The_Rambler_1968-03-15

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vol. 39 No. 2 . .the truth shall make men free.. March 1968
Who Hu uwf nn se TI imr fsc .? ^^^^ Science Club Presents2 i
Joseph Y. Resnick is a fighter. His district, his state and h i s nation
know him as such. He will appear at our school and speak on ** Crime In
the Street" March 21st in Roosevelt Little Theatre.
In 1964 he became the first Democrat ever to represent the 28th Con-gressional
District, an overwhelmingly Republican territory in New York's
Mid-Hudson Valley. He performed the same political miracle in 1966.
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Housing Dept. Calls
For Prompt Kegistration
by Jim Nabach
D. L. Payette, Director of College Housing
announced today that second semester students
requiring a room in the dorms next semester
should act now.
All candidates for dorm residence for the
1968-69 Academic Year must pick up an ap-plication
after March 20th at the Housing Of-fice.
(In the President's former office) All
information must be filled in and signed by your-self
and your parent or guardian. The care-fully
completed application should be taken to the
buisness office with your $25.00 application fee.
Promptness and care in the completion of the
from is of the utmost importance if you wish
a room on campus next year.
Farmingdale To
Host Rec. Conf.
More than 250 recreational leaders and students
are expected to attend the f i r s t college-sponsored
Recreational Conference ever held on Long Island
on Saturday, March 16, at Roosevelt Hall, State
University Agricultural and Technical College,
Farmingdale, Dr. Charles W. Laffin, president of
the A&T College, announced today.
A distinguished array of recreational figures in
academic, community, park, hospital, institutions
and voluntary agencies, such as boys' clubs, s e t t l e -
ment houses and ^'Ys" will be among those partic-ipating
in the panel presentations, small group d i s -
cussions and question-and-answer sessions.
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THE DAY-LONG program is being arranged by
Dr. Morton Thompson, chairman of the Recreation
Supervision Department at the Aggies, the only
college on Long Island having such a curriculum.
The Conference's theme is * * R e c r e a t i o n Op-
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Joe Resnick could do this be-cause
he brought his fighter phil-osophy
to the halls of Congress
and made it work to his
constituents' best advantage. He
is devoted to the philosophy that
a congressman must be the
advocate of his people in their
dealings with government.
He has turned his offices and
facilities into a court of last
resort for countless persons en-meshed
in governmental tangles
who have exhausted all other
avenues of redress and foimd only
deaf ears or non-committal
letters in reply to their personal
£^pears for help.
As a result, the press has
labelled him an ombudsman and
made him famous asn an indepen-dent
fighter who is unafraid to
challenge even the most sacred
of cows.
The Beth Liuni adoption case
- - in which upstate welfare
officials refused to let an Italian-
American couple adopt the blond,
blue-eyed child they had raised
from infancy - - is but one
example of Joe Resnick's style.
Another is his one-man inves-tigation
of the American Farm
Bureau Federation. Resnick con-ducted
the hearings at his own
expense and carried them to
Midwestern states because the
House Agriculture Committee
refused to investigate his charges
that the bureau should not be tax
exempt. The Committee refused
despite evidence he uncovered
that the bureau's primary in-terest
is business activity.
Still another example is the
battle he is waging to have the
United States Navy reconsider its
position in the cases of Lieut.
Commander Marcus A. Arnheiter
and Captain Richard G.
Alexander, in which both men
were relieved of command of
ships for unexplained reasons.
Even before he entered Con-gress,
Joe Resnick fought against
the government's scheduled
closing of Castle Point Veterna's
Hospital - - a well-equipped,
completely staffed facility.
During his first week inWash-ington
he carried his {4)peal per-sonally
to President Johnson.
Today the hospital not only serves
the 28th District, but is involved
in a highly specialized program
to rehabilitate paragplegics
crii^led in the Southeast Asian
conflict.
His is a classic "rags to
riches" tale in the true American
tradition.
Born in poverty on an Ellen-ville,
N.Y., farm July 13, 1924,
he was forced to quit high school
in his last year to help support
his family. Working as a laborer
he attended radio school at night.
Early in World War n he
Joined the Merchant Marine
where he became a radio officer.
When he came home, he com-bined
his creative scientific
ability with his electronics
training to invent a pre-assembled
television antenna.
The government issued him the
first U.S. patent for such a pro-duct.
On the basis of this invention,
Joe Resnick established Channel
Master Corp, of Ellenville, one
one of the world's largest man-ufacturers
of television antennas,
picture tubes, and other
electronic devices for home en-tertainment.
He also founded
two research and development
firms, Dyna-Foam Corp. and
Questron America, specializing
in the development of new
t e c h n i q u e s in p l a s t i cs
fabrication and packaging.
With this background, Joe
Resnick fights unceasingly for
the rights of the underdog and
squarely faces the controversial
issues of the day.
He authored the first and most
liberal Voting Rights Bill in-troduced
in 1965. Sections of
is were included in the measure
finally adopted.
Even before the celebrated
1965 March on Washington and
advocacy of Civil Rights became
popular, Joe Resnick was one of a
small group of congressmen to
visit the Rev. Martin Luther
King in a Selma, Alb., jail.
While still a freshman in the
House, he wro^e and introduced
the Pet Protection Bill, designed
to end pet stealing by un-scrupulous
dealers and to provide
himane treatment of research
anumals by dealers and lab-oratories.
President Johnson
signed the bill into law August
24, 1966.
Deeply concerned about the
Vietnam War and the division
it is causing in the nation, Joe
Resnick has traveled three times
to Southeast Asia at his own
expense for a personal view of
the conflict.
He stands unequivocably in
favor of negotiated settlement
and repeatedly has declared, "I
have this war." He is neither
a hawk nor a dove - - "I'm for
negotiated peace, but not for
surrender."
The Congressman supports the
military effort, but only as a
means of bringing the North
Vietnamese to the peace table.
He was one of the first to
bring to the public's attention the
presence of vast numbers of
North Vietnamese troops on
Laotian territory and the trem-endour
number of casualties
resulting from the unpublicized
was in that country.
Because of these views, he
supports the Administration's
policy in Vietnam. He believes
all of Southeast Asia will fall
under Red China's control in
short order with a tremendous
loss of human life should the
U.S withdraw its presence be-fore
a settlement is reached.
"I am a liberal," Joe Resnick
declared when he announced his
candidacy for the U.S. Senate
November 13, 1967. And he is
a liberal, in the tradition of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
whose Hyde Park home is
located in the 28th District.
Joe Resnick's voting record
proves this. There is noquessing.
The public knows where he
stands.
He has supported Medicare,
increased Social Security bene-fits,
aid to higher education,
h i g h e r minimum wages,
parcotics addiction control, es-tablishment
of the Department
of Housing and Urban Develop-ment,
the anti-poverty program,
water and air pollution control,
fair immigration laws, manpower
training programs, public works,
regional, medical center, es-tablishement
of a National Arts
Foundation, highway beautifica-tion,
rent supplements, the Model
Cities program, truth-in-pack-aging
and truth-in-lending. He
has taken the lead in pointing
out the dangers of garnishment.
He is proud of his outspoken
criticism of the House Un-A-merican
Activities Committee
and his repeated votes against it.
Casting a vote is not enough
in many cases. When the
Elementary and Secondary Ed-ucation
Act was in danger last
year, Joe Resnick stood up to
fight for its renewal. 1/^en
some members of the House
callously laughed at the Rat Con- .
trol Bill while the nation's ghetto
communities were suffering, Joe
Resnick stood on the floor and
fou^t back.
The Congressional Record is
filled with his strong statements
fighting Republican efforts to
abolish the Office of Economic
Opportunity and to cut back the
anti-poverty program.
Joe Resnick is proud of his
record. He is a member of the
House Veterans' Affairs and
Agriculture Committees and is
chairman of the Subcommittee
on. Rural Development.
Last year he held five weeks
of hearings to determine the
effect of the government's pro-grams
on rural America. His
conclusion: Little Impact had
been made. Now he is preparing
legislation to change this.
Joe Resnick was one of the
first congressmen to articulate
the belief that the roots of the
nation's urban problems lie in
the flight of the poor from rural
America. He introduced legis-lation
to promote rural com-munity
welfare by attracting new
industry.
And he brought the federal
government home to his con-stitutents,
regardless to their
party or politics. He battled
for federal assistance and
secured funds for education,
urban renewal, water sheds, flood
and sewage control, post office
construction, solid conservation
and wildlife preservation for his
28th District.
One of four cities in New York
Stat selected for Model Cities
grants in late 1967 was
Poughkeepsie, a city in Joe
Resnick's home territory.
Before his election the 28th
District had not even one Con-gressional
service office. Joe
Resnick maintains three fulltime
district offices and travels to
his constituents almost every
weekend.
He hs sponsored leadership
conferences on education, small
business, community develop-ment,
aid to handicapped children
and farm assistance so that his
constituents become familiar
with the governmental programs
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