NATIONAL MARINE SCIENCES PROGRAM 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1967 



House of Representatives, 

 Subcommittee on Oceanography of the 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Washington^ D.G. 



The subcommittee met at 10 :10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 1334, 

 Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Alton Lemion (chairman of 

 the subcommittee) presiding. 



Mr. Lennon. The committee will resume its hearings that were 

 interrupted last Thursday when the committee was required to recess 

 due to an 11 a.m. call of the House. 



You will recall that last week Dr. Wenk completed his prepared 

 statement, but there was little, if any, time for questioning except 

 briefly by Mr. Mosher and myself. We anticipate that the committee 

 room hopefully will be filled in a few minutes. 



I regret to announce that it is necessary for me to relinquish the 

 chair this morning, because I have to be present at another committee 

 meeting, but the hearing cannot be chaired by anyone more concerned 

 or interested or a more articulate person than the gentleman from 

 Florida, Mr. Paul Rogers. 



Dr. Wenk, if you will have a seat, sir, and if in the interim you have 

 any additional comments with which you would like to supplement 

 your prepared statement, we would be delighted to have those before 

 the questioning starts. 



STATEMENT OF DR. EDWARD WENK, JR., EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, 

 NATIONAL COUNCIL ON MARINE RESOURCES AND ENGINEERING 

 DEVELOPMENT— Resumed 



Dr. Wenk. First, Mr. Chairman, may I again express my thanks, 

 those of the Vice President and the members of the Council, for this 

 opportunity to appear before your committee and to acknowledge how 

 important your interest is to progress of this whole field. I was able to 

 communicate your very kind remarks to the Vice President and the 

 members of the Council with regard to progress in these initial stages 

 of the Council. I know that I speak for all of them in expressing our 

 gratitude. We recognize — and this is a point that the Vice President 

 has emphasized time and time again — that this legislation was initi- 

 ated by the Congress, by this committee, so that it is all the more 

 gratifying, then, if these early steps are meeting expectations of the 

 parents of this whole enterprise. 



]\Ir. Lennon. Doctor, we are very grateful for those remarks. The 

 Vice President was kind and gracious enough to send me a personal 



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