mouth High School in 1927. He graduated with a degree of B.S. in Business Administration in 1931 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Mr. Bush was associated with the oil industry, wholesale and retail merchandising, from 1932 to 1949. Beginning in 1941, he served two terms as a member of the Portsmouth City Council, resigning to accept the Democratic nomination to Congress from the Ohio 6th District. In 1946 he founded and became President of Ohio System, Inc., of Portsmouth, Ohio, a tax and accounting firm. He served as President of the National Association of State Purchasing Officials in 1954. From 1949 to 1957, he was State Purchasing Agent for the State of Ohio, in Governor Frank J. Lausche's Cabinet. In 1957 and 1958, Mr. Bush was President of John W. Bush, Inc., a business and tax consulting firm, and Chairman of the Board of The Old Judge Food Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri, and of its four subsidiary Corporations in San Jose, California, Brooklyn, New York, Louisville, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Missouri. He was also a Director of R. C. Williams and Company, Inc., a food processing concern of New York City. In 1959, Mr. Bush was named Director of Commerce in Governor Michael V. DiSalle's Cabinet.

Mr. Bush is married to the former Mrs. Dorthy Vredenburgh of Birmingham, Alabama, and has two daughters. Their mother, Mary Van Doren Bush, is deceased. Mr. Bush is an Episcopalian.

Commissioner Bush has served on all divisions of the Commission and this year will serve again on Division 2.

BIOGRAPHY OF VIRGINIA MAE BROWN, COMMISSIONER

Virginia Mae Brown was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson as the first woman member in the history of the Interstate Commerce Commission in March 1964. Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate and she took her oath of office in a White House ceremony on May 25, 1964, for a seven-year term to expire December 31, 1970.

Born November 13, 1923, in Pliny, West Virginia, the daughter of Felix M. and Hester (Crandall) Brown, Commissioner Brown was educated in the public schools of Putnam and Mason Counties and is a graduate of West Virginia University and the West Virginia College of Law. She taught at Winfield High School, Putnam County, for a year and a half before entering law school. After receiving her law degree she served as Law Clerk to the Attorney General of West Virginia until she was appointed in 1949 as Executive Secretary to the West Virginia Judicial Council, the first woman to serve in this capacity in the United States. In 1952 she was appointed Assistant Attorney General, the first woman to be appointed to that position in West Virginia. She was reappointed to that position and served until January 1961 when she was appointed counsel to Governor William Wallace Barron. In May 1961 she was appointed Insurance Commissioner of West Virginia, the first woman to be appointed Insurance Commissioner in the United States.

In September 1962 Commissioner Brown was appointed as a Member of the Public Service Commission, the first and only woman to be appointed to this Commission in West Virginia. She served in this capacity until her appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Commissioner Brown is a member of the Putnam County Bar Association, the West Virginia State Bar, and the American Bar Association. She is married to Mr. James V. Brown, an attorney. They reside with their two children, Victoria Anne (Vicki), age 10, and Pamela Kay (Bubbles), age 6, in River Towers, Alexandria, Virginia.

BIOGRAPHY OF WILLARD DEASON, COMMISSIONER

Date of birth: January 3, 1905.

Place of birth: Stockdale (Wilson County), Tex.

Family:

Wife: Jeanne FitzPatrick Deason.

Daughter: Diann, age 18.

Son: Patrick Lyndon, age 16.

Church affiliation: Episcopal.

Residence:

Home: 4713 Highland Terrace, Austin, Tex.
Local: 6101 Kennedy Drive, Kenwood, Md.

Education:

Graduated from Stockdale High School in 1922.

Graduated from Southwest Texas State College in 1930 with B.S. degree. Graduated from San Antonio School of Law in 1934 with LL.B degree. Employment:

From 1930 to 1934: Taught social sciences at Alamo Heights Junior High School, San Antonio, Tex. (attended night law school classes during this same period).

June 1934 to August 1935: Served as junior attorney for Federal Land Bank of Houston.

August 1935 to March 1942: Employed by National Youth Administration, first as administrative assistant to the State director for Texas; from May 1937 to March 1942 as deputy State administrator.

March 1942 to 1946: See military service infra.

March 1946 to December 1948: Salesman and sales manager for radio station
KTBC, Austin, Tex.

January 1949 to August 1, 1965: Manager and owner-manager for radio station KVET, Austin, Tex.

Military service:

Went on active duty with the U.S. Navy in March 1942 as lieutenant; was released to inactive duty in March 1946 as commander.

Duty assignments:

Office of Naval Officer Procurement, New Orleans.

Office of Naval Personnel, Arlington, Va.

Air priority officer in Atlantic.

Air priority officer in pacific.

After V-J Day, Congressional Liaison Office, Bureau of Naval Personnel. Civic and professional activities:

Local:

Director of Austin Chamber of Commerce.

Director of Austin Kiwanis Club.

Director of Austin Better Business Bureau.

Served on advisory committee to Austin Board of Education.

State:

In 1952 helped organize and served as first secretary of Texas Association of Broadcasters; in successive years served as vice president and president. Served on board of directors and on a special committee to rewrite bylaws.

1958 to present have been serving on State industry advisory committee to emergency broadcast system.

Served three times on Governor's inaugural committee.

National:

Served for 7 years on Mutual Network Affiliates Advisory Committee, 2 years as chairman of the committee. In 1960 served as a presidential elector from the State of Texas.

BIOGRAPHY Of Bernard F. SCHMID, MANAGING DIRECTOR

Bernard F. Schmid was appointed to his present position of Managing Director, Interstate Commerce Commission, May 14, 1956.

Mr. Schmid served with the South Dakota State Highway Commission from May 1933 until June 1934, when he entered the Federal service as Senior Accounting Assistant, Home Owners Loan Corporation, Washington, D.C. From 1941 to 1946, he served with the Office of Price Administration, first as Associate Economic Statistician, and later as Administrative Analyst and Head of the Program Control and Jurisdiction Section. From 1946 to 1947, he served as Business Specialist, National Housing Agency, and from 1947 to 1954, as Budget Examiner, Bureau of the Budget. In 1954 he was appointed Deputy Adminis

trative Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, in which position he served until his appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Born in Minnesota, Mr. Schmid spent his early life in South Dakota. He attended the South Dakota State School of Mines and received his law degree from Columbus University, Washington, D.C.

BIOGRAPHY OF ERNEST WEISS, ASSISTANT MANAGING DIRECTOR

Mr. Weiss joined the Interstate Commerce Commission on September 2, 1952, as an Organization and Methods Examiner. He was promoted on June 5, 1955 to the position of Assistant to the Managing Director, and to the position of Assistant Managing Director on March 3, 1963.

Mr. Weiss entered the service of the Federal Government in 1940. He quickly gravitated to the field of management, serving in progressively responsible management positions in the War Department, Veterans Administration, and General Services Administration, before joining the Interstate Commerce Commission. He served in the Army from April 12, 1943 to March 22, 1946. Born in Michigan, Mr. Weiss received the B.B.A. degree from City College of New York in 1942. He also attended American University where he completed the course work for an M.S. in Public Administration.

BIOGRAPHY OF H. NEIL GARSON, SECRETARY, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

H. Neil Garson, Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, joined the Commission in 1949 as an examiner (attorney) and in 1952 became an attorney in the General Counsel's Office. He was appointed to the position of Assistant General Counsel in 1956, and two years later was named Associate General Counsel. On July 4, 1965 he was appointed to his present position of Secretary.

Secretary Garson served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and now holds the rank of Major in the Transportation Corps, U.S. Army Reserve.

Secretary Garson earned his A.B. degree from the University of Georgia in 1947, and in 1949 received his LL.B. degree from the Georgetown School of Law. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternities, and has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Virginia, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont.

BIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW ANthony, Jr., ASSISTANT SECRETARY, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Andrew Anthony Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, joined the ICC in 1958 as an Organization and Methods Examiner, Office of the Managing Director. He served for five years as Chief of Administrative Services and rejoined the immediate Office of the Managing Director as Management Analyst. He was appointed Assistant Secretary, ICC, on October 10, 1965. Prior to joining ICC, Mr. Anthony served with the Works Progress Administration, the Office of Price Administration, and from 1950 to 1958, as an Organization and Methods Examiner for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice.

A native of Winthrop, Massachusetts, Mr. Anthony attended Berkely Prep School in Boston, and Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He received his LL.B degree from Columbus University, Washington, D.C., in 1942.

BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT W. GINNANE, GENERAL COUNSEL

Robert W. Ginnane was appointed General Counsel of the Interstate Commerce Commission on September 30, 1955.

Mr. Ginnane joined the legal staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. in October 1938. While with the SEC, he was loaned to the

Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure, which made the first thorough study of Federal administrative procedures leading up to enactment of the Administrative Procedure Act. In January 1942, he was appointed to the legal staff of the Office of Price Administration, where he served with the court review branch of that agency's legal division, and remained there until his legal career was interrupted by military duties. From October 1943 until February 1946, he served as a naval officer, most of his time being spent on sea duty in the Southwest Pacific area. Following his service, he joined the Office of the Assistant Solicitor General, in the Justice Department, where much of his work was devoted to interpreting the then new Administrative Procedure Act, and from September 1947 until his appointment to ICC, he served in the Solicitor General's Office which directs or conducts the Government's litigation in the Supreme Court. A native of Addison, New York, Mr. Ginnane received an A.B. degree at Syracuse University in 1934, and a law degree at Cornell Law School in 1938. He is a member of the bar of New York and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC K. HAY, DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL

Isaac K. Hay joined the Interstate Commerce Commission in June 1939, with the Bureau of Motor Carriers as an attorney serving in Charlotte, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia before transferring to Washington, D.C. in 1949. Mr. Hay was reassigned to the Office of the General Counsel in 1954 and was ap pointed Deputy General Counsel in March of 1963.

Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Hay served as Secretary of the Executive Department of the State of Georgia for approximately two years and also worked for the Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the Department of Justice. He served as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Army for three years during World War II and was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

A native of Covington, Georgia, Mr. Hay received his LL.B. degree from the University of Georgia in 1928. He is a member of the Georgia Bar and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Courts of Georgia and the United States. He is a member of the American and U.S. Federal Bar Associations.

BIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAM STILLWELL, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PROCEEDINGS Bertram Stillwell, Director of the Office of Proceedings, has served continously with the Commission since 1926. A native of Appleton, Minn., he served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and later was graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School. He practiced law in Minneapolis prior to his appointment as an examiner in the Commission's former Bureau of Formal Cases. In 1928, Mr. Stillwell was assigned to the office of the late Commissioner Clyde B. Aitchison and served on his staff for seven years. He transferred as an examiner to the Section of Complaints in the then newly-organized Bureau of Motor Carriers in 1935, where he became Chief in charge of the Board of Review. He later was appointed as Assistant Chief of the Section of Complaints, and upon that Section's becoming a Bureau of Operating Rights in 1957, he was named its Assistant Director. In January 1960, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Operating Rights. Since June 7, 1965, he has served as Director, Office of Proceedings, which includes three former Bureaus of Finance, Operating Rights, and Rates and Practices.

BIOGRAPHY OF SHELDON SILVERMAN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PROCEEDINGS Sheldon Silverman, Deputy Director, (Chief, Section of Operating Rights) Office of Proceedings joined the Interstate Commerce Commission in December 1946, as an examiner in the Section of Complaints, Bureau of Motor Carriers. From January 1958 to March 1959, he served as head of the Review Branch, Section of Examiners, Bureau of Operating Rights. Of March 8, 1959, he was reassigned Chief of the Section of Examiners. He was appointed Assistant Di

rector, Bureau of Operating Rights February 1960, and was reassigned to the position of Deputy Director (Chief, Section of Operating Rights) July 1965.

A native of Butler, Pennsylvania, Mr. Silverman received his A.B. and J.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the bar of the State of Pennsylvania.

BIOGRAPHY OF THADDEUS W. FORBES, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PROCEEDINGS

Thaddeus W. Forbes, Deputy Director, (Chief, Section of Finance) joined the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1936. After serving in the military service he returned in 1946 to the Commission as an examiner (Attorney) in the former Section of Finance of the Bureau of Motor Carriers. In 1949 here transferred to the Bureau of Inquiry and Compliance as a Trial Attorney. He was appointed Assistant Chief of the Section of Convenience and Necessity, Bureau of Finance, in 1957 and in 1961 was appointed Chief of the Section of Proceedings. In 1964 he was appointed Director, Bureau of Finance and was reassigned to the position of Deputy Director, (Chief, Section of Finance), Office of Proceedings.

A native of New Jersey, Mr. Forbes received his law degree from Columbus University in Washington, D.C. and was admitted to the D.C. bar in 1942. He presently holds the rank of Colonel in the Reserves.

BIOGRAPHY OF ALVIN L. CORBIN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PROCEEDINGS Mr. Alvin L. Corbin, Deputy Director (Chief, Section of Rates and Practices) Office of Proceedings joined the Interstate Commerce Commission in April 1940 as Junior Examiner (Attorney) in the Bureau of Motor Carriers. He became an examiner in the Bureau of Formal Cases (now Bureau of Rates and Practices) in 1947 and a hearing examiner in 1954. He was senior examiner on the staffs of Commissioner Richard F. Mitchell from 1951 to 1959, and of Commissioner Clyde E. Herring from 1959 to 1961. He was appointed Assistant Director in March 1961, Director of the Bureau of Rates and Practices on January 1, 1963, and Deputy Director, Section of Rates and Practices on August 1, 1965. He was commissioned in the Naval Reserve and served on active duty in World War II from July 1942 through September 1946. Mr. Corbin, a native of Washington, D.C. attended the D.C. public schools, George Washington University, George Washington Law School and Washington College of law (now American University). He received his LL.B. in 1939 and become a member of the District of Columbia bar in 1940.

BIOGRAPHY OF MATTHEW PAOLO, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS

Matthew Paolo, Director of the Bureau of Accounts, joined the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1938. In the Annual Reports Section of the Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics, he performed various statistical and accounting duties until entering the United States Navy in 1943. Upon completion of his military service in 1946, he returned to the Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics and later advanced to Assistant Chief of the Section of Annual Reports.

In 1952 he transferred to the Section of Field Service of the then Bureau of Accounts, Cost Finding and Valuation as a field examiner. Mr. Paolo was promoted to Assistant Chief of the Section of Field Service in 1956 and to Chief of the Section in 1961, the position he held at the time of his appointment as Director, Bureau of Accounts on September 1, 1962.

A native of Bronx, New York, Mr. Paolo graduated in 1949 from Columbus University in Washington, D.C., where he majored in accounting. He is a member of the Federal Government Accountants Association.

BIOGRAPHY OF HOWARD L. DOMINGUS, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS

Howard L. Domingus, Assistant Director of the Bureau of Accounts, joined the Commission in 1936 as a messenger in the Office of former Commissioner Rogers. He later served as clerk, assistant accountant, auditor, and transporta