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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-19
We Must Plan Now For TomorroW's
Water
Water
Editorial From LEWIsToWN DAILY NEWS

LEWISTOWN DAILY NEWS
will during the decade Public
will
irrigation, navigation
reality
ample supply of water for and the future
am is
Milk River farmers another without sufficient irrigation
power navigation
control
angy being drained the multiple
in the Far West Midwest and East Coast.
the other the These be the multi
o
This vigorously the construction of whatever
power, control, ton andR CROSSINGS
selfish
special
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-19
The PUBS Prove Themselves

the labor public
the the his where development of
generating capacities of big
How wise this policy has been plainly shown study of the rates
public utility districts Wash
To PUD included
study public of
and unsupported the study made allow
the paid by the private utility
the faa contentious private that they
disadvantage competition with the PUBS
Will Their not
PUBS eight paid
$828,000 in city and privilege
Generally ignored the that the PUBS bring
through lower unsupported bodies such schools cities and
As the concludes, dollar bills
S a dollar of tai
abroad analysis COSTS
by
mills while PUD mills
80 cent, their bils.-WASHINGTON TEAMSTER.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-19

Remember Mohammed going to the
mountain? Well, Christianity is COM
ing to the Capitol. Denny Gordon, the
executive assistant to Gov. Don Nut
ter, has been bugging me to go to
the Christian leadership breakfasts
that are held at the cafeteria in the
basement of the Mitchell Building.
Monday has been decided as the new
day because so many officials leave
Helena during the week. f6
Wednesday when | dropped in to
pay my respects to Auditor John
Holmes on his 73rd birthday (this
son of Ireland established himself in
Montana in 1909, he commanded me
to make myself present at the $50
am. affair. (The party's huge cakes
and coffee were cut and poured by
10 Isaak and Margaret Walsh of his
staff. Mrs. Holmes received the
stream of judges, administrators and
Capitol inhabitants
What these guys would want with
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-19
KaIispeN To Host
1861 Rural Electric
Coop Convention

KALISPELL-Th Flathead Elec.
trio Cooperative will host this years
convention of Montana State Asso-
citation of Rural Electric Co-opera-
tives, according to James Garrison,
manager of the local farmer-owned
power distribution system.
The convection will be held October
Is through 20, state association Pres
ident Judd Walker, Glendive, said
following meeting with officers of
the Flathead coop last week.
Between $50 and $50 delegates,
members and visitors are expected
to attend the annual get-together.
Present at the 1861 convention
planning session in addition to CARR
son and Walker, were the following
state rural electric leaders: Herbert
Wheat, Dillon; George Donaldson,
Medicine Lake, and Mrs. Anna Dahl,
Dagmar.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-19
New York Times Speaks
Operation Abolition Labelled
'Reprehensib|e'


The film entitled Operation Abolition official
duction of the House Un-Amercan Activities Committee deal
ing with the demonstrations against during hearings in San
Francisco last May 1t gives misleading impression that the
demonstrators organized and directed by Communists
part campaign to abolish the commeewith the implca
ton that all who opposed the committee Communistn
spred Defense Department purchases of prints for its libraries
great of it's sales and public showngs make
sena full understanding of the films accuracy and origin
The pictures in the film feature almost exclusively the dis
orders that occurred They special prominence to the
excusabe descriptions at the hearing by few Communists and
others charged by the committee with being SUCH
The fact is, however, that the demonstrators al
entirely students who peacefully though noisi,
protesting they believed have been the
conduct and refusal admit
them the hearing packed with friends of the
mittee
ejectng of the proteers from the city hail. But
found innocent of wrongdongs by the courts Neither the pic
direction control of the bulk of charged
by members of the committee who appear the film.
Not only the film itself reprehensibe but also the
made and distributed 1t is composed of cuttings
chosen without regard sequencefrom pictures
broadcasng and subpenaed by the committee
These turned commercial company make the
film More than 700 prints have been sold by the
pany at 500 each.
This whole un-American operation by the Un-Ameri
Activities Committee evidence of the need of
continuance but need of its abolition-a have
urged before.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-19
State House Beat =.
FRANKLY SPEAKING

hereto such as myself at this type
of function is beyond my imagination.
If | can arise at such an unholy hour
will attempt to freeload a break
fast off them.
Pm curious. What is this, some
new kind of John Birch Society?
What really want to know is wheth-
err there will be any ladies going to
this breakfast thing or is this another
grouping which has it's basis in preju-
dice?
Everyone is real unhappy with
race and creed prejudice, but sex
prejudice continues to debilitate the
vitality of America and the world
at large. Every type of test has proved
the female ability in every field of
human endeavor and they have prov
en- to be superior in many ways.
This prejudice is a very real
thing in politics. The Nutter Adj
ministration has not appointed a
woman to any major post.
When Acting Governor Tim Bah
cock was interviewed by the press
Monday he said that ''there are GER
tain jobs that women can handle just
as well as men,. When questioned
further he admitted that there were
no women drivers employed by the
large trucking firm of which he is
the top executive.
IL
Of the Montana working force,
women have won only a small part
of the total opportunity yet this
weeks Unemployment Compensation
Commission reports that women make
up % per cent of the unemployed.
This prejudice is an economic ad-
vantage which is being exploited by
Christians" in almost every business
field.
An example close at hand is the
cleaning of the Highway building.
This job is out on contract. The con-
tractor employs women but at rates
that rumor places at about 60 cents
an hour.
The Highway Commission had
better check this closely because
the business of building roads is
definitely an interstate commerce
activity. Federal minimum wage
rates are in effect.
The cleaning of the other build
ngs and lawn work is done by state
paid males.
| fervently hope that the prejudice
against women does not exist at the
Early Monday morning meeting of
Christians next week.
The separation of church and state
S basic premise which will con-
luer prejudice. Those who would
weaken this principle are only hoping
o unleash prejudice to weaken their
elbow and galkind for an advantage
n principal ($$$).
The Fish and Game is building I'D
reserve force of wardens in adj
ance of an invasion attempt on
,ellowstone Park. The extra wardens
viii be needed to escort guided hunt
ng parties in the park because the
wyoming wardens will very probably
ry to capture any safaris which
riginate in Montana
The FIG is going to take a resolu-
ion to Western Association of Fish
nd Game Officials next month pro-
osing that the ''firing line" slaughter
elk at Gardiner be stopped and
nat hunting parties be allowed to
inter- the park for a more orderly
arvesting.
The controversial resolution is
LEVIED by some as playboy's relief
leasure. Portions of the kill at
ardlner are allocated to state in
itutions and Indian reservations.
Ifs
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-19
Editorial
Montana Power Switches Its Line

Montana Power SWIfCfeS It's Line
switched its propaganda line in support
$50 natural increases it
is asking the Public Service Commission to approve
The through its offcaldom is admitting to
being profitable under rate schedules but
dim future for natural gas supply for Montana 1t is not
granted higher rates.
change emphasis sharp
lions put forth in its written application to the PC jusng
the proposed higher rate schedules.
the written application the places heavy empha
the theme its earnings and what expect
to under present rates inadequate to allow fair
and reasonable return its property investment our
emphasis
Eaborating MPCo asserts application
reasonable rate of return because of several factors
Numerous wage increases other benefits granted
its employees since received its present rate schedule
in 1853.
Substantially prices supplies equip
Greatly increased taxes.
company's report knocks all three
arguments into cooked hat The report shows:
In the last five all operating including
equipment COSTS etc. but excepting have
granted MPCo President E. Corete couple of
years rom 100000 $4,000 year,, and the 40
cent in salaries and other for other Off
and directors of the company.
Taxes primarily because the major portion federal
and state taxes based amount of income have
gone up 20 cent.
The 1860 report also shows:
gas division fve-year period
went up 27 per cent.
Dividends per share increased almost 80
in 1860 s compared with 1856.
Income available for stock &c cent higher
in than in
All wages paid in totalled million dol
lars less than and preferred stock dividends for that
year.
The uitys gradually becoming aware
the fact that Montana Power unlike most other businesses
each increasing its profits in spite of the depressed
Montana With disbelief that Montana
Power must have tribute remain financially sound
Consumers, whether residential commercial industrial
in increasing numbers refusing to buy the
panys contention that present earnings inadequate
MPCo officialdom is cognizant of mounting
opposition and the ne has been changed Last Friday
John Morris appeared before meeting and both
admitted we're not bad shape financially " and the
posed based needs " Rather
said they it's the much higher MPCo will have
Canadian that's behind the pending rate hike application
Consumers aren't swallowing that either They simply
don't believe that Montana Power will have than
three times much for Canadian Montana produced
when the already so cent of the aeged
higher priced they plan Montana
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-19

Speeding was blamed for 1880
deaths on U. S. highways in 1866.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03
Advocates of Internal Force and Violence?

With political 'nownothingism riding higher each pass
ing day. surprise that of the fanaca
would begin thinking organizing militant
groups such the antired guerrilla squads referred
to in the ROCKY MOUNTAIN article reprinted page
groups formed ostensibly protect"
country of Communist invasion and occupation
dssmr several of subrosa outfits which excited
the country Immediately before World IT, Those
of 20 odd justified their existence the preext
that citizens organize mtary in protect
country from Communists subversives
enemies.
There was, for example, Fritz Kuhn and notorious
German American Bund, complete with stormtroopers
There the equally Infamous knights of the White
Cameia who's chief cOn George Deatherage,
and who's principal financial Gilman Howard
Both Deatherage and Pew of
John Birch Society. Fss.s6
There Gerald L. K. Smith his totatarian-ori-
ented Silver Shirts Smith, may be of interest again
harness and working close cooperation with various right
wing extremists in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain
And there the murderous Black Legion of Detroit
which wantony killed MANNED many fellow citizens all
the of protecting America from COMMUNISTS
Now have the Minutemen already organized 40
states Will they too to be juvenile denquent
who happier than when they exercising their
patriotism by cracking the skulls of hapless fellow citizens
who refuse conform the code crop
sading crackpots?-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03
View Legislative Route ...
'Right-to- Workers.
Would Draw Bead On
Montana Workers

Legislative action in 1868 to
force compulsory open shop legis-
lation down the throats of Mon
tana's organized workers, rather
than again trying the initiative
route, is apparently the strategy
that will be employed by the pro-
fessional "right-to-workers'' next
time. This information is cleaned
from an article in the current u. S.
NEWS & WORLD REPORT, COW
ering a national s'right-to-work"
seminar in Chicago, October "a.
While the sponsors of the semi.
mar were not named, it should be
recalled that several weeks ago the
u. S. Chamber of Commerce set
up a special 22-man committee to
assist and cooperate with state
chambers of commerce, Farm Bu-
reau, Birchers, and other anti-labor
groups, in seeking enactment of
open shop legislation in states not
now afflicted with such laws.
Previously, Montana labor and
its friends have beaten back two
attempts by the "right-to-work"
forces to attain the descriptive man
datory open shop, via the initiative
route. These attempts were made
in 1856 and 1858. 49,
In the past, the Montana Republi-
can party has SHE'D away from TAX
ing a stand either pro or CON on
the question. The Democrats are.
additionally on record against such
legislation. Many in labor, however,
question how much trust they can
put into platform statements by
the Democrats when Democratic
legislators come under fire on an
emotion-packed issue such as the
compulsory open shop. Workers,
like farmers, recall with consider
able bitterness, how Democratic
legislators deserted their platform
and their constituents when the
State Chamber of Commerce APP
piled the heat last January and
February.-HLB ~.,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03
By FRANK SMALL

/ pressive but have the poorly designed
Suicide posts" which will have tc
be removed soon.
/ Ben Brisco, division engineer, ex-
planned the routing of the Interstate
in relation to the present Travelled
way. The PTW, as the present roads
are referred to by all the division
heads, seems to be sort of mania
or faith that as long as the new
route has some sort of relation to
the PTW everything will be fine with
the gods from Helena.
In Wolf Greek canyon the road
will smash into the canyon walls and
go on the other side of the railroad
from the PTW.
In Wolf Greek, Attorney Paul KEEL
Ter got aboard the bus with his clients
to make an impassioned plea for the
trees in the town which will be wiped
out by the elevated Interstate. The
plea seemed to lose merit when we
entered western Montana which is
damned with trees.
In GreaC ais the local pOl1t1cOS
were champing at the bit Cocktails
at Commissioners Ted James house
and dinner at Eddie's Deluxe). Great
Falls is smarting under the political
domination of Billings and will quite
likely try to encourage James 90
dump Congressman James Battin.
James is reluctant to enter a pri-
mary battle with Battin because it |
would mean that the Republicans
would have to vote their own party |
rather than crossing over into the |
ballot primaries usually |
presented by the Democrats.
The Great Falls west interchanges
nave been located and as soon as the
designs for Gore Hill are completed
he contracts will be let.
The trip north and west was I'M
and the improvements of
'ipes replacing bridges and median
tripes separating lanes were noted.
1t Browning the department is having
little trouble locating the route
round the town because when the
alefaces on Main Street heard that '
apartment crews were running lines
D the south they encouraged their S
indian friends to withdraw permission 9
} enter their lands from the survey
rews. d
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03

Well the Governor is certainly get
ting mileage out of his anti-U. n
stand. and as it seems he is inter
ested in headlines he is riding this
issue for all it is worth.
A week after United Nations Day
would ordinarily have been celebrated
we would have moved on to other
issues but he was still trying to get
what he must consider political good
out of the last drop. x.
In a press release Tuesday of this
week he quotes with pride a support
ing statement from Spruille Braden
identified in the release as a former
Montanan and ex-Assistant u. S. Sec
rotary of State. The Governor did
not say Spruille Braden is a member
of the executive council of the John
Birch Society. Braden was fired by
President Truman because of his re-
dictionary attitudes.
Braden's praise of the Governor
and the statement attributed to him
shows he was against the u. N. and
from the beginning had urged it be
located on a sinkable island.
AS Leo Graybill, ST., questioned
in press release Wednesday, can
there be any doubt that the Republi-
can Governor of Montana is a John
Bircher and with other radical con-
servatives is riding on the waves of
billion dollar racket aimed at de-
stroying every basic concept this
country has ever known?
The ever recurring question is just
what is the Governor aiming for?
AS probably the only and certainly
the most vocal radical conservative
Governor in the nation, does he have
decisions of grandeur? Does he have
a self made image that he might
someday be the United Nations Sec
rotary General for which he promoted
himself in his press release? Is he
haunted by an image calling" him
to run for vice president with Barry
Or is the image merely
that of running for United States |
Senate against Mike Mansfield?
Certainly he has cast away the |
oaltry matters involved in being a |
states chief administrator. While he
S in world wide orbit, getting his
lame in the headlines as many as six
lines day he is keeping our. minds
Inverted from the wretched situa-
ions facing education, institutions,
and the suffering
much of the work force must eventu-
lily face because of the actions of
he last legislature.
Aided and abetted by many of the
zee editors who give the Governor
ront page three column headlines
n anything he says and any Demo-
rat who answers him an Indifferent
urial on page seven, the radical
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03

The Highway Commission junket
in the roaming bus last week turned
out to be more of study of political
compilations of the various towns
than inspection of the surface link
age. The commissions reception by
the various Chambers of Commerce
acted as litmus paper test as to
whether the Highway Department
was in good graces with the COM
munity visited, or not.
The 1000 miles traversed by the
bus chartered from and driven by
Bill Barden received mixed recep-
tions from the local communities al
most in direct proportion to the popu-
larity of the projects proposed for
the community. The blue paper of
sweetness greeted the commission ir
Great Falls, Missoula and Glasgow
who are highly pleased with the eff
fectiveness of their road program. In
Billings and Lewistown the red paper
of sour reception was quite detect
able.
In Billings (where the commission
let bids creating an all time high of
80 millions let so far this year,
controversy is raging with the city
as TO the ACCESSIBILITY of the Bitter
Greek routing to the south. In Lewis
town the cutting down of the hill
leading out of town above Ed Fixes
house has turned the town sour on
the commission. In fact it was felt
that we should never have stopped
in Lewistown but should have gone
on to Harlowton 10 have our last |
meal on the road.
In Harlowton, Editor Hal Stearns
and his townsmen want help from
the department to straighten out the
jog by the courthouse and would like
ly have furnished the chow so that
our freeloading hearts would not
have been broken.
The great plan of the trip was to
nave each of the. division engineers I
BOARD the bus as it entered the various ]
territories and give a running COM s
nentary as to the progress made in
zach area. This worked out rather {
veil except that portions travelled 6
n the evening were totally obscured
Y darkness.
The junketeers were in the first t
ublic vehicle to pass over the Helena |
railroad overpass. The t
5ructures on the Interstate are i'm C
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03
LETTERS
Montana Democrats
Had Better Wake Up

Dear Harry: par
Enclosed check for $500 to help
stave off any fate to the VOICE. What
in he'll is going to happen in Montana
without an opposition press. Between
the powers that be-the Birch Societies
and what's left of the Mccarthy adher-
ents-the progTessives might as well
fold up and give them the state. If
the Democratic party doesn't wake up
in Montana they are going to lose some
of the few good friends we have in
Washington. This will be our loss. Best
regards to Gretchen. Yours JACK
CLARK, Denver; President of Inter-
national Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter
Work ers.
Jack Clark was for many years an
officer in Great Falls Smeltermen's
Local, before being elected presidnt of
lUMM&SW more than decade ago.
EDITOR.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03

| Brisco was relieved of his com
mentator duties at East Glacier by
Oscar Ostenson and we entered g
snowstorm on Stevens Pass. A little
| ceremony followed in which Briscc
thanked the commission for the op-
portunity to show them the road and
the commission thanked him for being
shown. This was repeated every time
we changed guides. The uniformity
of the silly business was appealing in
an odd sort of way.
Editor Mel Ruder took their pic
lures at Columbia Falls.
merce took the commission over the
jumps and gave them the only real
workout on the trip. Here was the list
of what needs to be done for their
hard pressed economy. When are
you going to do it? 1t was hard time
for the commission to work without
the department records at hand but
they managed to humble through.
Commissioner Stan HaIvorson got
some butter milk from his EQUITY
Coop to soothe the inflamed stom-
achs, as we viewed beautiful Flathead
Lake.
They stopped at Roman to chat with
Rep. Ray Loman who wanted to know
if a road to open up the county north
of there could be built. There is no
PTW so it probably is an engineering
impossibility.
In Missoula they gave us big feed
at the Florence Hotel. They loved the
commission for the new Higgins Ave
Tue bridge, which is under construc-
ion. The bridge is a mixed blessing
because the initial Golfer dam ex-
posed real problem which must be
corrected Immediately. Twelve sewer
outlets dumping raw sewage into the
Fork revealed a long over
ooked crime against nature by the
enizens of Main Street.
The Interstate had a choice of
OUT either the Greenough
1ansion or the Missoula brewery.
he brewery stays.
Division engineer Buck Dundas t
ook over the tour at Deer Lodge {
here we travelled the Interstate S
hich will soon open to the public. +
d Cowan, head of the Montana Divi- v
on of the Bureau of Public Roads, S
so joined the party. O
We had coffee and wonderful 0
'ughnuts at Anaconda. In Butte.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03

Frank Quinn of MONTANA STAND
ARD, took pix of the commission next
to the structure on Montana Avenue
which has been standing there not
connected to anything for a long
time. The work on the connecting
fill is now underway.
i y - evN
At Dillon where the road project
south of there plus the East Bench
irrigation unit and dam are having
a wonderful effect ON the local econ
omy, Commissioner George Gosman
treated the junket to a roast lamb
dinner. They PROMPTLY dubbed them
selves the mutton head club and had
but praise for the dinner,
which was delicious. The price of
sheep has dropped probably because
of poor cooks more than the impact
IF synthetic fibers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03

The function of is $50 afflct the comfort
able and comfort the afflicted SIR WILLMOTT
LEWIS London TIMES Washington correspondent during
the 1940s.