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The people's voice., 1959-06-12
Three Million Seedlings
Tree Planting
Program Nears
Completion

One of the largest planting pro-
grams in several years is nearly com
pleted, according to an announcement
by the regional office headquarters
of the, US. Forest Service, Missoula.
G. M. DeJarnette, in charge of re-
forestation activities for the Northern
Region, said total of three million
trees will be planted on about 5000
acres of deforested burns and cut
over lands in Montana, northern Idaho
and northeastern Washington.
Trees for these paintings are pro-
duced from seeds collected from nat
ural stands, and grown at the Forest
Service Savenac and Couer d'Alene
forest nurseries. Savenac, established
in 1909, is one of the oldest forest
nurseries in the United States. The
Occur d'Alene nursery, like the Save
mac, furnishes trees for early plant
ing on sites in Idaho and western
Montana.
In Montana the Bitterroot Ma
tional Forest is planting $4,000
trees; the Flathead $4,000; the
Kootenai 424, 1000; the Lolo 2s3, 900
The people's voice., 1959-06-12

and the Lewis and Clark 100000.
Smaller amounts will be planted
on the Custer, Deer Lodge, Gala
tin, Helena and Beaverhead forests.
In Idaho, the Clearwater National
Forest is planting 10000 trees; the
Occur d'Alene $4,000; the Kaniksu
100000; the Nez Perez 308,000, and
the st. Joe $4,000.
The Colville National Forest in
northeastern Washington is planting
218,OOO trees.
To date a total of 10000 acres
have been planted, but large acreages
in the Northern Region deforested
by the 1910 and subsequent fires re-
main to be planted. Mr.. DeJarnette
estimated that more than 100000
acres in northern Idaho, 100000
acres in Montana and $4,000 acres
in northeastern Washington need
planting.
The people's voice., 1959-06-12
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G.. BILLINGS

phone company personnel are dong
everything possible to side-track any
attempts along this line.
I am convinced that under the
present rate making process consum-
ers are better off to hire their own
expert. even though I think the in
tent of the regulatory law was that
the commission is supposed to de-
fend the consumer. 1t has never
worked out that way, and we might
as we'll face the facts of life. They
have been willing to give favorable
consideration to a consumers expert.
The utilities just never believed
that the consumers would get together
and hire an expert when they worked
for the Supreme Court decision that
said weight must be given to expert
testimony
So now lets stick by the rules. Con-
sumers can save themselves a lot of
money by digging up dollar or so
to hire an expert.
Because the consumers expert in
the last case was one of the best in
the country and the telephone COM
pany is scared to death consumers
might bring him back they are saying
he was 'phoney". They are trying
to discredit everyone who believes
an expert should be hired, and when
no other argument finds favor they
fall back on the time worn attack
that the whole thing is un-American.
The utilities a few years ago had
great faith in the experts it
seems to turn out, it depends on
whose expert, huh? And when all
S said and done all the telephone
company wants, really, is for con-
;umers to lie down and play dead,
after all.
The people's voice., 1959-06-12
Bankers Propose IS BiIIion-DoIIur
Burglary

Elsewhere in this a short article reprinted from
LABOR publcsng attempt by the American Bankers
socan major banking houses of the country
the Congress to make gift to them of SIS billion worth of
government bonds via certain provisions 1920 bill
amending the Federal Reserve Act
The Congressional Record for June carries a 13page
expose this biggest gveaway of all tme placed in the
record by veteran House Banking Committee member Rep
Wright Patman of Texas Little anything has been publ
in the nations press either Patmans
sleeper in S. 1920 which he is attempting to block
few paragraphs from the Texas congressmans House
presentation will the reader something of idea of what
the bankers about what the stakes and the need
Wholesale protest Congress block gveaway
look like peanuts:
approves the private
banks the gveawa quite literal The method by
which authorities transfer these securities
private slightly complicated but
the will SELL these
private money
which these securities Actually will change What
the legislation simply Jimmy the bookkeeping the
ownership of will be
to the private banks
family opportunity
that them the with which buy them?
divided $5 billion family
putting
college, 1t would help house. automobile medical
would like nl
the
claim them whatever Furthermore the
and help (nteres
federal $25 billion worth of such bonds 1857
amounted $542 mllnEDITOR) If
bonds will then profits
will help make loss by
only given legislation
bankp AS to
that bank profits all time high profits of all commercial
The people's voice., 1959-06-12
Liberal Labor
Program Voted
In 4qth State

JUNEAU, Alaska-The 10th state
is we'll on its way to becoming the
nations number 1 state in terms of
labor and social legislation.
On top of its recently enacted $1.50
minimum wage law, Alaska's first
state legislature has passed labor
backed legislation providing:
A workmen's compensation act
with benefits nearly double the aver
age of the other 48 states.
Broad extension of the prevailing
wage law to include employees of con-
tractors and subcontractors on public
buildings or projects.
Authorization for state and local
governments to negotiate written con-
tracts with unions.
A strengthened Labor Dept, as
signed jurisdiction over the unemploy-
ment insurance program.
Stiffened penalties for employ
ers who fail to pay contracted health,
security or pension benefits.
The new workmen's compensation
law, State AFL-CIO President R. E.
Mcfarland reports, is basically the
same bill that was vetoed two years
ago-when Alaska was still a terri
tory-on the grounds that it would
be "too costly" for employers.
Among the key provisions were
of the previous 24-month
maximum for temporary disability
payments. Maximum payments for
permanent total disability were raised
rom $4,000 to $4,000 and many
If the provisions of the federal Long
horemen's and Harbor Workers Act
considerably superior to the pattern
If state laws-were adopted.
Labor's determination not to take
he 1857 veto as final brought bene-
its to both workers and employers.
The people's voice., 1959-06-12

Mountain State Telephone Com
pany is again before the Public Serv-
ice Commission asking for an increase
in their rates, and are active all over
the lot trying to suppress any at
tempts to have the consumers bring
their own expert before the commits
sion.
Are our memories so short???
The utilities recently got a de-
cision from the State Supreme Court
that said the weight of expert evil
dence presented by proponents and
opponents was to be the determining
factor in any decision by the COM
mission.
Before the Supreme Court the con-
sumers, represented by Arnold Olsen,
then Attorney General, based their
case on the theory that it was up to
the commission to represent them.
The utilities (power company and
telephone company said, All, no,
we have the experts on our side and
the commission only sits in the ca
pacity of a court, they must decide
on the basis of the expertness of the
expert experts.
So the next time the telephone
company came in for an increase the
consumers took the utilities at their
word, and banded together, through
organizations and individuals and
hired an expert the commission
evaluated the evidence and denied
the telephone company their increase.
Now again comes the telephone
company seeking higher rates, and
they are viewing with alarm the possi-
bility that these same consumers may
bring in another> expert, and tele-
The people's voice., 1959-06-12

AFTER
which includes
of the banking business
considering that the banking business
Government
of subsidies benefits generously
serve System ;"
Although the $25 billion held
national
the Government paid
the market has, effect Cancelled They
fact If they the Government will
they
obligations
them
interest charges them For let
before the Government off obligations
cancels them;
giving SIS billion of ultimately
the Government $50 billions
AS alternative making
YOU the taxpayer Pman offering
amendment based the position taken Federal
$15 billion
would the
the us. Treasury for immediate
Adoption of
Federal debt by SIS billion would
controlled Federal Reserve System
substantial chunk of pubcwned private
interests in order bankp profits"
1t that the American Immediately
gmen to vote FOR the Patman amendment that this
on the U.s. Treasury be stopped in its tracks-HLB.
The people's voice., 1959-06-12
Yes, There Was A June 5 VOICE! ],

Last week, nterEdtor forgot to change the
INES on The VOICE. with result there two May 29 issues
but none for June To keep them straight the bonae May
issue on page one placed emphasis nterockng Director
ates the June issue featured page editorial
on interstate Highway Between Helena and Great Fas'-I
EDITOR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
ONSI AMI INE bkOWN
Jcponese-South Korean Dispute

tories before Japan's sur
render, were considered sub
jects Of the Emperor. The
Seoul government indicates
that 1t was ready. despite its
economic difficulties. to take
its people. 1t suggested in the
name Of justice that the
Tokyo government contribute
to their resettlement since
they had been uprooted from
Korea against their will. The
ROK government did not
make much Of an issue on
this particular point.
Suddenly the Kishi adj
ministration announced that
a portion Of its Korean resi-
dents would be "repatriated"
to Communist Korea. The
Seoul government warned
Japan that it would not per-
NIT such a crime against its
people and if the japanese
government shipped them TO
North Korea, the ROK navy
would intercept them and
bring them to free Korea.
The contention of Tokyo
that the Koreans wanted"
to go north Of the 38th Par
allel could not be substanti-
ated.
The discussions which had
become increasingly bitter
were shifted from Tokyo to
Geneva in the hope that in
the quieter atmosphere Of
that international city the
Japanese might see that they
were committing a serious
blunder. The talks lasted
for several weeks, but to the
dismay Of the ROK delegates
the Japanese representatives
began negotiating with the
Communists from Pyongyang
who had been sent post haste
to Geneva as soon as the In
ternational Red Cross de-
cided that the repatriation"
operation was too smelly to
be touched by that respon-
Sible body.
Our State Department has
so far refrained from max
ing any representation to
Tokyo. But the situation
could become very serious in
ternationally if Japan insists
as at present on shipping
the Koreans to the Commu-
nistS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
Atlantic Refining
Accused of Fixing
RetuiI Gas Price
BY the Associated Press

The Government today &C.
cused the Atlantic Refining Co
of illegally fixing the retail
price of it's gasoline.
The Federal Trade Com
mission charged that the Phila-
delphia oil company has, since
May, 1857, used illegal methods
to control retail prices during
gasoline price wars in parts of
Delaware, Maryland and Vir'
ginia.
Atlantic was accused of pres.
surfing independent dealers int
contracts which, the ETC said
were merely price-fixing de.
vices.
The complaint further
charged that Atlantic conspired
with dealers to manipulate and
fix prices through consignment
contracts described as nothing
more than shams and subter-
fuges "
The ETC said Atlantic has
restrained competition and used
unfair methods of competition
in violation Of the Federal
Trade Commission Act. The
company has 80 days to answer
the complaint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

spank pupils search for votes Rocky is securing the
land from top to bottom.
Cuba warns of a plot assassnate Fidel Castro And
just company about market artificial boards
under the trademark "Flde Fases"
The Senate toughens Jack Kennedys labor bill Instead
climbing aboard the Kennedy presidential band wagon
some of his colleagues decided to picket it.
##*t%
Anna Kashf gets a divorce and 100000 from Marion
Brando In Hollywood matrimony is spelled matrimoney
Prospective delegate: your candidate have any
tons?" Campaign manager: "Sure, he has deep con-
vction he ought to be President"
New definition of cash: The poor mans credit card.
Big 1860 question: Who is the the Democrats
will nominate to pick Jack Kennedy his running
and Adla Stevenson as his Secretary Of State?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
Earl Mountbutten
Quits Navy Post

LONDON. April "a (AP).-
Earl Mountbatten of Burma,
58-year-old Admiral of the
Fleet and second cousin of
queen Elizabeth, yesterday
bowed out of the British Navy
after as years active service.
Lord Mountbatten is giving
up his post as First Sea Lord
to take over as Britain's defense
chief.
OF the changes he has seen
in the service he joined as a
boy of IL, Lord Mountbatten
told newsmen the greatest
came in the last four years.
The development of nuclear
propulsion represented "a COM
plete breakthrough in naval
strategy" he said.
"It means that submarines
can go as fast as normal ships.
They can stay down weeks,
even months. They are ex-
tremely difficult to detect, to
hunt and to kill"
Lord Mountbatten said the
best answer to the nuclear sub
marine is-the nuclear subma-
rine. That, he added. is why
Britain is building the Dread
naught, its first atom-powered
underwater craft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
The Critics Were Out of Order

OF a deceased member. There
are some amenities that
ought to be observed. even
In the rough and tumble OF
modern politics.
The tragic withdrawal
from public Office Of John
Foster Dulles touched the
President deeply. His voice
was choked with emotion at
his Wednesday press confer
ence. A man who has given
his all to the post Of Sec
rotary Of State was serious
ly Ill. The will to live is inn
portant to a sick man. The
President wanted TO en-
courage the outgoing Secre-
tary to feel he would con-
tinue to be valuable as a con-
sultant. He hoped the press
would emphasize the service
Of Mr.. Dulles.
So, while all along Mr..
Herter has led the list Of pos
sible successors. there was
every reason for Mr.. Eisen-
hover to make a thorough
study Of all the circumstances
before getting into print with
an announcement Of a hasty
decision. The Senate lead
ership rushed through the
confirmation in an attempt
to exploit the situation po-
litically- to show that at
least there was no hesitation
on Capitol Hill,
President Eisenhower
knows the heart Of America
far better than do most OF
his critics. He did not show
unseemly haste. He en-
deavored to use the interval
of a few days to survey the
situation carefully. His
judgment in handling the
presidential job these days is
winning the approval Of the
American people. The latest
Gallup poll shows that, his
popularity has gone up to
so per cent, which is eight
points higher than it was
when the congressional cleo
ton was held last November.
Copyrisht. 1887
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
DORIS FLEEsoN
Herter as Secretary of State

efforts to impinge on his ter
ritory. Now that he has de-
parted, the would-be experts
of the administration are al
ready showing signs of NOV
ing in. Among these are Vice
President Nixon who has just
made a major foreign policy
address, intends to go to open
the American exhibit in Mos
COW in midsummer, and hopes
to backstop President Eisen-
hover at an eventual summit
meeting.
Under the American sys-
tenn, it is the Secretary of
State who is the Presidents
deputy in foreign affairs, not
the Vice President. In Mr..
Nixon's eagerness to present
himself to the electorate as a
forceful figure in this delicate
area, he may do more to
undercut the prestige of Sec
rotary Herter than recent
White House Sights which
the President has now been
at such pains to allay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
President Called Justified on Each Step
In His Appointment of Herter

would head the American
delegation at the foreign
ministers conferences in
Paris and Geneva. Why,
then. on Wednesday morn
ing, did the President. in
speaking to the press. mem
ton the possibility Of other
candidates? Because he
wasn't sure at that time
what the medical examina-
ton would show.
Would the critics have a
President OF the United
States give the impression
that he was disregarding all
suggestions and announce an
appointment even before he
received a formal letter Of
resignation? What II the
medical report had turned
out unfavorably? AS soon
as the favorable medical re-
port came on Thursday
afternoon, Mr.. Herter was
promptly asked to be on hand
at Augusta. Ca. Saturday
morning for the formal an
nouncement Of his appoint
ment.
Is a delay Of a few days in
announcing the appointment
of a new Secretary of State
such a blunder as has been
described by critics? Actually.
it was this very criticism
widely published in large part
by those who disagree with
the EiSenhower-DulleS poll
cies-that gave rise through
out the world to the idea that
the hesitation was a big mis-
take and that there was
something behind it all which
indicated a lack of confidence
by the President in the man
he selected.
The President is one Of the
most gracious and consider
ate persons in public life. He
is not the kind that likes to
see anyone announcing his
candidacy for Congress inn
mediately after the funeral
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
Understanding of Herter and Congress
Due to Give Policies Deep Roots

and powerful m u til m an
operation. The Dulles tech
nique had the advantage Of
swift, .unhesitant execution.
The old gentleman could
move in crisis with the speed
and efficiency of a lashing
whip. The Herter technique,
however, will not be without
its own advantages, and it
may turn out to be the more
effective in the long run.
Mr.. Dulles had on his side
most of all his wholly I'M
troubled self-confidence, plus
the utter and automatic con-
f1dence of a presidential SUI
perior, Mr.. Eisenhower, plus
the guarded and rarely
wholehearted confidence Of
the Democratic Congress.
Mr.. Herter will not have
quite this degree of self-con-
fidence and perhaps not
even quite the same total
and invariable confidence of
the President. But he will
have something more.
He viii have the full Gre
alive and cheerful assistance
of the Democrats. particu-
larly those of the Senate
Foreign Relations Commit
tee. And these are among
the ablest men in public life
today, fully capable both Of
helping to prepare high pol
icy and of gathering support
for it at home.
Mr.. Herter carries the Sen
ate in his pocket, as Mr..
Dulles never could. And
this, at home or abroad, is a
weapon whose f1repower can
not easily be overestimated.
Indeed, some in the Demo-
cratic-controlled Senate al
ready refer to him as a
Democratic" Secretary Of
State.
They do not. of course,
really think they have cap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Serious Situotion Seen if Tokyo Insists
On Sending Its Koreans to Red Korea

900. The Kishi government,
which has given us the inn
preston that it wants no
oficial truck with the Com
munist Pyongyang govern
ment or for that matter with
the Peipine dictators, seems
to have reversed its position
insofar as the forced repatri-
alton of the Koreans is con-
cerned.
Not only does Japan seem
determined TO send these un-
fortunate people TO Com
muniSt labor camps but by
negotiation at Geneva with
the North Korean Red Cross,
it is in fact recognizing the
existence Of two Koreas. This
Is contrary to the policies of
the free nations in the United
Nations which fought a long
and bloody war to repel Com
munist aggression against the
ROK. Tokyo contends it is
not so, since it deals only
with the Red Cross organiza-
ton. But in Communist coun-
tries such organizations are
part and parcel of the struc-
ture of the administration.
The Red Cross officials in
those countries are all mem
bers of the Red governments.
The whole dispute which
can have ugly consequences
could have been avoided with
a little goodwill on the part
of the Tokyo government. At
the end of the war there were
nearly 3 million Koreans in
Japan. They had been brought
in as forced or conscript
labor shortly before and dur
ing the war by the Japan
csc government. After the
Korean Republic was created
IL years ago, more than two
million of these men returned
to South Korea. Very few. if
any, chose to go to the puppet
regime in the north.
There are upward of 600.-
900 Koreans left in Japan.
In recent months Japan
decided arbitrarily to get rid
of these aliens who, when
brought to the Japanese fac
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
VILLAIN S. WHITE
New Foreign Policy Attitude

tured the post in a partisan
sense, nor do they wish to do
so. Mr., Herter is an anthem
tic, if less than urgently par
tisan, Republican. VIII a t
they mean is that there has
now come to power a Secre-
tary whose whole basic view,
whose human personality. is
agreeably in tune with their
own.
1t may seem odd, but it is
nevertheless true. that these
are factors of great practi-
cal, and not mere club
by, significance, Christian
Herter years ago served in
the House of Representatives
in close, pleasant association
with two other young men
who were faithful. if also
less than urgently partisan,
Democrats.
One of these is today the
assistant Democratic leader
of the Senate and also an
influential member of the
Foreign Relations Commit
tee, Mike Mansfield of Mon
tana. The other is the power
full chairman of that COM
mittee, William Fulbright OF
Arkansas. Anybody who sup
poses that Secretary Herter
will have less than the full
time, about and highly use
full assistance of Senators
Fulbright and Mansfield
and Of many others-just
does not know the Senate or
THE Hill" in general, as the
men Of Congress call it.
And anybody who Supposes
that Mr.. Herter will withhold
anything from these men has
forgotten that Mr.. Herter,
too, is at bottom a man OF
Congress. If there is anything
to the notion that two heads
are better than one-and
there is-then we. can look
for this: A foreign policy
deeply protected in its do
nestle base as it has never
been since the war; a foreign
policy far more meshed with
the wishes of our allies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
Many of New Officials Characteristics
Called Distinct Assets for His Job

been overlooked and that
the quiet professional diplo-
macy which it is accustomed
to employ might have settled
problems more satisfactorily
than the more dramatic and
dangerous methods often
used by Secretary Dulles.
1t is out of character for
the quiet and restrained Mr..
Herter to march boldly up
and down, to and from the
brink. This in itself is prom
Using. 1t is held by many
observers that the threats
and counterthreats which
have featured the cold war
have created an atmosphere
in which meaningful agree
ments have been impossible
The fact that Mr.. Hertei
is not the world-shaker type
will be appreciated by the
leaders of our allies who have
their own good reasons for
maintaining their identities
and prestige at the forth
coming international gather
ings.
There has been a dispose
ton in WaShington-and in
the adminiStration-to asso-
ciate Mr.. Herter's politeness
and dignity as well as his un-
happy afIliction by arthritis
with a sort of weakness. This
is not the case. Men who know
him well, including members
of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tionS Committee, give him
high marks for firmnesS when
he is sure of his ground.
There is one area in which
the new Secretary viii need
one of the attributes Of Mr..
Dulles. That strong minded
gentleman never brooked any