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The people's voice., 1959-08-28
ganda organization supported By
big utilities and grain traders.

ganda organization supported by
big utilities and grain traders.
Here are the highlights from Pat.
toms letter, written "on behalf OF
100000 members of farm families
who have worked hard to build co.
operatives in order to improve then
standard of living, increase their bar
gaining power, and strengthen thei1
security on the land":
eve are supporting S. 2014 as q
means of protecting our bargaining
power amid growing concentration OF
marketing forces on the other side
from farmers, particularly the 'verti-
cal integration' which threatens fam
lily farming.
"The biggest blow we have suf-
fered in this latest phase of our
battle has come from your own
Administration in the form of testi-
mony August 13 by the acting As
sistant Attorney General in charge
of the Anti Trust Division. 1t is his
testimony which | urge you to re-
view and withdraw.
"You have in your Administration
two officials who have been openly
identified with the forces which have
historically tried to kill co-operatives
or make them ineffective.
Zone of these men, Gerald D. Nor
gan, sits next to you in the White
House as Deputy Assistant to the
President, having also been your
Special Counsel and top adviser on
legislation. Mr.. Morgan was formerly
the chief lobbyist for the National
Tax Equality Association, a group
which spreads false propaganda
against co-operatives and is supported
chiefly by contributions from big pri-
vate utilities and grain traders
"The other official in your Admin
istration who has worked against CO.
ops is J. Lee Rankin, your Solicitor
General and second in charge of the
The people's voice., 1959-08-28
Farm Borrowing
Up 20 Per Cent
Over Last Year

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Farmers
borrowed record $50 billion in the
year ended June 80, and had a record
$4.4 billion outstanding in loans from
the Farm Credit System The lat
ter figure is up 20@o from the prev
ious year Also, farmers co-ops
borrowed 37@o more than they did
five years ago j.. The Farmers Home
Administration has another 81 billion
of loans outstanding, on an average
FILA collections are continuing
to make good record :. +. More than
half of the farm ownership loans of
FILA were made by local banks and
reinsured by FHA which caused
FILA head Kermit Hansen to praise
the banks publicly, adding that 'be-
cause of the relatively low return on
the investments in these loans. the
banks were placing service to their
community ahead of financial gain"
:. About the same time, he increased
the interest rate for banks.
The people's voice., 1959-08-28
Budget Bureau Directors
Arithmetic Proves Faulty

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(REI)-
Budget Bureau Director Maurice H.
STAINS kept the Administration anti
REA campaign rolling last week as
he called for an "overhauling' of the
federal agency, which has amassed
record of achievement unsurpassed
by any government program.
STAINS remarks were contained in
a feature article in the August issue
of NATIONS BUSINESS, published
by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
In it STAINS implied rural electric bor-
rowers have been subsidized.
Records show this to be untrue.
During 10 of the "a years of REA
operations, borrowers paid substan-
TALLY more in interest rates than the
average cost of money to the govern
ment. In seven other years they paid
rates equal to the cost of money to
government. During three years they
paid only slightly less and in only four
years have they paid significantly
less.
Said Stans: 'The Rural Electrified
tion Administration has, for more
than two decades, successfully fl
nanced this rural electric and tele-
phone program, and more than 81
billion, loaned at two per cent. has
gone into REA development"
REA has not loaned 81 billion at
two per cent. Of the $3.3 billion ad-
vanced to rural electric borrowers
through June, 1859, $5OO,OOO,OOO
was loaned before fiscal 1945, when
Congress fixed REA interest at two
per cent. Previously the lowest rates
paid by borrowers was "a per cent.
The people's voice., 1959-08-28
Sf3 Billion Pay ChiseI
Caught UP With By
U. S. Dept. of Labor

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Labor
Departme Wage and Hour ano
Public Contracts Divisions reported
that during the year ending June &c
some $12,885,921 in wages were re-
covered for 124, ,046 workers. The re-
coveries were made under provisions
of the Fair Labor Standards Act and
the Walsh-Healy Public Contracts Act
from employers who violated the law
by failure to meet the minimum stand
ards provided in the two acts.
The Fair Labor Standards Act pro-
vides that employees engaged in or
producing goods for interstate COM
merce must be paid at least the mini
mum wage of 81 an hour and at least
time and one-half their regular rate
for hours worked over 40 in the week.
The Public Contracts Act applies to
government supply contracts in excess
Of $4,000. 1t requires that employees
working on covered contracts be paid
not less than the minimum wage the
Secretary of Labor has determined to
be prevailing in the industry plus time
and one-half their basic rate for hours
worked over eight day or 40 a week,
whichever is greater.
The people's voice., 1959-08-28

Department of Justice. Mr.. Rankin
received $1,610.18 in 1949, for ex-
ample from the National Tax Equal
ity Association, according to the
lobbying reports filed with Congress,
and spearheaded the work in Ne
braska.
Because of the well-established
bias against co-operatives by these
two members of your official family,
l sincerely believe that you should
personally review the Administra-
tion's position on this important meas
ure. together with whatever connec-
ton either man may have had with
the decision to oppose co-operatives
on it.
"Your assurance that neither of
them will be allowed to participate
in decisions affecting co-ops might
help farmers have confidence that
the cards are not stacked against
them at the White House on this
issue. We ask only for fair fight,
free of any hidden influence either
for or against us"
The people's voice., 1959-08-28

10y W fe'oiiAAiS VII, - -
man who had taken his place and now
bore all their hopes"
When Drury becomes reporter
rather than a philosopher, the novel
sings. He knows and understands the
workings of the Senate's elmer
circle" as few newspapermen do. His
description of the hidden conflicts,
the driving ambitions and the petty
rivalries are perceptive. The hearings
on Leffingwell reflect what actually
goes on. The closed-door conferences,
when Senators let down their hair
and talk straight to each other, seem
real.
When he describes how rough poll
tics can become in Washington he is
also on sound ground. Where he goes
off, though, is in his failure to recog-
nize the circumstances under which
Roosevelt came to office and the pres
sures (personal and politicaD he
faced all the time he was President.
Roosevelt was no saint, of course;
neither was he the DEVILS brother.
The people's voice., 1959-08-28
PHS Report
Higher Deoth
Rates Charged
To Cigarettes
PHS Report

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Another
in a series of Public Health Service
studies has tabled heavy smoking as
likely culprit in high death rates.
Smoking of two or more packs of
cigarettes day was reported to CO.
incide with very high death rates,
twice as high as those for non-smok-
ers for given age groups.
The study was conducted among
100000 veterans of the Armed Forces
whose smoking practices had been re-
corded. For every 1000 deaths in this
group over a 2 u year period heavy
smokers had twice as high death rates
as non-smokers.
Other evidence in the statistical
study was even more striking. 1t
found that:
The death rate for lung cancer
was 16 times as high among men who
smoke more than pack day as COM
pared to non-smokers.
Coronary heart disease deaths
were SO per cent higher for smokers
than non-smokers.
Deaths from bronchitis, stomach
ulcers, cancer of various internal or
gans and cirrhosis of the liver were
more than twice as high among smok-
ers as non-smokers.
However, the study noted, that
moderate cigar or pipe smoking had
no where near the impact on death
rates that cigarette smoking had.
The study was conducted by DR..
Harold F. Dorm, chief of the biomet-
les branch, Division of Research Serv-
ices of the National Institute of
Health. 1t was Immediately challenged
by the Tobacco Industry Research
Committee which held that the evil
dence was unsupported by statistical
data.
The people's voice., 1959-08-28

hearing of the committee on S. 2014
which aims to clarity the rights of CO.
operatives to acquire other enter
prises.
Continuing his testimony in favor
of the bill, the Montana farm leader
said that farmers are endeavoring to
help themselves through their demo-
cratically controlled co operatives.
cover the years farmers have organ
lied co-operatives reluctantly and
only where there has been a strongly
felt need for such services. Any ex-
pansion of a farmer co-operatives,
whether for processing or otherwise,
is usually done after other avenues
for relief have been exhausted"
Pointing up how small part of
the nations economic picture co-ops
presently represent, he added that
General Motors alone does larger
annual volume of business than all
farmer co-operatives combined"
S. 2014, by Long (D-La.) and Nc
Carthy (D-Minn.) has been intro
duced to protect patron-owned co-ops
from antitrust actions, such as
recent federal court ruling against a
farmer-owned dairy cooperative in
Maryland. The bill will also, accord
ing to NFU President James G. Pat
ton, provide a means of protecting
farmers bargaining power amidst
growing concentration of marketing
power among a handful of giant cor
porations.
The people's voice., 1959-08-28
Poultry Bill Put In Senate

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NFU)-
A potent combination of four Sena-
tors have introduced a far-reaching
bill to increase the income of poultry
producers. The sponsors are Senators
Humphrey (D-Minn.), Mccarthy Cd
Mimi Engle (D-Cal.) and Williams
(R-Del.).
The people's voice., 1959-08-28
Still Not Enough cIassrooms

WASHINGTON, D. ca short
age of 10000 classrooms was pre-
dicted for public schools this au-
tumn. The Department of Health,
Education and Welfare called that
estimate "conservative".
The people's voice., 1959-08-28
Kenfie|d Testifies on Legal
Riqhts Of Farm Co-operatives

The sorry situation in which American agriculture fndse
itself requires that there be opportunity for farmers to help
themselves wherever they cam Leonard Kenfed Great Falls
told the Senate Agriculture Committee last week
Kenfied along with John Baker, MUS director of legisa
tive services in Washington, appeared before Washington
The people's voice., 1959-08-28
RIGHT ESTABLISHED
DECADES ago..

MUS Baker said that "the right
of farmers co-operatives to acquire
countervailing market power through
ownership and collective bargaining
without risk of prosecution was firmly
established by enactment, several
decades ago, of the Capper-V Volstead
Act'.
He referred to that law as the
original Co-operatives Bill of Rights
and urged Congress to enact second
Bill of Rights, clarifying and restat-
ing the intent and purpose of Con-
gress to protect from prosecution the
efforts of farmers to acquire strong
er competitive position in the market
by acquisition through their co-opera-
tives of existing enterprises en-
gagged in the processing and market
ing of farm commodities -
Baker also gave the Senators back
ground material on the need for
greater bargaining power by farmers.
Several witnesses pointed out that
co-ops could not be prosecuted under
the antitrust laws for building new
processing plants and hence should
not be prosecuted Gas the Justice De-
partment would have them) for buy
ing existing plants of this type in
order to integrate their operations.
Opposing the bill were witnesses
from several dairies around the coun-
try, miscellaneous coop haters, and
Thurman Arnold, former head of the
Antitrust Division who now repre-
sents the National Small Business
ems Association.
This is the organization which was
exposed in 1850 by a committee
headed by Congressman Wright Pat
man (D-Texas) as being financed by
very big business and labeled as ''false
and misleading" in it's claims to repre-
sent small business.
Among financial angels at that
time were Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
Chrysler, Republic Steel, Firestone,
Hiram Walker, Inland Steel, U S.
The people's voice., 1959-08-28
FIGHT BEING CARRIED
TO THE WHITE HOUSE

On yet another front the fight over
legal rights of farmer co-operatives
to increase their bargaining power by
acquiring related facilities is being
carried directly to President Eisen-
hover by Mr.. Patton.
Patton, in letter to the President,
urged him to "review and withdraw
testimony already submitted to the
Senate committee by the Department
of Justice against S. 2O14.
Steel, and big oil companies.
Patton's request was based on
the fact that two of Eisenhower's
top officials are former lobbyists
for the National Tax Equality Asso-
citation the anti-co-operative propa-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11

Architect on the project has
been Harry Barrett, of Wash
ington, D. c.
Three buildings occupy the
1212-acre tract and are named
for the All Club leaders: the
main building honors C. B.
Smith, former chief of the
Office of Cooperative Exten-
sion, U. S. Department of Agri.
culture; the two smaller struc-
lures are named for Gertrude
L. Warren, formerly in charge
of girls All Club work, and
Ray Turner, who was respon.
sible for boys club work.
Up to 300 persons can be
seated in the Smith Hall dining
room which can also be trans
formed into an auditorium
with a capacity of 400 persons.
The three wings of Smith
Hall can sleep 270 persons in
aforementioned comfort. Park
ing lots can accommodate 100
cars.
Executive director of the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11
Chapter E
(BILL NO. y

AN ACT repeal reenact with amendments Chaper
titled Administration Section 210e titled Listing and as
sessment Of personal property subsection co. titled
Duty OF taxpayer notice. subsection (a (3) titled Fail
ure OF taxpayer to return FORM subsection (a) (6
titled when return to be filed" Montgomery County
Code 1855 to provide that property shall
be filed prior to April 18th of each year.
Be Enacted by the County Montgomery County
Maryland that
Sec l. Section 210S subsectons (al o. 90 49, Mont
County Code 1885, hereby repealed
with amendments to read follows:
"t2 Duty of taxpayer notice Every person. within the
county liable TO taxation hereunder and association
pany executor administrator guardian holding per-
sonal property in trust liable taxation hereunder shall prior
to April Is of each fill out the proper blanks form
schedule with full and statement this section here
nabove required and make and sign affidavit truth
thereof aforesaid before the supervisor or
fore Of the duly appointed county before
the director of finance of the county his
deputies and the supervisor Of duly appointed
assessors for the county and the director of
and his assistants and deputies hereby authorized
such and all oaths in connection with their
collectors Of taxes without charge any person a
horzed by law to administer oahs and the address in the county
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11
Chapter IL
(BILL NO. l2)

AN ACT to amend Chapter As titled "lver Spring Bethesda
Wheaton and Montgomery Hills Parking Lot Districts" Sec
ton 4514 titled Parking meters authority regulate install
aton, maintenance and operation; authority to INSTALL
forcemen Of regulations of the Montgomery County Code
1885, amended provide for limiting of time
that vehicles may park within the Parking Lot Districts
Be Enacted by the County Council Montgomery County,
Maryland that -
Sec l. Section ASIA titled Parking Meters authority To
regulate installation maintenance and operation authority to
INSTALL enforcement Of regulations of Chapter titled SILVER
Spring Bethesda Wheaton and Montgomery Hills Parking Lot
Districts of the Montgomery County Code 1885, amended
is hereby amended to read follows
THE Council is hereby authorized pursuant procedure
prescribed by section 227 this adopt regulations for
the installation maintenance and operation parking meters
along and limiting the time may park on the
streets highways and alleys located within district and on
the parking lots within each district acquired by leased TO
the County, by the Of parking meters and TO
prescribe parking meter other fees for parking park
ing lots streets highways and alleys except that on all Off
Authority said Authority sha bave responsibility for the
installation maintenance and operation parking meters on such
facilities and for the adoption of regulations rates fees and other
charges relating to the facilities operated managed bv n
After the adoption Of such regulations County NAV purchase
INSTALL maintain and operate any parking meters on all
streets highways alleys and ofseet parking facilities NOT
leased to the Revenue Authority accordance with such rega
tons provided that the location thereof approved by resolution
OF the Council All parking meter collected within each dis
c shall be applied provided in the following section and the
Division of Police Protection shall such regulations M
gardng parking and parking manner as thew
enforce parking and traffic regulations applicable to the public
streets and alleys of the County"
Passed. May 25 1859
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11

be raised for the ensuing maintain equip
and operate the fire department. and Shall hereupon certify the
the council who, in their next annual levy shall levy
said all property assessed for county purposes within
the exceeding fifteen cents each hundred
dollars of the assessed value of the produce
that appear them sufficient for the purposes provided
that the council shall not levy such which would pro-
duce less than the certified by the Silver Spring Vol
unteer Fire Department c necessary maintain equip and
the fire department without previous public hearing
determine the necessity of proposed reduction of the
certified by the fire department The shall be levied
shall be collected county may hereafter
levied and collected and shall have the priority rights
the interest and penalties and
the county The levied the ensuing
shall be collected by the tax collecting authorities of
county and they shall remit the whole of
collected to the treasurer of the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire
parmen Inc the treasurer giving corporate
county, to be approved by the county the county
attorney in penal to be fixed by Them conditioned upon
the faithful discharge of the duties of
the amounts received the treasurer authorization
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department Inc, shall pay
proper COSTS expenses claims and demands
maintenance equipment and operation department
and shall demand of the council make report
of such expenditures.
Passed. May q, 1859
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11

making affidavit shall in each case be given below
signature hereupon supervisor of
any shall such property its full cash value and
the columns blanks provided for that
purpose and the thus asceaned shall be entered upon
taxation for each fiscal year."
3) Failure of taxpayer return FORM If person. asso
ciaon administrator guardian trustee
shall fail deliver to the supervisor of assessment
prior April Is of each year. the form schedule of his
property owned held otherwise provided for
this section then the supervisor of shall without
delay information procure make
against such person. association administrator
guardian which such supervisor of assess
shall add fifteen thereof provided that
pcaon after filing of the return the appeal tax court of the
county may reduce entirely the addition of fifteen
cent upon good shown"
"6) When filed all tangible personal
property other automobiles filed prior April IS
of each year"
Passed: May 25 1859.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11
In Chevy Chase
National All Center
viii Open Tuesday

would TEEN in and out of the
Foundation.
Idea of the Foundation came
in 1913 from members of the
Cooperative Extension Service
and All Club leaders. Two
grants aided greatly in the
building program. They were a
$490,000 Ford Foundation Grant
and the Danforth Foundation
grant of 100000.
In addition, All Club men,
bers contributed $135,000
through their Share and Care
Program. Remodeling and new
construction expenses so far
have amounted to $911, 900.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11
In Chevy Chase

Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son and the national admins.
traitor of the Federal Extension
Service, Clarence Ferguson, will
participate in ceremonies mark
ing the opening of the SIPS
million National All Club
Foundation June 16.
:. The Foundation is located in
the former home of the Chevy
Chase Junior College at TOO
Connecticut ave-, Chevy Chase.
The site and building were pur-
chased in 1851 following con-
troversy stirred by neighboring
residents who feared that enor.
nous numbers of children
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11
County Graduates

Fifty residents of Montgom-
cry and Prince Georges Coun-
ties were included among the
graduates yesterday fir 0 m
Southeastern University and
eight more in the class grad
uating from Woodward School,
both operated by the Central
Branch of the YMCA in Wash.
ington, D. c.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11
Frontier Day
Hayride Set

A Frontier Day Hayride"
will be the first project put on
by the District Explore r
Cabinet, Montgomery District,
BSA, from 2 until II pm. June
20 at the Agricultural Center,
Gaithersburg.
The program calls for sport
ing and other events. a picnic
provided by Girl Scouts, square
dancing in the early evening
ending with a hayride.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11

Foundation is Grant A. Shrum,
of 3517 Olympic ST., Silver
Spring. He is responsible for
all phases of the Foundations
activities, including the All
Center, the International Farm
Youth Exchange, the Human
Development, Human-Develop-
ment Project, and supporting
activities.
Prior to being named execu-
tive director, Shrum served for
21a years as executive director
of the All Builders Council
which provides leadership to
the Foundations total fund
raising program.
He formerly was county
agent for Franklin County,
Mo-. and is currently doing
graduate work in education at
the University of Maryland.
w. w. ANDY Eure is pro.
gram director and manager of
the National All Club Center,
as the Foundation headquarters
also is known. He has been a
member of the All Club Foun-
dation staff for more than six
years, having also been asso-
ciated with the Virginia Works
Progress Administration and as
Virginia Extension Rural So
biologist and as the state Older
Youth Leader.
A resident Of Fairfax County,
Va, Eure served USDA's For
eign Agriculture Service from
June 1855 through December
1855
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-06-11

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