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Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03

reducing the weight of their COM
TENTS. One of the early develop
ments will be Theoretically sealing
truck trailers with an anti-gravity
alloy. This same principle will be
used to reduce the weight of trunks
and suit cases. / believe that Rus
sian scientists are now desperately
at work to discover a Gravity re-
flectOr to very much lessen the
weight of the packs which all SOL
diers carry on their backs. Think
what this would mean to the nine
million of our own boys. Readers
will think of other illustrations but
remember that only the enclosed
contents can be de-weighted.
OF course the greatest boom
would take place in connection with
the airplane. Why the Government
and airplane manufacturers do not
give the subject more serious con-
sideTatiOn is beyond my compre-
hension. The engineers answer me
by saying they are "too busy with
other things to bother about GRAY
ity." My reply is that 40 years ago
when the Goodyear Company was
making lighter-than-air dirigibles
and asked why they did not help
the Wright Brothers in making
heavier-than-air airships, they gave
the same reply: We're too busy"
All of which reminds me of what
Thomas Edison said to me shortly
before he died: "BabsOn, we don't
yet know anything. The young
people now graduating from
schools and colleges have far great
er opportunities than we ever had
If they will only work, save and
study"
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
FRANK-LY SPEAKING

Post office box-hOlders ALREADY
have the bad news that their cubby
holes will cost more. The ice has
decided on a S6 percent increase
in parcel post rates, come October
first. But Congress must say
whether or not we are to pay foul
cents for a first-class postage
stamp, seven or eight cents for an
air-mail stamp and more for those
special services, such as specia,
delivery, money-orders and in.
surance. Second and third claS
mail would also come in for the
face-lifting treatment.
In this sweeping program, Post.
master General Summerfield is, oi
course, shooting for the moon. He
wants to end the deficits that have
plagued the department for more
than $50 years, and which now add
up to about 600 million a year.
But there are at least three road
blocks in Mr.. Summerfield's charted
course to P. o. solvency. First, his
planners are projecting potential
new revenue on the basis of busi-
ness-as-usual, apparently rejecting
the possibility that higher rates
may push postal services into the
stratOsphere of thinner air and
diminishing returns, Second, Con-
gress is down with the annual
Adjournment Fever, and trying its
best to push aside until next ses-
sion everything but appropriation
bills. Third, ten percent of the total
postal red-ink, or $4,000, ,00C
represents the cost of carrying
Government mail for free. Included
in this is the gnat-bite of the con-
gressmen's franking privilege
estimated at two million. But il
itches, out of proportion to its size
Too many Congressman fear that an
angry public, ordered to pay four
cents for a stamp, will demand that
their representatives in Washington
be compelled to do likewise.
AS a matter of fact, we think OF
no reason why they shouldn't buy
their own stamps, raise or no raise
or why the Government bureaus
shouldn't pay for postage out Of
their appropriations.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
Asparagus Has Good
POints-$135,OOO Worth

Asparagus spears pointed the
way to $1S5,000 in income for Sus-
sex County growers last year.
This was the amount paid county
asparagus growers by Gamers and
other food professors, according to
L. M. Goodwin, Delaware represen-
tative of American Can Company,
container manufacturers. Sussex
farmers grew more than half of
Delaware's crop Of the vegetable
last year, he said.
County growers. Mr.. Goodwin
said, harvested 1 1,058, 900 pounds Of
asparagus in, 1952-deYoting 500
acres to the crop. The Diamond
States two other counties grew a
total Of $4,000 pounds OF the vege-
table for which farmers received
$105,O00 from Gamers and freez-
ers."
He pointed out that canning
methods developed by American
Can in cooperation with the can
ming industry preserve the attrac-
tive appearance and vitamin con-
tent Of the vegetable.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
BABSON Discusses Enemy Number One

BABSON PARK, Mass, July g.
Enemy number one is not Commun-
ism or any other "isms." Enemy
number one is WEIGHT. don't
refer to your weight or my weight.
We all can control this by the
simple method of eating less, and
thus avoiding "second-helping-itis. -
Instead, l am referring today to
the cost of transportation, amount
ing to over 100 billion dollars a
year, of which I estimate 500 is
due to the WEIGHT of goods and
not to the labor and other costs.
What Causes Weight3
Whatever we eat, wear, or use
as a home starts from the forests,
mines or farms. At these points of
origin the costs are very low. For
instance, standing timber sells for
$500 per cord; coal in the mine
sells for $1O0 per ton; and bushel
of wheat on the farm for only about
$500. We pay ten times these costs
after they are transported to our
home or breakfast table. If weight
could be reduced $50 1 believe the
cost of living would tumble 7OGs.
This brings me to my hobby of
Gravity which is the cause of this
wasteful weight. Thus far no insu-
lator, absorber, or reflector Of GRAY
ity has been discovered, but this
will be accomplished some day. All
other forces, such as light, sound,
fire, odOr, electricity, magnetism,
X-rays and even atomic rays can
be shut off. Metallurgists will soon
discover means of partially insu-
lating or rejecting Gravity waves.
This discovery will revolutionize
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
Laurgus Farm
Milford. Del.
June 80, 1853


Milford. Del.
June 30, 1853
Dear Friends:
On the way in from California,
we stopped at Topeka, Kansas, to
see what our next base would be
like. We stayed in motel over
night and spent all the following
morning looking over the town and
the base. We were shocked to be
able to make a local call for Just
five cents and to get Coke from
a machine for the same money. 1
know all of you have heard on the
radio slightly higher west of the
Rockies. Everything you buy,
everything, is slightly higher, west
Of the Rookie and when you add
one article to another, it amounts
up. It was nice to feel we were
East again and back to sane prices.
Topeka is the capitol Of Kansas
and has a population of 100000
people, which is smaller than Will
mington and just a nice sized town.
We liked it instantly. I'll have to
tell you more about the town after
we make it our home for a while.
The purpose of our stop was to
see the base and to see about a
home. Both of these we did and
we were satisfied in each particu-
lar and left then for Louisville,
kentucky.
When our six year old daughter
was born we gave her the name
Lynne Howard, her middle name
being in memory of Howard Will
kins, who was killed in World War
II. Howard was buried in Zachary
Taylor National Cemetery in Louis
vile and we went there for that
reason.
Coming farther east we got into
West Virginia and the hills where
Dawnie "galled" again. We were
surely a mess when our families
saw us, but after a three thousand
mile trip, 1 guess they rather ex-
pected that.
It's been fun for the children to
be on the farm, especially with
four of their little cousins right
there tO>play with all day long and
a Dalmatian dog, besides, as well
as a DachshUnd to play with in
town at the Townsend grandpar-
ents.
Each evening has been like Old
Home Week. One evening we went
to see Jimmy and Lucy Hammond's
new house on Hall Place and there
we visited with Jeanette and Penn
Isaacs and Ida and Bill Wells
Another evening we went to New
ark and had dinner with Flossie
and Bernard Clements who have a
new home, too.
Last Wednesday we attended the
party that the Harry Mulholland
Senior and Junior and the Char les
Murphys gave. So many, many peo-
pie we hadn't seen for months
were there and it was such a lot
of fun having dinner with all our
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
TN THE AIR FORCE
By Elulne Townsend Dlekerson

old friends and being at the Re-
hoboth Country Club at the same
time.
Friday night we attended Char
ter Night at the Lions Club ct the
Club Nanticoke in Seaford and
Hayes enjoyed seeing all the boys
ne mad known when he was Lion
in Milford.
Saturday afternoon, I was invit-
ed to a dessert bridge party at
Slaughter Beach, given by Edna
simpson and Doris Wilkins. You
know the fun a bunch Of "hens"
can have talking in the afternoon
at party!
Sunday, at 8 A. NJ, Jimmy and
Lucy Hammond invited US to 20
fishing on the Rumpstiteh boat
ana on we went into the Delaware
Bay. 1 never 60 in the Bay. past
tnat Jetty out from the light house.
tnat I don't get seasick and I cer-
talnly had my nerve to tag along
Il we weren't in the channel we
should have been, because there
was no land in sight. which nrnal-
y = my stomaeh's que, but il was
CAIN out there, then. i thought
LOT while about calm before 4
storm but dismissed II from nv
lllna when my hook, not nv sill.
IorN sure, caught the first ash s
shark. Right after that We canpbt
one tsh right after another and
enoea up with "A trout. eatching
them TWO on a line, which made
the hours fly by. Soon We nofioeS
dark skies clouding arobnd ne
ano we knew that we ought to head
] nome. u wasn't any time before
we We're in rain, had lost sight ~
all the other fishing boats. coulan,t
see land, buoy, or light house and
was just about to die Of fright
II any Of you read Monday morn
lngs paper about the storm &
Slaughter Beach, you'll know We
mad every reason to be frightened
The boys got the boat heading tbe
rlght direction on the compass and
soon we weren't lost any more.
but for a while / wish we had
never even thought Of going ont n
delaware Bay. had such a big
time catching fish in the beginning
and a big time over the storm thaf
forgot all about being sick. So
maybe that is all in your mind
like Hayes says.
Sunday afternoon, later. we were
riding with my mother and passed
a car that looked familiar, parked
at the Walter VoshelPs home. On
the back road to the beach. II was
Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Bostonss ear
and we knew it from out visits ia
see them in Port Arthur when we
were stationed in Houston, Texas.
They will be here all this week
and will return to the Lone star
State today.
Now we're off to spend the rest
OF our leave at Slaughter Beacn.
Until next week.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03

manufacturing, transportation and
distribution.
Nothing To Worry About
Some people fear that if we in
terfere with Gravity they would
rise to the ceiling of the room or,
if out-of-doors, cG-~Oear in the
skies. There is absolutely no dang
er of this. The same fears were ex-
pressed when our first ancestors
discovered fire and later when
Franklin tried to harness lightning.
When a partial insulator or refiec-
tor of Gravity is discovered it can
be controlled as we'll as fire or
electricity or atomic rays. Further
more, this can be accomplished
safely whether the Gravity waves
come from the sky and PUSH us
down, or come from the earth and
PULL us down.
The Gravity Research Foundation
of New Boston, N. H., tells me that
such an insR1ator would not reduce
our weight if used for shoe soles
or stair treads. In order to take
advantage of such a partial insu-
lator or reflector we must be who'll
ly encased as if we were ins a
sealed cOfin and this wouldn't do
us much good! This Is another
reason why no one need fear the
control of Gravity. We should ra-
ther fear the lack of control of our
appetites! To us, starches may be
more dangerous than Gravity.
How Anti.GraVity Alloys
VIII Work
AS indicated above, there is little
hope for reducing the weight of
automobiles, trucks or even freight
cars. But there. is real hope for
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
A DAY OF CELEBRATION-AND
REFLECTION

Our Fourth Of July, with its parades,
brass bands, buntings, orations, fireworks
is a symbol. It celebrates the wrestling of
power from privileged few and investing
it in 1--WE, the people"
The world is troubled today. How to get
the most out of life? Ways and means. It
naturally involves social compacts, such as
communism, socialism, fascism, totalitarian-
ism. And Americanism
Two opinions are in deadly conflict.
In mans pursuit of happiness, is it better
for him to permit small group to plan and
order his daily life? By cOmpulsiOn, to mould
him into subOrdination to a plan?
Or, to eXhOrt him, through an inquiring
mind, to think and act for himself, with con-
tdence that he himself is competent and will
ing to do what should be done?
The first depends upon arbitrary power,
which, too often, becomes despotic.
The second depends upon encouragement
of the individual, by precept and example
The first theology is communism or So
cialism.
The second is the American Way.
AS we observe the Fourth of July parade,
1853, take note that it is not compulsory.
You can fall in line, or go fishing. The other
system has it's parades, too. But under the
disciplinary eye of the Kremlins, you get in
line, or else.
AS Americans, we still have the freedom
to choose. D.. That's why we celebrate.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
YOU'VE BEEN WORKING FOR
GOVERNMENT

Whom did you work for during the first
four months of this year?
You'll say that you worked for yourself,
or for some business or other But, in a very
real sense, you worked for government! The
ntions total 1858 tax bill will be as much
as the wages, rents, interest and dividends
received by all of us during the January /
to April 22. period!
Read that again-and then decide whe-
ther economical government and eventual
tax reduction are in your personal interest
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
Home Freezer Meeting
Thursday, July 9th

Using the home freezer 70 an
advantage is the topic Of speciaI
meeting on Thursday, july 9th N
4:3O at Chesar Rodney High
School. This meeting, sponsored ~
the Kent County Home Demon-
stration Clubs, viii be taught ~
Miss Gertrude Holloway, Nutrition
Specialist with the Extension
Service of the University Of Della
ware.
Special emphasis will be on plan
ming and preparing meals Tor the
freezer. There viii be a question
and answer period during which
Miss Holloway viii answer ques-
tions about freezing in general.
All who are interested il using
a home freezer to an advantage
are invited 70 come.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News nfOmGfion Supplied BY The Bureau or Marka
State Board Of AsrieUtUEs, Dover, Dsluworo

The following is 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.
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $24.00 to $S0.5O, mostly
$26.50 per cwt.
Medium to good: $4,000 to $2S.5O,
mostly $21.00 per cwt.
Rough and common: $500 to
$3.50, mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to $3.50, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $19.75 to $3.50. mostly
$24.00 per cwt.
Wool: ?.47 per pound.
COWS
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: $1,000 to S14.25,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Common: S10.25 to S11.75, most
ly $10.75 per cwt.
Gamers ana cutters: S(.UU 70
$1,000, mostly $3.50 per cwt.
STEERS
Light steers: $9.75 to $3.50,
mostly $500 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: $1,000 to $500,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Beef type: $500 to $4,000, most
ly $1,000 per cwt.
BULLS
lover 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $11.75 to $16.25,
mostly S16.25 per cwt.
$500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $500 to $14.25,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(good quality)
120 to 10 lbs: $1,000 to S24.5O,
mostly $23.75 per cwt.
10 to 240 lbs: $25.OO to S26.OO,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
240 to $50 lbs: $22.5O to S25.O0,
mostly S23.00 per cwt.
SOWS
(good quality
200 to 800 lbs: $500 to S20.25,
mostly $4,000 per cWt.
800 to 400 lbs: $17.OO to $2O.75,
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03

fury had finally burst the bonds
OF sober judgement. the tide of
Communism may well have turned
Authority, overcome for a single
heady moment, us reestablished
in fear and not in arrogance. That
tieeting taste of victory stays sweet,
and long, in the mouths of those
who flung themselves against their
monstrOus tOrmentors. And the
news that the might of the Soviet
failed, even mOmentarily to contain
them, has travelled among the en-
shaved millions who dream of
freedom and brought new courage
and determination.
Fantastic, it may be, in this
atomic age, that unorganized, un-
disciplined men with sticks and
stones and the tools of their trade
can stand against our scientific
instruments of death. But that is the
deep mystery of human spirit that
can not be shattered by steel nor
scared with flame, that has already
brought terror to the iron curtain
puppets, a creeping, irresistible
terror that must yet strike at the
hearts in the Kremlin.
The hammer and sickle, those
hated symbols of slavery. may yet
become the very keys to freedom.
&&#*
NO HOLIDAY
On the third anniversary of the
Korean War, Assistant Secretary
of State Walter S. Robertson
brought letters from President
Eisenhower and Secretary of State
Dulles to Syngman Rhee, and with
us. Ambassador Walter o. Briggs,
pleaded for hours with the lion
hearted old man who thinks we have
dOuble-crossed him.
How and whether they can un-
scramble the truce egg that was
about to hatch after three years
of fighting, after 10000 U. S.
casualties, after two years of
negotiating, was still anybOdy's
guess. If President Rhee gives
the assurances President Eisen-
hover has asked-that he will
observe the UN' agreement he has
signed-that he will accept UN
orders, a truce now with Korean
unity to be worked out later-is
such a truce still possible?
Whatever Rhee may do or say
whatever the UN is likely to do or
say, the single clear fact of the
Korean War on its third birthday
was that the enemy was throwing
far more at the UN, and particular
ly the ROKs than the allied forces
were throwing back. There was
no indication they had had enough.
Death took no holiday.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03

mostly $20.25 per cwt.
Over 400 lbs: $16.75 to s2O.5O.
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
BOARS
(good quality
Under $50 TBS: $1,000 to sI7. $50.
mostly $500 per cwt.
Over $50 los: $500 to S11.OO.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: $14.00 to $4,000,
mostly $500 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
(6 to IL weeks ODD
Choice: $1,000 to S16.75. mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
r Medium to good: $3.50 to $3.50.
mostly $500 per cwt.
Common: $500 to $500, mostly
$500 per cwt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $4,000 to SS1.OO.
mostly $49.00 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl; SLIPS to $1.65. mostly
LIGHT BREEDS
Bantam chickens: $50 to $50.
mostly $50.
TURKEYS
Hen: $500 to $500, mostly S4.OO
RABBITS
Large breeds: $50 to s1.1O.
mostly S1.00.
Small breeds: $50 to $50, most
ly $50.
Young rabbits: S.25 to $.45, most
EGGS
Ungraded, mixed: $50 to S.65
per dozen.
Pullet: $50 to S.S7 per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
.SQUASHESs s.55 10 s.85 Der
bushel.
CABBAGE: $.75 per bushei.
SQUASHES: $.55 to S.s5 per
bushel.
SNAP BEANS: S1.I0 to s1.2s
per % bushel.
APPLES: s1.OO to s1.6s mar
ASPARAGUS: S.S5 to as per
bunch.
PEAS: s1.S5 to $3.50 Der basket.
LARD: $500 per so 10. can.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
WHO CAN WAIT 100 YEARS9

Those "Time Capsules" that are
to be opened in another hundred
years or hereabOuts, will not, we
fear, provide nostalgia memories
for us, or anyone we know, or even
our youngest grandchildren.
But, on June 4th, 1878. at White
Plains, N. Y, the most practical
of these buried treasures" will
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
1T TAKES TIME TO CHANGE
FEDERAL OFFICERS


the government?
The obvious answer, of course, is that
the President has this power, and discharges
it through his cabinet members and other
tOp-leVel appOintees. That is theoretically
true. But, in actual practice, the situation
isn't nearly so simple nor clear-cut.
In one of his Newsweek columns, under
the significant title "The Shackles Of Vic
tory" Raymond Moley wrote: "a conquer
ing general who turned statesman, the Duke
Of Wellington, once said that nothing eX-
cept battle lost can be half so melancholy
as a battle won' Another victorious general
turned statesman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, is
probably thinking something exactly like
that. For this warrior who hurled armies
across Europe is beating futile blows against
the rubber wall of bureaucracy. He cannot
as of this date administer his government
because he lacks the very vitalS of control.
He can and has appointed group of what
are technically called top pOlicymaking Off
GERS. They, like the President, are GulliVers
bound down by LllliputiOnS, without whom
they can know nothing and do nothing but
because of whom they cannot effectively
carry out the policies and promises of their
party"
Mr. Moley went on to cite some examples.
According to him, Secretary Hobby has
some 10000 employees under her, but when
she took over she had only Is available job
openings. Secretary Weeks supposedly runs
$4,000 people, but he could fill only 1000
jobs, most of them of an extremely minor
nature. Secretary Benson found that he
could Immediately replace only 500 of his
more than $4,000 workers. Matters seem to
have been similar in the other branches and
departments.
AS Mr.. Moley pointed out, the vast army
of hOld-over government employees includes
many people of high ability and integrity
But it is an obvious fact that the great ma
jOrity of them got their jobs because they
had served the opposition party well, and it
would be unreasonable to expect them to feel
any real enthusiasm for the man who finally
defeated the forces of the New Deal and the
Fair Deal
That this poses tremendous problem to
the Eisenhower Administration goes without
saying. 1t stands in the way of rebuilding
the Republican party through the disposition
of patronage. Patronage is a word in bad
OdOr in many quarters, but it stands for one
of the salient and basic facts of political life,
regardless of what men or what party happen
to be on top. Patronage, which simply means
jobs, is one of the roots of party strength
Honestly and wisely used, it can create Vigor
and efficiency within the government.
Little by little, of course, the faces behind
the government desks will change. But it
will be a slow prOcess-much slower than the
top Administration officials apparently real
lied when they took over.
This is symptomatic of the enormous
change that has taken place in government.
Without arguing the virtues and evils of what
has happened, it is apparent that government
has grown so swiftly, and in many instances
so haphazardly, that effective control is un-
believably difficult. Attempting to rectify this
Administration will face.
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