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Arizona sun., 1951-10-26
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October 26, 1851

Well Folks
AS that other 'sRead Head" -
Red Shelton would say, II DOOd
It," Yes, we are going to have
some new buildings on Reddy's
Corned, and soon we hope, after
just about a full year of fighting
red tape, etc. 1t now looks as tho
the deal is finally going through.
Pm keeping my fingers crossed.
When this is all said and done,
the buildings completed and in
operation, want you to always
remember! Don't let anyone sug-
gest anything to the contrary! I'm
building these new buildings with
the hope of being able to serve
you better.
When this goes to press, Friday,
/ hope to be up in the highlands
a-chasin the deer. At least I'll be
up there, South of Williams, try
ing to get one.
plan to camp OH the road lead
ing back toward Dear Springs"
If you are up that way look me
up. If you stay down this way,
look up Reddy's Corner. I'm sure
that my wife and the other girls
will do their best to serve you.
AS Always
1tReddY"
Arizona sun., 1951-10-26
CAPITAL
SPOTLIGHT
By Louis Lautier
For the NNPA News Seryic

President Truman will give Earl
w. Beck, the Kansas Citian, a re-
cess appointment as Recorder of
Deeds cf the District of Columbia
White House pressure was put on
Democratic members of the Sem
ate District of Columbia Commit
tee not to report Beck'S nomina-
ton unfavorably. If the committee
had made an unfavorable report
and the senate had rejected the
n IminatiCn, Beck could not be
given a recess appointment.
Representative Clare Hoffman,
Republican, of Michigan, on the
House floor the other day, let the
cat out of the bag that House
committees going on junkets over
seas were opposed to women men,
berS going along.
Hoffman, ranking Republican
, member of the House Committee
on Expenditures in the Executive
Departments, knew whereof he
spoke because the Bonner sub
committee on ntergovernmental
relations was planning an around
the-world trip with cne woman
member, representative Cecil N
Harden, Republican, of Indiana, go
', ing along. So.
Moreover, Representative Bill
Dawson, of Illinois, the committee
chairman, who arranged the trip,
was sending the clerk to the COM
mittee, Christine Davis, along as
/ his personal representative.
! "Of course, openly, the men, en-
/ the committee have not objected,
but in some roundabout way it
came out that heretofore the men
, have not appreciated their (Wom-
en'S presence and it was limited
by some who were MT going that,
if the ladies were gcing on this
ardous investigation, perhaps none
better go; just call the whole job
off," said Hoffman, exposing ths
whispering campaign.
Hoffman suggested that his col
leagues n1t take that attitude.
Up spoke Representative Kath-
Tarine ST. George, Republican, Of
New York, that she could readily
understand why some Of these
committees did not want to talk.
l=dies along.
Pressed by Hoffman to stat.
her reasons, she said: "They may
spoil some ef the mere pleasurable
moments, some CT the recreation.
/ These women do not ask for any
special privilege; in fact, 1 am
told that they take most of the
rough as we'll as the smooth"
"They wear slackS?" asked Hoff-
man.
. "They do, indeed" replied Mrs
St. George. "When necessary they
wear slacks, and 1 am told they
even go up rope ladders"
Note: The Bonner subcommittee,
headed-by Representative Herbert
c. Bonner, Democrat, of North
Carolina, and including Mrs. Davis,
the first colored person ever to
travel overseas with a ccngression-
al committee, left last Saturday
morning on the first leg of their
two-month trip which will take
! them to Formosa, the Philippines.
India, Arabia, Turkey, Greece,
Austria, Germany, France and
England, including Paris and Lon
don. and returning by way of
Ireland.
The group was scheduled tc
take off at 10 o'clock Saturday
morning. But Dawson spoke at
Lexington kentucky) in the gu
bernatorial campaign Friday night,
motored to Cincinnati afterwards
to cotch a Plane for WaWshingtCn.
But his plane was not scheduled
to arrive here until 1901 am,
Saturday. The plane carrying his
Subcc mmittee was delayed to await
arrival of DaWSOn'S Dlane so the
Arizona sun., 1951-10-26
Florida u Cancels Game
Because Of Negro Players

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NNPA)
State University cancel
led lis football game last Wednes-
day with Bradley University be-
cause the Peoria (Illinois) team
has several colored players.
announcement of cancellation
of the game, scheduled here for
November "a, and also of a re-
turned game that was to be play
ed in Peoria next year was made
by the FSU athletic department.
A. j. Bergstrom, director of
athletics at Bradley, the FSU an
nouncement said, had notified the
Florida school that for the first
time in history Bradley has sew
eral colored boys on the varsity
team.
'Bergstrom said that the game
could not be played without in
cluding these players" the FSU
said.
Florida State University is a
state-Supported insti.u-
ton and in its short athletic his
tory has never competed against
a team with colored players in any
sport.
Arizona sun., 1951-10-26

AS Always
"Reddy"
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11

munity House on Monday evening.
Mrs. Dora Collision spent the
weekend with her son, Ray and
family.
While in Cuba, Louis Brown saw
Harold Brown, one of our local ball
players. He is still playing ball and
so far they were undefeated.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bullock
and family, Mr. and Mrs. James
Hutson were Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. William Donophan of
near Petersburg.
Louis Brown of the U. S. S. Wis
cOnsin, is spending this week with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Brown. He has just returned from
Cuba.
Dolores Welch and Betty Scott,
seniors of Harrington School, have
returned from a trip to New York
City They had very nice trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Olin Hill and fam
lily of Bowers Beach, called on Ray
Cox and family, Sunday night
Mrs. Annie Lofland and daughter,
Maude, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Anthony and daughter,
/ Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William LOngfel-
low and daughter, Mrs. Harry
Fletcher and son of Baltimore call
ed on Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Antho-
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11
BROWNSVILLE

Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Price
visited Elmer Brown and family,
Sunday evening.
Callers at the home of Mrs. Dora
Cornish Sunday evening were Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Boone of Dover.
Ruth, Pauline and Evelyn Moore of
Cheswold and Mr.. and Mrs. Preston
Moore and children of Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bullock and
sons attended a birthday party at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Nc
Cauley in Harrington, Saturday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs Erwin Robinson of
Easton, Md, were dinner guests of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Robinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Brown and
Norma Jean called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Willis Rust of Pennington, Sunday
afternoon.
Farmers in this section are
planting corn. Dick Cornish is our
early man this time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Herzog en-
tertained guests from New Jersey
over the weekend.
Billy Raw and Janet Collision en-
tertained the M Y. F. at the Com
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11

built earlier. The mill has a capaci-
ty of 20 tons per hour, soley for the
TOwnsends' own chickens.
$50 Employed
Other features of the 250-employe
operation, headquartered outside
Millsboro, include a special feed
bag cleaning plant and a we'll
equipped laboratory for diagnosis
and study of poultry diseases. Town
sends, Inc, also have five smaller
breeding farms in New England
Townsend and Belaware's other
entrant in the contest, o. A. Newton
and Son Company of Bridgeville,
were selected by the National
Chicken of Tomorrow Committee
on the basis of their showings in
the state and regional phases OF
the contest during the past two
years.
Townsend has entered a Cornish
New Hampshire crOss-bred type
brOiler which he hopes will win
APPS first prize of $4,000 in the
contest. But again he isn't entirely
satisfied with his product He thinks
his best broiler can be even better
with our intensive breeding pro-
gram and our special feed fOrmu-
las we've made many rapid inn
provements in the meat-type chick
en-" Preston Townsend said. "But
there is still a lot of room for i'm
prOVement."
The TOwnsends are particularly
interested in improving resistance
to disease and producing more eggs
per hen among the brOiler types
Improvement of these factors will
help reduce the cost of broilers, il
was pointed out
I'D advise anyone going into the
poultry business to emphasize his
college studies on breeding and dis
ease" said Preston. He added, smil-
ingly, my fathers service in the
Senate and my courses on fruit
trees aren't the ideal training fol
poultry farming-but we're mo-
complaining
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11

ing apples and peaches until 1886
Then Townsend and his son, Pres
ton, built their first modest broiler
house.
Townsend's Inc, is today one Of
the largest and best-knOwn breeder
hatcher-raiser poultry operations in
the country. 1t is aimed at the top
award in the National Chicken-of-
Tomorrow Contest Finals at Fay
etteville, Ark.
Forty major breeders have en-
tered the contest sponsored by Arp
food stores in cooperation with the
u S. Department of Agriculture
and the National Chieken-of-To-
morrow Committee.
Hatching Eggs Sent
Each breeder sent Matching eggs
to the University Of Arkansas ex-
perimental farm and the 400-bird
entries are being housed and fed
under identical conditions. The en-
tries will be judged alive and dress
ed during the second week of June,
with the winner selected on total
points for weight, size, rapid
growth, feed consumption, meat
qualities and other factors.
After that first broiler house.
Townsend and his son gradually
increased the number Of buildings
until they had a capacity of $1,000
birds. Then they started building
their integrated business because
they felt they could handle the
other operations better themselves.
They were not satisfied with the
chicks they were getting. So they
built their own hatchery in 1889
Because they weren't entirely salts
fed with the supply and quality of
Matching eggs from outside sources,
they started their own major breed
ing program in 1948.
Recently feed supplies have been
a problem for the 100000 brOilers
and 125.OOO laying hens. Preston
Townsend proudly shows visitors
his new plant which will process
so tons of sOybeans daily for the
feed formula mixed in the mill he
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11
CEDAR NECK
By Mrs. Thomas s. Clark
Phone Milford 4342
SUNDAY. Man 13th

Sunday, May 18th
Sunday School, IL a. m. E. e.
Watson, Superintendent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Jackson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert WarnOck, Jr.,
and sons, David and Tommy, spent
Sunday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Mills and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Wosiki and
Mrs. Rachel Holden were dinner
guests on Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs.
William McColley and family.
Pvt. Harvey MilbOurn of Camp
Gordon, Ga, is spending a seven
day furlOugh with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey MilbOurn.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fitzgerald
and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Carey
spent Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. James D. Mills.
Mrs. Ralph c. Jones and friend,
Mrs. higgins of Laurel, were call
ers on Sunday afternoon of Mr.. and
Mrs. Davis Watson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Clark and
son spent Sunday evening with
Mrs. Winnie Clark of Greenwood.
The Cedar Grove Farm Bureau
Planning Group will meet on Thurs
day evening, May II. at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Watson. Mr..
and Mrs. Fay Grassmyer of Green
wood, will speak and show slides
of a recent trip to Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville Shockley
and daughters, Mrs. Raymond Da-
Wis and son, Charles. snent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Barnes Of
Springfield, Pa.
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11

Classified Ads get results.
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11
HARBEsON
By Rev.
Thomas G. Jones
Phone
Milton 1920

We are glad to report that Hi
riam Mirch is able to be out again
after being i'll for several weeks.
Richard Hudson is in the Beebe
Hospital in Lewes for treatment.
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas c. Jones
were dinner guests on last Monday
evening at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cove Morris.
On last Friday, Mrs. Nora V. En-
mis- entertained the Rev. and Mrs.
Thomas c. Jones to a turkey din
ner. In the evening the Ladies
Glass of the Harbeson Methodist
Church of which Mrs. Jones is the
Teacher assembled at the home Of
Mrs. Ennis as a surprise to Mrs
Jones and presented her with two
beautiful brass electric lamps for
her dresser" and other presents,
The evening was enjoyed by all
with singing, speeches and refresh
ments. All express their deep re-
grets in having Rev. and Mrs
Jones leave this community where
they have accomplished so much
good in such a short time.
Next Sunday is Mothers Day"
at the Harbeson Church.
Services at eleven a. m. Dedica-
tion of the Cross, Vases and candle
sticks and Communion Table cover
in memory of loved ones.
Edith Barker entered the Della
ware Hospital in Wilmington on
last Saturday for observation.
Jack Gattis of Gainesville, GeOr-
gia, spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Wagamon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Kernish
and son of Philadelphia visited Mrs.
Leta Warrington over the weekend.
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11
REDDEN

McColley's Sunday School will be
held at 2 p. m, Sunday. May 13.
Preston Donovan. Sup't. Church at
8 p. m, Rev. James O'Neil All are
welcome.
McColley's w. S. C. S. will be
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11

ny, Sunday evening. Mrs. Anthony
is improving.
Several from here attended the
Farm Bureau Meeting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs Maurice Wright,
Wednesday evening.
Joann Cornish spent Sunday
with Evelyn Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Collins and
family spent Sunday in Whining
ton, with Mr.. and Mrs. William
Perry and family.
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11

If you. want to cook fresh beets
quickly pare and dice them, then
boil in small amount of water in
tightly covered saucepan until
tender.
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11
Ex-senator Townsend, Son IRE
filming For Top Broiler Avard

former United States Senator and his son who graduated from
business IS Today they competing for the O
the nation.
Townsend Jr served in the u Senate from 1928
prior Delaware specialized in grow
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11

Denmark has been using a vac
cine known as BEG against tuber-
culOsis since the early 193Os.
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11
Worm Welcome

STERLING. Colo. = az = All
bert Bangs got a warm introduce
tion to his job as a vocational agri-
cultural instructor at Sterling High
School. In his first day. Bangs
singed his hair in helping students
put out a gasoline fire in school
shop.
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11

held at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin Clendaniel on Saturday eve
ming, May 18th. Members are asked
to help with preparations and to
donate milk and home made cakes,
as home made ice cream and cakes
will be for sale. Everyone invited.
Milford chronicle., 1951-05-11

It takes ton and half of coal
to make ton of steel.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1951-12-29
Die exenr.ichter
Won WiiEZbuIrS
HistOriscIe NOUeIIe
con FRANZ VON SEEBURG

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mug, lun 3ebne 5ll erilabren. @ab'
oil Sos Silber I'M &aiten oben gerre
ber, b1tt' id) Elm &i,nb oafiir. @ia's
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ib oltb ni6t."
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elmer @eile.
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rem fl,tsen glllgel on. sd meine,
tpenn Sbr bier Gat ,tnb Sulfe tuiiB=
tet, 10 bra11btet SIR 11idt betteln ge.
ben. "a gdb' es 8olo getrlrg. Oanf
gub fiir @lleren 8illen!"
rBie'.s guh beliebt," lprab Sc
lena in pe,riger be,rtiitigem Sone.
v9aBt Glb beoanft lein fir Speiie
uno fir 8oIt. gebiit' 8ott!"
Sic erbob iib atno ging, als bdnoe
Wtiiotgteit luob ibre @lieber, idlep=
peno aus Sem Saule, ipabeno, in ole
Ni,fel ll,geno. Geb faum uus oen,
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1951-12-29
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Itarren aus Dem falten @eItein 1Die
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l,no nuf ieinem Spiboab f,rorrt eine
roItigc Betterfabne.
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gihenbol5, in Dem Ser 8l1ran i6on
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wert a1no in cine groBe Stube. Das
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S1iloereien nuf Sen nprl6en &a.
deln ordngt iih fait bis 5llr Dtttte
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-12-01
inter Nights

Long winter nights! They are so fun
OF warmth and cheer and things
] always put off doing until
Summer has flown on wings!
! look ahead to rainy days,
For rain is like song
It's natures music as it beats
My roof the whole night long.
You see, ! save for stormy nights
The book / long to read
My bits of sewing, soft and gay,
With here and there a bead.
To catch the CLINT of blazing logs
That crackle, warm and bright
Before me-so why should I dread
A coy winter night.
-Cristel Hastings.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-12-01
b. MRS. EDITH GRIMES
WADDELL

sewed up and ready to be hauled
to the railroad.
1t is at the shearing pen that the
representative of the Boston wool
trade enters the picture. He ex-
amines the wool as it is shown and
estimates its probable value, which is
based on its fineness, length of staple
and condition, that is, the percentage
of grease and dirt it contains. Some
woods will shrink up to 20 percent,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-12-01

others as little as As percent during
the cleaning process known as
securing" The condition of wool
from the same ranch will change
from year 60 year due to varying
weather conditions and the amount
of feed the sheep received during
the winter months.
The U. S. department of agricul-
ture has established six grades for
wool based on fineness: 1. Fine. 2.
Half-blood. 8. ee-eighths- blood.
A. Quarter-blood. 5. Low quarter
blood. 6. Braid. The grades are
based on the diameter of the fiber.
In Montana the grades produced are
the first three.
The "crimp" or waviness in fine
wool runs many more waves to the
inch and determines its elasticity.
The grades are again divided COM
mercially into staple, French comb
ing and clothing, with the staple
wool being used in the best worsteds
and the others going into cheaper
''Woolens."
Grading Wool
On arrival in Boston, the wool is
stored in enormous warehouses,
thence to the grading rooms where
sunlight is abundant. No grading is
done under artificial light.
Each fleece is taken from the
burlap bag into which it was packed
at the shearing shed and passed to
the grader-a highly skilled and
highly paid man. Around him are
huge baskets marked with the six
or more grades. After minute inspec-
ton, he losses it into the basket
where it belongs. The baskets in
turn are taken to the pile of each
grade which reminds one of flat
topped haystack.
My husband and I had the priv
i1ege few years ago of going
through. the wool mill in Laurence,
Mass. It is the largest wooden mill
in the world six stories high, three
city blocks long. It was hot day
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-12-01
M9ol farms

SINCE EARLIEST colonial times
sheep have played an important part
in our national economy, as they
produce both food and clothing.
The sheep business has not been
glamorized in song and story as has
the cattle business. Sheep them
selves are stupid creatures that will
refuse to drink, though they may be
dying of thirst, unless the water is
just to their liking. or will pile up
in blizzard or smother each other
to death in shed.
The herder, in contrast to the cow
boy, is a lonely and most generally
an unlovely figure, attired in SUM
mer in blue jeans and jumper, and
in winter in four buckle overshoes,
several pairs of wooden pants, a
sheepskin coat and fur lined gloves,
none of which enhances the beauty
of his appearance nor adds to his
style.
Basque defoefS
Most herders are of foreign birth.
The best ones we have had in Mon
tana have been Basques from the
Spanish or French Pyrennes. They
have traditions as shepherds for
hundreds of years. Recently the de-
partment of immigration permitted
$50 Basque herders to enter the
United States. The work of a herder
demands patience, judgment and fl
deity.
Although herders are Of many ma
tionalities, there is suspicion that
after several years they all talk the
same language. 1t is called the
s'blether of the flock"
There is the yarn of the herder
who found himself in legal diff
culties and his attorney thought he
had scant chance of getting off. He
decided on strategy and told his
client to answer ''B-a-a' to all ques-
tons. After this went on short
time the Judge decided the man was
incompetent and dismissed the case.
The attorney complimented his
client in his fine replies, and said,
"Now about my fee"
| 'sB4a-a'' replied the herder.
Sheep were introduced into the
Virginia colonies in 1903 and into
Massachusetts, in 1880. The first
sheep were trailed into Montana by
John Bishop and Richard Reynold
of Dillon in 1869.
The young lambs come along in
the spring. 'Lambing" is strenuous
under the most favorable conditions
and if the weather is bad everyone
is completely exhausted.
The other big operation on a sheer
ranch is shearing. In the old days
it was done by hand with shears
Now it is done with machines by
travelling crews of professionals who
follow the warm weather from Texas
north through the wool growing
states. Shearing in Montana starts
about June LIST and is usually ovel
by the 10th of July.
Handling Fleeces
The fleeces come off in one piece
and are tied with paper Irvine Sc
that it will dissolve when the WOO
is secured. The tied fleeces are tossed
~ 4hr GnTl,,x,,..,.-,..,, -. :.