The decision as to the cost of a Federal exhibit can only be made by the Congress with the cooperation of the relevant agencies of the executive branch. The authorization legislation makes this fact abundantly clear. We wish to call your particular attention to the proviso of the appropriation request that the appropriation shall be effective only upon enactment of the authorizing legislation, which is presently pending in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We hope that the appropriation will receive favorable committee action. COMMUNICATIONS JACOB K. JAVITS, Senator MCCLELLAN. Various communications and statements regarding items in the supplemental bill will be inserted at this point. (The letters referred to follow :) CIVIL DEFENSE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D.C., September 19, 1961. Hon. EDMUND G. BROWN, Governor, State of California, Sacramento, Calif. MY DEAR GOVERNOR: Thank you for your letter of September 14 urging my support of the President's request for funds to defray the cost of relocating food grains and stockpiling medicines for civil defense purposes. Enclosed is a copy of the House committee report on the supplemental bill for 1962. The President requested $26 million for the stockpiling of medicine. The House Appropriations Committee cut this amount to $13 million and the House, on September 15, sustained the action. A $47,200,000 request for relocating wheat was denied by the committee. I have taken the liberty of referring your communication to the Senate Committee on Appropriations where the matter is being considered at the present time. DEAR BILL: As you know, there is pending before the Congress a request from President Kennedy for funds to defray the cost of a nationwide distribution of food grains, drugs and medicines and other "survival items" essential to civil defense. Although California has led the way in the stockpiling program, our stockpiles of these supplies are not adequate for the needs of our great population. I am therefore very anxious, as I know you are, that this request be acted upon favorably. We should continue to accelerate our stockpiling program by every possible means until an adequate supply is on hand. With you, I share a common responsibility to see that the people of California are given every possible protection and assistance should the emergency ever arise. I earnestly request that you support this program, which in my view is of critical importance to the people of our State and Nation. With kindest regards and appreciation. Sincerely, EDMUND G. BROWN, Governor. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D.C., September 20, 1961. Senator CARL HAYDEN, Washington, D.C. DEAR SENATOR: The President's request for a supplemental appropriation of $26 million for the civilian medical stockpile speaks for itself. We often hear of a period of strategic warning prior to an attack, ranging from months to years. In my humble judgment, we are now in that period. Time is therefore precious. Time in which to prepare this Nation to meet and to emerge from a nuclear attack, even if a matter of years, cannot be wasted. Accordingly, I urge full restoration of the President's request for $26 million. It has taken us 10 years to bring the stockpile up to the present level of $200 million, far short of the goal, $950 million. Deterioration of stocks is $15 million because of adverse storage conditions, age, etc. Much of the supply is stored above ground in or near critical targets or target areas. It is my hope that some of the present stocks can be removed from areas of risk to nonvulnerable areas and placed underground in a controlled temperature and humidity environment. This environment preserves the supplies much longer and gives greater assurance of their medical usability when needed. We are appropriating many billions for military defense. The President is exhorting our people to build shelters and to prepare themselves in many ways to meet an attack. We in Congress can do no less than to support fully the President and the Nation in this fundamental program. Thanking you, and with kind personal regards, I am, FRANK M. CLARK, Member of Congress. U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, September 20, 1961. Hon. CARL HAYDEN, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Attached is a letter from the Honorable Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California, in support of the President's request for funds for the stockpiling of grains, medicines and other survival items for civil defense. I am sure that the committee will give Governor Brown's expression careful consideration in your attention to these items in the supplemental appropriations bill now before you. With kindest personal regards, CLAIR ENGLE, U.S. Senator. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, Sacramento, September 14, 1961. Hon. CLAIR ENGLE, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. DEAR CLAIR: As you know, there is pending before the Congress a request from President Kennedy for funds to defray the cost of a nationwide distribution of food grains, drugs, and medicines and other "survival items" essential to civil defense. Although California has led the way in the stockpiling program, our stockpiles of these supplies are not adequate for the needs of our great population. I am, therefore, very anxious, as I know you are, that this request be acted upon favorably. We should continue to accelerate our stockpiling program by every possible means until an adequate supply is on hand. With you, I share a common responsibility to see that the people of California are given every possible protection and assistance should the emergency ever arise. I earnestly request that you support this program, which in my view is of critical importance to the people of our State and Nation. With kindest regards and appreciation. Sincerely, EDMUND G. BROWN, Governor. Hon. CARL HAYDEN, MASS TRANSPORTATION AND OPEN SPACE WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 1961. Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.: Your support is requested in restoring $185,000 to H.R. 9169 for HHFA as administrative expense for mass transportation loans and grants. As you know, mass transportation loans and grants were authorized by Congress in the Housing Act of 1961. The two metropolitan areas of California are actively developing mass transportation programs. This appropriation will permit HHFA to administer the programs as intended by Congress. CHAD F. CALHOUN, Vice President, Kaiser Industries Corp. Hon. CARL HAYDEN, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.: WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 1961. We understand that in connection with H.R. 9169 the supplemental appropriations for the administrative expenses in HHFA for mass transit and open space requirements have been eliminated. We fail to understand how the needs of the housing bill can be accomplished without restoration by your committee of the eliminated funds. Proper development of mass transit facilities and open spaces is fundamental to the correction of blighted areas and we strongly urge your committee to do all possible to provide funds for consideration of these two items. President, the American Institute of Architects. WHEELING, W. Va., September 20, 1961. Senator CARL HAYDEN, Chairman of Senate Appropriations Committeec, The American Institute of Park Executives, representing public parks and recreational open spaces in over 2,600 American communities urges your affirmative action on the bill to provide administrative funds for the open space project of the housing bill. ALFRED B. LA GASSE, Executive Secretary, American Institute of Park Executives, Inc. WASHINGTON, D.C., September 19, 1961. Hon. CARL HAYDEN, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.: On behalf of the more than 13,000 municipalities and 46 State leagues of municipalities which have fought so strenuously for mass transportation and open space provisions of Housing Act of 1961 I wish to advise you how seriously disturbed we are at possibility that Senate Appropriations Committee may not recommend operating expenses for these programs in deficiency appropriations bill. Delay in getting these programs underway, particularly the mass transportation program, will only add to difficulties and expense of solving these problems at later date. We hope you will favor inclusion of modest sums needed to get programs underway this year. RICHARDSON DILWORTH, President, American Municipal Association, Mayor of Philadelphia. Senator CARL HAYDEN, BOSTON, MASS., September 20, 1961. Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee, Our organization urges Senate Appropriations Committee to authorize funds to implement Federal mass transit program enacted by Congress under National Housing Act of 1961. Alternate program is expenditure of additional millions for urban expressways. EPHRON CATLIN, Jr., President, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. NEW YORK, N.Y., September 20, 1961. Senator CARL HAYDEN, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee, Urge your approval and support of the $150,000 item for administrative funds for title 7 of Housing Act of 1961 in supplementary appropriations bill H.R. 9169. JOSEPH PRENDERGAST, Executive Director, National Recreation Association. Hon. CABL HAYDEN, NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION, WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 1961. Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, DEAR SENATOR: We should like to take a moment from your busy schedule to comment briefly about a problem relating to H.R. 9169, the supplemental appropriations bill now under consideration by your committee. National conservation groups were elated when the Congress earlier this year provided authorization for open space land grants in the Housing Act of 1961. These grants already are stimulating provisions for urgently needed open space recreational activities. Many requests for grants already are on file. It is our understanding that the House has provided $25 million, or half of the authorization, for fiscal 1962. Yet, the House did not provide the $150,000 needed by the Housing and Home Finance Agency to administer the program. We hope the Senate Committee on Appropriations may see fit to correct this situation by allowing the necessary $150,000. Thank you for the opportunity of making this observation. Respectfully, Hon. CARL HAYDEN, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, Dr. IRA GABRIELSON, President. Dr. HOWARD ZAHNISER, Executive Secretary. NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION, U.S. SENATE, WASHINGTON, D.C., September 22, 1961. Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The 1962 supplemental appropriations bill pending before your committee includes, among its various provisions, a request for funds to implement the new section of the Housing Act of 1961 providing for mass transportation loans and grants. Senator Williams, I am informed, has already contacted the committee in behalf of the interests of our State. I join with Senator Williams in urging your utmost consideration for those provisions of this bill which would implement the initial program for research in transportation and Federal assistance for capital investment, so sorely needed by passenger railroads. Sincerely, CLIFFORD P. CASE, U.S. Senator. WASHINGTON, D.C., September 21, 1961. Hon. CARL HAYDEN, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee, Washington, D.C.: Respectfully urge that Appropriations Committee restore funds for mass transportation and open space program administration, in accordance with request of Senator Williams of New Jersey. Both programs have my full support and that of most citizens of my State. OREN E. LONG, U.S. Senator. WASHINGTON, D.C., September 21, 1961. Hon. CARL HAYDEN, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee, Washington, D.C.: May I tell you how imperative it is in my judgment that the appropriations for the current operation and work for area redevelopment, housing, open spaces, transportation, Council of Economic Advisers, etc., be provided in current appropriations Committee, acted in a very vindictive fashion. Best personal wishes. PAUL H. DOUGLAS, U.S. Senator. Senator CARL HAYDEN, ANNANDALE, VA., September 21, 1961. Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.: The Fairfax County Park Authority, Virginia, urges your committee to insure appropriations for administration of open space section of Federal Housing Act. Provisions of matching funds for preservation of open space in rapidly expanding urban areas essential to health and welfare of people of nations. C. C. ROBINSON, Chairman, Fairfax County Park Authority. Senator CARL HAYDEN, ANNANDALE, VA., September 21, 1961. Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, The Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority strongly urges restoration of appropriations for administration of open space provisions of Federal Housing Act availability of matching grants to safeguard open space vital to orderly growth of urban areas and to welfare of the people of the Nation as a whole. IRA N. GABRIELSON, Chairman, Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. WASHINGTON, D.C., September 21, 1961. Senator CARL HAYDEN, Senate Appropriations Committee, U.S. Senate, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.: Our national body urgently requests inclusion of administration's request for $150,000 in H.R. 9169 for administrative funds for the open space program under HHFA. CARL A. TOESTER, Jr., Executive Secretary, American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. |