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Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
By EIoine townsend Dickerson

Dear Friends:
May 81. 1851, when we were at
MacDill, I realized, really for the
first time since leaving Delaware,
how wonderful mothers are and
how greatly l depended upon mine
(my mother, Mrs. G.. M. Townsend
and Hayes mother, Mrs. A. d.
Dickerson). This was the morning
! woke up and with much conster-
nation, wondered if / had a sore
throat or if I really DID have or
was getting the mumps.
The advantages the Air Force
provides the Airmen's dependents.
as we'll as the officers, are quite
wonderful; the hospital facilities
being no exception. The only dis
advantage is, there are no home
calls unless you or your husband
happen to have a friend that is a
doctor. This necessitated my get
ting the kids and myself dressed to
go out to the hospital to a doctor.
Fortunately Hayes was not flying
this day and could drive us out to
the hospital area, about one mile
from our apartment, but on the
base.
When we entered the Out Patient
Clinic the nurse-receptionist didn't
even bat an eye when / told her my
case and my own diagnosis. Since
there were many ahead of me, and
knowing I'd cOntaminate them all
before my number was called,
hied myself over to an isolated cor
ner and hid my throat behind {
magazine.
DR.. James Cloud, of Lakeland
Florida, was the doctor assigned Il
me. and to our astOnishment, we
recognized him as the new neigh
Dor across the hall from us at 4:
Bridges Loop. DR.. Cloud sent me t.
Base Laboratory So here W,
four Dickersons trudged again
spreading germs as we went. There
at the laboratory they took m!
blood count, sent me and the re
port back to DR.. Cloud The repor
told him nothing. since my Whit
cOrpuscles and red cOrpuscles weTI
just as any we'll persons would be
and yet, as the hours went by l wa
a live. or maybe / should say par
TALLY live, example of a good cas-
of mumps. He sent me home ant
said he'd call tomorrow. No medi
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23
Washington Letter By Robert Nelson Taylor

Presidents seizure action, it was
their expressed feeling, they would
have to strike anyway.
So there you are. A pretty pic
ture of two cabinet officers and a
U. S. senator deliberately, studi-
Ously and recklessly joining in the
efforts of professional rabble-rous-
ers to whip up the emotions of a
million man union to the verge of
anarchy.
Their actions can leave little
doubt that they represent the most
vicious administration the United
States has ever suffered and
little doubt in any calm mind, whe-
ther unionist, capitalist, farmer,
clerk or professional man, that
we've had enough.
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23

cine. / thought that was rough Air
Force treatment, but perhaps there
isn't any medicine for the mumps.
We rode back home, with the
kids in the back seat and all win
dows and ventilators open-airine
the bugs. I remember I cried driv-
ing home, and good old Hayes said
ned help me get ready and If I
wanted to, l could fly home chat
night and be in Delaware before
the symptoms became too evident.
Even though the idea sounded good
to me I knew / couldn't 20 flving
home every time I got a sore throat
or what have you-eyen If I want
ed to.
June the first l had the best case
OF mumps you've ever seen and
have pictures to prove it. Our big
gest worry was, who would care
Tor Lynne and Dawn. Hayes report-
ed to the flight line at 7 am and
the base nursery didn't open until
3, SO that was out. 1 remember even
though the first was Friday. HAYES
was home. Saturday and Sunday
we could weather, but when Mon
day-workday-arrived SO would
our problems concerning the child
rem.
It was the daily habit Of the
children in the neighborhood 70
follow the milkman's truck and
"snitch" shaved, unsanitary ies
from around the milk bottles, lust
as / did, when I was Lynne's age.
from the ice truck at Slaughter
Beach. Mr.. Jim Abbott must have
found us a nuisance. Lynne follow
ed the ice man, this particular
morning, into the next apartment
to get his permission for her daily
treat. In the apartment Lynne was
delighted to see a cOlOred girl re-
porting to work. Lynne, never hav-
ing known shyness, walked into
the apartment and announced her
Mommy was AWFUL sick and
needed someone BAD. Could the
colOred girl help? OF course, the
grandparents ''ate up" this story
and we, enjoyed the results of il
too. That very afternoon and the
rest of the week l was we'll taken
: care of by Lynne's hired maid,
} Florine.
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
; May 23rd.
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23

Congressman than ever before, and
the Congressman are having more
trouble answering their cOnstitu-
ents than ever before, according to
a survey by the Washington In
dustrial Research Consultants, Inc.
AS evidence of the fact that pres
ent policies and regulations are a
bit confusing here at the seat of
Government as well as among the
nations business men, Congress-
men report that a per cent of the
inquiries they receive must be re-
ferred to some Government agency
and only % per cent can be ans
wered Out-Of-hand.
Price Sterilization is the num-
Der one puzzlement to the nation
at-large. ALLEGATION of raw mate
rials is number two. Wage Stabil-
izatiOn ranks third, ard only then
comes the painful subject of taxes.
Another complication, as report
ed by these experts in industry
government relations. is that even
our smartest business men are a
bit incOherent in their letters to
! Washington. Congressman say they
/ have to ask about a third of their
correspondents for further clari-
ficatiOn in order to discover what
the writer's wish to know. In the
agencies, the figure is even higher,
since half the inquiries must be
sent back for Interpretation This,
the officials think. is largely be-
cause business men don't under
stand the reasons behind agency
actions and rulings, and because
the writer's have 'an axe to grind.
So, when you write to Washington,
be calm; take a sedative if neces-
sary.
The purpose of this survey, ac-
cOrding to WIRC, is to find out how
business and Government "can
learn to speak the same language.
Step number two of the inquiry is
now underway. This is to learn
the "gripes" of business against
Federal policies and regulations
and should provide a colorful re-
port.
In any case, we believe there
should be some kind of award for
these intrepid researchers in their
bold attack on that Tower of Babel
here in the National Capital which
has produced the new language of
bureaucracy that is so unintelli-
gible to the rest of us. Here is a
liaisOn project i'm the field of in
dustry-government relations that
makes wonderful sense.
Learn and obey farm safety rules
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23

You cannot promote child's
social growth without being con-
sistently on the side of what is
right and fair, he says. You must
respect juniors rights in the same
spirit that you want him to deal
with others. You will not teach a
child how to respect other peoples
turns to talk" for example. unless
you also respect his right to be
heard in his turn.
How much your child leans on
you for protection will depend on
the way you teach him about the
world he lives in" DR.. McHugh
points out.
Warn him of any approaching
new and sudden experience, and
tell him what it will be like If
you can. For instance, when you
and your small child are waiting
for a train, show him what to ex-
pect and that you are not afraid
by initiating noises the train will
make when it rushes by the sta
tion platform"
Many adults have forgotten
much about their early childhood,
says DR.. McHugh. They don't
realize that a child's lack Of ex-
perience places him in many
strange situations that frighten
him as much as strange adult situ-
ations would frighten his parents,
Your child may be afraid the
first time he hears an alarm
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News nfoUnuon Supplied BY The Bureau OF Markets
Sfute board Of Agriculture, Dover Deuwure

The following is weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscella-
neous commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout the week:
LIVESTOCK PRICES
CALVES
Vealers, choice: $4,000 to $4,000,
mostly $41.00 per cwt.
Medium to good: $500 to $3.50,
mostly $500 per cwt.
Rough and common: $4,000 to
$3.50, mostly $500 per cwt.
Monkeys: $4,000 to $45.OO, mostly
$4,000 per cwt.
COWS
Slaughter, choice, $2S.OO to $31.25,
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
Medium to good, $1,000 to $24.OO
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Common: $3.50 to $21.5O, most
ly $4,000 per cwt.
Gamers and Cutters: $500 to
$19.25, mostly $500 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy Type: S1S.25 to $500
mostly $500 per cwt.
BULLS
Over 1000 lbs, medium to good
$26.OO to $29.25, mostly $27.5O per
cwt.
500 to 1000 lbs, medium to good
$1,000 to S2S.OO, mostly $3.50 per
cwt.
Common: $500 to $21.5O. mostly
$4,000 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
Good QUolity)
120 to 10 lbs, $500 to $2O.25
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
40 to 240 lbs, $21.O0 to $23.25
mostly $23.25 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs, S1S.75 to $20.50
mostly $1975 per cwt.
SOWS
Good 0Uoliiy)
200 to 300 lbs, S14.OO to $3.50
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23
WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY
AND WE ARE HISl

The kidnapping of Brigadier Cen
eral Francis T. Dodd, cOmmandant
of the KOje Island prison camp by
his own charges, and his subse-
quent release under the abiect
promises of his successor, Briga-
dier General Charles F. COlson, may
well go down in history as the
shameful incidents that ended the
shameful Korean truce talks.
1t is less likely that DOdd's inep-
titude and COlsOn's eagerness to
free his brother officer, even at the
expense of betraying his country,
will eliminate the basic cause of
our Korean misfortunes. For the
/ rest of this unhappy year, at least,
the direction of our armed forces
will remain with the State Depart
ment.
If the Yalu River is to remain
the sacred boundary of the enemy's
sanctuary. if We are denied the
help of the Chinese NatiOnalists un-
der Chang Kai-shew, if we must
keep idlv talking at PanmunjOm un-
/ til the enemy is ready for his big
push, we might better bring our
discouraged troops home vic
tOrious in battle, defeated at the
international chess-table.
Actually. the KOje Island Incl
dent provided a priceless oppOrtun-
ity for regaining our lost face. An
immediate armed attack to quell
the mutinOus camp for keeps, even
at the risk of injuring our precious
General Dodd, would have been
something the Reds could under
stand, and respect.
ATTACK ON coBBlEDYGooK
More Americans are writing their
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23

mostly $145O per cwt.
800 to 400 lbs, $14OO to $3.50,
mostly SLABS per cwt
Over 400 lbs, $3.50 to $14.5O,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
BoARs
Good ovality)
Under $50 lbs, $11.OO to $500,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
over $50 lbs. $3.50 to $1,000,
mostly $11.5O per cwt.
sAoAfs nia1as
Medium to Good: $1,000 to $14.5O.
mostly $14.OO per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
Is 10 u Weeks old)
Choice: $500 to $1,000, mostly
$1,000 each.
Medium to good: $500 to $3.50,
mostly $500 each.
Common: $3.50 to $3.50, mostly
$500 each.
HORSES AND MULES
Work Type: $4,000 to $500,
mostly $4,000 each.
Butcher Type: $1,000 to $4,000.
mostly S3S.00 each.
LIVE POULTRY
FOWL, Heavy Breeds: $10O to
$1.7O, mostly S1.35 each.
GEESE, Light Breeds: $500 to
$2.1O, mostly $500 each.
DUCKS: Muscoyy: csc to $1.40,
mostly $11O EACH.
RABBITS, Large Breeds: $1.20 to
S1.65, mostly $1.2O each. Small
Breeds; 85c to $1.00, mostly S5c
each.
EGGS, ungradeda mixed, 39c to
571ac per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
ASPARAGUS: 4Oc to soc per
! bunch.
RHUBARB: SC per bunch.
! SWEET POTATOES: $2.75 per
bushel.
! LARD: $500 per 5O-ib can.
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23
TRUMAN'S PLANS

Harry S. Truman celebrated his 68th
birthday with straight-faced announcement
to his news conference that during the next
10 years he is going to have good time and
do just as he damn pleases. In other words,
the President plans no change in his daily
routine.
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23

This Shows an overall reduction of S6.3
billion in the total of $66.7 billion of new
spending authority requested by the Presi-
dent.
Most Americans-especia those who
pay taxes-will feel this is trend in the
right direction.
preventing waste and duplication in the de-
fense program, we strike that much harder
against Communism, while defeating infa-
tion and the dangerous trends toward nation
al bankruptcy.
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23
Child Mirrors Parent Traits
BY DAVID TAYLOR MARKE
AP NeWsfeatureS Writer

personality will largely shaped by what are
a chill specialist parents
University child will
learn through everyday
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23
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TRUTHS VS. UNTRUTHS

Various deceptive stratagens are periOdi-
cally used to delude the public as to the true
size of the profits earned by industry-and
what happens to them.
For instance, it is commonly claimed by
labor leaders and others that business can
grant major wage increases without raising
the prices of its products, by taking them out
of alegedly huge profits. Yet last year, ac-
cording to Economic Intelligence, dividend
payments were $9,5O0,OO0,OOO while cOmpen-
satiOn to employees tOtalled $178, 100000
nearly 20 times as much. If every nickel
OF dividend payments had gone to employees,
leaving the owners exactly nothing, wages
could have been increased by an average of
only per cent.
Another malicious and basically dishonest
technique is to cite the magnitude of indus
trial profits BEFORE taxes. Nothing could
give more false picture of actual conditions
At current rates, taxes take some 60 per cent
of all corporation profits. And if taxes aren't
a basic and inescapable part of the cost of
operating business, nothing is The money
company pays to the government cannot
be used to build plants, pay wages or divi-
dendS, OF anything else. 1t is gone forever
Furthermore, the money left to the cor
pOratiOn after all bills are paid is not, as sc
many think, divided up among the share
holders. Since the last world war, more thar
SO per cent of corporate profits AFTER taxes
has been spent on plant expansion, to create
more production and to provide more Jobs
for workers.
These are facts-as against the untruths
and half-truthS disseminated by the enemies
of free enterprise. The public should know
them.
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23

An atom Of heavy hydrogen is
called deuterium.
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23

late, to tax. Federal property cannot be tax
ed by state i. d. ALI these matters of state
sovereignty would be taken away from the
states and placed in the hands of the basin
authority. =. The sovereignty of the state
would be completely taken over by new, to-
talitarian state. Socialism in the extreme . ="
The impetus behind the basin commission
plan is provided in large part by public off
cials whose burning ambition in life is to
socialize the electric power resources of the
natiOn-which would in itself take us a long
way along the tOtalitarian road. But the i'm
plicatiOns are almost limitless. The real issue
is whether we are to remain a free people,
the masters of our own destinies-Or whether
we are to become the wards of totally CEN
tralized Federal government Judge Cochran
described the basin authorities with complete
accuracy when he termed them Socialism in
the extreme
NEVER TOO LATE FOR. THRIFT
The Council of State Chambers of Com
merce gives the following box score of House
action on the nine bills it has passed as far
this year:
Appropriation President ADDrOypd nv
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23
5000
TERMITES

It is reported that some Congressman
feel that there is a lack of interest on the
part of consumers in price control. Therefore
these lawmakers reason, why stick your neck
out in an election year? Just let matters
drift along as they are now.
If such reports have any basis in fact,
they reveal cynical and shocking disregard
of the national interest on the part of the
Congressman invOlved-nO less than a disre-
gard of the national security. Controls, no
matter how wisely drawn and how carefully
applied, eat like termtes at the very fOunda-
tiOnS of the free enterprise system which has
given us our economic might and our living
standards Controls discourage initiative and
ultimately reduce prOductiOn-a man who is
SmOthered in red tape can hardly be progress
siVe. Controls substitute political flats for
the orderly, historic workings of the free
market.
From the purely practical point Of view,
controls can work serious and permanent
harm on businesses on which we all depend
for essential goods and services. That isn't
just a theOry-it has happened under OPS
At one time, for instance, OPS attempted to
put into effect regulations on retailers which
amounted to form Of profit control. Stores
would have been unable to pass along inCrea-
ses in costs about which they could dc
nothing. The result would have been to force
some stores out of business and to force many
others to curtail buying and operations
Luckily, Congress blocked this to some extent
even so, existing regulations are, in many
instances, unfair to retailing and other
business
There is only one sound way to deal with
controls nOw-abandon them.
5000
Milford chronicle., 1952-05-23

Learn and obey farm safety rules.
Evening star., 1952-07-13

'This," said Chairman Hallanan,
'.is q supreme moment for America"
Nearly every one in the amphi-
theater was on his feet as the drums
began to roll. There was q flourish
Of trumpets. The band struck up
"Old Soldiers Never Die" and the
music was drowned by the cheers Of
the crowd. General Of the Army
Douglas Macarthur paused for .
moment at the back Of the hall,
then started his long march down
the center aisle.
It was Monday night. The night
over the seating Of the Southern
delegations had gone back into the
committee room, where Senator
Taft and his men could do what
they wanted with 1t and organize
themselves for the next assault on
the convention itself. In the mean.
time, there were speeches to be
made. Through their control Of the
machinery, they had made sure that
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Crisis

It was in the debate Wednesday
on the seating Of the Georgia dele
gates that the Taft men themselves
first squarely stated the underlying
issue of the convention.
Everett Dirksen was the speaker.
The Taft delegates from Georgia,
he reminded, had been Endorsed
both by the Republican National
Committee and the Credentials
Committee. That, he said in effect,
should end it. Had the convention
considered the fact that the Ma
tional Committee was the party's
general staff? These things were
supposed to be decided by big brass,
not by the rank and file. Did the
party propose to repudiate its
leadership?
A Good Question
It was q good question. The fact
was that the convention proposed
to do just that.
"If we have no faith In each
other, how In Heavens holy name
are we going to sell the Republican
Party to the voters In November"
The Illinois Senator pleaded. It
was . dramatic speech. Not for one
moment did he or any other
speaker on the Taft side defend the
machines decision to seat the
Georgia Taftites except to say that
1t had the backing Of Georgia
court decision. They had nothing
to say In defense Of this decision;
their entire plea was only for ortho-
doxy. Don't upset the applicant,
they seemed to say; stand BY U.s.
not because we are right. but be-
cause we are the party.
No more complete contrast could
be imagined than the one between
Mr.. Dirksen. the great orator Of the
Evening star., 1952-07-13

all those scheduled to address the
convention during the next two
days would be men favorable to
their point Of view. Perhaps the
gathering could be exhorted into a
more reasonable frame Of mind.
Gen. Macarthur was to be the
star performer. Conventions had
been set on fire before-another
keynote speaker, young William
Jennings Bryan, had done it to the
Democrats with his "Cross of Gold"
speech here in Chicago in 1896.
Macarthur was acknowledged as
one of the great orators Of his time,
and this audience was eager to be
thrilled. Anything might happen.
He's Gorgeous Tonight
Spruce in a blue suit, the general
stepped to the rostrum. "He's gor-
geous tonight" some one in the
press section shouted above the din.
AS the applause finally subsidized,
the man in the spotlight extracted
a thick sheaf of papers from his
breast pocket, carefully removed a
paper clip with which the sheets
were fastened-and began to read.
Fifty-five minutes and $500 words
later, a slightly hoarse Macarthur
completed the measured cadences
of his peroration, and the voice SUBJ
sided. Even while they clapped,
most delegates were making for the
exits. Keep it going! Keep 1t
going!" yelled a frantic rooter In
the gallery. They kept it going for
about a minute. Gen. Macarthur
boarded an airplane and headed
back for New York. The supreme
moment" somehow, had proved a
flop.
Not Bod
It had not been a bad speech,
exactly. There was a Shakespearean
roll to MacArthur's language. Per-
haps some of the rhetoric was bit
complex for maximum impact-one
sentence was 221 words long, and
by no means all the words were
short. The Old Soldier eloquently
iambasted the administration, lin
gering lovingly over phrases about
"these reckless men," and those
who trample upon constitutional
liberty" The Taftites may have
been little disappointed by his
failure to sink more barbs into
Eisenhower. They had to be con-
tent with a few sly references to
our Surrender" OF Berlin and the
general bungling Of our German
Evening star., 1952-07-13

making. Yet all at once they had
no stomach for 1t.
All at once, the idea Of a face
saving compromise was very ap-
pealing to them. The last hours
before the convention opened were
spent in a desperate search for such
compromise. But Ike's men al
ready were scenting victory, and
they liked the smell.
That afternoon, on the convention
floor, Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of
Washington led the Eisenhower
attack on the rules. No delegate,
he proposed, should be allowed to
vote unless two-thirds Of the Ma
tional Committee had voted to seat
him. Seven of the IS disputed seats
had been allotted by more than a
two-thirds vote so that cut the
number of delegates involved in the
argument down to 68.
The standard Of the Taft forces
was carried into battle that day by
Ohio's Representative Clarence
Brown. It was wavering badly.
We yield, Mr.. Brown said in effect
on the rules change. We will agree
that disputed delegates shall not
vote. Only give us seven more votes
on the temporary role-seven Of the
disputed Louisiana seats. We will
settle for that.
The more the Taft people pleaded,
the weaker they looked. And so the
test came. The old way of doing
business got SAB votes. The new
look got 658.
When 1t was all over, that first
day, Bob Taft said what had hap
pened practically guaranteed his
nomination. The truth was that
he had stepped into battle with his
worst foot forward. He had handed
his opposition a victory which
dramatized all the elements of the
conflict which he did not want
dramatized. He had allowed the
issue to become established mot
one as to whether the Ohio Senator
would make q better President than
the Kansas general-but one as to
whether the convention was to
stand for right or wrong, the old
or the new, change or decay. The
master politician had made a costly
mistake.
Ike Eisenhower, meanwhile. sim
pie soldier that he was, had de-
ployed his troops on high ground.
He also had obeyed the classic mili-
tary doctrine Of old Gen. Nathan
Bedford Forrest. He had got there
the fustest with the mostest men.