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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13
Yankees Win MYRA
Midget Ball Crown

The MYRA Midget Baseball
League ended its season last Fri
day with Lyn TayIOr's Yankees"
on top of the pack. The Dark Hors-
es, Phillies and Dodgers followed
the Yankees across the line but all
teams showed great improvement
in play and spirit as the season
progressed
Fifty of the Little League per-
formers who played the entire sea-
son are to get real thrill Mon
day, June 18th, when they go to
Philadelphia as guests of the Phil
adelphia Phillies, and become Off
cial members of the famous Knot
Hole Grang. The boys, their coach
es and some of the parents will be
able to make this grand climax to
their first baseball season by means
of buses furnished through the
courtesy of John Annett and Chuck
Wright. Buses will leave the Mil
ford Base Ball Park at 500 a. m.
and return Immediately after the
game between the Phils and Pr
rates at Shibe Park
The following boys have earned
this trip: Eddie Steiner, DOnny
Steiner. Joe Griffith, Wayne Haas.
Dewey Lester, Ralph Walton, James
Walton, Glenn Kitchens. Billy Ad-
ans, Richard Kennedy. Dave Pear
son. Howard Carmean. Jack Car
penter, Billy Powell. Wayne Hoyt,
Homer Hurd. Roger Heeger. DON
ny Fisher, Ted Fisher. Buddy Wis
seman, ROnnie Wix, Bob PettyjOhn.
Larry Fitchett. David Fitchett,
Denny Paquette, Billy Draper.
Jack Walls. Joe Wheatley. Harvey
Hastings, Richard Pack. Jack Clark.
Freddy Jester. Gary Brown. Ron
ME Wyatt, Ridge Prettyman, Glenn
ATgO. Ray Kerr. Kenny Kerr, Jack
Sheaffer. Kenny Kendzierski, Jack
Willis, Billy Hendricks. Rem Barn
ard, George Welch. Dan DOhring,
Johnny Roberts, Bobby Clayville,
Frank Paquette, ROnnie Rust, Lee
Roy Heeger and Henry Nutter.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13
Meeting Of Citizens
Was Well Attended
Last Friday Mite
Continued from first page,

After Mr.. Blackburn's report the
Mayor thu the meeting open for
discussion from the citizens, and
Mr.. Ruby Vale, representing a group
of citizens, asked for the floor for
report by Mr.. Robert Tunnel,
covering the revisions of a pro-
pOsal for bids for purchase of gem
Grating equipment by a conditional
sales contract. Mr.. Tunnel ex-
planned that a similar proposal
discussed last year had been re-
vised to clarity some of the OBJ
jectiOns to the proposal, and ex-
planned the revisiOns. In brief, il
was still a conditional sales con-
tract for purchase of machinery
only, and would not include cost of
new building, foundations, etc, to
house the equipment, and no Oper-
ating costs Were presented.
Mr.. Vale then took the floor to
give his views on the problem and
his recommendation for the COun-
Gil to investigate the new propos-
al.
Thereafter, there were short
talks by various citizens explain
ing their views and asking ques-
tiOns. Ii was pointed out that
statements as to the value of our
generating plant being one mil
lion, or two millions, were errone-
Gus, and that the value had been
half million or less.
A recommendation to Council to
investigate the new proposal was
made and passed by the assembled
citizens.
The entire meeting Was quite or
derby and many points were clari-
fed by the discussions on this civic
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13
Negro Short Course
At State College
teontInuea 80 49, 80

t~--tuttc4 Ato-1 AAot pakty
agent Of the Delaware Agricultural
Extension Service.
Mrs. Jacobs gave credit to Mrs.
Viola Piper, leader Of the Milton
All Club, and her song leaders for
the music and group singing. Yes
per services were planned by Es-
Their Young. Milton, and Charlotte
Ingram, Glendale Joan Clark, Mil
ton, and Robert Kilby, Bloxsom,
were in charge of the flag raising
ceremony.
Samuel Gwinn, state an Club
leader, was in charge Of the tradi-
tional Council Circle, and had the
help of two All boys Richard
Banks and Franklin Baynard. OF
Reeves Crossing.
Members Of the Extension staff
taught classes in good grooming.
clothing, gardening, yard improve
ment, home Improvement, foods.
and folk dancing. W. S. Tabor Of
the State Forestry Department
taught a class in farm forestry.
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Alumni Banquet Was
4 Decided Success
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competition with other applicants,
plans to attend the University of
Delaware, majOring in Home Eco
nomics, in preparation for a teach
ing career.
The banquet opened with the
singing of the Star Spangled Ban
ner," after which a minute of 81
lence was observed for the 81
alumni who have died and for
Bobby Leithiser and Eileen Houli-
han, members who would have
graduated in 1852 but for their
tragic deaths. After Mr.. Glasmire
gave the invocation, alumni greet
ings were extended by Mrs. Bess
Watson Shew, as a member of the
Oldest class with any surviving
members (1902, which had eight
graduates, of which six survive,
four attended,. DR.. CObbs then pre-
sented the class of 1852 and they
were introduced by Eleanor Ben
nett, Secretary of the Glass. Re-
Spouse was given by William Wood.
President of the class of 1852. Lat
er "Old Grads" were presented, Of
ficers of the Alumni Association
were introduced and Mr.. Coffin,
President of the Association, made
few remarks. After group sing
ing, Mr.. Nichols gave the Benedic-
ton, and a very fine reunion of the
Alumni Association was closed.
Several class reunions were held,
notably the 50th anniversary of the
class of 1902 and the 25th anniver-
sary of the class of 1927 Many 5
and 10 year classes also held re-
unions, including the classes of
1892 and 1947 for which the attend
ance was remarkable.
Officers elected for the year 1852
So beginning June 18TH were:
Mrs. Sara Simpson Webb, 1887,
President; Mrs. NJ Mccullough
Prettyman, 1888, Vice-President;
Mrs. Eleanor Stayton Ivens. 1888,
Secretary; and Mrs. Lila Hudson
3 Walls, 1925. Treasurer. AppOintive
Offices will be filled by the Presi-
dent when she takes office.
Mrs. Webb, the new President,
will be remembered as former
Home Economics teacher at the
Milford High School, and as the
sister of Dr. VIM. B. Simpson, Su-
perintendent of Caesar Rodney
Special School District, who was
the recipient of the 1926 Alumni
Scholarship award.
Thanks for the success of the
banquet must be extended to these
persons who aided in the prepare
tons, but in particular to Mrs.
Clarke and the cafeteria staff who
prepared a delicious meal; to
Eleanor Geyer, who did the promo
ton of the anniversary reunions;
TO Ned Salevan for the program
covers: Ray A. Wilson and Gather
inc Diekerson Mills for the song
sheets; to Miss ROsanna Messick,
WHO made the picturesque place
cards for the tables and presented
them as a complete surprise; to
Laura GOoden who donated the
flowers and decorations; and last
but by no means least, to Mrs.
Clara MackliR and the banquet
committee, and to Chester Coffin,
Alumni Association President, who
made the banquet such a success.
Mr.. Coffin served as POSTMASTER.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13
REDS KILL FELLow-woRKER

KUALA LUMPUR. Malaga Up
-Four weekend" Chinese terror
ists-tappers on an estate-were
hanged for numbering a compatri-
OF who refused to join the Com
munist Party.
The four Reds said they killed
him on orders from their Com
munist Party cell. They laid in
wait for him in a jungle path aid
kicked him to death"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13
ATOM SUB INTERESTS
OLDTIMER

LONG BEACH, CaIif.-(P)-An
old pig boat" man, who served on
the first U. S. submarine, is angling
for a ride as passenger when the
first atom-pOwered sub is tested.
He is Edward J. Krec, g.. who
says he was a crewman aboard the
USS Holland in 1907. In those days,
says Krec, there was no escape
hatch, periscope or cOmpartwented
hull-Only a torpedo and a dyna-
mite gun.
Krec says an old shipmate, Capt.
H. G. RickOver, USN, is in charge
If constructing the atom submarine.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13

Short Supply
During most Of 1851, scrap piles
were abnormally low at steel plants.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13
FRUIT YIELDS PROFITS

BELGRADE -+(P)- Plums and
grapes pump profits into Yugosla-
Was treasury.
The two crops accounted for ap-
prOximately $1300,000 of this cOun-
try's export trade last year. YugO-
slavia has approximately 50 mil
lion bearing plum trees.
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OAR Group Met With
Mrs. A. T. Slaughter
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N~e.NA-Ae-e A@1AA AAAoN EHael
day, bringing to the minds of cit
liens the time when the United
States became a free nation. The
ministers will also be asked to
make special prayers for the ma
ton on June 20. Flag Day, to-
morrow, should be observed with
flags displayed. The members
made a tour of the old and new part
of the Slaughter home which is at
COursey's Mill: the former being
built in 1870 and the latter near
ly hundred years old. All floors
are of the wide board type, and
pegged as was the custom then. A
social hour followed. The first fall
meeting will be held on September
q, and will be a covered dish lun-
cheOn.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13
ASIAN BEAUTY CONTEST

KUALA LUMPUR Up Beauty
contest organizers in Kuala Lum-
pur are trying to arrange a COM
petition of beauties from various
territories of Southeast Asia at
which Miss Orient" will be
chosen.
Contestants are being invited
from Hong Kong, Bangkok, Ran
COON, Manila. Colombo and all
parts of Malaga to compete in
Kuala Lumpur.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13
TRANsFUsIoNs SAVE MOTHERS

SINGAPORE - up - Blood
transfusiOns saved 1,742 mothers
last year in Singapore maternity
hospitals, states DR.. NJ. NJ. II. Glib
sOn-Hill, medical officer in charge
of the Blood TRANSMISSION Service.
Blood donors number 1855.
Evening star., 1952-09-20
Soviet Books Flooding
Many Nations, Farley Told
BY the Asseeiaisd Press

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, Sept.
20.-The director of the American
Book Publishers Council says a
major problem confronting the
State Department today is the
multi-million- dollar Soviet Russia
book program that is flooding the
book market in many critical ma
tionS.
Theodore Waller Of New York
was the principal speaker at the
Cavalier Hotel here yesterday at
the 10th annual convention of the
Book Manufacturers Institute.
The books are excellently printed
Russian propaganda books in Eng
fish and many other languages,
said Mr. Waller. who added:
MADE in Russia. they are sold
in such politically vital countries
as India and Israel, sometimes for
the price Of a cheap magazine.
THE result Of this is that intel
lectuals and professional people
lin many parts of the world are
developing a dependence on Soviet
books"
Evening star., 1952-09-20

conclusion. These estimable
millions then register their per-
sonal decision at the polls and
that decides the election. That
would be wonderful. if true.
Passions and prejudices and
special interests would be elimi-.
mated. Republicans and Demo-
Gratis would vote the way their
daddieS did, but the balance Of
power would rest with the
country's best thinkers. the six
or seven million of us.
A more realistic view Of the
Independent voter is that he
mostly belongs to q group with
q special interest that outweighs
his political partisanship. He's
farmer, an organized worker, q
Negro. a businessman or a doc
tor and he is pretty likely to
vote as such. So just as soon
as you can detect the trend
within these groups and add up
their respective numbers you
may be able to state with some
confidence what the general
trend is and place your bets
accordingly. That's the real
iStic view.
However, this view also con-
tains q haw. There's the mat
ter Of emotion. There's Nc
Carthyism and the hatred
Of McCarthyism. Who knows
whether Eisenhower'S new soft
ness toward that unpleasant
aspect Of politics has hurt his
Evening star., 1952-09-20

ment on the State and local level
close to the people.
The Democrat Party offers
waste as a way Of life and higher
taxes as virtue. The Republic
can Party believes with Jefferson
that "frugality" is the first
among Government virtues, and
proposes to get 100 cents worth
Of good Government out Of every
tax dollar.
For the most serious of all
problems-the problem of war
and peace in our world-the
Democrat Party offers no long
time policy at all-but only i'm
provised policies Of stop and 60,
zig, gag and zig.' The Republic
can Party believes that we can
have lasting peace in our world.
1t proposes that we work out
and adhere to an immediate
and long-range program for
peace that will be clear and
positive and to which all Amer
lea and all peace-loving peoples
will rally.
These differences, ladies and
gentlemen, are the issues of this
campaign. They are not issues
to be taken lightly, or lightly
treated. They are serious for
every American. That is the
way I shall continue to treat
them.
Especially are those problems
serious for what we oldsters call
the younger generation. Young
people with their idealism. their
faith and their hopes must have
a fair chance to shape the Ma
ton which will be theirs.
My closing words tonight are
directed to the young people Of
America.
After November 4, I believe
America can once more look
with confidence to the future.
That future can be-will be
greater, far greater, than our
past has been. It is my deep
conviction that in the years
ahead We will realize to the
full the promise Of America.
That is youths immediate chal-
lenge. That is youths long
time opportunity. That is its
lifetime task.
Evening star., 1952-09-20
Worker and His Family
On Economic TreadmiN

Now the chances are that, in
your family, your husband to-
day gets more pay in dollars
than he got two years ago in
1850. Two years ago the aver
age factory worker got about
$4,000 a year. Today he is max
ing about $500. But are he and
his family $500 better of? Let's
look at that record. In those two
years the income tax this work.
ing man has to pay to the Fed
eral Government has more
than tripled. The purchasing
power of his remaining dollars
has noSe-dived. The result is
that this worker and his family
are on an economic treadmill.
And tread as hard as they will,
they are not even staying where
they were. They are slipping
back. Their $500 gain in wages
has been wiped out by imitation
and by taxes. Today, in what
they can buy, they are actually
worse off.
do not believe that the can
didate of the Democrat Party
will get very far on that record
of treadmill prosperity!
That is the record-but 1t
is only part of the record. I
can assure you that the whole
record will be laid out for the
American people to take good
look at between now and next
November 4. I can also assure
you that the Democrat candi-
date will run on that record
because he will not be allowed
to run away from It!
Between the Democrat and the
Republican Parties, there are
deep differences. They are ir-
reconcilable differences. And
these differences add up to de-
termine not only the way our
present problems will be solved.
but the direction in which
America for the indefinite fu-
ture will be headed.
The Democrat Party has little
faith in the people; in their
capacities to do for themselves.
The Republican Party puts its
faith in the people and points
to America as proof Of what the
people can do for themselves.
Evening star., 1952-09-20
Strategic Importance Of Africa
General Macarthur Is Not Alone in Directing Attention
To Tremendous PotentoIites of Dark Continent

sources and the industrial
potential which abounds in the
great undeveloped continent.
Despite the greater preoccupa'
ton that is being forced on the
Western world today by the
pressures in the Far East and
in Europe. there is q growing
necessity for concern over and
consideration Of the powerful
political forces which are seeth-
ing in so many parts Of Africa.
These forces break down into
many elements in various Sec
tions Of the continent but there
are three common and basic
impulses at work. One is the
restless surge Of what is rather
loosely called nationalism; the
others. contributory to this very
nationaliSm, are resentment
over racial determinations and
the desperate human need Of
so much Of the native popula-
ton.
The problems OF the North
African coast, primarily the
French moroccan and French
Tunisian issues. have been
widely discussed and publicized.
even II not solved. So have the
Anglo-Egyptian differences over
the Sudan and Suez areas. To q
considerable degree so have the
internal convulsions in South
Africa, where the color issue
has become an explosive and
dangerous element.
No so widely observed has
been the buildup Of political
pressure across the wide belt
Of Central Africa from the
Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
In British West Africa. where
the population is almost entirely
Negro. q strong trend toward
full native self-rule has been
under way for several years.
The British have adjusted their
Evening star., 1952-09-20
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Ike telephones his running mate Dick Nixon. about the
$4,000 he got from businessmen Meanwhile sign painters
planning ahead neishbor to read:
Look ahead. neighbor-Nixons behind U.s."
Mitchell demands that O. p. Vice
Presidential Candidate Nixon Mtches annoyedone
mess at a time and his party deserves priority
Republican Candidate Nixon the he got from
businessmen spent postage stamps The stamp collectors
phiatelss That's Greek for what's liable to hap
pen to the Republican Party
Stevenson takes look at the Nixon and changes
his slogan Throw the rasca outbefore they get to WASH
ington"
Gov Jimmy Byrnes Of South Carolina comes out for Ike
Byrnes recent convert The New Deal has done nothing
for him recently.
Government officials to bar disloya from
Federal housing household loyalty oath in tune
with the times The they build houses these daysevery
homeowner's swearing, anyway.
United States reveals details of its air base the
frozen Of the world just shows progressive admin
istraon expand Of ideaSupplied
by Mai Gen. Harry Vaughans deepfreezer
Evening star., 1952-09-20
Text Of Eisenhower Speech at Kansas CITY

lions more-than the plans
called for? No. the record Of
this Administration in extrava-
gance and waste is mighty
poor record to have to run on.
If in your family affairs you
find that your plan to build an
addition on the house is going
to cost a lot more than you fig
ured on. what do you do? You
don't go ahead, regardless. You
call up the carpenter, the paint
er and the brickmason-and
you call of the project. Have
you ever heard Of an Admin
istration project being called sod
because it cost too much?
No-I don't believe the Amer
ican people get any satisfaction
from the record of this Admin
istration in its irresponsible
spending of your money.
Or take another problem
one that you meet up with every
day. Let's suppose that tomor-
row morning you go to the gro
Gerry store to do the family
shopping. The grocer has all
the things you want to buy. You
have what looks like $40 to buy
them with. But long before you
have shopped your way from
the vegetable counter to the
meat counter. you discover that
what looks like $40 isn't $40 at
all. In terms of what that much
money would have bought in
1910. your $40 is worth exactly
$10.40. Now don't blame the
grocer or the wholesaler or the
farmer for cutting your dollar
almost in half. They are not the
cause. Like you, they are the
victims. The cause is imitation.
And what is the cause of in
flation?
Let me quote an answer to
that question from a recent edi-
torial in a great newspaper:
Imitation has been the calcu-
lated policy of the White House
on the labor front, the fiscal
front. and the agricultural
'front.'"
Imitation. folks, is another
very shaky part. of the record
of this Administration.
Evening star., 1952-09-20
What They Really Fear
Is Republican Victory

What they really fear is a
Republican victory on November
4. That will mean honesty, not
only out in front, but honesty
both front and back.
That I can assure you Is the
kind Of government the Amer
ican people are looking for. It is
exactly what they are due to
get.
You probably get the idea
from the press that on these
campaign trips across the coun-
try I do all the talking. I am
happy to report to you that I
don't. The people also talk.
They talk back and they talk
up and don't think they ever
hesitate. They talk by the let
ters they write me and the
notes they leave on the train.
They talk by kilograms. They
talk by the way they shout in
strictly non radio language,
"Give 'em this, Ike" or "Give
'em that"
And nothing I could say to
the people could be one-tenth
as important as what the peo-
pie have been saying to me.
North, South, East and West,
they have been saying, We've
had too much for much too
long"
Part of the job ahead is fer
reting out and furnishing indi-
vidual offenders: but that is
only small part.
These disclosures of graft,
dishonesty, and inefficiency in
high and low offices are merely
the symptoms of a morbid dis
ease within. The remedy for
such an illness lies far deeper
than dealing with external
symptoms.
Before there can be any cure,
there must be a probing for the
cause. The doctor cannot write
a sound prescription before he
has made his diagnosis.
Evening star., 1952-09-20
Lowell MeHett:
NOBODY Can Detect the Trend
But Meantime We Can Puzzle Over Bynes' Decision
And Nixon's Novel Solution Of Corruption Problem
The political situation seems
to have all of us experts baffled.

The political situation seems
to have all of us experts baffled.
Someone asks you, How does
1t look?" You can tell he really
wants your opinion, but the
question stops you cold. So you
stall. You say. "Well, I don't
know-how does it look to you?"
And that stops him.
It hasn't been that way in the
past. Four years ago at this
stage In the campaign everybody
knew and felt free to tell you
that Dewey had Truman licked.
Anyone could give you all the
reasons. And usually did. It all
added up to the trend. That was
the thing, the trend. And the
trend was to Dewey.
But this year nobody appears
able to detect any trend. Maybe
there isn't any. Maybe the CAM
pa1gn is hung up on dead CEN
ter for the time being, an as
toniShing state Of affairs with
the election only six weeks
away.
So We look wise and say ev-
erything depends on the inde-
pendent vote. The independent
vote. however. doesn't mean the
same thing to all the pundits.
Listening to some you get the
idea that there are certain mil
lions Of voters who study the
issues carefully, weigh the quail
ifications Of the candidates and
come to a calm intellectual
Evening star., 1952-09-20

company altogether. But this
is the payoff question: viii the
bosses disown him? Have you
detected any signs of alarm
from them? Have you heard any
reports that they are disman-
tling their machines in fear
lest their party and their candi-
date win? Have you heard that
any of them in death-bed con-
versations have turned Republic
can?
Of course you haven't and you
won't. Every one Of these
bosses will go all out and down
the line, to deliver by whatever
means, on November 4. They
will do that, not because they
believe their candidate is one Of
their own kind.
They are smart enough to
know what they need this year.
They need it this year more
acutely than in many. many
years. They know above every
thing else that they need an
honest man out in front. Well,
they've got one.