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of World War II. Fischer will be the Friday evening banquet speaker.

Dr. Shannon, a native of the Har­din, Montana area, has been on the MSU economics department staff since 1956. Prior to that he had taught at Michigan State University and Ohio State University. He holds an AB degree from William Jewell Col-.lege, Liberty, Missouri, and an MS Co-Ordinator f S . . and Ph.D. from Ohio State. Since his trarrival at MSU he has specialized in I o'^ ^ ^ _ m m _research on state and local finance, Æ ^ ■ __ ______ f ___^_________national international economic ■ MTtI#IW1 ^7 MÊ ÊQ MÊ Mm Ê% Ê Ê%

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Vol. XXIV—No. 27 HELENA, MONTANA, JUNE 7, 1963 $3.00 Per Year

Guest speakers scheduled for the occasion include P. J. Gilfeather, Great Falls; Dr. John L. Fischer, Mon­tana State College, Bozeman, and Dr. Richard E. Shannon, Montana State University, Missoula.

Host club for the convention is the Cascade County Democratic Women’s Club. In addition to formulating plans

for the 1964 campaign, and drafting a policy and program, the convention will also hold its biennial election of officers Saturday morning. Posts tobe filled are those of president, vice “The John Birch Society in Montana is becoming much stronger and includes both elected president, secretary and treasurer, and appointed officers of the state government”, is the lead paragraph in the NEW YORKIncumbent officers m addition to TIMES of June 1, 1963, which quotes Vic Overcash, co-ordinator for the Society in Montana, President Aasheim are : vice president,Mrs. Douglas R. (Stella Jean) Han­sen, Missoula; secretary, Mrs. Wanda Gough, Hamilton, and treasurer, Mrs.O. L. Johnson, Kremlin,

Attorney Gilfeather, long an active Democrat and former legislator, is considered one of the top taxation authorities in Montana. He will speak at the Friday noon luncheon.

Dr. Fischer is head of MSC’s De­partment of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. Prior to coming to MSC, he was on the staff of the University of Tennessee. He had also taught and done research work at Michigan State University and at the University of Nevada. Bom and raised on a large cattle and wheat ranch in Oklahoma, Fischer received his Ph.D. at University of Wsiconsin, his BS and MS degrees at Oklahoma State University, and attended West Point, Amherst and Sam Houston State College. He is a combat veteran

Wyoming and eastern Idaho. The article carries the by-line of Wallace Turner, a name well- known to Montana readers of the NYT.

Overcash is also quoted by Turner as saying the John Birch Society has grown considerably in Montana since January of 1962. tax, to get the United States out of

the United Nations and the United Nations out of the United States, to override the authority of the Su­preme Court, and reapportioned the state to give the farm communities more, rather than less representation.

In Wyoming, Overcash said, accord­ing to the TIMES article, the John Birch Society growth was slower than in Montana, and he did not take credit for the growth of tism’’ there, although he thought the JBS might have contributed to its growth in Montana.

Between now and November, 1964, the right-wing will be better defined and its scope made clear and people may be able to grasp its significance.

The syntony of the right-wing Birch Society and the other right- wing-conservative organizations and fronts is beginning to emerge.

The immediate hazard is going to be faced by the Republicans as a poli­tical organization.

In Montana the conservative Re­publicans have the upper hand, but they may yet have to come to grips with the phenomena, if not philoso­phically, first, at least financially.

There are indications that the right-wing- “front” leaders come through the state and raid local financial resources that have hith-

Cancer Research To Continue at MSU

Overcash did not identify the elect­ed officials or appointees.

The John Birch Society has been called the “common denominator” for the estimated 1,000 conservatdve-

MISSOULA—Research that holds j right-wing organizations and fronts hope of producing a treatment for in this country today and their syn- cancer will continue at Montana State tony was revealed when Overcash told University under a renewal of a U.S. Turner that The Freedom Fighters Public Health Service grant to Dr. and the Anti-Communist Study Club Richard E. Juday, professor of chem- were of great value to his work, istry, according to Dr. John M. Stew- The N, Y. TIMES article quotes art, department chairman. Overcash as saying of the above

The current grant of $6,438 brings I groups, “They indoctrinate ’em to USPHS support of Dr. Juday’s study itJie V°int where 1 can take ’em over”

to date to about $20,000.The MSU researcher is investigat­

ing hormone-related compounds of possible value in cancer treatment.Samples prepared at MSU have been submitted to the USPHS for bio-assay to determine whether they show any potential for cancer therapy, but it I not only in Montana, but in Wyoming is too early to draw conclusive infer- | and Idaho, ences on results of the project, he commented.

Scott Griffin,from Missoula, will work as a student | voted to abolish the federal income assistant oh the project this summer.Dr. Juday said.

Women Prefer Status Quo, Says Anthropologist

BERKELEY, Calif. — (CNS) —conserva-

There are proportionately fewer women in graduate schools and in the professions today than there were 25 years ago, Anthropologist Margaret Mead told radio listeners here.

erto been available to the state political organization.

The Mountain region is consid­ered a special target of the right­ists in the coming 1964 election campaign where a number of lib­eral Senators must face the dec­

orate.

•see page 4In a speech broadcast over KPFA- FM, Miss Mead said that women ténd to adapt themselves to what is and to want to understand and guard things as they are.

Men want to change or even de­stroy nature: Melt the Polar ice cap and control the weather,” she ob­served.

The creative woman is less desir­able as a wife, the scientist said, but the creative man is more desirable as a husband.

Rural Electrics Butt of Vicious

Attack by Prominent BirchiteRight-wing movements are strong,* .

They are so strong in Wyoming that the 1961 Legislature approved

chemistry major I a “right-to-work” law. They alsoDEPENDENT AMERICAN. Courtney once criticized even Sen. Barry Gold- water of Arizona—who also opined recently that REA should be abol­ished—as being “tainted with social­ism”.

Implying that the federal power program and REA are plotting a de­vious take-over of the nation’s power system, Rand equates them with so­cialism and says they are moving toward Lenin-type communism.

Rand’s vitrolic smear article against the co-operative movement is one of the most extreme to date in what Washington observers Warn is a gang- up by commercial power company ex­tremists and right-wing radicals on non-profit and public power projects in this country.

NRECA General Manager Clyde “Tigress of the Far Right”, operate Ellis noted recently that “hate or­tho Conservative Society of America ganizations” like the Birch Society and publish a paper called THE IN- are joining hands with the power

companies to discredit and destroy REA and rural electrification.

(Such “hate organization«” are at least in part financed by private utilities. For example, Montana Power Company’s 1961 report to the Federal Power Commission showed large contributions made to three leading right-wing groups:1. the textbook-tampering Ameri­ca’s Future, 2. Harding College, major propaganda mill of the ex­tremists, and 3. Foundation for Economic Education.—PV)

“Any program, any business, any individual who dares differ with the extremists is branded with their acid, Ellis asserted, “The list of victims in­cludes distinguished public officials from both parties, including presi­dents of the United States.

Victims of the “hate campaign include rural electrics and their lead­ers, REA and its officials and mem­bers of the National Rural Electric Co-operative Association staff, Ellis pointed out.

“We have been victims of the same hate campaign so brilliantly exposed in the Senate recently by Senator Thomas Kuchel of California.”

Kuchel reported last week that this Senate speech hitting extremist groups such as the Birch Society has been overwhelmingly supported by more than a 4 to 1 ratio in letters re­ceived in his office.

WASHINGTON, D. C.—(NRECA) —The radical right-wing John Birch Society stepped up its campaign against rural electrification and fed­eral power projects with a vicious ar­ticle in the May 23 issue of PUBLIC UTILITIES FORTNIGHTLY.

Union Label Buyers —Beware!Public Needs To Know

More About PesticidesAccording to the Union Label

News Letter of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the following are non-union firms and non-union products;

Richman Brothers and Sewell suits, Siegel (HIS brand) suits and sport jackets. Wings shirts, Kay- nee boyswear, Judy Bond Blouses, Camel, Winston, Brandon, Salem and Cavalier cigarettes, Old Fitz­gerald and Cabin Still whiskey, Hanes knitwear, O’Sullivan rubber heels, Peavy Paper Mill products, Jamestown Sterling Corp. furni­ture, and Comet Rice Mills Co. products.—ITU REVIEW.

In an article titled “Spinning the Web”, by Clayton Rand—a prominent member of the Birchers’ so-called American Opinion Speakers Bureau —REA and the rural electrics are ac­cused of coinspiring with the govern­ment to socialize power.

Rand, a close associate of right- wing extremist Kent Courtney of New Orleans, a leading Bircher, is active in a number of fanatic, radical ex­tremist movements.

Courtney and his wife Phoebe, who LOOK MAGAZINE described as the

(CNS)— resemble symptoms of common ill­nesses that no one is sure how many become dill.

Very little is known about the con­sequences of your accumulating more than one pesticide, the scientists said. Suppose you put 2, 4-D on your lawn and spray your patio with DDT, what begins to happen inside of you? We don’t know.

Many birds, fish, sea creatures, and pets seem more sensitive to pesticides than man. In some areas sprayed for Dutch elm diseases, four-fifths of the birds died, the panel said. A common garden chemical, heptaehlor, will kill shrimp in concentrations of less than one part per billion!

The group, headed by Colin Mac­Leod of New York University’s medi­cal school, urged the Department of Health, Education & Welfare to spend money getting answers for the un­answered questions.

They also suggested that the Agri­culture Department refuse to register a new pesticide unless it’s equally ef­fective and less hazardous than some chemical already for sale. Also, when such a pesticide turns up, “the more hazardous compounds might well be removed from the market.

Unquestionably, pesticides have helped farmers boost increased food output, and men must go on using them if they’re to “maintain this ad­vantage”, MacLeod and his col­leagues said. Yet they urged USDA to shift some of its “great emphasis on chemical pest control’’ to biologi­cal methods which have received “rel­atively little attention”.

For example, sterilizing males of the monogamous screwworm fly with gamma rays and releasing them so their mates produce infertile eggs is one such biological control. So are birds, which eat vast quantities of in­sects.

WASHINGTON, D. C.The government doesn’t tell you enough about pesticides, nine univer­sity scientists have told the Depart­ment of Health, Education and Wel­fare.

These chemicals that kill flies, mos­quitoes, borers, beetles, roaches, dan- deloins, crab grass, and weeds have “great merits” and also “apparent risks”, a panel of President Kennedy’s science advisory committee agreed. But you don’t know much about them.

The government tests these chemi­cals, studies them, sets tolerances, and writes about them in language that farmers and crop-dusters can under­stand, but it doesn’t do much “to en­hance public awareness of pesticide benefits and hazards.

Not until Rachel Carson wrote “Si­lent Spring” last year were people generally aware of how poisonous these chemicals are, the scientists said.

MSC To Hove 10-Week Peace Corps Program

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BOZEMAN—Montana State College has signed a contract with the Peace Corps providing for a ten-week training pro­gram for Peace Corps candi­dates this summer, according to Dr. Robert Dunbar, project co­ordinator and MSC professor of history.

About 80 candidates for Peace Corps service in Ecuador will arrive on the MSC campus June 16 to begin their initial training.

Their program will include studies in agriculture, home economics and extension methods, Spanish, Ecua­dorian studies, cross-cultural under­standing, American culture, world af­fairs, strategy and tactics of Com­munism, health and medical training, physical education and recreation, and Peace Corps orientation.

The MSC training program is the first of three phases. The major em­phasis will be instruction in Spanish in which the candidates will be ex­

pected to converse at the end of the training period.

One of the more strenuous pro­grams is a series of outdoor living projects. The trainees will be led through progressively difficult ex­periences in camping, hiking, moun­tain climbing, and survival.

After completion of their training here, the selected candidates will go to a Latin American country for four- weeks training in the second phase, and then to Ecuador for the third phase of training.

In Ecuador each selected trainee will serve with the Ecuadorian exten­sion service as assistant to extension agents in agriculture and home eco­nomics. In addition, some trainees will serve with the national forestry service in Ecuador and some will teach in vocational agriculture schools.

The Peace Corps in Ecuador is a project administered by a private in­dustry, Heifer, Incorporated, which since 1944 has been providing farm­ers in underdeveloped countries with farm animals.

Many questions about pesticides are still unanswered. About 150 per­sons die each year as a result of mis­using these chemicals. They make many more people ill. Yet the symp­toms of pesticide poisoning so closely

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••Brotherhood■Members of Interna-DETROIT

tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 58 have offered to

25-cent hourly raise andgive up a to put the money in a pool from which unemployed members would draw $50 a week, plus unemploy­ment insurance, beginning next

November 1,

Electrical contractors have

agreed, if contract language can be worked out. The raise was due May 1. About 650 of the local’s 2,000 members are out of work.