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Evening star., 1956-08-29

AS HE SPOKE, a group of
youngsters was playing on the
sidewalk in front of his home.
They were admiring the elec-
trical auto one of them had.
"I hope it doesn't break
down." Mr.. Turner said. II
hate to disappoint the kiddies.
They seem to think that I
can Ak anything. But these
electrical toys
1.-THE problem" he contin-
ued, "is this: These toys cost
maybe a dollar, maybe a dol
lar and a half, or maybe two
dollars. And when something
goes wrong with them, it costs
more than they're worth to
get them fixed.
"I've been to ten or a dozen
places, and everywhere the
story is the same. They'd be
glad to fix them, but they say
that the mechanics time is
so valuable nowadays that it
would cost more than the toys
cost originally.
"I like to tinker, but I don't
know enough about them to
repair them myself. For one
thing, the working parts are
usually sealed in some way so
that they're hard to get at.
And you have to have a lot of
special tools and a lot of spe-
cial knowledge that I don't
have.
II wouldn't mind paying to
have them fixed, if the
amounts reasonable. But elec-
tricians' wages these days are
really something. and you
can't blame the electrical
shops.
"It's like automobiles.
started driving in Washington
in 1910. I had a two-cylinder
car without any windshield or
top. AS I said, I like to tinker
always have-and if any
think went wrong with that
car, I could usually fix it with
a few whacks Of the hammer
here and there.
II still drive around. I was
out all morning just riding
around. But these cars to-
day-they're too complicated
for me If something goes
wrong. Like the toys"
Evening star., 1956-08-29
BY BETTY MILES

Elvis Presley? I'VE like his
songs, but not his style"
Thus the verdict of student
leaders from Montgomery and
Prince Georges County schools
attending the student council
leadership conference near
Shadyside, Md, this week.
The young people spoke up,
too, on other issues. The ma
tional election: School polls ia
Ivor President Eisenhower. School
integration: May accept or are
ready to accept it,
Presley. the controversial
young singer, whose gyrating
style has been lambasted by
adults, appeals to the teen-agers.
But they'd rather hear than see
him.
Most of the students like his
records. but they think his per-
sonal appearances are in bad
TASTE" declared Carol McDor-
man. II. a senior at Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School.
Said Richard Armell. l3, in the
eighth grade at Mount Rainier
Junior High School: Il like his
records, but when he appears in
public. he should be more SEN
sible."
Revives Dancing
Lois Osgood, II. a senior
at Surrattsville High School in
Clinton. Md. explained that
Presley and the other rock and
roll" artists. understand that
teen-agers have energy that
must be expressed. The rhythmic
music has helped TO revive in
terest in dancing, too. she added.
"The novelty Of television is
wearing of in our crowd" she
explained. I'VE listen to radio.
And when we do. we listen to
rock and roll"
Lois scored adult critics who
ldeplore today's rock and roll
craze.
you adults all had your own
form Of rock and roll music. .
lshe said. "It's just not our kind. I"
Evening star., 1956-08-29
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The American Federation
Of Government Employees
winds up its meetings in the
Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1956-08-29
oOTeen-Agers
.AtCompStudy
Government
BY JOHN STEPP

Responsibility rests easy on
the shoulders of 80 public school
teen-agers now spending the
week at a summer camp near
Shadyside. Md.
This is not to imply the
youngsters have turned their
backs on Elvis Presley and
other frantic phenomena COM
monty associated with teen
ayers.
Elvis may still be real gone.
man-but not so gone that these
teen-agerS can't forget him long
enough to tackle the problems
of becoming useful citizens.
The youngsters - some as
young as IL years-are student
council members of 48 junior
and senior high schools located
almost exclusively in Maryland.
About a score represent Wash
ington area schools.
The boy-girl ratio is $3.50.
They are attending the first
annual student council leader
ship conference co-sponsored by
the Maryland and national as
sociationS of such councils.
Learn Democracy
Their aim is to learn more
thoroughly the art of demo-
cratic government as applied to
the student body of their own
schools. What they learn at
the conference they propose to
apply this semester to such
problems as untidy cafeterias,
pupil-teacher relationships and
general pride in school and self.
Outdoor workshops" in a
serene setting of waters edge
woods provide the medium for
this instruction. Guided by
handful of high school faculty
members and former student
council members now in college,
the youngsters apply themselves
with zest.
But let it be emphasized that
their workshop brain exercises
are not leaving them pale and
indifferent to the sun, the moon
and Elvis. Nor are the kids
neglecting that traditional ward
robe which ranges from shorts,
pedal pushers and jeans to Ital-
Ian necklines, flattops and crew
cuts.
In the afternoon, for example,
none of that West River water
goes to waste. There's SWIM
ming canoeing, rowing and water
skiing. On land, softball, bad
minton and volleyball are among
the athletics offered.
Time for Elvis
When night falls, Presley plat
tiers descend endlessly onto the
phonograph turntable. and the
youngsters ecstatically dig the
gibberish that is Elvis' alone.
In calmer moments. there are
campfire songfests and square
dances for this anything but
square crowd. A talent show is
on tap for tonight.
Six topics are being studied
by the group, divided into five
separate councils. The subjects
cover the detectives, problems.
organization. public relations
and leadership of student coun-
ellis. There is also a sort Of bonus
course to help them spread the
word among their classmates
that there are right ways and
wrong ways to drive an auto
mobile.
One instructor steers the dis
cussion in each workshop. Most
Of the time, however, teacher
| Just leans back and listens TO
the babble Of ideas that pours
from the class.
The main stress is on letting
the boys and girls advance their
own thoughts for solving their
own problems.
Evening star., 1956-08-29
North Carolina Educator
Enters DC. School Probe
ConsuItont Confers With Davis and Gerber
BY JAMES G. DEANE

North Carolina school superintendent is taking hand in
the House District school investigation
Roland superintendent the New Hanover IN.
public schools closeed with William Gerber counsel of
Evening star., 1956-08-29
Kefauver "Real Smart"

junior, and Mouna Maloof. II,
a senior, favor the President.
Evening star., 1956-08-29

thing about the federation's anti
integration efforts, however.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
Business, Farm Bureau
Lobbies Won Demands

WASHINGTON d. C.-(CNS)-Bus-
mess groups and the Farm Bureau got
most of what they wanted from Con
gress last year, Congressional Quart
erly survey shows.
CO analyzed six key issues in the
1856 Congress. Including two bills that
were enacted and four that were
killed. Then it found nine lobby groups
that took a stand on three or more
of these six issues and worked up a
scoreboard.
U. S. Chamber of Commerce has a
1000 score. 1t opposed more public
housing, rigid farm price supports,
federal aid to build schools, and high
federal dam in Hells Canyon. Con-
gress defeated all these.
The Chamber of Commerce also
wanted the big highway program and
to exempt Independent gas producers
from federal regulation. Congress
complied.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
In First Judicial District .
Recount SquabbIe 0bfustieated
By Lequlistic MUrnbo-JUlnbo

cinctS there are inaccuracies and to
prove it by producing witnesses or
other evidence.
The court ordered Hanley to inform
the other side by Tuesday morning
Nov. 20) what specific precincts he
had evidence in, so LOble would have
an opportunity to bring witnesses to
contradict it, This hearing was set for
Friday, November 23
With district court set for Friday,
Mr.. Lobe went to the Supreme Court
on Wednesday, the goth, and asked
for writ of supervisory control to
prevent the district court from doing
what Loble had asked land received
permisSiOn) to do, and he asked the
supreme court to then and there act
on his application to determine that
the Hanley application was not suffi-
cient and to dismiss the whole pro-
ceedings in the district court.
Wednesday afternoon the high court
refused the Loble request to kick out
the district court and act themselves.
The actions before the high court
on Wednesday caused confusion in
Helena, because in view of the fact
Mr.. Loble had received favorable dis
trict court rulings on all his requests it
wasn't at first obvious why he had
gone to the high court to remove the
district court from the proceedings.
The action has been compared with
a proceeding whereby you might go
to district court seeking a divorce and
before they had chance to act, ask
ing the supreme court to deny the
divorce.
Proceedings will continue in district
court Friday morning, November 25.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
Great Falls Bartenders,
Butchers, Negotiate New
Working Agreements

GREAT FALLS-Two Great Falls
service unions announced completion
of contractual negotiations with en-
ployers, reports John Evanko, Jr.,
secretary of Cascade County Trades
e. Labor Assembly.
The Culinary Workers and Bartend-
ers have bargained a $500 per shift
increase with the CAVE lounge. In
addition, vacation time shall accrue
at one week for each II months
worked.
The Butchers Union has concluded
a three-year agreement with employ
ers, both retailers and packing houses,
calling for wage increases and a wage
escalator clause. The scale for women
working in packing houses is now
SLIP per hour.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
A LOT OF MONEY FOR A
FOuR-YEAR JOB

The gubernatorial race this year,
including only the amounts spent by
the clubs representing Gov. Aronson
and Attorney General Arnold Olsen, in
dicate that their expenditures amount
ed to more than the Governors $12,500
annual salary over a ten-year period.
Aronson spent $65,069.50 through his
Aronson For Governor Club. Olsen's
similar club spent $62,244, of which
approximately one-third was contrib
uted by the various branches of the
The people's voice., 1956-11-23

HELENA-The election in Lewis &
Clark and BroadWater counties isn't
entirely over, due to what has become
an intense legal battle over a request
by Clarence Hanley for a recount in
the race for district Judge in which
he lost to Lester Loble by 80 votes.
Though it is impossible to determine
| how many votes were cast in that
raceit is possible there were as many
as $4,000 and when 16 votes could
change the results Hanley feels the
margin of human error might work
in his favor.
In one precinct the official canvass
found one clerk had a tally of PIG for
Hanley and another had a tally of 209.
According to Montana statutes one
only has to bank on human error to be
allowed a recount.
People in the area have expected
there would be a recount
The requesting party, of course,
must pay the costs which amount to
about 40 dollars a day.
Recounts are not unusual and when
a race is so close, are rarely bitterly
fought.
However, Clarence Hanley does not
seem to be destined to spend some
$500 easily.
He filed his application, according
to law, in the district court.
The law says if the court is satisfied
from the allegations that there might
have been error his application may
be granted.
But on the day of the hearing on
Hanleys application Mr.. Loble filed a
motion to dismiss, saying Hanley's !
was not sufficient. The |
court denied the Loble motion, so he |
then filed an answer in which he de- |
MED certain things in Hanley's petit
ton and asked the court to compel |
Hanley to prove in which specific pre- |
The people's voice., 1956-11-23

Adapted from Congressional Quarterly.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23

Announcements of candidates for
Speaker of the House, one change in
the makeup of the House of Repre-
sentatives, the reporting of money
spent by various candidates in the
recent campaign, and a court fight
over recount request by a candidate
for district judge, drew principal at
tention on the political front in Helena
this week.
Two Legislators have thus far an
nounced their intentions of seeking
the House Speakership. These are
John Macdonald, longtime Garfield
Democrat and chairman of the 1855
House Appropriations Committee, and
Eugene Mahoney, Sanders, Democratic
majority leader of the 1855 House.
In addition to the formal announce
ments by Macdonald and Mahoney,
reports are circulating in the Capital
City that Lloyd Michels, four-term
Democratic legislator from Sheridan
county and chairman of the 1855 House
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
Henrietta Crockett,
Grand Old Lady, Dies

Henrietta Crockett died suddenly in
Helena this week after years of con-
tributing to the welfare of Montana
Through her work with the Indians.
Mrs. Crockett will go down in the
history of this state for her unselfish
service to make the state conscious
of the terrible ravages of tuberculosis
among the Indians, which also has a
direct bearing on the health of all
citizens.
The climax of her nearly 20 years
of effort came when she dedicated the
one and one-half million dollar wing
at the Montana tuberculosis Sanitar-
ium at Galen which will bear her
name.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
legislative :
INTO Focus
GROSS PRODUCT DUE
TO REACH S4l4 MILLION

WASHINGTON, D. C.-PAD-The
Department of Commerce reports that
the gross national product was run
ming at an annual rate of close to $414
billion during the third quarter of
1856 indicating that a new national
record is in sight. Gross national prod
uct for 1855 was $39O.9 billion.
Personal consumption expenditures
rose So billion at annual rates in the
third quarter to total of $267 billion.
Fixed private investment was at an
annual rate of $63 billion, mainly in
business purchases of new capital
equipment.
Private industry payrolls, govern
ment wages and salaries, proprietors
and rental incomes and a continued
upward trend in dividend and interest
were reported.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
SO Campaign Over,
Politics Now Cominq

/ Highway Committee, is available fol
the Speakership. A fourth possible
candidate is Deer Lodge Democrat
John (S.) Emmons, chairman of the
House Workmen's Compensation Com
mittee in both the 1949 and 1855 Leg
islatures.
In the biennial contest for the i'm
portant post of Chief House Clerk,
reports are that at least two Democrats
are actively seeking support for their
candidates.. One of these is Alan
Donahue, Great Falls, 1855 Reading
Clerk The other is Walter Marshall,
Helena, assistant to Chief Clerk Will
liam Pilgeram in 1855. Whether Pilge-
ram will be a candidate. to succeed
himself is not known, but reports are
that the former Speaker of the House
(1935) is eyeing the chief clerkship of
the Democratically controlled 1857
Senate.
The reporting of campaign expendi-
lures something required under state
election laws-is always taken with a
grain of salt in political circles and the
amounts announced may, or may not,
be reasonably accurate statements of
money spent by the various candidates
through political clubs, etc. Be that as
it may, because of the laws made
quacy, all the public has to go on on
how expensive campaigns are are the
amounts reported by the various can
didates.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23

National Association of Manufacter-
ers and American Farm Bureau Fed
GRAFTON got nearly the same results.
They, however, were opposed to the
highway program that Congress en-
acted.
The National Grange was glad to
see Congress kill rigid price supports
and approve highway construction. It
wanted federal help to build schools.
The Grange took no stand, CO said,
on Hells Canyon dam, public housing,
or the gas bill.
The other five lobbyists-AFL-CI -CIO,
National Farmers Union, American
Veterans Committee, Americans for
Democratic Action, and the Co-opera-
tive League-got just one thing they
all wanted, a big highway program.
Other than that, Congress turned a
deaf ear.
Neither the Cooperative League or
AVG took any stand on price supports.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
Public Power Did It!
Public Power Did It! -.
F|utheud Tops Missoulu
County In Tax Valuation

Industry broadening Flathead coun.
tvs tax base as well as providing year
around jobs is demonstrated by the
Anaconda Aluminium Co. tax bill.
The new Flathead county plant for
its real estate, buildings and equip
ment has a tax bill of $478,941.24. Ap-
proximately half this amount will be
paid to Mrs. Freda Shanahan, county
treasurer, this month and half next
May.
ON FALLS HOMES
In addition Anaconda will pay ST.
8S7.01 on the 16 homes it owns in Co
lumbia Falls. The new Anaconda
The people's voice., 1956-11-23

organized labor movement. Aronson
reported deficit of $7,116, while Oh
sen reported having a $773 surplus
at the end of the campaign.
The oil interests political front,
Little People For An Honest Gov
ernor Club, headed up by Oil Com
pany President LaRue Smith, Sr., of
Great Falls, reported the expenditure
of $3,250 in behalf of the defeat of
Attorney General Arnold Olsen.
Total contributions and expenditure
of other state candidates were not
available at the time this was written
Wednesday morning, however, it is
doubtful if all other state and federal
candidates spent total of as much
as did the two gubernatorial candi-
dates.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
See Editorial, Page 2

Hungry Horse Dam is not on Flat
head county tax rolls, but the industry
it brought to the Flathead is.
Flathead county total assessed val
uation in 1947 was $3S,490,713. County
Assessor Grant Campbell last August
reported the 1856 assessment figure
for the county as $S4,S05, $50.
TOPS MISSOULA COUNTY
Result was that Flathead county
passed Missoula county with an es-
sessed valuation of $S3,962,315, and
ranked after Yellowstone, Cascade and
Silver Bow in Montana.
The Anaconda Aluminium Co. plant
1856 assessment was 9,350, ,480 COM
pared with $19,290,S51 for all property
in the city of Kalispell. Result is that
tax bill, not counting the
levies for support of city government,
is more than a fifth of all taxes paid
in the Flathead. A result has been
marked reduction in the District 6
school levy from prior years, though
not from 1866 to 1856.
The Anaconda Company also pays
24,010.56 for timberlands owned in
western Flathead county, $741.41 for
mineral properties and $399.85 for cut
over land.-HUNGRY HORSE NEWS.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
High Annual Disability
Toll In Montana

1t is estimated that each year in
Montana at least $500 persons suffer
permanent disabilities that handicap
them for employment. Many others
reach mature age with congenital i'm
pairments that prevent them from
working.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
ONE LEGISLATIVE CHANGE

Unofficial returns from Cascade
county showed Democratic Rep. Ole
Gunderson 35 votes ahead of Republi-
can William Scott for the seventh
seat in the county's House delegation.
Trailing behind Scott in the unofficial
tally was James Meagher, Great Falls
Bakers Union official. However, when
the official canvass of the county was
completed, neither Gunderson nor
Scott were in the running for the seat
in question. Instead, Meagher emerged
victorious with 300-vote margin over
Gunderson, and approximately 500
over Scott.
In other close races, Democrat Jake
Franks two-Vote margin over Repub-
lican Rep. John Leuthold in Saltwater
county stood up with Frank the new
House member from that usually
strong Republican county. In Flathead
county, the official canvass showed
Democrat L. P. (Cy) Tonner out ahead
of Democrat Clarence Sheldon for the
county's fourth House seat by a 16-
vote margin. And, so far as we have
been able to learn, Democrat Rep.
William J. Nelson, Golden Valley,
made his three-vote margin over COP
Ex-Rep. Dan Corcoran, stand up.
In the First Judicial District com
prising Lewis e Clark and Broadwater
counties, court hassle is currently
underway, the outcome of which will
determine whether Clarence Hanley is
entitled to a recount of votes in his
very close race for District Judge with
Lester Loble. Hanley carried Lewis
& Clark county by hundred odd-vote
and, according to official can
vass, fell behind in Broadwater a few
800 votes more than his winning mar
gin in Lewis e Clark-HLB.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23

Aluminium Co. Employees Club in Co.
lumbia Falls just being completed will
be on the 1857 tax rolls.
Anaconda's 1856 tax of $478,941.24
compares with $376,36464 paid for
1866 and $78,857.15 for 1854.
The people's voice., 1956-11-23
TRANSPORT RATIO

There is one street car, gasoline bus
or trolley coach for every 1900 per
sons in the United States.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23
THE DARKEST HOUR IS JUST BEFORE DAWN.

There many communities (which have depended
from time immemoral upon the harvest from the waters
Some of them have also found supplemental income in the
trapping of fur bearing animals the killing of game and
the accommodation of hunters Through generations of hab
it, these occupations the only natural ones Most all
the people turn readily to pursuits of this kind and follow
them unto their dead-end
In some localities the dead-end for the commercial
fishing industry sight Fishermen complaining
before about the poor The high of
ting of labor and operation of fishing rig demands far
greater return in order to break even not to say make
profit.
Some fishermen have long ago abandoned the industry
and moved away for more stable employment 1t is bad
situation when must leave community in which he has
spent lifetime and where all his friends his accumula
this constant drain upon its citizenship and the taking away
tivities.
Dull fshings making dark days for many of
communities But let's think of the old saying that the
darkest hour is just before dawn 1t that always
darkest hours something has to take the
place OF the DID, to bring income to people,
Maybe there is source of income at hand which
have not made the most OF to The building of the
Croatan Sound Bridge and the vast improvement being
made to u S. 264 will tend to make of this highway busy
of travel Whenever there great volume
ell there money to be got from it in ways than
Out of the interesting diversity of attractions that nature
has given Coastland find several that will appeal
to tourists and for which they will be glad to pay cash
Maybe the best thing sight would be to make modest
beginnings with small fishing centers where the poor
stop and find fun with rod and reel In time
and people will forget their losses with nets and
come into profits from this class of business.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23
CAN PLAN NOW FOR FERRY SERVICE.

Many of us remember how the ferry service begged
down last Easter week end Croatan Sound Alligator
River and especially Oregon Inlet because planned
ahead to have boats ready to take the overflow Many
unable to get where they going and
had their Easter holiday spoiled and went back to where
they came from after weeks of planning for enjoyment
the coast.
Already during the past Saturday the increase in travel
St Patricks fair day, called for extra schedules.
Those in charge of the ferries have history guide
them They will have another jam results, and
such jams will result boats not ready This year the
traffic jams will be all the greater because traffic grows by
leaps and bounds.
Now is the time to plan to take of this traffic 1t
can't be done if long line of piles up before somebody
thinks about it.
The State of North Carolina after bidding for tourists
cannot afford to permit spshod methods in ferry operation
to these tourists to be disappointed It should
now to prevent any such disgracefu occurrence.
There should be longer and frequent service
Alligator River Night trips could be rum we'll
at Oregon Inlet.
Reservations coming in the entire length of the coast
from Kitty Hawk to Ocracoke point to the biggest Eas
ter week end crowd known Governor Hodges will be
here this week. and hope the various Chambers Com
merce and citizens in general he makes his the
Banks, will be to point out to him the situation and
urge him to come to the rescue.