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April 29, I960Page Eight THE PEOPLE’S VOICE=
I960 Filings for June 7 PrimaryTo Conserve Missouri Water Resource . . Blaine County Democratic Women To Meet May 4
CHINOOK—The Blaine County.Democratic Womens Club will meet LeRoy Anderson May 4 at the Plainsman in Chinook. John W. Bonner The meeting will start at 12 o’clock John Mahan with a luncheon served by the ladies T/pp .Metcalf __of the club.
The ladies extend a general invitation to all. Democratic candidates who wish to meet them and their friends.
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Slackwater Navigation U. S. SenateOrvin B. Fjare Sumner Gerard Fred J. Martin Wayne MontgomeryJames H. Morrow L. A. Wilson
Research into the feasibility of establishing a system of slackwater navigation in order to secure most comprehensive use of the water resources of the Missouri basin, was called for this week by Leonard Kenfield, president of Montana Farmers Union.
Kenfield, in a letter to Major General Keith R. Barney ofthe U. S. Corps of Army Engineers,^-------Omaha, said that continuing the “present method of draining upper Missouri storage in Montana for floating barges on a free-flowing channel downstream will seriously threaten, if continued, supplies of water for irrigation and for production of power in our state. Already we are feeling the effects of this practice.
In urging the slackwater study,Kenfield made particular reference to the part of the basin between Yankton, S.D. and the mouth of the river near St. Louis, Mo. And, he said that “we strongly recommend that the study include installation of additional federal power generating and transmission facilities throughout the entire basin wherever
, practicable with full consideration being given multipurpose benefits that might be realized.
Pointing up the need for more power production, Kenfield said that “many farm and ranch people in eastern Montana must import electricity from far away Nebraska in order to meet their needs and at a cost that is double that of federal power produced in Montana. Proper co-ordination of the uses of the water would eliminate this costly and wasteful condition.”
Continuing, the head of Montana’s largest farm organization wrote Gen.Barney :
In order (1) to help alleviate the harshness of the cost-price squeeze now experienced by agricultural producers in the upper basin states, (2) to help reduce unemployment, (3) to help broaden the tax base by firming up the economy through multipurpose resource development and (4) to conserve limited land and water resources, we urge that not only slackwater navigation but all related purposes be thoroughly investigated for fullest possible improvement for the largest number of people for the longest time.
RECALLS JEROME LOCKE REPORT
“I submit herewith and call to your attention for consideration a document entitled, ‘Conclusions from An Engineering iStudy of Missouri Valley Development’, The study was prepared under the direction of the late Col. Jerome G. Locke, for the Regional Committee for an MVA, groups.
Congre»*» First District
Tom Collins Eugene C. Corner George P. Sarsfield
Milton Colvin Maurice F. Hennessey Arnold Olsen James R. SheaLivingston Editor
Enters GOP Senate
Nomination Fight
Congress, Second District
James F. BattinFrancis J. Arnett Leo Graybill, Jr. Norman W. Hauge Dan O’Neill
Fred J. Martin, 66, editor of the! John (Skeff) Sheehy PARK COUNTY NEWS and successful campaign manager of Gov. J.Hugo Aronson in 1952, Wednesday Paul Cannon became the sixth Republican to seek Willard Fraser the U. S. Senate seat currently held J Mike Kuchera by Sen. James E, Murray.
September 1, 1947 to September 1, 1948.
Among other recommendations, the study offers as a practical solution to the navigation problem a dug canal with a system of locks wholly or almost wholly within the comparatively level flood plane between river bluffs, utilizing routes that would minimize dislocation of existing traffic, wharfage and warehousing facilities, and saving, most importantly, precious water.
“The dug canal is proposed, first, as a facility that will not rob the upstream valley of its water supply, and, second, as an aid in transforming main stem reservoirs into irrigation and power reservoirs.
Unlike the Tennessee Valley, the Missouri Valley is still visited by costly, misery-producing floods.
“We saw in Montana this spring what a bitter circumstance it is that water we are as yet unable to use fully for critical, unmet needs creates havoc by flooding more than a half million acres of land in the lower valley and contributes to damaging flood conditions over many thousands more ' acres along the Mississippi River.
GovernorWesley A. D’Ewart Donald G. Nutteri
J. M. Nickey Merrill K. Riddick Jack Toole
Lieutenant Governor
Tim Babcock Y. V. Crissey Lou W. Welch
H. H. Anderson Jess L. Angstman Paul Ringling
Attorney General4 4
Forrest H. Anderson Bruce Sheldenff
Secretary of StateFrank Murray Albert E. Leuthold
Superintendent of Public InstructionJohn W. Cushman Ruth Putz
Harriet Miller
State AuditorJohn J, Holmes
State TreasurerThis water, out of control, defy
ing state boundaries, the government agencies and the works of man thus Jar, should and can be made to behave itself, I am sure.
“We urge that consideration also be given in the slackwater navigation study to unified water control throughout the entire Missouri Basin,” Kenfield concluded.,
4 •FRED J. MARTIN Fern Lane Baker
Martin, a native ^of Butte, was a I James Kello 1925 graduate of MSU School of | H. L. (Tip) O’Neal Journalism, and in following his profession, has lived in every major city in the state. Before World War Louis G. Boedecker II he was active in the Cascade Paul K. Harlow County Trades & Labor Assembly, ( Dan O’Connell and was
Edna Hinman
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Dave Middlemas
a member of the City- J Kenneth M. Rice County Airport Commission in Great Falls.
Martin became publisher of the NEWS in 1946, and except for a 3- year period when he served as executive secretary to Gov. Aronson, has been a working editor in Livingston
Associate Justice, Supreme Court(Non-Partisan Ballot)
Stanley M. Doyle James Freebourn H. Cleveland Hall John C. Harrison Andrew G. Sutton
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A grand jury and a Senate subcommittee are investigating charges that Earl Corey made $83,250 as a silent partner’’ in a grain storage
firm while he was chief of the U. S.
ever since.This year he served as chairman
of the Montana delegation to the Agriculture Department’s commodity golden anniversary of the White office in Portland, Ore. That is the House Conference on Children and same Earl Corey who was given a Youth, by appointment of Gov. *Aron superior service” award last year son.
by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson for his “significant contribution to agriculture through his fine relationships with producer, in God and all His people. No prom warehousing and merchandising ise to any individual, group or cor
poration’.’’
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Farmers Subsidize Consumers
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Martin says his platform simple one; ‘No crackpotitis—just common sense and hard work. Faith
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IOLA, Kan.—(CNS)—“The most gigantic subsidy in the U. S. is not the farm price-support program but the unpaid or underpaid labor that farmers and their families contribute to produce cheap food for the American people.
Mrs. Mary Conger, who with her husband runs a 720-acre dairy farm near here, spoke out for the farmer in the April 9 «SATURDAY EVENING POST.
Food was never cheaper, Mrs, Conger says. “People in the U, S. buy their food with the fewest hours of labor ever required in the history of mankind.” But the farmer “has been absorbing about 25% of the nation’s grocery bill.
To survive, farmers have increased production, thus adding glut and lowering prices. “Collectively we destroy ourselves by individual actions we are forced to follow,” Mrs. Conger says.
“If the country wants a comfortable margin of food over and above its immediate daily needs, who should pay for this insurance? Should farmers be expected to carry the entire premium in the form of depressed prices?
Mrs. Conger doesn’t spare “spokesmen for agriculture.” She names no names, but she accuses them of misleading both the farmer and the American people,
“Since 1952 our farm has made little if any profit in good years— and in bad years, such as 1965, we’ve lost as much as $4,058, While were struggling to meet expenses, we constantly were reassured by some spokesmen for agriculture that ‘efficient, commercial farmers’ were doing just fine.”
Of the future, Mrs. Conger says, Not a single economist forecasts
any improvement in farm income in the years ahead. And there is no sound, unified program to meet this situation. The voice of the farmer is weak and faltering because the several national farm organizations that are supposed to speak for him are deadlocked In uncompromising disagreement.
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Life, Business Week Support Forand Bill; Nixon Says No
Two of the nation’s most influential magazines are giving strong editorial support to the Forand Bill approach of providing health care for the aged through Social Security. Says BUSINESS WEEK (April 16, 1960); “The voluntary approach simply will not do the job. (The job) through the Social Security System , . . This approach has the advantage of keeping old people from feeling that they are
gars.1960); Private voluntary - plans “can never meet the whole Meed . . . The cheapest and most logical way ... is by extending the existing system of Social Security.”
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made public a letter signed by Robert H. Finch, administrative assistant to Vice President Nixon. The letter declares that Nixon “will continue to oppose any compulsory health insurance program. This, of course, includes the Forand Bill.”
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