Year of tional Captive Nations Committee, said that
Statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor will be identified by the use of a "bullet" symbol, i.e., • 32090 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 27, 1978 "the occasion called for eloquence and com His relentless Byelorussian activism left no against Moscow's repression of dissidents and mitment. What Mr. Carter gave us was bu alternative. intensified process of Russification. reacuratese and vapidness." "My outspokenness against the system Yet, the most i:ignificant protest came Edwards pointed out that the Carter proc makes me a man who w-0uld not be in good from usually hardline Communist Bulgaria. lamation contained "no mention of dissi standing with the present government," says In Sofia, a flag reading "Down With Com dents, the Soviet Union, Helsinki, commu Brucky (after three decades here, his syntax munism" was flown from a roof in the heavi nism or even totalitarianism of the right as remains stiff). "I'm trying to preserve our ly-guarded city center and leaflets carrying well as the left." It "screamed indifference," culture in this country, so I'm not in good the same slogan were scattered on the crowd. he said. standing. If I went there, I'm afraid I might YOU ARE NOT ALONE As Human Events notes, last year Carter not be allowed to return." This past January, Sen. Henry M. Jack almost became the first President since Con Superficially mild, Ivan Brucky projects an son (D. Wash.) told the relatives of Andrei gress initiated the observance in 1959 not to inner fire as he talks. Two years ago he was Sakharov, Anatoly Shcharansky and Vladi issue a proclamation. Only after an uproar the chairman of the Captive Nations Ethnic mir Slepack at a Washington, D.C., human of public protest did he relent and put one Festival, he reports, and he delivered a speech rights meeting, "You are not alone." out three days into last year's Captive Na against Communism. In October 1976, Democratic Presidential tions Week. Ask him to define his activities with the candidate Jimmy Carter sent Slepack a tele Carter's concern for the human rights of festival now--or indeed, with the Byelorus gram, "I want you to know of my deep per individuals in the clutches of an oppressive ian community yearlong-and he answers rnnal interest in the treatment that you and regime would carry more weight if he showed inscrutably: "Organizing, I organize." He has your colleagues receive." As a President, at least equal concern for whole nations of no wife or children; his country of birth is his Carter personally defended physicist Shcha individuals being denied basic human cause. ransky against Soviet charges. Carter also freedoms. All of which adds up to predictable zeal for wrote in a personal letter to Nobel laureate the Captive Nations Ethnic Festival-but not Sakharov, "We shall use our good offices to IVAN BRUCKY-ACTIVIST SON OF Now-CAPTIVE for predictable reasons. Not for Byelorussian seek the release of prisoners of conscience." BYELORUSSIA pride here does Brucky labor every summer; Now Orlov is alone in a Soviet cell. So is he labors for the encouragement that De Slepack. So is Gam<>akhurdia. The untrials (This is one in a continuing series about troit's celebration will lend to Byelorussians Detroiters involved in the city's ethnic fes of Shcharansky and Ginsburg held on the abroad. eve of Captive Nations Week have triggered a tivals. The Arab Festival continues from "Whatever we do here is felt over there," he noon until 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at new wave of awareness and indignation. This explains. "Radio Free Europe, the Voice of kind of timing is by no means new for the the corner of Michigan and Third. The Cap America. One way or another, the people take tive Nations Festival was held last weekend.) annual observance of the Week. note. And so does the government. Sakharov has predicted that Moscow's (By Polk Laffoon) "And because they are trying to perpetuate travesty of justice was a "test of the resolve Byelorussia. What roman tic images the the false idea that Byelorussia is a 'republic,' of the West to inRist on the fulfillment of the name connotes. Cossack riders and onion they match what we do here. If we name a principles proclaimed at Helsinki." domed spires. Flower-flecked villages and the new head of our Byelorussian Autocephalic The other day, Radio Moscow trumpeted vast Russian plain. Orthodox Church here, they name one there. that "a suitable riposte was given to the But how many Americans could pinpoint Even though he's a figurehead only. actions of the U.S. which speculates on the it on a map? Or say for sure that it was "But the result is, the more Byelorussian human rights issue," and tha.t "other future once an independent nation? activity we have here, the more our people actions wm be met with a similar fate." Ivan Brucky (pronounced Brooski) could. there may be allowed to do, Always we receive The die has been cast. Caotive Nations Brucky was born in Byelorussia, he has a word: 'More, more!" Week is a redeeming opportunity for the family that still lives there, he works-when Big brother is watching, and Brucky is glad. Carter adminLstra tion to redefine and reas he is not on the job as a civil engineer for sert its human rights policy. Swindell Dressler in Detroit-for the preser CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK AND MOCK TRIALS vation of its cultural integrity through the (By Lev E. Dobriansky) 200 AT RALLY FAVOR Am To CAPTIVE NATIONS Byelorussian-American -Association. The mock trials of leading human rights And there is nothing romantic about A rally showing support for citizens of Brucky. activists in the Soviet Union have drawn countries under Communist domination was vehement protests from all over the world. attended by more than 200 people yeste:day "We have our own language, our own In May 1976, Dr. Yuri Orlov formed in customs," he says, stressing the "we." at the Community Concourse, concluding the "Byelorussia lies between Poland and Mos Moscow a group to monitor Soviet compli 20th annual Captive Nations Week. cow with a capital at Minsk. It was once a ance with the Helsinski accords. The Hel The rally, sponsored by the California Cap grand duchy of Lithuania; in 1795 it was sinki Watch group was quickly joined by tive Nations Committee, included speakers, overtaken by the Russians and they have similar citizens' groups in Ukraine, Lithuania, music and dance groups representing some of had it most of the time since." Georgia and Armenia. Founders of the groups the 31 nations of the world that are under He pauses. "They want to destroy our have even since undergone savage repression. Communist rule. culture." The Kremlin's suppression drive climaxed in Countries represented at the rally were Byelorussia is not alone, of course. Along recent weeks with the use of phony charges China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, Romania with Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Ukraine, to convict Arlov, Vladimir Slepack. Zviad and Russia. Georgia and Armenia, it is one of many Gamaskhurdia and others, and the harass In 1959, Congress adopted a resolution "captive nations" that are satellites of the ment of American newspapermen who have authorizing the President to issue a Captive Soviet Union and "republics" in name only. refused to disseminate Soviet slanders. Nations Week proclamation each year until Brucky describes life there in these words; DOWN bWITH COMMUNISM "freedom and independence have been "If you don't join the Communist youth, Members of the U.S. Congress have urged achieved for all the captive nations of the you won't be allowed to go to school. I had a the Carter administration to express "in the world." friend, an older mab, who was asked by the strongest terms the opposition of the Hel City Councilman Blll Mitchell attended the authorities to be an informer--one who re sinki Watch group." Prominent U.S. scien rally, and read a proclamation from tihe coun ported on others when they spoke against tists, including three Nobel laureates, boy cil supporting Captive Nations Week. the state. He told them he wouldn't do their cotted a scientific meeting in the Soviet Un Capt. Henry E. Phelps, USN, ret., commit dirty work. He was put in jail for 10 months ion while the largest U.S. organization of tee chairman, said the purpose of the ob without a trial. He went to Siberia." computer sciences discontinued its coopera servance is to alert the American people to When Brucky was born, in 1926, Byelorus tion with Moscow. the threat of the "doplino theory" of com sia was a part of Poland. Jn 1939 the Rus British Prime Minister Callaghan voiced munism. Many countries have fallen in the sians reassumed power and he tasted for the his government's "abhorrence at the show wake of Russian rule, 'he said, and the United first time the grim reality of a totalitarian trials." Norway stated that the sentences States must come to their aid as well as regime. When the Nazis took over in 1943 "contradicted Soviet promises and decliara protect itself. and deported him to Germany for manual tions." "There are no other dominoes after us," labor, Brucky had time to reflect: Even Communist parties in Europe were he said. "We're the last one. We must put "I decided not to go back. I saw the con unable to conceal their disgust. The Spanish our efforts into supporting the captives ditions from '39 to '41. I didn't think it was Communist party expressed "our conidemna rather than the captors. If we support these a good place to be." tion," while its British counterpart called people, there will be no war:· . Displaced persons• school in Germany. on Moscow "to rescind the sentences." He said that support for the captive na Emigration to Canada. Graduation from the L'Humanite, the French Communist party's tions would lead to disintegration of the University of Manitoba with an engineering organ, termed the crackdown "unacceptable." Soviet Union's drive for world dominance. degree. Jobs in Ontario, Detroit, Los Ange An official newspaper in Tirana, Albania, dis Phelps said that peace is the answer, not les, Cleveland, Detroit. He was to see his closed that-hundreds of thousands in Georgia war, but that milltary superiority is essential mother once again only, on a visit to Poland. and Lithuania have staged demonstrations for aiding captive countries. September 27, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32091 Other speakers rrom the California com "THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY-PART "Certainly, we cannot equate these people mittee, comprised of the San Diego Friends XX-GEORGE MEANY SHOULD with the 3,000 millionaires' who would benefit of Free China; Alpha 66, a Cuban freedom most from tax revision, according to the LISTEN TO HIS BROTHERS IN THE statements made by President Carter. group, and various Eastern Europe organiza LABOR UNION MOVEMENT'' tions, asked Americans to band together to RELUCTANCE TO INVEST fight communism. "It is no ~ecret that our nation has lost Said one, "You must teach that there is HON. WILLIAM A. STEIGER ground economically in recent years, and this nothing more precious than freedom." OF WISCONSIN is due in part to the reluctance of investors to risk necessary capital to underwrite indus CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK TIME TO SPEAK OUT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES trial expansion. This reluctance is due in no In the United States, July is the month Tuesday, September 26, 1978 small part to the restrictions on incentives when "Captive Nations Week," is observed. that have been written into our tax laws over The resolution which established Captive e Mr. STEIGER. Mr. Speaker, the AFL the past several years. Nations Week was passed by Congress in 1959 CIO has been one of the few organiza "If, as advocated by the AFL-CIO, Congress and signed by the late President Eisenhower. tions to oppose the stimulation of capital should be foolish enough to close out capital It requests that future presidents issue an formation by reducing the tax on capi gains provisions over a three-year period, appropriate proclamation "until such time tal gains. It is a strange posture because this would not only hurt hundred of thou as freedom and independence shall have been capital is necessary for new job creation, sands of ordinary hard-working citizens but achieved for all the captive nations in the productivity improvement and greater it could have the effect of further pushing world." the country along the road of econoinic stag Last year, the proclamation of Captive Na economic benefits for everyone. Presi nation, with detrimental results to all of us. dent Kennedy, who was strongly sup tions Week was almost forgotten by the new "INCREASINGLY SOPHISTICATED" administration. However, this year, the pres ported by labor, recognized the role of ident did issue an appropriate proclamation capital when he originally proposed the "It is my observation that the typical American unionized worker, particularly in in observance of Captive Nations Week. cut in capital gains taxes which has now the railroad industry, is becoming increasing Coincidentally, Captive Nations Week was been incorporated in the Revenue Act ly sophisticated in economic matters and will observed only two weeks after our joyous of 1978 by the Long-Hansen amendment. and glorious 4th of July. Perhaps this is an not buy the simplistic 'soak the rich' dema excellent time for all Americans, after cele Many union members understand the goguery espoused by some politicians. This brating our independence, to examine the role of capital in bettering their lives. kind of propaganda is a direct affront to the plight of the captive nations and to reflect I have talked with union members who intelligence of the people we represent, and on how much we, in the U.S.A., should ap have never supported me, but agree with they certainly should not be subjected to it preciate the freedom that our forefathers my position on lowering the capital gains in our railroad labor publication. gave us. (Note: LABOR does not necessarily agree tax. with all of President Sytsma's views, but re In the last 20 years, we note an increased Today, I would like to insert in the roster of captive nations throughout the spects his right to express them in LABOR). world, a record of which the Soviet Union RECORD two letters. One is from a union leaders must be very proud. president, the other from a union mem To THE EDITOR: May we strongly suggest that our leaders ber. Both support a reform of the capital I just finished reading your comments not only issue proclamations as a routine gains tax as embodied in the Investment about the "rich bitches" and the "stockhold gesture, but start acting according to the Incentive Act. I would urge George ers." You made them sound like good sub principles and beliefs on which our Constitu Meany to read their letters. jects for the gas chamber. tion is based? Better you should tell your workers that BLE LEADER OBJECTS TO TAX EDITORIAL IN when he pushes the button that starts his In the past few weeks, our president spoke "LABOR" As "SIMPLISTIC POPULISM" out more often on the human rights issue $250,000 drill press, hone, or what have you even though the issue may be touchy to the President John F. Sytsma of the Locomo with which he makes his living that that Kremlin rulers. The basic human rights is tive Engineers has sent a letter to the editor piece of machinery was bought for him by a sue is also very dear to us. If we do not speak of LABOR, objecting to an editorial on tax "stockholder•· out in support of basic freedom for people reform carried in the July 26 issue. Yes, there are fewer and fewer small stock within the Soviet Union, then who will? (Editor's note: The editorial hit congres holders as the big blocks of stock are held by Those who speak up for human dignity and sional dawdling on tax reform, condemned institutions. Who are these institutions? self-determination in the Soviet Union are congressional proposals to reduce capital Namely big labor unions, pension funds usually sentenced to insane asylums and gains taxes and widen certain "loopholes." which pay our pensions when we retire, col concentration camps. Also, it approvingly quoted criticism of those lege endowment funds, and mutual funds. SALT II agreement is very important to proposals, made by President Carter and the A mutual fund, in case you don't know, humanity, but on what basis can we have a A.FL-CIO). is owned by sm::i.11 people who do not have guarantee since any agreements between Sytsma, whose Brotherhood is one of thP, enough money to buy 100 shares of stock. the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. have been owners of LABOR, said the editorial "trum They pool their money in one fund (some repeatedly violated by the Soviet Union. One pets the somewhat simplistic populism that have assets over a billion dollars) and the should only refer to the Helsinki Agreement has been the hallmark of LABOR for all these funds buy and sell stocks with the hopes of which is by now probably in the cartoon sec many years." making a profit for their many small in tion of the Pravda newspaper. "In view of the econoinic gains made by vestors. Since 1970, mutual funds have per Let's not wait another 20 years to see the organized labor-particularly railroad la formed rather badly except in isolated cases list of captive nations grow to the point bor-in recent years, don't you think that but they do control huge amounts of stock. where free civilization will be threatened by our railroad employes' newspaper should by Also, your life insurance companies prob· an unsatiable Soviet Communist appetite. now be playing a more sophisticated tune?" ably hold large amounts of stock in leading Let's counteract and speak out! the BLE leader asked. industries. . . . As an example, Ukraine was probably the CITES EFFECT OF TAX LAWS I grew up with some of your "rich bitches" first victim of Soviet Communist Imperial and the truly big shots that I knew all had Sytsma cited estimates that railroad work one thing in common: a belly full of pov ism. We call on our government to take a ers now average almost $20,000 a year. He erty when they were young. A couple of ten strong stand and start to support the added that "some crafts, including locomo ant farmers' sons for example now own Ukrainian people in their desire for inde tive engineers, earn between $25,000 and thousands of acres in Ohio. Another small pendence from Soviet domination. By such $50,000 annually." He continued: farmer's son I knew now has in addition to action, Ukraine could be the first captive "These are workers who own homes, have thousands of acres, three banks, is chairman nation to be free again and others would savings accounts and invest in the stock of a large insurance company, along with follow. We know it's a tremendous undertak market. When they sell their homes at a. other real estate and manufacturing com ing but one has to start somewhere. price that has been greatly inflated due to panies. We hope that someday each nation of this the economic spiral, they find that they are Others that I have read about who became exclusive club of captive nations, will be free being forced to pay a large capital gains tax disgusted with poverty are Kemmon Wilson, again and able to take their rightful place on the so-called profit that has resulted head of the Holiday Inns. At age 12, he lived in the family of free nations. because of inflation. in a room over a restaurant where his mother Therefore, we call on all freedom loving "These who are fortunate enough to have waited tables and helped support her by people of the United States to support the a profit in stock investments are also forced selling popcorn in theatres. Ray Kroc who bl.Sic human rights of those people who have to pay a large tax on their gains due to the established the successful McDonald ham lost their freedom and are without hope of restrictive tax laws that Rep. William Steiger burger empire was a peddler of malted milk regaining their own dignity unless we help wishes to modify. Many railroad employees machines at age 58 before he took over and them. saved all their lives to buy homes and other started the McDonald operation. The guy Connecticut Branch, Ukrainian Congress investments and will benefit immeasurably who invented and promoted the fabulous Committee of America, New Ha.ven.e if the Steiger legislation is passed. Xerox copying ma.chine was a. blue collar 32092 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 27, 1978 machinist who only lived a few years after using the unwanted barbless smooth fence ming pools and gym baskets for high school he hit it big and thus only had a small estate wire and a pair of pliers. The first basket was and college gymnasiums. Both sold nation of $29,000,000 when he passed on.... made for his own use, but was later sold wide. There wm, like I say, always be a few to a neighbor for one dollar. He sold several Sho-;>ping baskets with rubber covered "rich bitches." I don't dislike them. I would more baskets to other neighbors, then began handles were started in the thirties, but the like to join them (I think) but I don't want selling his handmade product from the bed shopper was required to carry the basket to pay the price. Let them pile up big success of a rented wagon and mule team. around the store. This led to the world's and I will continue to buy a few shares of Kasper's skillful hands then went to work fir.st shopping cart on wheels, made by KWW their stock when I have an extra buck or two. on the first wire horse muzzles, which sold for Weingarten's in Houston. Handy-Andy I sort of look on them in a way as my em faster than he could make them. As the of San Antonio also thought it was a good ployes. demand increased, Shiner's leading stores idea to become the second user of these new HERMAN TODHUNTER, began stocking his products. carts, starting a new industry which spread AIW Local 879.e By 1905, the wire basket and horse muzzle across the entire nation. was a full time business, so Kaspar sold his During World War II all production farm and bought a house and a two-acre stopped except for a few military contracts KASPAR WIRE WORKS MARKS tract in the new town of Shiner. Kaspar for frying baskets and handles for ammuni BOTH ANNIVERSARY continued the business in a small shed in tion boxes. Only two employees were re the backyard, shipping baskets and muzzles tained and it was necessary to completely all over South Texas, via the newly formed start over when the war ended. HON. J. J. PICKLE S.A. and A.P. Railway. Arthur and his wife, Josephine', reside at The business flourished for about a quarter 320 E. 10th St. in Shiner. OF TEXAS of a century, but the demand for the farm On November 24, 1970 Kaspar Wire Works IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ers' feed baskets and horse muzzles gradu received a HISTORICAL MARKER which was Tuesday, September 26, 1978 ally declined as farming became more and sponsored by The Lavaca County Historical more mechanized. With tractors replacing Committee. The growth and success of the • Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, I would like horses and mules, the demand for the muz firm was officially recognized in 1967 by the to share with my colleagues an article zles decreased, and ground mixed feed plus bestowal of the first annual expansion award that appeared in the Shiner Gazetter baled hay ended the need for the baskets. under tihe auspices of the Texas Industrial last week. The article provides a history Thus, the first phase of the business came Commission, the same award KWW will re of the Kaspar Wire Works which was to an end. ceive later this year in Austin. SECOND GENERATION-ARTHUR KASPAR Don and his wife, the former Jean Wel founded in Shiner, Tex., in 1898. ha.usen of Yoakum, reside at 1020 N. Ave. C Arthur H. Kaspar joined his father after in Shiner. Through four generations, the Kaspar he finished high school in 1918. Florist easels family has built this business into one and wire wreath frames were the first of the Don and Jean have always been active and of the leading industries in central Texas. new products engineered by the youthful interested in all community affairs. They vol It all began with August Kaspar who Kaspar and his helpers. Thestl early products unteered the use of the new Kaspar Wire handwove wire feed baskets in his back where laboriously made with crude hand Works factory building for the Benefit Dance, yard. Today, Don Kaspar and his two tools; however, it marked the beginning of the initial kickoff event for the fund-raising diversification at the Wire Works. campaign for the Shiner Hospital Foundation sons, David and Dan, manage the large, Building Fund. diversified company that employs more THmD GENERATION-DON KASPAR As chairman of the Bicentennial Commit than 400 people. They have become the After graduation from Texas A&M Univer tee Jean worked untiringly with her com dominent supplier of coin-operated sity in 1949, Don G. Kaspar became asso mittee members to make the Bicentennial newspaper racks in the United States ciated in the business and to a large extent Year one long to be remembered by the and their products r:.re sold worldwide. was responsible for the steady growth and Shiner community. expansion which has resulted in the em FOURTH GENERATION-DAVID AND DAN For eight decades, Kaspar Wire Works ployment of over 400 people 1.n 1978. has made a tremendous contribution to Around 1958, newspapers began asking for David and Dan, sons of Don Kaspar, joined the economy of central Texas and under coin-operated racks to replace the so-called the management team at KWW in 1976 and its present outstanding leadership, I am 'honor' racks then in use. KWW pioneered 1977, respectively. The pair mark the fourth this field and developed a wire cage con generation to head Shiner's largest industry. ·sure that the company will continue to After graduating from Shiner High School grow. trolled by a simple coin mechanism which solved the problem. The coin-operated in 1971, David went on to receive a Bachelor's KASPAR WmE WORKS NOTES 80 YEARS OF models collected more than 90 % as compared Degree in Business Management from Texas PROGRESS to less than 50 % for the honor racks and fre A&M University. David and his wife, Josh, re (By Bobby Strauss) quently paid for themselves in a week or two side at 220 Montana Drive in Terrace West. It started out with one man, a pair of on the busy street corner. Dan is also a graduate of Shiner High and pliers and some discarded wire, but eight dec Continuous research and development with Texas A&M. He earned Ms high school di ades and three generations later Kaspar Wire constant improvement in manufacturing fa ploma. in 1973, then received a Bachelor's Works stands proudly on the outskirts of cilities established Kasper as the dominant Degree in Agricultural Economics in 1977. Shiner shipping their products around the supplier of coin-controlled newspaper racks Dan's new home built in the same spot his world. in the United States. About a dozen different grandfather's backyard shop stood in the In the mid 1890's, ordinary wire was some models are now being offered by KWW to early 190-0's, is nearing completion. thing nobody wanted in South Texa~. except meet every newspapers need. ( MORE HELP ON THE WAY a man named August Kaspar who saw a fu Starting in 1977, KWW newspaper racks Besides David and Dan, Don and his wife ture in the product. The wire was available are regularly being exported to Germany, Jean, have two more sons, Douglas and Den almost for the asking as farmers and ranch Austria, Switzerland and Holland. Sales in nis. Doug is a junior at Aggieland where he ers were discarding it in favor of the newly crease of the racks jumped over 23 % in 1977 is majoring in Industrial Engineering. Den introduced barbed wire. over 1976. nis, one of the Shiner Comanche's promising Kaspar studied the situation, began pick The wire products division also expanded young athletes, is a freshman at t he local ing up the discarded wire, and started hand as hundre::!s of new items are being produced. school. weaving it into shuck baskets and horse This includes display racks for every con Kaspar Wire Works h&s grown with Shiner muzzles. ceivable purpose, motor mounts and grills for throughout the years. The expansion of this A backyard shop and kitchen were his the air-conditioning industry, special wire local industry into one of the leading wire components for other manufacturers, paper "plant," a pair of pliers his tool and the bed works manufacturers in t he United St ates of a rented wagon was his salesroom with guides for the computer industry and many has proven itself an incalculable asset to our friends and neighbors becoming the first cus more. community.e tomers of what would later be known as Kas The next new product was wire coat par Wire Works, Inc. hangers, also made with primitive equip ment. It was at this time that some of the CLINICAL LABORATORY IMPROVE- ' HOW IT ALL STARTED operations were powered by a gasoline engine, MENT ACT August Kaspar was a native of Texas born which was hooked up to the family washing on October 10, 1871 at High Hill in Fayette macbine, certainly marking a first for home County. He came to the Shiner area around laundry. HON. PAUL G. ROGERS 1890 when he first worked as an employee of During the early twenties, welded wire OF FLORIDA the Fred Kokernot Ranch. A few years later, products began to appear on the American Kaspar bought some land outside of Shiner market about the same time electricity came IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and began farming on his own. He was mar to Shiner. The gasoline engine was replaced Tuesday, September 26, 1978 ried to Miss Emma Stindt on December 29, with an electric motor and the first electric 1897. S".)ot welder was purchased by KWW in 1928. • Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, on Sep It was around the turn of the century The first weld·ed products shipped from the tember 19, 1978, I notified colleagues of when Kaspar first made a wire feed basket, Wire Works were checking baskets for swim- my intention to offer an amendment to September 27, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32093 the Clinical Laboratory Improvement attention on and ease the plight of Cam there is absolutely no reason why a special bodian refugees, who, despite incredible odds, parole for several thousand Cambodian refu Act MY DACHSHUND THE OCEAN BLUE Also helps the flowers in need. My dachshund is so very cute, As I sat dreaming on the beach That fragrance once oame right to me, But I wish that her name was "Boot"; The pretty waves seemed as to reach And opened up my eyes to see; Her name is really "Sugar S.", Stretching way up onto the sand The lovely sight that nature is, And of all dogs she is the best. Reaching-reaching to touch my hand. Created by those hands of His. The ocean is a shocking blue Antonio Galan, age 11. She is so short, so very small, Sometimes it's green and aqua too; RED AS She is our little baby doll; Its foam is like a bubbling light Red as a rose on a green vine, She barks so loud night after night, Lighting the beach through the dark night. Red as my toes in a straight line; She scares robbers, gives them a fright. Joanne Field, age 11. Red as my nose, oh, when -it glows, Larry Spiegelman, age 11. YOUR MAILMAN Red as a lady in a pose . . . MY FRIEND Your mailman comes through sun or snows, Red as my math teacher's kind face, I have a. .,friend whose name is "Stool", He keeps your mail in nice neat rows; Red as the mud on one shoe lace; And she is very very cool; He brings your letters straight to you, Red as lobster on sandy beach, On sunny days we laugh and play, Some make you happy, others blue. . My face when I must make a speech. On rainy days we hide away. Amy Hobbs, age 11. On your mailman, you can depend My friend is short, but she thinks tall, He's almost like your closest friend; MY PET We're closest friends, we have a ball; You wait for him to pass your way, I have a pet so neat and clean, O! those I love in our great land, His friendly smile helps make your day. Prettiest eyes I've ever seen; My friend is "Tops", she's really gra.nd. Sharon Brown, age 12. It doesn't crawl, it doesn't walk, Nicole Gabai, age 11. I've never ever heard it talk. YOUR SHADOW It does not rock and roll or sing, LET THERE BE LIGHT Your shadow follows you around, Long ago before there were trees, birds, and In fact, not much of anything; You only see it on the ground; If the answer you did not get, bees, there wasn't a. thing anywhere, but Sometimes it's big and sometimes small, soon there would be. God was there! A tropical fish is my pet! There's time you don't see it at all. Karen Clar, age 12. He said the words, "Let there be light!" Your shadow moves both up and down, I WONDER Then all the world was bright. Trees, birds, It's like a clown without a frown; bees, and trees grew from the sand. It I wonder why I love him so, Your shadow is a part of you, I wonder why I really care; was nice: "God Gave a Hand." Whose favorite game is peekaboo. Jacqui Morgan, age 11. I wonder what would happen if Tracey Bratz, age 11. By chance that I should not be there? THE SEA MY NEW PET I wonder if he loves me too, Once on a warm hot sunny day, I love to see the sea so blue, I wonder wonder night and day? I had an urge to go and play; It's there for me, it's there for you; Except the times when I'm with him, It was so nice and beautiful, In its warm waves we jump and swim, Then all my wonders wash away. I jogged along then felt a pull. Its soft sounds like a lovely hymn. Lysette A1'0cha, age 12. To my surprise it was a dog The sea is blue, sometimes it's green, MY BEST FRIEND I saw he also liked to jog And in a storm it acts real mean; I love my horse, that is my bag, It continued to follow me I love the waves rolling so high, About his gait I always brag; I took it home and paid no fee. They're like my mother's lullaby. He is a pacer, yes indeed, Karen Span, age 11. Peggy Woodward, age 11. I braid his mane and give him feed. MY MOTHER The following prize winning poems were I 'barrel race him m.ost every day, When I strike out or lay a bomb, composed by the fifth and sixth grade stu He's my best friend and loves to play; I can always count on my Mom; dents at Everglades Elementary. Principal: I clean his hooves when we are through, She perks me up when I am low, Dr. Frazier Cheyney; SVP Contact: Nancy His nose thanks me-our love is true. And makes me feel like I'm aglow. Dahlin; Media Specialist: Ellie Angel; PTA Stefanie Betts, age 11. Contact: Mrs. Doris Folliard; Teachers: Ger She is, in all, my true best friend, trude Park, Anne Sparks, Eleanor Sager, Jim The following prize winning poems were And I can trust her t.o the end; McCloskey, Ann Cohen, Harriet Brookman, composed by the fourth, fifth and sixth grade For me there will be no other Berrie Shaw, and Norman Houlberg. students at Pine Lake Elementary. Principal: To replace, my dear sweet Mother. Mrs. Charlene Houghton; Assst. Principal: A SEAHORSE Mrs. Marta Kloverkorn; Teachers, Mrs. Grace Keith Robinson, age,12. A seahorse in the ocean blue, Samoriski, Dr. Nancy B. Maiztal, Ana R. MY FAMILY But this horse doesn't have a shoe; Driggs. NATURE Five people in my family, A creature filled with poise and grace, The sea must be it's rightful place. Nature is such a lovely thing, And each one is "Special" to me; My father goes to work each day, I've never heard it make a sound, With all the birds in time to sing. My mother helps in her own way. At least not while I've been around; Earth is filled with the touch of trees, It wouldn't surprise me at all, The air is a soft rushing breeze. My family is important too, If it could make a horse like call. Deer in the forests are awake, To all my friends there's no taboo; Lila Quintiliani, age 10. That hunters might give them a scare. For in their love they fill my need, GALAXY Silence is brewing near and far, My family knows-I will succeed. Hoping to see a falling star. Durshan Daswani, age 10. The galaxy isn't any empty place Angelina M. Colmenar, age 12. It's filled with stars and within that space BLACK HISTORY There are also planets and meteorites, CAMELBACK I love to read "Black History", Interspersed with rockets and satellites. The first time I saw her was from the air, She was down on the desert inhaling the It reveals my ancestry; Is this a place where life abounds? sand; It's like something special I pursue, Can there be laughter and. eerie sounds? thought the plane's engines would divert In search of roots to hold on to. The galaxy is filled with mysterious things, her stare, From Jupiter's moons to Saturn's rings But she kept her head down on that Yes, I can be proud of my past, Chris Proietti, age 10. For what was.built was built to last; parched land. Wonderful thought I think each day, BLUE Phoenix's camel had long been carved For pa.st and future-I now pray. Blue is the color of the sky so high, By time, sand, and the windy weather; Alison Bothel, age l 2. Blue is the color of a T shirt dye; In spite of stone mouth she's never been Blue is the color of our private plane, starved, WHAT YOU ARE Blue is the color of the rain. For the earth and she are always together. It does not matter what you are Denise Conlin, age 11. Blue is the color of sadness and sorrow, If your goal is a distant star; Blue is the color of tomorrow; SEASONS It matters not color of skin Blue is the color of ink in my pen, When Spring is here we laugh and play, If you can find quiet peace within. Blue is the color of my father's den. We're filled with joy throughout the day. It matters not if rich or poor Kimberlee Hutchins, age 11. When Summer comes we almost die, If what you have you feel secure; THE FRAGRANCE AFTER THE RAIN Because it's hot, and that's no lie. What matters most, and this is true, There is a fragrance after the rain, When Winter's here I'm cold as ice, To be thankful that you are you. Brought by the wind right past the lane; To write this poem was really nice. Valerie Price, age 12. Good memories it brings indeed, Jim Lewis, age 11. CXXIV--2019-Part 24 32114 EXTENSIONS-OF REMARKS September 27, 1978 TRUE GRACE involvement in civic affairs. He recog CONGRESSIONAL STEEL CAUCUS MEMBERS WHO A good ballet dancer she is, nized that he could not divorce himself HAVE PAID DUES AS OF JUNE 30, 1978 She moves with grace across the floor; from the daily life of the community, Gaydos, Joseph; Seiberling, John; Bevlll, Tust like a swan on clear water, and he has spent countless hours in try Tom; Walgren, D9Uglas; Daniel, w. C.; There's nothing else you could ask for. Young, Bill; ~ Kindness, Thomas; Walker, ing to keep New York City a desirable Robert; Yatron, Gus; Pattis::.:n, Edward; Her costume ls so beautiful, place in which to live. His perception of Duncan, Robert; Metcalfe, Ralph; Mikulski, It's pink and black but nothing more; problems and his ability to develop solu Barbara; Carney, Charles; Ertel, Allen; Evans, It sways so nicely in the breeze, tions has made him one of the persons Frank; Gilman, Benjamin; Mitchell, Donald; It's like nothing you've seen before. Mollohan, Robert; Pease, Donald; Railsback, Kelly Fryda, age 12. to whom the community turns during times of crisis. He can truly be described Thomas; Roe, Robert; Long, Clarence; Walsh, JUST YOU WAIT as one of the most outstanding leaders William. The nervous, perspiring batter nears the Weaver, Jim; Evans, David; Dent, John; in the Catholic community, not only of Myers, Michael; Cavanaugh, John; Coleman, plate, our city, but of the country. The winning of the game 1s in his fate. E. Thomas; Ruppe, Philip; Shuster, E. G.; Watching the approaching hard pitched ball, Bishop Mugavero, like his predecessors Murphy, Morgan; Oberstar, James; Nowak, Hearing the anxious cheering crowd call: for the last century and a half, has al Henry; Patten, Edward; Annunzio, Frank; ways been available to help anyone who Udall, Morris; Murphy, Austin; Murtha., "Swing your bat and make that hit!" John; Jenrette, John; Myers, Gary; Hanley, Three times the ball flew into the catcher's might need assistance and his kindness James; Regula, Ralph; Lundlne, Stanley; mitt. and understanding has set an example Russo, Martin; Michel, Robert; Addabbo, With head held low he leaves the plate, few can equal. Joseph. Next year will come-just you wait. I know that my colleagues join me in Stratton, Samuel; Brown, George; Bu Michale Halberg, age 8. saluting this outstanding religious and chanan, John; Zefferetti, Leo; Mann, James; McClory, Robert; McEwen, Robert; McKay, U.S.S. GAMBIER BAY civic leader on his personal anniversary Gunn; Marks, Marc; Murphy, John; Luken, Yes it was sunk, the Gambler Bay, and for the diocese itself. I am enor Thomas; Applegate, Douglas; Pursell, Carl; Broke Grandpa's heart that fatal day; mously proud ·and deeply privileged to Oakar, Mary Rose; Moorhead, William; But our Navy was stlll so great be able to serve within the diocese of O'Brien, George; Rooney, Fred; Miller, Clar That it could stand this blow from fate. Brooklyn and to be able to call Bishop ence; Hillis, Elwood; Le Fante, Joseph; Mottl, There ls one thing that all should know, Mugavero a friend.• Ronald; Harsha, William; Benjamin, Adam; Navy's courage will grow and grow, Risenhoover, Ted. I hope some day I'll go to sea, Pettis, Shirley; Cornwell, David; Holland, And make my grandpa proud of me. Kenneth; Ammerman, Joseph; Dingell, John; Mike Robertson, age 11. FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE CON Corcoran, Tom; Lloyd, Jim; !chord, Richard; MY DIESEL TRUCK GRESSIONAL STEEL CAUCUS: Fithian, Floyd; Gammage, Bob; Ford, Wil liam; Flood Daniel; Kostmayer, Peter; Led When I grow up I want to truck, QUARTERLY STATEMENT OF EX Drive open road have lots of luck; PENSES AND FUND BALANCE erer, Raymond; Flowers, Wa.lter.e And when I drive my truck at night, I will not speed, ca.use others fright. On Nation's highways I shall roam, HON. ADAM BENJAMIN, JR. PLANS FOR CURBING INFLATION My truck my home a.way from home; OF INDIANA I'll truck produce S'Ummer and Spring, My cab will be-throne for a. king. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. MARGARET M. HECKLER Shawn Warley, age 13. Wednesday, September 27, 1978 OF MASSACHUSETTS THE SEA SHELL • Mr. BENJAMIN. Mr. Speaker, in ac IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sea Shell, sea shell, cordance with Executive Committee Or Wednesday, September 27, 1978 Sing me a song. O' please! der No. 1, I am respectfully submitting A song of ships and sailor men. herewith the quarterly financial report •Mrs. HECKLER. Mr. Speaker, I would Of parrots, tropical trees, like to bring to the attention of my col Of islands lost in the Spanish Ma.in of the Congressional Steel Caucus for Which no man ever may see a.gain; insertion into the RECORD: leagues an article that appeared in the Of fl.shes and coral under the waves QUARTERLY REPORT, FUND BALANCE STATE Christian Science Monitor on June 5, And sea horses stabled in great green caves. MENT, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CON 1978. The article sets forth the essence of Midge Martelly, age 9.e GRESSIONAL STEEL CAUCUS three proposals for curbing inflation, as Fund balance statement offered by Frank C. Genovese, a Babson College economist. The article outlines a BISHOP MUGAVERO CELEBRATES Total revenues (Clerk Hire and Membership Dues)------$22, 677. 50 unique plan to trim inflation: People re lOTH ANNIVERSARY ALONG WITH ceiving wages and salaries should be THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE Less expenses: encouraged to take a larger portion of FOUNDING OF THE DIOCESE OF January ------0 them, particularly increases, in the form BROOKLYN February ------2,000.00 of future pension benefits rather than as March ------ 3,574.20 additions to current income. In effect this April ------ 3,287.25 HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ 3,312.75 proposal would reduce the constant pres May ------ sure on prices and would increase the OF NEW YORK June ------3,057. 15 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES flow of funds to financial intermediaries Total caucus expenses ____ _ 15, 231. 35 who manage pension funds. This in tum Wednesday, September 27, 1978 would spur investment. The lack of such Unexpended revenues (as capital formation has been a recurring • Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, September 7,446. 15 marks two very special anniversaries for of June 31, 1978) ------symptom of our inflationary ills. the Catholic community of Brooklyn, QUARTERLY REPORT, ~TATEMENT OF EXPENSES, In addition Mr. Genovese proposes and indeed for New Yorkers of all faiths. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONGRESSIONAL other plans to check inflation. One would This month is the 150th anniversary STEEL CAUCUS allow parents to prepay college tuition by depositing tax-free payments on a of the founding of the diocese of Brook Salaries ------$13,827.50 lyn and also the 10th anniversary of the Travel ------0 regular basis with a college or univer Most Reverend Francis Mugavero's Stationery------329.95 sity of their choice. Those funds could tenure as bishop of the diocese. Postage------26.00 then be invested by the school and in A truly good and gentle man, Bishop Publications ------88. 53 come from them credited toward future Mugavero shepherds the church with a Telephone ------246. 36 tuition obligations. Besides encouraging special dedication to the temporal and Equipment ------581.01 savings, und.er this plan parents could spiritual lives of the faithful. Miscellaneous ------132. 00 beat the inflationary impact of future tu In addition to his role as a religious Total expenses (as of June ition rate hikes by implementing pre leader, he has placed great emphasis on 31, 1978)------15,231.35 payment plans. September 27, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32115 The article follows: would be jawboning with a purpose and a by Lou Cannon. Geothermal energy de rationale." [From the Christian Science Monitor, velopment activity in California appears If necessary, he adds, tax incentives could to be moving ahead. Hopefully, develop Monday, June 5, 1978) be devised to encourage its adoption. Em PENSION PLAN PROPOSED FOR CURBING ployees might, for instance, have to pay extra ment will increase in the near future INFLATION taxes on any increase in income from the since the Bureau of Land Management (By David R. Francis) previous year, unless that increase was is beginning to recognize the need and Many econolnists look on inflation much as matched by extra contributions to a pension value of developing such resources on its the fundamentalist preacher views sin. Those plan. lands. who sin must suffer, sa.y the preachers. Those Mr. Genovese notes that the system would The article follows: who sin economically by creating inflation have to be scaled so as not to dampen pur HAWAil TAPS A VOLCANO FOR POWER must suffer a. recession, says the economic chasing power too much. The Babson College professor has two other (By Lou Cannon) funds.men ta.list. · KILAUEA, HAWAII.-The volcanoes that cre Other economists try to devise techniques ideas .for trimming inflation. First, he would encourage parents to sa•e for their children's ated this largest and lushest of the Hawaiian to cure inflation without a. recession a.nd ris university costs by allowing them to de islands and occasionally endanger it now ing unemployment. None ha.s so fa.r proved posit tax-free with a university a certain hold the promise of making this tourist very successful. amount of savings. The university would add laden state energy self-sufficient and indus Former President Nixon imposed wage a.nd the money to its endowment funds for in trialized. price controls. They did work for a while. vestment. When the child reached college Design work has begun on a $6 million But once they were removed prices soared age, the money would be withdrawn to pay generating plant financed by federal, state upward once a.gain. Indeed, some calcula his tuition and other expenses. and local governments with the assistance of tions indicate that nothing was gained by Mr. Genovese thinks this plan would be the Hawaiian Electric Co. The pilot plant the exercise. better than the tuition tax credit plan now will be powered by steam from the world's President Carter is attempting to restrain moving through Congress, in that it would hottest geothermal well. wages a.nd prices by "ja.wboning"-tha.t is, by encourage savings and thus investment. At the same time, Hawaii is encouraging talking labor a.nd business executives into various consortiums pioneering in the un voluntarily holding down wage a.nd price MORE PRICE INFORMATION His third idea is to have Congress pass dersea industry of manganese nodule Inin increases. It has had some limited success ing to build a refining plant here that wm so fa.r in that a. few corporations have prom legislation forcing businessmen always to list ised to limit executive pa.y increases or prices. prices or price ranges when advertising spe make it economically worthwhlle to develop But the tra.'de unions have shown little indi cific products or services. This, he reckons, the vast geothermal resources underlying the Kilauea volcano. cation of going a.long. would encourage price competition and dis courage price hikes. Buyers could choose "We have a new ball game here," says OTHER PROPOSALS products more intelligently by having more Hideto Kono, state director of planning and Moreover, it could be that restraint in one price information available for comparisons. eccnomic development. "Petroleum is no longer a dependable source. Activities will seotor of the eoonomy will be offset by larger Dr. Genovese is curious what other econ increases elsewhere. grow in places where t.h_~ ... ., :-.re dependable omists think of his proposals. "Maybe they alternative sources of energy." There a.re other offbeat ideas for dampen have ideas of their own," he says. ing inflation. Dr. Henry C. Wa.llich, a. gov The potential "dependable sources" of en ernor of the Federal Reserve Boa.rd, a.nd Fundamentalist economists, however, will ergy in Hawaii are not limited to geothermal Dr. Arthur Okun, a. Brookings Institution probably be skeptical. The only hope they ones alone. economist, have proposed a carrot-and-stick usually offer is termed "gradua.lism"-bring The island of Hawaii already obtains more tax technique to reduce increases in wages ing down the size of federal deficits and the than a third of its electrical energy from and fringe benefits. The government would growth of the money supply slowly enough burning of bagasse, a sugar cane residue that reward companies (and workers) that held over several years that the nation goes resembles crumpled straw. On the crowded the line on wages by reducing their income through a period of slow growth but not a island of Oahu, where most of the state's taxes, or it would penalize companies that serious recession.e 800,000 residents live, contracts will be did not do so with stiff tax increases. That awarded within the next few weeks for the rdea. has won considerable publicity and collection of solid waste that will be com attention in Washington. SEARCH AND DEVELOP ENERGY pacted and used as fuel. Now, a Babson College economist, Frank SOURCES More exotic forms of energy development c. Genovese, has come up with another plan lie ahead, ranging from eucalyptus tree farms to trim inflation. He suggests the govern for firewood to the researching of ocean ment use its jawboning to encourage em HON. LEO J. RYAN thermal energy to an experimental 16-story ployees to take a substantial portion of their OF CALIFORNIA energy-generating windmill. a.nnua.l increase in benefits in the form of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES But it is geothermal energy, where the higher pension contributions rather than expected resource is large and the technology immediate wage gains. This would restrain Wednesday, September 27, 1978 well developed, that Hawaii's future seems consumption and prices, he predicts. • Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, the need to brightest. Moreover, it would have these other bene search for and to develop alternative The island of Ha.wail, most southern a.nd fits, Professor Genovese says: easterly of the chain that comprises the na 1. It would boost future pension levels. energy sources is important if the United tion's 50th state, is twice the size of Dela As it is, many workers have seen inflation States is to achieve its goal of energy ware, rich in volcanoes and sparse in popula sadly reduce the real value of their pensions. independence. We cannot afford to rely tion. 2. It would provide the capital markets on any one form of energy whether it is Six years a.go the University of Ha.wa.U with new money. The pension funds would petroleum, coal, nuclear, or solar. organized the Hawaii Geothermal Project be invested in stocks or bonds, lowering in One important alternative for the and after long study drilling commenced on terest rates and possibly raising stock prices. a four-acre sit·e near the to,,n of Pahoa in This would help firms either to borrow United States and the rest of the world the eastern rift zone of the Kilauea volcano. money at lower interest rates or sell shares is the commercial energy development of Two years ago the drillers were rewarded on the stock market. Thus industry might geothermal resources. It is an especially with the discovery of an unusually hot be better able to finance capital investments attractive energy source, because it does well---676 degrees Fahrenheit-at the rela that increase the capacity and productivity not contribute to the amounts of carbon tively shallow level of 6,450 feet. The well of industry. dioxide in the atmosphere, an increas has been tested periodically since, most re 3. With lower interest rates, the Federal ingly significant problem. As with solar, cently with 42 days of continuous operation, Reserve System would be under less pres and has continued to produce high-quality sure to tighten credit drastically. the United States may want to help de steam. Now, with federal and county assist 4. With industry seeing a slowing down of velop, market, and encourage the use of ance, the state has decided to build a. three the increase in consumer power, it probably geothermal energy abroad. since both megawatt pilot generating plant on this site. would be less inclined to boost prices and these energy sources are reiatively inex Bill H. Chen, the University of Hawe.ii en more inclined to bargain hard with trade pensive and help lessen the dependency gineering professor who directs the geother unions. of lesser development countries on wood mal project, believes that the intensely hot TAX INCENTIVES, TOO? and. f ossiJ. fuels. waters tapped by the well may be part of a Mr. Genovese figures that with labor wor vast underground, lake tha. t runs from the ried about its pensions and business con I was impressed by the initiative taken crater of the volcano to the ocean nearly 40 cerned about adequate supplies of capital, by people in Hawaii to tap their geo miles away. The reserves are presently incal the climate of public opinion is favorable thermal resources as is brought out in culable, but could produce thousands of meg for presidential adoption of his plan. "This the following Washington Post article awa.tts of electrical energy. 32116 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 27, 1978 Development of the geothermal steam is been Oahu and Maui. The story of the next their circumstances in old age, are burdened planned in stages. After the pilot plant has 20 years ls going to be development and en with a degree of fear-of being alone, sick, been completed and tested in 1980, plans call ergy on the big island of Hawaii."• helpless, abused, disdained, or ignored. Some for construction of a 23 megawatt plant. Af also are afraid of dying; others, in their ter that, Kono envisions a 110 megawatit despair, long for it. plant that will serve a manganese nodule "GROWING OLD IN AMERICA" The Tribune Task Force has spent six refinery a decade from now. Ultimately, says CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEGINS SE months assembling a portrait of the elderly Kono, the geothermal well could produce 500 RIES ON ELDERLY AMERICA in America today. Reporters worked under megawatts of electrical energy annually, en cover in nursing homes, boarding homes, ergy enough to provide power for a city of home health agencies, insurance companies a half-million for a year. HON. MARIO BIAGGI specializing in health insurance for the In terms of energy availability alone this OF NEW YORK elderly, and firms that sell retirement proper may be severely understating the resource ties. because other volcanoes in Hawaii are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES They interviewed scores of experts on prob thought to possess similar underground res Wednesday, September 27, 1978 lems of the aged throughout the country ervoirs. But the economics of development and examined the operation of public and are more difficult. • Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, as a rank private programs designed to benefit the While most regions in the United States ing member Qf the House Select Com elderly. are hard-pressed to meet the energy needs mittee on Aging I wish to advise my col The picture that emerged is no more uni of their populations, the big island of Ha leagues of a most important series which form than the voices of the old. waii must find a use for the excess energy began this past Sunday in the Chicago America has made big strides 1n the last it is capable of generating. Tribune. It is the culmination of a 6- two decades in enabling its growing popula Potential uses include development of an tion of elderly to live out their lives in sec energy intensive alumina bauxite refining month nationwide investigation which urity and dignity. But the elderly remain industry or piping the energy to the Puna was conducted by a special Tribune task particularly vulnerable to the ~reedy and Sugar Mill 15 miles away where another fed force examining aging in Amerca. rapacious, to confidence men and to common erally funded study is trying to determine The first article provides the demo criminals. And some government programs the feasibility of using geothermal steam in graphic background on the extent to for the elderly fall far short of their goals. sugar processing. which the American society is aging. A national survey found that the major But the best long-term prospect appears Their data parallels findings which my concerns of the old are crlme, poor health, to be the manganese nodule industry, which, declining income, and loneliness. . because of the huge capital investment Subcommittee on Human Services has uncovered during five hearings which Although few old people will experience needed for deepsea mining, is expected to the personal disasters that they dread, the locate in countries with stable governments we conducted on the "Future of Aging.'' catalog of troubles they can encounter 1s and in states that desire industrial develop The elderly population of this Nation substantial, the Task Force learnea. ment. Hawaii is strategically located near could almost double in the next 50 years Medicare, the government health insur the richest field of manganese nodules in with the largest increase among those ance program for the aged that was begun tn the Pacific, a band stretching from about aged 75 or older. It has great implica 1966, often covers only a fraction of medical 1,000 miles south of the island toward the tions on all facets of our society from expenses, forcing many of the elderly to make coast of Baja, Calif. huge out-of-pocket payments. Sometimes But in the economic calculus for the proj social, to economic to political. This demographic phenomenon presents, as it takes months for Medicare to come through ect there are many variables, ranging from with reimbursements. the world price of petroleum to the now the Tribune article states, a rising chal Salesmen exploit the fears of elderly per depressed world price of nickel, one of four lenge to a nation. sons about poor health and high medical minerals extracted from the manganese nod I am pleased to insert into the RECORD costs to sell expensive health insurance, some ules. the first of the Tribune series. The series of it worthless or nearly so. But the biggest variable is the volano. Be promises to be one of the most impor Sizable numbers of the elderly, financially cause of the same intense volcanic activity tant statements on aging in America in unable to move out of decaying neighbor that produces the steam, Kilauea holds peril hoods, are easy victims of muggers, purse as well as promise for potential developers. recent memory. I urge my colleagues to read this article closely and I especially snatchers, and home invaders. Thetr recourse Within sight of the well are two irregu is to imprison themselves in their homes. larly shaped mounds that were the vents commend its comprehensive nature: Many nursing and boarding homes are the places where lava escaped-in a 1955 THE AGED: RISING CHALLENGE TO A NATION eruption. From these vents a lifeless river of filthy and short-staffed, provide inadequate (My money runs out at the last of the services, and keep elderly patients drugged gray rock now extends to the sea. month. I never go out. I read my prayers at The volcano erupted again last year at a to make them easier to handle. At one home, night. I listen to the radio. It's not much. a reporter working undercover was left alone site 20 miles away from the well. Because of Mrs. Isabel Hansen, 71, widow.) the volcanic hazards, the Hawaiian Electric on the night shift with seriously ill residents, Co. is unwilling to participate in extensive (I am old. As soon as you can say that, though she had said her only previous work commercial development until a costly back you're over the hump. It's not a dirty word. experience was as ,a waitress. up system-which could be activated if the I've earned every one of these gray hairs, Control over the homes is divided among a geothermal plant were threatened-is built. and I'm not ashamed of them.-Stella bewildering array of federal, state, and city This .has led the state and county to think Francis, 74, president, Chicago Gray Pan bureaucracies-with the result that there is in terms of a government-developed system thers.) little control at all. that would be devoted to industry rather (I buy secondhand clothes; I don't mind. Home health care, touted by many gov than residential use. They say these are the Golden Years, but ernment officials as a means of serving the "It's an unacceptable proposition to have you can't prove it by me. Caroline Arange elderly outside nursing homes, is being fi your electricity interrupted for a few days lovich, 7;,, retired waitress.) nancially exploited by some private, not-for at home because of a volcanic eruption," says (There are many persons who are retired profit companies that charge three to five Chen. "But a large industry could live with from a job but who do not wish to retire times as much as profit-making ones. this risk if its potential profit is great from lif·e. I'm not satisfied with sitting Retired persons who buy property in the enough." around looking out the window; that's a Sun Belt, hoping to live out their years in a Chen believes that a power plant can be great way to deteriol"ate.-Henry Grant, 70, comfortable climate, sometimes find they located in a relatively safe place and the , retired teacher.) have bought uninhabitable patches of bar wells dispersed so that a volcanic eruption They are a mixed chorus, the voices of the ren land, without water or electricity and would leave most of the system intact. elderly in America. Some, bowed by age, miles from the nearest town and shopping There appears to be substantial public sup declining health, and loss of income, would facilities. port for the geothermal plant and accom agree with Ptali-hotep, an Egyptian phil Such problems, if not corrected now, are panying industrialization. Government and osopher, who wrote in 2500 B.C.: "Old age likely to multiply in the decades ahead, when private employers here are deluged with job is the worst of misfortunes that can affiict old people are expected to be the fastest applications, many of them from island resi a.man." growing segment of the American pooulation. dents who have left and want to return. Others cling fiercely to their pride and self In 1900, American 65 and older-the usual "People think of Hawaii as grass shacks esteem and see old age as a period not to be definition of "elderly"-numbered 3 million, and hula skirts, and we're responsible for it endured but savored. or just 4 per cent of the population. Today, because we promoted it," says John P. Kep For all, it is a time of sudden and some numbering 23 million, thev constitute nearly peler, managing director for the county of times painful adjustments. They must con 11 per cent of the population, and the per Hawaii. tend with loss of spouses and friends, loss centage is rapidly ri TABLE 1. -COMPARISON OF HEALTH EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE FUEL CYCLES FOR ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION 1 Effect Coal Oil Nuclear Natural gas 0. 54- 8 0. 14- 1. 3 0. 03~- 0. 945 0. 06- 0. 28 1. 62-306 1 -100.0 .01 - .16 ------~~~~~~~~:i~~=r~:atiis::: ======~------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Total deaths. ______2. 1€-314 1.1 -101.0 . 04~- 1. 1 .06- . 28 Occupational impairments ______26 -156 12 - 94.0 4 -13 4 -24 1 Per 1,000-MWe per year. The data in Table 1 reflect deaths and these tabulations, a coal-fired power plant cause the health impact is so low as to be injuries in coal mining, including coal work each year results in from 48 to 285 times negligible unless a dam breaks.) Table 2 ers' pneumoconiosis (black lung disease), more deaths than does an equivalent analyzes the data from Table 1 in terms of accidents involving trains transporting coal, nuclear-powered generating station, 2 to 3 relative contribution of each fuel cycle of and the difficult-to-estimate mortality and times more than an oil-fired plant, and 36- the 1975 electric power production in the morbidity of air pollution from coal-fired 1120 times more than one fueled by natural generating plants. Similarly, it includes esti gas. United States. Again, the large number of mates of deaths and injuries in uranium These four modes of electricity generation non-occupational deaths from coal are esti mining as well as fractional death and mor contribute unequally to the total electric mates that include the effects of air pollu bidity estimates for the other components power production in the United States. (Hy tion that contribute to premature or excess of the nuclear fuel cycle. On the basis of droelectric power is not considered here be- deaths. TABLE 2.-COMPARISON OF HEALTH EFFECTS FOR ALTERNATIVE FUEL CYCLES FOR ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION IN UNITED STATES IN 1975 Estimated dec1ths Estimated 1975, Equivalent number occupational Fuel KWhe X 10 D of 1000-MWe plants Occupational Nonoccupational impairments Coal._------______• ______Oil ______844 128 69. C-1, 024 207. C-39, 168 3, 33C-20, 000 292 44 6. C- 57 44. C- 4, 400 53C- 4, 100 Gas------Nuclear ______------______------______297 45 3.C- 13 ------18C- 1, 080 168 26 . ~- 25 • 2- 4 lOC- 340 Total. ______-- _- _------1, 601 243 9. 0-1, 119 251. C-B, 572 4, 140-25, 000 It should not be overlooked that com TABLE 3.-ENHANCED RISK OF DEATH PER YEAR FROM WILLIAM J. DWYER bustion of coal leads to a release of radon- ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION 1 222 from the radium-226 that it contains. Normal The radon continues to be released from risk of Enhanced risk of death per year 2 HON. GOODLOE E. BYRON the fly ash long after combustion, and pro death/ OF MARYLAND duces a chain of radioactive daughter nu year Coal and oil Nuclear IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES clides. The long-term effects of carbon di Age: oxide production from combustion of fos 10 ______lin3,800 __ l.38in3,800 ____ l.0008in3,800. Wednesday, September 27, 1978 sil fuel have not been considered here. Each 25 ______1in700 ____ 1.07 in 700 ___ __ 1.0001in700. 45 ______1 in 200. ___ 1.02 in 200. ____ 1.00004 in 200. • Mr. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, I would like 100-MWe coal plant discharges 7.5 to 10.5 65 ______1in40 __ ___ 1.004 in 40 _____ 1.000008 in 40. to take this opportunity to honor the million tons of co2 per year to the a tmos All ages. ____ 1in100 ____ 1.01in100 _____ 1.0000?. in 100. memory of a Washington County resi phere and the l.oad from hundreds of fossil dent and highly respected citizen of fuel plants may be greater than the atmos 1 Adapted from Comar and Sagan. ' Risk of death per year from natural gas as fuel for electric Hagerstown, Md. phere and the oceans can absorb. Predic power production 1s equivalent to the normal risk (col. 2). tions have been made of increased global Bill Dwyer, an attorney of Hagers atmospheric temperatures that might even In summary, this brief report provides a town, was deeply admired by all who tually .result in drastic changes in climate range of estimates of the occupational and knew and loved him. He fought a kidney with unanticipated health effects. nonoccupational health effects of several ailment which led to a successful kidney Comar and Sagan have summarized the predominant modes of electric power pro transplant, followed by cancer. During quantitative assessments of health effects duction. It appeared that coal and nuclear those years he was devoted to his· family, in the general population from electric power will be the principal fuels for electric church, and community. He kept his power production in the United States in power production in the next 25 years. At sense of humor and was a true inspira terms of enhanced risk of death per year. the present time, coal has a much greater Table 3 provides an abbreviation of their adverse impact on health than does nuclear tion to everyone. Mr. Dwyer found time analysis and demonstrates again a greater power production, and efforts need to be to run fo'r public office and had just suc adverse effect on health by fossil fuel when directed toward reducing both the health cessfully won the primary for reelection compared to nuclear fuel for electric power and adverse environmental impacts of all as county commissioner. production. forms of energy production.e William Dwyer will be greatly missed September 27, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32119 by his wife, Sarah, his five children and The family will receive friends at the Bast You pay for this through a lower standard all who knew him. I know my colleagues Funeral Home in Boonsboro Thursday eve of living. If the American economy had grown will join me in extending the official ning from 7 to 9. Prayers will be said at as fast as the German and Japanese econ sympathies of the House to the family 7p.m. omies over the past twenty-five years, _the The family requests that flowers be omit av·erage American would be 50 percent richer of this unselfish and civic-minded ted. Memorials may be made to the Western today. American. Maryland Dialysis Center, 1500 Pennsylvania. The average American family ls actually I include the following article from Ave., Hagerstown.e poorer today than ten years ago. After taxes the Morning Herald, September 27, 1978, and inflation, the average family has about in the RECORD at this point: $250 less real spending power than a decade a.go. WILLIAM J. DWYER "More than anything else," County Com WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION AND WHO IS TO BLAME FOR AMERICA'S DECLINING missioner Keller Nigh said Tuesday, "Bill CONGRESS CAN LEARN ABOUT GROWTH? wanted to serve another term." TAXES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH There is a reason that America is falling Nigh, who talked to Bill Dwyer privately behlna. But we don't think it is because FROM WEST GERMANY AND Americans have lost the spirit of initiative last week, said Dwyer was "really glad he JAPAN made it as a county commissioner." and enterprise. Far from it. We are just as William James Dwyer, 59, who died Tues capable, imaginative and willing to work as day morning at the Washington County Hos Americans always have been, pital, was born in Chicago. He was a son of HON. JACK F. KEMP There's just one problem. You have a the late Michael A. and Florence W. Walker OF NEW YORK burden which people in fast-growth econ omies do not have to bear. Dwyer. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES He completed his pre-law study at DePaul Americans pay staggeringly high capital University in Chicago and was a graduate Wednesday, September 27, 1978 gains taxes. Even such notoriously over-taxed of Eastern College of Law in Baltimore. He peoples as Englishmen and Swedes have capi opened a law omce at 10 Jonathan St. • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, the National tal gains burdens 40-50 percent lower than A World War II veteran, he was a member . Taxpayers Union is running a public plea you. The Germans, Japanese, French, Ital of the Morris Frock Post of the American for reduced capital gains tax rates in ians, Swiss and most other Western people Legion. He was also a Grand Knight of the the Nation's newspapers, and l applaud pay virtually no capital gains taxes what Pangborn Council of the Knights of Colum them for it. soever. bus, a presiding justice of Elks Lodge, and a This ad has been designed to show CAPITAL GAINS TAXES ARE UNFAIR member of the local chapters o! the Moose The combination of inflation and high and Eagles. that the administration's thinking about capital gains taxes is inconsistent with capital gains taxes almost guarante-es that He served as Lector at St. Ann's Church, you can never increases your wealth. Under regional vice-president o! the Archdiocesan historical examples, including our own, current conditions, your assets would have Catholic Men and was active in the Con and damaging to the economy. It does to double in 6 years, triple in 10 years and fraternity of Christian Doctrine at St. Mary's an effective job of it. quintuple in 16 years for you just to stay and St. Ann's parishes. The ad shows the correlation between even. Dwyer served as a local trial magistrate The impact falls most severely upon the from 1959 to 1962. high capital gains tax rates and declin ing growth, the grossly unfair way in middle class investor. Harvard economist In 1974, the Democrat entered the race for Martin Feldstein has shown that if you -earn Oounty Commissioner. Though not well which the tax works to destroy the sav less than $100,000, you probably pay an ef known except as an attorney, Dwyer won ings and investment we must have to fective capital gains rate of over 100 percent. the fifth highest num'!:>er of votes in the create jobs for the presently unemployed No wonder 6,000,000 small investors have general election and a seat on the county and for a growing labor force, what the dropped out of the capital markets since board. administration and Congress ought to be capital gains taxes were doubled in 1969. He favored the development of parks and When confiscatory capital gains deprive wanted to provide public housing for the doing to reduce the burden of capital gains tax rates, and how the individual small business of equity capital, the effect elderly. He pushed a plan for a bike path is to stifle innovation and smother the spirit along abandoned railroad tracks until the can help shape the administration's and of enterprise. Even Treasury Secretary Mi idea proved too costly. Congress response to the problem. chael Blumenthal, who opposes reduced The only issue which constantly drew his Reducing capital gains tax rates would capital gains taxes, has admitted that "the ire was the tax-cutting promises made by help restore our economy by restoring problem is greatest for new companies. and political opponents. He often wondered aloud for small and medium sized ones trying to how taxes could be reduced without cutting the confidence which would arise from its sending of a clear signal to the mar market new ideas and new technologies." services. No wonder America is declining economi Dwye;r's health problems had begun a few ket that people are going to keep more cally. While the German, Japanese and other yea.rs before he became a commissioner. His of the reward for their work, saving, in governments reward risk ta.king and eco kidneys had failed, he had been placed on vesting. That is not speculation. Look at nomic innovation by imposing no capital dialysis unit and in 1972 he received a the reaction of the stock market indica gains taxes, our politicians have imposed the kidney transplant. tors to news on what the administration steepest. most punishing capital gains rates Commissioner Burt Hoffman said Dyer had anywhere. to be given medicine to narrow the chances and Congress are doing on the capital that the kidney would be rejected. "The doc gains issue. When eitqer sends a signal WHAT CAN BE DONE tors told him that five percent of those who that the rates are going to be kept at an President John F. Kennedy understood the take the medicine develop stomach cancer unnecessarily and counterproductively harmful effects of high capital gains taxes. ... and wouldn't you know it, Blll was in high rate, the market reacts by drop In his tax message of 1963 he proposed to the five percent," Hoffman said. ping or at best remaining unchanged. drastically reduce capital gains tax rates. Dwyer entered Johns Hopkins last Novem But Congress did not a.ct on President But when it looks credibly like there will Kennedy's recommendations. Instead, In ber. He was in and out of the hospital for be a reduction in the rate; for example, months before he returned home and to the 1969, Congress increased capital gains taxes. commissioner's weekly meetings regularly when the House Committee on Ways and Economically, America has been going down about a month ago. Means or the Senate Committee on Fi hill ever since. Undaunted by his illness, Dwyer filed for nance look as if they are going to reduce It's not too late to correct the situation. re-election and won in the Democratic the rate. the market indicators turn up The House of Representatives recently passed primary. ward. a tax blll which included a modest cut in capital gains taxes. The Senate is now con Dwyer is survived by his wife, Sarah B. I commend the National Taxpayers Grove Dwyer, of 1132 Beechwood Drive; one sidering more substantial cuts. daughter, Mrs. Lois M. Blumenthal of Miami, Union. Their plea on behalf of our tax· Unfortunately, one of the main obstacle:; Fla.; four sons, William J. Dwyer Jr. and payers follows: to this necessary and overdue legislation is Daniel P. Dwyer, both of Glenville, W. Va., WHAT PRESIDENT CARTER CAN LEARN FROM President Carter. He is using the full power Michael P. Dwyer, at home, and Timothy WEST GERMANY AND JAPAN; ELIMINATING of his omce to block reduction of capital J. Dwyer, of Clear Spring; two sisters, Mrs. CAPITAL GAINS TAXES BRINGS RAPID Eco gains taxes. It is up to you to help counter Mary Jane Coleman of Chicago and Mrs. NOMIC GROWTH act the President's bad judgment on this Joan Glll, of Evergreen Park, Ill.; and one It is no secret that America ls not the eco issue. brother, Robert E. Dwyer, of Chica.go. nomic leader it should be. WHAT YOU CAN DO A mass of Christian burial will be cele Every year, the situation gets worse. Our It will only cost you 15 cents-the price brated at St. Ann's Catholic Church on Fri balance of payments deficit grows larger. The of a stamp-to he'p put some life back in day at 10 a.m. by the Rev. Father James R. dollar declines. We have less investment. the economy. That's a good investment, just Schaefer. Burial will be in the Boonsboro Slower growth. Smaller increases in produc in terms of the money you might save 11 Cemetery. tivity. capital gains taxes were reduced. But it's 32120 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 27, 1978 more than that. By filling out the coupon materials. Then, the Supreme Court truck, there was a "dead calm," an unusual at the bottom of this ad, or sending a letter made its historic ruling regarding the situation in the southern areas of Louisiana. of your own directly to your Representative shipment of solid wastes. The air and gases from the lagoon were · in Washington, you w111 be helping to put simply sitting there. America back on its feet. That wm mean a Both the legislative and judicial But the waste from the truck turned on better standard of living for you, and a branches of this country have recognized the youth. The reaction of the alkaline waste better future for your children. that solid waste disposal is a national from the truck and the acidic lagoon gen Once you've voiced your support for lower problem and a solution to the problem erated massive amounts of deadly hydrogen capital gains taxes, get your friends to do must be resolved on the national level. sulfide gas. the same. The politicians in Washington are It is now incumbent upon the U.S. En Apparently, Jackson went to the cab of the slow to learn. With them, it's volume that vironmental Protection Agency, as the truck and tried to drive away. counts. Each name is a possible vote. The "By the time anyone got to him, he was more names, the more votes. Make yours Federal executive branch agency charged. dead," Dr. Blunck said. "He had absorbed count.e with implementation of RCRA, to pro about six times the lethal dose." mulgate regulations and enforce existing It took more than six weeks of investiga laws on a national level. tion to precisely determine the cause of SOLID WASTE: A NATIONAL PROB Secure solid waste landfills must exist death. The coroner said the body of the LEM WHICH MUST HAVE A NA in order for this Nation to continue to youth was checked for all forms of drugs TIONAL SOLUTION be a world leader in the industrial world. and alcohol to see if his reactions might If we are going to prevent future Love have been slowed by them. Nothing was Canals, we must enforce RCRA to pro found. HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE Tangling the investigation, the coroner tect our citizens from irresponsible saJd, was his inability to get the "true se OF NEW YORK handling of toxic substances. We cannot quence of what was disposed of into that pit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leave the enforcement of solid waste laws in the preceding 48 hours." Wed·nesday, September 27, 1978 to the States alone. We must shoulder the HIGHLY INDUSTRIALIZED responsibility of being an industrialized In a state with limited environmental in • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, solid waste nation equally across the country and terest, the case caused an uproar. disposal is a national problem. Every have uniformity of law and enforce Louisiana may have the image of a sleElJ>Y industrialized area has solid waste dis ment on a national level. southern state. In some ways, it is. But, it posal problems. The question the owners The EPA must recognize that these is also highly industrialized, With an indus of most firms must ask themselves is: problems will only increase with time and try built on oil and gas and the salt from "How am I going to dispose of the solid any delay in implementation of RCRA far under the ground. toxic wastes produced as by products of A visitor to the state capital in Baton regulations may make it more difficult Rouge travels to a towering Capitol built the manufacturing process in which my for the public to accept the secure land by Huey Long, once the state's governor and company is engaged?" fill concept due to tragedies that have U.S. Senator. From the airport, the visitor The Supreme Court of the United occurred in the interim. I demand that passes what may be the largest single chem States in a decision, city of Philadelphia the EPA fulfill its responsibilities and re icJ l and industrial complex in the world. On against State of New Jersey et al., handed direct all of its available resources within a cloudy day, it requires no vision to detect down on June 23, 1978, ruled that it is the Agency to address this situation as it, only a nose. a violation of the interstate commerce expeditiously as possible and to promul Visible from the Capitol, between the complex and the river, ts a chemical waste clause of the U.S. Constitution for one gate RCRA regulations without delay. dump. State to ban the shipment of solid wastes The articles follow: It's the sort of state where Attorney Gen from one State to another State .iust CHEMICAL WASTE HAUNTS LOUISIANA SWAMP eral William J. Guste has one assistant because the wastes originated in another (By Michael Desmond) working on environmental matters. Before State. Early one morning in late July, Kirtley a budget cut, he had two. At the same time, Citizens who live near landfill sites feel Maurice Jackson, 19, of Plaquemine, La., he does have the former executive director that their life and property are being un drove out to a chemical waste lagoon in a of the Louishna Wildlife Federation Inc. fairly jeopardized, because wastes are swamp area of that state, perhaps enjoying stashed away on his payroll as a research being dumped in their backyards not only the hot windless day. assistant. by local manufacturers but by ones from Jackson was driving a tank truck which MORATORIUM DECLARED other regions of the country. The Su belonged to a company owned by his father, About one month after Jackson's death, Stanley H. "Jackie" Jackson, the chief deputy the waste disposal problem heated up to the preme Court,· when it handed down its sheriff in charge of investigation for Iber point that Gov. Edwin Edwards took action. June 23 decision, reasoned that the ville Parish, a parish that is essentially a He declared a moratorium on new hazardous wastes from another State could not be swamp between Baton Rouge and New waste permits. banned solely on the basis of origin, Orleans. "I am taking this action to insure the unless there is a compelling reason to Iberv1lle is a throwback parish in what is a health and safety of our citizens. Proper treat the wastes differently. heavily industrialized state. For many years, regulation of the transportation, storage and it was run by Sheriff Jessel Ourso. When disposal of hazardous wastes ts essential The citizens have legitimate concerns. the sheriff died two weeks ago, after a pro if we are to protect the public and the prop I am inserting in the RECORD today two longed illness, there was even a black stallion erty of our state," he noted in a statement. more articles from the Buffalo Courier with reversed boots to help carry him to his This action of Gov. Edwards seems to Express which gives specific examples of grave, in an old military tradition. have given him some political courage to environmental and health consequences Out in the swamp, Clean Land, Air and do a little more. Last Thursday, he said, of the handling, hauling, and dumping Water Corp. (CLAW) operated a deep well "When opting for industry or the risk, I of solid wastes in an unregulated manner. where various chemical wastes were pumped wm take a position against industry." two miles into the ground. A report prepared "There is no need for a multiplicity of If the U.S. Environmental Protection by the state Office of Conservation indicates industry if it destroys the very reason for Agency drags its feet any longer and fails 3.9 different companies used the well to bury our being," he told the Louisiana Environ to implement regulations for the Re everything from toluene waste water to re mental Protection Association. source Conservation and Recovery Act cycled styrene. Five years ago, he told environmentalists of 1976, it is going to flnd that the public Kirtley Jackson was driving the SHJ Inc. he didn't want to hear their concerns or opinion in this country will not permit truck to the hgoon which also was operated listen to their advice. Now, he plans to go to any dumping in this country, even if the by his father's company. What was in the the State Legislature in April for stronger regulations are promulgated, because the lagoon isn't quite clear, because the records centrals on waste. showing what wa.S dumped in it are missing. This may also partly have been caused by public will have experienced too many the State Health Department banning fish environmental and health disasters from ACIDIC SAMPLES ing in Lake Providence, a prominent fishing the shipment and dumping of wastes in Parish Coroner Dr. C. E. Blunck Jr. said spot, on Sept. 12 because of contamination the past. samples taken later indicated there was sul of a deadly pesticide. furic acid, alcohol and sludge from an oil At the ea.me time, this concern has not The U.S. Environmental Protection refinery catalytic cracker. All were acidic. been extended to the State Office of Science Agency must imnlement RCRA now. What was in Jackson's truck? "It was a Technology and the Environment. The office Congress passed th's law in 1976, because combination of corrosive materials, many of is preparing the state rules under the federal it foresaw the problems being created by which should have gone into a deep well," Resource Conservation and Recovery Act our derp.ands for more and more products the coroner told The Courier-Express. (RCRA) of 1976. The rules go out to the manufactured by nonbiodegradable When Jackson began to empty his tank public for 15 days for comment, officially September 27, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32121 starting Thursday. No copies a.re available out once or twice a year, putting the wastes $80,000 study of underground water. There yet. into the local water. are a number of drinking water wells nearby The office has two people working on the The state produces vast amounts of wastes and William Hegner, a principal engineer federal law. a year. Much of it is dumped down deep with the 011 and Chemical Section of the RCRA is the congressional answer to the wells. Much of it probably just disappears. Water Compliance Bureau, agrees the chem whole problem of generation, shipment and Givens commented: icals could turn up in the water. processing of hazardous waste. But the fed "I would safely say there is no report, or "There is a potential for that," he admit eral Environmental Protection Agency has one point, where you could go to find out ted. never issued the rules to put it into effect. about waste." BRIDGEPORT PROBLEM DELAY UNTIL 1980 The state also had a cleanup problem in BURY Now, PAY LATER-Toxics RATI'LE NEW Bridgeport, where chemicals were dumped The EPA rules were due in April. But EPA, ENGLAND, Too into a gravel area. The contaminated gravel headed by administrator Douglas M. Costle, (By Michael Desmond) had to be dug up and hauled away. Much of now says it won't issue the rules until 1980. it went to the SCA Chemical Waste Services Louisiana has a new law to regulate haz The New England states solve the hazard ous waste problem by shipping their dan Inc., formerly ChemTroi, in Niagara, N.Y. ardous was.tes. But, in a replay of the prob But, the biggest chemical waste problem lems of the EPA, regulations to implement gerous materials to other parts of the country. in New England is Silresim. The State Legis the law haven't been written. lature has been asked to put up $1.5-mUlion Louisiana is one of the many states that The Northeast corner of the nation bas no good waste disposal site. But, as would be for a cleanup based on a report from Fred C. have serious chemical waste problems. Hart Associates, in an environmental re One test of this is the widespread contam expected in a heavily industrialized area, there are industrial and hazardous wastes." search firm in New York City. The Hart re inating chemical family of PCBs. A 1977 port said: study of water and sediment samples by the BAY STATE MESS EPA in Louisiana waters found widespread "Results of studies conducted for this con Massachusetts is the possessor of one of tract indicated significant on-site contam PCBs, but admitted testing methods were the great chemical messes of our time: The not adequate. ination of surface water bodies after the Silresim Chemical Corp. in Lowell firm went spring thaw. High concentrations of toluene In releasing the figures, EPA noted the broke, leaving behind 15,000 drums-55 gal method used to look for PCBs isn't very and trichloroethylene were detected in soil lons each--of various chemicals and hun and ground water sampled at the facmty. good. As a result there could be PCBs present, dreds of thousands of gallons of all kinds of just not measured. High concentrations of total organic carbon liquids in tanks. were also detected in on-site wells and local water pollution in Louisiana is under the The citizens of Methuen and Lawrence, jurisdiction of the Stream Control Commis sewers.· ~ Mass. get their drinking water from an in CA USES DEPRESSION sion. But, the commission is something of take downstream from where chemicals from a bureaucratic fiction. It is made up of the Silresim are leaching into the Merrimack Toluene causes depression of the central nervous system, addiction, muscular fatigue heads of a number of state agencies and River. has no staff of its own. Under the new law, In Rhode Island, the residents are starting and can kill in high concentrations. juri&liction will pass to the Department of to worry about chemicals leaching into the There are two forms of trichloroethylene. Natural Resources. High exposure to either can kill. Either may Pawtuxet River from a land fill. also cause kidney or liver damage. "NO APPROPRIATION" ln Connecticut, John Housman, principal The commission has "no appropriation Environmental Protection, admits there are AIR TANKS and no budget," according to Dale -Givens, problems. Asked if the state's wastes are be The situation is so bad that the federal its assistant director. Givens suggested the ing properly disposed of, he could only say, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) PCBs are coming down from the air in rain. "Right now, I have no way of knowing." has ordered any of its employees visiting the He doesn't think there is any particular VILE ODOR scene to wear air tanks, rather than filtering problem with the state's vast water sup In Maine, the little town of Gray found masks. plies, but admits no one is really looking. out one day that the vile odor and strange The site has been a problem almost since The standard state tests of water are for color which turned up in their drinking it opened in 1973. It began as more of a stor biological oxygen, suspended solids and the water in 1975 came from chemicals dumped age site than anything else. But, gradually its "PH" of the water. The current expanded at a site outside of town. Eventually, the site owner, Dr. John Miserlis, began to try to turn program is more for heavy metals· and some was closed down. it into a chemical waste re-processing plant. pesticides. Gray Town Council Chairman Michael In July 1975, the state Division of Water "Which really don't tell you a hill of Gibbs put his finger on the issue. Pollution Control (DWPC) threatened to re beans about whether there is a low level of "We discovered our problem pretty much voke its license unless changes were made. something, that might cause cancer," he by accident. I shudder to think what some When the 1976 license limited what could noted. other towns might be drinking in their be handled on site, the corporation took the In a few areas, PCBs are so high in water water." state to court and the judge removed the re that they can be measured. This indicates It's serious point. strictions. Some new ones were set in the they are hundreds of times above the safe DATA LISTED court order but were apparently never ad level set by the Federal Food and Drug Ad hered to. minis·tration. The New England Regional Council re cently attempted just to get a handle on BY BANK Government action on the state level is In October 1976, the site was taken over by slow, but the citizens of New Orleans seem how much waste there was in the six states. It came up with figures of 18.4 million gal the bank which held the mortgage. The bank tO have an unconscious reaction. The old studied the situation and reopened the site. city is a heavy user of bottled drinking lons of reclaimable wastes, that is waste oil and solvents; 5.6 million gallons of treat Last year, the firm went into bankruptcy, water. even though the site itself was still in opera REGULATIONS URGED able wastes; 5.9 million eallons of waste that has to be incinerated; and 17.9 million gal tion. Dr. Robert H. Harris of the Environmental lons of waste which has to be landfilled. A year ago, Lowell city workers were over Defense Fund in Washington, D.C., recently How accurate the figures are is anybody's come by toluene fumes in the sewer. Appar attacked proposals to delay EPA drinking guess. Housman would only term them ently at that point the city and citizens be water regulations. He told an EPA hearing "rough estimates." came aware of how bad the situation bad in New Orleans: There are unusual industries in the area. become. "Furthermore, EPA should be reminded Providences has a large jewelry industry with The court order had required the removal that a large segment of the public in New highly acidic waste. Much of that goes into of 500 barrels a month to cut down the ac Orleans, as well as elsewhere, has lost con city sewers, according to Frank Stevenson, a cumulation. The Hart report indicates the fidence in the safety of local water supplies. senior sanitary engineer with the Division of materials in the deteriorating drums were By seeking expensive alternatives, such as Land Resources of the Department of Envi simply dumped into some of the large tanks bottled water and home water treatment de ronment Management. on the site. vices, they are paying many times the rate LOSING TRACK Now the state and the federal government increase the EPA regulations will require." are asking companies to come in and make A 1974 EPA study found 20 chemicals in "We are also losing track of the sewage bids on the cleanup. The Hart report indi the New Orleans drinking water which have discharge," he noted. The city is getting a cates part of the cleanup will include sealing the capacity to cause cancer. Some are pesti system to pretreat jewelry waste before it the underground water and putting some sort cides. But others are industrial wastes, such goes into the regular system. of cap on the surface to control runoff and as benzene and hexachlorobenzene. Vermont and New Hampshire are believed air pollution. Harris estimated there would be 250 extra to produce minimal amounts of hazardous "We generally know what's there," com cancer deaths a year in New Orleans caused wastes. mented Hans Bonne of the state DWPC. by the local drinking water. Connecticut has a similar water case in the At one point, Dr. Miserlis used an aerial Citizens are suspicious because they know Town of Plainfield where chemicals were photo of the site to take a variety of govern the Bayou Sorrel lagoon where Jackson died dumped into a regular landfill. The state has ment agencies on a tour of chemistry. For is an area where hi~h water would fiush it already spent $600,000 there, including an example, he could tell them area 27 contained 32122 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 27, 1978 chlorinated benzene from Solvent Chemical panies should be made available to Amer capital as a government agency," has offered Co. Inc. of Niagara Falls, N.Y. Or, he could ican companies which employ American credits "at far more favorable terms than ten them he had no idea what was in area workers. are available to most private borrowers." 23. Area 14 had six storage tanks with a com Who wrote the article? None other than a bined capacity of 80,000 gallons containing Congressman LoNG's leadership in former vice president of the Export-Import hexane, toluene, methylene chloride, water making America's foreign economic pol Bank. acetone and what was described by him as icies more responsive to the needs of Even at present levels, steel imports are "miscellaneous hydrocarbons." American workers and businesses is de large enough to cut deeply into the profita STORAGE TANK serving of the highest praise. As chair bility and growth of U.S. producers. The There is even one 100,000 gallon storage man of the Congressional Steel Caucus, whole profit situation in steel is touch and tank filled to the top. In warm weather, the which was created to restore and main go. Basically the difference bet.ween success Hart report said, "Due to a decrease in den tain a healthy domestic steel industry and failure is this extra business--lost to sity upon warming, the materials stored in and to protect the jobs of its workers, I foreign competition-which could keep the the 100,000-gallon storage tank will likely furnaces burning as they must, 24 hours a urge the gentleman from Maryland September 27, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32127 Silresim Chemical Corp., a Lowell firm went tract indicated significant on-site contami Dr. Charles A. Johnson is technical di broke, leaving behind 15,000 drums-55 gal nation of soils and ground water and the rector of the National Solid Waste Manage lons each--of various chemicals and hun potential for contamination of surface water ment Association, a trade group in Wash dreds of thousands of gallons of all kinds bodle<: after the spring thaw. High concen ington, D.C. He called Silresin a "classic ex of liquids in tanks. trations of toluene and trlchloroethylene ample" of commercial plans to recycle The citizens of Methuen and Lawrence, were detected in son and ground water chemical and hazardous wastes. Mass. get their drinking water from an in· sampled at the facility. High concentrations "He couldn't make it pay," was the ver take downstream from where chemicals ot total organic carbon were also detected in dict. from Silresim are leaching into the Mer on-site wells and local sewers." 21 MONTHS LATE rimack River. CAUSES DEPRESSION Despite problems encountered at Silresin In Rhode Island, the residents are start Toluene causes depression of the central and elsewhere, the EPA has Just announced ing to worry about chemicals leaching into nervous system, addiction, muscular fatigue it would be at least 21 months late issuing the Pawtuxet River from a land fill. and can kill in. high concentrations. regulations that could control improper In Connecticut, John Housman, princi There are two forms of trlchloroethylene. waste disposal. EPA ls headed by Douglas M. pal Environmental Protection, admits there High exposure to either can k111. Either may Costle, an appointee of President Jimmy are problems. Asked if the state's wastes are also cause kidney or liver damage. Carter. being properly disposed of, he could only AIR TANKS The regulations were required to be issued say, "Right now, I have no way of know Tho situation ls so bad that the federal last April, 18 months after the 1976 Re ing." Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sources Conservation and Recovery Act VILE ODOR has ordered any of its employees visiting the (RCRA) became law. But those 18 months In Maine, the little town of Gray found scene to wear air tanks, rather than filter proved not to be sufficient for EPA to come out one day that the vile odor and strange ing masks. up with the regulations necessary to insti color which turned up in their drinking The site has been a problem almost since tute the RCRA. Last Friday, EPA said it water in 1975 came from chemicals dumped it opened in 1973. It began as more of a stor would be unable to come up with the rules at a site outside of town. Eventually, the age site than anything else. But, gradually until January 1980. site was closed down. its owner, Dr. John Mlserlis, began to try That means the agency will have taken 39 Gray Town Council Chairman Miohael to turn it into a chemical waste re-processing months to complete work on the regulations. Gibbs put his finger on the issue: plant. Despite the delay, EPA has only 161 o! its "We discovered our problem pretty tnuch In July 1975, the state Division of Water nearly 11,000 employees nationwide working by accident. I shudder to think what some Pollution Control (DWPC) threatened to re in the area of hazardous wastes. other towns might be drinking in their voke its license unless changes were made. water." When the 1976 license limited what could WEST Is LAUNCHING SITES FOR MISSILES It's serious point: be handled on site, the corporation took the Now USED FOR HAZARDOUS WASTES state to court and the Judge removed the re DATA LISTED strictions. Some new ones were set in the (By Micha.el Desmond) The New England Regional Council recent court order but were apparently never Two $55 mllllon relics of the mi~lle age ly attempted Just to get a handle on how adhered to. have become one of the more ingenious much waste there was in the six stateS'. It BY BANK methods of disposing of the hazardous wastes came up with figures of 18.4 mlllion gallons In October 1976, the site was taken over of the industrial age. of reclaimable wastes, that ls waste oil and by the bank which held the mortgage. The Wes-Con Inc. of Twin Falls, Idaho, owns solvents; 5.6 million gallons of treatable bank studied the situation and reopened the two complexes each built to launch three wastes; 5.9 milllon gallons of waste that site. Last year, the firm went into bank Titan missiles. The slloes a.re 160 feet deep has to be incinerated; and 17.9 mllllon gal ruptcy, even though the site itself was still and 50 feet across. The concrete is 16 feet lons of waste which has to be landfilled. in operation. thick at the bottom and 11 feet thick on the How accurate the figures are ls anybody's A year ago, Lowell city workers were over sides. The sites were built about 20 years ago guess. Housman would only term them come by toluene fumes in the sewer. Ap and were closed in 1964. "rough estimates." parently at that point the city and citizens The firm has already filled two of the three There are unusual industries in the area. became aware of how bad the situation had silos at a near-desert site near Grand View, Providence has a large- Jewelry industry become. Idaho, and is well on the way to filllng the with highly acidic waste. Much of that goes The court order had required the removal third. A second site a.bout 40 miles away in into city sewers, according to Frank Steven of 500 barrels a month to cut down the Bruneau, is being prepared to take waste in son, a senior sanitary engineer with the accumulation. The Hart report indicates the its three siloes. Division of Land Resources of the Depart materials in the deteriorating drums were Perhaps 300 miles away, in an equally dry ment of Environmental Management. simply dumped into some of the large tanks area of eastern Oregon, Chem-Nuclear Sys LOSING TRACK on the site. tems Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., operates a dis "We are also losing track of the sewage Now the state and the federal government posal site based on the a.bllity of dry desert discharge," he noted. The city ls getting a are asking companies to come in and make air to dry out wet waste. Chemical wastes are system to pre-treat Jewelry waste before i·t bids on the cleanup. The Hart report indi simply put out in 400,000 gallon ponds and goes into the regular system. cates part of the cleanup wlll include sealing left to dry in the sun. Vermont and New Hampshire are believed the underground water and putting some CALIFORNIA A LEADER to produce minimal amounts of hazardous sort of cap on the surface to control runoff California has some hazardous waste treat wastes. and. air pollution. ment sites which use the same approach. Connecticut has a similar water case 1n "We generally know what's there,'' com That shte may also have the nation's best the Town of Plainfield where chemicals mented Hans Bonne of the state DWPC. system of rules and regulations governing were dumped into a regular landfill. The At one point, Dr. Miserlis used an aerial disposal of hazardous chemicals. California state has 'already spent $600,000 there, in photo of the site to take a variety of govern also has more good disposal sites than any cluding an $80,000 study of underground ment agencies on a tour of chemistry. For other ste.te, according to James Stahler, en water. There are a number of drinking water example, he could tell them area 27 con vironmentJ.l engineer in the San Francisco wells nearby and William Hegner, a prin tained chlorinated benzene from Solvent regional office of the Federal Environmental cipal engineer with the Oil and Chemical Chemical Co. Inc. of Niagara Falls, N.Y. Or, Protection Agency covering California, Ari Section of the Water Compliance Bureau. he could tell them he had no idea what zona, Hawaii and Nevada. agrees the chemicals could turn up in the was in area 23. Area 14 had six storage tanks "It's one of the most aggressive, progressive water. with a combined capacity of 60.000 gallons states in the union,'' Stahler said of the "There is a potential for that," he containing hexane, toulene, methylene chlo state's hazardous waste program. admitted. ride, water acetone and what was described He should know. Stahler was loaned by BRIDGEPORT PROBLEM by him as "miscellaneous hydrocarbons." EPA to Callfornla in 1973 to write the state The state also had a cleanup problem STORAGE TANK regulations governing solid and hazardous in Bridgeport, where chemicals were There is even one 100,000 gallon storage wastes. That was three years before Congress dumped into a gravel area. The contami tank filled to the top. In warm weather, the passed the Resource Conservation and Recov nated gravel had to be dug up and hauled Hart report said, "Due to a decrease in den ery Act of 1976 (RCRA) which is supposed to away. Much of it went to the SCA Chemi sity upon warming, the materials stored in handle the problem on a national basis. cal Waste ' Services Inc., formerly Chem the 100.000-gallon storage tank wm likely Trol, in Niagara County, N.Y. "Before RCRA was a dream," he com overflow as soon as warm weather arrives mented, California was working on its law. But, the biggest chemical waste problem since the tank is full to the top." But, EPA is years away from putting the in New England is Silre::im. The State Legis The material inside is in three parts. There regulations to implement RCRA into effect. lature has been asked to put up $1.5-million is a one-foot residue layer on the bottom. for a cleanup based on a report from Fred Above that ls 50,000 gallons of water with a MUCH WASTE IN STATE C. Hart Associates, in an environmental re variety of dissolved hydrocarbons. On top is California has to watch the chemical dis search firm in New York City. The Hart re 50,000 gallons of such things as toulene, posal problem: The state has an estimated port said: cancer causing benzene and mineral spirits. 10 percent of the national total of 92 billlon "Results of studies conducted for this con- Right now, it's all still there. pounds of hazardous waste. 32128 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 27, 1978 The Golden State now has nine hazardous tion, the son on the site will not carry waste "We're now trying to get an engineer to waste sites licensed to handle hazardous materials far away. Ground water is so far get the copper out," he said. "There's a wastes. When the law took effect on July 1, below the site, it is not likely to flush waste million dollars worth of copper out there." 1973, there were 18. The steady expansion of away to threaten neighbors. The Wes-Con site in Bruneau is now differ the state-"urban encroachment"-has cut For example, at the Chem-Nuclear Oregon ent. In about six months, Reinbold said, into the total. site, if a pond were filled with 53 inches of dumping will start in the three slloes there. Recently a site near San Diego was closed water on Jan. 1 of an average year, it would Now, in a site tour conducted for The Cou because the operator decided residenthl be dry on DJc. 31 of the same year because rier-Express, it can be seen where the $55 areas were closing in on the location. A closed of evaporation. There is negative precipita million went, when the Air Force built this site like this in a residential area opens up tion there. missile site. the possibility of a situation similar to that TIGHT STATE RULES Both the Grand View and Bruneau sites of the Love Canal in Niagara Falls. There, a The site operates under rigid controls by are located not far from Mountain Home hazardous waste dump went bad forcing the the State of Oregon. The state must approve (Idaho) Air Force Base, which is still op evacuation of the neighborhood. e-;ery waste material which goes into the site. erating. There is plenty of need for more sites in "Our policy is that if a chemical can be One· vast, vaulted underground room held California. recycled, we require it," Eduardo G. Chiong, a complete power plant to operate the entire "I cannot think of anything that this state an engineer in the Hazardous Waste Section complex without outside power. Another doesn't produce or use or throw away," he of the Oregon Department of Environmental three story area held the living quarters and commented on the state's industries. Quality, told the Courier-Express. the control center. Seemingly endless tunnels Until recently, Stahler noted, "perhaps 50 Ironically, the man who set up the Oregon link the sections. percent" of hazardous waste disposal or system as a state chemical engineer is now DEEP WATER TABLE treatment "left something to be desired." on the other side of the fence. Patrick H. In both Grand View and Bruneau, the QUARRY SITE DANGEROUS Wicks is now manager of chemical disposal water table is 2,000 feet down below the There are bad past sites. Perhaps the worst and treatment for Chem-Nuclear. site. (At Chem-Nuclear in Oregon, the water is in Riverside, Calif., just outside Los An Oregon agents make frequent visits to the is only 800 feet down, but there are two geles. A quarry company operated a dump site site. The company relies on the producer of layers of hard rock in between.) there for several years, mostly taking heavy the waste for analysis of the contents. Wes-Con is licensed to take solid materials metal sludge and acids. The wastes were "We don't do any testing. That's done be contaminated with PCB, but it can't take dumped in a series of pits running down a fore it's shipped. It would be orohibitive. It's liquid PCB. hillside on the edge of residential Pyrite up to the integrity of the manufacturer," Reinbold said he plans to use underground Canyon. said Frank Dement, site manager. areas in addition areas beside the six silos "BATHTUB RINGS" for special storage. "When the st:uff was dried up, they would "We haven't decided yet. It depends on dig out the middle of the pit and dump it on Chem-Nuclear has five work areas. Two what we get. We want to use it for long th·e side," explained Stephen Herrera, staff are essentially waste lakes. These are 400,000 term heated storage of some materials which engineer with the Santa Ana Regional Water gallon areas. One contains acids and the can be recycled four or five years down the Quality Board. other contains basic wastes. The basic waste line," Reinbold said. The site has been closed for five years and lake has rings of color around it from the Materials for the site come from all over, the previous owners "just walked away," he different wastes, like rings on a bathtub. he said. Some come from as far east as New said. Another pit started out as 500 feet Jong Jersey, he told The Courier-Express. But, last year. heavy rains washed into the and 30 feet deep. It is gradually being filled Various wastes, also especially PCB, come pits, threatening to wash the entire complex from one end with a variety of solid wastes. in from Canada. and everything it contained down the hill In its bottom is a vast, sealed concrete box. Roger Fuentes, a chemical engineer with and into a residential area. So, perhaps a It contains road and roadside materials the EPA regional office in Seattle, was unable million gallons of water and waste were which were contaminated when a tank truck to say how much chemical waste comes from pumped out into a nearby stream. The stream load of pure cyanide was wrecked and spilled Canada, however, he said: then overflowed onto adjacent land. onto the highway. "We don't have the information as far as A wrecked truck is also buried at Chem movement of hazardous waste. We don't have SCHOOL AFFECTED Nuclear. It was contaminated in a highway the facilities to keep track of that without The pollutants also somehow seeped into wreck and simply buried because it wasn't RCRA." the well of an elementary school 7,000 feet worth cleaning and fixing. LAW NOT IMPLEMENTED away, according to Mrs. Ruth Kirkby, secre The Oregon area has two large pits for RCRA is a federal law which provides for tary of a citizens group agitating for a liquid waste, other than the acid and basic "cradle to grave" handling of hazardous cleanup of the entire site. tanks. Here also, the dry air is used to simply waste. But, EPA has not yet been able to It isn't completely clear what went into dry out the waste. As with much chemical provide the regulations to implement the law the site. But, it is known to have received a waste, there is a lot of water in it. in the almost two years since it became law. variety of acids and a lot of metal sludges, DmT CAP APPLIED As a result, the law is essentially a dead especially from metal plating operations. The firm has piled up to 11 feet of sludge letter. Mrs. Kirkby has been so involved in trying in the bottom of two other pits used for There doesn't seem to be much urgency to get the site cleaned up she has even talked other liquids in 30 months of operation. about the hazardous chemical waste situa to Dr. Roger Herdman, New York State direc When 27 feet thiclt, the dumping will be tion in some western states. tor of public health. She said she talked to stopped and the material allowed to dry. Washington, for example, has no hazardous Dr. Herdman because of the Love Canal situ Then, a three foot thick dirt cap will be put waste disposal site yet. But, it does have an ation in Niagara Falls. on it. elaborate set of rules which took effect She explained that she was worried that At the Grand View Idaho site, Wes-Con Aug. 1 to define what ls an "extremely the air and water pollution in the area of has a little different approach. The site in hazardous" waste. The state estimates there the Pyrite Canyon might create the same use now is located in the middle of a vast are somewhere between 20,000 and 60,000 sort of environmental disaster that occurred natural deposit of the special "bentonite" tons generated each year of extremely haz in Niagara Falls, where dangerous chemicals clay used to seal hazardous wastes. So, a ardous waste. seeping from a closed dump have forced evac machine just digs the clay out and piles it "They are currently very soft numbers," uation of a whole neighborhood. up to be used as back fill. according to Tom Cook, head of the haz $375,000 FOR CLEANUP The drums of waste are put into the hole ardous waste section of the Department of California has appropriated $375,000 to with a. special bucket and covered over with Ecology in Olympia, Wash., meaning the esti clean up the Pyrite Canyon scene. Stahler clay. Originally, drums of chemical wastes mates are very rough. has some doubts that the money is anywhere were just dropped into the hole. But, there Cook said firms in his state can treat near enough. were fires and explosions and government the waste, store it on site or send it out of "Like Love Canal, they were first talking objections. So, the procedure was changed. state. That sent out of state usually goes to $4 million, then $8 million," he said. "Now Most of the material going into the silos Wes-Con in Idaho or Chem-Nuclear in they're talking $10 million." comes from agriculture, according to Gene Oregon. · Said Mrs. Kirkby: Reinbold, the. company president. This covers SMALL CHEMICAL INDUSTRY "We just wish we knew what to do about pesticides, wastes from making pesticides The State of Idaho keeps an eye on Wes this. It's a terrible thing." and related materials and pesticide con Con. The firm takes care of one of the state's Both the Chem-Nuclear Oregon site and tainers. A small underground room is used problems, the disposal of empty pesticide the two Wes-Con Idaho sites are attempts for disposal of aerosol containers, many of drums. to get around the location problem. That is them full of varying types of chemicals. Jerome Jankowski, senior environmental also true of a site in Beatty, Nev. All four VALUABLE COPPER STORED quality specialist in the Solid Waste Section sites are located in extremely isolated, nearly There are about 3,000 cardboard drums of in the Idaho Department of Health and Wel desert areas. copper sludge stored around the Idaho site. fare, noted, "We don't have much in the way The sites are located in far, out of the way Reinbold said the material is about 30 per of a chemical industry." places, with essentially no neighbors. In addi- cent copper. Perhaps the longest shipments are from September 27, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32129 Hawaii. EPA's Stahler said there are no examiner stated that Seaburn died of cardiac committees, joint committees, and com chemical waste regulations in Ha.wail. All arrest brought on by "an allergic reaction" mittees of conference. This title requires Hawaiian waste ostensibly is shipped to the to the venom of the ant. all such committees to notify the Office U.S. mainland. However, there is some evi The medical reports stated that Sea.burn dence of improper dumping of chemical had a history of a.cute sensitivity to insect of the Senate Daily Digest-designated wastes in the Aloha state. bites. by the Rules Committee-of the time, Arizona is now completing its hazardous Rasmussen submitted a written statement place, and purpose of all meetings when waste regulations, with a target date of in which he said Sea.burn was observed scheduled, and any cancellations or Nov. 1 for effectiveness. Stahler said they spraying the ants with some type of insect changes in meetings as they occur. are based on the California rules. The state spray. He said Seaburn called to him a. few As an interim procedure until the com will lease a treatment and dump site to a minutes later, saying ne had been stung and private operator for hazardous waste after directing Rasmussen to "get me to the hos puterization of this information becomes the regulations are completed. pital right a.way." operational the Office of the Senate Daily An isolated site is being considered. Digest will prepare this information for Stahler put his finger on one of the key U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, printing in the Extensions of Remarks issues when he told The Courier-Express: ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH IN section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on "Nobody wants a garbage dump in their SPECTION SERVICE, Monday and Wednesday of each week. backyard. But, God knows the stu1f has to September 19, 1978. go somewhere."e To: Mr. R. H. Prestage, District Director. Any changes in committee scheduling From: T. H. Murphy, PPQ Officer. will be indicated by placement of an Subject: Report of Death by Fire Ant Sting. asterisk to the left of the name of the FIRE ~A DANGER TO THE On September 13, 1978, this writer was unit conducting such meetings. PUBLIC called by Georgia Health Official, Mr. Don Meetings scheduled for Thursday, Sep Curry, and the Vidalia, Georgia. Police Chief, Mr. Joel Joyner, concerning the sudden death tember 28, 1978, may be found in the HON. BO GINN of Mr. Ron Seaburn. Daily Digest of today's RECORD. OF GEORGIA Mr. Seaburn resided at 621 E. 7th St., Vi dalia., Georgia. MEETINGS SCHEDULED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Seaburn, White, Male, 25 years of age, SEPTEMBER 29 Wednesday, September 27, 1978 was reportedly bitten on the foot by an ant 9:00 a .m. while he was getting dressed in the bedroom Human Resources • Mr. GINN. Mr. Speaker, the fight of his house. Labor Subcommittee against the imported fire ant is slowly The Investigating Officer, Policeman Wil To mark up proposed National Labor being lost due to Government inaction, liam Varnadoe, collected several ants from Relations Procedures and Remedies indecision, and indifference. I have ap the bedroom. The ants were tentatively iden Act. pealed many times to the Department of tified as the Imported Fire Ant. Specimens 4232 Dirksen Building have been sent to the Gulfport Laboratory for 9:30 a.m. Agri:ulture, the Environmental Protec determination. Entomologist Homer Collins Conferees tion Agency, and others to clear the way of the Gulfport laboratory has identified the On H.R. 10173, to improve pension pro for an effe:tive treatment program to ants as: Solenopsis saevissima. invicta. (Im grams for veterans and their survivors. eradicate these ants. Unfortunately, the ported Fire Ant) . S-146, Capitol response to date has been totally inade TURNER H. MURPHY, PPQ Officer. 10:00 a.m. quate. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Many individuals in sections of our FmE ANT BITES BLAMED IN DEATH To hold oversight hearings on problems country which have yet to be infested by HOLDEN BEACH.-The death Of an elderly of small business defense contractors. fire ants do not understand the danger Holden Beach man whose body was found in 5302 Dirksen Building they present to public health. This threat a woods on Dec. 1 with a lit flashlight in his Energy and Natural Resources to the public was tragically illustrated hand has been attributed to cardiac failure To resume consideration of proposed leg a.nd an acute asthma attack brought on by islation designating certain Alaska recently when a young man in Vidalia, fire ant bites. lands as national parkland. Ga., was killed by the bite of a fire ant. Tommy Gilbert, Brunswick County medi 3110 Dirksen Building Late last year, an elderly man in Holden cal examiner, said this week that an autopsy Joint Economic Beach, Fla., was also killed by the venom had determined that 20 to 40 fire ant bites To hold hearings on the inadequacies of of the fire ant. Without objection, I ask contributed to the cardiac arrythmia and U.S. export policy. that press accounts of these deaths be asthma that killed O'Neil Steele, 67, of Route S-207, Capitol reprinted in the RECORD at this point, 1, Holden Beach. 1:30 p .m. "He probably would not have gone into Conferees along with a report by the Department of cardiac arrythmia and the asthmatic .attack Agriculture on the death of the Vidalia On H.R. 12467, to extend programs estab if he had not been bitten by the ants," Gil lished under the Rehabilitation Act, man. bert said. and to establish a comprehensive serv (From the Atlanta Constitution, Sept. 26, Steele, who had a history of asthma, was ices program for the severely handi 1978) walking though a lightly wooded area from capped. GEORGIAN'S DEATH BLAMED ON FmE ANT a neighbor's house to his own home on the S-146, Capitol night of Dec. 1 when he died, Gilbert said. (By Jim Lee) The medical examiner said Steel's flashlight SEPTEMBER 30 MACON.-A U.S. Department of Agriculture was still lit when the body was found. 9:00 a.m. official confirmed Monday that Georgia ap Gilbert said Steele's was the first recorded Human Resources parently has recorded 1-ts first death directly death from fire ant bites in Brunswick To mark up proposed National Labor Re attributed to the sting of a fire ant. County. lations Procedures and Remedies Act. R. H. Prestage, director of the Plant Pro Fire ants get their name from their pain 4232 Dirksen Building tection and Quarantine Division of USDA in ful bite, which merely stings most people but OCTOBER 2 Georgia., said the death occurred Sept. 13 in can be danl!erous to those allergic to bee 10:00 a.m. Vidalia after several of the large ants invRded stings or other insect bites. Fire ants build Finance the bedroom of Ron Sea.burn, 21, and one large mounds that can hamper harvesting, International Trade Subcommittee stung him on the foot. ant:l the ants attack ferociously when dis Prestage said no formal announcement of turbed. To hold hearings on H.R. 11711, to im the death had been made by his office be Efforts to control fire ants have been con prove the operation of the adjustment cause final reports from a. USDA representa troversial because the most popular chemical assistance programs for workers and tive, medical authorities and the local police used to combat them. Mirex, breaks down firms under the Trade Act. were needed. He said his office received the into Kepone. a poison t.hat att.acks the nerves 2221 Dirksen Building reports last week. and can cause cancer, when it enters the OCTOBER 3 Prestage said several an ts ta.ken from the environment.e 8:00 a.m. bedroom were subsequently sent to a. USDA Governmental Affairs laboratory in Gulfport, Miss., where they were Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga identified as the imported variety. SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS . tions Prestage said the presence of the ants in Title IV of Senate Resolution 4. agreed To hold hearings on the Government's Seaburn 's bedroom was verified by Vidalia handling of certain export licenses police officer William Varnadoe and Antone to by the Senate on February 4, 1977, transferring U.S. oil and gas well Rasmussen, a. friend of the victim who had calls for establishment of a system for a drilling technology to the Soviet arrived from Illinois the previous night. comouterized schedule of all meetings Union. Reports by a. local physician and a. medical and hearings of Senate committees. sub- 3302 Dirksen Butlding CXXIV--2020-Pa.rt 24 32130 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE September 28, 1978 9:00 a.m. administration of the Occupational To hold hearings on national health Energy and Natural Resources Safety and Health Administration Act insurance programs. Parks and Recreation Subcommittee (P.L. 91-596) . 4232 Dirksen Bulldtng To hold hearings on S. 2866, to provide 4232 Dirksen Building OCTOBER 10 for the establishment of the New 10:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. River Gorge National River, West Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Armed Services Virginia. To continue oversight hearings on the Manpower and Personnel Suooommittee 3110 Dirksen Building Council on Wage and Price Stability. To hold hearings on alleged abuses in Human Resources 5302 Dirksen Building U.S. Marine Corps recruiting practices. To hold hearings on the nominations of OCTOBER 5 1114 Dirksen Building Armando M. Rodriquez, of California, 9:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. and J. Clay Smith, Jr., of the District Energy and Natural Resources Human Resources of Columbia, to be members of the Parks and Recreation Subcommittee Equal Employment Opportunity Health and Scientific Research Subcom To hold hearings on S. 3429, to designate mittee Commission. the Great Bear Wilderness, Flathead 4232 Dirksen Building National Forest, and enlarge the Bob To continue hearings on national health 9:30 a.m. Marshall Wilderness, Flathead and insurance programs. Human Resources Lewis and Clark National Forests, 4232 Dirksen Building Labor Sub~ommittee Montana. OCTOBER 11 To hold oversight hearings on the ad 3110 Dirksen Building 9:00 a.m. ministration of the Occupational 9:30 a.m. Armed Services Safety and Health Administration Act Human Resources Manpower and Personnel Subcommittee (P.L. 91-596). Labor Subcommittee 4232 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on alleged abuses To continue oversight hearings on the in U.S. Marine Corps recruiting 10:00 a.m. administration of the Occupational Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs practices. Safety and Health Administration Act 1114 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on the Coun (P.L. 91-596). cil on Wage and Price Stability. 4232 Dirksen Building OCTOBER 13 5302 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. OCTOBER 4 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Human Resources 9:00 a.m. Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee Health and Scientific Research S~bcom Government Affairs To hold oversight hearings on interna mittee Civil Service and General Service Sub tional housing programs. To resume hearings on national health committee 5302 Dirksen Building insurance programs. To hold hearings on S. 1390, to authorize OCTOBER 6 4232 Dirksen Building certain National Guard employment to 10:00 a.m. CANCELLATIONS be credited for civil service retirement, Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and S. 1821, to provide paid leave for Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee OCTOBER 2 Federal employees participating in To continue oversight hearings on inter 10:00 a.m. athletic activities as an official repre national housing programs. Energy and Natural Resources sentative of the U.S. 5302 Dirksen Building Public Lands and Resources Subcommittee 3302 Dirksen Building OCTOBER 9 To resume hearings on proposed Interior 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Department regulations to implement Human Resources Human Resources the Surface Mining and Reclamation Labor Subcommittee Health and Scientific Research Subcom Act (P.L. 95343). To continue oversight hearings on the mittee 3110 Dirksen Building SENATE-Thursday, September 28, 1978 Statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floo~ will be identified by the use of a "bullet" symbol, i.e., •