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Evening star., 1953-06-03
Contract Bridqe
WaShIngtOn, D. e.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1853
Ry EosIey BIockWood

Contract Bird ge
By EosIey BIockwood
The one thing that comes
closest to making you give up
the game nobody ever really
does give it up, of course) Is hav-
ing an opponent make q devas-
tatingly fine play against you.
unknowingly.
East dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
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(Mr. Muzzy) (Mr. Dale)
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Pass
This sort Of thing is irritating
in some degree, even to the mild
est Of players.
Here's the way it came up in
today's deal. Mr.. Champion ef-
fectively choked OF the bidding
by leaping to four spades over
Mr.. Deals one-diamond opening.
Mr.. Muzzy led his lone dia-
l1aond and Mr.. Dale won with the
6 Jack over dummy'S seven spot.
! The king of diamonds was re-.
turned and Mr.. Champion ruffed
with the queen Of spades.
Mr.. Muzzy did not overruff but
discarded the nine Of hearts.
The reason for this was that
he had the king of spades IN
with his clubs and thought he
had only the lone duece Of
spades.
Naturally, Mr.. Champion now
placed the king Of spades with
Mr.. Dale. Obviously there was
no use flnesSing and the only
hope was that Mr.. Dale had the
6 king of spades all alone.
At trick three, then, the jack
OF spades was led, Mr.. Muzzy
played the deuce and the ace
was put up in dummy. Mr..
champion looked expectantly
for the king to drop-but Mr..
Dale'S card was the four.
Well, there was no cause for
alarm. A spade, q diamond and
q heart could be lost and Mr..
Champion would still win 10
tricks. If the heart f1nesse lost,
the two small hearts in the
closed hand could be ruffed with
dummy'S two small trumps. Mr..
Muzzy could not lead a trump
back after winning with the king
of hearts because the only trump
out, the king, was in Mr.. Dale's
hand.
Or so Mr.. Champion thought.
4, He took the f1nesse of the queen
of hearts and Mr.. Muzzy won
and laid down the king of
spades, looking very guilty.
Guess I revoked" he said.
"I just noticed this card. It
was in with my clubs"
You didn't revoke" said Mr..
Dale. "Trumps have only been
led once and you followed suit
with the deuce"
Mr.. Champion was holding his
head.
Beat because some dope gets
his cards mixed up," he moaned.
He realized that if Mr.. Muzzy
had overruffed at trick two, his
game would have been easy.
AS the hand was played, how
ever, Mr.. Muzzy's delayed lead
of the king of spades left only
one trump on the board-to ruff
two losing hearts.
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Evening star., 1953-06-03
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Evening star., 1953-06-06
Some Lenders Worry
That Others Are Not
Making EnoughL Loans
BY Robert J. Lewis

The Eisenhower administra-
t1on's policy of boosting interest
rates seems to have failed, so far,
both as means of helping to
solve the Governments refinanc-
ing woes and of adequately in
creasing the supply of mortgage
money for GI and FHA loans, in
the opinion of many responsible
sources here.
AS a result, some responsible
people in the mortgage industry
are beginning to worry once
again over the prospect that
Congress may turn to direct Gov
ernment loans in greater volume
in order to satisfy the demand
for mortgage funds.
AS things look today. the
Treasury Departments new fiscal
policy seems to have opened a
vista Of higher and higher costs
to the Government for debt man
agement-and, as a corollary, it
has seemed to encourage an in
creasingly ravenous appetite for
higher and higher interest rates
on home mortgages.
In spite of the assurance by
mortgage lenders that all that
was needed was a boost in inter-
est rates to bring out an ade-
quate supply of mortgage money
and bring an end to evils inher-
ent in discount practices. money
hasn't appeared in much more
adequate supply and many Of
the discount practices continue.
Builders are crestfallen, Gov
ernment housing agencies are
trying to hide their disappoint-
ment ,and even mortgage bank
ers see danger signals in the
f1aSco.
In a special appeal to mort
gage lenders. the head of che
Mortgage Bankers Association of
America this week said fatty
that if private e-enterprise lenders
don't shoulder responsibility for
providing money for home loans,
direct Government action might
result"
"As representatives of free en-
terprise and as cuStodians of
the Nations thrift funds, we
cannot afford to lose sight of
the fact that there is something
more at stake at this crucial
time than the question of yield
alone, as important as that may
be-" said Brown L. Whatley,
president of the organization.
There is a job to do" he con-
tinued. IF private business can.
not shoulder it, then the Govern
ment again will surely step in.
None should appreciate more
than we the fact that direct
Government lending is totally
incompatible with the traditions
of the American system"
Locally. the availability Of
mortgage funds is described as
little changed, though this week
brought an exceptional case. The
Kay Construction Co., one of
the areas large-scale home con-
struction firms, announced it
had been able to arrange G1
financing for some homes cost
ing SIS 200. on the basis of 30
year mortgages at Az per cent
interest rate, with a down pay
ment amounting to just a bit
over per cent.
It's been a long time since such
long-term mortgage financing
has been available but, so far as
is known, this is one of the few
cases-if not the only case-of
Continued on Page R.4 Col AZ
Evening star., 1953-06-06

Continued ON Page B-4. Col. 81
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23

NOT so SIMPLE

Why do people patronize one store-and
pass right by the doors of another store?
The head of an association which repre-
sents food chains gave a general answer
to that question in these words: "People like
to do business with people thew like. 1t is
almost as simple as that-but the processes
by which you get people to like you may not
be simple. Public opinion is the combination
of many likes and dislikes. many attitudes,
many acts. Public opinion determines where
peOnle snend their money day after dav:
public opinion influences what stores will be
profitable, what stores will fail"
Different Deople obviously. want and seek
different kinds of goods. different kinds of
services, different attractions of manv sorts.
Back of all the prOmotiOnal and public rela-
tions activities of the merchant. from adj
vertising to improved employee training. is
the desire to attract as many people into his
store as pOssible-in other words, to make
people like him. And that will always be
true so long as we have a free market and
r--o-, o0s>--1oAi4iN-,
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23
Farm Mutual Forced
To Advance Rates

More accidents and higher claims
payments have required the Farm
Bureau Mutual Automobile Insur-
ance Company to boost its rates for
passenger cars and trucks in Della
ware, c. w. Leftwich, vice presi-
dent-actuarial, announced today.
Bodily injury and property dam
age rates on passenger cars have
been raised an average of 1877
per cent, Mr.. Leftwich said. The
new rates took effect October l.
This is the first rate increase
Farm Bureau Insurance has made
in Delaware since 1947. Rates were
decreased in 1913 and again in
1850. The current increase, which
follows last years 25 per cent boost
Throughout most of the insurance
industry, brings Farm Bureaus
rates back up to their approximate
1947 level.
Rate increases for bodily injury
and property damage coverages on
trucks range from 10 per cent on
class 3 trucks (which do hauling
for hire) to 20 per cent on class 4
(such as wholesalers delivery
trucks). Truck collision rates had
to be raised 20 per cent on $3.50
deduetible policies.
Mr. Leftwich said that in Della
ware. higher accident frequency
and increases in the cost Of auto
repairs during the year ending
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23
Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson Taylor

quick attack and its wake of des-
tructiOn," Commerce Secretary Sin
clair Weeks told members and more
than 500 guests of the National
AerOnautical Association at a
dinner in Washington the other
night "Such lack of vision has ap-
peared before in history" he said.
The advent of sail, steam and gaso-
line also reused regrets among
those with limited points of view
and little faith"
No doubt MIR. Weeks could have
gone farther in pressing his belief
that the airplane is a greater in
strument of peace than of war.
Perhaps he restrained himself be-
cause of the Presidents recent
breakdown on free-wheeling COM
ments on atomic developments. But
in any case the night after the
dinner celebrating the fiftieth
anniversary of powered fight, Radio
Commentator Morgan Beatty re-
vealed that space-travel via guided
missile is practically here!
/ The government, says Mr.. Beatty,
is contracting with Pan American
World Airlines to conduct tests ex-
pected to prove pilOt-less device is
practical for pOint-tO-point trans
pOrtatiOn. The proving operations
with the rOcket-like prOjectiles
under electronic control will be
conducted on the Airline's Carri-
bean bases. and in cooperation with
the Radia Corporation of America
Thus a weekend should soon be
ample for that trip to the moon
But it doesn't help a bit in getting
from home to work, and we still
have the problem of finding a place
to park.
DDT From The White House
1t is now official that a govern
ment job is not right, but a privi-
lege.
By executive order, President
Eisenhower has cut off the sub.
versive Federal Workers retreat
behind the Fifth Amendment. ANY
emplOye of Uncle Sam who refuses
to testify before a Congressional
committee on the well-worn ground
that it may tend to incriminate him
may now be summarily fired.
1t is important to note that, as
a citizen. he may still so testify il
he wishes to use his Constitutional
privilege. But the Constitution was
never intended to offer anybody
job protection.
AS a matter of fact, it seems
pretty silly to think that a Presi.
Dental directive was required tt
stiffen the backbone of a bureau
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23

chief sufficiently to fire a worker
who refused to say whether or not
he was a member of a conspiracy
to destroy our country by force and
violence.
But we must still wait to see
whether even this authority is
sufficient to get more of the blattae
Orientalii Chats Latin for cock
rOaches) out of the federal wood
work.
Alarum
The fact that a Democrat was
elected to Congress from the Ninth
District Of Wisconsin for the first
time in history-and on the very
day of the biggest birthday party
ever held-for anyone, anytime,
anywhere" in Hershey, Pa, has
been widely viewed as catastrophe
evidence of the rejection of the
Eisenhower farm policy, of Agricul-
ture Secretary Benson, and for that
matter, of the whole COP by the
nations farmers.
Insofar as this incident will Jolt
the smugness out of Republican
Party leaders generally, it is all to
the good. Traditionally, victory has
made them deaf, dumb and blind to
shifts in public attitude-until a
landslide, away from them, was in
the making.
: But we question the Wisconsin
tremOr was agricultural. In the first
place, wedoubt if there are enough
farmers in the district to explain
COngressman-elect Lester JohnsOn's
$500 majority. 1t could be that he
was better campaigner than State
Senator Arthur Padrutt, his Repub-
lican opponent. And the Senator
was certainly at some disadvantage
in running for the seat occupied
for so many years by the late
Congressman Merlin Hull, who
was a "LaFolIette" Republican, and
had not been a conspicuous sup
porter of Eisenhower policies
and for whom the Ninth District
electorate had formed the habit OF
voting.
More likely, these detecting voters
were just impressed with the Pad
rutt platform. which was not merely
II like Ike" but like is always
right"
Those recent polls on Ike's pop
ularity" could be most deceptive
You can love a man like a brother
and still be mighty worried over
his performance in oflce-especially
If it's the office of the President OF
the United States.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23

cOuntry-estate style on an income so small
that the tax people can hardly afford to open
my annual envelope" And he does this, he
continues, in 'the only way know of to do it,
with the hands. Quite simply it involves a
mans doing for himself many of the things
that most Americans in clean-hands jobs
had come to rely upon paying others to do"
He goes into considerable detail both
about the tangible results that can be obtained
(accOrding to him, he has acquired home
for $4,000 which would have cost $4,000 if
built and financed in the normal way) and
about the motives He cites the economic one,
of course quoting a statement from Time in
which lumber dealer said, "It's simple
economic fact that $75-a-week bOOkkeeper
can't buy the services of a $50 carpenter"
But he emphasizes the other, nOnmaterial
factors too. To qOute him once more, Taking
part in so many kinds of work impresses me
as a gain in itself, and l am not sorry that
my children are growing up to know that a
house or a chair or a sidewalk is made Of
something besides money and hired labor"
The dO-it-yOurself movement is by no
means universal. The professional mechanics
and artisans are keeping busy for the most
part. But it has grown to an amazing extent
in very short period of time, and no end is
in sight.
G~GOGG
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23

being devised to carry people from
Grand Central Station to Times
Square, New York City.
1O) l am particularly interested
in getting power, heat light, and
refrigeration from Solar Radiation.
Statistics show that the amount of
sunlight on an acre of land is equal
to thousand horsepower. A very
complete report on the future of
Solar Radiation appears in the
September issue of Fortune Maga-
zine.
CID Automatic Factories should
permit decrease of prices and should
allow workers more time for study
and leisure. They are destined to
increase rapidly in number. The
printing industry is already on the
verge of revolutionary changes
whereby it can get along with a
fraction Of it's present number of
employees. Shoe factories, cotto~
mills, and others will enter the
push-button stage where practical
ly the entire operation will be done
automatically. This will solve the
union labor problem.
In Conclusion. Economies is my
speciality. All this talk about making
prosperity permanent by legislation
is sheer nonsense, although Con-
gress can temporarily extend same
In the long run, property is depen-
dent upon us developing spiritually
and having better knowledge and
self-control, with a determination
to render service. Too few Of our
people have these all-important
qualities. Sometimes l think that
young ministers and school teach
ers have the greatest opportunities
for ir'p"cving conditions.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23

our thinking, analyzing, and may
become almost as common as the
adding machine.
(6) Watch SupersOnics. BY this
I mean very rapid mechanical vibra-
tions which are faster than sound
waves. Supersonics may completely
eliminate present washing machines
and other household utensils. They
have the power of cleaning metal
and even cutting metal. We first
had the electrical age; we are now
entering the electronic age; and
will some day enter the supersonic
age.
CD Vending Machines. Some years
ago we had vending machines in
railroad stations and on street
corners, but the industry got into
a bad rut because so many of
the machines were broken and the
products and money were stolen.
Now, with the introduction of self
service the vending machine is
protected within the store. It is
again. coming into it's own.
(S) Electric Power. The time is
coming when electric power, suf-
ficient to run home appliances, may
be broadcast like radio. Some even
claim that we will buy our electric
ity in batteries, which will be
brought to us once month like
bottled gas. This may give us
electricity for the household cheaper
than we could get it from the big
central power stations.
(9) The Conveyor Belt, coming
into use more for both people and
goods. This will develop into a new
industry, especially after the syn
thetic rubber plants are returned
to private industry. A belt is now
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23
VOTE ON THE SEWAGE DISPOSAL
PLANT REFERENDUM TODAY

Milford citizens will have an opportunity
today to express their opinions on the pro-
posed bond issue for SIZE, 900, the money to be
used for undermining and enlarging the sew
age treatment plant here. A referendum
election will be held at the Community
Building. There is no question about the
urgency of finding a remedy for our sewage
problem here in Milford. Every person in
terested in the welfare of our city wants it
solved as quickly as possibleEbut thew
want the right solution. AS we discuss the
problem with Milford property owners we get
confused picture of the thinking of local
residents. Many have allowed personalities
to enter the picture. Some just don't care
whether anything is done. Others want the
sewage problem solved once and for all. But
when the question is asked whether they will
support the proposed issue, an evasive answer
is generally given
A very poor job of selling the project has
been done by our city authorities. No person
likes to be driven to do anything. Yelled
lnferences, from some sources favorable to
the project, that the State Board of Health
might enter the picture and impose fines on
the City if this work is not done, have had
an adverse effect on many persons. Others
1eel that the city fathers have not been CO.
operating whOleheartedly in an effort to stop
the overlooking of the sewers in many sections
of Milford. Their argument generally ends
with this query, whats the use of building
additional disposal facilities if the sewage
ncannOt be delivered ito .the@pIant ?"~ They
have point there But advocates of the
project have an answer. They say 'What's
the use of clearing the sewers if there is no
place in which to empty them?' They are
right too. This matter will have to be ap-
preached with an open mind. There have
been mistakes in the past, many of recent
date, others were made years ago. These
mistakes are water over the dam. The prob
lem will not be solved by putting them into
the picture at this time Our citizens seem
to be confused enough in their thinking with
out dragging any more red 'herrings before
them. The opponents are more Outspoken
than the advocates as the voting time nears.
Milford voters, regardless of their feelings on
the problem, should go to the polls and vote.
We here at the Chronicle will not be surprised
at the outcome of today's ballOting, whether
for or against.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23
I'm THE AIR FORCE
By Eloine townsend Diekerson

stoves and then you're out of luck.
Ihey have learned it is economical
to have both.
My dining room table is the kind
that folds back against the wall
and yet with the extra leaves it
seats twelve. This seemed a good
kind for us to have because often
there is no dining area in a ranch
type house and my table could
easily double for a living room
table.
l love antique china and right
now much of mine is hidden away
In my kitchen cupboards. You can't
hang numerous plates, what-not
shelves, pictures, mirrors, sconees
on your walls as you would in
your own home unless you plan to
replaster before you leave.
Towels that 1 had at home often
are stored away because they do
not blend with the color scheme
OF our newest bathroom, and SO
you learn to buy cOlors that wiz
go with any color tone. You think
OF varying color schemes, too. when
you buy your draperies.
Something that I have not had
for two and half years is name
and address stationery. It's Just too
impractical.
There are many things that we
must supplant with items that are
harmonious with our life. but inst
the same the Air Force life gives
us so much more than it takes
away from us. Our children as we'll
as we ourselves have learned much
about our country, the habits Of
people from various states. We are
more tolerant of others and p,e
nope more broad minded toward
people and their characteristics
mannerisms, speech, dress and we
nave even learned to appreciates
tnelr food. A months vacation with
pay is something not to be over
looked either. My husband. beinp
professional soldier, changes orr
life in so many ways, but it's a
change we have all learned to EN-
JOY. The only real unhappy part
OF 1t is the fact that we're awav
from our family and friends so
much of the time.
Milford is such a nice home town
Until next week,
E. T. d.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-23
Farmer OF America

In the most moving, the most
eloquent, and probably the most
Om-the-shOulder speech
of his White House career thus far,
President Eisenhower told Ameri-
cas- up-coming farmers to what
they might look fOrward-in the
immediate future, and in the long
span of years that lay before them
as Americans farmers and Ameri-
can citizens
The thousands of Future Farm
ers of America who jammed the
great Kansas City Auditorium to
the doors, and who presented an
honorary degree, their highest
award, to the Chief Executive,
Farmer of America" listened
thOughtfully and quietly, breaking
into applause only occasionally
They applauded when he said: "No
one can hate war, crises and infla-
tion more than the farmer"
and again when he declared that
the formulation of a sound farm
policy would be a bipartisan under
taking. THE welfare of farm fami-
lies knows no politics. he said. 81
assure you there will be none in
this Administrations!
In his earnestness, his frank pre-
sentation of what he termed "the
disagreeable facts" the President
displayed new depths and new
powers of expression. Specifically
he promised that the price support
laws, expiring at the end of 1854
would be administered as written
that the price support principle
must be part Of any future farm
program. But the promise ht
stressed was that of opportunity
the chance to keep a free govern.
ment free"
'If work were thing of the past,
the President told his spell-bounC
audience, "all the fun and salts
faction in living would be gone"
And with all the intensity anC
fervOr of Winston Churchill in his
famous "back-to-the-wall' speecl
of the blitz days, when he promised
his cOuntrymen only blood, swea
and tears" President Eisenhowel
told the Future Farmers-and ovel
their shoulders, all the rest of US
that "Only he deserves America who
stands ready to give America every
thing he has"
1t was a speech that will b.
remembered.
Goodbye Buggy Whip
"The near-sighted may bewai
that the airplane shrinks thu
map and exposes distant havens t,