However, it is noticeable that interest in the potential candidacy of the senior Senator from Maine for national office is not confined to New Hampshire or Maine; and in this connection I shall ask unanimous consent to have printed in the RECORD, as a part of my remarks, two editorials. One was published in the Washington Evening Star on November 12, and is entitled "God Bless 'Em." This editorial writer for the Washington Star has a tendency to be a bit facetious in writing the editorial, but I am sure that as time goes on, if the senior Senator from Maine becomes a serious candidate for national office, the facetiousness will wear off and the editorial writers for the Star will realize that it is serious business.

The second editorial is entitled "A Woman President?" This editorial is very thoughtful and well written, and was published on November 9 in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

I ask unanimous consent that both of these short editorials be printed at this point in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the editorials were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

[From the Washington Evening Star, Nov. 12,

1963]

GOD BLESS 'EM

"Women are irrational; that's all there is to that. Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags."

The voice was the voice of Henry Higgins, but the words are the words of wisdom.

Never more so than now when a woman is presenting herself as a candidate for President.

Never mind that the woman is MARGARET CHASE SMITH. Never mind that Mrs. SMITH is one of the ornaments and lights of the Senate, which for that matter, isn't saying as much as it once would have been. There is principle involved. She's a woman, and women are not, never have been, and never will be, suited to an office like the Presidency.

Mrs. SMITH to one side, women are irrational. They make lefthand turns from righthand lanes. They are incapable of grasping the elementary principle of maintaining some remote relationship between income and outgo. They eat pineapple and cottage cheese for lunch. There isn't one of them who has ever found out how to put the cap back on a simple, ordinary tube of toothpaste.

Can the American electorate be so bereft of sense that they really want one of these people for Chief Executive?

picture of a madam President standing eyeball to eyeball with Premier Khrushchev, or throwing out the first ball at the start of a major league season, but there was a time when lady wrestlers weren't envisioned either.

In any list of women mentioned as possible presidential aspirants, Mrs. SMITH's name must stand fairly high, on her record of 23 years' service in both Houses of Congress. Her refreshingly modest-and self-writtenbiography in the Congressional Directory reads merely: "MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Republican." There is a Democratic Congressman from Brooklyn who requires 52 lines in the directory to tell his story.

There have been hints that what the woman Senator from Maine is really seeking is the vice-presidential nomination, and this, to most political minds, seems to make more

sense.

By entering a few selected presidential primaries, she can test her strength as a votegetter outside her own State and perhaps convince the ultimate winner of the top place on the ticket that a woman named MARGARET CHASE SMITH is just the person he needs for a running mate. She has nothing to lose in such a venture, and—who knows?-she might end up as the first Vice President of her sex in America.

Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, will the Senator from Vermont yield? Mr. AIKEN. I yield.

Mr. MANSFIELD. There is an old saying to the effect that variety is the spice of life. I am delighted that now the Republican Party has at least three potential candidates in the field. I hope there will be many more.

So far as the distinguished senior Senator from Maine is concerned, she graces her party with dignity and honor. It is about time that the women began to exert themselves and be recognized in the field of politics. Such recognition is long overdue.

Mr. AIKEN. It certainly is; and I am glad to join the President and the majority leader and other leaders in both parties in taking seriously the possible candidacy of the senior Senator from Maine, who would lend not only grace but also distinction and resoluteness to any office she might hold.

PRESIDENT SUKARNO OF

INDONESIA

Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, this morning's edition of the Washington Post carries a very interesting article which states that yesterday the Ambassador from Indonesia called upon the Secretary of State and protested a speech

which I made on the floor of the Senate the other day, in paying my disrespects to Sukarno.

The article reads as follows:

INDONESIAN ENVOY PROTESTS "SLANDER" Indonesian Ambassador Zairin Zain protested to Secretary of State Dean Rusk yesterday what he termed the "slander" of Indonesia and President Sukarno by Members of Congress.

Zain handed Rusk a written protest in a 15-minute meeting at the State Department.

Among those who criticized Indonesia was Senator WAYNE MORSE, Democrat, of Oregon, who charged during debate on the foreign aid bill that Sukarno was corrupt.

Zain said he was wondering and stupified that this would happen in a civilized country.

"But when you give aid," he said, "you do not have the right to slander other nations and chiefs of state."

I do not know what the Secretary of State told the Ambassador, and I am not particularly interested in what he said, although I hope the Secretary of State explained to the Ambassador that the United States is a democracy. Of course, that word "democracy" would not be understood in Indonesia. I hope the Secretary told him that a democracy in the United States operates under our conseparation-of-powers docstitutional trine. Apparently the Indonesian Ambassador does not know that there is nothing the Secretary of State could do, even if he would, about what I say on the floor of the Senate whenever I think it is in the interest of the country to say whatever needs to be said.

Not only do I repeat, by reference, every disrespect I paid in my speech the other day to Mr. Sukarno, the tyrant of Indonesia, but I wish to add that I consider him not only a corruptionist, but also a threat to the peace of Asia. He is a dangerous aggressor. I believe the United States should cut him off at the pockets, because I do not think there is the slightest justification for giving aid to this aggressor.

MINE SAFETY IN METALLIC AND NONMETALLIC MINES

Mr. METCALF. Mr. President, during the 84th Congress, the Honorable Graham Barden, of North Carolina, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, created a special Subcommittee on Mine Safety in Metallic and Nonmetallic Mines.

I was privileged to act as chairman of that subcommittee, which included the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. ELLIOTT], the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. LANDRUM], the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. RHODES], and the gentleman from Montana, Mr. Fjare.

I ask unanimous consent that the report of that subcommittee, dated December 11, 1956, and printed as part of voluminous hearings, which included testimony from mine workers, operators, and owners, and experts from the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the Public Health Service, be printed at this point in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the report was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

REPORT OF SUBCOMMITTEE ON MINE SAFETY (METALLIC AND NONMETALLIC MINES) The Subcommittee on Mine Safety in Metallic and Non-Metallic Mines of the House Committee on Education and Labor has studied safety conditions in those mines by field inspections and observations in Virginia, Hibbing, and Duluth, Minn., in Butte, Mont., and Ouray, Colo., and has held 3 days of hearings in Washington where witnesses from the mining industry, labor, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the U.S. Public Health Service were heard.

Based upon these on-the-spot investigations and observations by the subcommittee members and upon the formal hearings, the subcommittee is of the unanimous opinion

that the overall subject of safety in the Nation's metallic and nonmetallic mines should be given further study, and that additional investigations should be made in Michigan, Alabama, Colorado, the tristate area of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, and such other places as a subsequent committee might find necessary.

The subcommittee recommends to the chairman and to the full Committee on Education and Labor of the U.S. House of Representatives that a new subcommittee be appointed in the 85th Congress, and that the hearings mentioned above, plus such other hearings as may be indicated, be held to the end that the subject of safety in metallic and nonmetallic mines be thoroughly explored. Respectfully submitted.

Mr. METCALF. Subsequent legislation, which became Public Law 87-300, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study and make recommendations for improving safety and health standards in the metallic and nonmetallic mining industry.

Secretary Udall chose to do so by creating the Mine Safety Study Board, headed by Mr. Paul Boyajian. Ably assisted by Mr. Thomas Shepich, Mr. Boyajian directed a 2-year study of 800 mines, quarries, and mills. The complete and comprehensive report, based on data collected by the Bureau of Mines, was released today. I ask unanimous consent that the press release describing it be printed at this point in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the press release was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

UDALL RECOMMENDS CHANGES TO IMPROVE SAFETY STANDARDS IN THE METAL MINING INDUSTRY

Recommendations for improving safety and health standards in the Nation's metallic and nonmetallic mining industry have been submitted in a report to Congress by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, following an intensive study authorized in 1961 under Public Law 87-300.

The recommendations would affect over 200,000 workers throughout the Nation and are contained in a two-volume report, covering all mineral mining activity, except coal and lignite. Secretary Udall said there were over 10,000 lost-time injuries and more than 200 fatal accidents last year in the industries covered by the report.

Secretary Udall's major recommendations

call for:

Establishment of advisory committees on which representatives of labor and management would serve to assist in the development of health and safety codes applicable to mineral mining and related operations.

Institutions of formal health and safety inspections and reports in mineral mines and related plants in accordance with developed codes of health and safety, as well as investigation of fatal accidents.

Provision for accurate and timely employment and injury reports on mineral and mining activities.

Secretary Udall also strongly urged that improved safety education programs for employees, supervisors, and operators be developed throughout the mineral industry.

The report was prepared by a Mine Safety Study Board headed by Mr. Paul Boyajian who guided the 2-year study, and the Department's Bureau of Mines.

Field teams staffed by the Bureau of Mines conducted health and safety studies at 800 mines, quarries, and mills which comprised a representative sample of metal mining activi

ties. In addition, investigations of as many as possible of the fatal accidents during the 2-year period were conducted by field teams.

Board Chairman Boyajian said that a welcome and significant improvement should result from congressional adoption of Secretary Udall's recommendations.

"The study has shown us what the major causes of injuries and fatalities are," he said, “and it has indicated a need for positive action. The Secretary's recommendations propose programs under which management, labor, and State and Federal agencies can cooperate to help make the Nation's metal and nonmetal mines safer places in which to work."

Copies of the report are available for inspection at the Mine Safety Study Board, room 5546, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mr. METCALF. Neither regulations nor legislation will eliminate mine accidents. But this excellent report and its recommendations aim at the heart of the problem areas of safety and health. If carried out, the recommendations will go a long way toward reducing deaths and serious injuries in the industry.

CHEMICAL PESTICIDES

Mrs. NEUBERGER. Mr. President, it

is now more than 1 year since Rachel Carson pierced the appalling veil of ig

norance and indifference which had shrouded this Nation's massive misuse of chemical pesticides for over a decade.

It is now 6 months since President Kennedy's Science Advisory Committee acknowledged the potent hazards inherent in the undisciplined and unregulated application of chemical pesticides.

During this interval the Senate has acted, and acted wisely, following the lead of the determined and enlightened junior Senator from Connecticut, to

eliminate the unconscionable practice of protest registrations. This practice now permits a manufacturer to market without warning a pesticide which has been declared hazardous as long as the manufacturer is appealing the Department's decision.

The Ribicoff bill, S. 1605, is a needed first step. A rational second step now awaits action by the Senate Commerce Committee: S. 1251, to require that pesticide labels inform the user of the product's potential hazard to fish or wildlife.

Last week, Carl W. Buchheister, president of the National Audubon Society, made a strong and reasoned plea for the enactment of this legislation.

Speaking to the society's 59th convention in Miami, Mr. Buchheister protested the failure of the Department of Agriculture either to respond appropriately to the evidence of the misuse of pesticides or to support S. 1251:

Why doesn't the farmer, or the gardener, or the timber grower have a right to know if, by using a certain chemical he will endanger the birds that frequent his fields or woods?

One farmer may choose to use this chemical, anyway, but at least he has a right to know. Another farmer, the one who values his wildlife, may choose a less toxic chemical, or turn to an alternate method of insect control.

A question put to the convention by Mr. Buchheister is a question well worth repeating here: "Why doesn't the Department of Agriculture want the consumer to have the facts?"

It is my sincere hope, Mr. President, that before the close of this year the Department of Agriculture will see fit to exercise its responsibility not only to the pesticide manufacturers but to every American who is concerned for the con

servation of our fish and wildlife resources and that the Department will see fit to endorse S. 1251.

If too many future winters pass unattended, we shall yet live to witness the coming of the "Silent Spring."

I ask unanimous consent that the New

York Times account of this speech be printed in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

UNITED STATES IS ASSAILED OVER PESTICIDES— CONSUMER IS NOT PROTECTED, AUDUBON HEAD CHARGES

(By John C. Devlin)

MIAMI, November 9.-The Agriculture Department was accused today of being more interested in helping to sell pesticide chemicals than in protecting the consumer's rights and welfare.

Carl W. Buchheister, head of the National Audubon Society, made the accusation. He also criticized the Department as having opposed "a bill in Congress which would require a warning to be printed on the package if a chemical pesticide is toxic to wildlife."

Mr. Buchheister spoke at the society's 59th convention in the Everglades Hotel.

Earlier, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall urged that the United States should set an example for the world in the field of conservation and related problems affecting man's environment.

Mr. Buchheister said that conservationists were cheered last May when President Kennedy's Science Advisory Committee issued a strongly worded report that only confirmed Miss Rachel Carson's warning (in her book, "Silent Spring," against indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides).

SEES WARNING UNHEEDED

The Committee, he said, also called for drastic changes in Government policies and controls affecting pesticides.

"I am afraid," he said, "some of us may have been lulled into complacency by that report. For, surely, if a White House Committee makes such recommendations, one would expect the executive bureaus to take heed. Such has not been the case.

"Despite the strongly worded recommendations, and the unmistakable English of the President's Committee, agencies of the Department of Agriculture have continued to use DDT, dieldrin, aldrin and other highly toxic and highly persistent insecticides in many of their spraying programs.

"They have continued to promote and recommend the same residual poisons to farmers, timber growers, and gardeners.

"Here and there, where the public protest was sufficiently angry, a somewhat safer insecticide, such as malathion or sevin, has been substituted for DDT in a forest-spraying operation."

DESCRIBES BILLS

"If this were not so," he said, "the branch would not oppose, as it has opposed, the bills introduced in Congress by Congressman JOHN DINGELL, Michigan Democrat, and Senator MAURINE NEUBERGER, Oregon Democrat.

"One of the Dingell-Neuberger bills would merely require that if a given pesticide chemical is toxic to wild animals, and if hazards to fish and wildlife were involved in the outdoor use of that chemical, those facts should be printed on the package.

"Why doesn't the farmer, or the gardener or the timber grower have a right to know if,

by using a certain chemical, he will endanger the birds that frequent his fields or woods? "One farmer may choose to use this chemical anyway, but at least he has a right to know. Another farmer, the one who values

his wildlife, may choose a less toxic chemi

cal, or turn to an alternate method of insect control.

"Why doesn't the Department of Agriculture want the consumer to have the facts?"

SHORTAGE OF HORSEBREAKERS

Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. President, a young lady from Casper College in Casper, Wyo., has taken strong exception to a remark by my friend and colleague, the Senator from Montana [Mr. METCALF] that the rugged men of the West are gone. It seems that one of the Senator's constituents, a rancher, could find no one in Montana to break horses.

I assure my colleague that it "taint necessarily so." In the words of my friend from Casper, "the rugged men of the West are going to Casper College." Mr. President, I should like to quote briefly from a letter written by my Casper correspondent, Miss Jean Ann Dunn:

"We are mighty proud of the fact that we have the national intercollegiate champion rodeo team, and all the boys work on ranches in the summer to earn money for school. Casper College was the only 2-year institution in the Nation to enter a team in the finals, and they not only walked away with the team trophy but claimed two individual champions, bulldogging and bull riding.

I suggest most respectfully to my colleague from Montana that his locution on the demise of the cowboys in western America is perhaps applicable to Montana, which may be devoid of such rugged individuals. They are still legion in the Equality State.

This was readily substantiated by the national intercollegiate rodeo finals seen on ABC's "Wide World of Sports," November 2. Three of the boys in that program are in Casper, Wyo., this year, and will be defending their titles in 1964.

For my colleagues who witnessed the November 2 showing, I would hardly need to expound on the qualities of the cowboy's performance. The team captain for the event was Dick Claycomb, who was also student body president at Casper College. He is now at the University of Wyoming at Laramie. Another rodeo participant, Bill Henry, is head of the Agriculture Department at Casper College, and is also a university graduate, so is Dale Styles, team coach.

I understand that Bill Henry has written the Senator froin Montana to assure him that Casper College does have some real first-class horsebreakers, rugged men of the West with good horsesense, so I say to my colleague that if his State, which has the distinction of lying immediately north of Wyoming is bereft of cowboys and the personalities which are traditionally associated with the West, he might ask his constituent, who needs cowboys, to correspond with the good people of Casper College. There can be found the rugged western cowboys Montana needs to staff her many beautiful ranches.

Mr. SIMPSON. I am happy to yield I am happy to yield to the Senator from Montana. Mr. METCALF. I am glad that the junior Senator from Wyoming has Wyoming has praised Casper College. Casper College deserves the praise of all of us in the West for the rugged boys and girls who go there and participate in rodeos.

I remind the Senator that a letter from a constituent of mine stating that he was unable to hire a competent horse wrangler and broncpeeler in Montana gave rise to the discussion which we are having today. He said that he would have to have the Department of Labor declare that there was a shortage of such broncpeelers in Montana.

That statement resulted in the statements I previously made on the floor of the Senate. Some comment was made on the subject in the Saturday Evening Post. I ask unanimous consent that that article which was published in the Saturday Evening Post be printed at this point in my remarks.

There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

SAY NEIGH, SENATOR, SAY NEIGH Way out West, where men used to be men, a sad, sad thing has happened. Not a man on the old frontier can bust a bronc. At least that's what Senator LEE METCALF, of Montana, reported to his colleagues recently.

A rancher near Helena, in need of hired help recently, was unable, it seems, to hire a competent horsebreaker or trainer. The rancher finally found a horsebreaker in Australia who agreed to come to Montana. But before the Australian could enter this country, the Department of Labor had to certify that qualified horsebreakers were unavailable in the United States.

Alas, the Labor Department did so certify: No broncbusters were available. The global

implications of such an admission were recognized by Senator METCALF. "Mr. President," he said in the Senate, "what will the American image be abroad if it becomes known that the Nation of cowboys and Indians, which exports hundreds of western movies, where even former Presidents read western novels, has to import a horse wrangler from the other side of the world?"

What, indeed? We share the Senator's sorrow. Of course, as he explained, Montana is not to blame. Montana's horsebreakers, as the Senator noted, "are busy picking up top money in rodeos in other States."

But this is a national problem, bigger than any State. American manhood has been sullied. The national pride has suffered a grievous wound. It shows what can happen to a nation while it sits around watching westerns on TV.

Mr. METCALF. Since I made my speech I have heard that there are competent horsebreakers in Pasadena. From New South Wales I have received a letter in which an Australian has written that he not only would come to Montana to break horses but would also bring a friend along.

In this morning's mail I have a letter from a former Montanan who is now in Nebraska. He says that he would like to come back and break horses in Montana.

But the problem in Montana is the same as the problem in Wyoming. The horsebreakers of Montana are out competing in rodeos. We are winning the

are even winning in the Frontier Days down in Cheyenne, Wyo.-in the State which the Senator represents. We have the incomparable Lindermans, the great Benny Reynolds, and the Greenoughs. They are making so much money competing in rodeos around the country that they cannot do their job at home breaking horses.

I believe that the Senator will find that those wonderful boys and girls at Casper College are just like the ones at Montana State College who had previously won a national rodeo contest. They are so interested in becoming chemists, physicists, and economists that they are going to give up the business of horsebreaking after they leave college, and intend to go into some other trade that is a little more lucrative.

I have written to the president of Casper College and suggested that he give me the name of anyone who desires to come up and work for my constituents. They will see that he gets a job.

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. INOUYE in the chair). The time of the Senator has expired.

Mr. METCALF. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senator from Wyoming may have an additional 3 minutes.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, will the Senator yield?

Mr. SIMPSON. I yield.

Mr. MORSE. I am delighted to listen to the testimonials about these wonderful

rodeos in Montana, Wyoming, Texas, and in all the other Western States. They are wonderful rodeos. I have attended some of them. They are great shows. However, I should like note to be taken of the fact that the majority of them are put on by the Christian Bros. Rodeo of Eugene, Oreg. They have become the greatest promoters of rodeos in the country. We owe them a great debt of gratitude for keeping the old frontier alive in Montana, Wyoming, and other States. They certainly are great performances.

Mr. METCALF. We are delighted that the Christian Bros. are part of these rodeos, which give the cowboys and cowgirls in Wyoming and Montana an opportunity to perform.

Mr. SIMPSON. Having lived in Montana and having worked in the coal mines at Red Lodge, I know the Greenoughs very well. The Greenoughs are a fine family, as the Senator from the great Treasure State of Montana well knows. I suppose we must reach the conclusion that many of the cowboys and cowgirls of today are going to

college.

ARCTIC RESEARCH-ITS IMPORTANCE AND PROSPECTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA

Mr. GRUENING. Mr. President, in this shrinking planet which we inhabitshrinking by virtue of man's inventiveness and his accelerating discoveries in the multiple fields of science—the polar regions are coming in for increased attention and study. Population explosion inevitably evokes greater inter

est in the long unexplored and still unsettled regions of the earth. Of these, the most conspicuous are the arctic and subarctic, which are bordered exclusively by seven nations-the United States, Canada, Soviet Russia, the three Scandinavian countries, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark-with its Greenland outpost-and Finland. It is fair to say that these nations include the most civilized people on earth. It includes those who have made the greatest progress in scientific research and scientific accomplishment.

The United States, whose front on the Arctic is embodied solely in Alaska, the 49th State, has, regrettably, lagged in arctic and subarctic research. It has lagged behind Soviet Russia, which occupies the longest arctic and subarctic front. In some respects the United States has lagged behind the free peoples of Scandinavia.

However, I am happy to report that this important area of our earth-important actually and potentially-is now due for increased and accelerated attention. The focus of this attention and new effort is naturally the University of Alaska. It is our farthest north institution of higher learning. It is a landgrant college established during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, through the efforts of Alaska's Delegate in Congress in 1915, James Wickersham. For many years it was an undernourished and half-starved institution

known as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. It became the University of Alaska in 1935. It owes its survival during those lean years largely to the dedication and determination of its first president, Charles Ernest Bunnell, who held that office for a quarter of a century.

The entry of the University of Alaska in the field of research began 17 years ago, when, in the administration of President Harry Truman, Alaska Delegate E. L. BARTLETT, now my colleague in the Senate, secured an authorization and appropriation for the Geophysical Institute.

Now, under the dynamic leadership of President William R. Wood, the university is moving to take advantage of its geographical position as the obvious and indeed the only center under the American flag where arctic and subarctic re

search can be carried on. For the University of Alaska and its 2,250-acre campus, 4 miles west of Fairbanks, lies only 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The importance of having the United States become knowledgeable and expert in this vast area is clear. It is important to our national security. It is important that we catch up with the Russians, who have made the greatest advances in familiarizing themselves with all matters concerned with living in the Arctic and developing its resources. It is important in connection with the exploration of space.

Living in the Arctic has its special problems just as does living in the Tropics.

Now that mankind, the greater part of whose population has long lived predominantly in the temperate zones, is moving to occupy these previously less inhabited areas of the globe, much more

knowledge about them is needed. That is particularly true of the Arctic, which has in the very last few years become a great flyway between the three continents of the Northern Hemisphere. The The University of Alaska therefore has a great role and a great destiny, which is not merely of national but of worldwide significance.

An excellent article on the university's immediate prospects and purposes was written for the New York Times, by Lawrence E. Davies, its west coast correspondent. I ask unanimous consent to have this article printed in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

ALASKA TO PUSH ARCTIC RESEARCH-WORK ON $44 MILLION CENTER TO START NEXT SPRING (By Lawrence E. Davies) COLLEGE, ALASKA, November 9.-On a magnificent hilltop site 4 miles outside of Fairbanks, the University of Alaska is preparing to begin construction of the first unit of a proposed $44 million Arctic Research Center.

As viewed by its planers and put into words by Elmer Rasmuson, an Anchorage regents, "the University of Alaska will bebanker who heads the university's board of come the center of arctic and subarctic research for a free world."

The concept is similar to that which led to the creation of the Soviet Union's great research center, with a heavy concentration of scientific talent, at Novosibirsk on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

The university's officials point to con

tinued emphasis on research in Antarctica by this country, but they hold that American efforts in the arctic and the subarctic "have been less satisfactory.”

They note that the Russians have taken different view. Both the Soviet Union and Canada, in their opinion, show greater realization of the importance of their northern regions than the United States has exhibited

toward its own.

This week, in zero weather, with the sun setting at around 3 p.m. on a snow-blanketed setting at around 3 p.m. on a snow-blanketed landscape, the aurora borealis, or north

ern lights, offered a spectacular evening show in the Fairbanks area. It emphasized the university's superior location for the study of aurora phenomena involving charged parof aurora phenomena involving charged particles ejected from the sun.

According to Dr. Victor Hessler, whose color photographs of aurora have attracted worldwide attention among scientists, more work has been done on optical aurora studies here than elsewhere on the North American

Continent.

The university is one of 11 world data centers for observations made during the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58.

The aurora studies, along with those of magnetic storms, polar blackouts, and glaciology plus a rocket program, have been pursued by the university's Geophysical Institute established by Congress in 1949.

recently appointed head of the Institute by

Keith B. Mather, an Australian physicist

joint action of the university and the National Academy of Sciences said activities were being initiated in the fields of seismology and volcanology.

"At a later stage," he added, "we may go into oceanography. We can do unusual things up here because of the complete cover of arctic ice. And the Navy is extremely interested in the Arctic for submarine activities."

U.S. AID EXPECTED

Dr. Kenneth M. Rae, vice president of the university for research and advanced study, a Scottish-born oceanographer who has directed the university's Institute of Marine Science since its creation by the State legis

lature in 1961, said the $44 million figure ad

vanced for the Arctic Research Center would cover buildings and "modest logistic support" during a 7-year period.

The Federal Government is counted upon for a considerable part of the funds, especially since Federal agencies such as the Public Health Service plan buildings in the center

area.

The Arctic Research Laboratory at Point Barrow, directed by Dr. Max Brewer, is operated by the university for the Office of Naval Research.

A new Institute of Arctic Biology has been set up, under the direction of Dr. Lawrence Irving an early director of the Barrow laboratory, to study how man and animals adapt to meet the rigors of the arctic environment.

The university's research activities also embrace those in an Institute of Economics and Government.

THE OTEPKA CASE

Mr. DOMINICK. Mr. President, a few days ago the distinguished Senator from Connecticut [Mr. DODD] brought the Otepka case to the attention of Sena

tors and pointed out the very difficult position Senate committees would find

themselves in if it continued to be held that the executive branch could prevent any of its employees from coming before Senate committees, either by threatening them with dismissal or by verbally preventing them from testifying under that threat.

Mr. Richard Wilson wrote an tremely good article published in the Washington Star last night, entitled "The Firing of Otto F. Otepka," which I believe brings out the facts clearly. He points out specifically that Mr. Otepka is a fine security officer, and that the complaint is that he conformed to the statute which permits employees of Federal agencies to testify before Senate committees on request, rather than covering up and taking care of the rules and regulations of the Secretary of State, Mr. Rusk.

I believe this is sufficiently important and of sufficient interest to warrant being brought to the attention of those who read the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, and I ask unanimous consent to have this article printed in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the article Was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

THE FIRING OF OTTO F. OTEPKA: SECURITY OFFICER CALLED FOE OF TRICKINESS AND LAXITY AND HIS DISCHARGE SHABBY

(By Richard Wilson) Otto F. Otepka, who has been fired by Secretary Dean Rusk, is described as the last old-line security officer holding a top position in the Department of State. In other words, there has been a housecleaning of per

sonnel security officials in the Kennedy ad

ministration to remove the last traces of the tougher policies of previous administrations.

Mr. Otepka was a Government employee for 27 years, pursuing the perilous career of