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Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
Washington Letter = By Robert Nelson Tuvlor

broom does as much sweeping in
two swipes as an old broom does
in seven or eight.
And the gals who are just begin
ming to keep house on their own,
we hear, have discovered that the
Old-fashioned broom is first-aid to
the new-fangled vacuum cleaner. 1t
gets into corners and cracks and
crannies more vigorously. It takes
care of the litter-cut paper, hunks
of crayOn, pencil stubs, lOlly-pop
sticks and broken toys on the play
room floor after a rainy day; snip
pings and pins and thread in the
sewing room; shavings, bits of
wood, nails and screws in Dads
wOrkshOp-the things that do not
agree with the digestion of the sue
tion-sweeper.
We mention all this just so you
won't be too surprised at the re-
turn of the horse-and-buggy. But
don't expect fringe on the top of
your new surrey. It's insanitary.
aa%R
Rx FOR PIX
We don't know, of course, Just
how many Army wives and sweet
hearts there are, to say nothing of
WACs, sisters, aunts and mothers;
but we think Representative Ken
Regan, (Dem) of Texas, is entitled
to some sort of decoration for brav-
cry. He may, in fact, qualify most
any day now for a Purple Heart,
too.
The courageous Mr.. Regan has
proposed that the U. S. Army stop
selling ladies' lingerie and other
feminine fripperies, and restrict its
merchandising to herman require
ments. Army PX's around his home
town, Ell Paso, he complains are
doing such a whale of a cut-rate
business in everything from lip
stick and jeweiry to electric refrig-
orators that the merchants are go
ing broke. It's not just Army per
sOnnel and their families that keen
the PIX jumping, he says, but the
shopping that Army people do for
all their friends as well.
Cul OAAy CAiClClSAu VI MT. hegan
would be that he does not go far
enough. 1t has seemed to us for
many years that the Army should
stop making like Macy and Wool
worth, and using tax money to
ruin some of the people who get it
up. Undoubtedly the original pur-
pose of the PIX was the same as
that of the "slop-chest" on a ship
to provide a source of small com
forts and luxuries outside of gen
eral-issue items for men far re-
moved from the marts of trade. It
never was intended to compete with
Main Street, and it shouldn't now.
And besides, sweating down the
PIX system would give Mr.. Wilson
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
SHORT COURSE IN FREEDOM

Free, competitive enterprise is the basis
OF our unequalled material wealth. It is also
the basic principle of system which puts
no limits on the economic or political achieve
ments of the Individual
Imparting to the youngsters of today an
understanding of that system is essential to
its preservation. Outstanding work is being
done by Junior Achievement, a national or
ganization which enables teen-agers, with the
help Of older businessmen, to own and oper-
ate enterprises. Local business organizations
last year sponsored 1865 Junior Achievement
companies, which are formed each autumn
and llquidated in the spring.
For the past six years the New York
stock Exchange has presented an award to
the outstanding Junior Achievement com
pany OF the year. This year first prize for
the best annual report of 1852 went to the
Tasty Treat Company, a Chicago manufac-
turer Of salad dressing, which was sponsored
oX Standard Oil Company of Indiana. IT'S
ofncers and directors were high school stu
aents ranging in age from IA to IL. During
the school year these young people with me
neip Of their advisors organized and selected
q name for the company, decided on BRO
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
4730 El Cerrito
Sacramento 1SN Calf.
June IL. 1853

NJ 1sAAsANO Ao11 GchAAAs
June II, 1853
Dear Friends:
The packers arrived at $3.50 this
morning and they must think I'm
crazy the way they look at me. as
| casually sit at my typewriter.
Usually write my columns on Fri
day but tomorrow they move our
furniture, and every thing else
that's to 60 to Topeka, and 1 knew
| would have no time to do this
then.
Last Friday, Lynne graduated to
the first grade and l went to school
to see play they gave, to let
Dawn enjoy the refreshments that
Lynne promised they would have,
and to say goodbye to Lynne's tea
cher, sweet Mrs. Brown and to be-
gin my week Of tears!
Saturday night FIVE couples of
US, who have been together since
we first came back in the service,
had a farewell party out at the
Ohicer's Club at Mather. The Len
Carmels, the Claud Peters, the Joe
Coxs, all from New York State, the
Jack Reillys from NOrristown, and
us, all were activated at the same
time and reported to MacDill in
March 1851. Now We are being
sent in different directions; to
Washington State, North Carolina,
Louisiana, South Dakota, and to
Kansas. Everyone thinks I'm an
unsociable soul. / had a wonder
ful time at the club all evening,
but when it was near time To 20
home l sneaked out Of the club so
no one would say goodbye to US
and see what a sentimentalist am.
Sunday afternoon we planned to
have buffet dinner at the club and
we asked Florence Tease and Bill
Moore from Oakland over for the
afternoon. Florence used to live in
Milford six years ago. We had a
wonderful time at the club eating
turkey, ham, roast beef and all the
luscious things they had to go with
dinner. After dinner the Bill Tier
mans from Milwaukee had invited
us over there for the evening and
as soon as introduced Florence.
Barbara said, "Bill, she's one Of
Hayes and Elaine's country
friends. Having just met the Tier
mans was afraid Florence might
think unfavOrably of our Air Force
Tiernans and tried to explain. The
Eiernans name all their friends.
They know Delightful Dottie"
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19

some more fighting men-iust when
he's anxious to get them off their
er-uh chairs.
sses
MORE PoWER-To WHOM?
In dedicating the worlds largest
earthen dam, that will impound the
waters of the Missouri in a 200
mile long man-make lake, Presi-
dent Eisenhower reminded the
States that they must assume their
full share in the operation of Gov
ernment. Unless they do, he said,
too much power will be cOncen-
trated in Washington.
This new Garrison Dam will pro-
vide food control, irrigation and
electric power. And we would as
sumo that the President includes
within the responsibility he urged
on the States, the management of
these functions, even to permitting
private, tax-paying farmers to wa
ter their lands from it-and private.
tax-paying power companies to dis
tribute the power.
If, as he said. there is too much
power -. in Washington" the peo-
pie will have to learn what to do
and what not to do from ''that dis
tant place."
PURELY CIRcUMSTANTIAL?
In the wake of the new torna-
does that killed 14O in Michigan and
Ohio and at least 86 in Massachus-
etts, injured nearly 1000 more and
left many thousand homeless, sci
entists are trying to explain the 249
twisters reported in the U. S. thus
far this year and lawmakers in
Washington are talking of a Con-
gressiOnal investigation.
According to the U. S. Weather
Bureau, the atomic explosions in
Nevada have nothing to do with the
sudden, devastating storms that ap-
peared to follow the major blasts.
and that have caused a total of
nearly 45O deaths and property
damage of more than 5000, ,OOO. 600.
Rather, the weather experts saw.
the tOrnadOes have been caused nv
the unusual path of the planetary
air currents across the nation this
spring. This current, which flyers
have encountered above 10000 feet
and reported as blowing as hard as
l5O miles-an-houT, is always up
there, 1t seems, but affects the wea-
ther by changing the pattern of its
trans-cOntinental sweep.
So far so good. But we doubt that
any scientists were up there above
Yucca Flat to check on what han
pened when an atomic burst tang
led with that high-speed fresh air.
In any case, we think the far
reaches of the lonely Pacific pro-
vide more suitable locale for these
tOp-drawer fireworks.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News InfOmuFon Supplied BY The Bureuu oe Rg
Suie Board Of AsrieUItUro, Dover, Delaware

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
eTs for commodities that were
marketed throughout this week.
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $4,000 to $27.5O, mostly
$24.50 per cWt.
Medium to good: $1,000 to $22.5O,
mostly $21.O0 per cwt.
Rough and common: $3.50 to
$1,000, mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to $24.5O, mostly
$500 per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $2O.5O TO $24.OO, mostly
$22.75 per cWt.
Common: $3.50 TO $500, mostly
$500 per cwt.
Wool: SAT per pound.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: $1,000 to $500,
mostly $13.75 per cwt.
Common: $1O.75 to $11.75, most
ly SLIPS per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: $500 to
$1O.50, mostly S9.75 per cwt.
STEERS
Light steers: $3.50 to $3.50,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: $3.50 to $1,000,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
BULLS
lover 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $13.25 to $17.OO,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
$500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: SLIPS to $14.75,
mostly $14.OO per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(goOd Quality)
120 to 10 lbs: $1,000 to S22.75.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
10 to 240 lbs: $3.50 to S24.25.
mostly $2400 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs: $1,000 to $3.50,
mostly $23.25 per cwt.
SOWS
(good quality)
200 to 300 lbs: $3.50 to $4,000.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
FRENCH DRINK RECORD

PARIS tP) Frenchmen spend
S2,540,000,000 year on alcoholic
drinks, or enough money to build
100000 housing units.
Adult Frenchmen drink the
equivalent Of "a liters Of pure
alcohol yearly, compared to z and
a half liters for Americans.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
INDIAN WARNING

PHOENIX, Ariz. -(P)- Unless
better cooperation in making de-
linquent fathers support their
children is forthcoming. ala to de-
dependent children on the Navajo
indian Reservation VIII be cut off.
the Arizona Welfare Board has
warned the Navajo Tribal Council
ann the Y s indian Bureau.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
SHOPPING IN WARSAW

When you walk into an American retail
store, whether it be in one of our great cities
or small town, you take it for granted that
a wide and attractive selection of dependable
merchandise will be offered to you, at prices
which are well within the means Of most
people.
The contrast with stores in communist
countries, where the government owns or
bosses everything and competition in our
sense of the term is nOn-existent, is incred-
ible.
1t is interesting to note the prices charged
for representative commodities in Warsaw,
where communism reigns supreme. In terms
of U. S. money, shoes are priced at 1921 .25 a
pair; girls sweater costs $1S7; bathing
trunks carry an $85 price tag; an ordinary
leather brief case commands 5000. The cheap
est brandy costs $48 bottle, horse meat re-
tails at $1.50 pound and beef is SO to SIS
pound.
Some skilled workers in Poland get good
wages-a tractor driver can earn as much
as $400 month. But it would take all his
wages for about two weeks to buy pair of
shoes.
Next time you hear someone sextolling the
virtues of big, all-powerful government at the
expense of free enterprise, remember these
figures.
RSGONSG
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
THE ANSWER IS APPARENT

It has been argued that this country
should, in effect, scuttle it's Merchant Marine
and ship only in foreign vessels, in order that
the foreign nations involved may increase
their u. S. dollar revenues and thus become
able to buy more goods from u.s.
No one doubts that the principle economic
problem faced by many friendly foreign pow
ers is how to strengthen their dollar bal
ances But abandonment of an American
Merchant Marine would be about as danger
GUS way to attack this problem as anyone
can imagine. First, we simply cannot afford
to depend upon foreign nations for trans
porting our exports and imports. We might
once again, as in 1917 and 1941, find our
selves without the ships needed to carry on
our world commerce and to serve our over
seas troop installations
Second, even if foreign nations carried
all y. S. ocean commerce the increase in the
net earnings of their steamship companies
would be but fraction of one per cent of
their national incomes. Balance such frac-
tlonal gains to them against the important
advantages to this country and the free world
OF strong u. S. Merchant Marine and the
answer is apparent
In the interest of American commerce
and American defense alike, we must have
a strong and active merchant feet
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
WINGED WORDS

AS you may recall. Senator Mar
garet Chase Smith, (Rep) of Maine,
wrote out a list of thirty-twO ques-
tiOns about U. S. defenses some
time ago and asked Defense Secre-
tary Charles e. Wilson to answer
them-which he has now done, and
the answers have been released by
Chairman Ferguson of the Senate
Military Appropriations subcom-
mittee
Right off the bat. Senator Smith
wanted to know about those cOntrO-
versial Air Force Wings. How come
we need only 100 instead of 143?
Mr.. Wilson's answer throws the
first penetrating ray of light on
these wings" that have seemed as
evanescent and nebulOus as those
of devils darning needle. It seems
that when you talk about wings
you are not talking about air-pOw-
er, but about organization. Sixty
per cent of the Air Force planes
are not assigned to- wings, and
neither are the 9,941 planes of the
Navy and Marine Corps. In fact.
the Secretary testified, if you were
to group all our airpOwer that
could be properly organized into
wings, we would have RIGHT
NOW. not 120 or 143, but 1852! And
we would still have left over sixty
per cent of the Air Force planes.
6,S48 Navy and Marine planes not
assignable to wings" under pres
ent classification, plus the Air Re-
serve and the Air National Guard.
IF the Navy and Marine planned
air strength is grouped into wings, ,"
said Mr.. Wilson, "the total defense
program of President Eisenhower
calls for the establishment of 176
wings by July, 1, 1856"
Any more questions about
wings?
BROOM BOOM
You'll just have to put up with
Grandma if she's doing a little
glOating. Modern researchers and
modern housewives have just dis
covered what she has known all her
life and what, in fact, John
Haywood remarked in 1916
that THE green new broom sweeps
clean"
Laboratory study now reveals
that the new broom does better
than the old, beaten-up job because
broom-corn (from which all eff
cient brOoms are made) has hun
dreds of invisible CLAWS" on the
sweeping end. These claws pick up
the dust, dirt and lint and shove
1t along where you want it to go.
A broom is "Old" when these claws
get worn down, and these scientific
laboratory tests show that a new
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19

mostly $3.50 per cWt.
800 to 400 lbs: $500 to S2O.5O.
mostly $19.75 per cwt.
Over 400 lbs: $17.OO to $3.50.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
BOARS
(good quality @aasft
Under $50 lbs: 1926 to $3.50.
mostly $1,000 per cWt.
over $50 lbs: $500 to $11.OO,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: $14.0O to $4,000.
mostly $16.50 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
(6 to IL weeks ODD
Choice: $500 to S15.25. mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: $500 to $3.50.
mostly $500 per cWt.
Common: $500 to $500, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $500 to $4,000,
mostly $500 per cwt.
Butcher type: $4,000 to $4,000,
mostly $44.OO per cWt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: $1.SO to $1.65, mostly S1.6O.
LIGHT BREEDS
Bantam chickens: $50 to s.55,
mostly $50.
DUCKS
Muscovy ducks: $40 to $1.15,
mostly S1.0O.
RABBITS
Large breeds: $1.OO to $3.50.
mostly S1.5O.
Small breeds: $50 to $50. most
ly $40.
Young rabbits: $.s5 to $50,
mostly $40.
EGGS
Ungraded, mixed: $.471k to S.5s
per dozen.
Pullet: S.25 to $40 per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
PEAS: S1.0O to s2.40 per q
bushel.
CHERRIES: Sis per quart.
LARD: $4.25 per so ID. can.
STRAWBERRIES: $1,000 TO
$11.75 per "a quart crate.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19

duct and sold stock to 123 stockholders. Gross
sales were $669.06 and the net profit was
1855.
In organizing and proftably operating
their small enterprises youngsters meet and
solve problems similar in nature to those
which face the biggest corporate enterprises.
They learn the necessity for thoughtful plan
ming, hard work and constant attention to
detail in any successful business. They learn
how stock ownership makes the savings of
the people available for the use of productive
enterprise. They come to realize that profits
are essential if a company is to expand it's
operation and improve its product.
In short, they learn what makes our free
enterprise system work Their knowledge
will make them better citizens in the America
of tomorrow.
ILLNESS PROBLEMS BEING MET
One hundred and six years ago scattered
medical societies Joined together to form the
American Medical Association. Their pur-
pose was to achieve better and more uniform
medical standards throughout the nation.
Now the Associations membership is COM
posed of 100000 doctors and the scope and
diversity Of its work in betering the nations
health deserves the, widest possible public
recognition.
The Association spends $1O,OOO,OOO each
year III STUDY ana research IN Cne IlolQS Oh
rural health, industrial health the aVaila-
bility of physicians, medical care for the
armed forces, civil defense, medical educa-
tiOn, etc. Much fine work has been done to
encourage development of voluntary prepaid
health insurance plans designed to take the
financial shock out of sickness. Protection
against the hardship of long-term disabling
illness or injury is being gradually accom-
plished. Today there are more than co.
100000 Americans carrying hospital, surgi-
cal and medical insurance of one kind or
another.
It has been found that we have an un-
balanced distribution of doctors rather than
a shortage of them Highly trained physi-
clans are attracted to metropolitan areas
where the best facilities for their work are
available. This serious problem is being re-
solved without violation of basic personal
freedoms by physician placement services
which have been put in operation by medical
societies in most states. Rural communities
are being encouraged to build offices or small
hospitals and equip them with modern appa-
ratus as inducements for young DOCTORS
The finest medical care is available to
more Americans than any other people. It
is reassuring to the public to see private
medicine moving so rapidly and effectively
to meet the medical needs of the nation.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19
AFTER TWO DECADES

Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey has
stated that the federal budget cannot be bal
anced in the next fiscal wear. despite snh-
stantial cuts in appropriations. There win
be a deficit, and it probably will be necessary
to again increase the legal debt limit. IT took
two decades to get the government and the
taxpayers into this mess We can't get out
Of it overnight. In the meantime, the Ad-
ministratiOn must be encouraged in its ef-
forts to reduce costs as rapidly as possible
and the people must have the character and
the resolution to accept and applaud the fact
that the Santa Claus era seems to be ending.
mat won't be easy. But it will be infinitely
easier than the national bankruptcy that
would inevitably result from continued nm
bridled spending.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-19

some more fighting men-just when
he's anxious to get them off their
eT-uh chairs.
The Nome nugget., 1953-03-04
Fisherman Smitten by Wave Ends Up In Brig For Wearing Wrong Pants

CHICAGO, LR - Bell bottom trousers, coat of navy blue and red-haired Wave cost Roy Lee Bundy, 25, of Huntington, w. Va, day in jail.
 Bundy arrived in Chicago We'd nesday. One of the first persons he met was pretty red-haired Wave. He made date to take her to Chicago's USO Center.
 But being a civilian, he had to have uniform to enter the ser vicemen's center. So Bundy bought a surplus Navy uniform with bell bottom trousers.
 As he was beguiling the Wave with his exploits at the USO, two shore patrolmen marched straight to him and asked for his pass.
 He had none so they tossed him into the brig and charged him with unlawfully wearing a mili- tary uniform.
 Before Judge Walter J. LaBuy, Bundy said:
 "This Wave was so beautiful she was a redhead - that I just couldn't let the fact that I was only a civilian cheat me out of a date. After all, I was just in Chicago enroute to Alaska where I intend to join the shrimp fleet"
 Judge LaBuy was sympathetic.
 'I'u sentence you to one day, and consider it served" he said. GO on to the shrimp fleet, where bell bottom trousers without the rest of the uniform are OK"
 The shore patrolmen saw thru Bundy's disguise because bell bot tom trousers have been out moded uniform styles for a num- Der of years.
The Nome nugget., 1953-03-04
Phillips and Kerr-McGee Reach Agreement on Alaska Oil Venture

BARTLESVILLE, Okla, R = An agreement between Phillips Petroleum Co. and Kerr-McGee Oil Industries was reached yes terday over operation and drilling of the Katalla-Yakataga area of Alaska.
 Phillips contracted Feb. II with the federal government to drill 12 exploratory wells in the area over a 10-year period. The region is along the Gulf of Alaska coast near Cordova.
 K. s. Adams, Phillips chairman, said the agreement with Kerr McGee provides that the latter will do the drilling and take a one-half interest in the project. Phillips will control operation of the properties.
 Agreement, however, must yet be approved by the Department of Interior.
The Nome nugget., 1953-03-04
Church Sets Scoring Record In Last Game
By HERB WILLIAMS

The Kangas Kangaroos and the Federated Church closed out the regular seasons play with wins last Friday over the Whizkids and the Radar 40-33 and 95-58 re- spectively.
 Coach Ray Kangas' team made it five straight as they swept the whole series from the Whizkids. All five games were close, but the Kangaroos always came thru at the finish to knock off their rivals.
 The Whizkids led most of the time in the final game as the quarter score indicate, 6-2, 2O-18 and 30-27 but lost out 36-40. Sam Atuk, Dave Bell and William Will loya paced the winners with 10 points each, Glen Tate and Robt Summers 4. George Kost was high scorer for the game with 16. Other Whizkids scoring were Robert Herman II, Jaxon Muller 4, Douglas Cabinboy 3, Vic Karmun and Chuck Fagerstrom each.
 The Federated Church broke the league scoring record as they trounced the 142nd Radar 95-58. It was also new high for the Church and the highest score run up this season.
 The Radar led at the quarter 15-11 but hardly had a chance to regain the lead as the Church went ahead in the second quarter and held a 30-23 margin at the half. Then the winners went on 65-point scoring spree as they posted scores of 58-37 and the final 95 58 while the crowd screamed to make it hundred.
 For the Church, Herb Williams 22, Pete Hahn 19, Sam Atuk IT., Chug Willoya 16, Buggy Swan berg IA and Larry Mink '. For the Radar, Mcclure 19, Beales 13, Kliest II, Levesque ', Novak 4, Henderson and Damn 2 each. Yn pFHY-
The Nome nugget., 1953-03-04
South Koreans Regain Top Of Bloody Hill Position After 23 Hours Fighting

EOULs R-Valiant South Ko- rean infantrymen regained the top of a bloody outpost hill position on the central Korean front We'd nesday in thunderous climax to 23 hours of savage close-quarter fighting with an estimated 500 Chinese Reds.
 Swift American fighter-bomb- CTS darted through the early nor ming mist and plastered the at tacking Reds with soaring napalm bombs and tons of high explo- sives. The warplanes continued their strikes at regular intervals throughout the day.
The Nome nugget., 1953-03-04
Final Total Nanook Scoring

Final Total Nanook Scoring
 Coach Hahn's Nome Nanooks closed out the 1952-53 season with a record of Is wins and 10 losses for a percentage of SAP. The Ma hooks were the only undefeated high school team in Northwestern Alaska with six wins over the op- position played:.
The Nome nugget., 1953-03-04

The influence of the moon and sun cause slight distortions of the solid earth as well as the tides of the sea.
The Nome nugget., 1953-03-04

Jet Airliner Crashes and Burns
 KARACHI, Pakistan, R-Can- ada's first Comet jet airliner crashed and burned, killing the five Canadian creWmen and six British aircraft technicians aboard.