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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15
eva Fight Charged TO
Private Power Trust

Chicago, April 10. = The Demo-
cratic national committeeman from
Oregon today charged private power
companies have set up "front" or
CARNATIONS to fight a Columbia Val
ley Authority and said the federal
power commission should investigate
to see if rate-payers' money is being
used illegally.
Monroe Sweetland, also delegate
to the national convention of Amer
leans for Democratic Action, iden-
titled the Northwest Development
Assn. as "false front" and said that
for its Launching and support power
companies have contributed large
sums"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15

San Francisco in 1916. The supreme
question is: "Shall it die in Washing
ton in 1892"
Will history record that the fatal
step was taken when the Atlantic
Pact decision divided the world into
two warning camps? With you who
hear my voice this Sabbath afternoon
rests the decision. In this vast radio
audience are millions who know that
the only road to peace lies through
the United Nations and an under
standing with Russia. To you | APP
peal to make your voices heard in
Washington before it is too late.
Let your senators know that you
want full hearings, consideration
and debate on the North Atlantic
Pact. Urge them to vote against
a step which may destroy the
United Nations and commit our
beloved country to a course that
would finally divide the world into
two armed camps and take us down
the fatal road to war.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15
WHY DOES D'EWART
OPPOSE HAVRE-SHELBY
POWER LINE?
Cong. Wesley D'Ewart

Cong. Wesley D'EWart
Dear Sir:
Have just read your remarks on
"a record year for Rural Electrifi-
cation. But, l can't understand
why you voted AGAINST the build
ing of transmission lines to bring
electricity from Fort Peck via Havre
into Shelby. That hits us here, hard.
Nor can l explain why you voted
more recently AGAINST the con-
struction of power line to bring
cheap electricity into Anaconda.
Of course, | can see why the Mon
tana Power does not want such
transmission lines built. But, please
explain your vote.
Yours truly,
DANIEL S. McCORKLE,
Conrad, Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15
MANSFIELD CONDEMNS

from rage TWOD
This will result in a firm power out
put the year around for western
Montana to the extent of $1,000
kilowatts whereas, if Hungry Horse
was to operate alone, Montana would
have firm power output from Hun
CRY Horse of only $1,000 kilowatts
a year.
Appropriation for the interior de-
partment now awaiting action by this
house, include an item for the Bon
neville power administration totaling
S3,750,O0O.
These funds will be used to begin
work on high voltage transmission
line which will interconnect the pres
ent Bonneville power system in the
states of Oregon and Washington
with the Hungry Horse dam in west
ern Montana, and with power-con-
Stunning areas in the southwestern
corner of our state.
l am convinced that my state will
greatly benefit from the construc-
ton of these transmission facilities,
and l urge the members of the house
to approve funds for this purpose.
Construction of these lines will
benefit the national economy gener-
ally by making possible further
decentralization and expansion of
our electrochemical and electromet-
allurgical industries which are re-
quired both for peace and for pre-
paredness.
AS matters now stand, there will
be no way in which the state of Mon
tana can benefit from this $4,000
kilowatts of power produced outside
it's borders with Montana water.
But if these transmission lines pro-
posed by the Bonneville power adj
are built, and if opera
ton of the Hungry Horse dam is CO.
ordinated with operation of other
dams on the Columbia river system,
the total power production made pos
sible by Hungry Horse will reach the
huge sum of $4,000 kilowatts.-
F. Tribune.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15
Pick-Sloan Is In No
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with the Hoover commission reports,
might further show that new plan
for valley development must be
worked out. In his opinion, MVA
would emerge as the only solution.
Reed was asked by the Post-Dis-
patch if he favored MVA and he re-
piled that he did not, that he did not
think it was practicable. He added
that he had no particular plan of his
own to propose.
KEN joined him in the resolution,
Reed said, because the matter had
recently been called to Kem's at
tention by a friend in Kansas City.
KEN casually mentioned it to Reed,
and, when informed that the Kansas
senator was going to urge a survey,
asked to be co-sponsor. KEN is
opposed the valley authority prin-
ciple.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15
PACT is NO ANSWER-TO
EUROPEANS

An Oxford professor, Max Bel
loft, wrote the answer in the New
York Times magazine. at is per-
haps not fully realized in the
United States" he declared, chow
instinctively Europeans still recoil
from the idea of new war. How
ever exasperating the attitude of
Soviet Russia may be, talk of a
showdown which can only mean a
shooting war, seems to Europeans
no answer"
Of course it is no answer. No an
swer for Europeans, and no answer
for Americans. 1t was no answer in
China, and it will be catastrophe
for America in Europe We are
asking the people of Europe to be-
come American mercenaries and to
turn their countries into battlefields
once again. We are saying to them,
"Set aside your dreams of a better
world; take this gun and stand ready
Watch your fields grow over with
weeds. Set your tractor plants to
turning out tanks again. Come out
of school and take up arms. We
have run out of ideas. We know
nothing but war as way to peace.
You must follow"
We made that speech in China,
friends. But the Chinese did not
follow. We are making that speech
in Greece, and there are now more
Greek rebels in the hills than there
were when we started to wipe them
out.
Perhaps the military and Wall
Street men who took over American
foreign policy when Roosevelt died
do not understand how this failure
is possible. No more did King
George understand how the farmers
of New England could withstand his
trained regiments in ITS.
In the same way, Adolph Hitler
swore he would be in Moscow five
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15
PRODUCTION OF STEEL MILLS
BOOMING

Steel production in the United
States is now higher than ever before
in history, even in wartime. In the
first two months this year, us. mills
produced more steel than Britain
made in the entire year 1913.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15
SOME BROKE EVEN

In 1947 about 500 of families
with incomes below $1,000 and 41@o
of families with incomes between
$1,000 and $4,000 either spent more
than they earned or barely broke
even.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15
AUTO PRODUCTION SETS
NEW RECORD

American factories produced 431,-
284 motor vehicles during January,
1919, to get off to the best start
they have made in any year since the
war, reports the National Automo-
bile Club. Of this total, 326,019
were trucks, and 658 were motor
coaches.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-15
ATLANTIC PACT IS ROAD TO WAR.
SAYS HENRY WALLACE
Continued From Last Issue

Continued From Last Issue
But this is practical politics, is il
not? / would like to be present
when it's fine points are explained
to the ghosts of our dead on the
islands of the Pacific and the shores
of the Rhine. l say to you that it
is not practical politics-it is i'm
practical and immoral politics, and
the worst of it is, it is politics that
can lead only to disaster. The proof
of this is plain in China, Greece, and
Turkey.
What we did in China is exactly
what the Atlantic Pact would have
us do in Europe. We spent some
100000 to arm the Chang
Kai-shek government. We trained
whole divisions of it's army and it's
entire air force.
What happened?
WE MADE COMMUNISTS IN
CHINA
Whereas the country was only
partially communist when our mill
tary aid began, today it is all but
completely communist And the
irony is that the communist armies
are in great part using American
equipment that they captured-or
sometimes bought-from Chiang's
armies.
But our American luck was with
us in China. For there was no pact
binding us to Chang Kai-shek. If
there had been treaty like the At
lantic Pact covering the Far East,
we would now be at war with Russia
on the Asiatic mainland.
AS it is, we have wasted billions
in the money of American taxpayers.
More important, where once the
name of America was held in highest
honor, the Chinese people now re-
gard us as their enemies. Millions
of them hold us responsible for feed
ing the fires of a civil war that
might have been avoided. Even
American businessmen, whose very
essence is conservatism, plead
through the press for a hands-off
policy in the internal life of China.
Is this what we want to happen |
in Europe? Our policy there is the
same. Will the results be different? |
For months the Russians have been
saying to all the world that they
are willing to sit down with us to
talk out our differences. Stain
himself has invited President Tru-
man to do this. The State Depart
ment and the White House brushed |
him off. The Atlantic Pact, this
war alliance, is their reply. Forget,
for moment, the effect upon Rus
STA. What does it mean to the man
on the street in Paris, in Rome, in
London? Does it raise our prestige?
Does it make us seem like victims or
aggreSsors?
The Valley settler., 1949-06-17
:SOu CONSERVATION FOOD 6
 HEAL TH
3RATNAN SAyS----

l-odorn Alerican Gricul turo's constant progress toward the goal of better living and roro stable economy for everyone is reflected in tho advancement Of fields aud farms worn out by erosion into land pro- tocted and actually proved in produ uctivo- ness through conservat1o treatment and an articl written esne ially for students ticipatiIg in the National Grange soil conservat ion essay conte ste.
 Soil conservation also has proved ho says, "to be means to do moro profitable fa2na- ing, in good times and bad. Informed farm CTS and ranchors havo been quick to adopt conservation measures which cnablo then to grou the ir crons in needed abur danco while keeping their lands ferti ile and ner- mantly productive.
 'FNlra1 nooDlo....arc by no. means the only poonlo vino benefit from such rodorn aari- cultural advan comonts as soil conscrvat ion, rural loctrification, c0oporativos, etc. Prosperous farm families arc stoady cash customors for merchants and profoss iona1 people in tom, who in tuBn support tho employment or skilled and unskillod york; CTS up and down tho l ino."
 He rointod out that it is choaner to -rou given crop Qn. good land than to produce it on Door DOT !aq5d--yto7ds ar nor acre are high better yields on conservat ion-t treated top- SO il than it docs on erodod sub so il, and tho danger of rain washing seed and ferti- lizor out or fields is red cd.
 "Conplot ing and strengthening the farm program i9 matter not only Of protect ing farr2ors but of strengthening our vholo economy" ho said. "Conaervation Of tho land is the concern Of tho vholo people," SOIL FERTILITY AFFECTS TEETH
 Tho rotation or soil fertility to tho health Of tooth through nutri tion vas dis cussod by IE. Till ian A. llbrocht, notod so ils spoc cIal ist from tho University of Missouri, in ar article recently roDrtntod from the Annals of Dentistry.
 --ccording to D. Abrocht, in regions of higher -nolnfall, oIcossivo carbohydrates arc found in nature, and ray be. -ox0e cted in human diot--a hindranco to sound tooth because Of insuffi ic tent Drotoins and miner- ols. Poo9lof arc constantly in dangor of protein and mineral doficioncios, cano cia1- 1y as they bcco-4o moro voeotarian, ho said. It is this nutrit i0na1 mood that. encourages man's 1niv0rousnoss and tho use Of i2nira1 products such ogCs and rilks.
 Tho Fat1on's soils show that these rtnoral and nroto in shortages vary accordinr to the nattorn of so il Tort ility. In the uostcrn Nart Of t ho country the lover rainfalls have not ro1lov0d tho calc jun and other nutrients iron tho surface. soil. ~Thoso -7o1o ioI o~i1-;-
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-21
New Chevrolet On
Display Tomorrow
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Two series of cars, the Fleetline
and Styleline, are included with de
luxe treatment an option in most
body types. De luxe cars lay in
creased emphasis on the styling of
fabrics, trim and appointments. The
lineup shows:
Fleetline: Two and fOur-doOr Sc
dams. This design is distinguished
by the extension of the roof line in
an unbrOken sweep to the rear.
known to the trade as a fast
Dack,' the form achieved great
popularity on the 1948 twO-dOOr
AerOsedan..
Styleline: Two and fOur-dOOr Sc
dams, sport coupe, three-passenger
business coupe, convertible, wood
and all-steel station wagons. Style
line sedans carry the notch back" +"
Here the curvature of the roof
meets the rear deck at the body
belt line.
In both styling and performance,
the 1949 series continues the "big
car aspects that have always been
traditional with Chevrolet. The de-
sign is fresh and ubstantial-lOOk-
ing without approaching the ex-
treme. Greater comfort is reported
demOnstrable by ruler and by
ride" The rugged six-cylinder,
valve-in-head engine remains fun
damentally the same, but refine
ments will increase appreciably
the cars handling ease and owner
satisfaction.
I'm the engineering of our most
model in several years.
we considered first the qualities
that have consistently given Chev-
rolet the leadership in the indus
try" said a company statement.
we did not make changes simply
for the sake of change. Every in
nOvatiOn throughout the chassis
and body was eXhaustively tested
and proved. We exercised great
care to assure ourselves that each
departure met Chevrolet stand
ards"
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-21
Urges Fewer Oil Changes
I. 5. Agency Says Once Every
1000 Miles Is Sufficient
By Associated Press

The Governments chief buving
agency reports that it is unneces3
sary to change the oil in a car
more often than once everv 4 O00
miles. -'0'D
The Bureau of Central supplv
says that is generally speaking =
1t notes exceptions in cases where
operating conditions include stOnL
and-gO service, especially in cold
weather or when sand and dust are
regularly encountered"
The bureau estimates that the
Government can save $500. 900 4
year by making oil changes in its
vast feet of cars, trucks and buses
only in the spring and fall. or
every 1000 miles, whichever comes
first"
Under normal driving condis
tions and controlled preventive
maintenances oil changes at per-
iods of less than 1000 miles are
unnecessary" the bureau says.
oil is wasted by changing too
frequently"
Fat is about 81 per cent water.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-21
WHAT IT MEANS:
End Of The Housing
Boom
By CLARKE BEACH

WASHINGTON IL The boom II
nome building is over, at leasr
temporarily.
The end of the housing boom af.
ter the first World War came in
1928 years before the whole eco
nOmy began to disintegrate. But
leading economists here see nc
such dire pOrtent in this drop IN
housing production.
The main reason, as they inter-
pret it, is that the builders have
been putting up houses for the car
riage trade. And now the bloom is
OF that market Most of the peOple
who were badly in need of houses
after the war and could afford to
pay high prices for them are taken
care of. The peak of that demand
passedin late 1916 and early 1947.
passed in late 1916 and early I947.
vest in the new, relatively high
priced homes, moreover, aren't
finding it so easy to finance them
as they did year or two ago. In
terest rates have gone up a bit.
Some sellers are requiring larger
down payments. And veterans, who
used to do large part of the buy
ing, are finding it harder to get
loans. Lenders do not consider the
governments financing arrange
ments for veterans as attractive as
they once did.
In general" said one prominent
economists in the housing field
people are losing faith in the
housing market at the present
prices"
The Housing Act of 1913 doesn't
yet seem to have had much effect
on the home construction indus
try. That act contained most of the
financing features of the rejected
Observation-Disclosures housing bill
1t was intended to make it easier
to finance the building and buying
of homes costing about $1,000 or
less.
The sponsor of the act. Rep.
WOlcott CR.-Mich). predicted that
as a result of it 100000 new non
farm dwelling units would be
started in 1948.
AS now estimated by the Labor
Department, however, the housing
starts tOtaled only $4,000. The
monthly total of new houses start
ed began to drop in June, and it
went down steadily from then on.
The drop wasn't seasonal. The WIN
ter building lull ordinarily doesn't
come until October or November.
The experts in the Commerce
and Labor Departments predict
that only $4,000 housing starts
will be made in 1949. Even if the
observation-disclosures Bill is pass-
ed. which political observers think
is certain, it will mean no more
than an extra 10000 to $4,000 addi-
tiOnal housing starts during the
year.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-21

1t will thus be probably waI
over a year before the all-time rec.
ora IOr home building is equalleC
-SS7,OO dwelling units in 1925
CIhese were built when the U. S
population was only 1881. .963
Now it is about 147, ,28O.OOO.)
The decline has not hit the con.
structiOn industry as a whole. Both
the volume and dollar value nj
overall construction has bear
steadily rising. Commerce and
Labor expect about the same
amount OF construction in 1949 as
in 1S48, although predicting that
the cost of building will be 5 Der-
cent higher.
industrial construction is exDec-
TED to decline in 1919. But offset
ting both that and the fall in nomp
construction are anticipated rises
IN the amount of construction work
to be done in commercial institu-
tlOnal, public utility and govern
mental construction work. ElOst of
the latter is expected to be schools
ana hospitals built for the Veter-
ans Administration and the Pnblic
Health Service.
The volume of home construc-
tlOn is not actually low. In 1915
only $4,000 housing units were
produced. The average in the l93O's
was only $4,000 a year. In 1947 If
jumped to $4,000 units.
The low period in the thirtios
built up a large housing deficit
This was made worse after the war
when the marriage rush. followed
by rising birth rates, created many
new families, all wanting homes of
their own. -
But most Of the people who now
are in need of homes are in the low
and low-middle income group The
experts estimate that 6 600 900
such families need new dwelling
places. The best hope fov boostin9
nome construction, they say. lies
IN building to meet the demands Of
this group.
Many government housing ex-
perts and economists, as well 0s
some members of the Senate and
House, believe that builders can
make a fair profit in the construc-
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-21
Fire Prevention
Group Reviews Work
Continued from Arst nanen

In addition, two meetings were
held at the University of Della
ware to discuss the possibility of
a short summer course on the lat
est and most scientific methods OF
hre t1ghting and fire prevention.
TO be held at the university.
All Work Voluntary
All work done by the Fire pre-
ventiOn Council was on a voInn-
tary basis, and Governor Bacon
sent to the group at it's final meet
ing in December a message of an
probation for their generous do
nations of time, ability, and fire
prevention knOw-hOw" placed at
the states disposal.
Members of the council are
James Ashton, chairman of the
council and manager of the Della
ware Safety Council; Layton Bay-
nard, president, Delaware VOlun-
teer Firemen's Association. and r
B. Daugherty, immediate past pres
ldent; M. J. Fidance, building in
spectOr of Wilmington; George r.
Morgan, chief of the Wilmington
Fire Department.; Ralph Bower.
Dover, state fire marshal; joseph
5. Benton, New Castle County fire
marshal, New Castle; Clifford Mil
burn, Kent County fire marshal.
FELTON,; E. r. Kyttle, Sussex Coun-
ty fire marshal, Laurel; Governor
Bacon, and Secretary of State Will
liam J. Storey.
Institutions Inspected
The following institutions were
inspected last year: Ferris School
for Boys, Woods Haven School for
Girls, Kruse School, Delaware
State Hospital, Brandywine Sana-
tOrium, Delaware State College.
New Castle County WorkhOuse.
Governor Bacon Health Center.
Other inspections include the John
M. Clayton School, the airports at
RehObOth Beach and Georgetown.
the Georgetown and Bridgeville
state police stations, and the Della
ware Colony State Training School.
Typical recommendations of the
were: Installation of addi- |
tional fire eXtinguishers, relOca- |
ton of eXtinguishers where they |
are easily seen, replacement of fire |
hose, doors changed to open out
ward, relocation of oil tanks a safe
distance from burners, enclose
stairways in a number of buildings,
installation of additional exit
lights, improve and increase fire
alarm systems, installation of ad-
ditiOnal fire escapes and that fire
drills be held periodically. Every
of the group has
been checked by the state and with
he exception of the recOmmenda-
ions at the Governor Bacon Health
Center which have just recently
been submitted, practically every
has been met.
The council has cOOperated with
he Department of Public Instvuc-
ion on the subject of school fire
lrills and fire fighting equipment.
'he two groups are attempting to
ave all schools comply with the
Delaware law which makes it man
atory that all schools hold a fire !
Kit drill at least once a month.
'Olunteer firemen have offered
heir services i'm their respective
to assist wherever ,
Ossible. :
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-21
CIRCLE NO. 1

Circle No. l of Calvary Methodist
Church met at the home of Mrs
Eulth Lacy on Tuesday evening.
January l8. The officers for the
year were elected as follows:
Leader, Mrs. Edith Lacy; assist
ant leader, Gladys Paquette; secre-
taTy, Mary DrummOnd; assistant
secretary, Dorothy Wilson,: treas
urer' Wilma Roberts; devotional
leader, Ruth Blades; publicity, Ell
sic Warren; card and sick commit
tee' Margaret HOllOwell; program
chairman, jeanette Tingle; hos
tesSes chairman. Margaret Milti-
AIDES.
Nineteen members were pres
eht and one new member added.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-21

ton OF low priced homes. and that
some OF them will turn to this now
that they have skinned the cream
from the housing market. TheV
cOncede, however, that Onlv gov
ernment subsidy can make II fea-
slDle Tor private interests to build
IOr the very low income families.
The next housing boom, they be-
heye, will not start before 1850
ana the bulk of the dwelling units
VIII consist of low priced houseg
and apartments. It will be stimn-
lated, they say, not only by a pub
lc housing and slum clearance hin
next session, as well as the \HOus-
ing Act of 1913; but also by devel-
Opments within the industry which
VIII lower the cost of cOnstrucrlon
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-21
Bear Skips HibernatiOn

BELTON, Mont. - (P) - One OF
the bears at Glacier National Park
has insomnia. While others are
sleeping away the winter, the yearl-
ing grissly rOmps about, tipping
over trash cans and being a nuis-
ance in general.
Chief Ranger Naturalist NJ. E.
Beatty says he's probably an orphan
cub who didn't get enough to eat in
the summer and still is building up
Fat for the long Information.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-21
School For State
Troopers To Open
CONTINUED from nrst nnn0,

troopers are being withheld until
they are sworn in for duty.
Ihe state police is still accent
ing applications for the next
school' which will be held follow
ing completion of the class omen
ing the latter part of this month
The applications will be placed
on a waiting list for consideration
when another training school is
about to be held.