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A7580 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX September 1
contributed greatly to the disinclina-
tion of the public to participate in their
government, in politics, if you please.
After all if we are to have representative
government the people must participate
in it through their representatives and
in choosing and electing their repre-
sentatives. Lobbying in essence is noth-
ing more than the people participating
in their government. It should be en-
couraged not discouraged.
There are improper lobbying tech-
niques. Falsely accusing another of im-
proper lobbying techniques is itself an
improper technique. These improper
techniques should be attacked but when
they are attacked one should be careful
to make it clear that it is the improper
technique not lobbying itself that is the
basis of the adverse criticism. Good lob-
bying should be encouraged.
Frankly, I have been shocked by both
Time and Life magazines. Nor is it just
Time and Life. They merely reflect an
approach to public debate that is all too
common today in our country. But Time
and Life seek the image of promoters of
the best in public morals and to a great
degree they deserve this image.
I want to say something else. I think
a great,deal of the criticism of the letter
of James Carey is just as off base as some
of the things Carey said in his letter.
The fact that his letter said. his group
was going to try to beat those who had
voted for the Landrum-Griffin bill I
thought was perfectly proper. If we
want our people active in Government
they,certainly should try to beat rep-
resentatives they think are not good and
elect those they think are good. My
quarrel with Carey is that he does not
think people can disagree with him un-
less they are tools, bigots, or uninterested
in the welfare of the common man. I
answered his letter by accepting his chal-
lenge at the polls, but appealing to him
to keep the public debate on the facts
and logic of the issue and off the attacks
on the integrity of those with whom he
disagreed.
Lest there be any misunderstanding I
should mention that I basically disagree
with Mr. Zagri on the Landrum-Griffin
bill. I voted for it after thorough study
and with conviction that this was in the
best interests of the general public and
of the unions themselves. Furthermore,
the powerful Teamsters union headed by
Harold Gibbons, another one of my con-
stituents, has provided the basis of my
opposition each time I run for election
in a district which has powerful labor
organization. There is little question in
my mind that they will continue to pro-
vide this opposition.
Here is Mr. Zagri's letter, I think it
is up to his accusers to prove their case.
I will be happy to place in the RECORD
the reply the editors of Life make to Mr.
Zagri:
AuGOST 4, 1969.
EDITOR, LIFE MAGAZINE,
New York City, N.Y.
DEAR SIR: The editorial in Life's Issue of
July 27, titled "Danger: Hoffa Man at Work,"
is so grossly inaccurate and so brazenly un-
fair to the Teamsters and to myself that I
cannot let it pass without a protest.
First of all, I most emphatically deny that
I have ever threatened any Member of Con-
gress with political reprisals of any kind,
no matter how they choose to vote. I have
far too much respect for our Nation's law-
makers to approach any of them with any-
thing but the most complete courtesy. I
hereby challenge any of the three Repre-
sentatives you mention, Mr. UDALL, Mr.
THospsoN, or Mrs. GREEN to cite one ex-
ample of- unethical conduct on my part.
I might add that you are completely
wrong regarding the lady from Oregon's un-
ladylike departure from character." She
most certainly never used the phrase you
quote to me and I'm sure she never would.
Never at any time have I used the name
of Speaker RAYBURN and again I challenge
you to cite a single, occasion on which I
have.
We of labor are well aware that the right
kind of labor reform legislation would bene-
fit the Nation, just as business reform legis-
lation would also, but we are convinced that
none of the bills now under consideration
could possibly do anything but great harm
to all organized labor.
In this connection, informed labor rela-
tions experts are well aware of the ironic
fact that the Teamsters Union, admittedly
the ;prime target of all the proposed new
measures, would survive under even the
toughest bill, whereas most other unions
could not.
Nevertheless, we of the Temasters Union,
as members of organized labor, undertook
a drive to defeat pending laws which we feel
to be punitive rather than corrective, and
which we fear would eventually eradicate all
the great gains made by labor since the
Wagner Act emancipated the working man.
In every case when we have opposed a
measure which we considered harmful to
labor we have suggested an alternative
which we felt would be of actual benefit.
Since our campaign began we have fol-
lowed the classic patterns adhered to by
groups seeking to enlighten and influence
their congressional representatives:
1. We met with Congressmen, most of
whom were unaware of the key punitive
sections of the proposed bills, and explained
to them just why we objected to these
sections.
2. We urged our members to contact their
Congressmen and voice their feelings on such
antilabor measures.
3. We sought wherever possible to bring
about personal metings between Congress-
men and their constituents for discussions
of the merits and demerits of the pending
bills.
Our methods resemble nothing so much as
your own when you urge, as you have re-
peatedly, that your readers contact their
Congressmen and demand severe new labor
reform laws, and they are no more sinister
and no more "dirty" to quote from your
editorial.
We are using the most fundamental of
the democratic processes: Let your Con-
gressman know how you feel about some-
thing he is going to vote on. If informing
our own members of the activities and vot-
ing records of their Congressmen is unfair
pressure then there is not an important seg-
ment of American business that is not
equally unfair, because this is standard pro-
cedure. If, as Life magazine wrote, Speak-
er RAYBURN himself offered to campaign per-
sonally on behalf of any one in Congress who
feels that his chances of reelection have
been endangered by my activities, then we
are certainly justified in campaigning for
what we believe to be right.
In closing, to attribute to me so much
power-as our editorial does- is absurd and
unrealistic. The opposition arrayed against
the other labor spokesmen and myself con-
sists of an almost limitless army of lobby-
ists, lawyers, and public relations experts,
backed by inexhaustible money- and re-
sources of every kind, all of them under
direct orders from the enemies of labor to
stop at nothing until organized labor as we
know it today is destroyed forever.
Yours truly,
Hon. Richard L. Neuberger, of Oregon,
Reports Ovrwhelming Passage by
House of Representatives of Federal
Employees Health Bill and States Views
for a Strong Advisory Council
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. RICHARD L. NEUBERGER
OF OREGON
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Tuesday, September 1, 1959
Mr. NEUBERGER. Mr. President, it
is indeed a pleasure for me to report that
the House of Representatives this after-
noon passed S. 2162, to provide a health
benefits program for Government em-
ployees, by an overwhelming margin of
381 to 4. Our bill earlier had passed the
Senate on July 16 by a similar over-
whelming vote of 81 to 4.
As chairman of the Insurance and
Health Subcommittee of the Senate Post
Office and Civil Service Committee, I
must confess that there are important
differences between our Senate passed
bill and the bill that passed the House of
Representatives this afternoon.
One of the important differences be-
tween the two versions of the bill is with
respect to the Advisory Council which
has the duty of - advising the Civil Serv-
ice Commission regarding the adminis-
tration of the- Federal employees health
benefits program. In this connection, it
is worth emphasizing that Government
employees are paying at least 50 percent
of the cost of the program.
Mr. President, so that the Senate may
be fully aware of the importance of the
Advisory Council and the issue involved,
I ask unanimous consent to have printed
in the Appendix of the RECORD, corre-
spondence I have received from the
American Hospital Association.
There being no objection, the corre-
spondence was ordered to be printed in
the RECORD, as follows:
AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION,
Washington, D.C., August 20, 1959.
The Honorable RICHARD L. NEUBERGER,
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Commit-
tee, Senate Office Building, Washington,
D.C.
DEAR SENATOR NEUBERGER: The attached
copy of our letter to Senator JOHNSTON ex-
presses our particular concern with respect
to the House version of the bill providing
health insurance to Federal employees.
We urge that the Senate insist upon the
inclusion of the Advisory Council to insure
that the program is administered in a fully
effective manner.
Sincerely. yours,
KENNETH WH.LIAMSON,
Associate Director,
American Hospital Association.
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sires, atomic weapons and vast land armies,
the risk of total destruction becomes much
greater than in 1939. How can one say that
the old fatalities have vanished when new
and worse ones have taken their place?
The argument, in short, is that although
the protagonists in the drama may have
changed, Russia eclipsing Germany and
China taking Japan's place as aggressors and
instigators, the same conditions of inter-
national rivalry, competitiveness, imperial
pressure and naked force exist today as they
did in 1914 or 1939 and it is only a matter
of time before they erupt once more into
universal war.
These risks cannot be minimized. There
are obvious ways in which communism is
more truly formidable than Hitler's Germany
could ever be. In Russia it is based upon a
solid established state power that has carried
its people through a vast expansive revolu-
tion, not upon a power-drunk lunatic Nazi
party able only to plunge the nation into
total war within 7 years of seizing the ap-
paratus of government.
The Soviet Union commands vast space and
resources equal to America's and has deter-
mined to mobilize a larger percentage of
them for the instruments of force. All
around the world, communism has a policy
and an appeal-based on its own. rapid in-
dustrialization-that can catch the imagi-
nation of peoples struggling to modernize
their States. Such an appeal was utterly
closed to Hitler with his racial nonsense of
Aryan superiority.
China, too, by the vastness of its popula-
tion and the prestige of its traditional Asian
predominance, must act as an influence of
incalculable power, provided it can demon-
strate communism as a quick path to growth
in. overpopulated territories. The Com-
munist powers are thus much more truly
formidable than the Nazi explosion, just as,
to give but one analogy, the imperial Con-
fucian state of China-for all its bureau-
cratic despotism- had a lasting power de-
nied to the marauding Mongol conquerors of
the Asian steppes.
Yet it can be argued that the very formid-
ableness and rootedness of communism put
its threat and pressure in a very different
category from the plunging. aggressions of
1914 and 1939. As the revolutions become
consolidated, their leaders are in some meas-
ure acquiring a mood of conservatism or at
least of conservation, There can be no
doubt, for instance, that Mr. Khrushchev
Is serious in his determination to catch up
with American living standards-although,
after his American visit, he may find the road
longer than he thought-and the Chinese
Communists no less serious in their aim of
surpassing Western European production
within a decade.
Russia certainly and China possibly have
the resources and the elbow room for such
a heroic transformation, provided they also
have peace. Whatever their theoretical
Marxist beliefs about the ultimate victory of
world communism, there is no doubt about
the immediate goal and that is internal de-
velopment and consolidation. No wild talk
of conquest, no open boasts of taking over
the Ruhr-as Hitler once boasted of appro-
priating the Ukraine-spur the Russians on
to believe in easy wealth at others' expense.
The great theme is the work, ingenuity and
sustained effort needed at home to show the
superiority of communism to an admiring
world.
For the same reason, there seems no im-
mediate likelihood of direct Communist
aggression In the world at large. Commu-
nist agents may be active, local leaders
wooed, arms, aid, and trade dispatched, Com-
tnunist technicians ordered to remote capi-
tals. But Soviet troops do not march into
fUrkuk when General Kassim shows signs of
checking local Communist activity. There
is no Soviet airdrop on Ghana If Dr. Nkrumah
excludes Communists from all positions of
trust. Most paradoxical of all, Soviet aid to
the Aswan Dam continues while President
Nasser keeps his local Communists in jail.
In other words, the Russans and the Chi-
nese will exploit all the possible openings
for Communist influence-but exploit them
short of open conflict. This is tiresome, diffi-
cult, and dangerous for the West. But it is
not fatal.
Today there is only one tactic from which
the world cannot recover-the tactic of direct
aggression. The Communists tried this
once-in Korea. The instant answer of force
with force has discouraged them from re-
peating the hideous experiment. In fact,
one can argue that the most profound reason
for believing that 1959 is not 1939-or 1914-
is that today the democracies have avoided
the appeasement of the 1930's which led
Hitler on from violence to violence; and the
Communists on their side have enough ra-
tional grasp to see what the Nazis never saw,
that violence leads to only one conclusion-
in the words of Marx, "to the common ruin
of the contending parties."
But if these are reasons for hope, they are
none for complacency. Every reason for be-
lieving that the fatality of 1914 and 1939 can
be avoided depends upon vigorous and sus-
tained Western policies-upon a united At-
lantic front, upon expansive international
economic policies in the free world which
permit Soviet aid and trade to be absorbed
without creating any dangerous absorption
into the Communist economic web, upon an
undeviating determination to maintain
equality of strength and to let the Com-
munists understand that determination.
Yet can one maintain today that these
conditions of safety and survival are all real=
ized in practice or that they are even fully
understood? We have to recognize that our
policies are still marked by improvisation,
impermanence, and inadequacy. We may no
longer be involved in cutthroat national
competition in the West. But neither are
we engaged on a systematic attempt to work
out what are the appropriate forms of perma-
nent, supranational association in the atomic
age.
The initiative that has brought France
and Germany closer together has so far driven
France and Britain further apart. Western
Europe is in danger of new economic divi-
sions and the common purposes of a possible
Atlantic community are hardly spelled out.
There is little sign that the Western nations
regard themselves as the nucleus of a last-
ing and cooperative international order co-
herent and purposeful enough to challenge
the Soviet aim of a Communist world.
Because of this central uncertainty, the
economic policies of an expanding world so-
ciety are neither widely understood nor even
partially practiced. The extreme severities
of the prewar business cycle may have been
overcome, but the kind of steady upward
thrust in the mature economies-which alone
can secure world growth under other than
Communist auspices-has not been secured
or even formally sought. Twice in the last
7 years sharp falls in Western activity have
canceled-by way of lower export incomes-
all the benefit derived from Western aid to
the less developed areas. Aid itself has been
viewed as a stopgap measure for containing
the Communists rather than as a long-term
strategy for insuring stability in the troubled
post-colonial world where hounding popula-
tions, pressing on unmobilized resources,
threaten economic decline.
And the periods of stagnation, which
greatly increased pressure to reduce budgets
and cut public expenditure, have helped to
whittle away the effectiveness of Western de-
fense. We may not be the flabby, irresolute
weaklings of the 1930's. But there is no
secret about Russia's growing preponderance
in both missiles and conventional arms and
equally there is no genuine urgency in the
West to redress the balance.
In short, every policy which hopefully dis-
tinguishes the present from the despairs of
the past has about it some note of weak-
ness-inadequacy of scale, uncertainty of
purpose, a quality of impermanence and in-
decision, a sense of reacting to others' pres-
sure, not of boldly seeking the initiative our-
selves. We may have done very much better.
But are we doing well enough?
There should be no discouragement in this
question for we have it in our power to give
the proper answer. The postwar world has
already shown-with the Marshall plan, with
colonial independence, with foreign aid, with
the Korean struggle, with the movement to-
ward European unity, with the American in-
volvement in world affairs-that the Western
Powers have recovered a capacity to think
and act freshly which seemed totally absent
between the wars.
Anyone who grew up in the thirties could
be conscious only of doors closing, of lights
failing, of the forces of violence and un-
reason steadily gaining the upper hand. To-
day there need be no such sense of fatality.
The field of action open to the Western Pow-
ers over most of the world is limited only
by their vision, their resolution, and their
generosity. No nagging economic limita-
tions stand in their way provided they main-
tain their growth. New nations, no longer
hampered by political dependence, are ready
to cooperate with them in new ways to sat-
isfy their hopes and needs. It is a world of
change and movement and "aspiration from
which the rigidity and the claustrophobia of
the prewar system have been blasted away.
For all the terrors and horrors of the last
20 years, their outcome is not a repetition of
disaster but a new world of opportunity. We
may still lose it. We may shirk its risks, we
may miss its possibilities. But this is not a
matter of fatality or iron destiny. It is at
last a matter of free choice.
Good Lobbying Should Be Encouraged
SPEECH
or
HON. THOMAS B. CURTIS
or MISSOURI
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, August 31, 1959
Mr. CURTIS of Missouri. Mr.
Speaker, I am putting in the RECORD a
copy of the letter that Sidney Zagri sent
to Life magazine in answer to the charge
that he had used improper lobbying
techniques in presenting the Teamsters
Union position on labor reform legisla-
tion.
I observed Mr. Zagri's lobbying tech-
niques and discussed them with many
of my colleagues. Mr. Zagri is a con-
stituent of mine and I was interested
for that and other reasons. To date I
have heard Only vague charges such as
the one in Life's editorial and a recent
article in Time magazine that his tech-
niques were other than proper. These
rumors have been unsubstantiated.
I am quite disturbed at this constant
attack on lobbying by all sides. The
attack on lobbying and lobbyists is an
improper technique in itself to pass or
defeat legislation. These attacks have
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AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION,
Washington, D.C., August 19, 1959.
The Honorable OLIN D, JOHNSTON,
Chairman, Senate Post Office and Civil
Service Committee, Senate Office Build-
ing, Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR JOHNSTON: We have fol-
lowed with great interest the development
of legislation to provide health insurance
for Federal employees and their families.
In our testimony before the House commit-
tee, we endorsed and urged the committee
to adopt S. 2162 substantially as passed by
the Senate because we felt it was a very
desirable bill and in the best interest of the
people for whom you were striving to pro-
vide protection.
We are greatly concerned with certain
aspects of the bill which has now been
reported out by the House committee. One
of these, we believe, is of such significance
to the effectiveness of the legislation in ac-
tually meeting health needs that we feel
impelled to call it to your attention in the
hope that action may be taken to remedy
the situation,
The House version of the bill provides for
an Advisory Committee which does not ful-
fill the purpose of the Advisory Council as it
was provided for in the Senate bill. The
proposal in the House is for a committee
limited to employees and their representa-
tives, with no participation by individuals
experienced and knowledgeable in health
matters. This omission, we believe, is the
more serious because the agency responsible
for the administration of the program is
itself not a health agency and is not ex-
perienced in the development of health pro-
grams and services.
It is our belief that a major point to be
kept in mind is that the legislation deals
with the health of Federal workers and their
families. The proposal has serious health
implications quite apart from the financial
and administrative aspects, as important as
these are. These health implications, of
course, will be seriously affected by the man-
ner in which the bill is administered. Be-
cause of the number of people involved and
the prestige of the Federal Government,
moreover, the manner in which this program
is administered is likely to have an impor-
tant effect on the provision of health serv-
ices and' the development of the health
prepayment movement throughout the
country.
There are within the Federal Government
several agencies and individuals widely ex-
perienced and highly skilled in health mat-
ters. We believe the best interest of Fed-
eral employees would be served by providing
assurance in the legislation that the advice
of such persons will be considered by the
administrators of the program. Further, in-
asmuch as the health services to be pro-
vided will be rendered in civilian facilities
and by civilian health personnel, it would
be well to utilize also the advice and con-
sultation of knowledgeable individuals from
the civilian health field. We believe the
purposes can best be served by requiring in
the legislation that an Advisory Council be
established with representatives selected
from among the agencies of the Federal
Government operating health programs,
such as the Army, Navy, Air Force, Public
Health Service, and the Veterans' Adminis-
tration; and further, that at least one phy-
sician active in the private practice of medi-
cine and at least one civilian. hospital ad-
ministrator be included on the Council. In
addition to these above representatives, it is,
of course, essential that there be adequate
representation of Federal employees them-
selves as the consumers of the services.
We would recommend further that a pro-
vision be made for at least quarterly meet-
ings of'the Advisory Council and for publi-
cation of all recommendations.
It will be noted that we do not recom-
mend that the carrier organizations be rep-
resented on the Council. It is assumed that
the administrators will have day-to-day con-
tact with the carrier representatives. Such
persons, however, will not be in a position
to function in the same manner as would
the members of an Advisory Council.
We cannot state too strongly the need for
the administrators of this program to be re-
quired to meet with and to consider the ad-
vice and recommendations of individuals ac-
tive in the provision of health services as
provided for in the Advisory Council out-
lined above.
We urge, Mr. Chairman, that the Senate
insist upon the inclusion of an Advisory
Council which will make an effective con-
tribution to the administration of the pro-
gram.
Sincerely yours,
KENNETH WILLIAMSON,
Associate Director,
American Hospital Association.
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Benson-Eisenhower Corn Program Pro-
duces New Headaches
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. NEAL SMITH
OF IOWA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, September 1, 1959
Mr. SMITH of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, the
following article appeared in the August
issue of the Iowa Farm and Home Reg-
ister published by the Des Moines Sunday
Register. This article shows clearly that
Iowa farmers do understand agricultural
economics a, lot better than the Depart-
ment of Agriculture officials who have
claimed that lower supports and no con-
trols would adjust supplies in line with
demand, and it shows what is happening
under the Benson-Eisenhower corn pro-
gram. You will also notice the great con-
trast between the interviews in this arti-
cle and those widely publicized interviews
recently conducted by Sam Lubbell.
While I am sure Mr. Lubbell's intentions
were good, he obviously did not know
enough about farming to conduct an in-
telligent interview of farmers. The re-
porter, Mr. GLENN CUNNINGHAM, knows
how to interview farmers, and this article
shows that :[owa farmers do know what
kind of a program will work better, it
contributes to an understanding of what
Iowans are doing and saying about the
corn situation, and it is timely in view
of our increasingly serious farm problem:
WHAT IOWANS ARE DOING AND SAYING ABOUT
THE BIG CORN CROP
(By GLENN CUNNINGHAM)
The prospect of a. bumper corn crop in
Iowa from the largest acreage in history poses
an acute storage problem for farmers. Bins
and cribs on many farms are already filled
with corn from previous years.
Linked closely to the storage situation are
several other serious and perplexing problems,
among them the probable price of corn at
harvesttime, the question of future livestock
programs, and what to do with the corn once
it is in storage.
The price of corn at harvesttime is any-
body's guess now, but with an alltime record
crop in prospect, some of the folks in the big
producing areas expect to see new crop corn
sell for as little as 65 cents a bushel.
However, with Government controls abol-
ished and all corn grown this year eligible
for price support, many farmers are already
moving to buy or build additional storage
to avail themselves of Government price
protection.
With hog and beef cattle numbers at rec-
ord levels and the prospect of lower prices
for meat animals in the months ahead,
farmers are in a quandary as to future feed-
ing programs.
Although a few of the in-and-outers are
now getting back into hog production, most
farmers seem to feel that this is no time to
expand any feeding operations.
The tendency seems to be toward a gen-
eral policy of "holding the line"-continu-
ing feeding programs at about the same level
as in the past, with some shifting to cheaper,
plainer feeder cattle to lessen the risk.
Those who have been out of hog produc-
ton and who are now getting back in are
finding it advantageous from the standpoint
of low-priced brood sows. And they're
guessing that low hog prices won't last too
long.
The demand for storage facilities of all
types-and for driers and drying equipment
from farmers who harvest their corn early
to prevent field losses-is at an all-time high
for this early in the season.
The, government is encouraging farmers
to build additional storage, the county ag-
ricultural stabilization and conservation
(ASC) offices making 5-year loans to help
farmers purchase or put up the facilities
they need.
Walter Bradley, implement dealer at Al-
gona, says many farmers are just now start-
ing to take care of their corn and other grain
on their own farms, that in the past they
have relied too much on elevators in town.
"Many farmers just now are realizing
that government-financed storage of their
grain has built tremendous elevators," he
says. "They've decided to capitalize on the
situation and put up their own storage and
get the government storage fees themselves
on grain they reseal."
A landowner in the Cylinder area bought
14 steel storage structures from Bradley's
firm, Each structure will store 1,700
bushels-a total of 23,800 bushels of corn.
Managers of ASC offices in northwestern
Iowa say they are getting many inquiries
about Government loans for acquiring addi-
tional storage. There has been a big increase
in corn acreage in this area.
The trend seems to be to permanent-type
storage, and a big boom in construction of
silos on farms where they are feeding cattle.
More- and more farmers are picking corn
early and storing high-moisture shelled corn.
George Damman of Sanborn and his
unmarried sons, Bob, 27, and Glenn, 25, who
have 700 acres of corn this year, are buying
40,000 to 60,000 bushels of new storage and
a second drier this year. They 'use a picker-
Sheller, pick early and dry the corn.
W. H. Holiday, ASC manager in Clay Coun-
ty (Spencer) said in late July that his
office already had made several storage fa-
cility loans and that he expected a lot of
temporary storage--such as snow fence
cribs-to be built to help handle this year's
crop.
"I haven't yet seen a poor field of corn,"
Holiday said. "A lot of the corn was shoot-
ing tassels by July 10, which is quite early.
The crop looks as good as in 1948 but, of
course, it isn't in the crib yet."
Art Rohwer, ABC manager in O'Brien
County (Primghar) estimates that there is
a 30-percent increase in corn acreage in
O'Brien County this year and that _ yield
prospects are the best since 1948.
"When you throw the gates open (abolish-
ment of corn acreage controls) and offer a
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support price of $1.04 a bushel and say to
the farmers, 'Raise all you want to,' that's
what they did," says Rohwer.
Jake Peelen, ASC chairman in O'Brien
County, says he doesn't know what is going
to be done with all of the corn, but that
the best thing would be to feed it to live-
stock and convert it into meat.
"It takes about 7 pounds of corn to make
1 pound of meat," he points out, "but to
raise meat a farmer needs a profit. And
hogs right now are losing money for farmers
who raise them."
Olaf Twedt, Estherville, has purchased 200
brood sows and is buying 1,000 feeder pigs--
his first venture in swine in the last 10
years. He and a son-in-law farm 900 acres.
Twedt, who owns additional land which is
rented out, says the Government made a
mistake in dropping corn acreage controls
and making price supports available on all
corn grown, regardless of the acreage planted.
"You had less corn raised under acreage
controls when supports were restricted to
those who complied with planting allot-
ments," he says, and advises:
"Restore controls and increase the support
price for those complying."
Some farmers blame Secretary of Agricul-
ture Ezra Taft Benson for the avalanche of
corn which is coming.
"What will we do with corn?" comments
George Bentley, 53, a farmer near Onawa in
the Missouri river bottom. "That's Benson's
problem. And it looks like he will have
plenty of it to look after."
Joe Dewaele, 46, a neighbor, agrees with
Bentley that there is little likelihood of
greatly increased livestock feeding because
of the price situation and uncertainties of
feeding profits.
Near Goldfield, another farmer, Stanley
Sampson, 36, says, "Hog prices are getting
down to where there's no profit in raising
them." Sampson's father, Steve, 70 and re-
tired, says hogs should bring $18 to provide
a fair profit.
Earl Gollhefer, of the Charter Oak Grain
Co. at Charter Oak, says a lot of corn is fed
in his area, where the trend is to earlier
harvesting and storing of chopped or ground
high-moisture corn in silos for feed.
He says most of the crop looks good now
but that some late-planted corn may need
extra time-2 more weeks-before frost to
mature.
Everett Halstead, Ida County extension di-
rector, says farmers are buying steel bins-
for shelled corn-and other types of perma-
nent storage for ear corn, all equipped with
air ducts and fans for artificial drying or
for keeping corn in good condition.
Halstead says it is difficult to understand
why some farmers are going into the hog
business with prices moving slowly down-
ward and the prospect of heavy hog market-
ing for many months ahead.
Virgil Rohlf, ASC manager at Algona
(Kossuth County), says the big increase in
corn acreage there this year is on the 38 per-
cent of the county's farms which complied
with allotments when they were in effect.
"The 1959 crop looks wonderful," he says.
"It looks like 100 bushels per acre." He pre-
dicts that new corn will sell for as low as
75 cents a bushel during harvest.
Rhoif and members of the county ASC
committee-Richard Anderson of Ledyard,
George Wolf of Algona, and Andrew Fang-
Inen of Bancroft-agree that the trend in
that county Is toward raising more beef
cattle and fewer hogs.
Concern over the big volume of old corn
reserves and the big crop in prospect is ex-
pressed by Kenneth Reed, a young farmer
who lives in Kossuth county near the Min-
nesota border.
"It's quite a worry," he said, "and it isn't
right the way It's being done now. The
price is down on hogs and there are an awful
lot of cattle and hogs being fed. Nobody
knows what's likely to happen."
George Eden, Reed's brother-in-law living
southeast of Swea City, says, "We're set for a
tremendous amount of corn, and I'm afraid
It simply means more surplus for the Gov-
ernment. I'd like to see a lot of it made
into alcohol to be mixed with gasoline,
"I hope the fellows feeding cattle don't
get discouraged."
The Kossuth County ASC already has ar-
ranged 20 Government loans for financing
more grain storage for farmers. And in late
July there were three or four farmers a day
in the office inquiring about storage facility
loans.
Alvin Rasmussen, near Burt, and Johnie
Tobin, near Swea City, express concern over
the uncertainty of livestock prices. Ras-
mussen quit cattle feeding when feeders
got high, is fearful of starting feeding again.
Tobin, a swine producer, says he sold brood
sows recently for $36 a head, compared with
$80 a head last year. He abandoned plans
for raising fall pigs because of lower prices.
"I was planning on four farrowings a
year," Tobin says, "but after prices kept
slipping, I sold my sows. As it is, I'm not
going to quit raising hogs, but I'm not go-
ing to hit it too heavy."
Another Kossuth County farmer, who asks
that his name not be used, has this to say:
"Ninety percent of the farmers feel like
I do. It's not the time to jump in or ex-
pand. And there'll be some cutback on
hogs."
This farmer, who feeds cattle and raises
around 150 pigs a year, predicts that the
Government will eventually get a lot of the
corn being produced this year, but that more
and more corn will be stored a long time
on the farm.
Max Soeth, former State ASC chairman
and now vice president of the Emmet County
State Bank at Estherville, says the present
Government plan of price support for all
corn raised won't work.
He proposes a back-to-grass plan similar
to one used during the early years of Gov-
ernment crop-control programs. Under this
plan, there would be a higher support price
on corn and a farmer would be required to
reduce corn acreage a certain percentage.
He would receive a Government payment for
seeding such land to grass.
A' FL- CIO Interview with Hon. Alexander
Wii ;~y, of Wisconsin, on Khrushchev
Visit to United States
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. ALEXANDER WILEY
OF WISCONSIN
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Tuesday, September 1, 1959
Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, we recog-
nize that the upcoming visit of Premier
Khrushchev is creating a wide variety
of reactions among our citizens through-
out the country.
These include strong views both for
and against the visit. The predominant
feeling, however, appears to be that-
now that the invitation has been ex-
tended and accepted-the American peo-
ple should back up the President and
create the elimate that will enable the
best results to be obtained from the ex-
change visit between President Eisen-
hower and Premier Khrushchev.
Recently, I was privileged to discuss
various aspects of the Khrushchev visit
on the AFL-CIO broadcast "Washington
Reports to the People." I ask unani-
mous consent to have the interview
printed in the Appendix of the RECORD.
There being no objection, the inter-
view was ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows:
EXCERPTS OF REMARKS PREPARED FOR DELNEAY
DY SENATOR ALEXANDER WILEY, REPUBLIC ,,N
OF WISCONSIN, RADIO AND NEWSPAPER NET-
WORKS OF THE AFL--CIO
Question. Senator WILEY, do you feel the
invitation to Mr. Khrushchev to visit this
country is a good idea?
Senator WILEY. Overall, I feel the upcom-
Ing visit has possibilities for positive accom-
plishments; at the same time, there Ere
dangers. On the positive side, the visit c in
(1) correct a few of Mr. Khrushchev's m-s-
conceptions about this country; (2) confirm
our peaceful intentions; (3) emphasize the
unity of the country behind its leadership;
(4) give the Soviet leader a real knowledge
of the high standard of living of Mr. azd
Mrs. Average America; and (6) again empl a-
size that, although our policies are peacef ul,
we will not be pushed around.
Globally, I would hope that the Khru-
shchev visit would not be interpreted as a
sign that we are "going soft" on communism.
President Eisenhower-the standard bearer
of our policy-has made a decision that, in
his judgment, will best serve the in.tereats
of our security and world peace. The Amer-
ican people-in a united, bipartisan man-
ner-I believe should now give full support
to that decision,
Question. Do you have any real fears of
Mr. Khrushchev's personal safety while he is
in this country?
Senator WILEY. Naturally, I believe that
all necessary security precautions should be
taken. There are a great many people--par-
ticularly from Poland, Hungary, and other
captive nations-who deeply resent, and
understandably so, the Premier's being in-
vited to this country.
For the public-and our allies--it should
be made abundantly clear that the invi-.a-
tion does not demonstrate approval of co:n-
munism, or of Communist tactics, that h,.ve
resulted in international tensions and dan-
gers to peace.
As a whole, however, I am confident that
the Nation will act in a mature and respcn-
sible manner.
Question. Senator WILEY, do you feel that
the American people might expect too much
from such a visit?
Senator WILEY. No. The years of the cold
war, I believe, have conditioned our peo-
ple to the Soviets' hard policies. As a rest It,
we don't expect any magical, overnight
change in Soviet programs.
Question, Do you think the exchange of
visits might lead to a summit meeting lager
on?
Senator WILEY. The decision for a summit
meeting-as I have stressed before-- re.its
squarely on President Eisenhower. As the
President has stated, such a decision woul -
and should-be based upon whether it
would make a constructive contribution 10-
ward easing tensions and resolving Eaat-
West differences.
The Eisenhower-Khrushchev exchar ge
visits may or may not make a contribution
toward justifying a summit conference.
Question. Do you think that the Khxu-
shchev trip might succeed in altering some of
his misconceptions of conditions In the
United States?
Senator WILEY. Yes. As a matter of fact,
I believe it would be worthwhile-to the
degree possible-to plan his trips and con-
tacts to achieve this objective.
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at any insurance thereunder on any em- of section 4, but (A) not less than $1.25 or
loyee shall cease upon his separation from more than $1.75 biweekly for an employee
he service or twelve months after discon- or annuitant who is enrolled for self alone,
inuance of his salary payments, whichever (B) not less than $3 or more than $4.25 bi-
iret occurs, subject to a provision which weekly for an employee or annuitant who
?gall be contained in the policy for ten- is enrolled for self and family (other than
orary extension of coverage and for toner- as provided in clause (C) of this paragraph),
on to an individual policy of life insur- and (C) not less than $1.75 or more than
nnce under conditions approved by the Corn- $2.5i . biweekly eenrolled for ekly for a female and employee a family or all -
"'(b) If upon such date as the insurance ing a nondependent husband.
would otherwise. cease the employee retires "(2) For an employee or annuitant en-
in an immediate annuity and (1) his re- rolled in a plan described under section 4 (3)
irement is for disability or (2) he has com- or (4) for which the biweekly subscription
leted twelve years of creditable service, as charge is less than $2.50 for an employee or
3etermined by the Commission, his life in- annuitant enrolled for self alone or $6 for
surallce only may, under conditions deter- an employee or annuitant enrolled for self
.nined by the Commission, be continued and family, the contribution of the Govern-
Nithout cost to him, but the amount of such ment shall be 50 per centum of such sub-
insurance shall be reduced by 2 per centum scription charge, except that if a nonde-
thereof at the end of each full calendar pendent husband is a member of the family
month following the date the employee at- of a female employee or annuitant who is
tains age sixty-five or retires, whichever is enrolled for herself and family the contri-
later, subject to minimum amounts pre- button of the Government shall be 30 per
t f such subscription charge.
um o
17993
intent of providing equitable benefits for
all Federal employees.
After diligent study and lengthy hear-
ings, our committee amended the Senate
bill in order to provide legislation which
is workable and which provided benefits
for all Federal employees. The fact
that the other body has agreed to the
House language is further proof of the
success of our efforts.
The chairman of the committee and
myself worked for a number of days fol-
lowing our hearings and developed the
draft which upon my motion was ap-
proved unanimously in our committee
and the House also approved it over-
whelmingly.
The three amendments which the
Senate has made to this legislation do
not relate to the basic proposal and I
am prepared, therefore, to support these
minor amendments, the affect of which
scribed by the Commission, but not less cen
than 25 per centum of the insurance in force "(3) There shall be withheld from the is to-
preceding the first such reduction. Periods salary of each enrolled employee and the First. Make certain that the minimum
of honorable active service in the Army, Navy, annuity of each enrolled annuitant, and amounts for the bill will be available for
Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of there shall be contributed by the Govern- for se
the, United States shall be credited toward ment, amounts (in the same ratio as the the the purpose such plans over and
the required twelve years provided the em- contributions of such Gmployee or annuitant above the 3 percent for reserve and I
ployee has completed at least five years of and the Government under paragraphs (1)
civilian service. and (2)) which are necessary for the ad- perercecent nt f for Makes a grade administration.
n. position
"'(c) If upon such date as.the insurance ministrative costs and the reserves provided available if and when the Commission
would otherwise cease the employee is re- for by section 8(b).
ceiving benefits under the Federal Employees' "(4) There shall be withheld from the decides to combine the administration of
Compensation Act because of disease or in. salary of each enrolled employee or annuity the life Insurance, retirement, and
jury to himself, his life insurance may, as of, each enrolled annuitant so much as is health benefits programs.
provided in subsection (b), be continued necessary, after deducting the contribution Third. Adjusts the salary of the
during the period he is in receipt of such of the Government, to pay the total charge Executive Director of the Civil Service
benefits and held by the United States De- for his enrollment. The amount withheld Commission in line with what we have
partment of Labor to be unable to return to from the annuity of an annuitant shall be already, done with administrative we as-
duty.' equal to the amount withheld from the salary
"(e) The amendments made by subsections of an employee when both are enrolled in sistant secretaries of the several de-
"
(a), (b), and (c) shall take effect as of the same plan providing the same health partments.
August 17, 1954, except that (1) they shall benefits. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
not be applicable in any case in which the After section 13, insert a new section as the request of the gentleman from
employee's death or retirement occurred prior follows: Georgia?
to the date of enactment of this Act, and "SEc. 14. (a) The Chairman of the Com- (Mr. DAVIS of Georgia asked and was
(2) nothing therein shall be construed to mission is authorized to appoint in grade 18 (Mrgiven. DAVISiOn to ehis
and was
require salary withholdings for any period of the General Schedule of the Classification at this point i to extend xten RECORD.)
prior to the first day of the first pay period Act of 1949, as amended, an officer who shall
which begins after the date of enactment of have such functions and duties with respect Mr. DAVIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker,
re+iremen+ life insurance and heal+h
.re .est of the chairman of our
t th
a
e
The SPEAKER. Is there objection
to the request of the gentleman from
Georgia?
There was no objection.
The Senate amendments were concur-
red in.
A motion t ,xeco r vat land
table. _
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE'S HE
BENEFITS PROGRAM
uciicu ~a p.-,-- ao yuo vvau ask vu aun?? Comml;tee 1 adll abiiuig D-V ua?w?u.++....,.,
prescribe. Such positions shall be in adds- consent of the House to take up S. 2162
tion to the number of positions otherwise
rovides a health benefits pro-
hi
h
p
c
w
authorized by law to be placed in such gram for Federal employees. House
grade. The rate of basic compensation of agreement will send the measure on its
the Executive Director of the United States way to the' White House, where I am
Civil Service Commission shall be $19,000 sure it will be approved.
Renumber section 14 as section 15. of efforts of a number of years on the
Renumber section 15 as section 16. f b +1, Houses
o
b
mu-. # L1 v i,7 .,a `"? ? n "' 0 Mr. REES of Kansas. Mr. Speaker,
I ask unanimous consent to take from reserving the right to object-and I shall
pro ovide health a a heeallthth table benenefits bill (S: r program ) for e not object-?I ask unanimous consent to
Government pr employees, with m Senate extend my remarks at this point in the
amendments to the House amendment, RECORD.
objection to
and concur in the Senate amendments. The
the request SPEAKER. the Is there herele objececfrom
The Clerk read the title of the bill. Kansas?
The Clerk read the Senate amend- There was no objection.
mints, as follows: Mr. REES of Kansas. Mr. Speaker,
sectin: lieu of subsection (a) of section 7 in- may I direct the Members' attention to
"(a) Except as provided in paragraph (2) a statement which I made. on the floor
of this subsection, the Government contri- of the House when this legislation was
button for health benefits for employees or approved by the House on September 1.
annuitants enrolled in health benefits plans I wish to reemphasize the fact that when
under this Act, in addition to the contribu- the bill was referred to the House Post
tions required by paragraph (3), shall be 50
per centum of the lowest rates charged by Office and Civil Service Committee after
a carrier fora level of benefits offered by a having passed the other body, it was
plan under paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) unworkable and did not carry out the
ers a
part of many Mem
of congress. I particularly would like
to commend the chairman and the rank-
ing minority member of our Committee
on Post Office and Civil Service for
bringing the bill to our committee in the
form in which it was voted out unani-
mously, as well as our ranking majority
Member, the distinguished gentleman
from Louisiana [Mr, MORRISON], and
other sponsors of health benefits bills.
Through their efforts and the work of
the entire committee and the committee
-staff, a bill was developed which I believe
represents general concensus of opinion
developed during our detailed hearings
on this complex problem. We wanted to
be sure that the health program we ap-
proved would in fact be the kind of a
program which would meet the various
requirements of the 2 million Federal
employees who are expected to partici-
pate voluntarily.
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Briefly, these are the major provi- spirit which prevades this splendid little Mumford; Rev. Paul C. 'Reinert; Hor
sions: community and with which its kind and John M. Robsion, Jr., Member of Con
The bill makes basic and extended hospitable citizens are imbued has gress; Walter N. Rothschild; Hon. WiI.
health protection available to 2 million prompted them to be significant partici- Liam G. Stratton; Jouett Ross Todd; Dr
employees and their families-some 4.5 pants in this event of national im- William H. Townsend; Conrad L. Wirth;
million individuals-with the Govern- portance and magnitude. Their un- Hon. Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator-
ment contributing 50 percent, but not selfish dedication to this cause elicits together with their modest but mos; ablf
less than $1.25 or more than $1.75 bi- the admiration of all who love our coun- and alert staff have really compiled r
weekly for a single employee and not less try and its great leaders. record that any Commission authorizea
than $3 or more than $4.25 biweekly for The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Land by Congress can truly be proud to pos-
an employee and family, subject to cer- Corp., of Hodgenville, Ky., devised a bril- sess. As a concrete example of one of
tain special exceptions. lint __A----___ - .
separated employee may convert cover- no ow w 11 ned Lincoln lace farm
not o by y the Abraham m Lincoln Na-
age to a private plan without such exam.- tional Historical Park-the name of
ination, and no one is excluded because which is now ofli iaily changed to Abra-
of race, sex, health status, or-at first ham Lincoln's Birthplace-is being re-
opportunity to enroll-age. leased to schools, historical societies,
There is free choice, to suit each em- prominent citizens, and individuals for
ployee's needs, among four health their private ownership as historical
plans-a service plan, such as Blue heirlooms. It is a family keepsake, If
Cross-Blue Shield; an Indemnity plan, you please, that can and will be handed
such as certain insurance companies down from generation to generation
cifer; any one of several employee or- through the family so fortunate as to
ganization plans; and a comprehensive own its precious soil. In the words of
medical plan on either the group-prat- the corporation:
tice or individual-practice prepayment This property has been divided into square
basis. A wide range of hospital, surgi- foot sections to allow as many as possible to
cal, medical, an'd related benefits will be share in this wealth of American herit-
provided, and both service and Indem- age * * * a treasure with national signifi-
nity plans must have at least two levels cance which can be as d f
it has minted and sold over four;imes
as many of the new Lincoln penny this
year as the number of the old original
Lincoln penny. This brand new coin has
the usual picture of Lincoln an it but
there has been added on the reverse side
a beautiful des'^;n of the Lincoln Memo-
rial. I salute Hodgenville, Larue County,
our Kentucky Sesquicentennial Com-
mission, my colleagues on the Nation
Commission, and all of our Lincoln His-
torians, collectors, individuals, societies,
and organizations that have helped to
properly celebrate and to commemorate
the 150th birthday of that Great Amer-
ican-Abraham Lincoln.
of benefits. to generation with P a pride ra of m ownerrship generation AI?JUSTMT'NT OF COMMENCING
The Senate amendment make these second to none. DATES OF CIVIL SERVICE RETIRE-
minor changes in ,he House-passed bill: The truth of this Is borne out by the MENT ANNUITIES
The minimum Government bu- fact that the deed which was issued to Mr. DULFKI. Mr. Speaker, I ask
tions in the House bill are earmarkedarked for me, giving me actual fee simple title to unanimous consent for the immediate
purchase of health plans, with small 1 square foot, in section No. A-202-parcel consideration of the bill (H.R. 8289) to
added contributions required of the Gov- A, of the original Lincoln birthplace land, accelerate the commencing date of civil
ernment and the employees for the I is now framed and hanging in a promi- service retirement annuities, and for
percent administrative cost and the 3 nent place in my office here in Wash- other purposes.
percent contingency reserve provided by
Civil Service Commission is authorized
to appoint a grade GS-18 official with
such retirement and health and life in-
surance program duties as the Commis-
sion prescribes. The compensation of
the executive director of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission is adjusted to $19,000
annually, in accordance with what the
Congress recently did for the adminis-
trative assistant secretaries of Govern-
mnnt departments.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
Georgia?
There was no objection.
The Senate amendments to the House
A motion to reconsider was laid on the
table.
HODGENVILLE AND LARUE COUNTY,
KY., AND THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN
SESQUICENTENNIAL
(Mr. CHELF asked and was given per-
mission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his re-
marls.)
Mr. CHELF
Mr
S
eak
I
.
.
p
er,
want to ,_.... Ralph J. Buncne; Hon: Frank Chelf,
congratulate Hodgenville and Larue Member of Congress; Hon. Frank
County, Ky., on their participation in Church, U.S. Senator; Hon. Winfield K.
Vie Abraham Lincoln Sesquicentennial Denton, Member of Congress; Dr. John
this year. S. Dickey; Hon. Everett M. Dirsken,
The birthplace of Lincoln is located U.S. Senator; Hon. Paul H. Douglas,
near this enterprising town whose fine U.S. Senator; John B. Fisher; Hon. Wil-
ofrii~ials and citizens have taken a great liam E. Jenner, U.S. Senator; Hon. Peter
r-rt in t'ie cs'-ebration of this outstared- F. Mack, Jr., Member of Congress; Dr.
fag event. The progressive, cooperative R. Gerald McMurtry; Dr. L. Quincy
upon their wisdom and foresight in find-
ing such a unique and interesting way to
perpetuate the knowledge, understanding
and love of Abraham Lincoln..
As their Congressman representing the
Fourth Congressional Kentuck District, I
take pride in giving recognition to all
of those wonderful citizens of Larue
County, Ky., who have had a part, large
or small, during this Lincoln Sesqui-
centennial Year, in paying homage and
tribute to the Great Emancipator.
Truly it is an honor to be able to serve
such "salt of the earth" people here in
the House of Representatives.
In conclusion, I feel I would be dere-
lict in my duty if I did not say a few
words of praise about the magnificent
job that my fellow members on the Na-
tional Lincoln Sesquicentennial Com-
mission, operating here in Washington,
have done. These members--Hon. John
Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator, Chair-
man; Hon. F. Jay Nimtz, Member of
Congress, Vice Chairman; Prof. William
E. Baringer, Executive Director; Miss
Bertha S. Adkins; Hon. Leo E. Allen,
The SPFAKE?i,. Is there objectio:a to
the request of the gentleman from New
York?
There was no ob.ection.
The Clerk read the bill, as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That (a) sec-
tion 10 of the Civil Service Retirement Act
(70 Stat. 754; 5 U.S.C. 2200) Is amended-
(1) By striking out paragraph (2) of sub-
section (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the
following:
"(2) An annuity computed under this sub-
section shall commence on the day after the
retired employee or Member dies, and such
annuity or any right thereto shall terminate
on the last day of the month before the sur-
vivor's death or remarriage."
(2) By striking out the second sentence
in subsection (b) and inserting in lieu there-
of the following: "The annuity of such sur-
vivor shall commence on the day after the
retired employee or Member dies, and such
annuity or any right thereto shall terminate
on the last day of the month before the sur-
vivor's death."
(3) By striking out the second sentencc in
subsection (c) and inserting in lieu thereof
the following: "The annuity of such widow
or dependent widower shall commence on -:he
day after the employee or Member dies, end
such annuity or any right thereto slall
terminate on the last day of the month
before (1) death or remarriage of the widow
or widower (or (2) the widower's becoming
capable of self-support."
(4) By striking out the third sentence in
subsection (d) and inserting in lieu thereof
the following: "The child's annuity shall
commence on the day after the employee or
M^mber diet, rod ruck annuity or any right
thereto shall terminate on the last day of
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