A CITIZEN'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM

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• Publication Date: February 10, 1966
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CONGRESSIONA
for the majority of teenagers (already several
teachers have 'announced open support of
the campaign, according to Thomas) indi-
cates that something, beyond ignoring the
normally quiet, "average" teenager should
result. '
Excise Taxes To Eliminate Junkyards
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JOHN P. SAYLOR
OF PENNSYLVANIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 10, 1966
Mr. SAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, in testify-
ing before the Senate Committee on In-
terior and Insular Affairs, prior *to his
confirmation as Director of the Bureau of
Mines last week, Dr. Walter R. Hibbard,
Jr., noted that very promising progress
Is being made on the Bureau's research
project for the use of automobile scrap
In modern steelmaking. In view.of the
numercius steps that are in the making
to contend with the auto junkyard prob'-
lem, I feel that every Member of Con-
gress should familiarize himself, with all
facets of the subject.
The Highway Beautification Act of
1965 provides that the establishment and
use and maintenance of junkyards in
areas adjacent to the Interstate System
and the primary system should be con-
trolled-in order to protect the public in-
vestment in such highways, to promote
the safety and recreational value of pub-
lic travel, and to preserve natural beauty.
Among the provisions are Federal par-
ticipation in junkyard removal, land-
scaping and screening, as well as a re-
duction in federal highway funds to
states which fail to provide effective con-
trols.
Also during the last session of Con-
gress, I proposed that 1 percent of the
auto excise tax be used by the Federal
Government to dispose of auto junk-
yards, with as much as half of the in-
come to be put into research to deter- -
mine whether the junked cars have fur-
ther economic use. Numerous recom-
mendations have come from the general
public as well as from interested busi-
nesses in response to this suggestion, and
meanwhile considerable development
toward economic disposal of scrapped
cars has taken place. I have received
correspondence from representatives of
the scrap industry who are convinced
? that research thus far clearly indicates
that the time is near when through
proper crushing and incineration old
cars can be dismantled and the steel
salvaged profitably. Meanwhile Secre-
tary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall has
invited universities, nonprofit organiza-
tions, business firms, and individual citi-
zens to submit constructive recommen-
dations and proposals to the Bureau of
Mines for expanded research on disposal
of scrap autos and other solid mineral
wastes.
The Bureau's own scrap-auto research'
is described as follows:
Bureau research on the scrap-auto prob-
lem is directed toward overcoming presently
known economic and technological barriers
:ECORD ? APPENDIX
?such as chao teel making and auto-
mobile manufi: practices?that have
caused once-si:: rkets for these dis-
carded cars to sa Out of the Bureau's
research have cr? two promising metal-
lurgical processor.. .th of which are sched-
uled for early tea., in large-scale 'demon-
stration plants.
One process inv..---es the conversion of
all the iron and s in auto body scrap to
a high-grade iron ? . for which there is
a ready market. W this process the scrap
can be used as a rcductant for low-grade,
nonmagnetic taconite that is abundant in
the United States. This is done by care-
fully controlled roasting of the scrap and
the taconite in a rotating kiln, which con-
verts both the iron in the taconite and the
iron and steel in the scrap to magnetic iron
oxide. After roasting, any unconverted scrap
is screened for recycling, and the iron oxides
are concentrated by magnetic separation
into a high-grade form of iron oxide. All
nonferrous materials in the scrap, as well as
the gangue in the taconite, are rejected in
the process. By changing the roasting con-
ditions, the process can be made to operate
without taconite. In this variation iron in
the scrap is obtained as an oxide, which
can be separated magnetically from non-
ferrous contaminating elements in the scrap,
In the other process being developed by
the Bureau, cylindrical shaped bales made
from cannibalized automobiles, less engines
and transmissions, will be run through a
rotary kiln at a temperature high enough
to burn the combustible materials and melt
the nonferrous metal parts. The kiln gases
will be cleaned to prevent air pollution. Re-
sulting clean scrap, upon discharge from
the kiln, will be compacted to any desired
density for steelmaking charges. After the
technique for burning and separating non-
ferrous metals from baled automobile hulls
is developed in a pilot plant, a larger demon-
stration plant including a modern electric
steelmaking furnace with necessary acces-
sories will be built for demonstrating the
economic feasibility of the thermal treat-
ment technique. The objective is to show
that many types of steel can be produced
from thermally treated automobile scrap
only, and that almost any type of steel can
be economically produced from thermally
treated scrap and directly reduced iron ore.
Mr. Speaker, as these efforts continue,
the number of junked cars to blight
suburbs and countryside rises annually.
More than 5 million were dumped onto
the heaps last year. The president of
General Motors predicted on January
17. that the average annual demand for
cars and trucks in -the United States
could exceed 11 million by 1970, thus
blazing the way for bigger and bigger
junkyards.
While the unsightly cars are piled
higher, adjacent land tracts?whether
they are business, residential, or farm
areas?suffer correspondingly. Regard-
less of how attractive your own plot of
ground may be, its beauty is quickly
marred if a neighbor is unconcerned
about the trash in his yard. In our par-
ticular region of Pennsylvania, the Penn-
sylvania Electric Co., has long practiced
beautifying to the fullest possible extent
the properties on which its facilities are
located, including the rights-of-way for
power lines. Trees are planted and care-
fully nurtured, and the company takes
pride in helping to keep our State beau-
tiful.
Responsible mining companies needed
no laws to insist upon reclamation of
stripped properties. For years they have
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been turning earth from which coal has
been extracted through surface opera-
tions into attractive forest, farm, and
recreational areas.
These operations by the utilities and
coal companies have been carried out
at their own expense, without cost to
Federal or State government. By the
same token, it would seem reasonable
for auto manufacturers and consumers
to provide the means for proper disposal
of cars that are no longer usable, and
the use of a portion of the excise tax
would appear to be the least injurious
or objectionable means of absorbing the
cost.'
The Bureau of Mines projects are com-
mendable and should receive high priori-
ty, but once a satisfactory method of
economic disposal of auto bodies is de-
veloped, the Federal Government should
retire from this activity and permit com-
mercial growth of the industry. I am
hopeful that such plans will be achieved
prior to July 1, 1970, in order that it will
not be necessary for Federal and State
governments to finance removal and
screening of auto junkyards, as provided
in the Highway Beautification Act of
1965. ?
Newspaper 'Columnist Joe Crump has
observed:
Making junked automobiles commercially
profitable is a sure way to remove them from-
the scene.
With a portion of the excise tax avail-
able in support of the junked car dis-
posal program, there is all the more rea-
son to assume that research can and will'
make it a profitable undertaking.
While some development engineers are
confident that small disposal plants?
even portable facilities?can dispose of
junked cars economically, the concensus
would appear to favor?at least in the
early stages?large centers to which the
steel shells would be hauled from points
within a wide periphery. In the latter _
event, I would hope that automobile
transportation firms will be ready to as-
sume a role in the operation without
delay. Stackback and piggyback rail-
road cars as well as the two-deck auto-
carrying trucks that move from assem-
bly centers with new vehicles snuggled
closely together should quickly be con-
verted for hauling remnants from 'scat-
tered junkyards to points where giant
incinerators have been established.
- We are obviously making headway in
our battle to eliminate the ghastly auto
junkyard. Let us give it a boost by ap-
plying 1 percent of the excise tax to this
crusade.
A Citizen's Views on Vietnam
EXTENSION OF
HON. MOR
OF AR
K. 'MAI))
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 10, 1966
Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, I know
that we all receive a great deal of mail
these days on Vietnam. This, to me,
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Indicates a great concern and uneasiness
throughout the land. My own mail re-
flects the obvious differences in opinion
and comes from people in all walks of
life. The expression and understanding
of the writers varies greatly but recently
I received a letter from a constituent
which so cogently states some of the un-
derlying questions in people's Minds, that,
with the permission of the House, I would
.insert it in the RECORD. We have all
heard from many sources the arguments
for and against our policy in Vietnam;
and while I do not agree with all the
writer's views, his letter is, I believe, an
eloquent effort by a citizen to reason
things out for himself.
SIERRA VISTA, ARIZ.,
February 1,1966.
DEAR Sin: I, as an American citizen and
veteran, deplore the ambiguous, indecisive,
vicious policies of the administration in re-
gard to Vietnam.
If our objective is to merely stem Com-
munist aggression, why are we unable to en-
list wider allied support?
If we wish to be the power in Asia, won't
it be necessary to "acquire territories and
bases?"
If we are striving for a military victory,
why did we engage in a bombing pause or
throw ourselves on the mercy of the United
Nations?
If we desire peace through the United
Nations, why are we bombing North Viet-
nam?
If the problem is so complex, why do the
alternatives of policy, to bomb or not to
bomb, sound so simple?
We stand in violation of the Geneva ac-
cords and the United Nations' Charter, yet
we claim to be prepared to wage a 6-year war
to the tune of half a million American
men.
Along with an ineffective buildup of
strength and a relatively ineffective bomb-
ing of North Vietnam, we are to assume
that Red China and the Soviet Union will
stay out of the conflict in the field.
To disagree with our current policy is not
to endorse the righteousness of either the
Vietcong or North Vietnam. It is rather to
realize that the time for sending living, pro-
ductive citizens to die for an ambiguous and
strange point of honor has passed us by.
And this conflict does hinge on a strange
point of honor. Senator JOHN STENNIS has
said it was a mistake to enter this conflict,
but now that we are committed we cannot
back down or withdraw. The commit your
policy and your sons to a stubborn position
such as this is strange indeed. History will
label it not only strange but vicious.
I suspect that since the war is a reality
(undeclared and unconstitutionally execut-
ed) your mail is divided 10 to 1 in favor of
our policy. However, sir, if on the eve of our
now vast commitment it had been put to a
vote, I wonder if our President would have
enjoyed such odds.
Finally, I resent this administration's muz-
zling of debate. Let me remind you, sir, a
conference with 21 congressional leaders is
not debate, any more than a public state-
ment announcing the resumption of bomb-
ing is debate after this bombing has already
occurred.
When you read the opinions of your con-
stituents into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD; I
would feel far lass helpless if you could ex-
press mine in the halls of what was once a
vital forum for debating and forming pol-
icy?the Congress of the United States of
America.
Sincerely yours,
TIMOTHY W. GARGIULO.
The New GI Bill of Rights
SPEECH
OF
? HON. JOHN W. WYDLER
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, February 7, 1966
Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, I have
repeatedly urged, supported and voted
for the new GI bill of rights?H.R. 12410.
This bill authorizes a program of edu-
cation and training for veterans of mili-
tary service discharged after January 31,
1955.
The serviceman has met his responsi-
bilities to the Nation. It is the Nation's
responsibility to prepare the serviceman
returning from service to take his place
in civilian life.
I only regret that the benefits of this
bill do not come up to those of the
Korean war bill. I supported such in-
creased benefits. The administration
opposed them and made clear that any
attempt to raise benefits would end
chances for Presidential approval of the
legislation. "
ANALYSIS
Education: Provides a permanent program
of educational assistance for individuals serv-
ing in the Armed Forces, discharged after
January 31, 1955. College-level and below-
college-level training in trade, vocational,
and technical' schools is provided. Part-time
training is permitted. Eligibility accrues at
the rate of 1 month of training for 1 month
of service, not to exceed 36 months. Persons
serving on active duty for training do not
accrue eligibility. The education and train-
ing allowances provided are as follows:
Type of program
No de-
pendents
1 de-
pendent
2 or more
depend.
cots
Institutional: '
Full time
Three-quarter time_
Half time
Cooperative
$100
? 75
50
80
$125
95
65
100
$150
115
75
120
Fees and tuition are paid for less than half-
time . training. Education must be com-
pleted within 8 years from the date of dis-
charge or 8 years from the effective date
of the act, whichever is later. Training is
provided for active-duty members of the
Armed Forces who have served at least 2
years, a portion of which occurred after Jan-
uary 31, 1955. These active-duty members
may receive payments for fees and tuition.
Administrative provisions of the GI bill for
veterans of tiie Korean conflict and the war
orphans' training program are applicable to
this proposed program. Schools will be ap-
proved by State approval agencies of the
various States, and these agencies will be re-
sponsible for extending supervision to ap-
proved schools.
Guaranteed and direct home loans: Bene-
fits of both the guaranteed and the direct
home loan programs are extended to vet-
erans discharged after January 31, 1955. The
guarantee of a loan by a private lender in
the amount of $7,500 is extended to this
group and, in areas established as direct loan
areas where guaranteed financing has not
generally been available, a maximum direct
loan of $17,500 is authorized. The Admin-
istrator of Veterans' Affairs is authorized to
regulate interest rates, consistent with the
ceiling established for Department of Hous-
A691
ing and Urban Affairs. A fund is established
for the Administrator to offset losses under
this program, by requiring the veteran to
pay 0.05 percent of his loan at Closing.
Non-service-connected medical care: At
the present time, veterans serving after Jan-
uary 31, 1955, are eligible for medical care
in Veterans' Administration facilities only
for service-connected disabilities. This
group is made eligible under the provisions
of this bill for treatment of non-service-
connected disabilities on the same basis as
war veterans. Eligibility for treatment of
non-service-connected disabilities is based on
availability of a bed and the signing of a
statement of inability to pay for treatment ..
elsewhere, as is required of veterans of earlier
conflicts.
Preference in Federal employment: Pref-
erence in employment in Federal service is
extended to the group of veterans discharged
after January 31, 1955, on the same basis as
is currently applicable to war veterans. This
benefit is not extended to those on active
duty for training.
Presumption of service connection of
chronic and tropical diseases: This presump-
tion of service connection of numerous
chronic and tropical diseases, as listed in
section 301, title 38, United States Code, now
applicable to war veterans, is extended to
those veterans with service after January
?
31, 1955.
Burial flags: The bill will permit the Vet-
erans' Administration to furnish a flag for
draping the casket of deceased veterans of
service after January 31,-1955, as is now pro-
vided war veterans.
Job counseling and job placement assist-
ance: Places veterans discharged after Janu-
ary 31, 1955, on the same basis as veterans
of earlier conflicts for assistance through the
Department of Labor in job placement and
counseling.
Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief: Amends
the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act by
increasing protection for individuals who are
renting homes when called to service from
$80 monthly rental to $150 monthly rental.
Recommendations of the Governor's Con-
ference on Natural Beauty and Natural
Resources
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JOHN BRADEMAS
OF INDIANA
IN THE HOUSE OF' REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, February 2, 1966
Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, under
unanimous consent I insert in the RECORD
the text of a letter to me dated January
31, 1966, from the Honorable Roger D.
Branigin, Governor of the State of In-
diana, setting forth the recommenda-
tions of the recent Governor's Confer-
ence on Natural Beauty and Natural Re-
sources.
Governor Branigin's letter follows:
STATE OF INDIANA,
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES,
Indianapolis, January 31, 1966.
Hon. JOHN PELADEMAS,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR Sia: We had a very enthusiastic re-
spouse to the Governor's Conference on Nat-
ural Beauty and Natural Resources, and now
must see that every recommendation from
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