15374 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 10, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CORRECTION OF ERROR IN be highly successful and educational for the began to shine upon his assignment to the TRANSCRIPT students involved. 1956th Communications Group at Yokota Air For 3 weeks, the band will travel the Orient, Base in Japan. He helped install the only two HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY making stops in mainland China, Hong Kong, MAID-MILES sensor systems in the Pacific OF CALIFORNIA and then concluding their tour in Hawaii. A theater. His astounding technical abilities and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES final performance will be made in the Fourth involvement with the local Japanese commu of July parade in Kailua, HI. nity led to his selection as NCO of the Year Wednesday, June 10, 1987 Two upstanding members of the Michigan for 1981 for both his unit and the Pacific Com Mr. DYMALL Y. Mr. Speaker, I am enclosing Lions Club deserve special recognition for munications Division. The taxpayers of Amer a letter to Senator SARBANES which corrects their efforts in this endeavor. Eugene Staelens ica can be thankful for his service as material an error which occurred in the June 3, 1987, of Adrian, Ml, first conceived the idea of a deficiency report monitor, when his rebutting morning transcript of the joint hearings on the statewide high school band sponsored by the of improper instructions resulted in a savings Iran-Contra investigation. While the error in at Lions Club. For the past 1O years he has been of $25,000. tributing a statement to Senator SARBANES an integral part of bringing the students to As a crew chief for the 2d Combat Commu has since been corrected, I feel it is important gether and assisting in the organization and nications Group at Patrick Air Force Base in to bring this to your attention to set the record promotional aspects of the project. Walter Florida, his great leadership skills earned him straight as copies of the uncorrected tran Cole, of St. Johns, Ml, is a retired high school the NCO of the Quarter, April-June 1984, script have been circulated. band director and member of the St. Johns award for both his unit and Patrick AFB. As a The letter follows: Lions Club. For the past 8 years, Mr. Cole has member of the 2135th Information Systems HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, dedicated a great deal of his time in serving Squardron in Belgium, he helped activate the Washington, DC, June 9, 1987. as band director for this organization. Through first ground-launched cruise missile base on Senator PAUL SARBANES, the efforts of these two dedicated individuals, the European Continent. Senate Dirksen Building, many young musicians of Michigan have been Upon his arrival in Hawaii in 1986, he de Washington, DC. DEAR PAUL: While going over the June 3, able to participate in various opportunities vised a training guide for technical reports 1987 morning transcript of the Iran-Contra which may not have otherwise been available. which lowered error rates for his units from 70 hearing I noticed that accusations against While a few other States may also plan to percent to the lowest in the entire Air Force Rep. Conyers and myself may have been at send delegate bands to the international con Communications Command. His community in tributed to you.
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. June 10, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15375 doesn't need to hear the word twice like most first place, has met the health care demands ting the federal deficit-rings hollow, Con contestants nor does he need to hear its defi of an industrialized urban area with a warm, gress has already demonstrated that it lacks nition or to write it down, all standard proce personal quality. the discipline to spend only as much as it dure for the spelling contests. Most of the Such a combination of caring and high qual takes in. For each dollar the federal govern ment receives, it spends $1.58. Give it an time, Danny can spell the word the first time it ity medical care is a rarity in today's fast extra $57 billion and, at that rate, an addi is given. paced and sometimes impersonal health care tional $90 billion will be spent. Give the gov His inspiring accomplishments are all the profession. Over the years, the physical struc ernment-as the Senate wants to do-$119 more exceptional because Danny has a handi ture of Sacred Heart has changed, trans billion, and it'll spend $188 billion over four cap that most kids his age never come into formed from the Harvey mansion and an old years. contact with. Danny has been hampered with rectory to a complete health care facility that Tax increases have not been enacted since a disease that causes the atrophying of his is superior in technology, equipment, and staff 1982, when Congress voted to raise nearly joints. This handicap however, has not daunt abilities. $100 billion in revenue by closing loopholes ed his spirit or determination in the least. He My warmest congratulations are extended in the tax code. While many continue to to Sacred Heart's administration and staff on debate whether the Tax Reform Act of 1986 still plans on attending UC Berkeley, which was truly revenue-neutral, some believe that has offered him a scholarship for next fall. this, the 75th anniversary of not just a hospi taxes were actually increased. Both teachers and students commend and tal, but a warm and caring health care com The president's answer to the idea of look up to Danny as someone with an excep munity. more taxes is well known. He echoes a simi tional talent and the self-discipline it takes to lar refrain to the first lady's campaign perfect that talent. His father, a member of JUST SAY "NO" TO TAXES against drugs: "Just say Nol" I concur. the merchant marine, instilled in Danny a Many of my colleagues and I took a pledge penchant for hard work and a love for litera against raising taxes by changing the tax ture and words. However, Danny's father did HON. JACK BUECHNER brackets enacted by tax reform. Others are not live long enough to see his son win the OF l\llSSOURI considering various measures by which to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES add more revenue to the federal coffers. statewide championship. But Danny's mother One type of tax proposal that is given se and two sisters have witnessed his accom Wednesday, June 10, 1987 rious consideration is to increase excise plishments and are extremely proud of him. Mr. BUECHNER. Mr. Speaker, I would like taxes. While some congressional advocates Danny Rose is a typical high school senior to call my colleagues' attention to an op-ed say the best way to impose a tax is to spread who enjoys the activities that most students piece I wrote which appeared in last Sunday's it evenly across a wide section of the popula do such as going to the movies or watching St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In that article titled tion, in fact, the excise tax would be one of Oakland A's games. But at the same time, he "Just Say 'No' to Taxes", I talked about the the most regressive taxes imposed upon the should be very proud of an outstanding talent American people-especially low-income in tremendous burden Americans would have to dividuals. If implemented, it would wipe out that has made him stand out from other stu bear if we follow the Democrats' resolution many of the benefits that low- and moder dents. Danny is a credit to the community of calling for $18-20 billion in new taxes. Of ate-income Americans realized under last Martinez and to the State of California, and I course, that depends on which resolution you year's tax bill. am very proud to have him as a constituent. look at. According to a study by the Congressional I know that all Members of the House of In truth, we have no budget resolution. It is Budget Office in January, a $19 billion in Representatives will join me in wishing Danny overdue by nearly 2 months! The majority crease in excise taxes would eliminate the Rose the best of luck, and in congratulating party said they would have the ability to entire income tax reduction provided under him on his outstanding achievements. govern once they gained control of both tax reform to families with incomes under Houses; I question that very seriously. Not $30,000. Moreover, it is expected to cost the working poor more than double the savings only have they excluded the Republicans from SACRED HEART HOSPITAL OF they received from tax reform. According to the process, the press and the general public the Joint Committee on Taxation, families ALLENTOWN, PA, CELEBRATES from seeing the conference develop a resolu 75TH ANNIVERSARY earning under $10,000 a year received an av tion, but they still cannot agree among them erage tax reduction of 1.1 percent. The CBO selves exactly how much the Federal Govern report indicates that this same group would HON. DON RITl'ER ment should spend in fiscal year 1988. pay more than 2. 7 percent of their total OF PENNSYLVANIA Talk about a motto for leadership; there is income under the excise tax scheme de IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES no leadership by those who would allow our signed to help meet the budget target. budget resolution to be 2 months late and Excise taxes do not affect all Americans in Wednesday, June 10, 1987 the same way. Those who make $10,000 a then spring a possible $20 billion in new taxes year are hit much harder than those who Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, the Sacred Heart on the American people. Hospital of Allentown, PA, is preparing to kick earn $100,000. The CBO study I referred to JUST SAY "No" TO TAXES-CONGRESS SHOULD off a week's activities in celebration of the earlier states that an American family earn BE ESPECIALLY WARY OF EXCISE TAX PRO- ing $20,000 or less may pay as much as eight hospital's 75th anniversary of service to the POSALS times more annually as a percentage of community. 91-059 0-89-49 (Pt. 11) 15378 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 10, 1987 celebration will be held on Sunday, June 14, Boston and its people were the beneficiaries assist the court-ordered desegregation of to mark the life-long contributions that Dorothy of Mr. Taylor's personal interest in them, his Boston's schools. Taylor responded: "I am Boyle has made to her students, school, and social conscience, his boundless energy, and highly honored that someone thought I his generosity. He provided a living definition would be a worthwhile member of that community. board. I think the organization does nothing Born in Windsor Locks, CT, Dorothy Ca of good citizenship and an example that could but good for the people of the Massachu vanna Boyle has maintained strong ties to the be usefully emulated by all of us. setts Bay area." tristate area. After attending grade school and In this our Constitution's bicentennial year, it Besides being a reporter, promotion man high school in Windsor Locks, she majored in is appropriate to be reminded that the mainte ager and a member of the Globe's board of education at Notre Dame College in Staten nance of the free press guaranteed by that directors, he was also its treasurer and Island. She married Joseph Boyle on October document requires the participation in journal became president of the company in 1963. 25, 1941, and moved to Philadelphia. After ism of people of great ability and great integri In an unusual business arrangement, he ty. John I. Taylor was such a person. I was worked in the same office with his cousin, her husband was discharged from the Army, another gandson of General Taylor, Wil they moved to Jamaica, Queens, where she proud to know him as a friend, and I want to liam Davis Taylor, the Globe's publisher. continued to raise her daughter, Rita, and offer my condolences on his passing to his "For 35 years, we shared the same quarters began working at the St. Gregory the Great wife, Margaret; to his sons, John Jr., Timothy, and had no secrets. When we disagreed on School. David, and Benjamin; and to all those who something we just didn't talk about it," Dorothy began teaching third and fourth make up the Boston Globe family. Theirs is a Davis Taylor said the other day. "Johnny's grade at the St. Gregory the Great School in loss that is widely shared and deeply felt. politics were different from mine. He was 1957 and continued there for three decades. At this point in the RECORD I would like to far more liberal than I, but his sense of the In recognition of her dedication and abilities, insert an editorial on John I. Taylor which ap community was strong and superior." peared in the June 9 Boston Globe. Although he was assuredly one of the she has won a plaque from the school board bosses, John I. Taylor did not always think and a merit award from the Diocese of Brook CFrom The Boston Globe, June 9, 19871 nor act like one. Once, while leaving the lyn. Her retirement marks the end of a distin JOHN I. TAYLOR building, he spied a reporter, quite drunk, guished and dedicated career. He was relentlessly curious, slightly irrev staggering back from lunch. He called an Dorothy Boyle has also maintained an erent, passionately committed to the city editor, saying. "Gee, we'd better get him out active involvement in community life. She or his newspaper served and-far from the of here before somebody sees him." His in ganized the neighborhood block party for least of his qualities-possessor of a shrewd stinctive response was to hustle the reporter business sense. In his lanky, genial, digni into a taxi. At the time, Taylor was presi many years. In addition, she has collected fied frame, John I. Taylor, who died yeste dent of the company. money for the Cancer Society fund raising day at 75, exemplified the qualities of integ His warmth and integrity, his wit and in drives. This is the type of admirable communi rity and imagination that make a successful genuity, will be missed by those who knew ty involvement we should all seek to emulate. newspaper. him. The Boston Globe owes much of its Dorothy Boyle's life is an example of the type Of the tasks he performed for the Globe, success and its sense of soul to John Ingalls of citizen that makes this country great. that of reporter remained his favorite. He Taylor. Mr. Speaker, I call now on all my colleagues covered city and state politics, national po in the House of Representatives to join with litical conventions and the murder of a pri me in paying tribute to Dorothy Boyle and in vate school headmaster in 1934 with zest DR. CHARLES L. OPPY, and diligence, qualities that served him in OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL extending to her family, friends, and col other assignments for the Globe. He never leagues our best wishes upon the momentous lost his news sense nor his affection for the occasion of her retirement, which represents newsroom. HON. BILL SCHUE'ITE not only a life of dedication but, also, a life of In 1931, when he began working for the OF MICHIGAN active and important community involvement. Globe, a press critic of the time, Oswald IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Garrison Villard, called Boston "the poor farm of American journalism." A grandson Wednesday, June 10, 1987 THE LATE JOHN I. TAYLOR of General Charles H. Taylor, who built the Mr. SCHUETTE. Mr. Speaker, today I would <1911-87) Globe, Taylor knew that it had to complete like to take the opportunity to commend an more effectively in a crowded newspaper outstanding individual of the highest character market. In 1939, when the old Transcript HON. EDWARD P. BOLAND folded, he lobbied for a book page in an and moral and ethical standards. Since 1954, OF MASSACHUSETTS effort to inherit the Transcript's literary Dr. Charles L. Oppy, of Roscommon, Ml, has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES minded readers. been a vital member of his community in pro "John I." was a familiar figure in the city viding quality and caring medical services to Wednesday, June 10, 1987 room as well as in schools, colleges and com those in need. To show their appreciation for Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, with the death munity service agencies. One luxury of the his selfless dedication to the medical profes on Monday, June 8, of John I. Taylor, Ameri newspaper business, he noted, is that doing sion and his community, the citizens of Ros can journalism lost one of its most respected the right thing for the community is often common will honor Dr. Oppy on July 26, at a figures. good for business. Committed to keeping the Globe a family-managed enterprise, as it community retirement reception. For a half century, Mr. Taylor worked at the had been since 1872, he pushed for home de Charles Oppy enlisted in the U.S. Navy Boston Globe. It was for John I. Taylor truly a livery in the 1940s, before the exodus to during World War II, marking the beginning of labor of love; not just a love of the Globe, suburbia began. He combined a strong con a life-long dedication to his country and fellow though love it he did, but a love for the pro science with a concern for circulation fig citizens. At the age of 27 he enrolled at the fession and possibilities of journalism. From ures. University of Cincinnati, going to school full the news room, to the promotion department, After naval service in World War II, he time and working part time. He received his to the president's office, no phase of the became involved in the Globe's promotion degree in biology in 1949, and graduated from department and helped persuade MIT to Globe's operation failed to benefit from Mr. sponsor an annual science fair for young sci the U of C School of Medicine in 1953. The Taylor's skills as a reporter, an administrator, entists-all before Sputnik raised national following year he moved to Roscommon and and a businessman. He helped the Globe consciousness about science. The concept began his life-long family medical practices. achieve a position of prominence in American was later extended to the annual scholastic The list of accomplishments since that time journalism, a position from which it speaks art award program for high schools. Today's is remarkable: Chief of staff at Grayling Mercy today with a voice that is heard far beyond Boston Globe Foundation, contributing to a Hospital, Grayling, Ml; member of the Michi Boston. broad range of charities, is a natural out gan Medical Society; member, Michigan While John I. Taylor knew that a newspaper growth of John I. Taylor's curiosity and Cancer Society; Michigan Medical Society generosity. could be a tremendous force for good in soci Not all of his community activity had Government Affairs member; founding board ety, he also knew that he did not completely benign results. In 1975, more than 1000 member of the Kirtland Community College. discharge his responsibility to his community members of an antibusing group held a rally This is only a small listing of the countless or solely by working to ensure that the Globe outside his home, accusing him of using his ganizations and activities which Dr. Oppy has was that kind of instrument. The city of position as a director of the United Way to so selflessly served. June. JO, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15379 In addition, Dr. Oppy was awarded the MARTINEZ GUN CLUB CELE curity Affairs, and Lt. Gen. Yun Kuo, Republic "Plessner Memorial Award" by the Michigan BRATES ITS 104TH BIRTHDAY of China Army, Chief of Defense Procurement Medical Society for best exemplifying the and Service Mission, Coordination Council for practices and ethics of a rural community HON. GEORGE MILLER North American Affairs, Washington, DC, were practitioner, and for his services to patients, OF CALIFORNIA two very distinguished guests. There were 363 his community, and the medical profession. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES people from 16 States, the District of Colum bia, and Ontario, Canada. Mr. Speaker, I respectfully ask that you and Wednesday, June 10, 1987 our colleagues in the U.S. House of Repre Service and sacrifice, shared in the defense sentatives join me today in commending and Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I of freedom and forging a bond of brother thanking Dr. Oppy for his commitment and would like to congratulate the Martinez Gun hood, impervious to distance and time, are the dedication to serving those in need around Club on celebrating its 104th birthday. hallmarks of this monument in West Park, Al him. Always willing to be of service at any Founded in 1883, by Justice F.M. Smith and lentown. The magnificent courage and real charter members H. Weatherby and Joseph bravery of the Great Valley Basha can only be time of the day or night, Dr. Oppy is a perfect Briars, the club has had a long and distin suitably measured in proportion to extraordi living example of the rural, family doctor who guished history in Contra Costa County. nary expanses of terrain, brutal and primitive is willing to go the extra mile, above and Approaching the use of firearms in a posi conditions in the midst of ever-present con beyond the call of normal duty that many have tive and safe manner has been the longstand flict. These triumphs accomplished a new thought were gone long ago. On July 27, the ing tradition of the Martinez Gun Club. In an Allied counteroffensive in Asia. city and county of Roscommon, and its neigh age when the privilege of owning a gun is The Great Valley Basha Reunion serves all boring communities, will wish Dr. Oppy a readily available and often abused, the Marti of us not only as memory but as constitutive joyous and well-deserved retirement. While Dr. nez Gun Club proposes a safe and entertain element of our national character and resil Oppy may be retiring from his role as medical ing approach to a potentially dangerous instru ience in the face of diverse new challenges. practitioner, he continues to fulfill a role that is ment. Other similar organizations would bene so much greater-a caring, ethical, dedicated fit greatly from the experience and tradition of human being. the Martinez Gun Club. IT'S TIME YOU MET KEVIN The association's concerns do not stop at JONES the safe and recreational use of firearms, but A TRIBUTE TO "VOICE OF THE extend to a concern for our natural resources HON. JACK BUECHNER CROATIAN FRATERNAL UNION" as well. With our environment in a precarious OF MISSOURI state, concern for its preservation is extremely IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES important. It is reassuring to know that the HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. Martinez Gun Club takes an active role in the Wednesday, June 10, 1987 OF OHIO well-being of our community. Mr. BUECHNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Martinez Gun Club sponsors two very to bring to your attention an article that ap large shoots a year, the A.T.A. Golden State Wednesday, June 10, 1987 peared in the May 24 edition of the St. Louis Grand, and the Labor Day Grand, together Post-Dispatch concerning a young man who Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, today I rise with 12 club shoots and 1O registered shoots attends school in my district. This young man in order to pay tribute to "Voice of the Cro a year. Already there are 500 participants and is Kevin Jones; we would all do well to pay at atian Fraternal Union," a very special radio the numbers are steadily growing. tention to the message of his story. The club boasts a bay area membership of program in my 17th Congressional District. It "IT'S TIME You MET KEv1N JoNEs" 400 in addition to the approximately 100,000 is my strong belief that the Congress of the