davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-01-01

just
significance only in that December
normally be snowb and the
already have beeno feed fol- good fwom
{. CATTLE PRICES CONTINUED lower 1853 but weather
conditions placed Montana livestock producers unusually
able position hold market orderly fashion Mild winter
of 1928 permitted stock throughout the
Heavy June rains put the into lush condition Growers
with surplus pasture able to take cattle shipped from
douh the southwest With record hay supplies hand
and mild weather prevailing this winter livestock producers
sound position.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-01-01

PERFECT GROWING AND HARVESTING weather resulted
in far above production of forage hay and
Heavy June rains made cuee bottom meadow Ideal
hang weather permitted the first cuttings of alfalfa be put
up first class condition Total production 2700O TONS
100000 than the 1852 and tons above
Corn production estimated 1882 900 bushels compared
100000 bushels 1852 and 292OOO bushels average for the
last 10 years.
8-onuory l. 1854
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
new LEGISLATION NEEDED TO GUARANTEE
CONTINUED ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
By CONG. LEE METCALF

House passage of the social secur
ity bill and the imminent passage o
the income tax reduction bill in tn,
Senate points up additional legisla
ton needed to guarantee continued
economic prosperity in the United
States. This includes:
Federal aid for public school
construction. We are short 34O,O
classrooms to house nearly 9 mil
lion pupils. We are building ele-
mentary and high school classrooms
at the rate of $4,000 a year. But
this is less than half enough; we
are falling short at the rate of
$1,000 a year.
Acceleration of the building pro-
gram of multipurpose dams to assure
US of ample supplies of water and
hydroelectric power in the face of an
increasing demand for both. The Adj
ministration should press for speedy
of Libby Dam by the Inter
national Joint Commission so that
ground can be broken as soon as pos
sible for this, the most important
project in the Columbia River basin.
A speedup of our highway construc-
ton program. We must have a ma
tional defense highway system that
is adequate everywhere or we will
have on that is adequate nowhere.
Gaps in our defenses must be
plugged. The recent announcement
by the Air Force that a jet base will
be located north of Glasgow is a step
in this direction. We need more radar
stations-you recall that civil de-
Tense officials found several Mon
tana cities utterly defenseless" dur
ing recent drill. We have plans for
of dollars worth of needed
airports more than the money appro-
priated for this purpose to date.
Our national parks, recreation
areas for the millions of Americans
who own them, are beginning to
come apart at the seams. The Park
Service has development backlog
of $500 million worth of work au-
thorized, but for which no money
has been appropriated.
Then there are other needed public
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02

buildings, like replacement of the in
adequate post office at Whitefish.
have letter in my files from man
in Whitefish who calls the present
post office building medieval"
Congress should also improve our
unemployment insurance program
both to help the jobless and to prop
up the national economy. These i'm
provements should include requiring
all states to pay benefits equal to not
less than half the workers average
wage nor more than two-thirds of
the States average weekly wage;
extending benefit duration to at
least 80 weeks; setting up minimum
standards to make sure that workers
entitled to benefits aren't prevented
from getting them; extending cover
age to everyone now under social
security, and building up a re-insur-
ance fund to help out those states
W h 0 unemployment insurance
funds might otherwise go broke:
Then we should increase the mini
mum wage from the present IS cents
an hour-Pd say to $1.25.
Failure of the government to
keep commitments and to immedi-
ately start stockpiling strategic
metals such as lead and zinc points
up the need for passage of some
such legislation as my mine in
centive plan.
| have introduced legislation for
several points in this program. | have
co-sponsored or declared myself in
favor of the rest.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
UndeveIoped Nations Match
Point Nv Dollar 3 to ri

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Point ", or technical assistance, is
the most vital and popular part of
Americas foreign aid program, Co.
operative League spokesman told the
Senate foreign relations committee
June 81.
A Point " dollar gets other coun-
treis to spend from So to S21, Wal
lace ]. Campbell, director of the
Leagues office here, pointed out.
Underdeveloped countries, he said,
provide living expenses for U. S. ex-
perts, transportation, materials, and
local personnel, always more than
matching U. S. funds for self-help.
Campbell urged Point " to use
purchasing, marketing, and credit
co-ops to further economic independ-
ence in underdeveloped areas abroad
and more technical assistance through
United Nations agencies-Food &
Agriculture Organization, UNESCO,
World Health Organization, and In
ternational Labor Organization.
He also backed International De-
velopment Advisory Board recon-
mendations-
% That technical assistance be
separated from military aid so Point
w, being only 3-4% of foreign aid
expenditures, won't be buried;
(2) That technical assistance be
offered without any compulsory tie
in with military aid;
(3) That private, voluntary agen-
cies be used wherever possible; and
a. That technical assistance be
doubled in the next five years.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
Bill Strengthening Antitrust
Act Approved BY
Senate Group

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
When a businessman cuts his prices
to some customers so as to meet com
petition, his good faith would not be
a complete defense against charges of
discrimination, according to a bill ap-
proved June p by Senate judiciary
subcommittee.
The Robinson-Patman act prohibits
price determinations. The bill, intro
duced by Senator Estes Kefauver Cd
Tenn, says good faith in meeting
competitors practices is not a com
plete defense against charges of price
discrimination.
The U. S. Supreme Court held 9th
erwise in a case involving Standard
Oil Company of Indiana. 1t said good
faith was a complete defense in such
instances.
Kefauver's bill also spells out con-
ditions under which manufacturers
can absorb freight charges in pricing
their products.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
Wenatchee World Turns
Spotlight On Northwest
Power Commissions

An editorial in the Wenatchee
WORLD entitled: "26 Hands in
Northwest Power Pot" has turned
the spotlight on the confusion now
existing in Northwest power plan
ming, construction and marketing.
The editorial stated: eff you can
keep level head in all this con-
fusion, then you just don't understand
the situation, someone once said
That's undoubtedly the case in re-
gard to the Pacific Northwest Power
picture.
"Some, like DR.. Paul J. Raver of
Seattle City Light, claim that the
confusion has been purposely created
to allow the private power crowd"
as he calls it, to move in and take
over.
"In letting the facts speak for
themselves, it is only necessary to
list the agencies one by one to show
what a hodge-podge of inter-mingled
and overlapping hands there are in
the power pot. Count them-26 of
them"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
MONTANA FARM LAND VALUES DROPPED }
To 3 Per Gent IN PAST Year

was over 20 per cent smaller than
during the preceding year, and the
rate of sale has not increased much
since. In some instances, the asking
prices for farms and ranches are still
near the peak level of year or two
ago and buyers are unwilling to paw
such prices in view of reduced agri
cultural prices and income. Some
prospective buyers cannot meet the
financing requirements of lenders.
1t also appears that fewer farms and
ranches are for sale than in 1851
and 1852. A further drop in agri-
cultural income or a less favorable
long-term outlook could result in an
increased number of farms and
ranches for sale.
Also in the June issue of MON
TANA BUSINESS, the Bureau of
Business and Economic Research an
nounces the completion of a new,
weighted retail food price index for
Montana, similar to that prepared
for the United States by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. Monthly index
figures since May, 1850, are pre-
scented. Future issues will carry cur
rent data. The index for April, 1854,
shows an increase of ia per cent
in retail food prices in Montana since
May, 1850. The high point in food
prices was reached in August and
1852, when the index
stood at 1875. MAY, 1850, 1000.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02

manure crops, pasture, idle cropland
and summer fallow.
Producers must keep within the
total acreage allotment, when one
is established for their farms, in
order to be eligible for price sup
port on any crop. This requirement,
of course, does not apply on the
smaller farms where not more than
10 acres are to be diverted from
allotment crops.
Department officials feel that the
announced program should aid mate
rally in meeting the problem of how
to control or influence the use of
acres diverted from allotment crops
through adjustment programs, as well
as help attain more balanced pro-
duction and bring supplies more near
w in line with demand. The program
will not insure complete control of
diverted acres since producers will
have the choice of complying with
allotments and being eligible for price
supports or of exceeding allotments
and foregoing price support privileges
and mourning marketing quota penal
ties if quotas are in effect 1t is felt,
however, that the program will have
a direct and important effect on the
use of diverted acres without going
to the extreme of absolute controls.
Details of the allotment and quota
program and its application to differ
emit crops and operating conditions
will be available at County Agricul-
,ural Sterilization and Conservation
offices soon. County ASC committees
md personnel have been doing pre-
work on the 1855 wheat al |
otment program for several weeks.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02

Reflecting the continued decline IN
agricultural income, the average
value per acre of farm real estate
Gland and buildings) in Montana de-
clined 5 per cent between March l,
1853, and March 1, 1854, with graz
ing land showing the largest decline,
8 per cent, followed by irrigated
land, 6 percent, and dry farming
land, 8 per cent. These figures are
estimates prepared by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture and quoted
in the June issue of MONTANA
BUSINESS, published by the Bureau
of Business and Economic Research,
Montana State University.
The average dollar value of farm
land and buildings per acre in Mon
tana on March 1, 1854, was estimated
at $18.65, compared to S2O.37 on
March l, 1852, and $20.81 on March
1, 1853. The value of top-grade farms
and ranches did not decline as much
as lower-quality units.
The number of farms and ranches
sold in Montana during the year
March 1, 1858, to March l, 1854,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
Research Study Shows
Impact OF Low-G0Sf Power
On Industry

The Stanford Research Institute
has completed a survey which shows
that the income of $4,000 Pacific
Northwest wage earners is "directly
or indirectly related to aluminium
activity" in the region.
In the 13 years since low-cost fed
eral power has been marketed by
Bonneville Power Administration,
total of 1922 million has been invest
ed in the Northwest aluminium indus
try, the survey showed. The Stan
ford Institute report said that future
expansion of the industry was cloud
ed because of the prospects of a
serious power shortage after 1858.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
House Committee Approves
Sff2 Million for Point Nv

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
The House foreign affairs committee
okayed $112.7 million for U. S. tech
nical aid to underdeveloped countries,
June %. Point " experts sent abroad
will help boost farm production, ex-
pand medical care and sanitation,
further education and science.
The committee also approved $18
million for United Nations technical
assistance and 81 u million for SINH
lar help through the Organization of
American States.
Uncle Sam must loan about $500
million, or 1919 of all funds for mill
tary and economic aid to foreign gov
ernments, rather than simply giving
it, the House group decided. 1t also
earmarked $500 for U. S. surplus
farm crops to go overseas.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
Telephone Service On Its
Way To Rural People In
Northeastern Montana

Construction of the central office
building of Northwestern Montana
Telephone Cooperative in Scobey got
underway last week, reports Mrs. Will
liam Hass, secretary of the farmer
owned cooperative.
Among those present for the sod
breaking ceremonies for the new
building were ex-Mayor Holmbrecht
of Scobey, officers and directors for
the coop; R. L. Allen, RITA field man
ager from Salt Lake City, and R. Pet
erson, Billings, RITA engineer for
eastern Montana.
The cooperative has 80 miles of
stalking completed in District Tin
Guiding Flaxville, Outlook, Raymond,
Scobey) and several miles of posts
are up.
In District l (including Reserve,
Westby, Fortuna, Dagmar, Antelope,
Medicine Lake and Homestead), over
800 miles of stalking is done and al
most all posts are up. Two dial sta
lions in this district are almost fin
ished and waiting now only for dial
installation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
Automobile Industry
Layoffs Are Mounting
By Labor News Service

Layoffs in the auto industry are
beginning to mount as dealers stocks
move slowly and manufacturers cut
back production.
The Studebaker Corp. has shut
down its passenger car plant at South
Bend, Ind, laying off 5000 workers.
The company said its production
schedule is geared directly to dealer
sales.
In Detroit two CIO Auto Worker
locals announced that General Motors
has laid off 275 workers at its Fisher
Body Division and another 1000 at
its Pontiac plant.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
Immediate Revival of u. S.
Farm Exports Looks Dim

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
There's not much chance of export
ing more U. S. farm products soon.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Ben
son summarized the findings June
% of four trade missions he sent
abroad, and this conclusion topped
the list.
The 40 farm and business leaders,
editors, USDA workers, and univer-
sity staffmen returned from their
trips to Europe, the Near East, Far
East, and Latin America convinced
that eff the U. S. and foreign coun-
tries continue present policies, the
prospects of appreciably increasing
the volume of our farm exports in
the immediate future are not favor
able"
They found some Encouraging
factors" but agreed that mo time
table of possible U. S. trade recovery
can be given" Still, they emphasized
"the need for making every effort
to overcome the recent serious de-
cline in U. S. farm exports"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
Fewer Youngsters
Now Employed

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Labor
Department reported that employ
ment of young people IA to II years
of age dropped by more than 100000
between 1852 and 1853, with de-
creases both in the number of school
youths with jobs and in the number
of those out of school and EMPLOYED.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-07-02
wheat GROWERS TO VOTE ON
QUOTAS, FRIDAY, JULY 23

Wheat acreage allotments and mar.
keting quotas on the 1855 crop have
been announced by Secretary of Ag-
riculture Ezra Taft Benson. Produc-
erS will vote Friday, July %, to ac-
cept or reject quotas but allotments
require no referendum.
In his announcement the Secretary
said that cross-compliance among
allotment crops would be in effect
next year and that bigger producers
with larger totals of acres diverted
from allotment crops-would be re-
quired to comply with total acre
age allotment" in order to be eligible
for price support on any crop pro-
duced on the farm.
The 55-million acre national wheat
allotment for 1855 is the minimum
that may be set under law. Last years
allotment was set by specific legisla-
ton at 81 p million acres for 1854
only. Current estimates are that about
l billion 900 million bushels of wheat
will be available for the marketing
year beginning July l, 1854. This is
about 70 per cent above the normal
supply" the quantity calculated nee
essary to take care of domestic and
export needs with a Is per cent al
lowance for reserve.
Two-thirds of the producers voting
in the July % referendum must ap-
prove quotas for them to remain in
effect. If quotas are approved, pro-
ducers who comply with allotments
for their farms will be I
eligible for the full price support
which is in effect. Producers who do
not comply with all allotments will
be ineligible for price support and
subject to marketing quota penalties
N excess wheat.
IF quotas are disapproved, the
law provides a wheat price support
level at so per cent of parity to
producers who comply with allot-
ments.
Every effort will be made to see
hat each wheat producer has a no |
ice of his 1866 wheat allotment be-
ore the referendum date, according
0 State Agricultural Sterilization :
nd Conservation officials.
In an effort to prevent the "shift-
lg of SURPRISES, a producer will be
equired to comply with all acreage 5
llotments established for his farm
l 1866 in order to be eligible for II
rice support on any crop produced n
n the farm in that year. In addition E
0 this provision for cross-compliance II
mOng allotment crops, there will be
further requirement for farms
here acreage allotments will call =
or diversion of more than 10 acres !
rom the production of allotment ;
rops in 1855. In these cases a 'total
creage allotment will be established
or the farm. The total acreage allot- '
lent will include all crop acreage al \
,tments established for the farm. Il
nd the 1858 acreages Cor adjusted e
of all other crops on the n
arm except hay, cover crops, green
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-02

day at Kennywood Park, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fike, An
gela DiSimone, Rev. and Mrs. En-
vim Fike visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Sansbury at Grafton, w.
Va, last Sunday.
Mrs. Dahlia Barrett and Mrs.
Doris Stops, Of Frostburg, spent
Sunday and Monday at the home
Of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. r.
+. Colaw.
Sunday visitors at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Shaffer were
Miss Alice and Phyllis Uphold,
Mrs. Jack Uphold. Of near Oak
land, and Mr.. and Mrs. Nordeck
Shaffer and son, David, Of Oak
land
Mrs. Della Welch, of Sunnyside,
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Dewitt, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. MINERS Schoch,
of Oakland, were Saturday evening
dinner guests Of Mrs. Edith Sadd-
Ter and Miss lcie Schoch.
Mrs. Eloise Zimmers and chill
dren, of Baltimore, spent last week
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
land Bowser and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dalton Watkins,
of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr.. and Mrs.
James Hollis and daughter, MIR.
and Mrs. Clinton Hollis, of Terra
Alta, w. Va, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Willard Dewitt and family on Sun
day.
Miss Sherry Colaw is visiting rel
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-02
CRELLIN

Mr.. and Mrs. Darwin r. Martin,
.Jr., of Penn Yam. New York, an
nounce the birth of a son, David
Darwin, on August %.
Homer Shaffer's Sunday School
class met last Tuesday evening at
the home of Mrs. Walter Holler.
Mrs. Clarence Sterling and chill
dren. of near Valley Head, W. Va,
visited here last week.
Miss Anna May Friend is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. William Bow
ser, and family, Pursglove, W. Va.
The Opportunity Club met last
Thursday evening at the home of
Mrs. Lester Yutzy.
Rev. and Mrs. b. J. Lockhart and
family, Of Gassaway, w. Va, Wis
tied friends here last week.
Philson McCabe spent last week
with relatives i'm Clarksburg, W.
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Edwards,
Grantsville, visited at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Shaffer on
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Garrett
and son, Danny, spent several days
last week visiting with relatives
in Chenille, W. Va.
Lester Thomas, Of Morgantown,
W. Va, and Ralph Thomas, OF
Cheat Neck, Pa, were visitors al
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Dewitt last week.
Rev. Erwin Fike was a surgical
patient for several days last week
in the Garrett County Memorial
hospital, Oakland.
Mrs. Vonda McIntire and son,
Bobby, have been visiting Mrs.
Mary Lynn Warfield and other rel
atives in Washington, d. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. BuIl McCarty, of
Morgantown, w. Va, spent Satur-
day with Misses Phyllis and Alice
Uphold.
Mr.. and Mrs. Greed Wagner, of
Morgantown, w. Va; Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Holler and son and Mr..
and Mrs. Willard Hauser and chill
dren, of Mt. Lake Park, visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Sims on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Roth and
children, of Morgantown, w. Va,
were Saturday evening guests at
the home Of Rev. and Mrs. Erwin
Fike.
Mr. and Mrs. Iret Ashby visited
relatives at Madison, w. Va, last
week.
Mrs. Mildred Parks, of Parkers-
burg, W. Va, and Mrs. Bessie
Shaffer and Mrs. Martha Turney
of Oakland, were visiting at the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-02

atives in Frostburg this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Schoch, of
Oakland, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ward
Ashby, Of Deep Greek, were Mon
day dinner guests at the home of
Miss lcie Schoch and Mrs. Edith
Saddler.
Lynn Adams, student nurse at
Memorial hospital, Cumberland, re-
turned to her training on Wednes-
day after spending her vacation
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Elwood Adams. She was accompa-
MED there by Age Don Wade,
who returned to his home in Ohio
after visiting his brother-in-law
and sister, Rev. and Mrs. Glenn
Eagle. Altman Wade recently re-