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1958 SIDNEY HILLMAN AWARD WINNER
Vol. XXIV—No. 36
HELENA, MONTANA, AUGUST 9, 1963
$3.00 Per Year
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Mansfield, Metcalf, Successful In Senate . .
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Knowles' Fate Haags on HoL s Action
By BRITT ENGLUND, Admin. Aas't. to Sen. Lee Mf C
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Overwhelmingly approved by the f $ a, the bill authorizing
multi-purpose Knowles Dam went back to the House for concu. , v ,e in several river basin
development projects added by the Senate.
Last year, Knowles was taken out of the final bill after House members of the joint confer
ence committee opposed projects on which hearings had been held only in the Senate. This
year the House Public Works Committee held four days of hearings on Knowles.
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sboulder-to-shoulder for
Knowles during two days of Sen
ate debate on the bill.
Noting that the Montana Power
Company had also opposed Hungry
Horse Dam, Mansfield said that Hun
gry Horse storage enabled the com
pany to install a 66,000-kilowatt gen
erator at Kerr Dam, and to contract
with the Bonneville Power Adminis
tration for 50,000 kilowatts, which
the company "buys at the rate of
2.5 mills (per kilowatt hour) and
^ feeds into its own system to sell to
" its
stood
erage residential price of 2.36 cents
per kilowatt hour—or nearly 10 times
as much.—PV)
Mansfield said some indications of
what Knowles would do for Montana
could be gained from a review of
the record of Hungry Horse. He
continued;
The rates of REAs in western
Montana have been reduced because
of Hungry Horse power from be
tween 8 and 9 mills per kilowatt hour
to 3.1 mills per kilowatt hour.
"Because of Hungry Horse, the
Anaconda Company built an alumi
num plant at Columbia Falls, which
at the present time employs around
600 people and with expansion of
the plant, it is anticipated that sev
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Accelerated Program of Member
Education Planned By AFL-CI0
An accelerated program of
pation highlighted the first
meeting of the newly-reconsti
tuted executive board of the
Montana State AFL-CIO in
Helena on July 27 when plans
were made to implement reso
lutions passed at the annual
meeting of the labor group in
June.
Officers were sworn in by James
Leary, AFL-CIO regional director,
State AFL-CIO Board
Member Killed In Car
Accident ; July 28
Montana State AFL-CIO President
Joe Crosswhite will appoint a new
member of the executive board for
District 8, following submission of
nominations from the district affili
ates, to replace Calvin Shoop, Laurel,
who was killed in an automobile acci
dent July 28.
Shoop, 36, was a member of the
Oil Workers Union. He was elected
to the executive board of the State
lalbor organization at the annual
meeting in Billings in June and had
attended one meeting of the board.
He was killed when he failed to
negotiate a curve traveling east on
U. S. 12,,17 miles southwest of White
Sulphur' Springs, With Mm in the
John M. Miller, Jr., Billings,
car was
vice president of the Montania State
AFL-CIO, Miller suffered severe
lacerations and abrasions and is still
recovering at his home.
The accident occurred when the
returning home from
all-day meeting of the executive
board of the AFL-CIO.
two men were
an
eral hundred more will be added.
HUGE INCREASE IN
ASSESSED VALUATION
In Flathead county where the
Hungry Horse project is located, the
assessed value . . . has increased
from around 35 million to around 100
million dollars.
"Because of Hungry Horse power,
the Victor Chemical Company . . .
and other industrial facilities have
come into western Montana,
"Because of these new indus
tries, the tax base has been broad
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ened . . . with the result that more
people are paying more taxes in
the counties in which these indus
tries are located, to the State of
Montana and to the federal govern
ment.
The repayment on the schedule of
Hungry Horse is current, and over
35 million has been paid to the
United States Treasury.
Hungry Horse Reservoir has de
veloped into a tremendous recrea
tional and fishing area and has con
tributed to the well being of thou
sands of our people not only from
Montana but from over the nation
as a whole.
"Nobody has been hurt by Hungry
Horse, because the county in which
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and the constitutional changes in the
official family were put into effect.
The changes include a reduction in
the number of district board mem
bers and a shift in top organizational
line-up.
Joe Crosswhite, Columbia Falls,
business agent for Operating Engi
neers Local 371, assumed the gaVel
as president and James Umber con
tinued as executive officer under the
title of executive secretary.
MAY HOLD WEEKEND
INSTITUTES IN DISTRICTS
In a program designed to take
their educational program to the
grass roots the state labor leaders
discussed the mechanics of week
end institute programs to be held in
each district, with the co-operation
of the local Central Councils, and it
was decided that a special day, prior
to each annual convention be set up
as a leadership training day for the
purpose of co-ordinating the central
bodies with the state body.
Plans were made for setting up a
special fund for fighting anti-labor
legislation,
A committee from the executive
board appointed to serve as a Civil
Rights Committee included Chester
Bates, Laborers Union, Helena; Fran
cis Crowley, Electrical Workers,
Butte, and Calvin Shoop, Oil Work
ers, Laurel.
Among the other items on the all
day agenda was a resolution from
the June convention that the execu
tive secretary write all members of
the Board of Regents urging they
consult with the elected faculty rep
resentatives prior to selecting a new
president of Montana State Univer
sity; reaffirmation of support of
multipurpose development of public
lands not included in wilderness
areas; and support of the King-An
derson bill in Congress that will pro
vide hospital care for the aged.
The next meeting of the executive
board will be November 2,
it is located, western Montana which
it serves, the Montana Power Com
pany, and the REAs have benefited
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"Hungry Horse is an investment in
my State and nation; is fully repav
able, and it is anticipated that it will
be paid out in 50 years or less.
AN INVESTMENT IN
AMERICA
Actually, structures of this type
will produce power for hundreds of
years even after they are paid for
and should be looked on as assets
a
A block of approximately 200,000
kilowatts of Hungry Horse power has
been allocated to Montana—the first
such preference ever made, and one
which I hope will be the pattern for
all federal projects in Montana in
the future," the Senate Majority
Leader said.
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Senator Metcalf told the Senate
that construction of Knowles would
benefit an entire region and the na
tion. __
When Knowles is completed," he
together with storage at
said,
Bruce's Eddy, and Canadian storage
developed as a result of the Columbia
River Treaty, we will have a storage
capacity on fhe Columbia of 26,400,
000 acre feet. This approaches the
flood control goal set for the Co
lumbia and its tributaries by the
Corps of Engineers.
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Metcalf said that federal con
struction of irfulti-purpose Knowles
Dam was in line with his overall
philosophy of resource develop
ment. He explained;
'Projects that are single purpose,
and for power production without
storage can best be constructed by
the private power companies. The
multiple-purpose projects that have
public interest uses over and above
those of power production can best
be constructed by the federal gov
ernment. To use the symbols of pri
vate and public power, there is room
for both Willy Wired Hand and
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Circular Describes
Mew East Bench
rrigation Project
Bozeman—To provide information |
for prospective settlers on the newly
developed East Bench Irrigation I
Project near Dillon, the Co-operative
Extension Service of Montana State
College and the Department of State
Lands and Investments have pub
lished a descriptive circular.
"East Bench Irrigation I
Entitled
District in Montana", the circular
describes the area and its climate,
public and private services, soils and
water, the land and estimated land
development costs.
Sixty-six farm units on state lands
and railroad lands under the project
will be sold at auction November 201
Dillon and November 21 at Vir
ginia City. The circular lists the
land classification acreages and the
appraised value of each of these farm
units.
Copies of the circular may be
tained by writing Stanley Howard,
Extension Agent, East Bench Project
Office, P. O. Box 870, Dillon, Mon-1
tana, and asking for Circular No. 288,
at
East Bench Irrigation District in |
Montana".
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OF MONTANA
HELENA
Two-Mill General Fund Levy
{To Continue for Another Year
Despite recent assertions by
I Gov. Tim Babcock that the
state General Fund is "in the
black" by some four million
dollars, the emergency state
wide two-mill property levy
will continue for another year.
This was decreed Monday by
the State Board of Equalization in
announcing that total statewide prop
erty levies for the year will be 8.25
mills, an increase of one-fourth mill
over the past year.
The two-mill property levy will
bring in approximately $1.4 million
Mine-MHI Backing
Proposed Industry
Safety legislation
Legislation introduced by Sen. Lee
Metcalf and Congressman Arnold
Olsen, among others, to give the Sec
retary of the Interior the authority
to promulgate and enforce a health
and safety code for metallic and non
metallic mines and quarries, has re
ceived the strong support of the
major union in the non-ferrous met
als field, the International Union of
Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers,
Mine-Mill, in announcing that it
ing Dichter, Denver, to Washington
to begin an organizational campaign
to secure passage of the proposed
legislation, pointed out that
miners and smeltermen of this coun
try have been fighting for this kind
of legislation for the past 16 years.
The United States is one of the few
industrial countries in the world
without national safety standards in
this hazardous industry.
Accident _rates in metal mining
are among the highest in American
industry. Present state safety codes
are antiquated, inadequate, and pro
vide little or no protection for the
miners and smeltermen in our coun
try. We anticipate that this bill will
gather the widest support from every
union in the metal mining and smelt
ering industry."
Other sponsors of the legislation
besides Metcalf and Olsen are: Sen.
Frank Moss, Utah; Reps, Joseph Mon
toya, New Mexico; Morris Udall, and
G. F. Senner, Arizona: H. B. Gon
zales, Texas, and E, R. Roybal, Cali
fornia. All sponsors are Democrats.
The
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Fall-Out', Abnormal Births'
Increase Linked In Alberta
From CALGARY HERALD
TORONTO — An Alberta
doctor says that physical ab
normalities of children born in
that province in 1961 increased
almost two-fold over 1959, with
evidence pointing to radio
active rainfall as the cause.
In an article in the current issue
of the Canadian Medical Association
Journal, Dr. L. J. le Vann suggested
an even greater increase may occur
among children bom in 1962.
Dr. le Vann's prediction was based
on records of increased precipita
Lion, which he said carries radioactive
dust to the ground.
Studies have shown a significant
relationship between the extent of
rainfall and the incidence of mal
he
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TWO JOBS
Dr. I e Vann is superintendent of
the provincial training school in Red
Deer, and a lecturer in psychiatry at
the University of Alberta.
°f the 37,996 children born in the
province that year. He found 7.76
physical abnrmalities per 1,000 births,
reported a jump in this ratio to 13.8
oh-(subjects into area groups showed
the greatest increases in ahnormali
ties occurred in regions with the
heaviest precipitation,
In 1959 he made studies of 33,784
A similar study of births in 1961
a 1,000. And a breakdown of test
Edmonton, in a section of Alberta
where rainfall is heaviest, showed
16.76 abnormal births per 1,000 and
dollars to the general fund this com
ing year.
Early in July, it will be recalled.
Gov, Babcock announced that the
general fund had a balance of $4,
253,718 as of June 30, in contrast
with the $4.5 million deficit accumu
lated under the administration of
his fellow Republican Governor and
predecessor, J. Hugo Aronson.
Babcock's rosy contention was
immediately disputed, as was re
ported in the VOICE of July 5,
when it was noted that there had
been considerable adroit manipu
lating of state funds just before
the close of the last fiscal year in
order for the supposedly "in the
black" figure to be developed.
In that VOICE, it was pointed out
that not only had $10 million van
ished from the state's U. S, Treasury
Bond investment over the preceding
10 years, but that the State Board',
in an unprecedented action had
pulled a "speed-up" in reporting tax
collections in order to make the con
dition of the general fund "look
good". Reported the PV : "The Board
of Equalization in an unprecedented
bookkeeping movement flooded the
Treasury with income tax and cor
poration license tax money which is
usually deposited in July, not in
June . .
Opinions circulating in the states
house are that politically there is
much more mileage to be made by
leaving the levy on until August,
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1964. If actually possible to remove
at that time, the Republican incum
bent Governor will then have at his
disposal a handy "tax reduction
claim to ballyhoo in next year's
general election campaign.
BREAKDOWN OF STATE
PROPERTY TAX TOTAL
In addition to the continuance of
the two-mill levy for general gov
ernmental operation, the state's prop
erty tax bite for the coming year in
cludes ;
For University Millage Fund, 6.75
mills;
University of Montana Building
Fund, .35 mills;
State Hospital Building Fund, JL6
mills.
Translated into dollars, the state
wide property tax total will amount
to about $.58 million.
In addition, special levies on live
stock for specific services relating
to the Stockgrowing industry were
announced by the state board. These
include, for sheep, a total of 10.6
mills; other livestock, 8 mills.—HUB
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an average precipitation of 20^9
inches during I960 and 1961,
Calgary and Lethbridge, in the
relatively dry southern sector of the
province, reported correspondingly
fewer malformations during the same
period.
Precipitation averaged 14.82 inches
in Calgary and the city recorded 13.4
abnormalities per 1,000 births. Leth
bridge, further south, had lessi pre
cipitation—12.9 inches—and an ab
normal birth rate of 13.07 a 1,000.
Home Economists Tell
Members How To
Prevent Tooth Decay
BERKELEY, Calif.— (CNS)—The
large amounts of refined sugars and
starches in the foods which Ameri
cans often eat at irregular hours con
tribute heavily to the dental disease
from which 96% of them suffer,
home economists of Consumers Co
operative here told members recently.
They made these suggestions to help
reduce tooth decay—especially in
children;
1. Control diet by eating foods
from all four basic food groups and
avoiding sticky candy and cookies
when the toothbrush is not handy.
2. Brush teeth immediately after
meals at home and rinse the mouth
if a toothbrush is not available after
snacks away from home.
3. Protect teeth by regular visits
to the dentist for cleaning teeth,
treating cavities and prescription of
a fluorine supplement if the public
water supply is not fluoridated.