of years to promote the control of flooding of the Osage River and the vation of water during dry periods which at times plague the valley. The early completion of a dam on the Osage River at Kaysinger B Benton County, Mo., will materially control floodwaters from its locat the Missouri River and will reduce the flood crests on the Missouri mouth. Also, in drought years, the conservation pool in the reservoir wi greatly to normalize the flow of the lower river and furnish much-needed for the area. To date, the Congress has seen fit to appropriate $187,500 to be us planning construction of this improvement. The present budget reque additional $400,000 to be used for planning during the fiscal year 1960-61 Our association feels, after conferences with parties involved, that $ could be used effectively and economically in the year 1960-61. Howe the committee concludes that it cannot justify a greater sum than the 1 Bureau requests, we respectfully ask that you do not reduce the 1960-61 priation below $400,000. Attached to this statement is a file containing letters from governing and interested organizations in the area represented by our association. letters clearly indicate the urgent need of completion of the project. This association endorses and supports all of the programs represent the Missouri-Arkansas Flood Control Association. The members of the association join me in thanking you for this tim your kind consideration. OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, City of Warsaw, Mo., April 2, 1 APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, GENTLEMEN: Regarding the matter of the building of Kaysinger Dan people of this area, in my opinion, are in favor of the building of the di soon as possible and without delays. Of course there are those few wh opposed to the building of the dam and for the most part these peopl opposed to almost everything. Speaking for this community, I would urge everything be done to spee planning of Kaysinger Dam and get to going with the construction. Yours sincerely, GUSS C. SALLEY, Ma LOWRY CITY COUNCIL, Lowry City, Mo., March 26, 1 CHAIRMAN, PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, DEAR SIR: On April 4 in Washington there is a project for this area needs your serious attention. This project is a very important one and I hope that you will be favo for an increased appropriation for the continuance of planning for this The project is Kaysinger Bluff located on the Osage River at Warsaw The people in this area would appreciate your giving your support to project. Respectfully yours, APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. LEO WALTERS, May CITY OF WINDSOR, Windsor, Mo., March 30, 19 GENTLEMEN: It is the opinion generally of the citizens of the city of Win that the Kaysinger Dam will be most beneficial to this area and on their b I would like to urge approval of any and all amounts now or hereafter re mended to your committee for appropriation to the project either for plan or construction. Yours very truly, HARRIS DOUGLAS, May STATEMENT OF ABE SILVERMAN, Mayor, City of Sedalia, Mo. April 1, 1960. Chairman and members, it goes without saying that the earliest possible pletion of the dam on the Osage River at Kaysinger Bluff in Benton County, is of tremendous importance to those of us in this part of the country, we are in a territory that is greatly affected by the prosperity and general wire of this area. We therefore, most heartily endorse the earliest possible completion of this Te respectfully request that you do all that is in your power to appropriate maximum funds possible for the year 1960-61. Whatever you gentlemen can do for us in this respect will be greatly appreciated. APPROPELATIONS COMMITTEE, U.S. Compress, Washington, D.C. INTERNATIONAL LIONS CLUB, GENEN: At the last meeting of the Windsor Lions Club the Kaysinger Dan peject was discussed extensively and it was found that 100 percent of the members felt that it is a vital project to this area and that everything possible shoud be done to expedite construction. Please consider this letter as a request from or club to give favorable consideration to the allocation of the amount new recommended for appropriation to plan further on this project. Thank you very much for this consideration. Yours very truly, CHARLES R. HOLMES, Secretary. APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, T.8. Congres Washington, D.C. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Windsor, Mo., March 30, 1960. GE: Please be advised that the Chamber of Commerce of Windsor, Mo, is vitaly interested in the Kaysinger Dam project and in the furtherance of this interest resolved unanimously at a recent meeting to favor all appropriations now recommended for planning and all appropriations which may be made in the future for the construction of the Kaysinger Dam. Te parlarly urge the approval of the recommended $500,000 appropriathe now before your committee. Yours very truly, RODNEY WESNER, Secretary. THE JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PRIATIONS COMMITTEE, Congress, ington, D.C. GENTLEMENS We of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Windsor are in 100 ent agreement as to the necessity and urgency of present planning and contion of the Kaysinger Dam. Would you please consider this letter as a est that your committee approve as quickly as possible all recommendations appropriation to this project. Thank you very much for your consideration. ROBERT MAXWELL, President. TEMENT OF WILLIAM C. HOPKINS, PRESIDENT, SEDALLA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, SEDALIA, MO., APRIL 1, 1960 Mr. chairman and members, the Sedalia Chamber of Commerce, representing Industrial, commercial and other related community interests of the city of Sedalia, Mo., wishes to place itself on record as favoring the early com of the Kaysinger Bluff Dam on the Osage River in Benton County, Mo. end, we concur in the request of the Osage Valley Flood Control and Conservation Association citing the need and economical use of a plann propriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1961, We further respectfully concur in their request that the committee not the appropriation of $400,000 requested by the Bureau of the Budget sho committee feel the larger amount is not presently justified. Flood control and water conservation in the Osage River Valley ha been recognized as a basic area need. The future economic growth of th of Missouri will depend to a very large degree on the conservation of as a natural resource. Our city has only recently had this problem amplified by the extremely large water requirements of a major industr ing a site in the area. Your consideration of our voice in this vital area consideration is appreciated. Mr. PARAMORE. Congressman Avery has two more people to p at this time. Mr. AVERY. The witnesses I previously presented were in supp projects in the Kansas River Valley. Now, the witnesses I will present at this time are in supp projects on the Missouri River. First, I would like to present Mr. Harry Hixon, who is city missioner of the city of Atchison, Kans. STATEMENT OF MR. HARRY HIXON Mr. HIXON. As city commissioner of Atchison, in behalf o mayor, I wish to express our thanks for past favors. As you m well aware, Atchison in 1958 suffered two floods all within 28 We are certainly aware of the devastating effects of flooding. We have at this time the urban renewal program coming u election on the 19th of this month, which incorporates a great d flood protection works within that particular type of planning. We also have Rockwell Manufacturing Co. on our waterfron they suffered about a million and a half dollars in losses in the flood as well as down at our sister city of Leavenworth; that su flooding in the past. We would appreciate your earnest consideration of any fund continuing efforts along these lines. (The statement of Mr. Hixon follows:) STATEMENT OF HARRY HIXON, CITY COMMISSIONER, CITY OF ATCHISON, I BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS, HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS MITTEE My name is Harry A. Hixon and as a commissioner of the city of Atel Kans., I am appearing before you for the mayor in behalf of the city to re an appropriation of funds for the engineering of flood control measures o Missouri River and on White Clay Creek in the vicinity of Atchison, Kans. The following amounts are urgently needed in the 1961 budget: 1. $6,700 for the Corps of Engineers to complete the general survey and for flood protection works on White Clay Creek, undertaken by the cor fiscal year 1960. The corps has the capability to complete this project by Ju 1961. It is believed that a plan will be developed that will prevent a recuri of floods such as were experienced during 1958 that cost several lives and $8 million of damage to property. 2. $125,000 for advanced engineering design (preconstruction planning commence and to complete engineering plans for raising the railroad bridg Atchison and Leavenworth, Kans., including the necessary changes in thei proaches on both Missouri and Kansas sides of the Missouri River, and in ing the engineering plans for the flood protection works necessary to pre the flooding of major industries, utilities, and other important facilities o waterfronts of these cities. The need for protection of both cities at this time is so urgent that we are ompelled to ask for a specific appropriation for these authorized projects as line Hens in the budget. In the past we have relied on assurances given by the Corps of Engineers that these railroad bridge raises could end would be accomplished with appropriated bals that were expendable at the corps' discretion, but yet today these projects e not been initiated. Your committee's attention is respectfully invited to the statement of General Person to Senator Ellender as testimony before the Fee Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Works in May of 1959, which Taste: Every consideration will be given to the design of these bridge raises during laval year of 1960 consistent with the priority of work and the willingness and ability of local interests to furnish the local cooperation required." Your committee and the corps has previously received our warranty of cooperation, willingness, and ability to provide any rights-of-way required as soon as they are made known to us by the corps. Atcha, Kans., is still a disaster city and while we are making every effort to recover from the disastrous floods on White Clay Creek of July 1958, we are facing the stark and fearsome possibility and threat of flooding again, but this time from the Missouri River itself. This jeopardy to our community exists in spite of the substantial control brought about by reservoir construction, the absence of which created the tremendous losses to Atchison, Leavenworth, and the entire Missouri Valley in 1952. Without the proper engineering, which only the U.S. Corps of Engineers can give our city rehabilitation program cannot be planned including urban newal and flood control. It is for this reason that the mayor has sent me Washington to plead that your committee appropriate the necessary funds and direct the Corps of Engineers to discharge its responsibilities to our community. We think that it is appropriate also to say that the flood protection to the cities of Atchison and Leavenworth, as well as the railroad bridge raises, are of a high priority considering the strategic military importance of these crossings and of the vital defense industries that are involved; namely, Rockwell Manufacturing Coat Atchison and the Missouri Valley Steel Co. at Leavenworth, Kans. In behalf of my sponsors, thank you for the opportunity of being heard and appealing for your earnest consideration. Mr. ARY. On my own behalf and on behalf of my neighbor and good friend across the Missouri River, Mr. Hull, I would like to present Mr. T. L. Olvis, a board member of the Beverly-Farley board. He also will submit a statement on behalf of the city of Leavenworth which is on the Kansas side of the river. THREE MILE AND WHITE CLAY CREEKS STATEMENT OF MR. T. L. OLVIS Mr. OLVIS. Since it was impossible for anyone to be here from Lavenworth I would like to present this statement. I will not take the time to read it. This will bear out the needs. Being a neighbor of Leavenworth our problems are connected. STATEMENT OF J. F. MITCHELL, MAYOR, CITY OF LEAVENWORTH, KANS., APRIL 2, 1960 Gentlemen, this letter is for the purpose of requesting funds in the amounts $15,000 for the express purpose of completion of flood control studies on e Mile Creek in Leavenworth, Kans., and $6,700 for the completion of flood rol studies on White Clay Creek at Atchison, Kans. Presently there has funded to the Corps of Engineers, $5,000 and $7,800 respectively for these projects. It is necessary that we have sufficient funds in order to protect se two cities from further flooding. The city of Leavenworth, a community of 23,000 people, is vulnerable to a flood sister such as our sister city of Atchison experienced in July of 1958 and sufficient money is provided to complete these studies in both cities a Easter could occur from flooding of either city at any time. Here in Leavenworth our largest industrial plant, the Missouri Valley Co., along with many smaller businesses that are equally important to economy have sustained hundreds of thousands of dollars of loss in the past 1 flooding, and only through the U.S. Corps of Engineers completion of t studies will we be able to afford the much needed protection. We here in Leavenworth join the city of Atchison in requesting that a gressional directive be made to the Corps of Engineers to commence and comp engineering plans for raising the railroad bridges at Atchison and Leavenwo Kans., including the necessary changes in their approaches on both the Miss and Kansas sides of the river, as well as flood protection works on the w fronts of both of these cities. The raising of these bridges and the enginee of these waterfronts of both these cities should be considered a specific pro It is essential at this time for proper planning of both these cities to have engineering done as soon as possible. We therefore urgently request that this above appropriation be included in 1961 budget. Mr. AVERY. I thank the committee for its indulgence. The last y ness I have, is Mr. John Adair. He has so many titles I will not c ter up the record with all the titles, but he is one of the most adam and most dedicated supporters of flood control and river developm on the Missouri River. STATEMENT OF MR. JOHN ADAIR Mr. JOHN ADAIR. I hope the fact that we are last does not sugg we are the least important in the State. We want to thank your committee, Mr. Chairman, for having m available appropriations for us for general surveys and also for sister city of Leavenworth which has common problems. It will mean a great deal to us if you will enable us to compl both of these projects in fiscal year 1961. Our needs are set forth the written request presented by the mayors of these two cities and my request. The corps has the capability to complete both gene surveys. We have one other project that we hope will receive special c sideration, which affect both Atchison and Leavenworth. These the raising of the railroad bridges which cross the Missouri River each city. The original authorization of these happens to have been classifi under the agricultural levee section of the Flood Control Act of 194 The use of the term "agricultural levees" is really a misnomer as relates to the flood control projects needed in the vicinity of Atchis and Leavenworth, for these pertain to the need for the engineeri of railroad bridge raises and not the protection of farmlands as tl terminology of the act would suggest. The need for engineering of these bridge raises ties in directly wit the general surveys of the internal drainage problems of Atchison an Leavenworth. These are the White Clay Creek and Three Mile Cree studies. The need for engineering of these bridge raises relates important! to the flood protection of the Rockwell Manufacturing Co., which i our town employs 1,500 people, and is a vital defense industry; & large steel-casting plant. That plant feeds a plant in Kearney, Nebr., which employs 200-300 people. The Rockwell plant at St. Joseph, Mo., employs 150 people. The Rockwell plant at Atchison right now has the Missouri River lapping literally at its factory floors, within a foot away, it was damaged by flooding. In 1952 |