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The people's voice., 1957-01-18
Critical Problems Face Montana
As Number Of Hill SIS Grows

Montana, fast becoming dotted with
Hill 57's-colonies of landless Indians
living on the garbage dumps of larger
towns-faces a critical problem, human
as we'll as financial.
Programs for positive action, spurred
on by surveys conducted by the Col
lege of Great Falls and presented to
Montanas delegation in Washington
seek relief for this human suffering.
The hassle over what is to be the
fate of the off-reservation Indian goes
on and on-and while the argument
drags among the political leaders the
Indian people are buffeted back and
forth-not on the crest, but in the
backwash of conflicting attitudes
The degree of suffering is almost
unbelievable
Asking the Montana State Legisla-
ture for a Memorial to Congress.
friends of the Indians believe there
should be:
An extension of the impact Indian
health program to Indians off the res
ervation.
An extension of Interior Depart
ment welfare subsidies to Montana
counties with Indian impact popula-
tions - Flathead, Sanders, Missoula,
Lake, Glacier, Teton, Pondera, Cas-
cade, Silver Bow, Deer Lodge, Toole.
Hill, Blaine, Chouteau, Big Horn, Fer
gus, Yellowstone, Rosebud, Phillips.
Valley, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Richland,
Dawson.
Indian country resource develop
ment by Indians for Indians for Mon
tana's future.
The aim is that:
Every Indian family should have
enough food for survival, even if it
takes a whole new family assistance
Every Indian child should have
nine months of school instead of five
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
Income Tax Divisions Printing
Draws Strong Printer Protest

mentioned card in Item except fol
the hole-punching.
obviously the purpose of this set
of five pieces of printed matter is to
collect taxes from incomes earned
right here in the State of Montana, yet
at least four pieces of the literature
were printed OUTSIDE of the Treas
ure State; three of the five-pieces bear
ing the Label imprint of the Allied
Printing Trades Council, and the two
cards in Item and with NO label
imprint might have been produced in
a shop where working conditions and
scales are far below those which are
found in our printing establishments
in the State of Montana employing
and operating under fair conditions OF
labor.
sit is only fair to assume that Tax
Money collected in the State of Mon
tana and spent outside of the state
for goods which could we'll have been
produced here, is not in keeping with
a we'll balanced economy or good
business ethics.
Our printing establishments of the
state pay their taxes here; they en-
ploy Union labor and pay Union scales
and produce printing under the best
Union standards and working condi-
tions possible.
THE employees spend their earnings
in the localities where they work. They
buy homes, home furnishings, appli-
ances, automobiles, radios TV sets, and
all the necessities of our American
home life right in the community
where they work. They pay taxes on
the local, county and state levels. They
contribute materially to the general
welfare and economy within our states
borders. And the employer who is in
turn responsible for the condition of
his business and the success of it, falls
into the same category of being a tax
payer as his employees except, perhaps
On a larger scale. Consequently, the
more business that is sent to the en-
ployer, the greater the payroll, and Ill
the greater the tax take"
for the city, county, and state.
In prior years, the Montana Typo
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
Motor Vehicle
Department Proposed

A highway use tax can be admins
tered by any properly stated state
department. However, the fact finding
committee recognizes that in order to
have the most efficient operation of
such tax, the establishment of a
motor vehicle department is desirable.
Even if Montana were not to have a
highway use tax, the establishment of
a motor vehicle department would un-
doubtedly provide more co-ordinated
services for the motoring public, more
efficient and effective tax collection
for the state, and probably safer move
ment on the highways.
The committees report to the Gov
ernor and the members of the Legis-
lature points out that the functions Of
the state government concerned with
licensing, control and taxation of motor
in Montana are assigned to
The people's voice., 1957-01-18

graphical Conference has on various
occasions complained to the State
Board of Examiners regarding the
substitute printing processes used by
the state departments in by-passing
the legitimate printing establishments.
The Conference has never complained
without reason and our numerous re-
quests for compliance with the state
Label law by the state departments
have always been justified.
1T would be of great interest to the
Conference members, and perhaps
John Q. Public as we'll, to know the
total number of man-hours from all
state departments that are spent an
nually on substitute processes on state
owned equipment by state employees
Ii the difference in the cost of state
owned substitute process printing and
the legitimate Independent printing
establishments employing Union labor
is so great, then it would be very logi-
cal to suggest that the present Legis-
lature consider the establishment of
a state-owned and state-operated print
ing plant to handle all the printing
for the state, employing Union labor
throughout and operating in strict con-
formity with Union standards and
working conditions.
his would be far better economy
than the present method of "ratting''
state work through evasion of the
state Label law and sending work
and money OUT of the state, when
it could be done right here in Mon
tana-by Montana printing concerns.
ut is not likely that any of our Con-
ference members will refuse to pay
their share of Income taxes because
the blanks do NOT bear the imprint OF
the Union label, but it would certainly
ease the burden of payment and come
with better grace if they could know
that the blanks, etc., were printed in
the State of Montana and in strict con-
Sormity with the state Label law"
The people's voice., 1957-01-18

1t was because of the land boards re-
fusal to consider the 12l per cent
maximum royalty constitutional and
its subsequent action in putting up for
bid the several tracts at Is 2s per cent
royalty that representatives of the oil
industry took the land board into court.
And, at this years Democratic plat
form convention, that party was very
explicit in its oil plank in demanding
the repeal of the 1211 per cent ceiling.
The Democrats, at the same time, also
pledged themselves to seek repeal of
g 1855 Legislative act which took from
the land board the authority to set
minimum annual rentals on state oil
lands, and to set delay drilling penal
ties for failure to drill within the first
two years of the life of lease.
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
Five-Duy Week.
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shall be kept open i. on holidays
and at other times when the business
of said offices requires them to be kept
OPEN. Further, the council notes, 1T
is also required that the offices are
to be open for such judicial business
as instructions to jury, to receive a
verdict or discharge jury, and for
the exercise of the powers of a magis-
trate in criminal action, or in a pro-
ceeding of a criminal nature; but in
functions, writs of prohibition and
habeas corpus may be issued and
served on any day. These provisions
take care of emergencies at any time
and should be retained with a fiveday
week"
IF public business can be transacted
in a five-day week in other states,
the council contends, "it can also be
done in Montana Montana should
bring it's public offices in line with
other government operations, n e
banks, tradesmen and professional
people
The people's voice., 1957-01-18

Every Indian father should have
employment in Montana SO that he
need not drag his family across two
or three states every fall.
Every reservation in Montana
all seven of them-should have devel-
opment of Indian enterprise so that
the long-term future and stability of
the people may be assured from their
own resources under their own leader
ship.
Every Indian regardless of resi-
dence, should be entitled to participate
in special federal programs for the
First Americans.
The people's voice., 1957-01-18

several departments. These depart
ments include the Registrar under the
Warden of the State Prison who ii.
censes vehicles; the State Highway
Department. which administers the
Gross Vehicle Weight tax on trucks
and buses; the Board of Equalization,
which collects gasoline and diesel
taxes and makes refunds as requested; ;
and the Highway Patrol, which patrols
the highways, issues operators IL
censes, administers the Highway FL
nancial Responsibility Act, and is in
vOlved in certain highway safety
duties.
The committee strongly urges that
a motor vehicle department be set up
in the state to take over all of these
functions, in order that they may be
properly co-ordinated. This appears to
be a move towards good government
in Montana, and would probably in
crease tax revenues from existing laws,
due to co-ordinated and concerted ef-
fort.
The committee has highlighted the
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
Helding, Tonner, Seek Removal
Of School Oil Royalty Ceiling

One Of the oil industry's most priced
pieces of legislation to weaken the
schools financial returns from state
oil lands-the 12X per cent royalty
ceil1ng-would be removed if HB 81
should make the grade in the 1857
Legislature.
This bill introduced by Reps. Held
ing (D-Missoula) and Tonner (D-Flat-
head, seeks repeal of 1851 law set
ting a maximum 125l per cent royalty
on the first 5000 barrels per month
production from each well on state
land. Instead of a maximum, HB 81
would change the law so that the state
would receive mot less than" 12H
per cent on the first 5000 barrels
monthly production.
The 1851 maximum royalty law, a
subject of great controversy for sev-
eral years, is currently before the state
supreme court for consideration. Form
er Attorney General Arnold Olsen has
maintained that the ceiling
on royalty prevented the state from
receiving the constitutionally-re
full market value" from state oil land
production.
In July 1866 the State Land Board
put up for bid several tracts of land
which were near proven oil areas with
q requirement that each tract go for
not less than 162s per cent royalty
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
Montunu's Highway Prob|en,--

highway problem in this state by point
ing out that the development of an
adequate highway transportation net
work will cost the people Of Montana
and their partner, the federal govern
ment SIG billion in the next twenty
years.
Nearly Sc billion Of this total cost
will be provided by the federal gov
ernment through federal aid grants in
this twenty-year period This leaves
a billion dollars to be raised by some
method of local taxation.
This amount of money cannot be
raised without a 7-cent gas tax, but
this 7-cent tax must be accompanied
by a substantial increase in weight
taxes on commercial vehicles to de-
velop the equity of taxation desirable
in this country
If we are to have the highways we
need, all highway users must de-
velop willingness to contribute to
the highway costs in accordance with
the portion of the costs which they
create.
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
Continued from Page Three)
Effect of Proposed Use Tax
On Consumer Prices

The committee also made an inter
esting analysis of the effect of com
mercial vehicle taxation on consumer
prices. This study was made by the
Bureau of Business and Economic Re.
search, Montana State University
and published as Regional Study No 6.
This study provides a graphic H.
lustration of a fact known to any
serious student of the problem that
the possible effect of increases in
state taxes on commercial vehicles
on consumer prices would be negI-
gibIe.
The study points out, for example,
that the most heavily affected among
selected list of grocery items would
be potatoes, where the possible in
crease, under certain conditions of
transport, would be about one cent per
100 pounds of potatoes retailing for
$4.00 to $500. On furniture an in
crease of about ten cents on a $4,000
purchase might be realized from this
tax increase.
The reason for the small effect of
increases on consumer prices is merely
the fact that highway taxes are rela-
lively small proportion of the total
operating cost of vehicles and a tax
increase is accordingly a still smaller
part. This study makes the observation
that any of the increases would be
lost, both in magnitude and trace
ability, in the liberal cost of doing
business and, except for a few specific
items, would be impossible to realisti-
cally pass on to the consumer.
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
State Top Heavy In Number off,

owned business which nets the general
fund in excess of six million dollars
annually, receives only $4,000 per year.
In nine comparable states the admin
istrator is paid an average wage of
$9,2S7 per year.
Other wage ceilings presently in ef-
feet as compared with nine compar-
able states, show:
The people's voice., 1957-01-18

Failure of the State Income Tax Di
vision of the Board of Equalization to
patronize Montana commercial print
ing firms in securing printed income
tax reporting forms, this week drew
strong condemnations from ]. Verne
Lawson, Helena, president of Montana
Typographical Conference.
In writing his letter of protest to
the State Board of Examiners over
the divisions securing income tax
forms from out-of-state, and presum-
ably non-union firms, Lawson points
out that Montana comm ercial printers
not only pay fair wages but are also
substantial taxpayers, both as firms
as we'll as individuals. He also calls
the boards attention to the fact that
union printers, through their earnings
in Montana unionized plants, contrib
ute substantially to the states econ
omy as well as the states tax Golfers.
Here is Lawson's letter to the Board
of Examiners:
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
More Money For

Continued from Page One)
electric energy, natural gas, inherit
ance rates, the Pullman car tax, and
cigarettes, would bring in another ST.
100000.
All totalled, the board figures the
state can pick up $12,366,00O annually
in new revenue if the legislature should
give its suggestions favorable consid-
GRAFTON.
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
REMEDIAL LEGISLATION
PROPOSED

To remedy existing salary shortcom.
ings, Reps. Gebhardt (R-Yellowstone) }
and Loughran (D-Silver Bow plan in
PRODUCTION of legislation to raise the
administrator salary from $4,000 to
S8,400. The assistant administrator and
chief accountant would be raised from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Other proposed salary revisions in
clude:
The salaries of purchasing and traf-
fic managers, store supervisors, audi
tors, license, enforcement and ware
house superintendent would be hiked
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
IBM operators would be raised from
$4,000 to $4,000 yearly.
Other raises provided for by the bill:
Class A vendors, from $4,000 to $4,000
g year; Glass A clerks, from $4,000 to
$500 a year; Glass B vendors, from
$4,000 to $4,000 year; Glass B clerks,
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year; Glass C
vendors, from $4,000 to $500 a year
Glass c clerks, from $4,000 to 1880
a year.
Money for the pay hikes would come
from the state liquor fund
j. E. Manning is administrator of
the retail liquor system. Members of
The Montana Liquor Control Board |
are j. E. Rain, chairman; H. R. Carl
son, and Oakley E. Coffee
The people's voice., 1957-01-18

Liquor board employees received
their last pay hike in 1851. Since then
the wage-price spiral has caused their
real buying power to slump very con-
siderably.
The people's voice., 1957-01-18

State Board of Examiners
State Capitol
Helena, Montana
Gentlemen:
Il am currently in receipt of my
Montana State Income Tax Return
blanks, and as they are for my per-
sonal use. I cannot enclose them for
your inspection. However, the entire
tax return mailing kit is comprised of
five pieces of printed matter as fol-
lows:
''Q) The outside or window envelope
which bears the Allied Printing Trades
Label and was printed out of state;
"(2) The return or self-addressed
envelope which bears the Allied Print
ing Trades Label and was printed out
of state;
"(3) The Instruction Sheet which
bears the Allied Printing Trades Label
but the city from which it originated
is not discernible on the label;
go The Income Tax Return card,
printed on both sides and hole-punched
for filing purposes but bears no label
imprint of the printing trades unions;
"(5) The Your Copy card which
very nearly is a duplicate of the above
The people's voice., 1957-01-18

Continued from Page One)
151 state retail outlets show the larg-
est portion of profit in total liquor
revenue, despite the fact the cost Of
operating all departments throughout
the system is taken from the profit on
sales of liquor alone.
Excise tax, revenue from liquor and
beer licenses and beer tax are all paid
direct into the state treasury and are
items of state general fund revenue
apart from the amount termed liquor
store profits" Liquor store profits
account for 5342 per cent of all net
earnings of the state liquor system.
Excise taxes are 23.48 per cent; liquor
and beer licenses, 1915 per cent, and
beer tax, 6.65 per cent.
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
VOLUME CHANGE

AS water changes to steam it ex-
pands 1,700 times its original volume.
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
GROSS SALES HIGHEST
SINCE 1928

Gross sales for fiscal year 1856
were $18,936,38069 as compared with
the very good year 1928 when gross
sales amounted to S18,968, 8,323.87. Of
this years gross sales, between 63 and
GA per cent-or approximately $12,-
600, ,000-represent sales to retail
liquor dealers the balance coming
from purchases by individual permit
holders.
Since the system was established in
1888 total net profits off liquor, through
June 80, 1856, amounted to $48,658,-
028.35. Liquor licenses have brought
the state $9,OO6,332.32 The beer de-
partment has meant an income of $13,-
077,714.58. The eight per cent excise
tax on sales for the 23-year period has
totaled $19,503,734.38.
The people's voice., 1957-01-18
HIGHER SALARIES NEEDED

Legislative action is overdue in in.
creasing the maximum salaries the
liquor board can pay its employees.
Pointing out that eff competent person
mel is to be maintained the ceiling on
wages should be raised" the board
uses as an example:
our warehousemen are being
paid $4,000 per annum, which is $425
per annum less than union demands.
The result of this wage ceiling is that
our warehousemen are receiving the
ceiling wage which is below union
scale but the same as paid our ware
house superintendent We are in
a similar position with our store clerks
in that we cannot meet union scale"
The administrator of this State
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-20

Marjorie Jean Holsinger,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. David
N. Holsinger of Washington
Grove became the bride of Robert
Webster Monkey, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Webster Monkey of Gathers
burg on June 2 at the Ellsworth
Methodist Church in Gathers.
burg. The double ring ceremony
was performed by the Reverend
Malcolm F. Wright.
The bride who was given in
marriage by her uncle, George
Filsinger, Jr., wore a gown of
Chantilly lace over taffeta. She
carried a cascade bouquet of
white roses and lilies of the
valley.
Mrs. George Kemp, the matron
of honor, wore an orchid gown of
nylon lace with matching picture
hat. Her bouquet was of green
shasta daisies.
The bridesmaids We're Miss
Barbara Filsinger, aunt of the
bride. and Miss Tootsie Anderson.
Their dresses were of green nylon
lace with matching picture hats
bouquets of orchid shasta daisies.
Miss Linda Perry, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Perry,
was the flower girl wearing a
white nylon dress trimmed with
lace and carrying a basket of rose
petals.
Carlton Bohrer of Rockville
was the best man and ushers
were William Offut, Washington
Grove, cousin of the bride, and
George Kemp Of Darnestown.
The brides mother chose a
pink gown with white accessories
while the mother of the groom
wore light green with beige aces
series. Each had a white carna
ton corsage.
Mrs. Doris Hershe, the church
organist played the traditional
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-20
Cerebral Palsy
Nursery Opens
Next September

A new, Cerebral Palsy Nursery
Treatment Center for afflicted
Montgomery County children be-
tween the ages of three and six
years will open this September.
The building, located at the Jesup
Blair Community bldg, in Silver
Spring, can enroll about 20 chill
dren.
Applications are now being ac-
cepted for Fall registration. They
may be obtained by writing to
UCP of Montgomery County, Box
1877, Silver Spring, or by calling
Juniper 8-4075. Children must be
referred by doctors or clinics.
In addition to individual thera-
py, group activity and socializa-
ton will be stressed in classroom
work.
The staff will include a medical
director, nursery teacher, physical
therapist speech therapist and a
driver-attendant. The center will
operate on a five-day week and is
free.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-20
Senior Women
Close Season

The Woman's Club of Rockville
at its last meeting of the season
followed by its annual luncheon
at Olney Inn on June l3, voted a
contribution of 500 to the United
Cerebral Palsy of Montgomery
County, Inc. for special table to
be used at the Crippled Children's
Center.
Another annual event, the
White Elephant sale topped last
years record, with the help Of the
ready with of Mrs. Randolph
Talbot, who served as auctioneer.
The present officers who have
another year to serve for their
two-year term are Mrs. Gilbert
Hartley president; Mrs. Hugo
Eskildson, first vice. president;
Mrs. Marshall Mayes, second vice
president; Mrs. John w. Lindsey,
recording secretary; Miss Naomi
Magruder, corresponding secre-
tary; and Mrs. Kermit B. Mohn,
treasurer.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-20
Parents Teachers
Congress Meets
3 Days Next Month

T N T, not the explosive, but
Tools n Techniques for parent
teacher leaders in education will
be the theme of the 25th annual
summer conference of the Mary
land Congress of Parents and
Teachers to be held on July IS, 16,
II at the University of Maryland
in College Park.
Delegates from local PTAs will
attend the three day session in
addition to Paul c. Howard, Mont
gomery County Council of PTAs
president; Leslie Able, State
Chairman of Rules and Regula-
tons, Rockville, and David Weed,
State Chairman of Teacher Re-
cruitment and Retention, Bethes-
da.
Mr.. Weed will act as recorder
for the section of the conference
on Juvenile Protection, scheduled
for the afternoon of July IS and
the morning of July II.
At the same times, the session
on parliamentary procedures will
be led by Mr.. Able, one of three
discussion leaders, and the Tues
day sessions will be recorded by
Mr.. Howard.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-06-20
YWCA Summer
Teen Activity

Teens and pre.teens are invited
to enroll in summer classes Of
fered by the YWCA of Montgom-
cry County. The six weeks term
will begin the last week of June.
Mariana Eckert will teach art
courses to boys and girls, SIP
years of age, at Bethesda Chevy
Chase, Kensington, and Silver
Spring. The course will cover ele-
mentary drawing, composition,
color selection, and art appreci-
alton.
Creative drama will be offered
at the Y-Cottage in Jesup Blair
Park, Silver Spring, for boys and
girls, 8-11 years, each Tuesday
morning, beginning June Is. Miss
Esther Nighbert will be the di-
rector.
Mrs. Helen Hegarty, ex-model,
will offer course called CLAM
our Tips for Teens" to teen-aged
girls, 1916 years. These sessions
will be held at Jesup Blair Park
on Thursday mornings.
Hawaiian dancing will be taught
to girls, 1916 years, at Kensing-
ton and Silver Spring by the we'll
known teacher, Ruth "Nalani"
Williamson. The course will cover
basic hula steps and the girls will
learn to perform at least one
complete dance.
Swimming instruction is avail
able for girls, 9-17,