CARD DIVISIO.. SUBCOMMITTEE ON CIVIL FUNCTIONS AND MILITARY CONSTRUCTION GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin, Chairman T. MILLET HAND, New Jersey ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri FRANK SANDERS, Executive Secretary to Subcommittee Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations JOHN TABER, New York, Chairman RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota IVOR D. FENTON, Pennsylvania JOHN PHILLIPS, California ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York NORRIS COTTON, New Hampshire BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania CHARLES R. JONAS, North Carolina OTTO KRUEGER, North Dakota MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin ELFORD A. CEDERBERG, Michigan CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri J. VAUGHAN GARY, Virginia JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island ANTONIO M. FERNANDEZ, New Mexico OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana 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 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 Mr. DAVIS. We are pleased to have some of our colleagues from the 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 (1) 128 29 |