This year over 700.000 of our fellow citizens will be receiving help from Vocational Rehabilitation. and more than 218.000 will have been rehabilitated and restored to productive and selfsupporting lives. This represents a great national gain in economic terms. but it must always be thought of in terms of personal and human values that are beyond price. H.R. 12257 further extends the program by providing authorization for grants to the States through fiscal 1970 at a rate calculated to assure steady progress. and by inaugurating new programsone for the deafblind and one .designed to bring rehabilitation services to handicapped migrant agricultural workers. The bill also eliminates any residency requirements after June 30. 1969. Unfortunately. in a number of States -such requirements have denied services to those in need of them.