The people's voice., 1959-10-02

Forest Service to assign timber
management specialist to accompan!
the group. Assignment of Ernes
Grambo of Missoula will mean tina
there is "a forester in Montana who
has had the opportunity to see how
Sweden's forestry industry func
tions," Metcalf said. "This will en-
able the Forest Service to offer con.
tinuing assistance not only to this
group but also to other lumbermen
seeking to use Montana timber"
The lumbermen making the trip
include Duane Autzen of Portland
Lumber Mills, Henry Buehner of the
Buehner Lumber Company, Ed Frs
kline, of Erskine Lumber Company,
and Ray Gould of the Diamond Lum-
Der Company. Besides Grambo, the
group will be accompanied by Robert
Wolf, staff member of the Senate
Interior Committee headed by Sena-
tor Murray. They will be in Sweden
until October 6.
HUNGRY HORSE
The Administration has turned
down a proposal that Hungry Horse
Reservoir be renamed ''Kelly Lake"
in honor of the late Harry ]. Hungry
Horse" Kelly, Montana newspaper
publisher who contributed so much
toward construction of the multipur-
pose dam.
Senator Murray made the proposal
on behalf of the Congressional dele
cation after the Montana State Press
Association selected Kelly to the Mon
tana Press Hall of Fame.
''The name Hungry Horse Reservoir
is shown on federal government
MAPS" J. C. Kilmartin, executive sec
retary Of the Interior Departments
Board of Geographic Names, wrote
Senator Murray. "It is also contained
in reports and enabling legislation
and appears to be we'll established.
The board is reluctant to change a
we'll established name unless there
IS compelling reason for the change.
Therefore, (we) decided that no ac-
lion be taken to approve the sug-
yested name at this time"
BITS AND PIECES
The Reclamation Bureaus Region
Six, headquartered at Billings, and
seven, directed from Denver, will not
'e merged "at this time" according
o Interior Secretary Seaton. He so
dvised Montanans in Congress. In
is report on this years appropriation
ill, the House Public Works Appro-
riations subcommittee suggested the
merger of these two regions be con-
idered for efficiency and economy.
Lack of local cooperation has
aused Army Engineers to wind up
heir plans for flood control work on
he Missouri River at Townsend.
tudies indicated that building $780,
90 mile-long levee on the rivers
ight bank, an Economically justi-
led" project according to the River
ale, N. d., district engineer would
rovide the needed flood control. But,
lie Montana Congressional delegation
as informed, "a local landowner
ho would be affected by the project
bjects to any work on his land" And
it would be impossible to carry the
roject forward without his co-opera-
on
Montana Power Company's third
snerator at Kerr Dam will up the
annual payment to the
Salish and Kootenai
ibes by $4,000 year, to 1925, 700. |
ayment will be made retroactively |
December 1854, when the unit
ent on the line, under a recent de- |
sion by the Federal Power Com
ission.
Montana may have up to II dele
ties to the White House Conference
Aging to be held here in January
61. Quotas were announced by the
apartment of Health, Education and
Montana will receive two graduate
llowships in move, led by Senator
lrray, to increase the number of
lders in the education of mentally
,arded children. ALLEGATION was an |
unced last week by the Office of
ucation.
Another $4,000 in federal aid to
lcation is on its way, or soon will
to three Montana schools. The