RESOLUTION TO PRINT AS A SENATE DOCUMENT A REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HUMPHREY AMENDMENT TO THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT

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21780 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SENATE
tor of Rights-of-way and Location, in
the Bureau of Public Roads, makes this
clear. Even then, well over a year ago,
Mr. Swick wrote:
We have on file proposals from the various*
States totaling almost 20,000 miles, includ-
ing over 12,000 miles that did not receive
favorable action in the 1957 system expan-
sion.
The year 1964 bids far to be the auto
industry's first 8-million-car year. The
number of two-car families, and even
three-car families, is mounting rapidly,
with ever more congestion. As of June
30, 16,963 miles of the Interstate System
were open to traffic. Savings due to In-
terstate System travel were estimated in
July by the Bureau of Public Roads to
amount to over $2 billion for passenger
cars this year; and almost three-quarters
of a billion dollars for commercial ve-
hicles. Even without additional mileage,
the savings in 1973, the first scheduled
year of full mileage operation, are esti-
mated at a total as large as the entire
recent income tax cut?$11 billion.
But of even greater importance than
the dollar savings are reductions in traf-
fic injuries and fatalities which the four-
lane system provides. Traffic deaths in
1963 reached an alltime high of 43,400.
It is estimated that because of travel on
sections of the Interstate Highway Sys-
tem already open to traffic, 3,000 persons,
who today are alive, might otherwise
have been added to the 1963 death toll.
When the system is completed in 1972,
with savings estimated at 200 lives an-
nually per 1,000 miles open to traffic,
8,000 lives a year will be preserved by
the four-lane system, as compared with
comparable accident rates per million
miles of travel on two-lane roads. My
bill to add 19,000 miles to the system
would save an additional 3,800 lives a
year, at the same rate. Economic sav-
ings, projected at the same rate as the
figures cited above, would be an addi-
tional sum above $5 billion.
The accident rate and the need for
safety are particularly compelling to me.
In my own State of Indiana, we are
adding 100,000 new drivers each year
from the ranks of those who turn 16 and
become eligible for drivers' licenses. By
1971, Indiana alone will have 1 million
new drivers. How many of these youths
will be killed in traffic accidents? How
many lives can we save by additional
roadbuilding of the quality we know
how to achieve? According to a Bureau-
of Public Roads publication:
Accident rates on freeways are one-third
of those on other roads with comparable
traffic.
A study recently completed shows that
the Interstate Highway System portions
now open have a traffic-accident fatality
rate of 2.8 per 100 million vehicle-miles,
while the rate is 9.7 per 100 million
vehicle-miles on the older highways in
the same "traffic corridors" which for-
merly carried most of the new roads'
traffic.
The cost of financing an additional
19,000 miles for the Interstate Highway
System is not a compelling argument
against ?such an extension. As auto'
mobile use increases, the income for the
BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION
INTRODUCED
Bills and a joint resolution were in?
troduced, read the first time, and, by
unanimous consent, the second time, and
ref erred as follows:
By Mr. HARTKE:
S. 3200. A bill to amend title of the
United States Code to-increase to 60,000 miles
the total mileage of the National System of
Interstate and Defense Highways; to the
Committee on Public Works.
(See the remarks of Mr. HARTKE when
he introduced the above bill, which appear
under a separate heading.)
By Mr. McGEE:
? S. 3201. A bill for the relief of Anna Maria
Reiland; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. HARTKE:
S. 3202. A bill to provide for the issuance
of a special series of postage stamps in honor
to the memory of Ernie Pyle; to the Com-
mittee on Post Office and Civil Service.
(See the remarks of Mr. HARTKE- when he
Introduced the above bill, which appear un-
der a separate heading.)
By Mr. BEALL :
S.J. Res. 205. Joint resolution to provide
for the coinage of a medal in, recognition of
the distinguished services of Dr. Alfred
? Blalock; to the Committee on Banking and
Currency.
(See the remarks of Mr. BEALL when he in-
troduced the above joint resolution, wh ch
appear under a separate heading.)
RESOLUTION
TO PRINT AS A SENATE CUMENT
A REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTA-
TION OF THE HUMPHREY AMEND-
MENT TO THE FOREIGN ASSIST-
ANCE ACT
Mr. HUMPHREY submitted a resolu-
tion (S. Res. 371) to print as a Senate
document a report on the implementa-
tion of the Humphrey amendment to the
Foreign Assistance Act, which, under the
the rule, was referred to the Committee
on Rules and Administration.
(See the above resolution printed in
full when submitted by Mr. HIIMPHREt
which appears under a separate head-
EXTENDING THE FEDERAL HIGH-
WAY PROGRAM
Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, as we
approach the halfway mark in the com-
pletion of the Federal-State highway
program, the Nation is already reaping
enormous benefits. . Those benefits are
both economic and human, in savings of
money and savings of lives. I have pre-
viously advocated?as I did with my bill
(S. 662) in the 87th Congress?speeding
the construction of the Interstate High-
way System, in order to achieve the max-
imum possible savings, both in terms of
economic advantage and in terms of ac-
- cident prevention.
Today, I introduce a bill which calls
for enlargement of the 41,000 miles, now
partially completed, to a total of 60,000
miles. Such an expansion is not unrea-
sonable, in view of the great number of
miles for which proposals have had to
be rejected. 'A memorandum dated June
10, 1963, and addressed to regional and
division engineers by E. H. Swick, Direc-
September 22
Federal program from the present so-
called dedicated taxes rises also. Rev-
enue for the fiscal year 1964 topped $31/2
billion. But the figures I have already
cited show savings this year of $2% bil-
lion from only the portions already com-
pleted. The $11 billion a year savings to
users, upon completion after 1972, will
return the entire cost of the system with-
in 4. years. Continuation of the taxes,
which are paid only by highway users,
and already are fixed and accepted by
the traveling public, will finance the fur-
ther program I propose on the same basis
as that under which it now operates.
Mr. President, in order to save lives
and economic resources, we need the ex-
tension I am proposing by means of the
bill I now introduce. I hope Congress
will see the wisdom of this proposal, and
will agree with me that we need to make
this exceptionally sound investment for
the increased welfare of the Nation.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. The bill will be received and ap-
propriately referred.
The bill (S. 3200) to amend title 23 of
the United States Code to increase to
60,000 miles the total mileage of the Na-
tional System of Interstate and Defense
Highways, introduced by Mr. HARTKE,
was received, read twice by its title, and
referred to the Committee on Public
Works.
IN MEMORY OF ERNIE PYLE
Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, I intro-
duce for appropriate reference, a bill to
provide for the issuance of a postage
stamp to honor the memory of Ernie
Pyle. On April 18, 1965, it will be 20
years since this great yet modest man,
who saw World War II along with the
average GI soldier and reported his sen-
sitive observations as did no other war
correspondent, died under enemy fire on
the little island of Ie Shima in the Ryukyu
Islands. Ernie Pyle was a native of In-
diana, and my bill, which is parallel to
a bill introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives by Congressman ROUDEBUSH,
of Indiana's Sixth Congressional District,
would provide for first-day sale in Dana,
Ind., where Ernie Pyle was born on
August 3, 1900.
Even though Ernie Pyle made Arizona
his home for his last 10 years, he was
a Hoosier the greater part of his life.
As a student at the Indiana University he
was editor of the Daily Student and of
the senior 'yearbook and, although not
himself an athlete, won his "I" as the
first student-manager of football as a
senior in 1922. His first reporting job was
with the La Porte, Ind., Herald, which he
left to betome a reporter and deskman on
Washington and New York papers, serv-
ing 4 years as Scripps-Howard aviation
editor and for 3 years as managing editor
of the Washington Daily News.
The syndicated travel column which he
began in 1935 in the years before the
war took him 200,000 miles in a coverage
of five continents and developed the per-
sonalized style which marked his writ-
ing.
But it was his reporting of the war, as
rmillions still recall those columns of his
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