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Brig. Gen. (ARNGUS) John Coffey, Jr., United States Code, section 5231, for appoint- mansky, to be lieutenant commander, which xxx-xx-xxxx . ment to the grade of vice admiral while so nominations were received by the Senate and The following-named officer under the pro- serving. appeared in the Congressional Record on visions of title 10, United States Code, sec- IN T HE Ant FORCE May 20, 1976. tion 3066, to be assigned to a position of Air Force nominations beginning William Navy nominations beginning Michael J. importance and responsibility designated by, H. Adams, to be colonel, and ending Myrl E. Dunne, Jr., to be commander, and ending the President under subsection (a) of sec- Wilson, to be colonel which nom inations Willis A. McGill, to be commander, which tion 3066, in grade as follows: were received by the Senate and appeared in nom inations were received by the Senate To be lieutenant general the Congressional Record on May 21, 1976. and appeared in the Congressional Record on Air Force nominations beginning Norman June 2, 1976. Maj. Gen. C. J. Le Van, xxx-xx-xxxx , U.S. C. Ault, Jr., to be lieutenant colonel, and Navy nom inations beginning Allan R. Army. ending Bobbie S. Fox, to be lieutenant col- IN THE N A VY Latty, to be lieutenant commander, and end- onel, which nominations were received by ing James A. Wright, to be lieutenant (jg.), Rear Adm. Willard P. Arentzen, Medical the Senate and appeared in the Congressional which nominations were received by the Sen- Corps, U.S. Navy, for appointment as Chief Record on June 2, 1976. of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Air Force nominations beginning Anthony ate and appeared in the Congressional Record the Department of the Navy for a term of W. Aldebol,to be captain, and ending Mark on June 2, 1976. 4 years with the grade of vice admiral in ac- E. Zlotkowski, to be captain, which nomi- IN THE M ARINE CORPS cordance with title 10, United States Code, nations were received by the Senate and ap- Marine Corps nominations beginning Paul section 5137(a) . peared in the Congressional Record on June D. Adams, to be second lieutenant, and end- Vice Adm. Donald L. Custis, Medical Corps, 2, 1976. ing David W. Wood to be second lieutenant, U.S. Navy, for appointment to the grade of IN T HE A R M Y which nominations were received by the Sen- vice admiral on the retired list in accordance Army nominations beginning Harold R. ate and appeared in the Congressional Record Alley, to be colonel, and ending Theodore M. with title 10, United States Code, section on June 2, 1976. Stults I I , to be lieutenant colonel, which 5133(b). M arine Corps nom inations beginning nominations were received by the Senate and Vice Adm. Thomas B. Hayward, U.S. Navy, appeared in the Congressional Record on George S. Ames, to be colonel, and ending having been designated for commands and May 17, 1976. William E. Yeager, to be colonel, which nom- other duties determined by the President to Army nominations beginning Theodore B. inations w ere received by the Senate and be w ithin the contem plation of title 10, appeared in the Congressional Record on United States Code, section 5321, for appoint- Gesulga, to be major, and ending Gregory Dechau, to be second lieutenant, w hich June 15, 1976. m ent to the gra d e of a d m ira l w hile so nominations were received by the Senate and Marine Corps nominations beginning Wil- serving. appeared in the Congressional Record on liam A . Abele, Jr., to be lieutenant colonel, Rear Adm. Bobby R. Inman, U.S. Navy, June 2, 1976. and ending Gale L. Stienon, to be lieutenant having been designated for commands and IN T HE N A VY colonel, which nominations were received by other duties determined by the President to Navy nominations beginning Donel S. Bi- the Senate and appeared in the Congressional be w ithin the contem plation of title 10, anchi, to be ensign, and ending Fred W. Ka- Record on June 16, 1976.

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PRESIDENT SHOULD SIGN FEDERAL from Federal lands in a manner that is Leasing Act dealing with coal, in January, COAL LEASING BILL fair to both the lessee or coal operator Secretary Kleppe expressed some concerns about the bill. We believe that the m ajor and to the public who owns the coal. provisions of the bill are compatible with the Since the Secretary has an obligation new policies and regulations of the Depart- HON. LEE METCALF to see that bonus bids, royalties and ren- ment of the Interior. OF MONTANA tals paid by the lessee truly reflect a 1. Minimum Royalty. During the past 54 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES reasonable return to the public treas- yeas a, the Federal Government has collected uries, before he establishes a lease sale an average of only 121/2 cents per ton of leas- Tu e sday, J u n e 29, 1976 for a given tract he must have done a ed coal in royalty payments. This is a ridicu- Mr. METCALF. Mr. President, on mineral evaluation for that particular lously low rate of return. Recognizing this fact, the Interior Department has now raised June 21, the Senate passed S. 391, the tract. its royalty rate to 8%. S. 391 would go further Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act, That is what the bill sets forth in sec- in rectifying this inequity by establishing a and sent it to President Ford for his tion 4 . There is no requirem ent that minimum royalty of 121/2 %, a rate generally approval. all known Federal coal resources be eval- in line with coal taxes and royalties of west- This legislation is eagerly awaited by uated before any can be leased. ern States and Indian tribes. western States where strip mining of the I have joined Congresswoman PATSY T. The Secretary would be given discretionary vast reserves of Federal coal will be ac- MINK, chairman of the House Subcom- authority to set a low er rate for coal pro- celerated under the new Federal coal mittee on Mines and Mining and floor duced by underground mining, which is a relatively costly method of recovery. In addi- leasing policy recently enunciated by In- manager of the bill in the other body, tion, Section 39 of the Mineral Leasing Act terior Secretary Kieppe. The financial in writing President Ford to urge his fa- would continue to allow the Secretary to re- aid which it affords these States for pre- vorable consideration of this legislation. duce the minimum royalty below 121/ 2% "for paring to meet the needs of the hundreds I ask unanimous consent that our let- the purpose of encouraging the greatest pos- of thousands of new workers and their ter dated June 2 5 , be printed in the sible recovery of coal". Thus, an operator families who will be attracted by coal- RECORD. could pay a lesser royalty on a portion of related jobs will come not a moment too There being no objection, the letter his coal lease which might otherwise be un- soon. economical to mine, while overall the return was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, to the public treasuries w ill substantially The Secretary of the Interior will also as follows: increase. receive important help under the pro- U.S. SENATE, 2. Payment to States. S. 391 would increase visions of S. 391, in the form of broad Washington, June 24, 1976. from 371/ 2% to 50% the portion of revenues authority to expand the coal evaluation The PRESIDENT, going to the States from mineral leasing, and program which the Geological Survey The White Hou se, reducing from 52% % to 40% the portion de- Washin gton , D.C. has already initiated, so that he m ay posited in the reclamation fund. The addi- have available the information he re- DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We respectfully urge tional 12% % returned to the States would be you to approve S. 391, the Federal Local Leas- available for use in planning, construction quires to determine the fair market value ing Amendment Act. S. 391 is designed to and maintenance of public facilities, with of tracts being put up for lease sale. eliminate the speculative holding of Federal priority to be given to areas impacted by coal I wish to make it very clear on the rec- coal leases and to insure development of Fed- development. The U.S. Treasury would con- ord, Mr. President, that at no time in the eral coal on a timely basis and in a manner tinue to receive the remaining 10%, as under consideration of S. 391 has there been beneficial to the public. It would not only existing law. The western coal-producing any intention by the Congress to prevent increase coal production to fulfill national States must deal with the problems of popu- new lease sales by the Secretary until energy needs, but also guarantee a decent lation influx triggered by Federal coal de- return to the United States Treasury and to velopment. For these States, new financial re- all Federal coal lands have been evalu- States impacted by Federal coal mining. sources provided by S. 391 could spell the ated. The unmist7Imble purpose of this While the Administration has supported difference between a chaotic disintegration bill is to facilitate the production of coal the concept of amendments to the Mineral of traditional rural lifestyles, and the orderly 21358 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 transition to urban and semi-urban living the intent of Congress over the past few with the undersigned as crew encountered a patterns. decades. frontal storm approximately 280 miles north­ 3. Federal Coal Evaluation Program. The 7. Other Provisions. In passing, we would west of Bermuda and was suddenly dis­ Department has been seriously handicapped. mention several other provisions of S. 391 masted. At that time the yacht was also in determining the actual value of coal tracts which a.re com.parable 1n most respects to without auxiliary power and its storage bat­ which are leased. However, through the Geo­ those contained in the Department's regula­ teries were discharged.. We were unable to logical Survey it has begun to correct this tions. These are as follows: ( 1) In Section maintain control of the vessel or to transmit deficiency. In Fiscal 1975, $1.9 million was 3, requirements for a land use plan, public over our VHA radio transmitter although we spent for stratigraphic drilling and other hearings, consultation with other Federal did activate an emergency aircraft radio bea­ evaluations of Federal coal lands. According agencies, mineral assessment, review of likely con. For some 30 hours we drifted. as a dere­ to the amended budget request now pending community impacts, public notice, compli­ lict over 300 miles from the nearest point of before Congress, Interior's program would in­ ance with Federal environmental statutes; land, unable to get way on the vessel or to crease from a projected $2.5 million to $7.6 (2) In Section 4, the exploration license and communicate other than by signals from our million for Fiscal 1977. data; and (3) In Section 16, exclusion of the emergency locator beacon. The Department bas stated that "expan­ National Park and similar Federal-protected At approximately 1 :30 a .m. on June 14, sion of this (coal drilling) program is neces­ areas from coal leasing. we sighted the lights of a merchant vessel sary to supply the Government with addi­ In sum, Mr. President, we a.re convinced and attracted his attention with our la.st tional data to facilitate the coal leasing pro­ that S. 391 would strengthen the hand of two aerial flares. At approximately 3:30 a.m. gram". Section 7 of the bill essentially ex­ the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out we were ta.ken a.board the m/v Concordia tends and codifies the on-going evaluation his mandate to bring about the orderly and Love and radioed the United States Coast program carried out by the Geological Sur­ equitable development of Federal coal re­ Guard station at Atlantic City from that vey by directing the Secretary "to evaluate ... sources upon which this Nation will more vessel. We were informed that the Coast the known recoverable coal" on Federal and more come to depend in the foreseeable Guard Cutter Eagle was not far away and lands. This program does not prevent the future. would proceed to our position and take us Secretary from issuing coal leases where he Respectfully, and our disabled vessel in charge. Approxi­ believes he already has adequate informa­ LEE METCALF, mately 11:30 a.m. on June 14 the Eagle ap­ tion about the nature and extent of the coal, Chairman, Subcommittee on Minerals, peared a.nd we wete transferred to that nor does it require that all known coal be Materials and. Fuels, Senate Interior vessel. Oaptain James Kelly of the Eagle, evaluated before any is leased. Committee. his officers and crew extended to us every - 4. Logical Mining Unit. Considering that PATSY T. MINK, courtesy and provided food, medical atten­ the multiplicity of land holdings and the Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Mines tion and badly needed rest aboard your beau­ failure t.o consolidate varying types of hold­ and Mining, House Interior Commit­ tiful training ship. He also interrupted his ings under a single control can lead to wasted tee. voyage to stand by our disabled yacht pend­ resources where coal tracts are too small for ing attival of another Coast Guard Cutter profitable mining separately, the Department to return us and the yacht to a safe port. has produced the so-called "logical mining I cannot say too much a.bout the kindness, unit", an administrative construct now in­ FINE SERVICE THE COAST GUARD humanity and professionalism of Captain corporated into its regulations. The definition RENDERS THIS COUNTRY Kelly and the officers of the Eagle as they of a logical mining unit (LMU) in S. 391 took two shipwrecked. ma.liners in their and the Department's definition are essen­ charge along with our vessel. tially alike, with the exception of the term HON. DAVID F. EMERY I would like to mention specifically cour­ "'contiguous". The bill would provide new OF MAINE tesies extended by the ship's Executive Offi­ discretionary authority to the Secretary to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cer, Commander Applebaum, and by Chief require the forma.tion of LMU's and (as in Warrant Officer Shannon, both of whom the Department's regulations) require man­ Tuesday, June 29, 1976 were very helpful to us while aboard the datorily the mining out of the coal reserves Mr. EMERY. Mr. Speaker, those of us Eagle. contained. 1n the LMU within a 40-year pe­ who are fortunate enough to serve on the On June 15, at approximately 1 p.m., we riod. A 25,000-acre limitation 1n the bill House Committee on Merchant Marine were transferred from the Eagle to the would provide ample coal reserves within an United States Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant LMU to supply even the largest electric gen­ and Fisheries' Subcommittee on the out of New Bedford, Massachusetts which erating plants, calculated on the basis of Coast Guard and Navigation, know first t.ook our yacht in tow. Again aboard the tonnage yield averages in the major coal­ hand of the fine service the officers and Vigilant we were extended. every courtesy producing counties of the western coal States. men of the U.S. Coast Guard render this by its commanding officer, Commander Wil­ 5. Competitive Bidding. In suspending the country. I would like to share with my liam Goetz, and his officers and crew. Com­ future issuance of preference right leases, colleagues who do not have as close a mander Goetz handled our transfer and the Secretary Kleppe has adopted a cardinal prin­ view of the Coast Guard or as fine a per­ tow of our vessel back to New Bedford with ciple of S. 391, namely confining leasing to ception of their tradition and accom­ thoroughly professional seamanship and competitive bidding only. The Department's plishments the laudatory remarks of a skill. He displayed extreme graciousness, regulations now contain requirements for to patience and courtesy to us as guests a.boa.rel competitive bidding on coal leases and for "living witness" the Coast Guard's his vessel. The officers of the Vigilant Lt. determination of fair market value whlch­ value. Commander Durkey, Lts. Ray and Jackson, although not as detailed-are generally I have attached a copy of a letter from Ensigns Yarborough and Snyder and Chief comparable to provisions in S. 391. S. 391 Mr. Peter L. Murray of Portland, Maine, Warrant om.cer Meyer, all were most helpful would require that half of all acreage leased to the Commandant of the U.S. Coast and kind to us during our trip. We were de­ in any one year be leased under a system of Guard regarding that service's action 1n livered by the Vigilant into the charge of deferred bonus bidding. Deferred bonus rescuing Mr. Murray and his crew when C.G. #44321, a 40-foot patrol boat, late in bidding would prevent domination of the his yacht Windemere was disabled ear­ the afternoon on June 17 and arrived safely field by the largest coal companies and the at So. Dartmouth, Massachusetts on that lier this month. The letter is testimony day. multinational oil corporations. enough to the worth of this fine service. 6. Diligent Development. Both S. 391 and At all points and at all times, the officers The letter follows: and personnel of the Coast Guard could not the Interior Department's regulations re­ MURRAY, PLUMB & MURRAY, have treated us better. As Americans we are quire actual production from coal leases Portland., Maine, June 21, 1976. proud of the United States Coast Guard and within 10 yea.rs. The Department's regula­ Re: Rescue of Yacht Windemere a.nd Crew a.re deeply grateful for its prompt, efficient tions, while containing a possible 5 year ex­ by United States Coast Guard Cutters Eagle and humane response to our predicament. tension of the ten year limit, also require and Vigilant June 14 through 17, 1976 I should also like to mention that we production of 2% % of the 40 year coal Commandant, ia.ter on found out that the Coast Guard reserves of the LMU by the end of year 10 of had also responded to our electronic emer­ the lease-a. requirement which is arguably United States Coast Guard, Department of gency locator beacon and had sent fixed­ more stringent than the provisiqn of S. 391 Transportation, Washington, D.C. wing aircraft to look for us. This search calling only for production "in commer­ DEAR Sm: The purpose of this letter is to was suspended when it was learned that we cltll quantities" at the end of the tenth year. express to you my heartfelt gratitude as a. had been picked up by the Concordia Love. member of the crew of the yacht Windemere I will be forever indebted to the United In both cases, leeway Is provided for in­ for my rescue on June 14 by the United States Coast Guard and to the ofll.cers and t!"rruptions by strikes, the elements or States Coast Guard. men mentioned above for their role in our r.n..surut1es not attributable to the lessee. Both On June 12, the 28-foot samura i class rescue. Once again, with my thanks and systems combine fiexiblllty with a mechanism sloop W~ndemere whlle on a voye.ge from heartfelt gratitude, I am for euding the wasteful speculative holding Bermuda to Boston, Massachusetts under the Sincerely. o! Federal coal leases which has frustrated command of its owner, Spencer A. Moore, PETER L. MURRAY. June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21359 ISABELLE "BILLY" Wll..SON-NEAR­ Isabelle Wilson, now 96 and residing at BEWARE THE NEW MANDARIN LY A CENTURY OF PATRIOTISM OakcillI Convalescent Home, is the old­ CLASS est surviving member of the Harvard medical unit. She has had a career and HON. RONALD A. SARASIN life that represents the greatness of HON. LARRY McDONALD OF CONNECTICUT America and her citizens. I join in hon­ OF GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES oring this woman and her principles IN THE H OUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which has made this Nation the greatest Tuesday, June 29, 1976 in the world. T uesday, June 29, 1976 Mr. SARASIN. Mr. Speaker, through­ Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, it is out our history, men and women have amusing to note that the people who been honored for their brave deeds, for THE SAME OLD U.N. INTRIGUE ... denounce American manufacturers for the spirit and love for country that have constantly supplying us with new or im­ kept flames of liberty alive for people proved products are the same folks who throughout the world. HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI are constantly selling our Government on One woman who deserves special rec­ OF ILLINOIS new, but hardly improved, social and eco­ ognition during our Bicentennial cele­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nomic schemes which are incredibly more bration is Isabelle "Billy" Wilson, a per­ costly. son whose courage and good deeds span Tuesday, June 29, 1976 The noted columnist Allan Brownfeld, nearly a century. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. DER.WINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the writing in the Anaheim Bulletin on June on August 25, 1880, she moved to Wol­ use of the veto by the United States in 16, reminds us of Kevin Phillips' analysis cott, Conn., while still a child. Her dedi­ the Security Council of the U.N. on the of "the new Mandarins" who make a liv­ cation to the freedom of mankind led her admission of Angola has drawn predict­ ing by peddling "change" and more to pursue one of the most noble profes­ able barrages on criticism from many "change." They have a vested interest sions in the world-that of nursing­ world capitals. in instability and constantly stir up dis­ whereby she could devote herself to free­ The Chicago Tribune, in an editorial sension; needless to say, they are not out ing humanity from the bondage of ill­ published June 10, analyzed the subject to solve problems, but to keep the pot ness and suffering. Miss Wilson entered in what I believe to be a most appropri­ boiling so that they can continue to sell the Yale-New Haven College of Nursing, ate manner. new schemes. And all of this is supported graduating as a registered nurse in 1906. THE SAME OLD U .N. INTRIGUE , , • either directly, through tax money, or Upon matriculating Miss Wilson relo­ The unexpected Soviet move to admit indirectly, through the activities of the cated in Waterbury, Conn., where she Angola to the United Nations, despite an tax-free foundations. ministered to the needs of the ill until a understanding that it would not do so at FORD FOUNDATION COSTS You Mn.LIONS more pressing duty called her-World this time, was an insidious trick to embarrass There are many to tell us about the War I. With men, women, and children the United States. And to at least some ex­ alleged "evils" of big business-and some dying on the battlefields of Europe, Miss tent, it 1s likely to succeed. to tell us of the evils of big labor and big Wilson knew that she must turn her at­ The United States had a perfectly good government-but few to point out the exist­ tention to addressing the ravages of war. reason for vetoing the measure in the Se­ ence of a new enterprise which Is worthy of curity Council on Wednesday, namely that our careful scrutiny-that of the "social She joined the first medical unit to leave no country can be considered "truly inde­ reformer." the United states for the battlefields of pendent" when it depends on the massive France and served honorably in her pro­ We are, unfortunately, not suspicious presence of Cuban troops. But the Soviet enough of those who try to sell us things fession for 2 years. propaganda machine ls already depicting our "for our own good." Congress 1s petition ed The war ended, liberty triumphed, and veto as a rejection of African nationalism by a multitude of groups which are trying Miss Wilson returned to the State and and as proof of Secretary Kissinger's insin­ cerity in saying we support black majority to sell their wares to the public-founda­ the people she loved. For several decades, tions, institutes, education.al groups, et c. she served as a public health nurse in rule. The Soviets a.re doing their best-as t hey Instead of the skepticism. with which we Wwterbury, applying her knowledge and have all along-to box us [along with Main­ should greet anyone who wants to spend compassion to her fellow citizens and to land China] into a corner where all of the our money for us, we tend naively to accept her profession. blacks in Africa will regard us as their enemy. at face value the claims of those who speak But. once again, the dark clouds of After the veto, Soviet Ambassador spoke with in the vague generality of "the public in­ oppression thundered across Europe, and obvious relish of the South African "racists" terest." Isabelle Wilson responded to her belief and their "two well-known allies," the "Everyone understands that when a repre­ in freedom and returned to France as an United States and China. The Cuban am­ sentative of a soup company tells us that Army medical nurse. The suffering and bassador managed to say nothing about Cu­ his product makes the best lunch,'' writes ban troops in Angola when he pointed with economist Thomas Sowell, "a healthy skep­ the dying, of a new generation, of a new counterfeit self-righteousness at the "mer­ war, once again received Miss Wilson's menaries acting on the orders of imperial­ ticism ls in order. But when a housing care. ism"-meaning, of course, the U.S. 'expert' unveils the latest plan to 'save the The Allies' victory brought Miss Wil­ The whole thing smacks of an orchestrated cities,' Ol' a member of the education lobby son home to us once more, a living sym­ scheme to embarrass Secretary Kissinger; to asks for expanded 'opportunities' for youth bol of the forces of goodness over evil, of undermine our ambassador to the UN, Wil­ to consume his product at taxpayer expense, liberty over tyranny. Until her retire­ liam Scranton, while he ls in Africa; to ca­ there ls a tendency to regard them as wise pitalize on the trial of mercenaries [includ­ men promoting the public interest." ment, Isabelle Wilson devoted herself to ing two Americans] in Angola; and to throw While real social reform is necessary, all who needed her and to the advance­ a hammer and sickle into our election ma­ Sowell points out, "It is just too important ment of her profession. chinery. Spokesmen for the American dele­ to be left to social reformers. Whenever pos­ Miss Wilson's courage and dedication gation say that when Mr. Scranton left for sible, social reform programs, especially to freedom for mankind will be recog­ Africa., he did so with the clear understand­ those dispensing money, should be so struc­ nized this Sunday, July 4, 1976, when the ing that the Angolan matter would not be brought up. tured as to increase the number of options Connecticut American Legion will confer available at the discretion of the individual upon her the Distinguished Service Cita­ Mainland China, the other leading target beneficiary . . . The one dlft'erence between tion, its highest award. Joining the State of Soviet strategy in Africa, abstained from the 13 to 1 vote. And it was left for our most individual decision making and social re­ Legion will be Billy Peterson of the unlikely bedfellow, Chinese Ambassador Yai formers ls that the former pays a price for American Legion Post No. 165 of Wol­ Ya.-li, to offer the most concise summation being wrong • . . One need only mention cott, of which Miss Wilson has been a of the Soviet strategy. In the course of an Urban Renewal, public housing projects, lifelong member. Mr. Peterson will be­ elegantly insulting exchange of proverbs dur­ welfare, or inner city schools to realize that stow upon Miss Wilson the Citation for ing which the Soviet and Cuban delegates the 'experts' have produced more than their God and Country, as the State's Bicen­ accused China of falling for American wiles, share of disasters." tennial Honor Guard salutes the bravery he replied, "When the wolf is in power, why Whether the plan advocated by the "ex­ of this fine woman. blame the fox?" perts" succeeds or falls, however, the "ex- 21360 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 pert" ls paid-very handsomely-by govern­ MIDDLE DISTILLATE DECONTROL, of little consequence when plain common ment. Roughly 35 per cent of the U.S. gross ENERGY ACTIONS NO. 3 AND NO. 4, sense dictates otherwise. national product is now accounted for by ENERGY AND POWER SUBCOM­ A second troubling discovery relates to the the production, consumption, Mld dissem­ MI'ITEE HEARINGS fact that FEA's analysis assumes no growth ination of information. By a policy of tax­ in middle distillate demand resulting from exemption, private foundations are subsi­ use of distillates by industrial consumers of dized by the taxpayers to engage in social HON. JOHN D. DINGELL. natural gas whose natural gas deliveries are experimentation with which the majority of curtailed. Increased natural gas curtailments tax-payers clearly disagree. OF MICHIGAN will necessarily result in greater demand for Consider the Ford Foundation. With as­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES distillates as a substitute fuel. The FEA anal­ sets ranging between 2 and 4 billion dollars, Tuesday, June 29, 1976 ysis falls to take into consideration the fact until recently its annual grants ran in ex­ that 1976 curtailments will exceed those for cess of $200 million. With this money, the Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, today the 1975. The analyeis makes no allowance for Ford Foundation has, in the name of .social Subcommittee on Energy and Power held the likelihood that 1977 and 1978 curtail­ reform, caused far more problems than it a hearing on the subject of errors and ments will exceed those of 1975. To equate has solved. omissions discovered in the Federal 1976 and future curtailments with 1975 levels The Ford Foundation, for example, financed Energy Administration's analysis in sup­ flies in the face of reality. Let us not forget the lll-:fated Ocean Hill-Brownsville school that it was this same agency which last decentralization project in New York City, port of middle distillate decontrol. Be­ year prepared natural gas curtailment fore­ which produced a city-wide teachers' strike cause the House will be called upon to casts applicable to 1976 and 1977. These fore­ and, in the words of one reporter, as "jarring, consider and vote on this issue tomor­ casts predicted curtailments for greater bitter and vicious, a confrontation as New row, I would like to provide my colleagues than those experienced in 1975. Does FEA York has experienced." Albert Shanker, the with information regarding this hearing. ignore its own dire predictions when it is head of New York's teachers union, declared I am, therefore, inserting into the CON­ convenient to do so? What other explanation is there? How can one rationalize such an that, "They (the Ford people) feel we're on GRESSIONAL RECORD my opening state­ the verge of guerrilla wadare and the only ment. omission as not being of consequence to the chance is to make a deal with the guerrillas. final conclusion of the analysis? So Ford subsidizes the revolutionaries and OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN D. How many other faulty assumptions un­ puts them on the payroll which makes being DINGELL derly this analysis? Apart from their in­ a revolutionary a hell of a lot easier.'' The Subcommittee has been convened to­ dividual significance, what is the cumula­ Among the more recent beneficiaries of the day in an extraordinary session necessitated tive effect of the errors, both those we know by the recent discovery of serious errors and about, and those we may not have dis­ Ford Foundation's ta.x-exempt funds have deficiencies in the FEA's analysis supporting covered? Arguments that rely upon the "mar­ been "public interest law firms," which, in removal of price controls and allocations gin of error" in the analysis to discount the the name of the environment, consumer pro­ from home heating oils, diesel fuels and etrect of individual incorrect assumptions tection, soclal justice, and the poor, have kerosene. The purpose of this hearing is to cannot dispel the cumulative etrect of these brought law-suits which have forced in­ facllitate consideration of this issue by the assumptions. creases in government spending, blocked Congress and to assure that Members of the A final point that I believe deserves to be business expansion, and frustrated all change House of Representatives have the fullest made relates to FEAs analysis of potential with which they disagreed. The causes pur­ possible analysis and documentation avail­ price increases. The original F.EA analysis sued with these tax-free dollars go to foster able to assist them in reaching a decision provided the Congress With data through what Daniel Patrick Moyn.iha.n has called on this important question. February 1976. That data made FEA's case "the political agenda of a fairly small group At the outset, it should be noted that that any price increases which might occur of intellectuals." central to the Federal Energy Administra­ by reason of excess demand would be small, tion's proposal to decontrol home heating on the order of 2 cents per gallon, because The original purpose of tax-exemption was oils and diesel fuels is the conclusion that foreign oil prices were only 2.3 cents per gal­ to promote religious, educational and chari­ supplies of these products will be adequate lon higher than domestic prices. I view as table enterprises. Now, however, tax-exemp­ to satisfy forecasted demand for these fuels. most disturbing the fact that more recent tion is a manner in which to subsidize the I believe both proponents and opponents of data provided by FEA in response to my most radical advocates of political and social decontrol will agree that if demand signifi­ written requests show that as of May 1976 change ln the American society. Being a cantly exceeds supply, greater reliance upon the gap between foreign and domestic heat­ "social reformer" ls now a well paid occupa­ imports will push the price of domestic mid­ ing oil prices had spread to 8 cents per tlon-e.nd that pay comes from the average dle distillates to the world market level. gallon. This information was provided on American citizen, who is unaware of the fact Because this question of supply-demand bal­ June 21. Was it not avall&ble on June th&t th18 1s what his t.axes are being used to ance is so important, I was deeply concerned 15, the date of FEA's submission of this support. to learn that several serious errors and omis­ proposal to Congress? If it was available, sions existed in the FEA's analysis of this and there is no evidence to indicate that it Those in this new category have a vested decontrol proposal. was not, why was it not provided to the Con­ interest in change-for they profit materially I believe that it should be the first prior­ gress? Is the reason because this more com­ from such change. Kevin Phillips, in his ity of this hearing to ascertain the facts re­ plete data undercut PEA's conclusions and book, Mediacracy, noted that, "America's new garding the existence of these inadequacies. its case for decontrol? Mandarins are not the people who sell manu­ Secondly, we should proceed to revise the It is clear that demand is likely to be far factured items but the people who shape FEA's original analysis to take into account higher than originally projected by FEA. It is and market Ideas and information ... In­ those fa.ctora which shoUld have been con­ also clear that the risks of price increases are stead of having a vested economic interest sidered by the FEA but were not. Only then far greater than admitted to by FEA. In in stablUty, as did previous conservative busi­ will it be possible for the Subcommittee to view of the numerous revision, explanations, ness establishments, the knowledge sector objectively assess FEA's contentions that the qualifications and justifications of FEA's has a vested interest in change-in the un­ failure to consider these factors in the orig­ original analysis which have proven neces­ inal analysis does not materially atrect the sary, I must confess to lacking any confidence mooring of convention, in socio-economic ex­ validity of the analysis or its conclusions. in the conclusion that supplies will be ade­ periments, in the ongoing consumption of I am particularly troubled by the revela­ quate to meet demand; I fear the conse­ new ideas. The coming of age of the knowl­ tion that FEA assumed a recurrence of a quences of an 8 cents per gallon increase in edge elite in the sixties was partially the milder than normal winter, such as last heating oil costs which could very well occur result of-and then dangerous additional fuel year's, in preparing its demand forecasts. It if middle distillates are decontrolled. for-a decade of social ferment." seems to me that any technically sound ap­ I suggest that we beg.in the hearing with We have heard a great deal about the praisal of demand dictates that one at least a view toward taklng the first two steps "Military-Industrial Complex" even though assume the existence of a normally cold in the three-step process I have previously defense spending is reaching an all-time low winter; the desire to develop confl.dence outlined. For that purpose, our first wit­ as a percentage of our GNP. It is time that through preparation of a conservation eval­ ness will be Mr. Walter Schroeder, Research we heard more about what former Rep. Edith uation with a built-in measure of safety Analyst, of the staff of the Subcommittee on would dictate the assumption of a slightly Energy and. Power. Mr. Schroeder will testify Green (D-Ore.) called the "Education-Pov­ colder than normal winter. My initial reac­ regarding the factual aspects of the assump­ erty-Industrial Complex." Today, more money tion, therefore, is to view as indefensible any tions contained in FEA's analysis and revise is spent on education than ever before­ analysis based upon an assumption of below that analysis to account for omissions or yet reading and mathematics scores are at an normal demand when the adequacy o f sup­ errors in the origin.al assumptions. Our sec­ all time low. Some people a.re getting rich, ply to meet demand is a fundamental con­ ond witness will be the Honorable Frank but few are getting a quality education. If clusion of the analysis. Moreover, I view Zarb, FEA Administrator, who will address being a "social reform.er" is a good and big with extreme skepticism after the fact argu­ the question whether the errors or omissions business-it ls something other than "re­ ment s which, through tortured logic, strive in FEA's analysis are of material consequence. form" we are getting. to dismiss such a fundament al error as being I also hope Mr. Zarb will address the ques- June ft9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21361 tlons I have raised in this statement regard­ dance o! French works on the subject and t he that Ra.ombana did his writing. which has ing the reasons for these errors. I particularly country was under French lnfiuence for more come to be considered the first authentic hope Mr. Zarb wlll explain why the Congress than half a century. Malagasy history of that time period ( c. should place confidence in the FEA analysis As regards the history of the Malagasy peo­ 1800-1850). in view of the problems with the original ple, however, not only are these opinions Other works of merit include: assumptions used to prepare the analysis. totally erroneous, they also compound the Kent R. K.-From Madagascar to the difficulty of establishing a rapport between Malagasy Republic-New York 1962-How the Malagasy nation and other nations, par­ France acquired Madagascar (1642-1896, ticularly when these other nations are Eng­ "Tarikh, II/4 1969-I-20). "The Sa.kalava: origins of the First Mala­ MALAGASY REPUBLIC CELEBRATES lish-speaking. gasy Empire" RFHOM, LV 199 (1968), 145- INDEPENDENCE First of all, the Malagasy people have a long history and a.n ancient civilization : 189. Early Kingdoms in Mada.gascai- 1500-1700. t hey were independent well before the French New York, Holt Rinehart and Winston Inc. HON. CARDISS COLLINS conquest in 1896. Its internal history is 1970. Qf OF ILLINOIS marked by a series long con:frontations be­ Pagint on- EnglLc;h-Malagasy Vocabular y, tween its various populations, themselves IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES T ananaiive, Trano Printy L<>terana, 1970. linked by certain common linguistic a.nd cul­ Richardson, J., A New Malagasy-English Tuesday, June 29, 1976 tural traits. Its diplomatic history is well Dictionary. Westmead Farnborough, Rants, known and has been gradually reconstructed Gregg Press, 1967. :Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, and chronicled in the works o! European, Ruud, Jorgen-Taboo-A study of Mal­ on June 26, the Malagasy people cele­ American and Malagasy researchers, archi­ agasy Oust.oms and Beliefs, London, George brated the 16th anniversary of Madagas­ vists and historians. Allen & Unwin, 1960, or Oslo, Oslo Univend.ty car's independence. The Malagasy Re­ It should also be mentioned that since the Press, 1960. public is located in the Indian Ocean, 250 establishment of a program of cultural ren­ Stratton, Arthur-The Great Red Isla.nd, miles from the southeast coast of Africa, ovation and fundamental reform o! the study London, Macmillan & Co. 1965 m- N.Y., Ser1b­ of Malagasy civilization in 1972, there has n er 1964. the fourth largest island in the world been a spectacular revival of interest in the T h ompson, Vi rginia &- AdZo'fJ. Bichard­ with an estimated population of 9 million. history of Madagascar. The Malagasy Republic: Madagascar Today, Since the early 1800's some contact has This increased interest is reflected in the Calif. Stanford University Press, 1965. been maintained with the United States. creation of a Historlcal SOClety o! Madagas­ Glance at Msdagase&l', Edition "Tout pour In 1867, a commercial convention was car in 1973, led by Malagasy historians, so­ l'Ecole" 6, rue de Nice, Ta.nan.a.rive, Madagas­ ciologists and researchers. This Society car, 1973. concluded and a treaty of peace, friend­ Halverson, Alton C. 0.-Madagasca.r: ship, and commerce 1n 1881. More re­ funded a journal 1 and set itself the goal of stimulating and developing historical re­ Footprint at the End of the World, Augsburg cently, we have sought to encourage eco­ search on Madagascar and the Malagasy. Publishing House, Minneapolis, 1973. nomic development there and tlu-ough There can be no doubt that works by the Hardyman, J. T.-Mad:aga.scar on t he information and cultural programs likes of such authors as Edouard Ralaiml· Move, London, Livingston Press, 1950. sought to facilitate an understanding of hoatra, Mrs. Razoh.arlnoro. Pierre Randrian· Heseltine. Nige£-Mad:agascar, New York, America. arisoa and other researchers will enrich the Praeger Publishers. 1971. historical legacy of Madagascar. Home, Sonfa-The Drama of Madagascar, For U;s part, the embassy here has ac­ London, Methen & Co. 1988. tively initiated efforts to give Americans Secondly, English-speaking authors and Malagasy Republic, Area Study Handbook, very simple and baste information about historians are indeed interested in Malagasy U.S. Government Printing Ofllce or the history. Among them are missionaries of vari­ .American University-Foreign Area Studies Madagascar. Many misconceptions about ous European churches (partJcularly those the history and culture of that society (FAS) Washington, D.C. in English a.nd Gallic countries, and la.ter Drury, R.-Madagascar or Robert Drury's exist. Lectures on various subjects have the Lutheran churches in the United States) Journal during fifteen Years capitivity on been organized accompanied by either as well as historians speclallzlng in the his­ t ha.t Island-London 1890. :films, slides, or photographs. EJforts tory of the Indian Ocean area.. Ellis, Wm.-History of Madagasear-Lon­ have been made to collect works on Mala­ More recently, several very good English­ don 1838--in two volumes. gasy literature, pootry, and history to language works have been written and pub­ Sibree. J .--The Great African Island­ lished in the United States. London 1880-Madagascar and its people­ familiarize Americans with the richness As far as its limited means will permit, the and that London 1870--M11dagascar before the Con­ diversity of civilization and cul­ Embassy o! Madagascar wlll attempt to dis­ quest-London 1896. ture. It is for these reasons that I take seminate English translations o'! articles and Kottalc, Conrail Ph.ilipp-"Cultu:ral adap­ this opportunity to congratulate the books by Malagasy historians and sociologists tation, Kinship a.nd Descent in Madagascar" Malagasy people on the anniversary of in the near future. Southwestern Journal. of Anthropology their independence and to offer wishes For those who a.re Interested in studying XXVII. 1971, 194-247. for a bright future. For the inf<>rmation t he history of Mads.gasea.r in the meantime, Rosemblum, Paul-Le sejour aux Etats­ however, the Embassy would llke to recom­ of my colleagues, I have included the fol­ Unls de l'Ambassade malgache-1883. mend the following works, although this lis t Translation tn English: "The Malagasy lowing excerpt on the history of Mada­ ls not int.ended to be exhaustive. Embassy's Stay in the United St.&tes-1883" gascar from a special issue of Malagasy A special place should be reserved. for a (The Prench version of this arlicle. trans­ News, June 1975: work written in French by Simon Aya.che la.ted by Helene B. Sullivan, was published SELECTED WORKS ON THE HlsTORY OF entitled: "Raombana (1809-1855): l'his­ in the Bulretin de Madagascar, April 1968, torlen. IntToductlon i\. l'edltion critique de p. 362. MADAGASCAR son oeuvre... ("Raombana (1809-1855): The It seems to be very dlflicult if not im­ Historian. An introduction to the Annotated possible for someone living in the United Edition of His Work.") States to know and understand the history of The publlcation of Raombana's work ls of McCORMACK AMENDMENTS TO ADD Madagascar: considerable import.ance to an English $67.5 MILLION TO H.R. 14231 For example, it ls popularly belleved a.nd speaking historian. Baomba.na, a dignltary sometimes even taught that the African peo­ of the Malagasy Kingdom and heJr to one ples have no history in the proper sense of of Madagascar's leading fe.mllles, was a skill­ HON. MIKE McCORMACK the word: they have no archives, no historical ful histor1a.n. He left an historical manu­ OF WASHINGTON records in the form of memoirs or ancient script of almost 8000 pages, written entirely works, nor do they have the hlstorlCal tradi­ 1n English. between 1853 and 1855. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions or heroic legends of the Europeans; The 19th century 1s particularly signif­ Tuesday, June 29, 1976 It is also believed that since Madagascar, icant in the history o! Madaga.sca.T's foreign like many other French-speaking African na­ relations because the events of that century Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, on tions, was once a French colony. lt.s history went beyond simple political contacts. It Friday, June 25, I offered amendments 1s therefore directly and closely linked to was precisely during this opening-up period to the Interior appropriations bill, H.R. that of France and Europe: anyone wanting 14231, which increased the appropria­ to learn about Madagascar's history should 1 The editorial board of the journal ls com­ tions level for energy conservation re­ therefore read those works dealing with Euro­ posed of Esoavelomandroso Fara.nlrina, Eso­ search, development and demonstration r1.a.n colontal expansion from the 17th to the avelomandroso Manasse, Ma.nonjo Gabriel, 19th centuries; Balaivola Clovis, Ignace Rakoto, Rakotosa­ programs by a total of $67.5 million dol­ And finally. one might also tblnk that ona, Randrlamandimby Ba.r-Jaona. Randrl­ lars. Engllsh language historlans and 1Dtellectuals amandim.by Josette. Batrimoharinosy He­ At that time I included two tables; are not interested in the htstol'J' of Madagas­ lene. Its headquarters are located in Anta­ one listing the program activities im­ car in as much as there ls already an abun- nanarivo, B.P. 3384 pacted by my amer..dments, and the other 21362 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 the amounts for each major category. operating buses in N.Y.C. He fought the racist and new tax revenues both from the Through some confusion, the second table policies of the merchants on 125th Street newly "employed" and from tax "re­ was not printed in the RECORD. and marched in picket lines, protesting the unfair labor practices. As a result, black men form," will in fact cause furth'"'r un­ I wish to insert the following table in and women were hired as sales people and employment in other areas and loss of the RECORD to identify the specific in­ discrimination in jobs ended. tax revenue, in addition to being built creases for the ERDA subprograms in Always active in many fields, he became upon the faulty premise of public serv­ end-use energy conservation and for two the editor of "The People's Voice," a national ice employment being productive. new programs-the energy extension Negro weekly. It promised to fight for Blacks, I believe that the discussion is impor­ service, and price supports for munici­ and other minorities and to a.id every pro­ tant for the consideration of all Mem­ pal solid waste reprocessing. gressive force in the community. Adam's father was the Pastor of the bers. His conclusion as to the bill's merit The table follows: Abyssinian Baptist Church a.nd when he is correct: "The Humphrey-Hawkins bill A ppropriations increases in the ERDA end­ passed a.way, Adam became the Pastor and is to unemployment what the WIN but­ use conservation programs Leader of the largest church in Harlem. Pow­ ton was to inflation." [In thousands] ell had great concern for the poor. During Dr. Stein's column is herewith repro­ Operating Plant and the Great Depression, thousands of hungry duced in the RECORD for the benefit of expenses capital a.nd poor people were fed' at the church. all Members: Powell was not only loved by his congrega­ equipment LEGISLATING AN END TO UNEMPLOYMENT $1,000 tion, but by the millions of Blacks through­ Buildings ------$14, 000 (Dr. Stein is the A. Willis Robertson Pro­ Industry------9,500 500 out the country. He was their Champion and Transportation ------9, 500 500 was a giant in stature and accomplishment. fessor of Economics at the University of Improved conversion ef- He paved the way for abundant job opportu­ Virginia and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Nixon ficiency ------8, 150 850 nities for many poverty stricken Blacks across Energy extension serv- 8,500 the Nation. and Ford. He is also a member of the Jour­ nal's Board of Contributors, five distin­ ice------10,000 0 * • * • Price supports for ur- Elected as New York City's first Black Con­ guished professors who contribute periodic ban waste______5, 000 0 gressman, he was a brilliant and dynamic articles reflecting a broad range of views.) orator who could hold an audience spell­ (By Herbert Stein) 56,150 11,350 bound. Many considered him the greatest A number of Democratic presidential can­ Total of both columns: $67.5 million. black spokesman of the 20th century. The didates, or near-candidates, have endorsed legislation that he sponsored changed the the new version of the Humphrey-Hawkins entire social structure of this country, bene­ bill. That indicates that they are too busy REMEMBERING ADAM CLAYTON fiting both Blacks and Whites. He became running to think much about what they POWELL, JR. Chairman of the powerful Education and would do if they were President. Labor Committee. Under his guidance and On its surface the bill is a measure for leadership, sixty major Bllls were enacted achieving all kinds of good things. Most HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL into law within a five year period. These ac­ specifically, it seems to be a meaaure not OF NEW YORK complishments established Powell as the only for getting everyone employed but also greatest and most productive congressman for getting them employed producing the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the nation's history. "right" things. But in fact it is a measure Tuesday, June 29, 1976 Although Powell was a New York City con­ requiring the President to figure out how to gressman, his constituency covered the whole achieve all these wonderful things at once, Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I am country. He represented and fought for black with not only the Congress but also the pleased to insert in today's RECORD an people everywhere and continuously battled governors, mayors and assorted citizens lined essay written by one of my constituents against discrimination, poverty and racism. up to take a crack at him as soon as he puts about my precedessor in Congress, Rev. Adam lived a full life, and accomplished forward his program. many things he set out to do. He spent his Adam Clayton Powell. That is what makes the bill so attractive remaining years on· the beautiful island of and gets it so many sponsors. The Humphrey­ It is unfortunate that Reverend Powell Bimini in the Bahamas. On April 4th, 1972 Hawkins bill is to unemployment what the is remembered by some only for some of he passed a.way in a Miami Hospital. WIN button was to inflation. It is a sign his indiscretions off the House floor. We In Harlem, Seventh Avenue, the street he your heart is in the right place, but it doesn't should recall that both on the floor and loved and knew best, has been renamed require you to do anything. That is, unless in the committee, Adam Powell was one Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. Our new you are the President. of the most astute and effective legis­ school, P.S. 153, is also proud to have his THE PRESIDENT'S CHORE name. This fitting tribute and honor will be lators ever to walk into this Chamber. a lasting testimonial to one of the greatest Here are some of the things the President It is gratifying to me that my young black men in our history. is supposed to submit to the Congress within eonstituents have the opportunity to 90 to 180 days after the passage of the Act. study and come to appreciate black men 1. A Full Employment and Balanced Growth Plan, setting forth goals for full like Reverend Powell, a man responsible LEGISLATING AN END TO employment, full production and full pur­ for bringing so much to the Harlem com­ UNEMPLOYMENT chasing power, including an unemployment munity and to men and women across rate not in excess of 3 % for adults, to be the Nation. I would hope that my col­ reached within four years. leagues would review this tribute which HON. MARVIN L. ESCH 2. Policies and programs to "reorder na­ follows: OF MICHIGAN tional priorities" including priorities with ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. (1908-1972) respect to energy, transportation, food, small IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES business, the environment, health care, (By Allan E. Stephenson) Tuesday, June 29, 1976 education, day ca.re, housing, aid to state Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was born in No­ and local governments, national defense, vember of 1908 in New Haven, Conn. Soon Mr. ESCH. Mr. Speaker, in mid-April, international programs and such other mat­ after his birth his parents moved to N.Y.C. Dr. Herbert Stein of the University of ters as the President deems appropriate. Powell graduated from the city schools. He Virginia, former Chairman of the Coun­ (That is, everything is to be assigned was a brilliant scholar and attended Colgate cil of Economic Advisers, wrote an ex­ priority except people's use of their own University, receiving an AB degree in 1930. cellent article on the Humphrey-Haw­ earnings.) He was awarded his MA degree in 1931 from kins bill. I believe that Professor Stein 3. Proposals for improving the efficiency Columbia University. In 1938, Shaw Univer­ and economy of the federal government. sity conferred upon him the Doctor of Divin­ gives an excellent discussion of two very 4. A comprehensive proposal which shall ity degree. important points. He analyzes in detail establish on a permanent basis policies to As a. young ma.n, he began a fight against what the bill would require the President reduce high unemployment arising from the oppression which he witnessed every­ to do, and the manifest impracticality of cycllcal movements in the economy. where. Powell became an organizer, a cru­ many of those tasks. He also analyzes the 5. A permanent countercyclical grant pro­ sader and a militant. He was totally dedi­ cost of the measure and the assumptions gram that will serve to stabilize state and cated and for more than twenty years was underlying the claims of the bill's spon­ local budgets during periods of recession the undisputed leader of Harlem. He was sors that it would be a profitable ap­ and high unemployment. soon feared because of his absolute defiance, 6. Legislation providing an institutional his dynamic personality and his unques­ proach to unemployment. He demon­ means designed to encourage public and pri­ tioned courage. strates clearly the fact that the methods vate investment in economically depressed In his never ending crusade against job by which some of the bill's gponsors wish regions, inner cities and economic sectors discrimination, he was responsible for Blacks to finance it, by budget cuts in some areas and provide an alternative source of capital June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21363 t hat therefore the nation should be Willing at variance with the splrlt of Humphrey­ funds for local and state governtnents to Hawkins. The goal of Humphrey-Hawkins is finance public fa.cilltles. to pay to reduce unemployment. 7. Legislation creating a comprehensive The argument ls that full employment will to get the unemployment rate for adult youth employment program. benefit not only the otherwise unemployed Americans down to 3 % . But that may be in­ 8. Recommendations on how income main­ but will also benefit the rest of the nation, consistent with employing only people whose tenance and employment policies can be in­ and not only in the spiritual sense of having product iS worth more than the net cost of t egrated to insure that employment is sub­ done the right thing but in the more material employing them. stituted for income maintenance to the max­ sense of having more income, more produc­ SETTING WAGES imum extent feasible. (Is there here perhaps tion. more revenue, etc. Whether thJs argu­ The way the blll proposes to assure that the glimmering of the idea that people might ment ls valid depends on how much the t he unemployment rate ls reduced to 3 % work more if income maintenance programs unemployed have to be paid to work and is to require the President to provide job op­ were less generous or easily available to em­ how much their product ls worth to the rest portunities through reservoirs of federally ployable people? Probably not.) of the nation. operated public employment projects and In addition, the bill specifies a number of This is not a fanciful consideration. The private nonprofit employment projects. The features which are to be added to the Presi­ fact that people are unemployed at lee.st bill also specifies the wage which ls to be paid dent's economic report, including the de­ raises the question whether their product on .such projects. which in general is the scription of the monetary pollcy needed to would be worth their wage. The fact that prevailing wage for each occu pation. How­ achieve all the good things and an anti­ there are lots of unmet needs in the country ever, there is no requirement that the value infiationary policy of numerous facet.s. sheds no light on this question. Every in­ of the worker's product should equal the This list reveals the underlying strategy dividual, business, and government in the net cost of hiring him. And there couldn't of the bill. It is to indicate a number of re­ country has unmet needs that some of the very well be such a requirement, because it spects in which all "good" people think the unemployed might help to meet. Their fail­ might leave more than 3 % of adults unem­ world is not qUite as they would llke tt to ure to hire the unemployed suggests that ployed. be and call upon the President to submit potential employers thi.nlc the cost of meeting The nation may decide that it wants to programs for making it better. With one those needs would be too great. hire unemployed people at a wage ln ex­ exception, public service employment which It will be said that the cost of hiring cess of the value of their product. If lt does I shall discuss below, there is no specific them ls really less than lt would seem to there should be no musion that those pres­ proposal for solving any problem. This ts be for a private employer, because 1f theJ ently employed will become richer as a re­ w1ll truly amazing. a.re employed the rest of the nation save sult. But no one should be surprised if the The combined period of service 1n the fed­ some welfare costs and collect some taxes. nation decides that it doesn't want to do eral government of all the sponsors of the Thus, the net cost to the rest of the nation that. It may decide that the laborer ls wor­ the have bill must amount to several centuries. Sen­ ts smaller than wage that would thy of bis hlre. or should be, and the Hum­ ator Humphrey alone has been in the fed­ to be paid. Th18 may seem an ironic situa­ phrey-HawklnB will defer, not advance, the tion-government payments to the unem­ eral government for about 80 years. But, with date when that ls true. the aforementioned exception of public serv­ ployed being so large that only the govern­ ice employment, they have no solution to ment can afford to hire them. It naturally offer for any of the problems they reoognize. suggests the possibility that the way to Im.ke some of the unemployed employable in the In fact, it is probably wrong to say that the PRESIDENT OF ONE OF THE LARG­ bill recognizes any • • • private sector ls not to pay them so much On this subject, the new bill says, referring when they are unemployed. However, we EST TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS to the policies and program.a the President should accept the fact that there is some ls to submit as part of the plan: ·"Such poli­ minimum income below which we don't want people fall, whether they work or not. The cies and programs shall not be aet forth in to HON. MENDEL J. DAVIS cost to the rest of the nation of employing the programmatic detail developed by spe­ OF SOUTH CAROLINA them ls only the excess of their wage over ciallzed federal agencies, and by others in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the public and private sectors, but only suf­ this minimum income. ficiently to furnish an integrated perspec­ But still, this net cost is not zero. The Tuesday, June 29, 1976 tive of our needs and capablllties and as a rest of the nation benefits from hlrlng the if ls Mr. DAVIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like long-run guide to optimum private, federal, unemployed only their product worth state and local government actions." more than this net cost. to take a moment today to congratulate This ls not perfectly clear, but lt seems to tJDALL'S EXAMPLE one of my constituents, Mr. Bennett c. be an olive bra.nch offered to those who fear­ The arthimetic of th1s may be seen in the Whitlock, Jr.• of Monks Corner, 8.C. ed that the planners intended to run Uter­ Illustration Congressman Udall baa given of Beginning this July, Mr. Whitlock ally everything. Moreover, while the b1ll spec­ the workings of the Jobs program. He sup­ takes over as president-the highest ap­ ifies elaborate procedures for congressional poses that 4 m1111on persons might be en­ pointed officer-of the American Truck­ review and approval of the Plan, once the gaged 1n public service employment, at a ing Associations, Inc., one of the Nation's Plan has been approved by Congress the cost of $40 blllion, or $10,000 a heed. Where largest and most successful trade orga­ President is not required. as he was in the would this $40 bllllon be found? In Udall's earlier bill, to do anything about It. The Plan filustration $10 billion would be the amount nizations. As successor ~ Mr. William A. ts only to be transmitted to the President for saved in relief payments to the otherwise Bresnahan, he will direct an association such actions as he deems appropriate. unemployed. Another $10 b1llion would be whose record of service and dedication However, the most important concession the taxes paid by the newly-employed.. An­ to the industry it represent.s is consist­ of the new bill ls that no new pla.nn1ng agen­ other $10 blll1on would be obtained from ently excellent. cy is to be established in the Executive of­ tax reform (definition: higher taxes on peo­ Mr. Speaker, I have known Bennett fice. Now the Plan is to be submitted to the ple who have a high propensity to vote Re­ Whitlock for a long time-for almost as President and prepared with the assistance publican). And $10 bllllon would be cut out long he has been working with the of the defense program (a cut which Udall as of the Council of Economic Advisers and in I consultation with the Oftice of Management regards as a gain rather than a loss) • Nation's trucking industry. know him and Budget. The difference ls crucial. If you One can argue about these numbers. The as a man of strength and candor with an establish a new economic planning office tax rate on the newly-employed seems high. unfailing commitment to improving our with nothing else to do but prepare a Plan, The people dlsemployed by the defense cut national system of transportation. I also they will almost cel'tainly prepare a Plan. seem to have dropped out of the picture, know that under his leadership the ATA But if you assign the function to busy people as have the taxes they pa.y. But the basic will continue to give us the benefit of its who have important operational responsi­ proposition ls clear enough. The formerly un­ expertise and opinion on vital matters bllities, they will probably find a way to employed have $20 blllion more income (the of public policy. avoid an academic exercise like preparing a $40 bllllon they now earn less their former Plan. relief payments and their new taxes). The We are, it seems to me, ent.ering a pe­ But the core of Humphl'ey-Hawklns is jobs, formerly employed have $20 billion less (the riod of reexamination of many of the not the Plan. Presidential candidates flock to $10 billion they pay in tax ref-0rm and the premises on which our country's trans­ Humphrey-Hawkins because it seems to pro­ $10 billion they formerly earne~ in defense) portation sector was founded and oper­ vide an answer to the insistent question and in addition are $10 billion worth less ates. We are examining the role of mil- " What is your program for unemployment?': well-defended. 1·oads and ail'lines, of water carrie1·s and The bill's approach to the unemployment Whether this is a good deal for the i·est of mot.or carriers. We w.·e enlarging our problem starts from two propositions. One is the nation depends on whether what the commitment to mass transportation. In t hat there ls a great deal of work to be done newly-employed produce is worth $20 billion in the country. there are people who want to them (plus whatever value ls assigned to the Congress we have begun to reconsider to work, and it ls only logical to put them the foregone $10 billion of defense). What the proper role of the Federal Govern­ together~ The second ls that the nation is striking about the Humphrey-Hawkins ment in regulating transportation, and (meaning not just the unemployed) suffers bill is that this consideration is entirely ig­ in committing public funds to maintain substantial costs from unemployment and nored. In fact, this consideration 1s totally cer ta1n kinds of transpo1·tation services. 21364 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 In that context it is perhaps appro­ this same press conference. The session within the country-is applied to Russian priate to remind ourselves of the enor­ lasted more than an hour and Scammon, who journalists. They have complete freedom of mous responsibility the trucking industry works independently-he is under contract movement within a 25-mlle radius of Wash­ has for moving the raw materials and to NBC for the present election-replled ington or New York. If they wish to go fur­ finished products of our vast and com­ without exception to all the questions asked ther afield, -they are reqUired to give prior him by journalists 1n the two cities. notice. Also, 20 % of American territory is plex economy. Trucks haul more than This meeting with Scammon was the third off limits to them though there are occa­ half of all the freight moved in America. or fourth background session held by the sions when they can visit sites within t h e Employment in the trucking industry ex­ USIA for the foreign press in order to restricted area by official invitation. ceeds 9 million people with payrolls· of familiarize reporters with the complexities These limitations imposed upon Russian more than $82 billion. In 1973, the most of the American electoral system, a system journalists are reciprocal but, according to recent year for which there are complete which not even Americans themselves fully the USIA, they are much less restrictive than figures, trucks represented 1 of every 6 understand. The reason is that there are 50 those applied to American correspondents in different systems, one for each state. the Soviet Union. registered vehicles, traveled one of every The trips organized by the USIA (known The United States government provides 5 vehicle miles, paid $1 of every $3 of abroad as the USIS) to election sites in New these services in the hope that as true an State highway user taxes, and contrib­ Hampshire, New York, Florida. and Puerto image of life 1n this country as possible may uted $2 of every $5 of Federal Highway Rico are part of this same information proc­ be presented abroad, although it knows this Trust Fund receipts. ess. The USIA provides the transportation will not be achieved. Evidence of the failure As the chief spokesman for that strong and the correspondents, that is their agen­ of this intent daily fills the world press. Ra­ cies, pay all other expenses. cial disturbances in Boston, for example, are and diverse industry, Bennett Whitlock These trips are planned so that corre­ bears a great responsibility. I am con­ repeatedly headlined. The voluntary integra­ spondents a.rrive at the selected place, usu­ tion of schools in Hartford, however, a city fident he is more than equal to the chal­ ally a small city where it is easier to observe which besides was one of the first in the lenge, and am most pleased that a South what they wish to see, some four to six days country to experiment with classes in Span­ Carolinian and one of my constituent.s before the election. Thus they have ample ish for Latin children, is never given head­ has been chosen for this position of opportunity, either on their own or through lines. Despite this, correspondents continue leadership in our Nation. the program prepared. for them, to witness to receive assistance: the possibility exists the campa.ign, visit the campaign headquar­ that if some of them report on positive as­ te1'8 of the different candidates, and conduct pects of American life, coverage on an aver­ as many interviews as they can obta.in. age wlll be more or less balanced. These faclltttes are not limited to the elec­ FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOR tion period. About two years ago, when the THE PRIVATE SEX::TOR FOREIGN JOURNALISTS metal disturbances in Boston began immedi­ We cannot conclude without observing ately following the introduction of a system briefly that the foreign correspondent finds of racial integration of the schools, the USIA the same accessib111ty to information within HON. LESTER L. WOLFF organized a trip like the ones described the private sector. The oft-mentioned "right to know" that Americans demand with such OF NEW YORE above. Once the correspondents, among them many communists, arrived 1n Boston insistence has created in this country an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES they were completely free to see all that was information structure, both official and pri­ Tuesday, June 29, 1976 happening and to interview anyone they vate, which enables them to carry out any Wished, Without restrictions. investigation proposed. Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, the news­ Practically every organization, whether it paper El Espectador, of Bogota, Colom­ mGH-LEVEL BRIEFINGS be an official agency, a large company, church, bia, recently printed an article by Its Another a.venue of information open to museum, theatrical company, parade, bazaar, correspond&nts are briefings, meetings be­ or art gallery, has in the majority of cases New York City Correspondent Myriam tween national and/or foreign journalists a competent indivdual in charge of giving out Luz entitled: "Democracy and the and seveml government officials who a.Te information to the press. Press-Freedom of Action in the United there to discuss a specific question. Follow­ Also, one can ask questions of companies States for Foreign Journalist.s." ing a.re two examples: fn other cities without knowing the exact The article describes the openness During the period when New York's fiscal address by sending them care of the local with which the American society. both bankruptcy seemed tnevtta.ble, the mayor of Chamber of Commerce. Rarely in the experi­ Government and the private sectors, the city together with six of his principal ence of this reporter do these efforts go with­ ad.visors met with foreign correspondents to out reply. meets the needs of foreign correspond­ explain the situation to them. People are so prompt to hand out infor­ ents reporting from the United States. At the briefing held 1n Washington to ex­ mation that frequently their largesse can be The article describes in some detail the plain the economic and energy policies pre­ excessive. Any person whose name appears many and varied ways in which the U.S. sented to Congress by President Ford, Treas­ on a list of national or foreign correspondents Information Agency assists these jour­ ury Secretary W111iam Simon took part and, ls likely to receive daily tons of useless re­ nalists in their tasks. to discuss the energy question, the heads of ports which he neither requested nor ts in­ Ms. Luz concludes her article by say­ various government agencies who had per­ terested in nor has time to read. The main ing: sonally visited European and Arab leaders culprits for this deluge of paper are private seeking solutions to the oll problem. companies. In the last few months, however, The balance sheet is favorable to the for­ This type of meeting always includes a certain countries interested in becoming eign correspondent; he has extensive access prolonged question and answer period. leaders of the Third World, among them some to sources of information and he has his PRESS OFFICES Latin American countries, have adopted this freedom of will. inefficient and costly system of self­ This accessibility to sources of information propaganda. I ask unanimous consent that a trans­ is not limited to special events. Both in New lation of the article, which reflects so York and Washington, the USIA has press To sum up: the balance sheet is favorable well on our society and its institutions, offices which effectively and, one must add, to the foreign correspondent; he has exten­ be printed at this point in the CoN­ cordially assist the correspondent in obtain­ sive access to sources of information and he GREssroNAL RECORD: ing any information he might require. In­ has his freedom of will. formation is not given directly, but sugges­ FREEDOM OF ACTION IN THE UNITED STATES tions are made and help is furnished in :find­ FOR FOREIGN JOURNALISTS ing public or private sources where it may (By Myriam Luz) be obtained. The same occurs with inter­ CALIFORNIA DAY CELEBRATION NEW YORK.-The question was asked 1n views in the public and private sectors. New York by the corresponden t for the Ger­ This service is provided not only to resi­ man news service Springer. Richard Scam­ dent correspondents-in New York there are mon replied in Washington. some 1000-but to any foreign journalist Hon. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Scammon, considered one of this coun­ with valid credentials who is passing through OF CALIFORNIA try's leading experts in electoral matters, and requests it. Their number fluctuates be­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES met with representatives of the foreign press tween 300 and 400 per year. It should be in one of the conference rooms of the State pointed out that the press office in New York Tuesday, June 29, 1976 Department in Washington. The purpose: to is manned by only four persons. Mrs. BURKE of California. Mr. comment on the results obtained to date in The same assistance is provided reporters t he primary elections. Foreign correspond­ from communist countries as from demo­ Speaker, Roberta Bowen a-nd her hus­ ents based in New York gathered together cratic nations. There are no conditions and band Jim Bowen will be in Wash­ in the offices of the United States Informa­ no questions asked on w hat w as written. ington, D.C., June 29, 1976 for the cele­ tion Agency (USIA) and, by means of a The only restriction that-and this rela­ bration of California Day. closed circuit radio hook-up, took part in tive only to the correspondent's movements Jim Bowen wrote the lyrics; Roberta June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21365 Bowen composed the music for the songs achusetts Institute of Technology-came un­ retarding the rate of evolution of a light "Happy Birthday, USA" and "The Golden der sharp criticism from experts testifying at water reactor industry below that controlled a congressional hearing on 11 June. But there by economic forces [emphasis added], pro­ West Waltz" which Mrs. Bowen will sing. was no indication that the critics had land­ vided an intensified safety research and ac­ "Happy Birthday, USA" has been des­ ed a disabl1ng blow against the study that tual safety improvement program is pur­ ignated as the Bicentennial song for the provides the chief documentation to claims sued." That left many listeners confused second supervisorial district by Super­ that nuclear reactors are extraordinarily safe. about where Panofsky stood, since economic visor Kenneth Hahn. It has been adopted The study-commonly called the Rasmus­ constr·aint s have lately proved a massive as the Bicentennial song for the city of sen report-was first published in draft form roadblock to nuclear development. When CUlver City and acclaimed by many in 1974. It was then subjected to written pressed by the congressmen, Panofsky said, comments from some 90 organizations an d "I would be mode concerned about this if elected officials and civic organizations. the reactor industry was evolving extremely is individuals, and was issued in final form, in­ Jim Bowen a building contractor. cluding a summary, a main report, and eleven rapidly." Roberta is a retired professional enter­ appendices, on 30 October. The study esti­ Another member of the American Physical tainer. mates the probabilities of various nuclear Society's review group-Frank von Rippel, Roberta has been on stage since she accidents and the damage that t!lose acci­ of Princeton University's Center for En­ was 5 years old. She has sung in operas dents would cause. Many of its charts and vi1·onmenta1 St udies-was equally critical. and musical comedies. Her early career tables suggest that the risk of a reactor Von Rippel claimed the Rasmussen report was spent in motion pictures, as a singer catastrophe is comparatively small. Thus the is "highly misleading" and "deceptive" in its chance that an individual would be killed in comparison of reactor accident hazards with on radio, and as a pianist at MGM a reactor accident if there were 100 plants other hazards to which we are exposed, such studios where she served as an accom­ in operation is described as 1 to 5 blllion, as meteors, earthquakes, fires, and explo­ panist for the late Judy Garland. compared to a 1 in 2 million chance of be­ sions. The key graphs which compare fatal­ Today she is music director for the ing killed by lightning. ities from these various hazards, he noted, Senior Citizens Center in CUlver City. It Unfortunately, although the Rasmussen depict only t he early deaths that would is the most successful senior citizens pro­ report has become a cornerstone of the nu­ occur within a short time after the accident gram in the Los Angeles area. clear debate, it has not been subjected to sus­ while ignoring delayed fatalities such as This very talented lady is also a music tained and searching scrutiny by a sig:r:.ifl­ deaths caused by cancer in the area down­ cant num"'er of competent outsiders. Al­ wind of a reactor accident. Using data "al­ therapist working at hospitals and sani­ though the first draft was subjected to such most buried" in the appendices, von Rippel toriums. outside criticism, the final version has at ­ calculated that a reactor accident thait would These long-term Culver City residents tracted only scattered written and oral com­ cause only 10 early fatalities would also cause are loved and appreciated by all who mentary, party because many nuclear crit ics 7,000 cancer deaths, 4,000 genetic defects, know them. la.ck the manpower and resources to analyze 60,000 thyroid tumor cases, 3,000 square miles a report that is now essentially a fa.it accom­ of land contamination, and enough stron­ pll. The 11 June hearing before the House tium-90 released into local waters to con­ subcommittee on energy and the environ­ taminate t he Ohio River above maximum ment-a unit of the Committee on Int ~ ·· ior permissible drinking standards for more than REACTOR SAFETY HEARINGS and Insular Affairs-provided the first major a year. Such long term consequenecs would forum for critics of the report to air their far exceed the likely delayed effects of a complaints before members of Congress. meteor impact which caused 10 short-term HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM One of the most eminent of the critics fatalit ies, von Rippel said. Yet just last OF NEW YORK was Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, director of mont h, he noted, the chairman of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, who Nuclear Regulatory Com.mission, which spon­ had served as chairman of the review panel sored the Rasmussen report, stated that "the Tuesday, June 29, 1976 for an American Physical Society group that risks from potential nuclear accidents would Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, despite issued one of the most detailed critiques :Jf be comparable to those from meteorites." the original draft of the Rasmussen report. Panofsky had also complained about the the issuing last fall of the NRC's Reactor Panofsky noted that the American Physical "highly m isleading manner" in which the Safety Study-commonly known as the Society had had no chance to review the dat a on delayed effects had been handled; he Rasmussen Report---questions about nu­ final Rasmussen report and that he wastes­ found it hard to take a "benign view" of clear reactor safety continue to be bit­ tifying as an individual. In the guarded the matter. But Rasmussen, who also test i­ terly debated. On June 11, I chaired hear­ language of an administrator whose labora­ fied at t he hearing, denied that the delayed ings of the House Interior Committee's tory depends on federal support, Panofsky effects were "buried" since they were men­ Subcommittee on Energy and Environ­ characterized the Rasmussen report acS "a tioned in t he executive summary and the useful but far from definitive input into main report as well as in the appendices. ment, which were called in order to ex­ the overall question of reactor safety." He )llore the Rasmussen Report and its im­ The delayed effeots were not put into the complained that "it is almost impossible to graphs comparing various hazards, he ex­ plications for problems of reactor safety. make an overall thorough critical review of plained, because there were no good data At these hearings, we heard testimony the report for a number of reasons: one is available for the delayed effects of non­ from a variety of expert witnesses. Al­ the sheer length of the report and the sec­ nuclear hazards. Still, as Representative though I would hesitate to draw from ond is that the method of presentation in Jonathan B. Bingham (D-N.Y.), who chaired that testimony any definite conclusions the report leaves much to be desired in the hearing, noted, pictures have "power" about the specific scientific controversies terms of clarity and exact statement as to and the printed description of long-term origin of data and procedures actually used." hazards "simply doesn't catch up to the surrounding the report, I can definitely Panofsky's central conclusion was that the say that serious controversy about the re­ impact of t he graphs." Rasmussen report exaggerates the degree of Von Rippel, who described himself as an port's methods and conclusions does confidence one can place in its estimates. agnostic on nuclear power, citeC a number exist; and that continued peer criticism "The probabilities of accidents of major de­ of alleged weaknesses in the Rasmussen re­ and review of the report should be en­ grees of severity calculated in the report port, all of which led him to suggest that couraged by Congress and the admini­ are subject to considerably larger uncer­ a substantial peer review of the report be stration. Unfortunately, too many of­ tainties than those stated," he said. Panof­ sky stressed that "my critical remarks do completed and t hat a new study be com­ ficials, both in Congress and the admini­ not imply that reactors are in fact less safe missioned to put the Rasmussen report re­ stration, seem not only to treat the report than the Rasmussen report asserts them to sults "into a form appropriate for policy­ as definitive, but also quote it as the be. Rather my conclusion is that the Ra.s­ making purposes." gospel which establishes that "nuclear mus.sen report has very greatly overstated A third critic of the report-Henry Kendall, reactors are safe." Even Dr. Rasmussen the certainty of its conclusions; for this rea­ a Massachusetts Institute of Technology agreed that his report has been frequent­ son and because of the intractability of physicist and head of the Union of Concern­ ly misinterpreted and misused in past much of the reasoning used in the report its ed Scientists-was the only witness :to reach findings should not be used as a definit ive a conclusion that was clearly adverse to nu­ months. basis in the formulat ion of policy." clear power. Whereas Panofsky had simply The following article in Science maga­ But Panofsky waffled a bit when it came argued that the Rasmussen estimates are zine fairly summarizes our June 11 to explaining what implications his com­ subject to great uncertainty which could en­ hearings: compass either under- or overestimation, ments might have for further development Kendall concluded that "the risks in a. large REACTOR SAFETY: CONGRESS HEARS CRITICS of nuclear power. His prepared test imony OF RASMUSSEN REPORT reactor program are almost certainly substan­ suggested that coal production might im­ tially understated" by the Rasmussen study. (By Phllip M. Boffey) !P<>Se a larger health and environmental He also expressed greater concern over the The federal government's Reactor Safety burden than does nuclear energy; the pre­ uncertainties, calling them "very large-large Study-headed by Norman C. Rasmussen, pared text also said his criticisms in them­ enough to accommodate risks that are en­ professor of nuclear engineering at the Mass- selves "do not constitute a valid reason for t irely u naccept able." 21366 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 The most substantial review of the final TETON DAM: AFTERMATH ship is comprised of the following armed Rasmussen report so far seems to have been The collapse of the Teton River Da.m, services veterans: conducted by the Environmental Protection bringing personal tragedy and destruction The Honorables John Van Hine, di­ Agency (EPA) and one of its contractors, In­ down on thousands of Idaho residents, pro­ rector, of Dover; Chauncey Hay of termountain Technologies, Inc., of Ida.ho vides a case study of how bureaucracy per­ Dover; Mike Orichio, of Dover; Tony Falls, Idaho. William D. Rowe, EPA's deputy petuates itself. If allegations made concern­ assistant administrator for radiation pro­ ing the Teton Dam are found to be correct, Wall, of Dover; Bob Gordon, of Dover; gra ms, told the hearing his agency has iden­ there Will be proof that bureaucracy not only Bob Stowbridge of Morris Plains; Dave tified "several significant areas" in which the perpetuates itself, but manages to engage in Johnston of Morris Plains; Bob Koster report is either "deficient" or contains "un­ projects which a.re of questionable value and of Denville; Bert Wiswell of Denville; justified assumptions." which can be devastating. Jim D'Pete of Parsippany; Dan Filipow The most significant was that it failed "to The bureaucratic agency in this case is of East Hanover; and George Fagg of address fully the health effects expected after the Bureau of Reclamation. It was founded Mendham. an accident." The EPA contends that the in 1902 to help irrigate and thus develop Rasmussen group should have calculated the The band was named after one of its western lands for agriculture. In 1972, Con­ founding members and the architect of delayed somatic health effects from reactor gressman Charles Vanik of Ohio introduced accidents in accord with an approach used legislation to put the Reclamation agency their attainment as a professional dance by the National Academy of Sciences Com­ out of business. It's too bad he didn't band, the late Burgess ''Pappy" Terhune, mittee on the Biological Effects of Ionization succeed. whose fatal accident one rainy night Radiation in 1972. The Rasmussen group used Also in 1972, work began on the Teton when his car collided with a truck on a different approach that had the effect of Dam. A series of warnings about the project May's Mountain while he was en route reducing the estimated cancer fatalities by were issued from another government agency, to rehearsal has infused a bond of de­ a factor of from 2 to 10, according to EPA. the U.S. Geological Survey. Both in 1972 and sire among the members of the band to (The Rasmussen group says the factor is only 1973, scientists warned that the dam was 4, and it claims to have good support for the being constructed in a.n. earthquake prone continue for his sake as a memorial to approach it uses.) The EPA also took issue area, an area where the earth itself was so him. with the Rasmussen report's assumptions porous the danger of lea.ks was an important Mr. Speaker, this musical group of concerning the protection that could be pro­ consideration. It was just such a leak that distinguished veterans, which has Dover, vided by evacuating people from the vicinity triggered the disaster. N.J., as its home base, was organized ap­ of an accident, and it disputed the estimates Perpetuation of the bureaucracy, tts en­ proximately 8 years ago as a band of four of the probab111ties of radiation releases. But trenchment at every level of government, is or five banjo players who enjoyed get­ what it all added up to was unclear. Rowe wasteful. In this case, perpetuation became ting together to make music at sessions told the congressmen that EPA believes Ras­ dangerous and then tragic. The lea.ding pres­ among themselves and then branched mussen has understated the overall risk by a idential candidates indicate the campaign factor ranging from 1 to "several hundred." will focus on reducing the s.ize of the federal into social functions, retirement dinners, If the figure lies at the upper end of that bureaucracy. We think the time is right. we and veterans affairs when they would in­ range, some nuclear critics believe the under­ look for more tba.n rhetoric on this campaign formally bring out their banjos and estimate is significant. But Rowe seemed to issue. strum dynamic patriotic music that en­ back down a bit by adding that EPA, on the courages spontaneous participation in basis of information that was not in the Ras­ the festivities of the evening by all of mussen report but has since been provided by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, now A SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL STORY those assembled. believes "the most likely value lies in the ABOUT OUR FLAG AND PAPPY'S Their first benefit concert to help lower part of this range." BANJO BOYS, A SUPERB PATRI­ Pappy's widow was only the beginning of Various critics also contended that the re­ OT.(C MUSICAL GROUP OF NEW their outstanding service to our people in port ignored or downplayed such problems JdSEY their pursuit of spreading joy, happiness, as sabotage, human error, aging of reactor and recreation to their audiences. componenU!, hazards in densely populated Mr. Speaker, with your permission, I areas, floating nuclear plants, and the possi­ HON. ROBERT A. ROE would like to insert at this point in our bility of a "real lemon" among reactors. OF NEW JERSEY Supporters of the Rasmussen report tended historical journal of Congress the story to regard the criticisms as nitpicking and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as related to me, as follows: trivia.I. And even EPA's Rowe, after calling Tuesday, June 29, 1976 The respect and admiration they inspire in for corrections in the Rasmussen risk esti­ the hearts and minds of all in attendance for mates, concluded that "it is not possible at Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, during our the American flag a.nd our country is mani­ this time" to assess what difference such cor­ Bicentennial Year the spotlight has been fested in the awesome, deafening applause rections might make in judging the accepta­ on our American flag, the worldwide for more that follows the spectacular per­ bility of nuclear power. At many points in formance of their tribute to our flag. Wher­ symbol of freedom, liberty, and justice ever they go, no matter what the engagement the hearing, participants seemed to be hag­ for all. In every hamlet, village, town, gling over numbers whose significance was or occasion, Pappy's Banjo Boys insist on a not fully understood. Yet the haggling is and city throughout our country, the moment of serious thought and meditation important because, in the absence of sub­ official recognition of our flag is the focal on the flag and the country for which they stantial operating experience with reactors, point and highllght of Bicentennial fought. They have never heard a word of ob­ risk assessment must be based on theory and activities of citizens' organizations jection, or lost out on a repeat performance. judgment. throughout our Nation. Midway during their program for the eve­ Mr. Speaker, as we reflect on these ning, the house lights a.re dimmed while a bright spotllght is focused on the American patriotic commemorative activities, I flag, the center of attraction. The banjos TETON DAM: AFTERMATH know that you and all of our colleagues softly strum the melody of "America the here in the Congress would be especially Beautiful." Concurrently, Chauncey Hay impressed by a story related to me by recites "a tribute to old glory" in a most elo­ HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI a most distinguished news correspond­ quent and piercing tone. OF ILLINOIS ent in my district, Mrs. Dorothy Pater­ In a. moving finale he picks up his banjo which erupts in a revolving circle of red, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES son Rude, who writes for one of New Jersey's most prestigious newspapers, white a.nd blue lllumination. The boys turn Tuesday, June 29, 1976 up the volume and burst into "God Bless the Paterson News. Her story pertains America" and, without exception, the audi­ Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, at this to the joy and refreshment that a superb ences are involuntarily swept to their feet time when we are going through the patriotic musical grouP--Pappy's Banjo and join in the chorus. annual battle of the budget and are con­ Boys-spreads throughout my district Pappy's Banjo Boys give benefit per­ tinually frustrated in efforts to trim, and the State of New Jersey with a spec­ formances with their spotlight on our control and reform the bureaucracy of tacular artistic performance which spot­ American flag regularly in New Jersey the Federal Government, an editorial lights our country's flag whenever and for the East Orange VA Hospital, the broadcast on June 18 by WGN in Chi­ wherever they give audience to their Morris County Association for Retarded cago is extremely pertinent. There is no talented artistry on the banjo strings. Children, the Hunterdon State School doubt that various Federal entities exist Pappy's Banjo Band is comprised of for the Retarded at Clinton, the New Jer­ to perpetuate themselves and unlike old musicians who represent every branch sey Association for the Blind Center at soldiers, never fade away. of our Nation's Armed Forces and the Denville, the Firemen's Home at Boon­ The editorial follows: British Royal Navy. Its current member- ton, to name a few. June 2·9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21367 Mr. Speaker, as we move ahead with we should have done some time ago. You worry about being attacked, and that it's a our Nation's Bicentennial activities to­ see, he lived amongst us with such hu­ walkie-talkie which Mr. Newmlller carries, and not a gun. ward our Nation's July 4th birthday cele­ mility, he loved his family and friends We were also told that Mr. Newmiller talks bration commemorating our Declaration so that we thought of him as a friend a. lot, Mr. Walker gets his thrills out of hit­ of Independence, I appreciate the oppor­ and not as the great man he really was. ting kids with his paddle, and that Mrs. tunity to call your attention to Pappy's That is so easy to do at times. He might Buckner rides around on a. broom. Well, we'd Banjo Boys' tribute to our flag. It is in­ have wanted it that way. I am certain just like to say this-it's true. deed appropriate to seek this national that he did-and so we never publicly With all honesty though, we have a great recognition of the contribution they have recognized his genius. staff at Coolidge, but it's not often we have the opportunity to truly express our feelings. made to the American way of life and the Some say that those who compose It's rather difilcult to begin listing names of American dream in serving to renew and beautiful music are touched by the hand all the teachers who have helped us progress encourage our people's pledge of alle­ of God, for it is the universal language and mature physically, as well as mentally giance to the flag. the inspires body and soul. Here was a and emotionally. Every member of the staff In the wo.rds of a wise man of the past, man-now that we look back-that was involved in something to make our years the learned Henry Ward Beecher: proved it so. at Coolidge fun, along with educational. A thoughtful mind when it sees a. nation's For that reason, Mr. Speaker, I now Their involvement and concern for our well fiag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. being certainly doesn't go unnoticed and un­ ask you, my colleagues, to join me in appreciated. They're a rare bunch and I'm And whatever may be its symbols, its in­ paying tribute to Rafael Ramirez, a great signia, he reads chiefly in the flag, the gov­ sure we hope to run across many people like ernment, the principles, the truths, the his­ American, a great composer and I am them through the years. tory that belong to the nation that sets it proud to say, my friend, and that we ex­ Many of us are grateful to them for grant­ forth. The American flag has been a symbol tend our sincere condolences to his ing us the honor of hearing our names read of Liberty and men rejoiced in it. brothers, the Honorable Arnaldo Rami­ off the diplomas, instead of the detention rez, mayor of our hometown of Mission, list. Our Nation's standard has stars to Actually, I think we're very fortunate to symbolize the heavens and the divine Tex., and to the Honorable Oswaldo be the class of '76, the year of our country's goal to which man has aspired from time Ramirez and Jesus Maria Ramirez. 200th birthday, because ever since we began immemorial. The stripe is symbolic of being bussed when we were in first grade, we the rays of light emanating from the Sun. proved to ourselves and others that we can succeed in getting a good education no mat­ Stars are placed on a blue field to repre­ FAREWELL FROM THE CLASS OF ter where we're taught. sent a new constellation, our representa­ '76 We demonstrated what being an American tive democracy, comprised of a nation of really is. It's not someone who ca.res a.bout all freedom-loving peoples throughout being black or white, but someone who takes the world. HON. MARTIN A. RUSSO on the responsibilities of improving them­ selves as human beings, and who can learn OF ll.LINOIS to work well in any environment, with their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RAFAEL RAMffiEZ fellow man. Tuesday, June 29, 1976 We may be young and inexperienced Amer­ icans, but we have just a.s much right as Mr. RUSSO. Mr. Speaker, there is a anyone else to make decisions and live our HON. E de la GARZA strength this Nation possesses that defies lives to the fullest and that's just what we've OF TEXAS precise analysis-by either the poet or been doing. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the politician. It is the truth that lies at Many people pulled their children out of the heart of this land and, to recall the the district when we started bussing, but a. Tuesday, June 29, 1976 poetic imagery, perhaps it is like the but­ lot of us didn't and although our parents Mr. DE LA GARZA. Mr. Speaker, I re­ terfly: if you chase after it, you cannot made the decision of whether to keep us in spectfully ask the indulgence of my col­ capture it, but if you stand quietly, it may District 151 or not, we had the most impor­ tant decision which was whether or not we leagues in the House of Representwtives come to you. wanted to stick it out too, and strive to for a few moments to inform you of the Recently I was able to stand quietly reach our highest goals. death of a great American. His name was for a moment and sense one source of Most of us did, and most of us will keep Rafael Ramh·ez and he lived in Mission, that strength, in a commencement ad­ right on doing it through high school, col­ Tex. dress by an eighth grader. What a re­ lege and whatever profession we choose in Rafael was an accomplished pianist, assuring feeling to contemplate the fu­ life. Whether some of us may be lawyers, but his fame came as a composer. He ture of the country when our young peo­ housewives, or bricklayers, it doesn't matter. wrote music and lyrics for almost 50 ple have such wisdom. As long as we work a.t our highest potential, have ambition and take pride in our work, songs in Spanish-several of which will Dr. Thomas E. Van Dam, superintend­ remain as alltime hits. All will be im­ we will surely succeed. As the bulletin board ent of school district 151 in Cook Coun­ in Miss Johnson's room says, "If I cannot do mortal for he wrote with a feeling very ty, brought the speech to my attention. great things, I can do small things in a. great few possess. It was delivered by Tracy Gurtatowski, way." So, on behalf of the Coolidge Class of The most famous of his hits, and my student council president at Coolidge '76, I'd like to say farewell, not only a.s eighth favorite, is a song which all the Spanish School in Phoenix, m. I commend Tracy grade graduates, but as the adults of tomor­ speaking world will long remember. The for both her wit and her insight and to­ row. title is "Lloraras-You Will Cry." It was day I want to share her words with my the first big hit for the famous actor colleagues and bring them to the atten­ A HUMANE ACCOMPLISHMENT Javier Solis. Other hits were "Veti," tion of anyone who, as Dr. Van Dam "Nuestro Amor," and many others-the suggests, "has doubts about the strength latest of which was "La Costumbre." and quality of our young Americans." HON. JOHN M. SLACK Rafael Ramirez was a kind and gentle The article follows: OF WEST VIRGINIA man. He was what I think of as "the per­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fect gentleman," and yet in time of war FAREWELL FROM THE CLASS OF '76 he served his country and in the per­ (By Tracy Gurtatowski) Tuesday, June 29, 1976 formance of his duty was wounded in Honored guests and fellow graduates, I'm sure all of us feel that tonight is a. great Mr. SLACK. Mr. Speaker, I would like action. But this did not change his spirit turning point in our lives. We feel we've to call to the attention of my colleagues and he returned to his music after World made a great accomplishment, and we have­ a short heartwarming story conveyed to War II. He received several awards for the girls made it on the stage with their me by one of my constituents. The sub­ his works. I might add that he really de­ platforms and high heels, and the boys have ject is one about which we seem to read served many more. Perhaps in another managed to keep their ties on without chok­ far too little-kindness to animals. day and time his name would have fieen ing, while all the speeches were being made. As we sit here, anxiously awaiting the In September of 1975, a young German a household word in our country. Perhaps shepherd pup was struck by a train in if he had written in English, many moment when we receive our diplomas, we can reminisce about being sixth graders, and Cabin Creek, W. Va., which is located in a wards would have been given him by the how we were always told rumors about my district. The dog's front legs were American music world. Coolidge. It was a relief to find out that when severely damaged in the accident. She I guess I use this forum now, to do what you walk down the halls, you don't have to was taken to a local veterina1ian who 21368 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 chose t.o amputate both front legs rather concerns a.re for all phases of medical educa­ the Association is active in the cooraination than have her put to sleep. tion: undergira.duate, graduate, and continu­ of continuing medical education programs Shortly after the dog's post-operative ing medical education; either singly or 1n a. for itself as well as other health professionals variety of combinations. But especially in in the hospital setting. This broad range of recovery, the veterinarian contacted the the graduate and continuing education concern for CME is reflected in the com­ West Virginia Rehabilitation Cent.er in phase. Large-small, urban-rural, medical mittee structure which includes: the Com­ Institute, W. Va., which specializes in re­ school affiliated-non affiliated, public-pri­ mittee on Continuing Education; Teaching habilitating certain individuals with vate, are just a. few of the descriptions of and Institutes Committee; Liaison Commit­ physical disabilities. The veterinarian community hospitals represented within the tee on General Health Education; Ambula­ thought that someone at the center membership. tory Health Appraisal and Audio/Visual; might be interested in trying to teach the AHME was founded in 1956. Pll'esently, and the Committee for Graduate Medical dog to walk again or otherwise care for 90 % of its membership a.re physicians and Education. over 70 % of the physicians work directly her. with educational programs as directors of The staff and students at the center medical education, chiefs of service, or other accepted the challenge and after pro­ titles on a. full time basis. Forty-five states ON SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN viding the dog with some therapeutic and Canada as well as 400 hospitals a.re SPECIES treatment, contacted Mr. David Hans­ represented in AHME. These 400 hospitals ford, a prosthetist at J.E. Hanger Pros­ represent more than 93,000 beds and com­ thetics in Charleston, W. Va., about the bined medical staffs of more than 37,000 HON. GUY VANDER JAGT possibility of fitting the dog with artifi­ physicians. OF MICHIGAN cial front legs. Mr. Hansford discussed The 400 hospitals offer 4,445 internship IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES positions (36 percent of total in U. S.) and the matter with his colleagues and con­ Tuesday, June 29, 1976 cluded that since the dog was a pup, she 15,046 residencies (38 percent of total). Con­ solidating these figures, almost 30 percent Mr. VANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, all could probably adapt herself t.o artificial of graduate medical education positions in limbs. the United States are located in these hos­ too few of us are aware of the very basic After measuring the dog for the limbs, pitals and a.re under the direction of AHME problems facing the human race in its Mr. Hansford and his colleagues pro­ membership. efforts to survive, to continue to exist ceeded with the construction and fitting. These residencies represent a considerable on the planet Earth. But some seem to The dog adapted to her new limbs, but involvement in primary care training. Thirty­ have unusual insights and understand­ since she was still growing gradually out­ eight percent of all residency positions in pri­ ings in this regard and express them t.o grew them. Mr. Hansford and his col­ mary care fields in the United States are those who will listen, those who are not leagues then fashioned a new pair and AHME member hospitals (Family Practice so caught up in every day efforts that 60%, Internal Medicine 35%, Pediatrics 29%, they can ponder the past and the future refit the young pup. Obstetrics and Gynecology 40%). The na­ Today the dog resides in special quar­ tional percentage of residency positions in of human beings. Among those who seem ters at the rehabilitation center, where primary ca.re is 36% of the total available. ordained to bring us the realities of our the staff and students have adopted her Of the over 15,000 residencies in AHME hos­ existence is Jacques Cousteau. This man as their mascot. She is walking totally pitals, 51 % are in primary ca.re disciplines has become famous because of his ex­ without assistance. compared to 30 % non AHME member hos­ plorations of the unknowns beneath the At a time when so much of what we pitals. sea. Those explorations have stimulated The input of the community teaching disquieting, somber warnings t.o man. read and hear is less than pleasant, it is hospital programs is vita.I to graduate educa­ refreshing to take note of a humane ac­ tion and the importance of solidifying rela­ Jacques Cousteau recently spoke to complishment such as the one achieved tionships between these programs and aca­ the members of the Sierra Club at their by Mr. Hansford, the students, and staff demic centers is quite apparent. annual banquet. I believe Members of at the West Virginia Rehabilitation Graduate medical education programs in the House will find immense value in the Center. community hospitals a.re an important re­ words which he brought to that group on source for undergraduate education and they that occasion. a.re influential in continuing medical edu­ The text of his speech follows: cation for practicing physicians. REASONABLE UTOPIAS ASSOCIATION FOR HOSPITAL Directors of Medical Education within MEDICAL EDUCATION community hospitals are keenly a.ware of (By Jacques Cousteau) current trends in medical education in the (This article ls the text of a speech given United States. They are in an advantageous by Jacques Cousteau a.t the Sierra. Club's HON. TIM LEE CARTER position for liaison between the community's 1976 Annual Banquet, which was held in San OF KENTUCKY practicing physicians and academic medical Francisco on May 8. On that occasion, the Club presented Captain Cousteau with the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES centers, specialty societies and other medical groups. Because of their involvement in con­ John Muir Award for his outstanding con­ Tuesday, June 29, 1976 tinuing medical education, they can coordi­ tributions to furthering an understanding nate these functions with undergraduate and and appreciation of marine ecosystems.) Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, it is clear graduate medical education programs. January 1973-Having crossed the Ant­ that the quality of our Nation's medical AHME members ha.ve considerable exper­ arctic circle, Calypso heads south a.long care depends upon the quality of our tise in the necessary content of educational Adelaide Island, en route to Marguerite Bay. educational training programs for programs for primary care physicians and the I am on the bridge, to make a decision a.bout health professionals. It is my feeling association serves a.s a forum for the exchange sending my son Philippe in our helicopter, that we must continually strive to im­ of ideas and positions on national policy as it as our vanguard, to the British Station at prove the level of that educational proc­ relates to the problems of medical education the southern tip of Adelaide. A wind, force ess both within institutions and within in community hospitals. As a. functional or­ :five, blows; the sea. is agitated. On our path, ganization, AHME holds regular national and scattered blocks of ice oblige us to alter our the daily practice of medicine and the regional meetings, seminars, and workshops course occasionally. It is three o'clock in the delivery of health care. Encouragement on all aspects of medical education, publishes morning. A low sun showers the scenery with of continuing education for health pro­ a monthly NEWSLETTER and a qua.rterlf a. pristine, unreal pink dye. A cavalcade of fessionals is one important aspect of this educational Journal. huge tabular icebergs files across the hori­ process. The Association for Hospital AHME supports the position that every zon. Along the coast, a thick mist rises from Medical Education is one group which physician has a. professional obligation to the sea, and above, low clouds of cold steam. is concerned with medical education in continue the study of his profession through­ The majestic glaciers and ice-capped moun­ community hospitals in particular. To­ out a lifetilne of practice. This obligation ex­ tains o! Adelaide emerge and stretch up tends to all aspects of professional service toward a. half moon of silver engraved in a. day, I am inserting in the RECORD a purple sky. At a cable's length, a. few orcas statement from this organization about whether ca.re is delivered in the office, the clinic, or in the hospital. In the hospital loudly cough their blows of vapor. Every­ its activities for consideration by my setting the physician should actively assist thing, here, is water: water solid, water distinguished colleagues: the medical staff to develop standards of liquid, water in fog and cloud, water alive, AssOCIATION FOR HOSPITAL MEDICAL patient ca.re and those standards should be water immense, overwhelming, but, also, EDUCATION measurable and well defined. Clearly, then, water little, humble, fragile. Surrounded by The Association for Hospital Medical the purpose of continuing medical education a majestic beauty that still haunts me to­ Education (AHME) is a national organiza­ is to enhance performance and patient care. day, I know that here, the sea is only a. tion of individuals concerned with medical Although the AHME membership is pri­ couple of degrees from freezing solid, that education in community hospitals. These marily concerned with physician education, life teems at the edge of death. In the Ant- June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21369 arctic, the vulnerability of our magnificent their way into the ocean through direct inated from discussions. The great absence world is exposed, a message that we refuse to dumping, or indirectly in rivers or rain. of the conference was the Waters of the read. When the Cavtat sank off Otranto with World.... At the Law of the Sea Conference, Cruising three months in the Antarctic drums containing hundreds of tons of highly there was a lot of Law but very little Sea.. waters, flying 120 how·s by helicopter in poisonous lead tetraethyl, nations and com­ The Universe as we know it, whether the search of cetaceans, we have observed only panies quarreled, but nothing was done to result of blind forces or created by God, orig­ two humpback whales, two groups of sei defuse such a time-bomb. When in France inated 15 to 20 billion years ago. The initial whales, half a dozen packs of orcas. Not one the Supertanker, Olympic Bravery, the un­ explosion must have endowed the cosmic single blue, not a single finback ! But every­ sinkable pride of the Onass.is fleet, recently material with an unimaginable amount of where, heaps of bleached bones, tragic mon­ ran aground in Ouessant, nothing was done energy. Our telescopes and radiotelescopes uments to human folly. The seals were for one full month until a storm broke the give us information about some aspects of scarce, but seal hunting was about to re­ ship in two and generated a near-cata­ the universe as they were as long ago as sume. Penguins proliferated, fattening from strophic oil spill. five billion years. We have data from a time the krill left over since the slaughter of On April 28, 1976, the barge Sparkling span covering one-third or one-quarter of whales. But dead penguins were found, Water was rammed by the COiombian the age of the world. Such data have con­ poisoned by distant pesticides, brought here freighter Ta1Tambi, . twelve miles southeast firmed that ever since the beginning, an by oceanic currents. of Ambrose Light. Over one million gallons overal degradation of energy has taken place. Every two weeks, a liner poured two thou­ of highly toXic chemicals used in the ma.nu­ The deterioration has been expressed in sand tourists on the Antarctic peninsula. The facture of pesticides were dumped into the mathematical terms, and the quantity that scientific stations, whatever their national­ sea. The spill has already damaged some has been imagined to measure it is called ity, however conscious of the damage done shellbeds, but the Coast Guard reports that entropy. Entropy grows constantly, and as their guests may be, are surrounded by heaps the spill is drifting away southeasterly. So is grows, the energy of the universe de­ of litter that many accumulate there and will that the danger, being now "out of sight," is creases and the cosinos evolves toward a remain for near eternity. I knew that 2,000 promptly set "out of mind," and everyone final pattern of cold, simplified, immobile, miles from us in another pa.rt of Antarctica, can go back to business. dead chaos. the sinister sllhouette of the first off-shore Dumping nuclear wastes in the sea, after A very important peculiarity of all ele­ drilllng ship announced the approaching new the irresponsible operations of Prance, the ments is that they a.re generally found in fate of the last near-virgin continent: today, European Organization Eura.tom and the gaseous or solid state. Molten iron, molten investigations ha':"e discovered coal, gas, oil, United States, was suspended because deep rocks, are much rarer than solid or gaseous iron and about as many ore deposits as in sea photographs had demonstrated that some iron or rocks because they remain liquid any other land mass. of the drums were crushed open. Neverthe­ in only a relatively narraw range of tem­ Oh I I know that the Antarctic deep-sea less, major grants are given today to resume perature. But the rarest liquid of au is coring operation was only for science! The this horrible practice, hopefully with a higher water: first because even ice or vapor is ex­ tragic irony of the social systems we live in degree of ephemeral security. And licenses tremely scarce in th& universe, but al.So be­ is that such a monumental hypocrisy ls are granted to extradite the dangerous nu­ cause water only remains liquid between 0° forged by very sincere people. The drillers, clear power plants offshore, on floating and 100 ° centigrade, a very narrow margin the sailors, the geophysicists are all working barges. Madness could not go farther. indeed. for scientific institutes; the results will be - Meanwhile, swamps are filled, coastline If we zero in on the solar system, the published in learned magazines. It is none of development neutralizes the natural and only earth is the only planet where liquid water the scientists' business, by definition. to deal breeding grounds of thousands of species of is to be found in any appreciable quantity. with what may be done with their findings. marine creatures, huge. industrial complexes And even tha.t quantity ts small. The United The geologist and the nuclear physicist work are built on the seashores or along rivers, Nations poster for Environment Day, June 5, for the advancement of knowledge and wash with no significant protection. Multinational illustrates a comparison that I had made their hands of any responsibility. This corporations now build their plants in those in 1959: if the earth were reduced to the "Pila.tic syndrome" has been institutional­ developing countries that have no environ­ size of an egg, all the wa.ter in the oceans, ized, so that inventors and finders simply sur­ mental-protection regulations. Overfishing is the lakes, the rivers, the ice caps, would render all their substance to the elected ad­ such that the whale population has decreased amount to one single drop, hardly capable venturers who rule our so-called democratic at least 92 percent. The catch of most com­ of moisturizing the egg. When we contem­ world. And, if at the end of a career, a re­ mercial fish like herring, sardines, anchovies, plate the vastness of the ocean, it is only spectable scientist revolts and protests, he tuna and swordfish has dropped by an aver­ a measure of how minuscule our persons are. will be given half a column of the 23rd page age of 40 percent in the past ten years in In fact, there is on our planet only a very of a local newspaper. If Ivan Schmovik:, spite o! an increase in tonnage of the fish­ small, very finite, very precious and very candidate to the Presidency of Transbosnya, ing fleet and in spite of the availability to vulnerable water reserve. sneezes, or declares that Albania interferes industrial fishermen of scientific and tech­ In this large expanding and cooling uni­ in the internal affairs of Transbosnya, every nologic data. An estimate of two miles of verse, in at least one tiny corner, life was television network will invite him and give coral reef is destroyed every day with crow­ born. It may have been bom in other places him prime time. But 1f Linus Pauling ex­ bars to furnish souvenir shops, often those as well, but, needing wat.er quantity and presses his fears about the future of mankind, of scientific institutions, with shells and quality, life must be exceedingly rare. Life, that is only matter for a brief note. The most pieces of coral. mghly evolved creatures like as we know it, made its appearance in wa.ter formidable thinkers of our time have rarely dolphin and orca are exhibited as clowns in about three billion years ago and still depends access to the news, at most once or twice in anti-educational marine zoos. Spearfishermen on water. The "life expectancy'' of life on their career, 1f they write a popular book. kill or scare away the last groupers and lob­ earth extends probably until the sun be­ They have no access to electronic mass­ sters of the reefs. comes a red giant, in another four billion media. (There are no decibels for Nobels.) It This overview, far from being pessimistic years. The miracle of life, the adventure of is high time the independent scientists or exaggerated, is, on the contrary, incom­ life is not yet halfway through ltis possible realize that their duty is to help evaluate and plete and care"fully toned down. While I am existence, and as our species 1s about two control the applications of their findings. rt talking to you, the most tragic masquerade million years old, the human ra<:e could con­ 1s high time that all uses of science and of all times, the Law of the Sea COn1erence, tinue to thrive 2000 times as long as it technology be constitutionally submitted to 1s being staged. For two years, incompetent already has. In order to fully realize our the final rulings of a Scientific Supreme diplomats and government- delegates work responsibilities in the face of such a vast Court. hard to turn around 180 degrees the recom­ future, we must abandon our individual con­ Our fears about the Antarctic have a mendation of the Sea Bed committee and sciousness and develop a global conscious­ special origin: a nostalgic feeling or premoni­ of the very U.N. resolution that had given ness. We must switch from the motivation of tion that the continent of ice may be our birth to the Conference. The debates reveal individual profit to that of profit for human­ last wilderness. But everywhere else, a.buses the exaggerated pretensions of national kind. of technology and forgeries of information sovereignty of all coastal countries over a Environmental consciousness must be are even worse than in the Antarctic. Never fluid, elusive element. International by es­ founded on a critical analysis of the past before has the marine environment been mis­ sence, the sea is about to be sacrificed by 15,000 years. The conclusions of such an repres&nted, and then raped, cut-up, poi­ virtue of a treaty that will butcher the ocean analysis are very surprising: 200 years ago, soned. as it is today: in pieces 200 miles wide, as if water was land; at the dawn of the industrial age, the situa­ All urban and industrial emuents from 500 that delivers these moving, enormous areas tion was far less serious than today, but it million Europeans and Africans flow freely, to the good or bad will of each country; that was hopeless. The record of neolithic, pro­ practically without treatment, into the Medi­ fails to regulate the deep-sea resources; and tohistorical and historical man, engraved in fossils, deep sea cores and in buried or sub­ tt\r-ranea.n, the near-closed sea that was the that only reassures the conscience of the merged vestiges, is a continuous record of cradle of civilization; delegates with a parody of environmental irreversible man-made destructions: Most large cities systematically dump their recommendations. Countless animals eliminated by Asians in­ refuse offshore: Since the beginning, those who knew about vading America through the Bering StraJt; Millions of tons of toxic chemicals find the ocean were politely heard once and elim- The Sahara, a deep forest, destroyed and CXXII--1348-Part 17 21370 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 turned into desert by nomads and shepherds a motion to discharge the Veterans' Af­ might follow the same path that Cuba has. 8000 years ago; fairs Committee from further considera­ We raise that as a question." Arabia Felix, a garden that became a waste tion of H.R. 3616. Premier Hua was scheduled to respond to of sand; Fraser's points at a later session of their The idyllic Greek islands, deforested to I prefer to see this important legisla­ talks. The only substantive remarks of the build ships and provide homes with firewood, tion proceed to adoption through the premier carried in the transcript quote him turned now into mere pieces of sterile rock; normal legislative process. as requesting that the press be told only the The Cape Verde islands, completely bare However, unless the measure reaches topics of conversation and the fact that the today, but described as paradises by Bartolo­ the House soon, I would seriously con­ two leaders "had a candid and sincere ex­ meu Diaz; sider adding my signature to the dis­ change of views." Europe's wolves, bears, rain forests . . . charge petition. Fraser also said he wanted to talk at a. Africa's jungles cut for timber, and so on. later session a.bout the role that Australia, All these acts of destruction occurred in Japan, the United States and China can play 12,000 to 15,000 years. They were done very in the Pacific region. slowly, but they were irreversible, and these AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER'S wounds have not yet even turned into sea.rs. REMARKS Today, in the fury of misguided progress, destructions have become exponential, hys­ terical, catastrophic! But, paradoxically, the HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI MORE GRIM NEWS FROM MEXICO same science and technology used for reck­ less pilfering of resources, have also devel­ OF ll.LINOIS oped, available on a shelf, all the means, all IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. LARRY McDONALD the solutions to reverse the trend. Yesterday, Tuesday, June 29, 1976 OF GEORGIA our ancestors did not know, and they could IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES do nothing anyway. Today, we know, and we Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, an ar­ can, but we don't. We a.re living a nightmare, ticle by Ross H. Munro of the Toronto Tuesday, June 29, 1976 when our hands desperately reach for an Globe & Mail was p1inted in the Wash­ Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, our easy, accessible cure, while incomprehensi­ ington Post on June 24 in which he dis­ newspapers are doing a very poor job of ble forces paralyze us. Let us a.waken from this nightmare, a world where any reason­ cusses remarks made by Australian reporting on events in the neighboring able solution is declared utopian. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Since Republic of Mexico. I am among those Meanwhile, the little pulse of life, thriving the Prime Minister, in my judgment, very who believe that this is a deliberate "cen­ on water, still turns shining drops of water properly pointed the finger at the man­ sorship" so that the American people into living jewels. At least locally and appar­ ner in which this Congress has com­ will not be aware of how serious matters ently, life defies the universal law of degra­ pounded rather helped solve interna­ are becoming. Nevertheless, the flight of dation, creating highly complex organic tional problems, I insert the article in capital, falling production, increased molecules, organizing chaotic matter into unbelievably well-programmed structures of the RECORD. links to the Communist countries, the trillions of cells, like my grandchildren, for AUSSIE ADDRESSES CHINA-AND WORLD continual parroting of Communist rhet­ example. It ls the contemplation of life that (By Ross H. Munro) oric by leading political figures in Mex­ inspired Father Teilhard de Cha.rdin to envi­ PEKING, June 23.-Austra.lian Prime Min­ ico, and many other indications illustrate sion three infinities: in addition to the infi­ ister Malcolm Fraser has told China he has the situation. nitely big and the infinitely small, Teilha.rd serious doubts about the ability of the United In recent months, I have placed a told us there also was the infinitely com­ States to counter growing Soviet power, be­ great deal of material in the RECORD. plex-life. This is what we should all be cause of disagreement between President Since I have just returned from a visit fighting for. Gerald Ford and Congress. to Mexico, it seems a good time to dem­ Fraser believed he was speaking strictly onstrate, from the Mexican press itself, privately when he told Chinese Premier Hua H.R. 3616 Kuo-feng on Sunday evening of his concern, some of the diffi.culties we are going to but Australian functionaries mistakenly dis­ have to face, sooner or later. tributed trascripts of his remarks in the One must really read the Mexican HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI press room set up for the prime minister's press to taste the steady drum.roll of OF KENTUCKY visit. anti-American propaganda, so often par­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fraser linked his concern about the United roting the tired, obvious phrases of States to Soviet intervention in Angola, Tuesday, June 29, 1976 straight Communist rhetoric. Evidently where pro-Western liberation forces were de­ the Mexican Ambassador to the Soviet Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I would nied a.id by the U.S. Congress. The prime minister said he believed the conflict between Union is also the Soviet Ambassador to like to express my strong support for Congress and the President on foreign pol­ Mexico: H.R. 3616, the World War I Pension Act. icy "materially contributed to Soviet inter­ ExcE.LSioR, MAY 15 Thls legislation is a positive step toward vention in Angola and the belief that there MAZATLIN, Sm.-Imperialism intervenes providing for those veterans who have would not be a reaction from the United permanently in Latin America. to create a not been adequately cared for. States." "fa.lange of dictatorships", and Mexico ls the Their sacrifices and labors for this "Some years a.go, there were six or eight "daily object of open and covert actions country are certainly comparable to the significant leaders in Congress and if a Pres­ which try to break [our) institutions •.." eirorts expended by veterans of later ident had their support, he would be assured said the Mexico Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. of the support of the Congress in certain Victor Flores Olea, before Jose Lopez Por­ wars. Yet, World War I veterans, upon policies. There is now a risk of the effective­ tillo. discharge, were not eligible for educa­ ness of U.S. foreign policy being reduced very tional benefits, medical treatment in VA severely because of the difi'erences between In the same vein as so much else, we hospitals, employment assistance, and Congress and the executive." encounter a recent Mexican-Cuban Hate­ other benefits provided to veterans of Fraser then turned to the strategic situ­ America fiesta, entirely Communist­ these later wars. And, their pension rates ation in the Indian Ocean, saying he wanted run, but we note the participation of the do not come near "balancing the scales." the United States to counter growing Soviet offi.cial governing party-PRI-youth In fact, World War I veterans have naval power there. If there is no U.S. Naval arm, the National Movement of Revolu­ presence there, he said, "It would become a tionary Youth. The rhetoric says it all: been all but neglected in our actions to Russian sea and I do not believe it is in our compensate military personnel for their interest or in the interests of Southeast SOLIDARrrY OF MEXICAN AND CUBAN YOUTH selfless e1forts in behalf of this Nation. Asia." AGAINST IMPERIALISM H.R. 3616 would do much to correct The Australian prime minister also ex­ It is the common enemy of La.tin Amer­ this problem-to bring our treatment of pressed concern that Vietnam might play the ica, they said last night on initiating the World War I veterans in line with our same surrogate role for the Soviet Union in Week of Mexican-Cuban Youth Friendship. Asia as Cuba has in Africa. "Because of the Macabre plans of American imperialism try treatment of veterans of later wars. attitude of the United States, Cuba. has not to destroy, through the CIA, the revolution­ I urge speedy action on this important found it very easy to be successful in a.n ary and progressive governments ... The rev­ legislation. environment that is close to the United olutionary youth of Latin America. a.re I understand my distinguished col­ States, but with Soviet support found no alert to struggle against . . . the insidious league, Congressman GLENN ANDERSON, difficulty in causing very grave problems in and malevolent campaigns from the United has presented to the clerk of the House Angola. We wonder whether or not Vietnam States. June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21371 Next, we see the left united behind them. The invaders work the land. In order begin the process of Russification of the M~x­ to save the production and recover the land, ican countryside.'' So said Jose Angel Con­ Echeverria, and the "party line" that the small owner . . . pays the invaders for chello, in a message to the Senate asking dis­ the waves of terrorism suffered by their work ... At the end of the agricul­ approval of those modifications. The p.utista Mexico are the fault of mysterious tural cycle, the invaders stop the workers, legislator (member of the National Action forces not of the left-and we see that lift the crop, and steal it. The authorities Party, PAN) said it would oblige millions of this "party line" nonsense is publicly adopt a passive attitude and nobody stops ejidatarlos to be collectivized against their accepted by the President: them. will. They will not have the right to decide 0VACIONES, MAY 11 What can we do? Wha.t can we do? when to sow and when to reap. After this, Conchello asked, where ls our Revolution? On the announcement yesterday of the lNFORMADOR, APRIL 27 formation of a Liaison and Political Co­ ExCELSIOB, June 4 ordination Commission among the Socialist Aguascalientes, Ags.-Governor Refugio Action and Unity Movement (MAUS), the ~parza Reyes stated that the forces used to Villa Insurgentes, BCA-Jose Lopez Portillo Socialist Workers Party (PST), and the colle-ctivize the ejidos of the state did not . . . said that the "destiny" of the Agrarian Permanent National Assembly of the Com­ produce the hoped-for result, despite the Reform is the collectivization of the country­ munist Party of Mexico (PCM), leaders of pressures exercised on the peasantry. side . . . "When the governinent organizes to these organizations indicated that they will He said that "no peasant will be pres­ organize, the organization is a success ... give all their support to the present regime sured any more to organize collectively" and Thus we ought to climb the steps of progress, in Its struggle against imperalism and re­ that "compulsory actions to pursue this ob­ With pauses, but without regression, always action ... They added that in the struggle jective will not happen again." He added advancing toward human excellence." He against imperialism and the bOurgeoisie of that the integration of collective work groups praised the- ejidatarios who could "prove the Mexico, they will support President Echev­ will remain subOrdina.te to the spontaneous excellence" of the system of collective ex­ erria and the present government, when decision of the peasants. ploitation of the land. they follow the same line. Previously, the Rural Bank and the League of Agrarian Communities had recognized the To demonstrate that the future Presi­ dent of Mexico did not praise the col­ ExCELSXOR, MAY 11 failure of their labors, that the pressures to collectivize the ejidos would have no results, lectivized farmers simply because, as a Three leftist organizations calling them­ even though it was announced that only the politician, he is telling his listeners what selves "progressive" announced yesterday their proposal to form a workers' Marxist­ collectivized would have access to official they want to hear, we may include an Leninist political party whi-ch would group loans and other government assistance. account of his remarks to a business the forces of the progressive vanguard of Several weeks ago, we placed in the audience: the workers, peasants, and youth and "make RECORD the call, by Chilean Socialist INFOJU'rlADOR, MAY 14 Yankee imperialism and the national oli­ Mazatlan. Sin.-Before the leaders of pri­ garchy accountable for the destabilization Party leader Carlos Altomirano for vate business in Sinaloa, Jose Lopez Portillo of the country." armed leftist groups to break the monop­ stipulated today that if the enterprising oly of arms of the military. Now we can sector had lost its prestige, it is because it is EXCELSIOR, MAY 12 see some of the results: often associated with foreign interests, its President Echeverria yesterday told the ExCELSXOR, JUNE 24 solidarity is divided, and they show them­ Excelsior reporter: ''Terrorism. has tried to San Pedro, Coah.-Two groups of "para­ selves loyal to their wealth, and not their introduce a diversion to the sane Mexican chutists" [land invaders] from the settle­ country ..• "It is not because you are in­ left, to excite a witch-hunt that will not ment of Emiliano Zapata had a gunfight efficient, but because you work only to create occur. Terrorism in Mexico is very suspect." lasting more than two hours. Thre& persons wealth, but neither in agriculture nor in in­ . . • We asked President Echeverria his were killed and another seven seriously in­ dustry have you been capable of generating opinion on the announcement of the three jured. The local authorities said another employment or satisfaction for our great leftist organizations to integrate in a. party. hundred were injured, but not seriously. mass.'' "I wish they would," said Echeverria. "I wish The gunfight was provoked when a group they would struggle according to their ideas of "parachutists" were expelled frbm the for the independent progress of Mexico." settlement some days ago, and then returned TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY to pick up some belongings, and they were The following material illustrate.s the received with bullets from other people liVing continued campaign against privateiy­ there, according to the agent of the Public HON. CHARLES E. WIGGINS owned farm property of whatever size, Ministry, Fernando Aguilar Gonzalez. OF CALIFORNIA the pressures employed to force the col­ He said the settlement of Emiliano Zapata lectivization of the already communally­ "ls practically an independent state" which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES owned, but not collectively-worked land, nobody can enter. The "parachutists", he Tuesday, June 29, 1976 the toleration of armed gangs even when added, have arms and ammunition, and they have a police corps formed by themselves Mr. WIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, 200 years th~y commit murder, and various state­ who watch the boundaries of the ntne­ ago, on July 2, 1776, the Continental ments that the intention of the PRI gov­ hectare settlement day and night. He added Congress adopted the independence reso­ ernment is the complete collectivization that they have their own jail, and a jury lution introduced on June 7 by Richard of the countryside: handing out sentences ... He also said that Henry Lee of Virginia. The resolution de- APPEALS OF THE SMALL FARMERS OF S.INALOA the "parachutists" are directed by four clared: · (Pa.id advertisements in Excelsior, priests, the Chilean exile Juan Mendrano Maderas, and two European youths. That these t:nited Colonies are, and, of June 16-21) right, ought to be, Free and Independent In Sinaloa sta..te, since last December, we EL li.ERALDO, JUNE 23 States; that they are absolved from all alle­ have not had a week without land invasions. giance to the British crown, and that all So that public opinion in the country be­ Ciudad Va.lies, SLP-Last Sunday, leaders political connexion (sic) between them, and gins to become accustomed to it. But would of two groups of peasants disputing the ten­ ancy of the ejido land confronted each other the state of Great Britain, is and ought to yon be accustomed to having your home, be, totally dissolved. your car, or your business, when you wake With machetes and bullet.s, resulting in the up one day, occupied by a group of persons death of leaders of both sectors. The official Approval of the resolution was unani­ who claim that these belong to them? And version is that Eusebio Garcia was on his way mous; 12 colonies voted for it, while New how would you feel if the authorities let ·home when he was intercepted by members York, which had refrained from taking a months and months go by without solving of the Authentic Peasants, who were first to live on this ejido. When the group called position on the issue, abstained from the situation? voting. Our problems . . . are the problems of all Land and Liberty arrived, the first group did Mexico. The day before yesterday, the land not want to participate in the collective sys­ John Adams, perhaps the ablest pro­ survey authorities studied and certified that tem of exploitation of the ejido ... Unofficial ponent of independence, wrote to his wife the land is yours. Yesterday, they again sources knew that the members of Land and the following day: certified it, in writing. Today, the Secretary Liberty sought the intervention of a group The second day of July, 1776, will be the of Agrarian Reform has intervened, and the of students from Chapingo for an action of most memorable epocha in the history of land survey is not sure about what it had vengeance. America. I am apt to believe that it will be certl.fi.ed earlier. What can we do? celebrated by succeeding generations as the They (land invaders) also steal the harvest. OVACIONES, MAY 25 great anniversary Festival. It ought to be First, a group of invaders occupy the land. The modifications of Article 130 of the commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by Although the authorities recognize the ille­ Federal Law of Agrarian Reform are ''unjust solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It gality of the invasion, they do not expel inhumane, uneconomic, and are intended to ought to be solemnized with pomp and 21372 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, At the plant, workers have come up and discovered, 276 of them at the Chambers bells, bonfires and illumination, from one shaken his hand. "They're all very proud of Works plant across t:qe Delaware River from end of this continent to the other, from this this action," McCune said. "Even some mem­ Wilmington. Although it has stopped making time forward, Forevermore. bers of supervision." · · two of the chemicals believed to have caused The plant manager, however, "is not very the cancer, it is still making another that friendly to me at all," McCune said. union officials unsuccessfully fought in court LIMITING ENVffiONMENTAL Despite the national publicity, the water to have banned. The company says its work­ CANCER in the plant is still discolored, he said. ers are being adequately protected from this Gross, whose cancer had been in remission chemical. for about a year, is back in the hospital, If we are to cope successfully with the HON. ANDREW MAGUIRE McCune said. problem of cancer in my State and the OF NEW JERSEY The federal National Institute for Occupa­ rest of the Nation, it is extremely im­ tional Safety and Health (NIOSH), which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES portant that we pass tough legislation began its own investigation at the DuPont to clean up our environment. That is Tuesday, June 29, 1976 plant the day before the hearing at McCune's request, said its study will take at least a why I support the Toxic Substances Con­ Mr. MAGUIRE. Mr. Speaker, I re­ year-and-a-half. trol Act, which provides for testing of cently had the privilege of chairing a DuPont Co. officials, whlle saying they will possible carcinogens, and that's why I am hearing on "Cancer and the Environ­ cooperate with the NIOSH investigation, said joining my colleague, HENRY WAXMAN ment" held by the Oversight and Investi­ they believe the cancer rate at the plant is of California, in sponsoring an amend­ gation Subcommittee of Interstate and only slightly higher than the rate in the rest ment to the Clean Air Act of 1970 which of the highly industrial Kanawha River Foreign Commerce. My colleagues, Rep­ Valley. insists on adequate standards for auto­ resentatives RICHARD OTTINGER and The Belle plant makes fertilizers, insecti­ mobile emissions. Both are important MATTHEW RINALDO, joined me at the cides, formaldehyde, and chemicals used steps in limiting the disastrous effect on hearing, which was held in Newark, to make plastics and Qiana fibers, according lives and on health, of carcinogens in our N.J., on May 28 to focus attention on to McCune. commu¢ties and in our workplaces. the fact that New Jersey has the high­ The 44-person laboratory analysts union, est incidence of cancer of any State in of which McCune is vice-president, works with samples from all over the plant. the Nation. "We were handling some really bad stuff NATION'S 200TH BffiTHDAY Several of our witnesses testified that in there," he said. this high cancer raite is not a coincidence, Until the federal Occupational Safety and but rather is a product of the State's Health Act (OSHA) took effect in 1971, the HON. TRENT LOTT ecology. New Jersey is both heavily indus­ fume levels at the plant were above the com­ OF MYSSISSIPPI pany's own maximum allowable standards, trialized and is a major corridor for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vehicular traffic. Increasingly, scientists McCune said. and physicians believe that most cancers The union filed one OSHA complaint Tuesday, June 29, 1976 against DuPont when a worker was overcome are caused by chemicals and other toxic by hydrogen cyanide. OSHA gave DuPont a Mr. LOTI' Mr. Speaker, as we ap­ substances in our increasingly manmade citation, but no fine, McCune said. "They proach our Nation's 200th birthday, it environment. were just slapped on the wrist," he said. is appropriate that we pause to think One of our witnesses was Louis Gross, McCune isn't a stranger to occupational about what it means to be an American. a worker at the Du Pont plant in Belle, health problems. One of his sons works at a One young lady in Mississippi's Fifth W. Va. At great discomfort Mr. Gross nearby Union Carbide plant which makes Congressional District, Brenda Kay volunteed to come and testify about ex­ polyvinyl chloride, one of the more notorious Tanner of Moss Point, did just that re­ chemicals which has caused liver cancer in posure to carcinogenic agents, which cost dozens of workers. cently and what she has to say is both him an eye. It saddens me to learn that "A man just has so long to live," said Mc­ interesting and inspiring. She penned her Mr. Gross has since then had to be re­ Cune, "and I'm not going to be intimidated thoughts for my Bicentennial Essay Con­ admitted to the hospital. about speaking out about safety problems. test, won first prize, and is now in Wash­ Another of our witnesses was Earl We have a right to life, liberty, and the pur­ ington observing and participating in McCune, a union leader in the Belle suit of happiness . . . I'm trying to convince the festivities of this historic week. plant. I would like to insert the following people that DuPont hasn't been honest with I am proud to present to you her win­ article from the Delaware State News them." ning essay: June 10: The Belle allegations are a growing list of I was first imprisoned in England by the complaints against DuPont for allegedly be­ strict, dictatorship rule of the king. Not one DuPONT CANCER RATE UP? ing negligent 1n protecting the health of its person dared to speak my name. Then, I (By Don Glick.stein) workers. was born. An individual suppressed in life BELLE, W. VA.-ln and around this Charles­ In April, eight people in Newark, N.J. filed with deep burdens brought me into this ton riverbanks suburb of 3,500 people, an­ suit against DuPont charging that workers world. I began as a dream and a. vision full other tragic story in what some believe to be were exposed to cancer-causing chemicals of faith and hope. Gradually, men began a. history of DuPont Co. neglect is being that were allegedly "negligently manufac­ to utter my name to others, even though exposed. tured, processed, shipped, and produced." they stlll spoke in a wry cautious, hushed The man who helped to expose the In April, 1975, workers at the DuPont Edge­ tone. From the simple existence as a.n em­ tragedy-a self-styled "practicing Chris­ moor, Del. plant said they warned the com­ bryo of an image; I grew into the soul of tian"-has worked for DuPont for 24 of his pany about conditions which led to a mas­ the people; I dwelt in their hearts; and I 44 years. His name is Earl G. McCune. sive gas leak which sent 21 area residents to began to breathe from their lungs. Two weeks ago, McCune testified before a the hospital. One of the residents has sued By September 16, 1620, I had P,roused and Congressional investigating committee that the company for damages. stimulated the interest of 102 courageous the 1,550 workers at DuPont's Belle plant DuPont is also embroiled in a national con­ human beings. On that day, I set sail from seem to be getting cancer more frequently troversy about the alleged dangers of its Plymouth, England, in a wooden vessel, the than the rest of the population. chemical Freon, which purportedly breaks Mayflower. Valiantly, I crossed the dark, my­ He gave the committee the names of three down the earth's atmosphere, thereby in­ sterious Atlantic Ocean, and, on Decem­ workers who had apparently contracted a creasing the danger of skin cancer. ber 26, 1620, I dropped anchor at what is rare form of cancer in their eyes, as well as Union officials in Delaware have criticized now Plymouth, Massachusetts. the names of 54 other workers who had the company for its stand on noise levels. Who am I, you ask? Why, I am liberty. cancer. The company says lowering the noise stand­ In 1620, I helped settlers as the groped McCune said he believes the men got the ard to what the unions and environmental through the darkness of an uncivilized and cancer because the drinking water supply is officials want wouldn't protect workers any unknown new world in order to gain a way being containated by poisonous chemicals better, and that ear protection, like muffs, of life that possessed a meaning. DuPont allegedly dumps into the nearby is "clearly successful." On July 4, 1776, I watched as the Declara­ Kanawha River. Either that, McCune said, The company itself initiated broad con­ tion of Independence was adopted, and like or there's some other chemical being emitted trols to protect the environment and workers the signers of this document, I too placed into the air at the plant. from a potential cancer-causing solvent made my seal with a promise to stand by these Since his testimony and that of one of the in its Richmond, Va. plant. Health officials people. This I did. Because of me, liberty, eye cancer victims, 33-year-old Louis Gross, praised the company's initiative. men were able to revolt against th'e British The company also admits that 839 cases of tn my defense. Many times a part of me McCune's life has been "kind of like a whirl- died as a man dropped into eternal slumber wind," he said. bladder cancer among its workers have been June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21373 Because of a long-standing commit­ the city; Galliker Dairy Co.; Pepsi-Cola so that I might be preserved. Yet, enough of Bottling Co.; Pen Traffic Co.; and the Sher­ me stlll lived that I might continue to fight ment in my district, I was unable to be win-Williams Paint co. on. When Patrick Henry declared, "~ive me on the fioor to record my vote. Had I been A number of individuals also provided liberty or give me death," I stood beside him, able to do so, I would have cast my "yea" muscle: Al Thomas, Steve Luprek, Ed Rich­ strongly and proudly. And because I was in favor of the amendment. ardson, Glenn Lehman and a "small black there he had the choice of either liberty or man who said his name was Tucker." Mr. death. In 1783, a long-sought victory was at last Tucker saw what was going on and went to won. I signed my name to the treaty end­ SOME GIRL SCOUTS WHO CARE fetch his garden hose to help fill the buckets. Gail Suppes, chairman, said the scouts ing a hard battle. My life, though now established, still had hope that their work is just the beginning of to be protected for there were those who HON. JOHN P. MURTHA a. beautification project for the old building. bated me and there were those who would OF PENNSYLVANIA "We hope the people of the community will care about their train station and will gladly give up everything to see me perish. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES My life began to thrive. I was there as the want to restore all of its majestic beauty and movement westward began, and I was among Tuesday, June 29, 1976 keep it that way." the first to see the great Mississippi River. Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, with the When slaves reached out to me, I lent a help­ United States celebrating its otllcial Bi­ ing hand, and I became born anew with the CITATION AWARDED TO ABE invention of machines. When the Gold Rush centennial this weekend, I would like to cried out in 1849, I moved to the land of take this opportunity to insert into the DOLG EN wealth for all. When women's voting rights CONGRESSIONAL RECORD a news item that and the Eighteenth Amendment were pro­ I believe has a direct relation to that HON. JOSEPH P. ADDABBO posed, I was there to voice an opinion. Soon I anniversary. will attend one of the greatest celebrations in The spirit of America has traditionally OF NEW YORK human history. That celebration will honor IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the bicentennial or 200 yea.rs of independence been the spirit of its citizens working to­ for the United States of America. After that gether in small communities for the ben­ Tuesday, June 29, 1976 I will still be present for whatever the fu­ efit of all the citizens. Few groups have Mr. ADDABBO. Mr. Speaker, our for­ ture has in store. expressed that spirit as well in recent mer colleague in the House, Governor of You may wonder how I have managed to years as the Girl Scouts. New York State, the Honorable Hugh L. survive so many years. Unlike human beings I insert the following article which Carey recently issued a citation to Abe who will all die at some time, I am a concept. tells the story of how some Girl Scouts Dolgen, vice president of the Interna­ I will live as long as there are people who from my area expressed the spirit of believe in me, and, as long as there is an tional Ladies Garment Workers Union America, I will never be destroyed. For you America recently: for outstanding leadership in the public see, the whole basic ideal on which the [From the Johnstown Tribune Democrat, interest. It has been my privilege to know United States of America structures its gov­ June 18, 1976) Abe, as a friend and adviser, and to work ernment is me-liberty. GIRL SCOUTS TACKLE HUGE TASK with him for many years and I am join­ I have given the American people much. (By Nancy Coleman) ing in commending him for his brilliant America is now a land full of opportunities Never mind the fact that some of them career. Abe is retiring and we wish him waiting to be seized. Nothing other than lib­ were not much bigger than their buckets. erty could have opened the door to these op­ every success and the health to enjoy The Girl Scouts saw a big job that needed this period of retirement. portunities. I represent a challenge to all "doing," and they did it. Americans -that they capture their special Laden with brooms, mops, detergents and I place in the RECORD at this point the opportunity so that it might help them and public spirit, 150-plus scouts from the Talus citation awarded to Abe Dolgen by Gov­ America to be greater yet. There are those Rock Girl Scout Council drew up to the rail­ ernor Carey and a resolution No. 126 au­ who say, "We have gone far enough, and we road station on Walnut Street. thored by Assemblyman Alan Hevesi are now good. Why go any farther?" To those, There must have been many among their adopted by the New York State Assem­ I reply, "We have so much farther we can number who took a look at the building and bly on May 17, 1976: go." As such, my philosophy can be expressed thought, "We're going to wash THAT?" most effectively in the words of Robert Ken­ Thanks to careful planning, the project STATE OF NEW YORK, nedy, who said, "Some men see things as they fiowed smoothly.Ea.ch troop had its own sec­ EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. are and say why; I dream things that never tion of the train station. Little Scouts were During the turbulent years in which we were and say why not!" the bucket brigade. Big Scouts were scaffold live, there is a need for leadership that puts I, too, am an American, and I can still do scalers. the well-being of others ahead of self. There many more things. Is it just a coincidence It was all for the bicentennial, and the is a need for leadership that exhibits com­ that the word "American" ends in ..I can"? spirit of '76 put oomph into big, heavy mops passion and concern for others. I want all Americans to help spread the bless­ and small, soon-to-be-filthy rags. During his years of leadership, Mr. Abe ings of liberty to the world. I have the spirit Working with the scouts was the teen ad­ Dolgen has exhibited this kind of leadership, of "I can·•, and by trusting in God and visory board from Penn Traffic Co. and its and has been active in numerous civic and through His help "I will" help to make lib­ adviser, Janet Meadowcroft. public affairs. He has also served as a mem­ erty a way of life for all people, not just The troops and their leaders taking part ber of the Board of Directors of the Jdhn: F. Americans. That is precisely what the bi­ were Brownie Troop 922, Joanne Passalagua; Kennedy Regular Democratic Club, as an centennial is all about, and by so doing, Junior troops 2, Barbara Hunt; 12, Carolyn elected member of the Queens County Com­ America will become a closer, stronger, and Walker; 928, Marge Walters; 34, Helen Casey; mittee, as a delegate to the Queens Judiciary even greater nation than it is today! 44, Roe Harris; 4, Kay Matolyak; and 74, Dar­ Convention, as chairman of the Queens His­ lene Heider; Cadette troops 912, Marie Dena; tadrut Council, as vice-chairman of the Na­ and 980, Kathleen Misner; and Senior Troop tional Trade Union Council Histadrut and as PERSONAL EXEMPTION 927, Marie Dena. a member of other political and charitable The scouts accompliSl.led most, but not all, organizatlons. of the gigantic task in one Saturday. More Mr. Dolgen, as vice president of the Inter­ HON. GLADYS NOON SPELLMAN girls returned to finish the scrubbing, var­ national Ladies Garment Workers Un_ion, has nish benches and clean up the parking lot. spent his working life in an effort to improve OF MARYLAND The beautification doesn't stop there, how­ working conditions for its members. - IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ever. The Greater Johnstown Jaycees w1ll In appreciation of his dedication based on Tuesday, June 29, 1976 paint the window trim outside and later, concern for others, I hereby award this cita­ the Johnstown Garden Club will have new tion for outstanding service to the commu­ Mrs. SPELLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I truly plants placed in the circular garden in the nity to Abe Dolgen, vice president, Interna­ regret that I was unable to cast my vote center of the parking lot. tional Ladies Garment Workers Union. on Roll Call 467, June 28, which was Con­ Mayor Herb Pfuhl Jr. arranged for an un­ gressman YATES' amendment to the usual window-washing: City firemen hosed STATE OF NEW YORK, transport8J.ion appropriations bill for the high, exterior widows with a pumper. IN ASSEMBLY, The scouts, not having money in the budg­ Albany. fiscal year 1977, H.R. 14234. The amend­ et for the project, received help with sup­ Whereas, There exists in these turbulent ment would have prohibited any SST plies and refreshments. times a great need for stable leadership and aircraft not meeting established noise Contributing to the venture were the Acme for individuals who manifest compassion standards from utilizing U.S. airport fa­ Stores; Johnstown Plant, Bethlehem Steel and concern for their fellow man; and cilities. Corp.; Cambria Hardware; Carstensen, Inc.; Whereas, Mr. Abe Dolgen lias for his many ·21374 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 19/'6 active years answei·ed the call from numer­ for this as neither my daughter nor her hus­ ous civic and public activities; and band is working in anything secret. its low fare service available between Whereas, As a member of the board of "My daughter is very lonely in the USSR. Dallas on the one hand and Tulsa Kan­ directors of the John F. Kennedy Regular Besides her husband and her children. she sas City. St. Louis, and New Ol'le~ on Democratic Club, as an elected member of has no one else there. Once again, I ask you the other hand.. the Queens County Committee, as a delegate to help us. We have faith in your help and Other provisions of the bill would give to the Queens Judiciary Convention, as thank you, beforehand." the carriers fiexibility to set fares within chairman of the Queens Histradut Coun­ a zone of reasonableness without CAB cil, as vice-chairman of the National Trade regulation; remove the prohibition Union Council Histradut a.nd as a member of THE AIR SERVICE IMPROVEiv!ENT other political and charitable organizations ACT against a supplemental carrier holding too numerous to mention. Mr. Dolgen has a scheduled certificate; i·equire the CAB demonstrated outstanding ability and set an to establish procedural deadlines for de­ exemplary standard that all should emulate; HON. GLENN • A DERSm ciding its cases; and allow commuter and OF CALD'ORNIA caniers to operate aircraft of up to 56- Whe1·eas, During his tenure With the In­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES seat capacity. ternational Ladies Garment Workers Union, The bill should not have an undue im­ Mr. Dolgen has admirably dedicated his ef­ Tuesday, June 29, 1976 forts for the betterment of the working man; pact on the existing certificated carriers, and Mr. ANDERSON of Californic. Mr. and should not ca.use these carriers to Whereas, It is the sense of this Assembly Speaker, on behalf of Mr. SNYDER and cut back their services. Indeed, the bill to collectively commend and honor citizens myself, I am pleased to introduce the Air gives the existing carriers opportunities whose accomplishments extend beyond those Service Improvement Act of 1976. This t.o improve their financial condition by ordinarily expected of them; now, there­ bill is designed to correct the inadequa­ co1TeCting weaknesses in their existing fore, be it cies in the present regulatory system for route system through entry into new Resolved, That the Assembly publicly com­ markets. Under the bill, a carrier whose mend Mr. Abe Dolgen for his many yea.rs of aviation which have been brought out at active publlc involvement; and be it further our hearings on regulatory reform. The route system is hampered by short aver­ Resolved, That a copy of this resolution, bill should increase the availability of age stage lengths will be able to enter suitably engrossed be, forwarded to Mr. Abe low cost air service, thereby enabling new long haul markets. Similru.·ly carriers Dolgen at his home at 110-45 Queens Boule­ more consumers to travel by air. At the with unusually seasonal route systems vard, Forest Hills, New York. same time, the bill is designed to avoid will be able to achieve added balance undue disruption of the excellent net­ by entering new markets. Under the bill, work of air service which has been devel­ carriers would also have an OPPortunity HELSINKI FINAL ACT oped over the past 35 years. The bill also to increase their revenues by adjusting takes cognizance of the recent financial fares within a zone of reasonableness. HON. SAM STEIGER difilculties of the industry and offers air SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS OF Am SEii.VICE OF ARIZONA carriers opportunities to improve their lMPBOVEMENT ACT 0:5' 19-76 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES financial condition. 1. Polley Statement (section 3). Amends The provisions of the blll are discussed the decisional criteria under which the C.A.B. Tuesday, June 29, 1976 in operates and requires the Board to place in detail the summary at the end of greate:r emphasis on competition in its deci­ Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. these remarks. One important provision sions. Speaker, all of the nations who signed permits entry by any fit carrier into mar­ a. Supplemental Air Carriers (section 4). the Helsinki Final Act, including the kets in which a CAB certificated carrier This section ellmlnates a provision in pres­ Soviet Union, pledged to do everything holds nonstop authority but is not using ent law which the CAB has interpreted as possible to reunite families separated this authority. If a new carrier is author­ prohibiting supplemental carriers from hold­ by political boundaries. ized, the CAB must institute a proceeding ing scheduled certlflcates. Elimination of Because the Soviet Union is not living to consider taking away unused nonstop this prohibition would permit.. but not re­ quire, the CAB to grant such applicatlcns as up to that promise, Members of Congress authority in the market. Testimony at World's application to provide transcontinen­ are conducting a vigil on behalf of the the hearings indicated that the CAB cer­ tal service of a one-way fare of $89. families which remain separated. tificated carriers are presently serving 3. Commuter Exemption (section 5). Un­ A case history of these families en­ only 16 percent of the markets in which der present CAB regulations commuter car­ titled "Orphans of the Exodus" dra­ they hold nonstop authority. There is un­ riers are permitted to operate aircran of so matically details this tragic i:.roblem. At used nonstop authority in such major passenger or 7500 paunds property capacity, this time, I would like to bring to the markets as New York-Washington, Chi­ free of CAB regulation of eervtce or fares. The bill would extend this ex.emption "to air­ Members' attention the situation of the cago-Det1·oit, Los Angeles-Seattle. and craft with a capacity of up to 66 passengers Simovich family: Miami-Philadelphia. and 16000 pounds of property. The legisla­ SAKA ABRAMOVNA SIMOVICH Another important provision of the bill tion further provides that the Board can in­ Bara. Slmovt.ch llves with her husband, gives scheduled carriers, supplemental crease these capacities when the public in­ Puvtnas, and their twin daughters, Mira carriers and intrastate. carriers discre­ terest requires. and Mina in Vllnlu.s. It is a long way from tionary authority to provide scheduled 4. Unused Authority {section 6). This sec­ :Bnel-Brak, Israel where her long-sUfferlng service in three new interstate markets tion provides that the-CA» mus.t authorize parents are worrying and waiting to welcome any fit appllcant who wishes to serve a mar­ her home in Israel. By profession. a nurse in a year. The authority is subject t.o re­ ket in which a CAB certlflcated carrier holds a pediatric clinic, neither she nor her hus­ strictions which are designed to insure non-stop authority but has not used that au­ band were ever exposed to any state secrets that there is not excessive new entry in thority for at least 180 days during the pre­ in the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, all their any single market. This provision, along ceding 12 month period. The Board must act requests for visas beginning in 1973 have with the unused nonstop authority pro­ on an application under this section within been turned down. vision. should encoui·age new entry by 30 days if the a.pplleant has previously been In a recent letter from Israel, her mother carriers who will experiment with serv­ certificated and if there Ls no need to select Mrs. Ghlta Korbas writes: between competing applicants. In these ice at lower fares and higher load factors cases no hearing ts required. In cases in which "I am addressing myself to you with the than are offered by the presently cer­ hope that you can help me and my husband the applicant is a previously uncertifica.ted to regain our daughter :from whom we were tificated earners. For example, World carrier or there is a need to select between separated nearly five yea.rs ago. Airways has proposed transcontinental applicants, the Boar'1 must act. within 120 "My husband and I are people of poor service at a one-way fare of $89, com­ days. The number of certUlcates the Board health and it is very hard for us to sUffer pared to the existing coach fare on the can issue under this section 1s limited to the this separation. We are desperate as we know scheduled airlines of $194. Another number of carriers holding unused non­ not when the hour will come when we, as prospective new entrant is Southwest stop authority. If the Board Issues a certifi­ parents, will be able to embrace our dear Airlines, which now serves the Dallas­ cate to a new carrier under t.b.1s sec-UOn, the daughter and our granddaughters. Board 1s required to 1.nStitute a proeeedln{; to "They applled for exit visas to the State Houston market at a peak fare of $25 determine whether to revoke unused non­ of Israel to reunite with us 1n Mw:ch 1973. and an off-peak fare of $15, compared to atop authority for the market. But until this da.y. they ha.ve not received a the CAB carriers• fare of $37. Southwest 6. Discretionary Authority (section 7). positive answer although there is no reason has testified that it would like to make This section provides tha.t. CAB certlllcated June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21375 supplemental or scheduled carrier, and in­ would of necessity have no hand in the day­ SOUNDED WELCOME trastate carriers have a right to provide to-day running of government, which could Mrs. Barb Carpenter, a member of the scheduled service in three new markets per be quite safely left to Henry Kissinger and city park board, then spoke briefly, expressing vear. The authority is subject to the follow­ Jack Anderson, but he would provide a ter­ a welcome to the crowd and adding that the ing limitations: rific :figurehead for the nation at times of park commission was happy to have a. part to a. The cumulative miles for market.a national crisis. If there does prove to be some honor the two men in respect to their chosen each year may not exceed 2200 miles constitutional obstacle to electing someone achievements. "I hope our youth will remem­ in the first year or 3500 miles in succeeding who is no longer among us, then I'm afraid ber it (the plaza) and respect it always," years. we would have to settle for a very safe com­ she concluded. b. If more than one applicant wishes to promise candidate with all-around appeal. As Mayor Bob Naden explained tho back­ serve the same market, the Board must select of this time, I would say the front runners ground of the Pulitzer prize, a procedure one of these applicants (carriers not selected were Alistair Cooke, Fred Asta.ire and Gene launched in 1917 through the heritage of may request to serve other markets). Kelly." Joseph Pulitzer, famed editor of the St. Louis c. Applicants under this section may not Post-Dispatch. This city, he added, is cer­ choose any pair of points in which a certifi­ ta.inly honored by having two of it's former cate has been granted under this section or KANTOR-MOLLENHOFF PLAZA citizens ranked among the winner of this the unused authority section within the pre­ IN WEBSTER CITY, IOWA highly prized award. ceding three years. GREAT SATISFACTION 6. Rates (section 8). The CAB is prohibited from finding that proposed rates are unjust HON. CHARLES E. GRASSLEY MacKinlay Kantor, introduced as the first or unreasonable on the basis that they are of the two honorees, declared that it was a _OF IOWA too low or too high, if the rates fall within time of great satisfaction to be back in Web­ the following limits: IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES ster City again. Then he read the following words which are enscribed on the . plaque a. With respect to increases, the rate may Tuesday, June 29, 1976 be 10 percent higher than the rate in effect surface at the lectern: "As of this date, 1976, one year previously. Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. Speaker, Web­ I have written forty-odd books (or perhaps b. With respect to decreases, for the first ster City, Iowa is a relatively small town forty odd books) and I hope to make it fifty 180 days, the rate may be 20 percent below before I hang up my pencil or typewriter or by East Coast standards, but it's pro­ dictaphone in finality." the rate in effect upon the date of enact­ is ment; between 180 days and one year the duction of literary geniuses large. "Call the towns what you will-or what rate may be 40 percent below the rate in ef• Webster City boasts two Pulitzer Prize I did call them-Clay City, Shelldrake, Ma­ feet on date of ena.ctment; a.n.d. after the winners, historical novelists MacKinlay haska Falls, North Bend, Eagle Falls-they're first year the rate may be at any point above Kantor and investigative reporter and always Webster City. I see the community I 110 percent of the direct costs of providing author Clark Mollenhoff of the Des usually loved, but sometimes hated, before the service in issue by the carrier proposing Moines Register. me as I write. Elm City, Hartfield, Lexington, the fare. Ridgeport, Hickory: they a.re replete with 7. Route Application Procedures (section These two men were honored by their their Willson Avenues and Second Streets. 9). This section requires the OAB to decide hometown earlier this month with the Rock River, Kewassee, Plattville, Minnehaha, within three months after an appllcation ls dedication of a plaza and two parks Hartsdale-may providence smile upon them, filed whether to dismiss the application or set named for them. and upon the folks who used to dwell there, it for hearing. The Board's flna.l decision must I would like to share with my col­ and the new ones who have come. be issued within one year. In the event the leagues the newspaper account of that "In my own time, I wish my ashes to Board does not meet this deadline, the Boa.rd event from the Webster City Daily Free­ prosper in my own good soil." must certify the record of the proceedings man Journal. BOYHOOD HERO to the Secretary of Transportation who must Mollenhoff, saying that Kantor was his boy­ issue a decision within six months. [From the Webster City (Iowa) Daily Free­ hood hero, good-naturedly said that it seemed man Journal, June 14, 1976] he was always following MacKinlay Kantor. KANTOR-MOLLENHOFF PLAZA Kantor won his Pulitzer award in 1956 for One of the major phases of Webster City's Andersonville. Mollenhoff won bis award in ALL THE LATEST three-day Bicentennial observance-the ded­ 1958 for investigative reporting. "We were ication of the MacKinlay Kantor-Ola.rk fortunate to have been from Webster City," Mollenhoff Plaza in the West Train Park he added, "It is indeed a true land of oppor­ HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE drew a huge crowd Saturday afternoon, with tunity for anyone who will give it a try." OF MISSOURI the crowd giving both Pulitizer prize win­ Mollenhoff's plaque lists his birthdate, the ners standing ovations when they were in­ dates he graduated from Webster City high IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES troduced by Bill Groves, emcee for the pro­ school, Webster City junior college and Drake Tuesday, June 29, 1976 gram. University, going on to Harvard University Prior to the plaza dedication, the Webster as a Nieman Fellow. Several of his most out­ Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, once City band played a half-hour concert, fol­ standing journalistic honors a.re also in­ again, our British cousins come forth lowed by the annual Elks lodge flag cere­ cluded a.long with his service to the nation with some useful suggestions in our mony with Roger Smith, exalted ruler, tell­ on the U.S. Advisory Commission on informa­ Bicentennial Year: ing the_ history of the many flags which tion policy and being a special counsel to the (From Punch, May 26, 1976] have flown over this nation. Other Elks pre­ President. The plaques mention bis seven sented the flags as Smith described them. well-received books including his latest, "The ALL THE LATEST Man Who Pardoned Nixon," which has just After the setbacks to Reagan in Michigan HONORED THEMSELVES AND crrY Groves, opening the dedication ceremony, recently been published. and the defeat of Jimmy Carter by Mr. Concluding the words on bis plaque are Brown, combined with the poor showing of pointed out that the occasion was to honor two men whose outstanding achievements these: "Mack Kantor was my inspiration, and President Ford, and the non-appearance of the Webster City school system provided the Hubert Humphrey, many American commen­ had brought fame to themselves and, con­ currently, to their home community. utimate in- opportunity in the dedication tators are now convinced that nobOdy can of the teachers and the community to educa­ win the American presidency in the fall. Ace He introduced Jerry Wells of the Webster City Coin club who announced that the club tion. You have probably come as close to observer Chester Slazenger Jr. comments- the ideal of true equality of opportunity in "As it rapidly becomes obvious that every­ had designed another commemorative coin one in the race is a born loser, thoughts are honoring Kantor and Mollenhoff, and the your schools as any city in any nation in now turning to past statesmen to see if any coin would soon be available to the public. the world in any time." of them might make a suitable compromise He then presented the two honorees with The crowd adjourned from the band shell candidate. The obvious choice is Richard three previous commemoratives-the 1876 to the site of the plaza where the lectern was Nixon, but there is a slight problem with courthouse, the Kendall Young library and covered with red, white and blue bunting. him, as he has already served two terms. More the new city hall. Balsley unveiled the lectern, saying it was and more, people are thinking in terms of Roger Balsley, who had headed up the being presented to the citizens of Webster General Eisenhower. Admittedly, having a Bicentennial efforts and designed the plaza City and Iowa. Both honored men spoke dead President would create a slightly diffi­ honoring the two men, expressed apprecia­ briefly and the crowd then filed by to inspect cult precedent, but Eisenhower would have a tion to all who helped in the project. The the installation and to meet and greet the lot going for him-he wasn't involved in concept of the plaza., be added, with its two Pulitizer prize winners. The West Twin Vietnam, had no corruption troubles to speak bench and lectern, and a drinking fountain park will be officially called "MacKinlay of, has a great nostalgia value and, of course, to be installed soon, marks it as "a place to Kantor Park" and the east park, "Clark Mol­ can't be assassinated. If elected, Eisenhower rest, to refresh and to recollect." lenhoff Park." 21376 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Jiine 29, 1976 At 4 p.m., following the close of the cere­ GUIDED HOSPlTAL FOR 18 YEARS-DR. WALTNER of the significant socio and environmental mony, the Hamilton County Bar association, TO LEAVE WOODSIDE fa.ctors. with Tom Stamets, president of the associa­ (By Jane Lamb) Dr. Waltner has played an important part tion serving as host, had & reception for in changes that followed, establishing close Kantor and Mollenhoff in the basement com­ Dr. Charles Waltner, superintendent of Woodside Receiving Hospital for the past 18 ties between hospital and community for munity rooms of the Elks lodge. Both men more effective reha.bilitaion of patients. He enjoyed meeting longtime friends and spent years, has resigned effective Jtme 30. "The time has come,'' the genial psy­ enlisted not only community resources, but much of theil.· time autograpWng some of the developed community understanding about books for the many visitors. chiatrist remarks. He has been at Woodside during a time of tremendous chang& and mental illness through continuing public points out he has been with the state system education efforts. 30years. CHANGED HOSPITAL'S IMAGE However, he objects to the word, "retire­ Patients began using aestheti~ cultural TRIBUTE TO DR. CHARLES WALT­ ment." He says he is just changing directions. and athletic resaUl'.ces outside \he hospital NER OF YOUNGSTOWN, omo He hopes to do some teaching, research and they prepared to retuni to the commu­ clinical work. He and his wife, the former nity. Volunteers became involved, social Elsa Splegal. plan to stay in Youngst-0wn event.s and new activities developed, giving where they have made many friends. the hospital a changing image. HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY Dr. Michael Szauter. assistant superin­ Dr. Waltner was well aware a job or return OF omo tendent. will serve as acting director during to the m·klng world may be a criUcal factor IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES the search for a new superintendent. iD patient recovery, and he was Ule first HONORED BY COLLEAGUES superintendent in the state to establish a Tuesday, June 29, 1976 labor-management committee to lend help Recognition was given Dr. Waltner Satur­ in this dh·ection. Woodside unit. of the Bu­ Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, I would day night at a dinner attended by some 150 like to say a few wo1·ds about one of my reau of Vocational Behabilltaion opened in friends and colleagues at Mr. B's Restaurant. 19'10. constituents who has dedicat.ed his life He received a certificate of service for loyal Along with new drugs and concept$, to serving the public in the field of and meritorious service signed by Gov. changes ere taking place outside lbe hos­ mental health. The man I am referring Rhodes and Dr. Timothy Moritz, head of the pital. Community mental health senice be­ to is Dr. Charles Waltner. Mental Health Department, a framed photo­ gan to develop. Treatmen\ was emablished Tomorrow. Dr. Waltner will 1·esign as graph to hang in the lobby at Woodside, a in general hospitals. Private psycbia'trists superintendent of Woodside Receiving personal gift and an Inscribed pewter plate and other professionals became available. :from friends and employes at Woodside for The state closed Woods-ide's outpatient de­ Hospital in Youngstown, after 18 years loyalty and devotion. Rep. Thomas Gilmartin His long dis­ partment in the fall of 1975. However. it re­ of dedicated service. and also presented a resolution of commendation mains an important crisis. intenen1ion cen­ tingulshed career encom~ 30 years from the state legislature for comm.uni~ ter and stnl has a capacity of 160 pa.filents, with the Ohio Department of Mental service. averaging about 135 daily. Health and Mental Retardation. He Dr. Waltner has been associated with Emphasis today ls on communH.y mental began working at Woodside Receiving Woodside almost from the beginning hen health programs. keeping people om of In­ Hospital shortly after it. opened in 1945. it opened in 1945 as the sta.te's first receiY­ stttutions through services developed under As a member of the medical staff and ing hospital. The late Judge Cl11ford M. the Mental Health and enW Retard.. tton superintendent, Dr. Waltner. has Wood.side. for whom the hospital is named, boardS. Dr. Waltner has been pan Gf this as laid the foundations for receiving hospitals development, too. He was one of the original initiated many programs and innovations (short-term facilities) throughout Ohfo. members ot Mahoning Count.y's. Mental in the treatment and rehabilitation of Dr. Waltner has been responsible for insti­ Health and Retardation Board and served on patients sufiering fl'om mental illness. tuting many programs there as the hospital se era.I important commtttees. Some of the important changes he helped responded to changes, new treatment.a and A capable administrator, he developed the to bring about at Woodside include: Im­ concepts. Hls advocacy for Woodside patients resourcefulness of his hospital sta1f, allowing proving communication and cooperation opened up community resources for recovery department heads to function individually and rehabilitation. M was a very exciting and creatively. This has been tremendously between the hospital and the community. time and he believes more exciting de\"'eiop­ Important, says MJ.·s. Lucy Hess, District 11 His e:fforts in this area have resulted in ments lie ahead. manager for the Ohio Division of Mental more e:ff ective treatment and rehabilita­ CAME HERE IN 1946 Health, former staff member and emcee for tion of patients as well as increased his retirement party. public understanding about the nature He came to Woodside in 1946 from Iowa What ls in the future for mental health State Institute, where he had been on the of mental Wness. sta:fr for four years speclallzing ln psychiatric care? Dr. Waltner foresees mental and physi­ cal health care combined in a. total health In addition, Dr. Waltner was the work, at the lnvit&tlon of Dr. Eugene E. :fllst hospital superintendent in the state care system. There has been double progress Elder, Woodside's first superintendent. A in recent years, he observes. Biochemical of Ohio to institute a labor-management graduate of the University of Budapest Med­ science has brought greater unders~Ddi:ng of committee to assist former patients in ical School, Dr. Wa.ltner interned in Buda­ ihe inter-relationship between psychological finding a job following their release pest before coming to this country in 1940. and physical health. He predlcts bfochemlcal from the hospital. This program has He took post. gmduate training In neuro­ changes wl1l be found to forecast major be­ helped countless men and women lead psychiatry at Columbia Medical School, and havioral changes, as well as the re'Vel'se. served an inte!'nship at Aultman Hospital in On the other, hand. there ls now recogni­ productive. useful lives. canton before going to Iowa State in 1942. There is a saying that- tion that cultural economic and social fac­ He met Dr. Elder while he was on the to1·s are Important in mental illness and its To whom much is given, much is expected medical staff at Massillon State Hospital for prevention, he notes. There ts greater ttnder­ in return. a few months. Dr. Elder asked U he would standing of what goes wrong With people, like to join in the new experlment at Wood­ Dr. Waltner has passed this test with o! the individual's uniqueness, the Interac­ side. Dr. Waltner accepted the challenging tion between mind and body, and human re­ very high marks. It is an indication of offer and became staff physician in April 1946 sponse and reaction to environment. the cha1·acter of the man that he does shortly after the hospital began operating. The family ls the cornerstone of mental not view his resign.a.tlon as superin­ Between 1951 and 1958 he was in Cleve­ health, Dr. Waltner declares and the person tendent of Woodside Receiving Hospital land with Cleveland State Hospital as clini­ whose childhood bas been secure develops an as "retirement," but rather as merely cal director and assistant medical superin­ inner security to help over di11lcult times. tendent. He also was on the faculty of "changing directions.'"' His plans include Friends, schools and educational ~ all teaching as well as doing research and Western Reserve Medical School in the de­ have their Impact on the cblld. he a:dds. partment of clinical psychiatry and instruc­ Despite the troubles of the younger genera­ clinical work. tor In the university's department of psy­ tion, he rema.lns an optimist about the fu­ Mr. Speaker, the citizens of Youngs­ chology. ture. There are so many talented, ambitious, town a1·e most fortunate to have this SUCCEEDED DR. ELDER capable, responsible and responsive youngs­ good and decent man as a member of When Dr. Elder retired in 1958, Dr. Walt­ ters. he remarks. our community, and I am proud to call ne1· was chosen as his successor. He gives his assurance there are rewards him my friend. On behalf of my con­ At peak capacity, in the mid 1950s, Wood­ at every stage of llfe. Among his own re­ stituents, I wish Dr. Waltner and his wife, side had some 200 patients. The introduction warding attributes are a philosophical bent Elsa, many years of good health, of tranqulllize:rs at that tim.e brought a of mind, love of reading, Joy in people and revolutions to the wards, reducing disturb­ friendly personality which ma:te for pleasant happiness, and success. Mr. Speaker, I ance from erratic behavior and making pa­ associations. would like to insert a newspaper article tients more amenable to therapy, crafts Dr. Waltner is a past president of the As­ about Dr. Waltner's life and work in the and hospital activities. It was the beginning sociation of Medical Superintendents of the RECORD at this time. The article follows: of biochemical treatment and recognition Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and June ~9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21377 Correction, a mental hospital administrator tract negotiations that are going so our freedom away. If we do not like who is in certified by the American Psychiatric Associ­ smoothly in the 2,800 local situations would office we have a.. chance to vote for new peo­ ation, a diplomate in pyschiatry of the have been under the jurisdiction. of a na­ ple. H we do not like the President we- have, American Psychiatric Association, and author tional labor-management-public commit­ we have ways to remove him from omce. and co-author of a number of psychiatric tee. operating out of politically charged America ls a. wonderful person, a person papers. Washington. Would all that make for that bas feelings of joy and sadness but keeps He is a membe:r of the Council of Chiefs harmony? on giving us more. I am afraid that the aver­ of Psychiatry for the new Northeastern Ohio But since common situs was vetoed. local age pe,rson takes America for granted and Universities Medical and a member of sev­ unions and contractors have only each other forgets all that our ancestors went through eral committees as well as the Mahoning to deal with amide the realities of con­ to make this great land what it is. All Amer­ County, Ohio and American Medical societies. struction demand in their communities. oom­ ica ever asks is that we pay taxes and maybe He was a member of the special medical so­ petitiC>D from non-union labor and the once in a whll& go and fight in a. war. But ciety committee which explored the possibil­ special needs of each party. What a sweet and :what people forget is that we don't siart the ity o~ medical school here, resulting in the simple system for reaching agreements that wars. it 1s always someone else who wants to consortium which includes YSU, making up are equitable and economically sound. And take our :freedoms. away. the new medical school. He has served as how Dice that President Ford has been con­ I am proud to be a American and I wish chairman of a number of the Mahoning firmed in .i.lis belief that some things can everybody would step back and take a hard County Medical Society's committees, in par­ function qulte wen without- the guiding look at it and see wh~ we are letting ticular those dealing with drug abuse, mental hand ot Washington. America down and the tunny thing is that health and other relevant matters. He served we are letting ourselves down because there as a medical advisor for the Child and Adult is no other place in this whole world whe:r:e 80 many people of different races and coloJ's Mental Health Center, the Alcoholic Clinic WORDS WITH A MEANING of Youngstown and Youngstown's Committee could live together and get so many benefits. on Alcoholism. He has been a psychiatric consultant at WHM' AM!lRlCA :MEANS TO the University of Virginia Medical School, HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN (By Marvin Harris) OF NEW YORK where he has lectured, as well as at the Uni· America means many things to me. A ball versity of Clncinnati and YSU, where he has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES game on a. Sunday afternoon. a swim in a taught several courses. He has been a lec­ Tuesda1!. June 29, 1976 river that ts not polluted by garbage, a turer for the President's Committee on Re­ chance to voice. my opinion about how I think habilitation of the Handicapped. the UD1on Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, as we ap­ a.bout thlngB and what should be done with counselor's course and many similar groups. proach our Nation's Bicentennial the the country. It mea.ns that r can watch three He also has had some private practice ID spirit of America is :finding vigorous ex­ or four television news programs and get Cleveland and Youngstown. He is a member many di1ferent slants on what is the cur­ of Rodef Sholom Temple. pression throughout our land-from resi­ dents of the largest cities to citizens of rent news. It means that I can pick my choice The Waltners have a daugbter, Joyce, who of what type ot job I want when I finish has followed her father's interests by becom­ our smallest farming communities-from school. ing a psychiatric social worker. Americans of all ages, colors and creeds. America means I have my choice whether Recently the Ecology Club of Wing II I want to be a Democrat, a Republican or I of the New York State's Goshen Center can even start my own political party if I Dm.E PREDICTIONS for Boys in my 26th Congressional Dis­ want to. When I get married and have cbil­ trict sponsored an essay contest on dren. I can send them to any school I want "What America Means to Me.." to. It means. that when I retire I can receive HON. JOHN N. ERLENBO~ - On June 19 r participated in the essay SocJal Secmity and grow old with dignity and in peace. America. means that if there is 0'11' ILLINOIB awards ceremony with the boys who live a war, I even have the opportunity to state IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES at the center. operated by the New York that. waa ls againsl my religion and r will Tuesday, June 29, 1976 Division of Youth. It was difficult for the not have to go lf my claim is true. A lot of judges to select the best essays, since the people complain about America, that we feed Mr. ERLENBORN. Mr. Speaker. as youths saw America through their own the W'Ol"ld, that our income taxes are too high various proposals wend their way eyes, each offering different thoughts bm they do not ieallY.e that f"reedom haa a through the legislative process. Amer­ about our past, our present and our fu­ very expensive price tag and no matter how icans are treated to predictions about ture. bad it get.s m this country it is stm th.e best country in the world. Where else could a poor the consequence5 of aetton or inaction. At this point in the RECORD, Mr. Speak­ to boy become 1he President or a large corpora­ Rarely, however, do we pause reflect er, I would like to share the thoughts of tion. even become President; of the United about these predictions. these young men with my colleagues-in states? America means that I can practice · Take the case of comm.an situs picket­ the order in which they were selected for any religion that I want, read any newspaper ing. This past winter we were warned excenence and writing ability: that. I want, I can write a letter to an Editor that failure to legalize secondary boy­ WHA'r AloluCA lluNa '1'0 14& and not. be afraid to sign my name. Tele­ cot~ in the construction industry would (By Osbardo .Arroyo) vision stations will even give you free time U you don't agree with them. So you see have calamitous consequences. As we all What does America mean to me?- Well I know, such strikes were not legalized. America means many things t<> me, especially look upon America as a person. In my opin­ that I am free, d<> not lta.ve t.o :Uve in fear Now, the Wall street Journal has ion America is a. very wonderful person who and when I wake up in the morning the only assessed predictions alongside actual cares a.bout hersel! very much but lately llm.Us on me will be set by me as a person. events, and r believe we would do well to seems to be having a hard time getting her people to understand her. America wants to ponder that assessment~ WHAT Al4mticA MEANS T() M1!t be kept clean and conserve her natural re­ GUESS WHAX? sources and she gets sad when she sees how (By Alphonso Outdone) Back. last winter, when President Ford. her people are wasting all the great things What r am about to s~ may not mean vetoed the common situs picketing bill, his she baa bestowed upon them. much to the average person but to me it Labor Secretary, John Dunlop, predicted a Living in America is the greatest gift that states what America means to me as a young springtime of construction industry strife. I have. Here I ca.n say what I want, do what boy living 1n America. Mr. Dunlop liked the veto so little that he I want and I can even read or publish any­ America bas save my lU'"e. I! I committed resigned and went home io Harvard. thing I want to in the newspaper. Here a per­ the crime I did, any other place but Amer­ Well, spring will soon become summer a.nd. son can make a mistake and be given the ica I would have probably been shot or ex­ what< about those dire predictions? They opportunity to redeem yourself. cuted. At least r got a. legitimate chance and haven't happened. No matter what color you a.re or what In­ the opportunity to make amends for what According to the Associated Press, two come you have, JOU still have a chance in I done. So when I hear the words America thirds of the 2,800 construction union America.. to make it. In America. even if you I think of the all the innocent lives that contracts up for negotiation this ~ear have only have a little money, you can take a vaca­ have been saved because of the just legal sys­ been settled and strike activity is at its tion. We have the most beautiful par.ks and tem that we have. lowest level in five years. First-year wage mountains in the whole world. Everybody has I think America means awful lot to the settlements a.re ave.raging about 7% less a chance- to go to college, because where else JuveDlles~ America is lll:e love, it: has many than the 8..lo/0 of 1975. but America will the Government loan you Ciiftennt. ~and it mea.ns some dil­ Now it 1a interesting to speculate on ho.w money for a education and not have to pay ferent to each i.ndtvidna1. I think that AmH­ .much strife there would be if Mr. Dunlop it back un.til you graduate. iea. is ~he sat'est: country tn the whole- wide had gotten his bill. First, labor would have Here in America we can make an the coin.­ world. :I th.ink it. is because of an the high a new weapon, the secondary boycott, to plaints that we want but we do not allow standards that we have and all the people use against contractors. Second, the con- anyone else to make fun of us or try and take that live in America really care about each 21378 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 other. Of course we all fight among ourselves pie didn't want him to help the poor people. KANSAS CITY, HEARTLAND U.S.A. but when America is in danger and calls for These people had him assassinated. help, everybody puts asides it personal dis­ If John F. Kennedy were living today I likes and we fight together. Look at how think America would be a much better coun­ America treats it Juveniles. When we com­ try. He was a good President to me because HON. RICHARD BOLLING mit a crime, they could just throw us in he was honest and he told the truth. He did OF MISSOURI jail and forget about us. No they send us what he said he was going to do. I know a lot IN T HE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES places and try and help us see our mistakes of people believed in him because lots of and to make ourselves a better person so that people on unemployment got jobs, summer Tuesday, June 29, 1976 some day we will be able to help run this jobs was given out, and whenever he made Mr. BOLLING. Mr. Speaker, those of beautiful land. a speech lots of people were there to hear us who know the Heartland of America Sure we have problems, we have alot but him. In my decision I think it won't ever what country doesn't. At least we are orga­ be a good President like he was. take for granted its values and its abid­ nized, we know what we can do and not do. If they could get some of our dishonest ing cultural advantages. And those of us We are not afraid to speak our mind and if leaders out, America might be a good coun­ who live in Metropolitan Kansas City we want to change things, we can do it and try again. If we try, America WILL be a good believe that we live in the capital of our not be afraid that we will be thrown into country again. The unemployed will go back national heartland. a concentration camp. to work, summer jobs will be given out, we Representing the hub of Metrc.politan We don't start wars or just go out and try will clean up America, and the world wlll be Kansas City, it is with a great deal of and take over another country. We take a.lot happy. Once more we will have another from other people, we let them insult us, chance to try. pride that I off er for the membership take our money and make fools out of us but of the House and Senate the text of the it takes awful lot to get us mad. Look even article-"Kansas City, Heartland when we had the A Bomb we told people we U.S.A."-published in the July 1976 Na­ would drop it so they could surrender. What LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENCE tional Geographic. other land would do things like that. When The article speaks knowledgeably we win a war, we go in with our people and about our values and advantages: money and help them rebuild. Nobody else HON. SAM STEIGER would do that. KANSAS CrrY, HEARTLAND U.S.A. So that is what America means to me, a OF ARIZONA (By Rowe Findley) wonderful country that only keeps giving IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Maybe it's t he setting. Here the last Ice and ask very little in return. I know for Tuesday, June 29, 1976 Age gave t he Missouri River a mighty bend, what they have done for me already, I will and the wide Kansas River curls in from t he never forget and I will do anything that Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, west. The broad valleys are alive with man's America ask of me. as the United States observes its 200th industry. Downtown skyscrapers cluster anniversary of independence, we must re­ cathedral-like on the bluffs above, all gold WHAT AMERICA MEANS TO ME member that there are still places in the and shadow-blue in the late sun's low rays, (By Pete Nani) or float like an island in the sky when morn­ world where the struggle for freedom ing mist lies flat like a sea. America is a very situated nation. Every­ continues. One such example is the na­ Maybe it's awareness of the history made thing about it, stands for our independence. tion of Lithuania which, on June 15, here. This was the head of both the Santa We have come a long way, America's integrity 1940, was forcibly annexed into the Fe and Oregon Trails, a New Zion for migrat­ has brought us very good fortune. America Soviet Union. Today, I wish to join in ing Mor mons, last-fiing town for forty­ means to me, freedom to choose your own paying tribute to this struggling nation niners, and site of a pivotal Civil War batt le. way, what ever direction you want to turn. Whatever the reason, I sense a special ex­ We have many opportunities, college, trades, and her people, who were denied the citement in Kansas City-an excitement arts, business firms, etc. I could go on for­ right of self-determination 36 years ago. shared by most people who live here; an ex­ ever. You can be anything you want to be. Under the aegis of communism, Lith­ citement as old as mid-America itself. The chances are here, all you have to do ts uania has been denied the blessings of Contrary t o widely held beliefs, Kansas want them and work for them. You can do religious and political freedom. How­ City is neither fiat nor somewhere west of more in the U.S. than any other place in ever, although the nation is tiny, the Wichita.. It's a'll up-and-down town with, as the world. America to me, has a.lot of pride, strength and determination of its people one visitor said, "more hills than Rome," and understand and joy. are great. Despite official harassment and it sits astride the Missouri-Kansas line. Nor One more of the most interesting things, is it truly one town, but a contiguous mosaic 1s the people, especially the women. I like repression by the Communist regime, of 50 municipalities in six counties, center­ to study people, but I really like to look at traditional religious beliefs remain ing on Kansas City, Missouri. all the foxy ladies in the country. America strong. Past guerrilla warfare and the There's hardworking Kansas City, Kansas, gets me going, it's really too hard to express self-immolation of some of its youth to the west, with its grain elevators and rail how I feel in words. have shown the world that this nation yards and oil "I"efinery; then there's afiluent, The recreational activities are unlimited. will not succumb to Soviet suppression. suburban Johnson County, Kansas, with its Anything your heart desires on having a good Lithuania continues struggle not to thousands of acres of quality homes. There's time, is right there. The fascination of the to historic Independence to the east, Jackson U.S., is completely stretched out. All the be colonized. The United States, a coun­ County seat and hometown of Harry Tru­ states have something different. The events try that fought to free itself of coloniza­ man; and historic Liberty to the northeast, are in all seasons, so what ever turns you on, tion. has never recognized the forcible Clay County seat and stomping ground of you can have. annexation of Lithuania and the other Jesse James. Toward other compass points With the government in the U.S., I feel Baltic States and deplores the fact that the checkerboard of towns reaches into Cass, something peculiar is going on. They a.re the people of those countries are denied Platte, and Wyandotte Counties. always covering something up. Otherwise the the rights of assembly, free election, and In all, the greater city's 724 square mlles­ way things are run, are all right. I feel the home to 1.3 million people-encompasses a court systems are set up properly. Justice is worship. 40-mile sweep of landscape, an area so big considerably fair. However. political change is continu­ that the weather service at times issues dif­ We do have our problems, slums, poor ously taking place throughout the world, ferent forecasts for north and south. schooling, pollution, hungry people and the and it may well be that future changes PASSIONS INCLUDE JAZZ AND FOOTBALL needy. I feel the U.S. ls wrong in sending will give the Lithuanian people the op­ This cornucopia city still makes most of out our money and troops to aid other coun­ portunity to reestablish their independ­ its living by funneling food to the world (and tries. We should fix up America first; then ence. Until that time arrives, we should supplies to the farmer) over its dozen rail build up our name as friends. After all, what continue our policy of nonrecognition of lines and by truck and barge. But its enter­ 1s a friendly nation that can't even support the Soviet incorporation of Lithuania prise is also incredibly diverse: It makes it's own problems! You tell me? and, at the same time, do everything we frocks, researches cancer, assembles more can to encourage the Lithuanian people automobiles than any city except Detroit. AMERICA It's a city that wo1·ks hard and plays hard, (By Darryl Kelly) to maintain their national spirit. na­ suffering football fever with the Chiefs, sup­ tional identity. and national will. porting pro basketball and baseball and I feel that America 1s a good country but Mr. some people won't let it be a good country. Speaker, I join millions of Amer­ hockey; a city that likes its jazz swinging, its I feel that a lot of our Presidents destroyed icans in saluting the brave Lithuanian opera both light and grand, its steaks rare, America. In my opinion John F. Kennedy was people who continue to struggle for their and its summer theater in the park. America's best President. President Kennedy rightful place among the free nations of I went home to Kansas City recently to tried to help a lot of people but the rich peo- the world. look up old friends, make new ones, and re- June ?9, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21379 discover the town I'd known in the fifties, For a few years early Mormons tried to vulsion of exposes and trials, city and country when I wrote for the Kansas City Star. make Independence a more godly place, and had a bad ease of public remorse and civic I found that the city's list of deeds and failed. Amid mounting violence, they moved hangover. But it had been quite a part;': doers has grown fast in the last decade. Some to Illinois. Subsequently, some returned as The Pendergast years from a scarlet chap­ 5.2 billion dollars in improvements-city, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of ter in the city's past-casinos, bookies, broth­ county, and privately funded-have been Latter Day Saints, now headquartered in In­ els. A history by Kansas City St ar editors launched. From 1963 to 19'1'1, a tall, soft­ dependence on tbe temple lot chosen by Richard B. Fowler a.nd Heney C. Haskell, now spoken lawyer named nus w. ''Ike" Davis Joseph Smith. Its present head is the proph­ retired, records that Big Tom obj.ected to presided over much of this dynamic growth et's grandson, W. Wallace Smith. roulette, so one casino on the state line of­ from the 29th-fioor mayor's office atop the "HUB OF T.HE UNYVERSE" FOR H.S.T. fered roulefte in Kana.sag, booze in Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri, City Hall. The momen­ The Kansas City. Missouri, City Hall~ the But n(} name is more widely associated with police department, and much of the Jackson tum continues under his successor, Mayor Independence, Missouri, than that of Presi­ Charles B. Wheeler, Jr., a doctor of medicine County Courthouse s.erved the machine first, dent Harry S Truman. In 1931, when he was the public second. When "Pret.t.y Boy" Floyd and law. The list inclndes a three-terminal Jackson County's presiding official, and was jetport; expressways; expanded medical com­ and friends machine-gunned five men at building the county's first good concrete Union Station in 1933, the killers lingered in plexes, urban-renewal projects; a convention roads, he declared that, for him, Independ­ center; side-by-side county stadiums for pro town overnight with impunity. When elec­ ence was. the "hub of the universe." When he tion frauds resulted iJl !om deaths at the football and baseball; a new arena to house left the White House in 1953, he hurried polls in 19~ the complt:rina~ts were arrested. pro basketball, hockey, the American Royal straight back to his frrune Victorian home on Livestock, Horse Show, and Rodeo. and-next Pendergast seemed invulnerable to waves North Dela.ware. of outrage-until a federal tax-evasion con­ month-the Republicans when they meet to Randall Jessee, foJ"mer NBC newsman and name a Presidential candidate. viction sent him to Leavenworth Penitentiary foreign service officer now turned farmer 1n 1939. His empire crumbled. IF KANSAS CITY LIKES IT,. SO WU..L THE UNITED near Boosterville, remembers those days 'W'ell. STA'l'ES "Mr. Truman's popularity was at a. low .JAM SESSION STIRS NOSTALGIA "These projects cut rig.ht across politics ebb," Randall said over a farm noonday "din­ One legacy of the Pendergast years has and boundaries and social groups to dl'aw in ner" of chicken and dumplings, hot biscuits, not only survived, it has thrived and turned a lot of people outside the goverm:nent," Ike and homemade sorghum molasses served by respectable,. though it was born in the era's Davis told me. He pointed out~ too, that the his wife, Fern. "I figured the Trumans might bars and nightclubs. Jazzmen know it as the city's ethnic and economic p&tterns closely be lonely, and I told Fern: 'I think I'll invite Kansas City sound. match the nation's. "We're a cross section of them to dinner,' She was stunned at he Orville. "Piggy.. Minor, who played trum­ America. a good testing place for new ideas." thought of cooking for a former President, pet with Count Basie~ has mellow memories An ethnic cross section means minorities, and said, 'You can't d.o that!' But the next of those rollicking years. and Kansas City's minorities, like the na­ time I saw Mr. Truman. I asked him, and he "There was the Reno Club at 12th and tion's, have problems. And that, in the opin­ said. 'When would like like us to come?' " Cherry, the Spinning Wheel and the Barley ion of Alvin Brooks, who is an assistant city That wa.s the start of a warm family friend­ Duke, and dozens of others," he said. manager and who is. black, gets us to the ship treasured by the Jessees. Randall told We talked against the riffs of a jam. session :flaw in the city's character. of a summer evening in the Truman's back­ at the Mutual Musicians Foundation. a time­ "You can get a tremendous commitment yard, when they were watching movies of the stained little building at 19th and Highland here for a new stadium project," he said. Truman's post-Presidential tour of Europe. in the black district. rt was 2 a.m. on a misty "You have a much harder time getting COl'Il­ nThe pictures showed Mr. Truman getting July SundaJ', and Ol'Vl!le's friends had gath­ mitment to tackle tbe city's social problems." a degree at Oxford, in the red gown and that ered f.rom playing gigs an over the cit.y to He cited minority housing, education, job op­ sort of beefeater hat they wear,'' he said. have fun playing for themselves. portunities, and school busing. Racial im­ ffAfterward my daughter, Jana, then 5, "We formed our own union in the 1920's, balance exists in the school districts of both skipped up to him and said, 'Mr. President, after the white union wouldn't let. us join," Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kan­ you sure looked funny in that king's hat.' He Orville explained. It. w-a.s a mutual-aid group, sas. The situation may lead to school or court chuckled, and I admonished her that you helping "down., brothers get up. again. One plans for busing into adjoining districts. don't say Presidents look funny. So a bit later brothe.r it helped was Bill Basie-. On a recent The city has its problems.. it's true, but I she said, 'Mr. President, you sure looked si1ly visit the Count said simply, ''I'm home." found optimism pervading the darkest dis­ in that king's hat.' Soon Mr. Truman van­ The- years of playing it high and whistling cussions. "It's a spirit that pr~sumes a prob­ ished into the house and came back com­ have callused Orville's lip, but; the jazz trum­ lem can be solved," explained Dr. Charles pletely clad in the Oxford robes. He picked pet remains bis life: nA wife is great, but Kimball, president of Midwest Research In­ Jana up in his arms and said, rAny little girl music frees my mind.'.. With a lot of other stitute from 1950 to 1975, and now its chair­ so interested in the robes of Oxford should brothers, Orvill& hopes to :realize a dream of man. A native of Boston, he raised fledgling be able to say she's seen the real thing.' " seeing the historic little building become a MRI to national renown-and became an Now 350,000 people a year come to the jazz hall of fame. early exponent of the city's. effervescent out­ Harry S. Truman Library in Independence to Kansas ctty can claim to have spawned look: "It's an attitude that regards a crisis see ":he archives and mementos of his career. one hall of fame already: the ''Hallmark Hall as a challenge of grit and imagination." I parked among cars from 20 states. and went of Fame,.. television's m<>flt,honored dramatic These two qualities were in demand here in to talk With Dr. Ben Zobrist, director of program. It sprang from the sponsorship of 150 years ago, when this metropolis was only the library, about the upsurge in the late Hallmark greeting cards, and hence from the a couple of lonely trail-head towns on the President's popularity. mind of founder Joyce C. Hall, who first road to Santa Fe. My guide to the trail, lo­ "He appeals strongly to today's young peo­ heard about that Kansas City spirit back in cal historian Pauline (Polly) Fowler of In­ ple, and there are more and more of them 1909. dependence, lives on Santa Fe Road. among our visitors," Dr. Zobrist said. nrthink ''I had a successful little postoard business ..It's no coincidence," she said. From a they like his decisiveness, his way of cutting 1n Norfolk. Nebraska, and I was thinking of meadow beside the road, she pointed: "This thl'ougb the double-talk." moving it to Om.aha.:• he said. "But a travel­ was part of the original Santa Fe Trail." In We had lapsed into present tense. as if the ing ct.gar salesman said, 'Otnaha is an right, the rays of an early sun I saw a shallow President were still here, as indeed he was. but you want to go to Kansas City.' " The trench that angled down a grassy slope, I paused in his Oval Office, faithfully repro­ salesman spoke glowingly of the city•s vigor crossed a pasture, and vanished into a duced, saw the piano he'd played in the White and growth, of its extensive new parks and thicket. House, and chatted briefly with Miss Rose A. boulevards, of how it had built a huge con­ The trail became a highroad beginning in Conway, his longtime secretary. who was still vention hall in just 90 days. ''I knew that was 1821, when traders found rich profits in pack­ busy doing paperwork for the Chief. the place for me," Joyce Hall said. At 18 the ing goods to adobe Santa Fe, in newly free GOOD ROADS HELPED B.UILD A REPUTATION lanky six-footer came to town and founded Mexico. Soon the Missouri's great bend be­ One question had long puzzled me: How the giant of the greeting-card industry. To­ came the jumping-off place for overland did Harry Tru:ma.n manage to avoid the taint day it employs 500 artists alone. travel, and outfitters flourished at Independ­ of the Pendergast" machine that gave hL i his TRYING TO SAVE THE. INN.EB CITY ence and Westport. These raw frontier towns start in politics? Col. Rufus Burrus,. Truman's Mr. Hall's varied public services, including would coalesce into greater Kansas City. longtime friend. fellow reserve officer, and support of r•People to People," a kind of We followed the first few miles of the his­ family lawyer. answered it for me: private Peace Corps, have brought him many toric trail. after visiting the old log court­ "He had the a.billty to let people know honors. But" he remains basically the small­ house and stone jail in Independence. where he stood. When he was building roads town Nebraska boy he once was, easy to "They needed a good jail long before they for the county. he let Tom Pendergast know visit. had one," Polly said. We talked oi the 1830's, his concrete companies should stay out of the I visited him at Crown Center, the pri­ when thousands thronged in, queued at out­ bidding, and they did.'' vately funded $350,000.000 project in urban fitters and smithies by day, crowded into Many others lacked such forthrightness redevelopment born in his mind. Downtown, gambling halls bji night,. drank, fought, went with "Big Tom," so that when his machine around Hallmark's headquarters, grimy old west with high hopes. or died of cholera. flew apart during the late thirties after a con- buildings give way to bright> new offices, 21380 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 shops, and apartments, clustered around Amazingly, for 16 years after the war Jesse community relations and closer rapport with courts and greenery (next page). There's a and Frank and friends robbed trains and blacks. And his department's emergency 20-story hotel, with a 60-foot waterfall in the banks and eluded posses and Pinkertons. A corps, whose specialty 1s rescuing hostages, lobby; it cascades down a limestone bluff, bomb tossed into the James family home has attracted national attention. once part of an eyesore called Signboard killed Jesse's younger brother and cost his Hill. mother a hand. SHANGRI-LA AND A VISTA OF SPAIN Since 1966 son Donald J. Hall has headed Finally Jesse died, not at the hands of a Rescuing p'eople troubled in spirit draws Hallmark and Crown Center, expanding the lawman, but shot in the back by traitorous attention to a. unique Kansas City institu­ project: "We're trying to show. what private gang member Robert Ford, "that dirty little tion, a. Christian movement called Unity, funding can do to save the inner city." coward," in the words of the song. started m 1889. Amid a Shangri-la of cloister­ Others have caught the vision. A few And Clay County has yielded to its fate, Uke buildings, orchards, and woods, Unity blocks north, 30-story City Center Square each April staging a Jesse James Festival, re­ maintains a retreat center, global printing thrusts its six-sided tower skyward. Between enacting a bank robbery with a satisfying operation, seminary, and a 23-hour prayer it and the vast new H. Roe Bartle Exposition expenditure of blanks and flashbulbs. vigil that receives 2,370,000 requests a year. Hall, nearing completion, the historic old "We stress the unity of all creation, includ­ Hotel Muehlebach, many times host to Presi­ ECONOMIC WARS BESET MINORITIES ing other faiths," says President Charles R. dents Truman and Eisenhower, is moderniz­ Through the Civil War, Kansas City's eth­ Fillmore, namesake and grandson of the ing to the tune of seven million dollars. nic face was Anglo-Saxon, with strong Ger­ founder. On the riverfront, around the old farmers' man elements. Then came increasing num­ Another Kansas City landmark-the market, 19th-century brick storefronts bers of Jews, Irish, Italians, and Slavs. They Country Club Plaza-has been much studied brighten with paint and quaint watering shared the common problems of being poor across the nation for more than half a places-The Boller Room, Cindi's Bedspread, and different, clustering in ghettos at first, century. Yesterday's Girl-pa.rt of a rejuvenation gradually dlffusing into the city's main­ The plaza, begun in 1922, was the nation's called River Quay. Pedestrian malls with stream. Mexicans and blacks came too, and first major suburban shopping center. No :flowers and fountains try to lure people back found bigger problems. antiseptic monstrosity of cold glass and con­ downtown in Independence and Kansas City, "My father fled Mexico in 1919, during a crete, it is mellow bu.ff brick and red tile, with Kansas. In old Westport, streets sprout gas revolution," Lupe Gonzalez told me. "He got courtyards and fountains and towers copied lamps and shops refurbish 1n frontier decor. a job with the Santa Fe and came to Kansas from Spain. The plaza, covering 15 city South of Westport, on a steep hill now City, Kansas, to work in the freight yards." blocks, ls the dream of the late J. c. Nichols. tiered with winding drives and gracious Lupe grew up in Argentine, above the yards "My father believed that beauty should be homes, men in bue and gray once fought and and the packing plants along the Kansas part of everyday life, even a shopping trip," died in an often overlooked Civil War battle. River. I remember it for its modest frame said Miller Nichols, his like-minded son, who Henry Haskell can see that hill from his houses, :flowers, strings of drying peppers, the heads the real-estate ·firm that owns the study window, and his mind replays the tantalizing smell of baking tortillas. "We had plaza. "In a time when outdoor privies were events of that fight in October 1864: our saints' days and fiestas," Lupe said. "It still common, he felt a backyard should be "If Gen. Sterling Price had taken Kansa.g was like a little piece of Mexico." as attactive as a front yard. He promoted City and Fort Leavenworth, the gate to the But he knew he wasn't in Mexico when he boulevards, curving drives, and fountains." West would've fallen into Southern hands." went to look for a job. There were barriers. Such ideas distinguish 8,000 acres of hous­ "MR. mCK'RY" HELPS WIN A BATTLE "If we made it through high school and ing developed by the firm, making southwest went with the railroad or a packing plant, the Kansas City and adjacent Johnson County, Almost 30,000 troops maneuvered, skir­ Anglo community felt we should aspire to Kansas, a showplace--one of the nation's mished, and met head-on, with the South• nothing more," he said. greatest expanses of beautiful homes. erners finally digging in atop the h111, and Lupe tried college, varied jobs, and became holding. On the third day it looked like a At Christmastime many twinkle with out­ stalemate. local head of federally funded SER, Spanish door lights, as does the Spanish skyline of for "to be." The program helps people find the plaza (pages 138-9). Last year some Then a bent old man-some accounts call jobs by training them in English and specific him "Mr. Hick'ry" lor the sta1f he leaned on­ 70,000 came to watch the lighting ceremonies. showed the Union commander a bidden ra­ skills. Lupe feels things are looking up. From our room atop the Raphael Hotel: vine leading to the top of the hill. Bernard Powell fights housing barriers in Virginia and I looked down through the "Gen. Samuel R. Curtis wasted no time the black community of Kansas City, Mis­ snowy evening to the festival of lights, the getting cannon and cavalry to the top," Mr. souri. More than 100,000 blacks live in a holiday crowd. From somewhere voices Haskell said. "They :flanked the defenders, 2,240-block expanse that ranges from well­ caroled " ••. tidings of comfort and joy ..." and the battle was won." kept mansions to houses and apartments that and the fragment :floated up into the snow­ I well knew that once-bloody hill, now a look like artillery targets. re:flected brightness like a benediction on the city park. My wife, Virginia, and I often "Battles have been fought here, but they're night. Christmas had found us. brought our boys to the playground there, economic battles," said Bernie Powell, who East of the plaza clusters the city's cultural next to a rose garden, where our favorite heads a coalition of civic groups called the heartland: the Nelson Gallery, the Art Insti­ bloom was a saucer-size beauty called Peace. Social Action Committee of Twenty. "People tute, Rockhurst College, the Music Conserv­ The real scourge of the region in Civil War lack the money to make repairs." atory, the burgeoning Univers1ty of Missouri days was the hit-and-run terror of guerrillas. He mentioned a practice called redlining, at Kansas City. That hate storm, fanned by abolitionist by which deteriorating areas are denied home Here, too, one finds the Linda Hall Library John Brown, nurtured outlaw Jesse James. loans. "We help people who have run out of of Science, with its outstanding collection of I went to Liberty and asked Bill and Vera options,'' he said. When I saw him, he wa-s scientific books and journals, and the Mid­ Eldridge about those times. sending shingles to the Olive Street home of west Research Institute. The latter is now "Please say something about Liberty and Mrs. Evelyn Hopkins, 79, and VISTA volun­ studying "biofeedback" as an aid to drug Clay County besides Jesse James,'' Vera teers were nailing them to her leaking roof. addicts and cancer patients (page 122). The pleaded. Both she and Bill, who is county "We'll work with anybody who will help greater city also has medical schools of the recorder of deeds, work tirelessly uncover­ restore any part of this town," said Bernie, Universities of Missouri and Kansas, and half ing local history. "We're older than Inde­ at 28 an eight-year veteran of such work. "We a dozen other institutions of higher learning. pendence, with elegant old houses, and Wll­ just ask people to do what they can. If you're The stone-pillared Nelson Gallery honors Uam Jewell College, begun before the Civil a homeowner, put on some paint, one ~an at the granite-jawed founder of the Kansas City War. We recently got a state preserve made a time, if that's all you can do. Plant a tree, Star, whose alumni include Wllliam Allen of a wonderful old settlement called Wat­ a bush. If you haven't at least planted a White, Ernest Hemingway, and Ben Hibbs. kins MUI." tree or a :flower, I don't want to talk to you." Indianian William Rockhill Nelson founded But Jesse's father, a Baptist minister, Apartments and condominiums notwith­ the newspaper in 1880, crusaded for parks, helped found William Jewell College; legend standing, the city is largely one of individual boulevards, and municipal reform, backed has it that the James gang used to go to homes, with low population density. In the Teddy Roosevelt for President, and left mil­ Watkins Woolen M111 for blankets, and that 50's and 60's, Kansas City, Missouri, almost lions to acquire art for a gallery. they launched their bank-robbing career in quadrupled its area to 316 square miles, an­ By the early 1930's, the gallery stood ready, Liberty. So the talk always comes back to nexing a big bite from Platte Couni·y, to but largely empty, on the commanding hill the James boys. But how did they get that include a new jetport there. where the Nelson home had been. Trustees way? "I have one patrol car covering 60 square found the art of Europe and the classical "This was an area of Southern sym­ miles in rural Platte County," Police Chief world brought up and scarce, but the Orient pathies," Bill said, "and some of these people Joseph D. McNamara told me. "That's 60 was a different matter. In China they found had been kicked off their land by the in­ times bigger than the precinct in Harlem young Laurence Sickman studying on a Har­ famous Order No. 11." Trying to stop bush­ where I used to walk a beat." From a New vard scholarship and asked him to buy art whackers, including the Jameses, Union Gen. York City Irish police family, with a doctor­ for them. Man and cause had met. Thomas Ewing in 1863 ha-0 ordered all ate in public administration from Harvard, "In those days in China, you could stroll settlers to evacuate an 85-mile-long band of the 41-year-old chief succeeded Clarence M. into a shop and buy a Han vase, a 3,000-year­ Missouri on the Kansas border. Looting and Kelley, who moved to Washington In 1973 to old bronze horse, a collection of scrolls," Mr. burning by jawhawkers from Kansas ravaged direct the FBI. Sickman told me. He sent the gallery sculp­ the land. McNamara has continued to stress better ture, paili.tings, ceramics, furniture, a whole June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21381 temple celling-the nucleus of what has be­ Rod Turnbull of the Board of Trade makes peach balm for sheen. She'd aimed for the come one of three or four collections of the groWing and selling and moving of grain grand championsip, but "there's always next Chinese art in the Western World. Then he sound like an adventure story: the plains year." returned to become curator of the treasures farmer's double gamble with prices and the We shared the concern of the Jack Mac­ he'd found, and finally the gallery director. whims of nature; the golden harvest; the tall Nairs, Kansas "Farm Family of the Year," at elevators showering their bounty into long the Royal, for the 700 heifers they'd acquired MAVERICK ARTIST PERCEIVED NATION'S SPmIT trains; the tumultous marketplace. just before coming to Kansas City. An early Until last year Kansas City had a living art Mounting a horseshoe dais called the trad­ blizzard was sweeping their farm, near Jet­ treasure in Thomas Hart Benton, an unex­ ing pit, grain brokers wave their arms like more. "But we've got good help, and good celled muralist and eloquent maverick, who evangelists and shout bids, as federal law neighbors," Jack and wife Bobbie kept assur­ for a few years taught at the Art Institute. As requires. Ignoring the barrage of bidding, ing me-and each other. a child he muraled the stairway of the family Rod talked of a flurry of stories that the Rus­ WEATHER'S TRICKS KEEP CITY WATCHFUL home in Neosho, Missouri; he left. at 17 to sians had leased many ships, that a big grain study art. He offended gallery curators by deal was near. Next day came the word that Blizzards, floods, droughts, and tWisters: questioning their manhood, and preferred the Soviet Union would buy two million They are all part of that special-sometimes creek-bank and barroom companions to the metric tons of hard winter wheat. disastrous-excitement thai; pervades Kansas "vanities of society." His brush feelingly cap­ By train, truck, or barge, grain moves in City. I remember a 1957 tWister that struck tured the frontier trapper and Missouri corn­ and out of Kansas City every day: One snowy suburban Ruskin Heights, killing 44 people field, the heartland and folkways of America. day I watched towboat pilot Bill Cartwright in its path, injuring 200, reducing blocks of In January 1975 he finished a mural on nudge rune barges under a conveyor to load homes to rubble. Until it veered, that storm country music, shared a quail dinner with 380,000 bushels of No. 1 milling wheat. had aimed straight at our house. Like other friends, then sat contemplating his latest "We'll get it to St. Louis in 40 hours," Bill Kansas Citians, I learned to keep an eye on work-and his heart stopped after 85 vig­ said. "Some will go to New Orleans and over­ the sky, an ear on the weather forecast. orous years. "Kansas City misses him," said seas-some up the Tennessee to Chatta­ That's why, among 21,600 civil servants John w. Callison, a young stockbroker who nooga." Yes, he conceded, the Missouri can who staff the federal regional offices here, had been his firend and companion on Ar­ be mean. "It's swift and shallow, and the chief weather forecaster Allen Pearson is the kansas float trips. "And I miss him, too." channel can change in hours." Stopping his most famous. I sought him out. Benton was essentially a workingman's 1,100-foot-long tow takes two miles-or "Every time they run The Wizard of Oz on painter, just as Kansas City has always been more. TV, and that twister carries Dorothy clear a workingman's town. During World War II RECALLING THE BIG CATI'LE ERA out of Kansas, we get tornado inquiries," he it turned out munitions by trainloads, Pratt Wheat elevators and stockpiles-that's a said. Pearson also heads the National Severe & Whitney engines, B-25 bombers, and thou­ Kansas City I remember. From 2,000 pens Storms Forecast Center, headquartered here. sands of landing era.ft that chugged down in the West Bottoms an aroma on certain In his office high in the new glass-and­ the Missouri to far-of! bloody beachheads. winds advertised livestock clear across concrete Federal 3uilding, we hunched over SUSPENSE MARKS A LAUNCHING town. Briefly in the 1940's the city surpassed a U.S. map and focused on the Great Plains. Harry Darby, former U.S. Senator and GOP Chicago as the world's biggest cattle mar­ He explained that warm moist Gulf air and National Committeeman, who helped per­ ket. colder Canadian air sometimes collide in the suade Eisenhower to run for President, re­ Vivid in my mind is a July day in the '50's lee of the Rockies with catastrophic results. members those landing craft well, because when the rampaging Kansas River flooded "The funnels that get photographed are his Kansas City, Kansas, steel firm made the pens. Bawling animals were herded to usually not the meanest ones," he said, "The them-and frankly, they looked so monstrous rooftops, only to die in the scorching sun. really dangerous ones are too often masked that he doubted the first one would float. Jay B. Dillingham, for years president of by rain. For them we hit the panic button, "When it did, I gave a cheer," he said, "and the Kansas City Stock Yards Company, was and we hope you will pay attention." followed it by car for 25 miles downriver, there, trying to save them: "With water all The skies that occasionally brew death where I gave it a salute and sent it on its around, we couldn't get enough of it up to more commonly bestow the sun and rain that way." them to wet them down-and we couldn't produce bounty. "We're at the heart of the Today Kansas City sends out a stream of shade them." world's biggest larder-Missouri, Kansas, refurbished jetliners from its sprawling For both Jay and Kansas City, the live­ Iowa, and Nebraska," notes Fred Kiewit, Trans World Airlines overhaul base at the stock industry has been a life's theme. We agriculture editor of the Star. "This assures new International Airport. On my way to see talked of the vast herds of Texas longhorns Kansas City a commimding role in the a huge Boe.ing 747 being rejuvenated, I was driven to Kansas railheads in the early future." waylaid by a vamp of an earlier age, an in­ 1870's, giving the Kansas City livestock in­ Seeking a path through guessed-at country novative monoplane of the 1930's known as dustry its real impetus. The railroads pushed to the west in 1804, LeWis and Clark paused the Stearman-Northrop Alpha (page 127). west, and soon cattle came from Colorado, at the Missouri's great bend and noted its "Frankly, she's a mess now, but come back Wyoming, Ari.2.ona, together with ranchers commanding bluffs. On one of those bluffs, I in a month," said Dan McGrogan, instructor and cowboys bent on kicking up their heels now gaze over the greater city and ponder in TWA's Kansas City flight-operations in the city. its path through guessed-at country called school. Dan's volunteer crew of TWA workers "But the truck and commercial feedlot the future. was restoring the Alpha for the Smith­ dispersed the industry," Jay said. Today's No one can read in that roiling swift sonian's Air and Space Museum. volume is less than half of the 1940's busi­ water what is yet to come, of course. But Only 20 Alphas were built, and TWA ness. knowing this place as I do, I'm certain of one bought 13 of them. Air historians had sup­ If the stockyards aren't as big as they thing: In years ahead we11 see more, not less, posed that all 20 Alphas had disintegrated, once were, the American Royal Livestock and of that special excitment-that special Horse Show they produced is bigger than but this venerable specimen was found in s~irit-in this place called Kansas City. Wisconsin, Dan's crew was rebuilding the ever. landing gear and whole wing sections. For 77 years there has been an American "I figure I saw this very plane go over my Royal in Kansas City. Last November it house near Pittsburgh when I was a boy," moved into the new Kemper Arena, added a CLARA MAASS Dan said. The blue exhaust flames of the 10 rodeo, e.nd. drew a record quarter of a mil­ p.m. mail plane inspired him to become a lion people. Attendant events filled hotel pilot and filght engineer. Now at TWA he lobbies and streets with stockbreeders in HON. JOSEPH G. MINISH teaches others the intricacies of giant jets. stetsons, belles in ball gowns, and 20,000 OF NEW JERSEY Jet-age Kansas City remains faithful to Future Farmers of America in blue-and­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Its earlier history as a city of the harvests, gold jackets. especially of wheat and livestock. Two events "This town really jumps during the Royal," Tuesday, June 29, 1976 in the 1870's started it on its way. said Blll Harsh, president of the 1975 event. Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, today In the far-off Ukraine, pacifist Mennonite "Make your reservation early, arrive early, farmers feared conscription into the czar's and have fun." We did all of the above. marks the lOOth birthday of Clara Maass. armies, and when Santa Fe railroad agents In the bunting-hung Kemper Arena, we Many of my friends and colleagues may from America offered homesteads, the plain cheered proud show horses With sequined not be familiar with this personality. people came by thousands, bringing with hooves, roached-maned three-gaiteds; Ap­ Quite unfortunately, Miss Maass is in them precious bags of seed wheat called paloosas, Arabians, Morgans. When the jump­ that category of unsung American "Turkey red." In Kansas it ultimately bore ers dug into the tanbark to spring over six­ heroes. prodigious yields, and Kansas City prospered foot jumps, my heart went up With them. In 1900 Clara Maass volunteered for as grain poured through it to the nation and We shared the pride of 14-year-old Celia to the world. Harmon of Clinton, Missoul'i, when her Gal­ civilian nursing duty in Cuba. She Today the Kansas City Board of Trade is loway heifer won the reserve championship. worked with the famous Maj. William the world's biggest marketplace for that red We knew she had been up since dawn, Gorgas and Dr. Carlos Finlay. wint.er wheat, Ironically the kind the Soviet shampooing HA Boy's Gal 331, spraying on History has paid tribute to Gorgas and Union buys when its harvests fall short. Patterson's Purple 011 for glow, a mist of Finlay as having conclusively proved that 21382 .EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1 r'6 mosquit-oes alone were the cause of yel­ time when our spirits can be rekindled. always increases racial awareness and low fever. What many people do not A time ·hen we can rediscover this great racial tensions, resulting in turmoil and i·ealize is that as a result of Miss Maass' country, reassert our interest in and rally fighting among students pa.ired off on death the Havana Commission's investi­ to the great beliefs, traditions, and ideals the basis of their race. lf we wish to gations were ended and theory became of our American democracy. attack racism among our young people established fact. The Great American Horse Race fs a we must eliminate race as a .standard Miss Maass served in Havana through tribute to our celebration. It is exciting. for determining anything. Which means August 1901. She nursed yellow fever's It is fun. It is uniquely American. we must eliminate Govemment-imPoSed victims; then to test a. theory that mos­ quotas, affirmative actions, et cetera. quitoes were the actual carders of the And the :first to go shonld be vne of the disease, she offered to be bitten. Her first A BILL TO END SCHOOL BUSING most insidious: Assignment of children attack,. in June 1901,. was a mild one. She to various schools on the basis of their voluntarily allowed herself to be bitten race. again on 14. This time August the fever ON. LARRY McDONALD DO BROWN TO GXEEN: THE SWircH FltOM was fa.tal, and she died at Cuba's Las OF GEORGIA NON&ACIAL TO RACIAL SCHOOL ASS:IG:sME~'"l" Animas Hospital. IN THE HOUSE. OF REPRESENTATIVES General Gorgas wrote oI this Ameri­ But to eliminate this we must curb its can heroine: Tuesday, June 29, 1976 chief source: the FederaJ courts. Some ~f ~ese courts are now holding that bus­ Miss Maass was a most excellent nurse. Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker,. on She died as the direct result of the mosquito mg IS necessary to remedy violations of March 9, 1976, I introduced H.R. 12365, the constitutional right t.o the equal pro­ bit&. Large mms of money and many lives a bill to eliminate Federal court jurisdic­ have been saved, and will yearly be saved by tection of the law under the 14th amend­ tion over forced school attendance the ment. this discovery of the manner of propagation text of which is: • of yellow fever. Consider, however, the history of de­ ~t. pursuant to article m, sections 1 segregation decisiOJ:lS dating back to Miss Maass was 1 of 20 volunteers and and. 2. o! ihe United States Constitut.Lon. no Brown Board. of Education, 34'1 U.S. joined several Cubans in death. Clara court of the United States shall have the v. jurisdiction to make any decision, or issue 483 H954>. In that case the Court held Maass was the only American and the that the State Policies requiring the sep­ only woman to die in seeking the cause any Ol'der. which would have the effect of re­ quiring any indivld.ual to attend any particu­ aration of students in the PUblic schools of yellow fever. lar school. on the basis of race violated the Equal It could simply be said that Clara Protection Clause of the 14th amend­ Ma.ass was a girl from East Orang~ N.J., On May 10. 1976, aft.er the Judieiary Committee indicated it plans to take no ment, thus overturning the "separate but who met death in Cuba at age 2"5. I be­ equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. lieve her life and death should serve as a action on this bill, I initiated a discharge Petition which is now available for sig­ Ferguson~ 163 U.S. 53'1 CI895). The vibute to the courage and seliless dedica­ Court, in the words of Chief Justice Earl tion of American women swell as to our nature by Members at the Journal Clerk's Warren. stated: Nation's youthful zeal. desk.on the House fioor. The fundamental principle that racial dis­ The purpose of the bill is to prohibit crimination in public education. is unconsti­ Federal court orders forcing children to THE GREAT AMERICAN HORSER..t\.CE tutional (emphasis added), and held that attend a particular school, such as orders all provisions or federal. state, or local la.w to bus children to specified schools be­ requiring or permitting such d.ism·imination HON. DONALD J. MITCHELL cause of their race. Its means is to em­ must yield to this principle. ploy the authority granted to Congress ~ NllW YOJUIC In discussing appropriate remedies by article m of the Constitution to re­ Chief Justice Wan·en further stated; ' IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES strict. t.he jurisdiction of the Federal Tuesday. June 29, 1976 At stake is the pei"SOna.l interest of the courta to issue such orders. pla.f.ntlft's in adm.lsslon to public schools as Mr. MITCHELL of New York. Mr. Frankly, it is surprising there are still soon as practica.ble on a nondiscriminatory Speaker. people in commmiities across proponents of school busing for the pur­ basis and the courts may consider • • • re­ 'Ule country are celebrating our aooth pose of achieving racial balance. It is vlslon or school districts a.nd attendance birthda.y with a. vitality and eagemess eo&tly, it. is driving down the quality of areas in.to compact units to achieve a system education and it is apparently resulting of determining admission to the public which is both refreshing and rewarding. schools on a nonracial hasfs ••• (emphasis This description is particular~ appli­ in greater segregation, the very opposite added). cable to a unique and challenging of its alleged purpose. event..-now well tn progress-the Great Even sociology Prof. James Coleman, I am not sure how the Supreme Court American Horse Race. the author of the infiuential .1966 study could have been more explicit-racial The 99-day cross-country race, which used as a basis of many busing orders, discrimination in public education is began on May 31 in Frankfort,. N.Y ... in now says court-ordered school integra­ ruled unconstitutional a.nd admission to my congressional district, is a journey tion is a failure. A new study by Cole­ the Public schools must be on a. nonracial to rediscover America,-ber achievements man shows that court ordered integra­ basis. And yet a seiies of Pederal court and her dreams. tion results in a "general resegregation decisions over a. pei'iod of yea.rs have re­ It involves people from many walks of in all regions of the country." It is worth sulted in ~tly the opposite-the order­ llfe. Riders Include professionals, clerks, noting that in an interview published last ing of children to attend certain schools housewives, horse people, teenagers, and year in the National Observer, Coleman because of their race. senior citizens. called the com·ts "the worst of all ~­ At first the Court declined to mterfere The race is being run in a series of ble instruments for carrying out. a. very with the administration of its Brown dally competitions with individual dally sensitive activity like integrating mandate. allowing the enactment and times totaled. There will be 76 racing schools." a.dministration of "pupil .Placement.laws" days and 23 rest days. The race is sched­ BUSING J'OSTEBS BACISK assigning each student to a school on Uled to finish on Labor Day in Sacra­ But by far its most pernicious aspect the basis of formally nondiscriminatory mento. Call!., the west coast gold rush is the etfect on the children who a.re criteria.. Eventually, however, the lower city and last stop of the Pony Express. caught up in it. Racism is a crude form courts began voiding these laws on the The Jlartlctpants and organizers are of collectivism: .rt consists of treating grounds of discriminatory application to be congratulated for their willingness people as members of racial groups in­ and in the early I9tWs various State and spirit to embark upon such an stead of as individuals based on their practi~es such as school closings. mi­ adventure. own qualities of charact.er. And what is nority transfer plans,. and zoning were Our 200tb bil·thday celebration is a a young person taught when he is up­ ruled inadmissible. What followed is well very special occasion for all Americans-­ rooted from his school and friends and summarized on page 1498 of the Consti­ a time when we stop and take note of forced to attend some distant school. and tution of the United States of America, the many aspects of our historY-the told tllat the reason is his race? Thus are Senate Documen~ 9~: :people, even~ and accomplishments­ the seeds of racism planted ill young and About tb1s time, "f:reedom of choice" plans which have made this co'\lll.try so great. imp1·essionable minds. were promulgated under whlcb each eh11d Our Bicentennial is a time of hope. A And thus it is no wonder that busing in the school dist-rict could choose each year June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21383 which school he wished to a.trend and sub­ proved busing of students in this re­ jw·isdiction in a number of cases. "By ject to space limitations he could attend that medial process. the Constitution of the United States," school. These were first approved by the BUSING IS DISCRIMINATORY AND ILLEGAL the Court held in Barry v. Mercein (5 lower courts as acceptable means to imple­ How. <46 U.S.) 103, 119 0847)), "the ment desegregation, subject to the reserva­ Two things must be said about this pol­ Supreme Court possesses no appellate tions that they be fairly administered. icy of ordering race conscious school as­ signment to remedy past discrimination. power in any case, unless conferred upon However, enactment of title VI of the Civil Daniels Rights Act of 1964 and HEW enforcement First, discriminatfug against today's it by act of Congress." And in v. Railroad Co. (3 Wall. (70 U.S.) 250, 254 in a manner as to require effective imple­ schoolchildren in no way corrects past mentation of affirmative actions to desegre­ discrimination. No one would advocate 0865)) , the Court said that in order for gate led to a change of attitude in the lower that a man's son pay for a crime com­ a case to come within its appellate juris­ courts and to a three-case decision in the diction two things must occur: the Con­ Supreme Court posited on the principle that mitted by his father; yet in regard to ra­ stitution must give the capacity to take the only desegregation plan permissible is cial discrimination, many people some­ it, and an act of Congress must supply one which actually results in the abolition how believe that guilt is collective, is the requisite authority. of the dual school and charging school offi­ passed on from one generation to the cials with an affirmative obligation to next and that punishing today's chil­ In the same case, the Court also achieve it. dren is an appropriate means of atoning stated: It is for Congress to determine how far, The crucial case was G reen v. County for yesteryear's sin. within the limits of the capacity of this Board of Education, 391 U.S. 430 (1968), Second, such a policy is illegal. Equal court to take, appellate jurisdiction shall be in which the Court declared that State protection of the law is surely not afford­ given, and when conferred, it can be ~ercised and local authorities have an "affirma­ ed to those children forced to attend a only to the extent and in the manner pre­ tive duty" to abolish the effects of farmer particular school because of their race. scribed by law. In these respects it is wholly discriminatory practices. In fact this is precisely what the Su­ the creature of legislation. Notice the switch, the change from preme Court held in the Brown case Perhaps the most explicit statement in eliminating discrimination on the basis when it outlawed racial discrimination support of Congress' authority to restrict of race to requiring it. Traditionally the and ordered admission to the public appellate jurisdiction came in ex parte test of violation of the equal protection schools on a nonracial basis. Congress Mccardle. In this case: clause has been whether segregation is agreed when it passed the Civil Rights The Court accepted review on certiorari of de jure-that is, the result of intentional Act of 1964 defining "desegregation" as a denial of a petition for a writ of habeas action of school officials, or de facto­ the assignment of students to public corpus by the circuit court; the petition was resulting from factors other than the schools and within such schools without by a civilian convicted by a military com­ application of the law by State and local regard to their race, color, religion, or mission of acts obstructing Reconstruction. officials-neighborhood residential pat­ national origin, but "desegregation" shall Anticipating that the Court might void, or terns, for example. not mean the assignment of students to at least undermine, congressional reconstruc­ public schools in order to overcome ra­ tion of the Confederate States, Congress en­ But as the courts began to rule on the acted over the President's veto a provision various plans of school districts to elimi­ cial imbalance. (42 U.S.C. 2000c) repealing the act which authorized the appeal nate racial discrimination, they increas­ So what should be done? School busing Mccardle had taken. Although the Court had ingly expanded the scope of de jure seg­ is illegal and irrational, but the Federal already heard argument on the merits, it regation until it included virtually any courts continue to order it. One possibil­ then dismissed for want of jurisdiction. "We schools not containing a "proper" ratio ity is a constitutional amendment. How­ are not at liberty to inquire into the motives of black and white students. Thus it be­ ever, I do not think this is necessary of the legislature. We can only examine into came virtually impossible for school of­ since under any logical interpretation of its power under the Constitution; and the the law, school busing is already illegal. power to make exceptions to the appellate ficials to come up with any plan of stu­ jurisdiction of this court is given b:- express dent assignment that would not be ruled Besides, such an approach could take words." (The Constitution, page 752) a case of de jure segregation. many years and thus prolong the injus­ Now the obvious solution is the "free­ tice. Likewise there are a number of deci­ dom of choice" plan that many school No, it is clearly the courts that are at sions in which the Court has upheld the systems attempted to implement. If a fault; it is the illogical and inconsis­ power of Congress to regulate the juris­ student is given the freedom to choose tent interpretation of the law that is the diction of the inferior courts, on the basis which school to attend, clearly he is not problem, not the actual law. that they owe their very existence to being discriminated against because of This is why I chose to introduce legis­ Congress in the Judiciary Act of 1789. his race; however, when the courts be­ lation to restrict court jurisdiction in­ For example, in Turner against Bank of gan disallowing such plans and requir­ stead of amending the law. In fact, I North America, the issue involved the ing "affirmative action" instead, they believe the possibility of such obvious jurisdiction of the Federal courts when made it impossible to implement the overstepping of bounds by the courts is a suit was brought to a Federal court un­ Brown mandate to eliminate racial dis­ precisely why the Founding Fathers gave der its diversity jurisdiction, an action crimination from our public schools­ Congress the power to control the courts. prohibited by the Judiciary Act of 1789. there is simply no way to pursue an "af­ Just as the doctrine of judicial review The defense counsel argued that the firmative duty" without making race the gives the courts a means of checking the grant of judicial power by the Constitu­ standard of school assignment. power of Congress, the authority to re­ tion was a direct grant of jurisdiction, This was made clear by the subsequent strict jurisdiction gives Congress a means but the court disagreed: to check the power of the courts. The notion has frequently been enter­ Court ruling in Swann v. Board of Edu­ tained, that the Federal cow·ts derive their cation, 402 U.S. 1 (1971) , in which the THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF REGULATING COURT JuRISDICTION judicial power immediately from the con­ Court painted out that the neighborhood stitution; but the political truth is, that the school or any other student assignment The question is raised, however, as to disposal of the judicial power (except in a plan "is not acceptable simply because it just how far this authority to restrict few specified instances) belongs to Congress. appears to be neutral." court jurisdiction extends. Two things If Congress has given the power to this Instead, because the present situation are clear: The authority is very broad Court, we possess it, not otherwise: and if may be attributable to past discrimina­ indeed, but it is not unlimited. Congress has not given the power to us, or tory actions in site selection and location The Constitution, article III, sections to any other Court, it still remains at the of school buildings, it is permissible and 1 and 2, explicitly grants Congress the legislative disposal. Besides, Congress is not may be required, to resort to alterilig of power to control the courts: With respect bound, and it would, perhaps, be inexpedi­ to the Supreme Court, by regulating its ent, to enlarge the jurisdiction of the Fed­ attendance boundaries and grouping or eral courts, to every subject, in every form, pairing schools in noncontiguous fashion appellate jurisdiction; with respect to which the constitution might warrant. 4 in order to promote desegregation and the inferior Federal cow·ts, by establish­ Dall. (4 U.S.) 8 (1799) undo past official action; in the remedial ing them in the first place and thus proces.-;. conscious assignment of students regulating both their original and appel- Even the father of judicial review, Chief and drawing of boundaries on the basis late jurisdiction. Justice Marshall, held the same view, of race fs permissible for the moment. The Supreme Court has upheld the observing in ex parte Bollman, 4 Cr. (8p The Swann decision explicitly ap- right of Congress to control its appellate 10 0 799) ) , that "courts which are 21384 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 created by written law. and whose juris­ the Federal courtB by regulating their they would not have jurisdictioo,, how­ diction is defined by written law, cannot jurisdiction? I believe it can be sum­ ever, to order school attendance plans tl:anscend that jurisdiction... marized. as follows: requiring school assignment on the basis More recent Coui't decisions have also First~ The power of Congress to con­ of one's race-plans which are not con­ supported this principle. Por example, In trol the inferior Federal courts is vir­ sistent with Brown, the equal protec ion 1932 Congress enacted the Norris-La tually unlimited. This power is expressly clause or the Civil Rights Act. Guardia Act, prohibiting the issuance of granted by the Constitution when it au­ It may be argued that offering freedom injunctions in labor disputes except by thorizes Congress to establish inferior ol choice plans as remedies for segre­ compliance with a. lengihy hearing and courts. which Congress did by the Judici­ gated schools is inappropriate on legal fa.ct-finding process,. hich was chal­ ary Act of 1789, and has been upheld grounds because of the doctrine of stare lenged in court an jurisdictional grounds. consistently by numerous Court de­ deeisis- bich holds that courts should The law as uPheld in Laut v. Skinner & cisions. follow the rules or principles laid down Co., 303 U.S.. 323p 330 <1938),, however, Second. The powe1· of Congress to con­ in previous judicial decisions unless they wherein the Coui·t declared: trol the appellate jui·isdiction of the Su­ contravene the ordinary principles of There ca.n be no question of the power of preme Court with respect to statutory justice-since such plans have already Congress to thus define and limit th& juris­ questions is likewise virtually unlimited. been struck down in some court. deci­ diction. of the inferior courts of the United This power is expressly granted by the sions. But it is the principle established States. 0 Constitution and has been upheld by by such decisions-that aJnnnative ac­ The Emergency Price Control Act of numei.'Ous Court decisions. tion» must be taken to desegregate 1942, in which Congress provided for a Third. The po er of Congress to con­ schools and thus thai children must be special oom-t to handle challenges to the trol the appellate jurisdiction o1 the assigned t.o schools on tbe basis of their validity of price regula.tions, was another Supreme Court with respect. to ccmstnu­ race-which is not consmt.ent with the clear-cut example of congressional re­ tional questions is not unlimited. Al­ Brown decision. Thus while overturning striction of Federal interior court juris­ though the Constitution explicitly gran1s earlier decisions disallowing freedom of diction. The basic constitutionality of such power to Congress, it could not choice plans may appear to be a vJolation this Act was upheld in Lockerty v. Phil­ validly be used t.o undermine the ery of stare decisis, in fact such action would lips, 319 U.S. 182 0943), hlle in Yak:tls v. merely bring remedies in line with the purpose and fm.mdation of the Cons\t­ J>rinciple of nonracial school assignment Vmted States, 321 U.S. 414: U944) p the tution itself. Thus the Congress does not Court held that the act's i·emoval of the have the Power to regulate the appellat.e established by Brown. district court's jurisdiction to examine jurisdiction of the Supreme Court tt its n should also be noted that stare de­ the constitutional validity of reoaulations effect ould be to infringe on the sepa­ ci.sis, while serving a valid judicfaJ func­ was not a. denial of due process. ration of power or to prohibit the COurt tion, is by no means an iron-elad rule, 2RC LIMITS OP CO GllESSION.&L AUTHORITY 'l'.0 from exercising its judicial function in :particularly il1 cases dealing with eonsti­ CON'mOL TUB COURTS protecting rights granted by the various tutional issues. Its limitations have been Clearly the power of Congress to con­ express prohibitions on Government progressively weakened since Pollock trol the Federal courts through regulat­ po er enumerated in the Constitution. versus Farmers' Loan and T.nJst Co. in 1895, since hieh some J4.3 decisions ing their jurisdiction is very broad in­ THE CONS'rlTU'HONALITY 01" H.R.123&5 deed. Nevertheless it. is not. without lim­ have- overturned one or more earlier de­ So hat about H.R. 12365? Well, if cisions of constitutional questions (op. its. For if it wer~ if Congress could with.­ this bill restricted Federal court juris­ cir& Federal court jurisdiction over lit­ cit., page 683). Brown. of ~ fs itself diction with respect to freedom of speech one of the most famous instances of an eraDy any matter it chooses, then ob­ or with respect to the equal protection viously basic constitutional fotmdations established doctrine being overiurned. clause of the 14th amendment, it would Nevertheless, I am often told~ even stroh as express prohibitions. separation be unconstitutional-at least in regards of powers, and the nature of the judicial though H.R. 12365 is constitutional and to the appellate jurisdiction of the su­ forced busing is contrary to the equal function could be overturned by congres­ preme Court. But it does not. It restricts sional bim. protection clause and the ctvD Rights Federal court jurisdiction with respect Act. the courts might still declare the Wha.t these limits are precisely is not to school attendance; specifically, it pro­ bill unconstitutional. After an .. if they so obvious; however, an examination of hll>its the courts from requiring any in­ order' something so obviously contmry to ex parte McCanlle provides some guk:l­ dividual to attend any particular school. the law as forced busing, bat fs to stop ance. This case is most significant be­ Now since education is not mentioned them from ignol'ing the constitutional cause tbe court held that COngress has in the Constitution and public education basis of H.R. 12365? the to authority legislatively restrict has been created by statute. i·estricting The answer is that irrationality on the court jurisdiction over writs of habeas court jurisdiction with respect to school corpus, even though habeas corpus is a part of Federal judges is no reason for attendance does not ostensibJy raise a Congress to abdicate its responsibility to right expressly granted by article I, sec­ constitutional question. However.. the uphold the Constitution. ".Ibe emphasis tion 9 of the Constitution, and t.bus it question of constitutionality might be marks perhaps the furthest advance by placed on the issue by enactment of a raised in desegregation cases under the bill like H.R. 12365 could gt> a long ay Congress over court jurisdiction. How­ equal protection clause of the 14th toward infiuencing the courts; at. the ever, even in that case there were limits, amendment. But it is important to keep very least it would force them to review as the Court observed in concluding its in mind precisely what jurisdiction H.B. their arguments which~ given heir ob­ opinion~ 12365 restricts. It does not prohibit the vious shortcomings, could lead io a re­ Counsel seem to have supposed, i! effect Federal courts from hearing cases deal­ versal of some of their more extreme be given to the repealing act. in question, ing with school desegregation. What it decisions. In fact, I believe many judges that the whole appellate power of the court, does, in eifect, is deny to the courts the are looking for a means to get oui from in cases of habeas corpus, Is denied.. But th1s ability to order what some courts have under the havoc they have brought is an error. The act of 1868 does not. except alleged to be remedies in such cases. from tha.t. lurtsdictlon any cases bu't appeals about, and legislation restrictiny. heir from Circuit Courts under the act. of 1867. It stfll allows the Federal courts to jurisdiction could well be a. vehicle they It- does not a.ffect the jurisdiction which was hear such cases and to order any reme­ ould readily climb aboard. previously exercised. (The Constitution, dial action they consider appropriate, Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues: will pa.ges 757-758) except for those remedies which involve join me in signing the discharge petition. forced school attendance-particularly In terms of fostering race consciousness, lt is possible, therefore, that the Court forced school attendance on the basis of in disrupting the lives of 0111" young peo­ would not have ruled as it did ff the ques­ an individual's race. The courts would ple and interfering with their education, tion had been to de~ absolutely an a.p­ have jurisdiction, for instance. to require fo-rced school busing is exacting an peal from a denial of a writ of habeas school attendance plans based on free­ enormous p1ice. r believe restricting the corpus. dom of choice. which would be consistent jurisdiction of the Federal courts Is the So what may we deduce regarding the with the Brown decision, the equal pro­ fastest and surest way ot eJiminating limits of congressional power to control tection clause and the Civil Rights Act; th . June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21385 AMERICAN UNEMPLOYED produced by a.n unemployed person, repre­ stlmulants--tax incentives, eas~ money, sents such an effort. Federal job programs, have not proven e!­ SUPPORTS H.R. 50 fectlve and have not produced signifteant 'l'HEORZES TO DISMISS THE UNEMPLOYED gains in employment because of basic The tTiclcie aown theary changes in the land: the great tasks o:f the HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS One way to dismiss the unemployed was 50's and 60's have been completed Just as OF CALIFORNIA to utilize the "trickle down" theory. The the post-war population boom has s:et about basic assumption of this theory was that if looking :ror work. Industrial expa.nsion has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES business was helped by the government then slowed and corporations have gone abroad Tuesday, June 29, 1976 the rest of the economy, including the un­ for labor. The suburbs have been huilt-it employed, would flourish. The theory had a remains only to connect them better with Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, it pleases long hist.orica.I foundation and was used in subways and highways. The massive Federal me to call the attention of the Members the McKinley campaign of 1897. The theory interstate project is completed and the to a statement on unemployment issued implled that high unemployment rates re­ Southeast Asia war is over. The space pro­ by the informal American Unemployed sulted from poor business, and that society gram has cooled. organization. Their statement considers was so structured. that government was at Meanwhile, failure to carry out the_ basic both the economic and social aspects of the top, business in the middle, and labor long-term requisites of employment policy, unemployment. It discusses the trickle at the bottom. Hence, help at the top would (1) job maintenance, and (2) job creation down theory, the trade-off theory, and eventually trickle down. The theory s.t11led has resulted in a worsening of the problem. thinking for It suggested the unemployed According to reputable sources 12 mllllon presents responses to these argumen~ could have no complaint as long as govern­ jobs would have to be created by 1980 tf un­ American Unemployed concurs with ment was helping business. employment ls to be reduced to 6 percent.1'. many other concerned groups that the The inflation-unemployment tradeoff tTteary Today the unemployed are d.lsadYantaged, Full Employment and Balanced Growth The tradeofr theory was another way to unorganized, and disoriented. They can.not Act is the best solution to the problem. consider unemployment. Professor Charles­ speak up. Unemployment ls a we Qf exile, The statement follows: Killlngsworth wrote: "The most commo relentlessly depriving the citize~ of nor­ .AMEB.lcAN UNEMPLOYED, statement of the doctrine is that ~you want mal partic.ipatlon In society. It must be. the Arltngton, Va., June 15, 1976. less unemployment you must accept more concern of government to encr this exile~ The Fall Employment and Balanced Hon. AUGUSTUS HAWKINS, pnce increases.: and if you want less price. House a/ Repf'esentat1.ves, increases you must accept more unemploy­ Growth Act of 1976 recognizes this. It should Washtngton, D.O. ment." The theory implied the necessity of be supported by all the mllllon.s now unem­ DEAB CONGRESSMAN BAwxms~ We a.re unemployment~ It indicated to the Jobless ployed, by all the mll11ons und ployed,, sending you our statement of support for- the that they clearly were part of an economic by all the millions mJsemployed, by all th Humphrey-Hawkins bills (S. 60 and HB. 50). plan. The formula seemed to recognize them m.lllions. with insecure positions, and by all The same statement has been sent to Rep. as somehow a counterbalance to inJlationary responsible persons interested In stMngth­ Joe Fisher, our Tenth District Representa­ forces. It took only a llttle imagination to enlng the national economy. The proposed tive, who has kindly provided us with copies realize th.at the unemployed, as a group, blll is a monument befitting the Bicenten­ of the bills and of the committee reports, were being credited with the power t.o keep nial. and whose campaign we again hope to ac­ national inflation from accelerating. They tively support. were, in effec~. accompUshJng what no one We read your article ..Disparaging and else could! There was economic value to COST OF LIVING INCREASE' FOR Flippant Comments on the Jobs Bmu in the unemployment. SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS Washington Post, May 29. Also Senator Response to the theories Humphrey's "A Strategy for Putting Amer­ ica Back to Work,'' May 14. Then we received The effect of these theories on the unem­ ployed was to confound them and to para­ HON. LES ASPIN the statement by Andrew J. Biemiller of OF WISCONSIN AFL-CIO and the opposing statements from lyze their thinking. The unemployed were The Nation&l Chamber of Commerce and already subject to the uncertainty of a rup­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from Schultze of Brookings. Our popular &nd tured future and thus unable to become. en­ Tuesday, June 29, 1976 informal organization hastens to add t.o the gaged in the Gordian knot these theories controvel'SY. made of the unemployment Issue. They Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker., I would like We would be most Interested in any cmn­ could not write of their problem for roughly to add my support to a concurrent reso­ ents on our statement. They would be most the same reason soldiers do not write dur­ lution which will finally insme that so­ ing battle-they are too busy trying to sur­ ~iously accepted.. cial secw·ity recipients receive the full vive. No one knows to what exten~ they fel~ Sincerely, cost-of-living benefits authorized by. law. Rls.ra '.MARTI'INEN, betrayed. Hea4, Freud said work, more than any other On July 3. the 33 million social secu­ J. s. LEE, human activity, keeps people In touch with rity recipients and 1,185,000' recipients of Vice Presiclent, reallty. If this was true a.nd high unemploy­ railroad retirement are due a 6.4-percent ROBT. PATTEBSON, ment was being maintained, it seemed there cost-of-living increase in their benefits. Writer, would be a citizenry out ar touch with real­ On an individual basis, the adjustment VAL MoLENDA, ity-to whatever extent there was a lack of will 1·aise average monthly benefits fl'om Student, ork. The issue had, for the unemployed, an ANNY LANDAUER, important psychological side. But thls., being $202 to $218 for a retired single worker, Director Emeritus. beyond their realm, the economists did not or from $194 to $208 for an elderly widow. explain. Yet, when the elderly receive this STATEJ;tENT OF THE INFORMAL ORGANIZATION LAW AND HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT BA.TES small increase, they can expect cutbackS Oli' AMERICAN UNEMPLOYED ON S~ 50 1. While no legal means may be found to in other Federal or federally assisted SCOPE OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT ISSUE oppose high rates of unemployment, it may programs for which they qualify. These Unemployment, as an issue, has at least justly be said unemployment ls taxation include medicaid, veter~ pensions, two important aspects-the economic and without representation: 1t takes from th-e public housing. e1t·tain Stare-supple­ the social. Both are considered in this paper defenseless citizen his or her money, savings, mented SSI and in some cases- partici­ and both should be considered in proposing property, and dignity. It 1.s a long way from pation in the food stamp program. legislation to reduce unemployment. due process. The programs affected by cutbacks are The issue of unemployment (unfortu­ 2. Unemployment ls fundamentally coun­ those which are "means-tested»---onJy nately for the unemployed) ls a complex ter-American because it frustrates the pur­ mixture o! economics, politics, and social suit of happiness and because it works those persons with the greatest need can theory-a subject which makes poor reading against the phrase in the Preamble calling qualify. In the past we have said, "Yes, because It is marked by muddled thinking, for the Constitutional promotion of the it costs more to live, we'll increase your unproven assumptions, conflicting opinions, "general Welfare." Thus, it is a question of social security." Then the same Govern­ and antiquated beliefs. This confuses the social contract. ment turns around and says, "Well, we unemployed so they are able to neither com­ 3. The Full Employment and Balanced see you have a little more money, now prehend their dilemma nor suggest ways ta Growth Act of 1976, as reported with amend­ your veterans benefits must be de­ end it by legislation. Simply to produce writ­ ments May 14, recognizes the general wel­ creased," or "You now must pa~ mo1·e ing on the issue the unemployed have to fare responsibility (page 32-33.) Past et­ overcome almost impossible twin obstacles fort.s to shore up the unemploym:ent rate rent." Sw·ely, it was not the intent- of posed by ( 1) the complexity of the issue, and have been futile because the etforts have Congress when establishing automatic (2) the paralyzing depression which accom­ been small scale and because there is a na­ panies prolonged joblessness. This paper, tional work shortage. Conventional economic " The Christian Science J'.Tonitor. CXXII--1349-Part 17 21386 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 cost-of-living increases in social security to loss or reduction as described 1n such divest themselves of their vertically Inte­ and railroad retirement to withdraw at section should Without delay consider a.nd grated operations, 1s indefensible and has the same time support for housing, nu­ report legislation eliminating the possiblllty been opposed not only by the major oil com­ trition, or medicine. of any such loss or reduction to the extent panies which, admittedly, could be accused that such benefits are concerned. of having a special interest, but also by the Many of my colleagues have already President, the Secretary of State, the Secre­ recognized this as a very real concern. tary of Commerce, the Secretary of the In­ A total of 112 separate bills have been in­ OIL DIVESTITURE BILL SHOULD terior, the Assistant Attorney General of the troduced in the 94th Congress which NOT BE ON THE SENATE FLOOR Justice Department's Antitrust Division, and would prevent reduction in other Fed­ a score of other knowledgeable Administra­ eral benefits as a result of a social secu­ tion and private individuals and organiza­ rity cost-of-living increase. HON. RONALD A. SARASIN tions. The testimony they presented in opposition Despite this congressional concern, the OF CONNECTICUT to the legislation is overwhelming, as well as House has not yet acted on this problem. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES convincing. There is no argument-or at least One obstacle to House action has appar­ Tuesday, June 29, 1976 no argument advanced thus far-that would ently been the fact that several different outweigh or even match their criticism of committees have jurisdiction over the Mr. SARASIN. Mr. Speaker, it is an vertical divestiture proposals as either in various Federal programs affected by so­ ancient but regrettable tradition among the national interest or in the interest of cial security increases. There also seems leaders to blame unfavorable situations the nation's consumers. Furthermore there beyond their control on some outside is no evidence at all to support dive~titure to be some disagreement among the var­ proponents' claims that such action would ious committees involved as to the best force or influence, thus diverting the reduce prices for this nation's consumers means of resolving the problem. public wrath away from the leaders and and there is considerable evidence Indicating I am pleased today to join several of toward the entity singled out for the that divestiture would In fact increase prices. my colleagues in trying a new approach blame. Yet despite that burden of evidence, the to break this impasse. This House con­ This principle of finding a scapegoat Senate Judiciary Committee has sent divesti­ current resolution urges all Senate and goes back to early man's blaming all ture legislation to the floor of the United House committees with jurisdiction over misfortune on evil spirits or dissatisfied States Senate, and while there is every reason gods who must be propitiated through to believe the legislation Will be defeated, it Federal programs affected by social se­ :is extraordinarily disappointing that the curity cost-of-living increases to draft offerings and sacrifices and in recent Congress simply is extending the period of legislation which would insure that, in times has seen whole classes or minori­ uncertainty facing the nation's petroleum the future, social security cost-of-livng ties within a population singled out and companies thereby lessening their effective­ increases would be disregarded when persecuted as the cause of all national ness in seeking out and developing new computing income under a means tested ills. energy sources. program, until such time as there is a In its most ordinary and prevalent Thomas R. Kauper, assista,nt attorney gen­ general adjustment in said program. form, however, it is seen when politicians eral with the Justice Department's Antitrust try to divert attention from their own Division, in testimony before the Judiciary For too many American senior citi­ Committee on the legislation, commented zens, the social security cost-of-living in­ inability to deal with a problem by find­ earlier this month: "The antitrust laws are crease has been a cruel hoax. I hope ing a convenient public scapegoat to intended. to limit the development and ex­ that the committees will respond to this attack in the guise of a solution to the ploitation of monopoly or market power...• resolution so that the elderly can at original difficulty. Market power is the ability of a firm or firms least hope to keep up with today's rising Thus it is with the issue of divestiture. to control the marketplace, rather than re­ costs. Some Members of Congress, finding spond to market developments; to control The resolution follows: themselves unable to come to grips with prices, production or competitive relation­ the real problem of energy supply, eco­ ships, rather than address them as a com­ CONCURRENT RESOLUTION petitor striving against other competitors. Expressing the sense of the Congress In nomic realities, and public discontent, Since S. 2387 (the divestiture legislation) favor of ellminating the reduction 1n other have found a convenient and vulnerable mandates a remedy-In the language of its Federal benefits which results when cost-of­ scapegoat. The big oil companies are not findings and purpose-<>! 'extraordinary di­ livlng increases in social security benefits sympathetic figures. They have been im­ mensions,'. one would expect the petroleum occur. plicated in political misdeeds, question­ industry to exhibit the structural character­ Whereas 33,000,000 recipients of social se­ able business practices and deceptions. istics of a monopolistic or at least very highly curity benefits, along with 1,185,000 recipi­ These infractions must be and are being oligopollstic industry. Availa,ble economic ents of railroad retirement benefits, are ex­ prosecuted and Government oversight data, however, is to the contrary." pected to receive a 6.4 percent cost-of-living Assistant Attorney General Kauper sup­ increase on July 3, 1977; and must continue. ports that contention: "While In the average Whereas past cost-of-living increases in But the fact is that the program of manufacturing industry in this country the social security benefits have resulted in cut­ divestiture now being pressed in the Con­ top four firms have 40 per cent of the market backs in other Federal and federally-assisted gress would not benefit anyone, least of and the top eight have 60 per cent, the programs and reductions in the benefits all the consumer. Not even the strongest Energy Resources Council Divestiture Task otherwise available thereunder; and proponents of divestiture maintain it Force reports that in the petroleum industry Whereas dealing With this problem on an would result in lower prices, and no one the figm·es are 26 per cent and 41 per cent overall basis is particularly difficult because can predict with any certainty how it for crude oil and natural gas liquids produc­ the Federal and federally-assisted programs would affect the ability of our domestic tion, 32 per cent and 57 per cent for refining involved fall within the jurisdictions of a capacity, and 31 per cent and 54 per cent number of different congressional commit­ industry to deal with the power of OPEC. for gasoline marketing operations. Further­ tees: Therefore be it In short, it is the old political ploy of more, no one company controls more than Resolved by the House of Representatives finding a scapegoat to divert attention 11 per cent of any of these markets." (the Senate concurring), That it is declared from ineffectiveness. So much for the ludicrous contention that to be the sense of the Congress that no At this point, I would like to off er for the petroleum industry is noncompetitive individual whose social security benefits are my colleagues' consideration, a thorough and monopolistic. increased (whether as the result of an auto­ and thoughtful discussion of this issue Julius L. Katz, deputy assistant Secretary matic cost-of-living adjustment or by the from the Hartford, Conn., Times of June of State, expressed even graver concerns: "I enactment of a law) should suffer, by rea­ would like to express the concern of the De­ son of such increase, a loss of or reduction 26,1976: partment of State over the adverse iinpact in any benefits which he or she (or the fam­ OIL DIVESTITURE BILL SHOULD NOT BE ON this bill could have on our domestic energy ily or household of which he or she is a THE SENATE FLOOR objectives. Growing dependence on imported member) is otherwise entitled to receive The decision of the United States Senate oil has made us unacceptably vulnerable, under any Federal or federally-assisted pro­ Judiciary Committee to report divestiture politically as well as economically, to em­ gram. legislation to the full Senate is incompre­ bargoes and arbitrary increases in oil prices. SEc. 2. In order to implement the declara­ hensible and irresponsible, particularly since It is likely that the forced divestiture of our tion contained in the first section of this a majority of the membership of the com­ major oil companies would jeopardize our resolution, each committee of the House o! mittee acknowledged opposition to the ability to achieve our reduced dependence Representatives or the Senate which has legislation. goals. These companies are a crucial source jurisdiction over any Federal or federally­ The legislation, which would force the of technology, capital and know-how for de­ assisted program providing benefits subject nation's largest petroleum companies to veloping our domestic energy resources." June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21387 Secretary of the Interior TJ::..omas S. Kleppe IN SPRING, NADER'S FANCY TURNS You say you live on only $5,000. The rest, was equally blunt in testimony before the TO THOUGHTS OF TRUST-BUSTING you claim, goes to public-interest causes, committee. He said, "My view 1s tbat the and even though yon decHne to prove tt by divestiture ... would involve substantially revealing your tax returns, I believe you. I greater costs than any benefits it might pro­ HON. CHARLES WILSO admit to being little troubled, however, when I read you h.a.ve become a. conglomer­ duce.... No convincing demonstrations h.a.ve OF TEXAS been made that there a.re significant failures ate-a. network of at least 13 subsidiary of the competitive market system. for any IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES groups at five different addresses with 75 pro­ phase of the industry. Forced divestiture can Tuesday, J·une 29, 1976 fessionals, mostly lawyers, who a.re into an have anticompetitive effects ... Divestiture ever-widening range of problems. can seriously injure economic efficiency and Mr. CHARLES WILSON of Texas. Mr. Bigness doesn't bother me, Ralph. I even our efforts to become energy self-sufficient Speaker, whatever Ralph Nader is, he is have a certain perverse affection for the ... The demonstrated abllity of integrated not a lovable person. He has been ad­ federal government. But your enlarged status companies to ameliorate embargo efforts mired and hated, respected and scorned, has brought complaints of inaccuracies and would be lost by divestiture." but nowhere in the public record is there sloppy work. One writer described your new Each o! those compelling comments was report on "Constitutionallzing the Corpora­ testimony of tenderness or the warm tion." as "a dangerously defective proauct ma.de to the Judiciary Committee before it bond of affection. Until Monday. that is, reported the divestiture p1·oposal to the full which should be recalled by its manufac­ Senate, yet the committee acted anyway. when a fan of his wrote a very touching turer before it infilcts injury upon unwary Does anyone truly believe that the President, lett.e1· to him which appeared in the users." That can hurt you, Ralph, put a. little the State Department, the Secretary of the Washington Post. tarnish on the shiny credibillty. Interior, the Secretary of Commerce, the Since Mr. Nader has demanded of all But none of the criticisms really turned antitrust divlsion of the Justice Department of us that we make public the smallest me off. What finally got to me was, of all and the Secretary of the Treasury, long an detail of our financial holdings but has things, a speech you gave recently in Mar­ opponent of divestiture, as well as the na­ refused to disclose anything of his, I shall, Minn. You went on and on ahout how miserable everything ls-from drinking water tion's energy czar, Frank Zarb, also long an think this insight into his personality opponent of the measure, are &ll tools of the to mobile homes; from building codes to petroleum companies &imply doing their will be of interest to you: crime 1n the business suites;. from the un­ bidding while the handful of congressmen in [From the Washington Post, June 28, 1976] necessarily high cost of communications t_o the House and Senate favoring the legisla­ TIME YOB A VACA'HON, R.4LPH the gluttony of the oil companies. which, you tion are acting unselfishly and in the na­ (By Geri Joseph) implied, are keeping us from cheap solar tional interest? energy. Ralph, baby .•. You did add that this ls a :rich country That is far too much for any American to It had to bappen. I mean, after all, how be asked to bellevtt. Instead, It must be be­ and our problems are solvable. But, Ralph. much can a person take.? Looking back, may­ I suddenly felt so tired. We'll never do it, lieved that the battle over divestlt\ll'e 1s sim­ be our relationship was built on too flimsy a ply a congressional smokescreen to cover I thought dispiritedly. We'll never make the foundation. Togetherness against pollution world safe for consumers. Even if we solve a up the inability of the House and the Sen­ and corruption and consumer fraud can wear ate to come to grips with the reality of the problem, two more will spring up in its a little thin as the years go by. place. atlon's energy criSis by recognlzing and I still admire you, you understand. Along enacting legislation to Immediately decon­ with 58 percent of the American people, I And that's why we need a vacation from trol petrolewn and natural gas prices in think you are the consumer's best friend. each other. I have had it with you and prob­ lems. I know a person should become an ordel' to stimulate exploration and develop­ And heaven knows I a.m a consumer. not ment. But the truth is, Ralph, you have become ostrich. There are problems, and we must The Congress simply ls playing dangerous too much of a good thing. And let's face ft, face them. But I need a breather. and yoU're games. you are a relentless nag. You are always after not the kind of fellow who approves ot me to do something about hard, complicated breathers. problems, and, frankly, you've worn me out. Which brings me to something els.e. I'm So what I am suggesting is not a complete worried about you. You say you don't believe in relaxation. Just work. You probably lead TRIBUTE TO BENNET!' C. break, but a vacation from each other. Yes-, I know you don't take vacations except, may­ the most Spartan existence of anyone in WHITLOCK, JRF be, a day at Chrtstmas-although thertt was Washington. which may not be much of a that time in 1963 when you spent three standard these days. But, if reports are true, months in South America. But I take vaca­ you live in a $80-a-month room, sana tele­ HON. JAMES R. MANN tions, Ralph, and I think I need one from phone and television. You don't cllink, smoke OF SOUTH CAROLINA you. or eat processed meat. And while yon looked IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES When you began your career as critic, you if a limp breeze might bl-Ow you away. were a new face and a clear voice. The way you claim to have great stamina that permits Tuesday, June 29, 1976- you took on the mighty automakers way back you to work hours on end Without sleep. Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I commend in 1965 was the stUff of legends. Anybody Well, Ralph, you a.re still young. I think the members of the American Trucking who's had the door handle fall off a new you should laugh more and go out on dates. Association, Inc., on their choice of Ben­ car or, even worse, had it stall in the middle Take time to smell the :flowers. Right there in of a freeway in 5 p.m. traffic knows your name Washington you have the beautiful Dum­ nett C. Whitlock, Jr., for the o:ffiee of and c&lls you blessed. barton Oaks gardens. Go spend a little time president of their trade organization. You got into a lot of other things, too, contemplating that marvelously serene It occurred to me in reflecting upon Ralph. When you went after the federal regu­ statue of Mrs. Henry Adams. You may not Bennett's latest achievement that it was lator agencies for being comfy-cozy with in­ believe it, but there is more to the world just about this time 30 years ago that we dustries they regulate, we knew you were than p1·oblems. first met as students at the University of on our side. When you assailed the federal And I'll be seeing you, Ralph, I'm not sure South Carolina Law School. I have fol­ housing program, you said, "A bureaucracy when, but I'll be back. At least I think I'll is like a fish. It rots from the head down." be back. lowed his career in the trucking indus­ So true, and you were saying it befOl"e these try with great admiration and respect Ronnie-and Jimmy-come-latelies. over these past three decades, and take Then, in 1970, there was the medical pro­ great delight in this latest expression fession a.nd its deficiencies. Too many un­ GRADUATION SPEECHF.S of peer confidence in his extraordinary necessary operations, you said, and too many talents and abilities. unnecessary prescriptions. You c.rtlcized "un­ HO . DAWSON MATHIS I am certain that Bennett will make a satisfactory care" by doctors. A lot of people great contribution to the search for re­ thought you were needling with too big a OF GEORGIA needle, but many of us understood you ere IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES sponsible solutions to the emerging prob­ doing it for us. lems and changing patterns of our Na­ You have been busy, Ralph. Whether you Tuesday, June 29, 1976 tion's transportation system-a search work 15, 18 or 20 hours a day, as dilferent Mr. MATHIS. Mr. Speaker, recently I in which the Federal Government, in­ aides report everybody can see you make had the honor of adcfressing the gradu­ cluding the Congress, is also involved. diligent use of your time. Camp safety. Clean water. The dangers of nuclear power. Wher­ ating class o-f 1976 at Ravenwood Aca­ I congratulate Bennett as he under­ ever there's a problem. atrecttng consun:iers, demy. Meigs, Ga., which is, of course, in takes his new duties and responsibilities there you a.re. the dist1ict I am privileged to represent. as president of ATA, and wish him con­ I'm not one of those who ls bothered by I was greatly impressed by the dedication tinued success in his career endeavors. the report that you make $250,000 a year. of the graduates to this great Nation of 21388 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 ours, and was delighted to be reminded will, the scene as Washington outlined it to for during the years. These titles are not as that these out.standing young people his officers. During the meeting, he read important to us as the glory of winning a.nd share my love and yours for this country Thomas Paine's pamphlet "The American proving that we are capable of winning, We and it.s institutions. The salutatorian of Crisis" which had been written during the · have watched our school grow -and expand the class of '76 was Terry Reis and the agonizing retreat across New Jersey. "These and we have grown along with it. We now are the times that try men's souls," Paine feel that we are capable of proclaiming our valedictorian was Cheryl Ann Willis, wrote, "the summer soldier and the sunshine own independence because we have faced the both of Pelham, Ga. Each of these young patriot will in this crisis shrink from the competition and tasted victory. We have people brought distinction to themselves, service of his country, but he that stands it learned from our mistakes in defeat and their classmates, families and school now deserves the love and thanks of men and believe that it ls time for us to lead our own with their remarks on the occasion. I women." lives. commend their remarks, which I am in­ Although Americans have always given No longer will we be high school students serting in the RECORD, to you: more international aid per capita than any being able to think only of the fun that ea.ch other nation, the mask of "Ugly American" day brings, but we must now become adults, SPEECH BY TERRY REIS, SALUTATORIAi.'l, RAVEN­ ls pressed upon them. Never in their 200 having to fa.ce the decisions that life brings WOOD ACADEMY, MEIGS, GA. years of history have Americans been so un­ to us. Just as our fellow countrymen made From its very inception, America has al­ sure of themselves. They have lost their self­ tha.t important decision 200 years ago to an­ ways seen God as our sustaining power. confidence, a process catalyzed and ac­ nounce their independence which affected The Founders of this great Nation, when celerated by loss of confidence in leaders. our entire history, we will also be making called to the work of a new nation, began However, America is strong and young important decisions that will infiuence our by expressing their hearts' desire to God for enough to mobilize forces which can restore own lives. We will be taking more responsi­ his divine guidance upon their lives as they self-confidence, first to its own people and bilities that will affect us each day whether looked to the welfare of this new endeavor. then to its friends in the world. we are at college, at a job, or even at home. George Washington concluded his second These forces have both the will to sustain Our forefathers decided to take that first step Inaugural speech with these words, "I have freedom and the courage to oppose every­ into a new life. Now we, too, a.re faced with obeyed the suffrage which commanded me where the enemies of this freedom, including that same confrontation. But w1ll our first to resume the executive power; and I humbly the self-seeking, the complacent, and the steps be in the right direction? implore that being, on whose will the fate cowards at home. The education that we have received here of the nation depends, to crown with success If America again takes morality as the at Ravenwood Academy has opened the doors our mutual endeavors for the general hap­ guiding principle of her actions as she did to opportunity, and it is up to us to walk piness." 200 years ago, freedom will be reborn through those doors. These doors lead to a Everything is a gift from God. The least throughout the world. If America fails, the better life, not only for ourselves but for our that we can do is thank God for what we world is lost. country as well because when we help our­ have. Our country ts a gift. If we share our We must remember that for 200 years we selves, we help our country. America still gifts with others, they come back to us a have had a reputation of being good. We needs her people to uphold her status among hundred fold. We cannot make it along the must remember that we are the greatest all nations and we are a part of that people. road of life on our own. country in the free world. Other countries We should do the best in our power to help As Americans, we can be justly proud of have been attempting to develop third force our country. The freedom that we are receiv­ our country. Two hundred years ago, dedi­ power too under the umbrella of our ing is not free, but then, any freedom has a cated men and women began a noble experi­ strength. price to be pa.id. The price of freedom may ment in personal freedom and individual If we disappear or avoid our call to re­ involve personal sacrifice. OUr forefathers liberty which has shaped the American dream sponsibility, there wlll be chaos indeed. were willing to sacrifice their own lives to ever since. The most important task ahead of us is to obtain their freedom. We need only to sacri­ In a world where thousands--even mil­ be alive and free. Now, survival is the im­ fice the time to devote ourselves to lives that lions-live daily with gnawing hunger, or portant thing. should be lived to the best of our abilities. wasting sickness, or stark poverty, or numb­ We who are alive today did not inake our If we wish to keep our freedom to lead our ing Ignorance or unrelenting despair, Ameri­ free institutions. We received them from the own lives, then America must remain a free cans have always tried to reach out a gener­ men of the past and we hold them in trust country also. ous hand. But even after two centuries we for the future. Should we put ease and self­ So now as we leave our high school days have many in "the land of the free" who ishness above them, that trust wlll foll and behind, let us not shut those open doors but still are shackled by tremendous needs. Many we shall lose all, not a portion or degree of walk through them into a new life--6 life more, with even more serious problems, live liberty, but all that has been built for us full of new experiences and the rewards that outside our favored land. and all that we hope to build. Real peace may come with the competition that life Although this ts our day of graduation, I w1ll not be won with one victory. It can be offers. To us the Bicentennial Year not only would like to note _that it is also another won only by long determination, firm re­ means remembering our country's freedom memorial day-a day set aside to honor our solve, and a w1ll to share and work with other but the beginning of our own freedom as nation's dead, who died in the nation's wars. men. well as we leave Ravenwood Academy in the Let me share part of a tribute from the dead Spirit of '76. soldier to those who survived and I quote: SPEECH BY CHERYL ANN WILLIS, RAVENWOOD "We are the young men who answered the ACADEMY VALEDICTORIAN call so many times in the past 200 years. We The graduating class of 1976 has had the are mothers' sons who did not return. Per­ honor of being a part of the great celebra­ ELDORADO HOSPITAL RECEIVES haps you have forgotten us killed at Lexing­ tion of our country's 200th birthday during ton and Concord by British bullets, or by this Bicentennial year. Just as our country RECOGNITION disease and cold at Valley Forge. Our blood has been preparing for the past several years has stained the sou of so many of our 50 to celebrate her 200 years of freedom, our states and lands around the world. It was senior class has also been preparing for the HON. PAUL SIMON the price exacted to preserve our freedom. beginning of a new kind of freedom. OF ILLINOIS Then World War I came along and young Our forefathers had to prove that they IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Americans were again going into battle: this were capable of being victors before they Tuesday, June 29, 1976 time on foreign sou and these battles swelled proclaimed their independence. Several years the ranks of our legion of the dead, yet it was ago we set our goals and many of these goals Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, the Federa­ a war we believed would be the last great were achieved during our years of high confiict among men. tion of American Hospitals Magazine Re­ school. We have members of our class who view in its June issue has a feature arti­ Of course, we were Inlstaken. Soon, came have had the honor of participating in a World War II and our young were engaged in state championship football game and others cle about Ferrell Hospital in Eldorado, confilct around the world, on land, sea, and who were part of the girls' basketball state Ill., which is in my district. in the air. We gave our lives at Pearl Harbor, championship team. our boys' basketball Because the statistics are striking, I Anzio, the Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, and Iwo team was able to defeat stronger teams and think some of my colleagues will be in­ Jima. And women fell too from the jungles of win a spot in the semifinals in the region terested in this small hospital and what New Guinea to the cold mud of Italy. Then, tournaments for the first time. Our golf team it is contributing to an area. We are came Korea, and Vietnam and today our began to receive recognition as they captured proud of Ferrell Hospital and pleased to legion of the dead has grown to astronomi­ second place at region. We have classmates cal figures. We know that with greatness who have tasted victory at the state track see this national attention coming to it. comes responsibility and men must be ready meets. We have watched our band grow into The article follows: to defend that greatness against the preda­ a marching unit to participate at football T. L. C. IS DELIVERED IN RURAL AREA tors of history." games. We have beauty queens among us SHO\VPLACE One of the great moments in American such as "Miss Ravenwood" and "l\iiss Pel­ The sign outside the imposing white brick history was Washington's decision to recross ham". The literary events have had their building reads: Ferrel Hospital. the Delaware River and risk everything in share of winners too. These are only a few of On the inside, however, it does not look one desperate surprise attack. Imagine, if you the accomplishments that we have strived like a hospital-and that is the whole idea. June 29, 1976 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21389 With its ultra-fancy inte1·ior decorations­ He said that the hospital had averaged an THE WHITE HOUSE, art gallery collection of paintings-period 86 percent occupancy since February, 1974. Washington, May 11, 1976. furniture in every rom-and wall-to-wall car­ Brown believes that the "built-in" clinic We now mark the beginning of our Third peting, investor-owned Ferrel Hospital could facilities Will be a major attraction in re­ Century as an Independent Nation as well as pass for a small, expensive hotel in a big cruiting physicians. There are five on the the 200th Anniversary of the American Revo­ city. medical staff now. He says that recruitment lution. For two centuries our Nation has But, instead, the 47-bed hospital (which of doctors is one of the greatest challenges grown, changed and flourished. A diverse peo­ also includes a "built-in" clinic for doctors facing rural hospitals now "a.long with em­ ple, drawn from all corners of the earth, have and other special units) is a showplace for ploying qualified, technical personnel." joined together to fulfill the promise of Eldorado, Illinois (population, 7,000). It Brown became administrator of the hos­ democracy. serves a rural area where coal mining and pital in 1962, and in 1967, he and two other America's Bicentennial is rich in history agriculture are the major industries. partners purchased the facility. and in the promise and potential of the years The hospital was founded in 1928 on the One of the very difficult problems for a that lie a.head. It is a.bout the events of our second floor of a downtown store building by rural hospital, he said, is the recruitment of past, our achievements, our traditions, our the late J. V. Ferrell, M.D. It was moved to personnel. diversity, our freedoms, our form of govern­ its present location in the 1930s. There were "Most hospital employees are female," he ment and our continuing commitment to a two subsequent expansions which increased said. "If they a.re married, they must live better life for all Americans. The Bicenten­ the bed size to the present, allocated and work in an area where they can find em­ nial offers each of us the opportunity to join capacity. ployment. Until recent economic changes in with our fellow citizens in honoring the past The new hospital was opened on February our area, such as revival of the coal mining and preparing for the future in communities 1, 1974 as a replacement for the old, two­ industry, our employment picture was not too across the Nation. Thus, in joining together story structure, which has been converted bright, and we had considerable difficulty as races, nationalities, and individuals, we into administrative omces, medical library, finding qualified employees." also retain and strengthen our traditions, doctors' lounge, omces for medical records Brown said that the hospital offered spe­ cial incentives to employees in addition to the background and personal freedom. and purchasing, a large lecture and in-service As we lay the cornerstone of America's classroom and storage facilities. traditional fringe benefits. For example, the Despite the hospital's look of luxurious­ hospitals holds memberships in the Eldora.do Third Century, I am most happy to commend ness, its rates are compatible and competi­ Country Club and the Oak Meadows Country the Department of the Interior and the Ar­ Club in Evansville, Indiana. for its members. chitectural and Transportation Barriers Com­ tive with a larger, voluntary hospital in pliance Board on the inauguration of the Eldorado. Also, there are family memberships for em­ ployees at local swimming pools. Meals at the special Bicentennial program to help make ALTERNATIVE TO TRADITIONAL hospital are furnished without charge be­ our national monument.s more accessible to Donald G. Brown, president of Ferrell Hos­ cause employees are required to stay on the our handicapped fellow citizens. Efforts such pital, challenges the use of the word "elabo­ premises. as this are helping to make our great na­ rate" to describe the facility. tional celebration a memorable and mean­ "We do not consider it elaborate," he told ingful one for all. The Review." We consider it an alternative GERALD R. FORD. to the traditional hospital environment. A LINCOLN MEMORIAL ELEVATOR person who ls admitted to the hospital as a patient is ill or injured and must have the INVOCATION most pleasant surroundings possible to aid HON. GEORGE M. O'BRIEN Eternal Father of all men, as we meet to in recovery. OF ILLINOIS dedicate this first national monument to the handicapped of thy children we invoke "Our facllity is carpeted throughout with IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES a commercial grade, low nap, tightly woven thy divine benedictions upon our efforts. carpet, which has cut the noise level by 90 Tuesday, June 29, 1976 We know, oh God, that only as we take care percent-and this, too, is most conducive to of those who are less fortunate do we ac­ recovery. The carpet in each room is a differ­ Mr. O'BRIEN. Mr. Speaker, not long knowledge thee, our Father. Grant us, then, ent color. ago elevator service was inaugurated at the insight, we pray thee, that this monu­ "Also, we have all-electric beds in different the Lincoln Memorial here in Washing­ ment may be a. constant reminder of our motifs such as Pennsylvania Dutch, Early ton. As a result, our physically disabled responsibilities and our obligations to the American, Traditional Spanish and others. citizens at last can see the interior of handicapped and for them may this monu­ The hospital is totally color coordinated so that impressive structure up close, not ment ever stand as a. symbol of hope and that by merely moving furniture and drap­ only on a postcard or from the foot of courage, of love and brotherhood. Give us the eries we can completely redecorate every room largesse to look upon them not as inferiors for the next 12 years Without purchasing those beautiful, but unconquerable, mar­ but as thy children, no less than we, and anything new. ble steps. In a very real way, that new grant us the patience to treat them with love "We have color television and private baths elevator has opened the doors not only and hwna.nity. Humble us in the knowledge in each room, and original art work through­ to a monument but to our national heri­ that but for thy grace there go we. out the hospital." tage and made it possible for every Amer­ Brown said there was a total of 250 paint­ ican to enjoy them more fully. Today, upon a bus, ings, including a 20-piece collection in the I saw a lovely girl with golden hair. That pleasure and enjoyment was mir­ I envied her, she seemed so gay, central nursing station area. rored in the faces of the many physically "We have some original paintings and And wished I were as fair. etchings that are part of a museum collec­ disabled guests who attended the dedica­ When suddenly she rose to leave, tion. Their joy was infectious as they ex­ I saw her hobble down the a.isle. tion from a New York gallery. The hospital She had one leg, and wore a crutch, has made arrangements to have them on dis­ plored the monument for the first time play indefinitely. I happen to like art. As to but the most touching moment came And as she passed-a smile. the interior decorations, I always have felt when James S. Jeffers triumphantly Of God, forgive me when I whine . that it doesn't cost but just a little more emerged from the elevator in his wheel­ I have two legs ..• the world is Inine. to decorate properly than to go along with chair. And then I stopped to buy something sweet, the traditional pea green walls and hard serv­ As ice terrazo flooring. executive director of the Architec­ The lad who sold them had such cha.rm. tural and Transportation Compliance I talked to him-he seemed so glad- HELD TO CONSTRUCTION BIDS Board, Jim had fought long and hard If I were late, 'twould do no ha.rm. "We completed this hospital 15 months to see that elevator installed. Knowing ago at a time when the average per bed cost And as I left, he said to me: in the United States was more than $60,000. Jim as I have the privilege of doing, I am "I thank you. You've been so kind. This hospital was built and equipped for less sure he will continue to fight until every It's nice to talk to folks like you. than $25,000 per bed and meets all National public monument and museum, and our "You see," he said, "I'm blind." Safety Code requirements. We were able to private buildings as well, are accessible I have two eyes .· .. the world is mine. accomplish this through design and by apply­ to all Americans. I have two eyes ... the world is Inine. ing industrial business practices to the con­ As a sponsor of legislation to help struction. We took bids and held to them achieve this goal, I was pleased and hon­ Later, walking down the street, at a time when costs were escalating quite ored to have been asked to participate in I saw a child with eyes of blue. rapidly. Nevertheless, we had locked-in bids." He stood and watched the others play; Brown describes the new Ferrell Hospital the Lincoln dedication ceremony. Today rt seemed he knew not what to do. as a building that "resembles a very nice I would like to share with my colleagues I stopped a moment, then I said: home or hotel." He believes that a rural hos­ the President's dedication message, my "Why don't you join the others, dear?" pital can offer a "more homey environment" own invocation, and a Washington Post He looked a.head without a word, than larger hospitals. editorial describing the event: And then I knew_:_he could not hear. 21390 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 29, 1976 Oh God, forgive me when I whine deal of discussion about the so-called With the well-being of every American 1;1.t I have two ears ... the world ls mine. divestiture legislati-0n which would f-0rce stake they are making vague, unproven and With legs to take me where I'd go ..• the major U.S. oil companies to dispose unprovable charges, emotionally presenting With eyes to see the sunset's glow . to the Amerlcan people distorted images of of some of their operations. one of the finest industries in the world effi­ With ears to hear what I would know ... At this time, I would like to call to the ciently operated and furnishing vital, highest Oh God, forgive me when I whine attention of my colleagues a letter that grade products and services at fair prices. I'm blessed indeed . . . the world is mine! was written to the editor of the Arizona Some of the proponents of divestiture even Bountiful father, bestow, we pray thee, Republic by Walter R. Shoaff of Sun admit prices of gas would rise due to loss of thy blessings upon our beloved country, on City, Ariz. Mr. Shoa:fI's letter appeared coordination, but all that matters to them the government of this republic, on the in that newspaper on June 5, 1976, and I is to wipe out those "obscene profits" of sturdy President of the United States, and think it presents a strong argument seven cents for ten gallons received by us all who exercise justice and rightful author­ "profiteers." Beats me I against divestiture and for the free en­ No, I do not work and have never worked ity. Keep our country free from all totali­ terprise system: tarian ideologies and pagan philosophies so for an oil company. I do own 210 shares of that our country may ever be the beacon of WHAT Is "OBSCENE" ABOUT 7 CENTS PROFIT? Texaco and in spite of inflation, in more freedom and hope for all men everywhere. After listening to a candidate for President than two years I have not received even· a Bless thou, oh God, the work of our hand, of the United States denouncing me (and five cent increase from those "obscene the work of our hand, bless thou it.-Amen. others) on TV the other night, I'm beginning profits." to wonder if I really am Public Enemy No. 1. WALTER R. SHOAFF. [From the Washington Post, May 5, 1976) I am the owner (with many "partners") of MB. LINCOLN'S NEW VISITORS an oil company! For some time now I have heard myself The Marine Band was playing. Official attacked as a conspirator, rip-off artist, MIDDLE DISTILLATE DECONTROL­ speeches were made. And then James S. Jef­ monopolist, corruptor and enemy of the peo­ fers rolled his wheelchair into the newly in­ ple robbing the public by making obscene ENERGY ACTIONS NO. 3 AND NO. 4, stalled elevator on the side of the Lincoln profits of as much as 45 cents of every in­ ENERGY AND POWER SUBCOM­ Memorial. Seconds later, a wheelchair-bound come dollar. MITI'EE STAFF ANALYSIS handicapped person was able for the first If I am guilty as charged, I would admit time to achieve the same easy access to the that a miscreant such as I should be pun­ cherished national shrine that has been ished to the fullest extent of the law; but HON. JOHN D. DINGELL available all along to millions of non-handi­ my persona.I reaction is one of wonderment OF MICHIGAN capped Americans. Mr. Jeffers was visibly and asking: Who, Me? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRF.SENTATIVES moved. He feels strongly a.bout Abraham I'm the guy who, with other like-minded Lincoln. And as executive director of the Tuesday, June 29, 1976 Architectural and Transportation Barriers people, showed our faith in America. by put­ Compliance Board, he also feels strongly ting up hard earned savings to furnish serv­ Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, today the that, as required by law, all public buildings ices and products vital to raising standards Subcommittee on Energy and Power and transportation must be a.c-0essible to of living of Americans and the other peoples held a hearing on the subject of errors everyone regardless of physical disability and of the world. I "hired" organizers, administrators, geolo­ and ommissions discovered in the Fed­ Without undue dependence on others. The eral Energy Administration's analysis in new elevator at the Lincoln Memorial, which gists, specialists, managers, clerk engineers was dedicated the other morning, was in­ and laborers and sent many of them to all support of middle distillate decontrol. stalled by the National Park Service in com­ parts of the world to search for locations Because the House will be called upon pliance with this law. where petroleum might be found. I provided to consider and vote on this issue This compliance, we are sorry to report, is equipment necessary to definitely locate the tomorrow, I would like to provide my col­ still s01newhat of an exception. Estimates of oil and gas and to extract it from the ground. leagues with information regarding this the number of Americans with physical han­ Many wells proved dry-some were produc­ hearing. Elsewhere in the CONGRESSIONAL tive. dicaps range from 35 to 50 m.llllon individ­ RECORD I have inserted my opening uals. It is a. measure of our national reluc­ The searches were conducted in all sorts of hostile environments--steaming jungles, statement. At this point I insert the tance to face their problems and the analysis prepared by the stair of the indignity to which they are all too often deserts where temperatures ran to 130 degrees, subjected that we do not even have more arctic regions where temperatures dropped Subcommittee on Energy and Power. precise figures. Even today some public, not to 70 degrees below zero, North Sea and off­ This analysis was presented in testimony to mention private, buildings are being built shore platforms where raging storms are form to the subcommittee. that, in effect, bar persons with physical common. STAFF ANALYSIS-MIDDLE DISTILLATE handicaps from dignified access to jobs, edu­ I pumped. the oil, transported it to DECONTROL cation or the enjoyment of art. A number of tankers-ship, railroad, trucks and pipelines (Prepared by the Staff of the Subcommittee recent court decisions, state laws, local gov­ to refineries I constructed, where I converted on Energy and Power) ernment ordinances and acts of Congress the crude products into the finest fuels, lub­ have helped to remove some barriers. A White ricants, fertilizers and other valuable prod­ The FEA analysis in support of middle dis­ House Conference on Handicapped Individ­ ucts. Then I transported those products to tillate decontrol is predicated upon the con­ uals, scheduled for spring 1977, will surely retail outlets--some independent, some I clusion that supplies of middle distillates mean further progress. constructed and leased to individual opera­ will be adequate to meet forecasted demand The Lincoln Memorial elevator ls both tors and some I operated myself, bringing the over the next three years. A second funda­ convenient and inconspicuous. Another such products and services conveniently to the mental conclusion underlying FEA's analysis elevator ls now under construction at the people. is that decontrol of middle distillates Jefferson Memorial and should be completed Such are the services I render to people presents little potential for price increases in another month. In his dedication speech including my next door neighbor who owns and poses a minimum economic and social at the Lincoln Memorial the other day, In­ an Opel with gas tank ca.pa.city of a little risk. terior Secretary Thomas Kleppe pledged that over 10 gallons. Periodically he goes to the A. FEA DEMAND ANALYSIS future construction for the National Park gas station and says, "Fill 'er up." When he Any forecast of middle distill!4te demand Service and the Interior Department will be gets a full ten gallons he pays $5.79 for it must take into consideration the following designed without architectural barriers so and sometimes damns the oil companies for factors: the "rip-off." that all Americans, no matter what their 1. The length and severity of the winter physical condition, Will be able to enjoy the In due course I receive my share of the "obscene profits" made at his expense. The heating season which would affect demand natural and historical heritage of their for heating oil; country. profit my company made last year on such a transaction was fourteen cents of which 2. The level of natural gas curtailments one half was retained in the business to in­ which would affect demand for middle dis­ WHAT IS "OBSCENE" ABOUT 7 GENTS sure that my neighbor ca.n be assured of tillates used as an alternative fuel; PROFIT? fulfillment of his future needs and hope­ 3. Demand projections for other fuels fully continue to benefit from prices far below which may be produced by a refinery in those charged in the other industrial nations preference to middle distillates or for which HON. SAM STEIGER of' the world. mld of the "July 3-In the morning, more mini-rallies, ond series of potentially violent demon· exploitation of man by man. more lea.tleting, more agitation. In the after­ strations 1n Philadelphia on July 4 is • • • • • noon a three-pronged march from dl:fferent being organized by the Maoist Commu­ "From the American Revolution, only the pa.rt [sic] of the city will converge to greet nists of the Revolutionary Communist revolutionary spirit of the new replacing the the arrival of thousands more demonstrators, Party-RCP-through its Rich Off OW" old, or turning the world upside down, can mostly unemployed workers, from all around Backs--July 4th Coalition-ROOB. be claimed as our heritage. the country. United, all will march to City The Rich Off Our Backs contingent's Hall for a rally and then to Tent City where • • • • • there will b& a concert • • •. strong potential for street violence is in­ "• • • it is inevitable that oppression will "July 4-The eyes of the country and the dicated by the records of the RCP cadre breed resistance, that a system that blocks world will be focused on Philadelphia. We will in launching dozens of building take­ the advance of society will come to be op­ b& there to tear away the tinsel, say how it overs, sitins, disruptions, attacks on rival posed by the great majority of people, and really ls and proclaim our determination not political groups, and confrontations with that revolution, the mighty upheaval of the to stand for their abuses. • • • employed and oppressed, will succeed in overthrowing the unemployed workers, veterans, students and police during the past 3 years. old order. The RCP /ROOB rhetoric is designed youth will assemble at 10 a.m. on the north • • • • • side of City Hall. All of our battles, all of our to create a climate for mob violence. "Their system chokes the very forces of organizing, coming together in a disciplined RICH On OUR BACKS--J'ULY 4TH COALITION production the working class has created, it and powerful march, with contingents from The captioned group, ROOB, was organized swaggers from crisis to crisis. They embroil auto, steel and garment, from the dtll'erent in mid-March this year by the Revolutionary the working people of the world in imperialist industries and organizations, will move Communist Party (RCP), a nationally active wars. They are no longer fit to rule. through the city behind a forklift carrying Maoist-communist party formerly known as "And today there . is a class capable of the UWOC petition with its hundreds of the Revolutionary Union (RU), which oper­ waging revolution against the capitalists and thousands of signatures. A rally Will be held ates from Chicago [P.O. Box 3486, Merchan­ their system-the working class. The whole near Independence Hall, expressing our dise Mart, Chicago, IL 60654] . history of its struggle • • • prepares it to unity, outrage, and pointing to the day when The ROOB consists of five organizations, seize power. • • • But the working class will we will get the rich off our backs. each by their documents a totally dominated wage revolution • • • and consciously and "* • • The mllitance and discipline will front group for the RCP. They are the Viet­ systematically use our labor and the ma­ insure that no one will be able either to pro­ nam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), the chinery and tools our labor has pr<>n of classes altogether-communist so­ right in the teeth of the capita.lists' massive (RSB)-formerly known as the Attica Brig­ ciety. celebration." ade; the New York-New Jersey United Work­ "• • • Despite whatever obstacles lie in Other nationally distributed. ROOB leaflets ers Organization, and the May 1st Workers our way, the tide of history is with the work­ state: Organization (CA.). ing class toward revolution, socialism and "Now is the time to pull it together. All our Following several weeks of negotiations communism. forces. All our battles. As we have always and legal proceedings. U.S. District Judge "There is no question as to whether the fought them, we will fight them on the day Joseph L. McGlynn, Jr. ruled against the working class o! this country will fight back, they choose to celebrate their blood-soaked City of Philadelphia and that the ROOB will resist the capitalist exploiters, it hap­ rule." • • • could have a city parade permit at a point pens every day. The real question is how long "Join with us and let's make this the shot remote from the official Bicentennial activi- will we be forced to fight just to keep our heard round the world!