June 27, 1966 · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 14417 I have been assured by the Senator The motion was agreed to; and
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The lOth Anniversary of the Poznan language, and they said plainly that they eran. It has served the Congress by giv Uprising owed nothing to Russian communism. ing us wise counsel on specific problems Perhaps one Polish cynic put it best of our disabled veterans and, most im when he observed simply that: portant, it has helped us sympathetically EXTENSION OF REMARKS Communism, which proclaimed itself the to understand their problems. OF most efficient and most popular system, had The DA V has served us faithfully since only two failings-it didn't work and the its founding in 1920. I am sure that we HON. PAUL H. DOUGLAS people didn't like it. all hope it will continue· to serve the OF ILLINOIS Nation until' that time which we all de IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES sire when peace will have been so last Monday, June 27, 1966 ing as to permit us to have discharged to The 34th Anniversary of the · Disabled Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. President, on the best of our ability our debt to the June 28 we commemorate the lOth anni American Veterans last sick or injured veterans of our versary of the Poznan uprising. On defense. that day 10 years ago, discontented Poles EXTENSION OF REMARKS rushed into the streets and proclaimed OF that Poland was not a workers' paradise. The revolt was largely unplanned and HON. JIM WRIGHT Commends Iowa's Cultural Achievements most of the activity was spontaneous. OJ' TEXAS The goals of the uprising were set forth IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF by the throngs in the streets rhythmi Monday, June 27, 1966 cally chanting: ''Bread and Freedom Bread and Freedom." And there was no Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, a few HON. JOHN R. SCHMIDHAUSER need, in Poznan, for practicing propa days ago a number of my colleagues here OF IOWA ganda tactics, for the people knew what in the House paid tribute to the Disabled IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the conditions were. They knew that American Veterans on ,the occasion of its Monday, June 27, 1966 there was hunger in the city, that the 34th anniversary as a congressionally chartered national veterans group. Mr. SCHMIDHAUSER. Mr. Speaker, church was being suppressed, and that. I have the honor of bringing to the at the euphoric pronouncements of the Because circumstances made it impos sible for me to join them on that day, I tention of my colleagues in Congress an party were false. outstanding achievement by a young The events of June 28, 1956, demon am offering these remarks today because I believe that the Congress has an op oon.stituent of mine, Mr. James V. Tate, strated the Polish love for freedom and of Iowa City, Iowa. Mr. Tate, a 22-year showed the entire world what a Com portunity to express its deep indebted ness arid that of the entire Nation to the old graduate student at the University munist takeover does to a nation. The of Iowa, has received this year's Yale workers in the huge Poznan locomotive Disabled American Vete:-ans. In honoring this organization we are Series of Younger Poets Award for his plant protested their lot. And they manuscript, "The Lost Pilot." charged the secret police headquarters really paying a tribute to each man and The Yale Series Award is a national the symbol of their oppression. Thus, woman who has suffered in body and prize established in 1919 by Clarence they joined the ranks of those heroes mind to defend our freedom. Today must, therefore, be more than a cour Day, the founder of the Yale University throughout all of history who have fought Pres,s. In attaining this award, Mr. Tate bravely in defense of human liberty. teous ritual. It must be a true dedica joins such distinguished American poets The Poznan uprising was a fresh breeze tion always to remember what the dis as William Dickey, Muriel Rukeyser, and from a usually stale Communist part of abled veteran did for us. Alan Dugan whose first books were pub the world, and it will not be forgotten. The more than 231,000 members of the lished by the Yale University Press.· Mr. The uprising was crushed in 2 days. DA V serve as the voice of our conscience TB~te's first volume of poetry, ''The Lost The tanks fired in the streets, and 54 to be sure that we who are free, fortu Pilot," is scheduled· to appear this year. Polish patriots lost their lives. But the nate, and healthy do not forget that al I would like to say that we in Iowa. are protest was not wasted, for during those most 2 million Americans living today proud of the achievements of our State 2 days men acknowledged the realities of have sacrificed some degree of their in so many varied areas. Mr. Tate's per their daily ·lives. Their thinking was health in our defense. The DA V thus sonal achievement is another illustra cleared of the euphemisms of Marxian serves us all-not just the disabled vet- tion of Iowa's great collltribution to our CXII--909-Part 11 14418 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE June· 27, 1966 Nation's cultural life. I would like to co:nSiderable damage to fish spawning. years·of college level work. After World recommend Mr. Tate's book to. all of my In addition, recreation facilities are be Warn optometry schools began requir distingui.shed colleagues in Congress and ing planned . . ing: 2 years of liberal arts and sciences extend my heartiest congratulations to Some of the work will be done by at the collegiate level as a prerequisite to this fuie young man. · farmers and ranchers at their own ex admission. pense. Some will be done jointly by the The educational program for opto sponsors--the Union, Baker, and First metric students developed until today all Union Soil Conservation Districts and schOQls and colleges of optometry grant Small Watershed Projects Emphasize the Powder Valley Water Control Dis a doctorate degree upon graduation. To Water Management trict. Some will be done by the Federal graduate from optometry school one Government. Some of it will be shared. must have successfully completed 2 years Most important is that plans are being of preoptometric collegiate work and 4 EXTENSION OF REMARKS made and that local people are motivated years of professional courses, making a OF to make them. These are local projects, total of at least 6 years in higher educa HON. AL ULLMAN being carried out by local people who are tion to obtain a degree. OF OREGON grasping the opportunity to use modern Congress recognized optometry as a techniques to develop the potential of profession in 1963 by including it in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their land and water resources. Health Professions Educational Assist Monday, June 27, 1966 I have met with the sponsors of both ance Act and subsequently in the 1965 Mr. ULLMAN. Mr. Speaker, there is projects and know of their tireless efforts amendments to that act. It recognized widespread concern throughout our N a to get these projects underway. It is the Nation's need for more optometrists tion over water and its uses and abuses- undertakings such as these that I take when it provided Federal loans to optom- . about water for the present and water great pleasure in supporting. etry students under H.R. 8546, which for the future--about too much water or passed in 1964. It is therefore a logical too little. We in Oregon recognize water extension that Congress this year recog as a most precious commodity, but we nize optometry as a profession in the have unique problems in its manage Optometry in the District of Columbia District of Columbia by updating the ment. antiquated 1924 act and thereby assur There is st111 more to be learned about EXTENSION OF REMARKS ing the people of the District that they the many facets of water and its uses. OF will receive the same caliber of profes Yet present scientific knowledge, if put sional care available in other States of to use, has advanced significantly to re HON. ROBERT DOLE our country, such as my own home State lieve some of the pressures on this re 0:1' KANSAS of Kansas. source. We must always be alert to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is time to adopt changes suggested chances to put it to use. Monday, June 27, 1966 in this bill. I trust my colleagues will I have followed closely and with great join in urging passage of this, or similar Mr. DOLE. Mr. Speaker, today I legislation. interest the progress being made by rural have introduced a bill for the regulation people in my congressional district in of the practice of optometry in the Dis Oregon. trict of Columbia. Its purpose is to pro-· Floodwater and sediment have fre teet the public against ignorance, in Dominion Day in Canada quently damaged agricultural land and capacity, deception and .fraud when they irrigation distribution systems as well as obtain vision care. roads and bridges. With Federal assist There has not been a single change in EXTENSION OF REMARKS ance through local soil and water con the 42-year-old optometry law of the OJ' servation districts, rural people. are do District since its passage by Congress in ing a remarkable job of installing con HON. KEN W. DYAL 1924. It appears hopelessly out of date. OF CALIFORNIA servation measures to hold back the :flood In the regulation of professions, a of water when it is in oversupply, to State may ban practices and procedures IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES store excess water for future use, and to tending to unseemly · competition and Monday, June 27, 1966 make more efficient use of water when it is released. Each of these phases of the lowering of the standards of service. Mr. DYAL. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, the management of water is important to It may eliminate bait advertising and the July 1, Americans can pay tribute to our agriculture and other uses. employment of a professional license by good neighbor to the north, by noting a lay person, such restrictions as pro the observance of Dominion Day in Not all of this work can be· done by posed in the bill introduced today. individuals. alone. Nor should it be, for Canada. the benefits are widespread, both eco Optometry statutes in the various The First of July in Canada is similar States have been subject to constant re to the Fourth of. July in the United nomically and from the standpoint of vision in order to keep them up to date our resources. States. with new scientific and practical de On July 1, 1867, Canadians were Prime examples of joint e:trorts may velopments in the service of the vision be seen in the North Powder River and granted self-government by the British needs of America's population. One of North America Act. This marked one of Wolf Creek small watershed projects for the most important of these develop which local people are developing plans. the most important dates in the history ments has been in the education of the of Canada, because on that date Canada The projects--in Baker, Wallowa, and optometrist. By 1921 all of the States Union Counties--are being carried out became a united, separate dominion. with the exception of the District had Perhaps the wisest thing Great Brit with U.S. Department of Agriculture help enacted statutory requirements which under the small watershed program. ain ever did was to give Canada her typically included high school gradua independence without a war. The Their objectives are to decrease flooding, tion and 2 years of professional study. reduce erosion and the resulting sedi Canadians have repaid this gesture This was a transition away from the many times over by springing to her ment that is deposited on land and in purely vocationally oriented training in irrigation systems, and provide supple refractive and other ophthalmic skills in defense in World Wars I and II. mental irrigation water to presently ir favor of the professionally oriented cur San Bernardino County has a good rigated land. Roads and bridges will be riculum which included academic studies reason to celebrate Dominion Day, as protected from fioods. More profitable in the liberal arts and sciences and there were more than 2,000 Canadian use of land will result from the more effi.:. basic education in visual science courses. citizens living in our sunny county ill cient management of land and irrigation . Within another decade four universi 1965-plus uncounted other thousands water. ties offered baccalaureate degrees to who have become U.S. citizens. · The projects will also help correct the optometry graduates, and by 1936 all of ' Dominion Day marks a good occasion sediment-laden fiood fiows that cause the opfi?~etry curriculums required 4 to-greet our friends from Canada and to '-
• q l r June 2'7', 1966 CONGRESSIONAL-RECORD- SENATE 14419 praise· them for their valuable contribu During ·the recent Committee on Agri-· the seat of the American Government tion to the United States. culture hearings on amendment of the from September 1777 until June 1778, REA,. investor-owned utility representa during which time the Articles of Con- tives spoke harshlY of the cooperative federation government was demised, the - ' power systems that are REA-financed. first step toward a permanent union of : Public Power Beneficial They parti-cularly pointed to unfair com the American States. petition in the form of subsidy of REA We believe that the history of York, EXTENSION OF REMARKS cooperatives stemming from below-cost now celebrating its 225th founding an interest charges. Either the represent niversary, merits this distinction and OF atives of the investor-owned utilities designation as honorary capital for 1 day. HON. CLAIR CALLAN have forgotten ·the subsidy they enjoy OF NEBRASKA or they chose to overlook that subject. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES These private companies have been· allowed a $1.8 billion tax subsidy through Washington National Airport and the Mondt;LY, June 27, 1966 - accelerated amortization and liberalized FAA Mr. CALLAN. Mr. Speaker, in recent depreciation. The excess of interest cost hearings of the Committee on Agriculture to the U.S. Treasury over the interest on legislation to amend the Rural Elec rate charged by the REA in its 27-year EXTENSION OF REMARKS trification Act, representatives of in history is, according to varied methods OF vestor-owned utilities voiced testimony of _figuring the total, only one-eighth to HON. WILLIAM T. CAHILL that painted cooperative power efforts one-half that amount. OF NEW JERSEY as less than desirable. I believe there is The windfall of tax allowances enjoyed little truth in such contentions. by the private utilities has been passed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I would like to call the attention of on to the power companies' stockholders Monday, June 27, 1966 my fellow Congressmen to ·the average as tax free dividends-neither the U.S. Mr. CAHILL. Mr. Speaker, I have monthly electric'bills across the country. Treasury nor- the power companies' cus been concerned, for some time, with the Nebraska, the only State in the Union tomers will ever see these dollars. chaotic conditions and the potential dan with 100 percent publi.c power, ranks as Any moves by the REA cooperatives gers at W~hington National Airport. high as fifth and no lower than ninth to overstep their service regions and com I have personally been concerned with among the 50 Sta·tes in offering low pete directly with private utilities are possible danger because of the tremen cost power ·t;o consumers. The State·does remote. There have been isolated in dous increase in air traffic at this facility. not have the natural resources to supply stances of this, but most States have As the result. of many personal investi such power that many of its sister States strict regulations against such ootion. gations, I must conclude;that part of the do. Electric cooperatives in States without problem at Washington National is at Nebraska's average monthly residen such regulations have sought similar tributed to the neglect by the FAA of the tial elec·tric bills are the lowest in the legislation, but have often been unsuc Dulles International Airport. Nation's midsection. Iowa, its neighbor cessful because of the opposition of com It is interesting and illuminating to to the east, has one of the highest aver mercial systems not wanting to have note that for the year 1965 there was a age monthly bills. In Nebraska, aver- · their hands tied in raiding service area.S. total of 219,108 commercial aircraft age monthly residential bills are $5.96 The economic status of the electric operations at Washington National while for 250 kilowatt-hours, $8.71 for 500 kilo utility industry is healthy. We are all, during the same year there were only 32,- watt-hours, $12.16 for 750 kilowatt I am sure, happy of this fact. I do not 588 commercial flights· by air carriers at !hours, and $16.18 for 1,000 kilowa:tt wish to accuse the investor-owned util Dulles International. I was more sur hours. ities of overstepping their boundaries by prised to learn that at Dulles there were These rates for 1965 represent a de opposing the REA amendments, but I do 68,140 miijtary flights during 1965 indi crease from 1964 of 30 cents for 250 kilo wish to point out to them their short cating that the military is using Dulles watt-hours, $2.18 lower for 750 kilowatt sightedness in assertions that REA as a "practice field." I am told that Dul hours, 41 cents for 7·50 kilowatt-hours, financing is unfair competition because les is an airport that the military finds and 41 cents for 1,000 kilowatt-hours. of subsidy. excellent for practicing landings. Compared . to . the national average, I particularly wish to emphasize for Aside from wondering why the military Nebraska rates are $1...42 lower for 250 them that public power is not something does not use a military base for this type kilowatt-hours, $1.70 lower for 500 kilo less than desirable. The statistics on of practice, I find it more difficult to un watt-hours, $2.18 lower for 750 kilowatt, average :monthly electric bills in the derstand why an airport built and needed hours, and $2.41 lowe'r for 1,000 kilow81tt State of Nebraska compared to the for private and commercial travel is now hours. national average readily disprove any a practice field for the military forces. We in Nebraska particularly cherish such contentions. I also find it interesting to observe that the valuable role played by public power there were over 7,000 flights by military in economic development. The State's aircraft at National Airport during the commercial electric rates are considera Proclaim York, Pa., Honorary Capital of year 1965. I find it difficult to under bly lower than the national average. . United States for 1 Day stand the necessity for these military The average monthly commercial elec flights into National when Andrews is so tric bill in· the State's larger cities is EXTENSION OF REMARKS convenient. $4.60 lower than the national average for It would certainly appear to me, there 750 kilowatt-hours, $9.31 lower for 1,500 · OF fore, Mr. Speaker, that those responsible kilowatt-hours, $33.63 lower for 6,000 "HON. N. NEIMAN CRALEY, JR. officials of the Federal Aviation Agency kilowatt-hours, , and $45.19 lower for OF PENNSYLVANIA should look to the greater utilization of 10,000 kilowatt-hours. IN THE HOUSE OF nEPRESENTATIVES Dulles International Airport. There are indica·tions that power rates Dulles has been neglected too long. will drop again next year. Two puplic Monday, June 27, 1966 The time has come for some of the flights power districts recently announced rate Mr. CRALEY. Mr. Speaker, I have to Washington National"' to use Dulles. reductions effective July 1. One com introduced a resolution to express sense This is particularly true of long-haul pany, the Norris Public Power District, of Congress that the President proclaim flights. will slash household r~tes 10 percent. York, Pa., as the honorary capital of _the Incidentally, I also find it difficult to• Power, particularly low-cost power, is United States for 1 day during the ·pe understand why residents of the Wash one of this Nation's most valuable house riod June 24 through July 4, 1966, when ington area must go to Kennedy Airport hold and commercial tools. Any' moves the city will be celebrating the 225th in New York to board oversea- :tlights toward providing additional power -serv anniversary of its. founding. when Dulles haslthe facilities and is· not. ice at lower, more economical rates There are profound historic justifica being utilized to capacity. Certainly the should be commended. -, - ' .. ·, .. , tions for this resolution. York·, Pa., was FAA can do something about this. ~ ,J . . ~ ~ i .l 14420 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE June 27, 1966 I also find it difficult to understand advancing interest rates inevitably lead way of life. At the breakfast on Satur why there were 82,744 general aviation to fewer home purchases, higher prices day, June 25, I delivered an address en :tllghts as distinguished from air carrier for home buyers, unemployment in the titled "One Nation, Indivisible." :tllghts at Washington National. It construction industry, and general eco Sertomans, through the years, have would seem to me that many of these nomic slowdown. presented copies of the Declaration of flights could be conveniently assigned to Although I do not agree with all of the Independence to millions of new citizens, Dulles. remedies that Mr. Blackmon suggests, schoolchildren, and others. Sertoma As I understand it, Mr. Speaker, the his observations require our careful con International has won five George FAA is in charge of both Washington sideration. Mr. Blackmon recommends Washington Medals from the Freedom National and Dulles International Air an increase from 5% to 6 percent in FHA Foundation at Valley Forge, while in ports. One has more business than it interest rates. Raising the FHA rate dividual Sertoma clubs have been recog can handle with safety and convenience, may provide short-term relief to the nized with some 50 foundation awards. the other has less business than is neces housing industry, but, like other interest Sertoma ha.s been outstanding among sary to keep it as a profitable operation. rate increases, it too will serve as a service clubs in our country in promot Both need examination. Washington depressant to investment and economic ing freedom and service to mankind. National should have less flights; Dulles growth. Today, there are 479 Sertoma clubs, International should have more flights. Equally distressing is the announce having 18,757 members, as compared to Any of you who use Washington Na ment last week by the Chase Manhattan 221 clubs and 12,571 members 10 years tional will fully understand what I mean Bank of increased interest rates on in ago. The Washington Sertoma Club by chaotic conditions at Washington Na stallment loans. The increase amounts was the convention host and cohosts tional. Visit, if you will, this airport any to 50 cents per $100 a year on auto, home were the- Alexandria, and Vienna, Va., evening around 5 p.m. and see for your improvement, and general installment clubs and the Frederick, Md., club. self. loans. If decision by this influential It is with a deep sense of pride that I Jets are now arriving and taking off bank to hike interest rates establishes a take this opportunity to offer my sincere and flights are more crowded than ever nationwide trend, the problems of the congratulations to all Sertomans for before in the history of aviation. More availability of residential housing will their dedication through the years to private and military flights are arriving become even more severe than they are those great freedom principles and their and leaving than ever before. As a mat at present. many fine achievements. Indeed, it was ter of fact, a total of 6,951,845 passengers The only effective remedy to the much an honor and a privilege to have been either enplaned or deplaned at Washing discussed inflationary trend in our econ asked to participate in their interna ton National during the year 1965. This omy is to marshal the forces of govern tional convention here in Washington, is almost 800,000 more than in 1964 and ment to bring down the spiraling inter D.C. almost 1,500,000 more than in 1963. It is est rates. If such measures are not more than 2,300,000 passengers than adopted in the near future, the conse 1961. At the same time that almost 7 quences to the economy will be grave. million passengers are flowing through Community Leadership Conference on Washington National, less than 1 million Neighborhood Preservation and Renewal are flowing through Dulles International Airport. Sertoma International Convention, June EXTENSION OF REMARKS I ask you, Mr. Speaker, and the Mem 22 to 25, 1966 bers of the House, is it not time thSJt the OF FAA do something to reduce aircraft HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM traffic at Washington National and in EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF NEW YORK crease it at Dulles International Airport. OF I call upon the FAA to take affirmative IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES .and immediate remedial action. HON. RODNEY M. LOVE Monday, June 27, 1966 OF OHIO Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, last IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES spring I had the honor of cosponsoring Monday, June 27, 1966 with New York University, a conference Shortage of Mortgage Money on neighborhood preservation and re Mr. LOVE. Mr. Speaker, this week, newal in my district. .EXTENSION OF REMARKS for the first time in its 54-year history, The response to the conference was OF Sertoma International, the famed serv excellent, and many of its aspects are, I ice-to-mankind organization, held its an believe, of general interest. HON. AL ULLMAN nual convention in the Nation's Capital, The following is a part of a report on OF OREGON with headquarters at the Sheraton-Park the conference, including my introduc IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hotel. One thousand members of Ser tion and the section on the panel on toma and the women's auxiliary, La Monday, June 27, 1966 housing. Sertoma, attended from all over the Senator ROBERT F. KENNEDY'S keynote Mr. ULLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I would United States, Canada, Mexico, and address appeared in the April 6 issue of like to bring to the attention of my col Puerto Rico. In addition, 250 children the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD; other sec leagues in the Congress, a statement by attended the simultaneously held "Kids tions of the report are in process of com Larry Blackmon, president of the Na Konvention." pletion and will appear, pursuant to tional Association of Home Builders, As a past president of the Dayton unanimous consent, in subseqlJent issues: concerning the critical shortage of mort Sertoma Club and a past district gover COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON gage money and the effects of this short nor, I looked forward to attending the NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION AND RENEWAL featured freedom luncheon on Friday, age on residential construction. INTRODUCTION Mr. Blackmon reports some disturbing June 24, with three of my House col On Saturday, Aprll 2, 1966, a Community statistics: builders are cutting down leagues and fellow Serlomans: The Hon Leadership Conference on Neighborhood their operation by 35 percent, home con orable JosEPH W. MARTIN, of Massachu Preservation and Renewal was held at the struction will fall 350,000 units short of setts, who helped launch the Washington University Heights Campus of New York current requirements, an~ the cost of Sertoma Club in 1954; the Honorable University. materials and labor have driven prices RICHARD H. FuLTON, of Tennessee, a New York University, one of several uni for houses up 5 percent. Savings and member of the Nashville Sertoma Club, versities located in the 23d Congressional loan institutions complain of the scarcity and the Honorable STANLEY L. GREIGG, Of District, was ideally situated to help bring -of funds for home-mortgage financing. Iowa, who belongs to Sioux City Sertoma the many community groups together. Club. · James Hester, the President of New York I view with. grave concern these de University, had otJered the fac111ties of the velopments which threaten to stall the The theme of the 1966 Sertoma Con University as a co-sponsor of the Conference, ·unprecedented economic growth of the vention was "Freedom," a fitting tribute and a committee of community leaders and :Nation. Tightening of money an to all Sertomans who believe in the free members of the University faculty had been June 27, 1966 CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD- SENATE 14421 organized to plan the Conference and By bringing the many active organizations Professor Grad urged instead that a totally arrange for the speakers. together, along with representatives of gov new approach be tried. He suggested that I want once again to express my apprecia ernment at various levels, I hope that an im housing violations be treated through the tion-to New York University for contribut portant dialogue could be begun, out of civil process, hoping thereby to involve land ing so much to the success of the Confer which some new and fresh ideas would lords, tenants and City agencies, in an effort ence; to the Conference Committee for their emerge, specially important · was the ques to encourage repairs rather than settle for splendid planning and arrangements; to the tion of the Federal Government's role and fining the landlords. Plenary Session speakers, the panelists and how the community could best take advan Professor Grad suggested, in addition, that the chairmen for their significant contri tage of the new tools and programs which the through "in rem" jurisdiction, either by a butions; to the many person who served as Federal Government has developed for deal separate housing court or a separate division hostesses and ushers and otherwise assisted ing with the problems of big cities. of existing courts, it would be possible to in the conduct of the Conference itself; to n proceed directly against the buildings con the session "rapporteurs" and to Mr. Mar cerned if the landlord could not be found. tin Frey, Chairman of the Conference Com In studying the transcripts of the Plenary Professor Grad also favored per diem penal mittee, for their invaluable work in the prep Session and the panels that followed, several ties to be imposed for each day that viola aration of this report; 'to the 115 com general observations can be made. tions go uncorrected. munity organizations that participated in Most of the people who attended were con I. D. Robbins, former President of the City the Conference, and most of all to the more cerned with preservation and growth. This Club of New York and a prominent builder, than 1,000 Bronx neighbors who attended was in marked contrast to the obsession with discussed the problems of both code enforce and took part and thereby demonstrated decay which often prevails at conferences in ment and new construction. He urged their active concern for the community. other parts of the City. We have a series of passage of new laws, and new methods for the thnving communities in the 23rd District, I training of building inspectors. He then and people want to keep them that way. directed his remarks to the need for addi The communities of the 23rd Congressional The participants were concerned with the tional middle-income housing, and suggested District, which I represent, share with the failure of City services to keep pace with the that considerably more building could be other' communities of the city the problem tremendous expansion and growth of the undertaken under the provisions of the of creating and maintaining a wholesome en North Bronx. They were concerned that Mitchell-Lama laws. Mr. Robbins suggested vironment for their residents. they were the forgotten people of modern that, in developing plans for new middle Each community. as well as the city, must urban America-too high in income to qual income building, we think in terms of large constantly deal with such basic questions as: ify for Federal assistance in maintaining scale construction such as 1000-unit develop How can we keep sound housing from de their community plant, but not wealthy ments. He further urged that such con teriorating? enough to provide the needed facilities them struction be limited to 6-story buildings What steps can we take to prevent our be selves. They were concerned that, despite rather than high-rise apartments, since the ing overwhelmed by the urban blight that the efforts of the City Administration, our cost of the lower buildings is 25% less. (If has spread through so many of America's big City cannot be made safe and secure. They construction is to be kept at 6-story buildings cities? were particularly concerned with the needs in order to minimize cost, building must How can we encourage construction of ad of the aged-quite naturally, since one out obviously be undertaken on vacant or inex ditional housing units, particularly at the of every seven persons in the District is over pensive land. Many people have suggested middle-income level? sixty-five. the use of underutilized industrial slums for How can we add a little greenery and a The balance of this Report consists of a this type of construction.) little open space, so that children will have summary of the statements made by the prin Mr. Robbins also spoke in favor of the playgrounds and senior citizens places for cipal participants, together with an appen Federal Government providing funds, at low rest and recreation? dix that contains the text of Senator KEN interest rates, for new construction as well · And, perhaps most important of all, how NEDY's Keynote Address and a list of the par as for rent subsidies. can we make our communities safer-safer ticipating organizations. During the period following the panelists' for the children in the playgrounds, safer for JONATHAN B. BINGHAM. statements, a suggestion was made from the wives out visiting with the neighbors, and audience that all public housing have the safer for the senior citizens who wants to sit PANEL ON HOUSING same facll1ties, and that occupancy be based an extra hour in the part in the evening? This panel was chaired by State Senator upon need without regard to income. The These are the kinds of questions that were Harrison J. Goldin. Senator Goldin opened rent scale for such housing would be deter posed to me when I first took office, by in the discussion by pointing o"Ut how housing mined by the income of the particular dividuals and groups-from Williamsbridge patterns within a city or community often family. and Tremont, Pelham Parkway and Fordham, determine the nature and extent of many It was also agreed by the panel that there Riverdale and University Heights. of the other types of problems that urban is no particular advantage in having the As I studied these problems more closely, centers have to face. City own and attempt to operate the existing several things became clear: Senator Goldin was followed by the first slum buildings. 1. Although a Congressman is primarily panelist, Judah Gribetz, a former Commis concerned with Federal matters,· and in fact sioner in the New York City Department of has little real power to solve the local prob Buildings. Mr. Gribetz directed his remarks lems of individuals or community groups, the to the problems of code enforcement and Congressman from this District should play maintenance of sound housing. He pointed A Review of the Selective Service Act a major role in some of these areas of com out that the mere inspection of hard-core munity activity. slum buildings, no matter how vigorously en EXTENSION OF REMARKS 2. There was great confusion and overlap forced, is not enough to control decay or to OF ping among community groups active in the improve and up-grade neighborhoods. What Congressional District. Often several groups is required is the demolition of these anti HON. HERBERT TENZER quated structures and their replacement would be working on the same project in OF NEW YORK dependently. (The lack of· a daily Bronx with modern housing. Mr. Gribetz also newspaper has not made the job of civic commented on the present inspection system, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES minded groups any easier.) noting that the effectiveness of existing City Monday, June 2·7, 1966 3. Many people had given up working on agency programs is limited by the fact that civic projects because of the frustration they housing problems are usually not attended Mr. TENZER. Mr. Speaker, as are felt when forced to deal with the City bu to by the City unless and until the tenant sult of the increased military callups in reaucracy, and others in leadership positions himself initiates a complaint. recent months, public opinion has fo also reported a sense of despair when dealing Professor Frank Grad, of the Columbia cused upon our selective service system with the Oity administration. They felt that University Law School, followed with a dis and procedures. In response to the con decisions affecting their community were cussion of the Columbia Report on Code En forcement which had been prepared for the cern of our citizens, the House Armed made downtown, far beyond their reach, and Services Committee is now holding pub by people who had little knowledge of the City. Professor Grad was particularly con p81rticular neighborhood problems. cerned with developing techniques for mak lic hearings on the Selective Service Act. How does one make a suggestion or lodge a ing the City inspection process more effec First passed in 1940, it has since been tive. In the past, he stated, enforcement extended without significant review for protest? How can one be sure that his voice agencies in the housing field relied on the will be heard? three 4-year periods. It is most impera "criminal process," i.e. bringing negligent tive that at the present time the Selective The concept of this Conference, therefore, landlords into court. All too often this tech grew out of a hope that, by bringing together nique failed. The landlords' violations were Service Act be submit-ted to a thorough those who are active and interested in civic viewed as non-crime crimes" by the courts, and comprehensive study, to eliminate and community work, and by discussing tools and, although fines were imposed, the build inequities in the law, in regulations pro and techniques which are available, we could ings were seldom properly repaired or im mulgated thereunder, and in the imple become more effective in our fight for a better .proved. This meant that, in effect, the ten mentation of the act and the regula city. ant was the one who obtained no relief . tions.
•· • 14422 .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE ·June 27, 1966 There are at present over 800,000 men December 31 of the same year, any within its borders since 1955. Com joining our Armed Forces each year. Of young man whose name was in the pool manded by Lt. Gen. Horace M. Wade, this number approximately 25 percent but whose number was not drawn from the 8th Air Force has operational control are "draftees." Important, however, is the device to fill the quota is no longer of jet bombers, tankers, and intercon the fact that there are nearly 12 million vulnerable and thus all his uncertainty tinental ballistic missile units on some men between the ages of 18 and 26 who is eliminated. 18 bases, generally within the Eastern are entitled to know wher.e they stand Although this proposal does not solve and Southeastern States, although cer without the confusion and discrimination all the problems relating to our draft tain of its units are located in the Mid which now seems to be the problem in laws, it does provide a basis for discus west as well as Labrador and Puerto many of the draft boards around the sion and merits further investigation. Rico. It has 65,000 personnel. country. Students attending colleges A determination would have to be made Daily, we in Massachusetts see evi and universities throughout the United as to whether or not there should be de dence of SAC's awesome power as its States, when they exchange information ferments for college students and for aircraft fly through our skies. This is on the rules and standards applied by what period of time-that is, to the end the visible evidence of the might of the their local draft boards, generally find of the current school year or until U.S. Air Force and the Strategic Air differences which are confusing. graduation. Rules and standards for Command. The problem of selection is monu other exemptions on a uniform national Less apparent, even in Massachusetts mental. At the present time it is ac basis would also have to be established. however, is the SAC force maintained complished by a system of State quotas, We must insure that a small segment of constantly ready in the Westover AFB and a complicated system of priorities our society is not called on to carry alone alert area, as well as in similar areas at and deferments, based upon age, marital what our late President John F. Ken all other SAC bomber and missile in and educational status, hardship, and nedy called the burden of freedom. stallations. occupation. In addition to maintaining this power The increased draft calls resulting ful force to help deter aggression and pre from the Vietnam conflict have accented vent the outbreak of an all-out thermo certain inequities produced by the State Strategic Air Command Observes 20th nuclear war, SAC B-52 crews are, at this quota system and have highlighted the Anniversary: SAC's 8th Air Force moment, carrying out area saturation uncertainty which faces a young man bombings of Vietcong targets in Vietnam, seeking to plan his future. Headquarters at Westover Air Force denying sanctuary to the enemies of Several plans have recently been pro Base, Mass., 11th Anniversary war-torn South Vietnam. · In the past posed for reforming the Selective Service month, the giant B-52's completed 1 year Act, two of which have received con EXTENSION OF REMARKS of bombing missions in southeast Asia, siderable national attention. The first, and one of our 8th Air Force units, the proposed by Secretary McNamara, would OF 484th ·Bombardment Wing at Turner provide for universal and compulsory 2- HON. EDWARD P. BOLAND AFB, is now participating in that con year service for all youths: in either a flict. military or social service capacity. I OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE-OF REPRESENTATIVES At the same time, KC-135 crews are re find this proposal impractical and pos fueling both SAC bombers and Tactical sibly unconstitutional. I have serious Monday, June 27, 1966 Air Command fighter and reconnais reservations as to whether we have the Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, as Rep sance aircraft operating in that theater. authority under the Constitution to resentative of the 'people of the Second SAC is the single manager of all aerial re draft men in branches of the Govern Congressional District of Massachusetts, fueling tankers, and its aircraft can be ment other than for the military. Be I wish to call your attention to an im found in all areas of the world, carrying sides which the placement of millions of portant event which has just taken out their vital mission of providing fuel young men in various governmental and place-the observance of the 11th anni to our aircraft when and where they need social service agencies would be un versary of the establishment of 8th Air it. manageable. Agencies such as the Forces Headquarters at Westover Air For these reasoris I wish to commend Peace Corps, whose effectiveness is de Force Base, near Chicopee Falls. the officers and men of the 8th Air Force rived largely from the dedication and The 8th Air Force is one of the major and the Strategic Air Command and rec motivation of its volunteers might well subordinate commands of the U.S. Air ognize their unparalleled contribution to be adversely affected. The problem of Force's Strategic Air Command, which the peace and security of our Nation. selecting men for military service would this year is celebrating its 20th anniver For more than 20 years SAC has been a still remain. Furthermore, I do not be sary as the Nation's primary deterrent to primary military deterrent to nuclear lieve that it was the intention of the aggression. war. Congress to establish a precedent for I would like to preface my remarks On behalf of my constituents, I wish to compulsory nonmilitary service. about the Strategic Air Command with extend to SAC and its personnel at West The second proposal would establish a the following short quotation by its com over Air Force Base and throughout the national lottery plan, under which all mander in chief, Gen. John D. Ryan, on globe, our best wishes for a second 20 young men of age 18 or 19 mentally and the occasion of its 20th anniversary: years of continued success in carrying physically qualified for the draft would Over the past 20 years Strategic Air Com out their mission and preserving their have their names placed into a pool and mand has improved its effectiveness through proud motto: "Peace is our Profession." each would be assigned a lottery number. the development of its organization, weap Some uniform national guidelines for ons and tactics. This evolution has been deferment because of hardship could stimulated by the Communist threat and also be established. the developing role of the United States as To Help the People There are approximately 2 million a leader of free nations. Most of all it has been paced by the ingenuity and drive of young men who reach the age of 18 or 19 EXTENSION OF REMARKS annually. All those who are found to SAC's professional manpower. The record of the first 20 years of the OF be qualified for the draft · following Strategic Air Command is the proud story of mental and physical examinations, a great achievement. Never before has a HON. CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR. would have their lottery numbers placed military force of such tremendous power OF MARYLAND into a device suitable for the purpose. been dedicated to preventing war. Histori IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES From this device would be selected on a ans have claimed for centuries that the worst national basis, the number of men re wars could be prevented _if weakness were Monday, June 27, 1966 not such a temptation to an aggressor. In quired to be chosen, for a particular SAC, an attempt is being made to profit from Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, several month or for the full year. For ex this lesson of history. days ago I urged the ~embers of Con ample, on January 1 each year the gress to read an article on the Depart names of those young men who passed Residents of my district take particu ment of Agriculture .which was published their 18th birthday during the previous lar pride in the fact that Headquarters in the C. & P. Telephone Co.'s magazine, year would be placed in the pool. Qn of the 8th Air Force has been located the Transmitter. Today I would like to
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include in the RECORD the sixth in the With a background of improved w.orking phase alone of the MDTA program, dur C. & P. series of articles on the Federal . coi;J.ditions and pay, the emphasis is now on ing a three-year period ending December departments. "To Help the People," an all groups discriminated against in· jobs for 31, ·1965, programs cdvering more than . variow; reasons--race, sex, age, lack of edu 104,000 people had been approved. Approxi informative discussion of the role· of the cation and/ or skills, the. poverty stricken. mately 30,000 persons had completed train Department of Labor·,- was written by These are the people who comprise today's ing, and more than 90 percent of these 30,000 Secretary Wirtz and merits the attention unemployed-and just as distressing-to were employed as a direct result of this of the House. · day's underemployed. training. The article follows: Such social consciousness is not new. For Through amendments, there has been a example, the phrase "nobody grows old in broadened scope to MDTA training and in To HELP PEOPLE this youthful age" could have been said by creased efforts are now on training people for FOREWORD Secretary Wirtz in urging employers to hire specifi'c skills in which there may be an in (By W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor) the older worker. But is was said 37 years creasing shortage. For example, approxi This administration is working with un ago by then Secretary of Labor James J. mately 35 percent of MDTA training in 1966 precedented determination to correct in Davis, speaking on the same subject. And wlll be directed specifically toward averting equities, to breathe reality and hope into although "we must fit the jobless man to the sklll shortages, 40 percent to occupational programs for finding useful creative work for manless job" might well be a slogan for to reclamation of the hard-core unemployed and every citizen. To lift Americans out of pov day's program-which seeks to do just that- 25 percent to disadvantaged youth. erty, to transform forlorn idleness into con it was said in the early thirties by then La At the end of 1965, over 78,000 men and strictive employment, to keep skills attuned bor Secretary William N. Doak. women were in MDTA training for future to the needs of the economy-all these are What is new is the immense effort to turn employment. Between 10,000 and 40,000 essential aspects of our economic and social such thoughts into actual accomplishments. otherwise unemployed individuals were also programs. The Labor Department has waded through involved at some time during the year in These programs are good for America be the wage and labor problems of two World helping in Community Action programs at cause they fortify the American spirit of fair Wars, depressions, and the emergence of un the local levels. play and decency. Programs of helping ions as strong forces. Duties and responsi Perhaps nothing can be as devastating to people to help themselves are in our great bilities changed in accordance with the prob a society as it.s wasted youth. Through tradition, and they serve to strengthen with lem of the particular time. MDTA and other Great Society programs, to out limit the essential economic fabric of Today's problem is one, really, of success. day's dropout and young slum dweller is be our democracy. Technical prowess and ability have out ing guided into a productive life. At the end What has happened, very simply, is that stripped the skills of many of our people. of 1965, about 150,000 boys and girls, 16 to 21, we are reaffirming the national determination Into this era came the Manpower Develop were in the Neighborhood Youth Corps, ad to end poverty in America, to find job oppor ment and Training Act of 1962 and its sub ministered by the Department of Labor. tunities for all people, to prove that the sequent amendments, the Vocational Educa The NYC provides work for youths from poor American partnership of free government, tion Act of -1963, the Education Acts of 1964 families, not just those out of school but free enterprise and free labor can produce a and 1965, the Executive Orders assuring those in school as well, who need part-time rising standard of living for every citizen. equal employment opportunity and Title VII jobs to enable them to stay on at their This article tells what the Department of of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Eco studies. A look at statistics shows how prof Labor is doing to help build a greater so- nomic Opportunity Act of 1964. The Depart itable such programs are. The number of . ciety in America. . ment of Labor is involved in all of these pro unemployed, age 16 to 21, was 175,000 less in At the turn of the century, when immi grams. December of 1965 than the previous year, grants came to the United States seeking MDTA programs were designed to upgrade although the number of such youths in the their fortunes, they hardly found the streets workers' skills for lack of skills and educa labor force was actually greater by 650,000, paved with gold. tion unite those groups with the highest and countless numbers of potential dropouts The work they found was backbreaking, rate of joblessness. The old man who never stayed in school. the hours long,. the money scant. In 1910, learned a trade and the young man who For those who live in areas of decaying for example, just three years before the De never learned to read •are equally unemploy work opportunities such as Appalachia, partment of Labor was created, the average able. Under the first years of MDTA pro MDTA last year assisted 1,200 workers and work week in non-farm industries was about grams, administered by the Department of their families in moving to areas with man 51 hours. In the steel industry, half the Labor, training programs were designed pri power shortages. More mobUity projects are steel workers earned less than 18 cents an marily to increase the skills of hardcore un planned for the future. hour and there was no overtime pay, al employed so they could qualify for existing Through its Human Resources projects, the though two out of every five were laboring job vacancies. Secretary Wirtz has said Department of Labor is also pushing forward 72 hours a week and even longer. Coal min these and other such programs "resulted in its plans to aid those people With the least ing was a daily battle with death or injury approximtaely half of the reduction in un ability and the highest unemployment rate. and little thought was given to safety regu employment in 1965." · Combined efforts of various bureaus within lations. Those aided by these programs were almost the Department and a Selected Cities Task One of the men leading the working man's exclusively the men and women-especially Force established by the Department of La revolution, Philip Murray, who became presi young people-who would have been least bor's Manpower Administration, have moved dent of the Congress of Industrial Organiza affected, so far as employment was concern into slum areas and sought those who have tions ( CIO) , was calling for such seemingly ed, by the expansion of the economy. little hope of getting jobs on their own. dream-like things as "music in the home, These are pace-setting years in the Na For example, the Department's Bureau of pictures on the walls and carpets on the tion's economy, with MDTA and other pro- Employment Security, special staffs have floor" for the American worker, whose , grams leading the way to a 1965 unemploy been assigned to the Watts area, $1.1 million "home" vvas most likely a squalid room. ment rate of 4 Y:! percent--the lowest annu has been granted to open three Youth Oppor Such humane conditions had been battled al rate in seven years. Five years ago, when tunity Centers and several on-the-job train for by dedicated labor leaders since the end the jobless rate was almost 7 percent, some ing programs have been set up. of the Civil War. But it wasn't until 1913- 5, 705,000 people were looking for work and In an innovational, people-to-people when the Department of Labor was created unable to find it. search to fit the unemployed man to the job, "to foster, promote and develop the welfare Today, previously unemployable people the Department of Labor has moved into -of the wage earners of the United States, to are being trained. They are learning how three slum areas in Chicago to obtain actu:ll improve their working conditions, and to to be mechanics, chefs, typists, tool and die lists of those unemployed. Civic, industry, advance their opportunities for profitable makers, waitresses. Some are training .on the labor and government agencies are cooper.lt employment"-that such ideas took on na job, earning as they learn. Others are learn ing in developing a plan of action to help tional scope and meaning. ~ng such basics as reading, writing and arith such people increase their employa.bility. On the surface, the goals of today's Labor metic in classrooms. There are projects Representatives of the Labor Department Department are unlike those of half a cen aimed at moving people from economically have also met with city officials in St. Louis, tury ago. Much of the battling has been depressed areas to where jobs are more avaU East St. Louis, Houston and Rochester, New done and the accomplishmentS are taken for able. EXperimental projects-probing the York, to plan similar programs. granted. Child labor laws kept 12-year-olds loot world of the very hard-core unem Youth Opportunity Centers--now set up from working in factories now. Minimum ployed-attempt the rehabUitation of prison in over 100 areas--are equipped with per wage_laws keep their parents from struggling ers, alcoho)ics, physically and mentally hand sonnel guidance counselors especially trained at pittance pay. · Safety regul~tions guard icapped to bring them into society as produc to help with the problems of youth. They against the needless killing and maiming tive members. are working primarily with the youth who that had often been the working man's lot. The initial years o! MDTA already show feels defeated before he really has begun his But today, the struggle is still going on to effectiveness. By the end of 1965, the MDTA life, who needs not only a helping hand but . help the worker . and his family. The De program enrolled 369,400 trainees, of whom a real push to get started in the right direc partment of Labor's challenges l\1-re different 201,100 completed training. ' Of those who tion. but its purpose and concern are the same . completed training, 74 percent were em All· .of these added programs have put an to help people. ployed. Within the on-the-job training increasing burden of responsib111ty on the 14424 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE June 28, 1966 Department of Labor, the smallest agency picture, the successes, in turn, point up the ut111zed. in steering and training people represented in the President's cabinet. areas where much work is still to be done. toward those fields. The Bureau of Employment Security, for Youth unemployment is four times higher For example, through surveys, it has been example, must carry out its traditionally de than for adults. Despite new strides in non determined that occupations in shortest fined jobs of administering the public serv discrimination in job training and oppor supply are engineers, technicians, draftsmen, ice program and the unemployment security tunities, the current non-white unemploy metalworkers, electricians, plumbers and program, as well as helping to counsel, test, ment rate is 7 percent. While this is down pipefitters, medical and health workers an reading clerks, announced that the House HOUSE BILLS REFERRED SENATE · had agreed to the amendments of the Senate to the bill H.R. 11439, an act The following bills were severally read TuESDAY, JuNE 28, 1966 to provide for an increase in the annuities twice by their titles and referred as indicated: The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, payable from the District of Columbia teachers' retirement and annuity fund, to H.R. 5426. An act to provide that common and was called to order by the Vice law marriages may not be contracted in the President. revise the method of determining the District of COlumbia; The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown cost-of-living increases in such annuities, H.R. 15857. An act to amend the District Harris, D.D., offered the following and for other purposes. of COlumbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act prayer: The message also· announced that the of 1958 to increase salaries of ofticers and House has passed the following bills, in members of the Metropolitan Police force Our Father God, into the calm and which it requested the concurrence of and the Fire Department, and for other confidence of Thy presence we would the Senate: purposes; H.R. 15858. An act to amend section 6 of bring our drained and driven souls that H.R. 5426. An act to provide that coinmon the benediction of Thy peace may fall the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act law marriages may not be contracted in the of 1945, to authorize early land acquisition for upon our restless ~ives. May this little District of Columbia; shrine of daily devotion, built by our the purpose of acquiring a site for a re H.R. 14904. An act to revise postal rates on placement of Shaw Junior High SChool; and certain fourth-class mail, and for other pur fathers on the high hill of the Nation, H.R. 15860. An act to establish the Dis open for us vistas of green pastures and poses; trict of Columbia Bail Agency, and for other still waters where our jaded souls may H.R.15857. An act to amend the. District purposes; to the Committee on the District be restored. of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of COlumbia. ' of 1958 to increase salaries of ofticers and Wilt Thou crown our deliberations with H.R. 14904. An act to revise postal ra1;es members of the Metropolitan Police force on certain fourth-class mail, and for other Thy wisdom and with spacious thinking and the Fire Department, and for other pur to fit these epic days? Wilt Thou light purposes; to the Committee on Post Oftice poses; and Civil Service. · our eyes with Thy sympathy for all man , H.R. 15858. An act to amend section 6 of kind? As we face the questions which the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act confront us and almost confound, save of .1945; to authorize early land acquisition EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, us from living on a small scale in a great for the purpose of acquiring a site for a re day. In this hour of destiny, 0 be swift placement of Shaw Junior High School; and ETC. our souls to answer Thee, be jubilant our H.R. 15860. An act to establish the District The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the of Columbia Bail Agency, and for other pur Senate the following letters, which were feet. poses. In Thy name we ask it. Amen. referred as indicated: REPORTS ON OVEROBLIGATIONS OF ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED APPROPRIATIONS THE JOURNAL A letter from the Deputy Secretary of The message further announced that Defense, transmitting, pursuant to law, re On request Of Mr. MANSFIELD, and by the Speaker had affixed his signature to ports of 10 overobligations of appropriations unanimous consent, the reading of the the following enrolled bills, and they within that Department (with accompanying Journal of the proceedings of Monday, were signed by the Vice President: papers); to the Committee on Appropria tions. June 27, 1966, was dispensed with. S. 1611. An act to transfer certain func tions from the U.S. District Court for the REPORT ON U.S. CoNTRmUTIONS TO INTER• District of Columbia to the District of Co NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS .MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT lumbia court of general sessions and to cer A letter from the Acting Secretary of State, tain other agenc!es of the municipal govern transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on Messages in writing from the President ment of the District of Columbia, and for U.S. contributions to international organiza of the United States were communicated other purposes; tions, for the fiscal year 1965 (with an accom to the Senate by Mr. Jones, one of his H.R. 11439. An act to provide · for an in panying report); to the Committee on For secretaries. crease in the annuities payable from the Dis eign Relations. trict of Columbia teachers' retirement and CANCELLATION OF CERTAIN UNPAID INTEREST ON annuity fund, to revise the method of deter LOANS MADE TO WORLD WAR I VETERANS MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE mining the cost-of-living increases in such A letter from the Administrator of Veter annuities, and for other purposes; and ans Affairs, Veterans' Administration, Wash A message from the House of Repre H.R. 13431. An act to extend the Renego ington, D.C., transmitting a draft of proposed sentatives, by Mr. Hackney, one of its tiation Act of 1951. legislation to cancel certain unpaid interest