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The people's voice., 1957-06-07
Three LU Land
Hearings Set
For Next Week

MISSOULA-Three public hear
ings have been scheduled covering
the proposed transfer of 1.9 million
acres of LU lands in Montana from
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
to the U. S. Department of the In
terror, Regional Forester Chas. L.
Tebbe, of the U. S. Forest Service
and State Supervisor R. D. Nelson
of the Bureau of Land Management
has announced.
The hearings will be held at Round
up on June IL, at Terry on June 13
and at Malta on June Is, 1857, start
ing at 1000 am. The meeting places
will be announced shortly.
Representative of the Bureau of
Land Management, the U. S. Forest
Service and the U. S. Fish and Wild
life Service will attend the meetings
to explain the details of the proposed
transfer, and to invite expressions of
views from interested persons and
groups
Approximately $500 acres of the
LU lands lie within or adjacent to
national wildlife refugees administered
by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice. The proposed transfer would i'll
corporate this land in the refugees to
preserve their important wildlife
values. Existing contracts and permits
on these lands would continue in eff
feet at the present fee schedule. An
additional 4,700 acres would be added
to the Fort Peck Game Range, which
is jointly administered by the Fish
and Wildlife Service and the Bureau
of Land Management. The remaining
area would be administered by the
BLM which now manages the inter
public domain lands.
= The contracts and permits on these
ands would be maintained under pres
ent LII policies and procedures. Graz
ng fee schedules would remain the
same and returns to the counties
would be unchanged by the proposed
transfer.
The lands considered for transfer
lie within Blaine, Custer, Fallon Fer
rus, Musselshell, Petroleum, Phillips,
Prairie, Valley and Yellowstone coun-
les. II
The people's voice., 1957-06-07
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

alton draft of legislation which would eliminate the
expense of similar propaganda from being charged
against the rate payers
Besides losing first before the Public Service Com
mission and then the high court, any chance for
breakdown utility company figures in rate making
base Montana people lost in the legislature when their
representatives voted down bill that would have
been step in the right direction. (HB 221see voting
record pages and 81
No one would deny the private utilities have the
right to use whatever they deem proper to
present their to the people government Off
cials though it would proper they be asked to
be truthful but it does going little too far
to ask ratepayers to pay for utility company
propaganda which necessarily increases our rates
propaganda which often works to disadvantage
Certainly it is because of efforts of the utility
company lobby in the state legislature that bill
ever passes that will make it absolute necessity
for the Public Service Commission investigate fig
these utilities present when applying for rate
increases
The cost of lobbying activities in Helena alone for
utility companies comes to tidy sum-
Unless the utilities show figures that prove other
wise all suspicion that in the ridiculous
position of paying in rates for their activities on
the political front and in the legislature that prevent
any bills being passed that would give any relief
1t would be desirable to make these changes on
the state level, but if in such trap we can't
free ourselves, more power to congress.
The people's voice., 1957-06-07

The Federal Power Commission has said private
utility companies not charge propaganda costs in
their rate making base.
The FPC announcement followed congressional in
vestgation that brought out the fact certain power
companies had charged their rate base the cost OF
pamphlets designed to influence the Secretary of the
Interior on federal power policy.
THE VOICE carried story these Chudoff
Committee hearings at the time they were going on,
and you may remember the hand painted booklets,
so of them that $4,000 Following the orig
nal So sponsored by five Northwest Utilities there
500 printed for seective distribution, MAX
ing the total cost, that divided between the five
utilities come 1900 dollars Montanas utility
took the most of the books, paid for 1900
dollars of the cost.
IF Montana had Railroad and Public Service
Commission high court that interested in
protecting the people it could be necessary for
the utilities here to break down their expenses
would know how much money paying in rates
to campaign against ourselves
1t the Chudoff Committee request that brought
a decision on this matter from the FPC The commit
tee said g. that each of the three companies whose
representatives testified charged the expense of pre-
pairing the federal power program booklet different
account, but in every the expenses charged
n such way that they borne by the payers
lot the stockholders
The committee further stated, if the FPC ruled
hese not expenses properly charged against
payers the FPC should present for committee consider
The people's voice., 1957-06-07
Protests Action of
Fine Arts Commission

To those contesting In the Charles
NJ. Russell competition to select a statue
of Charlie to be placed in Statuary Hall
of Fame in Washington, ID. c., obstacles
have beset US right and left. But the
latest hindrance Of all seems stagger-
ing. The dead-line of the contest, set
at June 8, was difficult one to meet,
for hardly enough time was given to
do justice to seyen-foot statue speci-
fled in the rules.
But when we came to Helena. with
the statues, and met the deadline. we
FOUND that IL had been extended to
June Ia without some of the contestants
receiving notice to that effect In fact.
three participating were floored with
the announcement, for three of us com
ing with our statues on the day prior
to the deadline knew nothing of an
extension, although we had asked for
one earlier.
We were informed that release 10
the effect of changing and extending
the deadline was sent to various papers
in the state but upon checking, we
found no papers that carried the re-
lease. We checked with Associated
Press, and they had no release announc-
ing the extension; the Independent Rec
ora ala not remember running such a
release; there was no release given the
united Press. Who received the release?
what papers were notified? To whom
was the extension of time made public?
We have pleaded with the Fine Arts
commission consisting of Gov. j. Hugo
Aronson, X. Ross Toole and James
Haughey for fair consideration, but now
We turn to the press and those inter
ested to help us seek justice in the
matter.-EVELYN C. COLE. Chinook,
Montana.
The people's voice., 1957-06-07
FPC Rules
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proper deductions for income tax pur-
poses. If such is the case, the com
panies involved may be liable for
millions of dollars in back taxes"
Cong. Chudoff stated further. 81
am gravely concerned about revela-
tions of the commissions report. Rep
resentatives of the Federal Power
Commission and of the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue will be invited at an
early date to discuss with the subcom-
mittee the full extent and the imple-
mentation of the commissions hold
ing"
National Rural Electric Coop As
sociation General Manager Clyde T.
Ellis, following the FPC ruling, re-
iterated a statement he has frequently
made in the past \. that inasmuch
as the costs of the millions of dollars
of utility propaganda advertising are
deducted as operating expenses for
tax purposes, '52 per cent of the cost
of this propaganda comes out of the
Federal Treasury"
Here in Montana, rural electric
people are recalling the expensive
statewide anti-REA advertising
campaign carried on for a number
of weeks in the fall of 1855 by
Montana Power Company, via large
ads in the states daily and weekly
newspapers. The question is arising
as to whether such anti-public pow
er ads were legitimate costs charge
able to MPCo.'s electric customers
via operating expenses as the cost
The people's voice., 1957-06-07
Montana Power Does Right Well

During the years when agitation building for
srcng Hungry Horse Dam the leading opponent the project
the Montana Power Company Congressional hearings
records amply prove.
YET that Hungry Horse is going concern, Montana
Power of the biggest benecares of that federal
development
addition the utility getting very substantial percent
available by the Fathead devel
opment than 385 million koWatt hours 1856 of total
of 600 XVIII hWhch sells price
ing times much its purchase cosMPCo also gets
other less understood benefits from Hungry Horse
Downstream HH, MPCo has two dams-Kerr and
Thompson Falls Before HH constructed these two dams
had total production capacity Of 600 kowas of power
for Montana Power have additional production potential
of another O0O0 XIV of firm power. MPCo right
salng third Kerr take advantage of the
$4,000 XIV additional potential made possible the
Poison dam because of Hungry Horse -~l
Since installation of generating equipment minor item
at dam (about ten cent of total cos the additional
MPCo. will be able develop Kerr will indeed be
low cost powersuppy for the utility though due
that utility have nominal amount each the
federal for the downstream benefits from
Hungry Horse
Washington Water Power another private
benefng hugely because of Hungry Horse HH has meant
tion potential of Cabinet Gorge-rom Sc to 1O6 XIV
potential In addition, the Noxon Rapids con-
strucon by WWP wasn't the cards until Hungry Horse
made possible to regulate the flow of the Clark the
Columbia thereby assuring sufficient flow the
Noxon project to become major of electricity
western Washington utility
Low-cost power development benefits
retail business worker tax private uti
ties There ought to be moral in this somewhere.
The people's voice., 1957-06-07

Ezra Reveals His Hand
Huge Yves" Vote On Wheat
Referendum imperative

imperative that Montana turn out
overwhelming numbers vote yes the June 20 wheat
referendum further brought home last week by
some submitted the Congress by Secre
tary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson.
Benson has Congress give him authority to fix
price supports commodities 80 per cent
of parity national legislature won't for that from
so to 90 per cent.
AS could reasonably expected Benson stated that the
zero to per proposal 'has the greater merit
What Bensons proposals to Montana grain
One thing they don't that under his stewardship
supports fixed high so cent? So
he's concerned he might just we'll have asked for
125 $50 cent since he has intention of
coming the ceiling he proposes.
proposals do to Montana grain growers is
that get the stick and turn out affirmative
marketing June 90 the likes of which we've
For with Benson sliding 1858 supports to rs per
there probably be temptation to vote mo- on
smaller producers the mdcentra states
Unless the major states turn out huge favorable
the possibilities strong quotas will fail
the 662 of the vote to put them into eff
feet the 1858 crop.
Failure of the election than the price of
acreage restrictions Failure will be interpreted by Ben
his family farm-wreckng indication the
the chaos of the free
ket the mortgage foreclosures ndeby of that
of marketing 1t will lead to ntenSifcaton of the
the socalled margnaI farmer off
the land be replaced with what Benson and his big business
allies consider the only satisfactory system for agricultural
duction-corporation farming.
apparent that if has his there be no
Earth producers of basic commodities for
good for the good of Montana and the
nation you'd best be turning great numbers June 20 to
what's agricultural stabization
The people's voice., 1957-06-07
Can't Win For Losin'

Factory workers, whose weekly
take-home pay in April was go above
last years level, can buy 1 % less due
to increased cost of living. Bureau of
Labor Statistics predicts continued
rising living costs during June and
July.
The people's voice., 1957-06-07

of rendering electric services" A
further question concerning that
ad series arises over whether MPCo.
claimed such advertising outlays as
proper deductions from the utility's
federal and state income tax bills.
The people's voice., 1957-06-07
READERS FORUM

LETTERS: No letter over $50
words will be accepted for publication
All letters must be signed by writer,
although, on request, name will be
withheld.-P.V. Editor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-30

THE WINDING DRIVE took
us back to a point behind the
house.
There are all Confeder-
ate soldiers buried here" the
superintendent said. You will
notice that the headstones are
not arched on top like the
Union headstones.
"The story is that, after the
war, when the Government
finally got around to marking
these graves, they asked the
Southerners II they wanted
the same type Of headstones,
and they said, No, they
wanted stones with pointed
tops so that Yankees couldn't
sit on them
ION the first Decoration
Days after the Civil War. they
wouldn't let Southerners deco
rate the graves of their dead.
One Decoration Day night
there was a big wind, and the
story is that 1t blew the flow-
ers from the Union graves
and dropped them on the
Confederate ones"
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Wage Offer
Is Expected

A wage offer from i've concrete
mixing companies will be pre-
sented to members Of Transfers
Local $50 tomorrow at 10 am. in
another effort to halt a strike
that has virtually halted heavy
construction here.
Federal Mediator Gilbert Nc
Cutcheon said union negotiators
agreed to submit the offer to
their membership as q result Of
a meeting in his Office yesterday.
The strike is in its l4th day.
The concrete Arms repeatedly
have offered raises Of 10 cents an
hour now and another 10 cents
an hour next May IS. The driv-
ers repeatedly asked IS cents
hourly now and IS cents more
next May.
Before the strike started they
received $l.95 an hour.
Companies involved are the
Super Concrete Corp, Transit
Mixed Concrete Co., Inc: Howat
Concrete Co.. Inc; Maloney Con-
crete Co. and the Silver Hill Con-
crete Co. Drivers for the Vir-
|ginia Concrete Co.. Inc. were on
strike. but returned to work last
Thursday
An estimated ITS drivers and
several hundred Nconstruc tion
workers have been idled by the
strike. The drivers have been
asked to meet tomorrow to re-
view the company offer at 40l
Third street NV.
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Fairfax Reinstates
Pay Raise in Budget
Army Daughter Named
Annapolis Color Girl

ANNAPOLIS, May 80 R.-An
army brat" from Knoxville.
Tenn, will be queen Of the
Nays June Week exercises
which get under way here Sat-
urday.
Miss Catherine Keith Bacon,
20-year-old daughter Of 1t. Col.
and Mrs. John A. Bacon. was
chosen color girl late yesterday
by her Midshipman friend. VIII
liam M. Mickle Of Vashon, Wash.
Midshipman Mickle commands
the Sd Company which beat out
% others in year-long compete
ton in athletics, scholarship,
military drills and other brigade
activities at the Naval Academy.
Miss Bacon, a student at
Brenau College in Gainesville.
Ca. plans to arrive here about
Tuesday to assume her role as
queen bee Of the social functions
during June Week.
The week-long program be-
gins Saturday with q dress pa
rade. sports events and dances
and runs on through to gradual
ton of an 848-man class next
Friday. It annually draws UP
to 10000 parents. sweethearts
and friends of midshipmen into
this old Colonial capital.
The parade at which Miss
Bacon viii perform her main
function is next Thursday. the
last Of four during the week
and the most colorful military
show Of the year at the acad-
envy.
The pretty brunette will
transfer the national and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-30
Nation Honors Its War Dead
As Weekend Holiday Begins

tional Cemetery on Georgia ave-
nue. near Walter Reed Hospital.
The cemetery is the smallest
national cemetery. The grounds
we're part of the battlefield
where President Lincoln climbed
the parapet at Fort Stevens to
watch the advancing lines Of
gray-clad infantry.
At Annapolis. six Naval Acad-
envy midshipmen from Georgia
cast an anchor Of peoples onto
Chesapeake Bay while a bugler
blew taps and academy guns
doomed a 2l-gun salute. The
traditional ceremony is spon-
sored by the Georgia American
Legion Auxiliary to honor the
Nations war dead.
Holiday . bound Washington
ans began moving through Union
Station, National Airport and
the bus terminals last night.
The American Automobile AS
ISOLATION estimated that $50, 900
persons would leave the area by
automobile.
Although tomorrow Is not q
holiday. many Government EN-.
ployes and private workers were
taxing the day of. 10 stretch the
week end to four days.
A number Of stores schedules
sales for today and shoppers
were augmented by numbers Of
visitors from out Of town.
For most Of the area, however
IL was q day Of rest and relaxa.
ton. Many we're attending the
Memorial Day baseball double
header at Grifith Stadium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-30
20U. of Nd. Seniors
Receive Awards at Prom

Twenty members Of the Uni
versity Of Maryland graduating
class received awards last night
at the annual senior prom and
banquet at the Sheraton-Par
Hotel.
The Citizenship Awards for
character and cooperation were
presented Jack r. Burlington III,
Baltimore, son Of q delegate to
the General Assembly, and Pa
tricia Irene Callahan Of 408
Pershing drive. Silver Spring.
Marjorie Irene Pension. 1902
Sutherland road, Silver Spring.
received both the Alpha Lambda
Delta book award and the Delta
Gamma scholarship award. pre-
sented to the senior woman with
the highest overall average.
Recipient of the American AS
ISOLATION Of University Women
award for scholarship and COM
munity leadership was Carolyn
Jane Eble Of 4722 Albemarle
street NV.
Helpfulness Recognized
The Aleernon Sidney Sullivan
awards for the seniors who dis
play a spirit Of helpfulness were
presented to Kate Weaver Will
liams Of 1909 Battery lane. Be-
thesda, and Edward L. Reilly Of
7420 Carroll avenue, Takoma
Park.
Richard Bourne Of TOLL Chan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-30
Zoning Hearing to Resume Monday;
Lone to AnoIyze SO Proposals

dence in the same building as any
Offices in residential areas.
Earlier yesterday the commits
sion heard a sharp clash on
whether the Lewis proposals can
be amended to provide a work.
able coming code.
Architect Louis Justement in
sisted that basic fallacies" in
the plan provide mo real basis
for compromise" and urged
that 1t be thrown out and re-
written.
John A. Remon. Washington
civic leader. insisted that the
Lewis plan "can be salvaged To
% large extent and all Of It's
conflicts reconciled."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-30

brigade colors from the 18th
Company, last years winner. to
that commanded by Midship-
man Mickle. She'll receive the
cheers Of the color company and
review with Rear Admiral VIII
liam r. Smedberg III, academy
superintendent, the parade Of
the 3.600-man brigade.
Miss Bacon's parents current
ly live at Admission. Ala, where
her father. a career oficer. Is
stationed in the Army. Their
permanent home address is
Knoxville. She attended high
school at Bel Air, Nd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-30
Judge Andrew Howard
To Address Scouts

Judge Andrew j. Howard, IT.,
Of Municipal Court will be the
principal speaker at the chap
ter presentation ceremonies Of
Boy Scout Troop No. sic Of
Salem Baptist Church at 8 pm.
tomorrow.
The annual ceremony mark
ing the renewal Of the troops
charter will be held in the
church at GIT N street NV. The
troop was organized in 1858.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-30

sorry lane. College Heights Estates.
received the Goddard medal.
awarded TO the Prince Georges
County resident who makes the
highest average and embodies
the most manly attributes.
James r. Happier. Baltimore.
received the Maryland ring as
the outstanding athlete. Burr
Grim, Winchester. Va. received
the Sylvester gold watch for ex-
cellence in athletics.
Alpha Lambda Delta, honorary
group for freshman women, dis
tributed awards to 10 women
who attained a 3.5 average or
higher.
Other Recipients
Recipients were: Ronda Lee
Fiste, 1900 Riggs road. Hyatts-
Vile; Jane Frances Hagerton.
AIT Bolton road, Silver Spring:
Sandra L. Kaufman, Pikesville;
Eta Goldstein Levine. 100 Addi-
son drive. Seat Pleasant; Majorie
I. Pension, 1902 Sutherland road.
Silver Spring.
Also Carolyn Faye Reed, 1907
Geranium street. Bethesda;
Ellen Ruth Sherman Schaffer,
Baltimore; Jane Starr Ward.
Sill West Montgomery avenue,
Rockville; Kate Weaver VIII
liams, 1909 Battery lane, Bethes-
da. and Betty Fucker, 9002 Man
chester road. Silver Spring.
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make proper development Of the
city impossible, wreck land
values and chase business to the
suburbs. From the city's point
Of view, he commended. effects
on the value Of existing property
also would have to be reflected
In lower tax assessments.
He urged that the commission
use existing coming regulations as
q base for a revision, study each
chapter Of them and incoropo-
rate such Of the new proposals"
as 1t wants to make changes.
Edmund w. Dreyfuss, archi-
tect. also urged rejection Of the
Lewis "one-package" revision. He
attacked many specific proposals,
and said the regulations were
30 confusing It would be hard
for architects to design new
buildings to comply with them.
Restrictions Offered
However, Albert @. Tayman, Of
the Fort Davis Citizens Associa-
ton, vigorously urged adoption
Of the Lewis rules as the most
important step possible to raise
the quality Of life In our city"
He said one reason for support
was the added protection given
residential neighborhoods. and
attacked businessmen he said
oppose the plan because 1t would
cut back vast areas now zoned
TO permit apartments.
Others who attacked specific
rigid restrictions Of the Lewis
plan included:
Norman M. Glasgow, attorney.
who said 1t would prohibit
planned expansion Of the Doc
tors Hospital medical center;
the Cherry Hill Citizens Associa-
ton Of Georgetown; Alphonse
Fernandez Of the Columbia
Heights Citizens Forum, Robert
B. Frank. attorney for property
owners near Twentieth and L
streets NV; w. Cameron Bur-
ton, attorney for owners Of 100
properties: Manuel J. Davis Of
the Yale Laundry Co.. 437 New
York avenue NV. and Court
landt Herbst. real estate sales
man.
Joseph T. Mcdonnell, District
Dental Society counsel. asked for
changes affecting the location Of
dentists Offices. The main COM
plant was q Lewis requirement
that dentists must maintain resi-