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The people's voice., 1957-05-31

Two months ago March 29) this
Newsletter forecast that another re-
cession' is just around the corner" 3"
The present business slump is now
generally acknowledged and identi-
fled by expert observers of economic
trends. The WALL STREET JOUR-
NAL recently stated that "The latest
trend is now called a lull, or the
lull, ;" and that "it seems to be deep
ening."
A hard hitting diagnosis of what's
ailing the U. S. economy, plus bold
prescription for curing it and stimu-
lating robust good health comes,
therefore, at an exceptionally appro-
pirate time this week.
1t was published by the Conference
on Economic Progress, headed by
Leon Keyserling, chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisors under
President Truman. Among the confer
ence's national committee members
are FU leaders Jim Patton, Glenn
Talbot, and M. w. Thatcher, along
with other farm, coop, and labor
leaders and businessmen.
The MOST important point driven
home by the Keyserling study is
that this is a growing nation, with
a fast increasing population and
rising productive ability, and that
its economy must grow al. a healthy
rate to keep up.
AS Keyserling puts it,
Our rate of economic growth,
the basis of expanding consumption
and living standards, has slowed
down during recent years to only
about half our best past perform
ance in peacetime. Yet we preen
ourselves on a little more produc-
ton and consumption today than
year ago, like a child who has
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
BY ''BRITT" ENGLUND, Exec. Sec!
To CONG. LEE METCALF

The Interior Department has re-
ported favorably on bill by Con-
gressman Metcalf to begin continuing
studies of the effect of chemical
sprays on fish and wildlife.
Studies would lead to a determina-
tion of the amounts and percentages
of insecticides, herbicides and fungi
cides that can be used effectively
without killing or injuring fish and
wildlife.
"At least three billion pounds of
these chemical sprays were dumped
over more than 70 million acres of
our crop and timberland to kill in
sects, weeds and diseases last year,"
Metcalf said in explaining the bill.
Everyone appreciates the need for
minimizing this danger to forests and
crops. But conservationists, sports
men. foresters and farmers are equal
ly concerned over increased reports
of fish and wildlife being killed by
this spraying. An example is the
death of fish in the Yellowstone River
1olloWlng DDI spraying Ior spruce
budworm control in 1855.
each year, we find more acres
being sprayed by more efficient pesti-
cides. Research into their effects on
fish and wildlife has not kept pace
with the development of these more
powerful controls.
"a multibillion-dollar recreation
and commercial fishery industry, of
interest to at least 40 million Ameri-
cans, is involved here. We must pro-
tect our valuable fish and wildlife
resources while at the same time eff
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
Do You Know Your
Cars Color and
License Number?

Ask the fellow sitting next to you
if he knows the license number on his
car. Does he know the color of his
car? Do you know your license num-
Der and color of your car? Hal Vim
son of the National Auto Theft Bu-
reau, speaking before the. Attorney
Generals Law Enforcement Confer
ence in the senate chambers of the
Capitol, Thursday, May %, told Mon
tana enforcement officers a surpris-
ing number of people call police head
quarters to report their car is stolen
and then can not report the license
number or name the color.
Mr.. Vinson outlined methods used
by car thieves, from the Individual to
the gang-type of car stealing; the
latter complicated racket carried
on so successfully as to make detec-
tion extremely difficult.
Much of the stolen car racket is
made simple and easy by car owners
who are careless and leave their cars
or leave the keys in the
ignition and the motor running. There
is no simple and easy way to catch up
with those who make stealing cars a
business.
Vinson told police officers public
communication mediums should be
used to educate the people. The pub
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
grown one inch when it should have
grown two"

grown one InCn Wnen III Snoulu nave
grown two"
Keyserling's entire criticism of the
Administration economic policies,
and his proposals for alternative poll
cies, hinge upon this point. Contrari-
wise. the Administration defense of
it's management of the economy turns
backward on this identical point; u.
S. planners boasted that national pro-
duction in 1854 was ''almost as good"
as in 1853, and performances in 1855
and 1856. Of this record, Keyserling
says:
"The growth in our total produc-
ton has fallen from more than
41a% a year during 1947-53, to
only about go from fourth quart
err 1855 to fourth quarter 1856.
We have thus slowed down to less
than half the rate of progress with
in our power
For farmers especially, economic
growth is of utmost Importance. Farm
production in the U. S. has increased
at a reasonably steady pace. From
1900 to 1850, total U. S. farm pro-
duction increased at an average rate
of 29o per year, and regardless of
drouth, flood, depression, or war,
farm production never varied either
up or down from the previous year by
more than 496 in any of those so
years.
Obviously, farmers cannot hold
their own unless the economy expands
sufficiently to absorb the steady an
nual average increase in farm pro-
duction. Actual experience over the
past 25 years has been that farmers
purchasing power is likely to drop un-
less the gross national product in
creases by go or more over the pre-
The people's voice., 1957-05-31

region of the Snake River.
Gray consulted with his lawyer re-
peatedly throughout the Senate Judi
ciary Subcommittee on Antitrust
and Monopoly Investigation, and then
on eight occasions refused to answer
questions. At other times, he gave
what committee members described
as only partial answers.
Committee investigators uncovered
a penciled memorandum in ODM's
files on the Idaho Power Co.'s appli-
cation for tax write-offs. The memo
attached to the application indicated
it had been Cleared" with Sherman
Adams, assistant to the president;
Howard Pyle, another presidential as
sistant; Harold Morgan, special coun-
sci to the president; Elmer Bennett,
newly appointed solicitor at the De-
partment of the Interior, and Maj.
Gen. Wilton Persons, another presi-
Dental assistant.
One of the White House personnel
made the following suggestion to be
included in ODM's press release on
the Idaho Power Co. tax write-offs,
Goal is closed, was charged against
goal. If for any reason goal is re-
opened. criteria would be re-exam-
ined."
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
TOPIC OF CONSIDERABLE
DISCUSSION"

Sens. Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) 4,
chairman of the subcommittee; Joseph
O'Mahoney (Wyo.), and John Carroll
(Colo.) sought unsuccessfully to get
Gray to relate what reason the White
House staff had to investigate ODM's
press release on the tax write-offs.
Gray repeatedly asserted that the only
reason the matter was brought to
White House attention was that it
had been topic of considerable dis
cussion" within and outside the gov
ernment. When asked for specifics,
however, he relied on Executive priv
ilege" and refused to answer.
Executive privilege" is similar
to the fifth amendment. 1t allows
members of the executive branch of
the government to refuse to reveal
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
Study of Effects Of Chemical
Sprays On Wi|dIife Sought

fectively spraying our forests and
farmland"
PARADISE
A letter from a Montanan favoring
multipurpose Federal Paradise Dam,
and a newspaper column opposing it,
made the Congressional Record re-
Gently.
Mrs. Frances d. Logan of Charlo
wrote the letter on behalf of the high
dam in the Clark Fork River to Con-
gresham Earl Chudoff, Pennsylvania
Democrat, chairman of the House
Public Works and Resources subcom-
mittee. He put her letter, and the
column she enclosed from the April A
issue of the Roman Pioneer into the
Record.
Paradise, Chudoff said, would i'm
pound an estimated million acre-feet
of usable storage and add some mil
lion kilowatts of generating capacity.
"The Montana Power Company" he
continued in his Introductory remarks,
"has been granted preliminary per-
nit to investigate certain sites for
power dams which would provide rela-
lively little storage of water but which
would conflict with and effectively
preclude construction of high Para
disc Dam.
81 should like to bring to the atten-
ton of the House letter and a news
paper article In this letter the
complaint is made that many kinds of
pressures and restraints, including
economic types and also press censor
ship, are being brought to bear against
those who advocate the high federal
(Cont'd on Page Two)
The people's voice., 1957-05-31

The U. S. Senate will vote on the
bill proposing authorization of high
Hells Canyon Dam, Tuesday, June 3,
according to word from Washington.
Action by Congress this session
will determine once and for all wheth-
er or not this finest remaining null
tiple-purpose resource development
site is to be saved from piecemeal,
high cost development.
Federal construction of Hells Can
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
'ODM Chief Pulls q Dave Beck
On Senute Judiciary Committee

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NRECA)-Office of Defense Mo-
bzation Director Gordon Gray last week took from
union leader Dave Beck claiming Executive privilege and
refusing congressional Investigators questions
gardng White House activity the Idaho Power Company
wrteof subsidies for two small dams in the Hels Canyon
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
KeyserEng Economic Study Published
Business In Slump; p; ,sident's
Management of EcoT ) my Hit

WASHINGTON, D. Cy-(NFU)-The U. S. economy ~1 a
has been dragged halt by the Administrations upward
manipulation of interest and profteerg by the major
corporations.
The slump in business just about wipes out what
hope might have existed for slight improvement in
the farm this
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
Wheat Harvest Will Be
Off 10 Per Cent

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
U. S. farmers this year will harvest
900 million bushels of wheat, USDA
estimates. This is 1919 less than in
1856.
The people's voice., 1957-05-31

discussions with President Eisen-
hover and White House staff men,
bers. The fifth amendment is in
voked to prevent characterization.
O'Mahoney charged that Gray's at
titude was no different than that of
Dave Beck, the labor unionist who
repeatedly invoked the fifth amend
ment before a Senate investigating
committee. The Wyoming senator said
that Beck was invoking the fifth
amendment for fear of discriminating
himself, whereas Gray was invoking
executive privilege" to cover up the
Administrations actions in the Hells
Canyon controversy.
O'Mahoney declared the Hells Can
yon situation is identical with the
Dixon-Y Yates situation. President Eli
senhower withdrew the government
from the defunct Dixon-Yates con-
tract, following an investigation of
White House background activities in
that affair by the same committee
two years ago.
Earlier. NRECA General Manager
Clyde T. Ellis submitted for the sub
committees record carefully pre-
pared 124-page document to provide
the basis for broad investigation of
the entire Hells Canyon situation, in
cluding the Idaho Power tax write
off subsidies.
CONSTRUCTIVE FRAUD"
Ellis charged, much of this whole
program of subsidy to the private
power industry has been in keeping
neither with the wording or spirit of
the law as set forth in Section 1853 of
the Internal Revenue Act of 1854, nor
in keeping with the wording and spir-
it of the criteria established by ODM
itself. In particular, submit, that the
certificates granted to the Idaho Pow
er Co. partake of the nature of con-
structive fraud, or misfeasance, or
malfeasance in the administration of
this act and are in fact designed to
subsidize private monopoly in its drive
to waste public resources and elimi-
nate competition in the electric in
dustry"
can investigation, Ellis asserted,
would provide sufficient evidence to
convince all men in Congress that the
only immediate fitting punishment for
this kind of irresponsibility, collusion
and misgovernment would be for the
Congress to authorize high Federal
Hells Canyon Dam, and blast once and
for all the carefully laid plans of those
behind the 'Ebasco Valley Authority
Dixon-Yates deal and the rest of the
schemes Ellis charged.
O'Mahoney complimented Ellis for
his statement, stating, "Your fight for
REA, against collectivistic utilities, is
a fight for basic Americanism."
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Why We Soy

BURNING POCKETS: A
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-08
By EASLEY BLACKWOOD

Mr.. Champion was slightly sur
prised. but not so surprised that
he went set. Mr.. Muzzy opened
the king of diamonds which was
taken in the closed hand with
the ace.
A small club was led to the
queen and another club back to
the ace. Mr.. Champion now
played the jack of clubs and Mr.
Muzzy frowned slightly. Had the
king been played? Brilliantly he
figured that it had not-and that
Mr.. Champion held it.
It would not have done any
good for Mr.. Muzzy to ruff the
third club with the ace or king
of spades. If he had done so the
last diamond would have been
discarded from the board. He
decided to ruff with the eight of
spades-and Mr.. Champion over
ruffed with dummy's jack.
Returning to his hand with the
king of hearts. Mr.. Champion
next led the king of clubs. Mr.
Muzzy won this trick with the
nine Of spades and the last dia-
mond was played from dummy.
The ace and king of spades
were now cashed and followed by
a heart lead. Dummy's ace of
hearts won and Mr.. Champion
discarded a diamond from his
hand. At this point all of his
remaining cards were good ex-
cept the small diamond and there
was a trump on the board to
take care of that.
Mr. Muzzy had been very cockt
at the beginning of the hand.
Now he was somewhat subdued.
Maybe I can beat it if I ruff
that third lead of clubs with the
king of truinps." he said.
Mr.. Champion grinned. "You
didn't need to play any better"
he said. you just need better
cards when you double me-"
This was sound advice. When
doubling a contract freely
reached by good players it is wise
to have something in reserve
that is. you should have reason
able expectation Of beating the
contract two tricks. This is espe-
cially true where your opponents
reach game after you have an
nounced possession Of most or
all Of the defensive strength by
bidding or making a takeout
double during the auction.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-08
By Rouson
BY Wolf Disney

writes. William Morris de-
scribed the most beautiful Of all
Utopias in News From Nowhere
and I have spent many COM
Portable hours in the chair ne
designed but which is now out OF
style. And I enjoy your column.
Il intended writing you way
last June when you spoke of
'snide' being a relatively recent
addition to general usage, re-
membering that some 10 years
ago said Gee. Aunt Annie,
these bananas are snide. when
she brought her favorite baby
nephew some of the fruit 'Snide'
must have been in general use
then-in Cincinnati. at least
or a baby would not have used
the word. Then 1 hied me to my
1918 Funk e. Wagnalls Stand
ard Dictionary and found 'snide'
as big as life. Coming into use
in the last Is years or So in
deed!
Then, on September Is, last.
you pulled my pet peeve' when
you referred to something as an
old adage. How can 1t be an
adage If it isn't old? Well. this
has been churning around for a
long time; but I've finally got
\ 1t off my chest and will let you
suffer with 1t for a while"
/ don't think there will be
much suffering, Mr.. Ault, for
though you have pinked me
neatly on the old adage" re-
dundancy, there really is no
quai rel between us on the mat
ter Of "snide." My intention was
to show that even dictionary
makers blunder. for. until the
latest revision, one Of our most
distinguished dictionaries had
never entered the word It mat
ters little whether the word Is
quarter-century ., three.
quarters Of O century Ole. My
hbint was that ever todav's die;
eonary ed!tcfs-myself includsH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-08
WORDS, WIT.
AND WISDOM
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

One Of the Joys of a COL
umnist's life is the occasional
sprightly, challenging letter from
a reader who cares enough about
the column to offer helpful criti-
cisnl. One such came along from
Harry E. B. Ault Of Tacoma.
Wash. and / should like to share
1t with you.
you have a great name," he
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occasionally have to fail bach;
on Or Johnson's famous explain
alton wher asked why al
important word was omitted
from mis- dictionary Ignorance
Madam sheer ignorance.
RELEASED bv Ths Sci, syndicate. Inc,
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OUR. PRESIDENTS
BY HONORE M. CATUDAL

If nominated. will not
accept; If elected, I will moi
serve" These we're the words OF
a great general who refused to
run for President in 1884: today
lis the 18th anniversary Of the
birth Of this great general. Who?
2.-Who was the first Ameri-
can to win the Nobel Prize fol-
literature and who was President
when he was born. 70 years age
yesterday
3.-Who was President when
the Boy Scouts Of America was
founded AZ years ago today
Answers on Next Page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-08
WORD GAME
Find AZ or more words in
VOL ATILE

meaning. gaseous. lively" Az
erage is 40; time limit. IS min
uteS.
Rules Of the game: l. Words must Of
OF four or more letters. . Words which
acquire four letters by the addition oil
IS such as bats" cars" are not used
B. Only one form OF q word is used. 4
Proper names are not used
Answer to DIVORCE
decor, dire. diver, dice. dove. Goer drive
iced. WED, vice. vireo. video, voice. void
over, ride. rice. rive. rove. cider, cord
core, cover, cove. code. coed, cried.
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save on cardigans
and puIlovers
GIRLS
Sweaters
1''o and go

Soft, washable Orion
sweaters in assorted styles
white and "eot 'em
with q spoon" posteIs and
dark coIors school girls
love.
Cordioons in sizes 3 to
IA, regular 800 to $50,
200
PuIIovers in sizes 7 to | 4,
regularly 2.99 and more,
100
Down Stoirs Store, Girls Apporel
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ond 7 Corners Down Stoirs Store
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-08
Miss Meeker
Is Married

Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Clinton Meeker announce the
marriage of their daughter
Doree Lee to Mr.. Charles
David Marx. son of Mr. and
Mrs. David H. Marx of New
York and Chal-Mar Farm,
Shrewsbury, N. J.
The ceremony took place
October 26 at the Blessed Sac
rament Church with the Rev.
E. Carl Lyon officiating. A
reception following at the
Congressional Country Club.
The bride wore a gown of
pure silk taffeta and imported
reembroidered lace scattered
with tiny seed pearls. She
carried a cascade bouquet of
white orchids and stepha-
notis.
Mrs. Marx was graduated
from Georgetown Visitation
Convent here and attended
Georgian Court College in
Lakewood, N, j. She was pre-
sented TO society at the an
nual Debutante Cotillion and
THANKSGIVING Ball in Novem-
Der. 1854 and at a ball given
by her parents that same
year.
Mr.. Marx was graduated
from Lawrenceville Prepara-
tory School and attended
Rutgers University. He is
associated with a banking
firm on Wall Street.
After their welding trip. the
couple will live in New York.
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