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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23

The error of my ways has been
called to my attention via two letters
to the editor of the Voice. One
pointed out that Mrs. Ernie Meath
is the president of the Montana Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs not the
other lady whom l had elevated in
advertantly. Number two was that
the MFWC is the organization which
donated the chapel in the Galen Tu-
berculosis Sanitarium, not the Pro-
fessional and Business Women's
Club. Will the ladies and their or
CARNATIONS please forgive me for
being muddled about their affairs?
After all I am just mere male so
naturally I would be muddled about
matriarchical matters.
But don't discount muddled mat
tiers. Monday night watched mas
ter muddler make money in the cot
tage cheese boxes that were passed
around the Junior High School audi
forum. John Noble and his partner,
Ron Arnold, poured out a muddy
mixture of God and patriotism as a
cure for communism, very much as
the old medicine shows offered crick
water and snake oil to cure all that
ails you.
The pair has been slithering
through Montana in recent weeks.
They move to the next town in the
afternoon and put on the evening
performance to get what milk they
can in the cottage cheese boxes. The
main tenor is to get to the School
conducted the following morning to
see if you can get the hang of spot
ting communists. Voluntary tuition
charges, of course.
Mr.. Noble is very smooth speak
err and did arouse basic bases among
the 800 gathered on the warm June
evening. A series of advertisements
in the Independent Record sponsored
by local business houses and indi-
viduals, who should know better than
to allow themselves to be used by
fearmongers, hailed the arrival of
the new type medicine show.
If more than the 800 of Helena's
$4,000 people had shown up / would
have been rather worried. One of
the most encouraging things that
overheard after the performance was
discussion by two teenage youths
as they walked up Rodney Street.
Their training had already given them
the tools to cope with snake oil gen.
try.
Noble has written two books about
his adventures in Europe. One tells
of his dislike of the penal system and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
Toad Croakings

With due apology to some author un-
known to me 1 take the liberty to
quote: 1.-The toad beneath the harrow
knows exactly where the tooth point
goes; The butterfly beside the road
doth preach contentment to that toad"
When see all the butterflies preach
ing about the glories of freedom in
this leading nation of the free world
I know as does any toad, that they are
preaching through their hat. Certainly
there seems to be freedom for the but
terflies to preach their sermons of
cont en- tment to THE toads The harrow
of exploitation seems to them neces-
sary and useful tool to prepare the
social soil for an abundant and beauti-
full crop. A very consid cradle part of
this crop goes to these stout defenders
of the status quo and the sharp teeth
run beneath the surface. Since the
thoughts of this class of people offer
no threat to things as they are" be-
cause they are rather content with their
own portion, they boast of freedom of
thought They lack bit of having
complete freedom of speech, but in the
main their freedom of thought, speech
and other expression is little hampered
because it is superficial and uncritical
as BELTS butterflies generally.
Ali but what of the toad? Perhaps
he feels more in. an instant than the
butterfly may experience in a lifetime.
Certainly he has a message about that
harrow. Why do we scorn his message!
Why do we call him ugly and the but
terfIy beautiful? Our society is full
of submerged people whom we scorn
and despise. We try to vindicate our
own virtue by comparing it constantly
with those upon whom we have pinned
dad" name The bruised and broken
bodies and minds we so loathe and
carefully keep covered and out of
sight as much as possible, are inarticu-
late victims of our social machinery.
Our freedom is their slavery. Our pleas
ure is their pain. Our beauty is their
ugliness. Our sermons of self righteous
mess and cont entment deny their every
unint elligible croak.
I just happen to be a toad. l may
not have been a toad at birth. Capital
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
Senate Will Probe
Pdekdging of Food

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(NFU)-
Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Michigan)
has launched an investigation of mis-
leading packaging practices which
keep housewives from getting their
moneys worth when grocery shop
ping. The probe will be conducted
under Harris leadership by the Sen
ate Subcommittee on Antitrust and
Monopoly, headed by Estes Kefauver
(D-Tenn.).
Public hearings will start June 27,
but letters are already coming in
from housewives who cite examples
of being cheated by misleading labels,
wrappers, boxes, cans or other con-
tanners.
The core of Harris investigation
will not be increased prices for
food and other household items.
Rather, he will study cases in which
the price has remained the same
while the net weight of contents
has been cut.
For example, jars of baby food
used to contain five ounces, but Hart
has popular jar on which the top
comes down to conceal empty glass
over only a u ounces. To mother
using four jars day, the difference
would amount to 20 pounds year.
Most exhibits in possession of the
committee tell the net contents, but
the information has been moved to
the back of the container or put in
the smallest size of type.
Meanwhile, the farmers share of
each consumers dollar has shrunk
from At cents in 1852, to only 80
cents. National Farmers Union has
already offered to testify in support
of the Senator's study.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
The Readers Forum

ism offered me a chance to be butter
fly. But such a system of exploitation
can. never make all people butterflies
There must be toads to exploit or there
is no use for preachers. What would
lend responsibility to the theory of
contentme emit without victims to be
discomfort? without the Devil it seems
unlikely our God-fearing ministers
would be able to build churches and
keep them filled. Without Russia our
entire free world society would fall
ignominiously on it's silly face.
Do you know what all this stuff
about patriotism and Goodness is be-
ing so fervently preached for? 1t is
butterfly language preaching content
ment to toads. Well, you say you would
rather be a beautiful, respected butter
ilege for the moment. But time changes
fly than an ugly toad. That is your priv
all things, and any system of social
exploitation must inevitably create
more toads who are victims, than but
terflies or beneficiaries. The time APP
proaches when too many toads are Gre
ated and they come to the surface de-
manding that our narrowing be stopped.
I long ago chose to be one with the
toads. Quoting Eugene Debs creed
which I accept as my own, quote:
while there is a lower class, I am
in it;
While there is criminal element, I
am of it;
While there is soul in JAIL I ann not
free"
So much for your freedom HOBART
McKEAN, Circle.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
Misstatement on Mrs.
Meath Corrected
The Peoples Voice:

The Peoples Voice:
Referring to your story about Hat
field in your June 16 issue, if the per-
son who wrote that hard troubled him
self to get the facts, he would have
known that Mrs. Ernie Meath, not
Mrs. Bell, is the president of the State
Federation of Womens Clubs.
Also, Mrs. Meath and Mrs. Bell ap-
peared before the Board of Examiners
as official repres entatives of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, not to
plead for the reinstatement of Hat
field, but to protest the abolition of
the position of business manager for
the Galen institution. They made it
plain to the members of the board that
no personalities were involved.
And so far as Mr.. Meath is concerned,
he is a Democrat, and always has been
Very truly yours.-W. w. CASPER,
Helena.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23

Speaking about the appropriation
as passed at the last legislative ses-
sion. Renne said it should be re-
membered that the cut in the college
budget was not based on what was
requested, but cut from the actual
appropriation of two years ago. He
said Montana is the only state in the
80 he has knowledge of that gave
less money to it's university system
than it received two years ago.
The MISC president expressed his
appreciation to the Bozeman labor
movement for their cooperation in
the matter of working out the budget
for maintenance employees in line
with the appropriation allowed by
the legislature. "Bozeman labor CO.
operation has been splendid" he
said, ''they have been most co-opera.
tive and we have been proud of our
relations with the unions here over
the years..
Renne told the labor delegates he
thought taxes have to be related TO
the services received for them and
he said educating our children is de-
veloping a great human resource
and should be considered investing
in an asset rather than assuming a
burden.
He said he believes the ''exist-
ence of our form of government
and our capitalistic free enter
prise economy depends on our in
come tax system that helps distrib-
ute the money and keeps our econ
omy from clogging up, because
none of us are so constituted that
we would part with our money vol
unfairly to provide the services we
consider essential.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
By MILES ROMNEY. Editor '

BY MILES ROMNEY, Editor WESTERN NEWS, Hamilton
legion of friends their
his bereavd widow daughters
quite So
young by the blight Of
While Owngs friends throughout the State Montana
because he we'll of the State which
he had followed his chosen profession that Ralph
like him. those worked with him other
printing establishments well the Capitol Building Helena prob
ably will feel his loss poignantly
Ralph Emerson Owngs wonderful
tributes Not only devoted loved
t He ardent the ideals of which he
obsessed While unfalng
reader of wide subjects who had to be shown his
foundation directed toward ameoaon of the lot his
fellow this
maered he worked enlisted
standards of political social efforts which obviously
destined least the defeat If he believed that
enough him all in their behalf.
Worldly things little Ralph friend has remarked with
siderable TRUTH that achievement financial loss and
tha be able work hopeless which he beievedas for
found by Ralph btled
his memory tomorrow
his detectives, during his tumultuous
with curiosity,
everything of Don't think right
find
satia BILE curiosi
Some genius the of good luck
produce that alchemy without which claims lives like
that of Owngs of Others who feel die Until that
time the world bidding farewell
that called ranks
Ralph Owings has Joined.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
North Dakota Has No
"Curbstone Bandits"

A bill which would have permitted
parking meters in North Dakota cities
and towns was given thumbs down"
by the State Senate recently. The dis
tinction Of being the only state in
the Union without parking meters is
held by our neighboring state to the
east. ~~- ID --....
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
BACK FEDERAL AID
TO EDUCATION

In the interest of providing the
best educational opportunities to
everyone, the labor group resolved
in favor of federal aid to education.
They also favored establishment
of roadside campsites for the use
of Montanans and the travelling pub
lie along the line of those in Alberta,
Canada; asked for extension of old
and development of new areas for
National Parks; expressed support
for the striking Typographical Union
in Portland, Oregon, and the liberal
daily, THE PORTLAND REPORTER,
that is being printed there.
Along with passing a resolution
supporting the proposed Agricul-
tural Act of 1861 and specifically
House Bill 64OO, and Senate Bill
1913, delegates signed a petition
directed at the u. S. Congress and
Senate in behalf of these bills.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
TIMBER Reelected
Continued From Page One)


that it is now being investigated by
the U. S. Department of Justice, and
that it will obviously lead to aban-
donment of Milwaukee Road facili-
ties through Montana and logically
reduce GIMP service presently be-
ing provided, the State AFL-CIO
went on record as being "unequivo-
cally opposed to this merger" and
determined to do everything within
our power to assist in preventing it
if possible.
Opposing the current request by
the Montana Power Company for a
gas rate increase the AFL-CIO re-
solved that the healthy financial con-
dition of the utility, it's reluctance to
buy gas from Montana wells, the eff
feet of the increase on the business
climate whereby over 500 of the
increase will go out of state when
it should be being spent over the
business counters of small business
men in this state raised grave ques-
tion whether any rate increase is
justified at this time.
Another resolution deplored the
importation of cement from the nom
union, state-owned, tax-exempt &C.
ment plant at Rapid City, South Da-
kota, which they said was "a direct
threat to the livelihood of the union
members at Trident and all union
members"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
Montana, Only One

CONTINUED From Page One)
bills in Congress to increase this
amount, (which will be helpful.
ONLY ONE IN 80
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
Ralph Owings Dies

old friend and at MsU Ralph
in of who
O e
OF AMI
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-05
Colored News
Founders Day
Of Moses Unit
To Be Observed

CHARLOTTE c. H.. May A.
Members of the Moses Life In
surance Association will cele-
brate the ninth annual Founders
Day at the Moses Auditorium in
Charlotte Court House. on Sum
day. May 7. at 2::3O pm.
This occasion will honor the
birthdays of the late Rev. James
Murray Jeffress and the Moses
organization.
DR.. Milton A. Reid. pastor of
the First B aptiSt Church of
Petersburg. will be the guest
speaker.
Delegations Of Moses members
from New Jersey. New York and
PENNSYLVANIA are expected to Join
Moses members from various
points III Virginia for the cele-
bration. These delegations will
arrive in Charlotte Court House
Saturday afternoon and will be-
gin the observance with a fellow
ship dinner Saturday evening at
eight O'Clock to be in the Moses
Dining Hall. The public is cordi-
ally invited to attend.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-05
Mt. Pleasant

May 4 - J, NJ. Oxford. of At
lanta. spent last week end with
his stepsons. George E. and
Thomas c. Jones.
1t. Com. and Mrs. j. Milton
Jones. of Newport. Conn. are
spending week with his father.
George E. Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Donaldson
and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Orel
Lcnhart and daughtrl' all of
Chase City. Mr.. and Mrs. James
Nelson and family. of Cumber-
land, and Otis Nelson. Jr.. of
Richmond. were week end guests
Of their parents. Mr. and Mrs. o.
H, Nelson. Mrs. Edwards. Of
Chase City. and billiard Nelson,
of Charlotte county. were Sunday
guests.
Mrs. Ethel Nelson and Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnnie Nelson and family,
of Rice, visited Mrs. Minnie
Newcomb and other relatives
here last Saturday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett
Ferguson on April 25 at South
side Community spital. a
daughter,
A good crowd attended the fu-
neral of H. Brookes Ferguson at
noyne Burger Funeral Home III
Farmvllle and the burial in the
Mt. Pleasant cemetery on April
26.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Covlng-
ton moved last Saturday from
Farmville to the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. B.
Covington, until their new home
is completed.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-05
Deatonville

May Mrs. Witt Borum, Mrs.
Harvey Borum. Mrs Dawson
joyce. Mrs. Chum Mann and
Mrs. Ruben Price attended the
Elise Murdoch meeting at Union
Baptist Church on Saturday
April %.
Miss Snithey Carter and
brother Leon called to see Mr..
and Mrs. Hira m Anderson
Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Moring
of Newport News visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Vester Jenkcns Saturday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. RAYMOND New
ton and family. of Clarksville.
came down Sunday and we're
Joined by Floyd Rucker and visi-
ted Mr. and Mrs. Vester Meador
in Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tommy Wells
and baby. of Richmond. spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Os-
car Hamlet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin
Chenault. of Peaks, spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Witt
Borlm. They also stopped to
see Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Nash.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Gear
heart and Kathie. of Sandston,
spent the week end with Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Nash.
Mrs. Vester jenkins. also Cal
win Meador and Mr.. and Mrs.
James jenkins. of Richmond,
spent the night with Mrs. Alice
jenkins recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vester jenkins
and Mrs. Alice jenkins visited
Mr. and Mrs. Louie Overton and
Rev. and Mrs. Nathaniel Habel,
Of Victoria Sunday afternoon.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-05
Nav Memorial
Presentation
Service Set

POWHATAN. May A pres
entation service will be held
Sunday night, May at May Me-
mortal Baptist Church at 8 pm.
DIST. to present awards and rec
ognize those girls in the Girls
Auxiliary who have recentlv
passed necessary requirements
to advance in Forward Steps.
Miss Jane Dudley Moseley. Of
Buckingham, a Queen in Ser
vice. will be a special guest, and
Will address the group.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-05
Charlottesville
Tour Planned By
Hamilton Class

FORK OF WILLIS, May 4
Miss. June Barker will accom-
pany the seventh grade of Hamil-
ton on tour Friday of the famous
homes and gardens around Char
lotteSville and will also visit the
Grand Caverns.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Baber, Jr.,
and sons spent the week end in
Arlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Ball, Jr.,
and family. of Flat Rock, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Rhoades, of
Gainesville. called in the j.. M.
Barker home Sunday afternoon.
They also visited Roy Rhoades
in Charlottesville.
Mrs. P. l.. Duncan attended
the home demonstration leaders
training meeting last Wednesday
night held at the Carriers Florist
Shop in Farmville. The demon
Stration was on making cOrSages.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmie Leap and
daughters. of Dillwyn. visited
Mrs. Lucy Duncan and in the
L. l.. Flippen home Saturday.
Miss Nell Cooke, of Richmond,
spent the week end with her par
cntS. Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Cooke
Sunday guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Elliott and daugh-
ter. of Lynchburg. ard Mrs.
Helen Cooke. of Cumberland.
Mrs. Frank Baber. ST., visited
her daughter. Miss Maria Baber.
at Lynchburg College Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Barker.
CT Charlottesville, visited their
parents over the week end.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-05
Miss Pattie Sue Adams
Selected Band Queen

Evelyn Griffin, Mrs. Percy Car
roll, Mrs. Howard Amos. Mrs
Minnie Taylor, Mrs. Oracle
Swan, Miss Sidney Wooten
Mrs. Jessie Carroll and Miss
Betty Ann Carroll and Miss Fay
Carroll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Stin-
son were week end guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Hill Wooten.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reece Carroll
and sons, Reece and Dell, vlsi-
ted with Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man Wooten and family at
Schuyler on Sunday.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-05

BUOhlNG1AM, May - NISS
Pattie Sue Adams was chosen
the Miss Band Booster Queen
this week. She will ride in a
float in the Ricentinnial parade
with her maid of honor, Lucy
Johns. along with Tommy Ep-
person, president of the Band
Boosters Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Shelton
Foster are proud parents of a
son. William Garland Foster.
weighing eight pounds and two
ounces born April 26 at the Med
ical College Hospital in Rich
mond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Bald
win and sons. Lee and Bill,
spent the week end in Salem
and Ellitt where they visited
with Mrs. BaldWin's mother.
Mrs. J. Y. Carlton. and his faith
er. R. G.. Baldwin
Gail Waldo recently entertain
ed Diane and Donna Moss who
Joined Maysvillc Presbyterian
Church when she did. Easter
Sunday. She also took Margaret
Webb and Marvin Ragland on a
picnic at her new home in Am
herst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Allen ard
two children moved to DillWyn
last week where they are living
OH Billy LeSueurs' from.
A meeting was held Thurs
day at the Maysvile Baptist
Church to make plans for Bible
School. which is held jointly with
Trinity Methodist and the Mays
vile Presbyterian each year
The Buckingham Book Club
will meet Tuesday Nav 8 with
Mrs. James Patterson. Mrs.
Mary Glover will be hostess
with her.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Kernodle
and son. Tim, of DanVille. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Estes and
sons, John and Bill. of Staunton,
were guests Sunday afternoon Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Crute.
The teenage dance Saturday
was a great success, as a large
crowd attended it.
Mrs. Zoline Wiseman and
daughter. Carolyn Sue. MIS-.
Molly Crews. and Mrs. Sam
Crews visited Raymond Frank
lin at the Blue Ridge Sanatori-
UNI Friday.
Mrs. Molly Crews spent the
week end with Mr.. and Mrs. R.
B. Bernard at Nteherrin. During
her stay there she went on the
garden tour at Worsham on Sun
day
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Riggs. Jr.
and children Pattie. John. and
Tommy. Of Mt Rainier, Md,
were week end guests of Mr.
and Mrs. w G.. Horsley
Mrs. Claiming H. Moon at
tended the seth annual Council of
the Diocese of Southern Virgin
ia which convened at ST. An
drews Episcopal Church in New
port News May l3
All Blue ribbon winners from
Buckingham who competed IN
the District contest held at Long
wood College Saturday were
Martha Alice Smith, meal prep
aration: Jane Dudly Moselv
home Improvement: Katherine
Roach, dress revue: Doris Jones.
electric and Lou Swartz. public
speaking
All blue ribbon winners com
peting from the county in the
Junior division were M / y
Louise Driscall. bread: Mary
Louise Webb poultry products:
Sally Smith. meal preparation ::
Gretchen Alexander. dairy food
Mrs. Reece Carroll entertain
ed with a linen shower Saturday
IN honor of Miss Lucille Carroll
whose arrlag to John
Monluszko will take place May 6
Guests prese mt were Mrs
Florence Llwellyn. Mrs. Guy
LleWellyn, Mrs. Bessie Gregory
Mrs. Roy Wooten. Mrs Albert
Wooten, Mrs. Raymond Wooten,
Mrs. Hill Wooten, Mrs. Ned
Micklem, Mrs. Joyce Amos, Mrs
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-05
Graham Movie
To Be Shown
At Clayville

POWHATAN, May 4Evange-
list Billy Graham's newest tea
ture-length dramatic film. "Shad-
ow Of the Boomerang" will have
its Graceland Baptist Church
showing May 7 at 7::3O pm,
DIST. at Clayville.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

SHOE REPAIR and small stock Of
shoes, Lands equip, outer soles;
4 rooms in rear: only repair
shop in town: very cheap. Indian
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and 3 bedroom apts. 10. 2-Ol52
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Good condition. WE. 5-2S45.
TV 81 Magnavox 24-inch, $3.50;
also 2l-inch Philco on stand, $40
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ONLY 8 LEFT

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NE. MICHIGAN PARK AREA -
Colored: rm. next to bath, nicely
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1915 Que st. NV.
HO. 2-2104

ADAMS MILL RD.-Elev. ant
conv. transp., twin beds. ] or Q
ladies'; no other roomers. CO. g.