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LEGISLATIVE RECORD
Gontinued from Yesterday

OOnHnueQ IIOH lColCludy @1#.
THE PRESIDENT: Senator Alexander, the Chair
has been thlnKlng IN terms OF mat as a naUter OF TACT
I nau discussed II lnlormallY Win some memOers, mat
since IN TINS session we Will nave a llJAe more JLle SINCE
u rspeclats sessions nave taken up moSUo1 Inc emergency
Legislation and since we Will nave little more tiine 70
LOOK INTO these matters tfaJ at the enc OF eacn week we
lake a gay out - the enIre legislature, Tor the purpose
OF inspecting institutions and roaus, ana otner matterS
mat may De requested by the various .department neadS
and the Governor; that we make an on-tne-spot mspec'
uon OF all these Things on the lsIands<ot ~. Jonn, p.
Croix and st. Thomas. ! am sure Jnat the members
would nave no oblecJ1ons it we set a side a Gay each
week curing the cesslon tor sucn a purpose. Woulo IKE
later or sonlerlmee curing next week tlaG Wnlle we are IN
Committee OF the WnoIes that we SeleA soneday tnat
would be the most convenient Tor all OF the members SO
that we can nave the enure membership present az
all times.
Do we have any further privileges OF the floor?
DIR. ANDUZE: Mr.. President, you mentioned that
we are not gong to have mucn to DO curing Unls session
does that mean mat we won't consider Dill NO. 1904 or
we are lust gong TO read 1t over ana pass 1t without it
beng controversial!
THE PRESIDENT: We are going to start reading
Bill No. 1884 early next week.
DR.. ANDUZE Thank you, Mr.. President, that ans
wers my question,
THE PRESIDENT: Do we have any further priv
leges OF the tloor?
We have no further privileges of the floor but before
we move INTO Commlstee OF Tie WnoIe Woula tnere ne
any objections or, won't say objections, but the Chalr
would ike to consider Bill NO. 1907, An Act Accepting
ana AuInorlzlng the Nauonal Park Service IN the build
ing and Maintenance OF public ROADS IN ST. Jonn ana II
there are any other bills that we have on the agenda now
that members UnlnK could De CONSIDERED or are OF an ur-
gent naCure, the Cnalr woulu also Ike to consider It IN
today's session.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE 1920
PLENARY SESSION $3.50
INTRODUCTION AND ASSIGNMENT OF BILLS
Bill No. 1572-R Resolution Authorizing an Inquiry
into the Necessity Of a Health Insurance Program for the
Virgin. Islands, Proposed by Senators OttIey, Hodge,
Reese, Gomez, Guadalupe and Maduro.
ADOPTION OF BILLS
Bill No. 1862
FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE VIRGIN STANDS
OF TIL UNITED STATES
- Reo1lar Session - - -
, 1962-08-29

CROiX AVIS
WHEREAS the lack Of decent roadways has been
and continues to be one Of the major deterrents TO the
economic growth and development Of the island Of ST.
John;and s@s
WHEREAS the National Park Service has informed
the Governor OF the Virgin Islands, by letter daGeu DC
GoDer rs, 1861, that it Will improve and MAINTAIN the
following puDllc roads IN st. Jonn: ~ the North Shore
Road from the PARK boundary at Cruz bay to the inter-
secCn OF said road with Center Line Road at KING hill;
W the spur ROAD to Annaberg and Mary Point; (0 the
Bordeaux Road; "a the Lamesnur Road from Fark boun-
Diary to Lameshur; and Isl the East End Road from Park
boundary at Coral bay eastward to the East boundary
of the Park and to cooperate fully to the end that all
private properties have pasSable road access, wherever
necessary, to the aforesaid public roads; and
WHEREA the undertaking by the National Park
Service to improve and ma1ntaln Gne roadWays SPECIFIED
is hereby recognized as asupstantIaI financial benefit to
the government OF the Virgin Islands; NOW, therefore
BE IT ENACTED BY THE Legislature of the Virgin
Islands:
SECTION /. The Legislature Of the Virgin Islands
hereby accepts the otIer OF the raLonaI farA service TO
improve anu MAINTAIN the following named public roads
IN st. John: the NorthShore, Annaoerg ana wary Polnt,
Bordeaux, Laneshur and Last End koads and the said
National Park Service IS hereby authorized to proceed
to make improvements to said roads in accordance with
the following conditions:
A. All road Improvement plans initiated by the Ma
tional Park Service shall be tlrst submitted to the Com
missioner OF the Department of Public Works for APP
proval before the particular road Improvement project
is commenced.
B. Abroad improvement plans for the North Shore
and East End Roads shall, where the topography of the
terrain permits, meet the minimum construction specifi
cations as to materials, width of road, depth of roadbed,
curbs, drains and culverts as set by the Department of
Public Works or any applicable law existing at the com
mencement OF any road Improvement project.
SECTION 2. Nothing contained in this Act shall
be construed as conveying title or any other proprietary
interest in and to the aforesaid roadways to the National
Park Service.
The roads involved herein shall retain their charac-
ter as public roads. The Government of the Virgin Is
lands retains title to said roads as well as its usual rights
with respect to public thoroughfares, subject only to the
rights herein conferred upon the National Park Service.
SECTION 3. The Commissioner of the Department
Of D.hlia MarLSs = LasaL~ $780, --..> --~-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
iva Investment
Pays Big Dividends

The Tennessee Valley Authority
transferred $28, 27O,82O to the United
States Treasury on June 20.
Of that amount, $18,270,82O repre-
SCENTS the remaining one-half of the
payment due the Treasury for fiscal
year 1862 as a return or dividend on
appropriations invested in the IVA
power system, and $10,000,0OO is a
repayment sum to be applied to re-
duction of the appropriations invest
ment.
IVA REPAYS
During the fiscal year, which ended
June 80, IVA paid a total of $780,
Sd $40 to the Treasury.
The present payment brings to
the amount paid the
Treasury under the 1859 amendment
to the IVA Act.
Before adoption of the bond amend
ment, IVA had paid more than $780,
100000 to the Treasury from power
revenues.-TRADE UNION NEWS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
Libra Criticised
Helena HERE
Negofiufes New
Agreement

After the "most difficult
bargaining in years, Helena
Hotel & Restaurant Employees
Union 612 last week concluded
negotiations for a new two-year
contract with Helena Employ
ers Association, 612's Secretary
Lewis j. Teddy announces.
Over the life of the contract, cooks
and mattresses will receive total daily
increases of rs cents to $1.00, and
hotel chambermaids will have a total
daily wage increase of $1.2O.
The new agreement took effect
Wednesday.
The first year of the pact wait
resses will have their daily scales in
creased from So to $3.50, and in
the second, by another 40 cents. Hotel
maids present $500 a day went up,
Wednesday, to $3.50, with another
40 cents, July 25, 1868.
Two more holidays were negotiated
for the mattresses, for total of
four. Hotel maids, who in the past
did not have any paid holidays, will
have two each year under the new
agreement.
Employer resistance to negotiat-
ing a reasonable agreement, as shown
by the reluctance of their counsel
secretary Al Libra to seek an expedi-
tious and equitable settlement, marks
this years bargaining sessions as the
most difficult in years." Teddy said
in commenting on the new contract.
Other unions, including Butchers and
Retail Clerks, report similar re-
sistance by Helena Employer nego-
tiators; an unreasonableness which
repeatedly has materially fostered ill
will toward employers by rank and
file union members.
"Our experience in these recent
negotiations" Teddy concluded,
Indicates that Mr.. Libra is a very
difficult man to nail down on a
point. To our fellow trade union
lists, we suggest that when nego-
tiating with employers represented
by MIR. Libra, that everything be
down in writing at the time so that
there can be no possible misunder-
standing or twisting of contractual
details discussed or agreed upon"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27

The other half of the state
government-the Highway De-
partment-plans to spend 78
millions in cash during the fis-
cal year. This will buy 500, 000,-
900 worth of a possible road
building program which will
eventually cost sol, 100000
when construction is completed be-
yond the fiscal year. There is $780,
100000 left over from last fiscal
year which they will attempt to spend.
Actually the Department only has
$23,000,000 in revenue coming in
but rs per cent of the tab will be
picked up by the Bureau of Public
Roads.
The trouble the department has in
spending money is tale of woe in
itself. This week in secretive meetings
the Commission was late in awarding
bids totalling 100000 because both
IBM machines were broken down at
the same time. Nobody was able to
work a pencil on the back of an en-
velope to determine which bids were
low.
The state is not allowed to charge
off the $4,000 to cover the personal
of the Commission against
the federal government. Neither are
they permitted to receive federal aid
for Chief Engineer Fred Quinnell or
his division engineers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27

the work on this coop are not new"
Goeckel recalled that ''the Electrical
Workers met with management early
in January to apprise them of num-
erous poorly-supervised practices TAX
ing place and were assured steps
would be taken to correct them. To
date the only solution management
could dream up in hurry was to
fire the help.
continuation of this practice"
he warned, twill play right into
Montana Power Company hands
because if this rural electric does
not give the users prompt and ade-
quate service there will be some
of the users wanting to have the
private utility take this important
rural electric coop over"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
President Will Take Mediocre
Defeat To American People

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NFU)-
President Kennedy's plan to finance
Medical care for the Aging under the
Social Security system was trans
formed from bill to a roaring cam
paign issue last week when the Sen
ate tabled the measure on a 52-4s
vote.
Immediately after the surprising
defeat, Kennedy issued a fighting
statement saying he would take the
issue to the electorate this fall.
Calling the vote "a most serious
defeat for every American family"
the President said the people will
have the last word when they go to
the polls in November.
The issue was defeated by a coali-
ton of Fl Democrats and 81 Republi-
cans. Five Republicans and 43 Demo-
Gratis supported the measure.
Kennedy's statement was the most
emphatic attack he has made on his
Congressional opponents. Prior to
this bill, he has been soft-spoken
toward Democrats who have voted
against him but now he has limited
that he will carry his case to the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
Highway To Go On $78
Million Spending Spree

The three quarters of a million
maps to be distributed next year will
cost five and half cents each and
will be colored chartruse. The money
comes from legislative appropriation
of $4,000 which Orvin Flare gets
to spend.
Federal aid will be used to pay
for the (other) airplane which was
bought without bidding.
A visit to Canyon Ferry Dam
showed that the leasing of private
summer home sites has left little or
no place for picnickers or campsites
which are now in demand by the gen.
eral public. Roadside facilities are
not a part of the federal assistance
program.
Harlem will be approached from
the north and south instead of the
present east-west alignment of the
town.
A trip to Washington by Chairman
Roy Sorrels, Fred Quinnell, Howard
Buzzwell, and John Denteler of the
Billings Cote to try to set aside the
Bureau of Public Roads decision not
to cross the Yellowstone at Bitter
Greek with a narrow bridge, was met
with courtesy but no change of plan
was mentioned. They are aware of
how unpopular the Bitter Greek cross
ing is at Billings.-FS
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27

country as have other Democratic
presidents.
Kennedy also pledged to re-intro-
duce the measure in the next Con-
gress.
From the Presidents tone it is
apparent that he will make it a
major issue in an attempt to in
crease the liberal strength of the
next Congress. Republicans have
retorted that they welcome the
challenge.
Without doubt, the government
will sooner or later enact some kind
of a plan to meet the hospital and
medical needs of the elderly. This
falls election = with the medicare
plan as key issue-will decide how
soon a plan will be enacted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
DriscoII Named
Head Of Demo
Advisory Group

Maurice Driscoll, Butte schoo
teacher, has been appointed chair
man of the advisory committee tt
the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, Fred Barrett, Democratic
chairman, announced Tuesday.
Driscoll succeeds Louis Forsell OF
Helena who was elected to the Cen
trail Committee at the party conven-
tion in Butte earlier this month.
Driscoll is native of Silver Bow
county and was standout in football
when attending the Montana School
of Mines. He also holds bachelor and
masters degrees from Montana State
University. Driscoll has been asso-
ciated with the Butte public school
system for 20 years.
Driscoll has served as president of
the Butte Teachers Union and is a
member of the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Assembly. He is married
to the former Margaret Moran. They
have 10 children.
"The advisory committee is charged
with the responsibility of keeping the
Central Committee informed in such
fields as livestock, labor, agriculture,
business, education and other fields,
Barrett said. "Nine subcommittee
chairmen comprise the committee"
Barrett said subcommittee chair
men that will serve on the advisory
committee will be appointed later this
month or early next month.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
Bonner Reappoinfed
Finance Officer For
Montana Democrats

The .reappointment of former Gov.
John Bonner as finance officer of
the Democratic State Central Com
mittee was announced Wednesday by
State Chairman Fred Barrett.
"John (Bonner) has done a good
job in getting our new sustaining
membership fund drive off the
ground" Barrett said. 81 was de-
lighted when he agreed to remain
on the job. 1 don't think anyone in
the party has had more experience
or worked harder at financing our
Democratic activity than he has,"
Bonner was appointed to the exec
.utive committee of the party as fl
nance officer by past state chairman
j John Macdonald.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
Report Incorrect That IBEW A
Called For Vote On MPCo. Offer

A report given wide circula-
ton in the daily press that Elec-
trical Workers Local A had
called for a membership vote
on the latest contract proposal
of Montana Power Company,
Tuesday was branded false"
by Francis A. (Bud) Crowley,
Butte, president of the statewide
IBEW local.
Crowley, whose local struck Mon
tana Power July /, said: Members
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
VALUE OF RECORD
KEEPING DOUBTFUL

FDA Commissioner George Larricl
said one drug company accumulated
records of adverse reactions anC
deaths ''for a period of over five
years before reporting them to u.s.
Feuding on the drug investigat-
ing subcommittee started almost as
soon as it convened 21s years ago.
Testimony showed that FDA can't
crack down on unfit drugs until
they reach the consumer, that some
drug makers produce their pills
and powders in filthy back rooms
and Observation-Disclosures Easements,
that some drug makers fail to keep
their equipment clean.
Many persons blamed the high cost
of drugs on high-powered advertising
by drug makers. Some testimony
showed doctors accepted as scientific
truth what was in fact sales talk.
Drug makers have one of the strong
est Hobbies here.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
includes in addition to Senators East
land, Dirksen and Kefauver, John
Carroll (D-Colo.), Norris Cotton (R-
N.H.), Thomas Dodd (D-Conn.) }, Sam
Erwin (D-N.C.), Hiram Fong (R-
HawaiD Philip Hart (D-Mich.), Ro-
man Hruska (R-Neb.), Olin Johnson
Kenneth Heating (R-N.Y),
Long (D.Mo.), John McClel-
Ian (D-Ark.), Hugh Scott (R-Pa.),
and Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
So HOSPITALS HAVE
BENEFITED

The Senators, who supported the
Halliburton appropriations when they
testified before the subcommittee said
So Montana hospitals have received
Halliburton funds since the hospital
assistance program began in 1916.
Montana's share of the SIP mil
lion endowment for Immigrant coll
leges in fiscal 1868 will be $780,
038 if the Senate bill becomes law.
This represents an increase over
the fiscal 1862 allotment of $751;
442 and more than double the fis-
cal 1861 allotment of $75,se6.
Other federal activities in Mon
tana for which funds are included in
the Senate-approved Labor-HEW ap-
preparations bill are the Bureau of
Apprenticeship and Training, grants
for library services, air pollution con-
troll, grants for waste treatment
works construction, and grants for
children's activities and child
welfare services.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
Senate Committee Waters Down
Kefuuver Drug Control Proposal

Grants FDA stronger authority
to inspect drug plants;
Requires the generic or common
name in conspicuous place on la
bells;
Lets the government name a drug
if the industry can't agree on one;
Puts all antibiotics under the
same government control as PENCIL
lin, streptomycin, interchangeable,
chloramphenicol, and bacitracin; and
Requires drug makers to keep
records on adverse side effects.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
Increase In FederuI--

from page
DIR. Andrews said, "The laboratory
at Hamilton, Montana, has grown
from regionally important facility
to become an important center for
medical research on national and
world health problems, as we'll as
those of special interest to our west
ern states''
The Senate bill also authorizes a
total of $4,000 for hospitals in
Montana under the Halliburton pro-
gram. Of the total, $4,000 is ear
marked for hospital construction,
100000 for diagnostic and treat
ment hospitals, 100000 for chronic
100000 for nursing homes
and $4,000 for rehabilitation CEN
ters.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
Teachers Win Pay Boost

MINNEAPOLIS = (PAD - The
Teachers Federation here has won a
two-year pay increase from the Min
neapolis school board after lengthy
negotiations. Increases ranged from
5000 year for the lower brackets to
$1,000 for a Ph.D. teacher, with the
lowest grade minimum $4,000 year
and the highest maximum $10,075.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
WASHINGTON, D. c.

WASHINGTON, d. G. =
(CNS)-Dr. Frances Oldham
Kelsey's stubborn refusal to let
u. S. drug firms market the
,sleeping-pill- that-deforms won
headlines July Is, just two
days after a Senate committee
settled for mild new drug con-
trolls.
A group of senators led by James
,Eastland (D-Miss.) and Everett Dirk
sen (R-Ill.) succeeded in watering
down the bill Estes Kefauver ID
TENN introduced.
So far as safety is concerned,
the principal difference is that Ke-
fauver would require federal Ii
censing of drug makers, which
amounts to official approval. The
Standardization compromise SIM
ply requires a drug maker to regis
ter-that is, to give his name, ad-
dress, and factory location.
Also, Kefauver had proposed that
drug advertising disclose a products
adverse effects, as we'll as it's bene-
fits. The compromise bill merely re-
quires drug makers to give inquiring
doctors printed information normally
enclosed in the drug package and
government approved information
about the drug.
The Eastland-Dirksen bill also
makes no provision for drug patents.
Kefauver proposed compulsory licens-
ing of new drugs after three years
with up-to-8%o royalties. He depended
largely on this to cut drug prices.
DIR. Kelsey was hailed as health |
heroine for refusing to let U. S.
drug firm market thalidomide. Only
a few months ago the firms repre-
,sentatives were calling her "unrea-
sonable" and stubborn" even in
simulated she was stupid.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27

of the union have already turned
the company offer down in two
separate votes by a majority of bet
ter than two to one. The last offer
was actually cut in pay for large
number of employees, and an offer
to buy two months of the contract,
favorable to the company, plus a
company strike clause for an added
three CENTS
He said that at meeting in Great
Falls, Monday, attended by a large
of members from all over
the state, it was definitely decided
by the entire executive board to leave
the bargaining in the hands of the
negotiating committee.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
EXAMPLE SHOWS NEED FOR
KEFAUVER BILL

In West Germany, where the drug
was licensed, two out of every five
pregnant women who used thalido-
mide as sleeping pill bore children
with missing arms or legs.
DR.. Kelsey, 47-year-old Food &
Drug Administration pharmacologist,
said she refused to certify the drug
as safe because II didn't feel the
material to back it up was very ade-
quate." Her superiors backed her
stand.
The bill the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee approved:
Requires drug makers to give the
government Substantial evidence"
that new drug is both effective and
safe before putting it on the market;
Gives Food & Drug Administra-
ton 80 days to reject new drug
(now 60 days);
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27

About 265,OOO Americans died of
cancer in 1860.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-07-27
LAY-OFF OF COOP
LINEMEN PROTESTED

At the same time that Local 44's
Leadership corrected the false report
noted above, the unions business
manager, George Goeckel, publicly
protested the firing of four IBEW
linemen by Vigilante Electric Coop.
Budgetary reasons given by the
co-op's management for the layoff
were branded as ridiculous by
Goeckel, as he pointed out that
with the number of miles of lines"
the coop has ito maintain, they
will be unable to give any SEM
blance of service expected by"
Vigilante's patrons.
'Tn reality" he said, "the over
cost of maintaining service does not
exist from too many employees do
ing this work. 1t is caused from mis-
poor supervision and
the neglect in seeing that there is
proper layout of work, no duplication
in travel and to arrangements utter
disregard of the employees sugges-
lions to help reduce these COSTS"
Noting that "costs of maintaining
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-03
Caithersburg
Church Holds
Dedication

The new mulh.purpose build
ing Of the First Baptist Church
IN Gaithersburg will be dedicat.
ed in ceremonies at 3 pm. to-
morrow.
Chaplain Wallace. M. Hale,
United States Army, will preach
the dedication sermon. Others
taking part In the program will
be DR.. M. Chandler Smith, ex-
ecutive secretary Of the d. c.
Baptist Convention; the Rev.
Winston H. Ambrose, secretary
of education of the Convention;
DR.. J. Davis Goldsmith, former
pastor of the church, and the
Rev. B. Frank Foster, the pres
ent pastor.
A reception and open house
will follow the ceremonies.
The new $135,0O0 structure
provides a sanctuary, education'
al facilities and office space. II
was constructed by Warthen
and Ward under specifications
drawn up by Vosbeck and Ward
architects.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-03-03
California
Lecturer
Speaks Here

Martin Broones, a Christian
Science lecturer from Beverly
Hills, Calf, will speak at the
First Church of Christ Scientist
in Chevy Chase at 8 pm. Mon
day, March 5.
His topic will be Christian
Science: Religion that Heals
through Prayer" The church
is located at 1901 Connecticut
ave.
A composer of many we'll
known sacred solos and musical
scores for popular Fight operas,
Broones organized and was the
director of the first music de-
partment in the motion picture
industry, for Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer studios in Hollywood.
He was a motion picture and
radio program producer before
retiring from the business world
in 1913 to devote his full time
to the practice of Christian Sci
ence healing.