CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE

due course, it will be determined that

the Railroad's Federal purposes have

been achieved. At that time the Congress should authorize disposition of the

Railroad to a non-Federal agency, and

it would then automatically become subject to Interstate Commerce Commission

regulation.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, July 6, 1960.

On July 12, 1960:

METHOD FOR REGULATING AND FIXING WAGE

RATES FOR EMPLOYEES OF PORTSMOUTH, N.H.,

NAVAL SHIPYARD

S. 19. I am withholding my approval

from S. 19, to provide a method for regulating and fixing wage rates for em- ployees of Portsmouth, N.H., Naval Shipyard.

My reasons for disapproving an identical enactment of the 85th Congress still

apply. This bill, like its predecessor,

strikes at the heart of the statutory principle that rates of pay for 673,000 Federal

wage board employees shall conform, as nearly as is consistent with the public

interest, with private rates of pay in the

immediate vicinity of the particular

Federal activity.

This principle is sound. It insures

Federal employees a fair wage. It in- sures against the payment of unwar- ranted hourly rates by the Government.

And it insures that Federal rates of pay

will not upset the economy of the com- munity in which the Federal establishment is located.

S. 19 would disregard this principle

by providing that hourly rates for

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard employees

should be based on those which obtain,

not in Portsmouth, but rather in the

Boston industrial complex, 60 miles distant. Private industrial rates are substantially higher in Boston than in

Portsmouth-and therein lies the ex- planation of the bill.

But why should the Government pay a much higher hourly wage rate than

do fair-minded private employers in the

Portsmouth area? If the Portsmouth

Naval Shipyard were a private establishment, there would be no question of a differential. The going rate for the area would be paid. But because the Government is the employer, and just because

it is, there is apparently an expectation

that the Government should pay more

than these hourly employees in fairness

and equity have a right to expect. Further, it is seemingly of little or no concern that in so doing the Government

would be departing from sound principle and business practice and would be

unsettling the economy of the Portsmouth community.

This kind of legislation-this expectation of something-for-nothing from the

Government just because it is the Government-weakens our national fabric

and with each occurrence leaves it more

seriously impaired. The spread of this

expectation, and its reflection in an increase of such legislation, are profoundly disturbing for the future of America.

In this one instance, for example, S.

19 as a law would provide a ready precedent for the eventual dissolution of the

wage board principle and system. The

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in no way

presents an unusual situation. Several

Federal establishments, less distant from

Boston than Portsmouth, have lower pay scales than those of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

By no rationale can this bill be justified. Wage disparities exist throughout

the United States but under the wage

board principle the Government pays

the fair and equitable hourly rates of

the particular area in which it finds itself-and so it should.

For these reasons I am unable to approve the bill.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.

THE WHITE HOUSE, July 12, 1960.

CONFIRMATIONS

Executive nominations confirmed by

the Senate July 2, 1960:

DIPLOMATIC AND FOREIGN SERVICE

Andrew G. Lynch, of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

of the United States of America to the

Somali Republic.

Clare H. Timberlake, of Michigan, to be

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the

Congo.

Winthrop G. Brown, of the District of

Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary

and Plenipotentiary of the United States of

America to the Kingdom of Laos, vice Horace

H. Smith.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Carl J. Stephens, of Iowa, to be General

Counsel of the Department of Agriculture, Frank A. Barrett, resigned.

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Robert S. Rankin, of North Carolina, to be a member of the Commission on Civil Rights,

vice John S. Battle, resigned.

SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD

Edward C. Sweeney, of Illinois, to be a member of the Subversive Activities Control

Board for the remainder of the term expiring

August 9, 1960, vice R. Lockwood Jones, re- signed.

Edward C. Sweeney, of Illinois, to be a member of the Subversive Activities Control

Board for a term of 5 years expiring August

9, 1965. (Reappointment.)

U.S. PATENT OFFICE

Hyman Freehof, of the District of Columbia, to be an examiner in chief, U.S. Patent

Office.

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY

Subject to qualifications provided by law,

the following for permanent appointments to the grades indicated in the Coast and Geodetic Survey:

To be ensigns

William F. Hamm James E. McKee

Paul W. Hund, Jr. Walter J. Senkow

Emilio F. Landy Robert A. Trauschke

Michael C. McGuire Joseph D. Williams

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGES

Jacob Mishler, of New York, to be a U.S.

district judge for the eastern district of New

York, vice Mortimer Byers, retired.

Frederick W. Kaess, of Michigan, to be a U.S. district judge for the eastern district of

Michigan, vice Arthur F. Lederle, retiring.

MUNICIPAL COURT

Randolph C. Richardson, of the District

of Columbia, to be associate judge of the

municipal court for the District of Columbia

for the term of 10 years, vice George D. Neil- son, term expired.

Thomas C. Scalley, of the District of

Columbia, to be associate judge of the municipal court for the District of Columbia for

the term of 10 years. He is now serving in

this office under an appointment which ex- pired March 2, 1960.

U.S. MARSHAL

Ralph W. Gray, of Massachusetts, to be a U.S. marshal for the district of Massachu- setts for a term of 4 years. (Reappointment.)

U.S. AIR FORCE

The officers named herein for appointment as Reserve commissioned officers In the U.S.

Air Force under the provisions of section

8392, title 10, United States Code:

To be brigadier generals

Col. Frank W. Berlin, A0724882, Iowa Air

National Guard.

Col. Vito J. Castellano, A0866387, New

York Air National Guard.

Col. Edward R. Fry, A050478, Kansas Air

National Guard.

Col. William D. Ott, A0408469, Kentucky

Air National Guard.

Col. Valentine A. Siefermann, A0794707,

Hawaii Air National Guard.

Col. James M. Trail, A0406063, Idaho Air

National Guard.

Col. Joseph W. Turner, A0422148, Oklahoma Air National Guard.

U.S. ARMY

The officers named herein for promotion as Reserve commissioned officers of the Army

under the provisions of title 10, United States

Code, section 3384:

To be major generals

Brig. Gen. Eugene Gilbert Cushing,

0286447, U.S. Army Reserve.

Brig. Gen. Warren Crumley Giles, 0349122,

Army National Guard of the United States.

Brig. Gen. Robert Morgan Jones, 0270821,

U.S. Army Reserve.

Brig. Gen. Leon Lewis Mathews, 0255628,

U.S. Army Reserve.

Brig. Gen. Robert Powell Miller, 0256068,

Army National Guard of the United States.

Brig. Gen. George Poindexter Munson, Jr.,

0257114, U.S. Army Reserve.

Brig. Gen. Clemont C. Parrish, 0279901,

U.S. Army Reserve.

Brig. Gen. John Darrell Sides, 0330828,

Army National Guard of the United States.

Brig. Gen. John Lewis Thompson, Jr.,

0182754, Army National Guard of the United

States.

To be brigadier generals

Col. Russell Curtis Baker, 0291797, Corps

of Engineers, U.S. Army Reserve.

Col. George Baird Bennett, 0398135, Adjutant General's Corps, Army National Guard

of the United States.

Col. Thomas Russell Burns, Jr., 0342000,

Artillery, Army National Guard of the United

States.

Col. Benjamin Joseph Butler, 0407344,

Infantry, U.S. Army Reserve.

Col. Ralph Walker Cooper, Jr., 0266469,

Adjutant General's Corps, Army National

Guard of the United States.

Col. Milton Ehrlich, 0293592, Adjutant

General's Corps, Army National Guard of the

United States.

Col. Ralph James Eubank, 01176327, Artillery, Army National Guard of the United

States.

Col. Maurice Candide Fournier, 01167424,

Artillery, U.S. Army Reserve.

Col. Louis Overton Gravely, Jr., 0248412,

Infantry, U.S. Army Reserve.

Col. Charles Deletus Henley, 0327778, Infantry, U.S. Army Reserve.

Col. Michael Bernard Kauffman, 0364438,

Infantry, U.S. Army Reserve.

Col. John Borchert Lagen, 0235968, Medical Corps, U.S. Army Reserve.

Col. Carl Cleveland Neely, 0270845, Artillery, Army National Guard of the United States.

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