The Sidney Herald

Representative LeRoy Anderson Reports to You
By LeROY ANDERSON

Washington - After visiting this past few months in Montana with folks from every one of the 39 counties in my congressional district, I have returned to Washington for the start of the Second Session of the 85th Congress.

Many grave problems confront all of us in the deliberations of this Congress. I propose in these newsletters to keep you fully and factually informed of developments in your congressional office and other activities affecting Montana here in the nation's capital.

Church Service - At the invitation of the National Presbyterian church in Washington, I served as an officiating ruling elder at the annual service of Intercession and Communion for Congress the morning that the second session began. The president, vice president, cabinet members and members of Congress were present. As a former moderator of the Great Falls Presbytery and ruling elder in my home church in Conrad, I, with fellow elders of the National church, including Secretary of State Dulles and Secretary of the Army Brucker, served communion.

National Wool Act - This week I introduced a bill to extend the National Wool Act. I plan to work vigorously for the success of similar legislation in Congress. This measure has the support of the Montana Woolgrowers and means that our Montana people can continue to have a family livelihood in that vital industry.

Joins Office Staff
The American Political Science Association has honored me by providing one of its 15 fellows in political science as a congressional intern in my office. This association, supported by various foundations and individuals including the Ford Foundation and the Stern Family Foundation of New Orleans, annually selects nine young men from the political science academic field and six from the field of journalism for a nine-month fellowship here in Washington. They are paid by the Association, and each serves 4½ months on the staff of a congressman and then 4½ months on the staff of a senator. The men are free to select the offices in which they believe they have an opportunity to learn Congressional functioning. Coming to my office this week is Bill Mitchell, 32, Iron River, Michigan. Bill was a staff sergeant with the 17th Airborne Division in Europe during World War II. An economics graduate of Michigan U., he received his master's degree in political science at Illinois U. For the past three years he has been a teaching fellow in government at Harvard, and is scheduled to receive two doctorate degrees there, in political science and in economics. Bill will assist my staff in developing the various legislative ideas given me by Montanans while I was in the state during the recent Congressional recess.

Nominated - This week I am nominating Joseph LeRoy White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. White of Sunburst, as my candidate for appointment to the U. S. Coast Guard Academy. A senior at North Toole County High School, he is an outstanding student and was a 1957 delegate to Montana Boys State.

Compensation to Crow Indians
Tuesday of this week (Jan. 14) the House Indian Affairs Subcommittee heard testimony in behalf of my bill to provide compensation to the Crow Indians for certain ceded lands within the Huntley Irrigation Project. This measure is companion legislation to that introduced in the senate by Montana's Senators Murray and Mansfield. This bill would make available to the tribe those funds which have been accumulating for lease and rentals on 4,900 acres which were among those ceded to the U. S. in 1904 for use in connection with the construction of the Huntley Reclamation Project. The 4,900 acres cannot be disposed of for various reasons and the tribe as yet has received no compensation for them. More than $60,000 is involved in the just compensation due the tribe.

Aid to Copper Industry - Because of deep concern for my fellow Montanans who are in an economic crisis due to the depressed condition of the copper market, I propose to join with a group of western congressmen in a move for immediate legislation to increase the consumption of domestic copper.

Dates - Montana TV station operators and I will attend a national CBS-TV affiliates banquet here January 13; I will address the Nation's Capital Reserve Officers on NATO conditions, January 14; attend National American Legion dinner, January 15; and breakfast at Pentagon with Secretary of Army and Army Chief of Staff, January 16.