financed? Would Commission funds be available or would we have to raise local funds?
I mean are there rules, restrictions on what kind of hearings we can have?

Dr. MACE: As of this time, there arc no restrictions that have been adopted. Any
member or members may conduct hearings at the direction of the Chairman. So if
you wish to do that, I suggest you discuss it with the Chairman or with me, and I’ll con¬
vey it to the Chairman.
Certainly funds can be made available for that at this time, but we would hope that it would be connected with some sort of event designed to pay for the hearings.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: I’m not sure all of what I thought Mr. Weres’s question was was clarified. He mentioned about guidelines. Is there any consideration that a general set of guidelines could be prepared in the central office to assist the Commis¬sioners that might want to conduct public hearings in various locations?
Dr. MACE: It can certainly be considered, yes. We can draw them up, and then the Commission would have to adopt such guidelines as a whole. I can do this or the chair could entertain a motion for Dr. Weres to draft such guidelines.
Dr. WERES: No, I was not about to suggest any specific guidelines. I was just as¬king.
Dr. MACE: There are none.
(Later such guidelines were drafted by the staff at the Chairman’s direction and are in¬cluded after materials submitted for the record.)
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Go ahead.
Dr. KUROPAS: It seems to me that if we do have hearings, it would be or they should be held in such a way that we have an opportunity for maximum press ex¬posure, and I think at least one Congressman, possibly two or three, present would give us a better chance of having press exposure rather than just some public members holding hearings on their own.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Yes. This is why I think that at least a very general type of guideline should be prepared that would help the public members in setting up and carrying out public hearings.
I’d like to bring up one point again. There was discussion earlier about the cur¬riculum materials, and during the break Dr. Weres and Dr. Mace and I, and I think other people, were discussing it, and apparently there is a ripe opportunity that’s avail¬able to us in the State of California for introducing curriculum materials in school textbooks, and I personally think that we should extend every effort to take advantage of this opportunity in the State of California.

Now, from my point of view, the reason that I didn’t quite understand is, because each state is different, how they get their textbooks, and in the State of New Jersey, for instance, the state does not do any selection of textbooks. It’s on every local home school district, but in the State of California, the State of California apparently like some other states approves a list of textbooks that can be selected from. They don’t just choose one textbook.

So with this in view, I think apparently they are going through the process of review¬ing their history textbooks at this time, and if we can extend our influence and through the community in California, and somehow have the list of textbooks not accepted by the State of California except on the provision that a curriculum unit that includes the