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The people's voice., 1956-07-27

CONRAD-Rev. Daniel McCorkle,
76, a Presbyterian minister in Mon
tana and Wyoming for more than
forty years, and a one-time member
of Montana Welfare Commission dur
ing the Ford Administration, passed
away early Saturday morning in Kan
sas City, Mo.
Rev. McCorkle had gone to Kansas
City just this week, arriving the noon
before his death to visit a younger
brother.
Prior to his retirement in 1945,
Rev. McCorkle had been the Pres
byterian minister at Conrad for Is
years. Before that he was the minister
at Bearcreek for 10 years during
which time he also taught in the Bear
creek schools.
His educational background includ-
ed a BA degree from Missouri Valley
College, Marshall, Mo-, in 1908; de-
gree in Divinity from Union Theologi-
cal Seminary division of Columbia
University in 1912, and masters
degree in Sociology under Prof. Gid
dings at Columbia in 1914.
After finishing college Rev. Nc
Corkle took parish at Sunrise, Wyo-
ming in 1914. That year, following
the Ludlow massacre of miners in
Colorado he was subpoened to Wash
ington, D. G. to testify as a friend
of United Mine Workers before the
federal Industrial Relations Commit
tee inquiry into the mass killing of
workers and their families during the
bitter strike of workers against Colo
RADIO Coal & Iron, a subsidiary of the
Rockefeller interests.
The people's voice., 1956-07-27

the bridge of laws that prevent Sin
discriminate disposal of the public
domain. He said, "These Federal
hydroelectric laws . comprise an
arch which bridges. the chasm be-
tween the people on the one side and
on the other side the vast resources
of the public domain. These laws are
public bridge, free of tolls, enabling
the people to go across and enjoy
the benefits of the water and land
resources. These resources are a part
of the commonwealth. They belong to
the people," He said the ultimate
goal of Congress is to market electric
ity at wholesale so as to encourage
the widespread use of power at the
lowest possible cost consistent with
sound business principles, and that the
preference clause is thus a means
toward the various goals set by Con-
gress.
Because power distribution has be-
come of necessity a monopoly the
interests of the consumer become
paramount, and as regulation" of
the power monopoly became ineffec-
tive, said Norwood, the consumer be-
came ''the forgotten man.. He quot
ed President Theodore Roosevelt who
said it was important that the nation
al government develop the water re-
sources of the nation 'to protect the
people against the upgrowth of mo-
nopoly and to insure to them fair
share in the benefits which will fol-
low the development of this great as
set which belongs to the people and
should be controlled by them"
The Northwest Public Power Sec
retary said, "The utilities fought
the creation of state commissions,
but once established, determined to
regulate the regulators and they
did," in pointing out that regula-
ton was not the answer to low cost
power.
He said the preference clause has |
1ow been on the books long enough |
20 permit look at the record of per-
'ormance and accomplishment, and |
,ited the state of Washington where
Use of power increased six times and
Internal revenue collections increased |
"A times, and the record shows, he
added, g. that in 14-year period |
northwest homes increased power use |
times while rates were cut in half.
"These are some of the economic |
Indicators that the coming of the |
The people's voice., 1956-07-27
Capital City
Cooks, Walters
Okeh Strike

By 101-1 vote members of Hotel
& Restaurant Workers Local 612 Sat
urday voted to strike most Helena
eating establishm within the next
few days unless a satisfactory new
contract with employers is immedi-
ately forthcoming, Lewis Teddy, busi-
ness agent of 612, announced at the
Helena Trades & Labor Assembly
Monday night meeting.
Local 612 members consider en-
ployer proposed wage increases rang
ing from 10 cents to 40 cents per day
as totally unacceptable. Also, other
provisions of the employers offer
concerning hiring and firing of cooks,
walters and bartenders, were turned
down by the union.
In reporting the strike vote action
taken by the local, Teddy said that
eight eating establishments and the
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The people's voice., 1956-07-27
Phone Coop
Leader Raps RIA
Loan Policies

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
Richard A. Dell, co-ordinator for the
National Telephone Cooperative AS
sociation, charged here that lack of
progress of the REA program of loans
to telephone co-operatives is "shock-
ing".
"Unless something is done shortly
to move REA's telephone personnel,
the rural telephone cooperative pro
gram will die completely" Dell
warned in RURAL ELECTRIFICA-
TION magazine.
In the first months of this year,
the magazine said, REA made only
6 new phone loans to co-ops, AZ to
commercial including
the largest loan ever made to
telephone borrower"
This $6.8 million loan, Dell said,
was to the Texas Telephone and Tele-
graph Co. of Houston, Texas, "a COM
mercial holding company which ac-
quired several small telephone COM
panies and obtained REA financing
without any equity in a profit ven
ture." He questioned whether T. T.
and T. is a bonafide rural phone COM
OanV
The people's voice., 1956-07-27
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOP
MENT is THE REAL ISSUE

One point made crystal clear
throughout the entire debate was that
the abstract private versus public
power controversy was not a genuine
issue in this instance. The Admins
tration and its supporters have been
quite willing to spend millions of dol
lars for public power projects such
as the Upper Colorado where substan-
tial profits for private utilities are
On the other hand, the pro-
ponents of federal development in
the case of Hells Canyon indicated
again and again that they were not
to private development as
Continued ON Page Four
The people's voice., 1956-07-27

Columbia River Power System did
not have a depressing effect on the
Northwest, he said, "but ON the con-
trary lifted the region to a higher
economic level and higher standard
of living"
cat the end of 1856 it is expected
that over 100000 residential consum-
ers of the Pacific Northwest will be
buying electricity from consumer
owned electric systems at less than
one cent per kilowatt hour, and he
added, because of the federal pro
gram which includes the preference
clause, "the consumer is no longer
the forgotten man..
He concluded, "The test of good
preference clause is whether it facili-
tates the flow of benefits of the pub
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice., 1956-07-27
Power Trust, Politics Kill
He||s Canyon Legislation
Administration Musters Almost Solid Party
Vote In Opposition To High Dam ;.

reflection of the Administration
sensitivity to the desires of the pri
vate power interests. The latter mar
shalled their forces throughout the
entire country and waged an all-out
full-scale war on behalf of partial
development of Hells Canyon by the
Idaho Power Co.
"You don't hear much about it,"
Drew Pearson noted in his Wash
ington Merry -Go-Round column a
few days before the bill was de-
feated, "but one of the most po-
tent and carefully CREASED lobbies
in the nations capital is now but
tonholing senators to defeat Hells
Canyon. They are making none of
the mistakes of the natural-gas
lobby which stubbed it's toe when
it tried, in effect, to bribe Senator
Case of South Dakota"
On the same day on which the vote
occurred Pearson wrote, "practically
every big utility in the United States
teamed up with the Idaho Power Co.
to defeat federal development at Hells
Canyon. When senators who live in
the Midwest or the South have gone
home recently, they've found repre-
sentatives of local power companies
waiting to buttonhole them at the air
port or railroad station, whether the
time was 5 a. m. or / p. M"
With regard to the vote of the 8
southern Democrats, how much of
their opposition can be explained by
private utility pressures and promises
and how much by their desire to con-
struct a reservoir of support for their
stand on civil rights legislation is a
matter of speculation. According to
one rumor, Welker based his appeal
to southern Democrats on the grounds
that those who opposed federal de-
at Hells Canyon were also
those who could be depended upon to
vote against civil rights.
The people's voice., 1956-07-27

The preference clause, over which
the debate took place, gives prefer
ence and priority to power from fed
orally owned dams to public bodies
and co-operatives. Private interests
are seeking its removal from the fed
eral laws.
Gus Norwood, executive secretary,
Northwest Public Power Association,
the first speaker described the pref
erence clause as the "keystone" to
The people's voice., 1956-07-27

Inc fuu and comprehensive de-
velopment of natural resources be-
longing to all of the people, including
as yet unborn generations of Ameri-
cans, was dealt a devastating blow
last Thursday by a combination of
forces representing selfish political
and economic interests and cultural
backwardness. By vote of 81 to Al,
the Senate of the United States killed
the bill for federal construction of a
high dam in the Hells Canyon reach
Of the Snake River, one Of the finest
undeveloped water power sites In the
nation. Eight Democrats plus every
Republican who voted, with the eX-
ception of Senators Wiley (Wis.) and
LANCER IN. DE lined up on the side
of private development at Hells Can
yon in spite Of the acknowledged
superiority of the high dam.
ADMINISTRATION FINALLY
CAME ALIVE
One of the most striking aspects
of this historic battle was the manner
in which the Administrator suddenly
came to life, casting aside its previous
ly passive role and eXerting intense
pressure upon members of the party
to vote against the bill. THE NEW
YORK TIMES of July 18, reporting
that one Republican senator had re-
ceived as many as six phone calls
from the White House and the De-
partment of the Interior within mat
ter of days, asserted 'The pressure,
in the opinion of many senators, is
as great as that applied on any issue
in the last years"
The sudden surge of leadership re-
sponsibility moved Senator Neuberg-
er to say:
81 call attention of the people of
this country to the relative values
emphasized by a national admins
tration which will sit supinely by,
or issue belated statements of mild
concern, while a bill to aid the
school children of America goes
down to defeat with Republican
votes, but which is intensely active
and aggressive in its efforts to sur
render a magnificent national re-
source to a private utility COM
pany."
The ADMINISTRATIONS concern with
the fate of Hells Canyon can be par
italy accounted for by its great i'm
portance as an issue in the electoral
battles in the northwest this year.
Obviously, the passage of the bill
would have been a feather in the
caps of Democratic senatorial candi- ;
dates such as Morse of Oregon and
Magnuson of Washington who have
fought hard to prevent this choice
site from being given away to private
Had they succeeded, how
ever, the star of Republican Senator
Herman Welker, who has been the
'loudest" proponent of private de-
and who is now pressing
for reelection in Idaho, might have
;hone less brightly in the eyes Of
.he influential Idaho Power Co.
ATTRIBUTED TO
PRIVATE POWER, LOBBY Z
A AcpOrdincr tn another and narha nc Z
The people's voice., 1956-07-27
MSU Conference Has Dramatic
Debute On Preference Clause

The Preference Clause the federal the United States vigorously
men n dramatic defending point o
A w.
The people's voice., 1956-07-27
oRESSURES ATTRIBUTED TO
PRIVATE POWER. LOBBY

According to another and perhaps
complementary Interpretation, the
executive pressure was primarily
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29

OU4GGS III OL1Cd9Os III.
More than 200 persons were on
hand for the dinner at which
Rabbi and Mrs. Gold received
gifts and scroll attesting to their
work in the community.
After a brief welcoming address
by master of ceremonies Samuel
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29

Council of Jewish Women: Rob-
ert Sirull. vice president of B'nai
Erith: Fred L. Swartzberg. COM
mander of the Jewish War Veter-
ans post; and by Irving and How
ard Silverstein. speaking for the
Sunday school and for the youth
of the Jewish community.
In the talks, Rabbi Gold was
praised for his work here and es-
pecially for his leadership in pro-
viding the educational center.
Speakers cited his dedication to
installing the aims and purposes
of Judaism, his leadership in
keeping community harmony and
for the fact that High Point is a
better place because he and his
wife were here"
kilograms from friends through
out the state and nation were
read. and Enterprise Editor Holt
Mcpherson spoke briefly.
In his column the High Point
Editor wrote: "a farewell tribute
to Rabbi William B. Gold, leaving
next month to become rabbi of
Beth Sholom congregation in
Rogers Park on Chicago's north
side, was given by B'nai Israel
synagogue which he has served
since I948.
1T was quite an affair. In eight
years Rabbi Gold. rare combina-
tion' of teacher and minister. and
his family have endeared them
selves to congregation which has
almost doubled with his efforts.
When he and his bride of hardly
a year arrived here that hot sum-
mer day in ls4s they were well
coined by SO Jewish families: now
there are ll2-and the Colds
themselves have added four chill
dren to the group.
Filling his shoes isn't going to
be easy. Several candidates are
under consideration. A decision
will likely be reached shortly.
Naturally, there's broader interest
in the choice because the whole
city hopes man who will carry
on Rabbi Colds community serv-
ice, especially in the Family Serv-
ice Bureau and work with retard-
ed children which he regards the
finest citywide program here, will
become his successor.
CONTINUED on Page 32l
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29
Rabbi Gold Of High Point Honored
AT Testimonial Event

Rabbi William Gold honored at testimonial dinner he'll
prior his leaving the Bna Israel Synagogue here for his
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29

Shavitz and the dinner. greetings
were brought by Mayor George
Covington and by Robert M. Sill
yer. president of the Synagogue:
Mrs. Stanley Taylor. president of
the Ladies Auxiliary: Mrs. Fred
Swartzberg. eside of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-16

LONDoN.-If the British are
q nation Of shopkeepers, the
Americans are a nation Of shop
pers. And when they get any
where near together, the chase is
on.
Ground rules must be OBJ
served, however. For instance:
Don't whistle in Burlington
Arcade.
Don't suggest that a shopkeep-
er's by Appointment" would
look nicer in neon.
Burlington Arcade runs of
Piccadilly, is 600 feet long and
|137 years old, and is watched
over by three beadles. who are
retired hussars in black frock-
coats and yellow waistcoats.
No Singing. Either
The beadles are there because
there always have been beadles
lin Burlington Arcade. and their
function, apart from being ira
ditional, is to see that you do
not sing. whistle. run or carry
large parcels. They also ring
large bells at closing time, which
you will regret, because the ar
cade is one of London's most de-
lightful areas.
The arcade is only a small cor
ner of the lush commercial re-
gion containing such world-fa-
nous thoroughfares as Bond
street. Savile row and Regent
street. This is the square mile
where the word quality" got its
meaning. The gentleman may
buy hat from James Lock &
Co., founded in 1725. who have
covered such heads as Nelson's;
or select a pair of shoes from
the Dolcis shops, nearly a CEN
tury old.
century old.
And then he and his wife may
go together to order tailored
garments from Gieves. who op-
Grated from a ship off the
Crimea to insure that the Royal
Navy would be well groomed as
it battled the Russians in the
middle of the last century.
Jewelry. delicate china, mag
nif1cent silverware--it will BIZ
difficult for the tourists to pull
themselves away long enough tc
visit the Tower of London anc
to see the changing of the
guards.
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PIPELINE CARRIES
MILK FROM ALPINE
FIELDS TO DAIRY

ST. MARTIN. = In the
little village of st. Martin
in the ValaiS. the ingenious
Swiss have come up with a
new twist in pipelines. Not
oil or natural gas, but pure
milk is flowing down from
mountain pastures directly
to the diaries in the valley.
A narrow plastic hose, re-
Sistant to odor and decay,
has been strung between the
dairy of st. Martin asst
feet and the milk collection
point at Alison (5,115 feet).
The pipeline soon is to be
extended to an altitude of
nearly 5000 feet and will
eventually measure a total
of five miles. When not
being used for milk, the line
viii bring fresh spring water
to the valley, insuring cool
pipes to protect the milk
while in transit.
Over two gallons a minute
can be transferred to the
central dairy. The dairymen
communicate with each
other by a telephone system
running parallel to the pipe
line to prevent any mixing
of milk and water.
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old Waterford
mill on Display

WATERFORD, Va.-The Old
Mill, a historic Waterford struc-
ture dating back to 1888, has
been opened to the public for
three hours every Thursday. Fri
day and Saturday through Octo-
Der 5. 6 and Z, the dates of the
18th annual Waterford Fair.
On display for sale atsthe Old
Mill are arts and crafts products
from Waterford and surrounding
Loudoun County, including
hooked rugs, quilts, chairs,
lamps, shades, wooden bowls,
and antiques. Also on sale, for
the first time, are tiles with
Waterford motifs.
The Old Mill is operated by the
Waterford Foundation, Inc, a
non-profit organization estab-
Ilished to preserve and encourage
the traditional arts and crafts
of Loudoun County. Admission
Is free.
The Old Mill was built on
the Cactoctin Greek in 1888 by
one Of Waterford's earliest set
tiers, Amos Janney, an English
Quaker from the falls Of the
Delaware in Bucks County,
Pa. He persuaded many other
Quakers from Bucks County to
come to the village-Milltown
as it was called then.
| The Quakers established the
villages early character, and by
1776 they built a church in
w aterford known as the
Friends Meeting House
/ The original Janney mill was
rebuilt several times. and re-
NAMED in operation until 1888.
1t was later restored and is
now owned by the Waterford
Foundation.
Because of its location of the
. beaten path, Waterford has re-
NAMED largely unchanged dur
!. ing the last 200 years. Many Of
the earliest buildings have been
; preserved or restored to much
of their original form.
I The town is located on Route
662, three miles off Route Q and
six miles from Leesburg.
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Ground Rules Govern
Shopping in London

And yet. for the knowing, Lon
don offers a different sort Of
shopping. The lover of antiques
may, If he wishes. visit dealers
in the Bond street section, But
he may also try the open-air
Portobello Road Market. There
is no guarantee that he will be
able To, outwit the shrewd mer-
chants there, but the excitement
Of the chase should make the
prize worthwhile.
1t would be an error to assume
that London is the only place
to shop in Great Britain. You
may, for instance, trot out to
Eynsford. Kent. to buy your silk
from the very Livingstone Silk
Farm which produced the fabric
for Queen Elizabeth's coronation
gown.
Then at Windsor, If you are a
true souvenir hunter. you may
search for Sonny Springett. who
paints the signs for the castle.
Maybe he'd do a keep-off the
grass notice for you, and you
could show your neighbors that
the Queens signwriter was on
your payroll.
Discreet Exhibit
Sonny should be displaying
the by Appointment to Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth" this
year. These royal warrants are
not issued by a sovereign to any
one who hasn't served the ruler
for three years, and this. is the
first year that Elizabeth, who
succeeded to the throne in 1858,
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Thomas, Beau Site Hotel and
Riviera Hotel in Haiti.
Features of many Of the new
hotels include more air-con-
ditioning for year-round COM
fort. luxury swimming pools and
terrace. smart night clubs Spe-
cializing in local music and
dances and new shops specialize
ing in local art and handcraftS
! for gifts and souvenirs.
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Statue Going Up

LISBON, Portugal-Air trav-
lers into Lisbon from the United
States may catch a view of the
partially completed statue Of
Christ being built on the banks
of the Tagus River. When COM
Ipleted, it will be 200 feet high
one of the tallest statues in the
world.
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will hand out warrants as Queen
BY custom. the by Appoint
ment" and the coat of arms are
displayed discreetly; Britain
would probably go UP in spon-
taneous combustion If anyone
displayed his in lights.
Skipping north to Edinburgh
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Caribbean Isles
Adding Hotels

SAN JUAN.-The boom in the
Caribbean, which has been
gathering momentum during the
past few years, shows no sign
Of slackening, the Caribbean
Tourist Association reports.
In fact, bookings are as much
as so per cent ahead of 1855
In many places. and tremen-
dous building marathon is now
underway to take care of the
increasing number of travellers
finding their way to the islands
and countries of the Caribbean
area. Frequent sailings and
speedy air transportation have
made once-remote places. for
merly only names on maps.
familiar resorts.
New hotels are springing up
throughout the area, and others
are being enlarged, redecorated
and otherwise refurnished. In
Antigua, the Antigua Beach
Hotel has added eight new rooms
and q 40-room hotel is under
construction at Half Moon Bay.
Aruba Colony
Aruba expects to have a new
cottage colony hotel open on
Palm Beach by the end Of this
year, while Bonaire's Hotel Zee
bad has reopened with addi-
tional accommodations. Curacao,
long a tourist favorite, will have
a 120-room luxury hotel finished
by the end of the year. while
existing hotels have added rooms.
restaurant and recreational
facilities.
The Barbados hotel boom is
in full swing; many establish
ments have added rooms and
three new hotels have opened
the Miramar Club in st. James,
Sunset Gardens, and Bagshot
House.
Puerto Rico has also been
building hotels and adding to
those already in existence. The
50-room Coral Beach Hotel, the
6O-room Escambron Beach Club
and a new 30-room ISla Verde
International Airport Hotel have
opened within the past few
months. while the Caribe Hilton
will soon have 100 additional
rooms.
Sugar Mill Inn
In St. Vincent, the former
Ratio Mill Tower has been re-
novated and opened as the Su-
gar Mill Inn by an American
photographer. and in st. Mar
ten the Little Bay Hotel has
been opened with double rooms
bedroom suites, private baths
and terraces.
Trinidad, Tobago, st. Lucia
st. Maarten and Haiti all have
new hotels in various stages ,o1
planning or construction in ordel
to fulfill the needs of the ever.
increasing tourist throng. II
addition. enlarged and renovated
hotels in the islands include
Cancel Bay Plantation in st
John, Bluebeard's Castle in st
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we find Princes Street. where
Days (and others) will sell you
Shetland, Harris and st. An
drews tweeds. and where you
may pick UP an authentic tar
tan.
You also benefit from the Per-
sonal Export Plan, which en-
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ables you to obtain exemption
from purchase tax. II an article
amounts to $14 or more. It can
be bought free Of British pur-
chase tax but must be shipped
directly to the visitors outgoing
plane or ship. Otherwise, it has
Ito be sent directly TO your home.