HEARINGS BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY AND SURVEY UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION PURSUANT TO S. Res. 66 (78th Congress) (Extending S. Res. 298-76th Congress) THE LIBRARY 0. 、,,、、 CT 11944 Copy GOVT. SOURCE A RESOLUTION TO APPOINT A SPECIAL COMMITTEE PART 41 DEVELOPING THE WEST THROUGH SMALL BUSINESS: II FIELD HEARINGS Seattle, Wash., July 26 and 27, 1944 Printed for the use of the Special Committee to Study and Survey 68053 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1944 50 PREFATORY NOTE This series of field hearings, under the title "Developing the West Through Small Business," consists of six parts, as follows: Part 40: Kalispell, Mont., July 24 and 25, 1944. Part 41: Seattle, Wash., July 26 and 27, 1944. Part 42: Portland, Oreg., July 28, 1944. Part 43: San Francisco, Calif., July 21 and August 1, 1944. P. 44: Los Angeles and San Diego. (Hearings scheduled for Los Angeles on August 2 and 3 and for San Diego on August 4 were canceled, Chairman Murray having been called to Washington by ressure of legislative duties. Statements and papers prepared for bmission at these places are incorporated in pt. 44). Part 45: Phoenix, Tucson, and Prescott, Ariz., August 7, 8, and 9, 1944. Witnesses representing Government departments and bureaus during the opening hearings at Kalispell presented for the record various studies and documents which have a basic pertinency to and were reintroduced either in whole or in part at each of the other hearings. Publication of this material has not been repeated in subsequent parts, but references have been made to it at the places where the relationship is apparent. III CONTENTS FIELD HEARINGS STATEMENTS Murray, Hon. James E., Senator, of Montana.. Wherry, Hon. Kenneth S., Senator, of Nebraska.. Norman, Hon. Fred, United States Representative in Congress__ Nicholson, Rex L., managing director, Builders of the West, Inc., Haines, Wayne M., owner of the Wayne M. Haines Co., Seattle_ Engle, Dr. Nathanael H., director, Bureau of Business Research and professor of economics and business, college of economics Eilertsen, L. W., vice president, I. F. Laucks, Inc., Seattle_ Bakeman, C. T., director of industrial development, Puget Sound Stansby, M. E., technologist in charge, Fishery Technological Laboratory, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the In- Raver, Dr. Paul, Administrator, Bonneville Power Administra- tion, Department of the Interior, Portland, Oreg-- Calvert, Lawrence, president of San Juan Fishing & Packing Co., Allen, Edward W., United States Commissioner and Chairman of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission; United |