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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
FLATHEAD LUMBER FIRM
MUST CEASE AND DESIST
UNFAIR LABOR ACTS

SAN FRANCISCO-A National La
Dor Relations Board trial examiner
Tuesday recommended that a Column
bia Falls, Mont, lumber firm refrain
from alleged unfair labor practices.
Trial Examiner William E. Spencer
recommended that Plum Creek Log
ging Co., Inc, cease and desist from :
1. "Discouraging membership in
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America, Local No.
1929 and the Montana District Coun-
Gil, Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Unions, or any other labor organiza-
ton of its employees
2. "Interrogating employees con-
corning their union activities J..
3. Threatening it's employees with
plant closure or curtailment of opera
lions in the event they become or
ganized. ct. FALLS TRIBUNE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
FOOD MOVED WEST

People still take Horace Greeley's
advice.
One way to know this is to look at
the steadily mounting population fig
ures for the western states. Another
is to note how the people there get
their food.
California, for example, used to
be an egg-exporting state. Now 60%
of it's egg supply is imported from
farther east, as also are 500 of its
beef and 20%o OF. its pork.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
GTA AUDITOR GOING
TO ST. PAUL OFFICE

Lowell Hargens, Farmers Union
Grain Terminal Association auditor in
GTA's Great Falls branch, has been
promoted to position in the main
office of the large farmer-owned CO.
op grain marketing association. Low
ell has been in the Great Falls office
for the last Is years.
He is a native of Turner in Blaine
county, and Mrs. Hargens originally
came from Havre.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
MAJORS" PAY HUGE SUMS TO u. S. RIO
PROSPECT OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF

within five or six years explorations
will turn up six billion barrels of new
oil reserves, plus Is trillion cubic
feet of natural gas"
In addition to the costs involved
in sinking wells to 10000 feet, it
will also be necessary for the opera
tors to build drilling platforms of
sufficient size and stability to handle
drilling operations from distance
of up to 200 feet above the ocean
floor.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
''Bird Dog" Charlie
Accused of Strike
Busting BY JAW

KOHLER, WIS., ILNSJ-The de-
tense department was accused by the
CIO United Auto Workers of 'active-
ly participating in strike breaking
and union busting activity by giving
a 100000 order for 155 millimeter
shells to the Kohler company. Mem
bers of the unions local 833 have
been on strike at the company's plant
here for more than eight months.
JAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil
Macy wrote Defense Secretary
Charles E. Wilson that the union was
shocked to learn" the order had
been placed in a plant "where strike
for economic justice has been in
progress since April 5, 1854"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
On Political Freedom

If there is any fixed star in our
constitutional constellation, it is that
no official, high or petty, can pre-
scribe what shall be orthodox in poll
tics, nationalism, religion, or other
matters of opinion, or force citizens
to confess by word or act their faith
therein The late Justice Robert H.
Jackson.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
Legislative Machinery to Be in
Operation by Monday Jan. 3

Highway and school financing, workmens compensation
increased legislative and many other headaches will
calling for attention when the 34th Legislative Assembly con-
Venes Monday, January 3.
This week preliminary jockeying for position jobs
mee assignments began to get underway with all of the
important th field of legislative activity settled
by the end of party caucuses Sunday January 2.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
1O-Year Averages Show e.
Higher Non-DriIing Penu 8 Has
Not Increased Lease Cn zNinu

Figures compiled by the State Land Board this
that few if oil leases state land have dropped
because of the increased non-driling penalty.
Oil company spokesman have whipped a recently
about the number of lease cancellations Their theme
that the increase of dollar the
atty has caused cancellations SCALE with resulting
loss of the The Land Boards summary
that the of leases cancelled is slightly
NAL, and below the average of the last years.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31

the House and Senate Monday, Gov
ernor ]. Hugo Aronson is slated to
give his estate of the State" message
Tuesday, January A.
Principal posts to be decided in the
Sunday caucuses will be: For the
House majority party, Democrats. the
naming of speaker, majority floor
leader, and the selection of such i'm
portant 'appointees as the Chief Clerk
and principal members of his staff.
ergeant-at-arms, etc. The Republi-
can minority will choose a minority
floor leader, among other activities
of the caucus. In the Senate, both
parties will choose floor leaders, and
the Republican majority will name a
secretary of the Senate, sergeant-at-
arms, ETC., prior to the Monday con-
vening of that body.
For the House speakership, Cas-
cade Rep. Leo Graybill, speaker in
1919; Blaine Rep. Richard Nixon.
and Garfield Rep. John Macdonald
who served as minority leader in
1858, are prominently mentioned.
For majority leader, Sanders Rep.
Eugene Mahoney and Hill Rep. Rob-
ert Durkee, are the most frequently
mentioned. For House sergeant-at-
arms, the contest appears to be be-
tween former House speaker (1935)
w. P. Pilgeram, and Ex-Railroad
Commissioner Horace Casey. For
Chief Clerk, five names have been
discussed in political
circles: John ]. Jewell, one-time
House member (1913) and several
lines Chief Clerk; Walter Marshall,
Helena radio broadcaster; T. R.
Helena, former OPA of
'icial and longtime active party
worker in state and national cam
,aigns; Willard Fraser, Billings, one
# the stand-out Democratic leaders
n the second district, and Dan (Kai-
err Sullivan, Butte, 1949 chief clerk.
On the Republican side of the
House, Flathead Rep. Dry Armstrong,
ormer speaker; Yellowstone Rep. R.
1. Gebhardt, senior COP member of
he lower house, and Gallatin Rep.
Jean Chaffin, 1853 speaker, stand
ut prominently for the minority
loor leader post. Also mentioned are
DOLE Rep. R. F.. Juedeman who
bowed unusual qualities from the
loor in his first session in 1868, and
allatin Rep. Walter Sales, another
ing time member of the House.
In the Senate reports are that
[issoula Senator Donovan Worden
ads the COP for the Senate major
y whip post. For the Democrats,
ondera County Senator Leroy An
erson, who narrowly missed being
ected to Congress from the pre-
Republican eastern dis
let, is considered likely choice for
inority leader.
One interesting sidelight on the
'55 Legislature is that of the en-
re membership only five remain
no served in the 1885 session. At
e time members of the House,
csc men are now Senators. They
e: Fred Padbury, Lewis & Clark;
P. Balgord, Golden Valley; Dave
aiming, Treasure; Donovan Wor-
n, Missoula; Charles Scofield, Pow
+ River.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
U. C. C. RESERVE FUND HIGH

The state Unemployment Compen-
cation reserve fund reached new
high in 1854 with total of S41,-
.533, 900 in the fund. This represented
an increase of $1,700,000 over mid
1853.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31
JAP FISHERMEN STERILE

The % japanese fishermen sur
viving the Bikini Hydrogen bomb
"fall-out" last spring, are now all
sterile.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-31

The non-drlll1ng penalty operates
like this: An oil operator takes out
a lease on state land, and is given
two years in which to begin drilling
during this two-year period he pays
only the minimum rental of seventy
five cents per acre; if he doesn't drill
within two years, he must drop the
lease, or pay a non-drilling penalty
for each succeeding year.
A little more than half of all state
oil leases are dropped when the
first penalty falls due. A lot of these
are leases taken out by people who
have no intention of drilling, but
hope to cash in on a rise in lease
values in the first two years. Many
oil companies take up much more
land than they can use, in the hope
of future reserves. All of these peo-
PIE, of course, want tn hold on as
long, and as cheaply, as they can.
No lease of state land has ever been
dropped at penalty time without a
protest of some sort against the in
justice of it all, regardless of the
amount of penalty.
soc DOLLAR MADE SPECULATION
INEXPENSIVE
In 1853 the Land Board decided
that the penalty of one dollar per
acre, which had been in effect since
1914, was too little, and was encour-
aging spectators to lease state land
and hold it without any intention of
drilling. The penalty was set at two
dollars an acre and the screaming
of the oil industry has never subsidized
since.
The chief claim of the oil operators
was that the new penalty made state
leases too expensive - they just
couldn't afford to take them. Specu-
lators did find the cost too high and
got out. However, the percentage of
leases dropped since the increases
was ordered is less than the average
during the last ten years of the one
dollar penalty.
When the first two dollar penal
ty fell due on the huge block of
state leases sold in the Williston
Basin rush of early 1852, there ]
was a great deal of grumbling, but
the number of leases relinquished {
was ten per cent less than usual t
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-04-08

week by Daniels Dairy from 21c to
19c.
The Wopfen's Society of Christian
Service yfll meet at the Methodist
Church Thursday evening for the
regulaf April meeting. The program
will fbe in charge of Mrs. James
Sonafner with Mrs. Clara Light and
Mrs. Lue Lehman assisting. The
society will observe the annual Sacri-
ficial tea at the close of this meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Frantz and
family spent Sunday afternoon at
the Art Museum in Toledo.
Two former Pandora men and now
residents of Findlak made headlines
in the Republican ICourier the past
week. Mr.. Ardeh Laird, formerly
assistant cashier fat the local bank
was elected president of the Up-To-
Date club and Charles F. Burkhart
former teacha in Pandora schools
presented a talk at that meeting on
Science in 1953," a subject which
Mr.. Burkhart is well qualified to
discuss.
| At ARGENT meeting of the Put
dam County Tuberculosis and Health
Assn, Dr/H. A. NeisWander was re-
elected dfreasurer of the organization
and<Mrs. Stella Geiger the executive
Secretary.
Word was received here of the
death of Mrs. Amos Diller in the
Community Hospital in Orrville at
80 A. NJ. Friday. Mrs. Diller the
CONTINUED on Page 12)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-04-08
Pandora

The Young Peoples groups of the
local churches are planning an East
er Sunrise service to be held at the
Methodist Church beginning at 6:30
A. NJ. Easter morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurel Bracy and
children and Mrs. Leah Bracy and
daughter, Clara spent Sunday after
noon in Toledo at the Toledo Annual
Flower show
DR.. Waldo Sutter of Waterville,
who in his youth was a citizen in
this community recently submitted to
a kidney operation in Toledo hos
pital and his condition is reported to
be very favorable.
Mr. .and Mrs. Raymond Bucher,
Mrs. Charles Bucher and Mrs. Leroy
Leinley attended the Toledo Flower
show Thursday of last week.
Sunday guests at the Lloyd Van
Meter farm home we're Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Begg and sbn, Bill from near
Columbus Grovs and the Begg's
grandson, 10y Hegg.
Severalf meu from town potored
to Toledo Thvrsday night to Ace the
farhous Hang Schmidt ina wteStling
makch 9itta Argentina Roeea.
IIr. and Mrs. Monroe Geiger and
son, Mahlen and REV. C. P. Classen
were SuhdaS<dinner guests at the
Milford Haas home. Rev. Classen
was the guest speaker at the Sun
day morning and evening service at
the st. John Mennonite Church. He
is the field representative of the
Gospel Missionary Union.
The annual inter-church Good Fri
day Service will be observed at the
local Missionary Church at 2:3C
P. NJ. Friday, April 16.
Rev. and MRS. Vernon Springer
will speak Sunday evening, April II
at the Grace NJ Nennonite Church. The
Sprungers are missionaries to Africa
and are in tle States on furlough.
Mrs. Skelly who has spent severa
weeks in ths home of her daughter
Mr.. and Mr.. Urban Lichty, returned
Friday to er home near Belmore.
Following the pattern set by tn
surrounding communities and cite
the price Of milk was lowered thi
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-04-08

day evening" with 10 members
responding to roll call. A lively dis
cussion was held on "The Future of
the Family Farm" under the leader
ship of Harold Marshall Refresh
ments and a social hour were enjoyed
at the close of the evening.
The May meeting will be held with
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Huffman near
Columbus Grove. The discussion topic
will be, What Can We do About Our
Rural Schools?'f Members are ask
ed to read "Are Our Teachers Afraid
to Teach?" Look, Mar. 8; "Are Our
Public Schools Making Good?",
Country Gentleman, Dec. 1858.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-04-08
From the
worlds Iorsest
maker, |
q compIeteIyr
new kind Of V-8

The v8 engine has long way since Ford introduced its
first VS. % years ago During these years, preference for
the VS. engine has grown steadily Gad today there
t,oce many V8s being built there night after World
War IT, This demonstration of buyers preference is proof
that the VS. engine is best suited to modern motoring needs
For 1854 Ford has stepped farther out front with the
revolutionary Ford Y-Bock VS. the most modern
eight any any price This deepblock lowfic
on engine brings you smoother, queter power
Evening star., 1954-12-05

liest times to the present is the
element of religion. Frank Luther
Mott has shown that of the first
20 American "best-sellers" in the
late 17tf1 and early 18th centuries.
13 were volumes of religious doc
trine or teaching, and four more
fell at least partly in that cate
CORY. OF 279 "best-sellers" counted
down to the year 1915, almost
third, or 81, were on chiefly re-
ligious themes. Bulwer-Lytton's
1.-THE Last Days of Pompeii" d835).
Wallace'S "Ben-Hur" 1880, and
Sienkiewiczs "Quo Vadis" 1896,
revived by the motion picture max
ers, are still we'll known, and Shell
don's I'm His Steps" has been a
worldwide favorite since it first
appeared in print in 1896.
Science fiction was not ushered
in with the Goth century. Some of
Poe's tales-"The Balloon-Hoax"
Q844), for example-had scientific
themes Fitz-James O'Brien's THE
Diamond Lens 1858). and the
widely read Jules Verne stories
also provided escape" literature
in this field.
Evening star., 1954-12-05

life, reflect a vein of popular
literature that has had q
steady public for generations. In
colonial days one of the most pop
ular types of reading was the So
called Indian captivity" the mar
rative of someone who had fallen
into the hands of the aborigines,
had suffered hardships, had been
put to torture and had somehow
escaped to tell the tale. The first
of these-pub1ished in 1852 by a
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, who told
harrowingly and sometimes poly
syllabically of her sufferings at the
hands of the "merciless Heathen"-
was followed by long line of SINH
lar "reminiscences.
A thread of violence runs through
both good and bad literature down
to the present day. in, for instance.
the novels of James Fenimore
Cooper. Dickens and Alexandra
Dumas and in the spate of dime
novels and other cheap "shockers"
that fourished from Civil War days
to the turn of the century. The
sufferings of Robert E. Lee Prev
lit in From Here to Eternity" can
be matched, insofar as they were
deliberately described to produce
an emotional reaction in the read
er, by the whipping-t death of
Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher
Stoves sensationa1ly popular novel
of century ago.
Evening star., 1954-12-05
Asiu in the Lead

When foreign affairs books Of
the, year are grouped by geograph-
ical areas Asia is again-as it has
been for several years-far in the
lead. But two notable shifts in
emphasis are obvious. One is the
marked decrease in the number Of
books about Russia. The postwar
flood has slowed to a trickle. The
other is the booming interest in
Africa, an area as significant for
the future as Asia.
Most publicized book of the year
about Asia is of course, "MacAr-
thur - 1941 1851" (McGraw-Hiu
by Mai. Gen. Charles A. Willough-
by and John Chamberlain. AS an
expression of Gen. MacArthur's
own views it is an interesting and
valuable-though highly partisan
source.
Much more optimistic in it's view
of what the United States accom-
plished by fighting Red aggression
to standstill in Korea is "Substi-
tute for Victory" doubleday by
John Ollie, a war correspondent
Evening star., 1954-12-05
The Africun Scene

OF the score of books on Africa,
Oden Meeker's Report on Africa"
(Scribner's) is a broad survey that
comes closer to objectivity than
most. Robert st. Johns Through
Malan's Africa" Doubleday is q
devastating attack on South Afri-
can race policies. Richard Wright's
'tBlack Power" (Harper) is an
American Negroes personal impress
sion of the Gold Coast, where. Af-
rican Negroes have achieved self
government.
In a class by itself as the years
most distinguished book on Africa
is Peter Abrahams' "Tell Freedom"
CKnopf). a colored novelist's beau
tifully written story of his youth
on the wrong side of the South
African color line.
Evening star., 1954-12-05
Short Of War

The harsh fact that the United
States is not omnipotent and that
diplomacy-short of war-is o
matter of persuasion rather than
ukase also is stressed In "The
Limits of Foreign Policy" (HolD
by Charles Burton Marshall.
former member of the State De-
partment's policy planning staff.
In none of these volumes is the
element of military preparedness
overlooked. But it's role as the
great deterrent-in the form Of
atomic weapons of mass deStruc-
ton and the strategic air power to
deliver them-is more extensively
discussed in STRATEGY for the
West" MORROW, a thought-pro-
voking book by Air Marshal Sir
John Slessor, one of Britain's top
airmen.
From an American point of view,
the need for an air force larger
than Russia's is persuasively argued
by Thomas K. Finletter. former
Secretary of the Air Force. in
"Power and Policy" (Harcourt,
Brace) which considers the rela-
tionship of American foreign and
military policy in the hydrogen age.
In "A Century Of Total War"
doubleday Raymond Aron, a per-
ceptive French political commen-
tator. discusses the great prob
lens of the day, stressing that in
any future war on global scale
there will be losers, but there can
be no winners.
Evening star., 1954-12-05
By Belmont Furies

1t was year of alarms and ex-
cursions in Europe and Asia.
A Secretary of State harried by
the day-to-day Illustrations of
diplomacy set some kind of record
for official air travel in his journeys
to shore up shaky Western alli-
ance But emergencies major and
minor left him little time for
philosophical approach to Ameri-
can foreign policy.
The basic problems he faced
were explored in brilliant fashion,
Evening star., 1954-12-05

use Of his politically enforced
leisure to write Realities of
American Foreign Policy" prince
ton University Press).
Adlai Stevenson. defeated for
the presidency, took time out to
travel and think before writing
"A Call to Greatness" (Harper).
Mr.. Kennan, originator of the
"containment" policy to which the
administration apparently has re-
Evening star., 1954-12-05
Continued From Page 81

can be made to show, not the vari-
ability, but the essential sameness
of American tastes in reading over
the years.
Take, for instance. the "how-to-
do-it" books. Some see their pop
ularity as evidence of economic
distress, but perhaps they are a
reflection of typically American
characteristics desire to stand
on ones own feet, to develop in
dividual skills, to create something.
They are actually present-day ex-
amp1es of a literature of self
improvement that has attracted
Americans since Colonial times,
when Benjamin Franklin's Poor
Richards Almanack," a best seller
of it's day, gave people practical
precepts on how they could improve
their. lot in life. The great popu-
larity of Dale Carnegie's How to
Win Friends and Influence People"
and of the Haldeman-Juliu Little
Blue Books" in the 1930s. furnish
more, recent examples of why the
liking for this type Of literature
cannot be considered new phe-
nomenon.
The historical novel is read not
just for enjoyment but to learn
Of past events. The same public
that has been reading such novels
as Costain's 1.-The Black Rose"
would, hundred years ago, have
been poring with pleasure over the
romances of Walter Scott.
Sensationalism, violence, the
seeking for emotional excitement
not ordinarily found in everyday
Evening star., 1954-12-05
Autobiogruphicul

Although not strictly foreign af-
fairs books. number of autobio-
graphical works published this
year make important contributions
in the field. Notable among them
are:
Trygve Lies 'Tn the Cause Of
Peace" (Macmillan). the story Of
his seven years as United Nations
Secretary General.
Clement r. Attlee's "As It Hap
pened" (Viking), the autobiogra-
ply Of Britain's postwar Labor
prime minister.
Claude G. Bowers "My Mission
to Spain" tSimon and Schuster), +,
an American ambassadors anti
Franco view of the Spanish Civil
War.
"The Memoirs Of Marshal Nam
nerheim" Dutton), modern Fin
lands story as told by her greatest
leader.
"Kesselring: A Soldiers Record"
Morrow, the German field mar
shals contribution to the history
of World War II.
Evening star., 1954-12-05
AP wirephoto.

China" (Random House) by John
Leighton Stuart, missionary. edu-
Gator and finally United States
ambassador at the time Of the ILL
fated Marshall mission.
OF the dozen volumes on India.
Ambassadors Report" CHarper)
by Chester Bowles is most interest
ing for the proof it gives that an
intelligent American who is willing
to work at the job can gain the
confidence and affection of an alien
people and their leaders.
One of the most, potent weapons
available to Mr.. BowleS in the
Evening star., 1954-12-05
Trends of the Past

I could go on describing reading
trends" of the past that reflect
those of today, but I am reminded
of Stephen Vincent Benet's invoca-
ton in, "John Browns Body:
American muse, 1Dhose strong
and diUerSe heart
So many men haze tried to
understand,
Evening star., 1954-12-05

with conclusions
he could not
wholly approve
by two able
men gran t e d
time for thought
and study by a
turn Of the po-
litical wheel.
G gorge F..
Kennan, a schol-
ar and diplomat
generally recog-
niZed as the out
standing Ameri-
can authority
Evening star., 1954-12-05

Cy, II6 says, 10 70
find ways to permit the change
inevitable in an unstable world
without repeatedly endangering
world peace.
Mr.. Stevenson's call is not so
much for greatness as for political
maturity-a recognition that there
are problems beyond our ability
to solve to our complete Satisfac-
Evening star., 1954-12-05
Current Reading Trends Weighed in Librarians Scale

But only made it smaller aDith
your art
Because you are as varioas as
your land.
And, just as American writing, and
the themes on which it centerS,
are "as various" as our land, so are
the tastes of the people who con-
sumo it.
Evening star., 1954-12-05

who spent two years on the en-
battled peninsula.
A moving account Of the pris-
oner-of-War experiences Of the
highest ranking American cap
turned by the enemy is given in
general Deans Story" (Viking)
as told by the general to William
L. Worden
Evening star., 1954-12-05

LurneO aICeT d
great deal of
talk about Glib
Grafton" S e e s
the chief dan
ger from Rus
sia not in atom
ic attack but in
the Soviet policy
of sowing dis
unity among our
allies and dis
trust among our
own people. The
task of interna-
tional diploma
Evening star., 1954-12-05
Exploring the Bosic Problems of Foreign Diplomacy

struggle to keep India out OF the
Communist orbit. the technical as
sistance Point FouD program, is
described in "Shirt- Sleeve Dipl0-
macy" John Day.. In 1t Jonathan
B. Bingham tells of the progress
made in helping underdeveloped
countries help themselves.