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The people's voice., 1957-08-30

A principal highlight of the 42nd
annual convention of Montana Farm
ers Union to be held in Great Falls
October 1926, will be an address
by Sen. Wayne Morse, MFU Secre-
tary Treasurer Ralph Cook an
nounced this week.
The Oregon Democrat, who was
first elected to the United States
Senate as Republican, is no stranger
to Montana audiences, having been
the featured speaker at the 1868
convention of Montana State AFL
in Kalispell, and then, in October
1854, filling similar role in the
special nominating convention of the
Democratic party in Great Falls.
An Independent liberal, Morse was
frequently at odds with Republicans
in his state and in the Senate dur
ing the years before he switched
party affiliation. As a Democrat,
he continues to be a fighting indie
pendent who consistently puts the
best interests of all of the people
ahead of partisan politics. He has
been one of the most vigorous critics
of the Eisenhower Administration,
particularly in regard to the policies
of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson, and the efforts being
made by the Administration to give
away the valuable natural resource
heritage of the American people.
Others who will have prominent
speaker roles at the 1857 MFU con-
vention, according to Mr.. Cook, in
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
Unemployment
Increasing In
Oregon

If the present trend of unemploy-
ment continues, Oregon faces the
possibility of real problem this win
ter. This SOLDERING statement comes
from John A. Norton, administrator
of the State Unemployment Compen-
sation Commission.
At the end of July there were
25,50O workers in Oregon actively
seeking jobs. More than half of these
were in the Portland metropolitan
area.
During July $4,000 of these job
less workers drew $1,050,00O in un-
employment compensation. This was
the highest amount paid out in any
July during the commissions 1917
years. 1t represents a jump of 100
per cent above the amount paid in
July year ago. Payments may be
much heavier this winter if basic in
dustries don't improve soon, Norton
said.
Biggest increases in the number of
jobseekers last month were found in
Portland, Lebanon, Pendleton and
Milton-Freewater. In Hillsboro, As
toria, Roseburg and Toledo twice as
many workers were without jobs as
there were a year ago.
Slowdowns in seasonal lines were
given as the main reason for the low
OBJ level.-OREGON LABOR PRESS.
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
Wayne Morse To Speak
AT 42nd MFU Convention

clude: National Farmers Union
President James G. Patton, Denver;
M. w. Thatcher, general manager
Farmers Union GTA, ST. Paul, and
Cong. Lee Metcalf. Metcalf, author
of the comprehensive Metcalf Farm
Bill, is tentatively scheduled to speak
the afternoon of the opening day
of the convention, Wednesday,, Oc-
tober %.
All sessions of the four-day annual
farm get-together will be held in the
Great Falls Civic Center.
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
Something for MST&T
To Explain

Mountain States Tel. & Tel. is
now claiming that, because of in
creased costs the investment for
leach new telephone added today
is over $500, as contrasted with
the company's claimed figure of
5000 per phone in 1853.
This claim, the Hamilton city
council is apparently unwilling to
buy, according to a report in MON
TANA FARMERS UNION NEWS.
The Ravalli county seat dads, in
unanimously opposing rate in
creases being sought by MST&T,
stated, the August MFU NEWS
reports: eff the value of telephone
property has increased more than
100 per cent in that time, why
does not this show on the utility's
tax assessment?'
The people's voice., 1957-08-30

range from 23 to SO per cent, instead
of the highly publicised 19 per cent.
For the business man on a one-party
line the new rate schedule would in
crease his annual phone bill $50 in
smaller towns, such as Terry. In fast
growing Glendive, his annual bill
would jump $51.OO. For the average
residential phone patron in smaller
towns, the annual bill would be hiked
SIP to SIS year; in larger cities,
such as Billings, Great Falls and
Butte, the average residential phone
bill would go up $18 to $21 per year.
For Montana Power, although the
percentage rate increases sought
range considerably less than those
proposed by the telephone company,
the dollars-and-cents effect on pa
irons will be similar. The average
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
likes Leud-Zine Proposals
Receive Sharp Criticism

ultimate extinction" Murray said.
'The Committee, however, had no
choice in the matter when it was
bluntly told that any legislation on
lead and zinc, other than that sub
mitted to the Congress, on June 10,
would be vetoed by the President
(This threat) clearly proved what
many of us had feared, that the Ad-
ministration's long-range minerals
program is a fake and a hoax. The
responsibility Murray continued,
"now rests squarely on the shoulders
of the President. He has adequate
authority, through the escape clause
of the Trade Agreement Extension
Act, to take the necessary steps. His
failure to accept that responsibility
can result in but one thing-lead
and zinc ghost towns, and thousands
of people thrown out of work"
At his press conference last week
the President said he believed relief
for the lead and zinc industry should
be handled through the Tariff Com
mission, which would make a study
of the situation which he would act
upon.
What makes westerners leery of
his words is the fact that in 1854 the
Tariff Commission unanimously rec
ommended that he adjust the tariffs
on lead and zinc, but the President
ignored the recommendation.
Continued On Page Three) !
The people's voice., 1957-08-30

adjacent thereto. l have been on many
a college campus from New Hamp-
shire to California, and know whereof
1 speak. The reason that the house is
usually on campus, is that the Presi-
dents House is more than a home
for the president of the moment, but
rather is a functional part of the col
lege facility. 1t is the place where
visiting VIP's are housed; it is the
place of college teas; the place where
the president gets to know his faculty
and student body; in brief, it is more
or less the Social Center of the Col
lege, and an important part of a full
college life.
1t appears to the writer that it
would be far wiser, both from an
educational sense, and business-wise
for the State to continue paying the
president of Eastern a house allow
ance, as was the case with outgoing
DR.. Peterson, and then when it is
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
By VIC REINEMER, Exec. .-Secy.
to Sen. James E. Murray

10 DCII. d JefIIIOo II. WI UIIdy
Proposals by the Administration t.
aid the hard hit lead-zinc industry
were condemned as meaningless lip
service" in statement by Senator
James E. Murray, and other members
of the states congressional delega-
tion this week.
"The provisions of the Administra-
tion's lead and zinc import tax pro-
posals, voted out by the Senate FL
nance Committee, are totally made
quate to provide the relief necessary
to save the domestic lead and zinc
producers from economic chaos and
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
Louisville GE Extends Its
Vacation Shutdown

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-(PAD-Gen-
eral Electric's major appliance divi-
sion is extending its vacation shut
down an extra week for inventory
adjustment" The decision will affect
about $4,000 production workers.
Company officials recently have COM
planned that the usual spring and
summer pickup did not take place this
year.
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
900 Involved =.
Proposed Purchase of Mansion
For EMC0E Prexy Draws Fire

expenditure by the State Board of Education
College
Education Billings this week protest against such
being made of the taxpayers monies -
Willard substantial
the Midland City, based his criticism of the proposed purchase
that the $4,000 house question lies mile the
living
public which
a
residence
full
from the proposed purchase:
The people's voice., 1957-08-30

residential customer using 300 kilo-
watt hours per month would find his
annual electric bill up $16.44, should
the total rate increase request re-
ceive PSC approval as was the case
in 1858 when the commission granted
MPCo. it's requested 80 to At per
cent natural gas rate hikes. For the
average commercial power user H.
800 XVIII per month according to the
utility the annual electricity bill
would go up $43.68.
Affected by the MST&T rate
hike request would be more than
$500 business phones and more
than $4,000 residential patrons.
The power company increase would
hit more than 10000 commercial
users, and in excess of 121, 900 resi-
Dental consumers.
The telephone company, in seeking
its 23 to So per cent rate hikes, claims
that because costs have risen steadily
since it's last substantial rate increase
in 1853, it must have the higher rates
in order to attract additional capital
for further expansion. This in face
of the fact that MST&T is 81 per
cent owned by American Tel. & Tel,
and the latter is one of the best pay
ing stocks in the country, continuing
it's long time practice of paying 50
or more per year dividend on 800
par value common stock.
Montana Power. in seeking higher
electric rates, would justify its case
in the eyes of the public in booklet
''For the First Time In Our Lives,
by pointing up that eve u. have
been experiencing the same squeeze
from increased costs as you" (the
patron). "Our operating expenses
have more than doubled in the last
20 years, and the cost of everything
we must buy to bring your service
has gone up :"
Possibly the major reason MPCo.
operating expenses have gone up
in the last 20 years is to be found
in the more detailed reporting by
MPCo. in its June 19, 1857 Gre
port of the Stockholders Meeting.
Therein, management pointed out
that in the 21-year period, 1886
through 1856, residential electric
revenues increased more than four
times over, and commercial reve-
nues more than three times over.
Such an increase in business natur-
lily would require greater plant ca
'acity and higher operational costs,
'et those costs fell considerably short
f the increased revenues accruing to
he utility in the past two decades.
his favorable picture is reflected
lso in the increasing desirability of
IPCo. common stock. Today, it's no
ar value common stock is more than
vice as valuable to stockholders as
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
Ten Times Over

According to 1856 Montana
Power Report To Stockholders,
the utility has purchase contracts
for $4,000 kilowatts of firm power
produced at publicly built dams.
This power costs MPCo. up to 2.5
mills per kilowatt hour-or less
than half as much as the company
can produce power for at its own
installations. MPCo. retails this
power to the average residential
user at 2.45 cents per kwh-or
almost ten times as much as it pays
for it.
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
Board of Examiners
Helena, Montana

Board of Examiners
Helena, Montana
Hello:
The morning paper carried an al
most unbelievable story about the
State purchasing house at 704 Park
Lane as home for the new president
of ---astern Montana College of Edu-
cation, for which the state is paying
some $4O,OOO.OO, plus $5,OOO.OO for
furniture. Considering the present
real estate market in Billings, this
is quite sum, to say the least. This
seems preposterous to me, and I write
in protest against such extravagant
use being made of the taxpayers
Now I do not necessarily oppose
the College furnishing a house for
it's president. This is customary in
most well-run schools, but with this
decided difference-the home fur
nished most college presidents is
either on campus, or Immediately
The people's voice., 1957-08-30
Rat q Hikes Would Cost
Ut {}Ity Users 81 Million
Estimate Places MST&T Proposed Rate Hike More Than $4OOOOO
Montana Powers At $3,OOO,000

Patrons of Mountain States TEL Tel and Montana Power
Company will find their pocketbooks thinner by than
should the Public Service Commission approve
sought by the two utilities the
setting commission for consideration.
Rate increases sought by MST&T below
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-01

OF, NATO, even if not an official
member.
That Spain is again back in
business as a member of the
world community was recognized
officially this summer when she
was invited to take part in the
London Suez Canal conferences
It was her first international
conference since her civil war
Spain in the last few years
has tried to become a champion
Iof Arab rights. She is aiming at
an influential position in two
power camps, Europe and North
Africa Middle East.
This is a renaissance for
Spain, and the bases deal will
get the creditor blame, if the
traditionally isolated Spaniards
decide eventually they don't en-
JOY the new adventure.
So while the Spanish bases
may mean only a brief military
interlude for the United States,
they seem likely to prove a turn
ing point in Spanish foreign rela-
lions and a possible liberalizing
Jolt to her internal affairs.
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I roffic Toll Passes ! 900
For TwoHo|idoy Periods

The rate of death along the
streets and highways for the
New Year week end was fal
under the record Christmas pace
BY 1880 am. (EST) today
New Year weekend fatalities
numbered 32l in traffic, A ir
fires and 70 in accidents of other
kinds for an overall total of 444
During the Christmas week
end traffic deaths added up to
ia record 706.
The highest combination
Christmas and New Year traffic
death toll was 973. compiled
last year.
The New Year period traffic
toll was running far short of the
rate attained during the Christ
mas period. But a National
Safety Council spokesman said
lit was too early to tell" what
the final score would be.
ION the basis of present
figures, he said at 10 am, "the
performance is gratifying, in
dicating drivers were on theil
good behavior last night New
Years eve) /"
The count of dead rose stead
lily in the counting period which
began at 6 pm. Qocal time) Fri
day and will end at midnight to-
night.
The record New Year traffic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-01
Red Party Obtains
New Power in Laos

SAIGON, South Wet Nam,
Jan. l GA communique an
inounced yesterday the creation
Iof a government of national
unity" in the Indo-C China king
dom of Laos with the participa-
ltion of Communist Pathet Laos.
The announcement was made
Jointly by the government and
the Pathet Lao Party.
1t said both the government
and Pathet Laos were lin agree
Iment on the right to vote for all
citizens of both sexes" on civil
liberties and on the question of
the armed forces.
The settlement followed
numerous clashes between the
royal Laotian army and Pathet
Laos forces who control the area
lof Laos bordering on Communist
North Wet Nam and Red China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-01
BY the Associated Press

The national death toll in
holiday accidents of all types
totaled 373 through midnight
last night. At that time the
count, which began at 6 pm.
local time) Friday. showed 265
killed in traffic. So in fires and
u in miscellaneous accidents.
Since that time these have
been added:
2:30 am: Deaths, 266 traf-
fic, 36 fire, 70 miscellaneous
total 374.
3 am: Deaths. 1858 traffic,
So fire, 70 miscellaneous-Total
376.
$3.50 am: Deaths, 269 traffic,
81 fire. 70 miscellaneous
total 379..
4 am: Deaths, 269 trafiic,
81 fire, 70 miscellaneous
total 379.
4:30 am: Deaths, 270 traffic,
81 fire, 70 miscellaneous
total $50.
S am: Deaths. 270 traffic,
81 fire, 70 miscellaneous
total $50.
$50 a m: Deaths: 27l traffic,
81 fire. 70 miscellaneous
total 381.
6 am: Deaths, 272 traffic,
81 fire, 70 miscellaneous-total
1872.
$50 am: Deaths, 272 traf-
fic, 81 fire. 70 miscellaneous
total 1872.
7 am: Deaths, 279 traffic,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-01
LOG OF HOLIDAY DEATHS

81 fire. 70 miscellaneous-total
389.
1880 am: Deaths, 284 traf-
fic. 81 fire. 70 miscellaneous
total 1874.
8 am: Deaths, 288 trafic,
SO fires. rs miscellaneous-to-
tai 40l.
$3.50 am: Deaths, 288 traf-
f1ic, 38 fires. rs miscellaneous
total 401.
8 am: Deaths. 288 traffic, 80
fires, rs miScellaneous-total 40l.
$50 am: Deaths, 290 traffic,
SO fires. rs miscellaneous-total'
403.
10 am: Deaths, 298 traffic, 80
fires. rs miscellaneous-total Alb.
1890 am: Deaths, 302 traffic,
80 fires, rs miscellaneous-total
AIT.
IL am: Deaths, 30S traffic, AZ
fires, n miscellaneous-total 427.
1880 am: Deaths, 32l traffic,
A fires, 70 miscellaneous-total
444.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-01

rive Spain expects to keep an
even economic keel.
There is another effect of the
bases deal which the Franco
government does not worry
about: The effect on Spain
own military forces.
In order that Spain can
properly contribute to her own
defense and in that way help
defend the bases, America is
revitalizing the Spanish air
force. Before the bases deal
the Spanish air force consisted
largely of pre-World War II
German planes. Now America
is giving Spain modern jets
and the mechanical air force
needed to support them. Gen.
Ieral Franco will soon have one
of the most modern little ali
forces in Europe.
Americans here are confident
Gen. Franco will do all he car
to make the bases agreement
work for the duration of the
pact Tan initial 10-year period
ending 1868 plus two automatic
I5-year extensions.
Meanwhile, the bases agree
ment already has changed
SPANS foreign relations. This
country was in official interna-
tional disgrace when American
military leaders persuaded a
Democratic, White House that
Spain was essential as a site fol
American bomber bases.
First official talks with the
Spanish authorities began in
1851 despite muttered objections
from Americas European allies
who still thought the Franco
government could be made to
fall if enough outside pressure
was maintained.
Accord Signed in 1853
In 1852 actual negotiations fol-
an agreement began. 1t was
signed in September, 1853, and
the Pentagon started to plan
the bases.
Since then the United States
has been the friend-in-court Of
Spain and Spain has been for
most practical purposes a part
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-01
U. S. Jets in Spain Seen
Creating New Problems

may mean only a brief military
for the United States,
they seem likely to prove a turn
ing point in Spanish foreign re-
lations and possible liberaliz-
ing jolt to her internal affairs
Fear Economic Effects
Spaniards also fear the eco
nomic impact of the American
bases. Spain, with per capita
gross national product of only
IS255 a year, is the poorest ma
Ition in non-Communist Europe.
1t is being invaded by a bunch
lof financially loaded GIs and is
enduring construction program
which could have the equivalent
impact of a $50 billion spending
spree imposed on the American
economy.
Americans are helping to ease
the strain by bringing with them
most of what the bases program
consumes. by keeping wage scales
low and by artiflcially snoring up
the Spanish economy.
The United STATES Congress
has voted to give 1915 million
to Spain, almost all in military
aid. There has been another
$685. million worth Of Export
Import Bank loans. And sur
plus commodity sales to the tune
Iof $132.5 million nave been ar
ranged. Counterpart funds in
Spanish money generated by the
gifts will be plowed back into
the economy. And peseta pay
ments for the surplus crops also
will be spent here.
The result of all this is that
shortages have been averted and
to date the effect of the bases
program has been only mildly
Iinflationary. If the aid keeps
coming and the cheap surplus
American crops continue to ar
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toll is 407. set in the four-day
1928 period. In the three-day
holiday period a year ago, 1854
persons were killed.
The Safety Council estimated
before the present New Year
holiday began that 400 persons
would lose their lives in traffic
accidents during the period.
The council said that between
IS and 40 million persons would
be moving in vehicles during the
New Year holiday, compared
with an estimated As million
during the Christmas week end.
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Dimes Drive Fete

RICHMOND, Va. Jan. l (F).
Mrs. Thomas B. Stanley. wife
of the Governor, will be hostess
to more than 100 civic leaders
in the State at a coffee party
Thursday, official opening of the
1857 March of Dimes campaign
in Virginia. One woman from
each county and city has been
invited to the function.
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can civilians on the scene lean
over backwards SO far to be kind
to the Spaniards one almost gets
the impression the Spaniards
themselves are building, arming
and manning the bases in a
splendid, gay gesture of gener-
osity toward the West.
Problems When GIs Arrive
At the same time. the Franco
government is knocking itself out
to be generous to the Ameri:
cans and to uphold its end OF
the bargain. 1t moved with
haste in the difficult job OF
acquiring land for the bases. 1t
is Offering Spanish facilities fol
the supply of water to dry-area
base sites. And where Ameri-
can construction supervisors run
into trouble getting what they
want out of Subcontractors OF
local officials, the government
turns on the pressure.
How long will be honeymoon
last?
Probably about as long as II
takes to move out the well-in-
doctrinated construction super
visors and move in the first large
numbers of free-thinking GIs
1t is hard to see how incidents
which have caused trouble in
Germany, England. Japan and
other places where large num-
bers of American troops have
been stationed can be avoided
here. Noisy airplanes, the in
evitable small group of drinking
irresponsible soldiers, the wives
IN shorts and Stacks. the "over-
paid" f1y-boys all will contribute
to strained relations.
Then the status of American
troops in Spain will depend on
how badly the two countries
need each other and how hard
two sets of officials work to keep
incidents to minimum. Both
governments recognize the prob
lem and will try to make Spain
a model of good relations.
That job will be complicated
by the fact that Spain and
America are fundamentally diff
ferent nations with different
backgrounds and outlooks. Spain
is a dictatorship. although a
benevolent and. American diplo-
mats here believe, a necessary
one at this time. The hand of
the dictator is barely visible to
the casual visitor. but American
troops will run into it OCCASION
ally in their associations with
Spanish civilians. Some Amer
leans certainly will criticize it,
and while considerable criticism
Is permitted, there is a limit.
Democracy and Religion
The Spanish government Is
worried that Americas ideas OF
democracy will undermine the
present Spanish way of life. And
Americans say privately those
worries may turn out to be well
founded.
Conservative Spaniards = and
there are a lot of them-worry
also that an influx of American
Protestants will be dangerous in
officially Catholic Spain. Spanish
leaders have tried to insulate
this country from religious and
political liberalism ever since the
end of the civil war, and they
fear the bases program will
destroy that insulation.
This is a renaissance for Spain
and the bases deal will get the
creditor blame, if the tradi-
tionally isolated Spaniards de-
eide eventually they don't enjoy
The new adventure.
So while the Spanish bases
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-01
BY the Associated Press

The combined New Year and
Christmas holiday traffic death
tolls today passed the 1000
mark for the first time in the
Nations history.