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Evening star., 1961-03-02
FirmsD Differ
On Satellites

Two giants Of the communi-
cations industry locked horns
today on the issue of how tele-
phone radio television satel-
lltes should be used.
| In separate but simultaneous
filings before the Federal Com
munications Commission, the
American Telephone 81 Tele-
graph Co. and the Radio Cor
poration of America disagreed
on these salient points:
/. Whether Government and
private communications facili-
ties via space should be shared
or kept separate.
2. Whether certain geograph-
ical areas should be set aside
at this time for the location
of ground transmission and re-
ceiving facilities associated with
satellite communications SyS-
TENS.
3. Whether civilian operation
Of a communications satellite
system is economically feasible
at the present time.
Five Firms Submit Data
AT&T and RCA were among
five respondents to an FEC
request for further information
on communications satellites.
The request went out after a
hearing last year on an AT&T
proposal for privately supported
intercontinentsl telephony and
radio via satellites.
Other respondents to nine
questions posed by FEC were
Electronic Industries Associa-
ton, representing $50 concerns;
Lockheed Aircraft Corp, maker
OF the "Discoverer" satellite
system. and Hughes Aircraft
Co., which has devised an
orbital radio relay apparatus.
Opposed on Use Of Bands
AT&T took the position that
Government and private COM
munications freuuencies should
be kept separate because of
strategic-tactical requirements.
RCA said that except for tao
tical military service, we see no
reason for any distinction be-
tween Government and nom
government frequency bands" "
The telephone company la
beled as "impracticable" any
plan to Sanitize certain areas
for the exclusive use of satel-
lite communications systems,
as far as particular frequency
bands were concerned. The ra-
dio corporation, on the other
hand, said 1T would be appro-
pirate to give consideration at
this time" to establishing clear
channel areas for orbital relay
systems.
Positions on Project Start
AT&T told the FEC that it
was prepared to "have active
satellites launched by a con-
tractor as soon as the develop
ment work had given assur-
ance of reasonable. technical
and economic success" RCA
stated more cautiously that
while a communications car
rier could not now justify
a satellite repeater system for
its use alone, the total require
ments of all commercial car
1erS in the United States
for international communica-
tions traffic might justify such
an investment"
The statements filed with
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Sputnik VII Burns,
NASA Reports
BY the Associated Press

The civilian space agency an
nounced yesterday that Russia S
Sputnik VII. the 7-ton satel-
lite launched February 4, has
burned up in the earth's at
moSphere.
The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration said
tracking information indicates
the satellite burned up Febru-
airy 26, about the time originally
predicted.
NASA also said another OBJ
ject, believed to have been
elected or broken off from
Sputnik VII, is still in orbit.
Evening star., 1961-03-02

sciences as having progressed
beyond the point of orderly and
single development and that he
direct the Space Council to
make this issue one of immedi-
ate attention"
NASA Stand Outlined
The space agency had no Of
ficial comment on Mr.. Dad
dario's report. 1t is known to
ce NASA's position. however
that it needs a space medicine
group because it has RESPONSE
Eility for man-in-space. The
military services have the ca
paDiiiJy for biomedical research
without man-in-Space respc 2oi-
bility, NASA says.
The present NASA position
is an about-face from its orig
inally expressed intention not
20 get into the Space-medicine
business on its own, but to rely
on military laboratories. Subse-
quent justification by NASA
officials for a life-sciences pro-
grom of their own lust didn't
ring true" Mr.. Daddario said
in an interview.
One of these juStificationS,
brought out in the Daddario
report, was that the military
services have only a capability
for "bioengineering, the engi-
neering problems Of getting a
man in space" as Deputy NASA
Administrator Hugh L. Dryden
put it.
Military Preparations
Mr.. Daddario said that all
preparations to date of a bio
medical nature, leading to
named space flight, have been
made in military laboratories or
by members of the uniformed
services. He mentioned
Walter Reed and Bethesda as
among the outstanding medical
facilities with man-in-space
interests.
Mr.. Daddario said he was
not advocating freezing NASA
out of all life sciences work. He
conceded to the space agency
primary interest in such in
adequately explored fields as
conditions on other planets and
extra terrestrial life. NASA
should not become involved di-
rectly in areas now adequately
covered, he said.
What I want to do is pre-
vent a spreading-out simply
because now is the favorable
time to do it," Mr.. Daddario
said.
OF the Ames biomedical facil-
ity, just activated and operating
with a skeleton staff, Mr..
Daddario said 1T ought not to
be enlarged from what it is
now"
A space committee inquiry
into life sciences activities re-
lating to space will probably be
conducted this spring, Mr..
Daddario indicated.
Evening star., 1961-03-02

""oTro" friday and Saturday are the
'dsf Safe Days for you to take ad,n,,ooo
OF the I-o-W prices in the John Da,id
Evening star., 1961-03-02
NASA Urged to Avoid
Spoce-Medicine Field
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer

member of the House Space Committee called the Ma
ona Aeonaues and Space Administration today stop
ing into the space e-medicine field.
At the time Representative Daddario of
Connecticut urged Kennedy tighten up dupca
Evening star., 1961-03-02
RABBITS
(Chabter I'D
Continued from Wednesday:

Continued from Wednesday,
AS you in yesterdays ad-Rabbit ears may be all
right for rabbits But matter what rabbits say they
can't get good TWIN signal with their ears
Even the ugly rabbit on the TV set don't get
the best TV pictures And they look just ridiculous
on an FM receiver as the ears on rabbits.
What you need is but-n TWIN antenna sys-
tem-gives you better reception 70ith0m rabbit ears
or external antennas of any kind.
SO we recommend you avoid those hideous rabbit
ears like the plague. We don't ears on rabbts-we
mean on the set. What we recommend you do at once
rabbits or no rabbits is to -.
Oh heck Our space is all used up again and we're
still worried that maynt have made ourselves clear
Why not come us? Or better still, our houses
MxzMz-@zm
BOWIE, MARYLAND
Evening star., 1961-03-02

/
husband, Astronaut Alan Bart
lett Shepard, jr., one of three
men now training to become the
first United States spacemen.
This complete dedication tt
his work is one reason the 81
year-old Navy commander il
among the final three, one o1
whom will be lofted on a pio-
neer space journey perhaps as
early as April.
Robert Gilruth, Project Mer-
curry Director who selected the
trio from the seven original
aStronauts, said the choice was
based on physical fitness and
superior performance in train
ing. The man who takes the
Initial flight will be picked in
the same manner.
"dutS I'D DC lTSL
Comdr. Shepard wants to be
that man. He summed up his
feelings this way:
"Thsre are lots of answers
why IWant to be the first man
in space, but a short answer
would be this: The flight OBJ
viouSly is a challenge and l feel
that the more severe challenge
will occur on the first flight and
1 signed up to accept this chal-
lenge."
The creW-cut Shepard, a ma
tive of East Derry, N. H., has
accepted challenges all his life.
He was graduated from the
Naval Academy in 1914 and
saw World War II action in the
Pacific aboard the destroyer
Cogswell. He entered flight
training after the war and
served aboard Mediterranean
aircraft carriers, then became
test pilot. "
He flew high-altitude re-
search missions, helped de-
velop the Navy'S in-flight re-
fueling system and contributed
greatly to research on carrier
landing techniqueS.
Narrow Escapes
AS a test pilot Comdr. Shep-
ard had several narrow escapes,
with engines flaming out and
canopies ripping off at high
speed.
Because of his intense inter
est in acquiring knowledge,
Comdr Shepard excels in the
school work" of the astro-
nauts. This includes instruction
in astronautics, particularly
ballisticS, trajectories, fuels,
guidance and other aspects of
missile operations, space envi-
ronment, meteorology, astron-
omy astrophySicS and geog-
raphy. In space flight, the pi-
lots will be required to make
scientific observations in these
areas.
Off-duty Comdr. Shepard
spends as much time as possible
with his wife and two daugh-
ters, Laura, l3, and Juliana, g..
Asked after his selection as
one of the final three whether
he's all set to ride the next
Redstone-boosted space capsule,
Comdr. Shepard replied en-
Enthusiastically:
THE answer is an overwhelm-
ing yes-a resounding yes.
Ready and Confident"
We're ready and confident,
even if some people think we're
risking our lives, our health and
even our sanity"
Comparing the first space
flight with the dangers that
confronted Christopher Colum-
bus, Comdr. Shepard once COM
mented:
Columbus engineers told
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SPECIAL NOTICES
PEOPLES LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY. WASHINGTON, d. c.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
sTokE sTTockHoLDERs OF PEOPLE I1Es 1

PANY. WASHINGTON, D. c.
ANIMAL MEETING OF THE
STOCKHOLDERS OF PEOPLES
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
D. c.: Notice is hereby given that
the Annual Meeting Of the Stock
holders of the Company will be
held at the Home Office, COL New
Hampshire Avenue NV. Wash
inEton. D; C.. on the sixteenth
O'clock Sti Of pM March he lSs msetns at to tgs &c
called in the Auditorium on the
second floor OF the Home office
Building, for the following pur-
poses: /. To Amend the Articles
OF Incorporation to provide for a
capitalization of Four Million Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars (S4,-
100000. divided into Eight HVl-
dred Forty Thousand (S40,06W
shares OF Par Value OF Five
Dollars $4,000 each. 2. To
Amend the Articles Of Incorpora-
sons as members OF the Board Of
Directors. 3. The Annual Elec-
tion OF Directors. 4. For the
transaction Of such other and
further business as may be prop
erly brought before said meeting.
Stockholders Of =, record on the
Stock Books at the close of busi-
ness on February 81, 1851, are
eligible TO attend and vote at
said Meeting. As provided by the
HsissS Aaws and es0SGPP nfH5PO5itSe G tSe so2d sy
Of Directors. w. M. WHITE, Senior
Vice President and Secretary.
fe24 -mh %
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17
COP House At Fault For
u System Financing Crisis

The financial crisis of the Univer-
| sity System was deferred until April
by the Board of Education ex-officio
Regents meeting in Billings last Fri
day. Stop gap measures in which adj
ditional income derived from in
creased enrolment will be used to
cover the costs of the 1877 per cent
increase in student population which
was not reckoned with by the incom-
petent majority of the last legisla-
tive session.
The notorious House Bill 458 pro-
vided that money would be taken
away if enrollments did not reach
levels forecasted by the units. No
provision was made for the ever in
creasing need for higher education
by Montana students, in spite of eff
forts to amend the bill upward by a
House minority of 80 Democrats and
two Republicans. (Roll call at end of
this article.)
This enrolment increase is clearly
an Unforeseen and unanticipated
emergency" written into the law to
strengthen the Governor, and will
enable him to allow at least one or
more of the units to go into funds
budgeted for next year.
AT the present rate of student pop
ulation increase the rest of the units
will require additional funds to main
tain academic standards during the
second fiscal year.
November enrolment exceeded that
Of year ago, as follows: Missoula's
MSU had 4,103 compared to 3,7O3;
Bozeman's MISC, 4,274 to 1889; Bill
ings' ENC, 1,651 to 1881; Dillon's
VINO, 585 to 498; Butte's MSM,
378 to 1856; Havre's NMC, 815 to 672.
The financial picture of the State
as a whole is improving rapidly be-
cause of the increase in the state
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17

income tax initiated by the Demo-
cratically controlled session of
1859.
The in-the-red condition of the
general fund is improving and the
allowing of additional funds to be
channeled into the higher educational
system will not be burden on the
general economy.
MASTER PLAN WILL AID
BUDCETINC
In April the master plan being
drawn up by Russell Barthell, execu-
tive secretary of the system, will have
in operation the up-dating standard
manual and charts of accounts which
will translate existing and prof.
programs into terms of performance
budgets and unit costs. Not only will
this present a clear picture of the
units in relation to one another but
will provide justification for the Gov
ernor to permit the use of emergency
supplemental appropriations.
State laws prohibit the use of cell
ings in the higher education program.
If Montana student wishes to at
tend the system he cannot be refused
entrance. Students from other states
are penalized by higher fees to dis
courage attendance in Montana. The
grants in the form of
waived buttons could be curtailed
by the system but it would seem
harsh measure to take against the
war orphans and others who GRO de-
serving of public consideration. The
stopping of the foreign exchange stu
dents would be great blunder in
light of present world conditions. We
IAN not limit the production Of edu-
Gated people merely to make any
political administration look like a
SEQ page 3
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17
Urges Defeat Of
Coop Tax Plan

ST. PAUL - (CNS) - ST. Pau
attorney, w. E. Rumble, said co-ops
are doomed to s'mediocrity and inef-
fectiveness' if Congress approves q
tax plan now before the House Ways
and Means Committee.
Rumble, lawyer for several co-ops,
told Minnesota Association of Co
operatives annual meeting October
SO that the plan would s'make it i'm
possible for most co-ops to give their
members the services they need.
The committees chairman, Con-
gresham Wilbur Mills Ozark re-
leased the tax plan August "a. Under
it, co-ops would pay income tax on
non-cash refunds, unless any custo-
mer could get his refund in cash dur
ing a 90-day period.
Rumble said this would "immedi-
ately stop coop expansion, eliminate
them as competitors to investor-owned
business, and strangle their ability to
protect farmers.
He urged coop members to Strong
see page a
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17
Rural Safety
Group Selects
Award Winners

Names of organizations and indi-
viduals who earned awards of merit
this past year were announced by the
Montana Rural Safety Committee
this week. Safety projects for which
the awards are given include farm,
highway, home and community safety
projects.
The awards to individuals and
groups will be made by local safety
committees in their respective COM
munities. E. R. Bohannon of the Blu
reau of Indian Affairs is the chair
man of the Montana Rural Safety
Award Committee.
The awards will be made to Gar
field Linde, Fairview, community
leader; Mrs. Ellis Murdoch, Lodge
Grass, Big Horn County home demon
stration safety committee chairman;
see page 3
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17
Huge Profifeering, Parent
Abuse In Pricing of Drugs

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(LABOR)
Significant new information about
the high cost of prescription drugs
has emerged at hearings of the Sem
ate Antitrust subcommittee led by
Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) /.
Here's what the senators learned:
First, recent experience in New
York State shows you can save an
average of about two-thirds of the
price on number of important drugs
IF your doctor prescribes the drug
by its generic (medicaD name rather
than by brand name This evidence
was presented by DR.. Alonzo S. VERIFY,
medical administrator of New York
City's welfare department.
Second. two other medical experts
DR.. Frederick HI. Meyers and DR.. A.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17
At FL Institute :.
Need For Federal
Aid To Be Talked
By Logan, Markell

MISSOULA-Fina panel on thi:
years Farmer-Labor Institute, which
opens tonight on the campus of Mon
tana State University, will feature g
discussion of federal aid to education
by National Democratic Committee.
woman Frances Logan of Charlo and
Montana Education Association re-
search assistant Lloyd Markell, Hell
ena, Sunday morning.
Previously, these two ably upheld
the affirmative in debate on this
issue sponsored by the Lewis & Clark
Democratic Women in Helena, No
vember 6.
Other Sunday morning panels al
this years institute will include one
on the school foundation program
led by Supt. of Public Instruction
Harriet Miller, and another on uni
versity system financing headed by
MSC's DR.. R. r. Renne.
Saturdays program includes dis
cussion of the C.ofC.'s sbetter bust
ness climate by Ted Townsend,
Farmers Union public relations di-
rector; the consumers gas fight by
attorneys Leo Graybill, Jr., William
Leaphart and P. J. Gilfeather; taxes
are good, by State Rep. Ted Schwin-
den; using resources wisely, by Gus
Norwood of Northwest Public Power
Association; farm program for the
by MUS Washington repre-
sentative Angus Mcdonald.
Tonight's program includes a panel
discussion on health care for the aged
under social security, by DR.. Amos
Little and Gretchen Billings of Hell
ena, and the unemployment compen-
sation program, by attorney Charles
Huppe and Albert F. Root, also of
Chairman James S. TIMBER will
open the institute at 1880 this eve
ming.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17

Montanans are at a loss to under
stand why the ''better business cli-
mate" imbued State Chamber of
Commerce has placed itself on rec
ord in favor of the merger.
The answer may lie in the fact that
the two big railroads, along with other
major corporate groups with which
they are closely associated via inter
locking directorates, are the real
masters of the State C. of C. rather
than the small merchants on Main
Street who each year are asked to
cough up a substantial membership
fee to be used, supposedly, for pro-
noting a more vigorous Montana
economy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17
Doyle, First
Republican 10
Blast birchers

Associate Justice Stanley Doyle, a
non-partisan in public life, but Re-
publican as a citizen, last Saturday
became the first prominent Montana
conservative to levy blast at the
John Birch Society.
Speaking at a Veterans Day OBJ
servance in. Hamilton, Doyle con-
tended the Birchers are as ininnical
to American democratic concepts as
are the Communists. 81 do not be-
lieve in the John Birch tenets. They
are just as dangerous in their far
leanings to the right as are the Com
munists who lean completely to the
left
Doyle's publicly-stated position on
the right-wing fanatics is in sharp
contrast with that of his fellow Re-
publican, Governor Nutter, who ap-
pointed him to the bench. Nutter ap-
parently has not completed study"
of the Society which many months
ago he announced he was undertaking
preliminary to expressing an opinion
one way or another.
The associate justice, who prob
ably will seek election to a full six
year term in 1862, also debunked the
current fallout shelter jag and asked
fare we Americans or are we cow
ardly moles' who would burrow into
the ground "when threat comes?"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17

lin A. Caron, and public information
director Roger S. Murray, figures are
presented showing that merger will
result in net reduction of 298 jobs
and an annual payroll loss of ST.
901,863 to the state, if the merger
is allowed.
Missoula will be hardest hit, Caron
and Murray point out, with net job
loss of 100 positions, and a payroll
cut of $830,492. The payroll loss
amounts to 1896 per cent of the
total wage loss the merger-bent rail
roads would inflict on the state.
Because merger will have de-
pressing effect, and in the instances
of some smaller towns, will result
in an economic catastrophe, many
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17

build-up of farm SURPRISES expert
enced under previous programs sup
ported by Mr.. Shuman, and t3) as
sure 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.
81 do not know for what inter-
ests MIR. Shuman speaks. He GER
tainly does not speak for farmers
throughout the country, including
Farm Bureau members, who visit
and write me.
"He gives the nation the false i'm
preston by his statements that the
government has squandered billion
dollars on feed grains supply and
price sterilization program when ac-
tually, and he knows this as well as
from page z
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17
Missoula Group Contends
Mssoula Group
Rail Merger Will Deprive State
Of $I.Q Million In WAGE Income

Montana already weakened job base slated for further
choppng of about 300 the proposed of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific approved by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, figures pubicized this by the
Missoula Civic Group reveal.
In statistical statement released by group chairman Frank
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17
Cooley Nails Farm Bureau
For Spreading Fu|sehoods

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NFU)--The chairman of House
Committee Agriculture, Harold Cooley (D-NC) has
blasted Charles B. Shuman president of the American
Bureau Federation for being careless of
creating prejudice against farmers using prestige
his organization to destroy what earlier accomplished
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17

The Missoula Civic Group analysis
of the adverse effects of merger on
Montana was prepared from informa-
ton developed by Wyer, Dick & Com
pany who conducted the study on the
see page 4
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-17

1T mas been a long time since
| Washington has seen a committee
chairman blister major lobbyist
like Cooley blistered Shuman-if
ever.
Cooley has been on the Agriculture
Committee since 1884 and has beer
it's chairman dozen years, or six
sessions of Congress. He has seen
more farm organization officials come
and go than has any other member
of the House committee.
1t was Shuman's ''bitter assaults
on the current farm program, passed
last year by Congress, that made
Cooley mad. Others have been taking
shots at the program, too; but the
Farm Bureau head is furnishing the
real drive to smear it as failure.
HERE ARE QUOTES FROM
COOLEY'S HISTORIC BLAST
"The bitter assaults by Charles
B. Shuman, president of the Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation, upon
current farm supply and price stabi-
lization programs of our govern
ment, are careless of fact and ir-
responsible. They are anti-farmer.
'Mr. Shuman is undermining eff
forts of farmers throughout the ma
ton, including Farm Bureau MEM
bers, to achieve equitable position
with workers in other areas of our
free enterprise economy.
cit is time to set the record straight.
hope the news media of the coun-
try will examine the facts and inform
The people Independently from any
statement either Mr.. Shuman or
make.
'Mr. Shuman states: THE feed
grain program is a gigantic billion
1ollar bust. 1t is the most costly fail
ire in the long history of attempts
% fix prices and control production
If farm crops by legislation But
what are the facts?
81 BILLION BOOST I'm
FARM INCOME
''The first year of operation of this
'eed grains program, after eight years
# declining farm prices and deepen
ng farm depression, will ~ bring
Il 100000, 900 boost in the nations
arm income, (2) halt the staggering