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Evening star., 1961-03-07
Reasonable DeodIine
Urged ON AT est Halt

, Geneva negotiations with Brit.
ain and the Soviet Union begin
March 81.
The United States and Great
Britain reached full agreement
late last week on the opening
position they will take at the
test talks.
In the past the United States
has sought 20 on-site inspec-
tions each year inside the Soviet
Union to check unidentified
underground events and verify
that the treaty ban has not
been violated. The Soviet Union
so far has offered to permit
only three a year.
Self Inspection Sought
Kremlin negotiators have
sought to establish such stiff
criteria for dispatching the in
spectors that. few events could
be investigated. They also have
sought what amounts to self
inspection by demanding that
key members Of the inspection
team be from the home country.
Up to now the United States
weapons designers have been
busy applying the knowledge
they acquired from the last
series Of American tests in the
Pacific and in Nevada in 1858.
There has been some concern
that morale" of scientists
designing the weapons will be
affected by the long moratorium
and that key experts may leave
the program.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
NegroI'Stdbbed
During 'Sit-In'
BY the Associated Press

A white man stabbed a
Negro yesterday during a sit-in
at a segregated lunch counter
in Columbia. S. c., where q
recent wave Of demonstrations
has resulted in disorders and
arrests.
The unidentified white man
melted away in the crowd and
the Negro. Lennie Glover of
Adah, Pa. a student at Bene-
dict College, was taken to a
hospital in critical condition.
The white man asked Mr..
Glover, Are you having any
fun?" just before stabbing him
in the ribs, officers said.
Talk Cancelled
In New York, John Ciardi,
poetry editor of the Saturday
Review and a member TO the
Rutgers University faculty, said
he had been Cancelled out as
a speaker at the Alabama Edu-
cation Association convention
in Birmingham next week.
At Birmingham, a White cit
liens Council chapter distrib-
uted letters protesting Mr..
Evening star., 1961-03-07
House Votes Boost
In Medal Pensions
~ the Associated Prem

The House has voted to in
crease from $40 to 500 per
month the pension for Medal
Of Honor winners.
The measure sent to the Sen
ate yesterday also would permit
payment at any age instead oi
requiring winners Of this Ma
tion's highest decoration to
wait until age IS to collect.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
Bills on Virgin Islands
And Guam Hit Snoo

Bills to allow Guam and the
Virgin Islands. to send non.vot-
ing delegates to Congress were
blocked, at least temporarily,
by Representative Rogers, Dem
ocrat Of Texas, in a House In
terror subcommittee today.
Mr.. Rogers objected to NOV
ing the proposals on to the
full committee on the technical
grounds that a quorum was not
present. But his real questions
were whether the legislation
was a wedge toward statehood
and what the territories would
accomplish by q talking, nom
voting delegate.
Territorial spokesmen in
Evening star., 1961-03-07

have to be made by the Presi-
dent"
Senator Hart, Democrat of
Michigan, commented that laws
intended to keep big business
from destroying competition
might also endanger the sur
vival Of small business. In
some cases, he noted, the sur
vival of small business seemed
possibly only If small plants
merged. He asked If mergers
could ever improve the level of
competition.
Evening star., 1961-03-07

was not familiar with the case
When he was asked by Sem
ator Keating what he would
do If he should find that
foreign policy considerations
were involved in an antitrust
queS on, Mr.. Loevinger
promptly replied, I'D talk to
the Attorney General"
When Senator Heating asked
If he would recommend any
course Of action, Mr.. Loevinger
said, I'm just a small-town
boy. Those are decisions that
Evening star., 1961-03-07

sisted there was no statehood
sentiment in either the Virgin
Islands or Guam. Eventually
the American citizens who live
there probably would like tc
elect their own governors, now
federally appointed.
egg without Salt"
why don't you ask for ar
elected governor" Mr.. Rogers
asked. Having q non-votine
delegate in Congress Is like
having an egg without salt"
Like District officials, ter
ritorial officers are seeking
House representation without
q vote.
Unlike the District, the Vir-
gin Islands and Guam conceiv.
ably could become States under
the Constitution. Also, resi-
dents Of the Virgin Islands and
Guam elect their own LegiSla-
lures.
O'Brien Injects Quip
Mr.. Rogers suggested that the
Interior Committees in Con-
gress took good care Of the
territories.
"Too good" snapped Sub
committee Chairman O'Brien
Democrat Of New York. my
opponent in the last election
kept promising the voters he
would go to Washington to
represent Albany, not Alaska
I'd like to speak more about
deepening rivers and less about
territorial problems"
His Texas colleague noted
that Mr.. O'Brien, not his oppo.
nent, was sent back to Congress.
"Yes," Mr.. O'Brien said: But
he upset me-"
Evening star., 1961-03-07
To Review Book

Dr.. William A. Opel, assistant
rector Of All Saints Episcopal
Church, Chevy Chase circle
NV, will review Eugene Wales
novel, "The Thirteenth Apos-
tle," at II am. Thursday at the
church.
Evening star., 1961-03-07
Senators Get
Trust Views
NLoeViinger

The Justice Department has
no objection to releasing wit
ness lists and the mass of docu-
ments collected in its investiga-
tion Of the heavy electrical
industry, but the presiding
judge in the big antitrust case
considers the release improper,
the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee was told today.
Lee Loevinger, questioned at
the hearing on his nomination
to be Assistant Attorney Cen
eral in charge Of the Anti
Trust Division, explained that
the subpoenas are not conf
dental, but they have been i'm
pounded. and the Justice De-
partment does not want to be
in contempt by supplying them
against the judges wishes.
He said that If State attor-
neys general and the Senate
Anti Monopoly Subcommittee
will file motions in Federal
Court in Philadelphia to in
spect the records, the Govern
ment will notify the court that
the Justice Department does
not object to the disclosure.
QQuestiOns by Kefauver
Questions about the material
were posed by Senator Kefauver,
Democrat Of Tennessee, chair
man of the Anti-Monopoly Sub
committee. His group has been
trying to get the material to
reopen its inquiry into the
electrical industry. Senator
Kefauver pointed out that with
the pleas of guilty the conspir-
acy charges against the giants
Of the industry never got a
public airing.
Some States have been trying
to get the material for their
own treble damage suits, in
which they plan to allege that
the conspiracy to fix prices in
the industry made cities and
States pay higher prices for
major power projects.
Mr.. Loevinger said after the
hearing that about 10000 doc
uments are involved in the
case, a lot Of which he described
as garbage"
Transcripts Not Asked
Mr.. Loevinger emphasized at
the hearing that the Justice
Department had not received
any requests for the grand jury
minutes.
He said that as q result Of
many requests, Chief Judge j.
Cullen Ganey Of District Court
in Philadelphia had been ap-
preached informally about the
witness lists and other non
confidential but impounded
records and the judge had ex-
pressed disapproval of releasing
them.
II don't think the Justice
Department should be put in
the position of going against
the court" he said. If the
question is put before the court
by way Of motions we will say
we have no objection and the
court would have an oppor-
tunity to act"
Mr.. Loevinger was asked for
his opinions on a wide range
Of antitrust matters, ranging
from oil cartelS IN Saudi Arahia
to restrictive covenants.
Covenants Under Study
To q question posed by
Senator Keating. Republican
Of New York, about the posi-
BILE antitrust violations in
volved in restrictive covenants
in real estate, Mr.. Loevinger
replied he had asked a member
Of the Justice Department staff
to look into this question.
Senator Kefauver raised the
question about oil cartelS and
quoted former Senator O'Mah-
oney Of Wyoming as indicating
his belief that the State De-
partment had kept the Justice
Department from moving over
seas in its investigation Of oil
cartelS. Mr.. Loevinger said he
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21
Unions Vote To Invest
ST Billion In Housing

BAL HARBOUR, Fla CNS)-
AFL-CIO labor union officials have
told their investment director to help
U. S. unions build low and middle in
come homes and voted to invest 81
billion in government-guaranteed
mortgages.
George Meany, president of Ameri-
can Federation of Labor-C Congress of
Industrial Organizations, said union
investments would have only two
conditions: homes must be available
to anyone on nonsegregated basis
and be built with union labor.
Meany said investment of union
pension and welfare funds in housing
would help Stimulate the sagging
economy and ease housing shortages.
Three unions international Ladies
Garment Workers Union, Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers, and Inter-
Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers-have already made large
investments in cooperative housing.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21
Federal Government

easy to find those stories in the
papers.
The convention passed committee
reports urging an about effort be
made to amend the unemployment
compensation and workmen's COM
pensation provisions passed at the
last session of the legislature; that
they work for national legislation that
will provide federal aid to education
and medical care for the aged, and
national programs that will meet the
unemployment situation and strength
en- the nation economically.
Committee chairmen were William
Brown, Missoula, resolutions; Glen
Mclaughlin, Bonner, organization;
Clarence Nelson, Bonner, legislation,
and George Eldridge, Seeley Lake,
bylaws.
Other speakers and honored guests
included Allie Cole, Carpenters init.
Rep; VIM. Ransbottom, bus. repre-
sentative, North Idaho Eastern Wash
ington District Council; Earl Hart
ley, Western Council executive secre-
bary; Joe Crosswhite, vice president
of the Montana AFL-CIO and bust
ness representative of the Operating
and Bernhard Merkle,
state president, Council of Carpen-
ers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21
GIN Passenger Service
Featured In Current
MODERN MONTANA

MISSOULA - The July-August
MODERN MONTANA has articles on
uranium mining in Wyoming, on the
raising of mice at the Rocky Noun
tain Laboratory in Hamilton, and on
the vanishing passenger trains, ac-
cording to A. E. Allen, publisher.
The train article has photos of
the Great Northern's passenger serv-
ice from Great Falls to Butte-the
service that is now running on bor-
rowed time pending an ICC decision.
The article also has map of railroad
passenger service in Montana forty
years ago, compared TO today. Forty
years ago you could ride as a pas
senger on such Montana railroads as
the Gilmore & Pittsburgh and the
White Sulphur Springs & Yellowstone
Park Railway, not to mention the
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific.
The magazines Slow News column
chides the newspapers for not carry
ing enough information about neigh
boring states. 1T notes that they carry
the trivia Of state, national, and in
ternational news, but "neighboring
places like Wyoming, or British Co.
lumbia, might as we'll be on the dark
side of the MOON.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21
Want To Join Peace Corps?
Here Is How 1t Shapes Up
From THE MACHINIST

OuI uiOuAlo 05O5 iSSA0>AS $500
nedy signed an executive order Great
ing new kind of foreign aid. Since
then. more than 1900 men and
women, ranging in age from 18 to
80 have volunteered to leave COM
Portable homes, go to foreign lands,
live under primitive conditions and
for practically no pay at all
serve in the Peace Corps.
So far Tin early JULY only 1873
have been selected. Their ages run
from 10 to 80. All have been to col
lege. Twenty-Five are women, the
rest men. One married couple is IN
the group. All the others are single.
They are now in training on U. S.
college campuses.
By September, says Director Sarg-
emit Shriver, the Peace Corps will be-
gin assigning the trained volunteers
to some of the following projects:
Tanganyika-Thi new southeast
African nation will achieve its full
independence in December. Its chief
crops are sisal, cotton and coffee.
Lack of adequate roads makes it
difficult to get crops to market.
Forty Peace Corps volunteers
are training at Texas Western College
in Ell Paso. Twenty eight of them will
go to Tanganyika later this fall for
a two-year period to survey farm-to
market roads and to assist in road
construction and geological mapping.
Colombia-Eighty Peace Corps vol
unteers, most of whom speak Span
ish. are now in training at Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, N. j.
They will go to Colombia this fall to
help build roads, to construct small
community schools, to dig wells, to
raise small farm animals, to set up
recreational areas for children and
10 participate in other programs to
raise living standards in rural COM
CARE will donate tools and
equipment.
Chile-A village development pro-
gram similar to that in Colombia is
planned in Chile, land of 100000
along the western coast of South
America.
Forty Peace Corps volunteers, yet
10 be chosen, will work in Chilean
villages, giving practical demonstra
ions in cultivation, horticulture, ami
nal vaccination, small animal hus-
,andry, family education, home eco
lomics, health education, and child
,are.
Philippines - Beginning in early
October, Peace Corps volunteers will
20 to the Philippines to serve as
aides in elementary
schools. Their primary assignment
will be to improve instruction of |
English and general science.
By next summer, 800 Peace Corps |
will be on duty in the |
working under the super
'ision of the Filipino Bureau of Pub
ic Schools.
St. Lucia West Indies Federation) |
Twelve Peace Corps volunteers
Inder the supervision of the non
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21
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The truth of the notice was appreci-
ated by the townspeople who wit
messed sharp decline in business
both from the surrounding area and
the tourists.
Eastern Montanans would do we'll
if they would pin the hope of brighter
futures for their towns upon an ex-
banded primary system which would
bring the traffic in front of their
business houses. While the Interstate
seems to be quick and cheap 100
per cent federal participation) means
to get people into the area it may
not truly serve the needs and pur-
poses of their towns.
Congressman Battin's bills are
only an easy way out-for himself.
Ifs
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tect itself in national politics. He
enumerated the benefits of political
activity in the past election that led
to the election of President Kennedy
and told the sawmill workers that
the extension of unemployment COM
pensation alone was worth the dollar
contribution many times over.
Because of political losses on
the state level, the COPE director
said 1--WE changed from a good un-
employment compensation law to
one of the worst in the nation.
Kenneth Davis, Portland, Oregon,
west coast co-ordinator, United Broth
erhood of Carpenters, said labor
should take positive leadership, not
negative, and labor should decide if
labor leaders are guilty of crimes,
not Senator Mcclellan or Mccarthy.
He said the Justice Department
auditors have stated Lumber and
Sawnill Workers and Carpenters
Union books are the best kept of
any union or corporation they have
ever checked.
210o-TO-ONE
Also, Davis said, 21OO employers
have violated federal law to every
one labor union member, but it isn't |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21

electric power of all but two states
in this nation. Before Alaska be-
came a state there was only one
other state with more power poten-
tial than Montana, he said.
"No one should control use of the
rivers any more than they should
control use of our lakes, Harlow
stated.
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nesses there will be testimony by
professionals experts and company
cross examination.
Difficulties arise for professionals
such as their valiant, if vain attempts
to secure copies of the company's
federal income tax records. In what
will probably be the final attempt
to secure these records, and their
third failure, consumer attorney c..
w. Leaphart, Jr., attempted to secure
the records of the Altana Company,
a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mon
tana Power. The commission denied
the request. They had made attempts
earlier to get the income tax returns
of the Montana Power Company and
were refused by the commission.
The air was charged for a few
minutes Wednesday morning, when
following the denial of Leaphart's re-
quest, Leo Graybill, Jr., asked that
Company Treasurer J. ]. Harrington
be subpoenaed for specific question
ing on the income tax question.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21

Union members who wish to APP
ply for Peace Corps service can
obtain application blanks at post
offices everywhere or by writing
to: Peace Corps, Washington rs,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21

figures be stricken from the rec
ord. "How," he asked, "can we
possibly cross-examine on evidence
we don't have? We're going to be
shooting in the dark.
While there is little doubt the
commission will not change it's mind
on it's refusal to demand the income
tax records, the issue will be mat
ter of discussion and argument
through the entire hearing. Tax re-
ceipts offered by Corette earlier in
the hearing as proof of payment of
taxes did not satisfy consumer at
torney Leaphart because they showed
as to how the company ar
rived at it's payment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21
IN ONE WORD, THE
ANSWER is mo"

Corette felt it was entirely proper
and justified for a wholly owned
subsidiary of the power company to
sell gas to the gas company at prof
it and include the charges in the
rate case, statement he made in
answer to Graybills question, eff
you get any cheaper gas from your
explorations would you be willing to
pass it on to Montana consumers or
would you just put it in another
pocket?
Pursuing this thought Graybill
asked where the company got the
money for exploration and retained
earnings, and Corette said from such
items as fast tax write-offs, retained
earnings, rapid amortization of the
consolidated company, etc.
Under cross examination on the
border price of imported Canadian
gas, Corette said the price includes
profits to three firms based on
IN % of their book value. The
three firms are the Alberta and
Southern Company, the purchasing
agent, and two pipelines, the AL
berta Grid Trunkline System and
the Canadian-Montana Company,
the last one Montana Power Com
pany subsidiary.
In setting rates and negotiating
contracts the Montana Power has a
flexible policy that seems to add up
to the fact that those customers who
can choose their fuel supply are the
ones who can bargain with the COM
pany.. 1t was brought out time and
again during Wednesdays sessions
that the company makes notable ex-
captions in the price it charges for
gas at those points where there is
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21

torney Leaphart because they showed
nothing as to how the company ar
rived at it's payment.
PAST MASTERS OF
SLEICHT-O HAND
During the long sessions Of ques-
tioning, it is not always obvious to
the observer what the ultimate aim
of the path of the cross examination,
but many interesting points appear.
The complicated financial structure
which separates Montana Power
Company from it's wholly sub
salaries, for instance, becomes con-
fusing to the lay listener, but there
is the thread which leaves the feel
ing that wherever the Montana Pow
er Company gets involved in profit
able business, it makes subsidiary
out of it and thus has a separate
pocket in which to tuck the profits.
This removes them from the rate
structure and no benefits accrue to
the ratepayers.
The basis for figuring the rate of
return becomes more important to
Montana gas consumers as the hear
ing develops. During cross-examina-
tion of the Montana Power president
Tuesday, protestants' attorneys Leo
Graybill. Jr.. and William Leaphart,
developed the fact that the power
company is exploring for gas in Can
ada through some of it's wholly-owned
Montana ratepayers are financing
DO some extent Montana Powers
gas and oil exploration
operating under the name of Altana
in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In re-
Spouse to questions by Graybill, Com
oany President Corette said sit is
not our thinking ait the present
time" that Altana gas will be used
for Montana consumption. Neither
he profits nor the loss to this sub
;idiary will become part of the Mon
ANA rate base.
At the same time Corette said
money invested in Altana comes
from company profits collected on
their Montana Power Company
operations through retained profits.
In other words, Montana ratepayers
are footing the bill for this Cana
dian development.
While consumer attorneys have |
ouched on the effect of the purchase
# Canadian gas on the development
# Montana oil and gas reserves, and !
Jorette stated his company has Of
cred to buy all the Montana gas
which can be produced, it is expected
his area will be more deeply probed
" other protestants' attorneys and
The charge has been made
hat the Canadian purchase has re-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21
HEALTH, DRAFT AND
RE-EMPLOYMENT

The u. S. Public Health Service
will assume responsibility for the vol
unteer's health needs. Where re-
quired, the Peace Corps will send
out doctors with volunteer teams.
Social Security coverage and life in
surance will be provided.
Service in the Peace Corps does
not exempt anyone from the draft.
Draft deferments, however, will be
possible. Under the bill now in Con-
gress, volunteers will have the same
employment rights after they re-
turn home as do veterans of the mill
tary services. In addition, Career
Planning Board will help returning
volunteers find jobs at home.
At it's recent meeting, the AFL-CIO
executive council urged all u. S.
unions Ito assist in making the Peace
Corps successful and enduring pro-
gram by encouraging volunteers from
labor's ranks"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21
Mohoney Says
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Mahoney said. He made it sound
good to the people of Montana, and
he intended to balance the budget
cat the expense of the school chill
dren".
1t is the schedule that is the
key to financing the states equali-
cation under the foundation pro-
gram. The 1000 references are
meaningless unless the schedule is
realistic. 1000 of nothing, is still
nothing.
Mahoney said that every man and
woman in Montana who is employ
able should be able to work and they
should be protected by safety laws
and reasonable and decent compen-
sation laws.
PEOPLE BEING "SOLD
DOWN THE RIVER"
Harlow said the people fail to get
a full dollars worth of goods when
they spend the dollar. GAS a con-
sumner you are being propagandized
out of your own money and being
sold down the river by yourselves"
he said. ~
Referring specifically to the public
power versus private power situation
in this state, Harlow said Montana
is one of two states where it is not
possible for people to have their own
public power set-up, and yet we have
5he largest amount of potential hydro
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-21
Power Company Adumant Over

tarded development of Montana re-
sources.