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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
A PARK, OR SOMETHING ELSE?

HUM 3, by Stranahan, Asbjornson
and Osburnsen, requests that the fed
eral government establish a national
park, to be known as the Charles M.
Russell National Park, along the
"breaks" of the Missouri upstream
from the Fred Robinson Bridge. This
area does indeed have natural pic
turesque-ness which is most unusual.
but there are other phases of natural
resource use to be taken into account
if and when national park status is
considered for the Missouri breaks.
Specifically, there are possible 8
major multiple purpose damsites
which would lie within the proposed
park. Developed, there is new sup
ply of power to meet the sIyrocket-
ing demands of central and eastern
Montana rural and urban areas. If
national park were created before
any multiple-purpose river develop
ment had gotten underway, it would
be next to impossible to utilize this
potential power resource. There are
certain monopoly interests operating
in Montana which would probably be
delighted if such power development
was sidetracked.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
Passenger Troin--
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100000 tax revenue to the state and
counties, in addition to several hun
dred rail workers jobs.
Contending that seven a casual
observer will be able to see what
will happen if this state has only one
railroad" Freeburg then quoted from
a statement by MIRO Chairman Smith
at last summers ICC hearings on the
proposed GIMP merger, wherein
Smith stated that without the Mil
waukee and with merger, Montana
would have one railroad and we would
be without competition, and, 'Iwhat
we need is better service for more
people rather than to hurry it up
for a few
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
"True Believers" Split
Yellowstone Scion
Pierced By Demise
of Sunday Blue Law

1t was Tuesday morning. The chair
man of the Committee on Business
and Industry asked the House to ac-
cept the committee report that HB
$50 ssdo not pass. HB 100 was the
Sunday Closing Bill.
Rep. Pierce R-Yellowstone) pro-
posed substitute motion that HB
100 be taken from the Committee on
Business and Industry and put into
the Labor and Compensation Com
mittee. Then he said, 81 want to give
this bill a decent burial, because it
has merit, and everybody laughed.
But by the time the House had fin
ished with the bill it became evident
Mr.. Pierce wasn't being funny, he
really wanted someone to attend the
funeral of his bill.
There had been only one vote for
HB 100 in the committee and when
the whole House considered it he
had only IS votes. rs voted against
him.
At the close of the morning session
Pierce announced that "the lonely Is
members of the '13O Club would be
forced to miss any Sunday sessions.
This was a rather weird struggle,
this Sunday closing thing it
seemed to be a flexing of muscles
between the "free enterprisers' part
of whom seem to think the other part
are cheating on them.
There was oPTnfng among the
arch free enterprisers that in some
areas labor unions are taking care
of the Sunday closing with over
time clauses In their contracts, but
in others they are not and it
seemed quite obvious that where
the free enterprisers are having
. Sunday closing trouble, unionism
is the strongest
In fact the "anti-government-inter-
business gentry, as the
leath-rattle of HB 100 got louder,
noaned that if state government by
way of the legislature didn't step in
md do something about saving free 1
Enterprise from free-enterprise labor
MONS would take care of it. !
Oh inconsistency! Thou are a self {
ver!LGB.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
Dead or Alive, lib 66 Puts

/ There was passing reference to the
people who need welfare services,
but precious little emphasis was put
on this "unbusinesslike" approach to
welfare.
VIII it matter that one witness
said When unemployment COM
pensation was denied to seasonal
workers by the 1861 Legislature it
added to the welfare burden of Cas-
cade county?
Will it matter that economic hard
ship in Butte can be caused by ma
tional conditions over which the
county welfare department has no
control?
Or that when the economy is
healthy and active the three counties
involved contribute nightly to the
financial well-being of the whole
state?
Probably not. In the pious and
condescending words of the sponsor
of HB Sc, McNamer ellowstone).
Their concern in understandable
When it is question of human needs
- 49, AA~eo oJ lAk1rAOIly tIu CIl6E6 is a
certain amount of emotion that will
be injected, but we must be careful to
define our need. We are all willing
to help our neighbor if he is helping
Fifty-three counties, the Depart
ment of Public Welfare, the Director
of the Budget and the Governor have
put a ceiling on how much human
need Montana will meet.
If House Bill Sc is killed two of the
counties have promised to continue
to cut the help they are giving those
IN need; if House Bill Sc passes the
in the counties will be I'M
oearable to keep from having to in
crease the levies to 20 mills to meet
Welfare costs.
So no matter what happens to
lib 60 there is going to be suffer-
ing and unmet human needs some
place.-GGB.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
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pie you wouldn't hire.

| pie you wouldn't hire.
| Budget-minded State Welfare AID.
ministrator w. j. Fouse said. "Prog-
ress is being shown. He added that
if they could keep under the 20 mills
HB Sc would require, they wouldn't
have to impose it, after all, and told
the committee that the Department
of Public Welfare, Budget Director
Nelson and the Governor had not in
Guided in the 1896 state budget
any funds for helping the three needy
counties beyond a certain point. He
said the Legislature would have to
take the responsibility for deficit
spending if they failed to pass HB &C..
The conditions in Silver Bow coun-
ty, he said, have been caused by many
years of county administration that
"can be classed from bad to rotten,
without paying any attention to the
laws of the State of Montana. and,
''it is high time Silver Bow county
start operating under the laws of the
State of Montana.
Silver Bow county witnesses begged
for a little more time to get their
house in order. A Butte Chamber of
Comerce spokesman said any addi-
tional tax at this time would put
more of their property in delin-
quent status; that they have new
county administration that is trying
to get some of their problems straight
ened out.
Cascade county witnesses begged
for little more time to cut out some
of the costs of their welfare program.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
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couldn't envision $50 they said) the
time when the fund would be in dan
ger. That was in the day when there
were jobs and few were needing un-
employment compensation.
The legislature bowed to the opti-
mism of employers then, and now for
two sessions they have been bowling
to their pessimism.
HB SO is sponsored by Lehrkind
and Ullom.
HB 167 is sponsored by Haughey
and a flock of other well-fed House
members.
lib 1O5-the coop tax bill is
commented on in more detail else
where ON this page.
lib 112-the Wheat Commission
proposal, by Hanks, Smiley, Leuthold,
Asbjornson and Osburnsen, is little
more than a marketing sales tax of
one-fourth cent per bushel on wheat
producers. Granted more research
into uses of wheat would be benefit
cial to Montana's economy, why not
an increased General Fund appropria-
ton to the Experiment Station rather
than the creation of new bureau?
If it is in the overall economic in
terest of Montana to appropriate
thousands of dollars from the Gen
eral Fund for the State Advertising
Department, does not the same rea
soning apply to benefit our states
most important income producer?
SD go, by Bovey and Gerard
would make it possible for a public
corporation (the state and it's sub
divisions) and contractors working
ON public works to secure industrial
accident coverage from private in
surers under Plan III. Presently, these
must operate under the State Plan
Plan III. No real good can come of
enacting this bill SO far as an indus
trially disabled worker is concerned.
Bitter experience with private in
surers, their attempts to "chiser' on
the forcing of the dis
abled to sue and consequently pay
a substantial portion of whatever
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25

Let the CuIIows Rot Away

By TED HUBERT Staff Member Helena INDEPENDENT
Anaconda bill abolish capital
The
all too late when
abolished the discovery that
an an 70 death.
Montana should rid
capital like McKeons of
them should sufficiently moiate the Legislative Assembly to Nc
bill>
arguments penalty
usually that people commit crimes they fear punishment and
anything the death penalty
will crime better anything else.
Neither history social will sustain
PICKPoCKETs THRIVE
British judges child
for the larceny of deing other children like
tons Bristol chaplain that of 67 waiting
his previously
relationships;
in determining anisocial impulses.
every respect except capital
punishment shows that having having death penalty notice
able relationship the number of hmcde committed Rhode Island with
no death penalty has about the same homicide rate as Connecticut where
the penalty has been abolished
capital punishment 1915
Capital negotiable punishment Warden Lewis E. Law
Sing Sing 81 have death
and of them fndles The with the
chamber
funds and often significant
hanged in Montana in 1913, Negro.
JURIEs RELUCTANT
Jues, realizing that capital
innocent sometimes executed bring
Montanas history
hment would effect result justice
guilty would likely be convicted.
death
The Montana Council Churches and other religious
unequvoa opposition the egazed murder which
time recognizes that
revoke.
member of the
that tciy approval
of lgaled violence only
All involved Though separated
lance there is still completely. Each of US is the hangman
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
WANT STATE MERGER
LAWS INVESTIGATED

Still another protest, via a letter
to the MIRO, was made by a Silver
Bow Railway Employees Association
whose membership would be hard hit
job-wise by abandonment and/or
merger. SBRA asked MIRO to investi-
gate northwest state laws prohibit
ing the merger of parallel lines, ;"
pointing out that should the ICC
allow the merger, with the Milwau-
kee withdrawal from Montana, there
will be no rail competitor traversing
the Northwest Such lack of COM
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25

ure in marriage, e.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25

petition, they wrote, would seriously
hinder Montana's efforts to WOO new
industry, expand present facilities
and increase agricultural output, be-
cause the railroads are the transporta-
ton means 'who are capable of NOV
ing productive goods in mass freight
by land ;"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25

VluudlS De QlSregdrueu, relleI WOulQ
be available through the courts.
Had this proposal been law a few
years ago it is altogether possible
the Wolf Creek canyon interstate
fiasco could have been avoided, there
| by saving wonderful fishing and
scenic resource, in addition to mil
lions of dollars construction costs for
| the people of Montana and the nation.
child or ward" by hayward father.
A similar bill HB 161, by Haines,
Northey and Murray was introduced
| in the House Wednesday.
GAIN ONE. LOSE TWO
STATE BUREAUS
lib 1873, by Judge, Wright, Barda-
nouve and Eskildsen, would create a
State Department of Commerce and
Economic Development, and at the
same time abolish the State Planning
Board and the Advertising Depart
ment. The bills purpose would be "to
accelerate the orderly growth of the
economy of the state in order to in
crease the economic well-being of its
citizens and commerce :" The
proposed department would concern
itself principally with: 1, tourist pro-
motion, 2. industrial development,
and 3. research.
lib 169, also by Judge, and CO.
sponsored by Leuthold, Hanks, Jen-
sen, Smiley and Thompson, is essen
TALLY the same as Judges HB 259
of the 1861 session. It's purpose is
to establish a utilization research
laboratory under the supervision and
direction of the chemistry depart
ment of the Experiment Station at
MISC, to "assist in the discovery and
development of new uses for present
crops and products grown in Mon
tana, and the discovery and develop
ment of new potentially useful crops
and products suited to growth and
economically feasible utilization here
HB 169 calls for an annual
of $4,000 to operate
the laboratory.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE BILLS

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE BILLS
SB 81 through SO and Sur s.
Dussault, Cook, Cumming and Cash
more-have to do with the recon.
mendations of the Governors Com.
mittee on Domestic Relations con-
corning marriage and divorce. (These
recommendation were detailed by
Committee member Rev. w. j. Morris
in VOICE of Dec. 2I.
All of these measures have con-
siderable merit. The purposes of each,
in briefest possible terms at this
time, are:
SB s1-to adopt uniform act on
paternity, imposing upon the father
of an Legitimate child duty of
support -;
SB s2-a 30-day waiting period
before a divorce can be granted, and
if there are minor children, discre-
tionary authority to District Judge
to delay the proceedings another 90
days while efforts are made for re-
SB 80 = abolishes grounds for
breach of promise and alienation of
affection suits;
SB S4-would place major OBJ
stacles to legality of "quickie" di-
vorces by Montanans in other states,
such as Nevada;
SB 85-provides more teeth in
annulment statutes for use of par
ents of under-age children. This is
particularly aimed at teen-agers 60
ng across state lines, classifying their
ages, and getting married in places
such as Couer dAlene, Idaho.
SB 86-prohibits common law and
contract marriages. Proponents claim
his prohibition necessary if previous
are to be effective.
SIR 5-requests "the high schools
# Montana to offer a course in fam
ly responsibility - The committee
found that a high percentage of
eenage marriages and resultant di-
'orces may be avoided through pro-
ram of education in the obligations |
f marriage, namely:
1. The privileges and responsible
les of marriage;
2. The adjustments that are neces-
airy for successful marriage;
3. The financial responsibilities of
marriage, and
4. The causes of success and fail
re in marriage, etc.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
ERRANT FATHERS,
TAKE NOTICE

lib 1873 and lib 136 have as their
purpose the Installing of a sense of
greater responsibility into irrespon-
sible fathers who abandon wives and
children under 16, by changing the
penalty for abandonment or wilfull
non-support from misdemeanor to
a felony.
In 1861, IA per cent, or $416,000
of Public Welfare's aid to dependent
children outlay of $2,815,927 was
chargeable to abandonment by faith
ers who escape consequences of Mon
tana's present misdemeanor penalty
by skipping out of the state, etc..
Should the penalty be raised to fell
ony status the State will then have
the authority to extradite the NAL
doer from another state.
HB 1873, by Keller, Weeks, Sey-
mour, Smiley, Thompson and Selstad,
would provide for felony charge
for "desertion or abandonment of
child or ward" by a wayfard father.
HB. 1856, by Bradford, Lucas and
Turnage, is more inclusive in that
it would give felony status to- the
crime of abandonment of both wife
and minor children under 16.
Maximum sentence under either bill
would range up to five years in Deer
Lodge
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
TO PRESERVE FISHING AND
WILDLIFE RESOURCES

SB As, by Durkee, Rieder, McKeon
and Schoonover, is aimed primarily
at the single-purpose viewpoint of
the Highway Department in locating
roads which disrupt, diminish or de-
stroy the fishing resource of the
people. The bill would place the Fish
& Game Commission in an advisory
capacity to investigate and determine
the effects of stream disruption from
whatever man-made cause, on the
fishing resource. Should Eggs rec
concentrations to the Highway or
other agencies, corporations or indi-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-01-25
Many Good, and Bad, Bills Under Consideration

compensation is awarded to attorneys,
merits not only the defeat of SB 80,
but the repeal of Plan Ii as well.
4
lib 95 and SB 46-air pollution
control measures-are dealt with edi-
torially, page 2. A third pollution
bill by Northey and others is in but
as of this writing a copy. of it is not
yet available.
Evening star., 1963-05-26
ANTIQUES ON THE HILL
329 Pennsylvania Ave. Sc.
III y T UUV :
ANTIQUE RUMMAGE SAFE

ROMMhOE bALH
Attic clean up. Memorial pn
Thurs. May 30th. through sun
V-9; Old china, paintings, book
clothes, pewter, brass. spin. yhee
furn.. etc. 4S17 LeeSburg pikl
rte. z q mi. east of Bailey
Crosroad towards Alex.)
ANTIoUES-Collectors items, sun
mer prices. Come in and prov
sat. and Sun, only. 1I-6. LAI
OUTlQUE, 18th and O sts. sc.
ANTIQUES from Georgetown Hon
(moved to apt.) Beaut. drop lei
tble., butternut, seats 8, Si2l
handsome English buffers trs
table, opens to 32x4O oval, Sel
Charming brass hall tree Victt
rian, S35; Ital. Prov. armoir
amusing conversation piece W/ort
glass, excel. storage, $50; All
beaut. 40" Tuxedo sofa, expose
walnut frame, newly uphol.
cream brocade, Sl60: b-drawl
ehest on chest, Chippendale styl
black lacquer, brass pulls, S9l
Ital. Prov. coffee table wal, 2Ox4j
Sl5;. French Prov. foot stoe
needlepoint, SIS; Oval copper ira;
table. brass rim w/stand, (copy {
orig. in Metrop. museuml S3l
Magnayox record player-radio, r
Prov. fruitwood cab, fine cond
S75: Iron magazine table v/lam,
$40; also silk drapes, lamps, pil
LQre frames, Odd-ments 232-AI3
Evening star., 1963-05-26

wall acrhpinH, Call
Sun. all day weekday after b
pm, Mt. JAKE, 402.i047,
'PLAsTER REPAfRs, large or small
Jobs, BY licensed contractor. Salts
faction guaranteed. For free es-
timatea. bbs.3OJ3 or bss.3327,
PLAsTERINa, PATCHING, PAINT
INu, WALL PAPER REMOVING,
HOME REPAIRS, FL, 4-b0si
PLAsTERiNG and wall terapins.
free estimates, RE, 7-28ai
PLUMBING AND HEATING
Best prices for new and remodel
ins work uN t-0g73,
PLUMBING AND uEATING
COMPLETE REMODELtNO, Boiler
and water heater replaced.
EN- BsObHA
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REPAIRS AND SERVICES
fCONTIAIilEnA

TY REPAIRS, free estimates in
your home. Day and night calls
Reasonable rates. ia. 9-f992.
WALL WASHING by machine. Nc
mess, cost less. LA. 9-2S77.
WALLPAPER REMOVAL BY the
only bonded and ins. paper re-
movsl co. in d. c., Md. or Va,
DI. 7-l6OO.
Evening star., 1963-05-26
INSTRUCTION COURSES

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Men and women enroll.
Get a good Job. Earn
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Attend day or evening.
Inquire. Phone or visit
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HELP WOMEN

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, 1963-02-21
THE CORNER

by M. R. Henderson. Extension Agent
What we need on St. Croix is more sires like this one,
Chris That's what / told Christian Lndqvist last week when
| visited his goat project at Estate GATHERINGS Rest.
One has only to visit a few of our small farms on which
goat and sheep are raised to realize that the type OF animal we
RAISE here IS not only bascaly good but is well adapted to our
Virgin island conditions,
Most of the good rams are soIidly built, Squarely set on
sturdy legs and OF heights ranging anywhere from 70 to - m
ches TAI nom moot to winners. lney are rugged, aggressive and
OF a vn1le nature. They sire good offspring and provided they
are raised under good range management and given proper
care. such rams remain OF ServiceaDle value tor from two to
five years.
The important thing thing to consider, however, is the
kind OF breeding practices you employ in your goat and sheep
eme,nr,se, In our leatlet enutled PRACTICAL hints on the care
and management OF goats and sheep we list two important
points unuer Breeding rractlces, viz: U Don't breed father t.
dauqhter, mother to son, or brother to sister. ln-breedng o.
these degrees reduces the size and quality of the offspring,
u, Trade herd sireS with your neighbor each year to eighteen
months, if possible. This will help to prevent m-breedlng.
There are other pointers in this Leaflet worthy OF consl-
deration if YOU would be a successful raiser OF small livestock.
There is much to said in favor of importing good sires from
the outside. Inc most outstanding factor beng the mtroduc-
ton OF new Dlood lines through neSe imported SleS. Never
theless, there are goodly numbers OF desirable male ANIMALS
born and bred in these islands from our native stock that
should be ut1nzed much more IN the effort TO improve the type
Of goat and sheep we produce. The key to breed improve
2 Is MANAGEMENT; and this can be achieved it we really go
about our small livestock enterprises with more interest and
determination.
, 1963-02-21

The FOUNDATION COMpA4II
Engineerinq & Construction since 1902
PROUDLY ANNOUNCES
the acquisition Of
The A. C. Sanford Companies and
The Election OF A. C. Somford, Jr.
As our President
Due to our belief in the ever-increasinq pros
peritY Of the Virgin stands. we have pur-
chased for immediate shipment to ST. Croix
the following additional equipment to sup
plemolt our present force:
3-8-cuYd Mack Dump Trucks
2 8-cuYd Rear Dump Rock Trucks
2-7-cuYd ReodY-mix Concrete Trucks
It is our intention and desire TO continue to
improve and increase our equipment pool
as The demand requires.
For QUARRY STONE
ASPHALT PAVING
READY-MIX CONCRETE
CONCRETE BLOCKS
EQUIPMENT RENTAL and
GENERAL CONSTRUCTION WORK
CALL
The Mississippi enterprise., 1963-02-16
Negro Community Obtains $4,000
Loan For Water System
Through Farmers Home

dashed their hopes.
Then in late 1861 Mrs. Reli-
ford discussed the matter with
a Sommerville lawyer who
told her about the Farmers
Home Administration water
system loan program. This
led to a conference with the
agency's ! o a / supervisor,
Henry Ivey.
By last June, the 81 fam
lilies had organized their wat
er association, bought stock
in it, and completed arrange
ments with Farmers Home
for the agency to guarantee
the $4,000 loan from a local
bank.
This community was one of
more than 100 that obtained
such assistance last year
through Farmers Home. In
addition to the community as
sociations, nearly 1000 indiv-
ual farmers also obtained
loans for water systems and
improved soil and water con-
servation. The loans guaran-
teed in 1862 totaled SIS million.