Mr. Chairman, others have given equally lucid comment, much of which you have heard, on various aspects of the Nation's need, and the locus of education in any system of solution.

Our responsibility in the Congress is clear. Perhaps our course is less clear. Many would decry the actions we take, projecting on the screen of their future a multitude of fanciful evils usurpation of State prerogatives, bureaucratic expansion, merciless Federal controls. Yet the programs we have devised in the past have been noted for the language which precludes such evils.

I think those safeguards were necessary. I would propose to continue them in this legislation. They have assured the discretion of State educational administrators. And I believe that no Senator

would wish to change that.

Still the criticism comes. The need is ignored for fear the procedure is inherently bad. We must respond to the demand of the present and the future.

SUPPORT OF S. 415; NEVADA SITUATION

My own interest has been in preserving and extending that which has proven workable, while seeking sensible innovations to meet existing and new exigencies. This session I have sponsored a bill, which is before the Finance Committee, to provide a tax incentive to the parents of university students. I have cosponsored an expansion of the GI benefits to include the veterans of the cold war. S. 415, to extend the impacted areas aid, includes my name as a sponsor, and may I say, parenthetically, that I hope the committee will not delay action on this aspect of the total package so as to disrupt the planning of those school districts which receive this aid.

By way of illustration, I would point out that Nevada received over $3 million in fiscal year 1962 under the combined impacted area programs. Even if the student registration were to remain static so that no expanded demands were necessitated, it would be virtually impossible for the State treasury to absorb the loss of the Federal funds. The potential difficulty is telescoped to alarming proportions by the realism of our rate of student influx. In Las Vegas alone, which incidentally receives a large part of the Federal payment, the building demand calls for construction of two new classrooms each week.

Mr. Chairman, I think that is a record high throughout the country today for any area of comparable population. Think of that. Two new classrooms a week in an area of that size to keep up with current rate of growth.

The required financing is hopefully expected to come from a 1-percent increase in sales tax which the State legislature is submitting to the voters in referendum June 11. And I point this out to show that we are not trying to look solely to the Federal Government for help but we are trying to solve at least part of the problem ourselves. Certainly the imposition of taxes is something that is not a pleasant method to look forward to by any of us, and I find myself in a rather enviable position this year in that we are talking about reducing taxes at the Federal level, where at the State level now, as I previously stated, we are talking about the imposition of a tax.

Continuing school building program data-List of existing school buildings in

district

School

Number Number Average Number Grades of teacher of daily of acres Year built and years housed stations teachers member- in site of additions

*Scheduled for replacement, remodeling, or addition.

NOTE.-Figures in column 4 do not reflect makeshift or non-school-owned classrooms.

1 Administrative suite.

Music building.