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The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-08-25
Here from North Daknfa

NE. and Mrs. Chuck Hlls of Manaan. North Dakota. have ar- lived for visit with their soa and family, the Dick Hills. Dicks father is with the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-08-25

ard; Sue Hanson, Mary GeaIse1l, Sterling; Jean Cole t2nd oatfit7 ], Homer. White. Mary Coarsen, Sue Hanson f2nd garmeatS) |, Sterling; Diane Sadusky. Sew ard.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-08-25
Kihia aSG1naI

The daily vacation Bible school at the Northland Baptist church reports an attendance of 60 ehi1- dren.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-08-25
CARD 0F3HHNH

To all the people who helped us in our time of great need, and who since have made our sorrow easier to bear @ We thank yoa from the bottom of our hearts.
 The Carl Seaman
 and Wally Van Sky
 families.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-08-25
Newcomers

Welcome to Mir. and Mrs. Haey DeNille and th1ee children from Louisiana.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-08-25
kenai Days
 Committee Says Thank You

We, of the Kenai Days Com mittee, wish to express our sincere thanks to the follow ing merchants and individuals who contributed ca h and prizes for ekenai Days and helped to make it a success. RENAL PHARMACY ZSEAMANsS FURNITURE
 EMPRESS SHOP
 RIG BAR
 RIG CAFE
 NU-STATE NURSERY HELEN3S BEAUTY SHOP ARCHER,S GROCERY AYIATION. SERVICE
 CENTER SERVICE KFNAI COMMERCIAL HARTLEY9S DEP. STORE PENINSULA BUILDERS = SUPPLY RENAL KORNERS
 SMOKEY'S GARAGE WESTERN CORRAL BAR WESTERN CORRAL CAFE
 PNA
 BILL sTEINHAU LIEF
 Woodmens Girelel
 JUANITA= COLEMAN. ANDY,S FLYING SERVICE
 M0RRIE= =P0R .TFs R KFN'S WATCH REPAIR
 ANCHORAGE AIR - PRODUCTS
 IRVING MEIGALF'
 AIS AUTO SUPPLY S JEANNE SALES OBERTtS INSURANCE
 COTTAGE BAKERY WALDR0N BUSINESS
 BUREAU
 ALASKA AGGREGATE
 RENAL HOTEL
 RENAL PLUMBING - & HEATING==Z LUKE,S WELDING SERVICE TYLER NOVELTY JESS NICHOLAS SPUR MOTEL RENAL FOOD CENTER RENAL POWER CORP CITY NATIONAL BANK
 TRANS-ALASKA
 TELEPHONE
 AURORA APIS.
 KENAI CLEANERS RENAL SERVICE NORTHERN OIL OP. ESTES BROS.
 DICK MINECO
 CHESTER CONE
 MULLEN ELECTRIC l GEORGES COFFEE SHOE
 RAINBOW BAR JET BAR
 WILDWOOD CHEVRON SERVICE
 CHEECHAk0 NEWS
 NATIONAL. BANK
 OF ALASKA S0LDATNA STORE l B&C AUTO ELECTRIC
 BIG K MARKET | SOLDATNA BO0KKEEPINt 1 So many people contribute time. labor and money that complete list would include q most everyone in kenai an many more from outside ke l nai, So we would like to ad that if your name isn't on thl list your efforts were apprf ciated. It is the wholehearte i l.......... 4l,l.- II an.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-08-25

Ne, of the Kenai Days Com mittee, wish to express our sincere thanks the follow ing merchants and individuals who contributed ca s h and prizes for ekenai Days and helped to make it a success.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
MPCo. s Role In Nutter' s.

Win refusing TO place Such RECORDS
before public review. In that one
lone case, in Kentucky, the commits.
sion later recanted and forced the
petitioning utility to permit perusal
of its tax records by protestants.
There were many in the audience
who wondered why the utility has
been so anxious to keep it's income
tax records from public view, and
why, too, the commission has acqui-
esced to the company's desires.
This reluctance, discussion later
on brought out, may in part be due
to the fact that Federal Power Com
mission figures show MPCo. paying
somewhat less federal income tax
than claimed by the utility.)
The ''escalator' clause, whereby
the utility seeks authority to auto
matically raise it's rates in future
years, to meet higher gas prices
charged by its Canadian subsidiaries
and /or higher taxes, Leaphart brand
ed as proposal that "the commission
delegate" its rate-setting authority to
a private utility.
The cost of Canadian gas to MPCo.,
too, is extremely unclear, according
to Leaphart, and he said protestants
had requested the commission to make
thorough probe into an alleged $7.5
million value the company claims
in its Canadian operations, before
reaching a decision.
Floor discussion brought out that
MPCo. has sold little new stock in
the last Is years, except for that
optioned to top officials.
Under the option program,
these officials are assured of a
big return on stock with no money
invested whatsoever, until such
time as they decide to sell. Their
purchase price is 95 per cent of
going market price at time they
granted themselves such options.
One block of such option stock
set aside for MPCo's president J.
E. Corette, it was pointed out, was
good for gain to him of several
hundred thousand dollars-with no
investment whatsoever.
The failure to issue new stock to
secure capital, has had the effect of
pushing the market price of outstand-
ing stock upwards as the company,
each year, shows more profitable OPP
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
Wafer Resource
Must Be Explored,
Says FoIIout Expert

BOZEMAN-The water resources
in every Montana community must be
explored so that citizens won't face
shortage in times of disaster.
Joseph Fitzpatrick, a nuclear fall
out authority from Denver, Colo, told
SO operators of water works, sewage
works, and industrial waste plants
attending their annual conference at
Montana State College to establish
city water plan to be used in case of
disaster. i1N
Fitzpatrick, who has recently fin
ished a survey of the disaster water
supplies for cities in IA states, told
the water men to ''get busy imnedi-
ately". i''F
Other guest speakers at the three
day MISC training school were Leon
ard Opperud, Havre; JohneVoelker,
Billings; and Walter Wright, Lewis
town. 'lDtNE.3SI
The conference, under the direction
of C. w. Brinck, director of Division
of Environmental Sanitation, Mon
tana State Board of Health; and DR..
Eldon R. Dodge, professor of civil
engineering and mechanics at MISC,
concluded Friday. I'll ~
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
Board of Examiners Meeting
Board of Examiners Meeting
WestweII Remains Firm
On Decision To Retire

The Board of Examiners now
mountaineering, Monday, gave ap-
prevail to plans and specifications for
nursery addition to the infirmary
at the Boulder Training School and
Hospital.
Architect Norman Hamill of Butte
advised the board to go ahead and
let the $4,000 contract on January
Is, 1862, despite the fact that nego-
tiations are now under way with the
Public Health Service for another
40-bed addition for epileptics which
would bring savings in construction
cost if both additions were built at
the same time.
DR.. A. E. Westwell, who has spent
IA years of his long career changing
his beloved Boulder from an institu-
ton of handouts to a hospital and
school with merry-go rounds, told the
board it would never have been pos
sible for him, coming from Boston
with an accent like President Ken
nedy's and far reaching ideas, to have
accomplished the achievement of the
nations leading institution for the
neutrality-suspicious. without the CO.
operation of past and present Off
Gals. The understanding cooperation
of the unions, his staff and the towns
people has been instrumental in ac-
comprising this major social advance
ment in which every Montanan takes
pride.
Although he has been urged by
all who are concerned to remain
at his post, Westwell, who is 20,
has firmly decided to retire the
early part of next year. -
Each of the Board members, Gov.
Don Nutter, Attorney General For
rest Anderson and Secretary of State
Frank Murray extended the thanks
of the people of the state, and al
though he wishes to retire, exacted
the promise from the good doctor
that he would make himself available
to the board for consultations.
If ever name should be associated
with an institution Westwell most
certainly has established himself as
synonymous with the Boulder hos
pital. The remaining of the institution
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
School Boards
Ask More STATE
Education Aid

The School Boards Association Sat.
urday reported their views on the
school money distribution system to
the Governors Committee to Study
the Foundation Program via Jay L.
Gleason, Livingston, and Virgil James,
Helena.
First, they would like to be per-
mitted to set budgets for the need
of the current year rather than upon
the enrollments of the previous year.
This was unsuccessfully sought in
the last legislature via House Bill rs.
Keith Anderson of Montana Tax
payers Association maintains this is
unavoidable.
The foundation program acts not
only as a formula for distribution of
funds but also sets tax standards
which must be met by the counties
to avail themselves of state aid.
The School Boards Association is
opposed to any additional federal aid
because of higher minimum standards
of education which might be implied
by the acceptance Of such aid. Asso-
citation opposition hasn't, however,
slowed individual school boards grab
bling onto every available federal
dollar.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
Farm Income Outlook

for farmers declined a third to ST.
billions. During same period all other
major segments of the economy adj
vanced income-wise. At the same time
his income was dropping disastrous
ly, the farmer was having to pay at
least fifty per cent more for his
machinery, farm supplies, and other
needs, as compared with the base
period of 1947-49.
| Another problem Mcdonald touched
on is that of vertical indignation, par
ticularly in the poultry and livestock
industries. More and more, the indie
pendent poultry operator is being
forced to the wall because major food
chains are controlling price and pro-
duction at all stages. This Integral
ing" is also coming rapidly in the
| livestock field. For example, Safeway
Stores today are substantial growers
of beef cattle which they use as a
lever in setting the price they will
pay other producers. When cattle
prices are down, Safeway buys in
the open market. When they advance
Safeway slaughters its own stock.
Vertical Indignation plus the power
of major food pr.cessor-retailer cor
porations to set farm prices are a
most serious threat to the nations
agriculture. Legislation to meet this
problem, to bar off-farm operators
from going into farming, has been
introduced by Rep. James Roosevelt
of California. Roosevelt's legislation
is patterned after the Stockyards Act
of 1920 which prohibits meat pro-
cessors such as Armour and Swift,
from entering the retail food field.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
AS important as farm legislation
is, MUS Washington lobby also
works very closely with the AFL-CIO
and other peoples groups on behalf
of legislation beneficial to thes gen.
eral welfare, and against legislation
inimical to people generally. Among
the many other fields of Legislative
activity NFU is interested in, McDon-
aid included social security improve
ments, federal aid to education, well
fare legislation, resource develop
ment, programs to help foster democ-
racy in other lands, etc.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
WHY MPCo's RELUCTANCE?

AS for the company's adamant re-
fusal to produce it's federal income
tax records, and the commissions
acceding to the company position,
Leaphart said DR.. Knappen had told
him that of the hundreds of utility
cases he has been an expert in over
the years, only once before did a
utility even momentarily get away
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
MissiIemen TO Bring
Pictures To Helena

Pictures of the Minuteman missile
sites will be shown at the Helena
Labor Temple, Wednesday, December
6 at 7:30 pm, according to Building
& Construction Trades Council secre-
tary Everett Ballard.
The presentation will be by Coils.
Goldworthy and Andres of the Air
Force Sites Activation Task Force.
The Air Force officers are coming
to the Capital City by invitation OF
Helena Electrical Workers Outside
Wiremen's Local 1875, Ballard reports.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

He also reviewed testimony put
in the commission hearing record
by consumer rate expert DR.. KNAPP
pen which showed that not only is
Montana Power earning a fair re-
turn on its gas division but that
the facts are Every persuasive to
a reduction of gas rates - Sure
Iy, said he, if the commission "con-
siders the facts, it will at least
deny" this rate increase.
The company's desire for uniform
rates" whereby Havre and other Hi
Line towns which are Sitting on top
of gas wells would pay the same
rates as Hamilton 1.-TWO hundred miles
away, is without merit in Leaphart's
mind 81 don't see why Havre people
should have to subsidize the gas con-
sumers in Hamilton, he stated.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
SEEK UPWARD REVISION
OF SCHEDULE

This would be accomplished by the
revision of the foundation schedule
to about rs per cent of the average
educational costs to, be borne by the
state. In order to do this the SO per
cent limitation on state participation
would have to be removed to relieve
the property taxes which are In the
area of the foundation program.
The other suggestion by the asso-
citation would have payments to social
security covered by separate statute
instead of the foundation program
because the social security payments
are ssfringe benefits and do not re-
fleet the true costs of education.
The School Boards Association in
it's presentation concentrated on try
ing to perfect the distribution system,
but the Governors Committee ham,
mered away at where the money
would come from.
Rep. Bess Reed of Missoula joined
Gleason in the explanation that the
blueprint was needed first-not the
amount of money which was to be
expended. The obligation to educate
will be met. If the taxpayers and
the legislature do not meet this obi
CATION the federal government will.
AS the foundation system now ex-
lists it is a perfect system to assure
high property taxes-if that is good
way to be taxed. property taxes al
ready account for over 1919 of school
financing in Montana.) The only al
ternatives seem to be income or sales
taxes in this state which is climatized
for s'better business"
The state now furnishes about "a
per cent of the school BILL Other
states, (which, have more resources
than sagebrush' furnish up to go
per cent although the average is
about so per cent The foundation
program is slipping in relation to its
competitors in the General Fund pic
ture.AFS
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
GREED

Attorney Leaphart dashed Montana
Power for its "unconscienable' greed
mess. A utility, he said SHOULD serve
the public" not "the public serving
the utility. A utility, being ''lim-
tied monopoly, he continued, is Ten
titled to limited profit, but surely
not "an unlimited net return.
Leaphart then outlined particulars
of the pending rate case, and how
MPCo. is attempting to '1oad" their
gas divisions rate base by about
eight million dollars worth of specu-
lative gas leases and other items
(which are not used or useful" to
the proper operation of the gas divi-
sion.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
POSTMASTER PoT-sHoT /

Tuesday the Board had the Helena
Postmaster on the griddle about the
donnybrook the mails from the cam
pus have run into since the ..fat cut
ters" cut out Capitol mail room serv-
ice.
Murray blamed PM Hugh Potter
for generating the false publicity
that $4,000 could be saved the state
by abandoning it's own mail room and
relying on the postal service to sort
the daily office work loads.
Nutter stood fast in his belief that
the people of Montana shouldn't do
anything for any federal division of
our government.
The AG formed the motion that
they would wait until Potter had
time to request a classified office
for the Capitol from his divisional
boss before they notified their Con-
gressmen about the expensive slow
down caused by the mail bottleneck.
Rear Admiral Edgar Reeder, who
was very much concerned that the
civilian power supplies might fail
and freeze up the heating system of
his new Unemployment Compensa-
ton building, faced the board with
battery of talents which proposed
all sorts of schemes to save the new
tangled heating and cooling system.
The Board said put anti-freeze in!
ifs
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

The average American farm repre-
sents an investment of approximately
$4,000 per worker, as compared
with an average of about $4,000 per
worker in industry.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
WOULD REVISE l AND |
PAYMENT METHOD 49,

Point five of their proposal main
tains that the Interest and Income
funds. which are federal aid from
federal grants, should not be dis
tributed in the same manner in which
general fund appropriations are dis
persed by the foundation program.
The Interest, and Income fund con-
sists of four million acres of land and
80 millions of dollars in permanent
trust fund. The land yields equal in
come from oil and sharecroppers, and
a trifling from grazing. The income
from the dollars varies with the in
vestment made. Government bonds
comprise the bulk. The fund can not
be used for high school purposes.
How the Interest and Income fund
would be distributed was not dis
closed but the need factor which the
foundation program tries to reckon
with in this rural state would probably
go by the wayside.
Point six says the foundation pro-
gram should be only local levies and
state aid.
Points two and four reveal the real
problem to be faced by the Governors
Committee-the attempt to shift the
burden from property taxes to state
level taxes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
from page ]

Pu5C
kitchen sink in values making ur
the rate base, for the larger it is
whether real or "watered", the more
dollar return that will be Forthcoming
on the approximate six per cent net
earning.
Major ways of figuring the rate
base include: 1. original cost, 2.
original cost, deprecated; 3. repro
duction cost of plant; a. reproduc-
ton cost, deprecated, and S. cost
of capital.
On-top of these, the Montana COM
mission uses what they call flair
value" basis for working backwards
to justify whatever amount of rate
increase, they may desire to grant a
utility. This "fair value" method de-
fies description, is a concoction of
varying amounts of the first four
enumerated in paragraph above.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

to the Westwell Training School and
Hospital should be one of the first
bills in the next legislature.
The Board approved the union con-
tracts negotiated by DR.. A. G. knight
of the Galen tuberculosis Sanitarium
with the Plumbers and Pipefitters
Local 673, and Teamsters 101. for
two-year period. The Transfers
also have new agreement with the
Warm Springs State Hospital.
The unclaimed dead at the State
Hospital will be turned over to any
of the nursing schools of the state
in the renewal of past policy pre-
scribed by law.
The Glasgow city-county airport
will have 100000 overlay on the
NE-SW runway. Money is loaned
interest-free by the Aeronautics Com
mission.
DR.. Paul Seifert, Libby, will get
a letter from the Examiners begging
off the responsibility of the substand-
ard medical care in the past at our
institutions because of certain bud
getary and restrictive limitations.
1t may be the responsibility of the
Legislature and the Governor but
the Examiners claim innocence.
Please delete the reference to the
Examiners in the resolution recently
passed by the Montana Academy of
General Practice.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

from page
Shuman, and (3) assure consumers
continued benefits of abundance at
fair prices. Moreover, the revival of
rural purchasing power will build
markets for our labor and industry
in the cities. The whole economy will
benefit
FARMERS CAN'T Elk" PRICES
Taking on the ALB, USCofC and
other various advocates of removing
controls on agricultural production
and returning farm price determine
ton to the free market, Mcdonald
said it isn't possible for farmers to
limit either their production or to
determine fair price for their prod
uct except through legislation.
Farmers, unlike automobile manu-
facturers, the steel industry, major
food professors, nationwide dairy
products distributors and chain food
retailers, cannot adopt pricing poll
cy based on administered prices.
In industry relatively few in each
field dominate and they set their
production goals to meet estimated
sales. They guard against any serious
over-supply of their product on the
market and by practicing doctrine
of scarcity, are able to maintain the
margin of profit they set for their
operations.
Because farmers are many and the
day is not in the foreseeable future
when they will be able to organize
so effectively to determine their pric-
ing policy, the. federal government. is
the only medium whereby they have
any hope of maintaining even a rea-
sonably stable price structure, a price
structure that will save them from
again Leading the country into a de-
preston such as very nearly capsized
the nation in the early Thirties.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
TOO EFFICIENT"

Ruefully looking back over the
Benson years, Mcdonald said II never
knew Benson to do anything for the
farmer or the consumer :"
Then. he pointed out that under Ben
sons stewardship of USDA, and the
ex-secretary's efforts to weaken the
federal program, surpluses grew to
astronomical levels while net income
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
"COST OF CAPITAL" MOST
ACCURATE METHOD

Graybill said the "cost of capital
theory, whose validity was established
almost forty years ago in a utility
rate decision by u. S. Supreme Court
Justice Brandeis and was first pre-
sented to Montana by rate expert DR..
Laurence Knappen in the 1857 tele-
phone case, is the most accurate way
of determining a fair return for a
utility. (PSC acceptance of the theory
in 1857 led to the telephone COM
pany's rate increase being turned
down in it's entirety.)
"Cost of capital, which ignores
the first four methods of establish
ing ''rate base", is most simple.
1t provides a means of determining
in dollars, not percentages, how much
money a utility must take in for it's
common stock to be stable (sic earn
about six per cent? thus attracting
long term investors.
Evening star., 1961-06-04

of big-name pros among the
promised entries, the qualify
ing trials still will be played
there on Tuesday.
Oklahoma City has 56 players
competing for rs places, but
the field includes Ken Ventura,
Gene Littler, Bill Collins, Fred
Hawkins, Lionel Hebert, Mason
Rudolph and six prominent
foreigners.
Sam Snead, not an auto
matte qualifier for one of the
few times of his carer, win fly
from Puerto Rico to Detroit,
where he will be one Of 48 seek
ing IL places.
Columbia Country Club drew
an extremely generous alIoca-
ton Of places, with 80 to COM
pete here Tuesday for 10 places.
Peter Thomson, the four-time
British Open champion, and
two British Ryder Cup players,
Christy O'Connor and Dave
Thomas. win be here, plus Lew
Worsham, the 1947 champion,
AL Besselink and all Of the local
qualifiers from Maryland, Vir-
ginia and the District.
Gary Player, the Masters
champion, is exempt under a
new ruling gives places in the