Mr. Wrather has long been a strong supporter of Chambers of Commerce in cities where his business interests are located, and has actively supported the Red Cross, Motion Picture Relief Fund, Community Chest Campaigns, Boys' Town, Menninger Clinic, and Variety Club charities. He is a member of the Marine Corps Reserve Officers Club in Washington, D.C., the Dallas Petroleum Club and the Dallas Athletic Club in Dallas, Texas, as well as the Players' Club of New York City, the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, California, and he is also a member of the Development Board of the University of Texas, and of the Executive Committee of the Chancellor's Council of the University of Texas, and a member of the Advisory Council of Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California. He was a director of the Hollywood Museum, and is on the Board of Directors of American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry. He is a sponsor of the Los Angeles Orphanage Guild, and a Founder Member of the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center. He is a member of the International Radio & Television Society; a member of the Independent Petroleum Association; and the California Hotel Association. In 1970 he was appointed to the National Petroleum Council, an advisory committee under the Department of the Interior. Jack Wrather is married to the former Bonita Granville and has 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. He lives in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, and Newport Beach, California, with business headquarters in Beverly Hills. Senator PASTORE. You would not want to add anything to that, Mr. Wrather? STATEMENT OF J. D. WRATHER, JR. Mr. WRATHER. That is very nice and I appreciate Senator Murphyeven though I understand he is on his way to Israel-having taken the time to say those kind remarks. Senator PASTORE. Would you like to add anything? Mr. WRATHER. Just one word. I look on this as a great challenge and if I am confirmed I certainly hope to meet that challenge. Senator PASTORE. And your political affiliation? Mr. WRATHER. Republican. Senator PASTORE. Now, we have Mr. Thomas Moore and his biographical sketch will be included in the record. BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF THOMAS W. MOORE Age: 51 (Born September 17, 1918, Meridian, Miss.). Present position: Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Ticketron, Inc. Education: 1935-38, Mississippi State University; 1939, University of Missouri. Family data: Married Claire Stirrat, February 18, 1943; Son, Thomas W., Jr., student at Stanford University; Daughter, Jean, student at Stanford University. Previous experience: 1939-40, Meridian, Miss. STAR-advertising salesman; 1945-50, Forest Lawn Memorial Park-public relations; 1950-55, Columbia Broadcasting System-programming and sales; 1955-68, American Broadcasting Company-programming, sales; 1962-68, President, ABC-TV Network; 1968, President, Ticketron, Inc. Military data: 1941-45, Lt. USNR-Naval Aviator, North Pacific area. Also: Member, American Revolution Bicentennial Commission; President, Naval Aviation Museum Association; Board of Directors, Abercrombie and Fitch; World Wildlife Fund. Clubs: Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Boone and Crockett; Los Angeles Country Club; Wee Burn Country Club; Explorers Club of New York; Bohemian Club, San Francisco. Honors: Horatio Alger Award, 1968; Honorary LL.D. University of Alabama, STATEMENT OF THOMAS W. MOORE Mr. MOORE. Mr. Chairman, I have nothing formally to say. I have been fortunate enough to spend most of my life in the commercial broadcast field up to the last 18 months or 2 years. Having headed a commercial network and seen television grow to become almost the extension of the human nervous system in our country, I had a firsthand opportunity to observe what with all its accomplishments the frustrations of trying to do some things within the commercial framework are and I approach this assignment with a great deal of enthusiasm and I sincerely hope that I will be able to bring something to it. Senator PASTORE. Thank you very, very much, and I think you are going to be a great help to this operation. Senator MAGNUSON. Mr. Chairman, I might say for the information of Mr. Moore, the President submitted your name this morning to us so that we could get you quickly confirmed. Mr. MOORE. Thank you. Senator PASTORE. And your political affiliation? Mr. MOORE. I am a Republican. Senator PASTORE. Out of Mississippi? Mr. MOORE. I was born in Mississippi but I married a Washingtonian from Seattle and lived in Connecticut and worked in New York. Senator PASTORE. Any further questions? Senator MAGNUSON. One thing I wanted to ask Mr. Wrather, who has had considerable experience in the producing end, as the committee knows, such as the "Lone Ranger" and "Lassie" and all these, which are the type of programing that appeals to everybody, and I am hopeful that you will give a lot of help to this board in their very necessary work of producing these things that you are going to try and use in public broadcasting. There is an expertise there that a lot of us do not know that you would have and that is why I am very pleased that you are on here because if for nothing else for that experience and because I understand you have not lost any money doing it. Mr. WRATHER. Not yet. The CHAIRMAN. At least the ones I know about. Maybe you had some duds. Mr. WRATHER. We do not talk about those. They are not on there. Senator PASTORE. Do you have another collie in training? Mr. WRATHER. Yes. That is always a question we get asked so I am prepared with an answer for that. We only have one Lassie, Senator, and we keep several Lassies in training because we only use a Lassie 3 or 4 years. We are fortunate enough, as Senator Magnuson pointed out, to be commercially acceptable. We start our 17th year this September on the CBS network. Senator PASTORE. It is one of the oldest films on television. Mr. WRATHER. Yes; it is the oldest film showed. We hope to be on for a long time. I do hope to be able to contribute any experience and expertise I might have toward what you were speaking on which is the programing capability of this broadcasting. 52-478-70- 4 Senator PASTORE. Well, John Macy is always a welcome guest. Do you have anything to say, John? Mr. MACY. Mr. Chairman, thank you. I merely want to add my word of welcome to the men that are here before you for your consideration and say how pleased I am that the President named them to serve on this distinguished board and I look forward to close collaboration with them in the period immediately ahead. Senator PASTORE. I repeat again, is there anyone here who wants to venture anything for or against these nominees? (No response.) Senator PASTORE. Thank you very much. We will adjourn. (Whereupon, at 3:30 p.m., the committee was adjourned.) DR. GEORGE F. MANSUR, JR., TO BE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1970 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, The committee met at 9:30 a.m. in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, Hon. John O. Pastore, presiding. Present: Senators Pastore and Baker. OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR PASTORE Senator PASTORE. The hearing will please come to order. Today the committee considers the nomination of Dr. George Frank Mansur, Jr., to be Deputy Director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy. Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1970 abolished the Office of Assistant Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness held by the Director of Telecommunications Management, and established in the Executive Office of the President the Office of Telecommunications Policy. On July 24, 1970, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Dr. Clay T. Whitehead to be the Director of that new office and now Dr. Mansur's nomination is before this committee to be the Deputy Director. When Dr. Whitehead was before the committee, I set out in some detail the history of the committee's attempts to urge the interested agencies of Government to adopt an overall communications policy because it is apparent to me that their failure to do so has contributed significantly to many of the problems and uncertainties that we now face in the field of communications. (The article follows:) MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL To the Congress of the United States: THE WHITE HOUSE, February 9, 1970. We live in a time when the technology of telecommunications is undergoing rapid change which will dramatically affect the whole of our society. It has long been recognized that the executive branch of the Federal government should be better equipped to deal with the issues which arise from telecommunications growth. As the largest single user of the nation's telecommunications facilities, the Federal government must also manage its internal communications operations in the most effective manner possible. Accordingly, I am today transmitting to the Congress Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1970, prepared in accordance with chapter 9 of title 5 of the United States Code. That plan would establish a new Office of Telecommunications Policy in the Executive Office of the President. The new unit would be headed by a Director and a Deputy Director who would be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The existing office held by the Director of Telecommunications Management in the Office of Emergency Preparedness would be abolished. In addition to the functions which are transferred to it by the reorganization plan, the new Office would perform certain other duties which I intend to assign it by Executive order as soon as the reorganization plan takes effect. That order would delegate to the new Office essentially those functions which are now assigned to the Director of Telecommunications Management. The Office of Telecommunications Policy would be assisted in its research and analysis responsibilities by the agencies and departments of the Executive Branch including another new office located in the Department of Commerce. The new Office of Telecommunications Policy would play three essential roles: 1. It would serve as the President's principal adviser on telecommunications policy, helping to formulate government policies concerning a wide range of domestic and international telecommunications issues and helping to develop plans and programs which take full advantage of the nation's technological capabilities. The speed of economic and technological advance in our time means that new questions concerning communications are constantly arising, questions on which the government must be well informed and well advised. The new Office will enable the President and all government officials to share more fully in the experience, the insights, and the forecasts of government and non-government experts. 2. The Office of Telecommunications Policy would help formulate policies and coordinate operations for the Federal government's own vast communications systems. It would, for example, set guidelines for the various departments and agencies concerning their communications equipment and services. It would regularly review the ability of government communications systems to meet the security needs of the nation and to perform effectively in time of emergency. The Office would direct the assignment of those portions of the radio spectrum which are reserved for government use, carry our responsibilities conferred on the President by the Communications Satellite Act, advise State and local governments, and provide policy direction for the National Communication System. 3. Finally, the new Office would enable the executive branch to speak with a clearer voice and to act as a more effective partner in discussions of communications policy with both the Congress and the Federal Communications Commission. This action would take away none of the prerogatives or functions assigned to the Federal Communications Commission by the Congress. It is my hope, however, that the new Office and the Federal Communications Commission would cooperate in achieving certain reforms in telecommunications policy, especially in their procedures for allocating portions of the radio spectrum for government and civilian use. Our current procedures must be more flexible if they are to deal adequately with problems such as the worsening spectrum shortage. Each reorganization included in the plan which accompanies this message is necessary to accomplish one or more of the purposes set forth in section 901 (a) of title 5 of the United States Code. In particular, the plan is responsive to section 901 (a) (1), "to promote the better execution of the laws, the more effective management of the executive branch and of its agencies and functions, and the expeditious administration of the public business;" and section 901(a)(3), “to increase the efficiency of the operations of the government to the fullest extent practicable." The reorganizations provided for in this plan make necessary the appointment and compensation of new officers, as specified in sections 3(a) and 3(b) of the plan. The rates of compensation fixed for these officers are comparable to those fixed for other officers in the executive branch who have similar responsibilities. This plan should result in the more efficient operation of the government. It is not practical, however, to itemize or aggregate the exact expenditure reductions which will result from this action. |