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the Commission should be thoroughly
studied and analysed by appropriate
or special committees.
Incidentally, while am referring
to special committees, again it
might be advisable to have special
committees visit some of the GUS
todial institutions, as they did two
years ago, and make reports early
in the session.
1t is my hope that the Finance and
Claims Committee of the Senate and
the Appropriations Committee of the
House will schedule joint meeting
with the Governor and Controller
shortly after they are organized in
order that the general problem of APP
preparation requests and estimated
income might be discussed and broad
outlines arrived at as to how the
budget can be balanced. The Control
Ter, as required by law, has submitted
to you a balanced budget. But there
has been no opportunity for subse-
quent review.
The Board of Examiners has with
held going ahead with plans for the
Executive Mansion, authorized by the
33rd Legislative Assembly, for the
reason that it does not feel that suffi-
cient funds were provided.
No doubt your Committees will
find ample need for additional funds
from the Capitol Land Grant fund to
complete renovation of the State
Capitol.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-07

ton. There is vast network of sta
tutes and practices in local school
boards and state education depart
ments that would resist any easy
domination from Washington.
'tAfter all, the money came in the
first place from persons and corpora
tions far removed from the nations
capital I should like to see such aid
rise gradually from $40 to 500 per
pupil on the basis of the 1854 dollar"
Myers said that "a good many bill
lions" were needed for education to
forestall ultimate collapse of the edu-
cation system. He said that in five
years there would be 100000 more
children in elementary schools, 2,-1
100000 more in high school and that
teaching staffs would have to be in
creased from the present 1,032,0OO
to 100000.
DR.. A. j. Foy Gross, director of
the University's Placement Services,
recommended that at relatively early
stages in a teachers career there
should be guaranteed salaries of from
$4,000 to $4,000 year.
"Such salaries" he said, "are not
fantastic. They are necessary if in
our economy we are to attract and
hold a sufficient number of high
ability people as teachers"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-07
GOVERNORS SCHOOL PROPOSALS
'AST0UNDS' STATE Superintendent

at least recommended none. He APP
parently disregards increased school
age population and school costs in
building and equipment. If the state
aid is to be eliminated, local levies
will have to go up tremendously, and
equal educational opportunities will
be far from fact. The only alterna-
tive is to close our schools in some
areas, or kill off the kids. | doubt if
the Governor realized this implication.
81 believe in state support for a
good University system-but without
a good program of elementary and
secondary education beneath it, the
system will be an expen-
sive luxury. They'll have to start
giving elementary classes in colleges
| don't believe the role of higher edu-
cation should be to teach young peo-
pie to read and write. But if the
schools, in the guise of economy,
are to be greatly crippled, the uni
versity system will have to take up
their work. Otherwise Wen have un-
educated nnorons driving on our
super highways-for which Federal
aid is highly acceptable and untaint-
ed, even though Federal aid for
schools is apparently considered
evil"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-07

ton from other states which should
prove helpful has been obtained
In all of the Custodial institu-
tions we must not only think of
the increasing numbers which come
in the door and create the need for
expanding facilities, but we must
concentrate more and more on a
program which will permit the re-
turn to a useful place in society.
The responsibility of these various
institutions should not be the con-
Germ of handful of employees and
state officials, but of all the people.
That is why it seems advisable that
this problem which is resulting in an
increasing expenditure of the tax
dollars should be thoroughly under
stood. We should not skimp in meet
ing the demands but neither should
we be generous.
We should correct the World War
III Bonus Law so that Next of Kin of
deceased Veterans will receive a mini
mum of $4,000. The inadvertant
harshness of the present law has
caused the next of kin of 3 Pearl
Harbor victims to receive nothing
and 269 others to receive from $40
to $4,000. Sufficient funds are on
hand to pay the entire amount, esti-
mated at $470,000.00.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-07

november.
All states have been urged to hold
pre-conference meetings to crystalize
their individual problems, including
the controversial one of whether the
Federal Government should give aid.
The first of such meetings held in
the east was that of Connecticut, Edu-
cational officials there indicated
rather emphatically that the state
could foot its own education bills
without benefit of federal aid.
BILLIONS NEEDED
Leading proponents of a program
in which the Federal Government
partially UNDERWRITERS the costs are
DIR. George D. Stoddard, chairman
of the directing committee, New York
University, and DR.. Alonzo F. Myers,
chairman of the Department of High
er Education, School of Education,
New York University.
Stoddard supported recent pro-
posal by Beardsley Ruml, economist,
that public schools should receive
$4,500,O00,0O0 year by straight
pita-child-in-school grant. In
this view, he said:
81 think Ruml is right. am not as
fearful as he is of federal control
over state and local systems of educa-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-07
Highway Financing

Several months ago declared that
highway financing constitutes the
number one problem in Montana. AS
indicated previously, the matter of
evaluation of tax collection and dis
tribution is an important item and
to emphasize its Importance | re-
quested a joint session to hear the
facts on this question. But for the
reason that / think highway finance
portant to each and every one of you
I again respectfully request, Mr.. Pres
ident and Mr.. Speaker, another joint
session to be held in the next day or
so to discuss the highway program as
it has been operating in the past two
years, as we'll as the recommends
tions of the Governors Highway Fl
nance Committee. Continued progress
in highway development is must
not only to encourage expansion of
our own economy, but to attract
tourists.
We have a backlog of approximate
w million 9 hundred thousand dol
lars in unmatched Federal aid and
increased Federal aid grants indi-
Gates our need for an additional 3
million 500 thousand dollars to mil
lion dollars per year.
The Governors Interim Highway
Finance Committee has devoted
considerable time and effort to
developing recommendation which
| endorse and submit for your con-
sideration.
However, this subject is far more |
and cannot be dealt with
in few minutes discussion by the |
Governor in his message. That is why |
| request that you permit the State |
Highway Engineer and the Chairman
of the Governors Interim Highway
Finance Committee to detail this pro-
gram to you as quickly as possible.
| know that you will find the High
way Commission, the Highway De-
partment and the Governors Interim
Committee ready and willing to give
you all possible information.
Actual work placed under contract
BY the Highway Commission during
,he calendar year 1854 will approx
nate Is million dollars as compared
With an average of Il million dollars
Der year for the previous 5 years.
This has been made possible by in
creased income, and by savings in
costs of approximately
SIS thousand dollars per year for
Zach of the calendar years 1858 and
1854 as compared with costs per
year in 1851 and 1852.
There is much more to tell you but
t is difficult to try and cover every
hing in this short time. / am sure
hat you will find every state en-
,loye ready and willing to give you
INV information you desire. None ]
# us can shirk our responsibilities. ]
Certainly we want to be fair to labor, ;
agriculture, business and to profess
ional men and women, and all tax
payers. Above all, we must be fair
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-07
INCREASED u. S. EDUCATION AID
URGED AT Conference

NEW YORK-(LDNS)-In federal aid to education
urged here the New York Universitys tenth
higher education conference
The heavy emphasis federal support opposed to the
goaone policy states expected be reflected
the White House Conference Education slated for next
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-07
By MARY M. CONDOR

~ am astounded at the governors
apparent recommendation that the
school equalization program be scut-
tied. He urged, in strong tones, that
the state support the University, but
that the county and local school dis
tricts be returned the responsibility
for elementary and secondary edu-
cation. This can mean nothing less
than scrapping the school equaliza-
ton program developed by the Citi-
zen's Committee in 1913, and passed
by the 1949 legislature
"The Governor says he is against
increasing local tax levies, he is OPP
posed to any new revenue measures
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-07
Governor Aronson's State of the State Message

toll on the highways. We can indeed
be thankful that reduction was
made in 1854.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-01-07

to our children and their children to
come.
WE MUST BALANCE THE
BUDGET.
WE MUST SUBSTITUTE BUSI-
NESS FOR POLITICS.
We must provide the climate for
progress. None of us are miracle
men and no one of us can do the job
alone; but working together, and with
Gods help, we can succeed.
BOLD face emphasis supplied by
Peoples Voice..
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-12
Duke Invites
Negro College
Students To
Drama Season

DURHAM, N. C. - Unexpected
support from the faculty Of Duke
university for the Student Execu-
tive Councils plan to invite stu
dents Of neighboring North Caro-
lima College for Negroes to attend
the campus drama season and sit
where they like in the audience,
followed the university administra-
tons veto of the proposal here
last week.
Faculty members polled were
quoted in a number of instances as
wishing that "They (NCC) could
come and that they could feel well
come when they do. 1t would do
both colleges world of good to at
tend events on bot hcampuses," DR..
Louis J. Budd, English professor,
said.
DR.. Glenn Negley, philosophy de-
partment, described it as "unfor-
tunate that a university such as
Duke ought to be, but is not, a
leader, rather than a member of
the rear guard of social move
ment which has every moral and
lopaI i,Isf;f;cat iou -
DR.. R. H. Sales, of the School of
Religion, said, GAS a Christian in
stitution, | do not think we have
gone far enough and we have some
serious thinking to do"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-12

her mother could reply, Jean said,
"We1l take it," pulled out her
checkbook and paid the man in full.
Back home that night they broke
the news to the other members of
the family. That's all it took. Ev-
erybody got busy. Her father,
realizing that he would never get
ahead on his part-time job, went
to Flint, Mich, got work there, and
sent money home every payday
toward the new house.
The older sister, Mrs. Sadie
Baynes, who had just married, sug-
gested to her husband that they
move to a city SO they could help
more. Soon they were living in
Chicago. Having had two years of
secretarial training at Alcorn A. &
M. College, Mrs. Baynes landed a
position with a large mail-order
house, and Mr.. Baynes got a fac
tory job.
Mrs. Mcintosh did more washing
and house cleaning for Decatur
families, and Billy Jack took jobs
moving lawns and working gar
dens after school.
Within a year, the family had
saved up $500, and had started
building. When the attractive six
room house was completed, they
owed only s1,1O0. Nine months
later that was paid off.
Now Jean has her own room. 1t
took first place this year in the
countrywide All room Improvement
contest. Also she was elected pres
ident of both her county and dis
trict All councils.
Like her sister Sadie, Jean also
wants to be a secretary. She has
already won a medal for being the
best typist in her class. When
she finishes high school two years
from now, she plans to go on to
college. 81 want to be the best
secretary it is possible for me to
become" the 4-H'er says proudly.
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of procedure which the Committee
would follow in it's examination of
the extent to which the constitu-
tional rights of the people Of the
United States are being respected
and enforced:
(a) The rights as they are set
forth in the Bill of Rights, in the
order of their appearance there
article by article, and clause BY
clause.
(b) The rights expressed in the
body Of the Constitution, and not
expressed in the Bill of Rights.
(c) The right expressed in the
body of the Constitution, and not
expressed in the Bill Of Rights.
ID The Rights expressed in the
later amendments to the Constitu
ton, especially the Civil War a
mendments. (13th, 14th and 15ti
Amendments).
Hennings said it might be tina
the particular issues brought t.
public attention by the Till cas-
would come under the Fourteenth
Amendment, on which, in line witt
the procedure set up by the Com
mittee, hearings are planned at
later date.
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Senate SUBJ.
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racy and the inalienable rights as
sured by our Constitution and
whose reaction to this case was one
of outrage and deep indignation.
He stated that more than month
ago he had taken up the matter
with the Department Of Justice and
had received the following reply
signed by Warren Olney III, AS
sistant Attorney General:
Available information concern
ing this regrettable incident indi-
Gates that Till was killed, after
being kidnapped, by two or more
private individuals. Since the al
legged Kidnapping involved no cross
ing Of state lines, these alleged
crimes would seem to be offenses
against Mississippi laws only, and
not violative of any federal stat
ute. This Department, therefore,
has no authority to take any action
in connection with the matter"
Hennings further pointed out
that both he and Lon Hooker, Chief
Hearings Counsel for the Commit
tee, had publicly stated that they
would be glad to arrange for a per-
sonal interview with Mrs. Mamie
Bradley, mother of the slain boy,
and her attorney, to determine
whether the case presents denial
of rights under the Federal Con
stitution and to identify the par
ticular clause involved.
Hennings stated that this matter
does not seem to fall within the
scope of the free speech and as
sembly clauses Of the First Amend
ment, on which hearings are sched-
uled to begin November Ia. Among
the major issues to be considered
in connection with these clauses
he said, will be the question OF
whether the Federal loyalty-secur-
ity program conflicts with the
right to associate with lawful or
CARNATIONS and individuals and
also the question of the legal and
constitutional authority underly.
ing the use of the Attorney Cen
erals List.
He stated that the original Mem
orandum of Instructions to the
Subcommittee Staff, made public
last July 80, set forth the order
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-12

South by 1856"
4. Education 1.-THE plain
purpose and effect of segregated
education is to perpetuate a status
of inferiority for Negroes, which
is Americas sorry heritage from
slavery"
5. Transportation "The
NAACP filed in December 1853 a
comprehensive complaint with the
Interstate Commerce Commission
against eleven railway companies,
a station and a restaurant. The
case is pending"
6. Public accommodation :.
Even in states with civil rights
legislation, Negroes often are de-
MED accommodations in hotels,
restaurants, theatres, bars, barber
shops and recreational facilities"
r. Hospitals and health services
1.-THE color bar in hospitals
prevails in the North as we'll as
the South"
8. The fillibuster rule in the
Senate This is the biggest
stumbling block in the way of Ne
gro progress. 1t permits anti
Negro senator's to talk to death
any civil rights measure before
that body and it allows a minority
of the senate to defy the will of
the majority"
9. Voluntary association
Even the churches cannot be
called to account in the courts for
their rejection of the Christian
doctrine of universal brotherhood"
The banquet climaxed all-day
seminarys at the convention. The
group discussions were held by l..
S. Alexander and c. A. Hall, on
education and registration and
voting, and Ruby Hurley and Med
gar Evers on functions, member
ship and fund raising.
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three-room house where she lived
in the little town. And nothing
tired her so much as carrying water
from the landlords house across
a pasture for her mother to do the
washing.
Seven years ago Jean joined her
local All club and wanted more
than anything else to have a room
improvement project like some of
the other club girls. But she didn't
have room of her own. She slept
on a cot in a room with her two
sisters.
jeans home agent, Mrs. Maggie
Wilkerson, consoled her by sug-
costing that garden project would
be just as good. With the help
of her brother Billy Jack, she
cleared off a small plot and began
raising vegetables. With the help
of her brother Billy Jack, she
cleared off small plot and began
raising VEGETABLES. But the young
ster never stopped wanting room
of her own so that she could beau
tify it just the way she wanted.
The first year jeans garden
won a prize, and more than that,
it brought her $40 in sales. The
next year the 4-H'er did even bet
ter, but saving up enough from
her garden receipts for room of
her own seemed awfully slow. So
she turned to chopping and picking
cotton, baby-sitting, and other
after-school cores.
Carefully depositing her money
in a checking account, Jean added
to it year by year. BY 1863, she
had saved up nearly 5000. One
evening after supper, she deftly
Unanswered the conve rsation
around to houses and lots. Then
in the middle Of the discussion,
she suggested, "Why don't we buy
a lot and build house of our own"
Her father didn't see how they
could do it: her mother was doubt
full; and her brother and two sis
tiers were interested, but had no
money.
AS the weeks passed, Jean de-
cided to go a step further. She
began looking for lot in de-
sirable neighborhood and found
one. Then she took her mother to
see it. Together they went to the
owner and offered to buy the lot.
He wanted 500 spot cash. Before
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z Ministers,
8 Others; Die
In Mo. Crash

HAYTI, Motive persons, in
Guiding two ministers, were killed
in a head-on-car-truck collision on
U. S. Highway 81, two miles west
Of Hayti.
Dead were Rev. Grover T. Allen
43, of the Hopewell Baptist Church
of Carbonate, ILL.,; Rev. John
Hawkins, 49, of Cairo, ILL.,, owner
of the car, and C. E. McCulley,
81, Of Memphis, Tenn, driver Of
the truck.
Two women who were riding in
the ministers auto were not i'm.
mediately identified.
According to state police, the &C.
cident occurred when Rev. Haw-
kins' car, going south toward Mem
phis, attempted to pass a pickup
truck.
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does not handle such matters on
a commercial basis"
Wilkins said a "Mrs. Crockett
a personal representative and sec
rotary" to Mamie Bradley, talked
with West Coast NAACP office
and announced the Bradley Woman
would appear only for a guarantee
of $4,000 or a small guarantee plus
one third of the collections and ex-
penses.
Wilkins said Mamie Bradley had
agreed early in October to terms
which included all expenses for her
self and her father.
The NAACP official said the
tour would proceed as scheduled
with Ruby Hurley, Southeast re-
gional secretary at Birmingham,
who attended the trial last summer
and helped to secure additional wit
neSSeS.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-12
gress of the United States"
2. Freedom of residence

gress Of the United States"
2. Freedom of residence i.
"Our goal is to establish firmly
this freedom through the abolition
of ghettos which now deface many
American cities"
3. Registration and voting =.
"The acute problem in registra-
ton and voting is found in the
South where the Negro has long
been disfranchised by the poll tax
and by tricky registration require
ments and intimidation The
NAACP hopes to have 100000
Negro voters registered in the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-11-12
Mamie Bradley
West Coast Tour
Cancelled

New York, N. Y. Nov. Z - The
National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People cam
celled a West Coast tour by Mamie
Bradley, mother of Emmett Till,
the Negro boy killed in the Missis-
sippi "wolf-whistle" case.
Roy Wilkins, executive secretary
of the NAACP, said the tour was
cancelled because "the NAACP
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MY mission, he said, is merely to
inform you generally what your
rights are under our Constitution
and how you can get them within
the framework of the Constitution.
The aims listed by Atty Brown
were as follows:
= /. Equality of job opportunity
1--WE must continue to strive
for FEPC laws at the state and
local levels as we'll as by the Con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-16

: : --h
ty farmers to compete with
farmers In nearby counties, as
sessn1ents should be tied to the
productive capacity Of the land,
not to the potential value Of Q
farm for subdivision develop
ment, the bureau recommended.
Federal farm land banks for
years have used the productive
factor as the basis for making
long-term farm mortgages. the
statement said.
The bureau expressed the fear
that new assessments about to
be placed on the county tax
books will increase ''ruinously"
the tax burden of county farmers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-16
Montgomery Farms
Speculative Tax Hi

The Montgomery County Farm
Bureau today protested the plac-
ing Of what 1t called "specula-
tive" values on farmland for tax
ing purposes.
The present assessment system
is assessing farmers OF their
farms. " the bureau said ina LETT
ter to county lawmakers consid-
ering remedial legislation.
To permit Montgomery Coun-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-16
IPoints for puref,ts y tsy,a T.erss.i wsllsss..

Mother--I am glad you could
come in time for luich and give
Ann e chance to know you be-
fore / have to go.
Evening star., 1955-06-23
BOARD PROPOSES GIVING SCHOOLS
SOMETHING NEW IN LIFTS

District school teachers ought to get lift from this
The Board of Education yesterday voted to make
elevators standard equipment for all future schools with
classrooms on than three floors
Mrs Frank S. Phillips board member, proposed the
policy She said she was particularly about
the city elementary schools which lately have been get
ting bigger and bigger. sA
Schools having basement classrooms will count among
those qualifying under the rule Mrs. Phillips said
This would several grade schools now being
planned which will classroom floor on ground
level and three floors above.
Not everybody will free rides, however The elevators
are intended for only freight and teachers and pupils espe
caly needing them, presumably for medical reasons MRS
Phillips pointed out,
The new still has to get clearance from officials
at the District Building