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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-15
Con A Leopard Change Ills Sposs7


We the declarations vcePresdent radotele-
report
repeating here.
they
naton and make their democratic
support In the fight against Communism
we must that there millions epoPe
Of tho world honestly believe that the United
threat the OF the world the
and Communist China,
Americans must better understanding
ideals abroad by pTaccg thinking
human rights every day OF the year
Every act Of racial discrimination prejudice
States hurts America
q weapon 20 foreign enemy"
OF there Is nothing these statements
content TO the American Negro But Negroes
by the fact that they
mery aligned with the forces who fighting
nrs class citizenship for minority groups In America
Although felt that q goodwill
Ambassador nonwhie nations ready
to that the well spent the presidents
really opened
Ills uttsrAncSs fell kepuca among minority people
this countthe great question benECan leopard change
spots" Well lets
the atomic this Is possible.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-15
Letters TO The Editor
THANKS FROM CANDIDATE n. n. CARLSON 81

Editor: Please accept sincere thanks the front
article relative 70 and candidacy for the office OF Alder
9Th Ward, AZ pubnshed In your January edition
Negro citizens efforts
economic and social justice since first participated that worthy
by encouraging their participation in civic and political affairs
made outstanding contribution
that end by s high standards Of journalism and fairness and
clarity publication Of the problems people ably
selected shall be policy In the humbly
the Of justice and human dignity all aHksYOus very
truly u. H. CBOb) Carlson sr, Jan. =, 1854
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-15
On Vice President Nixon

Elsewhere on this page reprint two observations
vcePresden Richard Nxon attack prejudice
and discrimination after his trip TO the Far East We reprint
two editorials from California papers, the state from which
Mr. Nixon halls The pieces slightly critical Of their fellow
citizen but express pleasure In what they attitude
on the VicePreaidents part
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-15
POPULATION CHANCES

shows that the community popua.
ton 10 cent thus happens
there's complete change In population ohmers
This argument
he's been business people
he doe@nt have TO advertise He's probably
but bot Of his
MlnmN
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-15

the JAycees don't watch out Of patriots
win object that sentence In the JAycee creed which
I'VE believes That the brotherhood Of anscends the Sow
eighty az nations"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03
Truckers Have "A Good Thing" in Montana!

stand the loads they carry, but also bring about
greatly increased maintenance costs.
The figures listed in the first four columns are
those taken from the 1853 Montana Gross Vehicle
Weight Tax Report for trucks and trailers from
001 to AZ, 900 pounds gross vehicle weight and
include only those paying the full GVW fee for
the entire year of 1858.
Columns five and six are the Illinois GVW tax
for comparable weight units in that state, and the
amount of funds Montana would have received from
the same number of trucks and trailers in column
two had our GVW schedule for 18,00142, 900 classes
been the same as in Illinois illinois maximum gross
vehicle weight permitted trucks and trailers is &c.,
900 pounds each)
The final three columns are based on the Oregon
weght-mile law Oregon, unlike Montana and Hi
nois does not use the GVW method but collects it's
highway registration fees a basis of miles travelled
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03
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Continued from Page One)
5. Legislation to provide an equit-
able tax structure.
6. A severance tax on natural re-
sources.
7. Continued opposition to a state
sales tax.
s. Continued opposition to so-called
fright to work" or open shop laws.
9. End corporation control of Mon
tana.
10. Increase of salaries to state
legislators to $25 per day.
II. Oppose the increase of 1c per
gallon on the state gasoline tax.
WANT STATE MINE-MILL PAPER
The conference, in addition to
drafting it's legislative program,
urged it's Montana District office to
start the regular publication of
paper or bulletin at least quarterly"
in order that problems Of the rank
and file in the Montana area may be
given Especial emphasis"
Taking note that this union can
not be defended by our members
alone, the conference reiterated the
need for continued cooperation of
farmers, other labor unions and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03
MINE-MILL TO SEEK SILICOSIS COMP. AND
COLLAR TO CALLAR LAWS

community organizations" for the
general we'll being of all concerned.
A third recommendation requests
the international Union do every
thing possible to organize the ACM
plant at Columbia Falls; and that
the local unions represented here
pledge their full support in carrying
out this project" In addition the
conference opined that can effort
be made to organize other properties
in our jurisdiction in Montana"
A fourth action taken by the rank
and-file representatives was a re-
iteration of their Overwhelming sup
port" for Secretary Travis in hiss
fight to save himself from being made
a victim of anti-labor bias on the
National Labor Relations Board, and
by the Department of Justice in it's
contentious that he falsely signed
Communist oaths in 1949.
The conference was opened by John
Fonk, president of Local 72, East
Helena. E. ]. Lowney, Local 83,
Butte, served as secretary of the
two-day meeting.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03

Elsewhere in this issue we have edtorially stated
objections to the recommendation by the Gov
ernor's Interim Highway Committee that the gaso-
line tax be increased from six to cents. In so
doing, have pointed out that only after trucks
have been assessed their equitable share of high
way costs should any tax increase on fuel used by
automobiles, pckups and light trucks be given con-
sideraton.
Herewith we present facts and figures showing
how gently trucks are treated in Montana as COM
pared with two states, Illinois and Oregon, which
have gone far toward solving their highway financ
ing problems and building modern highway systems.
Both of these states have properly placed substan-
TALLY more Of the costs Of highway construction and
maintenance on the classes of vehicles which not
only require the expenditure of considerably more
funds for construction of roadbeds that will with
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03
THESE INDISpUTABLE HIGHWAY FACTS CANNOT
BE REPEATED TOO 0FTEMl

serviceable for heavier trucks with
licensed capacities up to twenty tons
cost about $4,000 per mile"
Truckers are causing a ratio of
deterioration on our highways of six
teen-to-one in comparison with pri-
vate drivers u. S. SEN. JAMES
H. DUFF, when Governor of Penn
sylvania.
"New York state study estimated
that sufficient funds to improve 26,-
600 miles of roads for passenger cars
would prepare only 737 miles for
heavy trucks -
"The number of truck-and-t
trains has multiplied six or seven
times in some states in recent years.
Obviously the van which is towed
pays no fuel tax, yet it puIverizes the
roads as it passes. And tests in Ore
gon have showed that the gasoline
consumption Of the towing truck is
not increased in any degree proper
Tomato to the weight of the trail
er :"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03

Excerpts from an article by U. S
Senator-elect from Oregon, RICH
ARD NEUBERGER, in HARPERS
Magazine, Oct. 1862.
"The fees and taxes collected for
the use of Americas highways as
sess the owner of four-door Ford
sedan an average of thirty-four
cents to move one ton of his cars
weight one hundred miles over the
open road. The operator of a truck
and-trailer combination sixty feet
long pays only twelve cents for
the same ton-mile Accommodations
+. - The average motorist g.
is paying approximately three
times as much for the use of the
roads as the proprietors of the
biggest trucks"
"a subcommittee Of the U. S. Sen
ate on Interstate Commerce reported
Experience has shown that
an adequate pavement surface to
carry passenger cars and trucks up
to licensed capacity of one and one
half tons may be built for $4,000
per mile. Pavement surfaces equally
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03

by trucks and trailers on Oregon highways Tin addi
ton to vehicle license fees which include tax
schedule comparable to property tax schedules
such vehicles Oregon license fees not included
in the totals listed below) Oregon's mileage charges
times number of miles travelled. Accordingly, in
order to translate that states mill charges into GVW
terms, it has been necessary to incorporate mileage
factor into the calculations. Trucks and traiers in
the 1901 600 GVW classes average approx
mately $4,000 miles highway travel per year. Mon
tana trucks and traers from ,001 to AZ 900
age $4,000 miles per year travel our highways
A careful analysis of the figures presented be-
low, along with the totals arrived at present con-
elusive evidence that, if Montana had really equit
able truck taxing law, there would be need for
any consideration whatsoever for another increase
in the gasoline tax in the forthcoming legislative
assembly.
Would Have Fared Unde Tax
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03

easily bring in two three million dollars in
addition totals shown above the 6347 in the
18,00142, 600 class paying full GVW fees in 1858.
SOURCES Montana State Highway Commission "Gross We
hce Weight Tax Report; Summary of Motor Vehicle
Acts, compiled by Auto Club of Southern California;
Oregon Motor Transportation Code, amended in 1851
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03
S 645,894

four thousand trucks and trailers from $4,000 GVW
on down paid full fees for only half year. The other
one hundred thousand vehicles farm logging
trucks or other occasional hauer who paid fees of
from 20 to so per cent of the full GVW schedule out
ofstate commercial vehicles crossing the state etc. All
of these commercial vehicles properly assessed could
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03

studying the above the reader should not lose sight
of the these statistics only 6,347 of the
one hundred and eleven thousand trucks and traiers
which traversed Montana highways, all part of the
time in 1853 There than 10000 trucks and
trailers ranging from 900 GVW down which paid
full GVW fee for the entire of 1888 Another
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03

g. Thousands of. trucks have
changed to diesel power, which op-
crates more miles per gallon of fuel
than a gasoline engine of identical
rating. So, although the diesel truck
is just as capable of cracking concrete
and weakening viaducts, it contrib
utes less money per mile through the
classic road-financing conduit of the
fuel tax :"
&C. During 1949 the New York
State Legislative Committee reported
that the large motor carriers earned
profits of three cents on each ton
mile of freight, contrasted with re-
turn of less than half cent for every
ton of cargo carried one mile by the
states railroads"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03

Zone trucking firm operating in
western state, paid only $94,211
for the use of highways which made
possible freight, revenues of ST.
627, 258-or a fee of SD per cent,
while railroads must regularly pillow
back 20 per cent of their income
into maintaining and constructing
tracks :"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-03

How Montana Would Have Fared Under Ts
Schedules Comparable to Illinois or Oregon
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06
Florida Setting Is Used To Film Easy To Love"

To The legion Of Esther williams
fans. Easy To Love. " opening
Thursday at the Strand Theatre.
VIII prove an entertainment field
day. In her latest M-G-M Techni-
color musical Hollywood's most
popular water belle swims with an
alligator, "explodes" from a bar
rel, jumps through paper hoops
and water geysers and. in a breath
taking climax. is towed on water
skis over a l2foot jump by a
Ihelicopter to an altitude of IS feet.
then dives into the middle OF a
horseshoe formed by 100 skiersl
But these thrill highlights are
only part of the story In addition
there's a new twist to the "eter-
nal triangle, involving Esther's CO
stars, Vaf Johnson and Tony Mar,
tin. johnson plays the boss of Flo
Irida's Cypress Gardens, where Es.
Their is the star of the water-ski
ballet, Esther wants something
warmer than a business arrange,
ment with her boss gut gets no
Iwheer fast. Tony Martin is the NY
might club singer who tries to catch
her on the rebound but whose ar
dor becomes somewhat dampen
ed when Eow aroused Van take:
him on a hectic and frenzied mo
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06

came . BIG businessman at public
expense. Somoxa says he got TO be
! rich man because he's a good
Judge Of values and works hard.
There seems no. doubt that el
|Presidente is an exceptionally able
business administrator. He keeps
close contact with the operation Of
his properties and it's conceded By
many that he is the hardest work.
ing man In the country.
Sonora himsel fsays he rein.
vests bis profits in the country,
and there appears to be no denial
on that point.
His sharp eye for values some
times extends to relatively modest
things. On recent visit to Pan.
ana, he made Q quiet trip into
the Canal Zone and did a good
amount Of shopping at us. com
missaries, where goods are chear
because they are duty-free.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06
.Theater Fire

HOUSTON, Tex. R-Some SOC
persons evacuated Loew's State
Theater here yesterday when the
movie houses fifth fire within re-
cent weeks broke out.
The small blaze was extin,
guished by the buildings sprinkler
syste m before firemen arrived.
'Theater officials said a can oil
paint caught fire in basement
property room, producing a large
amount Of smoke.
Theater Manager Homer Gallon,
who previously said he believed
the fires were the work of an ar
sonist, would say only that it was
possible someone set this one.'
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06

sc Gt&alkeo via 8e4Akn8 NJ ILL.,
band FREE.
Afisr tn hurried parsiRx ke-
tween Dr.. Day and Lowering in
Washington, the writer went 10 his
daughters home by train and then
the absence 0f the African hat was
discovered. Dr.. Day sent II By par
eel post 10 its owner near Boston,
and II began again its repeated
travels ID summer around New
England, and back and forth to
Florida.
After the writer took up work In
Tampa the hat went many miles In
season to many parts Of the sun.
shine State, and once into the Wild
erness Of THE Devils Dne" south
west Of Lake Okeeehobee. The hat
had crossed On its wearer's head re-
peatedly the weird desolation Of
the Everglades.
But now the usefulness Of the
headgear is past and done and the
hat has met the ignominy Of the
trash heap.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06
Sailor" jailed

OKLAHOMA CITY IL Last
month police were so moved by
q sailors" tale of losing s., 200
TO pickpocket they assigned two
detectives to the case.
Today, officers said, the "sailor"
was actually an escaped Califor-
MIA convict on the lam.
And the ''hard-earned'' sea-duty
earnings he spoke of came from
q Long Beach tavern burglary, they
added.
A man identified as John Charles
Ness, rs, was jailed for question
ing in burglary here. Officers
said he admitted escaping from
the Santa Rita rehabilitation center
| in California Nov. Is. He is being
held for West Coast authorities.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06
~ FRANK ". LOWERING

On New Years morning In Tam.
pa, . Henry M. Stanley type 81
visored hat that had accompanied
the wearef on many search for
news and features and photographs
In Florida and New England. was
regretfully and rather sOrfowfuIly
put with other rubbish for the
oblivion Of the city dump.
The hat was bought In Key West
1t ArOnovitz' store February 2.
1895, and had served the wearer
nineteen seasons. Date II It's pur-
chase was always on the hatband
It's most memorable trip with the
writer who has written for many
years for The Citizen, was to Fort
Jefferson on Dry Tortugas where
On.the.spot material and photo
graphs were secured for an article
that subsequently appeared In the
magazine, Travel, Of New York.
The fore-and.aft straw hat spent
winters in and around Key West,
and later In New England, sum-
mers. where 1t served faithfully
and well. But eventually the brim
began to split and the binding TO
peel OFF as the thread gave way.
The hat had been thousands OF
miles over the eastern United
States and one Of its most -nemor-
able journeys was to Washington
when the late Rev. James S. Day,
ST., pastor at the time Of the First
Baptist Church in Key West, was
accompanied by the writer that
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06
BY PAUL sANpERs

MANAGUA. Nicaragua tB-Pres
ident Anastasio Sonora is alss
INicaragua's biggest landowner. 81
III may be only natural that he:
pushing an agricultural revolution
il the country he has ruled fol
20 years.
Machinery Is beginning to tax,
over the c0untry's farm produc
| ton, except on the coffee planta
ltions, and . large segment of thi.
little Central American nation j.
moving from the ox-drawn pillow
and machete to the tractor ans
Irice-harvesting combine.
President S0moza continues to BE-
as much Of a controversial figure
as ever. But there is a genera
agreement that he has encouraged
the current farming boom by !
bodybuilding program and BY
letting private capital 60 ahead
where It can see an opportunity.
The road program has, enabled
farmers to bring their crops e
market by motor truck instead oil
|ox cart, and has stimulated a land,
|clearn gprogram in which cotton
and rice are the principal new
crops. Nearly all cotton is exported
Ito countries outside the dollar
area. The increase in rice produs
ton has changed Nicaragua from
an importing to an exporting ma
ton.
Tonnages are not large In worlt
markets, but important for a small
country about the size of Alabama
The population is slightly more
than 4 million.
Cotton exports amounted to only
I833 short tons in 1919, jumped Il
$500 tons in 1850, were up Il
10000 tons in 1852, and climbed Il
nearly 1900 tons in the first eigh,
months of 1853.
Politically. the country is firmly
under Somoza's control. There's 1
small minority representation IL
Congress, but it is not too vigorou.
as an opposition force. Somoza's
foes throughout Central America
says he subsidies" the opposition
party.
His Liberal party, over which he
keeps close control even on thu
precinct level, seems TO be the only
effective political force in the
country.
Somoza not only directs the
country's administration and runs
the Liberal party, he's Nicaragua.
biggest landowner by a consider.
able margin. He owns coffee plan
Itations, farms, shipping line
productive enterprises Of all kinds
How he built up his business and
farming interests is a matter oil
debate. His enemies say he BIKE.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06
|Ridgway Checks

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. R-Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway, Army chief
|of staff, made a brief inspection
|of 9TH Army headquarters here to.
day but had little to say about
national affairs.
After bluntly telling newsmen,
1--WE are going to have need OF
the finest army in the world-and
we are going to have it," Ridg.
way would not elaborate.
He was to leave here at noon for
Huntsville, Ala, and Atlanta, Ga,
to continue nationwide inspection
|of Army installations.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06
Lowering Parts With Pet Hat
After Years OF COmpanionship

lDr. Day might be treated 10
asthma At the United States Naya
Hospital.
Lowering parted with Rev. Mi
Day in the yard Of the hospital
and in the detail Of seeing tia
the clergyman was received In Ii,
Institution, the hat was locked i
DR.. Days ear while the writer tool
4 train for the home 81 his daughe
in Medford, Massachusetts.
DR.. Day and Lowering had travel
ed north BY the Overseas Highwa,
and Its ferries of that day; driving
lodging water nloccasins, the leng
tn Of the Tamiami Tran to tn
Gulf; up through Fort Myers, thel
gorgeous with hundreds Of roya
Ipoincianas In bloom; to Stetsoi
University at Deland where one o
DR.. Days sons was studying, ans
50 on through the night to St. Aug
Justine.
The two men checked In at . hote
Iat l 4. m. and asked for food
The clerk said no food was obtain
able at that hour except at th,
Pigs Tail" a 24-hour eating pIac,
near the City Gates. The day o
the neon light had just about beet
born, and sure enough, the restau
rant was open and over the dooi
was the Illuminated outline Of /
lpig with q quirk in its tail!
At Charlotte, N. c., where Tho
travellers put up the next night
the car Of DR.. Day was parked il
front Of a brick hotel on the mai
Ithoroughfare. During the night som,
thief with a section Of garden hos,
stole the gasoline from the ca
tank by sucking on the hose an,
letting the fuel flow into q cal
by gravity. DR.. Day learned Of III,
fact the tank was empty becaus,
he stopped at a garage to ''fill 'ei
up"--and it required 16 gallons
Then he bought q gas tank cal
with a lock on it--and 80 did tn
writer.
/ After the minister had recuper
ated he was asked by the write,
to drive south to Bryantown, Md.
near which Is the home of DR.
Samuel A. Mudd who was illegal
iy convicted by military court
not by q jury Of his peers-as Al
accomplish Ia John Wilkes Booth
assassination Of President Lincoln
and to make some photograph o
the present condition Of the dwell
ling and Of DR.. Mudd's gray,
marker in the Bryantown GENE
terry beside the Catholic Churcl
there.
The result of the trip was q col
lection Of extremely valuable pho
tographs which have since beer
used in various publications.
DR.. Mudd had been incarceratet
four years at Fort Jefferson on the
Tortugas, and was released By
President Andrew johnson just a!
Johnson's term was ending. Nude
returned to Bryantown but hi.
practice was gone.
Attending a patient in the night
time in winter, he died of pneu
monia. His wife's tireless efforts
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06
Latin-American Strong Man
Runs Country Like A Business

Ediferss Nese: Anaytasio Somozs
has headed the government Of
Nicaragua for - years, and he's
stilI As disputed a ruler today q:
when he first came to power,
Here's the story Of 3 Latin-Ameri
can strong man who runs his coun.
try like q businessman.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06

spills. love and laughs = plus an
assortment Of engaging tunes sung
as only Tony Martin can sing them.
Among them are the title.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06

torboat chase as has been seen On
the screen in 4 long time. The plot
twists are finally happily untang-
led to an accompaniment Of thrills,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06

Elephants often live TO be about
20 years old.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-06

Tibet is about twice the size of
Texas.