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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16

According to the October 1852 re-
port of the Department of Public
Welfare, Montana has 598 cases OF
Silicosis. Silver Bow county with
425 silicotics leads the other Sc coun-
ties. Twenty-eight counties have no
silicotics, ten counties have only one
silicotic, five counties have two sill
,cotics, three counties have three sill
cotics, and the eight other counties
have silicotics ranging from ten in
Cascade up to 80 in Lewis and Clark.
This same report shows that there
have been approximately 600 sill
cotics in Montana since early 1947.
According to a Public Welfare offic-
ial the figure has ranged from $50
down to 500. This same official in
formed me that the cases vary from
month to month and that the individ-
uals receiving aid also change. When
a silicotic dies another appears to
take his place on the roles of recip-
tents which include the young as we'll
as the old.
These silicotics receive only $50
per month from the Department of
Public Welfare to maintain them
selves and their families. In addition,
in extreme hardship cases supple
mental assistance is granted by the
department. In other cases, counties
have granted "relief" aid to the sill
cotic and his family.
1t is very tragic that the unfortu-
nate people and their families are
paid only $50 a month under pres
ent day living costs. 1t is more tragic
that these unlucky workers contract
ed the disease in the first place. The
real clincher is, the taxpayers of Mon
tana have to bear all the cost of aid
ing silicosis victims. This aid runs ap-
100000 yearly and al
ready has cost the taxpayers of Mon
tana millions of dollars for that which
is rightfully industry's burden.
is STILL BEING
IN MONTANA
1t has been said that there has
been no silicosis contracted in the
mines in Montana since 1929. How
ever, before silicotic can receive
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16
s s I'd, Says
: In 1856

State Land Board. The board re-
quested $4,000 per year for the
next two years to administer the $82
million worth of your income-earn-
ing property under it's supervision
This amounts to about one-fifth OF
one per cent of total worth to be eX-
pended on administration. Income
wise the land board funneled almost
ten million dollars into the state cof-
fers last year. But, to make the bud
get balance in accordance with the
1851 legislative order, the control
Ter had to cut the controller back
40 per cent, to $4,000 per year
or about $500 less than the current
years budget.
This cutback, if approved by the
legislature means:
1. Inspections of grazing and
agricultural leases of state lands
on an average cannot be made
more often than once every three
years when they should be made
annually.
2. Despite the huge increase in
workload because of eastern Mon
tana oil developments, insufficient
funds will be available to provide
Continued on page three
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16
SiIicosis--a Product OF
Montana Mines

BY STANLEY THURSTON President Typographical Conference
Scosis is preventabe by engineering methods that will
duce the of dust that is inhaled to certain dened
limits " This statement made in the 1887 Report
Medical Control by the National Silicoss Conference
recently Dr. Herbert K Abrams medical director of
the health welfare fund of the Chicago anor union and
recently of the California adult health SERVICE stated at the
university FarmerLabor Institute Missoula last Novem
Der that sicosis is 1000 preventabe'
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16
SAFETY CODES

Take another example from the
lab request. The 1851 Legislature
ordered Re Industrial Accident
Board to draft industrial safety
codes. No money was appropriated for
the job. This year the lab asked
$4,000 to do the job and thus con-
form with state law. But, that IL
grand too is out if the controllers
is followed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16
wv Hotel, Great Falls.

OtnerS, aE d banquet IN the Naln-
bow Hotel, Great Falls.
The banquet concluded two-day
managers and directors school I'M
der supervision of E. B. Danforth,
manager Of FUGTA in Montana.
Thatcher pointed out that Farmers
Union led the congressional fight,
first to up the minimum 60 per cent
price support provision of the Hope
Aiken farm parity bill to Is per
cent, and then later to delay the eff
fective date of that bill. In terms of
price per bushel, continuing the 80
per cent support price for another
two years means that Montana wheat
farmers are receiving "a cents more
per bushel than they would receive
under price support provisions of the
Hope-Aiken Act.
Emphasizing how important this
81 cents per bushel is to the Mon
tana economy and noting the
"cockeyed" efforts of the National
Tax Equality Association to Grip
pie and/or destroy the farmer CO.
operative movement, Thatcher as
serted "You take $50 million out
of Montana per year and you'll
do more damage to Main Street
businessmen in one year than CO.
operatives could do in SO years"
Putting the effects of FU's sue
cessful congressional fight in another
way, he stated that the difference
in grain prices as result of the fight
to save 90 per cent supports the
basis of 95 million bushel crops
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16
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~ Wso<NrANA'9 ! Y


Fifty-one million dollars circulation in
Montana last because of the determined and successful
fight by Farmers Union so
wheat barley and other basic commodities M w.
Thatcher general of Farmers Union Grain Terminal
Association stated last Friday night Thatcher made the
before of 400 legislators elevator
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16

almost as much as the total mineral
production of Montana per year +.
Can Montana afford to lose all of its
production of copper, lead, zinc, ETC.,
the same goes for (the averted
loss of farm income :"
In addition to reviewing the i'm
portance of continuing high support
prices for grain to Montana farmers,
Thatcher also touched upon the grain
situation on the international level.
Canadian grain growers, because of
rigid marketing controls and more
stable economy can produce and sell
grain cheaper than American pro-
ducers. Growers in Australia and Ar
gentine are similarly regimented I'M
der what amounts to "totalitarian"
set-up not unlike that of Russia and
other communist countries, Thatcher
noted.
Only in this country have grain
producers been able to retain a
remarkably high degree of democ-
racy in the production and market
ing of vital cereal grains. In this
connection Thatcher warned that
American growers "do not want
some jacksnipe (bureaucrat) tell
ing us what we're going to do"
Touching upon other facets of the
farm problem, Thatcher reviewed the
"cold efficiency" he had seen some
years ago in Russia in collective farm
operations and likened the collective
farm of that country to the corpora
ton farm in America. "Let the cor
poration farm grow without protect
ing the family farmer" he warned,
"and it's only matter of few years
until We'll have feudalism in this
country"
Regarding Elect Eisen-
hover, the GTA' head thought him
an earnest man who is going to
make an effort to protect perishables
as we'll as basic commodities. ,
Thatcher said, however, he was amaz-
ed by the men named by Eisenhower
to the Farm Advisory Council. mot
a single one of them ever testified
in behalf of 80 or 100 per cent par
ity," he said.
Speaking of the Importance of fair
prices to grain growers and livestock
men, he asked, "Without fair prices
how can they buy the products of
our factories?"
Legislators present at the banquet
included: Senators - Mahoney, Bo-
vey, Weydemeyer, Anderson of Pom
1era, James, Holland, Cotton, Rice,
Nesvig and McKenna. Representa-
5ives-Graybill, Anderson of Cas-
cade, Regain, Gunderson, Steele,
Leuthold, Hess, Woods, Macdonald of
Garfield, Michels, Seifert, Barrett,
Barnard, Cloves, Beck. State offic-
ais present were Alfred Anderson,
of agriculture, and
Mary M. Condor, supt. of public in
;truction.
SCHOOL SPEAKERS
Speakers at the annual school were
Dr.. Carl Kraenzel, rural sociologist,
Montana State College,; DR.. NJ M.
Aelso, agricultural economics, MISC;
George Moran, chief of grain divis-
on laboratories, Great Falls; C. L.
hallmark, vice president of Spokane
Bank for Co-operatives; Gordon Roth,
public relations director, FUGTA,
st. Paul, and Gilbert Mundy, Equity
Coop Assn. Manager, Brady.
All sessions of the two-day school,
except the banquet, were held at
Montana Farmers Union state office
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16
Premium On Evasion
STATE LAND BOARD
Take still another example-the

The Doctors, Spratt and Westwell
said they would welcome any investi-
cation the legislature might make
DR.. Spratt in speaking of the COM
ing Investigations instigated in the
Senate added that he welcomed the
investigation, however, when head
lines note there is going to be such
an investigation people Immediately
become suspicious, then after the in
vestigation has taken place, too Of
ten when operating functions are
found satisfactory there is not enough
publicity to offset the original stig-
ma, and he hoped that nothing of
that sort would result from the pend
ing Senate action.
Governor Aronson assured the
committee that he had not asked for
the Investigations to simply stir up
trouble. He said he sincerely hoped
there would be nothing found to
merit bad publicity, however, if there
was anything wrong he wanted to
find out about it.
The Mental Health Committee will
be on call for future activity as the
progress of the referendum merits.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16

HOUSE,: State Boards and Insti-
tutions Committee: Wilson, chair
man; Item, vice chairman; Arnold,
Babcock, Haines (Prairie), John
son (Granite), Peters, Reed, Steel,
Taylor, Graybill, Hess, Johnson
(Silver Bow, Marsenich, Mean
drews.
Senate committee has not been
designated.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-16
SILICOSIS is STILL BEING
CONTRACTED IN MONTANA

1t has been said that there has
been no silicosis contracted in the
mines in Montana since 1929. How
ever, before a silicotic can receive
Evening star., 1953-10-05

Francis PusSyfoot) Polsfoot,
tall and speedy pass-catching
end. was signed by the Redskins
today and will make his Wash
ington debut against the New
York Giants here next Sunday.
A 6-foot-3, 200-pounder who
played college football at WASH
ington State, Polsfoot came into
the National Football League
with the Chicago Cardinals and
was an immediate star. He
spent last season on the bench
with an injured knee. which
caused him to be released by the
Cardinals this season.
Coach Curly Lambeau talked
to Polsfoot last week and was
told the players knee was sound
again. Curly got the leagues
permission to watch him work
out and the veteran coach liked
what he saw. A medical exam
ination indicated Polsfoot's in
jury was completely healed, SO
Lambeau signed him.
"He can help U.S." Curly saio
today. with Hugh Taylor and
Evening star., 1953-10-05
Mirror Reflections
From CenterfieId
Remain Mystery
By the Associated Press

BROOKLYN, Oct. 5.-The
case of the mysterious center
field mirrors in the fifth World
Series game remains unsolved.
Several times yesterdays
game between the Yankees and
Dodgers was stopped while UNI
pires investigated complaints
from batters that mirror ref1ec-
tions were being flashed in their
eyes.
The Yankees complained the
flashes were coming from an
apartment house overlooking
centerfeld. A policeman was
dispatched to the apartment
house to ask residents not to use
mirrors.
Umpire Ed Hurley said on a
televlSion program last night
that a man was caught pulling
the mirror act from an upstairs
window, but the Brooklyn police
department denied this. The de-
partment said residents were
warned but no arrest was made
since no one was caught in the
act.
Evening star., 1953-10-05

and with their second hit the
Yankees had a 6-1 lead.
The Dodgers had picked up a
run off Jim Mcdonald in the
second inning on singles by
Campanella and Hodges, plus an
error by Shortstop Phil Rizzuto.
They added another in the fifth
when Junior Gillian was hit by
a pitched ball and came around
on singles by Peewee Reese and
Duke Snider.
Cocky Billy Martin, hitting
.526, Dashed a homer in the
seventh to highlight a three-run
uprising against Meyer. The
Yankees lead mounted to 1912
in the eighth when Joe Collins
doubled and came around on
Bauer's sacrifice and Berra's fly
to deep center.
Dodgers Keep Fighting.
The Dodgers still we're able to
give the Yankees moments of
apprehension. They chased Nc
Donald with 9 four-run splurge
in the eighth, when Billy Cox
crashed a three-run homer and
Gillian opened the ninth with
a homer off Bob Kuzava after
McDougald had clipped Joe
Black for the Yankees ninth of
the series in the same inning.
After Gilliam's homer the
Dodgers trailed. Ill, and with
one down Duke Snider singled.
Stengel promptly yanked Ku-
zava and Reynolds ended it all
by getting Jackie Robinson to
bounce a double-play grounder
to Martin.
The Dodgers compiled IA hits
and the Yankees IL in game
which was played under lights
for the last two innings.
Evening star., 1953-10-05
Midwest Teams Seem to Have
Big Edge in College Football

neers, tied by Florida two weeks
ago, defeated Southern Metho-
dist by the incongruous score of
ga Saturday.
SMU scored two safeties and
held Tech in its own territory
virtually throughout the game,
except when Bobby Dodd's boys
notched their touchdown, and
that came as a result of an in
Perception more than any power
on the part of the winners.
TerpS Ranked High
Look at last years power
houses from Dixie. Mississippi
was shut out by Auburn, 1870,
after winning its first two from
weak opponents. Tennessee has
yet to win after two defeats,
the last being alt to Duke.
Alabama has one upset loss, a
tie with Louisiana State and a
21-12 victory over Vanderbilt to
show for the years work.
Right now, Mississippi State,
Duke and Maryland loom as the
class of the section. Mississippi
State has yielded only IL points
in winning three games. It
trounced North Texas State,
21-6, Saturday for No. 3. 1t will
get a pretty stiff test against
Auburn this week.
Duke and Maryland also have
won three each and have given
up just six points apiece. Duke
faces Purdue this week and
Maryland goes against Georgia.
On the Pacific Coast, the two
outfits that fought it out down
to the barrier last year are
showing signs of doing the same
again. Southern California,
which beat out UCLA for the
crown, has polished off one
league team and a pair Of Big
Ten elevens. The Trojans licked
Indiana, 27-14, for their third
conquest.
The Uclans made Oregon
their third straight victim Sat-
urday, 1910, and now have per-
mitted only one touchdown in
18O minutes Of football. Cali
fornia, usually a power, seems
to lack the horses after being
routed by Ohio State. Southern
Cal and UCLA don't meet until
November 81 and that one could
decide the title.
In the Southwest, most of the
teams still are waiting for a big
test, but Rice and Baylor rule
the choices. Rice made a trip
East Saturday and beat Cornell,
28-7. But form means little in
this section and many a year the
team that looks like the weak
sister at the start winds up the
master.
Evening star., 1953-10-05
Comeback Pattern Gives Dodgers Confidence for Uphill Battle
ResiIiency of Mantle Puts
Yonks on Brink of Victory

today it will set a series record,
for the Yankees belted four and
the Dodgers two in yesterdays
wild game. In five games this
year they produced as many as
in seven games last year, when
the same clubs set a mark of Is
homerS.
Gene Woodling served up a
sample of what was to come at
the outset. He was the first
batter to face Johnny Podres
and doomed one into the CENTER
field seats. In the third inning
the Yankees pried another run
from PodreS on a walk, a sac
riflce and an error by Hodges
and when Johnny jammed the
bases by hitting Hank Bauer and
walking Yogi Berra, Meyer was
summoned to the mound.
First Pitch Blasted.
Meyer had been warming up
simultaneously with Podres be-
fore the game. He was ready,
but so was Mantle. He stroked
Russ first pitch into the upper
deck of the left-centerfield stands
Evening star., 1953-10-05

27-7. and the Chicago Bears
turned back the Green Bay
Packers, 1913.
The powerful Browns sit atop
the Eastern Conference with two
victories and no losses and the
Philadelphia Eagles don't fig
ure to cause them any undue
worry Saturday night.
The Browns stopped the Cards
with almost effortleSs precision
as Otto Graham tossed a touch
down pass on the first play from
Scrimmage. He threw two more
and that was the game.
The Cardinals got their only
touchdown on a break. Don
Stonesifer took a pass from Jim
Root on the Browns 20 and
fumbled after running 18 yards.
Charley Trippi picked up the
ball and ran the rest of the
way.
One streak was broken in the
game when Lou Grosa of the
Browns had one of his CONVEX
sion attempts blocked after
kicking 100 straight extra points.
The Bears were faced with the
same situation as the Forty
Niners-they, too, had to come
from behind at the end. Trailing,
1910, with three minutes to go,
George Blanda hit Jim Dooley
with a 16-yard pass in the end
zone to wrap it up for the Bears.
Soltau's timely field goal for
San Francisco was the big one,
but Ben Agajanian kicked three
and converted after three touch
downs to keep the Rams in the
van most of the way.
In other action next Sunday,
Baltimore visits the Chicago
Bears, Los Angeles plays Green
Bay at Milwaukee, the New York
Giants journey to Washington
and the Pittsburgh Steelers en-
tertain the Chicago Cardinals
Evening star., 1953-10-05
Composite Bon Score, Page A-16
BY Burton Hawkins
Stor Stan Correspondent

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-This is
a World Series featuring quick
recoveries, the always tingling
comebacks, and the Dodgers will
have that going for them today
as they enter the sixth game,
trailing in games, 80.
It was a big comeback that
placed the Dodgers heads at the
end of a cannon today. Mickey
Mantle, who had famed six
times in seven appearances over
one embarrassing stretch Of this
Series, provided the mightiest
blow yesterday as the Yankees
busted Brooklyn, lit, before a
crowd of 36,775 at Ebbets Field.
Mickey's grand-Slammer off
Russ Meyers first pitch of the
Series propelled New York into
a 6-1 lead in the third inning.
It was the crash that enabled
the Yankees to stagger to victory
and it stuck Mantle's name in
the record book along with
Elmer Smith, Tony .Lazzeri and
Gil McDougald as the only
players to smash bases-filled
home runs in World Series his
tory.
Trend Offers Hope.
But while Mantle's resiliency
put the Dodgers up to their
necks in trouble, they could look
to other developments of the
past few days and realize their
uphill battle possibly could be
climaxed successfully. BY SUM-
down they may have lost their
seventh World Series in as many
attempts. But they had hope
lots of it.
Consider the case of Gil
Hodges. for instance. Hitless in
the last Series, when he played
in seven games and failed to
connect safely in 81 tries, the
Dodgers first baseman currently
is .444 hitter.
Then there is the sparkling
comeback of Carl Erskine,
shelled in one inning of the
opener but a brilliant pitcher in
the third game, when he famed
IA Yankees to set a World Series
record.
Roy Campanella, hit on the
right hand by an Allie Reynolds
fast ball in the first game, OBJ
tained only one hit in IL at
tempts before he won the third
game for Erskine with a home
run.
The Dodgers lost the first two
games, but bounced back to take
the next two, so they don't feel
all is lost entering the sixth
contest.
Casey Qualities, Too.
Casey Stengel personifies
bounce, too, for he was a con-
f1rmed failure as a National
League manager, yet he is on
the verge of winning an un-
parallel fifth straight cham
pionship with the Yankees.
The fate Of the Dodgers rests
in Erskine's right paw, or per-
haps the left hand of Whitley
Ford, who is due to oppose him
today as the Series shifts back
to Yankee Stadium. Erskine al
ready had displayed recuperative
powers. Ford, kayoed in one in
ming of the fourth game, will at
tempt to duplicate the come
back.
II a home run is smashed
Evening star., 1953-10-05
PoIsfoot, Poss-Cotching End,
ToPIdy With Redskins Sunday

this boy to throw to, tall boys
who can run, our passing attack
should perk up. I drafted this
boy for the Cardinals. I've al
ways liked him, because I know
what he can do, and he'll help
U.S."
Polsfoot, a snaky runner de-
spite his height. established a
club record with the Cardinals
by latching onto 81 passes in
1851. He also punted for the
team and averaged slightly bet
ter than 40 yards.
Lambeau did not indicate who
would be dropped to make room
for the newcomer, but it won't
necessarily be an end. Whoever
is released must be cut before 5
pm. tomorrow under league
rules.
Evening star., 1953-10-05
You Be the
Quarterback
By Worren Goer

BY Warren Goer
Head Football Coach, Drake University
1t is Texas ball on it's own
27-yard line, the first play of
the game from scrimmage.
Oklahoma has All-American
candidates at left tackle and
right guard. but injuries have
reduced the Sooner end strength
and the left tackle plays wider
than usual.
Oklahoma is in six-man line
and the left linebacker is the
better of the two. Their right
half has been caught in two
previous games with a pass be-
hind him.
AS the Texas quarterback
rate these plays /. 2, 3 and 4
for this spot:
Slant inside Oklahoma left
tackle.
Quick opener off Sooner right
guard.
End run
Pass behind Sooner right hall
(AnSiDer on Page A-17J
Evening star., 1953-10-05
'31-to-3O Thriller
Gives Forty-Niners
Some Title Notions
picture on A-17),
By the Associoicd Press

NEW YORK, Oct. S. The
National Football Leagues two
undefeated, united Western
Conference teams clash in the
No. l game of the week next
Sunday when the Detroit Lions
entertain the San Francisco
Forty-Niners.
Both have won two games.
The defending champion Lions
will be favored, but the Forty
Miners are fresh from one upset
and will be cunning for another.
Yesterday Coach Buck Shaw'S
team upended the Los Angeles
Rams, 31-30, just six seconds
before the end on a field goal
by Gordon Soltau. The Rams
had been .10-point favorites.
In other league action yester-
day, the Cleveland Browns de-
feated the Chicago Cardinals,