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O. M. Ueland, Editor, School of Mines, Butte. Montana 



OFFICIAL NEWS BULLETIN i 



January-February 1963 



Frank Thompson, President 

 Your Association President Sez: 

 Now that the holidays are over we 

 can settle down to a little more 

 serious thinking. With the conven- 

 ing of state legislature and Congress 

 It would be well for all of us to take 

 time to find out what kind of legis- 

 lation is being proposed and study 

 it to learn how it may effect us. 



This year your association again is 

 supporting and proposing some leg- 

 islation that is of vital interest to 

 the support and continuation of a 

 good conservation program in the 

 state of Montana. 



To carry out the wishes of those 

 supervisors that attended the con- 

 vention in Livingston, it will take 

 the help and support of all the dis- 

 tricts and their supervisors and 

 any other interested groups or ind- 

 ividual . 



Legislative Report -— 



The Agriculture Committee of the House of Representatives 

 presently has under consideration a bill to permit County 

 Commissioners to levy for District Operations. As presently 



irawn up the bill would permit County Commissiners to levy 

 mil for districts not to exceed $1000 per year when requested 



\- the supervisors. Provision is made to divide money where 

 uistricts are not on county lines. 



This bill was drawn up as a result of the $24, 000 request for 

 state appropriations bill having met with quite a bit of opposition 

 on the floor and being sent back to committee. Francis Bardanouve 

 (D) Blaine, Tom Haines (R) Missoula and Oscar Kvaalen (R) 

 Dawson are sponsors of the new bill which has been referred 

 to the Agriculture and Irrigation Committee of which John Leuthold 

 (R) Stillwater County is Chairman. Interested supervisors 

 should make every effort to attend this hearing or at least 

 write to Chairman Leuthold at the House of Representatives 

 to express their opinion. They appreciate hearing from you. 

 Many districts and several areas have heretofore support this 

 type of legislation. Frank Thompson, John Schroeder, Chairman 

 of the MASWCD legislative Committee and O. M. Ueland have 

 met with many legislators several times the past month. Fred 

 Sanborn, Great Falls; Art Christensen, Dillion; Don Tootell, 

 Helena; Paul Kleffner, East Helena, also appeared before the 

 appropriations committee early in January. 



The Association bill to require seeding of perennial grass on 

 disturbed right-of-way areas such as cable lines, oil lines, etc. , 

 has been introduced by Art Osburnsen of Fergus and Everett 

 Cummings of Judith Basin. There is need for some support 

 here too as several legislators seem to think this is an invasion 

 of individual rights in bargaining for right-of-way. We must 

 remember that the neglect of a few to take care of their land 

 jeopardizes the rights of all to own, use and manage land as they 

 see fit. 



few virtues. 



• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices generally hav 



Abraham Lincoln 



