Parks and roadside development—Continued Group D. Projects which can be started within 6 months: Middle Rouge Parkway: 1. Drives 2. Public recreation facilities. 3. Water system-- Lower Rouge Parkway: 1. Structures.. 2. Public recreation facilities___ 3. Drives.. 4. Drainage__. 5. Water system. Bell Creek Park: 1. Public recreation facilities_ Total_____ Group E. Projects which can be started within 1 year: 1. Reforestation____ Fordroad reserve: 1. Buildings, roads, equipment, utilities--‒‒‒ Total_. SUMMARY $161, 000 1,080, 000 135, 000 536, 000 267, 000 485, 000 56, 000 405, 000 300, 000 3,425,000 200, 000 655, 000 855, 000 Group B. Projects which can be started within 60 days: Act 342: 1. Sewers__ Department of public works: 1. Rouge Valley. 2. Down River. Other: 1. Water 2. Sewer Total.. Group C. Projects which can be started within 90 days: Act 342: 1. Sewers. 2. Water 3. Refuse disposal---. Other: 1. Water. 2. Sewer__. Total 952, 000 3, 399, 000 922, 000 3, 425, 000 855, 000 9,553, 000 $200,000 2, 100, 000 18, 200, 000 2,250,000 800, 000 23, 550, 000 600, 000 4, 800, 000 3,250,000 850,000 2, 450, 000 11, 950, 000 Sewer and water-Continued Group D. Projects which can be started within 6 months: Act 342: 1. Sewers. 2. Water. Department of public works: 1. Downriver__ Other: 1. Drainage.. Total Group E. Projects which can be started within 1 year: Act 342: 1. Sewers_. 2. Refuse disposal. Other: 1. Water_ 2. Sewer. 3. Drainage_ Total.. $5, 400, 000 2, 000, 000 6, 000, 000 13, 000, 000 26, 400, 000 11, 500, 000 7,000,000 3, 100, 000 2, 000, 000 9, 200, 000 32, 800, 000 Group D. Projects which can be started within 6 months: Group E. Projects which can be started within 1 year: Wayne County General Hospital and Infirmary: 2. New therapy building__ Wayne County Training School: 1. Capital improvements.. Mr. BLATNIK. I have no questions except to express the Chair's appreciation for your personal appearance here, Mr. Davey. I hope you will convey the Chair's personal appreciation to Mr. Ed Carey, chairman of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors. I am familiar with the situation in Detroit. It is a very serious one. We do hope he shall be successful in getting sound, effective, working legislation, and as you point out that we can cover the current construction. With that, thank you very much for your appearance and your testimony. If there are no further questions, and no further witnesses, the hearings for today are adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. (Whereupon at 2:30 p.m. the hearing was recessed until 10 a.m. the following day, Friday, April 6, 1962.) STANDBY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ACT OF 1962 FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1962 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to recess, at 10 a.m., in room 1302, New House Office Building, Hon. John A. Blatnik presiding. Mr. BLATNIK. The House Public Works Committee will please come to order. We are resuming public hearings on Standby Capital Improvements legislation. As the first witness this morning, we welcome Mr. Widman, who will speak on behalf of a great organization. This is Mr. Michael Widman, assistant to the president of the United Mine Workers of America, Thomas Kennedy. You have Mr. Kennedy's statement, I believe, Mr. Widman. I would like the committee to know and the record to show that Mr. Kennedy himself personally had hoped to be here. Of course, we are fully aware of his very heavy schedule and his previous commitment which keeps him away at this time. Mr. Widman, we welcome you. STATEMENT OF MICHAEL F. WIDMAN, JR., ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT, AND DIRECTOR OF THE RESEARCH AND MARKETING DEPARTMENT, UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA Mr. WIDMAN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Michael F. Widman, Jr. I am an assistant to the president and director of the Research and Marketing Department of the United Mine Workers of America. I am appearing here today on behalf of President Thomas Kennedy, whose statement I shall read. Mr. Kennedy had planned to appear before the committee on behalf of the organization but was prevented from doing so by other pressing matters. His statement reads as follows: The United Mine Workers of America endorses the legislation before this committee. We believe it to be in the public interest and an effective weapon against the ravages of unemployment and economic stagnation. America needs an effective public works program. Such activity, soundly conceived and vigorously promoted, has many beneficial results. One, public works acts as a counter-cyclical force in our economic activity. This committee is well aware of the cyclical nature of a free enterprise economy. We all have witnessed the natural sequence of good times followed by bad, of boom and bust, of prosperity and stagnation. This has been the history of America. Indeed, it is one of the characteristics of a society such as ours, when business conditions are determined by literally millions of people acting more or less independently of each other. But if the business cycle is a part of our society, it is also a danger to it. The cycle may be interesting to the economist, a burden to the businessman, and a |