The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1962-07-12
A MINUTE
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Judgment and a nickel's worth
of authority is about all il takes
10 send a twO-bit bureaucrat on a
divine right, jurisdicti0nal hinge.
In this respect the State ASC
Committee has done, and is con-
tinuing 10 do, all IL can 10 com
pleteIy eliminate any and all per.
sonnet of the popularity elected
Glacier County ASC Committee
and the office employees who
could have been suspected OF
even thinking that they were
honestly representing the grain
growers of this area.
In this hush-hush, dictatorial
administration Of appointe d,
pOWer-seeking bureaucrats who
have somehow been endowed
Eith the rare and undemocratic
authority 10 fire elected officials,
ve find absolutely no reason for
the head-hunting action being
carried out in the grain fields Of
our county.
Our county ASC officials have
dOre nothing more than TO carry
out the expressed desires of
those ranchers who elected them.
and. because they have been
honest enough and had the cour.
age 10 resist the hobbies of the
upper echelOn they have been
fired This is an act of gov
ernment control at the lowest
leyel-right at the producer level.
Latest 20 get the axe is WitsO
Rasmussen. office manager Of the
Glacier County ASc. who went
on the block July 8. No reason
was given other than personal"
He was not even notified of the
action. and did not know about
il until he read il in a newspaper.
At this rate any number of
grain ranchers could plant their
crop, then be told by the state
that their allotments had been
cancelled for personal reasons"
They might not know il until
harvest time unless they
read the papers
The state office has. for some
months. has had scouts" out in
Glacier County. asking questions
about the former county commit
teemen and the office personnel
They failed 70 get a very warm
reception wherever they made
inquiries. and when confronted
by the former Chairman. person
ally. packed up their briefcases
and disappeared.
II this whole mess Is 10 be
treated fairly and the picture on
both sides brought TO light, Mr..
Freeman should make every eff
fort 70 initiate a public inyesti-
cation the very thing the
former county committee has
been trying TO bring about q.
and a possible reason for their
being fired!
Good Old Joe" as one of our
presidents once referred to Sta
lin, may not have anything to
wOrry about other than how TO
bluff his way past St Peter. but
those left behind in the Krem-
lin are pulling mighty hard on
their whiskers since the U. s.
exploded our big thermometer
device ard successfully launch
ed the Telstar satellite.
And that isn't all they have TO
worry about; there seems 10 be
a widening rift between the
Castro forces and blood brother
red Chinese. Things Just aren't
going according to Communist
HoyIe even though Mr.. X. is still
promising to back any red-in-
spired action against the Allies
IL would appear that the Com
uunist-spswned babies are NJ
longer satisfied TO suckle the
mother breast. and have now
grow1 some sharp teeth al OF
which make the nursing very
uncomfortable There always
comes a time when the onre
nhedIent cubs be"~me dissatis,
fled. and they eii""- take a m'nl-
ing from the n-3:her, or strike
out on their own
Ore thing Is true, however. II
the Communist ranks, they never
forget ii Once they break
from the fold. II is the begin
ming OF the end.
We would like TO pass along 3
word OF appreciation 10 the city
fathers for the street watering
nroiect they have initiated, par
,iruIarIy around the encampme1t
g-ou1d they had some road
s-sssi-g material ordered which
,,,o,Id have held the dust down.
nu, n has failed TO arrive. s.
,sev have been doing a good lob
ui,h 4 make-shift portable waier
,,rk with Bill Kipling as tn e
Chief Rainmaker.
And the doctors strike up in
c.ska,ehewan is still going on.
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