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CARD DIVISIO..

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CIVIL FUNCTIONS AND MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin, Chairman

T. MILLET HAND, New Jersey

ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan
JOHN TABER, New York

CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri
LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan
JOHN J. RILEY, South Carolina

FRANK SANDERS, Executive Secretary to Subcommittee

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JOHN TABER, New York, Chairman

RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts
BEN F. JENSEN, Iowa

H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota
WALT HORAN, Washington
GORDON CANFIELD, New Jersey

IVOR D. FENTON, Pennsylvania

JOHN PHILLIPS, California

ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas

FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York
CLIFF CLEVENGER, Ohio
EARL WILSON, Indiana

NORRIS COTTON, New Hampshire
GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin

BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania
GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan
FRED E. BUSBEY, Illinois
EDWARD T. MILLER, Maryland
CHARLES W. VURSELL, Illinois
T. MILLET HAND, New Jersey
HAROLD C. OSTERTAG, New York
OAKLEY HUNTER, California
FRANK T. BOW, Ohio
HAMER H. BUDGE, Idaho

CHARLES R. JONAS, North Carolina

OTTO KRUEGER, North Dakota
ROMAN L. HRUSKA, Nebraska
SAM COON, Oregon

MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin

ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan

CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri
GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas
HARRY R. SHEPPARD, California
ALBERT THOMAS, Texas
MICHAEL J. KIRWAN, Ohio
W. F. NORRELL, Arkansas
JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi
GEORGE W. ANDREWS, Alabama
JOHN J. ROONEY, New York

J. VAUGHAN GARY, Virginia

JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island
ROBERT L. F. SIKES, Florida

ANTONIO M. FERNANDEZ, New Mexico
PRINCE H. PRESTON, JR., Georgia

OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana
LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan
SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois
FRED MARSHALL, Minnesota
JOHN J. RILEY, South Carolina

ALFRED D. SIEMINSKI, New Jersey

GEORGE Y. HARVEY, Clerk KENNETH SPRANKLE, Assistant Clerk (II)

CIVIL FUNCTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1955

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1954.

MISSOURI RIVER PROJECTS

WITNESSES

HON. BEN F. JENSEN, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE
STATE OF IOWA

HON. E. C. MYRLAND, STATE SENATOR, ONAWA, IOWA

L. H. CHRISTENSEN, SERGEANT BLUFF, IOWA

ROBERT M. ROGERS, SERGEANT BLUFF, IOWA

HAROLD O. BENSON, CITY COUNCILMAN, SIOUX CITY, IOWA
ROBERT B. BROOKS, CONSULTING ENGINEER, ST. LOUIS, MO.
HON. CHARLES F. TVRDIK, SPEAKER, NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE

Mr. DAVIS. We are pleased to have some of our colleagues from the
House of Representatives here, as well as a number of people from the
Missouri River Valley.

Representative Jensen, our colleague on the committee from Iowa, has assumed the responsibility for presenting this entire program and presenting the important witnesses to us. Mr. Jensen, we will be glad to have such introductory remarks as you would like to make at this time.

Mr. JENSEN. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the privilege of coming before this committee, as I know every person here does, to explain the need of appropriated funds for bank stabilization and erosion from Sioux City to Omaha, Nebr.

As you know, there are many places along the river where the floodwaters of that river, and even the normal water of the river, are eating away the banks and many, many acres of most valuable land. It is being eroded into the river and washing down to the sea.

I appreciate the fact that you, Mr. Chairman, and some other members of your committee took of your valuable time to go out there this year and see with your own eyes the problem that confronts those people who live along the river, so far as the erosion and other problems are concerned.

I am sorry that I cannot remain and hear the testimony of these gentlemen. For the past month people from over the country, especially in the Western States, have had dates to appear before the subcommittee of which I am chairman, the Interior Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, along with their Congressmen and Senators. Those hearings start this morning; in fact, they are over there now waiting for me. It will be necessary for me to be at that hearing just as it is necessary for you to be at this hearing.

These gentlemen are all well acquainted with the situation as it exists along the river from Omaha to Sioux City. They will give

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