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Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-01-15
Alfalfa Seed on Wheat Acres
FesVer but Bigger Plants Produce More
Soils and Crops
By RALPH MERCER

WELL, HERE WE ARE safely
launched on a new year and it's a
happy one I am wishing each and
every reader of this column. 1t is
mighty gratifying to total up the
new friends make through this
column every year. True most of
them are from Montana, but a whole
host of them come from other states.
Alfalfa for Seed
Continuing along with a review on
possible uses for those acres that are
taken out of wheat production, I'd
like to review a phase of production
that has probably filled more inches
of space in this column than any
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-01-15

OCIAC1 SOpJCSIs OOI1lC VI
our growers h a v e
made use of the in
formation contained
here, but there's a
lot of room for con-
verts. I keep harping
on the subject because
it represents a crop
that can be produced
over a large area of
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-01-15
81 Cents Is Annual National
Average Support for Eggs

IF 81 CENTS the price for why the local market
sell price?
Many Montana producers have been asking this question
of the price To clarity the matter
referred typical letter inquiry r.
Production Marketing administration
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-01-15

A NEW DECADES ahead of
us; in spite of all the foolish fuss
bout whether it's the end of one
or a brand new one has begun,
there still are ten more years
to come and you can bet there
will be some astounding changes
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-01-15

''Your letter of Jan. 4, 1850, adj
dressed to the Montana Farmer
Stockman, requesting information
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25

that :" Montana must retain the
use of the waters originating in the
state" We must RETAIN. any water
which is required for irrigation use
within the state, or power produced
from water originating in the state. ]"
Neither should be transported to other
areas without "first considering the
potential possibility of use within the
Importance of Low-Cist Power,
Brought Home
The Importance of low-cost power
as a means toward industrial de-
velopment was brought home again
and again by Montana's public power
Governor. Said Bonner, eve know
from experience gained from watch
ing Washington and Oregon,
that the low cost power produced
within those states has entirely
changed their economic situation.
They have experienced steady growth;
they have attracted industries. Those
are the things we desire for Mon
tana :" And we're on our way,
he pointed out:
"Only recently there has been an
nounced the establishment of a phos-
phate plant in the Butte-Aanconda
area. This development is the direct
result of the availability soon of low
cost power from Hungry Horse Dam
1t is such developments as this,
sources can and will result in improv-
ing our economic situation,if the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25

power produced is made available
in this area. There is great pos
sibility that an aluminium plant will
be located in the Hungry Horse area.
| The establishment of such industrial
plants as this can be the turning point
in the growth and prosperity of this
region"
Must Make Full Utilization of Water
Continuing: Montana citizens be-
lieve that if we are to provide ade-
quate opportunities for development
of our agriculture, if present invest
ments in town and business property,
in railroads and other public utilities
are to be safeguarded, we must con-
serve and make fully useful the wat
erS of our streams
"In Montana we have an abund-
ance of loW-grade ore. Electrolytic
processes seem the best adapted to
the refinement of these low-grade
ores. 1t is much cheaper to transport
electric energy than it is to transport
loW-grade ores, SO the future develop
ment of these resources is dependent
on retaining for use in the state the
necessary hydro-electric energy"
Water Board Has Made Great
Progress
Briefly reviewing the 16-year hist
DRY of Montana's State Water Con-
servation Board, Bonner paid high
tribute to this organization which
"has made great progress" in con-
structing projects for supplemental
irrigation and in bringing new acreage
under water.
SWCB g. has benefited over
100000 acres of land in the state
by furnishing supplemental sup
plies as well as full supplies to GER
tain areas throughout the state"
Currently SWCB is converting its
largest appropriation (for 1949-51)
into reclamation projects which g.
will bring an additional $4,000 acres
of new irrigated land to Montana,
and the water supply for $4,000
acres will be supplanted."
mot Only For Today"
Looking ahead to the future, the
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25
REA STATE CONVENTION
SET FOR GLASGOW,
SEPT, ~

Board members and managers of
REA co-operatives in all parts of Mon
tana are expected to converge on
Glasgow next Friday and Saturday for
the annual meeting of the Montana
State REA Coop Association, an
nounces Harold Ebaugh, Havre, as
ISOLATION secretary. Gov John w.
Bonner will be one of the principal
speakers for the occasion, and will
address the delegates Friday even
ing at 1880.
Other business of the convention
will include progress reports by var
ious association affiliates, by those
in charge of the eastern Montana
REA grid program to connect up
several co-ops with their own lines,
etc. Also, the future of REA con-
under war and near-war
conditions will likely be an important
item of discussion.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25
AS POPULAR ATTENTION CENTERs ON
"TIDELANDS' OIL STEAL GOES merrill Y ON
ENTERS ON WAR

illegal plundering of these offshore lands.
This, according to O'Mahoney, " to pro-
vide for interim operation of tideland oil
leases.
Further, according to Harold Ickes (New
Republic, Aug 14) the resolution is so word
ed as to permit these illegal leases to run Gin
perpetuity-or at least until there is not
barrel of oil left to be pumped out. +" This
gimmck to permit the majors to drain off
all oil underlying these lands, states the one
time Secretary of Interior, is contained in
8" Section IA which directs the Secretary
of Interior during period of three years to
grant leases covering period of five years
and as long thereafter as oil or gas may be
produced from the area in paying quantities.
:. Thus it will be seen that the phrase inter
i'm operation is simply fancifully-cut, but
familiar sheep skin to disguise the Oil-hungry
wolf one may freely imagine what an
eternity interim operation of offshore oil
leases would in fact be-.
There you have it. Although the Supreme
Court has twice ruled that these oil lands be-
long to all the people of the United States
and although President Truman has vetoed
legislation making gift of such off-shore
lands to the states, by some strange conniv-
ance four members of his official family have
nullified both the court directive and the
Presidents wishes. And, now to make it a
lead-pipe cinch that the majors" get all this
estimated 100 billion barrels of national de-
tense reserve oil, the Congress is most likely
to approve SIR 1876.
Looks like we'll have to get our minds on
Washington for awhile, instead of Korea, or
our country will soon be the victim of a steal
that will dwarf Tea Pot Dome into insignifi-
canoe. tidal wave of protest to our con-
gressional delegation and the President is in
order if this latest attempt to take over these
valuable off-shore lands is to be thwarted
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25

Montana development over the past
sixteen years; and the key role in
expensive electrical energy is already
beginning to play in bringing greater
industrialization to the state.
Great as our resources of non
ferrous metals "copper", silver, lead,
zine, etc. our petroleum and natural
gas deposits, our coal beds, our tim
Der resources, one other-water-
towers over all the others, the Gov
ernor told his audience. Emphasizing
he stated "Of all our natural re-
sources one only-water-i inexhaus-
tible. We see our mines gradually
exhausted; we see our forests gradu-
ally being depleted, but each year
our water resources continue to be
available. However, as this water
flows down its course to the sea, it is
lost to us forever. Consequently it has
been the untiring effort of many of
us in these western states to find ways
and means to harness this great re-
source"
A Cure, We Are Searching For
Noting that the Missouri basin has
Jagged behind the other states and
we are not attracting people COM
mensurate with the opportunities for
supporting an increased population,
Bonner emhasized that at is a cure
for this situation | feel we are look
ing for. think that the only answer
to this problem is an expanding econ
omy and this necessary expansion
must come principally from our one
great resource-water."
Further, if Montana is to prosper
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25
Oil Firm Charged With
Monopolizing

Five Standard Oil companies and
a supply firm have been accused by
the Federal Trade Commission of
21-year conspiracy to monopolize
trade in auto accessories.
The result, says the ETC com
plant, has been to shut out of the
market manufacturers and other sell
lers who "refuse to grant illegally
discriminatory prices or to pay IL
legal brokerage" They have violated
not only the ETC act. but also the
Clayton antitrust act, the ETC
charges.
The complaint declares that the
five Standard Oil companies, far
from being merely in the business of
selling gasoline and oil, have been
since 1929 major factor in the sale
of 'TBA products ''-tires batteries,
fan belts, radiator hose, electric
lamps and spark plugs. In fact, says
the complaint, their sales of these
accessories amount to about 10 per-
cent of the total replacement sales
in the United States.
The setup, according to the COM
plant, gets the customers coming and
going, with the Standard Oil com
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25

Despite Presidential veto, despite TWO
supreme court decisions declaring state con-
troll of the submerged lands of the continental
shelf as void the stealing by private oil COM
panies of this resource so vital to national de-
Tense, goes merrily on-and apparently with
Administration sanction.
Three years ago the US Supreme Court de-
cided that by no stretch of the imagination
could these lands be considered subject to
state control. At the same time the court ord
cred the then Attorney General Tom Clark,
and the then Secretary of Interior Julius Krug
to take possession of these lands for the feder
al government. In violation of their oaths
of office they ignored this order. Instead
they Immediately entered into a stipulation
with the state of California (and/ or it's as
signees, the majO oil companies) for con-
tinuance of the status quo during the interim
period allegedly needed to evaluate how
much the state owed the federal government
for oil already mined from these lands. Ex-
piration of this stipulation period is August
30, 1850. Nothing further has been done
since to determine how much money is due the
United States government. This Indictment
for negligence is chargeable not alone to
Clark and Krug, but must also be placed
squarely against the present officials At-
torney General Howard McGrath and Secre-
tary of Interior Oscar Chapman Neither of
the latter have done anything to protect the
interests of all the people although the Cali
fornia decision of 1947 and the more recent
Texas-Louisiana decision (June 5, 1850
made it mandatory that these officials exc
cute the courts directives.
With the August 80 deadline on the Elm
term" nearing, move was gotten underway
late in July in the form of So. Resolution 1875
by Senator O'Mahoney 3D. Wyo). Under
terms of this resolution, present lease holders
would ostensibly be given three more years of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25
Montana's Greatest Asset 4
IT'S WATER. :

Water for irrigation, for low cost power-WATER-
the which much the future prosperity of Mon
tana must be built This the theme of Gov John W. Bon
ners address before the Missouri Basin nteAgency Commit
at Fort Peck yesterday he outlined visiting
members the huge potential need for Montana the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25

panies involved being able to buy
from suppliers for as much as 28
per cent below prices paid by com
petitors.-Sioux City Unionist and
Public Forum.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25
Or Mo@rsso3 .o'sr,
HAvRE-SHELBY, GREAT FALLS CANYON FERRY
LINE OKEHED BY conference GROUP

It's "goal to go" for Havre-Shelby, and, despite
terrific Power Trust resistance important has been
tailed for the Canyon Ferryreat Falls prof.
Word from Sen. James E. Murray just before press
time pleased advise conference omnibus
appropriation bill have approved funds for completion
HavreShelby line and subsations, and for
Canyon FerryGreat Falls transmission line and
TONS"
Final hurdle to be surmounted will be senate and
house approval of the conference the bill This
is expected shortly.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25
RESOLUTION

Resolution by membership East Helena Mine
Mill Local No. regular local meeting Monday August 81
Whereas has attention that the Montana Physicians
otherwise Blue ShedBue despite
empts negotiating ar shop by the Helena Allied Printing Trades
Council Typographical the
be refusal negotiate,
ShiedBue
Resoved membership Helena Local
Nine Mill Smeer Workers. that unfair
Immediately
above named printing craft and be further
board Helena other
membership their health
all labor, be still further
for their concurrence"
mole
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-08-25
Concerning BS-BC =.
ANTI-LAB0R POLICIES DRAW
FURTHER CRITICISM

Resolving that injustice perpetrated the members
of union injury to all union the membership of
East Helena local IL of IntI Union Nine Mill
Workers independently Monday night demanded that Mon
tans Physicians Service blue Sheld-Blue Crosse i'm
mediatey into negotiations good faith " with the
Helena Allied Printing Trades Council and Helena Typograph
cal Union No. 95 (AFL).
The East Helena melterworker also instructed their
executive board investigate other health
plans and make recommendations back the
panies that far that they transfer their
accordingly Finally Local 72s membership appealed to other
IUMM&SW locals Montana in their resolution
disapproval of MPS Labor policy.
This the second week in the past eight days that anti
labor policies of Montana Physicians Service brought
forth public condemnation.
Last week the Montana State Federation of Labor
ton noting that MPS is financed large degree by policy
holders the ranks Montana organized labor ordered
executive board request all AFL union members
medahospal policies with MPS unless that organization
establishes far conditions printing department within
so days (by October 18).
Follows herewith the resolution approved by
day evening:
Evening star., 1950-06-02
11-Month u. 5. Deficit
Placed al So Billion
BY the Associaied Press

The Government spent $641,-
$4,000 more in May than it took
in, putting it $3,230,012,OOO in the
red for the first IL months of this
fiscal year.
Spending would have to exceed
income by $2.2 billion this month
if the deficit for the fiscal year
is to reach the $5.4 billion that
President Truman's staff experts
have estimated it will be.
The Federal debt, representing
years of accumulating deficits,
stood at $256,37O,179, 900 at the
end of May, the Treasury said.
About $420 million, or two
thirds of the deficit in May, was
run up on May 81, when there
were such outlays as 1928, 1865 ,OOo
by the Veterans Administration
$122,019.000 by the Air Force and
S80,535, 900 in interest payment on
the debt.
From last July l to May 81
the Government spent $35,870,-
$4,000 while taking in 2,640,-
$4,000 in taxes. customs and such
other receipts as surplus property
sales.
Compared with the similar pc.
riod of the preceding fiscal year
spending was up around $470,.
100000 and receipts were dowr
more than $500 million.
Evening star., 1950-06-02

| to the main Office and push. It
doesn't bulge. Then they push
again, and cuSs, and push again. -
There's a small white card on
the glass door announcing the new
closing hours, but none to indi-
cate that part of the Post Office
is still open.
"A lot of people," grinned No
7728, "just stomp out of the build
ing after banging on the door
If they turned around, they would
see that the door leading to the
box section is Open"
He suggested to some of his
Post Office acquaintances that a
sign be put up in the lobby. Moth
ing happened.
A one time commercial illustra-
tor, he whipped up a sign in eight
minutes. It's in the lobby Cat
least it was there last night and
bears an arrow indicating the
direction to the box section. 1t
reads:
Might Self Service P. o. This
sign donated by Box Holder 1928
But Box Holder 7728, a very
public-spirited man, is still sad
For the most part his sign was
working WE'LL" but some patrons
don't even look around enough to
see that.
From weeks Of experience came
his considered conclusion:
What they need is two signs
and a talking record"
Evening star., 1950-06-02

tirement after 80 years on the
force.
Precinct Capt. William T. Muir
ply presented a purse of $100
to the 63-year-old policeman. con-
tributed by the businessmen in
the neighborhood. There was
another purse of $50 from his
fellow policemen.
Pvt. Sirola is a native of Italy.
He served with the Marines in
World Wa I. joining the police
force in 1918. He is retiring be-
cause of his health and he and
his wife plan a trip to Florida
later this month.
Cited several times for courage
and efficiency, one of his adven-
lures concerned the breakup of
the so-called Million Dollar
Gang" back in 1928.
The gang was apprehended
breaking into a drugstore and
branch postoffice at Eleventh and
B streets NE. Sirola shot one
of the gang through the neck and
the man and two others were
captured.
Evening star., 1950-06-02
Man Held in Death
OF Wife in SHOOTING
SpseioI Dlspoteh 10 The S,or

WAYNESBORO. Va, June a.
A Waynesboro laundry worker was
held on an open charge today
after his estranged wife died of
bullet wounds last night In a hos
pital here.
Police Chief Wade c. Drum
heller said Ernest c. Winner. 40.
was arrested after Mrs. Winner,
46. was shot twice at the Winner
home. Chief Drumheller said the
woman was wounded in the face
and left side by .22-caliber bullets.
She died less than 80 minutes
after the shooting.
Police quoted Mrs. Madeline
Hiner. a daughter. as saying she
ran to the Winner home after
hearing two shots. When she
entered. she found her parents
and a brother William. about 25.
in the house.
Ihe brother had taken a .22-
caliber pistol from his father after
his mother was shot. police said.
Winner was arrested by Police 1t.
H. c. Bensen and Pvt. Harvey
Scruggs.
Chief Drumheller said the VII
mers were separated and that
Mrs. Winner had started divorce
proceedings.
Mrs. Winner had worked as a
waitress in local restaurants, the
chief said.
Evening star., 1950-06-02
By Fred De Luna

A very public spirited man is
Post Office Boxholder 7728.
A longtime student of the in
tricacies of mailing and receiving
letters, Boxholders 7728 has come
to the aid of citizens befuddled
by the recently shortened hours of
Post Office service:
II saw my duty. and I did it, ~
patiently explained No. 7728. who
declined to identify himself fur
tier, other than to say my
friends sometimes call me Her.
kus."
What No. 772S did was to put
up a neatly lettered sign las:
night in the Thirteenth street
lobby of the Benjamin Franklin
Station, pointing the way to the
only section of the Post Office
open all night-a little room con-
tanning boxes, stamp vending
machines and a mail drop.
Until May 20 the whole Office
was open all night. Now, in line
with Postmaster General Donald
sons policy of only one mail de-
livery a day. all post Offices shut
down at $50 pm. daily. And
as BoXholder 7728 can testify
most citizens don't know this, OF
have forgotten it.
people see the lights on and
come in the building expecting tc
mail a letter." said No. 7723
They go up to the door leading
Evening star., 1950-06-02
University Park Girl, 4,
Hit by Car Near Home

The 4-year-old daughter Of a
University Park physician suffered
face cuts and head injuries yester-
day afternoon when struck by a
car in front of her home.
The child. Susan Watkins
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Dayton
O. Watkins of 1922 Van Buren
street, was taken to the Prince
Georges General Hospital by the
Bladensburg Rescue Squad. Her
father is a staff member at the
hospital. She was reported i'm
proved today.
Prince Georges County police
listed the driver as John C. Ham,
ilton, 81, of 116 Hamilton street
Silver Spring. A technical charge
of reckless driving was placed
against him and he was released
on his personal bond for a hearing
in Hyattsville Police Court June o.
Evening star., 1950-06-02
ST. EIizabeths Gets
.S3 Voluntary Cases
In First Year Of Plan

: Opening st. EliaabethsS Hospi.
tai to voluntary patients has mol
led to any great increase in ad-
missions. Dr. Addison M. Duval
first assistant physician of the
hospital, said today.
Addressing the 18th annual
meeting of the medical society OF
the hospital. DR.. Duval predicted
that voluntary admissions prob
ably will flatten out at about 100
year"
He reviewed the first years ex-
perience under Public Law 737,
which allows the hospital to ac-
cept residents of the District as
voluntary patients.
The law was a good thing. he
said, although voluntary patients
who asked to be discharged one
day and readmitted the next
have tendency to upset normal
hospital routine
He said they finally had made
a rule that they would take back
voluntary patients who asked to
be discharged. but If they demand
ed discharge a second time they
would not be reaccepted.
1t was the hospitals policy, he
said, not to have the sanity of
any of these patients adjudicated
unless they were considered dan
gerouS. He said that he believed
only one of the SO voluntary ad-
missions of the first year had been
forcibly detained through legal
process. =
In breakdown of the SO cases.
he said. two things stood out,
There were twice as many women
as men among the volunteer ad-
missions and only three Negroes
among the 83.
1T may be-" he said. that the
Negro population is not as aware
as the white population that one
can obtain the services OF st.
Elizabeths without going through
the process of legal commitment.
Evening star., 1950-06-02

Henry Rhodes. who was years
old when the Washington Monu-
ment was only a stone stub in
a pasture, walked up all steps
today to see how the finished
product looks.
In further bid for a niche in
posterity. he found a parking
place on PENNSYLVANIA avenue in
the, middle of the morning.
MI. Rhodes will be "a if. as he
puts it, he makes it to next week.
Last week he was out on a mar
row, third-f1oor ledge working on
his house at 1922 Fourteenth
street NV.
Retired at 70 from the Vet
Grams Administration, he began
new career in real estate and is
still in it. Recent accounts of a
man who celebrated his 10th
birthday by walking up the high
granite spire prompted Mr..
Rhodes to look things over.