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RESOLUTIONS
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Nancy-sixth Amal ricotta;
Rot Springs, Arkansas
Septuaer 28, 1960
SOUTHERN REGIONAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAH
BIGHNAY SAFETY
HEDICAL CARE
UTILIZATION OF NATIONAL GUARD AIRCRAFT
EFFECT OF IMPORTS 0N DOMESTIC ECONOMY
CCHMITTEB ON INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
TAX EXINPTION ON FEDERAL INSTALLATIONS
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
GUEST SPEAKERS
APPRECIATIOH
Resolution Adopted by
Southern Governors' Conference
Hot Springs, Arkeneea
September 28. 1960
IX. GUEST SPEAKERS
This Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Southern Governors
Conference has benefited greetly from the fine contributions of our
guest speakers. He record our sincere epprecietion to them ell--
the Honorable Howard D. Dodgen, Executive Secretary of the Texas
Game and Fish Comission; the Honorable Hervin M. Sutherland.
Director of the Virginie Department of Conservation and Development;
the Honorable Sem A. Thompson, Chairman of the Mississippi Board
of Water Conmiseionere; Mr. C. Hamilton Noses. former President
of the Arkansas Power end Light Company; Dr. Howard Scheller. Dean
of the School of Business Administration, Tulane UniVersity; the
Honorable Robert 3. Kerr, United States Seaetor from Oklehone;
Mr. Jeff H. Williams. Lawyer, Lecturer and Humorist; end the
Honorable David J. Maya, chairmen of the Virginie Commission on
Constitutional Government.
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Resolution Adopted by
Southern Governors' Conference
Hot Springs. Arkansas
September 28, 1960
X. APPRECIATION
The southern Governore' Conference has been privileged to hold its
Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. We
wish to express our deep appreciation to our gracious hosts. Governor
and Mrs. Orvsl E. Faobus, and to the State of Arkansas, for providing
so generously for the full enjoyment of our stay in this beautiful
state. Their bountiful hospitality and many kindneesea have made this
neeting a most memorable one indeed.
The Conference is deeply grateful to the Chairman and all of the
members of the Host State Connittee, to the Publicity and Parks
Commission, to the members of the state legislature, the personnel of
the Arkansas State Police. and to all the other fine people of Arkansas
for their many and splendid contributions to our comfort.
we are deeply grateful to the esnsgenent and staff of the Arlington
Hotel for their fine consideration throughout our stay, and to the
Hot Springs Chamber of Cunnerce.
The automobiles provided by the General Motors Corporation for our
transportation and that of our parties is appreciated by us all.
Able representatives of the press, radio and television have
attended and reported our Conference to the people of the South and
the United States. we appreciate the conprnhensiVe coverage they
have given and the accuracy with which they have reported the proceedings.
To Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., of Virginia, our retiring
chairman. we express our deep gratitude for his splendid stewardship
of our Conference activities during this past year.
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Resolution Adopted by
Southern Covernors' Conference
Hot Springs, Arkansas
September 28 I960
I. SOUTHERN REGIONAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAH
HEREAS. the Southern Covernnrs' Conference lest year pledLed vigorous
support to the regional program on nuclear energy development; and
NHEREAS, this Conference in October, 1959, approved the Southern
Interstate Nuclear Compact, developed at the request of the Conference and
since adopted by the States of Kentucky and Louisiana;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Southern Governors Conference
urges the several states of the region to enact the compact at their next
legislative sessions so that it may become operative at the earliest
possible date; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Regional Advisory Council on Nuclear
Energy be continued until the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact comes into
effect. and for a reasonable time thereafter, to permit the remaining RACNE
member states to participate in the program and to afford them time to adopt
the compact; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that each state during this period of transition
is urged to contribute the sum of $7,000 for a period of two years ($3.500
per year) for the continuatiOn of this regional nuclear probram of the
Southern Governors' Conference, provided. however. that upon activation of
the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact, each state participating in this
program shall thereafter contribute the sum it would pay as a member state
under the compact formula of financing, such sum not to exceed $5.000 per
year.
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Resolution Adopted by
Southern Governors' Conference
Rot Springs, Arkenses
Septenber 28, 1960
II. HECHHAY SAIETY
UHEREAS, the Southern Governors' Conference in l959 creeted a
committee to recommend messures for improving existing systems of
driver license issuence end revocetion end for other methods of
heproving sefety on our highueys; end
HHBREAS. our colleegues in the western Covernors' Conference elso
hsve been studying this problem during the pest yeer, end et their
direction en interstete compect progren for highway safety end motor
vehicle reguletion is in the process of perfection, end our Committee
on Highvsy Sefety hes drewn this progren to our sttention. since it is
designed to provide e cooperative interstete solution for the more
pressing problems of driver license reguletion;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT BxSOLVED the: the Twenty-sixth Annuel
Meeting of the Southern Governors' Conference records its epprovel in
principle of this effort to develop e compect or compacts covering
these importent highuey sefety matters, end the Conference further
urges the stetes of this region to give close consideretion to the
finel version of the conpect or compects which result from the study
sponsored by the Hestern Governori Conference; end
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED thst the Comnittee on nighvey Sefety of
the Southern Governors' Conference he continued in existence with
instructions to cerry ferverd cooperetive efforts for unplenentetion of
proposed highuey sefety compects, and during the ensuing yeer to give
study to both physical and nentel heelth aspects of highuey eccident
prevention through coordinetion with public heelth officiels.
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leeolntion edopted by
Southern Governore' Conference
Hot Syringe, Arkeneee
Sep tuber 28 1960
III. MEDICAL CARE
HRERRAS. there ie en increasingly ecute euereneee of the problele
feced by our growing number of senior citieene. including health end
nedicel cere, e-ployment end into-e neintenenee. provieion of euitebie
houeing, and enrichment of leisure-time ectivitiee; end
HHEREAS. the meet preeeing of theee probleme ie the fineneing of
edequete health end nedicel cure; and
"HEREAS, the Congress bee recently enected the Kerr-Freer Bill,
incorporetin; ouch-needed provieione which will meke eveileble better
nedicel cere for both thoee eged pereone receiving old-ege eeeietence
end thoee who would need governmentel help only for their nedieel
requirements o- thie being en importent step in the right direction;
now mamas a: u mower) thet the Southern Governore' Conference
comaende to ite member states the deeirebility of immediete ection to
implement uhetever iederel etetutee ere or any become enected in thie
field in order the: their benefite ney be eveileble to the eged.
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Resolution Adopted by
Southern Governort' Conference
Hot Springs, Arkansas
September 28. l960
IV. UTILIZATION OF RUM GUARD AIRCRAFT
um, the Governors of the several states, the murders-
in-Chief of the Amy and Air National Guard, having been subjected
to considerable harass-ant by dubious reporting of certain news
media concerning utilization of military aircraft assigned to the
Amy and Air National Guard of the sovereign states; and
WHEREAS, the Governors as Conanders-in-Chief of the National
Guard of the several states are responsible for the organization,
training, ahinietretion and utilization of the assigned equipment
of the Amy and Air Rational Guard; and
Rims, they co-lnd the Amy and Air National Guard of the
several states. respectively; and
Rims. present Air National Guard regulation, specifically,
Wit-76.6 with changes 3 and C are nbiguous and restrictive in
nature, as to which personnel are authorized to fly as passengers in
the Artsy and Air National Guard aircraft;
mu THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Department of Defense,
the Secretary of the Air Force and the chief of the National Guard
bureau be requested to reassess the aforementioned regulation to the
end that the authority be given specifically to Conanders-in-Chief
of the several states to designate the utilization of Array and/or Air
National Guard aircraft when on official state business and to
authorize concurrent travel of personnel so designated by then.
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Resolution Adapted by
Southern Governors' Canferance
hot Springs. Arkansas
September 28. 1960
V. gzl OP mz 0N DOMESTLC
WHEREAS. encouragement of world trade and coemmrce is essential to friendly
relations with the people of other nations and to the economy of our own country.
and this has been accomplished through the Reciprocal Trade Act; and
HEBREAS, the administrative procedures of our foreign trade legislation
designed to safeguard the economic opportunity and health of American industry
at all levels. in countless fields. and in all sections of the nation have not
been used as intended by the Congress; and
WHEREAS, many foreign-produced goods continue to usurp the American market-
place chiefly because they are manufacured under wage and working condition
standards which are at odds with American public policy and state end federal
laws. and not because they meet demands that cannot be met by domestic enterprise;
and
WHEREAS. employment security and job opportunities of millions of American
citizens in certain major segments of our economy. such as textiles and apparel,
seafood production, oil and refined products, and other minerals and related
products. have already been seriously affected by excessive imports, thereby
thwarting contplated industrial expansion geared to absorbing the nation's
expanding workforce;
Mow THEREFORE BE if RESOLVED that this Twenty-sixth Annual Heating of the
Southern Governors' Conference hereby urges and requests the executive and
legislative branches of the federal govarnment to act promptly and appropriately
to buttress the nations security and economic strength as follows:
i. Rasaamina and reshape policies and programs concerned directly with the
flow of trade in the light of such changes in world conditions as the conflict
between nations devoted to freedom and those shackled by communism, the rebuilding
of var-stricken countries of Europe and Asia, the development of retarded arena,
the growth of regional trading areas, and the vast differentials between the
living and work standards in the United States and those in other nations.
2. Promptly establish import quotas which will provide fair treatment and
adequate protection to both domestic and foreign producers and industries in the
fields of textiles and apparel. menhaden and shrimp fisheries, and other areas
in which excessive imports are now damaging the domestic economy and security,
and assure that the present mandatory oil import program be held in line with
the ratio quota recommended by the President's Cabinet Committee as essential to
protect the national security.
3. Act athinistratively and legislatively to preclude further trade
concessions under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade at Geneva on any
coemodity unfairly affected by excessive imports.
a. Launch a broad-scale, intensive investigation under the sole direction
of the Congress to determine the revisions of all laws dealing with trade matters
needed to rectify the errors of the past and establish a trade program mutually
beneficial and fair to all participating nations.
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Reeolution Adopted by
Southern Governors Conference
Hot Syringe, Arkansas
September 28, 1960
V1. COMITTBB on INDUSTRIAL 0mm
HHERBAS, a select cannittee of this Conference during the peat
yeer reviewed the ecope of activity of the Conference's regular
Cunnittee on Industrial Development and on August 1, 1960. reported
its recommendationa to the member: of the Conference, with the auggeation
that the committee should have a broad and flexible mandate in order to
acconmmdete to changing situations and new information, as well as to
mirror the interests and experience of its mambere;
NOR THEREFORE 88 IT RESOLVED that the Twenty-eixth Annual Meeting
of the Southern Governore' Conference authorizes the reeppointment by
the Chairman of the Conference of the Committee on Industrial Development,
empowered to undertake the various activities contemplated in the report
of the eelect committee.
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Resolution Adopted by
Southern Governors' Conference
Hot Springs, Arkansas
September 28, 1960
VII. TAX EXEMPTION 0N FEDERAL INSTALLATIONS
HHEREAS, the states are losing millions of dollars in state taxes
on liquor, beer, clgarettea and other items each year through exceptions
and evaelona due to alleged immunity of poet exchanges, couniesarles
and other federal installations;
NOW TNBREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Twenty-olxth Annual Meeting of
the Southern Governore' Conference that the Congress 1a hereby urged to
enact legislation permitting state taxation on sales of liquor, beer,
cigarettes and other items at post exchanges, counlsoariee and other
federal installations, as has been done with reapect to sales of gasoline
and other motor fuels.
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Resolution Adopted by
Southern Governors' Conference
Hot Springs, Arkansas
September 28, 1960
VIII. OONSTITUTIQIAL COW
HHSREAS, "in the past thirty years there has arisen a generation that
knows not the Constitution"; and
lEREAS, the South of our Nation stands as one of the last bastions
of the federal system under the Constitution; and
WHEREAS, we are presently engaged in war at home and abroad between
the ideologies of cannunisn and freedoe. and there necessarily must be a
knowledge and appreciation of the Constitution. if we shell prevail;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Southern Governora' Conference
that this Conference hereby recomends to the several states of the
Conference the teaching of the Constitution of the United States and its
principles; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Southern Governora' Conference commend
the Honorable J. Lindsay Allond and onorable David J. Maya and the
Virginia Calniesion on Constitutional Government for their state-eats con.
cerning the work of the Commission end their leadership for constitutional
government, and urge the other states of the Union to follow their example.
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RESOLUTION .DOPEED BY 1HE SOUTHERN GDVERNCRS' CORFERENCE Nenty-sixth Annual Meeting Hot Springa, Arkansas September 28, 1960 I. SOUTHERN REGIONAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM I1. KlGHWAY SAFETY ll. MEDICAL CARE IV. UTILIZATION OP iMTIONAL GUARD AIRCRAFT V .EFFEC: OF DIPOR-IS ON DOMEETIC ECONOMY V1, COMMITTEE ON INDirs-RIAL DEVELOI'MEi:T 11. TAK EXEMPTION GN FEDERAL INSTALIATIONS II. CONST11'IJTIONAL GOVEANNENT IK. GL'EST SPEAKERS X. APPRECIATION
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This Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Southern Governors' Conference has benefited greatly from the fine coritributions of our guest speakers. We record our sincere appreciation to them 311--the Honorable Howard D. Dodgen, Executive $ecretary of the Texas Game and Fish Comunission; the Honorable Marvin M. Sutherland, Director of the Virginia Departaient of Conservation and Development; the Honorable saa A. Thaalpson, Chairaian of the Mississippi Board of Water Canonissioners ; L-tr. C. Halailton Moses, fariner President af the Arkansas Power and Light Company; Dr. Roward Schaller, Dean of the School of Business Administration, Tulane University; the Honorable Robert S. Kerr, United Etates Senator from Oklahaina; Mr. Jeff H, Williaals, Lawyer, Lecturer and Humoriat] and the Honorable David J. Mays, Chairman of the Virginia Ca:nalission on Cons titut innal Governalenr..
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t. SOUTHE~tN REG10NAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM WHEREAS. the Southern Governors Conference last year pladsed visorous upport to the regional program on nuclear energy deoclopment ; and WHEkEA5 tu is Conference in Octohcr 1959, approved the Southern nterstate Nuc leac Compact, deve~toped at the request of the Conference and inr:e arInpted by the 5 taces a[ Kentucky and Louisiana ; N3H THEREFORE BE IT RESDLV.D that the Southern Governors' Conference rees the seve rni states of t',1e region to enacC che cympact a[ their next esislative sessions so that it may beesme operative at the earliest cosibic dar e ; and BE IT FURT11ER RE57LVEt1 rhat the Regional Advisory Council on Nuclear nergy be continued until the Southern Interstate Nuclear C:napact comes into fiect and Ear a reasanable time thereafter to permic the remain tag inchi[E amber states to participate in the program and to afford them time to adapt Ise c arapac e i and BE IT FURT".CR KESOLVED that each scate during this period of Evansition urged to contribute the suel of $7 ,000 for a pertad of two yeat-s ($3.500 er year) for l he continuar ion of this regional nuclear pr o' r am of the nut'..ern Governors' Gapference, provided however, that upon activat ion of he Southern Intersta te Muclear Campact, each s tace participacing in this rogram shall thereafter contribute the sunt it would pay as a member state nder the conpact formula of financing, such sam not to exceed $5.000 per
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11. HIGRWAY SAFETY WHEREAS, the Southazn Governet'e' Conference in 1959 created a comiisittee to t'ecommend nieasures far tiliproving existing systems of driver license issuance and revocation and Ear other methods of improving safety on our highways; and WHEREAS, our colleagues in the Western Governors' Conference also have been studying this problem during the past year, and at their direction an interstate compact program for highway safety and motor vehicle regulation is in the process of protection, and our Camittee on Righway Safety has drRMn chia prograin to our attertioni since it is designed to provide a cooperative interstate volution for the more pressing problems of driver liccuse regulation; NOW TlEREFORE BE IT RESDLVED that the twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the southern Governors' Conference records its approval in principle of this effort to develop a campact er campacts covering these important highway safety illatters, and the Conference further urges the states of this region to gi.ve close consideration to the final version of the compact or campacts which result from the study sponsored by the l'iestern Governor~s' Conference; and DE IT FU1tTtER RESOLVED that the Comittee on nighway Safety of the Southern Governors' Conference be continued in existence with instructions to carry forward cooperative efforts for imp Leinentat ion of proposed highway safety compacts, and during the ensuing year to give study ta both physical and mental health aspects of highway accident prevention through coordination with public health officials.
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11L liEDICAL CARE WKEREAS, there is an increasingly acute awareness of the problems faced by our greving number of senior citizens, including health and medical care employment and income maintenance, provision aE suitable housing, and enrichment of leisure-time activities; and WKEREAS, the most pressing of these problems la the financing of adequate health and medical care; and WKEREAS, the Congress has recently enacted the Herr*Frear Bill, incorporating much-needed provisions which will make available better medical care for both those aged persons receiving old-age assistance and those who would used Soverraental heLp coly for cheir medical requirement -this being an important step in the right direction; NOW TREREFORE BE IT RESO1MED that the Southern Governars' Conference cenamends to its member states the desirability of immediate action ca impl.eeient whatever federal statutes are or may beccme enacted in this field in order that their benefits may be available to the eBed.
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IV .UTILIZATION OF NATIONAL GUARD AIRCRAFT NHEREAS, the Governors of the several states, the Commanders-. in-chief ci the Army and Air National Guard, having been subjected to considerable harassment by dubious reporting of certain news media concerning utilization of military aircraft assigned to the Army and Air Nat ional Guard of the sovereign states ; and NHEREAS. the Governors as Commanders-ieChief of the National Guard of the several states are responsible for the organization, training, administration and utilization of the assigned equipment of the Army and AitNat ional Guard ; and WHEREAS, rhey ceso.and the Army and Air National Guard of the several states, respectivelyi and WHEREAS. present Air National Guard regulations, specifically, ANGR-76-6 with changes B and C are ambiguous and restrictive in nature, as to which personnel are authorized to fly as passengers in the Army and Air plational Guard aircraft; N(IW THEREFORE BE tT RESOLVED that the Department of Defense, the secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau be requested to reassess the aforementioned regulation 00 the end that the authority be given specifically to Conmanders-in-Chief of the several states to designate the utilization of Army and/or Air National Griard aircraft when on official state business and to authorize concurrent travel of personnel so designated by them.
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l'IllEREAS, a select committee of this Conference during t'-ic past year reviewed the scope of activity of the Conference's regular Ccemittee on Industrial Development and on August 1, 1960, reported its recominendations to the ulembers of the conference, with the suggestion that the ca:1.mittee should have a broad and flexible mandate in order to accolmnodate to changing situations and new inforalation, as wel l as to mirror the interested and experience of its members; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Southern Governors' Conference autharizes the reappointiment by the Chairnian of the Conference of the Cannittee on Industrial Developnient empowered to undertake the various activicies contemplated in the report of El\e seleCt ccall:iittee.
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VIi, TAX EHEMPTIDN OE FEDERAL INSTALLKf1ONS fHEREAS, the states are losing millions of dol},ars in state taxes on liquor, heer, eigarettes and other itenis each year through exeloptions and evasions due to alle-ded immunity of post exchanges, cournissaries and other federal installations; NOW Til2REFORE SE IT RESOLVED by the Twenty--sixth Annual Meet155 of the Southern Gnvernors' Cnfiference r.hat rhe Congress is hereby urged to enact legislation pe'mitting State taxation on Sales of liquor, beer, cigarettes and other items at post exchanges, commissaries and other federal installations, as has been done with respect to sales of gasoline
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