39546 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1973 port on S. 1443, the foreign aid author ADJOURNMENT TO 11 A.M. Joseph J. Jova, of Florida, a Foreign Serv ization bill. ice officer of the class of career minister, to Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. Presi be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo There is a time limitaiton thereon. dent, if there be no further business to tentiary of the United States of America to There will be at least one yea-and-nay come before the Senate, I move, in ac Mexico. vote, I am sure, on the adoption of the cordance with the previous order, that Ralph J. McGuire, of the District of Colum. bia, a Foreign Service officer of class 1, to be conference report, and there may be the Senate stand in adjournment until Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten other votes. the hour of 11 o'clock a.m. tomorrow. t iary cf the United States of America to the On the disposition of the conference The motion was agreed to; and at 6: 45 Republic of Mali. report on the foreign aid authorization p.m., the Senate adjourned until tomor Anthony D. Marshall, of New York, to be row, Wednesday, December 5, 1973, at Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten bill, S. 1443, the Senate will take up tiary of the United States of America to the Calendar Order No. 567, S. 1283, the so lla.m. Republic of Kenya. called energy research and development Francis E. Meloy, Jr., of the District of bill. I am sure there will be yea and Columbia, a Foreign Service officer of the NOMINATIONS class of career minister, to be Amb1ssador nay votes on amendments thereto to Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the morrow. Final action on that bill is not Executive nominations received by the United States of America to Guatemala. Senate December 4, 1973: contemplated tomorrow. The Senate will DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE resume consideration of the bill on DEPARTMENT OF STATE Charles D Loos, of Indiana, to be U.S. Thursday. Harry G. Barnes, Jr., of Maryland, a For m:i.rshal for the southern district of Indiana. eign Service officer of class 1, to be Ambas for the term o! 4 yeus. (Reappointment.) Does the distinguished acting Repub sador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Anthony E. Rozman, of Michigan, to be lican leader have anything to state? the United States of America to Romania. U.S. marshal for the eastern district of Mr. STAFFORD. Nothing further, I Heyward Isham, of the District of Colum Michigan for the term of 4 years. (Reappoint would say. bia, a Foreign Service officer cf class 1, to be ment.) Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten Denny L. Sampson, of Nevada, to be U.S. Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. I thank the tiary of the United States of America to marshal for the district of Nevada for the distinguished Senator from Vermont. Haiti. term of 4 years. (Reappointment.)
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SENATOR RANDOLPH RECEIVES Members of this body know that Sen was elected to the U.S. House of Represent RECOGNITION FOR AVIATION ator RANDOLPH is concerned with con atives. Working from his Washington office LEADERSHIP structive results in the activities in which with a group of Elkins aviation enthusiasts, he became a dynamic force in a movement he participates. However, on this day in to establish the original Elkins Municipal Elkins there was one activity which had Airport in 1934. HON. TED STEVENS been purposely kept from him by the When the Elkins airport was expanded, the OF ALASKA people of his hometown, his staff, and runways enlarged and the terminal building moved and renovated in 1944, it wa.:i again IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES citizens who were to participate in the program. In addition to the dedication Congrassman Randolph who helped Elkins Tuesday, December 4, 1973 of the new terminal building, the Elkins leaders secure federal financing for the air port development. Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, on No City Council and the Randolph County Elkins was the second city in West Vir vember 17 it was my privilege to accom Court had voted some time before to ginia to be served by a commercial airline pany the distinguished senior Senator designate the airport as Jennings Ran Amerlcan Airlines camP. to Elkins in 1934 from West Virginia (Mr. RANDOLPH) to dolph Field in recognition of his work at the urging of Jennin6s Randolph. his hometown of Elkins to participate in the establishment of the airport in And on May 12, 1939, Elkins was one of in the dedication of a new terminal build 1934 and the improvements to it since the first cities on the experimental Air Mail that time, and as a tribute to their own Pickup Service route. It was Congressman ing at the Elkins-Randolph County Air Randolph who authored the Air Mall Pickup port. With us on that important occasion Senator for his aviation leadership at the legislation. were many nationally known persons who national level. When the Weather Station was termin3.ted have worked and pioneered in aviation Mr. President, I ask unanimous con in Elkins, he was instrumental in getting it programs over a period of many, many sent that the program for the ceremony reinstated. years. It was fascinating to me to listen to and two articles from the Elkins, W. Va., And always, he is in the forefront to keep these leaders-men such as C. R. Smith, Inter-Mountain be printed in the the vital Federal Aviation Administration's chairman of the board and chief execu RECORD. flight service station in Elkins. There being no objection, the material Many, many cities much larger than El tive officer of American Airlines; Lt. kins have no scheduled air carrier service. Gen. Pete Quesada, first Administrator was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Sen. Randolph has been influential in the of the Federal Aviation Administration; as follows: continuation of scheduled air carrier service Representative DoN CLAUSEN, president DEDICATION-JENNINGS RANDOLPH FIELD, in his hometown. of the Congressional Flying Club, and ELKINS-RANDOLPH COUNTY AmPORT, NO And today, 39 years after the original air former astronaut Mike Collins-describe VEMBER 17, 1973 port was built, Sen. Randolph has been a their years of association with Senator A TRIBUTE TO "MR. AVIATION" key figure in obtaining a new airport ter "He has led us in aviation ... more than minal building for Elkins. RANDOLPH and his effective efforts in the Emerson Phares, president of the Elkins development of aviation and air travel. any other man", said L. Welch Pogue, former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Randolph County Airport Authority speak Mr. President, I personally was aware "He's the best friend civil aviation ever ing for officials and citizens, paid this trib that the Senator from West Virginia has had", said John Shaffer, former chief of the ute to Sen. Randolph: been deeply involved in almost every Federal Aviation Administration. "Sen. Randolph consistently has been the Both were speaking of U.S. Sen. Jennings strongest single force and advocate of bet legislative effort since the early 1930's to ter and improved aviation facilities to serve strengthen and improve aviation pro Randolph-known in the field of aviation and in the halls of Congress as "Mr. Avia Elkins and Randolph County. He has been grams. Nevertheless, to hear C.R. Smith tion". eager to assert his important office with dis state that "when the history of aviation By presenting the first bill in Congress patch when a. need a.rises. Without question, is written there will be a bright shining for federal aid to airports, he helped estab we would not have this flne airport, nor golden page there for JENNINGS RANDOLPH lish airports across the nation. would we now be dedicating this new ter Back in his hometown of Elkins, there ls minal building if it had not been for Sen. and he will certainly deserve it," brought no greater friend of the local airport than Randolph". home to me and to those present the Sen. Randolph. PROGRAM unique role that Senator RANDOLPH has That friendship started in 1932 when as Flag Raising-West Virginia Highlanders exercised in the realization of aviation a young professor and athletic director at Bagpipe Ba.nd, Color Guard, American Legion progress. Davis and Elkins College, Jennings Randolph Post 29. December 4, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REJ.'1ARKS 39547 Invocation-Dr. Dua.rd H. Estep, Pastor of Visibly touched, the senator said simply, He talked a.bout his pa.rents. "They taught First Baptist Ohurch. "I am grateful. I shall always remember this me to work. What a great thing they taught Master of Ceremonles--Judge Robert E. minute, these 60 seconds, that I've stood me when they taught me that," he said. Maxwell, U.S. District Court of Northern here after learning of this honor. Thank He talked about the two men responsible West Virginia. you very, very much." for causing him to originally run for Con Welcome-Mayor James Gladkosky. The senator's friends, once inside the gress: his father and Earl Maxwell, father Remarks-Lt. Gen. Elwood R. Quesada. warm Engine Room at the Tygart Hotel, no of U.S. District Judge Ro·bert E. Maxwell. USAF (Ret.), First Administrator of Federal longer restrained themselves in praises for "Though he never told me, I knew that my Avla.tlon Administration. their friend and colleague. father wanted me to do what he had tailed I n troductlons--James E. Wallace, Elklns Lt. Gen. Elwood "Pete" Quesada, who had to do in 1916 and 1918 when he ran !or Con Randolph County Airport Authority. been a close associate of late President gress and lost. I tried for him," the Senator Remarks-James E. Dow, Deputy Adminis Dwight D. EJ!:enhower, compared Randolph said. trator, Federal Aviation Administration. to the late president. "Eisenhower was a man "And Earl Maxwell ... who told me 'A Remarks-Leslie J. Barnes, Presddent of with an exaggerated saru:e of equality and person who has a right to criticize is a person Allegheny Airlines. patriotism . . . characteristics possessed by who has a hes.rt to help' ... who talked and Sp ecial Comments-Former Astronaut Jennings Randolph ... He treated his col couns .:led me. We ran and we lost ... but Mike Collins, Director of National Air and leagues with great respect, understanding the we came back and tried a.gain and we won," Space Museum. vlcw.3 of his colleagues even when they dif the Senator continued. Introduction of Honored Guest--Master of fered with his own ... more characteristics "It ls ttme for us to think in terms of a Ceremonies. shared by Jenn ings Randolph." 'hes.rt to help' because in the future our very Introduction of Speaker-U.S. Sen. JEN Quesada continued: "Eisenhower had an survival in society may rely on that . . • NINGS RANDOLPH, Honored Guest. a,ersion to vulgarity and those who used Think of the past, but confront the problems Address-C. R. Smith, Chairman of the obscenity and vulgarity ns a. means of ex of the future," he concluded. Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ameri pression, quickly gained his rebuke. And The standing ovation, the applause of tha.t can Alrllnes. though I have never seen this chara~teristic group o! people in the Engine Room was sin (Addre53 preceded by ceremony des!gna.ting in Jennings Randolph, I have always sus cere. this Airport Jennings Randolph Field.) pected it was there." The appreciation, respect, and admiration Response--U .s. Sen. JENNINGS RANDOLPH. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said Sen. were mutual. Benediction-Dr. Duard H. Es~e,. Randolph is one of the few men in Congress Prior to introducing C. R. Smith to the Airr,ort Open House 11 :00 a.m. to 4 :00 p.m. who take the time to help newcomers to audience at the airport Saturday, Sen. Ran Guided tours by Xi Al9ha Al,..,ha Chapter of that body, call1ng him a man who looks be dolph reminisced about the airport's history. Beta Sigma Phi. Refreshments by Elkins High yond his own problems to help others. He had asked Mrs. Georgia Harper to sit on School Boosters Club. Stevens outlined the help Randolph gave the speakers' platform with him. in the passage of the Alaska pipeline bill. "Dice and Georgia Harper worked together ASSISTING ORGANIZATIONS "You inay ask what a senator from a coal in another period in the development of this Mayor of Elkins, James P. Gladkosky. state was doing helping a senator frcm an oil facllity," Sen. Randolph said, telling about Ellcins City Council state," Stevens said. "He was one of the few the history of what wa.s then Harper Field. James DeCarlo, Harry Scott, Patrick Dugan, who saw th~ necessity of the pipeline. I knew "The Harpers sold their 100 acres for $30,000 Thomas Waller, H. A. Smith, Jr., Joseph there was no way of getting the bill passed when it was worth twice that amount. But Ma.rtin, G. R. Hammer, Clair Metheny, How without getting Jennings Randolph involved. the Harpers wanted to help-that was the ard Whetsell, and F. E. Nutter. So I went to him and asked for his help. spirit of those days." He not only helped us with his own vote, but He recognized Blanche Noyes, a.ls:> seated on Randolph County Court he went out and talked to others to explain the speakers' platform, a female pilot for the Barrett Liggett, President; Fred Poling, and the necessity of the pipaline. The blll passed FAA who had attended the first dedication John W. Scallon (deceased). on a vote of 60 to 49." of Elkins Municipal Airport in 1934. Airport authority members Rep. Don H. Clausen (R-Calif.) called Sen. "Blanche, you are the woman who pla-:ed Emerson Phares, Chairman; John P. Carr, Randolph a man of r:erspectlve. "He demon 70,000 air markers on the tops of buildings Jack R. Nuzum, Ralph S. Shepler, and James strated year~ ago that he was a man of all across the country, including the one a, E. Wallace. perspective, a m an ahead of his time. It is Elkins," the senator said. men of perspective, these born leaders that Randolph's introduction of C. R. Smith a.re nseded in this country now," the Con was a tribute to the man. "I remember C. R. {From the Elkins (W. Va.), Inter-Moun gressman said. Smith when he was a tall, gangling Texan tain, Nov. 19, 1973) Leslie Barnes, president of Allegheny Air who ca.me out of the Southwest to start A SENATOR OF THE COUNTRY-AVIATION lines, said of the senator: "There ls no one American Airways. His goal then was to build "STARS" CALL RANDOLPH I know ln Congress who ls visited more often a better America and that's his goal now," (By Yvonne Schiavoni) !or counsel, advice, and assistance, no one the senator said. "While you may look at Sen. Jennings who ls more concerned with national prog "This man was called back at the age of Randolph as the Senator from West Virginla, ress. problems and crises. And there is no 74 to the presidency of an airline which we look at him as a Senator of the coun one I know in Congress or in the federal gov employs 37,000 workers, c:::i.lled back to do a try. He is representative of everything great ernment who is more versed in or more con jo~ of pulling back together an airline t!lat in aviation and in the country. He's what cerned about national problems than Jen needed the reasoned judgment and guidance we really need." nings Randolph." of this man," Randolph continued. "He didn't The words belonged to James Dow, deputy Former astronaut Michael Colllns told of come back because he wanted to. He came adinlnistrator of the Federal Aviation Ad how Jennings Randolph and Gen. Hap Arnold back because of the pleading of American ministration and one of the many aviation conceived the idea of an aviation museum Airlines executives ... because they needed "stars" who came to Elkins Saturday not to preserve the heritage of the country's him in this hour of trouble." only to dedicate a new airport but to honor aviation past, present, and future. It was Randolph said Smith had been to the firM a ma.n-U.S. Senator Jennings Randolph. Randolph who authored legislation which airport dedication in 1934. "It's appropriate Dow was speaking at a luncheon at the created the National Air and Space Museum that C. R. Smith should be our principal Tyga.rt Hotel following ceremonles Saturday of which Collins is now director. spe3ker this afternoon." which designated the Elkins-Randolph C. R. Smith reminisced about the first County Airport as Jennings Randolph Field. dedication of the Elkins Municipal A1rport RANDOLPH VISmLY TOUCHED BY SURPRISE The cold biting wind kept speeches at the back in 1934 which he attended with Ran UNVEILING airport short. C. R. Smith, chairman of the dolph. He ended by saying "Jennings, you're (By Phyllis Morris) board and chief executive officer of Ameri a good man" a thought echozd by everyone in the room. At 11 a.m. Saturday, very important people can Alrli'1 es and longtime friend of Jennings gathered to dedicat e a very important pla.ce Rs.ndolph, summed up his fellow speakers' And finally Sen. Randolph himself, hum bled by the honor bestowed him that day the new Elkins-Randolph County Airport. feelings when he s3.id, "He's been one of the But of all the VIPs pre::ent one man was strong men in aviation for a very long time. by the people of his adopted hometown of Elkins, reminiscing about those early days of unique-a man who remembers and ls re When the history of aviation is written, the Elkins Airport and his first meeting with memb3red by old friends, a man who, tran there will be a bright shining golden page C. R. Smith, then president of American scending the partisanship of his profession, on there for Jennings Randolph and he wlll a meeting which resulted in Elkins receiving has achieved non-partisan approbation, a certainly deserve it." air flight service from American with two man respected by the successful and emu Shortly thereafter, the bunting conceal stops daily based on a verbal agreement be lated by those striving for succe:,s. ing the word "Jennings Randolph Field" was tween the two men. And it was this man for whom the new dropped and the senator learned for the first "With any recipient of an honor," the sen Elkins-Randolph County Alrpc·rt was desig time that the airport had been designated s.tor said, "the honor is not due him but only nated the "Jennings Randolph Field." in his honor. what he represents:• Visibly touched at the surprise unveiling ,,,,... 39548 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1973 . of his name on the new terminal building, AMERICANISM and pollution, we suddenly realize what luck Senator Randolph, after a long pause, said and what joy it is to 1ive in a free country. simply, "I am grateful." The feeling was II. AND THE RESPONSIBll.lTY mutual. HON. DICK SHOUP (By Micha:l Drury) About an hour before the ceremony, the OF MONTANA arrival of a small fleet of state police signaled Late one April afternoon, I hailed a ta.xi a big event. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Washington, D.C., and set out for the Another sign was the presence of the West Tuesday, December 4, 1973 Lincoln Memorial, feeling oddly pleased and Virginia Highlander3 in their red and yellow expectant. Although I've bsen in the nation's tartans. No·w piping, now pacing to keep Mr. SHOUP. Mr. Speaker, two articles ca.pita.I half a dozen times, it was always on warm on the chill November day, they given me by Robert C. Hendon of Alex business. Now I was going like any visitor to brought to mind the age-old question re andria, Va., seem most appropriate and look at the memorial to a man whose mind garding kilt:,. I publish it in the RECORD for the infor and spirit had always engaged my sensiblli The smell of fresh coffee greeted visitors mation of my colleagues. ties-not only as President but as a person. who viewed the prints of West Virginia scenes What I felt was in a degree, I suppose, what I in the airport lobby or reminisced and THANKSGIVING, U.S.A. would have felt if I'd been invited to meet laughed over pictures of both the airport and I. THE PRIVILEGE tho living man. its gue:;ts in their youth. (By Janina Atkins) In blue spring twilight, I mounted the Among the first aviation dignitaries to Just over nine years ago, I came to this broad steps and, as I walked between the arrive was the tall, handsome president of country with $2.60 in my purse, some clothes, great columns, I saw at once the heroic Allegheny Airlines, Leslie Barnes. "I think a few books and a beautiful china tea set sta.tua, seated, "a man of sorrows" and yet it's a beautiful building," he commented, for 12-a going-away gift from my friends. content, satisfied. 'I'he bigness of it dwarfed "and as far as the occasion is concerned, I I was an immigrant girl from Poland hoping me. 1 stood reassembling my scattered emo think it's great that people have a. vision for for a new life in a strange new country. tions, and slowly became a.ware that there the future. There's so much doom and gloom This month I shall celebrate Thanksgiving was another woman there, with a girl of right now." Da.y as an American citizen and, as f-or mil nine or ten whom I took to be her daughter. "I know this has been a dream of the lions of Americans before me, this will be a They were walking and talking quietly as community for a. long time," he continued. day of gratitude. one does in a church or a deep forest. They "I'm glad I was invited to attend." Mine is not a spectacular success story, nor paused b:side me, at the foot of the statue, A flurry of excitement marked the arrival and we smiled without speaking. Then, in of Mike Collins, dre3sed like a. businessman ls that of my husband. We both left the "oU country" in 1961. We did not know each that silent place, tha little girl bagan to rea:l rather than an astronaut but instantly aloud the "Gettysburg Ad:lress" on the recognizable from his days as pilot of the other at that time, but when we met in New York City we had to face the same problems. plaque in front cf her. command module Columbia of Apollo II She read it all the way th.rough. Her fame. We had language difficulties, no steady jobs, n:> family, few friends. It was e:isy to be mother and I stcle one glance at each other; A Sta.r-Trek fan wanted to know if Collins there were tears streaming down both cur watched this series. "I hate to tell you th13," despondent. But, slowly, times changed. There is some faces. When the child finished, we turned he answered, "but I've never watched it. My as if we'd rehearsed it and walked out to kids do. I really don't do much TV watch thing m the air of America. th:it filled my soul with a feeling of independence, and inde our respective cabs without a word. At the ing." bottom of the steps, I turned to the child, In answer to what do you do in your spa.re pendence begot strength. There ls no one here t:> le:i.d you by the hand, but also no one who was somehow myself, her mother and time, he grinned and said, "I come to We3t her own self as well, and said, "Thank Virginia." to order you a.bout. Once you land in Amer i::a y.:;u are left to yourself, to shape your you." Mrs. GeJrgia Harper happily greeted old "You're welcome," she replied gravely, and friends. Remembering Elkins Airport when own future, to test yourself. This, I suppose, ls what living in freedom means. we went our ways. it was Harpers Field, she stated, "It's a little That episode haunted me for months. It bigger than it was 30 years ago." Worlcing by day-I as a secret.'.lry, my hus b:md as a clerk-and studying by night, we made me aware of something I had not Now visiting dignitaries arrived by the known before, but I could not say what it plane load-Lt. Genera.I Elwood Quesada, took the old route so many Americans have taken. Whatever we earned went for rent, was. Like most Americans of my time. I James Dow (deputy director of FAA), Ted had been brought up with a love of my coun Stevens (U.S. SenatcT from Ala.ska.), Don H. f co:l, tuition. We believed in the future. And the future did not disappoint us. try as a component of everyday life. It was Clauson (U.S. Repre:entative from Cali a background fact like summertime and, fornia) and others, including featured Today we work as librarians. My husband ls studying for his dcctora.te. We live in a senior proms and baseball. But now there was speaker C. R. Smith, a crusty, rangy Texan a hin.t of something more rewarding and, at who at the a1a of 74 has been called out of comfort!l.ble apartment in Manhattan. Week retirement to serve again as president of ends we drive to the country, and every year the same time, more demanding. I had the American Airlines. we travel to some faraway place. All this, we feeling that I was missing something. Of his "new" job, Smith said, "It's good know, we owe to ourselves. And to the Some years later, when a friend and I y;ere to be back." Someone s:i.id, we hear you 're most hospitable and beautiful country in drivirg along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, we moving airline operations from New York the world. decided to stop at Gettysburg. Neither of U3 to Texas. "No, that's ~ust a. rumor," he re Among some of our American-born friends had been there, and we chose by cha.nee a sponded. it is not fashionable to be enthusiastic about motel that bordered immediately upon the The dedication ceremony began officially at America. There are drugs, urban and racial historic battlefield. The gravestones were 11 a..m. with the raising of the American confilcts, poverty, inflation, the Watergate almost close enough to touch from the ter flag. The sun broke through the clouds. affair. Undoubtedly this country faces seri race outside our room. A trick of light, or the imagination, trans ous problems. But what we, the newcomers, It was early November, and when we returned from di:mer a brief snow flurry formed a black poodle, present at the oc see o.re not only the problems but also demo cratic solutions being sought and applied. had powdered everything. I stood a long time casion, into Snoopy the Red Baron, complete On Thanksgiving Day we might well remem in the storied darkness, wrapped in a blanket. with helmet and goggles. ber that there is much in Am:rica to be I was stunned by the terrible reality of it. Allegheny Airlines tllght No. 216 from grateful for. Here slept tbe men who rell in a battle that Charleston arrived and departed on schedule. I love America because people accept me for me-until that moment-had just been Mayor James Gladkosky's flamboyant for what I am. They do not question my something studied in a history book. Her3 greeting set the tone. "Welcome to the State .ancestry, my accent, my faith, my political stood the Presi1ent after the barrage was of West Virginia, County of Randolph, City beliefs. I love this country because when I stilled, and named them "these hon:;red of Elkins," he said, ma.king the Jennings want to move from one place to another I do dead." Randolph Field sound like a very important not have to ask permission-I just go. I love As a child I had had to learn that brief place. Am'.lrica becaus) I do not have to stand in address, and now it repeated itself in my And so it is. line for hours to buy a piece of tough, fat head. But the voice I heard was not my Angelo Koukoulis of Clarksburg, president meat. I love America because America trusts own. It was that of the little girl in Wa.sh of Aeromech, Inc., which operates Elkins me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of in3ton: "It is for us the llvinz to be here shoes, I am not asked to produce my identity dedicated ... to the great task remaining commuter flights through a contract with card. My mall is not censored. My conversa before us.... We here highly re:;olve ..." Allegheny Airlines, was e.mong those partici "tlon with friends is not reported to the secret Resolve what? Suddenly, I understood. pating in Saturday's dedication ceremonies. police. In the interval between that e7ening at Mrs. Marian Marson, who donated the fur Sometimes, when I walk with my husband t.he Lincoln Memori!l.l and st:1.nding here, I niture for the termina.1 building pilot's through the streets of New York, all of a had seen my country battered by ncbl strife lounge in memory of her husband, the la~ sudden we stop, look at ea.ch other and smile end seared .by assassins' bullets; denounced Harry Mar30n, also attended. Harry Marson, and kiss. People think we a.re in love-and it by some. who fled it; mocked by some who a Randolph County coal· operator, was kille
THE WRECK ON DELMARVA ma.n, the late Thomas M. Pelly of the tions where necessary to sustain passenger service. Delmarvans who are worried over the pos State of Washington. (3) The cost of using public transportation sible· loss of railroad service wm find a fresh With his passing comes the end of a to commute to work should be ma.de deducti and strong basis for concern in a track re long and distinguished career. For 20 ble from Federal income tax. pair timetable submitted last week by the years, from 1952 until his retirement (4) Electric advertising should be prohib Penn Central. in 1972, Thomas Pelly served the people ited except for one sign on the premises of The bankrupt railroad system was ordered of the First District of Washington-and a. retail stcre and only during the hours when by the Federal Railroad Administration ru the store is open to the public. The Presi either submit plans for repairing some 6,901 served them well. He was the ranking minority member dent's message in this regard was a step In miles of sub-standard tr&.ck or close down this direction but it allowed advertising on operations. of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries the premises of any business. There is no Release of the track repair program is just Committee and ranking minority mem reas::m for large electric signs consuming more bad news for Delmarva. people wh•J ber of the Fisheries and Wildlife Con vast a.mounts of power on factories er other have been fighting to keep the freight trains servation Subcommittee. His legislative business establishments not op:?n to the running. It will be at least three years before public. the railroad might even begin to repa!r Del judgment and experience were evident often in his work on this committee and ( 5) Decorative lighting on bridges, public marva tracks. Worse yet, the Penn Central buildings, monuments and the like should is saying that much of it wm not be started subcommittee. He also served with equal distinction on the Science and Astronau be eliminated for the duration of the fuel for at leJ.St five years. Two sections of tracks sl:ortage. will have to wait seven years. tics Committee and was the ranking ( 6) Federal funds should be appropriated The railroad says its track repair needs minority member of the Advanced Re fer research into electric generation from total $49 m111ion throughout the system in search and Technology Subcommittee. refuse. This is now being done experiment 16 states. It needs not only the labcr to With the death of Thomas Pelly, I ally in some pilot projects. Its rapid expan repair the rusting rails but it also must buy have lost a good friend; and the House sion, which can be achieved more speedily two mlllion cross-ties, and close to 100,000 through federally-sponsored research, would switch timbers. of Representatives and the citizens, not only of Washington, but of the entire substantially reduce consumption of fuel oil And, even though there ls a plan an~ a used to generate electricity. timetable, there's no starting date for an;- of Nation, have lost a man who, in the 20 Finally, the Senate bill exempts any steps 1t. It is dependent on financing. Indeed, the years he served, was an able legislator ta.ken during the fuel shortage from the re railroad is candid to say that it has no ,dea and an honorable statesman. ouirements of the National Environmental when the plan could get under way. Obvi Policy Act. I believe that instead the law ously, there's the ever-present hope of fed should contain a requirement that any chal eral aid or subsidies as well as assistance by lenge under the National Environmental Pol states tn trying to presen-e a railroad sys NATION'S ENERGY PROBLEMS ley Act be commenced within 30 days after tem vital to the well-being of a nation. the announcement of the proposed Federal Here on Delmarva, it is unthinkable that determination and that any such action be the tracks will be allowed to rust a.way. 'Tet, given a preference in the Federal courts. In that is what is going on, despite vigorous HON. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN OF NEW YORK my view a wholesale exemption from the efforts by local groups to prod both the rail mandate of NEPA for any decision related to road and government on the problem. While IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the need to alleviate fuel shortages would service deteriorates. Tuesday, December 4, 1973 create a most unfortunate precedent and Here is the schedule for repairing Del would weaken the effectiveness of that im marva track-the ma.in line south of Salts Miss HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I re portant statute. bury, and the various branches. Presumably, c:mtly received a letter from the disting I hope you will agree as to the effectiveness the llne from Delmar to Wilmington could uished attorney general for the State of of the proposals contained in this letter and be retained, even though the branches are New York, Louis J. Lefkowitz, concern will take steps to add them to the pending lopped off: bill. I and my staff stand ready to assist fn Salisbury, Md.-Cape Charles, Va. (53 miles) ing the Nation's energy problems. He 3rd year of the eight-year plan. Seaford, Del. presents some most thoughtful proposals anv way possible. and I would like to recommend them to Best personal regards. Cambridge, Md. (41.8 miles) 3rd year. Mae Sincerely, sey, Md.-Centrevme, Md. (21: miles) 3rd year, the attention of my colleagues: LOUIS J. LEFKOWITZ, Harrington, Del-G~rgetown, Del.-Snow NOVEMBER 30, 1973, Attorney General. Hill, Md. (41 miles) 3rd year. Hon. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN, Queen Anne, Md.-Denton, Md. (6 miles) House of Representatives, 3rd year. Massey, Md.-Chestertown, Md. (20.2 Washington, D.C. miles) 5th year. Queen Anne, Md.-Oxford, DEAR CONGRESSWOMAN HOLTZMAN: I am LOOKING TO THE PEO?LE FOR SO Md. (20 miles) 5th year. G~orgetown, Del. writing in connection with the pending bills LUTION TO ENERGY SHORTAGE Rehoboth Beach, Del. (22 miles) 7th year containing measures to deal with the fuel Kings Creek, Md.-Crisfield, Md. ( 15 miles) shortage, H.R. 11031. 11202, 11460. There are 7th year. certain fuel conservation measures which, HON. BILL ALEXANDER Efforts to put the wrecked Penn Central if added to this bill, would make a more OF ARKANSAS back on the track are going on in the court.s effective weapon in dealing with the Nation's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and in Congress. Some states are Interested, energy problems. Maryland among them. Gov. Mandel and the ( 1) Emergency funding for rail transpor Tuesday, December 4, 1973 Economic Development Dept. are interested. tation would be the single most effective Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, in the Retention of most spur lines on the penin means of reducing overdependence on the sula. is vital to the future of this region. Yet, automobile and resulting unnecessary con next few months we in the Federal Gov our own State of Maryland Dept. of Trans sumption of gasoline. The public must be ernment are going to be caned on to portation reportedly has no pJlicy as yet for promptly provided an efficient alternative to make many decisions to regulate the con dealing with rail transportation. We're gomg the automobile in the many high-trafflc sumption of fuel in this country. To be to need more than just one group or anothP.r density areas where none exist. Federal funds successful, any of the programs that we getting up to proclaim the need for rail for urban mass transit under the Urban establish must have the support and the service yet lack the muscle and money to do Mass Transportation Act and for Amtrak cooperation of the American people, something about it. under the Intercity Rall Passenger Service many of whom are already voluntarily Act should be augmented by emergency funding to make possible increases in serv cutting down on the amount of fuel they ice and to avoid fare increases. In addition, use in their homes and offices. In any emergency funds should be specifically di decisions we may make. it is impera THE LATE THOMAS M. PELLY rected to Amtrak to provide rail service dur tive that we be keeping in mind the sug ing periods of peak travel to ski resorts, gestions and wishes of the people whom beaches and summer vacation areas such as we represent. Today I wish to share with HON. SAM STEIGER Cape Cod, the Adirondacks and the Berk you letters I have received from Mr. B. J. shires. This step a.lone would eliminate the OF ARIZONA Rosa. the superintendent of schools at co":lsumption of vast qu'.l.ntities of gasoline Mountain View, Ark., and Mr. William IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and would reduce air pollution and highway E. Edwards, the owner of a motel in Fort Thursday, November 29, 1973 congestion as well. (2) Federal funds should be advanced and Smith, Ark. I hope that my colleagues Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. Speak earmarked for the construction and pur will review their comments and sugges er, I wish to pay a final tribute to a good chase of railroad and subway passenger cars tions for possible sources of action. friend and a fine and dedicated Congress- and the modernization of trackage and sta- The letters follow: 39556 EXTENSIONS OF J,lEMARK.S December 4, 19 7.3 CONTINENTAL MOTEL, to Attract Travelers; thereby saving a great attitude still prevails in the Nixon admin!s November 21, 1973. amount of Energy. tratlon. Despite warnings signs fl.ashing Mr. WILLIAM V. ALEXANDER, 4. The lower speed would extend the time ~verywhere, the President put on a remark U .S. Congressman, of the Travelers on the road and help able display of ins-:>uciance a week ago when House of Representatives, stabilize the Motel Industry. he advisa-d the American peopl3 that a serious Washington, D.C. The successful achievement to the energy crunch could be avoided by reducing high DEAR Sm: I urge you to support the Presi Crisis is everyone's Responsibility. I hope the way spaeds, closing gas stations on Sundays, dent in all matters possible to insure unity ideas I submit to you will be of benefit in lowering thermostats, allocating fuel oil, and of both parties and to pursue a course of your search of successful solutions to our eliminating outdoor lighting. action to raise the esteem of the Nation, many problems. On the apparent assumption that we ne2d and to stop the wasteful spending of money Sincerely, a good-news sugar-coating on our cons: r v;::. in the overrated Watergate Case. It is far past WILLIAM E. EDWARDS, Owner. tion pill, the President also insists on his pre the time for the Congress and the President P.S. Stop unnecessary bussing of students. diction that the United St::i.tes will achieve to pursue a course that wlll get the Nation Savings unknown. "energy independence" by 1980, although we back on a. sound Economic basis. can find no one in the higher echelons of h is The course of action ta.ken in the cur l\10UNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC ScHOOL, administration who believes there is a!ly rent Energy Crisis c3.n be very treacherous Mountain View, Ark., November 14, 1973. hope of attaining such a goal. And he con to the Economy, Industry, and the small Hon. BILL ALEXANDER, t inues to m ake glowing promises about the Businessman. The Transportation Indust ry, U.S. Capitol, day when "We will once again have thoEe The Motel Industry and related industries Washington, D.C. plentiful supplies of inexpensive ea are in jeopardy at this time and are worthy DEAR BILL: Although the energy crisis will ergy ...." of careful consideration. I would like to sub certainly present a serious situation and The truth is that th2 era of cheap energy mit a possible solution to a small part of bring hardships on many of us, I also be is ending, and th~ s:::ript for the 1970s, a the many problems for your perusal. lieve it is an opportunity for our leaders to script that reads "shortages and com:erva Use th3 Federal Highways, and the Inter use this situation to unite this country in a tlon," already h as bsen written. The energy states (or Interstat~s only) during the hours team effort to overcome a serious problem crisis is not temporary, and whether the of 7 P.M. to 7 A.M. exclusively for the within our country. We have b~en too waste President or any of the rest of us likes it or Trucking and Commercial Transporta..tion; ful and we have not taught our young people not, the oil binge is over. We will face Eerious and to use them from 7 A.M. to 7 P .M. for .!0 ta.ke care of what they have. energy shortages of various k inds for the re local and longdistance travel of Automcbile We have not taught them to appreciate m aining yea.rs of t h is century and dramatic Traffic. Exceptions to be made only in emer the conveniences they enjoy each day and economic and social changes that wlll affect gencies. consequently we have gotten ourselves into this country and the world. 1. The trucks require the 70-75 mph due a serious situation. Not since World War II In fairness to the President few politicians to scheduleing and gearing. has there been a sit uation where people in are willing to fat• the hard decisions about 2. The absence of Automobiles wm en this country could u n it e together a!ld the r ationing and other restrictive measures that able them to m !l.intain a more constant speed average citizen could be made to feel an will be necessary. and better economy with far more safety. iml') ortant p ::rt in solving n. seri::ms problem. W e arc a spoiled, self-indulgant so:::iety of 3. The lower Temperatures wm give them It is my hope t h at t h e leadership of this o:>timists that always has dem::i.nded m ::>re 5 to 10 percent better performance and lower count ry will use this situation as a method than is needed, as t h ou2h the wciety were their m:i.int. cost. They will get an addi of te:l.ching conservat ion and appreciation to bless:id with some special right to anything tional 10 to 20 percent longer tire life and t h e people of this country. it might take to make life more comfort::l.ble reduce the possible blowouts at the lower The Mountain View School will formulate an:J. con veni,m t. H1ghW3.Y Tem::, eratures. a plan involving student leaders and faculty So it is!l't very likely that we will face or 4. Th3 Trucks would be in the Freight Ter memb: rs that we will implement at an early listen t:> th:i Cassandra warnings now, any minals f er 103.ding and unloading during the date, to conserve energy and to teach appre more than we listened to two decades of working hours to secure more jobs. ciation for what we have on the part of our warnings about the rapidly diminishing oil 5. In the event that Local Haulers and faculty and students. supply. Trucks find it necessary to run during day With kindest personal regards, I am Some oilmen have begun to level with the light h-0urs they would be required to run Your very truly, American people, and we believe their war~1- at the redu::ed Aut omobile speeds. B. J. ROSA, ing:: should be taken seriously. In a rz.cent Automobiles: 7 A.M. to 7 P.M. Superintendent. speech at the University of Tex'.l.S, Robert 1. Reduce the speed to the requested 50- 60 o. Anderson, chairman of Atlantic Richfield mph speed and increase their mileage the Co., an oil leader not given to exaggeration , 15-20 percent. d ~scrib:::d the energy situation as not just 2. The Trucks would be off the highways THE ENERGY SHORTAGE serious but p otentially "cat3.Strophic." Warn and Reduce Congestion during the time in3 of an 8 or 9 percent u nemployment ra.te, workers travel; (to and from Work.). with possibly 8 m1llion out of work, in 1974 3. In the event of rationing of gasoline the unless the Arab oil boycott is lifted. Ander Commercial Automobiles and salesmen HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN son said there is "nothing we c:in dq that traveling with special gas Allotments would OF MASSACHUSETTS will s:i.ve us from a m3,Jor a :id l'.lstlng change be curtailed from pleasure driving after 7 in the American life style-indezd in the P.M. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES whole American system." The oil cx'.lcutive 4. Pleasure driving and unnecessary travel Tuesday, December 4, 1973 was markedly pessimistic about the near ing by school age drivers and others would term outlook. He said it would be "tragic" if be curtailed, during the evening hours. Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, last Sun Americans believe the current energy crlsi3 5. The lower speeds and the absence of day's edition of the Washington Star can be solved by "nuclear power or solar trucks would improve the Safety Standards. News carried an excellent article on the power or any other kind of power save thb.t 6. Issuance of W.W. II type (A.B.C.T.) win energy shortage by former Congressman derived from old-fashioned c:::,mbustlon of dow stickers would serve as a deterrant for and Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. gas, oil and coal." the improper use of the vehicle during non Udall and freelance writer Charles N. An derson is right, big chan g:is aro ahe:ui, busin :ss hours. and most of them involve le3.ner life5tyles 7. The Commercial man and or Salesman Conconi. The energy crisis is uppermost for everyone. The swift e,ents of the energy so vital to all industries would have the use in the minds of all of us, and I am sure crisis are forcing us to recognize that, in of his vehicle and the necessary gasoline to the economic, social, and political con practic:i.l terms, there are yet no "sub:::ti successfully perform his job during normal sequences of this shortage of crisis pro tut:is'' for petroleum-and al.ternati, e business hours. portions will be prevasive and long term. s:>urces of energy are 20 to 30 ye:i.rs away. We The Motel Industry, Restaurant Industry I am sure that all of my colleagues are have been literally burning U!) the future as would be allowed to function in the normal anxious to have as much information though there were no tomorrow, and the 24 hour ca.pa.city which is necessary to be and as many points of view about the President must now admit that irretrievable successful. energy crtsis as possible, and for that "lead time" has been lost and cannot be re- 1. Some revenue would be derived from gainad. Truckers laying over during the daylight purpose, I commend for their review the From this point on, national prudence dic hours. following article: tates that we operate from the most con 2. The Commercial Traveler (to 50 to 70 [From the Washington Star-News, Dec. 2, servative set of a$umptions about the fu Percent lifeblood) would be available to the 1973] ture. Yet c·1r over-weening approach to Motels in the Night to enable the Motels to ENERGY survive without the Pleasure Seeking Tour "progress" stands in the way o! rational plan ists. (By Stewart L. Udall and Charles N. Conconi) ning. Instead of hoping for the best and pre 3. The Traveler would be in and off the road With a potential economic Pearl Harbor paring for the worst, we have been unwisely early in the evening and enable the Motels about 60 days away, it is Incredible that a preening ourselves on our ability to produce to cut off the Large Neon Signs, so necessary business-as-usual. slight-bump-in-the-road technological "miracles." December J, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39557 But we begin to perceive now that the Railroads would be subsidized and encour tirement, but this was not to be. We will phenomenal postwar American success story aged to produce a new generation of fast miss him. was founded far more on cheap oil than on trains that would shift much of our inter Mrs. Shriver joins me in expressing the storied American know-hew. The enor city passenger and freight traffic from high our heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Pelly and mous quantities of cheap oil and gas which ways and aircraft to fuel-saving railways. were the real economic foundation of our Congress should enact a law, effective in their family in this time of great sorrow. postwar production splurge. 1975, that would mandate that no passenger The gluttonous oil appetite of the automo cars could be manufactured unless their bile, that eternal monument to inefficiency weight and horsepower are reduced suffi and waste, is the primary example of our ciently that a 25-miles-per-gallon perform CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT IN URBAN irresponsibility. It represented such a signifi ance is assured. PLANNING cant part of our lives that former General There would be many benefits to such a Motors President James Roche could say cutback on driving. The air pollution prob without fear oz being disputed: "I think the lems, which are prim:irily caused by the auto HON. WALTER E. FAUNTROY average American today would give up about mobile, would be reduced; a slowing of the OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA anything before he gives up his automobile." urb:m sprawl would save precious land; at With much of the nation's economic well least 15,000 lives would be saved annually, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES being tied to Detroit and its irrational ties and the dollar devaluation crisis could be Tuesday, December 4, 1973 to the energy-inefficient, gas-guzzling inter eased. nal combustion engine, the projections of The discipline and self restraint proposed Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, on Fri 179 million registered vehicles in the United by the President is, of course, necessary. The day, November 16, 1973, I had the priv States by 985 were welcome. Sinc3 roughly immediate future is going to be difficult and ilege of speaking before the National one-fifth of all jobs m the United States are economic setbacks are coming as a sensible Capital chapter of the American Insti directly or indirectly tied to the automobile, transition is made in creating a society that tute of Planners. I used this opportunity why shouldn't more cars obviously mean in is energy efficient and waste conscious. to express my strong belief that those af creased prosperity? A nation that bases any crucial national fected by urban development should be Such a growth projection, we now know, policy on myths is inviting disaster. We must is not even possible. The U.S. automotive cul stop living by our old illusions of omnipo allowed to take role in its planning. I ture is at a point of climax: there will never tence-or on the feckless assumption that have always considered this issue to be of be anything like it again in human history. Secret!l.ry Henry Ki3singer can through high importance and have consistently There is no way we can increase U.S. oil slelght of hand maneuvers get the Arab oil urged and fought for the largest possible production to supply the cars we want for taps turned on. measure of citizen participation in the ourselves in the 1970's, much less meet the planning of urban development and zon mindless 1980's goal of the automaniacs. And ing projects. I woQd like to share my with Arab oll skyrocketing toward a $10 per speech to the planners with my col barrel price, the "Arab alternative" is not TRIBUTE TO TOM PELLY viable even if the embargo is lifted! leagu3s in the House of Representatives we a.re depleting oil reserves at a fright as I am sure that it is a topic of interest ening pace-and even if the Arabs are pla to them. cated, foreign oil will never again be cheap, HON. GARNER E. SHRIVER The speech follows: nor will the highly touted Alaskan pipeline, OF KANSAS STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN WALTER E. draining the largest oil field in North Amer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FAUNTROY BEFORE THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ica., give us more than a modest lift in the AREA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE 1980's. Thursday, November 29, 1973 OF PLANNERS Strangely, there tc.re still a. few "boomer" Mr. SHRIVER. Mr. Speaker, all of us I welcome this opportunity t:> meet and oilmen around who believe that, given fresh discuss with you some of the planning pos tax incentives, their industry can expand its were deeply saddened by the passing of s1b1litle.s which will arise from pass1ge of the drilling and bail us out. The oil industry has our good friend and former colleague in Home Rule Bill. Urban planning and de some right to boast about its exploration rec the House of Representatives, Tom Pelly. velopment, as ma.ny of you know, is for me ord. For more than four decades it has found Tom Pelly served his constituents in an avocation. From the time that I returned oil in the Arabian deserts, beneath the seas, the First District of the State of Wash to this city a.s the minister of my home 1n the Alaskan Arctic and 1n the back ington with distinction for two decades. church lo the inner city and was con country of Australia. And it is undoubtedly ·fronted with the short and long range effects true that new oil a.waits discovery. But the He fully understood what the term "representative" means to our form of of urbau renewal on this my native city, days of easy, cheap wildcatting are over, urban planning and development have teen as all oilmen know, and the environmental government, and his integrity and will a pas.3.ion !or me. After nearly five year.;; of and economic costs of tapping increasingly ingness to work hard at the job served study and preparation, I ca.me up with and hard-to-reach deposits will be great. The U.S. as an unforgettable example for us all. began implementing what I ca.ll the "Shaw oil industry wlll be doing very well in the Tom's service to his hometown of Urban Renewal Process." Therefore, I'm right next decade if it keeps our production near Seattle and the Puget Sound area began at home with the subject you've asked me to its current level. long before his "second career" as a leg address. Extracting modest quantities of oil from islator. His contributions to cultural and Before I discuss some specifics of the bill, Colorado oil shale may be possible in a few let me remind you of two important pre years, but no one b3lieves oil from oil shale commercial enterprises in the years sur requisl tes to meaningful planning that my can be more than a supplemental petroleum rounding World War II led to his being experience has taught me. re3ource in the 20th century. awarded the coveted "First Citizen of Flr3t, irrespective of the mechanism used, In short, there are no easy answers and no Seattle" honor in 1950. planners must talk with the people for technological quickie solutions. Nor will a Most of us, however, were more fami whom they are planning. This "people per super scientist or politician appear to break liar with his service as a highly respected spective" in the planning pr.:icess is essential the bondage of oil over our lives. Drastic re Member of Congress and a fighter for his for workable city development plans-thus, forms are needed-and the sooner we initiate my emphasis upon planning with and for them the better. district. Since I also have a Boeing Co. the people affected by community develop The first step might be an immediate 10- facility in my district, I well remember ment actions in the Shaw Renewal concept. cents per g.1llon federal tax on gasoline that, how Tom reacted whenever that com Second, planning must be comprehensive, although regressive in that it is borne most pany, with all its impact on the economy taken in the context of the needs and de heavily by low income people, could be ear of the Seattle area, was threatened with sires of the entire city. When I was develop marked for a special Emergency Transpor what he considered to be arbitrary and ing the planning concept for Shaw, I put it tation Fund. Such a fund, like the present unwise Federal actions. this way in a statement before the National Highway Trust Fund, could be used in a All of us also remember Tom's dedica Capital Planning Commission: crash program to develop an extensive, free, "Let us together fashion an attack upon or at least cheap public transportation sys tion to sound Federal fiscal policies and the problems of the Shaw area that would tem. his strong and articulate opposition to coordinate and concentrate all available Fed Existing intracity mass transit systems uncontrolled "backdoor" spending. We eral resources-in housing construction, in could b3 subsidized and the cities given bil need more like him, not less, in the job training, in health facilities, in recreation, lions to build and subsidize vers1tlle mass Congress. ln welfare programs, in education, tr3.Ilspor transit systems, including everything from ta.tion, and municipal services-to Improve bikeways to monorails with the goal of mak This was a man of strength, of hon both physical and social conditions for the ing one-man:..one-car transportation obsolete esty, courtesy. and decency. He served people who live and work there. Nothing less and making the second car an intolerable ex his constituents and his country well. He than such an approach, planned and carried pense. surely earned a long and rewarding re- out with the continuing pa.rtlclpation o! '" "' ·, /1. , 1 , 1 , • r , 1 ... . • r.-- ,4., ~ ~ . .._ .. ., .... 39558 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Dec.ember ·4, 1973 residents of the area can revitalize the Sec adoption by the City Council, the act must has developed housing and other land uses ond Precinct, U Street business· district. In then be submitted to the expanded NCPC could be operated as a non-profit corporation short, we want the area renewed both physi which has 60 days to review for their impact under a Boa.rd of Directors made up of local cally and socially by and for the people who on the federal establishment. If the NCPC citizens. It could be established through an presently live and work there." takes no action within that 60 days, the act act of Congress and operate to acquire, con The future of this city must be in the shall be enforced. If, however, the NCPC struct, reconstruct, rehabilltate or improve hands of all its citizens. The specific element certifies the plans have a negative impact, re£id,ential, ·commercial, ihdustrlal; public, of the planning process should be based on the Council may either accept the NCPC cult ural, recreat ional, .and transportation fa c:uefully thought through social and en recommendations and modify their plans, or cilities. vironmental objectives as well as economic reject the NCPC recommendations and re It should h ave the power t o clear, to plan, objectives. subm it its plans. The Commission then has to replan, build, reconstruct, and rehabilitate I would be among the first to agree that 30 days to do a second review. If the Coun substandard, insanitary or vacant areas. For there have been several bad planning de cil makes modifications, the Commission has these purposes, it should be able to spend cisions recently. In recent years, the ap 60 days for a secon d review. If following the public money and be able to acquire private pointed Mayor and the members of the City second review, the NCPC certifies a negative property through the exercise o! the power Council who serve on the Zoning Commis impact, th e act cannot be implemented. of eminent domain. It should pursue a policy sion have sought to convert the Commission Throu gh out this process, the citizens will for the Dlstrict of Columbia. to maximize a from its quasi-judicial functions into a tax h ave an opportunity to make their desires high level of urban design in preparation revenue office, handing out building rights, felt. The Mayor must hold public hearings be for the Bicentennial and to maximize a as if they were for sale, to developers prom fore submitting plans to the Council. The multitude of uses at Metro stations and in ising the highest short-range tax benefits. Council and the NCPC can each schedule other areas available !or private development This has meant. a wholesale repudiation of publlc hearings. It is my hope that the city including government employment sites. the idea o! a comprehensive plan for the officials will make the process as open a.s The Corporation should alm at developing District since the opportunity for speculative possible. It ls far better to err on the side of mixed-income communities, providing a f)rofits ls greatest i! high-rise office build citizen involvement than on the side of variety of housing and drawing upon a vari ings are constructed in a neighborhood expedience. ety of government programs: rent supple planned to be predominantly residential or Under this blll, the NCPC will have 12 ment, and below market interest rate mort low-density commercial. members: 7 ex-officio members (Secretary of gage subsidies together with private market Throughout the city, developers have Interior, Defense, the Administrator of the rents to get people of diverse income, ages, rushed in to buy cheap land and to propose GSA, the Mayor, the Council Chairman, Sen and family sizes together and in proximity high-rise developments in repudiation of the ate and House District Committee Chairmen) to transportation, shopping, and recreational comprehensive plan in the hopes of securing and 5 citizen members-3 appointed by the facilities. quick profits. Consistently, a. majority of the President, 2 by the Mayor, both of whom The Corporation should have all of the presently-appointed Zoning Commission has must be bona fide residents of D.C. One authority traditional for the exercise of pri given them a green light to do so. This was presidential-appointee must be from Mary vate powers and should be able to borrow true in Friendship Heights, in McLean land and one from Virginia. money, issue bonds and other obligations of Gardens, on Capitol Hill, on 14th and Penn In addition, the bill creates a 5-member indebtedness and to provide for the rights sylvania Avenue, S.E., and on the George Redevelopment Land Agency appointed by of the holders of those bonds and indebted town Waterfront, just to name a few of sev the Mayor with Council approval as an in . ness; it should be able to make and execute eral such cases. strumentality of the D.C. Government. The contracts, to acquire property and hold it Under the provisions of the Home Rule National Capital Housing Authority is trans . for immediate or future use, to improve or Bill, the Congress is about to approve, the ferred to the D.C. Government along with all rehabilitate it, to sell or sign. change, trans allocation of planning responsibility and au employees, property, and funds. fer, convey, lease, mortgage, or otherwise dis thority will become an executive staff func Under the bill, it will be possible for the pose of it; the UDC should be able to loan tion under the direct control of the elected city government to prepare its comprehen or grant monies, to conduct, assist, promote Mayor. The Bill specifically states that the sive plans on city-wide, service area, and sub and encourage technical assistance, ·social Mayor "shall be the central planning agency service area basis. It is most important that service consultant services, planning, re for the District of Columbia ...". The Mayor the initial planning and citizen involvement search, architectural, and engineering stud "shall be responsible for coordinating the be on the smallest geographical scale pos ies, and to manage a project or to enter into planning activities of the District Govern sible. agreement with others to undertake the ment and for preparing and implementing With elected officials and the authority for management; it should be able to invest the District elements of the comprehensive self-determination, the District Government funds, procure insurance, sell, lease, assign, plan for the national capital region, includ will finally have the authority, indeed the transfer, convey, exchange, mortgage or ing a multi-year program of public works mandate, to become responsible and respon otherwise dispose of or encumber any project. for the District. sive to the needs of this community. With a It could form satellite corporations in spe The main functions of the central plan const ituency for the first time, the elected cific neighborhoods and it could draw upon ning staff under the Mayor will be: leaders of this city will not only have the government programs such as "Title Seven" 1. Coordination of all physical, social, eco legal right of decision-making, but the polit of the 1970 Housing Acts and provisions nomic, redevelopment, and transportation ical incentive as well, and will no longer be available to publlc housing agencies and non planning of District Agencies. I hope that able to shift responsibility onto someone profit sponsors of moderate and low income "coordination" will be taken to mean in else's shoulders. It has always been a tempta housing. This Corporation should be able to volving agencies in the preparation of com tion to attempt to shift all responsibility to deal with buildings on a spot basis in resi prehensive plans as well as making sure that Congress because in actual fact, that's where dential areas or to undertake larger civic agency plans are consistent with overall plans much of the responsibllity has lain-much projects. and with the plans of other agencies; but not all. Next year, the city officials must To carry out this activity, the corporation 2. Preparation of comprehensive plans and face their constituencies. will need some front money from the Con sectional plans for citizen review and adop It wm now be the responsibility o! the gress to carry it through a formative period. tion by the Mayor and City Council and re Mayor to develop a human planning process, Thereafter, it should be able to issue bonds view by the NCPC; a planning process which can check the blind which· could be sold at public or private 3. Preparation of zoning text and map developer interest, a process which will re sales and may be exempt from tax. changes and preparation of case reviews for spond to the citizen's interests. Perhaps now The full faith and credit of the Corpo!"a the Zoning Commission and the Board o! we will be able to operate on the principle tion for all obligations shall be pledged in Zoning Adjustment; that government does not exist for profit, it the bonds and the monies could be held by 4. Provision of a framework for citizen exists for people. The most important aspect the U.S. Treasury Department. This Corpora participation in the planning/zoning process. of planning under home rule wlll be that the tion would be able to spearhead that initia This should include improved hearing and citizens will have an effective check on the tive for the people of the District of Co public notice procedures. The Bill specifically process through their power to elect, re-elect, lumbia which the President has indicated he states that public hearings must be held be or defeat those officials who hold the respon ls willing to leave to the people of local ju fore the Mayor submits planning recom sibility. risdictions. mendations to the City Council; Let me now turn to one aspect of the If the appointed leaders of this city are 5. Additional staff functions such as: re planning process which I think is most cru serious about dealing with the imperative view of federal projects for advice to D.C. cial to the future of our city: housing. The challenge of sub_~tandard housing in the NCPC Board Members, as well as· staff work District needs a. workable means to mount a. ·n1strtct, they will put their weight. publicly for D.C. representatives to COG and WMATA. coordinated and well-financed effort to meet and privately behind this legislation. If they The Mayor shall submit, following appro the housing problems confronting this city. , think this b-lll is inadequate, they have been priate public hearings, each District ele Recently, I introduced a blll that would · promising to submit legislation for several ment of the comprehensive plan and any creat.e an Urban Development Corporation in yea.rs now. Let's see it. If not, let's move on amendments thereto, to the City Council for the District. this bill-for the city's sake. Now is the ·time revision or modification, and adoption, by This Urban Development Corporation, for action for our city, not next year durlng act, following public hearings. Following final similar to the New York Corporation which an election campaign. December 4, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 395fi9 QUESTIONNAffiE 4A. DO YOU BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT IS INVOLVED IN 9. SHOULD WAGES, PRICES, RENTS, AND INTEREST RATES THE WATERGATE COVERUP BE CONTROLLED TO FIGHT INFLATION
Total His Hers HON. JOHN E. MOSS Total His Hers OF CALIFORNIA Total sample ______36, 913 18, 656 18, 2'.J7 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Total sample ______39, 239 19, 735 19,504 Percent..______100 100 100 Percent______100 100 100 Tuesday, December 4, 1973 A. Yes .. ------11, 897 10, 981 10, 916 2 15 Percent..______!:9. 3 58. 9 59. 8 Mr. MOSS. Mr. Speaker, early in No A. Ye~erceriC::::::::::::::::::: \~:i 1~:f 1\~~~ B. No______9, 5f.l 5, 265 4, 296 B. No ______5, 668 2, 902 2, 769 Percent______25. 9 28. 2 23. 5 vember, I again sent out my annual ques Percent______14. 4 14. 7 14. 6 C. Un1ecide·1 ______5, 455 2, 410 3, 045 tionnaire to determine the views of my 1, 942 Percent.. ______14.8 12. 9 16. 7 constituents on a number of major issues c. un;;~~~L:::::::::::::::::: 3, i~: 1, ::~ 9. 9 facing the Nation. The more than 40,000 10. SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO BUILD AND OPERATE NUCLEAR responses, which represent a remarkable 48. IF UNLAWFULLY INVOLVED, SHOULD HE BE IMPEACHED POWERPLANTS (SUCH AS RANCHO SECO) TO HELP MEET 20-percent return, have been tabulated OUR ENERGY NEEDS? by computer as follows: 19, 328 100 Totalsample ______37,C96 18,759 18,337 1. OF THE FOLLOWING ISSUES, WHICH DO YOU CONSIDER Percent______100.IJ 100.0 100.0 TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT (CHOOSE AS MANY AS 5) 14, 122 73.1 A. Yes ______27, 963 14, 812 13, 151 3, 557 Percent______75. 4 79. 0 71. 7 Total His Hers 18. 4 B. No______4, 489 2, 047 2, 442 1, 649 Percent______12. 1 10. 9 13. 3 8. 5 C. Undecided ______4, 644 1, 900 2, 744 19,817 Percent______:___ 12. 5 10.1 15. O 100 15, 499 15, 468 4C. SHOULD THE PRESIDENT BE IMPEACHED IF HE REFUSES 11. WOULD YOU SUPPORT LEGISLATION DARRING SMOKING A. co:~~e~f~~:======:::: 307~~i 77.1 78.1 TO OBEY A COURf ORDER IN PUl3LIC PLACES SUCH AS RESTAURANTS, THEATERS, B. Crime ______16, 756 8, 194 8, 562 Percent______42. 0 40.8 43.2 PLANES, BUSES, TRAINS, AND OTHER CONFINED AREAS? 11, 123 10, 753 Total sample ____ ------38, 952 19, ~ig 19, 354 C. En:!~le~ts~~======2wg 55. 3 54. 3 Percent______100 100 D. Environment______14, 558 7, 266 7, 292 Total sample ______37, 435 18, 881 18, 554 Percent______36. 5 36.1 36.8 A. Yes ______26, 834 13, 591 13, 243 Percent______100. O 100. 0 100. O 9, 712 9, 254 Percent______ES. 9 69. 3 68. 4 48. 3 46. 7 8 A. Yes.------22, 698 ll, 143 11, 555 E. W~=~~:~t======13:,~~~ Percent______60. 6 59. 0 62. 3 4,868 5, 574 B. NoPerc'e'riC:======2f~g \f~: \~~~ B. No ______13, 033 6, 907 6, 126 . F. Dri:r::nut~~==::::::::::::::::: 102:~~ 24. 2 28.1 C. Undecided ______3,~55 1,807 2, 148 G. Federal tax reform ______16, 590 8, 929 7, 661 Percent______10. 1 9. 3 11.1 Percent______34. 8 36. 6 33. O Percent______41. 6 44.4 38. 7 C. Undecided______l, 704 831 873 Percent______4. 6 4. 4 4. 7 H. Consumer protection . ------11, 621 5, 650 5, 971 Percent______29. 1 28.1 30.1 I. Health care ______15, 465 7, 292 8, 173 5. ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH YOUR MAIL SERVICE Percent. ______38. 7 36. 3 41.2 12. SHOULD A JOURNALIST HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTECT J. Education______8, 786 4, 128 4,658 HIS SOURCES? Percent______24. 0 20. 5 23. 5 18, 549 4, 793 4, 917 i~~~~~:_~~~======- 37,1~ii4 1\ig5 100 K. Un~~~!~~~~~======\~:g 23. 8 24. 8 A. Yes ______21, 960 11. 221 Total sample .. ------37, 237 18, 821 18, 416 L. Rising highway fatalities______3, 248 1,591 1,657 10, 739 Percent______100. O 100. O 100. O Percent______58. 5 59.1 57. 9 Percent______8.1 7. 9 8. 4 B. No ______13, 943 6, 981 Ranking: 6, 968 A. Yes ______. _____ 27, 710 13, 897 13, 813 His: A, C, E, G, B, I, D, H, F, Percent______37. 2 36. 8 37. 6 Percent__ __ : ______74. 4 73. 8 75. 0 1, 625 783 842 K, J, L. C. Undecided ______B. No ·------6,2( 8 3,380 2, 828 Hers: A, C, E, B, I, G, D, H, F, Percent______4. 3 4.1 4.5 Percent______------16. 7 18. 0 15. 4 K, J, L. C. Undecided ______3, 319 1, 544 1, 775 Percent______8. 9 8. 2 9. 6 6. SHOULD THE PRESIDENT BE PROHIBITED FROM IMPOUND· 2. HOW DO YOU RATE THE WORK OF CONGRESS THUS FAR ING FUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN VOTED BY CONGRESS FOR THIS YEAR 13. SHOULD THE UNITED STATES GIVE ECONOMIC AID TO SPECIFIC PROGRA:ViS NORTH VIETNAM? Total sample ______37, 992 19, 240 18, 752 Total samr.le ______37, 330 18, 891 Percent..._------100 100 100 18, 439 Total sample ______37, 374 18, 850 18, 524 Perceot._ ___ ------100 100 100 Percent.. ______100.0 100.0 100.0 A. Good______4, 320 2, 065 2,255 Percent______11. 4 10. 7 12.0 A. Yes. __ ------26, 375 13, 054 13, 321 A. Yes ______3,610 1,991 1, 619 B. Fair______18, 319 8, 856 9 Percent______70. 7 69. l 72. 2 Percent______9. 7 10. 6 8. 7 Percent______48. 2 46. 0 5i~~ 6. No.------8. 301 4, 650 3, 651 B. N:> ______30, 319 15, 372 14, 947 7,034 Percent______22. 2 24. 6 19.8 Percent.______81. 1 81. 5 C. Poor_------15, 353 8, 319 C. 2, 654 l, 187 80. 7 Percent______40. 4 43. 3 37. 5 Undecided ______1, 467 C. Undecide::l______3, 445 1, 487 1, 958 PercenL ------7.1 6. 3 8.0 Percent.______9. 2 7. 9 10.6
3A. HOW DO YOU RATE THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT 14. SHOULD WE CUT OUR MILITARY FORCES IN EUROPE? NIXON ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS 7. SHOULD NO-FAULT AUTO INSURANCE BE ADOPTED AS A NATIONAL POLICY Total sample ______37, 143 18, 758 18, 385 Total sample ______38, 739 19, 551 19, 188 Total sample ______36, 949 18, 716 18, 233 Percent.._------100. 0 100. O 100. 0 100 100 100 ---- Percent.. __ ------Percent.. ____ ------100 100 100 2 1 10 Effective ______17, 122 9,060 8,062 Yes. ______------______A. Yeiercent======\~~1 ~~1 A. Percent.. ______A. 24, 769 13, 179 11, 590 \;~i 44.2 46.3 42.0 Percent. ______67. 0 70.4 63. 6 B. No.------10, 685 5, 544 5, 141 Not effective ______14, 916 7, 517 7,399 Percent.______28. 8 29. 6 28. 0 B. B. No._ .... -----_ .. ----____ .. ___ 5, 388 2, 664 2, 724 C. Undecided______5, O'.JS 2, 128 2, 928 Percent_ ___ .------. ______38. 5 38. 4 38. 6 Percent. ______14. 6 14.2 14. 9 Undecided. ______. : ... __ . ____ 6, 701 2,974 3, 727 Percent______13. 6 11. 3 15. 9 c. Percent.. ______. __ c. Undecided.------6, 792 2, 873 3, 919 17. 3 15. 3 19. 4 Percent. ______._._. __ . 18. 4 15. 4 21.5 15. SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO SELL WHEAT AND OTHER 38. HOW DO YOU RATE THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT 8. SHOULD PART OF n:E HIGHWAY TRUST FUND BE DI- FOOD PRODUCTS TO RUSSIA AND CHINA, EVEN IF IT NIXON ON DOMESTIC AFFAIRS VERTED FROM ROADBUILDING TO HELP FINANCE LOCAL MEANS POSSIBLE SHORTAGES AND HIGHER PRICES TRANSIT SYSTEMS AT HOME? Total sample. ______38, 040 19, 214 18, 826 Percent______100 100 100 Total sample ______37, 094 18, 780 18, 314 Total sample ______37, 585 18, 944 18, 641 Percent______100 100 100 Percent. _------100. O 100. O 100. 0 A. Effective______4, 290 2, 222 2,068 A. 26, 123 13, 141 ===~ Percent______11. 3 11. 6 11. 0 Yes ______12, 982 A. Yes_------2, 497 1. 492 1, 005 Percent______70. 4 70. 0 70. 9 Percent______6.6 7. 9 5. 4 B. No::,~:~t~~~======307~~~ 1\~~: l\i~~ B. No.------8, 224 4, 471 3, 753 B. NJ ______33,368 16, 587 16, 781 C. Undecided______3, 602 1, 651 Percent______22. 2 23. 8 20.5 Percent. ______88. 8 87. 6 90. 0 Percent______9. 4 8. 6 \g~} C. Un:lecided______2, 747 1, 168 1, 579 C. Undecided______l, 720 865 855 Percent______7. 4 6. 2 8.6 Percent______4.6 4.5 4.6 39560 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1'973 16. DO YOU THINK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS PRO· the financial arrangement.s have not been "There is no labor shortage in Russia/' VIDING ADEQUATE MEDICAL CARE AND FINANCIAL completed. Leubert said, "consequently there ls no need ASSISTANCE TO THOSE IN NEED? However, they said the Export-Import Bank for any of the sophisticated devices or equip w-a.s expected to extend its "standard" terms ment available from Western countries. That Total His Hers which would range from eight to 15 years. includes such items as automatic needle The two firms wlll design and dellver an positioners, automatic thread cutting and acidic acid plant to be erected ln the Ukrain fabric transport systems. Total sample ______37, 406 18, 848 18, 558 ian city of Sverdlovsk. The plant will pro PercenL.______100 100 100 "In addition the work pace at the plants in duce 150,000 tons of acetic acid annually by those four countries ls considerably slower A. Yes ______9, 906 5, 308 4, 598 1978. Spokesmen explained that the chemical than in the U.S. In Yugoslav ia, productivity PercenL------26. 5 28. 2 24. 8 ls a. major "building block" of the petro is about 50 per cent of what it ls in the U.S., B. No ·------22, 908 11, 266 11, 642 chemical industry. and in Hungary it ls about 60 per cent. In Percent______61. 2 59. 8 62. 7 C. Undecided______4, 592 2, 274 2, 318 The acetic acid production process wa.s de Russia, it takes up to six hours to make an veloped recently by Monsanto and is used Percent..______12. 3 12. 0 12. 5 outerwear garment that takes about 1 :y4 at the firm's Texas City, Tex., plant, Soviet hours to make in the United States." engineers wlll be trained there before the The Russians, it ls believed, make some of Sverdlovsk factory begins production. their own sewing room equipment and buy RUSH TO THE SOVIET UNION some from East Germany. [From the D a.lly News Record, Nov. 26, 1973] The plant the mission vlsited in Yugoslavia. HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK Two u .s. FmMs PLAN PLANT FOR RUSSIA had 5,000 employes and fairly recent Italia.n (By Matthew Kasten) made machinery, some German-made and a OF omo _few Japanese. But work handling methods IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NEW YORK.-Willcox & Gibbs, Inc., and an and the pace of operation weren't up to U.S. unnamed American producer of men's and Tuesday, December 4, 1973 standards. women's outerwear are planning to jointly The country ls seen as a very good market Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, a rush build a. turnkey manufacturing plant in for sewing machine sales. Russia.. Garments are being made for export to is on to see who can help the Soviets The plans are a result of a 14-day U.S. the most. Neither our Government nor Western Europe and to major department Apparel Trade Mission visit in October to stores throughout the U.S., he said. many in the business community seem to Belgrade, Budapest, Prague and Moscow. This one plant made a wide variety of prod be hesitant when it comes to building Alfred O P . Leubert, president and chief ucts-suits, slacks, sport coats, rainwear, and the Soviet Union. I have been pointing executive officer of Willcox & Gibbs, in reveal heavy outerwear. It ls Government owned out the direct links between the buildup ing the plans, said his firm and the outerwear on a. co-operative employe basis. Private of Soviet industry and the buildup of the producer, which he declined to identify, "see enterprise is permitted where a plant has Soviet military machine. eye-to-eye" on the project. Leubert plans 25-30 employes. Unfortunately, these warnings seem to to visit Russia again in about five months in In Hungary. the picture was not too dis line with the turnkey project. similar from Yugoslavia's. Equipment wasn't have fallen on deaf ears in the execu "It's a. market we can't say no to. The the latest available and material handling tive branch of the Government. The Russians are keenly interested in turnkey and quality control problems were evident. American people showed their disap programs. It's the big market for sales of The plant did only cut-and-trim work, and, proval of the Soviet wheat deal in letters sewing machin ery," he emphasized. as in Yugoslavia, pay was very low. Garments to congressional offices and a number of The other countries the group visited are were belng made for export to East and West other ways. Once, the full impact of pres more interested in exporting apparel prod European countries. ucts. The Russians are not producing enough Leubert noted that there were some U.S. ent moves in Soviet "trade" are felt, I apparel items for home consumption, he said. joint ventures in Yugoslavia, but that none do not doubt that there will be an even The mission was organized by the Ameri ls permitted in Hungary a.t this time al larger public outcry. can App:i.rel Manufacturers Association and though appllcatlons for them are being It seems that each week the news sponsored by the U.S. Department of Com taken. Leubert said he sees Hungary ripe for papers contain more articles on ex merce. It was said to be the first major U.S. a. joint venture involving Its Sunbra.nd trade mission in consumer goods to the operation. panded dealings with the Soviet Union. USSR and the other Ea.stern European The trade mission found Czechoslovakia. to Two recent deals are detailed below in countries. be in a highly depressed state because of its stories from the Washington Star-News Leubert said he feels Russian consumers political situation. of November 26, 1973 and from the Dally are putting pressure on the government to Styling was missing on the clothing items make more merchandise available and to put seen at Czech stores and Hungary retailers News Record of the same date. The Star more styling into apparel. showed more fashion-oriented items than News article details the building of plant "One of the Russian ministers asked one those in the other three countries, he said. manufacturing a chemical which is one of the American mission members why it was Although the group couldn't visit a gar of the building blocks of the petrochemi necess;iry for his shirt to have a stripe pat ment producing facmty, it was told ma cal industry. The texts of the articles tern," Leubert related. Before the American chinery used is made in Italy and in East could answer, Leubert s!ild, "the female Rus and West Germany. follow: sian interpreter asked the minister why the Wilcox & Gibbs. Leub.ert said, was able to (From the Washington star-News, Nov. 26, fashion stripe should not be there." arrange for a. sales representative in Czech 1973] There is a. very limited amount of apparel oslovakia.. U.S. FmMS To DELIVER FACTORY TO UKRAINE styling in Rus.5ia, although some young U.S. production know-how far exceeds that ST. Loms, Mo.-Monsa.nto Co. of St. Louis women were seen with fashionable hair found in the four countries toured and has and a. New Jersey firm signed a. $45 mlllton styles. Apparel plants operate under a five become an even more important factor in year plan in Russia. and manufacture a. recent years as the labor shortage-skilled agreement with the Soviet Union on Friday and unskllled--continues to worsen. for the design and the technology of a chem quantity of a product which must be almost ical plant in the U.S.S.R. completely sold out at the retail level before The $45 million covers the licensing fee it goes into production again, Leubert ex- plained. In addition, the quality of the mer for the technological rights from Monsanto WHBF EDITORIAL and the co.st of design and planning. Con chandise is poor and there appears to be no struction will be handled by Soviet construc quality control at the plants. Also, the prices are very high. There ls no tion ministries. relationship between production cost and Spokesmen for Monsanto and the Lummus HON. TOM RAILSBACK retail price. "We saw Yugoslavian-made ap OF ILLINOIS Co. of Bloomfield, N.J., said the deal was the parel priced way out of line," Leubert said. first between the United States and Russia The mission wasn't permitted to visit a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to involve a completely equipped produc,t;ion Russian apparel plant, but it ls believed the Tuesday, December 4, 1973 plant. Previous deals were for separate pieces of equipment only. plants do have good equipment. The prob- Mr. RAILSBACK. Mr. Speaker, re The deal was concluded with Techmash- lem there, as 1n plants the mission visited 1n cently I had the opportunity to review a Yugoslavia. and Hungary, ls that there is 1.mport, the Soviet agency re.sponsible for im WHBF editorial which was broadcast no knowhow, initiative, planning or utiliza- from Rock Island, m. Because I believe porting technologlcal processes. tion of equipment to the fullest capacity: . . . Under the agreement, the Soviet Union will The u s mission saw no automated sew- there lS a lot of truth In this broadcast, I provide a 10 percent down payment and the lng equl~~ent at sites it visited and be- ~ insert _it in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD rest wlli be financed in the United States. Ueves there a.re- none in any of the Russian immed1ate}y following my remarks for Spokesmen for the two American firms said plants. · the review and interest of my colleagues: December 4, 1973. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39561
ONCE MORE, ONE WORLD they are willing to do their part and guages, and steeped himself in philoso (By Dick Gage) more. But I believe H.R. 11372 is a hasty phies and religious practices. NOVEMBER 27, 1973. and improper fuel conservation measure He was, it must be said, not only a While he labors on th.e fuel shortage, Pres with defects that, in the West, offset any rare human being but a complete man. ident Nixon talks of the years down the road. value. The wiser course would be to rec As the New York Times' December 2 of making the United States self-reliant for ognize regional differences and needs. editorial observed, this giant man of sources of energy in seven years. We trust Unfortunately, under the procedure of mind and courage believed: his thinking also touches eternity, for the suspension of the rules of the House, as Abstract thought and concrete action were hope o! coming generations all over this interdependent qualities of mankind, inex plundered planet lies in cooperative sharing we consider this bill today it cannot be amended. tricable; both were intoxicating, both were of all the resources that are left. fulfilling. Richard Nixon may be the man to get I hope the Senate will review and everybody working on it. amend it to take into account regional _ Mr. Speaker, the Buffalo Evening News He calls his American energy goal for 1980. differences such as those of the West. editorial of December 3 sheds further Project Independence. For the longer pull, light on Ben-Gurion's presence among we in the world are interdependent, each people tied to each other people by the us. At this point, I would like to include shortfall of so many materials that our rav it with my remarks: enous, superproductive society gobbles up. DAVID BEN-GURION: THE COURA BEN-GUBION-SYMBOL OF A NATION Crude oil and natural gas will be gone in GEOUS, EXTRAORDINARY STATES David Ben-Gurion waa Israel~ If any one perhaps 50 years, from all the world. Reserves MAN AND BUILDER OF MODERN man can be said to be the founder of a na of uranium 235 may last only 30 years; cop ISRAEL tion, he was that man. Mr. Ben-Gurion per, lead, zinc and tin, and the precious dreamed of the new land, he proclaimed its meta.ls will run out sooner. In 25 years, we'll birth and he led it as prime minister through be importing more than half of our raw ma HON. JACK F. KEMP its early struggles. Even in retirement, his terials, at frightening prices. _ OF NEW YORK guiding presence continued to be felt. If these dismal prospects are to be well From the age of 19, when he came to handled, all the world must participate. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES troubled Palestine from a Czarist-ruled Pol-' . Mr. Nixon, prideful in his rapport with Tuesday, December 4, 1973 ish town, Mr. Ben-Gurion llved and helped leaders around the globe, is one man who to create the history of IsraeL Like the Bibli· could begin Project Interdependence, an ex Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, Israel has cal David, he fought the giants, struggling ploration of how to preserve the constricting lost a gallant leader with the passing of against the Turks, the British and then the material world for all peoples. We can't think David Ben-Gurion, that brave nation's Arabs. ''Ben-Gurion" means "son of a lion of higher service. first Prime Minister. cub," and that, too, symbolized the spirit of And the world has lost an extraordi those early pioneers. As a young farm hand. nary and respected statesman. he worked in a kibbutz, helping to "make the Few men in contemporary times have desert bloom." and then he oversaw the FIFTY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR transformation of Israel into a modern in· made as great a contribution to human dustrial state. SPEED LIMIT WRONG FOR THE freedom and battled so heroically and WEST His resolute policles were often subject to successfully against such extraordinary controversy, especially his preemptive war in adversities as this great leader. 1956. His desire to triple the population of HON. JOHN MELCHER Ben-Gurion's unrelenting quests for a Israel stirred bitter Arab resentment. Mr. homeland for his people and lasting Ben-Gurlon saw, however, that Israel's final OF MONTANA destiny was to achieve peace with the Arabs. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES peace took varied forms. His efforts turned his dreams into realities. He was "Once we were at peace, and we worked to Tuesday,· December 4, 1973 gether," he recalled recently. a scholar, a skilled political leader, and Israel mourns his death at a time when it Mr. MELCHER. Mr. Speaker, I am a nation builder. also mourns the dead of the latest war and very disappointed in the action by the At an early age, he was imbued with when the nation faces further severe tests House Monday in passing H.R. 11372, his belief in the possibility of establish in the face of gathering Arab military and the Emergency National Maximum ing a Jewish State. diplomatic strength. Israel as a nation re Speed Limit Act, without regard for A native of Plonsk, Russian Poland, he tains his courage and strength of will. That 19 spirit may someday bring the final peace regional differences which might dras was years old when he and several Mr. Ben-Gurion envisioned. ticallY alter the effect of this legislation. friends journeyed to Palestine. Years Under the act, States which do not, which followed, found his footsteps in within 60 days, reduce speed limits on all such lands as Turkey, Great Britain, public highways to 55 miles per hour or the United States, and on the European "MURDER BY HANDGUN: THE CASE less would stand to have projects under Continent as he skillfully labored and FOR GUN CONTROL"-NO. 52 the Federal-Aid Highway Act rejected. organized for creation of a new Promised I oppose this legislation because I a.m not Land. at all certain that any fuel saved will off Finally, on May 14, 1948, he was able HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON set the impractical disadvantaged in to triumphantly proclaim the birth of OF MASSACHUSETTS Montana and other Western States. today's free, modern, and proud Israel. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In Montana, where there are both long. As Premier, Ben-Gurion not only led stretches of flat country with intermit his nation to victory in early battles for Tuesday, December 4, 1973 tent steep grades in moU11-tain areas, no survival and struggled to secure diplo Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, one has shown me where cars or trucks matic recognitions, but he set his fellow Raymond Carter was shot to death in operated for longer periods at 55 miles Israelis upon a course of national devel New York City last month. per hour are going to save more fuel opment which won worldwide respect. Five lines in the New York Times was than those same vehicles running at 60 Men and women put forth old and new his epitaph. or 65. In addition, I believe there ls going skills as farmers-soldiers, technicians, and educators as well as myriad other Nothing can make Raymond Carter's to be considerably worse mileage gotten death worthwhile; but gun control leg by trucks and buses which need more efforts in a nrution-building effort with islation can help prevent similar sense speed to keep from having to gear down out historic parallel. Under Ben-Gurion's less killings. on grades. leadership, Israel grew from a political entity into an enterprise for human dig Included below is the November 11 · Montanans know full well the absolute article from the New York Times: necessity of conserving fuel-whether it nity, superbly conceived with blending ingredients of idealism and practicality. A man fired five shots through the glass is to keep from being stalled on a bar door of a Harlem tavern at 570 Lenox Avenue, ren stretch of highway miles from Mr. Speaker, throughout Ben-Gurion's near 139th Street, at 2:30 a.m., killing Ray shelter, or to heat their homes when the tumultous lifetime, his pursuit for schol mond Carter, 42, of the same address, and outside temperature ls 20 below. And, arship never faltered. He authored more seriously wounding James Jennings, 35, of especially as we face a national crisis, than 15 books, mastered several lan- 176 West 137th Street. CXIX--2491-Part 30 39562 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1973 MINING impending mineral crisis? Because of in millions of .acres of forests destroyed by the creased population and consumer demands, moth in Oregon and Washington.) our mineral needs are rapidly increasing be 4. METAL PRICES OF LEAD AND ZINC yond our reserves. Nevertheless, our Congress HON. DICK SHOUP The Cost of Living Council under Phase IV OF MONTANA and State legislature continues to lock up land necessary for our mineral. needs. The controls the price of zinc at 19.8¢ per lb., IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wilderness Land Grant continues under the while Canadians sell zinc to American con Tuesday, December 4, 1973 direction of people who do not know and sumers at 0.28¢ per lb., and South Americans care less for the impending shortage of receive 0.42¢ per lb. from American consum Mr. SHOUP. Mr. Speaker, at a re minerals. ers--whlle the London meta.I price is 0.50¢ cently held public meeting in Thomp It may be only a warning but I wish to per lb. and, on Nov. 7th, 1973, reached 63.4¢ son Falls, Mont. sponsored by the impress upon my concern of a minerals crisis. per lb. Western Montana Mining Association, I Very little is · known geologically of this How can these government policies be con received several written statements ex area in Sanders County. Considerable ex ducive to a healthy mining industry in the pressing the feelings of the majority of ploration has taken place in the pa.st 10 United States with this kind of fuzzy think yea.rs, however little public· information is ing. The Congress is creating a metal crisis those in attendance. I would like to share within the near future. these thoughts with my colleagues and available to -the geology and - mineral po· tential in this county , on public lands, I 5. PUBLIC LANDS insert them to be printed in the RECORD: would like to see· a crash program by the While federal law states that the Forest PRESENTATION TO CONGRESSMAN SHOUP AT USGS to detail geologic map this pa.rt of Service shall foster and encourage the pros THOMPSON FALLS, MONT., NOVEMBER 20, Montana on a. 7% minute topographic map, pecting, discovery and development of min 1973 this should be a valuable tool in preparation ~ra.ls on federal lands, in most cases the op Congressman SHOUP, la.dies a.nd gentle for renewed exploration when the impend posite 1s true. We need this pointed out to man: On behalf of the Sanders County ing mineral shortage strikes. Time is impor these administrators of the public lands. Chapter of the Western Montana Mining As tant. Remember lag time from discovery to (Example-it took the Hiedelberg Mining sociation I a.m. Art Dettwiles and wish to production of mineral deposits is often 2 to 5 Company nine (9) yea.rs to get a. patented welcome you to this area again and thank yea.rs under the best circumstances. mill site on Rock Creek near Noxon.) you for your attention at previous sessions. It seems ridiculous to have the consumer 6. S.B. 268 AND H.R. 10294 As you are aware, our association has grown "protected" on one hand from increased from a. small group in Beaverhead and Madi prices and possible rationing on the other Both of these proposed pieces of legisla son Counties to over 600 active members in with eur government sponsored regulations. tion are very dangerous to the concept of 18 chapters throughout the State. This sud All this while we maintain a false price freeze private property rights. We oppose both of den growth was attributed to the threat to on metals. We cannot compete on the world these proposed pieces of legislation. We rec our way of life by an anti-business orien market in this manner while we know what ommend that any legislation on land-use tated State government and legislature, ad economic isolation will do to us. Prices go planning encompass the following: verse federal regulations administered by up on minerals because we have a scarcity. 1. Protect (as granted in the constitution) hostile bureaus and adverse attacks on our If we keep prices down artificially we stlfie an individual's right to own property, and industry by environmental groups. The as our domestic exploration and mineral de that it cannot be taken away from him with sociation has become aggressive in present velopment. Let us join the free world market out proper procedure and just coml_'.)ensation. ing our ca.use thru our lobbyist and active a.gain. 2. Encourage and assist the states to for members. We are continuing to grow and In closing I would like to support the mulate and im:i;>lement land-use plans. express our rights thru voting and pub- statement of the Sanders County Chapter of 3. Allocate planning money to the states licity. · the Western Montana. Mining Association. on a fair and equitable basis. I would like to bring to your attention 4. That ea.ch state be guaranteed ·to plan several points of interest and concern to our and imnlement their own land-use plan with SHOUP MEETING, out federal dictate, rules and regulations, or chapter. Thompson Falls, Mont., Nov. 20, 1973. 1. The wilderness area program continues domination. to remove land from our use which this STATEMENT-WESTERN MONTANA M!NiNG Respectfully submitted, AsSOCIATION nation can not afford. We wish to recom· WESLEY W. STEARNS, mend continued multiple use of o·ur lands Honorable Congressman Dick Shoup: The Director, Western Montana Mining As over an excessive lock up policy. Western Montana Mining Association appre sociation. 2. The 1872 mining law still continues to be ciates your meeting with the people of San basically sound and necessary for our future ders County here tonight. mineral needs. We recommend this concept Given this opportunity to make represent be maintained for private ownership instead ative government work, our association ls WALL STREET JOURNAL TO BE of reverting to public ownership of our min presenting a policy statement on the follow ing items for your consideration: PRINTED IN FLORIDA FOR SOUTH erals. It can be shown how mineral explora EAST AREA tion is stifled in other nations where this 1. REVENUE SHARING task was left up to the government. We favor general revenue sharing and the 3. We wish to a.sk you to do everything in present method of distribution to local gov HON. BILL GUNTER your power to help maintain a. healthy ernments. We hope that special revenue smelter industry. If we should lose our smelt sharing can be distributed under the same OF FLORIDA ers In this State and other States, the mining formula.. We oppose the regional concept of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES industry will be crippled in the same manner government in the United States and the Tuesday, December 4, 1973 the oil industry ls through shutdowns of re various states. It tends to destroy the federal, fineries and a consequent fuel shortage. state, local government concept, but worse Mr. GUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I want to 4. This chapter and Its members strongly yet, it gives people who are not duly elected bring to the attention of my colleagues recommend return to private gold ownership by the people too much authority in decision the opening of a new printing plant by by our citizens. We only wish to be allowed making, usually through rules and regula.. Dow Jones & Co., publishers for the Wall to be free to own gold as other free people tions-(not law). in the world and not be treated as second Street Journal in Orlando, Fla. As a cla.ss citizens. 2. GAS RATIONING representative of .central Florida, I am 5. In addition we feel the restrictions by The Congress through its actions, and in very pleased that my State will be able our bureaus of Issuing pa.tents for mineral certain cases inaction, created the energy to receive this fine publication the day it lands ls wrong. A policy of allowing private crisis, therefore we oppose any additional is published. I know the benefit that all ownership of mineral lands is urged. fuel tax reverting to the federal govern ment. the people of Florida will derive from 6. Again I wish to thank you for your this, and I welcome this addition to the attentive ear and becoming more a.ware of 3. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION A~ news community of the Southeast. our needs in Congress. Far too much power was given this govern I am enclosing the announcement of ment agency by the Congress. We recom this development which appeared re KNuTE KmKEBERG, mend that this a.ct be a.mended to: Thompson Hall, Mont., A. Create a better balance between the cently in the Wall Street Journal: November 20, 1973. economy and jobs, and the environment. (From the Wall Street Journal, Nov. 29, 1973) Congressman Shoup, ladies and gentle· B. That the environmentalists who insti WALL STREET JOURNAL PLANS PRINTING PLANT men: My name 1s Knu~ Kirkeberg. I am a tute legal action to delay projects, be made To SERVE SOUTHEAST--FACILITY AT ORLANDO, miner and a member of the Western Mon- . to furnish bond to help pay !or delayed costs FLA., SLATED FOR OPERATION IN EARLY 1975, tana. Mining Association. on unsuccessful cases. WILL BE 10TH PRINTING CENTER Today we are suddenly aware of an energy C. That the agency be held responsible for NEW YoRK.-Dow Jones & Co., publisher of crisis, but how many of you are aware of an their irresponsible decisions. (Example- The Wall Street Journal, bought 6.7 acres of December 4, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF-REMARKS 39563 land ln Orlando, Fla.• for the construction of It is perhaps particularly appropriate The shipments to Venezuela. and to the a new printing plant. that Millard Fillmore's marker should Netherlands Antilles represent oil moved to The facility is expected to be completed by be situated in the Old House Chaml,>er, these areas for the purposes of diluting crude late 1974 and in operation early in 1975. Land, oil to enable it to be moved and to reduce the building, and equipment costs will exceed $2 as it was during his Presidential term sulphur content of residual fuel oil. In each million, the company said. that the cornerstone was laid for the case the mixture was moved to the ea.st coast The Orlando plant, the 10th Journal print present location of the House Chamber, of the United States. We have no special ing center in the U.S., will be used to service and that the first known photograph of knowledge of the shipment to Japan, but its subscribers in Florida and other parts of the the Capitol was taken. small size indicates it was a special situation. Southeast. Ten million people a year visit our Na The shipments to Mexico follow a histori "We expect the Orlando plant to make tion's Capitol to see firsthand the site of cal pattern and are probably cross border prompt, morning-of-publication delivery pos the legislative branch of their Govern trade. The shipments to Europe occurred in sible for our many subscribers in Florida and the last two months and are of more concern. nearby states, and also to permit expansion ment. Historic Statuary Hall always can It is estimated that exports of all types of Journal circulation in the Southeast," be found filled with visitors studying the petroleum products during 1973 will be ap George W. Flynn, Dow Jones• vice president names and statues of the States' fore proximately 237,000 B/D. The United States operations, said. ..Subscribers in the area most citizens. It is most fitting that we imported approxim.a.tely 4.7 million barrels now have their papers flown in from our add the markers for the nine Members daily during 1972 and absent the Arab em plants in the Northeast, and because of the who also served in the executive branch bargo would have imported about 6.5 million distance and sometimes uncertain air and and so, in the words of the House report barrels per day during 1973. Of the 237 ,000 postal service, delivery is often delayed and accompanying House Resolution 605, B/D exported approximately 40 percent is erratic." coke and 18 percent 1s lubricating oil. A sub The Journals in the Orlando plant would "greatly enrich the Capitol itself and the stantial fraction is residual fuel oil of which be printed through the use of a. long-range experiences of the millions of Americans much has a high sulphur content. AU these facsimile transmission system originating, who visit it." latter commodities are surplus to the U.S. re under current plans, in Chicopee, Mass. A quirements. Goss Metro offset press, capable of producing Most of the quantities exported are surplus 60,000 papers an hour, will be installed in the to U.S. needs because of the nature of the new plant. product or the export follows a historical The plant will be located in Orlando Cen STOPPING PETROLEUM EXPORTS pattern. We believe these exports should be tral Park, an industrial development within continued. Also, in view of the fact that the the city. United States ls a substantial net importer of Dow Jones also publishes The National Ob HON. LOUIS C. WYMAN petroleum and petroleum. products any deci server, Barron's financial weekly, and the sion to restrict exports should receive very Dow Jones News Service. A subsidiary, Otta OF NEW HAMPSHmE careful consideration, because it would be in way Newspapers Inc., publishes 12 general IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES advisable to invite retaliation. clrculation dailies and five Sunday news Monday, December 3, 1973 The small volume of exports of products papers. that are apparently not surplus to U.S. needs Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, recent news have not as yet reached a volume constituting accounts of continuing U.S. petroleum a threat to U.S. supply; however, any ex-· PRESIDENT MILLARD FILLMORE exports have given rise to increasing port of this type for the purpose of profiteer STATUARY concern among my .constituents who are ing should not be permitted. Although no OF BUFFALO: HALL procedure presently exists which would per MARKER REMARKS OF MR. being asked to reduce oil consumption. At mit us to directly prohibit such exports, we DULSKI a time when thermostats are being lower are reviewing the possibility of using the ed, automobile trips curtailed. and the Mandatory Allocation Program to discourag~ possibility of gas rationing being dis such exports. HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI cussed, many ask why the United states If anything further is needed, please let OF NEW YORK is supplying scarce petroleum to others. us know. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES As is pointed out in the following mate Sincerely yours, J. RoY GOODEABLE, Tuesday, December 4, 1973 rial from the Office of Oil and Gas and Associate Director. the Energy Division of the Cost of Liv Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I am very ing Council, some of the exported crude pleased with the approval of legislation HEATING On. ExPORTS-A 8TuDY PREPAJtED BY oil is returned to the United States as a THE ENERGY DIVISION, -OFFICE OF PRICE STA to authorize suitable markers in the floor refined product. Other petroleum exports BILIZATION COST OF LIVING COUNCU. of Statuary Hall for location of the desks are said to be genuinely surplus to do SUMMARY of nine former Members of the House of mestic needs. Representatives who became President. The available statistics combine No. 2 There is no denying the fact, how heating oil, No. 4 heating oil and light diesel The Honorable Millard Fillmore, who ever, that the United States does export fuel, all of which are cat.egorized together served in the 23d, 25th, 26th, and 27th a quantity of oil at a time when Ameri in the U.S. Government Schedule "B" of Congresses before becoming our 13th can citizens are being asked to do with Classifications. Statistics for No. 2 heatlng oil President, was from the district I have out. This is wrong. are not segregated, within the Schedule "B" the privilege of representing. Accordingly, I have introduced legis Classification. A self-educated man, Millard Fillmore The Comparative Analysis includes: lation to require a ban on all on exports (1) Domestic distillate production was apprenticed to a wool carder and unless the President determines that the clothdresser at the age of 15. He taught (2) Volume of distillate reports particular exported product is surplus (3) Sales value of exports school at Scott, N.Y., before being ad to United States needs. I urge my col (4) The average price per barrel of ex- mitted to the bar in 1823. He served in leagues on the House Banking and Cur ports the New York State Assembly and then rency Committee to consideration of this ( 5) Port of export was elected to the U.S. House of Repre bill as a matter of priority. (6) Destination sentatives. During the Mexican War he The report to me from the Office of Oil The available statistics do not segregate commanded a corps of Home Guard, exports which return to the United States and Gas and my bill are of relevance to after foreign processing. and was New York State controller from an understanding of this problem: 1848 to 1849. Federal Regulations do not allow U.S. Cen U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, sus Bureau, the agency responsible for this Elected to the second highest office in OFFICE OF OIL AND GAS, information. to divulge the identity of the the land on the ticket with Zachary Tay Washington, D.C. firms involved in these transactions. lor, Fillmore was sworn in as President Hon. Lours C. WYMAN. The export statistics from 1969 through less than a year and a half later, upon House of Representatives, August 1973 were included in this report Taylor's untimely death. · Washington, D.O. in order to compare tl;>.e 1973 projection to After completing his term of office in DEAR MR. WYMAN: Thank you for your let historical data.. the White House, he returned to Buffalo ter of November 14. 1973, concerning exports An analysis o! the available data reveals: where he was chancellor of the Univer- of petroleum. products. ( 1) That although projected 1973 totals. We have been watching very closely the re sity of Buffalo and resumed his law prac.. will more than double 1972 totals, a com ports of exports of distillates. The attached parison including the historical base reveals tice. He ls burled at Forest Lawn Ceme news release indicates . tlie quantities ex that .1972 was a depressed year in volume o:r: tery in Buffalo. ported aJld the receiving countries. ba.rrels.. · · 39564 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1973 (2) That since 1972 was a depressed year Since our average consumption of distil Does any other country in the world have in volume, the 1978 increase as compared lates ls 2,730,000 barrels daily it is re1:1,dily a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the to 1972 appears to be a return to a his apparent from the foregoing export statistics Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 10? torical export level. that we are discussing a volume that ls more If so, y;hy don't they fly them? Why do (8) That since 1973 volumes do not ex than 800,000 barrels less than our average all the international lines except Russia fly ceed historical volumes, while 1978 prices daily consumption. American planes? do, the 1973 volume appears to be a contin Why does no other land on earth even H.R. 11684 consider putting a man or woman on the· uation of transactions with an historical moon? foundation. A bill to amend the Export Administration Act of 1969, to prohibit the export of oil You t alk about Japanese technocracy, and (4) That distillates amount to approxi from the United States until the Presi you get radios. You talk about German tech mately 22% of the U.S. refinery production dent determines that oil is no longer in nocracy, and you get automoblies. and that our annual export totals during the short supply You talk about American technocracy, and period studied range from .04 % to .2 % of Be it enacted by the Senate and House you find men on the moon-not once but the distillate production. of .Representatives of the United States of several times-and safely home again. (5) That each of the annual distillate ex America in Congress asse11_1.bled, That the Ex . You talk about scandals, and the Ameri cans put theirs right in .the store window port totals for the period studied are sub port Administration Act of 1969 (60 U.S.C. for everybody to look at. · App. 2401 et seq.) ls amended by redesignat stantially less than an average day's con Even their draft dodgers are not pursued sumption of distillates in the U.S. ing sections 10 through 14 as sections 11 through 15, respectively, and by inserting and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them-unless they are breaking ANALYSIS; DISTILLATE EXPORT VOLUMES FROM 1969 immediately after section 9 the following; Canadian laws-are getting American· dol THROUGH AUGUST 1973 AND A PROJECTION FOR THE "on, EXPORT PROHIBITION lars from Ma and Pa at home to spend ENTIRE YEAR 1973 "SEC. 10. (a) Notwithstanding any other here .. . . provisions of this Act and except as pro When the railways of France, Germany Volume Total Average vided by subsection (b), no oil may be ex and India were breaking down through age, Year (barrels) value per barrel ported from the United States until the it was the Americans who rebuilt them. President determines that it is not in short When the Penn Central Railroad went broke, 1969 ____ . --- ._ ·---- · 1, 859, 825 $6,567,645 $3.53 supply in the United States. nobody loaned it an old caboose. It is still 1970 __ ------1, 444, 525 4,329,902 3.00 "(b) The prohibition on the export of oil broke. 1971 __ ------1, 858,471 7, 909,468 4.25 described in subsection (a) shall not apply I can name you 5,000 times when the 1972 ___ ------448,433 1, 797, 960 4.01 January to August to oil exports to Canada and Mexico." Americans raced to the help of other people 1973 ______..; 850,067 4, 934, 185 5.80 in trouble. Can you name me even one time Projection 1973 ______1, 275, 101 7, 401, 278 5.80 when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even PERCENTAGE RELATIONSHIP OF 1973 TO EACH OF THE AMERICA THE GENEROUS during the San Francisco earthquake. PRECEDING Our neighbors have faced it alone, and (In percent) I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of HON. HAROLD V. FROEHLICH hearing them kicked around. OF WISCONSIN They wm come out of this thing with Dollar IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Volume Total average their flag high. And when they do, they Year barrels value P.er barrel Tuesday, December 4, 1973 are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. Mr. FROEIIlJ:CH. Mr. Speaker, re I hope Canada is not one of these. 1973/1969 ____ ;. ___ ..;_~ 69 113 164 1973/1970 ______..; 88 171 · 193 cently one of my constituents sent me 1973/1971-. ______..; 69 94 136 1973/1972.______..; 284 the text of an editorial broadcast by Mr. 412 145 Gordon Sinclair of Toronto. It contains an important message for Americans who E-BONDS AS AN INVESTMENT MONTHLY VOLUME FOR JANUARY- AUGUST 1973 are obsessed and disheartened by our present difficulties. HON. EDITH GREEN Average As we look to the future, we cannot Volume price rest on our laurels. But we should not OF OREGON Month barrels per barrel paralyze ourselves with guilt or pessi- IN TIIE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mism. America is a great country. Let us Tuesday, December 4, 1973 January_------256, 618 $5. 01 not forget it. February.------..; 22,495 6.66 Mrs. GREEN of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, March ______· 4,429 3.95 The editorial follows: 123, 012 6.05 an article has recently been sent to me Apri'------· A.MERICA THE GENEROUS May •• ------ 5, 586 4.43 by a constituent suggesting it would be June.-----. ------• ------196, 928 5.80 (By Gordon Sinclair) of general interest. It concerns U.S. Gov July ____ ------40, 926 5.44 August. •• ______200, 073 6. 73 This Canadian thinks it is time to speak ernment E-bonds. up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on Thousands of middle-income Ameri PERCENTAGE RELATIONSHIP OF THE EXPORT VOLUMES TO all the earth. cans are told by the Federal Government DISTILLATE PRODUCTION Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, each year that E-bonds are a good eco Britain and Italy were lifted out of the de nomic investment. They buy them ex Average bris of war by the Americans who poured pecting a reasonable return in their re Percent percent in billions of dollars and forgave other bil tirement years. Export of total distillate lions in debts. None of these countries ls to At this point in the RECORD I will in volume distillates of refiners day paying even the interest on its remain Year barrels produced produced sert the article prepared by the Boston ing debts to the United States. Consulting Group, an organization spe When the franc was in danger of collap 1971______;; 22.05 cializing in management and corporate 1972 ______1, 858, 471 0.2 sing in 1956, it was the Americans who prop 448,433 .04 22. 21 ped it up, and their reward was to be insulted consulting and planning: January/Jt1ne 1973 ______..; 609, 068 .1 22.30 and swindled on the streets of Paris. THE E-BOND AS AN INVESTMENT I was there. I saw it. The E-Bond is the U. S. Savings Bond for When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, the average person. He ls being mistreated. DESTINATION AND PORTS 1973 EXPORTS 1t is the United States that hurries in to The E-Bond is represented as a good invest help.... This spring, 59 American commu ment. It is not, it is one of the worst. Busi Volume nities (were) flattened by tornadoes. No nesses, banks, advertising media and busi Month Destination, port barrels body helped. nessmen are drafted to donate their services The Marshall Plan a.nd the Truman Policy to plug E-Bonds a.s a. "good investment." The pumped billions upon billions of dollars into power of the government 1s used to con the January _- - ~:t~~~a~d~e~~tiii!:,X-Galvesfo-n~:: iii: Mi discouraged countries. Now newspapers in common man. That ls immoral. It is not Tex. April______Mexico, Galveston, Tex ______.: 113, 647 those countries are writing about the de truth in advertising. . Denmark, Port Arthur, Tex ______cadent, warmongering Americans. E-Bonds pay far less interest than most June ______Mexico, Galveston, Tex______128, 695 I'd like to see just one of those countries government bonds. They pay far less than Japan, Seattle, Wash______60, 000 that is gloating over the erosion of the the prime rate. They pay far less than certifi August_ ___ Panama, Port Arthur, Tex ______..: 49, 228 Denmark, Port Arthur, Tex______148, 221 United States dollar build its own aµ-planes. cates of deposit. They pay less than any of Come on, let's hear it! the investments available to a larger or more December 4, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39565 knowledgeable investor. The E-Bond appears vised a project that will do its part in for energy increase or even stay the sattle, to be deliberate discrimination against the alleviating those three se.rious situations. our supply of fuels is either diminishing or small investor. The project in question is a recycling growing at an insufficient rate. There is much concern at present about What are the sources of energy? pensions for the average man. If he cannot center started by students at the Cana There are numerous sources of energy. save enough for his own old age, then in daigua Academy in the Ontario County These include evitably he becomes dependent on corporate community of Canadaigua. The center FOSSIL FUELS (NON-RENEWABLE) 2 pension plans or the government. If_ he is was opened years ago and has been a Oil-One of the most common fuel sources. self-employed, he really has little chance to total success. Coal-A fuel source of which there is a help himself. E-Bonds are a natural way That success and the continued op substantial supply. Until the past two dec for him to save for his retirement on his own eration of the center have been made ades this was one of the most common initiative. Yet E-Bonds pay less than infla tion plus the minimum income tax on their possible only by student involvement. The sources of energy. However, since coal burn income. It should not be necessary to be de center is entirely student-run. Residents ing has a severe effect on the environment pendent on either bureaucracy or corporate of the area, many coming from as much its use has been increasingly limited. largesse in retirement. as 15 or 20 miles away, bring their paper, Natural Gas--A low polluting source of Justice can be done. There can be truth to energy but one which has an extremely metal, and glass waste the miniplant. limited supply. in advertising. The E-Bond could be a good The students sort the garbage into sepa Propane Gas--An artificially produced gas investment. The average man and woman rate containers and then transport it to which is also in limited supply. could be permitted to provide for their larger factories and plants in the area own retirement income. Fair play and the OTHER ENERGY SOURCES good of the country as well as morality can where it is recycled. Solar Energy-This is energy from the be served by changing the E-Bond to make The plants pay the students for that sun. Since it is free and non-polluting it is 1t a good investment. Saving instead of delivery and so many have been made, potentially an ideal fuel source. spending is also the most potent of all wea the center has been able to buy a new Geothermal Energy-This is produced by pons against inflation. dump truck. natural heat created beneath the earth's The E-Bond should pay the highest in The students are to be congratulated surf.ace (the same type of heat which creates terest rate of any government bond or gov for their initiative and resourcefulness. volcanos and geysers). It results in little ernment backed bond. Why not? Who de It appears the center will continue to ex pollution but potentially damaging effects serves it more than the small investor? to the sub-surface of the earth a.re not fully E-Bonds should be tax exempt if they are pand and thus better serve the commu known. not cashed until after retirement age. Why nity. Hydro-electric Power-This is power cre not? Is there any reason to tax retirement Also to be congratulated are the prin ated by water and harnessed through the use or pensions? cipal of Canadaigua Academy, John Wil of dams. Much of our electricity is produced There is now a limit to the value of cox, and the faculty adviser for the proj this way. E-Bonds that can be owned by a person. Its ect, Stephen Austin, who teaches ecology Many environmentalists feel that it causes investment value is limited to the average at the academy. They can take a large damage to the natural life cycles of many person, not the well-to-do. E-Bonds are reg :fish and animals. istered in the name of the owner. E-bonds measure of credit for the success of the Nuclear power-There are several sources should be not only the safest but the best in project because of their encouragement of nuclear energy that are now in use or are vestment for· retirement in the full meaning and counsel to the students. being developed. Generally nuclear energy is of best investment. They should be the efficient and clean although the fuel sources cornerstone of everyone's personal retirement such as Uranium and Plutonium are rela planning to the limit permitted for each tively scarce. Environmentalists are con person by law. To justify this, the present EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANT cerned about the vast quantities of water E-Bond would require radical improvement. ED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ENERGY used to cool traditional nuclear plants. This Perhaps the name as well as the terms water is often returned at higher tempera of E-Bonds should be changed. They started CRISIS AND WERE AFRAID TO tures which can effect the ecological balance life as War Bonds. Now they are Retirement ASK . in rivers. Experimental techniques such as Bonds. They should be made worthy of their the Nuclear Breeder Reactor and Thermo purpose. nuclear fusion could eliminate some of these Current interest rates (August 1973) HON. SAMUEL H. YOUNG problems. OF ll.LINOIS Chemical sources--These include fuel cells, Yield IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES commonly known as batteries where· chemi Percent cal energy is oonverted into electrical energy. E-Bonds ------5Y2 Tuesday, December 4, 1973 Savings Bank, 90 day deposits______53,4 Increasing use of fuel cells ( e.g. to power automobiles) has been developing. Savings certificates of First Federal of Mr. YOUNG of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, How can I help conserve energy? Lowell, Mass Five Year ______7.93 all of us in the Congress are receiving Everyone can do their share in conserving Six Year ______8.17 many requests from citizens in our dis energy by cutting down on unnecessary en Seven Year ______8. 43 tricts asking for suggestions as to what ergy-consuming activities and through better Prime Rate______9%, individuals can do to ease the energy utilization of existing sources. How can I use less energy in heating and Three Month Treasury Notes______8. 9 shortage. The attitude of cooperation Treasury 4's, 1980 February ______7. 55 that I find among the citizens of the cooling my home? U.S. Notes, 6% %, 1980 May ______7. 55 10th Illinois Oongressional District is A large portion of all energy used in the United States is consumed for heating and World Bank, 4%, %, 1980 November____ 8. 05 inspiring, and I am sure that other Con FNMA, 6.8%, 1975 September______8. 22 cooling homes and offices. Savings in fuel and gressmen are receiving the same com money could be made if the following tech AT&T, 83,4 %, 2000------8. 3 ments and requests, and that they are niques were used: Litton, 83,4 %, 1976------9. 4 similarly inspiring. Cutting heat loss through insulation-As Westinghouse, 8% %, 1995______8. 4 In to much as 30 % of fuel costs are lost through U.S. Treasury Notes, 7~ %, May 1974__ 8. 7 order be specific, members of my staff and myself collaborated to prepare heat that escapes through leaks and cracks BRUCE D. HENDERSON. the following document, which I would in windows, doors and other openings. This can be prevented by insulation, weather like to share with my colleagues: stripping, use of storm windows, and caulk EVERYTHING You ALWAYS WANTED To KNow ing. STUDENTS INITIATE RECYCLING ABOUT THE ENERGY CRISIS AND WERE AFRAID Close fireplace openings when not in use. CENTER To ASR Lower thermostats to 68 during the day and What is the Energy Crisis and why does it 60 at night. exist? To conserve air conditioning in the sum · The "energy crisis" is a critical shortage mer, light fixtures should be turned off where HON. WILLIAM F. WALSH of the basic fuels needed to provide power possible, draperies (preferably light colored OF NEW YORK for the machines that perform work for to repeal sunlight) should be closed, and mankind. Consumption of energy in the windows shaded from direct sunlight by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES United States is the highest in the world. awnings or trees. Tuesday, December 4, 1973 We use 35% of the world's total energy How about transportation? Can use of although we only comprise 6% of the world's eµergy be cut down? Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, in this world population. Unfortunately, energy demands · Americans are highly mobile people and of the three big crise~nergy, ecology, have been outpacing fuel supplies for some a great amount of all energy is consumed and economy-it is refreshing to ·learn tfrne, but many persons have only become by transportation. There are many ways you that a group of young people have de- aware of this quite recently. As our needs can help: 39566 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS · December 4, 19 73
· Form car pools. OSHA Bade cited OSHA regulations which not Use public transportation where possible. (By R. D. Patrick Ma.honey) only contradicted previous national stand Switch to a smaller car. A car weighing ards-such as those of the NFPA-but which 5,000 lbs. generally uses more fuel than a The statement by Congressman Charles Thone (R-Neb.), quoted in the Tribune's Oc also would result in the closure of oil storage compact car. Air conditioning and other plants or bulk plants located througp. mid power accessories use up more gasoline en tober 17 Occupational Safety and Health Act article, deserves repeating here: "It seems America and the South. ergy than cars without. In Bade's plant alone, according to Counsel Drive slower. As speed increases, so does that most of them (the Congressmen) couldn't make a. living back home ~der the Potvin, complla.nce with the regulations fuel consumption. The increase ls most sig "would necessitate his moving his entire nificant at speeds over 50 MPH for autos. laws they passed when they were back here in Congress. I think OSHA might be plant and building a new one, and it would Do not race your engine, accelerate slowly cost not less than $40,000. As a somewhat and turn the car off while waiting for more Exhibit A in that regard." Graham Purcell, former Democratic Con typical small Jobber, I think that gives you than a few minutes. a grasp of the order of magnitude we are Have your car tuned up and air filter gressman from Texas' Thirteenth District, has stated before the Select Committee on talking a.bout here." changed periodically. Keep tires properly in Then it was Barbe's turn. His testimony flated. Small Business: "Hidden officials within an executive department have worked their a-s an insurance man-was particularly ger Do home appliances use up much energy? mane because it has been the insurance How can this be helped? mysterious ways on it (OSHA), however, and turned it into a monster. We can put a. stop companies which have had to pay for the Home appliances use considerable energy. small businessmen's losses for failure to com Americans, due to our high standard of liv to it, and toward that end I respectfully urge t.ais subcommittee to move with all haste." ply with OSHA regulations. It is interesting ing and high degree of technology, have to note here that in his research, Barbe dis more electrical and gas powered appliances Bob Price, Republican Congressman from covered that 51 standards-with which OSHA than any other country. The next time you Texas' Eighteenth District who originally stated small businesses must comply-were use a.n appliance, ask yourself if the Job voted for OSHA, later reversed himself and not available. In fa.ct, Barbe noted, when could be done effectively without. In new testified against the Occupational Safety and Senator Curtis of Nebraska (who had ac purchases consider manual appllances (lawn Health Act on behalf of some eighteen oil cess to the entire fac11itles of the Library movers, toothbrushes, sciSsors, etc.) . Energy a.nd gas companies representing several thou of Congress) began to look for the regula used for major appliances such as washers sand small businessmen. It was his conten tions, he ca.me back with a. stack of OSHA and dishwashers can be conserved by wait tion that the countless regulations listed. in standards 48 .inches high. The Library of ing for full loads and using cold water cycles. OSHA would cause severe unemployment Congress, which ls responsible for reta.ining Gas powered appliances use less energy than and costly expenditures by small businesws every regulation that ever originated in gov electrical ones. Frost-free and double door in efforts to comply with regulations-regu ernment, could only come up with two refrigerators consume more energy than re lations which represented an almost total thirds of them. In fact, one of the OSHA frigerators without such conveniences. lack of knowledge of business operations on standards had been out of print since 1989 ! How else can energy be saved? the part of the administrators and enfor~ers. Barbe further observed: "The law includes Fluorescent lights are more efficient and Price further stated, referring to the men all small business people, but it does not last as much as 5 times longer than con he represented: "These men know more in include the federal government. When we ventional lighting. All non-essential light five minutes about the requirements than made these points that the Department of ing can be restricted. some of these field men that OSHA ls sending Labor, the Post Office Department, the fed Recycling of materials saves energy since out that a.re inexperienced, yet are threaten eral buildings, and a.II these buildings, do it takes less energy to recycle a product such ing these people with regulations in a rude not comply with the federal laws, the small a.s paper or aluminum than to manufacture manner." business people reacted very strongly in that it originally. By buying recycled products The prohibitive cost of refurbishing oil they have a police state telling them what to you are encouraging the conservation of en equipment to conform to OSHA standards is do but they don't even comply with the laws ergy a.swell as raw materials. best illustrated by an examination of one themselves." Be a discerning consumer. Avoid products particular OSHA regulation. This section re Barbe's statement ls quite accurate. In the that wear out quickly if a longer lasting quires that all cast iron valves on oil storage spring and summer of 1972, visitors to the substitute is available. Avoid unnecessary tanks be replaced with steel valves. Compli Cannon House Office Building noticed the power operated accessories on appliances ance with this regulation would mean that complete lack of propriety and safety. as and automobiles. Compare energy consump thousands upon thousands of these valves workers sand-blasted the Congressional Of tion of products you buy and ask dealers would have to be replaced-at a cost esti fice Building-with no guard rails, as work and manufacturers to provide this informa mated by Congressman Price of from $10 to men stood on wooden planks with question tion for you. $10,000 for ea.ch valve--despite the fact that able rope support and afforded practically no Man created the energy crisis and man these parts have absolutely no bearing on protection to either pedestrians or automo can solve it--through his own source of en safety. biles from the filthy sand permeating the air. ergy--creative energy. The most damning testimony on the Oc The cafeteria. in the Longworth House Of Investigate and support efforts to save en cupational Safety and Health Act ca.me on fice Building basement has some question ergy in your community: June 21, 1972, when there appeared before able health standards of its own; it's often a Burning of municipal trash is a poten the Select Committee on Small Business standoff to see who gets more food, the tial source of heat and electricity, that is Charles A. Bade, president of the Missouri cockroaches or the customers. currently being utilized in Europe and at 011 Jobbers Association; Gregg Potvin, Gen Subpart J, Section 1910.141 (c) (11) of the least one U.S. city. era.I Counsel of the National Oil Jobbers OSHA regulations states: "Toilet facilities so Schools, hospitals and other large faclli Council; and Lewis Barbe, then vice presi located that employees must use more than ties that generate their own electricity can dent of the Loss Control Division of Hous one floor-to-floor flight of stairs to or from recapture waste heat from the genera.ting ton Genera.I Insurance Company in Fort them are not considered readily accessible." If process to be utilized to heat its own build Worth. an agent from OSHA were to pay a visit to the ings. Barbe's testimony, dealing with conclu Library of Congress, he would have to come Certain procedures are available to con back with penalty papers in hand, as em vert organic wastes to gas and oil. sions gathered both from painstaking per sonal research and from a safety expert, was ployees there must make it up or down two Support efforts to study development and flights of stairs. particularly incriminating. Bade's 011 Job use of other sources of energy. Barbe's excerpts continued: "An employer Promote recycling efforts by ta.king news bers Council represented 75 % of all fuel does not have a chance to face his accusers. papers and bottles to recycling centers. oil sales and one-third of all auto Under the Department of Labor money, I motive gasoline sales in America. On behalf teach for the University of Minnesota. I teach of all the small businessmen-numbering basically union employees. I do not and have OSHA some 156,000--Bade commended the chair not received money to teach small busi man of the Select Committee on Small Bus nesses ... We do this at our own cost and HON. 0. C. FISHER iness for "leading this move to protect the raise our own funds. But the Department of nation's small businessmen against the un Labor grants money to train union em OF TEXAS warranted and ruinously expensive require ployees and provides the materials to teach IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments of the Occupational Safety and Health a.n employee basically how to file a complaint Tuesday, December 4, 1973 Administration requirements." in secrecy against his employer. This is not Ba.de noted that under the mandate of right ... We requested copies of the train Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, under leave OSHA, the Secretary of Labor was to set ing material from the Department of Labor to extend my remarks, I include a sec safety standards as promulgated by a na and what they gave to their inspectors and ond in a serie~ of thrte articles on OSHA, tionally recognized standards-producing or how to interpret these stanµards .. They de written by R. D. Patrick Mahoney, which ganization such as the National Fire Protec nied us this material ... said it was secret appeared in the November 7, 1973, issue tion Association. The NFPA had issued stand and confidential. If I or any other safety of the Texas Tribune. The article fol ards which Bade and thQSe he represented engineer recommended a change in work lows: had followed to the letter. environment, it is basic, fundamental and December 4, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39567 primary that we would do a system safety inspector who penalized him didn't even ing t he Time for which he was elected, be cost analysis. Why didn't the Department of have a copy of the federal regulation Gadar appointed to any civil Office under the Au Labor do such a study when they knew it ian violated-nor were any available. thority of the United States, which shall have was part of the recognized safety procedure? Concerning the 95 % of the small business been created, or the emoluments whereof "As an explicit example, take the regu men who don't appeal the decisions of the having been encreased durtng such time; ... lation on toilet sea.ts. The cost to change OSHA inspectors, the following testimony of The Congress increased the emoluments of toilet sea.ts has not been rescinded and will Walter Gerson, Director, Government Rela the Vice Presidency in P.L. 93-136 which cost us a. quarter of a billion dollars. (Ed. tions for the National Association of Plumb became effective on October 24, 1973. Accord note: This regulation states that all toilet ing-Heating-Cooling, is quite revealing: ingly, the clause quoted above on its face sea.ts that are round must be changed to "On one day we are told all about the ap bars Congressman Ford, and every other those with open fronts.) I persona.Uy was peals procedure that must be employed by a Congressman or Senator, from being ap told by underwriters at Lloyds of London contractor who feels that he has been un pointed to that office during his or her pres that they cannot insure against the whims fairly cited. On the same day we receive a ent term in the legislature. It may be that of the law enforcement officials at the De news release from the Occupational Safety the constitutional prohibition can be avoided partment of Labor. and Health Review Commission in which by legislative action repealing the increase "There is a purposeful, willful, malicious Chairman Robert D. Moran triumphantly in benefits; after such a. repeal, it is argu inflation of the accident statistics to indict proclaims that of 25,000 employers who have able, though not clear, that the office of the business and industry. If a. girl who is work been cited, 95 % have voluntarily paid the Vice Presidency would not be one whose ing in an office cuts her finger on a. piece of proposed penalty. He goes on to cite this as emoluments have been increased during the pa.per, and she cannot use that finger for the proof of the fairness of the Review Com present term.1 rest of the day, the employer has to fill out a mission's fair handling. We choose to believe First, a Vice President selected in the supplemental form, post it to a. log, and post that the fact that more firms do not appeal is manner set forth in the 25th Amendment is that to a summary. a function of their total confusion and de "appointed" within the meaning of the "La.st, but not least, why does the area spair. Certainly this is analogous to a local clause. The primary purpose of the clause director in Dallas make press releases and traffic court, where one rarely wins. Let's not was to preserve the independence of the legis call a TV news interview two days before the credit the Review Commission with this phe lature; the term "separation o!" powers" was employer even receives his citation? Does nomenon. During the first ten months of the invoked in the debates. The Framers sought not this destroy confidence in the law for current fiscal year, proposed penalties have to avoid the risk that Congressmen or Sena. small businesses . • . ?" amounted to a cool $1,711,995, representing tors might tailor their votes to the Presi In the first of his series of articles on 75,864 alleged violations in 18,449 citations." dent's wishes, in an effort to obtain desirable OSHA, mention was made of the Big Brother This phase closes as the nightmare of appointments for themselves. That risk tactic of "two steps forward and one back OSHA slowly reaches the lesser but still obviously J.las no application to an office ward." Perhaps legislators should recall the bothersome stage of insomnia. which is :filled, by elections, as the Vice justifl.ed pleading of Barbe in his concluding Presidency ordinarily is. Now that the Vice testimony before the Select Committee on President may be selected by the President Small Business: "Therefore, gentlemen, rather than by the electorate, however, the please stop what is going on and let's all MR. FORD AND THE EMOLUMENTS office becomes a prize within the power of the take two steps backward and abolish what CLAUSE Executive to confer, presenting precisely the we have done. And then take one step for same threat to legislative independence as ward and ~redo everything with logic and any other appointed office. reason. In other words, stop what is going on HON. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN It is true that the 25th Amendment pro and go back and do it correctly and fairly OF NEW YORK vides that the President shall "nominate" with common sen_se." · rather than "appoint" the Vice President, Enter from stage left, the personages from IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES subject to confirma.yion of the nominee by a Washington who administer OSHA-the Sec Tuesday, December 4, 1973 majority of both Houses of Congress. Never retary and the Chairman of the Review Com theless, the President's role in this process mission. First, Assistant Secretary of Labor Ms. HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, a ques is precisely the same as his role in the for OSHA George C. Guenther, who attempt tion has been raised about whether the selection of ambassadors and other officers ing to rebut 400 pages of opposing testimony, emoluments clause of the Constitution who a.re universally regarded as "appointed": stated: "This is a most difficult thing to get article I, section 6-will bar GERALD R. the President makes the initial selection, across to people, the approach that is low and that selection is subject to legislative key, responsible, reasonable, helpful, and at FORD from assuming the Vice-Presidency if confirmed by Congress. approval. While the President's selections the same time makes the point that the Wil must be confirmed by a majority of both liams-Steiger Act is here to stay and em This term, Congress passed Public Law ployers must make it their business to be 93-136, effective October 24, 1973, which Houses :n the case of the Vice President, and come more familiar . . . as cases are con by 2/ 3 of the Senate in the case of other raised certain civil service retirement officers, that difference does not change the tested, if they a.re-and as Chairman Moran benefits for Federal employees, including has observed, 95 % of the citations have not character of the President's role in the been contested by employers; only 5 % to the Vice President. We have been ad selection process. date have been contested-when they are vised by the Library of Congress that Second, the Vice Presidency is a "civil contested, adjustments may be made in the Public Law 93-136 probably constitutes office" within the meaning of the clause. If penalties." an "emolument" within the meaning of the clause said simply "any Office under the Then, appearing from the wings to upstage article I, section 6. Authority of the United States" there could Guenther, was his close friend from their The crucial question is therefore be no question about its application to the old days together in the Labor Department, whether Mr. FORD, if confirmed, will have office of the Vice President. "Any Office" is Chairman Robert D. Moran of the OSHA Re been "appointed to any civil office under the term used in the secon~ part of Article I, view Commission. He piously delivered his Section 6; that pa.rt bars Members of Con version: "As you know the Review Commis the authority of the United States" gress from holding "any Office under the sion's role under the Act is strictly adjudi within the meaning of the Constitution. United States" while they are also serving catory. We do not conduct, initial, or order Since the confirmation vote on Mr. in Congress. That prohibition sunly applies any inspections or workplaces. We are a court. FORD is scheduled for Thursday, I re to the Vice Presidency and the Presidency, We have no control over either t he kind or spectfully draw my colleagues' attention as well as to any other omce. number of cases that come to us for de to the following analysis of the constitu But while the bar on simultaneous service cision." tional question by Prof. Barbara Under extends to "any Office", the bar on subse Three pages later, Moran cited the impor quent service in a new or improved office tant case of a Newport Beach, California, wood of the Yale Law School. This anal extends only to " any civil Office." The prob boatyard owner which the Commission "ad ysis indicates that the Constitution may lem, then is to determine the purpose and judicated": "I am sure his case demonstrates well bar Mr. FORD from becoming Vice meaning of that limitation. The legislative that the Review Commission procedures are President, at least without remedial leg history of the clause makes it quite clear not so onerous that they prevent a small islation to nullify the increasd emolu that the limitation was designed to exclude businessman from obtaining justice when he ment. military officers. The clause represented a feels he has been wronged by an OSHA in compromise. Some participants in the debates spection. Let me conclude by saying that em The analysis follows: ployers have very substantial rights under IMPLICATIONS OF EMOLUMENT CLAUSE TO THE 1 Literally, of course, it would be the case the Occupational Safety and Health Act. They OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT that the emolument had been first increased are assured of due process of law at every The nomination of Congressman Gerald and then decreased. It seems fair to charac stage of the proceeding." Ford as Vice President of the United States terize that sequence of events, however, as A closer examination of the case of Blackie is barred by Article I, Section 6 of the Con an absence of needed change, but in the ab Ga.da.rian, the· boatyard owner in Newport stitution, at least unless steps a.re taken to sence of legislative action repealing the in Beach, reveals that he was cited because he remedy the difficulty. That clause provides: crease in benefits, the constitutional bar is didn't have a ladder nailed to his dock. The No Senators or Representatives shall, dur- plainly applicable. 39568 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1973 wanted to bar legislators fron:. "any Office," small and apparently independent gunrun when the buyers transferred the guns to and to make the bar absolute for a. fixed ning bands. two men in North Carolina, they violated period of time after the end of the legislator's The scale of the problems here is sketched Federal statutes. These laws were a.gain term. Others wanted no bar at all, for fear out in the statistics of Project Identifica broken when the men in North Carolina that it would deprive the nation of the serv tion, the just-completed study in which the trucked the weapons to three men in the ices of its most qualified leaders at some Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, South Bronx, who sold the guns on the critical time. The result was a. limited bar, Tobacco a.nd Firearms traced the origins of street. leaving legislators free to tak.: any military 1,254 pistols confiscated by the police in SI.MILAR ARRESTS CITED office a.t a.11, because the new nation's military connection with a number of arrests made These three, identified as Edwin Acedado, needs were given the highest priority; the since last August. Jose Antonio Rosario and German Rosario, clause also left legislators free to take any Of this group, the Federal a.gents found were the alleged masterminds of the rings. non-military office, so long as that office that 953 had been purchased in other states, Along with the Southerners they were con was not either newly created or newly eight had been bought in other countries victed of conspiracy to violate the Federal enriched. and 242 were stolen from owners, dealers or gun law and sentenced to :five years in pris No contrary conclusion is suggested by the manufacturers all over the country. on. use of the term "civil Officers" in Article II, Of those coming from other states, 692, or The case was cited as typical by Micha.el Section 4. That clause provides for impeach 69 per cent, were bought from licensed gun LaPerch, special agent in charge of the Bu ment and conviction of "the President, Vice dealers in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina. reau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unit President, and all civil Officers of the United and Virginia. Almost a.ll of these were so here. He said that arrests of similar rings States." The enumeration of the President ca.lled Saturday-night specials-the cheaply were running about 20 a. month here. and the Vice President was arguably redun ma.de ca.st-metal pistols whose manufacture As to who is buying such weapons, Deputy dant even a.t the time that it was written, and and sale is mega.I in New York City. Inspector Robert J. Howe o:f the police in ma.de simply to a.void ambiguity. Alterna According to Mayor Lindsay, long an ad telligence division, said: "It is fashionable tively, It is likely that the term "civil Officers" vocate of tightened Federal gun controls, in some areas of the city to have guns. It's connoted to the Framers one who held an the proliferation of such pistols here through not just the criminal element, but also peo appointed rather than an elective office. For illicit channels has paralleled a. tremendous ple who think that everyone around them purposes of the impeachment clause, it was increase in the criminal use of such weapons. has guns and feel they need something for one thing to provide a method by which It was the Mayor who requested the Federal protection." agency to do the gun-tracing study. Congress could remove appointed offi'Cer, and Steven Brill, an assistant to Mayor Lindsay another matter, worthy of explicit state The Mayor's office reports that In 1960 only who is City Hall's resident expert on guns ment, to authorize Congress to remove a.n 19 per cent of the city's total of 390 homi and gun control, said the situation has be officer who had been selected by the electoral cides involved pistols. Twelve yea.rs later the come so severe that in some areas o:f the process. Accordingly, the term "civil Officer" number of homicides had grown to 1,691 and city police responding to minor calls auto may not have included the Vice President at the percentage involving handguns to 49. matically assume that civilians may be a time when he could not be appointed. But No one knows just how many pistols there armed. are in the city. The Treasury Department a Vice President who is appointed is thereby "It happens all the time," Mr. Brill said. brought squarely within even this 11.mited estimates 1.3 mlllion, but other police and City Hall guesses range downward to 250,000. "Two men get into an argument because their reading of the original understanding of the dogs were fighting and one draws a gun and term. Whatever the total is, 28,000 belong to permit-holders who, after screening and in shoots the other, or a minor automobile vestigation, have been licensed by the police. accident ends with one guy shooting the The rest a.re lllegally owned. other." BAN THE HANDGUN-VIII Mr. Brill said that retail outlets for the HISTORY OF ONE RING illicit gun trade were almost everywhere How these unregistered guns got here a.nd bars, juice bars, social clubs. are continuing to get here can be seen ill The Mayor, the Police Commissioner and HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM the case history of one gunrunning ring that, major police officials believe that increased OF NEW YORK according to Federal officials, transported Department and the new gun squad will cer IN THE HOUSE OF' REPRESENTATIVES 3,600 pistols to the New York area between tainly hurt the traffickers. But, they say, the February and October of last year. Authori only real remedy rests with Federal legisla Tuesday, December 4, 1973 ties estimate that the nine-member ring tion that will end once and :for all the crazy Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, the realized close to $300,000 in profits from this quilt of state and local guns laws, which lay senseless killing of thousands of people interstate bootlegging a.nd sale. at the basis of the black market here. Twenty-five of the guns sold here by this HOPEFUL SIGN SEEN each year by handguns can only be at ring have been confiscated by the police here tributed to the many avenues through from men they have arrested. These weapons Inspector Howe said that one hopeful sign which these weapons may be obtained. have been linked to one murder, two at has come in the passage recently in South Large gun manufacturers are not the tempted murders, an assault on a policeman Carolina, as well as in Illinois, of a "Fahren only ones profiting from the handgun and a dozen armed robberies. heit law," which prohibits the sale of hand The Federal and city police a.gents who guns that will melt at 800 degrees Fahren sales epidemic. Petty criminals are find heit. In effect, this bars the sale of the Satur ing the street comer gunrunning enter helped smash this band said that its opera tion began in Greenville, S.C. day night specials. prise highly lucrative in the quest for There, according to the authorities, four Law enforcement officials speculate that if the quick buck. An article in the Decem residents of South Carolina who had been these guns, assembled in the country from ber 2 New York Times reveals the futile recruited for the ring made weekly purchases foreign made parts, were to be outlawed gen efforts of the New York Police Depart of cheap .88-ca.llber pistols from Rufus erally, it would sharply dent the black ma.ket ment to end the illegal gun trade absent Roberts, a. dealer licensed to sell weapons sale of weapons. They reason that since qual under a 1968 Federal law. ity handguns retail :for a maximum of $100, Federal gun control legislation. black marketeers would have to sell them for The article fallows : South Carolina is one of 81 states that require no permit or license to buy a. pistol. about upward of $300 and they doubt that ILLEGAL MARKET IN PlsTOLS FOUND It is perfectly legal in these states for peo there would be many buyers at that price. FLOURISHING HERE ple to carry handguns strapped to their But the solution advocated most strenu (By Michael T. Kaufman) waist in plain view, and in Vennont it is legal ously by Mayor Lindsay is a nationwide re Rings of gunrunners a.re selling thousands to carry a. concealed weapon with no li striction on hand gun ownership, with licens of cheap pistols here in a lucrative black censing requirement. ing on the New York City model. He called market that according to a recent study, is However, under the 1968 Federal law, a the general policy of permissiveness on guns :flourishing in bars and on street corners of purchaser of a handgun anywhere in the "suicidal." the city. United States is obliged to sign Form 4473, To get a license to carry a. handgun in The firearms are for the most part pur declaring that he is not an alcoholic or a New York City the applicant must be finger chased in large lots in :four Southern states felon and has no history of mental illness. printed. He must also pass a. Police Depart at prices ranging from $15 to $25 each. They He must also show identification proving ment screening that denies a license to any are sold in New York City, which has the him to be a resident of the state, but no one with a felony or major misdemeanor most stringent gun laws in the country, for check is made on the buyer and no finger on his record, or who has a record of alcohol $90 to $150. prints are taken. The form is merely signed ism, drug addiction or s1.mllar instability. In an attempt to stop, or at least lessen, at the gun shop at the time of purchase. Mayor Lindsay pointed out that in Tokyo, the flow of such illegal weapons, the Police The four South Ca.rolin1ans signed such where the ownership of handguns is ab Department four weeks ago established a declarations as they made weekly purchases solutely illegal, only three people were mur special gun squad. Its undercover opera of as many as 600 Saturday night specials. dered with handguns in 1970. In that same tives are currently "making buys" on the Despite the large number of guns there wa.s year 538 people were killed with handguns streets, attempting to trace and break the nothing illegal about these sales, However, here. December 4, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39569: UNITED STATES ENTERTAINS Czechoslovakia. in 1968. He also has visited Al\.-iERICANS ROMANIAN COMMUNIST Russia's mortal enemy, China, and has ex changed cordla.l visits with Israel's Prime Minister Golda Meir. HON. LAWRENCE J. HOGAN Nevertheless, Ceausescu is a dedicated OF MARYLAND HON. JOHN R. RARICK Communist and has belonged to the party OF LOUISIANA since 1933, when he was 15 years old. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, December 4, 197 3 Tuesday, December 4, 1973 Mr. HOGAN. Mr. Speaker, my friends Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, the Red TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE at WWDC radio station have been broad Party boss of Romania, Nicolae Ceau LESLIE C. ARENDS casting some comments made last June sescu, is to be our national guest of by a Canadian radio announcer named honor this week. So the American people Gordon Sinclair. can expect to be told what a great friend Because they are even more appropri and independent Communist ruler he is. HON. JOHN J. ROONEY ate now than when they were made, I am Nevertheless, Ceausescu is a dedicated OF NEW YORK inserting them in the RECORD: Communist and has been one since 1933. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMERICANS But he has not come to discuss the ab Tuesday, December 4, 1973 (By Gordon Sinclair) sence of a two-party political system in Mr. ROONEY of New York. Mr. The United States dollar took another his country or the suppression of free pounding on German, French and British speech and political prisoners. Rather, he Speaker, the recent announcement by exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest is to be praised for his great efforts 1n my colleague and good friend, the distin point ever known in West Germany. It has getting Dr. Kissinger into Peking and to guished gentleman from Illinois, the declined there by 41 % since 1971 and this be honored for his country's pro-Israel Honorable LESLIE c. ARENDS, that this ls Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for stance during the Middle East war. In to be his last term in this great and au the Americans as the most generous and pos gust body came to me, as I am sure it did sibly the lea.st-appreciated people in a.11 the fact, we are even told that he may dis earth. cuss the sale of Romanian petroleum to all of us, as a great shock. The decision of LEs ARENDS to leave the As long as sixty years ago, when I first products if the American people are started to read newspapers, I read of floods ready to meet his price. House of Representatives after nearly on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who I include a related newsclipping at this 40 years of service is a great loss to rushed in with men and money to help. The point: the people of Illinois, to this body, and to Americans did. (From the Washington Star-News, Dec. 3, the entire country. Few, if any, retire They have helped control floods on the 1973) ments in my time will be felt more deeply Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. or will be a greater loss to the House of Today, the rich bottomland of the Missis ROMANIA CHIEF SCORES WITH UNITED STATES Representatives than that of the won sippi ls under water and no foreign land has (By Jeremla.h O'Leary) derful and dedicated, knowledgeable and sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, Romania's independent-minded President to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were Nicola.a Ceausescu arrives in Washington decent, friendly and humble gentleman liited out of the debris of war by the Ameri tomorrow to begin a two-day state visit here from Illinois. cans who poured in billions of dollars and followed by a whirlwind tour around the LES has served his country well in sev forgave other billions in debts. None of these United States. He leaves Dec. 10. eral fields of endeavor including service countries is today paying even the interest Ceausescu ls popular with President Nixon in the Navy during the First World War; on its remaining debts to the United States. and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger as a district commander of the American When the franc was in danger of collapsing because he was instrumental in setting up Legion and :finally as a Member of the in 1956, it was the Americans who propped the new friendship between the United States U.S. House of Representatives. As a it up and their reward was to be insulted and China. Not only was Ceausescu helpful and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was in arranging Kissinger's first surprise mis Member of the House, he served on sev there. I saw it. sion to Peking, but his nation also was the eral important committees including the When distant cities are hit by earthquake, only member of the Warsaw Pact that did old House Committee on Military Affairs; it is the United States that hurries in to not sever relations with Israel after the 1967 on the House Committee on Armed Serv help .•. Manague, Nicaragua. is one of the, war. ices, and on the House Committee on most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 It ls understood that Ceausescu ls even Standards of Official Conduct. American communities have been flattened prepared to discuss sale of more refined pe With all of that Mr. Speaker, perhaps by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. troleum products from Romania if the price The Marsha.II Plan ... the Truman Policy ls right. LEs' greatest accomplishment was that • •. all pumped billions upon billions of dol The Romanian president arrives at Andrews he held the post of Republican Party lars into discouraged countries. Now news Air Force Base on a :fllght from Bucharest at whip here in the House for nearly 30 papers in those countries are writing about a.bout 3 p .m. tomorrow and will go directly years. While other members of the Re the decadent war-mongering Americans. to Ca.mp David, Md., to spend the night at publican leadership came and went, LEs rd like to see Just one of those countries the Presidentla.l retreat. was always there to provide the kind of that ls gloating over the erosion of the He will fly to the White House by heli United States dollar build its own airplanes. copter for a welcome ceremony on the lawn stability and internal leadership that is so important to a republic. Come on ... let's hear it! Does any other which the admlnlstration reportedly intends country in the world have a plane to equal to be enthusiastic. After conferring with I know of no more effective legislator the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar Nixon after the formalities of the arrival than LEs, and know of no finer gentle or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly ceremony, Ceausescu wlll stay at Blair House man than LES ARENDS. I know all of us them? Why do all international lines ex for two days. will miss him; the House will miss him cept Russia fly American planes? Why does Highlights of the visit will be a formal state dinner at the White House sessions and I will miss him. I hope it will be pos no other land on earth even consider putting with Secretary Kissinger. Later, Ceausescu sible for me to continue my personal a man or woman on the moon? will inspect a nuclear power installation in friendship with him in the years to come. You talk about Japanese technocracy and Wilmington, N.C., visit Cleveland, where Mr. Speaker, the State of Illinois will you get radios. You talk about German tech many former Romanians and descendants of lose a great advocate when LEs ARENDS nocracy and you get automobiles. You talk Romanians live, meet oil men in Houston, about American technocracy and you find retires. There has never been a greater men on the moon, not once, but several Texas, then go to Hartford, Conn., and Cape champion for his home State than LEs Canaveral, Fla. times ... and safely home again. You talk Nixon ls known to want to roll out the red ARENDS. about scandals and the Americans put theirs carpet for Ceausescu with special warmth Mr. Speaker, I extend to LES and to right in the st ore window for everybody to of welcome because in 1969 Nixon was the his lovely wife, Betty, sincere and best look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pur first United States President to visit wishes. I hope that it will be possible sued and hounded. They are here on our Romania. ceausescu came to Washington on for LES to continue in some way to con streets, most of them . . . unless they are a similar visit in October 1970, during which tribute to his State and his country all breaking Canadian laws ... are getting Nixon took great ca.re to underline Romania's of the knowledge and experience that he American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to policy of independence. spend here. No one, least of all the Russians, doubt has accumulated in his many years of When the Americans get out of this Ceausescu's militant independence. He was public service. In the meantime, LEs, bind . . . as th ey will • . • who could blame ln the forefront of those European leaders enjoy your retirement years. You have them if they said 'the Hell with the rest of in opposition to the Soviet invasion o! earned them. the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel 39570 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1973 bonds. Let someone else build or repair for demanded by the settling of a vast wil student an intensive summer session in eign dams or design foreign buildings that derness be orchestrated. Without them, won't shake apart in earthquakes. education theory and techniques before When the railways of France, Germany and nothing of what we have built could have he started teaching school in the fall. India. were breaking down through age, it been achieved. This was followed for the next 2 years was the Americans who rebuilt them. When In the settling of our land, and the with in-service training and summer ses the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York conflicts that have robbed us of time sions which developed as a coordinated Central went broke, nobody loaned them an and energy throughout our history, cer program between the teacher, training old caboose. Both a.re still broke. I can name tain aspects of city life have fallen into school, and the local school district until to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced neglect. the person was certified as a regular to the help of other people in trouble. Our attention was twned to great Can you name me even one time when teacher. someone else raced to the Americans in tasks, the likes of which were unprece This law helped meet our need for new trouble? I don't think there was outside help dented in human history. Growth was teachers at that time, but 8 years later even during the San Francisco earthquake. often so rapid as to preclude planning. we have just the opposite set of condi:.. Our neighbours have faced it alone and This was not to the discredit of any one tions. There· is currently a declining I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of or more individuals, but rather charac number of schoolchildren and an excess hearing them kicked around. They will come teristic of the youth{ul American spirit number of prepared teachers. Some dis out of this thing with their flag high. And and the Nation which it spawned. But at tricts are being forced to release teach when they do, they are entitled to thumb last, the spirit of wilderness seems to their nose at the lands that a.re gloating over .ers already on the payroll due to declin their present troubles. have taken refuge in our cities, and we ing enrollments. I hope Canada is not one ·or these. But are obliged to refine them. My proposals will modify the Teacher there are many smug, self-righteous ca. In the final analysis, man, who built Corps to fit with this new reality. The nadians. And :finally, the American Red Cross the city will preserve the city, but only major emphasis of the new legislation was told at its 48th Annual Meeting in New through collective effort, depending upon will enable the corps to bring experienced Orleans this morning that it was broke. communication. In selecting cities as the teachers into the corps for retraining. This year's disasters ••• with the year less theme of "Thoughts of Man," and the The legislation will also support demon than half over ••. has taken it all and no written word as the form of comment on body ••• but nobody ••. has helped. stration projects which will allow better that theme, the Cotton Fiber Paper evaluation of new teaching techniques. Council has made a point worthy of con The corps will have a stronger research sideration. In a world of increasingly evaluation component so that more can complex and technological communica THOUGHTS OF MAN-1973 be learned about what works and what tions networks, a man with pen in hand does not work in the improvement of remains a singularly powerful expressive teacher training. The emphasis will con HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE entity. tinue to be on training teachers to work OF MASSACHUSETTS in poverty areas. These amendments IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would be effective in 1975. NEW LEGISLATION TO MODIFY THE Tuesday, December 4, 1973 This bill will help alleviate the new TEACHER CORPS PROGRAM educational problems in the United Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, on Decem States today. Too often we merely count ber 5, "Thoughts of Man-1973," a the number of teachers in the classroom traveling exhibition sponsored by the HON. ALBERT H. QUIE and assume that our job is done. The Cotton Fiber Paper Council, many of OF MINNESOTA last maJor era in education posed the whose members are located within my IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES problems of growth. This era poses the congressional district, officially opens in more complex problem of educational Washington for a month-long public dis Tuesday, December 4, 1973 quality. The schools that need the most play at the Martin Luther King Memorial Mr. QUIE. Mr. Speaker, I am introduc help are those strapped by lack of funds Library. ing today a bill which will modify the such that they cannot afford the cost of The thoughts of more than 100 prom Teacher Corps pro~am. There are sev retraining on their own. The first step inent Americans, including many within eral reasons why this program, which is in developing educational quality is to this body, are communicated in the ven currently spending $37.5 million to train help these districts revitalize their teach erable form of the letter, and address new teachers should be modified to meet ers and their programs. All professionals themselves to the question, "Is there a current conditions. The modifications need the time and support to keep need for central cities in America's currently spending $37.5 million to train abreast of new techniques in their :fields. future?" already employed teachers as well as My bill will make it possible for working Critical and public acclaim for to continue training new teachers for teachers to take courses in universities "Thoughts of Man" has been widespread poverty areas. and colleges as well as in-service pro in the cities in which it has been viewed. The new program will continue the grams which have been designed and co By presenting an eclectic philosophical Teacher Corps program which has had ordinated to meet the express needs and overview of the city in American life, the · local school districts work with colleges concerns of the local school district. council, the trustees of the Martin Luther and universities in the area to develop This bill will also provide for better King Library and Mayor Walter Wash coordinated plans for training teacher :field research in teacher training tech ington, the cosponsors, have helped us interns. The basic change proposed by niques. This is an area which many peo to focus on perhaps the most significant this legislation is that already employed ple concerned with the quality of educa and far-reaching challenge facing our teachers can take part in the program tion feel can be improved. In the long Nation. The multifaceted complex of along with the interns. This program will run this type of research can pay high people, buildings, and the processes which be initiated at the request of local school returns by allowing us to see more clearly they are a part of, can here be examined districts which meet the conditions of what type of teacher training seems to and considered by those effected. need written into the original legislation. be most effective. Many times we do not It was Robert Frost, in his poem "The The original Teacher Corps law was believe something new will work until Gift Outright," read at the inauguration enacted on November 8, 1965. This was a we see for ourselves. These demonstra of President John F. Kennedy, who said, period -.1hen we did not have enough tions and evaluations will help dissemi- "The land was ours before we were the teachers to rr..eet our needs. The shortage nate the new and improved teaching land's." Without our cities, we would was most evident in the central cities techniques across the country and allow have been wholly unable to become the and the remote rural regions where pay teachers to see how they work in the land's. Scholars note that the rise of the was not as high and working conditions classroom. city is the hallmark of civilization, its were often not as attractive as they were I hope all of you will join me in sup organizational nucleus. From the very in the ::;uburban areas and the towns of porting this legislation which is so neces first, the development of the large Ameri America. The Teacher Corps was de sary in helping all our children receive can cities was an integral part of the signed to find college students who had the kind of training and education that development of the count~y. Only in' their not trained for a career in education, our country needs. Without insuring the establishment could the various transac but who were interested in becoming quality of teachers in our schools, we tions and cooperative efforts of millions teachers. The next step was to give the are shortchanging the future of America. December 4, 197.3 EXTEN.SIONS OF.REMARKS 39571 DAVID BEN-GURION not fea.r again." But the citizens of Ben H.R.- Gu:rion's Israel fear still. Neither he nor hia A bill to further the conduct of research, successors could gain the trust of their Arab development, and commercial demonstra HON. HENRY HELSTOSKI neighbors. Early on, Ben-Gurion had ac tions in geothermal energy technologies, to OF NEW JERSEY knowledged the need "to find the way_to the direct the National Science Foundation to heart of the Arab people." He never found fund basic and applied research relating IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that way. Could anyone? Was the fault in to geothermal energy, and to direct the Tuesday, December 4, 1973 Ben-Gurion's hard approach to the Arabs, in National Aeronautics and Space Adminis his zeal to give first priority, whatever the tration to carry out a program of demon Mr. HELSTOSKI. Mr. Speaker, one consequences, to providing a homeland for strations in technologies for commercial of the world's bTeatest statesmen, David Jews? Did Hitler's genocide leave any alter utilization of geothermal resources includ Ben-Gurion, died December 1 at the age natives? Could Arabs have accepted waves of ing hot dry rock and geopressured fields of 87. More than any other single indi Jews, or a Jewish state, under any con.di· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of vidual, he embo
VANDALISM AND THE SAFE Installation of burglar alarms a.nd other GUARD DOGS SCHOOLS ACT devices in each faclllty some time a.go also Since the dogs started guarding four has helped "forestall serious trouble so far," schools in January. vandalism incidents he said. have dropped considerably, reported Charles But in Orange County, vandals committed Cheatham, the district's director of opera HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM 6,272 destructive acts that cost $777 ,026 in tions. OF NEW YORK repairs and replacements over a two-year Perhaps the immediate threat of being IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES period ending la.st December. attacked by a dog makes more of an impres The alarm system that would employ Tuesday, December 4, 1973 sion on a would-be va.nda.l than the possi flashing red beacons and surveillance heli bility of triggering an alarm and then be Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, vandal copters (officials ca.n give no estimate yet ing outrun by a. policeman or guard. ism of school property has become a how much it will cost) is still in the plan Actually, the dogs are trained not to bite major problem confronting educators ning stage, but the radar, light and sound but only to knock down an intruder and alarms already have been installed in 75 hold him on the ground until help arrives. across the country. schools in the southwest, ea.st and central The dogs stand guard alone. A handler The Los Angeles Times article of areas of the city. comes around every two or three hours and April 2, 1973, reprinted below reveals Ala.rm systems are now built into Los checks them. He has a radio in his truck to some of the dimensions of the epidemic Angeles schools as they a.re constructed or summon help should one of the dogs, which and, in my opinion, is evidence of the renovated. weigh from 75 to 110 pounds, be sitting on a need to enact the Safe Schools Act forth Between 3,500 and 4,000 acts of vandalism prowler. with. are perpetrated in Los Angeles city schools Prowlers are not sure just which of the each year, Paul Engle, the system's chief district's 40 schools are being guarded by the The article follows: security officer, estimated. These acts range dogs, so they think twice before climbing SOMETHING ExTRA FOR THE TAXPAYER from scratching an obscene word on a wall the fence of any school, Cheatham said. (By Richard West) to setting a fire causing $100,000 or more Simi Valley Unified School District has All the fortress-like buildings-doors damage. established a task force to study proposals wrought of steel, windows of unbreakable Engle believes the rate of incidents has to :fight vandalism, including one that laminated plastic-would be guarded by ra about leveled off here, noting that the cost bounties be paid to persons who supply in dar and silent alarm systems sensitive of vandalism last year was only $300,000 formation which results in the arrest and enough to be activia.ted by a sound or a ra.y above the previous year and that the rise conviction of vandals. of llght. was probably due to infiation. This custom of the Old West was revived When an invader triggers the alarm, it TWENTY-FIVE GUARDS by three teachers at the district's Hollow would cause a. red beacon light a.top the The Los Angeles system has only 25 men Hllls Elementary School after vandals building to flash on and off. Crews of patrol to guard its 630 school nights and week scrawled obscene words on classroom walls, ling helicopters would spot the light. They ends. poured paint into sinks and stole equipment. would radio ground units to move in swiftly. Proposals that men on welfare be required The teachers donated $75 of their own The prowler would be caught in the act to work as school guards do not seem prac money for a. reward. Information quickly by police or guards specially trained for this ticable to Engle. came in and lour suspects were arrested type of situation. If the time they work is based on the However, Simi Supt. Walter Ziegler does All this smacks of a. joint CIA-FBI opera amount of their welfare checks, they would not think much of a bounty system. tion or a. security plan for a nuclear weapons put in only a few hours a day, Engle said. "BETTER SURVEILLANCE" installation or Ft. Knox. Actually, it is just And they would undoubtedly want to be as "It's my feeling we should train students a system devised by the city of Los Angeles signed to schools in their neighborhood. to be responsible citizens without a reward," to keep vandals out of its schools nights "You would have 15 to 30 people at one he said. "I think vandalism can be handled and weekends. location," he said. "It would cost you more in another manner, perhaps through better COST KEEPS RISING to supervise them than what you would get surveillance, utilizing electronic equipment out of it." Acts of arson, burglary and malicious mis or neighborhood participation." chief last year cost Los Angeles $2.5 mllllon Engle believes that one of the best ways to The Los Angeles City Council started tak (the price of three or four new elementary :fight vandalism is to enlist the cooperation ing a hard look at school vandalism a year schools), up from $2.2 million in 1969-70, of persons living around schools. If they ago at the urging of Councilman Thomas $1.8 mllllon in 1968-69 and a.bout $1 million would call police whenever they saw some Bradley and former Councilman James B. in 1967-68. thing unusual going on at a. school after Potter, Jr. hours. many vandals would be caught. Or rather, the acts cost Los Angeles tax They called on the council's Police, Fire payers these sums. The school system ca.n no A telephone call to police from a citizen and Civil Defense Committee to conduct an longer a.frord to carry insurance: Premiums early last Monday resulted in the arrest of investigation into vandalism which, they a.re astronomical, and carriers want the city eight boys as they emerged from the Murchi said, "with ea.ch passing week . • • reaches son Street Elementary School, 1500 Murchi to foot the first $100,000 loss of every inci new and alarming proportions." son St. The youths had damaged the con City Administrative Officer Piper, asked by dent. tents of two classrooms and set :fire to a Other Los Angeles area school districts are the committee for his views, crune up with classroom bungalow. The loss will run into several ideas. so desperate in seeking solutions to the "the thousands of dollars," firemen esti vandalism problem that they are experi "More intensive use of school facllities, in mated. cluding ea.rly and evening classes, should be menting with German shepherd guard dogs Just how much can a city afford to pay and toying with the idea. of offering cash economically beneficial and might tend to to protect its schools from nighttime and reduce the opportunity for vandalism," he bounties for the arrest and conviction of weekend marauders? vandals. Sa.id. "The entire problem of school vandalism," The Los Angeles City Council, the Police However, security chief Engle said that as City Administrative Officer C. Erwin Piper, most acts of vandalism occur after night Department, school officials and a special a former FBI agent, ha.s observed, "is but one district attorney's task force are all involved classes end at 10 p.m. "You'd have to run of several social problems resulting from a a.11 night," he said. in the problem, which a psychiatrist defines public disregard of public or personal prop - a.s an a.ct of rebellion by some young people Piper also suggested the use of alarms, erty rights. against "a symbol of social authority." plastic windows a.nd "camera. systems used "It should be accepted that the problem in banks" and the stationing of tun-time NATIONAL PROBLEM is of a continuing nature, and that the se caretakers or security guards at schools most School vandalism, of course, is not a prob curity measures necessary to appreciably re subject to vandalism. lem unique to the Los Angeles a.rea. It is a duce vandalism may well be more costly than Asst. City Atty. James A. Doherty advised national problem, in rural areas as well as the costs for restoration of damaged facili the council committee that "some progress the big cities, and it is getting worse every ties." could be made if alarm systems were built year. In other words, it might be cheaper in into installations at the time of construction In California alone the average cost of the long run to take reasonable precautions or renovation." This is being done now. school arson, burglary and malicious mis and a chance on vandals severely damaging Doherty urged city sponsorship of state leg chief is estimated to be running at $10 mil a school once in a while than installing such islation which would raise the amount par lion a year. elaborate space age safeguards as tend to ents are liable for acts of their children from The 88 educational facilities operated by bankrupt school finances. $1,000 to $5,000. the county outside of the city of Los Angeles A relatively inexpensive system is being "Faced with such liability, some pa.rents have so far escaped massive vandalism, given a six-month test by the Hacienda-La would probably exercise stricter control over mainly because most of them a.re small and Puente Unified School District with favor their minor children," he said. "not Establishment representing," thus of able results. Its main element consists of The Police Department, which made a fering "less exposure," said Dr. John Hamil seven German shepherd dogs which the dis study of school vandalism for the CODllllittee, ton, the system's business manager. trict rents for $100 a month each. came up with the idea of the .flashing red CXIX--2492-Part SO 39578 EXTENSIONS OF. REMARKS December 4, 1973 light atop schools which could be spotted by DIFFERENT GROUPS A spokesman for the- Virginia Electric and police and sheriff's helicopters. Questionnaires have been sent out to 300 Power Company said he is pleased by VNB's SPLASHING PAINT different groups in the county to determine energy conservation program. Vepco market What motivates a youngster to break into the extent of the problem, Collier said. The ing official John Marsh pointed out that the a school-an institution dedicated to serving task force hopes to come up with a report in lights on one Christmas tree normally con him-and comm.it such outrageous acts as three or four months. sume some 300 kilowatts of electricity in a smashing furniture, splashing paint on walls, Collier said one facet that has already month. Referring to Virginia National's ac destroying records and even setting fire to come to light is "the paucity of convictions" tions, Marsh said: ''If every company would the building? that result from school arson. take these steps, we'd see a considerable sav " One of the basic problems in growing up The task force is working to effect a pro ing in energy." is coming to terms with authority," com gram where "every act of vandalism is re Marsh noted that while Vepco does get mented Dr. Edward Stainbrook, a psychiatrist ported and something done about it," Col nuclear power from its Surry facility, most and professor and chairman of the depart lier said. of the company's power plants still rely on "We are contacting law enforcement, of petroleum for fuel. By reducing its power ment of human behavior in the USC school consumption, VNB expects to reduce Vir of medicine, "and school is one of the most ficers, judges, school administrators and everyone else involved in the problem and ginia's consumption of dwindling oil sup important authorities in a child's life. plies. "The school is a symbol of social authority, trying to get them to all pull together." and he keeps attacking it if he can, retaliat ing and rebelling." Stainbrook also believes that vandalism CPB'S MINORITY FUNDING has "something to do with social class." VffiGINIA NATIONAL BANK NEWS "A member of what we regard as the upper RELEASE class deals with his problems symbolically, HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY not. letting them spill over into rebellion and OF MISSOURI assault," he said. HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES But to a member of the lower class, he said, Tuesday, December 4, 1973 school is "a kind of substitute for total so OF VIRGINIA ciety" which he wants to attack because he IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, the Corpora feels it has rejected or failed him. Tuesday, December 4, 1973 tion for Public Broadcasting held its first "If authority really is rejecting or not un public board meeting on Thursday, No derstanding or punitive, then the child, of Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, vember 8, 1973. A broad spectrum of course, learns that's how authority is and with this Nation in the midst of an witnesses testified. The overwhelming takes his own steps to counteract it," Stain energy crisis, it is indeed heartening to theme was the lack of black programing. brook said. know that Virginia's largest bank, Vir The statements made at this meet School administrators and teachers and ginia National Bank, has voluntarily ing, as reported in the Washington Post, others "have to be firm" in maintaining dis taken steps that go even beyond the cipline but at the same time they must de should be of interest to all Members of recommendations of the President in an Congress. Hopefully, this will help to vote "much more attention to handling ten effort to conserve as much energy as sions in the community and classroom," he · make others aware of the inadequacies possible. of public television in this area. went on. So that my colleagues may be apprised For it is these tensions which spill over at The article entitled "CPB's Minority of what one institution is doing, I am Funding" f oll-0ws: night and during weekends and take the ins~rting at this point in the RECORD a form o! school vandalism. recent press release from Virginia Na CPB's MINORITY FUNDING "If people can act effectively, they won't (By Joel Dreyfuss) a.ct destructively," Stainbrook said. "A lot of tional Bank outlining the steps it has taken. VNB is setting an example that The Corporation for Public Broadcasting studies show that in schools where there is (CPB) held its first public board meeting an effective handling of classroom tensions, others would do well to follow. yesterday and testimony was dominated by during the summer you can count the suc The press release follows: criticism of the handling of black programs cess by the diminishing number of broken NEWS RELEASE FROM VIRGINIA NATIONAL by public television. windows. BANK, NOVEMBER 26, 1973 A broad spectrum of witnesses called on GOOD STUDENTS NoRFOLK.-The state's largest bank has CPB to make additional funds available for "If a child is effective inside school, he is joined the fight to conserve power during the public affairs program "Black Journal" not going to destroy it." the energy crisis. Eliminating the lighting of and for "Soul," the variety show, two na Dr. Bernard Greenberg, a systems analyst all outdor signs is just one step which Vir tionally distributed programs cut back dras for the Stanford Research Institute who has ginia National Bank is taking to help allevi tically this season, and to give a larger share made studies of school vandalism, had a ate the country's growing energy shortage. of the agency's funds to minority program ming in general. further thought along this line. In his most recent energy message Sun day night, President Nixon requested the Tony Brown, executive producer of "Black "One of the problems is that police are elimination ot commercial lighting except Journal" and dean of Howard University's called in too frequently to handle school signs identifying places of business. However, school of communications, called for the disciplinary problems, and the kids get Virginia National has taken the President's creation of a panel to monitor the perform caught up with the police,'' he said. recommendation one step further by volun ance of public television and insure adequate "School administrators don't want to han tarily extinguishing all outdoor lighting at input. dle problem children. It takes up too much the bank's 116 offices in Virginia. This action Other witnesses asked for increased use of their time-time they feel they should should mean a cut in power consumption of of instructional programs, special programs be using to educate the majority. They don't more than 1200 kilowatts per day. for the deaf and more accurate portrayals feel they should spend 60 % of their time Following the President's earlier recom of women and ethnics. coping with the 5% of students who cause mendations, Virginia National has already "The meeting was productive beyond the lowered the thermostats in its offices to 68 - 95 % of the trouble. board's expectations," said Robert S. Ben "This is one of the reasons why kids are degrees. All other lighting not necessary for jamin vice chairman of the CPB board, building maintenance and the safe opera turning against the schools." whose members declined to comment on tion of bank facllities, including nighttime statements by more than 20 witnesses. Greenberg said his studies also indicate floodlighting of buildings, has been cut out. Several of those supporting "Black Jour that many youths break into schools to Also, the hot water temperature in bank nal" charged that it served as a symbol of steal office equipment, musical instruments restrooms has been reduced. And the only CPB's lack of concern about black pro and other valuable items to raise money to energy expended in dressing VNB up for the graming. CPB officials disagreed, saying support their drug habits. Christmas season will be the human energy the shows had fallen victim to last year's A local study of school vandalism is being required to hang Yuletide decorations i,ince battle between the corporation and the Pub made by a 32-member task force coordinated no lighting will be used. lic Broadcasting Service (PBS) for control by Alva Collier, an assistant chief field dep Bank officials expect these actions will of public television. uty to Dist. Atty. Joseph P. Busch initiated mean a considerable reduction in power CPB officials noted that "Black Journal" re the study last November. consumption since they are being put into ceived the same agency grant ($345,000) this effect at all 116 VNB offices. These measures The task force is delving into four major year as last, and said its problems stemmed should produce a major cut in energy use from a failure to draw private funds. aspects of the problem-legislation and law at the Virginia National headquarters build As a result, Brown estimated he would only enforcement, education and communication, ing alone. The headquarters at One Com be able to produce two or three half-hour research evaluation and resources and pre mercial Place in Norfolk is the largest private segments of "Black Journal." "Soul," at one vention and progr,am action. office building in the state. time also a weekly program, was given December 4, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39579 $175,000 this year by CPB for two one-hour ficacy of our Government's policies in vantage of a coordinated, surprise attack specials. the Middle East and especially toward and ample supplies of advanced Soviet CPB allocated $345,000 to a new show, Israel. In a recent article in the Wash weapons, were getting into military difficul "Interface" for nine half-hour programs ties. It was a mistake for Secretary Kis which will explore the relationship between ington Post a research assistant for the singer to have fl.own to Moscow a.t all. It was blacks and whites. The corporation also Brookings Institution has raised thought the Arabs and the Soviets who needed a points out that half its budget goes to chil ful and extremely disturbing criticisms of cease-fire, and he should have let them come dren's programs said to reach a consider the way in which the Nixon administra to him. Instead, he rapidly worked out a able number of black children. tion has handled the Middle East prob cease-fire scheme with the SoViets and Both Brown and Ellis Haizlip, producer of lem. He claims that by failing to request rushed it through the U.N. Security Council "Soul," dismissed "Interface;• charging that an end to the oil embargo as a price for a on Oct. 21, with the stipulation that the it was not a. "black show" but one that was cease-fire the administration has left cease-fire was to take effect on Oct. 22. also intended to cater to whites. By Oct. 22, however, the Israelis had a size "The fundamental question ls whether our Israel in ~ much more vulnerable posi able task force West of the Suez Cana.I. The access to the public airwaves ls a civil tion than it would have been otherwise. I Egyptians, after underestimating the scope right," said Rev. Jes.se Jackson, president of commend this important article to the and power of the Israeli crossing, belatedly the black achievement organization Oper attention of my colleagues: realized that the Israelis were moving into a ation PUSH. "We as black people have a dis MISSING THE BOAT IN THE MIDEAST position from which they could cut off the tinct point of View and our tax investment (By Martin E. Weinstein) Egyptian forces ea.st of the canal and simul 1n public broadcasting obligates public taneously attack the Egyptian reserves or broadcasting to hear us. There is a widespread lllusion that the even threaten Cairo. Given these circum "Either give black people our percentage Nixon-Kissinger policy in the Middle East stances, it ls understandable that both sides share of that which presently exists or give crisis has been a diploma.tic succes.s. It has ignored the cease-fire on Oct. 22 and 23-the us 15 per cent of the budget and we wlll been widely publicized as a masterpiece of Egyptians in the hope of preserVing their ini establish our own," Jackson said. timing, agility and firmness that saved the tial gains and the diplomatic advantages in Brown charged that the real issue with structure of peace, got the Arabs and Israelis herent in those victories, the Israelis to com. "Black Journal" was its emphasis on "black moving toward a la.sting settlement, and re pensa.te for their early setbacks and to people solving black problems and black peo strained the Soviets from sending their forces strengthen their bargaining position in the ple speaking for black people." into the war. expected negotiations. CPB President Henry Loomis denied that Like most illusions, this one has shreds of By the next day, Oct. 24, it was clear that the show's content had an adverse effect on evidence and wisps of logic to hold it to the Israelis were winning decisively. Suez its fund1ng. gether. After all, a cease-fire is in effect, City was in their hands and the Egyptain 3d "The problem with 'Black Journal' is not Arab-Israeli negotiations a.re being planned, Army was cut off from its supplies, includ objections to it but that Tony Brown has and the Soviets didn't send in their troops. ing its food and water. Unless the cease-fl.re one particular point of view," Loomis said. But the harsh truth behind the illusion is was immediately honored, Egypt faced a mil ''We feel there should be other points of that the Nixon-Kissinger policy has conceded itary disaster. view." He said the decision not to give addi to the Soviet Union military predominance in tional funds to the program was made by its the Middle East and has confirmed the Arabs THE SOVIET NOTES parent station, WNET in New York. in their belief that they can rely on Soviet The Soviet leaders, fully realizing the des Officials there blamed the Ford Founda military protection in the pursuit of their perate position of the Egyptians, sent Pres tion's failure to specifically allocate funds to policies, either on oil or Israel. The U.S. policy ident Nixon several urgent notes, correctly "Black Journal'' and "Soul," and claimed also has seriously, and perhaps irreparably, pointing out that the cease-fire was being that CPB has made efforts to move away damaged our vital alliances with Western violated and insisting that we a.ct together from public affairs and controversial pro Europe and Japan-the relationships which to enforce it, especially on the Israelis. Ac graming under the Nixon administration. are the basis of American security and pros cording to administration accounts, in one Tinka Nobbe, a program officer in the Of perity. And, finally, it is lea.ding the United of these notes the Soviets proposed Joint So fice of Public Television at Ford, declined re States, along with the rest of the non-Com viet-American intervention to stop the fight sponsibility. "We make block grants to our munist world, toward an economic abyss--a ing and stated that if the United States grantee~ and they decide what to do with severe depression, induced by a shortage of did not act together with the Soviet Un it," she said. oil and complicated by short-sighted eco ion, "we the Soviets should be faced with A study of public television's relationship nomic nationalism. the necessity urgently to consider the ques to minorities commissioned by the Ford tion of ta.king appropriate steps Unilat UNDERESTIMATING THE EMBARGO erally." Foundation and directed by Washington Post The major flaw in the administration's associate editor and ombudsman Robert C. In plain language, the Soviets were telling Middle East policy has been its underestima the President either to put a leash on the Maynard was released la.st week. tion of the Arab oil embargo and its con The study called for increased black pro Israelis or the Soviet Union might send in sequent failure to have that embargo lifted. its own forces to save the Egyptians. graming and suggested that "Black Journal" The embargo was threatened within a few be expanded to provide a broader range of The Soviet notes should not have been a views. days of the Egyptian-Syrian attack on Oct. 6, shock. They hinted at unilateral interven and was officially announced on Oct. 17. From · "We don't feel our role ls to respond to tion but left room for diplomatic maneuver. the moment the embargo was declared, it those recommendations.'' said Mrs. Nobbe, And why not? They had successfully rattled pointing out the foundation's efforts to with constituted a terrifying threat to American their missiles in the 1956 Suez Cana.I crisis. interests--not simply to our interests 1n the draw its financing of public television so Why not threaten intervention again in 1973, other forms of support can be developed. Middle Ea.st, but to our entire position as a especially since the United States and its al world power-a threat which Mr. Nixon and lies already had shown themselves weak and Statements by several of the witnesses at Kissinger did not perceive. the CPB boa.rd meeting charged that only divided in their reaction to the oil embargo. $650,000 was being made available for black The immediate effect of the embargo, as Mr. Nixon and Kissinger responded to this programing out of a two-year CPB budget President Sadat and King Faisal intended, quasi-ultimatum by promptly stopping the of $130 million. and as the Soviets must have understood, Israelis and simultaneously called a world· However, CPB officials said that the agency was to give an unprecedented battering to wide strategic alert. Then, on Oct. 25 and 26, 1s stlll operating on a $35 mlllion "contin the Western Alllance, and by so doing to the secretary and the President held tele uing resolution," of which only $12 million push the United States toward diplomatic Vised news conferences at which they stated 1s for programing. The $130 million appro isolation. The Western Europeans and Japa that their alert had averted a superpower priation for CPB is tied up in the HEW-La nese, whose industries would be crippled military confrontation in the Middle East. bor blll which may be vetoed by President without Arab oil, had to choose between pla The President announced that this was "the Nixon, as it was last year. cating the Arab producers or backing the most serious crisis we have had since the United States in its "even-handed" policy of Cuban confrontation of 1962," and he equivocal support for Israel. The administra strongly implied that he had faced the So tion minimized the importance of the oil em viets down. bargo, brushed off the allies' economic con MISSING THE BOAT IN THE A number of critics of the administration cerns a.s selfish, and left them no alternative promptly charged that the alert was un MIDEAST but to appease the Arabs. That, of course, ls justified, that the President had staged a what they have proceeded to do. military crisis to divert attention from his Our position, however, was not irretrieva Watergate problems. These critics were HON. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN ble. Within a few weeks of the war's out OF NEW YORK wrong. The President did face a serious con break, the ad.ministration was given an op- test with the Soviets. But he avoided it. He IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES portunity to correct its initial errors and to did not save the day with his alert. Rather, Tuesday, December 4, 1973 a.ct positively on the oil embargo. By Oct. 20, he avoided a crucial test by giving the So when Secretary Kissinger flew to Moscow to viets what they demanded and what Egypt Ms. HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, we are negotiate a cease-fl.re, 1t was obvious that desperately needed-an immediate honoring all concerned about the wisdom and ef- the Egyptians and Syrians, despite the ad· of the cease-fire. 39580 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS
WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN jected that NASA will only have 9 per office _into a publlc relations outfit. They felt But what of the oil embargo? There is cent minority employees.by the year 2001, that McConnell, who at 37 ls NASA's only not the slightest evidence that Mr. Nixon finds it cannot live with a .person like black in ·the· administrative stratosphere of or Kissinger ever saw a connection between Mrs. Harris because of her dedication to "supergrades," was a servant of the estab the cease-fire and the embargo. It should lishment and did not identify strongly have been clear to them by Oct. 20 that move forward faster, we have come to the enough with the needs of minorities. Mc the oil embargo is a more potent weapon point where we in this body can no longer Connell says that Harris continued to act in the Middle East war than the Egyptian remain silent. If we are to make our com as though she were running the office, that and Syrian forces, or Soviet arms, and that mitment to the civil rights laws we she was uncooperative and uncompromising, it is a weapon aimed only indirectly at Israel passed in the mid-1960's more than and that she did not seem to be fully aware but directly and menacingly at the United empty rhetoric, we must insist that the of the bureaucratic restrictions government States and the entire Western alliance. Federal Government honor. this com employees must work under. In brief, the administration should have At any rate, Harris, Hogan, and Samuel made the lifting of the Arab oil embargo the mitment by enforcing these laws and Lyon, a black contract compliance officer, prerequisite for our support of the cease providing true equality of opportunity. decided the office was going nowhere. "After fire. This should have been our stand We can begin to prove our commitment months of agonizing," she says, the three of throughout the crisis. Our government by insisting ·that NASA rehire Mrs. them put together a report--on their own should have told the Soviets and the Arabs Harris. time and money-documenting their belief that we favored a cease-fire and that we To fully acquaint my colleagues with that NASA's equal opportunity effort was "a wanted negotiation for a lasting peace set the circumstances of the Harris dismis sham." tlement, but that we could not work for a The report, submitted to Fletcher in late cease-fire or participate in negotiations sal and what is at stake, I include in the September, points out that the number of while the embargo cont~nued. How could we CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a.n article by Con people in minority groups employed by NASA be expected to press the Israelis to stop stance Holden from the November 23, has gone up only 1 percentage point--from fighting in Egypt and Syria while the Arab 1973, issue of Science magazine: 4.10 percent to 5.19 percent-since 1966. oil producers persisted in their economic [From Science magazine, Nov. 23, 1973] Women (almost all of them clerical workers) warfare against the United States? If the NASA: SACKING OF TOP BLACK WOMAN STIRS make up 18 percent of the NASA work force. fighting was to stop, it must stop on both CONCERN FOR EQUAL EMPLOYMENT Most women and blacks hold civil service the military and the economic fronts. grades below GS 9, despite the fact that 70 The sensible, unprovocative policy the On 25 October, James Fletcher, adminis percent of all NASA employees are at GS 10 United States should have followed was to trator of the National Aeronautics and Space or above. "At the present rate of increase, stand firmly on the necessity of the em Administration, summoned Ruth Bates Har NASA would reach only 9 percent min
4. The facts 1n respect of each of the loca that this was methodical murder pel'petrated proximately 125 Israeli prisoners. It is our tions are as tollows: in accordance with plans and orders emanat understanding that Israel has given the Red HUSHNEYAH ing from a high central authority. Cross a list of approximately 350 Syrian cap 8. The murder of prisoners-of-war consti tives it is holding and has given this orga The bodies were found in a wadi concealed tutes a violation of Article 13 of the Geneva nization an opportunity to inspect prisoner methodically, but not completely, by stones Convention relative to the treatment of and hospital facilities and to talk with pris and shrubs. In every case, their hands were prisoners-of-war. Under Article 130, the de oners of Syrian nationality. bound behind their backs with laces taken liberate murder of a prisoner-of-war is a Unfortunately, there is ca.use for great con from their own boots, and their eyes were grave violation of the Convention. Needless cern as to the treatment of Israeli soldiers blindfolded with rags or bits of clothing. to say, the murder of prisoners-of-war con detained in Syrian. A group of House mem Some of the bodies were found unclothed and stitutes the most serious imaginable in bers which recently visited Israel was shown unshod. Examination of the bodies discloses fringement of the whole basis of the Conven documentation and photographs indicating that the; prisoners were shot at very close tion and of the principles of humanity ac that Israeli soldiers captured by Syrian forces range. Every body was riddled by a number cepted among civilized peoples. have been bound, blindfolded, mutilated, of bullets. Considering that some of the 9. According to the first paragraph of Article and shot or stabbed to death. The bodies of bodies were found unclad and stripped of all 12 of the Convention: "Prisoners-of-war are approximately 30 Israeli soldiers, apparently their personal belongings, including identity in the hands of the enemy Powers, but not killed after their capture, were located at discs, it has been possible to identify only six of the individuals or military units who have various sites in the Golan Heights. byname. captured them." War is in itself tragic and inhumane. How HUSHNEYAH Vil.LAGE In accordance with the Article, it is the ever, there are well-established laws and in The murdered Israeli POW's were found all detaining Power which is responsible for the ternational agreements with respect to the together in a field near the vlllage their attitude adopted towards prisoners-of-war handling of prisoners of war, and it is as hands bound, their eyes blindfolded. Of the who fall into its hands. There ls, therefore, no sumed that responsible governments will seven bodies, only three could be identified doubt that the Syrian authorities bear the honor these obligations. by name. Five of the bodies were found with responsibility for the shameful crime com We therefore, are calling on you to instruct their upper parts bare. Two other bodies mitted by Syrian soldiers. the U.S. Representative to the United Na were discovered dressed only in undershirts. 10. So as not to cause anguish to the tions to introduce a Security Council reso All the bodies were found, as said, together families of the murdered men, the Govern lution asking Syria to fulfill Geneva Con in one spot. Beside the bodies were found ment of Israel has refrained until now from vention requirements by providing the In shirts of the murdered men. On examination, bringing these dreadful facts, in all their ternational Red Cross with a list of prisoners 1t was seen that the shirts were intact and tragic detail, to the knowledge of the general of Israeli nationality and permitting the Red not pierced by bullets. Empty cartridges public. Since, however, the story has been Cross to contact the captives and to visit were found only a metre away from the widely reported in the press, the Government POW facilities. The resolution should also bodies. One of the murdered men was found of Israel regards it as its bounden duty to call for an immediat.e exchange of wounded :wtth his legs bound. bring the shocking findings which have come prisoners. to light to the knowledge of the International The United States should appeal to all TEL FARIS Committee of the Red Cross. members of the UN Security Council, regard Here the bodies were found in a ditch, the 11. The Government of Syria bears un less of their position on the political issues hands of all three of the murdered men tied equivocal responsibility for these methodical involved in the Israeli-Arab dispute, to sup with ropes. The men were clad in their crimes. port such a resolution on the grounds o1 underwear only. All had been shot at very simple humanitarianism and respect for in DEMANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL close range. All have been identified by name. ternational law. Certainly, there can be no MOUNT HERMON STRONG-POINT 12. The Government o! Israel calls upon doubt that action by the UN on this issue the International Committee of the Red would be an important step toward relieving At least 31 soldiers of the Israel Defence Cross to take, at once, the necessary steps world tensions and achieving peace. Forces surrendered on 8 October 1973 to a to condemn the barbaric and disgusting Syrian force which surrounded the position. crimes that have been described, and to en According to the testimony of Syrian officers sure that proper and full protection be ex and men who were taken prisoner by the tended to Israeli prisoners-of-war. It demands THE PROPOSED MULHOLLAND Israel Defence Forces, the last 5 of the 31 that every means be adopted immediately to NATIONAL SCENIC PARKWAY Israel soldiers to emerge from the strong guarantee the health, welfare and honour of point when the garrison gave itself up were the Israeli prisoners-of-war held captive 1n shot dead while their heads were raised and Syria, as the Geneva Convention requires. they were unarmed. The testimony in ques 13. The Government of Israel demands of HON. ALPHONZO BELL tion afflTms that the 5 Israeli prisoners who the Syrian authorities that they give firm OF CALlFORNIA were shot were murdered on the specific guarantees and issue clear instructions to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES orders of the officer commanding the Syrian enure that there shall be no repetition of the battalion on the spot. horrendous crimes, such as described in this Tuesday, December 4, 1973 Two other Israeli soldiers were murdered complaint, and that the Government of Syria Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, on October 30, as the line of prisoners marched towards the will respect the laws of war and international 1973, accompanying legislation to create neighbouring Syrian strong-point. According Conventions. to the evidence of the Syrian prisoners, orders a Mulholland National Scenic Parkway (H.R. 11163), I made a statement for were given to the Syrian escort to klll every LETTER TO SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER Israeli prisoner who lagged behind. Two of the RECORD describing the 50-year his the prisoners had difficulty in walking be DEAR MR. SECRETARY: As members of the tory of Mulholland Drive and Highway in cause they were wounded, and they were U.S. House of Representatives, we want to Los Angeles, explaining my conception of accordingly shot dead by the Syrian soldiers. raise with you an issue of great humani tarian concern that has developed as a result the improvements which would be desir 5. Five photographs are attached which of the war in the Middle East. able or necessary to convert the 53¥2 -mile show with horrifying clarity what was seen The governments of Israel and Egypt have road to a national scenic parkway, and by the Israeli soldiers who found the bodies recently completed an exchange o! prisoners, detailing briefly the elements of city, of the murdered Israeli prisoners-of-war. It ts and it ls widely recognized that this ex coW1ty, State, and Federal participation possible to distinguish plainly that the peditious action has made a significant con which are basic to this proposal. prisoners were concentrated in a single group tribution to the prospect for peace talks be Over the last 5 weeks this legislation in and then were shot at point-blank range. tween Israel and Arab nations. principal has been endorsed by the Gov It can also be seen that all of them had been A similar exchange of prisoners with Syria ernor of California, the mayor of Los blindfolded "Vith bits of clothing and rags, has been proposed by the government of and that the hands of every one of them had Angeles, the director of the State de Israel. To date, the government of Syria has partment of parks and recreation, the been bound behind his back. not only refused to agree to such a procedure, 6. The circumstances of the murder of all but it has also neglected to fulfill its obli Los Angeles County Parks and Recrea the Israeli prisoners-of-war, as described gations under the Geneva Convention and tion Commission, the Los Angeles City above, bound hand and foot and helpless, international law with regard to the treat Recreation and Parks Commission, the prove that these were acts of deliberate mass ment of prisoners. The government of Syria Sierra Club, the Friends of the Santa murder of Israeli prisoners-of-war who had has failed to provide the International Red Monica Mountains' and Seashore, the fallen into Syrian hands. Cross access to the Israeli prisoners and has Federation of Hillside and Canyon As 7. The fact that four separate groups of also denied a request for an immediate ex sociation-representing 11 property own bodies of Israeli prisoners-of-war were found change of wounded prisoners. ers groups along the proposed park in different places leads to the conclusion The Syrians are believed to be holding ap- way route-the Los Angeles Times and 39586 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 4, 1973 the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Sen cases, be undertaken on City and County areas of the Santa Monica Mountains and ator JOHN TuNNEY, of California, has in rights-of-way and adjacent State and local (after ten years and an investment of $40 troduced a companion bill in the Senate parklands. million) ha.s made substantial progress to I do not anticipate difficulty in the negotia ward that end. cosponsored by Senator ALAN CRANSTON, tions regarding administration. There is am Mott has, moreover, also stipulated that of California. ple precedent for the National Park Service to even this commitment is not intended as a In addition, the following California relinquish areas or aspects of administrative terminal goal for recreational development Members of Congress cosponsored my bill responsibility for its facilities. and preservation of the Santa Monica Moun when I reintroduced it on November 15, 4. Is there precedent for a combined City tains. 1973: Mr. ANDERSON, Mrs. BURKE of Cal County-State-Federal undertaking such as Accordingly, at least the first stage of the ifornia, Mr. BURTON, Mr. CORMAN, Mr. the Mulholland National Scenic Parkway? Mulholland National Scenic Parkway con Answer: Not to my knowledge. Nor is there cept focuses on the improvement and link GOLDWATER, Mr. HAWKINS, Mr. HOSMER, a comparable facility in the National Park ing up of already available land with only Mr. MCCLOSKEY, Mr. MOORHEAD of Cali system which is located almost entirely in an limited acquisition of new land and new fornia, Mr. Moss, Mr. REES, Mr. ROYBAL, urban area. rights-of-way. Mr. STARK, and Mr. CHARLES H. WILSON But, particularly with the present energy There is, however, a point of view ad of California. crisis, it makes sense for the Department of vanced by the Friends of the Santa Monica In due course I will place in the RECORD the Interior to begin sponsoring innovative Mountains' Parks and Seashore that "fed the statements of each of the endorsing federal recreational programs closer to our eral funding for park roads should not ex population centers. clude federal funding for direct park and individuals and agencies. Today, how The Mulholland proposal has the added beach land acquisition." ever, I wish to offer answers to 10 ques advantage of allowing the federal government Those who share this position will not tions which have been put forward by to build on major recreational and roadway necessarily be compromised by supporting interested Los Angeles residents regard investments already made at other levels of the Mulholland National Scenic Parkway ing my intent in the introduction of this government. legislation because the goals are not mutual legislation. The responses to these ques The cost of this plan from scratch (includ ly exclusive. ing construction of the 53.5 miles of moun For example, the first five parkways in the tions have already been forwarded to the ta,in roadway) would be considerably more Department of the Interior, the National National Park system included a. total of than a billion dollars and would not even be 130,410 federal acres, averaging slightly less Park Service, the House Interior and In considered by the Congress or the Depart than 25,000 acres per parkway. More than sular Affairs Committee, and to Senators ment of the Interior. 23,000 acres have been authorized for the TUNNEY and CRANSTON, as an amplifica 5. What would the Mulholland National most recent John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial tion of my legislative intent. Scenic Parkway legislation accomplish? Parkway in Wyoming. The questions and answers follow: Answer: The Mulholland National Scenic It should also be noted that Senator Tun Parkway would link together City, County ney, the author of the bill to create a Santa THE PROPOSED MULHOLLAND NATIONAL SCENIC and State Recreational facilities in the Santa PARKWAY-QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Monica Mountain and Seashore National Monica Mountains which are located on Mul Urban Park (81270), introduced Mulholland (By Congressman ALPHONZO BELL) holland Drive or Mulholland Highway. Parkway companion legislation last week in 1. What do you estimate to be the cost of These include Leo Carillo State Beach, the the Senate. the proposed Mulholland National · Scenic projected Century Ranch State Park, the In the past the Dep_art~ent of the Interior Parkway? 7,200 acre Santa Monica Mountain Urban has expressed concern about the "full use" Answer: I envisioned participation to be State Park, the projected City Wilderness potential of land in the Santa Monica Moun approximately $30 million. Park ( on what had been Nike Base 96) , and tains. These objections, however, would not Ideally, this would be provided at the rate the Hollywood Bowl. apply to the Scenic Parkway program. of $4.8 million a year for six years divided In addition, separate ancillary Mulholland And even if establishment of the Mulhol equally between Parkway improvement proj Trails (of 5 to 10 miles each) would link land National Scenic Parkway did not en ects in Los Angeles City and Los Angeles Griffith Municipal Park and the Pilgrimage courage the Department of the Interior sub County. Theater to the Parkway in the east; Point sequently to increase its investment in the An additional $1.2 million (made available Mugu State Park in the West; and Will area (as often happens with National Park at the rate of $200,000 a year for six years) Rogers State Historic Park near the center facilities) the Parkway might very well have would go to Ventura County for trails and of the Santa Monica Mountain Range. that effect on the State Department of Parks other improvements linking Point Mugu The plan would anticipate the placement and Recreation and even on city and county State Park with the Scenic Parkway. of additional secondary parks and picnic agencies. This does not take into a,ecount the cost areas, parking cut-outs, scenic overlooks, hik 8. Are there other National Parkways in of City, County, and State projects, already ing and labeled nature trails, bicycle trails, our National Park System? planned, on and adjacent to Mulholland. equestrian trails and, perhaps, a network of Answer: Yes. There are six others. The 2. How will present and contemplated City, hostels along the route. most recently dedicated is the 82 mile John County, and Sta.to programs involving Mul All of this would be done as part of a D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway which holland Drive and Mulholland Highway be Master Plan to beautify the 53.5 miles of links Yellowstone and Grand Teton National affected by this legislation? Mulholland Drive and Highway. Parks. Answer: Section 4 of the bill requires the 6. Will it be necessary to widen Mulhol The 29 mile Baltimore-Washington Park Secretary of the Interior to coordinate de land Drive and Highway in order to establish way provides a good example of special juris velopment of the Parkway with Los Angeles the Scenic Parkway? dictional arrangements which can be made City and County agencies and with the Cali Answer: No. The widening of Mulholland for National Parkways. fornia Department of Parks and Recreation. is an issue which will be resolved at local Nineteen miles of this Parkway are ad Section 4 also requires the Secretary to act levels of government. ministered by the National Park Service. Ten to "assure that the National Parkway pro miles are administered by the State of Mary gram will augment and not supersede" pres The proposed National Scenic Parkway land. ent City, County and State programs on the could be adjusted to whatever decisions are 9. Will federal investment in the Mulhol Mulholland route. made by City and County agencies. land Parkway stimulate demands for sim.1- National Scenic Parkway legislation can My personal preference, however, is that lar projects in or near other population only be helpful to City, County, and State Mulholland not be widened and, in fact, not centers? programs involving Mulholland. be considered a major east-west artery but, Answer: There a·re no comparable oppor 3. Who would administer the Mulholland instead, be regarded as a 53¥2 mile ribbon tunities in any major city in the United National Scenic Parkway? park. States. Answer: The bill calls for the Secretary 7. Would passage of the Mulholland Na The Mulholland project is possible only be of the Interior to administer the Parkway tional Scenic Parkway legislation preclude cause (thanks to the initiative of Los Ange in accordance with the Act of August 25, federal acquisition of parkland in the Santa les residents beginning fifty years ago) Mul 1916, as amended and supplemented. Monica Mountains? holland Drive and Highway now exists and However, the Secretary under this Answer: The State Department of Parks (thanks to City, County and State Recrea Act has considerable discretionary author and Recreation ha.s taken the position that tion Departments (major park facilities have ity to issue licenses covering the use of land acquisition in the Santa Monica Moun already been established on the 53 .5 mile parkway lands and this quite likely would tains should be funded by state govern route. result in some, if not all, administrative re ment with the Mulholland connecting cor It is, however, reasonable that other urban sponsibilities being assigned to a County, or a. ridor being developed as a federal project, areas should propose similarly innovative co specially created City-County-State, agency. as proposed in the legislation which has been operative park ventures to the Department It should be remembered that the National introduced. of the Interior based on shared costs by City, Parkway will be located on what are now City State Director William Penn Mott, Jr. has County, and State agen<:les. and County roadways and that recreation defined an initial land acquisition program And I believe they should be given a sym and beautification projects will, in many totaling 40 to 50 thousand acres in three pathetic hearing because I believe our urban December 5, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 39587 a.rea.s ought to be better served by our Na Both the Los Angeles Times and the Los expressing deep sorrow at the passing of· tional Park system. Angeles Herald Examiner have editorialized 10. Does the Mulholland National Scenic in behalf of the proposal. And we under Marie McDowell, dedicated member of Parkway proposal have signlfic&nt commun stand other local publications and citizens' Alaska's State Board of Education since ity support? groups are also preparing supporting state· Answer: Yes. The legislation is supported ments. 1971. I wish to take this opportunity to by the California. Department of Parks and Recreation, by the Los Angeles County De recognize the high principles aml strong partment of Parks and Recreation, and by TRIBUTE _TO MARIE McDOWELL, OF convictions she demonstrated during her_ the Los Angeles City Recreation and Parks ALASKA Commission. tenure on the State board of education. It ha.s been endorsed by Mayor Bradley. It Marie McDowell was a concerned in will be cosponsored in the U.S. Senate by HON. DON YOUNG Sena.tor Alan Cranston and Sena.tor John dividual and advocate of the youth, who OF ALASKA Tunney of CallfO'l'nia. contributed much to the betterment of A resolution has been introduced in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Los Angeles City Council (proposed by Tuesday, December 4, 1973 Alaska's educational system. All of Councilman Wachs, seconded by Council man Braude) expressing support for the Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, I Alaska will feel the loss of her wisdom legislation. would like to join my fellow Alaskans in and devoted service.
SENATE-Wednesday, December 5, 1973 The Senate met at 11 a.m. and was dar No. 572, Senate Joint Resolution 133. chapter m of chapter 53 of such title re called to order by the President pro tem The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The lating to classification and general pore (Mr. EASTLAND) • joint resolution will be stated. schedule pay rat.es,"; and, in line 24, The legislative clerk read as follows: after "(d) ", strike out "service of an in PRAYER S.J. Res. 133, to provide for the establsh· dividual as a member of an ad hoc com Dr. Frank E. Gaebelein, headmaster ment of the American Indian Policy Review mittee, or employment by the Commis emeritus, the Stony Brook School, Stony Commission. sion of an attorney or expert in any job Brook, N.Y., offered the following prayer: The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there or professional field on a part-time or objection to the consideration of a joint full-time basis with or without compen O God of all love and compassion, Thou sation shall not be considered as service who dost work redemptivcly among men, resolution? There being no objection, the Senate or employment bringing such individual we confess our need of ThY cleansing and within the provisions of the act of Octo healing power in our lives and in our proceeded to consider the joint resolu tion, which had been reported from the ber 23, 1962 (76 Stat. 1119) ." and insert country. Thou art ever gracious to forgive "Any individual serving as a member of us our sins when we truly turn to Thee. Committee on Interior and Insular Af fairs with amendments on page 5, line 14, an ad hoc committee, or any attorney or Teach us, therefore, to be forgiving in expert in any job or professional field all our dealings with others. Thou art after the word "Senate", insert "Com mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs"· employed by the Commission on a part just and righteous in all Thy ways. In time or full-time basis with or without crease, therefore, our sensitivity to injus in line 16, after the word "House", insert "of Representatives"; in line 21, after the compensation, shall, while engaged in tice and quicken our concern for the poor such service or employment, be deemed and oppressed. word "Representatives", insert "Com mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs"· a "special Government employee" within Sustain and encourage, we beseech the meaning of section 202 of title 18 Thee, all who bear the burdens of gov on page 6, line 21, aft.er the word "above"' United States Code... • erning our Nation. May the Members of insert "Indian members"; in line 23, afte; the word "any", insert "one"; on page 7, The amendments were agreed to. this body be given discernment in know The joint resolution, as amended, was ing Thy will and integrity in doing it. at the beginning of line 13, strike out And grant, O gracious God, that with "$150 per diem when engaged in the ac passed. clarity of mind and soundness of judg tual performance of duties vested in the The preamble was agreed to. ment they may glorify Thee in all their Commission, plus reimbursement for The joint resolution, as amended, with work today. travel, subsistence, and other necessary the declaration and preamble, reads as In the name of Him who is the Way, expenses incurred by them in the per follows: the Truth, and the Life. Amen. formance of such duties." and insert DECLARATION OF POLICY "$100 for each day such member is en It ls here by declared to be the policy of gaged in the actual performance of du Congress that the unique and longstand THE JOURNAL ing legal relationship between the American ties vested in the Commission, but not to Indian people and the Federal Government Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask exceed sixty days in any one calendar shall- unanimous consent that the reading of year. Each member shall be reimbursed ( a) be fully recognized and respected; and the Journal of the proceedings of Tues for travel expenses, including per diem in (b) serve as the foundation for a funda day, December 4, 1973, be dispensed with. lieu of subsistence, as authorized by sec mental reform of Federal-Indian relations so The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With tion 5703 of title 5, United States Code~ as to develop and implement a new national out objection, it is so ordered. for persons employed intermittently in Indian policy to encourage and assist the full the Government service."; on page 9, line development of the unique human and natu 1, after the word "to", strike out "In ral resources of Indian people. COMMITTEE MEETINGS DURING dians;" and insert "Indians, and provide DECLARATION OF PURPOSE SENATE SESSION specifically for a management study of Recognizing that the Unique relationship the Bureau of Indian Affairs utilizing ex of the American Indian people and the Fed Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask eral Government is based upon the Consti unanimous consent that all committees perts from the public and private sec 12, 1, tution, numerous treaties and .a. still-growing may .be authorized to meet during the tors;"; on page line after the word body of statutory law and court decisions, session of the Senate today. "this", strike out_"Act and such moneys that this relationship carries with it a Fed The PRESIDENT pro tempare. With as may be appropriated shall be avail eral trust responsibility for the protection out objection, it is so ordered. able to the Commission until expended" of Indian land and rights to other natural and insert "Act"; at the beginning of resources and for the provision of public line 5, strike out "the civil service laws services to Indian people, that this solemn and regulations and without regard to and legal responsibility has not been ade AMERICAN INDIAN POLICY REVIEW the Classification Act of 1949, as amend quately fulfilled, that the Indian people have COMMISSION been denied the opportunity to realize the ed," and insert "provisions of title · 5 full potential of their human and natural Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask United States Code, governing appoini-: resources, and, therefore, th.at those results unanimous consent that the Senate ments in the competitive services and demonstrate that the national Indian polioy proceed to the consideration of ca1en- the provisions of chapter 51 and' sub- and the administration of Indian affairs ls