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Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
Neighbors Xmas Party

Friendly Neighbors Home DEM
onstration Club held its annual
Christmas party at Buffers Res
taurant, near Smyrna, on Tuesday
evening, December 13. A turkey
dinner with all the fxin's was serv-
ed at $50 pm. A program of
Christmas music and games was
presented by Mrs. Fred Heinold
and Mrs. Delbert Steller. The jan
uary meeting will be an all-day
meeting with a covered luncheon
at the home of Mrs. Elmer David
in Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
TO ELECT SUPERVISOR
New Castle County Soil Conserva-
ton District To Choose Aide

biUu DiStriCb 10 OnOOSe Alue
E. Sherman Webb, chairman of
the board of the New Castle Coun-
ty Soil Conservation District, has
announced January 3 as the date
selected for the election of a super
visor for the Soil Conservation
District. Polling places will be set
up at the following places: Mr..
Charles Pryor's home, Clayton;
Odessa Supply Company, Odessa;
County Agents Office, Newark;
Hockessin Supply Company, Hoe
kessin; and Smiths Store, Center
vile. All landowners in New Castle
County are eligible to vote and are
being urged to give serious con-
sideration to the selection of this
supervisor who will assist in carry
ing out the Soil Conservation pro-
gram of the County. Landowners
desiring to have their names ON
the ballot for election are advised
to file their names with the County
Agricultural Agent before Decem-
Der 81. The present board consists
of E. Sherman Webb, chairman,
Odessa; Marvin Klair vice chair
man, Marshallton; w. Lewis
Phipps, RID. 1, Wilmington; and
Charles Pryor, Clayton. w. Lewis
Phipps is the retiring member.
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
School Band To Give Concert

The Smyrna School band will
give a concert at The State We'll
fare Home at 7 o'clock tonight,
and if weather permits, they will
play carols at Four Corners at s
pm. The churches of Smyrna, both
Negro and white, are cooperating
to visit and take presents to all the
residents of the Home on Saturday
and Sunday. Last Sunday the Sal
walton Army, Wilmington, brought
sunshine baskets to the guests, and
on Saturday, December 81, the
Seventh Day Adventists, Dover,
will bring a holiday program.
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
Awarded Turkey

Charles Ford, Clayton policeman,
was awarded the 22-pound turkey
which was given away by The
Clayton Clodhoppers All Club on
Monday, December 10. The draw
ing took place at Sparks Phar-
macy, Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
SCHOOL CLOSED FOR XMAS
School To Close Friday 1 O'Clock
and Reopen January 8

Announcement has been made
that the Christmas Holidays in the
local school will begin at l pm. on
Friday, December %, and continue
until $3.50 am. on Tuesday, Janu-
ary 8. This will add to the local
school vacation one extra day
heretofore not included on the
state calendar. The inclusion of
this extra day at Christmas vaca-
tion will, of course, necessitate the
addition of an extra day at The end
of the school year, since the
schools are required to make an
number Of teaching
days during the school year.
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
WATER MAIN BREAKS
Water Shut Off Seven Hours Due
To Break On Main Street

Smyrna was without water for
seven hours on Monday when a
supply pipe broke ON North Main
Street. One of the worst of its
kind for many years, it is supposed
to have been caused by vibration
of heavy traffic on the brick pave
ment. Clifford Jones, town mana
ger, and members of the towns re-
pair crew, had the assistance of
the state highway department in
the use of an air-compressor to cut
open the street. The water had
enough force to create a tunnel 10
feet long and 5 feet deep. The
block was open to traffic Tuesday
afternoon, after overtime work by
the repair crew.
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
Clayton W.S.C.S. To Meet

The W.S!C.S. will meet on Tues
day, December 27 at pm. in st.
Paul Church. The circles will re-
port on their service projects for
the month. The program topic will
be christmas in Our Schools
Around the World"
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
Christmas Party at Grange

Smyrna Grange will hold their
Christmas party tonight (Thurs.T.
There will be an exchange of gifts
and a Christmas program will be
presented. 1t will be an open meet
ing. Each member is asked to
bring either cookies, candy, nuts,
or fruit.
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
To Hold Christmas Party

The Daughters of America win
hold their Christmas party Tues
day, December 27. All members are
urged to attend and bring a small
gift.
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22
TO JUDGE DECORATIONS
Three Dover Men Chosen To Judge
Outdoor Decorations for C. of @.
William 7 Storev rnavor of no,,-

Outdoor Decorations for G. of o.
William ]. Storey, mayor of Dow
er; Wallace Woodford, former
mayor of Dover; and DIR. o. A.
BARLEY, president of Wesley Jun
ior College, will act as judges of
the awards for outdoor decorations
of houses and places of business
sponsored by the Smyrna-Clayton
Chamber of Commerce. The judg-
ing will be done on Friday, Decem-
Der %. Awards in both classifica-
tions are first, SIS; second, $40;
and third, S5. James Merrill and
Clifton Jones form the committee
in charge of this project.
Smyrna times., 1949-12-22

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The Nome nugget., 1949-05-04
CA Can Purchase Supplies Early

WA s SHIN GTON, (H) - The House of Representatives has ap- proved legislation authorizing the civil aeronautics administration to purchase it's supplies for Alaska late in the winter or early spring each year so they can be sent to Alaska during early summer.
 The measure now goes to the Senate.
 The bill permits the CAA to purchase the needed supplies when its appropriations for the next fiscal year have not been ap- proved by March l and pay for them after the appropriation bills are passed,
 The House interstate and com merce committee reported that by shipping early in the summer the CAA could save considerable money.
The Nome nugget., 1949-05-04
lo2-YEAR-OLD HARVESTER SLIDER PASSES ON

SCRANTON, Pa. R)-Florence E. Dolph, who celebrated her last two birthdays by sliding down the bannister in her home, died yes- terday l8 days before her lO2nd birthday. Born May l9, l847, in Dickson City. Pa, Miss Dolph moved to California in 1902, lived there A years and then returned to Scranton.
 The bannister slides last year and in 1947 were, Miss Dolph said, to demonstrate her good health and agility. Her health continued good until recently.
 She was the oldest alumna of Lewisburg Seminary-now Buck nell University.
The Nome nugget., 1949-05-04
Alaska Needs .Navigational Aids
WP) Special Washington Service)

IPl Special Washington Service)
 WASHINGTON, R1 - Alaska needs better port facilities and navigational aids to develop Der ing Sea fishery, says fish and wild life service biologist Joseph E. King.
 Writing in the Commercial Fisheries Review, King describes an expedition of the Pacific Ex- ploration company's motor vessel Alaska, which fished for king crabs in the Bering Sea. Most of the fishing, says King, was in an area so miles long, 30 to 60 miles offshore between Port Moller and Black Hills, in the outer portion of Alaska's Bristol Bay.
 The most profitable fishing area, in August, was PTS to 300 miles from the St. Paul marine radio beacon and l75 miles from the Cape Sarichef station, King says. He adds: "As the accurate range of these stations is only 100 miles, they were of little value in deter mining the vessels position. If a more active fishery should devel- op with more vessels using these waters, there would be a definite l need for radio beacons nearer the fishing grounds.
 The only port on the Boring ! Sea side of the Alaska Peninsula within a reasonable running dis tance of the fishing grounds test ed is Port Moller.
 This port is reached through shallow channel, at present buoy ed only by the local fishermen each season. It is hazardous for boat to be at the cannery dock when a strong southwest or south east wind is blowing.
 Although adequate for the ex- istiag salmon fishery, if substan- tial offshore fishery should de- velop in the area, additional dock ing space and facilities would be necessary.
The Nome nugget., 1949-05-04

be seepy and permanently increased not only for the wealth that be got out of Alaska but for national fense we'll He adds that what Alaska chiefly needs roads, housing, water power and tourist accommodations, better land laws for newcomers inn proved public health facilities and overall vation program.
 Comparatively he says, have spent less in deve- opng Alaska than put out in opening up the western United States in previous generations
 We hope Congress pays careful attention to this portland one good way to start the improvement of Alaska would be to give it Statehood.
The Nome nugget., 1949-05-04

Spring Clean-Up Week, the yearly phenomenon in which than 10000 communities clean up the win ters debrs is said to be the result of the gift of blue pinafore to untdy little girl in Cleveland
 The child, product of rundown shanty district back in 19O9 given bright crisp pinafore by her teacher in effort to nstl pride in the girl The immediate transformation from dirty urchin pret- ty child made her family aware of their squalor Self consciously they started cleaning their house. washing up oors repairing the fence and planting flowers for the first time.
 Astounded neighbors began fighting their own back yards The ugly street became respectable part of town The neighborhood cleanup inspired other com munties to tackle their local eyesores The idea spread In 1913 it tried ctywide scale for the first time in Cincinnati where civic groups, improvement associations and school children all pitched in on a week-ong cleanup City ofer city, hoping to reduce
 fire losses and fight disease took up the annual tion, paint-up, fix-up plan.
 In recent years it has grown steadily, and the National Board of Fire Underwriters reports that than 10000 cities towns and villages participate in the yearly cleanup!
The Nome nugget., 1949-05-04
LET'S TALK CONSERVATION
Wednesday. May (. ls%s

LET'S TALK CONSERVATION
 (New York Sunday News)
 . What with oil and gasoline prices going down and John L. Lewis calling at least strike in 1949 to cut above-ground coal surpluses, this may a funny time to talk about conservation of U. s. natural Julius Cap) Krug secretary of the interior has just up, however, with annual report which discusses conservation and think in timely fashion With some of the Krug reports points we can't agree. He is still harping for the long-debated St. Lawrence Seaway project to be built by Canada and the United States with the latter paying most of the cost This scheme has seemed highly dubious to for years and still does.
 We have a notion, too, that MT. Krug is unduly alarmed about the likelihood, he it, of famine of newsprint in the generation Newsprn is what you're holding at the moment-the kind of paper on which newspapers are printed.
 While U S. gazettes quantities of the stuff per year. and there shortages and then it is nevertheless fact that Canadian manufacturers carefully planting much spruce tree stock they consume.
 However when the interior secretary gets around in his report to discussing petroleum, think he makes ongrange senSe though petroleum at the moment is more or less running out of U. s. producers Mir. Krug is chiefly anxious to this country get bg-scae synthetic oil industry into existence.
 He says we have estimated twenty billion bar res of proved crude oil in the ground and per- haps four times that amount of improved In such he thinks, i've have only about two generations of do- mestic crude oil supply left.
 That is may be. These estimates of imminent or
 
 of being exploded by discovery of big deposits of the stuff in unexpected places.
 But there is always the possibility of war, which might cut us off from all of foreign oil sources, and certainly would put an immediate and enormous strain domestic oilfieldS
 Wouldn't it be smart, while peace lasts to get we'll started development of big plants for producing syn thetc oil from coal or sweating oil out of shale?
 Suppose years before Pearl Harbor, had laid the foundations for big synthetic rubber industry. We wouldn't have been hit nearly hard in that case, by the sudden loss of Far East of natural rub ber ...
 There various ways to make synthetic oil Cost is the main obstacle But now, in peacetime, is when we ought to be working lowering costs and improving methods-either through private enterprise with Government loans to Why wait till the lightning strikes? . ...- -.. Mir. Krug in this report has some pregnant things to say about-ALASKA
 our tremendous northwest territory facing Russias Siberia across the Bering Strait. ... How big Alaska it, we doubt that many mainland Americans know even yet, though we bought it from Czarst Russia in 1867 The place has of 586 400 square miles, which makes it than twice as large
The Nome nugget., 1949-05-04

President Truman does not seem to be getting any, where with his 8lst Democratic Congress" says the Greenbush, Minnesota Tribune Mot single major law has been passed by the 81st Congress to date The trouble is that MT. Truman thinks he has mandate from the voters to just about he peases and that Congress should do as he wishes He forges that he minority President-that is voters voted against him than voted for him On the other hand practically every member of Congress elected by clear ma jority of thsr districts state The members of Con- gress really have mandate from their constituents and is right that they should exercise their own udg ment of what they think their constituents want Pres- dent Truman has been entirely too cocky for his own good He come to realize that he is not the whole United States Government"
Evening star., 1949-04-23
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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
PAY BOOST:
For Cabinet

There was good news for cabinet
members, who have been plugging
along at the same old salary ever
since 1925.
A joint senate-house conference
managed to arrive at an agreement
to boost cabinet members SAL
aries from $4,000 to S22, 500 year.
THE CONGRESSIONAL group
also approved pay raises for some
200 other top-drawer federal off
cials-at a cost of s1,O87 1000 an
nually.
In addition to raising cabinet sal
aries, the pay bill will:
GRANT Undersecretary of De-
tense Steve Early $4,000 year
instead of S14.500, and the armed
forces secretaries $4,000 a year
instead of $4,000.
Most of the undersecretaries of
the various departments will go
up from S10,330 to S17,500. ]. Edgar
Hoover who, as head of the FBI,
now receives $4,000 will get a
raise to $4,000
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
CONGRESS-:
Half q Loaf

The first session of the 81st con-
gress headed toward an October
adjournment with less than half of
President Trum ans program writ
ten into law.
THE PRESIDENT could count Is
major accomplishments, by his
reckoning, at least, on the part of
the congress he helped ride into
office last November.
Left as unfinished business for
the 1850 congressional campaign,
however, were a number of highly
controversial proposals among the
% requests that Mr.. Truman had
laid before the present session
without getting final action.
Chief among these is the Taft
Hartley act repeal, which was
turned down in both houses during
this session. The President un-
doubtedly will revive the issue in
January, and the outcome this time
may depend upon how some special
elections this year to fill senate and
house vacancies turn out.
SOME OF THE other requests
which Mr.. Truman is almost sure
to re-introduce early next year will
be for a system of compulsory
health insurance, civil rights legis-
lation, standby price-wage controls
and the passage of "Point 4" legis-
lation to guarantee US. support in
developing backward areas of the
world.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
CHINESE REDS:
Win Diplomats


Was it a case of rats deserving a
sinking ship?
That might have been a plaus-
ible construction of the move as
Chinese diplomatic-staff members
in Paris deserted to the Communist
regime at Picking and called on
Chinese diplomats throughout the
world to follow their example.
GEORGE MONG, counselor of
the Paris embassy, made the an
nouncement. He reported that II
diplomats, eight from the embassy
and three from the consulate had
walked out on Chang Kai-shek and
the Nationalist government at
Canton.
The development posed a prob
lem for the French foreign minis
try's Asiatic affairs section. They
were particularly concerned by the
threat of rebel sit-in at the en-
bassy. However, the issue was re-
solved when the French moved
firmly to back up the Nationalist
and struck the dissident Chinese
ENJOYS off it's diplomatic list.
THE FRENCH difficulty was
clear. While Paris still recognized
the Nationalist government. it was
becoming increasingly apparent
that the western powers eventually
may recognize the Communist re-
gime of Mao Tze-tung. Already
there have been conversations on
that subject.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
BIG STEEL:
Try, Try Again

The government was pledged to
do its best to bring peace into the
steel industry.
MORE AND MORE meetings
had been arranged in an effort to
end the deadlock between workers
and operators. Cyrus Ching, U. S.
conciliator director, made the first
peace move in the extended strike
when he arranged informal meet
ings with steel companies and the
striking CLIO United Steelworkers.
Both sides had been holding
doggedly to their pre-strike posi-
tions-the union for company-paid
insurance and pensions recon-
mended by a presidential board.
and the industry for welfare bene-
fits with workers helping to foot
the bill.
SOME COMPANIES had agreed
to accept the union terms, but this
did not mean strikes end.
The stakes were big in the con-
test. Where big steel went there
would go most of U. S. industry,
inasmuch as steel usually sets the
pattern in wage and labor nego-
tiations
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
Rodent Poison

Risks in using compound 1880, 4
rodent poison, on range areas over
which sheep and cattle may be
herded are pointed up in a report
in the American Journal Of Veter-
mary Research. Experiments at
the Colorado experiment station
showed that sheep, and probably
cattle, can become fatally sick by
consuming small amounts Of 1890
poisoned bait intended for prairie
dogs and ground squirrels. Feed
containing the compound was I'M
palatable to sheep, but In spite Of
that, they ate enough Of it to BE-
seriously affected.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
CZECH PURGE:
Slow Terror

SIOH IeTToT
Slow terror, the kind that even
tually is born in persons living
under any totalitarian government,
was seeping through Communist
Czechoslovakia.
Cause of it was Red purge,
aimed primarily at supposed bour-
geois elements, but leaving no man
be he Communist party men,
Der or not-free from the fear that
he may become victim sooner or
later.
UNCONFIRMED reports of the
total seized or marked for arrest
in the Communist police roundups
ranged between 10000 and 10000.
No information was being given,
either as to causes, results or any
other details of the widespread ar
rests.
The pattern of the purge was
clear. Landlords, architects, con-
PETITIONERS and other small shop
keepers we're being picked up and
their business confiscated. In some
cases, their apartments were seized
and families dispossessed.
In the main, it was a drive
against Czechoslovakia' proper
tied classes, theoretically the NOR
tai enemies of Marxist communism.
HOWEVER. the prosecution of
the property owners was accom-
panied throughout Bohemia and
Moravia by purges of government
employees, the clergy, army and
even the Communist rank S.
Charges, where there were any,
ranged from high treason and
sympathy with Titoism or western
imperialism" to simple denuncia-
tons by shoppers who had over
heard suspicious bits of conversa-
ton.
Possible hint as to the reason
behind the purge was the report
that the government is having
trouble not only in its campaign to
control the Roman Catholic church,
but also its efforts to prod higher
production out of the workers.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
BURLEY:
U. S. Likes Quotes

The government took first steps
toward continuing existing rigid
marketing controls on hurley to-
bacco amid calls by agriculture
secretary Charles Brannan for
another three-year control pro-
gram and for views by interested
persons on the question.
BRANNAN'S REQUEST for the
three-year extension of control on
the hurley crops stemmed from the
fact that this years prospective
production of about $50 million
pounds is well above the current
annual rate of disappearance
The leftover of hurley on October
l, the beginning of the l949-crop.
marketing year. was estimated at
$40 million pounds-about rs per
cent above that of a year ago. It
was the highest on record.
Brannan, in asking for express
sions of views by interested per-
sons, was acting under require
ments of the law. The question is
expected to be submitted to a ref
erendum in December. Approval
by at least two thirds of those vot-
ing would be required.
QUOTAS for the 1947, 1913 and
l949 crops were voted in 1916
Brannan is also required by law
to proclaim quotas by December
if he finds there is surplus within
terms of the law, and there would
be few who would not concede
that surplus exists.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
BENEFITS:
For War ! Vets

President Truman signed into
law bill increasing disability and
dependence payments to World
War / veterans by an estimated
liz million dollars annually. Among
its major provisions we're:
Provide full compensation, in
stead of rs per cent, for veterans
whose disability is presumed to
have resulted from war service.
Increase the length Of time for
which payments may be made.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
HARVEST:
Second Largest

Americas horn of plenty con-
tinued to 60 all out in its produc-
ton Of food for the world.
--latest crop summary of the US.
department Of agriculture showed
that good harvest weather would
assure the nation of its second larg-
est volume of crops in history,
topped only by the record-breaking
haul Of 1913.
EQUALLY important was the fact
that a record supply of corn was on
tap for producing meat, dairy and
poultry products.
The month of September brought
conditions sufficiently favorable
to boost total production prospects
! per cent, despite slight decline
IN the corn estimate. Total crop
volume was indicated at 13l per
cent Of the 1923-1932 base level,
second only to last years 1877 per
cent.
However, present indications are
that this may be the last year for
some time that crop production
reaches such astronomical heights.
As SURPRISES were mounting almost
alarmingly, the government was
preparing to take action to reduce
output next year.
There was every likelihood that
market quotas would be slapped on
some Of the basic crops which have
been overlooking into storage in
recent years.
THIS YEARS huge output is the
result Of fairly large production of
most individual crops, rather than
mountaineering yields of just a
few.
Nearly 1928 million tons of live
stock-feed grains are being pro-
duced this year, including a corn
crop Of about 3.47 billion bushels.
Last years corn crop of 1865 billion
bushels set an al-time record.
The 36.5 billion tons of food grains
now estimated, though exceeded in
each Of the past three seasons, is
greater than in any earlier year.
Included in this figure is bumper
wheat crop Of 1.12 billion bushels,
virtually all Of which has been har-
vested.