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The people's voice., 1950-05-19
aOGiGTs
or MONTANA
The 6afsthcoming International Water
Hearings
..sr0RsCAL. aO0IGIs
Hearings

On June II Shelby and June II Havre the nterna
ona Joint Commission composed of representatives the
American and Canadian governments will hold public
ngs preliminary to the commission rendering decision the
disputed waters of the Waterton and Belly rivers.
AS matters presently stand, Canada is holding the
trump cardsandunless aroused public opinion makes
itself heard this side of the border neghbor to the
north in fair to approprang all of the runoff of
these two rivers including upwards of 100000 feet that
rise in Glacier Park The Canadians we'll along
construction of vast irrigation project which will bring water
than $40 900 Once this Belly water
put to on these hope for future of
share of the water will be forever since all court and
treaty precedents concerning disposition of waters
ernaona nature favor country which has put
to
Although upwards 400 900 feet of
the two rises in this country American will
ing settle for 250000 100000 These figures
based feasibility of divertng northern
Montana where it could be put to
Reports that opposition has developed in the
be placed under irrigation This understandable Much of
the land in the dry bet of northern Montana wheat
try and without federal aid and considerable
of placing the water the land would be prohbve Be
that may this matter solely concerned with the
present
The most important thing for this country
equitable share of the runoff treaty. before the Can
adams all this into How it is be used 25 So
hence will be determined by the agricultural needs
then prevailing Considering the evergrowing world popua
the (and/or decreasng) supply the
question of the whether such water be used
cusivey irrigation other land What import
ant is that title insurance against water
shortage for future generations.
Therein lies the Importance of the June hearing and there
lies the why all north Montana between Havre and
Shelby should have its we'll prepared at the June II and
II hearings
The people's voice., 1950-05-19
HAvRE, SHELBY WATER
HEARING PLANS Are
FORMULATED

HAVRE, May Is = Atty. Gen.
Arnold H. Olsen and his assistant
Charles Huppe, were in Havre to
discuss the international hearings at
Shelby June IL and Havre June II
relative to ALLEGATION of waters of
the Belly and Waterton rivers which
rise in Montana and flow into Cana
da.
Canadian plans are to use waters
of the two rivers with the treaty
share of the Milk river waters for
development of a 5O0,O00-acre irriga-
ton project extending from Leth-
bridge to Medicine Hat Both Mon
tana and the federal government
have objected to the Canadian pro-
posal to use all waters of American
origin on Canadian projects and have
asked the international joint COM
mission to make a fair division of
the waters in question.
Montana and the United States in
terests propose diversion of Belly
and Waterton river waters with Milk
river waters to bring realization and
development of the upper Marias
river irrigation project. This project
would bring into irrigation much of
the dry area north and east of Shelby
and west of Havre
Judge C. B. Elwell will head the
witnesses appearing at the joint
commission hearing in Havre.-Gt.
Falls Tribune.
The people's voice., 1950-05-19
ANTI-REA MEASURE
ASSAILED BY COOP

Protest against the Thomas-T
ett bill (which would halt the ad-
vance of loans by REA for power
generation and transmission con-
struction by co-ops whenever co-ops
have entered into sales contracts or
lease agreements with non-rural con-
sumers" was voiced by the annual
meeting of Midland Cooperative
Wholesale in Minneapolis.
The enactment of this bill "would
seriously cripple the operation of ex-
isting generating and transmission
(facilities) and would curtail and in
many cases completely stop con-
struction now going on" the meeting
said. 1t described the bill as "part
of the general campaign to harm
and cripple co-operatives of all
kinds"
The meeting urged the 100000
members of 600 local Midland CO.
operatives in Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Iowa, to register with their Con-
gressmen their individual protests
against the bill.
The people's voice., 1950-05-19

BUTTE-The executive council
of the Montana Federation of Teach
ers at it's meeting Saturday, stated
that over-crowded classrooms and
over-burdened teachers are major
problems which must be considered
in relationship to the welfare of the
children of the nation, reports Kath-
leen Mcclure, NIT president.
Teachers are alarmed" the coun-
Gil said, sat the increased demands
on their efficiency and time as class
room teachers for duties not strictly
of an Institutional nature" They
recommend that every teacher be
given an opportunity to teach at
maximum efficiency during the
school day and that classes be limit
ed to not more than 25 pupils.
The organization pledged itself to
work for more generous financing
of public schools. To achieve this
goal the foundation program as
framed in the new school finance
law must be increased. Also en-
dorsed was the increase of the state
share of this program to a full 500.
To allow for local variations in
The people's voice., 1950-05-19

GRAND COULEE DAM - From
within the shadow of the mightest
structure ever created by man, Presi-
dent Truman has made a dynamic ap-
peal for the creation of the CVA-
Columbia Valley Administration.
81 believe the eva is a necessary
next step in the sensible, democrat
ic development of the resources of the
Northwest" the President told the
nation in a nationwide radio ad-
dress.
81 believe the people of this area
think so, too. And when they make
their voices heard, am sure the eva
will be established"
The Presidents eva speech eli
The people's voice., 1950-05-19
NIT EXECUTIVE COUNCIL SOLID In SUPPORT OF BUTTE
TEACHERS In tenure FIGHT

the cost of educating the child an in
crease in the permissive levies was
sanctioned. Since public education
is essential the group regrets that
adequate school financing is too Of
ten dependent upon the passage of
local district levies. 1t believes that
the next legislature must seriously
consider this problem to keep faith
with Montana's children and our
democratic way of life.
The group went on record as
giving complete support to the
Butte Teachers Union in its ten
ure case involving teachers over
65. w. D. Rankin of Helena, Will
liam Freebourn and Lewis Roter-
ing of Butte, are the attorneys for
the teachers union.
The council laid plans for the
fifth annual convention of the state
organization of teachers unions to
be held in Butte in October at which
time the membership will have an
opportunity to hear nationally rec
ognized authorities in the fields of
education and labor.
The people's voice., 1950-05-19

Governor John w. Bonner this
week characterized the proposed Is
to 80 per cent increase in telephone
rates as putting the subscribers OF
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. in the
position of being forced to make a
"free gift" to the local subsidiary of
profit-glutted American Telephone
& Telegraph Co.
Bonner stated that Q. the COM
pany is in no position to claim that
its proposed increased rates are a
necessity and that the company,
rather than asking its subscribers to
give it free gift by increased tele-
phone rates, should go to investment
houses for money for capital i'm
"The increase, if granted" stated
The people's voice., 1950-05-19
TELEPHONE COMPANY I'm NO POSITION TO CLAIM
HIGHER RATE SCHEDULES, SAYS BONNER

the Governor, "would cost subscrib-
ers in the state of Montana many
thousands of dollars more year, and
would cost the state government
more thousands of dollars annually"
AS noted previously, AT&T in
1949, set new profit smashing records
when it increased its net earnings
about 20 per cent over the record
breaking year of 1948. Net AT&T
earnings in 1949 were $64,400,000,
as compared with $53, ,4O3 in
1948.
Mountain States likewise has been
enjoying a similar degree of pros
perity. MST&T net earnings in 1947
were $1,698,451. In 1948 and 1949
the company's nets were $5,706,467
and SIS, 5,698,071-or an increase of
considerably more than 800 per cent
for the latter two years, as compared
with 1947.
Montana housewives, faced with
the continuing battle of making ends
meet on incomes which have risen
only slightly since 1947, do not look
kindly on this latest telephone COM
pany attempt to extract higher tolls
particularly in face of the unusual
the company is enjoying.
The people's voice., 1950-05-19

outlines OF an immediate leglSla-
tive program for Montana schools
and plans for future discussions of
the place of public education in a
free society engaged the newly or
ganized Council for Improvement of
Public Education in an all day meet
ing in Great Falls, May 6.
The Council, a voluntary independ-
ent organization of Montana citizens
interested in education, draws it's
membership from parents, classroom
teachers, legislators, farmers, work
ers, and includes a county commits
sioner and a minister. All are tax
payers. Two meetings of the group
have been held thus far with the
first being March II when prelimin-
ary organization steps were taken.
The group thus far has been alb
sorbed largely in reviewing the op-
GRAFTON of the present school finance
law. In a list of legislative propos-
ais the following improvements are
urged by the newly formed council:
(1) That the finance schedules in
the foundation program embodied in
the new school finance law be in
creased at least 25 per cent.
(2) That the state furnish at least
so per cent of the increased founda-
ton program for elementary and
secondary schools.
(3) That the countrywide levy for
elementary schools be increased to
Is mills.
(4) That the permissive "cush-
ion" levies on the local district be
increased
90 That tuition for pupils trans
ferring from one district to another
or one county to another be abolished.
(6) That a pupil-teacher ratio
of not more than 1 to 25 in regular
classroom work be maintained in
order for a district to qualify for
state payments.
CD That revenue to enable the
state to meet its increased share of
the costs of education be sought from
the following sources:
(a) Alter the income taxes on the
basis of ability to pay to bring in
more money.
(b) Increase the net proceeds of
mines taxes.
(c) Increase the per cent of in
come tax receipts going to schools
from 25 to so.
(d) Use the constitutional state
wide property tax levy of 2 u mills.
(e) Increase leasing fees on
school lands.
The council also recommends state
The people's voice., 1950-05-19
Three MAJOR LABOR
GROUPS OPPOSE BUMP
In telephone RATES

Three major labor groups, rep
resenting many thousands of work
ers in Great Falls, Butte and Liv-
ingston, have added their voice in
opposition to the proposed 10 to
80 per cent rate increases sought by
Mountain States Telephone & Tele-
graph Company.
The three groups are: Cascade
Trades & Labor Assembly, Great
Falls; Silver Bow Trades and Lab
or Assembly, Butte, and Park Coun-
ty Trades and Labor Council, Liv-
ingston.
Although MST&T claims it must
have the increased rates to i'm
prove earnings to attract additional
capital into the business - re-
view of the company's annual state
ments for 1948 and 1949 shows net
income increases of nearly 400 per
cent over 1947-or a Jump from
approximately $1,6OO,00O in 1947,
to about $5,700,000 in both 194S
and 1949.
The people's voice., 1950-05-19
West Point, Annapolis
Appointments Now Open

Competitive examinations will be
held June II, to select qualified
young men to fill one vacancy at
West Point and one at Annapolis,
Sen. James E. Murray has announc-
ed Exams will be conducted at
Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Glasgow,
Glendive, Great Falls, Havre, Hell
ena, Kalispell, Lewistown, Miles City,
Missoula and Plentywood.
The people's voice., 1950-05-19
Rural Phone Users to Be
Signed Up In Lewistown Area

More than 2,400 REA customers
will soon be asked to join the new
Central Montana Rural Telephone
Cooperative, Fergus County Agent
Owen L. Bunting has announced.
Application forms for telephone
service will be sent all REA patrons
as we'll as farmers who are presently
not being satisfactorily served by
existing telephone service.
The people's voice., 1950-05-19

Phil Murray and Company, for
the past two years have been as
close to President Truman, as
paper to the wall.
Murray and his men (CIO ex-
ecutive counciD swear that
Int'l Union Mine, Mill & Smelt-
err Workers, isn't exactly a re-
spectacle American trade union,
therefore must be destroyed.
President Harry Truman last
week accepted an honarary
membership in Mine-Mill, Butte
Miners Union No. 1.
Evening star., 1950-05-07

A shary- eyed airline pilot prepar-
ing to land spotted the men,
Charles E. German. IS, and James
Walker, %, and radioed the con-
troll car to call for police help
When police arrived they found
the raft had been blown ashore by
the wind and the men were Sefe.
Evening star., 1950-05-07
Democrats Hope Stor Pitcher
Will Go Up in Air (After Gome)

Strangely enough, the Demo-
Gratis want their star pitcher to
go up in the air on the night of
the Congressional Base Ball Game,
May 19 at Griffith Stadium.
This is not exactly generous
gesture toward their Republican
opponents. 1t is a serious matter
The man who had the Repub-
licans lying down and rolling over
last year was Representative
Wheeler of Georgia, the home of
that other Georgia Peach. Ty
Cobb.
While he was in the box, base
hits were scarce.
This year, however, things
may be different. Representative
Wheeler is all signed up to make
speech at an Armed Forces Day
celebration in Georgia the day
after the game. The problem is
how to get him from Washington
to Georgia. Under the best of cir
cumstances the connections will
be close.
That is why the Democrats
want him to go up in the air
If arrangements can be made for
him to fly to Georgia he'll be out
there giving the Republicans a
Evening star., 1950-05-07
Sightless Partisan Given
French Traitors Corneas
BY the Assoeiofed Press

PARIS, May 6.-The corneas OF
an executed French traitor were
transplanted today to the eyes ot
a sightless Partisan.
officials at the hospital said they
would not know for two weeks
whether the operation was a sue
cess. They refused to give the
name of the patient OF to disclose
details of the operation.
Maurice Bey, condemned for be-
ing a member of a French Gestapo
organization during the war, gave
his eyes to science yesterday at
dawn. a few minutes before he
faced a firing squad.
Physicians removed the corneas
from Bey's eyes Immediately after
the execution, and placed them in
an eye bank at the hospital to
await the operation on a sightless
patient.
Evening star., 1950-05-07

hard time again.
The Republicans profess not to
be too concerned. After all. -
said Representative C. w. (RuntD
Bishop. the manager. hes a year
Older this year. He can't go on
forever Jogging them over He's
no Iron Man Joe McGinty."
WAS he pretty good last year,"
reporter asked.
Il don't know" Runt frankly
admitted. Il never did see the
ball. I'd see him wind up and
hear the thud in the catcher
glove but I never saw the ball. ]
don't know whether he's got any
thing or not"
How about you fellows?" some
Of the other players were asked.
We're not talking" was the an
swer. "We follow the party line
Ask our spokesman"
Il have spoken, said Runt.
Tickets for the game may be
had at the business counter in the
Star Building lobby, at the door
keepers Office in the House side
of the Capitol. or at Griffith Sta
dium. The prices are 81. $1.50 and
81. The game is played as bene-
fit for The Stars Summer Camp
! Fund,
Evening star., 1950-05-07

Mr.. johnson also requested an
additional $50 million for Navy
ship conversion and moderniza-
ton for anti-sub warfare and he
commented that he had offered
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld $10C
million from savings for such pur-
poses when the latter was Chief
of Naval Operations.
But the admiral, he reported
told us that additional money
could not be spent wisely"
Admiral Denfeld's successor,
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, ask
ed for, and obtained, an extra SIG
million for the purpose, the de-
fense chief testified.
The Navy plans to spend its ex-
ira $50 million to build three new
type motor mine sweepets, oper-
ate four additional destroyers, and
convert and modernize three des-
troyer escorts and 10 long range
underwater type submarines.
Maj. Gen. William H. Arnold,
Army budget chief, testified that
the Ordnance Department was de-
veloping a special ammunition
that greatly increases the eff
fectiveness of a considerable pro-
portion of American tanks and
anti-tank weapons"
Turn Again to YardStick.
In discussing $24 million which
the Army will be allotted from
savings from other areas, Gen
Arnold said a program had to be
undertaken Ito obviate in an eco-
nomic way the threat of low-fying
airplanes" and that artillery
shooting proximity fuse ammuni-
ton could be used effectively
against group troops.
| But the testimony time anc
again turned to the services sys-
tenn of measuring the usefulness
of aircraft.
Said Mr.. Johnson:
Il cannot go along with this
that a B-29 plane in some other
country. built from models of ours
and perhaps lacking some of the
electronic equipment that ours
have, should be counted as super
plane, or. as a long range bomber
when planes that we have in that
class, and just as good and better
built, are. not counted as planes
in the category in which we put
them, as medium bombers. Thai
is something that disturbs me.
1--WE do not want to have the
American public to misunder.
stand. We do not want any for.
eign country to think that oul
Air Force is not just what you
and I expect it to be. Therefore
I am making this request for ad-
ditional funds"
Evening star., 1950-05-07
Horsemeat Shipment
Seized at Baltimore
Food Packing Plant
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Nay GA ton
and a half Of horsemeat was con-
fiscated by city health inspectors
today shortly after it had been
unloaded at plant which proc
esses meat products for human
consumption.
DIR. w. j. Gallagher, chief vet
ernarian Of the health depart
ment. said charges would be placed
against owners of the plant Mon
day. He refused to identify the
company.
The official said Federal charges
"undoubtedly' would be placed
against an unidentified New Jer-
sey firm which shipped the horse
meat here.
Plant Had Been Watched.
DR.. Gallagher said the depart
ment has been particularly alert
since the (horsemeat) racket was
uncovered in Texas several weeks
ago."
Federal and Texas officials are
investigating sale of horsemeat
which had been labeled prime
beef tenderloin" in Houston, Dali
las and Fort Worth.
He said inspectors have been
watching the plant here since
they received a report a shipment
OF horsemeat was expected from
New Jersey.
Unloaded From Truck.
The meat, which had been
Federally-inspected as horsemeat,
but packed in unmarked contain
ers. was unloaded from a truck
bearing New Jersey license plates,
he said. The truck was accom-
panied by car, also bearing New
Jersey tags.
DR.. Gallagher said the owners
OF the plant were present when
he and the inspectors appeared
on the loading platform and Or
dered the meat seized.
Both city and State statutes ban
the sale Of processing of horse
meat for humans.
Evening star., 1950-05-07
By John A. Giles

Defense Secretary johnson has
told Congress that Russia has no
plane 70 match this country'S
long-range, six-engine B-26 bonn
ber.
And the defense chief, in testi-
mony before a House Appropria-
tions subcommittee which was re-
leased yesterday, said the United
States me-developed B-29
Superfortresses are as good or bet
ter than Soviet copies of the same
plane.
He stated emphatically, mo,
they have not" when asked
whether the Russians have a plane
of the B-36 type ito our knowl-
edge"
Mr.. johnson appeared before
the subcommittee in behalf of his
request for additional spending for
military aircraft-which he said
was based on a study of world
conditions plus the failure of top
military leaders to reach an under
standing as to when an airplane
becomes obsolete.
The Air Force and Navy now
measure obsolesence by an age
yardStick-which Mr.. johnson said
disturbed" him. He said that he
could not understand why plane
first delivered, in 1949, and still
coming off the production lines
three years later, should be
counted obsolete or second line
simply because Of its age.
Fighter "2d Line" After Years.
But he added that maybe there
can never be any, change in that
yardstick.
The yardstick Classics a fighter
plane second line" after three
years and bombers after five or
six years.
Other testimony disclosed that
the extra 5000 million which Mr..
Johnson asked for the Air Force
would provide II new planes and
the modernization of 229 other
aircraft. II of them B-29s and
B-50s.
Navy witnesses testified that 95
new aircraft, to be utilized di-
rectly or indirectly in anti-sub-
marine work, could be bought with
the 500 million extra Mr.. john
son sought for that service. It
would buy 76 jet fighters and 10
anti-submarine planes. -.
But both services stoutly main
tanned that even with the addi-
tional funds they would not be
able to maintain a modern force
by their own yardstick.
These statements contrasted
with Mr.. Johnson's assertion that
'it is our program to keep the
48 groups of the Air Force mod
ern through the years" and
equal to the demand of the
world situation"
Rep. Engel, Republican, OF
Michigan. brought out in ques-
tioning Of Maj. Gen. w. E. Todd
of the Air Force that the 46
groups have much greater fire.
power, much greater range and
much greater efficiency" than was
true two years ago, and that the
number of planes in each group
had been increased.
Evening star., 1950-05-07
Women's Rights Opposed

KARACHI, Pakistan (P.-Four
theologians have resigned from a
committee Of the constituent as
sembly, claiming the appointment
of woman member was "un-
Islamic." The four contend that
women should have nothing to do
with drafting Pakistan's consti-
tuition or administering in the new
government.
Evening star., 1950-05-07
Albania Dooms 2 Men
As YueosIovion Spies
BY the Associotad PreSs

LONDON. May 6.-An Albanian
military court today sentenced
two men to death and four to
prison on charges of spying for
YugoSlavia.
Tirana Radio described the de-
PENDANTS as diversion agents,
and saboteurs in the service of
the Fascist. Trotskyite clique OF
Belgrade criminals and spies. =