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15780 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 12, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS GSA HEAD HELPS ADVANCE FAIR agreement whereby Crystal City would rent action program to control the :flow of nar HOUSING to Negroes who worked for an agency housed cotics between the two countries; and in the complex. And this limited agreement Whereas, in 1959, the Board of Supervisors was interpreted as narrowly a.s possible. of t he County of Los Angeles requested Presi HON. HUGH SCOTT For example, although the Food and Drug dent Eisenhower to establish a control com Administration had offices in Crystal City, mission to which he responded by sending a OF PENNSYLVANIA a Negro FDA employe was denied opportunity f act-finding team to Los Angeles and other IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES t o rent an apartment there because he cit ies to in vestigate the drug traffic problem; Thursday, June 12, 1969 worked at another locat ion. and Kunzig's recent decree may help to avoid Whereas, in 1962, President John F. Ken Mr. SCOT!'. Mr. President, I am that kind of nonsense. It m ay also help to n edy called the first White House Conference pleased to invite the attention of desegregate the suburbs. The people who a-re on Narcotics and Drug Abuse, and, while Congress to an article that commends developing the office building complexes there was much discussion and debat e, little the effort on equal opportunity and fair around the Beltway know that the Govern action resulted; and ment makes a very good tenant, and they Whereas, in March, 1968, Supervisor Ken housing that is being conducted by Rob can be expected to do what they can to con n eth Hahn urged President Lyndon B. John ert L. Kunzig, head of the General Serv vin ce GSA that they are wort hy landlords. son to continue to seek at the presidential ices Administration, who was formerly GSA thus could strike the same kind of level the establishment of a joint commis my administrative assistant and long blow for fair housing as the Pentagon did sion with, but he could not include it in his time friend. with its 1967 order that placed off limits to program at that time; and As William Raspberry writes in the all servicemen apartment s that refused to Whereas, in 1947, a joint presidential com Washington Post of June 11, 1969: rent to Negro servicemen. mission was established to set up controls for The GSA rule change goes even furt her hoof and mouth disease which was plagu ing GSA thus could strike the same kind of than the Pentagon edict. The latter was con cattle on both sides of the border, such a blow for fair housing as the Pentagon did cerned primarily with racial discrimination. commission is even more needed for the with its 1967 order to place off-limits to all GSA's order speaks not only to the avail health of our young people whose lives are servicemen apartments that refused to rent ability of housing without regard to race but daily in:fiuenced by the ready supply of to Negro servicemen. also to the availability of housing within the marijuana, barbituates and other danger I ask unanimous consent that the price range of the affected employes. ous drugs which must be cut off by striking article be printed in the REcORD. Kunzig said his order is in line with at the steady stream of illicit traffic across President Nixon's directions to "provide the border with Mexico. There being no objection, the article maximum job opportunities for persons in Now, therefore, be it resolved that the was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, less advantaged groups." He thereby indi City Council of the City of Lomita respect as follows: cates his awareness that housing opportunity fully requests the President of the United NEW GSA CHIEF CuRBS AGENCIES' TREND TO is an integral part of job opportunity. States, the Honorable Richard M. Nixon, to ''DECENTRALIZE'' establish with the President of Mexico, the (By William Raspberry) Honorable Gustave Diaz Ordaz, to halt the illicit :flow of narcotics and dangerous drugs For several years, the General Services Ad HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 486 between our two countries, and ministration-partly unthinkingly and part Be it further resolved that copies of this ly a.s a. result of an old Eisenhower edict resolution be forewarded to Secretary of State has been "decentralizing" low-level govern William P. Rogers, Attorney General John N. ment employees out of work. HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON OF CALIFORNIA Mitchell, Secretary of Health, Education and The decentralization trend was in some Welfare Robert H. Finch and to California measure the outgrowth of an official preoc IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. Senators and Representative Glenn An cupation with atomic war. The idea was to Thursday, June 12, 1969 derson in the Congress. make it difficult for a single enemy attack Approved and adopted this 5th day of May, to immobilize the government. Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. 1969. But it also stemmed from GSA's efforts Speaker, I would like to bring to the CLYDE S. BERNHARDT, to meet growing demands for modern, well Mayor. appointed office space with parking and attention of my colleagues a resolution greenery. And since the building growth by another city in my district, the City of Attest: Lomita, Calif., urging the creation of a DAwN R . ToMrrA, was heaviest in the suburbs, GSA started City Clerk. looking in that direction, unmindful, one Presidential Commission between the supposes, of the hardships it was working United States and Mexico to help control H.J. RES. 486 on th.: government's low-grade black em the fiow of narcotics and dangerous drugs ployes for whom transportation was inade between our two countries. Joint Resolution to request the President to quate and moving was out of the question. negotiate with the Mexican Government The trend continued, however, long after This resolution asks thr President to for the purpose of setting up a. jo1nt these hardships had been called to GSA's at set up a joint commission with the Mexi United States-Mexican commission to in tention. GSA kept pointing to the Eisen can Govttrnment as Congressman DICK vestigate the :flow of marihuana, narcotic hower decree as its justification. HANNA and I proposed in House Joint drugs, and dangerous drugs between the Now GSA's new administrator, Robert Resolution 486. United States and Mexico L. Kunzig, has moved to stop the agency from Mr. Speaker, it is my hope and that of Whereas Mexico is the primary source of riding roughshod over the poor folk. He has many people in-California, that Pr~sident supply for narcotic drugs and dangerous done so by ordering revisions in the Federal Nixon can be persuaded to take the nec drugs brought into the southwestern part of property management regulations. essary steps to set up such a commission. the United States; and Rules apply both to construction of public Whereas these narcotic drugs and danger buildings and the leasing of privately held This is vital in order to halt the abusive ous drugs are subsequently distributed space now include this provision: use of harmful drugs. If we ignore this throughout the United States; and In selecting sites for building or leasing threat to our society, then the future Whereas 100 per centum of the marihuana office space, "GSA will avoid locations which cost to society will be immense in terms seized by the enforcement officials in the wlll work a hardship on employes because of crime, and human degradation. I am southwest part of the United States comes ( 1 ~ there is a lack of adequate housing for including in the RECORD a copy of the from Mexico; and low and middle income employes within a resolution by the city of Lomita and a Whereas the smuggling of narcotic drugs reasonable proximity and (2) the location is copy of the bill which we have intro and dangerous drugs into the United States not readily accessible from other areas of the poses the largest single problem for collectors urbaL center." duced: of the customs and for the Federal courts in The new rule, which became effective upon RESOLUTION No. 69- 24 the southwestern part of the United States; its publication in the May 29 Federal Regis A resolution of the city council of the and t er, represents a major advance in GSA's city of Lomita Whereas the use of narcotic drugs and thinking. Whereas, the most effective way to stop the dangerous drugs by juveniles has great ly in Less than two years ago, the agency was illicit t raffic in narcotics and dangerous drugs creased due to the easy accessibility of such locating Federal agencies in such com into our community is to cut off' the supply drugs from Mexico: Now, therefore, be it plexes as Arlington's Crystal City which were at its source, there should be established a. Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep refusing to rent apartments to Negroes. After joint presidential commission between the resentatives of the United States of America some official pressure, GSA worked out a.n United States and Mexico to undertake an in Congress assembled, That the President is June 12, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15781 requested to initiate negotiations with the was going to feed my family. And only until Revolution, and Peace at Stanford Government of Mexico for the purpose of Ben made certain of that did his thoughts University. setting up a joint United States-Mexican turn to his own needs-that was the Ben commission to investigate and to recommend Levine way back in 1926-and he never This well-conceived and illuminating appropriate solutions concerning the flow changed from that moment on.