HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, January 20, 1970 the House Met at 12 O'clock Noon
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January 20, 1970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 277 Na.tiona.l Timber Supply Act. Lately the For OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM without regard for the harm this will do est Service seems to have acquiesed. to the IN CRISIS to the student. sohool of clear cutting--except they don't Parents, students, and the general oa.ll it that. There is a new word in the Forest public are justifiably upset. Service for clear cutting. It is oalled. "even aged management"-a very positive sounding HON. DON FUQUA We have made every effort within the phrase for questionruble management. OF FLOJUDA Congress to pass legislation which would alleviate this situation and allow for The American public is faced with revers I~ THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing a trend toward "clear cutting" back to orderly processes. I have called on the "selective cutting". The clear cutting trend Monday, January 19, 1970 Attorney General to point out that many has prospered in the new forestry schools Mr. FUQUA. Mr. Speaker, recent Court of our school distlicts face a clisis that many of which are infiuenced, promoted and local boards simply are unable to solve. underwritten by the lumbering interests. decisions ordering immediate integration The lumber lobby has been working hard to our school systems is playing havoc I have pleaded that the Justice Depart in Washington. The House Agriculture a.nd with our educational system. ment utilize every means to help our Forestry Committee has already fa-yorably re Students, without regard to race, creed, local officials in this regard. ported on their version of the NatiOnal Tim or color, are the actual victims of the I call upon the courts to recognize ber Supply Act. The Senate seems inclined to disruptive situation which faces our that there are differences in the various schedule hearings. Some of Wisconsin's big school districts and that each should be gest paper industries have endors~ it. ~e school boards. judged on its own merit and not a sum public remains unaware of what IS taking School officials find themselves at mid mary order which does not take into re place. term with an insoluble problem of trans gard the children in our schools. Between this innocent-sounding act and ferring students and faculty from school the lumbering trends-the cries of "Timber!" Regardless of what can be done, edu will soon be echoing in our national forests to school without orderly planning. cation has suffered and will suffer be as they never have since we fought to save Cow·ses of study begun under one teacher cause of the ill-advised actions of the them a quarter of a century ago. in one school setting, are to be changed courts. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, January 20, 1970 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Mr. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, one of Sadly, the ship was only 90 minutes The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, the President's primary objections to the from its destination, but within 27 min D.D., offered the following prayer: HEW appropriations bill is that it con- utes 678 of the 904 men on board were Whosoever heareth these sayings of tains some $400 million in excess of his lost in the iceberg waters of the North Mine and doeth them, will be like a wise budget request for grants to schools in Atlantic. man who built his house upon a rock. federally impacted areas. The additional Included among the group on the ship Matthew 7: 24. funds for this program are highly ques- were four chaplains-a priest, a rabbi, Eternal God who art the refuge of the tionable, as shown by the recent report and two ministers. They, too, lost their humble and the strength of the faith of the Battelle Institute which was com- lives, but the manner in which they fell ful help us to realize more than ever missioned by Congress to study the im- to death was unusual and has an inter th~t the · only firm foundation upon pact aid program. esting story. Briefly, I would like to which our Nation can build safely is a The Battelle study found that the share with you some facts of that fate true faith in Thee and in a real devotion current program overcompensates many ful venture. to moral and spiritual values. districts, allowing them to maintain a These chaplains went down with their May the security of our American way, higher level of education with less local ship because they had given their life the survival of our democratic spirit, effort. In many cases these overpayments jackets to soldiers who lost theirs in the and the support of our free institutions go to wealthy school districts: for ex- confusion or had left them below deck. find inspiration in the assurance of Thy ample some $5.8 million in impact aid Meanwhile, with utter disregard for power, Thy wisdom, and Thy love. went to the richest county in the Nation self and having given their own life Each day may we keep ourselves com in 1968, while the 100 poorest counties jackets away, the chaplains stood hand mitted to Thee whose love never falters, received only a total of $3.?. million. in hand, praying to God they served for whose light never fades, and whose life The study also noted that impact aid the sa.fety of those men who were leav never fails. Thus may we face this day tends to frustrate State policies designed ing the sinking ship in fear and terror. with courage and faith knowing Thou to equalize educational opportunities. Appropriately, I feel, the delegates to art with us always and all the way. Since impact aid payments cannot be the Civitan International Convention in taken into account in making State Dallas, Tex., on June 27, 1962, adopted In the Master's name we pray. Amen. equalization payments, States must use a resolution honoring the clergymen by their scarce funds to double pay districts asking the respective States to set aside THE JOURNAL with Federal impact, instead of being and program a week each year to be able to use those funds where the gap known as Interr.ational Clergy Week. The Journal of the proceedings of between educational needs and financial · In my home State of Tennessee last yesterday was read .and approved. resources is the gr.eatest. year, the Governor proclaimed the week Certainly, pourmg more money 1~to of February 3 as Clergy Week. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE this program will only create g:ea~r n~- In view of this action, I feel it is only equities for ~he ~any school distncts m fitting that this Congress pass a joint A message from the Senate by Mr. Ar the country m which th~ need for finan- resolution calling on President Nixon to rington, one of its clerks, announced that -cial assistance .may be JUst ~ great or proclaim the week of February 3 as In- the Senate had passed without amend greater, but which do not receive support. ternational Clergy Week in the United ment a concurrent resolution of the House of the following title: States. H. Con. Res. 477. Concurrent resolution INTERNATIONAL CLERGY WEEK Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I have intro providing for a joint session of Congress on <Mr. QUILLEN asked and was given duced such a resolution today to accom Thursday, January 22, 1970. permission to address the House for plish this goal. 1 minute and to revise and extend his THE PRESIDENT'S PRIMARY OBJEC remarks.) Mr. QUILLEN. Mr. Speaker, almost FAILURE OF THE NIXON ADMINIS- TION TO THE HEW APPROPRIA TRATION'S ECONOMIC POLI- TION BILL 27 years ago the lives of 678 men were snuffed out by a single tragedy-the CIES (Mr. CONABLE asked and was given torpedoed sinking of the troop trans <Mr. ALBERT asked and was given permission to address the House. for 1 port Dorchester in the cold waters of permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his the North Atlantic off the coast of minute and to revise and extend his re remarks.) Greenland. marks.) 278 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE Janua1"Y 20, 1970 Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, the an PRIVATE CALENDAR Brunner, of Atlanta, Georgia, shall be held nouncement yesterday by the Bureau of and considered. payable from November 1959, in The SPEAKER. This 1s Priv-ate Calen when she first sought to apply for such Labor Statistics that consumer price first creases continue to accelerate in De dar day. The Clerk will call the benefits by reason of the naval service of individual bill on the Private Calendar. her deceased husband Harry Brunner." and cember rising at 0.6 percent to round out insert ", the claim filed in 1959 by Ruth the Nation's most inflationary 12 months Brunner as the Widow of Harry Brunner, since the Korean war, demonstrates in JOHN VINCENT AMIRAULT also known as Henri Bruner (XC 857314) , dramatic terms the utter failure of the shall be held and considered to be a valid Nixon administration's economic policies. The Clerk called the bill (H.R. 2552) and timely claim for such benefits and shall As a result of last month's jump in for the relief of John Vincent Amirault. be considered and, if found meritorious, prices, weekly take-home pay of the Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani paid in accordance wit h ot herwise applicable Nation's 45 million nonfarm private pay mous consent that this bill be passed law." roll workers expressed in constant dol over without prejudice.