The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-01-19

Taxes Are A Power To Destroy
Only When Levied InequitabIy

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than in it could be set at about
$145,OOO,OOO year.
To bring rural power facilities to
rural people and small town areas
and increase population we need
some resource development, Kraenzel
said, and cited the value of irrigated
farms in the economy.
eve have the wonderful instru-
ment of a public corporation, tried
and tested in the IVA and st. Law
renee Waterway. 1t has been tried
and tested in other parts of the
world and found good", he said, add
ing, California is an example where
a public corporation on state basis
has been found good. Montana should
use the idea of public corporation
on a state basis and encourage other
states to also use the idea and indi-
vidually and collectively to join hands
and cooperate with the federal gov
eminent. With the principle of the
public corporation we could cooper
ate with Canada to develop resources,
Kraenzel stated.
Left Erickson reviewed the status
of proposed federal dams and stated
that we will get Paradise Dam in
western Montana because time is
running out on US. Gwen if we get
Libby Dam tomorrow, he said, "pop-
ulation pressures and the need for
more power dictate the only thing
that is going to be feasible and can
do the job is Paradise, and we be-
lieve in full development, not piece
meal or partial development"
Don Chapman, advocating the pub
lie corporation method of resource
development, said if the flow of cleo
tricity should suddenly cease it would
be a national catastrophe and mod
ern civilization would collapse. Elec-
trio light and power are as necessary
as the bread we eat or the water we
use, he said. With electric energy
we buy civilization and it can serve
as boot strap for raising the stand
ard of living in the world.
In time of war, Chapman stated,
the price of power is secondary, but
in time of peace it is primary, and
denial of abundant, cheap power can
destroy any region today.
$500 REACH SIS EVERY DAY
The benefits of Social Security
are help to the economic well-being
of the nation, Ray Peterson, of the
Great Falls Social Security office
said. Every day $500 men and women
have their 65th birthday. Of those
who retire out of 10 will start
getting social security checks.
In the last fiscal year benefits paid
to retired people amounted to over
IL billion dollars. Over AZ million
dollars was sent to beneficiaries in |
and in Great Falls A mil
lion dollars was received This amount |
of money is administered at cost |
of only go.
Velma Good, Great Falls, spoke on
Rural Area Development. She said
TO participate i'm rural development |
does not require designation as a de-
pressed area. This is an effort to
IldhS StIVlCSS VI Cllc SONcIIHeIt
available to. bring better and more
economy to rural Amer
ca, she said. In a community with
,ut services people rush into a depot
,reated in the larger communities to
ret services then rush home. The
pirit of community life dies. Time
people and they no longer
ave time to talk or be part of the
ocality in which they live, she said.
She outlined the steps community
hould take to start moving in the
me of rural area development, and
by saying that community
evelopment has to start right where !
ne people are.
lew BARLEY PROGRAM
About the new barley program that
causing high feeling across the
arming areas of this state, Leonard i,
enfield, president of the Farmers
'nion, noted that Congress passed /.
lie law and there will be other Con- !
resses and the law can be changed I
it is not right and can be made !,
etter.
Gordon Twedt, vice president of
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