MARINE SCIENCE 17] 
COMMUNICATION FRoM Dr. FrRANcIS H. Horn, PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF RHODE 
IsLanbD, Kineston, R.I. 
Fesruary 27, 1961. 
Senator Warren G. MAGNUSON, 
Chairman, Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, 
New Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 
Dear SENATOR Maanuson: I strongly endorse Senate bill 8. 901 incorporat- 
ing the recommendations of the Committee on Oceanography of the National 
Academy of Sciences and Project THNOC of the Office of Naval Research. The 
importance of this bill in providing for facilities, research, and the training of 
Scientific personnel for national defense and for proper exploitation of the re- 
sources of the sea cannot be too strongly emphasized. 
The Narragansett Marine Laboratory of the University of Rhode Island, 
after 18 years of contracts with the Office of Naval Research, has been selected 
for participation in the Navy 10-year oceanographic program and has received 
additional basic marine research grants from the National Science Foundation, 
the National Institutes of Health, and the Atomic Energy Commission. The 
oceanographic research and educational potentials of this laboratory are being 
further enhanced by elevation to graduate school status. 
We highly commend you for your vigorous efforts and assure you of our 
interest in the passage of the Marine Sciences and Research Act of 1961. 
Cordially yours, 
Francis H. Horn, President. 
CoMMUNICATION FROM Dr. WILLIAM R. Wood, PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF 
ALASKA, COLLEGE, ALASKA 
Marcu 20, 1961. 
Senator WARREN G. Maagnuson, 
Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 
Dear SENATOR Maenuson: I appreciate very much your sending me materials 
concerning the proposed marine sciences program. As you know, the University 
of Alaska is very deeply interested in your proposal. You may recall that the 
State legislature a year ago authorized the establishment of an institute of 
marine sciences, and that Dr. Kenneth M. Rae has been selected as a director 
of this institute. He is presently head of oceanography and marine sciences 
at Texas A. & M. 
It seems to me that the University of Alaska, with its main campus located 
at 65° north latitude, and representing as it does, a State with many thousands 
of miles of shoreline in the Arctic and North Pacific regions, is ideally located 
to serve as a center, not only for research in oceanography and marine sciences, 
but also for the training of oceanographers and marine scientists for work in 
the Arctic and in the Antarctic. 
I am sure that the members of the Alaska congressional delegation, Senator 
Bartlett, Senator Gruening, and Representative Rivers, will agree with me on 
this point. 
Sincerely yours, 
WILLIAM R. Woon, President. 
TELEGRAM From G. A. SLIFER, GIBBS CORP., JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 
JACKSONVILLE, F'tA., March 15, 1961. 
Hon. WARREN MAGNUSON, 
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Senate Office Building, 
Washington, D.C.: 
As one of the leading builders of ships used for oceanography and fishing 
research, we respectfully urge your committee’s support of bill S. 901 dated 
February 9, 1961. Not only are the existing oceanographic research vessels 
obsolete and should be replaced, but a better knowledge of the minerals available 
in the sea will contribute more to the national welfare than the vast exploration 
of space which is now consuming such a large share of the taxpayers’ money. 
G. A. SLIFER. 
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