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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
the NEEDLES STUCK

Once again the Governors Interim High
way Committee has recommended that the
novt legislature increase the gasoline tax
another cent as means OF securing most of
+ba revenue needed to match available fed
eral aid funds
To soften public Observation-Disclosures the
voters overwhelmingly turned down one
cent increase in the 1852 general election
the committee is also offering few sops.
These include three-cent increase IN the
tax per gallon on diesel fuel new diesel
fax law based on model fuel tax law, what
ever that is; more employees and equipment
for the state board of equalization to aid in
administration of the gasoline tax refund
law. and, continued study of gross vehicle
weight tax changes. The committee also sug
gested the appointment of a legislative com
mittee by the 1866 Legislature to study flu
ture highway financing needs.
With the exception of a study of the GVW
tax rates. the other recommendations auxili-
airy to the gas tax increase amount to nothing
more than the ones presented by the truckers
some weeks ago and which Fred Martin, exec
utive secretary to the Governor, characterized
as chicken feed At best these recommend
ations might produce a couple of hundred
thousand dollars per year-a mere drop in
the bucket
AS for continued study of gross vehicle
weight tax changes" that has all the ear
marks of some more 'hogwash." Ample pub
lie information is available in the State High
way Department to prove beyond any reason
able doubt that the commercial truckers GVW
schedules should be doubled at the very mini
mum, if this group of highway destroyers are
to come anywhere near paying their equitable
share of the cost of building and maintaining
our highways The committee could complete
such a study in short order if they'd spend a
fraction of the time on it they are spending
devising ways and means of woodworking
the Montana public into thinking that the one
cent gas tax increase is the only answer
Frankly, and in view of the facts surround
ing the current free rider" status of the
trucking industry in Montana, this Editor
can't buy" the committees program which,
when it is sheared of all the sugar coating,
amounts to nothing more than just another
pitch to load an even more disportionate
amount of Montana's highway financing bill
on John @. Public's family automobile or
light truck
Seems it's about time the committee
changed records because its becoming terribly
hearing the needle stick on Gin
crease the gas tax increase the gas tax j.
increase the gas tax !"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
To the Ladies' God Bless En-!

Latest word on styles for My Lady is the
secret Of the ''Flat Look"
A nit-wit in Paris has introduced plastic
band or steel hoop to make lady look like
an ironing board. It is supposed to camouflage
all the feminine curves and the bumps fore
and aft
In such gear lady standing still may be
taken for short model telephone pole-no
hips, no bust, no nothing
Heaven help the poor woiking goil mis-
SOULA TIMES.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20


The general election campaign will get high gear
for another month"; but already there unmisakabe signs
that the party of big business going to pull all the stops
in their frantic efforts keep control of Congress-
The party of big business and the guy with the grin
not their to the electorate the basis of
for-on these they have failed the people mserably.
The farmer has been left holding the sack although prom
sed 80 GO 1909 of parity the 1852 campaign The worker
heard dynamic federal programs
him and his family against want of Yet
daily the unemployment rolls grow and for
ming the recession tide takes shape Little businessmen find
their profits diminishing vanishing completely result
of mudded actions by the Eisenhower Administration
Thus the party of monopoly must look for another to
entce the voter They have but efthe
weapon of that is the
hrengs who instances double campaign managers
for Republican candidates. have already begun eveng
mud guns at any and all who object to the nation and IFS
being considered prey for powerful
One need not look far off for evidence support the charge
that the will be used with reckless abandon
the weeks ahead For time Capital coumns for
several weekly newspapers (who dubs himself naive
dictionary J. has been busiy attempting poison minds
of Montana voters against the leading opposition candidates
those of the party of big business He and his COP cohorts
know they cannot win by solid informative discussion of the
issues Therefore it their hope that they
erry the electorate by prattg about something that
parenty extinct the Dodo bird, in MontnaCommunsm
and then by the infer that various major Democratic
candidates red tinged'
It's old trick and it's paid recent years
They figure possibly off again in 1854 On they
stake their hopes of eectng another reaconay Congress-
That's the kind of campaign that is going to be carried
on by the "old guard Democrats and liberals might we'll
face this fact square and then figure out and
people just what has been happening to them in Washington
The grab and gravy" gang in power in Washington
be setback in November To
Gratis and liberals must divorce themselves from the faint
hearedness that has frequently characterized the party
this whenever the red paint brush has been
direction
obvious that cleft of Hoover and Mckinley
escape the red the calling Until all
headed the Republican trade for what
balance the brink of national political disaster
me the unsavory of political this country
70 be challenged 1t could be NOW Until it is the American
T1HL ooT cba6 fTpbo
limbo of forgotten ideals.
Since cling the woparty SYSTEM the responsibility
eadng the fight curb the beowthebet tactics whereby
has gained unbrided control of country,
quarely the Democratic party.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
THE PEOPLES VOICE

Published weekly by The Peoples Voice Pub. Co.,
at 1905 Jockey Street,
Helena, Montana
Entered as Second Glass Matter December 7, 1889,
at the Post Office at Helena, Montana under the
Act of March g. 1879.
Subscription Price: $500 Year
NO Commercial Advertising except from Co-opera-
tive Business institutions accepted Rates on
application.
co aAasass1oP
Evening star., 1954-05-16
LOU JACOBS. u

high places would surely keep the country running
smoothly.
Well after half-century that held three wars and
depression America has certainly learned how to
worry! Anxiety is epidemic; tension-troubles cause
some of our most prevalent diseases. Sorely as we
need faith, cannot get back the old childke con-
fidence. Nor do we want it. We want to face up to
reality. with all its challenges But to endure that
we must discover ways to relax.
For myself. I'm taking new stand on that old
Arab saying. In it there is no cynicism, only good
sense and honest humility. Therefore each day
shall try to meet my responsibilities as best can,
but when at night lie down. intend to turn them
all over to God, and Sleep as once the Prophet
settled calmly under the desert stars beside the
bumped shadow of his tethered beast
Evening star., 1954-05-16

available in permanent form. That has now
been done, and next week Doubleday & Co.,
Inc, will publish Eight Weeks To Live" as
hard-cover book
We are proud of such popular recognition
of THIS WEEK article, and we congratulate
the authors, Jhan and June Robbins.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY. A friend of ours
tells us about young man who recently
attended the jam-packed first-night perform
ance of a Broadway play.
At the end of the first act he leaned toward
the woman next to him and said, Pardon
me, but that man across the aisle is staring
at you. 1t must be very offensive - shall
speak to flim?" 'Oh. no, thank you." the
lady smiled. Hes my husband. but he's
so terribly nearsighted that he thinks I'm
someone else!' THE EDITORS
Evening star., 1954-05-16
TIE YOUR CAMEL!
by Louise Redfeld Peattie
i 1Mst in God, bat tie your came"

1 1Mst in God, bat tie your camel"
60, MORE than twelve centuries ago. counseled
~ Mahomet, prophet of a faith that still guides
large part of the Eastern world And we of the
nervous modern West might well listen, across the
leagues and years.
When was small in the innocent Ought Hun
dreds, it was so easy to trust that it was as natural
as breathing. People believed in peace and progress
as believed in fairies and Santa Claus - whom
imagined as jolly President Taft with big white
beard And just as felt secure with Papa holding
the buggy reins, 50 people assumed that the men in
Louise RedfeM PeGttie is the author Of many
articles short stories and books She is the wte Of
Naturalist Donald CsIy0SS PeGtie.
Evening star., 1954-05-16

MODERN CLASSIC? We are glad to pass
along to you what we regard as a real maga-
zine success story. 1t has to do with an article.
Eight Weeks To Live" the moving account
of Senator. Robert Taft courageous last DAYS.
Appearing first in THIS WEEK. and SUBJ
sequently reprinted in The Readers Digest"
it enjoyed a combined circulation of over 21
million.
But the story doesn't stop there. The
article made such an impact on the reading
public that many people suggested it be made
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
PLAN TO START
DRIVE FOR VOTER


Great Falls Transfers Union has
already made plans for the immedi-
ate starting Of a voter registration
campaign in their union that all mem
bers will be eligible to vote in the
1856 elections, according to a report
by Transfers Business Representa-
tive Austin Thompson to the Cascade
Trades & Labor Assembly.
The assembly, in turn, reports John
Evanko, Jr., secretary, has turned
the Transfers idea over to its legis-
lative committee for recommended
ton of similar action to the more than
forty unions affiliated with the as
sembly.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
J0BLE SS COMP. LAW CHANGES TO
BE- TALKED AT TWO MEETINGS

Possible changes in unemployment
compensation laws of Montana are to
be discussed at separate meetings of
representatives of labor and of man
agement during November. Broad in
vitations to the two meetings were
sent out this week by Wesley Castles,
chairman of the unemployment com
pensation commission.
Labor representatives are asked to
meet with the commission on Monday,
November %, and management rep
resentatives at similar meeting on
November 20. Both meetings are
called at the offices of the commits
sion, but are subject to transfer to
larger quarters in the Capitol build
ing if necessary.
'"These are open meetings." says
Castles, "open to individuals upon
their own initiative, or to selected
representatives of the interests con
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12

cerned. Their purpose is to promote
understanding and to stimulate pre-
legislative study of desired amend
ments, to the end that the forthcom-
ing legislature may be constructively
advised in dealing with the subject"
The commission, according to its
chairman, desires to render every pos
sible assistance in improvement of
the states unemployment insurance
program. "A compilation of some of
the changes likely to be conside"-
will be presented at the NEE ~
and other proposals will be inv < >
"No final conclusions are expect
ed" Castles said, cat these November
sessions, but it is hoped that the
groundwork may be there laid for in
telligent and constructive presenta-
ton to the Governor and to the legis-
lative assembly in January"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
Building Safety Month
Is Set for November

CHICAGO = President William
McFetridge of the Building Service
Employees has proclaimed November
as Building Service Safety Month.
Safety posters with the slogan,
Safety Is Everybody's Job Care You
ON the Job'O," are being sent to all
local BSEIU unions in the United
States and Canada to remind mem
bers that safety is a big part of their
daily job.
McFetridge feels that the public,
as we'll as BSEIU members, will bene-
fit by the month of intensified inter
est in safe work practices for the
thousands of buildings, institutions
and parks which union members serve.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12

held in the 1853 session. VanDyke
lost out by II votes to Republican
Bob Baxter. Result of this drastic
switch found the Democrats in con-
troll of the House 50-44 as compared
to heavy 62-32 Republican majority
in the previous legislature.
In Senate races Democrats were
less successful, due primarily to FL
of SO Republican seats in the 1858
assembly being holdovers, and of the
Is seats to be filled, eight have long
been filled by Republicans. However,
the Democrats did pick up four SEN
ate posts formerly held by Republi-
cans while losing one-Granite-
which Sen. Chan Ettien vacated when
he moved to Hill county.
Counties which elected Democratic
senators to replace Republicans were
Lincoln, Chouteau, Ravalli and Silver
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
life" DISCOVERS
EkALAKA

Last weeks issue of LIFE maya
zine has an interesting spread on the
dinosaur fossil hunting proclivities
of many of the people of Ekalaka,
county seat of Carter county.
Looking at it from strictly cham
Der of commerce slant, LIES nation
wide publicity burst for that south
eastern COW country town, if prop
erly exploited, nsy be the beginning
of thriving tourist traffic which in
a very few years could increase Eka-
lakas 900 population several times
over. People like the unusual, and,
speaking as an old fossil (hunter) 4,
this editor can assure one and all
that this particular avocation is a
world Of fun.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
DIxON.YATES MAY BOOST CONTRACT PROFITS
TO 2O-300a, HOLIFIELD SAYS OF POWER DEAL

rittee, Oct. Is, that the proposed
Dixon-Yates power plant site at
West Memphis, Ark, is probably
the worst ever proposed for large
steam plant. 1t would alone, he
said, cost the government $685.
900 a year more than the Fulton,
Tenn, site where Tennessee Val
ley Authority proposed to build.
Olds noted particularly the added
cost Of taking coal across the Missis-
sippi river to West Memphis, then
sending the power back.
Meanwhile, Arkansas Power &
Light Company Dixon subsidiary
. filed So million SANDER suit
against Arthur E. Mclean, Little
Rock banker. Mclean had told the
Senate anti-monopoly committee that
APRIL is "the most corrupt and ruth
less corporation that ever operated
within the bounds of the state"
Chairman William LANCER Urn.
d. said the suit was filed to scare
a Senate witness. 1t was based, how
ever. on McLean's speeches at home
NOT his testimony. Said Mclean,
II welcome the suit. They're asking
for the works."
If Democrats control the 84th Con-
gress, Senator Lyndon Johnson Cd
Texas promised "a most thorough
of the Nixon-Dixon-Yates
deal"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
The Dixon-Yates power combine can
reap a 2O% to 800 profit on its
in9estment-not go as specified-if
a House-Senate committee okays the
contract that President Eisenhower
wants Atomic Energy Commission to
sign.
That's the opinion of Congress
man Chef Holifield (D-Calif.), COM
mittee member, who like other mem
bers has a copy of the contract. Holt
field, first to release results of his
personal study, October %, called
the contract "legalistic double-talk to
conceal the naked fact that the gov
eminent is obligating itself to pay
the Dixon-Y Yates interests a half bill
lion dollars over the next % years"
The committee will take look at
the contract, beginning November 4.
President Eisenhower told the
press, October 27, that he had COM
plete faith in Acc Chairman Lewis
L. Strauss. Strauss, he said, is draw
ing up the contract. The president
said he would have "disciplined' the
person who leaked the contract to
the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH,
October IL, if he'd known who it was.
Leland Olds, former Federal
Power Commission chairman, told
the Senate anti-monopoly subcom-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
FRIENDS SERVICE LEADER
BANQUET SPEAKER

Saturday evening the annual in
stitute banquet will be held. Imme-
diately following the banquet, at
500 p. M, Rev. Edwin Randall,
American Friends Service Commit
tee, Philadelphia, will address the
institute audience on our nations
international relations with the rest
of the world.
Rev. Randall, Methodist minister,
is a native of Leavenworth, Kansas.
His father was also Methodist min
lister. Apart from his pastoral ac-
tivities, Rev. Randall has also been
a news writer, radio programs di-
rector, Chicago Juvenile Court Pro
bational Director, an editor, and
radio pastor at station WRIT in
Ohio. AS a representative of Friends
Service, his work is with American
farm organizations Union,
Farm Bureau, Grange, Future Farm
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
Correction

Last week the VOICE stated that
Herb Haight, former longtime sena-
tor from Fergus, had regained his
seat after an absence of four years
from the legislature. Final unofficial
tally of votes for that county found
Incumbent Earl Moritz reelected in
very tight contest. Moritz received
2,8O7 votes to Haight's 2,764, a mar
Gin of Al votes for Moritz.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12

Bow. The latter COP seat became va
cant when Senator Troy Evans took
a federal appointment.
OFFICIAL CANVAS MAY CHANGE
SOME OUTCOMES
A number of house races were de-
cided by the narrowest of margins,
and, there is a possibility that the
official canvass of Yates could change
the outcome in one Or more of these
contests. In addition to Mr.. Baxter's
close race in Wheatland, McCone
county Rep. Martin Beck won re-
election by only nine votes. Former
Speaker Dry Armstrong (R), Flat
head, squeaked past Clarence Sheldon
by only 10 votes, 4,738 to 4,728.
Democrat Pat Hooks defeated Mr..
Marks by II votes to represent Broad
water county in the House.
Among tight senate races, Donovan
Worden of Missoula county was hard
pressed to retain his seat, defeating
Eddie Dussault by only 80 votes in
a contest which had a total vote of
1900. In Lincoln county Sen. Win
ton Weydemeyer (R) was defeated
by a Sc margin by DR.. H. H. Ander-
CONTINUED on Page Two
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
On Caravan Tour of Fort Peck Reservation
On Caravan Tour of Fort Peck Reservation -
n; $50 ss':: ia Human Relations Committee
mrvV
Investigate Indian Problems
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

ttourof
the O
Commit is o o
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12

mately $500. The number of resi-
dent Indians is approximately 1920.
The number under 10 years of age
is approximately 1000 The number
Of full bloods is about 1900.
ACREAGE
The total acreage of land in trus-
teeship with the United States Gov
eminent is approximately 100000.
The number Of acres of trust land in
tribal ownership is $4,000. The num-
Der of acres of land in heirship sta
tus is $4,000.
RESOURCES
The resources of reservation con
sists of some very fertile agricultural
lands, two oil fields, and extensive
coal deposits. There is considerable
timber land along the Missouri river.
A good share of the agricultural land
can be irrigated and some of the
land is under irrigation at the pres
ent time. In a 1851 survey by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, the in
come per family was estimated al
$1,000.
EMPLOYMENT
There is considerable employment
on the reservation in agricultur
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12

work, office work, skilled work, and
unskilled labor. approximately 600
enrolled members of the reservation
are employed off the reservation.
HEALTH
The United States Bureau of In
dian Affairs operates a hospital at
Poplar for the enrolled members of
the Fort Peck reservation. A COM
plete report on the health conditions
will no doubt be made by the medical
resource people of the Caravan.
LIVING CONDITIONS
There are approximately 200 fami-
lies in sub-marginal homes. These
homes are built of logs that are
chinked with adobe and straw. These
homes have inadequate lighting, some
have dirt floors, and many of the
homes do not have water wells.
EDUCATION
The education on the reservation
is provided entirely by the public
schools in this area. The attendance
is quite good. Schools are located
at Frazer, Oswego, Wolf Point, Pop
lar and Brockton. Some children at
tend preservation schools at Nashu;
and Culbertson.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
Republican Legislative ReversuLs
Featured Last Weeks Election

Although Democratic trend of major proportions de-
veoped the cannot be said for control of the
Representatives in the 1866 Legislative AS
semby.
Republican efforts to control the lower house sngu
lary the COP unseang only Democrat Will
VanDyke of Wheatand while losing 10 seats they had
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12

The Human Relations caravan
headquartered in Poplar, toured the
Fort Peck Reservation in a bus for
three days, and held open forum dis
cussions at the Agency in the eve
nings, attended by caravan members,
members of the Fort Peck tribe, and
people from the reservation commu-
nifty.
The tour pointed up needs in the
field of child care, better health
services, more counseling and social
services, sanitation in relation to
housing, water supply, ETC., better
education for Indians, local industry,
adequate financing, of rehabilitation
and resettlement programs, and bet
ter ways of informing the people of
Montana about Indians.
The committee found the tribe MAX
ing progress by adopting a constitu-
ton, making moves toward settling
the question of enrolment and look
ing forward to cooperating and
seeking advice on how to settle some
Of the complex problems facing them.
The most fundamental needs, the
committee felt, were, better feeling
and understanding both between the
Indians themselves and members of
the community, greater feeling of
the need Of community approach to
problems, a common law enforce
ment agency, feeling among the
Indians that they have the ability
and the responsibility of solving many
of their own problems.
Members of the tour committee
will submit their impressions for full
committee discussion within ten days,
after which there will be meeting
to discuss what, if any, further action
the Committee on Human Relations
will deem wise and necessary.
The agency headquarters for this
reservation is located at Poplar, Mon
tana. The superintendent is Mr.. Gin
ton Talley, who arrived a short time
from Oklahoma. The peo-
pie of the reservation belong to the
Sioux Indian tribe and the Assini-
boine tribe. The total number of In
dams on this reservation is approx |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-11-12
Furmer-Labor Institute to Be
Held ar MissoUIa, Dec. 3-5

Full days of discussion of important state, regional and
national all those attending the Eleventh
annual Farmer Institute in Mssoua December through
states Leonard Kenfed Great Falls secretary of the