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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-11-17
Elementary School Notes

The total attendance for November
II was good, 475 being present and
only 40 absent.
Mrs. w. NJ Pearce was i'll last
week with a common cold Mrs.
Pearce now lives in Oakland.
Mr.. William Lloyd was taken to
the Allegany hospital on November
II for a checkup.
The club meeting of Mr. Barnette' S
room was brought to order by vice
president Shirley Shaffer. Peggy
White read the secretary's report.
Billy Savage reported STOP in the
treasury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Manages and
Mrs. Maud Manages, Of Washington,
D. c., visited Mr.. and Mrs. Roy White
and family Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. w. E. Ashby and Glenn Ashby
and daughters visited at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John White, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Dawson, Mt.
Lake Park, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Iva
Dewitt, Of Swallow Falls, Saturday
evening.
James Reckart, of Deer Park, mar
ried June Foley, of Oakland. They
were married last Wednesday after
noon, November 9. A wedding dinner
was held the following Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. George Nethken and
daughter Gretchen, of Kitzmiller, and
Miss Marian Schmidt, Of Oakland,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Schmidt,
near Deer Park, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd Paugh and
daughter Janet spent Sunday after
noon at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Rush, near Friendsville.
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ored guest at a birthday dinner Sum
day at her home. Those present were
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Fike, Milton and
Darwin Fike, Ruth Friend, and Mr..
and Mrs. Floyd Carskadon.
IIarland Kelley, student at Fair
mont Business College, spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Kelley.
The Kings Daughters will hold their
monthly meeting at the home of Mrs.
Lester Yutzy, Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Arts, of Mt.
Lake Park, were weekend guests of
friends here.
Mrs. Oscar Shaffer, Mrs. Burton
Ashby and Mrs. Frank Graham spent
Friday with Miss Mary Mason, at Elk
Garden.
Mrs. Grace Gilmore, Mrs. Margaret
Knots, Mrs. MINERS Schoch and Mrs.
Floyd Carskadon visited friends in
Terra Alta, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sterling and
sons, Jackie and John, Jr., of Valley
Head, visited relatives here Sunday.
Paul Waller Hoye, Jr., is confined
to his home with chicken poX.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lee and Harold
Cannon attended the funeral of the
formers sister, Mrs. Lena Fry, in
Warren, Ohio. last Friday.
Mrs. Iva Hayes and son Carl are
patients in Memorial hospital, Cum
berland.
Mrs. Ralph Weeks and Mrs. Floyd
Carskadon were in Cumberland last
Thursday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lewis visited
Mr.. and Mrs Austin Glotfelty, neal
Underwood, Sunday
Word was received here of the i'll
ness Of Mr.. Noah Savage, who recent
I ly moved to Friendsville. Mr.. Savage
suffered a stroke last week and re.
mains quite i'll.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-11-17
GORTNER

BIZ Paul Bender, of Springs.
He'd Sundays appointments,
his discourses from The Ser
n The Mount and The Hand
On The Wall. He was ac-
led by Miss Leona Miller and
ere supper guests Of Mr. and
AIRY Beeghly.
. Dodge and Mr.. and Mrs.
Swartzentruber were in Cum
for a check-up for Mr..
entruber, whose condition is
ing.
and Mrs. Elmer Yoder, Of
Vile. announce the arrival Of a
rs. Yoder was the former Miss
.ichty, Of Gortner.
and Mrs. Woodrow Jackson
and Mrs. Alfred Right were
ubellanJ, on Friday, TO visit
acksoas father, Nr. Canaan
as recently hit by a car and
Albert Sisk and guest, Mrs.
Compton, Of Mt. Lake, took
with 2ir. and Mrs Noah
&. on Thursday evening.
and trucks and diJcher and
Other huge machinery from
Oklahoma and Pennsylvania,
last week and put in the gas
om the Bcachy well TO Pleas
Hey. They had many spectators
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ed Oak Fairview

Women's Work Society met in
me of Virginia Bowers, Thurs
November 10, with seventeen
ms present. The next meeting
Z held in the home of Mrs. Lee
e.
Wesley Harvey is now work
Beckley, w. Va, with a con-
ion company. He returned to
cw to hold his regular service,
Y,
Wesley Harvey will hold ser
at Red Oak, Sunday, November
hrs. M. H. Blamble will have
: of the music, using the re-
religious music which the
unity folks helped to buy for
,hool children.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-11-17
CRELLIN

The first Quarterly Conference of
the Evangelical United Brethren
Church of the Terra Alta Circuit was
held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 here
with the district superintendent, Or,
r. L. Miles bringing the message and
conducting the business session.
Mrs. Lawson Knots is visiting her
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. William Knots in Cumberland
for a few weeks.
Mrs Floyd Rodeheaver, Steuben-
vile, O., visited Mrs. Martha KEEPER
and Mrs Eleanor Sisler and family
last week.
Miss Carolyn Ashby, student at Po-
tomac State, keyser, spent the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. d.
T. Ashby.
Miss Joan Carskadon was the hon
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-11-17
Scouts on Overnight Hike

An overnight hike was held by Boy
Scout Troop No. 20, Kitzmiller, dur
ing the Armistice Day weekend. The
camp site was the J. H. Wilson farm,
near Altamont. After setting up camp
scout games were played, in prepara-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-11-17

ton and training for scout tests.
The camping area was policed and
stumps, weeds and trash were cleared
next morning before the return trip.
Those going on the hike included
Scoutmaster Robert Young, assistant
Scoutmaster, Rodney Soldiers, and
Scouts Daniel Cummings, Richard
Turner, Ronald WEIGHT, Jr., Ralph
Calandrella, j., Gary Brady, Milton
Warwick, James Hanlin, Jr., Charles
Cardora, Richard DeLoach, Albert
Shaffer, Jr.. Harold Shank, Robert
Lee Davis. Cecil Pyle, Paul Coleman,
Rochard Sharpless and Robert Hersh-
berger.
Evening star., 1949-03-13

l. UP OR DOWN :. viii your
share tn the cost Of President Tru-
mans proposed budget be smaller or
larger than last years.
Larger by Sll.78. Cost per
capita on the proposed budget is
$282.82 compared with $27l.O4
last year. Before Pearl Harbor the
cost was $l0l.l4 for every Ameri-
can. -D.D.J., Bradford, VI.
Z. GAMBLERS Almost one
billion dollars waS bel on Nepada's
gambling tables last year. Is this
more or less than usualo
1t hits an all-time high.
-E.P.S.. Washington, DC.
). BEEP! BEEP! What netc
automobile horn has recently been
demonstrated in England?
One that whispers at close range
but is audible at a distance.
OK, Penn Yam, ". Y.
I. WASH DAY :. What laundry
~as set up for the specific purpose of
masking clothes that are 5000 years
old?
A laundry in the attic of the
American Museum of Natural
History laundered fragments of
clothing found in northern Peru
and estimated to date back SO CEN
turies. -L.H.D., Gillette, N. J.
5. PROGRESS Brantord,
Ontorio, has established q dial tele-
phone system. What is significant
about Branyord!o
Evening star., 1949-03-13
q u,z ,rn
Questions and answers from current news

Alexander Graham Bell made
his first long-distance call in 1876
from Brantford to Paris, Ontario
eight miles away.
-G.M., O1uns,ca, Iowa
s. GOING UP -. Which former
page boy tn the House of REPRESENT
dttSes is now q full. .fedged House
member?
Rep. Dixie Gilmore 3D., Okla.),
who served as page IS years ago
when he was IL.
NIX. BronxciVe, N. Y.
7. CALL THE COPS How
many people in the u. S. haze been
arrested at one time OF another?
One out of every 20 Americans.
-P.B., Los Angeles, Calf.
8. BLIGHT .. What bobular
beve7age is endangered by cirus
disease?
Fifty million cocoa trees on the
African Gold Coast are infected
with virus disease that endangers
the worlds supply of cocoa.
Mrs. J.B.. Garfield Heights, o.
CONDUCTED ~ " M..>
NOTE: We will pay So for a question
and answer used in this column Questions
are based on current news and clipping
OF news source must accompany answer.
Address: Tom Henry. THIS WEEK.
40 Lexington Avenue. New York II.
N. Y. Unaccepted contributions cannot
be acknowledged or returned.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16

sold for by the independent produc
Iers.
In 1941 one of the independents
the Mondakota company, applied tt
the Federal Power Commission for E
hearing on the fairness of the rates
MDU resorted to every trick of the
trade to delay and to exhaust the re-
sources of the Independents. 1t got
a ''unit agreement" through on part
of the Baker field making it the ex-
elusive producer. 1t forced gas pur-
chase agreements on the independ-
ents. 1t shut down wells. Before
the FPC it argued that its rates for
transportation were not excessive be-
cause it had never established rate
in spite of the requirements of the
law The company argued that the
FPC could do nothing as it's only pow
er was to revise existing rates, and
since the company had established no
rate the commission had no power.
The commission held with the
independent producers on every
point.
Finally in 1916, fifteen years af-
ter the independent company started
its first action to get fair rate for
transporting its gas, the FPC order
ed MDU to establish fair rate. The
company appealed to the federal
courts to continue the delay it hoped
would destroy the Independents. The
Circuit Court moved promptly and
decided the case entirely in favor of
the Independent two years later. Not
satisfied with a delay of II years,
the company appealed to the United
States Supreme Court which turned
them down without ceremony.
You would think that would end
the story and that the independents
would be shipping their gas to their
customers in Glasgow, Belle Fourche,
Miles City and other towns. But,
like Montana-Dakota don't
give up nice fat monopoly so cas-
ily. They are still refusing to take
the gas of independent producers
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16
Civil Liberties Union
Joins Growing Ranks of
Opponents.

The powerful voice of the con-
sentative New York Times was added
to swelling chorus of those who are
opposing passage of the Mundt bill
allegedly aimed at subversive activ-
tiles in the United States.
Meanwhile, the American Civil
Liberties Union issued statement
condemning the proposal as "a VIOLA
ton of free speech and thought as it
penalized persons and organizations
for their thoughts and views.
In it's editorial of August "a, the
New York Times said:
although the new bill attempts to
meet certain constitutional objec-
tons raised last year, it still is so
far-reaching a proposal that it legiti-
mately arouses very grave question
as to its desirability, not to mention
its constitutionality."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16
S0MERS Mill and
ENTIRE TOWN GOES ON
SALES BLOCK

An entire town will go on the
auction block for sale. The town
is the logging community of Somers
at the north end of Flathead Lake
and is to be sold by the Glacier Park
company.
The Somers Lumber company,
subsidiary of the Glacier Park com
pany, will sell it's sawnill, planning
mill and nearly 100 dwellings,.
The houses and mill will be sold
on contract basis after a call for
bids in single-package deal accord
ing to the Great Northern railway
headquarters in St. Paul.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16
ND. TOWN PROTESTS GRANTING OF PIPE Line
PERMIT BY F.P.C. TO M0NTANA.DAK0TA CO.

Resolution of protest, official min
utes of city commission, City of Mar
marth, North Dakota.
"Be it resolved that the City OF
Marmarth desires to place before the
Federal Power Commission in Wash
ington, DC, the Department of the
Interior, and the Attorney General
of the United States, its protest
against the refusal of the Montana
Dakota Utilities Company of Mime
apolis, Minnesota, to comply with:
LIST. The law of the United States
(Act Feb. rs, 1920, as amended;
End. The grant of right of way for
its interstate natural gas pipe line
and the explicit statements made in
the acceptance of said grant that
such line would be operated as a
common carrier;
3rd. The ruling and orders of the
Federal Power Commission Opinion
No. 148, Docket G-220, G-402);
18th. The decision of the Circuit
Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit,
Case No. 1896. Montana-Dakota
Utilities Company VS.. Federal Power
Commission.
''Be 1t Further Resolved that the
city of Marmarth does further place
before the authorities mentioned
above these facts, to-wit:
LIST. The City Of Marmarth is sit
uate about 20 miles east of the Bak-
gas field from which gas
is supplied to it by the Montana
Dakota Utilities Company from wells
located in the state of Montana;
End. That there are independent
producers of natural gas in the Bak-
erGlendive gas field within the State
of Montana from whom the city of
Marmarth has been offered and
would have bought gas in past years,
and would now buy gas but for the
refusal of the Montana-Dakota Util-l
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16

titles Company to transport such gas
through its common carrier pipe line
Further, that the city of Marmarth,
buying natural gas at lower price,
delivered, by paying the rate for
transportation fixed by the Federal
Power Commission and the price the
independent producers are willing to
sell it for. Further, that the city of
Marmarth, and it's citizens, have been
notified by the Montana-Dakota Util-
tiles Company that the price of gas
would be raised as soon as an addi-
tional supply is brought in from the
state of Wyoming. This, in face of
the fact that natural gas could be,
and would be made available by in
dependent producers in the Baker
Glendive field, as stated, at prices
less than now being paid.
''Be 1t Further Resolved that the
city of Marmarth protests against
the existence of what amounts to an
unlawful monopoly on the sale and
transportation of natural gas in the
area by the Montana-Dakota Utilities
Company and which is the result of
defiance by the Montana-Dakota
Utilities Company of the decisions of
the Secretary of the Interior and the
orders of the Federal Power Com
mission, affirmed by the decision of
the Circuit Court of Appeals, and
an utter disregard of the OBLIGATIONS
assumed in its acceptance of the
right of way granted it by the United
States as shown by the recorded in
struments.
"Be it Further Resolved that the
City Clerk be required to file copies
of this resolution with the seal of
the city affixed, with the authorities
to whom it is addressed, and that
copies also be mailed to any other
persons in office in Washington, D.
c., who may be Interested" !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16
~ s. IS Union Sets
1S
IS al of 1880
5 In 1850

4. membership of IL, 500 is the
goa- of the Montana Farmers Un-
ion for 1850 with the campaign
starting September 80 with radio
talks, according to MFU officials
I who attended the area meeting of
representatives of Farmers Union
people of other plains and noun
tain states in jamestown early in
the summer.
The six-state drive will be co-or-
dinated with National Farmers I'm
ion effort directed by Martin Byrne,
newly appointed national co-ordi-
nator who spanked the 1949 enroll
ment in North and South Dakota,
Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming and
Montana.
The national goal is one million
members in 1850.
So successful was the membership
campaign in the six states last year
that the same techniques will be ap-
piled to the nation in 1850. Local
communities, states and Washington,
DC, felt the wholesome effects of
the drive. The 800 farmers who
went to the nations capitol did lot
of educating at home and in legislat-
i've halls. Flu officials are determin-
ed to send more than thousand next
winter. Eighty went from Montana
last year, hopes are high that more
than 100 Montana farmers will quail
ify this year.
Hold Special Meetings Sept. %
Officials are urging locals to hold
special meetings on the evening of
Friday, September 80, to lay plans
for the drive in the community and to
listen to the special statewide radio
program. Bringing a special mes
sage to farmers are James Patton,
National Farmers Union president,
and state presidents as follows: Don
w. Chapman, Montana; Glen Talbot,
North Dakota; Paul Opsahl, South
Dakota; Einar Kuivenen, Minnesota,
and Harvey Solberg, Colorado and
Montana Farmers Union member
ship rose from $500 in 1913 to near
ly 10000 in 1949 as a result of the
drive.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16
New YORK TIMES RAPS klUNDT-
FERGUSON THOUGHT CONTROL BILL

According to the New York pa
per, the bill, in its present form,
would impose severe restrictions
on organizations found to be Com
munist or Communist-front, would
penalize individuals for belonging
to Communist organizations and
would make it unlawful for any
one to agree to perform any act
substantially contributing to estab-
lishment here of a foreign-con-
trolled dictatorship"
The basic difficulty of the bill,
said the New York Times, ''lies in
the fact that it does not require an
overt act in the usual sense of the
words, to bring its sanctions into
effect"
Charging that the Mundt bill
would, if passed, inevitably be so
broad in it's terms as to infringe
the basic liberty of freedom of
thought that is +. the American
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16
Why Not? .

Peoples Voice contributor, who signs himself The Old
Timer has raised the question: Why not initiate bill requr
ing Montana State Railroad and Public Service Commission
Federal Power Commission valuations when fixing
for public utilities in this state?'
Primarily political action would aimed at one or
BOTH of two things; fair reduction in company
for sale of electric and and equalization the
value of utility property for making and taxation purposes
Both of these reforms have been due for 80 40
years have been repeatedly introduced and then beaten
by vested interest domination legislature
fair sample of what happen Governor Dixon
license taxes on copper and other exploited min
era in the early nneeentwentes Twice beaten
in the legislature this submitted popular
Governor Dixon went down to defeat, under terrific
barrage of personal attack in the election But his
initiated has since than forty million
dollars of license tax to Montana treasury Incident
ally the effected industries neither closed down went broke
as drefuy predicted at the time. They far
stronger richer and opuen than they 1924
Grounds for public action, by of initiative much
clearer and stronger than they rs About five
vegatons and public hearings ordered the Montana Power
Company to write off approximately fifty million dollars of
over capitalization pure water This federal order
neither appealed to the obeyed Rates
are still based on this capitalization.
About the time of the order 1944 the Montana Power
Company made lngs with the Federal Power Commission
follows Earned income $21 operating S15
given S171 243269 against which there outstanding
bond and stock issues of Gncuding water
capitalization.
Montana Equalization Board charged with securing equity
taxation and the Railroad Public Service Commission
charged with ordering fair consumer rates for public utilities
just the hall from each other the Capitol building
Membership of these august bodies meet and exchange pleas
antrie with each other times week Apparently
neither has found that Montana Power valuations
rate making about double those submitted for
taxation An initiated mandatory might induce
the several gentlemen to get SO million dollars closer
together the valuation they accept for the separate
purpose of taxation and rate making
The upward of million dollars of charges when
measured by the of rates for publicly owned
elsewhere in the nation might we'll thousands of in
vdua pocket books from which is now extracted annually
What of Montana Power it's methods
what less degree of several other utility and their
products These are largely owned and wholly controlled out
of
doing much better financially than the home folks in
Montana.
Another initiated program Montana will money
require considerable effort will repay hundred fold
rs did the Dixon copper tax Why not put Democ
work and do another badly needed reform job the
initiative route?-JEROME C. LOCKE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16
Consumers Should Insist MDU Co.
Observe Federal Leasing Laws
AT MONTANA FPC HEARINGS

good-or if you of natural IN eastern
bad illustration of how monopoly created and
perpetuated has public attention Montana with the
proceedings which resulted order of the Montana Rail-
road and Public Service Commission raising natural rates
in eastern Montana.
Montana has abundant supply of natural Natural
should be cheap Montana and should be
available for urban Instead it's high
and will higher and home and businesses have been
denied its the territory served by the Montana Dakota
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-09-16

OIllIClcS llpdly, 1NcVduo
corporation, with it's principa
office in the Twin Cities.
Glasgow, Montana is but g
stones throw from the Bowdoin gas
field. Glendive and Miles City are
but few miles from the Baker field
Yet in these cities the price of natur-
al gas is going up as much as 70 pei
cent when the Public Service Commits
sion order goes into effect. The con-
sumner wonders show come, especial
ly since he knows that the books are
full of laws which prohibit monop-
olies.
Here is chow come. The leasing
act passed by congress many years
ago, in the early twenties, is a very
good law. 1t was designed to prevent
monopoly of natural gas. 1t requires
any one or any corporation that
wants to build a natural gas pipe
line across government property to
secure permit from the Secretary
Of Interior. The permit, to use the
language of the act, may be issued
only on the g. express condition
that such pipe lines shall be construct
ed, operated and maintained as COM
mon carriers and shall accept, trans
port, convey or purchase without dis
elimination, oil or natural gas pro-
duced from government lands in the
vicinity of the pipe line"
Lower Prices, More Gas Would
Result From Laws Enforcement
That law means just what it says.
1t means that the Montana-Daktota
Utilities Company, which has OBJ
tanned many permits from the Secre-
tary of the Interior to build its pipe
lines in Montana, is required to ac-
cept the gas of any producer for
transportation in its pipe lines. 1t
is entitled to pay for transporting
that gas just like railroad is en-
titled to pay for hauling grain. The
law is good one. If it were car
ried out there would be competition |
in the natural gas business. Compe-
tition would bring lower rates and
more gas.
But, what has happened!
There are many Independent oper-
ators in the Baker field, and there
were several in the Bowdoin field.
All of them have gas for sale. But
to this day not foot of gas has been
transported by the Observation-Disclosures
Utilities Company in any of its lines J.
in Montana for any other producer.
The Circuit Court for the eighth Cir
cult found in its opinion in Montana
Dakota Utilities V. Federal Power
Commission decided last year that
Montana-Dakota {" has never
any natural gas for 9TH
ers."
MDU Has Exhibited Bad Faith
In Its Dealings With Producers
Beginning in 1880 some of the in
dependent producers tried to get the +.
MDU company to transport their gas. l
First the company flatly refused to :
take the gas. When it found it
couldn't get away with that MDU :
started filing rate schedules, the last {
being filed in 1888. The rates were
arbitrary, excessive and discrimina- T
,ory. They worked out at figure \
higher than the natural gas could be