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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
WHAT 1T MEANS:
Atoms Operation
B OOt S t tra p''
RH RORERT E. GEIGER

WASHINGTON - Atomic scien-
lists are talking more and more
about a major atomic project
Operation BoOtstrap. In simple
words, its goal is to breed" atomic
fuel from other atomic fuel, get
ting more than the original amount.
At the same time heat and electri-
city would be produced. Thus atom
ic fuel would be pulling itself up
by its bootstraps."
DR.. Robert F. Bacher, the only
scientist member of the Atomic En-
ergy Commission, called on this
project revolutionary" in a recent
speech. He added that "it certainly
is enticing." He says Operation
BOOtstrap possibly may answer the
question whether atomic plants
ever will provide a major amount
of the worlds power. 1t may ans
wer other questions, too, but this
one is of prime Importance. Here's
why:
Even if scientists discover ways
to build atomic power plants on q
-uranium-is scarce. Operation o
the plants would be limited to tht
amount of uranium that can bC
found in the world. Operation
BOotstrap is investigating one wa,
to get around this.
Atomic bombs and power plant
must have a fashionable material a
a base. A fashionable material is al
element whose atoms will split b,
J. chain reaction and give out energy
In the atomic bomb project tn
fashionable material is produces
from uranium by the huge atomi
installations at enormous cOst
Uranium is divided into sister ele
| ments, U-235 and U-238. U-235 i
, fashionable; U-238 is not. There ar
, 140 times as much U-238 as U-23E
: The U-238 can be turned into fis
siOnable material, plutonium, bU
the present process uses as muc
U-295 as it creates plutonium out {
, U-238. So there's no profit in it.
Now scientists hope to breed
}. fashionable material from the U-23
: and from another element, thoriun
! The quantity of fashionable materif
= they create would be much create
I than the amount consumed in tn
r process, and in addition it woul
create heat and electricity as a by
product.
There are two big advantages
Il the new method: (D U-238 is IA
n times as abundant as it's sister ell
h ment, U-235. That means the ra
product from which they come, u
anium would be made to produ,
n much more fashionable materi
r than by present methods if U-2,
# can be used efficiently, and (2)
= would add a new elecent, thoriuI
u to the raw materials from whiC
fashionable materials can be pr
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
THE NEW MILFORD THEATRE

With the opening of the New Milford
Theatre yesterday afternoon this cOmmun-
ity now enjoys the facilities of the largest
and most modern place of amusement in
Delaware and the Eastern Shore counties OF
Maryland and Virginia. Replacing the old
Plaza Theatre which was destroyed by fire
several months ago, the new playhouse has
been erected by the Schine interests with the
idea of safety and comfort for the patrons.
The New Milford Theatre will seat approx
imately 1,7OO persons. 1t is constructed OF
heavy steel and masonry, and every modern
equipment for such structures has been us
ed. We have watched closely the erection of
this new building. From the foundations to
roof, and from the ground floor to the bal
cony strength has been built into the theatre
To the observer not cOnversant with theatre
construction it certainly seems that every
thing has been done that could be done to
make this new enterprise in Milford wei
come addition to the business district. The
people of Milford and the surrounding ter
ritory are to be congratulated that this new
place of entertainment has been opened FOL
their enjoyment.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
The Housing Issue

Yes, this country needs thous-.
snds and hundreds of thousands OF
new houses. But somehow the real
estate groups in nearly every part
of the Nation have boosted the
prices of new houses out OF slghI
for many young couples. Young
folks are not in a position to Duy
these houses, loaded down WIN
mortgage payments, rum u 3
through decades. What this couh-
try needs most, is cheaper houses
and lots Of them.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Oil Hunt Resumes
In BaV Vari a


MUNICH - up - The acute fuel
oil shortage in Germany has
caused geolOgists to resume their
search for oil in the Bavarlan
mountains.
Years of researches which were
halted during the war convinced
biologists that oil can be found IN
the deeper soil in the mountain
area. Test drillings are under way
in several parts of this American
occupied state, newspapers report
but results are said to be meager.
The only active oil wells in Ger
many, in the British-Occppied re-
giOn around Hanover, have very
small yields.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Moscow Pushes
Subway Job

MOSCOW - (P) - Underwater
tunnels have been completed for
the Moscow ring subway. This new
link in the growing underground
rapid transit system of the Soviet
capital will run, when completed,
around the sO-called garden cir
Gle" of the city and will link all
railway stations at various ends of
the capital with one another and
with other subway lines in the city.
The ring subway crosses the Mos
cow River at two points.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25

For the past two years poultry growers
from twenty-five states have been working
continuously to improve the meat type of
their product. AS we go to press the Ma
tion Chicken-of- Tomorrow Contest, involv-
ing forty flocks from twenty-five states
comes to an end at the Delaware Agricul-
tural Experiment Station in in Georgetown,
Delaware. These super birds have been rails
ed from shell to maturity under the super
vision of the u. S. Department of Agricul-
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25

INSULATION AGAINST GRAVITY
Thus far we have been able to insulate
against heat, cold, sound, light and even ato-
mic waves. We, however, have been unable
to insulate against gravity. Someday this
secret will be discovered. 1t can be applied
to hundreds of things from stair trcads to air
planes. It naturally will be rather bearish
upon the stocks of certain companies and
bullish on others.
We are hearing of all kinds of practical
uses for atomic energy but the one that
seems most revolutionary is its use in blowing
OF mountain tops and in redirecting ocean
currents This would open the way for vast
changes in weather conditions making the
arid parts of this country and, in fact, the
world blossom like q rose. This might make
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25

chandise, automobiles, everything
that has a dollar value.
In 10 years the actual value Of
our tangible national wealth has
not increased, but the purchasing
power Of our money has de-
creased by 100 per cent or more.
1t is not that we have more actual
wealth, but that IL takes twice IS
much Of our present money TO buy
it. That weighs and measures our
present day initiation. What we
could buy in 1888 with 81 Il now
takes 81 or more to buy.
That acre Of land on which so
cents-a-bushel corn was raised is
the same acre on which $1.50 corn
now is raised. The value Of the
acre has been inflated because the
value of the crop it produces has
been inflated through cheap money.
The initiation we now have can,
and probably will, continue to in
crease until congress gives our dol
lar a fixed value. Senator Taft has
proposed that the dollar be Stabil-
lied at its present value. We could
do that by re-establishing gold
standard and fixing the price oi
gold to conform with the present
purchasing value of the dollar.
Such a move would prevent the
purchasing power Of the dollar
from going lower; IL would keep
prices at their present levels un-
less labor secured higher wages.
It would mean that all debts, In
cluding those Of the local, state
and federal governments, would
be paid off in so cent dollars; that
insurance policies would be set
tied in 50 cent dollars. We must
stop somewhere or go through the
wringer as have some European
and Asiatic nations.
The farmer would have that same
acre on which to grow corn anC
he would get for that corn whatever
price-based on a so cent value dol
lar-the world market would war
rant. His acres would not multiply
nor would they grow more corn.
Prices of commodities would fluC
tuate on the basis Of supply an
demand, but not on the fluctuatin
purchasing power Of the dollar, a
is now the case.
We can continue on the inflatio
road we have been travelling; ca
continue to decrease our dollar va
ues by refusing to fix that value
and in another 10 years or les
again double our national wealt
by seeing the dollar drop to a
cent purchasing power. Such a
increase in national wealth is meal
ingless. 1t does not mean the farm
er's acre produces more corn, bt
it does produce more dollars thi
have less value. For that $1C
government bond you have you ma
get 500 each with a Is cent, rattle
than 100 cent, value.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
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INFLATED WEALTH

A 1948 estimate Of our tangible
4 4 national wealth made by the
Life Insurance institute offers an
excellent demonstration as to how
far we have travelled the infla-
tion road. The institute tells that,
on the basis of present day dollars,
our present national wealth amounts
to somewhere between 800 and 700
billion dollars.
In 1888 - 10 years ago - the Ma
tional Industrial Conference board
estimated our national wealth as
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Thunder In
The Choir Loft

SHICKLEY, Neb. = (P) = The
weather provided sound effects for
services at the Methodist church
here. A thunderstorm reached its
height while the choir sang Mas
ter, the tempest is raging"
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Old Coins Found

MOSCOW - P ~ Almost so
pounds of coins from the fifteenth
century have been found in a field
near Gomel by a farm woman. A
dispatch from Gomel said the
coins still bear Slavic words and
are in fair condition. They have
been turned over to the Gomel
oblast Historical Museum.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25

HIT is also the
party line Of the
Daily orkeE
There are some
points at which a
professional Musco-
vite ideologian
could make out a
charge of first-de-
gree h eresy and
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25

300 billion dollars. In
both estimates the
figures cover the
value Of land, homes,
furnishings, IA t o.
ries, railro o a d 5,
mines, business es-
tabhshments, farm
crops, farm mschin-
cry. stocks OF nnar.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Bg WiestBroOk Peeier
Rslsassd 3 wNu Fsasurs.

THE best answer that the New
: York Herald Tribune has been
able to offer to observations on its
party line and the dominant per-
sonalities in the strange new house
hold Of this fine old Church Of Eng
land paper, has been an essay by
John Crosby, who does the radio
column. / would not go as far as
to say that the party line Of the
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
Hawaiian Statshood

Despite all Of its recognized quail
fications, statehood for Hawaii
again must wait until 1949. This
time a senate committee wishes to
make an battle-ground investigation
of Communists in the islands. They
will find few as they can in any
one of the 48 states. A few years
ago, when was in the islands, the
Japs constituted the bogeyman thot
held up the application for state
hood.
When I dug a bit deeper found
the opposition eminated from a
small group of civilians whose wish
was to prevent the election Of the
owner of the Honolulu Star-Tele-
gram as the first Hawaiian senator.
The only way it could be done was
to prevent admission Of the islands
to statehood.
The Jap bogeyman was then the
blind. This time it may be Comrnu-
nists. Whatever the reason, the
committee will enjoy a pleasing
jaunt at government expense while
the people Of Hawaii wait for JUS
tice.
The individual elected to public
office or those comprising a gov.
ernmental group, who assume the
all wise attitude of some heads Of
families, that Father knows best, -
that his decisions must not be CUES
toned or explanations asked, are
riding to a fall. II the family does
not call them to account and turn
such officials out, members Of the
family will, in time, find theiI
cherished liberties disappearing. i
is the family, not father, who Il
the real boss in government.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25

BABSON PARK, Mass,
June 25 During the
month of June many i'm
portant forecasts have
been made by scientists in
connection with the grad
uating exercises of the 169
engineering schools of the
United States. Some of
these seem fantastic; but
if we will look back so
years, and compare the
things which we have to-
day with what we had SO
years ago, these forecasts
will not seem strange,
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-25
nae CHIcKEN OF TOMORROW

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The Nome nugget., 1948-08-18
THE UNSETTLED U. N.
(ROcky Mountain NeWs)

The special session. in of its few useful acts has made good the earlier failure of Congress author ize the $65 million interest-free loan for building United Nations headquarters in New York City. This necessary to redeem American pledge. From some of the comments however, one nights SUD- pose this guarantees the permanence of the U N and of it's seat in New York Of that is not the Not that amount much more money could determine the life of the international organization.
 The U. N is sick not because it is poor but because from it's birth it has been poisoned by Russia Stan never wanted U. N. he could not control All the brbeS to get him into this One-includng three votes for Russia besides the satellites, and the extreme veto power-have not converted him. They merely have en- abed him to sabotage more effectively. Unless the coming showdown sessions of the U. N in Paris strengthen the body, it will continue to lan- guish If it does grow strong, Russia probably will with draw
 Some of the U. N. members who originally favored
 locating it in the United States now think it would have better chance if situated in Europe They say that would counter criticism which is not limited to Russians of alleged American domination of the U N meet high-living costs in America.
 These factors plus proximity for Europeans. caused the U N to shift it's fall sessions this year to Paris If that experiment is successful the talk of removal from New York probably will increase. Americans far more interested in the survival of the U N. than whether it remains in New York This new loan for buildings, which would revert to the United States if not used by the U N should not chain the body here if the members want to move else where.
The Nome nugget., 1948-08-18
Salmon Runs Far Below Normal
04D Special Washington Service)
 (By Bern Haugland)

Baltzo, newly appointed chief of Alaska fisheries for the fish and Wildlife service, said yesterday that the weeks shutdown of Ter ritorial fisheries was necessitated by a crisis in the industry. ' Baltzo said it is the first such action ever taken by the federal government. The shutdown of all ! but a small segment of the fishing was ordered Monday by service director Albert H. Day, now in Alaska.
 Virtually all Alaskan canneries, traps, seine boats and gill nets will remain idle this week. If a late run of salmon develops, the fishing season may be extended a few days beyond the Sept. dead line to make up for the current weeks loss.
 A series of interior department hearings on next years commer- cial fishery regulations and Alas ka will begin at Kodiak Sept. IS and end at Seattle Oct. 18 and l9.
 But the situation has become so serious that mere change in fishing regulations may not be enough" Baltzo told a reporter.
 Something drastic must be done or the industry may pass out of existence within a few years"
 The current shutdown involves chiefly the lucrative pink salmon pack of Southeastern Alaska. The pink salmon season, which used to start as early as June, began Aug. 9 this year.
 l Last year the pack was at an all-time low of $88,O0O,000 The decline in production has been ac- companied by a price increase that long ago took salmon out of the cheap-enough-for- cat Q d class.
 "Basically it's a case of over fishing-too much of all kinds of gear" said Baltzo.
 "It takes big ones to produce little ones-and it's the big ones that are being killed"
 Baltzo, who arrived this week from Alaska, said the sockeye or red salmon fishery, which has also been declining, was better than expected and about the same as last year. The sockeye catch, an early-season industry located largely to the west of the pink salmon areas, in Bristol Bay and Cook inlet, probbly will outweigh the pink salmon catch this year, as it did last. year.
 ] Baltzo, a University of Wash ington graduate, has returned to the fish and wildlife service after more than year as operator of a store at Wrangell, Alaska, where he had been fishery agent.
 Working out of New Orleans and Brunswick, Ga, Baltso took part in the shrimp research dec ade ago which resulted in vast expansion of the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery.
 VANCOUVER, B. C. P)-The British Columbia Packers, Ltd., urged XeSterdaX that Dnnnininn
The Nome nugget., 1948-08-18

western diplomacy at it's worst The only value it may have for is demonstration that Russias pledges meaningless that her international commitments, those secured from her at great price, not worth the paper they written on.
The Nome nugget., 1948-08-18

Most of the talk out of Washington about reducing the outlandish cost of living pure political hokum The last thing either the President of Congress wants is price break Government state and local-can not be maintained in the extravagant style to which it has become accustomed low wage low-price leve, Let prices start slipping and the President and Congress- will be falling over each other trying to build floor under prices.
The Nome nugget., 1948-08-18
DANUBIAN BLUNDER
(By Barnet NOVer)

Andrei Vinshinsky, RuSSiaS' representative at the Danuban conference being held in Belgrade has been having wonderful time rubbing the faces of the west powers in the mud
 It must give him and his masters in the Kremlin par tcular satisfaction at this time lay down the law to the United States Great Britain and France. This V shnsky has done again mad again since the conference opened July 29 Te did it with evident relish the fol- lowing day when he told the representatives of the western powers:
 "The door is open foryou to come The door is open for you leave Nobody forced anyone participate in this conference Nobody forced anyone to come"
 The worst of it is that, allowing for the inevitable Russian dsorton there happens to be good deal of truth in VShinskys remark. The plight in which the western powers find themselves at Belgrade is wholly of their making. They walked into Russian trap with their eyes wide open in fact they build the trap while hoping all the while that it would not be trap but doorway to cooperation and enhanced trade between east and west.
 It was Secretary Marshall who suggested last May that technical conference be held to regulate traffic the Danube in accordance with the agreement made at the Paris peace conference in the and autumn of 1946
 Secretary Marshall's intentions were of the very best Next to the Rhne the Danube is in relation the volume of traffic it normally carries, the most import ant of Europe's waterways. In all 1,725 miles long, it flows through touches eight countries Germany, Czechosovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugosavia, Roman ia Bulgaria and the Soviet Union G. e., the Ukrainan Soviet Republic).
 It stands that if trade between eastern and western Europe is to be revived and expanded-the u innate success Of MarShall plan may pend whether this happens nOt-the Danube must be reopened throughout its navgable length the free movement of traffic.
 To get the Danube reopened, the United States has been willing to make considerable concessions It announced that if the proposed Danube conference held this country would not insist Russia in- sisted at the time the satellite peace treaties being negotiated that decisions be reached by unanimous vote or the Big Three or the Big Four.
 To get the conference to meet at all, the United States promised to refrain from using it's veto power and also to regard majority votes binding This open ed the door to conference dictated by Russia
 Policymakers in Washington felt that the risk was worth taking first because the reoponing of the Dam ube to navigation worth great deal at the cost of system of regulation beneficial to the Russians and second, because Danube conference would also provide acid test of Russias readiness to abide by international she had freely made after the
 
 is clear from Vishinskys remarks that Russia sees the Belgrade conference in very different light from the way this country does
 In the eyes of the Kremln the conference is heaven sent opportunity to make the western lose tge by forcing them to display their hepessness in the fact of Russian pressure.
The Nome nugget., 1948-08-18

VANCOUVER, B. C. (P)-The British Columbia Packers, Ltd, urged yesterday that Dominion and provincial gove n m n S make appropriate arrangements to prevent the B. C. salmon fish cries from becoming another field of disastrous experimentation"
 The statement was made in the firms annual report which ex- pressed concern over power de- velopment on provincial salman streams.
 "1f the experience of others teaches us anything" the report said, "we should have learned that power dams and salmon '. have not yet been successfully as- sociated on any stream in North west America"
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-02-19
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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-02-19
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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-02-19

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