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Board of JRegenl* Meeting . . Extremists Thwarted In Desire To Ban Farmer-Labor Institutes The rebellion of the presidents of the University units at the meeting of the Board of Regents Monday and Tuesday will have reverberations into the fall and winter. The prexies, under the leadership of Dr. H. L. Steele, Eastern Montana Col lege, Billings, first presented the Regents with a policy on cam pus facility use so stringent that the Boy Scouts couldn't even use the swimming pool at Dillon. Some Regent* under the direc tion of Gov. Tim Babcock'* hatchet men, Doering and Co., wanted a AFL-CIO Speaks . . Regents Urged To Consult With Foculty On New MSU Prexy Montana labor, always actively in terested in improving education in Montana, this week urged the Board of Regents "to consult with faculty members designated to represent the faculty at Montana State University prior to the selection of a new presi dent for the University. The request, in accord with a unan imously-passed resolution of the 1963 convention of Montana State AFL CIO in Billings last June, was pre sented by Executive Secretary James S. Umber via letter to A1 Dubbe, Regents' executive secretary, Tues day, Organized labor in Montana, Umber wrote Dubbe, "is keenly in terested in good schools and we be lieve that harmony is an essential factor in the success and progress of any educational institution, there fore it is our desire to co-operate and assist our school people in achieving this goal. As of presstime Thursday morn ing, the Regents were slated to name a new president for MSU later that day. i i yy yy Montana, Wyoming Senators Are Sponsors . . Legislation In To Create Big Horn Canyon Recreation Area WASHINGTON, — (Spec ial)—The Senators from both Montana and Wyoming- have introduced a bill to create the Big Horn Canyon National Rec reation Area in southcentral Montana and northcentral Wy oming. The bill, by Sens. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), Gale W. McGee (D Wyo.), Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.) and Milward L. Simpson R-Wyo.) would set aside 63,287 acres along the Big Horn River above Yellowtail Dam, scheduled for completion by the Bu reau of Reclamation in 1966. The recreation area would include the spectacular Big Horn Canyon, some Public Power Pays . . Ohio Utility Marks Anniversary By No Charges In July Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio electric really had something to consumer* cheer about when they received their July bill*. Each and every paid". of them was marked ( i one What it meant to the patron-owner* of the system, in total, was a sav ing of some two hundred thousand dollars. The occasion for the "no charge the Diamond Anniversary of ' ' was the electric system, which is the third largest municipal electric utility in Ohio, In so advising that there'd he no charge for July, the utility's management told users this is a dividend on your our municipally . . that investment in owned electric system in recogni tion of the system's 75th anniver We all are proud of the service sary . efficient and economical rendered throughout the years by If this depratment . . . policy to curtail the public's use of the campuses aimed specifically at the Farmer-Labor Institute and the Farmer* Union. But chopping off all community services seemed too great a price to pay ,to "get" those organizations. The presidents were directed to rewrite their proposed policy state ment on use of University system facilities, NONE OF REGENTS' BUSINESS The Council of Prexies was openly insubordinate" to another of the ii hatchet gang's hellisih desires. The presidents were supposed to come up with a directive of courses that should be required in high schools for col-1 lege entrance. Dr. Leon Johnson of Montana State College in Bozeman told the Regents quite frankly that it was none of the presidents' busi ness, nor the Regents . . . When the Regents put on their Other hats as the Board of Education in co operation with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the school ad ministrators such a directive might be formulated. What the Hatchets wanted was a two-diploma setup for high school graduates. One for those going to college and the other for those terminating their education. The fallacy of two diplomas lies in the fact that at fourteen practically no student intends to go to college. They have to be brainwashed into it by their parents and teachers. Success in college is not reflected by high school perform in any way -see page 2 47 miles long with cliffs rising 800 to 2,200 feet above the river It would cover about one-third of ' the 195-mile shoreline created by the Yellowtail Reservoir. Development, over a 10-year peri od, would include a highway down the west side of the reservoir, link ing Interstate Highway 90 near Hardin with Wyoming State 14 near Lovell. From this highway, there would be access to the recreation area at several points. Of the 63,287 acres, 29,216 are now being acquired by the Bureau for dam and reservoir purposes; 26, 934 acres are in the Federal Land Reserve; 719 acres are state owned (Montana) and 6,418 acres are pri vately owned, (4,560 acres in Mon tana and 1,858 in Wyoming). Boundaries of the proposed recre ation area have been carefully drawn to avoid including private lands not absolutely necessary. The proposal does not include any lands owned by the Crew Indian Tribe, although the Crow Reservation will border about two-thirds of the Yellowtail Reservoir. Addition of certain of these In dian lands would greatly enhance the recreation area, but they will not be included without the consent of the tribe. The National Park Service is carrying on discussions with the Indians as to their voluntary par ticipation in the project and the ini tial reaction of the Crow Tribal Council appears favorable. The proposal for a Big Horn Can yon National Recreation Area is based on an extensive study con ducted by the National Park Service in 1961-62. The study shows that the Yellowtail Reservoir, combined with the picturesque canyon country, has great potential for sightseeing boat trips, pleasure boating, fishing, di versified camping, hiking, horseback riding and pack trips into the tribu tary canyons and nearby mountains, and visits to interpretive features having historic, scenic or scientific interest. WißT0f?4CAi_ SO OF W£1I)LXJÏK JÏELÊfÂ^ ^ t £-. 1 V \ 7 --.3 j A J < * ! : A i • » V., k.rn .. » i limn r r r WIDE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER "MONTANA'S 0» _ I y 0 j XXIV_No 37 1958 SIDNEY HILLMAN AWARD WINNER HELENA, MONTANA, AUGUST 16, 1963 $3.00 Per Year Montana Rai* T ^nion Leaders Contend . . Man.field-Dirksen Bill Would For / Compulsory Arbitration Should e Kennedy Administration proposal that the rail rules dispute be turned over to the Interstate Commerce Commission for binding settlement, the way will be open for an agency which admittedly knows little about complicated rail labor-management relations, to with one swipe of the pen, wipe out one hundred years of progress by rail unions. This is the consensus of Montana officials of major rail unions, who, following a meeting in Helena, have made a public appeal for a letter-writing campaign to the Congress in oppo ( i y y . s ii" lon the ICC being given finals authority to settle the long-standing controversy, These officials are urging that letters of protest be written, par ticularly to Senate Majority Lead er Mike Mansfield, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.), co-spoilsors of the Ad ministration's compulsory arbitra tion proposal. Taking part in drafting the state MSU Forestry School _ _ Ta flnCAPVA C||f|| 1V Anniversary, Oct. 10 Stete University School of For es try, one of the oldest such schools in the nation, will be observed in Missoula on Oct. 10 and 11, it was The 50th anniversary of the Mon announced by Dr. Arnold Bolle, Dean of Forestry. The anniversary will co incide with MSU's homecoming cele bration and is expected to produce the greatest reunion of forestry alum ni in the history of the school. Authorization for establishment of the School of Forestry was given by the Montana Legislature in 1913, Forestry subjects had been taught , on the campus pnor to that time but | lar ^ el y on a technical course basis. With the establishment of the school, forestry was taught for the first time on a full professional basis. Advance plans for the 50th anni versary celebration call for presenta tion of several discussion panels with nationally known forestry experts, a reunion banquet with Senator Lee Metcalf as principal speaker, a social gathering at the 22,000 acre Lubrecht Experimental Forest, initiation of a special class by the Druids, forestry secret society, and professional meet ings. The school plans to make this the first in an annual series of pro fessional gatherings for alumni. According to Dean Bolle, within the time that the school has been in existence, forestry has gained its full stature, and today occupies a posi tion of great importance to Montana and the nation. "The school has taken on a specially important role in edu cating students for service in Mon tana and the surrounding region, al though it is also true that graduates of our school today are scattered throughout the World on forestry as signments," he said. Harnessing Natural Steam Gets Attention at Interior The Interior Department is busy these days looking for ways to har ness natural steam as a new source of electric power. Scientists call this geothermal steam. It is formed when water contacts molten or hot volcanic rock. Resulting steam exerts tremendous force which can run a turbine and turn generators to produce low-cost power. Already one geothermal plant in California generates enough power for a community of 20,000 people. Interior also has been investigating the possibility of geothermal genera tion in 13 other areas located in Ore gon, Nevada and California.—RURAL ELECTRIC MINUTEMAN. ment were; Kenneth Clark, Miles City, Locomotive Fireman and En gineman; Fay Egge, Butte, Railroad Trainmen; Robert C, Theurer, Hel ena, Engineers, and E. F. English, Havre, Railway Clerks. MAKE FOUR POINTS AGAINST PROPOSAL Several points are made in the joint statement: 1. Despite Administration denials the ICC proposal in actuality consti tutes "compulsory arbitration" by an agency which has long evidenced a "strongly-pro management bias". In this contention the rail unions are joined by the National Association l of Manufacturers NAM NEWS which has frankly labelled the measure as one designating the ICC as "a board of compulsory arbitration". 2. The ICC by admission of its Chairman Laurence K. Walrath, has "no experts in the area of collective bargaining". In the words of Rep. John B, Bennett (R-Mich.) this "would amount to turning the dis pute over to amateurs". 3. The ICG, under the broad pow ers proposed for it by the Kennedy Administration, would be able by decree to "supersede" any and all work rules previously agreed to by labor and management, and could also wipe out all state "full crew safety laws", to quote an admission by ICC General Counsel Robert W. House-Passed Bill Can Greatly Aid Training of Technicians Bill Erickson, vocational edu cation aide in Harriet Miller's office of Public Instruction, re viewed for the State Board of Education Tuesday the impact of the vocational technical edu cation bill which is now before the U. S. Senate. The bill would increase expendi tures in vocational education by the federal government of the present $57 million by $450 million over the next four years. Congress, faced with the problem of one-third of those in the fifth grade now will not reach high school graduation and 20 mil lion noncollege graduates hitting the labor market during the 1960's and repeated requests from President Kennedy, is now considering the bill which will double Montana's efforts to provide technicians for our econ omy. The problem of transfer of school district funds within five possible area schools is now being researched by Miss Miller's department and the Attorney General's staff. (An ex ample would b district in Townsend help Helena es tablish a technical school?) If additional legislation is not needed on the state level we could participate in the $45 million pilot program in 1964. 1964 will be di vided as follows: $26 million for con struction of school buildings on a 50-60 basis with state and local levels participating with the federal gov ernment; $10 million for increased training costs caused by the new building, $6 million for office job How can the school Ginnane when questioned by mem bers of the Senate Interstate Com merce Committee. 4. Forcing compulsory arbitration on the rail road industry will be "an opening wedge toward the ending of free collective bargaining" for all labor and management in Amer- . ica. The precedent will have been set. SCOPE LIMITED Under provisions of the Kennedy Mansfield-Dirksen proposal (SJR 102), the ICC would have to limit its scope of investigation to a re view of the President's Railroad Com mission controversial report and the more recent Emergency Board No. 154 report. The Presidential Com mission, appointed by President Ei senhower in 1959, issued its report last year, and had as a major recom mendation, the elimination of many thousands of rail union jobs. This PRC report, gleefully cheered by rail management, set the dispute which for some months has threatened a nationwide tieup of rail trans portation. After such review, the ICC's find ings would be binding for a period of two years, with both strikes and lockouts prohibited. Anticipating that the ICC would, as in the past, continue its pro- management stance, rail union -See Page 3 education; $2.75 million to increase the tempo of training practical nurses, and education in the agricultural, home economics, distributive systems, trade and industrial fields; $2.25 mil lion to assist those with academic, socio economic or other handicaps. The measure passed the House of Representatives by a whopping 377-21 vote on August 6, 1963. Cong. Arnold Olsen voted FOR —See Page 4 Insecticide Treatment Proposed . . . Maine Legislature Votes To Wipe Out Lobbyists American Public Power Association A resolution adopted facetious ly by the Main« Legislature re cently would set up a method for conveying "each and every regis tered lobbyist representing any and all POWER (emphasis in orig inal) and timber interests, to the far northern region of the State of Maine where they may he sev erally subjected in formal manner to the same treatment that the Spruce Bud Worm* are now under going". A House amendment to the hill, which carries the title: Relative to the Conveyance of Lob byists", specifies that a certain member of the State Senate shall be responsible for carrying out the order and for reporting back to the Legislature on whether the "con veyance" was successful final solution with regard to the influence of the Third House". 'Order, 'the