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on Channel 13 in New York. Indeed, its onehour special on the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree was offered nationally by PBS, and

more than 100 stations picked it up.

Teachers, parents and elderly residents

watch the instructional programming offered every weekday between 9:30 A.M. and

2:30 P.M., including some courses for college

credit. Mrs. Magura, the mother of a 4-year

old, coordinates the schedule with PBS and

makes sure teachers get the guides that go

with it.

‘‘A lot of our rural schools don’t have

VCR’s,’’ she said, ‘‘so teachers watch our

program guide very closely. If something

they want is on at 10:30 A.M., they put on the

TV in their classroom at 10:30 A.M.’’

Mrs. Castle bristles at two frequent criticisms of public television: that it serves only

an elite and offers too much provocative programming.

‘‘People come up to me and say they

watched ‘Upper Cumberland Camera,’’’ she

said, ‘‘and some of them go on and say, ‘Boy

I sure enjoyed that mystery program you

had on.’ So they watch us, and then maybe it

leads them to watch ‘Mystery’ or ‘Nova’ or

Charles Dickens, too.’’

As for programming, she points out that

middle Tennessee has a cultural heritage of

its own. ‘‘Our local programming gives people around here a positive image of themselves, too,’’ she said. ‘‘It gives people things

to feel proud of.’’

HEALTH CARE REFORM

fHON. PETER DEUTSCH OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, June 8, 1995

Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Speaker, while health

care reform legislation has been temporarily

set-aside for other pressing business, we can

not neglect the important issues raised during

the health care reform debate.

A major focus of several of the proposals involved the need to increase the number of

doctors providing primary care services.

Today, too many new physicians elect to practice specialized medicine where they can earn

higher salaries. As a result, there is a deficiency in the number of physicians that practice general family health care or primary

health care.

I would like to direct my colleagues’ attention to the efforts of Dr. Robert Ross, chairman and founder of Ross University School of

Medicine located on the Island of Dominica in

the Caribbean. Dr. Ross has greatly contributed to reversing the trend in the declining

numbers of primary care physicians. Dr. Ross

opened Ross University in 1978 with just 13

students. Since that time, over 2,500 students

have received medical degrees from the university. In fact, Ross University celebrated its

33d commencement on June 3, 1995, at the

United Nations. Ross University graduates

have continued on into medical residency

training and medical practice all over the United States.

Ross University is committed to academic

excellence and requires its students to complete the basic sciences portion of the curriculum in Dominica.Then, they return to the United States to complete their clinical clerkships

in teaching hospitals. Recently, I toured the

campus in Dominica and found the facilities to

be of the highest quality—utilizing state-of-theart technologies.

In addition, many Ross University graduates

have set up their primary care practices in

rural and urban areas that would otherwise go

without the attention of a physician. These foreign-trained medical students help fill the critical shortage of primary care physicians. In

fact, over 20 percent of the practicing doctors

in the States of Michigan, North Dakota, Illinois, Connecticut, and Delaware were educated outside the United States. In New Jersey, the figure is 33 percent, and in New York

this number is nearly 50 percent.

Dr. Ross and Ross University provide a valuable service to the American people. I urge

my colleagues to examine the contribution foreign medical schools can make with respect to

primary health care.

KEEP ACDA INDEPENDENT

fHON. DAVID E. BONIOR OF MICHIGAN

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, June 8, 1995

Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, now is not the

time to be dismantling the one agency whose

sole mandate is to formulate, negotiate, implement, and verify arms control and nonproliferation agreements.

The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

[ACDA] should remain an independent agency

with the goal of strengthening U.S. national

security through effective arms control agreements. President Eisenhower, who first proposed the agency, and President Kennedy,

who founded it, both recognized the need for

an independent voice on arms control matters

within the Federal Government.

The United States is pursuing the biggest,

broadest arms control and nonproliferation

agenda in history. With the end of the cold

war and the rising threat of proliferation of

weapons of mass destruction, we need a clear

focus on resolving outstanding arms control issues.

Now is not the time to abolish ACDA. Yet

that is exactly what the Republicans are doing

in H.R. 1561, the American Overseas Interests

Act.

The American people want a world that is

safer for their children than the one in which

they grew up. Let us hope we can avoid the

days when school children learned to duck

and cover under their desks at the same time

they were learning their ABCs. An independent ACDA provides an assurance that our Nation will continue to maintain the proper focus

on arms control and nonproliferation agreements.

I urge my colleagues to vote against H.R.

1561.

IN MEMORY OF FLOYD CECEL

fCOUGILL

HON. GLENN POSHARD OF ILLINOIS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, June 8, 1995

Mr. POSHARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to

honor a very special man, Floyd Cecel Cougill,

who passed away recently after a lifetime of

helping the people of southern Illinois. It is

with great sadness that I offer my condolences

to his family, and say that Floyd’s passing is

a great loss to all who knew him.

Floyd dedicated his life to helping the hardworking people of southern Illinois. At the

young age of 13 Floyd started to work at the

Metropolis Box Factory, and later he made his

way to the Metropolis Bending Co. where he

became a charter member of Local No. 1301

of the Laborers International Union of North

America. In 1949, Floyd founded the Construction and General Laborers Local No.

1320 of the American Federation of Labor,

and served as its business agent until his retirement in 1973. Even during his retirement

Floyd remained active in the union by continuing to serve as an organizer for the Laborers

International Union of North America.

Mr. Speaker, Floyd’s unquestionable personal integrity and honesty gained the respect

of all who knew him. It is for this reason that

people turned to him when they needed sound

advice. It was for his unparalleled commitment

to honesty that Southern Illinois University invited him to serve on a special panel that was

designed to help find solutions to labor-management relations for the entire southern Illinois region. Floyd was always willing to help

solve problems that the working people of

southern Illinois face on a daily basis. His life

was dedicated to helping ensure that these

people had decent jobs and decent lives.

Floyd’s efforts to help the lives of working

people will not be forgotten. The unions he

helped found and the workers he helped to

gain meaningful representation serve as a living monument to his work and dedication.

Rarely in life is one person able to directly

help the lives of countless individuals, but

through Floyd’s hard work, he was able to

serve his neighbors in crucial ways. Mr.

Speaker, I believe I speak for many when I

say Floyd Cecel Cougill will truly be missed,

but will always be remembered.

NATIONAL MARITIME DAY

fHON. RANDY ‘‘DUKE’’ CUNNINGHAM OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, June 8, 1995

Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, today I

rise to pay homage to America’s merchant

mariners. As you may be aware, each year, at

the request of the Congress, the President declares May 22 as National Maritime Day to

honor the Nation’s merchant mariners. The

significance of National Maritime Day was

marked the week of May 21 with special ceremonies and events held in Washington, DC,

and cities throughout the country.

Fifty years ago, on Maritime Day in 1945,

the leaders of the U.S. Armed Forces, including General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz,

praised the American merchant mariners who

sailed on civilian merchant ships moving war

materials to Europe and the Far East. These

men and ships participated in every landing

operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific.

Their skill and courage made a vital difference

to our Armed Forces in the European and Pacific theaters of World War II. The American

merchant marine later provided strong support

to our Armed Forces during the conflicts in

Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.

As a Vietnam veteran, I was grateful for the

assistance of the civilian merchant mariners.