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• Publication Date: January 11, 1965
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Monday, January 11, 1965
Daily Digest'
Senate
Chamber Action
The Senate was not in session today. Its next meet-
ing will be held Tuesday, January 12, at noon.
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE PROGRAMS
Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations:
Committee on Armed Services and Defense Subcom-
mittee of Committee on Appropriations met jointly in
executive session to receive testimony from John A.
McCone, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
House of Representatives
Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 99 public bills, H.R. 2168-2266; 94
private .bills, H.R. 2267-2360; and 27 resolutions, H.J.
Res. 163-178, H. Con. Res. 86-91, and H. Res. 96-100,
were introduced. Pages 473, 494-498
Minority Employees: Adopted H. Res. 96, providing
for the selection of, and fixing the salaries of, the follow-
COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,
JANUARY 12
(All meetings are open unless otherwise designated)
Senate
Committee on Commerce, open followed by executive, on the
nomination of John T. Connor, of Ncw Jersey, to be Secretary
of Commerce, io a.m., 51so New Senate Office Building.
Committee on Foreign Relations, executive, on committee
ing minority employees: Harry L. Brookshire, William
B. Pendergast, William R. Bonsell, Tommy Lee Wine-
brenner, and Walter Patrick Kennedy. Page 473
Program for Tuesday: Adjourned at 12:45 p.m. until
Tuesday, January 12, at 12 o'clock noon.
Committee Meetings
No -committee meetings were held.
business, and to hear Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-
American Affairs Thomas Mann, io a.m., room S-s16, Capitol.
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, on the nomination
of John A. Carver, Jr., of Idaho, to be Under Secretary of the
Interior, so a.m., 31so New Senate Office Building.
House
Committee on Foreign Affairs, executive, briefing with
Llewellyn E. Thompson, U.S. Ambassador at Large, State
Department, to a.m., H-322 U.S. Capitol Building.
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1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX
Bertsch, Administrator of that fine orga-
nization. I am very pleased to submit
this speech for reprinting in the CoN-
I RESSION.#,L RECORD.
The speech follows:
WHERE THERE'S A Wn.L, THERE'S A WAY
(Speech given by Howard Bertsch. Admin-
istrator, Farmers Home Administration, at
dedication of Destin Water System, De: tin.
Fla.. October 23, 1964.)
I have a simple remedy I am going to offer
to all those who are frustrated by the com-
plexities of modern-day living, to all those
who see only the gloomy side of life and who
find their solace In dreaming of days gone by.
I say to these people visit the community
of Destin on the strip of sunshine and salt
air between Choctawhatchee Bay and the
Gulf of Mexico in Okaloosa County, Fla.
't'his Is a bit of the America of tomorrow.
Progress Is in `he air. You can feel It.
Here Is a community that when it needs
a community center, builds It.
Here is a community that when it needs an
airport, builds it.
Here Is a community that when it needs a
water system, builds It.
A community that knows how to take the
initiative, marshal the resources that it has
available, couple these resources with those
provided by its government, and move ahead.
Gone are the days when Destin housewives
struggle with unfit and inadequate water
supplies. Gone are the red strained nota
and pans.
Gone are the days when water was haulted
and water was rationed.
Now water will 'tee your servant, good water,
as much as you want, at the turn of a tap.
Ahead lies better fire protection, lower in-
surance rates, higher land values.
Who knows but what some light industry
of the type that has sprung up around Fort
Walton will pick Destin for a construction
site.
And for sure the thousands of tourists that
pour into this area from Alabama. Tennessee,
and the Mid-West will come In larger num-
bers and stay longer, build more vacation
homes, provide customers for more motels.
restaurants, and fishing boats.
Destin now has a basic community service
to offer all those who seek to patronize this
nationally known center for sportsmen who
seek the sail fish and the red snapper.
I understand that the Destin water system
will serve not only the homes that line your
attractive streets, but the business enter-
prises. the motels, the churches, and the
school. Some 2.400 people will benefit at
the outset. Five years from now who knows
what the number will be. Destin is ready.
Destin Is moving ahead.
Credit for this kind of progress belongs to
many.
Let me mention a few who have spent long
hours around conference tables to make the
new water system possible.
Edward F. Pearce, president of Destin
Water Users, Inc., Jack T. Owens, vice presi-
dent, John R. Cox. secretary-treasurer, all
deserve special mention.
As do Paul Burnett and W. L. Marler. board
members.
All of these local leaders I have been told
have given freely of their time.
Irwin Fleet, In his capacity as attorney for
the corporation has also given the commu-
nity invaluable service.
For our part, in the Farmers Home Admin-
istration, we take a great deal of pleasure in
being able to work with men like the men
that constitute the leadership of Destin.
I know I can speak for the chairman of
our county committee, Grady G. Baggett: our
county supervisor, Jack Drasko; our Florida
State director, William T. Shaddick, and all
the other members of our organization, when
I say that nothing gives a greater pleasure
than being able to provide service to for-
ward-looking members of a small commu-
nity.
I am delighted that Congressman BOB
Sues. is here today.
He has had a hand in this enterprise
too. Without men like Boa SIKES, in Wash-
ington, men responsive to the needs of the
people, the voice of the people would not be
heard, and laws that make such facilities as
community water systems possible, would
not be on the books,
BOB SIKES Is also responsible in a large
measure, for the existence of our rural hous-
ing program, our rural renewal program, and
the support we are able to give the family
farmers.
Congressman SIKES will be glad to know
that the dynamic force of community leader-
ship so visable here today in Destin Is also
at work In surrounding communities.
I checked the records before I left Wash-
ington and found that local leaders with
our help are developing or have already
completed rural water systems in the com-
munitles of Gonzalez and Walnut Hill in
Escnmbia County, at Pace in Santa Rosa
County, at Esto in Holmes County and across
the Alabama State line at Grand Bay In
Mobile County, and Spanish Fort and Staple-
ton In Baldwin County. All told these 7
systems are using $1.7 million to develop
systems that will serve 10,000 people.
The spirit of Destin spreads throughout
the land.
We t eke some pride In being part of an
administration that responds when people,
like the people of Destin, make known their
needs.
The leadership in Washington Is concerned
with the welfare of people. Led by President
Johnson it chooses to follow the path of
foresightedness, of creativity.
This administration In response to the
'a she' of the people passed a tax reduction
bill to provide the necessary stimulus to
coiit.inuing prosperity.
This administration brought forth new
programs to break the vicious cycle of pov-
erty which still ensnarls too many of our
people.
This administration developed and im-
proved farm loan, rural electrification and
telephone. agriculture export, food for peace,
school lunch, agriculture price and Income
protection and other programs to preserve
and strengthen the family farm and help
family farmers cope with the revolution in
farm technology.
This administration sponsored area de-
velopment programs to help rural communi-
ties grow as strong, viable contributors to
our Nation's progress.
This administration firmly opposed the
view held by many that the family farm
and rural communities of which they are a
part should be allowed to die gracefully.
I could go on and list many other accomp-
lishments-progress In preserving natural re-
sources, strengthening public power and pub-
lic works, foreign aid, national defense.
The list is long, the record impressive.
And best of all, the direction is forward
looking and rural oriented.
We believe that rural America faces a
great future.
This administration favors strengthening
and encouraging and insuring the survival of
the family farm and the rural communities
of which they are a part.
There are those who hold a different point
of view, those who would discontinue pro-
grams that bring comfort and hope to farm-
ers and rural families.
Fortunately the will of the people pre-
vails.
Let me give you an example.
Take the rural housing loan program ad-
ministered by the Farmers Home Adminis-
tration. InitiatedI
by the Democratic
gress, the program
for the first time
terest loans to fin
farm improvement
compete but rath
available from pri
while new program
gap too long existi
promise of a better
to families living
and dilapidated hol
Negative thinker
firmly convinced thl
people should have J
the people regardle~
might be.
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and developed hi 1949
leadership in the Con-
aade available to farmers
.ong-term reasonable-in-
,nce better housing and
Designed so as not to
r to supplement credit
lie lenders, this worth-
illled a housing financing
in rural America. The
home brought new hope
11 termite-ridden shacks
,ses.
tried to stymie the bill,
t the Government of the
o part in seeking to help
of how bad conditions
But the voice of 4;te people was heard and
the bill was passed.
Today, after 15 ars and major improve-
ments in 1961 andl 1962, the housing loan
program as administered by the Farmers
g better housing to all
s who are unable to fi-
through other means.
citizens, farm labo
decent place to live
are far ahead of sch -dule. Losses amount to
less than two one-b ndredths of 1 percent of
the principal advan 'd.
he success of this pro-
r guiding light to other
,w financing rural hous-
r the first time.
s clear and dramatic re-
that means so much
.-the rural community
n of the Farmers Home
program that has been
vantage by Destin.
kept this program un-
fifties.
aced $34 million to fi-
throughout the country.
e beginning.
luring the coming year
Ndministration will ad-
water loans, up 91 per-
'his program must move
e progress made so far
-,ommunities still lack
The positive appro
nmunities still have to
ire water, ration water
tout water.
n-days of employment
provided through the
systems financed since
are in operation, these
264 million gallons of
ling fire protection, en-
In open, attracting new
idustries to rural areas.
ch, the forward-looking
ill prevail.
dawning.
ulty, the independence,
people possess to capl-
hat the people working
merit have made avail-
istrated nowhere more
n the community of
You have shown he way. Others have
joined with you,
We have a great 4orld to live in, we are
beginning to realize ow much we can attain
if we but work, and `Il to do so.
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