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Evening star., 1961-01-08

the same - last year, q trade
publication predieted.
Variety stors Eferchahdiser
said 1851 volume win top. &if.S
billion. compared with the esti-
mated recofd sllA1 billion
last year. Iast years total
was about, 5 per cent above
1888. the magasine said.
Evening star., 1961-01-08
EDP Work Horses

BOSTON, Jan. Modern
[electrOnic computers now have
the speed. versatility and oper-
lating economy to handle prac-
tically all the data processing
assignments Of business. indus
try and science. according "a
Walter w. Finke. president OF
Minneapo oils HoneywelRs Elec.
tronic Data Processing Division
AS q result. he said. the new
generation" computers now be-
ling delivered viii serve as the
work horses" Of EDP in busi.
ness and industry for many
years to come.
Evening star., 1961-01-08
Builders Hope
For Pickup 7
hHousiing
ny WILLIAM FERRIS
Associated Prsss Business writer

ssoehhtco EIoab nuatuesA WttJet
NEW YORK. Jan. 7.-Hous-
ing was 4 disappointment in
1860. Demand fell. costs rose.
money grew scarce and fewer
homes went up.
Things may be, better In
1861. Many predict they will.
Builders estimate they put up
about IL million homes in
1850. compared with 1855, 900
In 1859.
Financing home buying was
expensive. In some areas inter-
est rates on conventional mort
cages ran above 6 per cent.
The rate was 53z on FHA loans
ana Sh on VA loans. but such
loans were discounted.
/ Homes already standing be-
came harder to move and prices
on older homes were said to
have declined.
One Development
Architecturally. the only sig
nificant development appeared
70 be growing construction Of
. raised ranch" in some areas.
This was . combination Of the
ranch and split-level designs.
The Kennedy administration
Is expected TO move toward
easier money One result should
be lower interest rates ON loans
to buy and build homes.
Even without any Govern
Evening star., 1961-01-08
More PIostics Used
ALBANY, N. r. Jan. z

ALBANY, N. r. Jan. Z tAP).
= Greater dependence Of
American industry on plastics
was. forecast by Chaylie l.
Sake. president Of SAKE Broth
ers. Inc.
Mr.. SAKE said many cost
conscious businessmen would
turn to p1astics under the spur
OF aggressive foreign competi-
iton- and rising production ex-
penses.
Evening star., 1961-01-08
chuin Store Sales
Due 10 Remdin, Steady

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 tAP) -
Gross sales Of variety and lesd-
ing general merchandise chain
stores this year WIN be about
Evening star., 1961-01-08
~ n. Associated Prs.s

Labcr unions enter the yeal
fnli e hope that the new ad-
minisiration they helped elect
win set the economy mcvins
ahead again at full steam.
Basieally. organized labor ex-
jpsets two things: (i) q pump
priniing program including
hossixie. minimum wage. edu.
satiolf and health aid legisla-
tien, and (2) help in getting
hsttst job security and pay
raises AZ
Senator Kennedy was elected
On o aplatfOrm which supports
lust sabout everything the
ianions want In the way oi
lesislation and policy. both
domestic and foreign.
Mspes Were Dashed
% With those commitments
pius 8 heavily Democratic ma
joritv IN Congress. even though
net 81 large as in 1850. the
unions are fairly confident.
They remember. however
that they had similar high
hope6s after other recent na.
tionalE elections only TO see
them dashed by inaction or
labor union aims with Congress
in control Of . coalition oi
Republicans and Southern
Democrats. Senator Kennedy
they hope. can thwart such
combine.
Whtn 1860 got under way
unlou leaders were fairly dish.
lusionSd about the Democrats
Party. They were sore because
the Democratic Congress ross
up tes tighten legal curbs or
unions.
The unions didn't stay mad
long. ny February they hat
declded again to take an activ,
political role. From then or
they played their politics Il
the hilt-for the Democrats
from the nominating conven'
ton at Los Angeles right dowr
to eleetion day:
Unemployment Is High
with unemployment due 3.
aover around the five million
mark this winter labor win b
pressing the new administra'
ten % enact measures prob
ably "a an emergency basis
TO e4tend aid to DISTRESSED
areas and otherwise put idll
men hack to work.
Besides the immediate EN-
ployinent problem there's ais
the l0ng-terIn one OF autonaa'
tien--ne machines displacinI
manpower.
Pleas for more labor-Man
agement CO : operation cam
frona many quarters after set
tleinent Of the record 1l6-da.
steel strike early In 1860.
Jeint management unioI
groups were established In tn
steel and some other industrie
70 consider how problem
might be resolved withou
Fewer Strikes
There even was Q feeable tr,
at launching q top-leyel ma
Evening star., 1961-01-08

Americans are much mole tiiifty people than you'd
suspect Things aren't abandoned until somsthina>
comes along that provides an. improvsrnent ovae
what came before. When IL does tie true that The
outmoded gets short shri not because dscarding Il
i waste but because continuing It is wasteful.
Du Pont, like other large units Of American
industry, has had hand in ths process and the
national scrap-heap ID crowded with things rendered
obsolete through constant research. AZ
Take that darnins basket that used TO occupy
grandmother's evenings-an endless reconstruction
Of socks and stockings that todays nylon yarn has
rendered almost ndestructibe, Grandma faced this
chore by light Of smelly and demanding kerosene
lamp. Insulated wiring for the electrical industry
helped put million lamp chimneys into tho trash
to everyone's relief
Or, take the tire pump. Il used to be standard
equipment with every car, along with the tire irons
and tool box Tires used to last 600 miles or 20 wp
were lucky. When went fat, We pried on the Shoe
found the leak in the tub, and cemented on patch
Then we'd pump it up by hand. Chemical aAti-
oxidants put this grim chapter behind M and vast
quantity Of pumps became unemployed-as II any.
one cared.
Before modern insecticides, stores used to have
spiral Of sticky Aypaper hanging from the ceiling.
bespecked with the remains Of its victims. tn siU
said, ''gAst year Edd Roushs caught 4S5 Aiea
Tangefoot caught /, ,4S2, $780, ,000." Any arguments
about Tanglefoot versus the modern bug-bomb?
Anyone have plea for the passing of the card
that used to tell the icsman how many pounds to
leave? Anyone bemoaning the developments that put
the stereoptcon viewer out with the ashes? Or tho
cracker barrel that preceded cellophans packagins.
exposing pounds than to deterioration?
The idea that the better, the less costly, or the
safer, should be turned aside because it replaces
something else would relegate progress itself to tho
scrapbasket And that's the kind Of waste 10 nation
however afauent or successful, can well afford.
'An snarsns Maternal League ous6s'd~. IsIs-Iasi
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
Youth Corps Idea
Proving Popular

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
People both here and abroad like the
idea of Youth Corps, reports Maur-
ice Albertson, director of Colorado
State University Research Founda-
ton.
The foundation is studying Youth
Corps possibilities for International
Cooperation Administration. Albert
son is on his way to Asia to survey
possibilities of using young people
there. Other foundation workers are
touring Latin America and Africa.
EVERY big response from abroad
so far has been favorable except in
India,' Albertson said. 81 don't think
they understand the idea there"
The foundation has sent question
naires to all voluntary groups that
sponsor young workers abroad. OPP
erations RESPONSIBILITIES used
young Americans last summer TO
work in African villages. Albertson
said this was an almost ideal' pilot
project for the things a national
youth corps might do.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
u. S. Subsidies Up
3OO% In 10 Years

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
The House-Senate economic commit
tee figures the U. S. handed out
$7,40O million in subsidies last year.
This is up from $1,000 in 1861, an
increase of nearly 300@6.
The committee said farm subsidies
rose from 5000 million to $4,000 mil
lion in the ten years, just keeping
pace with the general increase. Two
thirds of the 1860 farm subsidy rep
resents price supports and deficit
sales of surplus commodities over
seas, the committee said.
The committee, headed by Senator
Paul Douglas (D-IH.), didn't include
"aid to broad and general benefit
such as veterans benefits, overseas
aid, grants to states for relief. low
priced school lunches, hospital opera
ton, public health care, and aid to
Indians.
Business subsidies increased from
$500 million in 1851 to $1,000 mil
lion in 1860. The largest business
subsidy was the Post Office Depart
ment's $525 million deficit in han
ding business mail in 1860. Airline
industry subsidies were second with
1928 million, and the government
spent $165 million on the maritime
industry and $50 million to improve
rivers and harbors and help with
flood control.
It's difficult to figure subsidies,
the committee said: "School lunches
subsidize the farmer by helping cut
farm SURPRISES, but they also clearly
subsidize recipients of this food and
their parents. Second-class postage
rates far from cover the costs of car
rying magazines and newspapers, but
publishers, advertisers, subscribers,
and other readers share the benefit"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
CIasoiI Farmers Union
Local Plans Budget Fund
Supper Tonight

Clasoil Farmers Union local is plan
ming a Budget Fund potluck supper
for tonight, according to local secre-
tary Mary Smith.
The affair will be held in the Cla-
soil Community Center building, east
of East Helena on Highway IL. 1t
will begin at $50 pm. Cost is $3.50
per family.
In announcing the supper, Mrs.
Smith says that Farmers Union
friends in town for the legislature"
are especially welcome.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
POLICY LAID DOWN AT
BILLINGS LAST SEPTEMBER

And the group before which it was
laid down-at Billings, Montana, in
mid-September = is the Western
Water and Power Consumers Con
ference headed by the Kenneth Ho.
lum who's now been put in charge
of water and power development in
the Department of Interior.
Holum is also the sparkplug of the
Midwest Electric Consumers Asso-
citation concerned with the huge Mis-
souri, Valley and it's giant-power prob
lens. Thus public-power leader is
now the man in charge.
Candidate Kennedy, at Billings,
compressed the new Administra-
tons program into five words: "No
more Hells Canyon blundersw He
meant, of course, no more giving
away of potential sites of vast pub
lie value, TO private interests for
partial development. (And, specif-
ically, he included the Paradise
Knowles reach of the Flathead
River.-PV EDITOR.)
Candidate Kennedy also pledged
quick reversal of footdragging poll
cies, and to move ahead instantly be-
ginning in January 1861 on compre-
hensive plans to use our rivers. Here
are other tenets of the Billings
platform:
To devote the benefits of public
resources to the public good, specific
ally by adhering te~the preference
clause" giving public bodies first
right at public power development.
To appoint to all offices having to
do with such matters linen who will
put the public interest first" This
includes such bodies as the Federal
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
LEGISLATORS LEARN ABOUT
"BETTER BUSINESS CLIMATE"

Lobe. also former legislator, ex.
pressed his enthusiastic approval OF
the f"Better Business Climate me-
mortal passed overwhelmingly by both
houses, and said "let's talk about
it :" He then read the memorial,
placing emphasis on it's cautioning
legislators and others to avoid "puni-
tive" discriminatory" legislation
which would in anyway adversely af-
feet the Better Business Climate. In
effect, he hung many legislative sup
porters of anti-stamp measures on
their own petard!
Pro and anti forces statements
on stamp redemptions didn't jibe
worth boot. The ''pros'' claimed re-
demptions run as high as SO per cent.
The "antis" said approximately so
per cent. The latter group contended
that the stamps unredeemed consti-
tute a huge drain on the purchasing
power by a business (which has
insinuated itself in between the re-
taller and the consumer and
collects what amounts to a three per
cent sales tax which the State of Mon
tana doesn't get, but stamp company
in Connecticut, New
Jersey and New York, do collect for
themselves. S&H has an unredeemed
stamp fund of more than 500 mil
lion, said John L. Peterson, Butte
attorney who ALONG with Felt were
the principal opposition lobbyists.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS
ENDANGERED

John Cavan, Billings attorney ant
also former legislator, spoke wei
for his sponsor, SCH. He, like Lobe
contended that the anti-stamp bill'
"strike right at the heart of the
Better Business Climate, and en-
danger two fundamental freedoms
the freedom of enterprise and the
freedom of choice ;" And, he asked
the BBC-minded legislators, chow
can we, on one hand, violate these
principles and ON the other, protect
them?" Twas good question, John.
Besides the professional lobby
lists, each side brought innumerable
small businessmen, housewives and
others before the committee to speak
according to the dictates of their
consciences or businesses.
Among the professional wit
nesses addressing the committee were /:
For Trading Stamps: Prof. John S.
Wright, MSU, on year-long leave of
absence while visiting professor at
Northwestern University; Mamie
O'Connell Hannifin, State Organiza-
ton of Retail Clerks; Ray Honeycutt,
a Billings dry cleaner; Horace Live
say, Havre, Hill County Search and
Rescue Association; and Ed Wilson,
a small service station operator in
Great Falls.
Against Stamps: Warren Hancock,
Havre hardware merchant Ms.
John Carlson. Missoula housewife;
John Savage, a Butte druggist; Wes-
ley A. D'Ewart. Montana Farm b.
reau; Lynn Illefsen, Bozeman service
station operator; Fred Martin, Liv-
ingston publisher, and Jack Staley'
Great Falls grocer.
Other speakers included sponsors
of four of the anti-trading stamp
bills. Reps. Virgil Hanks (D-Galla-
TIM, John Leuthold (R-Stillwater),
Helen Johnson (R-Gallatin) and Rus
sci Conklin (D-Cascade). Hanks and
Mrs. Johnson are both members of
the Ways and Means Committee.
Committee Chairman Winfield Page
(R-Missoula) presided and kept a
tight rein on applause as well as on
the time allowed both sides.
1t was a good hearing attended, by
an overflow crowd. Funny thing, isn't
it. how emotions and interest can be
aroused over something of as little
as trading stamps, yet on
dol
matters John @ and Mrs. Public are
Usually as lethargic as a well fed
,teer.-HLB
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
National Production Drops
4 Times In Five Months

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The out
put of the nations mines, mills and
factories fell again in December, hit
ting the lowest point since the 1859
steel stoppage. The Federal Reserve
Board announced the industrial pro-
duction index dropped nearly per
cent to 103, the fourth drop in five
months. The base of 100 is 1857.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
TIDY PROFIT STICKS TO
STAMPS

Felt then, in his usual matter-of-
report of S&H-Wertz' sponsor
showing that the little green sticker
returns tidy profit to the company
on its Montana investment. Said he,
S&H in 1859 had an invested capital
in Montana of only $2,874.96. The
company did gross business of
$991,5 92.88. 1t netted before fed
eral taxes) STAT, .33-or a dollar
per square mile of the Treasure State
for that 12-month period. On capital
investment, he pointed out, the COM
pany had a return of $40 per
cent; on gross volume, of Is per
cent. Felt very frankly didn't think
it would bankrupt any trading stamp
company to have to pay into the state
treasury 21a per cent of it's gross
revenue-that 'they'd still have IL u
per cent left" to take out of Mon
tana.
Henry Lobe. Helena, legal repre-
sentative of Gold Bond Stamps of
Montana "a Minnesota corporation),
said that all six anti-trading stamp
bills before the committee -"outlaw
trading stamp companies" but mot
one of the six outlaw the trading
stamps :" Lobe recounted briefly,
with the aid of a huge display board,
the numerous and varied kinds of
sales "gimmicks" employed by re-
tailers, including free fight tickets,
free cheese and crackers, chances
on automobiles, etc., etc. And, he
contended that trading stamps are
just another sales medium.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
Lobbyists Make Gold Strike In
Historic Last Chance GuIch
Squeezed out last week, because o

Squeezed out last week. because of
Nigh onto century the grzzed hands of the pros
ector found color in the gravels of
od rush followed town formed They came near
far They cultured gentry rfaf checkeredvested
iizens with ultrasensve fingers gun-ton hghwaymen
nd gals to make the pioneer nights less lonely
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10

Secretary Udall, Undersecretary
Carr, and Assistant Secretary Ken
meth Holum, in direct charge of water
and power, are all of ''known devo-
tion to the public interest
nedy's way of phrasing the most i'm
portant criteria for such appoint
ments. Likewise with the Department
of Agriculture, and it's Rural Electro
fication Administration.
More specifically, these appoint
ments indicate that the new Ad-
ministration can be expected to
help public-power groups to build
their own central powerplants, and
to push for "giant-power" backbone
transmission lines that will keep
vital power distribution in public
hands.
The giant power conception has
been one of the bitterest points of
between private and
public power advocates. And because
the outgoing administration has hest
lated to take a stand, the u. S. lags
behind every other industrialized ma
ton in the long-distance transmission
IF power. Yet an adequate system
night make unnecessary construction
If billions of dollars worth of re-
yional generating plants.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
Giant Power Concept To
Move Ahead With JFK
By ROSCOE FLEMING, Denver

President Kennedy determined to carry out the
pledges made by Kennedy toward aiding the pub
lies water and development hampered since
by private power opposition.
This is evidenced by the ability and the public of
the Kennedy has chosen to administer the Interior De-
partment the landlord of Western America, the policies
Of which vital in developing the nations
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10
FARMERS ELECTRICS CAN
EXPECT HELP

Farmers Rural Electric Associa-
tions need have no doubt hereafter
whose side the Administration is on,
a question that has troubled them
for some years now. They can expect
help, particularly to build their own
central power plants. 1t was the eff
fort of a midwestern REA group
toward this end in a state dominated
by private power that brought the
well-remembered clamp-down in the
mid-5O's.
But the whole picture is bigger
than that. Western development, par
ticularly, will trend toward the poll
cies of it's pioneers, the two Roose-
velts and Senator George w. Norris,
the great Nebraskan who fathered
both the IVA and the REA. And
Clifford Pinchot advocated giant
power grid as early as 1926.
Actually, the new Administrations
platform was laid down in mid-cam-
paign, but relatively few people
learned about it because it apparently
did not interest the national news
media.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10

Power Commission.
To establish Council of Resource
and Conservation advisers in the
Presidents own office, planning for
example how we might profitably
link the power systems of the Column
bia and the Missouri, and deciding
where public and cooperative power
systems require steam as we'll as
hydro plants-in the Missouri Basin
for example"
TO ESTABLISH CAPITAL
BUDGET
To develop budget system that
will set out federal investment which
returns it's cost and more to the fed
eral treasury-this would of course
answer arguments that such invest
ment burdens the taxpayers.
To free REA from constant con-
Germ over political interference, high
er interest rates and budgetary star
walton" and allow it to get on with
its work.
To step up the fight against water
pollution. To protect the public's
investment in atomic en-
ergy, which must be tapped for the
public good" To expand every effort
to increase our resources, particul-
larly in driving for low-cost CONVEX
sion of salt water to fresh, to benefit
not only ourselves but nations all
over the world.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-02-10

M For decades, the gold flowed forth.
4heNtown prospered. Political hi-jinks
ordained it should be the State Cap
Hal. When the gold ran short, it was
hardly missed because new source
bf "gold", in the form of state and
Federal payrolls developed to give
<he once rootin'- tootin' oasis of the
Did West more stable prosperity.
IS And then-7almost a century after
ITS founding, a new source of "gold"
developed for at least a segment of
fhe citizenry, for during a Legislative
session a huge hullo-baloo arose to
outlaw source of "gold" which was
primarily not concerned with the pros
perity of the people of Helena or of
Montana, but which brought allegedly
Fantastic returns to few lucky ones
Tar from the borders of the Treasure
State.
Trading Stamps-those little red,
green and golden bits of paper with
The uncertain glue on the reverse
Bide-must go, warned their antogon-
ists at a public hearing of the House
Ways and Means Committee. Mon
day evening. They're nothing but
y leach on the hard-pressed consumer
and the equally hard-pressed retail
merchant" said they.
POOR LITTLE HOUSEWIFE
LOVES EN-
Not so, opined the pro-trading
stamp professionals. "People like
stamps" they insisted. They're good
for Montana and Montana's business
climate they stimulate trade 4. i
they provide jobs they make it
possible for the poor little housewife
to get some of the finer things which
her budget would not otherwise per-
NIT :"
So the latest gold strike in
Helena came about. Lawyers to the
left of you, lawyers to the right, and
not a few seconds" on either side
who were of occupations other than
the law. Lobbyists in overpowering
numbers extolled the virtues of what
the opponents termed script. They
said-to quote Pro-ringmaster Wes-
ey Wertz-opponents of the. stamps
don't have the facts :. Pm amazed
At the freedom with which this mis-
is passed around it
S rather alarming :" Why said
Yves, they're productive in increased
yolume to the little bitty outfits.
what all the fuss is about
lie also assured the committee that
he total trading stamp volume in
Montana in one year is less than that
# a single super market in Billings
IT Great Falls.
Jimmy Felt, Billings attorney and
ormer legislator, and leader of the
stamp forces, took strong
ssue with his fellow barrister and
wondered how come the greatest {
obby since the Cooper Barons of {
% years ago" had been established t
n Helena this winter by the trading S
lamp companies, if their role in Mon :
ana affairs was so insignificant, if t
he profit margins of the trading S
lamp companies amounted to only |
he ''five per cent on gross volume 6
lluded to by Wertz.