10310 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE May 16 an agreement that will serve as a valuable STATE OF NEw YoRK, We deeply appreciate the confidence in precedent in safeguarding the public health EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, New York State evidenced by the expres­ and safety and in introducing into the regu­ Albany, Apr. 26, 1960. sion of the Commission's hope, contained latory control of atomic activities the com­ Hon. JoHN A. McCoNE, in Acting Chairman Floberg's letter to me petence and high regard for the public in­ Chairman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, of April 12, that we take the lead in reach­ terest which exists among State authorities. Washington, D.C. ing an agreement with the Commission and We look upon this new step as a milestone DEAR JoHN: I am inclosing a copy of a thereby serve as an example for other States in the development and control of atomic letter I have sent to the President advis­ to follow. We shall make every effort to energy, and we shall do aJ.l that we can to ing that New York State will submit its com­ achieve this desirable objective. insure its success. · · ments on the Commission's criteria for With best wishes. Sincerely, proposed Federal-State atomic energy agree­ Sincerely, NELSON A. RocKEFELLER. ments to you within the next few weeks. NELSON A. RocKEFELLER.

proval for mergers and consolidations of in­ embodied in the five freedoms-speech, SENATE sured banks; religion, press, assembly, and petition­ S. 1328. An act for the relief of Parker E. sanctified by the Bill of Rights adopted MoNDAY, MAY 16, 1960 Dragoo; S. 1408. An act for the relief of Ronald R. by Congress in 1789 and later ratified The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, Dagon and Richard J. Hensel; by the States. and was called to order by the President S. 1410. An act for the relief of Jay R. I believe it important that the story pro tempore. Melville and Peter E. K. Shepherd; of the noble ideas which shaped our The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown S. 1466. An act for the relief of Sofia W. country's beginning, its course, its great Sarris; moments, and the men who made it pos­ Harris, D.D., offered the following S. 2173. An act for the relief of Mrs. John prayer: sible, be ever present in the minds of Slingsby, Lena Slingsby, Alice B. Slingsby, Americans. This purpose can be fur­ God of our fathers, and our God, with and Harry Slingsby; S. 2234. An act for the relief of the estate thered in a variety of ways, but the sim­ this new week, our prayerful thoughts of Hilma Claxton; plest and most effective of all methods leap the sea to the summit consultations S. 2309. An act for the relief of Gim Bong in my judgment is to present it impres­ where the fate of the turbulent world Wong; sively in visual form. The erection of may hang in the balance. · S. 2333. An act for the relief of the heirs the Freedom Monument would accom­ In all this meeting of minds, we would of Caroline Henkel, William Henkel (now plish that objective. The National Cap­ be vividly conscious of spiritual re­ deceased) , and George Henkel (presently re­ siding at Babb, Mont.), and for other pur­ ital area is adorned by a galaxy of me­ sources. We are grateful for the leaders morials to individuals but nowhere in of free men who are there with a faith poses; S. 2430. An act for the relief of certain the Nation's Capital or this Nation can that colors their outlook,-that determines employees of the General Services Adminis­ one find a memorial to the principles and their objectives, that stretches out their tration; ideals upon which our Government is horizons, and which is linked to the su­ S. 2507. An act to relieve Joe Keller and based. premacy of things unseen. H. E. Piper from 1958 wheat marketing pen­ The Commission, since its creation, Fortified by that faith, may Thy bene­ alties and loss of soil bank benefits; and has placed the ideas I have mentioned on diction rest upon the leaders of the free S. 2778. An act to amend the act relating to tlle Commission of Fine Arts. the drawing board. lt is intimately world, face to face with ideas of the acquainted with the problems involved earth, earthy doctrines, alien to the in the erection of the Monument; it has emancipating revelation which has lifted REPORT OF NATIONAL MONUMENT advanced the memorial; and I recom­ mankind from the cave to the cathedral. mend that the Commission be author- At this altar of divine grace, we re­ COMMISSION-MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT ized to complete the task. !_ joice in the moral majesty of a creative DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. ' creed whose fundamental belief is, not in The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be­ THE WHITE HOUSE, May 14, 1960. material might, or in scientific achieve­ fore the Senate the following message ment, but in the dignity of the individual from the President of the United States, made in the image of God and in the which was read and referred to the Com­ REPORT OF NATIONAL CAPITAL eternal laws of the Creator which for mittee on Int~rior and Insular Affairs: HOUSING AUTHORITY-MESSAGE men and· nations only are the paths to FROM THE PRESIDENT abundant life. To the Congress of the United States: · In spite of the formidable forces ar­ I am enclosing for the consideration of The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be­ rayed against us, grant to those who the Congress a report of the National fore the Senate the following message stand for us and speak for us before the Monument Commission submitted as di­ from the President of the United States, bar of world opinion and judgment the rected by the act of August 31, 1954. I which was read and, with the accom­ triumphant assurance that they who are have requested the Secretary of the In­ panying report, referred to the Commit­ for us are more than those against us. terior to submit to the Congress a pro­ tee on Banking and Currency: In the dear Redeemer's name we ask posed bill embodying the Commission's To the Congress of the United States: it. Amen. recommendations. The Commission's report recommends In accordance with the provisions of an approved design for the Freedom section 5(a) of Public Law 307, 73d Con­ THE JOURNAL gress, approved June 12, 1934, I transmit Monument, asks that the Commission be herewith for the information of the Con­ On request of Mr. JOHNSON of Texas, authorized to erect the monument, sug­ gress the report of the National Capital and by unanimous consent, the reading gests that the number of private citizens Housing Authority for the fiscal year of the Journal of the proceedings of Fri­ serving on the Commission be increased day, May 13, 1960, was dispensed with. from four to eight, asks the Congress to ended June 30, 1959. authorize the appropriation of $12 mil­ DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. lion as the Federal share of the cost of THE WHITE HOUSE, May 14, 1960. MESSAGES FROM THE PRESI­ construction, and requests that the Com­ DENT-APPROVAL OF BILLS mission be authoriZed to solicit private REPORT OF U.S. CIVIL SERVICE Messages in writing from the President contributions for the remaining cost of COMMISSION ENTITLED "EM­ of the United States were communicated the monument. PLOYEE TRAINING FOR BETTER to the Senate by Mr. Miller, one of his The act of August 31, 1954, created PUBLIC SERVICE"- MESSAGE secretaries, and he announced that on the National Monument Commission for May 13, 1960, the President had ap­ the purpose of securing designs and plans · FROM THE PRESIDENT proved and signed the following acts: for a useful monument to the Nation The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be­ S. 1062. An act to amend the Federal De­ symbolizing to, the . United States and fore .the Senate the following message posit Insurance Act to require Federal ap- the world the ideals of our democracy as from the President of the United States, J_960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - ·SENATE 10311 which was read and, with the accom- quest the President to issue a proclama­ A few hours ago he withdrew his in­ :Panying report, referred to the Commit- tion in connection with the centennial vitation to President Eisenhower to visit tee on Post Office and Civil Service: of the birth of General of the Armies the Soviet Union; and now we are in­ John J. Pershing. formed that Mr. Khrushchev's price for To the Congress ot the United States: negotiating at all is one thali obviously The Government Employees Training is unacceptable to the United States. Act ersuasion, can successfully cope with ples everywhere-a realization of how as they have so eloquently done this the challenge of a completely regimented slender is the reed by which we clinch morning. society, a dictatorship which now engulfs to a civilized survival. That is the fact, Mr. GORE. Mr. President, the feeling one-third of the world and surges with and it ought now to be visible to all. Yet of resentment must be unanimous among the monolithic unity of totalitarianism. this blazing fact is in danger of being the American people that the President . To provide the answer, the United lost at Paris. National passions rise up has been insulted by Mr. Khrushchev. I States must reassess its policies, must on all sides to overwhelm it. The strug­ agree with the junior Senator from Mon- rededicate itself to its fundamental pur­ gle of propaganda takes precedence over tana that it is a time when one must pose-to the goal of greatness to which it. The incident is not being appraised hold his emotions in rein. That is nee- destiny beckons it. in terms of its .deep implications for the essary, because the consequence of trag- Several Senators addressed the Chair. present state of the world's tensions. edy in Paris today could be grave, in- The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Th,e Let me say with all the seriousness that I possess that if this game goes on deed. Unless the rift can be healed by Senator from Wisconsin is recognized. · in its present vein-this game of propa­ statesmen of good will and noble pur- Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, the de­ ganda and counterpropaganda, this game pose, one consequence-one regrettable liberate act of Khrushchev to scuttle the of probe and counterprobe, this game of consequence-might be an intensifica- conference re:fiects once more the twisted, charge and countercharge, this game of tion of the armaments race, the easing unreliable, tortuous line of communist invite or not to invite-there Will, indeed, of which the people of the world had policy. I said "the deliberate act.'' be a monumental wreckage to study. earnestly hoped for. we saw Khrushchev get off the plane But it will be for some other generation, I thought it ·was most appropriate smiling. He had made some prelimina~ not this one, to study it. For the wreck­ that the Chaplain of the Senate prayed remarks before coming to the conference. age will be not just a plane. It will be .for careful, dispassionate, earnest con- Everyone thought there was to be a the charred remnants of the civilization . ~ideration at the summit .conference homecoming of nations, with a big pur­ which houses living mankind. when the Senate convened a few mo- pose of arriving somewhere. Instead of That is the grim and fundamental ments ago. that, Khrushchev "blew his top." The reality which confronts the chiefs of I believe the American people can arrogant way in which he made the· de­ state. There is no room at this meeting trust President Eisenhower to react as mand for the apology of the President of for displays of outraged indignation on the gentleman that he is, as a military this country at the opening session of anyone's part. There is no room for leader, as a man of honor, as an em- the conference is in itself most repre­ propaganda plays designed to bring to bodiment of the pride, of the hopes, hensible and not in accordance with rea­ any nation the label of sole custodian and the aspirations of the American sonable conduct of' international affairs. of peace or the sole source of provoca­ people for peace. . What he did causes every person who has ti-on to war. Mr. President, Senators will recall that a thinking apparatus to ask why he did At this critical juncture the four men I am one of those who have had. mis- it. The answer must be that he did it who meet are in every sense the prin­ givings about a haphazard approach to for home consumption. Things are not cipal guardians of humanity's highest ·a conference among heads of state. going very well within the borders of hopes-perhaps of the human species Regrettably, the events of today dem- Russia. itself. This may well be the decisive onstrate the unwisdom of substituting The history of the Soviet espionage moment when the deadly game begins personalized diplomacy for the hard and subversion-yes, outright aggres­ to end in the beginnings of a beginning work and a careful step-by-step solu- sion-the world knows. Every country of a durable peace, or drift into the path tion of international proble:rng by pains- in Europe kriows of it. Then Khru­ of inevitable war. If they maintain that taking negotiation through the custom- shchev puts on . a stage play. I do not perspective, these men will put aside, ary courses of diplomacy. That, how- think he has fooled very many people by and they will urge their peoples to put ever, is beside the point just now. What it. He has, however, created another .aside, the dangerous provocations and does the future hold? crisis-and it is a crisis. the glib propaganda. They will see these : We must look to our strength. We khrushchev knows that today we have provocations, this propaganda, for what must look 'to the strength of our res- Colonel · Abel, a Soviet spy, in a U.S. they are, fragments embedded in the olution, to the strength of our dedica- prison: He knows also that Switzerland great wound which festers in mankind tion to the central pulse of our crea- "kicked out" a couple of spies the other and threatens the very existence of civil­ tion. We must look to the strength of day. ·ization. our defense and ·that of the free world. What does Khrushchev think? .Does I would express the hope . that .Presi­ . Mr. Khrushchev created the Berlin he think that Euroi>e and the rest of the dent Eisenhower and Mr. Khrushchev crisis. We have .ari agreement S:bout world 'are simply children in evaluatmg 1980 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 10313 these conditions? What about these marks and propaganda during the last That is what happened in 1955. I was things, Mr. Khrushchev? week, has let the world know that he did a Member of the other body at the time, After long months of attempting to not dare have the President of the United and I raised my voice then, and at that get an agreement for a summit confer- States visit the Soviet Union, because time I said I thought it was wrong to do ence, Khrushchev now throws the world of his position, because of his personal so. But we went and accomplished hopes out the window and throws out appeal, and because of his :fine method nothing and suffered a setback. Some the window the hoped-for agreement · of meeting folks in various countries, of us hoped we would learn a lesson then. which might lessen world tensions. The which has been demonstrated time and But we kept right on from one mistake world, I believe, will hold him account- again. I regret it sincerely, because I to another. able. believe it would have been a great thing Now this has happened. It was all Of course, we know his motives. First, for the Soviet nation-the rulers and predictable, I say. I do not believe that we let him come to this country. We the people of that nation-to have had Khrushchev ever intended to have Pres­ treated him like a gentleman. By the an opportuntiy to come in contact with ident Eisenhower visit the Soviet Union, usual trickery of Communist policies, he the President's thinking and his person­ because he knew the President's visit has now denied the equivalent right to ality at a time when the world sorely would threaten his control over the peo­ our President, the right to meet the Rus- needs that type of leadership. ple he holds in subjection under his sian people. Why is this? Is he fear- I believe that on this occasion all of tyranny. He knew it would threaten, as ful the salesmanship of the Chief Ex- us should be proud O>f the fact that we well, control over the millions of people ecutive of this country is such, in relat- treated Mr. Khrushchev as a ruler of a he holds in confinement in the captive ing the facts, that the Russian people great country, and that we gave him nations. He could never permit Presi­ might, indeed, say to Mr. Khrushchev, every consideration when he was in the dent Eisenhower, with his frankness and "We do not like your lies. We do not United States on his visit. Every cour­ honesty and his captivating personality, like the way you behave. We like the tesy was extended to him, and all doors the opportunity to talk to the Russian way the American Nation treats its peo- were opened to him. Now he hasdemon­ people who are held in thralldom by the ple and the way the President of that strated to the world that he does not evil dictatorship of the Soviet Union. Nation treats the people." care to live in a neighborly fashion with So I repeat it was predictable. The Of course, Khrushchev, as an interna- the rest of the world. tragedy of it is that we welcomed tional poker player, thought he had a It is our duty now to remain calm and Khrushchev to our own country and trump card. As a matter of fact, it was deliberate and take no hasty action, but thereby increased his prestige and stand­ only a deuce. He has already overplayed realize that we are living in a very diffi..:. ing in the world and furthered his evil his hand. · cult time. plans. While this is no · time for vio­ Now we will all wait to see what the Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I have lence and no time for recklessness, it is, President will have to say. I am sure we listened with great interest to the state­ however, a time for reflection, for prayer­ will find he will call a spade a spade. He ments made this morning by the distin­ ful reflection. will not mince any words. guished majority leader, the very able Right now I am sure Khrushchev is As I understand the situation, Khru- assistant majority leader, the gentle .carrying on a massive propaganda effort shchev is proposing another adjourn- minority leader, and other leading Mem­ to get us to permanently suspend all ment of 8 months. Perhaps he hopes bers of the Senate on both sides of the nuclear testing. Many well-intentioned then there may be a new President whom aisle regarding the latest developments people are being used. by him. Insofar he can handle. · · in Paris. Certainly I wish to commend as my limited talents are concerned I He is going to be fooled. No candi- all of them for the interest which they tried to make this clear here in the Sen­ date for the Presidency has any con- have expressed at this critical hour. ate last Thursday. There are better in­ fidence in Khrushchev's methods or his I am sure all of them agree with me formed persons. in Congress on this sub­ promises. They know the history of that while this is a time for sanity and ject than I, persons with more prestige Mr. Khrushchev and Stalin. I believe self-control, it is, as well, a time for and more experience in this field. I say the American people should consider reflection-, and also a time for all of us they should speak up .and tell the people this food for thought when they select to wake up and recognize that we have the facts and what needs to be done. the next President of the United states. been pursuing a course which has led Senator ANDERSON has done so, so have Yes; these are challenging times, and this Nation perilously close to grave other Senators, bUt much more should it is up to all of us to realize, as has been disaster· be said and done by the President. suggested already, that we should not A few months ago, just 7 months ago, I We all want peace, but we want peace go off halfcocked ourselves, but think stood in my place here on the floor of with honor and peace with justice. We sanely. But, more than that, we should the Senate and tried my best to warn cannot blunder our way to peace. We keep the Nation alert and adequate. my colleagues and my · countrymen of cannot beg our way to peace. We can­ Mr. CARLSON. Mr. President, Mr. what I thought was a great blunder: to not wish our way to peace. we must Khrushchev by his action this morning, bring to the United States of America, work and pray our way to peace if we in canceling President Eisenhower's and indeed to its capital, this very citadel want to have it. visit to Russia, has again demonstrated of freedom itself, to this Senate Cham­ The effort l;>y the Soviet Union to to the world that he has no desire to live ber, one of the greatest tyrants in world stymie us and cripple us and.paralyze us in the world as a neighbor with neigh- history, and give him a cloak of respect­ with respect to nuclear testing is another bors. ability and acceptance by the forces of massive move by this evil force in the I wish to associate myself with the re- justice and decency in the world. world to destroy us and to destroy our. marks ~ which have been made by the But that is past history, sad history, allies who are with us in this fight for majority leader, the minority leader, 'tragic 'history. Le~ us learn its lesson freedom. Let them· not succeed. From and the assistant majority leader as well. . ~ this hour forward let us give up.all self.; well as others, on the floor of the ser{ate, : .Since then, it seems to me, we have deception and speak and. act like . free ·in regard to the most delicate situation moved step by step closer to .what I men who know the truth and are not -that is confronting· this Nation and the · · described a few minutes ago as a grave .afraid. . ·world today at the summit meeting. I disaster. · F'or, Mr. President, unless we · So Lhope that we will wake up. am pleased by the calm statements and mend our ways disaster will visit ·us. I say to the President that he need not carefully selected remarks which have There are several points that ought to feel embarrassed or deeply disturbed. ·been made this morning on the floor of be made this morning. One of them is He · can come home to the American the Senate. All who have spo·ken realize .that we should never have agreed to people and to his free friends in the 'the seriousness of the·situation. . attend a so-called summit meeting with- world. we. will receive him well. His I have a personal feeling with regard out knowing in advance what is going to only fault is that he trusted this evil to this which I should like to state. Mr. be talked about; that we should not go man too much, but he did so with all Khrushchev, through his provocativ~ re• to such a mee~ing like country bumpkins. good intentions for our country. 10314 CONGRESSIONAL RECO~D- SENATE May 16 It has almost become something to' be EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. I ask unanimous consent that this ashamed of for people to talk about The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be­ resolution be printed in the RECORD. freedom and patriotism and liberty, and fore the Senate the following letters, There being no objection, the resolu­ about fighting and dying for the things which were referred as indicated: tion was ordered to be printed in the that are right. A man is made to feel RECORD, as follows: PROPOSED TRANSFER OF VESSEL BY NAVY DE­ like a fool or knave when he speaks of Whereas the Legislature of the State of these things. What must we do to PARTMENT TO THE .AMERICAN LEGION, ELLS­ WORTH, MICH. Kansas at its 1960 finance session has made awaken in our people the spirit of justice State funds available for the brucellosis and freedom? . What must we do to A letter from the Assistant Secretary of eradication program in Kansas for the fiscal the Navy (Material), reporting, pursuant to year beginning July 1, 1960, in the sum of teach them not to be frightened into law, that the Department of the Navy pro­ peace at any price? $382,945, and reappropriated u n used funds; poses to transfer the vessel Flami ngo and That is the great lesson to be learned {MSC0-11) to Jansen-Richardson Post No. Whereas the brucellosis eradication pro­ from this calamity. Let us be strong in 488 of the American Legion, Ellsworth, Mich.; gram in Kansas has been stepped up so our faith in freedom, and brave in the to the Committee on Armed Services. that there is now approximately 50 coun­ face of threat and bring to our side free R E PORT ON PROGRESS OF LIQUIDATION OF NA­ ties out of the total of 105 which have been men everywhere. Let us recall the days TIONAL DEFENSE, WAR AND RECONVERSION certified, or which are in the process of of our eaily founding, when only a hand­ ACTIVITIES OF RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE certification; and ful of people on a strip along the Atlantic CORPORATION Whereas it is the presen t administrativ·e Ocean gained the respect of the world A letter from the Administrator, General goal of the office of the livestock sanitary because these men were not afraid to Services Administration, Washington, D.C., commissioner, working in cooperation wit h reporting, pursuant to law, on the progress the Federal officials in this State to com­ stand up and fight for freedom. of the liquidation of ·the national defense, plete the brucellosis testing program in this Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, will the war and reconversion activities of Recon­ State by the end of fiscal year 1962: Now, Senator from Connecticut yield? struction Finance Corporation, during the therefore, be it Mr. DODD. I yield. qu arter ended Marcb 31, 1960; to the Com­ Resolved by the Livestock Commission of mittee on Banking and Currency. the State of Kansas, That the Congress of Mr. SCOTT. I am personally very the United States through the Department much thrilled at the sensible, courageous, A M ENDMENT OF ACT RELATING TO FORT HALL of Agriculture, Animal Disease Branch, and patriotic position taken by the INDIAN IRRIGATION PROJECT make available Federal funds for coopera­ distinguished Senator from Connecticut. A letter from the Assistant Secretary of tive brucellosis eradication work in Kansas Whenever in this country we are con­ .the Interior, transmitting a draft of pro­ in an amount comparable to the Kansas fronted by a crisis, it is, in my judgment, posed legislation to supplement and amend appropriation, and in an amount adequate important that voices such as that of the the act of June 30, 1948, relating to the to meet the stepped-up program, and com­ Fort Hall Indian irrigation project, and to plete the State certification goal of 1962. Senator from Connecticut be heard to approve an order of the Secretary of the In­ summon the country to a unified recog­ terior issued under the act of June 22, 1936 nition of the fact that America is not (with accompanying papers); to the Com· only the strongest nation in the world mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. REPORTS OF COMMI'ITEES in its armament, in its resources, and in REPORT ON BUSINESS TRANSACTED BY The following reports of committees its physical attributes, but that there BANKRUPTCY COURTS were submitted: exists within us a moral strength and a A letter from the Director, Administrative · By Mr. McCLELLAN, from the Committee pride in our national history which will Office of the U.S. Courts, Washington, D.C., on Government Operations, without amend­ resist the sharp tactics of a bully and a transmitting, pursuant to law, tables of ment: blusterer, and which support the Presi­ bankruptcy statistics, for the fiscal year S. 2581. A bill to amend the act of June 1, dent in the kind of situation which has ended June 30, 1959 (with an accompanying 1948 (62 Stat. 281), to empower the Admin­ developed today. document); to the Committee on the istrator of General Services to appoint non­ Judiciary. uniformed special policemen (Rept. No. While I shall speak further on this 1351); subject later, in my own time, at this mo­ H.R. 7681. An act to enact the provisions ment I wish particularly to congratu­ PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1959 with late the Senator from Connecticut, who Petitions, etc., were laid before the certain amendments (Rept. No. 1353); and is never wanting in the expression of Senate, or presented, and referred as H.R. 9983. An act to extend for 2 years the kind of patriotic and forthright the period for which payments in lieu of views which make so clear the attitude indicated: taxes may be made with respect to certain of most Americans. Truly this is not a By the PRESIDENT pro tempore: real property transferred by the Reconstruc­ A resolution of the Council of the City of tion Finance Corporation and its subsidi­ time in our country for sissies or panty­ New York, N.Y., relating to the submission aries to other Government departments waists or timid apologists, because the by the President of the United States of a. (Rept. No. 1352). need and the circumstances call for uni­ peace formula at next summit conference By Mr. McCLELLAN, from the Committee fied support of our country. between the United States and Russia; to on Government Operations, with am3nd­ Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I deeply the Committee on Foreign Relations. ments: appreciate the remarks of the Senator S. 2583. A bill to authorize the head of any from Pennsylvania. He understands executive agen cy to reimburse owners and tenants of lands or interests in land acquired this situation. He can help us all to RESOLUTION OF KANSAS LIVE­ for projects or activities under his jurisdic­ better understand. STOCK COMMISSION tion for their moving expenses, and for other The sorriest spectacle of all, to me, is Mr. CARLSON. Mr. President, at the purposes (Rept. No. 1374). Khrushchev, of all people, lecturing By Mr. EASTLAND, from the Committee President Eisenhower on morality. last session of the Kansas Legislature on the Judiciary, without amendment: Certainly a new, all-time low has been additional funds were voted for the ex­ S. 700. A bill for the relief of Mladen hit in the world when a man of Khru­ pansion of the program of brucellosis Carrara, Tonina Carrara, Ante Carrara, and shchev's record, having the blood of mil­ eradication. Zvonko Carrara (Rept. No. 1356); lions on his hands can lecture a man like Under the new program there will be S. 993. A bill for the relief of Christos G. approximately 50 counties out of the Diavatinos (Rept. No. 1357); Dwight Eisenhower about morality. S. 2277. A bill for the relief of the Geo. Perhaps this incident will help to wake 105 which have been certified, or which D. Emery Co. (Rept. No. 1358); up the American people. Think of a are in the process of being certified. B. 2740. A bill for the relief of Julia Sukkar man who has never kept his word, who At a meeting of the Kansas Livestock (Rept. No.1359); is full of deceit, who has caused all kinds Commission a resolution was adopted S. 2942. A bill for the relief of Eugene of trouble in the world, a bloody butcher, urging Congress, through the Depart­ Storme (Rept. No. 1360); S. 3049. A bill for the relief of Oh Chun lecturing a fine human being like Presi­ ment of Agriculture, Animal Disease Soon (Rept. No. 1361); dent Eisenhower, who every honest man Branch, to make available additional · H.R. 1402. An act for the relief of Leandro and woman in the world recognizes to be funds to assist the State in carrying out Pastor, Jr., and Pedro Pastor (Rept. No. such, on .the subject of morality~ -this program. 1364); 1960 CONGRESSIONAL (RECORD-: SEN:ATE 10315 H.R. 1463. An act for the relief of Johan By Mr. SCHOEPPEL: orders are solicited there by an inde­ Karel Christoph Schlichter (Rept. No. 1365) ; S. 3551. A bill for the relief of Kay Addis; pendent representative who acts for H.R. 1516. An act for the relief of Juan D. to the Committee on the Judiciary. other firms as well. Quintos, Jaime Hernandez, Delfin Buenca­ By Mr. GREEN: mino, Soledad Gomez, Nieves G. Argonza, S. 3552. A bill for the relief of Arsena An equally troublesome situation has Felididad G. Sarayba, Carmen Vda de Gomez, Kavoukdjian (Arsene Kavookjian); to the existed for some years as a result of the Perfecta B. Quintos, and Bienvenida San Committee on the Judiciary. Supreme Court decision in the General Agustin (Rept. No. 1366); S. 3553. A bill to amend section 304 of Trading Company case (322 U.S. 335), H.R. 1519. An act for the relief of the the International Claims Settlement Act of which permits States to impose the same legal guardian of Edward Peter Callas, a 1949, as amended, to provide for the pay­ responsibilities on out-of-State sellers minor (Rept. No. 1367); . ment of certain American claims arising out who send traveling salesmen to solicit · H.R. 3253. An act for the relief of Ida of the war with Italy; to the Committee on business in the taxing State. Magyar (Rept. No. 1368); Foreign Relations. H.R. 3827. An act for the relief of Jan P. By Mr. ENGLE: The unfortunate result of these two Wilczynski (Rept. No. 1369); S. 3554. A bill to provide for the convey­ decisions is that manufacturers, large H.R. 4763. An act for the relief of Josette ance of certain land to the State of Califor­ and small, are faced with the prospect A.M. Stanton (Rept. No. 1370); n1a; to the Committee on Interior and In­ of learning the details of the sale's- and H.R. 8798. An act for the relief of Romeo sular Aft'airs. use-tax laws of every State in which Gasparini (Rept. No. 1371); and By Mr. CLARK {for himself, Mr. RAN­ they do business, collecting use taxes H.R.11190. An act for the relief of Cora V. March (Rept. No. 1372). DOLPH, Mr. HARTKE, and Mr. MCGEE); from their customers and filing periodic By Mr. EASTLAND, from the Committee S. 3555. A bill relating to the training and tax returns. This imposes an impossible on the Judiciary, with an amendment: utilization of the manpower resources of burden, particularly on small business, S. 3032. A bill for the relief of Samuel Pisar the Nation, and for other purposes; to the and is a serious interference with inter­ (Rept No. 1362). Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. state commerce. By Mr. EASTLAND, from the Committee (See tb,e remarks of Mr. CLARK when he in­ troduced the above bill, which appear under A similar problem arose last year in on the Judiciary, with amendments: connection with State taxation of net S. 3130. A bill for the relief of Anne Marie a separate heading.) Stehlin (Rept. No. 1363); and By Mr. FONG (for himself and Mr. income derived from interstate com­ H.R. 1542. An act for the relief of Biagio LoNG of Hawaii): merce. As a result, Congress enacted D'Agata (Rept. No. 1373). S. 3556. A bill to compensate the State of Public Law 86-272, limiting such -taxa­ By Mr. DIRKSEN, from the Committee on Hawaii for. not having been treated on the tion and authorizing- the Committee on the Judiciary, without amendment: basis of equality with the other States in the Judiciary of the House and the Com­ S. 3366. A bill to amend title 18, United regard to payments made pursuant to titles mittee on Finance of the Senate to make States Code, sections 871 and 3056, to provide I, IV, X, and XIV of the Social Security Act; full studies leading to uniform standards penalties for threats against the successors to the Committee on Finance. to be observed by the States. to the Presidency and to authorize their pro­ . (See the remarks of Mr. FaNG when he in­ tection by the Secret Service (Rept. No. troduced the above bill, which appear under The bill I have introduced would 1354). a separate heading.) · amend Public Law 86-272 to include By Mr. O'MAHONEY, from the Committee By Mr. JOHNSON of Texas {for him-· sales and use taxes within the scope of on the Judiciary, without amendment: self and Mr. ANDERSON): the studies to be conducted by the two S. 2744. A bill to extend the term of design S. 3557. A bill to expand and extend the committees, and to limit the imposition patent No. 21,053, dated September 22, 1891, saline water conversion program under the of use taxes by the States on activities for a badge, granted to George Brown Goode direction of the Secretary of the Interior to in interstate commerce. I hope it will and assigned to the National Society, provide for accelerated research, develop­ receive prompt consideration. Daughters of the American Revolution (Rept. ment, demonstration, and application of No. 1355). practical means for the economical produc­ Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ tion, from sea or other saline waters, of wa­ sent that the text of the bill may be ter suitable for agricultural, industrial, mu­ printed in the RECORD. nicipal, and other beneficial consumptive The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The EXECUTIVE REPORT OF A uses, and for other purposes; to the Commit­ COMMITTEE bill 'will be received and appropriately tee on Interior and Insular Affairs. referred; and, without objection, the bill As in executive session, (See the remarks of Mr. JoHNSON of Texas will be printed in the RECORD. Mr. WILEY, from the Committee on when he introduced the above bill, which appear under a separate heading.) The bill (S. 3549) to amend the act of · the Judiciary, reported favorably the September 14, 1959, with respect to sales nomination of Lyle F. Milligan, of Wis­ and use taxes imposed by States on sales consin, to be U.S. marshal for the eastern and other business activities in inter­ district of Wisconsin, for the term of 4 .LIMITATION OF IMPOSITION OF state commerce, and authorizing studies years. S'I'ATE USE TAXES ON OUT-OF­ by congressional committees of this type STATE CONCERNS of taxation, introduced by Mr. BusH, Mr. BUSH. Mr. President, I intro­ was received, read twice by its title, re­ BILLS INTRODUCED duce, for appropriate reference, a bill to ferred to the Committee on Finance, and Bills were introduced, read the :first limit the imposition of use taxes by ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as time, and, by unanimous consent, the States on sales and other business activi­ follows: secFlorida-in­ 23, 1931-46 Stat. 1415-appropriated can be ·seen today and reasonably esti­ deed by every State on the coastal $880,000 for Federal-aid highways in mated for the future, may come as a sur­ perimeter of the United States. Hawaii which was the amouri.t Hawaii prise. Here are some statistics which Complicating the problem of local would have received from 1917 to 1925 indicate the gravity of the situation for water supplies is the fact that many mu­ if it had been included in the original our entire Nation: nicipal water plants were built 20, 40, or act. · The U.S. Geological Survey reports even more years ago. They tapped the I urge that early consideration be that the total national supply of readily most readily available and cheapest given this measure so that payment may available water is about 515 billion gal­ water sources, and now these communi­ be made to Hawaii to correct the in­ lons daily. With our current population ties are finding that it is too expensive equity resulting from the 1958. amend­ of about 180 million, our daily water re­ to go further afield to get new fresh ments to the Social Security Act. quirements are about 312 billion gallons, water supplies. Californians will soon be The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The or about 60 percent of the available sup­ asked to approve a $1.75 billion bond bill will be received and appropriately ply. And already severe shortages face issue so that water for southern Cali­ referred. parts of the Nation. fornia can be brought from the north 400 The bill (S. 3556) to compensate the By 1975, however, our population will miles away, across a 4,000-foot mountain State of Hawaii for not having been reach 235 million and our daily water range. treated on the basis of equality with the requirements will be 453 billion gallons. A special master of the U.S. Supreme other States in regard to payments made Since there is no reason to expect that Court just handed down a decision con­ pursuant to titles I, IV, X, and XIV of we will have expanded our natural sup­ cerning the diversion of water from the the Social Security Act, introduced by ply of water much above the present 515 Lower Colorado River. Arizona, Cali­ Mr. FoNG (for himself and Mr. LONG of billion gallons, we will then be using fornia, Nevada, and New Mexico were all Hawaii) , was received, read twice by its nearly 90 percent of our available supply. eager to use this water. A shrinking title, and referred to the Committee on Since we have shortages today when we supply, coupled with increasing demand Finance. use only 60 percent of the supply, it is for water, led to the competition between not difficult to imagine the severity of the States for its use, according to the the shortages which will confront us Court's master. EXPANSION AND EXTENSION OF when we .consume 90 percent. It is plain that the water crisis is al­ SALINE WATER CONVERSION As an indication of how water use ready widespread and severe in some PROGRAM grows, U.S. daily water consumption in areas. It is also plain that this crisis 1900 was an estimated 40 billion gallons. can only get worse unless we act. Mr. JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Presi­ By 1940, it had grown to 135 billion gal­ dent, by 1975 America will face a severe lons; today it is 312 billion. THE AVAILABILITY OF SALINE WATER and possibly disastrous shortage of water Population growth is only one reason We can, of course, conserve water in unless we take steps now to avoid it. for the steep increase in our water con­ many ways and I urge that we do it. We This is a cruel fact, Mr. President, and sumption. Our rapid industrial growth can save water with new dams and reser­ it concerns not only arid sections of our and the increasingly complex production voirs, by improving pollution control, by country where water shortages occur techniques that accompany it call for better industrial reuse of water, and daily, but also the traditionally water­ progressively more water. Today, in­ sewage disposal. We can do all these rich regions where spot shortages are dustry uses 40 percent of all the water things, but they can only make our avail­ appearing. Our water problem is not we consume and this proportion is grow­ able natural water supply go a little regional. It is nationwide. ing rapidly. further; they cannot increase that supply. We have the resources to meet this Consider this: It takes 60,000 gallons problem, in the sea water around us and of water to make a ton of steel; 240,000 To do this, we must turn to our inex­ in the underground reservoirs of brack­ gallons to make a ton of newsprint or a haustible sources of saline water. We ish water beneath us, but our present ton of acetate, ·and 660,000 gallons to are well situated to do so: 55 percent of efforts to convert these vast reservoirs make a ton of synthetic rubber. All our population, and 65 percent of our in­ of saline water into usable form are in­ major industries are heavy users of wa­ dustry, are in States bordering the ocean. adequate to meet the national demand ter; they expand only where local water Some of our States literally fipat on. sub.­ for water in the decades ahead. These supplies can support expansion. merged salt water seas; others have ex­ efforts, though they have made progress, Mr. President, we need not look into tensive underground deposits of brackish are small compared to the technical dif­ the future for signs of water shortage; water. The water is there; it is up to ficulties standing in the way of economi­ the distress :fiags are :fiying in many com­ us to find ways to tap it in time .. cal saline conversion. .These difficulties munities across the Nation today. Ac­ CONGRESSIONAL BACKGROUND give no promise of any dramatic break­ cording to Geological Survey, there are The problems of which I have spoken, throughs. Rather, they require sus­ 1,000 communities in 47 States which Mr. President, are not new to Congress. tained research and development on a were forced by shortages to restrict water The Senate just last year appointed a great number of engineering questions use in 1957. In my own State of Texas select committee, under the chairman­ so that, as we find answers, we may that year, residents of Dallas ·lined up to ship of the distinguished Senator from gradually reduce the cost of conversion. buy water at 50 cents a gallon-double Oklahoma [Mr. KERR] to make a com­ · We are in a race against time. For the price of gasoline. plete study of the Nation's water re­ the sake of our homes, our cities and In some gulf and Atlantic coast States, sources and find ways to conserve and towns, our industry and agriculture, we overtaxed and underground reservoirs develop them. This committee has been cannot afford to delay. and streamS have been depleted to the hard at work, and I am told we will have I ani 'therefore introducing a bill to extent that contaminating salt water is its report next year. seeping in with harsh consequences for provide for an . acceler~ted program of the communities involved. Th.e histor-Y of copgressional interest research and development to find eco­ As a result of actual or prospective in saline conversion goes back at least nomical means of converting saline wa­ situations of this sort, many communi­ to 1952, when Congress, at the request of ter. The bill. will remove present re­ ties have put in requests for experimental President Truman, authorized a 10- strictions of time and money on saline saline conversion plants provided under year research program to search for eco­ development and will offer loans to com­ Public Law 85-883. More than 200 com­ nomical conversion methods. This led munities wishing to build developmental munities offered building sites to the Of­ to the creation of the Office of Saline conversion plants. I believe it will put fice of Saline Water-although this act Water in the Department of Interior, us in a position to meet our coming water provided only $10 million to build but with an .average annual budget of crisis. plants-and this number included many less than $1 million. 10320 Again, in 1958, Congress authorized Research currently centers around Second, process development. Proc­ the construction of at least five saline five main areas. They are: esses resulting from research must be conversion plants over a 7-year period, First. Distillation--an age-old process tested. in large-scale pilot plants to be but with a total program cost of no more brought up to date. Great cost-cutting demonstrated. on a practical scale. Pilot than $10 million. Construction is due progress has been made in the conserva­ plants are expensive, but the Office of to start soon on three plants, and design tion of heat and scale and corrosion con­ Salirie Water had an average of only is under way on two more. trol. $200,000 a year available for their con­ It is obvious that these two temporary Second. Solar distillation-using heat struction from 1953 to 1958. A reason­ programs, for all they have ac­ from the sun. · able figure for process development in complished, are too small and ham­ Third. Membrane conversion-using a fiscal 1961 would be $2.6 million. strung by legislative restrictions to meet combination of thin membranes and Third, demonstration plants. The test the growing water crisis our Nation electric currents to screen out dissolved methods proven to have potential in pilot faces. It is senseless that these pro­ salts. plants need to be tested full scale. Often grams should be temporary, due to end Fourth. Freezing-an experimental "bugs" are discovered in full-scale plants before they have found concrete solu­ method. Frozen water crystals separate which did not show up in pilot plants, tions to the problems that face us. themselves from salt crystals, and re­ and they serve as practical training Considering the nature of these pro­ searchers are trying to find ways to re­ grounds for operating converters. grams, I think the Office of Saline Water move the salt from the ice. Most technicians and scientists agree has done an admirable job with the that the five plants being built under the facilities and funds at its disposal. Fifth. Other chemical and electrical 1958 law will be only a start, since vary­ The Office operates through research methods-using gas hydrates, controlled ing conditions in different sections of the grants to public and private institutions, absorption, and other experimental country require different processes. Tl).e as well as other agencies of the Federal means. use of gas hydrates in conversion, for Government. But it has never had its Researchers feel there is little chance example, is rapidly nearing the stage of own laboratory or test facilities, and its of a revolutionary advance in saline development where it will be ready for small technical staff is confined to di­ water conversion. Instead, they believe demonstration. Of the five plants in the recting and coordinating the activities it that only c~mtinuous and more intensive works, none use this process. contracts for. research can bring the answer to a host .The entire demonstration program Furthermore, its research work has or engineering questions. These ques­ could be speeded greatly by appropriat.. been restricted as more conversion pilot tions are minor in themselves but, if ing for fiscal 1961 the rest of the orig­ plants have gone into operation-the solved, they can produce gradual cost inal authorization of $10 milUon, or OSW now has 11 of these working-and reductions with the cumulative effect of $8,150,000. research work will likely be cut back a major breakthrough. Fourth, a test site and laboratory. The further as more funds are needed to I believe we have reached a crucial entire program of saline conversion re­ run pilot plants. In fiscal 1960, the point in the development of saline con­ search has been hampered by the lack of Office is operating on a budget of $1,- version. We must remove the present a central test site and laboratory. The 755,000, plus $1,850,000 for plant con­ restricted limits of time and finances Office of Saline Water does not even struction. For fiscal 1961, the adminis­ from the program and establish it as a have a central staff. Right now, OSW tration has asked for $1,355,000, plus continuing project subject to annual ap­ research is carried on at widely dispersed $2,040,000 for demonstration plant con­ propriations. We must begin also to places under unsatisfactory conditions. struction. translate research programs into operat­ What's more, the entire OSW staff num­ These amounts are most inadequate ing plants. I have included. this provi­ bers just 25, only 10 of whom are scien­ for the Office of Saline Water to do the sion under title II of the bill, which au­ tists and engineers who direct and co­ job it must do-and which we so desper­ thorizes loans to communities and other ordinate research by the Government ately need to have done. public bodies to build saline conversion and private contractors. plants and to have one-quarter of their PROGRESS SO FAR; DIFFICULTIES AHEAD A central laboratory, located near both loans canceled if the Office of Saline In the nearly 8 years since we estab­ sea and brackish water, would give the Water uses these facilities for research program a good boost. It would not re­ lished a research program to find cheap and demonstration of conversion proc­ ways to convert saline water, we have duce the number of contracts for outside esses. research, but. rather would likely in­ turned up much promise of succeeding. Title II of the bill is similar to bills But it is clear that we must broaden crease private work because of more re­ and strengthen our efforts. which have been introduced in the search ideas which would come up. Already, the cost of converting saline House by Representatives ASPINALL, Fifth, coordination of research at water has come down sharply. Ten RHODES, SAYLOR, WAINWRIGHT, UDALL, and home and abroad. There is a great deal years ago, the cheapest we could make WILSON and in the Senate by Senator of scientific interest in saline conversion usable water from sea water was about ALLOTT, on behalf of himself and Sena­ in other nations, as well as in the United $4 a thousand gallons. Now, some tors CASE of South Dakota, CHAVEZ, Ku­ States. OSW would profit if it could plants can do the job for $1.75 a thou­ CHEL, ENGEL, GOLDWATER, FONG, and LoNG keep up with this work by having avail­ sand, and a plant under construction in of Hawaii. able both domestic and foreign scientific Freeport, Tex., is expected to cut this SUMMARY OF BILL literature and issuing its own periodical even more, to $1 a thousand. Here is a summary of what this bill information; by inspecting conversion But this is not enough when you con­ calls for: sites at home and abroad; by taking part sider that most municipal water in the First, research. . Funds available to in conferences relating to saline conver­ United States costs in the neighborhood the Office of Saline Water for research sion, and by correlating all this informa­ of 30 cents per thousand gallons. contracts averaged only $36,000 a year tion for easy use. There is every reason to believe in­ from 1953 to 1958. This is insufficient. About $500,000 a year would provide telligent research will bring costs down Research should be stepped up on small for this. to an economical point. Indeed, al­ conversion units, on extraction and use Sixth, economic studies. One of the ready it is cheaper for some commu- of byproducts, on the nature of heat ex­ greatest unknowns about saline conver­ nities to convert water. . sion is its cost. Without accurate cost Coalinga, Calif., for example, was changers and compressors, the use of studies, communities cannot intelli­ hauling in water at a cost of $9.35 per atomic energy, and many other technical gently decide· whether they should in­ thousand gallons. Now, residents are problems. Unallocated funds should also stall saline conversion facilities, and as drinking fresh converted water which be available to take advantage of new current water supplies diminish, this costs $1.45 per thousand. ideas th~t come along from sources out­ factor will become increasingly impor­ But scientists and technicians tell me side the Government. We should have tant. there is still no assurance that they .have $2 million available for this whole area Continuous economic studies and even hit on the proper way to convert of general and fundamental research in water market surveys could be made for salt water economically. fiscal 1961. about $500,000 a year. 1960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 10321 . The second part of the bill contains for other. purposes, introduced by Mr. . I invite the attention of· my friends the important provision for aiding con­ McCARTHY (for himself and other Sena­ from the South to the fact that the anti­ struction of conversion plants. Right tors) on May 9, 1960. pirating provisions of the bill have been now, commercial conversion of saline strengthened very considerably by House water would probably be cheaper for amendments which have not been dis­ many communities than obtaining water ADDRESSES, EDITORIALS, ARTI­ cussed before in the Senate. I ·wonder from natural sources. But these com­ CLES, ETC., PRINTED IN THE REC­ if these amendments will diminish their munities understandably hesitate to put ORD expectations about benefits to be derived money into plants which may, in later On request, and by unanimous con­ from the bill. years, turn out to be high-cost opera­ sent, addresses, editorials, articles, etc., I recall that in opposing my own at­ tions. were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, tempts to have effective anti-pirating Federal assistance, in the form of as follows: language inserted in the bill, its author, loans, is necessary to bridge for a few By Mr. MANSFIELD: the able senior Senator from Illinois [Mr. years the gap between experimental Address delivered by him before State So­ DouGLAS] stated very candidly that one plant operation and practical applica­ ciety of West Virginia, May 1-4, 1960, upon of his reasons was his fear o{ loss of tion of conversion plants. Such a pro­ the designation of Senator RANDOLPH as southern support. gram would also help get new plants West Virginia's Son of the Year. When S. 722 was before the Senate built and operating, and would add to . By Mr. WILEY: last year, I offered amendments to pro­ the stock of technical and cost informa­ Excerpts from address delivered by him hibit the use of Federal funds for the tion and speed the entire program. over Wisconsin radio stations, relating to legislative program. purpose of relocating a business estab- · The appropriations suggested in this By Mr. ENGLE: lishment from one area to another. bill would amount to about $17.5 million Editorial entitled "A Congressman Re­ The bill ·as presented to the Senate for fiscal 1961. A part of this .would be ports," published in the Sacramento Union proposed to permit such a relocation if nonrecurring-the amounts for con­ of May 2, 1960. it did not result "in substantial detri­ struction and plant site acquisitions, for ment to the area of original location by example. Loans under title II would be increasing unemployment." automatically appropriated as the loans PRESIDENT'S VETO OF SENA7'E BILL The danger of such a weasel-worded, are made. 722, THE AREA RELEVELOPMENT vague standard to the heavily indus­ This expenditure is one of the best our BILL trialized States of the North and North­ country could make in its future. There Mr. BUSH. Mr. President, I deeply east was clearly brought out in a col­ is no question that it would hasten the regret that the Democratic majorities in loquy between the distinguished -senior day when we can assure adequate water control of this Congress sent to the Pres­ Senator from Ohio [Mr. LAuscHE] and supplies, not only to our own cities and ident of the United States an area rede­ myself; which appears in the CoNGRES­ towns, but also to other parched com­ velopment bill, S. 722, which he was SIONAL RECORD, VOlume 105, part 4, page munities throughout the world through 4942, as follows: the dissemination of what we learn. We compelled to veto. are in a good position to meet a coming I conclude, reluctantly, that the ma­ Mr. LAuscHE. Am I correct in my under­ jority party, with cynical disregard of standing that under the language of the bill · crisis right now. Congress would say to one area, "You can Mr. President, I introduce the bill and the genuine needs of so-called depressed areas, attempts to create an issue for the get Federal money for the purpose of damag­ ask that it be printed, and I ask unani­ ing a community in Ohio and benefiting mous consent that it may lie on the desk approaching presidential campaign. yourself"? for the remainder of the week, to enable The President's opponents have cal­ Mr. BusH. That is correct. other Senators who may wish to do so lously chosen this course, instead of co.:. Mr. LAUSCHE. "Unless it is shown that you to add their names as cosponsors. operating with him to enact sound legis­ propose to damage it substantially, that The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The lation which could give genuine, not money will be available to you." bill will be received and appropriately illusory, help to areas of the country ·Mr. BusH. That is correct. But wlio is to referred; and, without objection, the re­ where ·chronic employment ·exists. determine what is "substantial detriment"? Senate· bill 722 was sent to President The poor administrator? I submit to the quest of the Senator from Texas is Senator from Ohio that he would have an granted, and the bill will lie on the table Eisenhower in the expectation, nay in the hope; that he would veto it. The bill impossible assignment. until May 21. Mr. LAuscHE. In my opinion, that pro­ The bill with the area re­ (b) Amends section 701 of the Housing Act (b) Amends section 701 of the Housing Act development bill

BROJ" CoMPARISON or TBJ: ADMINISTRATION's AREA AsSISTANCE BILL (S. 1064 AND H.R. 4278) at least 25 percent more defense for the . WITH TBJ: Aa!:A REDEVELOPMENT BILL (S. 722)--contlnued. tax dollars now being spent. ADMINISTRATION BILL s. 722 Any buyer in private industry who (c) Amends title II of the Housing . (c) See above under Grants. (Authoriza­ through stupidity or gullibility agreed to Amendments of 1955 to give tlrst priority to tion for $35 million.) such extravagant cost-pricing arrange­ applications for community facilities loans ments would be fired by his company. I from areas of substantial and persistent un­ most respectfully suggest that the Air employment. Force start using the same procedure. Vocational training: The Secretary of La­ The Secretary of Labor and the Secretary The time is long overdue when Con­ bor and the Secretary of Health, Education, of Health, Education, and Welfare assist in and Welfare assist in vocational training or vocational training or retraining. One and gress should pass a law requiring that retraining. one-half million dollars provided for assist­ every agency of the Government use ance to State boards for vocational educa­ competitive bidding practices on all con­ tion. tracts wherever feasible. Retraining payments: None provided. Secretary of Labor makes retraining sub­ I compliment the Comptroller General sistence payments for up to 13 weeks for on the remarkable work being done by those undergoing vocational training or re­ his auditors. training. Total costs: $53 million in loans and tech­ Two hundred and fifty-one mtlllon dollars nical assistance grants. (Other costs not in loans and grants, including $10 million for specified.) retraining subsistence payments and $1.5 mil­ AMERICA PROVIDES EISENHOWER lion for vocational. training. (other costs WITH "SECRET WEAPON" AT SUM­ not specified.) MIT Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, I ask Summary costs of the administration bill and S. 722 unanimous consent to have printed in the RECORD a release I have prepared re­ garding the summit conference. Administra­ s. 722 The PRESIDING OFFICER . (Mr. ­ tion bill ' MANSFIELD in the chair). Is there ob­ jection? There being no objection, the release was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: The American people can feel justi:flable Grants: pride that they have provided President 3 Eisenhower with a ..secret weapon" to take ~~~~~~t8n.C6-

county of the district and tapped a man who, Even then, it was ~till touch and go. abdominal muscles, he was ready to begin by heritage, training, and character, is The doctors said it would either kill him crutch work. equipped to be an excellent representative or leave him helpless for the rest of his days. The goal at the institute is to become al­ of the Democracy of this rugged mountain . But they didn't know Dave Hall. most completely independent, to be able to country. He should be elected. He stubbornly ref~sed to die or submit to go anywhere under your own power if you a life of invalid despair. are paralyzed from the waist down, as Dave [From the Sylva (N.C.) Herald, Aug. 4, He fought the disease-S years in various Hall was. 1958] hospitals and some surgical operations-­ Par scores at the institute were: DAVID HALL AND JACKSON COUNTY HONORED fought it when everybody else said he didn't Fifteen minutes to dress, 7¥2 to put on have a chance. braces, 1 to get out of bed or rise from a Following his nomination to succeed In the darkest days of his illness he kept chair, 30 seconds to open and close a door. George A. Shuford as Representative in on encouraging his doctors, his mother, and To graduate, institute patients had to be Congress from the 12th North Carolina Dis­ father, his friends, who found it hard to hold able to go up and down three steps in 1 trict, David McKee Hall, 40, Sylva attorney, out even a little bit of encouragement for minute, enter a bus in 10 seconds, cross a who won the vote of the 20-member con­ him. 48-foot street in 20 seconds (before the gressional committee, said, "I accept the They watched him suffer and they suffered, traffic light changed). nomination with a great deal of humility. too. Dave Hall bettered par on every course. I pledge to expend every effort toward vic­ And there was one man, closer to him than He became the institute's pride and joy. tory this fall for all the Democrats-in dis­ au the rest, who said, tearfully: "It's too It's tough enough going for a man with trict, State, and Nation, and I will work un­ much to bear. I couldn't blame him if he all his facilities to negotiate across town in tiringly for not part, but all, of the 12th took a gun and ended it." New York from the east side to the west side, District." And, yet, this man knew nothing ever especially hustling, bustling, dog-eat-dog, Knowing the game and fighting young would cause this boy to take the easy way 42d Street and Times Square. Jackson native, who uses a wheelchair to out. And the man was proud. More proud I know. I've been there. Many times. propel himself about, we know he will do than that, if he could live to see him on his And I'll take a cab. just that. And he is wasting no time in get­ way to Congress, which he couldn't. Dave Hall made it look easy. ting started to mend the fences in the Dem­ But while the others despaired, Dave Hall He negotiated that mad, wild cross-town ocratic ranks in the district as he starts out grinned through the pain and planned his couple of miles like he was going from the next week to make the rounds of visiting future in a world where he expected to ask living room to the kitchen. Swapped buses all of the counties in the district. for no quarter. five times, hopped over curbs, thumbed his The citizens of Jackson County received In the hospital, and at home between nose at Times Square traffic and crossed the the word of Hall's nomination with great en­ operations, he read everything he could lay no-man's land untouched, unharmed and thusiasm and are proud to be represented in his hands on. He read dictionaries and en­ without causing a single cabdriver to slam Congress for the first time by a man of his cyclopedias, books on philosophy and eco­ on his brakes or dent a fender. experience and ability. Having served his nomics, history, and geography, absorbed He was so good, the institute got him to district as State senator, as member of the textbooks, newspapers, and news magazines. put on a show when the Congress of Physi­ State water conservation committee, and in He got through high school-he didn't cal Medicine came to New York early in Sep­ dozens of other fields of activity, politically graduate-and the University of North Caro­ tember 1946, for its convention. and otherwise, has provided the young Dem­ lina in a wheelchair, went on to law school, He hopped briskly onto a platform 18 ocratic nominee with a wealth of knowledge and at 26 married his nurse. inches high, dropped to the floor, and, by that will fit him for the big job in Washing­ He entered the University of North Caro­ strategic use of his crutches, got up again ton. lina as a special student. He aimed to be a in less than 30 seconds. Mr. Hall, if elected this fall and there is doctor. He went into premedical school and My wife was there. She witnessed the little doubt but what he wlll win the elec­ the school officials and faculty members amazing demonstration. tion, will be assuming a position which wlll figured he wouldn't get through the first Dave told the doctors that anybody with carry with it great opportunities and grave year. good arms and shoulders could learn to responsibilities. He wlll have an opportu­ But like a heap of others, they didn't know walk. · nity, as the first man to represent western Dave Hall. They didn't argue with him. They had North Carolina west of the Balsams, to prove It wasn't that they didn't think he had seen, and they knew it was a fact. to the district that a man west of the the brains. They just didn't believe he would Dave taught the folks at the institute French Broad can do as much, if not more, live long enougll. · things they didn't know were possible with for the entire district as many have in the crutches. past east of the French Broad. In serving Dave set 'em.back on their collective heels. Strangely enough, he was a self-help stu­ As a matter of fact, he opened up a whole, in the U.S. Congress he will not only be wonderful new life for folks doomed to a serving the 10 counties. of the 12th North dent. He earned part of his educational ex­ penses by reading to blind . students, later, wheelchair. Carolina District and North Carolina but Dr. Deaver offered him the Sun and Moon the entire Nation as well. when he shifted from premed to law, by pre­ paring law briefs. and stars to stay in New York. He was The citizens of Jackson are quite sure that His family background included a line of offered a post at New York University along "Bud" Hall, as he is known by his friends, with a place at the institute and an affilia­ will serve his county, his State and his Na­ famous lawyers and jurists on his mother's side, and after a year of premed, although he tion with an insurance company which tion with distinction, bringing honor to him­ would have assured him an income of a self and to his native State and county. He was tops in his class, he shifted to law school. hundred thousand dollars a year. will go to Washington with the best wishes As a matter of fact, he didn't have the It was hard to turn down. But Dave Hall of all the citizens of the district. academic requirements to permit him to was first of all a mountain boy. He loved The congressional committee is to be rec­ enter the university's school of law. But the mountains, the mountain people. ommended for having made a wise selection again, the officials didn't expect him to finish That's where his rootholds were, and that's in the candidate to succeed George Shuford. the course and reckoned there was no rea­ where he wanted to settle down. son to worry about what they would do if he Besides, he had a couple more years in did. [From the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, Aug. 4, law school. 1958] When Dave made the dean's list with an So he turned down the gold of New York, A average, they still didn't become concerned headed back for Chapel Hlll to become the DAVE HALL: A FIGHTER WITH UNCONQUERABLE too much with the ou~ome, albeit they had GRIT first special student to graduate from the to admit he was a very unusual young man. University of North Carolina Law School and (By John Parris) To be exact, quite a rare young man. the first special student to receive an LL. B. WEBSTER.- To name a man to match my Through it all, Dave Hall kept going back degree. mountains is to name a fighter of uncon­ to the hospital now and then, seeking to lick To get his degree, he had to make up a lot querable grit. the malady that had struck him down once of academic courses he had bypassed. Such a man is David McKee Hall, a native­ and for all. The hourly load to stay in school at the born, briar-sharp, 40-year-old mountain In 1946, he heard about Manhattan's In­ university is 12 and the maximum per­ lawyer, who confounded the experts last week stitute for the Crippled and Disabled in New mitted is 18. Dave took twice the normal by being selected to run for Democrat George York. load. The professors had ·got wise to him A. Shuford's seat in the U.S. House of Repre­ He showed up in New York in July and and knew he could. So they let him take sentatives in November. He's been a fighter announced firmly that he meant to walk by what he wanted, and he took 33 hours a all his life. summer's end. Said the institute's medical quarter, studying high finance, advanced At 15, a bone infection called osteomyelitis director, George Deaver, "Certainly." economics, banking, instead of knocking off cut his spinal cord and paralyzed him from Dave could not dress himself or put on the minor, crip courses which would have the waist down. braces without help. qualified him for his degree. That put him on his back, but not out of But after 6 weeks of pushups and other And then he headed for I1ome to hang circulation. exercises to strengthen arms, shoulders, and out his shingle. 10330 CONGRESSIONAL RECOXD- SENATE May 16 Behind him was a record they wouldn"t He has taken great burdens and he has County Young Democratic Club from 1952 to soon forget down at Chapel Hill. A :record borne them well. 1954, and Vice chairman of the Jackson by a young fellow 1n a wheelchair with un­ Folks wm tell you .he 1s a good father, .a County Democratic executive committee from conquerable grit. loving husband, and a considerate friend. 1948 until 1954. The year he graduated from law school He does not seek intimates, yet draws men He served in the senate of the 1955 North he was selected as one of the 12 outstanding to him. Carolina General Assembly, occupying seat law students in America. He knows his own value without pomp or No. 46. While he was there he was a member of jealousy. In 1952 he was appointed to the 20th Vance Inn of the national honorary legal He listens and talks with every sort of Judicial District Committee, and is now fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, serving as pres­ man. senior party liaison officer and member of ident, secretary and treasurer, as well as He is a man who can reason, but he is a the executive committee of the North Caro­ being elected exchecquer. He also was treas­ fighter. lina Young Democratic Clubs. urer and secretary pro tempore of the Uni­ His brain is as big as his heart and his Presently he is a member of the North versity Law Association. heart Is as big as Dave Hall. Carolina Water Resources Commission. Add to these honors a host of others that He is a big man-broad. shoulders, big He has served on the board of the Sylva shout: "Don't ever underestimate a man in hands, strong arms, a deep, infectious laugh• . Methodist Church, as well as being a trus­ a wheelchair." and a smile as big as all getout. tee, and chairman of the church's finance He was dormitory president, 1nterdor­ "Life," he says, "it Is good. I've always committee. mitory council president, a member of the had a good time." He started the Jackson County Savings board of directors of Graham Memorial, a His pet hobbies are fishing, boating, and & Loan Association, of which he is sec­ member of the campus cabinet, on the ad­ swimming. retary, and was instrumental in organiz­ visory board to the dean of men, vice chair­ He likes to fish best of all. And he doesn't ing Jackson County Industries, Inc., serving man and then president of the dormitory sit on the dock to do his fishing, either. as its president from the beginning in 1953. council of presidents. He's a trout fisherman and he fishes the He has served on the board of the Jackson For 1946-47 he was named Phi Delta Phi mountain streams. County Chamber of Commerce, is still a Law Student of the Year. He learned to swim, and well, before osteo­ member of the cllamber's industrial com­ By the time he .headed for ·the mountains myelitis cut his spinal cord and paralyzed mission, and is a member of the Sylva Ro­ and Sylva to hang out his shingle he had him from the waist down at 15. tary Club. Hcked.the malady that had struck him down "For long-distance swimming," he ex­ His great-great-grandfather was Capt. 1n his ~ns but couldn't keep him down. plains, "I swim on my back. Can't kick but William Moore, American Revolution, first Ahead lay his future. He knew what he use a modified crawl without the kick when white settler west of the French Broad in wanted. And he knew he w-Ould get it. He I swim on my stomach." Hominy Valley near Asheville, and patriarch was a man now. .A man of unconquerable Last fall he went on a bear hunt to Mount of the Moore clan ln western North Carolina. grit. Mitchell. His uncle is Dan K. Moore, former judge ur didn't get a shot," he said, "but we of the superior court and now an executive [From the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, Aug. 5, brought back a bear." of Champion Paper & Fiber Co. in Canton. 1958] He isn't one for sitting back and letting Dave is married to the former Miss Sarah somebody else do the work. Not even on a McCollum, of Bradenton, Fla., who was hi.s DoN'T UNDERESTIMATE THE MAN IN THE nurse at Duke University Hospital. They WHEELCHAIR hunting or fishing trip. He's right handy have three young daughters, Anne, who is (By John Parris) with a skillet and likes to cook for the whole party, whether it's two or a dozen. '9, Allison, who is 8, and Hannah McKee, who WEBsTER.-Don't let the wheelchair fool He lives here on the old home place which is 8. you, and don't underestimate the man in his great-grandfather gave to his grand­ His father was the late David M. Hall, a it. father Coleman Hall nearly a hundred years prominent merchant and landowner. His You'll get your ears pinned back, if you ago. mother is Edith Moore Hall, assistant dean do. It passed out of the Hall family back in of women at Western Carolina College. For David McKee Hall, albeit paralyzed the early forties. But Dave bought it in 1950 He has two sisters, Mrs. Joe Dowdle, of from the waist down, is almost completely and restored it to its onetime elegance. Franklin, and Miss Lela Moore Hall, super­ independent, able to go just about any­ Here, among other things, he raises cattle. intendent ·of public welfare for Harnett where under his own power. horned .Herefords. And his pride and joy is County. His brother, Robert, is an execu­ His capacity for work and for doing thi.ngs a prize bull from the Milky Way Farms tive with the Bank of Asheville. is incredible. His stamina like his courage, named Larry Domino, who's worth a fortune. :Is a wonder to behold. Dave was born May 16, 1918. He attended [From the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, Nov. He hunts, he fishes, and he swims. Sylva High School from 1931 to 1933 and 5,1958] He drives a car-averages some 80,000 intermittently through the spring of 1988 SWIRL OF ACTIVITY AHEAD FOR HALL xniles a year-and mows his own lawn, which without graduating. is the size of a country acre, if it's a foot. Representative-elect David M. Hall steps It was February 1931 that he got sick, con­ into a swirl of activity following his victory He never has considered himself as an tracting osteomyelitis at the age of 12. And invalid, which he really isn't, and though Tuesday over Republican W. Harold Sams. this resulted in paraplegia at the age of 15. In the next few weeks, he will name an he can't walk as other men walk, he doesn't He spent 8 years in various hospitals and consider that a handicap either. administrative assistant and begin selecting had approximately 200 surgical operations a staff to man his Washington and district "Never," he says. "never have I thought before he licked the disease, albeit he was of myself as being other than normal. doomed to a future in a wheelchair. offices. Physically, that is. His choice for No. 1 assistant will be a key He got a certificate of law from the Uni~ "As far as material things are concerned, to the selection of other sta1f members. He versity of North Carolina Law School in 1947, may choose his top aid from a list of names I have as much or more than most people. and an L.L.B. degree in 1948. "The fact that I was confined to a wheel­ he carries-names submitted by political chair at 15 apparently didn't affect my And then he returned to his home in Sylva leaders from throughout the district. Hall's ability to earn or to participate in civic, to practice law and become a dynamo in a had such a list for some time. church and political affairs." wheelchair. Or, Hall may look beyond designated favor­ His philosophy might be summed up in He didn't sit in his office and let people ites. He says he will "want to look over the som.ething my grandfather, another moun­ come to him. He didn't let somebody else field carefully." Holding that he owes no tain man, once said: handle his cases when they came to trial. commitments to anyone, he says he would "It's up to you to whittle what you can From the beginning, Dave Hall was as busy like to see some more names: "1 haven't got with what you've got." as a bee. Folks from·all over sought him out, all the names I'd like to see." And Dave Hall's got a lot. brought him more work than he could Hall has made one exception to his no­ His mind is sharp as a meat ax. handle, albeit he burned the midnight oil, commitments boast: he has promised some He doesn't scare worth a darn. which he still does, and forced him to expand people in a small county west of Jackson that He's tough when he has to be tough. his firm until it now is the largest in the he would, if elected, give a sta1f job of some But he's soft, too, and sentimental. county. sort to someone from that county. The post There's a bit of Lincoln .about him. No man in his home town or county has would:p't necessarily be in Washington. Something of WUl Rogers. taken a more activ.e part in civic, church, Clay, Graham, Cherokee, and Swain Coun­ He is quite as stubborn as Lincoln in sup­ and political affAirs. ties lie to the west of Hall's native Jackson. porting the people he trusts through thick He has been attorney for the town of Dills­ He received powerful backing at the grass­ and thin. boro since 1948, for the county of Jackson roots level from all four in his successful bid But don't cross him, brother, don't cross since 1952, and has been regional fund chair­ for the Democratic nomination. So, after him. man of the American Red cross of the coun­ his checkup, Hall hopes to spend the rest of He is de~ly ambitious, the skilled man, ties west of Buncombe for the past 8 years. next week in the Florida sun. utterly sure of his own skill and taking no He was attorney for the town of Sylva for He'll return to his Sylva law office the fol­ nonsense about it from the unskilled. 1948 and 1949; president of the Jackson lowing week-about November 17-and get 1960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 10331 down to the business of collecting a sta.1f Rollman•s· name was never nominated In The election of David M. Hall, of Sylva, on and packing up for the big trip to Wash­ committee. The other major contenders lost Tu.esday set up a number of records-first ington where he'll take his seat in Congress where they needed to win. Hall and his he gathered more votes by several thousands 4 months shy of 41 years of age. uncle, Influential Superior Court Judge Dan than many political observers had predicted; Beyond his 2-year term, if there's a ques­ K. Moore, who'd just resigned from the ben.ch he became the first man west of Asheville to tion mark over the 1960 Democratic choice, to go into private industry, had done their get elected to Congress, and he is one of the it doesn't appear to be worrying Dave Hall. work well. youngest men of the district to ever sit in The little counties carried the day. And Congress. [From the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, that was the day that David picked off both Hall's hometown newspaper, the Sylva Nov. 5, 1958] Goliath and the GOP with smooth pebbles. Herald said editorially: DAVE HALL'S VICTORY OVER SAMS REALLY A "People of Jackson County have good rea­ POLITICAL ANTICLIMAX [From the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen Nov. 5, reason to be proud of David Hall, who on David Hall's conquest of GOP contender 1958] Tuesday was elected to serve the 12th Dis­ w. Harold Sams at the polls Tuesday was a HALL KEEPS ONLY PROMISE: ONE MADE TO HIS trict in Congress. He is believed to be the political anticlimax. DAUGHTERS first man west of Haywood County to be Despite considerable Republican campaign named Congressman. And it has been 49 (By John Parris) years since a Congressman came from the activity, most knowledgeable observers-and WEBSTER.-Dave Hall grinned. "Yep," he nearly everyone else-would have conceded area outside Buncombe and Henderson said, "They say I'm going to Congress." Counties. The last one west of the French the chances of a Sams' upset very slim. This was his reaction as the voters of the Hall's real victory came last summer in Broad was the late W. T. Crawford of 12th Congressional District gave him a re­ Waynesville, who served In 1911." the 12th District's seething Democratic sounding victory Tuesday over his Republi­ cauldron. Even though there has been a drought in can opponent, W. Harold Sams of Ashevllle. having a Congressman from 6 of the 10 He came out on top of all these boiling de­ Hall, 40-year-old lawyer and native of velopments. counties in the district, when Hall takes Jackson County, welcomed the news of his office in January he will carry with him expe­ Representative George A. Shuford. wind­ election at his farm home here in Webster. ing up 6 years in Congress, was the favored rience gained while a State senator. And As the returns made it evident that Hall we do not expect other legislators in Wash­ candidate for the party's renomination. had chalked up one of the largest majorities But wealthy Waynesville industrialist ington to be "pulling the wool over his in a 12th District congressional race, his eyes." Hall knows politicians. How they Heinz W. Rollman, who had actually been first act as newly elected Congressman was . campaigning a year in advance came out work. And he understands their legal lan­ to carry out the only promise he had made guage, which often is designed to gain public openly against Shuford and began a free­ during the campaign. spending blitz on the noininatlon. opinion but has tricky phrases. That proinise was to his three small A native of Jackson, the 40-year-old Con­ Three other candidates dropped in their daughters. hats. Hall wasn't among them and no one gressman received a certificate of law from He had kissed them goodnight at 8 p.m. the University of North Carolina Law School even thought of him as a candidate at the with the promise he would wake them when time. in 1947 and was named Phi Delta Phi Student he learned of the outcome of the election. of the Year. He was the first special student Shuford, who had already had two opera­ And at 10:25 p.m. he roused them gently. tions for cataracts, entered an Asheville hos­ to graduate from UNC Law School with an They came wide awake. Their eyes sparkled LL. B . degree. pital the week of the May 31 primary. After through the sleep from which they had 3 days, his admission became known, but By showing that he could overcome a phys­ awakened. But they knew as only a child's ical disabllity, having been confined to a few details could be established beyond that faith knows. he had entered for minor surgery and a wheelchair since he was 15, Hall knows "Daddy," said Anne, who Is 10, "You beat which rows are hard on.es to hoe better than checkup. him. I know you did." In the primary vote, Shuford bested the the average person. Dave Hall grinned and kissed her. Knowing the game and fighting young field of our opponents, although Rollman And then Allison, who is 8, and Hannah, rounded up nearly 19,000 votes. Then, as Sylva attorney, who succeeds Congressman who Is 4, hugged their daddy and set up a George Shuford of Asheville, we know Hall losers' tempers fiared,it developed that Shu­ happy screaming, jumping up and down in ford's illness was more serious, had resulted has a wealth of knowledge that will fit him their beds. for the big job in Washington. In addition in strokelike complications, including some It was a happy, homey B9ene. paralysis. He transferred to Bethesda Naval to being State senator, he has served as a Nightlong, Dave Hall had sat in his wheel­ member of the State Water Conservation Hospital for treatment. While back at home chair near the telephone at his home, with Rollman and others began charging the Committee and In dozens of other fields of his family about him, listening to the re­ activity, politically and otherwise. voters had been deceived-that they would turns as they came ln. have voted otherwise if Shuford's condition His new job carries great opportunities and And nightlong, his telephone had rung still graver responsibilities. The citizens of had been known. constantly, bringing the voices of friends Denials or explanations generally were Jackson are quite sure that "Bud" Hall, as calling to tell him how he was running In he is known by his friends, will serve his brushed aside. The political squabble spllled the various counties. And when the results into print and downstate press reports began county, his district, his State and his Nation were in and It was assured that he was the with distinction. He goes to Washington building up a picture of alleged conspiracies next Congressman from the 12th District, of sllence. with the best wishes of all the citizens of David Hall made his first public statement the district. Shuford eventually decided against a gen­ as the newly elected Representative from eral election campaign because of his the 12th District. health. He said: [From the Asheville, N.C. Citizen, Jan. 8. This tossed the nomination into the lap of "This is a great, heartfelt moment in my 1959] the almost unknown district executive com­ life. PROUD DAUGHTERS LooK ON AS REPRESENTA• Inittee--two representatives from each of "It is with a feeling of great pride and TIVE HALL TAKES OFFICE the area's 10 counties. a sense of sincere responsibility that I ac­ Rollman cried that the nomination was (By Margaret Kernodle) cept this, the most important office that you, WASHINGTON.-It took a former President, his by rights of runnerup. The strong Bun­ the voters of the 12th Congressional Dis­ combe political organization booster City Harry s. Truman, to attract the attention of trict of North Carolina can bestow. three little North Carolina girls away from Manager J. Weldon Weir of Asheville, Hen­ "I pledge that I will dedicate myself and derson hopeful advanced a fainiliar name­ their father, Representative David M. Hall, my office to true representation of all the Democrat, of North Carolina, in the House Monroe Redden, Jr .-son of .a former district people of this great district. Congressman. Wednesday. Only the far western area balled the name "And I wish especially to express my ap­ Anne, 10, Allison, 8, and Hannah, 4, kept of Hall. preciation to my devoted wife and family their eyes on their father from the time he Into a hot upper story chamber of the and to my friends who have made it pos­ entered the House in his wheelchair until Swain County courthouse the day of the sible for me to attain this high position. Truman appeared In the gallery. Hall was decision, delegates from all over the district "I assure each and every one of you that crippled by a disease in childhood. were packed for the executive committee's this acceptance is with the deepest humility. "President Truman sat just two seats away meeting. Speeches were public, but the And I trust that I can in my work merit from me," Allison exclaimed. selection was to be private. the confidence you have placed in me." She was a little reluctant to tell her father ·how impressed she was with the for­ Nevertheless, after the first 20 minutes, it [From the Waynesv1Ile (N.C.) Mountaineer, became obivous· that if the committee had mer President, as if she didn't really mean an y idea of fulfilling the wishes of the peo­ Nov. 10, 1958] to take away any glory from daddy when ple who'd turned out, it could scarcely CoNGRESSMAN HALL SETS SEVERAL RECORDS he took his oath of office as a Congressman. help selecting the man 1n the wheelchair on For the first time in 47 years, a North Hannah and Allison admitted they waved the front row-David McKee Hall, paralyzed Carolina Congressman has been elected west proudly at their father, but Anne said she but powerful. of the French Broad River. was a little too grown-up to do that, though 10332 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE May 16 she admitted she watched him almost con­ All of this leads to the tact that. Repre­ convinced that when David Hall said, "I stantly as the opening session of the 86th sentative Hall does face a challenging field will," it meant that he would and could. · Congress got under way. of work, one that is vital to the future of Because of his attitude and demeanor con­ Hannah fought off a virus infection to America. He may have wanted Interior, cerning his handicap, one forgets that he make the ceremony and sat on her mother's but he is now in a position to serve the Na­ cannot stand up tall and straight or that lap. tion on a legislative frontier that has no he is denied the simple art of walking into Hall returned to his suite in the Old House boundary and is fraught with meaning to a room. He has never sought concessions Office Building ;for a reception for his family the American people and the entire human or privileges because of physical limitations, and close friends who came to Washington race. rather he prefers to take his turn always for the ceremony. with the physically normal. Also very proud of him was his mother, [From Reach, a bimonthly publication of the Too much cannot be said for his mental stately gray-haired Mrs. Edith Moore Hall, North Carolina division of vocational re­ approach to his handicap. Gov. Luther H. stunning in a navy blue outfit, who presi­ habilitation, Raleigh, N.C., of January­ Hodges said at the recent Young Democratic ded at the coffee table. Februa.ry 1960] Club convention in Asheville that David Hall Here also were his sisters, Mrs. C. N. Dow­ had exhibited more courage than any man DAVID HALL, THIS Is YOUR LIFE dle, of Franklin, N.C., and Miss Lela Moore he had ever known. The distinguished Sen­ Hall, of L1llington, N.C.; his brother, Rob­ "Handicap," as defined by Webster, means ator SAM J. ERVIN, Jr., in introducing him ert Hall, of Ashevme, and his uncle, Dan to put at a disadvantage or to hinder; but at the 12th Congressional District rally in Moore, former North Carolina superior court had you been present on January 3, 1959, Bryson City, likened his courage and achieve­ judge, of Asheville. when David McKee Hall, paraplegic, quietly ments to those of the knight described in Hall succeeds Representative George A. rolled his wheelchair into the Nation's Capi­ the poem "The Broken Sword." Shuford, Democrat, of North Carolina, who tol to take the oath of office as a Member of More important than these encomiums is retired at the end of the 85th Congress. the 86th Congress, representing the 12th Con­ the widespread influence he has had on other The Halls have a house in nearby Arling­ gressional District of North Carolina, you handicapped people by his inspiring exam­ ton, and the older daughters have entered might have said, "Hall has revised Web­ ple and the tangible things he has done for public school there, three blocks away. But ster." And indeed you would have been their benefit. Perhaps one of his most note­ the Halls arrived ahead of their furniture. quite correct, because his journey to Wash­ worthy contributions was in 1946, at Man­ To the delight of the Hall daughters, fur­ ington had been made over a long and toil­ hattan Institute for the Crippled and Dis­ niture in the new house has consisted so some road strewn with boulders of pain and abled in New York. (See Time magazine, far o;f only mattresses, a sofa and an army suffering, blocked at intervals by detours of Sept. 16, 1946.) cot. long, lingering months in hospital beds-all Through his understanding and sincere of which would have made a person of less appreciation of the vocational rehabilita­ [From the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, Feb. 9, fortitude, determination, and driving ambi­ tion program, he has encouraged many 1959] tion turn back and thus confirm Webster's handicapped people, especially other para­ definition that a handicap is truly a hin­ REPRESENTATIVE HALL AND OUTER SPACE plegics, to develop their limited abilities. drance. But because of his relentless drive, Searching out those in need of help and When committee assignment time came his complete unwillingness to admit defeat, working in close cooperation with the voca­ in the House in Washington, Representative his all-consuming ambition, the journey had tional rehabilitation counselor, he has fre­ David M. Hall, of Sylva, got exactly the oppo­ been accomplished. And in so doing, he had quently made his office available for con­ site of what he had requested. lent inspiration and encouragement to oth­ ferences and interviews between these indi­ He wanted to start off on solid ground, ers-both handicapped and physically fit­ complete the task at hand, achieve that viduals and the counselor which resulted in asked to be put on the Interior Committee. to to their receiving training and/or other reha­ Instead, he was assigned to outer space, goal out yonder and to do it without com­ bilitation services through which they gained the first permanent new committee of both plaining. a new lease on life. Houses of Congress since 1892. At the age of 12, David was a round, pudgy, The 12th district Democrat, a congres­ pink-cheeked lad who had more than the For many years David Hall has devoted sional freshman, married 15 years, admits normal boy's interest in fishing, hunting, considerable time and effort in working with his contact with the moon is remote. But s<}Outing, football, and the like. That is, un­ the local Committee on Employing the Physi­ he is modest in saying that. A moUn.tain til the day that osteomyelitis destroyed the cally Handicapped; he was instrumental in man, he has lived closer to the moon and the participation, even though it could not les­ getting a survey made by the employment stars than his lowland colleagues. sen the interest which remains intact to this service on the county's labor supply which Mr. Hall has accepted his assignment as day some 28 years later. And thus began the later led to the location of a new industrial offering a challenging opportunity for years of suffering, of excruciating pain, and plant in the community, thereby creating service. of long, long months in Piedmont Hospital, additional job opportunities for the unem­ The importance of the work of the Space Atlanta-years which deprived him of a sec­ ployed. He has helped many handicapped Committee is spelled out in some points ondary education because of the some 200 people to . secure gainful employment and. made by Representative OVERTON BROOKS, surgical operations he was required to un­ thus become useful citizens who experience Democrat, of Louisiana, chairman of the dergo, and the repeated close brushes with the satisfaction that comes with finding new committee. He told Congressional death. At the age of 15, the infection af­ one's place in life. Quarterly: fected his spinal cord to the extent that he He has served his district well in the "Missiles will begin to replace manned was permanently paralyzed from the waist House of Representatives and has been ac­ aircraft by 1963. down and thereafter confined to a wheelchair corded recognition unusual for a freshman "The defense budget soon will be divided life. Representative. He was honored by being into two parts-one for brush-fire wars and Throughout the 28 years his family physi­ appointed to the House Committee on Sci­ the other for all-out atomic missile wars. cians and close friends were constantly ence and Astronautics, the first permanent "Interservice competition over control of amazed at the indomit able courage he mani­ standing committee to be created by the missile development will grow more in­ fested at all times, never discouraged if his Congress since 1892. As a member of this tense. The program should be unified under plans and activities were brought to an end committee, he participated in an 11,000-mile one department. by another painful hospital experience but factfinding inspection tour of the major "Ultimately the United Nations or some always ready to begin a new project or com­ research and development centers of Western other international agency will have to plete the old one when given brief respites Europe's NATO countries. spell out outer space law. at home. He served in the senate of the 1955 North "The national security aspects of space Then, with the discovery of the sulfa anti­ Carolina General Assembly, has been a mem­ vehicles should be stressed now. Develop­ biotics, his hospital stays became less fre­ ber of numerous boards and commissions, is ment of satellites will benefit later from quent and so he determined to enter the active in the Methodist Church, and in local this." University of North Carolina; and like all civic organizations. Mr. Hall, as a member of the Space Com­ his plans and ambitions, he carried this to The mountains, streams, and waterfalls of mittee, is thus in a position to engage in a successful, brilliant conclusion by his western North Carolina are dear to his heart. pioneering legislative work in connection graduation in 1948, thus becoming the first He enjoys swimming, hunting, and fishing. with the space race with the Soviet Union. special student to graduate from the law He lives on a farm adjacent to the Tuckas­ For instance, there will be many problems school with an LL.B. degree. Thereafter, he seegee River, in the beautiful restored old dealtng with international aspects of space passed the State bar examination and opened home of his ancestors at Webster, N.C., with and space law. a law office in Sylva where he has been his lovely wife, Sarah McCullom Hall, and "We have no time to lose," added Repre­ practicing law since that time. During the their three daughters, Anne, Allison, and sentative BRooKs. "There is no doubt the time he was in college, he was not only Hannah, ages 12, 10, and 5 years. Their Russians are ahead of us in some particu­ studying law himself, but was helping blind happy homelife has been well described in lars," notably the thrust of their engines in students by reading to them. many feature stories which have appeared their missiles. "I will not be satisfied until His subsequent achievements and accom­ in the Asheville Citizen. we have closed the gap in the missile and plishments came as no surprise to those Since this article on David Hall was started, space race." who know him best, for at last they were his doctors have told him that he has cancer. 1960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 10333 And like all the other obstacles which have Three days later, physicians who per­ Moore Hall and Mrs. Margaret Hall Dowdle, confronted him, he has accepted this with formed the operation announced the finding both of Franklin. the same calm, courageous attitude--not one of a malignancy in miscroscoplc studies of Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in Sylva of resignation, but one of continued deter­ the scar tissue. Hall went to New York soon Methodist Church. The Rev. Asmond G. mination which finds him now as a patient afterward to begin a series of X-ray treat­ Maxwell, pastor, and the Rev. Robert G. in Memorial Hospital, Sloan-Kettering In­ ments preparing him for the December 10 Tuttle, of Asheville, district superintendent stitute, New York, from where he radiates operation for removal of the cancerous of the Ashevllle District Methodist Church, hope and confidence of recovery from the growth. will be in charge. Burial will be in the fam­ favorable report of his doctors there. As a Member of Congress, Hall asked for ily plot in Webster Cemetery. David Hall looks to the future and a con­ Interior when committee assignments came Pallbearers will be Ernest Burch, Andrew tinuing career of service. around. He got Outer Space. Wilson, Joseph T. Wilson, Lacey Thornberg, Commenting on the assignment Hall Malcolm Brown, Fred D. Cooper, E. L. Mc- [From the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, Jan. 30, stated: "Except for the contacts with the Kee, and W. D. McKee. . 1960] Interior Department in my district, I am Before his death, Representative Hall re­ DAVID HALL, 41, DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS very happy with it." . quested that in lieu of flowers, donations be Hall became top-ranking freshman Demo­ made toward establishment of a David Mc­ SYLVA.-Twelfth District Congressman crat on the space committee, the first per­ Kee Hall Scholarship Fund at Western David M. Hall, stricken by cancer last No­ manent new committee of both Houses Carolina College. vember, died here at 5:45 p.m. Friday in since 1892. · C. J. Harris Hospital. During the month he was sworn in, the [From the Asheville (N.C.) Times, Jan. 31, The 41-year-old Congressman was a na- · Sylva Representative was elected treasurer 1960] tive of Sylva. He was elected to represent of the 86th Congressional Club. The club, FUNERAL FOR HALL AT 3 P.M. TODAY the 10-county congressional district in the chiefly social, was composed of 63 freshmen November 1958 general election. He had SYLVA.-Representative David M. Hall, the Democratic House Members elected to the paraplegic freshman Congressman who died been expected to seek reelection this year. 86th Congress. Victim of a crippling bone infection at Friday of complications from cancer sur­ · Hall was a strong supporter of timber gery, will be burled Sunday in the family the age of 12, Hall underwent surgery Decem­ management and development plans. He ber 10 in a New York hospital for removal plot at Webster. frequently called attention to western North Funeral services will be conducted at 3 of a cancerous growth on his bladder. He Carolina's vast timber resources. died of complications of the operation, in­ p.m. in the Sylva Methodist Church by the In September 1959 Hall went to London Reverend Asmond G. Maxwell, pastor, and cluding a kidney blockage. for a series of conferences in connection the Reverend Robert G. Tuttle, superintend­ RETURNED JANUARY 12 with the International Astronomical Federa­ ent of the Asheville district of the Methodist tion Conference. Church. Specialists who performed the operation Born May 16, liH8 at Sylva, Hall was the reported to Hall afterward that the cancer The 41-year-old Hall had requested that had been completely eliminated. Hall was son of Mrs. Edith Moore Hall of Sylva and in the event of his death flowers be omitted the late David McKee Hall. and expressions of sympathy be in the form returned to the hospital here January 12 to Despite his physical disabllity, Hall re­ continue convalescence. of donations to a scholarship fund at West­ ceived a certificate of law from the Univer­ ern Carolina College, where his mother is A paraplegic who had been confined to a sity of North Carolina Law School in 1947 wheelchair since the age of 15, Hall was an assistant dean of women. and an LL.B. degree in June 1948. Admitted Members of the North Carolina Congres­ attorney by profession but had devoted some to the bar in August 1947, he began active attention to farming. sional Delegation planned to come from practice in Sylva in the fall of 1948. Washington by train for the funeral. Rep­ Hall styled himself a political conservative His record at the university was outstand­ resentative GEORGE MILLER, Democrat, of in Democratic ranks. Before. election to ing, both in academic and extracurricular California, was named to represent the Congress, he had served in the North Caro­ activities. He headed a number of impor­ House Space Committee, of which Hall was lina Senate and later, as a member of the tant campus organizations including Vance a member, at the services. Also accom­ North Carolina Board of Water Commis­ Inn of Phi Delta Phi. He was the first spe­ panying the North Carolina delegation was sioners. cial student to graduate from the University Zeake W. oiohnson Jr., House Sergeant at PICKED BY COMMITTEI!! of North Carolina Law School with an LL.B. Arins. The Democratic district executive commit­ degree since the school's establishment. (In respect to Hall, the House of Repre­ tee on July 31, 1958, chose Hall to run in In the summer of 1947, he appeared before sentatives has tentatively postponed its Mon­ place of Representative George A. Shuford, the Congress of Physical Medicine in New day program.) of Asheville, who had withdrawn as the York and gave a demonstration of new mo­ A special primary and election will be Democratic nominee for reasons of health. bility methods being taught paraplegics. Al­ necessary to fill the remainder of Hall's Recognized as an active Jackson County though he seldom used them, Hall had term, which expires next January. Roy A. civic and political leader. Hall won the dis­ mastered the ability to walk on crutches. Taylor, former State representative from trict committee's nomination from a field of Among organizations in which he partic­ Black Mountain, announced last week as a five aspirants. In the general election, Hall ipated or held office were the Jackson County candidate for Hall's seat in the May Demo­ overwhelmed his Republican opponent, W. Chamber of Commerce, the Jackson County cratic primaries. Others being mentioned Harold Sains, an Ashevllle attorney. Industrial Committee, and Jackson County include State Senator William Medford of Thus, for the first time in more than two Industries, the Sylva Rotary Club and Sylva Waynesville and former Solicitor Thad Bry­ generations, the 12th District's Democratic Methodist Church, Jackson chapter of the son, of Bryson City and Franklin, but neither Representative was a man from west of the American Red Cross, and Morehead Scholar­ has announced. Balsams. ship Committee of Jackson County. He Hall won his congressional seat in 1958, A month after his election, Hall announced served as county attorney for 2 years and after the Democratic nominee, Represent­ the opening of a full-time district office in was town attorney for Sylva from 1948 until ative George A. Shuford of Ashevme, with­ Waynesville, the first time a congressional 1951. He had also served as attorney for the drew because of ill health. Hall, the pick office had been established west of Asheville. town of Dillsboro. of the district Democratic committee, Hall had been active in county and district The district office functioned as a clearing soundly defeated the Republican candidate, Democratic circles for more than 20 years. W. Harold Sams of Asheville. house for citizens with probleins needing He had served as president of the Jackson congressional attention. As a convenience He was sworn in last January, but 2 County Young Democratic Club and as a months later had to undergo surgery for to constituents, a representative of the office member and officer in the Jackson County followed a schedule of regular appearances drainage of his right kidney. During an­ Democratic Executive Committee. other operation, a month later, to remove in many western North Carolina towns and He was a grandson of the late Superior cities. scar tissue from the preceding surgery a Court Judge Frederick Moore, grandnephew malignant growth was discovered. Hall was sworn into the U.S. House of of Superior Court Judge Walter E. Moore, On December 10 the malignancy was re­ Representatives on January 7, 1959. and grandnephew of the late E. L. McKee, moved in an operation at Sloan-Kettering Less than 2 months later, on February 23, and State Senator Gertrude Dills McKee, his Institute in New York. Hall returned home he underwent surgery in Bethesda naval wife. to recuperate, but his health began to de­ hospital in Washington for drainage of his He was a nephew of Superior Court Judge cline and he entered the hospital here, where right kidney after proper natural expulsion Dan K. Moore, of Sylva, now associated with he died. had failed. Physicians announced the fol­ Champion Paper and Fibre Co. Surviving are the widow, the former Sarah lowing month that a second kidney opera­ Survivors include his widow, the former McCollum of Bradenton, Fla., three young tion might become necessary. Miss Sarah McCollum, of Bradenton, Fla., daughters; his mother, Mrs. Edith M. Hall, This operation, for the removal of scar to whom he was married in 1944, and three of Cullowhee; a brother, Robert C. Hall, of tissue resulting from the kidney surgery, daughters: Sarah Anne, 10, Edith Allison, 9, Asheville; and two sisters, Miss Lela Hall was performed November 10 in St. Joseph's and Hannah McKee, 4; a brother, Robert c. and Mrs. Margaret Hall Dowdle, both of Hospital in Ashevme. Hall, of Asheville, and two sisters: Miss Lela Pranklin. 10334 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE May 16 [From the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times, Tarboro, CHARLES R. JoNAS, of Lincolnton, A. Representative Hall was an inspiration to Jan. 31, 1960] PAUL KITCHIN, of Wadesboro, ALTON LEN­ people of all ages in all walks of life. He REPRESENTATIVE DAVID MCKEE HALL NON, of Wilmington, RALPH J. ScoTT, of Dan­ won out many, many times over great odds bury, and BASIL L. WHITENER, Of Gastonia. as he underwent numerous operations in an Representative David McKee Hall's death Representative GEORGE P. MILLER, Demo­ effort to regain his health. has brought a deep sense of loss and of re­ crat, of California, attended as a representa­ He was a consistent fighter and never knew gret. tive of the House Space Committee of which what it was to give up. The greater the The freshman Congressman from the 12th Hall was a member. Zeake W. Johnson, Jr., odds, the harder he fought. North Carolina District died of complica­ House Sergeant at Arms, also was present. The adult life of Representative Hall was tions following a cancer operation performed Hall was buried in the family cemetery at truly one of courage and determination­ last December 10. Webster. an inspiration to those who are prone to The gentleman from the valley of the Representative Hall died Friday at 5:45 give up this side of success. Tuckasegee west of the Balsams was but 41 p.m. in the c. J. Harris Hospital in Sylva. years of age. A paraplegic, who had been confined to a (From the Ashville (N.C.) Citizen, Feb. 1, In the prime of his maturity, death wheelchair since the age of 15, he under­ 1960) brought a close to what promised to be a dis­ went surgery December 10 in a New York tinguished career in the lower House of SIX HUNDRED FRIENDS AND NOTABLES ATTEND hospital for removal of a cancerous growth. FUNERAL FOR HALL Congress. He was a member of the Space The 41-year-old Congressman was a native Committee. of Sylva. He was elected to represent the SYLVA.-More than 600 persons attended funeral services here Sunday afternoon for He had intended to seek renomination in 10-county congressional district in November the May Democratic primary. He had many Representative David M. Hall, 12th District 1958. Congressman who died Friday of complica­ friends and wide support. He became top-ranking freshman Demo­ Illness was no new experience for Dave tions from cancer surgery. crat on the Space Committee, the first per­ The small Sylva Methodist Church, with Hall. Crippled by a bone infection in his manent new committee of both Houses since youth, he was a paraplegic. Since the age seats for only 200, was filled to capacity with of 15 he had been confined to a wheelchair. 1892. He was a strong supporter of timber many standing. An estimated 400 additional management and development plans. He persons waited outside. This physical handicap did not deter Mr. frequently called attention to western North Hall from living a full and active life. The service was simple and impressive. Carolina's vast timber resources. The Reverend Asmond L. Maxwell, pastor, He was known for his faith and courage, In September 1959, Hall went to London his optimism in the face of adversity. described the 41-year-old Hall as a man with The quality of his mind and character led for a series of conferences in connection with "indomitable courage known to all." Of him to enter the field of public service. the International Astronomical Federation Hall, the minister said: After studying at the University of North Conference. "He had a strong will to live in a large Carolina, where his record was outstanding, Hall was the son of Mrs. Edith Moore Hall, world. He had drive, control, and discipline he practiced law in his native town of Sylva of Sylva, and the late David McKee Hall. He of his natural abil1ties. He had a desire to in Jackson County. He was not only pro­ was a grandson of the late Superior Court grow, to learn, to accomplish. ficient in his profession (he farmed also), Judge Frederick Moore and a nephew of Su­ "He had faith in himself, boundless energy, but developed into a constructive civic perior Court Judge DanK. Moore of Canton, unceasing hope, a sense of duty and mission leader. now associated with Champion Paper & although he knew he lived 'on boiTowed For more than 20 years he was active in Fiber Co. ttme'." Democratic Party circles and he served in a Despite his physical disability, he received Stricken by a crippling bone disease at the number of official capacities, including mem­ a certificate of law from the University of age of 12, Hall had lived most of his life in bership in the State senate and on the North Carolina Law School in 1947 and the a wheelchair. During his life, he underwent North Carolina Board of Water Commission­ LL.B. degree in June 1948. He began his more than 100 operations. ers. law practice in Sylva in the fall of 1948. The last was performed December 10 in Representative Hall was a member of a In the summer of 1947, Hall appeared be­ New York City for removal of a cancerous prominent mountain family, many of whose fore the Congress of Physical Medicine in growth of the bladder. The Congressman's members have won distinction in business, New York and gave a demonstration of new death resulted from complications of the in the professions and in public· Ufe. mobility methods being taught paraplegics. operation, including a kidney stoppage. He participated and held office in the Jack­ It is men like Dave Hall who have lasting Hall's casket was cloaked in white carna­ contributions to the growth and develop­ son County Chamber of Commerce, the Jack­ tions. Organ music filled the church as the ment of this mountain region. He was son County Industrial Committee and Jack­ coffin was rolled to the front of the altar. deeply interested in serving the region and son County Industries, the Sylva Rotary In addition to the minister, who was as­ Club, the Sylva Methodist Church, Jackson sisted by the Reverend Robert G. Tut tle of his fellow man and he did serve well and chapter of the American Red Cross, and the faithfully in all the posts to which he was Ashevllle, superintendent of the Asheville called in civic and political life. Morehead Scholarship Committee. He served district of the Methodist Church, the as county attorney for 2 years and was town solemn procession into the church included We have reason to remember Dave Hall, attorney for Sylva from 1948 until 1951. He not the least by far being the record of cour­ the pallbearers, members of the family, and had also served as attorney for the town of a delegation of U.S. Congressmen and Sena­ age which shone through his entire life. It Dillsboro. becomes a legacy of his family and an in­ tors who came from Washington for Hall's Active in county and district Democratic last rites. spiration to all who had the privilege of circles for 20 years, he had served as presi­ knowing him. Included in the group were North Caro­ dent of the Jackson County Young Demo­ lina's two Senators, SAM J. ERVIN of Morgan­ cratic Club and as an officer in the Jackson ton and B. EVERETT JoRDAN of Saxapahaw [From the Waynesville (N.C.) Mountaineer, County Democratic executive committee. Feb. 1, 1960] and North Carolina Congressmen HuGH Q. Surviving is his wife, the former Miss ALEXANDER of Kannapolis, L. H. FOUNTAIN of LARGE CROWDS ATTEND LAST RITES OF Sarah McCollum, of Bradenton, Fla.; three REPRESENTATIVE D. M. HALL Tarboro, CHARLES R. JoNAS of Lincolnton, daughters, Sarah Anne, 10, Edith Allison, 9, A. PAUL KrrcHIN of Wadesboro, ALTON LEN­ A large number of Haywood County citi­ and Hannah McKee, 4; a brother, Robert C. NON of Wilmington, RALPH J. SCOT!' of Dan­ zens were among the estimated 600 persons Hall, of Asheville; and two sisters, Miss Lela bury, and BASIL L. WHITENER of Gastonia. who attended funeral services for 12th Dis­ Moore Hall and Mrs. Margaret Hall Dowdle, Representative GEORGE P. MILLER, Demo­ trict Congressman David M. Hall, Sunday both of Franklin. crat, California, attended as a representative afternoon in the Sylva Methodist Church. of the House Space Committee, of which The small church, with seats for only 200, [From the Waynesville (N.C.) Mountaineer, Hall was a member. Zeake W. Johnson, Jr., was filled to capacity with many standing. Feb. 1, 1960] House Sergeant at Arms, also was present. An estimated 400 friends waited outside. REPRESENTATIVE HALL WAS A MAN OF GREAT Hall was buried in the family cemetery at The service, conducted by the Reverend COURAGE Webster, a few miles south of Sylva. He was Asmond L. Maxwell, pastor, and the Rev­ Representative David McKee Hall was a buried in the same plot with his father, erend Robert G. Tuttle, superintendent of symbol of courage and determination. David McKee Hall, who died in 1938. the Asheville district of the Methodist Having suffered from a physical handicap The little cemetery is at the crest of a hlll. Church, was simple and impressive. for some 25 years, he never sought sympa­ Stretching for miles beyond the Cowee The active pallbearers were Ernest Burch, thy-never indulged 1n self-pity. He was, in Mountains and at the foot of the hill the Andrew Wilson, Joseph T. Wilson, Lacey turn, concerned over the welfare of others Tuckasegee River winds its way through the Thornberg, Malcolm Brown, Fred D. Cooper, and made many valuable contributions to valley. E. L. McKee, and W. D. McKee. the civic, religious, business, and cultural The cemetery is a short distance from the A delegation of. U.S. Congressmen and life of his community and district. Hall homeplace, a stately home built by Senators included North Carolina's two Sen­ An indication of his concern for his fel­ Hall's grandfather on the banks of the ators, SAM J. ERVIN, Jr., of Morganton, and B. lowman was one of his last requests-that a Tuckasegee. EVERETI' JoRDAN, of Saxapaw, and HUGH Q. scholarship fund 'be established at Western At least 200 persons attended the burial ALEXANDER, of Kannapolis, L. H. FoUNTAIN, of Carolina College in lieu of floral offerings. services. The grave was thickly covered 1960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SE·NATE 10335 with flowers .even though Hall had requested He survived countless operations, endured drones, around us all the time are patterns that in the event of his death, flowers be unbelievable pain and fought back every of success positively amazing. omitted and expressions of sympathy be in time. He insisted upon being his own man. Such a pattern is the life of Congressman the form of contributions to a. scholarship His courage, determination, and public­ David M. Hall, freshman Democratic Repre­ fund at Western Carolina College. spirited law career led to his election to Con­ sentative from the State of North Carolina, Telegrams of sympathy .were received by gress from North carolina's 12th District in who last week died in Sylva, N.C., at the early Hall's widow from dozens of congressional 1958. age of 41 years. Members, other nationally known persons, It looked for awhile that David Hall would Direct cause of death was attributed to and notables with whom Hall had been win the fight against his most recent as­ cancer, that dread disease that seems to be closely associated. sailant--cancer. But the ravages of the constantly increasing as a menace, not only Governor Hodges wired: "Mrs. Hodges joins disease finally broke the resistance of a body to the old but to the young as well. me in expressing to you our love and sym­ that had previously fought and won over David Hall had been an invalid all of his pathy in your great loss." seemingly insurmountable odds. life. Most boys would have given up from Senator ERVIN's telegram read: "We sor­ When Hall was elected to Congress we the very first, would have folded their hands, row with you and the other members of his wrote that here was an example for the carried along with a grimace on their faces, family in Dave's passing. We have never youth of our land prone to whine about the been depressed, miserable, a happiness deter­ known a more gallant person." adversities of their lives where material rent to themselves and all those around A telegram from Senator JoRDAN stated: things are concerned. them. "Katherine and I deeply grieved to learn of Here was a man, even though confined to Although a paraplegic confined to a wheel­ the passing of our good fri«md Dave. He w111 a wheelchair, who insisted upon standing chair for 30 of his 41 years, Mr. Hall suc­ be greatly missed by his host of friends upon his own two feet. ceeded in obtaining his degree in law from throughout North Carolina and by his col­ And we'll wager he never stood taller than the University of North Carolina, entered leagues in the Congress. Dave w111 long be he does now. into all sorts of business ventures, as well remembered for the great contribution he as practicing his profession, married and made to his community, State, and .Nation [From the Durham (N.C.) Morning Herald, became the father of three lovely little girls. and for his indomitable courage. Our Feb. 2, 1960] Greatly interested in civic affairs, Mr. ·Hall deepest sympathy to you and the family." HEROIC COURAGE was also interested in the welfare of his Most of Hall's close 12th district friends Representative David Hall's life was short­ State and of the Nation. He had made a were present for the funeral. Among them he was only 41 when he died Friday-but it name for himself in Washington where he were Mrs. Edith P. Alley of Waynesville, who wm long be cited in North Carolina as an was regarded as an able and patriotic Repre­ was in charge of his district office in example of heroic courage. sentative. Waynesville. From the age of 15 Dave Hall had been Last rites for young Hall were held the Hall's survivors include the widow, the confined to a wheelchair, a paraplegic. But past Sunday in a small Methodist mountain former Sarah McCollum of Bradenton, Fla.; the handicap which chained his body did not church in his home city where his death three small daughters; his mother, Mrs. curb his mind and his confidence. He had followed recent surgery for removal of Edith M. Hall of Cullowhee; a brother, Robert earned a law degree at the University of cancer. C. Hall of Asheville; and two sisters, Miss North Carolina, returned home to practice, Among the 500 persons attending the Lela Hall and Mrs. Margaret Hall Dowdle, and earned the respect and confidence of his services was the entire North Carolina con­ both of Franklin. · neighbors. They sent him to the State gressional delegation, as well as many other senate. Then, when Representative Shuford notables of Washington who came to pay [From the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal, declined the. Democratic nomination in the final tribute to a man whom all considered Feb. 1, 1960] 12th District after the 1958 primary, Hall marvelous. DAVID M. HALL was the choice of the district Democratic Rev. A. S. Maxwell, in speaking of the In late August 1958-hardly 3 weeks after committee for nominee. deceased, said: the 12th District's Democratic executive com­ Ill health had plagued him during the "Hall was richly blessed here," said the little more than a year he had served in mittee ~ad named him as the party's nominee Rev. A. S. MaxwelL "His indomitable cour­ for Congress-David M. Hall was in Washing­ Congress. He was much in hospitals. age is known to all. ton more or less looking around. Asked by Finally came the dread diagnosis, cancer. "He knew he lived on borrowed time," a Journal reporter if he was certain of vic­ Characteristically, Dave Hall joined battle Maxwell told the group which overflowed tory in the November election, he grinned. with this most formidable of foes. The the small red brick church. courage, the confidence, and the will which He recalled the Representative's "strong "It isn't a question of whether I'm coming had carried him so far were his to the end. (to Washington) or not," he said. "It's just will to live in a large world • • • his drive, And in his passing, Dave Hall has left an control, and discipline of his natural abili­ a question of how long I'll stay." example which shines among the many As it turned out, the reply was more pro­ ties • • • his desire to grow, to learn, to shining pages of the records of those who achieve • • • his faith in himself • • • phetic than it was intended. Mr. Hall died refused to let physical handicap keep them Friday afternoon-having filled only half the his boundless energy * • * his unceasing from the high destiny they believed was hope his sense· of duty, of mission term to which he had indeed been elected theirs. * • • that following November. through life • * • ." He was not in Congress long enough to [From a Morristown, Tenn., newspaper] As Maxwell spoke of the young Repre­ build up much of a legislative record, to sentative's traits, his widow and three small bring his name to public attention outside Perhaps the greatest endowment to any girls sat in a front pew, weeping softly. ohlld is the will to do. Behind them sat Senators SAM J. ERVIN, his own district and State, or even to shed Far greater than an inheritance of wealth fully the label of the freshman. But, while Jr., and B. EVERE'I"l' JORDAN; the 11 North or brains is that indefinable something lit Carolina House Members; Representative they had not come to know his public side, early in a young person's mind and heart there are those in Congress-as there are GEORGE P. MILLER, Democrat, of California, that inspires him with a determination to of the House Space Committee on which Hall many in other sections of his own State­ make the most of the gifts with which God who readily admired his persmial courage. served; and Zeake Johnson, Sergeant at has endowed him. Arms of the House. For Mr. Hall had entered Congress, as he had In the majority of instances, such a person gone into most of the undertakings of his The 41-year-old Hall had requested that does not have a super-abundance of gray in the event of his death, flowers be omitted life, in a wheelchair. And his ambition, his matter; but he has something much better, obviously unflagging optimism, his desire for and expressions of sympathy be in the form commonsense and a tiny power motor some­ of donations to a scholarship fund at West­ public service, in spite of his handicap, where in his makeup that keeps saying, over earned him highest regard. ern Carolina College, where his mother is and over, to him: "I think I can; I think I assistant dean of women. On that count alone, Representative Hall can; I think I can." achieved something which some men with Whatever the limitations of opportunity, A special election will be necessary to fill the ab111ty to walk and the opportunity to and sometimes these opportunities are so the remainder of Hall's term, which expires stay in Washington longer never have limited as to appear practically nil, such a next January. Roy A. Taylor, former State reached. boy or girl has the drive to pick up straws representative from Black Mountain, an­ and to keep using those straws until they nounced last week as a candidate for Hall's [From the Shelby (N.C.) Daily Star, ·Feb. 1, have erected a house of brick and stone. seat in the May Democratic primaries. 1960] Such are the lessons of success which have THE MARK OF A MAN painted such marvelous panoramas in the [From the Sylva (N.C.) Herald, Feb. 4, One must review with a mixture of respect, business history of the United States. 1960] awe, and admiration the life of David M. Although now in this country those who SCHOLARSHIP FuNDS SHOULD BE MAILED Hall. are unwilling to work and who feel that TO WCC PRESIDENT The man spent most of his 41 years con­ Uncle Sam owes them a living are embarked Before his death, Congressman David M. fined to a wheelchair, but he was never one upon a governmental program to force the Hall requested that in lieu of flowers, dona­ to whimper. · workers to more than divide with the tions be made toward establishment of a 10336 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE May 16 David McKee Hall Scholarship Fund at Three days later, physicians who performed of his natural abilities. He had a desire Western Carolina College. the operation announced the finding of ma­ to grow. to learn. to accomplish." said the Some who desire to contribute to this ~ignancy in microscopic studies of the sc:ar Reverend Asmond L. Maxwell, the church ·scholarship fund have raised a question as tissue. Hall went to New York soon after­ pastor. to procedure. The procedure is as follows: ward to begin a series of X-ray treatments "He had faith in himself, boundless en­ Mail contributions to the scholarship fund preparing him for the December 10 operation ergy, unceasing hope, a sense of duty and to the President, Western Carolina College, for removal of the cancerous growth. mission, although he knew he lived on bor­ Cullowhee, N.C. Checks should be made _ As a Member of the Congress, Hall became rowed time." payable to the David McKee Hall Scholarship the top-ranking freshman member on the Hall, a lawyer prominent in civic and Dem­ Fund. OUter Space Committee, the first permanent ocratic Party affairs, was elected to Congress The president's office will acknowledge the new committee of both Houses since 1892. in 1958. gifts and will notify the family of those who In September, he went to London for a series Those attending the funeral included contribute to the scholarship fund. of conferences in connection with the Inter­ North Carolina's two Democratic Senators, national Astronomical Federation Con­ SAM J. ERVIN, of Morganton, and B. EVER.ETr [From the Sylva (N.C.) Herald, Feb. 4, ference. JoRDAN, of Saxapahaw, and seven of the 1960] He received a certificate of law from the State's Congressmen. . DAVID M. HALL, 41, Dms; FUNERAL SERVICES University of North Carolina Law School in The House Space Committee, of which ARE HELD IN SYLVA SUNDAY AFTERNOON­ June 1947 and an LL.B. degree 1n June 1948. Hall was a member, was represented by Rep­ CoNGRESSIONAL DELEGATION AMONG 600 He was admitted to the bar in August 1947. resentative GEORGE P. MILLER, Democrat, of WHO ATTEND Among organizations in which he partici­ California. Zeake W. Johnson, Jr., Sergeant Twelfth District Congressman David M. pated or held office were the Jackson County at Arins of the House, also attended. Hall, 41, of Sylva, stricken by cancer last Chamber of Commerce, the Jackson County The church was filled to its 200-person November, died from complications of can­ Industrial Committee and Jackson County capacity and many stood in the sanctuary. cer surgery at 5:35 p.m., Friday, in C. J.. Industries, the Sylva Rotary Club and Sylva An estimated 400 others stood outside. Harris Community Hospital. Methodist Church, Jackson County Chapter Mr. Maxwell was assisted in the service by Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Sunday of the American Red Cross and Morehead the Reverend Robert G. Tuttle of the Ashe­ at Sylva Methodist Church. The Reverend Scholarship Committee of Jackson County. ville district of the Methodist Church. Asmond Maxwell, pastor, assisted by the He served as county attorney for 2 years Congressman Hall was burled in the fam­ Reverend Robert G. Tuttle, superintendent and was town attorney for Sylva from 1948 ily cemetery at Webster, a few miles south of the Asheville district of the Methodist to 1951. He had also served as attorney for of Sylva and a short distance from the Hal_l Church, officiated. Burial was in the family the town of Dillsboro. homeplace. At least 200 persons attended cemetery at Webster. Hall had been active in county and dis­ the graveside services. Survivors include the widow, the former trict Democratic circles for more than 20 Attending Hall's funeral, in addition to Sarah McCollum of Bradenton, Fla.; three years. He had served as president of the North Carolina's two Senators; Johnson and daughters, Sarah Anne, 11, Edith Allison, 9, Jackson County Young Democratic Club and Representative Miller, were North Carolina and Hannah McKee, 5; his mother, Mrs. Edith as a member and officer in the Jackson Congressmen Hugh Q. Alexander of Kan­ M. Hall, of Cullowhee; a brother, Robert C. County Democratic executive committee. napolis, L. H. Fountain of Tarboro, Charles Hall, of Asheville; and two sisters, Miss Lela. Born May 16, 1918, at Sylva, Hall was the R. Jonas of Lincolnton, A.' Paul Kitchin of Moore Hall, of Lillington, and Mrs. Margaret son of Mrs. Edith Moore Hall, of Sylva, and Wadesboro, Alton A. Lennon of Wilmington, Hall Dowdle, of Franklin. the late David McKee Hal.l. Ralph J. Scott of Danbury, and Basil L. Pallbearers were Ernest Burch, Andrew He was a grandson ·of the late Superior Whitener of Gastonia. Wilson, Joseph T. Wilson, Lacy Thornburg, Court Judge Fredrick Moore, grandnephew Telegrains of sympathy were received by Malcolm Brown, Fred D. Hooper, E. L. McKee, of Superior Court Judge Walter E. Moore, Mrs. Hall from Governor Hodges, Members and W. D. McKee. and the grandnephew of the late E. L. Mc­ of Congress, and other notables with whom Victim of a crippling bone infection at the Kee and State Senator Gertrude Dills Mc­ her husband had been associated. age of 12, Hall underwent surgery December Kee, his wife. 10 in a New York hospital for removal of a Among the more than 600 persons attend­ [From the Smoky Mountain Times, Bryson cancerous growth on his bla1ider. He died ing the funeral services Sunday was a dele­ City, N.C., Feb. 4, 1960) of complications of the operation, including gation of U.S. Congressmen and Senators DAVID M. HALL a kidney blockage. who came from Washington. David Hall proved that a person can be­ Specialists who performed the operation Included in the group were North Caro­ reported to Hall afterward that the cancer come successful in spite of handicaps if he lina's two Senators, SAM J. ERVIN, of Mor­ has the courage and if he has the Will. had been completely eliminated. Hall was ganton, and B. EvERETr JORDAN, of Saxapa­ returned to C. J. Harris Hospital January 12 Crippled at the age of 12 and confined to haw, and Congressmen HUGH Q. ALEXANDER, a wheelchair since the age of 15, with de­ to continue convalesence. of Kannapolis; L. H. FouNTAIN, of Tarboro; A paraplegic who had been confined. to a CHARLES R. JONAS, of Lincolnton; A. PAUL termination and courage he forged himself wheelchair since the age of 15, Hall was an KITCHIN, Of Wadesboro; ALTON LENNON, Of a place as a leader in western North Carolina attorney by profession but had devoted some Wilmington; RALPH J. SCOTT, of Danbury; civic and political circles. He had served in the North Carolina Sen­ attention to farming. and BASIL L. WHITENER. of Gastonia. On July 31, 1958, the 10-member Demo­ ate and as a member of the North Carolina Representative GEORGE P. MILLER, DemO• Board of Water Commissioners before being cratic district executive committee selected cratic Congressman from California, at­ Hall over five other Democratic nominee selected to serve in Congress by the Demo­ tended as a representative of the House cratic executive committee in 1958. aspirants for the post left open when Repre­ Space Committee. Zeake W. Johnson, Jr., sentative George A. Shuford, of Asheville, This was the first time in more than two House Sergeant at Arms, was also present. generations that a 12th District Democratic withdrew because of his health. Telegrams of sympathy were received by Hall won over his Republican opponent, Representative from west of the Barsams was Hall's widow from dozens of congressional in Congress. W. Harold Sams, Asheville attorney, in the Members, other nationally known persons, general election to become 12th District Con­ and notables with whom Hall had been He became 111 less than 2 months after gressman. closely associated. being sworn in as a Member of the House Hall's election marked the first time in 49 of Representatives, thus never getting the Moody Funeral Home was in charge of ar­ opportunity to do all he wanted for his years that the 10-county area had had a rangements. Congressman outside Buncombe or Hender­ district. But in spite of his serious illness, son Counties. he kept in touch With affairs of the 12th. [From the Smoky Mountain Times, Bryson His interest in the proposed Federal build­ A month after his election, Hall announced City, N.C., Feb. 4, 1960] the opening of a full-time district office in ing in Bryson City is an example of his Waynesville, the first time a congressional CoNGRESSMAN HALL DIES; FUNERAL AT SYLVA continuing work. office had been established west of Asheville. SUNDAY After his last major operation (he had Hall was sworn into the U.S. House of Rep­ Representative David M. Hall, Democrat, 100 operations during his lifetime) he an­ resentatives on January 7, 1959. of North Carolina, a paraplegic whose career nounced that he was coming home to re­ Less than 2 months later, on February 23, carried him to Congress despite almost a cuperate and run for reelection. he underwent surgery in Bethesda Naval Hos­ lifetime of pain and suffering, was burled This was typical of Dave Hall who never pital in Washington for drainage of his right near Sylva Sunday. admitted defeat against physical handicaps kidney after proper natural expulsion had Members of the U.S. Senate and House which would have overwhelmed a man of failed. Physicians announced the following were among the mourners who crowded the smaller stature. month that a second kidney operation might small Sylva Methodist Church and thronged It was with deep regret and sense of loss become necessary. outside at services for the 41-year-old Hall, that the 12th District and North Carolina This operation, for the removal of scar tis­ who suffered a bone disease at 12 and from learned of his death. sue resUlting from the kidney surgery, was 15 lived in a wheelchair. He has made a high mark in his life as a performed November 10 in St. Joseph's Hos­ "He had a strong will to live in a large gentleman, family man and man of courage. pital in Asheville. world. He had drive. control, and discipline We salute Dave Hall, every inch a man. 1960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 10337 [From the Sylva (N.C.) Herald, Feb. 4, 1960] men and women of this mountain region in At a time when lesser men would have ac­ DAVID HALL WAS A SYMBOL OF COURAGE AND pursuing higher education at Western Caro­ cepted their fate, David Hall undauntedly DETERMINATION _lina College. pursued his education and graduated with One of the last requests made by Repre­ honors from the Law School of the University Jackson County has reason to long re­ sentative Hall was that in lieu of flowers of North Carolina. He established practice in member and honor the life and courage of at his funeral contributions be made to a his home town of Sylva and demonstrated David McKee Hall, cut down so young in scholarship fund at Western Carolina College a legal talent that soon brought him clients life, and who lived and achieved great suc­ to aid deserving young men and women in beyond his ability to serve without assist­ cess under trying physical handicap and securing a higher education at this college. ance. He represented the Mead Corp. in suffering from his public school days, Having struggled through college himself, many important legal matters. He was an through his college training and profes­ under great physical handicap, he realized honorary member of the Mead Foreman's sional career. _the need for more scholarships at Western Club and the November meeting honoring David Hall, confined to a wheelchair since Carolina College. His friends have suggested Raymond Sutton, which he attended, marked his teenage days, packed more living, busi­ that the scholarship fund be known as the what was perhaps his last public appearance. ness, and public service into his 41 years David McKee Hall Scholarship. His list of official duties includes those of than the majority of us achieve in a long Many people here in Sylva, Jackson attorney for Jackson County, State senator, lifetime. County, and elsewhere have said that this is and a member of the State water resources Endowed with a keen mind and indomita­ one of the finest opportunities to honor the commission. In 1958 he was elected Con­ ble courage and a determination to achieve late Congressman and are already sending gressman of the 12th District in which hon­ success in anything he undertook, David in their contributions. Machinery for han­ ored position he was ably serving when over­ Hall achieved professional and political suc­ dling the fund has been set up at the college taken by the illness from which he failed to cess and rendered outstanding service to his and checks may be drawn in the name of recover. county, State, and Nation. the fund and mailed directly to President Despite the demands upon his time by legal Following his graduation from the uni­ Paul A. Reid at Cullowhee. and official duties, he rendered a full measure versity law school and on being granted his This can well be the source of funds for of service in civic, church, social, and com­ license to practice he wasted no time in one of the largest scholarships at Western munity activities. With it all he seemed opening an office in his hometown and was Carolina College as hundreds of friends of never lacking in time for a congenial chat soon recognized as an attorney of ability the young attorney and civic leader will wish with his many friends. and gained a wide practice, particularly in the to remember his life and service to his State His accomplishments in 41 short years is civil courts. He served as attorney for Jack­ in this way. seldom matched in the threescore and ten son County, represented the 32d senatorial Our fast growing Western Carolina College allotted to many and truly proves that it is district in the State senate, where he spon­ does not have a wealthy alumni and there­ not how long one lives but how well. sored much constructive legislation on the fore scholarships, memorial and otherwise, local, district and State level. When the are not available for those who could qualify [From the Waynesville (N.C.) Mountaineer, new and very important water resources com­ for them. The David McKee Hall Fund offers Apr. 18, 1960] mission was established to study and report an opportunity for many people to join hands AWARD MADE TO LATE REPRESENTATIVE HALL on the State's water use and resources, he in providing for this much needed part of our college. "I know in my heart that David is as proud was appointed as a member of that bOdy by of the award as I am." Governor Hodges. It was while serving in With these words, the saddened wife (){ the the senate that he proposed an income tax [From Highlands (N.C.) Highlander, Feb. 5, 1960] lat e Congressman David M. Hall, of Sylva, withholding law for North Carolina. He lived accepted a posthumous award Friday given long enough to see that law passed and put CONGRESSMAN DAVID M. HALL to her husband for being chosen the out­ into operation, although it was by a money­ The untimely passing of Representative standing handicapped North Carolinian for hunting legislature 2 years later. David M. Hall is mourned by everyone in 1959. The young attorney spent many hours this entire area. His death has brought a "He was one of the m.ost courageous men I working for industry, schools, roads, the new deep sense of loss to the 12th North Caro­ have ever known," Governor Hodges de­ hospital and other things for the betterment lina District which he served as Congress­ clared in presenting the award. "I can't of Jackson County. During all of this time man. He will be missed by everyone, and think of a finer tribute than for the State few people, other than his immediate family, our hearts go out in sympathy to his family. • • • to give this award to Mrs. Hall and her fully realized the tremendous handicap un­ David Hall's life has been a shining exam­ children." der which he labored, and at times, with ple of courage comparable to the life of the Mrs. Hall's three daughters-Hannah, 5, much pain and physical discomfort. late Franklin Delano RooSevelt. Assuredly Allison, 9, and Anne, 11-watched the pres­ The crowning success of his political ca­ no man ever came to the end of his life who entation in the Governor's conference room. reer came with the nomination as Demo­ had done more to rise above his infirmities Hall, confined to a wheelchair for many cratic candidate to Congress and the winning in order to unselfishly serve his fellow man years, died January 29 of cancer. He was of the 12th congressional seat in the Novem­ than these two men. In spite of the crip­ stricken by osteomyelitis during his child­ ber election in 1958. The few mo_nths he was pling disease since the age of 15, which con­ hood. At the age of 15, the infection af­ able to serve in Congress he exhibited the flned David Hall to a wheelchair, and made fected his spinal cord, paralyzing him from kind of leadership and wisdom that this Na­ him a paraplegic, this handicap did not the waist down. He underwent scores of tion needs in its national representatives. deter him from acknowledging that it was surgical operations. Had his health and strength prevailed there what he could do for others, and nothing Despite his handicap, Hall became the is little doubt of his having made a remark­ else, that satisfied him, and he fulfilled his first special student to be graduated from able record of service to his district and the destiny of having responsibility, and the the University of North Carolina Law School Nation as U.S. Congressman. burden of other people's business laid upon with an LL.B. degree. He practiced law for Of the many editorials written about Rep­ his shoulders. some time in Sylva. · resentative Hall since his death, the pre­ His loving and spontaneous service to A district committee nominated the late dominating theme of most of them has been others 'will be long remembered. His cour­ Mr. Hall for the award. Serving on the dis­ his "spirit of courage and determination." age and faith in spite of his adversities will trict committee were Miss Debrayda Fisher, Quoting the Waynesville Mountaineer, "Rep­ bring hope and faith to many others in the and Mrs. Edith P. Alley. resentative Hall was an inspiration to peo­ same set of circumstances. His calm, gentle The following was published in a booklet, ple of all ages in all walks of life. He won spirit will live on in the lives of everyone in "Reach," about Mr. Hall: out many, many times over great odds as the Nation who was privileged to know him he underwent numerous operations in an "Handicap," as defined by Webster, means personally, 'or know of him through his serv­ to put at a disadvantage or to hinder, but effort to regain his health. David Hall was ice to his country and his fellow man. a symbol of courage and determination." had you been present on January 3, 1959, when David McKee Hall, paraplegic, quietly Although his county, State, and the Nation [From the Sylva (N.C.) Sylvan, Feb. 1960] rolled his wheelchair into the Nation's Capi­ have suffered a great loss it is his family JACKSON COUNTY LoST ONE OF ITS ABLEST tol to take the oath of office as a Member of who will feel his passing most keenly. CrriZENS IN THE DEATH OF DAVID M. HALL the 86th Oongress, repres-enting the 12th An indication of his concern for his fel­ A grievous loss has been suffered by Jack­ Congressional District of North Carolina, you low man was one of his last requests-that son County, N.C., and the Nation in the might have said "Hall has revised Webster." a scholarship fund be established at West­ recent passing of COngressman David M. Hall, And indeed you would have been quite cor­ ern Carolina College in lieu of floral offerings. one of the ablest and most highly respected rect, because his journey to Washington had citizens of our day. been made over a long and toilsome road [From the Sylva (N.C.) Herald, Feb. 4, 1960] Seldom has one in so short a time been strewn with boulders of pain and suffering, . THE DAVID MCKEE HALL SCHOLARSHif FuND able to build such a record of achievement. blocked at intervals by detours of long, lin­ The many, many friends of the late David The disabilities which confined him to a gering months in hospital beds-all of which M. Hall, throughout North Carolina have an wheelchair during most of his life seemed would have made a person of less fortitude, opportunity to honor his memory and at to instill within him that -burning ambition determination, and driving ambition turn the same time ai_d many deserying young and colu-age that recognized n'! limitation. back and thus confirm Webster's definition 10338 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE May 16 that a handicap iS truly a hindrance. But Searching out those in need of help and mer sessions. Repayment would not be because of his relentless drive, his complet~ working in close cooperation with the voca­ due for several years and half of the unwillingness to admit defeat, his all-con­ tional rehab111tation counselor, he has f're­ loan is forgiven to those in the teaching suming ambition, the journey had been ac­ -quently made his omce available for con­ profession. I feel that this amendment complished. And in so doing, he had lent ferences and interviews between these indi­ inspiration and encouragement to others, viduals and counselors which resulted in would be widely utilized and that it both handicapped and physically :fit, to their receiving training and/or other re­ would be extremely helpful to teachers complete the task at hand, to achieve that hab1litation services through which they in financing courses pursued for higher goal out yonder, and to do it without com.: gained a new lease on life. degrees and refresher courses that would plaining. For many years David Hall devoted con­ improve their earning power and their At the age of 12, David was a round, siderable time and effort' in working with the professional competence. pudgy, pink-cheeked lad who had more local committee on employ the physically There is growing national awareness than the normal boy's interest in :fishing, handicapped; he was instrumental in getting hunting, scouting, football and the like. a survey made by the employment service of the injustice to our teachers and the That is, until the day that osteomyelitis on the county's labor supply which later led danger to our educational system posed destroyed the participation, even though it to the location of a new industrial plant in by our failure to pay teachers adequate could not lessen the interest which remained the community, thereby creating additional salaries. I have supported legislation to intact for some 28 years later. And thus job opportunities for the unemployed. He increase those salaries through Federal began the years of suffering, of excruciating has helped many handicapped people to se­ aid, but we can help our teachers and pain and of long, long months in Piedmont cure gainful employment and thus become our educational system in other, smaller Hospital, Atlanta-years which deprived him useful citizens who experience the satisfac­ of a secondary education because of the some tion that comes with finding one's place in ways. This amendment would help 200 surgical operations he was required to life. thousands of teachers carrying heavy undergo and the repeated close brushes with He has served his district well in the House financial burdens by making it possible death. At the age of 15, the infection af­ of Representatives and has been acoorded for them to advance in their profession fected his spinal cord to the extent that he recognition unusual for ·a freshman repre­ through attending summer sessions. was permanently paralyzed from the waist sentative. He was honored by being ap­ And the whole country would be the down and thereafter confined to a wheel­ pointed to the House Committee on Science beneficiary. chair life. and Astronautics, the first permanent stand­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Throughout the 28 years his family, phy­ ing committee to be created by the Congress sicians, and close friends were constantly since 1892. As a member of this committee, further morning business? amazed at the indomitable courage he man­ he participated in an 11,000-mlle fact-finding ifested at all times, never discouraged if his inspection tour of the major research and plans and activities were brought to an end development centers of Western Europe's FISHTRAPS IN ALASKA by another painful hospital experience, but NATO countries. Mr. GRUENING. Mr. President, I ask always ready to begin a new project or com­ He served in the Senate of the 1955 North unanimous consent that I may proceed plete the old one when given brief respites at Carolina General Assembly, has been a. mem­ home. ber of numerous boards and commissions, for not to exceed 5 minutes. Then, with the discovery of the sulfa an­ was active in the Methodist Church, ·and in The PRESIDING OFFICER declare before the High Court that 1954, as amended. Seaton. can do anything he wants to do when where Secretary Seaton is determined to it comes to Indian fishing rigAts in Alaska. install fishtraps, adopted a resolution at Seaton will be hard pressed for sustain­ its annual convention condemning the Ing arguments. The constitution of Alaska, ORDER DISPENSING WITH CALL OF restoration of fishtraps. Racial antag­ approved by Congress, declares that no fish­ THE CALENDAR onism and racial friction, previously traps shall be allowed in the State and no nonexistent, are almost certain to. follow special group shall enjoy exclusive privilege Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I if Secretary Seaton has his way. in the fishery. ask unanimous consent that the call of And the Statehood Act itself states that the calendar be dispensed with. Mr. President, years ago there was a Alaska will gain control of its fisheries after and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without certain amount o:l prejudice dis­ the Interior Secretary has certified it has objection, it is so ordered. crimination in a few places in Alaska made adequate- provision for the administra­ against the so-ca.lled native people ·~ as tion, management.. and conservation of the the Indians and Eskimos are called resources. Seaton made such certi.ftcation there. It did exist in occasional in­ last. year a.nd the State theo:retically gained EXECUTIVE SESSION stances, but. vanished completely a de­ full control of the fisheries last January l.. Mr. MANSF'IELD. Mr. President, I cade and a half ago after tne 1945 Terri­ Seaton declared he is obligated to protect Alaska natives--under authority of the Bu­ move that. the Senate proceed to the torial legislature passed an antidiscrim­ reau of Indian .A1f'airs--when he issued cer­ consideration of executive business. ination actF pena.Uz~g any . discrimina­ tain fishing regulations last month which, The motion was agreed to; and the tion on the basis of race, creed, or colo:r. among other things, could perpetuate 11 'Senate- proceeded to the consideration of That action :responded to a wide senti~ •outheaat Ala.Bka :&htrapa and closed tile executive business. CVI--651 10340 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE May 16 NOMINATION OF ARTHUR V. WAT­ Mr. KUCHEL. Mr. President, our Ladd Field, the northernmost air base KINS TO BE CHIEF COMMISSIONER former colleague, Arthur V. Watkins, under the American flag, and the U.S. air OF THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMIS­ has performed an invaluable service to base nearest Russia. It is an almost un­ SION the country in his membership on the believable piece of folly; and we shall Commission, and I feel sure that in his attempt to secure its reversal in the in­ Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ]lew responsibilities that-type of service terest of the national security. To cut send to the desk a nomination and ask will continue in the future. I congrat­ almost in half our fighter strength in unanimous consent for its immediate uhite the President on his nomination. that area would be sheer idiocy; and consideration. Mr. GRUENING. Mr. President, I we intend to explore the matter fully. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The should like to join in the remarks the In that connection, let me say that nomination will be stated for the infor­ Senator from Utah [Mr. BENNETT], and I am delighted to see in the .Chair at mation of the Senate. the Senator from California EMr. this time my colleague from Alaska EMr. The Chief Clerk read the nomination KucHEL] have made on the nomination BARTLETT]; and I am also very happy to of Arthur V. Watkins to be Chief Com­ of former Senator Arthur Watkins. He see on the floor at this moment the Sen­ missioner of the Indian Claims Commis­ served. with great distinction and devo­ ator from Arizona [Mr. GoLDWATER], sion. tion in this body. I think this is an ex­ who is fully aware of the importance The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there cellent appointment, and I think he. will of maintaining the strength of our Air objection to the present consideration of be a most useful public servant in a field Force. I am likewise very happy to see the nomination? in which he is well acquainted. in the Chamber at this time the junior There being no objection, the Senate Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I Senator from Washington [Mr. JACK­ proceeded to consider the nomination. wish to join with the Senator from Utah soN'], who has conscientiously devoted The PRESIDING OFFICER. The EMr. BENNETT], the Senator from Cali­ himself to the maintenance of our question is, Will the Senate advise and fornia EMr. KuCHEL] and the Senator strength in the interest of our security consent to the nomination of Arthur V. from Alaska [Mr. GRUENING] in what and is fully aware of the strategic im­ Watkins to be Chief Commissioner of the they had to say about our former col­ portance of Alaska to nationai defense. Indian Claims Commission? league, Arthur Watkins. He was a truly I now give notice that we intend to The nomination was confirmed. great Senator, who made many contri­ do our utmost to have this very much Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I butions to the welfare and betterment mistaken order reversed. ask that the President be immediately of this country and also of the Senate. notified. Our confidence in him and our apprecia­ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tion and affection for him are indicated THE EISENHOWER-NIXON DOUBLE objection, the President will be notified by the fact that his nomination was not STANDARD OF AREA REDEVELOP­ forthwith. referred to a committee, but was con­ Mr. BENNET!'. Mr. President, I can MENT FOR THE PEOPLE OF EU­ sidered immediately, by the Senate and ROPE, ASIA, AFRlCA, AND SOUTH think of no more gracious or fitting confirmed unanimously. tribute which the Senate could pay to one AMERICA BUT NOT FOR THE PEO­ of its former Members than to accept a PLE OF THE UNITED STATES · nomination of that Member to an office LEGISLATIVE SESSION Mr. GRUENING. Mr. President, last in the administrative branch of the Gov­ Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I Friday the President returned to the ernment, offer it, and approve it on the move that the Senate resume the con­ Congress, without his approval, S. 722, floor, without referring it to committee. sideration of legislative business. · the area redevelopment bill. This is a mark of respect, of appreciation, There being no objection, the Senate Thus, the Eisenhower-Nixon admin­ and of confidence. I am certain that resumed the consideration of legisla­ istration, by veto--or threat of veto­ our former colleague, Senator Watkins, tive business. marches on. deserves that respect. I am sure he will very e1fectively carry out the responsi­ Thus, the Eisenhower-Nixot:l "double standard"--everything for the people of bilities of the new office to which he has AMENDMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLE been appointed and his nomination has foreign countries, little or nothing for SAFETY RESPONSIDILITY ACT OF our own people-is once more, for the been confirmed. THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA For some time, former Senator Wat­ nth time, reaffirmed. kins has been serving as a member of the The Senate resumed the consideration Shortly after the receipt of the Presi­ Indian Claims Commission. By the of the bill

Region and country Borrower Purpose Amount Date agree- (thousands) ment signed

A. Loans and guarantee agree­ ments signed (obligations): Africa: Sviluppo Agricolo Industriale Dell'Eritrea S.A ______LiberiaEthiopia ______------Liberian-American Agricultural and Industrial Corp ______SawmillCotton textile ______milL_------_ Telecommunications ______Republic of Liberia __ ------Libya ______------Government of Libya ______-----______Electric powerplant------­ MoroccoNigeria ______------_ Kingdom of Morocco ____ ------Irrigation. __ ------­ Nigerian Ports AuthoritY------Construction of warehouse_------­ Somalia.------Credito Somalo ___ ------Agricultural and industrial develop- ment. Sudan______------Sudan-American Textile Industry ____ ------Textile milL __ ------______Tunisia ______Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens ______National railways ______Societe Nationale Tunisienne de Cellulose______Pulp factory __ ------1-----1 Subtotal, Africa ______- __ -__ ._____ ------__ ---- ______-_------____ ------______-----______----______I====I Europe: Netherlands. _____ -----__ Government of Netherlands __ ------______Emigrant resettlement ______Spain______Instituto Nacionale de Colonizacion _____ ------Irrigation (equipment) ______Spanish National Railways_------Railway rehabilitation ______Union Electrica Madrilena ______Hydroelectric plant. __ ------­ Yugoslavia. ______- -~~~d~~~~~-f-~~~~~~~~~::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: FertilizerDiesellocomotives plant._------______---- ______do ______------______-- ______• ______.. ______Electric power_------­ .....do._------___ --- __ ------Hydroelectric plant_------1-----1 Subtotal, Europe ______------__ -- ______------_---- ___ ------1===1 Far East: Indonesia ______----___ Republic of Indonesia ______------_------Railway rehabilitation ______do. ______------___ ------Harbor development------­ Korea_ ------Tongyang Cement Manufacturing CO------­ Cement plant-._------Republic of Korea._------­ Telecommunications ______Korea Electric Power Co------­ Chung Ju hydroelectric ______Oriental Chemical Industries Co------Soda ash plant------Korea Reconstruction Bank ______------_ Reconstruction bank ______Wharfage accommodations ______Malaya..• ------"-- -~~~~oa:~~~-~~~-~1~!:~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Roads and bridges ______Small industry fund ______Philippines______~:~~~}i~g{~~J~~~e!~~~-~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::: Roads and bridges rehabilitation ______Bataan Pulp and Paper Mill------­ Pulp and paper mill ______Mindanao Portland Cement Co·------­ Construction of cement plant.------­ Ba!!O Pulp and Paper Co., InC------Pulp and paper mill __ ------Taiwan ______Asia Cement Corporation------MultipurposeCement plant ___dam ------______Republic of China. ___ ------____ do. _____ -----______--____ --______-----______Rail ways. ______------_____ do. __ ----___ -----____ ----______~------______Railways (second) ___ ------Land Bank ___ : ______------Improvement of fishing industry ______First Commercial Bank of Taiwan, Chang Hwa Commercial Bank, Small industry fund ______Hua Nan Commercial Bank, Ltd., and Central Trust of China. Ingalls-Taiwan Shipbuilding Co ____ ------__ _ TaiwanPioneer ChemicalAluminum Corp Corp ______------______:. ______China Development CorP------rrhailand______MEAGovernment (Metropolitan of Thailand Elective. ______Authority)------_ Livestock Trading Corp ___ ------Subtotal, Far East ______--- __ ------_____ ------_------___ --'-----. _----- ______------____ -----______I===I Latin America: ArB gev~:ina___ -_-_-__--_-_-_-_-_-_-_- __--_-_ Government of Argentina _____ -----~ ______------______Economic development.------U ..,. Gasser y Cfa Industrias La Belgica ______Sugar mill __ ------0 Government of Bolivia ______------_------______Construction of runway ______Brazil ______Cooperative Agro-Pecuaria Batavo Limitada & Sociedade Coope- Resettlement project------;------rativa Castrolanda Ltd. Chile._------Costa Rica ______------SocietaGovernment Italians of Chilede Colizzazione ____ ------_------__ Agricola ______AirportResettlement design project __ ------______Equador _------Government of Ecuador------Highway construction ______do ____ _~ __ •• __ .------_ •• ------_____ .-----______do •••• ______----__ ------____ _

::::~:~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ___~~~~=~:::fi:!~~======:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ._do ______---•• _------.---_.------____ • ___ • ______••• ------Highway~~~~~~~~~~~~;:::::::::::::::::::: (engineering) ___ ._._----____ _

~f~~=~===:::::::::::Paraguay______~o~r~m;Corporacion deo~lf1~~~~a-~======::::::::::::::::======Obras Sanitarias de Asuncion ______Water¥~t~~~i~~r~~~~~~~:::::::::::::::: supply system.------Government of Paraguay_------Road improvement. ______International Products CorP------Modernization of operatives ______Uruguay ______Administracion General de las Uninas Electricas y los Telefonos Telephone expansion ______del Estado (UTE). Subtotal, Latin America. ______------______------______------______1====1 Near East: Greece __ ------Government of Greece __------C------Fertilizer plant______Public Power Corp. ------Hydroelectric plant ______Iran.------Plan Organization _____ ------Economic development project ______Industrial and Mining Development Bank of Iran______Development bank __ ------IsraeL ______i~~!~T~:~:f~~e~i~~~~f=i~~l=_=:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -~~~lE~n:~~~~r~J~~~~=-===::::::::::::: Jordan.------T;r~a~0~~~~::;;r~!~:6r;,?_~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~Le;;~~are~e~C:iexiiruiSio:ti:::::::::::: Turkey ______Industrial Development Bank·------Development bank ______Maden Tetkik Ve Arma Enstitud••• ------Aerial mineral sm-vey ------­ Turkiye Komur Isletmeliri Kurumu·------Coal mining facilities.------

k~~~~_-_::::::::::::::: t1;!t~=!~~~~~:l~~~~~======!~~iff=~~~~;~~~~;~~~=-======1 Subtotal, Near East ___ ------~----- 1960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 10343 Development Loan Fund-CumulatifJe status of approved loans as of Apr. 13, 196G-Continued

Region and country Borrower Purpose . Amount Date agree- (thousands) ment signed

A. Loans and guarantee agree­ ments signed (obligations)­ Continued South Asia: Irrigation and land development______$1,600 June 24,1958 Ceylon ______-~~~J~~-~~-o-1_~~:~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Highway development______900 July 28, 1958 ••••• do .•..------·------Rehabilitationofrailroads______750 Sept. 3,1958 India•• ------Government of India______Railway modernization______40,000 June 23,1958 _____ do _____ .------.--__ ----._------______---'- _---_ Roads, cement, jute______35,000 Do. ____ . do ______----.------_----__ •• __ --___ ------__ ------_____ - Railway modernization .. ------35, O(lO Dec. 24,1958 ____ .do______------__ -----__ ------__ ------_____ -----______---- Steel imports, public development____ 18,000 Do. -____ do ______----__ ------_____ -----___ __------______Steel imports, private development.__ 22, 000 Do. _____ do ______------______------___ ------______Public power development______10,000 Do. ____ . do ______---____ -----_____ ---_____ ------_____ ------_ Capital equipment, private industry__ 15, 000 Do. . ____ do ______---__ _--- ______----______------______Steel imports ... ------20,000 July 27,1959 Pakistan.•• ------Government of Pakistan __ ------Water, sewage, and disposal______5, 500 June 30,1958 PICIC I_------_:, ___ _ Industrial development loans. ------4, 200 Feb. 4, 1958 Government of Pakistan••. ____ ------_------Railroad rehabilitation______9,100 Feb. 18,1959 _____ do. ______------West Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority ______i:a':tji~~~~:t1g~: ::::::: :::::::::::: ~~: ~ B~: ___ ..do . ___ ------____ ------______Power transmission lines______14,700 Do. Government of Pakistan_------______------Dredging facilities______2, 000 July 10,1959 Sui Gas Transmission Co~_------Expansion gas treating plant.------2, 000 Feb. 19,1960 Government of Pakistan ______------Construction power substation______23,000 June 29,1959 _____ do. __ .------_____ ------Improve inland waterways______1, 750 Sept. 12,1959 _____ do. __ ------­ Construction jet runway------4, 800 Nov. 3,1959 PICIC I_------Industrial development loans ______10,000 Jan. 14,1960 Government of Pakistan.. _------_____ -----____ _ Railroad rehabilitation______22,000 Jan. 16,1960 1----1 Subtotal, South Asia .. -----_----- _____ ------____ ------__ . ___ ------______------__ . ______------_ 330,000 Subtotal, direct loans .. ------__ . ------... __ ------______------______.. ------______. __ . ----_-- _---- 869,656 Guaranteed loans: Taiwan______Ingalls-Taiwan Shipbuilding Co.------c------3,150 1===1 Total, loan and guar­ 872,806 antee agreements signed. B. Other loans and guarantees ap­ 170,900 proved but not yet signed. Total loans and guarantees.. ------_------1, 043, 706

1 Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation.

Mr. GROENING. Mr. President, it is through a national jute trust composed of Mr. GROENING. I yield with pleas­ rather striking that the first item is for representatives of the industry and govern:.. ure to my able and distinguished col­ diesel locomotives to the Government of ment officials. league from Connecticut. · Yugoslavia, in the amount of $14,800,000. But the Eisenhower-Nixon administra­ Mr. DODD. I wish to say to the Sen­ The second one is a loan to the Gov­ tion just told us on Friday, in the veto ator from Alaska that I think, in the ernment of India for the Chandrapura message, that loans to American com­ speech which he is making today, and electric power, in the amount of $30 munities-even when they are to be re­ which I have had the privilege of fol­ million. paid in good, hard American dollars­ lowing as I sat here, he is again con­ ·There is no partnership there as in the and not in soft currency, in rupees-are tributing, as he has so often in the past, administration's hydro policy at home; unnecess~ry, unwise, and costly. to a clear understanding of just what the Government does it all. There is a Obviously, a different standard is to the American people are up against in second loan to the Government of In­ be applied when the loans are made this administration which is so con­ dia for the Sharavathi hydroelectric abroad and are to be repaid in soft cur­ cerned about big private business, and so power, amounting to $8,400,000. rencies-much of which we cannot even little concerned about small people and There is another one to Industrial Fi­ take out of the foreign countries and . their needs. There is no more dramatic nance Corporation of India for $10 much of which today P<>ses a serious example of that fact than in this whole million. problem of inflation in some of these business of aid to depressed areas. There are others, as this list in the foreign countries-which we are then I received only this morning a com­ RECORD Will show. asked to remedy by further contribu­ munication from a very good Republi­ Let us consider one or two of these tions, either as grants or loans, and can friend of mine in my own State. I projects in the light of the President's cheerfully do so. have his letter on my desk, but I do not own standards. Consider another example, Mr. Presi­ have his permission to read it into the One of the loans is to India-and I am dent. RECORD. I think it is fair to say that he not critical of the project as such. I Consider, Mr. President, the loan o·f is a very prominent member of his party. know no more about it than the informa­ $1,350,000 for the Taiwan Aluminum He says, among other things, "I am tion furnished me by the Development Corp. repayable in 5 years in new Tai­ writing to you because I read in the press Loan Fund. But in looking through this that Ike will veto the $251 million de­ wan dollars. pressed areas bili." Then he asks me if information, I find that a loan has been What is this loan to be used for? I will send him the figures of the stag­ made to India in the amount of $5 mil­ According to the Development Loan gering amounts we are sending to for­ lion, repayable in 15 years in Indian Fund, it is to be used as follows: rupees. eign countries as subsidies. "I am still The proceeds of this loan will assist in a Republican," he says, "but I am crit­ What is the loan for? financing the costs of acquiring equipment, ically wondering just how I can go on Five million dollars to purchase equipment materials, supplies and services required for being so with this attitude in the for use in the modernization and expansion modernization and expansion of the corpora­ White House." Little wonder that he is of India's privately owned jute industry. tion's facilities for producing aluminum and worried. Equipment to be procured includes looms, aluminum ingot at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. spindles, and spare parts. The proceeds of Before I go any further, I wish to say the loan will be made available by the Gov­ Mr. DODD. Mr. President, will the to the Senator from Alaska, I think he is ernment of India to private companies Senator yield? doing a great thing in helping our people 10344 CONGRESSIONAL-RECORD·- SENATE May 16 to understand just what this question is Here is one for $2 million foT agricul­ COMMUNITY ANTENNA SYSTEMS really all about. tural and industrial devel<>pment in Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, un­ As the Senator from Alaska knows, I Somalia. less there is further business, it is the have been very strongly in favor of for­ Here is one for $800,000 for construc­ intention to adjourn the Senate shortly. eign aid. When I was in the other body tion of a waTehouse in Nigeria. Mr. President, as I understand the and a member of the Foreign Affairs Here is one for $23 million for an irri­ situation, when the Senate adjourns this Committee, I worked and voted for for­ gation project for the Kingdom of afternoon unti112 o'clock tomorrow, the eign aid. I have voted for it while I Morocco. pending business will be Calendar No. have been a Member of the Senate. I Here is one for $5 million for an elec­ 950, S. 2653, to amend the Communica­ think we must continue the program. I tric power plant for the Government of tions Act of 1934 to establish jurisdic­ deeply believe there is a need for it, and Libya. tion in the Federal Communications I know the Senator from Alaska feels Here is one for a pulp factory in Commission over community antenna likewise. But, on anDther occasion, I Tunisia; and so on-projects which in systems. said there is such a thing as being so this country our Government would de­ broadminded that we get :ftatheaded; nounce as socialistic and all the other The PRESIDING OFFICER. The and I am wondering if we have not adverse things that it says about any Chair lays before the Senate the bill, S. reached that point on foreign aid in this projects for the American people. 2653, which will be stated by title for the country. We are so concerned about the What makes these foreign aid projects information of the Senate. poor and the unfortunate and the needy sacrosanct? Yet projects costing much The LEGISLt.TIVE CLERl{. A bill (S. abroad-which we should be, and prop­ lesser amounts, projects which have been 265:-l) to amend the Communications erly so, that we go to the extent of carefully worked out, that have passed Act of 1934 to establish jurisdiction in neglecting our own. That is the point both bodies of Congress, which are aimed the Federal Communications Commis­ the Senator from Alaska is so ably mak­ at relieving distress, whether for area sion over community antenna systems. ing. I am glad he is doing so, because it redevelopment, education, housing, re­ Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I needs to be done. source development or to end water pol­ announce to the Senate that this meas­ Mr. GRUENING. As the Senator has lution. needs that exist in this country, ure will not be considered today, but will noticed, in the last year we have been are labeled as "unnecessary, unwise, and be taken up for consideration at the con­ borrowing money from our own people costly''? clusion of morning business tomorrow. to be able to spend abroad as the $12 Perhaps there is some allergy on the I believe unanimous consent has been billion deficit in 1959 reveals and, under part of the Eisenhower-Nixon admin­ granted that if morning business should the policies of this administration, which istration to loans repaid in American conclude before 2 o'clock, the bill, S. wishes to raise interest rates, our people dollars and that when the loan is to be 2653, will be laid before the Senate and will have to pay still more to raise the paid in new Taiwan dollars, rupees, or will be open for consideration and de­ money to give and lend to foreign na­ other soft currencies, the loan no longer bate by the Senate. tiDns, whereas, loans made to foreign is "unnecessary, unwise, and costly"? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The countries are Teally not true loans at all Mr. President, I confess that I cannot Senator is correct. since they are repayable in soft curren~ understand such double talk. cies, which makes them virtually gifts, But I can understand this, Mr. Presi­ masquerading as loans. dent: Our gross national product has ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT Mr. DODD. Of course, they are. I now reached the sum of one-half a tril­ Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I do not want to delay the Senator fur­ lion dollars annually. What we were ask unanimous consent that when the ther. I wish to hear what else he has to seeking to do in enacting s. 722 was to Senate concludes its deliberations today say. However, I should like to say that devote a sum approximately equivalent it stand in adjournment until 12 o'clock his complaint is not that we are carry­ to what could be produced by our na­ noon tomorrow. ing on a foreign aid program, but, rather, tional effort in 4 hours to relieving the The PRESIDING OFFICER. With­ that we are not carrying it out properly, economic distress of our fellow citizens out objection, it is so ordered. that we are not doing the job as it should here at home in areas needing economic be done, and that we are not taking care redevelopment. of our own people as they should be It is my sincere opinion that the de­ THE SUMMIT CONFERENCE taken care of and, in my own judgment, votion of that small fraction of our gross as a priority matter. It is getting so national product to such a worthy pur­ Mr. KUCHEL. Mr. President, this is that it is considered bad for an American pose at home has at least as much merit a sad day in this melancholy world. to stand up and say that America should as devoting many times that much to What mankind had fondly hoped might be given a priority in anything. In some similar projects abroad. conceivably result in forward progress quarters it is considered wrong to do The time will come-and I hope it will toward the cause of peace with honor that. It has got so that if one raises his be not too long distant-when the Eisen­ apparently in advance has been doomed voice so he can be heard in this Chamber, hower-Nixon administration will rue the to failure. he is characterized as a demagog. We day that it forsook the interests of the Today in Paris the Soviet Premier has are led to believe that we must whisper; people here at home in favor of the peo­ done a tragic and frightening disservice we must speak softly, in double terms ~le in 104 foreign countries, and adopted by his announcement calculated to scut­ and then only in certain places. It is Its double dealing, double talking, double tle a summit meeting which he himself high time that our leaders, as the Sena­ standard, making it the first administra­ originally sought. tion in American history which by its For years the Soviets have maintained tor from Alaska is doing, speak up so a far-:ftung system of espionage all they can be heard, and give the people actions shows that it prefers the interests of the people of foreign lands to the in­ around the globe. Other states, includ­ the facts they need, so we can move ing our own, have done likewise, though ahead at home and abroad. terests of the people of our own. Mr. President, I yield the :floor. none on the same scale, I believe as Mr. GROENING. J: thank my able Mr. KUCHEL. Mr. President, I sug­ Russia. We have apprehended ~nd colleague from Connecticut. I shall not gest the absence of a quorum. convicted many Soviet secret agents who were plying their trade in our own coun­ delay the Senate much further, but I The PRESIDING OFFICER The think when the people read in today's clerk will call the roll. · try. Now Russia, in regard to the U-2 RECORD, what some of these foreign proj­ plane incident, has announced that an The legislative clerk proceeded to call American reconnaissance plane pilot will ects are, they will have a better under­ the roll. standing of the Eisenhower-Nixon double be held for trial on charges of espio­ Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President I nage behind the Iron Curtain. Mean­ standard. Let me refer to the list of ask unanimous consent that the order while, they announce the orbiting in projects. for the quorum call be rescinded. outer space of a mechanism which, when Here is one item for $10 million for a ~e.PRESIDING OFFICER. Without perfected, perhaps could supply a world­ textile mill in the Sudan. obJection, it is so ordered. wide reconnaissance capability to them. 1960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 10345 This morning the Soviet Premier used ments go no further than to say that the ing August 9, 1960, vice R. Lockwood Jones, the U-2 incident as a basis for effective­ United States will not shirk its responsi­ resigned. ly preventing the · meeting from being bility to safeguard against surprise attack. Edward C. Sweeney, of Tilinois, to be a "In point of fact, these flights were sus­ member of the Subversive Activities Control held. What is it, Mr. President, which pended after the recent incident and are not Board for a term of 5 years expiring August the Soviets apparently, at all costs, de­ to be resumed. Accordingly, this cannot be 9, 1965. (Reappointment.) sire to have remain secret behind their the issue. U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE own borders? Is it progress in the fields "I have come to Paris to seek agreements of peaceful pursuits, or is it something with the Soviet Union which would elimi­ Roy L. Stephenson, of Iowa, to be U.S. dis­ nate the necessity for all forms of espionage, trict judge for the southern district of Iowa, else? vice Edwin R. Hicklin, retired. We deal here with the perpetuation including overflights. I see no reason to use of American liberty, and equally, with this incident to disrupt the conference. INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION the cause of mankind's freedom. What "Should it prove impossible, because of Arthur V. Watkins, of Utah, to be Chief new, or different arrangements may now the Soviet attitude, to come to grips here in Commissioner of the Indian Claims Com­ Parls with this problem and the other vital mission, vice Edgar E. Witt, resigned. be necessary, here and elsewhere, to as­ issues threatening world peace, I am plan­ T. Harold Scott, of Colorado, to be an As­ sure our freedom, our Government will ning in the near future to submit to the sociate Commissioner of the Indian Claims be prepared to make, and it will make United Nations a proposal for the creation of Commission, vice Arthur V. Watkins. a United Nations aerial surveillance to de­ them with the unstinting approval of all ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION the American people and, I feel sure, tect preparations for attack. This plan I had intended to place before this conference. Loren Keith Olson, of Maryland, to be a with the approval of free governments member of the Atomic Energy Commission and free peoples everywhere. This surveillance system would operate in the territories of all nations prepared to for the remainder of the term expiring June I have just read the text of the state­ accept such inspection. For its part, the 30, 1962, vice John Forrest Floberg, resigned. ment which our President made today United States is prepared not only to accept in Paris at the conference of the heads the United Nations aerial surveillance, but CONFffiMATIONS of state. I ask unanimous consent that to do everything in its power to contribute the text of this statement appear at this to the rapid organization and successful Executive nominations confirmed by point in my comments. operation of such international surveillance. the Senate May 16, 1960: There being no objection, the state­ "We of the United States are here to con­ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE CoMMISSION ment was ordered to be printed in the sider in good faith the important problems before this conference. We are prepared Harold c. Patterson, of Virginia, to be a RECORD, as follows: either to carry this point no further, nor member of the Securities and Exchange com­ Having been informed yesterday by Gen­ undertake bilateral conversations between mission for the term expiring June 5, 1965. eral de Gaulle and Prime Minister Macmil~ the United States and the U.S.S.R. while the PUBLIC HOUSING COMMISSIONER Ian of the position which Mr. Khrushchev ·m ain conference proceeds." Bruce Savage, of Indiana, to be Public has taken in regard to this Conference dur­ My words were seconded and supported by Housing Commissioner. ing his calls yesterday morning on them, I my Western colleagues who also urge Mr. gave most careful thought as to how this Khrushchev to pursue the path of reason MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION matter should best be handled. Having in and commonsense, and to forget propaganda, Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Lane, Corps of mind the great importance of this Conference Such an attitude would have permitted the Engineers, to be a member and president of and the hopes that the peoples of all tp.e conference to proceed. Mr. Khrushchev was the Mississippi River Commission, under the world have reposed in this meeting, it con­ left in no doubt by me that this ultimatum provisions of section 2 of an act of Congress cluded that in the circumstances it was best would never be acceptable to the United approved June 28, 1879 (21 Stat. 37) (33 to see if, at today's private meeting, any States. u.s.c. 642). possibility existed through the exercise of Mr. Khrushchev brushed aside all argu­ CALIFORNIA DEBRIS COMMISSION reason and restraint to dispose of this mat­ ments of reason, and not only insisted upon ter of the overfiights which would have Col. John A. Morrison, Corps of Engineers, this ultimatum, but also insisted that he to be a member of the California Debris permitted the Conference to go forward. was going to publish his statement in full I was under no illusion as to the proba­ at the time of his own choosing. Commission, under the provisions of section bility of success of any such approach but I It was thus made apparent that he was 1 of the act of Congress approved March 1, felt that in view of the great responsibility determined to wreck the Paris conference. 1893 (27 Stat. 507) (33 U.S.C. 661). resting on me as President of the United In fact, the only conclusion that can be SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD States this effort should be made. drawn from his behavior this morning was Francis Adams Cherry, of Arkansas, to be In this I received the strongest support of that he came all the way from Moscow to a member of the Subversive Activities Con­ my colleagues, President de Gaulle and Prime Paris with the sole intention of sabotaging trol Board for a term of 5 years expiring Minister Macmillan. Accordingly, at this this meeting on which so much of the hopes March 4, 1965. morning's private session, despite the vio­ of the world have rested. U.S. ATTORNEYS lence and inaccuracy of Mr. Khrushchev's In spite of this serious and adverse de­ Ralph Kennamer, of Alabama, to be U.S. statement, I replied to him on the follow- velopment, I have ~o intention whatsoever ing terms: · to diminish my continuing efforts to pro­ attorney for the southern district of Ala­ "I had previously been informed on the mote progress toward a peace with justice. bama, term of 4 years. sense of the statement just read by Premier This applies to the remaindeT of my stay in William L. Longshore, of Alabama, to be Khrushchev. Paris as well as thereafter. U.S. attorney for the northern district of "In my statement of May 11 and in the Alabama, term.of 4 years. statement of Secretary Herter of May 9, Joseph ·s. Bambacus, of Virginia, to be the position of the United States was made ADJOURNMENT U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Vir­ clear with respect to the distasteful necessity ginia, term of 4 years. of espionage activities in a world where Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, if U.S. MARSHAL nations distrust each other's intentions. there is no further business to come be­ We pointed that these activities had no ag­ fore the Senate at this time, I move, Oliver H. Metcalf, of Pennsylvania, to be gressive intent but rather were to assure pursuant to the order previously entered, U.S. marshal for the middle district of Penn­ the safety of the United States and the free that the Senate adjourn until 12 o'clock sylvania for the term of 4 years (now serving world against surprise attack by a power under an appointment which expired March which boasts of its ability to devastate the tomorrow. 1, 1960). United States and other countries by missiles The motion was agreed to; and (at 2 FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION armed with atomic warheads. As is well o'clock and 31 minutes p.m.) the Sen­ Lester Clyde Carter, of Arkansas, to be a known, not only the United States but most ate adjourned, under the order pre­ member of the Federal Farm Credit Board, other countries are constantly the targets viously entered, until tomorrow, Tues­ Farm Credit Administration for a term ex­ of elaborate and persistent espionage of the day, May 17, 1960, at 12 o'clock meridian. piring March 31, 1966. Soviet Union. Robert T. Lister, of Oregon, to be a mem­ "There is in the Soviet statement an NOMINATIONS ber of the Federal Farm Credit Board, Farm evident misapprehension on one key point. Credit Administration, for a term expiring It alleges that the United States has, through Executive nominations received by the March 31, 1966. official statements, threatened continued overflights. The importance of this alleged Senate May 16, 1960: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION threat was emphasized and repeated by Mr. SUBVERSIVE ACTIVrriES CONTROL BOARD Malcolm M. Willey, of Minnesota, to be a Khrushchev. The United States has made Edward C. Sweeney, of Illlnois, to be a member of the National Science Board for no such threat. Neither I nor my Govern­ member of the Subversive Activities Control the remainder of the term expiring May 10, ment has intended any. The actual state- Board for the remainder of the term expir- 1964. 10346 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE May 16 INDYAN CLAD48 COMlloiiSSlON Jan Darryl Long James Garfield Williams Arthur V. Watkins, of Utah. to be Chief Merrm Conrad Louks John Knox Witherspoon. Jr~ Commissioner of the Indian Claims Commis­ Terry Luther Lucas Richard Walter Zins sion. James Edwin Margeson, Jr. James Lea Turman IN THE u.s. COAST GUARD Paul Anthony Joseph Martino Jefferson James Wash IV The following-named persons to be ap­ John Eugene McCarty Hugh Daniel Williams pointed to the rank indicated in the U.S. Angus McKinnon Robert Gray Williams Coast Guard: George Henry Moritz m Robert Milton Wood Martin James Moynihan To be commanders Jerome Marvin Myers To be chief warrant officers, W-2 Richard H. Puckett Thomas F. Dunham, William Edgar Neal Warren 0. Nilsson Roger G. Stanton Arthur C. Hoene, Jr. Jr. Harry Ells Obedin William H. Bellow Thor B. Olson James W. Conway James M. Winn James Harold Parent John H. Olsen Slavko Stokich Arthur A. Atkinson, David Loren Parr John H. Coppens Donald W. McNaugh- Jr. George Henry Peck lli Raymond W. Gifford ton Keith Palmer Pensom Frank A. Coleman Raymond B. Pote To be lieutenants Theodore Hugh Purcell Fred Permenter Donald L. Janse David F. Bosomworth Kenneth Monfort Rappolt Albert Debrase Robert G. Cameron Paul F. Bade Rupert Blue Reynolds, Jr. Karl M. Ashby Olos F . .Marshall George H. Garbe Paul Dennis Russell Paul R. Cornell Everett J. Matteson To lbe lieUtenants (junior grade) John Allan Schmidt EugeneK. Kindschi Russell A. Scruggs, Jr. John Rekuc Arno J. Bowden Robert Burke Harland D. Hanson Robert Allen Schwartz Joseph Kenneth Sha.rtiag, Jr. Leonard L. Bouler William B. Miner John W.Kime Davlid.J.Heskell, Jr. Robert L. Wilson William A. Vasquez Richard J. Green James E. Brown, Jr. Clifford Gerard Spelman, Jr. Thomas Norman Sullivan Clifton Cuthrell Grover C. Newberry Thomas D. Combs, Jr. George D. Passmore, James D. Toler EdWin H. Cornell Paul T. Kaufmann Jr. 'William Robert Allen Robert Stanley Bates William A. Shaffer, Jr. Andrew Yackovetsky Louis K. Bragaw, Jr. Richard J. Collins Kirven L. Dunn Richard J. Laflin Charles S. Niederman George P. Vance Joseph Snowball Blackett, Jr. Gary Joe Boyle Joseph F. Baranowski Donald R. Myers Ronald A. McClellan John C. Wirtz Lester H. H. Oneil Clark W. Straus David R. Markey Robert A. Johnson Lloyd Cornell Burger James Franklin Butler Richard R. ,Anthony Frank P. Huotte William C. Parish, Jr. Richard W. Michaels Charles F. Potter, Jr. Charles J. J. McGrath Frederick C. Bruner Douglas B. Thurnher William Joseph Campbell Do~ald Robert Casey George R. Brower Anton J. Foydl, Jr. Henry J. Harris, Jr. James G~ Osborn Wasey S. Hayes Paul L. Tomardy Keith D. Ripley John M. Cece David Emil Cianeaglini Charles William Craycoft Clark A. Johnson Melvin Midgett Harold E. Fallen, Jr. Richard "D" Thomp- James E.13utler Russell H. Stockfl.eth Arnold B. Beran son Gary Fred Crosby David Frederick Cunningham Dorris L. Steele Bruce M. Buchanan Donald M. Morrison, Robert J. Cardinal Ivan J. Anderson Paul G. Patrinos Jr. Donald B. Davis Wesley Gwynne Davis, Jr. Michael Alan Duke Peter Lindquist David C. Adkins Ronald G. Malone Thomas P. Nolan Joseph C. Waldrop Hollis L. Beard Tommy G. Wood- Peter J.Rots William Earl Ecker, Jr. Roderick Yerkes Edwards, Jr. Jack G. Smith Andrew J. Brovey worth Matthew J. Ahearn Mortimer Jeffords Lewie F. Trawick Robert L. DeMichiell Everett L. Crowell Robert James Finan David Herman Freese, Jr. Robert E.-Penny James F. Jones John I. Maloney, Jr. Ralph Z.DelGiorno Carl A. Carlson John C. Revels Russell C. Bishop, Jr. John R. Erickson Ralph Edward Gimn Melvin G. McCoy Arthur !B. Meyer Terrill H. Oloege William R. Babineau Joseph Bramble Goodwin Ill Richard Earl Haas Harlan Montgomery Keith R. McClinton Thomas T. Matteson Richard Buell Edward T. Rollins Clarence A. Long Ralph N. Fennacchini Ernest J. Bader James William Haugen William Hugh Hayes, Jr. Charles H. Buckley Richard K. Mitchell Thomas W. Pinnegan Carol E. Conry Merle L. Cochran James Eigo John P. Flaherty, Jr. Richard J. Marcott Jack Buran Hewes v. Frederick Andrew Hill Earnest C. Justis Harold I. Baker John R. Mitchell Albert D. Super Harold G. Trupp Stanley J. Aymond John B. Lynn Andrew R. Rippel Paul Kenneth Hinkley Gerald Francis Hotchkiss Douglas E. Walker Myron E. Chesley To be ensigns Robert Austin Ingalls Harry C. Strother, Jr. John A. Ritter Leonard Francis Alcantara Thomas Bone Irish, Jr. John J. Lencmeyer John T. Hartman Rudolph George Anderson Donald Frederick Jenkins Charles E. Bunkley Charles A. Hatfield Leon Elwood Beaudin Manuel Josephs, Jr. Leslie M. Furst Alired L. Hunt Daniel Francis Bobeck Charles Lee Keller Robert C. Bainbridge Alvadore C. Grant Carl Melvin Brothers Lawrence Allen Kidd Eugene E. Moore Herbert W. Conger Robert Allen Burt Leroy George Krumm Richard M. Burdick Edward F. Mattingly Richard Oliver Buttrick Carl Eugene Kunkel, Jr. William E. Miller Edward L. Wyman Frederick Michael Casciano James Theodore Leigh George E. Rongner Keith R. Bruhl Robert James Cheney, Jr. Jack Walter Lewis Andrew Pietrykowski Wallace P. Stembler Gerald Francis Corcoran Lloyd Ralph Lomer Elmer E. Johnson Joseph J. Glynn Robert Austin Creighton Richard Wayne Long Howard R. Tarr, Jr. Harlan F. Smith Ian Stuart Cruickshank William Henry Low, Jr. Harold E. Gavin Harry G. Lee Kenneth Charles Cutler Fred Ernst Maiser Eric G. Bragg JosephS. Moulton, Jr. Randolph DeKroney Joseph Marotta Edward L. Muller Eldred Bolinger Michael Bernard Dunn Michael Paul Maurice James B. Glll Carl. S. Kaiser William Joseph Ecker John Thomas McKean Cleo Hack, Jr. George W. Tate John Norman Faigle Alan Francis Miller Donald 0. Davey Orval K. Halsey Jerome Patrick Foley Frank Clay Morgret ill Roy M. Schwanekamp Donald c. Ebert Bailey Mozo Geeslin Michael Paul Munkasey Darrel B. Sinift Milton M. Midgette Robert Alan Ginn Donald Anthony Naples Edmund A. Novak Karl c. Teater Donald Charles Greenman Merlin Gerald Nygren Jerome R. Morton Edward F. Barber William Henry Hall, Jr. John Francis Otranto, Jr. Jack W. McDonald Leon D. Shea John Richard Hay William c. Park In William W. Muessel William L. Patterson Neal Prederick Herbert James David Partin Asa M. Jones Lyle G. Tilden Eugene Joseph Hickey, ir. Gregory Alden Penington Euclid L. Wade Donald s. Grisham John Heaton Hill Ronald Chester Pickup Eugene W. Darcy Louis E. K. Pall Douglas Anthony Hlousek Joel Graydon Rainwater Joseph F. Cody William T. King Ronald PaUl Hunwr Wayne Elmer Rentfro Eugene R. Lockhart Ralph E. St. John George Forsyth Ireland Edwin John Roland, Jr. Richard A. Krueger William M. Price, Jr. Robert Edward Isherwood James Vincent Sayers Wallace N. Anderson Foster c. Spruill Michael Richard Johnson Leo Nicholas Schowengerdt, Jr. Floyd J. Mulheran Wilbert D. B. Williams Frederick Paul.Karres Kyle Arnold Shaw Charles W. Oldham. Bruce L. SUford Eugene Martin Kelly David Stewart Smith Robert Jiud1ce Earl J. Wesner Charles Harold King, Jr. John Robert Sproat Frederick H. Muesse John H. Liedke Jack K. Halbert Thomas D. Galliher Richard Robert Kuhn Allen J"ohn Taylor Thomas Youlden Lawrence, Jr. Richard J. Zwally John F. Minster Willlam Thomas Troutman Roland A. Woodward Robert C. McClanahan Walter Ted Leland Alfred David Utara Morgan C. Hutto, Jr. Stephen J. Flees Paul Robert Lewis William James Walsh James A. Winslow James Szokolay 1960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 10347 Morris M. Spector Gordon L. Sims FOR PERMANENT PROMOTION To be assistant dental surgeons Richard P. McMullen Charles T. Buckner To be senior assistant surgeons Frederick R. Nickerson Robert L. Sellers Robert W. Baumann George R. McGuire George G. Bannan Frederick Jones John W. Dickson Lawrence I. Carnes John R. Stolpe Walter W. Hake Edward H. Aske·w, Jr.' S. Paul Ehrlich, Jr. To be senior assistant sanitary engineers William T. Morrisson, Frank H. Buzzee, Jr. To be senior assistant sanitary engineers John M. Rademacher Jx. Nelvin H. Bateman Delbert A. Larson Leo A. St. Michel Herman H. Keith Baker W. Herbert Thomas N. Hushower Chaxles R. Fowler Paul H. Johannes To be assistant sanitary engineers Clyde S. Delanoy George M. Bruner To be assistant sanitary engineer Eugene J. Donovan. Jr. Jack W. Keeley Robert B. Collins Herman Schmidt Joseph H. Meier John A. Eckert Donald S. Licking Wilbur E. Lincoln Jesse B. Lowe To be senior assistant pharmacist Robert L. Elder Paul J. Traina Cyril L. Fennelly Lee R. Green Edwin L. Johnson Donald B. Hare Donald W. Olson Lester M. H. Roehx To be junior assistant sanitary engineers John W. Laine Raymond J. Moen To be senior assistant nurse officer R. Frank Grossman Robert W. Conway Kenneth C. Oliver Marie Herold Wilfred C. Bullis George A. Saunders Alfred W. Hoadley Robert A. McCarten Lee 0. Madden, Jr. FOR APPOINTMENT To be senior assistant pharmacist$ Raymond E. Masker Edwaxd A. Liles To be senior surgeons Lowell F. Miller Donald B. Fish Marion 0. Simmons Henry H. Kyle Billy G. Wells William H. Westin Calvin·w. Pratt John E. Kenny Thomas E. Bockman To be senior assistant dental surgeons To be assistant pharmacists William W. Watkins Phillip E. Thompson Robert J. Lucas Samuel J. Wycoff Robert P. Chandler Samuel Merrill Raymond C. Herring- Joe D. Wright, Jr. Joe T. Hillsman Francis 0. Webb James R. Gates James E. Norris ton William K. Bailey To be assistant dental surgeons Jacob H. Hendershot Joseph F. Toomey Paul C. Carman James P. McBride Luis Hernandez John R. Wiseman John W. Forster Herbert L. Shuey Charles C. Swoope, Jr. Richard K. Fred Ph1lip R. Hugill Gexald W. Gaston David A. Dutton Ray Johnston Lavern G. Ketcherside To be junior assistant pharmacists Ernest B. Roaxk George V. Stauffer William E. Dorrill Franz P. Helm Michael H. Bower Charles E. Shook Richard L. Christian- Buckner S. Burch Ray D. Crossley II Joe M. Holman Eugene H. Kelly James R. Comerford sen Manuel H. Marks Jerome A. Halperin Harley A. M111s Harold E. Stone Don E. McDonald George N. Newton Orlen N. Johnson To be senior assistant scientist Norman A. Whitney John C. Lippincott Wellesley H. Wright Gresham T. Farrar, Jr. Jay D. Mann Elliott J. Echols Norval E. Cosby Jim D. Webb Donald R. Swatman Fay K. Thompson Earl J. Pottex William L. Knudson To be assistant scientists John D. Green Benjamin R. Teal To be senior assistant sanitary engineer John C. Feeley III John W. McMinn Charles H. Dyer, Jr. Ian K. Burgess Sheldon D. Murphy James L. Reynolds Norman F. Muench To be senior assistant veterinary officer Maurice K. Nelson Edmund J. Smenner To· be senior assistant nurse officers Fred Pilatsky Jesse H. Burgess Laurette M. Beck Robert K. Sikes Robert J. W. Collins Robert B. Paxis Patricia P. Grimaila To be assistant veterinary officers Marion K. Reynolds Lester E. Howe, Jr. To be assistant nurse officer Garland D. Lindsey Ludvtg Slavich, Jr. George A. Menge Roger E. Wilsnack Robext A. Kemmett Ralph E. Ford Juanita M. Barkley To be senior assistant nurse officers Leroy P. Phelps Hubert A. Anderson To be junior assistant nurse officer Lawrence A. Levine Zigmond Golaszewski Reckner B. Moe Ray Caaneron William B. Eichler, Jr. Charles W. Price Majory E. Lewis John Sabath Robert H. McGinnis, To be senior assistant surgeons IN THE REGULAR ARMY Theodore L, Turgeon Jr. Harry P. Anastopulos Dale Lindholm The nominations of Edward L. Abercrombie James C. Bond George C. Hickman Robert B. Balderson Robert P. Locey et al., for promotion in the Regular Army of Harry A. Benson Arnold M. Deshaw Richard F. Barbee William R. Martin the United States, which were confirmed to­ Alan H. J. Dowd Curtis W. Chamber- Robert N. Barnes Samuel Milham, Jr. day, were received by the Senate on A~ril Joseph W. Dunhour lain Frank C. Bigler Barry Miller 27, 1960, and appear in full in the executive Wilbur J. Davis · Robert E. Calimer Aaron B. Brill John P. Nasou proceedings of the C.o~GRESSIONAL RECORD for Robert R. Harber, Jr. Thomas H. Renfree Ray A. Brinker Alvin H. Novack that date, under the caption of "Nomina­ Walter A. Evans John W. Hammack tions," beginning with the name of Edward Porter F. Ammerman Wilfred J. Sellers Willard L. Brown John A. Oates, Jr. W1llard R. Brown William M. O'Brien L. Abercrombie, which appears on page 8758. PuBLIC HEALTH SERVICE Gerald E. Caplan Gerald H. Payne IN THE Am FORCE The following candidates for appointment Leo J. Castiglioni Paul G. Pechous APPOINTMENT IN THE REGULAR AIR FORCE or permanent promotion in the Regular Ruth Coffin Darwin J. Prockop Corps of the Public Health Service to the The following-named officers for appoint­ John F. Dotter H. McDonald Rimple ment in the Regular Air Force to the grades offices indicated, subject to qualifications Arvo B. Ederma Marcus N. Rogers therefor as provided by laws and regulations: indicated, under the provisions of chapter Richard W. Emmons Saul W. Rosen 835, title 10. of the United States Code: FOR APPOINTMENT Earl R. Feringa William B. Sheldon To be major generals James P. Fields Richard A. Smith To be senior surgeons Maj. Gen. Robert B. Landry, 635A (brigadier David Brand Paul J. Fry, Jr. Roland W. Sonntag general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Louis S. Gerber George G. Glenner Richard A. Stamm Maj. Gen. Robert E. L. Eaton, 594A (briga­ To be senior assistant suTgeon John E. Glennon Barron H. Stillman dier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Leon I. Goldberg Michio Takahashi George W. Douglas, Jr. Force. Betty E. Hathaway John B. Titmarsh, Jr. Maj. den. Richard M. Montgomery, 1025A To be senior sanitary engineer Lowell R. Hughes Fred E. Tosh (brigadier g~neral, Regular Air Force), U.S. Edwin L. Ruppert Robert A. Jordan Robert C. Vander Air Force. Maj. Gen. Harvey T. Alness, 1085A (briga­ To be senior assistant sanitary engineer Karl M. Johnson Wagen Marion E. Kintner Cecil C. Vaughn, Jr. dier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Leo Weaver Charles E. Koch, Jr. Richard D. Wasson Force. · To be senior scientists Frederick L. Lang Charles L. Whetstone · Maj. Gen. Russell L. Waldron, 1164A (briga­ Alfred S. Lazarus William C. Larsen Harold W. Wylie, J.r. dier general. Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Olaf Mickelsen Force. To be assistant surgeons Maj. Gen. Romulus W. Puryear, 637A To be scientists William J. Atkinson George T. Harding, Jr. (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Herbert T. Dalmat John R. Baugh Otto L. Loehden Air Force. John E. Porter Frederick V. C. Feath- Robert J. Warren Maj. Gen. Thomas 8. Moorman, Jr., 64qA To be veterinary officer erstone (brigadier general. Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. James Lieberman To be senior assistant dental surgeo~ Maj. Gen. Benjamin J. Webster, 974A To be nurse officer George L. Crocker Richard B. McDowell (brigadier general, RegUlar Air Force), U.S. Raymond D. Haslam James J. McMahon Marie H. Van Son Air Force. Phillip K. Humphreys Joseph P. Moffa, Jr. Maj. Gen. Leighton I. Davis, llllA (briga­ To be health service officer Donald P. Jelinek James M. Power dier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Claudia B. Galiher Karl K. Kreth Gunnar E. Sydow Force. 10348 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE May 16 Maj. Gen. James H. Walsh, 1120A (briga­ Maj. Gen. Cecil H. Childre, 1551A (colonel, Brig. Gen. William C. Kingsburg, 923A dier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Regular Air Force) , U.s. Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Force. Maj. Gen. Sam Ma-ddux, Jr., 1561A (colo­ Brig. Gen. Jermain F. Rodenhauser, 933A Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Musgrave, Jr., 1129A nel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Maj. Gen. Frank E. RQuse, 1595A (colonel, Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Gent, Jr., 1130A (colo­ Air Force. Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Maj. Gen. William T. Hudnell, 1171A (briga­ Maj. Gen. Hewitt T. Wheless, 1609A (colo­ nel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Charles B. Root, 1258A (colonel, dier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Force. Brig. Gen. Glen R. Birchard, 1623A (colo­ Maj. Gen. Howell M. Estes, Jr., 1211A nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Frederic H. Miller, 1273A (colo­ nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Brig. Gen. Henry R. Sullivan, Jr., 1655A Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Chester W. Cecil, Jr., 1298A Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Nazzaro, 1241A {brig­ Maj. Gen. William K. Martin, 1697A (colo­ (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. adier General, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. William B. Keese, 1531A (colo­ Force. Maj. Gen. Henry Viccellio, 1728A (colo­ .nel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. Maj. Gen. Bruce K. Holloway, 1336A (brig­ nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Arthur C. Agan, Jr., 1759A (colo­ adier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Maj. Gen. Osmond J. Ritland, 1731A (colo­ nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Force. nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. James W. Wilson, 1711A (colo­ Maj. Gen. Maurice A. Preston, 1337A Brig. Gen. Don Coupland, 1766A (colonel, nel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. The nominations of Arthur C. Aho et al., Air Force. Maj. Gen. Beverly H. Warren, 1768A (colo­ for promotions in the Regular Air Force, Maj. Gen. John D. Ryan, 1418A (brigadier nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. which were confirmed on May 16, 1960, were general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Maj. Gen. Keith K. Compton, 1849A (colo­ received by the Senate on April 25, 1960, and Maj. Gen. William H. Blanchard, 1445A nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. may be found in full in the executive pro­ (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), U.S. Brig. Gen. John K. Hester, 1870A (colonel, ceedings .Of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD for Air Force. Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. that date, beginning with the name of Arthur Maj. Gen. James Ferguson, 1530A (briga­ Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Holzapple, 1897A C. Aho, which is shown on page 8641. dier general, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Force. Maj. Gen. David A. Burchinal, 1936A (colo­ Maj. Gen. David Wade, 1582A (brigadier nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. WITHDRAWAL general, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. Maj. Gen. James F. Whisenand, 1945A Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Gerrity, 1613A (briga­ (colonel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. Executive nomination withdrawn from dier general, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Maj. Gen. Glen W. Martin, 1955A (colonel, the Senate May 16, 1960: Force. Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION To be brigadie7· generals Brig. Gen. Charles M. Eisenhart, 1957A Brig. Gen. DonaldL . Hardy, 618A (colonel, Edward K. Mills, Jr., of New Jersey to be {colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. a member of the Federal Communications Regular ~'\ir Force) , U.S. Air Force. Maj. Gen. William W. Momyer, 1964A Commission for the unexpired term of 7 Brig. Gen. Charles H . Pottenger, 661A (colo­ (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. years from July 1, 1954, vice John C. Doerfer, nel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Preston, 1966A (colo­ resigned. Brig. Gen. Robert J. Goewey, 910A (colo­ nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Maj. Gen. Harold H. Twitchell, 19034A Maj. Gen. Harry C. Porter, 976A (colonel, (colonel, Regular Air Force, Medical), U.S. •• .... •• Regular Air Force) , U .S. Air Force. Air Force. Maj. Gen. Jamea C. Jensen, 1042A (colonel, Brig. Gen. MajorS. White, 19056A (colonel, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Regular Air Force, Medical), U.S. Air Force. Maj. Gen. Joseph D. C. Caldara, 1048A Brig. Gen. Richard L. Bohannon, 19067A MoNDi\Y, MAY 16, 1960 (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force, Medical), U.S. Maj. Gen. Dale 0. Smith, 1074A (colonel, Air Force. Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Brig. Gen. Perry B. Griffith, 1075A (colo­ Brig. Gen. John K. CUllen, 19068A (colo­ The Chaplain, Rev. Bernard Braskamp, nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. nel, Regular Air Force, Medical), U.S. Air D.D., offered the following prayer: Maj. Gen. Elvin S. Ligon, Jr., 1077A (colo­ Force. nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. The following-named officers for temporary Joshua 24: 24: The Lord our God will Maj. Gen. Robert M. Stillman, 1114A (colo­ appointment in the U.S. Air Force to the we serve, and His voice will we obey. nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. grade indicated, under the provisions of 0 Thou who art the Supreme Ruler of Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Hooks, 1166A (colonel, chapter 839, title 10, of the United States the Universe, in these days of world crisis Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Code: and confusion, may we never allow our Maj. Gen. Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr., 1206A Major generals faith in Thy divine sovereignty to be­ (colonel, Regular Air Force}, U.S. Air F·orce. Brig. Gen. Donald P. Graul, 455A, Regular come extinguished and our vision of uni­ Maj. Gen. Albert P. Clark, 1218A (colonel, Air Force. versal peace to become eclipsed. Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Donald L. Hardy, 618A (colonel, Maj. Gen. Turner C. Rogers, 1232A (colo­ Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. We earnestly implore Thee that the nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Charles H. Pottenger, 661A (colo­ leaders of nations, now attending the Maj. Gen. Von R. Shores, 1236A (colonel, nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. summit conference, may be united in a Regular Air Force), U .S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Perry B. Grifllth, 1075A (colo­ sincere desire and determination to Maj. Gen. Lewis L. Mundell, 1286A (colo­ nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. achieve for broken and bruised humanity nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Major S. White, 19056A (colo­ the blessings of a nobler and more ex­ Maj. Gen. John M. Reynolds, 1299A (colo­ nel, Regular Air Force, Medical), U.S. Air cellent way of life. nel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. Force. Grant that our President and those Maj. Gen. Sam W. Agee, 13464 (colonel, Brig. Gen. John K. Cullen, 19068A (colonel, assembled with him in the council cham­ Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Regular Air Force, Medical), U.S. Air Force. ber may be conscious of the unmistak­ Brig. Gen. Kenneth 0. Sanborn, 1363A Brig. Gen. Kenneth 0. Sanborn, 1363A (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. able guidance of Thy spirit, bestowing Maj. Gen. Don R. Ostrander, 1343A (colo­ Brig. Gen. Prescott M. Spicer, 1413A (colo­ upon them wisdom and skill in finding nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. the right approach and solution to the Maj. Gen. Robert J. Friedman,l397A (colo­ Brig. Gen. Glen R. Birchard, 1623A (colo­ many complex international problems. nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. nel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. May our citizens encourage the hearts Maj. Gen. Robert A. Breitweiser, 1406A Brig. Gen. Henry R. Sullivan, Jr., 1655A and strengthen the hands of our chosen (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. representatives by giving them the clear Brig. Gen. Prescott M. Spicer, 1413A (colo­ Brig. Gen. John K. Hester, 1870A (colonel, and convincing assurance that they are nel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. willing and ready to make every sacri­ Maj. Gen. Fred M. Dean, 1450A (colonel, Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Holzapple, 1897A fice in the struggle to preserve the sanc­ Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Maj. Gen. Waymond A. Davis, 1470A (colo­ Brig. Gen. Charles M. Eisenhart, 1957A tity and security of our beloved country nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force) , U.S. Air Force. and the freedom of all mankind .. Maj. Gen. Marcus F. Cooper, 1543A (colo­ Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Preston, 1966A (colo­ Hear us in the name of the Prince of nel, Regular Air Force), U.S Air F'orce. nel, Regular Air Force), U.S. Air Force. Peace. Amen.