The people's voice., 1958-10-10

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Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota,
Iowa, and Nebraska.
4. Approval of Senate resolution,
following joint hearings by Senate
Interior Committee, which directs
these committees to continue their
studies and submit findings as to ways
and means of accelerating develop
ment and utilization of the natural
resources of the United States.
| 5. Maintenance of 2 per cent inter
est rate on REA loans, despite strong
administration effort to increase rate.
AGRICULTURE
1. An act extending for years the
Wool Act under which wool sells at
market price and domestic producers
receive direct payments for the diff
ference between the average market
price and the support level.
2. An act providing bonus acreage
allotments for production of durum
wheat during 1857.
8. An act extending the farm ex-
port program.
A. Approval of 52,48O-acre lower
Willow Creek watershed project in
Granite county, under which federal
government contributes 35 per cent
of estimated $757,110 program of ir-
rigation and flood-prevention work.
MINING
1. An act to extend the Defense
Minerals Exploration Administration
which provides federal grants-in-aid
for minerals exploration.
2. An act to increase from 5,120
acres to 10,24O acres the maximum
acreage of public domain land which
may be leased for the development
of phosphate by any person or cor
poration in any one state.
8. An appropriation of So million
which could be used, if the admins
tration chooses, to start upgrading
the SO million government-owned
stockpile of manganese in Butte.
HEALTH
1-2. An act and appropriation of
$1,75O,OOO for construction of COM
munity hospitals to be used by both
Indians and white citizens, when the
Surgeon General finds it more eff
cient to do so than to construct hos
pital for Indian use only. Poison be-
came the first community in the ma
ton to benefit from this act when it
received $161,091 toward construc-
tion of a 40-bed community hospital.
The communities of Wolf Point and
Poplar are high on the priority list
to receive aid under this program,
after local problems are resolved.
8. Appropriation of $128,O0O for
Public Health Service to carry out its
share of a cooperative study with
the Bureau of Mines, of the cause
and prevention of silicosis.
EDUCATION
1. Appropriation of $121, oil allo-
Gated to Montana for extending Ii
brary service in rural Montana COM
munities.
2. An amendment, to the act ex-
tending school aid to federally-im-
pacted areas, which permits school
districts to accept payments under
Public Law 874 federal impact)
without forfeiting right to seek pay
ments under the Johnson-O Malley
(Indian Education Act providing
that duplicate payments are not made.
8. Appropriation of $360,725, or
$54,38O more than last year, for the
school lunch program in Montana.
In addition, there will be consider
able increase in the ALLEGATION of high
quality food, including protein items.
INDIANS
1. An act restoring to tribal owner
ship 41,450 acres on the Fort Peck
Reservation and 5,481 acres on the
Grow Reservation which were ceded
by the tribe to the government with
the understanding that the lands
would be sold and proceeds deposited
to the credit of the tribe, but which
were never sold.
2. An act providing compensation
to the Grow Indians for 1900 acres
within the Huntley reclamation prof.
ect. Under this act the tribe will get
payment for the land ($70,000 to
$75,0OO), an additional sum equal to