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Evening star., 1955-01-27
D. chorles G. Brooks

Juvenile Court Judge Edith H.
CockriIl was surprised yesterday,
when i2-year-old girl. involved
In q yoking. was brought before
her.
The Judge said it was the first
time she had handled such q
case.
But 8 few minutes later.
another girl appeared on q SINH
lar charge. This girl. is. was
named as the ringleader Of q
Eyoking gang including three boys
Juvenile Squad detectives ac-
cused the older girl and her
three young accomplices Of yok-
ing q paper boy and taking $6.25.
All three Of the juveniles termed
the girl as 'the leader"
Lets get that paper boy
one Of the boys quoted her as
saying. Then he added: ''She.
held his mouth while we held
him and got the money"
Evening star., 1955-01-27
Yoking Activities Of 2 Girls,
One II, Surprise Judge CoctriU

Judge Cockrill placed an Of
the children on probation at
the recommendation Of social
workers.
The i2-year-aid girl and q
young boy admitted yoking an-
other boy last November 20.
Each told the judge the other
had suggested the crime.
In another case. q mother and
young boy testified how they
slugged each other In q battle
with . baseball bat one night
last October.
he grabbed NE. : testified The
mother, and ! slapped me IN
the face. He ran to the bedroom
and got . baseball bat.
'.He hit me with II. and I
called for q friend upstairs !
finally held him on the bed while
she (the friend) beat him with
the bat until he came to his
senses.
The argument, she said, start
ed over the boys late hours and
his reluctance to help out around
the house.
Boys STORY.
Then the boy. about 10. too the
stand, and told his story:
Mother kept telling me to
wash the dishes. I wanted to
read
Then she hit me and I struck
her back. ! ran into the bedroom
and closed the door. I got my
baseball bat. She forced the door
open and charged In. grabbing
the bat.
.'She started choking me until
/ couldn't breathe. let 60 Of the
bat.
"Then someone else started
hitting me with it while she
pushed me down.
At that point, q Juvenile Squad
detective declared. II want you
to know, your honor, that Il the
police had realized the mother
beat tlie child with the bat we
would never have come to this
court. II would have been an
assault with . dangerous weapon
case" !"
Boy Put ON Probation.
Judge Crockill declared, 'ton
the basis Of all Of the testimony.
it is impossible to determine who
is at fault. ! think everybody
Is at fault.
But, / Just can't see 3 mother
who would be willing to hold her
son on q bed and have him
beaten with q baseball bat.
She placed the boy on proba-
ton. @
Evening star., 1955-01-27
Boy Put ON Probation.
Amaranih Lodge lnsIalIs
Officers ii Montgomery

Mrs. Dorothy M. Black Of Sill
yer Spring, Md, has been in-
stalled as Royal Matron Of
Montgomery Court No. IL, Order
Of the Amaranth,
Other officers installed were:
Myrtle Evans, associate matron:
Sigurgeir Leifur, associate pa
tron; William c. Potter. treas
lirer; Dorothy q. Mathews. sec
retary: and Gladys Z. Brady.
conductress.
Also: Agnes NJ. Kendall. assoc
ciate conductress; Marie p.
Mead, trustee: Ethsl Bingham.
marshal in the east; Edna M.
Round. marshal in the west:
Ber1lfce Ellsworth. standard
bearer. and Clarina Burns Pre-
fate.
Evening star., 1955-01-27
Medical Aid Bureau
To Move to Hospital

The Medical Assistance Bu-
reau Of the District Department
Of Public Health was to move
its quarters from the drst iioor
Of the Municipal Center to the
West Building at the District
General Hospital today,
Also moving to the hospital
from ofiices at Ninth street and
Rhode Island avenue NV. Is the
Interstate Services division Of
the Health Department. The die
vision win also be housed in the
West Building.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30

well-head rates: 7c per m.c.f. the first
two years of production by Northern
| Natural and sold to Montana Power
&c the next eight years, and &c pei
m.c.f. thereafter
Under Montana state law the
State must accept she posted field
| price," AS of now there is no posted
| field price since Northern Natural
and MPCo. have not arrived at a
figure mutually acceptable. Until
such time as posted field price is
established, the State can neither
delay or expedite production or
distribution of gas. Particularly is
this so when the State leases in
question constitute only an infitisi-
maIly small fraction of the esti-
mated $4,000 acres in the Big
Coulee Field.
SOLE BUYER
Montana Power representatives at
the hearing vehemently protested the
land boards holding up issuance of
the two leases on which the company
was high bidder at the July sale. In
doing so they commended that the
State would receive the posted field
price, or the statutory five-cents per
thousand cubic feet, whichever was
higher The inference was that such
a price would represent "full market
value"
However, because Montana Power
would be the sole purchaser of the
States royalty gas, the posted field
price does not necessarily mean that
the State will receive "full market
value" as required by the State Con-
stitution. Unlike oil production and
sale where there is some competition
and price is determined by demand, no
such competition exists in natural
gas production in Montana. Montana
Power, for much of the state, is the
sole owner of distribution pipelines.
Landowners and producers, whether
private or the State, accordingly have
little or no voice in determining what
is fair well-head price for them to
receive from the monopoly.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
OCTOBER is COOP
MONTH

Governor j. Hugo Aronson and the
governors of seven other mid and
northwest states have proclaimed the
month of October as Coop Month. :"
The other seven governors are:
Fred Hall, Kansas; G. Mennen Will
liams, Michigan; Orville L. Freeman,
Minnesota; Victor Anderson, Nebras-
ka; C. Norman Brunsdale, North Da-
kota; Joe Foss, South Dokota, and
Walter j. Kohler, Wisconsin.
Governor Aronson in issuing his re-
cent proclamation, stated that "many
farmers and others have banded to-
gether to form co-operatives which
have contributed greatly to the de-
velopment and prosperity of this state
and nation these co-operatives
have enabled Americans to achieve
higher standards of living have
recognized the rights and privileges
of others and have accepted RESPONSE
bilities in all fields of endeavor -
He urged call the people of Mon
tana to poin in recognition of this
free enterprise system
the month of October"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
UTILITIES WORK TO REPLACE
0UTLAWED HOLDING COMPANY

ing through one of its lawyers, formed
a stockholders committee" to force
the merger. 1t carried Ebasco's cam
paig nto all Puget Sound stockholders.
Trouble was, the stockholders
committee" were all eastern invest
ment houses. Some of them didn't
own any Puget Sound stock at all,
O'Mahoney discovered
"Did any bona fide stakeholder
from the Pacific Northwest contribute
thin dime to the committees ex-
penses?" O'Mahoney asked. "No," re-
piled Chandler Hovey, Jr., partner
in one of the non-stockholding invest
ment firms represented on the stock
holders committee"
Instead, the bankers had put up
$24, 900. Hovey admitted that his
firm was interested in selling securi-
ties and that it's share of the $24 900
was charged off to "new business"
Burns pointed out that the investment
houses would reap substantial fees"
from the exchange of stock if the
merger went through.
Frederick L. Miller, another invest
ment banker, said his group had pre-
vented sale of Puget Sound in 1852
to public utility districts, thus Ere
sisting encroachment of public pow
err" From such a sale, they would
have had no fees.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
ELECTRIC CO-OPS MAKE
PROFIT FOR UNCLE SAM

: WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)
In all but three of the past Is
years, the federal government made
money on it's loans to rural electric
co-ops. They paid a higher rate of
interest than it cost the ". S. treas
sury to borrow the money.
In 1852, 1853, and 1854, the
treasury paid bankers slightly more
for the money they loaned the u. S.
than the treasury charged the CO.
ops. But back in 1914, the co-ops
were paying the treasury almost
10 more interest than the treas
ury's cost of borrowing money.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
Attorney Generals Brief Contends
A(Ms Gas Usage Cannot Be
Ignored In Setting MPCo. Rates
Attorney Generals Brief Contends

Attorney General Arnold H. Olsen
this week filed his reply brief for
Montana in its suit against the Public
Service Commission and The Mon
tana Power Company, in the Lewis
and Clark District Court. Judge E. B.
Elwell of Havre heard oral arguments
in the controversy in Helena on July
18th.
At issue is the two-year-long court
fight over the 32-47 per cent rate
increases granted the company in
August 1863.
Olsen's brief was directed at the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30

power company's contention that its
gas contract with the Anaconda Com
pany did not bear on the price charged
to the general consumer. The power
company contended that its Anaconda
contract had no connection with its
general operation and service to the
general public.
The Attorney General contends
that the entire plant operation of
the power company and its entire
income must be considered before
any lawful rate can be fixed. He
claims that the effect of ignoring
the physical plant devoted to sup
plying the Anaconda Company and
the return from that sale is to make
the general public substitute in some
part the costs of operation of the
Anaconda Company.
''The exclusion from the evidence
of all information relative to the
portion of the defendant company's
plant serving the Anaconda Company
customer is a mistake in law from
which only evil and dangerous con-
can flow" the brief al
legged.
y
Forty-eight per cent of the utility's
gas plant is devoted to servicing the
ACM. Comparison of testimony pre-
sented by MPCo. officials at 1861
Federal Power Commission hearing
in Billings on the company's request
to import Canadian gas, and the rate
schedules on file in the Capitol
showed that MPCo. was losing money
On every thousand feet of gas sold
This loss, as nearly as can
De determined is approximately one
half million dollars a year-a loss
which apparently is made up by the
'est of the company's 35,000-plus
business and residential consumers.
The gas division of MPCo., even be-
ore the 3247 per cent rate increases,
vas making reasonable profit for
he company.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30

per m.s.f. Private land owners in the
Cutbank area receive 6A cents. The
nation over, the weIl-head price re-
ceived by land owners, in some in
stances runs as high as 20 cents. The
average is in excess of IL cents).
Supt. of Public instruction Mary
M. Condor, taking note of rumors
circulating to the effect that gas de-
velopment was being delayed by the
land board, asked series of penetrat-
ing questions of representatives of
both companies:
/. The majority of the acreage
in the Big Coulee area, of which
the state leases comprise very
small part, is under lease to North
ern Natural Much of Northern's
holdings is Northern Pacific Rail-
road land on which the royalty rate
is 20 per cent?.
2. AS of last week there has been
no deal between Montana Power
Company and Northern Natural as
to the production and marketing of
gas in the area.
Negotiations between the two COM
panies are still in the discussion stage.
representative of Northern Natural
stated these discussions" had cen
tered on the following schedule of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
DALLAS ENACTS HARSH
LAW BANNING UNIONISM

DALLAS, Texas-You're fired if
you join union! That was the es-
sence of an ultimatum given to NUM-
cipal employees by the Dallas City
Council in an ordinance and a subse-
quent enforcement move.
The ALL Firefighters' Union, main
target of the drastic anti-union ordi-
nance, refused to be inundated and
announced it would challenge the law
in the courts.
Incidentally, Texas already leads
the nation in the number of repres-
sive state anti-union laws passed by
the legislature. Now, Dallas seems
to be seeking to set similar pattern
for municipalities in the state.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30

nat 10 90 ABOUT the growing agrl-
cultural depression and the rallying
of Montana farm folks for intensity
ing the battle for 100 per cent parity
for farm products will be uppermost
topics in talks by several nationally
known agricultural leaders. These in
ciude National Farmers Union Presi-
dent James G. Patton, and General
Manager M. w. Tfstcher, Farmers
Union Grain Terminal Association.
Jim Patton has just returned from
Europe where he participated in the
international Food and Agricultural
Producers worldwide meeting, and he
will tell some of his impressions of a
world which, in some spots is faced
with too much food, and in others,
too much hunger. Patton will also
on the efforts that will be made
in Washington this coming session of
Congress to stem the downward trend
in agricultural prices.
Bill Thatcher, it is expected, will
touch upon the recently conducted
family farm survey carried on in
various northwest states by the GTA
this past summer; will give Ezra Taft
Benson and other "price flexers" a
rough going over for their deliberate
ly following policies designed to re-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30

CouIee area and have leases pend
ing on State school lands.
Issuance of leases to the two com
panies following bidding at the July
State school land oil-gas lease sale
has been held up by the land board
pending further exploration of what
should be fair well-head price per
thousand cubic feet for the State to
receive for its 121 per cent royalty
share of the gas production of the
field. On earlier leases the State
received the minimum of five cents
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(CNS)-
Congress dissolved private utility
holding companies in 1885, but Sena-
tor Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.)
thinks these firms discovered a new
way for a few men to control vast
utility empires across the country.
O'Mahoney started September 10
ssto determine whether evils formerly
identified with holding company con-
troll may now be revived under a new
pattern of management services"
One target is Ebasco Services, sub
sidiary of the huge Electric Bond &
Share Company. Ebasco figured prom
inently in the late Dixon Yates con-
tract. 1t is also involved in Idaho
Power Company's efforts to develop
Hells Canyon and in the costly, waste
full construction of private power
combines plant at Joppa, III.
O'Mahoney and his counsel, JOS
eph w. Burns, hit pay dirt immedi-
ateIy. Washington Water Power
Company at Spokane was a part of
the EB&S empire until 1852. 1t
wanted to gobble up Puget Sound
Power & Light of Seattle, though
its operating area is 100 miles
away and couldn't be integrated
into a single system.
Puget Sounds management didn't
want to be gobbled. So Ebasco, work
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
REA Phone Borrowers Cut
Building Costs

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Telephone co-ops and others who've
borrowed money from Rural Electri-
fication Administration cut their con-
struction costs last year. They got
switchboard equipment 22@o cheaper
in 1954-55 than in the previous year,
and they were also saving 40 on line
and cable costs. REA said more COM
petition among suppliers, standard
equipment, and contractors better
understanding of rural needs were
responsible for the savings.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30

duce agricultural income and force
many hundreds of family farmers
off the land.
Emil Syftestad, longtime manager
of the highly successful regional CO.
operative wholesale, Farmers Union
Central Exchange, will report on the
solid progress FUCE has made the
last year in bringing an increasing
volume of top notch farm supplies to
farm operators in Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, the two Dakotas, Montana and
other mid and northwest states.
Glenn Long, Farmers Union Mar
keting Association, st. Paul, will re-
port on the business operations of
the regional livestock cooperative the
past year.
Other convention speakers sched-
uled include Tony DeChant, secre-
tary-treasurer for the National Farm
ers Union; Flossie Harris, NFU Di-
rector of Junior Activities; Paul Huff,
assistant to the general manager of
NFU assurances; Ross Thomas, in
charge of TV development for NFU;
and Henry Young, president of the
Alberta Farmers Union.
NEW RECORD MFU
MEMBERSHIP
Officers of Montana Farmers I'M
ion, President Don Chapman and Sec
rotary Treasurer Ralph Cook, will re-
port on activities of the state organi-
zation since the last convention, in
Guiding the fact that MFU for 1855
has its largest membership in history
with 1859 farm families enrolled.
Last year the organization had IA, 447
members, while in 1862 the total
membership was only $3.50 farm fam
lies
MFU directors, in addition to Chap
man-Vice President Richard Ship
man, Claude Johnson, Roy Mann,
Charles Banderob, Gordon Twedt and
F. F. Dexter, will conduct a panel
discussion on their activities in behalf
of MFU during the year. Patrick j.
Gilfeather, MFU legal counsel, will
give talk, and William Artz, CPA,
will read the annual audit
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
IOWA FARMERS OKAY
LABOR UNIONS BY
BIG MARGIN

DIES MONIES - (CNS) - Most
Iowa farmers feel that labor unions
are doing more good than harm.
WALLACE'S FARMER & IOWA
HOMESTEAD polled cross sec
ton of Iowa farm people on what
they think about labor unions.
Here's what they said:
Labor unions are doing
fine Job. "-5%.
while they do make some
mistakes, on the whole labor unions
are doing more good than harm"
$40.
although we need labor un-
ions, they do more harm than good
the way they are run now. 1870.
This country would be better
off without any labor unions at
all. "-11%.
-Undecided-14%o.
This gives unions a $50 favor
able vote and a 800 unfavorable
vote, almost 2 to /. The Wallace
Homestead poll has shown startling
accuracy in predicting how Iowa
farmers will vote in state and ma
tional elections.
Labor unions had strongest sup
port among young farmers. In the
20-24 age group, 500 of the farm
ers thought unions were either
doing fine job" or doing more
good than HARM" But even farmers
so years old or more had 1870
$40 margin favoring unions.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
Delay In Gas For Hur|owton and Lewisiown' Not
Chargenble To State Land Board


in o 'front.'
d it
in
meeting officials
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
FDA r Rg Use SANITARY
STAN @g IS JULY

Wa GTON. d. C.-(CNS)
70 5 Drug Administration
tight : is sanitary requirements
for < September 16. The regu-
lations go into effect July 1.
FDA will seize wheat that has one
or more rodent pellets per pint or
10 or more insect-damaged kernels.
That's twice as strict as it's present
standards.
January through July this year,
FDA examined 1854 carloads of
wheat and found that $50 of them
weren't as clean as the agency re-
quires.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
FARM DEBT ROSE:
IO% I'M l954-55

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)
Farmers short-term and mort
gage debt were each 1919 higher on
June 80 than a year ago, Federal
Reserve Board said, September 22.
1t expects 1855 farm income to be
16-17&o below the 1851 peak.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-09-30
10th MFU Convention Will
E m 1asize Growing Farm Bust

Sharply falling farm income while the rest of the
enjoys the most conditions the country has
KNOWN will be central subject of discussion of the 10th annual
Montana Farmers Union convention Great Falls October
1922, Flu state officials announced this week.
Evening star., 1955-01-16
News of D. c. Area Camera Clubs

The Washington Society Of
Cinematographers will meet
tomorrow at 8 pm. in the
General Services Auditorium,
Eighteenth and F streets NV.
An 8-mm. single-roll contest
with awards, a titling demon
stration for 8 and Is nm. films
by T. H. Sarchin, and the
showing of a PISA 16-mm. color
film, Northwest Empire" by
Vincent Hunter, will be the
feature attractions.
A color photography meeting
of the YMCA Foto- Craft Club
will be held at 8 pm. Tuesday
at 1916 Twelfth street NV.
Members may bring color
transparencies of any size for
projection and criticism by
Frederick Harris and James
BurresS.
A meeting Of beginners in
photography will be held at the
same time in the US Bowen
room.
A color meeting of the Ma
tional Photographic Society
will be held in the Natural
History Building, Tenth street
Evening star., 1955-01-16

and Constitution avenue NV,
at 8:15 pm. on Wednesday.
Victor F. Hasenoehrl, econo-
mist with the Export Import
Bank, will be guest speaker.
His topic will be THE Exqui-
site From the Ordinary" Col
or slides will be judged and
35-mm. slides shown.
Outstanding merit awards
were won at the last meeting
by George Frey, w. R. Cam
eron. Marion Towns, Mary
Mulford and Bronette Erhlich.
The Silver Spring Camera
Club will meet Thursday at
8 pm. In the Rock Greek
Recreation Center, East Le-
land and Beach drive. Vernon
Root will present a tape
recorded illustrated lee
ture entitled Portfolio from
PISA" Members will partic-
ipate in a print competition
on Christmas Still Life"
Award winners in the slide
competition, with winning
slides to be put in the PISA
Club competition, were: r.
Alpher, first place; E. Dobbins
and j. KeiSter.
Evening star., 1955-01-16
Camera Angles
" Alexander ]. Wedderbur
cura,or of Photography
The Smithsonian institution

Enlarging is the third step
toward proficiency in the
darkroom. In previous articles
we learned how to process neg
atives and make contact prints
from our negatives. But. from
here on we are going after
bigger and better pictures
and we do it with the photo
enlarger.
Camera fans are seldom
content with print only the
size of the negative. Contact
prints usually are too small
to view readily except in al
buns. SO we have to look
around for some way to get
the pictures up to framing size
or bigger. An 8x10-inch en-
largement is about average,
but we may want to go up to
11x14 for exhibiting, or even
larger for photo murals.
The photo enlarger is a ma
chine made for this purpose.
With the exception of larger
developer trays, it is all the
additional equipment you will
need If your darkroom has the
usual supplies and gadgets
used in making contact prints.
Study for Merit, Flaws
Before going into detail
about making enlargements,
let's see what justifieS making
them in the first place. A
good picture will almost al
ways lend itself to becoming
a good big picture. But a bad
little picture usually becomes
an equally unpleasing big pic
ture when enlarged. However.
enlarging will quite often let
you salvage a portion of a
poor picture through the elm
ination of the unwanted parts.
On the other hand, some
negatives will make a salts
factory contact print, but be-
cause of some inherent defect
will not lend themselves to en-
Evening star., 1955-01-16
Print Clinic With Analysis

General: AS a rule, a camera
equipped with long bellows ex-
tension and a highly corrected
lens, such as an anastigmat.
must be used to photograph
cut flowers. To sharply define
contours, the lens must be
closed to a small aperture, say
F::16 or F::32.
Analysis (By Harry B.
Shaw: Mr.. Maurer used a
plain white background not di-
rectly illuminated by the
source of light. This resulted
in a soft gray tone against
which the outlines and con-
tours of the lilies are sharply
defined. The tones displayed
by the bell or funnel-shaped
perianths range from precious
whites to the velvety blacks Of
the solariZed outlines and