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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-02-15

Why pay undertakers and
catalog statesmen 40% COM
mission when you can buy
direct from a manufacturer.
You will be better satisfied
when you select from our
display yard.
We will be glad to send
our manager, Mr.. Harold
r. Sides or answer by mail
or telephone.
DAVIDSON
MARBLE & GRANITE
WORKS
Kosciusko. Miss.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-02-15

Attend The Church Of Your
Choice This Sunday
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
Fal|on County People May Have
To Go To Court To Save Water


THE VOICE. greatly Shell Oil Company
flooding
domestic livestock irrigation and other beneficial
Early Huney acting for Falon
Commissioners
granting
further appropriation Hill aqu The Commission
claimed Huntey and his clients the
Engineer authority appropriation but who
with enforce
water law by the 1861 Legislature
the the remaining
dents the should Shells barrels
seriously reduce dry the areas vital
The Falon
waerodng oil operations that
Therefore, of this between the
and Shell is thousands of Montan oil
rpubh
article subject FALLON
information Also the in article
SHOULD Groundwater Like Oil
poance of groundwae survival particularly in the WesHLB
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
COUNTY BY COUNTY
BREAKDOWN

The Interest and Income ALLEGATION
by counties is as follows:
Beaverhead, s39,279.89; Big Horn,
$79,776.97; Blaine, $59,229.3O;
Broadwater, S17,886.38; Carbon,
$49,45O.5s; Carter, s14,152.31; Cas-
cade, $445,O96.52;
Chouteau, s47,697.O2; Custer,
$S6,131.07; Daniels, 23,91O.40;
Dawson, $77,198.2O; Deer Lodge,
$96,095.46; Fallon, S25, 787.75; Fer
gus, $92,196.35;
Flathead, 5000, ss4.7s; Gallatin,
$147,939.15; Garfield, $12,13O.56;
Glacier, S94,176.85; Golden Valley,
$7,4O6.24; Granite, $19,Os2.9S; Hill,
$11s,788.68;
Jefferson, $23,477.16; Judith Ba-
sin, $20,052.55; Lake, $92,6O8.96;
Lewis & Clark, $164, 34O.16; Liberty,
$17,680.08 Lincoln, $50, 015.92; Mad
ison, $29,521.81;
McCone, $2O,96O.2S; Meagher,
15,843.98; Mineral, s2O,O73.1S;
Missoula, $268,13O.6S; Musselshell,
$28, 201.47; Park, $74,805.1O; Petro-
leum, $5,260.7O;
Phillips, $35,71O.87; Pondera. $780,
Powder River, $15,452.O2;
Powell, 5,324.53; Prairie, $15,-
O39.42; Ravalli, s80,107.O6; Rich
land, $69,193.68:
Roosevelt, $1O6,9ss.21; Rosebud,
S41, 590.48; Sanders, $40,662.12;
Sheridan, $40,889.05; Silver Bow,
s270,152.44; Saltwater, $31,935.55;
Sweet Grass, $17,494.42;
Teton, 9,429.96; Toole, s4S,-
)27.10; Treasure, $8,a96.49; Valley,
13,486.72; Wheatland, S17,432.52;
Nibaux, $10,748.33; Yellowstone,
sos, O39.26.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
Observation-Disclosures Basin
Intertie Study Gets Okeh

substantial net profit for the Bon
neville Power Administration. by
export of surplus secondary and
Peaking capacity and import of
off-peak steam power from Cali
fornia, which would permit con-
version of BPA secondary power
to firm. f.a
Even greater economy in power
Transmission may be obtained by a
Bonneville-Missouri Basin intertie, y
the Senators wrote, adding that "east-
ern Montana is faced with severe
power shortage in the near future"
Since "a relatively short intertie
would permit use of surplus Bonnie
vile power in power-short area"
they urged study cas- soon as pos
sible.'
Both ,BPA and the Bureau ehave
been assembling the necessary basic
data preliminary TO an evaluation of
such an interconnection," Assistant
Interiors Secretary Kenneth Holum
has just replied. "We will promptly
move ahead with the engineering and
economic studies of this intercon-
nection as soon as the remainder of
The basic data are available"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02

WASHINGTON, d. C. - interior
Secretary Udall has approved re.
quest by Montana's Senators that he
study a high voltage intertie between
the Bonneville Power Administration
(BPA) and the Reclamation Bueau's
Missouri Basin system.
This was announced Thursday by
Democratic Senators Mike Mansfield
and Lee Metcalf. g
The feasibility study is expected
to take about one year.
The u. S. Reclamation Bureau is
the Interior Departments marketing
agency for power generated at fed
eral plants in the Missouri River Ba-
sin. BPA has the same job in Ore
gon, Washington, northern Idaho and
western Montana.
After meetings and telephone dis
cussions, Mansfield and Metcalf
wrote Udall lateSin January, remind
ing him that ''the headwaters of two
major watersheds, the Columbia and
the Missouri, rise in our state.
"We thus are particularly inter-
ested in the generation and trans
mission of power from the dams on
both rivers and their tributaries"
hey continued.
THE proposed Bonneville-Cali-
fornia intertie would produce
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
OTHER SOURCES UP
SEVEN PER CENT

Gross income on investment, anc
several other revenue-producing cate
gories had an overall increase OF
seven per cent. Subdivided, these
categories are:
Interest on land sale contracts:
1860, $190,371.16; 1861, $236,601.-
al;
Soil Conservation payment: None
in 1860, $1,705.88 in 1861;
State Forestry Grazing fees: 1860,
SIS, 100000; 1861, S1O,315.89;
Interest on Bonds, Certificates:
1860, $115,035.90; 1861, $11O,856.-
rs;
Interest on Permanent Funds: (In-
vested through Montana Trust &
Legacy, 1860, $1,203, 095.06; 1861,
$1,259, 979.52.
Total Gross Income: 1860, S4,-
174,763.18; 1861, $4,499, 749.75.
Deducted from gross for cost of
bond and land acquisition and sales,
plus five per cent which by law must
go into Permanent School Fund:
1860, $265, 302.64; 1861, $685.
Net total for distribution: 1850,
So, 09,460.54; 1861, $4,244,229.92.-
Miss Miller explained that the
comparatively large increase in agri-
cultural lease income was due mainly
to catching-up operation whereby,
for one county, two years payments
we're made in single year. ''Thus
the large increase cannot be regarded
as trend, and is not expected to
-ecur," she stated.
The State Superintendent said that
school districts will receive $20.63
,or each resident between the ages
If 6 and 81, based on the October,
L961 school census. Statewide, there !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02

wells at Baker has dropped an alarm
ing DO feet.
If there is sufficient water in the
reservoir, then Shell is, of course,
welcome to it. However, we believe
the large majority of the people in
this area distinctly do not approve of
Shells gigantic use being undertaken
without any showing at all that a
great many people will not be serious
ly and. permanently damaged. No
such showing has been made. Until
it is, every effort should be made to
stop what is apparently a reckless
destruction of vital resource.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
OIL COMMISSION is
CONTROLLING AGENCY

Inc Ou ana GaS conservation Com
mission is the only agency in this
state that can permit or deny the in
lection of fresh water into an oil
bearing strata. 1t alone can decide
whether millions of gallons of fresh
water will or will not be destroyed by
being mixed with oil and salt water
and buried at unrecoverable depths.
The Commission refuses to exer-
else this power in the interests of
conservation. 1t says it has no
jurisdiction to prevent Shell Oil
Company from using in excess of
one million gallons of fresh water
per day from common reservoir,
even when it is proved that such
use will invade the rights and
affect well being of others.
The Commissions referral of the
protestants in this matter to the State
Engineer and Water Commissioners is
simply an effort to avoid response
bility. Mr.. Buck, the State Engineer,
has proclaimed, and it is common
knowledge, that his office can do
nothing TO remedy any water misuse
because there are no funds appropri-
ated for that purpose.
The Fox Hill sand is an under
ground water bearing sandstone, an
aquifier, took took, it is estimated,
millions of years to become water
saturated. This acquifier furnishes
all the water for municipalities of
Baker, Plevna, Ismay, Mildred and
the Kinsey project. 1t furnishes most
of the water for the City of Terry,
much water for Miles City and some
water for the City of Glendive. There
are hundreds of wells in the acquifier |
producing water, mostly artesian, for
farmers and stockmen in the area. 1t
is the only dependable source of well
water in the entire area. 1t is a nat
ural resource vital to the economic
well being of the region between
Baker and Miles City.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
WATER LEVEL DOWN
90 FEET AT MILES CITY

1t was shown at the Commission
hearing that the valuable water sup
ply is being depleted. Proof was adj
duced that the water level in Miles
City had dropped 80 feet and in
Baker, 40 feet. Twenty wells were
measured and it was proved that these
wells had suffered significant low
ering in water levels, or, if they were
flowing wells, that they had quit
flowing or were flowing at reduced
rate. 1t was proved, without contra
diction, that the acquifier at the pres
ent rate of use is being depleted.
1t was also proved, without con-
tradiction, that there were other
sources of non-fresh water avail
able to Shell for its water flooding
program and that Shell was not
using all of the salt water pro-
duced with its oil in its flooding
project.
Our prosperity and very existence
f some of our municipalities depend
n the water supply in the Fox Hills
and J<sfollows that we cannot con-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
Phonetic Spelling?

Why English as foreign language
must present problems to students in
non-English speaking lands is made
clear by the following from the RHO
DESIAN RAILWAY REVIEW:
If ''gh" stands for "p'' as in chic
cough, and Tough" stands for COZ as
in dough, "phth" for st" as in
''phthisis" leigh" for "a" as in
"neighbor'', ''tte'' for 'st'' as in
gazette, and "eau" for. 80" as in
beau, then the right way to spell
potato ought to be "ghoughphtheight-
teeau."l
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02

slider the decision of the Oil and Gas
Conservation as decisive. Our con-
gressional delegation should be re-
quested to secure executive, and, if
necessary. legislative action to the
end that a study be made of the acqi-
fier, preferably by the United States
Geological Survey, to determine if
the proposed water Withdrawals will
be detrimental to other water users.
If necessary, relief must be sought
in court.
In making an effort to satisfac-
torily determine this disagreement,
we cannot expect too much co-opera-
ton from Shell.
In 1869, when Shell commenced its
pilot flooding program, it refused to
contribute any funds to make a study
of the capacity, etc. of the Fox Hills
sand. This refusal was repeated by
Shell in Baker, Jan. %, 1862.
ONE WELL ALREADY DRY
Shells present, relatively modest
use of 5000 barrels per day of fresh
water has dried up one well with 90
feet of water in it and has apparently
caused one we'll to cease flowing and
precipitous drops in the water levels
of other wells. Shells response to
this situation was to triple its water
use.
On January %, of this year, Shells
appeared in Baker in an
effort to convince the people in this
area that the proposed water use
would not damage any other water
users. One of the employees was a
1ydrologist, or expert on under
ground waters, who explained with
geological theory that the Fox Hill
sand was replenished from under
ground water sources and in fact had
such surplus of water that it con-
.ributed large quantities of water to
he Yellowstone River at Glendive.
lie said that Shells proposed use
would not damage any other users.
At the Oil and Gas Conservation
hearing, this same expert said that
he knew nothing about UNDER
ground water, that he was map
maker.
Another expert testified for Shell {
hat the source of water in the Fox /
ILLS sand could not be determined
'ithout study. He also said that the c
-ater under about 100000 acres of i
md would be affected by Shells 6
roposed use. This he claimed to have Q
etermined from test. The test re- "
Its were not shared with either of 9
lie government biologists concerned D
18th underground water and were not t.
1T in evidence at the hearing.
When Shell first applied to the Oil
i'd Gas Conservation Commission on :,
ct. 8, 1868, to use water. from the .
,x Hills sand, it indicated to the =
that the water in the
nd was not fit for human consump-
IN, that it twas fit for poison 1t v
so indicated that the City of Baker ~
ntinually pumped $40 gallons per
mute without lowering the water $
bic. y, "
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
SHELLS STATEMENTS
MISLEADING

Both of these statements by Shell
were misleading. The water from the
Fox Hill sand throughout this area
is soft, pure, good tasting and of
good quality. Also, Bakers maximum
summer time use is 231 gallons per
minute and the water level in the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
THE PEOPLES VOICE
from page 1

't rugfnI.s .Tf ~ -
the power companies proposals would
mean $27 million cut in the fed
eral investment in the transmission
lines and would add SIT million to
the basin fund by the end of the s7-
year payout period.
But Berry Hutchings, president of
Intermountain Consumer Power AS
ISOLATION or Utah, said the basin
fund would not be impaired if the
federal government built all of the
lines.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
Isl Daytime Fatal Accidents
CONTINUED from page One)
LARGE TRAFFIC INCREASE IN DECADE

LARGE TRAFFIC INCREASE IN DECADE
Highway statistics compiled by Devine show that
the 1Oyear period 19516 traffic increased in all categores
of roads, in existence in the earlier year.
Travel primary highways increased by 1854 per cent
On secondary and county the increase 1872
Urban traffic went up a. per cent. GefFss
In 1861 compared with 1860 the following percentages
developed by Devine: primary up fveenths of
cent secondary and cent? urban
fourtenhs of per Travel the expanding Inter-
state system for unexpanabe dropped 13
cent in 1861 as compared with 1860 aees4
Although Montana patrol force far short of nationally
recommended mnimums reasonably good comp
with traffic by motorists the gap
the 195161 decade In 1851 the patrol had total force of N
uniformed officers compared with 120 In 1851
of the n traffic paromen In 1861 Sc of the 100
on regular highway "beats".
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02

Laws should be like clothes, They
should be made to fit the people they
are meant to serve. - CLARENCE
DARROW.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
$S75 MILLION GIFT TO
POWER COMPANIES 81

"To the contrary Hutchings
said, "the all-federal systems
would make available at least 1882
million to the basin fund over an
S7-year period
Udall announced that proposals
had been accepted from Pacific Pow
er and Light Company in Wyoming,
Public Service Company of Colorado.
Public Service Company of New Mex
leo, and Utah Power and Light COM
pany. Negotiations were still in prog
ress with Arizona Public Service
Company.
The Interior Secretary said he had
negotiated with the power companies
under the terms of an understanding
with Congressional Appropriations
Committees last fall. This understand
ing was reached after both houses
approved an all-federal system.
His department at that time was
authorized to proceed on the entire
system unless the Secretary finds
it practical and in the national inter-
est to enter into wheeling contracts"
Udall made it clear this week that
the power companies had changed
their original offers. Some sections
of the original all-federal plan, he
said, will be eliminated and others |
will be delayed.
Power from Flaming Gorge Dam in
Utah is expected to begin flowing in |
1868, power from Glen Canyon Dam
n Arizona is expected in 1864. and /
he Curecanti unit of the storage
'roject will begin producing power
n 1867.
The Interior Secretary declined at
lis press conference to call his de-
ision partnership agreement. He
aid he hoped it would become "a
'attern of cooperation between pub
ic and private power utilities, a
approach.
JANE OLD PARTNERSHIP,
ILL RIGHT
The next morning, the WALL
TREET JOURNALS story based on
he press conference fatty contra
icted Udall. 1t said in part:
"The decision to include private
utilities in what originally was en-
visioned as an all-federal system
is the first such partnership agree
ment since Secretary Udall took
office in January, 1860.
More such partnership contracts
re expected. 1t is part of Mr.. UdalPs
olicy to make peace with the utii-
es in an attempt to head off what :
'uld be Gripping Congressional OPP
osition to the Administration pow !,
: program focusing on federal ac- :
on"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02

In an interview with Gene Huntley,
attorney, following the approving of
the State Oil and Gas Commission @
Shells water flooding program, the
following was reported. Huntley rep
resented Baker, Fallon County, Terry
and numerous farmers at the hearing
in Helena.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
School Grazing Lease Subsidy

are 205,729 in the 6-21 age group,
an increase of 1854 over the 1860
census.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-03-02
from page

year, from $820,812.14 to $847,-
300.41.
Evening star., 1962-08-04
Honorinq q Debt

There is no better way to honor
debt than to pay it. BY act of Congress,
and with good reason, we had promised
the Philippine. people, our friends in
peace and our allies in war, reimburse
ment for property losses suffered dur
ing World War II. Approved claims
amounted to approximately $462 mil
lion and all but $73 million of this obli-
cation was discharged years ago. The
$73-million remainder has been under
controversy-in Congress, not elsewhere
ever since, and last May the House
voted down an appropriation to cover
this debt.
Wisely, the House has now changed
its position and has approved the pay
ment on 194-35 vote. The Senate is
expected to concur. This will be recorded
as one of the worthwhile accomplish
mentS of the 87th Congress.
Evening star., 1962-08-04
Trouble at Lorton

1t Is now evident, after two violent
riots in three days, that the trouble at
Lorton Youth Center ran much deeper
than a few simple demands by dis
gruntled prisoners. If the first out
burst Of Tuesday did not reveal this
fact, the second, more desperate, dem
onstration Of Thursday most certainly
did.
Only surface calm was restored at
the campuS-Style corrective institution
after District Corrections Director
Clemmer gave in to seemingly reason
able conditions following the first melee.
Believing that tension persisted, author
tiles decided to move the ringleaders to
the greater security of District Jail.
And it was then that the original in
stigatorS, Joined Sympathetically by
other prisoners, made a ShambleS of
some Of the dormitorieS. Only the
strongest measures by a reinforced
guard detail and Washington riot squad
policemen foreStalled more serious con-
sequences. Even so, 43 enraged inmates
kept up 24-mile running riot as they
were hustled off to Jail in buses.
Blame for the trouble "a spokesman
for the sect denies it) has been fixed
on prisoners identified as Black Mus
Inns. 1t is this group which, after Tues
days destructive onslaught, won these
points: For religious reason, no more
pork would be cooked with vegetables;
MuslimS would be permitted to live to-
gether in one dormitory, and they
would not be forced to attend program
in group pSychotherapy.
If this was intended to allay ten
sion, 1t had no such effect. The follow
ing night Negro prisoner, unSympa-
tnetic to the MuSlimS, was found in a
Semi-conSciouS condition, bound and
gagged. Then came Thursdays explos-
ion and ample proof that authorities,
in fact, had been trying to deal in hu-
name terms with gang of SenSeleSS
hoodlumS.
Whether the trouble-makerS were
inspired by someone outside the prison
is one of the questions the FBI and
others are hoping to answer Youth
Center officials believe the hard core
of the rioters was made up of youths of
low mentality, who Joined the Muslims
after entering Lorton.
Whatever the facts behind the riots,
Mr.. Clemmer is right in insisting the
guilty ones should be punished to the
fullest extent of the law. What they
have cost in terms of physical and moral
destruction has been a cruel setback
in an earnest effort to rehabilitate
young criminals.
Evening star., 1962-08-04
Soviet Farm Woes

The Soviet Union continues to be in
serious agricultural trouble, and leaders
OF the Kremlin and the Communist
Party are openly admitting it, They are
doing so by issuing all sorts of strongly
worded appeals and ukases designed to
bring in good crop wherever there is
even the slightest promise of one.
A striking case in point involves
the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan,
whose newly cultivated wheat fields are
supposed to supply as much as Is per
cent of all the grain to be harvested and
delivered to the Kremlin for distribution
throughout the USSR. Apparently the
regions prospective crop is excellent,
but great part of it is in danger of
being lost because there is lack of
farm workers. because thousands of har-
vesting machines are in need of repair,
and because there is an acute shortage
of people who know how to run the
equipment that is still operable.
- Accordingly an emergency has been
declared, and party-line propagandists
are doing their best (Which is none too
good to rectify the situation with reamS
addressed to masses of people who really
are in no position to improve the Situa-
tion. This is so because of the rigidity
OF the Soviet system and the vast in
competence of the Communist hacks
in charge of agricultural collectiviza-
ton. The free worlds farm production
is incomparably superior to the USSR's,
which is one of the great weaknesses of
Nikita KhruShchev and his colleagues.
Certainly, wherever it tries to operate
farm, Red totalitarianism runs a poor
second to free enterprise.
Here is one of the most important
facts of our time. What it means is
that the Kremlin will remain in trouble
as long as it tries to force the Russians
into farming of a type that does vio-
lence to common SenSe-and also to the
human desire to till ones own soil on a
sef-rewarding basis rather than Just