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Mr. Pace. I believe that covers all Kepresentatives in Congress. 

 We should be glad to have yon present the next witness, Mr. Colmer. 



Mr. Colmer. Mr. Chairman, before I do that may I add to the 

 Chair's statement that there is a considerable number of other Kepre- 

 sentatives and Senators who are interested in this matter and vv^ho 

 would have been here this morning but due to complications such as 

 Senator Russell's, could not be here. Among those are the two Sena- 

 tors from Louisiana, Senators EUender and Long; also Senators East- 

 land and Stennis from Mississippi. 



Mr. Pace. I believe I observe in the room a representative from 

 Senator Eastland's office. 



Mr. Colmer. I was going to comment on that next, ]Mr. Chairman. 

 1 see Mr. Courtney Pace of Senator Eastland's office here and I 

 wonder if he wanted to make a statement. 



Air. Pace. Just an explanation, that Senator Eastland is presiding 

 over the Internal Security Judiciar}^ Subcommittee this morning, at 

 this hour; but he is very much interested and will file a statement. 



Mr. Colmer. There are other Members of the House whom I shall 

 not take the time now to list, but who are interested. 



Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, at this time I 

 shoidd like to present to the committee Mr. Lamont Rowlands, 

 sccrf'tury of the Tung Growers' Council of America, who is here to 

 make a brief statement and to answer any question-^ the committee 

 might see fit to ask. Mr. Rowlands is from Picayune, Miss. He is a 

 pioneer in this industry. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Rowlands, we shall be delighted to hear from you 

 at this time. 



STATEMENT OF LAMONT ROWLANDS, SECRETARY, TUNG 

 GROWERS COUNCIL OF AMERICA. PICAYUNE, MISS. 



Mr. Pace. Yoa may proceed, sir. 



Air. Rowlands. Thank you. In talking to some of the gentlemen 

 last night, they seemed to think that the committee probably did not 

 know a great deal about tung oil and tung-oil trees, and so, in the 

 brief that I have filed, I put in a tung-oil bulletin, where you can see a 

 picture of the nuts as they hand from the trees. It is a cluster type 

 of tree. Also, on the back of the paper, you will see a picture of the 

 trees in flower, to give jou some idea of the tung-oil tree. It is a native 

 of China. The picture of the tree, on the back, is that of a tree that 

 is about 13 years old. The tree is probabh 20 to 25 feet high and it 

 has about a 30-foot spread. 



That is a tung-oil tree. I think you gentlemen have all been pre- 

 sented with some of the tung nuts and I might say to the people here 

 in the auditorium that it would be better not to eat these nuts, if 

 they have any in their possession, because the meat is toxic and it is 

 very distressing if a person eats them. It has happened before and 

 1 thought I would mention it at this time. 



Air. Pace. Do you want to file this brie^? 



Air. Rowlands. Yes, sir. I should like to run through it as 

 quickly as I can. 



Air. Pace. You may proceed. 



