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UNIFORM TIME LEGISLATION

MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1963

U.S. SENATE,

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, Hon. Gale W. McGee presiding.

Senator MCGEE. This morning the committee will begin hearings on the problem of clock confusion and on the need for improved time uniformity throughout the United States.

I hope that members of the committee, witnesses, and spectators have solved their own weekend problems of clock confusion and maybe after the added adjustment during the night, we are ready to go ahead this morning on eastern daylight saving time, or on what might hereafter be called Atlantic standard time.

Pending before the committee are three bills designed to modernize the 45-year-old Standard Time Act, and achieve a more uniform and rational system of time. One is S. 1033, introduced by Chairman Magnuson, at the request of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Another is S. 1195, introduced by Senator Cotton, the ranking minority member of the committee.

And over the weekend, Senator Robertson introduced in the Senate another proposal aimed at making our time practices more uniform. His bill, S. 1394 would establish daylight time uniformly throughout the United States during the months of June, July, and August of each year and would prevent States or their political subdivisions from prescribing any time standards in conflict with the Federal provision. The committee, of course, welcomes Senator Robertson's interest in the solution of the time confusion and his bill will be considered by the committee, along with the other two just mentioned.

The bills and related materials will be inserted in the record at this point. (The bills follow :)

[S. 1033, 88th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To establish a uniform system of time standards and measurement for the United States and to require the observance of such time standards for all purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as "The Standard Time Act of 1963".

SEC. 2. As used in this Act

(a) The term "agency" means the agency, commission, or department designated by Congress to administer the provisions of this Act.

Staff assigned to this hearing: Jeremiah J. Kenney, Jr.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington, Chairman

JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island

A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, Oklahoma
STROM THURMOND, South Carolina
FRANK J. LAUSCHE, Ohio

RALPH YARBOROUGH, Texas
CLAIR ENGLE, California

E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska

VANCE HARTKE, Indiana

GALE W. MCGEE, Wyoming
PHILIP A. HART, Michigan
HOWARD W. CANNON, Nevada

NORRIS COTTON, New Hampshire
THRUSTON B. MORTON, Kentucky
HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania
WINSTON L. PROUTY, Vermont
J. GLENN BEALL, Maryland

EDWARD JARRETT, Chief Clerk

RALPH W. HORTON, Assistant Chief Clerk
GERALD B. GRINSTEIN, Chief Counsel

JEREMIAH J. KENNEY Jr., Assistant Chief Counsel

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Adams, Joseph P., executive director and general counsel, Association
of Local Transport Airlines, Wyatt Building, Washington, D.C.---
Bossemeyer, James L., executive director of the National Association of
Travel Organizations, 1422 K Street NW., Washington, D.C...
Frost, Hon. Tom, member of the Virginia House of Delegates_
Lyons, Sam B., Association of Stock Exchange Firms, 1500 Massa-
chusetts Avenue NW., Washington, D.C.

Manion, D. L., president, American Short Line Railroad Association,
2000 Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, D.C.
Martin, Hon. Clarence D., Jr., Under Secretary for Transportation,
Department of Commerce; accompanied by Robert E. Giles, Gen-
eral Counsel, Department of Commerce; and Jonathan B. Rintels,
General Counsel staff..

McMullen, A. B., executive director, National Association of State
Aviation Officials, 1029 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington,
D.C____

Ramspeck, Hon. Robert, chairman, Committee for Time Uniformity,
1710 H Street NW., Washington, D.C.; accompanied by Robert E.
Redding, vice president and general counsel of the Transportation
Association of America__

Roeper, P. M., vice president, transportation and maintenance,
Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Trice, R. A., vice president and traffic manager, Virginia Stage
Lines, Inc., Charlottesville, Va.-.

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Seavey, Hollis M., National Association of Broadcasters, 1771 N
Street NW., Washington, D.C.......

Walrath, Laurence K., Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; accompanied by Abe McGregor Goff, Vice Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; and Thomas Pyne, examiner.

WITNESSES

Monday, April 29, 1963

Hon. Robert Ramspeck, chairman, Committee for Time Uniformity;
accompanied by Robert E. Redding, vice president and general counsel of
the Transportation Association of America..

Richard A. Trice, vice president and traffic manager, Virginia Stage Lines,
Charlottesville, Va..........

Hon. Tom Frost, member of the Virginia House of Delegates..

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P. M. Roeper, vice president, transportation and maintenance, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pa..

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