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come of the case as a great victory
for the government and telephone
users, even though the heart of the
case had been cut out, Holifield re-
minded the House.
He went into numerous other de-
tails to show how government agen-
cies have allowed the arms of the
telephone octopus to spread wider,
without real regulation. Then the
monopoly-fighting congressman said:
''This is only one example of our
retreat from competition and the So
called free enterprise system. Other
great segments of business have, for
all practical purposes, deserted the
principle of real competition. We can
point to similar situations in steel,
rubber, chemicals, petroleum prod
ucts and finance.
eve have been told that our
economy and progress have been
based on competitive efforts in
free enterprise system. But,
throughout our land, we can see
pattern of monopoly, managed
prices, collusive agreements and
rugged bidding. Profits no longer
are based primarily on efficiency of
production and distribution, but
upon elimination of competition
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28
Boomers Ferry, Idaho,
Reduces Rates
American Public Power Association

American Public Power Association
The electric department at Boomers
Ferry, Idaho, has announced rate
reduction which is expected to save
consumers about $4,000 year.
Percentage-wise, urban residential
consumers will save $50 under the
new rates; rural residential, 10.3 ;
commercial, $3.50; commercial water
and space heating, 1880; industrial,
1885,; and irrigation and drainage
pumping, 1900.
The end rate for urban and rural
residential consumption has been re-
duced from one cent to mills per
XVIII, and all demand charges have
been removed from these charges.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28
TVA-A MONUMENT
TO NORRIS PERSISTENCE


But Norris great achievement
aside from the REA, is the Tennessee
Valley Authority, the worlds great
est natural resource enterprise, adj
mired and copied in a score of nations
as living demonstration of economic
democracy at work.
T. r. shares credit for this one.
For in 1908 the young President de-
cided to end the wholesale giveaway
of natural power sites which had
quietly been going on, and his first
ringing veto was of bill that would
have given away the Muscle Shoals
site.
Later a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES plant
was begun there for World War l.,
and after the war the Harding and
Coolidge administrations tried re-
peatedly to give it away. Norris
fought throughout for public develop
ment. He had two bills vetoed, by
Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. Fin
ally, he stood at F.D.R.'s side when
the latter signed the IVA act, and
gave Norris the pen.
The author of all these great works
was born on thin-soiled Ohio farm
in the midst of the Civil War which
claimed his only brother; his father
died when he was four. Mother Norris
and brood of sisters labored to-
gether to work the farm.
George Norris never knew anything
but hard work. At 16 he was teaching
pupils both larger and older than he.
He worked his way through what is
now Valparaiso University in Indiana,
tried the far frontier in Washington
State, came back as far as Nebraska
where he settled down to practice
law, and became district judge.
When the Republican leaders
sought an honest and popular young
to wrest congressional
seat from the Populists, Norris did
it. For several years he was just
another prairie congressman. But he
never stopped growing.
He served in Congress almost 40
years in all. He was the last of the
great agrarian senators or the first
one of the goth Century-or a mix
bure. With other "sons of the wild
jackass' he opposed World War |.
But most of these SO named in scorn
by New England conservative, made |
heir regulations solely by opposition,
whereas Norris opposed only to build.
And he laid stones into the founda-
ion of the Republic that will last for
,ur time, and that of the nation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28
Malaga To Double Number
Of co-ops In 5 Years

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
The number of co-operatives in Ma
laya will increase from 2,70O to $500
in the next five years under new
coop development plan, the Malayan
embassy reports. This will include
credit societies, processing and mar
keting co-ops, and consumer co-ops.
All will be inter-related and inter
dependent.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28

The printing crafts provide a large
field of employment for skilled work
ers in the United States. In 1858,
about 100000 workers were en-
ployed as compositors, typesetters,
photographers, electrotypers, stereo-
typers, pressmen, photographic work
ers, and bookbinders, the U. S. Labor
Departments Occupational Outlook
Handbook states.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28
One of Greatest Statesmen :. /.
1861 Is Norris Centenary
of Greatest Statesmen
BY ROSCOE FLEMING. Denver

By ROSCOE FLEMING, Denver
This year is the centenary
OF one of Americas greatest
statesmen. His friends, and
those of his achievements, are
observing it.
He was George William Nor
ris-"Norris of Nebraska. He
was plain, farmerish-looking
man, whose wife had to hide
his old Sunday suit, to get
him into a new one.
He was born July IL, 1861. His
centennial, under a committee of
sponsors headed by Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, is to be celebrated in
Washington in mid-May.
AS with the centenary two years
ago of Theodore Roosevelt-his fore
runner and frequent ally-some ele-
ments are ignoring the occasion
They're the ones the two men fought
in behalf of the people.
Only T.R. and Franklin D. Roose-
welt may have matched Norris in &C
complishment. Certainly the latter
got more actually done than any
other senator of the Goth Century.
1t was only jealousy that kept him
off chosen list of five greatest u. S.
Senators, and in actual deeds he out
matched any who were chosen.
AUTHORED REA ACT
He fought for farmers co-opera-
tives, eliminating in his authorship
of the Rural Identification Act
after, SO most people have forgotten,
the private power industry had been
offered low-cost federal loans to
electrify the farms, and had scorn-
fully turned the opportunity down.
He wrote the constitutional amend
ment that abolished the ridiculous
and harmful 'lame duck" session of
an old Congress altar a new one had
been elected, with all the opportuni-
ties for deals and trades.
Getting this one took only seven
Congressional sessions-which was
about par for Norris. He hung on
like bulldog to any cause in which
he believed, and none of his victories
came easily.
He got Nebraskans to adopt the
one-house legislature, and to make
a whole public-power province out of
their state, with no private suppliers.
After witnessing at first hand the
oppression of labor, largely through
the medium of injunctions granted at
the drop of petition by complaisant
judges, he and Fiorello LaGuardia
got the law which has been called
'labor's magma carta". This took only
seven years.
Norris first came to national no.
tice as the maverick Congressman
who in 1910 unseated Speaker Joe
Cannon as the "czar" of the House,
with more power over legislation than
any President In history's irony the
chairman of the Rules Committee
later became "czar' in turn-and
so years later the House transferred
some power back. Both acts however
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28

Complaints have been reaching THE VOICE for time
that Montana Powers natural isn't "hot it
before the began importing Canadian gas there
substantial around that have
by at least large industrial which concusivey
that the BTU of the down-although
responding reduction in rates thousand cubic have
been put into effect by the utility
This would appear matter we'll thorough
cation by the Public Service Commsson.-HLB
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28

| WASHINGTON, ID. c. LABOR)
Many important and significant
developments in the u. S. Congress
get little or no mention in the daily
papers. A remarkable example is a
major floor speech made by Con-
gresham Chef Holifield (D-Calif.) /,
chairman of the Senate-House Atom
ic Energy Committee.
In that capacity, and also as a
member of the Government Opera
tions Committee and as an old foe
of monopoly, Holifield is specially
interested in "space age" develop
ments which, on one hand, require
huge government subsidies, and on
the other hand, offer opportunities
for widening old monopolies and Gre
ating new ones.
The outstanding situation in this
field, Holifield told the House, con-
Germs the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co.-the gigantic "Bell
Telephone Trust which almost COM
pletely monopolizes the telephone in
dustry and largely controls world
communications systems.
SEES WORLDWIDE GRAB
Holifield pointed out that AT&T
sis now seeking to further expand
it's monopolistic advantages by ex-
GLIDING competition in the upcoming
area of space communication. AT&T
has made proposals to the Federal
Communications Commission and the
National Space nd Aeronautics
Agency which, if approved, would
give it worldwide monopoly in voice
communication through the use of
space satellites
Creation of this new monopoly,
with help from subsidies by the tax
payers, Holifield said, would add
another immense field in which the
government and other local and
long-distance telephone users are
at the mercy of communications
octopus which is practically unregu-
lated by any government agency.
Holifield went into details about
the continuous failure of the FEC
to do it's duty of regulating AT&T
rates and practices. The only time
it did SO, he said, was on one occasion
when it was forced to by the General
Services Administration, and as re-
suit "the government and other con-
sumers saved hundreds of millions
of dollars.
AS a further example of how the
government has failed to protect the
people against the greed of the Tele-
phone Trust, Holifield recalled the
Justice Departments famous anti
trust case against AT&T. When that |
case ended several years ago, LABOR
said the Settlement was a fake. |
Now that charge is sustained by Holt
field.
He recalled that, when it was
started during the Truman Admins
tration, the ''heart'' Of the case was
the attempt to compel divorce be-
tween AT&T and it's big subsidiary,
Western Electric, which had COM
olete monopoly on manufacture of all
telephone equipment used by the
Telephone Trust. Hence, no other
no matter how much
over prices he offered, could sell any
equipment to ATT, and this cost
he government and other telephone
lsers dearly.
HoIifield further recalled that,
under the Eisenhower Administra-
ton, this huge antitrust case was
Settled" by the Justice Depart
ment by court consent decree,
which not only left the AT&T-
Western Electric monopoly COM
bine undisturbed, but actually
legalized and strengthened it. In
return for this favor, AT&T made
some patent concessions which,
Holifield said, were practically
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28
APPROVE BOND ISSUES

WASHINGTON, d. C.-More than
So billion in bond issues were APP
proved by voters across the nation in
recent general election.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28

were to help enable the peoples
elected representatives, finally to
pass on public matters.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-04-28

'HEART' CUT OUT
Most daily papers hailed the out
Evening star., 1961-04-08

bloom every year?
Answer. Unfortunately,
there are many that only
bloom every other year.
Evening star., 1961-04-08

Both vines and ground
covers can play an i'm
portant part in foundation
paintings, but they must be
selected carefully and used
appropriately.
Vines Of various sorts may
be featured on masonry
walls. It is best to keep
them separate from frame
houses by trellises or other
supports, so they will not
interfere with painting from
time to time.
Certain vines, such as
English Ivy and Winter
creeper Euonymus may be
used as espaliered plants.
Other faster growing vines,
such as Boston Ivy and
Virginia Creeper, do not lend
themselves we'll to such for
NAL use. The latter should
be allowed to ramble and
may be kept from getting
too far afield by occasional
trimming.
An English Ivy vine also
Evening star., 1961-04-08
Foundation Vines;
Ground Covers
By GEORGE {. CREED
Contributing Writer

can be used In a foundation
planting. Trained to q def
mite form. 1t fills an i'm
portant role that is main
tanned by clipping two or
three times a year.
Grows at Rendom
Lows Japanese Creeper
may be allowed to grow at
random on the face Of q
masonry wall. Even II used
only as an adjunct Of the
other foundation paintings
its interlacing stems and
leaves form q pleasing, ma
tural pattern adorning the
wall on whic;> 1t grows.
Various low growing
ground covers such as Eng
lish Ivy. Myrtle. Pachysan-
dra. Bearberry. PROSTATE
forms of Juniper and Coton-
easter are very valuable in
foundation paintings.
These are particularly In
Evening star., 1961-11-12

brick all over the campus, and
there are more units to come.
In ceremonies Wednesday,
four American cardinals, the
Apostolic Delegate to the
United States and a former
rector of the university will
give their blessings to six new
buildings costing about $4 nil
lion. The additions include a
three-building complex for en-
gineering. architecture, biology
and nursing.
The other three buildings are
residence halls. Two more resi-
dence halls and a dining cen
ter are planned for use next
year.
Better Morale Noted
"The increase in morale has
become tremendous. People
have been coming to me with
unsolicited comment" reported
the Right Rev. Msgr. william
j. Mcdonald, the rector.
The largest and most ex-
pensive Of the six additions is
the SIS million Thomas w.
Pangborn Building for engi-
neering and architecture. which
will be, blessed by Francis
Cardinal Spellman Of New
York.
The five-story structure
houses the largest Catholic
graduate engineering school in
the country, and was fully oc-
cupied for the first time this
fall. Among its assets are a
$3.50, 900 nuclear research re-
actor.
Across the way is the new
$685., 900 biology building, with
closely integrated laboratory,
office and library facilities.
Even the rabbits and chickens
used for research are housed
in air-conditioned comfort.
James Francis Cardinal Nc
Intyre of Los Angeles will dedi-
cate this facility.
The $730,000 Nursing Build
ing, where Joseph Cardinal
Ritter of st. Louis will officiate,
completes the complex off Sew
enth street and Michigan ave-
nue. NE. Nurses taking grad
uate study formerly used class
rooms wherever they were
available.
Richard Cardinal Cushing Of
Evening star., 1961-11-12

ects have been completed in the
construction boom.
The new look" on the cam
pus is a major effort, Msgr.
Mcdonald said, to meet the
needs in the decade for further
ing the university's original
primary objective - first-rate
graduate learning.
A full two-thirds of the uni
versity's enrolment of 4,70O are
graduate students.
Pressure for graduate admis-
sion is mounting, according to
Msgr. Mcdonald. The univer-
sity has increased graduate en-
rollment by 100 annually over
the last three years. Two out
of five Of TOO engineering stu
dents are graduates, "an extra
ordinary ratio" said Dean Dom
aid Marlowe.
There are important by
products of the building pro-
gram, including benefits to the
undergraduate department. The
new facilities make the univer-
sity more attractive for lead
ing academic talent.
And, said Msgr. Mcdonald,
"some scientists come out at
night Just because they like to
use our lab facilities"
Evening star., 1961-11-12
Home Accidents
Kill 5 in Week

Five area people died last
week as a result of home acci-
dents, the District Red Gross
Safety Services reports.
Two elderly women died after
falls, and three infants died of
suffocation.
In all, 149 persons were
treated in local hospitals for
injuries as a result of home
accidents, the Red Cross said,
including a 3-year-old boy who
was bitten by a black widow
spider.
This weeks accidents bring
the 1861 total to date to 1888,
as opposed to 6,410 last year,
and 128 deaths, against last
years 126.
Evening star., 1961-11-12

with a novel plan for electing
its eight Congressman next year
as against the present nine. 1t
calls for each Of the present
nine districts to nominate a
candidate in the first primary,
and then the nominees must
run in a Statewide primary.
The top eight in the Statewide
vote will be in; the 9th will
be out.
Studies Being Made
In Illinois, with its seats re-
duced from Is to "A, the Leg
islature has adjourned until
Tuesday while a conference
committee tries to work out a
compromise. Republicans con-
troll the Senate and Democrats
hold the House.
Kentucky will consider the
question at a January session.
It's seats are cut from 8 to Z.
In Massachusetts,, whose
House membership will be re-
duced from IA to IL, a special
legislative commission is study
ing the question.
Minnesota's delegation is re-
duced from 9 to 8. A spe-
cial session Of the Legislature
is a possibility for December or
January.
Mississippi's six Democratic
seats will be reduced to five. A
January session will consider
the matter.
legislative Action Planned
In Pennsylvania, whose dele
cation is sliced from 80 to 81,
Gov. David Lawrence says he
will call a special session late
this month or early December
if the two parties can reach an
agreement.
Pennsylvania G. o. P. leaders
have insisted that one seat
should be taken from Philadel-
phia, which now has six seats,
all Democratic. Representative
William Green. Philadelphia
Democratic chairman has re-
fused to go along with this.
proposing instead that some
suburban townships be added
to Philadelphia districts to
bring the average population up.
Five Of the nine States that
gain un d er reapportionment
have rediStricted. but a Mary
land plan is subject to a refer
endum vote in 1862. The four
States that have not reappor-
toned are Hawaii, Michigan.
Ohio and Texas. Each gains
a seat and candidates for the
new memberships are expected
to run at large.
On the basis of past perform
ances, Democrats stand to lose
some 13 seats in Alabama,
Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi,
Missouri and New York, while
gaining a possible IL in Cali
fornia, Florida and New Jersey.
Republicans could lose three
in Maine, Nebraska and West
Virginia while gaining five in
New York and perhaps one or
two in Florida. Elsewhere
there's no pattern for judgment.
Evening star., 1961-11-12

Boston will dedicate a $500, 900
residence for nuns. The Most
Rev. Egidio Vagnozzi, the ApoS-
tolic Delegate, will bless a new
mems residence, and the Most
Rev. Bryan j. McEntegart, for
mer rector, a women's resi-
dence on Brookland avenue.
The ceremonies will mark a
silver anniversary for Msgr.
Mcdonald, who came to study
at the university Is years ago
almost to the day. He has been
hard at work on the building
program since becoming rector
in 1857. Eleven building prof.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
Jewish Book Month

The Mems Club Of the
Tifereth Israel Congregation
will discuss Jewish-authored
literature in observance of Jew
ish Book Month at the groups
monthly meeting. $3.50 pm.
Wednesday, at the congrega-
ton, Sixteenth and Juniper
streets NV.
Evening star., 1961-11-12

when such States as Illinois
Pennsylvania and Massachu.
sets solve their redistrictine
problems.
Right now. a very iffy esti-
mate indicates Republicans
may gain 2 or 3 while Demo
Gratis lose a like number.
Sixteen States lose 81 seats
and o States gain 10 under the
1860 census. States that lose
seats and fail to redistrict will
have to have all their House
candidates run at large in 1862
The new reapportionment act
adopted Friday by the Repub-
lican-dominated New York leg
islature seemed to have tipped
the scales toward the G. o. p
in weighing the net effect oi
redistricting. now accomplished
by IA Of the Is States af-
fected.
Loss In New York
The New York law is cal
culated to eliminate 7 Demo
cratic House incumbents and
give the Republicans an in
crease Of 5 seats. If 1t sur
mounts possible court chal-
lenge, it will largely offset the
gain Of 8 seats the Democrats
hope to accomplish under
California law adopted by q
Democratic legislature.
New York loses two seats
under the 1860 reapportion-
ment because its population
growth didn't keep pace with
the rest Of the Nation. Cali
fornia gains eight seats. Some
California Republicans ever
predict that the Democrats
might pick up more than eight
through the redrawing Of dis
trict lines.
Cries of "gerrymander,
Chinese wall" and railroad
have echoed across the land
as varying plans were put for
ward to chart the wiggly lines
Of new districts to favor one
party or the other.
Angry California Republi-
cans charged railroad" wher
the Democratic Legislature put
through a plan creating five
new districts in Southern Cali
fornia and three in Los An
geles County. Democrats re-
piled 1t was a lot fairer thar
the redictricting 10 years age
when the G.. o. P. controlled
the Legislature.
1t was the Republicans who
cheered in New York, although
a few Of them had some mis-
givings about the long-range
political effects. New York
Democrats attacked the plan
reducing the States districts
from 43 to II as "a massive
assault on the Kennedy ad-
ministration."
OF the 16 States that lose
seats after next years elec-
tions, nine have redictricted
The seven which have not are
Illinois, Kentucky, Massachu-
sets, Minnesota, Mississippi
Pennsylvania and Alabama.
Alabama, however, came ur
Evening star., 1961-11-12
GO. P. Seems Fovored
BY Redistricting Plan
BY d. HAROLD OLIVER
Associated Press stan Writer

Republicans appear to have the edge far in the
drawing Of congressional district boundaries made
by shifts in population.
As of now. Republicans stand to from the multi
State with slight net gain In House seats while the
Democrats small net loss That could change however
Evening star., 1961-11-12
Catholic U. Dedicotes
6 Buildings "Wednesday
BY DAVID BREASTED
Star Staff Writer

The spirit of everybody from deans to white rabbits
the rise at Catholic University Six for the
optimism will be dedicated Wednesday.
Faculty and students working and living in the light
airy environment created by continuing SO million con-
srucon The results stand in sleek glass
Evening star., 1961-11-12

SHOP EARLY SHOP LATE MONDAY
Menaen zh 9th Ess
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05

AMELIA. Dec. 4-The Amelia
County Garden Club will present
christmas Around Our Town
in the Memorial Library in the
Jackson Building here on Thurs
dav, December z, from 2 to 9
pm.
Mrs. l.. NJ. SandersOn and
Mrs. Irving r. Morris are co
chairmen for the show which
will feature an artistic and a
horticulture division. also 4 divi-
sion for juniors.
Other COMMITTEES for the show
are: schedule. Mrs. R. Elmer
Parsons: entries, Mrs w. H. Ell
lett and Mrs. C C. Wingo: elias
sifications, Mrs. William B. JEFF
ferson and Miss Mary Sheppard,
judges, Mrs. E. H. Burke; hos
pitality. Mrs. H. C. Rucker. Mrs.
Harvey W. ellis and Mrs. S. v.
Wheeler.
Also, publicity, Mrs. George
Jones and Mrs. James 7. o.
Neal: dismantling, Mrs. James
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
Riverside Farm
HOlsteinS On
Official Test

AMELIA. Dec 1.-The 22-cow
registered Holstein herd of River
side Farm. of Amelia, has been
enrolled in Dairy Herd Improve
ment Registry testing.
The program is the newest and
fastest growing of three official
prediction testing plans conduct
ed by The Holstein- Friesian AS
ISOLATION Of America in coopera-
ton with the state agricultural
colleges.
Popularity known as DHIR, it
was laurched in 1856 as a means
Of incorporating the DHIA rec
ords Of registered Holstein cows
INTO the official breed improve
ment work of the national Hol-
stein organization.
Under the plan. the 3O5-day and
complete lactation records of
every registered Holstein COW in
participating herds are forward
ed to the Association office.
DHIA central processing lab
OratOry.
Resulting data is published as
ready reference in breed i'm
provement and used in Silver
Medal Production Sire, Gold
Medal Dam and Progressive
Breeders Registry recogm-
items.