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The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
 y-a, ,uaIaAsatal5a WORRIED OVER ALASKA SHIPPING AND HOUSING

WASHINGTON - Officials oI the Interior Departments Alaskan Division are considerably worried oyer two conditions affecting A aska shipping and housing.
 CIO longsnoreman jurisdictionM strikes at Juneau and Ketchikan have tied up shipping at a time when the Department is trying .o set winter supplies to the Terri- tory. A third strike at Seward h.,s been settled and officials here hope the other two will be settled soon.
 The housing situation, however, has officials worried about how people who have gone to Alaska this summer are going to get through the winter. One Depart ment official said that more thaL 1000 persons had gone to FaIr- banks during the summer and are living in tents and tar-paper shacks while the housing at An chorage, the TerritOry's biggest
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Answers to the 10 questions lat veterans ask most freuqently about hOspitalization at Government ex- pense were announced today by the Veterans Administration.
 The veterans asked the ques- tons in a survey that VA conduct ed recently to learn how much they know about their Federal benefits. The questions and ans wers follow:
 Q. Just which veterans are ea- titled to disqualification in a VA hospital?
 A. Veterans with service-con- nected disabilities have top prior ity for VA hospital care. Veterans with n-seryice-conneeted d,l- ments may be bospitalized under the existing law if beds are avail able and if they say they cannot afford treatment elsewhere.
 o. How and where do l apply for hcspitalization?
 A. See your nearest VA contacJ representative or apply at a VA rs- gional office or hospital. A letter addressed to the nearest VA office also will suffice In an emergency call the nearest VA office, collect. VA representatives will tn T handle the necessary application and other forms
 Q. Do I have to pay anything for VA disqualification?
 A. No. All charges are borne by the Federal government. o. Can I go to a private hospital in my home town and have VA pay the bill?
 A Yes, if you have a service connected disability and receive VAS approval first.
 0. What papers should I bring with me when l apply for VA hos. pitalization?
 A. Bring your honorable dis charge certificate or a certified copy. If you already have beel granted compensation for a serv. ice-connected disability. all you need is your "C" number.
 0. Will VA pay fer The medical
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care or my dependents.
 A. No. Under existing laws, ouIy veterans are eligible for VA hos pital care.
 Q Do l have a choice as to which hospital l will go2
 A. Generally a veteran is as signed to the hospital nearest his ome. However. crowded cond1- tions Tn certain hospitals, or the type of injury or disease suffered by the veteran and similar conds- tions might result in che veteran being assigned to a special center or hospital in another section eI the country.
 Q. Can my relatives visit me while l am in the hospital?
 A. Yes. All VA hospitals have special hours set aside each day for visitors, the same as civilian hospitals
 o. Will my disability compensa- tion be taken away from me if l am hospitalized in a VA bospital2
 A. If you are single your com pensation will be paid to you in full every month for the first SIX months; but, if your treatment or care extends beyond six months your monthly benefit payment may
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city. is acute
 Persons going into the Territory during the last few months traY- eled over the Alaska Highway through Canada. and only work men and those who intend to set tie in the Territory are permitted 70 travel the road by the Canadian government It prohibits tourists from using the road because of in- adequate accommodations.
 Opening of land along the Al as1a Highway on August 1 has given an impetus to the Alaska bound veterans and by next sum mer the Department expects they will have set up tourist camps .snd gasoline stations along the high way.
 Many of the people who have come into Alaska this summer are veterans who served in Alaska dur ing the war" an official said. They 'griped' about it while serv- ing there, but they are coming back now to settle permanently
 Officials refused to discuss the housing plans. saying they arU now being given consideration. The Alaska Housing Authority has re- commended to President Truman that about 5,001 housing units be constructed there.
 "The housing situation in AL aska is worse than anywhere in the nation" an official said We must find some sort Of solution be- fore cold weather arrives. We are . rk.ng on iI lul cannot disc -. our plans now"
 It is hoped that William E. War ne, Assistant Secretary of Interior who was in Alaska this summer will have some solution of the problem.
 Officials said that people wao went to Alaska this spring and summer had no difficulty gettins jobs but that now is a bad time foI others to start for the Territory as seasonal employment ends with the coming of cold weather.
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not exceed 56 per cent of the reg ular rate, or S3O per month. whichever is the greater If the regular rate is $3O or less, 1t will not be reduced. Upon discharge by VA, you will receive a lump suu equal to the amount that was withheld after the six-mouth per iod If you have a dependent or dependents, your compensation payments will continue al the mH rate for the entire period of your disqualification.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-12
CLUSTER SOUTH

The MS Quesler. owned by Dan OBannou, sailed south Tuesduy pound for Olympia. Washington.
 With Admiral" OBannou on the bridge Was Vice Admiral Virgil Goodrich. while those who would do the work were: Capt Evan Campbell and Engineer Floyd Nicholson. formerly on the 0. c. Olson during the fishing season. dnG Harold Dahl nephew of Norman Smith who has been In Wrangell during the summer
 Alsc aboard was one motorcycle and vice AGmiraI' Goodrich eS- pected 10 get 100 miles around deck on it during the trip.
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CAN STILL TROLL FOR
 KINGS. SAYS LINnoLEY

Roy Lindsley. local Fish Man agemeut agent for the Fish and Wildlife Service. said this wee'l that the trolling season for king salmon is still open and will re- main open until October 15.
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RuRDICK HERE

CHaTT0s B0TdIcK- 0TTIeI0T 0T Tde U. s. Forest Service with offices ia Juneau, Was in WrngelI his week on Forest Serice business. lie heW in Tuesday and left Thursday for Katohikau.
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CARn nF THANKS

We wish to thank our friends for their kindness and sympathy in our recent bereavement, the death of our beloved wife, mother and sister, Mrs. Lillian Harto.
 W. E. Harto
 Virgil Harto
 William Harto
 Earl Harto
 Mrs. A. D. KnOdle
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INVITATION FOR BIDS

 COURT THE HIGHEST  -~
  OF THE AT
  ALASKA SERVED ALASKA PRICES SIDE
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Entered lii the POstotfice at Wran EelI, Alaska, as second class mat Ter under act of Congress of Mareh $, 1S7s.
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08

This WILL of keep the Sioux City to river mouth
navigation channel always filled with flowing water
1t will also take about all the water Montana Wyoming
and the two Dakotas furnish.
Fortunately for Montana and for the whole Missouri
the army engineer brand of development either
People in the two Dakotas reason why IS per-
cent of their richest land, Missouri river bottoms,
should be drowned out to provide needless storage
capacity Representatives from Nebraska, Kansas,
Missouri, and at the recent conference on
Valley Authorities to complain that ten years of Chan
mel improvement" down in their area, has markedly in
the height of flood crests They proved it too,
by engineer tables and graphs.
All over this country there is well-rooted and
growing realization that socaled FLOOD control" is
neither a complete permanent remedy for floods.
Much of complete and permanent relief has to
through flood prevention This control of the
rain drop from the time it hits the land vegeta-
tion better farm practices vast soil erosion control
programs Through multiple methods the detectives
must be to get water into the soil, and thereby
decrease speed and percentage of run-of likewise
soil annually from valleys farms and grass land
down clog channels and fill reservoirs along drain
age avenues below This bare flood control plan
do
So Montana is neither alone helpless Recent
dramatized and solicited the fight for Val
ley Authorities with MVA spearheadng the list. Pos
siby will be able to tell you in the next issue
thing of the steps being taken to assure final
victory.-JEROME G. LOCKE, Member, Regional Com
mittee for MVA.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT

Last week | pointed out that the Pick end of the
Pick-Sloan Plan blouse Document No 475-78th Con-
End SESSION. contempates five gigantic
vors along the main stem of the Missouri River the
two Dakoas These will inundate about percent Of
all the rivers bottom land through the two states and
have storage capacity of Al 100000
Adding in about 15,600,000 feet excess storage
capacity in Fort Peck and here is grand total of main
stem storage of 5680000O feet
For what purpose is this 568O0O00 acre of
age capacity to be used? Every foot storage
hereafter provided the main stem or tributaries
above cuts down the capacity need these great
army lakes. And, of course, some irrigation, power
and stream sterilization storage will be provided above
The Bureau of Reclamation already has authorization
and appropriations for that Moreover, irrigation
pletes the water supply. 1t is largely a use by con-
sumption OF the 900 feet of average annual
flow passing Yankton Gust below the lowest damn
at least 100000 consumptively used
by projects authorized and financed
So the Sherlock Holmes task of discovering the
motive that prompts such gigantic construction
comes increasingly difficult The 17,404,000 acre
of average annual flow will be depleted by upstream
irrigation to material extent at least All other
reservoirs that constructed above will tend cut
off flood crests and increase low water flow They will
perform stream sterilization and that is flood
But two deductions are left The army just likes to
build EN- big and impressive, it expects to operate
a vast river regulating system will carry water
supply from high flow to low flow years. or
high flow cycles of to low flow cycles of years
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08
THE COST OF INACTION

Tangible flood losses throughout the combined val
eys of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers in the last
45 years have mounted to the staggering total of $107
073,000 and have at least 779 lives The figures
compiled by the United States Weather Bureau
and the Armys Corps of Engineers for the period from
1902 through the recent devastating floods
The tangible damages exceed the present assessed
valuation of all st. Louis real estate They include
losses of buildings crops levees railroads, highways
municipal facilities and the like They cannot include
vast intangible lOsses-washing away rreplaceable
opso stoppage of business and employment, teup of
transportation-or the toll of human suffering worry
and heartache
If the terrific volume OF topsoil which has been
ried down the rivers these years could be cal
cuated and evaluaed the dollar result would be
nomical This years floods in Missouri, Iowa and Hi
nos alone took away topsol valued by the federal Soil
Conservation Service at $49000000 This included part
all of % cent of the crOpland nations
banner farming state. Similar estimates have not yet
been compiled for other states, but Department of
Agriculture spokesman told the PostDspatch it seemed
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08
LABOR URGED TO
FORM C0-OPS
BY Clio

Washington-F members
and their families can work toward
full security by using their buying
power to develop co-operatives and
buck the monopolies, the Clio said July
% in a new, illustrated pamphlet en-
titled unions and co-ops.
Prepared by the CLIO research & ed
ucation department, the 20 page
booklet outlines the theory behind the
cooperative movement, giving details
of some of the co-ops organized by UNI
ions-grocery stores, gas stations,
housing developments and even the
Labor Health Institute of the Retail
Wholesale & Dept. Store Employees in
ST Louis.
Serving as an interesting and in
formative Introduction to the cooper
alive movement and the history of
co-ops in America, the booklet suggests
the Cooperative League of the USA
as a source for detailed information.
The CLIO pamphlet emphasized the
democratic control of the coop and re-
minds readers that it also takes the
place of some monopoly. The less our
economic system in controlled by mon
opolies, the less will be the threat of
unemployment, insecurity and econom-
ic fascism"
Copies are available at 15c each or
12c for 100 from the CLIO, 71S Jackson
Place, Washington, D. c..
Largest cooperative wholesale in
MODtono ic tho E1orro orc Union ContraI
Exchange at Great Falls. Local re-
tail coop in Butte is the Farmers I'm
ion Trading Company on Front street
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08
Ex-Klan Kleagle
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prepared to submit documentary evil
version of the 14th and 18th amend
ments of the constitution; section 81,
title IS, chapter of the U. S. criminal
code (entitled Offenses against Elec-
tive Franchise e Civil Rights of Citi-
zens) and that the khan in fact con-
stitutes a reasonable conspiracy to
Illustrate the functioning of national
laws and national officers"
countless organizations and per-
sons have been demanding for years
vestigate the khan to no avail" Ken
nedy told a press conference. What
I am after now is a Yes or No answer
as to whether the committee is inter
ested in the un-American activities
of the xxx. I am not insisting that
the committee exert itself to the point
of investigating the khan; I am simply
asking that it accept the information
on a platter"
Kennedy recalled that Rep. John
IIduhlu W, M1So.J, q lOodllS IuSl1lUCI
of the committee and its former chair
man, repeatedly refused to investigate
the xxx, which he insisted was "a
1000 American organization
Besides offering to testify, Kennedy
revealed that "klan membership is
again on the rise and there will soon
be 1000 new members ready for an
other public initiation on Stone noun
tain near Atlanta"
The khan has been booming in
Georgia in recent months, he disclosed
with its main detectives being to
break up the unions southern organ
izing drives and to elect Herman Tai
madge governor next year because
of his promise to put over the white
primary bill.
Kleagles are being sent into those
counties where negroes are most num-
erous and are winning recruits with
the line that only the xxx and Tai
madge can save such areas for white
supremacy, Kennedy said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08

reasonable suppose the addition from other
would be large 1t is not believed, however, to be pro-
portonatey large because less good land would be in
volved in other sections Loss of the 491 100000
tons valued conservativey at 81 tom in the three
states alone would represent the equivalent of the pro-
ductive ground $3.50 "family-size" farms 100
acres each.
Compilation of tangible losses goes back a year
earlier than the big floods of 1908. Figures
available for earlier years, when development of the
valleys less intensive Until the records
bned the Upper Mississippi (above the Oho) and the
Missouri For the entire period of 19027 floods cost
568 lives and caused $7O8,84340O tangible damages
along the Missouri and the Upper Mississippi In the
period they 209 lives caused $3O61S9 966
in tangible damages along the lower Mississippi (below
the Ohio.
Until President Truman's call last week for COM
prehensve flood control for the whole Mis-
sissippiMissour basin, between the Appaachians and
the Rockies, there concerted movement this
sort except in the Missouri valey-St. Louis PostDis
patch.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08
Wellington D.
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and finance committee in 1914 and
1916, and was office secretary at state
headquarters last year.
Mrs. Maynard said that county and
local clubs to further Rankins candi-
dacy are being formed and reported
that one has been established in Pow
der River county with Speaker Charles
L. Scofield of the state house of repre-
sentatives as president, and one in
Meagher county with Arthur Watson,
former state legislator, as president.
Mrs. Maynard has been in Helena sew
eral days opening the Rankin state
headquarters.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08
COP To FINISH WRECKING
OF COUNTRY IN 81ST
CONGRESS

Washington = FTP = Lest there are
readers who doubt the record of the
8Oth Congress is a Republican monu-
ment, let's refer to House Majority
Leader Charles A. Halleck (R., Ind.)
who boosted publicly July %:
"The record shows the Republican
party kept its pledges. We are united
in support of our program, program
that you said was right when you re-
pudiated the Truman administration
last November.
Congress passed fair and just
labor management relations act (Taft-
Hartley slave labor act). That law is
doing exactly what Congress intended
it to do. Many measures not yet en-
acted into law are far advanced in
the legislative process. These and
other measures we shall push to COM
pletion at the next session, veto or no
veto. And then we shall move on to
the 1913 elections, when the people
will elect a Republican President who
will cooperate with Republican Con-
gress to finish the task
'The record shows the Republican
party has kept it's pledges" Halleck
said. AND HOW!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08

lect damages and back pay from the
union because it has disseminated
against him"
Union Problems
Union members who are discharged
for union activities may still file
charges with the NLRB as individuals,
even though their union has not reg
istered and filed affidavits. This I'M
doubtedly will be done under the new
law. The NLRB will have a neat prob
lem to solve when it writes its deci-
sions in these cases.
The usual pre-Taft-Hartley order re-
quired the employer not to interfere
with the union If the NLRB now
writes an order in that manner the
employer may argue that since the
union was ineligible to bring the
charge in it's own name it should not
receive the benefits of an order OBJ
tanned by an individual union mem
Der
And if a charge is filed that union
is engaged in a jurisdictional strike or
boycott, NLRB is required to give that
case top priority over everything else
including unfair labor practices pend
ing for a year or more. If the regional
attorney finds that such strike or
boycott exists, he must Immediately
obtain an injunction against the union.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08
Choice Quotations

Said the late Wendell Willkie,
Republican presidential candidate,
in 1913:
"Some of the talk we hear
about free enterprise is just
propaganda on the. part of power
full groups who have not prac-
ticed real free enterprise for a
generation and have no intention
of doing So"
Said Cyrus Eaton, Cleveland in
dustrialist and banker, in 1917:
"The casuaIness with which
we capitalists seem wiIling-nay
even eager-to invite the col
lapse of our economic system in
almost every industrial dispute
for the sole purpose of thwarting
labor is utterly incomprehensibIe.
Labor not only produces the
goods and consumes large part
of them: labor also has the votes.
eventual labor unity practi-
caIIy is a foregone conclusion.
The prospect of labor united
should be SOLDERING to even the
most embittered and embatted
capitalist"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08

INVITATION TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed bids will be received at the
office of the State Board of Examiners
in the Capitol Building, Helena Mon
tana, until 1000 o'clock AM. on Tues
day, the 18th day of August 1947, for
the reroofing of all slopes with cedar
shingles, replacing two metal decks on
Cottage Number Two "Canaday Hall''
at the State Vocational School for
Girls in the valley north of Helena,
Montana.
Each bidder shall carefully examine
the plans and specifications and visit
the site of the work before preparing
his bid.
Proposals shall be submitted in
lump sum to furnish all labor and
materials necessary to complete the
work in neat and workmanlike man
ner satisfactory to the superintendent,
and the State Board of Examiners.
Plans, specifications, and proposal
blanks can be obtained at the office
of the State Board of Examiners. Each
bidder will be required to comply with
all the laws relating to the employ
ment of labor on public works and
each bidder will be required to furnish
his contractors license number and
submit q certified check with his bid
in the amount of 1919 of his bid.
The Board of Examiners reserves the
right to reject any or all bids and
waive all irregularities.
STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR
THE STATE OF MONTANA
By w. l.. FITZSIMMONS Clerk.
First publication July 25, 1947-3t
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New Taft Hartley

some minor detail failed to fulfill 9th
err registration requirements.
Unions know how long it took the
old NLRB to take action on anti union
discharges. With the new ways of de-
laying action now open to company
lawyers, it will take months and posi-
bly, years to get the NLRB to order an
election, which if won, may later be
set aside by the courts for any one of
a number of petty and inconsequential
reasons.
VanArkel thinks it probable that
unions will now use economic action
(strikes and boycotts) rather than
elections to obtain their bargaining
rights.
Union Security
AS to union security what there is
of that in the new act is of little use
to any legitimate union. The new law
requires an election among employees
on union security even before the COM
mittee goes in to see management.
These elections are so rugged that ev-
cry employee who doesn't vote is count
ed as voting no.
Having won the election and per-
suaded the employer to give union Sc
curity Che still has an absolute right
to refuse it even if the union won the
election) what does the union get?
Practically nothing.
Let's imagine the situation where
the union has won union security in
its contract The employer puts
professional stool pigeon and disrupter
into the union, and the union discover
ing this expels him from the union.
AS long as the stool pigeon is willing
to pay his union dues he cannot be
discharged under the union security
clause.
If the stool pigeon moves on to a
mill in another town where the union
has a contract, and it prevents him
from getting job there, he can col
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-08
Direct Action Gets Car
For rinter

Cleveland. (FP) = Frank O'Black,
member of the Intl Typographical
Union (AFL) here, believes in direct
negotiations.
Tired of waiting for new automo-
bile, he wrote a personal letter, air
mail special delivery, registered, to
Henry Ford II.
He now has a new Ford.
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Init. Coop Cash Registers

Stockholm. (LPA)-Organization of
an international cooperative to pro-
duce cash registers is being discussed
by Swedish and British co-operators
At present, a Swedish coop exports
500 of the machines it manufacturers,
and co-operatives in England hope to
set up plant there.