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Smyrna times., 1948-05-13
CeciIton Defeats Smyrna

The Smyrna Baseball Club lost
its first game of the season Sun
day, May 9, to Cecilton, 9-6. Wal
lace Powell was the losing pitcher
and Bailey was the winning pitch
er. Smyrna win meet Middletown
on the latter's diamond Sunday,
May 18th.
Smyrna times., 1948-05-13
MUSIC CONCERT
TOMORROW EVE
Eighty-Piece Band and Vocal
Chorus to Present Program
at Smyrna School
TO BUY BAND UNIFORMS

The Smyrna School band and
chorus will present music con-
cert festival at the high school
Mr.. Bert Paul Osbon, instructor in
music at the Smyrna School, di-
recting. Beginning at 8 p. m, the
festival will be divided into two
halves. The first half will feature
the school band of over eighty
pieces playing marches, waltzes
and hymns while the second half
will be devoted to a choral pro-
gram by the school chorus. Mr..
Osbon in a statement earlier this
week said that he expected it to be
a every excellent concert. Over
325 students will take part. This
year Mr.. Osbon has assembled the
largest band in the schools history
with many of the members being
in the lower grades of the high
school. He stated that band men,
bers who have shown marked abil-
ity will play solo and duet parts at
the concert tomorrow night. Fea-
tured in the first half of the pro-
gram will be a piano trio backed
by brass sextet. Solo parts will
be taken by Philip Denney, from
bone; Victor Brown, tuba; Donald
Kinsey, clarinet, and Ray Mabrey,
trumpet. William Denney and
Donald Kinsey will play a trumpet
duet. The school chorus, which will
take over the second half of the
musical program, will sing selec-
tions including Elgar's Land of
Hope and Glory and John Philip
Sousa's "Stars and Stripes For
ever. The choral program will
also feature an arrangement A
Capella 'tNow the Day Is Over.
Robert Collins, noted in and
around Smyrna for his vocal rem
ditions, will solo on the arrange
ment of "Annie Laurie" and will
later team with Marie FAIRIES on a
vocal duet. William Doughten, Jr.,
and his father William Sr., will
play a saxophone and vibraharp
duet. George W. Wright, superin-
tendent of Smyrna Schools, an
nounced that, for the first time in
recent years, admission will be
charged for a music festival at the
school. The only reason Mr..
Wright gave for this change in
policy is to raise funds to purchase
uniforms for the school band. Mr..
Wright made mention of the fact
that the school has approximately
thirty uniforms on hand which was
the normal number of band men,
bers in previous years, but which
proves insufficient this year due to
the vast increase in band person
mel. He further stated that the
cost of obtaining new uniforms,
which will correspond to the ones
now on hand-red with white
trimmings - will be, roughly,
$2500. Admission to tomorrow
nights music festival will be:
adults, 65, children 40c. Tickets
are now on sale. :.
Smyrna times., 1948-05-13
ROTARY LADIES' NIGHT
Rotary Club Celebrate Annual
Ladies Night Last Thursday

The Smyrna Rotary Club cele-
brated their annual Ladies' Night
and Charter Anniversary last
Thursday evening at the Wayside
Inn. Rev. Thomas Wingate, Sal
EN-, N. J., and past District Gov
ernor of the 1s4th District, was
the guest speaker. His topic was
Know Thyself". Vocal selections
were rendered by the Salem Ro-
tary Quartette consisting of j.
Walton Miller, Ralph S. Newkirk,
Smith B. Davis and C. A. Nelson.
George w. Wright of the Smyrna
Club, responded to the entertain
ers which included several tricks
by a magician. Albert Newcomb
was chairman of the program.
Smyrna times., 1948-05-13
Church Conference, wilmington

bOkA
The ninth session of the PENN
sula Annual Conference of the
Methodist Church will take place
at the Union Methodist Church,
5th and Washington St., Whining
ton on May 1920. The Presiding
Bishop will be Clare Purcell of the
Charlotte Area Methodist Church.
The Peninsula Conference Associa-
tion of Ministers Wives will hold
its annual meeting and luncheon at
Harrison Street Methodist Church,
7th and Harrison St., Friday, May
21, at IL o'clock, Mrs. R. M. Green,
presiding.
Smyrna times., 1948-05-13
Dates For Health Clinic

The State Board of Health has
announced the following dates for
the Health Clinic to be held here:
Clinic location, State Board of
Health, East Commerce Street,
Smyrna; Venereal Disease Clinic:
Wednesday, May 10, 1 to 2 p. m.
Smyrna times., 1948-05-13
HOLD JOINT MEETING
Willing Workers Bible Glass to
Meet With other Groups

The ladies of the Willing Work.
ers Bible Glass will hold their reg
ular business meeting and social
tonight at 8 o'clock. They are in
viting the members of the Official
Board of the Asbury Church, the
Mems Bible Class and the S. C. S.
Following the regular business
meeting a program and social
hour will be held.
Smyrna times., 1948-05-13
CLAYTON Century Club Meet

The Clayton Century Club met
Monday night, May 10, at 8 pm.
and installed officers for the COM
ing year. Mrs. Medford Davis and
Mrs. Emma Reed were the chair
men of the program.
Smyrna times., 1948-05-13
Urge Members to Send in Dues

Urge Members to Send in Dues
The Service Clubs of Kent Coun-
ty urge every member of the Kent
General Hospital Corporation to
send their dues so that each MEM
ber may be in good standing for
the annual meeting of the hospital
members on June 5.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02
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Phone RATE Increase
FAIR TO ALL

The decision of the Railroad and
Public Service Commission in the case
of the application by the Mountain
States Telephone Company for an in
crease in rates for service all over
the state was announced last Wed
nesday, and it is the general opinion
of the public that the decision is fair
to both parties: the company and the
public.
The company had asked increases
of from 25 to rs cents per month on all
exchanges serving more than $50
phones and on all residential rates
with more than $50 phones in service.
The commission granted increases in
service charges on business phones,
but refused to grant any increases in
residential rates except in Billings,
Cut Bank, Hardin, Wolf Point, Malta,
Sidney and Laurel, Montana the clas-
sifications of which, because of rapid
growth and CORRESPONDENCE increased
installations, have jumped. The COM
mission held that no increase in resi-
Dental rates would be granted unless
an exchange had jumped more than
one classification. The ciassifications
were proposed by the telephone COM
pany in its application for increases
in service charges. These classified
tions are based on the number of
phones in exchanges.
The commission, while agreeing
that because of increases in costs
of construction and operation, the
telephone company should be granted
some relief in the way of Increased
rates, it called attention to the fact
that the company's earnings in Mon
tana, based on book value less depre-
citation, were greater than in any
other state in the area it served.
A more detailed analysis of the de-
cision will be published in The Voice
in a succeeding issue. The Voice be-
ieves that the commission deserves
credit for safeguarding the public's
interest in this controversial issue.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

ed to deteriorate in the weather then
burned or hauled out to sea and dump
ed.
much of the material was readily
convertible to civilian use. For ex-
ample, Prestone anti-freeze, which is
still hard to obtain, wool-lined flying
jackets, boots, trousers and gloves.
Was Electrified"
ALSO boxes upon boxes of hard
ware, such as vices and drills. There
were uncountable tons of new aircraft
parts and equipment of every descrip-
ton, including new Pratt & Whitney
motors.
'The plastic bags protecting those
motors were cut open and the motors
allowed to ruin in the weather.
Il was Mortified to see material lit
orally by the acre, hauled out of ware
houses and dumped in the ocean"
OBVIOUSLY" this letter concludes,
something is wrong with the army
system of handling a surplus. And
the navy is just as bad. THREADING
(Pa.) LABOR ADVOCATE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

TO nave gone from bad TO worse oeS-
pite the sheItering American wing.
Today there is open hate and bitter
ness in Greece; a year ago you would
have called it impatience and annoy
ance. There are now an estimated
$4,000 guerrillas; there used to be
1900. Refugees formerly trickled
into the big towns; now there are
nearly 100000. Their care an ex-
pense of one billion drachmas a day.
Charity Rolls Heavy
Soldiers of the regular Greek army
have not had days leave in two
years and have not stacked arms for
eight Families more and more re-
sent the continual call-ups of their
breadwinners for military service.
They begin to mutter why doesn't the
government end the civil war or come
to terms with the guerrillas.
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of Representatives, and was very en-
couraging. While much time was
taken up with interesting speeches
and directions to the delegates a
temporary set of officers was finally
elected and reports from a number
of county delegates were heard.
The Main Problems
Number one educational problem is
the establishment of the school pro-
gram on a sound financial basis so
that all children will have an equal
opportunity for a good education in
Montana. Preliminary reports from
delegates indicated that there is much
favor for more state support amount
ing to so or 60 per cent; that there
need not be a sales tax but a number
of other sources such as personal in
come tax, corporation license tax, in
heritance tax, etc, could be tapped;
that any kind of consolidation or re-
districting should be done on a local
basis with local consent; and that
rural schools should be maintained
regardless of the cost. These recon-
mendatiOns are not conclusive nor
final, it must be remembered, but they
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

Two million Greeks live on govern
ment charity. Counting state en-
ployes, police and the military, almost
g third of the Greek nation of and
one-half million subsists on govern
ment funds. More are added every
day, not only from those fleeing guer-
rilla devastations, but from the Amer
ican-inspired deflationary, economic
reforms.
The American mission for aid to
Greece, trying to help chain the ram
pant initiation, asks that the surplus
be trimmed off the civil service rolls
of 10000. The Greeks promise to do
away with $4,000. Actually, only
5000 are let go This improves the
national budget but also deprives
those fired of their livelihood. And it
Continued ON Page Three)
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GEORGE MELTON files
FOR GOVERNOR

George M. Melton, Beaverhead
county lawyer and stockman of Dillon,
Wednesday filed his petition as can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for governor
Melton is native Montanan, and
the son of the late Henry r. Melton,
pioneer Beaverhead county attorney
Candidate Melton is a graduate of the
Michigan law school with an LIB
degree.
In filing Mr.. Melton stated:
Through every legislature for the
past number of years there has been
an ever increasing demand to raise
the tax rates and saddle on new taxes
wherever possible. This must come
to stop. AS far as | am concerned,
the elevator which has been carry
ing the beleaguered tax payers toward
the sky, has come to the top floor
For LOCALIZED Gambling
eff l were nominated and elected
governor l would recommend laws
egalizing a moderate number of
gambling games and devices, and see
o it that the revenue and police laws
accompanying same were strictly en-
orced. We could well use this rev.
,nue for our universities, our schools,
'ur aged and our sick and unem-
'loyed."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

are three ways of doing things: the
right way, the wrong way and the
Army way" has been partially written
into the Congressional record by Cong.
Albert j. EngeI, a conservative Michi-
gan Republican, who charged that high
Army officers obstructed him and 9TH
er members of the House when they
tried to investigate the wanton waste
of food, clothing and military supplies
a couple of months ago.
GIs Back Charges
Engel has now told the House that
have written many letters revealing
additional facts, and he has put some
of the letters into the record where
they are best calculated to put the
American people on guard against
turning the training OF all American
boys over to the "brass hats"
"On Guam "a tropical isIand) came
loads of winter underwear" says
one letter. "Was it returned or
sent to needy people? No, it was
put on the dumps" SO we're "refrig-
orators" and other things. "Cans
of food we're dropped by the wayside
never to be retrieved" Other sup
plies the American produced and
paid for "went over the cliff"
Another letter tells how lumber
which was scarce and could have
been sold for millions of dollars" was
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

burned by the army in the San Fran
cisco area"
1t Was Orders
ut was burned on the shore of the
bay, in perpetual fire, always under
a military armed guard, who could off
er no explanation. 1t was just orders"
In "a southern camp" letter re-
ports, large numbers of brand new
radios were smashed and covered by
tractors"
con his way home by ship" says a
letter my nephew and others were
ordered to throw overheard many bar
rels of best-grade machine oil, as well
as large consignment of new radios. :"
New Tires Into Ocean
During the time when tires were
scarceSt," writes man who served in
Alaska, you could walk for 25 miles
on new tires that had never been I'M
wrapped, but were floating along the
the Alaskan shore They had been
thrown into the ocean by the army.
Another ex-soldier writes that when
he was in Alaska army clothing,
weapons and equipment were destroy
ed" but coke bottles" were saved
and sent back home.
An Army transport pilot wrote Engel
that 81 have 80 clear pictures of army
and navy dumps. Material was allow
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

pOnentS o [ t h e
Pick-Sloan plan, in
Guiding political
engineer Sam G.
Ford, optimisticly
proclaim that A.
O01,840 acres Of
new land will be
brought under irri-
cation under this
plan. "a reliable
check of official
re cords indicates
that this latter fig
ure is approximate
ly $3.50 optimism,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02
THE DEMOCRATIC APPROACH TO AN
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

Elected delegates from the citizen
committees on public education in the
counties in Montana met in Helena
'grassroots" program for solving edu-
cational problems. 1t was an historic
meeting in the Chamber of the House
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02
Sen. ECT0M remembers" HIS FRIENDS
ON MAINSTREET MONTANA

Main Street other
Oil interests
Zales NJ Ecton
for the most of
overiyoaded
lily into funds that they
1t therefore THEIR ZIes,
proclaimed to be downtoearth old
lin during
Street
But that's exactly
amendment O'Mahoney (Wyo)
HAVE EXEMPTED $4,000 CORPORATE INCOME
FROM TAXATION, PROVIDED FLOWED
BUSINESS
Taft AGAINST
of his constituents 3249
wit he SUCkERW
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02
GREECE FOUND I'm WORSE STRAITS
THAN EVER DESPITE U.S.. HELP
By JOHN LEACACOS (NENA) 1

By JOHN LEACACOS (NENA)
is almost off than
off
a
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02
WALLACE TO SPEAK

Presidential Candidate Henry A.
Wallace will speak over CHS, Sat
urday, April 10 from $50 to 9:55
Pm. (MST) from the Chicago sta
dunn, in answer to the vote-seek-
ing dissertation INDUCED in by
President Truman in New York
City, ST. Patrick's night.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02
Story of Wanon Destruction On Direct Orders of Brass Hats
Discredits PeaceTime Draft Plans


tary
which
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NEXT MEETING APRIL 9
The second meeting of the state
wide Citizens School committee
will be held in Helena, Friday,
April g, at the State Capitol.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

Speaking further on what is pro-
posed under Pick-Sloan on irrigation,
dams, and the navigation channel En-
Igineer Locke stated:
For every % acres irrigated, one
acre will be buried under 40 to 200
feet of Pick-Sloan navigation channel
water.
'Pick-Sloan plan promises 5,307,704
acres of irrigation in seven Missouri
Valley states. Colorado, Nebraska,
and Kansas lie in the basins of Platte
and Kansas rivers, which empty into
Missouri river so far down that Army
cannot we'll divert their
irrigation waters to navigation.
Montana, Wyoming, North and
South Dakota must get their irriga-
ton water from Missouri river and
its tributaries above Yankton. Pick
Sloan plan promises said promises
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

This figure of 1927, 900 drowned out
acres amounts to one acre underwater
for every % acres proposed to be
irrigated under the Pick-Sloan. Pro
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

indicate the temper of the people on
the overall school issue
Temporary Organization
Temporary officers were named as
follows: chairman, Mrs. Dallas J..
Reed, who is president of the Mon
tana Congress of Parent Teachers AS
sociations, and vice chairman, Paul
Harlow, liberal state representative
from Sanders county who introduced
several good tax bills in the last ses-
sion of the legislature Evelyn Rogn-
rud, secretary to Miss Ireland, was
named as temporary secretary.
A temporary committee to draft
rules and bylaws for the organization
was appointed near the closing hours
of the session. Action on the report
of the rules committee will be taken
at the next meeting, April 9.
Other work to be accomplished at
the next meeting will be the election
of permanent officers, appointment
of committees and the hearing of re-
ports from county delegates on the
programs recommended by tn cir
people.
Suggestions for the State
Committee
1t is very important that the state
committee select its officers from
among its own members. To permit
to speak freely during
deliberations of the committee may do
much to defeat the very thing being
namely the development
Of thoroughly democratic education
al program. Danger of the state COM
mittee becoming an arena for state
politicians must be avoided Once the
is dubbed a rubber stamp
ior some outfit or individual its eff
will be ruined. 1t would |
Continued on Page Four)
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: Them Out Pick-Sloan Solution
or Reclaiming Arid Acres
Acres Irrigated, One Acre Will Be Buried
200 Feet of Navigation Channel Water


permanently
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

six gigantic reservoirs, on the
main stream, with 100000 acre feet
of storage capacity, or enough to hold
every drop of water that flows past
Yankton for a four-year period, are
the main storage facilities to provide
water for the Army's proposed navi-
cation channel. Sixty-seven other res
ervoirs, with additional storage capac-
ity of 2O,148,OOO acre feet are also to
be built in the four states. These
are mostly irrigation, flood control,
and power reservoirs"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

indicate the temper of the people on
the overall school issue.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

irrigation, including lands for a sup
Elemental supply, as follows:
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ity, under the Montana Power en-
dorsed Pick-Sloan proposal.)
Here are the figures on submerged
acres, as compiled from official rec
ords by Regional MVA Engineer Jer
ONE G. Locke:
Area Submerged
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-04-02

Reservoir: (Acres)
Fit Peck. Montana .............-....... 240, 900
Garrison, North Dakota 800 900
Oahe, North and So. Dakota -29S,000
Big Bend, South Dakota - $4,000
Gavins Point, South Dakota $500 1900
67 others in Mont-Wyo. (appr) $4,000
Total acres ..............-....... 1927, 900
Evening star., 1948-10-04
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BRIDGE AND TABLE TENNIS.
~ Walsh Club. 1929 Iwenty.sscond y:s;a, stree stree
tion Department. O'Clock tonight.
Thomson Center, Twelfth and L streets
NV. sponsored by the District Recrea-
aGh sser snd sefins Ssnd afe at sso ocoef
Il tonight.
LUNCHEoNs.
H New Corners Club. Council room Of the
s'sa sappe9s 9se club, a open poor s csfeefiss
I street NV, at 1890 tomorrow.
II MUSIC.
Piano recital by Rognva1dur Sigurjons-
son. Phillips Gallery 1900 Twenty-hrst
. Ms;es i,.sn,s }sTn .si.ss SW
$40 O'Clock tonight.
avenue sssr sver spfns Ma epen Gsiy
from 10 am to pm; oils; water colors
and etchings by Gustav Tr1is s,,,sn Martha tn
vember 4.
street. sna ssa Ss York Of a s
IL to 4:3o pm; Mondays. 10 am; to 4:30
4:3O pm. Saturdays and to pm: Sun
At the cocoran, Gallery of Art, through
Of Washington, for an indefinite period
Public Library. Eighth and X streets
NV open am to so1r. Pm ~ Mondsys
Trois. through october 90.
Pan American Union. Seventeenth street
and Constitution avenue NV. open 8
am; to pm weekdays and am
1n temala nVoi oils By Humberto aarsvto. throush
October
Library OF Congress- First and East
Capitol streets: open 9 am. to 10 pm.
na p rGSsn ssnds, sdsSs
ing the centennial of the Oregon Terri;
tory. throueh February II; 194s; original
Laeock Abbey copy 81 the Msgna Cfrts ar9,1 On
December 16; Ave exhibits honoring the
centenary Of the American Association for
the Advancement Of Science. including
Einstein's theory of relativity. throush
October Is, and orisinal manuscript Of
Lincoln's three-page "autobiography' fof
National Archives, exhibition hall, Con.
Eighth streets NV; open si45 am to
Hrdays and j 30 to 5 pm Sundays and
holidays; exhibit concentrating the cen
tennial of the American Association for
ments. for an indefinite period.
sy.. sM pa S.ts o 51s e0e @
summer paintings by Alice Acheson. John
Nyauist. Jack Perlmutter and Edward
National Gallery Of Art, Sixth street
and Constitution avenue NV; open 10
IN to M weekdays and 9 to 10 pm.
Sundays: paintings and sculpture compris
ing the Mellon. Kress.. Widener and Dale
collections and gifts from other donors,
for an indefinite period, Also new exhi-
S. Of AnsTcsp 81 neS srspc Of
selected from the soiestions Of the Il
tuition and the National Gallery Of Art.
through October
Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1900 Twenty
first street NV: open daily II am. TO 6
pm; Monday until 10 pm; Sunday. to
7 pm: Modern French and American
Fish and Wildiife Service, under main
lobby in Commerce Department Building,
Fourteenth and z streets NV; open Q
m. to pm. daily; display Of animals
and fresh-water fish for an indefinite
period
Barnet Alden Gallery, 1877. Randolph
place NV. Frank H. Aston, jr.. exhibit,
oil paintings and water colors. Open to
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Air France Opens Office
Here as Traffic Grows

Air France, the French nationa.
airline, today opened branch Of
flee in Washington to accommodate
an increase in traffic caused by the
European Recovery Plan.
The new Office, located at 1927 X
street NV, will be directed by
Claude c. Pineau, son of Christian
Pineau, minister of public works
and transportation in France.
Air France has Offices also in
this country in Boston, Los An
geles, Chicago and New York and
is operating regular transatlantic
service from Boston and New York.
Henri j. Lesieur, general man
Evening star., 1948-10-04

ager for North America, said that
the Washington Office would elimi-
nate delays in New York of business
and Government officials en- route
to France. A passenger leaving
Washington in the morning can be
in Paris in less than "a hours, MIR.
Lesieur said.
Evening star., 1948-10-04

10 pm. weekdays and 2 to 5 pm. Sun.
days
Smithsonian Institution, Division OF
Graphic Arts. Ninth street and Jefferson
drive NV. open 8 to 4:30 pm. weekdays
Eliot Perkins, through October 81.
FOR SERVICEMEN.
Servicemen'S Victory Center. 1113 Penn
daily noon to midnight
Armed Services YMCA. 1888 G street
NV; cards music, billiards, ping pong
open from am. to midnight