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. ' ~ ·- . . ' . Mrs. P/Qst's New Stand · ·, Congresswomah Gracie Ffost of the First district has now . done what ahe ahould have done at the beginning in• regard to the material, favoring 'the proposed power and communications :Commission initiative in Idaho, which was inserted In the Congressional Record last February for the purpose of making possible the reprod1,1ction of the material by the Government Printing; Office and the postage-free mailing ·of it to Idaho citizens under the congressional franking privilege. Mrs. Pfost has now usumed partial . responsibility for the project by .declaring· that ahe will use her own frank to mail it to Idaho. '. The material was put into the Record by Rep. Harold A. Patten o! Arizona, who oaid after the contmversy about it erupted that· he did so at Mrs. Pfost's request and that the material was given to him by her. Mrs. Pfost, who previously had said she had no connection with· the project, for obvious reasons has had nothing to say abe>ut Patten's statement. At the time Representative Patten obtained· permission to have the material printed in the Record he mentioned lleither its nature. nor its source; we do not attempt to judge the truth as to this point. If it were established as a fact that Mrs. Pfost supplied the material and requested its 'insertion, then we would want to know why she did not insert it into the Record under he-r own name. * • • In her speech on the House floor Tuesday Mrs. Pfost repeated her accusation that the controversY over the mailing .project ...,.as brought on by "private utilities" for the purpose C>f preventing the material in question from being distributed in Idaho. We ilhould ,like to set the record. straight as far as The Statesman's role in the matter is concerned. The ·Statesman published In its news columns the stories disclosing the project and describing 'the' controversy which followed. ~n this 'o/C merely presented to oitr readers :the news as it was provided by the press RssociatiOns and the special Washington l'eporting service to which The Statesman Subscribes. We tried to present it as ·we '-ttempt to present all news, without· any ~istinction as to which side of a question· ith,~ news may seem to favor. ;1 We also commented editorially on the )!fair, expressing with some vigor the pvinion that material intended to influence an affair of the people of Idaho ought not tD be sent into Idaho at the expense of lhe federal taxpayers, &1,ld above all not 'i!nder the frank of the representative of another state. We still hold that opinion. r Wr; have not at any time, however, been Interested in preventing the material In. ~uestion from being placed in the hands i)f Idaho people. That would be silly, Mcause :j;he material has already been published in idaho. The material in question· consists ~ntirely ·of a news article which was published by the Twin Falls TimeS'News on :ran. 15, being a report of a statement by )\.sher B. Wilson; head of the committee 1,'POnsoring the initiative proposal, and two ;articles bf interpretive comment published ~y the Idaho Farm Journal on Dec., 31. ~ ·We can see ·ho- reBSGn why. Copies of. these artlcli•fs'hould"iiot lie given to evecyofui"ln· the state if someone wants to foot the 'bill for doing it. But we do object to using federal tax money for the purpose. And we don't think that a congrf:ssma.n from Arizona ought to use his congressional printing and mall· lng. privileges to distribute such material in Idaho. We are happy to be able to report that at this point Mr. Patten doesn't think so either. • • • If Mrs. Pfost sends the material j:o Idaho residents we think she will be wrong if she permits ilie federal taxpayers to pay the' postage bill through the use of her congressional frank. But if she believes this is what should be done, we think she is right in personally assuming the responsi· bility for it. The people in the end, will be the judges of whether this propaganda project represents a proper use of federal funds. JdQno Smt-.esmo..n p-4 4)1<Pj54' 'Ne:vJ ~,~~--:, 1 :-(\;~, .pC ~-1 :ft., I Jf1 PiUL 16, 1954. p ' ~ • I '' IQ. The Nation A Dark "Plot" as Charged and Frustrated By ARTHUR KROCK W ASHINGo:rON, April 15-There are' "numerous evidences that the script writerS and producers of Hollywood do not read the <Congressional Record. Any movie about political life in the United States is enough to demonstrate this fact. Bun almost every day in the pages o:f the periodical are to be found the makings of a: thriiling political drama, and 1n the CUrrent issue there is a splel'ldid sample. It is a Western; it has a woman's angle; it concerns a reputed plot by selfish interests against a. member of Congress "battling for the common ,people; and· it ;ends With tlu! triumphant trustration Of a cruel con.; spiracy' that was charged to soulless corporations. Though the scrip~, ina valves no gun-play, no attacks on a ·stagecoach and no horse . races, through the mesquite and over the mesa,. it has the ingrediehts of .something unique in Western and pol(ti9I movies to vary the monotony. of thos~. the cameras of Hollywood invariably grind out. Under the sensational headline "Get G-ratte· Pfost," tla! gelltleWoman 'from Idaho who answers to that name informa her colleagues of what she vieWs as a dastardly attempt to assassinate her (politica1ly} and how, by a simple maneuver on 'her part, she set plotting scoundrels Of the private Utilities back on their heels. The denouemelJ.t is anti-cUmatic and rather· confusing because this maneu- 1 ver seems to be something she could have- done in the first .place. But confusion lind anti-c.limax are not 'Un· known· in Westerns. "Mr. Speaker," the· gentlewoman froni Idaho said, •i:t have just· been· made the target for a ptivate utility' hydrogen bomb.· ·Those who exploded .. it thought it would not only stU:n but destroy me. • • • If I am demolished in this fight "it matters little. "' . • • [but] I do not intend to be bluffed, bullied or frightened byr the private monopolies • • "' [and] the people of Idaho afe not easily fooled." Whodwtit and What? [ What happened? Wen, according to' The Old Hiss I Representative Gracie Pfost, she ".has If the frustrated minions of the in-' dared for some time to be a. vigorous· terests {who,_as:is'well-known, shoot defender of the people's rights" by the poor when ~ey become ,an incon-; advocating federal Instead of private venience) did not 'hiss '"curse5" when' industrial. construction· of the high they beheld -the Congressional Record dam at Hell's Canyon. Recently "a eoroe :thundering 'to' the- rescu~ of Congressman from another state" Representative Gracie-Pfost, then viiproposed to send back into Idaho under lains hav~ spinelessly abandoned ~he : his frank some Idaho newspap~r arti- highest standard of their dramatic art. 1 cles favorable to an initiative petition The 'Record dis~loses that, when thefor a .state public ·power law. When ge?tlewoman .fro.J.U Idaho finished her this .became kno~ i~ Idaho "stories speech, she was congratulated by. and editorials" followed, '~o shabby Representative Hays of Ohio, .Metcalf .and Vindictive in tpneJhat they made. of Montana, O;Hara. of Illinois and ~en in Washiii'gton wince Whci thought then by the minority whip himself, themselves hardened long ago to Representative McCormack of Massa- , any sort of political attack." And chusetts. Grieving that "everyone "running through every story and who fights for' the people must expect editorhi.I, almost shouting out in its 'to, incur the smears of those wh9: optranspal- enc)",. was tllis goal- 'Get poSe progress," but predicting ·that Gracie Pfost.' " thOse' Who '1ufidertook to do this low It is not clear from her remarks' job on her will nOt get away with it," I why the "Congressman from another 1 ~cCorrna.ck announced-what is no 1 sta~e" did not carry out his plan, The .news to anyone who has vi~tted his Post Office Department said today part of Boston-"the people of that it has 'llO record of any incident·, district love· a fighter." concerning his frank ~r Represents- \ The movie amusement tax, now tive Gracie Pfost. But, anyhow- 1 happily reduced, may have been With vast wealth, power and i chiefly responsible tor the falliilg' off political aid on their side the · of attendance. But that c~uld be be- Utilities succeeded in what they cauae Hollywood wrtters are not set out to do-they blocked the required to read the Congression~l mailing of the, descriptive .mate- Record and do not yet realize that , . rial. [Did her collea~e rat on "~s." Smith goes to Washington, too. her?] In a new book~bi.trning episode- a Congressioilal book· Durning episode, if you please-almost $500 worth of public doCu-ments paid for by Idaho citizens .~ent ·up in smoke. · Btit Representative Pfost was one too many for. the plotters. . She put the material in· the Congressiona'l Record, and noW she, can send an unlimited· ·number·- of copies back into . Idaho vQ.tnout buyirtg one postage stamp. And included yvith them can. be her speech, with this passage: "The real :issue ts not Gracie' Pfost.:-the real iS· l sue·is.cheap electriC energy; Are we in Ida.hQ to)be denied this great hypo- · detmic for our sagg:Ing'ecotfomy • "' "' , jobs for the' jobless, the greater tax revenues fbr our schools and O;Ur roads, ·the new markets, the new prosperity that will :follow in itS wake? Or must we sit on the sidelines while our neighb?rs; their· rivers' beiqg fully harnessed and ".developed, .strl:de· for· ward in giant's boOts tO new- economic horizons7" 1ne mano uauy ota1esman . - ' T<' P oli~ically Speaking By John Corlett · VERY subtly, Arthur Krock,' . What happened? Well, accord-the famed political writer for mg to Rep. Gracie Pfost she the New York Times, has rle- "has dared for some time'·ta ber scribed the re- a vigorous defender of the pe0 •1 cent speech by ple's rights" by advocating fed- Rep. Gracie eral instead of private industrial Pfost before the construction of the high dam at House, as what Hell's Canyon. Recently ~·a Con-it was. gressman from another s'tate" .Ml's. Pfost, it proposed to send back into raa-will be recalled, ho under his frank some Idaho. was caught in a newspaper articles favorable ·to deal to distribute an initiative petitiori for a state to Idaho under public power law. When 1this be-a n o t h e r con4 came knewn in Idaho "stories · g r e s s man's and editorials" followed, "so I frank, literature John Corlett shabby and vindictive in ·tone favbrable to the proposed public that they made men in Wash· I power and communications initi-' ingtori wince who ihought themative. Later $he got up on the selves hardened long ago to any j .floor of the HouSe to blame priv- ~art ?f political attack." And ate utilities and private inter· runm!'Ig _through every story 1 ests for her mishap. ~n~ edttonal, almost shouting out Krock classi1ied Mrs. Pfost's m Its transparency, was this· goal outburst a:s pure melodramatic -'Get Gracie P.fost.'" corn in words not .. quite tha:t It is not clear from her reblunt. Krock's piece as it ap· marks why the "Congressman peared in the' New York Times, from another state" did not ca:cry of April 16 follows: : out his plan. The Post Office WASHINGTON April 15 -~ Department said today th9-t it There are numer• ous evidences 1:l ..-h.. ..a --s-. 1n5o'.- =r.e.•c•;o rd of any incide t · R- ~--. _ n con· thi\t the script writers and pro·IP.fost. But. anyhow-. ducers of Hollywood do not read 1 With vast wealth, power and the Congressional RecOrd. Any political aid on their side, the movie about political life in the utilities succeeded in what they United States is enough to de- set out to d0::-they bloclted the monstrate this fact. But almost mailing of the descriptive mate· every day in the pages of the rial. (Did her colleague rat on periodical are to be found the her?) In a new book-burning makings o.f a thrilling political ·episode- a Congressional ·bookdrama, and in the current issue burning episode, if you please-there is a splendid sample. almost $500 worth of public' docu- It is a Western; it has a worn· ments P<~;id for by Idaho citizens an's angle; it concerns a reputed went up m smoke .. plot by selfish interests against But Representative. Pfost was a member of Congress battling one too many tor; t~e plotters. for common' people; and it ends She ~ut the matenalm the Conwith the triumphant frustration gresswnal Record.. and now she of a cruel conspiracy that was can send an ~nlrrmted number of charged to soulless cqrporatio:p.s. copies back mto Idaho without Though the script involves no '!buying one postage stamp. And gunplay no attacks on a stage- included with them can be her coach a~d no horse races through, speech, wit.h this pass~ge: "The the mesquite and over the mesa, 1rea~ issue. Is no~ GraCie Pfost-:it has the ingredients of some- :the real Issue Is. cheap electriC thing un'ique in Western and I, energy ~re we m Idaho to be political movies to vary thei'denied t~1s great·hypodei?lic for monotony of those the cameras 1 our s_aE,:gmg economy ... JObs for of Hollywood invariably grind I the JObless, the greater tax re-out. 1 venues for our schools and our U h . I roads t.1e new markets, the new . ~?er t e _sensatio~al head- prosPerity that will follow in its llne Get Gracie- Pfost, . the gen- wake? Or must we sit on the tlewon'l.an from , IdaJ:o who an- sidelines while our neighbors, swers to that name mfor_ms her ·theii- rivers being fully harnessed colleagues of what she VIews as and developed, stride forward· in a. dastardly at.t~mpt to assas- 1 giant's boots to new· economic smate I"!er (politically) and how, I horizons?" by a s1mple man_euver on her If the frustrated minions of the : part, she ~et plot~n;~ scoundrels interest3 (who, as is well~known, 1 of ~he Private utilities back o_n shoot the poor when they be- i the~ . heels: The denouement IS come an inconvenience) did not ?-nt1climactic ~nd rather confus- hiss ''carses" when they beheld mg because ~s maneuver seems t~l~ Congressional Record come to be. somet~ng she could have thundering to the r~scue of Rep. don;e m the firs~ J?lace. But con- Gracie Pfost, then villains have f..~.Slon an?- .anticlimax aren ~ot spinelessly abandoned the highunknown m Westerns. 'est standard of their · dramatic "Mr. Sp~aker," tile gentlewom- art. an' fto:rii. Id'aha. :Said,' ~·1 have 'just The Record discloses that, bee:Q"'inade Jh , 'tar" et or· a riv~ when the gentlewoman from Ida· a"'t~~: . . · .: .. ho finished her speech, she was W~·.~Xploded ltithought i~ would congratulated by Representatives not only stun but destroy me. . . Ha:ys of Oh'.o, Metcalf of MontIf I am demolished in this fight ana, O'Hara of illinois and then it matters little .... (but) 1 do by the minority whip himself, not intend to be bluffed, bullied Representative McCormack of or frightened by the private Massachusetts. Grieving that monopolies ... (and) the people ~~·everyone who fights for ~he of Idaho are not easily :fooled." people must expect to incur tb,e smears of those who oppose pro· 1 gress," but predicting that those 1 Who "undertook to do this low i Job on her ,pu1 not get away with l it/' McCorma~k announced - what is no ne·iVs to anyone who .has visited his part of Boston - I "the people of my district love a fighter." The movie .musement tax, now , happily reduced, may have been chiefly responsible for the falling off of attendance. But that could be because Hollywood writers are not required to read the Con· . gressional Record and do not yet realize that "Mrs.". Smith goes , to Washington, too: -'----- < ' Last Fall the Republicans put on a ca,mpaigi(thei···'out- /r razzle-dazzled the old-t~e Western medicine s~d~., Those sure were out·o~ offiee, and seeking to get~. had a/cure for who everything -- ~or high taxes, ~or high prices, ~or low income and even for low spirits. The medicine show barker's glittering claims ~or his remedy ~or snake bite -- or what have you? -were but nothing when compared with the fancy promises peddled about this country by Republican candidates in the fall o~ fi~ty-two. 11Vote ~or us, 11 they said, 11and then pack up your ailments in your o'l:C! kit bag. is a CHANGE. 11 - We have all the remedies. What you need • I Well -- the American people got their change. And more and more o~ them are discovering each day that they don't like it. And I don't blame them. We Democrats have always llrided ourselves on the. fact that the Demecratic party is a party with a heart. We have I held to the concept that one human being has a s'ieep and definite responsibility towards another. We have operated on the theory that an individual or a group o~ individuals sh2uld not be cast adri~t when circumst~ces create problems which are too big fo~ -1- ,fi ~- "" that--person.,-or persons, to meet alone~ We have taken action swift, effective action -- when it was needed. But the party now in power does not seem to hold to that philosophy -- except when those who want a break are big businessmen or big bankers. The party now in power seems to be intent on finding reasons why people shouldn't be helped. Andmore than that, they seem to be searching for ways to cut down and undermine some of the assistance programs bequeathed them by the Democrats. So while these may be bright days for big business, which is calling the turns in Washington, they are pretty disillusioning days for the farmers and ~he housewife, for the working man and the little business man, and for. the many other "average" citizens -- the people who are the backbone of the country. I can think of no better way to i'l lustrate my point than to analyze the CHANGE the Republicans have made in interest rates. It was firm policy under the Democrats to keep interest rates on government bonds at 2~ percent. The Republican::{ raised this rate to 3t percent. Private interest rates moved up accordingly. -2- • '· If the Administration had offered a prize. -- a super, strike-it-rich jackpot -- for a proposal that would do the ) greatest amount of injury and devastation to la prosperous , r l economy and at the same time unbalance every budget in the United States, no one could have come up with a better idea than to raise interest rates. First of all, the Federal government will have to pay more for the money it borrows. That comes right out of the pocket of every taxpayer. State governmenmthat borrow must also pay increased interest rates, and so state taxes will increase. Every city that borrows must pay a higherrate. So will school districts and other improvement districts. But that is not the end of the unhappy story. Every utility, like gas, water, electricity, and telephone, will have to pay higher rates for any money they may borrow, which means higher charges to the consumer. In addition, all trans-portation companies, including tailroads, busses, streetcars, and other forms of transportation, must pay higher interest rates, and soon these higher rates will be reflected in higher charges to the patrons. -3- <> ,... The spiral catches everything. Installment buying rates are going up. It costs about 9 percent more to ~inance the purchase o~ a car than it used to under the Democrats. The ~armer is ~inding credit tighter and more expensive. To make things even tougher for him, the government has raised by i percent the interest rates on crop loans. Home-hungry citizens are paying more for the privilege of owning that home. FHA rates are up for the non-veteran, and the Republicans passed special legislation to raise the interest rates for veterans. Because ·of this raise, a veteran will lose the equivalent of one bedroom in every house he buys. It may have seemed like a "mite" to most people when they read that the Treasury. had increased by 3/~ of one percent the interest rates on government bonds, but it was a mighty mite, believe me -- a powerful midget, It started the spiral or rising interest rates and it added some 7i million dollars directly to the Federal tax burden of our citizens. And who is going to get the extra money from the higher interest rates? The people who hold newly-purchased government bonds will get some. And who holds the bonds? The banks, the insurance companies, and the large corporations hold almost as -4- .-' many as -all of the rest of the countr:r put together! And the people Who loan money generally will get the rest, The banking industry came to Washingt0n not long ago to hold its 79th annual convention, and set about celebrating in big style the bright 'days under this Administration. Washington's hotel men est~ated that the 7,200 delegates and the 3,000 wives who accompanied them spent some $3 million dpllars in four days. One Washington paper put it this way: "Fifteen dollar orchid corsages, costumed bands, the very best in hotel suites, canapes and buffet spreads are being served up at the bankers' orders all over town. The Mayflower Hotel reports it had the biggest day in history. The Shoreham's Blue Room (their night club) rang up its liveliest wade in years on Saturday night. 11 And meanwhile, what is happening to the pocketbook of the average American? He is paying more for the things he has to buy. The cost of living is now at an all t~e high. He is receiving fewer dollars to buy things with. The last few months personal incomes -- that is, wages, salaries, income from rents, dividends, have begun to slide downwards. -5- ; .-' He is paying higher interest rates for anything he buys on the installment plan or for any money he must borrow. In short, it' seems that the Administration's new 11hard11 money policy has simply made money harder to get for the average man; that the AOm.inistration' s new "sound" dollar is simply a 11 scarcer11 dollar.· Now, I 1d like to tell you about another of the CHANGES made by this Administration ~- a change bitterly fought right here in Idaho. It hit hardest at the farmer, already dogged with drought and falling prices and incredible Administration ~umbling and bumbling on the whole farm program, but it also hit .indirec.tly at the welfare of every person in this country, because it hit at the fertility of our soil. I am referring to what Secretary of AgricMlture Benson calls his "reorganization" of the Soil Conservation Service, and what I call the 11emasculation11 of that Service. The Soil Conservation Service was established by the Democrats as part of the first move by any nation to halt the rapidly expanding and appalling losses of soil and soil fertility. It offered a coordinated approach to the soil conservation problem, replacing the go-it-alone policy of the 48 states -6- Which time bad proved ineff~ctive. Re~ional Soil Conservation offices were established to provide decentralized business management for the farmers, and attached to them was a corps of specialists in agronomy, biology., forestry,· and range management. ·secretary Benson bas now abolished the Regional Offices, which means abolishment of the ~oordinated approach, and the dismissal and dissipation of the trained specialists. The clock is to be turned back, and the job of supplying technical assistance to the more than 2,500 soil conservation districts of the cGuntry handed over to the State Extension Service, which has neither the staff nor the facilities for it. Mr. Benson gave as one of his reasons for his action that be wanted to provide 11local control." What could be more 11local11 than a group of farmers deciding among themselves that they wanted to form a soil conservation district, electing their own officers, and managing it themselves? The Secretary says the move will save money. It has yet to be proved that any money will be saved and .it is possible the costs will be higher. When the emasculation of the Soil Conservation Service was first announced, I vigorously protested the move, both to -7- 1' .- the President and to Secretary Benson, requesting that action on the plan be delayed until Congress reconvened in January and had an opportunity to study its f'ull ranifications. Mmy, many other Congressmen did the same. And soil conservation patriots all over the country -- including many from Idaho -f'looded Washington with protests. Yet Secretary of Agriculture Benson bowed his neck, and with a f'armers-don 1 t-know-what 1 s-best-f'or-them-anyway attitude, put the plan into ef'fect on November f'irst. I have related the soil conservation story, and the interest rate story, to you in some 'detail because they are both symbolic of the CHANGE that is taking place in Washington today -- they are both part of' the disturbing people-be-hariged pattern that is emerging in our nation's capitol ~der this new Republican Administration. Those are two of' the CHANGES the Republicans didn't promise in last tall's medicine show, but the people got. Now let's see about some of' the CHANGES the Repu~licans did promise -- and the people didn't get. The Republicans promised to cut taxes. So far the only tax reduction in sight is the one enacted into law by the Democrats in 1951, ~hich takes ef'fect this coming January. -8- They also promised to balance the budget ~d reduce the national debt. But they ended the fiscal year wtth a deficit of almost 9t billion dollars -- the biggest in peacetime history. Now they're changing their tune. They admit they can't cut taxes, and, since they must have more revenue, they've been searching around for some way to increase taxes so the taxpayer won 1 t know what's happening. First they sent up a trial balloon labeled 11Retail Sales Tax." The hue and cry that rose with it caught them co~letely off guard. President Eisenhower himself had to step in and rule this one out. Next, they suggested a Manufacturers' Excise Tax, Which the National Association of Manufacturers, that mouthpiece of big business, backs strongly. A Manufacturers' Excise Tax would be worse than a Retail Sales Tax because it would actually cost the consumer more. Simple arithmetic will show you why. Suppose that the tax on a TV set Which can be manufactured for $200 is set by the government at $20. Under the Retail Sales Tax Plan the factory would sell that set to the wholesaler for the list price of $200. -9- ~ The: whplesaler would add his business cost and profits, amounting to about ten percent, and sell the TV set to the retailer for $220. The retailer would add his business costs and profit, about 30 percent, which in this case would be $66, and put the set in his window priced to sell before sales ta~ at $286. With the $20 sales tax added, the total cost of the set to the consumer would be $306. Under the Manufacturers' Excise Tax Plan, the factory would pay the $20 tax directly to the government, and sell the set to the wholesaler for $220, instead of $200. The wholesaler would add his pusiness costs ·and profit of 10 percent, or $22, and sell the set to the retail store for a total of $242. The retailer would add the same profit percentage as in the other case -- 30 percent, or $72.60 -- and put the set in his window priced at $314.60. This is exactly $8.60 more than the consumer would have to pay under a Retail Sales Tax Plan. The Manufacturers' Excise Tax is the type of vicious, hidden tax that some members of the Eisenhower Administration are now favoring. Congressman Noah Mason, powerful Republican -10- ?.~ro ~ member of the tax-writing committee in the House, says he will introduce a bill to establish this tax in the next Congress. But on with Republican campaign promises -- kept and unkept. Last year, they pledged to maintain a strong and adequate national defense. This year they cut $5 billion from the Air Force budget. President Eisenhower himself promised the farmers continued high prices for their products. It now appears the average farm prices will drop below parity this year for the first time in twelve years. The Republicans promised to extend the Social Security program. In line with its "government by postponement" policy, - - the problem has been turned over for 11 study" to a committee headed by Congressman Curtis, a Republican who once called Social Security 11unmoral.tt General Eisenhower himself speaking before the AFL convention in 1952 promised to CHANGE the Taft-H~rtley Act. The only thing that's been CHANGED thus far is the Secretary of Labor. -11- - .' The list of broken Republican promises seems endless. ~hey haven't even given us back that extra mail delivery they promised, And as for cleaning up the 11mess11 in vlashington -- well, I don't know what President Eisenhower has done ·about it, but in the light of recent events it begins to look as though he's passed it on to his ~end, Governor Dewey, in New York.' There is one campaign pledge, however, the Republicans have kept. They passed a bill giving to a few states the great offshore oil reserves that belonged to all of us. By this one move they paid off a political debt to some oil millionaires in Texas and California, and brushed aside the 110il for Education11 amendment which would have poured the vast financial returns from these reserves into America's schools, and given every American child an opportunity for a better education. Yes, there have been some CHANGES made in 1rlashington, and the average citizen has been short-CHANGED on every one of them, One of the most flagrant examples of how Mr. and Mrs. America is being by-passed on benefits by this Administration -12- is in the public- power policy -- and that is what I'd like to talk to you about now for a few minutes. You will remember that General Eisenhower put himself' very definitely on record last fall when he said: "Promised development in the Northwest must and will go forward. In this continuing program the Federal government will play its full part." That promise was flung to the winds almost before the inauguration stands were down in Washington. The Great Republican-Public-Power-Sell-Out got underway fast. It soon became evident that prof:l.ts were to take priority over people, and that benefits to business were to be given precedence over benefits to the general public. The biggest and most shocking sell-out of all is the Hell's Canyon sellout. If the sale is consummated and we of' the Northwest must somehow stop it -- it will be the crime of the Ce];).tury, a 11give-away11 on the grand scale. It will mean that a pr:l.vate power company-has the unquestioned right to develop for power, and power alone, a great river that is the heritage of all of the people • • -13- . " It will mean that people of the Northwest .particularly, and the peop;Le of the nation as a whole, will be sold out, cheated, ·and, yes, betrayed. That's a strong statement, but I say it in all sincerity and earnestness, because I believe it is true. Contrast the benefits that would flow out to the people from the construction of a government built, multiple-purpose high dam at the Hell's Canyon site with those which would come from the· construction by the Idaho Power Company of the three low single-purpose dams in the Hell's Canyon stretch of the river. At the high dam site itself a power plant could be built with a capacity of some 600,000 kilowatts. By controlling the Snake River downstream, the high.dam would make possible the installation of almost a million and a half kilowatts of firm, year-round power, guaranteed by the storage capacity of the giant reservoir back of the dam. CompaTe this with the estimate of 885,000 kilowatts of salable power to be produced by the Idaho Power Company's three run-of-the-river dams. A -14- J By making low-cost poweP irrigation's paying partner, the high dam would make ft possible to put water on more-than.a million new acres ~ land in rorty participating projects. The Idaho Power Company's three-dam plan offers~ expansion of irrigation. By regulating the flow of the river, the high dam would further the development of navigation on the lower river, and would also help control floods. The Idaho Power Company's three-dam plan offers no navigation or flood control. The 90-mile reservoir backed up by the high dam, together with the truly spectacular scenery of .the area, would be made accessible to hunters, fishermen and all outdoor loyers by the access roads constructed to build the dan. The Idaho Power Company's cost estimates on its three low dams include such inadequate estimates for access roads, that only the most meagre recreation benefits would accrue to the people. Within the Hell's Canyon area lie more than 60 percent of the nation's phosphate rocks. So far as we now know, the only way to make cheap enough the extraction of these phosphates is -15- :~ • through the electric furnace process powered with -low--co-st high dam power. It has been estimated that 10,000 tons of fertilizer could be extracted each day to replenish the nation's phosphatestarved soils. Transmission lines presently planned by the Idaho Power Company to the phosphate regions are inadequate to carry the power load needed to extract the phosphates, and also the power would inevitably cost,more, since, as is only right and fair, private power must return a profit. I could continue for some time to call the roll of the mighty tasks the high Hell's Canyon Dam could perform for the American people and the low dams could not. Only through the construction of the high dam can the full potentials of the region be reached. The first great decision on the fate of the high dam lies in the hands of the Federal Power Connnission in '\olashington tvhere hearing.s are now underway on the petition of ·the Idaho Power Company to build the three low dams. The company's case has already been seriously shaken. Their cost estimates have been shown up as millions short of the actual amount required to build the dams and put them in operation. The estimates omit, -16- for example, the costs of transmission lines -- without which there would be no way to get the power out of the three development load centers -- and of the essential interconnection with the Northwest Power Pool. It also appears that costs of equipment prices, except turbines and generators, have not been checked, nor have rising price levels been taken into account. No wonder with such misleading arithmetic in its cost estimates the Idaho Power Company has steadily ducked the question as to how much the power produced at the three dams would ultimately cost the consumer! Public confidence in the case of the I~aho Power Company was jarred again when it was brought to light several weeks ago that the Company has formally applied for tax write-offs on. two of its dams -- Brownlee and Oxbow. The subsidies would cost the taxpayers thirty million dollars in the first five years and enable the company to reap long~range benefits amounting to 60 million dollars more than the entire cost of the dams. The accelerated amortization-program under which the Idaho Power Company applied for the write-offs was adopted by Congress to safeguard private investment in necessary defense plants. A Congressional Committee investigating the write-off program not -17- ,. "' long ago calM it 11the biggest--bonanza ever. to come down the government pike • 11 The application for tax WPi te-off on the Brownlee De.m is the largest on record filed by any private pm•er company. So it now turns aut that the Idaho Power Company, Which has been loudly claiming that its project would be privately financed, has been quietly making application for a tax write-off that would reach right down into the taxpayers' jeans. Here is the issue in e. nutshell ------ If the Idaho Power Company is allowed to squander the Hell's Canyon site on the three low dams, and if its application for tax write-offs is granted, the taxpayers will pay a good part of the cost of the dams, and still will have to pay high light bills for years to come. Whereas, if the high dam is built, ninety percent af the cost will be repaid to the Federal Treasury, plus interest, while that cost will be repaid again and again in the form of taxes upon the ~UD new wealth created, ~e at the same time the people themselves will have the advantage of abundant low-cost power. -18- The taxpayer wins only if the'high dam is built. But we have a tough fight ahead. Big business is in the saddle in Washington, and they've found the GOP elephant a docile and obedient beast of burden. Those now in c'ommand seem convinced that if the few at the top of our economic structure have more material possessions than they can possibly use, some of the benefits will trickle down to the people As a f~rmer friend of mine once put it: 11They•re trying to fatten the W.ole herd by feeding the bul1. 11 But we Democrats know that prosperity must be based on the well-being of all of the people, not just great wealth for a few. We don't think we have all of the remedies, but we have certainly found ~ good cures, and I predict here and now that if the Republican remedies fed to us in the past ten months are a sample of those to come, it won't be long before Democra'tic remedies are back on the market again. -19- #### .,.. ' ' ....... '. .. ' (Nqt·'{Jrinted at Government expense)" <rongrrssionat·lttcotd United States PROCEEl~INGS AND.DEBATES OF .TH~ 83d C~JNGRESS, SECOND SESSION of Anierica What's Best for Idaho?· SPEECH ot noN: GRAciE PFost oF IDAHO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA:TIVES weaneSday, A'J!Ti~ i4, 1954 ... Department as intervenor in the Hells Canyon heai-ings before the·· Federal Power CommiSsion', he literally 'sex;ved notice on the ~citizens of America in gerleral, and.Idaho in particular,.that he was perfectly. willing to give away the peoples' prjceless multiple-purpose dam sites to the private power monopolies. As a Mrs. PFOST. Mr. Speal{er, I pave result .it was only natural that.the citiju~~ been .made the ta:t:get for a pnvate zenS of Idaho who wanted to take ad vanutility J:.Ydrogen lJ?mb. Those ~ho ex.;. tage ·of the ·development of their own Plo?-ed It thought 1t would not only stun natuial.resources should set out to do it, me, but destroy me. ~t has bee~ a very under provision of state Jaw. ugly and a. most revealmg expenence; The advocates of the initiative petition Now, why was I, GRAqiE PFosT, ··-a first- insist that there· is nothing new in such a ~erm ~ember of Co]lgres~. ·given the "'proposal, and call attention to' the fact ,works ·_by a ~r.eat, natiOnally con- that manY other -states, sorrie of them _:trolled private-utility monopoly? It was Idaho's close; neighbots, have similar for one reason, and one reason only. I .pp.blic power laws. have dared for some time to be a vigorous defender of the peoples' rights, to 1 OtJ:er States, however, do not have a protect and conserve their own natural magmficent . He~ls ~anyon site. . The resourc.es, and an outspoken proponent fight for thxs ·site,_Is deep and bitter. for Federal construction of the high Small WO:t;l-d~r, fo_r it is _the ~arge~t and dam at Hells Canyon. Jast remammg s1te of 1~ kmd. m our For those of you Who do not immedi- .country,' larger ,and deeper even, ~han ately know to what I refer, it simply the Grand C~nyono~ ~h.e ~olorado ~wer. means that you were~not"stibjected to the '!:he backers .of the I!IIti_ative have made many news stories-· and editorials which It c_lear ~rom the begmnmg th~U·tJ:teY ~re for days.fllled certain Idaho• newspapers att~~?tmg to _set up power diStributiOn about the proposal. by a_nother Congress- faCilities, w~1~h .c~mld be o~erated man to send to Idaho citizens some in- througi: ~umCipahties, coope_rat1ves~ ov .. formation about a public power initia- other similar nonprofit agencies, to_. the 'tive now being circulateii in Idaho . ..end that.the-full be~efit of ~uch proJects These stories and editorials were gen- a~ H~lls Canyot;l- will go directly to a~l erally so shabby ahd vindictive in tone of th~ peo-ple-m the form of cheaper that they made men in Washington ,electnc e~ergy for th~ farmer, for the wince who thought 'themselves long ago .rura~ res1den~s. the, CI~Y dw~llers, and hardened to any sort of political attack. for small as well as large m~ustryRunning through every story and edi- ra'ther th:an just to the Idaho P<;>w~r . torial, almost shouting out in· its ·trans- .Co. and_ Its st~ckholders. And _this IS parency was this goal: "Get GRACIE the fact that tnggered the explosiOn. PFOST." ' · The private utilities were tipped off WHY THE INITIATIVE that material describing the ·initiative ' The. public power initiative movement was about to be mailed from Washinghad been jolted into being last year by ton, D. C., _by a Congressman. ~rom anthe giv:eaway power policies of the pres- othe~ State. . The larger portion of ~he ent Republican administration. By give- n:,~Umg consisted of 2 newspaper araway power policies I mean two simple ticles from the Idaho Farm Journal, and 'things: ' ~1 from the Twin Falls TimeswNews, 'First .. The abandonment of the gener- but th~ priv~te utilities were. afraid that ation-old congressional policy of grant- a~y. d_Iscussion of the subJect of the ing prefe:rence to public bodies in the sale imtiative, reaching many people, would of Public j)ower and be. a real challenge to their present Second. Fa{~S to fix the resale rates monopoly in the field of electric power. well as a few of the newspapers and other power-company-controlled~ me .. diums, came swiftly· to their aid. They thundered, they threate-ned, they cajoled, they even sought the help of the -Solicitor General of the Post Office Department, who formerly occupied my co"ngressional seat, as a part of their scare tactics. THE BURNING TRUTH The ypices of two,Idaho Republicans in Washington were raised· above all others. Now I dO not challenge the right of these two ge:htlemen to do or to say what they did, if they Wanted to, but- I believe the record should show that the -position they;: took.places them squarely in alinemel}.t with th"e private-utility·monopoli~ s in Idaho;, and s_quarely against the best interests of the people. With vast wealth, power, and 'political aid on their side, the utilities succeeded in what they set out 'tO' do-they bloclt:ed the mailing of the deMriPtive material. In a neW book-burning episode-a congres ... sional book-burning ePisode, if you pleaSe-almost $500 worth of public doc. uments paid for by Idaho citizens went .UP in smoke. This.action on the part of the~utilities is contrary to the manner in which pub .. lie business should be conducted .. It Js my' c9ntention that the people. should have the facts, whether private monopo .. 'lies like it or not. I am therefore man .. ing out the material that the other Rep .. resentative had planned to send. In doing so, I want to make it clear that I have taken no stand on the feasi ... bility of the initiative. I do believe, .however,. that the people of my State- , ' .Republicans, Democrats, arid Independ-. ents alike-sflo.P-ld have an opportunit)" .to study the question. I believe. in the good, old-fashioneO. American techni,que ~of fulL and free discussion-and let the facts prevail. · Following are the newspaper ·articles the other Congressman proposed to send into Idaho: [From the Twin Fnlls (IdaJ'I'6)'" Times-Ne~ ?! January..,Jsfi954] LEADER OF IN~Tq.Jd0VE Clrl:s MOTIVE of power at thestfl>\IJ?.lic dams so that all They decreed that anyone who dared ·the people will get t'ne...r~al benefits of invade their private monopolistic do- Thfll! ·1n1t:~w.~""im?posed by_Jhe Idaho cltl ... ch~eap electricity. · . _main was to be chewed up and destroyed z~s J..:egrtllativC. Comml,(~ee, Inc., to put When Secretary of the Interlo1' ~).lg.. politically. Their mouthpieces in the~ Idlthb 1n the utllities:tobusiness is designed. las McKay, last spring withdrew tiiC'""'Natisln's Capital artd in the State.,....a\ to prate~~ ·{he"-puflltc ~gatnst the abuses 296269-500I8 ' 2 of monopolies, according to the chairman of the committee. Ahswering the Idaho State Chamber of Commet'ce atiaek 6! th'e initiative as· State socialism of the worst type, Asher B. Wilson, Twin Falls attorney who heads the eomthittee, declared recourse should be open to citizens when fees charged by privately operated utilities for services become exorbitant.~ The initiative would establish a commission "empowered~ to ta,Jte QVer the faciliti~s of priVately owned utilities and develop new respurces. The committee;, is cl~culati:Q.g petitions to obtain the 27,000 signatures neces-sary t1o put the bill on ballots i-n· t·h·e· ~N ovem-ber general elections. In the opinion of Wilson, the extent to which the commission would eXercise powers to acquire privately Owned systems would depend ·laigely upon the abtltt'y- of the comPanies "to m,~et competition from the publiC power dev~lopments which would come about as a result of the b111. Cheap power holds the key to the growth of 'the State, he declared. The State o~ Washington, where he says residents can buy el~tric power for 40 percent less than Idahoans pay, has had a 60-percent increase in population in the.past decade. The savings and the growth have been largely the re.sult of comP1'!tition between publlc and private power, Wilson claims. .. The thing we• propose is not revolutionary," he said. "It is nothing more than New York has had for 30 years. The sarit-a •thing exists. 1n California, Arizona, and Washington.'' · If the issue reaches ballots in November, the vote wlll go a long way toward solving the, debate over 'Hells Canyon, he opined. If the initiative were to carry, it would -place Idaho in a position to enter a compact with Washington and .Oregon for ·the ·development of Hells Canyon--piov1ded Federal heafings on tlie question were to rule that neithCr the Government nor Idaho PoWer:co., bui t~e States lnv~lved should undertake the project, he said. Cheap power, whatever its source, would ,pave the way for refining phosphates from deposits in eastern Idaho, he said. At present power rates the project is not feasible, he claimed.· The blll takes in communications systems to give the people recourse against the telephone monopoly 'as ·well as the power monopoly, he sa,id. The term "communications iystems~' is not illtended to cove,r radios, newspapers, 11nd transportation utllities, he said. [From the Idaho Farm Journal of December 31, 1953] FARM J'?URNAL'S 8TA"'rE: LETTER GOVERNOR GOT EXCITED When Gov. Len Jordan read~the suggested initiative which would make it possible for ~Idaho to govern its water, its communications, aild its' electric power, if such were the wish of the people, he squealed like a stuCk' plg.' Immediately he declared he viis 296269--50018 CONGRESSIONAL REQQ;R,p, opposed to the Government going into busi~ ness atld declared tha't•s just what the initia~ tive would do. That the Governor wni fight even having Idaho's citizens sign the~petition to put the in.atter before the voters seems sure. And yet; in the opinion of most observers, Governor Jordan hiinsel! is more to blame for the·matter coming up than anyone else. TALK ALONE WON'T CHANGE lT Ever since he took o!fice, Governor Jordan has been an open and vicious foe of the Federal Government building multiple-purpose dams which would generate power, even when irrigation would be benefited. He has been particularly adamant qn Hells Canyon Dam and has fought against a high Federal project all the way, declaring that Idaho Power Co. alone ~hould hav~ the 100 n{nes of the deepest' gorge in·the United States. But .the Governor has gone even farther and has: tJ.OW brought, out a partnership plan for building future dams, and that is perhaps One of the biggest reasons for the proposal to give the people ihemselves a chance io vote on public power. Talk~ alone, evefi .by a governor, does not change people's minds. WHAT KIND OF PARTNERSHIP? What made the public-power advocates of Idaho, as well as of all other Northwestern States, so~ furious. at Len Jordan's partnership plan \s that it Isn't they maintain, a partnership at all.· PUbUc-utUity districts, REA's, municipalities, and others are not included. As tliey see it, the plan would provide f_or the power companies to divide up the rl~ers of the NorthWest, each one taking whatever power sites it wanted. Then the Stli)-tes woulct cooperate 'by giving the power company the sites. The Federal Government would cooperate by granting each power cOmpany as many licenses as it wanted. :B~t' the final bit of partnership by the Federal Government would be to dig up money 'tor the nonreimbursable features of these partnership dams. In other words, a power company could build a dam priiDainy foi- power, but it could claim that such a dam, even though a small one, alded)n flOod control.. The United States Government would fork over the money for that. Then it would ~ found that there were recreational advantages, anc;I Uncle Sam would dig up for that. The taxpayers wOuld probably shell out for ·navigation benefits too, and there would, no doubt, be other claims on Partner Uncle Sam. RECLAMATION KICKED IN PANTS There Is no provisiop. in Governor Jordan's plan for further irrigation, except by pump!:; lng from wells. Public utility districts, Bonneville Power Administr'ation, REA co: ops and others would be frozen out. ·The Bureau of Reclamation. would no longer be needed, !or the Army engineers, who are ,.deft pollbtelans, >WOUld be the logical ones to make surveys for the States, the power coinpanles and the Federal Government. Supporters of Hells Canyon, many 1rriga~ tionists, dozens of #munitipalltle.S alld pUblic utility districts b'"eCame gemiinely alarmecl •, at the Governqr·~ plan. Bu~ they heard rumors that disturbed them more. .One such rumor Is that Len Jordan, who has only a little more than a year to serve in office, Is pushing his partnership plan as hard as he can to complete it if possible so that when he steps out of the statehouse in Boise, be can walk right i~to a Federal job as coordinator of the partnership plan. "That ~is when publip power advocates got down to serious business in Idaho and _bro~ght .out the petition for an initiative. They want to make Governor Jordan an issue, his partnership plan an issue, and air the whole matter before the people. > WHO IS BACK I"F INITIATIVE? Asher B. Wilson, Of Twin Falls, a lawyer and farmer; Elmer F. Mcintyre, Boise, labor uilion; J. G. Bo;.,er;; Or Nampa; Carl A. Harder, of Buhl; and Frank Atkins, Buhl, all farmers, incorporated the ·IdahQ Citizens Legislative Committee, Inc. Their avowed purpose is ·to bring government back to the people, especially where natural resources development and utilities are concerned. They point out that Idaho people under Idaho .Power CO. and Utah Pow~r Co. pay approximately 40 percent more than is charged in Washington and Oregon where there is ~Federal power. Because of telephone rates, 60 percent of Idaho's. peoPle have no telephones. when 'charges become oppressive; or~beiter methods can...tJe-- foundj the tn~tiatlve-----if it ever gets on the ballot ·would allow the people of Idaho to tako over utilities. Such a proposal Is bound to be termed socialistic. WHO oWNS THE WATERWOI\KS? As the Idaho Citizens Legislative Commit. tee ,points, out .in 1ts l~tter accompanying the .petittoiis, 40 years ago Idiho's citizenS were voting to take over domestic .water systems in the cities·• and towns. That was branded socialistic. Yet today: only Boise, Coeur C:'Alene, and Jerome have private companies owning the water systeins. All the other tow~ own their own wells, pumps, water mains, and distributing· systems. Perhaps ,that is' creeping socialism, but few tOWfi!$ today would gt-ye up their water systems or the revenue they get .each year from them. The petition does nothing more thali let a group of Idaho citizens put the proposed initiative law on the ballot for next fall, At- that ·time every citizen- of Idaho can vote for it, or against it. Even if it' is :Put on. the books, it does not mean that the State is going into the utmty business. But it would give the people of Idaho a pretty strong weapon for controlling uttutles and monopolies. [From the Idaho Farm Journal of December - 31, 1953] NOW ADMIT'I'ED THAT TAXPAYERS WrLL ·DIG UP FOR PRIVATE POWER DAMS (By Ed Emerine) Under the new partnership policy outlined by Secretl;ll'Y of the I_nterior Douglas McKay, 5 Pactfic Nozi.hWest prtvS.te power compa.nles_ lost~no time in ftl(ng ~ jo~nt application with the Federal Power Commission for a preliminary permit to investigate 2 huge hydroelectric sites In Idaho. The companies are Montana Power Co., Washington Water Power Co., Pacific Power & Light Co., Portt~d General Electric co., and Mountain States P~Wer Co. · One or 'more other cOmpanies maY join the group later, J. E. Corette, president of Montana p'ower, said. · The permit application follows the an~· nouncement on December 7 that the coril.· panies woUld cooperate to build, new power• plants in Une wit~ the Government's part~ nership policy. Th~ sites aXe In north Idaho. Bruces EcJ.dy Is on the north tork of the Clearwater, about 43 mlles east of Lewiston, Idaho. Penny Cliffs ts on ·the' Clearwater's middle fork, about 80 miles from Lewiston. ESTIMATED AT $305 MU..UON Army engi~eers have. estiJ:!lated the cost of the 2 projects at about $305 million. Kinsey Robinson, president of Wap.hington Water Power Co., said the exploration would be on plans worked out. by the Army engi~ neers to xp.eet obJections to earlle.r proposals. The new plan keeps the south fork of the Clearwater open for unobstructed fish lni· gration and also makes it unnecessary to relocate Koo&kia.. which was 1n the original Idea, Robinson said. The proposed dams would provide 3,730,- 000 acre-feet of useful storage for power • generation, flood control, and other uses, th'e statement said. The tentative plans of the five companies call, for a 576-foot rock-flU dam at Bruces Eddy with a. power installation of 244,000 kilowatts. The dam 'would provide 1,430,~ 000 acre-teet of storage for rrver control. 596-foot dam at Penny CUtis would have an installed capacity of 292,000 kilowatts and 2,300,000 acre-feet of storage. HOW PARTNERSHIP WOULD WOR.lt. Under the partnership, the Federal Gov~ 1 ernment would either build the dam or re~ imburse the power companies for bulldlng it. This Federal portion o! the cost would be charged to flood control, recreation, naviga-tion, and other useful purposes for the gen~ eral publlc and the welfare or defense of the United States. The power companies would pay only for power installations, gen~ erato~s, lines, etc, As John Corlett pointed out TUesday in the Boise Statesman: ''It is presumed that under a partnership arrangement, for example, Bruces Eddy and Penny CUffs would be built by private enterprises. The Federal Government would contribute to the construction in the amount of costs assessable to .flood control. navigation, and recreation. "The other costs-power, etc.-would be charged to the private power companies. ''After th6 dam was built, the Federal Government would still falllng water at the penstocks to the pri~ate power compani~s. over a period oi years, even the nonreim·'· 296269-50018 CONGEES~IONAL RECORD' • • - < - bursable costs, never repaid under the pres-ent ~rangements 0! bulldlng :.red'&¥ daina, WOUld be paid Off." AS WE HAVE LONG CONTJPNDED Just .as this writer and the Journal haVe beell telllng the faimers, merchan~~,.- and .. ot~ers in Idlwo for months, the taxpayers thems'etves will build and pB"y for all of these partnership dams. This ad.misslon from the partnership. crowd was long in com· ing, but we're glad at last that they have come out and told the truth. Mr. Speaker, I know that the recent hue and cry would not have been so louq had there been no Hells Canyon. In opposing -expansion of Federal power programs this administration and the private power companies.: have recpll!mended on numerous occas~pns that localities shouldoassume their ow:p power burdens. But when the people at the Idaho grassroots level attempt to handle their own problem-that o( securing approximately 27,000 silritatures to assure the initiative amendment a. place on Idaho's ballot in this fall's election-the entire utility lobby, with the assistance of Republicans who oppose my fight for the people, quickly get into the act. Thus these apparent spokesmen for the ad_ ministration are talking out of both sides of their mouth at the same time. First, they are opposing the continuation of approved Federal programs or their reasonabie expansion, and, sec~mdly they are oppq_sil}g th.e local PC9Ple doing tl:t.e job themselves. What hB.s just happened is prOof that the private utilities are determined to prevent real public power competition in the State of Idaho even though what little competition there has been has lowered private power rates to the consumer to the point that Idaho citizens now only ·pay from 40 percent to 60 percent more for electricity than our neighboring States of Washington and Oregon. MORE POWER TO YOU Those Idahoans who know firsthand what a boon public power can be are rural electrification borrowers. In 1940, when 93 percent of REA power was purchased from private producers, the cost was 13;.2 mills per kilowatt hour. By 1952. with 66 percent of the power coming from public suppliers, the cost had dropped to 4;.2 mills per kilowatt hour. In other words, REA power now costs-on a statewide basis-only one-third of what it cost 12 short years ago. Now what is the real issue in this mean and phoney private utility smear campaign? The real issue is not GRACIE PFos-r-the real issue is cheap electric energy. Are we in Idaho to be denied this great hypodermic for our sagging economy-are we to be denied the jobs for the jobless, the greater tax revenues for our schools and our roads, the new markets, the new prosperity that will follow in its wake? Or muSt we sit on the sidelines while our neighbors, their rivers being fully harnessed and developed, stride forward in giant's boots to new economic horizons? i:i I am demolished in thiS fight It matters, little, but it is of major importance 3 and it does matter whether one of the greatest natural resources of the Northwest, the waters of the mighty Snak"e River, are properly developed for the benefit of us 'all. I do not intend to be bluffed, bullied or 1~;ightened by the private monopolies. I shall continue in the future at the same pace aS,,,.in the past to fight for the best interests of the people of my district, for the people of Idaho, for publi'c power and for the development of our stat.e. · I have every confidence that t:pe citizens of Idaho will study the issue carefully, and once they have the facts, they are perfectly· capable of deciding what is best for them and what is best "for our State. The people of Idaho are not easily fooled. With keen perception and sound common sense, they will see through the hydrogen bomb smokescreen sent up by the private utilities and they wllllabel it for what it really is. Mr. HAYS of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, will the gentlewoman yield? Mrs. PFOST. I yield. Mr. HAYS of Ohio. I would first like to commend the gentlewoman from Idaho on the manner in which she has represented not only her constituency but all the people' of Idaho since she has been in the Congress. It has been a vety refreshing experience to me to see the impression she has made upon the Meii].bers of this House. ' I might go so far as to say. that in my opinion and the opinion of many other Mem .. bers she has far overshadowed anyone who has been down here from her State recently. I also want to say that the attack which was made upon her. with which I am very familiar, is unprecedented in my three tenns in this House, and I doubt very seriously if the perpetrators of this attack would have had the courage to, do this sort of thing to a. man because the retribution that they so justly would have received would have been more than they would have wanted. But they thought they could get away with it because they were attacking a woman. I want to say further, Mr. Speaker, that this attack was unjustified, uncalled for, and most reprehensible, in my opinion, because the thing that was attempted for the benefit of Idaho has been done time and time again since I have been in this body, and that is to place or have placed pertinent material, which is of interest to a district, in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD and to frank it out to the people of that district. And because this was attempted there was an inference made that some horrible crime had been committ~d. I even saw a. statement that the franking was being investigated.. I say it was uncalled for, I say it was unjustified, and I say it was unprecedented because I have seen not small amounts of material franked out of here, but as I have said, and I named the man a couple of years ago and then withdrew it from the RECORD, because I did not want to embarrass him, but I know one individual of the Republican Party, the party which sought to smear th~_ keOtleWOrilan' lrom Td8.h0 lMrS."' PFOsT] .. W'iio but niS.terial·iii the RJ!:coRD~ Rnd then. fl-anked out 12 boxcar' IOS:ds: dt it for the real-eStateiobby---lo:.itOw'that; was_ all,.rigq~that was nOt soCialistic or· iHeg:il• or' anYthing'" erse: BUt 'wfi~ri. tin a'ttenipt ·was madeR to frahk Out" a feW' thousand CoPies~ for the eru1lCatiOn.fo:t the People of Idal\oA~ Was made"~ .seem like!.S hori"ltlfe crime, which. Of ·course, it 'w8.s not. I iJU gla'd th'Et ge'iltlewonfari from- Idaho- had-' the Courage to' pritr the' material in the REcoRD under her ~owll' nam~ S.nd I hoPe she franks out• a copy of it~t6 ·~ver:v person 'in her ~district a:nct in,.the state 'of Idalid. - • Ml's. PFOS'l'. I th.rt~k•tife 'gentlen!an from Ohi6.><' • ' · Mr. METCALF. Mr. Speaker, will thC gehtiewoman~yield? - t · Mrs.~PFOST: _ I .y~ld tO:..mY colleague from~Montanrt. M<.. .'J' ' • ~....- o ' .~cJ. ~ Mr: METCALF. I, to6, want,to:con.o gratulat6:' the ~gentlewoinan from. Idaho fo'r.ileJ:.iine statement; a: statement? that is in ,keep~ng-with the record·that she has made in carrying<:"'Qn .. this struggle for th~e Hells Canyon Dam. The1 gentlewoman Jtnd I, my _neighbor 8.ciosS ~the: divide from the'" westein "diStrict r-Jjf Montana, 1iave' :(Ought together fbr the _development of the" Colwnbia River Basin ~nd for the dey~opillent of vast' viatei' 're':... ~ources. in ythat· area in the NorthWest. I know yery Ji~tle abou._t the merits of }he Proposed initiativ;.e material that is being franked ou~ tO the people· ii\,Id3:ho, .but 1 _:thin~- they. should· be informetr atlout ~he lss]l~s ·.and .thry; ,sb.ou)d :J<:n9w~ tpat <29~?_269.,.,S0018, •v 1~"" ""' t. i _.,.,.., "'(.. ... -,: .l ~·.--:: tlieir i,tepreselit~tive: In Congress whO' li'ofng to ·baclf her '!n this lfght and that represents""'~ th"e' panhahdle- district of those Who undtYtook to·dO·Wha't"I'iD.ight Idaho is continuing to~ figh'"&-for ""'the, de~ describe as, speaking( niildlY" bUt fii'Ifl.lyvelopmenb>-. of-swater :resources ~.and of to'Xlo this low job on· her· wilb-not get power. and,. rflcreational resourc~s and away:with it ... r'":l ·n-' ;:. : ~-.. . •. t---.: th~: p)-oteCtfoll. o,tr water rigpts .).P. 9\It: •. r ~.t )1_app~np thai!, I haye,rb.ee!l J?elllogreat · area. ·we have~ w· continue to cratic leader for 10 out. ot .the 1ast._ 15 strugile' akainSt the private Utility mO- years.,. and I aril noVi :oem.ocratfc whip. nOpolieS in the Northwest in order to I knoW~tliat !·sPeaK.' th'e "sweritiffierlts 'of devel'op· those great nil.tuta'l··,resources. I !he DenlOCrcitiC ~leadeiship, ·of ·:rorme~ heartily. commend and congratulate~ the Speaker, Mr. RAYBURN,~ .now'-minorit~ gentie:woman•for a fine speech.. leader, and !•"speak the •sentiments .of Mrs. PFOST. I thank the~gentleman JOHN ~McCoRMAcK,1 of.--.Massachusetts'"' in ~rom Montana. saying that the..gentlewoman-:1-rom Idaho "Mf.=McGORMACK. Mr .. Speaker,1'f..rill pas the complete1confidence anq. respect th'e gentlewoman _.yield? ~ '" t " not only of the Democratic .leadership MrS. PFOST ..... I yfeld! • but of all her Democratic ·Colleagues in -· Mr: MCcdRM,ACK.· .tMi-. Sp~liket, ~thb th.e~rHitioiial ~HOUse o'"f~ Represeiitati.Yes. -tvoi'ld )avesta fighter. ''The people: of my Mrs.'tPFOS~ ~i th~nk my• colleague tlistrict 4dmife a :Qghter. ~Eufuan- nature from. Massachusetts,r t ls"-=the ;,ame eVerywhere. li khow the 1 Mr ... D'HARA of illinoiS1' Mr.· Speaker, People-'0f .. thC:gebtleWo1li'an's diStrict"•ad- will the gentJewo¥man:Y.iel.d?~ '• ~.... r. tnlrettlie'""gentl€woinan D'Ot--bitly~tfel'Soff'!' Mrs. PFOST. I yield. t:tuY. 'but for her fighting' QualitieS. She Mr. O·HARA ~oi "inin~is. ~ Duri!_lg a. ha!? niade on·e Of 'the finest sp~~ches· I rh.'f.h~r 'I6ng 'lifetlrfi.El' t hltVe listened~ to have 1 e~ver"htard•irl this Chamber; and I many speetlies delivered by' wolflen, ·I haYe·been B..!Meniber of this body.for'26 want tq .say; to the--gentlewoman from Ye~rf ! She has m.a_de a -fightltfg speech Idaho ~that J...hJwe just I\9W-listened to aiainSt-powerful odds. I well i-emembel" one of .the most eloquent. addresses I Rs a young mail Startiifg"loUt in public lif'e haVe ever hear~~delivered by a woman. When 1. ~oted fdr Otd-age~Peii§iolfstit~ lt ) ~ill ~ay to phe .. g_er;ttlewo,man ph}l.j il). young member of the MasSa:'chfisetts , Idaho,_ the people of that State have a LCgisliture. I was· 'caned a Socialist. ~teat fightiD.g champion. I ani so happy Everyorle wh6~:fights fOr peopl'e~must eX"- 'thaY'r tvas·:here', anti I am· tHrilled. pCd to'lncuf'the smE!"ars of·thOSe·~whb -6treitgthE!"ned,-rand'inspir~d bY what I 'oppOse- Prbiress iaiid · oPPose legiSlation have· heard coming from ar great· con,.. and tllings thB.t a""re iii tht'f'be"St ilitei'e:§ts ~gresswoman-:from.-Idaho.·~ ,. -.... Of the- people -generallY. I a1tl rur~· th'e -... .. Mrs.-PFOST ..... :f.than.k the gentleman people.!-?. the, gen~lewc,>mari's d!stHct ir'e froni ~li:q.pis. " ·~ .. ., ' . . , ' . " t- (.J.<! ~c'"' :: ' .}'. .~ ' I "!! •• ,• ·' ' ,. J ,, i r;t• ,. ' ~ " r .. , :,., ~-: ~ i! \ r j ·' ' ' . . ,:. [ ' . ' •I ,. - .· ''• £ ' . .• . • > ·o 7 ., --· ' ... ,. ~ .. r . • . .; .. ,. ,. ' ., ·-~ -- _.,. .c r ,_ ,. ' . ' . '· l 1J. S. I:OV£RMaiEIIT PRINTING DHIC~ 1 I9U '•
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Mrs. P/Qst's New Stand ·
·, Congresswomah Gracie Ffost of the First
district has now . done what ahe ahould
have done at the beginning in• regard to
the material, favoring 'the proposed power
and communications :Commission initiative
in Idaho, which was inserted In the Congressional
Record last February for the
purpose of making possible the reprod1,1ction
of the material by the Government Printing;
Office and the postage-free mailing ·of it
to Idaho citizens under the congressional
franking privilege. Mrs. Pfost has now
usumed partial . responsibility for the
project by .declaring· that ahe will use her
own frank to mail it to Idaho.
'. The material was put into the Record
by Rep. Harold A. Patten o! Arizona, who
oaid after the contmversy about it erupted
that· he did so at Mrs. Pfost's request and
that the material was given to him by her.
Mrs. Pfost, who previously had said she had
no connection with· the project, for obvious
reasons has had nothing to say abe>ut Patten's
statement. At the time Representative
Patten obtained· permission to have the
material printed in the Record he mentioned
lleither its nature. nor its source; we do
not attempt to judge the truth as to this
point. If it were established as a fact that
Mrs. Pfost supplied the material and requested
its 'insertion, then we would want
to know why she did not insert it into the
Record under he-r own name.
* • •
In her speech on the House floor Tuesday
Mrs. Pfost repeated her accusation that the
controversY over the mailing .project ...,.as
brought on by "private utilities" for the
purpose C>f preventing the material in question
from being distributed in Idaho. We
ilhould ,like to set the record. straight as
far as The Statesman's role in the matter
is concerned.
The ·Statesman published In its news columns
the stories disclosing the project and
describing 'the' controversy which followed.
~n this 'o/C merely presented to oitr readers
:the news as it was provided by the press
RssociatiOns and the special Washington
l'eporting service to which The Statesman
Subscribes. We tried to present it as ·we
'-ttempt to present all news, without· any
~istinction as to which side of a question·
ith,~ news may seem to favor.
;1 We also commented editorially on the
)!fair, expressing with some vigor the
pvinion that material intended to influence
an affair of the people of Idaho ought not
tD be sent into Idaho at the expense of
lhe federal taxpayers, &1,ld above all not
'i!nder the frank of the representative of
another state. We still hold that opinion.
r Wr; have not at any time, however, been
Interested in preventing the material In.
~uestion from being placed in the hands
i)f Idaho people. That would be silly, Mcause
:j;he material has already been published in
idaho. The material in question· consists
~ntirely ·of a news article which was published
by the Twin Falls TimeS'News on
:ran. 15, being a report of a statement by
)\.sher B. Wilson; head of the committee
1,'POnsoring the initiative proposal, and two
;articles bf interpretive comment published
~y the Idaho Farm Journal on Dec., 31.
~ ·We can see ·ho- reBSGn why. Copies of. these
artlcli•fs'hould"iiot lie given to evecyofui"ln·
the state if someone wants to foot the 'bill
for doing it.
But we do object to using federal tax
money for the purpose. And we don't think
that a congrf:ssma.n from Arizona ought
to use his congressional printing and mall·
lng. privileges to distribute such material in
Idaho. We are happy to be able to report
that at this point Mr. Patten doesn't think
so either.
• • •
If Mrs. Pfost sends the material j:o Idaho
residents we think she will be wrong if she
permits ilie federal taxpayers to pay the'
postage bill through the use of her congressional
frank. But if she believes this
is what should be done, we think she is
right in personally assuming the responsi·
bility for it.
The people in the end, will be the judges
of whether this propaganda project represents
a proper use of federal funds.
JdQno Smt-.esmo..n p-4


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If you can identify any of these six factors in the deer of your area, chances are you'll experience a prolonged rut.
1. Genetics
According to former University of Mississippi professor Harry Jacobson, some late-breeding (or lack thereof) appears to be genetically linked and not easily altered.
In Mississippi, for example, deer normally don't start breeding until November. Even when Jacobson transported Michigan deer to Mississippi, the Northern subspecies maintained its October and November breeding dates. Meanwhile, Mississippi does continued to breed in late December and January when moved to Michigan. Crossbred offspring of Michigan and Mississippi deer bred over the entire range of both parents.
2. Abundant Nutrition
On Northern range, no single factor is likely more influential than nutrition in determining a doe's rate of sexual maturity and the timing of her breeding. Interestingly, both excellent and poor nutrition might account for some late-breeding and a prolonged rut.
3. Nutritional Shortage
Inadequate nutrition invariably leads to delayed sexual maturity, limited breeding among doe fawns, and a high incidence of barren yearlings, as well as low productivity and slightly delayed estrus onset among mature does.
4. Density Stress
Based upon the breeding records of more than 500 supplementally-fed does, most (70 percent) does 3½ years of age and older raised in the square-mile Cusino enclosure bred between Nov. 8 and Nov. 23, annually. Ninety-four percent of them bred during November. They maintained this strict breeding schedule regardless of herd density or buck age structure — even with more than four does per buck, or when all bucks were of yearling age. Only 4 percent bred during December or later.
5. Maternal Domination
Later studies suggested late breeding among young does was due to behavioral subordination that caused certain hormonal imbalances leading to their delayed onset of estrus.
For example, we found significant differences when we compared the breeding dates of 2½-year-old does that successfully raised fawns versus those of the same age that did not raise fawns.
6. Biostimulation
Buck-doe interactions or excitation (i.e., biostimulation), or lack thereof, might also be important in determining the time of doe breeding. Studies with penned deer at Cusino, for example, showed that unnatural confinement of does with a rutting buck advanced average breeding dates by as much as 10 days.

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An In-depth Look at Sesame Street's Efforts to Take on Divorce
Since its inception Sesame Street has been committed to tackling the challenges that young children face, no matter how difficult or unorthodox it may be to discuss those topics with children. With this commitment in mind, Sesame Workshop is taking on the subject of divorce, an emotional trial many children go through. Yet many parents are uncertain how to reassure or even explain what is going on to their children.
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By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) - A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American blasted off on Tuesday for the International Space Station (ISS), where the men are to spend five months in orbit.
The Russian-built Soyuz TMA-06M lifted off on time from the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan for the two-day trip to the station, orbiting about 250 miles above Earth.
"The space ship has entered orbit," an announcer at the mission control centre in Korolyov, outside Moscow, said nine minutes later, prompting a cheer from flight engineers, space officials and relatives watching on a giant screen.
"Everything went well. There was a small issue with pressure on board but we fixed it immediately," Vladimir Solovyov, flight director for the Russian segment of the space station, told journalists.
U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford is making his second space voyage, while cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin are on their first mission.
In footage from the cramped capsule, Tarelkin pumped his spacesuited fist after the successful lift-off while a stuffed toy hippopotamus donated by one of the cosmonauts' daughters as a good luck charm floated in zero gravity as the craft reached orbit.
The trio will join the current ISS crew, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia, Sunita Williams of the United States and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan, who are to return to Earth on November 12.
Another crew of three will join Novitsky, Tarelkin and Ford aboard the station, a $100 billion research complex funded by 15 nations, in late December.
The rocket carrying the Soyuz craft lifted off from a launch pad at Baikonur that had not been used for a manned mission in 30 years. The platform had been renovated so that it could be used while the main pad used for manned launches is refurbished.
Tuesday's was initially scheduled for October 15 but was postponed because of problems with an unspecified piece of equipment that had to be replaced, according to Vladimir Popovkin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Russia's space program has suffered a series of humiliating setbacks in recent months, mostly involving unmanned missions such as satellite launches, that industry veterans blame on a decade of crimped budgets and a brain drain.
Since the retirement of the space shuttle fleet last year, the U.S. space agency NASA must rely on Russia to take astronauts to the station at a cost of $60 million each.
NASA is working with private companies to develop craft it hopes will be able to do the job by 2017.
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The Bruins will play their next-to-last preseason game against Ottawa tonight at TD Garden, and one of the position battles we expected to unfold during training camp is going down to the wire.
We all expected that when it came to a seventh defensemen, the Bruins were going to be picking between second-year pros Steven Kampfer and Matt Bartkowski. That competition has not disappointed.
While they're similar players, there are subtle differences, including their shot side (Bartkowski/left, Kampfer/right) and amount of NHL experience, as Kampfer skated in 38 games for the Stanley Cup champions and nearly got his name etched on its side. In my Boston Herald story today, I broke down the battle that could come down to the last minute before the 3 p.m. EST deadline on October 5 to determine the opening-night roster.
Of course, there remains the slight chance that the Bruins could swing a trade or demote someone from among the veteran top-six to make room for both Kampfer and Bartkowski. I think there's a much better chance the Bruins would do this to make room for a forward than for a defenseman at this point, especially considering the ease with which the Bruins could send Kampfer and/or Bartkowski to the Providence (AHL) farm club. Defensemen are too valuable a commodity to give up on anyone at this point in a season, plus from the action I've seen none of the blueliners has been victimized much by the Cup hangover yet.
Still, general manager Peter Chiarelli didn't want to comment on whether there were established vets on the bubble, and head coach Claude Julien said the following:
"Well I think you guys all know that every year we've had guys step in and we've had guys that were released or sent down and that's not going to change. I don't think that the organization as a whole wants that to happen. I think we've taken pride in giving the players that deserve to be here that opportunity and we've tried to stay away from politics of the sport and go with the guys that deserve it."
So with a week to go before the season-opener against Philadelphia, this is where the Bruins' defense corps stands. Up front, the situation is just as messy with Chris Clark, Jordan Caron, Max Sauve and even Lane MacDermid pushing for a job. At least there's no lack of excitement to go with the anticipation of the start of the new Bruins season.


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January 19, 1999: "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" won a Golden Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film. The award was given by the International Press Academy at the…
At the 70th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" was honored with an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Documentary Feature.
"In a loving—but not fawning—documentary look at this fascinating figure of 20th-century intellectual life, director Michael Paxton has created an exhaustive and definitive history of a challenging subject."
"The film, narrated by Sharon Gless, is an expertly assembled collection of news films, interviews with various people and television clips showing Rand being interviewed by people such…
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Michelle J. Sherman, R.Ph., A.A.H.I.V.P.
Michelle J. Sherman is a nationally recognized HIV specialist pharmacist practicing in Orange County, Calif. Sherman obtained her bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the University of the Witwatersrand School of Pharmacy, Johannesburg, South Africa. She moved to California in 1987 and has been involved in the HIV/AIDS community for over 20 years. Sherman has also completed the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists' HIV/AIDS Pharmacotherapy Traineeship, and is a CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach III and Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor l. She is also credentialed by the American Academy of HIV Medicine as an HIV Expert.
With the vision to create a holistic global community for people impacted by HIV/AIDS, Sherman founded MichRx Pharmacist Consulting Services, Inc., in 2005. MichRx Pharmacist Consulting Services, Inc., is a top provider of innovative services and solutions for people living with HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS caregivers and service providers. The mission of the company is to promote well-being through comprehensive pharmaceutical care, diet, exercise and emotional well-being. The company is committed to providing cutting-edge, quality educational programs and consultation services to physicians, nurses, case managers, pharmacists, corporations, associations, clinics, government agencies, community service providers, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Sherman's global portal to helping HIV-infected clients and caregivers is through https://www.facebook.com/michrxfans.
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Here is a postcard sent to us by Elsie D.
It shows where Market Street meets Stockport Road. The Ring 'o' Bells pub is on the left and the old Zion chapel in the mist on the middle right.
Four out of the Five shops shown are still with us in some shape or form !
Note the distinct lack of vehicles on the road !!
Postcard view circa 1910
The view as it looks today, courtesy of Google maps..
Many thanks, Elsie
Much appreciated. :)
Monday, 14 January 2013
Postcard from quieter times.
Posted by Hydonian at Monday, January 14, 2013
Labels: Post Cards, Postcards, Pubs, Ring 'o' Bells, Zion
3 comments:
There it is - the herb shop, next to the pub. I can smell the cloves, taste the liquorice root and wish I could still get one of their special recipe cough bottles! Happy days.
- Tuesday, 15 January, 2013
I only remember it as the launderette - a good place to hang out on a cold evening!!
- Tuesday, 15 January, 2013
You must be young, anonymous! There were no launderettes when that was a herb shop. I think the first launderette in Hyde was opposite Meschia's next to the Jester Coffee Bar.
- Tuesday, 15 January, 2013
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