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IN THB COAST GUABD Stephen J. Baumrind Walter E. Hanahan, Jr. FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION Ronald G. Grimmer Robert J. Cheney, Jr. The following-named lieutenant command M. R. Bradley, of Indiana, to be a member ers of the Coast Guard Reserve to be per Lawrence J. Toole William R. Allen ma.nent commissioned officers in the Coast George H. McEachern Richard R. Kuhn of the Federal Fa.rm Credit Board, Fa.rm Guard Reserve in the grade of commander: William B. Christy Rona.Id P. Hunter Credit Ad.ministration, for a term expiring Edward c. Ruba.tino Edwin J. Roland, Jr. March 3, 1982. Leona.rd P. Brooks Joseph Miralles Harry Y. M. Char Robert L. Foot The abov-e nomination was approved sub Warren J. Shadko Ira J. Hall ject to the nominee's commitment to re Charles w. Scheck Joseph F. Ba.roco CONFffiMATION spond to requests to appear and testify be Elliot R. Lese Joseph P. Ma.nfreda Benjamin A. Geerds J a.mes A. Rowins Executive nomination confirmed by fore any duly constituted committee of the Jon F. Engstrom Jackson McLaughlin the Senate April 9, 1976: Sen.ate.
E.XTENSIONS OF REMARKS trlct of the Maricopa County Health Depart (c) (2) (A) If the principal reduces the CONGRESSMAN RHODES RECEIVES size of a. sales representative's territory and HUMANITARIAN AWARD ment. She warned that tuberculosis in the county was up 16 per cent last year and that reduces his commissions by 25 per cent caused six deaths. or more in the following year, he becomes HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL "Tuberculosis is stlll around and it can eligible for a reduced a.mount of indemnity happen to any of us," she said. or can consider himself "terminated" and OF Il..LINOIS Dr. Breen said it was more exciting in the pursue full indemnification. (c) (2) (A) (ll) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES past to treat tuberculosis because drug except that if the reduced sales a.re the result of strike or natural disaster or war, Thursday, April 8, 1976 therapy would cure most victims. "You could give a person a drug and kiss 'em off for two the principal shall not be liable. Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, I have re years," she said. (c) (2) (B) If the principal redu~es the cently learned that our distinguished But now, she said, treatment ls more com sales representative's rate of commission by plicated and cures harder to come by because 25 per cent or more in a year, he can consider and modest minority leader received a himself "terminate" or seek partial indemni· I remaining tuberculosis patients have metab very prestigious award and am happy olisms that resist drug therapy or have fl.cation. to bring it to the attention of the House. exotic forms of the disease. Section 102. The amount of the indemnity JOHN RHODES was given the Humani is computed by multiplying the higher of tarian Award by the Arizona Friends of either the sales representatives average the National Jewish Hospital and Re monthly commissions over the year prior to search Center in Denver. The citation termination or the three years prior to ter SUMMARY OF H.R. 13111 mination by the total number of months he says that the award was given because of serviced the account by ten per cent. An ex his, "great compassion and concern for ample of the computation would be as fol mankind's birthright to breathe," and HON. JOHN Y. McCOLLISTER lows: The sales representative serviced a par the fact· that he "has helped and given OF NEBRASKA ticular account for four years and earned great hope to the sick of all ages, races, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an average commission of $12,000 a year. If he were unfairly terminated, he would be en and creeds." Thursday, April 8, 1976 I want to offer my congratulations to titled to-$1,000 (his average monthly com JOHN. I think all of us, as his friends, Mr. McCOLLISTER. Mr. Speaker, yes mission X 48 (months he serviced the ac I 13111, count) X 10%. His indemnity would total know how richly he deserves such recog terday, introduced H.R. the $4,800. nition for his tireless efforts on behalf Sales Representative Protection Act. I (a) (2) In no case would the indemnity of good causes such as the National Jew believe this bill is vitally important to exceed his average annual com.mission. ish Hospital and Research Center. independent salesmen throughout the (a) (2) (B) If the sales rep recovers under Mr. Speaker, I include the newstory country. The following is a brief sum section 102(B), his subsequent recovery un on the award which appeared in the mary of the contents of H.R. 13111: der 102(a) will be reduced by that amount. SUM.MARY (b) The reduced indemnity which can be Arizona Republic at this point in the claimed by a sales representative who has RECORD: Section 1. Title. his territory reduced or his commission rate [From the Arizona. Republic] Section 2. Statement of finaings and pur reduced and who wishes to continue to re pose. present his principal is computed in the same RHODES HONORED AS HUMANITARIAN Section 3. Definitions: "Sales Representa Rep. John Rhodes, R-Ariz., was honored tive" is defined to include only marketers fashion, but reduced by the percentage by Saturday night for his humanitarian con of merchandise who use sales representatives. which his total commissions from the ac tributions to Arizona residents and his long This will exclude providers of services such count or his rate of commission is reduced. time support of a Denver respiratory as insurance companies and companies of Section 103. Provides that a. sales represen hospital. sales representatives. tative is entitled to a settlement from his Rhodes was given the Humanitarian "Sales Representative" ls defined to mean principal within thirty days of termination Award by the Arizona Friends of the National only "independent contractors" (as distinct (or else he can seek relief from the courts Jewish Hospital and Research Center in under the Act) and provides a. payment from "employees") who solicit for a prin mechanism which will reduce any cash fl.ow Denver. cipal's merchandise. problems for smaller businesses liable for Dinner Chairman Samuel Shapiro credited "Good cause" includes "dishonesty, fraud, the indemnity. Rhodes with "distinguished service to Phoe other criminal activity, material breach of nix and Arizona" and "dedicated affiliation the contract, failure to put forth a. good faith TITLE 11--CONTRACTS BETWEEN SALES and concern for the National Jewish effort to sell the product, and gross negli REPRESENTATIVES AND PRINCIPALS Hospital. gence." Section 201. Provides that all contracts deal More than 500 persons at a dinner in the TITLE I-INDEMNIFICATION with certain areas of contractual concern, Hyatt Regency ballroom stood and ap Section 101. Provides that a principal who but does not specify that the contract be plauded as Rhodes accepted the bronze-and terminates a sales representative without written nor provide penalties if the two par wood plaque. good cause from an account which was ties to the contract do not formally agree "I am greatly honored to be pa.rt of this opened by the sales representative or which on any area. In such a case, the courts will worthy effort," Rhodes said. "All of you who he increased the sales by 50 per cent or examine the course of dealing to determine have supported this fine institution are hu more and which he serviced for a least the contract terms. The areas to be covered manitarians . . . this award I receive really eighteen months shall pay the sales rep include: rate of commission, provisions for belongs to you." resentative an indemnification. cash advances, amount of required termina The admission price of $150 a couple gen- (a) (3) If the principal discontinues selling tion notice, description of territory, existence erated $43,175 for the hospital, said former to the account, termination does not fall un and procedure if arbitration is involved, Phoenix Mayor John Driggs, who managed der the act. ownership of samples, notice period for prin financing for the dinner. (b) If a sales representative is terminated cipal to accept or reject order, arrangements The hospital cares for persons with hard "for the primary purpose of preventing for payment of commission on orders trans to-trea.t respiratory ailments regardless ot (him) from becoming entitled to an indem mitted prior to termination, procedures for their ablllty to pay. nification" he becomes eligible, providing sales representative to verify principal's deal Main speaker at the dinner was Dr. Lois he has worked for the principal for at least ings with his account and whether the sales Breen, chest consultant for the ea.stern dis- a year. representative can handle other lines. In all April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 103r73 cases, the two parties can deter mine whatever the guarantee of free speech as basic to military barracks, where maltreatment ls terms they wish in the contract. our national integrity. Moreover, his routine. The trade unionists were in gen Section 202. The principal has several ability to recognize and understand the eral held in preventive detention, Without duties towards his sales representatives. They charges, for a period ranging from a few include: acknowledgement of receipt of a.n diverse economic and social forces af days or weeks to a few months. order, making relevant invoices and credit fecting the times in which he served, and However, more recently, some trade union memorandums avallable for inspection by to reconcile them in the light of our ists have been charged With offenses under sales representative, a nd provision of a Constitution, rendered him of major sig the La.w of National Security. This may be monthly statement of commissions due. nificance to the 20th century itself. indirectly linked to their being TU mlli TITLE III MISCEL LANEOUS In looking back upon the so-called tants, but more directly With their support Section 301. Action can be brought in any Warren Court of the 1950's and 1960's, for certain political parties or groups, all Federal District court or in state courts in historians will be required to recognize banned at the end of 1973, when Parliament the sales representatives home district. Ac William O. Douglas as the mainstay of was dissolved. A more worrying feature as tion must commence Within five years of regards trade unionists ls the fa.ct that they the liberal majority which transformed have now started to be ta.ken to military bar termination. Courts may award attorneys fees American jurisprudence from a close al to sales representatives if they bring a suc racks, in many of which it seeins that all cessful action. liance with the status quo and privilege suspects brought there undergo torture as Section 302. No contract can waive pro to the dramatic agent of constitutional a matter of routine. This ls accompanied by tections of this Act. Nothing in this Act, how principles in action. Among the legacies the common feature of no notification to the ever, governs the terms of a private settle he was largely responsible for leaving families or lawyers of the reasons for ar ment subsequent to termination. behind were the expansion of the rights rest and place of detention. Section 303. The sales representative's of criminal defendants, reapportion There were large-scale arrests throughout right to pursue other suits against his prin ment of legislative districts, and the end the country before Ma.y 1, 1975, which were cipal ls protected. apparently to prevent major organized Section 304. The Act becomes effective 90 of legal racial discrimination. These actions as part of Worker's Da.y celebrations. days after enactmen t. were the direct result of agreement and These are excerpts from the testimony of one assent, of course-but the groundwork, of the arrested workers: · laid previously by the determined Jus "I was taken to the 9th Cavalry Regiment tice Douglas, inuluded masses of dis in Montevideo City. I was held there for sent--repeated protest against the most several days. I lost notion of time. They A TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE GREAT were very ha.rd on me, beating me on the EST OF THE "GREAT DISSENT brutal of injustice, the kind sanctified head, stoma.ch, legs and all a.bout the body. ERS", JUSTICE WILLIAM 0. DOUG bylaw. I passed out several times ... Another form LAS Of all our "Great Dissenters"-and of torture was to make me stand on a slippery may they appear to lead the way so long floor stret ching my legs a.pa.rt until I felt as injustice continues on this Earth I was going to burst, and then kicking me to HON. SIDNEY R. YATES one of the greatest certainly, was the make me fall. This they did 40 to 50 times. magnificent, courageous, and remark My feet were mangled for days. Afterwards, OF ILLINOIS the 'submarine' (near suffocation by submer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATlYES able Justice William O. Douglas. Long may his memory prevail. sion in water). Then I was ta.ken to the San Thursday, April 8, 1976 Jose military unit. There the treatment was even more brutal ... They threatened me Mr. YATES. Mr. Speaker, there have With applying the 'law of escape' (execu been several members of the U.S. Su tion). The climax came one night when they preme Court, over the years, who may REPRESSION OF THE TRADE UNIONS subjected me to a combined torture of sub well have merited the title of "the Great AND UNIVERSITIES IN URUGUAY marine and electric shock With cables in dif Dissenter" who in defiance of popular ferent parts of the body, the marks of which lasted for weeks. There were 6 or 7 tor opinion and the majority opinion of the HON. EDWARD I. KOCH turers ..." Court, may have felt required, consis OF NEW YORK Since March 1974, all trade union activities tently, to state the case for the just yet IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have been prohibited. Strikes are not tole unpopular position, and who, in the end, rated. Even elections of new boards have were acclaimed by posterity as harbin Thursday, April 8, 1976 been paralysed and workers meetings on gers of reason and the right. Mr. KOCH. Mr. Speaker, I have been trade union matters (salaries, etc.) have The names of Oliver Wendell Holmes inserting into the CONGRESSIONAL REC been banned; in the few cases where such and Louis D. Brandeis come quickly to meetings have ta.ken place, participants have ORD a series of reports from Amnesty In been arrested, and many are still in deten mind, as does that of the first John ternational concerning the situation in tion, Without trial. Although the CNT has Marshall Harlan. The dissents of Harlan Uruguay. The trade unions and the uni been tote.Uy restricted from a.ny attempt to in the interest of the 14th amendment versities have been the most outspoken ma.intaitl political opposition to the regime, were equaled, perhaps, by those of Hugo opponents of the military dictatorship trade union activities per se a.re perceived by Black in the interest of the first amend and consequently have suffered the the government as a threat. Due to the in ment. harshest measures of repression. The re creasing gap between prices and salaries, the Yet, for all their wisdom, their sense port concerning the present position of workers' discontent continues to be shown of justice, knowledge of the law, inde on many occasions, and such expressions are these two groups follows: also severely repressed. pendence of intellect, and moral integ THE POSITION OF TRADE UNYONS AND Trade union premises have been taken rity, none of these giants of the Supreme ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS over by the authorities, and in the out Bench can be said to have surpassed in Students and trade unionists have been standing case of the Building Workers' Trade ability and humanity the performance among the principal victims of repression in Union, "their headquarters were transformed of Justice William 0. Douglas, recently Uruguay. Of the estimated 5,000 political by the authorities into a. torture chamber." retired. prisoners, most would fa.11 into these two "A special fund was created in Uruguay The belief of Justice Douglas in the categories. for the building of houses with a 2 % deduc rights of the individual under law was (A) Trade Union Movement- tion from the wages of all workers in Uru - the main driving force in all his en Since the dissolution of Parliament and tne gua.y ... The houses were never built, the banning of the ma.in trade union body, the funds being used to pay the wages of the deavors as a member of the Court. On Convencion Nacional de Trabajadores (ONT) army and police." (Source: Labor-World Con this basis more than any other he dis at the end of June 1973, the number a.nd in federation of Labor, Sept. 75) . sented from the overall opinion of his tensity of violations of human rights have (B) Universities-- colleagues. Yet--as has been so fre steadily increased. The leaders of the ONT, The National University of Uruguay re quently observed-more of his dissents to which about 90% of the Uruguayan work mained firmly in opposition to the present were later written into law than those ers belong, have been Uving underground government, in which the m111ta.ry have the of any other justice in Supreme Court since 1973, when warrants were issued for effective power, although the civlUa.n history. their arrest. elected President, Juan Marla Borda.berry, Throughout the full course of his Thereafter, persons arrested for trade union remains in omce. activities were usually taken to El Cilindro The Government felt that there might be honored career Justice Douglas was ever (a sports stadium prison in Montevideo), a "silent majority" Within the University in the forefront of the fight for basic where, on the whole, they were not mal that supported the Government but had not civil rights and civil liberties. In the treated, the morale was high, and there were made its feelings known, and they ordered same manner as that of his colleague of much more liberal visiting regulations than a compulsory and secret election of Uni many years, Justice Black, he regarded in other places of detention, such as the versity authorities. The groups correspond- CXXII--656-Part 9 10374 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 1ng to the Frente Amplio (a "broad front" case was being considered in February 1974, BUILDING BRIDGES party comprising several groups of the left) namely the importance of prompt and fair and other groups from left to right of cen trial by an independent and impartial judi ter in opposition to the ruling party won ciary in all cases, including cases in which HON. EDWIN B. FORSYTHE an overwhelming victory 1n September 1973. trade unionists are charged with political or OF NEW JERSEY During the summer and autumn, the Uni crlminal offenses which the Government versity organized public lectures analysing considers have no relation to their trade IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the socio-economic and legal situation of union functions . . . Thursday, April 8, 1976 Uruguay, which has been steadily and seri "The Committee likewise emphasized, as ously deteriorating, and tried to present it had done on various occasions in the past, Mr. FORSYTHE. Mr. Speaker, recently solutions to this major national crisis. The that the detention by the authorities of my constituents returned my annual newly elected University authorities were trade unionists concerning whom no survey, in order to inform me of their due to take office on October 29, 1973. On grounds for conviction are subsequently views on the current issues. In the area October 27th, a bomb exploded 1n the found ls liable to involve restrictions of of priorities one concern appeared far Faculty of Engineering and killed a student, trade union rights." {SOurce: ILO Document Marcos Caridad Jordan. There are contra GB/195/12/20, paragraphs 156, 162, 163 and ahead of any other-the size and cost dictory versions as to his role there. The 164, February/March 1975) of Government. This, they indicated, was Uruguayan authorities claim that he was The importance of international solidar a problem deserving of immediate atten making the bomb. One of his teachers, the ity has been continuously stressed by the tion by Congress. I could not agree more. ex-Rector of the University, said that he ONT. A vivid example is an international Our Founding Fathers drew up what found it hard to believe that Jordan was appeal launched by the CNT on March 18, they felt to be an ideal form of govern anything other than a serious student. As a 1975, calllng for support from worker to ment, designed not to control but to pro consequence of Jordan's death, the Rector worker. tect and serve the people. As the Pre of the University, the Deans of all Faculties (D) Prtsoners--As mentioned above, from (and, instead of two Deans who happened the approximately 5,000 political prisoners amble to our Constitution directs, the to be out of the country that weekend, the in Uruguay, it can be unmistakably esti objective of this Government should be Interim Dean and an Ex-Dean) were all mated that a large majority are workers a:nd to "promote the general welfare." arrested, as were some other members of students, not only their leaders but also the Yet today, our Government has pro sta.tr and students. The Rector and Deans rank-and-file membership. In many cases duced a bureaucracy that is so complex, were held for nearly two months and ques we have concrete allegations of the use of and so bound by regulation and redtape, tioned about their responsibility for the torture, and the numerous examples we have that the very purpose of its organization "Marxist infiltration" in the University indicate that its systemaitic application has become normal procedure in nearly all cases in the first place is forgotten. and its having become a "center of This situation is unfair and unneces subversion." Most of them are now released, of political prisoners. but their cases have not been closed. Among Uruguayan prisoners adopted or sary for our Nation's taxpayers. The need Large scale expulsion of University staff under investigation by AI, are members of for regulatory reform transcends all took place; the depuracion was formalized a Wide variety of trade unions. A few exam partisan or provincial boundaries. We all by a decree which obliged all sta.tr to swear ples are listed, with names of detained need to work together now to streamline an oath against "Marxism" and in defense of members: our Government. the present regime. Meat industry workers: Ariel Alsln, Odiles The following article from the Asbury The Uruguayan University Students Fed Amiral, Beltran Camilo, Ruben Omar Her Park, N.J. Press of March 27 offers an eration (FEUU) has been severely haras nandez, Ismael Larrosa, Valentin Llorca, excellent illustration of this problem. sed; its leading cadres have been arrested Helvecio Machin, Rolando Morales, Walter (including their Secretary General) or are Moreira, Eduardo Perez, Rolando Rossi, Ro Too often the benefits of protective gov 1n exile. dolfo Sposito. ernmental regulation ft.ow away from (C) International Support-- Dockworkers: Juan Gomez, Humberto and not toward the people. Not until the Many international trade union organiza Rodriquez, Juan Laino (union officials), bureaucracy can serve as a bridge in tions (such as the World Confederation of Daniel Albacete, Frederis Britos. stead of a blockade between people and Labor and the International Confederation Health workers/nurses: Juan Jose Aguir Government, can our Federal agencies be of Free Trade Unions) and student orga reza.bal, Carlos Alfonso, Teresa Buscaglia de said to be truly responsive to our needs: nizations-of both the East and the West- Lando, Sonia. Guarmier. STATE TAKES DIM VIEW OF BICENTENNIAL have strongly protested the repression of Banlt employees: Waldemar Caceres, Fer their fellow members in Uruguay, and it may nando Castro Oartos Ignacio Fassano Mar BRIDGE be relevant to quote from an official report tens, Silvio Osorio. (By W. Ray Ollwerther) of the Committee on Uruguay of the Inter School teachers: Carlos Raul Astellano del ToMs RIVER.--Complaining about red tape national Organization of Labor: Rio, Nibya Elda Betancourt Rogh, Winston and long bureaucratic delays, Dover Town "As regards the dissolution of the National Nelson Marra, Milte Radiccloni, Maria. Elena ship officials decided to build a bridge across Workers' Convention, the Committee drew Viera de Aguirre, Ricardo Tarcisio Vilaro the Toms River without the required state or the Government's attention to the impor Sanguinetti, Victor Cayota (Chairman of federal permits. tance it attached to the principle that work the Secondary School Teachers Association), They got caught. ers' organizations should not be subjected to Luis Guidotti Luscher. (University profes It was only a temporary foot-bridge, built suspension or dissolution by administrative sors from different faculties have been de for a Bicentennial re-enactment of a 1782 authority, and that likewise dissolution by tained, but in particular a large number of British attack on the village of Toms River. the executive branch of the government did the Faculty of Engineering have been ar It didn't interfere with boat traffic, and it not ensure that right of defense which nor rested. Detained staff members of the Fac didn't cause any apparent environmental mal judicial procedure alone could guaran ulty include: Pedro de Aurrecoechea Petti damage. tee. The Governing Body likewise asked the nari, Augusto Bessouat, Luis Eduardo Casa But on March 19, the same day it took Government's observations on the alleged mayon del Pino, Jose Luis Genta. Varela, township employees three hours to put the ban on the activities of the Glass Workers Martin Hector Ponce de Leon Carrau, Julio bridge in place, inspectors from the Depart Federation and the National Union of Build Ricaldoni, Daniel Moretti Betancourt.) ment of Environmental Protection noticed ing and Allied Trade Workers, and on the Students: Marta Isabel Alvarez Seronl, something fishy along the water's edge. measures taken against various teachers' or Rafael Ta.bare Amen Pazos, Carlos Maria Yesterday, the township received a letter ganizations ... Anido Labadie, Carlos Ballestrazzl, Marla from the department accusing local officials "In considering the case at its session in Amalia Brum Etchegaray, Medardo Castro, of "a willful violation" of state law in pro November 1974, the Committee expressed its Jose Enrique Colombo COrrea, Judith Jose ceeding without a permit. concern at the numerous and grave accusa fl.na Colomo Rapp, Jose Pedro Dabesies Mas James B. Johnson, state supervisor of the tions brought against the Government of in sone, Juan Alberto Aorcena Real de Azua, riparian section, "invited" the township to fringement of trade union rights and re Jorge Roland Roland, Miguel Volinsky explain why it should not either remove the gretted that the Government had left many Schwarz, Horacio Bazzano. bridge or be fined for "construction prior to of those accusations unanswered. It recalled Many other detained workers belonged to obtaining the necessary permits." that it had, in the past, emphasized that the shoe factories, telephone and transport While conceding the township did not fol purpose of the whole procedure was to pro unions, the civil service, glass factories, low required procedures, Mayor Robert Brune mote respect for trade union rights in law newspaper-vendors, locksmiths, fanners, says local officials didn't flout the law. and in fact, while protecting governments soap workers, textlle workers, railwaymen, "We took a reasonable and logical view to against unreasonable accusations ... biscuit factories, metalworkers, building cut through the red tape of governmental "As regards the arrest and detention of workers, dockers, and physicians and den bureaucracy," Brune said. "For the amount trade unionists, the Committee once more tists--including Dr. Francisco Walter Pucci, of good it did in educational value and com drew the Governments attention to the Chairman of the Latin American Associa munity spirit, I still think 1t was a good principle evoked by the Committee when the tion of Odontologists. idea." April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10375 Adds L. Manuel Hlrshblond, township which now escape Federal scrutiny. Pres ther informed me that Mr. Macapagal clerk-administrat.or: "A re-enactment like ently, only pesticides, drugs, and food ad would be permitted to come to the United this happens only once every 200 yea.rs. We've ditives undergo federally mandated test States if he applied for permission. been battling paperwork witb various agen When I spoke to Ambassador Sullivan, cies for months, and we had to get the bridge ing before being sold commercially. up. It is estimated that there are some 30,- I requested a written confirmation of the "We hoped no one would come a.round and 000 chemicals in use today, with another assurances given to the former President make an inspection and quickly-it's unbe 1,000 coming into the market annually. and I am taking the liberty of inserting lievable," Hirshblond said. As a result, we have been and will con these assurances in the REcoan. In addition to the state violation, the tinue to be confronted with revelations I am delighted to know that Mr. Mac township didn't file for a permit from the that one or another of these new sub apagal is free to leave the Philippines at Coast Guard. stances is hazardous and could very well any time. I trust that, in the event he The maximum penalty !or an illegal struc ture on a navigable waterway is a fine up t.o be contaminating us in any number of does decide to emigrate to the United $2,500 and a year in jail. ways. For example, PCB's have been re States, our Government will make every But it appears that benign neglect by reg vealed as potential menaces, as well as effort to expedite his application, so that ulatory agencies will let the township oft' the other substances in our drinking water. Mr. Macapagal can come to this country hook. Therefore, the Toxic Substances Control as soon as possible. A spokesman for the Coast Guard said the Act is now more necessary than ever, The letter follows: agency has more important things to worry especially with the slow progress in DEPARTMENT OF STATE, about. treating cancer, that results from ex Washington, D.a., April 5, 1976. Donald Graham, director of the state Divi Hon. STEPHEN J. SoLARZ, sion of Marine Resources, said a lack of com posure to deadly chemicals. This legislation is to prevent people House of Representatives. munication with the township led to the DEAR MR. SOLARZ: Ambassador Sullivan has state's complaint. He said it would go no from being used as unsuspecting guinea told me of your telephone conversation with further. pigs. Chemical combinations know no him regarding the Department's response to And besides, says Hirshblond, the offending physical boundaries, and little is known the recent request for political asylum by bridge will be taken down on Monday. about many of them. Yet, there are no Mr. Diosdado Macapagal, former President The t.ownship does plan to build a perma laws under which we may ban their use of the Ph111ppines. nent foot-bridge at the same site later this today. Fluorocarbons may affect the Mr. Macapagal arrived unexpectedly at the year, but local officials plan t.o be somewhat ozone layer, contributing to skin cancer, Embassy Residence in Manila at about 11:00 more cautious. and we cannot ban them either. a.m. on April 1. Ambassador SulUvan was in "We'll wait till we get the proper permits," Washington at the time, but Mrs. Sulllvan Hirshblond said. The Toxic Substances Control Act, was at home. Mr. Macapagal told her that he which I have cosponsored from the start, feared he was in danger of imminent arrest is designed to get at the heart of our and requested political asylum, a request he chemical contamination problem via pre repeated to our Charge d'Aft'alres, Mr. Lee T. TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROLS testing and stiffer regulation of produc· Stull, when the latter arrived at the Resi tion, marketing, use or disposal of haz dence, having been summoned by Mrs. Sul ardous chemicals. It is my fervent hope livan. After talking with Mr. Macapagal, Mr. HON. LEO C. ZEFERETTI that the House will complement the Sen Stull reported the circumstances to the De OF NEW YORK ate's action and vote to approve a strong partment of State and requested instruc IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions. version of the measure for the public's From Mr. Stull's reports, it was apparent Thursday, April 8, 1976 safety. It is a long past due action on our that neither Mr. Macapagal's life nor the part. safety of his person was in jeopardy. Thus, Mr. ZEFERETTI. Mr. Speaker, the the granting of temporary refuge, which may House will soon be debating a crucially be authorized in such circumstances, was not important piece of environmental protec PRESS REPORTS SAY FORMER PHIL called for. tion legislation in the form of the Toxic IPPINE PRESIDENT WAS REFUSED Since it is the pollcy of the United States Substances Control Act, already over POLITICAL ASYLUM Government not to grant asylum to citizens whelmingly approved by the other body. of another country within the territorial jur This legislation is intended to protect the isdiction of their own government and since public from chemicals that could cause HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ temporary refuge did no appee.r necessary In this case, it was decided that Mr. Mac cancer, birth defect.s and other health OF NEW YORK apagal's request for asylum should be hazards. Observers predict a difiicult IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES denied and that he should be asked to leave struggle in the House over the bill, which Thursday, April 8, 1976 the Residence, with the assurance that if directly addresses the problem of chem he wished to go to the United States and ical pollution in the United States. Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, last week if the Philippine Government would permit Every few months we are dismayed to I was deeply disturbed by reports that him to depart, we would do everything pos confront another instance of chemicals appeared in the press that the former sible to adm1t him to the United States in loose in our environment and causing President of the Philippines, Mr. Dios accordance with our normal procedures. Mr. Stull was instructed to so inform Mr. Mac serious health hazards. Among those re dado Macapagal, was turned away from apagal. He was also instructed to inform the vealed so far have been mercury, kepone, the American Embassy in Manila when Phillppine Government of Mr. Macapagal's PCB's and vinyl chloride. What the in he showed up to request asylum in the request and our denial of it. Meanwhile, a stances described here show is that these United States. I was concerned that spokesman for Mr. Macapagal, apparently increasingly sophisticated chemical com these accounts had overtones of the un acting on the latter's instructions, issued pounds are being utilized commercially fortunate case involving Simas Kudirka, a statement to the press announcing that Mr. without being fully tested as to how they the Latvian sailor who sought asylum Macapagal had sought asylum at the Ameri affect people. Full testing to determine from the United States in November 1970 can Embassy. be When Mr. Stull, acting under the lnstruc side effects on human beings and their when bOarded a U.S. Coast Guard tibns he had received, discussed the situa environment is essential, and the bill in ship, only to be turned back a few hours tion with officials of the Philippine Govern question would go a long way toward later to Soviet personnel. ment, he was informed that there was no guaranteeing just that. This legislation However, I made immediate inquiries warrant out for Mr. Macapagal's arrest and would require laboratory testing more to the State Department a.nd eventually that Mr. Macapagal could leave the Phllip complete than that chemical companies spoke to the American Ambassador to pines any time he wished to do so. presently carry out. the United States who happened to be in After being informed of the United States If passed, the bill would require a pro Washington the same day that the press Government's position and of the assurances reports appeared. Ambassador Sullivan given by the Philippine Government, Mr. ducer to notify the Environmental Pro Macapagal voluntarily departed the Resi tection Agency 90 days before commenc assured me that the United States had dence some 13 hours after his arrival. He was ing manufacture of a new chemical, so received assurances from the Philippine not molested upon departure and, as far as that the agency could require testing of Government that former President Mac we know, remains at liberty. We are con substances it deemed potentially danger apagal was not about to be arrested and fident that the assurances given by the ous. It would remedy the present piece that in fact he was free to leave the Philippine Government will be honored. We meal regulation of chemicals, many of country at any time. Mr. Sullivan fur- do not anticipate that Mr. Macapagal w111 10376 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 seek to leave the Philippines in the immedi printed from today's edition of the Wall FEDERAL PAPERWORK LOAD IS ate future. However, should he apply for ad Street Journal: mission to the United States through the BECOMING A CRUSHING BURDEN normal channels, his application would re THE RIGHT TO FOOD ON PRIVATE COLLEGES ceive every consideration. Twenty-seven national religious leaders I have tried not to encumber this letter recently drafted a thoughful appeal to Con with quotations of regulations. For your gress that is bound to stimulate widespread information, however, I am enclosing copies public qiscussion. The interfaith religious HON. LES AuCOIN of those sections of the Foreign Service Man leaders said that until recently hunger was OF OREGON ual which deal with asylum and the grant unavoidable for much of the human fam IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ily, but now that we have the means to over ing of refuge. Of particular pertinence to Thursday, April 8, 1976 this case are sections 227 through 228.3. come hunger it is no longer acceptable. Every Sincerely yours, man, woman and child on earth has the right to a. nutritionally adequate diet, they said, Mr. AUCOIN. Mr. Speaker, I would ROBERT J. MCCLOSKEY, like to share with you and with the other Assistant Secretary for Congressional since the food to sustain life is a fundamen tal right that derives from the right to life distinguished Members of this body a. Relations. itself. Letter I recently received from the ex The authors of this declaration do not seek ecutive director of the Oregon Independ villains or pretend that there a.re easy an ent Colleges Association. The contents THE RIGHT TO FOOD swers, which distinguishes their effort from of this letter have been read and some other notable statements issued in the name of religion. They explicitly point out approved by 20 private colleges through HON. C ARLES E. GRASSLEY that two resolutions currently before Con out the Pacific Northwest. gress, declaring that everyone has a right to In this letter, Dr. James Sullivan OF IOWA food and that such a right is to be recognized points out the crushing burden that is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, "does being placed on our private institutions Thursday, April 8, 1976 not commit our nation to massive food hand of higher education by an overwhelming outs." Rather, they say, the resolutions burden of new laws and regulations, each Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. Speaker, in Sep "recognize the responsibility we have, in co operation with other nations, of enabling requiring a major commitment of tember Representative FRASER intro faculty and statf time and each costing duced House Concurrent Resolution 393, hungry people to produce more food and to work their way out of hunger." a substantial commitment which must which resolves that "every person in the The religious leaders' concern is readily be taken from resources that would country and throughout the world has understandable : Famine and food shortages otherwise be committed to the institu the right to food-the right to a nutri have plagued mankind since the beginning of tion's educational program. tionally adequate diet." Mr. FRASER is to time, yet finally mankind has the means to Mr. Speaker, much of this paperwork be commended for his thoughtfulness in overcome hunger-provided that govern relates to legislation that is directed to the introduction of this resolution and, ments do not interfere. (Russian expert Adam B. mam notes in a recent issue of the good causes. But if in our efforts to do in particular, for his recognition within good we strangle small private colleges the resolution's context that any Ameri New Republic that four to five million Soviet citizens starved in 1932-33 while the Stalinist so they can no longer continue to exist, can assistance aimed at improving the government exported 17'2 million tons of we are depriving all Americans of an diets of the poor throughout the world grain to obtain foreign currency for indus important national resource. should focus on self-help development. trialization.) That's why we share the under Our small independent colleges have House Concurrent Resolution 393 de lying suggestion in the clergymen's declara traditionally led the way in providing serves the consideration of each and tion that food and nutrition cannot be divorced from such considerations as popula quality education with minimal cost to every Member of Congress as a vehicle the taxpaying public. It would be tragic forcing dialog on a subject that cries tion, econoinics and politics. The religious leaders caution that "sub if we permitted the demise of these for discussion and resolution. Two points stantial gains against hunger wm not be institutions in the name of reform and should be kept in mind, however. First, quick or easy or cheap," and that they "wlll better government. the United States alone cannot feasibly require exceptional efforts on the part of rich Mr. Speaker, I submit this letter for try to feed all the world's undernour and poor nations a.like." But it seems to us the RECORD: ished. In addition, those nations which that foremost among those "exceptional ef forts" is recognition that the problem of food OREGON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES are suffering from widescale hunger must ASSOCIATION, not adopt policies which discourage the shortages is rooted to a large extent in gov ernment policies, particularly in efforts to im March 19, 1976. full production of food. With respect to pose rigid controls on agriculture. Representative LEs AuCoIN, this latter point, I want to note the find This is true in many nations but it is par House Office Building, ings of two groups of researchers, acting ticularly true of Communist and socialist Washington, D.C. independently. Researchers at the Iowa states, which continue to blame harvest fail DEAR LEs: We need your help. State University and with the GAO both ures on the weather and on everything other In the past few years we have been over than the effects of state planning. It is no ac whelmed by federal regulations and federal found that many developing nations requirements for paperwork on a wide range have policies which actually discourage cident, and only partly the fault of bad weather, that Russia was the world's leading of programs. It is not that we object to the the full and efficient production of food. agriculture exporter before World War I, yet goals; in almost every instance we agree with Each Member of the House should twice in recent years was required to pur those social purposes. It does us no good, keep in mind that food in this Nation ac chase vast amounts of grain from the U.S. it does no one any good, however, for the counts for a smaller proportion of earned whose agricultural methods it routinely crit federal government to overwhelm us with a income than in any other country. In icizes as unscientific and wasteful. burden of conflicting and oppressive regula addition, last year alone, we exported Some influential Americans also describe tions and demands for paperwork; most of U.S. o.gricultural methods as unscientific and which do absolutely nothing to advance the well over $20 billion in agricultural pro ends to which they a.re directed. duction that could not be consumed at wasteful, and their solution for modernizing is to impose ever wider controls. Regrettably, In the United States today there are home. The reason for this abundance iii they have yet to make the connection be approxima.tley 1,485 independent colleges. Of clear. In America, the farm sector oper tween America's bountiful harvests and the that number 1,300 have enrollments of less ates freely, without direct commands be fact that U.S. farmers enjoy considerable than 2,500 and as a result have extremely ing issued by the Federal Government freedom. The proper solution is not to wrap small staffs. Every additional demand for to each individual farmer. Unfortunate them in a straitjacket of regulations and con federal paperwork means we must either hire ly, I believe there are many well-mean- trols, but to encourage other nations to fol more personnel or shift some of our academic ing legislators who, for a variety of rea low the U.S. example. faculty into at least part time administra sons, believe that the Federal Govern This means that Washington should re tive and paperwork duties. double its efforts to share U.S. technical and A further problem ls cost. Student tuition ment must increase its control over the scientific knowhow with interested nations. and fees pay approximately 65 percent of the decisionmaking processes of the indi It means we should do everything we reason costs at independent colleges. For every addi vidual farmer. This would be disastrous ably can to ameliorate hunger and prevent tional dollar we must spend on required fed to our Nation and the entire world. In ad starvation anywhere in the world. But it also eral paperwork, we must pass on approxi dition, it would be disastrous to the means that we owe it to the underdeveloped mately 65¢ to our students. This ls a. finan achievement of those goals set forth in world, as well as to home grown critics, to cial imposition that our students and/or the right-to-food resolution. I rec reiterate again and again that most coun their parents can little a.fiord. It has a fur tries have it within their power to stave off ther complicating factor in that it further ommend that any Representative who fainine by merely liberating farms and widens the tuition gap between independ looks with skepticism upon these state farmers from the shackles of government ent institutions and those of the tax subsi ments review the editorial below, re- master plans. dized public institutions. Any further Widen- April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ing of this tuition gap could have a serious closed editorial may be of interest in re can feel it and see it in the eyes of those adverse impact on the abllity of our institu f erring to the ways in which some States seniors who have walked forward to receive tions to survive. awards for distinguished services rendered We have written to President Ford and and other nations would meet these prob and must now face the reality that their ac urged that he take executive action within lems: tive student service at the MSC has ended. his administration to improve this situation. [From the Kansas City Star) You can see it in the eyes of those who Anything you can do to advance our case a.t THE VICTIMS OF CRIME now step forward, in btlt a few moments, to the White House would be appreciated. Several 11tate legislatures are in the midst take the place of these seniors and carry the We have written to the Commission on of debating the issue of aid for victims of happy burden of presenting this program to Federal Paperwork asking that they make the crime. Some lawmakers are hesitant to the student body of Texas A & M in the federal requirements of paperwork on higher launch programs for fear of creating a new school year 1976-77. education a priority item in their studies. layer of bureaucracy, excessive costs and If you look closely among those faces that Any assistance you can give us in this regard vulnerablllty to fraud. Some light could be you probably have not seen before tonight, would also be appreciated. shed on the practicab111ty of assistance for you will find emotion in the eyes of those of Most especially, however, we look to you for victims of crimes by looking at the experi us who have returned to the campus to cele whatever assistance you can be in the legis ence in the State of Washington. brate the Silver Anniversary of the MSC lative arena to try to put some control, some In the first 20 months about $900,000 has program. Each of us is looking back and re realistic imprint on federal regulations and been paid to 1300 victims who have proved membering the moments when we were priv federal requirements for paperwork. Any their losses to Washington officials. Benefits i'leged to joyfully labor in the MSC program. thing you can do in this area wlll be deeply have been given to a.bout 65 per cent of the Those of us who have departed the campus appreciated by all of us. applicants. Medical bills were paid in about now look back, remembering not the hours Best regards, 80 per cent of the cases; the rest were of hard work, but the fun of work ing on a JIM SULLIVAN, awarded on death, permanent or partial dis program in which we truly believe. Executive Director. abllity claims. We now recognize, after pursuing careers, (This letter has been read and concurred A bill developed in the Kentucky General the true value of the program, and how in by the college and university presidents Assembly calls for compensation for crime much, as individuals, we gained from our named on the accompanying list). victims by the criminal who inflicted bodily participation in the MSC program. It changed Dr. Dallin H. Oaks, Brigham Young Univer injury or property damage. In Wisconsin our lives a.s it is changing yours. sity, Provo, Utah. reimbursement would be tied to workmen's College education is far more than books. Dr. Francis J. Kerins, Carroll College, compensation. Supporters of aiding crime It requires not only technical knowledge in Helena, Mont. victims in Texas are attempting to link the a chosen career field, but an u nderstanding Rev. Anthony M. Brown, College of Great assistance with restitution by the offender. of how to relate to your fellow human being Falls, Great Falls, Mont. Assistance for crime victims originated in a complex society where each of us comes Dr. William c. Cassell, College of Ida.ho, outside this country. Great Britain has had from a different background and possesses Caldwell, Idaho. a program for years. Yet relatively few states somewhat dissimilar hopes a.nd dreams. It Dr. J. P. Sanders, Columbia Christian Col have accepted the concept in the United requires an opportunity to learn to lead, lege, Portland, Ore. States, even though the welfare of victims of first by following and then by leadingr with Dr. E. P. Weber, Concordia College, Port poverty has been a prominent public issue. careful guidance and direction to allow in land, Ore Moreover the public has been keenly a.ware dividuals to learn from their mistakes. Dr. David c. Le Shana, George Fox College, of the apprehension, conviction and inca.r I think I can speak for all of us who have Newberg, Ore. ceration of the criminal. The victim remains returned for the Silver Anniversary when I Dr. c. Neal Davis, Judson Baptist College, virtually unnoticed-and unaided. say that the largest single contribution to Portland, Ore. our college education and our leadership Dr. John R. Howard, Lewls and Clark Col development outside the classroom, was our lege, Portland, Ore. participation in the program of t he Memorial Dr. Charles U. Walker, Linfield College, Student Center Council and Directorate. The McMinnville, Ore. WAYNE STARK benefits and advantages of participation in Sister Veronica Ann Baxter, Marylhurst Ed that program to each of us in the many diver ucation Center, Ma.rylhurst, Ore. sifted career fields which we have selected Rev. Elden F. Curtiss, Mt. Angel Seminary, HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE would be impossible to detail. We who return St. Benedict, Ore. OF TEXAS to this campus have come tonight to honor Mr. Warren A. Wolf, Museum Art School, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the person who has ma.de all of these benefits Portland, Ore. possible for each of us over so many years. Dr. Barton A. Dowdy, Northwest Christian Thursday, April 8, 1976 In reality, it is his birthday that we cele College, Eugene, Ore. Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, on Satur brate, for he has orchestrated the program Dr. D. V. Hurst, Northwest College, Kirk which is the MSC. land, Wash. day, April 3, the Memorial Stuflent Cen He is a very special and unique person. Dr. James V. Miller, Pacific University, ter of Texas A. & M. University held Flied With compassion and patience and Forest Grove, Ore. their annual awards banquet. On that with a heart as big a.s the whole out-of-doors. Dr. Paul E. Bragdon, Reed College, Port evening, Mr. Wayne Stark, director of land, Ore. His eyes saw no difference in color, long before the law ever got around to recogniz Dr. Bruce T. Alton, Rocky Mountain Col the Memorial Student Center, was hon lege, Billings, Mont. ored by the students. ing that "all men are created equal". He Dr. David L. McKenna, Seattle Pacific Col It has been my pleasure to have never ca.red whether we came from a farm, lege, Seattle, Wash. known Wayne Stark for 30 years and I small town or a large city. It did not matter Rev. Paul E. Waldschmidt, University of have seen at :firsthand the effect he has to him whether we knew which fork to use Portland, Portland, Ore. with the salad, or not to clap between move had on the lives of the students who have ments during a symphony performance or Dr. Philip M. Phipps, University of Puget passed through Texas A. & M. University Sound, Tacoma, Washington. never to chew gum in public. These were Dr. E. Joe Gilliam, Warner Pacific College, and who have participated in the student but a few of the many things we would learn Portland, Ore. center activities. He is truly a leader of under his guidance. You might say that this Dr. W. Thomas Younger, Western Baptist young people and has been a most in person has civilized a. generation of Aggies. Bible Col., Salem, Ore. fluential force on the campus during his Raw as we may have been, he saw only Dr. Manford A. Shaw, Westminster Col tenure. young people who desired to be leaders and lege, Salt Lake City, Utah. Under leave to extend my remarks in needed training and an opportunity to serve. He listens well. Whether the problem be Dr. Edward B. Lindaman, Whitworth Col the RECORD, I wish to include the re lege, Spokane, Wash. marks of a student leader honoring personal or directed toward the program. Dr. Robert P. Lisensky, wmamette Univer His main concern has always been the future sity, Salem, Ore. Wayne Stark: development of ea.ch individual and, in that WAYNE STARK RECOGNITION--MSC AWARDS regard, he has always been a teacher of the BANQUET first magnitude. Many are the hours which THE VICTIMS OF CRIME Ladles and gentlemen, tonight we have he has spent with students in his office, been privileged to witness the culmination sharing letters and experiences from those of MSC careers which, for some of these Sen who went before in the program. Always HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE iors, span their full four years at Texas attempting, by these examples, to make us try a little harder. OJ' MISSOURI A. & M. They have served their University and themselves well. For all of these yea.rs, he has sought to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The program of the MSC Council & Direc open the eyes and experiences of the Thursday, April 8, 1976 torate ts now 25 years old, and, as a part of students who have paraded before him 1n this banquet, we celebrate its birthday, with service to the MSC by the hundreds. Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, as the love !or what it has done and ts doing for Whether it be the Experiment in Interna Judiciary Committee has been consider those who serve. tional Living-or the leadership trip-or the ing the problem of crime victims, the en- There 1s emotion in the a1r tonight. You travel committee-or literature-or any of 10378 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 his other "pet projects", this person has the consumer, and end a cliscriminatory, when you repealed all of the temporary ex always sought to widen the hortz.ens of burdensome tax. cise taxes mentioned before. Now is an ap those around him. He has sent scores of Following Senate action, and when the propriate time for the committee, and the students to Harvard Business School and Congress, to continue and complete this opened seemingly closed doors of law schools tax reform measure is in conference, I reform etrort by repealing these discrimina and professional schools for hundreds of urge my colleagues to accede to the ac tory taxes which serve as an unfair yoke others. Knowing this person is like tasting tion of the Senate and repeal these dis around the neck of the truck, trailer, bus the forbidden fruit-we are never the same criminatory truck, trailer, and parts and pa.rts manufacturing industries. after the experience, for the memory of this taxes. DECLINING SALES AND DECLINING TAX REVENUES person haunts us always pushing us to taste The testimony follows: new experiences and to excel. During the past two calendar years, trucks TESTIMONY OF PETER GRISKIVICH Under his guidance and direction, the in the over 10,000 lb. class experienced a 40 % MSC program has expanded from a small, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Com decline in reta.11 sales from 495,768 units in centralized program to the broad, all-inclu mittee. I am Peter Griskivich, Director of the 1973 to 298,105 units in 1975. This is double Motor '11ruck Manufacturers Division of the the rate of sales decline of non-taxed trucks sive program which is now made available (0-10,000 lbs. GVW) which in the same 2- to all the students at Texas A & M. The new Motor Vehicle Manuf-a.cturers Association of the United St8ites, Inc. (MVMA). We a.ppreci year period dropped 19% from 2,152,490 units MSC Complex physically demonstrates the in 1973 to 2,052,952 units in 1975. This down massive growth of the MSC program under a.te the opportunity to present testimony on tax reform issues. MVMA represents nine of ward trend has continued through the first his guidance, from the days of the tiny two months of this year which saw retail Student Programs omce which most of us the major motor vehicle manufacturers who account for more than 99% of the automo sales of these taxed vehicles at 43,607 units called home in years past. as compared to 72,339 units in January-Feb This man suffers from no problems of ego, biles, trucks, and buses made in the United States, including 98% of the trucks pro ruary of 1973. for he always seeks to place those around duced. We hope this trend reverses itself. Never him in the seat of prominence, while he I am appearing today to urge that the theless, it underscores the fact tha.t when observes and applauds our successes and Committee reaffirm its previous support for there a.re fewer sales there are fewer ta._x helps us to learn from our failures. He the repeal of the 10% Federal excise tax on revenues collected. refuses to allow any person to accept medioc new medium and heavy duty trucks, truck For example, based on last year's sales de rity in themselves. He demands our best and trailers, intercity buses [under 26 use 4061 cline, truck, bus and trailer excise tax col the people whose lives he has changed are (a) (1)] and the 8% tax on truck and bus lections for FY 1976 are estimated in the the living testimonials to his life's work. pa,rts and accessories [ 26 USC 4061 (b) ] . This proposed FY 1977 Federal Budget to drop There are no buildings which bear his name, proposal is contained in S. 974 introduced to $375 millton. This would be a decline of but each of us here tonight carries a little by Senators Robert Gri1fin and Philip Hart $226 million from FY 1975 Highway Trust piece of him wherever we go. and S. 2495 sponsored by Senator Hartke of Fund receipts of $601 million. Again, how He has received little real recognition from this Committee. ever, we hope truck sales recover to a far the University for his efforts, which, in It is our belief that the repeal of these greater degree than these estimates indicate. private industry, would have made him a taxes is entirely in the public interest and Furthermore, a decline In the sales of the person of great wealth and fame. He is a very in harmony with the goals of stimulating vehicles means not only a decline in excise special person, for he has a place in his the economy and controlling inflation. Re tax collections, but also a loss of Federal, heart for each individual in this room and peal of these excise taxes will furthermore state, and local revenues from other sources a very special dream for each individual in remove a long-standing tax inequity and including corporate and employee income this room tonight. The person we honor is help to offset the rapidly rising material and taxes. This is coupled with an increasing and has been the creator of the MSC manufacturing costs. By so doing, it will demand for government services in the way program, Mr. J. Wayne Stark. additionally serve to protect and bolster em of unemployment compensation and welfare ployment in the commercial vehicle and re payments. lated supplier industries at a time when The president of White Motor Corporation, such action is particularly needed. John E. Sheehan, testified a few weeks a.go EXCISE TAXES THE NEED FOR GREATER TAX EQUITY before the House Commerce Committee's These taxes represent some of the last Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and vestiges of a form of taxation which has its Finance. He reported that White's truck sales HON. MARVIN L. ESCH origins in either "temporary" or "emergency" dropped from $840 million in 1974 to $528 OF MICHIGAN measures adopted during wartime or the De million in 1975. As a result, White experi enced a net operating loss of $41 million in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pression. Their purpose was largely to dis courage production or make adjustments in 1975 from the steep downturn in truck sales. Thursday, April 8, 1976 the national economy. The vast majority of As an example of what this has meant to the company, Mr. Sheehan indicated that Mr. ESCH. Mr. Speaker, on April 6, I products §.Ubject to these taxes, some dating back to World War I, have since been ex 1,270 employees currently were on layo1f last accompanied Senator ROBERT P. GRIFFIN empted. Such things, for example, as motor month at the company's Cleveland plant. to the tax revision hearings being held by cycles, automobile parts, air conditioners, Some of those employees include men and the Senate Finance Committee. The Sen business machines, refrigerators, freezers, women with as much as 13 years seniority. ator urged repeal of the 10-percent Fed refuse collection truck assemblies, radios, The major reverses experienced in the past eral excise tax on new medium and TVs, phonographs, local urban mass transit two years in commercial vehicle markets have heavy duty trucks, trailers, and inter buses, electric appliances of all kinds, furs, taken a severe toll in the truck manufactur luggage, and jewelry were exempted five to ing industry. One other manufacturer has city buses as well as the repeal of the ten yea.rs ago. permanently closed one of its facilities. 8-percent tax on truck and bus parts and In 1956, at the time that the truck and Another manufacturer has decided to with accessories. parts ta.xes were earmarked for the Highway draw from the heavy truck market. Stlll I concurred with Senator GRIFFIN'S Trust Fund to finance the Interstate Sys another manufacturer has gone Into bank testimony and am hopeful that the Sen tem, most if not all the products cited above ruptcy. White has been forced to seek a ate will take a!firmative action to repeal were stlll subject to excise taxes. Since 1956, merger partner in order to overcome its finan these discriminatory and burdensome however, they have been substantially wiped cial d11ficul ties. excise taxes. By doing so, it will stimulate from the tax books. As a consequence, the THE RISING COST OF GOVERNMENT employment and create job opportuni Federal excise tax system has become pro REGULATIONS gressively more selective in the types of prod The sales decline of taxable commercial ties in the truck manufacturing and re ucts subject to lt--and thus, increasingly vehicles has been compounded by sharply lated industries. more discriminatory. increased costs. One manufacturer, Interna At the Senate Finance Committee In 1971, for instance, Congress exempted tional Harvester, has estimated that a heavy hearing on April 6, documentation in passenger automobiles and that portion of duty class truck which sold for $22,000 in support of truck excise tax repeal was the tax which applies to new trucks of up 1971, rose in cost to over $33,000 in 1975--a given by Peter Griskivich, director of the to 10,000 lbs. GVW, leaving medium and 50 percent increase. This $11,000 price in· Motor Truck Manufacturers Division of heavy-duty trucks, trailers, and intercity crease refiects the cost of $2,500 to meet Fed buses alone burdened with this tax and the eral regulations, $3,000 for product improve the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Asso 8 % tax on truck and bus parts and acces ment and $5,530 due to infia.tion. Of the ciation of the United States, Inc. I com sories. No similar taxes a.re levied on the $2,500 increase in the factory sales pr1ce due mend this statement to you and ask that manufacture of competing forms of surface to Federally mandated standards, approxi it be incorporated as part of my remarks. transportatlon-e.g., trains, river barges, sea mately $1,650 ls attributed to the (FMVSS I feel certain that my colleagues will freighters or pipelines. 121) antllock air brake standard in the strin agree with me that repeal of these The major purpose of these hearings is gent form as originally proposed. archaic and discriminatory excise taxes to enable this Committee to report out a In the testimony referred to earlier, the comprehensive tax reform bill. The inclusion president of the White Motor Corporation will serve to stimulate truck manufac in this legislation of the proposals we are told the House Commerce Subcommittee turing and its related industries, en urging would be completely consistent with that the impact of this Standard had been, courage employment, provide relief to your enlightened actions in 1965 and 1971 "catastrophic." It has both served to arti· April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10379 ficially stimulate and then deeply depress TRUCK AND BUS PARTS AND ACCESSORIES TAX tunately, this provision was dropped by the truck manufacturing industry. The a1r The Excise Tax Reduction Act of 1965 ex the conferees. brake system standard originally was to be empted passenger automobile parts from The Committee has before it for con come effective on trailers in January of 1975, the 8% excise tax, but it remains on truck sideration during markup on the omnibus and with respect to trucks and buses on parts and accessories including parts for tax bill, the House-passed Energy Conser March 1, 1975. Since these initial effective trucks under 10,000 lbs. GVW even though vation legislation H.R. 6860.; Section 221 dates, the standard has been amended sig such light duty trucks themselves are ex of this blll contains language repealing the nificantly in its performance requirements. empted from the 10% tax in 1971. This tax excise tax on intercity buses. Furthermore, a number of exceptions and yields relatively little as a percentage of We urge the Committee and the Senate exemptions have been granted from full ap to include repeal of the 10% excise tax on Highway Trust Fund revenues (2.3% in FY new trucks and truck trailers and the 8% plication of the standards on various 1975) , and is cumbersome and expensive to tax on the parts and accessories for these grounds. The entire matter of the standard acommunism rather than Ameri the National Association of Minority Con canism. They claim to work for peace ea.I aspect of the cost-of-living increases, tractors.... there are social and economic implications About 1,000 people ended up on the but it would be peace on Communist that were not generally recognized or under Capitol's West Front to hear speeches by terms, not those of the free world. stood by Congress when it wrote the retire labor leaders and politicians ... exhort Con The news media does a woefully in ment legislation. Because the dollar costs of gress and the Ford administration to sup adequate job of sorting out the truth. the add-on are fairly well known-and port job programs and full employment. Time after time, these organizations are haven't prompted much congressional or ad presented in virtually patriotic terms. ministration response--the publlc should From these paragraphs and the rest ponder some of the other effects: The American Legion, VFW and the real of the article in the Washington Star Americans are not considered by the lib The private sector will have to work longer and a similar one in the Washington than it now does to support long retirement eral press, only these misfits and anti periods of public retirees. Post, the reader would get the opinion Americans. We have had a decade of this Interest rates throughout our economy will that the march was simply against un propaganda. Who can forget the SDS'ers, be driven up as the government goes further employment and for more jobs. But the the Jerry Rubins, the radical campus into the market to fund deficits. background of the "National Coalition to rioters and the glorification they re Other services and programs will have to Fight Inflation and Unemployment" tells ceived in the press? Now in a more subtle be curtailed. a slightly different story. way, the media is glorifying those left Earlier retirements w1ll become more and The background of this "Coalition" is more attractive. This means billions of dol istB and Communists who claim to be Communist red. The Communist Party, :fighting unemployment and inflation as lars in replacement salaries. U.S.A., in an issue of itB theoretical The immediate responsib!lity for correct well as working for peace. ing this condition lies with both the execu journal Political Affairs stated: Now that the liberals in Congress have tive branch and with Congress. Each has The Communist Party has played an im killed the Internal Security Committee, given lip service to the question of repeal of portant part ... in the launching of the these groups operate with little or no the 1 per cent add-on. National Coalition to Fight Inflation and concern about identification as Commu The President in his recently submitted Unemployment. nist fronts. The American people should budget indicated his belief that this 1 per cent add-on should be eliminated. No details Among the sponsors of the march and not be fooled, even if the Congress is. have been forthcoming. rally that took place are Angela Davis Several members of Congress have spoken who is a member of the National Com out on the subject, and Rep. David Hen mittee of the Communist Party, James derson, chairman of the House Civil Serv Steel who is a leader of the youth move STUDENTS RESPOND TO FOOD ice and Post Office Committee, has filed a ment of the Communist Party-the WASTE CHALLENGE blll calling for the repeal of the add-on fea Young Workers Liberation League, and ture. But as yet no leadership has been ex Anne Braden who is an identified Com HON. DON EDWARDS erted and no hearings held. munist and heads another front group. Two recent developments indicate that "in The Communist tinge to this so-called OF CALIFORNIA stitutionalization" of inflation is a decided IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES possibility. "National Coalition to Fight Inflation One is the recent suit by the federal judges and Unemployment" is obvious. This is Thursday, April 8, 1976 who argue that their pay must be increased another effort on the part of the Com Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. to make up for inflation; their logic would munist Party to use justified concerns of Speaker, today many groups and com make a case for tying all government sal many people to further the Communist aries to the Consumer Price Index. munities around the country are honor Party's own totalitarian goals. ing National Food Day, but I am proud to The other is a bill, filed recently by Rep. The Washington Star could have ful John H. Dent, calling for tying the minimum tell my colleagues about a group of stu wage to the CPI. Dent's bill even includes a filled itB responsibilities to itB readers if dents at Mattos Elementary School in 1 per cent add-on feature. it reported what the "National Coalition Fremont, Calif., who have worked to If these-or similar suits and/or legisla To Fight Inflation and Unemployment" make the objectives of Food Day a part tion-are successful, the end result would be really was rather than the sympathetic of their dally lives. a change in the character-and, of course, shallow story that was written. Last spring Philip J. Holmes, their the competence--of our free enterprise sys ANTI-DEFENSE LOBBY SUPPLANTS ANTI-WAR principal, expressed his concern about tem. The final destination would be a con- EFFORT trolled economy, one without much future the amount of food being wasted in the for either democracy or capitalism. We are also being besieged, Mr. school cafeteria. He suggested that a sur Another alternative-perhaps just as be.d Speaker, by the strident claims of the vey be undertaken to find out how much is the continued trend toward legislating pro liberal left that we must cut our defense. food was being wasted and to determine grams for everyone, endlng with the social The same leftists argue that the Fed the reasons why. ism of Britain. Perhaps the forecast of George eral Government, already about $75 bil The fifth and sixth graders in Lance H. Orwell's 1984 is on schedule. lion out of kelter in red ink :financing, Miller's class responded to this challenge 10382 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 and volunteered to conduct the survey. talked to our class. Our class recently ma.de port is a unique reflection of the kind of posters to place around the school to encour thinking, concern, and love of country students were assigned each day to mon age good habits in nutrition. In our own class itor the cafeteria waste containers. Run we have a Clean Plate Club. and their fellow man demonstrated by ning tallies were kept of the types of food Here ls a sheet with all the percentages of the young people of our Nation. served and the amounts of each food the food wasted in our cafeteria: I applaud them for their work, and in that went to waste. Over 8 weeks-2 Hot dog, 7%. clude their report in the RECORD at this weeks last spring and 6 weeks last fall Spaghetti, 13 % . point: this survey was conducted. Apple sauce, 35 % . DECLARATION FOR THE FuTuRE BY THE GoVER In addition a list was oompiled of fa Brownle, 4% . NOR'S BICENTENNIAL YOUTH CONGRESS vorite foods aiid meetings were held with Burrito , 1 Yi % . PREAMBLE French fries, 7%. We, the future leaders of the United. States the school's food service office. The food Milk, 17%. service staff made arrangements to have of America, in order to reafflrm the freedom Melon, 48 %. and equality of all people, to preserve and favorite main dishes, such as spaghetti, Pizza,4%. perfect this union, to further the peace pizza, hot dogs, and tacos, served on a Taco,3 %. making and peace-keeping qualities of this regular basis. They found out that on Hamburgers, 21 % . nation, to protect the welfare of the people those days less food was wasted, although Chili beans, 44 % . of this republic, to ensure the continuance the waste of fruits and vegetables re Tomatoes, 53 % . of its own self-betterment, do establish this mained about the same. Orange slush, 11 % . Declaration of our aims and goals for the The results of this survey were made Green beans, 42 % . future. Potatoes, 48 %. Concerning Agriculture- available to local officials who represent Celery, 21 % . Whereas, the farmers of the United States these students, and I am proud to share Oranges, 24 % . of America are being excessively regulated by my copy with my fell ow colleagues. Apples, 49 % . governmental agencies, making it difficult In so doing I would like to pay special Pickle, 30 % . for them to produce, and acknowledging that tribute to the energetic volunteers in Mr. Cookie, 2 %. there is an imbalance between the appropri Miller's class for their interest and effort. Sunshine bread, 28 %. ate agricultural and environmental regu In conducting and distributing their food Cantaloup, 21 %. latory agencies, and that these regulations survey these students have performed a Carrot, 30%. and imbalances reduce the farmers' initia Sa.lad, 46 % . tive to work. Now, Therefore, Be It Declared valuable service for the other students Apple crisp, 54 % . By The Governor's Bicentennial Youth Con and teachers of Mattos Elementary Peach dessert, 83 % . gress that there should be more recognition School, as well as for their friends and Strawberry shortcake, 35 % . and r.epresentation of the American farmer families. They have showed us how to Turkey, 10%. in government and that the appropriate en honor National Food Day every day of Gelatin, 31 % . vironmental agencies should work together the yea.r by being aware of what we eat Pudding, 46 % . with the appropriate agricultural agencies to Ice cream, 7 % . reach a common perspective. and what we waste. Honeydew cup, 41 % . Whereas, the American farmer has no as They are to be congratulated, as are Beef and gravy, 14%. surance that the prices offered by a buyer Mr Holmes and Mr. Miller for encourag Cake, 17 %. will adequately surpass his expenditures in ing. and assisting them in their efforts. Most people don't get away with this waste order to create enough profit to support his The results of the survey follow: at home. Here they only eat the foods they family and himself. Now, Therefore, Be It Fremont, Caltf. like. The District Office people who have Declared By The Governor's Bicentennial Mr. DoN EDWARDS, come to our class talked to us about how Youth Congress that governmental re congressman, House of Representatives, they try to serve us foods that we like and straints should not be imposed on farmers Washington, D.C. a.re good for us, but that are only 40c. so as to interfere with their needs. DEAR CONGRESSMAN EDWARDS: our 5th and So Congressman Edwards we are writing Whereas, there are many countries 1.n the 6th grade class here at Mattos School in to you to show what we have been doing to world today that do not have the capacity to Fremont for several weeks in the past year stop waste. We hope that you can start some produce enough food for their population has conducted a survey of food wasted in action and give us foods that are good for and we, the people of the United States of our cafeteria. us, that we like and that are only 40c. Maybe America have the capacity to feed ourselves First we have been tallying up all the foods our government has some ideas to help us. and stm have a surplus. Now, Therefore, Be that have wasted by writing the menu down We do feel the present federal program is It Declared By The Governor's Bicentennial and when somebody dumps something we very wasteful, especially in this time of Youth Congress that the United States of tally it. Th.en we go to our office and see the hunger in many countries. America should continue to export surplus total number of people who have eaten. After Thank you. to other nations, provided that it does not that we take the report back to the class Sincerely, adversely affect the economy of the United and explain what was wasted. Here is an Mr. Millers 5th and 6th grade class. States, and should increasingly direct its at example: tention towards advising and teaching other Date: 10-2-75; served: prim. 44; upper countries to produce sufflcient food to sup 75=119. port their populations. 1. Spaghetti (wasted prim.) 6; (wasted GOVERNOR'S BICENTENNIAL Whereas, the population continues to grow upper) 1% =7%. YOUTH CONGRESS and the availability of land for agricultural 2. French bread (wasted prim.) 5; (wasted development continues to decrease, and the upper) 2=7. need for more agricultural products con 3. Carrot sticks (wasted prim.) 16; (wasted HON. BO GINN tinues to increase at a rate proportionate upper) 26=42. OF GEORGIA to population growth. Now, Therefore, Be It 4. Apple quarters (wasted prim.) 26; Declared By The Governor's Bicentennial (wasted upper) 32=58. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Youth Congress that it is necessary for gov 5. Fudgie (wasted prim.) 2; (wasted upper) Thursday, April 8, 1976 ernment and farmers to work together 10=12. through a national advisory board with in 6. Milk (wasted prim.) 5; (wasted upper) Mr. GINN. Mr. Speaker, in February dustry, business and farm representation, to 1=6. of this year the Governor of Georgia develop a land use plan where land is used Total: 132%. sponsored a Youth Congress in recogni effectively to support farming, residential Our project has been on the radio, on TV tion of the Bicentennial celebration. I and industrial uses proportionately. and that channel 2 (Oa.kland-S.F.) on the 10:00 news, had the great pleasure of participating due consideration be given to ocean farming and our project has been on the front page in this Youth Congress which was at research. of the Sunday Argus (Premont, Newark, CA.). Concerning Education- our project has also won $75.00 from the tended by high school students from Whereas, budget priority for funding in Tri City Ecology Club (Fremont, Newark, throughout the State of Georgia. It was education has decreased, and therefore stu Union City, Calif.). a wonderful experience for me, and I dent achievement has dropped markedly in Our cafeteria serves the federally-funded would like to share with my colleagues the past few yea.rs, and since there ts a di Type A lunch. we are concerned that there the Declaration for the Future which rect correlation between educational achieve is so much waste in this program. We tried was drafted by these young people. ment and monetary expenditure per student to ca.II the attention of students at school My colleagues, like myself, would not Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By The Gov and the community to the waste. Our ernor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that district Food Services department has a.greed necessarily endorse all of the conclusions state revenues be raised through increased to having our 5 most popular main dishes on drawn by this assembly of fine young sales tax on certain luxury items as needed the same weekday for a month. This resulted people. I believe, however, that these for the sole purpose of upgrading education. in less waste of the ma.in dish at least. young citizens have done an excellent Whereas, standardized test scores of basic RepresentatiTes from Food Service have also job in their task, and I believe their re- educational skllls have dropped 1n recent April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10383 years, and scholastic course content has Concerning the Economy- gress that the United States of America take failed to meet contemporary individual Now, Whereas, the economy of the United States a stronger stand on detente, supporting our Therefore, Be It Declared. By The Governor's of America. is stimulated by free enterprise position as necessary. Bicentennial Youth Congress that more em and the government's role in stimulating the Whereas, all na.tlons are economtca.lly inter phasis be placed on the basic educational economy is ever-increasing. Now, Therefore, dependent and the need for survival dictates skills, that funds be made available to enable Be It Declared By The Governor's Bicenten the continuance and expansion of such in instructors to update their curriculum, and nial Youth Congress that there 1s an urgent terdependence, and the United States of that funding of adequate programs be pro need to reassess our system of governmental America. should set an example for other vided. to fit individual needs. control over the free enterprise system. countries in the contribution of foreign aid. Whereas, many students in high school Whereas, there is much waste in govern Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By The Gov level classes have failed to learn basic read ment spending and our national debt is in ernor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that ing skills and these students then place a creasing each year. Now, Therefore, Be It De the United States of America sustain its burden on students who can work at a clared By The Governor's Bicentennial Youth present foreign aid program, having as its faster rate. No, Therefore, Be It Declared Congress that we set priorities to eliminate goal the eventual economic independence By The Governor's Bicentennial Youth Con unnecessary spending through zero-based of the recipient country and the consequen gress that students be required to meet basic budgeting. tial promotion of trade with the United reading requirements to enter and gradu Whereas, there are many idle workers in States of America.. ate from high school and that remedial this nation, and these workers a.re an ex Whereas, the United Nations and other courses be provided for those individuals cessive financial burden on our welfare sys multilateral bodies were founded. as instru who do not meet the requirements. tem. Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By The ments of world unity and the world must Whereas, educators and students have Governor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that concern itself and diverse global community, little control in the decision-making process a work program be implemented. to a.ct as the goal of a.II nations being a more durable in educational areas such as curriculum, an incentive and an alternative to welfare. peace. Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By The and these persons are the ones most com Whereas, the world is moving closer to Governor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that petent to make these decisions on the basis total economic interdependence, and the the United States of America continue its of their experiences and are the ones most United States has a large balance of payment participation in multilateral organizations, affected by these decisions. Now, Therefore, deficit as a result of foreign trade, and and strive to change the direction of such Be It Declared By The Governor's Bicen United States dollars have been extensively bodies from purposes of propaganda to more tennial Youth Congress that educators and used in international trade agreements, all spe(;lftc issues of concern to all nations. students be given full representation in the resulting in an acute need for a uniform Whereas, the proliferation of nuclear educational decision making process. international monetary unit and system. weapons will eventually increase the number Whereas, students enter careers which Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By The Gov of nuclear powers, and the United States of require academic training or vocational ernor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that America is a democracy and the leader of training, and both types of careers are vital the United States advocate the increased the free world, and as a democracy, ts to American society. Now, Therefore, Be It usage of Special Drawing Rights as a re founded upon the ideals of the realization Declared By The Governor's Bicentennial placement of national currencies in interna of other forms of governments and lifestyles. Youth Congress that academic and voca tional trade agreements. Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By the Gov tional training be developed in proportion Concerning Energy and Environment ernor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that to the interests of the students within each Whereas, we are presently faced with rapid in the face of nuclear confrontation, the school system. expansion and development which is de United States of America. must be prepared Whereas, there exist many public school pleting our present sources of energy, and, to defend its morals and idea.Is. systems which operate independently and in an unrestricted form, is proving detri Concerning Intergovernmental Rela- inefficiently within the same county, and mental to the environment. Now, Therefore, tions- this has caused increased expenditures and Be It Declared By The Governor's Bicenten Whereas, many local programs are initiated a waste of resources. Now, Therefore, Be It nial Youth Congress that the government of without thorough investigation of public Declared By The Governor's Bicentennial the United States of America further pro need or public approval, resulting in grant Youth Congress that public school systems mote the education of the general public in-aid funds which go to the support of merge in cases where a more efficient and with regard to energy usage and place re such programs being continually wasted, and rewarding operation would result. strictions on the development of energy local government is more readily able than Concerning Health- sources which a.re detrimental to the en the fed.era.I government to recognize the Whereas, there is a la.ck of preventive vironment. needs of the community. Now, Therefore, health education in our schools today. Now, Whereas, there is a definite la.ck of in Be It Declared By The Governor's Bicen Therefore, Be It Declared By The Gover ternational knowledge concerning the en tennial Youth Congress that the govern nor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that pre vironment and there is no effective agency ment of the United States should put more ventive health practices should be taught for environmental research and the global emphasis on block grants than on categor in elementary schools by qua.lifted teachers monitoring of oceans and atmosphere. Now, ical grants in order to reduce any needless and re-emphasized. in the secondary schools Therefore, Be It Declared By The Governor's waste of funds. and through the mass media, and that a Bicentennial Youth Congress that the gov Whereas, many local and state interest complete physical examination should be ernment of the United States of America groups come into conflict over the preserva urge the United Nations to establish an tion and protection of our natural resources required before a student enters the public and the constituency of the state is greater school system for the first time and once agency to provide research and promote the international exchange of environmental than that of the local community. Now, every three yea.rs thereafter. Therefore, Be It Declared By The Gover Whereas, the rising number of malpractice knowledge. Whereas, there is a disregard for the en nor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that a law suits and the rising cost of malpractice commission concerning the protection of insurance have become a problem to the vironment by the producers of energy, and the existing agencies in control of the regu our natural resources, composed of elected medical profession and to the genera.I public. officials from the combined. congressional Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By The Gov lation of these power sources are inadequate in their enforcing abilities. Now, Therefore, districts, be established by the state for the ernor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that purpose of negotiating such issues in the a board of physicians and private citizens be Be It Declared By The Governor's Bicenten best interests of the state and local public. formed as a subcommittee of the American nial Youth Congress that the government of Whereas, many employees work within Medical Association and the American Dental the United States of America. provide these the city limits and reside in the unincorpor Association on local, state, and national lev agencies with the necessary authority to ated areas, and the residents of these unin els, to check the qua.llty of service and the strictly enforce existing regulations and to corporated areas oppose annexation into the abuse of health procedures by practitioners design a system for funding research in clean city, causing a tax burden to the residents of the medical profession. energy fields. of the city, and many residents of these un Whereas, the consumer is not a.ware of Whereas, the American people are becom incorporated areas reap the benefits of the many possible harmful effects of some prod ing more and more dependent on throw city. Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By The ucts available on the economic market. Now, away products and containers. Now. There Governor's Bicentennial Youth Congress Therefore, Be It Declared By The Governor's fore, Be it Declared. By The Governor's Bi that a payroll withholding tax be levied Bicentennial Youth Congress that the Fed centennial Youth Congress that the Con against unincorporated residents working eral Government place as a high priority pro gress of the United States pass legislation within the city and annexation without viding corroborating evidence of research re encouraging the use of recyclable materials referendum be unconstitutional. sults of products before they are available to to reduce the impact on the environment. Concerning Transportation- the consumer. Concerning Foreign Relations- Whereas, there exists a need for automo Whereas, there bas been much controversy Whereas, the United States of America bile traffic, construction of extsting Inter over the "right to die" or euthanasia and we was founded on a high moral basis and pub state highways is not completed, and exist feel that an individual should have the right lic opinion favors detente as an alternSltive ing roads and facilities are not used to the to make such a decision. Now, Therefore, Be to nuclear or other belligerent actions, and fullest extent. Now, Therefore, Be It De It Declared By The Governor's Bicentennial Communism 1s not a monolith meaning that clared By The Governor's BicenteDnial Youth Congress that Living Wills be made le the world will not fall to a single totalitar Youth Congress that the government of the gally binding on relatives and that this deci ian bloc. Now, Therefore, Be It Decla.red By United States and the individual state gov sion be available to the public. The Governor's Bicentennial Youth Con- ernments undertake the immediate comple- 10384 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 tion of the Interstate system in the United sideration and discussion of the problems a resolution adopted by the House of Staites and that bikeways be developed in confronting us and our contemporaries, Representatives of the General Assembly connection with road projects in populous the undersigned do hereby accept and ap of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania urban areas. prove the articles above set forth as this Whereas, safety procedures need to be im nation's highest priorities in the coming age. which clearly states this need: proved near railroad crossings, and the Adopted this 21st day of February, 1976, HOUSE RESOLUTION No. 235 Amtrak railway system is not operating to in Congress assembled at Savannah, Georgia, Whereas, The United States Congress its fullest, and government subsidies for our by the delegates of the Governor's Biscenten passed and the President signed into law a rail system are conducive to bankruptcy. nial Youth Congress. program of general revenue sharing to State Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By The Gov and local governments for a. five-year period ernor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that GOVERNOR'S BICENTENNIAL YOUTH CONGRESS beginning in 1972; and light actuators be set up at railroad crossings DELEGATES Whereas, The United States Congress pres to protect human lives, that the users of Hannah Allen, Julie Andrews, Kathi An ently has legislation before it providing for Amtrak and other passenger trains bear the drusko, Trent Barcroft, Bruce C. Beggs, Jean an extension of the program of genera.I reve costs of those rail systems, and that officials Biggers, Robert C. Bills Jr., Lydia. C. Bliven, nue sharing; and of these trains be more responsible for the Mark Boatright, Jimmie C. Bowen, Jr., Margie Whereas, The State a.nd local governments safety of their passengers such that the gov Britt, David R. Brooks, Cynthia Brown. are dependent upon the revenues from this ernment can take a less active role. Donald R. Brown, Sherri Brown, Terri program in order to balance their budgets Whereas, complete government control of Brown, Floyd Buford, Dorothy Burgess, Linda and provide much needed services to its citi the airlines of the United States is not Burks, Skeeter Bush, Connie Button, Christy zens; now therefore be it feasible and recognizing that smaller com Calhoun, Karen Calhoun, Karen Callaway, Resolved, That the House of Representa munities lack sufficient airline service. Now, Tina Capers, Pamela Carson. tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Therefore, Be It Declared By The Governor's Shella R. Cellington, Richard W. Chaun respectfully memorialize the Congress of the Bicentennial Youth Congress, that the gov cey, C. Craig Chester, Nancy Clark, Cl11f United States to reenact legislation which ernment of the United States encourage de Coats, Albert Coburn ID, Brenda Cohen, provides an appropriation and a continua velopment of a unique short-haul aircraft Dawn Compton, Jeffery Cooper, Elaine Cor tion of the program of general revenue shar for intercity shuttle service by initiatin.g bitt, Frankie Joe Crawford, Patricia. Ann ing; and be it further partial deregulation, tax incentives, and Crumbley, Mary Elizabeth Daily. Resolved, That copies of this resolution be limited subsidies to provide adequate capital Butch Davis, Mela.ney D. Deal, Nancy transmitted to the Speaker of the United for implementation of commuter services Dooley, William Drane, Eric Ea.des, Kay Earn States House of Representatives, the Presi between America's smaller communities. est, Janie Eaves, Randy Elrod, Mel Etheridge, dent of the United States Senate and to ea.ch Concerning Cultural Preserva.tion Bryan Finch, Stephanie Finley, Phlllp A. Sena.tor and Representative from Pennsylva Whereas, it has been determined that the Foster, Ross Freeman, William T. Freeman. nia in the Congress of the United States. preservation of the Fine Arts 1s vital to cul David Fulton, Lisa Gareis, Charles Hall, tural awareness and that cultural awareness Greg Hammett, Jody Harper, Willle C. Hart 1s necessary to the preservation of man's sys ness, Melinda Hatta.way, Alsion Hawkt.ns, tem of values and knowledge. Now, Therefore, James Herman, Karen Hertz, Azira Hill, How HON. TORBERT H. MACDONALD Be It Declared By The Governor's Bicenten ard Hoge, Chris Hooper, Tom House. nial Youth Congress, that the United States Jennifer Hull, Audraine Jackson, Keith develop a comprehensive program of Fine Johnson, Cathleen Jones, Cindy Jones, Mike HON. GOODLOE E. BYRON Arts expressed through education beginning Jones, Michael Kavanaugh, Susan Kerwin, OF MARYLAND at the earliest level of education. Terri Krauss, Patsy Kravtin, Linda. Laack, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas, culture 1s a way of life and an Kelly Lancaster. Andrea. Lanier, Augustus appreciation of culture is necessary to enrich Lett. Friday, April 9, 1976 the spirit and humanity of man, and recog Mary Ann Vande Linde, Erle Lindsey, Mr. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, with the nizing that there has been a separation be Johnny Manning, Bobby McNabb, Nancy L. tween culture and progress. Now, Therefore, McNa.ir, Clay Mercer, Johnny Mercer, Jr., announced retirement of our distin Be It Declared By The Governor's Bicenten Cliff Miller, Richard Miler, Siniley Moore. guished colleague. TORBERT MACDONALD, nial Youth Congress, that people be made Jay Morgan, Paula. Newsome, Steve North, I feel compelled to comment on the out vitally aware of culture as encompassing all Terri North. standing service of Congressman MAC areas of life through an educational system Stacey Orr, Keith Page, Kathleen Pfa1f, DONALD to the Seventh District of Massa that provides a sense of cultural awareness. Barry Pierce, William Pleasant, Barry Andr6 Whereas, a program of historical preserva chusetts and the American people as a Pope, Barbara Prescott, Cheryl E. Price, whole. tion is an a.id to society and that people Caroline Quillian, Lisa Ray, Jamal Reddick, and the educational system have not been Greg Richards, Ronny Richardson, Wayne It has been my honor to serve on the ta.king advantage of this educational outlet. Robbins. Communications Subcommittee of the Now, Therefore, Be It Declared By The Gov Tim Roberts, Mary Rorabaugh, Dale Roy House Interstate and Foreign Commerce ernor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that ston, Danny Rudiger, David Shelledy, Robert Committee under the chairmanship of historical sites and events be recognized and Sise, Jr., Mark Sinith, Ronnie A. Spivey, Chip Congressman MACDONALD. I could spend emphasized in the home and in the school to Stewart, Paul Storz, George L. Strobel, John many hours outlining the major accomp illustrate ideas and goals necessary to so Sutter, Patti Swain, Charles Taylor. lishments of the subcommittee under his ciety today and the formulation of the Katherine R. Taylor, Randy Thompson, leadership including long range funding future. Sally Thompson, Mathew Rose Tolar, Vickie of public television and radio. The stew Whereas, there is a mixture of cultures in Lyn Tooks, Michael F. Tu"ner, Marshall R. the United States as seen through different Twitty, William A. Underwood, Stephen ardship of Chairman MACDONALD will be ethnic groups and a lack of understanding Wade, W. C. Walker, J.C. Walton, Jr., Crystal greatly missed in the Communications has caused racial prejudice, and recognizing Watkins, Donald Watson, Don Wells, Wendy Subcommittee and the Commerce Com that the United States cannot work together J. Wheeler, Debbie White, Christie L. Wil mittee. as a nation of one people without the under lia.ms, Ken Wililams, Laurie Wingate, David Congressman MACDONALD'S career in the standing of what each race has contributed Wood, Marian Woodard. U.S. Congress spans 22 years and in to this country. Now, Therefore, Be It De cludes the period in which major changes clared By The Governor's Bicentennial Youth Congress that learning programs dealing were occurring in our Nation and in the with the heritage of different ethnic groups approach to national problems. Through be incorporated into the system of educa PENNSYLVANIA ASSEMBLY CITES out this period, TORBERT MACDONALD tion in this country. NEED FOR REVENUE SHARING worked dilligently for legislation he con Concerning Human Relations-- sidered necessary for the improvement Whereas, our United States Constitution, in living standards for his constituents. Declaration of Independence, and Declara HON. JOSHUA EILBERG It is doubtful that there would be a tion for the Future are all excellent docu- OF PENNSYLVANIA Public Broadcasting Act today if TORBERT ments with truly desirable values. Now, MACDONALD had not guided this legisla Therefore, Be It Declared By The Governor's IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Bicentennial Youth Congress, a. need to be Friday, April 9, 1976 tion through the House 1n 1967. It is re committed to realize and to actualize our markable that public broadcast stations own behavior to support the idea.ls of the Mr. EILBERG. Mr. Speaker, Federal can now make long-range plans due to Constitution, the Declaration of Independ revenue sharing has become a vital fac the farsighted legislation authored and ence, and the Decle.ra.tion for the Fwture, tor in the finances of our States and supported by Chairman MACDONALD. through immediate and long-range goals. cities. It is a source of funds which they TORBY MACDONALD has led the way in CONCLUSION count on in order to be able to provide many legislative fights over the years These being the views and opinions of this basic services for their people. including fuel allocation, sports black body of future leaders, after careful con- At this time I enter into the RECORD outs, railroad reorganization, common April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10385 carrier poiicy, and energy prices. He BREAD FOR THOUGHT government should not interfere with the free market. never avoided issues but faced them A similar philosophy inspires the work of squarely and honestly. HON. STEVEN D. SYMMS Campus Studies Institute in San Diego, a I believe the dialog of the Congress nonprofit organization that puts out educa will be diminished with the departure of OF IDAHO tional materials relating to "the free market TORBY MACDONALD. I personally have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES system and its vital connection to personal learned much from my association with Friday, April 9, 1976 freedoms." A few years ago, six staffers at the him. The respect of his colleagues is a institute-three men and three women, all in Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, in these clear indication of the impression he has their twenties-jointly produced a compact days when it is hard separate the and highly readable book, The Incredible made in this body over the years. to wheat from the chaff in economic Bread Machine, expounding the home truths thought, I was most pleased to come of a free-market economy. Published in Octo across a book by six young authors en ber, 1974 (World Research, Inc., paperback $1.95) , it has proved to be a surprisingly good titled "The Incredible Bread Machine." TORBERT MACDONALD seller. It ha.s been adopted for instructional With concise reasoning, these young peo use by some 400 college teachers and ls begin RETIREMENT ple demonstrate that individual free ning to appear in high-school classrooms. doms and rights are inseparable from Grounded firmly in the moral principles of economic freedoms and property rights. individual freedom and private property, the HON. LOUIS FREY, JR. They examine the "no-dough" policy of book unabashedly advocates an economy of "laissez-fa.ire capitalism." It sees economic OF FLORIDA Government intervention in the free market. The book first came to my atten freedom as being inseparably linked with per IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion a little over a year ago. Since then, sonal freedom, which it defines as "the right Friday, April 9, 1976 to act or not to act according to one's own it has been my privilege to met the au judgment, so long as one does not initiate Mr. FREY. Mr. Speaker, it was with thors and see their film, which is based force against anyone else attempting to im a great deal of sadness that we learned on the book and given the same title. plement the same freedom.'' of the pending retirement of the gentle Now, it is my pleasure to see that na Encouraged by the success of the book, man from Massachusetts, TORBY MAC tional recognition has been given to the Campus Studies Institute has released an book in an article which appeared in imaginative thirty-two-minute color film, DONALD. As everyone knows, after long, also entitled The Incredible Bread Machine. honorable service in the Navy during Fortune magazine. The following reprint of this article is commended to my col Four of the book's authors worked on the World War II, TORBY MACDONALD was script of the film and are the principal per elected to the Congress in 1954. He was leagues and the readership of the CON formers in it. Not the least reason for its reelected continuously by the people of GRESSIONAL RECORD: success ls that it was produced by the New his district and has served in recent FREE-MARKET ECONOMICS CAN BE FuN York multimedia firm of John Doswell, Inc. years as the chairman of the Communi (By Murray N. Rothbard) The thirty-two-year-old Doswell and many cations Subcommittee on the Committee Amid the sifting currents and cross-cur of his staff are libertarians in their personal rents of this election year, there ls at least philosophies, and so were especially able to on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. enter into the spirit of the film. During most of my time in Congress, one pervasive fact we can be sure of: a great many Americans are fed up with Big A CRASH COURSE IN LIBERTY I have had the privilege of serving with Government. For libertarians who have been him on the Communications Subcom The Incredible Bread Machine manages to sounding the alarm against Big Government be hip, funny, and colorful while scoring mittee and during the last year as rank for years, this growing development ls a points on behalf of the free-market economy. ing member. During this time, my re source of delight and amazement. Who would It ties in economic freedom with personal spect and affection for the gentleman have predicted such a radical change in freedom at every step of the way, so that the from Massachusetts has continually American attitudes twenty, ten, even five viewer receives a crash course in liberty as an grown. His interest, his intelligence, his years ago? Who would have thought, for ex int egrated system of human and property ample, that, in the lopsidely liberal intel rights. knowledge of the communications in lectual world, Harvard philosopher Robert dustry have served as the basis of much It starts out grimly, with three dramatiza Nozick's distinguished defense of individual tions based upon real-life episodes. First positive legislation. Without him there liberty, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, would comes the depiction of a sturdy Amish farm would be no public broadcasting system win the prestigious National Book Award in er whose horse is seized by Internal Revenue in the United States. He has been more 1975? agents because he had refused for reasons than fair in his dealings with other Especially remarkable is the spread of lib of conscience to pay Social Security taxes. members of the subcommittee, always ertarian attitudes among the young. On most The film cuts next to the arrest of a young insuring that their interests are looked college campuses, students are subjected to man attempting to stave off the authorities the views of liberal faculty members who after and that they are given whatever who are trying to take over his house by the favor increased government intervention. power of eminent domain. And next to the time they desire during the committee And yet most of the articulate and con As brutal nighttime invasion of a family's home, meetings. a matter of fact, this fair scious libertarians and proponents of the without a search warrant, by federal narcot ness can be seen in recent years in that free-market economy are now coming from ics agents; they were acting in the mistaken most of the bills brought out by the Com the ranks of young people-and among the belief that illegal drugs were hidden there. munications Subcommittee not only most intelUgent and best-informed young Then, aptly weaving together dramatic passed the subcommittee unanimously people at that. scenes with discussions between the four at but the full committee and the House UNABASHED ADVOCATES tractive young authors and their friends. the without much controversy. In the newly burgeoning Libertarian par film drives home a series of important points, We are proud of our personal associa ty (which expects to place its presidential including: the readiness with which the tion with TORBY MACDONALD. Our rela ticket on the ballot in more than thirty humanitarian turns to government coercion states this year) the average age of the par of his beneficiaries; the immorality of laws tionship has been extremely close. Al ty members ls around twenty-seven, and though we do not necessarily agree on all there are few people over thirty-five in the against gambling; how the minimum wage issues, I have found my differing view national leadership. The party's "Statement leads to unemployment, especially among point treated with respect and courtesy. of Principles" expresses attitudes and views blacks; how urban renewal has led to a de shared by many libertarians who are not creased supply of housing, especially for the TORBIE has always been willing to listen poor; and how a government experiment in and try to come to an agreeable solution. members of the party. It declares that "all individuals have the right to exercise sole providing free food to the masses in Sri One of the real pleasures of the Congress Lanka led to a grave shortage of food and has been serving on this committee with dominion over their own lives, and have the r~ght to live in whatever manner they choose, eventually to dictatorship. Most important the gentleman from Massachusetts. so long as they do not forcibly interfere with of all, perhaps, 1s the lesson about the true However, most of all I think it is im the equal right of others to live in whatever nature of business monopoly: namely, that manner they choose." monopoly in all cases stems from the grant portant to note that the work of the gen ing of special privilege by government itself. tleman from Massachusetts has made Members of the Libertarian party, the statement goes on, deny that government The film ends with a. delightful dramatiza this a better nation. I join with the peo "ha.s the right to dispose of the lives of tion of a fable-in-verse. It had originally ap ple of his district and his State and all individuals and the fruits of their labor." peared, back in 1966, in a book by an engineer his colleagues in wishing him good luck They "oppose all interference by government named R. W. Grant. That book-also entitled and in the areas of voluntary and contractual The Incredible Bread Machine-provided the and Godspeed in the years ahead. You six young authors at Campus Studies In- are one heck of a guy. relations among individuals." In other words, 10386 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 stitute with inspiration, title, and some of We can turn their own tactics against Born in Saskatchewan, Mr. Hill has the substance of their own book. them! And we can win, hands down I embodied on stage, screen and televi LOAVES AT A DOLLAR EACH We can get by with the oil which we have in our control, although it won't be easy. sion perceptions of pers~nal dignity Grant's fable was the story of Tom Smit Possibly the North Sea oil production ca.n be which can serve as inspiration to his who invented a machine that could produc~ dedicated to take up the slack in a few years. viewers. His television series portrayal of bread profitably at a. selling price of under a. We can surely enjoy eating the food we grow "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law" was cent a loaf. After some yea.rs passed, the feat justly enjoyed by millions of was ta.ken for granted, and when business in the democratic nations of the world; and vi~wers, taxes forced the price up to a full cent, Smith we can help our friends by buying their oil, both here and around the world as a de was charged with "plunder" and "monopoly," even at OPEC-level prices if necessary. Great piction of the responsible practice of and hounded by the antitrust authorities. Britain and Norway would be glad to have law. In tribute to his personal convic Finally, the government nationalized Smith's our market. tions and to his talent, Mr. Hill was bread production, and, in the final stanza of We have little to lose other than momen- honored with an honorary doctorate of the fable (and the final words of the film) : tary convenience. • So, let's organize a world barter system, to law by the University of British Colum True, loaves cost a dollar ea.ch. bia where he studied law. But our leaders do their best. be known as OFEC (see a.hove). "You want The se111ng price is half a cent. our foodstuifs? You say you want to eat? . I join critics .and fans in acknowledg (Taxes pay the rest I) OK, we'll trade for oil (or in the case of Rus ing the contributions of this distin ..A.s the Bread Ma.chine film suggests, there sia., which country owes us so much already guished Canadian artist to his .art and is a new spirit growing in the land, not sim if we decide to deal with them at all, fo; his society. ply an inchoate mood of resentment against oil and gold). And, we won't extend credits Big Government, but serious and systematic to you, regardless of any rate of interest thought, combined with flair and expertise in which you would be willing to pay. And, by the way, no ha.nkey-pankey about arms organization and in communication. It is re ANOTHER VIEW ON PANAMA freshing and heartening to find articulate build-ups to threaten the peace, either." libertarian views being carried forward by Why don't we call the tune? We're in the the very "under thirty" generation that not driver's seat, but apparently we, and our so long a.go seemed a.bout to declare nihi government, a.re too myopic to see it. HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS listic war upon its elders. America. could It is interesting to note the parallel in OF PENNSYLVANIA denying of food as a means of achieving an hardly have a better birthday present in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES year of its Bicentennial, an anniversary that obj.ective, namely, community responsiblity, should remind us of the profound devotion which was a principle established on these Friday, April 9, 1976 of the American Revolutionaries to individ shores in 1609 by Captain John Smith: "no work, no eat." Apparently, the principle Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, those who ual liberty. want us to surrender the Panama Canal (Murray Rothba.rd, professor of economics worked. at Polytechnic Institute of New York, is an The only question is that if we were to paint a dreary picture of conditions in intellectual leader of the libertarian move run this up the flag staff at the White Panama and warn that, unless we yield ment in the U.S. He is the author of Con House, Peoria, Dubuque, or Oma.ha, would the whole place will explode in wrath ceived in Liberty, a monumental study of the anyone salute? against us. origins of the U.S.; the third volume will be T:t:e Panamanians, we are told, hate published later this year. Professor Rothba.rd us with a purple passion because we vio appears in the Bread Machine film, in the TRIBUTE TO CANADIAN ACTOR late not only their territory but their comic role of a professor trying to explain the cherished sovereignty and, what is more, virtues of urban-renewal programs while the ARTHUR HILL ' film strips that are supposed to be mustrat taunt them with a double standard sym ing his lecture show an embarrassing series bolized by lush homes and living for of demolitions.) HON. THOMAS M. REES overly affiuent Americani i.n the Canal OF CALIFORNIA Zone. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Is this true? I have read with interest Friday, April 9, 1976 a series of reports on Panama and the ·LET US ORGANIZE AN OFEC-OR canal by Ralph Z. Hallow, Pittsburgh GANIZATION OF FOOD EXPORT Mr. REES. Mr. Speaker, I would like Post Gazette editorial writer, who toured ING COUNTRIES to take this opportunity to acknowledge the country recently and who, I point the work of an artist who epitomizes the out, favors our pulling out only because contributions made by citizens of our the canal costs us too much to operate HON. LARRY McDONALD northern neighbor, Canada, to the pop and benefits others much more than we. ular arts and the social conscience of the OF GEORGIA United States. But disregarding Mr. Hallow's per IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES sonal views, I think his findings about The artist I speak of is the distin conditions in Panama are both timely Friday, April 9, 1976 guished actor, Arthur Hill, who brings and valuable in framing judgments on Mr. McDONALD of Georgia. Mr. not only talent, but also conscience and the canal question. I cite particularly Speaker, Tom E. Moore Gf Springfield, a personal ethic to his considerable act these paragraphs from his extended re Va.,. recently wrote a statement sug mg accomplishment in this country. This port: is demonstrated by his upcoming per gesting that we use the God-given boun Almost none of the notions and images I ty of surplus food that this Nation has formance in a television show which re flew down here a.re accurate about Panama. been blessed with in the best interests creates a significant civil rights event of its government and people or about th~ of the United States and the free world. this century, the depression-era trial in Canal Zone and the canal itself and what the What a revolutionary idea. In spite of which Judge James Edwin Horten, a U.S. should do a.bout it. the fact that the administration stoutly segregationist by his own admission First off, if one is expecting an atmosphere maintains the benefits of the wheat spoke out at the expense of his caree; electric with anti-Americanism or sullen a~ainst a miscarriage of justice against with dictatorial oppression, one will be-as deals with the U .S.S.R., no one has I am-plea.singly relieved to find the con been able to document any for the aver nine black youths. The program is direc tor Fielder Cook's "Judge Horton and trary. Either a half million Panamanians in age American except for e, few select this city (Panama City) are conspiring to w.heat dealers. Therefore, I commend the Scottsboro Boys," which will be conceal their hatred of me and other gringos his suggestion and thoughts to the at shown April 22 on NBC-TV. and of their maniacal preoccupation with tention of my colleagues: Ironically, within a 4-month period the canal issue, or somebody's been misin Mr. Hill has portrayed two great heroes in LE.T'S ORGANIZE AN OFEC (ORGANIZATION OJ' forming us back the states. FOOD ExPORTING COUNTRIES) in the fight for equal treatment for The Canal Zone, that strip or U.S. territory (By Tom E. Moore) blacks. His portrayal of Abraham Lincoln that splits Panama in two, ls not the paradise on Mr. Cook's presentation of "The of gorgeous homes and manicured lawns We don't hold a world monopoly on oil as Rivalry" last Demember was a human fenced off from Panamanian citizens that the OPEC nations, guided by the wisdom some of the U.S. media depict. of the Soviet Union, have discovered and and moving incarnation of our 22d Presi have used against the West for economic dent. It is interesting that Mr. Hill joins Then later: blackmaU. But they can't eat or drink their other Canadians, such as Raymond Mas Many of my canal company friends don't oil. So, they can't play "dog 1n the manger," sey and the late Walter Huston, who have want to see the zone disappear: and. if I if we should organize the sanctions ava.11- given us memorable Lincoln dramatiza were they, I probably shouldn't either. able to us throughout the Westem World. tions. They're generally efficient, ha.rd-working April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10387 Americans who have made the operation of yet another perspective of our workings hog operation. For the last several years, she that canal the envy of the world; and they on the Hill through a comprehensive is no longer a secretary since a full-time feel that their dollars, their presence, their reading of current issues including Fed hired hand was needed and none could be example, have done much for the Panama found. She works dally doing whatever needs nians. They're absolutely right. Some of them eral criminal justice reform, the primary to be done-plows, discs, uses field culti are third-generation Zonians who've married elections, revenue sharing, and strip vator, mulcher, does most of the planting Panamanian or other Latin-American women mining. The forum has attempted to go while the husband sprays insecticide and and who speak Spanish and consider them beyond mere reporting, to present in herbicide and in the fall she does most of selves Panamanian as well as American. cisive and in-depth analysis of the the combining/picking while the husband They're a group of which stateside Americans issues. hauls crops to market or storage. Now ... do ca.n be justly proud .... The Forum, its staff and writers, is a you think it is equitable that she should be responsible for inheritance taxes, should Mr. Hallow writes further: publication which has been helpful to something happen to the husband? Especial The U.S. State Department and the Ford Members of Congress, Hill staff, lobby ly at the present exemption level? She wm Administration, under difficult pressure at ists, and the public. I congratulate the definitely inherit nothing . . . fact is, she home, tend to de-emphasize the fact that Capitol Hill Forum and wish them many actually did as much as the husband to ac Uncle Sam's operation of this canal has bene more years of reporting on the Hill. cumulate what they have. fitted the Panamanians immensely. Net in Perhaps this farm wife does more of the come from the Canal Zone-the 10-mile strip actual farm work than many farm wives but of U.S. territory that has a population of all farm wives are involved in the actual 39,000, mostly U.S. civ111an and mmtary per HUSBAND AND WIFE WORK AS struggle to own and maintain their acreage, sons but also some Panamanians and other PARTNERS whatever their role may be. Some do the nationals-accounts for 12.5 per cent of record keeping and maintain the home Panama's gross domestic product ($1.1 bil others, in addition, help in the field, help lion, corrected for inflation) and for more HON. PAUL FINDLEY with the livestock, run errands for parts and than 30 per cent of Panama's foreign-ex repairs, etc. All-I am sure-do much that change earnings.... OF ILLINOIS cannot be recorded. In other words, they are The rest of the world benefits from the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deeply involved in the actual work and ac canal far more than the U.S. and that's why Friday, April 9, 1976 cumulation of their livelihood. Still others I'm suspicious of Panamanian and U.S. gov work away from home to bring in a much ernment claims that guerrilla warfare and Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, one of the needed cash fl.ow to help financially. sabotage to interrupt operation of the canal keys to success of the Amelican farm is We feel like the time is now ... for some will certainly erupt if Panama doesn't get the wife's contribution to work activities. legislation, good, sensible, equitable adjust the zone and then the canal. Husband and wife work as partners. ment to alleviate the inequities of the old Estate & Gift Ta.x Laws so that widows and Again · These two join together as a team to children will not become bankrupt or have Another reason why one finds here little build a business enterprise. to give up their homesteads in order to pay anti-American feeling and tension over the I would like to share with you a frank the inequities now existing. We've already canal issue, in spite of official rhetoric and and open letter from one of my consti worked and paid for these homes with much media-painted pictures back in the states, ls, tuents on the important role and value sweat, blood and heartache. I suspect, the vastly improved employment of the wife in making the family farm Please, ask the Committee to get "on the picture in the Canal Zone, where about 75 the great institution it is today. The let ball" now-not to table these issues but get per cent of the fulltime canal labor force now ter from Mr. and Mrs. Howard Guthrie something constructive done now, now, now. is Panamanian, and only 26 per cent are U.S. We are sure there are people much more citizens. of White Hall, m., follows: learned than we, who can tell the story bet MARCH 6, 1976. ter but this is the way it is "at our house." These observations of Mr. Hallow, a Hon. PAUL FINDLEY, Thank you again for the opportunity to let highly respected journalist, are contrary House Office Building, you know how we feel. to much we have read and heard said Washington, D.C. Respectfully, about conditions in Panama and on the DEAR Sm: Our thanks for your article in The HOWARD GUTHRIES. canal question. I suggest that, in any our local paper-for your assistance in try ing to bring views of your constituents to the future hearings on the matter here, he be Committee on Reforms for Estate and Gift invited to testify. Taxes, and for your representation in Wash I also raise the question of why, when ington. CLIFFORD W. SWENSON RECEIVES conditions were such as found by Mr. Speaking from the lowest level-the level "SPIRIT OF LIFE AWARD" Hallow and objectively reported by him that "pays the bill", we wish to protest the despite his own opinions on the canal failure of Government to heed the fact that issue, we continue to get claims to the Estate and Gift Tax laws have been shame HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA fully neglected, causing undue hardships to contrary and arguments that we must OF CALIFORNIA many persons and bankruptcy to others, after give up the canal and the zone or bring they have spent years of long hours and hard IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on a disaster. Mr. Hallow went there times to build up a little something for use Friday, April 9, 1976 with preconceived notions and images, in "senior years". as he explains, and found them not so. We worry, and rightfully so, that estate Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, I would like What then, is behind the notions and taxes will wipe clean the small farm home today to bring to the attention of my col images which were given Mr. Hallow and acreage we have all worked so hard to ac leagues here in the House of Representa are continuing to be circulated through cum.ulate-5truggllng through lean years, tives, an outstanding citizen that I have long hours and hard times to build a little the honor of representing: Mr. Clifford out the country and what is their pur something to keep us when we can no longer pose? It puzzles me and I think we ought work. W. Swenson. to make an effort to find out. Inflation has shoved the price of our small Mr. Swenson has devoted his life to farm and equipment beyond any dream we community service and to excellence in could ever have managed-yet the estate ex the construction industry. His leadership emption remains the same as that set in the in innovative construction techniques be CAPITOL HILL FORUM '40's. Many wives, particularly, find that gan at the age of 12 when he began con t hough they have worked side-by-side with struction work with his father. The 50- their husbands for years and have their property in joint tenancy, if the wife is left year span of his company has left the HON. PATSY T. MINK with the property, she must pay out huge in Swenson mark of construction leader OF HAWAll heritance tax monies anyway, and becomes a ship on the Santa Clara Valley. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pauper overnight, with absolutely no way of In the area of community service, Mr. making her own living in the late years. Swenson has been active on the board of Friday, April 9, 1976 In our case, as in many others I am sure, directors of Goodwill Industries, the San Mrs. MINK. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased the wife works as "hired hand" right along Jose Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA, to note the anniversary of a biweekly with the husband. Speaking personally, this the Advisory Board for San Jose State wife keeps the farm records, has worked as University, his alma mater, the San newspaper which has had an important a Secretary in lean years to bring in cash first year on the Hill, the Capitol Hill for groceries and help put a son through Jose Rotary Club, and a number of other Forum. college. She, of course, keeps the house, runs civic programs. In addition, he has served From the beginning this newspaper errands as needed and yet has managed to on the boards of banks, engineering firms, has admirably succeeded in presenting help take care of all facets of a considerable trust funds, insurance and electronic 10388 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 ·-.r. t companies.· Mr. Swenson has demon grass in the foothills above his Danville LOS ANGELES TIMES SUPPORTS strated an intense personal dedication ranch. HATCH ACT REFORM "Eighty cattle would normally be out to the City of Hope who has chosen to there," he said. honor him with the "Spirit of Life But the only thing that could survive Award" for his outstanding career as a among a few scraggly trees was a horse, pa HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY leader in the construction industry and tiently nibbling to get enough of the dried OF MISSOURI his numerous civic contributions. out grass to make a. meal. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "This little bit of rain isn't too much," Mr. Speaker, I know that you and my Friday, April 9, 1976 other colleagues here in the Congress will Magee said. "We're so far below normal it'll join with me and the City of Hope in take four or five inches to get us there. Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, there has been commending Mr. Clifford W. Swenson for "I'm not complalnlng though-this ls much debate within Congress concerning better than the north wind." the need to reform the Hatch Act. Mem his dedicated community service and his Magee, 54, has run his 17-a.cre spread just innovative leadership in the construction below Interstate 680 since 1953 when he bers of the House will be given a third industry. moved there from Nevada. opportunity to vote on this issue when His plight typifies that of many ranchers the anticipated Presidential veto of H.R. who have seen the drought dry up not only 8617, the Federal Employees' Political THE PLIGHT OF WESTERN water supplies and grazing land, but profits Activities Act of 1975, is sent to the Con CATI'LEMEN as well. gress. He said banks and other lending institu An illustrious west coast newspaper, tions a.re "getting fidgety" and a.re telling the Los Angeles Times, issued an editor HON. JIM SANTINI everyone "to sell out." Many smaller ranch ial on April 2, 1976 entitled "Citizens OF NEVADA ers have, he said, also adding to the problem by flooding the market. Without Citizenship." The Times makes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES He is pesslmlstlc a.bout his own future. a strong case in support of H.R. 8617 Friday, April 9, 1976 "I lost $70,000 on 1,000 calves last year," he and states that President Ford would be said, adding he owes the bank "more than ill-advised to veto it. Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, this is a I'm worth." I want to share this enlightening ar trying and critical time for Western cat Actually, Magee (whose first name ls Harry ticle with my colleagues. The editorial tlemen who are faced with a myriad of but no one ever calls him that) has some follows: :financial problems brought on by a num 5,000 head of cattle scattered about Cali ber of developments outside their con fornia, Nevada and Oregon. Leasing 50,000 CrnzENS WITHOUT CITizENSHIP acres of land "from 21 landlords." He has All involvement in partisan politics, except trol. well over 1,000 feeders, cows and ca.Ives in the right to vote, was ta.ken away from fed Coupled with rising production costs Contra Costa County, most of them grazing eral employes by the Hatch Act of 1939. But and decreasing selling costs, Western cat on Mt. Diablo. a measure to restore 2.8 million government tlemen are now faced with drought con He said the drought ls everywhere and ls workers to full citizenship-HR 8617 ls now ditions and a new grazing fee increase the worst he has seen locally in at least on President Ford's desk. He intends to veto implemented March 1 by the Bureau of three years. Before last Wednesday, he had it, and we believe that would be wrong. Land Management--BLM. not seen any rain since last fall. There might have been a. justification for I am afraid there is little we can do "You're never quite prepared for anything removing federal employes from politics 37 like this," he said. "You can't afford to be yea.rs ago, when they had little or no protec about stopping the drought in the West, conservative.'' tion from coercion by their elective or bu but the 51 percent grazing fee increase But a drought shoots up feed and other reaucratic superiors. But that ls no longer coupled with possible range closures in costs and "puts everything out of perspec the case. Nevada-is a tough pill to swallow. tive." Most important ls "you can't sell for The strength of the civil service system, During the past few months I have what it costs.'' with its seniority and merit safeguards, effec initiated a series of meetings here in If he was to sell his stock now, Ma.gee says tively insulates the government worker from Washington with BLM officials, repre he would be lucky to get $180 for cows that pressures to contribute money or time to the sentatives of the cattle and sheep indus a.re appraised by tax officials at $300. It costs election of partisan candidates. something like 56 cents a pound to get a. Despite that, the civll servants must re tries, Members of Congress, and the Sec cow up to slaughter size, but a sale now main neutral. A postal clerk, for example, retary of Interior, Thomas Kleppe. The would only bring 42 cents on the pound. cannot even ring a. doorbell to urge a. neigh meetings were culminated last week in In fact, he said if it was a. normal season, bor to vote for a. Republican or a. Democrat a 1-hour session with President Ford, he would now be buying stock instead of for state office, or even for mayor, county followed 2 days later in an Elko, Nev., looking for better grazing land, which ls also supervisor or city council member in juris seminar with BLM Director, Curt Berk rising in rental cost. But there is "no sense" dictions where those offices a.re partisan. lund, and 600 ranchers, miners, and in to buying more. "I'm half-stocked and right HR 8617 would modify the Hatch Act to terested Nevadans. now that's over-stocked." permit federal workers to support candidates, Magee talked with The Tribune in between or to run for office themselves, if done on I was hoping that these meetings moving some 200 of his cows and calves to their own time and a.way from their places of would have an impact on convincing greener pasture in the hills surrounding work. Restrictions would remain, however, on President Ford to either reduce or post Rossmoor. It was the second move to better persons in sensitive positions in the Depart pone the steep grazing fee increase. I grazing land ln the same h1lls for the herd ment of Justice, the Central Intelligence still retain that hope. within the last few months. Agency and the Internal Revenue Service, But I think that these sessions have Once a.gain Ma.gee blamed the drought and on all members of the military. also been helpful in providing a clear un conditions. "All my cows usually go to the The most vigorous opponent of the legis derstanding of the many needs and prob mountains for the summer, but if there's no lation-Sen. Hiram L. Fong (R-Hawa11)-ar lems besieging the Western cattlemen. rain I can't move them there." gues that the modifications would "politi Although none of his herd is really suffer cize" the civil service and lead to a. return of Those in small operations are especially ing yet, Magee said the dry grass has no the "spoils system.'' threatened by recent developments. protein or substance to it for the cattle so The facts are to the contrary. Stringent Mr. Speaker, the Oakland Tribune ran he uses liquid molasses to supplement it. prohibitions against political activity, such a story recently which I think represents But even that cost is rlsing and he is using as those in the Hatch Act, do not apply in the plight of many Western cattle oper twice as much as before. city, county and state government, and ators. I submit the story of former Ne Magee readily accepts the fact that he where adequate civil service protections ex faces heavy financial setbacks and perhaps ist, as they would on the federal level-there vadan Hap MaGee to be reprinted in the even the loss of his ranch. RECORD: has been no evidence whatever that public But there is still a ray of hope that brings employes have been shanghaied into political COWMAN'S TRAGIC PLIGHT a smile to his weather-beaten face. For he activity against their will. (By Harry Harris) knows that 1! he can hold on until spring And HR 8617 carries additional insure.nee It's so far, so good for Hap Magee. he can still make it, since by then the now that politicalization would not be thrust on But it may not be good enough. flooded market wm be depleted and looking federal employes. It would Impose even He's counting the rainless days that will for beef. harsher penalties, including criminal pro~ e determine whether he or the weather wins He just needs more rain. cutton, in cases where higher-ups might at in his fight to stay in the cattle-raising busi "The only good thing lately,'' he said, "is tempt such intimidation. ness. my bad leg has been hurting. When it does Although the new legislation won approval The rain and snow of the past week ls not that, somethin~ good usually happens." in both houses of Congress by substantial nearly enough for the rancher, who points He got the first batch of that over the margins, the majorities are short of the two With gnarled finger to the brown-toasted weekend. thirds necessary to override a veto. - A']Yfil ·9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10389 It's up to Ford, then. He can either extend brought honor to themselves, to the elation of our nation if we are to continue to 2.8 million Americans the political privi school, and to our community. to serve God and country. leges that all other citizens exercise, or he "Each of us became what we are, he said, can continue to deny them the right to par because someone loved us," But, he noted, ticipate meaningfully in the choice of those the future of each person ls going to be only who govern. that which he or she makes it. We believe a veto would be unconscionable MAHONING COUNTY PROSECUTING He pa.id tribute to secretaries, observing in light of another recent decision by Ford. ATTORNEY VINCENT E. GILMAR that while the work is hard, they attend In mid-January, he brought former Com TIN IS HONORED AS BOSS OF THE to it cheerfully because they enjoy the merce Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton into the YEAR challenge. White House as his chief political manager, Father Connelly also extolled Paul Brown, at a salary of $44,600 a year. head coach of the Bengals, as a worthy in Although Morton, as a presidential coun HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY fluence on youngsters. selor, -was exempt from the Hatch Act, and although he left the White House this week OF OHIO to take over full command of the Ford cam IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES paign, the principle remains the same. Friday, April 9, 1976 CATHOLIC WAR VETS HONOR If it was all right for Morton, who held ZEMPRELLI Cabinet rank, to work in partisan politics for Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, I am 2~ months while on the federal payroll, why pleased to announce that Mr. Vincent E. is it wrong for civil servants of lower status Gilmartin, Mahoning County prosecut HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS to do it on their own time? ing attorney, was recently named "Boss OF PENNSYLVANIA of the Year" at the annual dinner of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Yo-Mah-0 chapter of the National Friday, April 9, 1976 Secretaries Association. WEST GENESEE WILDCATS OF Mr. Gilmartin is a longtime friend of Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, in keeping CAMILLUS, N.Y., WINS VERY BEST mine and has provided many years of with its past custom of selecting promi HIGH SCHOOL FIELD BAND distinguished service to the community nent individuals for public recognition AWARD as county prosecutor. His selection as as a "Good Fellow," Post 1559 of the Boss of the Year is but one indication of Catholic War Veterans and its auxiliary the high esteem in which he is held by have selected Pennsylvania Senator Ed HON. WILLIAM F. WALSH all who know him. ward P. Zemprelli as the recipient for its OF NEW YORK For the consideration of my colleagues, 17th annual award. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I am inserting an article from the Senator Zemprelli, who represents the Youngstown Vindicator for Saturday, State's 45th District, will be honored at Friday, April 9, 1976 March 20, 1976, which describes the a testimonial dinner on Sunday, April 25. Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, today a ceremonies honoring Prosecuting Attor Several hundred persons are expected group of 180 youngsters and their ney Vincent E. Gilmartin. to attend the event, paying tribute to the teachers, advisers, parents, and neigh The article follows: senator as a man, an attorney, and a bors are among the happiest and [From the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, public omcial. proudest people in the world. Mar. 20, 1976] Senator Zemprelli is a life-long resi I am referring to the marching band GILMARTIN HONORED BY SECRETARIES dent of southwestern Pennsylvania. He from West Genesee Senior High School, Vincent E. Gilmartin, Mahoning County was born, raised, educated, and lives in an institution in Camillus, N.Y., in the prosecuting attorney, was named "Boss of the city of Clairton, residing at 1244 33d Co'lgressional District. the Year" Friday night at the annual dinner Bickerton Drive with his wife, Margaret, On Wednesday evening, April 7, the of the Yo-Mah-0 Chapter of the National and daughter, Carla. West Genesee Wildcats earned, in the Secretaries Association (International) at The senator, a graduate of Penn State Youngstown Country Club. University and the law school at the toughest possible competition at St. Toastmistress was committee chairmai1 Petersburg, Fla., recognition a.,; the very University of Pittsburgh, began his ca Patricia A. Van Kleeck, who ma.de the pres reer in public service almost as soon best High School Field Band in the entation to Gilmartin before 80 chapter as United States of America. members and their bosses. he began his private practice in law. In Their victory over the top marching Gilmartin was nominated by his secretary, his community, he has served as city units in the country represents culmina Miss Marilyn L. Carroll. solicitor and also as chairman of the tion of a tremendous effort by the mem The dinner opened with an invocation by city's Democratic organization. bers of the band, an outstanding direc Clarence J. Strauss, 1975 Boss of the Year, His service in State government tor, their staff, the administration and and a welcome by chapter president, Mrs. started in 1963 when he won the first of Phares M. Kiskell, followed by a. response terms a faculty of the school, and the parents by Robert Saylor, her boss. three as member of the Penn and other residents of the West Genesee Speaker was the Rev. Richard J. Connelly, sylvania House of Representatives. He School District. chaplain of the Cincinnati Bengals profes has served as a State senator since his Over a year ago, when it appeared this sional football team and pastor of St. Col election to that body in 1968 and, in spirited unit had a chance at the na man Church in Washington Court House. addition to being chairman of the com tional title, an entire community rallied Gilmartin, 48, is a member of St. Christine mittee on business and commerce, he behind their efforts to raise enough Church. A graduate of Ursuline High School, holds membership on environmental re funds for them to compete in what he received his bachelor's degree from Har sources, judiciary, State government and vard University in 1951 and his juris doc transportation committees. represents the World Series of field torate from Ohio Northern University in band competition. 1954. Senator Zemprelli is a consistent sup With bake sales, garage sales, door-to He served with the Ohio Department of porter of expanded unemployment and door marketing of citrus fruits, a rame Highways from 1957 until 1963 and as assist workmen's compensation programs, in by the local Fairmount Fire Department ant Youngstown law director from 1964 until creased minimum wages and expanded and many other similar endeavors, 1968. He was elected prosecutor in 1969, benefits for the elderly, particularly in enough was raised to charter two planes serving to the present. He served in the Army areas of property tax relief and mass from 1954 until 1956. to fly the entire group plus many parents He is married to the former Julaine E. transit services. He is the coauthor of to Florida for a 9-day experience that Roscoe. They live at 3343 Estates Circle and a State law restricting furloughs of pris can never be equaled. have three daughters, Eileen, Denise and oners and a persistent advocate of a The national championship brings Christine. small general assembly for the State. His great credit to each person involved and Miss Carroll, the prosecutor's secretary, is objectives for the future include freezing I would like to share news of their a daughter of the late Lawrence and Mrs. property tax assessments for senior citi achievements with my colleagues. Darrold Carroll, and has been a member of zens, creation of a new State Depart Yo-Mah-0 Chapter since 1959. ment of Aging and the adoption of legis I want to recognize the director, She has served as president, vice president Bruce B. Brummit and his assistants, and recording secretary for the chapter, and lation to protect consumer accounts in Doug Wade and Jack Daley, and every was named "Secretary of the Year" in 1974. State-chartered institutions. one of the musicians and marchers who, Father Connelly talked of love and humor. Mr. Speaker, this year's recipient of by their skill and determination, have "We, as Americans, must sustain our appre- the CWV "Good Fellow" Award is only 10390 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 the latest in a long line of individuals of our history books. As a former pro the moment to counter our enemies' strategic that Post 1559 and its auxiliary have fessional historian, I can assure you that capabilities. But our infantry, navy, armor recognized for their contributions to so this would be an appropriate resting and counter insurgency forces are woefully deficient. In a conventional war the Russians ciety and their fellowmen. I would be place for this bureaucracy whose time might well defeat us. remiss if I did not, on behalf of the Con has expired. gress of the United States, express my Add to that the consideration that a appreciation to the ofH.cers and members one-sided advantage in conventional of this fine organization. They, too, are forces does not decrease the chances of worthy of public recognition and praise. CONGRESSIONAL MAIL nuclear war. In future weeks, I want to share with HON. JAMES G. MARTIN the Congress excerpts from other letters I have received from my constituents, CONGRESS SHOULD NOT GRANT OF NORTH CAROLINA without of course, disclosing the writers' F'EA EXTENSION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES names. Friday, April 9, 1976 HON. FLOYD J. FITHIAN Mr. MARTIN. Mr. Speaker, in an aver OF INDIANA age week, I get hundreds of letters from KEPONE LINKED TO LIVER CANCER IN ANIMALS IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES constituents about the issues facing this country, and it is my intention to share Friday, April 9, 1976 some of these in this way with the Con HON. DOMINICK V. DANIELS Mr. FITHIAN. I wish to join my dis gress. Obviously, on some topics there tinguished colleague from Colorado, Ms. are more letters than others. During the OF NEW JERSEY SCHROEDER, in urging that Congress take past few months, government spending IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES no action to extend the life of the Fed has been a favorite topic, even though Friday, April 9, 1976 eral Energy Administration. This is one the writer may have written for another Mr. DOMINICK V. DANIELS. Mr. occasion when, in the best interest of purpose. Remember that many of these Speaker, the National Cancer Institute American taxpayers, Congress should do people are your friends and neighbors. has just released a report linking the nothing. Do their feelings express some of your pesticide kepone to liver cancer in ani It was the intent of the Congress 2 own sentiments? mals. years ago that the F'EA should be a tem One constituent writes- Details of this report are contained in porary agency which would finish its The Federal Government appears to be in an article which appeared in today's New work by the middle of this year <15 a headlong rush to follow New York City into York Times, and I will include the article the abyss of financial irresponsibility. U.S.C. 751). But in typical bureaucratic at the end of my remarks for the infor style, the F'EA has mushroomed from a The comparison is apt. mation of my colleagues. few temporary staffers to more than One retired gentleman wrote about the By now, the American public is fa 3,000 employees. President's tax cut proposal, as it relates miliar with the kepone-caused tragedy We do not need this bureaucracy. In to Government spending. He writes. that occurred in Hopewell, Va. The State deed, effective long-range energy policy The President's tax cut proposal, linked of Virginia, the State's fishing industry, would be enhanced by the absence of the to a similar reduction in spending, makes and workers from the Life Sciences plant FEA. Many of my constituents believe- more sense than anything yet proposed. This that produced the pesticide have now correctly, in my opinion-that the FEA continued increase in government spending filed suits for damages caused by hu is wedded to the energy industry; that must stop somewhere, and now, if we are man and environmental exposure to policies formulated in FEA offices all too to continue as a nation. I urge you to put kepone. frequently sound as though they were your great weight behind this tax-spending Mr. Speaker, my Subcommittee on cut proposal, and do whatever you can to rather put together in the board rooms bring fiscal responsibility to our government Manpower, Compensation and Health of Exxon or Gulf. And it is no wonder, and our people. and Safety conducted hearings in Hope since dozens of top-level FEA ofH.cials well, Va., to investigate the occupational were employed by oil companies immedi I can only say amen to those com safety and health implications of this ately prior to joining the FEA. ments. Others have written the same tragic incident. We have the Federal Power Commis view, and no one has urged larger deficits. But an incident such as the kepone sion. We have the Energy Research and While the issue of Consumer Agency case is simply not just an occupational Development Administration. We have which I opposed-is waiting for action safety and health issue. plenty of topheavy bureaucracy to sat from the White House. Consider this It is also an environmental, economic, isfy those who may worry that our na letter which reflects what others of your public health, and social issue. tional energy policy may lack direction neighbors have said about regulatory ex Kepone is just one of a long list of without the alleged oversight of the FEA. cesses. This person wrote that- toxic substances which dally threaten our Plain and simple, this is one bureaucracy I should vote consistent with the wishes of health, our lives, and our environment. we can do without. most of your constituents for relief from the It is obvious to me that the only way I think that the inefficacy of the FEA burdensome cost of federal over-regulation we are going to get some control over and the excessive taxes we have to pay to is demonstrated by the massive effort support the federal bureaucracy. situations such as the kepone incident which this agency had been forced to is to enact strong toxic substances con mount for public relations simply to re It has been many months since the trol legislation. main alive. Why should the FEA have United States pulled out of most of The Subcommittee on Consumer Pro one public relations specialist for every Southeast Asia. Americans have, for the tection reported H.R. 10318, the Toxic 30 employees? Why should $3.5 million most part, put the issue of defense and Substances Control Act, on December 3, be spent so these 112 publicists can extoll strong military preparedness on the back 1975. That bill now awaits action by the the virtues of the FEA? If the FEA really burner. I have received a few letters of full Interstate and Foreign Commerce played a vital role in our Government, it concern on the subject. One writer Committee. I strongly urge my colleagues seems unlikely that 112 public relations notes- on that committee to report a toxic sub experts would be needed to proclaim its we definitely ca.n reduce the waste in the stances control bill to the House for worth. military but in heaven's name, how can any action. As a cosponsor of the Regulatory one think that we won't pay the price if (we) We need a strong toxic substances con Agency Self-Destruct Act, I am com let down our guard against the Russians? trol bill. It is the height of folly to sim mitted to making some sense out of the One of my constituents makes some ply sit back and let the list of environ bureaucratic tangle that we all see here very interesting observations about the mental and health tragedies caused by in Washington. We can make a good be defense question. The comments are toxic substances grow with every passing ginning by letting the Federal Energy worth serious thought. He writes- day. Administration go the way of the Pierce My reading has led me to believe that our Leadership is clearly required on this Arrow automobile, the single-row plant strategic submarine weaponry, a.nd to a lesser issue. We simply cannot ignore the prob er and the 5-cent Coke: into the pages extent, our nuclear missiles are adequate for lem any longer. April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10391 is END THE FEDERAL ENERGY JOHNNY HORIZON, His JOB DONE, LEAVES The problem of toxic substances GOVERNMENT SERVICE here; it is now; and it demands our im The Johnny Horizon program, created mediate attention and action. HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER eight years ago to enlist the public in a clean· Mr. Speaker, I include at this point in up of trash and litter on the public lands, OF COLORADO my remarks the article from today's New has done Its job and ls being phased out by York Times. I hope my colleagues will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 30, 1976, the Department of the add it to their steadily growing collection Friday, April 9, 1976 Interior announced today. Origlnally conceived by Interior's Bureau of data which so vividly underscores the Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, in of Land Management as a means of raising need for prompt congressional action this last week I received in my office a public consciousness toward the condition of on the toxic substances control bill: couple of remarkable communications. the public domain in the West, the program PESTI:JIDE Is LINKED TO ANIMAL CANCER One, from the Department of the Inte was adopted nationwide by the Department rior, is entitled "Johnny Horizon, His Job several years later and achieved an enthu (By Harold M. Schmeck, Jr.) siastic following. It featured cleanup drives WASHINGTON, April 7.-As pa.rt of a pro Done, Leaves Government Service." The by volunteer youth and community groups, gram to alert the public to cancer hazards ln other, from the Energy Research and De to the tune of songs performed by Burl Ives the environment, the Nationa.l Cancer In velopment Administration, is a statement and other entertainers--also on a volunteer stitute released today a report linking the that ERDA will no longer be inundating basis. pesticide Kepone to liver cancer in animals. our offices with its press releases, and in Most recently it has borne the title of The pesticide has received considerable stead will offer to those interested in Johnny Horizon '76, with the motto, "Let's publicity in the la.st year because of pollution the day-to-day actions of the agency a Clean Up America for Our 200th Birthday." problems from a plant that had been pro weekly summary of activities. I commend "Johnny Horizon has done his job and ducing it in Hopewell, Va., and because of both of these actions. done it well," said Secretary of the Interior illnesses among the plant's workers. The Thomas S. Kleppe. "His life span embraced a At the end of the Interior Depart time of massive reawakening, of envlron plant was closed last July. ment's statement on Johnny Horizon is a In August, the Environmental Protection menta.l awareness, community action, and Agency ordered the manUfacturer to stop very appropriate comment which I have citizen participation. People across the land sales and use of the compound and pro seldom heard uttered by bureaucrats. It realize that they personally can do much to hibited further manUfacture. follows: make our country more livable. Tests done for the institute showed that It is often said that Federa.l rrograms sur "It is often said that Federal programs many rats and mice, fed Kepone for 80 weeks vive beyond their period of usefulness. John survive beyond their period of usefulness. as pa.rt of their diet, developed cancer of the ny Horizon has served this purpose and will Johnny Horizon has served this purpose and liver. now leave the scene letting the people do will now leave the scene letting the people In a summary of the test results, the cancer the job themselves. do the job themselves." inst itute said that more than 80 percent of male mice that were fed the compound dur Mr. Speaker, the folks down at the ing the long-term test had developed liver Federal Energy Administration should cancer. More than 40 percent of fema.le mice heed these words and what the Depart CHANGES PROPOSED IN UNEM developed the disease. ment of the Interior and the Energy Re PLOYMENT COMPENSATION In comparable studies of rats, 7 percent of search and Development Administration males in one group developed liver cancer as are doing. When the FEA Act expires on did 22 percent of the fema.les. No liver can June 30, they may well be working for HON. CHARLES W. WHALEN, JR. cers developed in rats of either sex that were OF OHIO not fed the compound. these agencies. Perhaps, that will have some effect on the Energy Ants we have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LIVER LESIONS crawling around, the 60 FEA press re Friday, April 9, 1976 "Test results clearly suggest liver lesions, lease which are being uttered now each including cancer, were induced in both sexes month, and the speechmaking the agency Mr. WHALEN. Mr. Speaker, today I of rats and mice fed chlordecone under the have reintroduced legislation to amend conditions of this test," a statement by the is so fond of now. institute concluded. The material follows: our present system for assessing unem Chlordecone ls the common chemica.l name U.S. ENERGY RESEARCH AND ployment benefit eligibility. If enacted, of Kepone, which was originally developed by l>EvELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION, this bill will provide an additional 13 the Allied Chemical Corporation and manu Washington, D.C., March 25, 1976. weeks unemployment compensation to factured, until last summer, by its subcon DEAR READER: ERDA is revising its daily areas suffering from high unemployment tractor, Life Science Products Company of news release mailing lists to reduce the cost within States with low insured unem Hopewell, Va., which is now insolvent. of printing and ma111ng. You have been re ployment rates-IUR. In its conclusion, the statement said it ceiving dally announcements on ERDA fos A number of my colleagues-Mr. AsH was not possible to extrapolate the results of sil energy programs as part of a maillng list the animal experiments to hum.ans but that which was transferred to ERDA from the LEY, Mr. EDGAR, Mr. EDWARDS of Califor the tests served as a warning of the com· former Office of Coa.l Research. After April 1, nia, Mr. MINETA, Mr. MOTTL, Mr. OT pound's possible cancer-causing potentia.l in 1976, ERDA w111 mail daily, individual copies TINGER, Mr. PATTERSON of California, Mr. humans. to news media only. SEIBERLING, Mr. STARK, and Mr. WEAVER The tests were part of a major program in However, we wm ofl'er a weekly compila are joining in sponsoring this proposal which the National cancer Institute is testing tion of the ERDA announcements to others to substitute labor area "emergency on" a.bout 500 compounds for cancer-causing po who are interested in following ERDA activi or "emergency off" indicators for the tential. The compounds include industrial ties. This Weekly Summary contains the full troublesome and inequitable State trig chemicals, pesticides, food additives and some text of a.11 ERDA news releases from the pre naturally occurring substances. The purpose ceding week, major speeches by ERDA stafl' gers for unemployment compensation ls to identify cancer-causing chemicals in the and new Fact Sheets on ERDA programs. eligibility under which the country has environment. If you would like to receive this Weekly been functionwg since the beginning of Kepone was selected for the tests, the in Summary, please complete and return the this year. stitute said, because it is chemically related enclosed card. If you a.lready receive the In this measure, a labor area is defined to other suspected cancer-causing chemicals Weekly Summary, you do not need to return as any area designated as being a con and because of its presence in the human the card. Thank you for your cooperation and tiguous population center with a popula environment. for your interest in ERDA programs. The illnesses reported to date in the plant tion of at least 250,000. States would be Sincerely, given the option to elect to apply the employees in Virginia included tremors, ALFRED P. ALmRANno, blurred vision and loss of memory, but not Assistant Director for Public Informa trigger on an area instead of a statewide liver cancer. tion, Office of Public Affairs. basis. The option to elect either would be In answer a query today, a spokesman to Enclosure: As stated. open for 3 years, after which State elec for the E.P.A. said that the ban on manu tion of area or State criteria would be facture and sales applied only to the single known producer, the plant ln Hopewell, but ERDA WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS permanent. Further, my bill triggers the first 13- that the agency was taking steps to prevent I would like to receive ERDA's Weekly use of the pesticide in product.a genera.lly. Summary of public announcements. week extension-to 52 weeks-if unem ployment in an area exceeds 5 percent. It has been estimated that lt 1s used 1n 40 Natne ------household products to control ants, roaches, Organization ------An additional 13-week benefit period-to and some other pests. More than 90 percent Address ------65 weeks-is trtggered if unemployment of production has been for export. City ------State ---- Zip ____ _ in the area exceeds 6 percent. 10392 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 I should note that a number of con sense which dictates action and can be they cannot enjoy. We can, with some assur certed actions are being taken to bring ignored only at that industry's peril. ance, estimate the physical effects on those people of prolonged exposure to airport noise before the House a relief measure for QUIET, PEOPLE LIVING HERE: A STRATEGY FOR levels. There is no way we can measure the States with low overall IUR's. Both the COPING WITH AVIATION NOISE profound mental and emotional distress they gentleman from Wisconsin e ample of how we have failed to reckon with the buck passing which has had such de cific recommenda.ti()lllS that, had we acted the airport as a drawing card for land de bilitating effects in the past. I am encouraged upon them, would by now have brought the velopment. When it was built, the Beattle/ by the inltial efforts of the FAA Admlnls problem of noise well under control. Tacoma Airport was surrounded by a vast trator, John McLuca.s, in this regard, and Today, nearly a quarter of a century later, amount of undeveloped land. Today, many EPA stands ready to give him all the help we continue to ignore the advice of his Air yea.rs later, it is one of the Nation's most it can in dealing with this difficult problem. port Commission and several commissions severely impacted airports. This same scen What, specifically, do we need in the way and reports since. ario has unfolded at dozens of our Nation's of Federal leademhlp? To begin with, I be Rather than dwelling on why this hap airports. Once the land 1s developed, it is, of lieve the aircraft manufacturers need to have pened, we should ask, I think, why must this course, tremendously costly to buy up for the Federal Government establish national situation persist? And if we take a close look noise buffer zones. The airports of the coun aircraft standards in a manner which will at the situation, we cannot escape the con try are faced with hundreds of m1llions of give them adequate lead time to adjust their clusion that there really is no good reason dollars of lawsuits for noise damages which design and production processes and assure a,t all why it should exist. can be only partially reduced by aircraft them a ready market for these quieter air Take, to begin with, the argumen~r ex standards and operational controls. craft. Significant improvements in technol cuse--that no one group has the authority All the blame obviously does not rest with ogy will be possible in the future, and the to solve the whole problem. This statement the airport operator or the air carriers or the Federal Government must project these im has some truth to it, but in no respect does Federal Government. Land use control is provements aild codify society's expectations it mean that nothing ca.nor should be done. traditionally the respons1b1llty of local au into mandatory standards with sufficient lead I used to hear this same argument in a.tr thorities. But even when normal land use times. The practice of waiting until the new and water pollution: "Clea.rung up my fac controls have been used, they have not al technology is being used by some manufac tory will not make the river or air clean ways proved strong enough to withstand the turers, and then legislating its use by all, has unless others abate too, so why should I do powerful forces in favor of developing the not provided the environmental protection anything?" If we had accepted this argu land near airports. All of us, I am sure, find which we have needed; and it has not given ment, we would have never made any prog it a little difficult to sympathize with people the aircraft manufacturers firm design ress at all in cleaning up water and air pol who have moved into neighborhoods a.round targets. lution in this country Everyone needs to our airports after the airports are already With regard to the airline pilots, it has pull his share of the load. there and operating. It seems somewhat un been elearly demonstrated by some airlines The air carriers can and should retrofit er just to impose upon the airport proprietor that we can employ, at the Nation's airports, replace the many noisy aircraft remainlng in the expense of compensating people who have quieter landing and take-off procedures than their fleet. The pilots can and should fly their knowingly moved into the .impacted neigh those which are used by most airline pilots. aircraft more quietly by following the noise borhood. Before we criticize such people how As an added benefit, these procedures can reduction methods of some of the more pro ever, we need to remember that the impact save fuel. Northwest Orient has indicated gressive air carriers. The aircraft manufac of noise on people is not widely understood that it saves almost $3 mlllion in fuel costs turers can and should make aircraft sub or appreciated in this country, and it is some each year because of these improved proce stantially quieter than they are today. The what presumptuous of those who are expert dures. airport proprietor can and should take ac in the subject to assume that people moving · The Federal Government should firmly tions such as using preferential runways, into homes near airports fully comprehend identify those take-off and landing proce imposing curfews where possible, necessary, the psychological, social and physical impacts dures which are both safe and advantageous and beneficial, and buying land and putting of this noise day-in and day-out. One might from a noise abatement point of view, and it into compatible use. hope that the cost of homes in the neighbor The public ofil.cials and urban planning hood. of airports would reflect the impact of should ensure their universal use. If such a the noise, so that people buying these homes step on the part of the Federal Government professionals in our communities can and ls not possible, then individual airports wm should use existing land use controls and would in effect be put on notice a.bout the have to impose site specific operational pro develop new ones to insure that the land detrimental effects of the noise. However, it cedures as a condition of the -use of thei! exposed to high noise levels around airports is not at a.11 clear that the market price ac facilltieS. is put into compatible use. The Federal Gov curately reflects the noise 1mpacts upon the ' The airport proprietor is probably the most ernment, instead of saying "no" to local of neighborhood, and real est!).te salesmen have harassed of all the participants tn the noise ficials and airport proprietors, should en· been. known to ~show people ·new houses at abatement process. Because of· the lawsuits, 10394 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 he has a strong motivation to take whatever the air passenger may result, although I When airports are able to couple such pro reasonable actions he can to reduce his think this unlikely. I think we should be cedures with retrofit and FAR 36 equipment liability and to provide some relief to the willing to make this sacrifice. requirements, a giant step will have been citizens of his community. What he needs is Equally fundamental to our concept of taken. Certainly if the step-which is cost a process by which he can determine the justice is the principle that, when our sys effective and feasible--is not taken at the most effective means of abatement in his tem imposes liabilities on individuals or in Federal level, or until it is, it should be per particular situation and by which he can stitutions, such persons or institutions mitted and encouraged at the airport level, carry on a meaningful dialogue with those must have the authority to take actions to espec1ally since that is where the noise lia in the community-the city council, the air mitigate these costs. It seems to me uncon bility now lies. port neighbors, the Chamber of Commerce scionable for the Federal Government on Our national air transportation system who want and should have a role in deter the one hand to insist that the 11ab111ty for has provided tremendous improvements in impa.ct assessment methodology for airports, noise around airports lies with the airport travel and communication for the citirens What he does not need is more lawsuits and operator, as in fact the FAA and the courts of this country. A great deal of its 1uccess more harangue. EPA has nearly completed have asserted, and at the same time insist is attributable to its high record of safety. the development of an environmental noise that the airport operators are preempted We need a. national air transportation sys impact assessment methodolgy for airports, from taking any reasonable abatement ac tem which is healthy as well as safe. The and an airport planning process, which we tions to escape this liability. The inevitable evidence ls overwhelming that, unless we believe will meet these needs and which have result is that airport operators, air carriers, make that system quieter, both human the important additional quality of being and even local taxpayers will continue to health and the financial health of the in understandable to both technical and non pay substantial sums of money for this lia dustry will continue to suffer. technical people, including the airport's bility, and the adverse health and welfare We need no miracles to achieve that kind neighbors. This will allow the city councils consequences of this noise will continue to of system. All we need is a spirit of coopera and land use planners, as well as the people be imposed on our citizens. From a public tion and commitment to do one's part to most directly affected by airport noise, to policy point of view, the foregoing seems to solve the problem and not pass the buck take an effective part in the planning and be the worst of all possible results. to others. Many of you a.re in a position to abatement process. This kind of process is What we need is a system which assures make a positive contribution to the achieve essential if we are to keep the growing prob that the air transportation system pays its ment of aviation noise abatement. It is time lem of incompatible land use from continu own way: either by abating noise to bring for us all to come together, and to come to ing to outrun even our ability to deal with the adverse impact down to an acceptable grips with the problem of av1~tlon noise, the present incompatible uses. level, or by buying the land which is so and to build, at long last, an air transporta We plan to propose an airport regulation impacted and putting it into compatible use. tion system that is safe, healthy and quieter. to the FAA in the near future which will The halfway measures of paying compensa The present situation does little more than mandate the use of this planning process tion for aviation easements or for nui protect the interest of the short-term land in the development of noise abatement plans sance damages seem to me to be throwing speculators. It does not protect the interest at the Nation's airports. money down the proverbial "rat hole." The of the general public, the home owner, the Every airport in this country should de environment and the public suffer, and good community at large, or the taxpayer. Most velop and implement a comprehensive noise money is wasted. assuredly, it does not promote the long-term abatement plan, using a common planning I see no real objection to letting the lia interest of the Nation in a healthy, Vigorous methodology which is understandable to the bility rest upon the shoulders of the airport air transport system. We really know what layman and which is adopted after full par proprietor. This puts the decision-making needs to be done. We have simply lacked the ticipation of all segments of the affected where it belongs. Land use decisions and op will to do it. Let's get on with the job. public. We can no longer try to hide the erational decisions by airports are essentially problem from the public. Instead we must local in nature. The welfare of the people deal with it straightforwardly and allow around these airports ls first and foremost everyone affected to participate in making the responsibility of the local community. the dlfficult but necessary judgments about The benefits of the airport are, in turn, BALDUS APPROVES OF ZABLOCKI how the airport and the community will largely local in nature. I believe the Federal JOB OBSERVATIONS co-exist. Government should a.ct aggressively to assist Aggressive Federal action to do its part is these airports with their abatement efforts in my opinion, the best way to bring us out since the entire solution to the noise problem HON. ALVIN BALDUS of our holding pattern on aviation noise. at individual airports cannot and should not OF WISCONSIN come from Uncle Sam. There are many site However, it is not the only way. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES If the Federal Government is unable or specific actions which should be taken at in unwilling to lead in this manner, then it d1v1dual airports, and these communities and Friday, April 9, 1976 should not stand in the way of airport airport proprietors should be encouraged proprietors, local officials and local citizens rather than discouraged from taking these Mr. BALDUS. Mr. Speaker, recently, who seek to abate the intolerable noise prob actions. one of my colleagues from Wisconsin, lems which exist at many of the Nation's air There are, at the same time, many noise and an outstanding Congressman, CLEM port. This Nation can not afford to allow any abatement actions which are best under ZABLOCKI, made public some observations increase in aviation noise at those airports taken on a national basis. These include ret on the vetoed public works bill that I which are already severely impacted by such rofit, operational procedures for landing and found compelling. I have informed the noise. takeoffs, and standards for new aircraft de citizens in my district of the cost to them Instead. we must have a dramatic de sign. But it ls not absolutely essential that crease in the noise impact on the citizens the retrofit and the operational procedures of that veto, particularly because of the who live a.round those airports. In the final be mandated on a national and uniform loss of waste water treatment construc analysis, 1f the Federal Government does basis. One can foresee some potential disrup tion funds contained in the bill. Because not act, the airport proprietor must be al tion to air transportation systems if airports of the veto, 28 communities in the Third lowed to control the noise at his airport, individually require retrofit and operational District will probably lose their chance even to the point of determining, in a non procedures. But 1f the Federal Government at Step 1 funding for years to come. d1.scrim1natory manner, what aircraft will be feels that it cannot or w111 not mandate these Congressman ZABLOCKI further docu allowed to operate at his fac111ty. measures on a national basis, it 1s my convic ments the cost to Wisconsin of that veto. It is a fundamental principle of this coun tion that we must step aside and allow local try that an individual who owns property comm.unities to mandate them for specific I commend his remarks to the RECORD as has a right to compensation if its use is airports. If retrofit makes sense on a na.tional thoughtful and informative to the peo substantially impaired. There ls no longer basis-ruid we and the FAA believe it does- ple of Wisconsin: any doubt that noise from aircraft opera then lt certainly makes sense on a site spe CONGRESSMAN ZABLOCKI SUPPORTS HOUSE tions can substantially impair the use of cific basis !or airports such as Los Angeles, OVERRIDE WHICH WOULD HAVE CREATED AN such property around airports. This com New York, Chicago, and Boston. ESTIMATED 1,000 NEW ADDITIONAL DmECT pensation for the taking o! property ls con Such a plurallstic approach can work. An JOBS IN MILWAUKEE AREA sistent with the basic American tenet that example is Wold-Chamberla.in, the Interna The House of Representatives successfully commercial activity must pay lts own way. tional Airport serving Minneapolis and St. overrode the President's veto of the Public If noise ls, in fact, a necessary by-product Paul. Between 1970 and 1975, the airport pro Works bill a.uthorizlng $6.2 bllllon in direct ot our national air transportation system, it prietor and its air carrier tenants worked out federal aid to the nation's cities and states. seems appropriate that those who benefit noise abatement procedures both for take The blll would have created more than from the service should pay all of its pollu off and for landing. Because the principal 600,000 new jobs in the next 20 months (most tion costs and should not impose the respon tenant, Northwest Airlines, was in favor of o! them in the private sector) , stimulated sib111ty of providing a subsidy for air trans the procedures, there was no litigation and economic recovery and reduced the federal portation upon those unlucky citizens who the FAA acquiesced. The noise abatement deficit by nearly $10 b1llion. Unfortunately, happen to live around airports. In order to was dramatic, and the high-complaint clamor the veto was sustained in the Senate. provide relief to the most severely impacted that once inundated the airport has been re This Congressionally inspired action would citizens some decrease in the convenience to placed by practically a non-complaint calm. have created an estimated 1,000 direct new April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10395 additional jobs in the Milwaukee area, which never anything like a quarrel, because we Herbie and Morrie are remarkably free of has been suffering from the highest levels know linere's no gain in that," say the bitterness considering what has happened of unemployment since the Depression. brothers-in-law who run the Star Fruit and to them. But anger shows when they talk This bill would have proven most bene Vegetable Market on Culver Road a few feet about swinging-door courts which spew out ficial to the construction trades and related from Parsells Avenue. That eminently practi robbers and muggers almost as rapidly as po supply industries in the Milwaukee area cal philosophy, if accepted by various spooky lice throw them in. And they are convinced where joblessness has been reported at above leaders of various nations, offers a genuine that jury duty should be ma.de mandatory 25% . These monies could have been used in chance for peace on earth instead of the for all citizens, so they could see first hand the Milwaukee area. for mea.nlngful and fat chance we seem to have now. the results of crime and violence. needed local projects in the areas of public But this isn't a.bout how two people can The partners, understandably, have to safety, sanitation, environment, education, discipline themselves to get along. work a little harder now to cling to their recreation and transportation. It is about how violent crime can blight faith in America and the American processes. Because of the high level of unemployment one of the oldest and gentlest of American And this I think is the fundamental disas of 9.1 % in the City of Milwaukee and over institutions, the neighborhood store where ter that faces us, for if we allow the Ameri 8 % in the County of Milwaukee, both of generations bought penny candy, and cus can dream to become tarnished enough and these areas combined would have received tomers shared their joys and troubles and rusty enough; if we allow it to fade by de an estimated additional $4.8 mill1on to help prides. fault; then tomorrow holds no promise. maintain essential public services such as Crime has closed too many neighborhood police, fire, and health protection. This assist stores, and compelled others to live a ance would be the equivalent of keeping boarded-up life. It seems to me what has TRIBUTE TO PETER RODINO an estimated 825 publlc service employees on been happening to Herbie and Morrie illus the payroll. trates what has been happening to those (Congressman Zablocki also made the fol stores, and is worth the telling. It is a simple HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL lowing genera.I observations): story. OF NEW YORK This bill was specifically designed to put My family has known them these 30 years, people to work quickly during this calendar since when, immediately after World War II, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES year; they pooled every cent they owned and what Friday, April 9, 1976 Creating 650,000 direct new additional jobs they could borrow from their families, and nationally would have reduced the Federal took the gamble of buying a small gro Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, there are deficit by an estimated $9.6 bil11on. Most im cery ... the one they have built into the probably few people in America today portantly, it would have restored a sense of sizeable store it is today. Herbie had been in who would not recognize the face of our dignity and pride to thousands of fellow the Army Signal Corps in Europe; Morrie in able colleague, PETER RODINO, the man Americans who do not want to receive an a couple of defense industries. who not too long ago presided over one of unemployment check or be on welfare, but They smiled easily then. They enjoyed the most important events in our Na rather want the opportunity to earn an people. They knew that careful personal at As I honest day's work. tention to customers was the principal tion's history. sat on the House Ju The cost of this bill, which has already weapon in the fight to stay alive when su diciary Committee, chaired by PETER been included in the Congressional budget permarkets were so nearby. And they made RODINO, I was able to witness first hand resolution adopted by Congress, would not it work. the excellent work done by our colleague have resulted in increased Federal spending There was a certain permanence then, a in guiding us through the agonizing but rather would have resulted in a net re continuity to the area a.round the store. process of trying to decide the guilt or duction in Federal spending. They watched customers' children grow innocence of then-President Richard from toddlers; and they went to the Nixon. churches when they got married. They raised their own families-two chil Although PETER'S superb leadership dren ea.ch-and they worked unbelievable during the famed Watergate hearings CRIME MADE THEM SMn.,E MORE hours expanding t.he store. made him well-known and admired by SLOWLY Then ugly change began to set in. The the general public, we in the Congress friendly lady who ran the nearby dry clean have long been aware of his outstanding ing outlet was robbed twice, and quit in fear. leadership qualities and the tremendous HON. FRANK HORTON Some customers began to do their shop ability that he has consistently shown OF NEW YORK ping carrying sticks, and with leashed dogs. during his many years of service here in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES One newsboy trained a Doberman to make the collection rounds with him. the House of Representatives. During my Friday, April 9, 1976 Herbie and Morrie adjusted to change; in years here I have often worked with Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, Cliff Car sisted it was stm a good neighborhood al PETER or asked for his guidance on mat though the permanency of residents was les ters, and I have never been disapPointed penter's recent column in the Rochester sened yearly. in the advice he has given. Democrat & Chronicle bore an impor Then one November day in 1974, a mug tant message. A highly respected jour One area in particular that I have ger burst into the store and beat Herbie be nalist, Mr. Carpenter goes beyond the mercilessly. He was captured, but Herbie found PETER's assistance to of tre cold statistical measures of the crime went to the hospital. mendous value has been in the very im problem to take a more personal view of One month later two armed robbers portant area of narcotics control. He has how crime is affecting individual citizens cleaned out the cash register. Herbie was long been a leader in this field, and as there again, but this time he was not beaten. this has been an area of great concern and their neighborhoods. Then came Morrie's turn. On the 11th of to me, we have worked very closely on His subjects are Morris Testa and Her this month a pair of gun-carrying robbers reducing the flow of narcotics into this bert OUzer, whose 30-year partnership backed him into a corner and emptied the country from Turkey, Mexico, and the has made the Star Fruit and Vegetable cash register. Market a neighborhood institution. But Now Herbie and Morrie smile a bit more Far East. violent crime has taken a toll on them, slowly. They live in wariness. Now their fam- Together we have visited the President their families and friends and it is with 111es suffer. If whoever closes up at night in order to get him to formulate a na some anger that they view the failures of isn't home 20 minutes later, a nervous wife tional Policy to deal with the narcotics our criminal justice system. keeps vigil near the phone. question. Coming from an urban com Herbie 1s slightly more philosophical about munity, PETER is acutely aware, as I am, As we continue the search for solutions the violence than Morrie: "There's no run of the many terrible problems related to to the •rime problem, I urge my col ning away from it so we have to Uve with leagues to reflect on Mr. Carpenter's it . . . people are mugged or robbed in all drugs and drug addiction; we have com message and the price we are paying as businesses and even on the streets in broad mitted ourselves to work toward the long as the answers remain elusive: dayllght or coming out of church." eradication of the menace from our com The partners agree the cause is a break munities. CRIME MADE THEM SMILE MORE SLOWLY down in morality. They have a strange but At a time in our history when being (By CUff carpenter) e1fective Ulustration: They handle certain for civil rights legislation was not at all Con.s1derlng that too many people can't of the com.man sex magazines Virtually every popular, PETER RODINO was in the fore even get through their morning cotree with store handles. Sometimes adults will say front of the equality struggle. In 1966, out starting a brawl, there ls justification for "Why do you leave these out where kids can a column about Morris R. Testa and Herbert see them?" But the kids walk in, take a look as floor manager of the civil rights bill, P. OUzer, who have never quarreled during a at the covers, and say, .. Aw, my father has got he ably guided that important legisla SO-year partnership in the grocery business. this one home . . • and this . . . and tion through Congress. He helped to "Differences of opinion, sure . . . but this • • • I've seen 'em all." gain approval of the 1965 and 1970 Vot- 10396 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 ing Rights Acts, and more recently, in obligation to help those refugees who feared 8. HR 8121. State, Justice, Commerce Ap 1975, he sponsored the Voting Rights their lives were endangered by the Commu propriations, Fiscal 1976. Snyder (R Ky.) Act which extended the original act for nist takeover. amendment to prohibit the State Depart 3. HR 4296. Agriculture Act Amendments. ment from using funds in the blll for an additional 7 years. The new law made Passage, over the President's May 1 veto, of negotiations that would relinquish any U.S. permanent a nationwide ban on literacy the bill to raise target prices and loan rates rights in the Panama Canal Zone. Adopted tests and also expanded the special cov for 1975 crops of wheat, cotton, corn and 246-164: R 106-33; D 140-131 (ND 71-118; erage provisions to include language mi other feed grains and to set dairy price sup SD 69-13). June 26, 1975. norities such as the Spanish speaking. ports at 80 per cent of parity with quarterly Mccollister: Yes. This brilliant record illustrates that adjustments. Rejected (thus sustaining the The Panama Canal is vital as a shipping PETER RODINO has continued to champion President's veto) 245-182: R 33-111; D 212- corridor not only to the United States, but all major attempts to expand the con 71 (ND 137-56; SD 75-15), May 13, 1975. A to world commerce. To relinquish our control two-thirds majority vote (285 in this case) could jeopardize international commerce. My cept of equality and justice for all is required to override a veto. vote was in support of continued U.S. control. Americans. McCollister: Yes. 9. HR 7014. Energy Conservation and Oil In the many years that we have worked The Farm Bill adjusted the 1975 target Policy Act. Wilson (D Texas) amendment to together, PETER Ronmo has shown me prices and the loan and purchase levels on delete from the bill the oil pricing provisions the same qualities he showed the Nation corn, cotton, wheat, and soybeans. providing for a gradual increase in the price during the Watergate hearings. I believe 4. HR 4481. Emergency Jobs Appropria of "old" controlled-price oll and a rollback these qualities make him one of the out tions, Fiscal 1975. Passage, over the Presi in the price of "new" domestic oil to e.n aver dent's May 29 veto, of the bill to make emer age level of $7.50 per barrel. Adopted 215- standing Members of the House, and I gency fiscal 1975 appropriations of $5,306,- 199: R 125-15; D 90-184 (ND 35-157; SD 55- am very proud to be able to call him a 508,000 for several federal departments and 27). July 23, 1975. colleague and personal friend. agencies as a means of creating more than Mccollister: Yes. one million jobs. Rejected (thus sustaining Low prices for energy cannot be assured the Pr.esident's veto) 277-145: R 19-123; D unleSil something is done to stimulate the VOTING RECORD OF HON. JOHN Y. 258-22 (ND 192-4; SD 66-18). June 4, 1975. supply of energy. Rolllng back the price of McCOLLISTER A two-thirds majority vote (282 in this case) domestic crude oil to $7 .66 a barrel discour is required to override a veto. ages domestic energy production and forces Mccollister: No. the country to become even more dependent HON. JOHN Y. McCOLLISTER With the economic recovery underway, the on high-priced foreign imports. OF NEBRASKA private sector is proving it can provide the 10. HR 2559. Executive Level Pay Raises. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES jobs needed for full employment. In recent Adoption of the resolution (H Res 653) to months, the private sector has generated provide for agreement to the Senate amend Friday, April 9, 1976 over a million new jobs, the largest increase ments to the b111 to authorize work safety in the past 15 years. The private sector solu programs for postal workers and provide for Mr. MCCOLLISTER. Mr. Speaker, I tion has no cost to the taxpayer and helps automatic yearly cost-of-living pay increases have received several requests from my balance the budget. Under this proposal, tax for members of Congress and top officials of constituents for my voting record dur payers may end up paying over $50,000 for the executive, legislative and judicial branch ing the 91th Congress. As we have each new job created, while seeing efforts to es. Adopted 214-213: R 36-108; D 178-105 already voted more than 700 times since control inflation further undermined. (ND 132-65; SD 46-40), July 30, 1975. the beginning of the Congress. I have 5. HR 25. Strip Mining. Passage, over the Mccollister: No. referred these people to the 16 votes President's May 20 veto, of the bill to provide It is irresponsible to raise Congressional minimum federal standards for the regula salaries while facing a $70 billion deficit. Ty chosen by the Congressional Quarterly tion of surface mining and the reclamation ing future pay increases for Congressmen to as the key votes taken during the first of strip-mined lands. Rejected (thus sustain increases in the cost-of-living actually pro session of the 94th Congress. ing the President's veto) 278-143: R 56-86; vides an incentive to continue inflationary Because many of those who have not D 222-57 (ND185-9; SD 37-48). June 10, 1975. federal overspending. written will find this information useful, A two-thirds majority vote (281 in this case) 11. HR 8603. Postal Reorganization. Alex I am placing my votes in the public is required to override a veto. ander (D Ark.) amendment to require that RECORD today: McCollister: No. the U.S. Postal Service go before Congress for Excessive environmental restrictions would its annual authorization and appropriations, VOTING RECORD have curtailed our coal production and we and that Postal Service revenues be deposit NoTE.-Explanation of symbols: R-Repub just can't afford to cut back on any domestic ed in the general Treasury account. Adopted licans, D-Democrats, ND-Northern Demo source of energy and become even more de 267-123: R 102-28; D 165-95 (ND 101-79; SD crats, SD-Southern Democrats. pendent on expensive foreign oil. However, 64-16),Sept.29,1975. 1. P'...R 2166. Tax Reductions, Green (D Pa.) I'm not opposed to state controls on strip Mccollister: Yes. amendment to repeal the 22 per cent deple mining. Something must be done about the postal tion allowance on on and gas income retroac 6. HR 6860. Energy Taxes. Stark (D Calif.) mess. Congressional oversight is nece~ary to tive to Jan. 1, 1975, the depletion allowance amendment to delete provisions that would keep Postal Service expenditures within rea would remain available for natural gas sold impose additional federal gasoline taxes of sonable limits. under federal price regulations until July 1, up to 20 cents a gallon, triggered in any year 12. HR 7575. Agency for Consumer Protec 1976, or until the price celling was increased, following a year in which U.S. gasoline con tion. Passage of the bill to create an inde and for natural gas sold under fi:iced-prlce sumption rose above its 1973 level. Adopted pendent Agency for Consumer Protection to contracts until the pr ice was Increased. 345-72: R 134-5; D 211-67 (ND 138-56; SD coordinate federal consumer protection ac Adopted 248-163: R 44-94; D 204-69 (ND 172- 73-11), June 11, 1975. tivities and represent consumer interests be 17; SD32- 52), Feb. 27, 1975. McCollister: Yes. fore other federal agencies and the courts. Mccollister: No. I have always opposed the idea of' gasoline Passed 208-199: R 20-119; D 188-80 (ND 160- The oil depletion allowance creates an taxes as an unfair means to promote oil con 25; SD 28-55). Nov. 6, 1975. incentive for further development of domes servation. The tax would have applied to McCollister: No. tic on by reducing the amount of taxes the only 1/3 of each barrel of crude oil, the The creation of such an agency will mean oil companies would otherwise pay. At a amount that is refined for use as giasoline, setting up one of the most potentially power time when the country is actively pursuing exempting users of the remaining 2/3's of ful and expensive bureaucracies, virtually the goal of energy independence, it was each barrel. unsupervised, and duplicating the already indeed unfortunate that Congress chose to 7. HR 4485. Emergency Housing Assistance. 1,400 Federal consumer protection programs repeal this incentive for increased produc Passage, over the President's June 24 veto, now operating. A new level of bureaucracy! tion. I did not support the amendment. of the blll to provide temporary subsidies for 13. HR 10481. Aid to New York City. Pas 2. HR 6096. South Vietnam Assistance. purchases of homes by middle-income fami sage of the bill to authorize federal loans Adoption of the conference report on the bill lies and to provide federal loans to unem of up to $2.3-billion a yea.r to help New York to authorize $327-mlllion in fiscal 1975 funds ployed homeowners unable to meet mort City meet seasonal cash flow needs. Passed for humanitarian and evacuation programs gage payments. Rejected (thus sustaining 213-203: R 38-:100; D 175-103 (ND 160-32; for South Vietnam and to authorize the the Presidents' voto) 268-157: R 19-122: D SD 15-71), Dec. 2, 1975. President to use U.S. troops in an evacuation 249-35 (ND 186-9; SD 63-26), June 25, 1975. McCollister: No. of u .S. citizens and Vietnamese from the A two-thirds majority vote (284 in this case) The federal government should not reward 1s required to override a veto. fiscal mismap.agement by a local government country. Rejected 162-~46: R 90-46; D 72- Mccollister: No. by providing federal bailouts. New York City 200 (ND 41-148; SD 31-5a)' May l, 1975. At the time of passage there were indica has not yet demonstrated any effective means Mccollister: Yes. tions that a slow recovery was underway for of curtailing its spending in order to balance H.R. 6096 provided the urgently needed the housing industry. Tliis program could its budget, nor do I think it will be able to. authorization of funds for the care and have weakened that recovery by encourag 14. H Con Res 466. Fiscal 1976 Congres transportation of homeless Vietnamese ing people who hoped to patricipate not to sional Budget Resolution. Adoption of the refugees and had my support. We had a build or buy homes during the time-lag conference report on the resolution to set moral responsibility and humanitarian necessary to implement the program. ceilings for fiscal 1976 of $374.9-bnlion for Apil 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10397 outlays, $408-bllllon for budget authority, REMARKS OF CONGRESSMAN MAR Although we were successful in 1974, and and $74.1-blllion as the federal deficit, with TIN A. RUSSO, ORDER OF AHEPA we were successful once again last summer, a $300.8-billion revenue floor and $622.6-bll BICENTENNIAL BANQUET, APRIL 5, the arms embargo was llfted in October of llon as the amount of the publlc debt; set 1976 1975. The administration has waved the emo separate targets for the July-September tional ft.a; of "nJ.tional ::ecurlty", and has 1976 transition period. Adopte:i (and thus :::ucceeded. in reversing congressional senti cleared) 189-187: R 3-126; D 186-61 (ND ment, by a narrow margin. I speak with great HON. JOHN BRADEMAS sadness, when I realize that our successful 147-21; SD 39-40), Dec. 12, 1975. OF INDIANA Mccollister: No. efforts have been negated, and at this mo IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment American arms are being shipped to The Congress has not exercised any real Turkey, while 200,000 Cypriot refugees suffer budget restraint by setting the deficit spend Friday, April 9, 1976 in relocation camps in unoccupied Cyprus. ing level at $74.1 b11lion. Deficit spending at Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask To further insult the Congress, and a siz his rate is lnflationary. unanimous consent to insert in the able community of Americans, the adminis 15. HR 5559. Tax Reductions. Passage, RECORD the eloquent remarks of our dis tration has now signed an extortionate aid over the President's Dec. 17 veto, of the blll agreement with Turkey which will cost to cut federal taxes approximately $8.4-bil tinguished colleague, the gentleman from American taxpayers $1 billion over the next lton in 1976 by extending 1975 ax reductions Illinois, the Honorable MARTIN A. Russo, 4 yea.rs. Secretary of State Kissinger has hrough June 30, 1976. Rejected (thus sus delivered on the occasion of the Bicen warned the House International Relations taining the President's veto) 265-157: R 19- tennial Banquet honoring Members of Committee, that congressional blocking of 125; D 246-32 (ND 184-6; SD 62-26), Dec. 18, Congress sponsored by the Order of the agreement, would "lead to disastrous 1975. A two-thirds majority vote (282 in this AHEPA in Washington, D.C., on April 5, consequences for which we will pay for dec case) ls required to override a veto. 1976. ades." McColllster: No. I call to the attention of my colleagues I say respectfully to Mr. Kissinger that With our massive, lnfl.ationary budget de our present policy of mollifying Turkey, has the powerful address of our colleague already had disastrous consequences for the ficit, I cannot support tax cuts without cor from Illinois concerning the question of responding reductions in federal spending United States. Why did Congress bother to U.S. policy toward Grece, Cyprus, and pass a Foreign Mllltary Sales Act, expressly celllng. Turkey. forbidding the use of American arms for 16. HR 9771. Airport and Airway Develop aggressive purposes? Does the law of the ment. Stanton (D Ohio) amendment to pro Congressman Russo's remarks follow: rtEl\fARKS OF CONGRESSMAN MARTIN A. Russo United States, and our bilateral agreements hibit federally funded airports from per with Turkey mean nothing? Does the rule of mitting the landing of supersonic a.lrcra.ft for Your Eminence, Archbishop Iakovos: Your law, justice, and principle, mean nothing to a period of slX months. Adopted 199-188: R Excellency, Menelas Alexs.ndrakis; Supreme the leaders of our Government? As long as 37-97; D 162-91 (ND 134-42; SD 28-49). Dec. President of the Order of Ahepa, Wllliam G. I am a Representative-American law will Chirgotis; members of the great order of 18, 1975. have my total allegiance and faith. AHEPA; my distinguished. colleagues, hon Our Secretary of State has made a num Mccollister: No. ored guests, la.dies and gentlemen- Since the environmental impact has never ber of great achievements in diplomacy. His ! am greatly honored to a.ddress you this shuttle diplomacy in the mldeast, should been definitely proven harmful, I see no evening. I will try to keep my remarks brief, reason to oppose the landing of supersonic be applauded by all Americans. Speaking though I believe there are a number of sig for myself, I would urge that the full force aircraft during a trial period to obtain com nifl.ca.nt issues of great importance both to plete answers on the environmental impact. of the administration, the State Depart the Congress and your group. ment, and the personal services of Secretary As you well know, the past 18 months have Kissinger, be utilized in a similar, all out been a. time of fervent activity because of the effort, to achieve a settlement of the Cyprus political and diplomatic problems in the problem. Cyprus has festered and grown eastern Mediterranean area. The August 1974 worse for 18 months. Cannot the United TORBERT MACDONALD Turkish in'7aslon of the island o! Cyprus, the States lend its prestige and good offices, RETmEMENT continued occupation of over 40 % of the and fully partlcipat" in the Geneva talks island and the tragic pllght of 200,000 Cypriot on the Cyprus issue~ Cannot the Secretary refugees s.re cause for concern for all Ameri of State sit down together with our friends SILVIO cans. from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus, and nego HON. 0. CONTE In the 93rd Congress, the Senate and House tiate a diplomatic compromise? Why must OF l\fASSACliUSETTS were successful in establishing an arms em we put, in the impossible position of choos D1 'l;'HE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bargo against the Turkish Government, be ing between our long loyal Greek and Turk cause of the Turk's blatant violation of Wednesday, April ish friends. It 1s time for action on Cyprus. 7, 1976 American law in their use of American weap We have had our fill of (administration) Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, once again, ons while invading Cyprus. Last July, I was rhetoric of their concern for the Cypriot ref our distinguished colleague, the gentle proud to participate in the successful con ugees. I implore the administration to gressional effort continuing the arms em permit their actions to follow their words, man from Massachusetts untry. In fact, judging from the prices. As I have said, however, the car Revenue Service and HEW rolled into proVlS10ns of this bill, I think that I have riers argue that this discrimination one that competition is bad. more faith in the established carriers Let me conclude this by saying that I against some customers in favor of others ~an they have in themselves. But that is in the public interest. It is impartant, see the effect of competition of driving 1S not to say that I think they can serve there!ore, to examine the appropriate prices toward the costs of service as an every nee? better than anyone else or ness of the current rate structure-to advantage, not a disadvantage. The na that I think competition will not spur find out who the carriers think are de tion~! in~erest is served, in my opinion, them to do even better, as indeed it al serving and who undeserving: by msurmg that telephone service is ready has. First. A principal argument made by provided as cheaply as possible and that the carriers against competition is that prices are related to costs to a much gre.ater degree than is presently the case. it would rseult in higher local rates and CONGRESSIONAL BICENTENNIAL lower long-distance rates. Apparently It is served by allowing the fullest ex pression of the creativity and ingenuity SALUTE TO THE REV. MAXIM they feel that local exchange users tend CHALHOUB OF NEW JERSEY ES to be poor and long-distance users more ~hat the entrepreneurial spirit of Amer ica can muster to serve consumers' com TEEMED PASTOR OF ST. ANN'S able to pay. But surely we all recognize MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH that this cannot be consistently so. Why munications needs. Furthermore I agree should residential toll users pay to keep with Chairman Kahn, of the N~w York business exchange rates lower, for ex State commission, that this could be HON. ROBERT A. ROE co~bined with a reduced charge for ample? Furthermore, as recently as the OF NEW JERSEY basic local telephone service following mid-1960's Bell had been arguing against IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the continuing trend of raising toll rates the usage sensitive pricing approach. I to keep local rates down. The FCC later believe that the interests of the low-in Friday, April 9, 1976 agreed with this assessment, because at come user would be much better served Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker during this tention was being diverted away from as a result. B~centennial year as we ;e:flect on the the need to make substantial changes in There are other parts of the bill which h1Story of our Nation and the magnifi the structure of local rates; should be mentioned. The carriers pro cence of the achievements of our people Second. The carriers also assert that pose to tum jurisdiction of terminal over these past 200 years, I would like competition will threaten nationwide equipment over to the States. This is pre to call your attention to the good works rate averaging. Putting aside the fact ~umably a result of FCC policies allow of a most distinguished religious leader, that, contrary to the carriers' claim mg competition. This suggestion is ex belo".'ed pastor and dear friend, Rev. rate averaging is far from universal, thi~ tremely curious in view of the repeated Maxim Chalhoub, whose standards of references throughout the carrier's pro~ policy is similarly fraught with problems. exce!lence in the administration of St. posal to the integrated nationwide sys Ann s Melkite Catholic Church, Pater One example of rate averaging is the tem •. but the purpose is, I think, clear. flat rate for local exchange service. Havmg lost in their bid to restrain com son and West Paterson, N .J., during the Everyone, regardless of his use and re petition at the Federal level, they seek past two decades plus 2 years have truly gardless of the costs he imposes on the to change the jurisdiction and try again. enri~hed our community, State, and system, pays the same rate--though Unfortunately, for them, however, sev Nation. businesses pay approximately 1.5 times eral States, including California and New The quality of his leadership the rich the residential rate. As a result the heavy York, have already found liberal inter ness of his wisdom, his dedi~tion and user is supported by the light user. Since ?onnection Policies to be in the public devotion to our people have been an in business tends to be a heavy user of the mterest. The sole effect would be to de spiration to all of us leaving an indelible telephone and households relatively lay. interconnection of customer-owned mark of distinction in the spiritual and lighter users--by more than a ratio of eqwpment in some areas of the coun cultural heritage of America. 1.5 to 1-this rate averaging may be try, and thus to deny consumers there On March 28 residents of my congres thought of as favoring the business user its advantages. sional district, State of New Jersey as at the expense of the residential user. I have been critical of the carrier's sembled at the Roman Forum to h~nor And in view of the claims made by the legislative proposal, but I also want to Father Max, as he is affectionately carriers, it is also appropriate to paint emphasize my agreement with them on known to his congregation and many out that the suburban teenager's use of se.veral aspects of palicy in this area. ~any friends, express our gratitude f o~ the telephone is being supported by all First, the results of the various economic hlS 22 years as an outstanding pastor light users; for example, the elderly and impact studies done by the telephone at St. Ann's, exalt him for his exemplary poor. companies have convinced me of the achievements and commend him to his One furt.her example of rate averaging need to undertake a thorough investiga new mission on the west coast. should be sufficient. Bell says that it tion of current separations principles; Mr. Speaker, there is so much that averages its costs between high density that is, the methods approved by could be said about Father Max, not areas-where they are low, and low den regulatory agencies for the division of only for the spiritual security he en sity areas-where they are high. Thus, joint c?sts between jurisdictions. This gendered but the spontaneity of the hap they argue, competition could skim the is particularly impartant to the inde piness that he brought to so many, many high density "cream" and so frustrate a pendent companies and I e.m anxious to people because he cared and made a dif desirable policy. But this kind of rate receive their suggestions. Second, as Bell ference in so many, many ways. His averaging implies that the suburbs are has properly pointed out, if competition parishioners who knew him best have being favored at the expense of the is to be allowed it must be fair. There captured some of the inner greatness of inner-cities, a dubious social policy at is no consumer advantage to be gained Father Max as one of the most esteemed best. from denying the established carriers the members of our Nation's clergy in the I believe that the weakness of the oppartunity to take advantage of any writings they presented during the testi- argument for these policies could be bet economies inherent in their operations. monial dinner in his honor and with your ter appreciated if the excess charges That is whY I have told the carriers on permission I would like to insert these which are threatened by competition several occasions that I would work with statements at this point in today's CON were viewed as an excise tax whose reve them to insure that fair ground rules for GRESSIONAL RECORD where they can be nues were devoted exclusively to paying competition are framed in a timely man- everlastingly et.ched in our historical April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10401 journal of Congress in tribute to Father trated our hearts so deeply by the impact of You had a mission and accomplished your Max and his lifetime of good deems in his life upon us that a.11 words are banal in goals expressing the depths of our sorrow at hts And now must reach out to other souls. service to God and mankind. Biographi departure. With a saddened heart you leave us to do cal sketch, narrative portrait, and fare He leaves us a legacy of honesty and honor, God's w1ll well toast from the parishioners of St. 1n both his duty to us, his people, and in his And the emptiness in our hearts will be Ann's Melkite Catholic Church to Father determination to his chosen course, through difficult to fill, Max are, as follows: his self-rellance and self-denial. Today, we For whenever we behold our beautiful, gold BIOGRAPHY-REv. MAxl.M CHALHOUB are a people proud of our ethnic background, dome proud of our Eastern tradition, informed of (Compiled by Barbara Ablahani) our spiritual richness; integrated, but not We'll remember our beloved Pastor For this ls YOUR HOME I Father Chalhoub was born in Dama.scus, asslmllated into the Universal Church be Syria and at the a.ge of 8 he entered St. cause we dare to be authentic and we have Mr. Speaker, these messages touch Anne's seminary in Jerusalem. He served his earned the right to praise God in our unique upon the excellence of a great American. Novitiate and completed his four yea.rs of way. Theology at St. Paul's Major seminary in He is a. lead.er of men, who with few words, It is indeed a privilege and honor to have Ha.rissa, Lebanon, where he was ordained and even less pomp, lived his life and min the opportunity to seek this national rec to the priesthood on September 14, 1939. istry among us inspiring us by his example, ognition of Father Max who was born in During the Second World War he taught with strength and confidence in our God to Syria and made America his home where French literature and was Prefect of Dis do great things in His Holy Name. He ha.s he has truly contributed to the quality of cipline for two years a.t St. Nicholas' Bishop's united us in a common purpose of maintain the American way of life and the "Amer College ln Alippo, Syria and two yea.rs at ing our Eastern tradition in the most beau ican Dream." We do indeed salute Father the Patriarchal College 1n Damascus. He re tifUl church in America. Maxim Chalhoub ! turned to St. PaUl's Seminary where he We shall always remember hts gentleness taught French literature and History for nine and his purity of heart, a person who ac years, served as General Steward and con cepted each of us as we were, knowing our ducted different missions in Lebanon, Syria strengths and weaknesses, never demanding and Iraq. that we fit into his model, but allowing the ANNUAL DISCLOSURE OF INCOME During a visit to the United States in 1953, fruits of Divine Love to unfold in ea.ch of us. BY REPRESENTATIVE SIMON Fr. Maxim Cha.lhoub made a one day stop at We shall always remember the personal St. Ann's Church in Paterson. A year later touch to even the least of his flock as he he received his appointment as assistant to called each person by name in the fUllness HON. PAUL SIMON Msgr. Cyril Anid. For ten years he assisted of the Eucharist. OF ILLINOIS Msgr. in all the activities a.nd adm1n1stra We shall always remember his abundant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion of the parish. In Msgr. An id's words, "Fa compassion to the poor, sick and saddened ther Chalhoub was an ideal assistant, my who were healed in spirit by his love, care Friday, April 9, 1976 right hand man in the administration of the and concern for the least of them. parish. He is also intelligent, capable, hard We shall always remember his humility, Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, each year I working, amiable and gifted." never seeking self edification; and his sin have held public offi.ce I have made pub Upon Msgr. Anid's retirement in January~ cerity, unafraid to admit he too could learn lic my income in detail. I believe it should 1965, Father Chalhoub was appointed Admin from us. be a requirement for all key elected and istrator of St. Ann's Parish by His Excellency, He judged not, allowing each man the appointed officials. the late Bishop James A. Navagh and was freedom to be himself. His justice touched all I do not criticize those who do not dis elevated to the official title of Pastor by His and no man was favored over the other; nor close. because now it is strictly a volun Excellency Justin Najmy. has any ear heard an unkind word from his tary matter, and there would be no pen On August 28, 1970, our Church burned lips. before the tearful eyes of its pastor and He is a teacher, not of empty words, but of alty for deception. parishioners. It was to our pastor that all living witness of God's presence in his life. But one way we can instill confidence heads turned for direction. With our hearts He ls a founder, a bu1lder, a man of indomit that we are acting in the public interest full of pain, we were reminded once again able courage, who overcame his sorrows and is to let the public know what our income that the Church is the people and we st111 setbacks silently as God directed his life. is, and what our economic interests are. remain. And so, through many sleepless He is a man of vision-a man who took Confiicts of interest are inevitable. nights and heavy pressures, Father Max di a young lmmigrant flock in searc!:. of identity There is nothing wrong with a farmer in rected the building of the new and greatest and brought them to the realization of their Byzantine Melkite Church in the country. special mission to the Universal Church. Congress voting on agricultural legisla Aside from his pastoral duties, Fr. Max ls His smiles and his constant blessings, his tion. But we should know about his eco an active member and Moderator of many dedication and his unwavering support, h1S nomic interests. societies within the Church; Our Lady of kindness and his soft spoken Chrlstlanity I am attaching the press release on my Perpetual Help Society, Holy Name Society, has touched us and will be a part of us income, together with the details which Parish Council, Society of St. JoEeph, St. forever. are made public each year. Vincent de Paul Society and the senior Citi We love you Father Max and wish you a SIMON ISSUES 21ST ANNuAL COMPLETE PER Club. He is also President and on the zens measure of what you have given us. SONAL F'INANCL\L STATEMENT Board of Directors of the Children's Garden Nursery School located in the Church com WASHINGTON, D.C.-For the 21st consecu plex. A third degree member of the Knights THE SEARCH FOR ANOTHER MOUNTAIN tive yea.r, Rep. PaUl Simon, D-Ill., issued a of Columbus, he ls also Chaplain for the Co (By Marie E. Ged) complete personal :financial statement Mon lumbiettes, Paterson Council 240 and Na You labored with love ln the vineyard of St. day (4-5-76), along with financial state tional Chaplain of the Knights of Galllee. Ann's ments for the six members of his staff earn During the past four years Father Max has Until you fulfilled all of God's plans. ing over $15,000 per year. also established Christ the Savior Catholic Since you sought no glory, no riches nor fame Simon's 21-yea.r practice of disclosing the Mission, the only Melklte Church in Yonkers, The fruits of your efforts we are here to income, assets and liab111tles of his family N.Y. proclaim. spans the entire length of his service in the Because of his previous experience, Father illinols House and Senate, as Lt. Governor of Max suggested to our Archbishop Joseph We want to shout from atop the mountain, illinois and as Congressman from the 24th Tawil that he be assigned to establish a our humble gratitude District. It is believed to be the longest pe mission for the Melkite people. Now, Father And thank you for a church of the highest riod of disclosure for any public official now Max will be developing an Eastern Rite Mis magnitude. serving in the United States. sion for about one hundred familles on the You've kept us close to our heritage, giving The financial statement shows that Simon West Coast. us roots for growing and his wife, Jeanne, ea.med $59,602.72 in Father Max, "Go Forth and Serve With Always nourishing our souls with a love 1975. In addition to salary, the figure in Love!" that was ever flowing. cludes interest and stock dividends; honor You've given us all you had to give, never PORTRAIT OF FATHER MAX, 0uR PASTOR AND aria for speeches; reimbursement for travel, SPIRITUAL FATHER asking in return food and lodging expenses; book royalties; And by your good example, we've had so (By Frances Colle) payments for magazine articles; rental in much to learn. come; and miscellaneous items. For twenty-two years, he lived with us, and Always caring, never weary, though the The statement also shows assets o! $218,- dwelt am.ong us, he served us, taught us, burdens were much to bear, 718.60 and liablllties of $126,597.85, for a net counseled. us, and celebrated with us; our You devoted yourself to your pet 'Ple and worth of $92,120.75. brother, our father, our friend, who has pene- held them all so near. "I've been making these statements for 21 10402 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 years," Simon said, "because I think it's the Rent, Carbondale house ______1,175.00 STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS, LIABll..ITIES AND THE only way the public can judge for itsel! Reimbursement for travel, food, NET WORTH OF PAUL AND JEANNE SIMON (AS whether a politician has any confiicts of in lodging, etc., from campaign OF JAN. 15, 1976) terest. fund ------857.49 Assets "There's nothing wrong with owning stocks Central Telephone Co. refund, Bank of Maryland checking Vandalia property phone______and bonds and other property, as long as the 3.66 acct. balance ______$25.00 people who have just put us in a. position of Citizens Savings & Loan, Po- tomac, interest ______University Bank of Carbondale, public trust know the facts about our invest . 95 checking acct. balance ______87.57 ments and income." Vanda.Ila property sale (details House of Representatives The staff disclosures issued with Simon's under "Real Estate Transac- checking aoct. balance______142.07 tion", next page) ______statement continue a practice he began as 3, 331. 35 University Ba.Ilk savings acct. Lt. Governor in 1969, when he became the (Following entries a.re all divi- 61. 25 first state official in the nation to req,uire dend income:) balance ------ Book of the Month ______Citizens Savings & Loan, such disclosures of his staff. 76.25 Potomac, savings acct. Ludlow Corp ______36.50 197 5 INCOME--CONGRESSMAN PAUL SIMON AND balance ------254.01 FAMILY Borg-Warner ------27.00 OarbondaJ.e National Bank sav- Harper & Row ______4.40 Income of Paul and Jeanne Simon ings acct. balance______512.22 Massachusetts Inv. Growth ____ _ 2.45 U.S. Savings Bonds ______Salary, U.S. House of Representa Simon and Schuster______93.75 2.25 General American Life Ins., tives------$39,072.08 Norton Simon______4.58 ca.sh value______Travel reimbursement, U.S. Adams Express ______2,274.55 37.80 Polish National Alliance insur- House ------4, 334. 54 National Aviation ______34.50 ance, cash value ______University of Illinois, Springfield 655.30 AT&T ------8.00 Congressional Retirement Sys- talk ------295.00 Bethelem SteeL ______tem, cash value ______Greenville College, talk ______75.00 13.75 3,423.10 Prairie Farmer, refund ______Brunswick ------.40 Ill. Gen. Assembly Retirement 6.00 Crown Zellerbach ______Erie Insurance, refund______247.00 11.40 System, cash value ______16,233. 10 Book royalties, total $1,235.38 Fairchild Industries ______2.40 Ill. Universities Retirement System, cash value ______minus $559.23 to Art Simon__ _ 675.15 Fruehauf ------ 7.20 2,619.68 Lutheran Council, U.S.A., talk __ _ 100.00 Lear Siegler------18.00 Residence, 511 W. Main, Car- 40,000.00 Wabash Valley College, talk ___ _ 50.00 Ma.rear ------4.00 bondale ------Rend Lake College, talk ______174.00 Residence, 11421 Falls Road, Maremont ------5.52 Potomac, Md ______Washington Post, article ______75.00 National SteeL ______5.00 126,000.00 Great Lakes Lutheran Congress, Ralston Purina______Furniture and Presidential 3.60 autograph collection ______100.00 Rohr Industries ______15,000.00 talk ------1. 58 1965 Ford Mustang ______150.00 Tom Walsh, oil for house, refund_ 58.00 Scott Paper ______2.72 1974 Chevrolet ______Kendall Hunt Publishers, reprint 2,200.00 of article ______50.00 Texaco ------28.00 (Following a.re stock holdings-totaling United Mer. and Mfg. (M&M) __ _ 6.40 Georgetown University, travel Warner Lambert ______$9,033-with number of shares after name and reimbursement ______503.40 3.60 of company:) Lake County Democrats, motel Westinghouse ------3.88 Book of the Month, 50______1,062.00 .Hardees, 40 ______reimbursement ------ 37.80 Westinghouse Preferred ______7.60 275.00 Friends of Rep. Cornell, travel Mass . Inv. Growth ______2.30 Ludlow, 50------343.00 Gulf & Western ______Borg-Warner, 20 ______expense ------157.47 .15 497.00 Association of American Pub- Pepsi Cola ______6.40 Harper & Row, lQ ______83.000 lishers, talk ______400.00 Massiachusetts Investors Growth, 49 ______Lake Land College, travel reim Total 1975 income______59,602.72 448.00 burse:rnent ------ 173.48 Mutual Real Estate, 25 National Conference of Christians Note: In addition to salary, Members of (approx.) ------ 50.00 and Jews, talk ______130.73 Congress receive $6,500 for stationery and of Gulf & Western, L--·------ 4.00 Ray Johnsen, interest______38.47 fice expenses, an amount the law permits Norton Siillon, 7------169.00 Richard Gibson, rent on Potomac them to keep even 1! their expenses amount Norton Simon, Preferred, 2 __ _ 104.00 Adams Express, 12L ______house ------316.90 to less than the total. In my case, our office 1,225.00 Insurance, damaged circuit National Aviation, UL ______breaker in house______expenses exceeded my allotment by $2,470.68. 1,609.00 406.53 At a dinner closing out our campaign debt American Telephone & Tele- Hartford Insurance, refund for graph, Preferred, 2 ______shortly before Christmas la.st year, members 93.00 property formerly owned at Bethlehem Steel, 5------183.00 41.00 of the dinner committee and my campaign Borman's, 9 ______Vandalia. ------ committee presented me with a clothing gift 20.00 Newman Center, talk by Jeanne_ 200.00 12.00 certificate for $500 to Sohn's Men's Store in Brunswick, 1------James Kessler, settlement refund, Ch.ock Full of Nuts, 10 ______30.00 Potomac house ______Carbondale. This was a personal gift from 22.00 Chrysler, 2------ 24.00 Harvard University, travel reim them and did not come from the campaign Crown Zellerbach, 6------ 240.00 bursement ------ 113.18 treasury. Curtls Publishing, 2 (approx.)_ 2.00 Hartigan for Lt. Governor, reim- Income of children Fairchild Industries, 8------ 57.00 bursement for Jeanne's travel_ 150.10 Sheila: Total-$42.79. Includes, interest Fruehauf, 4------ 90.00 Robert Slater, interest on sale of Troy property______from Citizens Savings & Loan of Potomac, Lear Siegler, Preferred, 8----- 203.00 985.87 $.42, United Savings & Loan of Troy, Ill., Marcor, 8------ 235 .00 Illinois Issues, magazine article_ 291. 30 $21.63, and Carbondale Savings & Loan, Maremont, 13------245.00 Sa.le of refrigerator______300.00 National Ind., 3 warrants ___ _ 21. 00 Guitar refund ______$11.34; and dividends from Ford Motor Co., 24.00 $2.60, and AT&T, $6.80. National Inds., Preferred, t_ __ 10.00 National Steel, 2 ______Ray Buss, repayment for gaso- Martin: Total-$31.70. Includes, interest 84.00 Pepsi Cola, 4------298.00 line ------30.05 from Citizens Savings & Loan, $.80, and Ralston Purina., 4 ______s. Ill. University Women's Club, 198.00 talk by Jeanne ______United Savings & Loan, $21.50; and divid Rohr Industries, 3 ______75.00 ends from Ford Motor Co., $2.60, and AT&T, 14.00 C.I.P.S., utlllties refund from $6.80. Scott Paper, 4------ 72.00 355.00 Carbondale home ______58.33 Real estate, stock transactions Texiaco, 14------ United M&M, 8------124.00 Citizens Bldg. & Loan, Potomac, In February, 1975, fa.rm property owned by Warner Lambert, 4 ______145.00 interest ------.95 Paul and Jeanne Simon near Vandalia, Illi H. R. Weissberg, 5 (approx.) __ _ 5.00 Polish National Alliance, in- nois, was sold for $33,000. Acquired in 1972, Westinghouse, 4 ______58.00 terest ------2.00 the purchase price and improvements made Jet-Lite, 120 (approx.)------300.00 Carbondale National Bank, in- in the property totaled $29,668.65. The dif terest ------23.28 ference between the two amounts, $3,331.35, Total assets______$218, 718. 60 General American Life, interest_ 82.62 is listed on the previous page under Paul and Liabilities University Ba.nk, interest ______4.41 Jeanne's 1975 income. University Bank, Carbondale Metamora. Herald, Inc., final pay- Sold two (2) shares of Westinghouse Elec home loan ______$18,399.92 ment on sale of newspaper tric Corp., preferred, on June 4, 1975, for University Bank, personal note_ 9, 778.93 (capital gains, $4,085; interest, $100. They were purchased for $144.55 on National Bank of Washington, Sept. 30, 1968, representing a loss of $44.55. $450) ------4,535.00 note ------400.00 April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10403 First National Bank, Collins- Troy, Ill., $30,000; household furnishings, the discontent • • • , what measures ville personal note______7, 800. 00 $15,000; 1974 Chevrolet, $3,000; 1975 Volks may be pursued to restore quiet and har Notes on Potomac house: wagen, $3,000 (tote.Ung $142,772.01). mony, a.nd to use their utmost endeav Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Fischer RAY BUSS, DISTRICT ASSISTANT ours * • * to prevent hostilities." Con III, Pennsylvania______52, 161.36 1975 income other than government: rent gress also instructed the Commissioners Weaver Bros. Mortgage Bro- al income, $4,842.45; district travel allow to hire a minister, a teacher, and a black kers ------13,885.32 ance, $1,200, paid by Simon for Congress smith to assist and instruct the Delaware Richard Gibson and Lee Comm. Glover (previous owners)- 24, 172. 32 Indians in the Middle Department. Sources and amounts of indebtedness over On April 11, 1776, in response to a re $500: mortgage, Carbondale Savings & Loan, Total liabilities______$126, 597. 85 $59,111; mortgage, Mary Llcos, $11,651; per quest from Connecticut for financial as Net worth sonal loan, Salem National Bank, $11,033; sistance, the Continental Congress made Assets ------$218, 718. 60 personal Loan, University Bank of Carbon a loan of $166,666 to that colony. In mak Liabilities ------126, 597. 85 dale, $6,357; and persona.I loan, First National ing the request, the representatives of Bank and Trust of Carbondale, $1,650. Connecticut made the following argu Net worth______92, 120. 75 Stocks and bonds owned: None ments. Assets of children Property owned: apartment house, $87,- That the colony had advanced large sums Sheila: 000; 1967 Pontiac, $500; household furnish of money for the service of the continent Carbondale Savings & Loan ____ _ $237.63 ings, $3,500; sheepdog, $100. over and above what had been paid them; United Savings & Loan, Troy ___ _ 440.83 TERRY MICHAEL, PRESS SECRETARY that (though) they (had) used their ut Citizens Savings & Loan, Potomac_ 108.44 Israel Bond ______1975 income other than government: None. most dillgence, they (had) not yet been able 100. 00 Sources and a.mounts of indebtedness over to prepare a full state of their accounts to $500: Congressional Employes Federal Credit lay before Congress, and (that) their treas Total ------$886.90 Union, $1,450. ury (was) exhausted, a.nd the colony and the Martin: Stocks and bonds owned: shares, Congres public interest in danger of suffering for United Savings & Loan, Troy ____ $437. 93 sional Employes Federal Credit Union, $300. want of supplies. Citizens Savings & Loan, Potomac 50. 80 Israel Bond ______100.00 Property owned: 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass, $2,000; furniture, $1,200. PAUL GAYER, DISTRICT ASSISTANT Total ------$588.73 1975 income other than government: inter PATMAN RECOGNIZED AS FATHER FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, STAFF OF est, Bank of Ziegler, $215.80; interest, Metro OF CREDIT UNIONS CONGRESSMAN PAUL SIMON politan Life Insurance, $11.95; interest, First (Submitted to Congressman Simon in Community Bank of West Frankfort, $1,- March 1976) 141.65; Civil Service annuity payments, $1,- HON. J. J. PICKLE 299; interest, Benton Community Bank, $165; OF TEXAS MARGARET BERGIN, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT and diVidends, National Investors, $17.56 1975 income other than government: div (totaling $2,850.96). IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES idends from Baxter Laboratories, AT&T, Sources and amounts of indebtedness over Friday, April 9, 1976 Reliance Electric Co., Mead, Genera.I Public $500: auto loan, Bank of Ziegler, $4,221.44. Utilities, El Pa.so Natural Gas, Virginia. Elec Stocks and bonds owned: Series "E" Bonds, Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, one of the tric Power, totaling approximately $600; in $4,125; 140 shares of National Investors Corp., ways in which the late Wright Patman terest from Farm and Home Savings and the $917; 71 shares Gayer Investment Corp., $7,- helped Americans with average incomes Congressional Employes Federal Credit Un 100. was his vigorous support of credit ion, totaling about $210. Property owned: house and lot, 201 Sta unions. He was their proven friend. Sources and amounts of indebtedness over tion St., Ziegler, $10,000; two-thirds interest, I would like to insert this complemen $500: Community Bank of West Frankfort, 6-a.cre lot, Grant & Maryland Street.s, Ziegler, $6,000; Congressional Employes Federal $2,667; two-thirds interest. vacant lot, 215 tary and deserving article on Represent Credit Union, $2,200. Church St., Ziegler, $200; two-thirds interest, ative Patman which appeared in the Stocks and bonds owned: AT&T, Mead, vacant lot, 217 Church St., Ziegler, $200; April, 1976, edition of the Credit Union Baxter Laboratories, El Paso Natural Gas, two-thirds interest, vacant lot, 201 Church magazine: Virginia Electric Power Co., American Mo St., Ziegler, $460; two-thirds interest, 5-acre REP. WRIGHT PATMAN, TEXARKANA POPULIST tor Inns, General Public Utilities, Reliance lot, Penn St., Ziegler, $2,667; second mortgage AND CHAMPION OF THE LrrrLE MAN, Is DEAD Electric Co., totaling $20,000; shares in Con- on lot and home in Herrin, $2,500; 1973 Ford AT 82 15ressional Employes Federal Credit Union, Maverick, $1,800; 1974 Lincoln Mark IV, $5,- "He has no enemies," you say. My friend, $6,890. 600; household goods, $3,000. your boast is poor. He who hath mingled in Property owned: one-third interest in a ALLEN CISSELL, LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT 113-acre farm in Midland, Va., with farm the fray of duty that the brave endure must house and barn, purchased in 1972 and 1975 income other than government: in have ma.de foes. If he has none, small is the valued at approximately $77,000 total value. terest on savings deposits, $328. work that he has done. He :Oas hit no traitor Sources and amounts of indebtedness over on the hip; has cast no cup from the pur RAY JOHNSON, OFFICE MANAGER $500: City National Bank of Murphysboro, jured lip; has never turned the wrong to 1975 income other than government: $2,078.12; Southern Illinois University Credit right; has been a coward in the fight. Abingdon Publishing Co. stock sale, $600; Union, $3,247. This favorite verse of Congressman Wright final payment from sale of Metamora Herald, Stocks and bonds owned: Congressional Patman, 82 (D--Texas), is indicative of h1s $4,500 (81.7% capital gains, $3,676.50); in Employes Federal Credit Union shares, $5,- 48-yea.r congressional career. terest from Metamora Herald, Inc., $438; 984.45. Patman had his eneinies. A fighter always Troy Publishing Co. stock sale, $3,000 Property owned: 1974 Capri, $3,000; 1974 does. A maverick crusader, Patman fought (80.74 % capital gains, $2,422.20); rental in Pinto Station wagon, $3,300; furniture and tirelessly against high interest rates, big come from home and apartment, Troy, Ill., household goods, $5,000. banks, the autonomy of the Federal Reserve $2,351.30; General Motors, Inc., dividends, Board, and misuse of tax-free foundations as $40.80; General American Life Insurance in wealth shelters. terest, $90.00; Metropolitan Life Insurance Patman fought, right up to the time of his interest, $11.00; Troy Tribune interest, death last month, March 7. On1y days before $300.00; Congressional Employes Federal TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY he succumbed to the on1y battle in which Credit Union interest, $2.00; and Roodhouse he had no final say, Patman, chairman of Record, Inc., dividends, $180.00 (all tots.Ung the subcommittee of the House Banking, $11,513.10). HON. CHARLES E. WIGGINS Currency and Housing Cominittee, was fight Sources and amounts of indebtedness over OF CALIFORNIA ing. $500; Washington & Lee Savings & Loan, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Though the prime rate charged by banks $53,000. fell nearly 3'h % in the past year, consumer Stocks and bonds owned: 23 shares Con Friday, April 9, 1976 loan rates remained the same or increased. gressional Employes Federal Credit Union, Mr. 200 "While the prime customers-the big corpo $117; 100 shares, Cottonwood Junction, Inc., WIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, years rate borrowers-have been getting better $10,000; 17 shares, General Motors, $1,045; ago today, on April 10, 1776, concerned breaks at the loan windows ... the people and 15 shares, Roodhouse Record, Inc., $1,500 about reports of unrest among the In who a.re borrowing to buy automobiles and (totaling $12,662). dians in the Middle Military Depart consumer goods continue to pay excessively Property owned: State of Illlnois Em ment, the Continental Congress directed high interest rates at commercial banks," ployes Retirement System, $1,772.01; real the Commissioners for Indian Affairs, "to Patman said in one of his last omctal state estate, Arlington, Va., $90,000; real estate, enquire into, and report the cause, of ments, just days before his death. 10404 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 Characteristic of Patman was the 10-year hardwood took two men 2 full days of cultural exchanges, and Soviet oil, Co feud he carried on with Wllllam Mcchesney drilling, cutting and banging. If they Martin, a former chairman of the Federal stick assesses one by one the main eco Reserve Board. "Now Mr. Martin," Patman earn $6 an hour each, that cost the tax nomic factors which have been viewed as would say, "about this conspiracy you admit payers $192 plus fringe benefits; multiply constructive elements of detente. you have entered into with the bankers ..... that by 435 Members of the House and At this point in the RECORD, I would Martin would of course admit no such thing. it comes to $83,520 before counting com like to offer Costick's introduction to But that did not atop Patman. Nothing did. mittee rooms, windows in halls and other "The Economics of Detente": Patman championed the credit union areas in the House office buildings. TRADE POLICY IS FOREIGN POLICY cause so often that he was known as the Here it was not a question of a private Due to its implications for national and godfather of credit unions. That admiration employer having to spend $192 to secure international security, the trade between free was mutual; Patman once likened the im portance of credit unions to the church. three pairs of windowsill hooks and pass countries and communist governments can Author or co-author of every major piece of that on to his customers in higher prices. not be treated from a strictly economic point federal credit union legislation, Patman was Rather, the cost is recovered by taking of view. As a matter of fact, the available the first person to have earned the move the money more easily, out of the public tools of traditional economic analysts be ment's highest honor, the Credit Union Dis treasury. I will not tell you whether the come less relevant when strategic and geo tinguished Service Award. political considerations prevail. window washers used the $192 hooks. If A distinction is sometimes drawn between Credit union leaders like M. R. Hellle, pres your guess is ''no," you are right. "high foreign policy" and "low foreign pol ident of CUNA, note Patman's advice and This homey little anecdote points out icy," with the former concerning matters of counsel. "His support and loyalty place credit unions forever in his debt." And Herb an OSHA problem. An enforcement national security and survival and the lat Wegner, CUNA managing director, said he agency must retain its credibility. It must ter concerning a large number of secondary wlll "miss his wise counsel and strong sup be, and it must appear to be, a sensible, issues that arise in relations among coun port. He will forever hold a place in the level-headed group of folks-a group to tries. Foreign trade and international finan hearts of credit union people everywhere. work with, not against. cial policies, including foreign investments, Credit unions and the country are indebted I would like to see OSHA improved, not were traditionally regarded in the category of to the Texarkana Populist and champion of low foreign policy. This classification, how abolished. I would like to see OSHA de ever, ls no longer tenable. the llttle man." velop friends, not accumulate enemies. I And then there was this tribute by the The most significant of the eternal eco Congressional Employees Federal Credit would like to see consultation and co nomic relations of a nation are its commer Unio"l in Washington, D.C. A few hours after operation lead to harmony and safety, cial relations. In international trade, the eco Mr. Patman's death, the board voted to and not see an adversary attitude lead nomic and strategic elements are inextricably change its name to the Wright Patman to litigation and strife. Where employers intertwined. Traditionally, the main argu Congressional Federal Credit Union. ments for international trade were the e~o must pay to remedy real safety defects, nomlc ones: the strategic implications were those costs ought to be able to be com largely ignored. In recent years, however, the pared to insurance premiums reduced, strategic elements in trade have come to out judicial judgments not rendered, and weigh the economic as far as the so-called REGULATORY REFORM good will retained. Businesses should not "superpowers" are concerned. One thing that be harassed with imaginary hazards, must be understood is the need for consist especially where there is a solid record of ency between a nation's strategic goals and HON. JAMES G. MARTIN actual safety. its commercial policies. The recent oil em OF NORTH CAROLINA bargo, quadrupling of oil prices and the The reform legislation, in stressing threat of new price increases for petroleum IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES consultation, would go a long way toward have made abundantly clear the polltical na Friday, April 9, 1976 establishing rapport, and rapport is the ture of trade and economic warfare in the essential first ingredient if OSHA is really contemporary world. Mr. MARTIN. Mr. Speaker, in 1970, going to do anything about occupational DETENTE AND TRADE Congress passed the Occupational Safety health and safety. Consultation may "Detente ls an imperative", declared Sec and Health Act, for better or worse, avoid sudden rushes to judgment which retary of State Henry Kissinger in his speech known as OSHA. It was designed not only inhibit the development of rap to the Pilgrims of Great Britain. "In a world to impose basic standards on in port but lead to excesses, to say nothing shadowed by the danger of nuclear holo dustry to protect the health and wel of things like those three unused pairs of caust, there ls no rational alternative to the fare of workers. That is a noble cause second floor windowsill hooks. pursuit of relaxation of tensions".1 That ls, and certainly no one is in favor of sick avoidance of the risk of war must be the ness and accidents, but some of feel supreme and overriding goal of U.S. foreign us pollcy, almost regardless of cost in other re that OSHA is over-regulating. spects. If detente is an imperative, the of We hear all kinds of stories about ex" TiiE ECONOMICS OF DETENTE ficial statements say, it is also an oppor cesses of the program in the way of over tunity for building an international order regulation. Hearing an OSHA story and conducive to peace, for "the United States seeing one are two different animals. I HON. STEVEN D. SYMMS and the Soviet UnioL, after decades have seen a strange one. Right in my own OF IDAHO of profound suspicion, have perceived a com office in Washington, only last Christ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mon interest in a.voiding nuclear holocaust mas, when two gentlemen came in and and in establishing a web of constructive Friday, April 9, 1976 relationships".z Dr. Kissinger elaborated fur announced they had some work to do. ther during his appearance before the Sen They took a big drill and bored holes Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, it was my ate Foreign Relations Committee by stating through the foot-thick window sills, on pleasure recently to host a congressional that, "By acquiring a stake in this network either side of each of the three sets of press breakfast to introduce a newly of relationships with the West, the Soviet second story windows, and bolted hooks published study of the economics of de Union may become more conscious of what to the outsides, running the bolts through tente. it would lose by a return to confrontation".• the thick sills to nuts on the inside. The prestigious Heritage Foundation, Though the Secretary of State has not put These hooks were for window washers to in encouraging the research and publi it quite so bluntly, agreements aimed at cre ating Soviet vested interests in peace wlll belt into while washing the windows. You cation of "The Economics of Detente and naturally focus on economic and technologi could hang a truck from them. Sounds U.S.-Soviet Grain Trade," has provided cal issues, since these are the areas of great like safety? Sounds like OSHA? Right on an outstanding working paper for those est Soviet weakness and hence greatest po both accounts. Neither you nor I wants a in this Congress who are fearful of the tential gain. "As political relations have im window washer hurtling to his death. disastrous consequences of exchange of proved on a broad front", he says, "economic However, there is a 30-inch ledge the technological information with the Com issues have been dealt with on a comparably window washer can stand on while wash munist nations. The author of this study, broad front". So far we have concluded "pri ing my second floor windows. As far as we marily regulatory agreements conferring no Miles M. Costick, provides much useful immediate benefits on the Soviet Union but know, two generations of window washers data and many insights concerning the serving as blueprints for an expanded eco have used the ledge without problems or critical issue of whether "linkage" with nomic relationship if the political improve injury. Maybe it is advisable for them the Soviet Union benefits the United ment continued." The prospect ls that "over to hook belts to the window sills. But States. Examining closely the related time, trade and investment may leaven the bolting those hooks through a foot of topics of trade, technology transfer, agri- autarklc tendencies of the Soviet system, in- April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1.0405
vite gradual association o! the Soviet econ invested in the 1960s and 40% of its Gross u Senator James Buckley, "On Salt II," omy with the world economy, a.nd foster a National Product (GNP) into defense proj National Review, March 15, 1974; Congress degree of interdependence that adds an ele ects. In 1969 the Soviet military budget was man Wllllam L. Dickinson, Press Conference ment of sta.b111ty to the political equation."• about $88 blllion and since then on the rise. July 23, 1974; U.S. Defense Authorization Bill This is contemplated as the "grand de And that ls out of a GNP in that year of Debate, Congressional Record, May 15, 1975. sign,'' which wm remove the confrontation some $210 blllion.11 In the same year, the 14 op. cit., Wllliam E. Colby; See also Sen between the two political systems as it has United States' defense budget was $77.8 bil ator Barry Goldwater's speech on the floor of existed during the past thirty yea.rs. It is lion, and for Fiscal Year 1974, expressed in the Senate, "Defanse Spending", Congres further advanced that the mingling o! 1973 prices, the figure was $78.2 billion--or sional Record, November 4, 1975, p. 34818 "vested interests" will prove highly bene about 6 % of our Gross National Product. and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger's ficial in meeting the balance-of-payments The Soviet mllltary budget for fiscal 1974 statements as reported in The Washington deficits and problems of unemployment expressed in 1973 prices was $93 bllllon.12 In Post, November 9, 1975, p. DI and National which the United States faces, and possibly fiscal 1975, in constant dollars, the U.S. de Review Bulletin, November 14, 1975, pp. create a new dependable source of energy fense budget was $73 billion while Soviet B172-3. (the Soviet Union) as an alternative to the military expenditures, 1n constant dollars, insta.b111ties of the Middle East.5 were about $94 billion.u Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the The increased military spending accom CONGRESS URGED TO REJECT BIL Soviet Communist Party, during the summer pall'ied by Soviet military buildup has not o! 1973 explained detente to the communist been sudden, nor confined to recent years. LION DOLLAR KISSINGER-TURK leaders o! the Warsaw Pa.ct governments and The cumulative increa.se in military resources ISH ARMS AGREEMENT to the members of his own Politburo in the of approximately 35 % over the la.st eleven following manner: years can be reasonably described as very sub "We communists have got to string along stantial. Over the same period, again meas HON. JAMES G. O'HARA with the capita.lists for a while. We need ured in terms of 1973 dollars, resources allo 0:1' MICHIGAN their credits, their agriculture, and their cated to the U.S. military have declined in technology. But we are going to continue real terms, interrupted only by the war in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES massive mmta.ry programs and by the middle Southeast Asia, a factor which had no count Friday, April 9, 1976 80's we will be in a position to return to erpart in Soviet experience of that period. a much more aggressive foreign policy de Indeed, as a result of these contrasting trends Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Speaker, it is a his signed to gain the upper hand in our rela in Soviet and U.S. military activity, the torical fact that Secretary of State Kis tionship with the West." 6 Boviet effort exceeded that of the United singer's mistakes did much to contribute Consistent with this outlook is the view States reaching a level approximately 35% to the Cyprus tragedy of 1974. that every U.S.-Soviet deal-and especially above the United States when retirement e~ penses are included, and approXimately 45% He has since created an even more un the transfer of pure technology and sophisti fortunate Greece-Turkey-Cyprus tangle cated capital equipment-is an act of inter above the United States when retirement ls national politics. It becomes so also owing excluded.u by his policies. to the communists' use of trade as a politi FOOTNOTES Last week, Mr. Kissinger put a further cal tool to advance their strategic objectives. 1 Speech to the Pilgrims o! Great Britain, dangerous strain on the traditionally To the Soviets, every Western businessman, Department of State Bulletin, December 31, friendly United States-Greek ties by scientist, and technician in contact with the 1973, p. 779. signing a 4-year, $1 billion plus military communist officials becomes involved con 2 Speech to the American Legion, Depart aid agreement with Turkey. sciously or unconsciously in foreign policy. ment of State Bulletin, September 16, 1974, I hope and believe Congress wfil reject In his book Soviet Military Strategy, Ma.rshall p. 375. of the Soviet Union V.D. Sokolovsky, former 3 Statement to the Senate Foreign Rela this agreement. Several important prin commandant o! the Warsaw M111tary Pact, tions Committee, Department of State Bul ciples are involved. commented, "In the present epoch, the strug letin., October 14, 1974, p. 508. One, it runs contrary to Congress re gle for peace and the fight to gain time de 'Ibid., pp. 511-512. sponsibility to control the purse, which tt pends above all on an unremitting increase 5 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, White has been doing by showing a clear pref in Soviet military power and that of the House Press Conference, July 8, 1972. See also erence for single year rather than mult1- entire sociallst camp based on the develop his testimony before Senate Finance Com ment of productive forces and the continu mittee, December 3, 1974. year foreign aid commitments. ous growth of its material and technological 6 Defense Department and U.S. intelllgence Second, it contains a disguised form base." 7 community termed Brezhnev's explanation of rent, a worrisome precedent for U.S. The underlying reason for expanding trade "The New Brezhnev Doctrine"; see Interna base arrangements in Spain, the Philip with the West from the Soviet perspective tional Economic Policy, p. 822 (Hearings be pines, and elsewhere. seems to be the Wish to import agricul tura.l fore the Subcommittee on International Third, the agreement does not even products, manUfacturlng facilities, technol Trade of the House Committee on Banking mention Cyprus, where a Turkish army ogy, scientific discoveries, and technological and Currency, 1974). of occupation has created a :flood of refu processes of milltary va.lue.s 7 V.D. Sokolovsky, ed., Soviet Military The security risk the West incurs through Strategy (Voyennaya Strategia), Voyenizdat, gees. its deals is difficult to overlook, because to Moscow, 1968, 3rd Edition, p. 421. Congress, on the other hand, has re day almost all goods, equipment, or indus 8 See Mose L. Harvey, East-West Trade, peatedly made clear its interest in the trial and technological processes have some (National Association of ManUfacturers, New moral and political impllcations of the military slgnifica.nce. According to the draft York, 1966). See also Antony C. Sutton, Na Cyprus tragedy. As Alexander Solzhenit of the la.st Five-Year Plan of the USSR, one tional Suicide, (Arlington House, 1973); and syn said recently in London: of the "chief objectives in the development Mose L. Harvey, Leon Goure, and Vladimar o! the polltical economy is the consolidation Prokofieff, Science and Technology as an in One should not consider that the great of the country's economic and defense po strument of Soviet Policy, (Center !or Ad principles of freedom finish at your own tential." 9 From this, it follows that in the vanced International Studies, University of frontiers, that as long as you have freedom, 1970's the Soviets still considered their eco Miami, 1972) . let the rest have pragmatism. nomic potential from a military angle. "Pravda, February 20, 1971. Soviet trade cannot be viewed solely in Yet our Secretary of State has ignored 1o See John Hardt in Soviet Economic Pros these considerations, and warned Con terms of normal commercial transactions. It pects for the Seventies (Joint Economic is not private individuals or firms dealing Oommittee-U.S. Congress, June 27, 1973). gress, moreover, that we must accept the with other private individuals or finns. It 11 Two Soviet Economists from Leningrad agreement in its totality "or face dis means dealing only With communist govern 1n 28-page typescript published by Soviet astrous consequences." ment agencies which follow Soviet Commu underground dissident publication Sa.mizdat In January of this year, a bipartisan nist Party pollcies and directives. Currently and reprinted by Radio Liberty; Soviet Physi House delegation, almost all of whom had those policies aim at massive mllita.ry build cists Andrei Sakharov, this year's Nobel Peace voted for Turkish aid the last time, vis up-at the expense of the production !or Prize laureate, used the figure of 40% in an the consumer. Dr. John Hardt, Soviet econ ited Ankara and Athens. They t.old the open letter to Brezhnev in 1972; See Robert Turks omy expert at the Library of Congress, has G. Kaiser, "Defense Held Main Soviet Goal," that they had occupied far more stated in one of his recent analyses of the of the island than could ever be justtfted Soviet economic policy, "1! the Soviet leader The Washington Post, April 13, 1973. 12 and that they had to show some flexi ship would decide in favor of a substantially Testimony by Wllllam E. Colby, Director of Central Intelligence (CIA), before Sub bility and willingness to make reason higher rate of growth, they could achieve it able concessions. only by drastic reduction in defense expend committee on Priorities and Economy in Gov itures."10 ernment on June 18, 1975; See Allocation of Now this delegation, and Congress as But Soviet policy has been to further in Resources in the Soviet Union and China- a whole, are asked to not only ignore crease military spending. According to two 1975, (U.S. Government Printing Otllce), pp. Turkey's intransigence but reward her anonymous Soviet economists, the U.S.8.R. 28-29. with an unprecedented arms package. CXXII---658-Part 9 10406 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 The Kissinger agreement is clearly democratic Government and people of the part of Turkey to adopt a. fiexible and unacceptable on moral and political Greece. constructive position, in the aftermath of grounds. 18. It sets back hopes for a just settlement the lifting of the embargo, would go to the of the Cyprus conflict. heart of the American-Turkish relationship." This week, Mr. Eugene T. Rossides, a 19. It rearms a bully and an aggressor. Although the embargo has been substan distinguished attorney, form.er Assistant THE KISSINGER-TURKEY "EXECUTIVE AGREE tially lifted, although Turkey has failed to Secretary of the Treasury, and also spe MENT" SUBVERTS THE RULE OF LAW take any constructive action, the Adminis cial counsel to the American Hellenic The proposed Kissinger blackmail aggres tration has done nothing other than prom Institute, testified before the House Com sion agreement asks this Congress and this ise Turkey more guns and more aid. Perhaps mittee on International Relations. Committee to abandon the Rule of Law and Mr. Sisco meant to say that Turkish intransi Mr. Rossides' remarks which skill the restrictions formulated to uphold it and gence would go the pocketbook, not the fully and comprehensively analyze this instead to reward the transgressor. And the heart, of the U.S.-Turkish relationship. most serious problem, deserve a wide law Turkey violated goes to the very heart We had hoped that the Sisco statement of U.S. foreign policy-namely, that U.S. would have been implemented, just as we audience in the Congress and among in had hoped that the following June 23, 1975, formed public opinion. supplied arms will not be used for aggression. Last October, and again in the 1976 m111- statement of Dr. Kissinger would have been Under leave to extend my remarks fn tary aid authorization bill which has cleared implemented: the RECORD, highlights of the testimony the conference, the Congress has partially "No ally can pressure us by a threat of of Mr. Rossides are set forth below: lifted the embargo restrictions on arms termination. We will not accept the notion is ARMS TRANSFERS TO TuRKEY transfers to Turkey. These restrictions refiect that its security more important to us than it is to itself." The Administration's provisions in this the total lack of progress toward a. just set bill for arms assistance to Turkey have been tlement of the Cyprus problem. TURKEY OF MINOR MILITARY IMPORTANCE superseded by a. proposed $1.25 billion black The Turkish invasion force which overran Turkey is of minor importance to the de mail aggression pa.ct with Turkey which Dr. Cyprus in the summer of 1974 relied on fense of the United States and to the defense Kissinger signed just ten days a.go. American planes, American bombs, American of any of the other NATO nations. Turkey is If and when that blackmail aggression pact guns and bullets. The Turkish occupation a third rate military power; and in this day is submitted to the congress, we urge its force which is now in illegal possession of of intercontinental ballistic missiles, satel overwhelming defeat in the interest of the 40% of the island is outfitted with Ameri lites, and all the other sophisticated weapons United States for the following reasons: can weapons and materiel. A force of 45,000 of modern warfare, Turkey is of minor mili 1. It subverts the Rule of Law by rewarding American-equipped troops separates the 200,- tary significance. mega.I actions. 000 refugees of Cyprus from their homes. Il The NATO mission of the Turkish army is 2. It violates existing law-the statutory legal colonization ls continuing with an esti strictly and solely to defend Turkey against embargo restrictions currently in effect and mated 25,000 Turkish mainlanders already invasion by the Soviet Union, an existing in the current aid bill which this Committee relocated to the occupied zone. And Turkey mission. The Turkish army which the pro worked so hard to achieve. persists in its refusal to be at all cooperative posed "Executive Agreement" is to rearm and 3. It violates Congress's Constitutional leg about providing information on the 2197 peo modernize is primarily deployed against islative role. ple, including some American citizens, who Greece. The largest corps, 1st Army is spread 4. It undermines the Congressional au have been missing since the 1974 Attila in along the Greco-Turkish frontier rather than thorization and appropriation process. vasion. There is growing fear that they have a.long the Soviet-Turkish mountain border. 5. It undermines Congress's constitutional been killed. A new Turkish Army of the Aegean was cre partnership role in foreign affairs. During the same period, Turkey has been ated last year. Other units are tied down 1n 6. It is a. sordid pa.ct giving massive subsidy making frequent and more belligerent state internal security functions: 6 provinces are and support to Turkey's aggression on ments toward Greece concerning the Aegean under martial law, and of course, 45,000 Cyprus. Islands of Greece. Only last week the Deputy American-equipped Turkish troops and 300 7. It encourages Turkey to continue its Prime Minister of Turkey, Mr. Turkes, made American-supplfed tanks are illegally occu expansionist behavior regarding Greece's an explicit territorial claim to most of pying 40 % of Cyprus. In case of a conflict, it Aegean islands. Greece's Aegean islands. is a simple matter for the U.S. Navy to mine 8. It is a. blackmail pa.ct in which the THE PROPOSED "EXECUTIVE AGREEMENT" UNDER the entrances to the Dardanelles. We do not United States is forced by the hand of Dr. MINES THE CONGRESSIONAL PROCESS AND CON need Turkey for that. Kissinger to pay tribute to a highly ques GRESS'S CONSTITUTIONAL ROLES IN LEGISLA In effect, the foregoing was conceded dur tionable ally. TION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS ing the debate last summer and early fall 9. It sets a. dangerous precedent for and The W ashtngton Post April 2 reported the over legislation to relax the arms embargo. encourages aggression everywhere in the following ultimatum of Turkish Premier Su During that debate the issue finally came world, particularly by those nations which leyman Demirel regarding Congressional ac down to the importance to the United States have received U.S. arms assistance. tion: of four intelligence-gathering listening posts 10. It wastes 1 billion of precious tax dol "The SPoreement is either accepted total in Turkey. With regard to those listening lars at a time when we have a huge federal ly or rejected. It is not possible to alter its posts, Dr. Kissinger first tried to suggest deficit and high unemployment. contents." that they were necessary for SALT verifica 11. Turkey is simply of little military value The same article reported the following tion. This false position was exposed by to the U.S. Of the 26 defense installations threat to Congress from the Turkish Foreign former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird involved, there are only 4 intelllgence-gath Minister: who stated (August 20, 1975), "We don't ering sites of any value-and we maintain "Turkish Foreign Minister Ihsan Sabri need Turkey to verify a SALT agreement," that the data they provided is being, or can Caglyangll said on his return from Washing and by Dr. Herbert P. Scoville, former Di be, gathered from other sources. ton that any amendments by Congress would rector of Research for the CIA who stated 12. It insults the Congress and makes a. amount to rejection of the accord and bar in a letter (July 20, 1975) to Congressman mockery of and renders negatory the present reopening U.S. bases in Turkey." John F. Seiberling that: International Security Assistance and Arms This kind of procedure--and let us remem "In sum, the Turkish bases have only Export Control Act of 1976 (S. 2662), by ber that due process and procedure are the marginal utility in verifying past or possible ignoring the embargo provisions of that b111. essence of a government of laws-does vio future SALT agreements. Other observation Those provisions are based on a principle lence to Congress's Constitutional legislative sites and satellites would appear much more which has been fundamental to U.S. foreign role and makes a mockery of bipartisanship useful. SALT cannot be reasonably used as a policy since the enactment of foreign pro and the partnership role between the Con justification for making a decision on our grams after World War II, namely, that our Turkish aid program." gress and the Executive in foreign affairs. Dr. Scoville also stated that: arms cannot be used for aggression. In ad As Chairman Morgan and others have rec dition, it makes the new arms export control " ... to say that they (Turkish bases) are ognized in connection with the Spanish essential for verifying past or future SALT provisions look like window dressing. base treaty, a. multi-year authorization is an 13. It sets a dangerous precedent for all agreements would appear to be such an abdication of Congressional control over the exaggeration as to raise questions as to the nations which have agreements with the volatile, delicate allocation ot assistance to United States or which are entering into sincerity of those making the statements." foreign nations. We applaud that point of He also pointed out that the intelligence agreement with the U.S.-that they can be view and stress that a four-year aid com broken with impunity, and if broken, better that could be gathered from these listening terms obtained. mitment to Turkey is a !our-year sellout of posts was available from other listening 14. It supports Turkey's "heroin aggres the Rule of Law, Congress's Constitutional posts. As long ago as June 1975, there was a. sion" against the United States. roles, Cyprus and Greece. report in the Christian Science Monitor that 15. Turkey is an unreliable and unfaithful When he testified before this Committee the Pentagon was planning alternative ally who has unilaterally broken agreements on July 10, 1975, Under Secretary Sisco made sources for intelligence gathering. with the U.S. and other nations. the following statement about Turkey's po Experts such as retired Admiral Elmo 16. Turkey ls an international outlaw. sition on Cyprus. Zumwalt and General James A. Van Fleet 17. It damages our relations with the "I would like to emphasize that failure on have added their voices in opposition to the April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10407 Administration's position. Admiral Zumwalt, States-Turkey agreement to ban poppy pro The very prospect of such an agreement ls former Chief of Naval Operations, states that duction (with the retention of $15.9 mlllion causing great problems for the Karamanlis "existing and potential mllltary bases in already paid by U.S.). It can be conserva Government in Greece, a nation which said Greece are more important to us than our tively estimated that since World War II the "NO" to the Axis Powers and whose valiant installations in Turkey." In regard to U.S. number of heroin related American deaths fight against Hitler is credited with upsetting bases in Turkey, General Van Fleet stated: from Turkish-origin heroin is over 50,000, or Hitler's timetable against the Soviet Union. "It 1s unconscionable that the government an average of 1,700 a year for the past 30 All this while Turkey sat on the sidelines and of the United States should surrender to the years. New York City alone has had 1,000 sent raw materials to Hitler. threat of Turkey to close our bases there. heroin and drug related deaths a year. And Last summer George Ball and Cyrus Vance, This is capitulation to blackmail and un how many hundreds of thousands of heroin two eminent statesmen who were personally worthy of our country." addicts are there who started on Turkish involved in the Cyprus crises of the 1960s, In a background briefing March 29, a State heroin? expressed their views to this Committee Department official acknowledged that under 10. Liberal interpretation on behalf of the against the reopening of the arms pipeline to the proposed agreement these are no longer Soviet Union of the Montreux Convention. Turkey without a specific cutoff date in the U.S. bases or facilities on Turkish soil. These 11. Turkey has recently signed an agree absence of substantial progress toward a are now acknowledged as Turkish facllities. ment for closer relations with the Soviet Cyprus settlement. Such a step, they pre Just how important then are these bases Union. This comes as no surprise to persons dicted, "would have rather catastrophic t.o the direct security of the United States? who have followed Turkey's foreign policy. effects in Athens without producing very It is acknowledged that there were 26 U.S. For over 15 years, Turkey has been expanding much affirmative action in Ankara". They installations in Turkey. Many of these were its relationships with the Soviet Union, play added that a "disaffected Greece would mean offices of perhaps no more than a room or ing both sides against each other. The time is a serious weakening of NATO's southern two. The four main bases considered "ir long past that the American taxpayer should flank". The Ball-Vance predictions are com replaceable" by the Administration and ac prop up a militaristic Turkish government. ing true. counting for two-thirds of the 6,000 U.S. There is simply no sound reason to give an AID TO GREECE personnel now stationed in Turkey are: other dime of the U.S. taxpayers' money to Diyarbakir in south eastern Anatolia for With respect to aid for Greece for fiscal Turkey. 1977, the Administration has decided t.o radar system monitoring of missile sites in TURKEY AND NATO the south central USSR-a facllity which has reduce security supporting assistance !or been termed by Dr. Scovllle of marginal value The NATO Charter 1s specific and clear. In Greece from $65 m1111on to zero. This ls a and can be eliminated in favor of other land the preamble, the member nations commit heavy-handed, inopportune move. If security areas closer than Turkey for observing the themselves to safeguarding the Rule of Law. supporting assistance was warranted last Soviet launch area north of the Caspian Sea; In Article I of the NATO Charter, each mem year, it ls even more important today. The Sinop on Turkey's north central coast of ber nation promises "to refrain in (its) in Administration is requesting $90 mill1on 1n the Black Sea, which provides computerized ternational relations from the threat or use security supporting assistance !or Syria-a data at medium range on activities in that of force." Turkey has clearly violated the nation which is not an ally of the United sea-a facllity whose activity may well be NATO Charter, a defense alliance, yet we are States, to put it mildly. The forthcoming nearing obsolescence in this day of sophis faced with the spectacle of Dr. Kissinger entry of Greece into the Comm.on Market ticated satellite information gathering; pressuring the NATO nations to support his makes rapid development of the Greek econ Karamursel on the Sea of Marmara, which illegal and bankrupt policy. Turkey's aggres omy particularly important. monitors shipping between the Black Sea sion against Cyprus and Turkey's unrella Andi! we want to give a signal to Eastern and the Mediterranean, an installation whose blllty as an ally raise serious questions as to Europe that we support democracy and the function can surely be replaced by electronic Turkey's ab1Uty to play a constructive role Rule of Law, then there ls no better example equipment aboard U.S. ships at anchor off in NATO. than aid to the new Greek democracy, the the straits; TURKEY AND CUBA-INTERNATIONAL OUTLAWS only democracy in the Balkans and Eastern Incirlik in south central Turkey, a base for The United States cannot run a foreign Europe. the Strategic Air Command and a nuclear policy on a double stand-a.rd. Our condemna AID TO CYPRUS arms storage site, which Turkey has exempt tion of Cuba as an international outlaw for Of all the misguided unprincipled elements ed from a shutdown, as it is termed a NATO sending 12,000 troops to Angola is hypo of the Administration's present pollcy, none base. In the age of the ICBM one wonders critical when we fall to condemn that other ts more callous or indefensible from a hu 1f there is any point in maintaining this base international outlaw, Turkey, for sending a manitarian point of view than the proposal at all. Of the 6,000 U.S. personnel in Turkey 45,000-man-strong invasion and occupation that fiscal 1977 Cyprus refugee aid be re close to % of them are probably at Incirllk force to Cyprus, a defenseless nation one-half duced by 60%-from $25 million to $10 mll itself, which remains unclosed. the size of New Jersey. Uon-:-and that no refugee aid at all be pro So, in effect what 1s the $1.25 bilUon of Indeed, it is bad enough that we have vided after fiscal 1977. taxpayers' money really for? failed to condemn Turkey's international What are the real needs of the 200,000 TURKEY-AN UNRELIABLE AND AN UNFAITHFUL outlawry-but to reward Turkey, as Dr. Kis Cypriot refugees? Those needs are docu ALLY singer would have us do, with $1.25 billion mented in a comprehensive report Crisis on Even 1f bases and listening posts in Turkey worth of grants and credits--is ludicrous. Cyprus issued by Senator Edward M. Ken were of significant importance t.o the security TURKEY AND GREECE nedy, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee of the United States, it is clear from the rec to Investigate Problems Connected With Ever since the very beginning of the Cyprus Regugees in January of this year. All of the ord and from the history of past actions that conflict in 1974, we have warned that Cyprus Turkey is an unrellBtble ally. This serious figures which follow are from that report. was not the end but the beginning of Turkish Food distribution to refugees costs $42 mil charge is amply documented by the record: m1Utary expansionism. The evidence support 1. As recently as the October 1973 Middle lion annually. Over one-third of the chil ing that view ls accumulating ominously. dren on Cyprus go school in tents. The East war-long before the Cyprus crisis- Last week, the Deputy Prime Minister of to Turkey refused to allow U.S. overflights to Turkey, Mr. Turkes, made an explicit ter cost of replacing the school buildings de Israel, while allowing Soviet overflights and ritorial claim to most of the Aegean islands- stroyed or occupied by the Turks is $50 mil land convoys to Syria and Iraq. islands which are ethnically Greek and which lion. Medical services add an additional $4 2. In October 1939, Turkey signed a Mutual are a part of the Greek nation pursuant to mllUon annually. The report does not con Defense Alliance with the Western Powers the Treaty of Paris of 1946. Turkes maintains tain an estimate of the amounts needed to calling for comm.on effort in the event of that Turkey ls "the real owner" of all the provide decent housing and employment op· war, yet when the war came Turkey violated Dodecanese islands within 50 kilometers of portunitles for the refugees, but the amounts her pledge and in fact aided Nazi Germany the Turkish shore a.nd that "it is imperative" involved have been estimated by experts to while acting as a neutral. that those islands "ought to belong to Tur exceed $100 million. 3. Illegal termination in July 1975 of the key". Other government officials have been 1969 U.S. bases agreement. Simple compassion and human decency making s1milar statements 1n recent months. demand a continuation of generous aid !or 4. Invasions of Cyprus in July and August Now Dr. Kissinger has entered into an 1974, violating United States Foreign M111tary the Cyprus refugees. We urge the figure of agreement of aggression and blackmail which $6-0 mlllion--0r roughly 3 % of our security Sales and Assistance Acts and agreements provides the funds to rearm the Turkish army under those Acts including a specific agree and air force and which leaves Turkey com supporting assistance budget-as the 1977 ment between Turkey and the United States pletely free to use the bases for military oper authorization. against shipment of United States weapons to ations against Greece. Thus, this agreement In conclusion and as an alternative to the Cyprus without United States consent. creates the risk that bases where the Ameri policies of Dr. Kissinger, I say: 5. Violation of ceasefire agreements. can flag 1s flown can be used to attack Greece. Let us export the Rule of Law, not the rule 6. Violation of the UN Charter. If on the other hand the U.S. wishes to use of the jungle; 7. Violation of the NATO Charter. the bases for some compel11ng purpose Let us export the Rule of Law, not aggres 8. Violation of the London-Zurich Agree such as the resupply of Israel in the event of sion; ments. an Arab attack, it cannot do so without the Let us export the Rule of Law, not K1s 9. Violation on June 30, 1974, of United consent of Turkey. singerism. 10408 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 THE BffiDS OF OUR FORESTS tion control and the effect of fire on bird clusion. Data in Udvardy's graphs were in habitat is examined. terpreted by Von Haartman (1971) in aver INTRODUCTION age pairs per square kilometer as follows: HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. Different species of birds select different deciduous=719, deciduous-conifer=607, and OF CALIFORNIA types and stages of forest in which to live. coniferous=415. Differences are probably re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES There is no argument on this point, and it lated to the relative simplicity-Le., reduced has been documented by many researchers diversity-in coniferous compared with de Friday, April 9, 1976 including Glowa.cinski (1972), Pitelka (1941), ciduous forests. Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Kricher (1973), Shugart and James (1973), SILVICULTURAL OPTIONS AND BIRD RESPONSES Speaker, our forests are very complex, Martin (1960), Odum (1950), Snyder (1950), Silvicultural options that are available to ecological systems which suppcrt an and Johnston and Odum (1956). The reasons accomplish timber management objectives abundance of wildlife. One of the for this selection have been exhaustively re can have amazingly complex impacts on bird issues raised in our House Agriculture viewed by Von Haartma.n (1971) and Hilden habitats. However, certain basic principles (1965) and include such variables as food and practices, in one form 01 another, make Committee hearings is the effect that availability, manner of feeding, nesting re up the majority of what we actually encoun various timber harvesting techniques quirements, physical characteristics, and ter. Our discussion is confined to those con have on these wildlife species. others. Salt ( 1953) worked in three conifer siderations. I would like to submit for the RECORD ous forest types and noted that the nearer Our typical forest evolves through seral a study prepared by four scientific re the vegetative system moved toward climax stages of development which we describe as: searchers of the Forest Service on the the greater the biomass of birds supported. bare ground-+gra.ss-forb-+shrub-sa.pling (0- "Silvicultural Options and Habitat Those species adapted to the more advanced 10 years)~poles (11-40)~young forest (41- seres had larger body sizes and increased lOO)~mature forest (101-200)~old growth Values in Coniferous Forests.'' This re ab111ty to utilize energy eftlciently. This was (201+). pcrt is the result of research on the confirmed by Karr ( 1968) but contradicted Ha.apanen (1965) made a useful categoriza birds that live in our forests, their role by Bock and Lynch (1970). tion of birds based on a combination of nest in insect control, and the need for in It ha.s long been recognized that birds re ing and feeding habitat requirements. His creased consultation with biological ex spond to environmental features-particu life-requirement cla.ssifl.cation is more usetul perts in the management of our forests larly vegetative physiognomy (Breckenridge here than standard classiftcatlons based on to reduce the impact of present silvi 1956; Lack 1933, 1937; Lack and Venables morphological characteristics. We utilized 1939; Miller 1942; Kendeigh 1947; Klopfer appropriate portions of Haapanen's system cultural methods on their habitats. The 1965, 1969; Klopfer and Hallman 1965; Svard to describe the forest component. We used role of birds in the forest environment son 1949). a simplifl.ed version of the coniferous forest is very important for maintaining a Emlen (195'6) saw the necessity for de life-zones describd by Merriam (1894) which strong, ecological balance, and the way scribing vegetative habitat characters and may be translated or related to biomes by in which we harvest our timber supplies suggested rudimentary variables such as referring to Odum ( 1945) . can have a long-term or permanent canopy height and height to crown, pre Further, each bird group is best suited to effect on certain species of birds. ferring quantitatively to the relative classes particular stages or combination of stages in I would like to quote from one section described by Kuchler (1949) and DanseFeau forest succession (Table 2). So, natural suc (1951). cession provides a constantly changing series of this report, which will be included in Sturman ( 1968) expanded this concept to or niches or habitats and their juxtapositions full: include computed volumes of tree crown to that allow the occurrence of the broad spec Loss of old-growth forests is much more successfully describe habitat selection cri trum of species present in the coniferous serious. Wight (1974) discussed the high teria.. Klopfer ( 1969) and Karr and Roth forest biome. stab111ty of old-growth conifer forest en ( 1971) noted the importance of canopy layers Silvlcultura.l treatments a.re used to alter vironments and the extreme specialization in accounting for species diversity in forest the natural status of a successional stage to of species that are adapted to these environ birds. James (1971) and Cody (1968) dealt achieve a desired end such as selection for ments. with similar thoughts and used discriminate the most economically valued tree species, function analysis to describe habitat asso shortening the time in the "less productive" He says: ciations of forest and grassland birds. grass-forb and shrub seres, or concentrating They are doomed if a forest management MacArthur and associates (MacArthur and growth on selected stems. In terms of bird scheme does not provide for preservation of MacArthur 1961, MacArthur et al. 1962, Mac habitat, most silvicultural practices can be mature forest habitats on which they are Arthur 1964, MacArthur et al. 1966), devel considered as regeneration of the stand and absolutely dependent. oped these concepts to show that the pri then, shortening the period between the Strong economic pressures always exist to mary variables that could be used to predict lower and the most advanced seres as much harvest old-growth stands, and it is obvious species diversity were vegetative volumes by as possible. that present trends for managed forests are layers and that these layers were essentially In the process of "streamlining" the suc leading to shorter rotations. In short, those three-herbaceous (0-2 feet), shrub (2-25 cessional process, the application of silvi concerned about birds of the old-growth feet), and tree ( >25 feet) layers. cultural techniques wUl favor some bird forests are fearful that, except for specimen Thomas a and Thomas et al. ( 1974) further groups and essentially eliminate habitat for or relict stands, the present old growth will refined these ideas and showed high correla others. disappear by the end of thLs century. Even tions of 10 bird species with discrete 5-foot In general then, the timed harvest of exist those specimen stands wm eventually dis layers of deciduous and conifer vegetation. ing forest stands and their subsequent sllvi appear, along with the avifauna that is nar Although we recognize that some bird spe cultural treatment until the next generation rowly adapted to them; and the probab1Uty cies have exact requirements in terms ot cut are apt to increase diversity of habitats of their replacement is low. habitat characteristics--such as cavities for in the coniferous forest zones, with the re holenesters (see reviews by Beebe' and Jack sult that a greater diversity of species wUl be I urge my colleagues to review this man 6-_we proceed from the assumption that encountered in managed forests. This diver report for it is an excellent study of a silvicultural practices will influence avian sity--of habitat and birds-w111 be subject very important factor in the mainte habitats primarily through alterations of the in several ways to the principle of diminish nance and protection of our forest form and density of vegetative layers. Fur ing returns. In other words, each practice ther, effects of such alterations can be pre wlll yield initial large returns in terms of environment: dicted in terms of their impacts on various diversity, but each increment wlll add pro SILVICULTURAL OPTIONS AND HABITAT VALUES classes of birds. portionately less until finally the increments IN CONIFEROUS FORESTS 1 We deal here with principles and general begin to cause losses in diversity. (By Jack Ward Thomas, Glenn L. Crouch, ities due to the magnitude and diversity of There is concern that the more intense the Roger S. Bumstead, and Larry D. Bryant) 2 the coniferous •forests of North America; forest management system, the simpler the ABSTRACT.-Dlfferent bird species select dif although throughout the world, conifer for vegetative structure becomes. And the more ferent types and stages of forests which sat ests have been described as inferior to de simple the vegetative structure, the less di isfy their requirements for nesting and feed ciduous forests as bird habitat based on bird verse the attendant fauna. ing. Birds are classifted into groups based on density and diversity-in Finland: Palmgren So in terms of birds, three primary con these requirements (i.e., nests on the ground, ( 1933) , Soveri ( 1940) , Merik:allio ( 1946) , cerns surface as forest management becomes Nordstrom (1953), Jalka.nen (1960), Haapa more intensive: (1) truncated succession, (2) feeds on the ground, etc.). The su1tab1Uty of loss of old-growth habitats, and (3) removal each bird group for each forest successional nen (1965, 1968), and Portin (1965); in East ern Europe; Novikov (1962); in Germany: of snags or standing dead trees. stage and the effect on birds of various sil Truncated succession is probably impor vicultural treatments at those stages was Dircksen and HOner (1963); in the British tant only where grass, !orb, and shrub stages Judged. The role of birds on insect popula.- Isles: Williamson (1969, 1970, 1972); in Aus are essentially eliminated through programs tralia; Cowley (1971). Udvardy (1957) re to return harvested sites to tree cover in the viewed a number of census efforts in North shortest possible time through intenFive Footnotes at end of article. American forests and reached the sa.m.e con- shrub control and tree planting. Carried to April 9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10409 extreme, such practices could have serious nesting birds and forest management, includ This phenomenon has been most frequently impact on those species needing the early ing the bird/ insect interface. Buckner ( 1966, noted in woodpeckers of various species successlonal seres. Nevertheless, if regenera 1970) addressed the role of vertebrate pred (Blackford 1955, Koplin 1969, Baldwin 1960) tion cuts are frequent, well distributed, and ators in insect control. but has also been reported 1n many other reasonably small, say 20-100 acres, enough The questions should also be put in an species and groups (Tu.reek 1949, Blais and sites should be available in initial succes economic perspective by enumerating the Parks 1964, Sloan a,nd Coppel 1968, Coppel slonal stages to provide for adequate diver costs of forest insect outbreaks-both in di and Sloan 1970, Mattson et al. 1968, Dahls sity. rect losses and in costs of control programs ten and Herman 1965). The importance of Loss of old-growth forests ls much more and rehabilitation efforts. For example, some birds as a biological control mechanism has serious. Wight (1974) discussed the high sta $12,000,000 was spent annually over the peri received more detailed attention in Europe b111ty of old-growth conifer forest environ od 196~70 to control epidemic insect out where shorter rotations, intensive forestry, ments and the extreme specialization of spe breaks in the western United States alone and loss of snag habitats have been evident cies that are adapted to these environments. (USDA Forest Service 1973). A more reveal for much longer than in North America. He says, "They are doomed if a forest man ing examination of the complex costs of a The literature reviews by Poznanin ( 19:S6). agement scheme does not provide for preser recent outbreak is shown in the environ Bruns (1960). Franz (1961). and Herberg vation of mature forest habitats on which mental impact statement prepared for the ( 1965) cover this topic. For example, Franz they are absolutely dependent." request to use DDT to control an outbreak of (1961) cites 229 references to support his Strong economic pressures always exist to the Douglas-fir tussock moth in Oregon, conclusion that birds, along with insectivo harvest old-growth stands, and it is obvious Washington, and Idaho (USDA Forest Service rous bats, small mammals, microbials, and that present trends for managed forests are 1973). predatory insects, help hold insect popula leading to shorter rotations. In short, those Early workers (Beal 1906, 1911; Forbush tions at endemic levels or exert some control concerned about birds of the old-growth 1907; McAtee 1911, 1915, 1926; and others) at early outbreak stages. Bruns (1960) cites forests are fearful that, except for specimen vividly documented the astounding numbers papers reporting that satisfactory control of or relict stands, the present old growth will of insects that are consumed by birds. They insect populations by holenesting birds was disappear by the end of this century. Even had a tendency perhaps to overstate the increased by installing nest boxes (von Ber those specimen stands wm eventually dis case. For example, McAtee (1926) refers to lepsch 1926, Appel and Schwartz 1921, Frei appear, along with the avifauna that is nar many instances ot-control or suppression of berger 1926-27. Hii.hnle 1946, Herberg 1965). rowly adapted to them; and the probabmty insect populations by birds alone. Later de The importance that European forest land of their replacement ls low (Davis 1974). tailed work on the myriad of factors bear managers place on insectivorous birds as bio If rotation ages are reduced to less than ing on insect levels in forests casts some logical control agents ls reflected in the 100-150 years, a much larger component of doubt on such simplistic interpretations funds expended to provide artificial nesting the avifauna will be threatened by destruc (Tinbergen 1960, Morris 1963). In fact, Tin cavities for these species. In addition to lit tion of their nesting habitat. These are the bergen (1960) contended that the exact rela erature already mentioned, Cole (n.d.) noted cavity nesters, and the dead trees (snags) of tionship of birds to insect population that installation of boxes is common in SUfficient sizes to meet the needs of some dynamics could be shown only by intensive Bavarian forests and that some 400,000 boxes species are products of older age classes of study of a single bird species over a large have been placed over an area of 140,000 trees. In conifer forests, some 20 percent of area for a prolonged period. Popelov ( 1956; hectares and another 300,000 are planned in total breeding pairs nest in holes (see foot quoted in Otvos 1965) expanded that restric Spain (Molina 1971) . note 5). tion to indicate that the determination must Bruns (1960, p. 204) provides an apt con Intensive forest management presents a be made for each bird species, insect species, clusion for this section: double threat to availab11ity of snags: (1) and forest stand. Beebe (see footnote 4) "Birds are not a complete remedy. On the the loss of existent snags due to safety re listed a number of studies indicating that balance of opinions and considering recent quirements imposed by State and Federal birds help regulate spruce budworm popula investigations, the truth may lle neither in regulations and (2) lack of replacement snags tions at endemic levels (Kendeigh 1947, Mor the one, nor in the other direction, but in during shorter rotations and continued re ris et al. 1958, Morris 1963, Dowden and between. I mean to say that, within the com moval of potential snags during thlnnlngs. Carolin 1950, Dowden et al. 1953, George and munity of all animals and plants of the Safety regulations presently require that Mitchell 1948). Similar relationships have forest, birds form an Important factor. The virtually all snags adjacent to haul or skid been described for the larch sawfly in iso birds generally are not able to break down an roads, in or near landings and work area, lated stands (Buckner and Turnock 1965); insect plague, but their function lies in be felled, which indicates that few or no woodpeckers and western pine beetle ( otvos preventing insect plaques. It is our duty to snags will remain at rotation. Shorter rota 1965) ; woodpeckers and other beetles (Mas preserve birds from (sic) aesthetic as well as tions may be even more devastating in the sey and Wygant 1973); and tits on moth lar economic reasons, and to create artificial long run, and the only solution may be to vae (Gibbs 1958, 1959). compensation in the form of nest boxes, program some stands or individual trees in Beebe, p. 27-28 (see footnote 4), says where nesting chances are diminished by the each management unit for long rotations to that-- forestry work. . . . The wood ls stm able to provide continuous supply of snags. Poten "Wlth few exceptions the conclusions of defend itself biologically against insect tial snags should be as carefully husbanded literally hundreds of papers dealing with the plagues. It ls our duty to conserve these as selected crop trees for they will provide impact of avian predators on their insect biological forces (birds, bats, wood ants, tomorrow's crop of hole-nesting birds. prey have been that, in many instances, parasites) and to conserve or create a rich Haapanen (1965) noted that bird species birds act as important components of natu and diverse community. By such a prophylac diversity was less in managed than unman ral biological regulation o! insect population tic, carrying out of "hygiene" before a pos aged Finnish forests and attributed the dif dynamics at endemic ... levels. In ... un sible outbreak of an insect pest, the forests ference to loss of suitable sites for hole-nest usual circumstances birds may act together, will be better protected than by any other ing birds under management. Sim1lar ob each species and sometimes each sex in its means. If there should be further insect servations concerning deciduous forests in own specialized way, to be a major cause at plagues their effect at least be diminished, Michigan were noted by Gysel ( 1961) • the suppression of an insect outbreak . . . so that we will only need to use chemical In summary, and considering only birds, it the most important role o! birds ls in the control in exceptional circumstances." seems to us that present trends in timber prevention of insect epidemics, rather than FOREST BIRDS AND FIRE management will lead to diversity that will their suppression. This important role is probably still underestimated because the Most published work concentrates on re be generally reflected in increased diversity sponses of gallianceous birds to fire, and the of bird species as outlined by Hagar (1960). vast majority o! research has been conducted during insect epidemics in which the sheer use of fire to produce suitable habitat for The exceptions will be those species adapted nesting, feeding, and hiding for these birds. to old growth and those requiring snags for numbers of insects simply overwhelm the birds' ab111ty to exert regulatory influence." The pioneering research has been carried out nesting. Pengelly (1972) presents a more pes under the auspices of The Cooperative Quail slmistlc view concerning effects of intensive Beebe, p. 19 (see footnote 4), also cau tioned that findings presented in his exten Study Association whose efforts and numer forestry on wildlife in general. Counter argu ous publications are summarized in the Tall ments are presented by Hooven (1973). sive literature review "must be qual1fl.ed by the understanding that our knowledge of the Timbers Research Station (1961). Most nota BIRDS AND INSECT CONTROL relationships between insectivorous birds and ble among these contributions was that of There are two sides to this topic-what their prey is very limited." Stoddard ( 1931) on bobwhite quail. Sharp roles do insect-ea.ting birds play in the con There are instances where birds might have (1971), Bump et al. (1947). Grange (1948), trol ot insect populations and, conversely, reduced epidemic populations o! insects. Vogl (1967), Wheeler (1948), Stoddard (1935, what effect does the control of insect out Woodpeckers seemingly had such an effect on 1961), Doerr et al. (1971), Ligon (1946), and breaks through use of pesticides have on outbreak populations of southern hardwood other have discussed the effects of fire on populations of insect-eating birds? We wlll borers (Solomon 1969, 1970). Knight (1958) ruffed grouse population. address only the first of these. and Mccambridge and Knight (1972) also Responses of non-ga.me birds to wildlife The questions have been extensively re reported control of Engelmann spruce beetle or controlled burning have received consid viewed by the Germ.an workers (Bruns by woodpeckers. erably less attention. The role that fire may (1960). Franz (1961), and Herberg (1965)). Benefits have also been reported from large take in the creation o! desired wildlife hab Beebe (see footnote 4) thoroughly reviewed numbers of birds "drifting into" or aggregat itat has been discussed by Komarek (1966) relationships between insectivorous hole- ing in areas of outbreak during the winter. and Neel (1967). The generalized theory tha.t 10410 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 fire can be used to open clogged understory, It seems likely that the avifauna may re nature on the face of the land. Signatures of remove rank vegetation, set back plant suc act similarly to either fire or mechanical course, differ; whether written with axe or cession, stimulate plant growth, and improve techniques that reduce or retard succession. pen, and this is as it should be." nutritional status of forage thereby creating This opinion is based on the premise that the diversity and conditions suitable for de most bird species react primarily to the FOOTNOTES sired forms of wildlife was considered by physiognomy of the vegetation (Hilden 1965, 1 Paper presented at The Symposium on Komarek (1963), Mllier (1963), and Stoddard MacArthur and MacArthur 1961, MacArthur Management of Forest and Range Habitat.a (1963). et al. 1962, Thomas et al. 1974; also see foot for Non-game Birds, Tucson, Arizona, May Actual studies of the relationships of fire note 3). 6-9, 1975. and non-hunted bird species are rare. Mar Fire effects on the total forest ecosystem 2 Principal Research Wildlife Biologist, shall (1963) related the difference in the avi is discussed by Biswell (1967), Thompson USDA Forest Service, Pac11lc Northwest For fauna. of a mixed pine-hardwood forest sub and Smith ( 1971) , and others who point out est and Range Experiment Station, La ject to frequent fires to one where fire was the role of naturally occurring fires and Grande, Oregon. excluded. Repeated understory fires had pro those set by the aboriginal North Americans Principal Plant Ecologist, USDA Forest duced park-like forests compared with in the evolution and development of forests. Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range stunted, tangled stands where fire had been Essentially, fire exclusion leads to over Experiment Station, Olympia, Washington. excluded. The birds present in ea.ch area re- stocked stands, stagnant stands, cluttered Wildlife Biologist, USDA Forest Service, 1lected these habitat conditions. Species ad understory, accumulation of organic material Region 1, Missoula, Montana. justed to open understory and scattered trees at ground level, invasion of fire-susceptible Biological Technician, USDA Forest Service, were abundant in the burned area, whereas species and loss of diversity in forest plant Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experi those that preferred a heavy shrub layer and/ systems. In addition, the probab111ty of cata ment Station, La. Grande, Oregon. or crowded woods were more common in the strophic fires is increased. 8 Jack Ward Thomas. The determination woodland where fire was excluded. Komarek Regarding the avifauna, we suggest that of habitat requirements for birds in suburban (1969) reviewed the literature concerning fire this is neither good nor bad-it merely is. areas-a pilot study. Ph.D. dissertation, Uni and animal behavior as well as listing posi The avifauna changes to include those spe versity of Massachusetts, Amherst. 237 p., tive reactions of 77 bird species to burning cies best adapted to, and most favored by, a 1973. or burned areas. He concluded that many new habitat complex. The thing to recognize 4, S. B. Beebe. Relationships between insec animals a.re adapted to a fire environment is that burning, controlled or wild, will prob tivorous hole-nesting birds and forest man and natural selection has been a major fac ably add diversity to a forest and cause agement. Yale University School of Forestry tor in such adaptation. changes in the avifauna that reflect habitat and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Bock and Lynch (1970) studied the breed alterations. Conn. 49 p., multllithed, 1974. 5 ing bird populations on burned and un CONCLUSIONS S. Jackman. Some characteristics of cavity burned areas in the Sierra Nevada. They The coniferous forest moves through suc nesters: can we ever leave enough snags? found a dramatic difference in numbers of cessional stages from bare ground to old Oregon Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, birds class11led as "tree foliage-searching," growth stands. Each stage in succession is Oregon State University, Corvallis. 10 p., which represented 47.9 percent of the birds more or less favorable to each bird group multllithed, 1974. in the unburned area and 8.7 percent in the in terms of habitat requirements, and there burned area, and the "ground-brush forag fore, there is a successional pattern in the ing," which amounted to 29.4 percent in the avifauna. reflecting chamges in the forest unburned and 60.9 percent in the burned vegetation. area. The total numbers of birds were vir THE DANGER OF MILITARY Silvicultural treatments have the general UNIONIZATION tually the same between treatments, but effect of modifying successional patte?'ll.s to biomass on the burned plot was markedly achieve some timber-related objective to greater. speed up succession, to select for certain Kilgore ( 1971) studied the effects on the plant species, to concentrate growth on se HON. PHILIP M. CRANE avifauna. of removal of the sapling and brush lected stems, or to harvest valuable com OF Il.LINOIS layer of a giant sequoia forest by various modities. The effects of such sllvicultural op IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES means including controlled burning. Open tions are predictable and controllable. ing the lower layer produced changes in spe Birds are a natural part of the coniferous Friday, April 9, 1976 cies composition but not in biomass. Under forest biome. They evolved With it and influ story thickets were apparently less useful ence the system as well as being influenced Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, at the pres than canopy and trunk components for nest by it. The effects of birds in the population ent time, the American Federation of ing and feeding. Three species of ground dynamics of forest insects is one role that Government Employees is discussing the nesting and/or feeding birds were eUminated we have discussed. unionization of the more than 2 million while flycatchers and robins increased in Applied fire management is just coming members of the U.S. military forces. numbers. into its own. Fire can be used for several Before such a step is permitted, we Emlen ( 1970) described bird response to a purposes-but primarily results in altera controlled burn of a 400-hectare block of 20- must carefully consider the real meaning tion of ground cover or successional patterns. of unionizing the military. Such un year-old slash pine in Florida. This fire OpportUnities for wildlife biologists to at an ca.used a drastic reduction of ground cover tain their forest management goals were precedented action would make the and shrub foliage. The overstory was essen never better. Many, if not most foresters are Armed Forces of the United States sub tially unchanged. Bird counts were made on now receptive to reasonable proposals to en ject not only to the wishes of the Com the burn and in adjacent unburned stands. hance bird habitats or at least to minimize mander in Chief and of the Congress, but The a.vifauna was expected to reflect changes adverse impacts of silvicultural practices on also of union bosses who are not elected in the vegetative physiognomy but did not, the habitats. However, biologists must pro suggesting that food and shelter resources by the American people and not respon vide factual, professional, and realistic sible to them. were not equally disrupted by the fire. The leadership in planning and implementing attachment of resident species to established land management policies and programs if Writing in the Retired Officer, Col. home ranges and foraging territories could habitat diversity and attendant bird species Minter L. Wilson, Jr., USA emplo~~nt practices of "public" broadcast price. The losers were the free world sessment of the future, but challenged ing.... farmer, the merchant who sells to the the student journalists to respond to the pressing needs. He ended on an optimis Backing up Ms. Price was Pluria Mar farmer, and the laboring man who pro duces for the farmer. tic note, placing a heavy emphasis and shall, national chairman of the National The article from the Farm J oumal responsiblity on the younger generation Black Media Coalition, based in Wash follows: and the role of newspapers. ington. Marshall chose to focus on what I would like to share Mr. Melton's he viewed as the Corporation's cold-eyed FOREIGNERS PROTEST LIMITS ON TRADE Wheat growers from Canada, France, thoughts with my colleagues and ask that effort to pit minorities against women for his remarks be reprinted in the RECORD: the top jobs. He openly told the CPB Australia, Belgium, Holland and Denmark met recently with American wheat growers. THE PREss: GRIM FuTURE IN GJUM WoRLD? AN board that he felt he had been lied to by "The U.S. embargo on grain doubled our ADDRESS CPB president, Henry Loomis, who hotly wheat sales to Russia,'' Leslie Price of (By Rollan D. Melton) denied that he had, as Mr. Marshall as Australia. told a group of state wheat as EDITOR'S NoTE.-Rollan D. Melton, presi serted, all but promised the human re sociation presidents. "It allowed us to sell dent of Speidel Newspapers Inc., with which source development job to a minority more wheat, but it forced prices down more the Nevada State Journal and Reno Evening when black groups opted not to protect than $1 a bushel because the world price Gazette are associated, offered this commen CPB's decision to bypass dozens of quali for wheat is really set in the U.S." Other foreign growers expressed concern tary Saturday at a professional journalists' fied black candidates for the public af with embargoes and the moratorium. "We meeting at the Sparks Nugget. He specifically fairs slot which went to another white ought to give your President Ford a plaque addres.sed journalism students attending the woman. for helping the Canadian farmer sell more meeting from universities in Arizona, Cali But Cathy Irwin, a Washington repre- fornia, Nevada and Hawaii. wheat,'' said Clarence Taylor. Regina, Sask., I offer you my thoughts on three subjects sentative of the National Organization of the Palllser Wheat Growers Association. that increasingly will become paramount in for Women, promised the CPB board that "The moratorium on sales hurt growers all your journalism lifetimes. such a ploy, if intended, would not suc- over the world." There is no international wheat growers The subjects are: ceed. association, but increasing numbers of The future of America. Ms. Irwin vowed: foreign producers have been attending the The basic hopes, fears, weaknesses, Neither NOW nor the women's movement National Association of Wheat Growers strengths and needs of people. wm be manipulated into a position where (NAWG) annual meeting. This year there The future of this country's weekly and dally newspapers. women will be used to fight minorities over were 11 from Canada, 9 from France and crumbs. I am a newspaperman and because I am, I other representatives from Australia, Bel am filled with questions and doubts. All gium, Holland and Denmark. Ray Davis, of the principals in the protest of NAWG trade representative and past presi Take the future of this country, for in CPB hiring policy also represent their dent, got them together to discuss mutual stance. Here's what I see: respective organizations on the Advisory interests. Council of National Organizations to the Growing crime. Now we are a nation in Their most common problem? Government filtrated by thieves, con artists, liars, rapists, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. interference with markets. That may sound and killers. It used to be that dark alleys were However, all spoke for their individual like a paradox since most foreign growers unsafe. Now danger visits homes, parks, pub constituencies when they appeared in enjoy one form of price protection or lic streets in daylight hours. Crime will another. March before the CPB board of direc The Russian Grains Agreement drew first worsen. tors. fire from Herman DeLong of Holland, a Drugs. We are a nation possessing a heavy Ms. Price left the board with the defi representative of the European Economic population of potheads, dopers, far-out nite impression that she expects three Community (EEC). "We are very concerned crazies. Take a drug census in 1980, in 1990 other top level positions at the corpora a.bout long-term agreements like those be and 2001 and you'll find the drug problem no longer just grave. By then it will be awful. tion to be filled by minorities, male or tween the U.S. and Russia, and the agree Illiteracy. How much clearer to put it than female. She referred to the positions of ments Canada has with the People's Republlc of China and with South American and to say illlteracy 1s an epidemic. In your llfe director of planning and administration; tlm.es, it wUl grow to a. scandal. A nation director of contract administration, and African countries,'' he said. "There are now that cannot read cannot abort its decline. agreements with about 20 different countries senior program affairs offi.cer for TV ac and they have a very depressing effect on the Educational system. I'm sorry to report activities. that America's school system ls stm some market." what on vacation. It ls partially to blame for Australia's Leslie Price agreed. "These agreements take the fire and the competitive illiteracy. Discipline in grammar schools and high schools ls a mockery. Teachers have FOREIGNERS PROTEST LIMITS ness out of the market and our producers two basic fears: That they won't get a bigger ON TRADE don't like it." paycheck and that the students will beat the Growers from all countries concurred in hell out of them. There are a great number opposition to wheat reserves. Some of the of fine teachers in America. My worry is that HON. PAUL FINDLEY Europeans suggested there was more politics the future will bring an onerous number of than serious business in Secretary of State 0'1!' ILLINOIS lousy educators. Henry Kissinger's proposal for a. world food Public leadership. Well, you read the news IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grain reserve. papers and you know what I am about to Friday, April 9, 1976 There is a strong feeling among foreign say. We have too heavy a population of poli producers for an international grains agree ticians who are inept, stupid, self-serving, Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, I am at ment with floor prices. "I don't think our fumbling, and worst of all, immoral. They taching an article from the April issue of producers would buy that," said Davis. operate at all levels of government and in the Farm Journal on the reaction of villages, towns, cities, counties, states and 1n other producing countries to the recent Washington, D.C. export embargo against the Soviet Union Foul air. Pollution, any way you slice it, and Poland. The embargo cost the PRESIDENT OF SPEIDEL NEWSPA endangers our lives. Within the next 25 years, American farmer export sales. It in PERS LOOKS AT THE "F'Ol'ORE OF a. large percentage of the students in this AMERICA AND ITS PRESS" room wm be parents. We hope your children creased sales for export by farmers in have blue skies to see and cleaner air to other nations of the free world, but it breathe than you're now seeing and breath hurt the producers of wheat in all coun ing. But don't count on it. tries by lowering the world price of HON. JIM SANTINI Food. As of a week ago Sunday, there were wheat. The embargo was good for Rus OF NEVADA 4 b1llion people on our planet. By the year sia. The Russians were able to buy their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2000, there will be nearly 7 billion folks staking a claim on earth. All of us now have wheat at the lower price. Friday, April 9, 1976 Holland and Denmark were the vic one basic need. But forecasters doubt there'll tims. For the last 3 months of 1975, Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, the Presi be enough food to go around then. Hell, there dent of the Speidel Newspaper chain isn't even enough food for everyone living farm prices for cereal grains fell 15 ¥2 today. So 1n 2000, the global starving are p.ercent while consumer prices for cereals made some penetrating comments last apt to stake a claim on the richest agricul and bakery products eased off only 2% week before the Region 11 Conference of tural country in the world: Your country. percent. The winner of the embargo was Sigma Delta Chi 1n Sparks, Nev. Family disintegration. This is the largest the Russian consumer who received more Mr. Rollan D. Melton, a native of Ne worry o! all. The percentage o! happy homes wheat-all that they wanted-at a lower vada, provided a somewhat gloomy as- 1s dropping. It's no picnic rto grow up ln a 10414 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 9, 1976 broken home, as some of you can confirm. They must stay profitable. a.nd his Administration a.re involved in an Divorce 1s a way of life in your country. What does all this really mean to you? other Solzhenitsyn flap, this one almost as Family love isn't what it used to be. When Well, those of you who have elected news- messy as the first one. parents fall to love their children, teach their paper careers are THE newspapers of the fu Newsweek magazine reports that "to make children by good example, fall to discipline ture. amends" with conservatives upset over his their children promptly and wisely and fail Those older ones of us are going to fade snub of Solzhenitsyn, the President has sent to instill moral good in their children, what from the scene: "a warm personal telegram" to the Freedoms do you have? Increasingly in your lifetime, We will quit, be fired, retired or die. Foundation in Valley Forge, Pa., saluting this the little children will grow into beasts who You will replace us. patriotic group for a.warding the exiled So are clods, illiterates, dopers, k1llers and per You've got your work cut out for you be viet dissident its highest award, the Ameri haps worst of all-parents themselves. Pa.r cause your responsibility is large and your can Friendship Medal. Mr. Ford says in his ents who wlll multiply new generations of goals formidable. wire that he is "delighted" with the Founda their 11lfated kind. Are you up to it? tion's decision that it further enhances the Now to the second subject. The basic want- Yes, you are. group's "out3tanding reputation for the sup 11st of most people includes these things: port and encouragement of ideals and values A need for recognition. Knowing that you that a.re cherished by all Americans." amount to something. Now, it just so happens that there are A craving for affection. I don't know any SOLZHENITSYN HAILED BY FORD, other individuals who also wish to honor body who will deny that love is a. very nice Alexander Solzhenitsyn and they have sought quality. DENIED HONORARY CITIZENSHIP to do so by making him an honorary Ameri Creature comforts. Food, preferably eaten BY STATE can citizen. One of these persons is Sen. Jesse on a. regular and wholesome basis; clothing, Helms, R-N.C., who introduced a resolution either Levis or the fanciest threads your to this effect. It passed the Senate on a voice pocketbook wlll allow; a home; and enough HON. LARRY McDONALD vote last year. money to make the aforementioned possible. OF GEORGIA In the House, Rep. Larry McDonald, D-Ga., You are a.ware by now that I am the worst IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES introduced a similar resolution, but it has pessimist you ever laid eyes or ears on. Right? been bottled up one year this month in Rep. Wrong! Friday, April 9, 1976 Peter Rodina's, D-N.J., Subcommittee on Im Which brings me to the la.st subject: The Mr. McDONALD of Georgia. Mr. migration, Citizenship and International futlli'e of newspapers in your cities and in Law. The reason for the delay? According to your country. Speaker, twice the U.S. Senate has passed a joint resolution granting Aleksandr Subcommittee members Joshua. Eilberg, D It's a terribly exciting and challenging Pa., who chairs this unit, and Rep. Bill COhen future. SolzheniU:iyn honorary U.S. citizenship. (R-Me.), it's because Mr. Ford's State De It's loaded with an unbelievable abun However, each time no activity has oc partment has gone on record opposing the dance of opportunity for ea.ch of you. curred in the House on this legislation. measure. Newspapers aren't doomed. They are the Why? One reason may be the rather So, why does the State Department oppose wave of the future. strange report on the legislation given by Solzhenitsyn being made an honorary citi Readers rely on us. They will rely on us zen? Well, it's embarrassing to quote the rea more and more in the future. the Department of State on the most recent Solzhenitsyn resolution, Senate sons. In a letter to Rep. Rodino last July, Why? Because knowledge is power and the Department's Assistant Secretary for newspapers bring knowledge. Joint Resolution 36, to the House Com Congressional Relations, Robert Mccloskey, Why? Because problems have to be de mittee on the Judiciary dated July 7, says the resolution is "quite unique and ex tected and then they have to be solved. Who 1975. I, for one, do not understand the traordinary," noting that only Winston is going to lead the way in the future? News lack of activity of the House Committee Churchill and the Marquis de Lafayette have papers. on the Judiciary. Mr. John Lofton, a been granted honorary citizenship. Both of Who is best equipped to tell people of syndicated colwnnist, has written a col these men, he notes, were strongly committed crime and recommend and demand solu to the U.S. and the principles for which it tions? wnn for United Features, dated March 31, 1976, describing his feelings on the stands. But not so with Solzhenitsyn. Mc Who can generate a frontal attack on Closkey continues: drugs? issue which I find very worthy of note. "Clearly, Churchill and Lafayette possessed Who best can warn of the dangers of il Therefore, I commend it to the attention such a conscious commitment to aid and literacy? of my colleagues in the House. The col affect America's sovereign destiny. There is Who can find the immoral politician-be umn follows: no evidence, however, that Solzhenitsyn, al fore he is elected? SOLZHENITSYN HAILED BY FORD, DENIED beit an eloquent and courageous interna Which medium will report the dangers of tional personality, has made such a contribu dirty air, of dirty men, of dirty tricks-a.nd CITIZENSH1P BY STATE (By John D. Lofton, Jr.) tion or commitment or even desires to do so. do something about those dangers? In fact, there ls some indication (not stated Who, pray tell me, will inform this part of WAsHINGTON.-When President Ford re 1n this letter-JL.) that his rebellion against our planet of the dangers of global starva fused to see exiled Soviet author Aleksandr despotism does not embody an endorsement tion? Solzhenitsyn last summer, he, quite de of the American way of life." Therefore, Mc Who can help bring man better schools, servedly, caught hell from all directions Closkey concludes, Solzhenitsyn "should not better teachers, better cities, better life and from liberals and conservatives a.like. be declared an honorary citizen of the United better hope? White House press secretary Ron Nessen States of America." Who can best tell people about what their originally sa.ld the President was simply too The mind boggles. What to say? How to neighbors are up to? Who did what to whom busy to see Solzhenitsyn, adding that fur respond to these slanderous lies? In his two and when? And why? thermore Mr. Ford "for image reasons does major addresses sponsored by the AFL-CIO Well, who? like to have some substance in his meetings." last year, Solzhenitsyn repeatedly praised W111 blllboa.rds do all this? Radio? Televi This pathetic excuse however was quickly this country. For example, in his Washington, sion? Shoppers? Direct mall? Door-to-door blown down by gales of laughter when it was D.C. talk he declared: "The United States messengers? asked, if this was true, then why had the of America has long shown itself to be the Newspapers will do all this. They do it best. President, in the past, met and posed for most magnanimous, the most generous coun Newspapers are here to stay. pictures with such "heavy thinkers" as: try in the world." Perhaps Mr. McCloskey Weeklies and dallies have never had a Bra.zllla.n soccer star Pele; Miss America., doesn't know this because State Department brighter, more exciting role. They have never 1975; the Maid of cotton; the West Virginia employes are not allowed to read Solzhenitsyn had more challenges. Strawberry Queen; and three Russian pilots speeches lest this might "offend the Soviets." Who are these weeklies and these daiUes? who had ma.de the first transpolar filght to But what a.bout Americans! When ls our They are people in production, in circula the U.S. in 1937. government going to starl worrying about tion, in busines.~ . in advertising. Subsequently, the real reason for President what offends our citizens, disgraceful and Wa,rs aren't won without the infantry. Ford's refusal to see Solzhenitsyn was re disgusting things like Robert McCloskey's Great newspapers ca.n.'t exist without great vea.Ied: Henry Kissinger had recominended letter. Does President Ford know about this reporters. against it. In the words of one of the Secre correspondence? The White House says it Great newspapers can't exist without great tary of State's aides, such a get-together doesn't know; Mccloskey says he doesn't administrative leaders. "would offend the Soviets", lending weight know. Newspapers must exercise their power more to Solzhenitsyn's polltica.l views rather than Well, somebody should tell the President. intelligently in the future; they must ex his literary talent. Looking back on the fiap, And Mr. Ford should personally intervene pand their span of infiuence. They must President Ford has said that things could and throw the full prestige of his omce be learn to better detect needs of readers and have been handled "a bit tidier," that "it hind the effort to make Alexandr Solzhenit serve the needs. probably would have been right" to see syn an honorary citizen. This would make They must lead better. And lead more Solzhenitsyn. not only conservatives happy, but all th.ose often. Fine. We all make mistakes. But Mr. Ford who love and cherish freedom.