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The people's voice., 1958-05-09

ponderantly are against the Admin
istration's plan. A one-time Assistant
Defense Secretary in the Eisenhower
Administration, who helped draft the
Presidents 1853 military reorgani-
zation plan, said the "basic philoso-
phy'' of the 1858 plan is $50 de-
grees the opposite of the 1853 re-
forms. He charged the new plan will
be neither efficient or economic"
and will greatly weaken" civilian
control. 1 predict the Pentagon con-
troll plan still will be about what the
House of Representative considered
in the first place, and will be along
the lines of the Mansfield bill in
the Senate and that of Chairman Vim
son of the House Armed Services
Committee.
Postal Pay Bill-Hope is expressed
that House-Senate conferees will meet
this week and reach an agreement on
the postal pay and rate bill. Many,
however, are not so optimistic, and
view this latest delay as another at
LeHpL ny JHe OeHdLe cOUIeTeeS TO
either kill or to water down the postal
rate increases. This fight is threaten
ing enactment into law of the CLASH
fled and postal pay bills.
Words-The USDA in a 500-word
press release says it is going to "pel-
letize the herbicide". Farmers might
say this could mean a move to Ben
sonize the Frammis. What it really
means is, make pills out of weed-kill-
ers. What it doesn't tell us is how
you will make a weed-swallow a pill.
Visit to Missile Base-During the
weekend, along with 27 other men,
bers Of Congress and staff members,
| toured the Redstone Arsenal in
Alabama where the Army is testing
and producing its highly successful
Jupiter missiles. The Army now has
an entire family of rockets and mis-
siles which can destroy any pilot
operated aircraft now known.
The people's voice., 1958-05-09
Why Did Company Press Fail To
Print Butte Teachers Union Ad?
By Publicity Committee, Independent
School Party. Butte

By Publicity Committee, Independent
School Party, Butte
The reports of the recent election
for school trustees in Butte, carried
in the Anaconda Company's MON
TANA STANDARD and THE BUTTE
DAILY POST, were quite incomplete.
No mention was made of the ad
which the Butte Teachers Union had
purchased for appearance in the Fri
day evening issue of THE BUTTE
DAILY POST.
The union had paid for the ad and
the Standard-Post Publishing Com
pany had accepted a check and issued
receipt for the ad. The ad was not
campaign propaganda. 1t was merely
three-sentence statement made to
clarity the union standing of Miss
Norma McPhail, ex-Butte teacher and
current director of Girl Scout activi-
ties in Butte, who was running on
the United Party and who evaded a
direct statement on her status in the
Butte Teachers Union.
Here briefly is the story. The Unit
ed Party, lush with campaign funds,
put on half hour TV program on
Thursday, April 3, from 6:3O to 700
pm. on Channel A, KXLF-TV. The
programs moderator, DR.. Howard M.
Clemmons, who according to the Butte
telephone directory has the same
address and phone number as Miss
McPhail, turned to Miss McPhail and
stated that a question had been
phoned in. He held small piece of
paper so that she could read it. He
asked if she would answer it. She
replied, eyes, I'll answer that ques-
tion."
Then DIR. Clemmons read the ques-
tion, "Why didn't you join the Butte
Teachers Union?"
Miss McPhail replied, 81 became a
member of the Butte Teachers Union
in September, 1853. Now is there any
thing else you'd like to ask me?"
Butte teachers, listening to the pro-
gram, were amazed at the obvious
evasion in Miss McPhail's reply. One
teacher, schooled in the classics,
echoed Homer's incisive judgmnt:
''Hateful to me as are the
Gates of He'll is he, who hiding
one thing in his heart, utters
another"
1t is true that Miss McPhail joined
the Butte Teachers Union in Septem-
Der, 1853. She became the girls
physical education teacher at Butte
High School at that time. She came
to Butte from Reno, Nevada, after
having taught for year and a half
in Ogden, Utah, at salary of $4,000
per school year. Her move to Butte
The people's voice., 1958-05-09
To Whom 1t May Concern

No member of the Butte Teach
ers' Union is a candidate for
school trustee. One of the candi-
dates was initiated into the Butte
Teachers Union but did not COM
ply with union regulations and
was dropped from membership in
April. 1866. This candidate is not
in good standing with the Butte
Teachers Union and does not
have a paid-up withdrawal card.
Signature as above.
For some reason, never explained
to the Butte Teachers Union, the
ad did not appear. After the cleo
ton, the paper called and requested
that it's receipt be returned and
offered to pay the money accepted
for the add.
During the campaign the United
Party made heavy pitch about Sc
crecy on the school board. DR.. Howard
M. Clemmons made a great 'to do"
about the fact that by being active in
the campaign he was paying his debt
to society" for twenty-five years of
education. He also talked about rend-
ering to God the things that were
Gods and to Caesar the things that
were Caesars. 1t seems that telling
the whole truth is one of the first
in rendering to God the
things which are His. 1t seems that
both the United Party and DR.. Glenn
mons would have done more for hon
esty and for the right treatment of
the Butte voting public if they had
had their candidate, Miss McPhail,
state completely her union status.
Too, it seems regrettable that no
one at the Standard-Post Needed
Thomas Jefferson's words: "Our
liberty depends on the freedom of
the press and that cannot be limited
without being lost"
The people's voice., 1958-05-09
Smith Absolutely
Opposes Sales Tax

Lee Roy Smith, Belt rancher, is
a candidate for Republican nomina-
tion for state senator from Cascade
county in the June primary cleo
tion.
The people's voice., 1958-05-09

1TOH rural 10 uTDdH COLnpOSlClOfl along
with the mechanization of farm work
disturbed the idealized 100 acres.
PUT UNDER BOARD OF
EDUCATION IN 1913
Modernization was the keystone in
1913. House Joint Resolution No.
provided typewriters' for the law
makers. Four in the House, one for
the Senate. This session also petit
toned Washington to permit the use
of automobiles in Yellowstone Park.
Senate Bill 105 provided that the four
units, Missoula, Bozeman, Butte, Dill
Ion hereafter be organized and super
vised by the State Board of Educa-
tion and authorized the board at its
discretion to employ chancellor and
to take such steps make rules) to
prevent unnecessary duplication in
the units of this new system.
Montana's gigantic square mile to
person ratio has always required per-
sonality giants and the supply has
never been short. Montana's political
life sometimes moves down to the
level of personality conflicts and ev-
eryone concerned is left with dark
emotion.
University leadership has not been
free of these whirlpools of political
motion. Drs. Atkinson and Strain left
the state college in Bozeman to great
er success in Arizona and Oregon,
respectively. Chancellors Edward Ell
lott and Ernest Melby likewise, with
Elliott as president of Purdue in In
diana and Ernest O. Melby in New
York State educational staffdom.
James Mccain, University president
(1945-1950), is now at Kansas State
with national acclaim. Edwin Boone
Craighead (1912-1916) came from
New Orleans Tulane where he was
president for eight years, to partici-
pate in the most gigantic personality
tidal wave in University history
the 1914 initiative to consolidate the
University System that was defeated
by $4,000 votes.
The people's voice., 1958-05-09
CRAIGHEAD ALSO LOCKED
HORNS WITH STATE BOARD

| The initiative hinged on the wore
'1ocate" of the 1898 Senate Bill 8
To locate the University in Missoula
would certainly have facilitated the
maintenance, governing, and firm-ur
the political establishment. Craighead
considered this an educational ques-
tion and would not be stilled by the
Board of Education.
The fifteen county extension agents
went against the initiative with their
rural support when the Bozeman loca-
tion seemed threatened, coupled with
view that the Morrill, Act demanded
separate location for agriculture and
mechanical higher learning. (No
droughts had been experienced up
to that time and agriculture had a
naive dream that it needed no politi-
cal support.)
The personality giants of the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company not
only knew how to run mining COM
panies but to demonstrate their tai
ents they ran legislatures as we'll.
Butte would lose their school and the
Helena log-rolling advantages to di-
vide the rural group would be lost
by the passage of the initiative. The
pork barrel must be kept.
Craighead was up against the whole
states political gentlemen's agree
ment. Gov. Stewards brother was at
Bozeman. Paris Gibson, pioneer Great
Falls merchant, cooled his support for
the initiative when it was clear that
the Great Falls location had no
chance. The Board of Education which
had originally endorsed the initiative
ordered President Craighead not to
speak in behalf of this initiative. The
company newspapers opposed the ini-
tiative playing to loyalty and locality.
The MISSOULIAN turned on Craig
head after the initiative because a
University catalog low job printing
bid had gone to another firm. Craig
head, refusing to break the catalog
into $250.00 components to beat state
regulations, became tar
get in the town that he tried to boost.
State politicos found common enemy
in him and his resignation must have
given joy to these feathered bed
fellows.
In February, 1916, the Board of
using the power given
them by the undermining 1913 Legis-
lature, created the office of Chan
cellor.
The people's voice., 1958-05-09

Tariff: A scale of taxes on i'm
ports designed to protect the domestic
producer against the greed of the
consumer" r."-AMBROSE BIERCE.
The people's voice., 1958-05-09

| increased her school year salary by
approximately $1,000.
But il is also true that Miss
McPhail let her union dues lapse,
and was dropped from membership
in April, 1855, for failure to COM
ply with Union regulations.
1t is further true that in the spring
of 1856 she deleted from her con-
tract the union shop agreement prior
to signing it and returning it to the
school clerk. This fact can be ascer-
tanned by checking the report of the
school board minutes which appeared
in THE MONTANA STANDARD,
May 8, 1856. Miss McPhail later re-
signed from her teaching job.
Miss McPhail's record in the Butte
Teachers Union was certainly unsym-
pathetic and anti-union.
Why did she resort to evasion of
her true position on the TV program?
The campaign for the two vacancies
on the school board was most remark
able for the outpouring of United
Party advertising by radio, newspaper
and billboard; the United Party funds
seemed without limit. The Independ-
ent Party, the Labor ticket, did not
have a fraction of the financial re-
sources that dinned United Party
candidates into the ears of the radio
and TV audiences. Not in many years
had so determined an effort been
made to sway the electorate in a
school election.
Cynics remarked their inability
to understand the eagerness to Sc
cure positions which carried no
remuneration. However the politi-
cally astute were aware that the
forces which want to smash union
ism were in this to win.
To set the record straight the Butte
Teachers Union tried to get the fol-
lowing statement published as two
inch, two-column ad in the Butte
Daily Post:
To Whom 1t May Concern
No member of the Butte Teach
ers' Union is a candidate for
school trustee. Miss Norma NC
Phail who was initiated into the
Butte Teachers Union did not
comply with Union regulations
and was dropped from member
ship in April, 1855. She is not in
good standing with the Butte
Teachers Union and does not
have a paid-up withdrawal card.
Butte Teachers Union,
Local 332, American
Federation of Teachers,
Mr.. William Drew, President
Miss Sarah McNelis,
Secretary.
The Post-Standard accepted the ad
for publication after changing it to
-ead:
The people's voice., 1958-05-09
By FRANK SMALL
First of a Series)

On the forty-eighth day of the
third session of Montana's upper
law-making body trying out their new
name, Senate formerly Council) this
letter was read from the rostrum:
Governors Office
Helena, Montana
Feb. II, 1898
To the President and members of
the Senate,
Gentlemen,
I have the honor to inform you
that 1 have this day approved and
signed Senate Bill being "An act
to establish, locate, maintain, and
govern the University of the State
of Montana
Respectfully
j. E. Richards
Governor
The fire for this Senate Bill 8,
four sided, clamp in the wilderness"
had been ignited by an earlier Gov
ernor. The Prohibitionist Party hav-
ing greater duties for Green Clay
Smith than territorial governor, va
Gated this post to President Johnson's
appointee to Secretary of Montana,
James Tufts. James Tufts became
Acting Governor December 7, 1868.
Before Tufts was replaced by Gov.
Ashley on April 9, 1869, his pen made
it possible for Montana to receive
gifts to start fund from which uni
versity plans might flower. With silk
en- fringe of hair flowing to the
shoulders. the bald fountain-head of
higher education in Montana has long
been at rest in Nebraska's flatland.
The financial, geological and political
pinnacles that lured the New Hamp-
shire man westward proved unscal-
able. The socially prominent Tufts,
a well liked man, had sold stock in |
New York to finance fabulous mines |
in Montana, had legislative experience
in Nebraska and then Idaho (first |
speaker), judgeship, and one of
several federal jobs was Superintend-
ent of Indian Affairs in 1869. AS the
nominee, turning from his
earlier success as a Democrat, he suf-
fered defeat by James Cavanaugh in
the 1870 congressional race. Faith in
Montana's financial and intellectual
future shattered by the election, Tufts
spent the rest of his life and large
family inheritance in Nebraska.
The people's voice., 1958-05-09
University System Presented
vexinq Problems From the Start

from rural to urban composition along
with the mechanization of farm work
disturbed the idealized 100 acres.
The people's voice., 1958-05-09
TO COMPLY WITH LAND
GRANT ACT


The 1898 Senate Bill was one of
several steps necessary for the state
to participate in the Morrill, Act of
1862 that proposed that land be set
aside to act as a financial pool for
institutions of Agriculture and mech
anical arts, taking effect in 1866,
Montana being made a territory in
1864. the state and it's institutions
had to wait for the growth of a stable
population.
Senate Bill 8, "an act to establish,
locate, maintain, and govern, was
the key to unlock the Montana mind.
% The first president of the Uni
versity in Missoula, Oscar J. Craig
(1895-1907) found that his first class
of one hundred and thirty-five had
five scholars that he considered col
lege level. This condition prompted
his efforts to attempt to standardize
the five high schools existing at the
time.
The first president brought the uni
versity onto the political chess board.
Montana's ivory tower (the univer-
sity's power) movement in the game
of power politics in Helena has had
its effect but like in chess its posi-
ton has been effected by the posi-
ton and powers of the other charac-
ters in the game. I'm chess the tower
shaped piece is called the rook. ETY.
mological research has failed to es-
tablish the relationship between this
fact and the word "rooked"-used by
Capitol lobbyists).
(2) Until 1913 those administrative
people concerned, viewing the univer-
sity through the Morrill, Act and SEN
ate Bill 8. had established four units
all right but another look at the last
word govern" saw much to be de-
sired.
(3) Maintain means money. Money
means Legislature. No self-respecting
University administrative office can
keep out of political effort where it
affects his school. (Who but he could
draw the line?)
(4) Population projections used as
basis of thinking by some were ag-
grandized.
90 The continuing population shift
The people's voice., 1958-05-09

The Post-Standard accepted the ad
for publication after changing it to
read:
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-28

das recepciones hechas a de
Gaulle haasta ahora err SUI via
je por ell Africa.
Anoche una multitud critic
al General cuando este pro-
puso que ell Senegal Sc una en-
una "comunidad" con Francia
baio la propuesta constitu-
cion. De Gaulle hablt en- la
plaza principal de Dakar. AL
Dir los gritos de los senega-
leses Sc puso encendido y to-
manoo ell microfono critic el
tambien independents! 81
la Quieren, Tomeolal"
Pero ell Primer Ministro ad-
virtio que esa independence
significara ell fin de la ayuda
economical de Francia, Rope
tidamente dijo que ell recha-
20 de SUI proyecto constitucio-
nal en- ell referendum del %
de septiembre proximo, signi-
ficara que ell territorio ha ele-
gido SUI independence.
Los peritos politicos han
advertido que seria desastro-
Sc para zonas como ell Senegal
prnscindir de la ayuda finan-
ciera y economical de Fran
cia.
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-28
Distinguishes Periodistas de
Chile EIogian |nstituciones
Denocrdticas de su Patria
n:.~..~. N;.a~ uN:.:


EN- Chile nadie piensa en-
la posibilidad de que ell nue.
vo Presidente de la Republi-
ca no sea ell que cuente con
la mayoris de votos en- las ur-
mas, emitidas en- forma Ii
ore y honrada", declararon
a Diario Las Americas dos
distinguidos periodistas chile
nos que amablemente vista
ron "a Direction de este pc
riodico Son ellos ell Sr. Juan
Lanzorotti, Director de la Re
vista "Ercilla", de Santiago
y el Sr. Fernando Murillo Via
na, Subdireetor y Redactor
Politico del yespersino La
Gaceta', de la misma ciudad.
"En nuestro pals las insti-
tuciones democraticas son
respetadas por ell Gobierno y
por ell pueblo. y no hay posi-
bilidad alguna de djctadura,
nj tampoco de que las eleccio-
mes no respondan a la rea-
lidad de los principles demo-
craticos", continuation dicien-
do nuestros apreciables cole
gas, contestando a preguntas
formuladas por nosotros.
Los mencionados Periods
tas visitaron Miami en- oca-
sion del vuelo inaugural de
la Linea Aerea Nacional de
Chile, y vinieron a esta ciu-
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-28
MuY Promo

AMSTERDAM, Holanda,
agosto 27 (UPI)--Uno de los
mas distinguidos astronomers
n-orteamericanor, ell DR.. Fred
Wblpple, diio hoy que zen
uu periodic relativamente cor
to" los Estados Unidos po-
dram poner en- orbita un te-
lescopio que escudrinara las
misteriosas regiones de los ra-
yos Ultraviolet situados mas
ALA de la vision humana.
"Ahora es ell momento de
hacerlo " dijo Whipple, direc-
tor del Observatorio Astrofi-
sica Smithsonian de Cam
bridge. Agreg6 que va Sc han
hecho estudios sobre las posi-
bilidades y los problemas que
tai proyecto tendria que
a%frontar..
No existe carrera alguna
con Russia sobre esa question,
pero los cientificos soviet
cos hicierou saber, en- la
asamblea del Ano Geofisico
international en- Moscu, que
Sc proyectaba para ell cuarto
"sputnik" russo un "observa-
torio cosmico", que Sc supone
es tambien un telescope.
Whipple declar6, ante oil
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-28
A Ritnlo Lenio
A Ritmo Lenio
Ike Comentu ell
Crave AsUnto de
Ia ~Integrucion

WASHINGTON agosto 81
(UPD-El Presidente Essen
hover admitio hoy que acaso di-
jesse a amistades suyas que la in
tegracion racial en- las escuelaS
debia llevarse acabo con ritmo
mas lento.
Ell Presidente, en- co~nferencia
de prensa, reitero su negative a
Supreme que eXigen la admission
ia. sobre los fallos del Tribunal
Suremo, que exigen la admission
de estudiantes negros en- las es-
cuelas de blancos.
Sc pregunto al Primer Manda-
tario 81 era cierto, como afirmo
una revista nacional, que Ell ha-
bia manifestado "a amigos suyos
que hubiese preferido que Ell Tri
bunal Supreme jamas hubiese
dictado SUI fallo sobre la integra-
cion racial, y que considerable
que esa integraci6n debia llevar-
Sc a efecto a un ritmo mas len
to-.
Eisenhower dijo que esa afr
macion no es cierta. Senalo que
habia dicho en- la conferencia de
prenss de la semana pasada que
iamas daria SUI opinion sobre ia
los del Tribunal Supreme, por-
-(Pasa a la pag. -
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-28
Esiudianie Negro
Buscu Ingreso
en- Universidad
de Ia Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla, agosto
n OUPI- La Universidad de
Florida informo que un estu-
diaLte negro habia demostrado
poser las condolences necesa-
rias para ingresar en- SUI Facul-
tad de Derecho.
S. ell estudiante sc matricula
en- septiembre, esta sera la pri-
mera vez que haya genie de CO.
lor en- ell alumnado de la Uni
versidad de Florida, que recibe
subsidio del estado y que STEM
pre- ha estado reservada a los
blanros.
La universidad informo en- I'm
breve communication que u1o de
los dos e%studiantes negros que
habian presentado solicitud de
ingreso reunia las condolences
n%ecesarias para entrar en- la Fa-
eultad de Derecho.
Sc permitio a los negros to-
mar pruebas para la matricula
en- Il u~niversidad porque ell juez
federal, Dozier A. Devane, or
demo ell ID de iulio a la univer-
sidad que admitiera a los estu-
diantes negros que reunieran
las nismas condolences genera
les que Sc exigen a los estudian-
ties blancos.
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-28
DETENCIONEs

LA HABANA, Cuba, agosto
27.-1958 (Por radiotelefono)-
La detenci6n de cinco acusados
de integrar una celula comunis-
ia y de prepatar la paralizacion
de una industrial papelera en-
que laboraban fue dada a CO.
nocer en- la 25 Estacion de Poll
Ella situada en- Marianao. Los de-
tenidos Sc nombran Laureano
Vidsna Rodriguez. senalado CO
propaganda s~ubversiva, Sc conf
Puerto Lopez Heliodoro Rome
no Echevarria, Manuel Perez
Diaz y Marcelino Mintal Her
nandez.
Por ell Departamento de Prem
sa de la Policia, Sc informo que
con conocimiento la Jefatura de
csc cuerpo, de que I'm grupo o
celula de elementos pertenecien-
ties al partido comunista que la
boraban en- la industrial de pa
(Pasa a la pag. 81
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-28
Eisenhower Hizo Suya Ia
Adyerteneia a China Roja
RespuIda DecIaruciOnes de Foster Dulles

WASHINGTON, agosto rs -
(UPD- Ell Presidente Eisen-
no yer hizo suya hoy la adver-
tencia del Secretario de Esta-
do John Foster Dulles a China
Comunista de que no intente
invadir las isIas ocupadas por
los nacionalistas chinos frente
al litoral continental chino, en-
los estrechos de Formosa.
En- SUI conferencia de prensa
de esta manana, ell Presidente
declare que dichas islas, los ar
chipielagos de Quemoy y Mat
su, han ssumido una impor-
tsnc,a mayor que sntes para la
defensa de Formosa misma en-
vista de que los nacionalistas
chinos han apostado en- elias
aproximadamente a la tercera
parte de sus Electives militares.
Eslo, anadi6 Eisenhower, ha
convertible a las islas en- una
parte esencisl del sistema de-
fensivo nacionalista
\ Ell Presidente, sin embargo.
rehuso decir 81 comprometeria
a Estados Unidos a ir a una que
FRA con China Roja en- ell case
de que esta inicie ell temido
Staque a las islas.
Estados Unldos, agreg6 con
energia, no rehuira las respon-
sabilidades que tiene contrsi-
das con la erpublica de Chi
ma (China Nacionalista).
Lo mejor que Estados Unidos
puede decir en- relaci6n con
esas islas, afirm6, es 10 que Du-
lies declare ell sabado pasado.
(Pasa a la pag. g.
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-28
Combates en- Oriente>
.Pinar del Rio Y Las Villas
ButaNus en- los Tres Frentes ReveIu Ia Radio de RebeIdes. :
Possible que Dr.. PRO Resistu CUmpIr la 0rden de Immigration

LA HABANA, Agosto 81. -
CUPID. = La Radio Rebelde in
formo que Sc ha acentuado la
actividad militar en- las provin-
cias de oriente, Santa Clara y
Pinar del Rio.
Ell locutor rebelde dio cuenta
de dos batallas en- la region de
Oriente durante las ultimas "a
horas. Una de elias ocurrio en-
Lindero de Borge y la otra en-
Cacahual.
La radio no do detalles de
estos dos encuentros en- la pro-
vincia mas oriental de Cuba, pc
no dijo que las fuerzas del ejer-