SELECT COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS
[Created pursuant to S. Res. 58, 81st Cong.]
JOHN SPARKMAN, Alabama, Chairman
RUSSELL B. LONG, Louisiana
EDWARD J. THYE, Minnesota
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota GEORGE A. SMATHERS, Florida JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi WAYNE MORSE, Oregon
LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Massachusetts ANDREW F. SCHOEPPEL, Kansas JAMES H. DUFF, Pennsylvania BARRY GOLDWATER, Arizona THOMAS H. KUCHEL, California
WALTER B. STULTS, Staff Director LEWIS G. ODOM, Jr., Chief Counsel WALTER ADAMS, Economic Counsel MINNA L. RUPPERT, Chief Clerk
Barnes, Stanley N., Assistant Attorney General in charge of Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, accompanied by his legal assistant, Robert A. Bicks..
Bernstein, Marver H., associate professor of politics, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J___
Blanning, W. Y., director, Bureau of Motor Carriers, ICC.. Brinkley, Homer L., executive vice president, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Washington, D. C..........
Butz, Earl L.. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, accompanied by
George A. Dice, Director, Special Services Division, Agricultural
Marketing Service, and J. L. Pease, Assistant Chief, Freight Rate
Service Branch, Special Services Division, Agricultural Marketing
Service...
Gould, Dexter, general manager and stockholder, Millis Transporta- tion Co., Millis, Mass..
Levitus, James, secretary-treasurer, Nationwide Carriers, Inc., St.
Paul, Minn., accompanied by Don Tucker, assistant traffic manager,
Land O'Lakes Creamery, Minneapolis, Minn
Upton, Ernest, Bee Line Express Co., Birmingham, Ala
Weeks, Sinclair, Secretary of Commerce, accompanied by Louis S.
Rothschild, Under Secretary of Transportation; Philip A. Ray,
general counsel; Ed Margolin, Division of Transportation; and
Al Krebs, General Counsel's Office.
Yeary, Edwin N., president, Yeary Transfer Co., Inc., Lexington Ky.
(b) Central States area over-the-road motor freight agreement with
Ohio rider, February 1, 1955, to January 31, 1961.
(c) Letter dated October 20, 1955, from All States Freight, Inc.,
to Casmir Zukowsky, Akron, Ohio, canceling lease...
(d) Letter dated January 18, 1954, from Dixie Ohio Express Co.,
Akron, Ohio, to Robert Stafford, Akron, Ohio, announcing
discontinuation of present method of operation.
(e) Exceptions filed by International Brotherhood of Teamsters
with Interstate Commerce Commission, November 1, 1949,
in Ex parte No. MC-43, Lease and interchange of vehicles by
motor carriers..
(h) Letter dated December 13, 1955, from Stanley Denlinger, Akron,
Ohio, attaching proposed bill to amend Motor Carrier Act,
together with remarks re proposed amendments___.
4. Information submitted by Homer L. Brinkley, vice president, National
Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Washington, D. C.:
(a) Table 1-Gross farm income realized from selected commodi-
ties: Amount, by type of commodity, and relationship to
gross farm income realized from all commodities, calendar
years 1953-54___
5. Analysis of three-judge court cases, January 1, 1952, to October 31, 1955,
submitted by Assistant Attorney General Stanley N. Barnes
6. Comments by Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks on testimony of
Angus McDonald, assistant legislative secretary, National Farmers
Union, before the Senate Small Business Committee, December 2,
1955, in which he criticized the report of the Presidential Advisory
Committee on Transport Policy and Organization__--
6(a). Supplemental testimony of Secretary of Commerce Weeks on the
Advisory Committee Report on Transport Policy, before the sub-
committee of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Sep-
tember 19, 1955:
1. Memorandum on changes in minimum-maximum rate con-
trols proposed by the Presidential Advisory Committee on
Transport Policy and Organization
2. A brief history of the ICC's ratemaking power (appendix
A).
7. Reprint of article by Samuel P. Huntington, from Yale Law Review, April 1952, entitled "The Marasmus of the ICC: The Commission, the Railroads, and the Public Interest"
8. Statement of Angus McDonald, National Farmers Union, before the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, in regard to the freight-car shortage, July 28, 1955---
2. Letter dated November 7, 1955, from James K. Knudson, including
petition of Bingaman Motor Express Co., Inc., Reading Pa., before
ICC (alternate route application) -
3. Opinion of United States District Court, North Dakota, Iowa, eastern
district, in Interstate Commerce Commission v. Allen E. Kroblin,
Inc., (113 F. Supp. 599 (1953)) – –.
4. Reply Brief for the United States and Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of
Agriculture; Consolidated Truck Service, Inc., plaintiff; in the
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (agri-
cultural exemption) - -
5. Letter dated December 15, 1955. from Vee H. Kennedy, managing
director, contract carrier conference, Washington, D. C., to Senator
Sparkman, including:
(a) Statement of the Contract Carrier Conference of the American
Trucking Association, Inc.
(b) Statement filed before the ICC on behalf of the Contract
Carrier Conference of the American Trucking Association,
Inc.; recommendations re legislation (motor contract
carriers)
6. Statement submitted by H. W. Speyer, president, AAA Transportation,
In ., Indianapolis, Ind., to the Senate Small Business Committee,
dated December 1, 1955_
7. Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission on reconsideration
in Guy Spaulding extension-alternate routes. (Spaulding Transfer
Line, Salem, Ind.).
8. Extension of operations-radioactive materials-information supplied
by the Interstate Commerce Commission (W. J. Dillner Transfer
Co.)---
12. Letter dated November 21, 1955, from A. D. Hull, executive vice presi-
dent, Whitfield Transportation, Inc., El Paso, Tex.
13. Letter dated November 23, 1955, from L. H. Hardey, vice president and
general manager, Galveston Truck Lines, Houston, Tex., with accom-
panying chronological statement of events pertinent to the "hot
cargo" secondary boycott of company-
14. Letter dated November 23, 1955, from J. C. Chandler, executive vice
president, Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc., San Antonio, Tex_-
15. Letter dated November 26, 1955, from C. E. Mendez, president, Red-
wing Carrier, Inc., Tampa, Fla....
18. Letter dated December 7, 1955, from F. W. Kressman, Jr., vice presi-
dent, Continental Turpentine & Rosin Corp., Inc., Laurel, Miss.-
19. Letter dated December 12, 1955, from Vernon Bishop, Lebanon Chemi-
cal Corp., Lebanon, Pa-
20. Letter dated December 13, 1955, from A. Markowitz, general traffic
manager, Helm's New York Pittsburgh Motor Express, Inc., New
York, N. Y...
21. Letter dated December 19, 1955, from George H. Richard, Latex
Rubber, Inc., Baltimore, Md__.
22. Statement submitted by Dr. Dudley F. Pegrum, professor of eco-
nomics, University of California, Los Angeles, on the effects of
regulation on small business in motor transport, December 19, 1955--
22 (a). Reprint from Land Economics, August 1952, The Economic Basis
of Public Policy for Motor Transport, by Dudley F. Pegrum___
23. Statement submitted by the National Fisheries Institute__
24. Letter dated December 29, 1955, from American Trucking Association,
Inc., Washington, D. C.; including petition for leave to intervene and
for reconsideration, and supporting brief-A. W. Schaffer Exten-
sion-Granite_
25. Letter dated December 1, 1955, from Mario Pieroni of Pieroni, Pieroni,
Hynes & Dixon, Muncie, Ind., attorneys, representing certain truck-
ing companies – –
26. Letter dated December 29, 1955, from Russell Goddard, vice president,
Old Colony Motor Lines, Inc., New York, N. Y., and Boston, Mass.
27. Letter dated January 6, 1956, from Anthony Arpaia, Chairman,
Interstate Commerce Commission, replying to statement of Stanley
N. Barnes.__.
28. Letter dated January 3, 1956, from H. Leon McBride, of H. L. & F.
McBride Trucking, Goshen, N. Y., re economic deregulation of
motor-carriers industry, referring to Commissioner Arpaia's testi-
mony..
29. Letter dated December 21, 1955, from George R. Watson, general
traffic manager, Western Oil & Fuel Co., Minneapolis, Minn., re
petroleum motor transport carriers and interstate commerce from
Wrenshall, Minn....
30. Statement of Edward Wishnow, president, Wagman Transfer Corp.,
Medford, Mass
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