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By Mr. SCRANTON: Calimquim); and Apolonio Fernandez (for­ By Mr. McDONOUGH: H .J. Res. 471. Joint resolution proposing an merly known as Apolonio Aquino, Jr.); to H.R. 8063. A bill to authorize Col. Charles amendment to the Constitution of the the Committee on the Judiciary. P. Baldwin, U.S. Army, retired, to accept cer­ United States relative to equal rights for By Mr. CURTIS of Massachusetts: tain employment with the Government of men and women; to the Committee on the H.R. 8055. A bill for the relief of Luigi Venezuela; to the Committee on Armed Judiciary. Assanti; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Services. By Mr. ANFUSO: By Mr. GALLAGHER: H.R. 8064. A bill for the relief of Guy Au­ H. Con. Res. 345. Concurrent resolution ex­ H.R. 8056. A blll for the relief of Roman gustus Fleming; to the Committee on the pressing the sense of the Congress that the Mentel; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary. United States should recognize a Cuban By Mr. HALEY (by request): H.R. 8065. A bill for the relief of Carlos government-in-exile; to the Committee on H.R. 8057. A bill to authorize the disposi­ Chang and Maria Luisa Chin de Chang; to Foreign Affairs. tion of land no longer needed for the Chil­ the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BREWSTER: occo Indian Industrial School at Chilocco, By Mr. O'NEILL: H . Con. Res. 346. Concurrent resolution ex­ Okla.; to the Committee on Interior and H.R. 8066. A bill for the relief of Sung Woo pressing the sense of the Congress with re­ Insular Affairs. Kim; to the Committee on the Judiciary. spect to a program for paying the national By Mr. HALPERN: By Mr. PIRNIE: debt; to the Committee on Ways and Means. H.R. 8058. A bill for the relief of Dr. H.R. 8067. A bill for the relief of Bruno By Mr. PUCINSKI: Avelina Layos; to the Committee on the Beer; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H . Res. 370. Resolution providing for the Judiciary. By Mr. POWELL: reading of the Declaration of Independence H.R. 8059. A bill for the relief of Wai Chan H.R. 8068. A bill for the relief of Dr. Cassim in the House of Representatives each year in Cheng Liu; to the Committee on the Judi­ M. Jadwat; to the Committee on the Judi- celebration of the Fourth of July; to the ciary. ciary. Committee on Rules. H.R. 8060. A bill for the relief of Miss By Mr. ROONEY: Yersapetouhi· Darmanian; to the Committee H.R. 8069. A bill for the relief of Marcel on the Judiciary. Weissman; to the Committee on the Judi- By Mr. HEALEY: ciary. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.R. 8061. A bill conferring jurisdiction By Mr. SCHADEBERG: Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private upon the U.S. Court of Claims to hear, deter­ H.R. 8070. A bill for the relief of Juan mine, and render judgment upon the claim Bocanegra; to the Committee on the Judi­ bills and resolutions were introduced of Medwin Benjamin; to the Committee on ciary. and severally referred as follows: the Judiciary. By Mr. SHEPPARD: By Mr. BALDWIN: By Mr. KILGORE: H.R. 8071. A bill for the relief of the H. K. H.R. 8054. A bill for the relief of Teresita H .R. 8062. A bill for the relief of Combest Ferguson Co. and the Maceo Corp.; to the Fernandez (formerly known as Teresita B. Sills; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee on the Judiciary.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

Army Parachute Team I wish to extend my congratulations months before Castro came to power, I to Lt. Gen. T. J. H. Trapnell, command­ referred to him in a statement in Con­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS ing general, Headquarters XVIII Air­ gress as vicious because of his action in borne Corps, Fort Bragg, N.C., on the kidnaping American citizens, and then I OF fine Army Parachute Team under his added that this "shows what sort of a HON. FRANK KOWALSKI command. liberator he would be if he should gain OF CONNECTICUT control of Cuba." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I warned then that he would be worse Proposal for a Cuban Government-in­ than Batista. Much to our regret, this Monday, July 10,1961 Exile proved to be true from the moment he Mr. KOWALSKI. Mr. Speaker, re­ took over in Cuba. Because of my early cently it was my privilege to receive in opposition to him, Castro invited me in my office a group of men comprising the EXTENSION OF REMARKS January 1959 to visit Cuba. That was Army Parachute Team. OJ' only 10 days or 2 weeks after he had at­ This outstanding team-was headed by HON. VICTOR L. ANFUSO tained power and his goon squads were Capt. James M. Perry and consisted of murdering innocent men and women in 1st Lt. Roy D. Martin, M. Sgt. John T. OF NEW YORK the hundreds. I do not know whether Holies, Sgts. Alfonso M. Soles, Robert IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES his invitation was a way to squelch my T. Turner, Wilfred J. A. Charette, and Monday, July 10,1961 efforts to expose him at that early stage. Joe A. Norman; Sp4c. Bobby M. Ledbet­ Mr. ANFUSO. Mr. Speaker, I have Nevertheless, I turned down his invita­ ter, Sfcs. Harold R. Lewis and Gerald F. just returned from Miami, the temporary tion for two reasons: First, because of Bourquin; and Pfc. Leroy K. Smith. . new home of free Cubans. There I met his Communist affiliations; second, be­ The parachute team had come to with leaders of Cuban parties, old and cause of his slurring remarks against Washington to give a demonstration in new, who live for the day when they can American "gringos" at the time he took connection with the Armed Services liberate their country. Knowing of my over and vowing that he would kill 200,- Day here in the Nation's Capital. long opposition to Fidel Castro and of my 000 of them in the event of U.S. inter­ However, inclement weather grounded sympathetic understanding of the prob­ ference in Cuban affairs. them. Upon learning that the rains lems which face Cubans, in and out of His hatred of the United States and and overcast sky made it impossible for Cuba, they pleaded with me to help everything that the United States stands the team to make any practice jumps, bring unity in their ranks in order that for is not something recent. It predated I asked them to drop into my office. they may all work for a free and demo­ his coming to power, and the moment he After a pleasant chat with the group, cratic Cuba. assumed control he gave vent to his true I escorted them to the recording room I accept this challenge and here and feelings about America. This is another where we conducted a taped interview. now I submit to my colleagues, so that proof of his Communist views and atti­ This interview, I am informed, was tudes-Castro himself answered that played back May 16 over radio station they may better appraise the situation, a little background material followed by a question, both by his deeds and his words. WTIC, Hartford, Conn. practical solution based upon our sup­ As we listen to Castro's harrangues These fine young men created a most port of a Cuban government-in-exile. and his spewing of anti-U.S. hatred, we favorable impression wherever they merely have to close our eyes and we went. During their visit to the Hill, THE BACKGROUND can easily hear Khrushchev talking they also met other Members of the I knew of Castro's mental imbalance, through him. It is the voice of Castro, House who were as impressed as I by his hallucinations of grandeur, his links but the words are Khrushchev's. At the appearance, attitude, and conduct of with communism, long before he gained times, one even hears the frenzied and the Army Parachute Team. control of Cuba. Back in July 1958, 6 hysterical shrieking of Hitler ringing in 12224 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE July 10 our ears as Castro spews out his mad forward with a better plan. It ill be­ outside the country, and that it will not hatred of us. This puny dictator does hooves any member of the council to relinquish its efforts until Cuba is once not yet realize, in his sick desire for now sit back and say, "let's wait." Wait again a free nation. power and his dreams of grandeur, that for what? For all Latin America, as Second, that it will spare no effort to he is nothing more than a pawn in the well as Cuba, to be lost? This is the disclose to other Latin American nations hands of Khrushchev who is playing the time for everyone to put his vanity aside and their leaders the true nature of the international chess game with cunning and work with all Cubans who love Cuba Castro regime. and deception. no less than any single individual or Third, that it will emphasize the values WHAT TO DO NOW? group. I come then to my fifth point of freedom and the fact that communism The question above all questions still and, perhaps, the most important of all has smothered what the Cuban people remains: What can we do now? What proposals. love most, that is, their freedom. It must we do now? I have several sugges­ CUBAN GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE should be further emphasized that it re­ tions. They are not necessarily all that Fifth is that a Cuban government­ mains for those who still enjoy this can or must be done, but they can serve in-exile be established by Cubans now in precious gift to again light the Cuban as a starting point from which to expand exile with the expressed purpose of com­ torch of freedom on free soil and to carry and to deepen our efforts. bating Castro and liberating their it back to Cuba, where it shall be raised First, the United States must make it homeland. It is further proposed that on a huge statue of Marti right at the crystal clear that under no circum­ all elements of Cuban society be repre­ entrance of Havana Harbor. stances will we permit or tolerate any sented in this government and that its Fourth. That Cubans shall vow that foreign intervention in Cuba, and that seat be set up, not in the United States, once freedom is restored in their home­ means Soviet Russia, Communist China, but in another Latin American country. land they will never again permit anyone or any of their satellites. We must give Once this is accomplished, every effort to rob them of it. strong warning that we shall regard any should be made to obtain recognition by Fifth. That Cuba will be liberated by volunteers or other interlopers from the United States and other countries. Cubans under the leadership of their Communist nations in Cuba as a viola­ To encourage this effort I have this day government-in-exile and no other gov­ tion and threat to Western Hemisphere introduced the following resolution and ernment is expected to intervene. The security, and as constituting an act of ask as many of my colleagues in both free Cuban government should under­ aggression. This would form the basis the Senate and House, who believe as I take to enroll 1 million persons sympa­ for the application of certain treaties do, to cosponsor such a resolution: thetic to its cause all over the world­ and laws regarding United States-Cuban CONCURRENT RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE individuals who are free to act as their relations. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT THE UNITED conscience dictates, something which Second, we must go over the heads of STATES SHOULD RECOGNIZE A CUBAN Gov­ those living under Communist enslave­ Castro and his henchmen and give our ERNMENT-IN-EXILE ment cannot do. assurances to the people of Cuba that Whereas the collaboration of the present Sixth. That invitation is particularly they will have our moral and material Government of Cuba with the international extended to all Cubans who love their support in their struggle to regain their Communist conspiracy is an established country and want to see it rise again as a freedom and independence. Under the fact; and Whereas the present Government of Cuba free nation to support the government­ Monroe Doctrine we have every right has embarked upon a program of religious in-exile and to join in its efforts. to help safeguard the freedom of any persecution and flagrant disregard of human Seventh. That all those Cuban leaders nation of the Western Hemisphere. rights; and who aspire to leadership place the na­ Third, we must impress clearly and un­ Whereas the present Government of Cuba tional aspirations of Cuba above their mistakenly upon all Cuban groups and is engaged in the murder of innocent per­ personal ambitions and prove their ca­ exiles that they must abide by the princi­ sons either without trial or after sham trials pacity for leadership by becoming sol­ ples of the Cuban Constitution of 1940 which make a mockery of the judicial process; and diers in the ranks of their nation's strug­ which states that all Cubans are equal gle for freedom now and postpone their before the law. All should be given a Whereas the present Government of Cuba has systematically carried on a hate America own careers for a later date. chance to participate in the struggle for campaign with the deliberate purpose of Eighth. That this is a time which re­ national freedom. They must cease poisoning the longstanding friendly rela­ quires sacrifices of blood, sweat, toil and working at counterpurposes and must tionship between the people of Cuba and tears, if the dream of Cuba is to be real­ assume the semblance of a united Cuban the people of the United States; and ized in our day. nation in exile. Let it be understood Whereas the present Government of Cuba that the United States will, at no time, has engaged and is engaged in the mistreat­ Ninth, that Cubans owe an obliga­ support extremist groups of either the ment of American citizens and has confis­ tion to their children who, unless given right or the left if we can hope to at­ cated their property; and the hope for freedom, will grow up as tain a free, independent, and democratic Whereas the gross, deliberate, and con­ robots and slaves under communism Cuba. tinuing provocations of the present Govern­ carrying out the will of their masters. ment of Cuba have brought about a sever­ PRECEDENT Fourth, the United States is to im­ ance of diplomatic relations between the press upon all anti-Castro forces, of United States and that Government: Now, In support of the proposals suggested whatever opinion, that the primary task therefore, be it above, such as our refusal to tolerate of the moment is unity and strength. Resolved by the House of Representatives foreign authority in Cuba, our recogni­ They must unite under a central leader­ (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense tion of the independence of the people ship. It is not f.or any one group to set of the Congress that the United States of Cuba, and our obligation to render itself up above all other groups. Only should grant formal diplomatic recognition all possible aid in achieving these aims, in this way can the Cubans in exile hope to a Cuban government-in-exile. we have a historical precedent which to receive the necessary support of the There is no need to belabor the point goes back to the year 1898 when Cuba United States and other countries of the that the Cuban government-in-exile gained its independence from domina­ free world. Here a word is necessary should at the earliest possible time tion by Spain. regarding the present Cuban Council draw up a preliminary constitution or On April 20, 1898, the U.S. Congress headed by Dr. Jose Miro Cardona. I declaration for a democratic form of adopted a joint resolution for the recog­ shall not attempt to fix the blame for government in Cuba. One of the major nition of the independence of the Cuban the April 1961 fiasco. President Ken­ provisions in this document should be people, demanding that Spain relinquish nedy has magnanimously assumed full a pledge that it will hold free elections its authority in Cuba, and that it with­ responsibility as the Chief Executive of in Cuba within 1 year after the country draw its military forces from there. The our Nation. But we know that this is is liberated. Other provisions to be em­ resolution speaks of the right of the peo­ not completely true. He was given the bodied in this document should include ple of Cuba to be free and independent wrong advice and he was following a the following: and notes that "it is the duty of the plan conceived long before he took office. First, that the Cuban government-in­ United States to demand" that Spain re­ But that is water over the dam. We exile will serve as a symbol of unity and linquish its authority and government in cannot stand still now. We must move hope for the Cuban people, inside and Cuba. 1961 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - · HOUSE 12225 Thus, the U.S. Congress took the in­ As a dynamic force in the space age, they He was given the Aviation Writers' itiative in 1898, in setting Cuba on its provide real manpower and brainpower for a Association Award seven times. He was course to freedom. Following this ac­ powerful forward thrust into the future. the author of the definitive work on tion, Cuba finally succeeded in gaining Traditionally, workers and their unions have been basically concerned with obt ain­ early aviation in Michigan and a book on its independence through the adoption ing a fair share of the rewards of their Henry Ford's early trimotor aircraft. of the Treaty of Paris, on December 10, production, including wages, better working Bob saw Army service in Europe dur­ 1898, when Spain gave up all claims to condit ions, job security, ret irement, and ing the Second World War and was twice Cuba. other benefits. decorated for bravery with the Bronze CONCLUSION Within our free system, we need to care­ Star. He also served the Nation during Finally, I should like to state to my fully and vigilantly protect and perpetuate 1951-52 as administrative assistant to colleagues and Cuban friends that the the rights of workers to speak, to organize, the late Senator Blair Moody, of and to bargain-to obtain a just share of the history of Cuba has not yet been fully fruits of their labor. Michigan. documented or written. If we are deter­ With a strong and growing voice, however, I know the whole Washington press mined, a glorious history still awaits there also goes hand in hand a greater sense corps joins me in mourning the passing Cuba as a great leader of Latin America. of dedication and responsibility. of their late associate, and in extending The setback of April 17, 1961, however, In these perilous, difficult times, the chal­ heartfelt sympathy to his widow and son. foolishly conceived, was only the be­ lenges include the following: ginning of a crusade that must be con­ Adherence to policies in labor-management tinued and expanded; it must be carried negotiations that spur, not obstruct, eco­ forward with zeal and determination nomic progress; and recognition of public, Some Figures Concerning Grain until Cuba emerges as a free and inde­ as well as worker, interest, in negotiations pendent nation entitled to take its right­ with management. In the struggle against communism, un­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS ful place in the family of free nations. ions have also a great opportunity-yes a OF We cannot wait. We must not wait responsibility-to serve as a strong voice of for events to happen. We must, with peace, progress, and freedom. HON. LINDLEY BECKWORTH reason and determination, act now. Around the globe, there is a uniquely OF TEXAS strong, common bond among the workers of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES all nations. ;rn contact with fellow laborers, elsewhere Monday, July 10,1961 Needed: Labor Frontiersmanship in the on the globe, the workers of the United Mr. BECKWORTH. Mr. Speaker, Space Age States and their unions have a tremendous under leave to extend my remarks in the opportunity to serve as dynamic trans­ mitters of the ideas and ideals of freedom. RECORD, I include the following figures EXTENSION OF REMARKS They can present a true, realistic picture concerning grain: OF of how free trade unions can best serve the DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, working people and the Nation; how free Washington, D .C. HON. ALEXANDER WILEY collective bargaining can create a workers­ Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH, OF WISCONSIN share-in-the-rewards kind of economy-not House of Rep1·esentatives, a trickle-down benefit for workers from Washington, D.C. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES either a cartel-like business system or a DEAR MR. BECKWORTH: We are returning Monday, July 10,1961 state-controlled dictatorship; how, under herewith the tabulation which you requested freedom, the worker enjoys respect for his us to check for errors. We are returning also Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, the com­ rights and integrity, including the maximum the tabulation which you submitted to the plex problems of the times require re­ degree of freedom allowable within an or­ Bureau of the Census for the same purpose. newed dedication and resourcefulness by ganized society; how participation in gov­ There were a number of mistakes, practi­ our citizens-individually and collec­ ernment "of, by and for the people" has cally all of which were errors in transcrip­ tively. created for the American worker the best tion either when set up in the CoNGRES­ If this is done, we can-! am confi­ standards of living in the history of the SIONAL RECORD or when copied from the world and promises ever-higher standards RECORD. We have entered corrected figures dent-meet the challenges confronting of living for the future. on the tabulation you submitted to us. We us. If it is not done, we may be in As we face the challenges ahead, then, our have made no entries on the tabulation re­ trouble. Nation-and the cause of peace-can benefit viewed in the Bureau of the Census. On the economic front, for example, tremendously from a stronger, more creative It should be noted that the entry "N.R." there is a need for statesmanship, or public-interest role of labor in serving our does not necessarily mean the same thing so-called frontiersmanship, in labor and Nation in national and international affairs. under "Number of farms" as it does under management. "Number of support loans made." Under the first heading, "N.R." means none re­ Traditionally, these have worked to ported but not necessarily no harvested acre­ serve their own special interests. age. Under the second heading, "N.R." This is still necessary. However, Robert S. Ball means that there were no loans made. there is also a need for design and sup­ Sincerely yours, port of larger perspective policies and EXTENSION OF REMARKS KENNETH M. BIRKHEAD. programs to serve the Nation. OF Recently, I was privileged to com­ THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, HON. JOHN D. DINGELL Washington, D.C., May 16,1961. ment on aspects of this challenge over TO: Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH. radio station WGN, Chicago. I ask OF MICHIGAN From: Natural Resources Division. unanimous consent to have excerpts of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Subject: The percentage relationship of the this address printed in the CoNGRES­ Monday, July 10,1961 number of price support loans per com­ SIONAL RECORD. modity to the number of faJ:ms reporting There being no objection, the excerpts Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, it is my harvested acres of specific commodities, were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, sad duty to inform the Members of this by States, in 1959. as follows: body of the death of an eminent jour­ Response is made to your inquiry of April nalist, a brave man, and a dear friend 19, 1961, relative to the percentage relation­ NEEDED: LABOR FRONTIERSMAN SHIP IN THE ship of the number of price support loans SPACE AGE of mine, Robert S. Ball. He died after a per commodity to the number of farms re­ As a nation, we face complex, difficult prob­ long illness on Sunday, July 9, at George porting harvested acres of specific commodi­ lems at home and abroad. To meet these Washington University Hospital, at 49 ties, by States, in 1959. challenges, we need to more effectively mobi­ years of age. Enclosed are the statistical tables which lize our people and resources, design new Mr. Ball was a member of the Detroit were derived from materials forwarded to policies to meet the unique pro'J?lems of the News' Washington bureau, and had this Service during the period, April 19 to times, encourage the full cooperation of all worked for the News ever since 1935 as April 27. The derived data has been prepared segments of the economy. a specialist in aviation and labor report­ as per your specific instruction. The delay Progress and security-a challenge for all in furnishing the data to you has been due of us-depends particularly, upon the dedi­ ing. His last major assignment was cov­ to the time-consuming detail involved in its cation and resourcefulness of our more than ering the successful suborbital flight of preparation. 71.5 million working men and women. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard on May 5. ERNEST J. PAPPAJOHN. 12226 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 10 Nurnbe1· of farrns repm·ting harvested acres of specified cornrnodities, by States, 1959

Harvested H arvested Harvested H arvested !or grain tor grain · --:----.----;---- St~te ------State Grain Soy- Grain Boy- Corn sor- Oats Barley Rye beans Winter Corn sor­ Oats Barley Rye beans Winter ghum for wheat ghum for wheat beans beans ------____, ____ r------·------Alabama ______83,756 1,173 3,182 2,048 2,163 N ebraska. ------70,120 31,338 38,367 10,937 5,004 5,232 46,191 176 802 67 --i;ii2i" 8 644 32 ArkansasArizona ______------__ -21;479- NewNevada------Hampshi:re ______101 380 10 105 33,048 1, 661 3, 362 402 ------5,028 N ew Jersey ______69 75 14 2 California._------2, 286 2,516 1,135 7, 638 --1;234------2,883 4,940 1, 555 1,385 699 --i;ois- 2, 444 Colorado. __ .------7,242 3,886 5,143 10,688 ------11,459 New Mexico._------York ______2,261 1, 697 475 937 112 1, 385 Connecticut______365 96 84 42 18,623 38_, 159 2,640 1,178 ----~58- 16, 236 Delaware ______• ___ ------3,660 522 762 879 --2;959- 1,002 North Carolina ______142,678 29,130 North Dakota______6,074 7,074 2,680 25,665 41, 450 Florida______9, 064 373 ------4.14 258 5,423 25 32,600 38,668 3,648 2, 959 252 Georgia._------71,043 1,127 9,461 574 1,123 1, 552 7, 495 OklahomaOhio. ______------104,975 68,619 6, 452 2, 772 42,489 67,453 I daho_------1,761 6,486 9,171 195 5,350 11,601 17,074 15, '092 13,850 2,372 1,652 35,735 Illinois.------131,295 1, 200 73,182 5, 400 4,323 88,268 63,945 PennsylvaniaOregon..·------______1,483 5, 782 8, 560 616 6, 344 Indiana __ ------99,253 773 48,685 4,909 5, 991 60, 526 57,802 64,127 53,354 15,335 2,845 773 43, 827 Iowa.------155, 167 3,051 127, 849 1, 325 841 64, 374 7,854 Rhode Island.------42 9 2 21 5 Kansas. ______------39,223 59,661 31,560 26, 676 5, 251 11, 927 83, 005 South Carolina______55,187 825 17,228 2, 310 1, 069 South Dakota______7, 715 15, 516 Kentucky------99,195 2,311 4,528 4,850 1,214 4,286 10,185 Tennessee ______30,261 4,138 33,006 9, 907 2,364 3, 913 3,504 Louisiana. ------32,686 232 1, 714 ------3,651 515 94, 60S 3,266 9,84'0 3,269 951 7, 056 13, 042 57 2,483 46 42 36 64,861 59,349 17,853 6,194 MarylandMaine __ ------______Texas.------462 25,551 16,067 5,081 5,055 1,835 4,417 7,848 1J tab __ ------401 2.,460 7,579 . 73 2,353 Massachusetts ___ ----•• _ 373 91 78 --8;924" 37 Vermont------138 1,112 1.9 15 54 Michigan.------68,700 ------54, 149 7,828 5, 218 63,543 Virginia..------Washington ______60,636 585 11,543 9,170 2,319 9,809 24,366 Minnesota __ ------103,995 107,204 16,990 2,854 57,865 2,875 West Virginia ______1,957 5,289 6, 700 m 7,596 90,762 585 4,088 9,634 1, 291 Wisconsin ______19,922 ------4,342 992 127 48 2,994 ~:O~E~==:::::======94,973 19,242 32,832 "i2;885- -T064- 42,757 61,686 90,101 106,844 3, 216 2,199 4.008 3,383 Montana______124 ------7, 756 15,497 332 ------9, rn Wyoming------·--- t\94 10 2,982 2,800 1ll 1,484

Source: Daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr.l3, 1961, p. A2478.

1959 corn crop: Number of farrns rep01·ting harvested acres) number of price support loans made, and number of loans as a percent of number of farms reporting acreage hat·vested by States, through Jan. ~1, 1961

Number of Number of Number of price support Number of price support farms re­ Number of loans as a farms re­ Number oi loans as a States porting price sup. percent ol States porting price sup. percent of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of h arvested madel farms report­ harvested m ade 1 farms report- Ing a&eage Ing acreage harvested harvested

Nevada. ______-----______32 Alabama .. ------_---.------•• --.-.---­ 83,756 181 0. 22 (2) ------Arizona .•• ------­ 176 (2) New Hampshire.------69 (2) ------A rkallS118 _------­ 33, 048 21 ------·o:oo New Jersey------4, 940 45 0. 91 California------­ 2, 286 66 2.88 New Mexico______2, 261 (2) ------Colorado.. ------7,242 350 4. 69 New York·------18, G23 180 .97 Connecticut ____ ---_- ----______----_--- ______365 (2) ------:82 North Carolina______142,678 393 .28 Delaware. __ ------­ 3,660 30 North Dakota..·------5, 423 738 13.60 Georgia_Florida._------______9,064 11 .12 OhiO------104, 975 8,845 8.42 71,043 200 .42 Oklahoma______11,601 29 .25 1, 761 22 1.24 Oregon______1, 483 50 3.37 ~~giS~ ~======~===~=~::::::::::::::::::: = :: 131,.295 35,109 26.74 Pennsylvania______64, 127 158 .25 Indiana. ______--_------99,253 12,463 12.55 Rhode Island_------42 (2) ------Iowa.. ____ ------155,167 101,556 65.44 South Carolina______55,187 235 .43 Kansas __ ------39,223 10,584 26.98 South Dakota______30, 261 5,397 17.83 Kentucky------______------______99,195 1, 893 1.90 Tennessee·------94,608 113 .12 32,686 l .003 Louisiana------Maine. ______-_------____ ------__ Texas.------64, 861 68 .11 57 (2) 0 Utah..•• ------401 1 .25 1\!aryland______------_------_- - Hi,067 104 .65 Vermont------138 (2) ------Massachusetts. ______---_____ ---__ ----__ ---- 373 (l) VIrginia______60, 636 50 .08 1\lichigan. ______------7:o9 Washington______1, 957 Minnesota______--- 68.700 4, 873 223 11.93 103,995 24,420 23.48 6 .03 90,762 101 Mississippi. _------.11 Wyoming;r::o~J~~--~~======______----- ~: 694roi 2,006 2.22 1\

It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: Daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr.l3, 1G61, p • .A2478, "Number offarms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified oommodities, by States, 1959." Statistical tact that more than 1loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. tables from the office of Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH, M ember of Congress, 'l'exas. 2 Not reported.

1959 gmin sorghum crop: Number of fartnS reporting harvested acres, nmnber of price-support loans rnade, and number of loans as a percent of number of farrns reporting acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of price.,<;upport Number of priM-Silpport farms re­ Number of io8ns ~ a farms re- Number of. loans as a States porting pr1ce.sup. peroent~e of States porting price-sup- percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of bar vested made 1 farms report­ harvested made 1 farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Louisiana.. ______:. ______1,173 1 0.08 (') AlizonaAlabama.------___ • __ ••• ______-----__ 232 ------802 4.2 5.20 Minnesota------(2) 7 ------ArkansasCalifornia . ______•••••• ------___ ••• ____ ------_ 1,661 7 .42 Mississippi_------585 6 1.00 2,516 9 .35 MissourL------19,242 1,364 7. 08 Colorado___ • __ .-----______• __ ------_-----_ 3,886 104 2.67 Nebraska.------31,338 13,704 43.73 Georgia·------1,127 (2) ------NorthNew MexiCO------Carolina______1,697 2E1 16.91 Dlinois .. ______-----__ ---- 1,200 1 .08 6,1174 15 .24 Indiana_____ -----_------______------_ 773 7 .9 Oklahoma_North Dakota.------______25 (I) ------i:28 Iowa.------J{ansas ______3,051 403 13.20 South Cscolina ______17,074 219 59,661 16,794 28.15 825 (1) Kentucky------______------2."1)5 2,311 2 .08 South D akota------4,138 85 See footnotes at end of table. 1961 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 12227 1959 grain sm·gh'u m crop: Number of fanns 1·eporting harvested acres, number of price-support loans made, and number of loans as a percent of number of fa~·ms 1·epm·ting acreage harvested by States, th1·ough Jan. 31, 1961-Continued

Number of Number of Number price-support Number price-support of farms Number of loans as a of farms Number of loans as a States reporting price-sup­ percentage of States reporting price-sup­ percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested made1 farms report­ harvested made1 farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Tennessee------3,266 1 0.03 Wyoming______10 (2) 59,349 16,308 27.48 1------1·------1------~~~~[;_-_~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 585 (2) TotaL ______222,601 49,383 22.18 Washington ______(2) 17

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: Daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr. 13, 1961, p. A2478, "Number offarms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical fact that more than 1loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. tables from the office of Hon. LINDLEY BEC KWORTH, Member of Congress, Texas. 2 Not reported. 1959 oats crop: Number of farms reporting harvested acres, number of price support loans made, and mnnber of loans as a percent of number of farms repm·ting acreage ha1·vested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of price support Number of price support farms re­ Number of loans as farms re­ Number of loans as States porting price sup­ percentage of States porting price sup­ percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested made1 farms report­ harvested made1 farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Alabama._--_------3,182 9 0-28 Nevada ______------_------101 ------Alaska ______--______-____ - ______54 1 ------New Hampshire.------75 ~;~ ------Arizona------67 (2) ------New Jersey------1, 555 (2 ------Arkansas ______------___ -_-_------3,362 28 .83 New MexicO------475 (2) California------­ 1,135 1 .08 New York______38,159 26 ------o:o7 ColoradO.------5,143 3 .05 North Carolina______29,130 61 . 21 Connecticut_ -----______------96 (2) ------North Dakota------32,600 627 1. 92 Delaware._----- __ ---- __ -- __ __ ------522 (2) ------OhiO------______68, 619 48 .07 Florida. ______------373 (2) ------Oklahoma.------_------15, 092 54 .36 Georgia ______------____ ------9,461 178 1.88 Oregon __ ------____ 5, 782 22 .38 6,486 48 . 74 Pennsylvania______53,354 11 .02 llif~~s~~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 73,182 36 .05 Rhode Island______9 (2) Indiana ______48,685 15 .03 South Carolina._------17, 228 156 ------:9i Iowa ______-----______127,849 985 . 77 South Dakota_------33,006 355 1.08 Kansas __ __ ------31,560 49 .15 T ennessee ____ ------9, 840 (2) ------4,528 (2) ------Texas------17, 853 124 ,69 fg~~y;~"[--:~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1, 714 10 .58 Utah.------2, 460 1 .Oi l\1aine ______------__ ------2,483 212 8.53 (2~ ...... _ J\Ilaryland------5,081 (2) ------~~~:~~~-:::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: ~~: ~i~ (2 ------T92 Massachusetts_ ------91 (2) Washington __ ------5, 289 102 Michigan ______------54,149 40 ------.07 (2) 107,204 1,363 1.27 ;r;;o~~~~~~~~==:::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: 10~; ~~ 22 -- -·------.02 ~~:-;:i~~i:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 4,088 88 2.15 Wyoming______2, 982 13 .43 MissourL------32,832 24 .07 ------·1------1------Montana ______----_--- -- 7, 756 26 .33 TotaL ------··- 1, 026,900 4,833 . 41 Nebraska ______38,367 95 .25

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Source: Daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr. 13, 196l.~,p. A2478, "Number offarms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities by tstates, 1959." fact that more than 1 loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. 2 Not reported. 1959 barley ctop: Nmnber of farn?s repm·ting hm·vested acres, numbe1· of price support loans made, and number of loans as a petcent of cnumbe1· of farms reporting acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of Number of price support Number of Number of price support farms re- price sup- loans as farms re- price sup- loans as Slates porting port loans percentage of States porting port loans percentage of acreage made t farms report­ acreage made 1 farms report­ harvested ing acreage harvested ing acreage harvested harvested

Alabama ______-_ (2) 2 ------New MexicO----~------937 4 0.4 Alaska ___ ------__ ------67 1 1. 49 New York------2, 640 3 .11 Arizona------1, 021 21 2. 05 North Carolina_------7, 074 17 .24 ACalifornia.rkansas ______-- ______-----___ ------_ 402 5 1. 24 North Dakota __ ------38,668 7, 344 18.99 7,638 113 1. 47 OhiO ------6, 452 5 .07 Colorado ______- __ ------10,688 85 . 79 Oklahoma __ ------13, 850 236 1. 70 Delaware. ____ ------______------762 (!) ------Oregon------8, 560 278 3.24 Georgia------574 2 .35 Pennsylvania------15, 335 2 .13 9,171 345 3. 76 Rhode Island______2 (2) ------Indiana~~~8:::::______=:: =: =::::: :::::::::::::::::______==:::: _ 5,400 2 .03 South Carolina------2, 310 6 .25 4, 909 2 .04 South Dakota __ __------9, 907 452 4.56 Iowa------1,325 45 3.39 Tennessee------3, 269 (2) ------Kansas ______-----______----- 26,676 886 3.32 Texas------6,194 33 . 53 Kentucky------___ ------______4,850 3 .06 Utah------·-·------7, 579 55 • 72 Maine ______------__ _ 46 1 2.00 (2) ------(2) MichiganMaryland. ______------_ 5,055 ------~rl~:~i~~======:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : 9, 1~~ 2 .02 7,828 19 .24 Washington------6, 700 659 .83 16,990 2, 946 17.34 (2) ------~Fs:~l~~~=:::::::: ====: =::: =::::::::: ::::::: 12,885 27 .21 ;f::o~~~~~~~~: ::::::::::::::::: :: :::::: :::: 3, ~~~ 2 .06 Montana __------___ ------_------15,497 2,234 14. 42 Wyoming______2, 800 18 .64 Nebraska------10,937 402 3.68 1------1·------1------Nevada______----______------380 1 .20 TotaL______290,160 16,259 5.60 New Jersey------1,385 1 .07

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: Daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr.13, 1961, p. A2478, "Number of farms necessarily indicate the number of farms on whicl1 loans were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical fact that more than !loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. tables from the office of Ron. LINDLEY BECKWORTII, l\1ember of Congress, Texas. 2 Not reported. 12228 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 10 1959 rye crop: Number of farms reporting harvested acres, number of price-support loans rnade, and number of Z.oans as a percent of number of fanns reporting acreage ltarvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of price-support Number of price-support farms re­ Number of loans as a !arms re­ Number of loans as a States porting price-sup­ percentage of States porting price-sup­ percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested madet farms report­ harvested madet farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Ari1.ona. __ --______•• ______-----_ 8 (2) ------New MexiCO------112 (2) Colorado. ______- __ ----___ ------1,234 10 0.81 New York------1,178 2 ------o~i6 Connecticut. ___ ------84 (2) ------North Carolina______2, 680 3 .11 Delaware. __ -----___ ------879 (2) ------North Dakota______3, 648 211 s. iS Georgia ______------__ 1,123 3 .26 Ohio·------2, 772 1 .03 Idaho ______-_------195 8 4.10 Oklahoma. __ ------2, 372 ~ .16 Illinois ______-----_____ -----_____ ----__ (2) Indiana ______------~323 ------Oregon_ __ ------616 16 2. 50 Iowa______5,991 {2) ------Pennsylvania------2, 845 (ll) ------8H 3 .3 Rhode Island______2l (2) ------ICansas _____ ------5, 251 96 1. 82 South Carolina------1, 069 2 .18 Kentucky ____ ------1, 214 (2) ------South Dakota._------2, 364 85 3. 59 Maine. ____ ------___ ------42 e> ------Tennessee ______-----______!J51 (2) Maryland .. ______1,835 (Z) (!) ------Massachusetts ______------Texas. ______------___ ------4.U2 -·------1-fichigan ______78 (2) ------Utah .. ------~------73 (2) ------5,218 1 .01 (2) ------Minnesota______2,854 (2) 60 2.10 2, ------MissourL. ____ --______------____ --____ --_- _ 3,064 6 .19 WMbington_--~r:~~~-:======------~~g772 1!)9 25.70 Montana. __ ------332 26 7.80 (2) N ebl118ka. _------______• __ • _. _---- ______5,004 ------N.evada______• __ ----_____ • ___ . ______76 1. 51 2, 1 .04 10 (1) ------~1:,~~======~======Wyollling__ .__ ------111g~ 40 1.27 New Hampshire------14 (2) ------1------1------1------New Jersey------699 (2) ------TotaJ______66,999 853 1.27

tIt should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: Daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr. 13, 1961, p. A2478, "Number of farms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because oftbe fact reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical that more than 1loan. may be granted on .a commodity on1farm.. tables from the office of Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH, Member of Congress, Texas. ~Not reported. 1959 soybean crop: Number of far?ns repm·ting ha1-vested acres, nuntber of price .suppm·t loans made, and number of loans as a percent of number of farms report-ing acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number o! price support Number of price support !arms I.e­ Numberol loans as a. !arms re­ Number of loans as a states porting price sup­ p¢age of States porting price sup- percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested madet farms report­ harvested made 1 ' farms report­ lug acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Alabama______2,M8 15 0. 73 New Jersey______------___ --- 1,018 5 0. 49 Arkansas.------___ ------__ ------21,479 755 3. 52 New Mexico ______------______(2) 3 ------Delaware._------___ ------_------2,9.59 2 .06 New York_------____ ------158 1 .6 Florida._------Georgia. ______414 (2) ------North Carolina __ ------25,665 39 .15 1,.552 18 1.15 North Dakota. ____ ------2,959 542 1 .32 lllinois ______---__ _ 88,268 8,170 9.26 Ohio.. _____ -·_. ______• ______42,489 1, 547 3.64 IndianaIowa ______•-- ______------• ______60,.')26 1,87.') 3.09 Oklahoma. __ ------1,652 89 5.38 64,374 23,521 36.54 Pennsylvania. ______-----______773 4 .50 Kansas._----- __ ------__ 11,927 819 6.87 South Carolina. _____ ------__ _ 7, 745 147 1.89 KentuckyLouisiana______------_ 4,286 65 1. 51 South Dakota. __ ------______------3,913 259 6.61 3,651 11 .30 Tennessee.. ------­ 7,056 188 _____ 2.66 4,ll7 (2) (2) .. ______MichiganMaryland. ______------·------_ ------Texas_ ------19 8,924 134 1. 50 Virginia ___ ------9,809 10 .10 57,865 10,899 18.84 48 (2) ----·------9,634 323 3.35 ;~:o~r~~~:::::====:::::====::::=:=::::::: 4,068 23 .56 ~757 3,858 9. 02 th~~t~~~~=~===~======~======Nebraska. ___ ---______---- 5,232 558 10.66 TotaL_------___ _ ,.97, 666 03,899 10.83

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: Dally CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr. 13, 1961, p. A2478, "Number offarms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans-were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical fact that more thao. 1loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. tables from the oflice of Hon. LThl>LEY BECKWORTH, Member of Congress, Texas. 2 Not reported.

1959 wheat crop: Nuntber of farms reporting harvested acres, number of price-support loans made~ and numbe1· of loans as a percent of number of farms reporting acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of prioe-rupport Number of price-support farms re­ Number of loans as a farms re­ Number of loans as a States porting price-sup- percentage of States porting _price-sup- percentage of aereage port loans number of acreage port loans number ol harvested 1 made 2 !arms report- harvested 1 made 2 farms report- ing a

Alabama______Louisiana ______•• ______(!) Arizona ______2,163 81 3. 74 515 ------644 9 1.,.0 li.Iaine ______------36 (3) Arkansas ____ ------_------___ ------_ li,028 161 3. 20 Maryland------7,848 176 ------2~24 California____ • ______----_ 2,883 343 11.89 Massachusetts •• ----_._. ______---_ 37 (3) ------287 Colorado ______-·-----______------_----__ --- 13,075 5, 796 44.33 Michigan. _____ ---_. __ -·_.------63,543 1, 821 4:2 (3) 40,286 1, 878 4. 67 Connecticut. __ ------i~09 Minnesota....------·------Delaware. ______------1,002 n li.Iissouri.Mississippi. ______------_------__ • ____ ------_ 1, 291 27 2.08 Florida _____ ------·_ 258 (3) 61,686 11,732 19.02 Georgia ______7,495 434 ------s:-79 Montana. ______----•• ___ ------22,804 7, 255 31.83 20,799 6,568 31.58 46,191 44,390 96.10 NevadaN~braska·------______------______------63,945 3, 668 5. 74 New Hampshire ______333 (3) ------Indianam~gis~======~======~======____ . ______._ 57,802 601 1.04 2 (3) ------a-;2 Iowa______------7,854 1,199 15.26 New Jersey------2,4.44 91 Kansas ____ ------83,005 98,581 118.00 New Mexico .• -----_. ____ ------______---- 1,696 536 31.49 Kentucky------_____ ------10,185 965 1. 04 New York_------16,236 1190 tilt See footnotes at end of table. 1961 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 12229 1959 wheat crop: Number of farms reporting harvested acres, number of price-support loans made, and n'umber of loans as a percent of number of farms 1·eport-ing acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961-Continued

Number of Number of Number of price support Number of price support farms re- Number of loans as farms re- Kumber of loans as SLates porting price sup- percentage of States porting price sup- percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested 1 made 2 farms report­ harvested I made 2 farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Xorlh Carolina_------41,450 292 0. 70 Texas------25, 551 5 532 21.65 -orth Dakota __ ------58,156 13,202 22.66 Utah------6, 874 '245 3. 56 67, '153 2,168 3. 21 0 klhioa homa_____ ------______------______------___---__ ------______-_ 35,735 14,263 39.91 ~~l~~~i~~======24, 3~

1 All wheat. Includes some overstatement for farms growing more than 1 class of a Not reported. wheat. 2 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity docs not Sources: Dai.ly CONORESSIONA L R ECORD, Apr. 13, 1961, p. A2478," I umber of farms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made bec-ause of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical fact that more than 1 loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. tables from the office of Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH, Member of Congress, 'l'cxas.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, porting the various classes of wheat leads THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, to an overstatement of number of farms re­ Washington, D.C., May 16, 1961. Washington, D.C., May 23, 1961. porting any wheat. This is particularly the To: Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH. Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH, situation for North Dakota where the addi­ From: Natural Resources Division. House of Representatives, tion of the number of farms reporting the Subject: The percentage relationship of the Washington, D.C. several types of wheat gives a figure of 58,256, number of price-support loans per com­ DEAR MR. BECKWORTH: We are returning which is in excess of the total number of modity to the number of farms report­ herewith the tabulations which you for­ farms, 54,928. We do not have an undupli­ ing harvested acres of specific commod­ warded on May 17 for checking against cen­ cated number of farms producing any wheat ities, by States, in 1959. sus data. The final reports were used for in the State. In the table, we have inserted Response is made to your inquiry of April Connecticut, North Dakota, Rhode Island, the number of farms reporting winter wheat, 19, 1961, relative to the percentage relation~ and Vermont. For all other States prelimi­ Durum wheat, and other spring wheat. ship of the number of price-support loans nary State figures were used. We have not checked the figures for the per commodity to the number of farms re­ Your attention is drawn to a problem in number of price support loans and the per­ porting harvested acres of specific commod­ relation to the table on wheat. Separate centages as given in your table, as we do ities, by States, in 1959. figures are given for farms reporting win­ not have the figures on the support loans. Enclosed are the statistical tables which ter wheat and those reporting spring wheat. If we can be of any further assistance in were derived from materials forwarded to In four States there is a separation of farms this matter, please let us know. this Service during the period, April 19 to harvesting spring wheat, showing those re­ Sincerely yours, April 27. The derived data has been pre­ porting Durum wheat and those reporting RICHARD M. SCAMMON, pared as per your specific instruction. The other spring wheat. Adding the farms re- Director, Bureau of the Census. delay in furnishing the data to you has been due to the time-consuming detail in­ volved in its preparation. ERNEST J. PAPPA.JOHN.

Numbe1· of farms reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959

Harvested for Harvested Harvested for Harvested grain grain State State Grain Soy- Grain Soy- Corn sor- Oats Barley Rye beans Winter Corn sor- Oats Barley Rye beans Winter ghum for wheat ghum for wheat beans beans ------1------1------Alabama ______83,756 1, 173 3,182 2,048 2,163 Nebraska.------70,120 31,338 38,367 10,937 5, 004 5,232 46,191 Arizona. __ --- __ ------176 802 67 1, 021 8 644 Nevada __ ------32 101 380 10 105 Arkansas ______------New Hampshire ______33,048 1, 661 3, 362 402 ------21,479 5,028 69 75 14 ~ California. ______2, 286 2, 516 1,135 7,638 ------2,883 New Jersey ______4,940 1, 555 1,385 699 1, 018 2,444 Colorado.------7, 242 3,886 5,143 10,688 --1~234" ------11,459 New Mexico ______2,261 1,697 475 937 112 1,385 Connecticut______--- 365 96 84 42 New York ______18,623 38,159 2,640 1, 178 158 16,236 Delaware ______3, 660 522 762 879 --2~959" 1, 002 orth Carolina ______142,678 6,074 29,130 7,074 2,680 25,665 41,450 Florida______------_ 9,064 373 ------414 258 North Dakota ______5,423 25 32,600 38,668 3, 648 2,959 252 Georgia ___ ------71,043 1,127 9, 461 574 1,123 1, 552 7, 495 Ohio __------104,975 68,619 6,452 2, 772 42,489 67,453 Idaho.------1, 761 6,486 9,171 195 5,350 Oklahoma ______11,601 17,074 15,092 13,850 2,372 1, 652 35,735 lllinois ______------_-- _ 131,295 1, 200 73, 182 5, 400 4,323 88,268 63,945 Oregon ______------____ 1,483 5, 782 8, 560 616 6,344 Indiana. __ ------____ ---- 99,253 773 48,685 4, 909 5, 991 60,526 57,802 Pennsylvania ______64,127 53,354 15,335 2,845 773 Rhode Island ______43,827 KansasIowa. ____ ----_------______:--_ 155,167 3, 051 127,849 1, 325 841 64,374 7,854 42 9 2 21 5 39,223 59,661 31,560 26,676 5, 251 11,927 83,005 South Carolina ______55,187 825 17,228 2, 310 1, 069 7, 745 South Dakota ______15,516 Kentucky----Louisiana. ______------99,195 2, 311 4, 528 4,850 1, 214 4,286 10,185 30,261 4,138 33,006 9,907 2,364 3, 913 3,504 32,686 232 1, 714 ------·------3,651 515 Tennessee ______----- 94,608 3,266 9,840 3,269 951 7,056 13,042 MarylandMaine ______---_------______---___ 57 2, 483 46 42 36 Texas __ ------64,861 59,349 17,853 6,194 462 25,551 16, 067 5, 081 5, 055 1,835 4,417 7,848 U tab ______-----_ 401 2,460 7,579 73 2,353 Massachusetts_------373 91 78 37 VirginiaVermont.------______138 1, 112 19 15 54 Michigan.------68,700 54,149 7,828 5, 218 8,924 63,543 60,636 ------Washington ______585 11,543 9,170 2,319 9,809 24,366 Minnesota _____ ------_ 103,995 107,204 16,990 2,854 57,865 2,875 1, 957 5,289 6, 700 772 7,596 90,762 585 4,088 9,634 1,291 West Virginia ______19,922 4,342 992 127 48 2,994 ------Wisconsin ______------l\Iontana~~~~~f~_i:======______94,973 19,242 32,832 "i2~885" 3,064 42,757 61,686 Wyoming ______90,101 106,844 3, 216 2,199 4,068 3,383 124 7, 756 15,497 332 9,177 694 10 2,982 2,8()(t 111 1,484

Source: Dally CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr. 13, 1961, p. A2478. 12230 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 10 1959 corn crop: Number of farms reporting harvested acres, number of price support loans made, and n'umber of loans as a pe1·cent of number of fm·ms reporting acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of price support Number of price support farms re­ Number of loans as a farms re­ Number of loans as a States porting price sup­ percentage of States porting price sup­ percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested made' farms report­ harvested made 1 farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Alabama______83,756 181 0.22 Nevada ______-----____ ------______32 (2) ------Arizona ______176 (2) ------New Hampshire______69 (2) ------Arkansas. __ ------__ ------­ 33,048 21 11.93 New Jersey------4, 940 45 0. 91 California.--_------2,286 66 2.88 New Mexico______2, 261 (2) ------Colorado ______7,242 350 4.69 New York______18,623 180 .97 Cmmecticut ______--___ ------365 (2) ------North Carolina._------142, 678 393 .28 Dela,vare ____ --___ ----_------3,660 30 . 82 North Dakota. __ ------5, 423 738 13.60 Florida __ ------9,064 11 .12 Ohio. ______-----____ ------_____ 104, 975 8,845 8.42 IdahoGeorgia ______------_ 71,043 296 .42 Oklahoma ___ ------11, 601 29 . 25 1, 761 22 1. 24 Oregon __ ------1, 483 50 3.37 Illinois ___ ------131,295 35, 109 26.74 Pennsylvania______64, 127 158 . 25 Indiana_____ ------99,253 12,463 12.55 Rhode Island______42 (2) ------Iowa______------155,167 101, 556 65.44 South Carolina______55,187 235 .43 !Cans as ______--__ --_-- _------39,223 10,584 26.98 South Dakota_------30,261 5,397 17.83 99,195 1,893 1.90 Tennessee. __ ------94, 608 113 .12 32,686 1 .003 Texas ______------64, 861 68 .11 tg~~~;!K~~=l\faine ______== ----- == = = =------======57 212 :! 371.00 Utah ______------401 1 .25 Maryland ______16,067 104 .65 (2) (2) ------MichiganMassachusetts------______373 ------60, 50 .08 68,700 4,873 7.09 ~r{:~~~-====Washington ___======------======------= 1, 957~~~ 223 11.93 Minnesota___ ---_------103,995 24,420 23.48 6 .03 !£ississippi __ -_------90,762 101 .11 2,006 2.22 1\tiissourL. ______------94,973 13,122 13.81 Wyoming______;rs~~~~~i~--======______~: 694~5r 7 1. 00 l\fontana. _------124 (2) ------1------1------1------Nebraska ______------______----- 70,120 47,076 67.13 TotaL _------1, 989, 411 271,035 13.62

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: Daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr.13, 1961, p. A2478, "Number offarms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical fact that more than 1 loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. tables from the office of Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH, Member of Congress, Texas. 2 Not reported. 3 The number of loans exceed the number of farms which indicates that more than tloan was granted to a corn producer on a single farm. 1959 grain sm·ghurn crop: Number of farms 1·ep01·ting harvested acres, number of price-support loans made, and nurnbe1· of loans as a percent of mtrnber of fm·ms reporting ac1·eage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of price-support Number of price support farms re­ Number of loans as a farms re­ Number of loans as a States porting price-sup­ percentage of States porting price-sup­ percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested made' farms report­ harvested madel farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

1,173 1 0.08 Nebraska ______31,338 13,704 43.73 ArizonaAlabama------______! New Mexico ______802 42 5.20 North Carolina ______1, 697 287 16.91 Arkansas.California ______----_------_---- _ 1,661 7 .42 6,074 15 .24 2,516 9 . 35 North Dakota __ ------2-5 (2) ------Colorado ______------3 886 104 2.67 Oklahoma ______17,074 219 1. 28 1:127 (S) ------South Carolina ___ ------825 (2) ------1,200 1 .08 South Dakota_------4,138 85 2.05 Indiana&~ti~~== ___ =__= = =____ = = == ______======--= = =___ = = ------======773 7 .9 Tennessee ______------______--- __ _ 3,266 1 .03 Iowa ______------3,051 403 13.20 59,349 16,308 27.48 Kansas. ___ ------59,661 16,794 28.15 585 (2) ------2,311 2 .08 ~r:~~-aWashington ~ == = __= = =------======(2) 17 .86 232 (2) ------Wyoming______10 (2) ------tg~l~~--~~======(2) 7 ------1------1------1------585 6 1.00 TotaL______222,601 49,383 21.99 ~~~i~~cl\fissourL ______~ ======: =___= = =___ = = =_ =______======_ 19,242 1,364 7.08

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: Dally CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr.13,1961, p. A2478, "Number offarms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical fact that more than 1loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. tables from the office of Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH, Member of Congress, Texas. 2 Not reported. 1959 oats crop: Numbe1· of farms reporting harvested acres, nurnbe1· of p1·ice support loans made, and number of loans as a pe1·cent of number of farms reporting ac1·eage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of price support Number of price support farms re­ Number of loans as a farms re­ Number of loans as a States porting price sup­ percentage of States porting price sup­ percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested made 1 farms report­ harvested made' farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Maine ______Alabama ______3,182 9 0.28 2,483 212 8.53 Alaska 2 ______----- _____ ------___ _ Maryland-----______Arizona ______54 1 ------Massachusetts ______.___ _ 5, 081 67 (3) ------Michigan ______91 (3) ArkansasCalifornia ______------_ 3,362 28 .83 54,149 40 .07 1,135 1 .08 107,204 1,363 1.27 ColoradO------5,143 3 .05 4,088 88 2.15 96 (3) ------l'v!ontana ______32,832 24 .07 g~i:;~~~c-~~--~:: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::I· 522 (3) ------7,756 26 . 33 Florida ______------_------__ _ 373 (3) ...... ______~iE~f!!~~======Nebraska ______38,367 .25 Nevada ______95 Georgia ______9,461 178 1.88 101 (3) 6,486 48 . 74 New Hampshire_------75 (3) Mf.~gis~:Indiana______=:::: == = = =: == == :: =: ======: == =__ == _ 73,182 36 .05 New Jersey_---Mexico ______------_ 1,555 (3) Iowa______48,685 15 .03 475 (3) 127,849 985 . 77 New York.------______------______38,159 26 .07 Kansas ___ ------31,560 49 .15 North Carolina. ___ ------___ __ 29,130 61 . 21 4,528 (S) ------NorthOhio ____ Dakota._------______---_-_ 32,600 627 1.92 f~~i~l;~~~ ======1,714 10 .58 68,619 48 .07 See footnotes at end of table. 1961 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 12231 1059 oats crop: Nurn.ber of farms repo1·ting harvested acres, number of price support loans made, and number of loans as a percent of number of farms reporting acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961-Continued

Number of Number of Number price-support Number price-support of farms Number of loans as a of farms Number of loans as a States reporting price-sup­ percentage of States reporting price-sup­ percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested made I farms report­ harvested made 1 farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Oklahoma .. ------15,092 54 o. 36 (3) Oregon ______••••.• ______.--. _____ ._ ••. 5, 782 22 .3S (3) Perul sy1 vania .• ______• ___ •••••...•... ---.•• 53,354 11 .02 Washington~k'~~~======..•• ------1~:5, 289u~ 102 1.92 Rhode Island_.------­ 9 (3) West Virginia ••.•• ------4, 342 (3) South Carolina.------17,228 156 .91 Wisconsin·------106, S44 22 . 02 33,006 355 1.0S Wyoming______2, 9S2 13 . 43 ~~~Psc~~~~~--~~~======:::::::: . 9,S40 (3) 1------1------1------Texas.------17, S53 124 .69 TotaL ------1, 026,900 4, S33 . 04 Utah ______2,460 1 .04

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not 3 Not reported. necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the fact that more than lloan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. Source: Daily CONGR ESSIONAL RECORD, Apr. 13, 1!)61, p. A24iS," umberoffarms 2 Alaska is not shown on summary sheet for specified crops. reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." 1959 barley crop: Nurnber of fanns reporting harvested acres, n'umber of price support loans made, and number of loans as a percent of number of farms 1·eporting acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of price support Number of price support farms re­ Number of loans as farms re­ Number of loans as States porting price sup- percentage of States porting price sup­ percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested made 1 farms report- harvested made! farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Alabama______(3) 2 4 0.4 Alaska 2______: ______------New Mexico.------937 67 1 ------New York ... ------2, 640 3 .11 Arizona.. ----- __ -----______------1,021 21 2.05 North Carolina ••..• ------7, Oi4 17 . 24 Arkansas ••• ------___ ... --.. ------.-- 402 5 1. 24 North Dakota ••. ~------38,668 7, 344 1S. 99 California.•••.•• ------­ 7,638 113 1. 47 Ohio ... ------6, 452 5 .07 ColoradO------­ 10, 6SS S5 • 79 Oklahoma .•• ------13, S50 236 1. 70 Delaware •••• ------_----- __ ... ------.•. ----- 762 (S) Oregon __ ------S, 560 278 3. 24 Georgia •• ___ • __ •... ______•. _•.... _... _•.... 574 2 ------~35 Pennsylvania______15,335 2 .013 Idaho.. ------______._. ______------____ _ 9,171 345 3. 76 Rhode Island . . ------2 Dlinois .....------5,400 2 .03 South Carolina------2, 310 6 .25 Indiana.• ___ ------___ . ----.. ---.------. 4,909 2 .04 South Dakota ... ------9, 907 452 4. 56 Iowa·------1,325 45 3.39 Tennessee._------3, 269 (3) Kansas. _ ------.. -.------_____ : ______------26,676 886 3.32 Texas ______------&, 914 33 .53 Kentucky __ ------­ 4,S50 3 .06 Utah. __ ------'l, 579 55 • 72 Maine •• ------­ 46 1 2.00 Vermont.•. _____ ••• _------___ ------19 5,055 (3) Virginia._------9, 170 2 .02 :1\'Iaryland.Michigan ______------_ ------~24 7 S28 19 Washington .... ------6, 700 659 9.S3 1\IIinnesota ______16:990 2, 946 17.34 (3) MissourL.------­ 12, S85 27 .21 3, 2 • 06 Montana_ .. ------__ ---.. -----.------. 15,497 2,234 14.42 Wyoming____~f:;o~!~~~~~======______2, 800~~ 1S . 64 Nebraska •. ------10,937 402 3. 68 1------1------1------Nevada ______380 1 .2 TotaL______290,160 16,259 5. 61 New Jersey_ ------1,3S5 1 .07

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: Daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr.13 1961, p, A2478, "Number of farms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical tables fact that more than lloan may bo granted on a commodity on 1 farm. from the office of !Ion. LI~DLEY BECKWORTH, Member of Congress, Texas. 2 Alaska is not shown on summary sheet for specified crops. • Not reported. 1959 1·ye crop: Ntwtber of farms repm·ting ha1·vested acres, number of p1·ice-support loans made, and nmnber of loans as a percent of number of farms reporting acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1.961

Number of Number of Number of price-support Number of price-support farms re­ Kumberof loans as a farms re­ Number of loans as a States porting price-sup­ percentage of Stntcs porting price-sup­ percentage of acreage port loans number of acreage port loans number of harvested made I farms report­ harvested made! farms report­ ing acreage ing acreage harvested harvested

Arizona.. ---. __ •••••••••••..•.••.•.....• _. __ • s (2) ------New Mexico ______------112 (2) ------Colorado ... ------1,234 10 O.Sl New York.------1, 17S 2 0.16 Connecticut. -----. _____ ------_. ___ •• ______S4 (2~ ------North Carolina._------­ 2,6SO 3 .11 Delaware------S79 (2 ------NorthOhio ______Dakota.______------______3,64S 211 5. iS Georgia •••• _._. ____ ••• ______._._._. ______1,123 3 .26 2, i72 1 .03 Idaho.------lllinois _____ ••••••• ____ • ______------• ____ • __ 1!)5 s 4.10 Oklahoma. __------2,372 4 .16 4,323 (2) Oregon ______------______616 16 ------2..., 50 Indiana•.•• --••• _•• __ • ______._._ 5, 991 (2) ------Pennsylvania ______2, S45 (2) ______Iowa___ ------____ ••••••..•....••••••••....• ~ S41 3 .3 Rhode Island.------______• ______21 (2) ------Kansas.. ------••. ------­ 5, 251 96 l.S2 South Carolina .•• ------1,069 2 .IS Kentucky __ ------­ 1, 214 (2) ------South Dakota______------__ 2,364 S5 3. 59 Maine. __ ••••• _.•...•..••....•....• . .•••. -.•. 42 (2) ------Tennessee. ____ • ___ ._ •• ______• __ • ____ ._. ___ 951 (2) ------Maryland•. ------l,S35 (2) ------TexasU tab _____ ..•. ._._------•• ___------• ______------.. _ 462 (2) ------l\1icbiganMassachusetts ______•••••.....•.••.••.....•••••.••. _ iS (2) ------73 (2) ------5, 21S 1 .01 15 (2) ------2,854 60 2.10 2, 319 (2) ------3,064 6 .19 ~~:~~~~~======W asbington ______• _. ___ • ______772 199 25. 70 lVlontana.~!;:~~~~== ______======• =______======______======_ 332 26 (2) N cbraska. ______------______7. 80 127 ------evada______5,004 76 1. 51 Wyoming. ______2,199 1 .04 10 (2) ------;r::o~~~~-~-~~======111 40 1. 27 14 (2) ------1------1------1------699 (') ------Total.. ____ -----... ------66,999 853 1. 27 ~ ~: fe~:j~~!~~ ======1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: Daily CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr.13, 1961, p. A247S, "Number offarms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical fact that more than 1 loan may bo granted on a commodity on 1 farm. tables from the office of Hon. LINDJ,EY BECKWORTH, Member of Congress, 'rcxas. 2 Not reported. 12232 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 10 1959 soybean ct·op: Number of farms 1·eporting harvested acres, number of price support loans made, and number of loans as a pm·cent of number of farms repm·ting acreage harvested by States, through Jan. 31, 1961

Number of Number of Number of price support Number of Number of price support farms re­ Number of loans as a farms re- price sup- loans as a States porting price sup­ percentage of States porting port loans percentage of acreage port loans farms report­ acreage made 1 farms report­ harvested made1 ing acreage harvested ing acreage harvested harvested

Alabama._.------­ 2,048 15 0. 73 1, 018 5 0.49 Arkansas. __ ------21,479 755 3. 52 (2) 3 ------Delaware._. __ ----____ ----______-----_ 2,959 2 .06 158 1 .6 F lorida. ___ ------__ 414 (2) -·------25,665 39 . 15 Georgia. ______------____ ----- ______1, 552 18 1.15 2,959 542 18.32 Illinois . . ______------______--______88,268 8,170 9. 26 42,489 1, 547 3.64 Indiana.. ______-~- ______60,526 1, 875 3.09 1, 652 89 5. 38 Iowa. ______----.----- __ ._-.------_--- 64,374 23,521 34.91 773 4 .5 Kansas. ______------_-----____ -----_ 11,927 819 6.87 7, 745 147 1.89 4,286 65 1. 51 3,913 259 6.61 3, 651 11 .3 7, 056 188 2.66 ~g~i~~~i---~======(2) (2) l\1l\1aryland.icbigan ______------_ 4, 417 ------19 ------8, 924 134 1. 50 9,809 10 .10 57,865 10,899 18.84 48 (2) ------~i~::i~C~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 9,634 323 3. 35 4,068 23 .56 1\'IissourL ______42,757 3,858 9.02 ~ :r ebraska. ____ ------______5,232 558 10.66 497,666 53,899 10.77

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not Sources: D aily CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD, Apr.13, 1961, p. A 2478, "Number offarms necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the reporting harvested acres of specified commodities, by States, 1959." Statistical fact that more than I loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm. tables from the office of Hon. LINDLEY BECKWORTH, Member of Congress, Texas. 2 rot reported. 1959 wheat crop: Number of farms reporting harvested acres, number of pt·ice support loans made, and num,ber of loans as a percent of number of farms reporting acreage harvested by States, th1·ough Jan. 31, 1961

Number of farms reporting acreage Number of Number of farms reporting acreage Number of harvested Number price support harvested Number price support of price loans as a of price loans as a States support percentage States support percentage Winter Dwum Spring loans of farms re- Winter Durum Spring loans of farms re- wheat wheat wheat Total m ade t porting acre- wheat wheat wheat Total madet porting acre- age harvested age harvested ------Alabama ______------2,163 ------2,163 81 3. 74 Nevada ___ ------105 228 333 (2) ------·-- Arizona.. __ • ______644 9 1. 40 New Hampshire _____ 2 2 (2) ------New Jersey ______------i72 Arkansas.------5,028 ------5,028 161 3.20 2,444 -·------2,444 91 California______2,883 2,883 343 11.89 New Mexico ______1,385 311 1, 702 ------New York ______536 31.49 Colorado ... ______11,459 1,616 13,075 5, 796 44.33 16,236 ------16,236 990 6.10 Connecticut.------42 ------42 (2) ------T09 Nortb Carolina ______41,450 ------41,450 292 . 70 Delaware._.------. 1,002 ------...... 1,002 11 North D akota ______252 11,884 3 46,120 58,256 13,202 22.66 Florida. ______258 258 (2) Ohio ______------67,453 67,453 2,168 3.21 ------5~79 ------Georgia ... ------7, 495 ------434 Oklahoma.------35,735 ------14,263 39.91 Idaho.. ------5, 350 ------""i5;444" ""2ii;796" 6, 568 31.58 Oregon ______------6,344 ------"""3;765" --io;ios· 3,457 34.21 Illinois.. ____ ------63,945 3,668 5. 74 Pennsylvania ______43,827 Indiana______------43,827 758 1. 73 57,802 ------""57;802" 601 1.04 Rhode Island ______5 ...... 5 (3) ------i26 Iowa ______----- 7,854 ------7,854 1,199 15.26 South Carolina.----- 15,516 ------352 83,005 83,005 98,581 118.00 South Dakota. ______3,504 ---i;656" ·a-i8;968- 24,126 Kansas.------Tennessee ______3,829 15.87 10,185 ...... ------...... 965 1.04 Texas. ______13,042 ------13,042 370 2.84 515 ------(2) 25,551 ------5,532 21.65 f~~I~~~i_-.-_~======36 36 (2) ------Utah _____ ------.-__ 2,353 ---4;52i" Maine. ____ ------2:24 Vermont ______6,874 245 3.56 Maryland._------7, 848 ------37" 176 54 ------54 (2) ------Massachusetts.------37 ------(2) ------Virginia______----- 24,366 ------24,366 1,004 4.12 Michigan ______63,543 ------1,821 2.87 Washington ______7,596 4,040 11,636 9,324 80.13 Minnesota ______---- 2,875 1, 857 3 35,454 40,186 1, 878 4.67 West Virginia ______2,994 2,994 3 .10 27 2.08 3,383 ------"""3;3i2" 1, 291 ------...... ------WyomingWisconsin.---______------6, 695 20 .29 61,686 ------61,686 11,732 19.02 1,484 1, 001 2,485 451 13.14 ~~~~1-~~Montana.------~~======---- 9,177 958 3 12,669 22,805 7, 255 31.83 ------Nebraska ______46,191 ------46,191 44,390 96.10 TotaL ______767,393 16,355 147,449 930,193 242,583 26.08

1 It should be noted that the number of loans granted on a commodity does not 2 Not reported. necessarily indicate the number of farms on which loans were made because of the a Spring wheat other than Durum. fact that more than 1 loan may be granted on a commodity on 1 farm.

Partnership in Atomic Power water reactor plant will be designed and nuclear fuel will be economically com­ built by the General Electric Co.'s atomic petitive with electricity that could be EXTENSION OF REMARKS power equipment department, which is generated by a conventional steamplant located in San Jose, Calif. at that location. OF The nuclear system for this plant will In announcing the plant, Mr. Nor­ HON. CHARLES S. GUBSER feature the largest single-cycle, boiling man R. Sutherland, president of Pacific OF CALIFORNIA water reactor ever built, and will be Gas & Electric, stated: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES simpler, more compact, more economical, Pacific Gas & Electric's atomic develop­ and more flexible than earlier reactor ment program, begun in 1951, always has Monday, July 10, 1961 designs. had large, economic plants as its prime ob­ Mr. GUBSER. Mr. Speaker, a his­ If necessary licenses are obtained on jective. The atom will achieve its important toric milestone in atomic progress was schedule, Pacific Gas & Electric will start role in energy production when it produces passed recently with the announcement work on Bodega Bay in 1962 with full­ electricity to serve a large and diversified by the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., of their power operation expected in 1965. power market as economically and as re­ plan to build one of the largest nuclear When completed, the huge $61 million, liably as available conventional fuels. powerplants in the world. This plant privately financed station will have a We are convinced that atomic energy can to be called Bodega Bay Atomic Park capacity large enough to serve a city of do this at Bodega Bay. will be located on the Sonoma County one-half million population. P.G. & E. has committed the invest­ coast, 50 miles north of San Francisco. Pacific Gas & Electric believes that ment of almost $100 million to atomic The 325,000-kilowatt advanced boiling electricity produced at Bodega Bay with power to better serve residents of north- 1961 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- I-IOUSE 12233 ern and central California in coming ple will be treated to a propaganda fire­ represent percentages, not the number decades. It already has paid handsome works display, featuring our rocket, but of persons who answered a particular dividends in engineering improvements certainly not mentioning and crediting question: that are hastening economic atomic America properly. The rockets will fa­ 1. In order of their importance to you, power everywhere. cilitate Nasser's propaganda and at­ number the six most important issues today. Bodega Bay is another example of the tempts to penetrate neighboring states. progressive leadership provided by one We thus would help him play the dan­ gerous game of power politics and of America's investor-owned utilities to o:>d'"' '"'0 r:,~ ~ ~' g increase tensions in the Near East. 5 s ~0 .s '"'"'<>1=1 provide abundant, low-cost power to the .a :s~ o·~ ciS ><.> til '-'"' gj ;=j consumers of northern and central Cali­ Mr. Speaker, I would like to know if H ;.> R il-t P=l ~~ -«! fornia. we are embarking on a policy that seeks ------support from irresponsible nations that National Defense ______My congratulations to Pacific Gas & Peace______45 41 33 28 35 33 36 defy international law and insult our 21 16 8 14 15 14 14 Electric Co. on this bold step forward, Communism ______3 9 15 13 11 5 10 and my best wishes to their partners at citizens by bribing such nations with Foreign afl'airs ______5 7 5 12 3 7 s General Electric as they go to work on rockets that contribute to their potential Budget __ ------_ 6 10 9 4 6 7 7 Inflation __ ··--______5 7 9 6 11 14 7 the nuclear reactor system. May the of eventually creating global carnage. Education_------______3 4 4 14 (1) 2 7 What the UAR really wants is rocketry Civil rights_------1 1 3 3 4 6 a success of both companies bring the Na­ Farm program ______know-how, and it looks to the day when 1 (1) 6 ('~ 1 3 2 tion closer to broadly economic, atomic Social security ______3 (1) 3 (1 4 2 2 electric power. it can obtain nuclear warheads through Atomic energy------(1) 1 (1) (1) 1 1 (1) manufacture or diplomatic blackmail. Disarmament ______(1) (1) 2 (1) (1) (1) Missile development __ _ (1) (1('~ (1) 1 (1) 1 (1) We must promote peaceful develop­ Space ______(') (') (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) ment and brotherhood in the Near East, Other____ ------3 2 4 2 6 4 3 Rockets to Nasser not a rocket race. 1 Less than 1 percent. 2. President Kennedy says we will have a EXTENSION OF REMARKS budget deficit. Should Congress (A) in­ OF Results of Annual Questionnaire crease our debt, (B) increase taxes, (C) re~ HON. SEYMOUR HALPERN duce spending? OF NEW YORK EXTENSION OF REMARKS A B c IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF Monday, July 10, 1961 Labor __ ------13 20 67 HON. JACK WESTLAND White collar______G 11 88 Mr. HALPERN. Mr. Speaker, I view OF WASHINGTON Farmer------______3 6 91 with dismay the announcement of the ProfessionaL ______7 19 74 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Business ______.. __ __ 9 7 84 Department of State that the United M iscellaneous ______4 7 89 States is providing rockets to the United Monday, July 10,1961 .All_------6 12 82 Arab Republic, a regime that has col­ Mr. WESTLAND. Mr. Speaker, for laborated closely with the Sino-Soviet several years I have mailed question­ 3. Should exchanges of students, scien­ bloc and presently has army technicians naires to the voters of my district to help tists, and professional persons between Rus~ and instructors from Czechoslovakia determine their views on outstanding sia and the United States be increased? and other Communist nations attached issues. This year, as during past years, to the UAR Army. the answers have indicated an interest Yes No Since this is a direct and pressing among the people of the Second District issue under the concept of the Battle in national and world affairs. Labor ___ ------67 33 White collar------61 39 Act, which bars shipment of war ma­ The response this year disappointed Farmer ___ ------49 51 terials to the Soviets and their allies, me because only about 10 percent of the ProfessionaL ______73 27 Business------57 43 I have today asked Secretary of Com­ 104,500 questionnaires I mailed were re­ Miscellaneous______02 38 merce Hodges to delay issuance of export turned. This seems to me a small per­ AlL_------___ - ___ -----_---_ 03 37 licenses pending reconsideration. If centage. I had hoped for a larger re­ rockets are to be shipped to a nation turn than in past years, and unless more 4. Do you favor continuation by the United armed and equipped by the Sino-Soviet interest is indicated I may be forced next States of its mutual security program of bloc, how can strategic data pertaining year to use other methods of seeking the economic and military assistance to coun~ to the rockets be kept out of Communist opinions of those I represent. tries outside the Soviet bloc? hands? The returned questionnaires were The Department of Commerce is grouped into six categories, which are Yes No charged with responsibility in this area self-explanatory. They included labor, and should act immediately to safeguard Labor ______74 20 white collar, farmer, business, profes­ White collar_ __ ------87 13 the national interest. I previously pro­ sional, and miscellaneous. The last F armer_------72 28 tested to the State Department on its category included unsigned question­ ProfessionaL ______------______85 15 Business __ ------65 35 ill-advised and tragic decision to bolster naires, housewives, retired persons, stu­ Miscellaneous ______------72 28 Nasser's prestige after Israel's success­ dents and others who could not be classi­ AIL_------·------80 20 ful construction of a meteorological re­ fied in one of the other groups. search rocket. Mr. Speaker, it is encouraging to me 5. Do you favor (A) an increase in mini­ The Nasser regime has facilitated that those who did answer my question­ mum wages to $1.25 an hour, (B) extension Sino-Soviet penetration of Africa for the naire gave substantial thought to the of minimum wages to cover more workers? last several years and defamed America. issues and problems involved. About one Today the State Department is appar­ in three of those who answered took the A B ently attempting to woo Nasser, the time and trouble to comment in detail Castro of the Nile, in an attempt to buy on these matters, and their comments Yes N o Yes No his favor as he craftily plays off East help me to determine how best to rep­ ------against West. resent my district. I wish time would Labor______80 20 86 14 White collar______47 53 62 as Mr. Speaker, the shipment of rockets have permitted a detailed reply to all Farmer______47 53 68 32 to the UAR, leader of the Arab League, who answered the questionnaire, for I ProfessionaL______52 48 49 51 Business______44 56 62 38 that discriminates against American cit­ should like to have done so. Miscellaneous______45 55 69 31 izens on a basis of religion will indi­ I know the Members of Congress will .AlL______49 51 59 41 cate American weakness rather than be interested in the outcome of my ques­ strength. tionnaire, so under leave to extend my 6. Do you favor my bill, H .R. 3590, to Millions of Egyptians are suffering remarks in the RECORD, I include the de­ grant up to $1,000 tax deductions to parents from hunger and disease. These peo- tailed results. The figures I use here for each dependent attending college? 12234 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE July 10 The fact that the budget and inflation It is true that many of these responsibili­ Yes No were among the top six issues and that 82 ties have been discussed before in theory, percent believe Congress should reduce but this administration is establishing them Labor ______------85 15 spending is a strong indication the peo­ in fact. For example: White collar------82 18 ple support the principle of responsible The President's _program for temporary ProfessionaLFarmer_------"------______81 19 extended unemployment compensation, now 81 19 Government spending. law, establishes for the first time the con­ Business ____ ------83 17 Miscellaneous ______77 23 Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that sub­ cept of national responsibility for what All ______--___ -_--_------_-_-_----- 82 18 stantially the majority in each category is a national problem-large-scale exhaus­ expressed the same view toward all major tion of benefits under existing unemploy­ 7. Should the Federal Government provide issues. This means the people of my ment compensation laws. While there was funds for (A) school construction, (B) district are solidly tied together when it a somewhat similar program in 1958, it failed teachers' salaries, (C) private schools? is to pin down Federal responsibility in this comes to what good for our country. vital area, and as a result only 17 of the States participated in it. Today all States A B c ha.ve joined in the administration's new ap­ proach to temporary extended unemployment Yes No Yes No Yes To Tbe Administration's Economic Programs compensation. ------Under the administration's new minimum -- wage law we find the first breakthrough in Labor ______26 74 EXTENSION OF REMARKS 75 25 16 84 the coverage barrier since the original enact­ White collar ____ 45 55 16 84 5 95 OF Farmer------44 56 25 75 11 89 ment of law almost 23 years ago. For those Professional ____ 41 36 64 4 96 Business ______59 who m ay argue that this is not a new pro­ 57 43 14 86 6 94 HON. VANCE HARTKE gram, I would point out that benefits under Miscellaneous __ 48 52 .26 74 8 92 OF INDIANA .AlL------49 51 23 77 10 90 our Fair Labor Standards Act 2"e now ex­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES tended for the first time to workers in the giant retailing and service industries. 8. Do you favor admitting Red China to Monday, July 10,1961 In answer to a most pressing need, the the United Nations? Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, recent­ administration sponsored the Area Redevel­ ly the president of the Young Democrats opment Act, now law, in which the Federal Yes No of Indiana, Robert Pastrick, telegraphed Government establishes for the first time its responsibility to contribute to the regenera­ the Secretary of Labor, asking for com­ tion of communities laid prostrate by the JA\bor------______-----_- 24 76 ments on the administration's economic White collar______19 81 sickness of unemployment, and unable to Farmer ____ -----___ ------______16 84 programs and an answer to political properly affect their own cure. By Federal ProfessionaL ______38 62 charges that they are retreads and mod­ loans and grants to sound local programs, a Business._----_------17 83 28 72 ifications of old programs. Secretary beginning can be made to help revive these 21 79 Goldberg's reply is an excellent outline stricken areas and bring them up out of the ~~~~~~~~~======I ~c of the administration's position on this economic doldrums. and I ask unanimous consent to have Again, a whole new concept in Federal re­ 9. Should Congress authorize a voluntary sponsibility is being hammered out under Youth Peace Corps? the telegram and Secretary Goldberg's the administration's program for manpower reply printed in the CONGRESSIONAL development and training. This proposal Yes No RECORD. provides for the training and retraining of There being no objection, the tele­ several hundred thousand workers in new skills which will equip them for work in oc­ Labor____ ------82 18 gram and letter were ordered to be print­ White collar ______------62 38 ed in the RECORD, as follows: cupations in which their old skills will not Farmer_------ProfessionaL ______56 44 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., suffice. This is a new approach to a new 64 36 problem-that of hard-core unemployment Business_------50 50 June 12,1961. Miscellaneous ______-----____ _ 47 53 Hon. ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG, caused by new industries replacing old and All ___ ----_____ ----_____ ------_ 59 41 Secretary of Labor, certain natural resources being exhausted Washington, D.C.: and replaced by others--all demanding of the workers new knowledge and new skills in 10. Do you favor an increase in earning The Young Democrats who supported limits of social security recipients? President Kennedy in his campaign for a their jobs. New Frontier are concerned over charges by The Youth Employment Opportunities Act Republican leaders that the economic pro­ of the administration also blazes new path­ Yes No grams are only retreads and modifications of ways in governmental concern by establish­ old programs. We know this is not true and ing r-esponsiblUty on the part of the Federal Labor ______------______Government to furnish training and jobs for White collar______75 25 as a leader .in the formation of the Presi­ 80 20 dent's domestic programs to invigorate the youths between the ages of 16 and 22. This ProfessionaLFarmer_------______69 31 economy will you give young people like our­ program will play a vital role in determining 82 18 the future training plus the best utilization Business _____ ------____ _ 84 16 selves an answer to these charges. Miscellaneous __ -----______77 23 ROBERT PASTRICK, of young America's skills. All ______--______-______79 21 The administration's proposals in the President, Young Democrats of Indiana. field of agriculture are certainly an imagina­ tive new approach to the vexing farm prob­ U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, 11. Do you approve the Secretary of In­ lems--that of allowing the farm leaders, terior's plan to make our low-cost Pacific Washington, June 13, 1961. themselves, to determine the best programs Northwest power available to southern Cali­ Mr. ROBERT PASTRICK, for their needs and then allowing them to fornia and other areas? President~ Young Democrats of Indiana, put those programs in effect with the joint Indianapolis, Ind. approval of themselves and the Congress. Yes o DEAR Ma. PASTRICK: I am happy to assure In the vital area of education, the ad­ you that the programs and policies of the ministration has carefully worked out an in­ Kennedy administration are specifically de­ genious program for Federal aid in school Labor------______37 63 signed to move our economy forward and White collar ______32 68 construction and teachers' salaries in order Farmer_------30 70 provide a better life for an Americans. They that, as the President said, we will have "a ProfessionaL ______------_ 45 55 are not retreads or modifications of old pro­ new standard of excellence in education­ Business ___ ------___ ------30 70 grams, as some have charged. On the con­ Miscellaneous ______31 69 and the availability of such excellence to AlL ______------______------_ 37 63 trary, while some of the proposals are di­ all who are willing and able to pursue it." rected toward improving existing programs, Once again, the administration is establish­ many others are original in concept and bold ing for the first time the Federal Govern­ Mr. Speaker, the results show that in their approach to the problems confront­ ment's responsibility in this tremendously many people of my district are concerned ing us. important field. with national defense. The fact that This administration is spelling out in Likewise, in the matter of housing, the peace ranked second in importance is an precise terms the Federal Government's re­ administration's program is directed toward indication many believe that a strong sponsibility to provide needed assistance to the renewal of our cities and the assurance defense is a deterrent against a nuclear State and local governments as well as to of sound metropolitan growth in addition individuals when they cannot themselves to decent housing, within the reach of all. or conventional war. Also, they recog­ bear the I:.ecessary burdens demanded of No retread this, but the first really effective nize the danger of communism by rank­ them in order to preserve and assure our housing bill in our Nation's history to bene­ ing it the third most important issue. Nation's economic progress. fit the people who really need it. 1961 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 12235 And in the area of medical care for our The attainment of this first and most im­ Our obligation to help ease the effects of elderly citizens, the ~dministration proposal portant goal is essential to the realization the recession upon our less-fortunate citizens calls for building on the present social se­ of our second objective, which is full em­ will also add to this year's deficit. The bulk curity program to establish, for the very ployment for our steadily expanding labor of unemployment compensation is financed first time, our Government's responsibility force. We cannot tolerate the levels of un­ from trust funds and is, therefore, not re­ in the matter of health care for the aged. employment that have characterized the past fiected in the budget. However, the provi­ The administration has given bold new few years. sions in our permanent legislation for those ieadership in many other areas vital to the Our third goal is reasonable price stabil· out of work 6 months or longer are clearly economic and social well-being of our land, ity. This has always been important in pro­ inadequate. This spring, just as in 1958, notable among which are: tecting pensioners and others on fixed in­ we had to enact temporary legislation to care The President's Advisory Committee on comes. It is doubly important today. For for their urgent needs. The budget expendi­ Labor-Management Policy, which is staffed we cannot keep our international payments tures called for by this temporary legisla­ by the Nation's leaders in both fields. This in balance unless we are competitive in for­ tion will add approximately a half-billion Committee has been formed by the President eign markets. At the very least, this calls dollars to the deficit this fiscal year. to help our free institutions work more ef­ for price stability and the reflection in price So you can see that our two "automatic fectively together and to encourage sound cuts of some portion of our annual increases stabilizers," while helping to halt the reces­ economic growth and healthy industrial re­ in productivity. sion, were also responsible for a swing of lations. Heretofore committees such as this Our fourth goal is a tax system which $5.7 billion toward a budgetary deficit. h ave been named in a crisis atmosphere in a assesses the tax burden fairly and reason­ This swing, coupled with substantial in­ sudden attempt to settle industrial disputes ably in accordance with ability to pay. creases in the rate of defense expenditures, threatening to the Nation's security. The The achievement of these goals should, in minor increases in other expenditures, plus President's Committee, a continuing body, turn, produce a budget surplus that would congressional failure to increase postal rates, has the responsibility of formulating poli­ both permit us to reduce our national debt has led us to a deficit for this fiscal year that cies and adjudicating industrial disputes be­ and to provide funds for the expansion of will approach $3 billion. Since this deficit fore they reach the crisis state. private business and industry. For when the contributed substantially to halting the re­ President Kennedy has stated that "we economy is growing steadily and rapidly, with cession, it was entirely appropriate in the fully intend to prove that we are masters unemployment reduced to acceptable levels, circumstances. of our own economic destiny." The ad­ the retirement of our national debt places The alternative-of reducing Government ministration's programs and proposals, some tax money in the hands of investors-money expenditures to match reduced revenues­ of which I have tried to outline for you, are which they can and will use for further in­ would not only have meant no temporary not retreads or modifications of old programs, vestment in the private sector. unemployment compensation, but also a but rather bold, confident, and carefully Unfortunately, as I have said on an earlier substantial addition to the unemployment planned steps to allow our great people and occasion, we have not yet mastered the art rolls as Government programs were cm·­ our economy to achieve the tremendous po­ of maintaining steady growth at full ca­ tailed-to say nothing of the damage to our tential which is theirs. pacity. Our economy is still plagued by ups national security caused by the defense cut­ We count on those such as yourself to and downs. Although we have made sub­ backs that would have been required. assist us in putting into effect this adminis­ .stantial progress in terms of preventing Let me underscore this point: reductions tration's program to the end that we may all major depressions, we still suffer periodi­ in expenditures to match reduced revenues realize the great promise of our American cally from periods of recession when growth would have increased the severity of the re­ heritage of freedom and plenty for all. slows to a halt and unemployment mounts cession, enlarged unemployment, and there­ Yours sincerely, rapidly. However, although we stili have a by further reduced our revenues. We would ARTHUR J. GoLDBERG, great deal to learn on the preventive side, have found ourselves in a deflationary spiral Sec1·etary of Labor. we have learned how to slow a decline and that could easily have led to a severe and how to initiate recovery by using the auto­ prolonged economic depression. matic stabilizers we have built into our econ­ In actual fact, this alternative was so omy. It is largely thanks to these stabi­ clearly unacceptable that there has been lizers that our recessions of the past decade little responsible complaint about the defi­ Address by the Honorable Douglas Dillon, have been so much more moderate than the cit for the current fiscal year. There has, Secretary of the Treasury wrenching depressions of pre-World War II however, been considerable concern about days. the deficit of some $3.7 billion which we These automatic stabilizers so generally face in the coming fiscal year. This reaction EXTENSION OF REMARKS credited with softening our recent economic is perfectly understandable. For recovery OF declines, are: is well underway. It is probable that by First, an automatic and rapid decrease in this time next year our economy will be HON. ABRAHAM J. MULTER tax yields, as corporate profits and employ­ rolling in high gear. We may well be in the OF NEW YORK ment decline. midst of an economic boom. Second, a prompt buildup of unemploy­ Why, then, another deficit? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment compensation and retirement pay­ The reason is simple: The corporate taxes • Monday, July 10,1961 ments as jobs grow harder to find and to we will collect in the coming fiscal year will hold. be based on calendar year 1961 profits. Per­ Mr. MULTER. Mr. Speaker, the Hon­ Their effect is automatically to increase sonal income collections above the with­ Ol'able Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Government outpayments and decrease holding rate will also be largely based on Treasury, addressed the National Press Government receipts. The result is a deficit 1961 results. Club on June 20. which helps to arrest the economic decline. The first quarter of 1961 marked the very In that address he set forth frankly The automatic stabilizers have been op­ bottom of the recession. Corporate profits and with candor the hopes and plans erating since last fall. We can largely thank ran a full 20 percent behind the previous the stimulating effects of their action for year's rate. While it is true that business of the new administration in the finan­ the mildness of the recession. It is also due is showing signs of a strong recovery, corpo­ cial field and, indeed, the whole eco­ to their action that we are facing a sub­ rate profits in the current quarter will nomic picture. It is with pleasure that stantial budgetary deficit this fiscal year. probably not exceed those of the com­ I commend to the attention of our col­ Now, let us look for a moment at tax parable period last year. So, even with leagues the Secretary's remarks upon receipts: a substantial upturn in the second half of that occasion: When the budget for fiscal year 1961 was the year, we shall be doing well if corporate first submitted, Federal revenues were esti­ profits equal their 1960 rate. Consequently, ADDRESS BY THE HONORABLE DOUGLAS DILLON, mated at $84 billion. This included certain the revenues the Government can count on SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, BEFORE THE intergovernmental transactions and receipts for fiscal year 1962 will still be at recession NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON, D.C., from the unemployment tax, which, because levels. In fact, they will be considerably JUNE 20, 1961 of a change in Government bookkeeping pro­ less than the revenues originally forecast The state of our Nation's finances is cur­ cedures last December, are no longer car­ for the current fiscal year. Meanwhile, ex­ rently the subject of considerable public ried on the receipt side of the ledger. penditures must keep pace with our ever debate. So is the fiscal outlook for the fu­ Therefore, in order to make the original es­ growing population and our mounting na­ ture. Perhaps I can make a useful con­ timate comparable with current estimates, tional needs. This makes a deficit inevitable tribution to this discussion by setting forth we should adjust the earlier revenue figure if we are to meet our urgent requirements the Treasury's views on these and related of $84 billion down to $82.9 billion. in defense, in space, in education, in hous­ matters. The recession which no one in or out of ing, in transportation, and in the inter­ Government foresaw at the end of 1959 has national field. At the outset, let me say that I believe we now reduced revenues to a point well short With recovery on the march, however, we have four basic national economic goals. I of this adjusted estimate. If we eliminate plan to incur only those expenditures that further believe that they must all be pursued the windfall receipt of the $500 million ad­ are essential to our long-range national se­ simultaneously. vance repayment of the German postwar curity and to the well-being of our people. First, we seek an economy that grows debt, fiscal year 1961 revenues will be about There is no need for emergency programs steadily and rapidly. $77.7 billion, a drop of $5 .2 billion. to stimulate the economy. None has been 12236 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE July 10 proposed. On the contrary, the President the staggering figure of over $12 billion­ strengthened. This should be done not only has urged the Congress not to add to his more than three times the deficit presently for the benefit of future unemployed, but legislative proposals. He has also urged the in sight for next year. It is clear that there in the interest of overall economic sta­ enactment of badly needed revenue-raising is nothing unusual about a deficit in the bility. programs, particularly in the postal field. year immediately following a period of If we do these things we can look for­ The enactment of a fair and long needed recesssion. ward to a period of unmatched prosperity­ increase in postal rates is essential if we It is with all this in mind-reduced reces­ prosperity that will give us the strength we are to hold the deficit to the reasonable sion revenues, growing national needs, un­ shall need to face the worldwide challenges figure we have foreseen. Those who fear used plant capacity, excessive unemploy­ of the sixties. for the fiscal soundness of our Government ment, and absence of inflationary pressures­ would do well to direct their energies to that I reiterate my earlier statement that a bringing about an upward adjustment in deficit of the size which we envisage for postal rates. fiscal year 1962-a deficit one-third the size I recognize the concern of those who fear of the 1959 deficit-is both inevitable and Washington Report that a budget deficit next year may be infla­ appropriate. tionary. The great majority of those who The alternative to reduce expenditures to EXTENSION OF REMARKS express this concern acknowledge that a rea­ match recession revenues, with resulting sonable budget deficit in time of recession dangers to our national security, neglect of OF can help to halt the downturn-as has been our national needs, slowing of our progress HON. BRUCE ALGER the case this year. So it is not the budget toward full employment and toward full deficit per se that worries them. It is, ratherJ utilization of our plant capacity is totally OF TEXAS a deficit incurred during a period of eco­ unacceptable. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nomic expansion such as we now anticipate. This alternative course is equally unpal­ Monday, July 10, 1961 They fear that any deficit during a pe.riod atable if we look ahead to the revenue pros­ of growth may set in motion the forces of pects for fiscal year 1963. By then, revenues Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, under inflation. However, in the light of current should be flowing from a prospering economy. leave to extend my remarks in the REc­ economic prospects, such fears are not jus­ They could wen jump as much as 10 percent ORD, I include the following newsletter of tified. over what we can expect for fiscal 1962. July 8, 1961: In:O.ation falls roughly into two categories: With reasonable prosperity during 1962, our WASHINGTON REPORT The first is the type we have lived with fiscal 1963 revenues should approximate $90 over the past decade, lrn.own as cost•push, or billion, compared to the $81.4 billion that (By Congressman BRUCE ALGER, Fifth District, wage-price inflation. It is a gradual process we now foresee for the coming fiscal year. Texas, .July 8, 1961) that comes about whenever prices and wages Once again this would parallel past expe­ Washington joined the rest of the Nation are increased more rapidly than is warranted rience. For in fiscal 1960, our revenues this week in observance of the 185th anni­ by growth in productivity. The threat of jumped a full $9.8 billion over the recession versary of the signing of the Declaration of this type of inflation is always with us. It is revenues of 1959. Independence. The Nation's birthday was greater in good times than in bad, because The reasons underlying this prospect are fittingly observed in ceremonies throughout in good times both management and labor best understood if we examine our economy the city with more than 170,000 people gath­ are tempted to increase prices and wages at in terms of our gross national product. ering at the foot of the Washington Monu­ the expense of consumers whose resistance Our GNP for 1960 was about $503 billion. ment to listen to patriotic speeches and has been lessened by prosperity. But this year during the first quarterly watch the firewol'ks display. It seems to me This type of inflation is particularly dan­ GNP dropped below $500 billion. Even with this is a good time for all of us to rededicate gerous today in the light of our balance-of­ the presently forecast total of around $530 ourselves to those principles upon which our payments problem and the imperative need billion in the fourth quarter, the average country was founded and which too many to keep our products competitive with for­ for 1961 will not quite reach $515 billion­ seem to have forgotten. We need a resur­ eign products, at home and abroad. The or an increase of only about 2%, percent gence of oldfashioned, unashamed pa triotlsm, President has repeatedly appealed to both over 1960. the kind which gives one a thrill when the labor and management to exercise restraint But 1962 gives promise of being a year of Flag goes by, the lump-in-the-throat pride in their wage-price actions and to keep in accelerating growth. From something like with which we view a parade of our military mind at all times the overall national inter­ $540 billion in the first quarter, we can rea­ forces, the heart-bursting enthusiasm tn est. It was to help in this effort that he sonably hope for an increase to about $570 singing our national anthem. We have had created the President's Labor-Management billion by year end. This would give 1962 too much of the apologists for our way of Advisory Committee. While the danger of an annual level of some $555 billion, an in­ life, too many who are wi1ling to desert the this type of inflation is real and ever-present, crease of nearly 8 percent over 1961. tried and true principles of freedom for ex­ it operates outside of budgetary influences. If this pattern should develop next year, periments in social planning and welfare The second and classical type of inflation and the chances are good, our revenues for states. Unless we are willing to rededicate is "supply-demand" inflation. This occurs fiscal 1963 would be adequate to meet all of ourselves to the preservation of our free sys­ whenever demand outruns supply. If more our national needs, with something left over. tem of individual initiative, this 185th anni­ money becomes available to buy the same We should keep this longer-range prospect versary of the founding of the greatest ideal volume of goods, prices simply rise. This is of prosperity clearly in mind whenever we of government ever conceived by man dray inflation of the type which twice in this can consider next year's budgetary outlook. well be the last, for, if we fail to establish century totally destroyed the value of the Now what can we do during the coming a national goal and a blueprint for victory in German mark. This is the type of inflation year to facilitate the achievement of our the aU-out war in which we are now engaged which is influenced by budgetary action. basic economic goals as our economy recovers with the Communists, Khrushchev could We need have no fear that a budget deficit and our output increase? make good on his boast to "bury" us. To such as we envision for next year will bring First, we must avoid price increases so reawaken our national conscience is one of with it the threat of this classic kind of that those who live on fixed incomes will the principal tasks I am devoting myself to inflation. For we are no longer in a time of not be penalized. This will require a high in the Oongress of the United States and to shortages. There is unusual and under­ order of self-restraint on the part of both tlus end I have been calling attention to utilized capacity everywhere in our land labor and management with wage increases Members of Congress on various issues which today: in steel, in autos, in housing, in tex­ geared to increases in producti vi ty. seem to me to be the most pertinent in this tiles, in chemicals-indeed, everywhere we Second, we must make a great and con­ period in our history. look. We also, and unfortunately, are under­ tinuing effort to reduce unemployment to Our first concern should be to protect the utilizing our labor force, which stands ready a tolerable figure--4 percent is the current soundness of our currency. In our eager­ and willing to operate the unused capacity goal. A modest and noninflationary deficit ness to bolster the economies of every other of our industrial plant. Next year's budg­ such as we foresee for next year will con­ country in the world we c011tinue to increase etary deficit will of course stimulate de­ tribute to this end. In addition we should our foreign aid demands whatever it may mand. But it will be a demand that can mount a coordinated attack on structural cost the taxpayers of this Nation. I main­ and will be met by the use of presently unemployment by enacting the President's tain that this kind of action is wrong. We unemployed labor and plant. Rather, there­ proposals, including an expanded training should first protect, without apology, the fore, than creating inflationary pressures, program. soundness of our own currency by practic­ the $3.7 billion deficit we anticipate in fiscal Finally, we should use the respite given ing fiscal responsibility and that means by year 1962 will be helpful in putting our un­ us by the present recovery to overhaul and cutting expenses wherever necessary whether used plant capacity and labor force to work. strengthen the mechanism of our "auto­ it be for foreign aid or extensive welfare When we evaluate the coming deficit for matic stabilizers" so that future recessions programs. fiscal 1962, we should look back to fiscal may be milder and shorter than any we The Teamsters Union, meeting in Miami 1959, when the country faced an identical have so far experienced. The fact that we and giving new and dangerous power to economic situation. The upturn from an have twice had to enact temporary unem­ Hoffa, reemphasizes the need for enactment earlier low started in the spring of 1958. ployment compensation measures clearly of the bill I introduced to bring big labor The entire fiscal year 1959 was one of sub­ indicates that our permanent legislation to unions under antitrust law. My bill, H.R. stantial recovery. Yet the deficit reached help the jobless should be overhauled and 4573, would make labor unions subject to 1961 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 12237 the same rules of the economic games under Rather we can expect Mr. Khrushchev's THE LEGISLATIVE WORKLOAD IN CONGRESS which all the rest of us must play. This blustering and blowing to possibly ex­ This, then, is a brief look at the major legislation would protect the individual pand and that indeed new military ac­ challenges to our security and the threat to worker from abuses by unethical labor bosses tion, though perhaps not a global nu­ peace. and racketeers, hiding behind an immunity Confident in our ability to deal with this shared by no other group in our society. An clear-type war, may be sparked here global challenge, we must also dedicate pro­ aroused public opinion across the Nation is and there in the world. portionate efforts to resolve problems on the necessary to force Congress to enact such This is a serious situation. Despite homefront. needed labor reform. the gravity of the situation, however, we Congress is now in the homestretch. The A realistic policy is needed to halt the must keep our heads. The challenge is legislative calendar, however, is still loaded spread of communism in the Western Hemi­ simply this: To accurately appraise the with critical issues. sphere. The Reds are out to win all of Latin threat menacing us; and, then, to take Among the major controversial ones that America, using Castro's Red Cuba as a base the necessary steps to cope, as well as remain to be considered and acted upon are of operations. There are those in this coun­ as follows= try who insist that the only solution is to we can within our human power, with Farm legislation for (a). resolving the pro­ pour more American money into South this threat to our survival. duction-consumption imbalance; and (b) American countries to bring about social re­ Recently, I was privileged to comment improving the economic outlook for the forms. We seem to be determined to give on the need for an alert, realistic ap­ American farmer; away the money of American taxpayers proach to the Red threat in a broadcast Mutual security for strengthening the alli­ whether or not the recipients have any will over Wisconsin radio stations. I ask ance of free nations battling Communist to resist communism. A more realistic ap­ unanimous consent to have excerpts aggression; proach is to determine which countries are Health aids for the elderly; willing to fight to preserve their freedom printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Improvement and expa-nsion of our edu­ against a Communist takeover and then pro­ There being no objection, the excerpts cational system to meet the ever-increasing vide those people with the arms necessary were ordered to be printed in the REcoRD, school enrollments; to victory. as follows: Revision, as possible, of the tax system. Tough, realistic, and consistent policy is In a complex age, we face a great chal­ These are some of the major challenges to needed on Berlin to prevent a hot war. lenge: That of obtaining, and maintaining, be considered prior to adjournment. Whatever the President said to Khrushchev a perspective of the great confiicting forces DROUGHT-STRICKEN AREAS IN WISCON\SIN in Vienna, 1t evidently had little effect upon affecting our progress and security. In addition to these international and na­ the Communist boss. Since that meeting For 1961, we live in a dangerous-yes, divid­ tional problems, we are also facing serious he has stepped up his threats to chase us ed-world. The Western and non-Commu­ problems right here in Wisconsin. out of West Berlin and, so far, we have failed nist nations are striving to create· peace. By Across the State, particularly in the north, to meet the challenge. There can be no contrast, the Reds are shooting for world our farmers are being hit by the drought. equivocation in our position regarding the conquest. As a result, hay crops have been killed off, defense of Berlin. We must prove to Khru­ By talking, and corresponding, with folks grazing land exhausted, and grain crops shchev that we are not bluffing, that we are around the country, I find a wide range of badly damaged. prepared to fight, if necessary, to protect reaction to the Communist threat and its The farmers of the area are requesting the integrity of a free people to which we dangers for us. The span stretches all the three forms of aid: are committed. If we lose Berlin, as we have way from almost hysterical fear to "feet-in­ 1. Permission to attain pastures or harvest lost Laos and Cuba and other parts of the the-mud" complacency. hay on acreage under feed grain and con­ world because of failure to back up our words Now, what is the answer? Just this: Some­ servation reserve program; with deeds, we will lose the· world and with how, we must find solid "middle ground" 2. Extension of the emergency livestock it our freedom. which: (a) recognizes the danger; but (b) feed grain program for purchase of surplus It's time to call the State Department to encourages confidence, na-t hysteria. The job grains held by the Commodity Credit Corpo­ account. Much of our bungling in inter­ is to keep our heads. ration; and national affairs may be because we are slowly Is there justification for such confidence? 3. Minimum cost on transportation of hay becoming the victims of a supergovernment In my judgment, yes. Why? Let's look at to be imported into the hard-hit area. known as the State Department. Many of the real facts of life: I have urged the U.S. Department of Agri­ our mistakes in foreign policy in recent years Today the United States is the greatest, culture to give early and effective help for may be traced directly to decisions of the most powerful country in the world; our Wisconsin farmers. In addition, I have State Department, often made in defiance of Our agriculture-industrial output far ex­ cosponsored legislation to permit grazing or known facts or in opposition to the admin­ ceeds that of the Communist bloc; removal of hay from conservation reserve istration in power. It is imperative that we Our military forces, combined with those land adjacent to the stricken area. find out now who is running the State of our allies, are considered by military ex­ Unless aid is given immediately, milk pro­ Departm.ent. and who is responsible for its perts to be the strongest in the world; duction will be further curtailed. Farmers, policies. Only a brief recitation of the fail­ Our standards of living are the highest in too, may be forced to sell all or part of their ures of the State Department shows they re­ history (with gross national product esti­ milking herds. sulted in the loss of China to the Reds, the a mated to be $510 to $520 billion In 1961) ; If the drought prevails, our farmers may slow, steady march of communism through als.o be in need ot low-interest emergency Asia, the loss of Laos~ and the loss of Cuba The vast majority of the people of the right on our doorstep. It is time we call a world, in my judgment, aspire toward the loans to purchase. hay and grain for livestock. halt to bungling with a thorough investiga­ ideas and ideals of freedom as their goal. I am now exploring the matter with the tion of the State Department and its This, in my judgment, should dispel fear, appropriate agency here in Washington to personnel. should give us confidence. Realistically, see what can be done to. obtain such loans. however, we must also recognize that: As all of us recognize, not only the fanner The Reds, too, possess a powerful military but the whole community is dependent upon machine; farm buying power, which can be adversely Needed: Alert Confidence in Battling They spew propaganda with unbelievable affected by the drought. Communism success; CONCLUSION The multipronged expansion progra~ cov­ These, then, are some of the major prob­ ers not only military but economic, social, EXTENSION OF REMARKS lems confronting us. cultural ·and ideological fronts; In the face of such real .challenges, how OF The Communist leaders, and the hard core can we more effectively design and adopt the of party workers, are stanch, almost fanat­ kind of policies. and programs to cope with HON. ALEXANDER WILEY ical, adherents to this atheistic political, them? OF WISCONSIN economic philosophy, attempting and un­ In my judgment, I believe we can success­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES relenting in efforts to conquer the world. fully accomplish this by further tapping one Consequently, we face a grave-though Monday, July 10,1961 of our greatest resources, the reservoir of not insurmountable-challenge. ideas inherent, but too often dormant, in Mr. WILEY. Mr. Pre.sident, the Com­ Can we meet it successfully? Yes, but the American people. muni.sts, by aggressive acts and war only by- Recently, I recomme,nded a special Fourth threats, keep the world in high tension 1. Recognizing the scope of the threat to of July "brainstorming" program which with the dark overhanging prospect of our security; would include encouragement of greater ef­ war. 2. Dedicating the necessary manpower and forts by Mr. and Mrs. Citizen and family to- resources to winning the battle; and Devote more time to evaluating the chal­ Repor-tedly, Mr. Khrushchev is beefing 3. Encourage an alert faith in our cause, lenges confronting the Nation, and up the armed forces. The show of Red confident that right, supported by the will Create, if we can, new ideas on how to air power yesterday in Moscow also of free people, shall, 1f a world-destroying better combat the threat to our security and demonstrates that the end is not yet. ~ar can be avoided, ultimately triumph. improve our way of life. CVII--774 12238 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE July 10

If in your judgment these would serve the Missiles launched from planes, and armed by advancing a demand for the troika prin­ national interest, then forward them to the with relatively small nuclear warheads and ciple of administering the agreement. President, or to myself, or to other Senators electronic guidance systems which seek their The Soviets reneged on a previous agree­ or Congressmen. target, could seal the doom of our SAC ( Stra­ ment for a one-man neutral administrator This is the time for action. Let's demon­ tegic Air Command) bomber planes. and demanded a three-man administration, strate to the world- Intermediate and long-range missiles are each to have the right to veto any action of That as a free people we are not fat and becoming a reality. Ways of delivering mis­ the international inspection team. Since lazy and so swimming in self-indulgence sile warheads are improving at a fantastic one of the three would be a Soviet repre­ that we cannot compete with or defend our rate. Note the rate of improvement in solid­ sentative, this of course made a mockery of system against communism; fuel missiles such as the Polaris and Min­ any previous agreement. Future chances of That freedom is not, as Khrushchev says, uteman in the past 18 months. an equitable administration of any provi­ an outmoded concept that is literally dying Argument: But atomic warheads for these sion of a treaty agreement were destroyed on the political vine of history; and missiles have already been developed. Any by the Soviets. That freedom, not totalitarian commu­ further improvements are bound to be mar­ Argument: The only alternative is to walk nism, is the dynamic revolution of the times ginal. out-and that would give Russia a propa­ that ·can best serve the people of the world Answer: Further improvements could be ganda victory. now and in the future. tremendous-not m arginal. Further testing Answer: Breaking off the talks in Geneva In this battle we need you, and you, and of warheads is imperative. is not the only choice. Notwithstanding you. Only by so mobilizing every American Let me give an example, using theoretical the futility of our negotiations, I agree that can we hope to insure the triumph of free­ warhead weights: we should continue to negotiate or be will­ dom. A warhead weighing 500 pounds has a ing to negotiate. We recognize, however, that such endeavors present range of 1,200 miles. If the weight However, we should no longer be bound cannot be limited to a specific day. Rather, of the warhead were reduced from 500 to 250 by our voluntary moratorium during the this is a year-round challenge. pounds, the range could be increased to time of future negotiations. So, friends: Let's hear from you. 1,700 miles with the same amount of missile We should not walk out on the negotia­ fuel. Reduction in weight, size, and configu­ tions, neither should we tie our hands on ration of warheads requires testing, except nuclear weapons testing for strength and in minor instances. security. Resumption of Nuclear Tests The real problem which faces us-and Argument: (a) The Soviets are not testing which depends on testing-is not to create secretly; {b) the Soviets are testing secretly. EXTENSION OF REMARKS larger yield weapons with more megatons, Answer: Neither of these statements can be proved by the United States. It is pre­ OF but to create lighter and smaller missile warheads which are practically invulnerable cisely because we do not know the answers, HON. MELVIN PRICE t o interception. and because the Soviets will not agree to an Our national security may rest on this adequate system of detection which would OF ILLINOIS point. We cannot gamble with weapon sys­ give us firm answers, that we face the grave IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tems which are rapidly becoming obsoles­ decision. Monday, July 10,1961 cent. If we believe that an equal or slightly Argument: If the United States and Brit­ superior weapon capability in our hands is, ain resume testing, then the Soviets will Mr. PRICE. Mr. Speaker, one of the or has been, a primary factor of deterrence, resume testing. most important problems facing the than we cannot afford to lose that deterrence Answer: This argument assumes that the United States is whether we should re­ by depending on obsolescent weapons or Soviets have not been secretly testing. If methods of delivery. the assumption is not true, then they would sume atomic-hydrogen weapon testing. not resume, they would continue. Answers to the most important argu­ Argument: It isn't actually necessary to test--and explode-atomic devices, because On the other hand, if they have honored ments against resumption of tests ap­ improvements in weapons can be made in the moratorium and have not been secretly pears in a featured article in the July laboratories. testing, we will start out at the same rela­ 17 issue of U.S. News & World Report. Answer: This argument is dangerous and tive position we were in 33 months ago. These answers were prepared by my col­ is refuted by every important event in the Our course of action will not be based on league the Honorable CHET HOLIFIELD, history of research and development. Only ignorance of our opponent's actions, but on chairman of the Joint Committee on minor improvements of existing devices can proven procedures for improving our capa­ Atomic Energy. be made without testing. Any major im­ bility to deter war. provement must be proved be testing. Argument: The Soviets have more to gain Under unanimous consent I include by resuming nuclear tests than the United this article in the RECORD. There are new and revolutionary concepts of delivery systems and warheads in today's States and Britain. THE CASE FOR ATOMIC TESTING BY UNITED rapidly moving technology. These concepts Answer: This argument is based on the STATES must be tested step by step from theory to assumption that the Soviets have not been (To test new weapons again-or not to accomplishment. Continuous testing of secretly testing during the 33-month mora­ test--is moving to top position among de­ missile propulsion and guidance at Cape torium. The assumption therefore must be cisions pressing in on President Kennedy. Canaveral and Vandenberg missile facilities evaluated. It can neither be proved nor dis­ (Representative CHET HoLIFIELD, Democrat, are conclusive as to the need of testing of proved, because we lack dependable informa­ of California, in a key position as chairman warheads as well. tion. of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, The continuous testing of nuclear sub­ If the Soviets have been secretly testing, and as a friend of Kennedy, is among those marines is another example. Such revolu­ they may have closed any gap in their tech­ pressing for a decision to resume testing. tionary concepts of warhead delivery are nology which may have existed at the be­ His views, based on years of dealing with being proved in test after test. How naive ginning of the moratorium. matters of national security, are shared by and impractical and inconsistent are those If they have not been secretly testing then many top military men and members of the who are satisfied with the existing state of it is reasonable to assume that the same gap Atomic Energy Commission. nuclear warheads while they fail to protest, exists today as we believe existed at the be­ (In what follows, arguments that are ad­ at all, testing of the basic delivery systems. ginning of the moratorium. Assuming this vanced against weapons testing are stated Protests against testing of warheads be­ latter situation, we then must evaluate our and answered by Chairman HoLIFIELD.) come emotional rather than logical. Denial respective technological capabilities. On this Argument: We should not resume test­ of testing in one phase of our weapon re­ point, I see no reason for doubting our own ing nuclear weapons because Russia and the search and development, while continuing capability. The record of the past proves United States have enough to destroy each testing in all other phases, can only be crip­ that we have had a superior capability in other right now. pling in nature. It cannot remove the both quality and diverse types of nuclear Answer: This argument could be true in danger of war; it can only increase the dan­ weapons. terms of numbers of weapons and total ex­ ger of defeat by a determined and ruthless Undoubtedly the Soviets will improve their plosive power, and still be fallacious. opponent. weapons technology whether their testing is Reason? It ignores the problem of delivery Argument: We should be patient. We secret or open. Because we lack information of such weapons. Quantities of nuclear should continue negotiating with the Soviets as to the present status of their nuclear­ weapons in hands of either United States or in the hope that an agreement on a test ban weapon technology, we can only speculate as Russia could be meaningless unless they are can be reached. to the relative gain in the future between related directly to modern, sophisticated de­ Answer: We have been patient. We have the Soviets and ourselves. livery systems. negotiated for 33 months. During this In a contest of this type, I have confidence As an example, delivery of a 10-megaton period only minor concessions have been in the ability of the United States and Brit­ bomb by a manned bomber plane might be­ made by the Soviets to our request for an ain to maintain any lead in weaponry that come impossible in the near future. In fact, adequate inspection and detection system, we may now have. this will be the case very soon as a result to prevent possible cheating. Argument: If tests are resumed, people all of antiaircraft missiles-or Sidewinder rock­ On the first meeting in March of this year, over the world will be alarmed and blame the ets from supersonic interceptor planes. the Soviets nullified all previous concessions United States. 1961 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 12239 Answer: There will undoubtedly be some authorization bill for fiscal year 1962, ized from this project. Conversion anverse public opinion toward any nation H.R. 7576. This is a good bill and has would provide experience in the manu­ that resumes testing of nuclear weapons. received the utmost in careful considera­ facture and operation of very large tur­ The degree of blame directed against the United States will depend on several factors, tion from the Joint Committee on bines employing low pressure, saturated some of which can be modified by the skill Atomic Energy. The members of the steam; it would ·provide experience in we exercise in presenting our case to world committee unanimously reported each operating a large nuclear powerplant opinion. Some factors are beyond our con­ provision of the bill favorably, although in conjunction with a large power sys­ trol. on one project, 5 of the 18 members of tem. The facilities will provide training The President should, in my opinion, de­ the committee have dissented and sub­ for both public and private utility em­ vote a m ajor television speech to this pres­ mitted separate views. The disputed ployees in the operation of a large nu­ entation. He should give a brief resume project provides for the addition of elec­ clear powerplant. Finally, the NPR of our patient negotiations over the 33- month time period. He should then explain tric generating facilities to the new project will assist in the development t he continuous refusal of the Soviets to ac­ production reactor at Hanford, Wash. of metallic fuel elements, an important cept any basic agreement which would give In order to assist the Members in their and somewhat neglected field of nuclear us assurance against secret violation. consideration of H.R. 7576, and par­ technology. The people should be given the facts re­ ticularly the Hanford project, I would 5. Benefits to private and public en­ garding the need for improvement of existing like to submit the following brief ex­ terprise: Private utilities will be the weapons and the probability of revolutionary planation of the principal reasons for principal beneficiaries of NPR power. weapons development. The basic factor for the Joint Committee's support of this resumption, of course, would be the mainte­ The power situation in the Pacific nance o:f our position of military strength in project and an analysis of the minority Northwest is such that a block of firm the interest of deterrence and the preserva­ objections. power, equivalent to that 1·eceived by tion of peace. ANALYSIS OF MINORI'I.Y OBJECTIONS TO PROJECT the Bonneville Power Administration We now have a considerable cushion of FOR INSTALLING ELECTRIC GENERATING FACIL­ from the NPR, could be sold to non­ good will and confidence on the part of our ITIES FOR THE HANFORD, WASH., NEW PRODUC­ preference customers for a 10-year pe­ allies and most of the neutral nations. That TION REACTOR IN AEC AUTHORIZATION BILL FOR riod in lieu of the normal BPA 5-year good will and confidence ls based on the be­ FISCAL YEAR 1962 period. The Pacific Northwest area will lief that we have negotiated sincerely during the recent months. Section 101 of the AEC authorization also benefit because the addition of There 1s a corresponding decrease in re­ bill for fiscal year 1962