The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-23


mission meeting blasted off its
pad several times but never
really got into orbit.
A really major flareup came
when Chairman Roy Sorrels
made the rest of the commits
sion sit through a Louisiana
travel promotion by S&H Green
Stamps that was being pushed for
Montana by Sorrels' Billings buddy,
Rep. Jerry Anderson. The S&H public
relations man kept referring to the
''snipe" that would be added to pro-
mote local events on billboard adj
vertising in the state. ('Snipe", a
Southern term. would be a banner
line on S&H billboards, ballyhooing
Montana as a tourist mecca.)
Commissioner George Gosman
hit the retro-rocket button and
blasted Anderson with, what are
you taking up commission time
with this for?" The advertising
department could give them listen
ing time, said George, and besides,
stamps anyhow"
Commissioner Ted James said that
the commission should be on guard
against being used The trading
stamp issue is currently before the
Supreme Court for determination of
the legality of the ''kill 'em dead"
law passed by the 1861 Legislature.
LEAVE THE ROOM, GEORGEI
Chairman Sorrels told Gosman he
could leave the room anytime. Any
kind of advertising is good for the
state, according to the philosophers
from Billings.
State Parks Director Ashley Rob- |
erts put the liquid fuel into the COM
missions rocket by suggesting that
he buy $4,000 state parks brochures.
Comm. James, smarting over the
omission of Great Falls Giant !
Springs from the state system, OPP
posed the $1,121 purchase by saying
that all advertising should come
from the advertising budget.
The advertising budget being fully
allocated, made no provision for the
parks alone, so, not only did the
commission accept the offer to use
park money for advertising but
doubled the order, biting deeply into
Roberts, funds.
The commission allowed Roberts
to purchase some cement mixers to
try to fill the crying need for latrines
in the parks.
The Seattle's World Fair will at
tract big increase in traffic through
Montana. However, private industry
of the state can not raise the $4,000
necessary to have a Montana booth,
because of their austerity programs
Cha, ha).
After turning heaven and earth
to get the 13 miles north of Scobey
on the primary system to draw Cana
dams into the state, movement de-
veloped in Daniels county which
brought their county commissioners
to Helena to ask that the Scobey
north road be redesignated back to !
secondary status. Residents of the I
Flaxville area were afraid the county i
would not maintain the secondary
road due north of their town to the
Canadian border, with the Scobey
north road on the primary. C
The Scobey road will remain on v
the primary and state assisted sec
Dndary maintenance will be given t
if the standard of the Flaxville north n
road meets the formula for such as
,istance. 1t will. n
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James thought that the department
hould have three maps prepared for p
he training of new commissioners p
o that they could have some visual e
dea about what departmental Off r.
ials are talking about at commission Il
Meetings. The first map would be of
rejects now under construction. The r.
econd, projects in the design and is
ight-of-way purchase stage, and u
hird showing projects that will be a.
esigned in the future. w
There is little surprise for James. %
lot only will the new commissioners
of an idea about what the depart-