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Anything which you may do to further the passage of a bill which will standardize time will be greatly appreciated by the members of our association, which at the present time number approximately 150,000 farm people.

Sincerely yours,

N. K. CARNES, General Manager.
SWIFT & Co.,

South St. Paul, Minn., February 2, 1966.

Hon. JOSEPH E. KARTH,

Longworth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR SIR: Would like to take this occasion to comment on proposed legislation for uniform daylight savings observance on a national basis.

The confusing area situation in 1965 imposed economic hardships and problems for our business in several directions. From a procurement standpoint, both at the South St. Paul public stockyards and in country work as well, it was necessary to deal with producers of areas that were observing different time schedules. This added to our hours of operation resulted in confusion in time schedules.

From the standpoint of delivery problems, and inasmuch as we solicit trade and make retail deliveries to customers in five different States, we were also confronted with irregularities in delivery schedules, early closings in some areas, and difficulty in observing normal time limits in placing orders through the production plant. Still another angle, with our central office in South St. Paul and with employees located in other areas and some from Wisconsin as well, there was confusion in starting times for personnel as well.

In summation, we sincerely hope that a uniform scheduling can be adopted nationwide.

Sincerely,

H. F. MORRIS,
General Manager,

JANSEN ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING, INC.,
St. Paul, Minn., February 2, 1966.

Congressman JOSEPH E. KARTH,
Longworth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. KARTH: The purpose of this letter is to underline the need for a uniform daylight saving time for the Twin City area to put us in step with the rest of the country. Mayor Vavoulis is to be congratulated on his attempts to get St. Paul on fast time, but the confusion that resulted with the two cities on split time was unbelievable.

Congratulations on your good work and we urge you to see it all the way

through.

Very truly yours,

PAUL W. JANSEN, President.

THEO. HAMM BREWING CO.,
St. Paul, Minn., February 2, 1966.

Hon. JOSEPH E. KARTH,

Longivorth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR CONGRESSMAN KARTH: We are very much interested in having Congress consider legislation which would establish uniform national daylight saving time. We believe daylight saving time provides more time for leisure and recreation and is therefore beneficial to our business. However, inconsistencies of daylight time periods from State to State create production problems for us and in addition, the lack of uniformity in time periods limits the working hours available for communication from coast to coast with a consequent loss in efficiency. Your help and cooperation in this matter will be very much appreciated.

Sincerely,

WILLIAM C. FIGGE, President.

THE MINNESOTA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.,
St. Paul, Minn., February 2, 1966.

Hon. JOSEPH E. KARTH,
Longworth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. KARTH: I am writing this letter to you in connection with proposed legislation relating to a uniform pattern of daylight saving time throughout the Nation. We believe that such a proposal would have the almost unanimous suport of substantially 500 employees and representatives of our company here in St. Paul and of some 800 others who represent this company throughout the country.

Let me speak first of the plan from the standpoint of our employees here in St. Paul. With rare, if any, exceptions, employees like and enjoy the long daylight hours available to them after they finish each day's work. A number of our employees reside in Wisconsin and commute to St. Paul. The difference in time systems is at best an inconvenience, and frequently causes real difficulty with their transportation arrangements to and from work because many of them travel in car pools.

With a nationwide organization, our people here in St. Paul travel extensively throughout the country. Our people in other parts of the country travel extensively to St. Paul. Of course, there is continuous telephone communication. The myriad of time systems creates many inconvenient business situations.

We would hope that you would be successful in having this legislation adopted, and we would welcome the opportunity to be of assistance to you in this undertaking.

Yours very truly,

WALTER J. RUPERT, President.

WEBB PUBLISHING CO.,

St. Paul, Minn., February 1, 1966.

Congressman JOSEPH E. KARTH,
Longworth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR JOE: First let me congratulate you on being the principal author of a bill to end the nationwide confusion which presently exists on the daylight savings time issue. The fact that there are so many different dates for beginning and ending daylight savings time results in serious dislocations for many businesses including ours, which has offices and customers in different parts of the country.

For example, we maintain sales offices in Chicago and New York, which means that the time differential is increased by 1 hour when either of these cities has different beginning and ending dates than St. Paul. It would be clearly beneficial to the operation of this business to have uniform daylight savings dates nationwide, and I hope you will be successful in accomplishing this result. Sincerely,

REUEL D. HARMON, President.

WHIRLPOOL CORP.,

St. Paul, Minn., February 1, 1966.

Congressman JOSEPH E. KARTH,

Longworth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR JOE: I was delighted to hear you were responsible for introducing legislation calling for uniform daylight savings time on a national basis. I feel so strongly about this problem, especially as it affects the St. Paul Division of Whirlpool Corp. here in Minnesota.

The limited period of daylight savings time in our State; namely the last Sunday in May through Labor Day, has created a serious handicap in dealing with our many out-State sources of supply, the distribution system for our merchandise which is national, and all the day-to-day communications required with our corporate office in Benton Harbor, Mich., and the Sears' headquarters in Chicago, that we had to ask our office staff to change their working hours and come in an hour early in the spring and late fall.

With this change of hours, you can well appreciate the difficulties it sometimes creates with car pools, children's school schedules, and other personal situations.

From a purely personal standpoint, many of our 1,700 employees favor the additional daylight hours which gives them more opportunity to enjoy outside activities in the spring and fall.

Anything you can do to push earlier starting and later finishing of daylight savings time would be definitely appreciated.

Sincerely,

J. F. BOURQUIN, General Manager.

HILEX CO., INC.,

St. Paul, Minn., February 1, 1966.

Re daylight saving time.

Hon. JOSEPH E. KARTH,

Longworth House Office Building,

Washington, D.C.

DEAR CONGRESsman Karth: Trying to run our business, where surrounding cities and States are on different time, is an extremely difficult thing to cope with.

It is our sincere desire that d.s.t. be put on a national 6-month basis, as per your bill.

Yours very truly,

Hon. JOSEPH E. KARTH,

House of Representatives,

ASA A. ELDREDGE, President.

THE TONI Co.,

St. Paul, Minn., February 1, 1696.

Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

DEAR JOE: I wanted you to know how pleased I am that you are taking the leadership on the question of uniform daylight saving time. I believe that in addition to the many human factors involved, with most people preferring daylight saving time, there are also some very sound business reasons.

In our company, as in many others, a great deal of our contact is with firms in Chicago and further east. Conflicts and confusion in time minimize our ability to work effectively with these firms. In addition to that, travel becomes difficult and time is wasted.

Again I want to thank you for sponsoring this important legislation and hope that you will be able to get it enacted.

Yours truly,

Subject: Uniform daylight saving time.
Hon. JOSEPH E. KARTH,

Longworth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

ROBERT L. JENAL, Manager.

MULTI-CLEAN PRODUCTS, INC.,
St. Paul, Minn., February 3, 1966.

DEAR CONGRESSMAN KARTH: I am happy to know that you have authored a uniform daylight saving time bill in the House. The newspapers have given a good report on your efforts to win approval for this legislation.

Uniform daylight saving time throughout the Nation, as you have proposed, would eliminate the time confusion which has existed for many years from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October.

In our business our customers honestly don't know when we are open to receive telegraphs, telephone, and TWX messages. Also it is difficult for us to know what business hours are being kept by our customers and by our vendors.

Please use every effort to see that your uniform daylight saving time bill becomes law.

E. V. COULTER,
President.

Hon. JOSEPH E. KARTH,

FARWELL, OZMUN, KIRK & Co.,
St. Paul, Minn., February 3, 1966.

Longworth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR CONGRESSMAN KARTH: We certainly commend you as the principal author of the uniform daylight saving time bill.

As our company is in interstate commerce, the confusion and the difficulties to our employees and to our customers created by the varying laws and regulations sponsored by the various areas and States regarding daylight saving time should be eliminated. While there has been considerable printed comments, both pro and con regarding daylight saving, I personally have talked to very few people who are not in favor of a standard national daylight saving law or regulation. This includes many, many people throughout the five Northwest States that we serve.

We most sincerely hope that you are successful in getting this bill through Congress.

Sincerely,

Hon. JOSEPH E. KARTH,

Longworth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

GEORGE R. BOHRER,
Chairman of the Board.

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ST. PAUL,
St. Paul, Minn., February 3, 1966.

My Dear Joe: I was pleased to learn that you are the principal author of a bill recently introduced in the House providing for uniform daylight saving time on a national basis from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October of every year.

This would indeed be very welcome legislation. As you know, there has been great confusion here because Minnesota's period of daylight saving time differs from that of our neighboring State of Wisconsin and also from that of most of the major money markets in the Nation. This is a great disadvantage and inconvenience to the banks in Minnesota and makes considerable confusion in our daily activities.

A Federal daylight saving time law seems to be the only effective way to end all of this confusion. We sincerely hope that you will be successful in passing such legislation.

Sincerely yours,

PHILIP H. NASON, President.

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY Co.,
St. Paul, Minn., February 7, 1966.

Hon. JOSEPH E. KARTH,

Longworth House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. KARTH: I understand you are the principal author of a bill for uniform daylight saving time on a national basis and that hearings on the bill are being held in the House of Representatives. The Northern Pacific Railway Co. strongly favors enactment of such legislation for the following reasons:

1. It would eliminate confusion to the traveling public that results when leaving times of passenger trains are advanced 1 hour at the various stations to conform with the change in daylight saving time, causing untold numbers of passengers to miss their trains. Similarly, the traveling public is inconvenienced when the leaving times of trains are set back 1 hour at the termination of daylight saving time.

2. It would eliminate confusion and inconvenience incident to switch crews switching industries located in adjoining cities or States having different times due to lack of a uniform daylight saving time, such as Minneapolis-St. Paul and Duluth, Minn., Superior, Wis. This works a hardship on the industries as well as on the railroads serving the industries. Further, it at times results in additional overtime costs.

3. A uniform daylight saving time would result in a savings of approximately $8,000 per year through elimination of the necessity of printing new timetables to reflect the changes in times of local as well as some transcontinental passenger trains, made necessary to conform to the change to daylight saving time. Timetable changes would not be required with uniform daylight saving time.

4. Additional expense is also incurred at some passenger stations as a result of having to keep mail and baggage personnel as well as ticket clerks on duty an additional hour due to the times of our passenger trains Nos. 1 and 2 being advanced 1 hour to accommodate the Post Office Department and keeping passenger trains Nos. 25 and 26 the same to permit making connections with other transcontinental trains.

5. Operation of freight trains is also affected as the result of shippers in areas not on daylight saving time loading shipments 1 hour later, necessitating a 1-hour later departure of the freight train as well as 1-hour later arrival of the shipments at locations having daylight saving time with resultant inconvenience to the consignee.

6. There is presently a 2-hour time difference between St. Paul, Minn., and Seattle, Wash., at which points our main offices are located. With St. Paul on daylight saving time and Seattle not, the time available for necesasry communications is reduced an additional hour. This is highly undesirable.

Your sponsorship of uniform daylight saving time legislation is very much appreciated.

Very truly yours,

ROBERT S. MACFARLANE, President.

ST. PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PRESS RELEASE No. 29, FEBRUARY 25, 1965 The St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce today made public its position on the current controversy over Minnesota's system of daylight saving time.

A policy statement, approved unanimously by the chamber's board of directors, urges the Minnesota Legislature to favorably consider legislation which would allow for extension of daylight saving time in the Twin Cities metropolitan area beyond the present Memorial Day through Labor Day period. The statement goes on to say that the chamber's main interest in the matter is to bring the entire State but especially the metropolitan area in step with other major metropolitan market centers in the country.

The chamber statement points out that of the 15 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, the Twin Cities area (which is 14th largest) is 1 of only 2 which does not observe daylight saving time for a 6-month period annually. The other area is Detroit which has no fast time.

The chamber's position was developed, in part, from results of a survey conducted among its membership in January. This was part of an overall Twin Cities area opinion poll of some 4,000 businessmen in 11 chambers of commerce having a total combined membership of over 10,000.

The St. Paul survey showed that 96.5 percent of those answering the questionnaire favor daylight saving time for Minnesota, and that 86.9 percent favor an extension of Minnesota's fast time period. The results of the overall referendum brought a similar response with 96.8 percent in favor of daylight saving time and 88.9 percent favoring an extension of it. The chamber board of directors felt that this was a mandate for the action in endorsing such a legislative measure. In addition to requesting the State legislature's approval for the extension provision, the chamber also announced that it will seek to gain support for such a program from other area chambers and local units of government. NOTE. Following is board of director's policy statement and metropolitan poll results.

SUGGESTED POLICY ON DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

The St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce recently cooperated with the Council of Twin Cities Metropolitan Areas of Chambers of Commerce in conducting a daylight saving time poll. Eleven cities in the metropolitan area; namely St. Paul, Roseville, Minneapolis, South St. Paul, Hopkins, West St. Paul, Bloomington, White Bear Lake, Crystal, Stillwater, and St. Louis Park, participated in the survey. The St. Paul sample, conducted among the membership of the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce, showed that 96.5 percent favored daylight saving time and that 86.9 percent were in favor of an extension

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