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Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03

Cnlted States Rubber Company.
Pure Oil Co, and the Stanolin rank
Farm. This last plant is the start-
ing point for the big inch. the oil
pipe that extended from Texas 10
the east coast.
Then we drove to Beaumont and
landed in field where the ground
was saturated with oil and there
were oil well towers as far as we
could see. This is the world fam
Gus Spindletop", Mr.. B. announced
and Hayes and I could not give the
appropriate response. We had never
heard OF SpindietOp, but we honest-
~ should have. 1t is one of the big
gest producing oil fields ever. Yon
see this field has been operating
for the past so years and lust latelv
enc of the first oil wells drilled
here stopped operating. That's nv
SCOOP. ....Spindletop is going dry. You
wouldn't agree that it was running
dry if you could see all those wells
en- that site that are operating.
Furthermore, / have no right to can
It my scoop. Yesterday when HAYES
and l were downtown here in Hous-
ton we passed the book counter at
Foley's and the book they are high
lighting is Spindletop' by James
A. Clark and Michel T. Halbouty.
The authors will be in the store
this weekend to autograph your
four dollar copy and we. will be
there to get ours It should be a
good book, especially after seeing
the town and field
There is a monument in the CEN
ter Of the field on which one reads.
"The Lucas Gusher. On this spot,
on the 10th day of the goth Cen
tury, new era in civilization be-
gan" As 1 remember, Mr.. Boston
said Anthony Lucas believed oil
would be found here at SpindletOp
and others. discouraged his theory.
At 10:30, January 10th, 1900 the
gusher began and the first nine
days the gusher ran wild, spilling
100000 barrels of oil on the ground.
All around that field are the Origi-
nal small wooden barrels that are
now replaced i'm other fields by
modern steel tanks that hold up to
$4,000 barrels of black gold. 1t was
very, very interesting and now
can't wait for my copy of Spindle
top.
Coming home we saw the Atlantic
refineries where Mr.. Boston works
as personnel man. Here at Atlantic
they refine $1,000 barrels of crude
oil daily. All these plants are SO
massive. Tanks, pipes, flaming
smoke stacks, towers and oil COW
cred giant machinery all doing
their bit toward the oil industry
and toward making Texas great.
It was all so interesting and we
owe our glimpse into this rich in
dustrial center to the BOstons. I
hope this isn't the last visit we will
have with Mr. and Mrs. Boston.
Sandra and Steve, but by the time
this article has been read by you,
we will have twenty DAYS of this
tour in Texas left and then be off
to Sacramento, California.
It's no secret. we disliked Texas
at first but now We honestly hate
to leave. / guess that's the way it
is when you make your various
homes in the Air Force.
Until next time.
Always.
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03
BACK TO BUSINESS


To rescue America from social
ism, get government out of busi-
ness. This recurring theme is
heard more and more frequently
from leaders in both business and
government. Since Senator Homer
Ferguson, (Rep) of Michigan. in
trOduced a bill in the last Con-
gress calling for a survey of all
federal projects with a view of
turning them over to state and To-
cal governments and TO private
business, the Council of State
Chambers of Commerce, have not
only endorsed this measure, but
would even consider private oper-
alton of the Post Office as well.
Charles E. Wilson, former presi-
dent of General Electric, and for
mer Defense MObilizeT, a man who
should certainly be able to see both
sides of the picture, proposes that
private investors take over the
Governments enormous electric
power installations, such as the
Tennessee Valley Authority net
work, the Columbia River power
system. Hoover Dam and others.
Under his plans, owners of Govern
ment bonds would be permitted to
swap these federal securities Tor
stock in new private companies to
run these vast power companies
He would thus convert tax-absOrb-
ers into taxpayers. at the rate. he
estimates, of about $1,OO0,000,000 a
year!
While Mr.. Wilson is interested
primarily in the governments pow
er facilities, another group surveys
a broader assortment of federal in
dustrial properties, such as the
28 synthetic rubber plants. that the
Government is now planning to
sell; three billion dollars worth of
atomic energy plants, and a good
part. at least, of the 263 industrial
plants owned by the Defense De
partment 1t is the idea of these
people to lease the plants at the
outset rather than to buy them.
Whatever other merits this plan
NAV have. it would seem that it
might provide the most painless
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03

-, IL must come as complete surprise to
' IhoSe experiencing late summer heat as Sen
tem6er fades out that it is almost time to
thlnk OF sending Christmas parcels to mem
oerS OF our armed forces overseas. Surpris-
ing as the thought may be, Defense DEPART
ment has made its early notification based on
past experience. No one wishes to forget the
men who are unable to be at home during
the holidays, but there is a tendency to mail
the parcels too late for delivery in the proper
season. To fOrestall this tendency the De-
tense Department reminds us that Christmas
packages for men overseas should be mailed
between October 18th and November 18th
They further warn that mailing boxes must
be OF dOuble-faced corrugated cardboard
strong wood, metal or fiber board and should
be tied with strong cord, with the loose end
flaps sealed with gummed tape.
II these directions are followed and the
contents of the parcels are of the non-perish-
able kind we can be assured that the men
Will have in time a Christmas remembrance
from the folks at home.
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03
BABSON Discusses Peoples POcketbOOks

BABSON PARK, Mass, October Much has
been written recently about the need for statesmen
to sell! They say sales are down because statesmen
have forgotten how to sell. Is this really so?
HOW MUCH MONEY DO PEOPLE HAVE?
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03
Dear Friends

I -CN9bOn 4GS 4 CAcl6
Sept. 26, 1852
Dear Friends:
sieve Boston said I had a scooD
Tor you this week. "Spindletop is
SONG dry but I'm afraid the scoop
is not mine. More about that later.
Last weekend at 8 O'Clock on
Friday we headed for Port Arthur
again to spend another nice week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Bos-
ton and their two children. We
drove over by the Gulf this time and
enjoyed the ride so much better
than the inland route. We saw buee
SHIPS going up the channel to Port
arthur, being loaded or unloaded
with crude or refined oil One of
the ships bore the name Pan Georg-
Ia and it was from Wilmington.
Delaware. 1t looked like it was an
chored in the channel and being
painted.
The Gull was about 100 wards
away from the road for approxi-
mately 20 miles of our trip we saw
shrimp boats, oil tankers and even
Gil wells in the water as we rode
along. On the other side Of the road,
were herds of cattle and horses and
vast plains of NOTHING, which
goes with Texas. You don't realize
the dearth of horses in the east un-
/ til you see them in drOves like we
did this weekend
We arrived in Griffith Park where
the BOstOn's live in time for dinner
Friday night. Right after dinner we
got the children ready for the "sit-
ter" and we six were off to see the
Port Arthur VS. Port Neches high
school football game and boy we
were not alone. Do you know 10000
attended the game. We had top row
seats and didn't miss a play in the
game. Port Arthur won. which was
sporting" of them, wasn't it2 At
the half both school bands paraded,
but the hit of the intermission was
the HussaTs. Don't even know whSl
the Hussars are, do you? We didn't
Down here they have drum and
bugle corps called the Hussars, but
they just don't play an instrument.
they march-and beautifully They
march double time, tiny, small steps
and they are on and off that foot
ball field in nothin' flat We were
especially interested in their per-
fectly executed maneuvers because
Sandra is a Hussar. It's quite an
honor. Sandra is one of 500 pupils
in the Junior Glass, which gives
you an idea how large the school
is and girls have to be top notch
to get in this corps.
Saturday afternoon we took a
tour with Mr.. Boston around Port
Arthur. We saw Jefferson Chemical
Plant, which is the largest prodUc-
er of anti-freeZe- in the United
States and the Neches Butane Syn
thetic rubber plant This plant
made quite an interesting picture
because of the outstanding white
spheres and black towers or tanks.
It made such an odd picture to me,
(the whiteness of those tanks) in
this oil, smoke filled country. Mr.
Boston explained that they are
painted so often because things so
near the Gulf rust quickly and here
in these plants that would be cost
ly as well as dangerous.
We passed the Texas Company
Asphalt Plant, B.F Goodrich and
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03

offset and then some by higher outgo. That
is the theme of a Wall Street Journal news
article aptly headed debts, Debts. Debts :"
The paper cites case histories of people
It's reporters interviewed in various cities
IhOse people represent wide range of Oc-
cupatOnS and incomes. A Chicago steel
worker earning more than $4,000 a wear is
worried and in debt-the strike intensified
ms troubles, but he had them before it was
called A Detroit couple earning $4,000 has
cut Its entertainment budget in half and
hasn't saved anything for over a wear. 4
9zO,OOO year executive has no debts out
side OF charge accounts and a big mortgage.
out thinks he may have to buy a new fur
coat Tor his wife on, the installment plan. A
San FRANCISCO stenOgrapher said she's al
ways 500 behind, and that her last vacation
put her $3.50 in the red
These comments, the Wall Street Journal
points out, square with Federal Reserve
Board figures on outstanding consumer
credit: When last August began, the total
was 9ZI, ,ZOO,OOO,OOO - a record - which
marked a $2,OOO,OOO,O00 jump in one year.
They also fit in with Bureau of Lahas, Sta
tistics report, covering the 1850 financial
experiences of families in various income
brackets in 81 communities. During that
year the average family in this group had in
come after taxes of $4,000 and spent So. 700
for S4OO deficit. WV
A specifically confusing aspect to the
picture is found in the fact that savings &c
Well as debts, are also at record levelsZthe
commerce Department finds that thew were
rising at the annual rate of S16.5OO 600 600
curing the second quarter of this wear. That
Is accounted for, in part, the Journal saws
because this definition of savings, of course
lncludes lot OF things many people wouldn't
consider savings, such as repayment of debts
on consumer gOOds-sO the bigger such debts
ana the more the repayments, the more the
savings" Also the SO cent dollars make
larger totals
Lots of people are getting along nicely
ana are staying out of debt The Journal
quotes number of these good managers.
some IN modest income brackets. who have
more possessions than ever and still are
making both ends meet But thew seem to he
exceptions to the rule.
Here is one fly in the ointment of this
appreciated money era, and various devel- |
opments substantiate it. For instance the
steel strike made hole in automobile pro-
ductlon. Yet this scarcity of cars. which |
some dealers thought would bring q flood of
eager searcherS for new machines. was ac-
compamed by scarcity of buyers. Save for
a small handful of makes and models. no ono
has to wait for the new car of his choice
despite the drop in factory output.
10 sum up, most of us have MANY moro
dollars to rattle around than we ever had /
oetOre-but they don't go very far. And
many OF us are substantially worse off if |
we make an honest accounting, than in times
when prices, taxes and incomes were ali
much lower.
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03

The Library of Congress has ac-
quired a printers copy of the Lin
coln-DOuglas Debates and also a
letter from Abraham Lincoln to the
Chicago Press and Tribune request
ing two sets of that newspapers
reports on the debates.
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03
INDIVIDUAL DEBTS ARE INCREASING

AS everybody knows, the national income
is higher than it ever was. So are wages and
prlces-the two have habit of moving pref
" much IN unlsOn-and so are taxes. Armies
OF people are earning two or three times as
much as in the prewar era.
Yet great many Americans, despite this
statistical prosperity, are going deeper and
deeper into debt. Higher incomes have been
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03
8 8thIR 9aHnrn1
tn GtttP I11t

My favOrite Bible verse is found in the thirty
eighth verse of the eighth cha pter of St. Paul's
letter to the Romans. From the Revised Standard
version it reads as follows:
For | that neither DEATH nor life
nor angels nor prime iPalities nor things present
nor things to come, powers, nor height, nor
depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
able to separate from the love of God in
Christ Jesus our Lord "
This is my favorite verse because, in nv
opinion, it contains the first and final truth
about the Christian faith. Simply stated that
truth is as follows: The love of God, as that
love is revealed in Jesus Christ is at once
universal and personal. That love is held forth
redemPtively, not simply to men enmasse but to
every living unique soul. That love is as per-
sonal as the kiss of a loved one and as refresh
ing as a dewdroP in the velvet cup of a rose.
The love of God in Christ is tender like a
shepherd, tenacious like a Gross, and IS
triumphant the open tomb from which our
dear Lord arose. That love is as strong as life
and stronger than death, and the knowledge that
nothing separate US from Gods love warns
our cold hearts and lifts us above the woes of
our falterng mortality.
DR.. Frank Johnson PipPin
Community Christian Church
Kansas City, No.
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03

ueeu written recently about the need for statesmen
to sell! They say sales down because statesmen
have forgotten how to sell Is this really so?
HOW MUCH MONEY DO PEOPLE HAVE!
Much has also been written about the savings
people have accumulated since World War H. We
have been told that people have more money to
spend than ever and that, if they would only spend
IT, business would be good. Sales managers have
long sung the tune that the ability to buy has not
ductuated so much the desire to buy: that people
aren't buying because they are not being sold! The
fact is however that most sales statistcians over
look the way in which savings are distributed
among our people Federal Reserve Board figures
for 1850 estimated that the $40 billion in savings
were distributed as follows: the top 1879 of our
population held 1870 of the net savings: the top
2O@o owned 800 of the total net savings This leaves
the bottom 500 Of the population with but 796 Of the
savings, operating pretty much on a hand-tO.mOuth
basis.
If the average income of this 500 is $4,000 (and
this is high estimate), then how l ask can you
expect statesmen to sell to people who lust haven't
the money? If you don't believe a $3OOO-a-year
worker doesn't have the money, then take your pen
Gil ana hgure roughy-after deducting Federal State
and Local taxes-what you yourself pay for rent,
light heat water gas, telephone and repairs Add
to this food clothing, charities insurance and mis-
cellaneOus Then do the same for the S3 600 avoar
worker married and with two children. l am sure
you will then begin to wonder where the mass market
is for $4,000 automobiles, 5000 refrigerators. SIS
vacuum cleaners, $40 shoes, or even 9c-per-pound
potatoes! l believe in more intensive selling and
more intensive advertising; but labor must reduce
costs so people will have the money to buy more.
WHY DO THEY BUY?
The one time since World War II when busi-
ness conditions were relatively normal was in the
early months of 1850 The great backlog of demand
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03
REMEMBER - CHRISTMAS IS NOT
TOO FAR AWAY

.GOG&
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03
POETIC JUSTICE

For young fellow trying to get
along, Senator Richard Nixon, of
Whittier, California, has made con-
siderable American history as this
is written and his chances for
making still more could hardly be
better.
What looked like a tempest in a
teapot, launched by a pinkO news
paper a week ago last Thursday,
and blown up to hurricane proper
tions by Fair Deal pOliticos, has
changed its course as such storms
often do, and this moment is tear
ing the Stevenson cOmplaceny to
shreds.
Nixon. defending himself against
the imprOpriety of accepting a fund
of S18,235 to meet the costs of po-
litical and anti-cOmmunis activi-
ties that were bevOnd the elastic
limits of his $4,000 Senate salary.
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03
Washington Letter r-- By Robert Nelson Taylor

and practical method of retiring
Uncle Sam from business,
However it may be, or can be
done, here is a colossal step to-
ward restoring Government sol
vency and recovering the American
way of life.
Milford chronicle., 1952-10-03
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK

Blase, shock-proof Washington
stood and gaped, whistled and wav-
ed, while nearly 200 ancient auto
mobiles, with drivers in goggles
and busters, caps and derbies and
tOp-hats, and fair Gibson girl"
passengers, complete with sun
shades; wheezed, snorted and pur-
red down one side of Connecticut
avenue and back up the other. This
was the parade of the 1852 Glidden
Tour, sponsored by the AAA.
But the excitement was not be-
cause the merry OldsmobiIes of
1903, the Stanley Steamer of 1908,
brass-bOund FOrds of 1909, and the
sharp, bucketseat Mercer rOadsters
of 10 and 10 are cuTiOs. 1t was the
nostalgia pang these symbols of a
happier day brought to all who
could remember when"
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This and That . .

and then deity put 1t in place. layer by
layer.
Some of the sawdust, as we may call
it, comes from younger wood. and it
is from these that the green comes,
showing plenty Of chlorophyll, or the
universal green coloring matter OF
plants.
Contains Chlorophyll" has become
one OF the most potent advertising
slogans. It goes into everything. almost.
1t keeps the dog sweet smelling, and is
supposed to- make shoes easier on the
feet. The dictionary that advertised
Contains Chlorophyll" was certainly
within the strict limits Of the truth.
There are several kinds of paper
making wasps.
The mature specimens do not remain
in the nests in winter, but retire to
attics, where they die.
The social insects include the bees
and the termiteS. The bees, of course,
do not kill other insects for food for
their young.
The wasps kill, and feed their young
on the kill.
Many persons are alarmed at the
sight of wasp's nest. but usually there
is no danger, If the creatures are
strictly let alone
A very good case may be built up for
the wasps as killers Of other insects,
many of which are inimical to man.
Thus the wasp is sort Of scavenger
Of the insect world, and with 1t all q
very bold and powerful fellow.
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A new use for chlorophyll, that
Ubiquitous substance that now enters
into the composition of so many prod
ucts. is pointed to by c. T. S. of Alex
andria, who writes:
Recently our children brought two
handsome large paper wasp nests in
from the woods
Both had beautiful soft brown and
silver gray tones, but the larger one had
side bands of bright green.
II inclose a few fragments. Do you
have any idea what they could have used
to produce this green color?
eve would be very much interested
in any discussion you could give us
about these nests to round out our own
observations.
"Are they made by only one kind Of
wasps?
lone got broken open by the recent
windStorm which batted it around the
back porch and so we saw how the out
side layers covered and perfectly inSu-
lated the inside comb.
"A few waSps were still in it. Do the
adults usually spend the winter in such
nests, or only larvae?"
AL the paper making wasps are
social insects.
They are predatory, and true paper
makers, going about it much as human
beings do.
They scrape off a bit of wood, or saw
dust. and combine 1t with a secretion
from their own bodies, then they smooth
It out, ut times to real paper fineness,"
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BY Charles E. TroceweN
Musician.

He is nothing to be trifled with, It is
true. A whole tribe flying to the defense
of the nest is fearsome sight.
But probably there is not as much
danger from a wasp sting as from the
sting of the popular little busy bee.
Last summer we read about a man
in nearby Maryland who was almost
dead 10 minutes after receiving bee
sting.
This is because Of protein allergy.
It is almost in the same class with the
poison used by the natives of the
Amazon.
It is curious thing that medically
speaking, such sting and its results
are almost in the class with a serum
shock. The latter can kill within few
minutes, and so can the sting Of bee.
Once a yellow jacket took us on the
neck, and we put ammonia on it at once,
and suffered no hurt, even the singing
and itching stopping in a few minutes.
fortunate.
We got a bee bite few years later,
on the ankle, and this itched mad
deningly for days, and even now, IL
years later, it itches upon occasion.
It is always good thing to get the
singer from a bee or wasp sting, If
possible. Then flood the place with am
monia. after which, when dry. put on
iodine.
II there are any after effects, or side
symptoms, doctor should be consulted
ut once.