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A Greenstreet News Co. Publication
For The Record
Congress Votes is issued every week that Congress is in session.
It covers all votes of record and reports the position taken on
each measure by the elected official whose name appears
below.
Week Ending Thursday, December 2, 1971
Daniel J. Flood
11th Congressional District, Pennsylvania
The week began with debate on the MacDonald Amendment to
the Federal Election Reform Bill (H.R. 11060). The MacDonald
Proposal limits spending by candidates for federal offices.
Three record teller votes occurred on amendments to the
~ proposal, after which it was agreed to by nonrecord vote:
The Springer Amendment eliminates provisions relating to
broadcasting and newspaper advertising rates. Ayes 145. Noes
219. Amendment rejected.
MR. FLOOD VOTED NO.
The Pickle Amendment permits broadcasters to charge com-
parable rates in lieu of lowest unit charge. Ayes 219. Noes 150.
Amendment agreed to.
MR. FLOOD VOTED AYE.
The Wrey Amendment repeals the ‘“‘equal time” provision for
federal elective offices generally. Ayes 95. Noes 277. Amend-
ment rejected.
MR. FLOOD VOTED NO.
The other major elements of the reform bill deal with campaign
contributions and fund disclosure. Two record votes came on
this part of the bill:
The Hansen Amendment permits corporations and unions fo set
up political funds of contributions are voluntary. Ayes 233. Noes
147. Agreed to.
. MR. FLOOD VOTED AYE.
The Danielson Amendment strikes out a proposal to require the
filing of campaign fund reports with local federal courts. Ayes
230. yes 154. Agreed to.
MR. FLOOD VOTED AYE.
Whether to pass H.R. 11060. Yeas 373. Nays 23. Passed, Nov. 30.
MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA.
Whether to pass H.R. 11589, a bill authorizing the foreign sale of
five U.S. passenger ships constructed with the aid of govern-
ment subsidies and now laid up. Yeas 253. Nays 139. Passed,
Dec. 1.
MR. FLOOD VOTED NAY.
Whether to agree to a motion that the house resolve itself into
the committee of the whole for consideration of the District of
Columbia appropriations bill (H.R. 11932). Yeas 379. Nays 0.
Presgpt 1. Agreed to, Dec. 2.
MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA.
Befgye this bill was passed by a nonrecord vote, there were
three record votes on proposed amendments.
The Giaimo Amendment restores $72.5 million for the D.C.
share in fiscal ‘71 and ‘72 of the area’s subway system. Ayes 196.
Noes 183. Agreed to, Dec. 2.
MR. FLOOD VOTED NO.
The Scherle Amendment prohibits the expenditure of ap-
propriated subways funds until completion of an environmental
impact study. Ayes 163. Noes 205. Rejected, Dec. 2.
MR. FLOOD VOTED NO.
After debate was completed in the committee of the whole, a
i voted occurred on the Giaimo Amendment. Yeas 195.
Nays 174. Present 2. Agreed to.
MR. FLOOD VOTED NAY.
ether to agree to a rule (H. Res. 719) making in order con-
sideration of a supplemental appropriation bill (H.R. 11955). It
appropriates $756.3 million for various agencies. Yeas 307. Nays
29. Rule agreed to, Dec. 2.
MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA.
Whether to pass H.R. 11955. Ayes 270. Noes 20. Passed, Dec. 2.
MR. FLOOD DID NOT VOTE.
Police Report
from New Goss Manor onto
Jr veys Lake Borough
Three small children, riding
in a car with their mother and
grandmother, were uninjured in
an accident Saturday night
when the car in which they were
passengers rolled down an em-
bankment into Harveys Lake.
According to police reports,
Carolyn Pickering, 25, of West
Wyoming, her children, Joseph,
three; Wendy, two; and Jeffrey,
eight months, and her mother,
Mary Novis, Luzerne, were
treated at Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital for minor injuries and
released.
The Pickering car was
traveling toward Alderson when
the driver, Mrs. Pickering, lost
control of the vehicle after it
skidded on melting snow. The
machine crossed the second
lane, broke through guard rails
and landed on its side in a
shallow section of the lake.
Two men assisted in getting
the three children and two
women out of the car.
Patrolman John Corbett of
Harveys Lake Borough police
was the investigating officer.
Dallas Township
A driver of a car pulled out
Route 309 and was struck by a
second car heading north on the
highway. Neither driver was in-
jured in the Dec. 4 accident.
Police records show that
Jerry Kocher, RD 1, Dallas,
was. proceeding north at 1:30
p.m. on Route 309 when Robert
Louis Karpinski, 25, of Hillcrest
Drive, Dallas, drove out on the
highway and was hit by the
approaching car.
Dallas Township Patrolman
John T. Appel, assisted by
Patrolman John J. Appel of
Kingston Township police, in-
vestigated the mishap. Total
damages to both cars were es-
timated at $1,000.
A patch of ice was the cause of
a collision Dec. 1 on Country
Club Road. The accident, which
was investigated by Chief
Frank Lange, happened at 10:55
p.m.
Ruth B. Adrian, 67, of West
Pittston, was traveling east on
Country Club Road when her
automobile skidded on ice and
struck a car operated by Clyde
Lowthert, 39, of Pottsville.
There were no apparent in-
juries to either driver. Approxi-
mately $1,100 was listed as car
damages.
THE DALLAS POST,
Photo by Dan Koze
Mason Dixon Wev, the infant son of typesetter Janet Wev, found
his niche at the Dallas Post when his mother was called to work
after the Thanksgiving snowstorm. He is pictured here napping
beneath a lay-out table.
The Environmental Defense Fund has filed a suit against the
Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration
in an attempt to stop the use of what is believed to be a cancer-
causing drug in meat. ;
The name of the drug is ‘‘diethylstilbestrol’”’ (pronounced
“DYE-ETHEL-STILL-BES-TROL”’), popularly called “DES”.
DES is a syntheitic female hormone which is fed to cattle to cause
them to gain weight very rapidly. The Environmental Defense
Fund claims that DES fed to laboratory mice has caused cancer in
those animals; and added that the doses found in some slaughtered
cattle is above the dosage which caused the cancer in the
laboratory animals.
The cancer-causing elements of DES have long been known—
and the chemical has been banned in the United States from the
diet of chickens being raised for human consumption. Twenty-one
countries, mostly in Western Europe, have banned the use of DES
in all livestock. Sweden and Italy have been prohibited the sale of
U.S. beef and lamb in those countries because of the American use
of DES.
As a result of growing pressure on the Agriculture Department
from senators and congressmen, the deadline between the last
feeding of DES to an animal and the slaughter of that animal has
been lengthened from two days to seven days to allow more time
for the chemical to be removed from the body. However, the En-
vironmental Defense Fund insists that many cattle and sheep
farmers ignore the deadlines and feed the chemical up until the
time of slaughter—leaving dangerously high levels of DES in the
animal’s tissues.
A group of individuals and organizations have filed a federal
suit against the FBI in Philadelphia asking that the Bureau be
forced to stop its spying on many civilians and that it destroy many
of its dossiers on individuals. The suit was filed as a result of the
documents which were stolen ffrom the FBI's Media office earlier
this year.
Attached to the complaint filed are 20 pages of documents from
the Media offices. One of the plaintiffs in the suit, Philadelphia
black leader Muhammad Kenyatta, complains that a complete
record of his personal bank and telephone statements were in the
FBI files for ‘“‘no reason at all.”
Another of the documents attached is a photostat of a three-
page single-spaced official report on the activities of Robert
Waldrop Jr., as assistant with the Sierra Club in Washington, D.C.
The report on Mr. Waldrop carefully details his activities during
the three weeks of planning leading up to Earth Day ceremonies
April 22°of last year.
The nine plaintiffs in the suit, assisted by the American Civil
Liberties Union, are asking that the FBI be ordered not to invade
the privacy of innocent citizens, and that it be ordered to destroy its
dossiers on thousands of citizens.
Washington Post columnist Jack Anderson reports that former
President Lyndon Johnson received an advance of $1.2 million from
his publisher for writing his new book ‘The Vantage Point’ —a
work based on detailed and sometimes secret government
negotiations during the Johnson era and the Vietnam War.
Mr. Anderson adds that Daniel Ellsburg has been indicted and
could very well go to jail, for making facts public from exactly the
same sources Johnson used.
Prior to leaving the White House, President Johnson requested
that one of his aides, Joe Califano, collect and copy a com-
prehensive set of documents—many of them secretly—for Mr.
Johnson's personal use. The former President then shopped around
until he received a contract for $1.2 million to write his personal
memoirs.
Mr. Anderson writes: ‘Mr. Johnson quoted only the selected
passages that made him look good. Mr. Ellsberg released un-
censored documents, which gave an objective, unvarnished ac-
count of the war.”
Charley Fitzgerald will get out of California’s Folsom prison
later this month after spending the past 45 years in a seven-by-nine-
and-a-half foot cell. Sia
The 85-year-old Fitzgerald has spent more time in California
prisons than any other man. He was originally sentenced in 1926 for
the alleged killing of a police officer near Sacramento.
The plight of Charley Fitzgerald, who has been passed over for
parole 45 straight years, came to light last month when radio
station KZAP-FM in Sacramento did a news story about the agining
prisoner. :
The California Adult Authority reviewed Fitzgerald’s case and
then finally approved his parole.
There is one catch, however. During Fitzgerald’s 45 years of
confinement he has received few letters and even fewer visitors. He
apparently now has no friends or relatives on the outside, and
before Fitzgerald can be released he has to tell the Department of
Corrections what he is going to do and the Department must ap-
prove of Fitzgerald’s intentions.
“When I get out of here I just want to live my life in peace,” Mr.
Fitzgerald says. :
DEC. 9, 1971
Page 5
Senior Girl Scout Troop 660,
Shavertown, will sponsor a
hoagie sale Dec. 11. Orders can
be placed with any of the girls,
Mrs. Elwood Swingle, or Mrs.
Marvin Carkhuff.
The sale will be held at the
Acme market in Back Mountain
Shopping Center, Shavertown.
Orders may be delivered or
picked up at the Kingston Town-
ship Municipal Building from
noon until 4 p.m.
Leaders and committee
members of Dallas Neighbor-
hood met Dec. 1 at 9:30 a.m. in
Trinity United Presbyterian
Church, Dallas. Mrs. Walter
Davidson, neighborhood direc-
tor, presided at the meeting.
Leaders brought calendars
for exchange by troops and also
brought samples of Christmas
crafts.
It was announced that the
current neighborhood service
Girl Scouts
project is collecting glass
bottles for reclamation by the
Jaycees. Labels should be re-
moved and all bottles rinsed
out. They will be collected by
the Jaycees either the last of
January or sometime in Feb-
ruary.
Leaders who might have post-
dated Juliette Low World
Friendship Fund checks are re-
quested -to void these checks
and issue new ones made out
and sent to the council office.
It was also announced that a
new Brownie Girl Scout troop is
being organized in Dallas and
will hold its first meeting after
the holidays. Mrs. H.R. McCar-
tney, Dallas, has been appoint-
ed Dallas troop organizer.
Following the business
meeting a film on contempor-
ary scouting was presented.
The next Neighborhood
meeting will be held Jan. 12 at
10 a.m. in the Trinity United
Presbyterian Church. Each
troop is asked to have either the
troop cookie chairman or her
substitute attend this meeting.
Junior Girl Scout troops of the
Dallas Neighborhood have been
invited to go caroling Dec. 17.
Following the carolling, the
scouts will meet at Gate of
Heaven where they will be
served refreshments through
the cooperation of Carrell’s
Drive-in.
Junior Girl Scout Troop 640,
Dallas United Methodist
Church, held its re-dedication
and investiture ceremony, Dec.
3.
Wendy Brace and Tanya
Adams were in charge of the
program. Arrangements were
planned by the Brady Bunch
patrol; hostesses were mem-
bers of the Smiley patrol, re-
freshments were provided by
members of Greensleeves
patrol, and cleanup was under-
taken by Aquarius patrol mem-
bers. :
Donna Young was invested
and received her Girl Scout pin.
Mrs. George Poynton, leader,
awarded badges to Ellen Mint-
zer, Lynne Meck, Tanya
Adams, Linda Sickler, Sandra
Manhart, Karen Dombek, Mary
Ann Meeker, Diana Saunders,
and Nancy Frantz.
Karen Dombek, Nancy Frew,
Sherie Sweet, and Tanya
Adams received their patrol
leader cords. 3
Fifteen members of the troop
received World Association
pins.
The flag ceremony was con-
ducted by Sheri Sweet and
Tammy Newell, flag bearers;
Juli Poynton and Nancy Frantz,
color guards, and Tanya
Adams, caller.
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