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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-26
Farmers Uniony Oil
Independent 10
DeVeIon Potash Fields

DENVER, Colo.-National Farm
ers Union has teamed with an indie
pendent oil-gas producer to develop
FU-owned potash fields in south
eastern New Mexico.
Kerr-McGee Oil Industries of Okla
homa City and Farmers Union will
form a new corporation to mine, pro-
cess, and distribute products on a
nationwide basis. Senator Robert S.
Kerr (D-Okla.) is president of Kerr
MCGEE. The two firms will share
common stock in the new venture
$3.50.
C. E. Huff, vice president of Farm
ers Union Services, said the potash
will be distributed through co-ops
and to farmers directly where no
co-ops exist. No potash shortage ex-
lists now, Huff said, but the price re-
mains high.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-26
ADvERTIsEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed proposals for repairs to Metal
lurgical Building, Main Hall, Engineer
ing Building, Gymnasium and Library
Building at the Montana School of
Mines, Butte, Montana, win be received
by the State Board of Examiners of
Montana in the City Of Helena, Mon
tana, until 10 o'clock A. NJ. on the
tenth day Of December, 1854, and will
then be publicly opened and read.
All bids shall be made on the printed
forms attached to and made part OF
the proposed contract documents. The
contract documents may be examined
at the office of the Architect, Walter
Arnold, of Butte, Montana, the office
of the State Board of Examiners, Capt.
toll Building, Helena, Montana, or the
office of the Business Manager of Mon
tana School of Mines, w. Milton Brown,
from whom said documents may also
be obtained.
Bids submitted shall be base bid for
all work called for in general contract.
Each bidder will be required to have
a license from the Montana State Board
of Equalization in a classification that
will allow the bidder to execute the
contract.
Each bidder must submit with his
bid a certified check in an amount equal
to five $50 per cent of his bid, made
payable to the State Treasurer.
The character and amount of security
to be submitted by contractors for the
performance of the contract is stated
in the proposed contract documents.
No bidder may withdraw his bid for
at least thirty 800 days after the
scheduled closing time for the receipt
Of bids.
The State Board of Examiners re-
serves the right to reject any and all
bids and to waive informalities.
STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS,
STATE OF MONTANA.
By: G. L. BRYANT,
Executive Clerk.
Nov. 1926, Dec. 3.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-26
LEGAL ADVERTISING
NOTICE TO CREDITORS


Estate of LOUIS THOMAS GRAY.
deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN by the
undersigned administrators of the es-
tate of Louis Thmoas Gray, deceased,
to the creditors Of, and all persons hav-
ing claims against the said deceased,
to exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers, within four months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrators, 1884 Chestnut, Hell
ena, Montana, or the law office of Ray
mond f. Gray, Roman, Montana, the
same being the place for the transac-
tion of the business of said estate. in
the County of Lake.
s/Eliza Cray Belgrade, Administrative
of the estate of Louis Thomas Gray,
Deceased.
Dated November IS, 1854.
$ /Raymond +. Gray
Attorney for administrators,
Roman, Montana.
Nov. 20, Dec. g., 10. II.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-26
Continued from Page One)

(OOnLlnueQ from rage Ono)
Leaphart, attempted to get the COM
mission to take into consideration the
As per cent of the utility's gas plant
used exclusively to provide service
to the Anaconda Copper Mining Com
pany. This Commissioners Middleton,
Henry and Young refused to do, de-
spite wealth of Federal Power Com
mission testimony taken at an FPC
hearing in 1851, and showing the
very close relationship between that
part of the gas plant set aside for
the ACM and the So per cent used
by $4,000 other gas consumers.
Montana Power reluctance to have
FPC testimony brought into the May
1858 hearing was apparently due to
the following facts put into the FPC
record by utility representatives when
they were seeking favorable FPC
action on their request to import ten
billion cubic feet of gas from Canada
each year to service the ACM:
MPCo. President J. E. Corette,
before the FPC testified that if the
company was permitted to make the
1.-THE effect of our bring
ing Canadian gas in for the Anaconda /
company is that we avoid the neces-
sity of increasing the rate to our
other customers to the extent of %
per cent or we avoid a rate increase
n the amount of $1,124,OOO :"
(FPC transcript, Docket No. G-1712,
friday, September 81, 1851
Along with this statement by Cor
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-26
DIx0N-YATES deal FACES TOUGH Fight
BEFORE COMMISSION

ring around the IVA area, according
to congressional critics.
Under the Contract, the utility
holding companies, headed by Presl-
dent Edgar H. Dixon Middle South
and Chairman Eugene A. Yates
(Southern), will set up an operating
utility to run the West Memphis
plant, scheduled to furnish iva with
100000 kilowatts of power under
Acc contract.
QUESTIONS FOR SEC
The operating utility, Mississippi
Valley Generating Co., is to have $5.5
million invested in it by the two hold
ing companies-with Middle South
putting up 70 per cent and Southern
the remaining 81 per cent. On this
investment, MVGC is to be allowed
up to a 100000 a year III per
cent? profit.
Contract foes think the arrange
ment is illegal because it is a merger
of two holding companies and because
the S. million equity investment is
much too small under SEC rules when
compared to the over 500 million
MVGC will have to raise in bonds to
finance the power plant. (The plant
is expected to cost around $107.5 mil
lion-give or take several million.)
SEC rules call for ratio of bonds
Cor other debit to equity capital of
not more than 60 per cent debt to not
less than 40 per cent equity. Dixon
Yates ratio would be 95-to-5.
Kefauver said the contract also
the Holding Company Law
which was designed to break up
'super-holding companies"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-26
Continued from Page One)

/ kSOuCluuSu ITOIl rage OueJ
kilowatts of cheap power from
MVGC which is to generate $4,000
XIV but sell IVA only 100000 of it.
2-They'll be able to buy even
more cheap power from MVGC any
time the government doesn't want the
full 100000 XIV.
And 3-They'll be able to sell
power to the government when
MVGC generating units aren't in
service.
Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) point
ed out that the 100000 ceiling was
no ceiling at all, because there was
no limit on what the company could
make on the $4,000 XIV.
Kefauver said the dishonest" !,
Sloppy" contract has enormous
loopholes" that might yield Dixon
Yates "great windfall profits" includ
ing 81 million annual profit on sale
of excess power to private utilities.
He estimated the profits would range
up to "a per cent, not IL per cent.
The Autobiography Subcommittee
is interested in Dixon-Yates both for
itself and as a symptom and symbol
of growing trend toward monopolis-
tic merger.
In the Dixon-Yates promotion
half-billion dollar utility holding COM
pany Middle South Utilities, Inc.)
and a three-quarter-billion utility
holding company (the Southern Co..
are joining hands in the first step
,oward forging of private utility
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-26
LEGAL ADVERTISING

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE
STATE OF MONTANA, IN AND FOR
THE COUNTY OF LEWIS AND
CLARK.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLI-
CATION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF
LESTER BERKOWITZ, JOAN IRIS
BERKOWITZ, JILL KATHY BERKO-
WITT AND RICHARD BERKOWITZ.
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE OF
HEARING PETITION FOR CHANGE
OF NAME.
Notice is hereby given that Tuesday,
the 2Sth day of December, 1854, at 1000
o'clock A. NJ. of said day in the court
room of Department No. of said court
at the Courthouse of Lewis and Clark
County in the City of Helena, Montana,
has been appointed as the time and
place for hearing the application of
Lester Berkowitz for change of name
to Lester Burke of Joan Iris Berko-
witt for change of name to Joan Iris
Burke, each in his and her own be-
half, and of Jill Kathy Berkowitz for
change of name to Jill Kathy Burke,
and of Richard Berkowitz for change
of name to Richard Burke, by Lester
Berkowitz, their father.
At any time before such hearing, or
thereat, objections or remonstrances
may be filed by any person who can
in such objections show to the Court
or Judge good reasons against said
change of name.
Done and dated this 18th day of No
vember, 1854.
VICTOR H. FALL
District Judge.
JOHN w. MAHAN
for Petitioners,
Helena, Montana.
Nov. 26, Dec. 8, 10, II.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-26

During the 18th Century large
whale swan under London Bridge
and was killed upstream with bows
and sings says the National Geo
graphic Society.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-26
376 Handicapped Persons
Aided By Rehabilitation

Through practical shop Or school
training, or through corrective sur
gerry, artificial devices or other medi-
cal means 376 handicapped Montana
men and women last year were pre-
pared for employment and placed in
more than 500 different occupations,
by the Bureau of Vocational Rehabili-
tation, reports Left Fredericks, di-
rector.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Research Aids Improvement
In u. S. Housing Production

for young families to purchase
these improved houses with their
limited income.
How was such rapid progress
in improved houses made pos
Sible?
Part of the answer is that the
building industry as whole was
not as backward as it appeared.
But progress was being made in
individual sectors. Research was
being carried on by isolated in
dividuals, groups and organiza-
cions: The steady work of find-
ing out the physical properties
of materials. /. How much lead
will make them bend? How
much make them crack? Make
them break? What happens
when they are exposed to mois-
ture, to heat. to freezing and
thawing? How f1re-resistant are
they? How much heat will pass
through them at what rate?
How we'll do they retard sound
and diminish noise? How long
will they last under ordinary
use? How do they fit with other
materials? All this knowledge
about basic building materials,
as we'll as about many hundreds
of new materials and products
were being slowly accumulated.
Weather Studied.
Data also was being assembled
on weather conditions through
out the country. Methods were
being studied for making use OF
it's favorable aspects and elimi-
mating unfavorable ones in the
design of houses. Sociologists
and home economists were OBJ
serving and measuring the
patterns, behavior and activities
of families to determine require
ments for space, furnishings and
equipment. Architects were
evolving functional plans and
structures for modern living re-
quirements and experimenting
with new methods of conStruc-
ton.
Opportunity to apply this
knowledge was provided initially
by the postwar volume demand
for housing which permitted in
PRODUCTION of mass production
techniques adapted from other
modern industries. The use Of
these techniques required new
methods of assembly, new mate
rials and new products. But con-
Germ was primarily with produc-
ton.
AS the problems of production
were overcome, more attention
could be given to considerations
of the use of houses by people.
This required a new type OF
knowledge about which produc-
ton men we're not too familiar.
Here again the results of re-
search were available to provide
some answers. The experience of
other large industries could be
drawn on and adapted to hous-'
ing. But here is an area in which
much new knowledge is needed
Evening star., 1954-10-02

for the long-range pull. The key
is the discovery of what most
people want in the way of greater
comforts, convenience, pleasure
and delight than they now have
in their living environment.
This task is no more difficult
than others to which the ex-
perimental method of research
has found answers. Techniques
are available for gathering the
information. To succeed the
search must be continuous. With
a continually improved product,
the product and the satisfaction
of people is undergoing a change.
Other Factors Involved.
The problem is further COM
plicated for the builder when we
realize that owner satisfaction
with his home environment is
not wholly dependent on the
house itself.
Satisfaction with living envi-
ronment extends beyond con-
Germ with the street on which the
site is located. It is determined
also by the degree of a sense of
security, comfort, convenience
and pleasure in shopping, chill
dren attending schools, working
Evening star., 1954-10-02
There e'sa Right Way
And a Wrong Way
To Sand Your Floors

Here are a few dos and don'ts
for operating electric floor
sanders:
DO !. operate the sander only
after you are certain that there
are no protruding nails In the
surface Of the floor.
DO. ;. use regular floor -surfac-
ing abrasive for the sanding
drum, as ordinary sandpaper is
not suitable.
DO. ;. take short steps when
operating the machine. raising
the drum from the floor at the
end of each cut before the
machine comes to a standstill.
DO. use an edger to get close
to the wall, as the conventional,
large sander cannot get close
enough to the Dashboard mold
ing.
DO. be certain that all sand
ing dust and wood f1bers are COM
pletely removed before applying
a finishing material.
DON'T. attempt to remove
old paint or varnish from the
floor with any abrasive except
the open-coated kind made es-
pecially for that purpose.
DON'T i. forget that, while
the abrasive paper must be
drawn up snugly, it should not
be too tight.
DON'T !. 4. place any weights on
the machine to increase drum
pressure, as this will overhead
the motor without increasing the
efficiency of the sanding opera
ton.
DON'T. create a fire hazard
by emptying the dust bags in a
furnace or fireplace.
DON'T -. spend a lot Of time
and money on surfacing the floor
and then spoil it all by using an
inferior finishing material.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Continued From Page C-1.

lC0nClnueo from rage C-1J
last five years has been phe-
nomenal, especially when con-
sidered against past conditions.
Ten years ago there was grave
concern about the impending
crisis of an acute housing Short
age. There was CONSERVATION
over the "backwardness" of the
house-building industry in ad-
justing to twentieth century
methods. In fact. there was diff
f1culty in identifying a specific
industry at all.
Reports disclosed. there was
only a loosely knit combination
of individuals and firms that
worked together temporarily on
a specific job. When the job
was completed various parts re-
assembled into new groupings
for the next operation.
Housing Changes Needed,
The product offered was criti-
cised for being too bulky, too
heavy, requiring too many diverse
parts, ill-adapted for ready as
sembly and requiring much
waste of time and material in
excessive cutting and fitting.
Conclusions, in sum, were that
here was an industry and a
product ill-suited for modern
requirements. If the crisis of
the housing shortage was to be
met clearly a housing revolution
was necessary.
Leaders from all segments of
the building industry joined to-
gether to attack the problems
one by one.
Today the house-building in
dustry is certainly as familiar to
most people as any other single
industry. It's product is of in
terest probably to more people
than any other, since more new
houses are being bought than
ever before.
1t is producing dwellings at a
sustained rate of over a million
year. It considers this a
minimum rate for the next
decade. It estimates that IA
million new units per year would
be required to meet adequately
the real housing needs.
Certainly recent production
represents a vast improvement
over the project builders houses
of decade ago. In the better
examples you see new concepts
of space planning, labor r-saving
devices for all types of house
hold activities, improved bath
room equipment and more of it.,
new materials that are easy to
maintain and the whole house
designed with the purpose of
stimulating pleasure and delight.
Not so obvious are the new
construction methods and proc
esses which by reducing costs
have made the greater amenities
possible. But most important is
the fact that new financing
methods have made it possible
Evening star., 1954-10-02

opportunities and conditions of
getting to and from work.
With researchers, designers,
materials and product manu-
facturers, and builders working
together toward a mutually un-
derstood and accepted objective,
results already have been i'm
pressive.
Much still remains to be
known and done before all the
most desirable aims are achieved.
The house building industry
has learned how to acquire nee
Evening star., 1954-10-02

essary new knowledge and to
use it. The new problems are
challenging ones. But with its
new knowledge, and its new
techniques of putting that
knowledge to use, the industry is
better prepared now to meet
the problems ahead than 1t ever
was in the past.
Evening star., 1954-04-30

! the basement with tar paper
roof and moved in with his wife
and three small sons. Finally
a banker. gambling on Cores
determination and other quail
ties. granted him a credit of SIS
600. which he drew on when
needed.
"1t was years before we moved
upstairs" Gore grinned.
Took Three Years to Build.
But three years were required
to complete the house. 1t con-
tanned seven bedrooms, three
baths, living room, dining room.
kitchen, full recreation room.
laundry room. garage and other
features and was valued at
SAC, 900.
He sold the house, at a bar
gain figure, to obtain the money
for 'an interest in the Old Do
minion Speedway.
There's Wally over there" !"
Gore said, pointing to a clean
cut young man tinkering with
car.
"Wally, Joe Wright and Reds
Fowler organized the Northern
Virginia Stock Car Club. Wright
and Fowler were killed racing,
If a flrst-class track will pre-
vent it, that isn't going to hap
pen to anybody at Old Dominion.
We haven't had a serious acci-
dent in the two years I've been
here"
Evening star., 1954-04-30
Area Colleges Face
10 Games in2Days
On Home Fields

College baseball teams of the
area face a combined schedule
of 10 games today and tomorrow,
all at home.
Maryland. which dropped a 6-5
decision to Wake Forest as part
of its 1-2 Atlantic Coast Con-
ference record, tries to make up
for that loss when the Terps
entertain the Deacons today.
Tomorrow at College Park Mary
land takes on Washington and
Lee. The Terps' game with
George Washington yesterday
was postponed to Monday.
At least three of the Deacons
will receive more than routine
attention today in College Park.
Dick Harris, son of the Senator's
manager. is at second base for
Wake Forest: Third Baseman
Ben Tatum is the nephew of the
Maryland football coach, and
Bruce Hillenbrand, rightfielder
was an all-around athlete at
Washington-Lee High.
CIV Playing Generals.
George Washington plays,
W&L today on the Ellipse. GW's
Southern Conference record is
3-3 and WSsL's, 2-6.
Catholic and American Uni
versities play Mason-Dixon Con-
ference games today and to-
morrow on their respective dia-
monds. Gu entertainS Baltimore
today and Lynchburg tomorrow
while the Eagles oppose Loyola
and ToWSon. AU has won one of
six conference games and the
Cardinals are "a in Mason
Dixon play.
Georgetown will try for it's
third victory in 10 tries when
it meets st. Joseph's at 3 pm.
tomorrow on the Medical Field.
Howard's 6-7 record may be i'm
proved at the expense of Fayette-
vile today and Drew tomorrow,
both at Banneker Playground.
Montgomery Stopped.
In the only game played yes
terday, Naval Receiving Station,
the host, defeated Montgomery
Junior College, 7-3. Starter Joe
Cav was clipped for four runs
in the first inning on two hit
batSmen, two walks, two errors
and two singles. 1t was MICS
first defeat after three victories
and three games rained out.
TODAY.
Baseball
WASHINGTON and Lee at George Wash
ineton.
Wake Forest at Maryland.
Baltimore at Catholic.
Fayetteville at Howard.
Loyola at American t2D.
Baseball.
st. JoSeph's at GEORGETOWN.
WASHINGTON and Lee at Maryland.
Lynchburg at Catholic U.
Towson at American u.
Drew at Howard.
GEORGETOWN at Temple.
CATHOLIC at Washington College.
Howard Invitation.
MARYLAND at Duke
Princeton at Navv.
Evening star., 1954-04-30
Baseball
Continued From Page CID

Continued From Page CID
a sacrifice fly got Redleg rally
going in the ninth but Jim
Hughes retired Jim Greengrass
on a foul fly with the tying runs
on base, saving the victory for
Carl ErSkine.
Haddix Fans 13 and Loses.
Bob Purkey, one of the score
of Pittsburg rockies, won his first
major league start as Dick Cole
singled home two runs in the top
of the ninth at st. Louis. Harvey
Haddix struck out 13 Pirates in
suffering his third loss.
Casey Stengel. who rewrites
the rules of baseball strategy al
most daily, brought in lefthanded
Enos Slaughter to pinch hit
against Lefty Billy Pierce in the
sixth inning in New York and
the former Cardinal star deliv-
cred a single that tied the game.
Eddie Robinson, another pinch
hitter, followed with another
single that meant another run
and Allie Reynolds insured the
triumph with three hitleSS in
ningS in relief.
Cleveland warmed up for a
two-game series with the YAM
KEGS by pounding four Boston
pitchers for nine hits. The In
dians got five of their runs in
the. first two innings as Willard
Nixon suffered from wildness.
AL Rosen drove in three runs
with a single and fly.
Regalado Goes Out.
Rookie Rudy Regalado was
lost to the Indians for about a
week when he pulled a leg
muscle running out bunt in
the sixth inning. Manager Al
Lopez, who moved Rosen to first
base to make room for the young
third baseman. indicated that
he was sold on the new infleld
combination.
Meanwhile, the Athletics or
dered a complete orthopedic
examination for Pitcher Bobby
Shantz. who hurt his arm in the
season opener with the Red Sox.
1--WE want to find out once and
for all exactly what is wrong
with his arm," said Manager
Eddie JooSt.
Evening star., 1954-04-30
By Rod Thomos

Best bet at Manassas. Va,
where weekly auto races are
being presented at the Old Do
minion Speedway, appears to be
Al Gore. only he isn't a driver
He's the director and principal
owner.
Gore. 35. a carpenter and ex-
Seabee, is a dreamer, with a
brawny 6-foot-3, 225 pound
physique charged with inspired
energy. With its use, he's turned
one dream into a reality, mean
ing the completely rebuilt Old
Dominion Speedway. It's a darb
Tomorrow nights racing there
will start at 7 o'clock, Washing
ton time.
Il got alarmed and exasper-
ated watching my brother. Wal
ly, and other drivers racing on
dirt death traps" Gore says in
explaining why, two years ago, he
bought an interest in the speed
way and Immediately set about
banking and asphalting the
three -eighths of a mile oval.
He took over on July 10, 1852
1.-TWO weeks from now." hi
announced, well reopen thi.
place with a first-class track
Seabee for "a Months.
| For "a months Q943-6) Gore
was a Seabee. Nine of those
months were spent in a nava
hospital while surgeons refash-
ioned a part of his spine with
material taken from his left leg
Evening star., 1954-04-30

Hurt on a Seabee job in the
Pacific. Gore carried on for a
year until. at length, he found
it necessary to stand still for
five minutes before he could
take a step. Then he was
shipped home.
What Gore proposed to ac-
compliSh in two weeks at Ma
nassas appeared to those about
him practically impossible, con-
Sidering his Scant resources. Yet
the track reopened August 2,
1852, on schedule, with every
thing as Gore said it would be-.
But in those two weeks his
brief periods of sleep totaled
IL hours.
And now the old Seabee is
buzzing again.
When I visited Gore early last
week he was busy laying con-
crete blocks, increasing the
grandstand capacity to 1000. He
said the job would be finished