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Evening star., 1954-08-19

oil men,, even his Texan
friends, it does not make new
friends for them.
The next Congress almost
surely will be to the left of
the present one. And tax
payers who have heard the
depletion story from men they
apparently like and trust most
certainly will support any
moves they make to curb it.
Southern Democrats-nota-
bly, the Texans who lead the
Democrats in both houses,
Representative Sam Rayburn
and Senator Lyndon Johnson
have held the line on the
depletion allowance. Then
they have had to sit by and
watch while party boilers
profited from it. The pres
sure of Texas politics prob
ably will keep Mr.. Rayburn
and Senator johnson at the
barricades, but. as the fight
on the atomic-energy bill
proved, pressures can be. built
up here, too, which it would
be impossible to Withstand.
When liberals talk of the
problem of Oil money in their
campaigns, even the most re-
sponSible among them men,
ton wistfully what wonderful
witnesses Texans H. L. Hunt
of Facts Forum and his ia
bled $160,000 a day after
taxes. H. r. Cullen, Clint
Murchison and others would
make at q public hearing.
And late returns indicate it's
not an idle dream.
Evening star., 1954-08-19
Attack on President AssoiIed
Criticism of Power Deal involving Golfer Bobby Jones
Is Called 'MitcheIIisn' and Character Assassination

plant is to be built in his State
and naturally he is thoroughly
familiar with all its details.
AS for a subsidy" the ques-
ton really was whether the
American people would get
less out Of it by allowing the
TVA--a Government corpora
ton which pays no Federal
taxes-to build the plant or by
letting it be done by a private
power company which pays
taxes. In the end, more
money, it is estimated, will
come to the Government
through encouragement of pri-
vate industry.
AS for the Atomic Energy
Commissions action, Mr..
Mitchell doesn't reveal to his
listeners and readers that
some of the Truman appoint
ees constituted a 3-to-2 ma
jority and raised some doubts
as to what legal steps were
necessary as there were no
precedents to go by. The mat
ter was referred to the Pres
ident, who, upon receiving
legal advice, instructed the
commission that it had au-
thority to make the proposed
contract.
Whether or not this was a
correct action-and there is
no persuasive evidence against
1.-THE fact remains that the
exercise of official judgment
should not be assailed as dis
honest, nor should there be
accusatory inferences. about
corruption in broad daylight"
and little bags of money"
where the acts Of Dwight Eli
senhower are concerned.
This, however, is Mitchell
isn," which is strangely akin
to "Trumanism," for it will be
recalled that In the campaign
OF 1948 the then President
made an analogous attack on
the integrity of Mr.. Eisen-
hover. Strange how indiffer-
ent some of the Democrats can
be about character assassina-
tion when they themselves are
welding the smear brushes.
Evening star., 1954-08-19

protest Of the Atomic Energy
Commission, and the IVA
without. competitive bidding.
A director of one Of the two
companies in the favored syn
dicate is one of the Presidents
closest friends, with a cottage
next door to President Eisen-
hewer's at the Augusta golf
course. Maybe they never even
talked about it, I don't know"
Why, it will be asked, was
the personal relationship Of
the President and Bobby Jones,
the former national golf cham
pion, dragged into the papers
in this way? For nobody can
doubt what the effect Of the
Mitchell innuendo was, when
published from coast to coast.
It was q smear upon the in
tegrity Of the President. What
q "sorry reward" for q man
who has served his country so
well through his life that now
he is to be accused of dis
honesty in public Office by the
man who runs the Democratic
Party's official machinery.
Denials will be of little
avail. For Chairman Mitchell
has so worded his inference
of guilt that the explanations
will never catch up with the
accusations" 1t will be inter-
esting to see how many clergy
men now will preach from
pulpits about this form of
character assassination" and
how many of the so-called
liberal" groups will now cry
out about the wave Of hate
which nowadays has crept
into the forums Of public
affairs.
AS for the facts on the
power contract made by the
Atomic Energy Commission,
there are two sides to the
controversy. Senator Full
bright Of Arkansas, Democrat,
who is one Of the most ardent
OF the followers of Stevenson,
says the contract was awarded
properly and not a bit of
scandal was connected with it.
He ought to know. as the power
Evening star., 1954-08-19

tween people OF different ma
tionalities, hatred between diff
ferent social strata, hatred be-
tween people living in the
country and those in the city,
hatred between neighbors who
had lived together for decades,
hatred between brothers and
sisters, children and parents.
Through hatred the Commu-
nists split people and coun-
tries. to dominate them
better.
The greatest of all the gifts
that America gave to the fugi-
tiveS was warm fellow-feeling
that inspired a sense of be-
longing, of being wanted. Only
those who have had to start
life from scratch again in
new land can know the cour-
age and strength that this
brings. A man fears loneli-
ness more than anything else
in a strange country.
1t was to a small American
community that I brought my
family. Anywhere in Europe,
we would have been treated as
strangers-but not here.
We were astonished to see
how from the first evening of
our arrival the neighbors
adopted us. They dropped in
at our house and offered their
help. They gave us friendly
and useful advice. They never
closed their own doors to us.
Americans are always ready
to help refugee to become in
tegrated. If he is skilled in
some trade. he'll soon find his
way into it, through the help
ing hand of unknown people.
If it is a profession he is good
at, this may take more time,
but the helping hand will be
there. II he has a story to tell,
somebody will help him express
himself in the language which
is only partially his.
When I first started to speak
to college audiences and other
small groups my knowledge Of
Evening star., 1954-08-19
For the Record
By Boedon Roditso

fBoodan RaditSa ,pas a dip
lomat, then an aide to Tito.
in his natiue Yugoslauia. He
left in protest against the
comnunising of his country,
and is no,0 a professor OF mod
ern European history at FAIR
leigh Dickinson College in Nei0
JerSey.)
/ happened to be at the
United Nations when Soviet
Delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin
pointed sneeringly to news
paper picture that showed a
countryman of mine, a former
Yugoslav judge, sorting clothes
in a Chicago laundry. Tsarap-
kin said to Henry Cabot Lodge,
jr.:: That's the American way
of life-a cabinet minister
sorting soiled clothes!"
Mr.. Lodges answer was that
America is one country in
which the dignity of labor is
respected. This reply. though
effective and truthful, was only
part of the story.
The refugee who was under
discussion, Stanko Masic,
showed in a talk to an adult
education group that he was
happy in the United States.
"This country" he said, ''has
given me not only bread and q
roof, but its love-"
This is q point that is sell
dom mentioned by Americans.
who like to attribute to a
matter-of-fact practicality the
things that they do out of
sheer kindness. Yet the fact
that made the deepest impress
sion on me and on many of
my fellow refugees from COM
munism Is that America gives
not only bread and q roof. but
love.
The war and its aftermath
brought to our enslaved coun-
try Q passion they never had
before-hatred. Hatred be-
Evening star., 1954-08-19
David Lawrence

Maybe q new word has come
into the political dictionary
"Mitchellism"--and perhaps 1t
ought to be spelled with a
small I'm" for. as Mr.. Truman
says about such words, they
represent a technique rather
than anything personal.
"Mitchellism" means making
a speech which charges the
President of the United States
with dishonesty in the conduct
of his Office and accuses him Of
guilt by association" with in
dividuals who play golf with
him-if they happen to have
business affiliations.
Adlai Stevenson denies that
Stephen Mitchell did ATTACK
the honesty Of the President"
Since Mr.. Mitchell is chairman
of the Democratic National
Committee, 1t would appear to
be up to Mr.. Stevenson, as
titular leader Of the Demo-
cratic Party. to draw up any
resolution of "censure." so to
speak, in order to achieve that
form of party discipline which
the so-called liberals" have
at times urged Mr.. Eisenhower
to exert upon the national
chairman Of his party.
Mr.. Mitchell's words are to
be found in a prepared speech
issued in advance of delivery
before the annual meeting Of
the American Bar Association,
where the Nations best law
yers congregate. They usually
understand the explicit mean
ing Of words and innuendoes.
Here Is Mr.. Mitchell's exact
statement:
I'm my view, giving away
the peoples property is cor
ruption even II it's done bra
zenly in broad daylight. Money
doesn't have to change hands
in little black bags, as in Tea
pot Dome days.
Lets look, for example, at
the Dixon-Yates scandal. Here
was a deal to grant a subsidy
of $14o million to a favored
power syndicate, on the Presi-
dents personal order, over the
Evening star., 1954-08-19
School Racial Ruling
Eased After Protests
In West Virginia
BY the Assoeicied Press

PHILLIPPI, w. Va, Aug. 10.
Partially reversing its stand
on integration of races in pub
lie schools, the Barbour County
Board Of Education last night
decided not to send IL white
pupils and a white teacher to
a Negro school.
Board President Burton Le-
vicki announced the decision
after q secret meeting Of the
board.
A mass protest of the assign
ment of the pupils and teacher
was voiced by about 200 citizens
Tuesday night.
The protest hinged on the
boards assignment Of a white
teacher to serve at the Hanging
Rock School. The principal of
the school is a Negro.
The group included parents of
the IL children who, under the
re-districting brought about by
the end of segregation in the
county, would be assigned to the
school, the enrolment of which
is predominantly Negro.
Mr.. Leyicki said the board last
night voted to reverse itself. as
sign the IL white children to
other schools and re-assign the
teacher to a white institution.
Mr.. Levicki said the board
stood pat on two other actions.
He explained that the 20 Ne
groes enrolled for the first time
at Philippi High School would
be permitted to remain, and two
changes involving white person.
mel in the administration at Kas-
son High School would stand.
Evening star., 1954-08-19

The d deple 10 n-allowance
principle is an old story.
It is based on the conten-
ton that it is necessary to en-
courage the discovery and
production of oil. The tax al
lowance was upped to its pres
ent high figure in wartime
and political pressure has kept
it there in a time of peace and
oil plenty. Former President
Truman tried in vain to cut it.
Virtually every liberal who
has won in this years prima-
ries-such as John j. Spark
man in Alabama, Estes Ke-
fauver in Tennessee. Margaret
Chase Smith in Maine-has
complained that "oil money"
was made available to defeat
them. Most of them hammered
on the theme in their cam
paigns and made a special
point OF explaining how the
oil men happened to have so
much money to spare. The
tax-concious public apparently
got the idea. It could even be
argued that they gave the
successful candidates a man
date to review the depletion
allowance.
The Texans also have iden-
titled oil with Senator Nc
Carthy to a degree that both
ers the more sedate members
of the industry. The Senator
from Wisconsin is described in
the cloakrooms as rather free
with promises to get oil money
for those who will run against
people he dislikes. While this
is not necessarily binding upon
Evening star., 1954-08-19
$4,000 Grant Voted
For Woman Victim
OF Police Bullet

The Senate yesterday approved
a House bill granting $4,000 to
Mrs. Dorothy Kilmer NickerSon,
former hat check worker at a
Washington night club, who was
paralyzed when struck by a
bullet fired by an of duty po-
liceman, July 90. 1948, in an ac-
cident in the club.
The bill now goes to the White
House.
The relief claim had been
pending for several years. Sew
eral times it had been called
in the Senate but approval was
blocked there by objections.
In most cases the objectors
were responding to the position
taken by District Commissioners.
| While sympathetic to Mrs. Nick
erson, they opposed the grant on
the grounds it would set a
precedent.
Two rookie policemen, the SEN
ate report recited. had been
drinking in the after-hou club
in the 1900 block of Fourteenth
street NV. as we'll as having
visited other clubs that night in
1948. One of them pulled out
his revolver and was waving 1t
around when Mrs. Nickerson
(then Miss Dorothy Kilmer)
came by.
AS she was trying to get away
from the policeman, the revolver
was discharged, the bullet strik-
ing her in the spine. The police
man was subsequently dropped
from the force.
She has undergone series Of
operations since then, one re-
Gently. Mrs. Nickerson was at
the club that night, waiting to
meet her fiance, Marine Corpl.
Clinton Nickerson, whom she
married later.
Evening star., 1954-08-19
Doris FIeeson-
DorLs Feeson-
Lubricoting a Political Machine
Oil Men, Described as Uneasy Over Recent Victories
By liberoIs. Nay Spend Less on Consevotives

One worry Of liberals in both
parties may be mitigated this
fall. If the oil industry as a
whole can manage it, there
will be less "oil money" in
the campaign and what there
Is will be more equally dis
tributed.
Republican sources are au-
thority for the statement that
the oil industry has taken
fright from the increasing tide
of liberal victories, especially
in the South. These sources
say that oil men were already
uneasily conscious of the bad
publicity accorded the political
contributions and activities of
the Texas oil millionaires,
many of them special friends
of Senator Mccarthy.
Recent primary returns have
convinced them that the Tex
ans are making the worst mis-
take of all: They are picking
losers. And the victors prob
ably have it within their pow
er to shut off the major source
of the campaign funds poured
out so literally in the effort
to elect a reactionary Con-
gress.
For the oil wealth being si-
phoned into politics-much of
it from Texas-is made pos
sible during these days. while
most people groan under the
tax burden, by congressional
generosity in providing 271a
per cent oil depletion allow
ance. No business or salaried
person can approach such an
advantage.
Evening star., 1954-08-19
Sunshine Has Sunbeam

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (R.-
Twelve-year -old Linda K. Grin
ages mare Sunshine wandered
away from home to q farm eight
miles away. The mare was miss
ing two days. Then a farmer
returned Sunshine plus q colt
born the day before.
Evening star., 1954-08-19
5000 ChiIeuns Strike
At U. S. Copper Mine
BY the Associated Press

SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 10
Some 5000 workers in the Q
United States owned Ell Ten-n
iente copper mine struck todaya
after wage talks collapsed. n
The negotiations, between
union leaders and the Braden
Copper Co.. ended in an inn
passe last night over the miners
demands for rs per cent pay
increases and other benefits.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-10
INVITATION FOR BIDS

Sealed proposals win be received by
the State Board of Examiners in their
office in the Capitol Building Helena,
Montana, on Friday, September "a. 1854
at 10 o'clock A. NJ. for all labor and
material required for remodeling and
repairing the Basement, Ground Floor,
and First Floor of the East Wing in the
Capitol Building, Helena, Montana, in
accordance with plans and specifica-
lions on file in the office of the State
Board of Examiners Engineer.
Separate bids will be received for the
various portions of the work as fol-
lows:
/ General Contract.
2. Mechanical Contract plumbing,
Heating, Ventilating & Temperature
Control)
All bids shall be on the printed forms
attached to and made a part of the
proposed Contract Documents The
specifications and Contract Documents
for the General Contract may be OBJ
tanned from the office of the State
Board of Examiners Engineer, Room
AIS, Mitchell Building, Helena, Mon
tana.
Copies of the plans and specifications
for the Mechanical Contract may be
obtained at the office of Roy l.. Prus
sing, Mechanical Engineer, 326 Fratt
Building, Billings, Montana, upon de-
post of $500. The deposit shall be re-
turned to the bidder upon receipt of a
bonafide bid and on return to the En-
gineer of the drawings and specifica-
tons
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 bid shall be accompanied by a
Certified Check in the amount of so
or more of the amount of bid. Checks
shall be made payable to the State
Treasurer. A Surety Completion Bond
of 1907 of contract amount will be
required, bond to be in force for one
year after completion of the contract
Your proposal must be enclosed in
an envelope addressed to the under
signed and clearly marked across the
face, Proposal for the remodeling
and repairing the Basement, Ground
Floor, and First Floor of the East Wing
in the Capitol Building, Helena, Mon
tana."
Alternate bids and unit prices shall
be furnished as required on the pro-
posal forms.
The right is reserved to reject any
and all bids and to waive such techni- |
calities as the best interest of the |
State may warrant.
STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS |
State OF MONTANA
By: c. l.. Bryant,
Executive Clerk
Sept 3, 10, II
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-10
LEGAL ADVERTISING
INVITATION FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received and publicly
opened and read at 10 o'clock "A. NJ.
on Friday, September "a, 1854 by the
State Board of Examiners at its office
in the Capitol Building, Helena, Mon
tana, for Rejoicing and Repairs to
National Guard Armory Building To-
Gated at Bozeman, Montana, in accord
ance with specifications prepared by
Fred f. Wilson, Architect, Bozeman,
Montana. After this hour, no bids shall
be received.
All bids shall be made upon the
printed forms attached to and made
a part of the Contract Documents. Con-
tract Documents and Specifications for
the work can be obtained at the office
of the Architect, Fred F. Wilson, Boze-
man, Montana.
Each bid shall be accompanied by
Certified Check in the amount of %
or more of the amount of the bid.
Checks shall be made payable to the
State Treasurer. A Surety Completion
Bond of 1909 of contract amount will
be required, bond to be in force for
one year after completion of the con-
tract.
Your proposal must be enclosed in
an envelope addressed to the under
signed and clearly marked across the
face, Proposal for Re-Roofing and
Repairs to National Guard Armory
located at Bozeman, Mon
tana."
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
Work will be covered by one General
Contract.
The State Board of Examiners re-
serves the right to reject any and all
lids and to waive all informalities.
State Board of Examiners
STATE OF MONTANA
By: G. L. BRYANT
Executive Clerk.
ept 3-10-17.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-10
PRIVATE COMPANY
MAY TAKE over
ARMY TELEPHONES

SAN FRANCISCO = (LDNS) -
Steps have been taken to put another
part of the Eisenhower giveaway pro-
gram into operation here, with a re-
quest that Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Co. make survey of tele-
phone facilities on nearby Army posts,
as step in the process of taking them
over.
At present the Army owns, oper-
ates and maintains its telephone sys-
TENS at Oakland Army Base, Fort
Mason and the Preside, all within
the San Francisco Bay Area region.
The company has been requested
to make survey of these installa-
tons, telephone company spokesman
said. 1--WE have been officially re-
quested by the Army to survey the
telephone situation at Oakland Army
Base"
After the survey, the company
probably will make an offer for the
installations. If the bid is acceptable,
then Pacific Telephone and Tele-
graph will buy the systems.
From that point on the company
treats the former owner of the sys-
tenn as it treats any other telephone
customer. Regular monthly charges
are made and the telephone com
pany maintains the equipment.
Benjamin Franklin made the first
oifocals by placing the halves of two
enses together in a single frame.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-10
LEGAL ADVERTISING
NOTICE. TO CONTRACTORS

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received and publicly
opened and read at 10 o'clock A. NJ,
Friday, September "a, 1854 by the State
Board of Examiners at its office in the
Capitol Building, Helena, Montana, for
Re- Roofing building T-312, National
Guard Armory, located in SW Corner
of Fort Missoula, Missoula, Montana,
in accordance with specifications pre-
pared by Fox & Ballas, Architects
Engineers, Missoula, Montana. After
this hour. no bids will be received.
All bids shall be made upon the
printed forms attached to and made
a part of the Contract Documents. Con-
tract Documents and Specifications for
the work can be obtained at the office
of the Architects, Fox & Ballas Wilma
Building, Missoula, Montana.
Each bid shall be accompanied by
a Certified Check in the amount of 5 %
or more of the amount bid. Checks shall
be made payable to the State Treasurer.
A surety Completion Bond of 1909 of
contract amount will be required, bond
to be in force for one year after COM
pletion of the contract.
Your proposal must be enclosed in
an envelope addressed to the under
signed and clearly marked across the
face, Proposal for Re-Roofing Build
ms T-312, National Guard Armory,
located in SW Corner of Fort Missoula,
NIissoula, Montana"
Each bidder will be required to have |
a license from the Montana State Board |
If Equalization in classification that |
Will allow the bidder to execute the
Contract.
The State Board of Examiners re-
erves the right to reject any and all
ids and to waive all informalities.
State Board of Examiners
STATE OF MONTANA
By: G.. L. BRYANT
Executive Clerk.
ept 3-10-17