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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
fund DRIVE ON TO Aid
CRIPPLED CHILDREN
OF MONTANA

Coin banks for the collection of
donations to the Montana Chapter
of the National Society for Crippled
Children and Adults were placed in
some one hundred Helena establish
ments on March II, c. r. Anderson,
Lewis. & Clark county chairman, has
announced. This marked the begin
ming of statewide campaign for
funds for the chapter and will con-
tinue for one month, ending with the
Easter Lily tag day on April II.
The Montana chapter was the 18th
state society to be organized to give
aid to the handicapped. All states
are now organized and will conduct
campaigns in 1949. The goal set for
Montana is 100000.
Three methods are used in secur-
ing needed funds for the crippled
children. The first is by means of
the Easter seals, which are sent out
by mass mailing system to all reg
istered automobile license holders.
The second part of the campaign
consists of donations in the coin
banks distributed in various COM
munities between March II and April
II, The campaign is concluded with
the sale of Easter lilies on April II.
These lilies were made by cerebral
palsied children.
The Montana chapter appeals to
all Montana people to take part in
this campaign either by mailing do
nations for the seals sent them, plac
ing their extra change in the coin
banks, and by buying Easter lilies
on April IT. Outside of the school
for the Deaf and Blind in Great
Falls, there are no other facilities
for the education of crippled chill
dren in Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
Farmers MUST have 100 PER Gent PARITY TO
AVOID DISASTER, SAYS PROGRESSIVE PARTY

The national committee of the
Progressive party warned last week
that the American farmer faces the
most serious situation since the eco
nomic crackup of the early 1905"
and called for congressional guaran-
tee of 100 per cent parity to farm
families with taxable incomes of
$4,000 a year or less.
In its statement released by party
secretary, c. B. Baldwin, the Pro-
gresive party national committee said
"the big issue today in the country
side is parity. Livestock prices have
dropped from a third to one-half
since August, and last month practi-
cally all farm commodities crashed
through the federal price support
floors. The agricultural crisis of
World War II has actually arrived"
Low income farmers, said the Pro-
gressive party leaders, are in San ex
tremely hazardous position" They
warned that the Truman Administra-
ton must put up IAN about fight to
stop the farm deflation and prevent
a recurrence of the 1929 disaster.
Although the party stands sun
equivocally" for 100 per cent parity,
it said it would exclude from parity
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
AT LONG LAST
MONTANA POWER GETS
LICENSE FOR CLARkS
FORK PROJECT

Washington, March 16-The pow
er commission today granted Mon
tana Power company license for
the Thompson Falls hydroelectric
project it acquired in 1929.
The commission ordered the Ii
cense to become effective as of Jan
uary 1, 1888, and to end June 80,
1870.
The project on the Clark Fork of
the Columbia in Sanders county,
Montana, was completed in 1916.
Montana Power applied for the IL
cense in 1912 after the commission
had investigated the status of lands
Occupied by the project.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25

Paul, Thursday, March D.
His itinerary in the Dakotas
included: two talks before
large audiences in Sioux Falls,
one in Mitchell, one in Huron, and
one DIN Aberdeen-all South Dakota
cities. In jamestown, Nd, he met
with the North Dakota MVA COM
mittee, and spoke over four-state
radio network.
Unlike in Montana. he found that
MVA is much less partisan issue
with Republican and Democratic
leaders. Henry Mundt, Sioux Falls
attorney and probable Republican
candidate for governor in 1850, and
Joe Robbie, Democratic leader in the
legislature and chairman of the state
central committee, appeared with
Mr.. Locke on his South Dakota tour.
He further reports that following
MVA approval by the North Dakota
assembly, and a public utility district
drive that lost by only one vote in
the South Dakota senate, coupled
with the approach of the annual flood
season, sentiment for MVA is grow
ing by leaps and bounds in both of
these Republican strongholds. Doth
Republican senators from North
Dakota, LANCER and Young, are CO.
sponsors of the MVA bill along with
Senator Murray and dozen other
senators.)
To Eastern Montana
Thursday Mr.. Locke again left Hell
ena and, during the next week, will
meet with people in Glasgow today,
Nashua, the Goth; Plentywood, 28th;
Sidney, goth; and in Forsyth, the
30th.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25

On days when the mill did not
operate because of breakdown, en-
ployees continued to work about
the plant but did not receive
wages. This case has been re-
ferred to the Wage-Hour Division
Division.
An investigation into widespread
child labor violations is also being re-
quested by LSW Unions in the vi
cinity Of Kalispell. Meanwhile, it is
pointed out that these conditions
cannot and do not exist on Union
jobs and workers accepting employ
ment in non-union operations should
at least make sure that their en-
ployer is carrying Industrial Acct
dent Insurance, Unemployment Com
pensation and Social Security tax.
Employers who chisel on these mat
tiers will also chisel on wages and are
classed unreliable to work for.
Workers who have already been
victimized by these practices are
urged to report them either to the
closest LSW local or to the appro-
pirate state and federal agencies.
can even better remedy is for all
workers to become union members
and put such employers out of ex-
commented union official.
The situation prevailing in Flat
head county is another indication of
efforts to get cheap labor out Of
workers who have settled
there in anticipation of the construc-
ton of Hungry Horse Dam.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
MURRAY HEALTH BILL IN A NUTSHELL

National Health Insurance and Public Health BILL known
bill and HR783) would set
about $50 of the
population
You would be eligible together with your dependents you
selfemployed; old
whose contributions to the
paid by public would also be eligible
would be based the insurance principle You
another M of earnings to $4,000 and your en-
contribute another rs $4,000 1t self
will $50 600 of earnings
persons eligible for benefits would be entitled to med
from general practitioners and specialists gu
for tuberculosis and mental dsases
expensive prescribed medcnes
and special appliances
would choose doctor, hospital, group clinic
from all the practitioners and
stitution in your community that under the act
g. Voluntary continue to provide
this be reimbursed from the Health In
surance fund.-CIO NEWS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
Majority of Democrats In 31st
Assembly Want MVA-CVA

Giving some idea of the growing
sentiment for MVA in Montana, was
the strong support registered on {
petition to Rep. Hugh Mitchell d.,
Wash.), during the closing days of
the 31st assembly by Democratic
of that body.
The petition to Rep. Mitchell, and
thereto, follow:
Helena, Montana,
February %, 1919
Hon. Hugh B. Mitchell,
President, League for eva,
Seattle, Washington.
We, the undersigned members of
Montana State Legislature, now in
session, have been and are active
supporters of programs for develop
ment of Columbia River and Missouri
River, both of which have headwaters
in Montana, through the agency of
Valley Authority legislation.
We sincerely favor the same type
Of legislation as was embodied in the
bill to set up Tennessee Valley Auth
GRITTY, namely, public corporation
that shall be responsible for the gen
eral plan of development and have
free choice in the selection of other
agencies federal, state and locaD
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25

Commission has disclosed an
ominous system of so-called
independent contractor" rela-
tionships which, if allowed to
spread would threaten the en-
tire unemployment compensa-
ton set-up in Montana, accord
ing to reports.
SO far, no employers operating
under union contracts appear TO
be involved.
One outstanding example exposed
is a comparatively successful and
long-standing non-union operation at
Kalispell. When this concern tenn
porarily closed its planer department
and employees filed for unemploy-
ment compensation benefits, it was
learned that no Unemployment Com
pensation tax had been paid covering
their unemployment.
When called to task by repre-
sentatives of the Unemployment
Compensation Commission, this
concern claimed that it had con-
tracted out its planer department
to an Independent contractor.
The contractor had also refused to
pay the tax, alleging that he, in turn,
was contracting the work out to en-
ployes as Independent contractors.
1t is reliably understood that Com
mission attorneys plan to bring suit
against the employer in this instance.
Meanwhile, numbers of other
smaller groups of employees are
finding themselves in the same
position Numerous employers
have gone out of business or trans
ferred ownership without any pay
roll or other records upon which a
determination can be made.
1t is pointed out that employees
deprived of Unemployment Compen-
sation benefits by such practices,
will also find that no Social Security
tax was paid or Industrial Accident
coverage carried by these employers.
Many workers appear to have been
running the risk of they and their
families being left entirely destitute
in case of an on-the-job injury in
these operations.
Numerous claims for unpaid
wages are now being filed with
the Montana Division of Labor by
workers who were careless in &C
cepting employment from ire
sponsible employers.
Il. +lan%
Germ against which one of these COM
plants has been filed has alleged
that the entire crew were indepen
dent contractors and were only paid
for days in which the mill cut Is
thousand board feet of lumber, in
which event they received eight
hours pay at straight time even
though 10 or II hours were put in
to reach that cut.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
MVASentiment Is Growing
In Both Dakotas

Following tenday speaking trip in North and South Da
koa MVA Regional Engineer Jerome G. Locke reports that
everywhere he finds sentiment growing for development of the
Missouri valley under migrated decentrazed authority
plan Prior to his trip through the Dakoas Col Locke the
principal speaker the annual Farmers Union Central Ex
change banquet before two thousand cooperaos ST.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
SOME MONTANA EMpL OVERS
PAYMENT OF UNEMPL 0YlAEN

L. & S. w. Union Register, Portlan
Observation-Disclosures unemployment throue !
tana lumber industry has brought to light the
non-union operators have not been paying uner
pensation taxes and their employees not
fits while jobless. &
Investigation by the Montana Unemployment
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25

Only SO signatures on petitions
for the office type" ballot were
left valid when the Union County
Board of Elections finished Tues
day night checking those circu-
lated in Union County.
Persons circulating the petit
tions for changing the type of bal
lot used in Ohio obtained 576
signatures in Union County. How
ever, 487 of these were ruled by
the Board to be invalid on the
technicality that the peron cir
culating most of the petitions had
signed it in the wrong place.
Before sending the petitions out
to the several counties for local
Boards of Elections to check
signatures, Secretary of State
Charles Sweeney last Friday
threw out petitions bearing 3d.
466 names. This left statewide
balance of 363,470 names to be
checked in each county.
He said the petitions, on their
face, are sufficient, Valid sigma
lures need to total 30l,829.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Stout is Second
In State Contest

Earl Stout, Union Township
farmer, placed second in the
state in the annual level land
blowing contest at Wooster Tues
day. Mr.. Stout has won the Union
County championship, the dis
trict meet at Springfield, and thus
earned the right to compete in the
State contest.
Placing first in the level land
contest was Herb Schmidlapp, of
Miami County, who had score
of 1913. Mr.. Stout has score OF
80.2. Other top representatives in
the state were Lloyd Burch, Pre-
BILE County, 1913; George Glenn
ments, Madison County, 1873; and
Frank Wagner, Starke County,
1872.
Mr.. Schmidlapp will represent
Ohio in the national contest at
Des Moines, Iowa next month.
He received trophy and check
for $50 for his prize-winning
work. Mr.. Stout received check
for S25 for second place. Third
place was SIS and all other con-
testants were given $40.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Little S Store
To Open Saturday

Reopening of Marysville's new
est department store, Little's, Inc,
which was set for Friday has
been delayed until Saturday due
to hold up in the construction
work.
This will not be the formal
opening of the store, due to the
fact that many of the depart
ments will not be completely
stocked. However, the manage
ment decided to get open for
business as soon as possible.
Date for the formal opening of
the new store will be announced
later when all the work planned
is completed and all the new
stock of merchandise is in place.
Interior of the store, which
used to house the Carmean Dry
Goods Co, has been completely
remodeled. The old arches have
been removed and replaced with
steel beams. A new, lClern front
has been installed and other inn
provementS made.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Nearly All Signatures for Ballot
Change Vote Invalidaied by Board

Sponsors of the move to have
the office-type ballot substituted
for Ohio's present form submitted
petitions bearing 406,936 sigma
lures, Sweeney said the petitions
thrown out were rejected for
technical reasons. Sixty of Ohio's
88 counties are represented on the
petitions, he said.
If the remaining petitions are
sufficient, the ballot question will
go to Ohio voters this fall.
Present ballots now list candi-
dates in a column under their
party emblem. A single *" at
the top of the party column casts
a vote for all the candidates of
that party.
The proposed ballot is similar
to the type used in Massachusetts,
and would ban straight-ticket vot-
ing with single "x'' The ballot
puts all candidates for an office
together in separate compart-
ment regardless of party, Affilia-
tions are printed beside the
names.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Kirby is Referee
At Grund American

M E. Kirby is attending the
Grand American Handicap trap
shoot, this week, in Vandalia. He
is referee on trap one, the same
as last year, and enjoys keeping
the boys scores as well as help
make them.
The winner of Sundays pre-
liminary in the open champion
ship was Rudy Etchen of Los
Angeles, Cal, and Cliff Dough
man, of Morrow. Each broke 200
straight and then in the shoot
off broke another 100 each and
then shot about Is more. Dough
man missed one and Etchen won
first prize with Doughman sec
ond. The regular shoot starts
Monday.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Union Commissioners
Vote to Turn Down
Bi-County Ditch

With three Logan county Com
missioners voting for" and the
two Union county Commissioners
present voting against, a pro-
posal to improve the Millcreek
ditch and the Nettlecreek lateral
in the two counties was killed at
a meeting here Monday of the
Joint Board of Commissioners of
the two counties. A favorable vote
by majority of each Board OF
Commissioners in such a pro-
poSal is necessary.
Homer Fuson, r. F. D. 4, Belle
fontaine, sat as one of the Logan
county Commissioners in place of
E. c. Webber, who stood to ben
eft or be damaged by the pro-
posal.
The proposal had not yet reach
ed the stage requiring an estimate
by the County Engineer, or the
probable assessment against the
affected property owners.
Petitioning for the improve
ment were Wilson B. Evans, C..
Fred Van Cleve, Mr.. Webber and
N. p. McColloch, all residents of
the West Mansfield Area. The
Improvement was to have started
at the eastern boundary of the
lands of the Columbus Mutual
Life Insurance Company in Rush
creek township.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25

Any of the boys who were with us
last year can tell you it seemed
like we stopped at every cross
ing and house on the way home.
We started for home at a. m. and
got there at midnight.
I'VE pulled in at Atterbury at
2 p. m. and were very fortunate
in getting the same barracks that
we had last year Everything is
close, the p x. is just a block
away, a swimming pool is about
6 blocks away and show within
5 blocks. The airfield, which is
also used for parade grounds, is
Continued on Page 2. Col u
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Got Any Inventions?
Dover Seeks Them
For Pageant Episode

If anyone has any early inven-
tions used in early Union County
or central Ohio history it would
be greatly appreciated if he would
get in touch with j. E. Carson,
Marysville Rt. 8, chairman of the
Dover Township part in the His
torical Pageant of Union County,
to be given at the Fair.
Mr.. Carson's job is to find such
early machines and household
articles as were used to tighten
the work during pioneer days.
Anyone having such an article,
and who would be willing to loan
it to the group for the two nights
the pageant is to be given, is ask
ed to contact Mr.. Carson at his
address or by phone, 4-554O.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Open House On
Soil Conservation Set
Friday Afternoon

Soil Conservation open
House" will be held on the Aug
ust Hofbauer farm, two miles west
of jerome on the Jerome-New
California rd., from 1:30 to TOO
p. m. Friday, according to C. G.
Phillips of the u. S. Soil Conser-
vation Service. .
All farmers in this locality are
being invited to see the soil con-
servation practices which Mr..
Hofbauer has applied to his land.
Hofbauer's farm conservation
plan will be explained in a tour
over the farm, where sod water
ways, terraces, diversions, per-
manent pasture treatment, plow-
down fertilizer on corn, and
bronze grass ladino meadows will
be seen.
The tour of the farm will take
about one hour and can be taken
anytime between 1870 and ZOO p.
M.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Historical Group
Signing Members

Mrs. Louis P. RauSch, tempor-
airy chairman of membership for
the Union County Historical So
ciety, has announced sub-chair-
men for each township as follows:
Allen, Mrs. Glen Cline, and
Harold Kent; Claiborne, Ed Hast
ings; Darby, Mrs. Ethel Helser;
Dover, Miss Name Finnin; Jack
son, Rev. John H. ElWood; Jer-
ONE, Peter Fisher; Leesburg,
Frank E. Smith, and Gwynn San
derS; Liberty, Mrs. Mary Alice
Diehl, and Willard Winter; Mill
creek. Charles Tossey, and Miss
Bernice Thompson; Paris, r. L..
Cameron, and Willella Kennedy;
Taylor, Mrs. Sam Westlake; I'm
ion, Paul Ryan; Washington, Dali
las Heenan; York, Mrs. Sterling
Smith.
Some co-chairmen have been
secured, others will be added as
the work progresses. 1t will be
necessary to have all parts of the
county well represented in the
membership of the organization,
if the aims and policies are to be
successfully carried out. The date
for the next meeting has been set
for Sept %, at which time com
plete organization will be effect
ed, including the election of per
manent officers, and the adopt
ion of the constitution. All mem
bers enrolled and at this meet
ing will be charter and organi-
zation members.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
County Allotted Buildings For
Emergency Storage of Grain
$4,000 Bushels
To be Capacity
On Howard Farm
Will Handle Surplus
Crops Which Elevators
Cannot Take Care Of

Union County has been allocat-
ed storage capacity for $4,000
bushels of grain in emergency
storage according to Wilby Coch-
enour, manager of the local AAA
office.
Two quonSets with a capacity
Of $4,000 bushels each and Is
smaller, oval-type steel bins hold
ing 2800 bushels each will be
constructed on the Vern Howard
farm, y mile south of Milford
Center.
This farm is near the central
point of most of the farm plans
and agreements in the county and
that is the reason for its being
chosen for the storage site.
Purpose of the bins is to han
die all grain that cannot be stor-
ed in local elevators or terminals
This falls corn crop will be the
first grain to be stored in the
buildings.
$4,000 Bushels Under Loan
A total of $4,000 bushel of
corn is under loan and purchase
agreements and a large portion of
it will be stored in the bins on
the Howard farm. OF course, as
much of the crop as possible will
be stored in terminals and ele-
vators but the overflow will be
taken care by the new emergency
storage program.
The government has a 10-year
lease on the site of storage bins
on the Howard farm. The build
ings are of semi-permanent type
construction, and they will be
used when there is an over-pro-
duction of grain under the AAA
agreements and there is a short
age space.
The structures will be erected
within the next 30 days. The
work is being done by the Great
Lakes Corporation and will be
sold to the Government upon
completion. Kelly Conklin, son of
Henry Conklin, prominent Mill
creek Township Hostein cattle
broker, will be charge of the con-
Struction.
May Get More Later
The entire state will get 10000
90 bushel emergency grain stor-
age but all of the SO counties will
not share in the program. Union
County may get more storage
capacity later on as Mr.. Coche-
nour had requested a total of
100000 bushels storage space.
Farmers participating in the
program will be notified when
and where they are to deliver the
grain, Mr.. Cochenour added
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Monarchs Getting
Liqht Workouts

With the first week of practice
drawing to a close, Marysville
High Schools gridders are begin
ming to get some of the off-sea-
son kinks out and are rounding
into shape for the first scrim-
mage, which will probably be
held the latter part of next week.
All squad members must have
their medical check-ups and get
their health insurance cards fill
ed out before Coach Paul Wen
eel can begin working out a few
plays and doing a great deal OF
contact work.
Most of the practice time thus
far has been devoted to running
the track, doing calisthenics, and
going through other condition
ing drills.
1t is possible that some inJur-
les will result in the more rugged
work that comes later on, but
those are to be expected and it
can only be hoped that the key
men, of which there are all too
few, will not be the victims OF
torn hgaments, sprains, etc.
Injuries are one of the main
jinxes of any football coach and
it is for the benefit of everyone
concerned that the proper amount
of conditioning be done and the
insurance be taken out before
the heavy scrimmages an drills
take place.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-25
Two Men ore Fined
In Mayors Court

Two men were arraigned before
Mayor G l.. Kingsmore Tuesday
on charge of intoxiCation and
intention to defraud.
Merle Robinson, Plain City,
was fined $40 and costs on the
intoXication charge after he was
arrested by Sheriff Walter Gal
loway Monday night
Lloyd Dean, also of Plain city,
was charged with intention to
defraud on a bad check count
and was bound over to the grand
jury under $500 bond. He was
unable to put up the bond and
was confined in the county iail.