hi With an ever increasing citizen awareness for en- vironmental concern, a laxed federal policy to meet predicted power shortage, and the power companies themselves ad- bitter disputes from consumers who had rather not contend with the unproven safety of nuclear power plants, Sen. Richard Sch- weiker proposed a bill in the Senate this week to eliminate at of interest now exists in the Atomic Energy Commission between its duties as both promoter and regulator of the powerful uses of atomic energy. In addition,’’ he continued, ‘‘the American public is confused and concerned about the actions taken by various federal and state agencies in this area.” Under terms of the bill a new independent agency would be established known as the os Federal Radiation Protection Agency (FRPA), with the President appointing an ad- ministrator and deputy ad- ministrator, both of whom must be confirmed by the Senate. The least part of these problems. Known as the Radiation Protection Act of 1972, the new prop®ed legislation would establish a new independent agency which would have all federal regulatory respon- bill would also provide the sibility for radiation protection, FRPA with all federal control, and research. It would jurisdiction and responsibility assume the radiation protection for radiation regulatory tasks currently held by other authority, protection, control and research, and provide for the transfer to the agency radiation protection and control from the AEC; employes radiation protection functions of the Labor Department; radiological health functions of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and radiation protection functions of the Environmental Protection Agency. federal agencies, which many citizens feel have been doing less than a desirable job, in- cluding the Atomic Energy Commission. The bill would also set migimum national radiation stand®®ds, and coordinate safety’ programs with state radiation agencies. In a release obviously designed to draw public support for the measure, Sen. Sch- — = " Ty - EE, FOR THE RECORD is a weekly report of all votes of record and the position taken on measures by your Congressman. Daniel J. Flood 11th Congressional District, Pennsylvania Thursday, May 4, 1972 Bills may be considered under suspension procedure on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. On Monday, May 1, there were fouryrecord votes on motions to suspend the rules and pass a like ngber of bills: N S. 2713 authorizies the Attorney General to provide post- release treatment to narcotic addicts after they leave federal prisons. Yeas 323. Nays 0. Passed. . MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. H.R. 12652 extends the COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS for 5 years, expands its jurisdiction to include ‘sex discrimination, and authorizes the appropriation of $6.5 million in fiscal 1973 and $8.5 million in each succeeding year. Yeas 264. Nays 66. Passed. MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. H.R. 9676 conveys 90 acres of federal land to the University of Tennessee. Yeas. 318. Nays 9. Passed. MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. H.R. 13334 establishes the new post of Deputy Secretary in the TREASURY DEPARTMENT and provides for Senate ap- proval of Presidential nominees to this and other named Treasury jobs. Yeas 271. Nays 56. Passed. MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. Whether to designate the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases as the NATIONAL INSTITUTE of AR- THRITLS, METABOLISM, and DIGESTIVE DISEASES to give more el®®hasis to research on the latter diseases (H.R. 13591). Yeas 357. Nays 10. Passed, May 3. MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. Whether to set aside duties collected on imports of wood, paper, and printed matter for TREE PLANTING IN NATIONAL FORESTS, subject to appropriation by the Congreggii LE. 13089). Yeas 371. Nays 5. Passed, May 3. MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. © Whether to appropriate $1.6 billion for capital payments to various international financial agencies, required because of the devaluation of the dollar (H. J. Res. 1174). Yeas 291. Nays 62. Passed, May 4. MR. FLOOD VOTED YEA. SCHOOL MENU DALLAS TUESI®Y Cheeseburger (Jr. and Sr. and Inter.); hamburg patty, (Elem.); catsup, relish, potato chips, corn, fruit cup, cookie, milk. WEDNESDAY —Wimpie on roll, pickle chips, lettuce wedge with dressing, applesauce, cake, milk. THURSDAY—Club sandwich, potato chips and pickle, green beans, apple crips with topping, milk. FRIDAY—Juice, fish steak or southern fried steak, potato and cheese casserole, cole slaw, Parker House roll with butter, glazed doughnut, milk. LAKE-LEHMAN MONDAY —Southern fried steak on bun, vegetable soup, fruit and milk. apple crisp and milk. WEDNESDAY—Pork Bar-B-Q on bun, buttered green beans, pudding and milk. THURSDAY—Oven baked chicken, mashed potatoes, buttered peas, roll with butter, cranberry sauce, ice cream and milk. FRIDAY —Mini fish, macaroni and cheese, stewed tomatoes, roll y with butter, fruit and milk. is ; SR NR SL pd “We need to implement a single national policy, with national direction and national coordination, to effectively focus all of our available resources to provide our nation with proper and effective radiation protection,’’ the senator said. ‘‘By putting all radiation protection responsibilities into a single independent federal agency, and by requiring this agency to set minimum policies and standards relating to federal and state radiation protection, the Act can provide the sound national focus on radiation protection that we need,” he continued. Designed not to pre-empt any state authority, the bill permits state or local governments to set radiation control standards more stringent than those of the federal government, the senator explained. ‘This sec- tion,” he said, ‘‘is similar to a separate bill I introduced a year ago, S. 2050. If a state feels that tougher standards are necessary to protect its citizens, the state should have the authority to act.” In recent years this point has been a bone of contention between some state and the Federal Government. Wisconsin, for example, is preparing to test a state statute which raises federal radiation standards by a hundred times over, though granted it was passed in strong opposition from the state’s electric utilities. The Schweiker proposal, however, goes much further. It authorized the President to establish a Radiation Advisory Council of federal agencies, to advise FRPA and review all FRPA standards. The council shall include representatives from the Departments of Health, Education and Welfare, Defense, Labor, and Tran- sportation, and from the AEC. In addition the new proposal requires the administrator of the new agency to establish a National Radiation Advisory Committee to review radiation standards. The 15 members of the committee, under terms of the bill, must be ‘technically qualified’”’ and include five members from governmental agencies, including three from state radiation control agen- cies; five members from af- fected users, including in- dustrial and healing arts users; and five members from the general public, including at least one representative from organized labor. Under terms of the proposed Schweiker bill, the ad- ministrator of the FRPA would be authorized for both oc- cupational and non- occupational exposures; minimum national training requirements for persons utilizing radiation sources; minimum national standards for the use, possession, ownership, manufacture, storage, handling, import, export, or transfer of all radiation sources; radiation control standards, subject to the approval of the President, in all federal facilities; and mimimum national standards for licensing or certification of all users of radiation. In addition, the Schweiker proposal would extend authority of the Joint Com- mittee on Atomic Energy to include radiation protection, and redesignate the name of the Congressional committee to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and Radiation Protection. Likewise, the bill would require the administrator of FRPA to keep the Joint Committee informed on all activities of the new agency, and require submission to the Joint Committee an annual report. New Goss Group Elects New Slate New Goss Manor Home- owners’ Association held its annual meeting May 7 in the Sun Room at Irem Temple Country Club. Jack Good was elected president; Joseph Muldoon, vice president; and Mrs. Arthur Dietze, secretary-treasurer. Plans for the coming year were Photo by Dave Kozemchak statewide interest. (Johnstown Tribune-Democrat) From his businessmen’s task force, Gov. Milton Shapp has received a bit of encouragement in pursuing his idea of a toll-free Pennsylvania Turnpike. And the task force's suggestion on the turnpike is one of those recommendations with which we cannot agree. Impressive to be sure, are some of the figures noted by the task force, figures showing how much the Commonwealth could save and how much it could get from federal sources if the turnpike were removed from operation by the Turnpike Com- mission and placed under the jurisidiction of the Penn- sylvania® Department © of Transportation. In brief and in its words, here is what the task force recom- mended: “If all available funds are used to retire outstanding debt, current bonds could be paid by late 1974. “The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission could then be dissolved. “However, it is most im- portant that no new bonds be issued, as this could . sub- stantially extend the period required to retire turnpike indebtedness.” And it just so happens that Gov. Shapp wants the turnpike to be toll free by 1975; so it well could be that he welcomes with open arms the task force’s opinion that the turnpike’s debt ‘could be dissolved by late 1974. However, we have serious doubts about the advisability of putting the turnpike in the hopper with the highways maintained by PennDOT. The turnpike is a somewhat specialized highway, and it is our opinion that it therefore deserves rather specialized treatment—such as is provided by the commission system. In brief, we have an ally—the chairman of the commission, natural ally, it could well be stated. But from at least one other source has come support for keeping the turnpike a toll highway, with the tolls providing the money for operating expenses. State Sen. Wayne S. Ewing has opposed the task force’s recommenda- tions concerning the turnpike, and he makes some pretty strong points in support of his stand. Sen. Ewing, a Mt. Lebanon teresting observation that by charging tolls the turnpike is getting more than 51 percent of its funds from out-of-state drivers and that rendering it toll free would put the bulk of the turnpike’s upkeep costs on Pennsylvanians. Sen. Ewing said: “I can see no reason why a selfsustaining operation that costs the taxpayers nothing in taxes should be put under the administration of a department that even now cannot keep up with the road problems in the Commonwealth. “I can only imagine this road falling into disrepair and becoming just another tax millstone around the necks of our already overtaxed Pennsyl- vania residents.” The operation of the turnpike has not always been above reproach; upkeep remains a constant problem. Generally, however, a good job has been done on the turnpike, the nation’s first superhighway. The toll system has been the means of providing the funds for maintenance. And if, as the task force recommended, ‘‘all available funds are used to retire outstanding debt, current bonds could be paid by late 1974,” it may be wondered what would happen to upkeep of the turnpike. Since its opening the turnpike has been a toll highway; it should remain that way as a prime example of a self- sustaining highway and also as a basis for asking why the Keystone Shortway wasn’t built as a toll road too. May 16 May 17 June 3 lunch will be available. Crispell, James Strohl. Td RT SE Tp Tr he gr by Ralph Nader WASHINGTON—BIll Daly has important things to do and say at the President’s Price Commission. He is the director of planning and coordination for program operations. He is also an executive with Mobil Oil Co., currently on leave to spend from one to two years in the federal government. Mr. Daly is one of the two dozen big-business executives participating in an exchange program launched recently to put businessmen in government and civil servants in selected corporations. The exchange is touted by its sponsor, the President’s Commission on Personnel Interchange, as fostering mutual education and understanding of the problems and activities of business and government. The Interchange Executives program poses troublesome questions both in its philosophy and present structure. Selected almost entirely from large corporations, par- ticipating executives take on operating and policy roles in the government. They are not just observers. They are still em- ployed by their companies and they intend to go back to their jobs once their tour with the by Shawn Murphy What’s a mother to do? Most especially, what’s a mother to do if she is poor, already has what she and her husband regard to be ‘‘enough’’ children—and wants reliable information about birth con- trol? . Until recently, this mother’s dilemma often went unheeded. Private physicians are either reluctant to take indigent patients or are, for religious reasons, unwilling to prescribe contraceptive devices. Hospitals throughout Luzerne County which once provided birth control information in their pre-natal clinics have been forced by budget limitations to close these clinics and curtail their family planning programs. Within the past year, however, a federally funded program called Maternal Health Services of Northeastern Pennsylvania Inc. has begun operation in Luzerne County in an attempt to cope with what its director, Frank X. McCann, calls ‘‘a crisis in medical care for indigent women of child- bearing age.” Maternal Health Services offers, through its five clinics in Luzerne and Wyoming Coun- ties, family planning in- formation: help for persons desiring to limit—or increase— the size of their families. The newest of these clinics is located at the Noxen Clinic, which is operated by the Rural Health Corporation. Others operate within the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Wilkes- Barre; the Kistler Clinic, Wilkes-Barre; the Mercy Hospital’s Clinic, Hanover, and the Black Creek Rural Health Corporation’s family planning clinic in Nuremberg. “The one word which I think describes our program’s philosophy is ‘choice,’ ” Mr. McCann reflects. “A woman chooses, first of all, whether or not she wants to be a part of our program. And then she has a choice as to which method of birth control she wants to use. All of this is consistent, of course, with her own religious beliefs and the medical judgements of our physicians.” Similarly, a woman who has been unable to bear children may choose to enroll in the fertility study clinic located along with the sympto-thermic (rhythm method) clinic in Mercy Hospital. To no one’s surprise, dif- ficulties abounded in setting up the program. Mr. McCann, an outspoken advocate of family planning, scored certain ‘‘self- appointed spokesmen for the community who considered themselves God’s assistants and had obviously never seen true, raw poverty.” A question which popped up with vexing regularity had to do with abortion. Did Maternal Health Services plan to ad- ation merelv a “front” government is completed. What are the conflict of interest problems? The executives uniformally deny there are any, saying that they avoid or drop any activity that could have the appearance of a conflict. Yet in looking over the roster of the Interchange program, one finds: (1) a General Electric executive as a special con- sultant to the office of Research and Development Policy in the Department of Transportation; (2) an executive of Humble Oil and Refining Co. in the office of Enforcement at the En- vironmental Protection Ap (EPA); (3) a railroad executive in the Federal Railroad Ad- ministration; (4) a computer company executive as an administrator of the Pentagon’s Directorate of Data Automation; (5) Westinghouse executives in the Department of Com- merce and EPA. Government should deal with special interest groups at arms’ length. Involvements in government programs and deliberations by on-leave executives of companies that contract with or are regulated by federal agencies does not for out-of-state abortion clinics? As outspoken as he is in favor of family planning, Mr. Mec- Cann, a Roman Catholic, is equally outspoken against abortion. ‘It’s murder, pure and simple,” he maintains. ‘We do not and will not give out information pertaining to abortion.” Women who contact Maternal Health Services with specific questions about abortion are given the telephone number of Clergy Counseling Service, a state-wide counseling group whose members are trained to deal with the abortion issue. Despite assurances from leaders of virtually every reli- gion that what Maternal Health Services was offering was con- sistent = witheir churches’ religious tenets, Mr. McCann recalls, ‘‘there were those who insisted that what we were doing was somehow wrong or immoral. “They advised us that we wouldn’t find anyone who was even interested in obtaining family planning information,” the Director said. The critics were wrong, as witnessed by the public's tre- mendous acceptance of the pro- gram. Janet Phillips, a Trucksville resident and manager of Out- reach, the program’s public in- formation life-line, is delighted with the enthusiastic response she and her assistants have found in their recruitment program. “We discovered that the women we are trying to reach are vitally interested in our pro- gram,” she suggests. “If there is any reluctance, it is on the part of that middle group which insists that our women will not be interested.” She urges women who are in- RC TE BABA inspire citizen of consume confidence. A Moreover, big business has special ‘‘in’’ with the In- terchange program. Small businesses rarely participate There is no part in the program for labor, consumer, en vironmental, science, education, medical or othe groups to provide balance. Even more dismaying is the near absence of minority group representation. Only two blacks have participated. There have been no women participants. The Interchange Program has failed in these ares to follow the guidelines established by the President’s advisory panel report that recommended the establishment of the program in the last months of the Johnson a Administration. rd A purpose of the exchange A was to develop new ideas, proposals and achievements by the Interchange executives. Although summaries ‘were submitted to the President’s commission last spring by on group’s graduates, they have not been released publicly. Thus there is no way for the public to | evaluate the program. The policy has been to maintain an oral tradition and not disclose the experiences of business in government and government in business. terested in learning more about the program to call her at 824- 8797 in the Outreach office, located presently in the Family | Service Building, 73 W. Union | St., Wilkes-Barre. i So successful has the pro- [® gram been, in fact, that it has been re-funded by the Depart- ment of Health Education and Welfare and given the go-ahead to ‘‘regionalize’ its services: soon it will also be serving women in Lackawanna, Pike, Wayne and . Susquehanna Counties. hi Future plans will dramatical- ly expand the scope of the pro- gram to more accurately reflect its Maternal Health Services title, Mr. McCann belives. ‘“‘Eventually we hope to provide both pre-natal and post- partum care for these women— 85 percent of whom do not see a doctor before or after preg- nancy, but simply pop up in an emergency room in labor.” g For obvious reasons, Mr. McCann asserts, ‘emergency room or crisis medicine is just not good medical care—if for no other reason than that there is. no follow-up.” Eventually, too, ‘Maternal Health Services will provide basic medical care for young children—including state man- dated immunizations and well- baby care. ‘Our long range aim is to link in with other federal programs to provide a compre- hensive network of good medical .care,” Mr. McCann suggests. “We are not simply in the business of population control, he concludes, “but of helping those persons in our society who have been abandoned to crisis medicine.” : What’s a mother to do? A good first step might be to call 824-8797. Police Dallas Township A rear-end collision between two cars occurred Friday at 5:15 p.m. on Route 309, but damages to the vehicles were minor and neither driver was injured. According to Patrolman El- liott Ide, the operators were David B. Jones, 23, of 85 Rice St., and Gregory J. Matichka, 23, of Plainsville. Both cars were traveling south in the highway’s passing lane, when the Matichka machine slowed for a car to make a left turn, and was hit at the back by the Jones vehicle. The intersection of Route 309 and Main Road, Fernbrook, was the scene of an accident Sunday at 4:50 p.m, Police records show that a convertible driven by Gerald Pallis, 24, of Plymouth, was proceeding north on the high- way in the passing lane. Another car had stopped in the passing lane to make a left turn Report When Mr. Pallis saw the stopped car he moved into the northbound driving lane. At this time, a 1968 Ford sedan, driven by Regina Krostag, RD 1, Pittston, crossed Route 309, west to east, from the dairy bar to go north on the highway. This car crossed in front of the Pallis automobile, whereupon Mr. Pallis applied brakes and swerved to the right to avoid the Krostag car, and at the same time hit the guardrails located along the northbound lane. Witnesses gave identical statements to corroberate facts, reported Patrolman Douglas Lamoreaux, who investigated. Mrs. Korstag has been cited with failure to yield right of way upon entering highway. N Publicity Information Deadline Due to a tightened deadline schedule, no publicity informa- tion can be accepted later thar p.m. Monday unless the takes place that day orf
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