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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29
An Open Letter to
President Eisenhower
Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington, ID. c.

Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington, ID. c.
Dear Mr. President:
| am neither Republican, a Demo
crat, or Socialist, nor Communist. | am
| Just a citizen of U. S. A and thus an
| infinitisimal part of our Government
! As citizen | have been observing
with interest the operations of our
| government under your administration
for the past four months and am Dc-
ginning to wonder if you consider your
self elected to represent the interest
of the entire nation or of the favored
few. 1t seems to me the latter is in the
ascemency.
Ny thinking may be all wrong but
fail to see why any representatives,
of the people have any right to give
away any natural resources of our
country. You had ii in your power to
prevent such looting in the case Of
the misnamed 'tideland" oil bill, but
you saw fit to consider only three
states 1t took a majority of As states
to elect you.
Then one of your appointees has
seen fit to remove all obstacles to
private powers interest in controlling
dam sites on the Snake river, thus
preventing an all purpose Federal
dam at Hells Canyon-a dam When
completed would bring an abundance
ban communities, would water thou
sands of acres of irrigable land and
help floods.
Mr. President, had you lived for more
than 40 years in this isolated ares,
without the conveniences and comforts
these things bring perchance it would
have enlarged your humane spirit to
the extent that you would feel it is not
creeping socialism for our government
to provide means for we rural people
to have electric power-not as gift
but for which we repay~all costs plus
interest. We have lived here for more
than 40 years and the private power
had ample time to furnish
us with electric power, but they show
ed no inclination to do so until the gov
did so. Now these people In
this Hells Canyon area are entitled
to these necessities and comforts which
their government is denying them
Mr.. President, we common American
citizens will appreciate it if in the fU-
ture you will remember that we are
large part of the nation you represent,
and are due some consideration.
Sincerely,
MRS. ADELAIDE HORSFORD, |
Wolf Point, Mont.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29

funds to prevent or reduce losses
to fish and wildlife. A wider program
of applied research should be lanuch-
ed by conservation agencies to fill
the need for basic fish and wildlife
information required in multiple-pur-
pose project planning, and there
should be legislation to safeguard
fish and wildlife from water pollu-
ton. Both State and Federal legisla-
ton is needed. Pollution should be
co-ordinated with water supply and
storage problems from the conception
of each project.
Small projects: Local participation
in small projects.-The construction
of small projects can make valuable
contribution to resource development.
The Commission recommends that the
participation of local interests should
be required in the formulation of
small projects and that the States
should assume a greater interest in
furthering small projects. Also, that
local programs in this area of de-
velopment should be evaluated in re-
lation to all Basin projects to avoid
conflicts and to achieve coordinate
use of limited resources.
Continued Next Week.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29

ly ingrained into western water law,
it should continue to be the ultimate
objective in all cases. The 9(el con-
tract (utility type) should be used
only where the 9(d) contract (water-
right type) cannot adequately do the
job. 1t should provide that payments
on construction be credited to the
water user and when reimbursement
has been made in full, the rate should
be reduced.
Forestry: Acceleration of Pro-
gram measures are COW
cred in Department of Agriculture
Missouri Basin program. On private
lands, technical forestry assistance
and education can do much toward
improving forest practices. Agricul-
tural conservation payments and cred
it should be available to aid the land
owner. More research is important
and more detailed maps and surveys
will be needed. To protect high water
shed values and keep private forest
lands reasonably productive, there
may be need for public regulation of
forestry practices. Public ownership
may be the solution where private
lands have high public values. These
lands should be acquired by donation,
sale, or exchange fo~ other
publicly owned land or timber In
many cases, the lands with high
values can be given the re-
quired special attention only in pub
lie ownership.
Revision of mining laws.-Mining
laws are abused by the use of them as
a means to acquire strategically To-
Gated land in national forests for
other than mining purposes, Mining
avs should be revised to protect pub
ic values, sustain the productive ca
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29
SURVEY COMMISSION REPORT SHOWS 49,.
Missouri Basin Development
UnCO- Ordinated, Unbalanced
of channels below storage dams.

of channels below storage dams.
Watershed districts.-The Commits
sion recommends that continued
studies be made to determine the
contributions which watershed dis
-tricts can make to regional develop
ment. Then, each State can determine
the role which watershed organiza-
tions can play in its conservation pro
grams. In addition, the Basin organi-
cation might we'll participate in the
study of possible usefulness of water
shed districts and encourage their
formation.
Irrigation: Family-size farm (160-
acre limit - The Commission be-
lieves that reclamation farm should
be of size capable of producing an
income that would adequately support
a representative farm family at a liv-
ing level typical in the area. The
Secretary of the Interiors recon-
of board of inquiry to
recommend the desirable size of farm
unit and the actual Identification of
such units is more desirable than ad-
vance fixing of the units. The ad-
visory committee should consist of
farmers, representatives of the land
grant colleges, and representatives of
the Department of Agriculture
Irrigation water contracts.-.Since
the permanent water right is SO firm
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29

pacity of the land, and insure proper
treatment of the surface resources.
Withdrawal of national rorcse
lands.-When the Departments of the
Interior and Agriculture disagree ON
the withdrawal of national forest
lands for reclamation use the mat
ter should be passed on by the pro-
posed co-ordinating agency tor the
Missouri Basin.
Recreation: Expansion in recrea-
ton facilities.-The Improvement and
expansion of parks and recreation
areas should be encouraged to de-
gree that will keep pace with ihcreas-
ed public requirements for both sum-
mer and winter outdoor recreation.
State participation. - The States
should be encouraged to provide FOR
the preservation and use of their rec
reation, scenic and cultural resources.
These should establish properly con-
stituted State recreation agencies and
strengthen existing State park sys-
TENS.
Fish and Wildlife.-Fish and Wild
life conservation should be one of the
detectives of multiple-purpose de-
velopment, and appropriations for
such development should include
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29
By w. ]. PRIEST, Livingston

BY w. j. PRIEST, Livingston
This is one for the book: Farmers
in every state are protesting any in
crease in freight rates. A short time
ago members of the Farm Bureau in
Park county requested the local Cham
Der of Commerce to join in this freight
rate fight and were given a flat mo-.
Yet, these same members took up a col
lection to donate to the Chamber IF
Commerce to enable the Chamber to
support the increase.
Seems strange to me that with every
citizen being requested to donate to the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29
Recommendation on National
Policy
Continued From Last Week.

Why
Continued From Last Week.
Agriculture: Watershed Manage
ment and Land Conservation.-The
Commission strongly recommends au-
thorization of watershed manage
ment projects in different sections of
the Basin. Their early installation
will demonstrate their usefulness in
improving productivity and reducing
flood damages. Such programs should
be accompanied by research to meas
ure their effectiveness.
Sedimentation. - Though most of
the large reservoirs in the Basin are
expected to have a reasonably long
economic life, it appears that plan
ming should be started now for pro-
lection of those most severly threat
ened by sedimentation. Soil erosion
control appears to offer the only
means of providing such safeguard,
and should be greatly extended. An
gostura Dam in South Dakota needs
immediate and concentrated atten-
ton. Further study must be made of
sediment transportation by flowing
water, sitting and securing in canals
and natural channels, diversion of
silt from canals, location of silt de-
posts in reservoirs, and degradation |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29

! funds to fight cancer, Health secretary
Oveta Culp Hobby, over the protests
of our Senators Murray Mansfield and
Representative Metcalf recommends
cut in the appropriations tor cancer
research.
Secretary of the Interior Douglas Me
Kay stated in Boston: Public Power is
here and is going to stay Huge
multipurpose dams must be built by the
federal government CHATS your tax
money and Mine) as friendly partner
with local authorities" Does this mean
we build the dams then turn them over
to private power companies to dis
tribute the juice? Montana Power stock
should soar to the skies.
Drew Pearson now on Mutual! Liv-
ngston at p. NJ. Sunday nights. is a
welcome addition to Frank Edwards.
Monday. Tuesday, and Thursday nights
at 10 p. NJ. pearson is also on KOPR
Butte at $50, and KCAP, Helena at
9:15 p. NJ
Ex-Congressman william 2. Lam
bertson, Kansas Republican, receives
government pension of So year
yet only paid in S14. Drew Pearson
shows how il was done. Lambertson
served in the house Is years and did
not contribute cent toward his re-
tirement fund until after he lef: Con-
gress when his Kansas colleague Con-
gressman Whit Smith put Lambert
son on the federal payroll Jan 3 to
Jan. 81 1947. Just long enough FOR
him to pay in Sl4 into the retirement
fund. This made him eligible for re-
tirement benefits and under tech
nicality in the law, he was able to take
credit for his full Is years congress
sional service Lambertson and Smith
voted consistently against Social bene-
fits for others What is true on the ma
tional level seems to be the policy on
state levels Decreases in payments 10
the people on the bottom.
Last week President Eisenhower cut
more than $63.500,0O0 from appropria-
lions for IVA. These funds would rave
provided two units of a steam driven
power plant near Fulton, Tenn. one
thing, people in Tennessee fight back
when some one hits their pocketbooSs
which means Democrats will be elect
ed in Tennessee in 1854.
Old timers will remember World
War / when we all bought bonds on
partial payment plan from our en-
ployers eve did not make enough to pay
one outright). We paid 500 for the
bond then a few years later when we
had to let go we sold them for $S3.
After the bankers had bought them all
up, they went back to 800. Remember
back in 1851 the Federal Reserve board
stopped supporting the price of bonds,
by buying them at par or better. The
banks, loaded with bonds, could al
ways sell them and have plenty of
money on hand to loan to you to buy
a car, house or pay the wholesalers.
How things have changed. Have you
tried to borrow money lately for any
purpose from bank or loan associa-
ton? Money is tight. You asked for
change. Brother, before the year is
over you're going to get it, Don't feel
badly cause you voted for a change,
your fathers went through this same
condition, maybe that's why you did
not go to college.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29

Flu. COOP DAIRYMEN'S ASSN
of RavaIIf County, StevensvilIe
F.U. GRAIN co. OF OPHEIM
GrafD-Feeds-Seeds- CoaI-Cleaning
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
StevensviIle. Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Peerless, Montana
POWER FARMERS ELEV. co
of Power, Montana
FARMERS UNION GRAIN co.
of Poplar, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
Roy, Montana
WINIFRED FARMERS OIL co.
Winifred, Montana
FARMERS UNION ELEV. & OIL co.
of Pendroy, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of joplin, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of FIaxville, Montana
FARMERS UNION COOPERATIVE
Miles City, Montana
EQUITY COOP ASSN OF HARLEM
Elevator and Oil Stations at
Observation-Disclosures
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Geyser, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
FrOid, Montana
DAGMAR r. u. TRADING co.
Dagmar, Montana
FARMERS UNION GRAIN co.
Nashua, Montana
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29

FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Havre, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
Lindsay, Montana
F. U. GRAIN & SUPPLY co.
Billings, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
Sidney, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
LewistOwn, Montana
EQUITY COOPERATIVE ASSN
of Brady, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL & SUPER
SERVICE STATION of Glasgow
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR co.
of Belt, Montana
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR co.
of Chinook, Montana
FAIsMERS UNION GRAIN co.
of Peerless, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Wolf Point, Montana
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR co.
of Rudyard, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
Baker, Montana
FARMERS UNION MARKET
Nashua, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Nashua, Montana
FARMERS UNION TRADING ASSN
Richey, Montana
EQUITY COOPERATIVE ASSN
of Geraldine, Montana
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29

SIDNEY CO-oP MARKET, Sidney
Groceries-Meats-L
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR co.
Wolf Point, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Glendfve, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Great Falls, Montana
FARMERS UNION TRADING co.
Fairvfew, Montana
LAUREL COOPERATIVE ASSN
Laurel, Montana
FARMERS UNION COOP ASSN
Cut Bank, Montana
FARMERS SUPPLY COOP.
of Conrad, Montana
FARMERS UNION COOP OIL CO.
of Rfchey, Montana
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR co.
of Joplin, Montana
FARMERS UNION TRADING co.
of Butte, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Circle, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Townsend, Montana
FLU. OIL & SUPPLY COMPANY
of HinsdaIe, Montana
FARMERS UNION SUPER SERVICE
of Chinook, Montana
FARMERS UNION EXCHANGE
KaIispell, Montana
OF PIentywOOd, Montana
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-05-29
LETTERS TO The EDITOR

funds to fight cancer. Health Secretary
Oveta Culp Hobby, over the protests
of our Senators Murray, Mansfield and
Representative Metcalf. recommends
cut in the appropriations tor cancer
research.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
u. S. Girl, 79, Tells of Flight
From Red Parents inaPoIund

yes, it was awful, but I had to
have money in order to get any
where.
"It was a cold winters night
in early 1850. I made my way to
a railway station and bought a
ticket for Warsaw. Nobody tried
to stop me.
AFTER travelling all night, we
got to Warsaw. I was confused.
cold and hungry. All I knew
was that I must find some Amer
leans. But / knew nobody and
didn't speak Polish. So I just
walked the streets for hours and
hours. Then I saw an American
flag hanging from house. I
rushed inside. It was the Amer
ican embassy"
United States Ambassador Jo-
seph Flack and his staff did
everything for her, Arlene said.
adding that they got her a job
at the Embassy and moved her
into an apartment hired by the
United States Government for
diplomatic personnel.
At a coronation ball. given last
month by the British Embassy,
Arlene met Stanislow Skrzeszew-
ski, the Polish foreign minister.
She told him her story.
Arlene said Skrzeszewski-
"who was quite charming
promised he would see what
could be done for her.
A few weeks later, she was on
a plane for Copenhagen and
freedom. A Polish diplomat
escorted her, and not until the
! plane landed here did he hand
her her American passport and
other papers.
Next week Arlene will fly home
to stay with her brother, Joseph
Megacz. Chicago.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
BY the Associated Press

I
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July
IA pretty American girl with
fear on her face walked across
the Copenhagen airport today.
She walked alone and forlorn
among milling throngs of care
free tourists.
The old fear Of the Commu-
mist secret police made her start
and turn pale when addressed
by strangers. Then, with a shy
smile, she remembered she was
in a free country where her
Communist parents could do her
no harm.
Arlene Migacz, 19-year-old
brunette, said she had fled from
her father and mother in Red
Poland and lived through nearly
four suspenseful years in War
saw before she finally reached
freedom on the airstrip here.
She said she had almost given
up hope of ever returning home
to Chicago when, while dancing
with her at a coronation ball at
the British Embassy, the Polish
Foreign Minister whispered in
her ear:
"I'll see what I can do for
YOU"
! Arlene told the strange story
| of how, as a 15-year-old school,
girl, she decided she would rath-
,, er lose her parents than turn
Communist.
II loved my parents" she said
quietly. II never knew they were
Communists back in Chicago.
They never talked about it. We
just led an ordinary. happy fam
lily life, and went to high school.
I'm the summer of 1949, ia
ther told me we were going on a
holiday trip to Europe-to Lon
don, Copenhagen and Warsaw.
The fact we were going to War
saw did not make me wonder.
I hardly knew it was a Commun-
ist city that tourists dc not US
ually visit. Anyway, father came
from Poland, though both moth
er and I were born in America.
when we had arrived in Po-
land, father and mother told me
we were never going home again.
They said they were Commun-
lists and hated America. They
also said they belonged to some
Communist religious sect that
bade it's members to go to the
Soviet Union and worship on
Mount Ararat (part of which
lies in Soviet Armenia).
Father soon got back his Po-
lish nationality" she stated.
land mother and automatically
became Poles, too. But we
couldn't get to the Soviet Union
right away. so we went to live
in the mountains near Breslau.
in the part of German Poland
annexed after the war.
"One night I got out of bed
after my parents had gone to
sleep. I stole mothers money
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Search, for Firebuq
Pressed by Fresno
BY the Assoeioted Press

FRESNO, Calif.,. July II. -
Some of the tension eased in this
fire. e-conscious community today
as people gradually got used to
the idea that in their midst lived
a crazed thrill-seeker, who
touched off IL blazes in a single
afternoon.
But there was no letup in the
search for the f1rebug, an Ma
tional Guardsmen still patrolled
the streets and stood watch over
major buildings.
A state of emergency, pro-
claimed by Mayor Gordon Dunn
soon after the fires broke out
yesterday, has now been lifted
and crowds of the curious were
| permitted to enter the 32-block
area that had been barred to
them earlier.
Mayor Dunn promised a con-
tinuing search for the criminal
or criminals who perpetrated
this horrible deed"
At last reports, 81 persons had
been taken in for police ques-
tioning. All were released.
The fires were set in seven
hotels. two apartment houses, a
church, a department store and
an art gallery. The two worst
ones left the historic Hughes
Hotel and the Brix Apartments
almost a total loss. Estimates of
damage range from $430,000 to
more than 100000.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Eisenhower Names
frances {. Willis
Envoy 10 Switzerland

President Eisenhower yester-
day named Miss Frances E. VIII
lis, veteran career diplomat. to
be the new United States Am
basSador to Switzerland.
The President also sent to the
Senate nominations for three
posts as assistant Secretaries of
Agriculture which were created
in the recent reorganization of
the department. They are John
H. Davis. the present director of
commodity marketing and ad-
justment; Romeo E. Short, now
director of the Foreign Agricul-
ture Service. and Richard D. Al
pin. director Of administration.
Miss Willis, 81, a native Of
Redlands, Calf. is the second
woman to be named by Gen.
Eisenhower to high diplomatic
post. The other is Mrs. Glare
Boothe Luce, Ambassador to
Italy.
Miss Willis becomes the third
woman in United States history
to be named to full ambassa-
dorship. The first was Mrs. Eu-
genie Anderson, Ambassador to
Denmark until she resigned when
President Eisenhower took Office.
Other women have held high
diplomatic posts, but ranked be-
low ambassador. Among them
were Mrs. Perle Mesta, until re-
Gently Minister to Luxembourg,
and Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen
Rohde, Minister to Denmark
from 1888 to 1886.
Unlike these, Miss Willis
moved up through foreign serv-
ice ranks. She joined the State
Department in 1927 and has
seen much overseas service. She
was first secretary of the EN-
bassy in London in 1947 and has
been counselor to the Legation at
HelSinki, Finland, since 1851.
She will succeed Richard c.
Patterson, another career diplo-
mat, who has been Ambassador
to Switzerland since 1948. He is
expected to be reaSSigned.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
More Births Than Deaths
Reported Here This Year

The District has had slightly
more births and deaths so far
this year than a year ago, the
Health Department reported yes
terday.
Births up to July totaled
1888, or 70 more than in the
comparable period last year.
Deaths reported numbered 4,799,
an increase of 284.
A little over two thirds Of the
new babies were white.
The Bureau of Vital Statistics
reported a considerable increase
in influenza cases this year-233
compared to. SO for the first six
months of 1852.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Mortinsburg Sergeant
Killed in Koreu Combu,
Special Dispatch 10 The stor

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, July
11.-Sergt. William Crist. Sd, of
this city was killed in fighting in
Korea while serving with the 7th
Army, according to word re-
ceived here by relatives yester-
day.
The 22-year-old colored SOL
dier was a son of Samuel H.
Crist, ST., and Mrs. Marie Crist
of New York.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
In Charlottesville

Redwine. Mrs. o. Miller Babbitt
and Mrs. Marion Crosby, daugh-
ters Of the late Mr.. and Mrs
]. @. Carter. The Carter fam
lily acquired the building in 1909.
The s4-year@old building was
condemned in April and a July
Is deadline has been set for the
evacuation.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Building Brings S14O, 900
Special Disposeh 10 The ssor

SpocboI USpoSch 10 The Sf0f
cHARLoTTEsVILLE, Va,
July 1.-THE old bank building
at the northwest corner Of Main
and Fourth streets has been sold
Tor $4,000 to the Huntington
Dry Goods Co., a West Virginia
corporation.
sellers were Mrs. Armour D.
Evening star., 1953-07-12
Exchange Stomp Issued

To stimulate the exchange of
letters between boys and girls
of different countries, Australia
has issued q special stamp for
the purpose. Sydney reports.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-08-04
Mary Harbage Is
Home From Korea
Educator Returns To
Akron School Duties

Miss Mary Harbage, daughter of
Mrs. Arnett Harbage, north of
West jefferson, arrived home from
Korea Wednesday, where she had
spent the past nine months.
Miss Harbage was one of a group
of American Educators who went
out to the Orient at the invitation
of the Korean Minister of Educa-
ton to give his country some as
sistanCe in setting up an elemen-
tary school system. Another group
of educators from this country,
went out to relieve Miss Harbage
and her companions.
Miss Harbage will return in Sep
tember to her duties as Director
of the Elementary School System
in Akron, from which she was
granted a years leave of absence
by the Akron Board of Education
to help with the Korean project.