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Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-09-01
Winter Wheat Growers Should
Sign Agreements by Sept. q

rate for wheat already has been an
nOunced by the Secretary at a ma
tiOnal average of $1.2O per busheI.
$50 per cent of the local rate.)
Payments are made to farmers in
the form of certificates which NAV be
redeemed for cash or, in the case of
farmers who have placed grain land
in the Acreage Reserve, for grain.
Acreage placed in the Acreage Re-
serve may be left idle or soil or water
conservation practice may be carried
out on it. 1t is possible to qualify for
Agricultural Conservation Program
coSt-sharing on land in the Acreage Re
serve. During 1857, the Acreage Re-
serve cannot be- grazed except by de-
termination of the Secretary of Agri-
culture as the result of an emergency.
or cropped, or cut for hay. Noxious
weeds must be controlled on the land.
Farmers entering wheat land in the
Acreage Reserve have to comply with
other acreage allotments on their farms
to remain eligible for payments.
Violation of an Acreage Reserve
agreement may result in its cancella-
ton, and wilful grazing or harvesting
is subject to a civil penalty of so per
cent of the payment that would have
been made, in addition to loss of the
payment.
Detailed provisions of the Acreage
Reserve program for winter wheat and
how it will apply in various areas and
on Individual farms will be available
through county ASC Committees.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-09-01

GENERAL PROVISIONS of the 1857
Acreage Reserve program and their
specific application to winter wheat
seeded this fall follow:
All farmers having acreage allot-
mentS for wheat, Except for new
farm" allotments), are eligible to par
ticipate in the program To participate,
a farmer must sign an agreement with
his county Agricultural Sterilization
and Conservation Committee to reduce
his 1857 acreage of wheat entered in
the Acreage Reserve below his farm
allotment. Farmers entering land in
the 1857 program will be offered incen-
tives to designate the same land in fu-
ture programs. Final date for signing
agreements is Sept. 81.
Since total acreageS of wheat which
can be placed in the acreage reserve
are allocated county by county, con-
tracts will be accepted on a firSt-come-
firSt-served basis until the allocated
total for county is covered by con-
tracts.
Participating farmers will receive
payments designated to compensate
them for the loss of net income from
wheat that would have been pro-
duced on the acreage placed in the
Acreage Reserve. These payments
will be based on normal crop
yield of the land placed in the re-
serve, the Acreage Reserve unit
rate for wheat for the county, and
the number of acres placed in the
reserve. The 1857 Acreage Reserve
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-09-01
Oct. Is Final Date to Sign
For so Conservation Reserve

THE CONSERVATION Reserve pro-
gram will be available to farmers who
are IN position to comply with its
provisions and who enter contracts with
the us. Department of Agriculture on
or before Oct. Is, USDA announces.
The program is also available up to
March Is. 1857, to farmers interested
IN contracts beginning in 1857.
Full details are still being worked
out but general provisions are as fol-
lows:
All farm land regularly used in the
production of crops is eligible for the
Conservation Reserve program excent
land designated for the Acreage Re
serve.
contracts will range from 8 to 10
years, depending upon whether the land
placed in the Conservation Reserve is
to have cover crops established and
10 to Is years in the case of land
planted to trees.
Two kinds of payments are made
under the Conservation Reserve nro.
gram. They are:
l. A cost-Sharing payment to assist
IN the establishment of soil and water
conservation practices on the land
designated for the Conservation Ra.
serve. This payment, determined NV
state and county ACS committees can
range up to 80 per cent of such costs
1t will be made only in cases of con-
tracts covering a period of at least
years. '
z. An annual payment on the land
put in the Conservation Reserve This
VIII be a per-acre rate multiplied NV
the number of acres put in the Con-
servation Reserve. The national aver
age per-acre rate is $40, but this will
vary among states and counties
Both payments will be made for Tho
year in which conservation practice
is first established. The annual nav
Montana farmer-stockman., 1956-09-01
improve your cOst-price margin
with this RED BRAND formula

Surest way get better costprice spread is through
more and better pasture Here's what pasture can do:
% Cut feed cost much as one-half; (2) Produce
iced value per equal 100 bushels of corn or
better; 80 Increase manhour labor returns as much
as six times; 90 Cut machinery and seed costs; (5)
Reduce erosion; 90 Return fertilizer value of
feeds to so Cd Bring healthier livestock to market
sooner; (8) Produce leaner animals that meet
today'S consumer demands.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24

MEN. Yet today, even after church Of
ficials of all faiths have declared the
RIGHT TO WORK LAWS to be i'm
moral, unjust and undemocratic the
party Lincoln helped to father has done
all in it's power to help enact these
laws.
Do you think Abraham Lincoln would
approve of such a law?? do not.
In 1852 President Eisenhower, art
Albert Lea, Minnesota, said to the
farmers of that area: you are entitled
to fair share of the national income"
He also, on many DECISIONS, promised
them not only 500 of parity, but 1907
Yet today, the farmer receives only
.38c out of each dollar spent at the
grocery store. This is the lowest ma
tional farm income in Is years.
Do you call that a fair share of the
national income?? Have these promises
been kept?? THEY HAVE NOT.
[ agree with you that "HALF THE
CITIZENS ARE FREE" Free of
their fair share of the tax load.
Free to contribute hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to candidates who will
do their bidding -.
Free to donate to the campaign fund
of their candidates not only what law
allows for them but the like amount
in the name of each of their relatives.
Of course they receive their fair share
of the national income and can well
afford to do so.
The other half is indeed in slavery
under the Taft-HartIey Act, they
have been reduced to a second class
citizenship. In eighteen states they
are even worse off.
T. as a taxpaying citizen of these
United States, do not agree with you
when you say Eisenhower is the man
to meet the situation.
No president can hope to meet the
situation on broken omises.-CECIL
T. WATTS, 321S 3rd Ave. South, Bill
lingS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24
COP Drifted A Long Way
From Lincoln's PRINCIPLES
Honorable Orvin B. Flare,

| Honorable OrY1n b. Flare,
| u. S. Congress,
| Washington, ID. G.
| In your recent Lincoln Day Dinner
speech at Great Falls, Montana which
was carried in the Billings GAZETTE
February Is, 1856, there were several
I remarks which amused me very much.
Especially, where you stated, Half of
the world is free and the other half
is in slavery" also, "President EiSen-
hover is the man to meet the situation,
as was Lincoln, the man 80 years ago.
I agree with you in part. Lincoln
was indeed the man to represent the
people of his day. Lincoln had the
welfare of the common man at heart
and truly represented ALL MEN, not
just half of the citizens. He believed
in the freedom of the slaves, BOTH
BLACK AND WHITE. He also be-
lieved in the freedom of assembly, the
freedom of the working man to join
associations of their choice, as we'll as
the freedom of these men and their
associations to contribute, financially
and otherwise, to the support of the
candidate of their choice to represent
them in the Congress and Senate of
these United States.
Many, many times in 1852 President
Eisenhower promised the working peo-
pie of this nation he would do all in
his power to have the unfair clauses
removed from the Hartley Act.
Eisenhower also stated certain clauses
in this law could be used to break
unions. Yet, the changes he recon-
mended to the last Congress were more
Union Busting" than the original bill,
and, only by the vote of the liberal
Congress and Senate was it killed.
1t would seem to me that the party
Lincoln help found has drfited a long
way from the thoughts and ideas
held by Lincoln in his day. Lincoln
was God-fearing man, and believed
in the rights of the citizens as FREE
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24
Montana's WiIdIife

6,473, that is the total reduction of
the Yellowstone Park elk herd as re-
ported by the GREAT FALLS TRIB-
UNE.
Bureaucracy's MERCY KILLING,
yes, a large number was via the firing
squad; shot down in cold blood on
areas where for years they had been
protected; federal wildlife sanctuary
and not protested by Montana's COVER
nor nor his fish and game commission.
Bureaucracy is aggressive, jealous,
harsh, it measures progress only by
the extent of it's own powers. They
refused a public hearing on their de-
struction of wildlife; disregarded the
protests of thousands of the nations
citizens. We are masters, not servants.
The people of America will long re-
member their wanton destruction.
The following from published reports
10th Congress Sd Session Senate Re
port No 1903. The National Park Serv-
ice occupies an unique position in the
field of conservation, since it is the
only federal agency LEGALLY OBLI-
GATED to provide for public enjoy
ment by giving ABSOLUTE PROTEC-
TION to all forms of wildlife in the
areas under it's adminiStr ation."
At Yellowstone Park a 2year study
showed that coyote control is unjusti-
fable at present. No evidence was
found to show that coyote is a serious
menace to antelope, mule deer, bighoru,
geese or trumpeter swan in the Park"
So spoke the Park Service. Elk slaught-
cred by the thousands but coyotes pro-
tected within Park sanctuaries, under
the Department of Interior, yet, Fed
eral Fish and Wildlife Service, Depart
ment of Interior, broadcasts without
restraint, their deadly sodium fluoro
acetate-1OS0-whic has killed mil
lions of wild animals, assisted by the
Montana State Fish and Game Com
mission TO the tune of $S0,000.00, sports
mems money, for period of two years;
1886 No. not in the Park; public and
private lands outside
Wildlife Conservation. What mock
cry. How long will the good people of
Montana endure the wholesale destruc-
ton of their wildlife? 1857 is legisla-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24
West Germany Takes
Important Step

It's the top-of the-news but it won't
make a campaign issue: West Germany
has announced that she will pay nc
more occupation costs for troops sta
toned on her soil: That means u. S.
as we'll as others stationed on her sol,
excepting her own. 1t means: If East
Germany can get by without foreign
occupation troops, so can she. 1t is the
most notable step taken by either side
to get the two Germanies closer to-
gether since the war
1t is up to West Germany now to
take sixty cents per pound on coffee
off the tariff list, which was assessed
for keeping United States occupation
troops there. In fact, there is no more
need for them there than to keep them
in Finland or Sweden.
While this is a big step in the right
direction, it's a long ways from solv-
ing the whole situation: The big prob
lem is what to do with all the illegiti-
mate children, left as an aftermath
These children will be cursed for life,
and many of their mothers will be os-
tracised too. This sad condition is a
common result of nearly all past wars,
and should eventually lead to the aboli-
ton of war altogether, even though
that is expecting a whole lot.
Military training of draftees is good
physical exercise, within limits, and
running neck-to-neck with Russia in
training guided missiles is more sens
ible than atomiZing fish in the ocean
with atom bombs. 1t might be more
profitable to send more boys to col
lege.
AS the war clouds are drifting away
from Europe, they are Enthusiastically
gathering in the Middle East: AS u. S.
and England threaten to send troops
there for the preservation of peace; If
and when they do, Russia says she will
do the same.
How much better would it be if they
would all get together and, instead of
sending troops there, they would pool
their resources and start building the
Upper Nile Dam? This would solve the
problem, and make work for
ALA. h. ANDERSON, Butte.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24
"We Have Much to Learn"

My chief purpose in writing is to pro-
woke study. So / keenly enjoyed Mr.
Edmund Freeman's criticism of one OF
my articles. VoItaire's acid analysis
promoted the French Revolution. He
was put in the Bastille for a year with
out trial.
or course we have much to learn from
the English Socialists. Karl Marx said
that Byron, Shelley and Keats were
the founders of Communism not Engels
and himself.
winston Churchill lifted his famous
Blood, sweat and tears" from Byron
without disclosing the source. Shelley's
poem Queen Nab, published after his
DEATH resembles the Manifesto in verse.
Sir Thomas Moore was beheaded, for
writing in Latin and giving to few
friends Utopia"
AS a Protestant | admired the Pope's
Christmas broadcast against any more
atom bomb testing.
Democracy arose in Greece. Yesterday
Greece came near going Communist.
The French are versatile. A first
automobile ran in France (another in
Sweden-or Swedenborg). The first
thermometer the first photograph came
from France. The first little movie
show was displayed in a Paris base
ment. Madame Currie discovered the
X-Ray.
The shape of Mr.. Freeman's hat
started in Paris. we nave much TO learn
from Germans, Chinese, Scandinavians
particularly Sweden) from Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Serbs, Bulgars. We can
learn something from Russia according
to a dean of Columbia University New
York Times, Dec. 8, 1860 Columbia
Dean Says Soviet Advances In Science
Now Are Imperiling U. s." The dean
said: mo high school anywhere in our
country has even one-half the Russian
requirements in mathematics, sciences
physics or chemistry"
Mccarthy and Eastland Velde, Smith,
should put the dean in jail for such
atement.-LOWNDES MAURY, Butte.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24
POWER TRUST TOPS
LOBBYIST LIST

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Power companies again topped the
list of big lobby spenders for 1866.
National Association of Electric Com
panies filed reports admitting that
it spent $114,836 last year to in
fluence congressman and senator's.
A 1854 U. S. Supreme Court de-
cision pulled some of the teeth from
the lobbyist registration act, and re-
ports now generally do not include
all funds used to line up votes in
Congress.
Five other groups spent more than
100000 to influence Congress
AFL, CLIO, Farm Bureau, Association
of American Railroads, and Southern
States Industrial Council.
Twenty-six groups each spent $780,
600 or more on lobbying, they re-
ported. Only one coop was included
Rural Electric Co-opera-
tive Association, which spent $73,953.
Together, these 26 groups accounted
for just over half the 81 million spent
last year by lobbyists.
Lobbyists spent enough in 1866 to
pay the salaries of every member of
the Senate and two of every five
representatives in the House.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24

1916 was without a summer when ice
and snow from May to December de-
stroyed every green thing in this coun-
try and Europe. They thought the sun
was cooling off. Too bad the people in
those days did not come west to Mon
tana and experience a Livingston Chi
nook. History repeats itself very often.
We long for a change. We get it and
then finds it works in reverse.-W. J.
(BilD PRIEST, Livingston.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24
Hungry Horse of Little
Benefit to Montana

1t might be thought that the installed
generating capacity of a hydro electric
power plant was a measure of its po-
tential power production but such is
not the case. The controlling factor is
the amount of water that may be de-
pended upon to be available the year
around.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24
The Readers Forum

LETTERS: No letter over $50
words will be accepted for publication
All letters must be signed by writer,
although, on request name will be
withheld.-P.V. Editor.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24
Re Surplus Food

Dear Editor:
So we have a surplus Of food. Bible
said store it for the years of famine.
People snap back What F'amine?" An
old Philadelphia Ledger stated the year
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24

tive year; 1856 politicians seek to be-
come servants of the people, screen
them carefully-TOM PEASLEY, Ro-
nan.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24

Come, Come, e. j. More than 1000
good-paying jobs in Western Mon
tana as a direct result of Hungry
Horse, to say nothing of improved
business conditions throughout the
area do not back up such a ludicrous
assertion as the heading on this
weeks dissertation. Even the Ana
conda would disagree with you on
this little benefit score-remembe
at the time the aluminium plant
was dedicated, the Anaconda's own
news service stated that 'the cheap,
abundant power of Hungry Horse
Dam A.. made possible the location
of" the plant at Columbia Falls.
Emphasis ours).
'*Just under 100,000 XIV is the firm
power output of the dam. Stream
regulation results in Montana re-
ceiving more than 100000 XIV addi-
tional from the BPA system. Amaz-
ing how fast Montana Power, Victor
Chemical, the Anaconda, and others
gobbled up all that 327, 900 XIV, which
T.. j. alleges to be "of no value.
They must have holes in their heads.
Ply EDITOR.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-02-24

Hungry Horse Dam is a good illus
tration. 1t has power installation of
% maximum capacity of 327,500 kilo-
watts but water supply for less than
one third that amount. In other words,
if it operated at full capacity for four
months out of year, it would have to
shut down for months because of lack
of water, and that is just what it does.
Its annual power load factor is less
than 1870 according to the Bonneville
Power Administration which fact is
somewhat different than public power
propagandists would have us believe.
An installed capacity of 100000 XIV
operated the year around would still
have been excess capacity. Mr.. Ed
Cartwright, Western Montana Manager
of Bonneville Power Administration
says:
when Anaconda Aluminium Com
pany starts taking power, power most
of the time will have to be imported
to Montana, from Washington and
Idaho over BPA lines This is because
Hungry Horse produces nowhere near
it's rated power capacity during most
of the year. The firm power commit
ment alone is $500 of Hungry Horse
maximum rated power production and
more power than is actually produced
at Hungry Horse during all but a few
months of the year"
If Hungry Horse power plant shut
down completely, the Anaconda ALUMNI
mum Co. would never miss it. Practi-
cally the entire output of Hungry Horse
Dam is non-firm power, sometimes re-
ferred to as dump power" which is
of no value to REAs, cities, towns, and
other customers requiring a continu-
Gus, dependable supply of power the
year rounds The DAMS principal value
is to increase regulation of stream flow
in the lower Columbia River-E. J.
Great Falls.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1956-09-20
Hold Rites for
Mrs. M. Kronk

CLARIDON - Mrs. Mary
Kronk died suddenly Wednesday
night, September II, at the
home of her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Meyer in Claridon, where she
has made her home.
Mrs. Kronk was born July 13,
1882 in Cleveland, Ohio. Both
her parents died when she was
very young.
On January 25, 1901, she was
married to August Kronk in
Cleveland. To this union were
born four children, Mrs. Eliza
beth Myers, Mrs. Florence My
ers, Carl and Walter Kronk.
All of whom live in Claridou,
but Mrs. Florence Myers. There
are eight grandchildren and
several great-grandchildren.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kronk moved
to Claridon in 1919 where they
have lived except for few
years when they lived in Cleve
in 1929. Mr.. Kronk died Apri
Is, l947. Soon after his death
Mrs. Kronk gave up her home
and lived with Mr.. and Mrs
George Myers.
! The funeral was held at Bur-
Funeral Home with Rev. Franz
Huetter of Madison officiating
with Rev. Grove of Claridol
Congregational Church assist
ing. Interrment was in Claridol
Cemetery beside her husband
Mrs. Kronk will be missed b,
her family and friends. Sh
loved to cook and was wei
known for her ho m EN- a d
bread and for meals served b
different organizations at Tow
Hall in past years. She leave
many beautiful memories fo
all who knew her.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1956-09-20
Chayu0,z
Personals

william Skinner, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Harwood Skinner, left
Sunday for Oberlin College,
where he will start his Junior
year.
Helen Mansfield returned to
Ohio Uniersity in Athens, Sep
tember 13, where she will begin
her sophomore year. Her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Mans
field, took her to school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Higgins
of Glen Ellyn, H., spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Field
ing.
Mr.. and Ms. Roland Osborn
enjoyed a six-day motor trip
last week up through Michigan
to the Straits of Macinaw and
back home down the shore o1
Lake Michigan.
Miss Sue Osborn expects tc
return to business college. il
Cleveland next week.
Mrs. MacGregor Bancroft o
Milford, O., spent a few day!
last week visiting Mr.. and Mrs
w, G. Fielding of Chardon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry King o
Veterans Beverage Store, 40
Water St., Chardon, are th'
proud parents of a daughter
Susan, born September II a
st. Lukes Hospital, weighing
pounds 13 ounces.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1956-09-20
Peggy Ballard
Former Reudeut
WaL IN Florida

Miss Peggy r. Ballard, who
attended schools in Chardon and
taught in Geauga County for
many years, will become the
bride of Frederick j. Mueller
at a candlelight service tomor-
row evening in the chapel of
the Pasadena c m m u IN t y
Church, Florida.
Daughter of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. Homer J. Ballard, the
bride-to-be is graduate of
Kent State University. She
moved permanently to Florida
in 1852, and is now employed by
Merrill, Lunch, Pierce, Fenner
and Beane in st. Petersburg.
Mr.. Mueller is the SON of Mr..
and Mrs. J. F. Mueller of Mi
ami and San Francisco and is
employed as a consulting engin.
eer and sales manager for the
Pool Division of Misener and
McEvoy Inc, st. Petersburg
Beach, Fla. He is an alumnus
of Rutgers University.
Attending the couple will be
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. OSgood Of
Gulf Beaches, Fla.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1956-09-20
Bop W.. Hears
R0heyt Prince

The Geauga County Business
and Professional Women'S Club
held its September meeting at
the home of Mrs. Margaret FL
licock on Wilson Mills Rd. on
Thursday evening, September
13. A delicious pot luck supper,
at tables set on the spacious
lawn, was enjoyed by all those
present.
The speaker of the evening
was MT. Robert Prince, assis-
tant cashier of the Chardon Saw
ingS Bank, who spoke on the
general economic conditions in
our country. Mr.. Prince gave
very Informative talk giving
latest information available. He
had just recently returned from
two week course at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin where he
heard some of the top econo-
miSts of the country.
A business meeting followed,
at which the president, Mrs.
Lillian B. Keenen, presided.