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Evening star., 1954-09-27

leave of the year in which an
employ died. However, employees
who leave the Government are
not entitled to cash for unused
leave of the year in which they
resign, retire or are separated.
They receive cash only for the
annual leave accumulated prior
to the year in which they depart
the Federal service.
\ 4 ~
CAREER CONDITIONAL
PROGRAM - Under the Civil
Service Commissions forthcom-
ing career-conditional program,
an employe must have been Sc
lected from a civil service register
in order to qualify for career or
career-conditional appointments.
Having passed a competitive
exam is not enough unless the
Evening star., 1954-09-27

District and vicinity-Fair to-
night with low about 81. Partly
cloudy and warm tomorrow with
high about 80.
Maryland-Fair tonight with
low 50-56 in west and 1852 in
east portions. Partly cloudy and
warm tomorrow.
Virginia-Fair tonight with
low 50-56 in west and 1864 in
east portions. Partly cloudy and
warm tomorrow.
Evening star., 1954-09-27
Eisenhower Letter
Read al Financial
Publicity Meeting

President Eisenhower today
declared financial public Rela-
tions me mean be of great aid in
impressing on Americans their
stake in this economy.
In a letter read at the opening
session Of the four day conven-
ton of the Financial Public Re-
lations Association at the Hotel
Statler the Chief Executive
wrote:
II am delighted to send warm
greetings to all members of the
Financial Public Relations Asso-
citation meeting this week in
Washington.
"The complexities of finance
are today growing so rapidly that
our citizens find it increasingly
difficult to grasp the knowledge
needed by businessmen and in
deed by every citizen who has
savings account. Your respon-
sibility, therefore, is important.
You can help our people under
stand the operation of our eco
nomic and financial system, you
can help them appreciate their
stake in this economy, and you
can help to instill in all Ameri-
cans a sober minded faith in
the continued growth of their
economy. So doing, you will be
well serving our Nation"
The President wrote his letter
to the association president, L. L.
Matthews.
More Than 1000 Attend.
A registration of nearly 900
delegates from all over the Ma
tion, Canada Mexico, was re-
corded this morning at this 39th
annual convention of the asso-
citation. Officers said that with
more than 1000 in attendance,
it was the largest convention of
the group in its history.
Major responsibility in adver-
tising and public relations falls
squarely on the shoulders of the
senior management, Homer j.
Livingston. incoming president of
the American Bankers Associa-
tion. told the opening session.
Mr.. Livingston. who is presi-
dent of the First National Bank
of Chicago, also emphasized that
Evening star., 1954-09-27

the bankers must speak out bold
ly on local. State and National
problems affecting their institu-
tions and communities.
Public Relations Emphasized
Mr.. Matthews, who is also
president of the American Trust
Co.. South Bend, Ind, told his
associates:
Every bank has public rela-
tions; you can't take it or leave
it alone. The choice is whether
to have good public relations or
bad public relations"
Francis E. Robey, president
of the District Bankers Associa-
ton and vice president of the
Bank of Commerce and Savings
here, and Commissioner Samuel
Spencer, welcomed the delegates.
Evening star., 1954-09-27
The Federal Spotlight
Serious Gap in Leave Law
7oGet Attention of Congress
BY Joseph Young

attempt Congress close serious
oophole in the Federal leave law.
At present agencies which woloads
employees to forego some of their annual leave
Employees who already than 80 days leave
accumulation lose this leaves
since they carry ,o,ra - +,o o =, s.h 49,
into the year. the r1 d y1 ya n ".. 1 @ "a.
Evening star., 1954-09-27
Public Relations Emphasized

pm. .. AZ am, 81
3 pm. - 81 10 am 6
Record Temperatures This Year,
HigheSt, 103, on July 81.
Lowest, 13. on January 23
High and Low OF Last "a Hours,
High. 81, at 2:20 pm.
Low. 60, at $40 am.
Evening star., 1954-09-27
Wirephoto Map.

y
Scattered showers expected tonight
Southeast along the Gulf and in the Western
sections Of the Central and Southern Plains Sates with
showers due in the upper Great Lakes region. will be
cooler in the North Central States
Evening star., 1954-09-27
The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-02-11
20 FREE Tickets

You can get a pair of compli-
mentary tickets to the Shaw
Hayden Theatre by reading the
ads in this paper. There are
ten names in ten ads scattered
through the paper. IL you find
your name, just clip the ad and
take it to the Shaw Hayden
Theatre and you'll get two free
tickets.
Tonight. Fri. and Sat. nights
see Burt Lancaster in His
Majesty O'keefe."
Sat. kiddy Mat: "Tarzan and
the AmazOns" plus 4 cartoons
and serial.
Sum-, Mon, Tues: DOUBLE
Feature: Roar of the Crowd"
and Man of Conflict"
Next We'd: DOUBLE Feature:
Murder Without Tears" and
THE Big Lacquer"
Check all the ads and maybe
you'll find your name. II not
this week, be sure to look next
week. Therell be ten names each
week good for 20 tickets at the
Shaw w-Hayden Theatre.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-02-11

General Electric announced here
today that it had developed the
worlds largest and most impress
sive artificial light source.
A 75,000-watt incandescent lamp
bulb, it is half again as large as
the previous largest bulb. 1t was
developed as feature of G.E. S
observance throughout 1854 of the
18th birthday of Edison's most
famous invention.
This giant among light bulbs will
be turned on officially for the first
time tomorrow, Edison's 10th
birthday, during ceremonies at
Rockefeller Plaza, overlooking the
skating rink. 1t will be displayed
and lighted throughout the year at
Lights Diamond Jubilee celebra-
tions, and at conventions, shows
and fairs, in all sections of the
country.
The lamp was conceived, de-
signed and assembled by G-E lamp
development scientists and engi-
neers at Nela Park, headquarters
of G.E's Lamp Division. It's glass
bulb, largest ever made, was hand
blown by the Corning Glass Com
pany, first producer of bulbs for
Edison, at Corning, n. Y.
The lamp produces 100000
lumens, or units of light. To pro-
duce this amount of light would
require 28,742 60-watt household
bulbs, all burning simultaneously.
This single light bulb uses enough
electric energy to light SO Ameri-
can homes as they are normally
lighted today. Twenty-three of
them could illuminate a major
league baseball stadium according
to modern standards.
The lamps filament alone
weighs 2.7 pounds, which is enough
tungsten to make the coiled-coil
filaments for 81 800 60-watt lamps.
The filament is made Of tungsten
ingot, hammered to a diameter of
three-siXteenths of an inch. 1t is
II and one-half feet long.
The filament was swaged at
G-E wire factory in Cleveland, and
the mount, or framework which
supports the filament, was assem-
bled in General Electric's Lamp
Development Laboratory at Nela
Park, where the lamp was COM
pleted and turned on and tested
for the first time.
The huge lamp is so bright and
hot that observers are advised not
to look directly at it or stand close
to it when it is burning at full
brilliance.
The first practical incandescent
lamp was invented by Edison just
rs years ago next October 21. BY
today's standards it was an ineffi-
cient light source, producing only
IA lumens per watt of electricity
consumed. In contrast, the $4,000
watt bulb gives out 80 lumens per
watt, and is one of the most eff
cient incandescent light sources yet
produced.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-02-11

SEvENTY-FI ELECTRIC illustrated
Sanda Grbb 2655O Euclid GE stenographe with
replica Edsons first practical ncandescen light bub and with
the just developed largest light bulb in the world
the bulbs would produce all the light used by
homes. Only % of them would be required
adequately light the Cleveland Stadium.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-02-11

Three Of the huge lamps will be
on display throughout the year,
one at Lights Diamond Jubilee
celebrations, another in the Light
ing Institute at Nela Park, and a
third at exhibits, conventions and
fairs.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-02-11
SHARE THESE
BIG SAVING

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price For only food that gives your moneys worth in good
nutrition and good euns really good Voue hcfs the only
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
MOST STATES HAVE Laws REQUIRING
REGISTRATION OF LOBBYISTS

Nine states provide for disbar-
ment of attorneys engaged in i'm
proper lobbying methods, if con-
victed.' Disbarment periods range
from six months to three years
after conviction.
Montana has very lax laws relat-
ing to the regulation of lobbyists.
Improper lobbying activities" is
the only charge that can be placed
against a lobbyist. Conviction car
ries with it a maximum prison term
of five years.
1t is reported that legislation
proposing registration of lobbyists
will again be introduced in the next
session of the legislature. Principal
aim of such legislation it is under
stood is to bring home TO Montana
people the all-important role the
twin" lobby of Anaconda Copper
Mining Company-Montana Power
plays in determining the fate of
proposed legislation before each
Montana legislative assembly.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10

Most of the 4S states have recog-
nized the need for varying degrees
of control over the activities of
lobbyists surrounding legislative
activities, reports the Council for
State Governments in it's year book,
"The Book of the States, 1954-55".
Less than dozen states have no
special statutes governing the OPP
erations of legislative lobbies.
Twenty-nine states require regis
tration of lobbyists, who they rep
resent, etc. OF the latter number,
10 require the filing of financial
reports by lobbyists.
For improper lobbying activities,
attempted bribery, and other vio-
lations of state laws, 30 states pro-
vide fines ranging up to $4,000
upon conviction. Twenty eight
states also have statutory authority
to send convicted lobbyists to prison
for maximum terms ranging up
to 20 years.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
SIieosis Costs State taxpayers
Plenty Each Year

In Montana, one of three of the
48 states which hasn't as yet gotten
around to considering Silicosis an
occupational disease, the dread all
ment is costing the general taxpayer
pretty penny each year.
For the month of October alone,
Silicosis benefits to 629 Silicotics
cost the general taxpayer of the state
more than $37,700. On a biennial
basis this occupational disease is cost
ing the state more than 100000 in
tax money via $50 month payments
to these unfortunate workmen, by
Public Welfare. Were this occupa-
tional disease covered under work
mems compensation as it is in 45
other states, not only would it eventu-
ally lead to the state treasury having
more than 100000 available to use
for schools, highways, and other
purposes, but the Silicotics would
also receive two to three times as
much in monthly compensation pay
ments. (Since it is obvious that no
person can maintain a family on $50
a month, in many instances there is
a further drain on Public Welfare
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
Old Age PENSION
GROUP is PLANNING
CHRISTMAS PARTY

GREAT FALLS-The Montana Old
Age Pension Association, as in past
years, will again hold Christmas
party for the oldsters, Association
Secretary Mrs. Esther Curtis has an
nounced.
The party will be held Sunday, De-
cember 10, beginning at 1 p. M, in
the Farmers Union building at $50
Sixth Street S. w. In addition to
entertainment numbers appropriate
to the season, a big turkey dinner will
be served.
In previous years as many as 800
older people have enjoyed the annual
affair put on by the pension group.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
THIS MAY INTEREST
FARM TRUCK OWNERS

The Governors Interim Highway
Committee has recommended 200
per cent increase in GVW fees
charged on farm trucks, while only
urging Is per cent increase for
commercial hauiers.
1t therefore may be of interest
to Montana farm truck owners to
learn that Montana is not the only
state which gives a substantial cut
in highway truck tax rates to farm
ers who use their trucks only
minor percentage of the time on
the highways.
In Wisconsin, farm trucks of
five tons capacity and over are
charged at one-fourth the full GVW
registration fee.
In Nebraska, a five-ton farm
truck pays only Is per cent of the
full registration fee charged COM
mercial haulers.
Summary of Motor We
hicle Acts, Automobile Club o.
Southern Calf.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10

The 80 decision voided part of
an Illinois law which provided that
the state could suspend an inter-
state trucker from it's highways for
80 days after 10 loading violations,
or one year and 80 days after an
other 10 violations.
The court said that states, to en-
force their weight limits, may CD
still impose fines or other penalties
for violations, or CD ask the ICC
to take away the permit of habitual
violators.
The opinion, written by Justice
Black, said the ICC itself requires
trucking firms to comply with prop
err state laws and regulations, so
there is no reason why the ice may
not protect the states interests on
its own initiative or on complaint
by the state. The court, he added,
was mot persuaded" that usual
penalty methods such as fines are
inadequate to protect states from
over-weighted or improperly loaded
trucks. = HELENA INDEPEND-
EMIT RECORD.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
CRISIS AND CONFLICT IN
PUBLIC EDUCATION

These three people on the Crisis
and Conflict in Public Education pro-
duced facts and figures and causes
and effects that were food for
thought.
They told us that the crisis in edu-
cation was that we haven't enough
teachers, we haven't enough class
rooms, and we haven't enough money.
That in 1910 we had two million
children in school and in 1854 we
had four million. That where there
were two class rooms now we must
have three in two years-where there
are three students now there will be
four in high school in 1860. That so
of all students went to college in
1911 and 300 went to college in
1854.
They told us that at the present
time the average salary for teachers
is 200 dollars below that of the av-
erage worker, and though salary is
not the only consideration involved
in getting better teachers the pro-
fession is not attracting the type of
people of the caliber that makes the
best teachers.
The conflict, they said, comes when
we try and figure out how to get
out of the crisis.
Our American democracy, they
said, means every youth has a right
to an education. They should have
the same education in every state.
We should have educational standards
and make children live up to them.
Gifted children should be given a
chance to develop their talents instead
of being by-passed because of lack
of funds, if not for themselves, for
ourselves.
We were told by Mary Condor that
low educational standards in the
south resulting in 45%o rejection by
the military means more of our sons
must go to war to replace those re-
jections.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
GREAT FALLS TO HOLD
9TH ANNUAL REGIONAL
FL INSTITUTE

Farm and labor groups in the Great
Falls area will hold their fourth an
nual regional Farmer-Labor Insti-
tute, January Is and 16, Institute
Chairman A. J. Duley has announced.
All sessions of the institute will
be held in the Montana Farmers Union
state office building.
The institute will get underway at
the close of the annual Farmers
Union state school which will be held
at the MFU building, January 9
through ID.
The institute is sponsored by Cas-
cade County Trades & Labor Assem-
bly,, Great Falls Building & Construc-
ton Trades Council, and Montana
Farmers Union.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
No Matter How IS ly Laws They Break =.
States l|nnof Bar Interstate
Trucks From Their Highways
No Matter How

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The SUI
preme court ruled Monday that
states may not bar interstate truck
ers from their highways, even for
repeated and illegal overlooking.
And that decision set off a new
round of discussion on the effect
of heavy trucks on the nations
highway system, and how to en-
force weight limits imposed by
states.
Two influentially placed Demo
crats-Sen. Monroney (Okla.) and
Rep. Harris (Ark. )-said the new
congress may consider giving states
more police power. But a spokes-
man for the American Trucking
association said present laws are
quite inadequate.
The supreme court, in an Illinois
case, declared that only the inter-
state commerce commission can
grant permits to truck companies
for traffic involving more than one
state. And so, the court held, only
the ICC can abridge that permit.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10

passed in II states, and the panel,
composed of Attorney General Arnold
Olsen and Robert Weller of the Lum-
Der and Sawmill Workers, had moth
ing good to say about them.
They explained some of the COM
plications in such bills as have been
passed in Florida where they make it
impossible for Union to operate.
They said that all of the laws are
similar and only vary to the degree
that labor has any influence.
Olsen said that these laws are not
compatible to laws of decency and
health and that labor must take the
initiative, first by electing their men
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

l write lousey news story because
simply am not a reporter, but be-
cause | drew the short straw the
Farmer-Labor Institute was my baby.
1t is interesting to attend these things
more interesting when you don't
have to take notes-but well worth
while and | like to do it. Having had
a fairy God-mother once in my life
| suppose | think there should be
one for every occasion. That one
doesn't appear at my slightest tear
makes me believe Pm just one of
Charley Wilson's animals and it is
simply up to me to scratch, and
usually do after a few preliminary
bowls. So having covered the In
stitute in Missoula on December 8,
a, 5, and having scratched till my
arm ached the difficulty now is put
ting down for your perusal, from
these pages and pages of notes, in a
manner you will care to read, what
happened.
The Institute, as you may have
read in previous issue of the VOICE
is sponsored by the Montana Farmers
Union, the Mine Mill and Shelter
workers and the Montana Federation
of Labor.
This years Institute was comprised
entirely of local talent except for
the banquet speaker who was Rever-
end Edwin T. Randall, Methodist
minister working for the Friends
Service, a Quaker organization. A
fabulous person.
The subjects under discussion were
the Crisis and Conflict in Public Edu-
cation; The So-Called Right To Work
Bills; Full Employment; Farm Par
ity; Natural Resources; State Legisla-
ton; and War and Peace.
All marvellous subjects that should
be of interest to every ordinary Joe
in Montana if he wants to see his
kids educated, earn a decent living,
have full stomach develop his state
and be able to live to do any or all
of these things.
For instance the panel on the Crisis
and Conflict in Public Education had
as panel members DR.. Edmund Free
man, loved for many years for his
contribution to the educational sys-
TEN at the Montana State University.
DR.. Freeman came out after having
been i'll for some time to conduct his
panel. There was ]. M. Peterson, Pol
son, who for years taught school, and
still loves nothing better than to get
into meaty discussions on taxes, and
the amazing Mary McNelis, Butte
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
1th Annual Farmer Labor institute Summarized

to the legislature and then by having
a program that will be palatable to
the public and go out and put it over.
A right to work for nothing bill
in Montana, would, as it has in other
states, outlaw collective bargaining
Instead of always having to defend
themselves, labor was told they
should spend their time bringing
about legislation that would guaran-
tee as fundamental right collective
bargaining for decent standard of
living.
Olsen pointed out that strife has
Continued on Page Five)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10

in the form of supplemental assist
ance.)
A breakdown of the distribution
of the 629 Silicotics receiving state
assistance in October showed that
452 live in Silver Bow county-home
port of the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company in Montana. Lewis & Clark
county was second with So Silicotics
Or less than one-tenth as many as
Silver Bow. Madison county had 81;
Jefferson, 16; Musselshell, Is; Gran
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
p. v. LEGISLATIVE LIST
AVAILABLE I'M HANDY
Printed FOLDER

AS a public service THE VOICE
again presents list of all members
of the Forthcoming 34th Legislative
Assembly along with their home
address, in handy folder form.
Copies of these may be obtained
by writing into this office, Box 838,
Helena. Send only enough postage
to care for handling.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
SHOULD 1T WORK BOTH ways?

of the principal factors taken into consideration In
determining fair rate schedule various classes of
freight commercial carriers l. The weight of the
shipment g. the shipment must travel to its
of destination. In wordweight times distance!
weight distance fair method for computing
truckers freight rates. does not stand to that
weight times distance should also be principal consdera
ton determining how much these commercial haul
ers should pay for the of our highways?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
Workmen's Comp. -.
ONLY TWO WESTERN
STATES PAY LOWER
WEEKLY BENEFITS

In all II western states Montana
ranks third from the bottom in maxi
mum weekly compensation payments
to industrially disabled workmen.
Colorado pays $29.75 and New Mexi-
co pays $50 a week maximums, COM
pared with Montana's $1,000.
The eight other western states, and
their weekly benefits are:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10

In addition TO the $46.15 maximum
paid in Washington, disabled work
man may also receive an additional
$50 per month for an attendant, if
required.
SOURCES: u. S. Chamber of Com
merce, and Council of State Gov
ernmentS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10

Teacher, who packs such wallop
when she says anything.
You see why Harry tears his hair
about my reporting. But my name is
at the top of this and you have read
my stuff before, so if you think this
is going to be too terrible you can
stop right here.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
WOMEN WORKERS,
TAKE NOTE

Do you know that there's law
on the books in Montana which, if
enforced, would prevent discrimina-
ton in wages paid men and women
for doing the same kind of work?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
STILL SOME COPIES OF
HIGHWAY ISSUE

For those of you who may wish
extra copies of the December 3
Highway Financing Issue of THE
VOICE, limited supply of copies
can be had by writing in. They're
priced at four for Csc.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10

When New York has a per capita
income of $2,038, Montana 1867,
and Mississippi 818 dollars it is OBJ
viously a great deal harder to finance
education in Mississippi than in New
York.
The best of our youth go to war
to defend this country as nation.
Should the nation take a response
bility in their education?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
SO-CALLED RIGHT TO
WORK BILLS

Preferably called Fright to work
for nothing" bills by members of
organized labor, these bills have been