Senator KEATING. I would appreciate that very much. (The material requested follows:)

Intercoastal cargo carried in drug cargo and tanker ships of 1,000 gross tons and over between New York and the west coast

Senator KEATING. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Senator COTTON. May I ask a question?

The CHAIRMAN. Go ahead.

Senator COTTON. Going back to the matter of the mothball fleet, my recollection is that when Senator Bible and I were on a subcommittee 2 or 3 years ago we heard some rather interesting figures about the cost of the upkeep of the mothball fleet. I think it was average per ship.

Would you be willing to supply for the record-at a convenient point where we were discussing that topic-what it costs for the upkeep, repair, and preservation of the mothball fleet?

Mr. ALEXANDER. I will be happy to do that, sir.
Senator COTTON. And the average per ship?

Mr. ALEXANDER. Yes, sir.

Senator COTTON. Thank you.

(The matter referred to follows:)

Average cost of care and custody ships in national defense reserve fleet

Total appropriation (fiscal year 1962).

Average cost of priority ships, including custody costs (891 ships)

Average custody cost for noupriority ships (1,100 ships)

The CHAIRMAN. Any further questions of Mr. Alexander? (No response.)

The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much.

Off the record.

(Discussion off the record.)

$5,300,000

4, 257

1, 370

The CHAIRMAN. There are no further questions of Mr. Alexander. He has some answers he is going to supply for the record, and we will leave the record open for that purpose.

NOMINATION OF WILLIAM RUDER, OF NEW YORK, TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

The CHAIRMAN. We have one more nominee, and he has waited patiently and long. Every day he comes up here, we get into some other matters, and then he has to be pushed aside.

So, Bill Ruder, where are you? Come on up.

Mr. William Ruder, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration and Public Affairs.

Mr. Ruder, who is serving under an interim appointment, has reporting to this office the following offices in Commerce: Administrative Operations, Personnel Management, Investigations and Security, Internal Audit, Budget and Management, Publications Management, and Emergency Readiness Planning.

The Appeals Board of the Department is also under Mr. Ruder's jurisdiction. The Board was established in 1953 "to serve as an impartial body to hear and consider certain appeals from the public.' That would be actions by the Department of Commerce, would it not?

STATEMENT OF WILLIAM RUDER, OF NEW YORK, NOMINEE TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Mr. RUDER. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. For the record, Senator Javits has submitted a statement favoring his nomination.

Senator Keating, a member of the committee, has advised that he is pleased with the nomination.

You have supplied a letter listing your financial holdings.

There is biographical data which we will place in the record, together with the statement of Senator Javits and other pertinent letters and matters pertaining to this nominee.

(The material referred to follows:)

DUTIES OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR ADMINISTRATION

The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration is delegated all authority vested by law in the Secretary of Commerce to take final action on all matters of administration and management within the Department of Commerce except such authority as must by law be exercised by the Secretary in his own right.

The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration is the principal deputy and adviser to the Secretary on all matters of administration and management. He:

1. Prescribes the Department's policies, regulations, and programs with respect to all administrative and management activities and directs their execution;

2. Collaborates with other secretarial officers and officers of the primary organization units of the Department in defining the basic objectives, programs, functions, relationships and plans of organization of the Department; 3. Prescribes the policies and programs and provides departmental leadership for the following major administrative and public relations activities of the Department:

(a) Fiscal management.

(b) Budget planning and administration.

(c) Management research and planning.

(d) Organization planning.

(e) Personnel administration.

(f) Administrative operations and services.

(g) Public information.

(h) Publications review.

(i) Security and inspection.

(j) Internal audit.

(k) Emergency planning.

4. Is responsible for and directs the evaluation of the Department's programs and activities in terms of efficiency of management and economy of operations;

5. Serves as the representative of and upon designation as the alternate to the Secretary of Commerce on all committees, boards, commissions, services, and organizations constituted with authority or responsibilities in the field of administration and management; and

6. Develops and provides for the execution of (1) plans to insure continuity of essential functions of the Department in event of attack upon the United States, and (2) civil defense plans and programs covering facilities and self-protection, and civil defense assistance.

In addition to the above, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration is looked upon by the Secretary as his chief adviser in the field of public information and public relations, and participates as a representative of the Secretary in all discussions relative to the formulation of Department policy in which there is a public interest.

STATEMENT OF HON. JACOB K. JAVITS, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Senator JAVITS. Mr. Chairman, I am very glad to appear before the committee to introduce William Ruder, a distinguished New Yorker, who has been nominated as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration and Public Affairs by the President.

Mr. Ruder's reputation in New York is excellent, praticularly in the field for which he will be serving our Government, and I am very glad to commend him to the committee and it is especially interesting to me that a New Yorker so relatively young in years should have received this important recognition.

I am also glad to advise the committee that Mr. Ruder is active not only in governmental matters, for which he is before us now for confirmation, but also in other concerns which would mark him as an active citizen of the community as well, both in respect of his religious faith and philanthropic and civic activities and in the field of education.

I hope very much that he will be confirmed. Thank you.

The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Ruder, the chairman wants to state, has been down there for some time working, and I guess he can get paid. You are paid anyway, are you not?

Mr. RUDER. Yes, sir, I am.

The CHAIRMAN. You are paid anyway. And you have held this post since March 1961 as special assistant to the Secretary, so you have been quite familiar with the affairs of the Department of Commerce. There are some questions here that one member of the committee wanted me to ask you.

He said: What is being done to bring these services more to the attention of small business? Because he suggests there have been some complaints that not enough attention has been given to small industries in this regard.

Mr. RUDER. There is a departmentwide program, sir, that has been mounted in order to take all of the business activity and promotional services direct to the potential business user.

For instance, in the export expansion field we have been working with our 34 field offices to arrange in each of the major markets of the country schools to which businessmen can come and actually learn the rudimentary elements of export expansion and become, on a faceto-face basis, familiar with the supporting services that the Department of Commerce can give to them. For instance, trade lists of people that they can do business with overseas, market studies showing the potential for their products overseas, specific analyses of any particular geographical area in which the individual businessman might be interested overseas.

You may recall that, at the request of the Department, the President issued an Executive order which, in effect, revived the old ArmyNavy E and renamed it the President's E and set up a series of criteria

through which it would be awarded to companies for achievement in the export field.

Specifically, the promotion of those awards is being focused on the small businessman, the man who perhaps has not yet had the opportunity to get a picture of what he can do to promote his export busi

ness.

Those are the companies that we are going after.

Beginning on April 19, we are starting a series of regional meetings through which the Secretary of Commerce himself, the Under Secretary, key members of the staff, are going to go to major markets and actually meet with several hundred businessmen in each market and explain the workings of the Department of Commerce and what it can do to help the individual businessman.

These are fairly typical of what we are doing, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. The other services involving domestic possibilities for small business, of course, are the standard services in the Department. I suppose they are facts and figures of the economic situation which you compile for information to small business. Is that correct? Mr. RUDER. Yes. We have been working hard on that.

For instance, in the Census, the Bureau of the Census, this is perhaps the biggest marketing gold mine that there is in the United States.

We have developed literature specifically designed to educate the small businessman on how he can use Census figures in the marketing of his own products, or in the location of a gasoline station, or in determining where to put a laundry, the very smallest element of business, or where you put a beauty parlor.

This has to do with the income bracket in which you want to find the site, the density of population for the 10 or 20 blocks immediately surrounding the site, and so forth.

All of this is available through the Census, but very few businessmen, particularly small businessmen, know about this.

We have been working

The CHAIRMAN. But if you have these regional conferences I suppose the best way for small business is to see that they understand that they can get this information from you and that it is available. Mr. RUDER. That is exactly right, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. I do not think most people know about it.
Mr. RUDER. Unfortunately, it is almost a well-kept secret.
The CHAIRMAN. Yes.

Mr. RUDER. We are also working with the Small Business Administration.

For instance, on Census, we prepared a special booklet for them to give out in their own offices. I do not know how many they have, but they have more than we do.

So we are preparing the material and giving it to them for special servicing to small business.

The CHAIRMAN. The larger businesses are very familiar with the services of the Department, have been for years, but I think a lot of the small business people do not know about it.

Mr. RUDER. That is right, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. So you are directing a sort of a campaign to get this information out?

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