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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-22
W0RKMEN's COMP. IMPROVEMENTS OUTLINED

nancing and minimum fund for
second injuries should be established.
Said second injury fund should be
contributed to by those hazardous in
dustries as specified by the act as be-
ing hazardous occupations. A gen.
eral assessment of hazardous indus
tries shall be the means of build
ing up the fund in addition to pres
ent means. This will not be discrim-
inatory against those employers who
have comparatively no industrial ac-
cidents. There are too many loop
holes in the present second injury
requirement that need plugging.
In the case of occupational di-
ease or infection and the second in
jury fund, we recommend that said
fund be used only in case where di-
sease or infection arose in out-of-
state employment and no more than
one Montana employer contributed
to obtaining such disease. Another
requirement shall be that said en-
ployee be permanently disabled and
the employee has worked in Montana
for a certain period of time.
We urge. removal of the 500week
limitation for the permanently dis
abled whether it be by injury or di-
sease. A person who is never able to
work again should never be burden
of the taxpayers but a responsibility
of the employer or employers respon-
sible for his permanent disability or
for wife of injured in case of his
death.
There should be no limitation on
hospital or medical expense. Again
the burden of payment should be on
the employer or employers contribut-
ing to said injury or disease. Under
present day costs of medical and
hospital expense for those who are
permanently disabled it would be very
discriminatory to place a ceiling on
the medical or hospital expense, be-
cause if disabled employee can't pay
then the taxpayer must pay for some
thing he was not responsible for or
the doctor or hospital must go I'M
paid.
Needless to say we find the pres
ent benefit payments to low for any
person to maintain the economy to
which he is accustomed at time of dis
ablement. Realizing that disabled
person with dependents is in a much
more serious situation than a single
person we believe to help all dis
abled persons, the following rates are
reasonable and much more adequate
% meet living costs than present
'ates:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-22
Check Ten Points To Save
Gasoline

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
You can cut waste of gasoline in
your driving by making periodic
checkup to correct these defects, says
the American Automobile Associa-
ton: dirty spark plugs, defective
breaker points, worn ignition cables,
sticking valves, faulty choke con-
troll, leaky, clogged or poorly ad-
justed carburetor, weak coil, leaky
gaskets, poor oil circulation and faul-
ty timing.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-22

These figures are arrived from sta
tistics available through 1850 Cen
sus for incomes of Montana families.
1t shows that average annual income
for Montana families, both urban
and rural, is 1925 or roughly $62.5O
per week.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-22
LEGISLATION PROPOSED BY I0ADED'-

could be accomplished by oil oper
ators.
PERPETUAL LEASES,
UTILIZATION
Two other major provisions of the
committees bill, which, if taken up
separately from the balance of the
measure, may have merit provided
added safeguards for the peoples in
terests are put into them.
One of these provisions calls for
removal of the present 20-year ter
mination date on oil-producing leas-
es. There is much to be said in favor
of this, provided the land board is
given power to cancel leases for
cause
The second provision proposed calls
for granting the land board author
ity to enter into unit agreements"
in expediting the fullest possible re-
covery of oil from a structure. Any
such provision, however, if enacted
into law should have ample restric-
tive clauses to make sure the public
interest is protected IN any unit
agreement the land board might con-
slider entering.
With the exception of the general
purpose of these last two items, en-
actment of this bill by the legisla-
ture would definitely NOT be in the
public interest. Montana people in
terested in seeing that our schools
get the greatest possible financial
benefit from minerals underlying our
state school lands should keep a wary
eye on the legislative progress of this
1862 version of HB 66* AS one pub
lie official exclaimed on reading the
measure at will wreck
the school lands division if it is en-
acted /.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-22

Democracy is based upon the con-
viction that there are extraordinary
possibilities I'm ordinary peopIe.'-
DIR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-22
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wells with minimum monthly pro-
duction of 5000 and 5000 barrels
600 and 200 barrels per day.:
Under present law, 3,000-barrel
per month well would gross $8,025
to the lease holder and net the per-
manent school fund royalty of 171a
per cent or 81 ,404.37.
Under the committees proposal
of flat 1917 per cent royalty, the
same we'll would net the permanent
school fund only $1,012.50.
This would be loss of $381.87
in royalties in a single month from
a single 3,O00-barrel well to the
permanent school fund.-
OR let's use a 6,000-barrel
well as an example:
Under the present law 6,000-bar-
rel per month well would be subject
to % per cent royalty payment.
Gross income of such well would be
$16,050. OF this the permanent
school fund would receive $4,012.50.
Under the committees proposal
however, which the operator would
continue to gross $16.050, the royalty
to the schools would be cut in half,
or $2,006.25.
This would be loss of $2,0O6.25
in royalties in single month from
a single 5000 barrel well!
Computed on an annual basis, the
loss in royalties from a single 5000
barrel well would be $24,075-or up
wards of one-fourth all the oil roy
atty funds collected in fiscal year
1951-52. ($107,000 in round fig
ures.)
1t wouldn't take very many 100
and 200-barrel per day wells on
school lands to result in loss of |
million or more dollars per year in
royalties for the permanent school
fund, should the committees flat |
212 royalty proposal become law.
The Interim Committee bill pro-
vides for amendment of existing
leases" that present lessees might
enjoy the same more favorable leas-
ing arrangements proposed for new
lessees. While this would be only
fair to present leaseholders, it also
another potentially. huge
raid on revenues that should right
fully accrue to the permanent school
fund.
There is the possibility of one add
I'd danger in this section of the pro-
posed bill. This amendment to-Sec.
is so confusingly worded that
t might open the door to retroactive
application of the provisions of the
measure which would per-
nit deducting of annual rentals and
bonuses from royalties due the per-
nanent school fund.
To put it more simply, and again l
Using the example of oil land rentals
md bonuses received during fiscal
year 1951-52: Could the vague word {
ng of this section make it possible
or the more than five and one-half
million dollars collected in rentals l
md bonuses in that one year, to be
ubject to repayment to leaseholders
ia royalty deductions, should oil pro-
luetion be accomplished on those
ease-held lands?
|
In addition to the above major !,
Joints, which would result in direct !
nd very great revenue losses to the
chool funds, the committee also pro- /
oses several seemingly minor amend {
nents to Sec. 81-1716 of the present =
aw. In the opinion of people well c
with oil land leasing, +
hese amendments would greatly f
ampel administration and enforce v
1ent of the law, and also provide
oopholes through which additional +
lundering of school oil revenues e
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-22
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would not be covered. Also, specified
diseases, would discriminate against
those employees who will seek work
in new industries such as the uranium
mining or the aluminium industry.
. We also urge adherence to the
principle of aggravation of an occu-
pational disease by person who had
contracted such occupational disease
in previous employment, such as was
proposed in the MIHC initiative petit
ton.
The last employer where the en-
ployee was last injuriously exposed
to such occupational disease or in
lection should not be made solely Ii
able for such compensation as the act
provides.
A medical board OIL at least
three doctors should be established to
investigate all occupational disease or
infection claims. The three doctors
shall be the most qualified available.
To put a specification that they shall
occupational disease field, we feel,
will weaken the act because there
are comparatively few doctors in
Montana who have had too much ac-
tual experience in occupational di-
seases.
X-Rays should not be conclusive
evidence in examinations of those
suffering occupational disease. (Re-
ferred back to committee for further
Investigations
The claimants ability to work
should be the decisive factor as to
There should be no time of limi-
tation as to when person can make
a claim on occupational disease. We
believe that a person who can prove
he has a disabling occupational di-
sease should be compensated regard
less of when the disease was con-
tracted.
A time limit of no longer than
80 days should be set for the In
dustrial Accident Board to hear all
claims. Also the Board should be
to hire full-time attorney
to referee" compensation cases in
II d II to expedite compensation
claims. This referee" shall assist the
board in any capacity deemed neces-
3ary. The present law carries no speci-
fication of time for hearing cases and
it has been known that cases were |
not heard for two years after the
original claim was filed.
The second injury fund should
De amended for more adequate fl
Minimum in all cases --------------------
Single employee, maximum -
Employee, one dependent, maximu
Employee, two dependents, maxim1
Employee, three dependents, maxim
Employee, four dependents, maxim
Employee, five dependents or more
Benefit schedule subject to further
These figures are arrived from sta
istics available through 1850 Cen {
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-22

HB Sc of the 1949 Legislative AS
sembly was drafted by Attorney
Cheadle and presented by four
members of the House-none of
whom will be back in 1853. HB sc
was substantially the same as the
legislation proposed by the Interim
Committee. See ditorial.-HLB
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-08-22

Have you registered? September 10
is the final day. Do it today.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Speeding Car Drops
From, Sight in Chase;
Driver Explains Trick

A speeding car literally dropped
from sight as it was being pursued
by two Alexandria police cruisers
early today.
Policemen said they had been
chasing the elusive vehicle for a
half hour in the south end of
town when it suddenly disap-
peared on Fort Hunt road just
outside the city limits. The pur-
suers, Pvts. George Gensmer.
Amos Green, Lee Allen and
Lawrence Kersey could find no
trace of the missing vehicle.
Some hours later. police said
they recognized the same car back
in Alexandria. The driver. James
Warren Wright. %, of the 500
block of North Payne street. was
arrested and charged with reck-
less driving. Police said he con-
fided that the disappearing act
was strictly an accident-his car
had plunged over q 15-foot en-
bankment as he attempted to
round a corner during the chase.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
District Man, Acquitted
In FIatiron Staying

Robert Morton, SO, Of 2713 T
street NV, yesterday won judg-
ment Of acquittal on second-de-
gree murder charges In the U. 8,
District Court for the District Of
Columbia.
Morton, who is colored, had
been charged with fatally injur-
ing. with f1latiron, William STRAIT
ton, 80, colored, of the same ad-
dress last July. Defense Attorney
Foster Wood moved for acquittal
on the ground that the evidence
showed Morton had acted in self
defense. The motion was granted
by District Judge Edward M.
Curran.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Routine Court Order Delays
Execution Date for Spies

The Supreme Court has entered
a routine order to delay setting
of an execution date for Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg until the
tribunal acts on an expected re-
quest for reconsideration of its
refusal to hear their appeal.
The husband and wife were
sentenced to death when convict
ed in Federal Court in New York
City in March, 1851. on charges
of sending atomic secrets to Rus
sia. The Supreme Court last
Monday refused their petition for
review Of the conviction under
the espionage law.
In an order late yesterday the
court stayed the sentence, as well
as a 30-year prison sentence, for
Morton Sobell until reconsidera-
ton petitions can be filed. Sobell
was a co-defendant in the atom
spy trial.
Emanuel H. Bloch Of New York.
their attorney. has Is days to file
such a petition and the Govern
ment would have another 10 days
to reply. The Supreme Court
generally acts promptly on such
petitions. but seldom grants re-
consideration unless it finds that
new circumstances or additional
legal issues justify a hearing.
If the stay order were not is
sued at this time the Government
could go into Federal Court at
once and move that a date for
execution of the Rosenbergs be
set. The Rosenbergs are in Sing
Sing prison.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Parks Group Opposes
Use Of Rock Creek for
Temporary Sewer Line

A District proposal to spill all
the sewage of the stricken Rock
Greek Park line into the creek
itself while the new 81 million
trunk is under construction has
met with stiff opposition from
National Capital Parks.
Young j. Wright, sewer division
superintendent, submitted the
idea yesterday to Harry Thomp-
son. assistant superintendent Of
NCP. Mr.. Wright came from the
conference with a glum report.
Would Save Time, Money.
He said that to save time and
diversion of the sewage
into the creek is the desired course.
Only alternative. the sewer chief
added. is to build a temporary
line paralleling the existing one
to carry the 5-million- gallon daily
flow from Maryland.
But to build the temporary line.
Mr.. Wright pointed out. would
cost tens of thousands Of dollars
alone. It would also mean that
the permanent replacement trunk
would probably not be completed
before next October.
Meanwhile, he added, substan-
tial quantities of raw sewage are
flowing into the creek from the
defective line as it is.
To Ask Estimates.
Mr.. Wright said that by next
week the District will ask con-
tractors. in additional bid adver-
tisements. to give a solid estimate
of the cost of handling the sew
age flow during construction. Con-
tractors also will be asked to ap-
proximate the time that may be
saved if the sewage is allowed to
pass into the creek.
With this information in hand.
Mr.. Wright said he intends to hold
further conferences with park of
ficials.
Somebody will have to weigh
the extra time and cost against
the undesirability Of making the
pollution of the creek worse" he
said.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Maryland
and
Virginia
News in Brief
Fairfax Seeks to Lift
Federal Worker Ban

The Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors has voted to seek ac-
ton at the special session of the
Virginia General Assembly in De-
cember authorizing Federal en-
ployes to serve on local boards
and commissions.
So far, Fairfax has not been af-
fected by the court decision GUST
ing three Arlington County Board
members because they worked for
the Federal Government. but the
county has one retired Federal
worker on the Board of Super
visors and two federally employed
School Board members.
Evening star., 1952-10-16


tian Church in the State, he was
an unsuccessful candidate for the
United State Senate in 1850. Ear
|lier, the 6-foot-3-inch. 215-pound-
er won notice as an amateur box
ling champion. war correspondent
and preacher.
To highlight the program. there
lis to be a torchlight parade from
the Hotel Washington to the
Statler, led by cheerleaders and
a brass band, beginning at 7:15
pm. Monday.
Sharing the platform with DR..
Alexander will be Joel Broyhill.
Republican candidate from Vir-
ginia's new 10th district. and
Maryland Republican candidates
for Congress. Frank Small. jr.,
and Dewitt S. Hyde.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District and vicinity-Fair with
high near IS this afternoon; to-
night, fair and cooler, low near 40.
Tomorrow, fair and cooler.
Maryland-Fair and cooler to-
night and tomorrow with low to-
night, 35-40.
Virginia-Fair and cooler to-
night and tomorrow with low
tonight in the 40S.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
Ex-Red Tells Of Plan
To Sabotage U. 5. in
Event Of Soviet War
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16.-A
labor organizer told the House
Un- Activities Commit
tee meeting here that he quit the
Communist Party in 1851 after he
was given a sabotage plan and a
$4,000 fund in the event Of war
between the United States and
Russia. 2
Samuel J. Di Maria was one of
several witnesses appearing before
the House group yesterday during
the third day Of a week-long
session.
The 37-year-old CIO- Electrical
Union organizer told the congress
sional probers he left the Com
munist party in the spring of 1851
because 'I would never engage in
action detrimental to my coun-
try"
Mr.. Di Maria said he was given
money from time to time-an
eventual total of $3,800-by Abe
Sokolov, operator of Philadelphia
quilt business.
Mr.. Di Maria. who said he first
joined the Communisty Party in
1899. said Mr.. Sokolov listed the
steps United States Reds must
take in the event of a war with
the Soviet Union.
MIR. Sokolov followed Di Maria on
the stand yesterday and refused
Ito answer virtually all questions
lput to him, including those asking
confirmation or denial of Di Maria s
lcharges. Mr.. Sokolov said he was
declining to testify under the Fifth
Amendment.
Evening star., 1952-10-16
pureeI|vi||e in Uproar
lover Order 10 Halt
Church Construction
Special Dispatch 10 The sior

PURCELLVILLE, Va, Oct. 16.-
This little Loudoun County COM
munity is in an uproar today over
action taken by the Mayor and
town council to halt construction
of a new Assemblies of God
Church.
The five trustees of the church
have been summoned into Mayors
Court here Tuesday for a hearing
on charge that they failed to
obtain a building permit.
Spokesman for the local Pente-
costal and Fundamentalist sect
claim, however, that the real
reason the Mayor and council are
trying to stop them from build
ing a church here is that some
prominent local citizens are OPP
posed to the idea.
Protests Admitted.
Mayor A. F.. Anderson admitted
that some residents had protested
erection of the church. He said
he and the council had been Gin
clined to let it ride" when the
congregation started excavation
work on the church last June,
even though no building permit
had been issued, but some Of the
protesting residents insisted that
action be taken.
MIR. Anderson said the trustees
were ordered to court last week.
They were told then. he said. that
they could be fined up to $100 a
day for each day they worked on
the new church without a permit.
He said they had been working
ION the church structure about Is
days when the summonses were
issued.
Hit Delaying Tactics"
Mayor Anderson sits as judge
of the Mayors Court.
Spokesman for the church say
they have been trying to get a
building permit from the council
for two years. They accused the
council of using delaying tac-
tics"
Mayor Anderson said "that to
my knowledge no building permit
for the church has ever been re-
quested."
| However, Commonwealth's At
torney Stanley Owens of Prince
William County, who recently was
retained to represent the trustees,
said he wrote to the council about
a month ago stating that If no
formal application for building
lpermit had been made. his letter
was to be considered as such.
Evening star., 1952-10-16

the Federal Security Agency, for
an Improvement in in
spection techniques. which gives
greater protection to the public
against mass poisoning from
botulinus toxin.
This disease originates in i'm
preserved foods and is
generally fatal, unless anti-toxin
is administered promptly. Al
though it does not occur often in
commercially prepared products,
epidemicS have been known and
are continuous threat. Mr.. Gill
more's suggestion for tagging
stocks of anti-toxin with warnings
that the Food and Drug Admins
tration be notified at once when
any of the article is withdrawn
for use means an inspector can be
on the scene quickly and stop dis
tribution of the dangerous food.
y 4 + 4
OTHER AWARDS-Mrs. Estelle
w. McKenna saved the Govern
ment $500,000 a year at the San
Diego Naval Air Station by work.
ing out a program using unsched-
uled Government air transports
for the use of civilian and military
personnel. This cut the Govern
|ment's need for using commercial
planes.
Edward j. Combs of the Ma
tional Archives designed and
constructed, out of spare parts, a
motion picture negative cleaning
machine, after commercial-type
existing machines had to be dis
carded as too dangerous or dam
aging to the film. Commercial
machines of this type generally
sell for about $1,000. The ma
chine made by Mr.. Combs cost
less than $100.
New safety factors in aircraft
cabin design were developed by
j. j. Swearingen, chief of the Civil
IAeronautics Administrations
Iaeromedical design laboratory at
Oklahoma City. Okla. His work
resulted in lessening the danger
Iof altitude structural failures in
Iplanes.
Douglas A. White, procurement
specialist of the Navy's Bureau of
Ordnance. saved the Government
100000 on contract by per-
lsuading subcontractors to reduce
their original profit percentage
figure. Mr.. White succeeded after
other attempts to cut the cost had
failed.
And Edward j. Dennis, a hos
Ipital attendant with the Veterans
Administration hospital at Togus,
Me-. on his own time and initia-
tive, organized and trained a
dance orchestra of very regressed
IpSychiatric patients. Although the
dollar and cents value of Mr..
Dennis contribution cannot be
measured, hospital officials say
his services have contributed
greatly to the care Of the patients
and helped immeasurably their
mental condition.
These are but a few Of the cases
in which Government employees
helped their country. It's indica-
tive Of the service millions of un-
heralded Federal employees render
every day without publicity or
fanfare.
Evening star., 1952-10-16

meritoriouS service awards and
see what they contributed to our
country. It's a record that should
make all Federal employees proud
Of being members of the same
team serving the greatest Gov
ernment on earth.
There are two Navy Depart
ment employees who balanced
their lives on the edge of a 5000
foot precipice in sub-zero weather
while testing a "cold-weather
boot" and cold weather clothing
they had invented.
The two employees, Salvatore
Gianola and Dominick Maglie,
technologists in Navy's Office of
Supply Activities. were testing
the equipment on an icy ledge
atop Mount Washington in New
Hampshire.
A sudden blast of wind nearly
blew MIR. Gianola over the edge
of the precipice. Mr.. Maglie
grabbed his partner just in time,
although for several agonizing
moments it appeared that both Of
them would fall to their deaths.
The men received the awards,
not because of their near escape
with death, but because of the
development of the equipment
which, the Navy said, will not
only benefit its sailors and Of
|ficers. but the military personnel
|of the Marine Corps and Army as
well.
CROOKS CAPTURED-Another
meritorious award involved Louis
w. Mintzer and Joseph A. Flip
|pelli, guards at the Naval Supply
Depot at Mechanicsburg, Pa. They
were responsible for trapping
crooked coal suppliers. who
sought to cheat the Government.
Representatives of an apparently
bonafide coal company, which had
won bid to supply $4,000 tons of
coal, tried to bribe the two Gov
eminent guards to participate in
a short-weight delivery scheme.
Both guards pretended to be
interested in the plan. tipped off
the FBI and stalled the bribers
until Federal agents had enough
evidence to make an arrest.
FOOD PROTECTION-Another
award went to Stanley j.. Gilmore,
a food and drug inspector with