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Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
4730 FL Cerrito
Sacramento 18, Calf.
May 10, 1853

4730 FL Cerrito
Sacramento 18, Calf.
May 10, 1853
Dear Friends:-
I'm three thousand miles away
from my mother on this Mothers
Day Of 1853, but maybe next year
that can be rectified. Happy Mo-
theirs Day anyway, Mother.
This week for sure has been q
busy one. Monday, the 4th, at
.7:40 a. m, Mrs. James o. Dicker-
son and Miss Jean Dennis from
Salisbury, arrived for their visit
with us. They looked tired after
their three-day train ride, but after
resting in our lanai they soon were
ready to start the schedule we had
planned for them.
Tuesday a big, big event hap
pened Our big girl, Lynne, lost
her first tooth. Sure did make her
grow up over night. She looks like
a real school girl now. She had al
ready gone to bed and We were
playing Argentina (similar to Sam
ba and Canasta-this Jean and
Gladys brought to us from the
Eastern ShOre-we had never play
ed befOre) and Lynne called Hayes
in the bedroom and they were in
there for some time, when all of a
sudden Lynne ran out with Hayes
and Dawn following, yelling and
laughing and when / looked I got
my first glimpse of Lynne being
snaggle tOothed.
Wednesday something else hap,
pened. Hayes received his assign.
ment. We are headed for the mid
west when he graduates from this
"three-headed monster" school in
the middle of June. Our base viii
be Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka
Kansas. That will bring us about
1900 miles closer to Milford, but il
still isn't as close as we would
have liked to be.
Thursday we went out to th'
base and met Hayes for lunch anC
then showed the girls Town anC
Country Village, which is a su
burb of Sacramento on the OppO
site side of town from where e
Cerrito Way is.
Friday we headed for Carmel
which is right on the Pacific Ocean
1t is about four hours away from
Sacramento and every minute o
the ride was just beautiful. W.
thought so often of our friends a
home, who are farmers, who woult
have enjoyed the acres of oniol
fields something I never ,remem
ber seeing befOre), the immacu
lately kept fruit orchards witt
their irrigation and smudge pots
and seeing Castroville which is tn
artichOke center of the wOrbd. A
you probably know the California
state flower is the yellow pOpp,
and the fields right now look jus
like an artist had painted them.
On the way down to Carmel W
went in the Mission of San JOS
| which was built in 1897 and to thi
day is used as a retreat by nun
and priests. The mission, in thos
early years, was influential in or
ganizing the people in the area t
raise their own crops, thereby sup
/ plying their own foOdstuffs, whicl
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
MEXICAN SPEED PROBLEM

MEXICO CITY R Faster
traffic on the road to Acapulco is
promised, but nobody win mind
that. There is little to see between
Taxco and the Pacific Coast resort,
as popular with Mexicans as with
foreign tourists
The communications ministry
warned holiday-makers repair
work on the road is still going on.
1t said there would he slow stretch
es and dusty spots. But it promised
the improvements later would
make up for the present nuisance.
The ministry said the driving
time would be cut from eight
hours to six hours, 81 minutes. AZ
an average speed of 40 miles an
hour. 1t said the road would hs
safe but not as safe for drivers
who want to cover the 26O miles
in five hcues.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15

might sell power cheaper, regard
less of it's real cost. But it's not
likely that the present Congress
would vote the money, and those
who need Snake River electricity
would have long wait.
Most important, however, is this
evidence of new attitude in Gov
ernment, a refusal to accept the
lOng-established shibboleth that
where natural resources are con-
cerned the Government can do no
wrong and business can do no right.
Secretary Mckay has made it
clear that Helrs Canyon is an in
cident, single decisiOn-not an
indicator of policy. But it can dem
Onstrate, we hope, that free enter
prise is in the public interest-in
electric power as elsewhere.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
BIG BERTHA. 1853

The 1rst atomic cannon will fire
the first live atomic shell at French
mans Flat May 23rd. But the mat
ter CT getting the cannon out there
was quite an achievement in itself.
In fact, two Of the so ton monsters
were dismantled, loaded in four
freight cars each, and given special
routing over railroads having wide
track clearances and good big tun-
nels.
We hope, if the military is set
ting any store by this weapon,
that they have designed some jun
ior models for travel abroad.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
MIeHT RE eoop PRAcTIcE

INV t0A-
Harry F. Guggenheim, winner of
the annual award of the American
Meteorological Society, made a
speech to the annual meeting of
the society in Washington the other
day. 1T may be a long way in the
future, but it is not impossible to
believe that we can some day con-
troll the weather over Russia.
We could withhold moisture from
them or else drench them in tor
rental rains by seeding clouds"
But what we'd like to know is,
why doesn't he start improving on
OURS? Does he think it's per-
feet?
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
THE "LITTERBUG" SEASON
APPROACHES

The season for "Litterbugs" and evan
dalbugs" is approaching for the rural sec
tions of Delaware. Now just what are these
twin nuisances? While they have been
known for years, recognition of their men
ace to the beauty of our rural landscape is
Just beginning to assume the importance
which it deserves. The ''litterbug," no mat
ter where he travels, makes his presence
known by the trail which he leaves. The re-
mains of lunches-empty beer cans, garbage
and all conceivable kinds of waste-fOllOw
him and his clan wherever he travels. While
a nuisance and a menace to public health, he
is probably secondary to the "vandalbug" in
his destruction of public and private prop
erty. The hunting Vandal still aims his gun
or rifle at anything in the name Of fun. He
shoots holes in farmers milk cans, destroys
roadside traffic MARKERS makes signs un-
readable, mutilates fruit trees and destroys
vegetable crops at the drop of bucket. He
has been known to shoot prize live stock.
All this is done in the name of pleasure and
a days outing. Other vandals still set forests
on fire with the flip of a cigarette or with a
deliberate match. Hundreds of families from
the cOOped-up cities go wild once they get
out-Of-dOOrs. They cut down wild flowers
and shrubs, decorate public rest rooms with
obscene pictures and language and make a
general nuisance of themselves. The high
ways and wooded areas have become waste
baskets and garbage disposal units for these
incOnsiderate VandalS. The season ap-
proaches for this annual nuisance. Public
authorities will be kept busy watching them
here in Delaware during the next several
months. Persons who practice this Vandal-
ism should be punished to the fullest extent
of the law.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15

can answer that question with conviction
and those who carry the heavy responsibility
of framing high policy are treading warily.
At tie same time, some hard-headed experts
think that Russian may be pretty much on
the level this time-if only for the reason
that's he has more than enough headaches
to deal with at home, and hasn't the resources
and energies to spare for costly foreign ad-
ventures.
In any event, the President has given this
country and the world as clear and as posi-
tive program of principle as anyone could
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
"TRANSCENDENT FACTS"

Herbert HOOvers latest address to the
American people dealt with federal sOciali-
zatiOn of electric power. In his view, the
government should get out of the power
business as swiftly as possible, in order to
begin the end of federal bureaucratic reg
iOnal control of the states and their people" :"
In the course of his talk, the ex-Presi-
dent pointed out that in the electric field
there are certain "tranScendent facts" These
are, in his words: First. Under the initia-
tive of free men we developed the technology
and use of electricity far beyond any other
country.
Second. Stemming from private enter
prise, we have created a per capita supply
of electrical power for our people three times
that of the combined Western European ma
tiOns and eleven times the average of the
whole foreign world.
Third. Private enterprise could keep
pace with demand, and could have more ad-
vantageOusly distributed the power from fed
eral water conservation projects.
Fourth. With our advancing technology
and individual initiative, the average price
of household electric power is sold today by
our private enterprise utilities at One-third
Oof the price of 80 years ago. :. There is no
such parallel in any other commodity"
These are facts-nOt matters of opinion.
In a free country, there can be no excuse
for government participating in any busi-
ness activity which is within the ability of
taXpaying private enterprise. The light and
power industry has proven beyond question
that it can meet any need, and undertake the
very largest and most costly prOjects-and
sell the resultant power at low, regulated
rates while paying out more than 20 per
cent of its revenues to government in taxes.
Mr.. HOOVer'S position, like that of former
Mobilization Director Wilson and others, is
unassailable. Government should get out of
the power business, and a start toward that
end should be made at once.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
IMPLICATIONS OF EISENHOWER'S
SPEECH

Few speeches of recent times have been
received with the enthusiasm given the one
made by President Eisenhower before the
American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Many agreed with David Lawrence, long a
fortnight critic of our foreign policy, who
called it, "The greatest address of our times
on international affairs. :" The President
himself obviously considered it to be of top
impOrtance-he was painfully i'll with food
poisoning but insisted on making the address
In person against the advice of his doctors.
1t was not the speech of an extremist. He
did not reject recent Russian peace Overtures
nor did he accept them at face value. He
laid down positive program for ending to-
days hot and cold wars, and with it set of
principles which hold that self-government
and free elections for all nations are inalien-
able, and are the key to peace. He told the
Kremlin, in effect, that it could have peace or
war, as it may choose, and pledged that the
United States is ready to serve "the needs,
rather than the fears, of the world" There
was no shred Of appeasement in the speech
and there was no arrogance or saber rafting
either.
The President took the large view that
Korea is simply part of a worldwide prob
len-not separate problem, complete in
itself. This of course, is the view that prac-
tieally all informed observers hold. And he
called upon the Soviet Union to cooperate in
lied as follows:
1. An immediate end to hostilities in Kor-
ca, coupled with political discussions leading
to the holding of free elections in a United
Korea 2. An end to the communist-inspired
wars in Indochina and Malaga. 3. Al treaty
for Austria which will free that unhappy
little nation from economic exploitation and
military occupation. 4. An end to the division
of Germany, which he termed unnatural, and
the establishment of "a free and united Ger
many, with a government based upon free
and secret elections"
The key to everything he said, as David
Lawrence also pointed out g. is self
government-the right of every people, in
cluding the Soviet people, to choose their
own form of government"
Not long ago the reaction of Russia to
this would, in all probability, have been one
more campaign of vilificatiOn Of the Presi-
dent, the United States and the free world.
II was not the case this time. Pravda which
IS always the voice Of the Krernlin. treated
the speech guardedly but politely and printed
q summary Of it. High Soviet spokesmen
spoke IN general terms Of Russia's desire to
work with the United States and the rest Of
the world to end war and assure peace.
So matters stand now. The great uues-
ton IS whether Russia is sincere-or whe-
ther her current peaceful attitude is simply
blind to lull to sleep the Western world. to
cause cutback in the defense program. and
thus to prepare the stage for more extensive
Soviet aggression on a future date. No one
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
COURAGE AND WISDOM

Secretary of Agriculture Benson believes
that farming should be part of the free enter
prise system and that government aid should
be used only as an emergency measure.
Some people seem to think that this atti-
tude will lead to political death for Mr.. Ben
son. But recent piece by cOlumnist Holmes
Alexander takes a different and much hap
pier view. He interviewed the Secretary Just
after his return from a speaking tour and
wrote: "OVerflOW crowds had applauded his
calls to freedom. Hundreds of persons had
shaken his hand and wished his efforts well.
BensOn's mail runs Is to / in favorable re-
SpOnses. The seriOus-minded economists
whom he's brought into the department can
find for you statistical proof that the secre-
tary's judgment about farm people is cor
rect"
It looks as if more and more farmers are
realizing that government should not and
cannot be a source of endless largesse. And
certain important Segments of agriculture, il
is pleasure to report, want no part of either
bureaucratic domination or cOddling. The
beef producers are a fine example of this.
The biggest recent price breaks have taken
place in beef Some cattle raiserS and feed
,ers have been hit with very heavy cash losses
But the beef people have not run to Wash
ington or showed their Congressman under
with demands for government relief. Their
attitude has been quite the cOntrary-spokes-
men for major producers organizations have
made it crystal clear that they prefer to take
their chances in the free market.
Secretary Benson is showing both cour
age and wisdom. And he is getting a great
deal of thoroughly earned backing.
NR~GmR~G
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
TAXES ON TAXES

In the weller OF dramatic news which
cOnfronts newspaper readers and radio lis
teners these days, many an important devel-
Opment is Obscured or overlooked.
That was true of one of President Eisen-
hower's recent messages to Congress in
which he recommended establishment of a
commission to study federal grants-in-aid
to the states. The President said: 'In many
cases, especially within the past 20 years,
the federal government has entered fields
which, under our Constitution, are the pri-
mary responsibilities of state and local gov
ernments. This has tended to blur the re-
sponsibilities of local government. It has
led to duplication and waste. It is time to
relieve the people of the need to pay taxes
on taxes"
That statement can proftably be read in
connection with one made by Representative
Ostertag Of New York, who said g. gov
ernment cannot give anyone something for
nothing. Government can only give you what
it has first taken from you, and it keeps its
brokerage fee in the process"
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
WHO HAS THE MOST 10 GAIN?

The old illusion that the cost of govern
ment isn't too important to the average fam
lily because it can be paid by soaking the
rich dies hard.
Today, the rich pay extremely heavy
taxes-the federal personal income tax alone
reaches top of 90 per cent. Even so, their
tax contributions meet only a small part of
the total cost Of government, for the plain
reason that there aren't enough of them.
According to the Tax Foundation. last
year family with $500 year paid S1 ,O97
almost third-in direct and hidden taxes.
It's the people of moderate and small means
who pay most Of the cost of government and
who have the most to lose from wasteful
government and the most to gain from eco
nonical government.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Chicuoo Livestock

CHICAGO. July 90 R. (USDA)-sal-
able hogs, 5000; moderately active, GEN
orally steady on butchers and steady to
% lower on sows: most choice 190-24Q
pound butchers, 81 7:00-2725: 27.4Q paid
sparingly: most 250-2S0 pounds. 26. 90
$1,000: few to 300 pounds to $500; few
160-1S0 pounds, "a. .00-26.75: most sows.
400 pounds and under, 21.25-23.75; few
$4,000: bulk 100000 pounds, 1900
21 80: good clearance.
Salable cattle, 10000: salable calves,
700: slaughter steers and heifers. grad
ing good and better moderately active,
so to 100 higher than last weeks close:
commercial and below, steady to so
higher: few early sales cows and bulls,
fully steady but later trade slow and
weak: vealers, weak to ! 90 lower: choice
and prime steers and yearlings. 1920
1850: mainly 26.00-29.00: load or so
held above $3.50: commercial to low
choice streets, 2O.00-25.O0; high-good to
high-choice heifers, 23.00-26.50: several
loads held higher: utility and commercial
cows, 12.OO-15. so; Gamers and cutters,
1000 2. 90; most utility and commercial
yealers od5.oo-22.oo Gull and utility
Salable sheep. 1900: slaughter lambs,
fully 80 lower than late last week:
yearlings absent: ewes steady: most good
to prime spring lambs, "a .0n-2S.00: few
2S.25-2s.50: cnll and utility. 1900
1900. most cnll to choice slaughter
ewes. O0-605s
Evening star., 1953-07-20

president and treasurer but it is
understood he will remain as a
consultant. He has served as
principal finance officer for the
company for more than 20 years.
Also effective August l, are
six other executive changes.
Howard P. Noyes, vice president
and general manager of the gas
company since March, 1949, is
being promoted to senior vice
president.
Other promotions:
Otis H. Ritenour to vice presi-
dent-f1nance, Donald S. Bit
finger to vice president-opera-
tions, Wylie w. Barrow to treas
urer, c. Oscar Berry to general
counsel and Richard H. Bussard
to manager of purchasing and
stores department.
The promotion of Mr.. Noyes
Evening star., 1953-07-20
By Nelson M. Shepord

leading organizations as unneces-
Sary.
New car dealers see no need
for credit regulations" Mr.. Bell
added. There is no cause, as
we see it, for alarm"
NADIA will be represented at the
meeting by Robert S. Armacost,
president, Kansas City; j. M. San
ders, treasurer, District of Colum-
bia; Mr.. Bell, executive vice
president; Foster w. Talbot
Baltimore; Alton M. Costley, East
Point, Ga. and Harold j. Moye,
Newton, Mass. The headquarters
OF the association is at 1926 Sew
enteenth street NV.
General Motors Acceptance Corp
will be represented by its presi-
dent, John j. Schumann, jr,
Among other finance companies
to be represented is the CONNER
cial Credit Corp. of Baltimore,
Paul M. WEIGH, chairman, INSTALL
ment Credit Commission, Ameri-
can Bankers Association, is an
other. More than a half dozen
banks and credit companies have
accepted invitations.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Market Averages
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK. July 20 QP,.-Foreign
exchange rates follow (Great Britain
in dollars, others in centS):
Canadian dollar in New York open
market 20 1872 per cent premium or
lo0.90ss United states cents up IL
Europe: Great Britain tpound)
g. 81 up ,s Of 9 cent; Great. Britain,
3O-day futures, 2.S1 ", up ,s If a cent
Great Britain. 60-day futures, 2SOls,
up ,ls of a cent; Great Britain. 9O-day
gium (ranc) "o0!. up ,00E Of a cent;
France Granc) .2S5s of cent. un-
changed; Holland tguilder) 1884. un-
changed; Italy Qira) 1913 of a cent,
unchanged; Portugal (escudo) $50. un-
changed: Sweden (krona) 1885, un-
changed; Switzerland franc) (free)
23.3413. unchanged; Denmark (krona)
1852. unchanged.
Latin America: Arsentina uree) 7.24.
unchanged: Brazil free) 2.45, un-
chsnged; Mexico, 1888, unchanged:
Venezuela tbolivar) 3O.O3. UNCHANGED
Far East; Hong Kong dollar. 1880.
unchanged
Evening star., 1953-07-20
YuqosIuvs Cominu Here

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, July
20 R.-Tanjug, the official
Yugoslav news agency. an
nounced yesterday Yugoslavia
will send a military delegation
to Washington next month. An
invitation was extended from
Washington for discussions of
military assistance. Tanjug's
announcement did not identity
any members of the delegation.
Evening star., 1953-07-20

will place that officer second to
Everett j. Boothby, president, in
charge Of the company's execu-
tive affairs. He has been with
the gas company since 1910.
having previously served II
years with Pennsylvania and
New Hampshire utilities. From
April, 1852 to last April, he was
on leave as assistant deputy ad-
miniStrator in the Petroleum Ad-
ministration for Defense.
Hot Shoppes Selected
Hot Shoppes, Inc. of Washing
ton is one Of three firms chosen
to operate restaurants along the
427-mile route of the new super
expressway between New York
and Buffalo. The New York State
Thruway Authority reported Hot
shoppes agreed to pay $3.50 900 a
year for the privilege of operating
along the route.
Cost Accountants Meetino
Paul Imler, president of the
Washington chapter, National
Association of Cost Accountants,
has called a meeting of the board
of directors for 7:30 p m. Wednes-
day at the Willard Hotel. Board
members will have completed
their plans for the current years
program of accounting educa-
ton, service and special activi-
ties, upon which reports will be
made.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Gold Ring Found
In Cube Of OIeo
BY the Asseeioted Press

HOBART, Okla. - You've
heard people who examine
oysters hoping to find a pearl.
Mrs. Fain Muldowney hit the
jackpot in a cube Of oleo-
margarine.
The housewife was mixing a
cake when her knife hit some
thing hard as she whitfield off a
piece of oleo. Inside was a IA
karat gold ring with a center
diamond f1anked by smaller
stones.
A Hobart jeweler examined
the ring and said the stones
were genuine.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
College Sets Workshop
On Cancer Education
Special Dispoteh 10 The Stor


HARRISONBURG, Va, July
20.-A special workshop in can
Ger education opened today at
Madison College. sponsored by
the biology department and the
State division Of the American
Cancer Society.
Several teachers will benefit
from $40O scholarships awarded
by the Society. DR.. M. c. Shaw
yer, associate professor OF bi-
ology at the college will direct
the workshop.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Tulip Bulbs Sprout
Far From Planting Site
BY the Assoeiossd Press

PROVO, Utah-Sterling Err
canbrack planted a half nushel
Of tulip bulbs in his garden last
fall.
But the choice bulbs were
stolen.
The mystery. cleared when the
bulbs bloSsomed high on noun
tainSide above Mr.. Ercanbrack's
canyon home. Squirrels had
cached them there for future use
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Loan League Gains Exceed First Estimates

The growth Of the Nation S
savings and loan associations
was larger by $243, ,841 900 during
1852 than earlier estimates had
indicated it was disclosed today.
It set an all-time record.
The official summary, released
by Charles L. Clements, presi-
dent of the United States Saw
ings and Loan League, revealed
that total assets stood at $22,-
667. .479.000 at the close of last
year. This represented an in
crease in assets during the 12-
month period ending December
81 of $3,493,841,000. Earlier
league estimates had put the
growth at approximately 1925
billion and the year-end total at
$22.5 billion.
Mr.. Clements pointed out that
the 1852 rise in assets was largest
for any year in the history of the
savings and loan business. They
exceeded the previous record
growth of $2,289 billion set dur
ing 1851. Statistics compiled by
the leagues financial research
department showed net gains in
private savings held by savings
associations and in total mort
gage holdings.
The new record rise in savings
of $3.263 billion brought total
savings accounts up to $19,3O3
billion by the close of the year.
Meanwhile. the amount of mort
gage loans outstanding roee
$2,811 billion to a total of $18,-
495 ,650,00O.
According to the leagues
statement the steady rate of
growth in assets is continuing
through 1853 and it is now ex-
pected that this year will exceed
1852 SlIhSta nfia11U
Evening star., 1953-07-20

the workshop.
Evening star., 1953-07-20
Cos Light Promotions

Approaching executive changes
in the Washington Gas Light
Co. were confirmed today.
Robert c. Overs, 65, retires at
the end of the month as vice