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Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20

tended the SSth National Hotel Ex-
position in New York recently.
There were about 10000 persons
attending. including chefs, hotel
managers, caterers and others. A
booth sponsored by the Eastern
Shore Poultry Exchange and the
Delaware Poultry Improvement AS
ISOLATION was set up in the Kings
bridge ArmOry, wheT the exposition
was held. Members of the two spon-
sOring groups and their wives serv-
ed Delmarva fried chicken to visit
Ors to the exposition. In addition
the visitors were provided with
lists of chicken suppliers on this
peninsula together with recipes for
cooking Delmarva chickens.
There were about 28 persons in
the group representing the Del
marva brOiler interests.
Winners in the Fire Prevention
Essay Contest in the GEORGETOWN
School, sponsored by the local vol
unteer fire company, were annOun-
ced recently. First place winner is
Janice Grain, 8th grade student in
Mrs. HendeTsOn's grade 80. Bar
bara Collins, pupil in Mrs. Keeler's
grade 60, placed second and in
third place was Harold DOdd, pupil
in Harry Lackhove's grade 6.
The prizes, $500, $500 and $500.
respectively, will be presented to
the winners in an assembly in the
high school, by member of the
fire company. The essay of Janice
Grain, who placed first, has been
entered in the Sussex Contest for
judging. The county prize winners
will be entertained by the Sussex
County Volunteer Firemens AssO-
citation in the November meeting in
Greenwood on November "a.
Henry King, who with his wife
resides at Shingle Point, with his
daughter, Mrs. FlOssie Hudson, cell
ebrated his S1st birthday on Friday,
November 13. Mr.. and Mrs. King
have four children and II grand
children. The children are Mrs.
Hudson, William and Norman King,
of near Lewes, and John, in Phila-
delphia.
About 80 persons, including
members of the familyand friends,
attended a birthday supper in hon
or of Mr.. King on Friday evening.
Mr.. King was born in Whites
vile, Md, and is a son of the late
Henry and Margaret Mariner King.
James E. Goslee, Jr., president of
the Georgetown Chamber of Com
merce, stated last week "Citizens
of Georgetown can be counted on
to again go all out as host to the
annual Delmarva Chicken Festival
as it returns to this Sussex County
town, the site of the first Peninsula
wide Festival back in 1948." Mr..
GOslee pointed out in his statement
that other local community organ
izations are soon to meet with the
Chamber of Commerce in a move to
effect an overall community COM
mittee to cooperate with the board
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20

ter treatment. In the last few
weeks, he stated, there were groups
of six to eight men taken at one
time and tried for some Offense and
sentenced to terms of 2 or 3 years.
The Offenses they were charged
with, for the most part were never
committed by the men but they
were convicted anyway. Members
of the Kiwanis Club, which in
cludes a number of former service
men, bOmbarded young Hall with
questions concerning almost every
phase of his life as a POW. Reply
ing to a question did you ever see
any Russians?" he said that at one
time there was a group near their
camp. Questioned as to the num-
ber of men in that camp who did
turn Communist, he said there
were about nine men and these
were given freedom of the camp
and supplied with food, apples,
candy and cigarettes, and enter
tanned at parties and got the breaks
as far as work was concerned" "
Very little mail was received. He
also told of efforts of the men to
engage in athletics and how they
made a baseball bat out of wood
and a football out of an old bas-
ketball. The speaker was intro
duced by Colonel Ralph S. Baker,
who was program chairman.
LinoOd G. Penuel, president of
the club, presided. During the bus
mess session the club voted to
serve a spaghetti and ham dinner
in Jones Memorial Hall on the eve
ming of December 3.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20

looked like milk but was the juice
of boiled soy beans. 1t was July 4,
before the group of men had white
rice. He said that about 300 men
died of starvation and they were
made to dig the trenches (shallow
Ones) to bury them dead. They
were moved from this camp and on
up to near the 3Sth parallel. They
bathed in a river, breaking the ice
to do so in winter. Only a small
amount of soap was ever given
the men. He described the bar
racks they were housed in, which
were for the most part-three room
shacks with straw roofs and rock
floors. He told of having 1O9 meals
Of frozen turnips, the only food
available. For about two years of
his Imprisonment, Corporal Hall
acted as cook, when there was any
thing to cook. He told of the lee
lures and attempts to indoctrinate
the prisoners in Communism, which
he said had little effect. He said
"the fellows listened, but it went
in one ear and out the other, and
when we were asked questions no
one could answer them" He also
sand that only a very few of the
men from the camp where he was
held ever went over to the Com
mics and they were rewarded with
small sums of money, some candy
and cigarettes and perhaps a small
amount of food. Corporal Hall stat
ed that for the last six months of
their Imprisonment when it was
apparent there would be an armis-
tice and prisoners released that the
men were given more food and bet
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
YOUTH PLANS CONSERVATION

CHICAGO-(P)-A Young Out
door Americans" conference design
ed to stimulate interest in conser-
vatiOn work will be held here next
spring.
The Izaak Walton League of
America, celebrating the 30Oth
year of the publication of Walton's
Complete Angler" will play host.
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Future
Farmers of America, All Clubs
and Camp Fire Girls will have rep
resentatiVes from 48 states. Gov
ernors' committees will select the
youths who attend on the basis of
their interest in the subject.
The leagues executive director,
William VOigt, Jr., says, ideas de-
velOped at the conference, March
10, II and 12, 1854. will be filtered
back to state conservation groups
for study and application.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
ELEcTRIc MIxUP

ELKHoRN CITY, Ky. (B-
Fiery gremlins skipping across
power lines gave the Little Beaver
Creek community a shock it will
long remember. Unexplained cleo
trieal disturbances caused this
havoc:
Herby Sloane's furnace caught
fire from the electrical circuit and
Sloane needed hospital care for
burns suffered when he tried to
turn off the stoker.
Luther Salyers' television set
broke out in flames. He put them
out, helped Sloane with his diff
culties and then learned his own
furnace had caught fire.
A store building was ignited by
the mysterious hot wires.
Fluorescent fires shot up around
the utility pole ground wires.
Later, everything was all right,
but residents were reluctant to
touch anything electric for several
hours.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
Subject For Home
Study: Leisure Time
By CYNTHIA Lowry
AP NezcSfeatures Writer

/ know a woman who is hunting,
rather desperately, for a hobby.
Her doctor has prescribed it as a
cure for rather common Ameri-
can disease called "just nerves"
She Judges a little when she
describes the outcome of a recent
series of examinations by special
lists and expensive X-ray for a per-
sistent ringing in the ears and
other vague, distressing symptoms.
This leads me to believe the medi-
cal boys wound up by saying she
was a fine physical specimen who
merely needed an outside interest.
All of sudden, my friend show
ed a passionate interest in finding
out all she could about my own
consuming interest in gardening.
/ also caught her earnestly inter
viewing the woman across the
street who is violently torn be-
tween collecting coin-silver spoons
and retinishing furniture.
Apparently neither of us had
turned up a hobby she felt fitted
her needs, because at the moment
she is enrolled in an adult educa-
tiOn course, learning how to make
pewter plates, and is doing three
days week as a volunteer in the
local hospital, reading to patients.
My neighbOr isn't an exception.
A lot of men and women / know
seem to have too much leisure and
can't seem to find anything stimu-
lating to fill in their time. I'd been
thinking about their plight-yet
envying them their great gobs of
spare time, and thinking how won
derful it would be to have all
those hours to pursue the fasci-
mating things 1 never have time to
follow.
Contemplating all the women and
men 1 know who seem bored, rest
less and out of sorts, it occurred
to me that each one literally didn't
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
PAINT CAN DISAPPEAR

NEWTON, N. J. - (P = Farm
ers have been told to be on the
lookout for barn and roof paint
ing syps who apply inferior paint
that washes off with the first
heavy rainfall.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20

my reindeer ore chumping at the bit to
get to Salisbury. And they'll ride through
Salisbury in the big parade on Saturday,
November 2S-thut's otter Thanksgiving.
Then we'll spend the rest Of the Christmas
shopping season in our gingerbread Suntu
House on the Salisbury Courthouse Lawn.
You can come tuIk with me there any duy,
and the evenings the stores in Salisbury
ore open. Set Saturday, November 18th.
aside right now to be in Salisbury for the
BIG PARADE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-11
CONGRESS SOON TO RETURN, FACES
HEAVY SCHEDULE OF WORK

WASHINGTON, D. C. -(CNS)-
The nations lawmakers return Janu-
airy 3-after five months checking
the public pulse. Some congressman
and senators show marked interest
in two things that happened during
the recess - Interior Departments
new power policy and the reorganiz-
ed Agriculture Department.
Without congressional guidance,
Interior Secretary Douglas Mckay
boosted rates for public power and
insists on long-term contracts with
all purchasers. Rural electric CO.
op leaders say that 20-ye"r con-
tracts will play into the hands of
private power companies whose
needs aren't growing as swiftly
as the co-ops'.
The law reads that public bodies
shall have first chance at federal
power. In the past, co-ops signed 2
or 3-year contracts. Their leaders say
the 2O-year contracts actually give
private firms priority.
Soil conservation district leaders
fear USDA's reorganization subordi-
mates this soil-saving work to the de-
partment's extension service and land
grant colleges. Some legislators agree.
They say Secretary Ezra T. Benson
promised he'd show Congress his
plans for shuffling the department
before he did it.
All 435 congressman and 35 sena-
tors are up for election next No
vember. They'll want to quit early
and get home by August. Last SEES
sion, Congress appropriated money,
created the Department Of Health,
Education, and Welfare, and gave
part of U. S. off-shore oil reserves to
the coastal states. The big question is
whether they will do more in the
first five months of 1854. Here's
some issues they'll face:
griculture-Both President Eli
senhower and Benson have promised
a new farm program in January. Bills
are pending to relax restrictions on
public grazing lands.
Electric Power-Interior Under
secretary Fred Aandahl told general
ng and transmission coop leaders
here won't be enough public power
'or co-ops by the end of 1856. No |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-11

new power dams have been author
lied for more than a year. President
Eisenhower's budget and Congress
agreed to halt work on some dams
and not to start work on others pre-
viously authorized.
Rural Identification Admins
tration is now loaning money at a
rate which, if continued, will use
only about half of what Congress
appropriated. REA Administrator
Anchor c. Nelson has approved no
generating and transmission loan,
despite Aandahls prediction of a
power shortage by 1856. Will Con-
gress act, either to build more fed
eral dams or prod some CT loans
out of REA?
Foreign Trade-Once again, Con-
gress will face the choice of extend
ing U. S. reciprocal trade agreements
or letting them die. An attempt may
be made to rework the whole basic
tariff legislation.
ST. Lawrence Seaway-Congres
still hasn't acted U. S. participa-
ton in the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Canada is eager to go ahead, with or
without the U. S. The recent sena-
torial wrangle over Canada's minister
of external affairs, Lester B. Pear
son, certainly won't improve Canad-
ian appetites for waiting longer on
U. S. decision.
The Senate has a House-passed
bill to give Niagara Falls water power
to five private power companies.
Atomic Energy-Whether Congress
shall turn over atomic power develop
ment and patents to private firms is
another vital question. Congress will
be pressed to do So Rural electric
co-ops and public power groups seek
assurances that they'll have an equal
chance with private power compan-
les, if the move succeeds.
Debt and Taxes-Any sales tax has
stirred up such opposition that it may
not be proposed. Eisenhower has said
ne would like Congress to delay the
income tax cuts scheduled
or April. The $275 million debt limit
s another problem. Congress can't
hold to that figure and expect its
appropriations for the current fiscal
rear to be spent.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-11

traffic for which it is designed at
least % years without excessive main
tenance or requirements costs.
Practically all highway construc-
ton programs are conducted on a
state by state basis. Laws on the
subject vary considerably in each and
there is little likelihood of getting
anything approaching uniformity for
some time to come. In fact uniform
ity may not be 1000 desirable or
practical. Problems and their best
solution will vary in each state. For
instance, percentage of Federal Aid
varys widely between the states with
no apparent justification, and may be
withdrawn any time. Width of high
way and other highway requirements,
as well as vehicle density per mile
and ability to pay, are other import
ant variable differences between
states. However, the principles of
planning and financing should be
fairly uniform in all states.
Since practically all highway
programs will be on a state basis,
perhaps we can beast illustrate
the procedure of solutions of the
problems, by solving them for the
State of Montana. Some of Mon
tana's problems are:
(A) Taxes for highways are not
fairly and equitably distributed be-
tween the different classes of traf-
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EYES OF G.T.A. DELEGATES WILL BE ON 1854 SESSION
or CONGRESS

Clyde Mitchell, University of Ne
braska farm economist, whom critics
of firm price supports tried to have
fired because he favored such price
supports in public talks.
Roy F. Hendrickson, executive sec
retarv of the National Federation of
Grain Co-operatives, will discuss the
Washington farm climate in relation
to the price-support controversy. }.
H. Dean, manager of the Farmers
Cooperative Commission Company
of Hutchinson, Kansas, will talk
about the Kansas farmers wheat
problems. Dean is chairman of the
wheat advisory committee set up
by the Secretary of Agriculture to
study wheat support prices and prob
lens.
This years session will be more of
a Family affair."" than in past years.
Farmers are expected to take up the
problems in group discussions and
give expression through resolutions
they adopt at the meeting.
M. w. Thatcher, general manager
of the Grain Terminal Association,
and a strong campaigner for firm
price supports, will outline several
tentative programs under considera-
ton. Zone will relate the fight for
parity prices to decent take-home
pay as a yardstick, and the other
will have to do with protecting our
grain prices against unlimited i'm
ports," Thatcher said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-11
HOW TO PLAN AND PAY, FOR THE SAFE AND
ADEQUATE HIGHWAYS WE NEED
two Glasses should be considered.
MUST RAISE MORE MONEY
OR REDUCE LOAD LIMITS

The present destruction of our
highways constitutes an emergency
problem requiring solution at the
earliest possible moment. 1t would APP
pear that we have but two alterna-
tives. Either raise more money by
additional taxation of some kind to
build and maintain more adequate
highways, or limit the weight of traf-
fic units of Glass II to that which a
can carry that we can con-
struct with the funds available. We
have no choice except to adopt one
or the other.
Now an adequate highway should
be defined as one that can carry the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-11
PROS AND CONS OF INDIAN EMANCIPATION" TO BE
DISCUSSED AT GREAT FALLS Meeting, MONDAY

Also being sought for the panel
to speak for termination along with
Fickinger is Cong. Wesley A. D'Ewart
who favors an end to federal trustee
ship.
The Inter-Tribal Board opposes
termination as outlined under the
proposed Flathead tribal "emancipa-
ton" bill principally because % the
bill places too much authority over
disposal of tribal properties in the
hands of the Secretary of Interior,
and (2) because many members of
the tribe are not yet sufficiently
trained in business affairs to COM
petently protect their property in
terests.
The community council meeting
will be open to all who may wish to
attend and should provide consid-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-11

| Northwest grain farmers will have
their eyes on the 1854 session Of
Congress when they come to st
Paul to map next years grassroots
demand for price support laws that
90 beyond present levels at the Six
teenth Annual Meeting of the Farm
ers Union Grain Terminal Associa-
ton, December IA to 16. The three
day session is in the St. Paul Munich
pal Auditorium.
A record turnout of up to 5000
farm folks is expected this year,
based on advance registration from
the country. The delegates and stock
holders represent 658 country coop
elevators handling over 100 million
bushels of grain in the spring wheat
area of Minnesota, the Dakotas and
Montana.
The Grain Terminal coop meet
ings are regarded as barometer
of farm sentiment in the Great
Plains wheat producing states. This
years attendance is expected to top
past attendance which has made
the meeting one of the biggest farm
conventions in the nation.
The resolutions committee and
board of directors will get down to
work this Friday ahead of the con-
vention. Sentiment of farmers at
the meeting can be measured by the
fact that they are the same wheat
farmers who last summer voted SO
per cent against a cut in 900 of
parity price supports for next years
wheat crop.
The law provides that 900 price
supports expire next year. These
farmers are aware that what Con-
gress does in 1854 will decide the
level of price supports for the year
after that.
Speakers having top billing also re-
fleet the emphasis being placed on
the parity-price issue at this meet
ing. Another issue is the controversy
over unrestricted imports of Canadian
feed grains. Senator Hubert Hum
phrey, DFL, Minnesota, will address
the convention in the st. Paul Mu-
nicipal Auditorium December Is.
Senator Young, Urn. D., a severe
critic of Agriculture Secretary Ben
sons price-support program, and
leader in the 80 per cent of parity
also will be a speaker.
Other speakers include Professor
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-11

Termination of federal trustee
ship over the Flatheads and problems
concerning Montana's Landless In
dams, will be the subject of panel
discussion before the Cascade Com
munity Council next Monday evening.
The meeting will be held in the court
house, and will get underway at 8
o'clock.
Paul Fickinger, Billings, area di-
rector for Bureau of Indian Affairs
will be one of those on the panel
favoring termination of federal sup
ervision. Opponents to termination
will be three members of Montana
Indian Inter-Tribal Policy Board,
State Rep. Dave Higgins, Cut Bank,
policy board president, and members,
Ed Belgard, Helena, and Steve De-
Mers Butte.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-11

ing on the question. At that time
RMS pointed out that so far as they
knew, not single genuine sports
mems organization had been asked to
send representatives to the proposed
meeting. Groups invited, such as
Absarokee Conservation Committee,
they told the Senator, represent
Corporations which have a financial
interest adverse to the bulk of the
citizens, particularly the sportsmen."
These groups, said RMS, ''want to get
rid of the elk for selfish reasons >"
Mansfield took the matter of a
public hearing up with the proper
authorities of the Department of Ag-
riculture and received an unsympa-
thetic reception. He was told by AS
sistant Secretary ]. Earl Cohen that
there would be 'little value at this
time" in having such hearing. In
addition, Cohen told the Senator
"that the opportunities for trans
planting elk have been surveyed and
found to be very limited. (This,
despite abundant evidence gathered
by RMS that many hundreds of the
game animals could be transplanted
in various parts of the west without
public range management
Cohen also informed the Senator
that in the opinion of western game
officials it would be desirable that
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-11
SPORTSMEN PROTEST refusal OF
HEARING ON DISPOSAL OF PARK ELK


Refusal by high Agriculture De-
partment officials to hold public
hearing on the possibilities of trans
planting surplus Yellowstone Park
elk in other parts of the nation has
raised storm of protest by leaders
of the 3,500-member Rocky Noun
tain Sportsmen's Association of Butte
and Southwest Montana, reports Ber-
nard King, chairman of RMS exec
utive board.
Sometime back, the sportsmen's
organization, learning that National
Park Service was planning "model"
meeting in the park to discuss dispos-
al of surplus elk, requested Senator
Mike Mansfield to seek a public hear