172 MARINE SCIENCE 
TELEGRAM FROM AUBIN R. BARTHOLD, PRESIDENT, ASSOCIATION OF 
PAciIFIC FISHERIES 
SEATTLE, WASH., March 17, 1961. 
Senator WARREN G. MaGnuson, 
Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Senate Office 
Building, Washington, D.C.: 
Association of Pacific Fisheries strongly endorses S. 901 and urges close co- 
ordination of studies in physical oceanography with studies directed at solution 
of our urgent fisheries problems. 
AUBIN R. BarTHoLp, President. 
TELEGRAM FRoM JOHN N. PLANCICH, PRESIDENT, PUGET SOUND SALMON 
CANNERS, INC. 
SEATTLE, WASH., March 17, 1961. 
Senator WARREN G. MAGNUSON, 
Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Senate Office 
Building, Washington, D.C.: 
Imperative that United States proceed with oceanography research and co- 
ordinate it with fisheries research which is also of vital importance. 
JoHN N. PLANcICH, President, 
COMMUNICATION EKRoM Dr. J. EH. Lipp, CORPORATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT 
PLANNING, LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT CoRP., BURBANK, CALIF. 
MarcuH 4, 1961. 
Hon. WARREN G. MAGNUSON, 
U.S. Senate, Washington, D .C. 
DEAR SENATOR Magnuson: Thank you for your letter of February 28, 1961, con- 
cerning the coming hearings on S. 901, the new bill on marine sciences. I shall 
not be able to attend the hearings of March 15-17 in Washington, however, I 
shall place my comments in this letter. 
Although the sea is man’s oldest ancestral environment it is also his newest,. 
and receptive to a massive technical and industrial penetration in the next few 
decades. There is now little doubt of our basic ability to improve economic or 
living standards the world over by energetic exploration and development of 
the oceans. The United States must lead this trend, for its own progress as well 
as to assure stability and peace for future generations. A world with adequate 
water, food, and material Supplies will be a world of reduced tensions, reduced 
warfare, increased welfare. 
A program of marine development, to be effective on a large scale, must be 
comprehensive and well organized. Clearly, encouragement by the U.S. Govern- 
ment will be decisive in placing this country on a path of rapid advance in knowl- 
edge, with rapid and beneficial application of that knowledge. 
The proposed bill, 8S. 901, is a major step in declaring national goals in marine 
science, aS well as erecting the program and finances necessary to achieve those 
objectives. In our opinion, every effort should be made in this session of Con- 
gress to pass the bill and to follow it with any steps necessary to place the pro- 
gram in effect. Further, we believe that public opinion will approve such a move 
as being in the interest of the national welfare and security. 
Sincerely yours, 
J. KH. Lipp, 
Corporate Director of Development Planning. 
