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We have the bathyscaph people here today. The Russians are 

 ready to point out with great pride how they have developed a new 

 underwater apparatus for research at great depths of the ocean. 



Every time we make an advance we find them moving way out. 



Here we have a long article about the Chinese making scientific 

 studies for the first time in all their centuries of the marine deposits 

 at the bottom of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and at the mouth 

 of the Yangtze River, the silting, and so forth. We have not done 

 such intensive work, even out in Senator Yarborough's country be- 

 yond the Mississippi. 



Are there any further questions of Dr. Spilhaus ? 



Again quoting from your pamphlet. Doctor, you say at page 41 : 



Before we put these loug-lived radioactive materials in the sea, we should wait 

 for our research to tell us whether or not it is safe. 



This is a logical statement. This is another problem I suppose we 

 are going to be confronted with in the next 10 years, and the American 

 people are going to ask us for the answers. They are going to ask us : 

 •'Is it safe?" 



We won't have the answers. We might not even have them when 

 the questions are asked, but at least we can say we have done some- 

 thing about it and are trying to do something about it. 



Well, thank you. Doctor, unless you want to add something else. 



I want to say to all witnesses, we will keep this record open so if 

 anyone wants to add anything in the way of further figures or state- 

 ments in the next few days, he can. 



In that field we have Sumner Pike here and we would be glad to 

 hear from him. 



(The biographical sketch of Mr. Pike follows :) 



Sumner Tucker Pike 



Address: Lubec, Maine. 



Born : Lubec, Maine, August 30, 1891. 



Parents: Jacob Clark and Mary Susan (Tucker) Pike. 



Degrees: B.A., Bowdoin College. 1913, LL.D., 1941; LL.D., Bfttes College, 

 1945 ; S.C.D., Centre College, 1947 ; LL.D., Colby College, 1948. 



Professional career : Clerk in public utility companies, Boston, Savannah, Ga. ; 

 Lowell, Mass. ; Beaumont, Tex., 1913 to 1919 ; vice president. Equipment Sales 

 Co., Dallas, Tex., and Kansas City, Mo., 1920 to 1922; assistant to president, G. 

 Amsinck & Co., New Tork City, 1923 ; financial employee and secretary, Conti- 

 nental Insurance Co., New York City, 1923 to 1928; vice president and director. 

 Case Pomeroy & Co., New York City, 1928 to 1939 ; business adviser to U.S. 

 Secretary of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 1939 to 1940; member. Temporary 

 National Economic Committee, 1940 to 1941 ; Commissioner of Securities and 

 Exchange Commission, Philadelphia, Pa., 1940 to 1946 ; Director, Fuel Price Di- 

 vision, Oflace Price Administration, Washington, D.C., 1942 to 1946; member, 

 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1946 to 1951 ; chairman, Maine Public Utilities 

 Commission, 19.53 to 1956 ; was candidate to captain, CAC, Army, 1917 to 1919. 

 Overseer, Bowdoin College, 1938- ; chainnan, Governor of Maine's Committee 

 on Passamaquoddy Power. 



Member: American Association Pet. Geology, American Statistical Associa- 

 tion, American Geographical Society, Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Committee 

 on Oceanography, NAS-NRC. 



STATEMENT OF STJMNER PIKE 



Mr. Pike. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



My name is Sumner Pike. I am retired and live at Lubec, Maine. 

 I am not an expert oceanographer, nor indeed an expert at anj'thing. 



