MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY HEARING BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3610 A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 216 (b) OF THE MERCHANT JULY 8, 1954 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce CONTENTS Statement of— Becker, Hon. Frank J., United States Congressman from the Third Derounian, Hon. Steven B., United States Congressman from the Sec- Frodin, Reuben, State University of New York, Fort Schuyler, New Galleher, John G., Association of Parents and Friends of King's Point. Hough, Edward G., president, Maine Maritime Academy Alumni Ives, Hon Ir ing M., United States Senator from the State of New Keogh, Hon Eugene J., United States Congressman from the ninth Murphy, James J., President, Alumni Association, Merchant Marine Smith, Capt. Harry, United States Navy, Director, Recruiting Division, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D. C.......... Wainwright, Hon. Stuyvesant, II, United States Congressman from the First District of New York. Additional statements submitted by Bennett, Hon. Wallace, United States Senator from the State of Utah. Resolutions submitted by → American Legion Post 1755, 139 East 45th Street, New York 17, N. Y. 6 6 Letters from Beall, Hon J. Glenn, United States Senator from the State of Mary- 9 Case, Hon. Francis, United States Senator from the State of South 5 Dewey, Ralph B., Washington representative, Pacific American Steamship Association, 1625 K Street NW, Washington 6, D. C., letter dated July 16, 1954. Greene, Francis T., executive vice president, American Merchant Leavitt, Hon. Ralph A., 179 Commercial Street, Portland, Maine Maloney, Walter E., president, American Merchant Marine Institute, Me Vulty, Rear Adm. R. R., United States Naval Reserve, 5223 Balti- Simpson, Roy E., superintendent of public instruction, State Depart- ΠΙ Letters from-Continued Smith, Hon. Margaret Chase, United States Senator from the State of Maine, dated July 10, 1954, cosigning with Senator Frederick Payne Society of Port Engineers of Puget Sound, Puget Sound, Oreg., signed by Lt. S. L. Sugarman, United States Naval Reserve, dated January 13, 1954. Sweeney, R. D., Chairman, Board of Governors, California Maritime Academy, 433 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Calif., telegram dated July 11, 1954 Wiley, Hon. Alexander, United States Senator from the State of Wisconsin, dated July 7, 1954. Reports from-- Department of Commerce, dated July 7, 1954. Department of Justice, dated June 24, 1954. Department of the Navy, dated July 8, 1954 Comptroller General of the United States, dated July 23, 1954.... Reports from Board of Visitors to United States Merchant Marine Academy: December 9, 1944. May 6 and 7, 1949. April 21 and 22, 1952. List of organizations and groups supporting Kings Point Academy. Table of contents of House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee hearings on the Federal Maritime Training Program dated March 3, 11, 24, April 14, and May 5, 1954. PROVIDING FOR MAINTENANCE OF MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1954 UNITED STATES Senate, SUBCOMMITTEE No. 4 OF WATER TRANSPORTATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met at 10:30 a. m., pursuant to call, in room 135, Senate Office Building, Senator Frederick G. Payne, presiding. Present: Senator Payne. Also present: Donald D. Webster, subcommittee counsel, and A. J. Bourbon, subcommittee staff member. Senator PAYNE. The committee will be in order. (S. 3610 is as follows:) [S. 3610, 834 Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To amend section 216 (b) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to provide for the maintenance of the Merchant Marine Academy Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 216 (b) of the Merchant Marine Act. 1936, as amended (U. S. C., title 46, sec. 1126), is amended to read as follows: **(b) (1) The Secretary of Commerce shall maintain a Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, for the instruction and preparation for service in the merchant marine of selected persons as officers thereof. A competitive examination shall be held annually among those persons nominated to He Academy by Senators and Representatives, and the number of vacancies allocated to each State shall be proportioned to the representation in Congress from that State. Appointments from each State shall be made by the Secretary of Commerce from among qualified candidates nominated from that State in the order of merit established by the examinations, (2) In connection with such instruction and as a part thereof, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to provide for training of merchant marine cadets on Government-owned and subsidized vessels and, in cooperation with other governmental and private agencies, on other vessels and, for instructional purpses only, in shipyards, plants, and industrial and educational organizations, ur der rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and upon such terms as the Secretary of Commerce may arrange, and expenditures incident to such training are hereby authorized. *(3) Cadets shall be appointed midshipmen in the Naval Reserve and shall be commissioned as ensigns in the Naval Reserve upon graduation from the Academy. "(4) Cadets at the United States Merchant Marine Academy shall be entitled to receive pay and allowances as now or hereafter provided by law for midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, and to transportation, including reimbursement of traveling expenses, while traveling under orders as a cadet.” Senator PAYNE. The Senate Water Transportation Subcommittee has before it for consideration today, S. 3610, introduced June 15, 1954, by Senators Wiley, Ives and Lehman, to amend section 216 (b) of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended to provide for the maintenance of the Merchant Marine Academy. |