Dr. WINSTON. May I move then to our next item, which is research and training under the special foreign currency program, and again I would like to submit a somewhat longer statement for the record and just summarize for you.

Senator HILL. All right.

(The statement follows:)

STATEMENT BY COMMISSIONER OF THE WELFARE ADMINISTRATION

For fiscal year 1967. $2 million is requested for the purchase of foreign currencies with which to finance overseas research in social welfare and in maternal and child health. The currencies are derived from the sale of surplus agricultural commodities, in excess of the normal needs of the United States.

Funds are requested to initiate or carry forward research activities and applied research needed to improve programs of social welfare and to promote maternal and child health in the United States and other countries.

Varying circumstances in the participating countries make them effective "laboratories" for the study of problems of mutual concern.

This is a young program for the Welfare Administration, still in the developmental stage. We can report good progress in making country contacts, in working out areas of mutual interest to the United States and participating countries, and in getting projects underway. We can also report good progress in planning ahead for areas of concentrated effort, rather than support of small isolated projects. Few projects have been completed, as yet, but preliminary findings are promising. One area, for example, is yielding data which we in the United States find most interesting and useful. Our four programs for testing newborn infants for phenylketonuria have sparked so much interest that a number of European countries have started programs on their own and are reporting their cases to us. From our own program in Poland and Israel information is coming of a higher incidence among these groups than we had anticipated.

In social welfare the program is also beginning to produce valuable information for the United States. The Israeli juvenile delinquency projects are giving us new insights into the kind of personnel and training needed for successful work with street-corner gangs. The cross-national study of needs and living patterns of aged persons is already contributing to our knowledge of universal characteristics of older persons, as a basis for planning esential services. Israel, Yugoslavia, and Poland are prepared now to move into the next phase, demonstrations of community services for aging.

Emphasis on these major multinational studies will be continued and demonstration projects will be initiated. The valuable interchange of knowledge among scientists which this program facilitates will be expanded.

Program areas which will be encouraged include such child health problems as effects of prematurity or complications of pregnancy on the survival or development of infants, detection of inborn errors of metabolism which lead to mental retardation, methods for caring for handicapped children, and innovative ways of using well-baby clinics. In social welfare, priority will be given to needs of and experimental services for families especially chronically dependent and migrant families and those who need the services of child care agencies. The cross-national study being established this year on work of juvenile courts in four countries will be extended. New funds will permit extending recently launched Polish studies and experiments to combat the economic dependency and other family problems attributable to alcoholism. There now exists a major gap in our scientific knowledge of the relationship between alcoholism and dependency. A well-designed project, presented by the United Arab Republic to evaluate the impact of attitudes and values on family planning programs and their effect on family functioning, will be used in other countries interested in this research area. In these ways, the international research program supplements the domestic programs of grants for research in social welfare, maternal and child health. and crippled children's services carried on by the rather limited number of persons in the United States engaged in applied research in these fields,

TYPES OF PROGRAMS

Dr. WINSTON. For fiscal year 1967, $2 million is requested for the purchase of foreign currencies with which to finance overseas research in social welfare and in maternal and child health.

This makes it possible for us to carry forward programs already underway and to initiate some new ones. We are getting very interesting results through this cooperative research effort with other countries.

I referred a few minutes ago to the PKU project when you asked about mental retardation. Well, this is being developed in other countries, too. We are finding differences country by country.

In the social welfare program we are beginning to learn a good deal about juvenile delinquency in other countries that we can apply here.

We have a series of programs with regard to care of the aging that is providing useful information. The thing I would like to emphasize here is that we think we are getting a very fine return on this program. The details will be in the record.

Senator HILL. Good.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER, SALARIES AND EXPENSES

APPROPRIATION ESTIMATE

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER, SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for the Office of the Commissioner of Welfare, [$1,175,000] $1,589,000.

[For an additional amount for "Office of the Commissioner, salaries and expenses," $117,000.]

Grants to States, next succeeding fiscal year: For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to States under titles I, IV, V, X, XIV, [and] XVI, and XIX, respectively, of the Social Security Act, as amended, for the first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary, the obligations incurred and the expenditures made thereunder for payments under each of such titles to be charged to the appropriation therefor that fiscal year.

In the administration of titles I, IV, V, X, XIV, [and] XVI, and XIX, respectively, of the Social Security Act, as amended, payments to a State under any of such titles for any quarter in the period beginning April 1 of the prior year, and ending June 30 of the current year, may be made with respect to a State plan approved under such title prior to or during such period, but no such payment shall be made with respect to any plan for any quarter prior to the quarter in which such plan was submitted for approval.