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H 7136 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE July iff, 1971 j>le gathered at Andrews Air Force ^taa Chat-- ` dlffeieuess in polltleM phUOMphy oJanot permanently divide tbs propies ot isywid. > Polychlorinated biphenyls may be taken into the body by direct action upon the skin or as a vapor through the respira tory tract. The affect on the skin is chteraone: the early symptoms ot which ban of the Importation, manufacture, and sale of all products containing PCB's with the possible exoepuon of certain closed system applications. I urged that he require that any product containing What is most Important forihe United St*toils that those OiTerenqIs In politi cal pnUosopliy should not bb used like a are pimples and dark pigmentation; later, more serious eruptions. Persons who have been continuously exposed to PCB's may suffer nausea, vomiting, loss PCB's not included in such a ban be labeled with a warning as to their detri mental environmental effects. X requested that ho obtain from Monsanto those pro of wd.bt, "d<,ml "f nb*tomtnal p*n. duction and sales figures necessary to chosen far tlwmsslves. jfhis wii) not oc cur so tohf M Amorlua recognises that independence and actively encourages it. PresidentVNlxon /ia recognised that Independence-, and* now has urged the Congress to n^t/T* lostar it. As with the ptng-pong Mumament in China, the ball is now in ofc&oourt,. ff we in Congress are to fiilfill/ouh responsibility in the determination ofVntional policy, then hearings should beheld on our Eastern European fira:Is poUcxat on early date. Tl>e twb bills 1 amVitrodticing today could provide the focuAfor thoae hear ings. / \ Increwed reipiration. low.d blood cM count, and inhibition of the carbohydrate metabollam. More serious effects are those on the kidneys. The principle ef fect, however. Is on the livar--possibly leading to atrophy, followed by death.. PCB's art very persistent In the en vironment thus making them a long term threat. They are not soluble in water and resist biological breakdown, In the pact. PCB's have been sold by the Monsanto Co. for use in plasticizer applications: in closed system applica tions, such coolants in transformers; as hydraulic fluids; and as an extender in determine the extent of possible PBC contamination--data which Monsanto has refused to provide me. And 1 urged that the Environmental Protection Agency coordinate all appropriate gov- emmental agencies in dealing with this hazard. Xn replying to me. SPA ignored ell four of my requests and in no way responded to them. In short, except tor the action of the Department of Agriculture in banning PCB's in pesticides, the Federal Govern ment has not taken any ot the necesary step* which I have requested over the fThe geneml bill X lotto introduced woulcf permit the President to extend MFN to any country wili\which the State* has diplomatic relations itch in a member of QAiO^-aenrreement on Tariffs and a>rsde-- President determines suenSjo be ^national interest. |/'rcPCtrB'S--EVIRONMKNTAL POISON The SPEAKER; Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Utah) Is rscognised for 10 minutes. Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, on Friday. July 39, the U.S. Department of Agricul ture revealed that a significant propor tion of chickens raised In 13 States have been contaminated with an extremely dangerous chemical--polychlorinated bl- phsnyl--PCB. This occurrence tragically Illustrates the failure of the Federal Government to take preventive action against the un controlled use of this deadly chemical. During the past 3 years I have attempted to get the appropriate Federal agencies to take tire necessary protective eetione that would have forestalled such aa oc currence and would have guaranteed the health and safety of the public. But in an almost unprecedented display of dis When I first brought the potential dangart at PCB's to the attention of the appropriate Federal agencies la April 1970,1 requested that oertsin specific ac tions be taken to protect our health and environment from the hazards of PCB's. z urged the Beoretary of Agriculture to ban the use of polychlorinated biphenyls in pesticides. The Department of Agri culture agreed to discontinue the use of PCB's in pesticides and to cancel regis trations for pesticides containing PCB's. I urged the Food and Drug Adminis tration to set food tolerance levels for PCB's, to require the labeling of all prod ucts containing PCB's. and to determine whether this chemical should be banned completely. In replying to me. the FDA advised me that It was undertaking a survey to determine the extent of food contamination from PCB's---the results of which 1 still have not received. .FDA refused to set food tolerance levels and to require labeling. 1 urged the Secretary of the Interior to act to protect fish and wildlife from this hazard. Re replied that investigations were being carried out by various agenelse of the Federal Government and the results of these studies would be funnoted to the staff of the Council on Environ mental Quality. past 2 years to oombat this very serious environmental and health Uaaard. The results of tills Government inac tion are now tragically apparent. Large amounts of poultry and how In a 13 State area may now be contaminated with this toxic chemical. For nearly 3 month* PCB's have been leaking into fish meal proofseed at the Bast Coast Terminal, Inc., plant in Wil mington, N.C. The meal has been sold to 64 poultry producers in Virginia. Dela ware. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Tennessee. Kentucky. Arkansas, and Mississippi. According to the Department of Agri culture, 16,000 tons of fish meal had been produced at the Wilmington plant be tween April 90 and July 16--when the plant was closed down. This contamination would yet be un noticed If it ware not for the fact that a commercial poultry proorosor became alarmed at the low rate of hatching of eggs in his broiler breeding chickens. 1 can see no way that all the poultry and hogs subjected to this chemical can now be traced. The potential results could be disasteroiw. And this Is not the sole Instance of widespread PCB contamination In the regard for the publio health end welfare, 7 urged the Commission ProductSafety food chain. that administrative action has not been to determine the nature and extent of In December 1970, the Campbell Soup forthcoming. the threat to our environment. The Com Co. discovered that fat samples taken Therefore,-1 am today Introducing leg mission replied that It was not possible from slaughtered chickens contained a islation to totally ban the distribution for them to conduct an indenth investi Ugh quantity of PCB residue. Upon be of PCB's in interstate commerce, thug gation of the hazards of PCB's at that ing notified of tins finding and recognis Insuring that our health and environ time. ing the potential danger of this occur ment in safeguarded from the hazards And X urged the council on Environ* rence, the New York State Department of effete chemical. Z- Manufactured In the United States C MW, totta MobmuIo Cq powchlo- < . rtnattd Mrhenyls ere a serious tnreei mental Quality to coordinate the efforts of dll appropriate Government agencies, so that the public might know the sources and the seriousness ot the PCS Agriculture and Markets immediately stopped the movement of all poultry from the area in Bullivan County. N.Y, where the chickens had been raised. <7 jjddr>wmh.tod to 6\tf agTHMmrat. danger, and that It take steps to elimi The New York State Department of nate this hasard aa soon aa possible. The Agriculture and Markets then began a FCB's end their residue ere extremely toxlo to animal life, cause birds to lay eggs with shells too thin to protect the embryos they enclose, and have a daieterious effect on the reproductive Dapaoity of animals Out by far the most frightening hazard Is th efleot of FOB'S on human brings. Council advised me that it was Forking with other Federal agencies to determine whet ooune of action was available to the Federal Government. Rariter this year 1 renewed by call for administrative action by requesting the Administrator of the BnvlronmeA'Ul Protectton Agency to place an immediate full-scale Investigation into the extent of possible FCB contamination in poul try. Their laboratory confirmed the find ings made by Campbell 8oup_Co. of high levels of PCB's, and the VM. Department of Agriculture established a contiuuing restraint on the movement of all pouitry for slaughter in Bullivan, Ulster, and HONS 084067 Julu 36, >671 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD --HOUSE H 7137 ArfttiM count***. M.Y.; until it wM found lo bmi* * iH>ociul acroenlng <a | iwull of Ihiir tnvMlIiintlMw and ht ct>nt"t,>'u',n w>th (JHOA. the New York putt UrimrUaetit of Aa/ioulture and Market* ordered met Md.OUb PCB-ronumiMted chickens be burtro uuder close upenieton to make absolutely sure that they would not reach the marketplace. The Campbell Coup Co.. USDA. and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets all took prompt MUon to deal with tiuo serious problem, and that la reaasurtna. Kowever. the po tential damate wlUeh could have re sulted Jf this incident had not been dis covered In Urn* cannot be Ignored. And I must stress that this Is not an Isolated example. In January 1070, eamplou of mills col lected by the State of CiUo Department of Agriculture revealed residue of a prod ,uct closely resembling DDT and DDD. On February 10 a dairymen. George eliwatiwalder, woo issued a notice by the division of food, dairies, and drugs to discontinue the solo of milk until such time ae the residue found in his milk was below the actionable lovol. On Feb ruary 37. onothor dairyman, Franklin Humphrey, reeatved a similar notice. Subsequent samples from individual eows and the bulk tank on these farms ubrnltted to agriculture laboratories and the pesticide laboratory at Ohio tala University revealed that the resi due woe not DDT but PCB's. The Ohio Mate Department of Agriculture found ttie contaminating subetance to be aroCLOR 1354, manufactured by the Monoanto Co. Apparently, the dairymen's alias were lined with a product called Cumar which included AROCLOR in its content. The FCB's were then absorbed by the silage which in turn was fed to the milk oowa, resulting In PCD-oanUminalednuik. Although Z have been assured by the Ohio State Department of Agriculture that this problem la now under control, the harm that might have resulted la Xn view of the lack of administrative action even alter these incidents were brought to the attention of Federal ageneiet and In light of the obvious threat pond by FCB-cont&mlnuUoa in milk and poultry, on May 19. x introduced legislation (H.R. 9B70) to baa the dis tribution of polychlorinated biphenyl in Interstate oommeree. However, this legislation gave the Secretary of Health, education, and Welfare, the authority to exempt from this ban PCB's for use in certain closed-system applications; namely, ae the dielectric fluid in capacl| lore, the aoolont in transformers, or as I a Are reaUtxnt in heat trtmsfrr medio. provided that he found ouch uses Vould L not adversely offset the publle health and \ welfare, I li la now apparent, however, that FCB's lore a serious threat even In thme closed Pretest applications. as cvUtaneed by Bhe current Incident of poultry Im<i eonhammation. Therefore, I am today inItrsducint MldiUm to ufattr Iwn ttu IlnuntaM dtatrtbatlMn at pcb'i. And X am calling for congressional hearings into this matter. Further, Z am reiterating my call for the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Hn- vironmentnl Protection Agency to com mence immediately a full and exhaus tive investigation in to the extent of PCS contamination. And I am calling for an Immediate administrative ban on the manufacture, shipment, and sale of all PCS'*. The problem of PCB'i is indicative of a much larger problem--that of the al most unrestricted Influx of harmful chemicals Into the marketplace. A sys tem must be established to insure the safety of a chemical before it can be sold and then only for specific uses. But in the meantime, everything pos sible must be done to protect the pub lic irorn known chemical Congers. We know ttie hazards of FCB's. We know what oan and must be done to combat thooe hosardo. And we must undertake those actions now, At this point X Include In the Recoup two arUelea by Hank Burcliard which appeared In the Washington Foot on July 24 and July 25 respectively, and a July 24 New York Times story by Wil liam Blair, The articles follow: (From tba Washington Feet, July as, 19711 Chkmtcai. Votract Cm(cun*--CowiAin- MATC0 Fowl Peons XM 13-STAT* Anu (By Kook Burebwd) A "significant proportion" of th chickens raised la 19 etatee have been contaminated with a DDT-llfca openpound. th* Department of Agriculture announced yesterday. USDA taM it baa Nuo *vldane*" that any ot the birde have iseabed coaeumera and hoe taken atepa to make eur# none do. The contaminant is poty-chloriaated bipytaenylt, known as POO. For nearly three months it hod been leaking into tab meal practised at the Bast Oeaet Terminal. Zoo., plant la Wilmington, XXI. The meal baa beta eaM to 04 poultry producers in Vir ginia, Dtiawarw, North Carolina, south Oarolino, CNorgla. Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Taontaeat. Kentucky. Arkansas ana Mississippi. FOB. Ilka DDT, It a persistant compound that aeeuauiataa in fatty tissues aud it arid to causa law fortuity and birth defeat* In animals. Its effects on humane ora uncertain, but UBDA baa sat the maximum acceptable level of FOB In marketed been at 9 pans per million, the same ae for DDT. Teste of poultry in markets in tba Booth and Beat during the past w.-ak bate found none that have as muah at 4 p.pm. of fob, according to Dr. Fratl J. Fullerton of UffDA't ooneumar and marketing service. "in my opinion, there would be no brollera la stores above the tolerance," Fullerton said. The agency dees not regularly toot for FOB. In poultry not yet slaughtered, USDA found FOB concentrations at high as 39 p.p m., and one poultry producer reported levels ee high ea 44 p.p.m. The contamination at Osh meal in the Wilmington plant was aaused by leakage of FOB being used os the heat exchange mechanism in n sterilising machine. The accidental leakage, which mey have begun around April 10, was brought to tbs attention of tha Food and Drug Administra tion lost week by the Monsanto Corp., sola UB. producer of FOB compounds. FDA in tun lotted UBDA e& July 14, FOB. which stands for a dossn related com pound*, has been long and widely ueed in tha DA. at ft solvent In tho production of paint, pesticide* plasties and trains add tueh Items ae "earbonjeae" carhop paper, as well as in beating and cooling machinery Mournto now recommends its wo b* limited to hoot wmheng* systems, an PDA spokesman said. PCX contamination of tho tissue* of poul try produced in New York State last year re sulted in the acixuro and destruction of more than 100.000 birds. The source of contami nation in that com has not beau ptopoiated. Although FCB has bean in uaa worldwide since before World War IX. It woe not until 1009 that its presence in soil, water and antmal tissue* became known. "knvtronmenV idegomno. which brat brought the PCX problem to national atten tion, reported that concentrations of FCB were overlooked in chemical analyse* because IV it. so kunilur to DDT. Xovln >hs, tit* xnacamns's scientific dlreotor, yesterday Ctputed vbe government** suiuruiie&s that toxic birds ere not on the market. "I suspect ?CB contamination may bo quite widM?i-u.t4,** ho naid in a telephone lhterriei7 from Si. Louis, Mo. "We were told to check bird* Item tha South more than two months ago. but haven't yt been able to track t down." ha said. Dr. Joseph SWln of USDA sold tha agency bad "been checking e'aiokuia m tbs South duriag this period usd have found nothing to lead us to suspect conlamlnation of mar keted birds." Scientific opinion on the dangers presented by FOB U divided. USDA researchers, a spokesman sold, regard the outcry over FOB (eud Dm*) fuc exaggerated. An FDA spokesman said the agency forbids use of FCB in food or in the production of food oontolnsn. "ite effoota are not known In detail." be cold. "but to us it's an adulter ant and Impermissible." Dr. Robert xiaeboroogh. of the University of Oolllorntn wt Berkeley, discovered while doing research on the brown pellaon that FOB woe endangering the species. Since then he hoe reported finding FOB residues {From tbs Washington Feat, July M. 1971J law Botrawr To 3am DDT-Lmt Chocui (By Sank Surehard) A Xaw York congressman said yesterday be will introduce a bill to ban ail use of a DOTUko compound that has contaaalnated hu man and wttdllfa food chains in the BB. and around the world. Tbs announosment by Bap, WUliam Fitts Byan (D. if.Y.) com* after it was revsalad Friday that high levels at polychlorinated biphenyls (FCB) baa been found In Ash meal fad to poultry in n state*. Including Virginia and Delaware, over tne past tnrva months. A Department of Agrtoulture spokesman said yesterday that fish meal from the same Wilmington, M.c.. plant bad also baaa ted to an unknown number of hogs. Tha depart ment eald tt does not believe any of the poultry or pork involved hoe reached con sumer markets and Is moving to prevent them from being sold. Ftsh meal produced by Bast Cosot Termi nal, Inc., of Wilmington, was contaminated from about April uotU the plant was ordered closed Friday. The FOB. being usstf a* th* heat transfer medium in sterilising vau. looked unnoticed Into tha meal. The contamination woe not discovered by any government agency. It earns to light when a cuatoowr of the Monsanto Cotp.. th* solo DA producer of FCB, oomplained that his chickens were being Wcksnsd and their eggs war* of low fortuity. Monsanto traced the problem to the obicksn feed end the feed to th* tvumington plant, then notified the UB. Foqd and Drug q84068 HONS ',Hfr38 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE July gg, 1971 Minima(ration, which notified U8DA, which Mk 4stcr beads tba Am public announce- Myall, wheat offlro has bttu Investigating Uta pci) problem t<>r ww yearn. Mid tat eaat "graphically muai-nuri. tut grows neglect of lha trdarnl gtivArw.<Mtt to taka preventive aotieit against tha urrontrollsd uaa of deadly chemicals by Amrrican industry." Mt Mid hit bill muld be Introduced Mod* day. It will replace hit HR M7S, introduced May 10. which would r,wmlt the Secretary ot Hamah. Bdueatton and Welfare to exempt certain uaaa of PCD* from tha ban. "Tha lataat cane eonvinosa im there la no aft way for the muff to be u**d," aald Ryan aide Otie Mwarda. uer limitoi A spokesman for the Maneanto Corp. aald yeeterdey the uaa o: PCBa la "abeotuteiy aa* eeoutr' for heavy en-ctrieut oqujpment and that the company i.^o tskun "vrry stringent meaurva" Vo rontrr.: uiie of tha aompound. Since last Auffiixt, he aald Monsanto baa withdrawn PCD* from tele for any purpoea ethar than aa tha iniuiatlog fluid in *l*otneal capaeltora, aa a coolant in tranaformara or ae a Are-restctant ingredient in industrial beeline and cooling u/Rtoiaa. The embaryo alee applies to the Untied Kingdom, in which Monsanto alee lies a monopoly in PCS*. Per more than 40 year* before the Mon* eerne action, l?Ba. which are a group of a town chlorinated hydrocarbons, had been widely uaed aa pineuclrr* (softeners! in palnta, aaalante, adhesive# and other surface posting*. with miscellaneous applications in thermostats, food, pharmaceuticals and hy draulic fluid*, According to tha April, 1071, ''New Scientist and .'iornco Journal." A spnkviman for the Rational Paint, YarnUh A Utquft Aaaoclntlon, }ue., Mid yeatar* day that PCDa "newt have bean `widely used' In palnta. They had ceitata limited indus trial applleationa and ora no loncrr used. Any paint buyer may bo Mmirod the produets contain no PCfis." amrers mm wr Tha effect* of PODs in animals sre almliar la these of DOT, and before 1400 tbe pres* enoe of tha compound in the Molosleal chain was net suspected because It was mistaken lee DDT in laboratory analyse*. There Is so corner,*us among seleotiata about how dangerous the aompound la. Their toneern centers on tbe foot that PCBa, ilk# DDT, is a htgbly stable compound that break* down slowly. A woeUlwirts baa on PCM and DDT will bo proposed at tha United Nation* environmental conference in ftockbolm nest year. It I* insoluble is water but soluble in fat*, a faetor whkh causes it to baaaena wsssa tratad in tha tissues of progressively larter animals in Uta food ohsln. RmMum of up to 1000 psrla par million (p.pun.) have been found in tha tissues of American seobtrds. Tha CODA Hulas do not permit salt tor hu man consumption of flash containing more than ft p.p.m. Some clilrkens fed on the oontsmlhated flsh meal have been found to con tain up to eo p.p.m. Last December a CampbeU'e toup plant in Mtw Jeicey disoovarM impermissible levels cf PCIft In ehlcksns purebaaed from New Tost growais. Aguifl tha tcoovary was made In private teats, since uta federal government fleas not regularly tast ter PCBa tn marketed ash. OKSM1CAL TM0B Mew Tort fltats offlcinls tmeed the contamlnation to chicken feed produced la a plant that uaae stale bakery goods (which may have bean wrapped tn plastic mads with a FOB) Boms 140,000 ehlohans war* de stroyed and burled. Marller. milk from two Ohio dairy bards was found tn contain PCIts derived from aUago stored in silos paintod with pcs-troatod pokyn. Government regulation oi PClla has boon limited. Tbs U8DA recently banned their use in pesticides. and tb* FDA does not permit them to be added to food products. A half dooen other aganclea say they are considering regulations. Monsanto's rscognltiou of PCBe as an eco logical hasard and 1U voluntary bau an tnelr use esoept tn "closed-system" equipment is very nearly unique in Industry, according to lb* scientific Journal. - Tha oompany also collects used PCB from Its customers and destroys them in a special incinerator In fiUhota. MONSANTO TSSTB Recently completed Monsanto tests, eonducted over two years, showed that rats fed food containing up to 100 p.p.m. showed m, largement of ths Uver but suffered no other effects, tbe company spoke*man said. Dogs showed no til effects, be said. Mop. Ryan said hs was skeptical of taeta ordered by the company for its own products. Edwards, his elds. *a.d "h's rtdtoulous to have to introduce a bJl every tlxu another family of dancereus compounds turns up in our bodies sod throughout the onvironmcnt, but, given tbe repeated failure of govern ment agencies to set. thare's nothing else we can do." [Prom tb* New York Times. July 34. IP71? Units* States Rui Poison in Somk ChickKHS -gCAOCH ON IN 12 STATCS AfTtS FSSS Za Poons Tainttd (By WUUam M. Blair) Washimotoh.--The Department of Agri culture announced today a March in il stale* for broiler chickens and chicken feed that may be contaminated by so Industrial chem ical. The tools subslanes la of tbe ebemlcal fam ily of polychlorinated blpheuyes. Spokesman for the Agriculture Department and the Pood and Drug Administration aald that tbe POB. ae the chemical la known, bod leaked from heating machinery used to pasteurise ash meal at the Bast Coast Terminal. Inc., Wil mington. N.C. The meal was sold for use as an ingredient la pouJtrr feed and may have found Ita way Into some bog feeds, oOoiale said. * Thay said that tbe meal bad been sold to at leaat 64 feed processing plant*. Thsa* in cluded plants thsft rats* and process poultry tor meal markets. The official* sold that tb* Wilmington plant bad recalled all Osb meal shipped since April 90. the indicated date of tb* beginning of the problem. Tb* plant closed voluntarily a week ago, they said. The teste substance oausee digestive dis tress, nones*, fever and ether upsets la hu mans. olBcitls aald. The Mood end Drug Ad ministration said It had a guideline of ft parts per million for the PCD substance. Ag riculture scientists aald that IS to 30 parts per million bad been found in flab meal still at the North Carolina plant. ALARM OVSS KOe-HATCMINO The contamination was disclosed by an un named commercial poulthy processor who be came alarmed at tbo low rate of batching of egg* In hie broiler breeding ehiokena. Using private laboratory teeie, lie found up to 40 parts per million In the fat of some at his ebieken*. Agriculture olAclals aald. He traced tn# meal to tb* Wilmington plant, they aald. The meal was *et to user* in Alabama, Arkanaas. Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indi ana, Kentucky. North Carolina, Mississippi. South Carolina. Tonnes*** and Virginia. Tb* PD.A. set * guideline of five parte per million for tb* subetane* after It bad been found lb feed from an Agway. ine., plant m Sullivan County. NT., early this year. Higher concentrations were found in ebieken* fed tn* rood end shipped to a processing plan* Ut New Jersey. Federal odtelate said that 140,009 ohteken* had bam destroyed in Sullivan, Orange and Ulster Counties, NT . aa a result of the And- ie.ee* tons ov msal An Agrieuitura Department apokeaman aid that about ig.OM) tons cf flab mam had been produced at the Wilmington plant be tween April so an July Id. Normally, flab meal makes up only a small portion or mised poultry feeds. A spokesman for Representative William F. Ryan. Democrat of Manhattan, said that Mr. Ryan had been trying for a year to get the shipment cf pqu prohibited la inter state commeioo. He introduced ircislaUon to that effect but It has languished in the House Xnteietate Commerce Committee, tbe enokm man said. He said Mr. Ryan had warned of "Me. pread" contamination of foodstuffs, particu larly poultry, before tht New York case. He bad looked Into the toxic eifucts of l*CB af ter reading a study by California scientist* on the chem.cal and flad.r.j that it was not aoiuabio in voter ana could be taken into tb? buiu-ji ?>-Btem by physical contact, tbs spokesman w.ld. FCS ha* ii wide rang* of liuiustrtnl use, including prunteand resinfl and la the manu facture of piu-a and otaer material*. In tb* North Carolina cos*; the substance was used la a heat exchanger to cool liquid. In tb* New Yore ebieken case, tUe PCS was believed to have been m paint that flaked off a storage bin 01- to have been absorbed by tb* feed from the paint. ... ... witwvi m prwvjwus or- it of the House, the genUenutn f/om hnsds (Mi-. Roy) is recognised / " minutes. vlr. ROY addressed the HoGse. His tomVrks will appear hereafter m the Kx- ons of Remarks ] THE teOPLE OP UTXCA/MX3S.. ACT VrO HELP POW-SIA'S The 8MJAKTTR. Under/ previous order of the Mouse, the gentleman from Georgia. n(r. Gurrm As recognised for 10 mlnuteftX / Mr. ORIRPIN. Mr/Speaker, in early June, the pwopie of Utica. Miss., my hometown, uiVlertopk the task of send ing two representative* to Paris. Franc* and Rome. Italk tq expreu their support and concern forydl the American POW- MIAS presently bklng held In North Viet namese prisons. Nr Force Maj. Thomas E. Collins m. )ms\)en a prisoner since October IS. mi. Haia a native of Utica. The representative* were Mayor John P. Tlilman aAd Postfaaster P. L. Scott, both noted qmd well-respected members of the community. Th*> minion proved successful Ifeyond the tlopes of all of us who supported and encouraged the effort. It is a {burce of enormiut pride to me that eithflins in and aroun^ a Anm!! town like UU<pt. 1.033 populatiorC should tin- dertakeauch a project with Joutstieai and flnancUl problems to be overcome. Over come tliey were. Mr. Speaker,'for. within a rendu-kably short time afteh thr effort begad, the money vise ralaeth and ar- ranraments made for Mayor TUr -ion and Postmaster Soott to embark on titclr mis sion. .\ R. was a community project and tae in wulch poople of all walks of ilfeXoar* tifipated. Its motives wore of the coVatt c^der and M intentiois purciv u- Uirtan. They weut to express t.u* i,j.vv Dreak and concern and love ol millions v M0NS 034069