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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01

which would include people who may
or may not have Social Security.
Not only was Lucas exposed but
Senator Joe McElwain (R-PowelD !,
who had voted for the Senate's Kerr
Mills enabling Legislation which the
House killed, lost his grip while heck
ling opponents of HB 166. He re-
vealed that he knew little about the
whole problem except that those in
need of assistance in their declining
years would be forced to give up their
few remaining resources if they got
sick. This seemed fair and just to
him.
Because the House dominated by
the Bandaid mentalities gave such
quick and discourteous death to the
Senate's Kerr Mills, HB 166 was
killed and a Senate substitute was
created for it containing the Kerr
Mills type of legislation. 1t will now
be sent back to the House to see
what the Republicans are going to
do-to see if they are really serious
about doing something for Montanans
ais they near the end of life's trail
EC
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01
AN ALTERNATIVE TO
HIGHER PROPERTY TAXES

Considered individually and only
as ONE being decrease and the
other am increase the Republican
claims seem to have merit, but taken
in the context of the whole, and the
legislative trend as it is developing
in Helena, the two Democrats were
actually offering possible alterna-
tives to the pressure that is being
put on property taxes.
The Bradford bill (331) would
have reduced the income tax to help
take up the tax pressures being Gre
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01
Little Consideration Given Demo
Tax Alternatives BY COP House

ated by the inevitable increase in
property tax. Bradford pointed out
that property taxes are too high and
they are going to be higher some
relief could be given through lower
income taxes day after day, bill
after BILL" he said, 1--WE are piling
more taxes on property and we must
give some relief somewhere"
Aasheim's HB 4O1 was another al
tentative. By increasing the income
tax and putting it in the school foun-
dation program property taxes could
be relieved as much as five to six
mills. He said, eff we are going to
have government we must tax to sup
port it at the local., the state,
or the federal level'' and the load at
the local level is going to be oppres-
sive unless there is something done
to relieve it.
Both of the bills were killed.
Republicans intimated that Brad
ford's decrease bill was more favor
able to those in the high income
range and gave less decrease in the
low income group but the bill
was simply repeater of the 1859
increase.
One can only observe under these
circumstances that the income tax
by the Democratic-controlled legisla-
ture in 1859 was not as oppressive
to low incomes as Republicans said
when they campaigned against the
increase in 1960.-GGB
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01
(Held over from last week.

Two bills killed in the House
seemed so contrary as to
prompt the Republicans to &C
cuse the Democrats of being
schizophrenic 49,: having split
personalities or being poll
tical opportunists, and they
will probably thusly be used
the next campaign.
One of the bills was Truman Brad
ford's HB 331 which would have re-
turned the income tax rate to the
1859 status, before the increase for
which Democrats were so royalty
crucified in the 1860 campaign.
The second was Magnus Aasheim's
HB 401 which would have raised in
come taxes and put 1870 of the in
crease in the school foundation pro-
gram.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01
Anaconda Company
Earnings Up 15%

NEW YORK-The Anaconda
Co. boosted net earnings in 1862
to $48, S45, 900, or $4.56 a share,
up from $40, O96, 500, or 1898
share in 1861.
Chairman Clyde Weed said the
Improvement came from higher
sales and basic operating improve
ments. Sales rose from $118, $685.
025 to $145, 830,654.
He said that while the average
price for basic copper was higher
in 1862, there were lower prices
for fabricated products and other
basic metals.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01

(1eld over from Last week.
The Kerr Mills Implements
ton legislation that was passed
by the Senate Saturday, Feb.
16, was summarily killed in
the House, Tuesday morning
of the 10Th on an adverse COM
mittee report.
Rep. Eskildsen (D-Phillips) pro-
tested as did Minority Leader Ray
Wayrynen at the haste with which
the House dispatched the bill.
Tuesday the House was still faced
with many bills yet to be debated and
some so bills to go through third
reading and the pressure of the day
left little time or inclination for any
discussion of Senate bill that could
wait until the other business had been
taken care of.
Because the bill was sponsored
by Senators McKeon (D-Deer
LODGE and Durkee (D-HilD who
had Sunday, Feb. IL, appeared on
7 a TV program condemning the Re-
publican program the move was
considered political reprisal.
Rep. Lucas (R-Custer) put the
needle on his broken record and we
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01
DEAD co-oPs PAY NO TAXES

They bring money INTO the COM
munity and increase the purchasing
power of the farmers to the benefit
of every kind of business.
Freedom to choose in a great
variety of ownership-profit and
non-profit-in contrast with the
traight-jacketing in favor of one
form only which is characteristic
of fascism or communism, has al
ways been a principal factor in the
success of our American democ-
racy.
FINALLY, is NOT the effect of this
bill on good feeling to be considered?
there is too much mutual
distrust and fear. When people deep
ly wrong, or are deeply wronged by
laws to cripple or kill, rising spiral
Or recrimination is started which can
be as destructive as blood feud be-
tween rival CLANS. Perhaps thousands
Of respected and self-respecting citi-
sens might burn with such feelings.
SIS NOT the Congressional type of
which has already been
accepted by moderates ON all sides,
md which even the more uncomprom-
sing concede to have been arrived
ut studiously and with mutual re-
ipect, much wiser than the extremes
# HB los, if you consider new legis-
alton at the static level desirable?
eve could go along in the Con-
,ressional pattern. But we consider
hat under present law co-operatives
re less favored than are their COM
and THAT proper redress
would not be in the direction of
IB 105."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01
COULD OPEN A PANDORA's BOX

Denied the benefits of effective
competition in the petroleum indus
try, a majority of the voters might
decide to put their state government
into the gas and oil business in the
pattern of it's public liquor business,
or its public highway and school bust
MOSS
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01
Co-ops, Unlike Other Businesses Would

persons, our federal government has
attempted to provide disaster relief to
these millions, dispossessed through
no fault of their own. Millions more
are still to go. But many are hanging
ON grimly, sustained by their faith
in self-help through their co-opera-
tives, under fire while they build
their essential economic equipment
in the face of much misunderstanding
misrepresentation and vindictive
persecution.
"To the extent that such bills as
HB los defeat their efforts they
must turn to their government, along
with consumers of all kinds who will
also have lost their co-ops, which are
their natural protection from abuse
by monopoly. To the extent that they
are forced to give up their co-ops,
farmers may be expected to clutch
at government ownership and opera
ton
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| from page u
by patrons as adjustments ON pur-
chase of goods and services to cost
of operation, as Montana statutes re-
quire, and coop bylaws provide, are
taxable to both the coop itself. to
which the money never belongs, and
to the patrons to whom it does belong.
The coop patrons are willing to have
this saving defined as income and
to include it in their income tax re-
turns as such, but they insist that
they have a right to leave it in the
kitty as working capital if they so
desire.
"Co-operative business is already
made difficult by limitations which
do not apply to other types of bust
ness. A business so limited, and then
further fettered by the added penal
ties provided in this bill, could hardly
survive in competition with business
which is free from these restrictions.
BILL CoNTRADICTS
SPONSORS PROFESSIONS
Supporters of HB los profess
devotion to capitalism, competition,
private enterprise, free enterprise,
and equal taxation, but their bill
sharply contradicts their professions.
And is it not strange that in their
mutual assault ON co-operatives they
single out the family farmers who,
along with their fellow independent
b,1ci,, ocac,,,oy, On, Mali, C47,soAah o,x, tb n
outstanding examples of the capital
list system? Unlike other producers
and businessmen, farmers are unable
to pass additional costs of operation
and taxes ON down the lime: they are
at the end of the line.
''Why do the authors of this bill
try sto deprive these hard-pressed
farmers of the most important mod
ern farm equipment they have,
namely their co-ops, whereby they
hope to improve their economic
position through their own efforts;
to minimize their dependence on
the government, to reduce the need
of rapid expansion of government
operations, and to escape absorp-
ton by city-based corporations?
"Have these unfortunates been Sc
lected for the first anti-co-op knock
out because they are already down
and the least able to defend them
selves?
GAS we know too well, while prices
and income have greatly increased
in nearly all other kinds of produc-
tion and business, people who culti-
waite their own farms have been over
whelmed by a devastating cost-price
By the millions they have
lost their farms, largely because of
their skill and efficiency i'm produc-
tion, and have drifted into the I'M
pools of the cities, with
out the new skills required there.
GAS i'm other countries suffering
tragic mass movements of displaced
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01
Rum Agent Ban
Continues On
Statute Books
(Held over from last week)

| The whiskey drummers lost their
bid to again be allowed to roam at
large in the state to promote their
wares, in a 80 to 26 Senate vote
Wednesday, February 20, ON split
committee report. Such promotion
was outlawed more than twenty years
ago as result of scandals that rocked
the state during the Ayers Admins
tration.
The daily newspapers were scolded
for being two-faced because while
editorializing against the Jwhiskey
drummers they carried full page
color ads for smooth bourbon. The
trouble is only because the admen
don't or can't read the news and
newsmeh have nothing to do with
the placing of ads.
Many emotional arguments were
advanced pro and con but of all the
discussion the best explanation came
from Sen. R. T. O'Neill (D-Mussel-
shell who said that newspapers were
lobbyists who used the written word
for their media while the registered
lobbyists talked-you could throw
the newspapers in the wastebasket-
he only wished you could do the same
with the big fat lobbyists with red
neckties.
And so a custom was established,
just as bootleggers used to wear
green hats to tell of their trade, lob
byists will wear red neckties to match
the bold red wore by Montana Power
lobbyist George O'Connor.-FS
The Senate roll call ON HB 70 was
on a motion to concur with a COM
mittee minority report by Sen. Good
win that the bill edo pass.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01
HOUSE VOTE ON SB ITO

HOUSE VOTE ON SB ITO
For Federal-State Cost Sharing
Under KIM $3.50
Aasheim Laas
Bailey Lewis
BardanOuve lombard
BashOr O'Hair
Bradford Osburnsen
Bremen RaundaI
Cummings Rearden
Davis Regain
Egan Schepens
Eskildsen Sheldon
Flynn SIaby
Gill Spahr
Good Tracy
Hanks Twedt
Harper Watt
HeaIN wayrynen
Johnson WEIGH
Judge thinner
Against KIM (54)
Adams Lund
sbjornson Lundgren
Baldwin Mathers
Beam McNamer
Beck MURRAY
Boughton Nash
Breeder Nelson
Casey Nichols
Crum Northey
DesChamps Nutting
East Pierce
Etchart Rehberg
Falk enstern Reinecke
Garrison Resell
Goan Schye
Haines Selstad
Haughey Seymour
Hawks Smiley
Hazelbaker Smith
Hubbard Spilde
Holtz Sfranahan
Jenkins SWAMI
Jensen Thompson
Keller Tooke
Kvaalen Turnage
Leuthold Weeks
Lucas Woodland
ABSENT or EXCUSED: Blewett, Dyk-
stra Hemstad, Wright.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-01

ABSENT or EXCUSED: Blewett, Dyk-
stra, Hemstad, Wright.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Communists may be atheists but the wedding of the
Russian cosmonaus should convince the Reds that
some marriages made in heaven.
The much-heralded fist fight between two Texas Con-
broke all pugilistc records First time history
the boxing commission caught both boxers trying throw
fight while still weighing in.
Codwater and Rockefeller had better decide pretty soon
they discover that the Republicans won't take
answer.
One thing you say about side in Wet Man, if
you finally find out which side is nobody will believe you
anyway.
bullet-shaped vehicle propelled through tube is
proposed method Of transport gets
the subway they'll have to the bottom of the tube
get the passengers out
The u Senate not knowing yet where the Bobby Baker
may lead, is about composed these days
taking pep pills and tranquizers at the time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Burma Surgeon
Medal Proposed

Senator Hart, Democrat of
Michigan, proposed tiday that
a gold medal be awarded to
DR.. Gordon s. Seagrave,
known to many in the Far East
as the Burma surgeon"
Senator Hart said he pro-
posed appropriate recognition
for an American citizen who
has devoted 40 years Of his
life and medical talents to the
peoples of Southeast Asia.
The son of Christian mis-
SionarieS, DR.. Seagrave was
born in 1897 at Rangoon,
Burma. He was graduated
from Denison University, Gran
vile, Ohio, and the Johns Hop
kins School of Medicine.
After completing his intern
ship in the States, DR.. Sea-
grave with his wife and young
daughter returned to Burma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
DAVID LAWRENCE
FEC and the K ennedy Remark

where such discussion must
take place in a climate of
false or misleading informa-
ton concerning the basic
facts of the controversy"
But who is to decide on the
climate" and to determine
what is false or misle a d.
ing?" Where in the Constitu-
ton is it provided that any
Government a gency may
censor the writings or utter
ances of anybody during a
political campaign or at any
other time? The FEC has
hitherto refused to pass judy
ment in advance, as this
would be contrary to the mo
censorship" provision of ex-
isting law.
All the commission really
had to do In this case was to
tell the inquiring station
that they were not obligated
to carry the Republican an
nouncement since there is
no personal use of station
facilities by a candidate in
volved."
BY interpreting, however, a
statement whic h has been
regarded by many listeners
as not clear in itself, the FEC
is put in the position of aid
ing one political party as
against another. Many peo-
pie have remained puzzled as
to what the President meant
by the following two SEN
fences: 80 I would say that
over the long run, we are
going to have a mix. This
will be true racially, socially,
ethnically, geographically,
and that is really, finally, the
best way"
It's the Presidents respon-
sibility to the public, howev-
er, to clarity his own state
mentS. That's why it causes
surprise to see an officia !
and formal ruling by a quasi
judicial agency of the Gov
eminent telling the citizens
what a Presidents words
mean and, above all, that
they are political words and
are not to be construed as
having any implications Of a
mix" on the social or ethni-
cal side. Yet the latter con-
cept is what the ardent adj
vocateS of civil rights" claim
will, in the long run, inevita-
bly, be applied.
Copyright 1859
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
DORIS FLEESON

The South Wet Nam revolt
presents no domestic political
problems to the Kennedy ad-
ministration. -
The Diem regime, includ-
ing Madame Nhu, proved un-
able to attract any signifi-
cant defenders in economic,
religious or Republican cir
cles here. A few far-right
groups, including the vocif-
erous Young Republicans of
California, raised som e
cheers for the fair visitor,
but State Department appre-
tensions that she might
make trouble proved ground
less.
Congressional com m e n t
was held to a minimum and
leading Republicans expect
that condition to remain I'M
changed. As one explained it,
the problem is essentially
military, and the strategic
Importance of the fight there
a against Communist North
Wet Nam was a cardinal
aspect Of Eisenhower foreign
policy.
Should the situation take a
turn for the worse when the
Republican choice for Presi-
dent starts to debate the
President, twill be men,
toned invidiously, but that is
par for the campaign course.
The President takes credit
when the sun shines and he
gets the blame when 1t rains.
Nowhere is this more true
than in foreign affairs.
The impact of South Wet
Nam does, however. show up
in the largely dreary and
confusing debate over foreign
aid. That unpopular issue
has reached a crucial stage
in the Senate, and the Wet
Namese revolt has sharpened
tongues and tempers. e
At this point the econo-
mixers are in full cry against
the compromises which the
Clay committee and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Johnson Greeted
In Netherlands

THE HAGUE. Netherlands,
Nov. S CAP).-Vice President
Lyndon B. johnson arrived by
a White House Jet airIiner
today to begin a three-day
official visit to the Neither
1 lands. =
The Vice President and mrs.
johnson came from Luxern-
bourg, where they made a "a
hour stopover.
Dutch Premier Victor q.
Mariner welcomed the visitors
at an air base outside the
capital. Queen Juliana and
Prince Bernhard were repre-
scented by Gen. Hale Schaper.
chief of the Queens military
household. a1J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Dire Outlook for East Africa

either the farmers viii go or
Kenyatta will go. He has al
ready strapped the carefully
prepared constitution which
was designed to protect tribal
minorities, and it happens
that the minority tribes, the
Nasal and the Omah, are the
superior fighting tribes.
Some observers doubt the in
ternal peace viii last even as
long as the formal day Of
freedom, December II.
One who so believes Is a
friend of long experience in
East Africa who, until re-
Gently, had believed in the
practical variability Of the
Africans plans of their post
independence societies. Now
he writes me in these terms:
at is a barrel Of scorpions.
1t is as if two alternatives
faced East Africa. Either a
fairly immediate explosion
and q far worse situation
than the Congo. or If the ex-
ploSion can be evaded-and
I don't know anybody in
Kenya who thinks it can
then a kind of dry rot
through Africanization, a
drift downward until a sort
Of Liberia stage is reached
with a small, black. rich oil
garchy Statistic d with its
spoils living off a huge sup
pressed black majority. I see
no other roads"
If this is the real shape Of
the immediate future in East
Africa, then 1t is not to be
wondered at that in South
Africa the white opponents
of apartheid are falling silent
and that Verwoerd holds
tight, defies the outrage d
sensibilities of many nations,
and waits.
GAN Rights Reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Agency Viewed as Aiding Political Party
In Interpretation of Statement

The Federal Communica-
tons Commission is supposed
to be q quasi judicial and in
dependent agency Of the
Government, but it has just
interviewed in a Kentucky
election - unwittingly per-
haps-to help the De IN o.
cratic Party in its effort to
win a gubernatorial election
there. 1t has also undertaken
to immunize President Ken
nedy from c criticism for a
statement which he made at
his September IL news con-
ference and which has been
the subject Of much contro-
versy in political circles.
The commission need not
have appraised at all the
merits of what Mr.. Kennedy
said at his news conference.
1t could have simply told the
inquiring broadcasting sta
tons In Kentucky that they
were not obliged to carry a
staten emit issued by the
Republican Party there be-
cause no use of facilities by
the gubernatorial candidates
was involved. The commits
sion. however, went further
and described the Republican
statement as q distortion of
the facts" This. of course,
was in itself not a compre-
hensive discussion of the diff
fering interpretations which
grew out Of the Presidents
ambiguous utterance at his
news conference. A reporter,
in commenting on cure n t
politics and on the Negro
vote, asked the President this
question:
Apparently a lot of Ne
groes support you-that is,
the latest poll showed that IS
per cent probably would vote
for you next year. Now, in
your opinion, Mr.. President,
does this political self-segre-
CATION on the part Of the Ne
groes, combined with contin-
ued demonstrations in tn e
North. pose any problems for
you as far as the electoral
vote In the North is con-
cerned next yearP
THE President: I under
stand what you mean, that
there Is a danger of a divi-
sion in the party, in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Effects of South Wet Nam Coup

orous and younger Senators
who don't mind a good quar-
rel when they are sure Of
their leaders. This group Is
now convinced that 1t Is IN
wise to charge up San Juan
hill and they simply are not
responding 20 the cries for
help from the White House
and the Senate establish
ment. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05

especially in dialect, the crooks
and the shammers think that
it is All in Fun" The author
agreed, although his editors
were constantly worried about
libel suits.
Unfortunately, one of the
weak points in the Dunno
memoirs is that the Dooley
sketches have been "translat-
ed into straight English to ben
eft "the modern lay reader. +"
So when the Dooleyism reads:
''The world is full of crooks,
but let us thank Heaven they
put in part of their time cheat
ing each other" it looses, as we
say, much in translation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
No Problem Seen for Administration
With G. o. p. Comment at Minimum

House forced from the Presi-
dent. IT'S own members are
attacking a midway version
approved by the Senate For
eign Relations Committee.
An attempt is being made
not only to make deeper cuts
than the White House thinks
are admissible but to adopt
policy restrictions. Few Sem
ators would argue that it is
wise to make foreign policy
on the floor or hamper any
agency of the Government in
the management of its af-
fairs. Congress is, after all,
the legislative branch.
The fact that the Senate is
considering such restrictions
under the leadership of Sem
ator Morse of Oregon is a
good measure of its happi-
ness with foreign aid. Many
members admire Sen a tor
d Morse's courage; almost no
one would care to acknowl-
edge him as the leader.
Here again Senator Mans
fields strange reluctance to
make life hard for even the
most intransigent of his flock
appears. Other Senators have
tried to persuade the Maori
ty Leader to stage the long,
hard sessions which give any
filibusterer a pause.
Instea d, the Senate has
continued to enjoy few and
short sessions as the autumn
leaves fall. More are in pros
pect until next year, inciud-
ing long recesses at Thanks
giving and Christmas.
Between the Mansfiel d
geniality and the Kennedy
compromises the fight has
gone out Of the more Wig