13880 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 15 programs; to the Committee on Interstate By Mr. CHENOWETH: H. Res. 6in. Resolution that it is the sense and Foreign Commerce. H. Con. Res. 353. Concurrent resolution ac­ of Congress that Ambassador Menshikov has By Mr. SMITH of Virginia: cepting the statue of Dr. Florence Rena Sa­ violated the prescribed norms of diplomatic H. R. 13408. A bill to amend section 3401 bin, presented by the State of Colorado, to conduct by engaging in a long series of de­ of title 18, United States Code; to the Com­ be placed in Statuary Hall; to the Com­ liberate acts of propaganda calculated to m ittee on the Judiciary. mittee on House Administration. cause dissension and political disunity on By Mr. TELLER: H. Con. Res. 354. Concurrent resolution to the American scene and to cast false doubts H. R. 13409. A bill to provide that the place temporarily in the rotunda of the Capi­ upon the peaceful intentions of the Govern­ alien children and spouses of aliens law­ tol a statue of Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, and ment of the United St ates, and therefore fully admitted to the United St ates for per­ to hold ceremonies on said occasion; to the should be forthwith declared persona non manent residence shall be non quota immi­ Committee on House Administration. grata by President Eisenhower; to the Com­ grant s; to the Committee on the Judiciary. · H. Con. Res. 355. Concurrent resolution to mittee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. WILSON of California: P.rint the proceedings in connection with the By Mr. BUCKLEY: H. R. 13410. A bill to stabilize the tuna acceptance of the statue of Dr. Florence Rena H . Res. 632. Resolution to provide funds fishing industry; to the Committee on Mer:­ Sabin; to the Committee on House Adminis­ for the Committee on Public Works; to the chant Marine and Fisheries. tration. Committee on House Administration. H. R. 13411. A bill to regulate the impor­ By Mr. HILL: tation of tuna; to the Committee on Ways . H. Con. Res. 356. Concurrent resolution ac­ and Means. cepting the stat ue of Dr. Florence Rena By Mr. RUTHERFORD: Sabin, presented by the State of Colorado, to PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H. R. 13412. A bill to provide for the ac­ be placed in Statuary Hall; to the Com­ quisition of sites and the construction of Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private mittee on House Administration. bills and resolutions were introduced buildings for a training school and other fa­ H . Con. Res. 357. Concurrent resolution to cilities for the Immigration and Naturaliza­ place temporarily in the rotunda of the and severally referred as follows: tion Service, and for other purposes; to the capitol a statue of Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, By Mr. MORANO: Committee on Public Works. and to hold ceremonies on said occasion; to H. R. 13415. A bill for the relief of Arthur By Mr. CRETELLA: the Committee on House Administ~ation. Carlos Do Carvalho; to the Committee on the H. R. 13413. A bill to amend title II of the H. Con. Res. 358. Concurrent resolution to Judiciary. Social Security Act to provide a 10 percent print the proceedings in qonnection with the H. R. 13416. A bill for the relief of Quirino increase in all monthly insurance benefits acceptance of the statue of Dr. Florence Crecco; to the Committee on the Judiciary. payable thereunder; to the Committee on Rena Sabin; to the Committee on House Ad­ By Mr. ROONEY: Ways and Means. ministration. H. R. 13417. A bill for the relief of Mark By Mr. TOLLEFSON (by request): By Mr. ROGERS of Colorado: Kohn; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 13414. A bill to authorize a per capita payment to enrolled members of the H . Con. Res. 359. Concurrent resolution ac­ By Mr. THOMAS: Confederated Tribes and Bands of the cepting the statue of Dr. Florence Rena H. R. 13418. A bill for the relief of Baici Yakima Indian Nation; to the Committee on Sabin, presented by the St ate of Colorado, to Pompeo (also known as John Base); to the Interior and Insular Affairs. be placed in Statuary Hall; to the Committee Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BUCKLEY: on House Administration. By Mr. WALTER: H. J. Res. 654. Joint resolution requiring H. Con. Res. 360. Concurrent resolution to H. R. 13419. A bill for the relief of Dda the Secretary of Commerce to submit certain place temporarily in the rotunda of the Mato Martinez; to the Committee on the Ju­ recommendations for legislation to equitably Capitol a statue of Dr. Florence Rena ·sabin, diciary. reimburse States for cel'tain highways on the and to hold ceremonies on sa1d occasion; to National System of Interstate and Defense the Committee on House Adm:.nistration. Highways; t-o the Committee on Public H. Con. Res. 361. Concurrent resolution to PETITIONS, ETC. Works. print the proceedings in connection with the Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions By Mr. ASPINALL: acceptance of the statue of Dr. Florence Rena H. Con. Res. 350. Concurrent resolution ac­ Sabin; to the Committee on House Admin- and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk cepting the statue of Dr. Florence Rena Sa­ i~tration. · and referred as follows: l:!in, presented by the State of Colorado, to By Mr. FEIGHAN: 708. By the Speaker: Petition of ·Lawrence be placed in Statuary Hall; to the Com­ H. Con. Res. 362. Concurrent resolution David Horton, Cincinnati, Ohio, relative to a mittee on House- Administration. that it is the sense of Congress that Am­ redress of grievance relating to his recent H. Con. Res. 351. Concurrent resolution to bassador Menshikov has violated the pre­ detainment in Rollmans Receiving Hospital place temporarily in the rotunda of the Cap­ scribed norms of diplomatic conduct by en­ in Cincinnati; to the Committee on the Judl­ itol a statue of Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, and gaging in a long series of deliberate acts of ciary. to hold ceremonies on said occasion; to the propaganda calculated to cause dissension 709. -Also, petition of Alexander Meikle­ Committee on House Administration. and political disunity on the .A_-nerican scene john; Berkeley, Calif., relative to E. R. Stabler H. Con. Res. 352. Concurrent resolution to and to cast false doubts upon the peaceful and others endorsing the petition of Alexan­ print the proceedings in connection with the intentions of the Government of the United der Meiklejohn, relating to a redress of griev­ acceptance of the statue of Dr. Florence Rena States, and therefore should be forthwith de­ ance pertaining to the House Committee on Sabin; to the Committee on House Adminis­ clared persona non grata by President Eisen­ Un-American Activities; to the Committee tration. hower; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. on Rules.

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The Mideast Situation Belongs in the problem is sought within the UI)ited Na­ also vitally important in this propaganda tions. We can thus, at least, try to pre­ battle, I think; not to abruptly reject any United Nations vent any additional triumphs of Soviet Soviet suggestion for solution, even propaganda. though we feel that their motives are EXTENSION OF REMARKS We may be certain that the Russians false and hypocritical. OF will make the most of our entrance into We have been on the losing end of too Lebanon and try to convince the rest of many propaganda battles with the Rus­ HON. HAROLD D. DONOHUE sians in the past, and it is imperative OF MASSACHUSETTS the world that it is an imperialist gesture toward war and not, as it is truly meant that the prestige of the United States IN THE HOUS~ OF REPRESENTATIVES to be, an attempt to promote peace. be salvaged in this complex Lebanon and Tuesday, July 15, 1958 Mideast situation. The forum in which In my opinion, it is most essential that that can be accomplished is the United Mr. DONOHUE. Mr. Speaker, it may we make every effort to counteract the Nations, and I most earnestly hope that or may not be an unfortunate matter Russian propaganda, and it would ap­ the President will insist that any nego­ that the President's best wisdom has pear that the best way to do so is to pur­ tiations be conducted within that inter­ ordered our troops into Lebanon, but it sue a solution through the United Na­ national organization, originated for the is useless to argue about that now. Our tions. It is vitally important that we purpose. clear patriotic course now is to go along show the world that we will not reject Meanwhile, let us pray divine gUidance with the President in a demonstration of even the germ of an idea or a proposal for the President in this historical hour unity, while permanent solution of the that could help the cause of peace. It is while we remain united·behind him. 1958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 13881 Our Metals Eggs in Foreign Baskets 2. The shutdown of our domestic lead-zinc known reserves, it is in effect "eating its mines has threatened national security and seed corn." In mining lingo the phrase is resulted in tax losses, economic shock, and "gutting the mine." EXTENSION OF REMARKS unemployment to hundreds of fine mining These domestic producers should not be OF families; allowed to go under. Whenever I feel that 3. Domestic mines couldn't compete with I need justification for my feeling I think HON. HENRY ALDOUS DIXON foreign producers unless cost differentials back 5 or 6 years ago to the time when we OF UTAH are recognized and compensating measures desperately needed domestic copper, tung­ provided; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sten, lead, and zinc to fight the Korean war, 4. The Government has a responsibility to when our domestic production did not fill Tuesday, July 15, 1958 protect our strategic mining industry; the demand. We tacked price ceilings on 5. The administration's program is a step our own industries and they still produced Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, under in the right direction. at capacity. In the meantime our foreign The passage of a year's time has not friends repaid our generous market sharing leave to extend my remarks in the dimmed the essential validity and urgency with them of previous years, by highjacking RECORD, I include the following testimony of these points and they seem to me today the price for their ore far above that which I gave this morning before the House to be truisms that hardly require the elab­ we would allow our own mines to charge-­ Subcommittee on Mines and Mining on oration provided a year ago. and we had to pay them. the subject of the administration's long­ My support of this bill does not indicate They did then willingly gouge us in a range minerals policy. Each domestic an uneconomic urge to retain in production time of grave international peril. mine that shuts down places another of "marginal" mines, so-called. Anyone that These same foreign producet:s who gouged knows anything- about mining knows that us when we needed them, now have engl­ our metals eggs in a foreign basket. these type mines have been closed for a long . neered the domestic price of lead. zinc, cop­ These critical times require that the Con.:. time. The alarming thing about the cur­ per, tungsten, and other metals so low that gress act immediately to rescue our do­ rent situation is that the price has been our own domestic and historic sources of mestic mining industry from ruin. The driven so low that many of our historic supply cannot compete with them. text of my statement follows: metals-producing mines have been forced to It is to our own interest to insure their TESTIMONY OF REPRESENTATIVE H. A. DIXON cease operations. continued operation. BEFORE HOUSE INTERIOR SUBCOMMITTEE ON No doubt stimulative prices during the The events of this week in the Middle MINES AND MINING ON THE SUBJECT OF THE war brought into production some mines East underscore that need and interest. LONG-RANGE MINERALS PROGRAM, THURSDAY, that could not reasonably hope to remain I said more than a year ago in a speech JULY 17, 1958 operative and had not been operative, in on the floor of the House that it just makes the normal give and take of a free economy. good commonsense for us not to put all our I would like to express my acute concern As stated, these have long since gone by the not only over the critical Middle East situa­ metal eggs in foreign baskets. boards and it is the goal of those of us in­ tion but also over the pitiful deterioration of terested in the present program to keep our metal mines upon which we will depend operative, at least on a minimal program, in the event of war. these historic sources o! metals supply that In my State, Utah, in recent years our pro­ A Personal Statement ducing lead-zinc mines have dropped from 21 are now threatened. I think we all under­ to 9 or less. Our employed miners have been stand that, if passed, this program does not reduced in those short years from more than constitute a bounteous feast ror the price­ EX'TENSION OF REMARKS 3,000. to a little more than 1,400. Our big starved metal~ producers. It is a minimal OF smelter at Midvale has shut down. program and nothing more. I am here in support of the sl;>-called Seaton Domestic metals producers, 'particularly HON. MARTIN DIES lead-zinc, have tried every avenue available plan which will be hnplemented by my own OF TEXAS bill :a. R. 13266 and similar ones, some of to th~m to get relief and in each instance which are sponsored by members of this they h~ve acted in good faith. They tried IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to get special excise-tax legislation passed committee. · - Tuesday, July 15, 19~8 These bills in essence provide a plan that but abandoned that when they were urged will help to stabilize the price of lead and, to seek relief under the escape clause, Mr·. DIES. Mr. Speaker, I regret very zinc to a maximum of 4 cents above the They waited for months while 'the Tariff much that circumstances beyond my market prices with additional slight bonus Commission investigated their plight. control have prevented me from being payments to each mine for the first 500 tons Finally the Commission unanimously agreed in Washington most of this session. I produced. Tpis should stabilize the price of that' the lead-zinc industry was being dam­ aged by the excessive imports but the 3 feel that my colleagues and constituents common lead at 15¥2 cents per pound and are entitled to an explanation because prime western zinc at 13¥2 cellts. Total ton­ Democrats urged one policy on the Presi­ nages pf these ores for the 5 years duration dent and the 3 Republicans urged another. every· Member has the duty to attend qf the program are to be 350,000 tons and Then Mr. Secretary Seaton produced the the sessions of Congress unless pre­ 550,000 tons, respectively. · administration's own proposals and the vented by unavoidable circumstances. Acid grade fluorspar will be stabilized at President announced that he would with­ As is well known, my son, Martin Dies, $53 per short ton with a maximum s:ubsidy hold action on . escape-clause implementa­ Jr., was critically injured in an auto­ payment .of $13 per ton and a total 5-year tion of Tariff Commission recommendations mobile collision on February 28. Mrs. tonnage involved of 180,000 tons. Tungsten until the Congress had acted upon the long­ trioxide will be stabilized at $36 per short range minerals stabilization plan. Hence, we Dies and I flew to Galveston on March 1 ton unit with a maximum subsidy price of in Congress now have the ball and I hope to be by his bedside in John Sealy Hospi­ $18 per short ton and a total 5-year tonnage we are not going to go home next month tal. My son suffered a broken neck and of ~75,000 short tons. until we have run with it. a fractured knee. He was compelled to Additionally these bills would establish a In the meantime, the domestic producers lie flat on his back for 12 weeks with his short-term stockpiling program for domestic continue to suffer, continue to lay off, con­ head and leg in traction. Because of this copper which will aid that sagging industry tinue to shut down. position, he developed serious compli­ by the Government purchase in 1 year of Last year, because we didn't act, the old 150,000 tons of domestic ore at 27¥2 cents Chief Consolidated mine in my district at cations. He was on the critical list as per pound. Eureka, Utah, which had been producing long as he was in traction and unable This bill does not provide enough relief lead-zinc ore since 1909, ceased to operate. to move. but' it is a great help because these mine This wasn't in any sense a marginal mine. By the grace of God he survived these closures weaken our economy as well as our It was a historic mine and one which should complications. His broken bones re­ defense. in our own interests still be operative. united and fused perfectly and he re­ It will be a full year this coming August There is another great old mine in Utah 1 since I appeared before another committee at Park City, the United Park City Mines turned to Lufkin 3 weeks ago. He is now of this House (Ways and Means) imploring Co., which has been operative since 1868 well on the road to complete recovery that an import excise tax be imposed on and lost $73,105 even with skeletal opera_. and the doctors have assured us of his foreign-produced lead and zinc sufficient to tion during the first quarter of this year. full recovery. establish peril points needed by our domestic In 1957 United Park lost $80,582 before de­ During this entire period, his wife, industry, 17 cents per pound for lead and pletion and the year before they lost $118,045 Mrs. Dies, and I spent most of our time 14¥2 cents per pound for zinc. before depletion. They have cut their de­ in his room doing all within our power At that time I stressed five points which velopment program almost to the bone in were: order to reduce losses and they still cannot to give him moral support and aid. 1. Action should not be delayed until the break even under the stress of cheap foreign Because of this long and terrific strain next session of Congress because our mines ore flooding our market. and anxiety, Mrs. Dies and I have were closing so rapidly that immediate ac­ When a mine ceases development and ex­ not been well since we returned to Luf­ tion was necessary; ploration work, producing only from its kin. I developed a low grade infection 13882 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 15 and have been under the care and treat­ I most earnestly hope that both the gaged in a wide variety of manufactur­ ment of my doctor, who has advised me Congress and the administration will ing. Her steel production has risen to not to return to Washington until Mrs. join their efforts toward the enactment almost 7 million tons p.er year and total Dies and I are in better condition. of the substance, at least, of this bill as industrial output since the end of World The House of Representatives gave me a united action in concern for the basic War II has doubled. a leave of absence indefinitely, but I feel welfare and continuing development of Foreign capital has already partici­ that the facts should be incorporated this country. pated to a considerable extent in the de­ in the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD. SO that my velopment of the Italian economy. Sub­ colleagues and constituents may know stantial foreign investments have been that I have not abused this leave of ab­ · made in Italy's textile industry, her sence. The Welfare of Italy growing chemical and pharmaceutical in­ dustry, and in her electrical industry. In EXTENSION OF REMARKS Sicily, the island lying off Italy's south­ The Desperate Need for Federal Aid OF western coast, large expenditures have, to Education with foresight, been made for exploring HON. EMANUEL CELLER and developing her petroleum resources. OF NEW YORK Present instability in the Middle East EXTENSION OF REMARKS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would dictate that more Western capital OF be employed to make maximum utiliza­ HON. HAROLD D. DONOHUE Tuesday, July 15, 1958 tion of the Si.cilian oil fields. Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, I have al­ I can assure you that, unlike many OF MASSACHUSETTS ways been interested in Italy and its other areas of the world, capital invest­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES people. No Representative from New ment from the United States is most Tuesday, July 15, 195t: York City could be otherwise. A great welcome in Italy and much has been Mr. DONOHUE. Mr. Speaker, unques­ number of my constituents have always done to provide the economic climate tionably one of the most challenging leg­ been Italian immigrants or their de­ necessary to attract dollars from abroad. scendants. New York C~ty owes a great islative subjects that has faced this Con­ Under Italy's new foreign investment gress, and several preceding ones, is find­ deal of its prosperity to its citizens of law, foreign investors are provided with Italian heritage. Its arts and sciences the same rights and privileges of domes­ ing ways and means through which the have been quickened by them. Its indus­ Federal Government can reasonably and tic concerns. There exist no limitations try would wither without their brain and on the amount of money that may be in­ sensibly extend desperately- needed as­ brawn. The highly important dress sistance to the several States to advance vested in newly established companies trade and manufactory of New York in Italy nor on the number of nonna­ their educational standards and provide could not exist without its Italian seam­ adequate educatiQnal facilities. tionals who direct or manage such ven­ stresses, stitchers, cutters, tailors, de­ tures. It is true that many Members of Con­ signers, and workmen. Its food and res­ gress have entertained deep and sin­ Truly, Italy provides a golden oppor­ taurant industry is linked ineluctably tunity .for American investment. By as­ cere convictions in opposition to most of with them. One of New York's greatest the educational aid proposals that have sisting in her economic development, not mayors was Fiorello La Guardia, son of only will we in the United States be been suggested. It is equally true that an Italian musician immigrant. the administration itself has not demon­ profitably employing our own capital re­ I cannot conceive of the· Metropoli­ sources, but we will be providing vital strated any great enthusiasm or exer­ tan Opera without Del Monaco, Albanese, cised energetic leadership in the matter. assistance to an important ally in this Siepi, Tagliavini. Then there wel'e the unsettled world. We cannot forget that All of this in spite of the almost unani­ unforgettable Caruso and Pinza. Small it was an Italian who discovered Amer­ mous declaration of -educational author­ wonder, then, that during the opera sea­ ica. It is now time for Americans to ities that the plight of our educational son you can find me and my dear wife rediscover Italy. · system nationally amounts in substance ·and daughter in our accustomed seats to a national ~mergency. each Saturday night listening· intently However, the dramatic Soviet demon­ to La Boheme or Otello, Andrea Cher­ stration of scientific achievement has pier or Aida. I often sing myself to sleep Josiah Cusick: 70 Years of Faithful inspired, I think, a more responsive with the heavenly .arias from La Tasca mind and attitude to this problem, both or Butterfly or the Barber of Seville. Service in the Members of this body and the All of which brings me to Italy and general public. It would seem that the its desperately desired prosperity under EXTENSION OF 'REMARKS time has come for us to resolve our dif­ its new premier Fanfani, who is soon OF ferences on such a vitally important na­ to come to the United States. We sha11 tional necessity and fulfill our legislative offer him sincere welcome. As our HON.- ARCH A~ MOORE, JR. responsibility. friend and ally in NATO we must aid OF W EST VIRGINIA In my opinion, an excellent oppor­ Italy to the utmost. Our people, too, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tunity to do so is presented to us in the should do their share. They can and form of the measure I understand is should invest in Italy's future. She Tuesday, July 15, 1958 being today reported out of the House offers great inducements for safe and Mr. MOORE. Mr. Speaker, a rather Education and Lab01· Committee, H. R. profitable investments. Her domestic unusual event occurred in my District 13247. economy is expanding at a rapid rate. during this last week which I think is In summary, this bill is designed to Her seaports, open year round in the worthy of ca!ling to the attention of my provide Federal scholarships and also sunny Mediterranean, afford wonderful colleagu~s. student loan funds to enable supe1~ior · shipping facilities. · She plies the ocean Occasionally, we ·note in the -news­ students without finances to attend col­ trade with the fourth largest merchant papers that an individual is being hon­ lege. Its emphasis is placed upon the marine fteet in the world. Nearby lie ored upon his retirement after 20, 25, or teaching and study of science, mathe­ the rapidly developing markets of Africa even 30 years of employment with a matics, and foreign languages. It would and the Middle East; to the north, the particular company. It is a rare oc­ improve testing and counseling in sec­ prosperous NATO community affords a casion indeed when a man has worked ondary and elementary schools and it ·ready outlet for all kinds of manufac­ .50 years for the same firm. But, in the would help train more college teachers. ture and produce. case of Mr. Josiah Cusick of Wellsburg, No matter on what other phases of the Italy was formerly known primarily W. Va., a half century was not nearly problem we may have some differences, for her agricultural commodities. Who, enough. Mr. Cusick this week chose I believe that there is no single Member for example, has not partaken · of de­ the occasion of his 85th birthday to re­ of the Congress who would question the licious Italian wine? But in recent tire from his work at the Eagle Manu­ foundation importance of education to years, the complexion of the nation has facturing Co. in Wellsburg after com­ a progressive future for this great changed completely. Today, Italy is pleting 70 years of employment with the Nation. predominantly an industrial nation en- same company, I believe this is an out- 1958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 13883 standing record which is certainly stituents for even more extensive health A Bill to Provide for an Immigration and worthy of recognition. services forecast an even greater finan­ Mr. Cusick has been in charge of the cial burden on these schools in the Naturalization Training School shipping and receiving department of future. the Eagle Manufacturing Co. for more From the standpoint of national pros­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS than 50 years. During this time, he has perity and security, this Nation has no OF witnessed many changes in the modes of greater asset than the high standard of manufacturing and in transportation as health so prevalent among its people. HON.J. T. RUTHERFORD our Nation emerged progressively from This is why the American people have OF TEXAS the horse and buggy days into the pres­ supported medical education through IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ent jet era. He started work in 1888 their donations and support of State-and Tuesday, July 15, 1958 during the first year of the plant's op­ Federal legislation. They fully realize eration, and his first job was as a carry.: that the smallest discovery in a research Mr. RUTHERFORD. Mr. Speaker, I ing boy in the glassmaking operations. laboratory can eliminate polio, or per­ have today introduced a bill authorizing Born in Rayland, Ohio on July 14, haps prevent a plague, or control a dan­ the Administrator of General Services to 1874, Mr. Cusick has resided in West gerous disease such as diabetes. In acquire sites and plan, design, construct, Virginia since infancy. He is an active other words, our people realize that and equip an immigration and natural­ member of the Free Methodist Church medical research .has not only made it ization training school and adjunct fa­ and has served as Sunday school super­ possible for them to live 20 years longer cilities, including living quarters for offi­ intendent and as a trustee for over 50 than their forefathers, but that addi­ cers, for use by the Attorney General for years. Cusick has 5 children, 19 grand­ tional discoveries have made these 20 administration and enforcement of the children, and 8 great-grandchildren. active and productive years. Knowing Immigration and Nationality Act. I want to take this opportunity to ex­ that the people of America support us, The provisions of my bill concur with tend my congratulations to this out­ I urge early passage of H. R. 12876. the request presented to the Congress on standing citizen of my District and to January 28 this year by the Department wish him good health and happiness in of Justice. On that date I wrote to the the years ahead. Honorable William P. Rogers, Attorney Tribute to the Christian Science Monitor General of the United States, congratu- lating him on making the request for a EXTENSION OF REMARKS permanent Immigration and Naturaliza­ Extend Title VII, Public Health Act OF tion Academy. I pointed out to Mr. Rogers that the temporary Border Pa­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS HON. KENNETH B. KEATING trol Training School has been in the El OF OF NEW YORK Paso, Tex., area for a number of years­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in fact, for more than 30 years-and HON. HENRY ALDOUS DIXON summarized some of·the advantages that Tuesday, July 15, 1958 OF UTAH location has. It is my .purpose to call to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, a 50th the attention of the ·House those advan­ birthday is an important occasion any tages, and touch on the background of Tuesday, July 15, 1958 time. The 50th anniversary of the the Border Patrol Training School. Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, the right .to Christian Science Monitor is particular- Years ago the Immigration and Nat­ good health has always been commonly ly significant because it marks a half uralizatior.. officials recognized many ad­ accepted as a fundamental right by every century of important contributions to the vantages of locating these training facil­ citizen .of this Nation. Fortunately, we American scene. It marks the golden ities in the El Paso area. El Paso is first have 8.5 medical teaching centers which anniversary of a newspaper which has the largest city on the United States­ ·have consistently, through extensive re­ done as much as any single ~ublica,.t~on in rMexic~ .border~ and Juarez, located just . search and educational programs, en­ this country to raise the standards of1. ·across the Rio -Grande River, is the abled our people to enjoy the greatest journalism. . ., - le.rgest..Mexican ·city on thaf border. El health status of any people on this globe. The breadth and depth. of the Chris- Paso has thousands of Spanish speaking It.is interesting to note that less than tian Science Monitor- are properly leg..;· people, and daily contact with thein has .60 years ago, most. American medical endary. I never cease to be amazed at proved helpful to border patrolmen in schools could be called second or third the speedy and accurate manner in which -their training. El Paso has the largest rate when compared with those in Ger­ the Monitor's outstanding staff interprets ·and busiest international bridge in thE{ many, England, and other nations. It rather than reports, analyzes rather than worid, and the patrolmen may receive was not unusual to have a proprietary repeats, the major news even,ts of the- daily on.-the,.job training at that site. institution or·diploma mill operating for day. I look forward with.pleasure to the :;rhe Santa Fe Street Bridge in El Paso pro.fit without such necessities as labora­ thought-pieces on little publicized, but was crossed by 2,044,516 people going tories, equipment, hospital affiliations, or important topics, and the penetrating north during June of this year. Yes, Mr. competent instructors. Today's medical essays on subjects far removed from the Speaker, more than 2 million persons in schools, however, are more than just ed­ ordinary spotlight of news events. I ap- 1 month. At the end of June a total of ucational institutions. They have be­ plaud the Monitor's adherence to a pithy 12,155,084 crossings had been made, lead­ come complex centers of medical science style and its stress on that which is really ing officials to predict that some 25 mil­ and are the basic institutions involved in important and not what is merely sensa- lion border crossings will be made there the search for new knowledge in the pre­ tional. during the year. Bear in mind that all vention, diagnosis, and treatment of hu­ All of these attributes add up to the 25 million of these people will afford the man illness. Truly our 85 medical international daily newspaper. Its trainees practical training of the same schools are the foundation of our entire worldwide reputation merits that title. type they will need in their day-to-day health and medical structure. To the firm hand and leadership of jobs. From the operational site at El The swarm of new activities has given Erwin D. Canham, the present editor, Paso, the trainees have hundreds of miles rise to many new problems in our medi­ must go much of the credit for this out- of international border to use in their cal schools, chie:fiy those of finance. standing performance. He has consist- training program. Obviously, since the Medical school deans and university ently championed the highest ideals of present border patrol training school has presidents are unanimous in designat­ journalism and the purposes for which remained in El Paso over these years, ing finances as the number one headache the Monitor was founded. being moved only briefly for a few special of the past decade. And in spite of the It is a pleasure to salute the Monitor sessions, the Department of Justice has voluntary contributions by the people of on its golden anniversary and to express found it practical and beneficial to locate this Nation through State appropri­ the wish that it will continue for many its training school in that area. My bill ations and private gifts, plus the sup.. more years its unique mission of analyz.. does not prescribe a location for the port the Frederal" Government has pro· ing, searching, and dissecting the byways, proposed new Immigration and Natural­ vided in recent years, the increasing as well as the highways, of the world in ization Academy since it is not the prac­ demands on the part of our healthy con- which we live. tice of the Congress to direct a specific 13884 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 15 site, but I heartily recommend to the It is our clear duty to conscientiously In an absorbing manner, assisted by Justice Department officials that the per­ attempt the enactment of a measure that first-hand experience in penology and manent Academy be located in El Paso. will remove, so far as reasonably possible, sociology, Drs. Higgins and Fitzpatrick I have been assured by civic leaders, the disastrous jealousies that admittedly have truly contributed a basic textbook officials in the local government and re­ exist among the services, and that will to our newer generations. sponsible individuals that El Paso will provide for the centralization of research I recommend this treatise to the Amer­ cooperate with the Department of Justice and development under one director, in ican public and join with the Citizens' to locate this new permanent structure order to stop the appalling waste of Advisory Committee which works with in El Paso to replace the longtime tem­ the taxpayers' money due to the duplica­ the Crime Prevention Council and the porary school which has been housed at tion of efforts and absurd competition Illinois Crime Prevention Bureau in Fort Bliss, Tex., through the cooperation among the services in this vital field of bringing it into the hands of those pres­ of the Department of the Army and the Russian challenge. ently engaged in the never-ending battle commanding generals of Fort Bliss. In our exhortations for unity among against crime for the benefit of all man- With Fort Bliss growing and expanding the armed services, it is encumbent upon kind. · as a part of our defense effort, space is us to show an example of unity here, to needed there, and with the border patrol restore the confidence of the American and other phases of the Immigration people in the Congress and in the mili­ The Greatest Need of the Present Day Is Service playing an important role in our tary forces. Let us resolve our differ­ Reasonable Hospitalization national life, it seems desirable to create ences and patriotically provide a bill that this new Immigration and Naturalization will do the job. Academy. I have gone so far as to check EXTENSION OF REMARKS the possibility of a location in El Paso , OF for this Academy and I believe I am in a HON. USHER L. BURDICK position to state that there is a very good Criminology and Crime Prevention chance that the land will be granted to OF NORTH DAKOTA the United States free of charge. I urge EXTENSION OF REMARKS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES favorable consideration of my bill, and OF · Tuesday, July 15, 1958 assure the immigration officials and HON. TIMOTHY P. SHEEHAN Mr. BURDICK. Mr. Speaker, a poor others within the Department of Justice man cannot afford, under present hos­ of the full cooperation of El Paso officials OF ILLINOIS pitalization agencies, to be sick. In my and individuals as well as my own com­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES own case I am not wealthy nor poor, but plete cooperation in this regard. Tuesday, July 15, 1958 I soon would be as poor as a starved Mr. SHEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, today I turkey if I patronized hospitals much would like to bring to the attention of longer. In one hospital a doctor looked Defense Reorganization for Essential the American people a book coauthored at me twice and charged me $500, and Military Unity by Dr. Lois Lundell Higgins, president of the second look was more of a squint the International Association of Police than a look. Hospital rooms, no better Women and director of the Crime Pre­ than a $4 room at Williston Hotels, cost EXTENSION OF REMARKS an the way from $19.50 per day to $29. OF vention Bureau of Chicago, and Dr. Ed­ ward E. Fitzpatrick, president emeritus, In addition, nurses charge from $1.50 HON. HAROLD D. DONOHUE Mount Mary College and director of the per hour to $2. When you add to this · Institute of Human Education. Dr. Hig­ X-rays and doctors' fees, you can see OF MASSACHUSETTS that people with a fund even as high as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gins resides in my Congressional District. This book entitled "Criminology and $5,000 for sickness would find themselves Tuesday, July 15, 1958 Crime Prevention"-Bruce, Milwaukee, stripped clean in a comparatively short Mr. DONOHUE. Mr. Speaker, in the 1958-deals with the study of crime in time. near future we will be called upon to America, crime of matter and of spirit. The public health of the Nation de­ exercise our responsibility of enacting In a comprehensively documented man­ mands a different deal from this. At legislation essentially needed to provide ner, the authors have presented an anal­ least the average citizen should have military unity and restrain the unhappy ysis of the many aspects of crime and recourse to health improvement that rivalries existing among the separate the judicial procedures designed to cope does not make a pauper of him; or the with this social malady. other alternative of going without medi­ branches of our armed services. cal care and dying before his time. In We can each have sincere and con­ Of the arresting 26 chapters of this my judgment the private system of scientious differences as to the precise book, I have chosen to reflect a while medical care is all right as far as the legislative provisions to accomplish the with that dealing with treason, dis­ well-to-do are concerned, but the system desired objective. For instance, some of loyalty, and communism. does not reach the average citizen of us very earnestly feel that the right of the Treason against the United States is which there are many more millions than individual services to come directly to defined by the Constitution, article III, can be found in the well-to-do class. If Congress with complaints and recom­ section 1, to consist "only in levying war no one can survive the rigors of poor mendations should be preserved, while against them, or in adhering to their health or accidental disability except the others do not so feel. Some of us may enemies, giving aid and comfort to rich, this great country can be said to disagree as to the retention of Congres­ them." be headed for trouble. sional veto power over changes in combat The student of government and the I have talked this matter over with my functions within the services, but few of citizen will find clear elucidations in the son Quentin Burdick, who is a candidate us will disagree that, in time of war or subchapters treating of the Supreme for a seat in Congress, and he outlined imminent hostilities, the President's Court interpretations of the constitu­ to me the fact that this health question power should be unlimited. tional provisions revolving around dis­ is one of the pressing needs of the coun­ Despite any differences that Members loyalty, misprision of treason, treason try-more important than sending a may have about the measure to be pre­ against the States, conscientious objec­ mouse to the moon. I have always been sented, the bill, in my opinion, does pro­ tion to war, the Communist world revo­ of the opinion that a public health bill vide some substantially forward steps. lutionary conspiracy, the continuity of can be written by Congress that will give It is designed to give the Defense Secre­ the Communist Party, and interlocking the poor man a chance for his life. If tary clear power to assign weapons to subversion in government. Timely as we cannot do that we have dismally failed services of his choice and to centralize these subjects are, the student and the in our legislation. The preamble of the research and development under a single citizen will learn further of the Com­ Constitution provides for this very pur­ director. The power of unified com­ munist tactics and techniques. He will pose when it says: manders over all forces under them review the history of the privilege of We the people of the United States, m order ought to be, and is, spelled out to prevent non-self-incrimination, a unique herit­ to form a more perfect union, establish jus­ conflicts of authority among and be­ age to Anglo-American law, and will tice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for tween rival service commanders. compare its use in modern day courts. the common defen se, promote the general 1958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 13885 welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to workable program, provided that the rate of return, and methods of operation ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and displacement takes place in the environs as in the case of other FHA renta: hous­ establish this Constitution· for the United of a community which has such a ing programs. S tates of America. program. The possibility of any such corpora­ Nothing could possibly promote the There are situations where families tions obtaining so-called windfalls is general welfare any more than the care are displaced in areas adjacent to com­ eiiminated by making the cost certifi­ of the health of the Nation. The bill munities with a workable program but cation requirements of section 227 should be written so as to provide ade­ at present they are not eligible for sec­ applicable to such mortgagor corpora­ quate medical care to the many. The tion 221. Definition of the term environs tions. few can patronize the present system and would be left to the Housing and Home get along well enough as they are getting Flnance Administrator. along today, but the many, many millions. The second change would increase Equal Opportunity for All cannot do that. They have not the money the mortgage ceilings. The bill would to spend, and shall we say that because a increase the maximum insurable loan EXTENSION OF REMARKS family has no money available commen­ amount from $9,000 to $10,000 in normal OF surate with charges under the present cost areas, and from $10,000 to $12,000 system the United States is going to say, in high-cost are:\s · for single-family HON. HAROLD D. DONOHUE "Die if you haven't been smart enough housing insured under FHA section 221. OF MASSACHUSETTS to accumulate money enough to stand As the urban renewal program pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the drain of the present medical care gresses, it becomes evident that substant­ Tuesday, July 15, 1958 and attention." Is not this Nation con­ ial numbers of persons will be displaced. cerned with the general health of the For the most part, these displaced fami­ Mr. DONOHUE. Mr. Speaker, we have Nation? Shall we abandon the millions indeed suffered many disastrous and lies will be low-income families. They discouraging diplomatic and propaganda who need medical attention just to pre­ will not be in a position to avail them­ serve the present medical system? selves of housing produced at normal defeats at the hands of Soviet Russia. Yes, this question can be solved, and I These too-often-repeated disasters have cost levels within their respective com­ seriously depreciated our prestige in and am glad to see younger men who aspire to munities. It was for this reason that a . seat in this great Congress giving claim of leadership among the free na­ mortgage ceilings at the comparatively tions. We call ill afford another major earnest attention to what I believe is one low level of $9,000 ($10,000 in high-cost of the great failures of this Government. defeat by the Kremlin, particularly in areas) were established for this pro­ the field of propaganda against our claim What can a world renowned government gram. Considerable testimony produced amount to finally, without-protecting the and desire for leadership in the areas of over the past 18 months has shown that, economic development and social justice. health of the huge majority of the particularly in larger cities and espe­ people? Can we get fighting men from Unhappily, most authorities agree we are cially in the northern sections of the gravely threatened with such further families broken in health? Can we les­ country, the existing insurable loan sen the great demand for hospitalization defeat unless a federally encouraged amounts for section 221 are not ade­ effective program to alleviate national by providing a system that will check the quate to provide housing. While there ravages of disease before hospitalization conditions of substantial unemployment is a danger of increasing maximum in certain economically depressed areas is necessary? My fight for pure food and amounts to the point where housing will pure water is a part of this program, and is promptly initiated. be produced beyond the income range of . Over the past decade increasing evi­ one step further will be to provide fa­ displaced families, unless such housing cilities for the millions to be examined dence has developed to convincingly is built, it cannot be made available for demonstrate that our vaunted boast of and treated, although they have no these families. This · increase in the money at all. What is money compared having the highest living standards any­ maximum loan amount should encour­ where is in danger of being exploded and to the results of nonattention to the age the production of additional reloca­ health of the Nation? exploited as another American capital­ tion housing. istic myth. May divine providence, a The third change would provide more determined Congress, and a united peo­ rental housing under section 221. Pres­ ple, forbid. A Bill to Amend the National Housing ently the only rental housing possible It is most unhappily apparent that under section 221 is housing constructed substantial economic decline is visiting Act by nonprofit co1:porations and public increasing hardship and lowering the bodies, and so far there has been no in­ living standards in large areas of the EXTENSION OF REMARKS terest at all. This is unfortunate be­ country, particularly in New England, OF cause unquestionably many of the dis­ along the eastern seaboard, and in cer­ placed families cannot even muster the tain southern sections. There are var­ HON. EUGENE J. McCARTHY $200 downpayment required for sales ied causes for this catastrophe but prin­ OF MINNESOTA housing under section 221, or have occu­ cipal among them are the migration of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pations or credit records which would industry from New England, technologi­ Tuesday, July 15, 1958 make it difficult for them to pass a cal changes, such as those affecting the credit review. coal industry, and the disjointed advan­ Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I The bill would make section 221 insur­ tages, through our foreign trade pro­ have introduced a bill which would make ance available to private builders for the gram, given to foreign competitors of three changes in the section 221, reloca­ production of rental housing for dis­ multitudinous domestic industries. tion housing program, of the National placed families. The loan amount v,. ould All of these causes add up to chronic Housing Act. be determined on the same basis as un­ unemployment and permanently dis­ The first change would liberalize loca­ der section 220 redevelopment housing; tressed areas which present a double tional requirements. Under present law, that is, in the case of new construction, threat against our internal development the liberal mortgage insurance provided the loan could be in an amount equal to and our external security. Our internal by section 221 housing is available to the estimated replacement cost or actual development has been based on a con­ families located in a community with a certified cost-whichever is lower­ stantly growing domestic market and federally approved workable program exclusive of any allowance for builder's that development will obviously be sab­ for community improvement who are and sponsor's profit and risk. In the otaged if buying power is taken a way displaced as a result of governmental case of repair or rehabilitation, the loan from large numbers of our people. Faith action or displaced from an urban re­ could be in an amount equal to the Com­ in our external security has been based newal area. missioner's estimate of the value of the upon the idea of being always able to The bill would extend benefits of sec­ property when the proposed repair or re­ realize and utilize our full productive tion 221 to families displaced through habilitation is completed. Such mort­ strength and resources and that security governmental action without regard to gagor corporations would also be subject is obviously threatened if a great many the fact that these . families live. in a to regulation by the Commissioner as to willing wage workers cannot engag·e in community which does not have a rents, sales, charges, capital structure, our national production effort. 13886 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 15 Clearly then, chronic unemployment subject Government employees to arbi­ prejudice, personal malice, or even simply and permanent depression anywhere in trary and unfair discharge. the whim of officials who are inexperi­ our economy is a subject of national The sponsors of this bill are wrong enced, naive, or ignorant about national concern and primarily so in this emer.­ when they say that the Supreme Court's security and who confuse social and eco­ gency struggle with Russia. decision in Cole against Young has pre­ nomic thought with loyalty. This is no Responding to this challenge, in patri­ vented the Government from removing way to treat governmental employees. otic thought and purpose, a great many disloyal employees. They are entitled to have, and should Members, including myself, have filed In the first place, there are several have, justice, fair play, and due process legislative proposals designed to fore­ laws now on the statute books which can of law just as any other citizen. stall and prevent this economic tragedy. be used to remove from Government em­ I deplore the growing tendency to Substantially all these proposals pro­ ployment any person who is a Commu­ undermine the rights and treatment of vide for the creation of an Area Rede­ nist or subversive or a member of any Government employees. velopment Administration, to formulate organization which advocates the over­ S. 1411 is not necessary to protect and project an overall industrial reju­ throw of our Government by force or vio­ us against Communists. But it does venation program, in cooperation with lence. These statutes are the Subversive undermine the civil service system, it local authorities, for those distressed Activities Control Act of 1950, the Hatch imperils the rights and security of Gov­ areas suffering from persistent and en­ Act of 1939, and the Lloyd-La Follette ernment employees, and it sullies the larging unemployment. Act of 1912. In addition, the act of basic concepts of fairness and justice In summary this program would in­ August 26, 1950-64th Statutes, page that make our country's legal system the clude loans for industrial projects, grants 476-authorizes immediate summary dis­ best in the world. I hope S. 1411 is not for public facilities, and financial assist­ missal of any person in a sensitive posi­ enacted into law. ance, through the cooperation of the tion affecting the national security. Labor and Health, Education, and Wel­ In the second place, the Supreme Court fare Departments, to expand vocational did not prevent the firing of disloyal em­ training programs. ployees. It merely rules that a veteran Television Code-Advertising Most of these provisions, with added who is discharged on loyalty grounds is features, are contained in the Senate entitled, under the Veterans' Preference EXTENSION OF REMARKS passed bill, S. 3683, now waiting upon Act, to appeal to the Civil Service Com­ OF our action in the House. At stake is mission. Indeed, the Court specifically our continuing national well-being and noted that there is ample authority under HON. EMANUEL CELLER high morale, our world reputation of the statutes I have mentioned to dismiss OF NEW YORK providing equal opportunity for all our employees on loyalty grounds, and that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES citizens, and our ability to defend our­ "the question for decision here is not Tuesday, July 15, 1958 selves and assume the offensive in the whether an employee can be dismissed vitally important propaganda battle on such grounds, but only the extent to Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, under with Russia. I most earnestly urge that which the summary procedures author­ leave to extend my remarks in the REc­ this measure will be presented to and ized by the 1950 act are available" as ORD, I insert the following exchange of adopted by this House before any fur­ against a veteran. Thus, the only issue letters between Mr. Harold E. Fellows, ther idea of adjournment is entertained. before the Court, and the only issue it president and chairman of the board of ruled on, was whether a veteran could the National Association of Broadcasters be dismissed without permitting him to and myself, relating to the advertising appeal to the Civil Service Commission, of hard liquor on the air: Federal Employees Should Not Be which, of course, could have affirmed the TELEVISION CODE REVIEW BOARD, Subjected to Unfair Discharge Pro­ dismissal if it was found to be proper. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS, The Court ruled that the 1950 act ap­ Washington, D. C., June 16, 1958. cedures plied only to sensitive positions, and that Han. EMANUEL CELLER, veterans in nonsensitive positions still House of Representatives, EXTENSION OF REMARKS Washington, D. C. had a right to appeal. DEAR MR. CELLER: As you undoubtedly OF Firing a person from his job should know, the major function of the television HON. WILLIAM L. DAWSON never be arbitrary. Every Government code review board of the National Association employee, whether veteran or nonveter­ of Broadcasters is the administration of the OF ILLINOIS an, should be entitled to appeal from television code, a document supported by 309 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES arbitrary dismissal, no matter what the television stations and the 3 television net­ Tuesday, July 15, 1958 works. You may have occasion to refer to alleged ground of dismissal. That would the specific provisions of the code and the Mr. DAWSON of Illinois. Mr. Speak­ be in keeping with the American tradi­ method of its administration. Therefore, er, I oppose S. 1411-85th Congress­ tion of fairness and decency. Any per­ we thought you might like to have the fourth which is intended to reverse the Supreme son in a sensitive position could be trans­ edition of the television code, recently pub­ Court's 1956 decision in Cole v. Young ferred to a nonsensitive position during lished, together with a brief brochure de­ <351 U. S. 536). I oppose this bill for the time his appeal is being decided. scriptive of the industry's program of self­ This bill, however, goes in the opposite regulation. many reasons. If we may provide further details or be of This bill is unnecessary. It authorizes direction. It vests in Government of­ assistance to you in any way, please do not Government officials to exercise arbi­ ficials an unrestricted, arbitrary power to hesitate to call on us. trary power in a manner that is contrary suspend and fire any Government em­ Cordially, to American concepts of fairness and due ployee simply by saying that his dis­ HAROLD E. FELLOWS, process. Its vagueness and lack of charge is deemed necessary or advisable President and Chairman oj the Board. standards can be used to harm loyal in the interest of national security. No Government employees. There is no standards, no criteria, are set forth for JUNE 20, 1958. such charge. Nor is the employee en­ Mr. HAROLD E. FELLOWS, emergency requiring such hasty enact­ President and Chairman of the Board, ment of this bill and the Department of titled under this bill to be notified of the National Association of Broadcasters, Justice itself has recommended that the specific reasons for his suspension, or to Washington, D. C. interests of the individual employee as know who accused him, or to face and DEAR MR. FELLOWS: I am in receipt of your well as the Government would best be cross examine his accusers, or to obtain letter of June 16 and your brochure entitled served by deferring any legislative action judicial review as to the merits of his "The Television Code-National Association relating to this bill. discharge. of Broadcasters Seal of Good Practice." Permit me to make some comment. I want to emphasize, Mr. Speaker, that This unbridled discretion to fire gov­ I notice on page 6 of your television code no one is more opposed to communism ernmental employees can be used to im­ a proscription against the advertising of hard and totalitarianism than I am. How­ peril the livelihood and security of over liquor and that the advertising of beer and ever, I am also opposed to using the 2 million Government employees and sub­ wines is acceptable only when presented in threat of communism as an excuse to- ject them to removal on the basis of the best of taste and discretion, and is ac- 1958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 13887 ceptable subject to Federal· and local laws. JULY 11, 1958. Administration are not in any position Since the repeal of prohibition, liquor is a Mr. HAROLD E. FELLOWS, to grant. legal product, that includes beers, wines, President and Chairman of the Board, This essential need is adequately met whiskies, and cordials. Prohibiting whisky to National Association of Broadcasters, be advertised, · to my mind, is timid and Washington, D. C. in the substance of S. 3651, while at the pusillanimous. How can television deny the DEAR MR. FELLOWS; I have your letter of same time preserving the full structure advertising of a legal product which is car­ June 27, in reply to mine of June 20, and I of our free-enterprise system. Free en­ ried in the newspapers and magazines? Our cannot let the matter rest with your conclu­ terprise has nothing to fear from this magazines and newspapers are brought into sions. bill, and there is certainly no danger in­ so-called dry territory. Thus, if you offer the Radio and television play an important herent in it of Federal control or favored argument that telecasts or broadcasts -would part in our lives and since they are among competition. seep into dry areas, your argument will not the most important mediums of communica­ The provisions for the extension of wash. tion, the broadcasting industry cannot close You demand good taste and discretion in its eyes to our everyday existence. Hard equity capital and long-term credit are beer and wine advertising. Admittedly, all liquor and cordials, as well as beer and wine, contained in the basic idea to create advertising should be in goOd taste. Would are distributed and used throughout the Na­ small business investment companies, that the canons of good taste were followed tion-even in so-called dry territory. Why fashioned after the accepted establish­ in all television advertising and program­ should your industry be so myopic? Just ments of national farm loan associa­ ing. There is an unwarranted implication because the proscription against whisky has tions, the land bank system, the farm that beer and wine are apart from all other been in effect for a number of years is no cooperatives, and so forth, all of which, products and must therefore be handled reason why it should be continued. You gingerly. agree that the distinction between hard and in their inception were financially as­ It is very difficult for me to follow your light liquor is not based on logic. If that sisted by the Federal Government. A reasoning and I, for one, wish to protest. is so, why continue a practice that is illogi­ good many of these are now wholly Very truly yours, cal? You say that broadcasting merely owned by private interests and others are EMANUEL CELLER. adopted the mores already established. Who in the continuing process of liquidating established those mores? The broadcasting Federal ownership. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION industry? The temperance societies? Surely The independent study contained in a OF BROADCASTERS, not the public. Rockefeller report emphasized the needs Washington, D. C., June 27, 1958. . In any event, mores change and broadcast­ The Honorable EMANUEL CELLER, ing and telecasting must change with the of American small business in this ad­ House of Representatives, change in mores. Otherwise, your industry vancing economic age by this language: Washington, D. C. puts the dead hand or: progress. Just be­ The need is primarily for long-term DEAR MR. CELLER; Thank you very much cause a river has run in a certain direction equity or loan funds. As a result of the for your letter of June 20. is no reason for it to be permitted to run inability to obtain capital funds, the op­ Those questions posed in your letter have in that same direction if progress and im­ portunity for establishing a new firm, or been· matters that broadcasters and the dis­ provement require some change. That is for expanding an established firm, is often tilling industry have wrestled with for many why we dam rivers and actually change the lost. Often the established firm merges. years, and this proscription against adver­ course of rivers or even reverse their course. with a larger enterprise that can command tising hard liquor on the air was adopted It would seem to me that you are thinking in the necessary resources. The past few years by both the distilling and broadcasting in­ the past and not for the future. have seen a wave of such mergers. · Such a dustries over 20 years . ago. You say "the distilled spirits industry has condition is neither conducive to vigorous Broadcasters have voluntarily limited adopted a similar self-regulatory code against competition nor to economic growth. themselves to . ~he aqvertising of beer and the .use of the broadcasting mediums." I wine, and it has been sugg.estE)d before that don't know of such self-regulation, but if Mr. Speaker, I do not believe that such a distinction is an arb.itrary . one-not they have done this, they have been most there is anyone in this body who does justified by the products· themselves. Our ill advised. not earnestly desire to strengthen free only explanation lies in the fact that his­ . I shall place this entire correspondence in competitive enterprise in the United torically a distinction has been made in the the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. States and preserve the healthy tradi­ minds of the American people between beer Very truly yours, tions and contributions of small busi­ ·and wine on the one hand, and hard liquors EMANUEL CELLER. ness in our historical progress in pros­ on the other. Personally, I would agree that such a distinction is not based entirely on perity. I most earnestly hope that the­ logic. The distinction, however, was extant Senate will consider the House amend­ long before broadcasting became a force in ment in the near future and that a sen­ American society~ ."' Brm'tdcasting, -it seems. to · The Hour ls_LateJor the Surviv.al of"SID:all. sible conference agreement Will be soon me, merely adopted the mores already estab­ Business-Let Us Ad Now approved so that this Congress wili not lished. pass without discharging its duty · to I am sure, also, that you are aware or the small-business interests of the coun­ the fact that this voluntary action on the EXTENSION OF REMARKS try in their most desperate hour. part of our industry is. .not a unilateral one. OF The distilled spirits industry has adopted a similar self-regulatory _code against the use HON. HAROLD D. DONOHUE of the broadcasting mediums. Just a~ in our OF MASSACHUSETTS industry, there are undoubtedly individuals IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Need for Airmail Field at Portland Inter­ in that industry who do not agree witb the national Airport wisdom of such a line of demarcation. It Tuesday, July 15, 1958 is reasonable to assume that if hard liquor Mr. DONOHUE. Mr. Speaker, since advertising appeared on radio and television EXTENSION OF REMARKS this industry would obtain a percentage of the time I have been privileged to be a OF that advertising expenditure comparable to Member of this legislative body, one of that which it derives from beer and wine. the subjects about which I have heard a HON. EDITH GREEN Beer and wine advertising accounts for, we great deal of discussion, with proportion­ OF OREGON estimate, about 2.4 percent of all advertising ately little action, is the extending of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES expenditures in radio and television. reasonable Federal assistance toward the Nevertheless, we believe there is a substan­ survival of small business. Tuesday, July 15, 1958 tial feeling throughout the country favoring the provisions of the television code in this The urgent need of Federal aid to small Mrs. GREEN of Oregon. Mr. Speak­ respect, which, I would say, goes back to the business has been practically unani­ er, some 22 months ago, on September days following the repeal of prohibition when mously recognized, but we are still work­ 20, 1956, I wrote the Postmaster General the FCC admonished broadcaster;:; that liquor ing on the legislative accomplishment of urging the acquisition of space at the advertising might be against the public the help we know is vital to their con­ new terminal building at the Portland interest. tinuing existence. International Airport for the establish­ We appreciate exceedingly tbe expression The basic requirement for the preser­ ment there of an airmail field. Since of your views on this matter, and intend to bring your letter to the attention of our vation of our traditional acceptance and that request was not acceded to and television code review board and our board encouragement of small business is a since the new terminal building at the of directors. means of providing them with equity airport will shortly be opened, I have Sincerely, capital and long-term credit, which com­ more recently renewed my request for HAROLD E. FELLOWS. mercial banks and the Small Business the establishment of such a field facility. 13888 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 15

Under unanimous consent, I ask that "The 4-cent stamp will help," he asserted! An early consideration . of this matter will there be printed in the CONGRESSIONAL ''While the increase is only half of what we be appreciated. RECORD both of my letters to the Post­ asked for, the net return is such that it Sincerely, must have a beneficial effect upon post office EDITH GREEN. master General as well as the reply re­ construction." ceived to my earlier letter. He talked of false economies-for example POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Shortly after my writing the Post­ a practice of unloading a railroad car of Washington, D. C., October 8, 1956. master General in 1956, the National mail destined for Seattle, putting it in trucks Hon. EDITH GREEN, Postal Transport Association conducted at Portland, and driving it over the high­ House of Representatives, tests to compare the speed of mail sent way to Seattle while the empty railroad car Washington, D. C. travels the rails the rest of the way to DEAR Mas. GREEN: Postmaster General by air from Portland, Oreg., from the air­ Seattle. Summerfield has requested that we reply to port there, and from Seattle, Wash. Why? Because the truck carrier under­ your letter of September 20, 1956, concerning These tests showed that the worst en bid the railroad. The false economy? The the establishment of an airmail field at the route time for a letter mailed at the Port­ contract carrier's price did not include the Portland International Airport. land Airport was 73 hours compared cost of having postal employees load and It is true that we have received recom­ with the worst en route time of 49 bouts unload the truck-work which the railroad mendations in the past from regional offi­ for a letter mailed from the Seattle Air­ employees would have done without extra cials of the Post Office Department concern­ charge. ing an airmail field at Portland. We have port. Nagle sees a growing need for mail dis­ analyzed their reports very thoroughly and The net delay, the time in excess of tribut ion in railway and h ighway post of­ do not feel that an airmail facility can be what passengers or other air cargo would fices, as well as for airport mail facilities. justified at Portland. The size of a city really require to make the same flight, was 42 Population is stringing out into suburbs, and has very little effect on the need for an in­ hours in the case of the letter mailed it is becoming increasingly necessary to have transit distributing facility at the airport, from Portland and only 17 % hours in mobile post offices. since all large cities distribute their own the case of the letter mailed from Seattle. The association which Nagle heads has outgoing mail and the majority of mail 166 branches and 15 divisions, and it repre­ 'handled through the airfield is mail for on­ Horse and buggy mail delivery in a jet sents 30,000 postal transportation clerks who ward dispatch by air. In some cases an air­ age is intolerable and indefensible. work in railway post office cars, highway mail field delays the delivery of mail to the Modern business cannot be and is not post offices busses, railroad and air terminals. local post office since the mail is dispatched conducted at the snail's pace which this New officers of the Portland branch of the directly to the post office if there is no air­ study shows has resulted from the lack 13th division, elected at the convention in mail field and if there is an airmail field on of terminal facilities at the Portland In­ the Congress Hotel are Lucien E. Bracy, some trips it is necessary that this mail be ternational Airport. president; Francis D. Savage, vice president; consolidated with the transit and actually Howard E. Waterbury, Jr., secretary, and delayed in delivery to the post office. Under unanimous consent, I ask that Howard N. Butterfield, financial secretary. As stated before we have given this pro­ the results of this study be printed in full posal very serious consideration and we do in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, together PoRTLAND, OREG., September 20, 1956. not feel that we can justify an airmail field with a recent article by Jack Ostergren Hon. ARTHUR E. SUMMERFIELD, at Portland. If it later develops through in the Oregon Journal for July 10, 1958. The Postmaster General, Post Office changes in airline schedules that an airfield can be justified, w:e would not anticipate too [From the Oregon Journal of July 10, 1958] Department, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR GENERAL SUMMERFIELD: Because much difficulty in obtaining space at that PORTLAND AIRMAIL DETOURED VIA SEATTLE final planning and commitment of space in time. AIRPORT the new terminal building at Portland In­ Sincerely yours, (By Jack Ostergren) ternational Airport will be completed in the J. N. McKEAN, Airmail destined for Portland fiies over the immediate future, I am writing to urge Special Assistant City of Roses, goes on to Seattle to be worked prompt action by the Post Office Department (For the Assistant Postmas.ter General). by postal employees there, and then is flown to acquire terminal facilities for an airmail back to Portland. field post office while it is still possible. Un­ AIRMAIL TEST CONDUCTED AT PORTLAND, OREG., Why? less action is taken soon, I am advised that AND VICINITY, BY NATIONAL POSTAL TRANS­ PORT AsSOCIATION Because Portland has no adequate airport excellent and appropriate facilities now mail facility, despite the fact that approxi­ available will be committed to other uses. Method of test: All airmail letters inc mately 5,000 square feet of space in the new At the present time, as you know, Port­ volved were mailed to the same address in air terminal is available for that purpose. land is one of the few large cities in the Washington, D. C. This is a business ad­ Again, why? United States without airport facilities for dress with three mail deliveries daily. Apparently because regional postal officials proper handling of mail. Indeed, a number All letters were mailed 2 hours in advance :feel that such a facility isn't necessary. of cities with only one-fifth to one-third our of closing time of flight over which they "We're crusading for an AMF (airport mail volume of airmail now have these facilities. were intended to be dispatched. This is facility) at your new terminal," declares Paul Almost alone among major cities, Portland's more time than schedule shows is needed A. Nagle, of Washington, D. C., a Post Office transit airmail must presently be trucked to process mail at any of the installations Department employee on leave, who is presi­ into the city for sorting, then trucked back where mailings w.ere made. dent of the National Postal Transportation to the airport for forwarding. With more At the time test was made (February Association. He looked at the local situa­ than one hundred airmail flights serving 1957) there were 8 flights daily to Washing­ tion while he was here to speak at the bi­ Portland International and over a million ton, D. C. that flew both from Portland and ennial convention of the association's 13th people in the area potentially served by Seattle. Seven of these flights were from division, composed of northwest postal trans­ transit airmail service here, .this is clearly a Seattle to Portland to Washington and one portation clerks. cumbersome and inefficient system which, I was from Portland to Seattle to Wasbing­ am told, often results in a full day's delay ton. Roughly, by the schedule then in "The setup here now is primitive," Nagle in the delivery of airmail. . observed bluntly. "There is a bathroom­ effect, Seattle was 1¥2 hours farther from In previous discussions with interested lo-. Washington by air than was Portland. sized room ( 49 square feet) in the old airport cal citizens and groups, regional officials of facilities. The same flights were used, or intended the Post Office Department have, I believe, to be used, regardless of where the mailings "The clerk has to collect airmail from the strongly recommended creation of an air­ were made. These flights involved trans­ drop box, postmark it, and open bags that mail field post office here, but the Bureau of fers at Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, come out there from the post office, to put Transportation has expressed opposition. Chicago, Fort Worth, and Minneapolis. the airport mail into the proper bags." The Port of Portland, which favors this in­ Mailings at both Portland and Seattle Even this system is an improvement over stallation, has available excellent facilities were made simultaneously at downtown that in use before May 1957. Airmail letters in the projected new terminal. Postal main offices and at airport. At Seattle, dropped off at the airport used to go ba~k Transport Union leaders have indicated, in there was no appreciable difference between downtown to the main post office for post­ response to my inquiry, their strong belief the two. Due to more frequent motor ve­ marking, and then make the trip back to the that this is a desiral;>le improvement in hicle service and promptness of postmark­ airport to go aboard a plane. postal service. ing, all downtown ma1lings at Seattle ap-_ "One airline here has more space and a In view of the short time remaining before parently made the flights intended within more elaborate setup for their own business thb space is committed to other uses, which the 2 hour advance. For that reason the mail than the postal department does at the would indefinitely prevent this project, times shown under Seattle are applicable airport," Nagle declared. prompt action is necessary if an airmail field to either city or airport mailings. Nagle, a Pennsylvanian by birth, said he post office is to be included in the new ter­ The flying time under Oregon cities mail­ feels strongly that all post office facilities in minal. Your favorable action can give better ings allows time to connect through Portland Portland should be improved. He said it is and more efficient airmail service to the peo­ post office (theoretically) or some AMF de­ unusual for a city of this size to have such ple of Portland and throughout Oregon on pending upon the flight. Cities used in this decrepit buildings and facilities for postal a par with that already enjoyed by Seattle, mailings were all airstops that have direct service. Spokane, and most other west coast cities. local feeder air service to Portland airport. 1958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 13889 such as Salem, Eugene, Klamath Falls, Rose­ still to be worked and returned to field for Address Delivered by Hon. J. Allen Frear burg, Bend, Astoria. flying. About 500 airmail letters mailed All mailings were made on Mondays, Tues­ weekly at the airport, many by people who at Camden-Wyoming Fire Company days, Wednesdays to avoid weekend lay­ drive there to speed their mail, are delayed overs. Flight conditions were normal dur­ at least one day. Celebration ing the period of the test. All times shown The service from outlying cities suffers are to the nearest half hour and are the from the same handicaps as does that from EXTENSION OF REMARKS average of the 8 DCA flights. Since the the airport. Mail is flown to Portland by OF same flights were used in all cases, the net local service from Oregon, Washington, Idaho results are the same as if each flight were cities, trucked to city post office, worked and HON. JOHN J. WILLIAMS listed separately from each point of mail­ trucked back to field hours later. Or, small OF DELAWARE ing. offices do not have enough mail to make up directs, so their Eastern States are massed IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES on Seattle, or Denver, or Chicago, and instead Tuesday, July 15, 1958 'd ~ § t:l of making direct plane to plane transfers, .s 0.. mail is delayed 1 'l:z to 2 hours going through Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, last r:.. O) ..!:i ~<.> "'El -< ~"' AMF cases hence losing at least one flight. Saturday, July 12·, in Delaware, the Cam­ Time average -< ~ 'd 'd ·a This also results in flying many small den-Wyoming Fire Company celebrated § ~ ta~ 0 pouches, sometimes the equipment .. weighs ~ -~ ~ bD the burning of the mortgage against its g El ~ ~ s 0) more than the mail it contains. In some modern building and equipment. This 00 Pi Pi 0 cases eastern mail passes through Portland. volunteer fire company and its facilities ------to be massed on Seattle where it is worked represent the joint venture of the two Actual delivery time t ______37 41 60 64 and returned through Portland en route east. Flying time en route 2 _ ------1 5~ 14 14 18 Local postal clerks and officials have made towns of Camden and Wyoming, Del., Delay 3 _ _ ------~ ---- 21 Y.l 27 46 46 recommendations to alleviate the above de­ and their success is a tribute not only to Delay not" chargeable '------4 4 4 4 lays. All such recommendations have been Net delay above schedules __ 17Y.l 23 41 · 42 · the mem:Jers of -the fire company, but Best en route time 6 ______23 34 33 41 ignored. also to the eitizens of those communities. Worst en route time 7______49 51 73 70 Senator FREAR, as the speaker on this Postmarking time s______Y.l 1 5 ~2 2~ JULY 15, 1958. . Hon. ARTHUR E. SUMMERFIELD, historic occasion, emphasized the great service rendered by the volunteer fire­ 1 This is the total elapsed time from-mailing of letter The Postmaster General, to delivery. · Washington, D. C. men of America. I ask unanimous .con:. 2 This is the fl.ying time en route plus time for connec· MY DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Almost 22 months sent that his remarks be printed 'in the tions at transfer points. It is the time the mails were in have now elapsed since I wrote you on Sep- _CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. cu:~~~:!~~ee t~i~:~ lines 1 and 2. Mails we;e in tember 20, 1956, urging your Department to There being no objection, the address custody of Post Office Department. . acquire terminal facilities for an ·airfield post was ordered to qe printed in the RECORD, • This is the average amount of time not chargeable to office at the new terminal building at the as follo·.;rs: · *'f:~stg:fett~r~o~~l~~~:Sb :r~~If~;r eilJ~er closing times Portland International Airport.' At that time 6 Net delay. This is the amount of time that the ac- I stated: · · It is hardly necessary for me to say that I tual delivery exceeded post office processing time and "At the present time, as you know, Port'- consider it a ver-y great honor to break bread airline flying time. Allowance was made for all distri- land is one of the few large cities in the wit h you this evening. · bution required at both ends of fl ight. In other wor ds, United States ·wi"hout al·rport facill"tl·es for It is a privileg~ to share in tl}.ls moment of this is the time in excess ol what passengers or other air ~ cargo would require to make the same flight. proper handling of mail. Indeed, a number · triumph when you burn tbe mortgage and • o The fastest time made from each point. . of cities. witli only one-fifth to one-third of look with pride on 'your fire building, which 7 The slowest time made from each point. our volume of airmail now have these fa- you have released from financial obligations chu. s Thite ors iboxs the a ntimd the betweee. time nof act postualm droarkinp ofg laett t oerffice in mpreail- cl"ll"ties. Almost 'alone among major citl"es,' thro.:ugh. your continuous hard work and paratory to distribut ion. Portland's transit airmail must presently be . cooperatwn. · . ' ·· . . . trucked into the city for sorting, then The subscribers who have labored so long From evaluation of results of the airmail trucked back to the airport for forwarding. and earnestly toward c001plete paymen~ now test,· the ·following conclusions may fairly be With more than 100 airmail flights serving se~ t~e result o~ their efforts. drawn: Portland International. and over a million It 1s most fittn:~g that such.a result shc,mld While Seattle is farther away .fi.·om Wash.i. ···people iJ.l the .a.rea potentially served by crqwn the devoted and self-sacrificing work tngton, D. C. (and this also would apply transit airmail service here, this is clearly of .the many who have given freely' of theiz: to any other eastern point) than is Port- a cumbersome and inefficient system which, time, energy, and means in this community's land, the general public would gain t ime by I am told, often results in a full day's delay behalf. . ' driving to Seattle ;f-rom Portland (3¥2 .hrs.) in the delivery of airmail." Recently _m a message to the Brandywine to mail their airmail. This can partly be This letter is being written to urge you to ·Hundre.d Fue Com~any on the occas!on of . explained by the fact that distribution is reconsider the decision contained in the reply dedicat10n ceremomes at the new fire hall, J; · done at the· field at Seattle and frequent to me dated october 8, 1956, not to establish said th.at ~mer t.c~ is a Nation of ~olu_nteer vehicle shuttle service is maintained between an airmail field at that time. · · fire departments, due primarily to its wide_­ there and city. Mail deposit boxes are Tests conducted early in 1957 by the Na- spread rural population, the. vastness of the emptied a ".; least every hour and both AMF tiona! Postal Transport Association of mail- country and the number of counties, small and city post office staffs are to be com- ings from Seattle and Portland to Washing- cities, towns, and villages, both incorporated mended for their awareness that airmail has ton, D. c., showed that it took as much as and unincorporated, all requiring fire pro­ some time value and should be immediately 73 hours for a letter mailed. at the Port- tection. . postmarked and dispatched. land Airport to arrive in washington, D. c. A volunteer fire department is more than At Portland main office there appears to be This is compa:..'able to the worst en route time a group of men with shining red equipment-­ some laxness in pickup and postmarking of 49 hours for a letter mailed from the it is, indeed, a shining example of that qual­ time, as well as inability to .get letters Seattle Airport. The conclusion of the NPTA ity which has made America great--that is through airmail distribution. It appears that was: individual initiative. few, if any, of the letters made the flight "While Seattle is farther away from wash- The burning of the mortgage this evening intended with the 2-hour advance. In no ington, D. c. (and this also would apply represents an offering on the altar of the case was next d ay delivery possible from to any other eastern point) , than is Portland, noblest a ims of civilized m a nkind. Portland. Some of this is due to the fact the general public would gain time by driving This building, which you have relinquished. that distribution is so remote from field to Seattle from Portland (3 ¥2 hours) to from all debt, is more than foundation and vehicle service so erratic that no last- mail their airmail. This can be partly ex- stones, walls, beams, steps, and a roof. It minute dispatches can be made. It is inter- plained by the fact that distribution is dohe embodies the principles of community serv­ esting to note that on the return of these at the fiel~ at Seattle and frequent vehicle ice and cooperation which exist within your letters from Washington to a residential ad- shuttle service is maintained between there volunteer fire company for the good of all. dress in Portland with one delivery daily, and the city. Mail deposit boxes are emptied What twist of nature, human or other­ next d ay delivery was made in all cases at least every hour and both AMF and city wise, causes fires at such inopportune times? except one. post office staffs are to be commended for We all know that the life of the volunteer The service from the airport at Portland their awareness that airmail has some time fireman is not a bed of roses. seems to be at least one day slower than value and should be immediately postmarked The siren is sure to blow just as the juicy from either Portland or Seattle. There is and dispatched." · steak is being lifted from the pan, or just no service performed at airport. Mail de- I, therefore, urge you, most strongly, to as the fireman is having his only extra n ap posited there is sent to city post office for· t ake the necessary steps· to obtain space at of the week, or taking his family for a picnic postm ar k ing and distribution, and is then the new terminal building at the Portland or afternoon drive, or when he is at church returned to airport for flight.· Due· to poor International Airport for the establishment or the movies. coordination of vehicle service and slowness there, without delay, of an airmail field. And if he is away from home at the time, through city post office the time averages Sincerely, the sound of the siren puts unholy fear into 5'/:z hours to postmark, and then mail has EDITH GREEN. his heart and speed into his feet. 13890 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 15 Fire hazards are not so great as in the question that they would have controlled Communities .where the people are kind olden days, even in the country. the outbreak with minimum loss. . and neighborly and have an interest in the Mrs. O'Leary's cow would have a hard time I have never noted a let-the-ruins-burn welfare of others are better than commu­ finding a lantern to kick over now, because attitude in a volunteer. fire department. -nities of greater wealth where selfish inter­ no doubt her barn would be lighted with Fire fighting calls for high strategy. Thus, ests sometimes prevail. electricity. your usMulness to this community does not It· is the quality of the citizens who make But with all our fire prevention methods just happen. up a community that is more important than and improved fire apparatus, there is always Volumes upon volumes have been written the amount of their incomes. a real danger. about military strategy, but the story of Your community has become a good place Our cities and towns have need of men who the battle against fire, the strategy of fire­ in which to live because you have made it so. are willing to serve under the banner of fighting, has gone largely unrecorded. You have kept in mind that short phrase, flame and smoke. The stakes may not be so great--although "the greatest good." It has guided your The volunteer fire department is something the existence of a city often hangs in the volunteer fire department successfully and of which its community should be proud­ balance at a great conflagration-and the should become the private and public code for its men are eager, earnest, brave, and casualty lists are not so long. of every true American. efficient. But action and danger are there-action This is a proud moment for me, when I Fire is the world's great est paradox, for it that calls for the same combination of can congratulate you on the "burning of your is at once man's worst enemy and his best brains and brawn, the same qualities of mortgage." friend. A marvelous servant when properly daring and physical doggedness as an en­ You have planned wisely. handled but a dreaded master when it gets gagement at arms. The citizens of this community are for­ tunate, indeed, to have a good volunteer the upper hand. No wonder our ancestors In some ways the strategy of fire fighting worshiped it and made sacrifices to it. fire department to serve them. taxes the genius of man as a military engage­ May you always have the wholehearted We are still making sacrifices. ment rarely does. It has been said that Not a day passes but the fire-god claims cooperation of your neighbors, in your ef­ when Germany declared war against France, forts not only to put out fires, but to pre­ its innocent victims. Field Marshal von Moltke sent a telegram America is a Nation of hero worshipers. vent their starting. and went to bed. The entire campaign had May your equipment always be as bright She pays homage to scientists, inventors, been worked out beforehand through years of and intrepid adventurers. She has taken to and shining, and in as perfect working order, patient preparation: the terrain was known as it is tonight. her heart in great crowds her returned to the square foot, the forces to be met with soldiers. But not enough has ever been said could be predicted with almost mathematical about the arm of fire fighters-the men who certainty, every possible move of the enemy ·go forth each day, ready to suffer or die in had been discounted, every subordinate offi­ the performance of their duty. cer knew precisely what to do when the day Report of Water Resources Policy Com­ One of the great buildings of the world­ should arrive. The entire military machine and one with which it is my good fortune to was loaded and aimed. All the commander mittee to the 45th National Convention be very familiar-is the United Stat.es Capi­ had to do was pull the trigger. tol. Its history dates back to the day George of the National Rivers and Harbors Washington laid the cornerstone. This great This illustration is no doubt overdrawn­ Congress structure has been visited by fire numerous but it points to an interesting comparison. times in its 163-year-old history. And it is The fire department commander cannot interesting to know that on more than one possibly work out his strategy until he arrives EXTENSION OF REMARKS occasion, the United Stat es Capitol was saved on the sce1ie of the engagement. He has no OF by volunteer firemen long before the .paid idea where the action will take place until fire department was organized in the District the alarm· sound~ and even then it may be HON. ROBERT L. F. SIKES of Columbia. any one of many buildings. Nor can he gage OF FLORIDA ahead of time the ·strength of the enemy's One of the fires at the Capitol Building IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESEN~ATIVES occurred on the bitter cold night of December attack. When he reaches the scene he may 24, in the year 1851. The volunteer firemen find a .bonfire in the street that can be put Tuesday, July 15, 1958 .out with a splash from an extinguisher, or of Washington, D. C., had just finished bat­ Mr. SIKES. Mr. Speaker, under tling a big hotel fire when news reached them he may find an entire building a mass of fire that. the Capitol was on fire. They at once that reaches out on every side for further fuel l~ave to extend my remarks, I wish to started for the scene of the new conflict, and a score of lives may be hanging in the include the report of the committee on and found upon arrival that the fire had balance. water resources policy to the 45th Na­ started in the Library of Congress, at that The very n ature of fire puts a staggering tional Convention of the National Rivers time housed in the central wing of the premium on quickness of decision. Time is and Harbors Cqngress, which was Capitol. The fire was discovered by Edward of the essence in fire fighting. The longer it unanimously adopted by the convention Everett, great statesman and orator, who was takes to control a fire, the more difficult it on May 16, 1958. ·browsing in the Library. bec'omes to control. Were the public as fully Included in the library were 6,700 volumes aware of this as the fireman, I fir:only believe The National Rivers and Harbors Con­ from the private librc.ry of Thomas Jefferson. there . would be less grumbling when fire gress has long recognized the need for According to the fireman's record, the An­ apparatus goes hurtling through traffic in a a n~tional water resources policy, and acostia volunteer fire company which had dizzy, headlong rush. _after President Eisenhower at our con­ not been in service at the hotel fire, at­ One cannot help but realize the cooperative vention in 1954 announced the appoint­ tempted to get its suction engine into the spirt which is engendered by the way in ment of his . Advisory Committee on Capitol rotunda (as it was necessary for the which the volunteer fire department answers Water Resources Policy, and requested water to be forced from hand engine), but the cry of distress from its neighbors. the assistance of our organization and it was too large to pass through t h e door. On top of it all, is the fact that your vol­ The Columbia fire company was more for­ unteer com!)any is maintained and equipped its members, a conference was had with tunate, and soon the rotunda echoed with largely through public contributions and not the Chairman of the Committee, the the working of the brakes. Hose was run through direct taxation-an item which Secretary of the Interior, and his assist­ to the roof and water poured in torrents means much to the average homeowner. ants, participated in by President to the floors below. A portion of the roof It is an American habit for people to boost Brooks, National Vice President Holland, fell in shortly after the firemen had taken the community in which they live. How­ resolutions committee chairman and position on it, but fortunately no one was ever, have you ever stopped to wonder what then Mississippi Vice President Smith, hurt. makes a city a good place in which to live? and the-executive vice presi-dent. Volunteer firemen down t hrough the his-· Dr. Edward L. Thorndike, a psychologist Subsequently, President Brooks ap­ tory of this great Nation have been willing of Columbia University, wondered about this to take risks-very considerable risks-to question and set to work to study in detail pointed a committee on water resources save life and property. Their efforts should 117 different cities to determine which were policy consisting of the following: Rep­ not be taken for granted. better places in which to live. His studies resentative Robert L. F. Sikes, of Flor­ For the firemen every blaze is a challenge revealed the surprising fact that money had ida, chairman; Francis A. Pitkin of and must be fought until it is "dead" out. little to do with making a city, or commu­ Pennsylvania, vice chairman; William Even where the fire has such headway nity, a good place to live, and the per 9apita H. Webb of the District of Columbia, upon arrival that there is little likelihood wealth of the citizens was not so important secretary.- of saving the structure, and when no nearby as the way in which they spent whatever property is threatened I have observed that money was at their disposal. This committee has participated with the fire department puts the blaze out with The community where people spend their representatives of other national and great swiftness. money on homes, providing schools for edu­ regional organizations over a period of By so doing, it would seem the firemen cation, maintaining the public safety, and several years in an effort to reach an have served notice that , h ad they been are unselfish in their support of their agreement on what might be contained called in time, there could have been no churches is a good place in which to live. in a water resources policy bill, and the 1958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 13891 committee's report describes these con­ tives. Nonetheless, your committee feels with this directive, Mr. William H. Webb, ferences, as follows: that these explorations of mutual objectives executive vice president, on April 21, 1958, have been productive and may well be con­ notified members of the committee of their REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON WATER RESOURCES tinued as such opportunities arise in the scheduled participation in the proceedings of POLICY TO THE 45TH NATIONAL CONVENTION future. this meeting. OF THE NATIONAL RIVERS AND HARBORS Respectfully submitted. CONGRESS Purposes of the irrigation ana reclamation ROBERT L. F. SIKES, committee Your committee on water resources policy, Chairman. through one or more of its members, partici­ Original instructions to this committee FRANCIS A. PITKIN, directed it to deal _only with matters of pated during the past year in several con­ .Vice Chairman. ferences with members of water policy com­ general policy. This course has continued WILLIAM H. WEBB, in effect. Individual project s for which the mittees of six other national or regional Secretary. agencies which have been vitally interested Unanimously adopted by the congress, May approval of the United States Congress is in establishing policy for the proper develop­ 16, 1958. sought are to be considered, as in the past, ment of the waters and related land resources by the projects committee of the National of the Nation. Rivers and Harbors Congress, under the The other organizations are the American chairmanship of Congressman Sm SIMPSON, Farm Bureau Federation, Chamber of Com­ Report of the Committee on Irrigation of Illinois. merce of the United States, the Engineers and Reclamatic.n to the National Rivers Last year the paramount purposes of this Joint Council, the Mississippi Valley Asso­ committee were defined as the formulation ciation, the National Reclamation Associa­ and Harbon Congress of a policy and a program for the continued, tion, and the National Water Conservation orderly development by reclamation and ir­ rigation of our water and land resources in Conference. EXTENSION OF REMARKS At these interorganization meetings the the arid and semiarid regions of the West, assembled representatives carefully reviewed OF and to suggest ways and means whereby the and expressed their respective views on the National Rivers and Harbors Congress may recommendations for the establishment of HON. A. L. MILLER better cooperate and coordinate its efforts a national water policy, which are contained OF NEBRASKA with the advocates of reclamation and irri­ in the report of President Eisenho.wer's Ad­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gation. We will continue to function under visory Committee on Water Resources Policy the basic philosophy that orderly and pro­ which was transmitted to the Congress in Tuesday, July 15, 1958 gressive development of our water and l~nd January of 1956. Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. resources is in the best interests of the The recommendations of the Presidential Speaker, the report by the Committee on United States, or, as more ably expressed Committee were analyzed to a large degree by that wise American statesman, Daniel in the light of water policy principles which Irrigation and Reclamation to the Na­ Webster: had been formulated by the several com­ tional Rivers and Harbors Congress' 45th "Let us develop the resources of our land, mittees of the respective participating or­ National Convention was presented to call forth its powers and build up its institu­ ganizations. Th.ey were also appraised in that group on May 16. Much credit for tions, promote all its great interests and see conjunction with the findings and conclu­ its composition again goes to Ival V. whether we, also, in our day and generation, sions contained in the reports of the Senate Goslin, engineer-secretary to the Upper may not perform something worthy to be Committees on Insular and Interior Affairs Colorado River Commission, ahd to ·wil­ remembered." and on Public Works, pursuant to Senate liam Welsh, secretary-manager of the Committee personnel Resol~tion_s 148 and 281. . . You will observe the personnel of this We who represented the National Rivers National Reclamation Association. r· would suggest that my colleagues committee on irrigation and reclamation, and Harbors Congress in these discussions now in its second year, on page 1 of this realized-that we were not equipped or author­ review this report and if you do, you report. With only two exceptions the mem­ ized to speak for the National Rivers and will understand that more than half of bership is the same~ that of last year. This Harbors Congress on all of these matters. the funds for reclamation comes from fact demonst.r~tes the enthusiasm pf these . All we could do -was hope to express in these the sale of public hinds, certa:in minerals, men and their dedication to the task as­ discussions points of view which seemed to and the repayment on reclamation proj­ signed to them of representing the reclama­ reflect those who are gathered here for this tion interests of our great Nation. Most of · cop.ference. We hqpe we have done no vio­ ects. Irrigation allocations are re­ turn~d _to the Treasury without interest the men on the roster are inter,ested not lence to your feelings on some of the highly only in irrigation and reclamation, but in controvershi1 matters that are includ.= d . . _in accordance with a 56-year-old' recla- flood-control projects, rivers -and . harbors The result of the confer.ences was com­ mation law. · ; and in fact all phases-'of re- plete agreement on many of the recom­ proj~cts, w~ter Irrigation is a sound investment for . ~o1,1rrce · d~~ve~o-pm_e~ t. · · · · mendations . made . ·by the · PresideD. tial the Nation. For instance, every-4 years Advisory Committee, particularly those that PROGRESS ' - urged elimination of friction and duplica­ the value of crops produced on recla­ In thil> committee's report of 1957 to the tion of activities among... Federal agencies, mation farms equals the total appro­ National Rivers an~ Harbors Congress we better definition of the procedures and priation for Federal reclamation which outlined several policy and procedural rec­ standards for the evaluation of projects, and started 56 years ago. It has been esti­ ommendations designed as guides and sug­ more effective· cooperation with the States mated·that the Federal Gc>veriunent'has gestions for implementing basic principles. and -local governments: There was also received more than $5 billion in Federal The adoption of these recommendations by unanimous agr~ment 'in oppositio:1 to the taxes from reclamation projects and this organization has contributed greatly to creation of a Water Reso:urces Coordinator adjacent trade territories. The land a better understanding of western resource in the Office of the President. There was problems by eastern people, of midwestern disagreement among the participants as to ·irrigated would be nonproductive with- problems by both easterners and we!)t­ the advisability of the establishment of a out water and good people to work the erners, and of eastern problems by the rest board of review; 4 seemed to be in favor, and 3 land. Irrigation projects produce food of the Nation. It is gratifying to note that in opposition. ·for a growing, expanding population. sponsors of projects in all parts of the Na­ As a consequence of these several inter­ Only about 2 percent of the products on tion are beginning to recognize new possi­ organization conferences, a compromise bill irrigated farms add to our surplus agri­ bilities for coordination of efforts anj co­ was drafted by representatives of the Amer­ cultural products. It would not be pos­ operation in proceeding with the de.velop­ ican Farm Bureau Federation and was care­ ment of water and land resources. This new fully reviewed at the last of the inter­ sible to have an abundance of cheap spirit and its resultant accomplishments, we organizational meetings. It was agreed that vegetables without the irrigation of good place in the category of progress-not be­ efforts should be made to secure Congres­ ·land. cause during the past year we feel that the sional sponsorship of this bill after further REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND program of project development has been revisions for its improvement. It was also RECLAMATION accelerated to the point necessary or de­ agreed that the interorganizational group (By Congressman A. L. MILLER, o:( Nebraska) sirable; but rather because the goal is still ·should press for the introduction of legisla- in sight, and it is believed that future re­ tive proposals which, it is understood, have INTRODUCTION sults will prove the justification and wis­ been drafted by the administration. As far At the 44th Annual Convention of the dom of united efforts. as is known, nothing has come from these National Rivers and Harbors Congress held During the past year the Small Reclama­ efforts thus far. a year ago, President OVERTON BROOKS an­ tion Projects Act was put into force. Pres­ Your committee regrets that a more de­ nounced the creation of the committee on ently, there is one small project in Texas tailed report, presenting more specific recom­ irrigation and reclamation. The assembly, that has signed a repayment contract under mendations cannot be presented. You will without a dissenting vote, approved the the terms of this new law; while another understand, however, that complete agree­ forming of this committee, adopted its re­ in Utah is now pending before the Interior ment cannot be reached by so many different port, and made the committee a permanent and Insular Affairs Committees of Congress. agencies having such widely different objec- part of this organization. In compliance awaiting approval. Others in various States 13892 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 15 of the West are being investigated and icated upon the assumption that 5 million mental water necessary for a sound farming processed. of these new acres will be irrigated. That economy; 93,500 new farms have been is more new land than the Bureau of Recla­ .brought under irrigation; 360,000 Americans ltECLAMATION IS MORE IMPORTANT TODAY THAN .occupy those farms; and 1,800,000 people are EVER BEFORE mation has brought under irrigation during its 56 years of existence. Therefore, it is living in areas supported by reclamation. Changing time~ plain to see that if we are to meet 1975 and : It should be emphasized that not all recla­ Less than a year ago, we were facing the subsequent conditions we must have more mation and irrigation has been made possi­ l'esults of a governmental economy program land under cultivation, or the rate of in­ ble by the Federal Government. Private with which we, as conservationists and crease in production per acre per year will enterprise and individual initiative have sponsors of water development projects, have to be far greater than it has been in ·accounted for the creation, operation and found no fault as far as fundamental objec­ 1·ecent years. maintenance of many projects involving mil­ tives were concerned. Reclamation is for the future lions of productive acr:es. In other areas the We have now been shocked into the real­ Federal Government and private enterprise ization that the effects of an economic re­ Many years are required, often a . quarter have worked hand in hand cooperating in cession are in our midst. We have not lost of a century -ar more, to bring a major recla­ the full development and utilization of the sight of the responsibilities of world leader­ mation project into agricultural production. water resources. ship that our Nation must assume and For instance, the Colorado River storage Americans should not forget that large which requires a strong economic and moral project and participating projects will t·e­ percentages of the fresh fruits, the vegeta­ character. To be strong we must maintain quire about 30 years for completion; the bles, citrus fruits; nuts, semitropical fruits, a dynamic and accelerated progress in the Columbia River Basin project at least 40 and other items of our everyday diet are development of our national resources in years, etc. An average reclamation project raised on irrigation and reclamation projects order to maintain a high standard of living requires at least 10 years for completion and of the West. Doctors and dietitians are at home, and at the same time, meet the often longer. agreed that these fresh fruits and green challenges of world affairs. Reclamation Ag1'icuztural su?"pluses vegetables are prime factors behind the su­ and the irrigation of arid and semiarid lands Some of the top men in the Department perior health and well-being of our Na­ have become vital parts of the American way of Agriculture predict that a balance be­ tion. of life by contributing greatly to a higher tween production and consumption of food Economists and financial experts have standard of living and to our strong position products· will be reached in the early 1960's. found that the overall reclamation program as a Nation. These facts mean in simple terms that there has proved to be. an economically sound and Population increasing, p1·oductive land will be a full disposition of agricultural sur­ financially feasible enterprise for participa­ decreasing pluses now prevalent in some crops long be­ tion by the Federal Government. Every 4 ·fore reclamation projects now being authol"'­ years the value ef. crops produced on recla­ The population of the United States con­ mation farms equals the total money appro­ tinues to increase at a rate that provides ized can be brought into production. The ·same applies to some projects like the two priated for Federal r:eclamation since its in­ approximately 3 million more mouths to _ception 56 years ago. The cash value of feed each year. At the same time, we ar_e mentioned above that are currently under construction. Agricultural surpluses now .the crops produced in 1956 was more than losing more than a million acres of good $951,623,656. Since the .reclamation program agricultural land every year to highways, 'so frequently cited as reasons for not au­ .thorizing reclamation projects are only tem­ was initiated. in 1902, $12,349,504,000 worth airports, municipal and suburban develop­ -of crops have been produced. The Federal ments, industrial and military establish­ porary. We cannot afford to bury our heads .in the sand and wait until increased Government has received nearly $3,218 mil­ ments, and by other means. These two op-­ lion in Federal taxes derived from reclama­ posing but interrelated 1nflnences pertain­ .amounts of foods and fibers are needed be­ ·fore we start our reclamation projects. To tion projects and adjacent trade areas since ing to our need and capacity to prodttce, .1940. Irrigation farmers have repaid the speak for themselves. dJ so may mean national catastrophe. · Another fact that has not been fully ap­ Federal Treasury more than $129,826,000. As Will agricultural pmduction increase fast preciated is that reclamation projects con­ .emphasized many times, from a financial enough tribute only insignificant amounts to oui: standpoint, reclamation projects repay the Our total farmland has remained about ·crop surplus accumulations. . As an ex­ investment in many ways besides repaying to ·the United States all of the costs allocat€d t<;> the same for the past 40 ye;:~.rs. About the ample, wheat, upland cotton, c~rn, tobacco, only means of increasing our farm acreage and rice are the crops that have been giv­ irrigation features without interest and the costs allocated to power and municipal water is through reclamation, irrigation, and _ing the greatest headaches to our ag~icul­ drainage. It is very doubtful whether pro­ tural experts. Of these crops, only 2.2 per­ .supplies with interest. duction on our existing farmlands can be cent of the wheat is raised on irrigated RECOMMENDATIONS increased fast enough to meet the demands ·lands, and 5.3 percent of the upland cot­ The following recommendations are ::ound of our growing population-228 million by ton, 0.46 percent of the corn, 0:54 percent of ·upon the basic principles adopted a year 1975. 'the rice and none' of the tobacco come from ·ago. At the same . time we must keep in True, our agricultural production is con­ reclamation projects. If a herd of elephants mind that the Nation in some areas is now tinuing to increase but our rate of produc­ and an insignificant little mouse cross a feeling the effects of an economic reces­ tion per acre, during the past 10 years, has bridge at the same time, the bridge col­ ·sion and some unemployment with the gen­ increased at a much .slower pace than it did lapses, is it reasonable to blame the poor eral economy in need of a stimulus that can during the preceding 10-year period, or dur­ mouse for the damage? be supplied in part, at least, by the con­ ing World War II. The extremely high rate Recent authorizing acts for some of the summation of sound public works projects of increase in crop production per acre per larger reclamation projects include a provis~ such as reclamation and other water re­ year for the decade beginning about 1938 that water cannot be delivered to lands that sources development. was the result of several factors including produce crops declared to be surplus for a : Last year it was recommended that recla­ increased use of modern farm machinery, period of 10 years from the date of the au­ mation should be continued at an acceler­ more extensive use of better fertilizers, bet­ .thorization. This restrictive legislation fur­ ated pace because of its importance to the ter control of insects and plant diseases, and ther protects the United States markets from entire Nation in providing the basic neces­ an abundance of rainfall supplemented by additional surpluses. sities of 1ife-food and fiber; in raising the irrigation. Farm Output, a publication of According to Mr. Donald A. Williams, 'standard of living; in creating new wealth the Agricultural Research Service of the De­ Administrator, Soil Conservation Service, and increasing the tax base. January 1958 partment of Agriculture, reveals that the .writing in the Coronet magazine: ·saw the placing of a $200 million ceiling on rate of increase in production per acre per · "For every 4 people sitting down to a meal the reclamation program by the Bureau of year for the past decade is less than one­ this year, there will be 6 in another 30 years ·the Budget. 'I'he starting of new projects third of the rate of increase per acre per ·and as our population continues to sky­ 'was to be prohibited. Some projects pre­ year for the previous decade-in other words, Tocket, we are faced with the fact that the -viously under construction were to be our production per acre continues to in­ 'land available to feed these extra mouths _stopped; while on others construction could crease but the rate of acceleration is less. keeps dwindling. only proceed at a snail's pace. Later, and This same governmental agency has shown "In our time we shall see the rising popu­ particularly as a means of combating the that if we are to meet our agricultural pro­ lation and the dwindling amounts of farm­ recession, the Bureau of the Budget recom­ duction requirements by 1975 (and ·assum­ land meet. From that day on, you and y.our mended an additional $46 million be appro­ ing that our total acreage remains static), children can no longer be assured of the . priated ·to accelerate construction of projects the rate of increase in crop production per healthy balanced diet to which we have be­ already underway. There has been some acre per year until 1975 must be more than :come accustomed." twice the increase per acre per year during moderation . of the no-new-starts policy. the last 10 years. Even if we are able to RECLAMATION'S NATIONAL VALUES A careful study of the projects currently increase our total farmland 300 million acres Irrigation and reclamation are enterprises under construction, the backlog of author­ by 1975, the rate of increase in crop produc­ that have contributed greatly in economic, ized projects on which construction is not tion until then must be 50 percent greate-r social, and welfare values to the development yet started and the projects for which au­ than the rate of increase in the last 10 years. ·of America. More than 3,200,000 acres of ·thorization is pending in the Congress shows Furthermore, this projection of 30 million desert land have been made productive; more ·- that a $300 million reclamation program for additional acres of farmlan~ by 1975 is pred·- ;than 4,140,000 acres have received supple- ·at least the next 8 to 10 years is justified. 1958 CONGRESSIONAL _RECORD .- · SENATE 13893: Such an increase would prove a stimulus 6. The principle of the 1nterstate compact ing special emphasi.s on starting new water to the sagging national economy and aid ma­ should be encouraged in order to avoid Uti-. development projects that are financially) terially in meeting tne problem . of. unem­ gatfoii between and · among States and to feasible and economically justified and are ployment. preclude domination of the development and now ready for construction; With the foregoing in mind we recom­ control of natural resources by Federal agen­ (b) Continue to bring to the attention of mend: cies. the executive and legislative branches of our 1. The reclamation construction program, 7. Procedures . under which Federal water Federal Government the need for a continu­ should be accelerated to at least $300 million resources projects are investigated and re"" ous, progressive, planned program of project per year and maintained at that level from' p·orted- should be simplified. The creation authorization; year to year. of a board of review or the office of coordin­ (c) Urge and actively support adequate 2. Congress should appropriate funds for ator would mean another obstacle. in water !lJ)propriations for investigath}g and planning the construction of authorized reclamation resource development and should be opposed.' water-use projects; projects for which advanced planning has . 8. Basic ·land and water inventories, soil . (d) Support legislation requiring compli­ been completed, and especially those that and water research, snow surveys, and stream ance with and adherence to State water laws. have formed legal organizations and have forecasting should be continued and ex-> by Federal agencies. · negotiated and executed repayment con- · panded, where necessary, in order to pro­ SUMMARY tracts. Reclamation construction should not vide data for current and future planning. In summary, the purposes- of the Commit­ be subjected to a stop-and-go-policy because­ 9. The use · of conservancy-type districts tee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Na­ t h at procedure is too <:ostly and inefficient. capable of levying taxes on project benefici-· tional Rivers and Harbors Congress shall be 3. The Congress of the United States aries as a,gencies to execute repayment con­ to continue to promote the development, should firmly establish and maintain its tracts with the Federal Government should control, conservation, preservation and utili­ be required in order to more equitably allo­ right to determine the po~icy and. criteria zation of .the Nation's water resources, to under which all Federal water development cate costs of a project and meet the burden work for the continuation of the services of expensive and complex project construc­ and the coordination of activities of Federal projects will be authorized. This principle tion. should be extended to cover the appropria­ agencies dealing with water resources, to co­ · 10. In planning and constructing water operate with and assist in se.;:uring authori­ tion of funds and the designation of their resource projects the principle of supplying· use. zation and construction of Federal water-use supplemental water to lands presently in­ projects which meet with. the approval of 4 . On multipurpose projects, wherever adequately irrigated should be given priority practicable, the development of wa ter re­ States and local agencies, to assist water over bringing new lands into cultivation. users of the Nation in the economic devel­ sources should· be preceded by basinwide,, 11. It is . further recommended that the opment ' of river basins, to prese.rve the multipurpose planning. National Rivers and Harbors Congress, rights and interest& of th.e .states in their 5. Power- revenues derived from Federal through its executive offices and appropriate. water resources, to promote the enactment_ projects should be w~ed on a basinwide or· communities: of legislation 'favorable to these principles,. areawide basis to assist in repayment of _ (a) Step up its campaign in support of a and to oppose l~gislation detrimental to the irrigation costs beyond· the · ability ·of· the water-utilization program designed to fully orderly and progressive development of the_ wa ter users to repay. ~evelop our land and water resources, . plac-· river basins of the United States of America~

munic~ted ~o the Senate by Mr. Ratch..:. which it requested the concurrence of SENATE ford, one of his secretaries, and he the Senate: announced that on July 15, 195.8, the H . R. 1435. An act for the relief of John I, \YEDNESDAY, JL'LY 16; 1938 President had approved and signed the Strong; joint resolution (S. J. Res. 12) to pro-· H. R . 3147. An act for the relief· of Fried­ The Chaplain, Rev. Frede.rick BrO'.vn rich- A. von Hoyningen-Huene; Michael Harris, D . . D., offered the following vide for transfer of right-of-way for ~1: Yellowtail Dam· and Reservoir, Hardin dreas von Hoyningen-Huene, Christian Ber-. prayer: . - end Johann von Hoyningen-Huene, anq unit, Missouri River Basin project, and Brigitt e Anita Peck (nee von Hoyningen­ Eternal God, who art behind the en~ payment to· ·Crow Indian Tribe in con­ Huene); shrouding shadows and in them. Thou nection therewith, and for other pur­ H. R. 5169. An act for the reli.ef of Frank has called us to piay our part in tragic poses. J. Farley; yet decisive years which are determining H. R. 6589. An act for the relief of Eliza­ the ·shape of tomorrow's life on this beth C. Garner and Charles P . Garner; earth which is our home. · · THIRD ANNUAL REPORT ON AD­ H . R. 6970. An act for the relief of c. A. Untouched by the shattering events MINISTRATION OF CHAPTER 73 ; Nolan: which fling their angry fury across our TITLE iO, UNITED STATES CODE­ H. R. 7124. An act for the relief of Lester. R. Loomis; world, we would maintain an inner sanc­ MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT H . R . 7417. An act for the relief of Col.. tuary inviolate and still. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before John T . Mallby; As increasing tests await this dear the Senate the following message from H . R. 7793. An act for the relief of Bernar­ land of our hope and prayer, we pray the President of the United States, dine M. A. de la Motte; that we may not shirk facing the issues· which, with the accompanying report, H. R. 8688. An act for the relief of Monroe of these creative days or lose our victor.: Woolley; was referred to the Committee on Fi­ H. R. 9180. An act for the relief of Mr. and ious faith in the final overthrow of evil nance:· and the enthronement of righteousness Mrs. John R . Hadnot; . H. R . 9299. An act to authorize the ap­ and truth, but that solemnly· commit-· To the Congress of the United States: pointment of Philip Ferdinand Lindeman ting ourselves and our cause unto Thee, as permanent colonel of the Regular Army; who knoweth the way we take, we shall Pursuant to the provisions of section 1444, title 10, United States Code, I H. R. 9300. An act to aut horize the ap­ come forth like gold tried in the fire. · pointment of Robert Wesley Colglazier, Jr., transmit herewith for the information as permanent brigadier general of the Regu­ We ask it in the dear Redeemer's of the Congress the Third Annual Re­ name. Amen. iar Army; port on the Administration of Chapte1~ . H. R. 9487. An act for the relief of Mrs. 73-Annuities Based on Retired or Re­ Tyra Fenner Tynes; THE JOURNAL tainer Pay, Title 10, United States Code. H. R. 9756. An act for the relief of Gerald DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. K . Edwards, Lawrence R. Hitchcock, Thomas On request of Mr. JOHNSON of Texas, ·THE WHITE HOUSE, July 16, 1958. J. Davey. and Gerald H. Donnelly; and by unanimous consent, the reading · H. R. 9792. An act to validate the con­ of the Journal of the proceedings of veyance of certain land in the State of Cali­ (NoTE .-Actual report transmitted to fornia by the Southern Pacific Co. to James Tuesday, July 15, 1958·, was dispensed the House of Representatives·.) w~. . Giono; H. R. 9808. An· act for the relief of E. L. Terry, W. A. Ward, and G. S. Maness; MESSAGES FROM THE PRESI­ MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE H. R. 10263. An act for the relief of Francis DENT-APPROVAL OF JOINT RES­ M. Haischer; · . A message from the House of Rep..; ·· H. R. 10419. An act for the relief of North OLUTION resentatives, by Mr. Bartlett, one of -its Counties Hydro-Electric Co.; Messages in writing from the Presi­ reading clerks, · announced that the · H. R. 11108. An act for the relief of Mrs. dent of the United States were com-· House had passed the following bills, in Christina Tules; CIV--875