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Evening star., 1963-05-21
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Progress? When Charles Lindbergh flew solo. he
down in Paris Thrtysx years later when Gordon Cooper
came down. they let him fall in the Pacific Ocean
The Governor of Alabama had little chat with Presi-
dent Kennedy the other day. Nothing much of it,
Kennedy refused to repeal Abraham Lincoln.
Despite Gordon Coopers valiant achievement we're still
No in the two behind Khrushchev-and
two centuries behind Buck Rogers,
Mans yearnins to conquer space understandable
considering that almost everything Earth belongs to
women.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29
Protect Pub|ic's Riqhf to Know

K. A. EGGENSPERGER n LEDGER,
which will
of the public to public
is
Judiciary subcommittee
To
O ou public
Supervision be based knowledge
decisions
public they
of of
it's
quickly and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

| symbolic legacy. Along with her
| husband, her own noble characters
tics made friends for the American
people while she was First Lady.
In this time of national sorrow the
country has been drawn together in
what has been an almost fantastic
job by the mass communications
media.
AT time of national nervousness
and uncertainty everyone in the
country was seeing and being a part
of single national incident.
Not only were each and every one
of us a part of the end of the life of
one President, we became closely as
ISOLATED with life of new Presi-
dency.
We watched the leaders of the
whole world in a moment of serious
informality.
What will be the results off all of
it? Surely the world will never be
quite the same again. During this
pause | can't help but hope it might
be better.
Before that day OF the funeral had
ended the serious process of govern
ment moved on. In few more days
the democratic processes will again
get into motion. The magic moment
of unity born out of tragedy Will be
over. 1t can't be otherwise. If it
were we would atrophy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29
Chief Justice Earl Warren
The Price We Pay for Fanafieism'

eloquence the depth of
of
good
'false
all
members Kennedy
life
of a United
e nothing that adds shock sadness than the aa
of
faith have institutions and belief in the fahehood of
andth cd
saddened
snatc midst the bullet of assassin.
horrible
be by
eating their
a lesson to be this
country mercy
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29
Rapid Amortization
Senate Bill Calls for Tax
Benefit for Farm
Workers Housing

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
A tax benefit to farmers and others
building farm labor housing would
be provided under legislation intro
duced by Senator Harrison A. Will
liams, Jr. (D-N.J), chairman of the
Senate Subcommittee on Migratory
Labor.
Rapid amortization of the construc-
ton costs, over a period of five years,
is the form of the benefit. Under the
present tax law, such construction
costs must be deprecated over 25,
80, or 40 years-whatever may be
the entire useful life of the housing
facility.
In addition to new construction, re-
modelling or alterations to improve
existing farm labor housing could
qualify for the special tax deduction
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29


that divide and the bitterness violence.
'Tt much
might soften
though of in
of
the world
superuman burden that imposed him. he
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29

TOKYO-The union-hating Gen.
eraI Electric Company, which at
various times has run away from
the North and even run away from
the United Sattes in order to To-
cate in non-union sweatshop wage
areas, finally out-did itself. GE
ran away from Japan. Because of
union demands for improved wages,
hours and working conditions GE
closed down a new nuclear power
plant, locked out the union en-
ployees, and indicated it was pull
ing out of the country entirely.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29

The only bearable thing in the
whole catastrophe events of the pas
week is that the whole world seemed
to be trying to bolster our momer'
tarily faltering national heart beat
that had to be gradually pulled to-
gether with the muffled beat of the
drums as we followed hour by hour
the incredible, undesirable unreal
ity of the death of a President of the
United States by assassination.
Tt was as if the people of the world
helped sustain us in these soul-search-
ing hours of disbelief.
The lonely casket that moved Mon
day morning toward the final resting
place for John F. Kennedy was an
unreality even as / watched at. The
riderless horse captured and fascin-
ated me as he rebelled against the
useless necessity of it all.
The anger in me is not easily stilled
and after four days it RACES in me
as it must with everyone.
The Requiem, Give Eternal Rest
with eternal rest for John F. Ken
needy. who did not seek it or anticipate
it last week, comes a sense of spirit
ual unrest for the American people.
The country will survive and move
ahead and there is comfort in the
knowledge that it is in firm and ex-
perienced hands during this time of
violence.
John F. Kennedy may we'll come to
epitomize a Goth Century Achilles,
IN his personal as we'll as the national
tragedy, but historians for many
years to come will spend countless
hours trying to give meaning to the |
chastity mars our generation has in
'licted on our time and which have |
,een brought into garish focus by
MS assassination.
The soul of John F. Kennedy has
,een committed to eternal peace,
,ut the American generation he rep
esented with such vigor and inten-
ity must live with our scars and our
Jain, both personal and national.
The dignity, majesty and courage
# Jacqueline Kennedy, whose heart
las known yet other grief this year,
hines like the eternal light she ig-
lited at the head of the grave of her
In the moments of shatter-
d personal morale, few Americans
AIRED be less valiant. For the etern-
/ light that Jacqueline Kennedy had ]
laced at the head of her husbands {
rave can be nothing less than her {
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29

| Secretary of the Interior Udall
sort of started off on the wrong foot
when he was appointed by President
Kennedy. 1t appeared that he was
kind of an errand boy for the private
utility monopolies when he first took
the high Cabinet post, but this book
proves that a man can grow into a
job.
Udall has proven that he has a
touch with the history and philosophy
of the conservation movements in
this continent, and that Kennedy did
not misplace the vital resources upon
which our survival depends when he
placed them in Udall's hands.
The Quiet Crisis should be added
to the libraries of every high school
and college Immediately. Every state
official should be intimately familiar
with every section of the book. Fed
eral employees should be immediate
ly discharged if they do not have
copy of it on their nightstand Mill
tary people, especially the Corps of
Engineers, should be dishonorably
discharged and otherwise punished
if they do not know chapter and verse
of this book.
For the private citizen, The Quiet
Crisis, the most important book
published this year-the most i'm
portant book to hit the press since
Kennedy became Presidents a
valuable tool to pry open the usu-
ally insensitive mentaIities of our
bureaucrats.
This beautiful book with three
photo sections and historically
grounded text may be the anchor to
which we can fasten our resources to
top the dangerous drifting toward
disastrous dissipation of the values
which makes US a great nation. AS
Jdall says in his foreword:
America today stands poised on
of wealth and power, yet
We live in land of vanishing beauty,
# increasing ugliness, of shrinking
pen space, and of an overall environ
nent that is diminished daily by pol
ution and noise and blight This, in
rief, is the quiet conservation crisis
f the 1905"
Not only is it your duty to read
his book it will be a pleasure for
'ou to know Udall for the man he
eally ISIS
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29
Chemical Unions Eye Merger

DENVER, Colo.-Six-ma commit
tees representing the Oil, Chemical
& Atomic Workers and the Inter
national Chemical Workers Union
charged with attempting to work out
an agreement to merge the two unions
held their first meeting here.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29

A Moment of Reflection
In His Death, A Challenge to All of Us

There monumental futiity attempting
will in the minutes the
feels ones heart the tragic passing of President John
Kennedy.
days the assassination first
disbelief and unhealthy The
again. why?" When he died it though
little bit of each and every one of us also died.
each and everyone of challenged
America and the of the world better
place ferventy than to make
lasting Peace reality; give positive meaning the Ameri
cred that all created equal and must not be
equality opportunity because of creed color
poverty pesence and intolerance wherever
these obtain.
think will best Kennedy the roles
he played easing world tensions and for the impetus he and
his Administration the bringing realization the
right first class citizenship of Negro and other minority
groups national community Had he accomplished moth
his championship of these two vital matters
would for him niche in history of our
great Presidents
President Lyndon Johnson have strong
conviction that nation is in firm experienced hands This
confess although well known not enthused over his
candidacy the Presidency before and during the 1860 Demo
cratic National Convention.
Johnson with 80 years of public service to his
credit the Presidency probably the most expert
enced statesman step into that Wanted high office with
all of its awesome responsibilities.
strong who time and again Vice President
publicly affirmed his dedication the of the Ken
nedy Administration Although Southern he has to his credit
the stewardship of the first breakhrough in civil rights
Legislation the u. S. Senate in 1857 He has spoken out
strongly legsatvey speeding the achievement of the
final goal of full civil rights for all Americans.
highest pocymang circles dealing with international af
His long experience in working with members of the
club EARTH the United States Senate
securing of various other
programs sought by the late President Kennedy.
He taking tragic moment in our history, but
that tragedy lie the opportunity for healing wounds
for making needed gains which, until last Friday
the shoals of bitterness and sadly divided
public opinion.
this hour pay President
sympathy his loved let also
Executive sincere good wishes
his in leading this nation during the peous times
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-29
Book Review
The Quiet Crisis

''The Quiet Crisis"-by Stewart L..
Udall. Five dollars. From Holt, Rine-
hart and Winston, Inc, 383 Madison
Avenue, New York II, New York.
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ton will be made based on them anc
on the survey and field hearings hello
earlier this year.
Combined with the utilization of
Ignite coal deposits, projected EHV
transmission lines and the expected
load growth of the area, compre-
hensive development of the Upper
Missouri could help link the federal
system in the Columbia Basin with
the Bureau of Corps
development in the Missouri Basin,
offering economies benefitting con-
sumers in both regions.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
FIGHT MUST BE WAGED
IN POLITICAL ARENA

He told rural electric leaders il
would take courage to defend THEN
right to serve themselves without
Swimming a profit from anyone from
the service, but that the ''denial of
the right for rural electrics to exist
forces you to fight" and "the ma
ture of your organization and the
type of service you provide make this
largely political fight.
Thomas urged participation by all
cooperative members in politics. He
said many co-operatives have archaic
bylaws which expressly forbid rural
electric leaders to participate in
politics. "And while we virtuously
look the other way, those forces OPP
posing cooperative rural electrified
ton spare absolutely nothing in their
never-ending efforts to actually pack
the state legislatures and Congress,
itself, with their friends, he stated.
He condemned what he termed
the politically sexless" attitude of
rural electric co-operatives as nom
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
MCFARLAND OF CONRAD
NEW ASSOCIATION HEAD

The sessions concluded with cleo
ton of officers and passage of reso-
lutions.
S. T. Mcfarland, Conrad, succeeds
Fred Anderson, Eureka, as state~pres-
ident. Reelected were George Dom
aldson, Medicine Lake, secretary,
and Eugene Pike, Missoula, vice pres
ident. Ralph McKelvie, Billings. was
elected to the board of directors re-
placing Jim Mullins, Lame Deer, who
did not seek reelection. Charles
Mahoney, Jordan, was reelected to
the national board.
Other members of the state board
are Anna Dahl, Dagmar, and Frank
Arbuckle, Albion.
Resolutions included supporting
construction of Knowles Dam. Libby
Dam; high voltage transmission in
terties between the Columbia and
Missouri basins, including a northern
line from Hungry Horse Dam east
ward and from Anaconda to Canyon
Ferry to Yellowtail Dam to Custer:
continued support for the Rural Area
Development program, implementing
of Hungry Horse preference clause
by Secretary of Interior so that Hun
cry Horse power can be available to
all Montana electric co-ops.
They continued their support of
a Service area bill'' in the legislature
along the Lines of the Territorial In
tegrity Bill (SB 194) that passed the
State Senate but was killed in the
House.
They deplored the attack by LIFE
magazine on the rural electrics. say
ng, 1--WE do not agree that these pro-
Grams are pork barrel in nature.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
$40 Billion In Social
Security Fund

The fund from which the social
security system is financed is ex-
pected to increase to $45 billion by
1870, according to government actu-
aries. There is now more than $40
billion in the fund and it has been
pronounced financially sound by an
independent council of experts.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
LELAND OLDS PLANT IN
NORTH DAKOTA DESCRIBED

James l.. Grail. general manage
of the Basin Electric Power Cooper
ative, described the mechanics ant
the idea behind this group that i
constructing steam generation plan
at Stanton, North Dakota, which will
be an full production by October
1865. 1t will be the largest Ignite
burning plant in the Western Hemis.
phere.
Grahl showed slides of the plant
that was recently dedicated and called
the Leland Odds Plant because it was
Leland Olds who first had the dream
of giant power for co-operatives.
The membership in Basin EIec-
trio includes almost 100 distribu-
ton co-operatives located in 8
states: Montana, North and South
Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado,
Nebraska and Minnesota.
Construction of this first large CO.
operative steam plant means more
than simply meeting needs for supple
mental power, Grahl said, cit means
that for the first time the co-opera-
tives can plan on unlimited supplies
of low-cost power for the indefinite
future, and "the co-operatives know
that there is a way to assure them
selves of all the power they can sell
for the indefinite future through
joint arrangements like Basin Elec-
tric'', he said.
National R E A Board Member
Charles Mahoney of Jordan, in his |
report to the convention, said that |
he Montana Power Company was
lot the only enemy of the rural cleo
RIGS. He said he was disturbed"
'ver the "short-sighted" resolutions
coming out of such groups as the
tockmen and the Montana Reclama-
ion Association.
Specifically he was disturbed over
he stockmen saying they thought
sEA had completed its job, and of
he Reclamation Association oppos-
ng development on the Missouri
liver, and Knowles Dam in western
Iontana.
Mahoney said reapportionment of
'g1slative representation was a 4
1reat to rural Montana and one of
he ways the trend might be reversed |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
SEVERAL POWER SITES
CONSIDERED

Of the IL proposed plans for de-
velopment, all but the. wilderness
waterway proposal of the National
Park Service would include one or
more hydroelectric projects. The
Park Service plan does not include
Fort Benton Dam but this 100000 XIV
project could be constructed without
interfering with it. Ten plans include
Fort Benton Dam but, beyond that
there are host of different sites and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
Product LobeIing--
Page /

FROM rage i
World War Ii nutrition was of such
Importance that federal law defined
what enriched meant. Those federal
laws establishing what could be sold
to the military and the civilians no
longer apply.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
ALL MONTANA CO-OPS UP
TO DATE ON REPAYMENTS

Of the $62A million that went
into rural electric lines in Montana
not a single cooperative is overdue
on its payments, Richard A. Dell,
deputy administrator, Rural Elec-
trification administrator, told the
group. Il am confident that REA will
not lose a cent on its investment in
rural progress in Montana, he said.
Dell warned that if rural electrics
gave ground on the interest rate
issue it would not quiet the unfriend-
ly voices and the next move would
be to raise their taxes and their
power costs. Increased expenses
would come out of the pockets of the
members, he said. eff you are forced
to raise your rates, your territorial
problems would grow worse, because
any semblance of rural-urban parity
in rates would have been wiped OUT.
The rural Identification road
has never been easy to travel, he
said, adding, at will be even hard
err in the years ahead. The late
Senator George Norris of Nebraska
said it would be harder for the
members to keep the cooperative
than it was to build them.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
IMPORTANT TO
DIETARY NEEDS

Enriched bread can contribute not
able amounts of seven of the ten nu-
triments making up the daily dietary
requirements protein, iron, calcium,
Galleries, riboflavin, niacin, thiamine
and vitamin D. We depend upon these
nutriments for our physical well be-
ing.
This is the standard which far out
weighs that established by the Fed
eral Reserve System for gold.
This is the standard for which the
Russians give up their gold for Mon
tana wheat.
This is the standard we want TO
be able to know that we are getting
on the grocers' shelves.
There is only one way for us
to know we have it. Let's pass a
nutritional labelling law in the
next legislature and tighten up on
our health laws. Our health de-
Ponds so much upon one another
that it must be written in our
statutes. Come to think of it. what
else have we got that is more i'm
Portant than our people and their
health ?-FS
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public animosity against them.
ECHOES POWER COMPANY
PROPAGANDA LINE

While praising what rural cleo
tries "have DONE, he joined tn
Power Company cry that this success
simply has to stop, when he said
''The public generally is being re
minded of the fact that the job O,
electrifying rural America has beer
substantially completed -
In essence he told rural electric
leaders that because the private
power companies have given the
general public a furnished picture
of their efforts, REAs have no
other alternative but to knuckle
under.
If the Governor has had his vision
beclouded by the we'll financed prop
uganda of the Montana Power Com
pany, REA leaders were not led far
astray according to the resolutions
they approved at the close of the
convention.
Also the speakers who appeared
before them did not sound as if REAs
were going to curl up and die be-
cause Montana's Governor or the
Montana Power Company will it.
MUST GET INFORMATION
TO PEOPLE
w. S. Thomas, General Manager of
Wisconsin E. e trio Cooperative.
sounded the clarion for the life and
death struggle in which rural cleo
Uric co-operatives find themselves to-
Nhn Of fhn Il
tries, he said, is information in the
hands of people. 9" to place our de-
oendence on the people without in
forming them is very much like
marching off to war with an I'M
oaded rifle, he said.
He said rural electric co-opera-
tive not only has people, it is
people, and there would be no
justification for even entering the
ring against "the formidable array
of dollars stacked against us" if
it were not for the weapon of
people.
Thomas described the mutual eff
ort today to save the cooperative
Method of providing power, as a
cause" with some ''solid American
rinciples to defend" which twill
equire some solid Americans to de-
end them.
The first right to be defended, he I
lid, sis the principle guaranteeing t
lat every American has the funda- L
entail right to be an active partici- Q
mt in this nations free enterprise
stem, and to participate in this
stem in whatever manner he
looses and if we are the solid
mericans we think we are, we will
title to the final limit against those
no proclaim that free enterprise is
vt free enterprise unless it falls
thin their own definition of the :,
rm.'' u
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
partisan, which in turn implies
a hands off" attitude.

| partisan, which in turn implies
a hands off" attitude.
He called for Bipartisan poll
teal approach interested in, appeal
ing to and supported by strong ele-
ments in both parties.
Vocal participation by the MEM
bers of co-operatives in the political
arena can shape the politics of both
major parties, he said. He deplored
recent political history which has
found zone party turning its back on
us most of the time.
"The strength of united people
is irresistible, but it must have the
focus, the aim, and the intelligent
direction that only you can provide,
he concluded.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-25
RIGHT DECISIONS, PLUS
UNITY, WILL PAY OFF

Gus Norwood, executive secretary,
Northwest Public Power Association,
spoke on power decisions ahead for
Montana.
Norwood told REA leaders, "when
you make the right decision, fight
for them and win, you make prog
ress. When good decisions are made
and you decide to be unified it can
pay off in big way.
REAs have changed the face of
Montana from $50 darkness to
$50 light, he said. In 1885 only
SO of the Montana farms had
electricity and today only so do
not have it. This is the great eco
nomic contribution you have made
to the State of Montana, he said.
He said future growth should
be determined in vertical terms rath-
er than horizontally, and encouraged
the extension of power use programs. |
There are $4,000 rural electric homes
today and by 1865 there will be |
$4,000. Norwood suggested the State
Association consider a celebration for
that time.
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Politics, Power SyppIy--7wo Top Mutters--

was through Rural Areas Develop
ment.
, 1963-10-15

you know all along that a size
is is getting snug. Bulges are
never more obvious than on
stage.
DON'T: Refuse a part when
it is given to you. They may
not ask you again, and besides
you know you can do it better
than anyone else!
This list is not guaranteed to
turn you into a Duse or Barry
more, but it will help-All the
hams are not in cans!
, 1963-10-15
Helen Of Croix

for you to lose the part!
DON'T: Have your husband
wife, boyfriend, girlfriend,
help you with your lines.
hey just think it's too silly
lor words, and besides, they
are jealous.
DON'T: Imbibe too heavily
before rehearsals - although,
it does lend a certain spice to
the performance, not to men
IN what it does to the direc-
Of.
DON'T: Listen to other opin-
ions about your acting. This
is a great temptation and will
require all your will power, if
the opinions are good, that is!
DON'T: Tell the costumer
that you wear a size II when