OF REMARKS October 21, 1969

30894 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 21, 1969 EXTENSIO ~NS OF REMARKS THE PROSPECTS FOR WYOMING ••ao to those Wyomingites who read dis event of war, good roads would expedite the "WE SHOULD NOT FEEL LONE aster into last week's article in the Wall movement of troops. The President said he SOME" Street Journal entitled, 'The Lonesome had not thought of that, and asked how Land,' we'd say, 'Cheer up.' You'll soon have much money they wanted. McKellar replied more industrial suitors than a. school ma.rm that they would leave that to his judgment. HON. JOHN WOLD in an oldtime Wyoming cowtown on Satur They were delighted when President Wilson day night. It'll be a. case of pic~ing out the suggested $15 million, and that was the be OF WYOMING good-looking ones.'' ginning of Federal aid to highway con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES struction in the United States. Tuesday. October 21. 1969 After I became a member of the Senate in 1927, I was made chairman of the Committee Mr. WOLD. Mr. Speaker, last week A MEMOIR BY FORMER SENATOR on Roads, and in that way, became ac Senator CLIFFORD HANSEN of Wyoming CARL HAYDEN quainted with officials of the "state highway and I responded to a story in the Wall departments, who appeared each year to ask Street Journal which gave a gloomy for Federal aid for the construction of roacis. forecast for the future of my district, HON. LEE METCALF When Franklin Roosevelt became Presi dent, the nation was in what was called the the great State of Wyoming. We pointed OF MONTANA Great Depression, and he was anxious to .out the article had missed many devel IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES provide work for the unemployed. opments in our State and, more than Tuesday. October 21. 1969 I went to the White House and told him that, had made an erroneous appraisal that there was no better way to accomplish of our State's economic and demo Mr. METCALF. Mr. President, I invite that purpose than by the construction of graphic potential. Indeed, many of what the attention of Senators to an article highways. the author called liabilities seemed to us published in the September 1969 issue He asked me how much it would cost, and of Highway User. It was written by the I said $400 million. The President wanted to to be assets. know how I arrived at that figure. I told him It is heartening to know that there are former sheriff of Maricopa County, our that I had asked each State highway depart observers whose assessments of Wyo beloved Senator Carl Hayden, who re ment how much it could usefully spend and ming's future are optimistic. Therefore, tired last year but who, it is refreshing $400 million was the amount recommended. I would like to insert at this point an edi to note, has maintained his interest in He said to go tell Bob Wagner to put it in torial from the Casper Star-Tribune of the national scene, in the Senate, and the Work Relief Bill, which became a law on October 14, 1969, which incorporates an in Congress and its many problems-in June 14, 1933. editorial from the Denver-Post concern this instance, highways. NATIONAL SYSTEM ing the article on Wyoming: I ask unanimous consent that Senator In 1934, Congressman Cartwright of Okla WE SHOULDN'T FEEL LONESOME Hayden's article be printed in the REc homa sponsored the customary Federal aid The Denver Post had an editorial com ORD. to roads bill. When the State highway officials ment Sunday on the Wyoming population There being no objection, the article appeared before my Senate committee, I told and economic picture. We believe it is a very them to go home and come back within a was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, month with a draft of a bill providing for a fair appraisal of the situation. As an out-of as follows: state newspaper, the Post can look at it with national highway system. They did that, and a somewhat more unbiased view than those IN RETROSPECT: "I FEEL FULLY REPAID" the bill became a law on March 26, 1934. of us who are in the midst of these prob (By former U.S. Senator Carl Hayden) Indian reservations make up so much of the area of Arizona and New Mexico, that I lems. As chairman of the Senate Committee on The Post's editorial is quoted in full: Appropriations, it was my job to see that the inserted a provision in the Federal Highway "Wyoming has lost population since the I11terstate Highway System received a fair Act, which provides that the States do not 1960 census which showed 330,000 residents share of the money collected from the Ameri have to match Federal funds expended on and that's a disgrace in the usual up-and Indian reservations. One year, the Arizona can taxpayers. State Highway Commission was "hard up," at-em frame of mind prevalent since the Since my final return from Washington, pioneers decided the West had to be won. so a highway was constructed within the I have :.1ot failed to observe the thousands San Carlos Indian Reservation which passed "We think differently. of automobiles that move with speed over "Obviously, it is painful to lose popula over the top of the Coolidge Dam. A more di an abundance of paved highways. This re rect and much better highway connecting tion. A town that needs all the taxes it can minds me that when I was the sheriff of poSISibly get to run its school system, or Gila and Graham Counties has since been Maricopa County over a half century ago I constructed. town hall, is hurt every time a house or busi pleaded with the Board of Supervisors to buy ness building turns up vacant. I have been asked a number of times why an automobile for official use by me and my Arizona needed Interstate highways. My an "But thinking of Wyoming as a whole four deputies. The supervisors turned me there's a lot to be said for having a small, swer was that in northern Arizona we have down cold. To serve a warrant or a summons the Petrified Forest and the Grand Canyon, manageable population-at least at this we had to ride horseback and be compensated point in history. whic~ we want the American people to see, at a rate of 30 cents a mile. and in southern Arizona we have one of the "The entire country is just waking up to My recollection is that in 1916 Congress the fact that environment is a lot easier to finest winter climates anywhere in the man Dorsey W. Shackleford, of Missouri, United States, to which we want all of those protect from air and water pollution and sponsored a good roads bill, that passed the urban decay before they start than to try to who ride in automobiles to have access. House of Representatives, which authorized When on a hot summer day I get seated in salvage affairs after the damage has been Congress to appropriate funds to assist in done. an automobile and can be up into a pine the building of State roads. When the bill forest in less than two hours, I feel fully re "In that regard Wyoming haiS a wonderful came over to the Senate, Senator John Bank opportunity to guide its development-to set paid for all the time I devoted to Federal aid head of Alabama took charge of it. It became to the construction of highways. standarcis for industry, to watch where the known as the Bankhead Act of 1916. Atomic Energy Commission buries its bombs and, above all, to be selective in the type · TO THE WHITE HOUSE of industry it seeks out. One day, Senator Bankhead said to Sena "Elsewhere in OO<iay's Denver Post there is tor Kenneth McKellar o7 Tennessee: "Presi MR. AGNEW DOES NOT UNDER a story detailing plans for a new uranium dent Wilson doesn't like me, but he likes you. STAND mining town to be built near Medicine Bow. I want you to go with me to the White House Within a year there will be more than 1,000 to see if he will agree to t:1e appropriation of residents, with more to come. money in accordance with my road bill." HON. FRANK THOMPSON, JR. "If stories like that do not reassure de Senator Bankhead told Senator McKellar OF NEW JERSEY that he would be glad to obtain $5 million for velop-or-bust Wyomingites, we f.ee·l confi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent in assuring Wyoming that growth will that purpose. come. The mathematics of U.S. population When they brought up the subject with Tuesday, October 21, 1969 gr·owth underwrite the inevitability of President Wilson, he said that he had grave Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey. Mr. growth. Just as is the case with Colorado, doubts about whether he should have signed the chance of locating new indusrtry in a that bill-that it was a State, and not a Speaker, last Sunday at a Republican clean, recreation-rich Western state will Federal, function to build roads. fundraising dinner in New Orleans, the prove an overpowering lure to more indus The First World War was then going on in Vice President--although he did not use trialists than we need. Europe. Senator McKellar said that in the my name-said I was an effete, impudent, October 21, 1969 .EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS -30895 and masochistic snob.

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