Maj. Gen. Jonas L. Blank, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Systems and Logis tics, Department of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.

General Blank graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and also received his pilot wings in June 1943.

During World War II, he was assigned to the European theater, and flev 48 combat missions before being downed and detained as a prisoner of war unti Germany's surrender.

He holds numerous military decorations among which are the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Joint Service Commenda tion Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Purple Heart, and Distinguished Unit Citation Emblem.

He has had an extensive background in procurement operations and production of supplies and services.

General Blank was appointed to the committee on August 4, 1971. He has submitted his resignation due to reassignment. However, he is continuing to serve pending designation of a replacement.

Lt. Gen. Wallace H. Robinson, Jr., Director, Defense Supply Agency, Cameron Station, Alexandria, Va.

General Robinson was commissioned in the Marine Corps as a second lieutenant in June 1940. While attached to the 2d Marine Brigade during World War II, he participated in the occupation and defense of the Samoan, Wallis, and Ellice Islands.

In March 1962, he was selected to serve as a member of the Secretary of the Navy's planning staff for review of the management of the Department of the Navy.

His medals and decorations include the Legion of Merit and the Navy Commendation Medal.

He holds a master of business administration degree, and is also a registered civil and industrial engineer.

General Robinson was appointed to the committee on August 4, 1971.

Col. Marco J. Caraccia, Commanding Officer, New Cumberland Army Depot, New Cumberland, Pa.

Colonel Caraccia was commissioned in the U.S. Army in August 1948, following his graduation from Cornell University where he received a B.S. degree and later obtained his M.S. from both Penn State and George Washington University. He joined the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Department of the Army, in July 1970.

Colonel Caraccia was appointed to the committee on August 4, 1971.

William M. Usdane, Ph. D., Assistant Commissioner for Program Development, Rehabilitation Services Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Usdane received his Ph. D. in vocational rehabilitation from New York University in 1955.

He has served with various rehabilitation services within the United States since 1950. He received the Fulbright Senior Research Scholar Award to the University of London's School of Economics and Political Science 1962-1963.

He is a former board member and life member of the National Rehabilitation Association, former president of the New York chapter, NRA, and fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Usdane has written over 30 articles in professional journals, and chapters in several books.

He was appointed to the committee on August 4, 1971.

Mr. Donald P. Whitworth, Director of Supply Services, Veterans' Administration. Washington, D.C.

Mr. Whitworth is a graduate of the George Washington University, with a B.A. degree in English and M.S. in public administration. He served 4 years with the U.S. Army, and is now assigned as lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Mr. Whitworth has been with the Veterans' Administration since 1946. In his present position he is responsible for rendering supply support to the most extensive medical program in the Federal Government which operates two-thirds of all the hospital beds controlled by the Federal Government within the United States, including military.

He received a Presidential citation for his "outstanding contribution to greater economy and improvement in Government operations," and also holds the Agency's Meritorious Service Award and the Administrator's Commendation. Po Mr. Whitworth was appointed to the committee on August 4. 1971.

Mr. Loy S. Hayes, Associate Commissioner, Federal Prison Industries, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hayes began his career in corrections at the Federal Reformatory, El Reno, Okla., in 1948. He subsequently served in supervisory positions at Federal institutions in Chillicothe, Ohio, and La Tuna, Tex. He served in the Bureau of Prisons' Washington office as deputy assistant director of operations from January 1966, to April 1970, when he became warden at La Tuna. He was later named rewarden at El Reno in August 1970. He was appointed to his present position in July 1972.

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Mr. Hayes served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945.

Mr. Hayes is a native Texan, presently residing in Springfield, Va.

Mr. Hayes has been a member of the committee since September 8, 1972.

Mr. Milton Shy Meeker, Commissioner, Federal Supply Service, General Services Administration, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Meeker came to GSA from the Peterbilt Motors Co., Newark, Calif., a division of the Pacific Car and Foundry Co., where he was manager of marketing and research. He was formerly associated with the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich., where he served in various executive purchasing capacities.

He has a M.S. in business administration from the University of Michigan, and both a B.S. in business administration and a B.A. in industrial psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Meeker was appointed to the committee on March 2, 1972.

Anne H. Carlsen, Ph. D., Administrator, The Crippled Children's School, Jamestown, N. Dak.

Dr. Carlsen has been administrator of the Crippled Children's School since 1950. She is responsible for residential programs of accredited education and rehabilitative therapy.

Dr. Carlsen is past president of the Governor's and Mayor's Committee on the Employment of the Handicapped; Council for Exceptional Children; National Rehabilitation Association; North Dakota Rehabilitation Association; American Association of University Women; American Psychological Association; and National Education Association.

Among the many degrees and honors bestowed upon her, she holds the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award of 1970 which is North Dakota's highest award for professional achievement. In 1958 she was named outstanding handicapped person in the Nation being honored at a White House ceremony and presented a trophy by then Vice President Nixon.

Dr. Carlsen was appointed to the committee on December 21, 1971, as a private citizen member representing the other severely handicapped. She will serve for a term of 4 years.

Mr. Thomas K. Richards, Supervisor, Personnel Administration, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Mr. Richards was wounded in World War II in March 1945. As a result he became totally blind. He underwent physical rehabilitation at the Valley Forge General Hospital, U.S. Army from 1945-1948. During this period he underwent vocational rehabilitation at the Old Farms Convalescent Hospital, U.S. Army Rehabilitation Center, where he was given courses in personnel administration, psychology, machine shop practices, library use, and various testing.

He is presently employed as supervisor, personnel administration, company property management, with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. He is responsible for the personnel administration activties of some 1600 employees involving all phases of personnel operations.

Mr. Richards holds a B.S. degree in personnel administration from the Columbia University, and has done graduate work at the Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University.

He has been active for many years in Blinded Veterans Administration as a member and on the board of directors.

Mr. Richards was appointed on this committee on September 8, 1972, to fill the 3-year term of Thomas C. Hasbrook representing the blind and other severely handicapped.

Admiral WHEELER. Under the new act the committee is authorized a small, full-time staff and an appropriation to assist in the imple mentation of the expanded program. Although the act was approve in the summer of 1971, no funds were available to the committee unti the supplemental appropriation of 1972, nearly a year later. Thus we have had funding for approximately 10 months.

The modest staff of eight, which is the paid staff for the committee is now complete and fully operational. The organization is shown in exhibit C to our report. I can elaborate if you desire.

[The information follows:]

ORGANIZATION OF COMMITTEE STAFF

Executive Director-GS-15.

Deputy Executive Director-GS-14.

Industrial Engineer-GS-13.

Procurement Analyst (Pricing)—GS-12.
Administrative Assistant-GS-9.

Secretary (Stenographer)—GS-7.

Clerk-typist-GS-5.
Clerk-typst-GS-4.

REVIEW OF COMMITTEE'S WORK

Admiral WHEELER. During the past year much of the committee's effort has been directed toward developing the organization and procedures required to administer the expanded program. By way of explaining the scope of the problem, under the old Wagner-O'Day Act we served about 80 blind workshops. There are about 1,800 sheltered workshops that are potential participants under the expanded program. Thus far we have verified the nonprofit status of 108 workshops for the other severely handicapped. We have the records of another 16 workshops for the other severely handicapped currently under review.

We have submitted again for the record, to your staff, a listing of all of these workshops with whom we are working and whose nonprofit status has been verified.

The certification consists of several provisions that are included in the act. Specifically, each workshop must be a nonprofit agency serving the handicapped, organized under the laws of a State or the United States, must comply with Federal occupational health and safety standards, and must meet the requirement that at least 75 percent of the direct labor in the workshop is performed by handicapped persons. One of the first problems confronting this committee was to find a means for determining the qualifications and capabilities of workshops desiring to enter the program and for providing the technical and engineering assistance in the production of new commodities or the provision of new services.

With its small staff, the committee would be unable to provide assistance to the hundreds of workshops interested in the program. Under the old act, the National Industries for the Blind performed these functions. In recent years, that agency has devoted a significant portion of its efforts to the search for new commodities as well as the provision

of the technical assistance required for blind workshops to produce successfully the new commodities approved by the committee.

CENTRAL NONPROFIT AGENCIES

Six national agencies-namely, Goodwill Industries of America, Jewish Occupational Council, National Association for Retarded Children, United Cerebral Palsy Association, the International Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, and National Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults-agreed to perform the role of allocation and certification for the workshops serving the other severely handicapped. The committee designated these six agencies, together with the National Industries for the Blind, as the "Central Nonprofit Agencies" with which we would deal in administering the expanded act.

[The information follows:]

CENTRAL NONPROFIT AGENCIES

Goodwill Industries of America (GI), 9200 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20014, 301-530-6500.

International Association of Rehabilitation Facilities (RF), 5530 Wisconsin Avenue, suite 955, Washington, D.C. 20015, 301-654-5882.

Jewish Occupational Council (JO), 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10011,

212-989-1920.

National Association for Retarded Children (RC), 2709 Avenue E East, Arlington, Tex. 76011.

National Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults (ES), 2023 West Ogden Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 60612, 312–243-8400.

National Industries for the Blind (IB), 1511 K Street NW., Washington, D.C. 20005, 202-347-4918.

United Cerebral Palsy Association (CP), 66 East 34th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016, 212-889-6655.

Admiral WHEELER. We have been dealing with these seven agencies for the past year. With experience we have found that the six national agencies representing the other severely handicapped in fact lack technical means and administrative talent at their headquarters to provide the necessary supervision and certification capability which is required to implement the law effectively.

Therefore the committee, in conjunction with these six agencies, has considered other means for strengthening their capabilities.

In January the committee announced its decision to support the creation of another operating agency similar to the National Industries for the Blind, which would function under the direction of these six agencies and would serve all the workshops for the other severely handicapped desiring to participate under the act.

The rest of my statement involves the highlights of the committee's accomplishments during the past year.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING PAST YEAR

Thirteen new commodities, six new services, and three new military resale commodities have been added to the procurement list thus far in fiscal year 1973. We let our first contract for a service with a workshop serving the other severely handicapped.

In short, while we were off to a relatively slow start in the early part of the program, I believe the program is gaining momentum.

We have incurred considerable opposition from certain segments the industry, particularly those affected by the set-asides under this a We have been trying very hard to deal with these fairly and app priately. We have had one investigation by the GAO this year in co nection with the impact on industry.

GAO REPORT

I have for the record the report of that investigation, signed Mr. Staats in December of last year. In summary this report is e tremely favorable with respect to the very careful and meticulous w the committee has handled the impact on industry for the set-asid under the act. I think it is a vote of confidence and a vote of approv for the manner in which we are functioning. This GAO investigati was made at the request of Mr. Mailliard, of California. It was response to an objection from a segment of the office products industr [The GAO report follows:]