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The Lincoln times., 1954-10-11

David Brian. as MI, District
Attorney" oil WBTV tonight at
8 o'clock. runs into a vicious new
racket called Witnesses, Inc. -
booking agency for hired wit
nesses who move their profession
al perjurerS from city to city.
MI. D. A. and young attorney
Mark Hatton get an indictment
against Al Blame, head Of the Or
eanizatiOn. Hatton is subjected
TO a series of near misses on his
lite. He receives a threatening
rhone call. one of the gang en-
ters his office and reaches inside
his coat, and Hatton shoots to
kill. The D. AS chief witness
Tow appears to be headed for
Jail for a manslaughter term.
But Mn. D. A. corners Blame in a
clever maneuver and gets Hatton
off the hook
The Lincoln times., 1954-10-11

Phil Harris. Dinah Shore and
William BendiX will headline the
sala l50th presentation of the
northumberland COMEDY
Hour" over WBTV this afternoon
at 3 O'Clock. This will mark one
Of Phil Harris few television ap-
pearanceS, and Dinah Shore will
te making one of her infrequent
guest appearances. In addition to
these headliners, the COMEDY
Hour" will feature Tom D'Andrea
End Hal March in another of
their famed Gripping Gil" sketch
es.
The Lincoln times., 1954-10-11

Pop singer Barbara McNair,
the singing and guitar playing
Del Rubio TripletS and violiniSt
julius Schulman will vie for first
place honorS on Arthur God
frey's Talent Scouts" program
ever WBTV tonight at 10 o'clock.
Evening star., 1954-10-13
300 Sign Petition
Against Fringe Lot
On Wisconsin Ave.

Over 300 signatures have been
obtained on q petition which
opposes use of the old Industrial
Home School site as the spot for
the Districts next fringe parking
lot.
The Motor Vehicle Parking
Agency yesterday officially Sc
lected the location.
The petition was circulated to
residents in and around the 2400
block Of Wisconsin avenue pro-
testing the use of the site as q
fringe parking lot. The petition
is expected to be presented to
Commissioner Spencer late to-
day. .
According to Mrs. c. Brewster.
Chapman. jr.. Of 2225 Hall place
NV. some 800 signatures have
been obtained so far. The petit
tion calls for the development Of
recreational facilities on the site
of the old Industrial Home
School and asserts a fringe park
ing lot would lead to greater
traffic congestion in the area.
The petition also claims the
site is mot in a fringe area"
Milton M. Rodes, director of
the agency. said today present
plans call for a half-and-half
split of the property between
the agency and the District
Recreation Board. Besides park
ing space for several hundred
cars" Mr.. Rodes said, the rest
OF the area could be devoted to
recreational facilities such as
picnic tables or softball dia-
monds. The agency's plan is
subject to final approval Of the
National Capital Planning Com
mission.
Evening star., 1954-10-13
Crosh Victim Identified

RABAT. French Morocco,
Oct. 13. @.-An American
Sabrejet pilot killed in q crash
in Morocco October z was identi-
ned by United States Air Force
authorities here yesterday as 1t.
Franklin A. Dyer Of Covington,
Ga.
Evening star., 1954-10-13
Canadian PacifiC's
Scenic Dome route via
Banff and Lake Louise

See spectacular Canada has it before
to the left right ahead-and straight up the modern
Scenic Dome Scheduled year round between Vancouver
and Toronto and between Vancouver and Montreal Diesel
power all the way The first and only Scenic Dome route
Canada to and from the Pacific Coast
see rkocaiag or Pacific,
1904 K Street. NJ W. Washington s. D. c. National S4235
Evening star., 1954-06-06
Your Moneys Worth
The Giants Get Bigger ond Bigger
Bv SyIyio Porter

housing, food. recreation deals
all these attract and hold
workers.
Prosperity Is Factor.
4. Paradoxically. prosperity it-
self has inpelled bigness. In
these years when even incompe-
tents could prosper. there has
not been the bitterness toward
bigness there was In earlier
decades.
s. BY getting bigger and big
ger, the leaders have taken upon
themselves awesome responsible
tiles. They employ so many Of
us, have so huge q share of the
market, they actually can make
or break our country. I do not
know II they realize this fully;
I pray they do.
s. We are not the Nation we
boast we are. Were you to de-
scribe to your grandfather q land
in which 5 percent Of the firms
employed rs per cent Of the
workers, he would ask: ''What
system Is that? It's not Ameri-
can private enterprise. Of course.
What. is it?" T
tcoDyrisht. 1854. rost-Hall
Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1954-06-06

Fair Deal, eras marked by con-
stant attacks on the economic
giants. We have created new
Government bureaus and agen-
cies and given them the order
and the power to track down
monopolies, break up the dam
gerous bigs, protect the fragile
smalls. We have lived through
years Of record antitrust suits.
Yet above are the facts just
published by the Commerce De-
partment.
In 1885, according to another
study recently issued by the
Federal Trade Commission, the
top 200 manufacturing firms in
the land turned out 37.7 per
cent of all manufactured prod
ucts. Today, the top 200 turn
out 40.5 per cent of all manu-
factured goods. Yet monopoly"
no longer is even back-page
news.
The statistics are released
"dead-pan" in Government re-
ports. No official makes any
comment on their meaning.
Interpretation Offered.
Thus. it's probably presump-
tuous Of me to attempt any in
depreciation, but these six points
I dare submit:
/. The trend toward economic
concentration in America is so
powerful that only the strictest
antitrust laws and the most
devoted application Of the laws
could halt or reverse 1t. We
have neither "strictest" laws nor
most devoted" application.
2. The bigs tend to get bigger
because they have the capital.
the know-how and the brains to
get on top and stay there. They
can afford to finance multimil-
lion-dollar research into new
products: they can buy out q
competitor or beat him through
sheer efficiency.
3. The giants attract workers
because they can offer benefits
smaller scompanies simply cam
not manage. Strong unions
thrive in big corporations. PEN
sions, fringe benefits, special
Evening star., 1954-06-06
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK, June R.-National
Association IT Securities Dealers. Inc:
Evening star., 1954-06-06
Pension Funds Totol
Placed at IL Billion

CHICAGO survey Of the
investment Of pension trust
funds indicates that the total
amounts put away by private In
dustry for retirement Of employees
may Be 4ll2 billion instead Of
the SIT billion previously esti-
mated BY other sources. accord
ing to Commerce Clearing House.
Of the ITO companies cooper
ating Ia the study, SO reported
totals Of their trust assets. These
ranged Ia size from $4,000, to
more than $500 million.
Evening star., 1954-06-06

& Co., the Morris Cafritz inter-
ests and the Metropolitan@
Mortgage Co.
Under his supervision It ID
indicated the company viii take
an increasingly active interest In
mortgage financing. s
Mr.. Purcell Is d director Of the
National Union Insurance co.
and the Progressive Building y
Loan Association. He IS 4 ineni-
ber Of the Zoning and Land Use
Committee of Arlington County.
His club afiiliations include XII
wants and the Washington Coli
and Country Club.
Evening star., 1954-06-06

Rates Of diVldends n the t0reRoinG
table are annual disbursements based on
the last quarterly or semiannual declafa-
ton Unless otherwise noted, special o.
extra dividends are not included
n dividend: n n righsA KIDS b
Aistribution vi when issued. W6 When
distributed. cid Called. pt pd Part paid
ur Under rule war Warrants. wv With
warrants Nv without warrants. Also
dividend. d Declared Cr paid n 1868
% far this year fPayaSis q stock. 3.
Psid est ssins G oq dass pHd
after stock dividend or splitup. kDe.
clared q. paid this year. an aeeumulative
issue with dividends Ia arrears. Paid
no action taken ct last dividend meeting,
tDeelaIed or paid In 1884 plus stock
dividena. VLiQuidatine Dividend.
Evening star., 1954-06-06

mers =. cron. Claiming s.
Walker. Clifford H. jenkins,
G. Hayward Marshall, Fred @.
Dietrich, John q. Sclarf. Frank
3. Scrivener and Martin Wiegand
II. President Wiegand and other
otiicers were reelected.
Evening star., 1954-06-06

cent Of firms
account for
two-thirds Of
all paid em-
ployment. The
top / per cent
provide three
hfths Of all
the jobs. The
top 1/10 of /
per cent en-
ploy almost
half Of us.
We ha We
lived through
the era Of the
New Deal and
Evening star., 1954-06-06

JF.s N pre3t~
dent and q
director.
He will take
over manage
ment Of the
76 year old
real estate
nrrli ilnmedi-
ately.
Well known
IN real estate
circles. Mr..
Purcell previ-
ously has been
q SIS ocia ated
,.,1&1n - y 0assf
Evening star., 1954-06-06
Metropolis Building Sets Records, Rsnamss Board

Assets Of Metropolis Building
Association stand ct . new rec
ord Of more than e2s million
and are around 10 per cent above
Evening star., 1954-06-06

q year ago.
reported Ru-
d0lph w. SAM
telinann, vice
president sec-
retaiy, follow,
ing the g7th
annual meet
ing.
In ted
savings exceed
so million
and mortgage
loans total
more than $21
million. he
added.
Evening star., 1954-06-06
oxygen Dividend Voted

Directors Of Southern Oxygen
Co. have declared q dividend of
IS cents q share, payable June
80 to holders of record June 49,
Evening star., 1954-06-06

The top 5 per cent Of the
corporations in the United States
hire three-fourths Of all Amer
ica's workers. The top 2 per
Evening star., 1954-06-06
American Summary

A list Of most aetive stocks on the
AmeRioan etock Rxehsnge. showing the
high, low and elosinG prices for the week
Evening star., 1954-06-06
Purcell Takes Helm
|Af Thomas ]. Fisher
Real Estate Firm

Directors Of Thomas J. Fisher
81 Co. yesterday announced the
election Of Charles n. Purcell,
Evening star., 1954-06-06

shareholders reelected all de
rectors as follows: President.
Martin r. Wiegand, Mr.. Santel-g
mann. Harry n. Wilson. Chal-.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04
% PER CENT OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN
STATE ARE SUB-SThNDARD
By CONG. LEE METCALF

There is a tendency on the part
of this Administration to put dollar
values above human values and to
put price tags on intangibles which
can't be measured in terms of money.
An example, it seems to me, is a
recommendation that we cut de-
Tense spending in the face of threat
of war. Such a cut seems to be aimed
at saving American dollars instead of
American lives.
This tendency is equally apparent
in appropriation bills, in those which
would authorize programs without
putting up any money for them, and
in action taken upon such measures
Nowhere is the attitude more clear
ly shown than in hearings on bills,
among them mine, to provide Fed
eral aid for public school construc-
ton without Federal control over
education.
AS of right now, we are short
100000 classrooms to house nearly
9 million pupils. We could build them
at a cost estimated in the neighbor-
hood of $11 billion.
We are building elementary and
high school cIassrooms at the rate Of
$4,000 a year. But this isn't half
enough-we are falling short at the
rate of another $1,000 a year.
Statistics tell the story of thou
sands of American children going to
school in buildings that are unsafe,
overcrowded - or all
three.
Ordinary depreciation of bust
ness plant would write it off after
80 years. If we applied this yardstick
to our schools, we would junk nearly
half the public school buildings in
this nation. And two-thirds of the
school buildings in use in this coun-
try are more than 20 years old
FIT MONTANA
These are national figures but
they fit Montana, where per cent
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04
What About Our RIGHT to Work.?

Friend of ours is thinking of picking up and NOV
ing He told that he wants to live in one of those
states where has right to work.
Sounds awful good to me-" he says. "Why, man
would never have to worry about ayoffs or unem-
ployment or being fired-unless he steals some
thing"
"What" we asked him, "have these rght-to-work
laws got to do with layoffs?"
Our friend astonished. "Why,' says he, tits
obvious: If has right to job spelled right
out in the law, nobody lay him off or fire him,
can they?"
We had to explain all over again the sad fact that
the ''right-to-work" in those laws is the name the
newspapers give to them Those laws don't guarantee
our Jobs although they could. The don't protect
against layoffs, and they could do that too. The
only right these so-called rght-towork" laws guar
antee is the right to scab.
Why do they call them "Right-to- w ork" laws? To
sugar coat the pill they trying to make take,
that's why.
Actually these laws abridge the rights of employees
to contract freely with their own employers. These
laws forbid any agreement between an employer and
his employees providing any form of union security.
Take the Virginia law. It's as typical an example
as any, 1t provides: It is hereby declared to be the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04
!KE'S RETREAT ON TARIFFS
MAY NOT BE ENDED

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
President Eisenhower's willingness to
abandon freer trade legislation with
out fight was met with furry of
House bills to rob him of what little
authority he has left over foreign
commerce.
Hardly had the White House re-
leased the Presidents letter to a Chi
cago industrialist, saying that he
would settle for another one-year
extension of the reciprocal trade
agreements act, than five bills were
introduced to return tariff-making
power to Congress.
The bills were introduced by Con-
gressmen Allen Oakley Hunter (K-
Calf J, HUBER R. Scudder (R-Cal.) :,
Tom Steed (D-Okla.), James E. Van
Zandt (R-Pa.), and Russell V. Mack
(R-Wash.).
Columnist Thomas L. Stokes
said, May IS, it was "disappoint-
ing spectacle" to watch Eisenhowe
withdraw at the slightest frown
or squawk from noisy high tar
iff congressman or lobbyist"
ct was hardly expected the Presi-
dent would surrender publicly, in ad-
vance. Such appeasement Of the now
resurgent high tariff forces only whips
them to push forward to the complete
victory" said Stokes. Their aim, he
said, sis destruction of the reciprocal
trade program established by Con-
gress 20 years ago" and "automati-
cally (to) throw matchmaking back
into Congress again. That is CHASTITY
to contemplate"
WALL STREET JOURNAL said,
May %, likes promise to cut no
tariffs next year is Congressman
DanieD Reeds price for extending
The reciprocal trade law" Reed is
chairman of the House ways and
means committee where tariff bills
must start.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04

This means, of course, that no union can ask for
and employer grant any form of union security
in agreement The law guarantees free riders the
right to work in union shops with full union benefits.
In the states where these bills have been most
cessfu there is movement to protect the minority
in other ways These states do not have laws protect
ing the right of racial minortes to work Nor do they
have laws protecting the right to work of older ct
What would happen, wonder, if these same
states really gave men the fright to work Suppose
these laws amended to read: 'It is hereby de-
clared to the be public policy of Virginia that the
right of persons to work shall not be abridged
denied for any so long the owners continue
to receive profit from the company employing such
persons"
That would be a real right-to-work law. We sus-
pect that the politicians and papers that are so
enthusiastic about these right-to-scab laws would
suddenly lose interest.
Seems logical to us to suppose that anyone honestly
interested in our welfare, anyone who wanted to
make more secure in our jobs would be helping us
to strengthen our union not trying to weaken us.
After ALL the union is the best protection we have
the job It's the union that helps to enforce
fright to work. From THE MACHINIST.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04
Ike WON'T REApPoINr IVA CHIEF, HUNTS SUCCESSOR

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(CNS)-
Gordon r. Clapp will not be reap
pointed chairman of Tennessee Val
ley Authority, President Eisenhower
told his press conference, May 10.
The President said he was looking
for a professionally qualified indi-
vidual who shares his views on pub
lie power to replace Clapp. He adj
mitted he was having trouble find
ing such person.
Clapp's Swear term as chairman eX-
pired at midnight, May IS. He'd been
with IVA for Fl years and left on
TWAS 21st anniversary. Saying good
by to his fellow workers, Clapp
warned, Don't let little minds nor
the greedy intimidate or enchant or
divert you from service to the public
interest"
Said the NEW YORK TIMES,
Clapp "blamed an inadequate supply
of electric power on private utilities.
Tagging behind has become a habit
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04
Ike MAY NAME MORRIS,
BIGGEST CITY UTILITY
CHIEF, TO iva

LOS ANGELES Samuel B. Nor
ris, general manager of city-owned
electric and water utilities here, will
be offered the Craftsmanship of Ten
nessee Valley Authority early next
week, the ST. LOUIS POST-DIS-
PATCH reported, May 26.
President Eisenhower has invited
Morris, former president of Ameri-
can Public Power Association, to the
White House. persons close to Nor
ris said, even if he's offered the
SIS, O00-a-year post, chances are So
so he'll turn it down. Morris now
gets $30,264 as Los Angeles utilities
chief" the POST-DISPATCH said.
The electric utility here is the big
gest municipal utility in the nation.
Morris, SO, is a Republican, was sug-
gested by Senator John S. Cooper
(R-Ky.).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04
FULTON LEWIS AGAIN
I'm NOT WATER OVER
ATTACKS ON CO-OPS

MAYNARD, Mass (CNS) If
Fulton Lewis, Jr., again attacks CO.
ops on the air, his New England area
sponsor has ordered TV and radio
stations to cut him off.
Megowen-Educator Food Company,
speciality bakers, sponsors Lewis. Her.
bert Sonthoff, Maynard coop educa-
ton director, wrote the sponsor, pro-
testing the way Lewis mixes crackers
with CHASED and prejudiced news dis
tortions."
The firm replied, "Our standing in
to all stations are to can
eel the program out during any
week that Lewis might have consum-
err co-ops as his subject. We don't be-
lieve Lewis will again take the stand
he did at one time"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04

of our public schools are over SO
years old, 46% over 80 and 1870
over 20.
The most recent survey by the
State Department of Public Instruc-
ton shows 29,O26 pupils, about $50
of all those in our State, housed in
sub-standard buildings. 1t would cost
almost $35 million to relieve over
crowding in Montana's elementary
schools, house elementary enrolment
increases and replace obsolete build
ings, according to survey completed
in July 1862. And there is no end in
sight to an increase in our popula-
ton.
| know of schools being held in
places that can't be insured. In other
words, people won't risk their money
on such buildings-but they'll risk
their children.
In the face of a tremendous and
continuing need, the Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare ad-
vises a Congressional committee to
postpone action on Federal aid to
school construction.
Meanwhile, another committee is
trying to put price tag on the
public service costs" of the Post
Office Department, including So
called Excessive expenditures for
fourth-class post offices, rural de-
livery service and star route con
tracts"
Now l don't know what a post
office or rural mail delivery is worth
from a service standpoint. | don't
believe you can put price tag on it.
Certainly nothing was said about
price tag when the United States
Postal Commission in 1914 spelled
out this creed:
''The United States Postal Service
was created to render the citizen
worthy, by proper knowledge and
enlightenment, of his important priv
ileges as a sovereign constituent of
his Government; to diffuse enlight-
eminent and social improvement and
national fellowship; elevating our
people in the scale of civilization and
bringing them into patriotic affec-
ton"
You can't put price tag on such
as service and education.
1 believe school construction and
postal service are public services of
such intrinsic value to the Nation
that they should be supported by all
taxpayers for the common good, just
as are the military services.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04

for the electric utility industry Such
q view caused the administration to
reject his reappointment."
''In view Of the Presidents 1852
campaign pledge to maintain IVA
at maximum efficiency" said Sena-
tor Albert Gore D-Tenn), Il find
it strange that he hasn't so much as
consulted Clapp." Gore noted that
the IVA act forbids Eisenhower to
politics in appointing a
IVA director.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04


Nowhere have heard tragic blunders of our policy
ASA summed up more succincy than in this of the
cle1 OF the Obs Europe Perhaps
Chna at least it looks from
20 oack we must continue drift
let Communism seize all of the East.
few gained great prestige in the
Far East when stood the imperiaists
es and helped break the 100year hold of the
tenn on the East Indies democratic republic Immediately
emerged and the Communists least temporarily check
pressure the British imperiaists helped
the Labor Government in London give India and Pakistan
its freedom We set splendid example in the Philippines
where kept promises of freedom the Republic
as the Japanese invaders had been oused All these
fine gains made under Democratic foreign policy
The Chinese themselves repudated Generaissimo Chang
and we identified with him.
In lndoChna, too hOpeessly enmeshed with the
French overlOrds is unlike Greece Germany AUSTRIA
where firm American policy thwarted the Red advance
those countries be it remembered the side of the
people, and people responded leadership
munst seizure of free nations In ndoChna unfortunately
the side of the French against of the people,
warnings of Communist Imperialism fall deaf when
seem to be defending white European Imperialism.
When President Truman enuncated his Point policy
1919 the right track But unimagnave Congress
refused to follow through Our State Department policies
dscredted with large sections of u opinion through
bnaon of Know nothingsm Isoatonsm and McCarthyism
That chance convince the people Asia
sincerely democratic passed by.
Only this road support of the peoples of indie
pendence and hope in the battle
the loyalty mems minds everywhere
Only this policy with military aid through the United Ma
tions, halt Russian Imperalsm-OR DEMO-
GRAFT
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04
Plenty Hamburgers
Seen for Future

WASHINGTON, D. C.-This year
may be the greatest in decade per-
tanning to meat supplies it was re-
ported by the American Meat Insti-
tute.
The Institute estimated the 1854
meat production at 25 billion pounds
(and that's lot of hamburger), an
increase of 100 million over last
years indicated output.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04
GIN CAR SALES UP

General Motors accounted for 40
per cent of U. S. passenger car pro-
duction in the first two months of
1854. Ford turned out about one
third of the total, compared with Fl
per cent the same period a year ago.
Chrysler slipped from % per cent in
January and February of 1858 to Is
per cent this year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04

The first woman ever to go aloft
in a free balloon was the French
prima donna, Madame Thible, says
the National Geographic Society. She
rode as passenger over Lyons,
France, for As minutes on June 4,
1884.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-06-04

never leave the of the people Asia to the
COMMUNISTS TO exploit statement of HOWARD K SMITH,
European Chief CHS.