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Evening star., 1954-11-16
FUNERAL DESIGNS.

GEO. G. SHAFFER, INC.
& E5Drsssiys T. Flora, s. Tribute, ,, I. Moqsrass
orders also accepted $3.50 TO 3 nm week
nights 900 18th st w. MA S-tlIt18
GUIDE BROS. co. FLORISTS.
1914 r 81. NV, Ma. s-4246
Evening star., 1954-11-16

KNCTT, CHARLES o. on SATURDAY
csTssns ccSTsaSsr caaRl al les4 4 NkosRRTs'nrtSss
loved father Of William 4. Knott
4 brother Of A.. c. Knott OF Mount Solon
Va. and Mrs. Edward Michael oi
Martinshurg, w. Va. Services will be
held Wednesday, November n, 81
VI an. at Y. P. Church. Mount Scion,
LASsEN. AIAYDEE b. On sunday, No.
vemher IA. 1854. at her residence
710l Clarden rd., Bethesda. Nd.
MAypEE 3, LASsEN. Beloved SISTER
Of Mrs. Isabelle B. Echinnerer, Mrs,
n usdna x. hodge and cousin of Henry
NoMiers Services from the W. WI
N&N Funeral Home. 4s12 Georgi6 sye
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I.AzARAs. EL0kEkCE N. On sunday
November IA III ESD at Providence hos.
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Evening star., 1954-11-16

SMITH. DOROTHY IRENE. suddenly. on
Sunday, November IA. 1854, at Alex
andria HospitaL DOROTHY IRENE
smith and mother oi Georss Warren
Smith. She also Is survived by ner
father Warren Harley; two sisters,
Mrs. Romona Gillian and Miss Jean
Joseph and Cecil Harvey. Remains rest
Ing at Hall Funeral Home. oecoqtian.
Memoria, Mi Church Lortcn. t1; Va. aiS flser.
+ inei1t church cef,1etery. III
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sMITH HARVEY ~. an saturday M
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~ ss sMrTH HIis ~ aisxansST,a "a heioved
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father Of Mrs. Charles 4. Alien. jT:.
Evening star., 1954-11-16

GREEN, FERNANDO. on Saturday.
November IS. 1854, at his residence.
qREEN he is survived by q devoted
y sdANEhter. Mrs. Marie Henry. and other
Testing. at Hortpn,s Mortuary,a 1924
You St. a.w.s. where services will be
held on Wednesday November II, at
d I1s3g p.m Rev. sArthasf. Breeze Of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
DiESELS BRING LAY0FF
OF II HELENA
Rail WORKERS

Northern Pacific replacement of
steam locomotives by diesels this
week led to the laying-off of 27 rail
road shop workers in the Capital
City. Previous to this layoff three
helper crews working east of Helena
and two helper crews working west of
the city were cut off. Crews have
been cut at Butte, the Garrison shops
have been closed for a couple of
months, 20 men were laid off in
Livingston, and it is expected that
crew cuts will be made in Missoula.
Among those laid off in Helena
was one sheetmetal helper with 80
years service with the MP. Others
laid off included Is firemen, oilers
and roundhouse helpers, two boiler
makers and two boilermaker helpers,
one blacksmith, three machinists and
three machinist helpers, one locomo-
tive carpenter, and one locomotive
truckman.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
MID.N0vEMBER JOBLESS PAY CLAIMS so Per
Gent HIGHER THAN A Year AGO

this October as year ago. Very
slight decreases occurred in circles
of trade and industry services.
Seasonal aspects of employment
this fall" says Wesley Castles, chair
man of the commission, "have en-
couraging symptoms. Even with metal
mining and smelling at standstill
and 10000 persons out of jobs tenn
porarily, the shrinkage from Sep
TENDER to October measures only
1900 workers. For the past five years
the average decline in employment
from September to October has been
2,460.
Mr.. Castles points out that volume
of claims for unemployment COM
pensation has been shrinking each
week since settlement of the wage
difficulty October Is, and are we'll
below the level reached in the period
of the work stoppage. For the week
ending November IL the claim level
was 2,575, as compared with 1926
for the week ending September II.
eve are now in the season." Mr..
Castles says, when a sudden shift in
can swell the tide of claims
very rapidly. A year ago it rose from
1 ,548 the week of November 13 to
1874 on December IL and 1925 the
first week in January. In February
It rose to 10000 in one week.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
MURRAY, MORSE
READY HEELS
CANYON Bill

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Senators James E. Murray (D-Mont.)
and Wayne Morse Qnd-Ore.) are
drafting a bill for federal develop
ment of Hells Canyon, they said No
vember 9. They'll have it ready early
in the next Congress.
Murray will head the interior COM
mittee that passes on such legisla-
ton. He promised hearings and that
Interior Secretary Douglas Mckay
would be called as a witness.
Early in 1853, Mckay withdrew
the Departments objection to an Ida
no Power Company proposal to build
three small, -of-the-river dams on
the Snake River. Since then, Idaho
Power has been unsuccessfully seek
ing Federal Power Commission APP
prevail.
Murray said he's opposed to Presi-
dent Eisenhower's partnership" poll
cy for developing national resources.
1t amounts, he said, to having the
government pay the costs of naviga-
ton, flood control, and irrigation
while letting the falling water go
to the power companies"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
Retail Store Sales
Show Big Downirend

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(LDNS)-
Retail stores sales volume for October
was STAG billion, down $484 million
from September, the Commerce De-
partment disclosed here.
The October figures also showed
nearly a quarter of million dollars
drop in total volume from October
year ago.
Automotive sales was one of the
hardest hit groups while food sales
showed a sharp increase overtime
year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19

Employment in Montana industries
as of October 15 was 1900 work
ers, the unemployment compensation
commission reports, a decline of
10000 from October, 1868, and a
seasonal lag of 1900 from the Sep
TENDER level.
Decreased employment in metal
industries, 11,700 year ago to 5000
in October, accounts for most of the
shrinkage, the commission says. The
metal industry was tied up by wage
dispute from late August until Oc-
tober Is, when settlement was
reached.
Another factor in employment de-
cline, the commission says, was the
transportation and utilities industry,
which is down to 21,800 this year
as compared with $4,000 year ago.
The same disparity in transportation
employment has marked other recent
months and is ascribed to two main
causes: archaeological changes in the
railroad field reducing manpower
needs, and decreased traffic follow
ing the end of military activity in
Korea.
Employment gains were shown in
finance, insurance and real estate,
and in government, while contract
construction shows the same volume
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19

excise taxes, including taxes on pas
senger and freight traffic.
BIPARTISANSHIP
Foreign policy-Establish truly
bipartisan foreign policy which will
include: Restoration of technical as
sistance and Point Four to their pre-
vious levels; provide credit to assist
lands reform movements in Guate-
mala and other areas where land
monopoly exists; use United States
food SURPRISES; Danish want by en-
couraging new agricultural produc-
ton in underdeveloped areas; obtain
adequate authority for the President
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19

to enter in multi-lateral atomic
pool plan.
Defense of the nation and free
world-Development of adequate de-
Tense to meet the threat of Commu-
mist aggression anywhere and non
military aid to create conditions of
liberty and progress in free coun-
tries.
End the agricultural recession =
Strengthen price supports; investi-
gate and act on price spreads, stimu-
late conservation and forest restora-
ton; adopt a good stamp plan to move
SURPRISES to persons in need.
ATOMIC ACT
Revise the Atomic Energy Act
Outlaw Dixon-Yates type of con-
tracts; make compulsory licensing of
patents permanent with royalties linn
tied to the specific contribution of
the patent; apply safeguards on IL
censes such as rate regulation, stand
ard bookkeeping, recapture; provide
IoI CA'ildH poWef division OF atomic
energy division with power and re-
sponsibility to build yardstick cleo
trio reactors; ban violators of anti
trust and antimonopoly laws from
in the atomic program.
A vast, co-ordinated reclamation
program-Bring in new lands and
integrated, basic programs
in major watersheds; develop hydro
electric potentialities of our rivers;
restore Bonneville, Southwest Power
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19

Labor legislation and administra,
tion-Increase minimum wages from
rs cents an hour; stop the admins
trative law-making by biased NLRB
members, assuring fair and unbiased
administration repeal Taft-Hartley
if feasible; improve unemployment
insurance by providing adequate pay
ments in both amounts and time by
elimination of exemptions.
Old age pension payments and So
cial ecurity-Provide medical as
sistance to old age assistance and old
age survivors insurance recipients
with adequate funds; provide dis
ability payments; permit reasonable
earnings without sacrifice of bene-
fits.
Attack the economic problems of
our country to bring greater pros
perity-Assure abundant credit at
reasonable interest; step up con-
struction of much needed schools,
hospitals, health facilities, water and
sanitation works, airports, roads, riv-
er and harbor improvements, as well
as reclamation and conservation;
stimulate construction of two million
homes, including at least 100000
public housing units; review tax laws
to eliminate such provisions as divi-
dend exemption and channel reduc-
tions to low-income consumer spend
ers whose purchases will stimulate
business activity; repeal or reduce
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
WEIGHT-DISTANCE TAX
SOLVES PROBLEMS

Because consumption of fuel (and
resulting payment of fuel tax does
not distribute highway costs fairly
among heavy vehicles, Oregon has
developed a schedule of rates allo-
eating the additional highway costs
for trucks among each weight group
of heavy vehicles.
The system has worked well, and
Baldock summarizes it thus:
1. The weight-distance tax is di-
rectly related to the cost of providing
facilities for each class of vehicle.
2. 1t may be adjusted to return the
required revenue and still retain the
economic balance among wide vari-
ETY. of operators.
3. 1t is fair and equitable, in that
it is paid in direct proportion to the
use which is made of the facilities,
and all vehicles in each class pay
the same tax per mile
4. 1t may be administered with
reasonable efficiency. In Oregon the
cost of collection has averaged A u %
Of gross revenue, and losses have been
negligible.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
Gasoline Tax Collection
Shows 81 Per Cent Gain

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Tax col
lections from gasoline in 40 states
and Hawaii, and the District of Co.
lumbia in the three months ended
August 81 were $621.9 million, up
81 per cent from a year earlier. In
creased rates in California, Iowa,
New Jersey, Ohio and the District of
Columbia accounted for much of the
gain.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
Carpenters, L&SW Annual
Convention to Be Held In
Butte, December s

Upwards of 100 delegates from
Carpenter locals and Lumber & Saw
mill Workers Unions are expected
to besin attendance at the 31st annual
convention of the Montana State
Council of Carpenters in Butte, be-
ginning Monday, December 6. The
three-day session will be held in Car
penters Hall, 1856 Granite Street.
Robert E. Harris, Kalispell, is pres
ident of the State Council, and Rich
ard Tiddy, Butte, secretary treasurer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
HEAVY VEHICLES MEAN
GREATER COST

Baldock goes on to say: "The cost
identified with structural features
which are required by larger,
longer, heavier vehicles are multi
Piled MANIFOLD in highways which
must be located through rough topo-
graphy. The presence of such addi-
tional costs is due to the require
ments of certain classes of road
users T.. Each operator .. creates
a cost demand :. which is measured
by the size and weight of the vehicle
and the mileage operated"
GAS TAX FOR AUTOS
Most road users are automobile
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
RE hGh
0regon's Weight lie Tax Law Has Most Merit
For Solving Stare Highway Financing Problem

he aa Young
Harriet editor, Box
be amajorp blem he LegEla
O.
cuSed in the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19

COST RESPONSIBILITY
The reason for the merit of the
Oregon weight-distance tax is that
it is based on the theory of cost re-
sponsibility.
Cost responsibility in regard to
highway means that the cost of pro-
viding highway system is allocated
among all road users in proportion
to their responsibility for the high
ways required.
COST OF PROVIDING FACILITIES
According to r. H. Baldock, State
Highway Engineer of Oregon, the
cost of highways is fixed by three
controlling factors:
l. The extent of facilities needed.
2. The type of facilities needed
3. The strength of facilities needed.
Baldock says that the extent of
facilities is determined by the extent
of use Cor traffic mileage; the type
of facilities is determined by the
size and power limitations of We
hicles that will use the roads; and
the strength of facilities is deter
mined by the weight which must be
supported and the frequency with
which weights occur.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19

operators. The cost of basic highway
facilities needed by autos can be
allocated equitably among auto OPP
orators by a gasoline tax, since autos
are the same general size and weight,
and consume similar quantities of
fuel for distance travelled. Miles
travelled (gasoline used) determines
the tax paid.
FUEL TAX NOT SUITABLE
FOR TRUCKS
Then, with auto operators thus
paying the cost of road facilities
which they need, it remains for OPP
orators of heavier vehicles to pay
the additional cost of special facilities
necessary because of added size and
weight.
Oregon has found that fuel tax
is not suitable for collecting from
truckers their fair share of highway
costs because:
l. A truck burning gasoline and
a truck of the same size and weight
burning diesel fuel do not pay the
same amount of tax because of differ
ences in fuel efficiency.
2. A truck and trailer combination
has the same effect on the road as
two separate vehicles; but the trailer,
as towed vehicle, pays no fuel tax;
and the fuel consumed by the tractor
hence the tax payments not
incraacad 1,rOnOrtiOnatp1
g. Trucks using one states high
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19

ways may use fuel bought in another
state.
4. New fuels (propane, butane,
etc. and new power plants cause
many variables hard to evaluate in
allocating cost.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-19
HeresIs the Program Democrats Are
Asking of Next Congressional Session

WASHINGTON D. C.-(PAD-Here is the program which
leading Congressional Democrats intend to get their enr
party support in the coming session.
Evening star., 1954-12-12

house one afternoon with the an
nouncement that he had found a
wallet containing $50. Mrs. Stam-
bier asked. Aren't you going to
return it,"
Nope" was the quick answer.
Finders, keepers; losers. weepers."
Family Meeting
AFTER dinner MIR. Stambler. in
stead of bawling Ted out with
Observation-Disclosures
more-honest" speech, then abdi-
eating to the TV set with his pipe
and slippers, suggested a meeting
of the weekly Family Council.
Here he proposed they try to
imagine how it would be if he him
self were a struggling grocer to
whom a lost $50 was the difference
between meeting or defaulting on a
pressing debt; or if Mrs. Stambler
were a housewife who had saved
up that $50 for an operation at the
clinic: or Ted himself a son who
had counted on that $50 to 90
toward his college entrance fee.
At the close Ted left for his
room somewhat more aware of
how it felt to be victim rather than
victor in the game of Finders,
keepers. :" Next morning he
walked quietly to the Post Office.
wallet intact, envelope to owner
clearly addressed.
So it goes. Or so it can go. For in
my opinion people who moan about
juvenile delinquency only make it
worse. The real answer lies with
those people - parents and teach
ers both - who have the brains
and courage and energy to make it
more interesting and more fun to-
be good than to be bad. The End
Evening star., 1954-12-12

Another example OF how this
can be done on the school front:
had a 15-year-old prankster named
Billy Cobb. One day he deliber-
ately broke a chair in my class
room lust for the heck Of it." l
did what many teachers have done
from time immemorial. kept him
after school. pinned his young ears
back with lecture on Respect
for Property" and reported the
damage to my superior.
But this time tried to do more.
| sent him to visit the school Gus
todian. who told him exactly how
much that chair cost, and how
hard it is to get funds to replace it.
When Billy came back l sent him
to the economics teacher. who
showed him why such funds are
restricted by the school budget,
and how this act of destruction, if
multiplied, could raise taxes in the
community - including those of
Billy's father.
He Cot the Point
AND finally, escorted Billy to
the shop teacher who showed him
how to fix the chair, and then
supervised the reconstruction.
Thus I tried to dramatize the
effect of Billy's prank, and l was
gratified to see him get interested.
saw the moral sink in.
But schools alone cannot do the
full job of.teaching good character,
since their direct influence stops at
the three O'Clock gong. So parents
must pass some miracles too. They
can, as witness this true story that
happened recently. When, for ex-
ample. the Stamblers' l6-year-old
son Ted bounced joyously into the
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Airmon Charged With Murder
OF 76-Month-O Old StepchiId
Arlington Sergeant
Is Said to Admit
Striking Girl

Arlington police yesterday
charged an Air Force staff SER
geant, Reuben w. Rudy, "a, with
murder Of his 16-month-old
step daughter on November IL.
The child. Sherry L. Rudy, was
pronounced dead at the Fort
Myer dispensary after Sergt.
Rudy had taken her there from
his home at 2315 North Eleventh
street, Arlington. Doctors said
the child, whose body bore sew
eral bruises on the head, died Of
a cerebral hemorrhage.
The sergeant'SS wife, Mrs.
Retha Rudy. 27, was at work in
Washington on the afternoon her
daughter died.
In Arlington County Court to-
day, preliminary hearing of the
murder charge against Sergt.
Rudy was continued to Decem-
Der /. Judge Hugh Reid refused
defense request to set bond and
Sergt Rudy was returned to the
county Jail.
Sergt. Rudy sat nervously on
q bench in the courtroom while
Judge Reid told him Of the seri-
BUSINESS Of the charge against
him.
Commemorative Attorney
William j. Hassan requested that
the hearing be continued be-
cause certain parts of the au-
topsy report are incomplete.
The court appointed Attorney
Leonard Sattler to represent
Sergt. Rudy in the preliminary
hearing.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Housing Association
Names Miss Miller

Appointment of Miss Anna S.
Miller as executive secretary of
the Washington Housing Asso-
citation was announced today by
Col. Campbell c. Johnson, presi-
dent of the Board of Directors.
A native of Washington, Miss
Miller has been with the asso-
citation for a year and has been
it's acting head since July 26.
She is a grauate of the Uni
versity of Michigan, where she
majored in sociology, and she
also attended the School of So
cial Service Administration at
the University Of Chicago.
Miss Miller previously has held
positions with the public assist
ance division of the Board Of
Public Welfare here and the
American Red Cross, in military
hospitals in this country during
the war and at its national
headquarters in Washington.
She also held other social well
fare administration posts before
Joining the housing association.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Northwest Boundary Asks
Boys Club Infegraiion

The Northwest Boundary Civic
Association met last night and
adopted q resolution favoring
integration of the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club.
In its action, president HUI
bert B. Pair said, the associa-
tion agreed to support the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored Peoples
stand. NAACP advocates with
drawl Of all tax or District gov
ernment funds for support Of
the clubs if they are not in
tegrated. It also recommends or
ganization Of a similar club by
the District Commissioners
should the Boys clubs remain
on q segregated basis.
The meeting was held In the
Raymond School, Tenth street
and Spring road NV.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
Vet Who's Seen
10000 Loses
Best Dog Of All

Veterinarian Howard Melman
has handled some $4,000 dogs
in his career. Only one ever liked
him. he said. and she's gone now.
DR.. Melman's kerry blue ter
rier, DeeDee. has been lost since
2 pm. Sunday, when she fol-
lowed members Of the family To-
a bus stop at Sixteenth and Alli-
son streets NV. DR.. Melman
lives at 1924 Allison street NV.
I'm sure she's stolen,' DR..
Melman said. "Of all the dogs
I've had. and all I've worked on,
she was the only one that really
liked me. The others just toll
Grated me. She would listen to
me. but wouldn't listen to any
one else"
IF anybody returns that dog.
I'll give him q liberal reward or
any kind of dog he wants" DR..
Melman promised.
Evening star., 1954-11-23
300 Methodists
From 81 Churches
Hold Hymn Sing

More than 5000 Methodists
from the Washington area held
their eighth annual "hymn sing"
Sunday night in Constitution
Hall.
Included were the massed
choirs from 81 area Methodist
churches. Dressed in their robes,
the 1900 choristers filled the
stage and sat on the side bal
comics.
DR.. Carl Heath Kopf. president
of the Washington Federation
of Churches and pastor of the
First Congregational Church,
welcomed the singers. The mu-
sical director was the Rev. Ernest
K. Emurian, pastor of the Elm
Street Methodist Church, Ports
mouth, Va, who explained that
many Methodist hymns were
written by members of other
denominations. Eight separate
denominations were represented
in the hymns sung during the
evening.
The singing meeting, tradi-
tional with Methodists the world
over, is sponsored in this area by
the Methodist Union of Wash
ington and the City Missionary
and Church Extension Society
of Alexandria.