The people's voice., 1959-06-12
House Appropriations Committee Gives Nod
Over $6 Million Approved
For State Wafer Projects
By VIC REINEMER. Exec Secy to Sen James E. Murray

Secy. to Sen. James E. Murray
will suffer severe financial injury
and the security of their REA loans
will be placed in jeopardy.
"There, is ample machine capacity
| (1,600,00O kilowatts) installed in the
projects i'll the main, stem of the
Missouri River to take care of the
requirements of the preference GUS
toners. However, only 1 million kilo-
watts of power has been allotted to
them. This is because the Corps of
Engineers releases water during eight
months of the year for navigation
purposes instead of storing the water
to be available for power generation
in the winter months. If the water
were not so released there would be
ample firm power available the year
around for the preference customers.
Senator Murray's Interior Com
mittee has been accumulating evil
dence showing that the Interior De-
partment could meet the power re-
quirements of preference customers
in the Missouri Basin, if it chose to
do so. Last week Murray invited
Interior Secretary Seaton up to the
Hill for a conference about these
possibilities. Mr.. Seaton declined.
TOO THICK OR TOO THIN
The Flathead Valley was used last
week by Senator Murray as an illus
tration of what needs to be done to
improve federal forests.
He told the Senate of a news story
in Columbia Falls HUNGRY HORSE
telling about reforestation on
Teakettle Mountain. Very little work
has been done despite the fact it
burned 80 years ago. Yet nearby, he
said, quoting Mel Ruder of the News,
'there are tens of thousands of acres
of Flathead government-owned land
where natural forestation has taken
place, but the trees grow too close
together We need a thinning
(and) pruning program roads
to get to these areas so that the re-
source can Be managed"
Ruder, said Murray, had presented
/ compelling argument for two bills
which the Montana delegation is ad-
One is the Mansfield reso-
ution to speed up the reforestation
program. The other is the proposed
Youth Conservation Corps which, said
Murray, "would put young men to
work. managing and conserving our
,reat timber, soil, water, range and
ecreational resources"
BITS AND PIECES 4
Thursday the Senate confirmed the +
ollowing M 0 t ana postmasters: i
ames M. Stout, Ballantine; Donald r
|. Kleppelid, Circle, and Olaf Peter il
on, Huntley . Housing and Home o
'inance Agency approved a $2,160 L
rant to Kevin for preliminary plan p
ing of sanitary sewerage system |;
HHFA also granted $2,887 to il
onrad for preliminary planning of s.
,orm sewers Mrs. Gertrude o
rimes of Miles City received a Full IL
right scholarship to teach in Cardiff, a
Tales Freedom Foundation a
wards to classroom teachers who Fl
ave made significant contributions Ii
} American life went to Miss Corlie p
Dunster, Shelby Mrs. Janet h
ollard Rich, Sand Springs (who tt
aches at Jordan) and Mrs. L. Chris a
ne Seamons, Ballantine wv III o Ia
aches at Worden) Public G
ealth Service awarded a $5OO,OOO di
ntract to Mel Buck Construction tf
Cascade, for modernization cl
a 35-bed Indian hospital at Brown eN
G Federal Aviation Agency
located $28,217 for runway pave R
ent, taxiway and apron at the Dillon til
rport Rocky Mountain Con- in
ruction Company, Missoula, was gl
yarded a $19,650 contract for ex- lu
oratory drilling, test blasting, con- ii,
ruction of test fill and appurte- pc
mt work at Bruces Eddy Dam and bl
servoir in Idaho J. G. Watts ru
instruction Co. of Salem, Oregon, m
low bidder ($120,85O) for co
dition to auto maintenance shop at or
asgow Air Force Base Air in
rec signed a letter of acceptability co
r construction of 800 housing units of
Glasgow Air Force Base. Success co
bidder was Burl Johnson Asso- ad
ties, Tulsa. Bid was $4,S58,273. gr
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BULLETIN: Friday Senate lie,