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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
BY WHAT AUTHORITY?

Approval of the Governors committee report
by the Highway commission and particularly the
expenditure of state highway department funds to
make the report available for distribution raises
some strong questions in this editors mind.
The report, in part, is well-done compilation
of reasons for increase of cent in the gas tax
In 1862 the people of Montana flatly turned
down one cent gas tax increase. The 1858 legisla
ture did nothing to make anyone think the reasons
the increase turned down then have changed.
In fact, the 1868 Legislature affirmed the popu-
lar mandate of November 1862 by refusing favor
able consideration of proposed one-half cent in
in the gasoline tax requested at that time by
the Highway Commission.
Permission by the Highway Commission to allow
state funds to be used to propaganda the merits of
the gas increase that was vetoed by the people
appears to directly ignore the will of the people
as expressed in 1852
The Highway department proper, an arm OF
government has, up to this moment remained aloof
from expressing its sentiments how finances will
be raised for highway construction, deeming the
problem Gas it isl one for the state legislature
Probably the best job in the history of the state
has been done on highway construction and mainte-
nance in the past few years by the Highway depart
ment and it is not intention to draw them into
a donnybrook.
However, using state funds for unpopular
campaign to propaganda the people into accept
ing unequal program of highway financing,
could very we'll precipitate controversy that would
work to the detriment of the whole organization,
and loss the shoals of pickering in the legislative
halls of any kind of an additional highway financing
program.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

CHICAGO = (LDNS) A four
week strike against the Kraft Foods
Co., manufacturers of cheese prod
ucts, has ended in substantial vic
tory for AF'L Dairy Employees Union,
Local 754, International Brotherhood
of Teamsters.
Union officials announced ratifi-
cation of contract by the strikers
which provides for hourly wage in
creases of II cents, retroactive to
Sept. 1, and an additional five cents,
effective from Sept. 1, 1866, to Sept.
1, 1856.
Also, union officials said, the strik-
ers won time and one-half for work
on Saturdays as such; an improved
pension plan and an improved surgi-
cal and disqualification plan; clause
which permits Kraft employees to re-
fuse to load work recognized as
struck work by Transfers Joint
Council No. 25; and seniority plan
which includes changes requested by
the workers and at the same time
safeguards their seniority rights.
PRIOR OFFER
The most that management would
offer prior to the strike, according to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
UNION MEN WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO HOLD
NOSE TO EAT KRAFT CHEESE

union spokesman, was an eight-cent
hourly wage increase conditional on
union acceptance of an agreement
which would destroy the working con-
ditions. A seniority offer by manage
ment would have emasculated senior
ity rights.
During the strike, production at
Kraft, now a subsidiary of the Ma
tional Dairy Co., was switched to
nonunion plants at Decatur, Ca, and
Garland, Texas, with the company
moving equipment to those plants for
that purpose.
Under the pact just negotiated,
management agreed to return that
equipment for resumption of the
production discontinued here, thus
safeguarding the jobs of workers
whose employment otherwise would
have been terminated.
More than 1900 employees are COW
cred by the agreement, which was ne
gotiated by Pres. August BURNER,
Secretary Treasurer Frank ]. Giles
pie and Trustee Otto Debs. Einar
Mohn, IBT vice president and execu-
tive assistant to IBT President Dave
Beck, aided in the negotiations dur
ing the last two weeks of the strike.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
Governors Interim Highway Committee Report
Interim Fa mmFseEp
Would Have Us Play Santa Claus TO Truckers!

have at hand copy of the Report and Recon-
mendations of the Governors Interim Highway Com
mittee, 1851, which deals with the highway finan-
eng problem facing the people of Montana. In this
we'll put-together 67page book which is being dis
tributed by the Highway Department. there is a
wealth of good material on Montana's highway pro-
gram as of the present. future needs to meet ncreas
ing highway usage, charts showing truck tax sched-
ules IN Montana compared with several other
states etc.
With the facts and figures compiled by the High
way Department there is quarrel The same can
not be said for some of the recommendations of the
Governors committee which have been endorsed
by Highway Commission Chairman Frank Connolly
for the commission, and which included in this
book.
Altogether, the Governors committee prepared
a list of IA recommendations. However, of these,
only four being given widespread publicity Two
of these very bad and will only increase gross
inequites presently surrounding highway financing
in Montana which force automobile and light truck
to pay far than their fair share of our
highway financing costs.
The other two major recommendations are good
and in themselves represent solid steps toward
greater fairness in assessing highway COSTS One of
these is the proposal that Diesel fuel be taxed two
cents gallon than gasoline. This is very much
order Exhaustive tests prove pretty conclusivey
that larger highway vehicles, those powered with
Diesel get up to go per cent more miles to the gallon
of fuel than those using gasoline The other good
ommendation would have a law enacted bonding
both and sellers of Diesel fuel to minimize tax
evasion Tax evasion by Diesel users has been wide
spread-so widespread in fact that the committee
estimates that from this alone another $780,,
900 year in highway revenue could be secured.
Now as to the two recommendations which have
been weighed and found wanting
1. Increase the gasoline tax another cent to
cents The Governors committee, throughout the re-
port emphasizes its desire to bring about equt
able highway financing. However, in view of
wealth of facts available to the committee this talk
Of more equitable financing coupled with a proposed
gas tax increase constitutes little than out
light attempt to deceive the people of Montana
By the committees figures of the S12, 944,-
585 net fuel tax collected in 1853 at least eight mil
ion dollars of that tax paid by the 203, 900
owners in the state If another cent tax
added then of the estimated two million dollars 7
will raise more than 81 A million will be paid by
automobile operators. The 10000 trucks and trail v
RS registered in Montana in 1858, paid approximate
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
WELL. DONE

AS of you may have noticed in last weeks VOICE
spread Montana schools, there gain Of than
hundred thousand dollars off agricultural
grazing leases of state lands for the School Income Interest
Fund the last fiscal We asked Land Commissioner Lou
Bretse How Come Lou told that the 1858 Legislature
provided enough funds for the Land department to hire
other futime eldman waited until the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24
MELTON CONDUCTS
LABOR "QUIZ"
RADIO SHOW

ASHVILLE, N. C.-PAD-Unioa
made merchandise and union souvenir
items are being given as prizes on the
equiv" part OF the radio show, "News
of Labor" conducted by Perry Melton,
international representative of the
AFL-United Textile Workers. UTWA
souvenir pens distributed at the At
lantic City convention and boxed
playing cards containing the pictures
of famous labor leaders are making
big hit with the quiz fans.
Perry Melton is we'll known in
Montana labor ranks, having edited
the TREASURE STATE LABOR
JOURNAL from 1889 to 1951.-
Editor.
The Eastern Samoas, islands in the
South Seas, have been United States
possessions for 65 years.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

then hired additional fedmen period months
In addition the departments five regular fiedmen
erred to checking agricultural production during the harvest
period Result gain of almost million dollars in income
the state school funds To the Land Commissioner and his staff
extend thanks for job we'll done
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

ly three million dollars in fuel taxes and Gross We
hice Weight registration fees, compared to eight
million dollars in fuel taxes paid by automobile
owners.
The glazing inequity of any further gasoline tax
increase lies in the comparative highway construc-
ton and maintenance costs for automobiles versus
trucks. If the Governors committee made anything
than surface study of this phase of the high
way problem it knows full we'll that it takes from
three to ten times much to build mile of high
way which will withstand the day In and day out
and tear by heavy truck traffic it does to
build mile of highway for automobile and light
truck usage. The committee also knows, should
know since ample facts are available maryland
road tests, etc., that trucks account for so to 80
per cent of the highway and tear which has
skyrocketed annual highway maintenance costs to
more than six million dollars.
2 Revise GVW Schedules ''to rectify inequities'
and raise them ito approximate those of other
states" To "rectify inequities the committee pro-
poses that the GVW schedule on farm trucks be in
creased by 200 per cent to bring in estimated
1854 1894 annually. That GVW schedules may
approximate those of other states increase of
16 per cent is proposed for the full GVW registra-
ton fee schedule, for another $25oO00 per year.
AS for increasing farm truck rates by 200 per
cent, I leave it to the good judgment of Montana
farm people whether this constitutes rectifying
inequity, particularly in view of the proposed 16
per cent the commercial haulers who the
real highway destroying demons in Montana.
The Committees assertion that a 16 per cent
OFerdl " IcfedSe VIII Increase our w w SCHeu-
ules to approximate those of other states must be
labelled for what it is bald-faced attempt
to deceive the motoring public of Montana into be-
eving that 16 per cent increase will put our GVW
On par with other states. These are strong words
but can be proven by other facts set forth in the
committees report. The following figures are taken
from Figure Nv, page "a of the report Read them
over for yourself and I'm you won't be taken in
~ this brazen bit of 'flim-fammery the committee
las so piously dished OUT
% Higher Than
Annual Proposed Mont. 7
GVW Fee GVW Schedule :
Jnder the committees proposed Is
per cent increase a $4,000 GVW =
truck in Montana would pay $275.00 /;
present GVW registration
fee, S23O00)
daho, the truck would pay 32500* 1870
exas 5000 GVW truck pays 325O0 1870
yashin gton, the weight
truck pays -------- 3fOO0 $40
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

In daho under that states latest truck taxing law all travel
by trucks over 10000 miles annually costs the operator
$3.50 for each thousand miles additional travel In Mon
tana $4,000 GVW truck travels average of 5000
miles year Under Idaho law this truck then would pay
additional $58850 year for the of Idaho highways
annually.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24


truck pays ------- 42500 $50
Illinois, the truck pays 584.0O 110@o
In view of the Governors committees fig
ures, how in the of simple arithmetic the
committee before the people of the state and
assert that the proposed 16 per cent increase will
bring Montana GVW to approximate those of other
states -?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

consin, the same weight
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-24

Under the committees proposed
per cent increase, $4,000 G
truck in Montana would pay
present GVW registration
fee, S230.00)
Idaho, the same truck would pay
Texas, a $4,000 GVW truck pays
Washington, the same weight
truck pays -------------------------
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-04
Report Describes Brush Fire in
 Kougarok Area

"Jeff" Jefford has returned from month in the Kougarok and tells of the fire which ragged in that area last month. She said that the fire came within 400 feet of the Alexander camp and with in half a mile of the Waldhelm camp.
 Andy Wirum, who mines alone, was marooned in his cabin for five days and nights as the smoke was SO thick he was afraid to venture away for fear he would be unable to find his way back again.
 She reports that the fire was dangerous for II days but critical for five days, during which time it was impossible to see ten feet away.
 George Waldhelm and Devon Alexander made trip to Coffee Creek to 'doze around cabins and equipment there and were enclr- cled by the fire, eventually mak- ing their way to the Quartz Creek airfield, where they waited until the smoke lifted enough for them to continue back to Dahl Creek.
 Thirty minutes of rain, when 1t finally came, brought quick relief, she states.
 After it was. over she tells it was necessary to reStake the claims and while doing so they saw many ptarmigan hens hunt ing for their families which were too small to fly before the fire. The ptarmigan hawks were busy feasting on cooked birds of all kinds.
 Many species of birds never seen in the area before came to the cut where they were mining for water and food.
 As far as she knew no unoccu- pied camps were destroyed.
 Mrs. Waldhelm, while the fire was at it's worst, rather than be idle, calmly baked cake for the firefighters.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-04
Sitka Seiners Jailed for Fishing in Closed Areas

SITKA, R-Six Sitka seiners received jail sentences of from 30 to 60 days and fines ranging from $25O to $500 Monday when they pleaded guilty to fishing in a closed area.
 In passing sentence, US. Com- missioner Frank Richard told the SeinerS the salmon run would never be restored until they CO., operated with the Fish and Wild life Service by obeying regula- tions and that the FWS was actu- ally working for the fishermen to preserve the runs.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-04
Iranian Flood Areas Land of Horror

TERRAIN, Iran, R-Newspaper accounts Tuesday pictured the flood-ravaged Kazvin area of north Iran as a land of horror, threatened by starvation, thirst and prowling wild animals.
 The leading journal Etelaat said at least 500 persons lost their lives in the floods.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-04
ORPHANS TAUGHT TO RIOT

MUNICH, Germany, R-Hun- garian Communists are teaching orphans to riot during religious processions, the Voice of America said Tuesday in a broadcast beamed behind the Iron Curtain.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-04
IN ITALIAN MOUNTAINS

AOSTA, Italy, R-Mountain climbing claimed it's 18th fatality of the still-young Italian season Tuesday when Maria Paola Rossi, 26, of Genoa, hurtled to her death.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-04

Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Why Jordan's Bacen
Costs More

Ordinary bacon may be on the
hoof one day and on the table
two days later. But it takes two
TO three weeks to cure and smoke
Jordan's Old Fashioned Virginia
Bacon.
After q dry cure for 10 to IL
days in salt and sugar, an old
English cure, Jordan's Bacon is
smoked over hand tended hick-
ory fires, kept burning day and
night, until the juices drip and
the pungent smoke permeates
and flavors the bacon.
But that's not all. Jordan's
Bacon is choice bacon to begin
with. Relatively little Of it is
made. and it is the pick Of the
crop.
Look for Jordan's Old Fash.
ioned Virginia Bacon-in boxes.
It's entirely different.
Evening star., 1954-09-28
How to fight
NNw Mw'
3 ways at the same time
...feeI better, too!
un1e time
-. feeI better, too!

Cramps, Baekoehe, Headache, Stopped or umozingly
relieved in 3 out Of 4 eoses in Doctors Tesisl
Evening star., 1954-09-28

son. Republican. of New Jersey,
a member of the subcommittee
was "a living miracle-without
brains or CUTS"
3 Points Turned Down.
On three other charges the
committee was highly critical of
Senator McCarthy's conduct, but
they said there were mitigating
circumstances and did not req
ommend censure. These were:
/. That he abused Senator
Flanders, the author Of the Sen
ate resolution to censure, by
calling him "senile" and other
things.
2. That he melted Government
employees to violate the law and
their oaths of Office by urging
them to turn over information
to him. That occurred in the
Army McC Carthy hearing last
spring.
3. That Senator Mccarthy
made unauthorized use of a con-
troversial FBI letter" pertain
ing to suspected espionage in the
Army, that he first brought into
the Army Mccarthy contro-
verSy.
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Censure
Continued From First Page.)

Democrats used strong language
in its report to denounce some
of the activities of Senator Nc
Carthy. Reporting on nine days
Of public hearings, the group said
the Senator should be censured
by the Senate on two counts. but
1t was highly critical of him in
discussing all the five categories
Of censure charges it considered.
The committee urged conden-
nation on these counts:
!. That Senator Mccarthy was
"contemptuous, contumacious,
denunciatory" toward a 1872
Senate Privileges and Elections
subcommittee which had ques-
toned some of his financial
dealings, and hence he was also
contemptuous Of the Senate
itself.
2. That he abused Brig. Gen.
Ralph w. Zwicker in an "inex-
cusable" and 'reprehensible $
manner during q closed hearing
last February in New York Of
the Mccarthy Investigations
Subcommittee.
The committee also said Sena-
tor Mccarthy used language "in
bad taste and unworthy Of q
member Of this body" In de-
nouncing Senators who served on
the Elections subcommittee. This
was particularly directed at his
remark that Senator Hendrick-
Evening star., 1954-09-28
s. Die as India Express
Falls Into Flooded River
By the Assoeioted Press

BOMBAY. India, Sept. o.
An express passenger train
plunged into a flooded river so
miles east of Hyderabad early to-
day and at least So persons were
killed or given up for lost. A
weakened bridge collapsed.
officials said it was one of the
worst disasters in the history of
India's railroads. Among the
dead was M. r. Krishna, men,
ber of Parliament.
Eighteen bodies were recovered
by this morning and hope was
abandoned for eight railwaymen
and q Indian troops listed as
missing.
Officials said they feared the
toll would rise even higher as the
wrecked passenger coaches were
pulled from the river.
Thirty passengers were hos
pitalized with injuries. The
condition of five of them was
listed as serious.
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Murder Trials OF Z
Navy Men 10 Open

LEONARDTOWN, Md. Sept.
28-Trials of two Patuxent River
Naval Base enlisted men, charged
with Staying young women. are
scheduled here today and tomor-
row.
Docketed for today is the case
of Carl w. Strickland, 81, ac-
cused in the death of Irene
Marian Conole. a 26-year-old
WAVE also stationed at the air
base.
William E. Rudd, 81, is to go
on trial tomorrow on an indict-
ment charging him with fatally
beating Mrs, Iona Josephine
Davis. %. wife of James E.
Davis, a Patuxent Base sailor.
Rudd has been declared legally
sane by State medical authori-
ties. Strickland was examined by
a private physician, whose find
ings have not been announced.
The bruised body Of the WAVE
was found last May 26. face
down in shallow water at a
Point Lookout (Md.) beach. Ar
rested the same day at his home
in Rocky Mount, N. c., Strick-
land denied the Staying.
Mrs. Davis was found dead on
April 3 in the quarters she occu-
pied with her husband in Lex
ington Park, near the Air Base.
Police said Rudd has admitted
the Staying.
Evening star., 1954-09-28
By james {. Roper

Rafael Trujillo, long time
strong man of the Dominican
Republic. proposed yesterday that
anti Communist nations who
are sincerely willing to fight
aggression" form their own
United Nations with headquar-
ters in Washington.
Mr.. Trujillo said the proposed
organization would not replace
the United Nations in New
York. but would be more ef-
fective in the face of the Reds
"dendish determination"
The Dominican dictator sug-
gested the new United Nations
for Peace" during a hurriedly-
called news conference at the
Dominican Embassy.
simultaneously, Manuel de
Moya announced his resignation
as Dominican Ambassador to
the United States. Mr.. Trujillo
said Mr.. De Moya. who has been
in Washington less than a, year,
will get a job in the Dominican
cabinet when he returns to
Ciudad Trujillo in November.
Mr.. Trujillo and Mr.. deMoya
both declined to give reasons
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Budget
Continued From First Page.)

the budget to $3.50 million, or Just
about what 1t is in the current
fiscal year.
However. Commissioner Spen-
Ger pointed out. the budget must
allow for certain mandatory
increases over this years $170
million budget.
Estimated at nearly $4 million,
these include a $250,000 contribu-
tion under the recently approved
Government Insurance Act,
$500,000 under the fringe benefit
pay bill, a share in the cost of
new buildings at st. Elizabeths
Hospital and the stating of new
District institutions, such as the
Anacostia branch library and the
new firehouse at Forty-second
and East Capitol streets.
Approval Of only the manda-
tory expenses on top of the cur
rent budget would produce a re-
quest to Congress of STA million,
leaving $2.5 million surplus on
the basis of present figures.
Under such a procedure. the
Commissioners would have to cut
departmental spending requests
by $16.4 million.
Gas Tax Producing.
Schuyler Lowe, director of gen.
eral administration, said the only
new figures 80 far show the in
creased gasoline tax is producing
nearly 100 per cent of the pre-
dicted amount.
The revenue figures show that
three of the five funds out OF
which the city finances its ac-
tivities are to be balanced next
year by borrowing $9.7 million
from the Federal Government.
A loan Of $1,000, 600 is slated
for the highway fund, one OF
Evening star., 1954-09-28


to embarrass another by sending
down a resolution of censure and
accusing any Senator of mis-
treatment of this or that person"
Senator Malone, without COM
menting directly on the report,
said the inquiry followed a dan
gerous trend.
IF the Senate starts taking
up this type of charge before
there has been a clear violation
of Senate rules-none Is alleged
here-they're investigating them
selves and have impaired the in
vestigative power Of the Senate"
he said.
Senator Barrett. without say
ing how he will vote when the
Senate returns. said the Senate
should not establish prece-
dent of censuring members Of
that body for charges Of the
character" of those brought by
the committee.
Republican Senator Bridges of
New Hampshire. president pro-
TEN of the Senate, and Demo-
cratic Senator George Of Georgia
were among the many who said
they were reserving Judgment
pending a close study Of the re-
port.
George Predicts Censure.
But Senator George predicted
that the Senate would promptly
approve the censure recommen-
datioris. He added that the RE
publicans made grave mistake"
In not reconvening the Senate
Immediately.
Senator Bridges stated: The
censuring of q Senator Is very
serious matter. We must be ex-
tremely careful not to establish
Q precedent that will limit the
Evening star., 1954-09-28
TrujiNo Urges Anti Red Lands
Form Own u. N. for Peace

for the shift. and both appeared
i'll at ease in discussing the
situation
MIR. Trujillo arrived in WASH
ington unheralded on Saturday
and plans to be at the U. N.
General Assembly session In
New York. or at the Embassy In
Washington until October. when
he returns to his Caribbean
country for a fair marking the
25th anniversary Of the Tru-
jillo rule.