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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23

cation, laid plans to finance long
time fight to obtain an open hearing
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, and made preliminary out
line of ways and means of taking
their case before the people of Liv-
ingston and Montana generally.
A finance committee, composed of
Perry Blankenship, chairman; Tony
Maykuth and R. F. Flanagan, was
appointed at Sundays meeting. I'M
mediate objective of this committee
is to secure 81 donations from inter-
ested persons in the Livingston area
to start the fight rolling, a fight which
the rail workers intend to carry on
until such time as the ICC rules on
the proposed merger.
One novel idea the anti-merger
group plans to utilize in bringing
home to the people of Livingston the
Importance of the railroad payroll
here is to have rail workers use only
two dollar bills in paying for pur-
chases from businessmen.
This approach is to dramatize
the effect on Livingston's "busi-
ness climate" of the possible loss
of 100000 in rail wages, should
the merger be carried out. The
committee claims that the jobs
of some 600 of the 500 railworkers
here would be adversely affected
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23
Conservation Council I'll
Meeting Set FOR May II

Montana Conservation Council will
hold its annual meeting in Helena
May IL and 13, according to presi.
dent Wildon F. Clark, Billings, fol.
lowing a meeting of the councils
last weekend.
The council which is composed Of
% wide cross-sectien of federal and
state agency representatives nnd lay
e men, has as it's objective the greatest
possible conservation and wise use
of Montana's human and physical re-
sources.
One of the councils prime 1861
legislative detectives will be appro-
priation of sufficient funds for a
conservation training program under
the office of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction. Several sessions
ago the legislature placed the re-
sponsibility for conservation educa-
ton under the superintendent Of
flee but has repeatedly failed to APP
propriate any money to that office
for discharging this responsibility.
URGE GROUND WATER CODE
Another legislative objective will
be enactment of a ground water code
to provide for the orderly use and
preservation of Montana's ground
water resources. This type of legis-
lation has been introduced without
success for at least three sessions, by
Sen. Gordon MCGOWAN (D-Chouteau)
and will be again before the assem-
bly, for consideration in 1861. The
council, in renewing its plea for
ground water regulation, resolved at
its annual meeting in Hamilton last
May:
@. /. that the council continue
and intensity its efforts to promote
public understanding of our ground
water resources and the need for
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23
DISAGREE WITH MANAGEMENT
in one way or another by the merg-

DISAGREE WITH MANAGEMENT
Repeated contentious by MP Presi-
| dent Robert MacFarlane and other
MP officials that the merger will not
reduce the number of rail jobs in
the shops at Livingston or operating
personnel working out of this city,
are contested by spokesman for the
rail unionists.
Publicity Chairman Sullivan re-
Gently took issue with MacFarlane
on this pointing out that with re-
duced freight traffic through Liv-
ingston, maintenance jobs will also
be reduced. Said Sullivan: "To as
sumo that the maintenance here
would be anything but in direct pro-
portion to the traffic moving through
here, would be ridiculous -"
Sunday, Tony Maykuth, repre-
sentative of the repair shops, said
that the statements by officials that
the MP backhauls engines into Liv-
ingstoh are correct, but this backhaul
amounts to about four heavy switch
ers each year. He added that the day
to-day maintenance which the MP
says will decrease is the only thing
that has kept the shops from having
a layoff in recent years.
On the heavy maintenance, May
kuth told the committee that if the
merger comes about, the mp will then
have heavy duty shops close at hand
at LAGRANGE, Ill.,, and will probably
send most of its diesel units there
for repair. These diesels, for exam
pie, when ready for their first major
Continued On Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23
NO ADVANCE COPIES
GIVEN TO LABOR

William Shawl, Libby, represent
ing AFL-CIO President James S.
TIMBER, said his organization had no
knowledge of the proposals until they
came to the meeting. The changes
in the law were embodied in some 16
legal sized mimeographed pages, and
Shawl said he thought the labor rep
resentatives should have had chance
to study them before the meeting.
Smith said the material containing
the proposed changes had not been
distributed at large because he "did-
MT know who was interested in them.
Ernest Salvas. International Union
of Mine, Mil and Shelter Workers,
said the changes were contrary to
the principles of sound insurance pro-
grams and the purpose of the act,
which was to maintain purchasing
power. He said the present program
is like 1860 car in 1860 traffic
with Model t insurance. He pointed
out that if there were no state pro-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23
1000 Electric Coop Patrons
Will Receive About $4,000

Approximately 1,6O0 checks total
ing about $4,000 will be mailed to
Missoula Electric Cooperative Inc.
consumers receiving service during
1948-53, Manager Eugene Pike an
nounced.
The official explained that under
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23
.os MP Jobs AT Stake
s. all Workers Determined To
: lock Proposed NP-GN Merger

LVINGSTON-Rail workers in this major Montana rail
road city determined that the proposed the
Northern Pacific and the Great Northern will become
reality without terrific battle.
Early in December local representatives rail
here organized antmerger association
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23
Dump AT Least Half Of
JobIess On To Welfare
Employers Aim

The Unemployment Compen-
sation Advisory Committee to
the Unemployment Compensa-
ton Commission took no Off
cial action on proposed changes
in the unemployment compen-
sation law at a two-day hear
ing at. the Capitol last week,
according to Donald d. MACPHERSON,
chairman of the commission. Mac
Pherson said nobody made a mo-
ton to accept or reject them, but
was very pleased with the meeting
because it produced spirited discus
sion and created a lot of interest.
There was some confusion IS to
just where the proposed changes
under discussion originated Chad
Smith, former UCC chairman, pres
emily a member of the commission
and secretary to Governor Aronson,
chaired the first days meeting be-
cause of illness of Chairman Mac
Pherson. Macpherson chaired the
second days session. Smith and Mac
Pherson were wont to say "we" re-
ferring to the commission as sponsors
of the changes, but Albert Root,
AFL-CIO, labor's member ON the
commission told the group that this
could not be considered commission
proposal because he had never seen
the material before. The proposal was
then defined as coming from the
department research staff.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23

| gram at all employers would have
to pay % tax to the federal gov
eminent.
Some representatives of labor
at the meeting felt Montana work
ers might be better off with no
| program at all, or that the federal
| government may have to step in
| with minimum standards if the
state program is going to be adj
ministered to the great disadvan-
tage of the unemployed, and used
only as a tax lodging implement of
the employers.
Shawl said the official position of
the AFL-CIO is that this is a Chris
tan society and no one should bf
allowed to starve to death, and tn
choice had to be made whether the
UCC is going to be operated on an
insurance concept or welfare basis.
GENERAL TAXPAYER
WOULD BE STUCK
If unemployment insurance doesn't
feed the unemployed then the source
of funds to do it will have to come
from the general taxpayer through
general welfare, William Clancy,
Roundup, of the United Mine Work
ers. said.
Robert Weller, Kalispell, Montana
Lumber and Sawn.il Workers, said
he suspected "the motives of admin
istrators who suggest such proposals..
In a letter to his local union Weller
said the proposed changes are "gim-
micks'' which could eliminate unem-
ployment compensation entirely, and
that cit would take book to explain
Them.
He said, "The proposals will make
the law and benefits inferior to the
law passed by the last Republican
legislature in 1852. Weller pointed
out that 81 states have higher weekly
compensation rates than Montana
and only five states from the deep
south have shorter duration bene-
fits.
Chad Smith said the proposed
changes would reduce the cost of
unemployment to employers by
reduction of so % of the pay-outs
in 1889. 1t also could mean a 500
reduction of those drawing bene-
fits and maybe more, labor spokes-
men said.
The proposed changes follow close
y the program as set forth by the
Montana Chamber of Commerce dur
ing the campaign.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23

their protection and regulation, and
assist in securing agreement upon
terms of a ground water code which
will insure optimum development of
Montana's water resources with prop
er safeguards for their conservation
and beneficial use."
A third item on MCC's legislative
program seeks sthe development of
an adequate wood products. research
program at the Montana State Uni
versity School of Forestry, and the
appropriation of sufficient funds to
finance such program" Aim of the
research work, whether carried on by
the forestry school or the State For
ester's office, would be to develop
greater use of wood wastes and
processing of new wood products
within the state =. to enlarge
job opportunities while contributing
to the conservation of total timber
resources through more complete
utilization
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23

WITH w. Il. McGee, chalfmah, anu
Webb Sullivan, publicity chairman.
Sunday they perfected their organi-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-12-23
PLAN FOR CONSERVATION



Toward the end of the legislative
session, the councils board of direc-
tors will hold another meeting to make
plans for the 18th annual conserva-
ton week which will be held the
week of May z. In 1861, as in past
years, the Montana Association of
Soil Conservation Districts will serve
as co-sponsor.
Schools, youth groups, business and
professional groups, women's organi-
cations and local, state and federal
agencies will be contacted regarding
the observance. Frank Dunkle, Hell
ena, Fish and Game Department, in
formation officer, has been appointed
Conservation Week chairman.
Continued On Page Three
Evening star., 1960-07-31
'SeNout' Charged

President Nasser accused the
Shah of bowling to the will of
"imperialists" to receive a few dol
lars of American aid.
Other spokesmen Of the Arab
countries Joined in the criticism.
Sheik Malmoud Shaltout, UAR re-
ligious leader, said the recognition
of Israel would shock Moslems
everywhere. In Baghdad, the For
eign Ministry of Iraq called upon
Iran to reconsider it's action. 1t
contended moral and material sup
port for Israel made Iran an &C
complice in sustained aggression
against the homeland.
The Arab League then extended
its boycott of Israel to Iran. A
league spokesman in Cairo said
the Arab countries would blacklist
Iranian companies and ships. He
predicted that other governments
would sever diplomatic relations
with Teheran.
Evening star., 1960-07-31

paign, President Charles de Gaulle
of France showed signs last week
of concern that Communist Rus
sia would fling some dramatic
new challenges at the West.
Thereupon he invited West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
to Paris for some private discus
sions on problems confronting
Western Europe.
For a short time, there was
doubt that the two proud states
men would get together. DR.. Ade-
nauer was disenchanted, if not
irritated, by a series of French
statements and actions which
seemed to him. and to a good
many others, as well, as Sights
to West Germany. He considered
calling off the trip but in the end
his anger cooled and he decided
to go.
The French and German lead
ers arranged to review the over
all political situation arising after
the collapse of the summit confer
ence in May. Specifically, they
attacked the problem of how to
reconcile West European political
integration without appearing to
establish bloc against the United
States in the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
Wants No Strings

The visiting Prime Minister
made clear that while he seeks as
sistance. whatever aid he ac-
cepts must have no strings at
tached. People often talk of
blocs, East and West" he con-
tinued. For the Congo govern
ment, there are no blocs because
we are an African people. Our
government has chosen a policy
of positive neutraliSm. We remain
Africans. We desire no political
programs from the United States
or the USSR. We seek only tech
nical assistance and we do not
seek conflicts which are alien to
us. The Congo is to remain Con-
golese with its own institutions
and its own ideology."
For a man whose position is so
shaky at home, Mr.. Lumumba
spoke in Washington without in
hibitions. But while he conferred
here, Secretary General Ham
marskjold held a round Of con-
ferences in the Congo capital,
hoping to assure stability in the
future. He met with the Lumum-
ba cabinet to hear still another
plea for the quick evacuation of
the Belgian troops whose pres
ence irritates the black natives.
He also examined series of de-
mands relating to the southern
Congo province Of Katanga, which
has announced it's secession. :"
(See story by George Herald on
Page C-30
AS the week ended, it looked as
If Katanga would prove the most
troublesome piece in the Congo
puzzle. Belgium was reluctant to
let the mineral-rich province fall
into the hands of the Lumumba
government, just as it fought to
retain rights at two military bases
near the mouth Of the Congo River.
Belgian Premier CASTOR Eyskens
contended in Brussels that rela-
tions between Katanga and the
central Congo government were
an internal matter and no busi-
ness of the United Nations.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
Hit by Cuban

Although the Cuban delegate to
OAS voted in favor of the min
isters' meetings, he criticized the
gathering as a United States
maneuver aimed at isolating Fidel
Castro'S Cuba both economically
and politically.
In Havana, Mr.. Castro'S influ-
ential aide, Maj ErneSto (Che)
Guevara, finally acknowledged
that the Cuban revolutionary
movement is Communist-tinge
Prime Minister Castro turned
up in the Sierra Maestro last
Tuesday to celebrate the seventh
anniversary of the 26th of July
movement. The crowd was much
smaller and less enthusiastic than
that which gathered for noisy
demonstrations last year in
Havana. And Prime Minister
Castro appeared pale and i'll. A
doctor stood at his side in the
rain.
Associates denied that the
Premier is seriously i'll. One said
he recently underwent a minor"
operation. the nature of which
was not disclosed. Nevertheless,
brother Raul, who has been on
tour behind the Iron Curtain for
secret conferences with Nikita
Khrushchev and other Communist
leaders, hurried home.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
Middle East:
New 7 ension

The government of Iran sew
cred diplomatic relations last
week with the United Arab
Republic.
In Teheran. Foreign Minister
Abbas Aram announced that his
country was severing diplomatic
relations with Cairo. He gave
United Arab Republic Ambassador
Mahmoud Hammad just "a hours
to leave the country.
This new evidence of tension in
the Middle East resulted directly
from an attack upon Shah Mo-
hammed Ria Pahlevi by President
Canal Abdel Nasser of the UAR.
The President assailed the pro-
Western Shah for stating that Iran
had given diplomatic recognition
to Israel. The Iranian Foreign
Minister said Mr.. NasSer is light
headed Pharaoh" who rules by
bloodshed.
MI. Aram declared Iran had not
Evening star., 1960-07-31

Eaton. They range from the claS-
sic philosophers to modern po-
litical thought. They're every
where.
Occasionally. Acadia Farms is
livened by visits of the l3 Eaton
grandchildren. Mr.. Eaton likes
TO romp with them, including ski
trips to another Eaton farm in
Upper Blandford, N. S. At rs. he
still plays tennis and has a court
on the farm.
Mrs. Eaton shares her hus-
bands enthusiasm for books but
she can't join him in tennis or
his walks about the farm. She's
been confined to a wheelchair
since a polio attack IA years ago.
With her husbands support,
Mrs. Eaton may run for the
United States Senate from Ohio
in 1862, although that's a long
way away" She was a delegate
to the National Democratic Con-
vention in Los Angeles, her vote
pledged to John F. Kennedy, her
heart to Adlai Stevenson.
Mr.. Eaton takes pride in his
farm. He has lived there 40
years. Most of the trees that
hide the farm house from the
road were planted by his own
hand. The latest is a redwood,
now about eight feet tall.
I'm hundred years it will be
this big" he says with a wide,
encompassing gesture of his arms
and, looking up: 1T may be a
hundred feet tall"
And, over all this, in Mr.. Ea-
tons mind, hangs the bomb.
Evening star., 1960-07-31

could use Cyrus Eaton as a tool"
bristles Mrs. Eaton. II can't i'm
agine anyone taking him in. Can
you?"
In the field of business, at least,
it is rare person who has taken
Cyrus Eaton.
Before he began to dabble in
international affairs, Mr.. Eaton
was distinguished primarily for
his ability to acquire % money
in large amounts. 90 business
enemies in considerable numbers
and '(3) friendships that cut
across all social strata.
Starting from scratch, he was
worth a million dollars at 27;
hundred million at 48. His empire
crumbled in 90 but, with charac-
teristic dedication, he fashioned
new one out of the pieces. His
holdings now are estimated at 81
billion.
He was a lad of % when his
boss, John D. Rockefeller, ST., sent
him to Western Canada to build
power plant. He lost his hackers
in the panic of 1907, so he bor-
rowed money and built the plant
himself. Then he sold it at a
profit and was on his way.
Twenty years later he still was
gambling when he bought control
of a shaky Trumbull Steel Co.
with a personal check for $18
million and, through mergers and
acquisitions, turned it into Re-
public Steel, third largest in the
country.
And, at so, he gambled on bor-
ing a 2.000-foot tunnel through
rock to drain 6O-square mile Steep
Evening star., 1960-07-31
PLATFORMS COMPARED

In almost every area, the SIM
ilarities between the Republi-
can Building a Better Amer
lea" and the Democratic "The
Rights Of Man" platforms are
greater than the differences. In
the brief comparison below, some
of each are seen.
Foreign Policy
Democrats: Would seek to shift
emphasis in foreign aid program
from military to economic assist
ance: simplify the cumbersome
machinery" of foreign policy; di-
rect the overseas information pro-
gram with more sensitivity and
creativeness; show firmneSs with
Russians. but a willingness to ne
gotiate.
Republicans: Would strongly
back Monroe Doctrine; act firmly,
but with f1exibility in dealing with
Soviet; encourage regional group
ings of nations for educational
and economic development; help
captive nations by peaceful
means" move toward independ-
ence.
Evening star., 1960-07-31

Rock Lake and get at the iron
deposits beneath its surface. He
won.
Friends Are Voried
His friends are a mixed group.
Among them he numbers Robert
Hutchins, educator; John L.
Lewis. labor leader; Bertrand
Russell, philosopher; Julian Hux-
ley, scientist. He prefers philoso-
pliers to businessmen. He has lit
tie use for politicians or military
leaders.
The politician is a very pliable
man." he says. He cannot stand
up against public clamor. Military
men? There never again can be a
military hero. He'll have to drop
A or H bombs on defenseleSs
women and children. He'll be a
human monster"
For relaxation, Mr.. Eaton likes
ASoN4llS dI4O AuICGs ICSC GdSJ6S
are reflected in his home, 800-odd-
acre Acadia Farms in Northfield,
about 20 miles from downtown
Cleveland. The main building is
a l60-year-old farm house-"It's
older than Cleveland" says Mrs.
Eaton.
The staff of some 20 people in
cludeS about a dozen men charged
with caring for his herd of pure
bred, registered Scotch Shorthorn
breeding cattle and one man to
look after his Troika. distinc-
lively Russian carriage presented
to him by Mr.. Khrushchev.
A prominent feature of the farm
is its books-"I can't begin to
estimate how many" says Mrs.
Evening star., 1960-07-31
Confederation Seen

Gen. de Gaulle is said to feel
that while individual European
governments may not carry weight
in world councils comparable to
that of the United States or Brit
ain, combination of European
powers could do so. A confedera-
ton of France, West Germany,
Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and
the Netherlands might we'll
strengthen Gen. de Gaulle's hand
dealing either with this country
or Britain on worldwide matters.
Chancellor Adenauer was &C
companied by Foreign Minister
Won Brentano and his French
counterpart, Couve de Murville.
was present. But neither the
Chancellor nor Gen. de Gaulle
called in the usual staffs of ex-
Evening star., 1960-07-31

fully recognized Israel. He de-
scribed the recognition as de facto,
recognition given 10 years ago and
unchanged in the interim.
These developments followed
the expulsion of the Iranian Am
bassador to the United Arab Re-
public and President Nasser's dis
closure that the UAR Embassy in
Teheran would be closed.
Evening star., 1960-07-31

Cuyahoga River winds its way into
Lake Erie through a maze of busy
mills, factories and power plants.
There's the spot where Mr..
Eaton's idol and mentor, John D.
Rockefeller, founded Standard
Oil; there's Republic Steel, the
corporate giant pieced together
by Mr.. Eaton and lost during the
depression.
Chesapeake & Ohio freight cars
roll by and ore boats of the Cleve-
land-Cliffs Iron Co., carrying ore
from the Steep Rock Lake, On
tario, mines, nose in from the lake
through gap in the breakw&ter.
Each is a living fragment Of
Mr.. Eaton's industrial empire.
ITS terrifying to think that
one bomb could wipe out all this"
he tells visitor. Il don't want
to see all this destroyed"
Mr.. Eaton, a sprightly rs with
a half century Of rugged capital
istic inf1ghting behind him, has
his own suggestions on how to
avoid such a calamity.
Many of his views are unpopu-
lar and controversial. He believes:
. A nuclear war would annihilate
out of 10 Americans and FIN
ish everything that the United
States has developed in its bril-
liant history"
. The Soviet Union wants to end
the cold war. When Mr.. Khru-
shchev says he would rather
spend money on better homes,
schools and industry than arma-
mentS, believe him."
. Powerful influences" in the
United States. particularly the
Pentagon and the Atomic Energy
Commission, must shoulder much
of the responsibility for the cold
war.
. Private enterprise is vastly
preferable to communism for the
United States but I'VE can't de-
stroy communism: it's here to
stay, so let's learn to live with it,"
Rewords Differ
His ideas-snd his outspoken
exposition Of them-have brought