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We need more agricultural scientists to carry out the research which is so essential to cotton. Accordingly, we are deeply disturbed by the reduction in Morrill-Nelson funds, since this action would seriously handicap the ability of our land-grant educational training of the scientists and engineers on which cotton and all other segments of agriculture depend so heavily.

We wonder how long the American people can count on high-quality food and fiber at the world's most reasonable prices if we permit this undermining of the very foundations of our agricultural system.

How long can our country benefit from a favorable export balance in agricultural commodities when the educational and research basis of our efficiency is being cut off?

How well can we meet the needs of our own expanding population and our responsbilities to other free nations while laboring under the handicap of a self-imposed shortage of agricultural scientists and engineers?

Evidently agriculture is widely misunderstood and too little appreciated by the people it benefits most. It is true that the oversupply of some commodities has necessitated price-stabilizing supports by the Federal Government. Unfortunately, the general public has been hearing more about the cost of these support programs than about the benefits of a plentiful supply of high quality, economical food and fiber.

How many Americans realize that the major occupation of man through most of recorded history has been securing enough food and clothing for his family? This is still the situation for most of mankind in much of the world today. Only in very recent years, and only in the advanced industrial nations of the world has it been possible to take food and clothing for granted.

But will this always be true? Is our bountiful farm production secure against all hazard, sufficient for all needs? We should be very sure that it is, because when we start cutting back in agricultural research, when we cease to educate enough agricultural scientists and engineers, we are deliberately compromising our agricultural capability 10, 20, and 30 years from now. We cannot turn off and then turn on research like a spigot and expect results when we need them. Turing off the education of research scientists will make the hiatus even longer.

We earnestly hope that your committee will not permit such a dangerous backward step as the fiscal 1967 budget proposes in the reduction of Morrill-Nelson funds. While the abrupt termination of 80 percent of this Federal support to the land-grant institutions would be especially harmful, we do not believe that any reduction of these funds even after adequate notice is given would be in the best interest of the Nation. Our standard of living, our leading position as an industrial nation, and our ability to help other free nations throughout the world all rest squarely on the sound base of our efficient agriculture. It is inconceivable to us that this country could become so complacent about agriculture as to permit the very foundations of its efficiency to be uprooted. We feel sure, Mr. Chairman, that you and your commitee will have the wisdom and determination to restore the proposed cuts and thereby insure a sound future for agriculture and the benefits it can provide the Nation as a whole.

Mr. FOGARTY. I agree with you, and I think these funds will be restored. That is a very good statement.

Mr. Buck. Thank you.

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1966.

ADMINISTRATION ON AGING

WITNESS

KENNETH J. SMITHEE, WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE, NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION, REPRESENTING JOSEPH PRENDERGAST, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

Mr. FOGARTY. Mr. Smithee, you are representing Mr. Prendergast? Mr. SMITHEE. Yes, sir.

Mr. FOGARTY. Go right ahead.

Mr. SMITHEE. Honorable Chairman and members of the subcomnittee, my name is Joseph Prendergast, and I am executive vice presient of the National Recreation and Park Association. This orgaization came into being on January 1, 1966, after six national recreaon and park organizations merged into a single organization to serve he people of the United States in their pursuit of better park and creation facilities and programs and to help provide more wholeme and meaningful leisure time activities for the American people. e organizations that now comprise the National Recreation and rk Association formerly were the National Recreation Association, merican Institute of Park Executives, American Recreation Society, tional Conference on State Parks, National Association of State k Directors, and the American Association for Zoological Parks Aquariums.

aurance S. Rockefeller is president of this organization and its rd of Trustees is made up of distinguished lay and professional ers from all parts of the Nation. Over 600 outstanding parks and ation leaders serve on its various national and district advisory nittees. Some 2,500 National, State, and local parks and recreaagencies, both public and private, are service affiliates of the assoon and over 7,000 professional recreation leaders are members of ofessional division.

believe the Administration on Aging under the competent leadof Dr. William D. Bechill has made an excellent start in nenting this important and vital program.

rapid progress which has been made to date is indicative of the nd desire of older Americans throughout the Nation for better proved recreation, health, income, education, employment, and services.

would like to note as of this date 46 Governors have designated agency to administer the Older Americans Act. Twenty-four have approved State plans, and the first demonstration and grants have just been issued.

are several excellent examples of these projects that have been ed. For example, local councils on aging are being organized States. Traveling seminars are being organized to dissemi›rmation to our elderly in some of the States.

We are particularly pleased to note that the budget request for the next fiscal year provides that: Title III which authorizes allotments to the States on a formula basis to aid them to establish or strengthen a State agency on aging, which can--in turn-make grants to communities throughout the State would be increased to $6 million; which is a $1 million increase; and that title IV which authorizes direct grants for research and demonstration projects and title V which authorizes support through grants or contracts for specialized training of persons employed, or preparing for employment, in programs of aging would be increased to $3 million, which is an increase of $1,500,000.

In view of the evident need for these services to assist our present and future senior citizens, the National Recreation and Park Association respectfully urges this honorable subcommittee to approve the administration's 1967 fiscal year budget request of $10,300,000. We would also like to call your attention to the fact that this budget provides for no increase in staff.

Thank you.

Mr. FOGARTY. Thank you very much, Mr. Smithee.

Mr. DENTON. I think you are doing a good job, and I think Mr. Laurance Rockefeller is performing a great service.

Are you not pleased with the progress we have made with the Land and Water Conservation Act and the recreation program and some 13 new national parks?

Mr. SMITHEE. Yes, sir; but that does not come under this committee. We are very pleased, in fact.

Mr. FOGARTY. Mr. Denton, as you know, is chairman of the Interior Appropriation Committee.

Mr. SMITHEE. Right.

Mr. FOGARTY. And is doing a very good job.

Mr. SMITHEE. Yes, sir; we are extremely pleased with the progress that has been made by the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies under Mr. Denton's leadership.

Mr. FOGARTY. Thank you very much.
Mr. SMITHEE. Thank you.

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1966.

OPPOSITION TO FLUORIDATION

WITNESSES

DR. GEORGE L. WALDBOTT, DETROIT, MICH.

HON. JAMES J. DELANEY, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK

DR. ROBERT J. H. MICK, LAUREL SPRINGS, N.J.

CLINTON R. MILLER, VICE PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF WASHINGTON OFFICE, NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION

STATEMENT OF DR. GEORGE L. WALDBOTT

Mr. FOGARTY. Dr. Waldbott.

Dr. WALDBOTT. I am George L. Waldbott, M.D., 2930 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Mich. May I leave my qualifications with you?

I graduated from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1921; interned at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, 1923-24. I am a member of the American Medical Association, Michigan State and Wayne County Medical Societies, cofounder and former president of the Mechigan Allergic Society. I am a fellow and former vice president of the American College of Allergists; fellow of the American Academy of Allergy; fellow of the American College of Physicians; fellow of of the American College of Chest Physicians.

I am a member of editorial committees of asthma and allergia; International Archives of Allergy and Immunology; Folia Clinica Internacional.

I am an honorary member of the Spanish and the French Allergy Societies, an affiliate member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London, England, chairman of the air pollution committee of the Michigan Allergy Society, and vice president of the Michigan branch of the American College of Chest Physicians.

I received first prize for an exhibit on occupational allergy at The Hague, Holland, 1958.

I was founder and chief of allergy clinics in four Detroit hospitals: hildren's Hospital of Michigan; Grace Hospital and Harper Hostal and the North End Clinic (now Sinai Hospital). I am conlting physician in allergy at Harper Hospital and attending in algy at Hutzel Hospital, Detroit.

More than 180 articles of original research by me have appeared in scientific literature. In 1927 I carried out the first pollen survey he State of Michigan and, in 1937, the first comprehensive air surfor fungi in the United States. I first advocated bronchoscopic ge as an emergency treatment, a lifesaving measure in asthma. I rted the first fatality (anaphylaxis) from penicillin. I was the to describe a lung disease from smoking leading to emphysema. and many other articles of mine were published in the Journal e American Medical Association.

m author of a book entitled "Contact Dermatitis," contributing or of several other medical books. My monograph entitled pride in Clinical Medicine" appeared in 1962. Another monoentitled "Acute Fluoride Intoxication" and an article "Fluon Food" appeared in 1963; "Allergic Reactions to Fluoride" in urnal of Asthma Research in 1964. These publications contain original research as well as data by others otherwise not easily ble to the medical profession. I am author of "A Struggle Titans, Forces Behind Fluoridation," Carlton Press, Inc., 84 Avenue, New York, N.Y., 1965.

ng been engaged in extensive research on fluoride's effect upon nan organism (exhibit 1), I am convinced that much of the o be appropriated by your committee for research on fluorida1 for its promotion will accomplish the reverse of that for - is intended. It will cause serious harm to health in a large of the Nation. In support of my position I should like to ▪ following facts:

t of the PHS statistical surveys which purport to prove on safe feature averages; they disregard what happens to iduals. Exhibits 2 and 3 demonstrate the many inconsistluoride metabolism and the wide variations encountered from

person to person in an individual's reaction to fluoride, which render such statistical studies unreliable.

2. Flouride intake into the body cannot be controlled through the water supply because unknown quantities of fluoride are constantly reaching our bloodstream from sources other than water, especially from polluted air and from fluoride-contaminated food. Therefore no dose of fluoride no matter how small, can be safe for everyone.

3. Only within recent years has it been established that fluoride is stored in relatively large amounts in organs other than teeth and bones, especially in the aorta, the kidneys, and the skin (exhibit 4). In view of the present lack of knowledge on the subject it is impossible to assess to what extent such storage damages these organs.

In the following I shall provide concrete examples of harm from fluoride-containing water:

1. There have been three fatalities in the United States; namely, two from natural fluoride water near the so-called safe concentration and one from artificially fluoridated water at one part per million, the concentration which the PHS claims is safe.

2. I have encountered more than 100 cases of serious damage from fluoride in drinking water in persons either intolerant or allergic to fluoridated water (exhibit 5). At least 15 of them were hospitalized for laboratory studies and consultations with other physicians in order to rule out the possibility that a substance other than fluoride caused the illness.

3. More than 35 reports have appeared in the world's medical literature of serious crippling from fluoride naturally in water mostly at concentrations between 2 and 6 parts per million, some even lower (exhibits 1 and 2). This is dangerously close to the so-called safe concentration of one part per million.

4. The statistical surveys designed to prove fluoridation safe abound in serious shortcomings which are not apparent to the casual observer. This point has been discussed at length in chapter XV of my recent book "A Struggle With Titans" (exhibit 6).

A few top scientists of the Dental Division of the U.S. Public Health Service and the ADA constantly disregard all this evidence. They committed themselves prematurely to promotion of fluoridation at a time when they had insufficient information concerning its ill effect. They called fluoridation a calculated risk (exhibit 7). Now that the risk has become a serious reality, they must defend their position.

One of the three fatalities concerned a Texas soldier aged 22 (ex. 8). He died with advanced bone changes, a characteristic feature of fluoride poisoning, and with complete destruction of both kidneys. For 19 years he had been drinking water which naturally contained fluoride at a concentration ranging from 1.2 to 5.7 parts per million not 12 parts per million as incorrectly cited by PHS scientists. These scientists attributed the severe kidney damage, to which the patient succumbed, to a minor injurv to one kidney sustained at age 15. Sereral competent urologists whom I have consulted on this point have rejected this explanation because a slight injury to one kidney could not lead to complete destruction of both. In their opinion the fluoride in drinking water caused the kidney disease and this soldier's death.

The second fatality (9) which has recently received publicity has been misrepresented to Members of Congress and to the press. This

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