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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-23
MISC Faces
FatefuI Era,
Strand Says

BOZEMAN-Dr.A A. l.. Strand, tn
! only alumnus of Montana State Col
| lege to become president of MISC ant
more recently retired president o.
Oregon State University, predictet
Thursday (Feb. 15) ''fateful era
for the college here.
Strand delivered the featured add
ress at MSC's 69th Founders Day
celebration. He told the gathering Of
students. and faculty:
'.No matter how great the expan-
sion at MISC in recent years, by
September 1865 it will not have
been enough. The real impact of
bumper crop of youngsters dur
ing the 194Os will be felt by col
leges and universities in another
two or three years. Then the critics
of expansion will be running for
cover.''
Strand also said:
"The administrators will be taken
to task for not giving sufficient warn
ing and for not doing enough prepa-
ration"
September 1865 will mark the be-
ginning of fateful era if not a cha
otto one in American higher edu-
cation. l shall watch with interest
from the sidelines."
In his 45-minute talk, the 1917
MISC graduate said the land grant
movement of which MISC is a part
is "faced with new dimensions
DIR. Strand called the success of
the land grant movement in the past
100 years Spectacular" "The whole
concept of public higher education
was changed by the new philosophy.
Land-grant institutions were designed
to educate all citizens with ambitions,
not merely the elite" said DIR. Strand.
''They were an inevitable develop
ment to meet the needs of the peo-
ole."
Land grant institutions have ex-
perienced great difficulties in the
past. During times of setbacks, how
ever,' said DR.. Strand, eff we are
.eally peoples colleges, we will have
alth In people.
"The land grant mechanism which
results in communication and action
s the envy of many foreign coun-
ries. The rapid development of in
lustry would have been impossible
without the accompanying rise of
cientific agriculture.
"The old world has passed away"
said DIR. Strand. Change is the
order of the day. The younger gen.
Grafton comprises the most hope
full answer for the future. Mon
tana will need all it's institutions
to fulfill its obligations to its youth
during the years Immediately
ahead"
cit is to the large dimensions ahead
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-23
Politically Inspired Smoke Cleared Away
Olsen Digs Out Facts On Reasons
For Collapse Of Tungsten Mining

the Firth Sterling Co. of Pittsburgh,
Pa.-was obtained from outside the
U. S.
"Some people in Montana, when
they heard of this, Immediately cried
that Army purchase of Communist
tungsten was putting, and keeping,
Montana mines out of business.
"The truth is, however, that the
Army got this tungsten from South
Korea. in payment for surplus Amer
lean wheat.
"This barter was made legally
under Armed Services Regulation 9
COL.
"South Korea, of course, is Free
World country and U. S. ally.
''The Army felt the barter was in
the best overall national interest.
For the surplus wheat, a perishable
item. was of no use to the u. S. and
was endangered by spoilage, while in
storage.
"Regrettably, the barter was not
in the best interests of one of our
SO states Montana.
"But it should be understood that
even had the Army obtained all, in
stead of half, of the needed tungsten
for the shells from our stockpiles,
the Dillon mine would still have re-
manned closed.
SEVEN YEAR SUPPLY
''For, Mr.. Boutin tells me, we have
enough tungsten in our supplemental
stockpile alone to last us the next
seven years.
"This is in addition to our regular
stockpile of tungsten, the
exact size of. which has been CLASH
fled information.
"This oversupply, by the way, is
despite the fact that the GSA has
not bought any tungsten from domes-
tic sources since December 81, 1858,
or from any Free World countries
since 1868.
president Kennedy has ordered
complete and open investigation into
the reasons for this overstockpiling
and l support it completely.
"Now, news of the closing of any
Montana mine or industry is disturb
ng, and everything must be done to
encourage industrial growth in the
state.
"And though the Army's particular
barter with South Korea didn't really
affect the Dillon mine closing, it
lidn't help Dillon either.
"But | can report that Major Gen
,ral HI. A. Gerhardt, chief of legisla-
i've liaison for the Department of
Army. has assured me in writing that:
1. The Army will obtain no more
in the future by barter with
ur Free World allies.
2. The Army will get all of it's
leeded tungsten from our GSA stock
lies.
"Now, what about tungsten i'm
orts by private industry?
According to the u. S. Bureau
f Mines, only 1884 short tons of
ungsten were imported into the
J. S. last year.
''This is the lowest amount in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-23
Bozen1un
Cote Backs


In what amounts to direc1
slap at the right-wing fanatics
who have been seeking tC
purge President r. r. Renne
and a number of professors al
Montana State College, the
Bozeman Chamber of Com.
merce last week resolved tC
enthusiastically support" the
college, as a part of it's 1862
program, the Bozeman DAILY
CHRONICLE reports.
VOICE readers will recall that for
more than year, DR.. Renne has
been at odds with those who would
turn the clock back on Montana high
er education at time when the ma
TONS need for highly trained people
is accelerating at rate unparalleled
in all previous human history.
In addition to some members of
the State Board of Education,
under the leadership and influence
of DR.. Gordon Doering, at least
one member of MSC's local execu-
tive committee, Harvey Griffin,
has been sniping away at Renne
and some of the teaching staff at
the college.
There has also been considerable
conjecturing that one powerful pri-
vate utility has been playing a be-
role in attempting
to downgrade MISC. Whatever the
role of the utility, if any, MISC re-
ceived the most severe appropriation
of any unit of the Univer-
sity System in the 1861 Legislature.
PART OF BOHEMIAN
The Bozeman C.ofC.'s resolution
follows:
considering the fact that Montana
State College is definitely an integral
part of Bozeman and the fact that
the number of persons directly con-
nected with the college makes up
over one-third of the population of
greater Bozeman, and the fact that
The college is one of the largest eco
1omic factors in the Bozeman area,
and last, but certainly not least, the |
college is the largest unit in the
Montana University System and a
line institution of higher learning,
he Bozeman Chamber of Commerce
will do all possible to enthusiastically
support Montana State College as an |
"The Chamber will not only sup
port the academic, athletic and
social functions of Montana State
College but will also work vigor-
ously for the promotion of the col
lege as one of the finest and fore
most institutions of higher edu-
cation.
efforts will be made to better the
communications between the college
nd the community to better the mu-
lal understanding and welfare"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-23

We must thread our way between
Imperialism and isoiationism, be-
tween the disavowal of the respon-
sibilities of our power and the as
sertion of our power beyond our
resources STEVENSON.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-23

that land grant institutions must
address themselves" he said. The
retired educator enumerated these
as being the scientific revolution, ma
tionalism and the cold war.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-23

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-Feb
-"The Kennedy Admins
tration, contrary to popular be-
lief in Montana, has not bought
bartered for or borrowed a
single ounce of Communist
tungsten" Rep. Arnold Olsen
| (D-Mont.) reported today.
''Nor is it doing so now," he added
land nor will it ever"
What is more, Olsen said:
"The u. S. government has not
bought any tungsten from any for
eign country for at least nine years.
"Our government stockpiles are
bullying with an oversupply of tung-
stem, but none of it has come from
| a Communist or Communicable
country.
"To say that Dillon, Montana,
mine has been closed because the
U. S. Army bought tungsten from a
Communist country is absolutely
false. The Army did no such thing"
Olsen said he was making this
known, along with detailed report
on imported tungsten for two rea-
sons:
First, because of widespread mis-
understanding in Montana. which has
been encouraged by some reckless
critics.
And second, because of increasing
acceptance by the public of the false
claim that the u. S. government
killed off a Montana mine by buying
Communist tungsten.
Olsen said he got full report on
tungsten, with White House aid, in
writing from Bernard Boutin, ad-
ministrator for the General Services
Administration (GSA).
BEHIND THE
MISUNDERSTANDING
What started all the misunder-
standing was this:
"In July, a tungsten mine was
forced to close in Dillon.
"Then, in November, about $3.5
million worth of tungsten was needed
for the making of armor-piercing
shells for the Army.
''Half of this amount-to be used
by the Siegler Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
was obtained from u. S. stockpiles,
though this was not known in Mon |
Jana.
..'The other half to be used by
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-23

The old Hotel Sherman, which
sticks out in the street in White
Sulphur Springs will be removed, IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19
More SEWAGE
Forced Into
River Daily

A District official said today
that Is million gallons a day of
raw sewage is being poured into
the Potomac River because of
construction work on a main
sewer line.
This was reported by David
V. Aud, director of the Depart
ment of Sanitary Engineering,
to the Regional Sanitary Board.
Mr.. Auld said that sending
the sewage into the river with
out treatment will be necessary
until the end of March.
He explained this diversion
is unavoidable because of the
reinforcement work that must
be done on the B street-NeW
Jersey avenue brick interceptor
sewer.
Mr.. Aud said the portion of
this line that runs along the
P otomac River must be
strengthened to bear the weight
of the Theodore Roosevelt
Bridge approaches which will
cross over it.
I'VE are very unhappy about
this diversion" said Mr.. Aud,
but the work couldn't be done
while the sewer was full"
The sewage is being sent into
the river at a point just below
the confluence of Rock Creek
and the Potomac.
Mr.. Aud said he would
guarantee" that the diversion
will be stopped before the
Cherry Blossom Festival at the
Tidal Basin in April. The basin
water comes from the Potomac.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19
Boy Held in SHOOTING
OfFotherin NDispute

The boy, who was pacing ur
and down outside the house
when police arrived there after
being called by his mother, was
taken to county police head
quarters at Seat Pleasant anc
charged.
He spent the night in juve.
nile detention facilities in Up.
per Marlboro.
The mental examination was
ordered after a 10-minute hear
ing in Upper Marlboro today
conducted by R. Lee Van Horn
master of juvenile causes for
the Juvenile Court. Asked by
Mr.. Van Horn for an explana-
ton Of the shooting, the boy
replied:
HE (the father doesn't care
anything about me-"
The slight, blond haired boy
wearing a blue jacket with Bla-
densburg Junior High in white
letters across the back, kept q
finger over his mouth during
the hearing. He was accom-
panied by his mother. After the
courts decision he said:
II don't feel 1 need a psy-
chiatriSt."
THE Children'S Center is not
a prison nor an insane asylum,
but a very fine clinic and the
people there will find out what
kind of help you need" Mr..
Van Horn said.
In ordering the commitment,
Mr.. Van Horn differed with a
court psychiatrist, Drs. Carlos
Recio, who talked to the boy
and advised that he be sent to
the State Training School IN
stead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19

said. 1.-THE sculptor substituted
the knowledge of the Renais-
sance he was trying to initiate,
but he added himself.
Serenity" is entirely diff
ferent. But the person who did
it left some real love in that
statue. The same applied to
(AgustuS) St. Gaudens' Grief
Finely Disclaims Bias
David e. Finley, chairman Of
the Fine Arts Commission, said
the commission has no bias for
or against any style. He ex-
planned that the ultimate de-
cision on any work rests with
Congress.
Our function is to advise
whether a monument is ap-
propriate, considering the site
and surroundings" he said.
Felix de Weldon, a member
Of the commission and also the
sculptor Of the Simon Bolivar
monument near the Interior
Department and of the 1--we
Jima memorial, said he believes
public art should be limited
only to excellence"
He added that anyone sorry
that Jacob Epstein and Henry
Moore are not represented in
Washington is free to buy one
of their works, providing he has
the money, and to give it to
a museum or insurance COM
pany."
Mr.. de Weldon said, however
that figures in public monu-
ments should be representa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19
Coroner's Jury
Holds Boy, IA, in
Arboretum KiIIino

A IA year = old Northeast
Washington boy was held for
Juvenile Court action by a cor
oner'S jury today in the fatal
shooting of another boy last
Wednesday.
The youngster, brought to
the District Morgue from the
Receiving Home, heard police
and his 10 = year old brother
tell the jury of the shotgun
shooting on the grounds of the
National Arboretum.
Police testified that the boy
told them the victim, Stanley
Marshall, Is, of IL Twenty
first place NE, harassed him.
He took his fathers shotgun
and lured the 15-year-old to
a thicket, where he shot him
twice in the head and once in
the leg, according to the testi-
mony.
The defendants brother told
the jury the 14-year-old told
him of the shooting the day
after it happened and he in
formed his parents. The par
ents called police and the de-
PENDANT led them to the thicket
the boy had nicknamed the
rabbit Patch" There they
found the victim partly covered
with leaves and branches.
Homicide Detective Sergt.
Edwin C. Coppage said he
checked the defendants story
that Stanley beat him up and
attempted to extort money
from him at Browne Junior
High School. The detective said
he could turn up no evidence
to confirm it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19

tional. He said, IF you have
to explain a work of art, it fails
in its purpose"
Hole in Our Head?
The Romans did representa-
tional statues of Julius Caesar
and now we know what Caesar
looked like, he said.
IF Henry Moore did a statue
of Albert Einstein," Mr.. de We'll
don said, 10000 years from
now people would think we
looked like that-with a hole in
our head"
Mrs. William Penn Cresson,
daughter of Daniel Chester
French, who made the statue
of Abraham Lincoln in the
Memorial, and a sculptor her
self, said Thomas jefferson in
structed Pierre L'Enfant to de-
sign the city along classical
lines.
President Theodore Roose-
welt created the Fine Arts
Commission to keep Washing
toms art and architecture uni
formly classical, she said. But
now, she declared, the modern
lists are putting pressure on the
commission to foster "a heter-
ogenous, motley STYLE" just the
thing it was created to prevent
"a few TO the avant-garde
sculptors know what they're
doing" Mrs. Cresson added
They could do good work if
they wished. But I think
they're taking the public for
la ride"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19

County executive, said his
county alone has grown from
40, 900 in 1910 to 100000 today.
He said the county collects Is
per cent of all taxes imposed
by the State on incomes, alco-
holic beverage profits and so on.
In the Senate meanwhile.
four Senators from the South
west and two others Joined
on a bill that would redistrict
the Senate precisely the way
it is districted now. 1t would
preserve the Senate status quo
and - its hackers hope II meet
the constitutional requirements
The Constitution calls for leg
islative reapportionment every
10th year but doesn't set any
standards on how it shall be
done. This Is a reapportion-
ment year.
Sponsors of the status quo
bill are Senators J. Hubert
Wheeler of Ewing, Harry c
Stuart of Russell, D. w. BIRD
of Bland, Thomas C. Phillips
Of Abingdon, Blake T. Newton
of Westmoreland, and Harold
H. Purcell of louisa.
I'm m e diately after tn
crowded public hearing, Com
mittee Chairman Garland Gray
of Sussex named these foul
Senators as a subcommittee tt
try to work out a solution tt
the problem: Senators E. AL.
mer Ames of Onancock, chair
man; Landon Wyatt of Dan,
vile, Hale Collins of Alleghan,
and Curry Carter of Staunton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19

A Prince Georges County man
who police say was shot by his
13-year-old son yesterday as he
tried to settle an argument over
television remained in critical
condition today with a bullet
wound in his abdomen.
His son, arrested afterward
on a juvenile petition charging
him with assault with a deadly
weapon, today was ordered by
the county Juvenile Court to
undergo a mental examination.
He was committed to the
Children's Center, a State
institution near Baltimore, for
the study.
The shooting occurred about
$3.50 pm. in the second floor Of
the home in the Radiant
Valley subdivision near Land
over Hills.
The 45-year-old father had
gone upstairs to the boys room
in hopes Of settling a dispute
between the boy and his 7
year-old sister over what tele-
vision program they would
watch.
AS he entered the room,
county police reported, the boy
pointed a 90 caliber rifle at
the father. When the father
walked toward his son, the
boy pulled the trigger, police
said.
The gun had been a Christ
mas present to the boy from
his father.
The father underwent sur
gerry at Prince Georges General
Hospital afterward and re-
ceived at least a dozen pints Of
blood, the hospital reported to-
daV-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19
Labor Plans
CheopLoons
For Housing

Organized labor plans to use
it's pension funds to provide
cheaper mortgage money in
the Washington area-but only
to union builders.
The AFL-CIO hopes the new
use of pension funds will pro-
mote unionism in the home
building industry here, now al
most wholly non-union.
A pilot program, a union
source here said today, involves
a dozen homes near Gathers
burg. Md. Success in this
limited program will determine
the future of the plan.
The Washington area would
be the first to feel the full i'm
pact of the pension fund
money but eventually, if sue
cessful, the cheap mortgage
plan would extend throughout
the Nation and involve loans
OF between $500 million and 81
billion annually.
The plan was reported hert
today by Cornelius j. Haggerty
president of the building ane
construction trades department
of the AFL-CIO. Mr.. Haggert,
returned to his office today
from a union executives meet
ing in Miami Beach, Fla, ir
which he urged individual
unions to provide funds TO,
this mortgage program.
Most pension money now
earns about 3 per cent in safe
conservative investments such
as Government bonds. The new
mortgage plan would bring ir
S to 51a per cent.
The mortgages would be
cheaper because there woulc
be no discounts" or premiums
required.
Mr.. Haggerty said the cheap.
mortgage program originated
with George Meany, president
of the AFL-CIO.
The union plan may have
another effect besides encour-
agement of unionization of the
building trades here. 1t could
force banks and other lenders
to lower their own mortgage
charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19
Man, IS, Is Indicted
In Womun's Death

James v. Cobbs, jr., IS, OF
the TOO block of Willard street
NV, was indicted on a second
degree murder charge by a Dis
trict grand jury today.
He is accused of Stabbing
Virginia johnson, 26, of 1911
N street NV, in the heart
during an argument jan
uary %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19

THE BILL under consid-
Grafton by the Wildlife Com
mittee would protect the
bald eagle by protecting the
golden eagle. The young birds
look alike. The bald eagle
doesn't get his white head
until he's 3 or 4 years old.
The committee members
were surprised at accounts
of the destruction of eagles
in West Texas. When a sheep
herder sees an eagle he calls
the eagle man who is paid
a salary by his association.
The egale man arrives in an
airplane and shoots the
eagle.
One eagle man said he
killed 149 birds in a month.
No check has ever been
made as to whether this
slaughter includes bald
eagles.
The members were faS-
cinated by Walter Spofford,
a zoologist of New York Uni
versity, who seemed to know
all that is known about
eagles.
He pointed out to the COM
mittee that there is a big
trade in golden eagle feath-
erS to make Indian head
dreSSeS-not for Indians but
for white persons. A golden
eagles feathers are worth
S. to 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19
Senate Vote Nears
On Murder Penalty
Morse May Bar
Action Today on
Death Sentence
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

A bill to abolish the Districts
mandatory death penalty for
first-degree murder faced par
liamentary obstacles in moving
toward a Senate vote today.
Majority Leader Mansfield
was hopeful of final action be-
fore adjournment this after
noon. But he said he would
not bet on it"
Senator Morse, Democrat of
Oregon, was prepared to speak
at length, urging his substitute
penalty of life Imprisonment
with no chance of probation or
parole for convicted first-degree
murderers.
The Oregonian also would
give jurors discretion to rec
ommend life imprisonment for
rapistS.
A prior complication is that
a House bill, not the Senate bill
reported by the District Com
mittee, is listed as the floor
business. This means that the
Senate bill, different in techni-
cal language, must be substi-
tuted for the House legislation.
Backed by AcheSOn
Ordinarily, the switch would
be routine. It could be this
afternoon, but Senator Morse
dislikes capital punishment
enough and is expert enough
on parliamentary techniques
that he might resort to I'M
usual methods to block the
committee reported bill.
It's passage was urged over
the week end by David Acheson,
United States attorney for the
District. Sponsoring Senators
Heating, Republican of New
York. and Hartke. Democrat Of
Indiana, planned to press for
an early vote.
Proponents argue that the
mandatory death penalty has
lhampered murder prosecutions
in court. Jurors are reluctant
to return verdicts of guilty
when they know this will re-
ouire electrocution of the con-
victed, it is believed.
Law Here Unique
The District is the only juris-
diction in the United States
} retaining the mandatory death
first degree. In most States,
the penalty is death unless the
jury recommends life imprison-
ment.
The Senate bill fixes death
as the penalty, but jurors
unanimously may recommend
life imprisonment. If jurors are
unable to agree, the trial judge
may sentence the defendant
either to death by electrocution
or to life imprisonment.
Senator Morse has insisted
that even discretionary death
penalties are un-Christian ac-
cording to his moral code. He
says that a life in Jail, with
no chance of freedom is some
times harder for criminals to
take than death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19
East RiverduIe
Fire Hits BuiIdino

Fourteen Prince Georges
County fire companies re-
sponded today to a four alarm
fire that swept through the roof
and upper stories of an apart
ment building nearing compile
ton in East Riverdale, Md.
Firemen worked more than
an hour before bringing the
blaze under control in the five
story building at $500 Fifty
fourth avenue. The structure is
an addition to Riverdale Tow.
ers, fire officials reported.
The cause was undetermined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-19
PTA Sets Auction

The Woodmont Elementary
School PTA will hold a combi-
nation auction, baked goods
and white elephant sale at
pm, tomorrow, at the Wood
mont School, 2422 North Fill
more street, Arlington.