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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21

may not maintain this court action
on behalf of the people.
''It is my contention that the At
torney General for the State of Mon
tana is the proper party to bring this
action on behalf of the State in the
interest of the public. The Attorney
General is authorized to determine
what is in the public interest and the
law and the facts of this case sup
port his determination.
"The courts of other states. and
the Supreme Court of this state,
have held that the Attorney Cen
eral is legally empowered to prose-
cute any suits which involve the
public interest. They have also
held that it is for the Attorney
General TO determine which suits
are to be brought in the public
interest
81 feel that it is my absolute duty
to secure a legal determination of
this and other rate questions which
so seriously affect all the people of
Montana, both as rate-payers and as
taxpayers. The State of Montana is
a large user of telephone service. AS
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21
RIGHT TO DEFEND
Continued from page One)

Continued from page One)
has not been taken away by legisla-
tive enactment"
There is nothing in the Montana
Public Service Commission Act, or
any other statutory law pertaining
to the Commission that places any
restriction on the Attorney Generals
responsibility to protect the public
interest in law suits evolving from
rate schedules approved by the Com
mission. Celebrating, the brief points
out that at should be noted in this
connection that the Public Service
Commission act specifically provided
that it should not be construed as
preventing any person from testing
the legality or reasonableness of any
order of the commission
at is straining the principles of
statutory construction to the break
ingpoint," the brief contends "to say
that a single section, which does not
by its terms do anything but impose
new duties upon the Attorney Gen
eral, which was passed as part of
comprehensive enactment having
no connection with the powers of the
Attorney General, and with nothing
in the title or provisions of that act
to indicate that it contemplated a
curtailment of the powers of the At
torney General, indicated a legisla-
tive intent to deprive the Attorney
General of his most important his
toric function :"
The New Jersey court went on to
say, Olsen points out: "It would be
futile to argue that the people i.
do not have an interest in this pro-
ceeding. The interest of the citizens
of the State is the interest of the
State itself"
Taking note of the off-heard con-
tention that such actions, as Olsen
is presently carrying to the court,
should be instituted by a private citi-
zen rather than the Attorney Gener-
al, the New Jersey court differed,
saying:
"The State is not left without
redress in its own courts because
no private citizen chooses to en-
counter the difficulty of defend
ing it, but has appointed this high
public officer, on whom it has cast
the responsibility and to whom,
therefore, it has given the right of
appearing in its behalf and invok-
ing the judgment of the courts on
such questions of public moment"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21

The committee appointed by Chair
man Salvas to draft state legisla-
tive program is composed of James
Curtin and Elwood Chazer, BMU !;
Charles Hamm, Local 1884; Larry
Mower, Local 16; John Fonk, Local
IL, and Ito Ungaretti, Local 1T.
The national legislative program
committee is: Carl Salonen, Blaine
Beakey and Glen Zorn, BMU No. 1;
Tom Dickson, Local lit, and Ralph
Domer, Local 72.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21
Need Another F. D. R.

International Union Secretary
Travis is reviewing the worsening
economic condition of the country,
increasing unemployment, the sorry
spectacle Of mccarthyism and numer-
Gus broken promises by President Eli
enhower, told the delegates that
what we need is another Franklin
Roosevelt. Said he: eff we had an
FDR and his kind of program, the
Communists wouldn't have much of
a chance in this countryr'
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21
rate MAKING POWER OF F.P.
IS AN EXPENSIVE ILLUSION

eliminated" its own power to protect
the consumer, Metcalf wrote.
He referred to the Commission S
opinion in the Panhandle Eastern
Pipe Line Co. case. He said in that
opinion the Commission discarded
cost of rendering service to the pub
lie as a rate base and substituted in
stead fair field price" which Met
calf defined as "the highest monopoly
price the traffic will bear"
This substitution will bring
about such a change in our rate
making as to virtually eliminate
the power of the Federal Power
Commission to protect the consum-
err" Metcalf wrote.
Until Congress adopts a method
of evaluation that will bring about
genuine protection, the rate making
power of the Federal Power Commits
sion is an expensive illusion. 1t is
expensive for the taxpayers" he said
noting that the Commission is asking
81, 100000 for regulation and sur
veys in the natural gas industry this
coming fiscal year.
1T is expensive for the natural
gas pipeline companies, and there
fore for the rate-payers to have to
participate in little ritual for rate
increase whose outcome is never in
doubt.
cit is an illusion because under
the fair field price the field price
base is fixed by the gas companies
themselves.
Metcalf said the Commission
pointed out defect in the law"
when the opinion notes that "there
IS a lack of explicit congressional |
directive as to the formula for the
of Just and reason
able base" The Commissions action
n fixing rates upon pipeline price
by the gas producers
themselves, Metcalf continued, "nul-
flies the whole legislation"
Therefore, he said, eve should dis
continue any pretense at regulation
Until Congress makes the necessary
to protect the public in
crest. Legislation remedying the
ituation is now before Congress. For
S. 1878 is pending in the
senate. But until such legislation is
nacted the appropriation for natural
as rate regulation should be saved
ecause under the present law as
Interpreted by the Federal Power
money appropriated for
equation will be wasted"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21
Looking Ahead

For future political action on the
state level, Salvas emphasized the
imperativeness of all Montana labor
and liberal farm and business groups
working in close cooperation when
ever and wherever possible.
AS a few salient points for dele
gates to consider in drafting a state
program he suggested, among other
things, the need for finding ways
and means of providing more jobs
in Montana, action to secure an ade-
quate occupationaI disease law and
improvements i'll workmen's compen-
stion benefits, removal of the re-
strictive amendments written into
the unemployment comp act by the
1858 Legislature and the improving
of that law to more nearly cope with
current economic trends.
For continued efforts to improve
Montana tax laws he emphasized
the Importance of keeping the
Joint Tax Study Committee func-
tioning. The committee is made up
of representatives of Montana
Farmers Union, Montana State
Federation of Labor, Montana Fed
Grafton of Teachers, and Montana
Mine-Mill.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21
Electric Consumers Lash
Eisenhower Power Policy

WASHINGTON.-(C NS)-Two hundred coop city and la
Dor union officials asked President Eisenhower to abandon
his present power policy.
neither the President Interior Secretary Douglas
Mckay the Assistant secretary for Fred
Aandah Interiors undersecreary Raph Tudor were on
hand defend their policies All four in
vted declined attend the Electric Consumers Information
Committees 2-day workshop here May 1O-11.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21
His Duty to the People

In filing the brief, Olsen told the
press: 81 believe that the duty and
power of the Attorney General to
represent the people and the State
is paramount and any functions he
performs for an inferior board do
not transgress this duty.
"The district court has ruled in
this case that the Attorney General
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21

such user it is entitled to have
legal determination of it's protest
against the large increase in the tele-
phone rates.
eff the Attorney General is now
to be deprived of his right to de-
fend the state and the public, the
fundamental law of this state will
have to be changed. intend to
resist that change to the limit of
my ability"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21

By coincidence, former President
Harry Truman, who came here for
Clio full-employment conference,
dropped in. He recalled his talk to
ECIC two years ago when he warned
less public and coop power would
follow a Republican party victory.
He said his predictions have come
true.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21

Those at the session, in formal
closing statement, dashed at Nc
Kay from a dozen angles. His with
drawal from the Hells Canyon
hearings before Federal Power
Commission "is a denial of his
responsibility as custodian of the
peoples resources" His power pol
icy "is a policy for promoting
scarcity, monopoly, and high cleo
trio rates"
McKay's Missouri basin power
marketing program us an assault on
a half-century old power policy, de-
structive of the interests of taXpay-
ers and farm and city electric con-
sumers," the conference said.
His failure to honor contracts be-
tween Missouri co-ops and South
western Power Administration is ode
void of a sense of moral response
bility and is, in fact, illegal" The
refusal to honor these contracts, dele
gates said, is designed to jeopardize
the financial soundness of farmers
co-ops, to increase power rates, to
reduce the amount of low cost power
available to co-ops and cities, and
to force these co-ops into the embrace
of unfriendly power companies"
McKay's refusal to sell Clark Hill
power directly to Georgia co-ops-
Its rightful, legal owners'-is an
ito force these co-ops' con-
5inued dependency on Georgia Power
Mckay, they said, "has
Bonneville, Southeast
ern, and Southwestern Power Ad-
and the power planning
;taffs of Interior agencies"
Interiors re-allocation of costs on
nulti-purpose dams may result in
UGH high rates that the people will
'e unable to buy the power, thereby
destroying their preference rights
nd turning much federal power over
0 profit utilities without any change
n the law"
Interior testimony on two occa-
sions clearly indicates, they said,
that Mckay and his subordinates
are opposed to the entire prefer
ence principle-despite their re-
peated assurances to the contrary"
The policy of me- new starts on fed
eral power projects is wholly un-
justifiable" and "jeopardizes our
national security and freedom"
ECIC delegates also scored the
louise for voting to turn over Mia
ara Falls valuable public resource
} five private power companies, con-
'ary to policies Congress followed
Or more than so years" The Roose-
elt-Lehman bill-for New York
ate development of Niagara Falls
18th power preference for co-ops
nd cities-is "the only pending bill
lat would assure electric consumers
lie full benefits"
Continued congressional refusal
} expand Tennessee Valley Author
US power supply els designed to
cate a power shortage, discredit
VA, destroy the IVA yardstick,
I'D permit profit power firms to in
ade the area with the inevitable
'nsequence of higher power rates."
They praised the Senate judiciary
investigation of the pow
monopoly as "a most promising
svelopment." They urged more
lnds for it's work.
Power company propaganda is
Increasingly arrogant, unerringly
dishonest, and wholly reprehen-
ible. Vast quantities of rate pay
'rs' funds are used to destroy COM
'etition and public yardsticks, to
often up the consumer for rate
Increases, and to gain control over
he peoples education and gov
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-21
1854 POLITICAL ACTION, LEGISLATION
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CONTINUED from Page One)
and dependent aged citizens to Sc
cure old age assistance
8. Continue legislative avoidance
of meeting the need for having
workable and satisfactory occupa-
tional disease (Silicosis) law on the
books.
4. The continued reluctance of the
legislature to do anything about cor
recting long-standing tax inequities
on the state and local level. AS an
example of the latter, he pointed
out that taxable valuation of Silver
Bow county has not increased be-
cause of the ACM's new. 2O-million
dollar Kelly shaft operation, or the
Victor Chemical plant at Silver Bow.
Evening star., 1954-12-12

regularly, takes heat and
massage treatment and keeps
his weight down.
Berl doesn't know until
about 2 pm. on the day of a
major fight whether he's go
ing to be called on by the
Boxing Commission to ref
cree. II he's picked, he eats
about 2::3O, tries to sleep In
his Brooklyn apartment till
6, and then reports to the
arena. He eats nothing else,
slipping only a little water, till
after the fight.
In II years of professional
"reffing," Berl estimates he
has offciated at 200 fights,
from around preliminaries
to 15-round championships.
On the pay SlQe, TeIerSelng -
not perhaps as remunerative
as one might think on read
ing about the size of fighters
purses. Minimum fee in New
York is $40 for a televised
bout, and top pay for referee
ing a major fight Is around
$500. As one of about six men
the New York State Boxing
Commission considers quail
fed to referee top bouts, Berl
gets about 20 refereeing jobs
a year.
Evening star., 1954-12-12
By vines Aiken

By vinee Aiken
banging gloves with such
boxing luminaries as Jack
Stone and Augie Rather.
These days, Berl is still capa-
BILE Of going Is rounds, only
now he's the third man in the
ring. At the last Marciano-
Charles fight, Berl was ref
ereeing. The year before. he
of1aciated at the on-Turpin
bout. Condition" says Berl,
that's the whole thing"
As a fight referee, Berl has
to stay in nearly the same
peak shape as the fighters.
Although he doesn't take a
beating, he has to go the dis
tance. doing as much and
maybe more footwork. The
mental strain of refereeing,
too. says Berl, is a lot tougher
than 1t looks, especially to the
fans, who often don't notice
the referee unless he happens
to be blocking their view.
At so, Berl has sensibly
tapered off from the vigorous
routines of his boxing days.
Instead of roadwork, he does
sidewalk pounding, about 10
miles Of 1t a day, as sales
promotion man for a dis
tillery. In addition, he swims
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-08-06

throughout the United States in
specting fishery stations as guest
of our government.
Tai is internationally recog-
nized as one of Israel's leaders in
fish development and has been
asked by other governments to
lend his expert assistance to their
conservation and improvement
programs.
=
Rabbi A. Herson, of Waco,
Texas, has resigned his position as
public relations director of the
Southwestern region of the Zion
list Organization of America to ac-
cept the spiritual leadership of
Tifereth Israel Northside Center
in Miami. He is settling here with
his wife and nine-year- old daugh-
ter.
+
One of Greater Miami's out
standing Jewish leaders, Carl
Weinkle, former head of a chain
of markets bearing his name, was
appointed Jewish Co.. Chairman of
the Florida Region of the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews. Weinkle has, at one time
or another, headed almost every
important Jewish campaign in
South Florida.
X
Miami can now boast one of the
three scholarship winners of In
ternational B'nai Birth. Miss Bar
bara Gardner, of Miami, is the
winner of one of the three coveted
scholarships and was selected
over other candidates in seven
Southern states.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-08-06
More Than 1000 Delegates
to Attend Hudussuh
Convention

More than 1000 delegates and
guests from every section of the
United States, representing the
organizations 100000 members in
LOO chapters in each of the 48
states as well as in Puerto Rico
and Alaska, will attend the 10th
annual convention of Hadassah,
the Women's Zionist Organization
of America, at the Waldorf-As-
toria in New York City from Aug.
1925.
According to Mrs. Mortimer
Jacobson, of New York, Conven-
ton Chairman, the 1854 conven-
ton, which will be addressed by
prominent American and Israeli
leaders, will have the RESPONSE
bility of blueprinting Hadassah's
100000 program of medical, So
cial welfare, child rescue and re-
Mobilization, vocational education
nd land redemption in Israel, and
of fostering a creative Jewish life
in the United States through
Jewish education.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-08-06

An unidentified caller, who
claimed that he was a war vet
eran, made the threat to blow up
the building located in the south
end of Miami Beach.
The Communist investigation is
attracting daily newspaper head
lines and it seems a shame that
the names are Shantzek, Prensky,
Goldberg, etc. Local newspapers
were very fair and enterprising
when they assigned reporters of
the Jewish faith to investigate the
so-called "Jewish Cultural Gen.
ter" and revealed that it had no
connection with any phase of or
gained Jewry.
x
The Greater Miami Beach Motel
Assn. announced last week that
it will soon be possible for motor
ing tourists to buy complete Mi
ami Beach package tours which
have proved so successful in CO.
operation with the air lines and
railroads.
In addition to an all-expense
package if the traveller brings his
own car, there is planned pack
age to be sold by the railroads
and air lines which will include a
rental car for the tourists entire
stay.
In Miami on a short visit is
Shimon Tai, Israeli fish expert.
Tai is currently assigned to the
United Nations Technical Assist
ance Board at Port-au-Prince,
Haiti. He is also making a trip
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-08-06
CANADA AND ISRAEL AGREE
TO RAISE THEIR ENJOYS
TO AMBASSADORS

JERUSALEM, (JTA) - The
Governments of Israel and Can
ada have agreed to raise the level
of their diplomatic ENJOYS to each
others capital from Minister to
Ambassador.
The announcement revealed
that Michael Comay would be
Israel's first Ambassador to Otta-
wa. The Canadian Ambassador to
Israel will also be the Ambassa-
dor to Greece. He will maintain
his residence in Athens, and a
Charge de'Affaires will head the
Embassy in Tel Aviv.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-08-06
by HAL RERGlDA

neither
Jewish threatened with being blown
Cene1 director Maurice Carroll Of about six
the Dade County Grand Jury Communist
poets who refuse questions to them about alleged
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-08-06

The Combined Campaign for
American Reform Judaism, which
supports the Reform movements
national religious institutions, has
completed its Annual Mainte-
nance drive for 1953-1954 with a
record total of $1,442,9O9, it was
announced by DR.. Samuel S. Hol-
lender, Of Chicago, General Chair
man of the Combined Campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Produce Markets

baltimore quotations supplied BY the
United States Agriculture Department:
Ap |ncS.! hI ~ sEts Y 81 y e. ESSm6os
!. & S.sssSss; u, veal; psnsns 4; sonslns ! !,
ssst " S 30 M R 6 s h nS'asa
Sits ElSersss UT .. ). + Estr.. inches iSs
: Potatoes About steady .. !. Is and
wise stated; Nd; Eastern Shore 50-lb
kennebeces. l.50-6b. N u Cobblers
sins SON. sacks sai u.s. cSpsG.i ka 49,
y, sacks 2. l0-l5, Del Katahdins. 100
10 sacks, ?25; 50-ib. sacks. 1.60-Bb.
"a : "a ccbelsrs: lao-ib: 2.75: 5O-ib sacks.
U 8. Is Size B, so h.. 5000 cents.
Sweet potatoes: Dull Va. bu. bkts.
81 "a i ooldens and Puerto Ricans.
PsuItyy Quotat lions.
POULTRY Market weak. Al moderate-
so,neayy supply which included liberal
s ccIrys, exceeded 2 light and disap-
Rens VERY Dn SiEeu,sn interest Heavy type
Caponetses, small type fryers and iiehiift
s Isps n nsI1.t. At s sts19d:si Some white
s over A ss.se g. i fsI lower. mos,,, %
NAg&skerS. IDS. ana over 1890, mostly
~. Hens: Heavy type 20-24. Puliets: 81 !.
Grain Market.
Elour--Receipts. 1927 1O0-pound
Wheat--Reccipts o2s.4s4 bushels;
shipments. 900 bushels; stocks. 6.l64. 609
Dusneis Nc. red winter gaflicky
%ot., domestic, 1.s9h; August !:
corn-Receipts. Ss,454 bushels: ship-
ments, $4,000 bushels; stocks. SOC 1914
oats-Receipts. $4,000 bushels, ship.
ments., none: stocks. 2.763 bushels.
Barley--Receipts, none; shipments
none: stocks, 9,246 bushels
Rye-Receipts, none; shipments
Soybeans-Receipts, none: shipments,
/ nnoe: stocks, 1855 bushels.
Miliieed-- Receipts, 626 tons.
Egg Market Steady.
Yesterdays Quotations.l
Eggs: Market steady to frm ON large
rivals heavy. Offerings fully ample for
current needs. Demands only fair
some smalls purchased at rs cents.
Prices paid BY f1rst receivers delivered
lob Baltimore, cases included: Large,
minimum go per cent A quality. whites,
4y-50; brown and mixed colors 43-6O.
Mediums, minimum 60 per cent A quail
Ky nn,o. whites,e 1885; brown and mixed
Egg receipts: $3.50 cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-11
Other earnings included:
Chicago Groin

CHICAGO, Aug. IL R).---A drought
reduced corn crop estimate by the Agri-
modities on the board 81 Trade today
the previous close. the limit permitted
Jumped fS A cents. the gpsermissiSIe INIT.
such strensth quickly entered other
ss 'i Saasye await with som. rp p4D
taking in, evidence on the, rise:
Toward the end Of the, hrst hour
t EnsS vas to corn w cents h g sen sD
Risher. septe@bsf 7 go and Msls rye was 4
up 3 September s esss nIab s
hundred pounds better. September Ii. 80.
The is per cent drop in corn .produc-
July was the chief item in an overall
production loss Of per cent during the
month. soybeans, on the other hand.
The department hedeed q little in its
report, however. pointing out that during
August extensive rains have helped crops
tion which had been written on may
yet be recovered. Nevertheless, 1t still
expected the crop would not be adequate
some drawing on the Government sur
OF less moment In the current trade
o sa n SH Me S n sas nst V g
, conference with the House to iron out
differences In their separate measures.
SS poss be esse ss snd 80
cent OF parity. Thus this section at least
will not be an issue.
s oH sosesss sas .ad soy
beans also hpd suffered DROUGHT damage
but the predicted 304 million bushels
would be 4 record high crop 4 Would
Of 262 million bushels.