Page Kurtz, R. E., mayor, Fort Myers, Fla., statement_ Jenkins, Hon. Mitchell, Member of Congress, statement.. Jester, Royton III, Lynchburg City Council, Lynchburg, Va., statement- Jewett, Lt. Col. Richard L., Corps of Engineers, statements. Johnson, Hon. Edwin, United States Senator, statement_ Johnson, Lamar, engineer, Everglades drainage district, West Palm Beach, Johnson, Payne, county engineer, Bath County, Va., statements. Johnson, S. A., director of the port of Gulfport, Miss., statement__. Jones, Ralph, president, Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, statement- 492 232 322 132 377 192 Loth, Francis, president, Virginia division, Izaak Walton League, Waynes- 471 McIlwain, W. T., city manager, Coral Gables, Fla., letter. 277 McLaughlin, J. M., chairman, Bath County Board of Supervisors, state- ment.. 486 McWane, Fred W., assistant to the president, Lynchburg Foundry Co., 454 Manley, P. C., county agent, Bath County, Va., statement... Martell, James A., president, Indian River Citrus League, Vero Beach, 157 Martin, Hon. Edward, United States Senate, statement and letter.... 78 34 Matthews, Col. A. G., chief engineer, division of water surveys and research, 258 Michael, A. B., Deerfield Groves Co., Wabasso, Fla., letter- Millikin, Hon. Eugene D., United States Senate, statement. Mitchell, P. E., Bedford County, Va., statement Moomaw, B. C. Jr., chamber of commerce, Covington, Va., statement__ Moore, Col. Wayne S., resident member, Board of Engineers for Rivers Morrison, Robert D., city attorney, Lynchburg, Va., statement Murray, Perry E., State representative, Polk County, Fla., letter- Mustoe, Robert, county treasurer, Bath County, Va., statement.... Mutz, John L., area engineer, Bureau of Reclamation, Albuquerque, Myers, Hon. Francis J., United States Senate, statement and letter.. Nelson, Wesley R., Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, state- Patterson, R. Y., vice president, United States Sugar Corp., Clewiston, Pearce, J. O., Okeechobee, Fla., statement. 196 Price, Hon. Emory H., Member of Congress, statement. - Price, Oliver, superintendent, Wilkes-Barre flood control system, Wilkes- Pyle, Kenneth K., State senator, Cass County, N. Dak., statement. Quinlan, Joseph A., vice president, St. Regis Paper Co., Oswego, N. Y., Rader, Earle M., county engineer, Dade County, Fla., statement.. 166 129 415 288 176 477 117 Reap, C. G., chamber of commerce, Honesdale, Pa., statement. 116 Reavis, Peter A., chamber of commerce, Covington, Va., statement_ 470 Regan, Hon. Kenneth Mills, Member of Congress, statement_ Red River of the North, Minn., N. Dak., S. Dak Remsberg, L. S., chairman, board of county commissioners, Broward Schmit, John, county engineer, Halleck, Minn., statement_ 430 94 Shugrue, Dwyer W., counsel to Senator Ives, statement.. 58 Sinclair, Donald, Minnesota State senator, Stephen, Minn., statement... 424 Slaton, George R., chairman, Broward drainage district, Fort Lauderdale, 203 South Platte River and tributaries, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.. Stennis, Hon. John C., United States Senate, statement-- 10 4.67 Stone, Clifford H., water conservation board, Denver, Colo., statement. 286, 315 435 400 333, 342 Thompson, Gilford M., Norman County Board of Commissioners, Ada, 406 Thye, Hon. Edward J., United States Senate, statement- 386 132 Wallis, W. Turner, engineer, Palm Beach County, Fla., statement 223 412 191 273 396 Warren, Fuller, cand te for Governor, Miami, Fla., statement.. Watson, J. M., division engineer, State road department, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., letter. Wheeler, Lt. Gen. R. A., Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, Willard, E. V., assistant commissioner, Department of Water Conserva- tion, State of Minnesota, statement. Wilson, Fred E., Albuquerque, N. Mex., statement_ Wilson, Hon. George A., United States Senate, letter.. Woods, R. C., president, Fish and Game Protective Association, Alleghany Wright, F. L., Governor of Mississippi, letter. Wright, James D., director of public works, Lynchburg, statement.. RIVERS AND HARBORS--FLOOD CONTROL EMERGENCY ACT WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1948 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT OF HARRISON COUNTY, MISS.-SHORE PROTECTION PROJECT The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10: 15 a. m. in room 412, Senate Office Building, Senator George W. Malone (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Malone (chairman of the subcommittee), Cooper, and McClellan. Present also: Orren L. Jones, clerk, and E. W. Bassett, engineer. Senator MALONE. The committee will be in order. We will first take up the shore-protection project for Harrison County, Miss. S. 2695, covering this project, will be made a part of the record. (Senate bill 2695 is as follows:) [S. 2695, 80th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To authorize Federal participation in shore protection works Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, pursuant to the policy enunciated in Public Law 727, Seventy-ninth Congress, an Act "Authorizing Federal participation in the cost of protecting the shores of publicly owned property", the project for Federal participation in the repair and protection of the Harrison County seawall, Mississippi, is hereby adopted and authorized in accordance with the recommendations and subject to the conditions set forth in the report of the Chief of Engineers dated March 8, 1948, the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations hereafter made for improvement of rivers and harbors, and in accordance with the provisions of sections 2 and 3 of aforesaid Public Law 727. HARRISON COUNTY, MISS., BEACH EROSION Location.-Harrison County is located on the Gulf coast of Mississippi about midway between Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La. The general direction of the coast in this area is east and west. A chain of low, narrow sand islands lies from 8 to 12 miles offshore, separated from the mainland by Mississippi Sound. The area concerned extends from the entrance to Biloxi Bay on the east to Henderson Point at the entrance to St. Louis Bay on the west, a distance of about 27 miles. Report authorized by.--Section 2 of the River and Harbor Act approved July 3, 1930, as amended and supplemented. Existing project.-The Harrison County sea wall was constructed by the State of Mississippi between 1925 and 1928 at a total cost of $3,400,000 and consists of 27 miles, principally step type, of sea wall. The wall is composed of sections 28 feet long supported by square concrete piles and by a continuous concrete sheet-pile curtain wall at the toe. A concrete sidewalk 5 feet wide adjoins the |