Post of the same date, a humorous letter on the same subject by Robert Hull, which emphasizes the stupidity of current demands for retrocession of the Canal Zone to Panama. The letter follows: THAT TREATY After reading the March 20 editorial I can come to only one conclusion. The only right and just thing to do is turn the Panama Canal over to the Republic of Colombia, see that Panama is returned to its rightful place as a part of Colombia, using force if necessary (remember we fought a war to forceably restrain several States from leaving our Union) and of course don't forget the $10 million in gold (with interest since 1903) which should rightfully go to Colombia. While we are bleeding all over for Panama let us do a little bleeding for Mexico. Seems as if I remember in our history books that our present States of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California were once a part of Mexico; the dirty gringos moved in, seized the land from the rightful owners and when Mexico attempted to stop them, the United States then moved in. Mexico was in turn defeated and her rape was completed by the United States seizing that part of their country which now makes up the abovementioned States. Also, let's bleed a little for France. After all, we caught France on the downgrade and obtained Louisiana for practically a song, or should I say a sou. Let's return Louisiana to France, throw in a lot of sous and that would really make General de Gaulle happy. How about Mr. Khrushchev? We could also make him happy by returning Alaska back to Russia and throw in a lot of kopecks for all the money we have taken out of Alaska. Come on, let's be consistent. If we are going to bleed for Panama, let us bleed for Mexico, France, Russia, and try to obtain justice for these countries. Oh, I know the answer is "It happened too long ago and we can't do anything about it now." What difference does the century make? A steal is a steal whether it was consummated in the 20th, the 19th, 18th, or 17th century. SUITLAND, MD. ROBERT HULL. Congressman John Hyde Sweet EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. RALPH F. BEERMANN OF NEBRASKA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, April 20, 1964 Mr. BEERMANN. Mr. Speaker, with permission I would like to introduce into the Appendix of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD this short editorial tribute to a warm friend, Editor J. Hyde Sweet, of the Nebraska City (Nebr.) News-Press who recently passed from our midst at the grand old age of 84. Mr. Sweet was perhaps one of the best known writers in the Midwest. His comments on the passing scene, always vivid and discerning, were usually delivered with a leavening of humor that made them extremely readable. In addition he had the privilege of representing the Nebraska First Congressional District after the death of Congressman George H. Heinke in 1940. Unfortunately, political life did not appeal to Mr. Sweet so he returned to his newspaper duties after serving his people for a short 9 months. I always regretted that he did so because I think it deprived the United States of the services of a man of knowledgeable discernment, yet one who possessed the wit and humor to understand the vagaries of human nature. To sum up, many of us will sincerely miss former Congressman Sweet's facile wit and pen. But we feel privileged to acknowledge that he was of our time and he contributed so much to a richer understanding of life's purpose. The editorial follows: [From the Omaha (Nebr.) World-Herald, Apr. 7, 1964] John Hyde Sweet was a great newspaperman. Born to an era of personal journalism, he became a personal journalist of top rank. He expressed his opinions with very few inhibitions. He took his stand on the issues of the day in his State and in his home community. He was a man of conviction and courage. When Hyde Sweet died the other day in Arizona, he was 84 years old, and he was still editor and publisher of the Nebraska City News-Press. And he was an active editor. Almost up to the day of his death, he wrote his daily column as well as the paper's editorials. Recuperating from a cataract operation a few months ago, he kept his column going day by day. And when he left for his annual winter stay in Arizona, he prepared enough columns in advance to take care of the time he would be on the road. The News-Press was widely known as "Sweet's paper," and his column sparkled with anecdotes and good humor that made it one of the finest in the country. A working newspaperman, he had little time or inclination for social pursuits, but a great many persons beyond his home community came to know him well through the attraction of his pen. He left a shining stamp on his hometown and his State, and a great many persons throughout the Midlands will feel that in the passing of Hyde Sweet they have lost a wise friend. Facts on Foreign Aid, Mortgaged Gold— Is Devaluation Coming? EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. BEN F. JENSEN OF IOWA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, April 20, 1964 Mr. JENSEN. Mr. Speaker, as you well know I have for the past 20 years raised my voice and exerted all the power at my command in reducing unnecessary, wasteful Federal spending for every purpose, to the end that as the top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, I prevailed on the other 19 Republican members of that committee to assist me in organizing a Republican budget-cutting task force early in the last session, composed of all the Republican members of that committee. Under the chairmanship of that task force, Congressman FRANK Bow, of Ohio, we were successful, with the help of enough conservative Democrats, to reduce the President's budget for fiscal year 1964 over $6,300 million. Our budget-cutting task force is still operating during this session. How much is $6,300 million? To make that figure more comprehensive, it represents a saving of a little over $130 for each American family on an average. I am sure every American family who knows these facts appreciate it, for had we not done so, it is very doubtful that Congress would have passed the Federal income tax reduction bill, which is now law. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, you also know that I have, ever since the shooting war stopped in Korea, voted against foreign aid, mainly for the reasons so convincingly explained in the following statement, which should convince every American, including every Member of Congress, that the time is far past due when the more than $100 billion foreign giveaway should have been stopped. The statement follows: FACTS ON FOREIGN AID: MORTGAGED GOLD-Is DEVALUATION COMING? Because of foreign aid spending, has the dollar become inconvertible? A deficit in our balance of international payments occurs if the flow of dollars into foreign lands exceeds foreign spending in the United States. Since foreign aid began, each year except in 1957 because of foreign purchases for the Suez crisis, the United States has experienced a foreign-payments deficit. Principally because of U.S. foreign aid and spending by and for our oversea forces, foreigners now hold $26 billion in short-term credits. These dollar credits supposedly are redeemable in gold, but the U.S. Treasury has not this much gold. The U.S. gold reserve now stands at $15.461 billion; our own demands on our own gold reserve are: Accordingly, the United States has only $0.8324 billion-$832.4 million-free gold to meet potential claims of $26 billion. So far this year foreigners have drawn only $50 million from our gold reserve. This leads to the conclusion that the dollar, long inconvertible at home by Presidential decree, has become inconvertible de facto abroad. It leads to the conclusion that foreign central banks are being told not to try to convert their paper dollar holdings. This appears to be the meaning of the top secret monetary conference now being held in Washington as reported in the New York Times of April 13. In all but 6 of the last 34 years U.S. Government spending has exceeded its income. During this time, by purchase-largely with aid dollars-foreigners have been able to reduce our gold stock from $24.5 billion to $15.461 billion. As a result of our unprecedented foreign aid spending-and the resultant flight of gold-an early devaluation of the dollar appears likely. This impending devaluation can be prevented. The American people must demand of their Congress and President deep cuts in foreign spending. This would insure favorable balance of payments and tend to alleviate planned deficits in the Federal budget. If deficit spending continues to be the order of the day, economic chaos will follow. President Johnson and the Congress Take Significant Actions in Aid of American Small Business EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. JOE L. EVINS OF TENNESSEE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. EVINS. Mr. Speaker, during the 88th Congress, many actions have been taken in aid of American small business and other actions are underway in the Congress and President Johnson's administration. I refer specifically to the provisions of the tax cut bill which favor small business, the amendments to the Small Business Investment Act program recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Johnson; programs to expand the Small Business Administration's loan program, including an enlarged small business development corporations program; recommendations by the President to eliminate pockets of poverty and to expand the Farmers Home Administration, among other significant actions. The House Small Business Committee has recently made significant recommendations with respect to small business participation in foreign trade, and copies of a documented report on this subject are now available to Members of Congress and others interested. In this connection, I ask unanimous consent that my recent newsletter, "Capitol Comments," summarizing some of the significant actions of benefit to American small business, be included in the Appendix of the RECORD. The newsletter follows: CAPITOL COMMENTS (By JOE L. EVINS, Member of Congress, BETTER TIMES AHEAD FOR AMERICAN SMALL Congress and President Johnson are placing increasing emphasis on the role of small business in broadscale efforts that are being made to strengthen our national economy and keep our country growing. Measures designed to stimulate small business activity and enlarge the small business community form an important part of the new programs for Appalachian regional development and elimination of "pockets of poverty" throughout the country. These two separate but closely related developmental undertakings call for an expanded Small Business Administration loan program, an enlarged Small Business Development Corporation program, and a broader Area Redevelopment Administration program. In addition, the Farmers Home Administration program would be expanded to create new opportunities for the small farmers in our vital agricultural industry. STEPS TOWARD A STRONGER ECONOMIC BASE FOR THE UNITED STATES With these programs and other actions by Congress, long strides are being taken in improving the outlook for the American small business sector of our economy. There are 42 million small businesses in America, containing 95 percent of our business population-the very bedrock and seedbed of our American free enterprise system. A major step to heighten prosperity came earlier this year with the passage of the $11.5 billion tax cut bill, aiding small busi ness and all segments of our economy. Your Representative was present at the White House when the President, in signing the bill, spoke of the great and timely stimulation this act is giving to our economy. He remarked that small business fares best in the tax relief that is provided for business. This large saving and the substantial cut in individual tax rates, plus the benefit from tax credit that was provided by Congress for new investments in plant and machinery, plus the more liberal depreciation schedules, add up to a vast improvement in the financial position for American small business concerns. As chairman of the House Small Business Committee, your Representative is actively and constantly aware that American small business is engaged in a stern competition to survive and to prosper. Many things still need to be accomplished before independent small business is assured of equal opportunity in the growing competition with giant corporations. But substantial progress is being made in many areas. Congress and the President are showing a determination to continue and broaden this effort. Two important gains made earlier in this session of Congress were the final approval of amendments which improve and strengthen the Small Business Investment Act and broaden the Small Business Administration disaster loan programs-acts recently signed into law by President Johnson. MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMERICAN BUSINESS A great new opportunity for American small business exists in the field of foreign trade, under the Trade Expansion Act which Congress passed in 1962. Our Small Business Committee has just issued a report, based on extensive hearings, that sheds light on existing opportunities in expanded export trade. The late President Kennedy, who followed these hearings closely, wrote a letter last November 19 to me as the committee chairman, expressing his hope that many more of our country's 300,000 manufacturers would turn to the inviting export field, and emphasizing his interest in our committee's work in behalf of expanded American foreign The argument that this must not be the business of the Federal Government is a profitless and outdated argument. The article by Mr. Drummond follows: SHRIVER PLAN ON RIGHT TRACK: WAR ON POVERTY NO HANDOUT (By Roscoe Drummond) WASHINGTON.-The critics of President Johnson's antipoverty program are making a great mistake picking at its fringes. The argument that this must not be the business of the Federal Government is a profitless and outdated argument. Any democratic society must be concerned at every level of government with the problem of continued high unemployment in the face of continued high prosperity. Any democratic society must be concerned at every level of government with the fact that, despite a consistently rising standard of living for many Americans, despite a higher average wage for most Americans, despite a mounting gross national product of more than $600 billion annually, some 35 million persons in this country can afford neither adequate food nor adequate shelter nor adequate clothing nor adequate schooling. I submit that at no level of governmentlocal, State, and Federal-dare we neglect this pervasive problem of widespread poverty in the midst of widespread affluence. I think we can't. Therefore, the central questions to be asked-and answered-are: Do the proposed actions go to the heart of the problem, to its causes, not merely to its symptoms? And even if the measures are well conceived, can poverty be substantially done away with? They are, as pointed out by Raymond J. Saulnier, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and no piein-the-sky economist: "lack of skills," "inadequate education," "unsuitable or inadequate work experience," and "discrimination." These are the root causes and the Shriver program is aimed concretely at these causes as a practical and necessary way to reduce poverty. These are the things which most often make people poor and keep them that wayoften from generation to generation. This Nation cannot accept continued poverty for 9,300,000 families with a median income of $1,800 a year. This kind of poverty is not due to the failure of our economic system. It is due to the failure of our society to provide the education, the job training and retraining, the encouragement and the environment needed to help the poor become productive and the productive become more prosperous. This is why a panel of practical, experienced business leaders helped to shape and then gave its unanimous endorsement to the program which Shriver proposed to the White House. The war-on-poverty program which its chief of staff, Sargent Shriver, has put together for the President and unfolded to Congress reflects realistic, workable, and, indeed, conservative economic principles. Shriver is not talking about reducing poverty by spreading the wealth of others. He is not talking about increasing handouts in order to decrease distress. He is not talking primarily about how to help the poor, but primarily about how to help the poor help themselves. What are the causes of increased unemployment and continued poverty in the face of increased and long-sustained prosperity? Recently the Gallup Poll reported that 83 percent of the respondents said no when asked, "do you think poverty will ever be done away with in this country?" I suspect they asked the wrong question. The realistic goal is not abolishing poverty. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, April 20, 1964 Mr. PELLY. Mr. Speaker, I take this opportunity to inform the Members of the House that I am today introducing legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide an additional income tax exemption of $600 for taxpayers who have cerebral palsy. Recently on a visit to the Cerebral Palsy Center in Seattle, Wash., located in my congressional district I was made keenly aware of the contributions being made to help those of our citizens who are making a better life for themselves even though they are physically handicapped. Mr. Speaker, my bill provides that these persons whose earning power is limited because of this handicap and whose needs include special living expenses will receive an additional $600 exemption to equalize their opportunity to be self-supporting. Today, in the congressional district I am honored to serve and in King County, Wash., some 150 cerebral palsied are able to test their individual capacity to make a living. These handicapped persons are finding companionship in spite of an affliction that usually means misery through loneliness. This is made possible because of a sheltered workshop operated by the United Cerebral Palsy Association of King County and financed, in part, by the efforts of the handicapped employees at the center from their limited earnings. Development of a sheltered workshop came naturally, the byproduct of a step taken a generation earlier when a group of concerned parents established a school for cerebral palsied children. As these young people grew older, so grew the realization that a work-and-therapy center also was needed for adults. So the parents after affiliating with United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Inc.-formed a workshop program in 1952 and brought into being a center that produces a source of self-sustaining revenue. Income from the jobsmany from various industrial plants in the area covers wages for employees and helps make it possible for the natural expansion of the center's busy workshop. The variety of jobs gives the center an opportunity to provide work tailored to specific physical capabilities of each in dividual handicapped person. The center has strengthened one belief: that work, regardless how seemingly menial, is a morale building tonic and, consequently, cultivates its own theraputic benefits. Mr. Speaker, my bill is directed toward covering all persons whose earning power has been decreased by cerebral palsy and my discussion of what is being done in my congressional district is ample proof that these handicapped persons can become productive and useful citizens if given the opportunity. Therefore, it is my firm conviction that these people should be given this tax consideration just the same as the handicapped who receive a $600 exemption because they are over the age of 65 and who are blind. With a special exemption these people can become more self-supporting while playing an important role in the life of our country. Mr. Speaker, I urge favorable action on this legislation. Don B. Reynolds, Bobby Baker's insurance pal whose testimony has been acutely embarrassing to President Johnson and members of his staff, seems ready and eager to keep on talking. He said on television that pressure to end the Senate Rules Committee hearing has come not only from the White House, but also from a good many Senators, including Republicans, who are just as reluctant as the White House to hear any more about Mr. Baker's influence peddling apparatus, especially the part Mr. Reynolds says was played by ladies of leisure. Mr. Reynolds seems undeterred by the administration's devious and vicious campaign to discredit him by supplying accommodating columnists with derogatory material from the confidential records of his past service with the Air Force and the State Department. Mr. Reynolds' personal qualifications for sainthood are not the issue here. He has made serious charges which the committee is duty bound to follow up before it closes shop, as it is now eagerly preparing to do. He is willing to tell more. His charges have been strenuously denied but never disproved, and they fit in with a pattern of influence peddling and profiteering which has been confirmed from many sources other than Reynolds. Somebody has been lying to Congress just as Mr. Profumo lied to Parliament. And the implications of the Baker case are considerably more serious than those stemming from Mr. Profumo's indiscretions, which, except for the Government's brief attempt to cover up for him, proved to have no bearing on the performance of his duties or on the conduct of Government. Not so with the Baker case. Nearly every strand, as the tangle is unraveled, leads to a new example of official impropriety or worse. Dozens of questions remain unanswered regarding the abuse of office by Mr. Baker or by other officials apparently indebted to him in one way or another. questions have been officially avoided, such as what part Members of Congress and of the Government played in the mysterious goings-on at the house on N Street. Other IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, April 20, 1964 Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, perhaps Secretary of Defense McNamara and his spokesman, Arthur Sylvester, think they can sweep the TFX fighter plane contract under a convenient rug in the Pentagon but we predict it will take a newer and larger broom than they have yet used to do the job. There are at least a few Members of the House and Senate who remain completely unconvinced that the best interests of this Nation were served when McNamara rode roughshod over a substantial number of the Government's top experts in this field and awarded the huge TFX contract to General Dynamics which, incidentally, operates in Texas. The Washington Star has consistently questioned the manner in which the contract was awarded and the following editorial, in its April 19, 1964, edition, is again to the point: When Pentagon insiders talk about "overkill" they are not referring to the nuclear stockpile. What they have in mind is Secretary of Defense McNamara's enthusiasm for proving that he is at least 100 percent right 110 percent of the time. However close the question, once Mr. McNamara decides which way to lean he banishes all of the counter arguments and tries to get the world to banish them, too. Take the TFX decision for instance. It might be 60-40 for the General Dynamics plane, but probably it was closer. When Mr. McNamara made the decision, however, it was suddenly General Dynamics 100 percent, Boeing a great big raspberry. If the entire free world is not now convinced of this, it soon will be. For Arthur Sylvester, Mr. McNamara's official spokesman, has launched a massive public relations program to prove that the TFX, of Mr. McNamara's choice, is a faultless airplane. The services, Mr. Sylvester has ordered, will describe the still-unbuilt plane in such a manner as to make clear that it will do everything the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps want. Savings accrued from the McNamara choice will be emphasized. People who still think there may be another side to these issues-the side brought out by service dissenters during the Senate investigation of the TFX contract-might just as well forget it. Service people are obedient, as they should be, so the past dissent doubtless will subside. This will please Mr. McNamara. It will not please people who want to know more about their country's military problems. Neighborly Spirit in Illinois EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. PAUL FINDLEY OF ILLINOIS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, April 20, 1964 Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, the rare neighborliness of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ballard, of Pleasant Plains, Ill., was reported in the March 8 issue of Lookout, a publication of the Disciples of Christ Church. Appearing first in the January 15 issue of the Illinois State Register, it was written by George Derwig and tells a heart-warming story especially appropriate in this period of racial stress. The article follows: I WAS A STRANGER AND YE TOOK ME IN Broadway may long remember Monty Woolley in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," for the humorous complications that resulted from a casual invitation. But these were nothing compared to the results of a casual invitation issued to a few snowbound travelers Sunday night by Edward Ballard, whose farm lies on the north side of Illinois 125, in Pleasant Plains, near Spring field. A motorist, stalled in heavy drifts, made his way to the Ballard farmhouse to borrow a shovel about 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Looking out at the highway, Mr. Ballard suggested, "If there's any other folk out there, tell them to come on in." It wasn't too long before two couples were at the door, and Mr. Ballard's wife, Shirley, started whipping up a batch of waffles. Suddenly Ballard was in the kitchen. "Better wait with what you're doing until we know how many guests we have," he said. "More are coming." More was right. Sixty-three people, including eight or nine children, soon were "We huddling in four downstairs rooms. even had a cat and a dog and two sailors," said Ballard. In short order, the waffles disappeared as did another final batch. No more eggs. Not much more milk or cream. The Ballards haven't raised chickens for 10 years and haven't milked a cow for 6. But there was plenty of cheese and crackers-and a supply So there of chipped beef. was creamed chipped beef on toast. Mothers with little children had had the foresight to carry a supply of milk, so the youngsters were well taken care of. Soon stomachs were full, eyelids were drooping and idle chatter and banter gradually gave way to sleep. The howling winds made use of the unheated upstairs impractical. Everyone huddled together in the living room and dining room, utilizing chairs, couches and the floor as sleeping space. Any place was better than the cars in which all had been waiting for at least an hour up to 6:30 p.m. for snowplows to clear the drifted highway, and in 1 Reprinted from the Illinois State Register, Jan. 15, 1964, with special permission. which some had been stalled earlier in Salis- willing to start all over again tonight if the bury for 5 hours. weather got bad." One of the latter was Mrs. Ruby Sarff, a widow who was returning to her home in Springfield with her granddaughter, Sandra Sidener, 8. She was intensely grateful to the Ballards for their hospitality. "They were wonderful people. I can't give them enough praise. They were simply precious," she said today. But in her relief at her "life being saved," she experienced a slight annoyance. Perhaps she was too excited, but she couldn't sleep. And, in clear line of vision, was a fellow underneath the baby grand piano, "snoring away, and enjoying a nap for all he was worth." Mrs. Sarff had to admit she was a bit perturbed. "But the Ballards made up for that. They stayed up with us and kept us company." The fellow who crawled under the piano to sleep said he did so because it was the only safe place to be. Ballard said once the group got set for the night, nobody could move. Some of the folk were somewhat perturbed when they found themselves stranded, but the Ballards' hospitality soon took the edge off their nervousness. The two sailors, who had been worried about being AWOL because they couldn't catch their train to Great Lakes Naval Training Center, soon were so relaxed they were ready to stay on the farm. One was Donald Chartier whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Chartier of Matanza Beach, were driving him and his buddy from Alabama to the depot in Springfield. Another couple, also bothered at first, provided the group with the "best lesson of all in human relations" according to the Ballards and others in the company. This was a Negro man and his wife, about 50 years old, from Rock Island en route to Springfield because of a death in the family. "They hesitated to come in at first," said Ballard, "but finally they did and were soon getting along famously with the rest." Mrs. Sarff praised this couple highly and described the man and his wife as most agreeable company. "He was up early in the morning and shoveling snow like a trooper," she said. Snow shoveling was accompanied by an appetite. What to eat? Would the meat from the freezer thaw in time to provide breakfast? Suddenly someone remembered eight dozen eggs in one of the 23 stalled cars, stretching in a mile-long line west of the farmhouse. It wasn't too long before these were in frying pans "and we fared real well for breakfast," Ballard said today. Some of the men made their way a half mile to the Stone Seed Co. where they were able to call for snowplows and notify worried relatives. Proprietor Rolland G. Stone sent back a big supply of food with the men, which also accounts for Ballard's satisfaction with breakfast. By 10 a.m. Monday the snowplows had broken through the drifts and the last of the folks who stayed for breakfast were again on their way, including one man for whose life the travelers had feared the night before. This man had collapsed in a snowbank as he left his car for the Ballard farmhouse, and had to be carried in by some of the other men. He was put to bed, and by morning was among those who enjoyed a real farm breakfast. How do the Ballards feel today about their adventure? "It was not too much of an ordeal," Ballard said. "I thought for a while the water supply would run out, but it didn't. So we made out just fine. "There really isn't too much to say about it. I don't see how you could refuse anyone lodging on a night like that." Mrs. Ballard laughed today and said, "Well, I wouldn't have been ready for that much company again the next night, but I'd be And the Ballards could do just that They came to town Tuesday noon with a load of cattle and went back with a big supply of groceries-just in case. Apparently Mrs. Ballard is waiting for another storm and another batch of company. "It was sort of exciting," she said with a chuckle. They're keeping a weather eye on the lowhanging clouds and the snow driven from the fields northward onto the highway. It could happen again. Committee OK's Pay Raises up to 30 Percent EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. JOHN E. MOSS OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, April 20, 1964 Mr. MOSS. Mr. Speaker, the Finance Committee of the California State Senate recently approved two bills which would grant salary increases to California State employees ranging as high as 30 percent. Under the leave to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I include the following article from the Sacramento Bee of April 3, 1964, which explains the proposed increases for various State officials, including the judiciary, and which points up once again the disparity in Federal salaries of many executives who have far greater responsibilities than their higher salaried colleagues in the progressive State service of California: COMMITTEE OK'S PAY RAISES UP TO 30 PERCENT: MORE FOR JUDGES, OFFICIALS (By Robert J. Markson) California's judges and top State government chiefs will have their bankrolls fattened considerably if the State senate finance committee has its way. The committee, after a hearing in the capitol yesterday, recommended approval of two bills, senate bill 50, Miller, and senate bill 53, McAteer, which would grant annual salary increases ranging as high as 30 percent. Meanwhile, the committee delayed for 1 week action on senate bill 11, Short, which would have allowed the State personnel board, if it saw fit, to boost incomes of about 30,000 State employees in the lower pay classes. Senator Alan Short, of San Joaquin County, was unable to muster sufficient votes for his measure. The bill would have removed a legislative restriction which disallows pay boosts to workers whose income was not at least 5 percent behind that comparable in private and other governmental business. Short said the bill would not mean that pay increases for these workers would be mandatory but it would allow the board to set boosts if a salary survey justified them. Senator George Miller, of Contra Costa County, committee chairman, warned passage of the bill would be taken to mean the 5percent raise would be mandatory. Senator Stephen P. Teale, of Calaveras County, echoed this statement but also observed the legislature has been so concerned with the "$18,000 to $20,000 a year State officials" that the "small people" often are overlooked. In addition to granting pay boosts to judges, senate bill 50 would require that there would be no further increase until 1968 and then the amount would be equal to the per centage increase in the per capita personal income in California based on a Federal Department of Commerce survey. The pay increases for judges under the Miller bill would be: Chief justice of the supreme court, $29,400 to $34,000; associate justices of the supreme court, $27,300 to $32,000; appellate court justices, $25,200 to $30,000; superior judges in counties of over 100,000 population, $21,000 to $25,000; superior judges in counties of under 100,000, $18,900 to $25,000; municipal judges in counties of over 250,000, $18,900 to $23,000; municipal judges in counties of under 250,000, $16,800 to $23,000. State attorney general, $27,300 to $32,000; administrative director of the courts, $25,200 to $30,000; clerk of supreme court, $18,191 to $22,000; reporter of decisions, $17,365 to $19,500; clerks of the first and second district courts, $13,680 to $18,000; clerks of the third and fourth district courts, $13,680 to $16,500; clerks of the fifth district court, $13,332 to $16,500. In addition, the bill would increase the amount of contribution by the State to the judges retirement fund from 4 to 8 percent to avoid a deficit. The situation is nearing the point where benefits will exceed contributions. Under the measure for increasing the pay of most top State officials, senate bill 53 by Senator Eugene McAteer, of San Francisco, the pay of Gov. Edmund G. Brown would remain at $44,100 and that of State Finance Director Hale Champion at $30,319. Other salaries would be changed in this manner: Agency administrators, $25,000 to $27,500; director of mental hygiene, $24,806 to $26,000; director of public health, $21,499 to $26,000; president of the public utilities commission, $20,948 to $25,500; controller, $22,050 to $25,000; superintendent of public instruction, $22,050 to $25,000; Lieutenant Governor, $22,050 to $25,000; public utilities commissioners, $20,948 to $25,000; director of social welfare, $19,101 to $24,500; director of employment, $20,948 to $24,500; director of public works, $22,050 to $24,500; director of water resources, $22,044 to $24,500; Legislative counsel, $22,050 to $25,000; executive secretary to the Governor, $19,845 to $24,500; director of industrial relations, $19,101 to $23,500; director of agriculture, $19,680 to $23,500; director of corrections, $20,948 to $23,500; director of youth authority, $20,948 to $23,500; director of motor vehicles, $20,948 to $23,500; treasurer, $21,500 to $23,500; secretary of state, $21,500 to $23,500; director of general services, $21,500 to $23,500; real estate commissioner, $17,365 to $22,500; savings and loan commissioner, $17,365 to $22,500; commissioner of corporations, $17,365 to $22,500. Director of conservation, $18,522 to $22,500; director of parks and recreation, $18,522 to $22,500; director of fish and game, $18,522 to $22,500; director of the department of alcoholic beverage control, $19,101 to $22,500; commissioner of the State highway patrol, $19,101 to $22,500; superintendent of banks; $19,101 to $22,500; insurance commissioner, $19,680 to $22,500; director of rehabilitation, $19,101 to $22,500; director of professional and vocational standards, $17,365 to $21,500; director of veterans affairs, $17,365 to $21,500; director of the California Disaster Office, $18,522 to $21,500; executive officer of the franchise tax board, $19,680 to $21,500; State architect, $20,000 to $21,000; chairman of the industrial accident commission, $17,365 to $21,000. Chairman of the board of equalization, $18,522 to $21,000; chairman of the adult authority, $19.101 to $21,000; chairman of the water rights board, $19,101 to $21,000; chairman, unemployment insurance appeals board, $19,680 to $21,000; member, industrial accident commission, $17,365 to $20,500; member, board of equalization, $18,522 to $20,500; member, adult authority, $19,101 to $20,500; member, youth authority, $19101 to $20,500; member, water rights board, $19,101 to $20,500; member, unemployment insurance appeals board, $19,680 to $20,500; deputy director of employment, $19,680 to $20,500; deputy director, department of justice, $19,101 to $20,500; commissioner, economic development agency, $19,101 to $20,000. Other secretaries to the Governor from up to $17,365 to up to $20,000; State printer, $18,000 to $19,500; fire marshal, $17,365 to $18,000; consumer counsel, $17,365 to $18,000; chief, division of labor law enforcement, $15,918 to $17,000; chief, division of industrial safety, $15,160 to $17,000; chief, division of housing, $13,892 to $15,500; chief, division of industrial welfare, $13,802 to $15,500; director of aeronautics, $15,225 to $15,500; State librarian, $13,892 to $15,500; chairman, alcoholic beverage control appeals board, $13,892 to $14,500; secretary, horse racing board, $13,892 to $14,000. Member alcoholic beverage control appeals board, $13,892 to $14,000; member, personnel board, $7,178 to $8,000; chairman, board of barber examiners, $6,946 to $8,000; member, board of barber examiners, $6,946 to $7,500; secretary, San Francisco Pilot Commission, $5,832 to $7,500; executive secretary, shorthand reporters' board, $2,509 to $3,700; commissioner, San Francisco Port Authority, $1,200 to $1,500; commissioner and secretarysurveyor, Humboldt Bay Harbor, $1,621 to $1,800; commissioner, Harbor Commission for Humboldt Bay, $463 to $500. Excessive Control of Predators EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. JOHN D. DINGELL OF MICHIGAN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, April 20, 1964 Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to permission granted, I insert into the Appendix of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD an excellent editorial from the April 8, 1964, edition of the New York Times, decrying the excessive use of predator control employed by the U.S. Government and calling for a sharp curtailment of Government activity in this field in order to protect America's valuable wild animals. The editorial follows: EXCESSIVE CONTROL OF PREDATORS Secretary of the Interior Udall's advisory committee on wildlife management has sounded a long-needed warning about the excesses and errors of the Government's branch of Predator and Rodent Control. Among the errors cited by the committee is the dangerous aerial broadcasting of grain treated with sodium fluoroacetate, a deadly poison known in the trade as compound 1080. This practice was held responsible for the death last year of two birds from the tiny flock of California condors that is the last survivor of its kind on earth. Many other valuable animals, including rare grizzly bears and mountain lions, have been killed inadvertently. Wolves and other wild beasts are no longer the threat to domestic herds and flocks they once may have been. Indeed, the true wolf is almost gone in the United States outside of Alaska. The coyote still harasses sheepmen in some places, but this is a problem that could be handled effectively and at far less cost by concentration of efforts in local areas. Secretary Udall's committee pointed out that control operations now extend into areas where there are no sheep or other valid justification. Congress must share the blame for the outsize growth of the predator control agency, which now employs more than 600 trappers and poisoners in the western States. For the most part, Congress has closed its eyes while its appropriation committees annually doled out larger funds at the request of the wool growers' association and as a result of indirect lobbying by the predator control agents themselves. Certainly the problem does not require the present army of Government hunters. Here is a fine chance for some of that governmental economy the President has been talking about. UNESCO in the U.N. Setting EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. JOHN J. FLYNT, JR. OF GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, April 20, 1964 Mr. FLYNT. Mr. Speaker, my friend and constituent, the Honorable Ellis Arnall of Newnan, Ga., a former Governor of the State of Georgia, and a former Director of the Office of Price Stabilization, is a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. He is serving as Chairman of an ad hoc committee of the National Commission. On March 31, 1964, Mr. Arnall as Chairman of the ad hoc committee submitted recommendations which were to be considered by the U.S. National Commission. On April 1, 1964, the Commission voted unanimously to accept those recommendations. The primary recommendation was for the U.S. Commission to ask UNESCO to make a study "as to the desirability of encouraging or disCouraging the creation and recognition of additional new and small nations and the impact and relation of such encouragement or discouragement to the attainment and maintenance of world peace." Every member nation of the United Nations no matter what its size or population has one vote in that body. It has grown from 30 nations in 1946 to 113 nations as of December 1963. Chairman Arnall pointed out that these lessdeveloped nations now constitute a majority, and their vote is controlling in the international organizations and UNESCO. His key question was: Should voting strength in the international organizations be based on some formula other than "one nation-one vote?" Within the framework of the United Nations this concept is novel. It certainly deserves consideration. The ad hoc committee of which Mr. Arnall is chairman consists of the following: Mrs. Barry Bingham of Louisville, Ky.; Dr. Ernest S. Griffith, dean of the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. (formerly, Director, Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress); Mr. Lawrence M. C. Smith, of Philadelphia; Dr. Walter H. C. Laves, chairman, Department of Government, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., and Dr. |