The people's voice., 1959-04-03

Easter recess, which ends April 6.
@ Senator Murray is scheduled to pre-
side at field hearing Thursday
april 12) in Phoenix, Ariz.. on the
bill to protect by law those public
lands already being preserved admin
istratively for their primitive values,
including watershed protection.
Congressman Anderson had three
Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner add
resses in Montana on his schedule 4;
Tuesday March 81 sharing the plat
form with Senator Frank Moss of
Utah, at Conrad; Thursday. Great
Falls, and Saturday, Billings, follow
ing dedication of an army reserve
training center that afternoon.
Senator Mansfield and Congress
man Metcalf remained in Washington.
Mansfield, as party whip, helped lay
out the Senate schedule for the re-
naming months of the session. Met
calf worked on legislation, including
the farm program and the Montana
delegations bill to provide federal
support for education. Metcalf also
prepared for hearings, beginning on
April z, on proposals to increase both
duration and benefits of unemploy-
ment compensation. The following
day he is to appear before the Public
Works Committee in opposition to a
proposal by President Eisenhower to
end federal aid for local water pollu-
ton control works.
MANGANESE
Senators Murray and Mansfield
and Congressman Metcalf have intro
duced bill to provide incentive pay
ments for domestic producers of
manganese, in the interests of ma
tional defense and the maintenance
of domestic production of a strategic
metal.
The measure would authorize the |
Secretary of the Interior to pay do
mestic producers of commercial grade |
manganese 81 per con-
tanned long-dry-ton unit over and |
above proceeds of sale. 1t has cut
off both on total domestic produc-
ton and the production of any one
producer in any one mining district.
The measure would give the Secretary
two years to evaluate the incentive
and make recommendations
on continuing it.
GET AWAY FROM ME CLOSER
Once again the Glasgow Chamber
IF Commerce is on record in oppo-
;ition to federal aid to education.
But this time, the opposition has
lew twist-that the federal aid Glas-
cow is getting isn't enough.
Federal financing means federal
control, which we stoutly resist" the
chairman of the chambers legislative
committee wrote Senators Murray
md Mansfield and Congressman Met
alf and Anderson, in opposing gen
raj federal aid to schools.
However, the federal aid Glasgow ,
chools have been getting-under ,
avs providing federal assistance for {
obstruction, operation, including
eachers' salaries and textbooks, and ,
near federal installa- :
ions and Indian reservations-"h "has
ever been adequate" he wrote.
His letter was dated two days after :
Iontanans in Congress were notified .
f reservation of $517,40O federal =
unds to build new elementary school !
t Glasgow. This would bring to :,
otal of $854,098 in federal aid for
operation and maine
ance Glasgow schools have received .
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len ON THE MOON E
Chairman John Woodenlegs of the [
orthern Cheyenne Tribal Council o
as in Washington last week, trying k
get some help for what is probably p
lie most poverty-stricken tribe in the N
alton. tt
Recalling the way the whites have c
-oken treaty after treaty with the
ldians, he observed: eff there are n
eople on the moon when we get y
ere, l hope they have sense enough "
1T to sign a treaty." 3
EFT THE MAIL GO THROUGH
Montana's congressional delegation az
Is asked Postmaster General Sum- m
erfield to make no further cuts in 81
all service in Montana--at least til
It'll he justifies those he's already di
ade. re