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Senator Yarbokouoit. I take it you feel tliis is something like in- 

 vesting in sweetpotatoes. 



You make a little slit in the ground and you take out a great deal 

 in comparison to what you put in the soil. 



The Chairman. You are talking about Texas soil, no doubt. 



Senator Yarborough. I would like to say this, Mr. Chairman : I 

 want to thank this committee for its work and to ratify wliat the 

 chairman has said, that our attendance is no evidence of lack of in- 

 terest by the members of this committee. I am very much interested 

 in this subject. Yesterday w^e had six different committees meeting 

 at one time and only two of them were marking up bills, and we had 

 to go where the money was being allocated on those matters. 



I think the chairman is due a debt of gratitude by the rest of us of 

 the committee to assure these hearings going on. 



Under our Senate procedures, when this bill is considered, the minute 

 this bill comes up a printed copy of all this testimony is placed on 

 the right-hand corner of everybody's desk. You can reach down and 

 get it without having to look at where it is. It will be introduced 

 clironologically by the days you testified and indexed alphabetically 

 by your name. 



So if some Senator was in here for a couple of hours and he heard 

 certain testimony, he can turn to a given day and find what he wants, 

 even though he doesn't remember the day the witness testified. 



With our system of indexing these records, none of your testimony 

 will be lost and those presenting the bill, if any question is raised, the 

 committee staff will have it indexed page by page. They will hand it 

 to Senator Magnuson, who will present the bill and all this testimony 

 is valuable. It may be invaluable at any point in the debate, but I 

 did want to point out that under our Senate procedures every bit of 

 this testimony is there and generally in a bill of this importance it is 

 used on the floor of the Senate before the bill is passed. 



I want to thank you for your patience and assure you that there 

 is no senatorial indifference. 



The Chairman. Now, do you want to look at these slides for 15 

 minutes ? We will have to turn the lights off. 



STATEMENT OE COMMANDER WILBIIIl, U.S. NAVY, OEEICE OE 

 CHIEE OF NAVAL OPERATIONS 



Commander Wilbur. I am Comdr. C. C. Wilbur with the Office, 

 Chief of Naval Operations, presently attached to the progress analysis. 

 I previously served primarily 12 years in submarines, having had 

 command of two of them and more recently having had command of a 

 destroyer which probably is the most interesting part of generating 

 an interest in oceanography. I consider it a particular honor to be 

 here today with our presentation on the conquest of inner space and I 

 want to thank Mr. Markel and the members of the Coordinating Com- 

 mittee on Oceanography for their interest and support. 



Now, one thing I would like to clarify a little bit : 



This is an educational slide presentation for Naval Eesearch per- 

 sonnel. We have it out in the field. It is available by request by 

 interested civic groups and high schools which may support some of 

 the educational aspects that you are concerned about. 



