25498 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 By Mr. STGERMAIN: Vania, Mr. WARE, Mr. WILLIAMS, and By Mr. RIEGLE: H.R. 9489. A bill to provide for the inclu­ Mr. PETTIS) : H.J. Res. 679. Joint resolution, a. national sion of emergency power equipment in fed­ H.R. 9497. A bill to amend title 38 of the education policy; to the Committee on Edu­ erally assisted multifamily housing fac111ties United States Code to increase the monthly cation and Labor. which are designed for occupancy in whole or rates of disab111ty and death pension and By Mr. BRAY: substantial part by the elderly, and to au­ dependency and indemnity compensation, H. Con. Res. 273. Concurrent resolution thorize Federal loans to finance the provision and for other purposes; to the Committee on expressing the sense of the Congress that the of such equipment for those fac111ties; to the Veterans' Affairs. Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Committee on Banking and Currency. By Mr. DORN (for himself, Mr. HEINz, Judicial Salaries omit recommendations for H .R. 9490. A bill to amend title 38, United Mr. SPENCE, Mr. BEARD, Mr. RUPPE, pay increases for Members of Congress in its States Code, to provide for the payment of Mr. ESCH, Mr. BROWN of Michigan, report to the President on the results of its certain preservice educational loans made by Mr. VANDER JAGT, Mr. LENT, Mr. 1973 salary studies; to the Committee on Post veterans; to the Committee on Veterans' Af­ SANDMAN, Mr. STEIGER Of Arizona., Office and Civil Service. fairs. Mr. DoN H. CLAUSEN, Mr. McDADE, By Mr. YOUNG of Illinois: By Mr. STEELE (for himself and Mr. Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. NICHOLS, Mr. H. Con. Res. 274. Concurrent resolution re­ McKINNEY): BURKE of Massachusetts, Mr. PREYER, questing the President to proclaim the 14th H.R. 9491. A b1ll to authorize the disposal Mr. BOWEN, Mr. BREAUX, Mr. MAR­ day in (Jctober of each year as "National of approximately 258,700 short tons of copper TIN of North Carolina, and Mr. Friendship Day"; to the Committee on the from the national stockpile and the supple­ DAVIS of South Carolina): Judiciary. mental stockpile; to the Committee on H.R. 9498. A bill to amend title 38 of the By Mr. FISH: Armed Services. United States Code to increase the monthly H. Res. 501. Resolution to establish a. con­ By Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina (for rates of disab111ty and death pension, and gressional internship program for secondary himself, Mr. LANDRUM, Mr. DORN, and dependency and indemnity compensation, school teachers of government or social Mr. MANN): and for other purpo: es; to the Committee on studies in honor of President Lyndon Baines H.R. 9492. A bill to designate the Cha.t­ Veterans' Affairs. Johnson; to the Committee on House Ad­ tooga River in the States of North Carolina., By Mrs. HECKLER of Massachusetts ministration. South Carolina, and Georgia. as a. component (for herself and Mr. KocH): By Mr. GUDE (for himself, Mr. FRASER, of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Sys­ H.R. 9499. A blll to amend the Consumer Mr. BRADEMAS, Ms. BURKE of Califor­ tem, and for other purposes; to the Com­ Credit Protection Act to prohibit discrim­ nia., and Mr. PODELL) ; mittee on Interior and Insular Aft'a.trs. ination on the basis of sex or marital status H. Res. 502. Resolution expressing the sense By Mr. VANDER JAGT (for himself, in the granting of credit, and to make cer­ of the House that the U.S. Government Mr. SYMINGTON, Mr. RINALDO, and tain changes with respect to the civil Ua.­ should seek agreement with other members Mr. STUCKEY) ; bllity provisions of such act; to the Com­ of the United Nations on prohibition of H.R. 9493. A b1ll to amend the Public mittee on Banking and Currency. weather modification activity as a weapon of Health Service Act to expand the authority By Mr. PARRIS (for himself and Mr. war; to the Committee on Foreign Aft'airs. of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metab­ BROYHILL Of Virginia.) ; olism, and Digestive Diseases in order to ad­ H .R. 9500. A blll to authorize and provide vance the national attack on diabetes; to the for the construction of the 4-Mile Run proj­ Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ ect, in the city of Alexandria and Arllngton MEMORIALS merce. County, Va..; to the Committee on Public Under clause 4 of rule XXII, By Mr. WHITEHURST: Works. By Mr. YOUNG of Illinois: 284. The SPEAKER presented a memorial · H.R. 9494. A bill to provide for the con­ of the Legislature of the State of California., tinued supply of petroleum products to in­ H.R. 9501. A bill to amend the Occupa­ tional Safety and Health Act of 1970; to the relative to extension of the Federal Emer­ dependent oil marketers; to the Committee gency Employment Act of 1971 and various on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Committee on Education and Labor. !i.R. 9502. A bill to amend the Controlled summer youth opportunities programs; to · By Mr. WIGGINS: the Committee on Education and Labor. H.R. 9495. A b1ll to amend section 1951 of Substances Act to permit the referral to drug title 18 of the United States Code; to the counseling or treatment programs of certain Committee on the Judiciary. first-time marihuana offenders and to remove certain age restrictions against the expung­ By Mr. CHARLES WILSON of Texas PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS (for hi.In.!elf and Mr. SAYLOR) : ing of certain official records; to the Commit­ H.R. 9496. A b1ll to amend the Outer Con­ tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Under clause 1 of rule xxn, private tinental Shelf Lands Act and to authorize H.R. 9503. A bill to provide a. penalty for bills and resolutions were introduced and the Secretary of the Interior to regulate the the robbery or attempted robbery of any narcotic drug from any pharmacy; to the severally referred as follows: construction and operation of deepwater port By Mr. ANDERSON of California.: fac1llties; to the Committee on Interior and Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 9504. A bill to amend the Internal H.R. 9506. A blll for the rellef of Shigeru Insular Aft'a.trs. Nakano; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. DORN (for himself, Mr. DAN Revenue Code of 1954 to raise the limitations on contributions by self-employed individ­ ByMr.GUDE: DANIEL, Mr. GETTYS, Mr. BROYHILL Of uals to certain retirement plans; to the Com­ H.R. 9507. A blll for the relief of James A. Virginia., Mr. EDWARDS Of Alabama, mittee on Ways and Means. Horkan; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. PRICE of Texas, Mr. MARTIN of H.R. 9505. A blll to amend the Internal By Mr. MARAZITI: Nebraska., Mr. BEVILL, Mr. BROYHILL Revenue Code of 1954 to provide relief to cer­ H.J. Res. 680. Joint resolution authorizing of North Carolina., Mr. SNYDER, Mr. tain individuals 65 or more years of age who the President to award the Legion of Merit ZioN, Mr. SMITH of Iowa., Mr. FLow­ own or rent their homes, through a. system to Dr. Emanuel M. Satulsky, ma.jcr, U.S. Army ERS, Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. COUGHLIN, Mr. of income tax credits and refunds; to the (retired): to the Committee on Armed ESHLEMAN, Mr. JOHNSON of Pennsyl- Committee on Ways and means. Services.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION The House passed, on June 26, 1973, councilor of the American Library Asso­ SAYS "THANK YOU" TO HOUSE OF H.R. 8877, a bill making fiscal year 1974 ciation and was instrumental in obtain­ REPRESENTATIVES appropriations for library programs at ing the unanimous adoption of the the following levels: Library Services "Thank You" resolution. HON. SPARK M. MATSUNAGA and Construction Act-$58,709,000; title The full text of the resolution follows: n of the Elementary and Secondary Ed­ RESOLUTION EXPRESSING APPRECIATIOK 01' OF HAWAII ucation Act-$90,000,000; title n-a and MEMBERS OF U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES b-of the Higher Education Act-$15,- Whereas fiscal year 1974 begins on July 1, Monday, July 23, 1973 000,000. 1973; and The House-passed biii would make pos­ Whereas the President's budget recom­ Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. Speaker, the mends zero funding in FY 1974 for all li­ American Library Association, at its re­ sible the continuation of essential library services for millions of American citizens, brary programs authorized by the Library cent annual conference in Las Vegas, Services and Construction Act, title n of unanimously adopted a resolution thank­ the American Library Association said the Elementary and Secondary Education ing the u.s. House of Representatives, in its resolution, which was forwarded to Act, and title U-A&B of the Higher Educa­ and particularly the members of the me by Prof. Yukihisa Suzuki of the Uni­ tion Act; and House Appropriations Committee, for . versity of Hawaii Graduate School of Li­ Whereas the United States House of Rep­ saving federally funded librarY programs. brary studies. Professor Suzuki 1s a resentatives on June 26 passed the tAll, H.R. July 23, 1913 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25499 S877, ma'kln-g ftscal yeaT approprlatiol1S for In this conn.ecti.Bn .I urge a thoughtful costs or public -preferen.ces. It has begun to the Departments of Labor, and Heat'th. E~u­ reading of toa.a,y'.s lead edltorialln the realize It cannot plunge ahead guided solely catlon. and Welfare; and ' W.all Street Journal: by technicians .as single-minded .as the EPA Wh~rem; the House-passed bill woultl ap­ stair .has been. propriate FY 1"974 funds for the Ubrary pro­ There have been penreptible signs that grams at the roUowlng levels: L1brar.7 'Serv­ Com;tdertng the issues that we ~ :st.ake. EPA haa resisted the idea of a full-blown .-e­ ices and Construction Act-$58;'709,000; tltle it is encoura.gln.g to .see Congress moving l'leW by the N~tional Academy; it under­ II of the Elementaey" and Secondary Educa­ toward .a thorough renew of ~ air-quality standably senses a dlmlnution of its own tion Act-$90,000.'000; title n-A&B or the and. a11to-emiss1Dn standards tha.t IIPU"e set p·ower. Yet an indepenuent analysis 1s clearly IDg'her Education Act-4U5,'000,000; AS a l'esult of tbe 19YO Clean AU- Ae.t.. 'Ib:e a prerequisite to the public's a.cceptance uf Now therefore be it resolved that The Senate Public W arks Committee has :asked the 2nrlronmental clean-up costs it wlll be Amerlca.n Llbrar.y Association expresses Us the National Academy :c! Sciences to An.alyze -,.,Sited to 'bear• .If the Academy~ review .eon­ appreciation .and gratitude to the Appropria­ existing da.t.a .and .offer .a short-term evalua­ eludes -that current requ1remen1ls really -ara tions Committee of the United St.ates House tion by Oetobel' .and to make a i.onger term essential to healthy 'B.ir. we will at least have of Representati:ves.a.nd till the entire House or study of health efi"ects data .b7 the eml of some CG>nflden.ce 'the hnge costs will not ·be Representatives for its long-standing support next year~ It o.n.ly rem.ains !Dr Congress to w.as.te.d. or llbrarj' programs; .and approve the $3~5.000 the c.om.m.ittee has m­ ~ -as we thl.n'k far more llkcl.y. the A-cad­ "Be lt further resolved that both the Com­ quested for these :studies. emy"s prei1min1l.l"y study concludes tbat th-e Dll.ttee ll.lld the House of Representatives be Wlille there•.s no telllng what the Academy EPA and the l970 Act went o-ver.bol.rd, ther& espe1:1ally .commended.. .at this crucial time wlll eome up with. our fervent hope u that is yet t1me to a old the blunder that thl'e'&t­ when all library programs would otherwise its study :will el:arlfy &he distinction between en:s to .cost the nation dearly :and. u.nd1m:n1ne be .slated for extinction by the President's air sta.n.dar.ds ·that moe .a.bsol ul;e!J' n.ecessarr support for en:vlronmental improvement. budget. !Dr passing E.R.. 887'7. a .bill whi-ch regardless of cost. .and those that Are desir­ There i:s }"et time. though ot much. tar w.ould make possible the con tlnuation of -es­ able .but need to .be .ba!anced .a,g:ainst the Congress to make .a .mid-point correction Lu sentlalli.brary .services .!or mlllions of .Amerl­ enormous .costs and cultural upheav.als the the cmu:se we•ze on toward cleaner lllr~ can citizens. current stancl~ds oul:d require. ThJs liis­ tin.etion has been ma.de neither b7 the Con­ gress th.at wrote the 197D Act n.ar b.7 tbo ageneytnatadnllnW~edi~ THE FOOD INFLATIO PUBLIC :HEALTH AND CLEAN Am As a cesult, the automobile trulustry Is STANDARDS .belng rushed mto the dubious technology of eata.lytic eonvertens :as the only possi!Me ON. LOUIS C. WYMAN means of meeting the inta-tm standards :by BON. CHARLES A. YANIK the :autumn of 19"14. -The oil refining In­ OFDHIO OF NEW HAIIlPSHm£ dustry is .being farced. 't(t a total oonversl.on .IN TliE HOUSE O.F REPRESENTATIVES ii:N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to unlea-ded. gasoline. And dozens !lf citiea are .being forced to consider And 1mplemen1 Monday, Jul11 23, 1'97"3 Mo:ndaJJ. July 23. l!J73 tu.mc control .and gas rationing sehemes Mr. V.ANIK. Mr• .Speaker.. yesterday. WYMAN. that would abruptly alter life-style pat­ Mr. Mr. Speaker. a Senate terns. commerce and transportation.. All this America•.s furemost architect cl food in­ committee-Public the Works-wB.Ilts- 1s be in~ required to meet .standards tor wh!c.h flation-Secretary Earl Butz-predicled anaJ,yze National Academy of Sciences to scientific ami technteal Just1:fi..ca.ticm is that higher retail prices wDuld "in effect"'~ the Clean Air Act----1970--standa.rds in astanJ.sh.in,gl.Y tlrln... ration chicken, pork, and other foods. relation to public health and necessity There's no question the standards should The Seeret-ary completely overlooks the be high enough to insure th.at the air Amer­ &nd advise Congress as to their required market disruption and general price level. The price tag for this is said to be icans breathe has no serious impact on their health. rt s also desirable that the air -around escalation which 1ollowed the Soviet in ~xcess of $300.'000. us be as esthetlca.Uy pleasing as is p:ractic.al­ wheat transaction. ln regard to iielcls other than .auto­ ly pnssible. But it 1s not just as nbvious th.at In the indisputable chronology of mobile emissions there may be merit in we, as a nation, w.ant to guarantee that there events, domestic food price infi.ation be­ this proposal and .a ratinnale for the be absolutely no marginal consequences from gan with the Soviet wheat deal Jmd lbe time delay involved-October at the ear­ emisslons from aut-os or 1'rom stationary devaluation of the American dollar liest. But fOT automobiles it is perfecfJy source-s. which reduced the price of American food clear, and· EPA itself has confirmed the This, thoug'h. is what tbe En"Th"onmental to foreigners. fact. that the emis!:>ions requirements 1n Protection Agency songh't to do in setting the national ambient air -standm-ds. A:s it -reads The American farmer eannot expect the Clean Air Act oi 19'70 are unnecessar­ its congressional mandate, EPA believes lt that the present foreign sales advantage ily high. must insure that the sickest man in Chi-ca:go resulting from devaluatither words, the EPA has :strung to­ gether a 'SeTies of worst-case scenarios, added pute. However.. the foreign ea-pacity to those parts of the Nation having genlrine purchase -at or1d market prices will sub­ emissions-related pollution pr.oblems ln safety factors 11.t eaeb point, multiplied the factors together, and has come out with side unless there 1s a permanent infusion that genuinely harm the pub1lc. In a ma­ numbers that may not bave been -attained of taxp~y~r-ml,Pported subsidies, loam;. jority of the geographical area .of the ln par'lls ~-r the G1S.rden of Eden. We would credits or gifts.. United States there is no need io.r this expect the same Tesult 1f Congress gave tm, American agriculture must realize that in terms of public necessity. Pentagon an order to Insure against nuctear its clUTent .flush of io.rei,gn sales is de­ For more than a year I have hadpe:Qd­ attack 1md a blank ebeck to pay for tbe program; we would have missiles in e-very veloping a permanent breach with the ing in C-ongress a bill to reduce tire emis­ American domestic market. The Ameri­ sions requirements for automobiles to a back yard and :a boone -shelter 1n every base­ ment. The only difference we t:a.n see 1s that ean consumer is becoming angry 'and level that will protect the public health, Pent.a.gon costs :aTe borne directly by the tax­ thoroughly disillusioned with intolerable conserve gas and oil, and help with va1"i­ payer; the EPA -edicts are bome ind1reet1y prices for food w.hich leads to individual ou.s and sundry major problems such ·as. b7 the eonsumer. family decisions to accept voluntary of balance payments which is directly The resolution 1'or .revlew by the at1ona! rationing-to eat less-because of ~h attributable in large measure to th~ 1:>fl Academy of Smenees ts co-sponsored .by Sen­ prices. we must purchase abroad. This bill ator .Muskle~ who :alithored. t.be i9'1D Ac£;.; · Chairman Jennings Randolph of 1he .sena;te This priee rationing policy will develop should b~ heard and reported without a permanent Rnd lasting schism between delay_ .is no need for a PUblic Works Cmmnittee has .been. aggres­ further There slv_e in moving lt alen_g. Congress has recog­ the fal"mer and the Alneriean consumer. Nallinal A;ea:demy .study to report the nized 't'hat t.11e ;stand.ards are or hnge eco-­ The consumer will retaliate by eliminat- obvious to:o late to :void more co:stly nomic and po1it'lea1 lmpmtam:e. -and should tng an farm subsldles, au farm supports., waste. :n:ot be set in -a manner 11b:at totatty ignores· . ,: and an taxpayer-supported credits and 25500 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 loans for foreign sales. The consumer in­ Vegas so often that their flights were referred pulled down close to $100,000 in fees from dignation will multiply with price escala­ to as the "Teamsters' Las Vegas Commuter the Fund, although it is not certain just tion and the traditional mutual support Airlines." On one day, a Teamsters jet was what his function is. It is known, though, relationship between farmer and con­ observed landing, but no passengers got out that he is close to Dorfman, and is consid::. after it parked. The reason for this was that ered extremely reliable. Perhaps it is for these sumer will disappear. the plane had been only sent in to deliver reasons that Baron has recently been ap­ There is a depreciating validity to the Frank Fitzsimmons' goU clubs! pointed as "special consultant" to the Fund. argument that foreign agricultural sales THE POPULARrrY OF PALOMAR AIRPORT Baron is officially replacing Dorfman in this will provide a permanent and lasting La Costa Country Club, financed by over capacity. It is believed that this public re­ method of aiding the balance of pay­ $50 million from the Pension Fund, was placement occurred because of Dorfman's ments. In the past year, foreign agricul­ originally developed by associates of organ­ recent kickback and fraud convictions, and tural sales have risen to $11 billion. How­ ized crime figures. Although it is easily acces­ is merely window-dressing. Overdrive's moni­ ever, these same foreign agricultural sible by commercial airlines because of near­ toring of Dorfman's activities of late shows by Lindbergh Field in San Diego, many clearly that Dorfman is still the key man sales have contributed to domestic mar­ with regard to Fund loans. ket disruptions which have cost the persons (like Allen Dorfman, Detroit Mafia figure Tony Giacalone and other criminals) Some of their talk centered around the fi­ American consumer over $20 billion prefer to come into Palomar Airport via pri­ nancial situation of Kahn. For a number of in increased domestic prices. The bal­ vate plane. The reason is simple: the airport years, Kahn, together with Morris Shenker, ance-of-payments advantage was com­ 1s not under the control of the Federal the financial genius and lawyer for organized pletely "washed out" by domestic price Aviation Administration. Therefore, the strict crime figures, has borrowed well over $100 million from the Pension Fund for various escalation which will in turn have to be logging of the aircraft which land and depart ventures. added to the cost of all American pro­ is not required. Palomar air traffic controllers Later on, the meeting broke up, and the duction. Food price infiation results in usually log in an aircraft's identification trio went to the country club. There, Dorf­ wage inflation which will raise the price number when it first makes radio contact man had some talks with Fund trustees AI with the tower. However, if the plane lands of American manufactured products in or takes off without making radio contact Matheson and Don Peters, Kahn, meanwhile, the world market, thereby decreasing ex­ with the tower, there is no record that it was had a "meeting" to attend. ports and aggravating the balance of ever at the airport. In addition, if the con­ MORE MONEY FOR KAHN AND SHENKER payments. trollers are busy handling a number of Kahn met Shenker, and the two went to the The administration policies of volun­ planes, they do not even log in all the planes Seville Room of the country club. Gathered tary food rationing by high prices must which do call ln. This was observed a num­ there were various Fund trustees. Much of result in a taxpayer-consumer insistence ber of times with Teamsters aircraft; par­ the discussion at this meeting concerned the for the rationing of agricultural subsi­ ticularly on :flights to Las Vegas. $150 million which Kahn and Shenker had Two planes (both jets) which brought in borrowed for a land development project dies, loans, credits, and the gifts which Teamsters officials and their henchmen are called Penasquitos; and which is located al­ were employed over the past 40 years worth noting. One is a DH 125 Hawker-Sid­ most right next to La Costa. At present, the to stabilize agriculture and farm income. deley, registered to the Union Insurance delinquency of these Eeries of loans is seri­ It is incredibly stupid to provide tax­ Agency, 8550 West Bryn Mawr, Chicago. ous, even considering the lax, haphazard payer subsidized credits for export sales Union Insurance 1s controlled by AllenDorf­ rules of the Fund. Kahn and Shenker, -it which boost the prices we must pay at man, and it handles hundreds of millions ·or seems, want even more money pumped into home. dollars of Teamsters business. It is also this project. Also discussed was another worth pointing out that the Central States Kahn-Shenker scheme: the purchase of the Pension Fund is located at the same address Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas with money from as Union Insurance. the Fu.nd. TEAMSTERS PENSION FUND AND Although the purchase of the Dunes seems ORGANIZED CRIME DORFMAN, SINATRA AND THE FUND probable, it may well be that this additional The other plane is a 12-seat (plus bar and Fund loan in Nevada will encounter more ~d) Grumman Gulfstream. It is registered problems than the Fund trustees realize. As HON. SAM STEIGER to the Trustees of the Central State Pension reported last month, a number of Dunes ex­ OF ARIZONA Fund, 8550 West Bryn Mawr, Chicago. Over­ ecutives are under federal indictment for drive has discovered, though, that the Fund IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES skimming profits out of the gambling pro­ does not own the plane. It has been leased ceeds prior to their being counted !or income Monday, July 23, 1973 !rom Union Insurance Agency since May tax purposes. But in addition to that, Over­ of this year. Union, it has been learned, drive has learned that one or more Dunes ex­ Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, bought the plane for $3 million from Frank ecutives has gotten "careless," and as a re­ I would like to call your attention to an Sinatra (The reason Union paid $3 million sult, the ms is expected to move in with article which appeared in the September for a used plane when a new one costs the criminal prosecutions. 1972 issue of the magazine Overdrive. same amount is a question which has not been answered). When not on secret Team­ JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION The article is entitled "Teamsters Meet­ But that is minor compared to what is Endorsing Nixon Is Front for Pension sters "business," the plane 1s based at Pal­ iilg Waukee Airport in Wheeling, Illlnois, a coming up shortly. Overdrive has discov­ Fund Schemes" and is authored by Jim Chicago suburb. ered that the Justice Department's Organized Drinkhall. Since this plane is registered to the Fund, Crime ·strike Force has begun a massive in­ The article follows: one might suppose that it is used for Pen­ vestigation into Pension Fund loans in Ne­ JuSTICE DEPARTMENT'S ORGANIZED CRIME sion Fund business. But if so, then why vada to determine whether enough evidence STRIKE FORCE BEGINS MASSIVE INVESTIGA• would it have come into Palomar Airport can be obtained to prove that kickbacks were TION INTo NEVADA PENSION FUND LOANS from out of state at least 25 times between made to obtain the loans. Of special interest to the· investigators, according to informa­ (By Jim Drlnkhall) the beginning of this year and August 12? One such trip just happened to coincide with tion already obtained through a probe con­ MEETING OF TEAMSTERS AND OTHER CRIMINALS the "Tournament of Champions" at La Costa ducted by Overdrive, are the "curious cir­ overdrive's investigation has revealed that in April. GoU games have not been known to cumstances" involving the money that has over 60 top members of the Teamsters Union, be too important for the welfare of the gone into Circus Circus. Dorfman has jetted organized crime figures and other twlllght members, though the exercise might help into Las Vegas more than once to keep the operators had gathered for the purpose of Fitzsimmons lose some fat. hotel-casino afioat in the face of ms action. discussing various schemes involving the While the Teamsters Executive Board was His last visit there was the weekend after Central States Pension Fund. Included in meeting with Nixon at the Western White the La Costa meeting, when he appeared for this assorted grab-bag of characters were em­ House in San Clemente, another type of the opening of the hotel. bezzlers, bribers, kickback artists, ex-con­ meeting was being held back at nearby La _Of interest to a number of people was the victs, and other felons. The IBT's endorse­ Costa. attendance at the La Costa gathering of James R. Hoffa's son, who is also employed ment of the President was decided prior to MEETINGS AT LA COSTA the La Costa meeting; in fact, it was made in more than one capacity with the Union, when Nixon agreed to spring Hoffa from the There, on the grounds of the country club, and has been tied into business deals with Dorfman, AI Baron and Irvin Kahn were Dorfman. jug. The only member of the Executive Board engaging in a two-hour whispered meeting. who didn't agree to the action of the rest was The sight of three grown men huddled to­ VALLEY STEEL AND THE FUND Harold Gibbons, who would have been Being related to Hoffa provides no small dumped from the Teamsters hierarchy long gether In broad daylight and whispering to each other would be comical 1f it were not benefits. Hoffa's daughter, for example, 1s ago except for his involvement with many of for their backgrounds and the subjects under married to Robert Crancer, the son of the these men in various shadowy deals. consideration. owner of Valley Steel Products Company in When not conspiring among themselves, St. Louis. Be~ween 1963 and 1967, Valley bor­ they spent their time on the goU course and THE NEW "SPECIAL CONSULTANT'' rowed over $12 million from the Pension at other activities, including numerous trips A1 Baron Is a relatively .new name with the Fund. A recent check of Fund records indi­ to Las Vegas. The Teamsters jet aircraft Fund, primarily because he has been in the cates that they still owe the Fund almost $7 parked at nearby Palomar Airport went to background of its activities. . In 1971, Baron million; Ju~y 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25501 You can understand more about Valley While the Detroit News gives a generally The fateful accident which took the life Steel from an incident which took plaCe in balanced coverage of "Who Is Stealing How of James V. Smith deprives us not only 1966. Toward the end of the ·year, Local 21 Much In The Teamsters Union," the same of a friend, but a truly· great American. negotiated a contract for Valley's 103 owner­ can't be said for the Sun or the Unton operators. It contained practically rio in­ Leader. crease in benefits for the operators, so they As detailed last month, the publisher of turned it down, 103 to 0, then voted 98 to 5 the Las Vegas Sun, Hank Greenspun, ob­ WISCONSIN . ATTORNEY GENERAL for a strike, on November 11. The same pro­ tained (and later repaid) a $500,000 loan WARREN COMMENTS ON VOTER posal was submitted again, and on Decem­ from the Fund, although he had trouble REGISTRATION ber 1, it too was turned down, 76 to 18. Ac­ keeping up the payments. cording to truckers who were there at the Prior to the Union Leader's running the time, orders came directly from Hoffa that Hoffa series, an interesting sequence of HON. GLENN R. DAVIS under no circumstances were the owner-oper­ events occurred. One was the reward offered ators to go out on strike. They were told to several years ago by William Loeb, the pub­ OF WISCONSIN ratlfy the agreement, or else. Through a com­ lisher. He offered $100,000 reward for evi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bination of "pressures" from the company dence which would lead to Hoffa's release Monday, July 23, 1973 and Local 21, the truckers gave in and ac­ from prison. A concern for justice, one is led cepted the agreement. to believe; but Overdrive has uncovered in­ Mr. DAVIS of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, NIXON ENDORSEMENT formation which shows that Loeb was either at a time when the Committee on House paying tribute to the Teamsters for services Administration has under consideration While various criminals connected with rendered, or was merely acting as a puppet. the Fund were conducting business as usual, the so-called post card registration bill, William Loeb, Overdrive has learned, it is worthwhile to consider the practical the public was being shown only the side borrowed over $2 million from the Central which appeared respectable. Nixon was of­ States Pension Fund ($2,082,656, to be effects of this legislation. Attorney Gen,. ficially endorsed by the International, but for exact). These loans were made back in 1963 eral Robert Warren of Wisconsin has ex­ the dubious value of that, the price he paid and 1965. Yet just recently, Overdrive has pressed his reservation in an analytical seems exorbitant, not to mention the fact obtained documents showing that Loeb still manner, and I believe his comments war­ that it indicates the depths of Nixon's greed owes the Fund $1,500,000. Some people might rant the consideration of the Members and corruption. say that Loeb's actions paint an interesting of the House: HQW NIXON SOLD OUT picture of his dedication to fairness and the COMMENTS BY WISCONSIN ATTORNEY GENERAL Since Fitzsimmons and the gang agreed to truth. support the President, these incidents have The officials of the Teamsters Union, and As an elected official, I readily ·agree with occurred: especially those men who manipulate the the basic tenets of the proposed S. 352, the Hoffa was given a presidential pardon. The Central State Pension Fund, will always Voter Registration Act-that is, the need to terms of his release are sufficiently vague to strive to give the appearance of honesty, extend the voting franchise to all eligible cause some concern among Justice Depart­ integrity and respectablllty. But behind that Americans and, thereby, to seek to ensure the ment officials. There is a real question about thin veil, one will always discover the sick­ fullest possible participation in the election who will have authority over him after next ening stench of corruption. Attempting to process. March and if, in fact, anyone will. Hoffa has give respectability to these men is like put­ The maintenance of a representative and indicated to several people that he is plan­ ting perfume on a -pig. responsive government at all levels demands ning to get right back in control of the that we make every effort to encourage citi­ Union. zen participation in the affairs of govern­ The Justice Department has stated that it ment. Studies exist which suggest that in ·some will not pro3ecute one of Frank Fitzsimmons' MEMORIAL TO THE LATE JA.t'\omS V. sons, Richard, for misuse of funds. Informa­ instances in the past difficulties imposed by tion given by the Labor Department to the SMITH registration laws have, in fact, precluded par­ Justice Department indicated that Richard, ticipation in the election decision making the recording secretary for Local 299 in De­ process for cet;tain segments of the popula­ troit; had allowed his wife and two daughters tion. To the extent that this has occurred, HON. ED JONES we must seek to effect change. to charge more than $1,500 worth of gasoline OF TENMESSEE on Union credit cards. Richard himself was However, with respect to the practical said to have charge:! clothes for himself the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ramifications of S. 352, I have certain res­ ervations. same way. A spokesman for the Justice De­ Monday, July 23, 1973 partment, however, said that "what the Labor The bill changes the function of voter reg­ Department gave us was a bunch of assump­ Mr. JONES of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, istration from a responsibility traditionally tions, and you can't take assumptions to it was with great sadness that I heard left to the states to a federal one. In the court." He further stated that no one in the the news of the untimely death of my process, it establishes a new and costly fed­ higher echelons of the Justice Department good friend, the Honorable James V. eral bureaucracy to administer provisions of ever knew of the case, and that the decision the bill. This comes at a time when there is Smith. a general demand for decentralization of not to prosecute wasn't made by political As a Member of this body from Okla­ appointees but by car~r lawyers within the government and the return of power to the Department. One Justice Department official homa and later as the Administrator of states. This also comes at a time when gov­ who is noted for his honesty and accuracy the Farmers Home Administration, Jim ernment spending demands the closest scru­ has told Overdrive the same thing. He also served his country with distinction and tiny. added that he believed that if there had been honor. I knew him personally for many Furthermore, there is little In the way of a case against the younger Fitzsimmons, and years and always had a deep respect and convincing evide:1ce to Justify the conclu­ that if it had come to the attention of higher sion that passage of this particular blll admiration for him. would, in fact, achieve its purported objec­ offic~als, it most likely would have been dropped. A short time before I first came to Con­ t! ve, which is an Increase in voter participa- A Nixon-sponsored bill which would have gress, Jim took over the position of Ad­ tion. . For example, in states· where no prereg­ prevented major strikes in the transportation ministrator at the Farmers Home Ad­ ministration, and there iS no question istration is required or where voting coupons industry was suddenly disowned by Nixon, have been Ul)ed in the past, voter partici­ giving its chance of passage the kiss of death. that his service in that capacity proved pation percentages for federal elections do There is little doubt among those fam111ar to be of great benefit to the people of the not differ significantly from those of other with the situation that Nixon's support was district I represent. FHA funding dou­ states. withdrawn solely because the Teamsters were bled under his leadership and these addi­ A Census Bureau survey conducted after against it. tional funds worked to the advantage of the 1968 election to determine the extent of NEWSPAPERS AND FUND LOANS rural Americans. voter participation and the reasons for non­ Adding strength to the phony image of Jim Smith was devoted to young peo­ participation concluded that more than hal! respectability which the Teamsters are des­ ple, and he worked tirelessly to help of those not registered did not register be­ perately attempting to foster are news­ young people interested in farming The cause they were not interested, never got papers like the Las Vegas in Las Vegas, around to registering, or disliked politics. Future Farmers of America was one of Of the remainder, only 13.5 percent listed and the Manchester Union Leader in Man­ his favorite organizations, and he.gave a chester, New Hampshire. Both papers re­ as reason for their lack of participation a great deal of time and .effort to its pro·­ cause which might in some way have been cently reprinted a three-part series of an grams called "Building Our American altered by mail registration. int~rview with Hoffa and his· views on prison Communities" which has as its goal the Since the post~ard registration bill does refo;rm which ran 1n the Detroit News. The not make the use of postcards mandatory for ~ebuilding of a vigorous rural America. P-ic,ture Hoffa paints of hlmse~ in the inter­ state and local elections, the bill could lead view is that of Jimmy th.e Reformer, Pro­ Mr. Speaker, I extend my deepest sym­ to the need to maintain dual registration tector of the Downtrodden and One .Gon­ pathy to his family and loved ones, for lists at the local level. One list would have cerned for Justice for All. this is certainly a trying time for them. to be maintained for postcard registered in- 25502 EX-TENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 dividuals eligible to vote only in federal elec­ N<>w" theref~ we, Amerlca.ns f.or Free­ actually increase slightly to $582.8 million. tions and the other for those who registered dom of Captive Nations, assembled in the But many doctors !.eel that the figures mask in person and. were, therefore, eligible for Fr.eedom RaUy at the Hungarian Freedom an alarming change in direction that will all elections. Localities would be f<>roec.t to FJ,ghters' Monument, MacArthur Park, Los have a long-range -effect. The Administration Drovide two sets of ballots or voting machines Angeles, California this fourteenth day of is actually budgeting $460.6 milllon for con­ ~n election day. July, 1.973, tinued funding of research already under Furthermore, the bill noises the likelihood Resolve, to join those just demands of the wary; the $122.2 million that is left for new cf numerous postcard registrants facing !rus­ Baltic States, Cuba, and all formerly free na­ research projects is $85 mlllion less than in t ration on election day upon discovery that. tions of Europe and Asia, which h.a.ve been 1.972. As a result of that reduction, the Na­ they were ineligible to vote in any but a fed­ enslaved by the Communist World Con­ tional Cancer Institute's allocation for new eral election. The possibility for confusion spiracy, led by the Kremlin Mob. research is being -chopped from $32 mlllion would seem to be especially likely in cases of We further call on -all Americans who up­ t:> $24 million. Yoters seeking to record a change of address hold the _Bill of Rights. to never recognize The alarm llas also been sounded at the who might be tempted to use the postcard the Soviet domination of the Baltic States, nation's medical :schools_, which count on the as a convenient means of reregistering. Cub.a, East-Central Europe, Balkan, and Government for almost 50% o! their '()perat­ However, since postcard registration ap­ Asian Countries. in-g budgets; in the new budget, they will plied only to 'federal elections, postcard use We call on all Americans to never condone get 15% less money next 1iscal year than would, in effect, disenfranchise the voter in words or even thoughts any summit meet­ this, and 25 % less than they had h.oped for. from all state .and local elections. ing, treaty declaration. or tacit understand­ The University oi Washington's medical Placing the Voter Registration Adminlstra­ ing which promotes Ol' acknowle:tges the school, for one, stands to lose at least tion 1n the Bureau of the Census might ul­ subjugation of ou.r sisters and brothers. $7,000,000 in federal grants. As a result, it is timll.tely undermine and compromise the We call on all America.ns to promote uni­ cutting back on its trainln.g of nurses and reputation of any ag.ency which bas, in the versal refusal of the cruel pollution o! hu­ pharma-cists, and may lose 100 faculty mem­ past, enjoyed widespread public confidence. man minds and of the brutal denial of per­ bers. The University of Pennsylvania. School Politicizing the Census Bureau would in­ sonal and national human rlghts, as exempli­ of Medicine _plans to tncrease tuition by 6 %, crease the likelihood that yet another public fied by the imperio-colonialist policies of even though more ~han half o! Its student agency would be subjected to the publtc Soviet Russia. body now needs financial assistance to get skepticism and mistrust directed toward We .call on all Americans to stand for an through school. A study by the Association many aspects of government today. unbreakable peace through the ()()Operation of American Medical Colleges predicts that Finally, the creation of the Voter Reg­ of free states with equal rights. Such states U.S. medical schools may have to discharge istration Administration with its potential to may develop their own cultural and self­ as many as 1,400 faculty members unless maintain a national voter registration list realizing lives to the benefit of all mankind, additional funds become available. also raises the ugly _possibility of a national in contrast to their present oppression by an Cuts in research funds will also have a di­ administration using such a list tor personal inhuman, genocidal, .and ethnocidal Soviet rect effect on patient care in many com­ political advantage. system. munities. The University of Michigan_, which At a time when Americans earnestly seek will lose $700,000 in general research grants, new safeguards to prevent corrupt campaign is terminating a research project that has practices, it would seem most unwise to pro­ SLOWDOWN ON RESEARCH provided drug treatment 'for patients with vide such obvious potential for political cancer of the colon. When the reductions are abuse at the highest levels of government. fully effective, Children's Hospital Medical HON. JOHN BRADEMAS Center in Boston will lose half of its trainees 'OF INDIANA in pediatric cardiology; they are primarily CAPTIVE NATIONS AFFIRM supported by the Natmnal Heart and Lung RESOLVE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Institute. "We can't accept fewer patients," Monday, July 23, 1973 says the program's director Dr. Alexander _ Nadas, "so the quality of care must be af­ HON. WILUAM F. WALSH Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, I in­ fected." OF lfEW YORK sert in the RECORD the following article, Nada.s is even more -concerned about the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Slowdown on Research," published in long-range effect of the budget. "The fund­ the July 2, 1973~ Time magazine: ing cuts will make B. major impact on teach­ Monday, July 23, 1973 SLOWDOWN ON RESEARCH ing, on care and on research," he says. "It Mr. WALSH. Mr. Speaker, less than 2 will be years before we ean recoup. Once they Dr. Arthur Kornberg, Nobel laureate and turn the faucet off.. you cannot easily turn it weeks ago, 1,000 persons gathered in Stanford University professor of biochemis­ on again, because there will be nothing to MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, Calif., try~ who made that gloomy 1;tatement in come out.-'' to adopt a resolution and affirm their March before the House Subcommittee on COST EFFECTIVENESS Public Health and. Environment, was not resolve to rid the countries of Eastern Despite the nbviollS blow to nredical re­ Eur-ope of the yoke of communism. I exar;gerating. In its proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, the Nixon Ad­ search and care, the Administration has been think that resolution, adopted by a group ministration has drastically cut federal sup­ stoutly defending its budget slashes. Says of Hungarian Freedom Fighters on July port .for research projects, medical schools Dr. John Zapp, Deputy Assistant Secretary 14, is worthy of the attention of my col­ and hospitals. As a result, many doctors and of Health, Education, and. Welfare: -we are leagues: scientists fear that American medical re­ convinced that direct support of the training rea.roh-long pre-eminent 1n the world­ o! biomedical scientists for careers in re­ Whereas, Captive Nations Week was estab­ search is at this time an unnecessary and un­ lished 14 years ago by Public Law 1!6--90 of could be severely hobbled and perhaps set back by as much as a decade. pr-Oductive expenditure of public funds.n As the United States Congress, and the Administration sees it, the need for large It the budget proposals are approved_, the Whereas. at this year's 15th observance numbers of research .scientists has passed, little has changed sinCe last y~. except for ax will fall on a wide range of medical in­ and training too many more could lead to an Russian -a.ttempts to fi:nally abolish all re­ stitutions and programs. Two years ago, for oversupply. The Administration also believes example, the National Institute of General sistance to Soviet terror, not only in the sat­ that scarce federal funds should be used to elUte colonies and the Soviet Union but also Medical Sciences, whlch supports a variety apply knowledge that is already in hand, and abroad, and of projects in the field -of genetics, had a that those who seek careers in research Whereas, on June 18th, 1973, an open letter budget of $28.3 mllllon for new research should pay for their own training. to visiting Party Chief Leonid I. Brezhnev grants; next year it wm get $5,000,000. Gen­ Doctors and medical researchers are gen­ was published in our capital by American eral research support grants, administered erally cynical about the cutbacks. Some see organizations speaking for Americans .of by the National Institutes of Health's Divi­ them as a form of revenge by President Nixon Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, and Polish de­ sion of Reserve Resources, have been cut on a scientific community that has largely · scent, and from $55.2 million to $17 million. Research opposed him politically. A handful attribute Whereas, stating the negation in East-Cen­ fellowships and training grants, essential to the new budget to simple shortsightedness. tral Europe of almost all principles and rights the training of medical researchers and in­ "Those guys in tlle White House must think contained in the Decla.ration of Human structors, are being phased out completely. they're never going to get sick," says a Man­ Rights, that letter called for removal of all Although funds for training totaled $185.5 hattan virologist. But most :medical men Soviet troops a.nd secret police fro:rn the :million in :fiscal 1972. the Administration 1s bla.m.e the slashes on the cost-accounting Soviet-exploited countries; an end to their asking for only $125.9 million next year, all mentality that now seems to p:reva.il at HEW. economic exploitation; and .assurance of the of it to honor commitments already made. Says Dr. James Watson. who won the Nobel right to emigrate to those Soviet .eltlzens, Once those now receiving fellowships com­ Prize for deciphering the structure of the residents, and political prisoners who desire plete their courses., the program will end. DNA molecule: "The thought that 'directed' to leave the Soviet Union, and On the face ef it. the funds for baste re­ and 'planned' research .should get us th~r.e Whereas. said letter called on L. I. Brezhnev search .seem to have held their own in the faster apparently s~ more and more obyi­ for the return of those oppressed countries Administration's new budget. In 1972 this ous to the legal accountant bosses of HEW. to freedom from Soviet military and ideologi­ "investigator-initiated'' ~search got $564.3 schoole-d. in the virtues of corporate planning cal domination, in liberty and justice; million; next year the amount proposed will sessions th.a.t have produced una.ssessable July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25503 successes like the Band-Aid and the Mus­ It is out of a concern for what may private schools belong. One of its main tang." happen to our youth in such programs functions seeins to be to hold workshops on such topics as the civil rights of teachers, In anticipation of the cutbacks, some in the schools that I commend my medical schools are appealing to state legis­ to open education, explorating the creative po­ latures for funds-thus far without notable colleagues the reading of this excellent tential of teachers, designing "social psycho­ success. Others are seeking private support article from the Bulletin: logical curriculum," implementing and man­ for research. Dr. Robert Felix, dean of the WHERE SoME OF THE MONEY GOES aging change in schools, identlfl.cation of St. Louis University School of Medicine, has In honor of spring we were determined to goals, development of Learning Activity devoted himself to hustling funds full time lead o:ff this month with a positive and con­ Packages for individualizing instruction, since his school lost about $1,000,000 of its structive article that would show the prom­ etc., etc. This cost $53.000 Federal funds in $11 million budget. "Now I know how a pros­ ise of better things to come in education. 1972 (more expected for '73), plus $50-$200 titute feels," he says. "But there's no way Unfortunately for that resolve we have been for each affiliated school. around it." reading the Winter 1973 issue of Kaletdo­ The Regional Early Childhood Education There still may be hope for Felix and his scope, published by the Massachusetts De­ and Resource Center, serving four towns, fellow deans. Congress has already passed an partment of Education. After seeing how the provides training to teachers which "wlll en­ omnibus health bill restoring five programs­ taxpayers' money is being spent for educa­ able them to implement child-centered, ac­ including hospital construction, regional tion, as reported in this publication, we tivity-oriented prograins for their classes." medical program, and public health and feel the urge-indeed, the necessity-to Unlike most of the descriptions in the book­ allied health training-that the Administra­ forego sweetness and light this month and let, this one includes an outside evaluation tion had tried t-o kill. Moreover, the measure do some pointing-with-alarm. and is frank enough to say that there is no passed by such an overwhelming margin (372 This publication describes how Massa­ significant dl:fference 1n the cogn:tive to 1 in the House; 72 to 19 in the Senate) chusetts spent some $4,800,000 !n 1972 (part achievement of the experimental open class­ that President Nixon last week quietly signed of it Federal, part local money) for Title m rooms set up by the Center and traditional it into law. Now Congress is trying to salvage projects under the Elementary and Second­ classrooms, although there is a difference in other health measures. The House, under the ary Education Act authorizett by Congress. the affective areas, where "definite patterns leadership of Representative Paul Rogers of You will recall that Title III makes federal [unnamed] have emerged." This one costs Florida, has passed a $415 million training grants to the states for innovative and ex­ $80,176 of Federal money, $42,874 local. and fellowship bill that is also expected to perimental projects in the schools or for Among the projects are several that are Win Senate approval. The House Appropria­ what the U.S. Office of Education calls "the nothing more than our old friend the Field tions Committee is attempting to restore all demonstration of creative solutions to a di­ Trip, disguised and prettied up but costing NIH items to or above the 1972 funding level versity of educational problems. ·• a good deal more than field trips of yester­ and reestablish the old ratio between new In 1972 there were 46 projects under Title year when the principal expense was apt to and ongoing research grants. If Congress m in Massachusetts. Some ot these projects be the cost of hiring the bus to get the kids succeeds in saving these programs, it can still are undoubtedly useful, especially those hav­ there. In Quincy there is Project LINC prevent both the lights in the laboratories ing to do With reading instruction, education (Learning in the Community), which gives and the luster of American medicine from for the gifted and the retarded, bilingual students "on-site experiences" in law offices, being dimmed. education, and experiments with the year­ city departments, banks, and businesses. round school. But the majority do not strike Cost: $51,184 and $4.200. us as being demonstrations of "creative In Springfield ECOS (Environmental Cen­ solutions." Most of them deal With those ter for Our Schools) provides an "inter­ THE ABUSE AND MISUSE OF THE vague and unfocused areas in which so many disciplinary environmental study program.'' educational reformers nowadays like to oper­ EDUCATION TAX DOLLAR in the city park, for fourth, fifth, and siXth ate: career development, "communication," graders. They take "discovery hikes," "learn humanities, human relations, open educa­ climbing skills," get involved in "a group HON. ROBERT J. HUBER tion, affective education-in areas, that is, exercise in survival," and have the benefit where subject matter and definite bodies of of that great learning experience, the picnic OF lloiiCHIGAN knowledge play a small part. We give below lunch. All this for $97,365 and $43,065. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thumbnail sketches of some of these hazy In Sturbridge there is a Three Dimensional projects as well as what they cost in 1972 in Monday, July 23, 1973 Project, which arranges for students in ten both federal and local funds. towns to visit the well-known Sturbridge Vil­ Mr. HUBER. Mr. Speaker, the Council At Danvers there is a project known as lage, a reconstructed farming community of for Basic Education is an excellent or­ Self-Direction Through Group Dynamics, the early 1800's. In the bad old days a teacher which includes a little of everything-''new would probably take her charges there and ganization which must be admired for its minicourses in group dynamics," "a com­ dedication to quality education. For use her mother wit to answer questions and bined physical education-group dynamics point out interesting aspects and lessons of many years, the council has given top approach," "humanities education;• ·•teach• the village. Now teachers are "trained" in priority to the importance of teaching ing awareness and coping with social learn­ workshops how to plan "a social science unit children the basic skills of reading and ing," "training in outdoor tasks and group using the community." $69,000 and $20,000 arithmetic. discussion skills." Cost: $75,000 in Feaeral buy this particular field trip. The council's monthly Bulletin keeps funds and $30,000 in local funds. Leaving field trips, we find that at Mon­ Operating from headquarters in Amherst tague there is a Curriculum of Affect for Re­ its readers abreast of the latest trends there is an Occupational Resource Center, in education. Unfortunately, the Bulletin sponsive Education (CARE, naturally) which which "seeks to promote creativity in career teaches "humanistic education" to children is often forced to report on a sad state of education." Paraprofessionals are trained in grades K-6. These five- to eleven-year­ affairs in education. A recent Bulletin whose main job seeins to be to hand out olds are encouraged to soul-searching by ask­ article reports on the nature of title m "occupational career kits" in 22 centers ing such questions as Who am I? Do I count? projects of the Elementary and Second­ around the state. The price tag; $69,431 Fed­ To whom do I belong? How do I relate? Am ary Education Act, which are currently eral and $172,225 local. I in charge of my own destiny or is all this At Medford there is a project called Arts operating in Massachusetts. being decided for me? (Yes, kiddies, it is for Intergroup Relations Education (AFIRE), being decided for you.) As costs go among To quote from the article: serving 11 districts. The K-8 curriculum these projects, this probing of youthful In 1972, there were 46 projects under Title combines "intergroup-interpersonal relations psyches comes fairly cheap, $43,040 and lli in Massachusetts ... Most of them deal and the visual and performing arts . . . $8,359. with those vague and unfocused areas in [and] deals with five issues of concern with The most sweeping objectives among those which so many educational reformers nowa­ respect to children: prejudices. groups, emo­ innovative programs is that describing Proj­ days like to operate; career development, tions, confiict, and people change." Cost: ect Adventure, operating in the Hamilton dis­ "communication", humanities, human rela­ $79,019 Federal, $33,000 local. trict: it "seeks to transmit a sense that life tions, open education, affective education in In Blllerica, An Experience with the New should be entered into fully, actively and areas, that is, where subject matter and Humanities (for 400 seventh-graders) em­ compassionately." This involves a commu­ definite bodies of knowledge play a small ploys "student;teacher rap sessions" and nity-based outdoor equipment center, out­ part. utilizes "the viewpoint of students within door adventure trips, a recycling program, the urgency of what's happening now." It is multi-disciplinary courses "which are uni­ I fear that this trend away from in­ entirely unclear as to what's happening now fied by the commitment to accomplish a tellectual areas toward those which con­ as far as any academic program is concerned, major task," and (inevitably) a series of cern our emotions may be reflected in but we are told that in meeting the "prob­ workshops for teachers. Cost of this Life­ future low achievement among our youth. lem-projects chosen by the students, re­ More-Abundant project $86,800 and $37,000. Given the sinking test scores in cities all source needs included materials from Eng­ O.::J.e is not only deprwsed by the nature across the country, it is with grave mis­ lish, social studies, music and art." The and cost of the projects but by the quality of project, we learn, "has replaced geography in givings that I view the programs o1fered the prose in which they are described. Surely the school curriculum." $29,100 Federal and the authors of these descriptions, writing in under title m of the Elementary and $62.500 local for this one. a combination of educanto, governmentese, Secondary Education Act as listed in the Then there is the Network of Innovative and the terminology of psychology or accompanying article. Schools, to which almost 100 public and psuedo-psychology, could be had up on 25504 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 charges of corrupting the language. Ja.rgml­ NASA ADAPTS FORMULAS TO LIFE words and p:taa.ses abound; feedback, .orien­ Century ancestol' to ever question the value of space exploitation, but then ponder this tation, group dynamics, up session, inter­ paragraph from commission report: group relations, communication. skills. a HON. OLmL TEAGUE "The committee ludged the pl'omises and Teaehem become resource persons, change­ offers of this mission to be impossible, vain _ agents, cadre members, facillta.tors. 'Those OF 'n:XAS who give children a list -of items to look for and worthy of rejection: that 1t 1s not proper IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an in nature class are called scavenger consult­ to favor a1fa.ir that rested on such weak ants. Kindergarten materials become manip­ Monday, July 23 .. 1973 foundations and whiCh appeared uncertain and ulatives. The people 1n these projects never impossible to any educated parson, how­ Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, ever little learning he might have." visit schools; lik-e celestial beings, they make each day the high technology programs That excerpt came from the report of the visitations. A task is never accomplished or of NASA are offering opportunities to Talavera Commission 1n Spain, 1491, consid­ earried out, it is .always implemented; noth­ help answer problems of pollution waste, ering a proposal made by someone called ing is ever examined or :searched for, but ex­ Christopher Columbus. plored. Things of which there are many are management, transportation, housing, always expressed in the combining multi­ and other issues of immediate impor­ form; multi-level, multi-media, multi-eth­ tance to all of us. nic. The degradatiun of the prose reaches its Bob Thomas, Today staffwriter, offers nadir when we are told that the task of one in a recent article, an interesting analy­ BOOM TIMES IN THE GULF team of teachers is to "define and prioritize sis of the Office of Technology Utiliza­ po3Slble areas for improvement." M:assachusetts, as we pointed out in the tion NASA and its contributions to mak­ ON. JAMES J. HOWNRD ing known to the public the contribu­ beginning of this article_. spent elose to $5,- F NEW JEKSET 000,000 1n .Federal and l-ocal funds in 1972 tions <>f space and its potential 'lor programs of this nature. Nationally, I commend the reading of this article IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $143.4 mlllion (in 1971) was budgeted for to my colleagues and the general public: Monday, JuZy 23., 19'13 Title ill programs. Are the Massachusetts NASA ADAPTS FORMULAS TO LIFE projects typical of projects in other states? Mr. HOWARD. Mr. Speaker~ the reli­ If so, the taxpayer has the right to ask if (By Bob Thomas) ance of the United States on the Middle -such programs a.re essential and to wonder if NASA did not (repeat NOT) invent Teflon. East has long been of common .accept­ there are not more productive ways to spend True, it contributed t.o an advance in the ance. Some of us have warned that the the educational dollar. state-of-the-art-that is created technology American .schools, as CBE has been saying which didn't exist previously-but credit ror United States will eventually have to find 'lor the past seventeen years, are in need d the research and development of that magic other sources of oil-or other sources of change. experimentati"<>n, and innovation if of k.itchenw.a.re belongs to the DuPont Corp. energy, lest we become so totally reliant they are to perform successfully the task as­ No one is quite sure where the misconcep­ on the Middle East that we could com­ signed them by sc-ciety. Primarily that task tion a.bout NASA and Teflon first a.rcse, but promise ourselves financially and politi­ is still seen by most people to be that of mak­ the Technology Utilization Offices at Ken­ cally. ing young people proficient in word, num­ nedy Space Center are extremely anxious to Yesterday, in the Washington Post, ber, and scientific and historical knowledge. squelch the rumor. Too many of today's innovations are a re­ "We have credits of our own without steal­ Jim Hoagland, that newspaper's Middle treat from the hard business of teaching and ing from DuPont," says Lee DuGofl'., KSC's East correspondent, wrote an in-depth learning. If this kind of innovation persists assistant TUO officer. article on a tour he recently took ~f t.he the schools are going to get some strong. And NASA's TUO department does have region's chief oil producing nations. multi-level feedback from those old change­ credits-about 70{4000 to be exact. They run Mr. Hoagland, in his article, points out agents, the taxpayers. the gamut from 'A': Aberration liquid that the so-called ••energy crisis," which Blicrugy chamber and mic.rosyringe designs has made headlines in almost every news­ .allow more efficient ml.cro-manipula.tions_. to 'Z': Z1rconium Oxide_. granular two-ph-ase paper in the United States, is bringing new financial and milltary power to many ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARINGS ON insulation systems. It is not necessary to understand every of the poor lands throughout the Persian H.R. 1~7. TREATMENT AND REHA­ complicated aspect of technology to appre­ Gulf. BILITATION OF NARCOTICS AD­ elate the result. Case in point: most persons As chairman of the Subcommittee on DICTS enJoy the ease of shiftless driving, but rela­ · Energy of the House Committee on Pub­ tively few ea.n explal.n the principle of an lic Works, I am aware oi the concern automatic transmission. HON. DON EDWARDS And as DuGotr points nut, it is not impor­ that my colleagues in the House and Sen­ OF CALIFORNU tant to be conversant with subjects such a.:s ate have over the problem of energy. It IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES liquid micrurgy chambers and two-phase in­ is for this reason that I urge all Mem­ sulation to enjoy their contributions to the bers to read this article because of its Monday, July 23, 1973 Advancement of science. importance to all of us. Mr. EDWARDS ~f California. MrJ mstory points out that a major i'actoT in The article follows: America's world leadership role has been Speaker, I would like announce that BooM TIMES -XN nm GULF to a beltef in the rewards of explor.ation and the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and investments in science and tech.nology-ln -(By ~im Ho&gland) Constitutional Rights of the House Com­ areas nf medicine, -surgery. biology, trans­ Hoagland, The Washington Post's Middle mittee on the Judiciary will hold hear­ vortation. electronics. physics, communica­ East correspondent, recently completed a re­ ings on H.R. 187, to amend title 18 of the tions, manufacturing, education, cbemistry~ porting tour of the region's chief oil-produc­ United States Code to enable the Fed­ aerospace, ad 1nftnitum. ing countries. eral criminal justice system to deal more DuGotr believes 'the publl.c, generally, is BEmUT.-In Saudi Arabia, rapidly growing effectively with the problem of narcotic too quick to associate the space program into one of the world's financial powers an with astronomical dollar 1J:gures. "We hear American construction 1irm Js proposing to addiction, to amend the Omnibus Crime of $295 million~ the Skylab w.orkshop and build a. $5 billion industr.1al .complex. Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to $2.6 billion !or the -entire project. We know of In equally wealthy Kuwait, the govern­ enable the State and municipalities to the investments but not of the rewards... ment -reportedly is telling the 'estern-owned deal more effectively with that problem, .But he thinks tha.t attitude might be Kuwait 011 Co: that it wau'ts 51 per cent o! and for other related purposes. changing because data returned trom early the company's ownership immedla.tely instead The hearings will begin on Monday.., space experiments is now beglnning to show of the 25 per cent the company had reluc­ July 30, 1973, at 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn results. tantly agreed to yield six months ago. "The reservoir of space-related knowledge In Iran, squadrons of F-4 Phantom fighter­ House Office Building. The subcommit­ now being tapped,.. DuGofl' said, ••is slow1y bombers that the government has purchased tee will hear testimony from Dr. Robert but surely helping to solve the natlon's­ With its growing oil revenues sweep otf the DuPont, Director. Special Action omce and the world's-most presstng problems. runaway at Tehran. Airport throughout the for Drug Abuse Prevention, and Mr. "We are finding :answers to the lJl'Oblems d-a.y. Acr.oss town, an Italian businessman sits Andrew Schaffer, assistant U.S. At­ of healthJ air and water-pollution control, in an office of the Na'tlomll Iranian Oil Co. torney. Southern District o-f New York. waste disposa.l, -urban transportation, crime and _pleads l.msuecessfully with the Iranians Those wishing to testify or to submit control. f.ood supply, .housing and .education. to sell him half a m1llion banels of oil on statements for the record should ad­ And these problems st be corrected-fully the spot. .at any price they want to ame. corrected--if we .are to pel'petua.te an ~ In .Abu Dhabt;,. _a tank-like armored car dress their requests to the Committee on nized and peaceful civilization..'" rolls incongruously down the ml

Nice and cannes. Abu Dhabl Town has per­ cheaply could well be double what they are uses its good long-term financial prospects to haps 30,000 residents, half of them semi­ today.'' seek more credit now. Iranian omcials say nomadic herders. There are grounds for such pessimism. Top­ this is also a hedge against infiation. The energy crisis is =>rtnging new financial level Saudi officials concede privately that Much of the oil money is being recycled and milltary power to once desparately poor they are in no hurry to draw up the imple­ back into Western countrles through an l;mds throughout the Persian Gulf. The dec­ menting agreement that will spell out in awesome arms race in the Persian Gulf. Saudi ade that oil consumers in the West and detail how "participation" works. Company defense spending this year will top $1 billion, Japan see as one of potentially crippling officials see this, and the evident failure of while Iran's will be double that. In Iran, the shortage is seen in the Arab worlc". and Iran the Saudis to begin paying for the 25 per government has quietly disbanded it/11 top ss a period of growing afiluence, unparalleled cent share they acquired Jan. 1 as warning economic planning council because defense opportunities and grave new problems. signs of new demands. And Saudi omcials spanding has made it impossible for the go-,­ "We do not think it is a crisis,'' says H1sham sa.y they too will insist on a new participa­ ernment to meet a legal req:llrement that Nazir, who as president of Saudia Arabia's tion tgreement it Kuwait's reported bid for 80 per cent of the oil revenue go to the Planning Organization is one of the Arab an immediate 51 per cent share succeeds. council. world's key economic policy makers. "We The "posted" price of a barrel of Saudi The United States and the Soviet Unio.u, lived through the times when we did not get Arabian crude oil has jumped to $2.95, a 20 ostensibly working for detente elsewhere, the value for our oil we needed. percent rise since the first or the ye~r and are stepping up the number of military ad­ .. We were pleading with the companies to more than the total increase during the 10 visers and trainers for the sophisticated increase production and with the United years between 1960 and 1970. hardware they are shipping into this region. States to eliminate the [import] quota sys­ SUGAB. IN THE CAKE The 1,000 Russian advisers estimated to be tem, but nobody listened. Now the situation in Iraq will soon be matched by a similar The rush of money into the oil producing number of American trainers and technicians ls reversed but the United States can live countries of the Middle East generates new through a time of market problems.'' in Iran. ambitions and hopes, some of. them tough­ The strategic importance of the Gulf is BREAKING THE MONOPOLY minded and pragmatic, others wildly grand­ growing with each day as Iran and Saudi Persian gulf governments, once doormats oise. The comon theme to long-range policy Arabia open new oil wells. Since the sum­ of the multinational business world, are thlnk.tng out here is the. necessity of using mer of 1970, oil production in non-Com­ rapidly changing not only their own societies the oil revenue to build national economic munist countries has increased by 8 million but also the structure of the international oil structures that can stand on their own when barrels a day. Over 7 million came out of the trade in ways that consumers in lndustrlal­ all the oil 1s drained off or replaced by other Persian Gulf, and more than half of the in­ ized countries already feel but often do not sources of energy. crease came from one country-Saudi understand. The most realistic governments "know that Arabia. They are forging new marketing patterns they only have 15 to 20 years to make their TEN CENTS A BARREL that eventually wlll allow them to determine running.'' says a European diplomat. "They have to use the energy crisis to increase their The patterns that the energy crisis is help­ where much of the Persian Gulf oil output ing to shatter date back decades, to the time will be sold. In cooperation with the Western chances." Saudi Arabia and Iran are devising inde­ when Western oil men could easily extract companies, they are achieving record peace­ spra.wling concessions· out of the traditional time price levels that continue to jump every pendent strategies of guaranteeing long-term supplies of oil only to multinational com­ rUlers of this area and then pump out as month. much or as little oil as they wanted at prices The governments have done this by break­ panies prepared to help them build up other industries with inputs of technology mate­ they largely determined themselves. ing into the ownership monopoly of Persian Because it lies close to the surface, Middle Gulf oil established early in this century by rials, access to marketing outlets in America. Europe and Japan. and joint venture capital. Eastern oil is the cheapest in the world to American, British. French and Dutch com­ produce. A 42-gallon "barrel" of Saudi or panies. Having dealt themselves into part "If you want a long-term contract from Saudi Arabia, we will want to know what you Kuraitl oil costs 10 to 12 cents to produce. ownership of the oil companies, the Arab Investment per dally barrel of production in states and Iran are proving to be as profit can do for Saudi Arabia," Petroleum Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zak.l Yamani said recently in the Middle East averaged $254 in 1971, conscious as acy Wall Street banker. against $4,971 in the United States. These changes and the predictions of a the Hejaze Mountain town of Talf. Help to­ ward industrlallzlng "will be a condition" of This means that Middle East oil production growing energy crunch for industrialized na­ historically has been the most profitable part tions have arrived roughly at the same time. any major oil deal. "We don't want to be faced with a bunch of the entire on industry. Every dollar of The exceedingly tight market for oil gives production costs has to be matched by four great leverage to the governments of the of equipment sellers," added Nazir in Jeddah. "We want people who are interested in joint or five dollars for tankers, refineries, market­ Persian Gulf the only area outside the Com­ ing outlets and other "downstream" invest­ munist world capable of producing enough ownership of industries here.'' Iran's Prime Minister Abbas Hoveida ments that yield far smaller profit margins. new oil to meet the rising global energy Until the beginning of this year, about 90 demands. phrased his country's ambitions this way in Tehran: "This nation within 20 years has to per cent o! this production legally belonged There have been more signlfl.cant changes to just eight international companies, who in oil operations in the Middle East in the be close to the industrialized nations, on level with France, England and Belgium. The oil controlled about 51 per cent of the estimated past two years t.han there were in the pre­ 52 mllllon barrels a day produced in the vious two decades. And, despite the hopes of revenue is just the sugar in the cake of our economy." world last year. western companies at the start of this year In the gulf, the eight "majors" work the that they had achieved two agreements that Two Middle Eastern oil producers with concessions jointly, with dliferent lineups ensured a period of stability, new changes signifl.cant population pressures, Iran and Algeria, have been fast off the mark in chan­ of partners in each of the major countries. and uncertainty ~re clearly on the way. neling oil revenue into building an alterna­ Most of the oil is exported to Japan and The two agreements are: tive economic base, centered on minerals and Western Europe, although American usage The "participation'; accord. Saudi Arabia, petro-chemical industry. But for sparsely is rising sharply. Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Qatar were allowed populated countries like Saudi Arabia and Five American companies--Exxon, Gul!, by the companies to buy 25 per cent shares Kuwait, which already have to import large Mobil, Standard Oil of California and of the company operations inside their terri­ numbers of foreigners to work at all levels, Texace>-control the llon's share of gulf pro­ tories on Jan. 1. Government ownership grad­ industrialization may yet turn out to be a duction. The three other majors are British ually increases to 51 per cent in 1982 under mirage. Petroleum, the French Petroleum Company the plan, often called "nationalization on the and Royal Dutch Shell. The importance of installment plan." STOCKS AND WEAPONS these eight companies can be measured by The "Tehran" pricing agreement. Signed in Long-term revenue-producing investment their payment of about $7 billion to Persian the Iranian capital in 1971, this accord estab­ is the other obvious answer. Kuwait has be­ Gulf countries last year. They kept about lished a fixed schedule of increases in the gun an aggressive and sophisticated invest­ $2.5 billion ln net profits from their Eastern prices paid by the major oil companies to the ment program, which this sprlng added items Hemisphere all trade, according to estimates oil-producing countries for crude petroleum. like an $84 million Hilton hotel and om~e by American banks. center in Atlanta. to a growing portfolio esti­ The agreement is supposed to last until 1975. IDENTU'Y 01' INTERESTS Confidence in both agreements is wilting mated to have more than $2 bllllon in invest­ ment abroad. Paradoxically, the energy crisis is a time of under the pressures of. the frantic scramble record profits and production for these com­ by consuming nations for any avallable oil Saudi financial managers. perhaps over­ reacting to the wasteful spending and finan­ panies, but also of diminishing control over at prices the producers can set on a take-it­ the oil they produce. or-leave-it-basis, pressures aggravated by cial laxness that brought about the ouster of King Saud in 1964, are highly conservative. Predictions that participation would re­ the continuing dollar crisis. They keep most of Saudi Arabia's growing duce the companies to being buyers and ..The participation agreement wlll be torn billions in short-term bank deposits. sellers of on at the mercy of unstable Mid.dle up within a year it not sooner,'' one oil com­ Iran's ambitious development and military Eastern governments seem greatly overdrawn pany economist predicts gloomily, "and the programs eat up all of the country's oll in­ so far. prices of the Persian Gulf oil that was sup­ come. Iranian foreign debt is currently The scenes of lengthy negotiations over posed to help us handle the energy crista spiraling upwa.rd, in fact, as the country "participation" and the frequently turbulent 25506 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 bargaining sessions over the price increases of the 40 million to 50 million barrels a day While the thrust o! prices ls definitely demanded by the gulf countries create the that should be coming out of the Persian upward, both Saudi Arabia and Iran are much iml.ge o! two groups o! adversaries locked in Gulf in the 1980s. less hawkish on prices than are most o! nine combat. In fact, there are some strong iden­ It could come a lot sooner. Kuwait's gov­ other members of the Organization of Pe­ tities o! interests, between the companies and ernment has failed to obtain approval of the troleum Exporting countries (OPEC). Both producing countries that participation may the participation agreement from parliament, have publicly stressed recently the need to strengthen. "The gulf states don't want to and has announced that it is to reopen nego­ keep price hikes at "reasonl.ble" levels. take over the companies, but to become the tiations with the companies later this month companies," says a Western petroleum to seek a greater ownership share. "Iran very realistically does not want to attache. Estimates of when the countries will be hasten the end of the fossil fuel era by mak­ "We could have achieved all the financial able to set up efficient marketing companies ing alternative energy sources economically gains participation will bring simply by rais­ of their own range from Yamani's admittedly competitive with oll," says a diplomat tn ing taxes," says Abdulwahab Mohamed, Ku­ Tehran. "There seems to bf" quite a sophis­ "ambitious" five years to a 15-year estimate ticated grasp here of all of the impllca.tions wait's under secretary of the Ministry of by Reza Fallah, director general of the Na­ of the energy crisis." Finance and Oil. "What we want is to train tional Iranian 011 Co. our cadres and to gain experience in produc­ The demand for oil is so great that the STEEL, SHIPS, REFINERIES tion and management in cooperation with national companies are getting little experi­ In the countries that have had oil wealth the companies." ence in complicated marketing. When Saudi for more than a generation, the olct images of Saudi Arabia's Yamani, who carefully nur­ Arabia quietly invited some companies to the burnoose-wearing sheikhs in giant Cadillacs tured the participation idea through years desert capital of Riyadh to negotiate prices squandering fortunes in the midst of general when the oil companies were denouncing it for Saudi "participation crude" the word poverty are fading. Younger men who have as too radical, explains Saudi Arabia's ap­ raced through the oil industry and represent­ learned economic de·;elopment or business oroach this way: atives of more than 60 companies descended management at Harvard or the London · "Our interest is to keep the oil companies on the town. School of Economics are establishing new with us. We are not in love with the oil com­ To pare the llst, the Saudis dropped the pric.rities and ambitions, backed by the grow­ panies, but we are in love with Saudi Arabia. negotiations idea and set their own price at ing rush of dollars. We need the technology the companies can $2.55 a barrel. Twenty-five companies stayed The move to link oil supply to the drive provide"-the exploring for new reserves, in­ in and all got a share of the 300,000-barrels­ for industrialization is clearly picking up creasing production, and providing market­ a-day commitment, Abdel Hadi Tahir, di­ speed. Occidental, an American independent, ing and transport !ac111ties. rector general of Saudi Arabia's Petromin 1s seeking one of the new concession areas Nationalization, which Yamani has called company, said recently. Saudi Arabia will award this year, and has the alternative to participation, "links the With an escalato·r clause geared to the come in to help the government set up a companies' interests to the consumers. If the dropping value of the dollar in world mone­ fert111zer exporting industry. companies are buyers of our oil, they will do tary market3 included in the contract, the In Abu Dhabi, British Petroleum is help­ their best to lower prices. As sellers now, they price for the Sa.udi participation oil moved ing the government finance a $35 milllon re­ seek higher prices. . .. It is in our interests to $2.70-a full dollar a barrel more than finery, and had provided an interest-free to have the majors continue an important the major oil companies pay to Saudi Arabia loan of $50 milllon for other projects. role" in production, where the largest profits for their 75 per cent share of produc­ Saudi officials stress that they are willing are. tion under the Tehran "posted" pricing to match dollar for dollar foreign investment Yamani asserts that "leaving the producers agreement. in industrial projects there. They argue that and the consumers face to face" is not in It is also 40 to 50 cents a barrel more than the closeness of the world's cheapest source the interests of the consumers either. They the price the compan!es agreed to pay !or o! energy should be a major attraction for cannot exercise any pressure on producers. "buy back" oil-the 97.5 t=er cent remaining energy-intensive industries. They wm have to compete for the "oil" and portion o! Saudi Arabia's initial 25 per cent The Saudis are mainly interested in com­ drive up prices. share. Authoritative Saudi officials make no panies that can guarantee marketing out­ Iran is largely in the same position vis-a­ secret of their feeling that the "buy back" lets !or the products to be produced there, vis the companies. Although Iran has pro­ prices are going to have to be renegotiated and who can introduce new industrial tech­ claimed a 100 per cent takeover of its oil re­ upward immediately, and company officials nology. General Electric, Marcone. of San sources, the consortium o! Western com­ fear this could be the edge o! the attack on Francisco and two Japanese firms are team­ panies has just been hired to manage the the agreement as a whole. ing up to build a major new steel plant that fields and has been given a long-term con­ Some major companies are using the Saudi the Saudis hope will eventually be the core tract !or oil at prices aligned with those of sales to argue for similar hikes from their !or a. shipbuilding industry. the Arab countries of the gulf. customers. Exxon is reported by reliable In­ And the Saudi government is currently SELLING IT THEMSELVES dustry sources to have told Japanese com­ discussing with Bechtel Corp., a Loo Angeles­ The most immediately important aspect of panies that bought the Saudi oil that they based construction company, still tentative participation is that the countries are going would have to count on paying the same plans for an industrial complex that would to have increasing quantities o! oil to market price to Exxon in the future. cost $5 billion to build. It would include re­ in their own, outside company channels 1! PROVING THEm vmn.rry fineries, agro-industry projects and petro­ chemical plants sited near the Dhahran oU they want to. I! this year's sale of govern­ The economic advantages sought in price ment-owned oil provides any guideline, this fields. hikes are not the only, or perhaps even the American, German and Japnnese :firms, can be used to escalate the prices the com­ main, motivating factor in the Persian Gulf panies and their consumers will have to pay, evidently responding to concern about the states' drive for higher prices today. Each envirornmental damage caused to their own and could have important political implica­ new price rise is becoming a political and countries by giant :-efin~ries, are actively tions. national13tic symbol as leaders boast of how As signed by Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and negotiating with job-h~gry Iran to locate much more they got than the other countries. new refineries there. The Increased costs that Qatar, the participation accord gives the gov­ "Nobody !eels they can afford to be left be­ ernment a 25 per cent share o! ownership, transporting refined product~; will bring may hind," observes a diplomat laconically. "You be balanced off' by the chanceo to export paid !or an intl.ated book value figure that prove your virility in gulf politics these days implicitly takes into account lost future pollution. by getting a 20-cents-a-barrel increase." MIRAGES AND PHANTOMS profits for the companies. It stays at a quar­ Yamani and his counterpart in Abu Dhabi, ter interest until 1978, when government Mana Sayed al Otaiba, predict that participa­ Whether the gulf societies will be able to ownership begins to increase 5 per cent annu­ tion will bring in enough extra revenue in the absorb industrial projects on the scale now ally unttl it reaches 51 per cent in 1982. first two ye3.rs ~ ~ pay completely !or their being discussed remains a tough question. At A different formula is used for determin­ countries' 25 per cent share. Saudi Arabia this stage, it is dlfficult to see tiny Abu Dhabi ing the share of oil production the gulf states is to pay $500 milllon, while Abu Dhabi's coming up with the "refineries, gas-based get to market themselves. The amount avail­ outlay is $150 million. industries, petrochemical industries, alumi­ able this year is what would in normal times num plants and iron and ::teel mills" that be a. symbolic 2.5 per cent of total produc­ "The payment3 will go straight into the tion. But the market is stretched so tautly pockets of the companies, of course," one Otaiba predicted iu a recent expansive that Saudi Arabia's auction of its 300,000- Kuwaiti official s~ys. "Consumers who com­ speech. barrels-a-day participation share in May ].las plain about the Arabs driving up prices Most of Abu Dhabi's money ls going into had an impact on the entire oil market. The should remember that, and that the Middle establishing a basic infrastructure 1n the producing countries are revising their esti­ East oll that reta.Us 1n Western Europe !or ttny desert land, and to prestige projects mates of how much financial advantage they $14 a barrel after being refined has $8 in local that the ruler, Sheik Zayed Ben Sultan, evi­ can gain by taking a much bigger share of European taxes in the price. We only get a dently feels will foster a sense of nationalism the production, much sooner than the com­ fraction of any price increas:e." in the recently formed Union of Arab emir­ panies want them to. I! Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi stick to ates which he heads. "The only way they can get more oil to ambitious production increases, the com­ He is rapidly expanding his military forces, market right away is to upset participation," panies will receive at least as much oil as which wlll soon include a squadron of Mirage says an official of a major oil company. Under they did last year at the Tehran price, which fighter-bombers, to consolidate his political the present timetable, the gulf countries wlll means that their profits will not be affected infiuence with his less wealthy partner sheik­ have the option of directly selling about half by participation. doms in the union. 25507 July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS paign director of CRP and executive director · In this, Abu Dhabi is only following­ June 8, 1973, concerning the transfer of Mr. John R. Murphy !rom St. PalL. to Detroit. of Mr. Nixon's inaugural committee took over Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. ManY· gulf the Commerce Department's Office of Policy officials openly voice unprovable suspicions It is our belief that !or the ma.ximum ut111- zation of Mr. Murphy, it is necessary to ex­ Development last March. that the Soviet t:"nion, Britain and the Magruder resigned after be became impli­ United States encourage some degree of in­ pand his capabllities. The :Veterans Admin­ istration does not rotate for the sake of rota­ cated in the Watergate scandal, but many stabillty in the area to take back some of the others were left behind. accumulating mountains of cash thrOugh tion. At some point a Station and a Director reach a plateau in performance. It is our be­ Alex M. Armendaris, for example. who was weapon sales. director of CRP's "Spanish-speaking commit­ High level Saudi officials said earlle:- this lief that Mr. Murphy will do an exceedingly fine job in using new procedures and tech­ tee" for a full year, became director o! the month that negotiations bad not yet opened department's Office of Minority Business en­ on a proposed sale of Phantoms by the United niques in day to day management of his re­ spective station. We want to offer new goals terprise last Aprll 10. He bad previously been States to Saudi Ara.bia. One ca.binet minister a consultant to the President's Advisory suggested that if the number for sale did and challenges, and the reassignments we ba.ve made can accomplish this. Council on Minority Business. not exceed the single 18-plane squadron that John F. Evans, who was assistant director bas so far evidently been authorized by To this end, we are certain that this trans­ fer will effect and further the overall quality of the White House Domestic Councll under washington, "it will not be interesting for former presidential aide John D. Ebrllcbman us." of service rendered by the Veterans Admin­ istration. for 2¥2 years, moved over to become an as­ Lea.dlng executives of western oll coL.lpa- sistant to Commerce Secretary Frederick B. nies operating in this area implicitly suggest Sincerely, in some of their private comments that the FRANK W. NAYLOR, JR., Dent. Executive Assistant. As the Commerce Department explained in protective shadow the United States can its response to Staggers, Evans "performs cast through such deals provides one of the NIXON AmES Now Fn.L KEY AGENCY JOBS duties which encompass the entire scope of best long-term hopes they have !or being the department's programs and activities." allowed to tncrea.se production and continue (By Sanford J. Ungar) Close behind the Commerce Department to play important roles here. Altbo·Igb many people who worked in the "The Saudis have to have a. reason to de­ was the Environmental Protection Agency, White House during President Nixon's first which listed 20 people, including seven plete their only resource at a rate favorable term and in his reelection campaign are now to the west but not to them,'' said one exe­ consultants, who came aboard after being in legal trouble ariSing out of the Watergate closely associated with the campaign or the cutive. ""Maybe the fact that we are standing affair, many more are in power in Cabinet with them against external dangers wlll be Executive Office. departmer_ts and independent federal regula­ some had relevant experience with such the crucial one." tory agencies. units as the Council on Environmental But there is little certainty in such com­ It became clear shortly after last Novem­ ments today. After two years of revolutionary Quality or the Office of Science and ber's presidential election that Mr. Nixon Technology. change in the Middle Eastern oU industry, wanted to make the government more "re­ few on either side take anything for granted But others came from clearly political sponsive'-' by putting individuals with estab­ backgrounds-for example, EPA's public af­ these days. Kuwait's petroleum under secretary, Ab- lished loyalty to the White House into key fairs director, Ann L. Dore, who bad worked dulwahab Mohamed, was asked a. few weeks positions. with CRP since Deecember, 1971, and George ago whether the Western companies would Except fo• a few well-publicized major ap­ Mebocic, who served four months with be allowed to keep 49 per cent of the local pointments, including the nominations of CRP before becoming a. .. confidential repre­ operation until the year 2025, when the con­ Frank C. Carlucci as under secretary of the sentative" to the White House for an assist­ Department of Health, Education and Wel­ cession finally runs out. ant administrator at EPA. A smile danced across his face as he fare and Alexander P. Butterfield as admin­ Two former employees of CRP, Theodore thought about the question. ..If you look istrator of the Federal Aviation Administra­ Wigger and Allee C. Johnston, are now work­ at the agreement, that is certainly what it tion, the success of the effort bas not previ­ ing in the environmental agency's Boston says." And then he laughed heartily. ously been clear. regional office. But according to partial surveys conducted James W. Hunt was a $70-a-day consultant by congressional committees and The Wash­ to EPA for four months beginning last De­ ington Post, it has resulted in the distribu­ cember after working with CRP's state organ­ tion of well over 100 people throughout the tzation· tn lllinois. A graduate student from NIXON WORKERS GET AGENCY federal bureaucracy. California, Brian L. Gauthier, who worked JOBS This practice, of course, is not original. with CRP in that state, earned $54 a day for Andrew Jackson introduced the "spoils sys­ three months for providing "expert advice" tem" early in the 19th Century and every to the director of EPA's office of Education HON. DONALD M. FRASER administration bas rewarded its political al­ and Manpower Planning. OF MINNESOTA lies with governmental appointments. The former administrator of EPA, William In the case of the present administration, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES D. Ruckelsbaus-who served more recently people once employed by the Committee for as acting director of the FBI and is now Monday, July 23, 1973 the Re-election of the President, the Inaugu­ awaiting a major Justice Department ap­ ral Committee, the White House or within pointment-said yesterday through a spokes­ Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker. for more the Executive Office of the President, are man that he recognized only 3 of the 22 than 20 years, Mr. John R. Murphy now serving in roles ranging from policy names on the agency's list. served very comoetently as the director makers to clerks and typists. Ruckelsba.us explained that he personally of the Fort Snelling Veterans• Adminis­ They arrived at their new jobs, for the most approved those three on the basis of their tration Center in the Twin Cities. On part, quietly and without fanfare-sometimes qualifications, but did not understand how June 19, he was first notified, via a tele­ even without the knowledge of the agency the others got their jobs. type message, that he was being trans­ bead they work for. The Agriculture Department hired 17 In the ,-lew of some leaders on Capitol people from CRP a.nd three from the White ferred to Detroit as of July 1. Hill, such as Rep. Harley 0. Staggers (D-W. House after the election, in a variety of posi­ My protests to VA Administrator Va.), chairman of the House Interstate and tions, but many have already left for other Donald Johnson were answered by Mr. Foreign Commerce Committee, the phenom­ jobs. Frank W. Naylor, Jr., who wrote: enon poses grave prospects of executive and One who is stlll there, serving as a "con­ It is our belief that for the maximum political domination of theoretically inde­ fidential assistant" to Agriculture Secretary utilization of Mr. Murphy, it is necessary to pendent agencies. Earl L. Butz, is Stephen B. King, the former expand his capabllities. · CRP, at its peak, employed 425 people, ac­ CRP security guard who served as a body­ cording to a spokesman, and The Post's par­ guard for Martha Mitchell, wife of former Naylor's complete response follows my tial survey indicates that at least 30 per cent Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and al­ remarks. of them have obtained federal employment legedly injected her with a. sedative ln Cali­ It was with considerable interest that since the 1972 election. fornia on the weekend of the Watergate I read the Washington Post July 19 story Staggers' Special Subcommittee on Inves­ break-in last June. "Nixon Aides Now Fill Key Agency Jobs." tigations polled the Department of Com­ There were a. number of surprises on the merce and 12 other agencies under is juris­ lists provided to Congress and The Washing­ Mr. Naylor is one of these aides. The ar­ diction recently and discovered that 84 people ton Post by the departments. ticle follows, and in view of my ex:Pert­ previously tied to the President's campaign For example, one woman, Nancy H. Steorts, ence, I call especial attention to its final or the Executive Office have been farmed out who formerly worked at CRP, showed up on four paragraphs. · into the agencies ranks. the Commerce Department list as an "exposi­ VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION, By far the biggest response came from the tions officer." But the Agriculture Depart­ Washington, D. C., June 19,1973. Commerce Department, where 25 employees ~ent insisted yesterday that she is special Hon. DoNALD M. :FRASER, with links to the President. including two assistant to Butz for consumer a.fralrs. House of Representatives, departmental executives have arrived since . One of the agencies where the arrival of Washington, D.C. the election. White House loyalists has caused the great­ DEAR Ma. FRASER·: The Administrator has · The best known, of course, is Jeb Stuart est consternation is the Veterans' Adminis­ asked me to respond to your -inquiry of Magruder, who, after serving· as deputy cam- tration: 25508 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 VA Administrator Donald E. Johnson re­ equitable benefits to our 6 million Vietnam percent; b. in foreign affairs? Yes-54 per­ cently sent a letter to Sen. William Proxmtre veterans, restore Congress' authority over cent, No-46 percent. (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Appropria­ government spending and warmaklng, and 2. Do y.ou belle:ve the President should have tions Subcommittee with jurisdiction over open the Highway Trust Fund to mass tran­ the power to refuse to spend funds that have the VA budget, with a list of 11 former CRP sit. been authorized and appropriated by law? personnel now working for him, seven of In addition, I've spent long hours in Ap­ Yes-32 percent, No--68 percent. them on his personal staff. propriations Committee where, I'm pleased 3. In determining our budget priorities, One long-time VA employee concerned with to say, my Labor-HEW and Transportation should the government: a) reduce spending direction of the agency's hospitals across the Subcommittees have completed their work on human and natural resource programs? country, who asked that his name not be and had their bills passed by the House be­ 9 percent; b) reduce spending on defense publicly disclosed, said yesterday that he was fore this fiscal year began. programs? 49 percent; c) maintain current astonished by the extent to which the White As always, I wm be coming home to our balance? 42 percent. House has injected itself into VA affairs. 1st District often in coming weeks and I 4. With regard to our domestic economy, do He compared the situation to "the forma­ hope to see as many of you as possible. In you favor: tion of conglomerates, where a vice president the meantime, Corinne and I wish you a very (Answers in percent) or administrative assistant is sent out from pleasant summer. . a) continuation of Phase m? 12. the home office to call all the shots." Cordially yours, b) return to mandatory wage-price controls Research for this story was done by Bridget SILVIO. of Phase II? 19. Gallagher of The Washington Post's national QUESTIONNAIRE c) return to Phase II, add mandatory con­ news staff. Answers to my 1973 Questionnaire to our trols on profits and dividends? 31. 1st District are listed at the end of this news d) a complete freeze on wages and prices? letter. This year I received 9,000 responses 29. INFORMS CONSTITUENTS for a return of about 13%. Thank you. e) no controls whatsoever? 9. FREEZE HITS HUD 5. Should raw agricultural products be I am very disturbed by the Administra­ subject to some controls? Yes--72 percent, HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE tion's suspension of virtually all federal No--28 percent. OF MASSACHUSETTS housing, community development and Model 6. Do you favor extending U.s. financial aid to assist in the reconstruction of North Viet­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Cities programs. The House has passed legis­ lation to extend these programs for one year nam? Yes--15 percent, No-85 percent. Monday, July 23, 1973 until satisfactory replacements can be de­ 7. How should we treat Americans who veloped, but the Senate has yet to act on this evaded the draft to escape service in Viet­ Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, the past 3 blll. nam? months have been marked by many im­ To lllustrate these programs' importance to (Answers in percent) portant developments in the Congress our 1st District and our need to ensure that a) grant them unconditional amnesty? 11. and throughout the Federal Government. efforts In this area are continued, consider b) grant them amnesty providing they per­ In my ongoing effort to keep my con­ how our District has benefitted from Housing form a certain number of years of mUitary stituents of the First District of Massa­ and Urban Development programs in the or alternate public service? 56. chusetts informed, I am now sending out years since I came to Congress. c) prosecute them with the possibllity of another newsletter summarizing some re­ For our District, from 1959 to now, HUD jail sentences being imposed? 33. cent developments and also supplying the has: 8. Would you be willing to pay more for . Financed 2,275 units of low-rent public products and services if their manufacture tabulated results of the questionnaire I housing, including 1,058 units of elderly and use could be made virtually pollution mailed to my constituents 3 months ago. housing, totalling $20 mllllon; free? Yes--63 percent, No-37 percent. At this time, I submit a copy of this Awarded over $23.5 million in urban re­ 9. Do you favor President Nixon's proposal newsletter for the RECORD: newal grants; to abolish existing categorical grant programs JULY, 1973. Loaned over $4 million to colleges for con­ (direct federal grants to individual sponsors WASHINGTON NEWSLINE struction of 2,842 living units; for specified purposes) and replace them with block grants for the states and localities (By Congressman Sn.vto 0. CoNTE) Awarded $2 million in grants for urban planning, $1.3 million in water and sewer to use according to locally determined needs, DEAR FluENns: In the three months since grants, $852,745 for open space land acquisi­ within prescribed guidelines? :Yes--70 per­ I wrote you last, the Watergate affair and tion and development, $169,000 for historic cent, No--30 percent. other scandals have swept across our national preservation, and $78,000 for neighborhood 10. Regarding proposals for a national scene like a plague. As painful as it is to fac111tles; health program, which do you favor? wash this dirty linen in public, there is no Awarded ~ $4.7 million ln Model Cities (Answers in percent) other choice. To remain a free people, our grants; a) an all-inclusive health delivery pro­ institutions must be capable of uncovering Insured mortgages for $40 million. the full truth when public officials, no mat­ graJD financed and operated by the federal ter h lW high their station, resort to illegal THE on. SHORTAGE government? 42. and unethical practices and thus make a Recent months have seen major steps b) a compulsory private health Insurance mockery of the public trust they hold. taken to relieve this country's oil shortage. program financed by employer-employee con­ It's not enough merely to decry this sad In April, import quotas on on were abolish­ tributions and regulated by the federal gov­ episode in our history. Positive steps must ed-action I had been urging for 14 years. ernment? 27. be taken to help guard against its recurrence. And in May, a voluntary gasoline allocation c) legislation limited only to meeting cata­ The criminal investigations and Senate hear­ policy was ordered to try to equalize the strophic health expenses? 16. ings constitute one necessary approach. An­ effects of the shortage throughout the coun­ d) no new legislation in this area? 15. other ls to reform our election laws. Surely try. 11. Do you favor changing our electoral the vast amount of cash that flooded the Yet, New England's on picture is far from system to allow for election of the President last presidential campaign contributed great­ rosy. To determine our exact situation, Ire­ solely by direct popular vote? Yes--85 per- ly to the corruption we are now learning cent, No--15 percent. · cently held two ad hoc Congressional hear­ 12. Do you listen to my weekly report about. To offset that I've introduced the ings in the region, one in Holyoke. Compared Clean Elections Act which would place strict broadcast over local radio stations? Yes-- with 1972, this year's New England supply­ 48 percent, N<>7-52 percent. limits on the amount one person could con­ demand ratio looks like this: tribute to a candidate in a federal election. It would also establish a strong, independent Gasoline: Supply, down 5 percent; de­ Federal Elections Commission with power mand, up 8 percent. to investigate and prosecute violations of Home heating oil:·Supply, down 8 percent; ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARINGS ON the election laws. demand, up 10 percent. THE CIVIL RIGHTS ASPECTS OF Por slmllar reasons, I also am pushing my Industrial heating oil: Supply, down 22 GENEJ:tAL REVENUE SHARING bill to replace the two dozen presidential percent; demand, up 5 percent. primaries with one National Primary. Hope­ It is obvious further steps must be taken. fully, this would shorten the presidential I will be pushing for the construction of HON. DON EDWARDS election season and relieve the dangerous de­ several new refineries in New England, the OF CALIFORNXA mand for mere and more funds to finance development of alternative sources of energy, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES these extra.va.ga.nza.s. and curtailment of consumption and conser- Even with Watergate, however, life goes vation of fuel supplies. Monday, July 23, 1973 on and so does the business of government. QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. I have been very busy in a. variety of other areas already this year. These include efforts (Questions composed and ma.Ued 1n April Speaker, the Civil Rights and Constitu­ to straighten out our energy policies, help 1973) tional Rights Subcommittee of the House reduce the outrageous cost of food by re­ 1. Do you approve of the way President Committee on the Judiciary will hold forming farm policy, force a.n immediate end Nixon is handling his responslbUities: a.. in hearings coiilmenclng on July 27, 1973, of our bombing in Indochina, provide more domestic a1Iairs? Yes-30 percent, No--70 ih ~roo~ 2237, Rayb~ House Office July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25509 Building. The subject of the hearings kansas that never will be erased. I'm sure competition. Miss Diane Bibko, a flutist, won his many Arkansas friends wish him the best a music scholarship in the festival's solo will be the civil rights aspects of gen­ competition. eral revenue sharing. The subconunittee of everything. will hear testimony· from Mr: 'Graham Watt, Director of the Office of Revenue Sharing. SPAGHETI'I HELPS BAND TO PRESERVING OUR EDUCATIONAL Interested persons may submit testi­ VICTORY IN VIENNA FREEDOMS mony to the House Committee on the Judiciary, 2137 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515. HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE HON. JAMES A. BURKE OF MISSOURI. OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BERNIE CAMPBELL: ARKANSANS Monday, July 23, 1973 Monday, July 23, 1973 REGRET IDS RETIREMENT Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, I would Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts. Mr. like to bring to the attention of my col­ Speaker, I would like to call to the atten­ leagues the following articles which ap­ tion of my colleagues in the House of HON. BILL ALEXANDER peared in the July 16, 1973, St. Lo".lis OF ARKANSAS Representatives a letter received by the Globe-Democrat and St. Louis Post-Dis­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES House Committee on Ways and Means patch honoring the McCluer High School relative to hearings conducted on amend­ Monday, July 23, 1973 band: ments to the Internal Revenue Code. I Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, Ar­ SPAGHETTI HELPS BAND TO VICTORY IN VIENNA believe that the information in the letter kansas and the national Park Service Spaghetti and first place in the Interna­ from Monsignor Spiers has important have suffered a great loss in the retire­ tional Band Festival in Vienna, Austria, may applicability to the tradition of educa­ sound unrelated-but not to the 65 members ment of Bernard T. Campbell. This man of McCluer High School's band. tional freedoms and equality of oppor­ was a moving force in the development It took a lot of spaghetti to make the prize tunity that are inherent and inalienable of parts of our State as tourism and rec­ possible for the McCluer teen-agers. guarantees provided for every American. reation areas. My old friend John Flem­ The band won first prize in concert band The issue of educational freedom for the ing of the Arkansas Gazette staff has al­ competition at the festival during the week­ wealthy only poses a dangerous threat to ways been more eloquent with words end, competing against groups from all over the rights of parents to exercise the than I, so I would like to share with you the world. rights of their children in education as at this point his column lamenting Ber­ The festival is sponsored by the Associa­ confirmed by the Pearce decision of the tion for Cultural Exchange. nie Campbell's retirement: To make sure all band members would be Supreme Court in 1925. I urge every (From the Arkansas Gazette, July 1, 1973] able to participate in the competition, from Member to carefully weigh the sugges­ So LONG, BERNIE, AND GOOD LUCK July 6 through last Sunday, fund-raising tions of this letter I am including in the (By John Fleming) activities were sponsored to help those who RECORD in light of the values of freedom There are some folks in this old world could not afford the expense on their own. and diversity we have a duty to preserve. that you figure will never grow old and re­ Spaghetti din:lers were followed by candy Herewith is the text of the communica­ tire. Although I have known for a long time sales, concerts and a basketball game between tion received by the committee from the that the day was approaching, it was with the National Football League All-Stars and the McCluer faculty. A parent-teacher orga­ Citizens for Educational Freedom: surprise and regret that I found out Bernie CITIZENS FoR EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM, Campbell has pulled up stakes and gone off nization, the McCluer Band Boosters, Inc., was formed to spearhead fund-raising ac­ Washington, D.C. to Florida where the Chamber of Commerce DEAR MR. BURKE: We are grateful for the tells you Its warm in winter and cool in sum­ tivities. The band followed up its victory in the opportunity · to communicate written t-esti­ mer but never mentions the fungi that grows mony to members of the committee who are on your shoes if you leave them in a closet concert band competition with another hon­ or, the Austrian State Award for the most considering amendments to the Internal too long. Revenue Code. In the case of Bernard T. Campbell, the outstanding band in the competition. One band member, Diane Bibko, a flutist, won a In behalf of the membership of Citizens National Parks service's gain was the State for Educational Freedom, a national, non­ Department's loss. Here is a man who would music scholarship in the festival's solo com­ petition. sectarian organization which emphasizes the have fitted into the diplomatic service like a rights of parents in education, as well as in tailor-made glove. Who else could have ac­ "If you saw how the kids worked, you would know there was no luck involved," said behalf of the millions of parents directly complished the feat Bernie performed during involved, we wish to urge your committee to the period when the Buffalo National River Richard De Moulin, a board member of the band boosters group. "They worked their amend the Code to provide a tax credit for was a mere gleam in the eye of the National part of the tuition which parents pay for Park Service? He had Sunday dinner at the little bodies off and did a great job." The band was jubilant at its successful nonpublic education, whether this be on the home of one of the most ardent opponents of graduate, college, secondary, or elementary this proposition! During the period when it visit to Vienna, he said, "I'm sure they'll be flying home without the plane." level. · was dangerous for proponents of the Na­ The amendment would allow credit on 50 tional River plan to reveal their id~ntlty in percent of tuition, with a stated per pupil the area, Bernie Campbell spent hundreds of McCLUER HIGH'S aAND WINS AUSTRIAN off-duty hours wandering through Buffalo FESTIVAL maximum and 'a graduated scale for the various levels, as for example: River country c'iscussin~ the pro and cons of McCluer High School's band returns to St. Graduate or college: maximum, $400/ the project in that calm, even manner that Louis tonight with first-place honors from the International Band Festival in Vienna, student; · makes him a pleasure to converse with Secondary: maximum, $300/ student; whether you are in agreement or not. Austria. Elementary: maximum, $200/ student. Although his principal duty was the su­ Roger Bredenkamp, McCluer principal, said pervision of Hot Springs National Park, he he had received indirectly the news that the RATIONALE OF CREDIT gave generously of his own time to make the 65-member band had won the prize. The government now allows credit for a Buffalo National River a .reality. In an indi­ "My daughter took a telephone call Satur­ variety of reasons. Such credits are allowed rect way, he was responsible for much of the day in which the caller said our band had not because of some innate generosity of the vital strategy planning that went into the wori first place," he said. "But we won't government, but for the public purpose of long battle that culminated with the enact­ know all the det ails until the band returns the common good. For example, credits are ment of tl.e law establishing the National tonight." allowed corporations for business expansion River. He said that the band had been able to since this will result in more employment In the mid-50s, when Bernie was assigned make the trip to the festival, which is spon­ which benefits the country. Credit is also to the Everglades National Park in Florida, sored by the Association for Cultural Ex­ allowed for retired persons on the theory that he built a home near Homestead looking for­ change, as a result of support by the Mc­ aiding and encouraging persons to remain ward to the day of his retirement. Here is Cluer· Band Boosters, Inc., a parents group. self-supporting will reduce the number oa where he and his lovely wife will certainly "Basically, the parents raise the money to rel ~ef rolls and thus maintain lower taxes. enjoy some well-earned leisure. It is certainly finance the trip," he said. "The kids sold Supporters of credit for nonpublic educa­ true, despite the fungi, that, as Bernie puts candy, bumper stickers, and the parents tion tuition have a s ~ mllar argument. By an it, this area is "unique and beautiful in -its asked community enterprises to donate to­ amendment which would permit parents to own way." . ward the band's trip." use some OJ their own tax money, the burden Although he has forsaken th~ rolling. hills In addition to its first-place victory, the on all taxpayers would be lessened because for the fiat sawgrass. country, Bernie Camp­ band Is said to have won the Austrian State the amount o! credit would be far less (abou ;; bell has left a mark of his presence in Ar- Award for the most outstanding band in the· one-fourth) thari the per pupil cost of ed- 25510 EXTEN~ONSOFREMARKS July 23, 1973 ucating these students in the public sehool hrle:f eeremony do so 1n a spirit .of frivolity JIOMEOwNERS SUFFER UNDER system. or disl"espect. l'br no group of citizens. now FEDERAL RESERVE POLICY CONSTITUTIONALITY OF TAX DEDUCTIQ;NS AND or in the past, was or is more dedicated to CREDITS the principles enumerated in the document The concept of tax credit and deduction whose adoption we celebrate today than are is an accepted fact in the past and current we-the officers and members of the Non­ BON. WRIGHT PATMAN Resident Taxpayers Association. Internal Revenue Ctl'de.. Ful'therm.ore, the OF TEXAS Today we honor the memory of those Supreme Court has stated on several occa­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sions that tax deductions for direct contri­ courageous patridts who signed the Declara­ butions to churches, synagogues, houses of l.i )n of Independence 1~ years ago. Perse­ Monaay. July 23~ 1973 worship do not violate the Constitution nor cutet'.~ harassed and tyrannized to the limits of human tolerance, they patiently endured, Mr. PATMAN. .Mr. Speaker, we are any of its Amendments. now seeing the fruits o~ the Federal Since this is so, "a fortiori", it follows that until it was no longer -endurable, the ever contributions or payxnents by parents to inl:reasing tyranny of subjection to a govern­ Reserve BoaTd,s callous dtsregard for the schools, whether they be church-related or ment in which they had no repre.:;entation, economic well-being of the great major­ not, would be constitutional and the Internal of mock trials from which no justice accrued, ity of the American peopl~ :md particu­ of harassment by swarms of appointed of­ Revenue Code could be am~nded to provide larly consumers and home buyers. Since .such. ficials, and of oppressive ta.x:-ation for which July 5 of this yea-r, when the Federal When the government permits a citizen they .had given no .consent. Despite the fact that history has shnwn Reserve Board, the Li'eJeral Deposit In­ a tax credit or deduction for a contribution surance Corporation, and Federal Home to Teligion, it does thereby compel another to that men are more disposed to stLffer, while support such beliefs. When a parent would evils are sufferable. than to right the wrongs Loan Bank Board raised the ceilin& on be a.Ilowoo a credit or deduction from his to which they have became accustomed. the payment of interest on savings ac­ own taxes. it is simllaTly true that another nevertheless, tyranny never diminishes o.f its counts and certificates oi deposit, I have citizen is not being forced to pay With his own a.ccord and it was inevitable that the received thousands of letters from sav­ taxes for the child of the other citizen to colonists would ultim.a.tely challenge that ings and loan associations from all across attend a nonpublic school. erosion of the.ir freedoms. Thanks be to Al­ mighty God that our forefathers were grant­ the country deploring the most recent Finally, the difference between a tax credit surge of interest l"ates and the growing and deduction is only one of degree. There ed the wisdom, the courage. and the .resolu­ ts no essential difference: one is computed tion necessary to achleve the bold goals set stranglehold big banks are allowed or. the on gross income; the other is computed irmn forth in their Dec1aration of Independence. economy. taxes owed. Today as we place this wreath at the foot This concerted effort to raise interest CONCLUSION of the Liberty Bell, we do so not only 1n rates and tighten money. a.S the evidence honor of the signers of the Declaration of There are only two actors in this school Independence but also 1n memory of Free­ shoVI·s, places a highly unfair burden on f quality 1n our vital economic stake the United States our environment and so that we can con­ society," he said. "More and more people are has in securing and exPanding its domes­ tinue to lead the world in production and concerned with resource conservation and tic supply of oil and petroleum products. quality of food and fiber. there's a new awareness that resources are for I would commend the example of Lee people. The impact on people of a.ll our prac­ The first order of business, however, tices is rightly being stressed. M~rgan to all of my colleagues. In a re­ must be the amendment of current stat­ "The future is just as exciting as the past utes which would limit any pipeline cent article in the Salina Journal, John has been." right-of-way across Federal land to 25 Schmiedeler wrote of Lee's contributions While the principal job of SCS wlll con­ feet on each side of the line. I have co­ to our state and to our Nation. As John tinue to be with the owners and operators sponsored H.R. 6694, a bill which would so aptly put it: of the farms and ranches of the nation, Mor­ broaden the current limits, as established Lee spent 38 years of h1B life working to gan sees expanded duties. "We're getting in­ in 1920, to permit construction of a pipe­ guarantee that the Dust Bowl is a chapter of volved with highway work, industrial devel­ history which will not be repeated. opment and many other areas in which con­ line. Such a limitation makes little sense servation concern is needed. today and should be modified, whether Lee himself summed up the success of "Down the road is action by Congress in the Alaskan or Canadian route is se­ his career when he said there is a new defining a national land use policy. That lected.. In fact, since the law has been on awareness in our society that resources means the states will have to develop a pol­ the books so long and the pipeline plans are for people and more and more are icy. What land is best suited !or agriculture? are now several years old, I cannot un­ becoming concerned with resource con­ How should industrial expansion be handled? derstand why there was no effort to servation. I think the following article Where should highways be built? These and other questions will con-cern the conserva­ change this unrealistic constraint as exemplifies very well the kind of contri­ tionist." early as 1971, when the problem must bution our Nation will need to protect Many people and institutions are involved have been apparent to informed individ­ and save om· resources for future gener­ 1n the success of SCS. Morgan has worked uals. ations: for all 4 SC.S .administrators-Hugh Ham­ In addition to voting on widening the A GREAT EVANGELIST-FOR Son. SAVING--IS mond Bennett, the conservation evangelist public land right-of-way, which I favor, STEPPING DOWN who .sold Congress and the ta;nd grant col­ the Hause will undoubtedly soon consider (By John Schmiedeler) leges on the "rJghtnessu of conservation; Dr. Robert Salter; Donald Williams, the man a companion measure to prohl'bit any When Lee T. Morgan left Kansas State further court challenges, environmental most responsible for the mn1lll watershed college with a degree ln agricultural eco­ concept in fiood control. and Kenneth Grant, or otherwise, of the trans-Alaskan route. nomics back 1n l934, he wanted nothing but the present administrator who has brought I must frankly say that I cannot support a chance to be a farmer in Southwest Kansas, the emphasis on quality. such an override of existing laws and the his home. There are men like the late Clifford Hope, principle of due process. There is little But farmers do not recall the year of the Kansas Congressman Who guided the evidence that such an override is justified, 1934 with affection. The cllsaster of the Great Great Plains concept through Congress, and Depression had been compounded by the R.I. Throckmorton, the Kansas State teach­ and it sets what seems to me an extreme­ Dust BowL In 1934, there wasn't enough ly unwise precedent. er who put the university's resources square­ raJ.nfall 1n Stevens county to grow weeds, ly behind the conservationists. Sen. Frank For your information, I have also co­ Morgan remembers. carlson helped with vision and work. H.R. 8477 So Morgan spent the next 38 years of his sponsored the Anderson bills, "THE REAL HEROES" and 8478, which can for an unbiased life working to guarantee that the Dust Bowl is a chapter of history which wnl not And there are the uncounted number of study and report of both proposed routes be repeated. farmers and ranchers who heard the con­ by the GAO, and serious consultation This week, Morgan retires from the SoU servation gospel and 9.ccepteundant supplies independents were thus become. more attractive for the major Thus during the heavy summer driving able to compete with the majors. With the oil companies to operate outright. season more gasoline is produced and.in the shortages beginning last fall independent's While the F.T.C. staff report takes a strong winter heating season more fuel oil is made. increasingly have been frozen out of the and independe~t _line, that line is a long Late last summer, when the oil industry market and prices have shot up since then. way from being translated into Administra- might have shifted from gasoline to fuel oil The institute study' notes that the average tion policy or even any ·meaningful action. to make sure there was enough for the win­ retail ·prices :for regular gasoline rose 30.9 Any antitrust action· the commission might ter, it kept producing gasoline. - per cent from 1963 through April, 1973, com- begin would take years to take effect through The industry last fall assured the public­ pared with a rise of 42.5 per cent for all con- administrative and court processes. By that and Government officials who might have sumer goods and services. · time the majors could have accomplished been able to do something about the short­ The institute did not point out such rises their goaJ_ of driving out the independents. age-that there would be no fuel-oll crisis in the last year that have meant such things The commission prides itself on taking an deep enough to do anything so drastic as as the State of New York's having to pay as independent stand in its investigations, but removing the import quotas that had kept much as 46 per cent more for the gasoline it its own study notes that even after 50 years uses in government. vehicles and New York of examining practices in the gasoline in­ out foreign oil so it could not drive down the City's having to pay as much as 51 per cent dustry it has. not brought about any real price of domestic crude. more. changes. Last January, when the shortage of fuel Concerning profits, the F.T.C. staff study "Despite the staff's success in bringing and oil became apparent, George A. Lincoln, di­ winning cases before the commission and in rector of the Federal Office of Emergency said that special tax advantages like the the courts, as well as in obtailiing compliance Preparedness, expressed irritation at the in­ depletion allowance "provide crude produ-- orders," the F.T.C. ·report said, "the petroleum dustry for continuing "on its gasoline binge cers with substantial 'unreported profits.'... industry· over the last 5Q years has managed too long" and not building up the necessal'y · The commission report . concluded that • · to circumvent the orders in many. cases by fuel-oil inventory. "there is considerable reason to believe that subtle changes in policy or practice.'' Jul.y 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25517 In his energy message of last Aprll 18 counter and has added b1111ons of dollars continue to pay for the unconscionable President Nixon proposed a voluntary alloca­ to the American family's grocery b111. profits of a handful of grain dealers. tion program to help independent operators Once again he has dipped into the If the Secretary of Agriculture had get supplies of fuel. Under the program the majors were to give a share of their fuel to pockets of every consumer in order to not sold off one-quarter of all u.s. grains the independents. The voluntary program cover u;,1 his administration's gross mis­ to the Soviet Union-at a cost to the tax­ was administered by Mr. Ligon's Office of management of the Na~!.Jn's food supply. payers of $300 million in wasteful subsi­ Oil and Gas. What has brought us to this tragic dies to a few international grain traders Asked recently if the voluntary program state of affairs where millions o:Z con­ and a cost to the consumers of billions was working, Mr-. Ligon replied "Yes, it's sumers can no longer afford to feed their of dollars in higher food prices-and if working." families three nutritious meals 7 days a he had frozen feed grain prices, we would But Ed McDermott, a lawyer for the Society not now be confronting the present food of Independent Gasoline Marketers of Amer­ week and where food shortages at the ice, said "we have gotten absolutely zero superm~rket are becoming a reality? price emergency. Even today, as incredi­ under the voluntary program run by the Of­ Obviously, the C[.. usc.3 are many and ble as it may seem, Secretary Butz has fice of Oil and Gas." complex: Bad weather in some parts of committed 400 million bushels of next "There were no teeth," he added. "The the country has caused a shortage of cer­ fall's wheat, corn, and soybean crops to majors just told them to go to hell." tain fruits and vegetables; inflation and Russia and the People's Republic of Partially to remove Federal oil policy from the psychology of inflation throughout China--causing speculators on the com­ the Interior Department and its close asso­ the entire economy has tended to push modities market to up the price of No­ ciation with the industry, the separate Oil vember soybeans-the key feed grain- Policy Committee, now headed by Deputy prices up in the food sector and some Secretary Simon, was set up. have suggested that excessive Govern­ 25 percent since July 1. It is equally in­ In a letter last June 28 to Senator Thomas ment spending, especially in the defense credible that the Department of Agri­ J. Mcintyre, Democrat of New Hampshire, sector, is also a factor. culture's Foreign Agricultural Service will who has expressed concern that the voluntary My own view, reached after consider­ spend $13 million in 1973 to promote program is not working, Mr. Simon said: able study and deliberation, is that out­ the sale abroad of U.S. agricultural com­ "I recognize your concern about the op­ rageously high food p:.-ices are a direct modities in short supply here. eration of the voluntary allocation program. My efforts and those of others to as­ We, too, feel that the program is not work­ result of the gro:;s mismanagement of ing as effectively as it should and are now the Nation's food supply by Secretary of sist the food shopper have not, unfortu­ drafting a mandatory program to take its Agriculture Earl Butz and the President. nately, fully succeeded. The Secretary of place." Mr. Speaker, the high cost of feed Agriculture, who calls concerned con­ The next day at the Western White House· grains-soybeans, corn, cottonseed used sumers "cheap-food advocates," has con­ in San Clemente, Calif., President Nixon re­ to feed livestock, hogs and poultry-is tinued politicking for higher and higher leased his new energy program. It sa.id noth­ responsible for the huge increase in the food prices. I have calle:d on him re­ ing of changing the voluntary program and retail price of beef, pork, chicken, eggs, peatedly to freeze the price of raw agri­ opposition was indicated to any mandatory cultural commodities, but he has insisted program. milk, cereal and bakery products-and Asked about the d11ferences between the the administration is responsible for the it would create shortages. Many of us President -and his Oil Policy Committee, a high cost of grain. Feed grain prices, suspected then and we all know now it spokesman for Mr. Simon said "we should not which have tripled in cost over the last was the failw·e to impose such controls have had those words in our letter." year, are a basic result of four factors: that has brought us to the brink of empty DMPORT QUOTAS OPPOSED First. the United States-Soviet grain shelves in the supermarket and empty S. David Freeman was named head of the deal and other excessive grain sales cupboards at home. energy policy staff of the White House Office abroad; In March of this year 75 Members of of Science and Technology during the John­ Second. The failure to impose controls Congress cosponsored my bill to create son Administration in 1967. He continued in on the price of key feed grains before a new congressional committee to reform that post into the Nixon Administration until their cost threatened poultry, hog, and our antiquated food policies and study he resigned in August, 1971. the reasons for high prices-a· task that Mr. Freeman has long opposed the oil-im­ other animal producers; port quotas. He called them a "drain-Amer­ Third. The failure to recognize in 1971 the agri-business oriented House Agri­ ica-first"· policy that might enrich oil com­ and 1972 that the United States and culture Committee could never perform. panies in the short run but in the long run world food supply..:and-demand situation In April of this year, I convened a would leave America even more dependent should have resulted in an increase in meeting in Washington of boycott lead­ on foreign sources. available acreage for production rather ers from across the country to discuss than continuing to pay farmers not to strategy for bringing food prices down. produce, and As a result of that meeting, a new Na­ Fourth. The sale of every Government tional Consumer Congress was formed, PHASE IV WILL ADD BILLIONS TO decision to the highest campaign contrib­ which, hopefully, will result in a per­ U.S. FAMILY GROCERY BILLS utor. manent consumer lobbying force Secretary Butz, it must be said, was throughout the country. HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL the chief architect of these policies of Recently, I wrote a letter signed by a OP NEW YORK mismanagement and neglect anci. the number. of other Congressmen, urging President must assume full responsibility the Cost of Living Council not to sell out IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for them. the consumer when phase IV food price Monday, July 23, 1973 The fact that phase IV removes the regulations were promulgated. Mr. ROSENTHAL. !!r. Speaker, the ceiling on all retail food prices-beef Obviously, the consumer has not fared Nixon administration anticonsumer bias ceilings w111 come off on September 12, well in an administration whose only real is nowhere Letter demonstrated than in 1973-is sufficient reason to doubt its constituency can be found within the its feeble attempts to cope with the '::lUr­ wisdom. But equally disturbing is the pages of F:'ortune's 500 biggest corpora­ in rent food Pri·~e emergency. tions. Nor will consumers fare well the fact that no adequate data has been de­ battles to come unless they organize in Becat.:Je the administration lacked the veloped regarding the reason for the cow·age and foresight to freeze key raw the same way and to the same extent removal: to allow poultry and animal as the agri-business interests and until agricultural commodities months ago, producers to pass along to the consumer food prices have continued to skyrocket a Federal Consumer Protection Agency during practically every phase of its the admittedly high price of feed grains is established in Washington to serve as economic stabilization program. used to feed their animals. their voice before and within the Gov­ Real farm income increased 14 per­ Americans should be told-if the ad­ ernment. cent last year. Food processors recordcj ministration has the answers-how many Mr. Speaker, Amelican consumers record profits and, of course, fo::>d prices grain companies are presently holding have reached the breaking point insofar themselves reached historic high levels. grain that will be sold to animal farm­ as food prices are concerned. Their pock­ With the recent announcement of ers? What prices ar~ they asking? What etbooks are not bottomless pits and they phase N food price regtllations, the Pres­ kind of profits wlll they make? must not be made to bear any loni;er ident has guaranteed another round of In short, I suspect that 210 million the brunt of the administration's dis­ sev~.re . inflation at the supermarket American consumers are paying and will astrous econonlic policies. 25518 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 ENGINEERS APPLY SPACE TECH­ ter for secondary uses such as watering lawns, tation of one of the most respected men NOLOGY TO DOWN-TO-EARTH the apartment complex could reduce total of the entire area. water consumption by as much as three­ PROBLEMS fifths without cutting down on the number He served in World War I and also o( showers the apartment dwellers take. during the Mexican Border War. The HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE They calculate a 50-percent reduction 1n editorial so well describes the even dis­ thermal pollution, 35 percent in air ponu:.. position of this fine gentleman. He was OF TEXAS tion, 80 percent in liquid waste, and a 65 per­ one who had a good sense of humor. He IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cent reduction in solid waste disposal. This was kind and considerate and though a Monday, July 23, 1973 is due to using heat more efficiently, recycling man of stature he was always humble. much of the water, and burning the solid Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, wastes. Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege and :Mr. David F. Salisbury, staff correspond­ "Right now the utilities are very interested honor to read into the CoNGRESSIONAL ent of the Christian Science Monitor, in in our project;• Mr. Hays explained. "But RECORD the editorial as it appeared in the a recent article cited the opportunity they've got to have something concrete to Independence Examiner for July 20, that exists for employing space tech­ chew on." 1973: nology in solving our day-to-day prob­ NO EXOTIC TECHNOLOGY CHARLES CHRISTIAN BUNDSCHU lems right here on earth. Mr. Salisbury So the next step wn be to convert these Soldier, sportsman, businessman, commu­ discusses the recent establishment of the calculations into reality. According to Mr. nity leader-Independence has lost one of Its Hays, the demonstration plant that they plan finest citizens-C. C. Bundschu. Urban Systems Projects Office at the to build will use "off-the-shelf" items-no A member of a pioneer Independence fam­ Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tex. exotic space technology. ily, C. C.'s roots were planted deep in the This is but one example of the way in Even so, the system wlll be more expensive community he loved and served so well dur­ which the technology derived from our to build than the old type of housing com­ ing the years the Bundschu family operated national space effort is and can be ap­ plex. Mr. Hays feels that this will greatly Independence's largest department store. plied to the problems of better living influence its acceptabllity. Whenever a meeting was held to discuss here on Earth, not only for the people of "Suppose I show you two similar houses," improving the central business district of this country but for the world. The arti­ he lllustrated. "One costs $5,000 more than Independence, C. C. was there to help with the other. Even if I tell you that the expen­ suggestions and work. Most, who knew and cle follows: sive one is better designed and insulated worked with him, would agree he was one qf ENGINEERS APPLY SPACE TECHNOLOGY To and will save you $10,000 over 20 years, which the most respected businessmen in Independ­ DOWN-TO-EARTH PROBLEMS would you buy?" ence. (By David F. Salisbury) But, he added, we must begin to be mind­ C. C. had a remarkably even disposition. It Engineers who helped put men on the ful of long-term consequences. was hard to ruffie his feathers . . . hls moon are being challenged ~.o look at a com­ Earth really is a spaceship beautifully "de­ chuckle was almost a trademark. His hon­ munity on earth as if it were a spaceship signed" to support life during its immense esty and integrity were above reproach. One and design its life-support systems accord­ cosmic journey. The best way to preserve time during the war days of gas rationing, ingly. "spaceship earth" may well be to design someone offered him a few extra gas ration That is what the Urban Systems Project every community as carefully as a spaceship stamps, which he immediately re.fused. Office here is doing. Working under an agree­ must be designed. At le:lSt that is what Mr. Although a graduate engineer, he was an ment with the Department of Housing and Hays and those working wtth h1m are com­ astute retailer. The A. J. Brundschu Com­ Urban Development, they are attempting to mitted to do. pany was widely known and widely respected. apply aerospace methods to the problem of Its prosperity waned only when the retail cutting down pollution and conserving nat­ giants changed Americans' shopping habits ural resources without changing people's With the advent of the huge shopping cen­ life-styles. CHARLES CHRISTIAN BUNDSCHU ters designed for a mobile population. "We're still in the concept stages,'' ex­ C. C. was an avid hunter and fisherman. plains project manager Edward L. Hays. "We Many were his friends who sat with h1m in hope to start building a demonstration plant the duck blinds or tramped the fields for by 1974. You can work with a pencil and HON. WM. J. RANDALL coveys of quail. Just a couple of weeks ago, paper for years and only get so far.'' OF MISSOURI he took some of his grandchildren on a fish­ Just over a year ago when this office was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing trip to Pomme de Terre. formed, its first major undertaking was to He was a soldier, having served 1n the field retread aerospace "cadets•' to familiarize Monday, July 23, 1973 artlllery during the Mexican border war and them with the hardware and organtzation in World War L He loved to tell of humorous of a community. A space-suite engineer be­ Mr. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, every incidents which occurred while he was wear­ came a water and liquid waste specialist. community in our land proudly recog­ ing the uniform. A person who analyzed such expendables as nizes the outstanding leadership of its c. c. lived by a set of Christian principles food or fuel quantities on Apollo missions citizens. That is why we should never fail which made him seem stern at times. His studied solid waste management on Earth. to take the time to pause and mourn the ideals were so high that most would find FRAG~ APPROACH passing of big men who contributed to them impossible to attain. He was kind and This team of experts found traditional the building of the community in which considerate . . . he was friendly to all. Even ways of providing basic services to be in­ they lived. though a man of considerable stature, he was always humble. efficient and outmoded. Sewage companies It is for such reasons that I have asked treat sewage. Electrical companies provide He was devoted to his wife and family. He unanimous consent that an editorial was unshakable in hls convictions. electricity. 011 companies deliver heating oll. from the Examiner be read into the Water districts provtde water. We could fill pageg praising C. c. Brunds­ "This fragmented approach was accepta­ RECORD in order that it may be preserved chu, his attributes were so many. ble,'' they sald, "as long as energy resources as a part of the archives to honor the We're going to miss him. Independence will appeared infinite, environmental impacts memory of that distinguished citizen of miss him. were small, and developable land was not Independence, Mo., Charles Christian Not many men of his stature pass our way in short supply. This is no longer the case Bundschu. in the short span of a li!etlme. today and will be even less so in the future." Without knowing what member of the So they proposed integrating all these var­ staff of the Examiner had authored the ious systems in ways that would maximize editorial, let me observe that it must have the efficiency of each and minimize environ­ AMENDMENT TO H.R. 8480 mental impacts. Applying this philosophy to been by one who knew well the life of a hypothetical soo-unit apartment house, C. C. Bundschu. The writer points out they have found that impressive savings are that Mr. Bundschu was a member of a possible. pioneer family. Let me add that his HON. HENRY S. REUSS By producing the electricity at the site father, Anton J. Bundschu, founded the OP WISCONSIN and using the generator's "waste heat" for first department store in Independence, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES drying clothes and !or space and water heat­ Mo. This well-written editorial quite ap­ ing, and uslng solld wastes as an extra source propriately points out that this fine citi- Monday, July 23, 1973 of heat, the amount of fuel a community uses can be cut down by 35 percent. zen made many contributions to the Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, when H.R. By d1st1lling and recycling waste water progress of the community he loved. U 8480, the anti-impoundment bill·, comes (again using heat that would otherwise be was because of his participation in civic up on Tuesday, July 24, 1973, I intend to wasted) and using partially reprocessed wa- enterprises that earned for him a repu-. offer an amen~en~ deietlng title n of July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25519 the bill,. which sets a spending ceiling of uate school. While one doesn't profess to riod could not be accounted for by commodity remember all of the brilliant alumni, one imports into Laos. Our officials in both Laos $267.1 billion for fiscal1974. thinks of such newspapermen-turned-his­ and Washington readily confessed that they The text of the amendment follows: torians as Gerald Johnson, Jonathan Daniels, do not know what the Lao did with the Strike out title n (beginning on line 11, Douglas Southall Freeman, Carl Sandburg, $50 mlllion. page 11, and ending on line 10, page 14). Virginius Dabney and, of course, Glenn During our hearings on the economy and Page 1, strike out lines 3 and 4. Tucker. efficiency of U.S. economic assistance pro­ grams in Cambodia. AID officials clearly ex­ plained their reasoning for establishing a spe­ CONTINUED FUNDING OF DEATH cial exchange fund to finance imports for GLENN TUCKER JUST GETTING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Cambodia when they testified that the fund STARTED AT 80 would finance "those kinds of things that we either did not wish to, or legally could HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD not finance out of a commodity import HON. WILLIAM C. BRAY OF PENNSYLVANIA program." OF INDIANA Our officials rationalize that concealed cor­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rupton cannot hurt the U.s. foreign assist­ Monday, July 23, 1973 ance program. Are we as responsible repre­ Monday, July 23, 1973 sentatives of the American people going to Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mr. permit this uncontrolled expenditure of mil­ BRAY. Mr. Speaker, the following Speaker, on February 1, 1973, I called to lions of U.S. tax dollars to continue? editorial from the Raleigh, N.C., News your attention a matter of grave concern Mr. Speaker, during the closing days of and Observer pays a well-deserved trib­ to this Congress-the continuation of the 92d Congress, we passed a continuing res­ ute to a former Hoosier, Glenn Tucker, fighting in Laos and Cambodia. In def­ olution for the funding of our foreign assist­ who has just, at age 83, brought out his erence the President, Congress has ance programs. In doing so, Congress indi­ 12th book-"Mad Anthony Wayne and to cated that final funding for the administra­ permitted continued funding of the tion's $894 million supporting assistance ap­ the New Nation." bombing in Cambodia through August 15, Glenn, s. long-time friend, started his propriation request would not exceed $600 1973. Current indicatior ~ are that we in million. Every Member of the 93d Congress journalistic career in Indiana after grad­ Congress may be asked to extend this should be carefully considering the authori­ uation from DePauw University prior to date. zation and appropriation of funding for AID's World War I. He served as an infantry Mr. Speaker, the American dollar is supporting assistance programs which will be officer in France. After the war he joined still undoubtedly the prime factor in the up for a vote before the Congress very shortly. the New York World Bureau in Wash­ With proper U.S. control over the expendi­ ington, D.C. His reporting is partially continued fighting in Southeast Asia. I ture of these funds, it would be necessary for responsible for the Federal Communica­ urge my colleagues to again read my the Congress to appropriate less than half tions Act. He left journalism, entered Febru:uy 1, 1973, comments which fol­ the amounts it has been providing for sup­ public relations, then went back ro jour­ low: porting assistance purposes. Clearly, we must NEED FOR FURTHER REDUCTIONS IN SUPPORTING speak to our AID officials in the only language nalism and for a time was Washington they understand-the language of the appro­ correspondent for the Indianapolis News. ASSISTANCE APPROPRIATIONS Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speak­ priated dollar. As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted: er, I call to your attention a matter that Cato learned Greek at eighty ... should be of grave concern to this Congress. ITr'S HOLDINGS A CONGLOMERATE I do not know if Glenn is studying On .:-anuary 24, President Nixon declared a cease fire for Vietnam eft'ective January 27, SUPERMARKET Greek or not, but I would not be a bit 1973. It is difficult to understand why it was surprised. necessary for our fighting forces to finish out The article follows: the week--during which four more Ameri­ HON. JOE L. EVINS TuCKER JUST GETI'ING STARTED AT 80 can fighting men were killed-but it would OF TENNESSEE Glenn Tucker of Fairview, who turned seem that the fighting in Vietnam is finally IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nearing an end. Sadly, the same does not from newspapering to writing history and Monday, July 23, 1973 biography late in middle age, is just reaching appear to be true for Laos and Cambodia. his stride at 80 with his twelfth volume, A contributing factor to the continuation Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, "Mad Anthony Wayne and the New Nation." of the fighting in Laos and Cambodia is un­ the distinguished former economist of Physically, Tucker fits the description writ­ doubtedly the amount of American dollars the Federal Trade Commission, Prof. ten by the late Robinson Jeffers: "The heads supplied to feed the existing corruption. As Willard F. Mueller, now with the Univer­ of strong old age are beautiful/Beyond all long as powerful groups of individuals in graco of youth." Laos and Cambodia can make a dollar on the sity of Wisconsin, has testified that the But instead of savoring, or looking back, war, they will attemr-t to continue the f'.ght­ interrelated, massive conglomerate op­ Tucker is busily making plans for additional ing. erations of rrr range from :Janking to history books and biographies, and he brings During the last Congress, the Foreign Op­ home furnishings, lawn fertilizer, insur­ to this second phase of his life the same zeal erations and Government Information Sub­ ance, banking, foods, car rentals, pub­ and ebullience he brought to reporting when committee, which I chair, prepared reports lishing and extensive operations as a he was covering the White House during the showing the gross lack of control over the Government defense contractor. latter part of Wo:::drow Wilson's tenure. expenditure of millions of dollars under U.S. He is older than Browning was when the grant programs to both Laos and Cambodia Because of the interest of my col­ militant poet trumpeted, in "Rabbi Ben which are administered by the U.S. Agency leagues and the American people in this Ezra," "Grow old along with me/The best is for International Development--Need a copy? most important subject, I place an arti­ yet to be." But the intrepid Englishman Phone 225-3741. In replying to our reports, cle from the Progressive magazine in the would have to get up early to match Glenn Agency officials have advised me that they RECORD herewith. Tucker's unbounded optimism for llfe. And have carefully re·.iewed the reports but that The article follows: nothing will be done to establish proper U.S. when a man lives, has reverence for life, each THE WAY ITT Is sunrise is an exhilarating bonus, a marvelous controls over these programs. challenge. That's way some people never grow Over the past 20 years, one scandal after (Willard F. Mueller, University of Wisconsin old, albeit, it Is the absence of this incessant another has surfaced in our foreign assist­ economist, before the Senate Monopoly spirit of high adventure that superannuates ance operations. Past programs in both Laos Subcommittee, November 12, 1971) so many today when they have just turned and Cambodia have been especially trouble­ As a consumer you can buy a home and live thirty. some. To cover up the continued corruption in one of ITT-Levitt's planned communities: Although Mr. Tucker is not a "Tar Heel in tht>se countries, AID officials have devised buy furnishings for your home with per­ born," he typifies the best to which the most s::hemes whereby the United States contrib­ sonal loans from one of ITT's finance subsid­ eloquent native son is supposed to aspire. utes millions of dollars purportedly to pay the iaries; fertilize your lawn with ITT's Scott Indeed, his exce_llent biography of Zeb Vance foreign exchange costs o! imports needed by fertilizer; insure your home at ITT-Hartford and his labors on behalf of the Western the Lao and Cambodian people. However, our Fire Insurance; buy your life insurance from North Carolina Historical Society give him officials have been especially careful not to one of ITT's life insurance subsidiaries: in­ a prominent seat at the head table whenever create any real control over this expenditure vest your savings ln ITT-Hamilton Manage­ the select foregather. of the taxpayers money. In !act, the AID ment mutual funds; munch on ITT-Conti- And in 197S he carries on that splendid mission director 1n Laos reported that over nental bakery products: savor an ITT-Smith­ American tradition of the excellent historian $50 mlllion of the $95 mllllon made avallable field ham; buy cigarettes and coffee from ITT­ produced by a news room and not by a grad- to Laos for imports over a recent 4-year pe- Canteen vending machines; stay at hotels 25520 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 or motels owned by rrr-Sheraton: rent a car government a.re universal values which Covey wrote in the December 1. 1969 from rrr-Avls; buy books from ITr's Bobbs­ are sought by all men. And, as long as ROTANY in Atlanta bulletin: Merrlll publishing division, or attend one of some are denied these rights, we must "Bob has progressed with unusual speed ITT's technical and business schools. . • • and 1f I were to hazard a guess I'd say that Moreover, part of each of your tax dollars continue to speak out and raise our he will some day step in to the place that spent on defense and space programs goes to voices--not to arbitrarily impose our his dear father once occupied. . ." ITT, which 1s one of the nation's leading will-but in defense of a free choice by The army drafted him for the Korean war prime defense contractors. rrr maintains a free people. and Bob spent 2 years at Camp Benning Washington's "hot line" to Moscow, mans the The people of Latvia, Estonia and where he advanced to three striper. Air Force Distant Early Warning (DEW) Lithuania; the men and women of Willis Johnson, Jr., former editor of South­ system and the giant Ballistic Missile Early Czechoslovakia and Hungary, deserve ern Banker and now vice-president of Trust Warning System (BMEWS) sites in Greenland the right to determine their own destiny Company, sent out the news release April and Alaska. the large NASA t:acllity at Cocoa 17, 1973: Beach, Florida, and the Defense Department's today, as much as the people of the 13 Top level changes have been announced ln Western Test Range in California. colonies did in the 18th century. the management of Trust Company of Mr. Speaker, I wish to let our capti­ Georgia and its holding company. Trust vated friends know of our continued Company of Ga. Associates. support for their cause. As a nation, we A. H. Sterne, 60, was elected chairman of must show our concern for the peoples the board of Trust Co. of Georgia. CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK Mr. Sterne, who has served as president of nations which have been denied the since 1964, succeeds George S. Craft, 63, who opportunity of being equals in the world will continue active as chairman of the ex­ HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON community. ecutive Committee. OP CALIFOBNU As we commemorate Captive Nations Robert Strickland, Jr., 45, was elected pres­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Week, let us hope that recent interna­ ident of Trust Company, second largest bank­ tional agreements by the United States ing company in Georgia, whlle Bradley Cur­ Monday, July 23, 1973 will help all captive nations attain free­ rey, Jr., 42, was named vice chairman. Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. dom and independence. But until such During 1972, both Messrs. Strickland and Currey had been elected to the position of Speaker, this past week, July 15-21, a time when those millions have the basic senior executive vice president, with each marked the 15th observance of Captive rights which they deserve, let us pledge elected to the boards of Trust Co. of Ga. Nations Week which is recognized both to speak out in behalf of these oppressed and Trust Company of Georgia Associates. here and abroad. Since July 1959, when people. Wm. R. Bowdoin, 59, remains as vice chair­ Congress passed and President Eisen­ While the United States is making man of Trust Company as well as chairman hower signed Public Law 86-90, we have progress toward world peace, let us not of Trust Co. of Ga. Associates. observed this commemorative week. forget to show our sympathies to those James B. Williams, 39, formerly chairman Despite the changing foreign policy of who hope to live as freely as we do in of First National Bank & Trust Co. of Au­ gusta, an affiliate in the Associates group, has the United States in past years, we can­ America. Individual liberty for all is a been elected president of Associates. not deny that many nations in Europe goal which all of us must work towards W. Evans Bruner, 60, formerly executive and Asia, as well as other sectors of the and support-not just for a week-but vice pres., has been elected vice chairman o! world, remain captive today. tmtil that time comes when all are free, associates. Therefore, Captive Nations Week pro­ and the yoke of repression has been re­ In 1922, Bob Strickland, Sr. helped my vides an opportunity for Americans to moved. Altanta Jr. C. of C . Banking Committee co!l­ show their solidarity and support for the duct a school of banking. aspirations of the people of Eastern and Here is a clipping from the Atlanta Jr. ROBERT STRICKLAND NAMED HEAD Chamber Official Publication for May 15, 1922 Central Europe for freedom and self­ listing top bankers who gave their time and determination. OF GEORGIA BANK talents: Since World War II, we have seen the birth of new nations, especially in Asia "EXCELLENT COURSE IN BANKING TO BE OFFERED and Africa. Obviously, these fledgling HON. BEN B. BLACKBURN "One of the best and most complete educa­ OF GEORGIA tional courses ever o1fered by the Junior countries illustrate man's desire to be Chamber wm get under way on Tuesday IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES truly free. But during these same years, night, June 6th. It wlll be a thorough course we have seen similar attempts at free­ Monday, July 23, 1973 in modern day banking. dom stunted and repressed by force. "The course will consist of two lectures We also wish to let captive nations Mr. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, Hu­ each week for three weeks. They Will be held know that we disdain policies which bert F. Lee, founder and editor of the on Tuesday and Thursday nights in the as­ frustrate a country's desire for self-gov­ publication Dixie Business. has prepared sembly hall of the Chamber of Commerce. ernment. We feel that by denying self­ a column in the edition for the summer "In giving thls course to the members of determination to a nation, the rights 1973 of one of Georgia's leading banking the Junior Chamber the men at the top of and freedoms of its citizens are prohibit­ authorities, Robert Strickland. the banking profession have been secured to Mr. Lee's article reads as follows: give the lectures. ed from becoming a reality. "Those who are interested in banking could ROBERT STRICKLAND HEADS TRUST Co. For decades, citizens of Eastern and not receive a better course anywhere than Central Europe have lived under the OF GEORGIA the one offered by the Junior Chamber. domination of a foreign government­ (By Hubert F. Lee) "The men who wm give the lectures are the Soviet Union-which has not per­ The election of Robert Strickland, 45, as as follows: mitted the freedoms to which we are ac­ president of the Trust Company of Georgia "Mr. R. L. Adams, Secretary Bankers' Trust on April 17, 1973 brought nostalgic memories Co.; customed in this country. And this re­ of the Atlanta I knew half a century or so "Mr. E. A. Banker. Jr., Vice-President pression, while not directly affecting our ago. Lowry National Bank; people, must be shared by all of us, since His father was executive vice-president of "Mr. W. M. Bell. Cashier, Federal Reserve no person can be completely free, no per­ a bank in 1922 when I asked him to help Bank; son can live without fear of repression, conduct a banking school for the Atlanta "Mr. R. F. Maddox, President Atlanta Na­ as long as some are lacking freedom. Junior C. of C. tional Bank; As long as some are denied basic free­ His father was a greater leader in 1946 "Mr. Robert Strickland, Sr., Vice-President doms-free travel, free expression, the when he died o! cancer while president of Fourth National Bank; the Trust Co. of Georgia. '"Mr. W. V. Crowley, Cashier, Citizens & free exercise of religion, the freedom to Bob. Jr. (UI), attended Marlst where he assemble, the freedom to select their own played guard on the football team. He ex­ Southern Bank. celled in debating &nd ROTC. "No organization could get higher grade leaders-a part of our own liberty is or a better list of instructors than these. withheld. Bob received his Bachelor of arts degree in "All members are urged to let the Secretary Thus, their cause is our cause. Business Administration at Davidson College. He joined Trust Company in 1948 at the know at once 1! they desire to take this The urge for freedom transcends geo­ bottom of the ladder that in 25-years he splendid course.'' graphical boundaries; it is not llmlted clitnbed to the presidency. Bob Strlckl&nd, Sr. was one of the top to one nationality. nor is it the exclusive Bob enrolled in the Atlanta Law School at leaders who formed the Georgia Agriculture reserve of those of us privileged to live 1n night. and Development Board, which then Gover­ this COlmtry. When George Craft introduced Bob as nor Elll.s Arnall told about in an article in Rather, self-determination and self- a member o! Atlanta Rotary Club, Chet the FALL 1945 issue of Dixie Business. July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25521

The organization today is known as the be no more effective 1n meeting consumer by. government ministries will be transferred Georgia Department of Community Rela­ needs than have those of t .he past. to the corporations. We won't hold our breath tions headed by Gen. Louis W. Truman. · Needless to .saJ. the .Russian housewives awaiting the renaissance. DIXIE BUSINESS in the Spring 1946 is­ have the worst of things bJ far, and have But we might hold our breath while Con­ sue featured the 1946 meeting ot the Ga. As­ had for as long as anyone can remember. But gressmen and omcla.ls flirt with the beguiling sociated Industries whose speaker was Bob then, Soviet government started much concept of econ-omic control which has Strickland, Sr. longer ago to try to repeal the laws ot marke"t brought the Russians so much grief. You As Bob died later in 1946 of cancer I feel economics. For an practica.l purposes, the might say it can't happen here. But you ::l.little blessed to have covered his 1922 bank­ United States government only joined in might also say that it already is happening. ing lecture for the Atlanta Jaycees and one of this noble experiment ln August 1971. But his speeches in 1946 when he was selling the the way things :are going, it m :ay not be importance of Research to business leaders. long before the U.S. has a non-market eco­ Here is part of the report from the Spring nomy that works as badly as has the Soviet BLAKE LOWRY RETIRES 1916 issue of Dixie Business: Union's nonmar.ket economy. Robert Strickland, president of the Trust .It is not too late to profit from Russia's Company of Georgia, Atlanta, feature speaker bad example, although we would have to ad­ at the annual meeting, spoke on "Industrial mit that a.s we write this the House Banking HON. PAUL FINDLEY P..esearch 1n Dixie.'' A vice chairman of the Committee .sounds increasingly as it it has OF ILLINOIS Southern Research Institute, Strickland de­ been getting its basic research from the in­ clared that ..There must be support in ap­ ner reaches of Gosplan. Possibly it comes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES plied research. We must provide jobs in these from those countless toilers who spend their Monday, July 23, 1973 new fields ln order to keep our young boys lives poring over wholesale price lists try­ and girls in our own section." ing to decide, more or less Intuitively, Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, on Fri­ whether hairpins, tack hammers, hatracks day, July 6, 1973, I attended a retire­ and hay forks should be marked up, or down, ment dinner in Litchfield, m., honoring a kopeck. Blake Lowry, Montgomery County game MUDDLING WITHOUT MARKETS It would not be overstating the ease to warden for his 34 years of service to say that the fundamental weakness of the conservation in the State of nlinois. Soviet economic system lies within its mind­ HON. BILL ARCHER less etiort to manage prices by state fiat. Friends and relatives from as far away as Florida, California, and the State of OF XEXAS The consequencies abound through the land. Residential blocks or perhaps even entire Washington were in attendance. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cities sometimes have no services that West­ dinner was held not just to app1aud a Monday, July 23, 1973 erners take for granted-maybe dry clean­ retiring public servant, but to recognize ing establishments are missing, or eyeglass a man of rare talents and devotion to Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, it has long stores. Or the constant swings from surfeit to been my conviction that all forms of wage the job of making his world a better Shortage ln consumer items-one year there place for all of us. and price controls attack only the symp­ is a surplus of clothes pins, the next, none at toms, and not the -causes, of inflation. It all to be found. And through it all, the let­ During his career, Mr. Lowry instruct­ is for that reason that I have consistently ters to Pravda a.nd Economic Gazette argue ed over 5,000 youths in his firearms opposed granting powers in that regard the .question, "Who's to blame? The farmers? safety programs. To date, no student to the executive branch. The factory managers? The coal miners?,. who has ever taken this instruction has Ex}Jerience teaches us that govern­ If that is the way the letters to The New been involved in a firearms accident or York Times and The Wall Street Journal violation. Mr. Lowry became widely mental attempts to "repeal" the law of are beginning to sound, it is no slight coin­ supply and demand will ultimately lead known for his presentations on ronser­ cidence. vation and ecology to youth groups, and to shortages and black market situations. In Iact, the ones to blame are the theorists There can be no doubt that the recent who insist that the consumer benefits when civic and service organizations. In ad­ "phase 3%" price freeze has caused ad­ the state substitutes its economic manage­ dition to his regular duties, he pre­ verse effects on the supply of foods, plac­ ment for market forces. It is a beguiling con­ sented weekly programs on illinois con­ ing many poultry, meat, dairy, and vege­ cept. The market forces sometimes are pain­ servation for several years. table producers in a position of loss. Per­ ful when prices of some necessity go up. So Blake's philosophy is that the best way haps the only "good" to emerge from the state removes the pa.ln by ordering the to enforce conservation laws is to make prices to stay put. The Russians decided a. the youths of the State aware of the that distressing situation will be a real­ long time ago that the idea had such simple ization by the American public of the beauty that they built their economic system laws and why they are necessary. H"IS folly of any long-term controls. upon it. days off and much of his vacation time Last April 6, the Wall Street Journal It's a little too simple, however. Markets was taken up by providing outdoor ex­ published an editorial which, in effect, and prices allocate resources (we sometimes periences for the handicapped children correctly predicted the ill effects which wonder why we have to keep repeating this) in Montgomery County. now beset the average consumer. The and do it with far greater efficiency than One of Blake's proudest accomplish­ Journal's remarks are stlll pertinent and could a mllllon planners armed with a mil­ ments was being one of several conser­ lion computers. A free market is itself a.n all­ vation law enforcement officers to give should be seriously considered as we now encompassing computer, the best ever de­ head into phase IV. The sooner we can signed, constantly ~epting b111ions of buy­ birth to the civil service system and the return to a system of supply and demand ing de.c1sion inputs, assigning values to the merit system in the Department of Con­ and an open market the sooner we will goods bought and thereby allocating a na­ servation in the State of nlinois. be able to create a m-ore stable econ­ tion's :finite productive resources to satisfy During his tenure as game warden in omy-and a-void future phases XXX, those human needs and wants that the buy­ Montgomery County, Blake Lowry helped XL,andL. ing decisions reflected. organize and run the first bird dog field The editorial follows: Why don't the Russians try the market trial in the State of Illinois. He origi­ approach? A conjectural answer is that while first [.Prom the Wall Street Journal., Apr. 6, 1973] the existing system is maddening for con­ nated the firearms safety program MUDDLING WITHOUT MARKErs sumers. it is comfortable for the managerial in the Department of Conservation and he was a member of the first bowling The pa-rallel between the problems of the bureaucracy. It doesn't take much creative Soviet Union and those of the United States thought to respond to an order from Moscow team in the Department of Conservation. might not be obvious, but it exists. to produce 10 million alarm clocks and sell Blake has been active in bird dog field The parallel we speak of is in the prob­ them at 2 rubles apiece. Who can be blamed trials nationwide. He has judged an of lems of the marketplace. American house­ it nobody wants that many alarm clocks? A the major field trials in Tilinois and the wives have been unhappy with meat prices more profound answer might be that Soviet Lowry strain of English Setter bird dogs and Congressmen are screaming lor new, authorities fear the long-term consequences of a real decentralization of decision making are well known throughout the Midwest. tougher price controls on meat, rents and Blake Lowry was an outstanding ath­ who knows what else. power. Economic and political power are not In Ru13Sia, where state controlled prices unrelated. lete, playing for the well known Red and ha-ve been a. f-act of life stnce the revolu­ So the Soviet government came up with White baseball team of Litchfield, m. for tion, housewives recently have been more yet another token decentralization. It set up many years. For 10 years he coached a unhappy than usual over shortages of food a group of large government "'corporations" Little League team and one of his unde­ and other consumer goods. So the govern­ to take over management of groups ~ .indus­ feated teams represented Litchfield in ment has responded, with yet another "eco­ trial plants. So.m.e o-r the decision ma.kin,g the Ray Schalk Evergreen Park playoff ,nomic reform,.. which, we would guess, wm authority over the plants formerly exercised. in Chicago, which they won. 25522 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 Mr. Lowry plans to remain active in a closed hearing in which it is understood It is an open secret that Washington firmly his retirement, taking part 1n field trials Colby will be asked about the CIA budget sided with the King In his politically rleblli­ and other unresolved questions involving tatlng struggle with the Papandreou govern­ and developing his line of bird dogs. the agency's authority as well as the Greek ment a struggle that early finally led to gov­ Mr. Speaker, Blake Lowry serves as an question. ernmental paralysis and set the stage for the example to us all of leadership, devotion During last week's hearing, Colby also coup. to principle, practical wisdom, and above promised to discuss In secret the shadowy all, humanity. Forty Committee. the high-level agency, GREEK COLONELS, U.S. TOURISTS, chaired by Henry A. Kissinger through which AND THE 6TH FLEET the President transmits authorization for (By John K. Cooley) clandestine CIA operations abroad. ATHENs.-This year, Americans will be NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GREECE Much of the relationship between the CIA nearly half of about 2 million tourists visit­ and the Greek colonels has leaked out in bits ing Greece. and pieces In the years since the coup. Most come to enjoy the traditional sites of Papadopoulos, a former Intelligence officer antiquity like the Acropolis and the temples HON. DON EDWARDS according to his official biography, is known of Delphi; to sample Greece's clear skies and to have been a key official in KYP, the Greek OF CALIFORNIA seas and the good cuisine and lighthearted intelligence bureau, which during the pre­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES music. coup period reportedly got direct subsidies Vital as they are to Greece's booming econ­ Monday, July 23, 1973 from CIA operatives in Ath.ens. omy, the American tourists and innumera­ The question of direct cash payments to ble personal links between the 9 million Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. Papadopoulos also was raised at Colby's Greeks and over a million people ot Greek Speaker, with the growing problems and hearing by Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., extraction in the United States, are only the deteriorating political situation in acting Armed Services Committee chairman parts of the complex Greek-American rela­ Greece I think it is important for my and the sole senator present at the session. tionship. colleagues to keep abreast of develop­ Colby, who claimed to have "researched" On June 1 a new phase of this relationship the question of any CIA-coup connection opened. George Papadopoulos, the former ments, and for that reason I have en­ after a. widely publicized news report In the tered the following articles into today's Greek artillery colonel and intelligence of­ London Observer repeating anew the charges ficer who has ruled since he and a group of CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD. of CIA complicity with the colonels, was un­ fellow-conspirators seized power in April, These articles reflect the growing con­ able to make a direct denial. 1967, deposed exiled King Constantine. cern our western partners have about the "I cannot answer that one, Mr. Chairman, He ordered drafting of new constitutional Papadopoulos regime and the United !or sure," Colby admitted. "I just do not amendments ensuring that he would remain States continued support of it. I think know. I do not believe we did personally. I at the head of an authoritarian republic for that both articles point to the need for can say that we did not pay him personally, at least seven years more--all to be con­ I am sure." firmed In a referendum July 29, in which a thorough reevaluation and reconsider­ Taken with Colby's veiled admission of ation of our policies in regard to Greece abstention will be punishable crime. CIA contacts with Papadopoulos "from time One of the first things the Papadopoulos and the Papadopoulos regime. The sug­ to time ... in his official capacity;• that re­ government said was that the new republic gestion from reliable sources that the sponse is interpreted as tantamount to an would be a "constitutional, presidential, Central Intelligence Agency may have open acknowledgement of CIA subsidies of Western-type democracy" (In Greek, demok­ been directly involved in removing the theKYP. ratia means either democracy or republic, as government of one of our allies and re­ In the view of one knowledgeable former one chooses) . CIA operative who has kept close tabs on The stress was on "Western." Mr. Papado­ placing it with a military dictatorship the agency, Colby's testimony on this .point deserves serious investigation. poulos's opponents and even some of his clearly implies close and continuing coopera­ supporters instantly identified the phrase as I heartily recommend the article tion between the CIA and Greek intelligence a bid for American support; to sell the idea "Colby Hints CIA Greek Coup Link" by during the years before the coup. that parliamentary elections promised for Oswald Johnston which appeared in the The testimony accordingly gives further 1974 actually would be the long-hoped-for Washington Evening Star and Daily weight to the theory, never proved but firmly return to parliamentary rule. News on July 10. I also call my colleagues believed by many responsible critics of U.S. support of the Athens regime, that Washing­ SYMPATHY AROUSED close attention to the problems in United ton fully expected-and tacitly encouraged­ There was some West European and Ameri­ States-Greek relations discussed in the a. right-wing royalist coup In th~ spring of can sympathy for ex-King Constantine and July 10 Christian Science Monitor by 1967 to forestall the expected electoral vic­ for exiled former Prime Minister Constantine John K. Cooley in his article "Greek tory of the mildly leftist Center Union party Karamanlis, both of whom denounced the Colonels, U.S. Tourists, and the 6th of George Papandreou. colonels' move as illegal. Fleet." According to this reading of the situation, Aware of this sympathy-U.S. Ambassador to Greece Henry J. Tasca described Mr. Kara­ CoLBY HINTS CIA GREEK CoUP LINK the coup was expected to have been carried out, with support of King Constantine, by manlis to U.S. congressmen as "a very able (By Oswald Johnston) the Greek mllitary establishment. man" who "served his country very well" as SYMINGTON. At any time has Mr. Papa­ The theory further holds that Papadopou­ prime minister from 1955 to 1963-the dopoulos been an agent for the CIA? los, through his Intelligence contacts, got colonels made haste to impllcate both King CoLBY. He has not been an agent. He has wind of the plan and staged a pre-emptive Constantine and Mr. Karamanlis as alleged been an official tor the Greek government at coup of his own with the backing of anti­ leaders of the unsuccessful May 23 Greek various times, and In those periods from time royalist extreme right-wing colleagues In the Navy revolt. to time we worked with him in his official Greek armed forces. Both denied the charge. Both let it be capacity. The little that is known about CIA opera­ known they hoped the United States would The persistent and widespread assumption tions In Athens before the coup supports this realize the damage done to Greece's role tn by many critics of American policy towards thesis, and Colby's recent admissions support the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Greece that the Central Intelligence Agency it further. (NATO), and solicited U.S. and NATO help. was Involved ln the mllltary coup there has The CIA station chief in Athens from 1962 It was not forthcoming. been given unexpected backing by one of the to the end of 1967 was John M. Maury, now Even the most casual visitor who talks CIA's most experienced career spies. the agency's official in charge of congres­ politics In Greece today realize one funda­ He ls William E. Colby, President Nixon's sional relations. In the recollection of Ameri­ mental fact: virtually all Greeks, from the nominee to head the CIA. Colby denied dur­ cans knowledgeable In the workings of the Macedonlan peasant to the sophisticated Ing his Senate confirmation hearing last U.S. Embassy In Athens at the time, where Athenian businessman, believe that the U.S. week that the agency actually engineered the Maury was listed as a first secretary, his main supports the colonels' regime 100 percent. 1967 coup. task was to keep up the close relations that Most are equally convinced that the U.S. put But his subsequent admission that the existed between U.S. policy and The Royal the regime in power. agency had "worked with" the leading colo­ palace. Greeks universally believe that the U.S. nel in the military regime, George Papa­ The presence of Andreas Papandreou, the supports the dictatorship in exchange for the dopoulos, is being interpreted by knowledge­ premier's son, 1n the government as the considerable military advantages it enjoys 1n able observers as the first formal admission minister in charge of internal security af­ Greece: stationing o! nearly 11,000 U.S. by a U.S. official of the extensive contacts fairs heightened U.S. displeasure with the mllitary personnel and dependents; use of the CIA had developed with Papadopoulos first left-leaning government in Athens since Athena! mllitary air base, adjoining Athens before the coup took place. the early 1950s. The younger Papandreou who airport; military conununications facilities, During his testimony, Colby promised to has since become a vociferous exponent of and, most recently, the home-porting of U.S. give the Senate Armed Services Committee the theory that the CIA engineered the 1967 Sixth Fleet units in Athens, which has in­ further details In executive session. Further coup, moved early on to cut off t.he direct creased friction and criminal incidents, pro­ testimony has been scheduled for today, at CIA subsidy to the KYP. voked mainly by U.S. personnel. July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25523 Last March, when Athens univer.sity stu­ for .Mideast.. Greek. and Turkish arms referring to the exploding Japanese take­ dents protested the government's refusal _to markets. over of Hawaiian hotels. golf courses, let the students elect their own chosen coun­ The question now is what. 1n practical stores, private estates3 travel agencies cil members or to make needed academic tenns. the U.S. could or .should do? and open acreage. Some $25D million al­ reforms, they were met by a huge turnout of The regime's opponents reply: "End moral ready has been invested by these people the regime's military police. the ESA (stu­ support; .stop ostentatious vlslts by your mil­ dents call it the "SS," comparing it with that itary brass; .shut off the spare parts and in the islands' tourist industry, Time formation in pre-1945 Nazi Germany). military training pipelines." says_. and the figure keeps climbing. Time When the ESA brutally attacked the stu­ U.S. officials operating ln Greece reply that reports that the investment pattern, as dents and arrested many, the student reac­ this would wreck NATO. "Besides," they add, much as its size, worries Hawaiians. If tion, for the first time ever, was to give their "the colonels have proven they react brutrally the current rate continues the Japanese de-monstration an anti-American tone: to outside pressure. U.S. ambassadors like will have control of this, the State's "American-s Go Home" and "Yankees and John Peurifoy intervened clumsily in Greek biggest business, within 5 -ears. Dictatorship, Out!" were some of trheir affairs in the early 1950'.s. West German res­ cue of one of the regime's opponents two So who did win the war -which ended slogans. in Japan's surrender almDst 28 years AMERICANS TA'RGETED years ago, and Greek-language broadcasts of · air Sabotage and terrorism by resistance news unfavorable to the regime from Radio ago? The assault on Pearl Harbor groups-who have so .far avoided almost any Cologne have not advanced freedom in eventually led to Japan's complete mm­ loss of life-are most often directed against Greece, and they have sever.ely chilled Bonn­ tary disaster at our hands. But now, American property or automobiles. Athens relations. armed more effectively with devalued These students are troo young to share OPPOSITION SILENCED U.S. dollars made in their one-sided their parents' bitter memories of the 1944-49 The same U.S. officials, however, recognize dealings in our market, the Japanese in­ civil war. when American assistance rescued that the July 29 referendum is being pre­ vestment attack in Hawaii, as well as · a Greece exhausted by World War n and pared without any freedom for the opposi­ right here, is succeeding beyond belief. the German occupation, or their parents• tion to express its views .in print, broadcast, And we are doing nothing to combat it. gratitude for that aid. or public forum. That assistance was worth about $3.9 bil­ If some of the best political brains and We sprang to action when the bombers lion from 1946 to 1970. Grant aid stopped in tralents contrinue to be excluded !.rom Greek struck. We are sitting back while the 1962. as the Greek economy recovered public life, the 1974 parliament, if it ever Japanese businessmen attack. through the reforms of former Prime Min­ comes into being, may be only a tame body I have said much about the Japanese ister Karamanlis. But military assistance to supporting a. government like that of Presi­ investment penetration of our mainland Greece's armed forces, guardians -of one of dent Thieu 1n South Vietnam, they say. Nei­ industries. The jobs of workers in my NATO's most strategic pieces of real estate. ther will the referendum be a free choice, Pennsylvania district right now are be­ has totaled about $1.8 bllllor.. and still con­ sinee the colonels indicate that even in the ing threatened by a new $18 million steel tinues. impossible ca.se of a no votre, Mr. Papado­ The 160,000-man Greek armed "forces de­ poulos will still be President for the next mill being constructed for a Japanese ploy 11 divisions to guard 625 miles of fron­ seven years and the King cannot return. syndicate at Auburn, N.Y. Most every tier. Despite an economic growth rate of nearly section of our vast land i.3 finding orien­ However, Mr. Papadopoulos's government~ 11 percent, a recent inflation is reaching the tal Marco Polos gathering up informa­ and most Greeks. no longer expect invasion same alarming proportions seen elsewhere in tion for the purpose of buying or build­ by Slavic hordes !rom the n-orth. The the West. Greeks grumble openly about the ing plants by which they can enter the regime's opponents argue that the defense regime. U.S. market and reap profits once en­ argument for U.S. support of the colonels is In October, only 14,000 university students invalid, since, they say, Greeks have lost will be acceptred out of 55,000 applicants. joyed by American interests. How long, faith in the U.S. as a supporter of de­ Their seniors will return to class mindful of I ask, can we as a Congress and Govern­ mocracy, and the recent Greek naval mutiny those wounded and detained, together with ment let this continue-this movement showed that "unity of the armed forces" lawyers and professors who defended them, toward placing more and more of our behind Mr. Papa.dopoulos was a myth. by the mmtary police. workers in the hands of Japanese DEFENSE ASSESSED The armed forces, in the wake of the Navy employers? troubles of May, are again subject tro purges We had a slogan, as I remember, dur­ With perhaps 200 top Navy omcers out of and inquisitions, raising the prospect of pos­ 18,000 naval personnel detained, and the Air ing World War II to the effect that we Anny sible new rebellions. Force and also under watrch by se­ seen in this framework of domestic dis-· would "Remember Pearl Harbor3" and curity commissars, some foreign observers content. American action In Greece-or the we did so and in short time avenged fully would agree with British Col. Gordon faT more likely eventuality Of American ln­ the sneak attack made on our forces Waterhouse, once a Uaiston omcer in wartime aetion~i-s unlikely to be as crucial a factor there. Little did any of us dream then Greece: The Greek army, he told the British Parliament, "is no more use for purposes of as most Greeks think. that, within less than 28 years, an apa­ external defense than the French or Italian thetic U.S. Government would permit a armies were in 1940." situation to develop whereby the busi­ .Early U.S. efforts to influence Mr. Papado­ nessmen of the Nation guilty on that poulos to liberalire his regime after April, THE NEW ATI'ACK ON PEARL "Day of Infamy,'' as Franklin Roosevelt 1967, were nm.inly clumsy, off-again, on­ HARBOR described it, would end up owning a again e1nbargoes ot heavy arms shipments. goodly number Df the hotels, much of the When King Constantine failed in his am­ beach front, many of the private estates, ateurish December, 1967, attempt to ra11y the armed forces and get rid of the colonels, HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS and acres and acres of the open land most of the senior Greek officers with NATO OF PENNSYLVANIA within sight of our Hawaiian bastion. experience or U.S. training, loyal to him, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES were retired or jailed. Certain U.S. congressmen tried to graft Monday, July 23 .. 1973 NEWSLETTER AND OPINION QUES­ restrictions on aid to Greece onto various Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker. almost 28 TIONNAIRE TO WISCONSIN SIXTH U.S. foreign aid laws. Their most determined years have passed since a beaten Japan DISTRICT effort, the Hays Amendment of July, 1971, us in a was overruled by President Nixon in the surrendered totally to ceremony national security interest. aboard the U.S.S. Missouri and in the HON. WILLIAM A. STEIGER The colonels were accommodating when presence of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and OF WISCONSIN the U.S. needed special staging facilities for a other leading heroes of the Far East IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES naval and air buildup during the Jordan phase "Of World War ll. crisis of Septrember, 1970. There followed a. The historic event came to my mind Monday, July 23, 1973 year when, despite congressional sniping. with even more meaning when I hap­ Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin. Mr. Viee-President Spiro T. Agnew and other pened to read in Time magazine, in the Speaker, this past weekend I have sent Nixon administration leaders visited Greece, last issue before our recent July 4 recess, a newsletter and questionnaire card to amid fanfares by the Athens regime. this blunt remark by a Honolulu cab residents of Wisconsin's Sixth Congres­ Last January, Mr. Papadopoulos showed in­ drive1·: sional District. The text of my newsletter dependence by renot.mclng all free U.S. mili­ What the Japanese couldn't do during and opinion poll follow: tary aid, $9.7 million worth this year. Now Wol"ld War n. they are doing now with bags WASHINGTON REPORT Athens pays cash, or gets credit, for pur­ of money-taking over these islands. cb.ases like -the 38 Phantom F-4's promised (By Congressman Bn.L STEIGER) under terms less liberal than those given The cabby, obviously one of that world­ Dear Friend: Israel, as France competes wtth the U.S. wide class of perceptive observers, was Probably the most important part of this 25524 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 newsletter is the opinion poll you will find public land; 2) a measure allowing s}lore_ expects an early end to-the freeze (possibly' enclosed. The questions are brief, and I hope line property owners to deduct propet;ty by ·mid-month) j I "am disappointed a freeze you will take a few minutes to answer th,em. losses due to erosion as casualty losses on . was ever imposed. I hope Phase 4 will be less As soon as the responses are tabulated, I will their income tax; and 3) a five-year program disruptive and that more attention wlll be report them to the House of Representatives to develop low-cost erosion control tech- given to developing a national policy to at-:­ and mail them to you in my next newsletter. niques for the Great Lakes. The House Public tack the basic inflation-generating forces in. During racent weeks, while TV cameras Works Committee has held hearings on the o~ e~on,omy. concentrated on the Nixon-Brezhnev summit five-year program, and thiS may become part NEW OFFICE IN MANITOWOC AND N E W OFFICE and on the Ervin Committee hearings in the of the Rivers and Harbors Act later this Homts Senate, the House has spent long days (and summer. nights) working on legislation. "Help ~ourself "-a brochure describing To improve service to· 6th Dist rict residents But, more than other matters before Con­ alternate . methods of shore protection-has who live east of Lake Winnebago, I have gress, the grave misdeeds unfolding before just been published by the Corps of Engi- opened a new office in downtown Manitowoc: the Ervin Committee call for comment. One neers. Written expressly for people near the .. It ·is located at 904 S. 8th St., and Fred See­ thing must be said above all. It is emphat­ Great Lakes, it is available free of cost from feldt, my home secretary, is there each Tues- ically untrue that "everybody does" the sort my washington office. day morning from 9 to 11:30. Mr. Seefeldt works in Sheboygan on Tues- of things that former Nixon aides are ad­ Volunteer Army day afternoons, between 2 and 4:30, at the mitting they have done. Elected officials Compulsory military service ended at mid- Sheboygan Post Office. He is in Fond du Lac everywhere are appalled. night, June 30. The decis!on to allow the in- on Wedne3days, from 2 to 4:30 p.m., at the When former Attorney General Kleindienst duction authority to expire reflects wide- Old Post Office Building in Fond duLac. recently learned that one of his phone con­ spread optimism about the success of the our office at the Oshkosh Post Office is versations had been tape-recorded by John all-volunteer armed services. staffed Monday through Friday by Mrs. Paul · Ehrlichman, a newsman asked for his reac­ Every young man still must register dur- Fergot. Phones at all four district offices are tion. Kleindienst told him sadly: "Words can­ ing the 40 days before and 30 days after his covered by a 24-hour answering service every not express." That feeling, I think, is shared 18th birthday. But none will be called for day of the week. by most Americans. physical examination. No odious political act can be tolerated or Creating a volunteer force is only the first ACADEMY ADMISSIONS dismissed. As the necessary search for the step in streainlining the military. The cur- The service academies this month admitted facts continues, It is heartening to know that rent compensation system is awkward, out- eight youths who had been nominated last the new chief domestic advisor to the Presi­ moded, and far too costly. We can achieve year. from the old 6th District. Admitted at dent is former Wisconsin Congressman Mel­ significant savings by taking a few bold the Naval Academy were: Michael R. Hamel, vin Laird. During the 16 years he served in steps: changing the retirement system, hold- Kohler; Greg Koszalinski, Menasha; Stuart the House, Mei Laird represented many of ing down "grade creep," revising the pay E1 wing, Campbellsport; Donald Link, Huber­ you who reside in Adams, Marquette and schedule, using incentives provided in the tus; and William Bratt, Mequon. At West Waushara counties-now part of the 6th Dis­ Special Pay Act, and replacing some person- Point are Peter E. Klein, Plymouth and Jack trict. nel with less expensive machinery. I am now D. Regan, Kohler; and at the Merchant Ma­ As always, I pledge to do my utmost in developing these steps into a proposal to pre- rille Academy, Steven B. Batterman, Neenah. representing you, and I hope you will contact sent during the Armed Services committee I have heard from a number of students in- me whenever you want to share your hearings this year. terested in competing for academy entrance thoughts on legislation or matters relating Capitol west front in 1974. New application procedures will soon to the federal government. be mailed to those who have written. This Best Wishes, Once again Congress may be on the verge year's deadline for applications will be No- · of building an extension to the U.S. Capitol. vember 30. WILLIAM A. STEIGER, I voted against extending the West Front, Member of Congress. STEIGER OPINION POLL but we lost the House by 6 votes. The bill is REPORT ON LEGISLATION now before the Seriate Appropriations Com­ Please check one box per question. One Many small businessmen have told me they mittee. column is for men, the other for women. have trouble deciphering precise responsi­ The West Front is the last remaining origi­ 1. Would you favor extending Daylight bilities under the Occupational Safety and nal wall of the Capitol. Everyone agrees it Savings Time to year-round basis? Health Act (OSHA). Since 1971, when the needs repair and restoration, but the House­ 2. Should Congress pass a law protecting safety law took effect, I've worked closely passed bill would expand the Capitol by up the claimed right of newsmen not to reveal with employers and employees, trying to to 290 new offices at a cost of $58 million. If the identity of sources? make the law effective in reducing on-the­ approved by the Senate, the extension may 3. Which action do you favor on amnesty? job injuries, as well as to correct any unfair also distort the impressive architectural bal­ (a) granting amnesty to draft evaders in burden it might create for employers at­ ance of the Capitol. To quote the late James return for a period of alternative work. tempting to comply with new, complex McSheehy: "It has all the earmarks of an (b) granting unconditional amnesty. standards. eyesore." (c) no amnesty. OSHA consultation 4. Which course do you favor on abortion? The farmer and the freeze (a) allowing the Supreme Court decision As a result of our discussions, I have re­ Although a few other issues receive more on abortion to stand. introduced a bill (H.R. 5996) to give small attention, the problem of greatest concern businesses a chance to obtain OSHA advice. (b) amending the Constitution to restore to most AmericanS is continued inflation. In to the States the power to regulate abortion. The bill authorizes the Labor Department to the past two years we have experienced gov­ agree to requests for on-site consultation and (c) amending the Constitution to prohibit ernment controls imposel.l as an emergency abortion in all but extreme circumstances. technical ass~stance (not inspection) from solution to the problem. I consistently op­ employers with 25 or fewer employees. Now that postmarks no longer tell where a pose wage and price controls because they card was mailed, county-by-county tabula-­ · OSHA is the first serious effort in the merely mask the immediate infiationary deadly serious field of job safety. It. is not tion of this poll is more difficult. Will you symptoms while leaving untreated the un­ please help, by indicating your county? surprising that its complicated requirements derlying processes responsible. often cause misunderstanding. By advising One who is especially hurt by infiation is employers how to comply with OSHA stand­ the family farmer. The recent price freeze EUGENE D. MORAN ards, employee and employer both should only adds to his woes. A rural Greenleaf man gain through safer, healthier work condi­ writes: "Farmers were just getting back to tions. the price level where they were 20 years ago. HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE When hearings were held on this bill last· This is a credit economy where farmers ·have OF liiiASSACHUSE'rl'S year, testimony overwhelmingly supported a $70 billion farm credit debt which is to this approach, and the bill won strong bi­ reach $120 billion by 1980." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES partisan support. An end of the session log­ While food prices are the most visible in­ Monday, July 23, 1973 jam kept it from consideration on the House fiationary sector of the economy, this is a fioor, but I anticipate affirmative action dur­ problem we cannot correct by controls. A Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, I would like ing the 93rd Congress. freeze does not increase farm productivity, to bring to the attention of this Chamber Shoreline protection it clearly does not increase the food supply the death of one ·of the :finest sportsmen, Public beaches and landowners along Lake on a grocer's shelves, and it does not (in the cop,servationists, .and protectors of fish. Michigan have long been plagued by prob­ long run) bring down the cost of food. . . and. game that Massachusetts or any __ lems of shore erosion. This year particularly, The effect of a freeze is just the opposite. other State has ever seen. many homeowners in Manitowoc and She­ Due to a continutng rise in the cost of raw Eugene D. Moran, wildlife manager for boygan counties incurred' great expense in agricultural products, such as feed grains, protecting themselves against lake water. which are exempt from the freeze, shortages the western district of the Massachusetts In hope of find 1ng ways to prevent further in agricultural products may develop. Egg Division of ·Fisheries and Game, died damage and hardship, I have introduced: , producers and dairy. farmers are forced . to su~denly last week a(his Dalton,.Mass.; 1) a bill to allow the Army Corps of Engi­ sell, rather than feed, their laying hens and home in my First District. I mourn his neers to design, construct, and share the cost milking cows .. passing both as a personal friend and as of shoreline works protecting private and While I am encouraged that the President an outdoorsman. July 23, ~973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25525 the kokanee salmon project at Onota Lake. It was the idea of being in the field. Corny, Gene Moran grew up in a time and He put in many night hours in this pursuit. but true, being in the game was the thing. place that allowed a young boy to :fish, He taught wildlife course in the evening He was hunting one day when ne spotted hunt, and roam the outdoors with few division at Berkshire Community College and a nfce rack·buck. He pointed out the trophy intrusions. Luckier than most, Gene also had a weekly program, "Berkshire to an old gentleman nearby, who shot it. found what he loved at that early age and Sportsman," on Channel 2. Gene's answer when asked why he didn't stayed with it all through his life. A communicant of St. Agnes' Church, Dal­ take it himself-"! probably couldn't have His love of the outdoors, and the wild­ ton, Mr. Moran was a member of the Dalton hit it anyways." He probably was right. Knights of Columbus and the Dalton Rod Each time when he called with his "I think life that inhabits it, was a passion that and Gun Club. He had lived in Dalton for the the sportsmen ought to know," and gave out caused him to put in the extra work, to past 17 years. the little bits of info he thought would help walk the extra mile, that makes the dif­ SURVIVORS them, he'd then say, "How's Churchill?" ference between doing a good job and a He is survived by his wife, the former And why not. He considered himself great job. Sarah Scanlon, whom he married 27 years Churchill's grandfather. For wasn't his old His death impoverishes his friends and ago; a daughter, Joann of Dalton; four sons, female Churchill's grandmother. his causes, just as his life enriched them. Dennis P .. of Clifton Park, N.Y., John M. of Gene and I were fast friends. Always will Falmouth, and Michael E. and Thomas H. be. Despite this, his natural honesty always To his widow Sarah, his daughter and showed through. He'd say, "A lot of the guys his four sons, I extend my deepest sym­ Moran, both of Dalton; two brothers, John and William of Chicopee Falls, and a sister, in the Berkshires think you're even a better pathy and, I am sure, the sympathies of Mrs. Anne Denis of Springfield. photographer than a writer." all in this great Chamber. Services will be Saturday from the Dery What he was saying, without saying it, Mr. Speaker, Eugene Moran's life and Funeral Home, Dalton, followed by a Liturgy is that he not only did not understand my accomplishments deserve to be known of Christian Burial at St. Agnes' Church. writings at times but that some of the guys and recognized by all who care about our Burial will be in Ashuelot Street Cemetery, in the Berkshlres didn't understand it. Dalton. It takes a long time to understand some environment and its creatures. I am in­ things. But Gene said he would stick with cluding for the RECORD, articles on Mr. Calling hours at the funeral home will be Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. In lieu of my writing until the day it made some sense. Moran from the Berkshire Eagle and the flowers, donations may be made to St. Agnes' It takes time. I learn a little each day. Springfield Union editions of July 19, Church. I finally am beginning to understand that 1973. after chasing that little whippersnapper The articles follow: [From the Springfield Union, July 19, 1973] Churchill for 13 years, that I've fin:J.lly caught him. And now the old setter Is the only thing (From the Berkshire Eagle, July 19, · 1973] THE SPORTSMEN OUGHT To KNow THIS in the field slower than me. GENE MORAN DIES AT AGE 62; STATE WILDLIFE (By Frank Sousa) That's life. You enjoy it while you're young MANAGER HERE "Hey, Frank, I think the sportsmen ought and happy. And then remember it to be old Eugene D. Moran, 62, western district wild­ to know this." and happy. life manager here since 1956 for the state Western District Fish & Game manager Gene yesterday called brother Shin to ask Division of Fisheries and Game, died last Gene Moran always started his telephone how Dotty, Shin's wife, was. night after being stricken with a heart calls to me this way. Gene himself wasn't feeling all that good. attack while mowing the lawn at his home, For next to his family, the sportsmen came In fact just a short while after checking 30 Burr Drive, Dalton. second. And that has to be pretty high prior­ on how Dotty was, Gene died. A native of Chicopee and graduate of Chi­ ity on any man's rating scale. And I'm sure that Gene would say, "I think copee High School in 1929, Mr. Moran made a From the day he could walk, Gene had a the sportsmen ought to know this.'' career of his boyhood interest in hunting fishing pole in one hand, a slingshot in the After all, sportsmen came second, right and fishing and life in the outdoors. He was other and a dog tailing along behind. behind family and that's pretty high priority a graduate of the first wildlife courses given One of his first jobs was a good one. Good on any man's rating scate. at the Stockbridge School, University of in the sense that it offered security. It was Massachusetts. for $15 a week in the Springfield Armory as Joining the Division of Fisheries and a blacksmith. He put aside a couple bucks Game, he worked on game farms and as an . to send little brother Shin to a conservation PEACE WITH HONOR? assistant fish culturist prior to 1942, when course that was being offered. he enlisted in the Navy. His four-year service But Shin told him, "You're the student, during World War n was spent mostly in the you go." South Pacific. And Gene went. That was the start. HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL CONSERVATION OFFXCER Next he signed up for the two-year wild­ OF NEW YORK Following his discharge, Mr. Moran was in ll!e course at the University of Massachu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES setts, leaving the security of the Armory to fish culture work until switching over to Monday, July 23, 1973 the Divlston of Law Enforcement in 1948 as study to become "something that there a conservation officer. His first assignment weren't any openings for." Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, for the was in the Southern Berkshire district, where And sure enough, despite the fact the Divi­ last several months I have periodically he tl.lled in for three months for the late sion of Fish & Game had few or no persons on the staff who had majored in college in spoken out on the problem of political John E Buckley of Great Barrington, who prisoners in South Vietnam. Despite the was ill. He then was transferred to the Am­ wildlife, there were no openings. Except as herst district. a laborer. He took it. denials of President Thieu, it is quite · Mr. Moran was named wildlife manager for Eventually there was an opening for a Nat­ evident that the South Vietnamese Gov­ the central district in June 1955, as result of ural Resource officer. Gene, always a student, ernment is presently holding at least his standing on a Civil Service list. He had studied for it, and passed with flying colors. 100,000 civilian prisoners in American taken college courses in wildlife management Then the exam for manager of the Western constructed jalls. The only crime these and other subjects and received a law degree Division came up and again he topped the civilians have committed is peacefully list. Except politics entered the picture at from Western New England College (formerly opposing President Thieu's leadership. Northeastern), Springfield, in 1956. this point. It appeared to be too high a post He was named western district wildlife for a man who wasn't a politician's pansy. Yet they are subjected to torture that manager that fall, succeeding E. Michael The politicians soon discovered that soft­ leaves large numbers of them physical­ "Bill" Pollack, who was promoted to chief spoken Gene also had a hard nose. ly deformed or incapacitated for life­ game biologist. Coming from a closely knit Irish family many others die. As head of the western district, Mr. Moran that shared the family white shirt, and hav­ The mass media, the American people had a stafi' of seven working out of headquar­ ing played hide and seek in the clouds while and the U.S. Government have all ters on Hubbard Avenue. The district covers in an unarmed communications World War chosen to ignore the horrendous actions most of western Massachusetts and a few n with a predator Jap zero . . . Gene knew towns on the other side of the Connecticut there was a time to stand. that are carried out under the orders of River. His victory was one for the sportsmen. For President Thieu. The job of district wildlife personnel is not ever since it has been, I think the sportsmen Part of the responsibility for these a clock-punching one. Although they report ought to know this. crimes does, however, lie with the Amer­ early, quitting time sometimes Is late. Mr. He took me under his wing when I first ican people, and the U.S. Government. Moran was in demand for night appearances started writing this column. It was his way For none of the prisoners who are pres­ at meetings of sportsmen's clubs, the county to look for the nobody neophyte. ently dying and enduring this torture league of sportsmen's club and other groups. When he became manager he still got into would .be there if it had not been for He frequently was called on to show movies the field as often as possible. on wildlife subjects to these and other He loved to bird hunt in areas hunters U.S. interference in the Vietnamese civil groups. cried were hunted out. He used to say, war. American money and blood built Most recently he had worked with Leo M. "There's only one thing slower than xne, and the prisons that are presently being used. Daly, western district fisheries manager, on that's my old English setter, here." American money still supports the Viet- 25526 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23,-1973 namese police, who are in charge of the people's toes, or fingers, or sensitive parts on development of oil and gas within the prisons, and the prisoners themselves. of their bodies." The Bartons had fllm.s and stm photo­ United States. In an attempt to disguise its political ·I was impressed with a factual and repression the South Vietnamese Gov­ graphs of some of the Victims. Two were women who had been beaten on the head enlightening s:Peech made by Frank Pitts. ernment is trying to reclassify many of until their skulls fractured .and they became Frank Pitts is one of our leading inde­ the civilians as common criminals. paralyzed on one side of their bodies. One pendent oil men and understands oil and Unfortunately, many Americans do was a young .girl, the other a 67-year-old gas from the grassroots. Here are the key woman. · · · not believe that this torture, murder, and sections of the f!peech before the Rotary reclassification has been, and is now, Granada also showed 60-year-old Mrs. Ba Club of Dallas last week where energy is Shau, who was blinded by lime thrown in taking place. Anthony Lewis, in a New put in proper perspective by Frank Pitts: York Times column notes, however, that her face by guards when she was held in the ENERGY SPEECH BY L. FRANX PITTS documentation of these inhuman actions tiger cages on Con Son Island. Granada showed other freed prisoners from Con Son The energy crisis is no illusion, it's real­ is widespread. The people of the United being treated by a former American Air Force it's going to be With us for quite a. while-to States, and the Congress, can no longer doctor. John Champlain. Dr. Champlain live with tt, and eventually ov.ercome it, will ignore what is happening in South Viet­ described how various prisoners lost the use require total dedication of our people-and a nam. of their legs by being confined in the cages substantial investment-in patience as well I would like to place in the REcoRD the or shackled to their beds. as money. column by Mr. Lewis. It is well worth The Saigon Government of Nguyen Van Only 3 short years ago if I had stood here the attention of my colleagues. Thieu is marvelously cynical in its discus­ and prophesized that our capital city­ The article follows: sion of these matters: It says that there are Austin-:-and the third largest metropolitan no .. political prisoners" at all: Everyone in area in our wonderful State, San Antonio, PEACE WITH HoNOR its jails 1s either a common criminal or a would be suffering because they did not have (By Anthony Lewis) "Communist." enough natural gas to operate their electric LoNDoN, July 15.-"Torture during inter­ In fact. as everyone in South Vietnam power plants. rogation, or as a disciplinary measure within knows, people are arrested for having sheet The energy crisis is no illusion, it's real­ prisons, is no longer even motivated by a music of an antiwar song, for carrying rice Who would have believed it! Yet-today­ desire to gather 'intelligence' . . . torture is at night, for any reason that strikes a pollee the city officials there are asking people to up widely used not only as an instrument of in­ whim. Many are not tried but held the temperature of their homes and offices timidation but as an end in itself ... in i~definitely on suspicion. Just two weeks from 72 • to 82 • and to minimize the use of many instances torture has become no more ago a union leader held without trial after lighting and p::>wer usage--thereby utilizing or less than a matter of habit." a strike for higher wAges was reported to have every device and opportunity possible to Those are some phrases-some of the been tortured to death. reduce the demand fer natural gas. milder ones-from a report recently issued by In evident embarassment over its polit­ Why has this come about? Why?-J.>artic­ Amnesty Internaticnal, the highly respected ical prisoners, the Thieu Government has ularly in this State that has been so lavish independent organization concerned with been reclassifying them as guilty of com­ in shipping tremendous volumes of this won­ political prisoners around the world. The mon crimes such as disturbing the peace­ derful energy to aid and comfort mll11ons of subject was the slt1.:.ation of the 100,000 or often again without trial, of course. And citizens in other States-hundreds. yes, even more clvlllans detained by the Saigon Gov­ it has announced that it will turn over to the thousands of miles distant. ernment. Vietcong, as "Communists," some of the During the past several months we have The report described in revolting detail best-known persons arrested because they seen some dramatic changes in attitudes by what is done to human beings in the prisons opposed the war or Mr. Thieu. A neat solu­ the citizen-consumer concerning his energy and interrogation centers of South Vietnam; tion. supplies. the use of electricity, beating, water, the It is especially wrong for the United States In the past. our Nation has known nothing crippling and death that result. It named ta avert its public eye from these reallties. but fuel abundance. We now are suffering, to victims and described cases in convincing For the pollee system of South Vietnam is a.n a limited extent thus faT, the penalty for detail. It called the situation, altogether, "one American creation. The Central Intelllgence delay in exploration and drilling for on and of the most serious cases of political repres­ Agency devised the Phoenix program to hunt gas resulting in electric power brown-outs­ sion in the world today." out V.C. suspects. which began the official ' empty fuel tanks, closed schools, stranded The Amnesty report rated a few para­ torture. William Colby, the new director o! trucks and tractors, and factories with locked graphs in some serious British and American the C.I.A., testified that between 1968 and doors. newspapers. Most of the mass media pald no May, 1971, alone 20,587 suspects were knled. The basic fact is that our nation's appetite attention at all. It was just some more of the More than $14 million in American money for fuel is enormous. America, with only 6% familiar horror of Vietnam. is stlll available or budgeted for aid to the of the world's population, consumes 33% of It is not surprising that people turn off Saigon pollee and prisons. Rather than help­ the world's energy and the demand continues the moral pain of Vietnam. There are limits ing, the United States should be protesting to grow. to outrage, to tears. Tales of misery, however police inhumanity in South Vietnam. The Nation's requirements for energy will true, eventually weary the audience. People about double between now and 1985. instinctively protect themselves from being NATURAL GAS IS SCARCE incapacitated by despair. Pr~sently, our supply of natural gas Is But individual escape cannot end public re­ EMPHASIZE MORE FOR OIL AND GAS enough to last 12 years. Ten years ago, we . sponsibility. Mass injustice anywhere claims EXPLORATION had 20 years' supply. the concern of mankind, for it diminishes and threatens all of us. Nor can the cases of In 1971, we had only 8 years' supply of oll mistreatment of American war prisoners in compared with 10 years' supply in 1961. We North Vietnam excuse massive and con- HON. JAMES M. COLLINS are currently importing near 30% of our tinuing official terror in the South. · 07 TEXAS oil-most of it from the Tinder Box Area of · the Middle East-and it is e,stimated that by Can the stories be true? That is what some IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1985, we will be importing between 50% and people in the West would ask, finding it dlfH­ cult to face the horrors reported. But there Monday, July 23, 1973 60 ~ . is no escape that way. For the situation of NUCLEAR POWER-WHERE IS IT? political prisoners in South Vietnam has · Mr. COLLINS of Texas. Mr. Speaker Today, we have the equivalent of only ten been seen and graphically described by a today there is much in this country about plants of 1,000 megawatts each, in operation, wide T"ariety of observers: American Con­ how we should allocate the supply of gas- and about 45 planned or under construction. gressmen, correspondents, doctors and many oline, fuel. oil, and natural gas. Let us On line schedules are being retarded by tech­ others. also, remember the fact that trends an- nical difficulties and environmental re­ The leading British commercial television ticipate that energy demand will double stra.ints. company, Granada, did a careful program on in the next 10 years. Investment? Enormous capital 1nputs wm Saigon's polltical prisoners. ·Among others• . . The emphasis in Congress should be on be necessary to provide for our energy re­ it interviewed two American physiothera­ encouraging plans for increasing the quirements, A plant producing 250 mlliion pists, Jane and David Barton, in a hospital in available supply. A few years ago, Amer- cubic feet· of gas dally may cost 250 to 300 Quang Ngat. · nilllion dollars-to meet our energy needs, "People come to the prisoner ward at the ic·a was self-sufficient with oil and gas; the required capital outlay wm probably hospital often immediately after they've yet, today one-third {)four oil and gas is : reach a level of severa~ hundreds of bllllons been tortured," Jane Barton said, because imported. · of dollars. · prison officials "prefer not to have a dead Positive action requires incentives for ~-TERM . sno~TAcT~;n cAN NoT EScAPx body at the interrogation center... ·. ·The more exploration, realistic prices In rela- ~- torture that we see the results of most fre­ tion to current costs, environ.ri:lental mod- We may be able to relieve our near-term quently Is (attaching] electrical wires to fl_cation adjustments, and more emphasis · energy ~obl~m5 throlJ.gh appr_oprlate . ~ov- July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25527 ernment and industry action, but there 1s people are justifiably concerned that this energy omce is an encouraging step in the no realistic probablllty of a complete escape issue is being escalated beyond reason. direction of better coord~tion. from them. This is true because of the long First, the largest reserves of oll and gas dis­ lead times-often five to eight years-re­ covered in our country in recent years are quired for the development of major new offshore and in Alaska. energy supplies. Restrictions on offshore petroleum devel­ EXTENDING THE DETENTE Up until recently, we have heard about opment have hindered production otf Cali­ the great quantity of oil and gas that Texas fornia, in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore and Louisiana could produce. Today, these east coast. two states are producing all of the oil and The largest energy market in the world 1s HON. JOHN DELLENBACK gas they can effi.ciently produce. Nothing is along our east c::>ast from Washington to OF OREGON being held back from the consumer. Boston. The people in this area refuse to al­ Increased oil and gas imports wlll provoke low drllling offshore where there are two IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a large, deficit in the U.S. balance of trade. huge basins that have great potential. So Monday, July 23, 1973 By the early 1980's, this could be in the $20 far, no well has been drilled. to $30 blllion dollar range, compared to less Second, opposition to the construction of Mr. DELLENBACK. Mr. Speaker, in than $3 billion dollars. the trans-Alaskan pipeline has seriously de­ January of this year I joined my col­ Furthermore, these men are acutely aware layed the ultimate delivery or North Slope league from Ohio nal Commis­ sioners during meetings held around the switch on China, they can switch on Cuba.'' Monday, July 23, 1973 These Latin officials, therefore, no longer take country to discuss the Administration's seriously our anti-Cuban exhortations. More­ Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, Ire­ education special revenue sharing plans. over, they have no desire to be embarrassed cently received a letter from Martin W. HEW's practice of not letting the left as were the Japanese with our China shock. Essex, Ohio Superintendent of Public In­ hand know what the right hand is doing How long wlll it take for us to realize that struction. opposing the U.S. omce of Ed­ our Cuban policy is nonproductive? My dis­ is illustrated by the fact that in early cussions with certain administration repre­ ucation's plans to proliferate its bureauc­ June, Ottina wrote chief State school sentatives lead me to believe that they are racy by establishing 10 regional omces o:tncers that there was little likelihood told not to think about a change in our cu­ nationwide. that education revenue sharing, dressed ban doctrine. Rather, they apparently are be­ It is a senseless plan, typical of what up as the Better Schools Act, would ing encouraged by their superiors to search passes for thinking in the USOE and Dr. pass. Yet Ottina and his staff continued for other dubious reasons to support our pres­ Essex's concern about the proposal is to travel nationwide complete with con­ ent hardllne. The traditional justifications for particularly noteworthy in view of his po­ fusing charts, to push for support for the preserving activities, the Soviet mllitary pres­ sition as second vice president of the ence, our present stance--Cuba's subversive act. At the June 26 hearing Ottina and and the "obligations" of the OAS ban­ prestigious Council of Chief State Carlucci also urged passage of the act obviously are weakening in substance and School Officers. Ottina only days before had said was are being de-emphasized by high officials. The general education subcommittee dead for all intents and purposes. Repre­ The charge that Castro 1s not interested in of the House Education and Labor Com­ sentative BRADEMAS remarked that improving relations (in contrast to Mao Tse­ mittee, of which I am a member, held a tung's and Chou En-Lai's receptive attitudes Ottina's efforts might be more profitably hearing on the USOE regionalization spent elsewhere. when we opened relations with China) now proposal on June 26. I was attending the is used increasingly to justify our intransi­ International Labor Organization's an­ The next day, Caspar Weinberger. gence. nual convention at the time. Secretary of Health, Education, and Wel­ Fidel Castro's May 1 speech did exude hos­ fare, was telling the annual maeting of tility to the United States. Yet his talk con­ I understand that the chief witnesses, Frank C. Carlucci, Under Secretary of the Education Commission of the States tained some interesting new twists. Castro th~t the act was alive and well. indicated that: ( 1 ) Cuba 1s willing to cooper­ Health, Education and Welfare and I include the following: ate with any Latin American nation, not John R. Ottina, Education Commis­ just socialist countries; (2) Cuba would con­ sioner-designate, failed to make a case STATE OF Omo, sider joining a regional organization whose DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, for the proposal and showed an ignorance Columbus, Ohio, May 30,1973. membership did not include the United of common education facts great enough States; and (3) Guantanamo is not the "main Hon. JOHN M. ASHBROOK, thing." While one must admit that Castro's to amaze those who have not previously U.S. Representative, House Office Building, predicta.bllity is suspect, United States' of­ caught the USOE spokesmen's act. Washington, D.C. ficialdom, to avoid possible future embarrass­ In addition, witnesses failed to reveal DEAR JoHN: The current secretary of HEW, ment, should not ignore his latest comments. any support for regionalization outside the Honorable Caspar Weinberger, has been Why are we so infiexible in terms of our their own omce. By dint of searching adamant in his determination to assign Cuban policy? There are those who believe cross-examination, my colleagues on the Office o! Education personnel to 10 regional that the President is very sensitive to the offices. This concept has met with general subcommittee, Representatives JoHN disappointment for several reasons. Prior ex­ Cuba matter. Some claim that the Presi­ BRADEMAS of Indiana and WILLIAM D. dent's unfavorable impression of Castro, periences confirm that another layer of stemming from his 1959 private conference FoRD of Michigan, demonstrated the con­ bureaucracy would add delay and confusion with the Cuban leader at the U.N. stlll lin­ tinuing efforts of HEW and the USOE to the federal programs 1n education. gers. Others maintain that the President 1s to subvert the expressed intent of Con­ Secondly, experiences confirm that such strongly influenced by his Cuban-American gress and to interpret specific Federal personnel would be required to m.alte varied neighbors in Florida.. Still another version laws to suit their own purposes. judgments or obtain tn:terpretatlons from h.as it that the President does not take kindly Another serious charge was that the Was!lington. to the savage treatment accorded him in the USOE has failed miserably as an advo­ Thirdly, the propensity to engage in local Cuban press. Whatever the reason, I believe cate of educational improvement. The school management by regional office per­ that t.he time 1s ripe for the President to sonnel would create a duality which would come to grips with this nagging issue. some charge has been made by chief be time-consuming and disruptive; in this The most important reason for improving State school officers -and other education ccntext, prasent procedures have reached a relations with Cuba lies in the unity of the groups. state of maturity which bas attained an inter-American system. A more relaxed politl- In passing, I appreciate Mr. BRADEMAS' efficien t operation. The heritage of state July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25529 management of education would be sub­ administrative layer that will allow the USOE HEROIC SERVICE BEYOND THE jected to potential federal direction; the to whip-saw ' school officials between a re­ CALL OF DUTY states have been cautious in their e:trorts gional office and headquarters in Washing­ to maintain local control of schools. This ton? The USOE's history is replete with heritage has been a vital factor in the per­ such action. Its history is one of needless petuity of the Republic. proliferation of personnel, offices, papers, Fourthly, ultimately more personnel would programs, and a profilgate waste of tax HON. PETER N. KYROS be required in the education section of the money, without materially increasing what · OF KAmE p·upils know. 10 regional offices and the additional per­ IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES sonnel would offer little hope for a more I wm keep you advised of the commis­ efficient and effective operation of schools. sioner-designate's response to my inqulrles. Monday, July 23, 1973 Fifthly, the Congress has not approved this I also understand that you and other chief concept. It should be subjected to evaluation state school officers were concerned that ~Ar. KYROS. Mr. Speaker, several before being placed in operation. Title V of the ESEA, providing about $38 weeks ago in Gardiner, Maine, there oc­ The continuous reorganization of the Of­ million for improving state departments of curred an incidence of heroic bravery fice of Education has been most unfortu­ education would not be continued. As you which I would like to call to the attention nate. Each new commissioner or HEW secre­ probably are aware, the House accepted the of my colleagues. Early on a Saturday Appropriations Committee's recommenda­ tary engages in a drastic redesign and shut­ ~orning, on July 7, Patrolman Kenneth rung of personnel. The tlme is long overdue tion that the program and the funds be N. Dcuglas, of the Gardiner Police for a semblance of stabillty and continuity. continued and I believe the Senate will agree. The deployment of manpower to the 10 After considerable thought and with some Department, responded to a fire alarm. regional offices would generate further un­ reservations, I believe Title V merited my Upon arrival at the scene, he was alerted necessary confusion. The Deputy Commis­ "yes" vote. by a young neighborhood paperboy, El­ sioners for education in the Chicago office The USOE evaluations of Title V pro­ mer Maschino, that there was an occu­ have moved in and out in revolution-door grams--for what they are worth-are mixed. pant trapped in the building. Patrolman fashion. Fortunately, the states have few My personal observation from your depart­ Douglas attempted to arouse the· oc­ relationships with them, but the continuous ment's activities and those in other states cupant by gunshot, but when this failed, change generates a waste of time because is that many state departments of educa-tion each wants to become acquainted but has have used the money wisely to benefit pupils. he entered the building at great personal very few reasons for such acqug.intance. The Programs have been upgraded through risk, aroused the occupant, and led him more appropriate action would be to elimi­ employment of specialists that would have to safety. nate the assistant commissioners in the re­ been unavailable without Title V funds. The city of Gardiner has seen fit to gional offices. Their limited higher educa­ Management capability has improved and recognize both Patrolman Douglas and tion functions could be served by other per­ many states are developing accountability sons. models. young Elmer Maschino for their alert­ As you know, I rarely communicate with ·All this may improve education. On the ness and bravery by official resolution of the Congress, but this proposal is of such other hand, I understand that Title V funds commendation. I take pride in calling lack of merit that I feel impelled to bring also have been used for many ill-conceived these resolutions to the attention of my its elements to your attention. projects that are products of fuzzy thinking. colleagues: Your consideration will be appreciated. Some have been similar to so-called "inno­ RESOLUTION No. 73-29: A RESOLUTION CoM­ Cordial regards, vative" programs under Title III of ESEA MENDING PoLICE OFFICER KENNETH N. DouG­ MARTIN W. ESSEX, that have caused great concern throughout LAs Superintendent of Public Instruction. the United States because Of their attempts to propagandi2:e children in the socialist Be it resolved by the City Council of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ethic. City of Gardiner, Maine: _ Washington, D.C., July18, 1973. My favorable vote for Title V fs given with _Whereas, Patrolman Kenneth N. Douglas of Dr. MARTIN W. EsSEx, the understanding that I will expose every the City of Gardiner Police Department while Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Title V and Title III progr~m inimical to on patrol duty in the police cruiser at 4:H) of Ohto, Department of Education, Co­ our nation's democratic heritage. a.m., Saturday morning, July 7, 1979, re­ lumbus, Ohio. While I was out of the country attending sponded to a pollee radio call to proceed at DEAR MARTIN: Many thanks for your May the International Labor Organization's an­ onoe to a reported fire at Harrison Ave­ 30 letter explaining your opposition to the nual conference on behalf of the House Labor nue, and upon arrval at the scene was in­ U.S. Office of Education's plans to est~b­ subcommittee, the fiscal 1974 appTopriations formed by a neighborhood paperboy that lish 10 regional offices nationwide. for the t>epartments of Labor and Hea.Ith, there was a man in the upstairs apartment I oppose the idea and will vote against Education and Welfare came to a vote. of the burning building, and it. My Staff advises that if the June 26 hear­ I would have voted against the HEW ~p­ Whereas, Patrolman Douglas imtnedia.tely ing of the general education subcommlt~e propriations for several reasons. Few, It ant fired th.ree shots beneath the bedroom win• of the House Education and Labo.r Commit­ dow 1n an effort to arouse th& occupant, tee is any guide, neither the subcommittee of the programs have accomplished the lofty goals set for them by any valid criteria. The which action proved unsuccessful, and nor the Congress will accept the idea. My Whereas, Patrolman Douglas climbed up colleagues on the committee, Representa­ requested amounts of money are too high. Many of the programs are not within the the back stairs to the apartment and saw - tives John Brademas of Indiana and W111iam that all was afla.med inside and st111 could see D. Ford of Michigan, treated Frank C. Car­ purview of a federal government. It is time to stop raising false hopes among the poor a closed door at the far end o! the kitchen, lucci, under secretary of Health, Education and and Welfare and John R. Ottina, education and others that the road to personal and commissioner-designate, who testified for social salvation lies through Washington. Whereas, Patrolman Douglas unhesitantly regionalization, to withering criticism of Critics will carp about my alleged insen­ entered the apartment at great personal risk regionalization; the Better Schools Act; sitivity to school children. People in educa­ to kick open the bedroom door, and failing to be advocates for education; ignor­ tion use the plea, "it's for the children," as Whereas, after leaving the apartment for ing federal law; interpreting federal statutes a license to throw good money after bad and a breath of air, again, re-entered the nam­ to suit thei.r own purposes and thereby wm­ to destroy minds. ing apartment at even greater personal risk fully, persistently ignoring the expressed My vote against funding programs that and successfully aroused the occupant and intent of Congress. have failed to prove their worth by any ra­ led him to safety, That is quite a statement of charges tional means, or by the usually irrational Therefore, be it resolved by the Mayor and against those entrusted by the President to means offered by "educators," is precisely City Council of-the City of Gardiner, Maine lead the fight for educational improvement. because of my sensitivity to children. that Patrolman Kenneth N. Douglas of the I have asked Ottina to provide details on I apprecla.ted your information letter on City of Gardiner Pollee Department be com­ the growth of his office during the past few regiona.llzatlon. I hope that you will con­ mended for his heroic action above and fiscal years and to react to the poll of Phi tinue to keep me posted on such problems. beyond the call of duty at great risk of his Delta Kappa members reported in the May Be assured that I continue to be most con­ personal life and successfully rescued David Kappan in which fr!'terni~y members rejected cerned about the education of childl'en and Flannery from the burning building, and the notion that regional education research that I will do all I can to see that it is im­ That it be further resolved, that a copy and development centers and laboratories proved. Please feel free to use this letter as of. this Resolution be given to Kenneth N. have benefited children during the fac111tles' you see fit. Douglas, and seven years of operation. Kindest personal regards, Be it further resolved that the Commis­ If so specUlc and comparatively easy &I\ JOHN M. ASHBROOK, sioner of Public Safety forward copies of office to control is of little benefit to young­ Representative to Congress. this Resolution to the Governor of the State sters, of what use is another bureaucratic I.'lth District. of Maine and various publlc safety organl- CXIX--1610-Part 20 25530 'I EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 zations so that this heroic action can be giv­ that back in Washington, D.C., our Congress But our system, ladies and gentlemen, does . en appropriate recognition. and government are·· -tm functioning as not owe its strength f:\nd durabil1ty to the · usual, despite the stories that headline our prophets of doom and the naysayers. It owes RESOLUTION No. 73-30: A RESOLUTION CoM­ daily newspapers. its strength to the doers. And this, I think, MENDING NEWSPAPER BOY ELMER MASCHINO Nonetheless, it is a fact of life that this, 1s where you come in. Be it resolved by the City Council of the your day of graduation, your commencement, Until the last year or two, our youth, while city of Gardiner, Maine: comes e.t a time when our entire National serving as a tremendous force employing its Whereas, Elmer Maschino, the neighbor­ way of doing things is under serious ques- zeal and idealism, too often spun its collec­ hood ps.perboy while on his route during the tion. It comes at a time when our govern- tive wheels because those qualities were sel­ early morning hours on Saturday, July 7, ment has been shaken by scandal-when our dom tempered by a. sense of practicaiity. 1973, alerted Pollee Officer Kenneth N. Doug­ economy must be shored up by government I think that if you'll examine yourselves las, who was responding to an alarm, that controls-when we are struggling to check on this important day, you'll find that you there was an occupant trapped in the burn­ pollution of the air we breathe and the wa- are virtually the first generation of college ing apartment house located at 17 Harrison ter we drink. It comes at a time when we're graduates to be blessed with both a healthy Avenue, and standing eyeball to eyeball with a world-wide skepticism and the tools and ab111ties to do Whereas, this prompt action on the part energy crisis-when, in some quarters, our something' about those things that have of Elmer Maschino resulted in the saving of entire well-being as a Nation is in doubt. rightfully troubled you. the llfe of David Flannery, Now I realize that current events and re- You've grown up in one of the mos~ tur- Therefore be it resolved by the mayor and cent headlines are not usually the stuff of bulent periods of our country's history and City Council of the City of Gardiner, Maine commencement speakers. They usually deal you've seen, first hand. the massive problems that Elmer Maschino be commended for his in v~:~.st themes and classic thought-in Plato we face. · alert action in saving a life, and and Aristotle and that crowd. But in pre- But, most importantly, you've spent four · Be it further resolved that a copy of this paring my remar.l>s for this morning, I years not just learning the theory of why Resolution be given to Elmer Maschino, and thought to ignore our current ·situation we might be experiencing these problems, Be it further resolved that the Commis­ would only be to turn our backs on reality. but you've spent them learning how to take sioner of Public Safety forward copies of this In the view of some of our Nation's de- on and beat the problems. Resolution to the Governor of the State of tractors, the current Watergate controversy And so the unique period in which you've has proven the foundation~ of our system are grown up, combined with your fine educa­ Maine, the Daily Kennebec Journal and vari­ shaky and our political processes corrupt. tional training here at New York Tech, gives ous safety organizations in order that this These are the people who have lost faith you an advantage I suspect many of your action can be given appropriate recognition. in our Nation's future. parents and people our age wish we had- They say we're incapable of coping with the abil1ty to look at the world realistically, the issues of tnfiation, war and peace; foreign without benefit of either rose-colored glasses trade; and tax reform. or tears of despair. The ability, in ~hort, to REPRESENTATIVE LENT ADDRESSES They're saying we're choking ourselves be- cut through the veil of life and see that, GRADUATES ON WATERGATE cause we just can't solve our pollution prob- while very few things are perfect, even fewer lems. problems are Insoluble. They say we're living a bumper-to-bumper And I think if you can carry this view- existence because we can't unsnarl our trans- point with you into your individual purSl;lltS, HON. NORMAN F. LENT portatton difficulties or control the growth of you just can't help but make a very con­ OF NEW YORK our population. vincing favorable impression on our way of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - They say we're fouling up everything we life. touch and their vocabularies contain gen- You are, whether or not you yet want to Monday, July 23, 1973 erous doses of "c3.n'~s." "won'ts" "should- be, the first generation of graduates to Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, in the past n'ts," "don'ts," and "nevers." possess the near ideal mix of education, Most ominous of all, however, they say technical training, enthusiasm and a sense · several·months, the main topic of con ver­ th111! your faith-the ab111ty of young people of realism to allow most of you to move ~tion in this country has been the "Wa­ to believe in the system and to confide and into your post-graduate years as journeymen tergate affair,'' and my constituents in work within It-has been deeply wounded, rather than having to spend your entire the Fourth District of New York have and they say the scar may never heal. twenties as apprentices. · · been no exception· to this trend. Last Now, I would be the first to concede that At this point, I hopt- you'll allow me to 1m- month, I had the privilege of serving as many of their points, as far as they go, are part just two or three concluding sugges­ commencement speaker at exercises for valid. We do face many problems. We're tions: all cognizant of the .fact that more needs First of all, get involyed in _yQur commu- _ 900 graduates of New York Institute of to be done in many areas. nlties. Join your local civic groups and poUt- Technology in Old Westbury, N.Y. My And yet, it seems to me the problems of leal parties-make your vole~ . heard; yes, topic was Watergate, its effects on the 1973 are no more unique or difficult than the _ write your Congressman, and chisel away at American political system, and what great problems we faced in the past. And the things that irk you. Givt' everything you might be done to see that no more "Wa­ our current crisis, distasteful as it is, pales encounter the once-over-but when you've tergates" occur in the future. So that my into insignificance where compared with the sized things up, respond !n the positive way constituents and my colleagues might see great crises of our past. we know you can, rather than join the nega- A Nation that survived the dark days of tive chorus. Be the doers, not the doubters. my remarks, I include them in the REc­ Valley Forge, the burning of the Capitol in I say this, ladies and gentlemen of the ORD at this point: 1814, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the graduating class, because many o~ the prob­ REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE NORMAN Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, an unpopular lems we witness today are plainly due to a F. LENT Vietnam war-that Nation should certainly lack of citizen involvement. Graduating seniors, Dr. Schure, Dr. Karr, be able to take in stride the discovery of Secondly, in the exercise of your healthy Members of the Board of Trustees, faculty, serious misconduct and corruption on the skepticism, do not lose your grip on opti­ parents and friends-! appreciate the oppor­ part of a few men who abused their power mism. Have the faith in our Nation and its tunity to share this occasion with you today, and violated their trust. system that has sustained your parents and "'nd I might just add that it's a personal That should not condemn our system. your teachers and their forebears for almost honor for ·me, as a public otncial and as a I sincerely believe that our institutional 200 years. And do not !'ail to appreciate their politician, to have been invited to fiy up strength remains sound even if our faith in accomplishments and the heritage they are from our Nation's Capital to deliver your some individual office holders does not passing on to you. . · commencement address. After all, it will be "The system ·•-not in a Let us remember tl:.a.t since the records of I'll venture to say that, despite Dr. Shure's vindictive nor vengeful way, but in pursuit man have been kept, most people were poor _glowing introduction, most of you out there of full justice-that will have discovered and and only a few were comfortable have never laid eyes on me until today. judged and punished those who contemptu- Today in America, most people are com- I'm not one of the stars of the Watergate ously tried to go around it. forta.ble and only the fe\"{ a.~e poor. · Television Show. It will be "The- system" that will have Let us remember that, as significant as this I haven't been subpoenaed, indicted or ferreted out the guilty, protected the inno- day may be to you, it is made even more granted immunity. cent and restored the confidence of those significant by the fact that we meet here in As a. matter of fact, my telephone isn't who may have come to doubt tt. freedom and peace. even being bugged. In the process, I believe "The system" will And for that alone, we owe a lifetime of I stand here today, one of four U.S. Repre­ have restored and strengthened itself. It mll doing, not doubting. sentatives from Nassau County, as living have reasserted its claim on our loyalty, Its Thank you very much for this opportunity testimony to the fact that our system of gov­ claim on our trust. to be with you today, and the best of luck ernment is still alive and well; to assure you And, as always, we will be the winners. to all of you. July · 23,- 1973.,

SUPPORT FOR MASS TRANSIT federal assistance- progrmrr be channeled teachers, who 'wish to remain . outside the OPERATING ASSISTANCE through appropriate state ag~ncles. To re­ local union. ceive approval, applications :for assistance under this Act should be consistent with the The challenge to academic freedom in­ HON. JOSEPH G. MINISH existing statewide and regional comprehen­ herent in the .forced unionization of As OF NEW JEllSEY sive transportation plan. the States broad­ teachers was the subject of a recent talk en their role in the public transportation by Dr. Russell Kirk, the distinguished IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES program, they should make available at the author. academician, and editor of the Monday, July 23, 1973 request of the local unit of government, both U'.niversity Bookman, before the annual technical and financial assistance in develop­ Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, the 1973- ing transit programs. In providing this as­ meeting of the board of directors of the 74 issue of the National Governor's Con­ sistance, States wtshlng to broaden their in-­ National Right-to-Work Committee in ference Policy Positions contains a sig­ vnlvement in public transportation should Washington, D.C. on May 11, 1973. nificant st~tement of opinion by the Gov­ develop a full-time transit staff, and provide Dr. Kirk declared that: a substantial amount of the local share for Even the right to intellectual work is Inse­ ernors on the subject of Urban Public approved mass transportation grant projects. Transportation. cure nowadays. What we call "academic free­ To assist the States in establishing technical dom" is, in essence, a protection of the As chairman of the Urban Mass Trans­ assistance programs and expertise, funds for right-to-work with one's mind. The doctrine portation Subcommittee and sponsor of technical assistance should be macre avail­ of academic freedom maintains that the H.R. 6452, to provide operating assist­ able for UMTA. Each State would then make teacher and the scholar should be reasonably ance to the Nation's mass transit sys­ this assistance available to the smaller units free to teach and pursue the truth. Some­ tems, I am pleased that the Governors' o:C local government. Establishment of this times the truth is unpopular; therefore we level of state involvement would eliminate endeavor to secure teacher and scholar conf_e:rence is lending its valuable sup­ many of the inter-governmental relations is­ port to the concept of Federal operating against arbitrary interference with their work sues presently existing. . .. just now one of the chief perils to aca­ subsidies for mass transit. C. The Governor or his designee should demic freedom is the device called the "agen­ If we are to overcome the pollution ha.ve authority to set priorities for the fund­ cy shop." and congestion of our urban areas and ing of public transportation projects within alleviate ·the· energy crisis, the Federal the State, and these priorities should be Dr. Kirk notes: Government must assume a partnership honored by the Federal Department of Trans­ Tne agency shop requires that all persons role with States and localities in provid­ portation. employed In a certain concern . . . must D. The Congress should act to exempt pub­ ing adequate-financial support for mass submit to the bargaining authority of some lic and private transit systems from the association, commonly called a union. transit. · federal gasoline tax, thereby providing these The Governors' conference statement systems with a form of badly needed financial Dr~ Kirk states: follows: relief that haS already been provided at the The teacher· who is forced into such a URBAN PuBLIC TRANSPORTATION · state level in several cases. · union against his will, or is forced to pay a States are employing broad -and varied fee to it has lost something: his freedom of tools to aid public transportation systems. choice. And 1f his continued employment "e­ Evory State has exercised its authority to comes dependent upon the wlll of some form areawide public transit districts, and ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND THE union, he may find it necess-ary to conform to grant them taxing authority and bonding AGENCY SHOP his lectures and his writing to views approved powers. Several States are now providing by that union--of which he may not even dit:e.ct capital grants for the construction of be a member. If the masters of that union mass transit facilities. States are involved HON. PHILIP M. CRANE hold strong ideological views of one sort or in providing operating subsidies, and States another, the professor may find it necessary have used their powers of taxation and tax OF ILLINOIS to be intellectually servile. exemption to stimulate the development of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES At a time when we are more and more transit service. Monday, July 1973 concerned with the freedom of the in- State action is a must because of the na­ 23~ ture of mass transit problems. The State Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, American dividualit is dlffi.cult to believe that we has the rosponsibllity to glve each urban education is the subject of a concerted stand on the brink of forced unionization region the ass'stance it requires, but also a campaign by organized labor to force in the field of educatio·n. ' responsiblllty to coordinate among the in­ teachers throughout the country into I wish to share with my colleagues dividual units in that region. The State can labor unions. At the present time, com- Dr. Kirk's thoughtful analysis of this usually help resolve conflicts between city and suburban pollt!cal subdivisions. petition between the National Education problem, and insert his talk into the Many States have found that they are. re­ Association and the American Federation RECORD at this time: quired to expend greater amounts of monies Of · Teachers is taking place in many ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND THE AGENCY SHOP to assist iocal governments as they develop school districts. (By Russ~n Kirk) their capital transit programs. A large por­ Discussing the current moves toward It is an honor to address defenders of the tion of these state dollars are in the form of forced unionization Solveig Eggerz, writ- right to work. "The only true freedom is free­ operating subsidies to maintain a minimum ing in the April 5 issue of Roll Call, notes dom to work.'' Irving Babbitt wrote half a level of service. The National Governors' that: ce:1tury ago. All other rights depend upon the Conference supports the necessary congres­ A goal of the National Education Associa- right to work, Babbitt argued; for 1! we are sion9l action to assist the Nation's !altering prevented from doing our work, life syar<;:ely puplic transit agencies through federal tlon is to totally control the education estab- is worth llvlng; indeed, we may not survive. grants for operating subsidies. The distribu­ llshment by forcing teachers to pay union We mu:>t find our happiness in wor}f, or not tion of these monies would be based on popu­ dues, a coercive act which would make a at all, said Babbitt. With Aristotle, he hel4 lation, revenue, passenger and vehicle mlle­ teaching fee a condition of employment. This that the highest form of work is the work age traveled, with respect to a particular knocks down previously guaranteed teacher of the intellect. shared effort in responding to the needs of tenure. In 19 states teachers are protected I am concerned today with the challenging the traveling public within these urban cen­ by right-to-work laws, but Wisconsin and work of the intellect, the most rewarding of ters. Hawaii have already authorized compulsory all kinds of work. My principal point is this:. The development of adequate, modern sys­ unionism. even the right to intellectual work is lnsecur& tems of urban mass transit is essential to the To underscore this trend, _Catherine nowadays. Wha~ we call "academic freedom" continued life of the urban areas within our Barrett, president of the NEA, does .not is, in essence, a protectio:Q. of the right to States. To accompllsh this purpose, the Na­ hesitate to declare her goal quite openly, work one's mind. The doctrine of academic tional Governors' Conference urges the fol­ freedom maintains that the teacher and the lowing action: She recently stated that: scholar should be reasonably free to teach A. Adequate funding of the Urban Mass I belleve we· have arrived as pro!essionais. · and pursue the truth. Soin.et1mes tJle truth is Transportation Act of 1970 to ~eet the needs · We are the biggest potential striking force unpopular; therefore we e!ldeavor to secure of both the large urban areas requiring sub­ in the country and we are determined to teacher and scholar against arbitrary inter­ way or· rail transit systems, aJ;ld the growing control the direction of education. terence with their work. In theory, the "pro­ urban areas requlrlng bus transportation fessor" is a per..on who strongly pro!e--:ses his facllities. Miss Eggerz writes: belief in certain truths. Unless he is reason­ B. To achieve meaningful input, each State The key issue in recent strikes in Wash- · · ably free to pursue and expound those truths, must be involved ln all mass transit planning ington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New ·York, he cannot accomplish h1s work. Thus aca- endeavors at the most preliminary stage. was the demand by union bosses for a com- demic freedom is a natural right: r mean The assurance of proper implementation of pulsory agency shop. The victims are the that it arises trom the nature of Intellectual these transit plans would require that the children, who miss weeks of school, and labor. 25532 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 From time to time, academic. freedom con­ ployed 1n such a monopoly are subject to NEA-well, it would be somewhat. tardy for fronts danger in one quarter or another. the will of officers in a union, in some emer­ them to disagree, power already having Just now, one of the chief perils to academic gency the authority of government might passed to a union monopoly. I! professors freedom is the device called the "agency be defied successfully by the men who domi­ and teachers should dissent from Mrs. Bar­ shop." As I hardly need tell those present nate the union. Then even the most essential rett and her colleagues, who wilt control the here, the agency shop requires that all per­ public services, including the ordinary en­ NEA's costly propaganda-apparatus-per­ sons employed in a certain concern, or per­ forcement of law and keeping of the peace, haps they can find : 1bs somewhere else. The haps in a large industry, must submit to the would depend upon the mood and the ambi­ system of public instruction would be cap­ bargaining authority of some association, tions of people controlling the union. The tive to ideology. At best, this would be an commonly called a union. And to that associ­ real government might be the union itself. ideology of "ritualistic liberalism," alien to ation or union, all persons so employed must So compulsory unionization of public em­ the beliefs of most Americans; possibly it pay a fee, or dues, whether or not they are ployees is a more alarming matter than com­ would be a thoroughly radical ideology. If members of that union, and whether or not pulsory unionization of employees in com­ one would control a nation totally, first ob­ they wish to have that union, or any other merce or industry. Some degree of competi­ tain thorough control over the schools. Un­ body, represent them in collective bargaining. tion still prevails almost everywhere 1n the der such a domination, no room would remain Now how can the agency shop be a peril "private sector," and so a strike in com­ for the liberties of the mind. to academic freedom? Cannot the professor merce and industry may be endured; after The opponents of such compulsion, as or teacher merely continue to teach and to a fashion, ordinary life proceeds. But if vital everybody here knows, possess little money; research as he always had done, after pay­ public services are affiicted by a strike, the the teachers' unions have grown rich at the ing to some union a tribute called a fee, or civil social order is disrupted--or worse. cost of teachers who would prefer not to be dues? Has the professor lost anything except Therefore the federal goyernment, and most represented by them, and who often disagree a little of his salary? state governments, have refrained from giv­ altogether with the unions' educational and Yes, he has lost something: his freedom ing to unions the power to control public political slogans and tactics. Yet courage still of choice. And if his continued employment employees against their wishes, even though counts for much. Cheerfulness keeps break­ becomes dependent upon the will of some such power is possessed by unions in the ing in, and you and I do not despair. union, he may find it necessary to conform "private sector." So I come full cycle, back to academic his lectures and his writing to views ap­ This is true of public instruction. The freedom-which is freedom !rom ideology, proved by that union--of which he may not vast majority of college and university stu­ freedom from obsessive political activism, even be a member. If the masters of that dents are enrolled in institutions supported free-dom from centralized power over the in­ union hold strong ideological views of one by public funds; an even vaster majority tellect, freedom to teach and study and sort or another, the professor may find it nec­ of elementary and secondary pupils attend think. If any class of people ought to be essary. to be intellectually servile--or else public schools. If effectual control of the able to bargain for themselves as individuals, to take up some other line of work, if he educational apparatus were to pass from the or to advance their common interests can. In his moving book The Captive Mind, hands of public trustees and administra­ through genuine professional associations, the Polish exile Czeslaw Mllosz describes just tors to the hands of union leaders, then those people are the prof~.ssors and teachers. how servile men of intellect may become, eventually what is taught in the system of If we deny freedom of choice to such people, when their society falls under the domina­ public instruction, and what persons are em­ there will be precious little liberty left for tion of ideologues and their ad vancement ploye:! to do the teaching, would be deter­ anybody in our·society, within a few years of or survival depends upon conformity to mined by union organizations not subject decades. Being treated as if he were one of an ideology. to ordinary political processes. Under such unthinking herd, incompetent to make his A good many American professors and circumstances, the educational system would own decisions, is the ultimate insult to a teachers already are aware of the danger to cease to be genuinely public, and its policies men of learning. If '.;he Academy is spared their profession and their freedom of mind. would be those of n. kind of union elite. This from such an insult, it wm owe much to the In January, I addres:;:ed the annual conven­ surely would result in great increase of costs, energies of the Nation:..! Right to Work Com­ tion of the scholars who have formed Univer­ for the beneficiaries of expenditure would mittee. sity Professors for Academic Order (a name control the expenditure. More important, which may be changed, at my suggestion, to this would result in inteilectual servility, all University Professors for Academic Order and too prooably. EDDIE RICKENBACKER: THE LOSS Freedom). The UPAO, at that meeting, For tlie national teachers' union, whether OF A GREAT AMERICAN adopted a resolution which expresses their the National Education Association or the resistance to pressures from both government American Federation of Teachers, and their and teachers' unions-pressures which reduce state and local affiliates, have ceased to be HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK professional associations of the sort ap­ academic order and academic freedom. oF omo In this resolution, the members of UPAO proved by University Professors for Academ­ distinguished between a voluntary associa­ ic Order-if, indeed, they ever were. Their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion of faculty members, which can protect concern nowadays is not for the improve­ Monday, July 23, 1973 academic freedom, and involuntary member­ ment of public instruction, really, but with ship in, or submission to, a nonprofessional power and money for their own union orga­ Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the organization which reduces the academic nizations. Worse still, these teachers• death of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker 1s a freedom of those whom it professes to rep­ unions have a discernible ideological bent, great loss to all those who knew him and resent. The members of UPAO resent such hostile toward genuine learning and toward to· all Americans. Captain Rlckenbacker governmental activities as the ".Aftlrmative genuine academic freedom. led a full and eventful life. From the age Action" program, which would establish in The ideological bias of the teachers' unions colleges and universities, as elsewhere, em­ has been most perceptible in California and of 12 he was a worker for those things ployment quotas founded upon ethnic and Michigan, probably; in many cases, a utopian which have made America great. He was sexual differences. They resent equally the radicallsm has come to prevail among teach:.. a pioneer auto racer. In World War I threat that they may be comp~lled to sub­ ers' union officials. On a national level, the he became one of America's first aces as ordinate their own interests and convictions political hunger and anti-intellectual ob­ a pilot battling the Germans. He was to some involuntary union-thrust upon jectives of the present National Education awarded the Croix de Guerre with four them, perhaps, by the action of government, Association are sufficiently suggested in palms, the Legion of Honor, the Distin­ which grants special privileges to ~he offi- some remarks of Mrs. Catherine Barrett, now guished Service Cross with nine oak leaf cers of such unions. . president .of the NEA, and in the NEA's clusters, and the Congressional Medal of The members of UPAO, and _professors and booklet "Schools for the 70's." Mrs. Bar­ teachers generally, have reason for misgiv­ rett looks forward ·to the time when the Honor among other decorations. ing. During the past decade, we have seen NEA wlll be the most powerful force in The long and varied career of Captain the swift uniontzing of millions of public America,. with a vast polltical budget, elect­ Rickenbacker always bore witness to the emoloyees....:.Ofteu compulsory unionization, ing and defeating ca~didates at every level. kind of honest and courageous man that with political power at its back. To require When that happy day arrives, "We will need he was. When retiring from. the leader­ any public employees to .join some union to recogniz-e that the so-called 'basic skills,' ship of Eastern Airlines, he said: which aurrently represent nearly the total aga.inst their will, or to pay fees to such a I am going to expand my crusade to save union that may be spent for purposes op­ effort in elementary schools, will be taught the American way of life for future genera­ posed to the interests arid convictions of in one-quarter of the school day. The re­ tions. those who pay the money, is very dangerous maining tln:!.e will be devoted to what is public policy. By its nature, government is trulv fundamental and ba~:ic." He was never afraid to speak up for a monopoly. In any community nowadays, What does President Barrett meat: by these the things that made America great. He ordinarily, there exists but one police force, phrases? Why, she advocates a "problem­ was a strong advocate of our free enter­ one fire department, one department of sani­ oriented curriculum," which would lnstlll prise system. tation, one post office system (autonomous correct opinions about "war, peace, race, the economy, population, the envlronment"-in Eddie Rickenbacker's loss is not only corporation though it nominally is) , one ap­ being heavily felt by his family but also paratus for the collection of revenue and the short, the most controversial issues. If par­ disbursing of public funds. If the people em- ents should disagree with the triumphant by all those Americans who have bene- July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25533 i. fited by the American system.· The cru~ me, and her sewing · basket was my cradle. the provisions of Sweden's new privacy sade· to save the American way. of Ufe I was never an orphan, however, I was adopt­ law. ed by the Continental Congress in 1777 and has lost a leading fighter. As one who became k·nown as· the National Emblem. The following article notes that the appeared with him on the speakers plat­ I am now 185 years o! age and have trav:­ United States has not done much to pro­ form a number of times, I of course eled extensively and witnessed many things. tect privacy since the passage by the agreed with his strong conservative and I witnessed the bitter cold at Valley Forge Congress of the Fair Credit Reporting pro-Americ:ln position. He was a great and was with General Washington on that Act. The article notes that the limits on American, an able spokesman for our !rigid Christmas night when we crossed the what the Department of Justice and the cause and a dedicated citizen whose ac­ Delaware. FBI can do with arrest records and other complishments speak for themselves. I also witnessed the firing o! Fort McHen­ data in the National Crime Information ry by the British in the twilight o! day and infiuenced Francis Scott Key to write the Center are not very clear or satisfactory. "Star Spangled Banner" which is now our This significant article follows: national anthem. I was also with Andy Jack­ COMPUTERS: SWEDEN ENACTS PRIVACY LAW STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER son at the Battle of New Orleans. I was (by Robert Skole) carried through the Halls of Montezuma to Sweden is combatting the threat of inva­ the Shores o! Tripoli. Yes, I was there at sion of privacy by computer data bank.s. HON. WM. J. RANDALL Appomatox on that gray morning when Lee OF MISSOURI With experts around the world watching, the surrendered his sword to Grant. Swedish Data Inspection Board started IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I charged up San Juan Hill with Teddy operating on July 1 as a watchdog-with Roosevelt and his Rough Riders. I visited teeth-under the world's first national law Monday, July 23, 1973 the Marne and the Argonne Forest and kept pr~venting undue encroachment o! citizens' Mr. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, many fine a lonely vigil over the white crosses and privacy by private data banks. The law regu­ essays h~ve been written about our be­ watched the poppies grow on Flanders Field. lating establishment and operation of data loved American fiag. I am sure we have Yes, I witnessed the sadness and the fear banks actually goes into effect July 1, 1974- on the faces o! brave men at Pearl Har­ but the inspection board starts operating all seen the writings of our patriotic citi­ bor. I waved bravely at Corregldor and Bou­ zens who have put their thoughts on now to give companiea and s;;ate agencies a gainvllle and was raised to fly on Iwo· Jima. year to comply. paper in the first person, as if the fiag it­ I also attested to the braveness in those There are 4,000 to 5,000 personal regl.&ters self were speaking to those of the country great souls at Anzio, St. Lo, and Bastogne. in Sweden, among them roughly 500 operated· for which it stands as a symbol. I was carried across the rice paddies o! by state or local government agenciea. For Korea and I know the agony of the men arid There has recently come to my atten7 those 500, the law makes an exception, hav­ tion one of the finest first person descrip­ the blood spilt by them in that far away land ing the board serve only in a consultant's of Vietnam. position. This distinction is perhapa the only tions of the American fiag it has been my To many people I am many things. To privilege to know about. It is so well point in the law that caused serious debate some I am yesterday, today, and tomorrow: in its smooth ride through parliament: in­ written and so inspiring that I concluded I am a glorious child, a grand old man, or dustry and some political partie.:; wanted the it is something that deserved to be pub­ a most gracious lady. laws to cover all data banks, with no excep­ lished in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD and I also possess many names. I am called tions. But the Social-Democratic govern­ thereby sharing it not only with my con­ "The Red, White and Blue," "The Star ment argued that parliament itself provides Spangled Banner," "The Stars and Stripes," stituents but also sharing it with my C;)ntrol ~f Government sy->tems-and if there "The Grand Old Flag," and just plain "Old are abuses, an individual can appeal to ·the colieagues-and through the pages of the Glory." CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, the American p3.rlhmentary ombudsman. I am in the homes o! the poor, the man­ The government knows all too well about people. sions of the rich, veteran hospitals and the parliamentary control. Last year it sought Francis H. Cox, the author of "Stars lodges of organizations. I am in the White funds for personnel for a big daddy of all and Stripes Forever" is a valued constit­ House with the Pre-sident. I am· in the data banks-a central personal register with uent who is a resident of eastern Jackson churches, cathedrals, and synagogues. I am the information on all Swedes that's now County, Mo. He serves as principal of with the Boy and Girl Scouts, and in the kept by provinces. Data in these banks is the Franklin Smith School in Blue classrooms o! the schools where the chil- public under a 1766 Swedish law, which bas dren pledge allegiance to me. . been extended to include automatic data Springs, Mo. Although he is a native of I have been draped over the caskets o! eastern Tennessee he has lived in Jack­ processing. But parliament nevertheless ob­ Presidents, admirals, generals, humble pri­ jected to the central register and rejected son County, Mo., for 25 years and has vates and the Unknown Soldier. So you see, the appropriation, even though the govern- . been a resident and citizen of Blue I have seen history develop and unfold. ment had to make good on contracts already Springs, Mo., for the past 7 years. My hope and aspirations are now to fly signed !or the computers. over our great country at peace with the Mr. Cox served iil the Army in World CENSUS SALE War II. He tells me it was his military world. Someday I firmly believe I will have that experience. After all, I am the Stars The privacy law was triggered in large part· service that nurtured his great respect and Stripes Forever. by a public outcry several years ago over a and love for our national colors. It takes special cerisus for data that was going to be only a brief conversation with Frank Cox sold. At the same time, attention was drawn to conclude that he is a truly patriotic to the provinces' practice o! selling informa­ American. Mr. Cox is a past commander SWEDEN ENACTS PRIVACY LAW tion on individuals when one refused to sell of the Irwin Kirkwood Post No. 386, its tapes to an ITT subsidiary. The case went to court, which ruled that the province m~t American Legion, Kansas City, Mo·. treat the tapes as any other public docu­ It takes only a glance at the good work ment-and make them available to the pub­ of Mr. Cox to note the staccato style by HON. ROBERT _F. DRINAN lic. which he recalls to mind to those per­ OF J4ASSACEtUSETTS Having so much personal data readily sons, places, and events most associated IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES available has made Sweden a paradise for with the fiag of the United States-Betsy Monday, July 23, !973 direct-mall companies or market researchers. Ross; the Continental Congress; Valley To top it off, all Swedes have personal num­ Forge; Fort McHenry; Francis · Scott Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, I know bers-given at birth or on immigration­ Key; San Juan Hill; the Argonne For­ that Members of Congress will be deeply which are valuable for data processing in rest; Flanders Field; Pearl Harbor; interested in an article from the July 19, this nation of millions of Andersons, Erik­ 1973, sons, Svenssons, Karlsons, and Petersoris Corregidor; Iwo Jima; Anzio; Bastogne, issue of Electronics by Robert Skole, · [Electronics, Aug. 17. 1970, p. 115]. and Vietnam. which describes the world's first measure Curiously enough, industry had no real Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to have set up to keep an eye on personal data objections to the law. In. fact, computer _ the honor to read into the RECORD at this banks. specialists have been asking for years for point the work of my distinguished con­ This device became operational on July a privacy law or ground rules to be estab­ stituent, Francis Cox, entitled "Stars and 1, 1973, after the Swedish Prime Minister lished before any public reaction against data 1 :. _r ipes Forever": and the Social Democratic Government . banks could result from their abuse and STAttS AND STRIPES FOREVER of Sweden pusJ1ed through the world's reach a point that would affect computer I am the flag of the United States of Amer~ first national law proteciing the privacy development. i.:.' a. My conception was in the . dreams ·of of citizens from computers. · B~OAD COVERAGE lioerty and in the hopes of freedom. A llttle Following the article is a "box" that. The law will affect such data banks as pay­ <' ld lady by the name o! Betsy Ross made accompanied this article .which describes roll recGrds, personnel-- lists, customer lists, 25534 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 subscriber lists, direct mall lists, credit rat­ the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional toward the "manly, professions. Boys ing lists, and, in a word, any register, han­ Rights observes that Individuals must take dled by automatic data processing, 1n which a positive action to exert their rights to no­ are not su,pposed to say they want to be an individual can be identified. tice, access, challenge, and correction of er­ teachers, or nurses, or secretaries. Boys Jan Freese, deputy director-general of the rors in private data banks--even those of are not supposed to help .. mommie" in board, says these range from the giant some lnsuran.ce companies. the kitchen. Why? registers containing millions of names--like But "the Individual must know the record Our schools compound these stereo­ those kept by direct-man firms or insurance .1s being kept first before he can act," the law­ types. Teachers consciously or subcon­ companies--down to mnaU company records. yer points out, adding the situation is not sciously sex stereotype their pupils by The smallest he saw had 27 names, ln a com­ mur.h different than in Sweden. Usually. the even the simple distribution of classroom pany with a very complicated piece-work requirement to notify an individual of the payment system. At this point, specialists in­ record is couched "in the most vagueJ broad, function. Textbooks universally are volved with the law do not see that it will and nonhP.lpful languaJte'' that the record guilty of relegating certain roles to one mean anything as far as hardware is in­ keepers can come up with. sex and not the other. Their complicity volved. However, once the board starts to IT'S THE LAW is not only ir.1 the pictures, but in the make specific rulings on cases, there could stories themselves. be demand for some hardware-such as addi­ While Swede-n'.s new privacy law permits tional memory capacity for logging trans­ the Data Inspection Board to act only as I submit an article which recently ap­ actions to provide a record of who gets what an adviser in the case of government data peared in the Parade magazine of July information, or for providing scrambling and banks, it gives the board sweeping power 1, 1973, regarding this problem which I descrambling equipment to insure privacy over private installations. Here are the main found of great interest. In this connec­ when filling board demands. Also, there could points: tion hearings on my bill, H.R. 208, the be additional work for programers, and com­ A personal register (a data bank contain­ Women's Educational Equity Act, will puter service companies will be facing addi­ Ing names or lists where an Individual can be recognized) can be kept only with permission begin this week en July 25 and 26 at 9:30 tional work to upgrade their customers' data in banks to meet board requirements. of the board. a.m. both mornings room 2261 with No information can be kept of highly per­ the following public witnesses: MORE TO COME sonal, sensitive matters-such as data on a Arvonne Fraser, president, Women's The only personal registers covered by the person's alcoholism, arrest record, psychiatric Equity Action League. law are those set up for automatic data proc­ treatment--except with special permission essing. The law does not cover manually Dr. Bernice Sandler, Project on the from the board. Status and Education of Women, Asso­ operated systems--if there are any. How­ No registration can be made of an indi­ ever, another law that will be presented to vidual's religious or political views (although ciation of American Colleges. parliament next year covers all-automatic parties or churches can keep membership Joy R. Simonson, president, Interstate or man11al-credit rating reporting and per­ lists). Association of Commissions on the sonal filing systems. This law will have some The board wlll rule on how each data bank Status of Women. tough restrictions-including the fact that can be set up and used. Dr. Nancy K. Schlossberg, American only Swedish companies can provide such Each individual wlll have the right to get a Council on Education. services. Thus, credit reporting will be cov­ free printout--in understandable form-of ered by both the data bank law and the Kitty Cole, ,project director, Resource what a data bank contains on him. in special credit law-when the systems are Anyone can sue a data bank if it spreads Center on Sex Roles Education, Na­ computer-based. false information on him. tional Foundation on the Improvement Sweden's law making all public records An individual can demand (and get the of Education. open to the public has meant that a:n indi­ board to enforce the demand) that correc­ Bernice Frieder, chairman, Education vidual knows what a state or municipal data tions be made, or that his or her name be Task Force, National Council of Jewish bank contains on him. But until now he has eliminated from a bank. Women. had no control over private data banks. Data banks cannot be moved outside the "What we have done is extend the principle Ellen Morgan, coordinator, Task Force country without permission. on University Compliance, National Or­ of publlc information in the private sec­ Operators of data banks can be made to tor, when it deals with personal informa­ notify individuals that their names and other ganization for Women. tion," says Freese. information are being kept 1n the register. Jennifer Ryan, National Student One important section of the new law ex­ Operators of such banks must make pro­ Lobby. tends the rule of obligation to observe vision for logging of transactions. and must Dr. Charles L. Lewis, executive direc­ secrecy-a rule that applies to such profes­ also provide any security systems that the tor, American Personnel & Guidance sions as medicine, social work, and some board demands. government officials when they are concerned Association. Revisions 1n type or extent of material. and Women's Action Alliance. with personal information-to private data how a bank is used, can be made only with bank operators. If the board rules that a data board permission. National Women's Political Caucus. bank operator must be silent, he is then cov­ Penalties for violations can lead to a fine The article follows: ered by this ruling. or maximum of a year 1n prison. Do Kms' SCHOOLBOOKS DISTORT SEX RoLES? The director general of the Data Inspection (By nene Barth) Board ts a jurist and career civil servant, Claes-Goeran Kaellner, who knows very lit­ PRINCETON, N.J.-In the world of chlldren's tle-if anything-about computer data reading books little boys are still made of banks. But the law requires that a majority SEX DISCRIMINATION frogs and snails and puppy dog tails, and of laymen make up the nine-man board, little girls remain sugar and spice and every­ with only three experts. One is Aake Pern­ thing nice. But this traditional view of the elid, managing director of the state com­ sexes in elementary schoolbooks .1s being puter consulting system (right now busy HON. PATSY T. MINK challenged by a group of serious-minded setting up an on-line system to link all mothers from Princeton, N.J. pharmacies to a central computer). Another OF HAWAII They call themselves Women on Words member is P. G. Vinge, a computer security IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Images (WOWI), and at first glance, sur­ rounded by their children, dogs and hus­ specialist with the federation of Swedish in­ Monday, July 23, 1973 dustries, and former head of the Swedish bands, they do not appear much di1ferent counter-espionage service. Others are mainly Mrs. MINK. Mr. Speaker, in so many from the stereotypical images they are at­ parliament members from different parties. tacking. But their work-a study of 2760 subtle ways, all of us as parents con­ stories 1n 134 schoolbooks by 14 di1ferent AMERICA tribute to the development of our chil­ publishers-has turned a core group of six What is the U.S. doing to · protect the dren by what we encourage or discour­ women Into professional campaigners to re­ rights of individual citizens when it comes age. When we do this on the basis of vise the readers of this country's school­ to government and private data banks? "Not children 1n primary grades. much at all in the private sector since the the sex of the child then we are partici­ The women firmly believe that the text­ Fair Credit Reporting Act," admits one con~ pating in sex discrimination. books 1n use now hurt all young readers, both gressional legal expert on the subject. And So often we discuss sex discrimination boys and girls. Mrs. Rogie Bender, mother on the Government side, limits are still fuzzy for its effects upon women; seldom do we of two boys and two girls, says, "Girls are on what the Department of Justice and its pay any attention to the cruel and irrep­ constantly insulted 1n these books by being FBI can do with arrest record and other data compared unfavorably to boys. And the texts in the National Crime Information Center. arable damage it can also do to men. are bad for my sons, too. Little boys are Of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and its Boys are supposed to all be "manly'' alwa-ys being brave, choking back tears, and impact on private data banks, an attorney for and excel in sports and be motivated o!ten receive praise for doing stupid things. July 23; 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25535 For example, one book has a story about a says Cynthia Eaton. "They moved much more superintendent of the Berkeley, Calif., small boy wrestling an alligator." quickly when asked to racially integrate schools. The women's specific findings, which may their books." That fact alone ought to suggest the inap­ shake up the educational publishing indus­ To prod publishers to act faster, the WOW! propriateness of headlines emphasizing the try, include: women have begun to lobby the Council of sex of candidates for professional positions. MALES DOMINATE Great City Schools and state committees While women in executive positions should More than two-thirds of all stories are which approve textbooks. They also urge no longer be treated in newspapers as novel­ about boys or men. concerned parents' groups to put pressure on ties, it is still true that women are battling Boys are presented in active, creative sit­ their children's schools for new books, and on several fronts for economic equality. It uations like building walkie-talkies, or using on the government to condemn old texts as is this fact that forms the basis for the other their wits in capturing hijackers, dealing discriminatory. two complaints. with a genie, or solving problems for girls Meanwhile, the women continue to "edu­ One concerns the placement of a story or even mother. cate" editors, fearing that even with the best describing the problems of women in the job Girls are pictured quietly watching boys intent in the world, publishers will perpet­ market and the other concerns the meager play, or in domestic activities like cooking, uate mistakes. The women point to one c.:>verage in both local newspapers of the an­ cleaning the house, or sewing. Often girls are book illustration of s. girl on skates falllng nual convention of the National Welfare teased by boys for their stupidity when they down. In the old version the girl was white Rights Organization. make mistakes. and wore a dress. In the new, updated episode On July 11, the obituary page of The Men are illustrated in a variety of occupa­ she's dark-skinned and wears s' acks, but th0- Washington Post--Page B 10--carried a re­ tions, 147 in all. Women are shown in only text still reads, "She's just like a girl, she port of a hearing the previous day of the Joint Economic Committee, which is looking 26 occup:~.tions, most of them mere exten­ gives up." sions of household labor-cooking in a school And even if significant changes become into the problems of women and work. cafeteria, for example. incorporated into schoolbooks, the women Representatives of the President's Council Fathers solve problem.; for everyone and will have new battles to fight. They have re­ of Economic AdviSers told the committee frequently participate in joint activities with cently begun to look at tht: informal aspects that discrimination accounts for some· of their kids. of education, and there, too, they are un­ the difference in the pay that men and Mothers, however, rarely have a life apart happy with what they see. women receive. Sex discrimination, they from housework, seldom leave the kitchen, "At my son Michael's school, boys and testified, might account for 30 per cent less and are more likely to scold than play with girls form separate lines to enter school each pay to women than men receive. their children. morning," Mrs. Bender reports. "If a boy Paul A. Samuelson, the Nobel Prize win­ misbehaves, his punishment is to stand in ning economist from MIT, told the commit­ PUBLISHERS PRESSURED the girls' line." tee that "The typical woman worker is These points are powerfully illustrated in a lucky if she earns 60 per cent" of what the booklet and slide show produced by WOW!. typical male worker earns, "even though What started as one woman's indignation tests show that her I.Q., dlligence and dex­ over her child's reading materials three years terity cannot account for the difference in ago has now been parlayed into a massive ef­ WOMEN AND THE NEWS pay and status." fort tc pressure publishers into change. Orig­ Nobody has ever made a credible correla­ inally organized under the umbrella of the tion between the exposure an issue receives National Organization for Women, the group HON. DONALD M. FRASER and the society's ability to solve the prob­ made presentations before publishers, edu­ lem. But many of the women who com­ cators, and PTA groups for free. Now inde­ OF MINNESOTA plained about the problem of sex discrimina­ pendent. the women not only mean business, I! THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion being relegated to the obituary page they are in businesses. They work as paid Monday, July 23, 1973 would agree with the woman who said: consultants to puJlishers, rent out their slide "The testimony at these Joint Economic show, and have sold 15,000 copies of their Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, on July 19, Committee hearings is of huge interest to study, "Dick and Jane as Victims," at $1.50 the Washington Post carried two stories those of us uppity females who keep hoping apiece. about women. One article concerned the that someday there will be no need for that Profit-motivated and professional as the efforts of Anne Armstrong, counselor to kind of testimony, that someday women can women have become, their cause is still up­ the President, and Jayne Spain, Vice hope to be more than secretaries and nurses permost in their minds. "It took me 30 and clerks, and librarians and telephone op- · years to wake up from the storybook images Chairman of the Civil Service Commis­ erators ..• of women," says one WOW! member. "I sion, to hire and promote more women to Even so, the- 500 women who made up the know these books are damaging." middle and top management positions. delegation to the National Welfare Rights How have publishers reacted to these This is welcome news. Organization would be happy, in many in­ charges? Caught by surprise, they have de­ The second article was not as encour­ stances, to be able to gain acceptance in fended themselves by pointing out that there aging. I commend the thoughtful com­ some of those categories. was little concern about sex roles when their ments of Mr. Robert C. Maynard to my One of the central issues before them was books were initially published. Series are re­ whether welfare was not too narrow a defini­ vised at three-to-10-year intervals, and many colleagues: tion of their concerns. Some even suggested editors have promised to loosen sex-role WOMEN AND THE NEWS they should change the name of the group straitjaci:tets when books come up for review. (By Robert C. Maynard) to the National Women's Rights Organiza­ "I thought the Dick and Jane study was Women in Washington have been com­ tion, arguing that welfare is an issue almost great anc' true," says Craig Boultinghouse, plaining that they were poorly served last exclusively affecting women. the woman who is executive editor of the week by their local morning newspaper. The They received Rep. Bella Abzug and Gloria Macmillan Reading Program. e7idence in support of their contention is Steinem cordially and debated the issue of Macmillan plans to use some new artwork well worth considering. how far toward the feminist movement they in a few of its readers picturing boys and One of the complaints is a matter of ques­ should move. In the end, they stuck with girls doing things together. "Mother won't tionable word choice in a headline and the welfare, but the very fact that a predomi­ always be in a dress and apron," predicts Ms. other two concern the judgment of Washing­ nantly black women's group should begin Boultinghouse. "She'll wear clothes appro­ ton Post editors regarding the placement of such discussions is slgni:flcant. For quite priate to different activities." stories and the coverage of stories. some time, black women's groups have taken Will1al"' Hooks, Bank Street Publications The headline that aroused the ire of several the position that "women's llb has llttle to chairman, concurs. "In anything new we women appeared on the first page of the do with the black community." write," he says, "we'll try to improve the bal­ Metro section on Thursday, July 12. It said: It would have been helpful to learn in the ance between girls and boys and be more newspapers the depth of NWRO feeling that SCHOOL JOB MAY GO TO WOMAN EDUCATOR flexible in our situations." it is time to look afresh at feminism as it But both Hooks and Ms. Boultinghouse "Why woman educator?" several women has been discussed in the larger society. stress economic obstacles to quick change. asked. If the frontrunner for head of the It would also have been helpful to know "It takes half a million dollars to launch a D.C. schools had been a man, and had been more about the reaction of an organization new series, and a few millions more before from Chicago-as Barbara Sizemore is--the that claims 125,000 members to hearing its the publisher makes a profit," explains headline probably would have said "Chicago former leader, George Wiley, urge NWRO to Hooks. "No one is w1111ng to drop or do Educator" or ''Illinois Educator." Almost cer­ embrace a concept of economic justice that complete overhauls of series which now ex­ tJ.inly, it would not have said, "Man goes beyond welfare to such issues as tax ist. Changes will come-but over a period of Educator." reform and the restructuring of health care years." To compound the injury, Ms. Sizemore was delivery. This does little to satisfy the Princeton­ not, as the story made clear, the only woman It might have been possible to learn of yet based critics, who :!eel the changes will come under active consideration. Of the five final­ another growing phenomenon in the bla-k too slowly to benefit children now in school. ists listed in the story, two weTe women. The community, whtch came very much to ll!e "I think publishers are dragging their feet," other 1s Harriet G. Jenkins, former asslstan~ at the NWRO convention. 25536 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1973 The women of NWRO voted to give up involved in this issue as evidenced by a Space Technology of July 9, 1973, out­ some portion of their food stamp allotments recent move to oust proabortion leader, to the 6 trl1111on victimS of the famine in lines well the significance of the recently Africa. "We md.· · be hungry," one of the dele­ Zad Leavy, from his post as chairman completed first of three Skylab missions. gates is reported to have said during the of the executive committee of the B'nai Because of the importance of his com­ debate on tl:is subject. "but we aren't starv­ B'rith Anti-Defamation League. ments to the future activities in our na­ ing to death." At this point I would like to have in­ tional space effort, I am including this Across the country, blacks of modest means serted into the RECORD an article ex­ editorial in the RECORD for the benefit of have begun tc take up collections of food and pressing the Jewish community's need to my colleagues and the general public. funds for the drought victims of Africa's continue in the pro-life movement: The editorial follows: Sahel. But it i£" striking that those women at the very bottom of the country's economy A P&OABORTION STANCE FOR JEWS Is SALUTE TO SKYLAB would vote to give up some of what they SUICIDAL Skylab was a triumph of man's ingenuity, have for this effort. Jesse Jackson of Ope. \­ Los ANGELE~.-Dr. Kenneth Mitzner, presi­ endurance and indomitable spirit. It was a tion PUSH was one of th.; speakers who dent of the League Against Neo-Hitlerism, tremendous demonstration of why man is urged them 1n that direction and they today called upon leaders of the Jewish Com­ vital to the broad expansion of space mis­ agreed. munity to remove pro-abortion leader Zad sions that looms for the next decade, and it Neither The Post, the Evening Star nor The Leavy, a Beverly Hills attorney, from his post demonstrated on live television for every tax­ New York Times found time from Wate~· gate as chairman of the Executive Committee of payer who cared to watch exactly what the to cht>ck out thos ... story possibilities. the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League. space shuttle is all about. Oddly enough, it Post editors point out that this newspaper Dr. Mitzner's statement was motivated by appears that the public interest in Skylab's covered the Frid... y banquet NWRO gave. but Leavy's scheduled appearance at an abortion suspense serial was much higher in Europe it was a very brief ~tory on a party, not cov­ symposium on the UCLA campus Saturday, than in the land of its creation. erage of the convention. June 30th. The three-man Skylab crew achieved three Television, which is so frequently crit­ "Most major persecutions of our people principal accomplishments: icized for ignoring or handling superficially from 1144 to 1945 were fueled by the accusa­ They salvaged 80% of a successful mission those stories that newspapers consider im­ tion that we practice child murder as a and a $2.5-billion investment from the pros­ portant, provided NWRO with far more custom or religious rite," Dr. Mitzner said. pect of total disaster. They not only repaired coverage. .. Similar accusations and a general upsurge the critically crippled Skylab for their own NBC had a crew on hand for two full days of bitterness and hostUlty toward the Jewish mission but left it in goo:i enough condition of the convention, and WTOP carried several community have been developing over the to handle the remainder of the shuttle crews. informative stories with filmed interviews abortion issue, especially the leadership role They proved that man can live and work and sound bites from speechE's of some members of the Jewish community usefully for extended periods in space. Man­ Watergate and vacations were given as t~e in the promotion and practice of abortion. ned spacefiight has gradually progressed from reason The Po::;t didn't cover th ") story of the The leaders of the Anti-Defamation League the Vostok and Mercury era, when man was NWRv. Those editors who would have han­ are the men we expect to protect us from the primarily a passenger of limited utility in a dled it pointed out they also chose not to guilt-by-association thinking which blames spacecraft, through Gemini, Soyuz. Apollo, cover the convention of the American Bank­ all Jews for the acts of some. Instead Leavy Salyut to Skylab, where his functions were ers Association. "We treated the rich and the is a perfect example for the enemies of our manifold and his spacecraft merely a trans­ poor alike," one editor said. people to point to. The Jewish community portation system to take him to his work. United Press International covered the is committing suicide by keeping Leavy in They opened new vistas on the scientific convention, but conceded to this newspaper such a sensitive post." work that can be accomplished from a space that it used on its wires only one tenth of Leavy is the former law partner of State platform that cannot be done on earth. what its reporter filed. Watergate was much Sen. Anthony Beilenson author of Cali­ Last September at the Society of Experi­ on their minds, they said. fornia's permissive 1967 abortion law. He is mental Test Pilots Symposium in Beverly According to those in attendance, there a frequent speaker at pro-abortion meetings Hills, Pete Conrad worried tha. t boredom were even a couple of Y!atergate angles at and played a prominent role in the litigation would be the biggest problem facing his crew the NWRO convention. Rep. Abzug suggested attacking the constitutionality of abortion in Skylab. Somehow that problem never ma­ that President Nixon should do ••penance" laws. He was also a leader in obtaining the terialized on this mission. Pete provided a for Watergate by having th;, first fam1ly live backing of the California Bar Association for virtuoso performance in his leadership of the for one year on the earnings of a welfare legalized abortion. Skylab crew, demonstrating the value of his family. Dr. Mitzner said he regretted having to spacefiight seasoning on Gemini 5 and 11 and Ralph Abernathy, who just resigned as bring this issue out in public. After Leavy as commander of the Apollo 12 lunar land­ head of the organization the late Rev. Martin spoke at another pro-abortion meeting in ing mission and earning along with Dr. Jo­ Luther King Jr. founded, the Southern Chris­ March, the League Against Neo-Hitlerism seph Kerwin and Paul Weitz the title of "The tian Leadership Conference, said John Mit­ sent letters to about 100 Los Angeles County Master Tinkers of Space." chell should follow the example of the late rabbis informing them of the situation and The versatility of their performance was Dr. King and "turn himself in for arrest.. the danger to the Jewish community. "As incredible: from deploying a solar umbrella as King did in Birmingham just 10 years far as we know,'' Dr. Mitzner said, "nothing to cool their laboratory; the marathon saw­ ago. happened. Now we have no choice but to ing through the strap that had prevented r.ut the question is whether a meeting of bring the issue up publicly. If we don't peo­ solar panel deployment; banging with a ball women, representing a membership of more ple unfriendly to the Jewish community peen hammer to unstick a jammed regu­ than 100,000, should even need a Watergate will." lator in the Apollo telescope mount battery angle to be covered these days. It seems to Mr. Mitzner said that all pro-life, anti­ module, to delicately brushing particles to me that the substance of their concerns abortion organizations were sensitive to the clean the occulting disk of the solar corona should be enough to engage our interest on danger of an anti-Semitic backlash... All of experiment. the merits. us go out of our way to emphasize the great The scientific harvest was rich enough to It is hard to say whether newspaper cover­ contributions that many Jews and Jewish engage the world's physicists for years in age would be a part of the solution. but it is groups have made to the fight against abor­ analyzing the tremendous and unique details almost certain that ignoring these issues is tion. But that's the part of our message on solar activities documented in more than part of the problem. which gets through the least effectively. 30,000 photographs taken by the Skylab crew. There are tens of millions of Americans who Earth resources experiments produced more see abortion as a 'Jewish cause! Some day than 16,000 high-quality photographs and soon, someone is going to come along and about 45,000 ft. of tape recording from sen­ A PROABORTION STANCE FOR tell them lt's a •Jewish plot'." sors that will provide significant guidance to JEWS IS "SUICIDAL" this rapidly expanding role of space contribu­ tions to life on earth. As a measure of space progress, the scientific data alone returned from Skylab weighe:i more than the entire HON. LAWRENCE J. HOGAN SALUTE TO SKYLAB Mercury capsule with John Glenn aboard. OF MARYLAND Although it will take montbs to analyze all of the accumulated medical data, it is ob­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. OUN E. TEAGUE vious that Skylab lll3.rked another milestone Monday, July 23, 1973 OF TEXAS of man's progreEs in developing his usefulness during spaceflight. The 24-day medical data Mr. HOGAN. Mr. Speaker, the continu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lost earlier, when the crew of Soyuz-11 died ing controversy over the issue of abor­ Monday, July 23, 1973 during re-entry, was regained and man's tion in this country has involved many ability to voyage beyond a month in space religious groups for many various Mr. TEAGUE of Texas, Mr. Speaker, validated. The really significant contribution reasons. Mr. Robert Hotz in a recent editorial of the ensuing Skylab missions wlll be the The Jewish community bas become which appeared 1n Aviation Week and detailed measurement of these biological July 23, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25537 parameters in extended spaceflight. The role NEW U.S. CHALLENGE; ExPORTS TO THE David Mizrahi, editor of The Mideast Re­ of the onboard space doctor pioneered by Dr. MIDEAST port, a newsletter, 0ontends that, although Kerwin will grow in the future. As Dr. Oleg (By William D. Smith) there is some Arab ill will toward Americans because of the United States' policy toward Gazenko, the top Soviet space biologist, told Most of America'S industries appear to be us recently in Moscow: Israel, there is still considerable friendship taking this nation's declining self sufficiency and desire for American products. "The spacMraft of the future wU look mor& in energy and concomitant problems serious­ and more like a doctor's office." Mr. Bonin contends that American com­ ly but tn stride. panies suffer in the Middle East compared But perhap3 most important of all Sky­ Some companies, however, seem to be pay­ lab's many great achievements was the dem­ with companies from Europe and Japan be­ ing mostly lit> service to meeting the chang­ cau.se the United States embassies provide onstration of the vast, intricately coordinat­ ing energy situation, according to a survey ed network of technical resources and hu­ little support activity. "Things are decidedly by The New York Times. The survey covered improving, but there m still a long way to man skills that underlies all U.S. manned more than 25 major corporations not direct­ spaeeflights like th& bulk or a giant iceberg go," he commentea. ly involved in the production, refining, dis­ No effort has as yet been made by any invisible under the s~a untU disaster threat­ tribution and marketing of oil and gas. ens. United States Government agency to increase As might be expected, companies that are American commercial 1nterests in the Mid­ This capabllity, on which the success of mostly heavily dependent on energy supplles th& entire U.S. manned spaceflight program is dle East as a market area. based, first surfaced publicly during the epic for their essential business-such as chemical While export pror,rams to help meet the Apollo 13 flight when it meshed with the and trucking concerns, Mrlines and ran­ nation's growing cost of importing petroleum fiight crew to avert disaster. It converted the roads-are taking the most constructive steps a.pp;}ar to lack impetus, American industries lunar landing module into a "lifeboat" that to conserve energy and meet any potential have begun to feel effects of a tightening brought the crew safely back from its cir­ problems. energy supply and distribution system. cumlunar voyage. During Skylab, it mobil­ Some of the companies reported savings Mo3t of the companies in the Times' sur­ ized these same vast and diversified resources of 7 to 15 per cent in energy use as a result vey said th:lt they had experienced some to focus on the specific problems of heat of conservation programs. energy-related problems such as brownouts, shields and power sources. The speed and All of the companies, however, said their blackouts and occasional plant .sht!tdowns certainty with which solutions to these prob­ fuel costs ha.d gone up. because of shortages of fuel over the last 12 lems in orbital space were designed, con­ Ironically, a number of companies said months out that .:mch difficulties were minvl' structed, tested and deployed into space were they had switched in the last few years from in nature or short in duration. probably the mozt amazing achievement in coal to natural gas or oil for environmental As to meeting possible future problems, the long list of Skylab accomplishments. reasons. Such switches are now playing a most of the compani~s said they had started This is a unique resource little understood role in the tightening of supplies of gas and ne-:v energy conservation programs within the by either the public or the Congress when on and contributing to the nation's over­ last three years. Many Jf the programs are it starts chipping bits and pieces off the all energy difficulties. under the supervision of division heads or NASA budget. Already, in addition to provid­ The aspect of the energy question that ap­ are the responsibility of seJ.arate profit cen­ ing a solid technical foundation on which peared to be least understood was the almost ters. a more useful and successful space program certain need for sharply increased export About half the companies had created can be bullt, it has saved several bUHon dol­ s;~.Ies by American companies, particularly to special bsk forces to oversee, coordinate and lars in salvaging missions such as Apollo 13 the on-producing nations, as part of an ef­ plan encrJY policy. and Skylab that would otherwise have ended fort to help offset the United States' growing At the RCA Corporation, for instance, a in tragedy and waste. costs for lmporterl energy. corporate energy planning and conservation The opening phase of Skylab has taken Despite this lack of comprehension, the committee was formed ln January. Headed another measurable step forward in expand­ Middle Eastern countries alone will be re­ by the company's staff vice president !n ing man's role in space operations. It prom­ ceiving revenues of more than $60-billion charge of facUlties, it is developing long­ ises to provide a vital evolutionary link be­ a year by 1900 and w111 likely have more range plans to maintain operations in th& tween the Apollo system and the space shut­ discretionary cash than any other region of face of p;.,ssible cutbacks in supplies. tle. It is also bringing closer the day when the world. At Pepsico, Inc., a speclal energy commit~ large scientific laboratories wlll operate regu­ A major exception from this lack of atten­ tee was set up several months ago with rep­ larly in space sta1fed by specialists and served tion was the General Motors Corporation. Its resentatives from various divisions to devise by the reliable space transportation systems overseas division last month announced the company conservation and energy strategy. now being picmeered between the earth and creation of a new position of executive vice An energy council was formed late last orbital altitudes. president and general director of the Middle year by I.B.M. to lmple:-ent conservation RoBERT HoTZ. East and Mrican markets. In naming Walter programs and assess the possible impact of H. Gussenhoven to the post, G.M. said the energy shortages on operations. position was established to "give increased The General Electric Company has a pro­ attention to these important markets." gram that consists of consultants who mak& The Ford Motor Company, for its part, is a physical review of every G.E. manufactur­ ' NEW U.S. CHALLENGE: EXPORTS TO blacklisted by the Arnb countries for its deal­ ' NUDEAST ing facility both in the United States and ings with Israel. The Chrysler Corporation overseas. The ~lants are checked on a three­ has no special Middle East program. to five-day visit. G.E. has conducted nore Other companies, including Eastman Ko­ than 250 surveys since the program was dak, Procter & Gamble. International Paper, instituted, with an average saving in utllity HON.JAMESJ.HOWARD Westinghouse Electric and International usage of 10 or 15 per cent at each plant. The OF NEW JERSEY Business M:lchines, also S:lid they had "no company said that the program also created plans or progra.ms" for increasing exports to an exchange of information on conservation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the oil-producing states. practices. Monday, July 23, 1973 The lack of drive for what would seem a At the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com­ dream market for capital as well as consumer pany the energy task force consists of the Mr. HOWARD. Mr. Speaker, as the goods is partially explained by the fact that vice-president of engineering, the vice presi­ United States grows more every day, the United States has traditionally never dent of planning, the vice president of raw our needs for more energy increase. been a trading nation. materb.ls and the "'urchasillg d:Xector. Some people feel there is really no Exports of goods and services last year Some companies have created a. new eAecu­ energy shortage at all while others feel accounted for only 6.4 per cent of this coun­ tive position to handle energy matters Her­ try's gross national product, compared with cules, Inc., 1.:! June named Jack G. Copeland we are on the brink of disaster. about 25 per cent for Britain; 23 per cent Jr. to the new post of vice president in Yesterday a most interesting article for West Germany and 12 per cent for Japan. charge of energy and petrochemicals feed­ appeared in the New York Times which In fact only 8 per cent of all American busi­ stocks. In making the announcement, the describes the attitudes of most of Amer­ ness concerns are in any way involved in company said, "The worldwide petroleum ica's industries toward this subject. export-import trade. situation, with its impact on the future The article, written by William D. Even fewer companies are doing business supply of energy and oil-derived petrochem­ with the Middle East. In recent years the ical feedstocks, is of such lvng-term 1'1:;..­ Smith, is the result of a survey taken by United States, while increa-sing its total sales portance to Hercule.l:i that the new position the New York Times of 25 major cor­ in that area, has been losing some of its is being created." porations which are not directly involved market share to the Japanese. the West Ger­ other companies such as General Motors in the production, refining, distribution, mans and the British. have taken a similar approach. In several or marketing of oil and gas. Because of recent dollar ~!evaluations, this instances the post has been combined with trend is being reversed. environmental responsibility. The· article is most interesting and in­ "Americans still aren't m there competing Ironically, the Green Giant Corporation. formative and I respectfully urge other the way they sb.ould be," said Charles c. the processed-food company, has been look­ Members of the House to read this Bonin, president of the American-Arab Asso­ ing unsuccessfully for several months to find article: ciation for Commerce and Industl'J. an energy coordinator. 25538 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE July 24, 1973 The degree of ~anagement of the growing No produc~s have been discontinued be­ , At Cooper Jarret, Inc., a trucking concern, importance of energy considerations is hard cause of the energy situation. However, one its president, William B. Baker, sent a per­ to gauge, but some top executives are ob­ of the nation's most important products­ sonal letter to each driver asking him to turn viously deeply involved in their company the automobile--may be in the process of be­ off his engine at every possible moment and programs. ing seriously altered. In recent months the enclosed with the letter a decal, bearing a list At the Rohr Corporation, Burt F. Raymes, percentage of the market held by small cars of "do's and don'ts" to be pasted on the chairman, is the chief planner of his com­ has been increasing. No less an authority truck's dashboard. The truckers have also pany's conservation program. than Henry Ford 2d, head of the Ford Motor been asked to drive at speeds most conducive Edward s. Donnell, president and chief Company, predict s that small cars will repre­ to energy conservation. executive officer of Montgomery Ward, is sent more than half of the market within a Schenley Distillers, Inc., has revised pro­ another top executive who has taken a per­ few years. duction schedules and is operating Its distil­ sonal hand in the· company energy program. Sales of recreational vehicles and pleasure At the American Retail Federation's annual leries during the summer to take advantage boats have been sharply cut back, partially of greater fuel availability during the non­ meeting, Mr. Donnell called on the retailing because of energy considerations. industry to take the lead in conservation as heating season. The practice however, has well as promoting energy-saving products. Some companies have increased their busi­ its adverse effect because the cost of grain is A growing number of products are being ness as a result of the "energy crisis." Us­ higher during the summer. marketed to the consumer on the basis of be­ ually these are companies that produce prod­ Montgomery Ward has ordered higher tem­ ing energy savers. Air-conditioner manufac­ ucts or services for use in the oil, gas and peratures in its stores in the summer and turers probably have taken the lead along utllltles industries. lower in the winter. The company bas be­ these lines. It is a rare ad these days that The management consulting firm of Ar­ gun to provide bicycle racks outside its stores does not mention the device's energy-saving thur D. Little reported that there had been for customers and employes. In addition, the status. · a dramatic increase in the number of or­ retail chain has printed a million brochures The Phllco-Ford Corporation is promoting ganizations se~king .its help on energy mat­ listing 65 tips on how to "Save Energy, Save a new refrigerator-freezer line that the c~m­ ters. Money" for distribution· to customers. pany contends_saves about a third or more electricity in comparison with competitive E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has created American Airlines, United Air Lines and productS. _ · . · ' an. Energy Management Servtce to make · Trans World Airllnes have a transcontl- . Tlie Duro-Test Corporation has brought energy-saving techniques available to other _ nental capacity agreement on reducing the out a new light bulb that is supposed to con­ large power users on a commercial basis. number of flights. This saved the three car­ sume 10 per cent less electric power without Specific conservation methods dJJrer from riers some 120 mlllion gallons of Jet fuel last any loss of light. industry to industry. year.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, July 24, 1973 The House met at 12 o'clock nocm. the Appalachian regional development pro­ Speaker, the prayer today was offered by Rev. Jamt-s H. Cunningham, rector, grams, the Federal Power Commission, the a valued constituent of mine, the Rever­ Tennessee Valley Authority, the Atomic En­ end James H. Cunningham, rector of the the Church of Our Saviour, Charlottes­ ergy Commission, and related independent ville, Va., offered the following prayer: agencies and commissions for the fiscal year Church of Our Saviour ville Power Administration, and other agencies of the Department of the Interior, Mr. ROBINSON of Virginia. Mr. power agencies of the Department of the