The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-10-12
ERICKSON TALKS
TO MvA MEETINGS
I'm Minnesota
Other Speakers Address
Meetings in Other States on
The MVA; Organization
Formed in Kansas; Debate
Scheduled.

| OMAHA, Nebr. Left Erickson
chairman of the regional committee
for MVA, carried the Missouri Valley
Authority message into three more
southeastern Minnesota communities
last week
| Meantime, James A. Davis, regional
executive committee member and sec
rotary of the CLIO. committee for
MVA, was planning swing around
Missouri on MVA. Other meetings and
activities were scheduled
Erickson addressed large turnouts
at Benson, Granite Falls and Tyler,
Minnesota, October 2, and 4, in meet
ings arranged by Leroy c. Sable, Min
nesota representative nthe regional
committee executive committee and
manager of the Pipestone-Rock County
R.EA. Coop. Films, 'TVA" and 1.-THE
River" were shown at the meetings.
The speakers first MVA address in
Minnesota was made at a highly sue
cessful meeting at Luverne, Mimi,
September II. The audience of more
than 300 made substantial contribu-
lions to further the activities of the
regional committee
Davis, secretary of the Missouri
State Industrial Union council, Mon
day opened a week of MVA talks that
was to take him into several Missouri
communities. The films, "TVA' and
1.-THE River" were to be shown at
these meetings.
On the MVA calendar, among 9th.
er activities, are Kansas state or
ganizational meeting to be held at To-
peka, Kan, November 10, with Jerome
Walsh, chairman of the Kansas City,
Mo-, MVA committee, as speaker; an
MVA debate to be held in st. Joseph, |
Mo-, October Is under the auspices of |
the st. Joseph League of Women Vot- |
ers with Walsh representing MVA; |
and debate sponsored by the Omaha
League of Women Voters, November
IL. John H. Becker, regional commit
tee executive secretary, will oppose
Everett Winter, manager of the Mis-
souri, River division of the anti-MVA
Valley association at the
after meeting.
Becker, speaking at an Omaha jun.
or chamber of commerce luncheon
laid the fight for a Missouri Valley I
was just beginning
Senator Oberton and other oppon-
,nts of the Murray bill are mistaken
( they believe the temporary setbacks
by the bill have dampened
he spirit of the hundreds of thousands
# Missouri valley citizens who favor
n MVA," Becker said. 1.-THE opposi-
ion will find it has real fight on its
ands."
Becker termed "out-and-out misrep-
the anti-MVA contention
hat enactment of the Murray bill will {
esult in river development delay
'If our opponents will have a look s
t the BILL" he said, they will see
hat it specifically provides that an E
IVA could begin construction of prof. S
cts Immediately upon enactment of 1
ne bill, providing the projects are a
in the first stages of the i
plans of the army engi' 7
GERS and reclamation bureau" o
Becker said that if the two agencies t
ad their blueprints ready and the o
ecessary funds appropriated by the
me MVA goes through, there would f
g no reason for delay. He pointed 8
ut that the Tennessee Valley author |;
y utilized the plans of other agencies s
, begin construction of Norris dam n
thin few months after the passage h
the IVA act. fl
While proceeding with these first
'ojects, he said, MVA would develop ia
$ long-range plan for comprehensive F
gional development. The first prof. p
It's would be undertaken only if it P
ere Immediately apparent that they F
ould fit into the long-range plan. il