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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1957-05-03

Expressed in terms of an average
city family, the expenditure for food
has gone up $500 in the 10-year
period, of which $500 5000 went to
food processing, transportation, and
distribution agencies, and only $45
(946) to farmers. The other $55
(11%o) was spent for seafood and
imported foods.
This average city family got 80
more meat and livestock products in
1856 in place of some of the cereals
and potatoes in it's 1947 diet. When
the comparison is made on the basis
of the same kinds and quantities OF
food purchased in 1947, the average
family paid $50 more, and farmers
got ITO less, in 1856.
This subcommittee is chaired by
Rep. Anfuso (D-N. W whose district
is probably the most "big-city'' in
the entire country. He is the first
"big city" representative to sit on
the Agriculture Committee, and he
was put there by House Democratic
leaders primarily to do exactly the
kind of work that this subcommittee
is now undertaking.
Here are highlights from the re-
port which contrast the changes that
have occurred from 1947 to 1856 in
the retail costs and farm value of the
quantities of various food items in the
typical market basket:
Retail cost of bakery products
and cereals up $40, farm value of
wheat down TO;
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1957-05-03

All bakery products up $40,
farm value of ingredients down 16 %
Retail cost of dairy products up
1870, farm value down SO;
Meat products down only $50,
farm value down 1890;
Poultry and eggs down 1870,
farm value down 2196;
Fruits and vegetables up 1870,
farm value up 10;
Fats and oils up 40, farm value
unchanged.
Farmers got less than &c for the
corn in 22c package of corn flakes;
dc for the wheat in a CSC package of
soda crackers; 2.6c for the wheat in
a 17.9c loaf of bread; 2 to &c for the
sweet corn and peas in cans selling
for Is to 22c; Csc for the tomatoes
in 15c can.
In the 1O-year period, the average
city family's payments to processing,
transportation and marketing agen-
cies increased by 1870, payments to
importers and fishermen increased
and payments to farmers rose
only 11@o. The total expenditure for
food of the average city family rose
500 (from $1,000 to $1,000 in that
time, but remained at about 80 or
1870 of the family income.
Part of the $500 increase in the
food aYnan dit1ra ic dino
to the better-quality diet now being
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1957-05-03

states in the number of apprentices
per one thousand journeymen with
A apprentices for each 1000 crafts
men. Minnesota is second with 43 per
1000. Only the District of Columbia
exceeds Montana, with 48 apprentices
per 1000 journeymen.
SLIGHT SALARY INCREASES
COMING
Slight salary increases for three
council fieldmen who are employed
by the State will be forthcoming July
1 by virtue of a $4,000 fiscal year
appropriation for the next biennium
by the 1857 Legislature.
Currently, in addition to the three
state fieldmen, one each in Helena,
Great Falls and Billings, there are
also two federal fieldmen-one in
Great Falls, the other in Butte. Super
visor Yaeger, a federal employee, two
federal stenographers and one state
stenographer, make up the balance
of the personnel of the Joint Appren-
ticeship Council.
Council members also learned at
Mondays meeting that as of July /,
Governor J. Hugo Aronson will ap-
point two council members. Previous
ly, state law provided for appoint
ment of two members each year for
three-year terms by the State Com
missioner of Labor.
Tentative approval was given by
the council to apprenticeship stand
ards for carpenters, cabinet makers
and operating engineers.
Other council members present be-
sides O'Brien, Reidesel and TIMBER,
were: John P. Bonner, Butte, of Ca
Construction Co.; Lyle
Roeseler, Helena, of State Depart
ment of Public instruction, and
Charles Rusek, Helena, of the state
Service.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1957-05-03
~
OF MONT ANA
HE EN- a
Engineers, Veterans, Go Elsewhere .
Exporting of Montanu's Most
Valuable Resource Continues

We all know there are a lot of peo-
pie moving out of Montana every
year.
AS Professor Carl Kraenzel of the
Department of Agricultural Econom-
les and Rural Sociology at Montana
State College says in his booklet
Montana's Population Changes, 1920
to 1850 (Montana State College Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station Bulle-
tin $40, page 81:
"The annual Montana Day picnic
is a typical event up and down the
West Coast and throughout the South
west, from Seattle to Los Angeles
and on to Santa Fe. Former Montan-
ans gather to talk about the good old
days. mutual friends, and the state
they left behind. 1t is customary to
burst forth in song, including the fol-
lowing verse:
Montana! Montana! Glory of the
West.
Of all the states from coast to coast
You're easily the best ,
"These events dramatic the extent
of migration out of Montana, and its
pre- dominantly westward course.
Since 1920 the state has experienced
a considerable net exodus of popula-
ton. This has changed not only the
size of Montana's popu-
Iation, but also the date when the
state will reach it's maximum num-
oers.''
Some new evidence of this net
exodus from Montana has recently
oeen noticed,
BONUSES
One startling fact, as developed by
James F. Nicely, director of adjusted
division, is that 20 per
cent of all bonuses paid to veterans of
World War ii were paid to out-of-
state residents. In other words, out of
So, 1877 veterans who lived in Montana
in the early 1905, 1902 left and
didn't return. Nearly IA per cent of
all veterans bonuses were paid to
people now living in Washington and
California.
By the way, the cost of these
bonuses is being amortized by 2
cent tax on each pack of cigarettes
purchased in Montana since 1850.
ENGINEERS LEAVE
Another interesting fact, according
% Brick Breeder, Placement Director
# Montana State College, is that of
he SO engineers graduated from
Montana State College in June of
956, SO, or 63.4 per cent, accepted
obs in other states. Only 15.1 per
ent stayed in Montana (12.9 per cent
vent on to graduate school, AZ per
ent went to the armed forces, and !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1957-05-03
Prisoner Rehabilitation Talked
By State Apprentice nip Group

Ways and of rehabilitating inmates of state p =
institutions through craft apprenticeship training
major topic under discussion at the semannua me s
of the Joint Apprenticeship Council Monday Henry A Y
state apprenticeship supervisor, reports
Emphasizing that the discussion only in the thinking
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1957-05-03
House Investigation Finds Food Costs
Up 1879; Farm Prices Down 14%

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NFU)-A report Food Cost
Trends issued April Is by the Consumers Study subcommittee
the Agriculture Committee shows that in the past 10
years. retail food prices have climbed 1872 while farm prices
declined Ia % in the same time.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1957-05-03
ANOTHER BENSON SALE

Due the Benson Prosperity able to quit farm
ing and the following described property public
auction.
The above is the ronic heading placed his auction
bill by Frank L. Fair Trip, d. when he sold out this
spring Commenting this sale BILL the CHRONICLE, of
Armour S. d. said it this farmers way of indicating
s for the Secretary of Agriculture and remarked
that he u S. Secretary of Agriculture is certainly get
ting popular in unpopular sort of with of the
farmers in this area
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Teen-Age II|egitimocy
To Be Studied by D. c.

under l6 between September,
1856, and last April.
In the last decade, the num-
ber of illegitimate births in
the District has doubled. al
though the annual total Of
births has increased only
slightly.
Many of the illegitimate chill
dren are carried on public re-
lief rolls, welfare officials said.
Welfare Director Gerard Shea
said today that the increase
in the total OF illegitimacieS is
due more TO the increase in
the total Of Negro births than
to an Increase in the illegi-
timacy rate.
However. the illegitimacy
rate has also been rising.
among white births. SO per l.
900 were illegitimate in l946 and
40 per 1000 in 1856. a SO per
cent increase. Mr.. Shea noted.
Among nonwhite births. the
illegitimacy rate was go per
1000 in l946 and 269 per 1000
10 years later, a % per cent
rise.
The city recorded 362 white
illeRitimacies In 1886 and 1901
Negro illegitimacies in the same
year.
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Wright Is Lowest
On Parkway Bid
With $l,05l,337

The Wright Contracting Co.
Of odenton, Md. today submit
ted the low bid Of Sl.05l, 1897
to start construction Of the long
delayed Maryland section OF
the George Washington Memo
rial parkway.
Bids are TO cover grading and
drainage work for a 3,9-m:le
stretch Of two-lane parkway
between the District Maryland
line and a point Just below
Cabin John along the Potomac
River.
Wright was the lowest of six
bidders. according to Bureau
Of Public Roads officials who
opened the bids this morning
in the ofiices Of Reece Hair,
highway engineer, at 1880 Co
lumbia pike, Arlington.
Evening star., 1957-12-10

A six-month study Of WASH
ington teen-age illegitimacy
was approved today by the
District Commissioners.
The study. an aftermath OF
recent reports on numerous
pregnancies among school-age
girls. was urged by the Com.
missioners Youth Council.
II will be undertaken by the
council in cooperation with
the public school system and
several other District Govern
ment departments. A paid re-
searcher is to be hired.
One OF the purposes of the
study will be TO learn how wide
spread the problem is and ways
OF countering Il.
DR.. John r. Pate. director Of
the Health Departments South
west Health Center, recently re-
ported TO the council that the
number of unwed mohers seen
at his clinic has increased dras-
tically in the last few years.
DR.. Pate reported specifically
on 81 unwed mothers seen since
September Of last year. He
also cited school statistics list
ing 1870 presnancies among girls
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Clean Up by Thursday,
AFL-CIO Tells Boxers

will have to charter whatever
groups want TO stay in the ALL
CIO."
Reached at the airport before
he left the city. Cross said:
'Meany's action creating a
dual union in our jurisdiction.
and the results thereof. will be
his lMeany'Sl responsibility"
Cross accused Mr.. Meany Of
willful distortion of the facts
in a speech before the conven-
ton yesterday and in remarks
this morning.
He said the Executive Coun-
ellis action deliberately pre-
judges the democratic processes
OF the Bakery Convention next
March.
The margin OF the conyen-
ton vote conditionally expell-
ing the bakers was more than
ing the bakers yesterday was
more than 7 TO /. a bit heavier
than the 5 to margin on ex-
pelling the larger TesmSters
Union last Friday. also on cor
ruption charges. The bakers
expulsion vote was ll.ll8.07s TO
l 1850. SOS. based on union mem
bership.
Three more unions the
Laundry. Distillery and United
Textile Workers unions-also
face expulsion moves this week.
Evening star., 1957-12-10
GOOD STUDENTS
SQUARES, MISFITS?

BRIGHT STUDENTS ore oftsa
referred TO oS introverts, misfits.
Tcmouow's Scientists" ore emons
this group Of "broins"-disliked by
their fellow students See the third
in o series BY Hoyass Johnson on
Pose All.
the MISSILE AGE besen vAsa
on opish lout hurled o rock OF Q Bit
OF game perhaps $4,000 yson sso.
Williom Hines looks et the poten-
tiolit'es Of the lRBMs in the third
OF four ortieles on Poss A.lo.
THE BOSS. Mr. Boxter. goes 10
on office porty. Under ordinary cir.
eumstOnees. his presenee would hove
frozen the frOliekins employees. For
Chapter TX OF Merry chrstmos,
M. BoKtsr," see Poss A.24.
CHRISTMAS begins wherever
there ore Swedish people, sep
Violet Faulkner, Stor food editor.
For this story turn to Poss 81
NEW MARlNAS nov under con.
structlon promise 10 olleviots the
boat stoross problem Tor Woshins.
ton orso bootmen. See the Leisure
Sportsmon on Pose ca.
Evening star., 1957-12-10

Defense changed its mind and
asked the csc to allow the in
|creases. The csc was all set
to agree. but delayed action at
the request Of the Budget
Bureau. which wanted more
time to study the cost aspect
as well as the relationship to
administration pay raise plans
for all Government CLASSIFIED
and postal workers.
However. the csc got the
go-ahead from the Budget
Bureau last Friday and APP
proved the increases today.
Under previous csc actions.
engineers and scientists in
grades Q and IL already are
assured Of salaries in fourth
and sixth steps Of their grades
respectively. Today's action
will result in increases Of sew
eral hundred dollars for these
employees as they are moved 10
the top step Of their grades.
Employees In grade 7 already
receive the top-of- -the-grade
salary.
Evening star., 1957-12-10

vited to bid for contracts to
retire all their land to the
conservation reserve. The ex-
isting program sets fiat rates,
averaging about $40 an acre.
and permits farmers to retire
only part of their land.
BY pulling entire farms out
of production. the Agriculture
Department hopes to cut out
put more substantially. In the
-four States, farmers may re-
ceive up TO $4,000 a year in
conservation reserve subsidies.
compared with the existing
$1,000 limit.
The Government also pays
the farmer up to so per cent
of the cost of planting trees OF
grass on the land.
An effective conservation re-
serve. Mr.. Benson said at a
press conference. probably
would offer more real help tfor
the surplus probleml for the
dollars expended" than the
acreage reserve. He said a
long program might ac-
celyerate the shift of farmers
from farms TO city Jobs, and
added the Government would
help them make the adjust
ment.
Evening star., 1957-12-10

depending on the paydays OF
the individual agencies.
About $1,000 of the employees
are in the Army. Navy and Air
Force Departments. The rest
are scattered In 43 other Fed
eral agencies. mainly those. en-
gagged in scientific research.
The cost of the increases will
amount TO $22.5 million a year.
the csc said. The increases
viii range from $i35 to $1,000 a
year.
Under the law. the csc is
empowered to set salaries at
the top step of a grade in Fed
eral jobs for which shortages
exist.
The cSC's final stamp Of ap-
proval came after months Of
on-again-off -again moves to
raise the pay of Federal engi-
neers and scientists in grades
6 to II.
Navy asked for this authority
about six months ago, but ac-
ton was delayed when the De-
fense Department decided 1t did
not have enough funds to pay
the increased costs.
Then about three weeks ago
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Rooftop CD Post
Will Go Dec. 81

The Districts rooftop civil
defense observer post. operated
on a 24-bour basis for the last
two years. will be closed De-
cember 81. Civil Defense Di-
rector John Z. Fondahl an
nounced today.
The switch is in line with an
Air Force announcement of No
vember that electronic detec-
ton systems now can trace any
planes previously to be sighted
at such local posts.
This means the glaSs-in-
closed penthouse observation
post atop Broadcast House.
Fortieth and Brandywine
streets NV. will not be
manned after January /. Mrs.
Kathleen T. Perkins. adminis-
trative assistant TO Col. Fon-
dahl. said.
Evening star., 1957-12-10

reserve, Whlcn oIten Keeps
farms out Of production
permanently.
II the trial works out. he
indicated, the administration
will urge Congress to end the
acreage reserve after the 1858
crop year, one year ahead Of
schedule. There is strong evil
dence that Congress may kill
the acreage reserve anyway.
According TO tentative ad-
ministration plans. the Gov
ernment would greatly expand
the long-range conservation
reserve, aiming to reduce SUR
pluses by retiring perhaps 40
to so million acres Of crop
land permanently.
Under the conservation re-
serve. farmers must contract
to stop planting crops for
three. five or 10 years. and
must plant trees or grass or
establish other conservation
practices.
The acreage reserve. by con-
trast. retires land for only one
year, and has not been spec
tacularly successful in reducing
production.
In the four trial States
Illinois. Maine. Nebraska and
TennesSee-farmerS will be in
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Creeks Turk.
Clash Anew
On Cyprus

NICoSIA. Cyprus. Dec. 10
@.-Turks and Greeks clashed
today all along the line that
separates their two sectors in
Nicosia. British troops broke
up many furious clashes.
Turkish speaking Cypriots
charged into the Greek sector
seeking revenge for the wound
ing Of a Turkish policeman
during a violent Greek Cypriot
demonstration against British
rule. Earlier in the day. the
Turks stoned cars and looted
shops.
Turkish police had been un-
able TO control the mob. which
armed itself with stones and
clubs and stormed into the
Greek quarter from Ataturk
square. Greek owners hur-
riedly barricaded their shops
and fled as the Turks ap-
preached.
British troops rushed to the
end Of Leira street, NicoSia s
main thoroughfare. kept the
Greeks and Turks separated by
a no-man's-land. The Greeks
and Turks hurled abuse at each
other.
A IRE started in the Greek
owned Cyprus Transport Co.'S
depot. housing about 20 ve-
hicles. Turkish mobs slowed
down the fire engines speeding
TO the scene.
Military police patrols toured
the city announcing the impo-
sition of a curfew. Some
Greeks said they would not
observe the cuIfew because
they had no confidence in the
police and the military.
Among places heavily dam
aged by mobs we're NicoSias
municipal market and ST.
James Church. which is isolated
in. the Turkish quarter.
IL was the fourth straight
day OF demonstrations and
rioting keyed 10 yesterdays
United Nations debate over this
British Mediterranean
island.
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Old Shoe Box Containing SIS 900
Bores Actress Deoth in Obscurity

CINCINNATI. Dec. 10 P).-
Mrs. Msriette Branson. a film
actress Of silent screen days.
lived here in obscurity for more
than a quarter Of a century.
keeping her valuables in an old
shoe box.
1t was the shoe box-opened
by a friend the day after her
death--that brought the former
actress back into the headlines.
The box. holding about $751;
900 in bills. securities and old
gold coins. was introduced into
Probate Court yesterday. II led
investigators TO learn more
about Mrs. Branson. who came
to this country from France in
1914.
Mrs. Branson, Sc, gave the
box TO a friend when she en-
tered General Hospital last
week. But she died Sunday and
the friend turned the box over
to the court.
Attorney J. F. Rusche. with
tcourt permission. then visited
Mrs. Branson's big 26-room
home and learned this about
her:
Her stage name was Mariette
DE Teller. and she had long
black hair In younger days.
She often played an Indian
girl In the silent movies with
such stars as Tom Mix and
William s. Hart.
Mrs. Branson had lived in
just one room OF the big house
since the death OF her husband,
James Branson. last February,
and was surrounded by piles of
correspondence, including un-
Evening star., 1957-12-10
BULLE TIN
u. S. Fires Missile

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
R.-An unidentified missile.
fired from the missile test
center here, shot upward and
out Of sight today. The Pat
rick Air Force Base infOrma-
tiOn Office. when first asked
about the launching. said II
had not been informed. Later,
the Office released its stand
ard statement that a missile
had been fired.
Evening star., 1957-12-10

cashed dividend checks. She
seldom left the house.
The rest Of the rooms held
expensive furniture. but dust
was thick on them and many
Of the fixtures were old FASH
ioned.'
Mrs. Branson took the shoe
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Premier Tukes Rest

PRETORIA. South Africa.
Dec. 10 tPl.-Prime Minister
Johannes Strijdom. acting on
medical advice. has Cancelled
all his engagements and will
rest for the remainder Of the
year. his Office said last night.
He recently had an attack Of
influenza.
Evening star., 1957-12-10
S2S7 Million
Proposed toAid
Science Pupils
NEA officiol Says
Secretary Folsom
Supports Plon

An educator said today Sec
retary Of Welfare Folsom is
supporting a proposal that the
Federal Government spend s2s7
million a year ON aid to educa-
tion.
Heavy emphasis would be
placed on science and mathe-
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Use German Industry,
Dulles Urges NATO
Asks Europe
To Develop
All PotentiuIs
BY EARL n. vOss

The United States hopes
NATO will decide to make
greater use OF the industrial
potential of Europe. including
West Germany. in revitalizing
the defenses of the Atlantic
community. Secretary OF State
Dulles said today.
The Secretary told newsmen
that he hopes this prospect will
be explored at the Paris meet
ing with positive results.
Mr.. Dulles leaves for Paris
Thursday 10 conduct prelimi-
nary talks in preparation for
next weeks NATO council
meeting of the heads of gov
ernment. He met with the press
for IS minutes at the State De-
partment today. Most of the
conference was devoted TO
NATO affairs.
Inc most important single
result Of the NATO summit
meeting. Mr.. Dulles asserted.
must be a renewal of the sense
of need for NATO among the
is member nations leaders.
Can't Sacrifice Unity
There must be recognition
that NATO unity is so impor-
tant TO maintain that it should
not be sacrificed for other,
smaller considerations of for
eign policy, Secretary Dulles
said.
He repeated his hope for q
broadened and strengthened
amount Of consultation among
NATO members about problems
within and without the NATO
geographical area.
But it is neither necessary
nor practical to provide for in
creased consultation by amend.
ing the NATo treaty, the Sec
retary said. Rather. he ex-
planned. it must become a habit
OF the NATO leaders to consult
before acting whenever pos
sible.
The question whether nuclear
war can be limited is again I'D
for discussion in NATO. Mr..
Dulles said. The general think.
ing among American military
leaders is that the concept Of
limited nuclear war and prep.
arations for local wars is stlll
useful.
Concerned About IndOnesia
The United States is con-
cerned about the deterioration
OF law and order in Indonesia,
the Secretary said. United
States Ambassador John Alli-
son has expressed the hope to
the lndoneSian government
that moderation will prevail
and that law and order can be
preserved.
Mr. Dulles rejected the idea
that only agreement in prin-
ciple would be obtained at the
NATO meeting for setting up
intermediate range ballistic
missile bases on the continent
OF Europe. He said that since
1919 he regarded agreements in
principle as discouraging be-
Continued on Page Al. Col. 4
Evening star., 1957-12-10

box with her wherever she
went. including her infrequent
trips out of the house, even
holding It In her lap in the
dentists chair.
No will was found. although
Mrs. Branson apparently has
relatives In Europe.
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Benson Plan Would Stop
Output of Entire Forms
Four-Stote Experiment Seeks to Kill
Soil Bunk's Acreage Reserve
BY LEE NJ. COIN

Agriculture Secretary Benson took the first big step today
to kill the soil banks controversial acreage
shift to ongrange program for pulling surplus
out of production
He set fourState experiment to encourage farmers
to retire all their crop land the soil banks conservation
Evening star., 1957-12-10

Trying TO round out your
Christmas gift list2 You
can solve your problem very
easily. Simply shop the
Miscellaneous For Sale
columns In star Classified
today and every day.
BY checking Star Classified,
you will find a host OF ex-
cellent buying suggestions
including bicycles, electric
trains. power tools and
many, many other gift
possibilities.
SHOP THE STAR FIRST
BEFORE YOU BUY
Evening star., 1957-12-10
Government Scientists
Pay Roises Approved
$4,000 Will Receive Increases
Runuinu From 81 az n 81 C0fl n Yenr
By JOSEPH YOUNG

The Civil Service Commission today approved top-of-
hegade pay raises for $4,000 Government scientists and
engineers in grades through H.
The csc said the increases for the Governments top
scientists and engineers will go into effect later this month";
Evening star., 1957-12-10

The bright scientific student con be
q vell-sosaded and adjusted young
mon ss we'll es q brain" o survey
Of wsshins,oa cree school seisaes
majors shows The third in series
Of eFtieles on Tomouow's Seieatisis
sppears on Pose All.