The people's voice., 1959-03-27
Repr. Leroy Anderson
Reports To You From
The Nations Capitol


other feed grains into line with those
announced for corn. This bill. which
will raise the supports on barley by
16 cents a bushel, has had a very
Favorable reception in the House Ag-
riculture Committee and we hope to
pass it through the House before too
long.
| testified before the House Agri-
culture Committee on my durum bill,
and since | am the only congressman
who grows durum wheat, Senator
Murray asked me to handle the pres
entation on his companion bill before
the Senate Agriculture Committee.
I pointed out that present stocks
and intended paintings of durum will
not meet the requirement for this
speciality crop. Millers and professors
testified that they needed at least
thirty million bushels of durum this
year. The president of the Durum
Growers Assn. testified g. almost
the entire durum growing area in
North Dakota has a critical shortage
of subsoil moisture. Much of that
area didn't have any snow this winter
in an area where two to three feet
of snowfall is TRADITIONAL. He also
stated that rust strain 15-B-3 could |
attack the varieties of durum now
being grown so 9. we are not out
of the woods on this rust thing, even
now -
All indications are that unless my
bill becomes law we are likely to
produce only about half of the 80
million bushels that are needed.
My bill would provide an incentive
for planting additional acres by per-
mitting the planting of a half acre
outside the wheat allotment for each
acre of wheat allotment planted to
durum up to a total of 60 incentive
acres. Congressman Harold Cooley,
chairman of the House Committee on
Agriculture, asked me to add to my
bill provision to authorize the Sec
retary of Agriculture to make this
incentive available in future years
without further legislation. am re-
writing the bill now and, since sup
port of the Committee chairman is
a powerful factor, l am hoping that
we may be able to get it through
Congress right after the Easter re-
cess, in time to be effective by plant
ing time.
Wheat Reseal-The USDA has in
formed me that extension of price
support loans on 1956-loan farm |
stored wheat now under extended re-
seal will be permitted for another t
12-month period following this March I
81, maturity date for these resealed
wheat loans. Wheat presently under
extended reseal loans may be con- {
,inued under loan for another year
where determination is made by the
Montana ASC Committee that the 4
program should be available in our
tate.
Holiday-Congress has started j,
lowing down for the Easter recess =
vhcih begins this Thursday. Sessions :
will resume April 7. This past week :
We who are from Montana have had =
memorable time in connection with !
he Charles NJ. Russell memorial sta =
ue being placed in the Nations Cap p
tol. Nearly 200 of us gathered for q
he solemn rites in the great round G
all under the Capitol dome. .
Particularly appropriate was the ~
ddress by K. Ross Toole, former d
cad of the Montana Historical Mu- "
cum, now director of similar large
in New York City. tf
Said Toole of Charles NJ Russell al
The difference between Russell and /
is friends and contemporaries was
OF merely that he happened to be
BILE to paint-while in every other
aspect being regular kind Of fell II
wv; the difference lay in the fact
lat beneath the surface he carried
n life long love affair with noun
inns and plains, with the wind that
as born in the canyons and the grass
lat bent in the hills. Perhaps no
AN of his time ever understood so
the uncommon land in
hich he lived. And no American ever
eered quite so deeply into the In
ian heart +. If you look westward
'om where Charles Russell is buried
ou can see Square Butte, his butte
purple in the morning, red at noon,
I'D blue in the evening. And it is
ways far away; it seems to retreat