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The people's voice., 1959-07-10

Admitting he has "been critical of
the present State Highway Engineer
(Fred QuinnelD," Williams said in
his statement that "no one can ques-
tion my loyalty or work for over 80
years, and it was not until sincerely
felt that the highway program was
not being conducted for the fullest
and best interest of Montana that |
brought the issue out into the open.
''For nearly 80 years." he said, 81
stayed in the background, played no
politics, only did my work and gave
of overtime when asked. l
believe I enjoyed the confidence of
my superiors, both state Highway
and Commissioners" prior
to the past two years. 81 am also of
the opinion that I was fair, and re-,
spected by those who worked for me. "
Williams said he began to ques-
ton the departments methods
about 26 months ago due to what
he claimed was its present ap-
parent lack of administrative lead
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
27 Montana Schools Share In
First Distribution of NDEA Funds

HELENA-The first distrib-
ution of federal funds under
the National Defense Education
Act to 27 Montana schools, was
announced by Supt. of Public
Inst. Harriet Miller Wednes-
day.
Funds are for programs to improve
instruction in mathematics, science
and modern languages under Title III
of NDEA. The total amount, $15,-
O57.41, represents the first of two
equal payments to be made to the
schools involved.
Miss Miller said that 1,116 school
children would be served by the in
structional programs. The schools re-
ceiving the money are among the first
to apply under NDEA. Matching funds
in the same amount as the federal
grant must be provided by the local
district, the state superintendent said,
and purposes for which the funds will
be used must be approved by the De-
partment of Public Instruction in ac-
cordance with U. S. Office of Educa-
tion regulations.
William l.. Erickson, the Depart
The people's voice., 1959-07-10

go for various kinds of taxes, leaving
a balance of $130,OO0 revenue for
the company. This $4,000, repre-
senting additional "dollar revenue re-
quirements" the company believes it
needs, Todd said, Twill result in an
average percentage revenue increase
for the test year of 1859 of 1872
per cent -
The additional "dollar revenue re-
quirements'-that 181A per cent net
figures something quite different
from the amount of rate increase that
would have to be granted, percentage
wise, to provide the extra $130,00O a
month the company claims it must
have to earn fair return on its Mon
tana operations. In fact, by Todd's
own figures, that 1917 per cent is
something less than half of the total
increase the company is asking
amounts to. only As per cent of the
proposed rate increase total.
The people's voice., 1959-07-10

state land within what is known as
the Waite ranch near Utica be placed
on sale. A field investigator is being
dispatched to determine the classifi-
cation of the area. The board will
place less than one section on the
block at any one time. Galt's plan
TO consolidate under private owner
ship is advised by Wellington d.
Rankin. Twenty dollars an acre was
a suggested opener for the sale. The
move was made in fear of future
regulations being imposed on the
Land Board by future legislatures.
Pan American Oil wants to get
some money back on an oil lease
which was transferred to them from
Stanoline. Stanoline paid the state
$420 an acre for 402S4 acres or
$169,234.80, June 8, 1852. The tract
included a 78.3-acre island in the
Yellowstone River near Glendive. The
federals in Washington, d. c., main
tain the island is theirs. Attorney
General Forrest Anderson has found
no legal beachhead for Montana to
make good on the island sale. Nor
are any funds available for reim-
of oil companies that get
swindled. They might
try their luck with the legislature.
Secretary of State Frank Murray
and Gov. J. Hugo Aronson also
thought that the legislature would be
The place for Pan American to go to
get the $33,412 they think they have
been shortchanged.-F.S.
The people's voice., 1959-07-10

ment of Public Instructions NDEA
co-ordinator, said that applications
are now being received from many
more schools for the next series of
grants. He listed recipients of the first
payment as follows:
Kalispell elementary schools, $276
for foreign language instruction;
Twin Bridges elementary school,
$3.50 for science.
Twin Bridges high school, $500 for
science;
Brady elementary school, $4O7.87
for science;
Brady high school, $4O7.87 for sci
ence;
Anaconda senior high school, $208.-
Is for foreign languages;
Columbia Falls high school, $3.50
for science;
Laurel elementary school, $75 for
foreign languages;
Malta elementary school, $81.43
for foreign languages;
Malta high school, $81.43 for for
eign languages;
Chouteau high school, $3.50 for sci
ence;
CONTINUED On Page Four)
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
Independent Republican
Blasts Williams Firing

Rep. A. w. Elting, Custer county's
Independent member of the House,
and nominally Republican, last Sat
urday, said that ex-Highway Program
Engineer Horace Williams is "appar-
emily victim of bureaucracy at it's
worst.
The Custer legislator defined this,
according to the GREAT FALLS
TRIBUNE, as "rule by commissions
and bureaus that brook no interfer-
ence or honest difference of opinion" :"
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
DOUBLE-SHOT INCREASES
FACE 18 COMMUNITIES

Hardest hit, should the PSC ap-
prove the rate increase application
en- toto, would be 18 Montana COM
munities which the utility wishes to
upgrade to higher group classifica-
tions because of increases of number
of telephones serviced through local
central stations. These 18 would not
only get rate hike via upgrading,
but would also get a second hike be-
cause of the higher rate schedules
proposed for all telephone business
and residential service.
Among those slated for double
shot" increases are Missoula, Great
Falls and Billings. Rate increases
and upgrading would raise business
and residential phone service from
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
OUINNELL'S STATEMENT
QUESTIONED BY BRADFORD

Stating he was much interested in
Mr.. Quinnell's explanation" of the
huge increase of right-of-way cost
for the piece of highway in question,
Rep. Truman Bradford (D-Cascade)
who headed up the 1859 Highway In
vestigating Committee, said that "the
facts and Mr.. Quinnell's statement do
not seem to harmonic.
f'Mr. Quinnell stated the original
right-of- cost estimate was based
on a two-lane facility; that after a
thorough traffic study was made, it
was found that four lanes were nee
essary," the Cascade legislator re-
called.
Questioning the validity of Quin-
nel's statement, Bradford said he
wished to call to the attention of the
chief engineer "and the general pub
lie that five months before the road
contract was let, the Highway Com
mission let a contract for construc-
ton of twin bridges of two lanes each
which are part of the highway. A
twin two-lane bridge would indicate
a four-lane highway.
''When the commission let this road
contract on September IL, 1853, they
knew that it was to be four lanes for
the most part and the estimated cost
of right t-of-way. 1t provided for 2 of
mile of 2 lane highway and 2.2
miles of four lane highway. At that
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
-eat Falls and Billings:
Present Proposed

The Is other towns scheduled for
upgrading in addition to the general
rate increase requested, are as fol-
lows:
Group ii upgraded from Group /:
Belgrade, Gardiner, Philipsburg, Pop
lar, Plains, Terry, Thompson Falls,
Whitehall and White Sulphur Springs.
Approval of upgrading and the gen.
eral increase would mean that month
1y business phone rentals would jump
from 80 to 48 per cent; for one and
-party-line residential patrons,
from 3315 to 40 per cent.
Group III from Group II: Baker,
Choteau, Forsyth and Wibaux. Busi-
ness rates would increase At per cent;
42 per cent.
Group Nv from Group III: Glasgow
and Glendive. Business rates would
Continued On Page Four)
The people's voice., 1959-07-10

A careful reading of testimony
given the commission by MST&T
Vice President K. p. Todd accounts
for the discrepancy between the
Is u per cent and Fl to SO per cent.
Todd said that the increases sought
in local and long distance calls would
amount to $290,0OO month. Of this
amount, he pointed out that $3.50, 1000
(or 55 per cent of increase) would
The people's voice., 1959-07-10

engineer, and apparently came about
because of his releasing a statement
ON soaring right-of-way costs on a
piece of primary US 10 west of Glen
dive.
Earlier in the week, Williams had
issued press release pointing up that
right-of-way costs on that 2.45-mile
stretch just west of Glendive had
scared from an estimated $4,000
last September to $375,000. In his
statement, Williams quoted from a
letter by Bureau of Roads District
Engineer M. j. Wilcomb of Missoula
which branded this 20-fold jump in
right-of-way cost as unusual. Will
comb requested the commission to
furnish additional information to
document your request for this un-
usual major increase in cost"
Quinnell Immediately answered
Williams, asserting that the statement
was "unauthentic", and that such
"outbursts are hard to explain
- The chief engineer said that ga
number of factors contributed to the
additional cost of right-of way, among
them being that the original right-of-
way cost estimate was based on a
two-lane facility. After thorough
traffic study was made it was found
that four lanes were necessary. This
increased the width of the right-of-
way required and made it necessary
to buy additional property"
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
Widel s2 bEcised Is % Figure Incorrect
M zI&T's Rate Increase Requests
Runqe From 21 To 50 Per Cent

Service
rangin from2 o rcen.
O cnaver
sought the utility
of
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
"Disgraceful Waste of Taxpayers Money :"
Quinnen and Facts Don't
>Hdrmonize,-- ,--Bradford

Last week. Horace Williams fired by the Highway Com
mission for what State Highway Engineer Fred unne termed
'facts of insubordnation'
The dismissal of the 32year departmental
the first day of his employment custodian of the highway
building following his demoton the position program
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
32-Yeur Highway Dept. Veteran
Demands Fair, Impartial Hearing

Ex-Highway Program Engineer Horace Williams in his
first public statement since his dismissal by Harry
fellow Highway Commissioners last Wednesday, this week
demanded that the commission give him ga fair and impartial
hearing and that when facts departmental nefciency
and waste ae developed and that be
my former position and salary program engineer
The people's voice., 1959-07-10

ership and semipolitical reorganiza-
ton, questionable project awards
and right-of-way acquisition, mill
ion-dollar work orders and a gen.
eral overall crash program"
Taking issue with insinuations made
by top Highway officialdom Williams
stated that II am not an undercover
agent for any clan, group, clique, or
party" and that 'T am not candi-
date on any ticket for the position
of State Highway Engineer. I came
to the Highway in 1927 seeking hon
orable employment. I am again seek
ing honorable employment"
THE GLENDIvE R/W QUESTION
Pointing out that the immediate
reason given by the Commission for
his dismissal from the new post of
chief highway building custodian to
which he was downgraded as a penalty
for having appeared and testified be-
fore the House Highway Investigat-
ing Committee last February, was his
"insubordination" in releasing infor-
nation on the 20-fold right of way
cost increase on a 2.45-mile piece of
U. S. 10 near Glendive, Williams
stated:
81 take the liberty of correcting
Mr.. QuinnelPs recent inaccurate re-
lease to the press" (See "Quinnell
and Facts :" adjacent to this ar
ticle.) Contrary to QuinnelPs asser-
ton that traffic study conducted
since the contract was let on that
piece of road last September showed
the need for four-lane highway, and
consequently, more right-of-way,"
Williams said that "the overall road
way design of this improvement f. |
vas approved after several routings
we're investigated, number of pre-
Continued On Page Four)
The people's voice., 1959-07-10
Land Board To Hold Hearing On
State Lease Involving HUfferites

H. SHINES and Paul Jesse were
ordered to appear at the next meet
ing of the Land Board to show cause
why their lease ol state land near
Sweet Grass adjoining the Hillside
Hutterite Colony should not be re-
voked. At the boards meeting
Wednesday Comm. Lou Bretzke re-
ported an investigation showed that
78 cows had been grazed for three
months at $702 without written sub
lease. A herd of 800 Hutterite sheep,
so cows and some horses have also
been on the land without the sanction
of the Land Board.
R. G. Mathews has requested the
sale of this State land which formed
part of Simmes-J Jesse operation.
The latter have sold 5000 acres of
private land in Toole county to the
Hutterite colony. The 1,200-acre sale
is being held in allegiance until a pub
lie hearing is held. At stake is the
preferential bidding of the leaseholder
who is allowed to make matching
final bid.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Atkinson,
who have been leasing 800 acres from
the state for Al years and have
$4,000 Improvements on the land
have asked to have the tract put up
for sale. Located seven miles north
west Of Geraldine the plot will be
placed on sale opening at $50 an
acre.
Jack Gait, speaking for the Werth-
elmer Ranch Co., has requested that
The people's voice., 1959-07-10

time it was estimated the cost of the
right-of-way would be $4,000. The
width and cost of this road as con-
tracted for has never changed but
the cost of the right-of-way has. The
facts and Mr.. Quinnell's statement do
not seem to harmonic.
(For additional information, see
"32-Year Veteran - in adjoining
column
"There is one more additional
fact which Mr.. Quinnell failed to
point out, and that is that the con-
tract was let without first purchas-
ing all of the right-of-way.
R/W PROCUREMENT
POLICY AT FAULT
The Highway Investigating Com
mittee pointed out in it's report that
the practice of the commission in let
ting contracts before obtainingb the
was costing the taxpay-
ers thousands of dollars of additional
costs in (land) acquisition, and rec
commended that such practice be
This fact is borne out in this
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The people's voice., 1959-07-10

30 to SO per cent. Missoula would
be upgraded from Group v to
Group vi. Great Falls and Billings
would be upgraded from Group vi
to Group VII.
Broken down in terms of dollars
and percentages, the following on
5hese three cities:
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Craft continued. HE showed us
that down South when he
threw out q couple Of our boys
at the plate. Now he's showing
US he can ran In the outfleld
as well as on the bases. He has
power and he has determine
ton. Hes a wonderful pros
pect."
$50
Jerry Schoonmaker visited
the Senators in Kansas City
and apparently the baseball
days of the Washington -owned
outfielder are ended. Jerry
has lost the sight Of his left
eye, damaged by q piece OF
metal while he was operating
a jackhammer on a construc-
ton job last fall.
The New York Herald Trib-
une is listing gambling odds
on baseball games with the
club standings. Pitcher RIP
Coleman of the AS was the
victim Of a freak accident al
home recently. He was IN
a rocking chair when 1t broke,
he grabbed for a lamp. 1t broke
over his head and the cash
required Is stitches. j.. He also
has a black eye.
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On Probation

The council also put Gustavus
Adolphus College of st. Peter.
MINI, on one-year probation
for playing in a n-certified
post-sesson football game last
year.
The game matched Gustavus
Adolphus against Arizona
(FlagstafD State. 1t was to
determine the teams for the
Holiday Bowl at st. Petersburg,
Fla. Neither the Adolphus-
Arizona State game nor the
Holiday Bowl was certified by
the NCAA.
The councils action yester-
day left II cases still pending
for possible penalty.
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lose. I think you need some
luck in this game.
Il like TO beat all teams. but
especially / like to beat the
Yankees. Maybe that's why /
no beat them so much. l try
too hard ! think.
The best hitter in the
league? That's me. No, I think
Mickey Mantle) or Ted (Wil-
liams). You make mistake
against them. they make you
sorry"
! ~ So
Harry Craft, the AS man.
ager, was saying the Senators
are TO be more feared this year
than last. "One of the rea-
sons is Bob Allison Craft said
When ! saw him in training
camp this spring, I realized he
had all the potential, but
doubted If he could come along
as quickly as he has. He's look
ing better every time see
him."
Like Casey Stengel of the
Yankees, Craft has been i'm
pressed by instances where
Allison failed. Stengel had
words of praise for Allison
after he failed to hit in six
times at bat against Whitley
Ford. Stengel pointed out
that Ford famed Is in that
10 victory over the Senator's
but he got Rookie Allison only
once on a strikeout.
Allison opened my eyes with
his defensive potential" Craft
said. Tuesday night Hector
Lopez hit a ball to deep center,
and I didn't think there was a
chance for Allison to get with
in 20 feet of the ball. Doggoned
If he didn't get his glove on
1t. He just flicked it, of course,
but it was remarkable that he
even got close.
I'VE knew he could throw"
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Yankee Woes
Eased as Usual
By White Sox
continued FrOm PaGe A-1s

Continued From Page Ale
the Yankees. who had eight
hits. Mantle tagged Ray Moore
(0-2 with a man on In the first,
Flu Hampers Sox
The White Sox. hit by fiu
which sidelined Manager Al
Lopez and six players. left II
men on base. Only Nellie Fox
who was 4-for-5, gave Turley
any real trouble as he beat the
White Sox for the fifth time
in a row since 1856.
Coach Tony Cuccinello d.
rected the White Sox yesterday
and was handicapped with all
of his lefthanded pinch-hitters
in sick bay.
These included Earl Torge-
son, Billy Goodman, Don Muel-
Ter and rookie John Callison
Also virus victims we're Catcher
Earl Battey and Pitcher Dick
Donovan. who was to have
taken the mound tonight
against Whitley Ford (2-D.
Billy Pierce (2-D will be
making his NTH start of the
season in replacing Donovan
in the makeup game. slated
after Tuesday nights affair
was rained out.
Whether Tony Kubek will be
IN tonight's Yankee lineup was
a guess, even if he feels strong
enough after a fainting spell
at breakfast yesterday. After
examination by a doctor, Kubek
watched the game from q box
seat.
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Continued Prom Pare A-ls

Continued From Page Ale
the game at Go as the sena-
tors rallied for three runs In
the ninth. only to lose. T-6.
when the AS clipped vito VAL
entinetti for a run in the same
inning.
Cracks Fifth Homer
Earlier Jim had singled
across a run in the third In
ming. then blasted his fifth
homer over the centerfield fence
leading of in the sixth. The
fact that Jim, a highlander
hitter. delivered all those blows
on righthanded pitching is the
sort Of thing Layagetto likes to
see.
Lavagetto viii rely on Bill
Fischer. who hasn't allowed an
earned run in 10 innings, in
the opener of a three-gafne
series with the beleagured IT.
gers today. Cookie will follow
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Charges Discrimination

He called the ruling outright
discrimination against the CO.
operative system.
The MEGA decided grants in
aid to Is football and basket
ball players, plus their on-the-
job salaries under the coop
plan put them over the NCAA-
allowed limit on financial help.
Under the coop program,
students attend classes for sew
en- weeks and then work at
paying jobs for seven weeks.
Walter Byers. NCAA execu-
tive director. said the Cincin-
natl probation will not keep
its athletic teams out of post
season events or NCAA cham
pionships.
The council ordered Gin
cinnati TO make an adjustment
in its student-athletic financial
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Job RivoIry Squirting
Lemon to Best Season

with Camilo Pascual and Russ
Kemmerer in other games here,
Pedro Ramos failed TO sur
vive the third inning yesterday
as the Athletics cuffed him
around for two runs In the
first inning, another In the
second and were threatening
in the third when Lavagetto
summoned Chuck Stobbs from
the bullpen.
A walk TO Allison. Sievers'
run producing double and
Lemons single sliced the Sena-
tors deficit TO 80 in the third
against Ralph Terry. but Joe
DeMaestri cracked Stobbs for
Ia homer in the fourth with
none aboard.
Lopez Connects
Lemons solo homer again
trimmed the AS advantage to
one run In the sixth. but Hector
Lopez doomed a home run over
the centerfield fence at the AL
foot mark with Whitley Herzog
aboard in the seventh,
That 6-3 situation existed
until the ninth, when the Sena-
tors got successive singles from
Pinch-hitters Pearson. Herb
Plews and Jay Porter to get a
run with none out.
Tom German got Reno Der.
toia to hit into a double play,
but Allison singled to score
Plews and keep the rally alive,
Sievers walked and Lemon
ripped a single to center, scor-
ing Allison with the tying run,
before Third Baseman Hal
Smith made a leaping catch OF
Ed FitzGerald's liner.
Valentinetti, the Senators
fourth pitcher, nicked Bill
Tuttle on the right arm to Start
the last of the ninth, and Smith
sacrificed. Lopez them whacked
a drive to right TO break up the
game, driving in his fourth run
Of the contest.
NOTES: Bertoia has hit
safely 10 times leading off the
first inning for the Senators
and has walked on two other
occasions. Pitcher Truman
Clevenger wasn't in uniform
yesterday because of a heavy
cold.
Plews has responded with
four hits in eight pinch-hitting
appearances. Valentinetti
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THE BASEBALL
BEA T
HY BuRIoN HAWKINS

DETROIT, April sO.-Pedro
Ramos is a mobile jewelry
store. He wears a diamond
ring worth $1,000. a wrist
watch which cost him 5000. a
heavy gold identification brace
let which set him back $500.
and a religious medal valued
at 500. And dangling from
his trousers is still another
item. an ornamented 1906 gold
piece presented to him by an
admirer.
Pedro says he won't consider
himself good pitcher until he
wins 20 games at least two
years in a row. Fright now
/ just one Of a group" Ramos
said. Whitley Ford and Early
Wynn-they are the smartest
pitchers in the league"
Advised that he had pitched
for some inept teams, Ramos
responded, Walter Johnson
he pitch for bad teams, too
No? He do all right. A good
pitcher wins with bad teams
That's what Charley Dresser
told me, and that's what I
believe"
Ramos sets no goal on the
number of games he'd like to
win. when ! win 20 for two
years then I think I'm pretty
good" Pedro said, but l don't
think of winning 20. / think
of winning four before I think
Of winning five. Then I think
of winning five before / think
OF winning six. One at a time.
that's me-"
~ 4
Il have been lucky" Ramos
continued. my first three wins,
the fellows get me nine runs,
seven runs, eight runs. Maybe
other times l not be so lucky.
Maybe I pitch real good and
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has pitched only 5ls innings but
has lost two games, Fitz-
Gerald went hitless in five at
temptS and now has a lone
single to show for his rs times
at bat this year.
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Terp Erosh Lose

The University of Baltimore
golf team won its eighth
straight match yesterday. de-
feating the Maryland Frosh,
l5h-111a at College Park.
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Winner--Gorman (i-0). Loser -
Vafentinettt t0-2).
HBP-By valentinetti CTnttle). by
Ramos lSimpson). U--Soar. Chylak
Summers, Mckinley. 7 - 2:36. A -
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