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outside of the meeting and verbal expressions, both in person and by tele- 
phone, of intense concern over this issue. But the Heart Institute and 
Council were adamant on this point-- that it had to be a cardiovascular 
research approach if the Institute were to move to bring the program into 
existence. It was partly because of these strong differences of viewpoint 
that the Heart Council requested some of its members to serve as a Heart 
Council "Committee on Organization of a Cardiovascular Research Station." 
Some of the members of the initial committee continued to play an important 
role as members of the Primate Research Study Section group in the develop- 
ment of the primate program. It is interesting to see that these and other 
members of this study section later elected to have scientific attainment 
as the basis for their recommendations, rather than base their recommendations 
on that plus other factors of a broader administrative character on which 
decisions had to be made. 
The Planning Committee, at its July 24, 1958^ meeting was told that Dr. 
Willard H. Eyestone had agreed to assist in preparing more detailed plans 
for the Primate Station and that the new Council Committee would meet again 
soon. 
The Organization Committee met on October 16, 1958. Several criteria were 
developed for the selection of a site for the Station. The Committee asked 
the staff and Dr. Eyestone (who was present) to develop a more definitive set 
of criteria, and asked the chairman to propose an application for funds to 
cover the cost of planning. The members reiterated the view that the cardio- 
vascular primate research station should "look toward broad utilization of 
its facilities in the future, but at the present stage the focus should be 
cardiovascular." The Committee suggested that Dr. Eyestone be allowed to 
devote at least half his time to this extramural activity (which arrangement 
Dr. Eyestone said would be satisfactory to him). Dr. Watt discussed the 
timing that would help make the committee's work most helpful. He explained 
that the Heart Institute had received a Congressional mandate, expressed in 
the Senate fiscal 1959 report,-^ also accepted by the House Committee, to 
investigate the desirability and feasibility of a primate research colony. 
A rp.port to be completed by December 1958 had to be prepared for the 1960 
Congressional appropriation hearings. 
22 / From Senate Report relative to Fiscal Year 1959: "3. Experimental 
production of atherosclerosis in animals and other basic studies of this 
disease. The desirability of establishing a monkey colony, in which heart 
disease could be studied over the life span of animals and even from the 
hereditary point of view, was stressed by citizen witnesses. The committee 
wishes the Institute to investigate the desirability and feasibility of 
establishing such a colony." 
