1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 5529 In removing it, he dramatized, to my mind, can. They fought with an unrelenting cour it should also end there. They voted in the the coming of age of both this country and age in the economic, political, and mmtary United States with an eye to the effect on the Irish in it. He was the symbol of the battles of the country. They would not give the freedom of Ireland, and in so doing they immigrant--a symbol not exclusively reserved an inch. They were despised and rejected broadened the scope of American polltical for the Irish. and discriminated against, but they did not thinking. I think that Leonard Patrick O'Connor make this an occasion for wa111ng, but only Wibberley in a summation of his book, "The fought the harder. "The slums did not hold them. The mines Coming of the Green," tells us the Irish con "They did not desert their faith, once so did not break them. They were not lost tribution not only to America, but to the unpopular, in order to gain acceptance. Nor building roads and canals in the wilderness. world: did they forget their homeland, for though They were not defeated at the foot of Marye's "The Irish immigrants did what every for they believed that freedom began with the Heights. eign group must do to win the name Ameri- American coastline, they saw no reason why "It was a grand battle, indeed."
H.R. 8280. An act for the relief of Mrs. jected by the House last week twists HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Annette M. Rasor and Dr. Robert W. Rasor; logic as well as arms. H.R. 8470. An act for the relief of War He says that failure to vote the pay WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1964 ren A. Jeffers and Francis H. Leik; and H .R. 8930. An act for the relief of certain raise Will "jeopardize increases in mili The House met at 12 o'clock noon. employees of the Bureau of Indian Affiairs. tary pay which I have recommended to keep Armed Forces pay generally in line The Chaplain, Rev.Bernard Braskamp, The message also announced that the D.D., offered the following prayer: with nonmilitary salary." Senate had passed bills of the following This line of reasoning leaves me con Psalm 145: 9: The Lord is good to all: titles, in which the concurrence of the House is requested: fused. and His tender mercies are over all His It seems to say that we must raise the works. S. 309. An act for the relief of Lt. Col. pay of civilian Federal employees so that Almighty God, as we daily meditate Henry H. Allport, Army of the United States, upon Thy goodness, may we have a retired; we can vote a second pay raise for the greater faith in the sovereignty of Thy S. 353. An act for the relief of Benjamin A. Armed Forces so that the Armed Forces divine love which is redeeming in its Ramelb; pay will be kept in line with the pay of S. 476. An act for the relief of Zenon the civilian employees which the Presi purpose and power. Zubieta; May we be emancipated from all self dent wants us to increase. S. 1030. An act for the relief of Sister This is not the only assault on logic ish and sordid desires to have the good Aurora Martin Gelado (also known as Sister things of life for our own satisfaction contained in the President's remarkable Nieve); and statement. and security instead of sharing them S. 1999. An act for the relief of Francisco with the poor and needy. Navarro-Paz. He indicates we will economize by Inspire the soul of humanity to be spending more, that we will get a better lifted out of the fret and jar of life into class of "managers" by raising the pay that free and peaceful atmosphere where SUBCOMM!TrEE ON MINES AND of the managers we now have, and re all shall be striving for justice and right MINING OF THE COMMITTEE ON lieve Members of Congress of the em eousness, for truth and love. INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS barrassment of voting a $5 million pay Grant that we may be obedient to Thy increase for themselves by voting a $540 moral and spiritual laws which are a Mr. ASPINALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask million pay raise for everyone else. command and a .challenge to our better unanimous consent that the Subcom If this be logic, it must at least be self, and sending us down upon our knees mittee on Mines and Mining of the Com admitted that it carries a high price tag in reverence and bidding us to rise and mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs be for the taxpayers. go forward, never again to doubt or be permitted to sit during general debate afraid. today. Hear us in Christ's name. Amen. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to CALL OF THE HOUSE the request of the gentleman from Colo Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, I make rado? the point of order that a quorum is not THE JOURNAL There was no objection. present. The Journal of the proceedings of yes The SPEAKER.. Evidently a quorum terday was read and approved. SUBCOMMI'ITEE ON NASA OVER is not present. SIGHT OF THE COMMITTEE ON Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I move a MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS call of the House. A call of the House was ordered. A message in writing from the Presi Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask The Clerk called the roll, and the fol dent of the United States was communi unanimous consent that the Subcom lowing Members failed to answer to their cated to the House by Mr. Ratchford, one mittee on NASA Oversight of the Com of his secretaries. names: mittee on Science and Astronautics be [Roll No. 71] permitted to sit during general debate Bass Halpern Minshall MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE today. Blatnik Harvey, Mich. Mosher The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Buckley Hemphlll Murray A message from the Senate by Mr. Carey Hoffman O'Brien, Dl. the request of the gentleman from Okla Clawson, Del Jarman Olsen, Mont. Arrington, one of its clerks, announced homa? Colmer Johnson, Pa. Powell that the Senate had passed without There was no objection. CUrtis Jones, Ala. Rains amendment bills of the House of the Davis, Tenn. Karsten Roberts, Ala. Dowdy Karth Rogers, Tex. following titles: Edwards Kee Rooney, N.Y. H.R. 1759. An act for the relief of Rebecca FEDERAL EMPLOYEE PAY RAISE Fallon Lankford Roosevelt K. Clayton; Finnegan Lloyd Roybal H.R. 2189. An act for the relief of Morris Mr. JOHANSEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Forrester Mcintire Schadeberg unanimous consent to address the House Fulton, Tenn. Macdonald Stephens Aronow and other employees of the Post Gray - Martin, Calif. Willis Office Department; for 1 minute and to revise and extend Hagan, Ga. Martin, Mass. H .R. 2724. An act for the relief of Davey my remarks. Ellen Snider Siegel; The SPEAKER. Is there objection The SPEAKER. On this rollcall 383 H.R. 4681. An act for the relief of CWO Members have answered to their names, James A. McQuaig; to the request of the gentleman from H .R. 5584. An act for the relief of Capt. Michigan? a quorum. Ransom C. Aplin; There was no objection? By unanimous consent, further pro H.R. 6748. An act for the relief of the J.D. . Mr. JOHANSEN. Mr. Speaker, the ceedings under the call were dispensed Wallace & Co., Inc.; President's plug for the pay raise bill re- with. 5530 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 THE CHICAGO DELEGATION Funds which have beeri appropriated addition, initial and supplemental allo Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, to accomplish the Federal assistance de cations in the amount of $16,051,000 I ask unanimous consent to address the termined eligible under this authority were made for eight disasters occurring House for 1 minute and to revise and ex- .are specifically appropriated to the Pres in 1962. A total of $29,676,000 was allo tend my remarks. · ident for purposes of disaster relief. cated from the President's disaster fund The SPEAKER. Is there objection LYNDON B. JOHNSON. in 1963. The allocations provided for to the request of the gentleman from THE WHITE HOUSE, March 18, 1964. performing protective work essential for Illinois? the preservation of life and property Federal assistance in major peace performing emergency health and sani~ There was no objection. time disasters is a coordinated operation tation measures, clearing debris and Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, under Public Law 875, 81st Congress, as wreckage, and making emergency re the Chicago delegation under the guid amended. Public Law 875, popularly pairs and temporary replacement of es ance and inspiration of our beloved ToM known as the Federal Disaster Act, gives sential public facilities of States and lo O'BRIEN has made a reputation in this the President broad powers to supple cal governments damaged or destroyed House for sympathetic understanding of ment the efforts and available resources in such major disasters, including provi the problems of our colleagues from of States and local governments in sions for temporary housing or emer other areas and, understanding their carrying out their responsibilities to al gency shelter. problems, always we have cooperated. leviate suffering and damage resulting In the spring widespread fiooding in Mr. Speaker, I am now speaking for !rom major disasters. the Appalachian area affected Georgia, the solid delegation from Chicago. We A "major disaster" is any flood, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West feel that an injury has been done us by drought, fire, hurricane, earthquake, Virginia. The territory of Guam, which one of the great committees of this storm or other catastrophe which in the was severely damaged by Typhoon Karen House. We are not criticizing the com determination of the President is of suffi in the fall of 1962, was struck a second mittee. We think that the committee, cient severity and magnitude to warrant pressed for time, was too easy in ap Federal assistance. time in April 1963. The second storm proving a payment of $5 million for the When, in his determination, condi Typhoon Olive, also affected the island~ vanity of one stupid general. tions warrant the declaration of a major of Tinian, Rota, and Saipan in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. In both Mr. Speaker, I hope the committee will disaster, the President is authorized to territories, the Office of Emergency give the Chicago Members ample time call upon the services of such elements Planning has assigned primary responsi during general debate to present our case of the Federal Establishment as may be bility for the emergency repair and tem to the membership of this body, and we necessary to provide disaster assistance; porary replacement of damaged public ask that our colleagues from the other to coordinate the disaster activities Qf facilities to the Department of the Navj. States listen to our presentation. Then Federal agencies; and to direct any Fed if in good conscience you can vote with era! agency to perform certain types of The Federal disaster assistance regu us we assure you of our appreciation. service not authorized under such lations were amended during the year to Five million dollars is a pretty steep agency's normal authority. • improve procedures for the determina price to pay for the vanity of any in The Federal Disaster Act requires the tion and certification of State and local dividual, ,even a general who was edu Governor of a State to certify to the expenditures for disaster relief. The cated at taxpayers expense and then out President the need for Federal assist amendment, by requiring that the Gov grew the people who footed the bill. ance and provide assurance of the ex ernor's certification of expenditures con Five million dollars is just the starting penditure of a reasonable amount of the tain a breakdown of such expenditures figure. funds of the State and local govern into specified categories, will assist both ments in combating the effects of dis the States and the Office of Emergency aster. To insure that the Federal Gov Planning in evaluating requests for Fed TREASURY-POST OFFICE APPRO ernment does not carry the entire bur eral disaster assistance. At the time the PRIATION BILL, 1965 den of disaster relief, the Governor is regulations were amended, the Oflice of Mr. GARY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani required to certify that the total expend Emergency Planning also announced a mous consent that the Committee on itures and obligations for disaster relief, modest upward adjustment for all States Appropriations may have until midnight in that disaster and all other disasters in the schedule of minimum State and Friday, March 20, 1964, to file a report during the 12-month period preceding local e~penditures required to qualify for on the Treasury-Post Office appropria the request for assistance, meet or ex assistance under Public Law 875. Both tion bill for 1965. ceed an amount published in the Federal the procedural change and the revised Register as the minimum for that State. schedule of minimum expenditures will The SPEAKER. Is there objection to become effective the request of the gentleman from Vir In accordance with authority granted on July 1, 1964. the President in section 5 (b) of Public Substantial gains were made during ginia? 1963 in the development and distribution There was no objection. Law 81-875 to exercise any power or au thority conferred on him. by the act of educational materials on the disaster Mr. MICHEL reserved all points of · program. General information pam order. through such Federal agency as he may designate, the President has delegated phlets outlining the procedures and re responsibility for administration of the quirements for Federal disaster assist REPORT OF ACTIVITY UNDER AU Federal disaster assistance program to ance were prepared for and distributed THORITY OF PUBLIC LAW 875- the Office of Emergency Planning. Ex to Members of Congress, Governors-, and MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT ecutive Orders 10427, 10737 and 11051 local government officials. A procedural· OF THE UNITED STATES TABLE I.-Disaster relief, Executive Office of the President, allocations authorized Jan. 1, 1963, through Dec. 31, 1963
Presi PrPsi I' Date of dential Date of dential State Disaster Presidential alloca- State Disaster Presidential alloca- declaration tions declaration tions author author ized ized
Maryland______Severe storm, high tides, and Mar. 9, 1962 $125,000 Vlr~~:inia______Floods .. ------Mar. 21,1963 $220.000 flooding. Georgia.------Severe storms and flooding______Mar. 26,1963 75,000 North Carolina ______..... do ..... ------Mar. 16,1962 475,000 Tennessee ______do·------Mar. 27,1963 750,000 Mississippi______Sunken chlorine barge______Oct. 10, 1962 1, 792,000 Hawaii______•. ___ do·------Apr. 24,1963 250,000 Oregon______Severe storms______Oct. 16,1962 700,000 Guam______Typhoon Olive______Apr. 30,1963 67D,OOO Washington ______..... do .... ------Oct. 20,1962 400,000 Trust Territory_------_____ do ______do. ______1,300,000 California______Severe storms and flooding______Oct. 24, 1962 1, 220,000 Wyoming______Excessive rainfall and flooding__ July 4,1963 300,000 Guam______Typhoon Karen______Nov. 12, 1962 9, 700,000 Nebraska .. ------dO------July 17,1963 395,000 Florida______Abnormally high tides______Dec. 17,1962 1, 639,000 Arkansas ______do•------Aug. 2, 1963 150,000 Nevada______Floods______Feb. 14,1963 700,000 New York . . ------_____ do______Aug. 23,1963 750,000 Idaho ______. do ______----.do ..... __ _ 250,000 Texas______Hurricane Cindy______Sept. 24,1963 500,000 Oregon ______..•.. do______Feb. 25,1963 210,000 Vermont______Severe drought and Impending Nov. 27, 1963 75,000 California______Excessive rainfall, floods, and .....do ______1,045,000 freeze. severe storms. California______Reservoir break and flooding____ Dee. 21,1963 500,000 Washington ______Floods ______Mar. 2,1963 585,000 West Virginia______Severe storms and flooding______Mar. 13,1963 1, 700,000 Total ______------29,676, 000 Kentucky------____ .do ______----.do ______3, 250,000
As of Dec. 31, 1963-Appropriation 11X0039-Disaster relief, Appropriation 11X0039(06)-Disaster relief, Executive Office of Executive Office of the President, since inception of fund, Aug. 31, the President, allocations to OEP as of Dec. 31, 1963 1951 Net allocations for: Total appropriation by Congress ______$?DO, 300,000.00 Disaster relief to States prior to calendar year 11H13 ______$152, 049,680. 96 Disaster relief to States in calendar year 1963------29,676,000.00 Allocations: HHFA: Total allocations to States______------181, 725,680.96 From President's fund. ------35, 694,704.00 Net transfers to other Government agencies______-1,272,775.55 From OEP ___ ------183,074. 71 Returned to President's fund_------~------38,392,872.65 Returned to President's fund .. _------6,153,370.92 Subtotal (net. direct relief allocation) ___ ------142, 060, 032. 76 Net. ______- ______. _____ - ______--.---_---. ______29, 724, 407. 79 Administrative expenses: Net disbursements ______----- ______-----______Corps of Engineers: • 2, 378, 184. 87 From President's fund. __ ------5, 304; 864. ()() Unliquidated obligations______------______------35,727.68 From OEP ____ ------818,247. 16 Unobligated allocations._------ 1, 005, 070. 92 Returned to President's fund ... ______:______-863, 822. 08 Returned to President's fund __ ------1, 225, 725. 48 Net------5, 259, 289. 08 Total allocations received __ ------ 5, 204, 708. 95 Small Business Administration: From President's fund ______34,030.45 Less returned to President's fund __ ------~------1, 225, 725. 48 ===== Office of Emergency Planning: Subtotal (net administrative allocation>------3, 978,983.47 From President's fund. ------186,930,389.91 Net transfers to other Government agencies ______.:______-1,272,775.55 Net allocations to OEP ------· ------146,039,016.23 Returned to President's fund .. ------39,618,598. 13 Net______:______146,039,016.23
Total net allocations______181,056,743.55
Balance, President's fund, Dec. 31, 1963·------25,243,256.45
AUTHORIZING CONSTRUCTION FOR at the conclusion of my remarks 1 shall ments, and servicemen'3 mortgage in ~THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS yield 30 minutes to the gentlewoman surance authorization. AND RESERVE COMPONENTS from New York [Mrs. ST. GEORGE]. The legislation will authorize the ap Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 655 Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, by direc propriation by Congress of $1,590,666,- provides for consideration of H.R. 10300, 000 in support b! new military construc tion of the Committee on Rules, I call up a bill to authorize certain construction tion activities of the Department o! De House Resolution 655 and ask for its im at military installations, and for other fense and the several military depart mediate consideration. purposes. The resolution provides an ments. The Clerk read the resolution, as open rule with 2 hours of general debate. In addition, the bill will authorize the follows: The purpose of H.R. 10300 is to provide appropriation of $81,000 to support addi Resolved, That upon the adoption of this military construction authorization and tional costs experienced by the. depart resolution it shall be in order to move that related authority in support of the mili ments in connection with previously au the House resolve itself into the Committee tary departments during fiscal year 1965. of the Whole House on the State of the thorized construction projects. Union for the consideration of the bill (H.R. The bill authorizes construction of 585 Mr. Speaker, you can be assured that 10300) to authorize certain construction at military bases throughout the world. a very learned and erudite presentation military installations, and for other pur Included in the construction authoriza will be made by the venerable gentleman poses. After general debate, which shall be tion for these 585 bases are approxi from Georgia [Mr. VINSON]. confined to the bill and shall continue not mately 1,200 line items which represent I trust that the rule will be adopted. to exceed two hours, to be equally divided thousands of component construction Mrs. ST. GEORGE. Mr. Speaker, I and controlled by the Chairman and ranking projects. Also included in this con minority member of the Committee on yield myself such time as I may consume. Armed Services, the blll shall be read for struction authorization are 9,886 indi Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 655 amendment under the five-minute rule. At , vidual units of military family housin~. makes in order the consideration o! H.R. the conclusion of the consideration of the The bill also authorizes improvements 10300, to authorize certain construction b1ll for amendment, the Committee shall rise to adequate quarters; minor construction at military installations, and for other and report the bill to the House with such authority for family housing; planning purposes. amendments as may have been adopted, and moneys for family housing; rental guar This legislation comes to us from the the previous question shall be considered as antee payments; operating expenses; ordered on the bill and amendments thereto Defense Department and also from the to final passage without intervening motion leasing of 5,000 units of family housing; Committee on Armed Services and is, as . except one motion to recommit. the maintenance of the entire inventory usual, thoroughly considered and thor of military family housing which is in oughly worked over. It is a highly com Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, I yield excess of 368,000 units; Capehart; plicated and highly technical bill, and myself such time as I may consume, and Wherry, Commodity Credit debt payp one that is usual. I hope this House will 5532 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 take it strictly on trust. There are very lieve the Department of Defense is not Mr. AVERY. Finally, Mr. Speaker, I few pieces of legislation that we can do continually acquiring more private land include a reply from SP.cretary of the this with. for public use, but on the other hand it Army Cyrus R. Vance to this inquiry. Mr. Speaker, there has been a rumor, is decreasing its overall real estate hold The matter referred to is as follows: and I trust it is not correct, that this is ings. I will place this table in. the DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, the last such piece of legislation that the RECORD. It reveals in the last 5 years OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, chairman of the Committee on Armed less than 20,000 acres have been acquired Washington, D.C., March 4, 1964. Services, the gentleman from Georgia and about 100,000 acres have been re Hon. WILLIAM H. AVERY, [Mr. VINSON], will bring to the ftoor of turned to private ownership and placed House of Representatives. DEAR MR. AVERY: The Secretary of the Army this House. Certainly if this is true we back on the tax rolls. has asked me to reply to your inquiry con probably will never be able to take an The matter referred to is as follows: cerning the land acquisition at Fort Riley, other bill of this nature without more Army land acquisitions and disposals, fiscal Kans. careful examination that we do today. year 1959 (July 1, 1958) through fiscal The Department of the Army is aware of We know that the gentleman from year 1963 (June 30, 1963) 1 the concern of the officials of Riley County Georgia [Mr. VINSON] is the father and over the loss of tax evaluation,to the county. practically the architect of national de Fiscal year Acquisitions Disposals The decision not only to acquire more land but also to expand in the direction now con fense in the United States. What he has templated was made after prolonged study done in the past, what he has done to 1959______5, 2i4 i, 1i3 and consideration of the problem and its day, and what he will I hope do in the 1960______5, 02i 8, 368 196L------1, 858 10,608 impact on the surrounding communities. future is something that can never be 1962------5, i49 50, i26 During the period 1958-61, a total of five replaced. 1963------1, 856 20, Oi5 studies were made to determine the direction 1------1------of the expansion and the number of acres Mr. Speaker, I know this House will go TotaL __ ------~--- 19, i64 96,950 right down the line and follow the advice to be acquired. of Admiral VINSON. There is no objec The results of these numerous studies re I Statistics are limited to property primarily acquired vealed that the most economical and prac tion to this rule. in fee. The statistics do not includf\ public domain or leased property. All figures in acres. tical expansion would be in a northwesterly Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman direction from the present limited maneuver from Kansas [Mr. AvERY] such time as Mr. AVERY. Mr. Speaker, I also in area. This would provide the urgently needed he may consume. clude a letter that I wrote at the request maneuver area and make available the ex Mr. AVERY. Mr. Speaker, naturally of the County Commissioners of Riley panded range fac111ties required for the major I want to concur and be associated with County, the county that is being ad weapons of the 1st Infantry Division. In the comments made by the gentle versely affected the most by this expan addition, the present impact area would be common to the ranges now available as well woman from New York relative to our sion, to inquire whether or not the Army as to the proposed new ranges. The proposed colleague from Georgia, the chairman had met the usual requirements in their extension would be closer to the . troop of the Committee on Armed Services analysis of the need for this land, and cantonment area and would afford an op [Mr. VINSON]. Although I have not also whether this was the most feasible portunity to conduct limited amphibious known him as long as have some Mem area that could be acquired to supple training at-Milford Reservoir. bers of the House and have never en ment the existing reservation. The proposed expansion could have been joyed the privilege of serving on his The matter referred to is as follows: implemented in a different direction, thereby committee, certainly, I want to join in involving land of less unit value. Results of FEBRUARY 6, 1964. the studies which were conducted indicated this expression of tribute for the great Hon. CYRus R. VANCE, that an expansion in any other direction than service he has rendered not alone for the Secretary of the Army, Department of . the that adopted would have required the ac House of Representatives but for the Army, Washington, D.C. quisition of substantially more acreage to United States of America and for the DEAR MR. SECRETARY: It has now become achieve the same results at a higher total free world as well. · public information that a $16'12 million ap cost. Basically, it would have required the Mr. Speaker, it is not often I take the propriation request was contained in the establishment of a second impact area and budget for fiscal 1965 for the pu-pose of ex an even larger maneuver area. ftoor under the consideration of a rule for panding the Army m111tary reservation at It is hoped that this explanation satisfac a single item in a bill. I trespass upon Fort Riley, Kans. This request was not un torily answers your questions concerning the the good nature of the House today to expected, as it was generally known that the land at Fort Riley. make a comment relative to an item in Army was seeking to expand the reservation Sincerely, the bill dealing with Fort Riley, Kans. in order to accommodate the necessary train F. W. BoYE, Jr., There is authorization in the bill for vir ing for the mission of the 1st Division that Brigadier General, GS, is stationed there. Deputy Chief of Legislative Liaison. tually doubling the present size of the Officials of Riley County, Kans., are under military reservation at Fort Riley, Kans. standably concerned at the loss of tax evalu Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the This involves the taking of some 50,000 ation to the county and other taxing in gentleman yield? acres of land. Naturally, when you take terests therein as a result of this proposed Mr. AVERY. I yield to the gentleman. 50,000 acres of land off the tax rolls, taking. Representatives of Riley County Mr. GROSS. When the gentleman and this is highly productive land, it is have requested that I write to you to inquire started his remarks, he said he was ad a matter of very serious concern not only if an exhaustive investigation had been con ducted by the Anny to determine for certain dressing the good nature of Members of to the farmers and land owners who are that the area presently proposed to be taken the House. I wonder whether I might as being displaced, but also to the tax units could be acquired at the lowest possible cost sume that the gentleman was including that are adversely affected by the taking to the Army, taking into account th" need the gentleman from Iowa? of the land. for the additional area and the number of Mr. AVERY. I would have to review I would like for the RECORD to show, square miles that are needed to satisfy the exactly what I said. I thought I apolo Mr. Speaker, when this item was first training requirements of the 1st Division. gized for perhaps imposing· upon the presented or mentioned in the press, I They point out tha.t, in their opinion, the good nature of the House for a local told both the proponents and the op proposed expansion could occur in a different direction and thereby committing land of matter at this stage of the proceedings. ponents alike that I considered this to substantially less value than now proposed. It was a categorical statement that I be a matter of military matter and not I would assume that all alternative ex made and I did not intend to have it in one for a political judgment. I further pansion possibilities had been considered as terpreted as specifically being directed stated that I felt it was the responsibility is the usual practice when private property to any particular Member. On most days of the Department of the Army to fully is to be taken for public use. Could you I would say to my friend from Iowa, I justify their need for taking this land advise me if such studies have been made in would include him in that. general cate and that if they could do so, I would this instance and the result of such studies? gory, but I know of some days that I abide by the judgment of the Committee I would hope that this information could would not. on Armed Services. be made available in the near future, as hearings on the m111tary construction bill Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent are likely to occur yet this month. of my time. in connection therewith to place in the Yours very truly, Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent RECORD at this point a few statistics that WM. H. AVERY, to revise and extend my remarks and reveal contrary to what most persons be- Member of Congress. include some letters and tables. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5533 The SPEAKER. Is there objection dedication. But there is no man in the The bill as approved by the Committeft to the request of the gentleman from entire history of our country who has on Armed Services and recommended for Kansas? made his imprint more forcefully, more enactment provides a total of $1,590,- constructively upon the pages of the 666,000 in construction authorization in There was no objection. 1 Mrs. ST. GEORGE. Mr. Speaker, I legislative history of our country than support of the active forces, the reserve yield 8 minutes to the gentleman from has our dear friend and colleague, CARL components, defense agencies, and mili California [Mr. GUBSER]. VINSON. tary famtly housing. Mr. GUBSER. Mr. Speaker, I take Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, I move As Members of the House will recall. this short period of time under the rule the previous question. last month I appeared befor~ you in because I have strong feelings about one The previous question was ordered. connection with the request for enact small portion of the bill, and believe The SPEAKER. The question is on ment ·of the annual authorizing legisla-1 that section commits a great mistake. the resolution. tion for the __... procurem.ent of aircraft. Due to the fact that only 1 hour is to The resolution was agreed to. naval vesselS, missiles, and support be distributed in general debate among IN COMMrri'EE OF THE WHOLE moneys for ' research and development some 18 Members of the minority, I feel Mr. VINSON. Mr. Speaker, I move for the military departments. I should make a small part of my case that the House resolve itself into the In other words, the House has pre in the debate on the rule. Committee of the · Whole House on the viouslY acted on the hardware request As Members will note on pages 51 and State of the Union for the consideration for the military departments for :fiscal 52 of the report, I have been joined by of the bill Strategic Air Command forces the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. our distinguished Speaker. with 1,300 bombers. McCoRMACK]. It is true, Mr. Chairman, that this will Our existing fleet of 16 Polaris sub Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, this be the last bill of this type it will be my marines which, by :fiscal year 1967 will bill is another monument to the great privilege to submit to the House. For a be increased to 41 Polaris submarines, ness, the ability, the vision, and the period of nearly 30 years it has been my providing 656 Polaris missiles. courage of our dear. valued, and beloved responsibility, year after year, to lay Our 685 intercontinental ballistic colleague from Georgia [Mr. CARL VIN before the House a public works con missiles which, by 1965, will be increased soN]. There ha.ve been many great struction bill; 16 years as chairman of to 1,184 ICBM's made up of Atlas, Titan, men who have served in the Halls of the Naval Affairs Committee and 14 and Minuteman missiles. Congress through the constitutional his years as chairman of the Armed Services . Our conventional forces include: 16 tory of our country, but there is no Committee. combat-ready Army divisions, 3 combat Member who has ever served with Mr. Chairman, I have been deeply ready Marine divisions, 873 naval ves greater ability, capacity, fidelity, dedi grateful for the support of the commit sels, of which 656 are combatant types, cation, and courage than CARL VINSON. tees it has been my privilege to serve and our tactical air support. As chairman of the powerful Committee during these 30 years, and for their · These nuclear and conventional wa., on Armed Services during this critical cooperation and assistance in preparing forces are supported by a total of 2,680,- and trying period of the world's history, worthwhile bills that have always re 721 personneJ distributed among the he has rendered inestimable service ceived practically the unanimous sup several military departments as follows: not only to our country but to a future port of the Conriess. AJEny______973,999 world at pea.ce. Each and every one of In this last bill it is my privilege to NaVY------·------677,896 us are indebted to him for his noble present to you, I took particular pain& !4arineCorps______190,060 outlook, his dedication, and his courage. to draft a report and to make a state JUr Force______838,766 CARL VINSON will forever occupy the ment that will cover the matter in com Total ______2,680,721 foremost pages in the legislative history plete detail so that I may avoid the har of our country. Each and every one of assment of having to answer too many In summary therefore, these are the us who has had the pleasure and the questions. I think if you will read the operating forces which this proposec,i honor of knowing him has had our lives report and listen to the few remarks construction will support and enable that I shall make, you will agree with them to continue to provide for our na enriched by that fact. A man possess me that the staff, as well as myself, have tion~ security. ing nobility of character, with an out prepared a clear analysiS of the bill, look on life that is not only refreshing which is in the report, as well as in the The bill as submitted by the Depart but an inspiration for all others to fol explanation which will be delivered by ment of Defense, together with subse low, he has attracted the attention of me. - quent requests• for increased authority, countless thousands of persons and, as I Mr. Chairman, the purpose of H.R. totaled $1,839,507,000. have said, has enriched their lives. 10300 is to provide military construction The bill as submitted by the Depart The Congress of the United States is authorization and related authority in ment included $711,000;000 for all hous a great body. The Members of this support of the military departments dur ing expenditures of the departments body serve with fidelity, loyalty, and ing :fiscal year 1965. proposed for :fiscal year 1965. 5534 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE March 18 Therefore, the bill, exclusive of hous Approximately $58 million of this to ization available to the military depart ing costs, represents a total of $1,128,- tal authorization is allocated for the ments. 507,000. construction of 11 new hospitals. In order to avoid the unnecessary ac In comparing this year's departmental These 11 hospitals are distributed as cumulation of unused authorization, the request to that of last year, I find them follows: committee has reduced the period of Number reasonably similar. Army: Place of beds Cost validity of authorizations provided in the Last year the departments requested Ft. Huachuca, Ariz ____ 110 $4,605,009 annual military construction bill to a · a grand total of construction authoriza Letterman, CaUL _____ 550 14,305,000 2-year period for all facilities other than tion in the amount of $1,900,610,000. Navy: · military family housing. This year the departments requested Jacksonville, Fla-- ~ --- 400 7,400,000 In the case of military family hous $1,839,507,000 of construction authority. Oakland, CaUL ______650 14,500,000 ing, the authorization is limited to a Therefore, the request this year is ap Patuxent, ~d------50 1,946,000 15-month period. proximately $61 million less than that Air Force: Cannon, N. ~ex______85 3,484,000 As a consequence of this action, the made by the departments last year. unused authorization of the military de Last year the Congress reduced the Holloman, N. ~ex____ 60 2,486,000 ~oody, Ga______50 2,170,000 partments has decreased from a high of Department's requested construction au Shaw, S.C------70 2,676,000 approximately $2% billion in fiscal year thorization by $258,356,620, and granted Tyndall, Fla______80 2,746,000 1957, to an estimated $125 million in approval for construction for fiscal year Robins AFB, Ga______60 2,300,000 fiscal year 1964. - 1964 in the amount of $1,642,253,380, all LAND ACQUISITIONS of which was funded. And the Depart Grand total------58,618,000 ment is requesting the funding of its en The bill as submitted by the Depart The cost for the military hospitals ment proposed the acquisition of almost tire fiscal year 1965 military construc contained in this bill have been carefully tion request. 1% million acres of land at a total esti reviewed and it is gratifying to note that mated cost in excess of $32 million. In summary, therefore, the Depart the costs of these military hospitals con ment's request is approximately $61 mil The committee drastically reduced the· tinue to compare very favorably with the departmental request for land acquisi lion less than that requested last year, costs for civilian Hill-Burton hospitals. · but approximately $197 million more tion by denying authority to acquire than that authorized by the Congress for The costs for . Hill-Burton hospitals 1,257,000 acres of land. fiscal year 1964. have shown a 7-percent increase over Thus, the departmental authorization the past year, whereas military hospital ARMED SERVICES COMMrri'EE ACTION for land acquisition has been reduced· to costs have remained unchanged. approximately 204,000 acres of land with The Armed Services Committee, after The actual dollar cost for military an estimated cost of $20% million. , extensive hearings by the full commit hospitals in a normal cost region varies tee, reviewed each of these line items re The bulk of the land acquisitions in from $29 to $33 per square foot depend cluded in the 204,000 acres approved by quested by the Departments and ulti ing upon the size of the hospital. These mately reduced the bill by $248,841,000. the committee involves the fee acquisi costs include many facilities not re tion of 99,000 acres of land at Fort Car The committee reduction of almost quired in civilian hospitals. $249 million therefore compares most son, Colo., and 49,500 acres at Fort Riley, Military hospitals include dental, Kans. favorably with a similar reduction made aviation medicine, and substantially by the committee last year on the an In both instances, this land acquisi larger outpatient clinic facilities than tion is necessary to permit the proper nual military construction bill. their civilian counterparts. Nonetheless, Both the reduction this year and that training of Army division units now lo made last year against the total re the costs of these facilities are reflected cated at these ·installations. The exist quested by the Department amounted to in the square foot cost of $29 to $33. ing land areas at these installations do approximately 13 percent. Hill-Burton hospitals cost for 1963, not provide the required amount of The reductions in the departmental without many of the facilities necessar space for the live firing of modern weap request are identified in detail on page ily included in the military hospitals, ons and combined arms exercises for ele 4 of the committee report, and in the average $26.50 a square foot. ments of the new road mechanized divi more detailed summary contained on The average cost per bed of the mili sions assigned to these installations. page 18 for the Army, page 24 for the tary hospitals, exclusive of the military If these installations are. not expanded Navy, page 32 for the Air Force, page 40 clinics, is $17,879 which is notably less to permit this type of training it will for the de-fense agencies, and page 42 than the $20,622 per bed average for Hill be necessary to periodically continue to for family housing. Burton hospitals in 1963. move these units together with their sup Despite this substantial reduction in Therefore, it is evident that the costs porting equipment to other training the departmental request, the Committee of military hospitals remain in line with areas. on Armed Services is convinced that this the cost of similar type facilities in the For example, on account of the exist reduction will not impair the operational civilian community. ing inadequacy of the facilities at Fort effectiveness of the Armed Services nor During the course of hearings on hos Riley, Kans., it is necessary for units to will it in any way jeopardize our national pital construction, certain members of conduct firing annually at Fort Irwin, security. the committee expressed concern over Calif.; Fort Stewart, Ga.; and Fort Sill, NUMBER OF BASES AND LINE ITEMS IN THE BILL the unwillingness of the Department of Okla. This bill authorizes construction at Defense to program beds for new hos Thus, in the case of troops at Fort 585 military bases throughout the world. pital. construction for retired personnel Riley, the movement of personnel neces Included in the construction author and their dependents. sary to maintain the entire division in ization for these 585 bases are approxi This question of policy together with an operational readiness status results mately 1,200 line items. related questions of policy on the future in an annual cost in excess of $1 million. Also included in this construction ·au location and size of military hospitals A similar situation prevails at Fort thorization are 9,886 individual units of resulted in the establishment of a spe Carson, Colo. military family housing. cial subcommittee which will make a Because of these circumstances, the There are no new bases proposed for thorough study of this entire problem committee was of the opinion that these construction in this bill. area. land acquisitions are essential to the fu All the construction authorized by this I am certain this subcommittee will, ture well-being of our Army forces and, bill will occur at existing bases and mili upon conclusion of its study, make im therefore, approved the acquisition re tary installations throughout the world. portant recommendations which will be quest. HOSPITALS helpful in the programing of future mili The remaining substantial land acqui Included in H.R. 10300 are authoriza tary hospitals. sition approved by the committee occurs tions amounting to approximately $75 UNUSED AUTHORIZATION at the Naval Parachute Test Facility at million for medical facilities of all types. The Committee on Armed Services has El Centro, Calif. Included in this Navy These include hospital additions, dis made a determined effort over the past land acquisition is the withdrawal of pensaries, dental clinics, and complete few years to reduce the amount of un 42,000 acres of iand from the public hospitals. funded and unused construction author- domain and the acquisition of approxi- 1961, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 5535 mately 9,000 acres of privately owned This category of construction also in Section 507 o~ Public Law 87~54 pro land. cludes new support facilities for the vides that no funds can be appropriated Testimony received from witnesses Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine in support of military family housing un representing the Navy Department indi Corps. Detailed information on this al less they have been specifically author cated that this land acquisition was es location is on pages 15 and 16 of the ized by legislation enacted after Decem sential to permit the Navy to continue· report. ber 31, 1962. to fully utilize its test facility at this 4. AIRLIFT AND SEALIFT FORCES The purpose of this change in the law installation. The committee provided $14 million in· was to insure that the Committee on BASE CLOSURES support of our airlift and sealift forces. Armed Services and the Congress in Certain of the construction authorized Twelve million dollars of this would go providing for military family housing, in this bill is related to base closure into the Department of the Air Force to would be a ware of the complete costs of action recently announced by the De provide support facilities for troop car maintaining the housing of the military partment of Defense. riers, cargo aircraft and MATS; while $2 departments. The committee was advised that there million would be provided the Depart This requirement in the law has ac are 11 construction projects associated ment of the Army to consolidate facil complished its purpose since contained in with base closures, involving a total of ities of Army transportation activities in this bill is the legislative authorization $24 million in construction work at 17 the San Francisco area. Detailed infor for appropriations for all family housing different bases. mation on this allocation will be found costs. · The Department advised the commit on page 16 of the report. The total amount requested by the tee that when the base closures made 5. RESERVE FORCES departments in support of military family housing for fiscal year 1965 was possible by these projects are completed The committee approved $34.4 million the economies resulting·from these con for new Reserve forces facilities. $711 million. solidations of activities will produce a Outlined in the committee hearings The committee reduced this request recurring annual savings totaling $34 are the tentative locations of all these by $50,395,000 and, therefore, authorized mUlion. new Reserve facilities, which consist of a total of $660,605,000 for support of all In other words, the Department of National Guard armories, National Air family housing. Defense expects to pay off the costs of Guard facilities, and armory facilities This authorization is reflected in sec all these construction projects in less tion 505 of this legislation. Subsection than 1 year. ' for the Army Reserve, the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve, and the Air Force. of section 505 authorizes $188,168,000 ANALYSIS OF THE BILL Reserve. in support of new construction and cer The military construction authoriza Under the new procedure adopted 2 tain minor related projects. This infor tion for fiscal year 1965 as refiected in years ago, the Department of Defense is mation is reflected on page 42 of the H.R. 10300, contains two distinct parts: provided a lump sum authorization for committee report. This includes: $177,- First. The authority to provide and the construction of Reserve facilities. 758,000 for 9,886 new units of family construct new operational facilities in However, under the law, the Department housing, of ·which 80 percent is intended· the amount of $930.1 million to- support is precluded from constructing any of for occupancy by enlisted personnel and the active and reserve forces, and these new facilities until they have noti their families; $1,029,000 for the con Second. The authority for military fied the Committees on Armed Services struction of 638 trailer spaces for mili family housing in the ainount of $660.6 of the House and Senate which permits tary personnel; $5,771,000 for improve-· million. the committees to entertain any objec ments to old but adequate public quar Now, I would like to briefiy review the tions to these proposed projects. ters; minor construction in the amount $930 million authorization for the active of $1,210,000; planning moneys of $1 mil and reserve forces by relating it to the 6. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT lion, and rental guarantee payments, $1,- nature of the support which this con The committee authorized new con 400,000. The total of these authoriza struction is intended to provide the struction in support of various research tions, therefore, amounts to $188,168,000. operating forces. and development programs amounting to The amount authorized for the pur $90 million. pose I enumerated was reduced $50,395,- 1. STRATEGIC RETALIATORY FORCES Thirty-two million dollars of this is 000. This reduction resulted from the In support of our nuclear striking intended for support of the NIKE-X de elimination of: 2,614 units of family forces we have· authorized $122 million velopment on Kwaj alein Island; and $48 housing at an estimated cost of $45,195,- in construction. Details of this alloca million of this amount will provide vari 000 and a $5,200,000 reduction in the tion will be found on page 15 of the ous research and development labora amount requested by the Departments report. This includes facilities for both tories and support facilities for the for improvements to adequate quarters. missiles and our manned bomber force. Army, Navy, and Air Force. Details-of Subsection 505(b) of H.R. 10300 pro Perhaps the most significant single this allocation will be found on page 17 vides the balance of the support costs of item in this category is the authoriza of the report. · tion for construction of fac111ties in sup military family housing. port of another squadron-50 silos-of 7 . GENERAL SUPPORT These items which were approved in Minuteman missiles, at a cost of ap As might be anticipated, the largest their entirety include the following: proximately $94 million. single element in the military construc Operating expenses ______$167,069,000 Maintenance of real property__ 126, 609,000 2. CONTINENTAL AIR AND MISSILE DEFENSE tion program is the provision of general support facilities. Leasing______14,513,000 FORCES Capehart debt payment______123, 105, 000 The bill provides $24 million for fa Included in this category are approxi VVherry debt payment______38,458,000 cilities directly concerned with our con mately $192 million of new military Commodity Credit debt pay- tinental air and missile defense require training facilities. Details of this alloca ment______6,000,000 ments. This includes our Nike-Hercules tion will be found on page 17 of the Servicemen's mortgage insur- operational facilities, our fighter-inter report. ance premiums______5,050,000 ceptor base facilities, and our early warn That concludes my review of the $930 The total of these items is $480,804,000. ing facilities. This is also found on page million provided for the operating forces. The Departments anticipate reim- 15 of the report. Now, I would like to briefiy review the bursements into the family housing ac 3. GENERAL PURPOSE FORCES remaining portion of the authorization count of approximately $8,367,000. The committee has allocated approxi bill which provides authority for mili Consequently, the amount of new ap mately $252 million of new construction tary family housing in the amount of propriations authorized by the committee in support of our general purpose forces. $660.6 million. for the support of family housing is These projects include substantial FAMILY HOUSING $472,437,000. replacement of troop housing facilities As Members of the House will recall, Although this figure of almost a half for the Department of the Army and the last year the military construction au biliion dollars in support of military fam two land acquisitions previously men thorization bill, for the first time, in ily housing seems unfortunately large, tioned at Fort Carson, Colo., and Fort cluded within its authorization all costs let me point out that most of this money Riley, Kans. related to military family housing. would be required as an annual Federal CX--348 5536 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 disbursement whether or not we had any As I mentioned at the outset of my Mr. GROSS. Will the gentleman yield military family housing. statement, approval of this legislation further? This would occur since military fami by the Congress will authorize construc Mr. VINSON. With pleasure. lies who now occupy the more than 330,- tion for the military departments for Mr. GROSS. I want to thank the 000 sets of public quarters provided fiscal year 1965 in the amount of $1,590,- gentleman for his very detailed report them, now forfeit their quarters allow 666,000. This figure is $248,841,000 less on the Truman Airport at Grandview, ance. than that requested by the departments. Mo., and say to him that I will regret--.. Thus, if there were no public quar Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, will the I hope he changes his mind, but I will ~rs available, these individuals would be gentleman yield? regret his leavi~ the Congress. because_ eligible for and receive a monetari al Mr. VINSON. I yield to the gentle this will deprive me of the opportunity lowance in lieu of Government quarters. man. of visiting with him ~bout this particular This cost would then be reflected in the Mr. GROSS. Is it not true ,that more subject. additional requirement by the depart wards are built into military hospitals Mr. VINSON. I trust my distinguished ments for military 'pay and allowanc~. th~ in private' or civilian hospitals? colleague,from South Carolina, who will ' To illustrate this point more graphi Mr. VINSON. I have no comparison no doubt have the privilege and respon-' cally~ since we have in our inventory as to that. I am merely comparing the sibility of presenting this bill next year, more than 330,000 sets of public quarters, beds in the military hospital as to the will have full information not only re the Department estimates that it has, in beds in hospitals built under the Hill garding this base, but may I assure the effect, recovered $482,747,000 in for Burton Act and comparing floor space Congress and the country that we are feiture of quarterS allowance by mili against :floor space. As I said, I do not indeed fortunate in having a man of such tary personnel during fiscal year 1964. have any basis for comparison with ref outstanding ability to present this bill The Department further estimates erence to that. or any other bill from. the Committee on that in fiscal year 1965, the quarters Mr. GROSS. I think that is where at Armed Services as the distinguished gen allowances forfeited by military person least some of the difference in cost would tleman from South Carolina [Mr. nel occupying Government quarters will come. RIVERS]. amount to $502,539,000. This figure is Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chaionan, I will substantiallY higher than the $472 mil yield further? say to my friend from GeoFgia that the lion requested by the departments for Mr. VINSON. With pleasure. Truman Airport will never be the same support of family housing and, therefore, Mr. GROSS. The gentleman's annual without the explanation of the distin reflects the souncfuess of our approach appearance orr the military construction guished gentleman from Georgia. in providing appropriated fund housing bill would not be complete unless I asked Mr. VINSON. I shall bequeath this for our military personnel. him a question or two about how the information to him to hand down year Truman' airport at Grandview, Mo., is by year. CHANGES IN COST LIMITATIONS ON FAMILY HOUSING getting along. Mr. SCHENCK. Mr. Chairman, will Mr. VINSON. I will say to my dis the gentlema.n yield? The committee has eased some of the tinguished colleague that I am happy to Mr. VINSON. I yield to the gentle cost limitations on family housing to report that it is in a very, .very healthy man. accommodate certain new requirements condition. There is $380,000 in this bill Mr. SCHENCK. Mr. Chairman, I of the military departments. for it. would like to ask one or two questions. Specifically, an exception has been Mr. GROSS. So it is going to be made A couple of years ago the Defense Sup added to the $15,400 limitation for hous healthier? ply Agency was set up to take care of ing for commissioned officers below the Mr. VINSON. Yes, sir. We are go certain items of supply that were used rank of major or warrant officers or their ing to put a little new life in it. Here is in common by the various military serv equivalent, permitting construction of the history of it. The Richards-Gebaur ices. The Defense Electronics Supply housing at a cost not to exceed $17,000 Air Force Base, formerly named Grand Center was set up in Dayton, Ohio, to when four-bedroom units for officers be view Air Force Base, is located 16 miles take care of those electronics supply low :field grade have been authorized. south of Kansas City, Mo. The 29th Air matters for all of the services; that is, A similar exception has been added to Division headquarters and combat cen those matters which were used in com the $13,200 limitation for housing for ter, a :fighter-interceptor squadron arid mon by all the services. Recently the enlisted personnel permitting the con combat squadron, reserve troop carrier Secretary of Defense apparently decided struction of housing at costs not to ex wing with two squadrons, are stationed to change that operation samewhat by ceed $15,000 when construction of four at this base. All of these organizations moving about 200 jobs to a new supply bedroom units for enlisted men have are scheduled to remain at this base for center west of the Mississippi Rive~. been authorize~ the foreseeable future. which would transfer about 200 ware.. The committee also eased the restric Now let me say this:· the Department housemen's jobs from the Defense Elec tion on the cost of a unit of family hous advised us that in every base in this bill tronics Supply Center out to the new ing built for occupancy by a general offi they propose to try to maintain and western center; and it was also decided cer by increasing this limitation from justify them for at least a 5-year period. to set up some sort of a control center $22,000 to $26,000. In these bases that we closed up we had in Columbus, Ohio, which would take All of these changes have been made to spend $24 million in some 17 other about 100 jobs away from the Dayton necessary by increases in the average bases in order to take care of the func Electronics Supply_Center. I would like size of the military family and by the tions which were performed by the base$ to aslt the chairman were these ~ans- ' necessity to provide family quarters for that we closed. However, we brought fers adequately considered and fully jus general officers appropriate to their rank about a $34 million annual saving by tified before the Committee on Armed or grade. doing so. This base is public. Services? COMPETITIVE BIDDING Now let me finish my answer on Mr. VINSON. I will say that in my I would like to point out that histori Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base. There opinion everything we have done is com cally practically all of this construction are now 3,800 military personnel at that pletely justified, and this was specifically is accomplished through competitive base. The Government investment is justified by the facts that were set out. bidding. $46 million. There are two items in this Mr. SCHENCK. Then I take it, the The Department adVises that in fiscal program for this base. One project chairman feels 'it was a matter of econ year 1963, 97 percent of this construc would provide the installation of heat omy and efficiency in operation and based. tion was accomplished through com in two aircraft shelters. The other is entirely upon the best interest of the petitive bidding, and the Department for the construction of a warehouse. I Nation1 anticipates the same percentage during am happy to advise the distinguished Mr. VINSON. Exactly. That is to be fiscal years 1964 and 1965. gentleman from Iowa that the Air De found at page 8575 of the hearings and fense Command is located in Colorado page 41 of the committee report. we SUMMARY Springs and it is going to stay there an4 are thoroughly conversant with it; it was I have attempted to provide a general this Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base is c~refully gone int9 and what we did review of the more important features a very important part of the overall com there, in our judgment, was the proper of this legislation. mand. thing to do. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5537 Mr. SCHENCK. I understand that trim from the request items totaling For research and development facili the 200 warehousemen's positions which $248,841,000 or approximately 13 percent ties, the committee has authorized about are to be transferred, the holders of those of the total amount. This is approxi $90 million worth of construction. Most positions will be moved at the expense mately the same percentage that the of this money is related to advancement of the Government. No jobs will be lost, committee trimmed from the depart in the missile field. For developmental but the transferred personnel will be mental request last year. But in making and test facilities for the Nike X, on moved at the expense of the Government these reductions, the committee did not Kwajalein Island, $27 million has been which is very costly. Since these elec use arbitrary percentages as a meat-ax authorized while $48 million would con tronic parts for the most part are so approach. Rather, the reductions in struct laboratories and support facilities small and frequently expensive, it would amounts and deferrals were done on an at research and development installa appear that it will be necessary to have individual project basis after a thorough tions. The remainder is for construc a duplicate set o.f supplies at each of consideration of all the factors involved. tion at other missile research installa these two centers. It seems to me that While we were able to make some sub tions. For our airlift and sealift forces, taking everything into consideration the stantial cuts, one of those areas of re $14 million has been approved as has resulting reduction in operational ex duction is more imaginary than real. I $34 million for the Reserve Forces. pense will be very little. There.fore I refer to the request of the departments The largest construction program is in want the a.ssurance of the distinguished for land acquisition to provide additional the general support area. This en chairman that his committee checked ranges for missile firings. The bill as hances modernization and improvement into this very carefully and is in full originally submitted by the Department of utilities, miscellaneous operational agreement with this approved move and of Defense proposed the acquisition of supply, maintenance, academic, techni change in operations. 1,460,289 acres of land at a total cost in cal training, and administrative as well Mr. VINSON. We have checked into excess of $32 million. Naturally, the as troop housing and technical facilities. it. The gentleman will find it discussed committee was disturbed by the unus The program authorizes approximately on the pages that I have mentioned. ually large amount of land proposed for $420 million. Mr. SCHENCK. I thank the chair acquisition. The committee did approve As a part of our determined effort to man very much. the fee acquisition of 99,000 acres at Fort provide the very best possible services Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman, I yield Carson, Colo., 49,500 acres at Fort Riley, for our military personnel, I am pleased myself such time as I may consume. Kans., and 51,000 acres for use at the that the bill before us authorizes the Mr. Chairman, before I begin my re Naval Parachute Facility, El Centro, construction of 11 new hospitals con marks permit me to say that I would like Calif. But the committee denied au taining a total of 2;165 beds. The cost to add "Amen" to the many nice state thority to acquire the approximately for these is in the area of $58 million. ments that have already been said about 1,200,000 acres for the missile ranges. H.R. 10300 provides the number of beds our retiring chairman o.f the Committee However, the result of the committee ac requested by the Department of Defense. on Armed Services, the gentleman from tion is not to deny the use of the land to During the hearings, however, when cer Georgia [Mr. VINSON]. the services but to permit the continued tain questions concerning the program I too have the greatest respect and ad leasing of land which it is forecast we will ing of hospitals and the number of beds miration for the gentleman. I trust at a need for at least the next 5 years. I hope were not satisfactorily answered, the later time, rather than using the time to- · the services will review their requirement chairman of the committee appointed a day, we will have an opportunity in the for this land. If it is determined that Subcommittee on Construction of Mili House of Representatives to pay ade such a land requirement is firm, then tary Hospital Facilities to examine all quate tribute to the gentleman from consideration should be given to the ac the problems relating to hospital con Georgia, who has rendered many, many quisition of the land rather than to con struction. One of the matters which this years of outstanding service to his coun tinue to lease it on a yearly basis. I subcommittee will look into is whether try. think this is only a sound business prac medical and hospital care is to be fur There is little left to be said on this tice. nished military retirees and their de military construction bill of approxi But all in all, I am proud of the pendents as a matter of right rather mately $1.6 billion. Our distinguished accomplishments of the committee and than on a space available basis, as has chairman, the gentleman from Georgia, the results it achieved in its considera been done since 1962. in his usual excellent manner has de tion of this bill. I think we have been · I am particularly happy that we con tailed for you the provisions of this bill able to achieve a proper balance between tinued our efforts to pr9vide better troop and impressed on· you, I am sure, the authorization of facilities for our ad housing and bachelor officers quarters as close scrutiny given by the full commit vanced weapons systems and the replace well as religious and recreational facili tee to each line contained therein. This ment of wornout and obsolete World ties, particularly whenever the installa is why I hope, Mr. Chairman, as time War II structures. tions are at remote or isolated locations. goes on this afternoon and the bill is To keep up with the rapidly expanding Our continuing concern for troop read for amendment that there will be technology in the field of weaponry, new morale is also shown by authorization of no amendments to this bill in any man facilities or modernization of existing 9,886 housing units. This is in line with ner, shape or form. I shall oppose any facilities are required. The committee our action last year when we authorized such amendments. Therefore, I will thoroughly reviewed these new require 10,000 units even though the Appropria confine my brief remarks to a few gen ments and authorized approximately tions Committee funded only 7,500 units eralizations which I feel should be $400 million for this purpose. Some of and, in my opinion, nothing we could do brought to the attention of the House: the more significant types of' projects could help to improve morale any more At the outset, let me assure you that in are: for the serviceman and his dependents consideration of this bill, the members of First. Construction of 50 silos for the than for us to provide adequate living the Committee on Armed Services were support of 1 Minuteman missile squad quarters. firm in their dedication to the principle ron. As you can see, in our consideration of that our national defense should be sec Second. Modification of existing Ti this bill, we tried to consider the human ond to none in the world. Therefore, tan II facilities to improve their reliabil and morale factors as well as providing whenever reductions were made, we were ity and safety. the essential facilities to operate our convinced that such reductions would Third. Training and replenishment military hardware. I believe we suc not impair the operational effectiveness facilities for the Polaris submarine and ceeded. I urge each of you to join with of the armed services or would in any missile support program. me in supporting H.R. 10300. way jeopardize our national security. Fourth. SAC base improvements in Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he Yet, in this election year when the cluding tactical aircraft shelters in over may desire now to the gentleman from administration by every conceivable sea areas. Massachusetts [Mr. BATES]. public relations device has attempted to Fifth. Modernization of shore facili Mr. BATES. Mr. Chairman, I was lead the American public into believing ties for the attack and ASW carrier air pleased to hear the gentleman from Illi that it was submitting to the Congress a groups. nois say a moment ago that at a later budget which not only represented fru Sixth. Warning and surveillance sys date we will take time out to pay a fitting gality but the very minimum essential tems including NavY undersea surveil tribute to the gentleman from Georgia .!or survival, this committee was able to lance facilities . [Mr. VINSON]. I knew the name and 5538 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 the fame of the gentleman from Georgia The investment in research and devel Mr. DEVINE. Mr. Chairman, I should long before I knew the man himself. opment facilities in past years has had like to ask any member of the committee, When I was an enlisted man and later much to do with the preeminent posi preferably the chairman, if I may, a an officer in the Navy I served under dis tion we enjoy today. However, if question merely for the sake of informa tinguished admirals, including Halsey, we are to maintain this position, we tion. I notice in the committee report King, Nimitz, Stark, and others. They must maintain a dynamic, forward look there is now provision here for approxi all had a fancy title like Cinclant and ing program of research and develop mately $4.5 million for the Bolling Air Cincpac. But in the final analysis there ment. While success in this 'program Force Base here in the District of Co was only one admiral, that was the depends largely upon highly skilled sci lumbia. r;ast year I think $4 million admiral from Milledgeville, Ga. entists and technicians the provision of was allocated for that purpose. We all So I will be glad when that day comes carefully selected new R. & D. facilities know this particular Air Force base in when we can take a little time out and as well as modernization of the existing the District was pretty well phased out pay a tribute to this great man who has physical plant plays a no less important so far as airplanes are concerned. I served in the Congress for a long time. role. think the only thing left there is heli As a matter of fact, he has served in the With this in mind, we have provided copters. It may be this is being con Congress for 3 years longer than I have funds in this bill for facilities at Wright verted into a residential base for enlisted even lived. So, certainly, if any man Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, which personnel and perhaps for officers. I has ever deserved a tribute in this House will permit the expansion of critical re should like to know why this base is on for what he has done for the security of search efforts in the areas of electromag its way to being phased ·out as an active this Nation, it is the chairman of the netic warfare and development of high Air Force base, if anyone can answer that Committee on Armed Services, for whom resolution optics. question. I have great respect and affection. Funds are also provided for facilities Mr. VINSON. My understanding is Mr. Chairman, thus far this bill has at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., which that it is to be used for housing. been adequately explained, both by the will permit evaluation of new high spe Mr. DEVINE. Is it to be used as a gentleman from Georgia and the gentle cific impulse rocket fuels under simu housing facility for the Air Force? man from Illinois. I will touch upon lated high altitude conditions. These Mr. VINSON. There will be housing one phase of it only. evaluations are necessary to insure con facilities for all three services. tinued improvement in range and per This year, research, development test Mr. DEVINE. But it is no longer to be ing, and engineering for our Federal formance of our ballistic missiles and Government projects will approximate space boosters. considered an airplane base? $15 billion. This represents about 17 Also included are provisions for a Mr. VINSON. No. percent of our entire Federal budget and modern laboratory at Patrick Air Force Mr. DEVINE. I thank the gentleman. a much larger percent of those funds Base, Fla., which will provide for the Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman, I yield over which we actually have control. periodic repair, modification, and cali 10 minutes to the gentleman from Cali In the various military services in bration of the highly refined communi fornia [Mr. GuBSER]. fiscal year 1965, we will spend approxi cations, optical and telemetry equipment Mr. GUBSER. Mr. Chairman, under mately $7.6 billion on research, develop used in the Atlantic Missile Range in present law, the Dependents Medical ment, testing, and engineering. In the strumentation data systems. Care Act, those who are on the retired bUl before you today about $90 million These systems provide the documenta list of the three services are entitled to is set aside for research and develop tion associated with all launches from receive medical care on a "space avail ment facilities. and space flights over the Atlantic able" basis. They have received such During the year just passed, our Na missile range. care from the beginning of the military tion continued to register successes in its Finally, for the Air Force, this bill retirement system. They are receiving space and ballistic missile programs. provides funds for laboratory facilities it today. But this bill will effectively Our citizens can be justly proud of these at Arnold Engineering Development prevent t.hem from receiving such care in successes which not only provide a major Center, Tenn., and Brooks Air Force the future for the simple reason that contribution to our national security but Base, Tex. These facilities are essential the hospitals authorized in this bill, which continue to widen the scientific to the continued success of the Air Force many of them to replace existing hos and technological lead of the free world. program in research and development. pitals, do not provide beds for retirees. Many of these accomplishments have In addition, $32 million will be spent At the present time, the Department gone unnoticed. Almost without excep for development and test facilities of the of Defense has a task force assigned to tion they have been done under the pres Nike X program at Kwajalein Island. study this problem which will make a sure of extreme urgency. At White Sands and the Pacific missile long-range policy recommendation by However, it is not my purpose to pro range another $5 million will be allo this July. vide a detailed discussion of our scientific cated for our missile range improve The gentleman from Georgia, Chair advances but to advise of the need to ments. In the Bahamas, in the vital man VINSON, has appointed a special sub continue this progress. Continued pres field of underwater tests and evaluations committee, headed by the gentleman sures by the Communist camp to wrest another $5 million in facilities will be from South Carolina [Mr. RIVERS], to the scientific and technological lead from required. · recommend policy. us prevents resting on our laurels. There Gentlemen, I am sure that each and It is my contention that limiting con can be no blind spots in the pursuit of everyone of you are aware of the part struction of these hospitals to beds for those goals which are vital to our secur a dynamic and visionary research and active duty personnel, with no provision ity. All critical areas must be explored. development program plays in maintain for retirees, makes the work of these two Time is always of essence and it could ing our national security. There is over committees a mockery and a sham since be so vital that our very freedom could whelming evidence that the Soviets are their field of decision is so limited as to be threatened if a significant field is aware of this also. Much of their na become meaningless. neglected. What would our position be tional rerources support the Communist I requested the chairman to insert today if the Communists were to achieve effort to win the technological race. We language in the report which would in the military position we attained when are confident that the United States en sure the fact that the hospital construc we developed the atomic bomb? The De joys a comfortable lead in this race. tion program in this bill would not serve partment of Defense continues to make ,However, if we are to keep this lead, we to prejudice or restrict the Rivers sub major contributions to technological must provide the tools which are needed committee in its deliberations. The progress, particularly in the areas of by our scientists and research special chairman obliged me by placing such missiles and space. ists. I am confident that this bill does language near the bottom on page 8 of The magnitude of this contribution just that. It provides the Air Force with the report. Unfortunately, the follow and our flexibility to exploit technologi physical R. & D. plant improvements ing paragraph might be interpreted as a cal advances and military technology are which are vital and urgently needed complete negation of the purpose of the dependent, to a great degree, upon the today. above-mentioned language. In this availability and adequacy of a modern, Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman, I yield paragraph, the report says: high quality research and development 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio It 1s to be noted that the programing of physical plant. [Mr. DEVINE]. hospital beds for new hospital construction 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 5539 is no different in this bill than it has been new policy. Mr. Chairman, I do not be naval personnel contributed to this fund in previous years. The Department, in at lieve that the simple statement of a few even after they were retired. As a result tempting to establish the bed capacity re quired for an individual hospital, does not conferees should have the force and ef there is a widespread feeling amongst now, nor has it in the past, included any fect of changing basic law and breaking these retirees and others that their con factor relating to the requirements for faith with retired personnel. tributions entitle them to care in naval retirees and their dependents. During the Senate hearings on the hospitals. Dependent Medical Care Act in 1956, the During the hearings on the bill to Mr. Chairman, this is not a true state Assistant Secretary of Defense for Man abolish the naval trust fund, the gentle ment. If the report had said "since power, Personnel. and Reserves, the Hon-: man from Georgia [Mr. VINSON] re 1961" instead of including all of the past, peatedly questioned whether the pro it might have been accurate, but as it orable Carter L. Burgess, said: This bill is designed to take care of active posed action would not cause a reduction stands, it is false. in hospital care. As rpy authority for this statement, I duty Regulars and active duty reservists who run a complete career in the military service, I am just worried- quote in part f:r;om Report No. 1156; both with respect to themselves and their military construction bill, 1962, dated . dependents. He said- September 8, 1961 and more specifically, about whether the hospital maintenance the statement of the managers on the Mr. Chairman, a complete career in the will be as well taken care of by direct ap part of the House for the conference re military service is the achievement of propriations at it was by the hospital .fund. port to accompany H.R. 8302: every retiree. He is still a member of the uniformed services but has been In response to a question by Repre The conferees are disturbed with reference to to the policy of the Department of Defense transferred to the retired list. sentative Izac, of California, as in programing beds in new construction At page 34 of the same hearings, Com whether a retired enlisted man could be specifically for retired personnel. mander Slatinshek, who sits in this room taken care of in a naval hospital, the today as an advisor to the Armed Ser¥ gentleman from Georgia [Mr. VINSON], So, until 1961, hospitals were planned ices Committee, presented a chart to the said, and I quote: and constructed to take care of retirees. Senate Armed Services Committee which He has acquired his right by his contribu Mr. Chairman, in· four of the replace clearly showed the eligibility for medical tion. ment hospitals in this bill, the operating care of dependents of personnel retired Mr. Chairman, the Oakland Naval bed capacity will be reduced. At Letter for length of service. Obviously, this man Hospital in San Francisco, there Hospital was partially built with funds included the retiree since his dependents' collected in such a manner. Is it fair, will be a reduction from 850 to 550 op eligibility could only stem from him. erating beds. At Jacksonville, Fla., Naval is it legal, it is honest to tear those beds Hospital, there will be a reduction from On page 9 of this same hearing, Dr. down, not replace them, and deny the 425 to 400 operating beds. At Oakland Cushing, Deputy Assistant Secretary of World War II personnel who ·contributed Naval Hospital, there will be a reduction Defense for Health and Medical Care, to the construction of that hospital and from 825 to 650 beds, and at Shaw, S.C., pointedly referred to the possibility that who are now retired, from gaining the Air Force Hospital, there will be a re if beds currently used for dependents- benefit he bought and paid for? Mr. duction from 90 to 70 operating beds. and I would presume retirees--were Chairman, is this honest? In 9 of the 11 replacement hospitals, needed in time of war, dependent care In 1943, Rear Admiral Sheldon said: there will be a drastic reduction from could be curtailed. I interpret this to We had thought' at first that we would the constructed bed capacity. By con mean that the intent of those concerned ask to have it [the hospital fund) done away structed bed capacity we mean the num with passage of the Deoendent Medical with for the duration of the war [and re ber of beds which can be accommodated Care Act was to estabiish the highest stored afterward) . and then the Surgeon with existing utilities, operating rooms, priority for active duty personnel rather General decided we could trust the Congress than to curtail the number of beds neces to give us the money to run the medical and ancillary facilities. The reductions department of the Navy. at Huachuca, Ariz., are 880 beds; at Let sary in the event of war. terman they are 389; 111 at Jacksonville; There is confusion regarding the in Today in this bill, by eliminating beds 1,184 at Oakland; 167 at Patuxent; 56 tent of the law and there will be varying available today for retired naval per at Moody, Ga.; 55 at Shaw, S.C.; 65 at interpretations. But, Mr. Chairman, sonnel at Oakland Naval Hospital, we Tyndall, Fla.; 30 at Robins Air Force with all due respect to a handful of con clearly show that the Navy's confidence Base, Ga. Mr. Chairman, this is a re ferees on the Appropriations Committee, in the Congress 20 years ago was mis duction of 2,937 beds from the con is it right that their interpretation of the placed. structed bed capacity. of 9 existing mili 1956 basic law should be adopted in 1961 In 30 years of service from 1913 to tary hospitals. as proper when, for 5 years, it had been 1943 a Navy man whether on active duty It is true that many of these hospitals interpreted otherwise? I do not or retired contributed $72 toward a were built . to accommodate wartime think so. hospital fund. In my own community needs. But is it wise to drastically cur The confusion should be cleared up by we have just finished a new modern hos tail hospital facilities at a time when forthright congressional action. Our pital at a per capita cost of $46. Of this civilian hospitals are overflowing and policy should not be determined by the amount $13 was Hill-Burton money and the danger of sudden war with millions simple device of just not providing beds only $33 was provided locally. of casualties is still with us? for them. · Mr. Chairman, even though the legal For a moment, Mr. Chairman, let us In a moment, I would like to discuss · obligation is not clear, no one can say discuss the question-of just exactly what our moral obligation to retirees, but first that the moral obligation to care for re the present law is ·with respect to medi I would like to point out another possible tirees is anything but as clear as a bell. cal care for retirees. · As previously legal obligation. For approximately 132 Everyone of you has heard of recruit stated, the 1956 law states that care may years there was a Navy trust fund known ing talks offering retirement benefits, be provided to retirees on a "space avail as the Navay Hospital Fund. It origi including medical care, as an induce able" basis. Until 1956, there was no nated in the act of February 26, 1811. ment to join and stay in the service. question of the right of retirees to re From time to time, Congress appropri In every pay bill that I have heard de ceive medical care. It was a right which ated money to this fund and the Secre bated on this floor, retired military care dated back to 1798. Admittedly, the tary of the Navy was authorized by the has been cited as a fringe benefit which 1956 law changed this. But in practice, act of March 2, 1799, to deduct 20 cents induces men to make the service a career. it has been an unquestioned privilege a month from the pay of Navy person As a member of Subcommittee No. 1 of since 1956 and, in practice, there has nel, both enlisted and officers, and from the Armed Services Committee, I am fa been no change from the system which retired personnel. This payment con miliar with the fact that even with re prevailed prior to 1956. Between 1956 tinued until 1943 when Congress abol cent increases, military people are not and 1961, hospitals were programed to ished all naval trust funds by enacting paid comparably with civilians. Their include beds for retirees and it was not Public Law 73 of the 78th Congress. pay is lower; their inconvenience is until the conferees of the Appropriations Until this time, expenditures were made greater. They spend long times sepa Committee rendered their report, part of from this fund for the purchase of hos rated from families. They are frequent which I have previously read, that the pital sites and the erection of hospital ly asked to sever their roots in a com Defense Department embarked upon a buildings. And, I repeat, Mr. Chairman, munity and move to distant parts of the 5540 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE March 18 world. Each time they move the cur generally considered that a hospital with are going to dump the entire medical tains do not fit-neither do the rugs. It an occupancy rate of 85 percent is in a full care load of retirees on civilian hospitals, if not crowded condition. One of these hos is the rare situation indeed when the pitals has an occupancy rate of 85 percent, and we shall have to build new beds to serviceman is not out of pocket $1,000 the other slightly in excess of 85 percent. accommodate the patients, at an addi for each move. Yet, all of these incon Population trends in the area served by these tional cost to the taxpayers of $3,000 veniences have been tolerated because hospitals show that the high occupancy rates each. of patriotic devotion to duty and to a will not only continue, but probably increase Mr. NORBLAD. Mr. Chairman, I yield lesser extent because of fringe benefits. in the future. 5 minutes to the gentleman from Indi We have advertised these benefits. And then the Appropriations Commit ana [Mr. BRAY]. Without a doubt, the prospect of medical tee concluded with this statement: Mr. BRAY. Mr. Chairman, it is with care for himself and his dependents great reluctance but with firm convic In other words, instead of providing ade tion that I must express my opposition after retirement has been, in many cases, quate medical care for dependents, the De the one thing which has kept a middle partment of Defense purposes to dump them to that part of the military construction aged serviceman in the service during on a civilian community with barely adequate bill which provides the authorization for the time when he could make his great facilities to meet its own requirements. funds for certain operational facilities at est contribution. I don't see how any Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico. one can question that the moral obliga Here is another example all the way For fiscal year 1963 the request for the tion to provide retired medical care is across the country of where civilian hos Roosevelt Roads naval installation was implicit and clear cut. Yet, this bill pital facilities will be overtaxed when the for $23 million. Several of us on the starts us down the road of complete re military' renounces its moral obligation Armed Services Committee strongly op pudiation of that moral obligation. to provide medical care for retirees and posed this authorization, for reasons One by one we have either eliminated their dependents. The answer will be which I will discuss later. We did suc or adulterated so-called military fringe clear-more civilian hospitals will be re ceed in blocking the authorization last benefits. Commissary privileges provide quired with more Hill-Burton funds pro_ year. This year the amount requested a negligible advantage over shopping at vided by the Federal Government. Do for Roosevelt Roads is $19 million to the corner supermarket. Traditional not delude yourselves into believing that make this request more palatable to the benefits which have always gone to the this is an economy move in the tax pay Congress. This cut in the requested au recipients of retired pay have been whit er's interest. The truth is that hospitals thorization of $4 million is really imma tled away, and now we are about tore are no cheaper for the taxpayer when terial, for once we have launched this move the most meaningful fringe ben they are civilian controlled than when project the total requested authorizations efit of them all. As stated on page 52 of they are controlled by the military, and will soon amount to between $100 and our additional views, what inducement the impact on the taxpayer is no differ $200 million. will there be for a man to accept lower ent. The attempt on the part of the Depart pay, inconvenience, and danger when the Mr. Chairman, I have shown where ment of Defense, and the Department of Congress of the United States breaks its there is honest legal doubt that the De the Navy, to build up the complex at solemn promises one by one? The re partment of Defense is justified in using Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico coincides striction of hospital facilities is a retrac a single conference report as the final too clearly with the increasing rumors tion from our moral obligation and a dev interpretation of the law and as justifi and subtle suggestions that emanate astating breach of faith on the part of cation for renouncing what was a tradi from other parts of our Government with this Government. tional right until 1956 and has been an respect to the lessened military value of One last point that we should con unquestioned privilege since then. The Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. sider is the effect upon civilian hospitals least we can do is to maintain present The tune that is being played is an old of unceremoniously dumping the addi facilities for the care of the retired until one, only the lyrics are different. If we tional patient load represented by mil Congress can forthrightly clear up the can convince enough people that Guan itary retirees on them. As reported in confusion about what our policy actually tanamo Bay after all is really not an im the San Francisco Examiner for March is. portant naval base and at the same time 9 of this year, San Francisco hospitals Second, I believe I have shown that build up Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico are running close to their full bed capac this bill renounces a firm moral obliga so. that we maintain a base in that area ity and prospective patients have, in tion and will do great harm to the active which will provide protection for the many cases, had to call as many as eight duty forces; and lastly, I feel that this Panama Canal and the approaches to hospitals before they were admitted. bill will place an undue burden upon a Central and South America, then at a The Examiner reported: civilian hospital system which is already later date we can withdraw gracefully Some hospitals have had to refuse doctors' overcrowded. I hope that before this from Guantanamo Bay on the grounds requests to admit patients almost every day Congress adjourns it will face up to its that it is no longer a necessary part of· this year, but the situation is not unusual. responsibility and set a firm and clear our defense structure. Mr. Chairman, what will be the situa cut policy for the medical care of retirees. It is rare that one gets an advance If we are to be honest with ourselves and tion in San Francisco when the 266 beds glimpse of planned surrender--especially currently devoted in military hospitals to those who have devoted their lives to when the surrender is planned years in to retirees are eliminated? serving this country, we can do no less. advance. Where will these people receive care Mr. BECKER. Mr. Chairman, will the Mr. Chairman, it is not accidental that in some downtown hotel? on a sidewalk? gentleman yield? our American rights are being eroded at home? Mr. GUBSER. I yield to the gentle throughout the world. There are those Just last year, the Appropriations Sub man from New York. in our State Department who believe, committee for Military Construction Mr. BECKER. · I merely wish to say I perhaps sincerely, that if we will con pointed out that the policy of the Depart have joined my colleague, the gentleman tinue to yield to Communist aggression, ment of Defense to use civilian hospitals from California [Mr. GuBsER], in the ad the Communists, whether they be fol for medical care of dependents is, to ditional views expressed in the report. lowers of Khrushchev, Castro, or Mao quote the committee "suspect in its ap I concur in the things he has said. I be Tse-tung, will become "nice guys" and plication." In its report, the commit lieve that we owe something to our re will lose their greed for acquiring the tee said: tirees who have given lifetimes of service property, wealth, and peoples of other An excellent example is the request for in the military forces of our country. I nations. I am satisfied that the only hospital facilities in the fiscal year 1964 hope the policy will be to cover this when policy we can adopt to stop this constant program to replace existing facilities at the committee brings in a report, and I erosion of American prestige is to firmly Robins Air Force Base, Ga. Present fac111ties hope it will be done in time so that these resist each aggression against posses provide inpatient care for dependents. The hospitals can be properly organized and sions and rights of the citizens and Gov new facility would not. This care is to be taken care of. ernment of the United States. This re provided in civilian medical facilities under Mr. GUBSER. I thank the gentleman. sistance against Communist aggression the provisions of the me~::Ucare program. I add, it has been pointed out in the must include the protection and reten The report continues: debate today that it costs $3,000 more tion of Guantanamo regardless of the There are two civilian hospitals within per bed to construct Hill-Burton hos views and planning of certain elements reasonable driving time of this base. It is pitals than military hospitals. Now we in our State Department. Surrender, 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 5541 regardless of how subtle our surrender and that sound economy supports the not long after Dictator Fidel Castro came into -may be, will never restore the declining abandonment of Guantanamo Bay. power in 1959. But it got nowhere at the prestige of the United States. The Navy will be a weak voice in the White House in the face of adamant Penta gon resistance. I say to this House, here and now, that wilcerness when the "powers that be" At one period in the Kennedy administra there is, in the minds of some, a firm finally decide that the importance of tion, Secretary Rusk sought to pump new life conviction that we eventually must with Guantanamo Bay has been downgraded into this scheme, but made no headway when draw from Guantanamo Bay. With even in the eyes of the American public to the Navy vehemently dissented. greater conviction, I say that the Amer the point where it can be turned over to A major premise of the State Department's ican people will not stand idly by and Cuba and the cost efficiency experts will plan is that sooner or later Castro wm take permit this base to be turned over to support the contention that sound econ the Guantanamo issue to the United Nations, Fidel Castro or his successors. omy justifies this action. and the United States should be ready to give up the base rather than risk a "censure" vote. Those who wish to placate the Com Base closings are not new to the Mem It is argued that activities at Guantanamo munists in this hemisphere realize very bers of this House. But American pres should gradually be shifted to the Roosevelt well that any Government official who tige, in fact the dignity of every Amer Roads base in Puerto Rico. Under a pro today openly advocated the abandon ican, is involved directly or indirectly gram started by the late President Kennedy ment of Guantanamo Bay would have a in what I consider to be the ultimate last year, this base is being rapidly expanded short tenure of office. decision with respect to Guantanamo and modernized at a cost of around $100 mil So the technique is simple: Downgrade Bay. lion. Frankly, Mr. Chairman, I would deny While strongly favoring the development the importance of Guantanamo and at of Roosevelt Roads, the Navy flatly opposes the same time permit the Navy to build the Navy the statutory right to build up evacuating Guantanamo for the following up Roosevelt Roads so that we will not Roosevelt Roads even though it ·can be principal reasons: have a gap in our defenses but at the justified if it means that we are even To do so would be a crushing blow to same time we will have removed an area tually going to make it possible forcer Castro foes in and out of Cuba, and would of contention in the Caribbean. tain policy planners to recommend the gravely undermine U.S. prestige throughout · I measure my words very carefully abandonment of Guantanamo Bay. Latin America and elsewhere; as long as when I say to this House that in my I have long supported every necessary Cuba remains a Communist puppet state, that has ever been con Guantanamo is militarily vital to the United opinion the day will come, in the not too defense measure States; relinquishment of the base would distant future, when persons in posi sidered by the Committee on Armed mean its instant falling into the hands of tions of responsibility in our Govern Services. I support, for practical pur Russia. ment will recommend the closing of our poses, every other feature of the bill Navy Intelligence has ascertained that naval base at Guantanamo Bay and will now before us. But my conscience would Castro, with active Kremlin connivance, is justify their position on the grounds not be clear if I did not tell this House planning to follow up his shutting off of that it is no longer necessary to main that the authorization funds for the ex- Guantanamo's water supply with other tain two great Navy installations within . pansion of Roosevelt Roads will ulti harassments . One scheme is to stage fishing boat "sit a reasonably short distance of each mately lead to our abandonment of downs" in Guantanamo harbor to obstruct other. Guantanamo Bay. For that reason, I am shipping operations. Vessels of all nations I am told that the base at Guanta opposed to the funds that are authorized have access to this superb harbor. namo Bay is necessary for a certain type in this bill for the operational facilities Another Castro plan is to raise the Guan of training and that our base at Roose contemplated at Roosevelt Roads. tanamo issue in the United Nations on the velt Roads is necessary for a different · Now is the time to protest this surren ground the United States is violating its type of training. But the tune again will der before it can develop. I believe it is treaty rights by harboring Cuban refugees a mistake to grant the aoditional mil on the base. It is definitely known that be the same only the lyrics will be dif Soviet bloc diplomats have been taking ferent when, at a later date, a cost ef lions of dollars requested to build up soundings at the U.N. on such a move. ficiency expert might say, "There is no the Roosevelt Roads facilities. If this Basis of this threatened charge is some 500 need to maintain both bases since either body remains alert to the dangers of the Cubans working at Guantanamo who have can accommodate the training require future surrender of Guantanamo, and re been given asylum there. Since the recent ments of the other." And under those mains adamant against such a surrender, furore, 72 have asked for refuge. circumstances it would be better to have regardless of the sugar coating that may The 1903 treaty between the United States a naval base in an area that is friendly be placed around it, we may b~ able ·to . and Cuba bars refugees on Guantanamo. to the United States. prevent the lowered prestige of our coun Article IV reads as follows: "Fugitives from try by such an act. justice charged with crimes or misdemeanors This is what is coming as sure as I am amenable to Cuban law, taking refuge with standing before you in the well of the When we are back in the House I am in said area, shall be delivered by the U.S. House today. going to move to insert after my remarks authorities on demand by duly authorized Let me make it crystal clear that the a column by Robert S. Allen and Paul Cuban authorities." Navy denies any intention whatsoever of Scott which appeared in the Indianapolis Castro has not yet made formal demand recommending the abandonment of News. for these refugees. But they live in daily Guantanamo Bay. As a matter of fact, NAVY SOUNDS WARNING-STATE DEPARTMENT dread of his doing so. Among the Cuban MOVES To PHASE OUT GUANTANAMO workers rumors are frequent that he is about the Navy has repeatedly assured me that to crack down. Guantanamo Bay is a very vital part of (By Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott) our defense structure in that area, and WASHINGTON.-A long-range, highly con Mr. NORBLAD Mr. Chairman, I in a_ddition is ideally located for certain troversial State Department plan is behind make the point of order that a quorum types of fleet training. I believe the those suddenly announced orders to with is not present Navy, and I am sure that they are very draw m111tary dependents from Guantanamo The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will sincere when they tell us that Guanta and to reduce the number of Cubans work count. [After counting.] Thirty-five namo Bay must be retained and utilized ing there. Members are present, not a quorum. The Aim of this inner State Department plan Clerk will call the roll. to its fullest and that Roosevelt Roads is the eventual complete "phasing out" of in Puerto Rico is also a vital part of our this country's occupancy of the big strategic The Clerk called the roll, and the fol naval training area and is an indispen naval base. lowing Members failed to answer to their sable complex for Navy-Marine Corps Navy authorities, who are vigorously names: amphibious operations. against both withdrawing mmtary depend [Roll No. 72] But you and I know that the Navy ents and cutting back Cuban workers, are Ashley Edwards Jones, Ala. Department will have very little to say claiming these moves are important steps A uchincloss Evins Karsten in the execution of the State Department's Bass Finnegan Kee when it comes to the question of wheth Blatnik Forrester Kirwan er or not we should abandon Guanta backstage objective. Buckley Fulton, Tenn. Lankford namo Bay in order to appease Mr. Castro The Joint Chiefs of Staff, spearheaded by Cameron Hagan, Ga. Leggett the Navy, are strenuously opposed to giving Carey Hanna Lloyd or his successors. The cost efficiency up Guantanamo at any time in the foresee C'l.awson, Del Hansen Mcintire experts will slowly condition the Con able future. Colmer Harsha Macdonald gress to the concept that Roosevelt Curtis Harvey, Mich. Martin, Calif. The State Department's hush-hush plan Daddario Hoffman Martin, Mass. Roads can do everything that Guanta actually is not new. It was formulated by Diggs Holland Morse namo Bay does today, and even better, the Department's Polley Planning Council DoWdY Jarman Murray 5542 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18
~!;';~n , ru. :OOse~elt i!~~e . Tex. that others will sense the importance of more and more facilities in a. relatively Rains ~[.~daeberg Thompson, N.J. checking blanket assertions of economy few areas of the country. Reuss Sheppard Udall by Defense oftlcials to see if the real An area. should not seek to build its Roberts, Ala. Stephens Ullman facts support the claim in the specific economy on defense spending but when Accordingly, the Committee rose; and situation. it is fulfilling a vital defense need, it the Speaker pro tempore Griffiss Air Force Base in my district. It to focus attention on the waste of con gentleman yield? was stated that the action was dictated structing added facilities to accommo Mr. PIRNIE. I yield to the gentle by reason of obsolescence and to attain date moves. The alleged savings never man from Ohio. economy. I have always sought effi- materialize but the costs of the moves Mr. LA'ITA. In view of what has been ciency and cost reduction in our defense are real. said, I would like to refer to the closing program. Yet, I fully understand that I have always felt that the principle of Erie Army Depot at the Fort Clinton. to some ~Y ~re~nt protest will be con- of dispersal as a defense against attack I had occasion to visit with the Secretary strued as md1cat1ng I stand for economy applied to installations as well as to any of the Army, Secretary Vance, after the everywhere except in my own district. _ other defense component. Therefore, I closing of this depot was announced, and However, such is not the case and I hope see no justification for concentrating spent about an hour and 45 minutes with 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 5543 him. At that time, I discussed a certain Notwithstanding current denials, I be States and Cuba-and there have been brochure with him which had been sup lieve that plans to build a base at Roose some people in this Congress either on plied him on which to make a judgment velt Roads are inextricably tied to the this side of the Capitol, or the other side, on the closing of this particular instal future of our base at Guantanamo Bay in who have suggested that course--and if lation. At that time, I pointed out vari Cuba. Foreseeing the probability of con as a result of that war our ability to ous errors and omissions in the bro tinued harassment of our operations in utilize Guantanamo Bay, surrounded by chure. Most of these errors and omis Cuba by Castro, certain Government the high ground occupied by the Castro sions were subsequently acknowledged, policy planners appear to be paving the forces, were thereby limited, would the but there has not been any reversal of way for a gradual withdrawal from gentleman not feel we would be tremen this decision. Guantanamo Bay and eventual turnover dously delinquent if we did not provide Speaking about ef!iciency and economy, to Castro. Such a capitulation. would, I in advance some spot in the Caribbean this depot also had a high efficiency rat am sure,. rob us of one of the last vestiges from which our forces could operate, and ing and economy record. This depot is of prestige or respect we might command from which we could then endeavor to also engaged in the missile rebuild mis from our allies and could weaken our wage a successful war against Castro? sion needed by the Defense Department. military posture in the Caribbean area. Mr. CLANCY. For many years, one That mission is being transferred to an Of course, such a step would not be of our priine bases was at Guantanamo. other area and none of the employees, taken until Roosevelt Roads had been During World War II we had a great deal according to the Department of Defense, built up to a point where it would be of activity in the Caribbean with respect are going to be discharged. These em claimed there was a duplication of effort to naval operations. ployees are merely being transferred at with Guantanamo Bay. And it would Guantanamo served at that particular a huge expense to them and at a great be further claimed that for this reason time to handle this activity.· I am con loss to their communities. I question, and because of their proximity, it would fident we should have and maintain therefore, whether or not there is going be better to abandon a base in an un Guantanamo as far as· any attack on to be any real economy in this particu friendly country and concentrate our Guantanamo may take place. lar closing by the Defense Department. defense resources in friendly Puerto Rico. . Mr. STRATTON. That was before I join the gentleman in bringing these Mr. Chairman, I think we should take we had a hostile government on the matters to the attention of the House. every feasible step to protect Gl,Jantana mainland. of Cuba. Obviously, if hostili I want to further emphasize that ·in our mo Bay from Communist aggression and ties broke out our use of Guantanamo meeting before the Secretary of the to strengthen our position in the Guan until we had taken over the whole island Army in the Pentagon, it was admitted tanamo area. It may be necessary at would be somewhat impaired. Would by the commanding general that this some future date to protect Guantanamo not the gentleman want us to do every closing was not necessarily for "economy Bay from Communist aggression, and we thing possible right now to improve our reasons," but a matter of reorganization. should not silently tiptoe away from our position iri such hostilities, rather than Mr. PIRNIE. I thank the gentleman. obligations and the rights which we have undercutting the attempt to improve the I quite agree that these situations should in Cuba at the present time. base -at Roosevelt Roads, which is the be individually examined to see if the In my opinion, our presence on the Is precise purpose the Navy asked for this claimed economy and efficiency as the land of Cuba serves somewhat as a de money, so that we might have this base result of the move is actually going to terrent to full-scale use of Cuba as a ma to wage successful operations if hostile be attained or whether it is a merely a jor training ground for subversive agents Cuban action ever impaired the effective transfer of jobs. and guerrillas. Despite our presence ness of our Guantanamo base, even tem Mr. LATTA. I agree with the gentle there, much of this activity reportedly porarily? man. I would like to ask the gentle goes on; think how it would be accelerat Mr. CLANCY. I think we should take man, a member of the Armed Services ed if we would in the future abandon every step possible to protect the base Committee, whether or not there are re Guantanamo Bay. · at Guantanamo. quests in this bill for new construction Guantanamo Bay is a very vital part Mr. STRATTON. Then why is the for facilities to replace facilities at in of our defense structure in the Carib gentleman against doing the very thing stallations ordered closed or reduced pur bean area, and consequently, I cannot that will best help us defend Guan suant to the announcement of the Sec support any move, no matter how thinly tanamo in the event of hostilities? retary of Defense, dated December 12, veiled, which in any way threatens the Mr. CLANCY. If it is not sufficient 1963, for economy reasons. continued existence of that naval base. I think we have a responsibility to see Mr. PIRNIE. . Replying to the gentle Because I consider the $19 million re to it that it is, and that we maintain man, there is clearly some money for quest for Roosevelt Roads such a move, our proper forces there to see to it that this purpose. It was admitted that there I am firmly opposed to this authoriza if there is an attack on our base at Guan are items which are solely required for tion. I wish to make my position very tanamo we can defend it. such moves. clear at this particular time, and I want Mr. STRATTON. Is it not true that Mr. LATTA. I thank the gentleman. the record to show that I have strong by opposing the development of Roose I shall oppose this bill as I believe it is reservations concerning this specific au velt Roads the gentleman actually would extremely inconsistent with the stated thorization. impair our ability to wage war down announcement on these closings to in Mr. SAYLOR. Mr. Chairm~n. will the there in the event of an attack on Guan clude funds for new construction to re gentleman yield? tanam6? place existing facilities. Mr. CLANCY. I yield to the gentle Mr. CLANCY. I think we should take Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman, I yield man from Pennsylvania. steps to protect Guantanamo. I do not 5 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio Mr. SAYLOR. I would like to com want to leave the impression we are [Mr. CLANCY]. mend the gentleman from Ohio for his abandoning that particular area. Mr. CLANCY. Mr. Chairman, I in forthright statement in regard to the Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Chairman, I tend to vote for H.R. 10300, authorizing situation at Guantanamo and Roosevelt make the point of order that a quorum construction for the military depart Roads. is not present. ments, but I do so with one reservation. I think that until the position of the The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will I am opposed to the funds that are United States in regard to Roosevelt count. [After counting.] Sixty-two authorized in this bill for the operational Roads is definitely established, this com Members are present, not a quorum. facilities proposed for the Roosevelt mittee should not spend any money in Roads naval installation in Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico on Roosevelt Roads. I want The Clerk will call the roll. and I voted against this authorization to commend the gentleman for bringing The· Clerk called the roll, and the fol in the committee. this to the attention of the Congress. lowing Members failed to answer to their The authorization contained in this Mr. STRATTON. Mr. Chairman, will names: bill for Roosevelt Roads amounts ap the gentleman yield? [Roll No. 73] to Aspinall Curtis Finnegan proximately $19 million. This amount Mr. CLANCY. I yield to the gentle Bass Dlggs Forrester is less than a prior recommended author man from New York. Blatnik Dingell Fulton, Tenn. ization which was strongly opposed by Mr. STRATTON. May I ask the gen Buckley Dowdy Goodell Carey Edmondson Grabowski members of the House Armed Services tleman whether he feels that if a war Celler Edwards Hagan, Ga. Committee. were to break out between the United ·clawson, Del Evins Hansen 5544 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 Harris Landrum Rains in. the manner in which it is currently on the floor that a move would be made Harvey, Ind. Lankford Roberts, Ala. Harvey, Mich. Lloyd Rooney, N.Y. be1ng planned, the wife who is with her· to amend the bill to eliminate part of Hoffman Mcintire Roosevelt husband, at his duty station. will not be this savings by preventmg the .Army Holifield Macdonald Roybal hospitalized in their service hospital in from consolidating its 5th Army Head Holland Martin, Call!. StGermai Jarman Martin, Mas!( Schadeberg the military community but will be quarters at Fort Sheridan. The 5th Jones, Ala. Martin, Nebr. Sheppard asked to use an unknown physician in · Army, which serves 16 States in the Mid Karsten Minshall Teague, Tex. a strange civilian communi~y hospital. dle West, has its activities spread around Kee Morse Ullman Kilburn O'Brien, Ill. White This was not the intent of Congress when the city of Chicago, with a great deli! of Kirwan Pool it passed the medicare legislation. its support coming from Fort Sheridan, Kornegay Powell This year the committee made the sub which is a military base of long stand Accordingly, the Committee rose; and ject of medical care for military depend~ ing. the Speaker pro tempore Florida fare of the individual patient is con cerned. The Surgeons General of the Committee of the Whole that the Com [Mr. BENNETT]. mittee on Armed Services has supported Mr. BENNETT of Florida. Mr. Chair three services were not consulted. As a result of this evasion of the in this move and that this transfer also has man, I have taken the well today pri the support of the Department of the marily to discuss two points. First, tent of Congress when it passed the Medicare Act and because of the appar Army and Department of Defense as the there was some comment earlier this result of studies which they have made. afternoon about Roosevelt Roads. I ent lack of medical professional guid ance in decisionmaking, the chairman Mr. Chairman, I call upon the mem want to assure the members of the Com bers of the Committee to support the mittee that in the proposed expansion appointed a special Subcommittee on Military Hospitals. The chairman is the Department of Defense and the adminis of Roosevelt Roads there is nothing of tration, as well as the taxpayers who a negative nature. involved. This is a gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. RIVERS] and this subcommittee will have deserve the economy provided for 1n this very fine facility. It offers wide ranges, bill and to prevent the waste and ex ... it offers opportunity for training of the professional advice and guidance of Dr. DURWARD G. HALL, Representative travagance which can only fiow from troops. It is a very exceptional facility supporting the amendment which is to and should be expanded, in the opinion from Missouri. The three Surgeons General will be co~ulted. be offered by the gentleman from nu of the Committee on Armed Services. nois [Mr. O'HARA]. Mr. Chairman, as I stated earlier tt For this year the committee approved all 11 hospitals in the bill. Each and Mr. Chairman, I call upon the mem has no negative aspect to it at all ~d bers of the Committee to recognize the it in no way has anything to do with every one was badly needed and thor validity of the committee's work and to Guantanamo which is also a very fine oughly justified by the individual service recognize the testimony that was pre facility. It is not a competitive facility. concerned. It is to be hoped that the sented to the committee. This testimony Both of these facilities should be ex special subcommittee will approve more and the action of the committee presents panded and improved. adequate allotments of beds for service dependents, military retirees, and their one position and one position only and Mr. Chairman, the second thing to dependents. Although the law allows that is that this transfer should be made. which I would like to direct my remarks their hospitalization it will be increas I urge the members of the Committee is in relation to medical fac111ties. not to go against the testimony that has This Committee has shown a long ingly academic and unrealistic unless been given and not to go against the standing interest in the health and wel more beds are provided in new construc committee report. I urge the members fare of military personnel, their depend tions. of the Committee to support the admin ents, and military retirees. We are I would like also to observe that Con istration and the Department of Defense. concerned over the gradual erosion ·of gress should promptly come to grips with Mr. Chairman, if the amendment is benefits in all support areas. another related subject, the provision of offered, I shall comment later on it in In particular, there has been a notice health and hospitalization insurance for opposition thereto. able reduction in the last 4 years of those service retirees, like that now employed Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman I yield benefits normally provided authorized by civil service retirees. I have intro 5 minutes to the gentleman from dependents in our service hospitals. duced legislation to accomplish a practi California [Mr. BALDWIN]. There is a growing tendency within the cal program for such benefits and I sin Mr. BALDWIN. Mr. Chairman Military Establishment to ignore con cerely hope it can be enacted. earlier this afternoon the gentlem~ struction required to provide for the Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman I yield from California [Mr. GUBSER] made needs of dependents and to ask these 4 minutes to the gentleman fr~m nli some very· pertinent comments relative persons to use civilian facilities under nois [Mr. McCLORY]. to the deep concern of retired military the provisions of the medicare law. Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Chairman, I take personnel in the San Francisco Bay area The Medicare Act was passed by Con this time because I want first of all to in California and as to what their posi gress with the thought in mind that we commend the committee for having sub tion will be and what their rights will be must provide for the wife and child who mitted this report and for supporting relative to hospitalization if the new were left at home while.the husband was the Department ·of Defense in the clos military hospitals contemplated in this off in some isolated part of the world ing of a number of military bases and bill are constructed. This will result in tending to the business of providing for the transferring of a number of military a reduction of about 175 actual operating the common defense. The wife would operations in order to effect substantial beds 1n the case of the Oak Knoll Naval use her own family physician and her savings whicb the adm1nistration sup Hospital at Oakland and a reduction of own community hospital. The Govern ports. These savings are estimated to about 300 actual operating beds in con ment would pay all but the relatively be about $100 million per year. nection with the Letterman General small portions of her necessary medical Mr. Chairman, earlier in the general Hospital in San Francisco, an Army bills. If hospital construction proceeds debate a representation was made here hospital. 1964 CONGRESS~ONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5545 I would like to state_that I am in full take some step at this time to make its $4,426,000 we are going to build 150 new agreement with the comments made by views known to the Defense Depart housing units at Bolling Air Force Base. the gentleman from California [Mr. ment' so that at least the designs of these The purpose of this is to house airmen. GuBsER]. This situation is very uncer new hospitals will be such ' that if it is This is in addition to the $4,426,000. I tain for the retired military personnel determined at a later date that some understand from staff members this may and their dependents and there should additional wings should be added, that cost another $2 million or more. be some clarification as to what the Defense Department will be able to With that preliminary, may I ask the the policy of the · Congress and of the add them. distinguished chairman of the commit Defense Department is going to be rela Mr. VINSON. May I say to the gen tee, or anyone who might be interested tive to their rights to hospitalization in tleman from California that I appoint in this, just what we are doing at Bolling these military hospitals. ed a subcommittee· to make a complete and what is the purpose of it? Are we It is my understanding that as a mat study of all phases of hospitalization, going to close the base, or what are we ter of policy the Defense Department has including location, architectural designs, going to do? continued to make beds in the old hos and all phases of it. No doubt, when Mr. VINSON. Last year in the con pitals available to retired military per these architects finish their work the ference on military construction with the sonnel on a .space-available basis. This subcommittee will be ready to make a Senate, the conferees agreed to an au has worked out fairly well up to the pres report all down the line, and will com thorization for providing troop housing ent time because the existing Letterman municate that to the Department. at both Bolling and Fort Myer. This General Hospital and the Oak Knoll Mr. BALDWIN. These designs are was intended to supply housing required Naval Hospital have sufficient beds, so now in the process of being made. They for both enlisted personnel and bachelor that most of the requirements of the need to be changed. officerS' located in the Washington area. retired military personnel can be taken Mr. VINSON. I cannot stop the de Mr. BOW. The other body put in $4 care of. signs, because we are not qualified to million, but has this plan ever actually The problem here in this San Fran design hospitals ourselves. But we will been before the House so that we know cisco Bay area is comparable to what is let the Committee on Hospitals know what is going. on at Bolling, or is this happening all over the country. Most of the views of the gentleman. . They also something which was added because the the hospitals proposed in this bill have have their own views, and no doubt they other body wanted it? a sizable reduction in beds ovGr the hos will draft a bill -that will meet the sit Mr. VINSON. The military classifica pitals they are replacing. I am con uation. We cannot yet say ~ with finality tion would be a consolidated housing fa cerned about what may happen if these what the architects may have in mind. cility for all three services. new hospitals are planned and designed They may be additions, changes, and so Mr. BOW. I could not find that in so that they cannot add additional wings forth, that may be made without any the record. There is nothing in the hear at some future time. additional legislation. ings about it. There are two studies now in progress. Mr. BALDWIN. I thank the gentle Mr. VINSON. It is in the hearings, It is my understanding there is a De man. and right here. fense Department study now in process Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman, I yield I will refer to Bolling Field here in the to be reported around July of this year. 5 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio District of Columbia. It is my further understanding, con [Mr. Bow]. Mr. BOW. I have that before me, Mr. firmed by the chairman of the committee Mr. BOW. Mr. Chairman, I have Chairman. What I would like to know earlier in the discussion this afternoon, taken this time to call attention to Boll is, has this plan ever been before the that the chairman of the committee has ing Air Force Base, along the river here. House before or was it put in by the Sen appointed a subcommittee headed by I understood some time ago they are go ate? What are we using Bolling Air the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. ing to be closed down, but now it looks Force Base for now? Is that where heli RIVERs] to make a review of the whole as if we are going to get into the build copters are being operated? situation and to come in with recom ing of housing units and other activities Mr. VINSON. That is where they are mendations. out there. The report does not show being operated today. Here is my specific concern. I have much about what is going on, but on Mr. BOW. In other words, a heli talked with both the Navy and Army page 8482 of the hearings you will find copter base has been made out of Bolling this morning to find out whether the there are contemplated expenditures Air Force Base. plans and designs now being formulated there of $4,426,000. Mr. VINSON. The plan now is that for these new hospitals will permit an The first item provides for the con it will be part of the three services plan additional wing at some future date if struction of two squadron headquarters for bedding down unmarried officers and the results of the studies indicate this buildings. airmen. We consolidated it. Each serv should be provided for. The second item is for alteration of an ice was trying to build separate facilities existing structurally sound-building. and we consolidated it in the interest of Here are the reports I get. The Bu economy and efficiency at the Bolling reau of Medicine and Surgery of the The fourth item provides a 200-man officers quarters building. Air Force Base. We had a special sub Navy Department this morning in committee to investigate Fort Myer and formed me that their designs, as so far The fifth item is for a new service club to replace an existing deteriorated struc Bolling Field headed by our colleague developed, for the new hospital at Oak the gentleman from South Carolina Knoll in Oakland, would permit the ture. This will furnish a broad range of self -directed recreational and social ac [Mr. RIVERS] and other members of the addition of a small wing at some later tivities to all personnel living on the committee who all went out to Fort date that may accommodate another 100 base. Myer and made the investigation. We beds. But the Surgeon General's Office The sixth item is for installation of 30 observed certain quarters at Fort Myer of the Army has informed me this morn tons of air conditioning for the NCO and we reached this decision after a per ing that their designs for the new Letter open mess. sonal investigation. man Hospital, as so far developed would The last item is for provision of the Mr. BOW. I have great respect for not permit an additional wing to be second increment of utilities in· support the members of the committee who added; that is, it would not be possible of the newly developed Department of made the investigation, Mr. Chairman. under the design being used. Defense cantonment area at this base. The purpose of my question was to find Since the two studies are now in proc These are all new items, so far as I am out what was the result of that investi ess and will be reported at a later date, concerned. There is very little testimony gation. Unfortunately, it is not either does not the chairman agree that these on them. The only testimony is that in the hearings or in the record; and designs for these new hospitals should at Colonel Smith said where it was located then these additional 150 units of hous least be so constructed as to make possi · and said these are the things they are ing somewhat disturbed me. ble the addition of a wing at a later date going to be using there. This is, as I The CHAIRMAN. The time of the if it is determined by the policy of the say, something new. We are beginning gentleman has expired. · Congress and by the policy of the De this expenditure out at Bolling when we Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman, I yield fense Department that this is desirable? all thought we were closing it up. myself the 1 minute remaining. I would like to ask the chairman of In addition, and this surprises me Mr. Chairman, rumor has it here on the committee if the committee m'ight somewhat, in addition to these items of the floor of the House that there may 5546 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE . March 18 be some amendment or amendments of proximately 15 percent, had been uti of missiles; the Navy's I:egulus, Polaris, fered to this bill. lized for modernization and updating of and ASW weapons; and the Air Force's I simply rise to state after the actio_n basic plant facilities. Bomarc, Atlas, Titan, and Minuteman taken by our committee, almost unam Approximately $19.3 billion, or 85 per missiles. mously, I trust neither our chairman nor cent of the funds made available during The following table reflects the break any of the members of our Armed Se~v the Period I have cited were directed in out on the expenditures made by the ices Committee will agree to the pendmg the support of programs such as the military departments for military con amendment to this bill at this particular Army's Hawk, Jupiter, and Nike family struction over the past 16 years: time in view of the fact that we were so deliberate and so careful in going [Dollar amounts in billions] through this bill by line item ,and ~ea~y Used for replacement and Used for new weapons by our vote in committee OK d this b1ll Total modernization missions, etc. as it has come to the House floor. I trust available Members will support the bill as re ported. Amount Percent Amount Percent
Mr. VINSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield ArmY------$5. 1 $1.9 38 $3. 2 62 such time as he may require to the gen- Navy ______4.3 . 8 19 3. 5 81 tleman from South Carolina [Mr. Air Force------_ ___13.4 _ __ . 8 5 12. 6 95 1 1 RIVERS]. TotaL ___ ------22.8 3. 5 15 19.3 85 Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 10300. · It would be impossible to improve on Included in some of the more im ment program of our military facilities the presentation made by our beloved portant new programs which, during the in the continental United States-and chairman on the proposed military con past 6 years, have required these tremen not the least of these facilities to be mod dous expenditures for military construc ernized should be our Government ship- struction authorization for fiscal year yards. · 1965. Once again he has in his thorough tion are the following: and inimitable style provided the House For the Department of the Army: If I have any criticism of this bill to with every important facet of this au U.S. Air Defenses-Nike family-$850 day it would simply be one of concern thorization bill. One cannot improve million. with the failure of the Department to upon perfection, and therefore I wish Redstone and Jupiter missile pro- recommend the necessary authority for only to compliment my chairman on his grams, $50 million. the improvement and modernization of statement. For the Navy: the basic plant facilities o.f the respec However, I believe it would be desirable The Pacific missile range, $262 million. tive military departments. to acquaint the Members of this body Polaris facilities, $160 million. My purpose in making this observation with certain historical facts related to Space communication facilities, $450 is therefore to urge responsible omcials the amount of military construction million. in both the Department of Defense and heretofore authorized and funded by the . For the Air Force: the respective military departments to Congress. Atlas ICBM's, $750 million. carefully scrutinize their future 5-year It is interesting to note that·for the Titan ICBM's, $975 million. military construction program with the period beginning with fiscal year 1949 Minuteman ICBM's, $900 million. view of including in that program a sub ACW sites, $900 million. stantially larger amount for the replace through fiscal year 1964 the Congress h~ SAGE-semiautomatic ground envi- ment of outmoded and obsolete military authorized a grand total of $25 1555 mll lion in military construction authoriza ronmental control system-$170 million. plant facilities. tion. These and many similar type programs The military construction authoriza During the same period the Congress have taken the lion's share of military tion bill for fiscal year 1965 is an austere has provided funds to support this con construction expenditures. bill. It contains no fat, and I urge you struction authority in the amount of $22, Because of this tremendous emphasis to support this legislation. placed on maintaining abreast of tech Mr. BRUCE. Mr. Chairman, will the 883 million. nological improvements in modern weap Despite the tremendous outlays for gentleman yield? military construction, our annual mili onry, most of our construction re_sourc~s Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. I tary construction requirement continues have been directed toward satisfymg this yield to the gentleman from Indiana. to approximate a billion dollars a year. requirement to the detriment of our Mr. BRUCE. I believe the gentleman mundane but essential basic plant facil knows the high regard in which I hold Since we had developed the greatest ities. military machine ever known to man him on matters such as this. Thus, a tremendous number of our I was a little disturbed this morning, during World War II, together with the basic plant facilities used in the support necessary facilities to support the Mili when I sat in a hearing and heard the of our operating forces, such as ship Secretary of Defense advocate and say tary Establishment, it would therefore yards dock facilities, etcetera, and facil appear that these subsequent generous that he had under his jurisdiction many ities ~ecessary for the housing and train surplus Government facilities which construction authorizations provided by ing of personnel as well as facilities nec the Congress during the intervening could be . turned over to a Youth Corps essary for routine administrative and for housing, on military bases. There years would have more than satisfied operational functions, have been denied are about 100,000 youngsters whom t~ey every possible facilities requirement of funds for replacement and moderniza the military. plan to house on existing surplus mili tion. tary bases. Is that what the gentleman Unfortunately, that is not the case. Thus, for example, we have permitted The bulk of these expenditures for is talking about? our shipyards to continue to use equip Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. I am military construction, instead of mod ment and -facilities which have become ernizing our existing facilities, has been not talking about that. There are cer obsolete in the shipbuilding industry. tain bases on which there is obsolescent directed in the support of new missions, We are thus confronted with the strange missiles, and weapons concepts, and and obsolete equipment; for instance, anomaly where the Depart~ent of J?e have, therefore, not permitted the neces fense is critical of the efficiency ratmg the B-47 bases. sary modernization and replacement of of various Government shipyards while Mr. BRUCE. We are talking about the bulk of facilities created during the at the same time, and in almost the same housing. World War II period. breath, denying them the means with Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. For example, of the $22.8 billion in which this efficiency could be improved. Many of those have housing. General military construction funds made avail I wish to take this opportunity to go LeMay, for his SAC Command, had a able to the Armed Forces during the 16- on record in urging the Department of great deal of housing. year period between fiscal year 1949 and Defense, and the administration, to be-' Mr. VINSON. Mr. Chairman, w1ll ftscal year 1964, only $3.5 billion, or ap- gin a 5-year modernization and replace- the gentleman yield? 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5547 Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. I serve components, defense agencies, and side of Chicago, Ill., to Fort Sheridan, yield to the Chairman. military family housing. IlL-appropriating $323 million to facili Mr. VINSON. I say to the distin The total authorization granted were tate this change as an initial cost for guished gentleman that if there are any as follows: Army, $300,482,000; Navy, preliminary preparation for plans and so military installations throughout the $238,536,000; Air Force, $345,727,000; De forth. The estimated sums necessary to country which are not being used by fense Agencies, including Atomic, Sup complete the proposed turnover will ne the Department of Defense and are being port, Supply, National Security, and cessitate further continuing appropria declared surplus, it would be proper for Ofiice of the Secretary, $10,805,000; fam tions for housing facilities in the amount the Government to use them in some ily housing: Army-2,135 units; Navy- of about $10 million. other way, instead of putting them on 4,056 units; Air Force-3,695 units, The advocates of the changes have not the market and getting a small return for amounting to $177,758,000'; general sup given any substantial reason for the them. port, $482,847,000 thus totaling for these transfer except to aver that it belongs Mr. BRUCE. These have been char items, $660,605,000; the Reserve forces there. The thousands of civilians em acterized as "surplus." Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Corps Re ployed giving related services to the The CHAIRMAN. The time of the serve and . similar Army, and Air Na operational unit headquarters will be gentleman from South Carolina has ex tional Guard, totaling $34,450,000-a thrown into the ranks of the unemployed. pired. grand total of $1,590,666,000. The re The broad scope of the operations of the Mr. VINSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield quest for new facilities submitted by the 5th Army Headquarters, including the 5 additional minutes to the gentleman. military departments totaled over $2.1 Midwestern States-Colorado on the Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. I do billion and an additional three quarters west-carrying on the administrative not need more time . . I believe the ques of a billion dollars for family housing. business of the Army. This unit should tion has been adequately answered. The After study and analysis by the Depart be located at Chicago, Ill. It is Chairman answered it. ment of Defense and the Bureau of the easily accessible from all parts of the I wish to say that certainly these facil Budget-also the Secretary of Defense area by rail, air, or auto, certainly all lines ities cannot be used in other areas. For nearly half-49 percent-approximately of communication are at one's elbow. instance, a Polaris submarine facility $1 billion was rejected or deferred. The The committee showed acute alertness could not use housing at some B-47 base. totals for military construction authori in response to the will of Chairman VIN It is necessary to have housing at the zation for fiscal year 1965 amounts to soN, in rejecting the O'Hara amendment Polaris base. One does not complement $1,839,507,000. submitted by the Chicago delegation the other. The proposed acquisition of land striking the appropriation incorporated Mr. BRUCE. I would say to the gen amounted to 1,460,289 acres at a cost of in the bill for this stupid scheme tleman, though it was an answer, in a $32 million-the committee approved the against the public interest of the citizens fashion, it does not satisfy me at all so purchase of 204,282 acres at an esti of Chicago. Chicago has been the vic far as the total picture is concerned. mated cost of $21.5 million, saving $10.5 tim of these military proposals under the Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. Cer million. pretense of economy-through consoli tain bases have housing not needed. H.R. 13000 authorizes $75 million for dation of various services located in Chi Certain bases are not needed. medical facilities of which $56 million is cago with other services in other cities Mr. BRUCE. I do not question that. provided for the erection of 11 hospitals. by transfer of the same to those cities I merely question the diversion of use. The committee provided $17.5 million without any regard to the employment Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. I for emergency construction projects, a problems resulting or the deprivation of believe we can find a number of mili modified sum for a limited authority, the rights of those who had gained civil tary facilities which are excess to mili and a strict guide against using these service status in their employment-in tary requirements and which could funds as an added reprograming au most instances, unless employees trans therefore be used for other authorized thority but only for an unforeseen con fer-lose seniority and Federal employ Government purposes. struction requirement. ment. Mr. LIBONATI. Mr. Chairman, I ask The bill authorizes the construction The all inclusive items in the bill are unanimous consent to extend my remarks of 585 military bases through the world; varied and all encompassing of the mili at this point in the RECORD. also 9,886 individual units of military tary needs and intense operational The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection family housing, minor construction au worldwide scope of our military family. to the request of the gentleman from thority for improvements of adequate This all important subject has been Illinois? quarters, rental guarantee payments, treated by the committee with meticulous There was no objection. operating expenses, leasing of family treatment of excellent legislative finesse. Mr. LIBONATI. Mr. Chairman, the units, 5,000; maintenance of the entire The perfected work glows with the passage of H.R. 10300 marks the passing inventory of the military family, 368,- brilliant and deft abilities of our esti of the master services of a great legis 000 units; credit debt payments and mable chairman, CARL VINSON, who en lator, CARL VINSON, who for the past 30 serviceman's mortgage insurance author joys a national reputation as the supreme years of his 50 years as a Member of the ization. authority on matters affecting the mili House has in his committee advised, The bill provides new authority to tary policy of the services, as related gujded, and directed legislation for the build 65 Army permanent installa . to their legislative purposes. Chairman military departments considered by the tions, 3 on foreign shores, also cadet CARL VINSON, the Illinois delegation sa Committee on Armed Services. His ded housing facilities, $137 million; opera lutes you in appreciation of your dedica ication to strengthening the defensive tion and training facilities, surface-to tion as a guide and guard of the military and offensive might of the United States air missiles facilities, $39 million; med powers of our Nation through the years as a military pow-er is refiected in the ical facilit~es, $24 million; administra and today stands as the strongest, mili superior if not supreme punishing and tive facilities, $7 million; and land, tarily, of all the nations of the world. deterrent power of our military forces. $19 million. Also facilities for the Army Her position is in the forefront of the The Nation and the Congress are deeply Security Agency in the United States and supreme defenders of the liberty-loving indebted to him in appreciation for his at Army bases in foreign countries. nations of the universe. skillful and discerning statesmanship. The provisions in the bill relative to Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Chairman, I ask The many facets considered at all the replacement of deteriorated tempo unanimous consent to extend my remarks levels of military operational programs rary facilities-outdated basic plants ne at this point in the RECORD. and projects were provided for after cessitate the programing of $300 million The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection minute examination and study by the per year over a 10-year period in new or to the request of the gentleman from Committee of the various proposals sub improved facilities-are in conformity Florida? mitted for authorization during the fis with both the services and the · commit There was no objection. cal year 1965. tee's studies. Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Chairman, I un The approved bill totals $1,590,666,000 The bill provides certain moneys for a derstand that there are a number of and provides construction authorization contemplated change in the removal of bases around the country which the De in support of the Active Forces, theRe- the 5th Army Headquarters at the South- fense Department is considering phasing 5548 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 18 out or closing. I understand, too, that Fort Campbell, Kentucky: Training facili (United. States Army Test and Evaluation among these is the Sanford Naval Air ties, $111,000. Command) Station in Sanford, Fla. I am further Fort Gordon, Georgia: Training facilities, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland: Op advised that pending a thorough study and troop housing, $13,968,000. erational facilities, resea.roh, development Fort Jackson, South Carolina: Training and test facilities, $784,000. of these matters, the committee did not facilities, and troop housing, $15,383,000. Jefferson Proving Ground, Indiana: Op include any of the authorization moneys Fort Rucker, Alabama: Training facilities, erational fac111ties, $11,000. that had previously been. programed for and troop housing, $2,994,000. Fort Huachuca, Arizona: Hospital faci11- fiscal 1965 for Sanford. Fort Stewart, Georgia: Training facilities, ties, and utilities, $4,635,000. and maintenance facilities, $627,000. I am confident that when the report on White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico: Sanford is received, if it has not already (Fourth Army) Research, development and test facilities, been received by this time, it will show Fort Bliss, Texas: Operational facilities, $2,685,000. the economic feasibility and in fact an community facilities, and utilities, $721,000. (United States Army Weapons Command) actual saving of money in keeping the Fort Hood, Texas: Maintenance facilities, supply facilities, and troop housing, $11,836,- Watervliet Arsenal, New York: Utilities, Sanford base in full operation. In view $77,000. 000. of this, it is my hope that there will be Fort Polk, Louisiana: Troop housing, $627,- Technical Services Facilities no difficulty in reprograming the moneys 000. (Signal Corps) heretofore scheduled for Sanford. If the Fort Sill, Oklahoma: Maintenance facili East Coast Radio Receiving Station, report on Sanford is favorable I have ties, troop housing and utilities, $2,893,000. La Plata, Maryland: Utilities, $93,000. been told that the money can be restored (Fifth Army) East Coast Relay Station, Frederick, Mary in another bill at a later date or it can Fort Carson, Colorado: Maintenance facm land: Troop housing, $257,000. be put back in the bill in the other body ties, supply facilities, troop housing, and Army Pictorial Center, New York: Oper and our conferees can agree to the addi real estate, $18,256,000. ational facUlties and production fac1lities, tion when the bill goes to conference. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana: Troop $1,120,000. None of us wants to waste any money housing, $1,652,000. West Coast Radio Receiving Station, San in defense or otherwise, but if, as I ex Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Administrative ta Rosa, California: Utilities, $76,000. facilities, $390,000. (Medical Service) pect, the report shows conclusively that Fort Riley, Kansas: Maintenance facilities, the keeping of the installation at San medical facilities, troop housing, and real Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas: Op ford would not only cost no more money, estate, $18,692,000. erational facilities, $104,000. but would in fact save money, it is my Fort Sheridan, Illinois: Medical fac111ties, Letterman General Hospital, California: hope that the officials of the Navy De administrative fac111ties, and utilities, $5,- Hospital facilities, $14,305,000. partment will promptly request the res 544,000. Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Dis trict of Columbia: Training fac1Uties, and toration of these funds~ Fort Leonard Wood, MisEouri: Training fa cilities, maintenance facilities, medical fa ut1lities, $1,019,000. Mr. VINSON. Mr. Chairman, I have cilities, troop housing, and community facili no requests for any further time. I ask United States Military Academy ties, $16,679,000. United States Military Academy, West that the bill be read. (Sixth Army) Point, New York: Operational and training The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read Fort Irwin, California: Troop housing, $2,- facilities, administrative facilities, cadet the bill for amendment. 643,000. housing, community facilities and utilities, The Clerk read as follows: Fort Lewis, Washington: Training facili $20,578,000. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ties, maintenance facilities, and troop hous Army Security Agency of .Representatives of the United States of ing, $1,906,000. Two Rock Ranch Station, California: Op America in Congress assembled, Presidio of Monterey, California: Training erational facilities, $1,014,000. facilities, $194,000. TITLE I Vint Hill Farms Station, Virginia: Opera Fort Ord, California: Troop housing, $777,- tional fac1lities, $997,000. SEc. 101. The Secretary of the Army may 000. establish or develop military installations Presidio of San Francisco, California: Utili Army Component Commands and facilities by acquiring, constructing, con ties, $283,000. (United States Army Air Defense Command) verting, rehabil1tating, or installing perma Yakima Training Center, Washington: Various locations: Operational fac11ities, nent or temporary public works, including Training facilities, $303,000. administrative fac1lities and troop housing, site preparations, appurtenances, util1ties, (Milirtary District of Washington, District of $7,814,000. and equipment for the following projects: Columbia) (Alaska Command Area) Inside the United States Fort McNair, District of Colum.bia: Train ;Fort Richardson, Alaska: Operational fa Continental Army Command ing facilities, $1,550,000. cilities, maintenance facilities, and admin (First Army) Fort Myer, Virginia: Medical facilities, and istrative fac~lities, $767,000. Fort Devens, Massachusetts: Community troop housing, $4,052,000. Fort J. M. Wainwright, Alaska: Mainte fac111ties, $681,000. United States Army Materiel Command nance facilities, troop housing, and utllities, Fort Dix, New Jersey: Hospital facilities, $743,000. (United States Army Missile Command) (Pacific Command Area) and troop housing $18,890,000. Redstone Arsenal, Alabama: Research, de- Fort Hamilton, New York: Util1ties, Aliamanu Military Reservation, Hawaii: velopment and test facilities, and utilities, Utilities, $247,000 . • 118,000. $2,389,000. (Second Army) Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: Operational (United States Army Munitions Command) Fort Belvoir, Virginia: Operational and facilities, maintenance facilities, and admin training fac111ties, administrative facil1ties, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland: Research, istrative facil1ties, $3,235,000. troop housing and utilities, $3,564,000. development and test facilities, $4,494,000. Fort Shafter, Hawaii: Administrative fa Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania: Opera Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey: Produc cil1ties, and ut1lities, $1,370,000. tional and training facilities, and troop hous tion faclHties, $365,000. Tripier Army Hospital, Hawaii: Medical ing, $5,244,000. Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado: Ad facilities, $100,000. ministrative facilities, .29,000. Fort Knox, Kentucky: Troop housing and Outside the United States utilities, $7,778,000. (United States Army Supply and Mainte Army Materiel Command Fort Lee, Virginia: Training facilities, nance Command) (United States Army Missile Command) $2,900,000. Aeronautical Maintenance Center, Texas: Maintenance facilities, $888,000. Kwajalein Island·: Research, development Fort George G. Meade, Maryland: Troop and test fac111ties, hospital facilities, and housing and community facilities, and utili Letterkenny Army Depot, Pennsylvania: ties, $2,084,000. Ut111ties, $43,000. troop housing, $32,119,000. Fort Ritchie, Maryland: Operational fa Oakland Army Terminal, 0a.lifornia: Op Army Security Agency cilities, $1,600,000. erational facilities, administrative facilities, Various locations: Operational facilities, community facilities, and utilities, $2,029,000. $5,662,000. . (Third Army) Savanna Army Depot, Dlinois: Supply fa Fort Benning, Georgia: Operational fa c1lities, $446,000. Army Component Commands cilities, and administrative facilities, $5,- Sierra Army Depot, California: Mainte (Pacific Command Area) 452,000. nance facilities, $590,000. Korea: Operational facilities, maintenance Fort Bragg, North Carolina: Troop housing Sunny Point Army Tertn1nal, North Caro facilities, supply fac1lities, troop housing and and community facilities, $5,655,000. .Hna: Utilities, $131,000. ut1lities, $8,509,000. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5549 Okinawa, various: Utilities, $1,064,000. Naval Submarine Base, New London, Con Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida: Taiwan: Utilities, $26,000. necticut: Administrative facilities, and troop Operational and training facll1ties, and util housing and community facilities, $3,301,000. ities, $1,445,000. (European Command Area) Headquarters, Commander-in-Chief, At Naval Air Station, Key West, Florida: Op Germany: Operational facilities, and lantic Fleet, Norfolk, Virginia: Administra erational facilities, $617,000. maintenance facilities, $3,252,000. tive facilities, and troOp housing, $1,550,000 .. Naval Station, Mayport, Florida: Opera (United States Army Forces Southern (Research, development, test, and evaluation tional facilities, community facilities, and Command) stations) ground improvements, $466,000. Fort Kobbe, Canal ·Zone: Troop housing, Naval Air Station, Miramar, California: Navy Marine Engineering Laboratory, An Operational and training facilities, and com $343,000. napolis, Maryland: Utilities, $356,000. munity facilities, $2,916,000. · Quarry Heights, Canal Zone: Utilities, David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Naval Air-Station, Norfolk, Virginia: Oper $86,000. Maryland: Research, development and test ational facll1ties, $103,000. SEc. 102. Any of the authority in title I facilities, $3,811,000. Naval Air Station, North Island, California: of this Act may be utilized for the establish Navy Mine Defense Laboratory, Panama. Maintenance facilities, $350,000. ment or development of Army installations City, Florida: Utilities, $150,000. Naval Air Station, Oceana, Virginia: Train and facilities made necessary by changes in Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, ing facilities, and maintenance facll1ties, Army missions and responsibi!ities which California: Operational facilities, $1,196,000. $906,000. have been occasioned by: (a) unforeseen Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, San Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode security considerations, (b) new weapons de Francisco, California: Research, development Island: Operational facilities, and mainte velopments, (c) new and unforeseen re and test facilities, $793,000. nance facilities, $870,000. search and development requirements, or (d) Fleet base facilities Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Ream Field, improved production schedules, if the Sec Naval Station, Boston, Massachusetts: California: Operational facilities, $1,693,000. retary of Defense determines that deferral Naval Auxiliary Landing Field, San Cle of such construction for inclusion in the Troop housing $260,000. Naval Station, Charleston, South Carolina: mente Island, California: Troop housing, next military construction authorization Act $176,000. would be inconsistent with interests of na Operational facilities, and. community facU lties, $2,509,000. Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Wash tional security, and in connection therewith ington: Operational facilities, $459,000. to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, Naval Command Systems Support Activity, or install permanent or temporary public District of Columbia: Administrative facili (Marine Corps air stations) works, including land acquisition, site prepa ties, $1,516,000. Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort, South ration, appurtenances, utilities, and equip Naval Station, Key West, Florida: Opera Carolina: Operational facilities and mainte ment: Provided, That the total cost of proj tional facilities, $428,000. nance facilities, $152,000. ects constructed under this section shall not Naval Station, Long Beach, California: Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field, exceed $17,500,000: And provided further, Troop housing and community facilities, Camp Pendleton, California: Operational and That the Secretary of the Army, or his des $3,054,000. training facilities, $150,000. ignee, shall notify the Committees on Naval Station, Newport, Rhode Island: Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point; Armed Services of the Senate and House of Operational facilities, and troop housing, North Carolina: Operationa! and training Representatives, immediately upon reaching $1,761,000. facilities, maintenance facilities, supply fa a final decision to implement, of the cost of Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia: Opera cilities, administrative facilities, and ut1llties construction of any public work undertaken tional facilities, $242,000. and ground improvements, $2,965,000. under this section, including those real estate Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Ha Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, Califor actions pertaining thereto. This authoriza waii: Troop housing and community facili nia: Operational and training facilities, and tion will exp1re as of September 30, 1965, ties, $2,775,000. ~aintenance facilities, $1,746,000. except for those public works projects con Naval Station, San Diego, California: Op Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, cerning which the Committees on Armed erational facilities, supply facilities, and Oahu, Hawaii: Operational facilities, $344,- Services of the Senate and House of Repre-:: troop housing, $1,320,000. 000. sentatives have been notified pursuant to this. Naval weapons facilities Marine Corps Air Facility, New River, North section prior to that date. (Naval air training stations) Carolina: Operational and training facilities, SEc. 103. (a) Public Law. 88-174 is $326,000. amended under heading "Inside the United Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Chase Field, Marine Corps Air Facility, Santa Ana, Cal States" in section 101, as follows: Texas: Operational facilities, $268,000. ifornia: Operational and training facilities, Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Kingsville, (1) Under the heading "ARMY COMPONENT $1,306,000. Texas: Operational facilities, $149,000. Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona: CoMMANDs" and under the subheading Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tennessee: "PACIFIC COMMAND AREA", With respect to Operational facilities, and maintenance fa Utilities, $594,000. cilities, $2,087,000. "Fort Shafter, Hawaii", strike out "$74,000" Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Meridian, Mis and insert in place thereof "$91,000". sissippi: Operational and training facilities, (Fleet readiness stations) (b) Public Law 88-174 is amended by strik $106,000. Naval Weapons Station, Concord, Califor ing out in clause ( 1) of section 602 "$154,- Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida: Op nia: Operational facilities, community facili- 976,000", and "$199,633,000" and inserting in erational facilities, and maintenance facili ties, and utilities, $720,000. . place thereof "$154,993,000", and "$199,650,- ties, $4,788,000. Naval Photographic Center, District of 000", respectively. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Saufley Field, Columbia: Operational facilities, $490,000. TITLE n Florida: Operational and training facilities, Naval Propellant Plant, Indian Head, SEc. 201. The Secretary of the Navy may $664,000. Maryland: Utilities, $1,106,000. establish or develop military installations Naval Auxlliary Air Station, Whiting Field, (Research, development, test and evaluation and facilities by acquiring, constructing, Florida: Operational facilities, $166,000. stations) converting, rehabilitating, or installing per (Field support stations) Naval Weapons Evaluation Facility, Albu manent or temporary public works, includ Naval Stati<>;n, Adak, Alaska: Operational . querque, New Mexico: Research, develop ing site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, facllities, community facllities, and utilities ment and test facilities, $340,000. and equipment for the following projects: and ground improvements, $2,676,000. Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, Inside the United States Naval Air Station, Alameda, California: California: Research, development and test Bureau of Ships Facilities Utllities, $406,000. facilities, $1,080,000. Naval Parachute Facility, El Centro, Cali (Naval shipyards) Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, Oahu, Hawaii: Operational facilities, ma.intenance fornia: Research, development and test fa Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Caro facilities, supply facilities, administrative cilities, and real estate $2,540,000. lina: Maintenance facilities, administrative facilities, and community facilities, $3,516,- Naval Air Development Center, Johnsv1lle, facilities, and utilities, $1,675,000. 000. Pennsylvania: Utilities, $340,000. Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine: Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Hawaii: Operational facilities, and utilities, Maintenance facilities, and community fa Maryland: Operational facilities, and hos $1,171,000. cilities, $321,000. pital and medical facilities, $2,453,000. · Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hamp Naval Air Station, Cecil Field, Florida: Pacific Missile Range, Point Mugu, Cali Operational and training facilities, mainte fornia: Operational fac111ties, maintenance shire: Maintenance facilities and utilities, facilities, and research, development and test $4,760,000. nance facilities, troop housing and com facilities; and on San Nicolas Island, re (Fleet support stations) munity facilities, $4,818,000. Naval Air Facility, El Centro, California: search, development and test facilities, and Naval Facility, Cape Hatteras, North oaro Troop hO'Using, $329,000. supply facilities, $1,988,000. lina: Utilities, $36,000. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Fallon, Ne Supply facilities Naval Facility, Nantucket, Massachusetts: vada: Operational facilities, and medical fa Naval Supply Center, Charleston, South Community factiities, $162,000. cilities, $819,000. Carolina: Supply facilities, $455,000. 5550 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California: {Security' group stations) Naval Radio Station, Isabela, Puerto Rico: Administrative facilities, $590,000. Naval Security Group Department, New Operational fac111ties, $106,000. Naval Supply Depot, Philadelphia, Penn port, Rhode Island: Administrative facil1ties, Naval Communication Station, London sylvania: Utilities, $668,000. $275,000. derry, North Ireland: Operational fac111tfes, Marine Corps facilities Naval Security Group Department, Norfolk, $1,100,000. Marine Corps Supply Center, Albany, Virginia: Administrative faclllties, $449,000. Naval Communication Station, Sabana Georgia: Maintenance facilities, $43,000. Naval Security Group Department, North Seca, Puerto Rico: Maintenance facilities, Marine Corps Supply Center, Barstow, west, Virginia: Troop housing and communi and ut111ties, $195,000. California: Community facillties, $213,000. ty facilities, $385,000. Naval Communication Station, San Miguel, Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, North Naval Security Group Department, San Republic of the Ph111ppines: Community fa Carolina: Community fac111ties, and utlli Diego, California: Administrative fac111ties, cilities, and utillties, $466,000. $276,000. Various locations: Utilities, $3,398,000. ties, $2,319,000. Naval Security Group Activity, Skaggs Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, Cali Yards and Docks Fac111ties fornia: Operational and training facilities, Island, California: Troop ho\JSing, and util ities, $1,490,000. Navy Public Wo-:ks Center, Guam, maintenance fac111ties, supply fac111ties, Mariana Islands: Ut111ties, $112,000. medical fac111ties, administrative facilities, Naval Security Group Activity, Winter Har troop housing and community facilities, and bor, Maine: Troop housing, $237,000. Navy Public Works Center, Subic Bay, ut111ties and ground improvements, t4,979,- Office of naval research facilities Republic of the Ph111ppines: Utillties, $463,000. 000. Naval Research Laboratory, District o! Co Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, lumbia: Research, development and test fa SEc. 202. The Secretary of the Navy may Hawaii: Training facilities, $198,000. c111ties, $5,628,000. establish or develop classified naval in Marine Corps Supply Activity, Philadel Naval Training Device Center, Mitchel stallations and fac111ties by acquiring, con phia, Pennsylvania: Administrative fac111- Field, New York: Research, development and structing, converting, rehab111tating, or in ties, $2,800,000. .- test facillties, $550,000. stalllng permanent or temporary public Marine Corps Base, Twenty-nine Palms, works, including land acquisition, site California: Supply fac111t1es, and troop hous Yards and docks facilities preparation, appu-tenances, ut111ties, and ing, $527,000. Navy Public Works Center, Norfolk, Vir equipment, in the total amount of $35,- ginia: Ut111ties, $1,866,000. 795,000. Service school facilities Navy Public Works Center, Pearl Harbor, SEc. 203. Any of the authority in title II Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: Oahu, Hawaii: Maintenance fac111ties, and of this Act may be utilized for the establish Maintenance fac111ties, ut111ties and ground utillties, $274,000. ment or development of Navy installations improvements, and real estate, $1,498,000. Naval Construction Battalion Center, Port and fac111ties made necessary by changes in Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Mary Hueneme, California: Ut111ties. $228,000. Navy missions and responsibilities which land: Troop housing, $1,091,000. have been occasioned by: (a) unforeseen Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Outside the United States Bureau of Ships Facllities security considerations, (b) new weapons Da.m Neck, Virginia: Supply fac111ties, developments, (c) new and unforeseen re $448,000. Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation search - and development requirements, or Naval Station, District of Columbia: Com Center, Andros Island, Bahama Islands: Op (d) improved production schedules, if the munity facil1ties, $338,000. erational facillties, maintenance facilities, Secretary of Defense determines that defer Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, supply fac111ties, medical fac111ties, troop ral of such construction for inclusion in the Illlnois: Troop housing, and ut111ties and housing and community facUlties, and util next m111tary construction authQrlzation ground improvements, $13,661,000. ities and ground improvements, $4,882,000. Act would be inconsistent with interests of Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Vir Naval Station, Subic Bay, Republic of the national security, and in connection there ginia: Training facilities, $323,000. Ph111ppines: Community fac111ties, $403,000. with to acquire, construct, convert, rehab111- Fleet Training Center, Mayport, Florida: Fleet activities, Yokosuka, Japan: Ut111ties, tate, or install permanent or temporary pub Training fac111ties, $587,000. $198,000. lic wo· ks, including land acquisition, site Naval · Postgraduate School, Monterey, Naval Weapons FacUlties preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and California: Training fa.cilities, and troop Naval Station, Argentina, Newfoundland equipment: Provided, That the total cost housing, $2,470,000. of projects constructed under this section Fleet Training Center, Newport, Rhode Canada: Operational fac111ties, and supply fac111ties, $289,000. shall not exceed $17,500,000: And provided Island: Operational and training fac111ties, further, That the Secretary of the Navy, or $2,011,000. Naval Air Station, Atsugi, Japan: Opera tional fac111ties, and troop housing, $743,000. his designee, shall notify the Committees on Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island: Armed Services of the Senate and House Training facilities, $335,000. Marine Corps Air Fac111ty, Futema, Okina wa: Supply fac111ties, medical fac111ties, and of Representatives, immediately upon reach Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode ing a final decision to implement, of the cost Island: Troop housing, $2,600,000. utllities and ground improvements, $386,000. Marine Corps Air Station, Iwakuni, Japan: of construction of any public wo k under Fleet Training Center, Norfolk, Virginia: taken under this section, including those Training fac111ties, $116,000. Operational fac111ties, and maintenance fa c111ties, •1.210,000. real estate actions pertaining thereto. This Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare School, San authorization will expire as of September 30, Diego, Oa.lifornia: Troop housing, $534,000. Naval Station, Keftavik, Iceland: Opera tional fac111ties, and community fac111ties, 1965, except for those public works projects Naval Training Center, San Diego, cali concerning which the Committees on Armed fornia: Troop housing, $2,760,000. $1,906,000. Naval Station, Midway Island: Utilities, Services ot the Senate and House of Rep Medical facilities $743,000. resentatives have been notified pursuant- to Naval Hospi.ta1• . Great Lakes, lllinois: Troop Naval Air Fac111ty, Naha, Okinawa: Train this section prior to that date. housing, $589,000. ing facilities, and maintenance fac111t1es, TITLE m $297,000. Naval Hospital, Jacksonv1lle, Florida: Hos SEC. 301. The Secretary of the Air Force pital and medical facilities, $7,400,000. Naval Air Fac111ty, Naples, Italy: Opera tional fac111ties, $370,000. may establish or develop m111tary installa Naval Hospital, Oakland, CaJifornia: Hos tions and fac111ties by acquiring, construct pital and medical fac111ties, $14,500,000. Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto ing, converting, rehab111tating, or· installing Rico: Operational fac111ties, maintenance fa Communications facilities c111ties, supply fac111ties, troop housing and ·permanent or temporary public works, in (Communication stations) cluding site preparation, appurtenances-, community fac111ties, and ut111ties, •13 759- utilities, and equipment, for the following Naval Communications Station, Adak, 000. • • Alaska: Utilities and ground improvements, Naval Station, Rota, Spain: Maintenance projects: $150,000. fac111ties, supply fac111ties, hospital and med Inside the United States Naval Radio Station, Buskin Lake, Kodiak, ical fac111ties, and troop housing, $3,457,000. Air Defense Command Alaska: Utill:ties, $80,000. Fleet Activities, Ryukyus, Okinawa: Com Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo Naval Radio Station, Dixon, California: munity fac111ties, •278,000. rado: Operational facilities, and troop hous Oommunity fac111ties, $135,000. Marine Corps FacUlties ing and community fac1lities, •1.035,000._ Naval Radio Station, Driver, Virginia: Op Naval Air Station, Atsugi, Japan: Opera erat1ona.l !ac111 ties, $217,000. Hamilton Air Force Base, San Rafael, Cali tional fac111ties, supply fac111ties, administra fornia: Maintenance facllities, $112,000. · .Naval Communications Station, Newport, tive fac111ties, and troop housing, $2,167,000. Rhode Island: Operational fac111t1es, and Kincheloe Air Force Base, Sault Sainte real estate, $1,593,000. Communication Fac111ties Marie, Michigan: Operational facilities, Naval Communication Station, Norfolk, Naval Radio Station, Fort Allen, Puerto maintenance fac111ties, and community fa Virginia: Operational facUlties, $350,000. Rico: Operational fac111ties, $292,000. e111ties, $1,470,000. Naval Communication Station, Wahiawa, Naval Security Group Activity, Futema, Perrin Air Force Base, Sherman, Texas: Oahu, Hawall: Operational facilities, and Okinawa: Operational fac111ties, $90,000. Troop housing, $233,000. troop housing, $1,279,000. Naval Security Group Activity, Galeta Portland International Airport, Portland, Various locations: Util1ties, $3,111,000. Island, Canal Zone: Troop housing, $225,000. Oregon: Community fac111tles, $145,000. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5551 Richards-Gebaur Air Force _Base, Kansas Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois: Scott Air Force Base, Belleville, Illlnois: City, Missouri: Operational facilities, and Maintenance facilities, and troop housing, Operational facilities, hospital facilities, and supply facilities, $380,000. . $394,000. troop l.ousing, $3,137,000. Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount Clemens, Craig Air Force Base, Selma, Alabama: Op Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, Callfor Michigan: Operational facilities, and mainte- erational facilities, maintenance facilities, nia: Maintenance facilities, and medical nance fac1lities, $389,000. · and real estate, $3,459,000. fac1lities, $431,000. Stewart Air Force Base. Newburgh, New James Connally Air Force Base, Waco, Pacific Air Force York: Troop housing, $40,000. Texas: Administrative facilities, and utilities, Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin: Opera $215,000. Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu, Hawaii: tional facilities, $102,000. Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi: Troop housing, $625,000. Tyndall Air FOrce Base, Panama City, Flor Troop housing, and utilities, $1,040,000. Strategic Air Command ida: Hospital fac111ties, $2,746,000. Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Altus Air Force Base, Altus, Oklahoma: Air Force Logistics Command Texas: Training facilities, and troop hous Utilities, $100,000. ing, $1,288,000. Brookley Air Force Base, Mobile, Alabama: Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, Loui Laredo Air Force Base, Laredo, Texas: Op siana: Maintenance fac111tles, and troop Administrative facilities, $1,300,000. erational and training facilities, mainte Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah: Mainte housing, $1,185,000. nance facilities, supply fac111ties, adminis Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, Texas: nance facilities, administrative fac1lities, and trative facilities and troop housing and com community facilities, $1,893,000. Maintenance facilities, and troop housing, munity facilities, $4,599,000. $231,000. Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas: Laughlin Air Force Base, Del Rio, Texas: Maintenance facilities, supply fac111ties, ad Biggs Air Force Base, E1 Paso, Texas: Operational and training facilities, mainte Maintenance facilities, $153,000. ministrative fac111ties, and troop housing, nance facilities, and troop housing, $1,550,- $1,085,000. Blytheville Air Force Base, · Blythev1lle, 000. Arkansas: Maintenance fac111ties, and troop Marietta Air Force Station, Marietta, Penn Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado: sylvania: Supply fac111ties, $273,000. housing and community fac1lities, $268,000. Training facilities, $132,000. carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Tex McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento, Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento, Cali as: Maintenance facilities, $348,000. California: Operational facilities, mainte fornia: Maintenance facilities, $161,000. Columbus Air Force Base, Columbus, Mis nance facilities, medical facilities, and ad Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, Georgia: sissippi: Maintenance fac1lities, adminis ministrative facilities, $2,045,000. Operational facillties, maintenance facilities, trative facilities, and troop housing and com Newark Air Force Station, Newark, Ohio: hospital facilities, and troop housing and munity fac111ties, $616,000. Maintenance facilities and administrative community facilities, $3,763,000. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, facilities, $3,269,000. Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Arizona: Hospital facilities, $1,233,000. Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, Texas: Operational facilities, maintenance Dow Air Force Base, Bangor, Maine: Oper California: Operational facilities, medical facilities, and utilities, $888,000. ational fac1lities, $108,000. facilities, and troop housing, $2,146,000. Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas: Oper Olmsted Air Force Base, Middletown, Penn Texas: Training facilities, maintenance fa ational facilities, maintenance fac111ties, and sylvania: Maintenance facilities, administra cilities, supply facilities, administrative fa troop housing, $1,058,000. tive facilities, and community facilities, cilities, and utilities, $1,191,000. Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Chey $2,969,000. Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Oklahoma: enne, Wyoming: Operational fac111ties, and Robins Air Force Base, Macon, Georgia: Maintenance facilities, and real estate, maintenance fac111ties, $715,000. Maintenance facilities, supply facilities, and $475,000. Glasgow Air Force Base, Glasgow, Mon hospital facilities, $4,454,000. Webb Air Force ~ase, Big Spring, Texas: tana: Operational facilities, and administra Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, Operational facilities, and community facil tive fac111ties, $223,000. Oklahoma: Operational facilities, mainte ities, $379,000. Grand Forks Air Force Base, Grand Forks, nance facilities, and administrative facilities, Air University North Dakota: Operational fac111ties, supply $3,084,000. Gunter Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala facilities, troop housing and community fa Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, bama: Troop housing, $125,000. cilities, and ut1lities, $2,241,000. Ohio: Operational facilities, research, devel Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala Homestead Air Force Base, Homestead, opment, and test facilities, and administra bama: Community facilities, $239,000. Florida: Operational facil1ties, maintenance tive fac111ties, $5,948,000. facilities, hospital facil1ties, and troop hous Aeronautical Chart and Information Center ing, $3,021,000. Air Force Systems Command South Saint Louis Storage Annex, Saint K. I. Sawyer Municipal Airport, Marquette, Arnold Engineering Development Center, Louis, Missouri: Supply facilities, and ad Michigan: Operational fac111ties, mainte Tullahoma, Tennessee: Research, develop ministrative facilities, $1,271,000. nance fac1lities, supply facilities, and util ment and test facilities, and supply facilities, Alaskan Air Command ities,_$499,000. $883,000. Larson Air Force Base, Moses Lake, Wash Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas: Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks, Alaska: ington: Operational fac111ties, supply facil Research, development, and test facilities, Operational facilities, and utilities, $1,389,- ities, and community facilities, $896,000. administrative fac111ties, and troop housing, 000. Linooln Air Force Base, Lincoln, Nebraska.: $1,618,000. Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Operational and training facilities, $245,000. Alaska: Operational facilities, maintenance Little Rock Air Force Base, Little Rock, Edwards Air Force Base, Muroc, California: facilities, and utilities, $1,355,000. Research, development, and test facilities, Arkansas: Troop housing, $422,000. Galena Airport, Galena, Alaska: Main Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus, and medical facilities, $6,065,000. tenance fac111ties, and community fac1lities, Eglin Air Force Base, Valparaiso, Florida: Ohio: Operational fac111ties, and mainte $406,000. nance facil1ti$, $505,000. Operational and training fac111ties, mainte King Salmon Airport, Naknek, Alaska: nance facilities, administrative facilities, and Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine: Operational fac1lities, $189,000. Operational fac11ities, $92,000. troop housing, $1,726,000. Various locations: Maintenance facil1ties, Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, supply facilities, community fac111ties, and March Air Force Base, Riverside, Califor nia: Real estate, $32,000. New Mexico: Operational fac111ties, supply ut111ties, $2,545,000. McCoy Air Force Base, Orlando, Florida.: facilities, hospital facilities, community fa Headquarters Command cilities, and utilities, $5,047,000. Operational facilities, maintenance facilities, and troop housing, $641,000. Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Andrews Air Force Base, Camp Springs, Mexico: Maintenance fac111ties, $337,000. Maryland: Operational and training facili Minot Air Force Base, Minot, North Da ties, hospital facilities, troop housing, and kota: Operational fac111ties. medical facil Laurence G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mas utilities, $5,597,000. ities, and troop housing and oommunity $365,000. sachusetts: Troop housing, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, Dis facilities, $1,462,000. Patrick Air Force Base, Cocoa, Florida: Op trict of Columbia: Administrative facilities, Mountain Home Air Force Base, Mountain erational facilities, maintenance facilities, troop housing and community facilities, and Home, Idaho: Operational fac111ties, and research, development, and test facilities, utilities, $4,426,000. maintenance fac11ities, $1,371,000. administrative facilities, troop housing, and ut111ties, $3,300,000. M111tary Air Transport Service Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska: Charleston Air Force Base, Charleston, Operational facilities, troop housing and Various locations, Atlantic Missile Range: community facilities and ut111ties, $1,888,000. Operational facilities, maintenance facilities, South Carolina: Maintenance facilities, and troop housing, utilities, and real estate, community facilities, $159,000. Pease Air Force Base, Portsmouth, New $1,876,000. Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Delaware: Hampshire: Operational facilities, and main Operational facilities, maintenance facilities, tenance fac111ties, $163,000. Air Training Command and community fac111ties, $2,392,000. Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, Amarillo Air Force Base, Amarillo, Texas: McGuire Air Force Base, Wrightstown, New New York: Operational fac111ties, and main Operational and training fac111ties, mainte Jersey: Operational facilities, maintenance tenance fac111ties, $297,000. nance facilities, troop housing and commu fac111t1es, and community fac111ties, $1,463,- Schill1ng Air Force Base, Salina, Kansas: nity facilities, and real estate, $4,354,000. 000. Maintenance fac111ties, $152,000. CX--349 5552 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18
Turner Air Force Base, Albany, Georgia: United States Air Force Security service 'l'ITLE v Operational and training facilities, and Various locations: Operational fac111ties, Military family housing maintenance facilities, $617,000. maintenan<:e facilities, supply facilities, med Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, Cali SEc. 501. The Secretary of Defense, or his ical facilities, troop housing and community designee, is authorized to construct, at the fornia: Utilities, $69,000. facilities, and utilities, $3,288,000. Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, New Mex locations hereinafter named, family housing SEc. 302. The Secretary of the Air Force ico: Maintenance facilities, $51,000. units and trailer court facilities, in the may establish or develop classified mmtary numbers hereinafter listed, but no family Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Oscoda, Michi installations and facilities by acquiring, con gan: Operational facilities, $392,000. housing construction shall be commenced at structing, converting, rehab111tating, or in any such locations in the United States, Tactical Air Command stalling permanent or temporary public until the Secretary shall have consulted with Cannon Air Force Base, Clovis, New Mex works, including land acquisition, site prep the Administrator, Housing and Home Fi ico: Operational and training facilities, aration, appurtenances, utilities, and equip nance Agency, as to the availability of ade maintenance facilities, supply facilities, and ment in the total amount of $151,347,000. quate private housing at such locations. If hospital facilities, $6,310,000. SEc. 303. Any of the authority in title III the Secretary and the Administrator are un England Air Force Base, Alexandria, Lou of this Act may be utilized for the establish able to reach agreement with respect to the isiana: Training facilitiea, maintenance fa ment or development of Air Force installa availability of adequate private housing at cilities, and administrative facilities, $2,032,- tions and fac111ties made necessary by changes any location, the Secretary shall immedi 000. in Air Force missions and responsibilities ately notify the Committees on Armed Serv George Air Force Base, Victorville, Cali which have been occasioned by: (a) unfore ices of the House of Representatives and the fornia: Operational facilities, maintenance seen security considerations, (b) new weap Senate, in writing, of such difference of facilities, supply facilities, troop housing, ons developments, (c) new and unforeseen opinion, and no contract for construction and utilities, $2,294,000. research and development requirements, or at such location shall be entered into for Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Vir (d) improved production schedules, if the a period of thirty days after such notifica ginia: Maintenance facilities, administrative Secretary of Defense determines that deferral tion has been given. This authority shall facilities, and community facilities, $1,824,- of such construction for inclusion in the include the authority to acquire land, and 000. next military construction authorization Act interests in land, by gift, purchase, exchange Luke Air Force Base, Phoenix, Arizona: Ad would be inconsistent with interests of na of Government-owned land, or otherwise. ministrative facilities, $442,000. tional secUJ:·ity, and in connection therewith (a) Family housing units for- MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida: to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, (1) The Department of the Army, two Maintenance facilities, and supply facilities, or install permanent or temporary public thousand one hundred and thirty-five units, $720,000. works, including land acquisition, site prepa $38,346,000. McConnell Air Force Base, Wichita, Kansas: ration, appurtenances, ut111ties, and equip Fort Richardson, Alaska, one hundred Maintenance facilities, and utilities, $2,743,- ment: P1ovided, That the total cost of proj units. 000. ects constructed under this section shall not Fort Irwin, California, one hundred units. Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, Myrtle Beach, exceed $17,500,000: And provided further, Fort Ord, California, one hundred and South Carolina: Troop housing, $190,000. That the Secretary of the Air Force, or his fifty units. Nellls Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada: designee, shall notify the Committees on Presidio of San Francisco, California, one Operational fac111ties, and community facili Armed Services of the Senate and House of hundred units. ties, $2,297,000. Representatives, immediately upon reaching Two Rock Ranch Station, California, forty Pope Air Force Base, Fort Bragg, North a final decision to implement, of the cost of units. Carolina: Operational fac111ties, administra construction of any public work undertaken Fort Gordon, Georgia, three hundred units. tive fac111ties, and troop housing and com under this section, including those real estate U.S. Army installations, Hawaii, one hun munity fac111ties, $2,032,000. actions pertaining thereto. This authoriza dred units. sewart Air Force Base, Smyrna, Tennessee: tion will expire as of September 30, 1965, Fort Sheridan, Dlinois, two hundred and Troop housing, $462,000. except for those public works projects con fifty units. Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Golds cerning which the Committees on Armed Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, one boro, North Carolina: Operational facili Services of the Senate and House of Repre hundred units. ties, supply facllities, and troop housing, sentatives have been notified pursuant to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, two hun $361,000. this section prior to that date. dred and fifty units. Atlantic Side, Canal Zone, one hundred Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, South Caro TITLE IV and forty units. lina: Operational and training fac111ties, SEc. 401. The Secretary of Defense may Pacific Side, Canal Zone, two hundred maintenance fac111ties, hospital fac111ties, units. and troop housing, $5,690,000. establish or develop mmtary installations and facilities by acquiring, constructing, Fort Buckner, Okinawa, two hundred United States Air Force Academy converting, rehabilitating, or install1ng per units. United States Air Force Academy, Colorado manent or temporary public works, including ASA Location 12, sixty units. Springs, Colorado: Cadet housing, commu site preparation, appurtenances, utllities, Classified location, forty-five units. nity fac111ties, and ut111ties, $17,080,000. and equipment, for defense agencies for the (2) The Department of the Navy, four following projects: thousand and fifty-six units, $73,155,000. Aircraft Control and Warning System Naval Station, Kodiak, Alaska, one hun Various locations: Maintenance fac111ties, Defense Atomic Support Agency dred units. troop housing, utllities, and real estate, $1,- Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona, 062,000. Training facilities, and administrative facil one hundred units. Outside the United States ities, $2,636,000. Naval Air Station, Alameda, California, two hundred units. Air Defense Command Defense Supply Agency Various locations: Maintenance facilities, Marine Corps Supply Center, Barstow, Cali Defense Supply Agency, Alexandria, Vir fornia, seventy-four units. troop housing and community fac111ties, and ginia: Administrative fac111ties, and utm utmties, $906,000. Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, Cali ties, $1,609,000. fornia, one hundred and forty units. M111tary Air Transport Service Defense Clothing and Textile Supply Cen Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, Califor Wake Island: Operational fac111ties, and ter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Maintenance nia, one hundred units. troop housing, $496,000. fac111ties, $104,000. Naval Station, Long Beach, California, four hundred units. Pacific Air Force Defense General Supply Center, Rich mond, Virginia: Supply fac111ties, $141,000. Naval Complex North Bay, San Francisco, Various locations: Operational fac111ties, California, one hundred units. maintenance fac111ties, supply fac111ties, Tracy Defense Depot, Tracy, California: Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, medical fac111ties, administrative fac111ties Supply fac111ties, $204,000. California, two hundred units. troop housing and community facilities, and National Se~urity Agency Naval Base, San Francisco, California, three ut111tles, $13,327,000. Fort Meade, Maryland: Operational facill hundred units. Strategic Air Command ties, $280,000. Naval Station, Washington, District of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam: Utilities, Kent Island, Maryland: Real estate, Columbia, one hundred and fifty units. $51,000. Naval Base, Key West, Florida, four hun $31,000. dred units. Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico: Main SEC. 402. The Secretary of Defense may United States Navy installations, Hawaii, tenance facilities, and supply fac111ties, $665,- establish or develop classified installations three hundred and fifty units. 000. and fac111ties by acquiring, constructing, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, DU United States Air Forces Southern Command converting, rehab111tating, or installlng per nois, one hundred units. Howard Air Force Base, Canal Zone: Oper manent or temporary public works, includ Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode ational facilities, maintenance fac111ties, sup ing land acquisition, site preparation, ap Island, two hundred units. ~ ply facilities, medical facilities, and utilities, purtenances, utilities, and equipment in the Naval Station, Charleston, South Carolina, $2,842,000. total amount of $5,800,000. one hundred units. I
1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5553 Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, (c) The cost limitations provided in sub estate or land includes authority to make South Carolina, one unit. sections (a) and (b) shall be applied to the surveys and to acquire land, and interests in Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia, five hun five-foot line. land (including temporary use), by gift, pur dred units. (d) No project in excess of fifty units in chase, exchange of Government-owned land, Naval Security Group Activity, Galeta the areas listed in subsection (a) shall be or otherwise. Island, Canal Zone, twenty-six units. constructed at an average unit cost exceed SEc. 602. There are authorized to be ap Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto ing $17,500, including the cost of the family propriated such sums as may be necessary Rico, nine units. unit and the proportionate costs of land for the purposes of this Act, but appropria Naval Communication Station, North West acquisition, site preparation, and installa tions for public works projects authorized by Cape, Australia, one hundred and thirty tion of utilities. titles I, II, III, IV, and V shall not exceed- units. (e) No family housing unit in the areas (1) for title I: Inside the United States, Naval Station, Kefiavik, Iceland, one hun listed in subsection (a) shall be constructed $249,482,000; outside the United States, $51,- dred units. at a total cost exceeding $32,000, including 061,000; or a total of $300,543,000. Naval Fac111ty, Antigua, the West Indies, the cost of the family unit and the propor (2) for title II: Inside the United States, thirty-eight units. tionate costs of land acquisition, site prep $165,206,000; outside the United States, $37,- Naval Facility, Eleuthera, Bahamas, thirty aration, and installation of utilities. 535,000; section :»2, $35,795,000; or a total of eight units. SEC. 503. The Secretary of Defense, or his $238,536,000. Classified location, two hundred units. designee, is authorized to accomplish altera (3) for title III: Inside the United States, (3) The Department of the Air Force, three tion, additions, expansions, or extensions not $172,805,000; outside the United States, $21,- thousand six hundred and ninety-five units, otherwise authorized by law, to existing 575,000; section 302, $151,347,000; or a total $66,257,000. public quarters at a cost not to exceed- of $345,727,000. Beale Air Force Base, California, three (a) For the Department of the Army, (4) for title IV: A total of $10,805,000. hundred and thirty-seven units. $2,300,000; (5) for title V: M111tary family housing, George Air Force Base, California, five (b) For the Department of the Navy, a total of $660,605,000. hundred units. $1,250,000; SEc. 603. Any of the amounts named in Bolling Air Force Base, District of Colum (c) For the Department of the Air Force, titles I, II, III, and IV of this Act, may, in bia, one hundred and fifty units. $1,250,000; the discretion of the Secretary concerned, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, ninety units. (d) For the Defense Agencies, $971,000. be increased by 5 per centum for projects MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, twenty SEc. 504. Section 515 of Public Law 84-161 inside the United States (other than Alaska) units. ( 69 Stat. 324, 352) , as amended, is amended and by 10 per centum for projects outside Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia, one unit. to read as follows: the United States or in Alaska, if he deter Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, one hun "SEc. 515. During fiscal years.1965 through mines in the case of any particular project dred units. and inclu~ing 1966, the Secretaries of the that such increase ( 1) is required for the Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, one hun Army, Navy, and Air Force, respectively, are sole purpose of meeting unusual variations dred units. authorized to lease housing facilities at or in cost arising in connection with that proj Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, one near military installations in the United ect, and (2) could not have been reasonably hundred and fifty units. States and Puerto Rico for assignment as anticipated at the time such project was Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, two hun public quarters to military personnel and submitted to the Congress. However, the dred and eighty-seven units. their dependents, if any, without rental tobl costs of all projects in each such title cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, two charge, upon a determination by the Sec may not be more than the total amount au hundred and fifty units. - retary of Defense, or his designee, that there thorized to be appropriated for projects in Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, four is a lack of adequate housing facilities at or that title. hundred units. near such military installations. Such hous SEc. 604. Whenever- Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, two ing fac111t1es shall be leased on a family or (1) the President determines that com hundred units. individual unit basis and not more than pliance with section 2313(b) of title 10, McChord Air Force Base, Washington, two five thousand of such units may be so leased United States Code, for contracts made under hundred and fifty units. at any one time. Expenditures for the this Act for the establishment or develop Goose Air Base, Canada, two hundred rental of such housing fac111tie~ may not ment of military installations and fac111ties units. exceed an average of $160 a month for any in foreign countries would interfere with Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, one hundred such unit, including the cost of utilities the carrying out of this Act; and units. and maintenance and operation." (2) the Secretary of Defense and the Naha Air Base, Okinawa, two hundred SEc. 505. There is authorized to be appro Comptroller General have agreed upon al witts. priated for use by the Secretary of Defense ternative methods of adequately auditing Site 4-S, one hundred and eighty units. or his designee for m111tary family housing those contracts; Site 6-S, one hundred units. as authorized by law for the following Site 10-C, eighty units. purposes: the President may exempt those contracts (b) Trailer court facilities for: (a) for construction and acquisition of from the requirements of that section. (1) The Department of the Navy, 280 family housing, including improvements to SEc. 605. Contracts for construction made spaces, $500,000. adequate quarters, improvements to inade by the United States for performance within (2) The Department of the Air Force, 358 quate quarters, minor construction, rental the United States and its possessions under spaces, $529,000. guarantee payments, construction and acqui this Act shall be executed under the juris· SEC. 502. Authorizations for the construc sition of trailer court fac111ties, and planning, diction and supervision of the Corps of Engi tion of family housing provided in this Act an amount not to exceed $188,168,000; and neers, Department of the Army, or the Bu shall be subject to the following limitations (b) for support of m111tary family housing, reau of Yards and Docks, Department of the on cost, which shall include shades, screens, including operating expenses, leasing, main Navy on an equal basis when practicable, ranges, refrigerators, and all other installed tenance of real property, payments of prin unless the Secretary of Defense determines equipment and fixtures: _ cipal and interest on mortgage debts in that because such jurisdiction and super (a) The cost per unit of family housing curred, payments to the Commodity Credit vision is wholly impracticable such contracts constructed in the United States (other than Corporation, and mortgage insurance pre should be executed under the jurisdiction Hawaii and Alaska) and Puerto Rico shall miums authorized under section 222 of the and supervision of another department or not exceed- National Housing Act, as amended (12 Government agency, and shall be awarded, $26,000 for generals or equivalent; u.s.c. 1715m), an amount not to exceed insofar !J.S practicable, on a competitive basis $19,800 for colonels or equivalent; to the lowest responsible bidder, if the na $472,437,000. tional security wm not be impaired and the $17,600 for majors and/or lieutenant TITLE VI colonels or equivalent; award is consistent with chapter 137 of title $15,400 for all other commissioned or war General Provisions 10, United States Code. The Secretaries of rant otftcer personnel or equivalent, except SEc. 601. The Secretary of each military the m111tary departments shall report semi that four-bedroom housing units authorized department may proceed to establish or annually to the President of the Senate and by sections 4774(g), 7574(e), and 9774(g) develop installations and fac111ties under this the Speaker of the House of Representatives of title 10, United States Code, may be con Act without regard to section 3648 of th£ with respect to all contracts awarded on structed at a cost not to exceed $17,000. Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 529) other than a competitive basis to the lowest $13,200 for enlisted personnel, except that and sections 4774(d) and 9774(d) of title responsible bidder. four-bedroom housing units authorized by 10, United State Code. The authority to SEc. 606. (a) As of October 1, 1965, all sections 4774(f), 7574(d), and 9774(f) of place permanent or temporaty improvements authorizations for military public works title 10, United States Code, may be con on land includes authority for surveys, ad (other than family housing) to be accom structed at a cost not to exceed $15,000. ministration, overhead, planning, and super plished by the Secretary of a m111tary de (b) When family housing units are con vision incident to construction. That au partment in connection with the establish structed in areas other than those listed in thority may be exercised before title to ment or development of military installations subsection (a) , the average cost of all such the land is approved under section 355 of and facilities, and all authorizations for units, in any project of 50 units or more, the Revised Statutes, as amended (40 U.S.C. appropriations therefor, that are eontained shall not exceed $32,000, and in no event 255) , and even though the land 1s held in Acts approved before November 8, 1963, shall the c~st of any unit exceed $40,000. temporarily. The authority to acquire real and not superseded or otherwise modified by 5554 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE March 18 a later authorization, are repealed. This (b) Effective fifteen months from the date further reading of the blll and that the provision shall ~ot apply to the following of enactment of this Act, all aUJthorlzations bill be open at any point for any and all authorizations, which shall remain in ef for construction of family housing which a.re germane amendments. fect until October 1, 1966: contained in this Act or any Act approved (1) authorizations for public works and prior to November 8, 1963, a.re repealed except The CHAffiMAN. Is there objection for appropriations therefor that are set forth the authorization for family housing proj to ·the request of the gentleman from in those Acts in the titles that contain the ects as to which appropriated funds have Georgia? general provisions; been obligated for construction contracts or There was no objection. (2) the authorization for public works land acquisitions in whole or in pa.rt before projects as to which appropriated funds have such date. The CHAmMAN. The Clerk will re been obligated for construction contracts or SEC. 607. None of the authority contained port the committee amendment. land acquisitions in whole or in part before in titles I, II, and III of this Act shall be The Clerk read as follows: October 1, 1965, and authorizations for ap deemed to authorize any building construc Committee amendment: On page 23, line propriations therefor; tion project inside the United States (other 22, delete the following: "Naval Air Station, (3) notwithstanding the provisions of sec than Alaska) at a unit cost in excess of- Atsugi, Japan: Operational facill-" and in tion 606 of the Act of November 7, 1963 (77 ( 1) $32 per square foot for cold-storage sert in lieu thereof the following new lan Stat. 307, 328), the authorization for- warehousing; guage: "Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa: ( a) operational fac11lties and utlllties in (2) $8 per square foot for regular ware Maintenance facil-". the amount of $3,105,000 at classified loca housing; tions that is contained in title I, section 101, (3) $1,850 per ma.n for permanent bar- The committee amendment was Under the heading "OUTSIDE THE UNITED racks; agreed to. STATES" and SUbheading "ARMY COMPONENT (4) $8,500 per man for bachelor officer AMENDMENT OI'FERED BY MR. o'HARA OJ' coMMANDS (European Command Area)" of quarters; unless the Secretary of Defense de the Act of June 27, 1961 (75 Stat. 98). terlnlnes that, because of special circum- ILLINOIS (b) utilities in the amount of $115,000 for stances, application to such project of the Mr. O'HARA of Tilinois. Mr. Chair- Naval Magazine, Cartagena, Spain, that is limitations on unit costs contained in this man, I otfer an amendment. contained in title II, section 201, under the section is impracticable. The Clerk read as follows: heading "OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES" and SEC. 608. Notwithstanding the provisions Amendment offered by Mr. O'HARA of Till- SUbheading "NAVAL WEAPONS FACILITIES" Of of section 9 of the Act of Aprll1, 1954 (Public nois: on page 4,une 8, strike out "$5,544,000" the Act of June 27, 1961 (75 Stat. 102). Law 325) as amended, no funds may be ap- and insert in lieu thereof "$2,221,000". (c) troop housing in the amount of $611,- propriated after the date of enactment of 000 at Fort Benning, Georgia, that is con this Act for construction at the Air Force Mr. O'HARA of Dlinois. Mr. Chair tained in title I, section 701, under the head Academy unless appropriation of such funds man, the purport of my amendment is to ing "INSIDE THE UNITED STATES", and has been authorized in this Act or any Act d b $3 323 000 th ri ti SUbheading "CONTINENTAL ARMY COMMAND enacted after the date of enactment of this re uce Y • • e approp a on (Third Army)" of the Act of July 27, 1962 Act: Provided, That funds are authorized to for Fort Sheridan. This will preclude (76 Stat. 223); be appropriated to accomplish advance plan- the transfer of the 5th Army Headquar (d) administrative fac111ties in the amount nlng and minor construction at the Air Force ters to Fort Sheridan. of $833,000 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Academy in the same manner as for other Mr. Chairman, there has been some that is contained in title I, section 101, under projects under the Act of September 28, 1951, misunderstanding in regard to this the heading "INSIDE THE UNITED STATES", and as amended (31 u.s.c. 723) and title 10, transfer. It has been presented as an SUbheading "CONTINENTAL ARMY COMMAND United states Code, section 2674, as-amended. economy measure, when as a matter of (Third Army)" of the Act of July 27, 1962 SEc. 609. Titles I, II, III, IV, v, and VI of fact it is the wild and reckless spending (76 Stat. 223). this Act may be cited as the "Mllltary Con- (e) maintenance fac111ties in the amount struction Authorization Act, 1965." of a sum that ultimately will total in of $212,000 in Germany, that is contained TITLE vn excess of $10 million. It is conservatively in title I, section 101 under the heading estimated the cost to complete the work "OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES" and SUbhead Reserve Forces Fac111ties may nm. to $13 million. ing "ARMY COMPONENT COMMANDS (European SEC. 701. Subject to chapter 133 of title Something of this, I think, was in the Command Area)" of the Act of July 27, 1962 10, United States Code, the Secretary of De-. mind of the distinguished gentleman (76 Stat. 225). fense may establish or develop additional (f) operational facUlties, administrative fac111ties for the Reserve Forces, including from Indiana [Mr. BRAY] at the hear fac11lties, troop housing and utlllties in the the acquisition of land therefor, but the cost ings. Mr. BRAY was of the opinion that amount of •3,705,000 at classified locations of such facilities shall not exceed- the transfer might be a good one on the that is contained in title I, section 101, un (1) for Department of the Army- surface, but he said to General Shuler, der the heading "OUTsiDE THE UNITE!> STATES" (a) Army National Guard of the United "Will you not have trouble in providing and SUbheading "ARMY COMPONENT COM States, $5,450,000. living quarters?" Well, the general MANDS (European Command Area)" of the (b) Army Reserve, • 5•100·000. thought there might be trouble provid- Act of July 27, 1962 (76 Stat. 225). (2) for Department of the Navy: Naval in livin te Th t ite (g) troop housing in the amount of $383,- and Marine Corps Reserves, $6,500,boo. g g quar rs. a was an m 000 at Fort Meade, Maryland, that is con (3) for Department of the Air Force- apparently he had overlooked. Then Mr. tained in title I, section 101, under the (a) Air National Guard of the United BRAY, the distinguished Republican from heading "INSIDE THE UNITED STATES" and states, $12,800,000. Indiana, said, "Yes. And Great Lakes is SUbheading "CONTINENTAL ARMY COMMAND (b) Air Force Reserve, $4,600,000. having a lot of trouble." (Second Army)" of the Act of July 27, 1962 SEC. 702. The Secretary of Defense may (76 Stat. 223). General Shuler, by the way, is the only establish or develop installations and faclll- (h) troop housing in the amount of $679,- member of the U.S. Army who even rec ties under this title without regard to section 000 for Marine Corps Air Stations, Iwakuni, ommended the removal of the 5th Army Japan, that is contained in title II, section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended Headquarters from Hyde Park to Fort (31 u.s.c. 529), and sections 4774(d) and J Sheridan. As far as I am informed he is 201, under the heading "OuTsiDE THE UNITED 9774(d) of title 10, United States Code. The STATES" and SUbheading "NAVAL WEAPONS FA authority to place permanent or temporary today the only officer who thinks there- CILITIES" of the Act of July 27, 1962 (76 Stat. improvements on land includes authority for moval wise and in the best interest of 229). surveys, administration, overhead, planning, economy and efficiency. There have been (i) community facillties in the amount of and supervision incident to construction. a number of studies made by the Army, $476,000 for the Naval Air Station, Lemoore, That authority may be exercised before title studies that were in depth and were par California, that is contained in title II, sec to the land is approved under section 355 of tion 201, under the heading "NAVAL WEAPONS ticipated in by groups of experienced and FACILITIES (Field Support Stations)" of the the RevisE'd Statutes, as amended ( 40 u .S.C. competent officers, and the report in- 255) , and even though the land is held tem- variably was that the removal to Fort Act of July 27, 1962 (76 Stat. 228). porarlly. The authority to acquire real es- (j) community fac111t1es in the amount of tate or land includes authority to make sur- Sheridan would be an expensive move •189,000 for the Naval Ammunition Depot, veys and to acquire land, and interests in that could only increase the cost of OP Concord, California, that is contained in title land (including temporary use), by gift, pur- eration and reduce efficiency. II, section 201, under the heading "NAVAL chase, exchangE? of Government-owned land, It is to be kept in mind that the 5th WEAPONS FACILITIES (Fleet Readiness Sta or otherwise. Army headquarters services 13 States. tions)" of the Act of July 27, 1962 (76 Stat. SEC. 703. This title may be cited as the The transportation cost in time and 228). (k) the development of classified faclllties ~:;~;ve Forces Facmties Authorization Act, money is not inconsiderable of the many in the amount of $4,080,000 for the Naval · officers who come to report to 5th Army Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, that Mr. VINSON (interrupting the read- headquarters. The fact that Hyde is contained in title II, section 202 of the Act ing of the bill). Mr. Chairman, I ask Park, the present location of the head ot July 27, 1962 (76 Stat. 230). unanimous consent to dispense with quarters, is only 15 minutes from the 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5555 loop and railroad stations is a factor Here we have a problem and yet the are already at Fort Sheridan. That is that probably has been taken into con gentleman is taking the floor against new the reason why the Department of De sideration by previous study groups. construction in Illinois. That is quite fense and the committee recommend this The removal from Hyde Park to Fort inconsistent with what our Governor bill. This amendment would do just Sheridan is exclusively the notion of wants and what I thought the Illinois one thing. It would preserve this old, an General' Shuler, who did not take into delegation was going to support-Repub tiquated, extravagant, uneconomic oper account the fact that there were no licans and Democrats. I have a hard ation in the gentleman's congressional available living quarters at Fort Sheri time reconciling myself to that position. district. I do not think we should take dan for the additional Army personnel Surely I think we ought to have a that kind of position. and no living quarters of any sort for new base. So far as I am concerned We should not perpetuate something the 2,000 civilian personnel either at you can have it in Chicago or anywhere which results in waste and extravagance. Fort Sheridan or within convenient you want it, in northeastern Illinois, or Mr. Chairman, we should make a move traveling distance. wherever it would serve a great metro here consistent with the administration's The good general figured that $3.3 politan area. But I think what we have program for economy and frugality. million would build adequate office fa to do is to serve the 5th Army which Mr. Chairman I might add that this cilities to accommodate the 5th Army in tum serves 16 States in the midwest subject should not b~ given partisan headquarters, and even here he used fig em part of the Nation. political consideration. Actually, the ures of 2 years ago. So even if the $3.3 Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Chair community that will be served primarily million were set aside and spent, there man, I am glad to hear my good friend's by the proposed improvements at Fort would be still a shortage of perhaps definition of economy. I have always Sheridan will be Highwood, Ill. which has $500,000 to $700,000 to complete the con been a little bit suspicious of some of a distinguished Democratic mayor, John struction. This is because construction these definitions. Frantonius. I know that the citizens of costs are higher. Then there would be The gentleman believes in spending Highwood and of Lake County are office space, but no living quarters for a lot of money, just so that you spend anxious to have the 5th Army Head the service personnel-absolutely none, it in Illinois. I do not subscribe to that. quarters located at Fort Sheridan. I mind you. I do not think we should spend one know we would also be supporting the The 5th Army Headquarters employs nickel or one dollar in any State of the Governor of Illinois if we provide for 2,000 civilians. They ar-e all workers with Union if we do not have to spend it. I this attractive new project. This is not special skills. They cannot easily be re take my stand with President Johnson unnecessary spending. It is necessary placed and at Fort Sheridan there is for real economy. I hope that my friend Federal spending which is designed to neither available housing for the present from illinois will join in that economy effect long-range savings. By locating civilian workers nor an adequate and campaign. If we do not have to spend this new headquarters facility in Illinois, competent labor replacement pool. All of it, then let us save it. If that is the only the Department of Defense has acted this eventually would lead to the expend reason the gentleman is against my wisely. iture of several million dollars more amendment, then I think my amendment Mr. Chairman, there are 16 States to provide housing quarters for the should carry overwhelmingly. where these headquarters can go. I sug civilians. Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Chairman, I rise gest to the gentlemen from Illinois who I have talked with a number of persons in opposition to the amendment. may be tempted to support this amend of wide experience and knowledge in the Mr. Chairman, I also take the position ment that the other 15 States would like field and all are agreed that the final cost that we should not spend money need to have the headquarters located in their of preparing Fort Sheridan to receive the lessly. My real reason for speaking in States. It may be they will get it if this 5th Army Headquarters would reach at opposition to this amendment is that we amendment is adopted. least $10 million and probably would go have an opportunity in the bill to .effect Mr. Chairman, I say in the interest of as high as $13 million. Whether it is wise savings. I know that is the purpose effecting savings, in the interest of the to put $10 to $13 million into new military of the Department of Defense. I know national security, in the interest of the construction that is not needed now and that the Department of Defense has sent economy and in the interest of the tax at a time when we are hopefully looking a team of experts to Fort Sheridan who payers of the Nation we should defeat forward to reductions in military per have studied the 5th Army operation the amendment which has been offered sonnel should be a matter of grave con- in Illinois and have decided that trans by the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. cern. fer of the 5th Army Headquarters to O'HARA]. A vote for my amendment is the great Fort Sheridan will result in more effi Mr. VINSON. Mr. Chairman, I rise est economy vote that any Member of ciency and greater economy. They esti in opposition to the amendment. this body can cast. We will save at least mate annual savings from $1 to $1.5 I did not know, Mr. Chairman, until $10 million to the taxpayers. There is million. today that this amendment would be not any question about it. We are start I support the committee's recommen offered. Neither the gentleman who has ing by immediately saving over $3 mil dations as contained in the bill. This just taken his seat nor the gentleman lion, and if you project it for the next authorization will consolidate the 5th from Illinois [Mr. O'HARA] who previ 4, 5, or 6 years, it can easily run up to Army Headquarters at Fort Sheridan, ously addressed the Committee appeared $13 million. which is a large military base, served by before the Committee on Armed Services I would be very happy to answer any adequate highways to accommodate the either pro or con with reference to what questions that any one of my colleagues civilian and military personnel. The Illi we did to this bill. The first I heard might have to ask. I wonder if my nois Toll Highway and also Skokie High about it was yesterday and then this friend from Illinois might wish to say way provide convenient access to this morning and then what has taken place something. area. today. · Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Chairman, will In addition, at the present time, key Mr. Chairman, this seems to be some the gentleman yield? personnel are housed already at Fort what of a controversy between the dis Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Yes. I yield Sheridan. What do we do now? We tinguished members of the Illinois dele to the gentleman. move the key personnel every day by bus gation. Mr. McCLORY. There is no question and by helicopter in order to take them Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous con in your mind that this would involve an down to the old Chicago Beach Hotel sent that we extend to the members of expenditure of $3.3 million in Illinois. which was acquired in World War II as the Illinois delegation a 15-minute limi This would be new construction in Illi a hospital and then converted into this tation on debate during which they may nois for Illinois people who work gen administration building. We haul them be permitted to lay the facts before the erally at 5th Army Headquarters whether down there and then haul them back Committee, and that all debate on this it is in Chicago or whether it is in my again at night. amendment and all amendments thereto district at Fort Sheridan, Ill. Our The committee has recommended and close in 15 minutes. Governor was down here, was he not, and the Department of Defense has recom The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection said that he wanted the Illinois dele mended that the headquarters be where to the request of the gentleman from gation to support new construction in the key personnel are. A great many of Georgia? Illinois? the support facilities for the 5th Army There was no objection. 5556 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 The CHAmMAN. The Chair recog heating facilities may also well be part It is true there will be some· personnel nizes the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. of the new anticipated needs at Fort eliminated, but that is something the PUCINSKI] for 2 minutes. Sheridan if the 5th Army Headquarters administration has been supporting. Mr. PUCINSKI. Mr. Chairman and moves there. We should support a reduction of use members of the committee, I can fully This is why we are asking the House less personnel. If we can get along with appreciate the desire of the gentleman to hold up the authorization today so less people, civilian and military, we from Illinois [Mr. McCLORY] to support we can see what the facts are. should do so. the committee report. Moving the 5th On January 29, 1964, I asked the De The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recog Army Headquarters to Fort Sheridan fense Department for an item-by-item nizes the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. would certainly be of substantial help to report on this $5.7 million request for ARENDS]. his district. Fort Sheridan and to this day I am still Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman. as However, I think the House should waiting for that report. sometimes happens, matters arise which know this, that in the first instance when Mr. Chairman, I urge the adoption of we do not anticipate. I am sorry to find the announcement was made that the the amendment by the gentleman from myself in disagreement with my good 5th Army Headquarters would be moved Illinois [Mr. O'HARA]. colleagues from the city of Chicago. I from Chicago to Fort Sheridan, it was The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recog am a little surprised with the chairman billed as part of the President's economy nizes the gentleman from New York [Mr. because so often and in splendid fashion move. Now, had this proposed move BECKER]. he has repeatedly defended his bills really resulted in economy, certainly Mr. BECKER. Mr. Chairman, the from beginning to end as reported by his everyone of us would agree with the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. VINSON], committee. I would hope he will follow proposal. The military told us the sav chairman of the Armed Services Com this same course today. ings would be $1.5 million a year if the mittee, knows if this amendment is Our committee agreed on this bill in headquarters is moved to Fort Sheridan. adopted, a Pandora's box is open with toto. It comes to the floor by unanimous However, after a very careful analysis of respect to this legislation affecting other vote with the exception of one.. I defend that proposed savings, we find that this installations in this country, which the this bill as reported, it is a proposal that $1.5 million involves $1,350,000 in salary Defense Department has recommended has merit. reductions to people who are going to be be moved or closed. We have installa Every member of our committee removed from the 5th Army, regardless tions in the State of New York that are should defend this bill, and I hope my of whether the headquarters remains in recommended to be moved, particularly chairman will ' do exactly that. The Chicago or is moved to Fort Sheridan. at Schenectady and Rome. passage of this measure will in the long In other words, the Army plans to drop Now, if we are going to open a Pan run mean a saving of money. We should 196 employees whose annually salary to dora's box on this, let us open the whole not be moved by giving special consid tals $1,350,000. We have been told that thing. Let us have amendments all the eration to some one specific installation these people will be removed, whether way down the line to keep these places in this manner. If we accept this they work in Chicago in the present where they are regardless of whether amendment it will open a Pandora's box, headquarters or whether they work at they are worth it or not. and everyone who has an installation Fort Sheridan. Therefore, the net sav Mr. Chairman, this is the wrong in his district certainly would have the ings here, my colleagues, will be only method of procedure. We had hearings right to e~pect the support of the House, $150,000 a year. Despite the fact that before our committee, testimony was if they support this amendment, in the savings will be $150,000 a year, Mr. heard and no opposition was offered to maintaining every installation in any Chairman, the Army has come here and this transfer and the committee unani district that is proposed to be removed, asked for $5.7 million. When I asked mously agreed on this bill. I see no taken away, or reduced. So I propose the Secretary what this was for-and reason why we should open the door to that we reject this amendment. Those time does not permit me to read his en amendments of this kind for a purely on our committee in particular should tire letter-he said in part as follows: political purpose. Therefore, I hope the stand firm in our op_position to this The program for this station will include pending amendment will be defeated. amendment. a small dispensary, a dental clinic, and fa The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recog The CHAffiMAN. The Chair recog cilities to replace 5th Army Headquarters nizes the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. nizes the gentleman from Massachusetts now located in the Chicago area, along with M_s:CLORY]. [Mr. BATES]. improvements in ut111ty systems. Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Chairman, I Mr. BATES. Mr. Chairman, I rise in Mr. Chairman, the savings will be at want to emphasize the economies which opposition to the amendment. the rate of $150,000 a year. On this the Army presents to us as being in Like the gentleman from Illinois, this basis, is would take more than 20 years volved in this legislation, and in this is the first time I have heard anything to amortize the expenditure being re transfer of the 5th Army Headquarters. about this amendment. Perhaps the quested here today, if all we were going In the first place, as I indicated before, most respected witness that appeared to spend was the $3,323,000 that the gen it will consolidate all of these opera · before our committee, in view of his long tleman from Illinois [Mr. O'HARA] wants tions into one headquarters at Fort experience, is General Shuler. He has to delete. However, you know and I Sheridan. We have Fort Sheridan, and been before our committee for many know this is just a downpayment. Do we are operating there now in support years and is highly regarded by all mem not for 1 second fool yourself into be of the 5th Army. Also, of course, this bers of the committee. In reference to lieving Fort Sheridan can be renovated move will eliminate wasteful transpor this matter he said: for the 5th Army with this expenditure. tation which the Army is furnishing now In this case there wlll be significant an There is a $3 million communication sys by buses in order to carry the personnel nual savings without relinquishing advan tem that has to be moved from Chicago back and forth. As Gen. C. G. Dodge, tages of access to the midcontinent hub. to Fort Sheridan. This expense will be the commanding omcer of the 5th Army We had no witnesses from the Chicago in addition to the $3,323,000 being asked has said, this move will help in the mili area indicate to our committee any op here today. As a matter of fact, Mr. tary operation of the 5th Army. That position to this. It seems to me we Chairman, I believe the entire $5,544,000 is something which I think is para shopld go along. This year there seems being sought in the bill should be care mount. If it helps the military opera to be a tendency on the part of Members fully studied by the Appropriations tion of the 5th Army it is something we to change the recommendations of the Committee. should support, even if it does not result Department of Defense at the last min We are told that the Army plans to in economy. But there is no question ute, without any notice or any prior spend $700,000 for medical facilities at in my mind but what this can result in warning to the committee. I think the Fort Sheridan when the fact of the mat substantial savings. amendment should be defeated. ter is that the Army has an agreement In addition to that, the old facilities Mr. BRAY. Mr. Chairman, will the with the Navy to use the Navy hospital they will sell and dispose of are estimated gentleman yield? at Great Lakes. The bill before us today to have a value of $2.8 million. So the Mr. BATES.. I yield to the gentleman authorizes $600,000 for Great Lakes. property disposed of will practically pay from Indiana. Furthermore, the moz:e than $2 mil for the cost of 'the new construction at Mr. BRAY. I have been acquainted lion the Army plans to spend on new Fort Sheridan. with this situation at Fort Sheridan for 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5557 a number of years. In fact, 6 or 7 years attitude. Notwithstanding the fact that debate on this amendment and all ago at Fort Sheridan, in discussing some I belong to a very, very exclusive club- amendments thereto close in 10 minutes. of the problems there, I asked at that and only four Members of the House be The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection time ~why the headquarters had not been long to it-and I refer to the 80-year-old to the request of the gentleman from moved to Fort Sheridan instead of being club which is headed by the distin Georgia? in this old apartment house-hotel where guished gentleman from Illinois [Mr. There was no objection. the headquarters has been. From the O'HARA], of course, I wish in all charity The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recog standpoint of communications and other that I could find myself in accord with nizes the gentleman from New York aspects there is no question but what the his suggestion. At first blush I was hop [Mr. PIRNIE]. headquarters should be at Fort Sheri ing that I could, but my duty compels Mr. PIRNIE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in dan. I can see no justification, except me to say, in my opinion, and in the support of this amendment with some maybe for sectional reasons, why it opinion of the Committee on Armed reluctance, because it is not my belief should not be there. It should be at Services, the facts of the case justify this that we can under most circumstances Fort Sheridan, or Fort Sheridan, frank proposed transfer from Chicago to Fort effectively deal with individual situa ly, should be abandoned. It is difficult Sheridan. tions in this manner, but I can tell this to imagine having the 5th Army Head The CHAIRMAN. The question is on House with respect to the installation, quarters within a few miles of Fort the amendment offered by the gentle with which I am quite closely identified Sheridan. man from Illinois [Mr. O'HARA]. and about which I think I know quite a The CHAIRMAN. The Chair reco~ The question was taken; and on a di little, that the claims which have been nizes the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. vision (demanded by Mr. BECKER), there made for economy cannot be substan MICHEL]. were-ayes 70, noes 100. tiated and in effect we are moving Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Chairman, I take So the amendment was rejected. jobs and building new facilities else this time to associate myself with the AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. LATTA where in order to accommodate that remarks of the gentleman from Illinois Mr. LATTA. Mr. Chairman, I offer movement. It is my belief that if effi [Mr. ARENDs], the ranking member of an amendment. ciency is to be promoted it can best be the committee, and to commend the gen The ·clerk read as follows: accomplished on site by people who have tleman from Illinois [Mr. McCLORY] for been experienced and trained in the job. his persuasive argument in support of Amendment offered by Mr. LATTA: Page 58, between lines 14 and 15, add a new section The mission at my particular base is a his position. 610: "No funds shall be authorized to be continuing one, and it is a growing one. Mr. GUBSER. Mr. Chairman, will the expended by this bill for the purpose of con It is not' in any sense obsolete. There gentleman yield? structing new facilities to replace facilities fore it is difficult for me to accept the Mr. MICHEL. I would be glad to yield at mstallations ordered reduced or clm:ed authorization of funds in order to pro to the gentleman from California. pursuant to the announcement of the Secre vide facilities elsewhere to accept this Mr. GUBSER. Mr. Chairman, I sin tary of Defense dated December 12, 1963, for mission and these people who will have cerely hope that the leadership on the 'economy reasons.' " to be moved. I think economy is neces majority side of the House on the Com Mr. LATTA. Mr. Chairman, this is a sary and desirable. I merely question mittee on Armed Services is not going to real economy amendment. We have whether this is the correct method of accept this amendment. This was before heard a lot about the economy of closing obtaining it. This amendment does not the committee. We had expert testi- . certain installations throughout the in any sense hold back the authorization many. It was deliberated and considered country. Certainly no one can speak of funds for necessary military construc thoroughly. To backtrack now and re against economy when it is true economy. tion but merely states that funds shall treat from the position of the commit We have asked today-and have not not be used to replace existing facilities. ' tee on the bill is to backtrack from hon received an answer to the question-how If we have an excess, then I think it est, efficient consideration. The gentle many millions of dollars are in this bill to should be handled on site, and we should man who offered this amendment had an build new facilities to replace facilities phase down those operations at that opportunity to come before our commit which are being closed down. In my point. tee. He did not do so. opinion, to do that is not real economy. The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recog I would say to you as a hard-working nizes the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. member of that committee, who has The only way we can effect real economy spent many, many hours along with the is to adopt this amendment. GROSS]. other members of that committee, that I will read the amendment to empha Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, I rise in to take up an amendment in this fashion size this point. It states simply: support of the amendment and I should is a slap at every member of the House No funds shall be authorized to be ex like to ask the distinguished chairman Armed Services Committee. pended by this bill for the purpose of con of the committee how many bases and The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recog structing new facilities to replace facilities installations are scheduled for closing? nizes the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. at installations ordered reduced or closed Mr. VINSON. I will state under what pursuant to the announcement of the Secre has happened in the past there were 21 VINSON] to close debate. tary of D3fense dated December 12, 1963, for Mr. VINSON. Mr. Chairman, as has "economy reasons." bases closed. We have had to make an been stated by various members of the expenditure of $24 million to absolve the committee, this item was approved on It has been po:nted out during the de activities from that closing, but when the testimony given to the committee by bate today that the employees who are we did that we brought about $34 million General Shuler. He presented facts affected by this order are be:ng offered in savings each year. I wrote this out showing that it would cost $3,200,000 to jobs at other installations, even at higher in the report. It is on page 7. It is in renovate and improve the facilities at salaries than they have been receiving the interests of economy to do what has Fort Sheridan. As a result of this at the installations at which they have been done. change, there would be an annual sav been working. Certainly no economies Mr. GROSS. How many installations ing of a million and a half dollars. It are effected by so doing, and no econ are now scheduled for closing as part of was upon the basis of this testimony that omies are to be effected by the Defense President Johnson's alleged economy the committee recommended this trans Department by transferring these people program? fer from Chicago to Fort Sheridan. to new bases, to new installations, and Mr. VINSON. There are not any. The committee has had the same op by constructing new facilities to replace This statement says that for the next 5 portunity that I have had to hear any facilities which will remain idle for years years or for the foreseeable future no complaint that could be made against and years to come and be of no ·use to base referred to in here is contemplated this proposal. If the committee accepts the Government. to be closed. these·arguments and adopts this amend If we are interested in economy we Mr. GRoss: Were there not some 60 ment, of course, it might be said, just sruruld .support thiB simple, forthright installations scheduled to be closed, and as it has been said, that a :Pa_pdora's box amendment. what was the result of that? ~ e~ JQe qpened in the con I yield back the remainder of my time. Mr. VINSON. All .the closings for the !iderntion ~f otJ:J.er ba$e elosure actions. Mr. VINSON. Mr. Chairman, let us time being are stopped. At least I hope 'therefQ.re, Mr. Chair,man, my col see if we can have an agreement on there will be no more closings until next leagues ~ tpe .House w~t to know my -time. I ask unanimous consent that all year, anyhow. · 5558 · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 Mr. GROSS. Why would the sched Today, I learned that part of the oper Mr. LATTA. Mr: Speaker, on that I uled closing of these installations stop? ating personnel of the National Radio demand the yeas and nays. Mr. VINSON. Because they have not Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank The yeas and nays were refused. been able to find out whether it would be is being transferred to another State on The SPEAKER. The question is on in the interests of national defense and the puny excuse that better library fa the motion to recommit. economy to close a base. If they do find cilities are available. And this State is The question was taken; and the out, they will close the base. They have already overrun with governmental fa Speaker announced that the "noes'' had closed a base in my district because the cilities of various kinds, and claims to be it. facts warranted it. rich and prosperous. It is said that there Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, I ob Mr. GROSS. But we had a list from must be two reasons for everything, a ject to the vote on the ground that a the late President Kennedy and then good reason and the real reason. What quorum is not present and make the President Johnson of installations to be we would like to know is the real reason point of order that a quorum is not pres closed. Now you are apparently saying why West Virginia is anathema to Gov ent. this list has been rescinded. ernment officials who dispense job-pro The SPEAKER. The Chair will count. Mr. VINSON. I do not know anything ducing contracts and facilities. [After counting.] Two hundred and about that list. All I know is the testi I hope that when the next bill is of twenty Members are present, a quorum. mony is that no bases are contemplated fered those who are in charge will work So the motion to recommit was re- · being closed now. with the Defense Department to give jected. Mr. GROSS. I am surprised and dis West Virginia its rightful share. We The SPEAKER. The question is on appointed to hear that in the interest of have the labor force. We have the cli the passage of the bill. economy the closing of installations has mate. We have the steel mills. We have The bill was passed. been halted. . the aluminum mills. We have the peo A motion to reconsider was laid on Mr. VINSON. And no base in this bill ple to work. We have the water. I do the table. will be closed. not see why we should not fit in some The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recog where in this category. I hope the next VOLUNTARY NATURE OF PROPQSED nizes the gentleman from Tilinois [Mr. time a bill is drawn up we will find WHEAT LEGISLATION ARENDS]. West Virginia included. Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Chairman, I rise The CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask in opposition to the amendment of my the Committee rises. unanimous consent to address the House good friend from Ohio. If we are to Accordingly, the Committee rose; and and to revise and extend my remarks. carry out true savings and real econ the Speaker having resumed the chair, The SPEAKER. Is there objection omy and bring about efficiency, you Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI, Chairman Of the to the request o( the gentleman from sometimes must spend money to accom Committee of the Whole House on the Oklahoma? plish the purpose in the long run. State of the Union, reported that that There was no objection. Therefore, I find myself in opposition to Committee having had under considera Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, in a col the amendment and trust the Committee tion the bill Panama Canal Treaty of 1903 as an to review and to consider all of our prob tion would get about $600 million less unconditional prerequisite prior to the lems together, to tell each other all our opinions, all our desires, and all our con for the wheat they produce in 1964 than resumption of normal diplomatic rela cerns, and to aim at solutions and answers for that produced in 1963. tions. Such a demand no self-respect that are fair and just and equitable without The impact of this drop would be ing government under any circum regard to the size or the strength or the felt not only by farmers, but through stances could accept. wealth of either nation. out rural America and by those who It was, therefore, highly gratifying to We don't ask Panama to make any pre supply all the things farmers buy. It note the remarks of President Johnson commitments before we meet, and we in would have a sharply adverse effect on on the Panama situation made during tend to make none. Of course, we cannot the national economy at a time when all his address on March 16 before the begin on this work until diplomatic rela Organization of American States. He tions are resumed, but the United States is America is striving to increase the na ready today, if Panama is ready. As of this tional economic growth rate. made clear that our Government will moment, I do not believe that there has The proposed legislation would prevent· always do its best to improve relations been a genuine meeting of the minds be this sharp drop. All wheat grown on with Panama with solutions that are tween the two Presidents of the two coun complying farms would be supported at "fair, just, and equitable" but that under tries involved. about $1.30 a bushel. However, wheat no conditions will it agree to precom Press reports indicate that the Government for domestic food purposes would be sup mitments to renegotiate the 1903 treaty of Panama feels that the language which has ported at about $2 a bushel. This would as the price for resumption of normal been under consideration for many days relations with Panama. Under · this commits the United SOO.tes to a rewriting be accomplished by providing- a 70-cent and to a revision of the 1903 treaty. We certificate to farmers who voluntarily treaty the United States was induced to have made no such commitment and we participate and comply with program build the Panama Canal and to obligate would not think of 'doing so before diplo provisions. itself to Panama and all the world to matic relations are resumed and unless a Let me say once again-let me make it operate, maintain, and defend it in per fair and satisfactory adjustment is agreed crystal clear-that any farmer can sell petuity and in an efficient manner. upon. all the wheat he grows whether or not a Mr. Speaker, this stand of President certificate program is in effect for wheat. Johnson against political blackmail by PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S POSITION Let me say once again that the program Panamanian politicians desperately en ON PANAMA IS FAffi AND SOUND is voluntary-that each producer decides gaged in trying to win a presidential whether or not to participate. If he de election in that country in May of this Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. . Speaker, I cides not to participate, he can grow all year, is imminently correct. As a matter ask unanimous consent to extend my the wheat he wants and he can sell all of fact, because of the cloudy and murky remarks at this point in the RECORD. he grows. situation that has been built up by these The SPEAKER. Is there objection If new legislation is not enacted, how radical and unrealistic policies of the to the request of the gentleman from ever, all farmers will be forced to operate Panamanian Government, these grave Mississippi? irl the same way and suffer a sharply questions should not be acted upon until There was no objection. reduced income. Wheat stocks may con after the May elections in Panama when Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Speaker, I tinue to climb and Government expendi a more objective approach may be ob~ desire to associate myself with and com tures for storing and handling these tained. Moreover, the President elected mend my colleague, Mr. FLOOD, on his stocks will continue at high levels. in May could have an entirely different remarks. I call attention to and applaud Those who wish to have no part in Gov policy in the premises, which may or may the President's remarks regarding ernment programs will suffer no loss if not be in harmony with that of President Panama made March 16 in his Alliance the legislation is enacted, but those who Chiari. I think that I reflect the views for Progress speech. The position of the wish to cooperate and reduce surpluses of the people of the United States and U.S. Government, laid down by the will not be denied the opportunity of ob of the Congress that the President will President, is fair and sound. He said, in taining an adequate return from their be strongly supported in his courageous summary, "We are ready to talk but we labor. and for-the-right stand to protect the will not make any advance commit just and indispensable sovereign rights, ments." power, and authority of the United States The President's statement had the PANAMA-UNITED STATES RELA- over the Canal Zone for the perpetual quality of resoluteness that has been TIONS: PRESIDENT JOHNSON maintenance, operation, sanitation, and lacking following previous Latin inci SPEAKS OUT protection of the Panama Canal. dents. It was this very lack of firmness, Mr. FLOOD. Mr. Speaker, I ask Of course, President Chiari would like combined with excessive toleration of unanimous consent to address the House to have the scalp of President Johnson to insults and assaults heaped upon us for 1 minute and to revise and extend exhibit to the Panamanian mob that throughout Latin America which, in my my remarks. dominated his government; but his mo opinion, brought on the present The SPEAKER. Is there objection tives are clearly understood and his im Panamanian crisis. Stated bluntly, our to the request of the gentleman from possible demands are refused. The ques actions tended to mislead Panama into Pennsylvania? tions involved are entirely too grave to be thinking she could take over the canal There was no objection. resolved by political considerations. The or at least rewrite the treaty of 1903 on Mr. FLOOD. Mr. Speaker, soon after peace of the world and the prevention of her terms. We kept giving on small the outbreak of violence in the terminal Communist revolution in all of Latin issues which may have led Panama to cities of the Panama Canal, Panama and America and the West Indies are at stake believe that we would give on the big ones Colon, on January 9, 1964, and Red and must be accepted as factors in the too. directed mob assaults on the Canal Zone, Panama Canal equation. We have no apologies to make to President Chiari of Panama angrily The text of the indicated statement of Panama and no restitution is called for. broke diplomatic relations with the President Johnson follows: We have fulfilled our obligations honor United States; and our diplomats and [From the Washington Post, Mar. 17, 1964] ably and generously. Our association U.S. citizens in that country had to flee REMARKS BY JOHNSON ON PANAMA SITUATION with Panama over the years has been for their lives to the zone as a haven of (The White House transcript of President mutually beneficial and generally bene refuge. Johnson's remarks on Panama, during his ficial to the entire world. In an effort to heal the breach and to Alliance for Progress speech) It is important for everyone to know restore normal relations, our Govern Let me now depart for a moment from that we have paid our way in Panama. ment accepted the Services of the Or my main theme to speak of the differences While some find it distasteful to point to that have developed between Panama and ganization of American States which the United States. mundane money matters, it is a cold appointed a special committee to deal Our own position is clear and it has been cruel -world we live in and money matters with the problem. The task of this from the first hour that we learned of the are highly significant in the affairs of committee has been made difficult be disturbances. The United States will meet men and nations. cause of the insistence by the President with Panama anytime, anywhere, to discuss Direct annual payments of $250,000 of Panama upon an agreement by the anything, to work together to cooperate were paid to Panama for U.S. rights in 5560 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 perpetuity in the 10-mile-wide strip, be The Republic of Panama would not Mr. Speaker, this shortage of rail cars ginning 9 years after ratification of the have been born except for the U.S. deter is having a pronounced impact on the original treaty of 1903. This amount mination to build the canal. We were 36th Congressional Distrlct, which I rep was paid annually until 1936 when such bJth mother and midwife, and we nursed resent. A fertilizer manufacturer, for payments were increased to $430,000 per the -infant nation through childhood to example, fears that he will not be able to year, made retroactive to the 1934 pay maturity. We have sustained her eco meet his production schedules because ment. In fiscal year 1957 the payment nomically, politically and militarily the raw materials essential to his indus was raised to $1,930,000 of which $430,- · through all the years of her life. try are shipped by rail from the m·nes 000 is reimbursed to the U.S. Treasury We have nothing to be ashamed of in and chemical companies. Certain weekly by the Panama Canal Company. The our relations with Panama. We have newspapers in my district report these other $1,500,000 is appropriated annu the right and the obligation to continue shippers have warned their customers ally by Congress. the treaty of 1903 and our control of the that major wheat shipments destined for In 1903 a lump-sum payment of $10 canal. foreign delivery are tying up thousands million was given to Panama by the U.S. · of rail cars. Government. If the raw materials cannot be shipped Thus, from 1903 through 1963 the FEDERAL PAY INCREASE because of two few available rail cars, United States has made direct payments Mr. BEERMANN. Mr. Speaker, I ask economic havoc will occur for the shipper of over $175 million to Panama for the unanimous consent that the gentleman who loses customers, for the manufactur canal. from Kentucky [Mr. SNYDER] may ex er who loses customers, for the farmer Under the terms of the 1955 Treaty tend his remarks at this point in the who loses customers, and for the consum of Mutual Understanding and Coopera RECORD. er who will have to pay a higher price for tion, the United States agreed to trans The SPEAKER. Is there objection a smaller supply of farm goods. And, fer to the Government of Panama cer to the request of the gentleman .from we should not forget that at every step in tain U.S.-owned property outside the Nebraska? this chain of chaos, there will be men and Canal Zone, which property was valued There was no objection. women whose employment is jeopardized. at about $24 million. We also agreed to Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, in yes Mr. Speaker, the Interstate Commerce construct a high-level bridge costing $20 terday's Evening Star it was reported Commission-ICC-has indicated its million across the canal at Balboa to that President Johnson has written to awareness of the present problem. In speed Panamanian traffic. The property the leadership of the Congress to the ef fact, the ICC reported to the Interstate transfer involved schools, hospitals, rail feet that he needs the Federal pay in and Foreign Commerce Committee: road yards, military reservations and creJ.se in order to attract more quali Undoubtedly, any upsurge of grain move extensive residental construction. The fied people in responsible positions in ments stemming from transactions with the Thatcher Ferry Bridge was completed in the G::>Vernment. I wonder, Mr. Speak Union of Soviet Socialists Republics or any 1962. er, if the President would be kind enough Soviet bloc country would greatly increase In addition to the direct payments to name for us the unqualified people the demand for boxcars and obviously ag which I have enumerated, millions of gravate the present and increasingly acute that he has been unable to replace be boxcar shortage. U.S. dollars flow out of the Canal Zone cause of insufficient pay. and into the mainstream of the Pana Because of the gravity surrounding manian economy indirectly through U.S. this situation, I feel Congress should agencies, the Canal Company, contrac THE CHAFF THAT CHAFES record itself as favoring priority for the tors, and private organizations such as Mr. BEERMANN. Mr. Speaker, I ask rail transportation requirements of do shipping agents, clubs, churches, oil com unanimous consent that the gentleman mestic shippers. I believe it should be panies, banks and employee associations. from New York [Mr. HORTON] may ex expressed as the sense of Congress that Salaries of non-U.S. citizens employed tend his remarks at this point in the the ICC not require the use of the rail in the Canal Zone amounted to $33 mil carriers' equipment and-facilities for the lion in 1962. Retirement and disability RECORD and include extraneous matter. The SPEAKER. Is there objection movement of grain to be shipped to our benefits paid by the Canal Company to Communist foes, unless all other domes Panama residents amounted to another to the request of the gentleman .from Nebraska? tic transportation needs have been met. $3.5 million. Mr. Speaker, an appropriate resolution, D~rect purchases by U.S. Government There was no objection. Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, my op House Concurrent Resolution 228, has agencies in the Republic of Panama been introduced by the distinguished totaled $11.8 million in 1962. Purchases position to the sale of U.S. agricultural commodities to the Communist bloc is gentleman from Michigan [Mr. CEDER of goods in Panama by private organ:za BERG] and now is pending before the tions in the Canal Zone added another a matter of record. I have repeatedly opposed these transactions. House Committee on Interstate and For $4.4 million. Contractors' purchases of eign Commerce. I wish to announce that goods and services reached a value of Earlier this month, I addressed the I enthusiastically endorse this measure $10.6 million. And U.S. citizens em House and reaffirmed my beLef that the and am pledged to its passage. ployed in the Canal Zone spend another sale of our wheat to Russia is contrary to our national interest. The sale is in Further, I want to appeal to the ICC to $20 million yearly in the Republic of take immediate steps to assure that suf Panama. defensible on economic grounds since we have granted credit to Khrushchev on ficient railroad cars are available for the Altogether these indirect payments to use of domestic shippers. Certainly, this the Republic of Panama amounted to these purchases, and, thus, obviated any chance of turning the gold outflow tide. Federal agency has a responsibility to do about $82,465,000 in 1962. all it can to prevent the unemployment U.S. foreign aid granted to the Gov The sale is indefensible for security rea sons since wheat can be turned to alco and lost business which will result if these ernment of Panama amounted to $63 shipments cannot be made. million between July 1, 1945, and Decem hol, a prime ingredient in munitions and ber 31, 1962. missile fuel. The sale is indefensible for: The rail car shortage is the "straw that The World Bank has haned a total of international policy purposes since it breaks the camel's back"-or, more ap $18,047,000 for use in agricultural de makes a mockery of our avowed inten propriately, the "chaff that chafes." velopment, electric power, and highway tion to use peaceful means for the defeat improvement. of communism. FOREIGN TRADE Finally, American investments in Now, I find the sale of wheat to Russia Panama are substantial. U.S. private in is having an alarming consequence for Mr. BEERMANN. Mr. Speaker, I ask vestments were estimated at $328 million the thousands of American industries unanimous consent that the gentleman in 1960, over half of which was in oil who rely on railroad shipments and de from Pennsylvania [Mr. WEAVER] may tanker and shipping operations. This liveries and the millions of men and extend his remarks at this point in the was estimated to be about half of the women employed by those industries. A RECORD and include extraneous matter. total capital invested in Panama; the critical shortage of rail cars for domes The SPEAKER. Is there objection other half be;ng 48 percent Panamanian tic shipping has developed from the di to the request of the gentleman !rom and 2 percent other foreign, mainly version of these cars for wheat ship Nebraska? French. ments to coastal ports. There was no objection. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5561 Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, a favor States could never have been achieved Vast reclamation projects sprang up, irri able balance of foreign trade depends without the progressive operations and re gated by water from the manmade reservoirs. search and development carried on by the Hydroelectric power generated at the Fed upon mutual respect and consideration American electrical equipment manufactur eral dams was sold to the people as the key by each of the countries involved. The ing industry, and it must remain viable if to the future. problems of increasing imports and de our country is to maintain its economic People of the West apparently looked to creasing competitive export opportuni progress. Washington as the wellspring of plenty. ties has been evident in the steel, meat, I urge the Tariff Commission (Trade In Suddenly, however, attitudes appear to be and electrical transformer industries. formation Committee) to consider this in changed. In the case .of the forthcoming GATT dustry's problems with the greatest sympa In a speech at the University of New Mex thetic care and attention. ico on February 6, Stewart L. Udall, Secretary conferences, I have submitted to the re of the Interior, spoke of a "rising tide of spective Chairman of the U.S. Tariff antifederalism" in the Western States. Commission and the Trade Information LIVERMORE FALLS DAM-OPPOSI In Congress, Westerners themselves are Committee, a letter which puts forth my . TION ECHOES IN THE WEST voting against proposals for Federal dams. views on this basic problem. It is indeed A proposed Knowles Dam on the Flathead essential because of the industries' im Mr. BEERMANN. Mr. Speaker, I ask River in Montana was rejected by the House in December by a vote of 329 to 41. portance to the domes~ic econom~ that unanimous consent that the gentleman U.S. duties on products of elec from New Hampshire [Mr. CLEVELAND] Earlier, the House had refused to approve may extend his remarks at this point a Burns Creek Dam in Idaho. trical manufacture should be reduced in the RECORD and include extraneous On February 5, the Federal Power Com only in consideration of equally favorable matter. mission voted to permit a private power foreign concessions on the same products. The SPEAKER. Is there objection company to build the High Mountain Sheep The foreign nontariff barriers have an Dam on the Smoke River in Idaho. In mak even more restrictive inftuence on Amer to the request of the gentleman !rom ing the decision, the Commission turned Nebraska? down a White House bid to build the dam ican exports of electrical manufacture There was no objection. with Federal money. than under tariffs. It is, therefore, nec Mr. CLEVELAND. Mr. Speaker, The West, at the same time, is becoming essary that the United States make clear throughout the Wes.t there is rising op more interested in preserving its scenic won in the GATT conferences that it believes position to unneeded Federal dam proj ders and historic sites and is fighting for the that such barriers are inconsistent with ects which destroy existing economic de right to develop its own natural resources. the purposes of that conference and that velopment and ruin scenic beauty. In HOW THE WEST DEVELOPED an expert adviser on electrical products New Hampshire we are also being States of the American West, over a long be a member of that negotiating team. threatened with a Federal dam project period, have looked to the Federal Govern The following is the text of my letter: that planners propose to foist upon us ment for aid. As the last region of the The Honorable BEN DORFMAN, Nation to be developed, these States came to despite its unsuitability and the opposi feel that they were "colonies" of capital con Chairman, U.S. Tariff Commission, tion of local citizens. The proposed Washington, D.C. trolled in the East. The Honorable W. H . RoDD, Livermore Dam, which I oppose and It was under the New Deal of President Chairman, Trade Information Committee, concerning which I have spoken the last Franklin D. Roosevelt that dollars really be Washington, D.C. 2 days-CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, March gan to pour out of the U.S. Treasury for the DEAR MESSRS. DORFMAN AND RODD: A 16, page 5297; March 17, page 5506- West. number of large plants manufacturing would perhaps ruin the economic and · When President Roosevelt, in the 1930's, electrical apparatus are located in the community life of the entire upper proposed giant projects on the Columbia congressional district which I represent. Pemigewasset Valley in New Hampshire. River, there was cheering. These plants, the employment they pro By delaying Route 93 it is a threat to the Taming of the mighty Missouri River, be vide, the products they make, and the entire north country. gun in the 1940's, was welcomed, too. research and development they conduct, In 1956, a billion-dollar plan for the de are of the greatest importance to the econ More Americans should join in saying velopment of the Upper Colorado River Basin omy of this region of Pennsylvania and of "No" to indiscriminate public works was approved by Congress. This was the the United States. I have reviewed the eco planners and spenders as an increasing major project for Western development nomic information they have submitted to number of citizens are now doing. I con launched during the Eisenhower adminis the Tariff Commission and to the· Trade In gratulate the people from the 10 com tration. formation Committee in connection with munities in New Hampshire who are KENNEDY PLANS FOR THE WEST the forthcoming GATT negotiations. I com fighting to save their area from the un mend this industry for endorsing the pur The Kennedy administration, coming to poses of the Trade Agreements Act of 1962, necessary invasion of the Federal power in 1961, promised a whole new era of and I sincerely hope that the Tariff Com Government. Western development financed from the mission (Trade Information Committee) can I commend to my colleagues' atten Federal Treasury. accept the recommendations of the Ameri tion an article, "Where Money From A list of proposed dams for Western rivers can electrical manufacturing industry Washington Is Being Turned Down," was drawn up by Kennedy aids. An early namely, that the U.S. negotiators at Geneva goal of the Kennedy administration was a from the March 16 issue of U.S. News Federal power grid to transmit public power insist upon obtaining meaningful, actual op & World Report which tells about the portunity for American electrical manufac throughout the West. Another was a wil turers to sell their products to electric utili heartening resistance in the West to the derness plan to set aside large tracts of Fed ties and heavy manufacturing concerns in Federal dam builders: eral land in Western States. Europe. European tariff and nontariff bar WHERE MONEY FROM WASHINGTON Is Now, however, as noted by Secretary Udall, riers and the nationalistic buying practices BEING TuRNED DOWN there is growing disillusionment with Wash of the Common Market and other European (The West, long prone to view Wash ington throughout the West. countries' government-owned or controlled ington as the wellspring of plenty, is taking A REVOLT SPREADS electrical utility &ystems constitute an un another look. There are many facets to the disillusion fair discrimination against American elec (Key Westerners fear that too much "pork ment. One of the most noticeable is the trical manufacturers. I am convinced that barrel" is getting into Western development. revolt against the d;tm builders that is unless such barriers are broken down and They fear, too, increasing domination from spreading up and down the river valleys and unless this industry is accorded meaningful Washington. canyons. opportunity to compete in the European (So marked is the shift in Western atti One outspoken western politician calling markets on the basis of the performance, tudes that Secretary Udall speaks of "a ris for less Federal spending on big dams is quality, and price of their products, it would ing tide of antifederalism" in the West.) Montana's Governor, Tim Babcock, a Repub be the greatest folly to reduce American DENVER, CoLo.-8omething seems to be lican. Of Knowles Dam. which the Federal tariffs on heavy electrical apparatus, since happening to attitudes here in the American planners &till hope to build at a cost of $250 this action would principally benefit Euro West toward the Government in Washing million, Governor B:lbcock says: "It's plain pean and Japanese electrical manufacturers. ton. old pork barrel. I can't subscribe to this The widespread use of electricity by all All through the days of the New Deal, the raid on the Federal Treasury, even for use in segments of our population and in virtually Fair Deal, a r. d even in early days of the New my own State." all American factories, at the world's lowest Frontier, Western political campaigns were Throughout the West, Knowles has be rates, has been a significant factor in giving keyed to Federal aid for development of come a symbol of the revolt against the us the highest standard of living and the natural resources. dam builders. The project was approved in h ighest productivity in the world. The con High dams, built with Federal funds, rose the S ;mate, where it was lumped into an ap tinuing availability o:t reliable, inexpensive on Western rivers-on the Missouri, the propriation bill with six other projects that electric service throughout the United Colorado, the Snake, the Columbia. had become known as the "pork barrel" dainS. 5562 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 In the House, those opposed to Knowles dams. These were the dams criticized by Dam. Idaho's Senator JoRDAN points to the brought it to a vote by itself. When the Mr. Sloan. Palisades project and the proposed Fremont project was turned down by an overwhelm This stretch of the Missouri, known as Dam in his State as examples of sound ing vote, 76 Congressmen from 17 Western the breaks, reaches 180 miles from the head development. States opposed it and only 26 favored it. waters of the Fort Peck Reservoir to the What alarms westerners is the prospect The Montana project was opposed by the town of Fort Benton, Mont. that development of the West is becoming National Reclamation Association, an organi HISTORIC AREA discredi11ed as "pork barrel." They are zation formed many years ago to promote alarmed, too, that Washington may come to river basin development. The wild beauty of this reach of the Mis control so much of their resources that souri was noted in the journals of Meriwether THREAT TO CROPLAND Western States will be forced to dance to a Lewis and William Cla.rk, who followed the Federal tune. Governor Babcock says that Knowles Dam river in their exploration of the Northwest would be reclamation in reverse, because it in the early 1800's. would flood out 9,000 acres now irrigated and Many of the Lewis and Clark campsites FREEMAN'S SALES POLICmS HAVE would brin.g no new land under irrigation. can be identified today. Under a plan pro Among other objections raised against posed by the National Park Service as an REDUCED WHEAT PRICES Knowles Dam are these: It would inundate alternative to the dams th:alt would flood the Mr. BEERMANN. Mr. Speaker, I ask a fertlle valley of 60,000 acres, displace 1,300 Missouri Breaks, this reach of the river would unanimous consent that the gentleman people, require relocation of 115 miles of be preserved as the Lewis and Clark National from Illinois [Mr. FINDLEY] may extend highway and 35 miles of railroad at a cost Wilderness Waterway. of more than $100 million, and break a 100- The Park service plan appears to be gain his remarks at this point in the RECORD year-old treaty with the Flathead Indians ing considerable support. One proponent, and include extraneous matter. and flood part of their reservation. writing in the Fort Benton (Mont.) River The SPEAKER. Is there objection MORE OPPOSITION Press, said: "We hope the National Park to t.Pe request of the gentleman !rom Service wins the race to the waterhole." In neighboring Idaho, Senator LEN JoRDAN, Nebraska? White House plans to create a Federal There was no objection. a Repu.blican, says: "Knowles Dam, and power grid in Western States have been hit others like it, can destroy the whole con ting one snag after another. Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, wheat cept of water development in the West, ·be In the Northwest, Congressmen are insist farmers are presently getting a small cause it is primarily a power project and ing that Secretary Udall clear with them sample of the Government price fixing lacks the multipurpose characteristics essen final plans for an "intertie" that would trans ahead if the wheat certificate program tial for a sound investment." mit surplus power f:rom the Columbia River becomes law. Market prices are down, In his own State, senator JoRDAN has op Basin to southern California. Here, too, and Government is to blame. posed the Burns Creek Dam on the Snake there is pressure on Mr. Udall to include Secretary Freeman has chosen to sell River as "a power project that does not have private power companies in his plans. economic feasibility." Government wheat stocks at prices "I am for Federal assistance for resource A WESTERN PROTEST unnecessarily low-the statutory mini development of the West," says senator JoR The western Governors' conference, in mum, in fact. DAN, "but I don't want to exhaust Idaho's 1963, protested in a. formal resolution against This policy is a stark reminder of tJ:le credit with the rest of the country. I want administration changes in regulations to give market-breaking dumping of Govern eastern Congressmen to know that when the Government far-reaching control over ment corn by Secretary Freeman in 1961 LEN JORDAN says a project is OK-it is." private utllity lines crossing public lands. and 1962 in order to get a good signup in ANOTHER WARNING The resolution stated in part: "The effect of such regulations will be to the feed grains program. Democratic Representative WAYNE AsPI Government wheat stocks have been NALL, of Colorado, has warned, too, against hamper the economic growth of the Western unwise use of Federal funds in the West. States, in which large areas of Federal lands sold heavily at the statutory minimum As chairman of the House Committee on are located, by thus denying opportunity to price since last July, and according to Interior and Insular Affairs, Mr. AsPINALL is develop the resources and industries of such data and interpretation supplied by the one of the most influential men in Congress States." Department of Agriculture's Wheat Sit on western policy. Fifty percent of all land in the 11 western uation report of March 7, these sales "We are going to scuttle all water resource most States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, is stopped the seasonal rise in wheat prices. projects unless we insist that they are put owned outright by the Federal Government. on a sound economic basis," says Representa This fact has touched off another contro The Government wheat need not have tive AsPINALL. versy. been sold at the statutory minimum. In recent years, according to Mr. AsPINALL, Secretary Udall, backed by many eastern Secretary Freeman could have sold it there has been "great disparity" in the way Congressmen, has been pressing for a wilder into market channels at above-minimum Federal agencies have justified water devel ness plan that would set aside large tracts prices, and thereby strengthened market opment projects proposed to Congress. For of Federal land. Now approved by the Sen prices, improved farm income and helped one thing, he says, there has been a tendency ate, the plan would limit development of Treasury receipts. to charge more of the cost of projects to such these tracts. benefits as recreation. Says Representative AsPINALL, the Colo The wheat situation report, reviewing Another Aspinall criticism is that some rado Democrat: "I am not opposed to the wheat price trends, provided this rare projects have been given far too long a pe wilderness concept, but I do take issue bit of bureau.cratic frankness on page 6: riod in which to pay back costs to the Federal with the Senate bill. It would take control CCC sales, however, have tempered the Treasury. away from the Congress and give it to the price rise. Since Commodity Credit Corpo To correct this situation, Mr. AsPINALL is President by letting him set aside the wilder ration's holdings are almost entirely of hard sponsoring a bill, which has been approved ness areas, which would stand unless ne wheats, statutory minimum prices first be by his committee, to standardize procedures gated by Congress. As I read the Constitu came effective for this class. As a result, hard for determining whether a project is eco tion, Congress, not the President, is given wheat prices have been relatively stable since nomically sound. control of public lands." late October. In fact, the CCC resale price One of the pioneers in western river de Representative AsPINALL is sponsor of a has practically es1tablished the market price velopment has joined the revolt against the bill asking complete review of Federal land for Hard Winter wheat. dam builders. He is Glenn Sloan, coorigina policy. "If we let the East lock up these tor of the Pick-Sloan plan that has tamed lands," he said, "it will destroy the economy On page 7 is this report: the Missouri River. of the West and put a burden on taxpayers CCC sales and dispositions during July Mr. Sloan, now retired from the Bureau of of the East. The public lands can be con January 1963-64 totaled 228 million bushels, Reclamation, describes new dams proposed served and at the same time be properly man over twice the amount reported in the year by Government engineers for the Missouri aged for timber operations, mining, grazing, earlier period. Large sales of wheat at the as "not even marginal" in value. and water resource development." statutory minimum price and higher exports Last autumn, in an interview in the Bill A bill that would give States more pro account for this stepped-up CCC activity. ings (Mont.) Gazette, Mr. Sloan said the tection from the Federal Government in Federal agencies involved in Western devel the matter of water rights has been intro Farmers suffered a $300 million de opment "are overstepping the original con duced by three western Senators: Democrat cline in income in 1963. Freeman's ac ception of what they were meant to do." FRANK E. Moss, of Utah, and Republicans tion in selling wheat at the statutory Mr. Sloan criticized the Government's THOMAS H. KUCHEL, of California, and LEN minimum contributed to this decline. reach for more and more power facilities JoRDAN, of Idaho. As a clear warning of the market saying: "We originally 1/hought power pro duced at Federal projects would be sold GOAL: AID WITHOUT "PORK" breaking practices farmers can expect if wholesale to whoever would take it." The West is by no means ready to turn the certificate scheme goes into effect, There is a strong effort to turn back the its back on Washington aid and dollars. the Senate-under heavy administration da.m builders on the upper Missouri River, In Montana, for example, Governor Bab pressure-rejected an amendment to the where they have proposed a series of new cock strongly supports the proposed Libby wheat program, under which the statu- 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5563 tory minimum at which Government direct peace negotiations between Israel of World War II and the rapid expan could sell wheat would be raised from and the Arab States, footing approxi sion of the petroleum industry since 105 percent of the loan price to 115 per mately three-fourths of the total bill for then, with the increasing dependency on cent. the support of the Palestinian refugees, oil as a source of power for our ever Wayne Darrow, who writes the Wash and even denying succor to its allies dur developing technology, with the recog ington Farmletter weekly report and is ing the 1956 Suez conflict, have been rec nition of the dependency of the allied regarded by many as voicing the policy ognized as the actions of a country seek forces during World War II on petro line of the administration, gave this pre ing to keep a peaceful equilibrium. The leum products, and with the outbreak diction of price fixing under the pro late President Kennedy's statement in of the cold war, the importance of the posed wheat program in his March 13 May of last year, in which he warned oil fields of the Middle East has in letter: both the Arab States and Israel that the creased. tremendously. To have these Wheat: If the farm bill passes, USDA in United States opposed aggressive and extensive deposits fall into Communist tends to hold the price of the 1964 crop down preventive war and that in the case of hands or parties hostile to the Western to the loan level of $1.30 a bushel. It has any aggression, the United States would bloc would be catastrophic. Or would it? plenty of power to do this since the bill con take the necessary action either in the The United States is depending main tinues CCC resale price at 105 percent of loan United Nations or on its own to prevent ly on its own oil resources and from oil plus carrying charges-move to raise it to it, stressed a continued policy of neu fields in the Western Hemisphere to ful 115 percent was beaten. trality. USDA aims to reduce CCC wheat stocks by fill daily consumption demands. Our holding down market price during 1964-{;5. Even the recent speech given on Jan allies of Western Europe, though, do USDA won't say this, but a big reason for uary 20 by Deputy Under Secretary of receive the bulk of the oil exported from holding down farm price to $1.30 a bushel for State U. Alexis Johnson, the first formal the Middle East. In other words, 1964 crop will be to encourage larger com statement of U.S. policy on the Middle NATO forces are dependent on Middle pliance with the 1965 program. This will be East by the Johnson administration, East oil. Yet what if this supply were important in getting new legislation next reiterated the past--of neutrality, of try suddenly withdrawn, as has been done year for the crops of 1966 and after. ing to promote stability in the area and in the past? friendship with all parties concerned. During a time of crisis, oil deliveries Yet when he stated that the U.S. Gov MIDDLE EAST OIL POLITICS are not guaranteed. The Suez Canal ernment was determined to avoid taking was. closed for a period of time, prevent Mr. BEERMANN. Mr. Speaker, I ask sides in regional disputes, but added: ing tankers from using the shortcut to unanimous consent that the gentleman "This does not mean that we will stand European markets. Coupled with the from New York [Mr. HALPERN] may ex idly by if aggression is committed," the sabotage of the pipelines in Syria at tend his remarks at this point in the Arab press began a vitriolic diatribe the same time, oil flow from the Middle RECORD and include extraneous matter. against the United States. It was taken East was almost at a standstill. The The SPEAKER. Is there objection as an attack upon them and as a deter threat of nationalization of their oil to the request of the gentleman from rent to their schemes to block the Jordan fields is always present, too. Take the Nebraska? River. case of Iranian nationalization of the There was no objection. Al-Akhbar, a Cairo paper, stated that petroleum industry in 1951. For almost Mr. HALPERN. Mr. Speaker, the the United States is following a policy 3 years little or no Iranian oil reached summit meeting of the Arab heads of clearly alined to Israel. Al-Jumhuri the consumption markets. state which was held a short while ago yah, another Cairo paper, charged the Some oil company officials frankly ad in Cairo, produced considerable com United States with interfering in the mit that, if oil supply is stopped, in ment, and in some cases, anxiety, in the core of. Middle Eastern affairs. Jeru vestments will flow into the develop capitals of the world. Generally speak salem's Al-Jihad published the accusa ment of other sources of power, such ing, the result of this conference was tion that Deputy Under Secretary John as natural gas, shale oil, Canadian tar to create a rapprochement among the son's statement reflected "obvious haste, sands, coal, and nuclear power. A new Arab leaders so that a unified Arab front overt bias, and an outrageous defiance of ly discovered yet very remarkable nat could be achieved in the never-ending the Arabs." Damascus described Mr. ural gas field in the Netherlands could, Arab-Israel conflict. The true purpose Johnson's speech as "an encroachment when fully developed to its utmost ca o~ the meeting, however, was to resolve of U.S. jurisdiction on the one hand and pacity, supply the equivalent of one mil what action should be taken to prevent on the other, an intrusion upon the inde lion barrels of oil daily to Western Eu the Israelis from diverting the waters pendence of the Arab States." rope, which would be approximately one of the Jordan River. In general terms, The Damascus report went on to say sixth of Europe's current oil consump this was accomplished. By diverting the that Arab oil "continues to be a factor of tion. Furthermore, during the Suez headwaters of the Jordan which lie in power and dictation in the hands of the Canal crisis, a continuous flow of oil was Syria, Lebanon and Jordan and by uni colonial states, foremost of which is the maintained to Europe from United fying their military forces so that the United States, in spite of the fact that States sources. It must also be remem this great natural resource should have diversionary schemes would proceed un bered that Ir~n will act independently hampered, the Arab chiefs of state hope been our decisive and strong weapon, a from the Arab States. Having recog to achieve a greater stranglehold on weapon with which we could make U.S. nized Israel as a sovereign state, Iranian Israel, to prevent further development policy become wise and force it to recog oil will most probably flow steadily to by denying water for proposed agricul nize our national interests as we see European markets in time of a crisis tural and industrial projects. them, not as an official of the U.S. State Department sees them. What is noted betwe~n Israel and the Arab States. Since the birth of the State of Israel The importance of Middle East oil in 1948, the Arabs have stated openly with great astonishment is that the Arab nation has not so far seriously used the cannot be denied. From six countries, and clearly their intentions toward this Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, "thorn in their midst." Overt action high card of Arab oil in a way that will make the U.S. State Department think and Libya, are exported yearly over was undertaken in the past but failed to 2,210 million barrels a year. In return achieve satisfactory results. Indirect and contemplate a lot longer before it announces similar statements." When the revenues gleaned by the exporting aggression, such as economic boycott countries amounted to approximately and the denial of passage through the the question of oil is brought into the picture, it is possible to see how U.S. pol $1.6 billion last year. Much good has Suez Canal to ships trading with Israel, been derived from these revenues. In has likewise proven ineffectual. Wheth icy cannot be strictly neutral, that Mid dle East oil interests provide a tremen dustrial development, irrigation proj er direct or indirect, the meaning is the dous lobby in guiding our strategies in ects, roads, and housing communities same--a threat of aggression against a the region. · American concerns control mark the credit side. There is also a sovereign state. approximately 53 percent of all oil inter debit ledger. Reports of profligate The United States has in reality fos ests in the Middle East. Among the spending and amassed personal fortunes, tered an impartial policy with regard to eight giants of the oil industry in the to the detriment of the majority of the the conflict. Supporting the peace area, five are American controlled. population, have frequently come to keeping efforts of the United Nations With the discovery of these vast de light. Furthermore, it has been recog forces stationed in the area, calling for posits of oil shortly before the outbreak nized that oil profits have been used in 5564 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 18 both the Yemen and Kurdish conflicts tion or stoppage of oil is nothing more the Board's kit of tools, we think it needs to and in the suppression of opposition than blackmail. That American inter be reformed. ests and the American oil companies We also think a simpler, less severe but forces to the governments in control. more prompt technique than is presently The United Arab Republic is not an would suffer if the Middle East fields available should also be included in the in oil-exporting nation, although vast ex were lost to us cannot be denied. But strument with which the Board is endowed ploration projects are now being under we have no permanent guarantee that by Congress. This matter, along with others, taken. Therefore oil revenues are lack our rights will always be respected, that is under consideration by our staff. ing. Yet the use of oil and of oil profits a continuous flow of oil to the Western has become a major factor in the foreign world will be maintained. Hearings before the Committee on policy of Gamel Abdul Nasser, the I therefore urge upon our decision Banking and Currency, House of Repre makers to study thoroughly the potential sentatives, 88th Congress, 1st session, United Arab Republic's ambitious Presi page 60. dent. Even before Damascus pondered consequences of an abrupt stoppage of why oil had not been used as a persua oil from the Middle East. We must In the same vein, the Chairman of the sive instrument, even before the summit plan and prepare for such an eventu Federal Home Loan Bank Board went on meeting in Cairo, the London Times ality. to say: mentioned an editorial appearing in Al More important still: the development Also in terms of supervision, we presently have what I choose to call the power of the Ahram, a reco~nized organ of the Cairo of alternative sources of energy, and fur Government, in which was declared that ther discoveries of oil reserves not in the H-bomb over Federal associations, but we do Middle East, should serve to rid our pol not have a shotgun. We are working on legis the Arabs, when undertaking action to lation now that would 'permit us to amend thwart Israeli plans to use "the Jordan icy of any prejudicial bearing toward 5(d) (1) and 5(d) (2). which would improve River waters: the Arab States. and streamline procedures in connection Would have to take into account possible with the supervision of these associations. British or American intervention and this It would give us the power to issue cease would have to be countered. Waterways, STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY IN and-desist orders and provide for an admin roads and air routes and even oil pipelines TRODUCTION OF THE 1964 EN istrative proce-dure program in connection should not remain open in a conflict to allow FORCEMENT SANCTION AMEND with these cease-and-desist orders (idem., the West to "rescue Israel." MENTS TO THE HOME OWNERS' p. 62). It was President Nasser who master LOAN ACT OF 1933 The amendments to section 5(d) (1) minded the Cairo conference. It was Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I ask and (2) of the Home Owners' Loan Act his intention to create a unified Arab unanimous consent to extend my remarks of 1933 proposed in this bill would grant front. Although he has readily admitted at this point in the RECORD and include the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in that he was not prepared at this time extraneous matter. termediate powers of supervision over to commit his armed forces in open war The SPEAKER. Is tpere objection Federal savings and loan associations. fare with Israel, Gamel Abdul Nasser, to the request of the gentleman from The amendments to section 5(d) (1) along with all the other Arab leaders, Florida? would equip the Board with the new tool has remained steadfast in his pledge to There was no objection. of cease-and-desist order that can take liquidate Israel. At the conference the Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, for a effect immediately when served on the Arab heads of state pledged $17.5 mil number of years there has been much savings and loan association involved. lion to be used to divert the headwaters discussion and I might say controversy As a counterbalanced protection for of the Jordan and $42 million to estab with regard to the regulatory powers of · management, the amendment would also lish a joint military command. Kuwait the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. On confer on management the right to peti has already allocated its share of different occasions, hearings have been tion the U.S. district court for a review EL5,877 ,500 sterling for the diversion held by congressional committees with of such order, which order wilf remain projects. This is all capital derived regard to these powers of the Bank in effect during the period of review. from oil. Board and the rights of Federal associa- The amendments to section · 5(d) (2) The President of United Arab Repub .OBS- to defend themselves in instances would spell out more precisely than does lic has used whatever funds are available where such actions might be arbitrary. present law the several grounds upon to keep his armies well trained in the The bill which I am introducing today which a conservator or receiver for a field of Yemen· and Algeria. His missile represents a step toward meeting the Federal savings and loan association can program and purchase of armaments are problem existing in this important area be appointed. A conservator could be to be used, as his statements admit and of supervision under present law. appointed on an ex parte basis in emer imply, against Israel, a country which The general supervisory powers of the gency cases, and the Board would be has remained a lifelong friend to the allowed to make the appointment with United States. It is even speculated Federal Home Loan Bank Board in its out further notice if the association con that some of these funds have come from role as chartering authority for Federal sents. Appointment of a receiver would foreign aid funds which our Government savings and loan associations appear in be deemed a default under the laws ini has allocated to the United Arab Re- sections 5(d) (1) and (2) of the Home tiating the payment of insurance by the public. · Owners' Loan Act of 1933. The bill I am Federal Savings and Loan Insurance introducing today would amend those Why then should the U.S. Government provisions. Corp. continue to support and give aid to those Additional paragraphs (3), (4) and nations whose intentions toward Israel On February 5, 1963, the chairman of (5) to be added to section 5 by the are destructive? Why should the U.S. the Federal Home Loan Bank Board re amendments would accomplish the fol Government be forced to formulate a sponded to an invitation of the House lowing: policy suitable to the Arabs yet detri Committee on Banking and Currency to discuss specific problems his agency con 1. Paragraph (3) would specify the condi mental to Israel in order to continue the tions under which management could seek free-flow of oil from the Middle East? fronted and to suggest legislation he reimbursemen-t for the cost of procee-dings Our State Department need not be apol might wish to propose. In his testimony under section 5 and would specify the venue ogetic for its statements. It must be the the chairman said in part: and power of relevant court actions. intention of the United States to con We feel that major improvements are 2. Paragraph (4) would prohibit employ struct a strong policy for the Middle needed along a number of lines. To begin ment by a Federal savings and loan associa with, the Board's powers to discipline re tion of anyone convicted of an offense of East, free from the coercive influences calcitrant or improperly operated Federal as dishonesty or breach of trust. The Fe-deral of oil, free from the sympathetic re sociations are of a peculiar type. They re Home Loan Bank Board could make excep- sponse engendered by the Palestinian quire either a protracted hearing procedure tions where warranted. · refugee whose plight is a result of Arab before the Board can compel ~n association 3. Paragraph (5) would make Government politics. Our policy must not be swayed to take remedial action or they require the agency expenses under subsection (d), deal by the threat of joining the other camp Board to seize the association. ing with supervisory cases, nonadmini&tra if it is detrimental or in opposition to The first power is too slow and cumber tive in nature. some and the second power much too severe. their own. While the right of summary seizure is vested By offering this bill for introduction, Our foreign policy makers must re in all financial agencies, Federal or State, I do not mean to imply that the Federal memb~r that the threat of nationaliza- and we believe that it should remain within Home Loan Bank Board has approved 196.1, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5565 the provisions of this legislation. How which the home office of such association is event such court finds that the management ever, especially in view of the declara located. Following such filing and service is unable to validly exercise effective control upon the Board of such petition for re of the association, the court may order the tions made by the Chairman of the Board view the court shall have and take juris Board to appoint a conservator or receiver early in 1963, which are quoted above, I diction to determine and adjudicate the is ex parte and without notice to the associa believe the time is past due when the sues of law and fact presented thereby and tion affected by the order, but in the event Congress should give close attention to shall have jurisdiction to enter a judgment of such an appointment the association may, the supervisory powers of the Board. determining the validity of or enjoining, within 30 days, petition the court which has During recent years, another committee suspending or setting aside or enforcing, in issued such an order for an order rescinding in this House has had occasion to hold whole or in part, the order of the agency. such appointment and the court shall upon extended hearings involving supervisory Appeals from any action of such court in the merits either affirm the appointment or such proceedings shall lie as in any other order the Board to terminate such appoint actions taken by the Board. I offer this matters subject to its jurisdiction. The fil ment. In any proceeding brought by the bill now so that the subject matter it ing of a petition for review under this sub Board for the appointment of a conservator covers may receive early study by appro paragraph shall not of itself stay or sus or receiver the court shall grant such re priate Government agencies, by ~he sav pend the effectiveness of a cease-and-desist quest only if in the opinion of the court ings and loan industry, and by the Con order which is the subject of the petition the issuance of a cease-and-desist order gress. for review but the court in its discretion may under subsection (d) (1) does not afford the H.R. 10494 restrain or suspend, in whole or in part, the Board an effective method of protecting the A b111 to amend the Home Owners' Loan Act operation of the order pending its deter interests of the public or of the savings ac · of 1933 and for other purposes mination of the petition. Where the peti count holders of the association or of the tioner makes application for an interlocu Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Cor Be it enacted by the Senate and House tory injunction suspending or restraining poration. Proceedings under this paragraph of Representatives of the United States of the enforcement, operation, or execution of, shall be given precedence over other cases America in Congress assembled, That this or setting aside, in whole or in part, any pending in any such court, and shall be in Act may be cited as the "1964 Enforcement order reviewable under this subparagraph every way expedited. Sanction Amendments to the Home Owners' the court may, in cases where irreparable "(B) In addition to the foregoing pro Loan Act of 1933." damage would otherwise ensue to the peti visions, the Board may without any require SEc. 2. Subsection (d) (1) of 'section 5 of tioner, order a temporary stay or suspension, ment of notice, hearing, or other action, ap · the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 is amend in whole or in part, of the operation of the point a conservator or receiver for an associa ed as follows: order of the Board pending the decision on tion in the event that the association, by 1. By adding "(A)" after "(d) (1) ". the application for such interlocutory in resolution of its board of directors or of its 2. By striking from the fourth sentence the junction, in which case such order of the . members, consents to such appointment. words "a Supervisory Representative in court shall contain a specific finding that "(C) A conservator shall have all the pow Charge" and the comma following the word such irreparable damage would result to ers of the members, the directors, and the "Charge". petitioner and specifying the nature of such officers of the association and shall be au 3 . By adding after the words "subpenas damage. The hearing upon such an appli thorized to operate the association in its own duces tecum," where first used in that sub cation for an interlocutory injunction shall na.m.e or to conserve its assets in the manner section, the words "or orders for the taking of be given preference and expedited and shall and to the extent authorized by the Board. depositions". be heard at the earliest practicable date The Board shall appoint only the Federal 4. By adding at the end of subsection (d) after the expiration of the notice of hearing Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation as ( 1) four new subparagraphs designated as on the application provided for above. receiver for an association, and said Corpora (B), (C), (D), and (E), reading as fol "(E) As used in this subsection, the term tion shall have power to buy at its own sale lows: 'cease-and-desist order' ihcludes a cease as receiver, subject to approval by the Board. "(B) The Board is hereby authorized to and-desist order which has been affirmed or The appointment of a receiver under any issue an order (hereinafter in this subsection modified under any provision of this sub provision of this subsection shall constitute called a cease-and-desist order) whenever an section, and the terms 'cease-and-desist or a default within the meaning of title IV of association is violating or has violated any der which has become final' and 'order which the National Housing Act. The Board may, law or regulation. Such order shall be served has become final' mean a cease-and-desist without any requirement of notice, hearing by mailing a copy thereof to the association order, or an order, with respect to which or other action, replace a conservator with at its home office by registered mail, and the time allowed in this subsection for filing another conservator or with a receiver, but shall become effective upon such service or a petition for review as provided in para any such replacement, or a succession of at such time, after such service, as may be graph (D) hereof has expired without the such replacements, shall not affect any right prescribed in such order, but except as other filing of such petition, or if such a petition whioh the association may have for review wise provided in this subsection the Board has been filed, with respect to which all sub of the original appointment, except that any may from time to time modify, terminate, or sequent rights of any party to appellate re removal resulting from such review shall be postpone the effective date of any such order. view of or writs of certiorari in any related removal of the conservator or receiver in A cease-and-desist order shall be included proceedings have terminated." office at the time of such removal. in a formal resolution of the Board which SEc. 3. Subsection (d) (2) of said section "(D) The Board shall have power to make shall contain a statement of the facts and 5 is amended to read as follows: rules and regulations for the reorganization, actions which constitute the alleged viola "(2) (A) Except as otherwise provided in consolidation, merger, liquidation and dis tion or violations of law or regulations and this paragraph (2), the grounds for the ap solution of associations and for associations shall, by provisions which may be prohibitory pointment of a conservator or receiver for an in conservatorship and receivership and for or mandatory or a combination thereof, re association shall be one or more of the fol the conduct of conservatorships and receiver quire the association and its directors, officers, lowing: (i) insolvency in that the · assets of ships, and the Board may, by regulation or employees, and agents to cease and desist the association are less than its obligations otherwise; provide for the exercise of func from the same. to its creditors and others, including its tions hy members, directors, or officers of the "(C) A cease-and-desist order shall remain members; (ii) willful and substantial dis association during conservatorship or re effective and enforceable except to such ex sipation of assets or earnings due to a viola ceivership. Whenever a conservator or re tent as it is modified or terminated by action tion or violations of law or regulations; (111) ceiver appointed by the Board as provided of the Board or by a reviewing court, and willful and substantial violation of a cease in this section, demands possession of the review of such order shall be solely and ex and-desist order which has become final; property, business, and assets of any associa clusively as provided in this subsection. In and (iv) concealment of books, papers, rec tion, or of any part thereof, the refusal by the case of a fallure to obey a cease-and ords, or assets of the association, or refusal any director, officer, employee or agent of desist order, as to which a petition for review to submit books, papers, records, or affairs of such association to comply with the demand has not been filed as provided in subpara the association for inspection to any exam shall be punishable by a fine of not more graph (D) hereof, the Board may make ap iner or lawful agent of the Board. The than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more plication to the United States district court Board shall have exclusive power and juris than one year, or both." for the judicial district within which the diction to appoint a conservator or receiver. SEC. 4. Subsection (d) of said section 5 is home office of the association is located for Appointment of a conservator or receiver further a.m.ended by adding at t.he end there an injunction to enforce such order, and if upon any one or more of the grounds set of three new: paragraphs designated (3), (4) such court shall determine that there has forth in this paragraph shall be made by the and ( 5) , reading as follows: been such a violation of a law or regulation Board upon the order of the United States "(3) The members, directors, officers and and such a failure to obey, it shall be the district court for the district in which the attorneys of the association in office at the duty of the court to order the enforcement home office of such association is located. time of the initiation-of any proceedings un .. of such cease-and-desist order. In the event such court shall find that one der this section are expressly authorized to "(D) ~ot later than thirty days after the or more of the grounds set forth in this · contest any procee<11~Jii8 ~uthorized bythta date such a cease-and-desist order is served paragraph for the appointment of a con S[eetion, and shall be retmburse.er able expenses and attorneys' fees by the as for review of such order in the United States gency ex~s which involves a sub8tantial and IIOCI.a.tiGn or ~rom its assets, and-the Board in district court for the judicial district 1n con~lnuing dissipat!Qn o-f as.nts, Of' in the any sueh proceedin,g bef~re it or its delegates 5566 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 shall allow and order paid any such reason the private enterprise system for the Recently the Federal Home Loan Bank able expenses and attorneys' fees. Any court good of the entire Nation. Likewise, it Board, which charters and supervises having any proceeding before it as provided is my belief that whenever Congress has Federal savings and loan associations, in this section shall allow and order paid reasonable expenses and attorneys' fees for the opportunity to take specific action to has emphasized the importance of as such members, directors, officers and at broaden the base of our capitalistic so suring ~n extra margin of security in torneys. In any proceeding properly brought ciety, it should do so, unless there is con the capital structure of such associa before it under this section a court shall flict with overriding national policy. tions. The issuance of guaranty stock have power to hear and determine all ques Such an opportunity to broaden the as authorized in this bill will enable Fed tions of law or fact that may be at issue be base of our capitalistic society is avail eral savings and loan associations to tween the parties in the case without be able to the Congress in the Federal Sav raise this extra margin. By the terms of ing bound by any conclusions of law or the bill, holders of guaranty stock would fact previously made by the Board. Any ac ings and Loan Association Act of 1964 tion or proceeding authorized under this . that I am introducing today for the pur be subordinated to savers and creditors section may be brought by an association pose of stimulating study and comment in the association, in the order of priority without exhausting any alternative adminis on a proposal which I consider of great of claims against assets. Mutual savings trative steps or remedies that may be avail importance. and loan associations must look to re able to it. If the home otnce of an associa Basically, the Federal Savings and tained earnings as a source of accumu tion is not located within a judicial district Loan Association Act of 1964 would au lating desirable reserves. If such asso of the United States, any action or proceed thorize the Federal Home Loan Bank ciations choose to utilize the authority ing authorized under this section to which that would be granted by this bill, they such association is a party or affecting such Board to charter a new type of Federal association shall be filed in the district court savings and loan association which may also have recourse to the sale of of the United States for the District of Co would be organized on the basis of issu guaranty stock as an additional source lumbia, and such court shall have jurisdic ance of guaranty stock. Moreover, the of capital. Federal savings and loan tion as if such office was located within the bill would authorize any of the 1,968 associations would be subject to the same district of such court. Service on such asso existing Federal savings and loan asso high degree of supervision by the Federal ciation in any such action or proceeding may ciations-which are now all mutual in ·Home Loan Bank Board in the public be effected by registered mail. interest, whether such an association "(4) Except with the written consent of character-to issue the new guaranty stock envisioned in this legislation. conducts its activities with or without the Board, no person shall serve as a director, guaranty stock. otncer, or employee of a Federal association Before detailing the numerous benefits who has been convicted, or who is hereafter to the national interest that would flow As a matter of fact, enactment of this convicted, of any criminal offense involving from enactment of this legislation, I bill would round out the dual Federal dishonesty or a breach of trust. For each should like to point out the potentially State savings and loan system. At pres conviction of willful violation of this pro ent some 18 States and 1 territory have hibition, the association shall be subject to enormous economic stimulation which could result from the proposal to permit statutes enabling the formation of per a penalty of not more than $100 for each day manent stock-type savings and loan as this prohibition is violated, which the Board existing Federal savings associations to may recover for its use. issue guaranty stock. sociations. There is, however, a vacuum " ( 5) All expenses of the Board or of the At the present time, approximately 19 in the present Federal savings and loan Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corpora system, because no authority exists to million Americans hold savings accounts establish any stock-type savings and loan tion in connection with this subsection, in aggregating $48 billion in the Nation's cluding without limitation the preparation association. Passage of this bill would for or conduct of proceedings under this sub federally chartered savings and loan as fill that vacuum. At present, if a fed section, shall be considered as nonadminis sociations. These institutions have re erally chartered mutual savings and loan trative expenses." serves and surplus amounting to ap association desires to alter its structure proximately $4 billion. to a stock-type institution, it must neces Let us assume for the moment that sarily surrender its Federal charter and STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY IN all 1,968 of the existing Federal asso TRODUCTION OF THE FEDERAL obtain a State charter. ciations decide to issue guaranty stock In recent years, the share of the sa'\{ SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION pursuant to this bill. Under this legis ings and loan asset structure attributable ACT OF 1964 lation, the 19 million savings account to Federal savings and loan associations Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I ask holders in these institutions would be has been declining. At the close of 1960, unanimous consent to extend my remarks issued guaranty stock equal to the value total assets of the savings and loan indus at this point in the RECORD and include of the reserves and surplus of the Federal try amounted to $71.5 billion. Some extraneous matter. associations. Potentially, $4 billion could 4,400 State-chartered savings and loan The SPEAKER. Is there objection be injected into the U.S. economy by the associations held about 45 percent of to the request of the gentleman from issuance of the stock because the market those total assets, while about 1,800 Fed Florida? ' value of the stock would reflect the eco eral savings and loan associations held There was no objection. nomic worth of reserves and surplus. approximately 55 percent of the total Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, the Amer The "extra" dividend of guaranty stock assets of the industry. By the end of ican people today are experiencing and would have meaningful impact through 1963, total assets had climbed to about enjoying the highest standard of living out the U.S. economy. $107 billion, but the Federal savings and of any nation in the history of the world. Moreover, the economic impact would loan associations' share of those assets In large measure, the great strides in be substantially greater if State char had declined to about 52 percent. our living conditions have resulted from tered mutual associations elect to con The past few years have seen a steady the many steps taken to strengthen our vert to the new Federal guaranty stock climb in the number of stock-type sav capitalistic system in recent decades. savings associations. ings and loan associations in operation. This is reflected in the widespread own Under the terms of my bill, the rights At the end of 1959, about 466 stock sav ership of private homes, business estab of all stockholders would be fully pro ings and loan associations in the United lishments, savings a~counts, stock, Gov tected through a method which is fully States had share accounts insured by the ernment bonds, and other securities and set forth in the legislation. Briefly, sav Federal Savings and Loan Insurance different forms of wealth. ings account holders would have the op Corporation. By January 31, 1963, that In the many years that I have been portunity of accepting guaranty stock number had increased to 628. One year privileged to serve in the Congress, I proportionate to their savings account later, on January 31, 1964, there were have been greatly impressed with the holdings or cash or a like addition to 659 insured stock savings and loan asso inherent inclination of the Congress to their existing savings accounts. I repeat ciations, an increase of almost 5 percent seek private enterprise solutions to na that the rights of all savers would be in number in that single year. All of tional problems before resorting to Fed fully safeguarded under the terms of the this increase necessarily occurred in eral assistance programs. Time and bill. State-chartered savings and loan asso again, Congress has sought out ways to Even more important, my bill would ciations, because no authority yet exists encourage private enterprise to do the strengthen existing Federal savings and ·to form Federal savings and loan asso job rather than Government. loan associations as well as strengthen ciations that have the privilege of issu In applying this policy, Congress has the Federal savings and loan system as ing stock to strengthen their capital in its own way enormously strengthened a whole. structure. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5567 Within the past few months, the most America in Congress assembled, That this thereto by the Board, which disapproval may recent Federal-State conversion from a Act may be cited as the "Federal Savings occur only if the plan is in violation of this mutual to a stock-type of savings and and Loan Association Act of 1964." Act or of rules and regulations adopted by FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS the Board and in effect prior to the filing of loan association involved a $109.5 million the plan: Provided, That if the plan is dis Federal savings and loan association in SEC. 2. Section 5(a) of the Home Owners' approved by the Board, the plan may become Texas that left the Federal charter sys Loan Act of 1933 is amended by deleting the effective on a date deClared by the Board tem to acquire a charter from the State word "mutual" ·both times it appears there upon being amended in such a manner, with in. Board approval, as to cure the violation of Texas. RAISING OF CAPITAL A true and complete dual system con which caused the Board to disapprove the SEc. 3. Section 5(b) of the Home Owners' plan; that notice of the meeting shall ex templates equal opportunity to find fi Loan Act of 1933 is amended to read as fol pressly state that such meeting is called to nancial institutions with like forms of lows: vote on the issuance of guaranty stock, and organization in either Federal or State "(b) (1) Such associations shall raise their such notice shall set forth the time and jurisdiction. Enactment of this bill will capital in the form of payments on with place thereof, and shall be mailed, postage remove the unnecessary barrier inertia drawable savings accounts as are authorized prepaid, at least twenty and not more than allows to exist against this system of in their charter, which accounts may be thirty days prior to the date of the meeting, true duality in the savings and loan withdrawn or retired as is therein provided. to each member of record of the association field. At present, a two-way street exists Any such association may additionally raise at his last known address as shown on the capital by issuing sh-ares of guaranty stock books of the association, and to the Federal between State and Federal charters for subordinated to the claims of creditors of Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, savings and loan associations having a the association and of holders of withdraw Washington, District of Columbia; and that mutual form of organization. But only able savings accounts. Such guaranty stock the plan of issuing guaranty stock be set a one-way street leading away from the shall constitute a secondary reserve out of forth in writing and filed with the Board Federal charter system can presently be which losses shall be paid after all other on or before twenty days prior to the date found for a savings and loan associa available reserves maintained by the asso of the special meeting, and a copy shall be tion that wishes to adopt a stock type ciations have been exhausted. Such guaran made available for inspection by any mem ty stock shall be non-withdrawable until all ber of the association at its principal office of organization. This deficiency should liabilities of the association have been satis at all times during business hours for ten be remedied as expeditiously as possible. fied in full, including payments of the with days prior to the special meeting, and such An interesting analysis of savings and drawable value of all other types or classes plan shall set forth loan associations has been made in all of capital. Savings accounts of all associa (i) the name of the association, jurisdictions that make possible the tions having guaranty stock shall be de (11) the location of ·the principal office of operation of stock savings and loan as posits, and earnings paid thereon shall be the association, sociations. As of December 31, 1962, a interest, and all voting power and other (111) the names and addresses of the di total of 637 stock savings and loan as incidents of equity ownership shall vest in rectors of the association and the names the holders of guaranty stock, who may and titles of all officers of such association, sociations had more than $982 million delegate such voting power to other persons (iv) a copy of the most recent financial reserves for an average reserve of in accordance with this Act. The stockhold statement of the association, dated not more $1,542,000. In the same jurisdictions, ers of all associations having guaranty stock than sixty days prior to the date of the plan, 1 450 mutual savings and loan associa may authorize guaranty stock options not showing the association to be in safe operat tions had more than $1.8 billion reserves to exceed 10 per centum of the amount of ing condition, for an average reserve of $1,243,000. The authorized guaranty stock. A Federal Sav (v) a copy of a pro forma financial state stock-type associations' average reserves ings and Loan Association shall issue no ment of the association giving effect to the certificates of indebtedness except for such issuance of guaranty stock, exceeded those of mutual associations by borrowed money as may be authorized by (vi) a certificate under oath or aftlrmation almost 25 percent. regulations of the Board. by the chief executive officer of the associa An additional argument in favor of "(2) Any Federal Savings and Loan As tion to the effect that it is and to the best authorizing a Federal savings and loan sociation having no guaranty stock may in of his knowledge and belief will be in a safe association to have guarantee stock is crease its capital by issuing guaranty stock and sound financial condition on the date that the Congress recognizes the equal under this Act upon a vote of 51 per centum of issuance of guaranty stock, propriety of both stock and mutual sav or more of the total number of votes eligible (vii) a certificate under oath or affirma ings and loan associations by accord to be cast in person or by special proxy at tion by the chief executive officer of the as ing them equal tax treatment in the Rev a special meeting of the members called to sociation to the effect that all persons en consider such action: Provided, That the titled to vote on the plan have been duly and enue Act of 1951 and the Revenue Act of amount of guaranty stock to be issued ini timely notified or that adequate arrange 1962. tially shall be subject to approval of the ments have been made for due and timely I would like to emphasize that a Fed Board, but the Board shall not require the notification of such persons, such entitle eral savings and loan association hav total amount of guaranty stock, surplus and ment being determined as of the close of ing guarantee stock under this bill would reserves to exceed regulatory requirements business of a day specified in the plan, be subject to at least the same degree of for capitalization of such association with (v111) the amount of warrants (including supervision by governmental savings and out guaranty stock at the time of such fractional warrants) to be issued under the loan supervisory authorities as are the issuance; that transferable warrants for the plan evidencing the right to subscribe to present mutual institutions, but in ad guaranty stock to be issued shall be dis guaranty stock of the association, tributed to the members or shareholders of (ix) the rights under and term of such dition they would be subject to the con the association in exact proportion to their warrants and the fac111ties and underlying tinuing and closer-to-home supervision relative share or savings account credits at agreements to be established enabling war of the stockholders. Full disclosure re the close of business on a date specified un rant holders to realize the full market value quired by the provisions of this bill will der the plan for the issuance of guaranty of their warrants, assure equitable treatment of savers in stock; that holders of transferable warrants (x) the plan for distributing such war conversions resulting from its en be provided full opportunity to redeem such rants to,members of the association, actment. warrants in such a manner as to receive fair (Xi) the amount of guaranty stock to be I urge that atten.tive study be given cash value therefor under terms and by use authorized by the association to be ex of facilities set forth in the plan, which changed for such warrants pursuant to the to this legislation in the confident ex may include underwriting arrangements with pectation that such study will demon plan, one or more securities firms or underwriting (xi!) the amount of guaranty stock, if any, strate that its passage is in the best in groups in order to establish a free market covered by options to be created in connec terests of the Nation's savings and loan procedure for the sale and purchase of such tion with the plan, together with the names savers and borrowers and in the interest warrants; that fractional warrants be issued and addresses of all persons to be granted of the public at large. representing fractional shares of guaranty such options wherever known or a descrip stock and that a market be conducted for tion of the class of persons eligible to receive For informational purposes, I request the purchase and sale of such fractional that there may be printed in the REc such options in the future, and a statement warrants with the design of assembling them of the percentage of authorized guaranty ORD immediately following my remarks a into whole shares to be evidenced by issuance section-by-section analysis of the bill. stock that the total of such options will of a stock certificate and adequate safe represent, . H.R. 10495 guards sh all be adopted by the association (xiii) all commissions or discounts paid or A bill to authorize an additional method for to assure the holders of fractional warrants to be paid, directly or indirectly, by the as Federal savings and loan associations to full opportunity to receive fair value there sociation to underwriters or agents in re raise capital, and for other purposes for; that the issuance of the guaranty stock spect of the guaranty stock to be offered, Be it enacted by the ·Senate and House of be effective on the day following the special (Xiv) the amount of estimated net pro Representatives of the United States of meeting unless formally disapproved prior ceeds, if any, to be derived from the guaranty CX-350 5568 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 stock to be issued, and the intended disposi ject to approval, by regulations or otherwise, under warrants and facilities and agree tion of such proceeds, by tqe Board." ments to help holders obtain market value; (xv) a copy of the current charter and by Criminal Code sanctions distribution plan for warrants; amount of laws of the association. authorized guaranty stock exchangeable for The plan may provide for the establish SEc. 5. Each and every provision of sec warrants; details of stock options, if any; ment of a voting trust whereby those entitled tl.ons 493, 657, 1006, 1014 and 2113 in title payments made or due underwriters; net to hold such guaranty stock shall deposit it 18 of the United States Code that is pres proceeds, if any, of stock and their disposi in a voting trust having a life of not more ently applicable to a Federal savings and tion; and current charter and bylaws. Plan than five years from the date of issuance of loan association shall hereafter apply to a may provide a voting trust up to 5 years, such guaranty stock, and those entitled to Federal sa:vings and loan association whether and may allow directors to halt stock issue hold such guaranty stock placed in a voting or not it has guaranty stock. before its effective date. trust shall accept, as evidence of ownership Separability Section 4. Conversion: (a) Amends first of such stock, voting trust certificates issued SEc. 6. If any provision of this Act or the paragraph of section 5(i), Home Owners' Loan in accordance with the terms of the voting application of such provision to any person Act, to permit State-chartered savings and trust agreement, which shall be set forth or circumstances shall be held invalid, there loan association that belongs to Federal in the written plan. The plan may contain mainder of this Act and the application of Home Loan Bank System to convert to Fed a provision permitting the Board of Directors such provision to any other person or cir eral savings and loan association on 51 per of the association to halt the. issuance of cumstance shall not be affected thereby. cent of votes at a called meeting. Conversion guaranty stock at any time prior to its effec is subject to Board rules and regulations, but tive date." Right to amend if guaranty stock issue is involved, need con Conversion SEc. 7. The right to alter, amend, or repeal form only to provisos in proposed section SEc. 4. (a) The first paragraph of section this Act is hereby expressly reserved. 5(b) (2) of Home Owners' Loan Act as out 5(i) of said A~t is amended to read as fol lined above in section 3 of this bill, dealing lows: SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS OF THE FED with requirements for stock issue. A con "(i) Any Federal Home Loan Bank mem ERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION ACT verted association enjoys all benefits of a ber organized pursuant to the laws of the OF 1964 Federal savings and loan association and be State, District or Territory in which the Section 1. Short title: "Federal Savings comes subject to same examination and reg principal office of such member is located and Loan Association Act of 1964." ulation as a Federal savings and loan associ may convert itself into a Federal savings and Section 2. Federal Savings and Loan As ation. loan association under this Act upon a vote sociations: Removes mandate from section (b) Amends second paragraph of section of 51 per centum or more of the votes cast 5(a), Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, that 5 ( i) , Home Owners Loan Act, to permit a at a legal meeting called to consider such such associations must be only "mutual" in Federal savings and loan association, whether action; but such conversion shall be subject structure. or not it has guaranty stock, to convert to a State-chartered savings and loan associ to rules and regulations as the Board may Section 3. Raising of capital: Amends sec prescrl'be: Provided, That the conversion of tion 5(b), Home Owners' Loan Act, as fol ation by following the specific procedures such an association to a Federal savings and lows: outlined in that paragraph. Changes present loan association having guaranty stock shall law only by providing for notice of meeting (b) (1) 'Federal savings and loan _asso~ia to holders of guaranty stock as well as to be required to conform only to the provisos tions may continue to raise capital v1a Wlth contained in subsection (b) (2) ·of this sec members, and by noting method of distribut drawable savings accounts, but may also ing assets to savers and stockholders in the tion. The converted association shall be en raise additional capital by issuing guaranty titled to all the benefits of this section and event of liquidation. stock. Guaranty stock is subordinated to (c) Amends section 5(i), Home Owners' shall be subject to examination and regula claims of creditors and savers, forms a sec- tion to the same extent as other associations Loan Act, by deleting the present third para . ondary reserve against losses, . and is. no_n graph dealing with catchall permission for incorporated pursuant to this Act." withdrawable until all associatwn liabllitles (b) The second paragraph of section 5(i) conversion of a Federal savings and loan as are fully satisfied. If guaranty stock is is sociation into a State-chartered institution of said Act is amended: sued, savings are deposits, earnings paid ( 1 ) by inserting a comma after the word on any equitable basis approved by Board, thereon are interest, and voting power and and by substituting two new paragraphs. "association" the first time it appears in said equity ownership are in stockholders, who paragraph and by inserting immediately The first new paragraph permits conversion may authorize stock options up to 10 per of a Federal savings and loan association, after the comma the words: "whether or cent of authorized guaranty stock. Only not it has guaranty stock,"; whe"ther or not it has guaranty stock, to a certificates of indebtedness for borrowed State-chartered mutual or stock savings and (2) by deleting the words "of members"; money may be authorized under Federal (3) by inserting the words "and to each loan association on any equitable basis ap Home Loan Bank Board regulation. proved by Board and FSLIC. It also requires holder of guaranty stock, if any," after the (2) Federal savings and loan associations word "member" in the clause numbered (3) usual action if insurance of savings accounts may issue guaranty stock on 51 percent vote is to be terminated in connection with the in the proviso in said paragraph; of eligible votes at special meeting of mem (4) by inserting the words "as a class" conversion. The second new paragraph per bers. Initial issue is subject to Board ap mits conversion of any State-chartered mu after the word "share" the first time it ap proval, but Board cannot require higher pears in the clause numbered (6) in the tual or stock savings and loan association to capitalization than it would if no stock were a Federal savings an(i loan association with proviso in said paragraph; and issued. Transferable stock warrants issue ( 5) by inserting before the semicolon at or without guaranty stock on any equitable pro rata to savers on date set in plan of is basis approved by Board. the end of the clause numbered (6) in the suance. Warrant holders to be given op proviso in said paragraph the words "and Section 5. Criminal Code sanctions: U.S. portunity to receive fair value and may use Criminal Code sections most applicable to the holders of guaranty stock, if any, will underwriting via securities firms or under share in such assets in the manner provided Federal savings and loan associations are writers to establish free market for warrants. made applicable to such associations whether in the shares of guaranty stock". Fractional warrants issued for fractional (c) Section 5 ( i) of said Act is further or not they issue guaranty stock. shares of stock. Market to be conducted to Section 6. Separab111ty: Preserves remain amended by deleting the third paragraph assemble fractional warrants into whole thereof and by inserting after the second der of act should any provision be held in shares under safeguards for receiving fair valid. paragraph new paragraphs as follows: value. Issuance of guaranty stock to be ef "In addition to the foregoing provisions fective on day after special meeting unless Section 7. Right to amend: Since the act for conversions any association chartered as Board disapproves because issue plan vio provides for a Federal charter, Congress ex a Federal savings and loan association, pressly reserves the right to alter, amend, or lates act or existing rule or regulation. repeal the act. whether or not it has guaranty stock, may Board may name effective date if violation is also convert itself into a State ~nstitution of cured. Notice of special meeting is to state a mutual or permanent stock type of _orga nature of . vote, name time and place, and nization upon an equitable basis subject to be mailed 20 to 30 days before meeting to NEEDLESS TORTURE OF ANIMALS aporoval, by regulations or otherwise, by the each member and to FSLIC. Written plan Board and by the Federal Savings and Loan Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I ask for stock issue to be filed with Board 20 unanimous consent to extend my remarks Insurance Corporation: Provided, That if the days or more ' J;.>efore meeting. Copy to be insurance of accounts is terminated in con available for members' inspection at associa at this point in the RECORD and include nection with such transaction, the notice tion's principal office for 10 days before a newspaper article. and other action shall be taken as provided meeting. Plan must disclose pertinent in The SPEAKER. Is there objection by law and regulations for the termination formation on stock issue, including name to the request of· the gentleman from of insurance of accounts. and location of association; identity of di Florida? "In addition to the foregoing provision& rectors and officers; financial statement There was no objection. for conversion any State association of a sh.o.wi11g safe operation; pro forma financial mutual or perma:nent stock type of Ol"ga statement reflecting stock issue; certificate Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I have nization may also convert itself into a Federal of safety and soundness of association; cer a bill pending dealing with the humane savings ann loan association With or Without tificate of due notice of meeting; amount of treatment of animals which are the sub 1\l&ranty stock upon an equitable basis sub- warrants and fractional warrants; rights ject of experimentation for medical pur- 1961, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5569 poses. I was much pleased to see in the ton textile industry-by helping to make people at once voiced their choice of New York Times of this morning an edi it more competitive with foreign mills. democratic government. Lithuania in torial favoring such proposed legislation. It does not seem to me to be consistent the years following, in spit~ of economic I commend it to the attention of my or to make sense for us to pass tax cut hardships from the World War I, showed colleagues and the country. legislation to 'benefit and stimulate the great vitality, and outstanding ability The editorial follows: economy and then to fail to pass legisla in self-government and economic devel NEEDLESS T-oRTURE OF ANIMALS tion that would boost the income of our opment. In Washington and in Albany several bills wheat farmers and help our ailing cot However, with the advent of World bottled up in committees are designed to ton textile industry. War II and subsequent years that in protect animals from the cruelty of man's Failure to pass this bill when it comes dependence was taken a way and today hand or neglect. Animals that are to be before us will result in a drag on our the country suffers again under the op slaughtered, or used in medical experiments, economy at the very time we are striv pressive yoke of Russian imperialism, or in science laboratories or in classrooms ing to reduce unemployment, alleviate only this time, it is communistic instead can be saved from unspeakable pain and poverty, and spur our economy on to of czarist. torture through proposed Federal and State greater prosperity. law. The history of Lithuania is one of The Clark-Neuberger bill pending in the It makes sense, Mr. Speaker, for us strength and courage of its people U.S. Senate and a companion bill in the to pass this legislation to give our peo through many hardships and setbacks. House would insure decent treatment of lab ple what President Johnson has referred According to some scholars, the present oratory animals, including adequate rest to as a better deal for us all. day Lithuanians are a survival of a sepa and exercise areas, proper feeding and sani If this bill is not passed, the decline rate and distinct branch of the Aryan tation. Where subjected to painful tests, in income to the wheat farmer will surely family and do not belong to the Slavonic animals would be anesthetized-now not be felt in the stores and the service es or Germanic strain. The ties which the always the case. tablishments and the industrial plants people have to their past is best illus The existing Federal Humane Slaughter throughout the wheat belt and beyond. Act covers about 80 percent of the animals trated by their language, which of all the slaughtered in this country; but the rest But if we enact this legislation to in living European languages today, is most can be covered only by State laws. The crease the income of the wheat farmer closely related to Sanskrit, the ancient McEwen-Feinberg bill in Albany would out by $400 million over what it would be language of India. It has been said that law cruel practices such as shackling and without this bill, here is how it will bene the tenacity and innate national vitality hoisting of conscious animals. Another fit the entire economy: of the Lithuanian people are best illus State bill would bar indiscriminate experi Agricultural economists estimate that trated by the fact that during so many ments with animals in high school class on the basis of normal family spending rooms. And the problem of homeless and centuries of endless struggles with ex starving dogs and cats-posing a health haz patterns, the wheat farmers would spend ternal foes they have succeeded in pre ard in many communities, especially in New $100 million of this increased income on serving almost intact until the present York City-would be covered by a law en tractors, trucks, automobiles, farm ma day, the distinctiveness of their speech. couraging the spaying of domestic animals. chinery, and equipment. It is that spirit and determination of None of these bills is anti-vivisection leg They would spend $195 million on the Lithuanians that Communist Russia islation. Medical and scientific research housing, clothing, food, and other basic is trying to break, just as did czarist must continue for man's health and benefit. living items. They would spend $35 mil Russia previously. Mass deportations, But human carelessness and cruelty to ani lion on transportation, $20 million for executions, brainwashing of the youth, mals are always present--and always unnec medical care, $5 million for education, essary. and other means are being used by the and $40 million for other family living Communists to destroy every vestige of purposes. the rich and honorable history of the WHEAT-COTTON BILL BOOST TO It is estimated that every dollar a Lithuanians. NATION'S ECONOMY farmer spends turns over 17 times in the But history has shown that the light Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I ask channels of trade. So, if we can help of freedom and liberty cannot be totally unan:.mous consent that the gentleman improve the income of the wheat farmer extinguished, and history will prove this from Texas [Mr. PuRCELL] may extend over- what it will be if no legislation is in the case of Lithuania, and in the other his remarks at this point in the RECORD passed, we will have benefited not only captive nations behind the Iron Curtain the wheat farmer but our entire and include extraneous matter. that suffer und~r Soviet Russia's iron The SPEAKER. Is there objection economy. rule. to the request of the gentleman from In a day when all nations decry co Florida? THE 46TH ANNIVERSARY OF LITHU lonialism, with Communist Russia one There was no objection. ANIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY of the loudest, she herself is the great Mr. PURCELL. Mr. Speaker, we have Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I ask est violator. Today, when Communist but recently passed a tax cut bill de unan:mous consent that the gentleman Russia is foremost among the advocates signed to stimulate the economy of this from Michigan [Mr. LESINSKI] may ex of granting freedom and independence to Nation. And we will soon have before us tend his remarks at this point in the the onetime colonies in Africa and other another bill designed to further stimu RECORD and include extraneous matter. parts of the world, she steadfastly re late an important segment of our The SPEAKER. Is there objection fuses to grant freedom and independ economy. to the request of the gentleman from ence to the countries which she has en Or, to put it another way, the wheat Florida? slaved. cotton bill is one to prevent a slump in There was no objection. As I have said on previous occasions, this segment of our economy that will Mr. LESINSKI. Mr. Speaker, on Feb if Communist Russia truly means what surely occur if we do not pass this legis ruary 16 of this year, Americans of it says about peace and freedom, let it lation. Lithuanian descent throughout our permit free and open electi 'Jns in the I am referring, of course, to the por country paused to pay special observance captive nations, such as Lithuania, so tion of the farm bill dealing with the of the 46th anniversary of Lithuanian that those people can independently ex wheat price support program. Independence Day. Fortunately, living ercise the precious right to vote for the Because, unless we pass this bill, the in the United States, they were able to governments of their choice. income of wheat farmers will surely drop do this, but their unfortunate relatives this year about $600 million below last and friends in that Baltic State could TESTIMONY SUPPORTING H.R. 699 year. not do so openly, for they suffer under TO REQUIRE CONTIGUOUS AND But, by the passage of this bill we can the tyranny of an alien power to which increase the income of wheat farmers freedom and independence are extremely COMPACT CONGRESSIONAL DIS by between $400 and $450 million more distasteful. TRICTS than what it will be if no bill at all is With the overthrow of the czarist gov Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, I ask passed. ernment in Russia in 1918, the countries unan:mous consent that the · gentleman Parenthetically, I might add that this which had lived under its reign of ter from New York [Mr. MULTER] may ex bill also would benefit another impor ror, including Lithuania, declared them tend his remarks at this point in the tant segment of our economy-the cot- selves to be independent states and the RECORD and include extraneous matter. 5570 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE March 18 The SPEAKER. Is there objection for redress? The Constitution of the Unit the number obtained by dividing the total to the request of the gentleman from ed States entrusts to the State legislatures population of such State by the number the task of drawing the lines of the congres of Representatives apportioned to such Florida? sional districts. The present disgraceful sit State." There was no objection. uation proves that all of the States have Gerrymandered districts would be elimi Mr. MULTER. Mr. Speaker, I was not acted responsibly in this matter. n.ated by the compact and contiguous ter privileged today to submit the following As a result, justifiably indignant citizens ntory requirements. The silent gerrymander testimony to Subcommittee No. 5 of the have turned to the Federal courts. Until would be impossible because the disparity of House Judiciary Committee favoring my recently, they were equally unsuccessful in population between districts could not exceed bill, H.R. 699, which would require con that arena. The February 17 decision of the 10 percent. This, in my opinion, allows a tiguous and compact congressional dis Supreme Court of the United States in the reasonable variance which is necessary in case of Wesberry against Sanders marks the some cases because of the geography of the tricts ·and which would further require end of the era o·f frustration for these voters. State. that they be composed of no more than The Court held in this case that the history It is iJ?portant to note that the Congress, approximately 10 percent of the State's and wording of the constitutional command · in enactmg this bill, would not be taking on population: that the "House of Representatives shall be the task of districting or redistricting the STATEMENT OF HON. ABRAHAM J. MULTER IN composed of Members chosen-by the peo States: We would in no way usurp the power SUPPORT OF H.R. 699 BEFORE SUBCOMMITI'EE ple of the several States" demands that "as granted to the State legislatures by the Con NO. 5 OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, . nearly as is practicable one man's vote in a stitution. We would merely accept our con MARCH 18, 1964 congressional election is to be worth as much stitutionally imposed responsibility to su pervise the regulations of the States and Mr. Chairman, I very much appreciate the as another's." The relevant question for us, the Mem would establish a reasonable and practical set opportunity to testify today in favor of my of guidelines to aid them. bill, H.R. 699, which would require the es bers of Congre\SS, is whether this decision has absolved us from any responsibility in 'Dhis bill would be ·meaningless if no tablishment of congressional districts com means of enforcement were provided. How posed of contiguous and compact territories, legislating on the subject. In my opinion we are not so absolved. In fact, the Court's ever, H.R. 699 specifies that "Any Represen and require further that the districts so tative elected to the Congress from a dis established within any one State shall con decision has made action by the Congress even. more urgent. trict which does not conform to the require tain approximately the same number of ments-shall be denied his seat in the House inhabitants. It is mandatory that we finally come to grips with this problem and lay down guide of Representatives." This is clearly within Mr. Chairman, the early settlers of this our power for article I, section 5 of the country brought with them from England lines for the State legislatures; guidelines which are not contained in the decisions of Constitution states that, "Each House shall the concept of representative government. be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and That concept is basic to our form of Govern the Supreme Oourt. That we have both the power and the re Qualifications of its own Members." ment and has, in fact, become even more There is considerable speculation in the meaningful with the steady broadening of sponsibility to do so is unquestionable. Arti cle I, section 4, of the Constitution, referred press and elsewhere about the probable ef the base of democracy. We in the House of fects of widespread reapportionment by the Representatives, in particular, should be to earlier, gives to the State legislatures the responsibility for prescribing the "Times, State legislatures. Statistical analyses acutely aware of the meaning of representa sh?wing which sections of the States may tive government. The very name of the body Places, and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives." But this gam seats and which may lose and which we constitute, the very designation each of political party may gain and which may us bears, should constantly remind us that power is qualified by the fact that "the Con lose, are not uncommon. we are here, in a very real sense, to act in gress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the places of Mr. Chairman, I think these considera the place of those who make up our con tions are completely irrelevant. The House stituencies. chusing Senators." Our sparing use of this power in .the past of Representatives was intended to be the This right of the citizens to designate those "popular chamber." To be truly that it who will make the laws under which they live does not excuse action now. There are am must accurately reflect population which it must be neither compromised nor flouted. ple precedents for congressional action on was established to serve. this matter. In the act of June 25, 1842, the It is a right too basic and too precious. And For too long our unwillingness to accept yet this fundamental right is compromised Congress called for the election of Repre sentatives by districts and required that in our duty and our responsibility has created in every section of this country in every con a vacuum. I ask you to reflect upon the in gressional election. This is not a pleasant those cases where a State was entitled to more than one Representative the districts justice of a situation in which the citizens indictment and it signifies a state of affairs the ~ources of all governmental power, ar~ of which we should be deeply ashamed. were to be composed of contiguous terri tory. The act of May 23, 1850, omitted the depnved of a franchise equal in weight to It is an indisputable fact that malappor that of their neighbor by the very agencies tionment is a distortion of representative requirement of contiguous territory but it reappeared in the acts of July 14, 1862, and which were established to project their government. It is also an indisputable fact rights. For too long was this right left that the present congreSISional apportion February 2, 1872. The latter act further re quired that each district contain "as nearly unchampioned. It is true that the Supreme ment of this country amounts to the partial Court has now stepped into the void. But disfranchisement of 40 million of our citi as practicable an equal number of inhabit ants." The act of January 16, 1901, added what is required are prospective and general zens. It is inconceivable to me how such a guidelines such as will only be found in a situation can be justified. to this the requirement that the districts be legislative enactment. This malapportionment of which I speak composed of compact territory. These three requirements remained in effect until 1929. I ask you to give consideration to H.R. is brought about in two ways. The more 699. It is imperative that we act quickly, obvious is gerrymandering, the arbitrary ar Unfortunately, subsequent legislation has omitted them. not out of panic, but out of an aroused sense rangement of the congressional districts in of justice. Thank you. a State so as to give one political party an un In all cases, Congress has been under fair advantage. The more invidious method standably reluctant to exercise its power in is th.e silent gerrymander, the failure of the this matter. It has never attempted to draw State legislature to redistrict the State to or redraw the lines of a State's congressional RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE reflect shifts in population. The result is districts. In fact, it never attempted to en JEWISH PASSOVER a State composed of congressional districts force the provisions of the laws I have men which vary significantly in population. In troned. There is, however, a point at which The SPEAKER. Under previous or Texas there is a difference of 735,156 persons this reluctance to act becomes a dereliction der of the House, the gentleman from between the largest and the smallest dis of duty. I sincerely believe that that is now Ohio [Mr. FEIGHANJ is recognized for 15 tricts. This disparity is 465,274 in Arizona, the case. The law now in effect, the Reap minutes. 458,403 in Colorado, 406,971 in Indiana and portionment Act of June 18, 1929, as amended Mr. FEIGHAN. Mr. Speaker, the news so forth. What this means is that the' vote by the Equal Proportions Act of 1941, re of a citizen in a populous district is of quires an automatic and equitable distribu stories appearing in the press about the considera-bly less weight than that of a citi tion of seats among the States after each closing of the last bakery in Moscow au zen in a less populous district. And such census. In my judgment, it is essential that thorized to prepare matzoth for the Jew dilution is nothing less than the partial dis we add to this an insistence upon an equi ish religious feast of the Passover comes franchisement of these citizens. If my esti table distribution of seats within each State. as a shock to those who believe in and mate of the growth in population in my own To this end, may I commend to your at defend religious liberty. district since the 1960 census and the reap tention my bill, H.R. 699. This bill would The feast of the Passover commemo portionment of 1962 is correct I now repre amend the Reapportionment Act of 1929 to rates the greatest event in the history of sent almost 600,000 constituents. The popu require that each State which is entitled to lation of the many districts in New York more than one Representative establish dis Jewish religious life-the redemption of is under 400,000. tricts composed of compact and contiguous Israel from Egyptian slavery. Down The legal and political situation of the territory "and the number of inhabitants through the centuries devout Jews have voter thus discriminated against is of cru contained within any district so established observed the Passover as symbolic of cial importance. To whom may he turn shall not vary more than 10 percent from rebellion against oppression and of free- 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 5571 dom from slavery. The feast of the a global objective of the United Nations but it is sutncient w:th all the means of Passover is for Jews everywhere the festi Charter and the operating organs of that instant communication and rapid trans val of freedom. organization. portation at the command of our Gov Matzoth is unleavened bread made Third. The studied practice of reli ernment. from wheat ftour and is consumed at all gious discriminations or persecution by House Joint Resolution 954 reads as meals for the 7 days of the Passover. any permanent member of the United follows: Without it the Passover observance loses Nations Security Council does violence Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep its symbolic message and religious lesson to the lofty purposes of that world orga resentatives of the United States of America for Jewry the world over. nization and gives rise to a serious threat in Congress assembled: , This year Soviet Russia has used to peace. No one will forget that the Whereas religious liberty is one of the most again the overworked claim that it was religious and racial persecutions engaged cherished rights of American democracy; and in by the Hitler Nazis eventually trig Whereas the securing and protection of re necessary to close down the last remain ligious liberty is a desired objective of the ing Jewish bakery in Moscow for sani gered off World War II. United Nations; and tary reasons. Every literate person Fourth. The cause of peace is served Whereas the limitation or denial of reli knows there is a critical shortage of by calling upon Nikita Khrushchev as gious liberty to one religious group or sect grain and ftour in the Soviet Union and chairman of the Council of Ministers by any member of the United Nations is a that the United States was called upon and the entire membership of the Coun threat to the liberty of all religious groups to open its surplus grain bins to prevent cil of Nationalities of the U.S.S.R. to and sects; and a famine in the Soviet Union. But this cause an immediate cessation of all gov Whereas the studied practice of religious shortage of ftour in Moscow was met by ernmental measures which deny mem discrimination or persecution by any per bers of the Jewish faith the opportunity manent member of the United Nations Se members of the Jewish community there curity Council does violence to the charter who provided the bakery with their own to make preparations for and to observe of that organization and gives rise to a seri limited rations in order that matzoth their religious feast of the Passover. ous threat to peace: Now, therefore, be it might be made. Anyone who knows the Fifth. The President of the United Resolved, That it is the sense of Congress realities of life in the Soviet Union to States be authorized and requested to that the cause of peace with justice is served day knows this was a real act of personal use the full facilities of our Government, by calling upon the chairman of the Council sacrifice. But the Russian authorities on an emergency basis, to make arrange of Ministers and the membership of the have made those sacrifices meaningless ments for and-to bring about the "delivery Council of Nationalities of the Union of So of an adequate suply of matzoth to key viet Socialist Republics to cause an immedi by closing down the bakery at a critical ate cessation of all measures which deny to time under a wornout ruse used many centers of Jewish life in the U.S.S.R. members of the Jewish faith the free, devo times before to prevent observance of to meet the requirements of Passover tional, and historic observance of the feast of the Passover. which begins at sundown on Friday, the Passover; and be it further These developments come as a shock March 27. Resolved, That the President of the United in light of the claims that conditions The objectives of this resolution are State is hereby authorized and requested to within the Soviet Union are mellowing, entirely within our capabilities and they use the full facllities of our Government to that the harsh doctrines of atheistic com are in concert with our most cherished make arrangements for and to bring about munism are no longer forced upon the the delivery of an adequate supply of mat moral and political ideals. Our own his zoth to key centers of Jewish life in the subject peoples and that the present tory teaches us that political liberty must U.S.S.R., on an emergency basis, so that the leadership of the Soviet Union is anxious apply to all or it will soon apply to none. feast of the Passover which begins at sun to make concessions in the cause of Recent history teaches us that the most down on Friday, March 27, and ends at sun peace. For what is taking place in the virulent seeds of war are planted and down Saturday, April 4, of this year may be Soviet Union today with respect to treat nurtured by organized religious persecu observed in keeping with 5,724 years of Jew ment of Jews is no different than the tion employed as an instrument of policy ish tradition. days of Stalin or the days of the most by a nation, state, or empire capable of corrupt and oppressive czars. The tac making war. tics may differ, but the end results are There is now established a "hot line" LEAVE OF ABSENCE the same. - of communications between Washington By unanimous consent, leave of ab .And worse, the latest English lan and Moscow. That "hot line" is main sence was granted to Mr. DEL CLAWSON guage edition of the Russian magazine, tained for the purpose of adjusting mat th ends 24 hours a day for business. throughout the United States, carries a the handling of matters vital to main feature article and picture layout claim taining peace. SPECIAL ORDER GRANTED ing religious liberty for the Jews in the The United States has demonstrated Soviet Union. This magazine enters the the capabilities of tremendous emer By unanimous consent, permission to United States under terms of the cultural gency airlifts of supplies to distant lands address the House, following the legisla agreement between the United States and for peaceiul purposes. We have re tive program and any special orders the U.S.S.R. and is alleged to represent sponded to human needs in many distant heretofore entered, was granted to Mr. the truth about life in the Soviet Union. lands with the power of our airlift capa FEIGHAN, for 15 minutes, today; and to The claim is made in the March 1964 is bilities. revise and extend his remarks. sue of U.S.S.R. that no religious Jew suf I am confident the productive capa fers in the Soviet Union, that synagogues bilities of our free economy can produce EXTENSION OF REMARKS are open, that religious freedom is unin overnight the supply of matzoth required hibited for those who believe, that Jew by religious Jews in the Soviet Union. I By unanimous consent, permission to ish culture ftourishes under the protec am equally confident the generous heart extend remarks in the CoNGRESSIONAL tion of law and is furthered by the benev of our country will respond with volun RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks, olence of an understanding government. tary contr~butions sutlicient to cover the was gran ted to: It is time we took action to determine emergency costs of producing the re ve that the Senate proceed to the and Dolza Maya; to the Committee on the termined eligible under this authority consideration of executive business to Judiciary. are specifically appropriated to the consider the nominations on the Execu By Mr. TUCK: President for purposes of disaster relief. tive Calendar. H .R. 10501. A bill for the relief of Elvira LYNDON B. JOHNSON. The motion was agreed to; and the Constantin!; to the Committee on the Judi THE WHITE HOUSE, March 18, 1964. Senate proceeded to the consideration ciary. of executive business. •• .... I I MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE EXECUTIVE MESSAGE REFERRED SENATE A message from the House of Repre The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem sentatives, by Mr. Bartlett, one of its pore laid before the Senate a message WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1964 reading clerks, announced that the House had passed the following bills of from the President of the United States