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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18
usroR'ohsL,I 9 ANA
Governor Ignores Request
For UN Day Proclamation

LAUREL-Twice within the
last month Laurel United Ma.
tions Day Chairman James w
hurry has requested Gov. Tim
Babcock to proclaim UN Day
October "a. And twice, Mon
tana's voluble Governor has
maintained a stony silence; has
not even acknowledged re-
ceipt of either letter from Muir
ry.
When asked by BILLINGS GA
ZETTE reporter as to Murry's re-
quest, Babcock countered by saying
he had not seen either letter. This
drew from hurry the comment that
"this is one of the disadvantages of
having travelling Governor He
just doesn't have time to correspond
with his constituents :"
In his original letter of Sept. 81
to the Governor, Murry advised that
he had been appointed by Laurel
Mayor John Beslanwitch to be chair
man of the UN Day activities in that
city. "This program" he said, els
in conjunction with the United States
Committee for the United Nations
and is non-partisan, non-profit
committee of national organizations
to disseminate facts about the United
Nations, arouse interest in the United
Nations, and promote the observance
of UN Day, October a.
81 am aware" hurry wrote the
Governor, ''that last year you refused
to declare United Nations Day.
am writing this letter
with the deep hope you may be per-
suaded to proclaim UN Day in 1868.
Many of us feel that the UN is not
4 perfect organization. However, as
one of our mayors analogized last
year, the UN could be compared to
abor and management negotiating
4 contract. As long as both parties
continue to meet, there is always
nope for a settlement"
Concluding, the Laurel UN chair
man reminded Babcock that former
President Eisenhower has said that
the UN is the worlds best hope for
lasting peace and has pressed for BIZ
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18
100000 Jobs A
Year Eliminated
By AUfomufion

Over 100000 factory jobs are be-
ing eliminated each year by automa-
ton and other chronological changes,
a Senate Labor subcommittee was
told recently by Leon Greenburg, pro-
ductivity expert in the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
Greenburg presented results of a
study made among 200 manufacture
ing industries for the years between
1857 and 1861. This showed that
total output in these industries rose
by TO percent in that period, but
production per man-hour jumped IT.
percent.
AS result, jobs in those 200 in
dustries fell by 100000 or 8.4 per-
cent.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18
$4,000 At Issue /.
$17, 1000 At Issue -.
Wage ChiseIing
Charge Levied AT
ND Contractor

All the umpires blew their
whistles and reached for their
penalty markers this week on
Oil Field Service Co. of fright
to-work" North Dakota, in an
attempt to make that company
conform to Montana laws. Oil
Field Service has the construc-
tion contract on the Plenty
wood soil conservation-recrea-
tion dam.
Labor Commissioner Maurice Jones
sought advice from the Attorney Cen
erals office as to the effectiveness
of the prevailing wage statutes when
it was called to his attention that
laborers on the job were receiving
only the federal minimum of $1.25
when the prevailing scale is at least
twice that. Equipment operators were
receiving only half of what they are
entitled to in Montana. About a
Sea Pare 3
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18
Award-Winning
Commentator Now
Heard On kM0N

Edward P. Morgan, ABC's
award-winning news analyst,
who for some years has been
sponsored by the national
AF-CIO, can be heard each
weekday ing over
KMON, Great Falls. Broad
cast time is 1880 pm.
Morgan's 15-minute Mon
day through Friday broad
cast can also be heard on
KILL, Helena, at 1880 pm,
and on KGEZ, KalispelI, at
ZOO pm.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18
Toward An Understanding Of
Government Spending

in spending viewed
by the Economics
of that
migh to to
spending.
Onei the MONTANA BUSINESS QUARTERLY, Summer 1868
article therein titled What Everybody
To edition of the
be the of
School Administration,
MSU, Missoua
The Spending" by
L. L. pocket book
which $145.
is Spending
Written by well
book
1905, simple and
vivid erms"-EDITORS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18
Bureau of Reclamation Study
Small MuIf-Purpose Dam On
MusseIshen Found Feasible

the project would attract $4,000 visi-
tor-days annually for boating, pic
nicking, ct cetera, in addition to in
creased number of fishermen and
hunters.
In their successful request to the
Senate Appropriation Committee for
funds for the Musselshell study last
year Mansfield and Metcalf said that,
as in years past, they were reminding
the Committee that Montana must
look to public works projects 'fif its
natural and human resources are to
be fully developed"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18

partisan support of the United Ma
tons. May suggest, Governor Bah
cock, that to change your mind will
not distract from your stature :"
MANSFIELD TO SPEAK AT
LAUREL UN BREAKFAST
Laurel's observance of UN Day will
center around a 1880 breakfast at
the Owl Cafe, at which U. S. Senate
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield will
be the honored guest and speaker.
Tickets for the breakfast, hurry adj
vises, are two dollars each.
Other Montana towns which have
appointed UN Day activities chair
men include Billings, Conrad, Great
Falls and Missoula.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18

is traumatic experience and delays
treatment and recovery of the pa
tient.
A county wide directory of all
services and facilities for aid in men
tai illness will be written by the Mis-
soula chapter of MAMH and pub
lished for general distribution. 1t
will include well known facilities such
as the Mental Hygiene Clinic and also
lists of individuals trained in special
nursing, consultive and other fields
who can be called upon to supply
extra services.
WORKSHOP IN JANUARY
A workshop for teachers in Jam
uary 1864 is being set up by the Mis-
soula chapter of MAMH and will be
assisted financially by the state
group. 1t will include faculty from
the National Institute for Mental
Health and is open to interested
teachers.
Books for the library and for texts
for men studying in the prison at
Deer Lodge rehabilitation program
will be bought by the Montana Asso-
citation for Mental Health under the
direction of Mrs. Ruth Longworth, of
the Montana Library Commission.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18

WASHINGTON, d. Cast year
Senators Mansfield and Metcalf con-
vinced the Senate Appropriations
Committee that it should provide
$25, 900, which was not in the budget,
to finance a Bureau of Reclamation
study of a proposed multi-purpose
dam on the Musselshell River, about
seven miles south of Mosby and a
mile above the mouth of Flat Willow
Greek. Community leaders had re-
quested the Senator'S intercession
after they learned that the proposed
project was beyond the capability of
the Montana State Water Board and
too large to qualify under the small
watershed program administered by
the Soil Conservation Service.
The Bureau of Reclamation, upon
concluding it's preliminary appraisal
this month, advised the Senators that
'sthe desirabi1ity of conducting de-
tailed feasibility Investigations has
been established and we expect to
include this item in our detailed in
vestigation program at the earliest
opportunity consistent with overall
budgetary considerations"
The preliminary report shows that
the reservoir would cover approxi-
mately $4,000 acre-feet in Garfield
and Petroleum counties and provide
irrigation service to about 5000
acres. About $500 acres in the area
are now under irrigation. The pump
ing plant and distribution facilities
would be constructed, operated and
maintained by water users.
The preliminary report also shows
recreation, fishing and hunting would
benefit substantially from the prof.
ect. which would cost an estimated
Sc million. The Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation estimated tentatively that
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18

the farmer who feels he must plant
all his land to crops if he is sur
vive and who knows that if
he and his neighbor do this, to-
gether they will produce more than
can be sold at a fair profit, usually
is portrayed as the case of the
farmer wanting his cake and eat
ing it too, he said.
HOPES TO DISPEL DISTORTION
Freeman hoped to dispel this eds
tortion" of the farmer in the eyes
of the public by his mouth to ear
safari into the grassroots, which in
turn would be sent to the non-farm
segment via the press, radio and
television.
His appearance in Montana was
his third that day in this series of
Report and Review conferences.
Above and beyond what must in
evitably be trying and repetitious
ordeal, one could not help but adj
mire the hardy physical constitution
the man must have, to bear up under
the hours of standing and meeting
the public. The strain of the Great
Falls meeting alone would exhaust
most people. From the time of his
arrival around pm. till after IL 80
pm. when he finally left the plat
form where he had been standing
since 8 pm. Freeman was facing farm
people and their problems.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18

After a dinner meeting with De-
partment of Agriculture employees
he faced the press for a half hour.
There were some $3.50 newspaper
and radio representative present, and
the questions asked were similar to
those that later came from the au-
dience, except, think it was a UPI
correspondent, who asked him if he
knew anything about DR.. r. r.
Renne's plans to come back to Mon
tana and run for Governor.
Freeman said he knew nothing of
any political plans DR.. Renne might
have but he hoped the Montana State
College president, on leave, planned
to stay in the Department of Agri-
culture where he was doing an out
job.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18
Mental Health Group
Schedules + Projects

ANACONDA-Six different
projects were put into action
by the Montana Association for
Mental Health Board in their
October meeting in Lewistown.
The projects will be in five diff
ferent areas of the state. In
Guided are the Billings Hope
Club, the Hi-Line Bus tours to state
institutions, a psychiatric unit in the
General Hospital at Chester, direc-
tory of mental health facilities and
services in Missoula county, work
shop for teachers, also in Missoula
county, and library supply for the
state prison in Deer Lodge, according
to Rev. H. Fichtler, Glasgow, presi-
dent of MAMH.
Money was allotted to each project
as requested through the project
committee headed by Mrs. George
Allen of Livingston.
Billings Hope Club is for returned
patients who have had treatment for
mental illuess and is designed to give
them meeting place and schedule
where they may visit, have refresh
ments and entertain, and share their
experiences. Transportation to meet
ings will be provided.
BUS TOURS PLANNED
The Bus Tours from the Hi-Line
will originate in Havre, include peo-
pie from surrounding counties via
Chester, Conrad, and Great Falls and
go to Boulder and Warm Springs.
MAMH pays all transportation costs.
Tours of the two institutions, lee
lures, and staff contacts will be on
the program. The trip will take two
days. This gives first hand knowl-
edge of facilities and life at the in
Participants ON the tour
pay flat rate of $500 for meals |
and lodging.
Liberty County Hospital at Chester
is planning psychiatric unit and
MAMH is helping this project in
planning and equipping such a unit.
Many Montana communities confine
their mentally i'll patients during pre-
liminary commitment in jails which J
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18
MUST SEEK SOUND AND
WORKABLE SOLUTIONS

To the standing room only assem-
blage that started gathering at pm
the Secretary said neither the farm.
ers nor the Secretary of Agriculture
s'have any alternative but to seek
sound and workable solutions to farm
problems" and thus he was trying to
let them know some of his problems
as Secretary of all agriculture and
listen to their problems as they ap-
pear through the eyes of those work
ing in the field.
Attendance was undoubtedly in
creased at the Great Falls meeting
by the anticipation that the an
tagonists to the 1868 wheat refer
endum, and cattlemen who oppose
importation of cattle from New
Zealand and Australia would ex-
press themselves, and lively con-
troversy was expected.
When the meeting ended even some
were at least granting
that Freeman knew what he was
talking about.
His supporters were jubdlant over
the way the evening went. They were
completely satisfied with Secretary
of Agriculture Freeman as man of
knowledge, conviction and courage,
dealing with monumental problems
myriad of involvements.
Freeman listened to the farmers in
two ways. After telling them some
If the problems he faces, and ulti-
nately, of course, what the entire
nation faces in the area of agricul-
See Page A
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18

AFTER trying period as head OF
the department that must seek to CO.
ordinate a program for many di-
vergent segments of the agricultural
community, Freeman has been trying
method of communicating "face
to face, openly and honestly" with
farmers.
The "cruel hard dilemma of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-18
Conclusion from Freeman Meeting n Falls s$
Whether There Is A Farm Program
Depends On Farmers Themselves
from Freeman Meeting In Great Falls
$500 Per Year
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

il the
think
himself in hiss umghte S
it hm he O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31

viets have used and will continue
to use their abundant oil re-
sources to expedite their own in
dustrial expansion and to extend
their political influence, under
mine freedom, and spread COM
munism in the Free World.
The Soviets' crude oil produc-
ton allowed them in 1858 to ex-
port $4,000 barrels a day to the
Free World. In 1861, this jumped
to a 0,000-barrel-a-day aver
age, or 3 per cent Of the Free
World oil demand. They fatty
told us they intend to up that
3 per cent to IA per cent, and you
know they aren't going to spend
the rest Of their lives doing it.
Their present seven-year plan
calls for exports of / million bar
rels a day to the Free World in
1865. To do this, they're going to
use their system of moving into
oil markets, upsetting them, with
drawing from them and moving
into others.
We face a massive, aggressive
competitor who can cut prices at
will and barter, accept soft cur
rencies, and do business in ways
that would stymie or ruin a West
ern oil company. In 1861, this
competition cost traditional ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31
The Bottle and the War

p They were shrewd. They dealt
the free world a blow merely by
; cutting prices on q bid; they
didn't have to use up even one
I barrel Of oil to win a trade war
victory. To keep the business,
Western companies were forced to
$ make the sale at Soviet prices.
Isn't that called winning the bat
tie but losing the war?
The Soviet oil industry is unique.
From the seismograph to export
/ marketing 1t is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
inefficiently, and often danger
. ously - with only one goal In
mind: defeating the aims and
ideals of everyone In this room.
70 AS you may know. 1 was a men,
Der of the United States Petroleum
. Delegation that spent a month
getting a first-hand, on-the-spot
view of certain Soviet oil opera
lions. Although there is a great
temptation when one comes back
from a foreign country to be an
expert, even a Russian would
have difficulty being an expert in
the USSR. The Soviet Union is
a difficult, complex country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31
Report From Red Cuba When the Daquiris Ran Out

something of a luxury model, TAX
ing place in conditions of rela-
tive prosperity much closer TO the
circumstances envisaged by Marx
than those that prevailed in Ell
ther Russia or China. There was
a problem of preserving what ex-
listed already.
So far the worst blow has been
the failure to prevent a collapse.
in sugar production. In 1861, out
put was 6.8 million tons; last
year it was 4.S million tons; this
year the estimate is around AZ
million tons. And however pas
sionately the Cubans may want
to diversity their agriculture and
industrialize their economy. sugar
is still the only major commodity
they can offer to the outside
world.
The slide was due to natural
causes, human and superhuman.
First. two years of drought. Last
years rainfall was nearly a third
below average. Then there was
the revolutionary governments
revulsion against Cuba's depend
ence on sugar and the Cuban
workers revulsion against the I'M
attractive work. The state, which
now controls about 40 per cent
Of the sugar acreage, was deter
mined on diversification; the
gross mistake (which Cubans
themselves acknowledge more
fiercely than any outsider) was
to pick on some Of the most pro-
ductive sugar fields for the
changeover.
The labor problem is more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31
Soviet Exports Have LeveIed OFF

Already there is evidence sup
porting this conviction. After In
creasing at an annual rate of
about 40 per cent for the past
three years, Soviet oil exports
have leveled off. Remember. oil
export potential does not neces-
sarily mean sales, even for as ag-
gressive a competitor as the So
viets. A.,
But let's not drop our guard.
The leveling off might Just be
due to lack Of present capacity
in Soviet pipelines and tankers.
My conviction that Western oil
companies can resist Soviet COM
petition is not based on blind
faith. 1t is based on the expecta-
ton that certain things must hap
pen. a.
To meet Soviet competition,
American oil companies must ct
least remain as strong and
healthy as they are today. They
must effectively supply q steadily
growing demand in the United
States and in the Free World.
They must continue to operate
a vast distribution and marketing
network which guarantees delivery
of petroleum products where and
when they are needed.
The Soviets don't yet have such
a network and can't guarantee
delivery. Most important, Ameri-
can oil companies must continue
to develop present reserves and
build future strength by discover
ing new reserves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31
Whot U. S. oiImen Sow

Nevertheless, our tour Of Russia
gave us a reasonable opportunity
to observe the Soviet oil industry
at work. Let me sketch for you
what our visiting oilmen saw in
the Soviet Union.
" We like to pride ourselves on
our accomplishments in oil devel-
opment. But the agency running
the Soviet exploration and produc-
ton is a Woodworking crew that
cut our time in half. In is years,
from 1916 to 1862. they increased
q oil production from only 49,. 900
barrels a day to 3.3 million bar
rels. That's quite a jump. Some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31
They Wont to Get Out

And yet, every day sees the
huge crowd waiting outside the
barred gates of the Mexican con-
sulate. Since flights TO Miami
were stopped last October, q
Mexican visa is the one key TO the
rest Of America. And 1t is neither
easy nor quick to obtain. An out
slider is bound to wonder why so
many people are anxious TO give
up their houses, their possessions.
their country and their jobs for
a miSerably uncertain future.
The truth may be that no Of
fetal policy change can still the
cruelty Of crowd instincts: at
every chance. such as the sackinR
OF a group Of hotel servants for
black marketeering. the gusanos.
or worms. as the "counter-revolu-
tionaries" are called. are bounded
10 background OF patriotic
music and screaming nerves.
Some leave 10 join family or
friends, some from claustro-
phobia. others because the
thought. more than the material
reality. Of communism sends shiY-
erS down their spines. =.
Sentimental travellers may find
II sad when Hemingway's bar As
out OF daiquiris. The lovely houses
OF departed gusanos are filled
with uniformed scholarship stu
dents. the 10000 teen-agers for
whom Or. Castro decreed sec
ondary education as a reward for
their efforts in 1861 10 teach the
peasants 10 read and write. Some
how the government COPIED With
the logistical task OF keeping
those students fed and housed;
only now Is teaching creeping In.
II may have been crazy 70 have
landed this army OF scholarship
students on an overloaded 0dli-
cational apparatus, but who can
say. looking at them now, that
they would have done better left
In their villages7
oiees The Economist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31
n u S Expert Sees Rising Soviet Oil Offensive

Editors note: George r.
Getty II, president Of the Tide
water Oil Co., recently returned
from an inspection tour Of the
Soviet oil industry. Here are ex-
ceFpts from a report he made to
~ the American Petroleum Instit-
tute meeting in Fort Worth,
Tex, earlier this month.
ht We meet today as the oil in
dustry Is threatened on many
. fronts. Such a conformation is
not unusual for us, but today's
threats are possibly the most ON
inous to date in our industry's
history.
Most of you are concerned
mainly with exploration and pro-
duction work. Your work is chal-
. longing and difficult. 1t would be
/, doubly challenging in fact, con-
founding - If you had to work
amidst violent revolutions, border
wars or Communist subversion.
Yet this was the case recently for
our oilmen in Iraq and Yemen;
while those working in Venezuela
are in the middle of communism's
No. / target in Latin America.
Added to the oil operators
troubles these days is the cut
throat competition of the largest
oil organization in the world-the
government-cont Soviet oil
industry. We think our domestic
oil business is competitive. Well,
many of you may be familiar with
an example of really tough COM
petition. In recent price war;"
the Russians forced free world
companies to lower prices by Of
fering India Soviet oil at 10 to 20
per cent below prevailing world
prices which we're already some
what depressed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31
No Labor Problems for Them

Oil field development is con-
trolled carefully under the seven
year plan. The nation itself owns
the land and the minerals, of
course. There are no leases, no
royalties. There are no labor
problems-despite the fact that
Is per cent of the oil industry
workers are women! The govern
ment just goes ahead and does
as it pleases. Labor, for example,
is freely transferred from one re-
gion to another to balance quail
ity and quantity.
The Soviet production objec-
tive is maximum recovery of re-
serves in the shortest period of
time. They have a use for all
the oil and gas that they can get
their hands on. They want to get
the oil out and use it. not to
produce it over long period of
time; the latter would be better
oil field engineering practice, but
poor overall economic and po-
litical practice for the Soviets.
About 10 per cent Of Soviet wells
are wildcats.
Our trip had many surprises.
For example, counter to our
thinking that Baku was the great
source Of Soviet oil, this region
produces only % per cent of the
Soviet's total. After World War
II, the Soviets began exploring
other regions. They were handed
an energy gift on a silver platter
when they discovered the Volga-
Urals fields, strategically located
between Moscow and their ire
mendous, newly industrialized
area east of the Urals. The So
viets couldn't have gotten a more
economic supply of oil If they
had designed the situation in one
Of their own seven-year plans.
Under the present seven-year
plan, they are constructing
huge petroleum pipelines. These
amounted to 1900 miles of oil