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Malcolm McLean Testifies

On Shipbuilding Program

As Aid To Unemployment

Appearing before the House Merchant Ma- rine & Fisheries Committee on February 17,

Malcplm P. McLean, board chairman, Sea-

Land Service, Inc., offered this testimony on the impact of shipbuilding—as contemplated by the Nixon merchant marine program—on overall poverty and unemployment problems: "... Our company has completed a study as to the utilization of the proposal as a means of aiding people in the poverty areas. We have located seventy shipyards, as a sampling, on a map of the United States. It is recognized that not all of the shipyards involved are capable of the type of construction envisioned, but many would certainly receive the ancillary benefits of increased repair and maintenance and subcontracting. "Through the offices of OEO, we obtained the three volumes published by that agency showing by street boundaries the geographical locations of the principal poverty areas of ev- ery city in the United States in excess of 250,- 000. We then related the shipyards involved in these particular hard-core centers of poverty.

In every instance, we found that the shipyards were either in or immediately adjacent to the hard-core poverty areas. "Thus . . . each $1,000,000 of shipbuilding activity creates one year of employment for 43 shipyard workers and for 67 manufacturing employees . . . each 1-million of shipbuilding activity contributes 220 to 330 man-years of employment to the economy. Thus, the (Nix- on) proposal should create jobs that can come right from the hard-core unemployment areas, and does so without direct government grants. "It is clear that the people directly located in these areas could benefit the most from the additional jobs that this bill can create . . .

According to the OEO statistics, the total obligations incurred by the Department of

Health, Education and Welfare, the Depart- ment of Labor, the Department of Agriculture and Office of Equal Opportunity in the anti- poverty programs for the fiscal year 1967 was $954,000,000. For 1968, it was $1,323,000,000.

The program envisioned by the Tax Defer- ment Proposal can go a long way into lifting the burden of these specific grants by provid- ing jobs and on-the-job training in the very areas to which these funds are directed."

Mr. McLean made these statements in con- text of supporting creation of tax deferred con- struction reserve funds for nonsubsidized op- erators. the first month s operating results of harbor advisory radar at the Golden Gate served as a prelude to the

April 29-May 1 spring assembly in San Francisco of the

Radio Technical Commission for Marine Services. Lester

C. Bedient (left), general manager of Harbor Tug and

Barge Co., is general chairman of the event which will attract more than 200 telecomunications experts from throughout the United States and abroad. He explained the program of 20 presentations scheduled to Capt.

Robert Wilcox, Maryland Port Authority operations di- rector, and Capt. George A. Quick, president of the As- sociation of Maryland Pilots, while Capt. William F.

Adams (right) of the Coast Guard looked on.

The National River Academy

Bill Introduced To Congress

Congressman Bill Alexander of Arkansas has introduced legislation to incorporate The

National River Academy under the Acts of

Congress. "We have emphasized from the very begin- ning that this academy is designed to fill a na- tional need and that its training program will be national in scope," the Congressman stated.

Fourteen leaders in the inland waterways in- dustry from 12 different states were listed in the bill, H.R. 15631, as original incorporators of The National River Academy.

In a speech on the floor of the House of

Representatives concerning the bill Congress- man Alexander said, "This bill is an outgrowth of a great deal of work in the past few months on behalf of myself and many, many people throughout this country who are interested in the orderly and rapid growth of the inland wa- terways industry and the continued develop- ment and utilization of our rivers' resources."

He pointed out that it is estimated that wa- terborne tonnage will increase by 450% during the coming 50 years. More sophisticated equip- ment and technology is constantly being in- troduced onto the nation's waterways, he said.

Congressman Alexander further stated, "These factors add up to a challenge, in the name of both efficiency and safety, to offer the best possible training programs and op- portunities to the people employed in this key industry."

The Congressman said his bill, when ap- proved by the Congress, would provide na- tional recognition and status to The National

River Academy, although the academy would not be under Federal control. "This academy will be national in scope, it will be national in emphasis, and it will pro- duce results that will be felt nationally," the

Congressman said in his House speech. "I am hopeful that early hearings and con- sideration of this proposal can be scheduled, and that my colleagues in the Congress will join me in recognizing the inland waterways industry as one which is vital to the future development of this country and which needs and deserves our support."

Those included in the bill as incorporators are: Orin E. Atkins, president, Ashland Oil and Refining Company, Inc., Ashland, Ky.;

Gale H. Chapman Sr., vice-president, Upper

Mississippi Towing Corporation, Minneapolis,

Minn.; John M. Donnelly Jr., executive vice- president, Ingram Barge Company, New Or- leans, La.; T.F. Ellis Jr., T.F. Ellis Towing

Company, Galveston, Texas; L.R. Fiore, presi- dent, The Ohio River Company, Cincinnati,

Ohio; Noble Gordon, president, Mid-South

Towing Company, Tampa, Fla.; Percy LeMay,

LeMay Barge and Supply, Greenville, Miss.;

William C. McNeal, vice-president, Oil Trans- port Company, Inc., New Orleans, La.; Harry

Mack, president, Neare, Gibbs and Company,

Cincinnati, Ohio; Floyd A. Mechling, presi- dent, A.L. Mechling Barge Lines, Joliet, 111.;

Alvan D. Osbourne, Union Barge Line Cor- poration, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Charles B. South- ern, Southern Towing Company, Caruthers- ville, Mo.; Jim Walden, president, Helena Ma- rine Service, Inc., Helena, Ark.; and Capt.

Jack Wofford, vice-president in charge of op- erations, American Commercial Barge Line

Company, Jeffersonville, Ind.

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