The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-06-14

picked the House of Representa-
tives as the opening battle-ground
on the highly controversial legis-
lation to bar discrimination in
public accommodations.
This strategy. mapped at an
unannounced White House meet
ing between Democratic con-
gressional leaders and the Presi-
dent, calls for the civil rights
measure to be brought to the
House for a showdown vote late
in July.
1t was decided to delay Senate
action until after House consid-
! Grafton to avoid & filibuSter that
could log jam the major features
of the President legislative
program. including his much
publicized tax cut.
BY following the House first
strategy. administration leaders
believe they can maneuver con
Slderatlon in that chamber of the
tax bill. Youth Conservation
Corps. mass transportation pro
/ posal and federal aid to colleges
ahead of the party-splitting civil
rights clash.
The unannounced decision tC
tackle the explosive civil rights
issue in the House first came
after Speaker John Mccormack
D-Mass, and House Democratic
leader Carl Albert, Okla, voiced
belief it will be easier to pass
the legislation there than in the
Senate.
They stressed that Southern
opposition. which can stall civil
rights legislation for weeks il
the Senate by filibustering can
not resort to this powerful de.
vice in the House. The two lead
ers also claimed the opposition
lacks the votes in the House t(
defeat the measure.
Speaker Mccormack suggested
that "Since it will take Severa
weeks to hold hearings and OBJ
tain favorable action by the Ju
dietary and Rules Committees
we should delay a showdown TN
til after the tax bill is disposed
of in July. This delay will alst
give us the time needed to &C
on your other major legislative
proposals."
THAT plan sounds realistic tt
me. replied the President. Blu
what about the Rules Commit
tee? That is always prob
lem"
mot under present circum
stances, replied Mccormack
There will be some delay il
| that committee. but we viii
have the votes to force action
The bill can be stopped only
the Republican members or
posed it, and they can't affor
to do that with a presidentia
election facing them next year.
Sen tie Democratic Leade
Mike Mansfield, Mont, and Viii
Hubert Humphrey. Mimi, full
concurred with Mccormack. Al
SO they agreed that it will TAX
many weeks to bring the legis
latlon to a vote in the Senate
THE BIG MESS - Congress
sional investigators are maxim,
a powerful case for establishin,
a national research date process
ing the information retrieva
center.
A special House Labor Sub
committee, probing the need TO
such an agency. has uncovered
striking evidence that scientifi,
research in the U. S. is incrcas
ingly begging down in its own
Wasteful duplication.
The legislators preliminar,
findings, submitted by Repre-
sentative Roman Pucinski, D
H., chairman, contend that tn,
failure of scientists to kno v
what others have discovered O.
are working on has resulted il
"Wasteful duplication of re
search estimated at so per cen
OF our current SIS billion effor
in research and development.
The survey, slated to be thu
basis for a sweeping investiga
ton of the handling of research
data, cites the following start
ling examples of duplication:
Office reports two govern
ment agencies were working OF
the same type missile for ovel
a year before the duplication
was discovered The cost of du
plication involving NASA's Alta,
Agena B and the Air Force
Atlas Vega missile was $1S mil
lion.
"One major U. S. company
spent over S25C.0O0 and five
years of research in an attemp
to solve an electronic sWitchins
problem important to militar,
communications. The team O
topnotch mathematicians doin|
the research found the solution
However, they also discovered
the solution was available in {
manuscript six months before
the research program started.
"A cloud seeding expert
ment has recently been made b,
a government agency at cos