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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
Merger Job-Wage Loss
Would Be Greater Than
Reported In VOICE
Editor, PEOPLES Voice:

Editor, Peoples Voice:
In the November 18th edition the The
Voice, you carried a statistical report
of the adverse effect the proposed
merger of the MP, GIN, Burlington and
SP&S railroads would have upon the
economy of Montana.
1 noted, in reading this report, as
published in The Voice, that an error
was made in the statistics for the City
of Livingston.
The report, as published, showed
Livingston as having net job loss of
1926 and a net compensa tion loss of
1872, 40. The corrected report shows
that Livingston would have a net job
loss of 5S.6 and a net compensation
loss of $574,204.
This is due to the fact that a loss
of 20 brakemen positions, with a COM
pensatfOn loss of $2O1,734, was in
advertently de1eted from the original
report. This, of course, would also
alter the loss i'm spendable dollars
to the State of Montana, making it
S2,103,597 instead of ST ,901 1868 as
shown in the original report.
/ might add that this error was in
no way the fault of The Missoula Civic
Group WHO submitted the original re-
port to you. Their material was in
error. A later report corrects this
/ might also stress that this informa-
ion was compiled for the railroads by
he Wyer, Dick & Co., and we feel that
his is only the initial reduction in
orce and payroll and that it will be
much greater in future years. My best
o you and The Peoples Voice. Sim |
erely-ROBERT C. THEURER, Chair
nan, Helena Area Anti-Merger Group.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

Fish & Game Power|ess To Act
On Infamous Park Elk Slaughter

Rep. Warren Harper, Sr. (D-Park)
told the cow and sheep oriented Fish
and Game Commission Monday that
they should take some action on the
cutting in half of the elk herd in
Yellowstone National Park. The Park
Service plans to slaughter 5000 of
the elk in the park because range
conditions have become so bad that
the beaver are starving to death.
Harper has reservations as to
whether there are 10000 elk left in
the park-the figure 1000 seems
more plausible.
The infamous Gardiner ''firing
line" has taken its toll over the years
with more deadly effects than can
be imagined by the counting of car
cases. A eugenic block has been
established among the survivors.
Those elk which tended to migrate
have been killed off and the remain
ing stay-at-home elk have no leader
ship to find forage in case of Sc
we're winter, thus being trapped in the
freezer valleys of Yellowstone.
Inc ranger XIII, Win the poor
of the meat which is shipped
to Indian reservations, should be re-
placed by ranger guided hunts within
the park boundaries.
Rep. Harper Livingston railroad
received only negative salts
faction from the commission. They
had never entered into an agreement
with the Park Service condoning the
ranger kill.
Harper is continuing his crusade
% save the remnants of the famous
10000 elk herd of 20 years ago. This
week Harper will visit the Park di-
'ector, L. A. Garrison, to see if some
,ther measure can be taken beside |
he senseless slaughter. He was as
ured by the commission that his
quest was fruitless because Garrison
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

Committee To
Meet In Helena

Achieving greater state and local
participation in water resource de-
velopment' will be the theme of a
two-day meeting of the Columbia
Basin Inter-Agency Committee in
Helena December and z, according
to Allen Hirsch, executive secretary
to the committee.
Speakers before the two-day meet
ing will include Cong. Arnold Olsen
and Lieut.. Gov. Tim Babcock.
Highlight of the opening mornings
agenda will be program by Mon
tana Conservation Council dealing
with water resource issues in Mon
tana. MSU forestry professor Arnold
Bolle will be in charge of MCC's
presentation.
Another important item slated for
discussion will be the federal water
pollution control act amendments of
1861.
The meeting will be held in Hell
ena's Placer Hotel.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
"SCRUTINIZE, BUT DON'T
SPREAD DISTRUST"

Schwinden said the public should
carefully scrutinize the spending of
tax dollars. "That is good" he said,
but, in an obvious thrust at such
things as the State C.ofC.'s ''tax-
arama" in 1860, ''it is shameful to
promote distrust of public officials
it is evil - Authoritative
probes and studies, he said, show
that by and large tax dollars are rea-
sonably well spent.
AS for Gov. Nutter's ''huge over
statement of the state general fund
deficit during the campaign and the
legislature, the lawmaker said that
sound overhaul of fiscal accounting
practises "could minimize such nom
sense.
AS one of the men chiefly respon-
sible for tax legislation passed by the
1859 session, Schwinden played an
role in securing enactment
of revenue measures which made it
possible for that session to present
a balanced budget and to increase
state income sufficiently to chop more
than 100000 off the general fund
deficit at the end of the last fiscal
year, June 80. The 1859 tax meas
ures, it is now anticipated, will have
the state well into the black by the
end of this biennium, June 30, 1868.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

| heavy equipment operators, 13 weeks
instead of % weeks will be the maxi
mum benefit period under the new
act.
Estimates indicate that 81 per
cent of jobless Montanans will be
eligible to draw up to 20 weeks COM
pensation. Forty-two per cent prob
ably will be eligible for the maximum
of 26 weeks. However, only 20 per
cents of the total jobless are likely
to draw the maximum weekly benefit
of $28-or about a third of the aver
age weekly wage.
Root also clarified one of the
misconceptions of the acts opera
ton which the C.ofC. and other
anti-jobless comp spokesman ex-
plotted to the utmost in the 1860
campaign. This concerned the false
notion that a person who worked
only a limited time could imme-
diately draw compensation.
Explaining this part of the act
before the 1861 amendments, he said
the law requires that worker have
at least minimum wage credits in
one of the first four of the last five
completed quarters before being elig-
IDLE for compensation.
A Christmas tree worker, or any
other occasional worker, unless he
meets those minimum earnings re-
quirements in one of the first four
Of the last five completed quarters,
is not eligible for compensation.
Z A Christmas tree worker, who quit
work on November IL, 1861, he
cited by example, would not immedi-
ately be eligible for comp on earn
ngs that quarter because the quarter
would not be completed until De-
,ember 81. Further, the July to Sep
,ember 1861 quarter represented his
fifth quarter. Therefore, he would |
lave had to accumulated at least min
mum earnings in the April-June 1861 |
quarter, or one of the three previous
quarters, before being eligible for
compensation Immediately following
lis mid-November lay-off.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
Taxes Are a School, a Road

the state income tax. This is because
of the federal tax taking the first
cut, then there are the various types
of deductions allowed taxpayers, and
finally there are the personal exemp-
tions. In total, these amount to
billion.
Of the $500 million, 1854 million
is income subject to not more than
one per cent state tax. Another 500
million falls within the two per cent
maximum. About 60 per cent of total
taxable income is in the two lowest
tax brackets. There is only about $32
million subject to the maximum seven
per cent tax.
Currently, the personal income tax
brings in about $3.5 million annually,
he said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

WASHINGTON, d. C.-An inter
pretative bulletin on how the amend
ed Fair Labor Standards Act applies
to retail and service industries has
been issued by Clarence T. Lundquist,
administrator of the u. S. Labor De-
partment's wage and hour and public
contracts division.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

| from page i
wealth and higher standards of the
nation. The latter, a necessity, is not
producer of wealth.
Taxes also make it possible, he con-
tinued, for the government to loan
money for such things as rural cleo
trio development, small business
loans, various kinds of farm credit,
etc. The myriad of these, although
not attractive to private money lend
ers, are needed services and contri-
butte to the wealth and well-being of
the nation. AS an example, Schwinden
pointed to the whole new market for
electrical goods and equipment made
possible because of the quarter-cen-
fury old federal rural electric coop
loan policy. This market has made
thousands of jobs in manufacturing
industry, has helped maintain retail
business, and has freed more than
80 per cent of the nations rural
families from the drudgery which was
once an inseparable companion of
those who till the soil.
STATE AND LOCAL TAXES
The three principal state and local
tax sources, he enumerated as: l.. the
property tax, which is the major
source of revenue to maintain local
government, school districts, etc.; 2.
excise (sales) taxes. While Montana
has no general sales tax, about one
fourth of the states total revenue |
comes from sales taxes on cigarettes,
liquor, gasoline, etc.; 8. income taxes,
from which less than ten per cent of
total state tax is derived.
Property tax carries an unusually
large proportion of the tax burden,
particularly as affects rural people.
This tax today sis less gauge of
ability to pay than it once was".
Excise taxes by long practice in
Montana '1end themselves to ear
marking, thereby taking from the
legislature the control over how such
AK revenues are expended. The
elected representatives of the people
# Montana today are stopped from
how better than two
birds of each state tax dollar is used.
Income taxes, which Schwinden
ontends are the most equitable of
IL, also have certain drawbacks as
most effective means of raising /
tate revenues. First of these is that c
he state must compete with the fed t
raj government in this field. Second /
z, although there is about STA bill a
on personal income in Montana, z
My about $500 million is subject to C
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24
RECALLS LEGISLATIVE
SHORT SIGHTEDNESS

The late and little lamented last
Legislature placed strict restrictions
on the Fish and Game as to the
amount of game reservations which
could be purchased to save dwindling
herds. Harper and the Democratic
minority of the House voted against
the cattle-minded Republicans.
Legislation on the rational level is
required to give a rational approach
to the game in Yellowstone because
of the jealous nature of Wyoming and
our own commissioners
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

is more concerned about what the
Boston bird watchers clubs think
should be done about the elk, rather
than consultation with the local peo-
pie.
LETHAL TO GAME RESOURCE
The lack of cooperation between
state and federal officials is lethal
to the game resources of the state.
Our small villages will suffer greatly
if the hunters whose success is be-
coming less and less, finally quit lust
ing for the thrills of the slaughter
house. The hunt is an income pro-
ducers almost as great as the tourist
season itself.
Harper suggests, in addition to the
ranger hunts, that the entire southern
part of Park county be closed to
hunting for at least five years to re-
establish migration habits. However
the range in the area must be al
lowed to make a comeback by a
sharp curtailment of commercial graz
ing of the Forest Service lands in
that area north of the Park.
Grand Teton National Park allowed
the kill of 1000 elk last year but the
laws of Yellowstone seem to
make hunting impossible there.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-24

the $4,000 limit was placed on indi-
viduaPs wages subject to jobless in
surance premium.
The stage was set for comprehen-
sive chopping of the various state acts
when the 10th Congress gave the
states permission to assess the en-
ployer premium tax on an expert
ence rating" basis.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-01

Drills inch in Steel inch in hardwood Shuts Of
moicoly when handle pressure released Or bviin
lock for sustained opeFoon SeIf-vbcofing Comp motor
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Evening star., 1961-03-05
McKennu Helps
Accident Victims
Near His Cottage

PONIPANO BEACH, Fla,
Mar. 4 (SpeciaD Trainer Tom
McKenna of the Senators help
lessly watched a tragic auto
mishap outside his cottage win
dow here late this afternoon.
An elderly woman lost con-
troll Of her car while backing
out of a parking area, ap-
parently stepped on the gas in
stead of the brake and struck
three women pedestrians. The
car continued across the inter-
section and crashed through
the window Of a jewelry store.
McKenna, who was telephon-
ing a friend at the time, cut
his conversation short and
called for ambulances. He went
to the scene and administered
what aid he could. Two of the
victims repeatedly are near
death.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
FuIImer Decisions Robinson
To Keep MiddIeweight title

LAS VEGAS. New, Mar.
(AP) Drawing Gene Fullmer
applying relentless pressure
throughout a savage 15-rount
blood bath, retained his middle
weight boxing title tonight BY
unanimously decisioning five
time champion Ray Robinson.
The loss may well mean the
end of the line for 40-year-olc
Sugar Ray. perhaps the great
est boxer of his day.
This was the key match ir
their series. which until to-
night stood at a victory apiece
and a draw.
One judge scored it 1880 fol
Fullmer, another 70-67 for the
champion, and Referee Frank
Carter 70-66 for Fullmer.
No KnOckdOwns
There were no knockdowns
Fullmer. a perpetual-motior
puncher, made the biggest
round the third-when he pin.
ned Robinson to the ropes and
mauled him mercilessly-even
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Goal Tendinq
Gives Mounts
Title Over AU

A gold-tending foul against
Art Dillard gave Mt. st. Mary's
a -from-behind, SO = 81
victory over American Univers-
ity in overtime for the Mason
Dixon Conference basketball
championship last night at
Catholic U. ss
A crowd of 5000 fans, hoarce
from shouting, saw American,
the defending champion, make
"a great bid to tie the Mounts
all-time conference record of
four straight tournament vic
tories.
The victors led only twice,
the second time after Refree
Franny Book colled the foul on
billiard with only one second
Of a five-minute overtime left.
Ed Pheiffer, a work-horse
for the Mounts, took a shot
after his team froze the ball
for almost a minute and a half.
The ball hit the back rim
and ricocheted to the front rim,
where billiard tapped it. That
made it an automatic basket
with one second to play. Many
observers felt the shot would
not have gone in if billiard
hadn't touched it.
After trailing throughout,
Mt. st. Mary's tied the count
at 49-all on a shot by Dick Tai
ley with 13 seconds Of regula-
tion time left and that's how
the regulation game ended.
The Mounts edged ahead
57-55, with 2 minutes left In
overtime but Jim Howell tied
it on a layup to set up the dra-
matte finish.
American University, which
lost two games to its rival by
wide margins during the regu-
lar season. used a sliding zone
to slow the Mounts fast-break-
ing attack.
Twice in the opening period
the Eagles held 7-point leads
In the second half, with Bob
Lindquist, Ronnie Rawlings and
billiard showing the way, AU
opened up an 8-point lead
1896, but Dick Talley. Pfeiffer
and Jerry Savage hit with three
See MASON-DIXON, Page Ed
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Dell Beaten
In Moscow

MOSCOW, Mar. 4 (AP).-
Britain's Alan Mills tonight de-
feated Donald Dell of Bethesda,
Md, 60. 60, 4-6, Ga. in
the semifinals of the Interna-
tional Indoor Tennis Tourna-
ment in Dynamo Stadium.
Mills will meet Russia's
Thomas Leius in the finals to-
morrow. LeiuS upset Mix e
Franks of Los Angeles in the
second round earlier in the
week.
Dell and Franks won the
doubles final from Russia's
Sergei Likhachev and Mikhail
Mozer, 6-3, Ga, 60.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY
star staff Writer

RALEIGH, N. c., Mar. A.
Wake Forest, powered on the
floor by the magnificent Len
Chabpell and inspired from the
bench by the excitable Bones
Mckinney. won the Atlantic
Coast Conference basketball
championship tonight over
Dukes defending titlists, 96
to 81.
Chappell. the 6-foot-8, 240-
pound junior, completely domi-
mated the game as he poured
home 33 points. The match
between Chappell and Dukes
Art Heyman was almost nc
contest, despite Heyman's 26
points.
The Deasons, who flunked
miserably in a Madison Square
Garden test against New York
University two weeks ago, will
60 back there to meet st.
Johns in the first round of the
NCAA playoffs Tuesday, March
II.
Never Very Close
Mckinney, the former coach
Of the Washington Caps. plead
ed, begged, ranted and raved
from the bench and hundreds
Of times cupped his hands and
shouted Defense" He lived
countless hours in what actually
was not a very close game.
The Deacons opened a 10
point spread at the 1920 point
Of the game and were ahead at
halftime by nine. They were up
by % points at one time in the
second half. Duke scored the
final points against the last of
the Deacon reserves to close
the final gap to Is points.
Chappell Gets Ovation
Mckinley, who said after the
Maryland game Friday night
that the greatest injustice in
basketball history was the fact
that Chappell didn't make the
All-American team, might have
q point.
Chappell. topped the scorers,
tied Dukes Carroll Youngkin
in rebounds with IA, and roam
Evening star., 1961-03-05

after the bell, which neither
fighter heard.
Each fighter weighed 159A
barely under the 160-pouno
limit for the nationally tele-
vised bout at the Las Vegas
Convention Hall. Fullmer, OF
West Jordan, Utah, entered the
ring at 8-5 favorite.
CONSERVATION struck both
fighters and turned the arena
into a bedlam when the ring
announcer misread the final
decision and announced that
Robinson had won.
Robinson's handlers, think
ing that the ex-champion had
regained the 160-pound crown,
hoisted Robinson on their
shoulders. Robinson let out a
loud warhoop.
Fast Pace Set
Then the miscue was correct
ed and. the Fullmer camp
jumped for JOY when it real
lied that the muscular Mormon
had retained his title.
Both men were in top shape
and set a blistering pace over
tke Is rounds. Robinson, trying
for a knockout by one big
punch, fought in flurries and
hung on much of the time in
between.
There was zip in his punches,
but he never came close to
landing the big one. The best
he could do was shake the
champion frequently.
Fullmer had Robinson a trifle
wobbly in the third, and rocked
him repeatedly. He swung away
at every part of Robinson's
body-arms, back, top OF the
head.
The bout was a bloody one
each man was cut over the
left eye-and both fighters
white trunks looked like a
butchers apron when the final
bell sounded.
Robinson opened a cut over
the champions left eye in the
wild-swinging third. Fullmer
cut Robinson in the 10th.
Fulmer, who boxed Robinson
to a controversial draw in Los
Angeles in December, opened
Evening star., 1961-03-05

open Thursday. 1t also was the
third victory for the Warriors
over WI this season.
The Warriors accuracy at
the foul line was the difference,
especially in the last quarter
when WI used a press in a
frantic effort to pull out the
decision. Wakefield made II OF
Evening star., 1961-03-05
WIN NCAA BERTH
Deocons OutcIoss
Duke in ACC Final

ed under the basket like a big
bull, carrying players with him
when he went up for shot.
Chappell hit from the out
side and from the corner. He
hooked and jumped and he and
Bill Hull, the football end, Off
set Dukes supposed height ad-
vantage with aggresSiveness.
The sellout crowd of 2,400 gave
big Len a roaring ovation.
Heyman, runnerup to Chap
pell in the ACC scoring race,
scored Dukes first six points.
but his performance was not
outstanding.
Dukes outstanding player
was its shortest man, crewcut
Johnny Frye, who kept the
Blue Devils flickering hope
alive with his jump shots mid
way in the second half. He hit
for 81 points.
Duke led only in the insigni-
ficant opening moments. Alley
Hart hit two quick jump shots
for a 1913 lead for the Deacons
and they were ahead to stay.
It looked for a few moments
that Wake Forest would move
comfortably ahead in the first
half, but Chappell was rested
because of two personals and
during the time he was out
Duke cut the margin to nine
at half time.
Press Fails Duke
Hull, AL Koehler, and Billy
Packer hit quickly in the start
of the second half and the
Deacons were on top by IS.
Duke tried an ineffective press,
gave it up, and was a beaten
ball club as the game pro-
gressed. The Blue Devils, de-
Tending champions, beat Wake
Forest in the. finals last year.
Mckinney used the shuttle
system in reserves. alternating
eight men throughout the ball
game. The officials, mindful Of
past incidents in the rabid
basketball country, called an
extremely close second half.
One tee hnical was called,
See DEACONS, Page E-2
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Darlene Hard Loses

CARACAS, Venezuela, Mar. 4
(AP)-Maria Ester Bueno OF
Brazil easily defeated Darlene
Hard of Montabello, Calf, Us,
6-1 today to retain the wom-
ems singles title in the Caracas
international tennis tourna-
ment.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
Wakefield Wins, 45-37,
To Gain State PIoyoH

% foul shots. including eight
straight late in the game.
Gerry Spadetti was the high
scorer for Wakefield with 13
points and combined with
Gerry Francis, Jim Barr and
Rolf Russart to keep the taller
Generals from beneath the
basket.
Rickie Duques' fancy ball
handling as usual was the
Warriors spark. Duques also
was a standout on defense, and
helped keep the ball away from
the Generals in the final min
utes as Wakefield slowed down
the game to protect its lead.
Sophomore Ed Hummer had
13 points and Ray Hodgdon 10
for the Generals.
Evening star., 1961-03-05

with a free-swinging attack
Robinson tried to pick him of
with sizzling combinations but
Fullmer kept advancing and
pressing the action.
Fullmer turned the crowd into
q bowling mob when he slam.
med Robinson with a vicious
overland right that sent him
sagging into the ropes, clearly
in trouble.
Can't Put Robinson Out
Fulmer swarmed in for the
kill and bombed away at Rob-
inson. who went into a defens-
i've shell. Fullmer clubbed the
crouching eX-champion with %
straight blows as Robinson
dazed, made no attempt to
punch back.
In the frantic melee. Fullmer
continued to fail away at his
foe after the bell until Robin
sons handlers jumped into the
ring and rescued their charge
But Robinson recovered be-
tween rounds and was punch
ing strongly in the fourth.
Robinson, who had threat
ened to call off the fight at
the 1lth hour unless promoters
met his demands for a larger
ring and the type of gloves to
be used, wilted in the later
rounds.
But, shifting oxygen between
rounds, the amazing former
titleholder, whose ring career
spans two decades, managed
to finish with a flourish of solid
punching.
Split Two Bouts
In their first two fights ir
1857, Fullmer took No. ! by
decision January /. In the Sec
ond, Robinson knocked Fullmel
out with a clean left hook ir
the fifth round May /.
Tonight, the 20 year ole
champion gets 40 per cent oi
the net gate and $4,000 of the
television money. Robinson
gets 20 per cent and $4,000
Scoring was on five-point
must basis, the winner getting
five and the loser four or less
Evening star., 1961-03-05

Wakefield High School last
night defeated Washington
Lee, 45-37, before 5000 fans at
WI to win the Northern Vir-
ginia Group la basketball
tournament championship and
a berth in this weeks State
playoffs at the University of
Virginia.
The victory was Wakefield's
23d straight this season. almost
assuring them the No. / rank
ing in the State playoffs which
Evening star., 1961-03-05
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