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The people's voice., 1957-05-31
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

As the notion labeled ''wax for presidents wings
mets it drps around the feet of lesser nonsoaring
oods on OLYMPUS where cold stark reality makes wax
stick and the anguish is there for all to see.
Two entirely unrelated news stories appeared in
the daily press this week that point out the drama in
America of politics VS.. people.
Monday we read: crippled and elderly woman
was buried when a building in Boston collapsed. The
building? One of $500 that should come down through
demolition.
Tuesday we read: Republicans find economy issue
on which they can put up a solid front-they will
fight the Housing bill appropriation.
The money appropriated for housing from the
tional treasury is sef-lquidating and even makes
little profit according proof of 20 years experience
Besides that people live in them.
Young Republicans this week went record for:
we'll being of the individual worker enactment of leg
islaon to protect individuals and unions from labor
racketeers who raid union funds -
Will someone please ask them if that means for a
right-to-work law?
The words they put by the YRS could be
favoring law and they certainly will be
soace to people interested in the rght-towork petit
tons laying around under counters in different parts
of the state waiting to be signed
There is still time before election and it
doesn't take three thousand words to be for against
right-towork laws, and political leadership should say
way or the other
Unless YRS clarity the matter however, can't see
how union take chance their statement
it pubcized this week.
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
Appreciates VOICE

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Billings:
The three bucks enclosed with this
is the renewal payment. 1 have en-
joyed and appreciated your editorials,
news notes and the letters contributed
by such men as Maury, Cloke and Nc
Keon. There are few editors left in
this country who have not sold their
honor to hold their jobs, to print the
truth as they know it to be and not
omit or slant" it in order to protect
the exploiting class. You folks ought
to feel a little proud to be known as
courageous enough to edit true, demo-
cratic paper in state owned, operated
and exploited by the Republican party.
DON SWITZER, Libby
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
Please Keep That Monster Under Control

We in receipt of request from Dean Chaffn president
of Montana Council for Traffic Safety to help pubcize the
need for careful driving highways first requisite
reducing our alarming highway accident toll
Up to this time haven't been able to penetrate either the
lower regions the unknown with PV propaganda
ISSUE Probably wouldn't do good anyway SINCE
you're dead longer concerned with such earthly
matters as highways automobiles, speed limits, etc.
But most earnestly to observe than
the usual amount of caution when you out driving these
beautiful summer weekend ahead Only the undertaken bene
fits when toss caution to the Winds and he would
much rather you'd wait your turn at calling at
establishment for making for your trip the
next world.
PS And from strictly selfish anglepease put off getting
killed in this noneecon PV subscribers always tough
by when politics in background Of affairs
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
Liked Cancer Article

Will you please send me a few copies
of May II issue of the Peoples Voice.
Maybe we will get some place when
we can read an article like Cal Toff-
ler's) on cancer-maybe we will see
something on polio later.
One out of four of US are walking
around with cancer-why not get at
the preventive angle. Yours truly -
MORRIS OPHEIM, Opheim
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
Editorial
Montana Building Decline
Need For Resource Development
Pointed Up

Plans expenditures for building all kinds the nation
for 1867 compared with 1856 according to u NEWS
& WORLD REPORT down 81 per cent State by
such planned building expenditures greatly from pro-
posed increase 526 Arkansas decline
per cent in Montana
decline state coupled disquieting
employment reports by the Unemployment Compensation
fare of Montana.
That 1000 people, per job force
should have been seeking employment at the end of April
itself might not be considered endangerng the of
the state whole what with the usual pickup employ
ment activity that gets underway early in May However, this
per unemployment distributed evenly
state More than half of the 12O 900 unemployed located
in Yellowstone and the several counties in the northwestern
corner of the state the picture is the fact that
of the end of last week. the UCC the slack in jobs has
not been taken rapidly as in past years
building planning should II per
cent and that currently short several thousand jobs for
full employment need not be grounds for permitting feeling of
deepest gloom to develop even though our agriculture and
lumber industry hard hit and aluminium plant
being forced to cua operations of oversupp
that metal in the market place.
Rather Montanas inability to give employment to all en-
playable citizens should to all of press
demands for increased development activity
AS happens, the which greatest unemployment
IS concentrated the where of greatest
resource development possibilities lie.
Yellowstone badly needs the starting of
on of Yelowai Dam, not only for immediate jobs but for
the benefits that will be forthcoming from increased
industrial activity made possible by the lowcost power Yellow
tails power houses will produce.
Likewise, the northwest Montana with it's substantial
of unemployed would find such condition reversed
almost overnight the would hasten TO give the green
light construction of Paradise Libby and Spruce Park dams
become oburpus with employment directly connected
with the three projects being increased by at least five thousand
the four to veyear periods of construction involved
In addition it would take szeable of people employed
the service trades transportation to take of the
needs and desires of the construction force.
These multipurpose projects-Yeowtail Paradise
Libby and Spruce Park-woud not only prime the pump Of
Montanas during construction but like Hungry Horse
and similar developments the for much higher
level of employment state and provide the
job opportunities to keep Montanareared and educated
young people in the Treasure State.
The people's voice., 1957-05-31

Then came the delegation request
for money to begin the u year job
of designing Libby Dam to be built
in two stages and to do complete
study of proposed Paradise Dam, in
cluding alternative sites.
eve have good record in develop
ment of our natural resources and we
cannot afford to slow up now," Mans
field concluded. IAN imaginative pub
lie works program must be spearhead-
ed by the Congress with ample and
speedy appropriations" /.
LU LAND
Two months ago, this column re-
ported that the Forest Service and
the Bureau of Land Management were
working on transfer, from the former
to the latter, of more than l million
acres of public land in Montana.
Last week the two agencies an
nounced the proposed transfer of l.
953,853 acres comprising Land Utili-
zation Projects in 10 eastern Mon
tana counties. Transfer would be by
order of the President and effective
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
Re Salt Lake Power Conference

couple of weeks in carrying report the Water
and Power Users Conference in Salt Lake City, had far
from complete list of Montanans in attendance We still do
have complete M but in addition to those mentioned
iouseonard Keneld and Ted Townsend of Montana
Union and Judge Left Erickson learned
others These incude Ernest Salvas Butte Minell board
member; Harold Ebaugh Havre manager Hill County Elec
trio Coop Sven and Gordon Twedt Rudyard Ralph Cook
MFU secretary and delegation from southeastern Montana
rural eectrics.
The people's voice., 1957-05-31
Study of Effects Of
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dam. The company referred to in thi:
letter is, of course, the Montana Pow.
er Company" Chudoff said.
Mrs. Logan wrote in part:
"One very disturbing aspect of this
controversy over whether we are to
have a multipurpose Paradise Dam or
two private power company's no-stor-
age dams, is the large number of peo-
pie who are afraid to come out pub
licly for the high dam. Company
pressure has succeeded in creating
fears of all kinds, from fear of losing
job and not being able to get an
other. to fear that credit will not
be available, to fear that ones wife
will no longer be invited to the best
bridge parties, to fear of being called
'Red'.''
In the enclosed column, Floyd Lar
sons ''In M Out of Focus" he ques-
toned the validity of poll conducted
by means of ballots printed in the
three Sanders county papers. Of the
213 who cast votes, 153 favored Para
disc, 81 opposed it, and were un-
decided.
He said the poll was "poor journal
ISM and that the three papers are
misleading their readers eff you do
not call the shortcomings of this poll
to their attention" The column con-
cluded:
"For while we as newspapermen
have the right and obligation to speak
out editorially on issues of this kind,
we also have the responsibility of do
ing everything humanity possible to
protect our readers from information
that can be subjected to misinterpre-
tation because of it's unsound origin"
WORKS
Once again, Montanans in Congress
joined in single statement on behalf
of power and flood control work in |
The Treasure State.
Senator Mansfield spoke for the |
delegation before the Senate Appro-
oriations subcommittee at hearings on
Army Engineers projects during the
year beginning July 1.
He led off by supporting So million
'or construction of the second power
plant at Fort Peck Dam. This unit
would add $4,000 kilowatts to the
S5, 5,000-kw plant now in operation in
'an area faced with a power short
lge."
Then came flood control work, in
luding $4,000 for planning funds at
Niles City. Mansfield also urged plan
ling money for the Billings Flood
Control Project, which was dropped
lfter local interests were unable to
meet local cooperation requirements.
n addition, he reminded the subcom-
nittee that flood protection work at
treat Falls has been recommended,
nd that as soon as authorizing legis-
alton is passed, the subcommittee s
Jill be called upon to put up $1.4 !
lillion for this work. 8
The people's voice., 1957-08-16
Food Costs Rise AS Farmers
Purchasing Power Drops

The cost of food purchased by farm
families in June set an alltime high,
while prices received by farmers for
products they sold had the lowest pur-
chasing power of any June since 1910.
The U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture reports that prices paid by farm
ers for operating expenses, family
living costs, and for interest, wages
and taxes continued at the alltime
high reached last April.
Then who is prospering during this
period of so-called Eisenhower pros
perity"? Figures of the government
itself show that since 1851 income
from interest has jumped So per cent
and income from corporation divi-
dends has increased 35 per cent. But
average weekly wages of manufac-
turing workers have risen 26 per cent,
to barely more than $4,000 year,
and net income per farm family has
dropped Is per cent.-COPE MEMO.
The people's voice., 1957-08-16
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OTHER PROVISIONS FOR 1858

OTHER PROVISIONS FOR 1858
Individual payment rates for the
1858 Acreage Reserve will be deter
mined primarily on the basis of aver
age per-acre rates. For each reserve
crop except tobacco, there will be
national" average rate of payment
per acre. Then state and county rates
will be established. These will vary
in accordance with productivity and
other factors, but in total will reflect
the national" rate. For tobacco, in
dividual rates will be determined on
the same basis as for 1957-the es-
tablished unit per pound multiplied
by the yield figure for the farm.
County ASC committees will deter
mine per acre rates for individual
farms. These will be based on the
county average" rate for all crops
except tobacco, but they will vary
among farms primarily according to
relative productivity.
The individual farm per-acre rates
will be available before AR agree
ments are signed. There will be pro-
vision for appeals to county and State
ASC offices if producer is not salts
fled with the per-acre rate, or with
the Soil Bank base established for his
farm.
Farmers who took part in the
1857 AR program will be paid a
1870 premium, above the 1858 COM
pensation rates, if they put the
identical land in the AR program
for 1858.
In addition to the provision that
noxious weeds must be controlled on
AR land, participants in the 1858
program may also be reqired to con-
,rol erosion. Otherwise, the land desig-
mated for the Acreage Reserve may
be left idle, or soil or water conser-
vation practice may be carried out
on it. 1t is possible for participating
farmers to qualify for Agricultural
Conservation (ACP) cost sharing
practices on land in the AR.
After the deadline for signing
agreements covering particular crop
1nder the 1858 AR, participating
farmer will not be permitted to with
lraw from the program, except in
some cases involving new" COM
The people's voice., 1957-08-16
Asiatie "FIu" May Strike
IS Million Americans

which appear to produce in greater
quantity antibodies which give i'm
munity. The authorities declare that
the difficulties "are merely techni-
cal', and that they expect to over
come them rapidly.
If the standards established are
met, the new vaccine will be about
five times as strong as influenza vac
cine produced in the past. One dose
1 cubic centimeter of vaccine-is ex-
pected to give immunity for one year
to about 70 per cent of those vacci-
mated. It's not sure shot.
ESSENTIAL PERSONS FIRST
The manufacturers expect to pro-
duce 100000 units by mid-Septem-
Der. But the first 100000 will go
to the armed services. The next 81
100000 will go toward vaccination of
doctors, nurses and hospital attend
ants, and to employees of public serv-
ice corporations such as electric, COM
munication and transportation utili-
ties.
1t is believed that the disease ini-
TALLY became epidemic in Northern
China. 1t first came to the attention
of Free World health authorities when
it hit crowded Hong Kong in mid
April. But DR.. Albert Sabin of the
Children's Hospital Research Founda-
ton. Cincinnati, who recently re-
turned from visiting virological labor
atories in Russia, was informed that
there was an epidemic outbreak of
influenza in Vladivostok last winter.
1t subsequently spread to Moscow and
other Russian centers of population.
The Russian scientists said it was a
different type. American authorities
are trying to get samples, but as yet
have been unsuccessful.
The question has been raised as to
the Asiatic strain could be
an escape from one of the secret bio
logical warfare laboratories; but the
assumption is that such origin is un-
likely, for the types of disease de-
veloped in these centers of potential
destruction are far more deadly than
the apparently mild" virus now gal
oping around the world.
At Surgeon General Burney's press
The people's voice., 1957-08-16

conference, a reporter asked whether
the mutation of type-A influenza iden-
titled as the cause of the present cpl
demic could have been caused by radi-
alton spread by A-Bomb explosions.
The answer was mot at all likely.
Mutations of all forms of life have
been occurring from natural radia-
ton from the time life first appeared
on this earth. Such radiation, partly
from cosmic rays, partly from radio
active materials in the earth's crust,
are believed to be one of the causes of
evolution of living species. But no
man can say that the new strain was
not caused by the additional radiation
spread throughout the world by the
A-Bomb tests.
During the great influenza cpl
demic of 1918-19, about 20 million
persons in the United States became
i'll. Some $4,000 deaths were attrib-
uted to it, mostly complicated with
pneumonia. This means that 20 per
cent of the then population of about
104 million came down with Spanish
flu. Of every thousand stricken, 42.5
died-a mortality of 4 u per cent of
the patients. While no one can pre-
dict what the probable epidemic of
this winter will be like, best informed
authorities expect that with today's
techniques the death rate will be con-
lower.
The people's voice., 1957-08-16


and $645,OOO go to the Bureau of
Reclamation for a transmission line
east from Fort Peck into North Da-
kota.
The Senate okayed the bill CO.
sponsored by Senators Murray and
Mansfield which grants Congress-
consent to Montana, the Dakotas and
Wyoming to negotiate and enter into
a compact relating to their interest
in the Little Missouri River.
COAL-IRON ORE MEETINGS
Wednesday staff members of the
delegation, Tony Boyle, formerly of
Roundup and now assistant to Presi-
dent John L. Lewis of the United
Mine Workers and six iron, steel and
coal experts from the Bureau of
Mines discussed ways of stepping up
use of Montana coal and ore and pos
sibly establishing steel industry in
the state.
Three approaches were discussed:
L. Market the ore with steel COM
panies in the southern Rocky Noun
tain area. They've renewed interest
in Montana ore since the recent de-
velopments in the Stanford area.
Trouble with that approach is that
it doesn't bring any or many new
jobs to Montana, nor does it help the
coal mines, one of which recently
closed.
2. Blend Montana's low-grade coal
I'll per cent of the nations coal
reserves are in the Treasure State)
with high-grade coal, making a mix
ture fit for metallurgical coking.
Trouble with that approach is that
most Montana coal is so low-grade the
best anthracite couldn't help it, and
besides, you have to go a long way
east to get most high-grade coal, al
though there's some in Alberta.
3. By using very new thermo-
electric process reduce the high-grade
ore with energy from the low grade
coal.
This process, and the possible ap-
olication to Montana, interests the
More information on it
S being gathered and studied.
AS of this writing the Atomic En-
.rgy Commission hasn't completed its
reconsideration of the award of a
.oal contract to a Wyoming firm,
excluding Montana and Washington
oal fields which previously shared
n the contract. The reconsideration
ollowed a request by the delegation
t meeting recently with Chairman
strauss of Acc. This week President
.ewis of the UNIV said that any
urther delay in reconsideration "can
My result in critical and disastrous
from which these COM
lunities will never recover"
WATER AND BOOKS
Two Of the new programs the BINS
elped push through Congress last
ear. despite the recorded opposition
the former congressman from the
econd Congressional District. paid
IF for Montana again last week.
The government approved the ap-
Iication of Dodson, Montana, for a
1852 grant-in-aid toward construc-
on of a 1854 sewage lagoon. This
instruction grant was provided for
the Water Pollution Act.
Lincoln and Flathead counties be-
lme the first in the nation to re-
i've bookmobile, under the Federal
ibrary Services Act which promotes
orary service in rural areas.
ORRIDOR COMMENT
Re nomination of Proctor and
amble President Neil H. McElroy as
ecretary of Defense:
Suppose the Administration brought
this soap salesman to sell that
lean H-Bomb?
The people's voice., 1957-08-16
WINTER WHEAT FIRST IN
1858 PROGRAM

Winter wheat, to be seeded this
fall for harvest next year, is the first
crop that will go into the AR. (De-
tails of the program for spring-seeded
crops-spring wheat and the other
basic crops which are eligible-will
be announced before the sign-up
period next spring.
The sign-up period for winter
wheat is scheduled to open on Aug.
"a and close Oct. this year.
During this period, all farmers who
have an cold farm wheat acreage
allotment for 1868, and who normally
grow winter wheat, will be eligible to
sign an Acreage Reserve agreement
with the county ASC committee.
Before signing an agreement,
however, a farm Soil Bank base
must be established for the farm.
Each producer is responsible for
furnishing the county ASC Com
mittee the production history and
other information needed to estab-
lish this base. This information
should be supplied at least l S days
before the end of the sign-up
period.
PAYMENT RATES
The "nationaP' average rate for
1858 Acreage Reserve will be $20.88
per acre, with available wheat price
supports averaging $1.78 a bushel.
This rate will be translated into vary
ing state, county, and individual farm
per-acre rates. For the 1857 wheat
AR, the average rate of payment per
acre available to producers on a ma
tional basis was Approximately S20.04
per acre-with wheat price supports
averaging $500 bushel. The aver
age payment for those who actually
signed agreements for 1857 was about
S18, reflecting the fact that land
put in the reserve was of less than
average yield.
Except for the legislative limitation !
The people's voice., 1957-08-16
1858 Acreage Reserve

mercial corn counties. (For the 1857
program, there were special provis-
ions under which in certain circum-
stances a producer could withdraw
voluntarily from an AR agreement
up to the time he received notice Of
the last basic crop allotment for his
farm
The people's voice., 1957-08-16

of $4,000 on total AR payments to
any one producer, no limits are placed
on the number of acres which may be
offered for the 1858 program.
Of the $500 million authorized by
Congress for the 1858 AR, $178 mil
lion will be allocated to the wheat
Acreage Reservoir both spring
and winter wheat. In acceptance of
agreements, preference will be given
to those farmers who first sign agree
ments, in the event more acreage is
offered than can be accepted within
the money available for the wheat AR
program.
For 1857, total AR authorization
was $3.50 million. Of this total,
$276.6 million were allocated for pos
sible wheat Reserve participation.
Agreements actually signed for 1857
under all AR programs called for total
payments of $614 million. Of this
total, 1921 million were obligated for
the wheat Reserve.
The people's voice., 1957-08-16
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just lead and zinc program which
will permit the continued operation
of mines on which this nation may one
day depend.
"They show why we, and many
other members of Congress from all
parts of the country, have tried to
get through an agricultural program
which will benefit instead of bank
rupt the farmers and ranchers."
Senator Murray sent copy of the
Congressional Record which carried
the two Montanan's remarks to the
Wall Street Journal, which in it's July
23 issue characterized life in Mon
tana this way.
Ranch life still can be lonely
neighbors often are miles away-but
the modern ranch houses remind
one of suburban homes. Tall tele-
vision aerials dominate roof lines.
Inside, kitchens CLEAN with appli-
ances and bathrooms are bright with
tile. Cadillacs are numerous and ex-
pensive pleasure boats dot the ranch
country's lakes and reservoirs. In the
summer, ranch wives gossip of last
winters vacation in Bermuda, Hawaii,
Mexico, California or Arizona"
II suggest" said Senator Murray,
''that you remove the rose-tinted
glasses from your reporter and send
him back to my state to report the
facts.'
BILLS CLEARED
Two of the Montana delegation
bills went to the President for sigma
ture last week.
One was Representative Leroy An
derson's community hospital bill. AS
soon as it's signed the delegation will
go after money to help communities
like Wolf Point and Poplar benefit
from it.
The other is the 3-M's phosphate
bill, which removes the present re-
that no one may lease more
han 5,12O acres of phosphate-bear-
ng lands on the public domain in
any one state. The 1920 maximum :
IN total phosphate lease holding on
he public domain still applies.
The poultry inspection bill which
Senator's Murray and Humphrey of
Minnesota have been working hard
or is now in Senate-House confer
.nce.
The Senate approved the Mansfield
Murray bill to compensate the Thomas
Jruse Mining Co. for Montana prop
rty destroyed by Army trainees who
lew up more than they were sup
osed to.
The Senate concurred with the
Touse recommendations that SO mil
on be spent for the second power
liant at Fort Peck Dam, $4,000 go
D the Army Engineers for planning
The people's voice., 1957-08-16

Re nomination of Proctor and
Gamble President Neil H. McElroy as
Secretary of Defense:
Suppose the Administration brought
in this soap salesman to sell that
"clean'' H-Bomb?