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Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05

creased. Companies making washing machines,
vacuum cleaners and other household appliances
have added to their manufacturing space and pro-
duction output In addition, many concerns which
have not before made such products have-in order
to replace Outmoded products-begun their manu-
alone will be very severe: especially as most famil
les have already purchased such things
Next year, our manufacturers will also be
Obliged to meet foreign competition. Washington
authorities state that-tO prevent the spread Of
cOmmunism-Our Government must supply machin-
cry to foreign manufacturers to make goods to send
to the U. S., which is their only possible customer.
Naturally, U. S. manufacturers don't like this and
will ask for much higher import duties these
foreign products. Washington will fight against
higher import duties, believing such would result in
World War III. AS a counter move, our fnanufac-
turers will strive to reduce their production costs.
This may result in reduced employment or reduced
wages. Surely these rapidly increasing foreign inn
ports plus domestic competition will result in keen
price cutting, forcing lower labor costs and con-
sOlidatiOns
WARNING TO READERS
The National Retail Dry Goods Association has
appoint a committee showing department stores and
also manufacturers, how they can cui expenses
These big merchants realize that the nations build
up for defense will be reached late in 1853, resulting
in possible falling off of retail trade. They want
to plan now how expenses can be reduced safely to
meet this coming change.
This means that the readers of this column who
have jobs should work harder to hold his OF
her job The old idea of "the last in should be the
and industry of each individual will be carefully
considered. Now is the time for each reader tC
qualify to hold his position when the price
cutting program starts.
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05
BABSON Discusses Weather

BABSON PARK, Mass. December 5-During my
last trip through the Central West, have system
atically inquired about the employment situation
Most employers admit that good workers are now
scarce and this situation will continue long as
the Governments military expenditures hold up
Armament Industry will remain, to limited extent,
a new industry for many years to come, and GER
tainly will not be stopped al at once
HASTE MAKES WASTE
These people, however. further tell me that the
armament program is being carried on in
very Wasteful manner due to the haste. When this
rush is over expenses can be materially cut There
FORE barring World War III, many workers now
directly, or indirectly, engaged in armament pro-
duction will be discharged
The above explains why many labor unions
have been able to get raises In the end employment
is subject to the old Law of Supply and Demand.
Unions can temporarily take advantage of this Law
and push up wages, but ultimately wages come down
or else unemployment occurs.
HIGH TAKES AND LABOR SAVING MACHINERY
MAY CAUSE UNEMPLOYMENT
Thus far, employers have taken radical
ton to Offset the Governments taking from 529o to
500 of their profits. Their attitude has been to
wait until December 31st, and then review the en-
tire situation, after which many corporations will
radically cut expenses.
The tight employment situation, with high wages
has forced manufacturers to order labOT-saving
devices Most of these will not be delivered until
employees will not be needed. AsO during the
recent lush years. much money has been wasted in
connection with secretaries travel, hotel bills tele
phone calls relatives etc. Cutting down these
penditures will cause further unemployment.
SEVERE COMPETITION AHEAD
During the past few years. the production ca
pacty of most concerns has been considerably in
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05

nearly an hour, so when the 2-hOur
stop was announced I simply left
the tour, hoped a train and told
them I would rejOin them in Venice,
which l did. I had no real difficult
ty whatsoever in locating the hotel
in Venice: the tour master seemed
afraid I would get lost. Next NOR
ming it was pouring rain, but GER
tain things were scheduled and cer-
tain things had to be done, such as
watching the arrival of the pige-
Ons in ST. Marks Square, the trip
through the DOge's Palace, through
st. Marks itself, etc. Luckily
though the Italian guide had a
friend who was conducting an Eng
lish tour through those self same
places and I joined thern. The
weather cleared during the after
noon and I was able to get what
hope are some quite creditable col
or shots Of different city landmarks.
Left Venice the next morning, the
evening found us once more in Aus
tria Tin the TyroD. My train ven
ture was so successful in reaching
Venice tnat I actively considered
leaving the tour and getting back a
day early but to my disappointment
our hotel vas located out of town
and away from the railroad sta
tiOn so / remained with the tour
"till the bitter end" as the saying
goes. Sunday, the final day, we
travelled to Salzburg, arriving al
about S:45 p. m.
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a large church, quite beautifully
decorated but nearly windowless
from all could see. Our arrival in
Florence was extremely late that
evening but by this time we had
grown accustomed to late arrivals
and even later dinners. Little did
we know! Next day the tour con-
tinued on to Rome, where we arriv-
ed at midnight no less. Dinner (for
which most of us were actually
starving) was served at 1890 a. m.
Even so we weren't sleepy so start
ed out On our own on a walk
around the town, ending up in a
fiacre at 2:30 a. m. on a drive to
the Colosseum. Returned to the
hotel around $3.50 and naturally
oversight the next morning, thereby
missing the conducted tour of the
ruins. The afternoon tour took us
mainly to Vatican City which is
certainly all the guide books say,
but my appetite for seeing churches
was considerably lessened by all
those we had been seeing on the
previous days. Next morning we
went shopping purchased some
glOves) and arranged for an Am
erican Express Tour covering most
of the things we missed on the pre-
vious day. That evening 1 went to
/ the Colosseum to see the perform
ance of the COlosseum's history
over the past 1000 years. It was
incredibly good, and luckily the
program was printed in English
which enabled me to follow each
detail although l couldn't under
stand one word of what was being
said on the stage. Next day we
were up and away to Naples where
we took the usual tour around the
city the first morning and a trip
out to POmpeii in the afternoon
The ruins at Pompeii are exactly
as one sees them pictured. One in
Iteresting sidelight was a stop at a
cameo factory where we watched
the entire process of cameo max
ing step by step. Next day we
visited the Isle of Capri and spent
most of the day there. Can't say
too much about the place because
1 wasn't as favorably impressed
with it as I had hoped. For my
money it's far too much mountain
and far too little beach; however
the lunch was good and the little
winding roads all over the island
were rather breath-taking. The
next day was spent crossing Italy
from the Mediterranean side to the
Adriatic, making our nights stoI
at a very late hour as per usual
Next morning it seemed to me We
had no more than started than {
halt was called so everyone could
have a bath" as the tour master
put it-what he actually meant was
swim in the Adriatic. Over tn,
preceding days / had learned thai
s167mipute stops usually dragged Z
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Salzkraft TOur---Italy
15.29 September. l962


Editors Note: Richard Abbott, son
of George M. Abbott, has been in
Salzburg, Germany, with the Army
Engineers for some time and during
fall vacation took a tour OF Italy with
some friends. His sightseeing is de-
scribed in the following letter which
he wrote 10 Mr.. and Mrs. AbbOtt.)
Tour was scheduled to begin at
500 a. NJ, Is September, but like
all such tours it was late and the
time was actually nearer to $3.50
when we actually departed. About
three hours from Salzburg, misfor-
tune overlook us in the form of
blowout, causing a delay we never
seemed to catch up to. First sched-
Gled stop was Innsbruck, Austria,
where we picked up new tire, had
refreshments, etc. By noon we were
on our way once more and reached
the Brenner Pass shortly after
ward. Don't know exactly what I
was expecting to see at Brenner,
but the pass itself is simply high
way through the mountains with
nothing more startling than the
standard customs gates and money
changing facilities on the Italian
side inasmuch as it is an interna-
tiOnal border crossing. Once down
from the pass, it began to get no
ticeably warmer and the sky ap-
peared to be much more brilliant
blue. First overnight stop was to
be the town of Riva on the shores
of Lake di Garda which we reached
shortly after 300 p. m. Got up a
little early the next morning and
took a few color shots. Too bad
there was haze over the entire
lake or phOtographing would have
been much more interesting. De-
parted Riva around 500 a. m. and
continued on to Milan where the
tour around the city included a
visit to the church containing the
painting Of "The\Last Supper"
Shortly afterward the tour con-
tinued on to Genoa, the scheduled
second nights stop. Hotel accom-
mOdations there were surprisingly
better than those of the previous
night. Next morning the tour in
cluded trip around the city, where
we saw Christopher Columbus
birth place and home and got our
first view of the Mediterranean
from a lookout point high above
the city. This same drive around
the city (or "Stadtrundfahrt" as il
is called in Germany included a
walk around the city cemetery, said
to contain more dead than there
are living in the city. From Genoa
we went to Florence via Pisa. I'm
fortunately it was pouring rain
most of the time, and the two pic
lures I snapped of the Leaning
Tower arc apt to be nothing more
than q grey blur Near the tower IS
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05
BONELESS TURKEYS
RESEMBLE FOOTBALL

NEW YORK -. (Pl II Frozen,
bOneless turkeys, which look some
thing like a football, have been in
trOduced by a midtown speciality
shop
The turkeys are from to Sh
pounds Of solid meat, 20 per cent
white and 80 per cent dark. In
their preparation, only one incis-
ion is made in the skin and the
bones are removed without cutting
the flesh. The boned meat is stuff
fed back inside the skin, which
then is sewn together. Finally the
turkeys are Quick-frozen.
The White Holland Farm, Whit
man, Mass, which produces as
many as 100000 turkeys a year, has
been experimenting with the bon
ing process for several years. Co
operating in the project We're sew
eral agricultural schools, including
those of Massachusetts State Col
lege and Cornell University.
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05
DELAWARE FARM MARKET news
Market News lnormuon Supplied BY The Bureau f Mo.s.
State Beard Of Agriculture Dover, DeIuwure

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscel-
laneOus commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that were mar.
keted throughout this week:
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEAL CALVES
CHOICE: $1,000 to $4,000, mostly
$4,000 per cWt.
, MEDIUM TO GOOD: $22.OO to
$31.OO, mostly $28.O0 per cwt.
ROUGH And COMMON: $1400
to $4,000, mostly $500 per cwt.
MONKEYS: $3.50 to $4,000, most
ly $3.50 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
MEDIUM TO GOOD: S14OO to
$16.5O, mostly $14.75 per cwt.
COMMON: $1,000 to $3.50, most
ly $12.25 per cwt.
GAMERS & CUTTERS: $1,000
to $11.5O, mostly $11.OO per owt.
STEERS
LIGHT: $1,000 to $25.OO, mostly
$22.5O per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
DAIRY TYPE: $1,000 to $3.50
mostly $17.75 per cwt.
BULLS
lover 1000 lbs.)
MEDIUM TO GOOD: $17.O0 tC
$21.0O, mostly $3.50.
600 to 1000 lbs.)
MEDIUM TO GOOD; $500 t.
$2O.5O, mostly $1,000 per cwt.
HOGS
STRAIGHT HOGS
(goOd quality
1sS to 10 lbs: $3.50 to $17.00
mostly S16.75 per cwt
40 to 240 lbs: $17.25 to S17.75
mostly. SIPS per cwt.
240 TO $50 lbs: S15.75 to $16.75
mostly $16.75 per cWt
S0WS
(goOd quality
200 to 800 lbs. $1,000 to $3.50
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
800 to 400 lbs. $3.50 to $500
mostly $14.5O per cwt
Over 400 lbs: $1,000 to $3.50
mostly $500 per cwl.
BOARS
(good quality
Under $50 lbs: $500 to 1925
mostly $1O.50 per cwt
Over $50 lbs: $3.50 to $3.50
mostly $500 per cwt.
SHOATS
MEDIUM TO GOeR: $500 L
lqo mostly $1,000 pen cwt
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05
LESSONS WE HAVE LEARNED

Prior to November 4, many people
thought that when political party had been
in power for 20 years, when it had increased
the public payroll to an incredible extent,
when it had followed a policy of "tax and
tax and tax, spend and spend and spend,"
and when millions of US were getting hand
cut in one way or another from the Federal
treasury, it would be next to impossible to
unseat it.
The bloodless revolution that occurred on
November 4 disproved that. And it Gid
good deal more. 1t showed that the American
people are weary Of waste and extravaganza
in their governmental say nothing of graft
and corruption-and want something dras-
tic done about it. This is not a criticism of
Governor Stevenson who stands for very
high standards of integrity and honesty in
the public service. But the writing was on
the wall
It looks as if we, as people, have learned
at long last that we can take nothing from
the government that we do not first put
into it-and that high percentage Of what
we put in is wasted and dissipated. And
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05
I'm TIE Alb FORCE
D EIaine Townssnd DIeksrson


hidden BY canyon and mountains.
! guess they could trap food and
I'VE PASSED wagons with wood that
they had gathered. and with their
jewelry and weaving they could
possibly make living...I guess
they do, I should very. huh2 But
they did look so pathetic, the 0nes
we saw
We arrived in Grand Canyon just
before dark and just as the MELT
ed snow was beginning to freeze
on the road. I could see us being
page one in the morning papers as
Canyon Casualitiesi What q phoe-
bia that height business Of mine
IS. We loved the Grand Canyon.
but I was completely miserable
the whole time we were there, not
allowing the children to let 20 Of
Hayes or my hand for minute
and I even dreamed Dawn fell over
the cliff
The El TOvar. rustic and COM
Portable, though it might be, was
not our choice for the night. We
stayed at the Bright Angel Lodge,
! not in The lodge itself but in a cab
in Of our own. Two large. rough,
wooden interior cabins with baths
and settled back from the canyon.
so my nerves wouldn't be entirely
on edge. We ate dinner that night
at the El TOvar Hotel. AT Grand
/ Canyon these two lodges seem to
be the favorites They have an auto
court there and Of course the
Phantom Ranch The latter was
fartherest from our thoughts since
you lave to descend to It bv
/ Missouri taxi (mule) and after
seeing those paths along the cliffs
that they use as their read d
knew that was not for us....for me
and the children anyway. HAYES
though he'd like to try it IF We ever
come back again. My cousin Emma
ManlOVe of Frederick told me when
I was home that she had taken tie
mule pack trip and right here and
now want to commend her for
her bravery She's a better man
than l.
Ihe following morning when we
pulled back the curtains IN our
room the children screamed with
delight at finding several tame
deer eating right outside our win
dow. They roam all around the
lodges and at night sleep beside
.. the cabins and cars.
There are not too many build
ings at the Canyon; a post Office
two garages, the lodges, a cafe.
terra. q community house, a few
private homes, some curio skop,
, and the hospital Along the ridgs
there are many view points" bu
the one we liked the most was
Hermit's Rest which Is a ston.
:. home built by the Santa Fe Rail
road just for visitors to the Gram
{ Canyon to see. In it there is Z
Z massive. fireplace, the biggest
have ever seen, made out of hug,
; rocks icemented together. From
J this rock, hOme-like cave you eel
: another glimpse Of the canyon
standing behind the glassed III
front Of the house.
Returning to our cabin after W,
Z had had breakfast we circle,
I Bright Angels cabin and ther
L right in back Of our own cabil
= sat the Jack Reilly's Florida Ii
Y censed, hard-top convertible Ford
! The Reilly's. you may remember
: are from NOrristOwn and were wit
US at MacDill, Florida. Ellington
= Texas, and will be here in Sacra
y mento, but it seemed funny t
Y bump into them Unexpectedly a
y the same lodge in Grand Canyon
= Our next stop was at Las Vega
\ and III tell you about that mex
s. week.
e Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickersoi
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05
November %, 1852
4780 FL Cerrit0 Way
cnnrar.nnln 10 rnlia

4130 El CerritO Way
Sacramento IS. Calf.
Dear Friends:
Well, 1 struggled through am
other turkey dinner yesterday, did
you? We were grateful this year,
very grateful, to have a roof over
our heads, because housing is very
hard to find here in the state Of
California, but more about that an
other week.
Before we left on our trip,
Mother Dickerson sent us an arr
ticle from the October issue Of
Household magazine and the ar
ticle was called Where God Work
ed Overtime" by ]. Vincent O'Ryan.
In this article Mr.. O'Ryan told Of
the things a traveller should see in
Arizona and Mexico. It was per-
feet for us and we were going to
follow it exactly, if we hadn't gone
home. In his article he wrote,
God certainly must have loved
the desert, He created so much Of
it and decorated it in such an un-
surpassable fashion" We wanted
definitely to include the Painted
Desert, Petrified Forest and Grand
Canyon in our itinerary.
We arrived at the sign that said
Painted Desert about 10 am. and
if the sign hadn't have been there
we wouldn't have known where we
we're, in fact. we stopped at a fill
ing station to see If we we're real
ly at the right place. Snow was ali
over everything and what the
snow didn't hide from US the early
morning fog sid. Oh! how disap-
pointed we were. We can tell
people we've seen the painted des'
ert, but any cOlOrful description
from us would be purely imagin-
atiVe.
We turned in the Petrified For
est National Monument road next
paid our fifty cents and received
another big disappointment We
rode and rode and rode FOR miles
before we knew that we were deer
in the forest and didn't know il
| You see the forest" is Just hun
dreds Of logs that were buriet
years and years ago and were frs
reported by a Lieutenant Sit
greaves, an Army officer who ex
ploTed parts Of northern Arizons
in 1851 and saw the "stOne trees
] guess we were just ignorant, bu
we expected a standing" forest. o
course since all the logs were Oh
the ground, they too, were cover
ed by snow and we again lost th
value Of our visit.
Next, we headed toward FLAG
staff, Arizona and north tOwar
the Grand Canyon. Soon we begai
to see the Colorado River an
knew we were near the Canyon
You may know the canyon wa
formed by the river cutting dow
as the land moves upward, OWN
to slow transformations of th
earth's surface. AS the rock wall
broke down the chasm gradual
widened. Scientists estimate ths
it has taken from seven to min
million years to cut the Gran
Canyon. The work is still going o
too. Well, before we saw the Gran
Canyon we passed some India
Reservations. In Arizona you ca
see many Indian Reservation
! marked on the map. Here the
: were HOpi Indians. wrote moth,
Z and dad card as we were ridir
: along and said, Eve sure were gel
erous" That land was full Of roc
and impossible to till. must So
we gave them a grand view Il
their government home. We cou
!, see paths winding in and out
!, the hills and once in a while 81
/, mud hut built deep in the hill
seemingly all alone, but thel
were others around, which wei
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05
FEEDER PIGS
(6 20 10 weeks old)

FEEDER PIGS
6 20 10 weeks old)
CHOICE: $3.50 to $3.50, mostly
$500 per cwt.
MEDIUM TO GOOD: $3.50 to
500, mostly $500 per cwt.
COMMON: $500 to S4OO, mostly
$500 per ewt.
HORSES AND MULES
WORK TYPO: $4,000 to S74OO.
mostly $500 per cWt.
BUTCHER TYPE: $500 10
$500, mostly $28.OO per cwt.
(. LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
FOWL: $1OO to s1.7O. mostly
$1.40.
RoosTERs: sll5 to sl.s5. most
LIGHT BREEDS
BANTAM CHICKENS: $40 to
S.55, mostly S.S5.
GUINEAS: $50 to SLOO, mostly
.S1.OO.
GEESE: s175 to $500. mostly
$3.50.
DUCKS
MUSC0vY DUCKS: $40 to S1.sO,
mostly s1.O5.
MUSCOVY BRAKES: Sl.5O to
$220, mostly S19O.
TURKEYS
TOMS: $500 to $725. mostly
$500.
HENS; s4OO to $500. mostly
S400.
RABBITS
LARGE BREEDS $1.1O to $3.50.
mostly S1SO
SMALL BREEDS: $50 to SEQ,
mostly $85.
YOUNG RABBITS: s.S5 to $50,
mostly $40
EGGS
UNGRADED, MIXED: $50 to
( $50 ner dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
TURNIPS: $50 to $55 per Is
bushel.
SWEET POTATOES: $50 to
St.7O per q bushel.
4 CABBAGE: $1.05 to $1.40 per
bushel
POP CORN: $3.50 to S1.45 per
Is bushel.
WALNUTs: $40 to s2O5 per g
bushel
LARD; 1925 per 50 ID. can.
The element selenium which
transmits more or less electricity
according 20 how much light falls
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05

perhaps we are also learning that the terrific
burden Of taxation we are now bearing re-
suited, in large part, from the thoughtless
public demand for subsidies and handouts
and grants and loans and so-called ''secur-
ity"
In practically every speech, the Presi-
dent-elect advocated decentralization Of gov
local hands, All political considerations to
one side, this is the course we must now
take if we are to remain strong, free and
solvent.
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05
wax Is Dangerous

Don't wax a floor to the point that
it becomes a skid hazard, especially
if there are old people or children
in the family. ~
Milford chronicle., 1952-12-05

The element selenium which
more or less electricity
according To how much light falls
on it, is the basis for mechanical
The Key West citizen., 1952-06-13

that the world hadn't come TO an
end, but now-"She'S not a bad
sort" he told Mrs. Poppleton.
She is simply confused. You un-
derstand?"
Looking into his eyes, she
smiled family, and the smile made
him forget her long nose and
faulty teeth; he thought she was
very attractive Il understand.
Bruce. And think / am glad.
She made favorable impression
on me when she came in here a
few minutes ago. She hated me-,
But she was nurse on duty, so
she was very kind. very pleasant.
I don't know what you meant"
Leslie chuckled. Sooner or
later bachelorhood comes to an,
end. or so I've always been told.
Bruce. you fool, don't fight il.
Love is the finest thing that can
come into your life"
You re mistaken" he said, ris-
ing. My interest in Miss Jane
Bancroft begins and ends right
here. When she has come to her
senses" He turned, staring, as
the door opened. Having expected
TO find girl in tears in the living
room, he was more than a little
dumbfounded by this smiling girl
in the doorway. "You read it?s
Il read IL" said Jane Bancroft
firmly. 1T was most interesting.
"Oh, did George buy some new
books?" asked Leslie. HE prom
iSed he would -
'tJust an old book, Mrs. Pepple~
ton" Jane went to the window,
her face imperturbable. Only
Aunt Hattie would have been able
to tell that her world had come
crashing about her ears. Its
when YOU look calm that you're
upset most. " Aunt Hattie had once
declared in wonder. Now, her
voice as calm as her face, Jane
turned and met Bruce's question
ing eyes. You were right. I was
fooled. and rather badly. May I
go back TO camp now? I'm sure
you can find another nurse"
"Of course" He rose. while
Leslie stared. "I'n drive you back
myself"
1You?" Her voice was frigid.
Il would sooner crawl on my
hands and knees"
'But l was only trying to help.
Well, you did your duty, DR..
Hall. ] bid you good night"
tTe be centinnedl