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Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09

wages, prices and employment will
remain high; that IF there is de-
preston, it won't strike much be-
fore it's time for these same char
acters to star telling us, what we
should be Thankful for-and final
ly, that farmers may not be as we'll
of as city peOplel
That last one would REALLY be
a switch! Not being a member of
the Oracles' Union, we can't read
the signs and portents in the heav-
ems. But, as matter Of reason, and
not tea-leaA reading, we believe
the farmer will continue, by long
odds, to be the best-fed American;
by virtue of his daily routine to
be the most rested at cOck-crOw; to
worry least about the landlord; (;
and because Of his superlatiVe abil-
ity to do for himself, to remain the
happiest American.
AS for the projectors, we pre-
dict, that come Michaelmas, there
won't be a fingernail left to chew
among the lot of them.
AaH
TIME TO GROW UP
The United States of America,
considered very generally to be
the most powerful nation of our
time, and certainly the bulwark OF
freedom in the world, now has a
] Congress in session. In spite OF
the fact that this nation is sup
posed to be a Republic, and run
by the elected representatives OF
the people, those representatives
have not been functioning as a law.
making body, or as a brake on OuI
overstaffed, Overstuffed, overween-
ting executive department, since
July fifth.
Remember how they spent the
last night turning out laws like
link sausage so they could hipel
to the national conventions?
From the standpoint of law anC
precedent there's absolutely moth
ing wrong with this procedure. AnC
it should be specially noted that BY
mo means all of our senators anC
congressman have been on vaca
ton since the Battles of Chicago
Committee work, hearings and in
vestigatiOns have gone on prett!
steadily. Since the campaign, or
ganizatiOnal work has prOceede eC
feverishly, especially among the in
cumbent Republicans. But, Their
has been no Congress for half 1
year. The tripod of American Gov
ernment has teetered on two legs
lacking the stabilizing third on,
that represents US, through si,
months of war. of crisis, of VI
finagling, of mounting Communis
pressure and perplexities.
In 1853 this half-time routin
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09

wOrKed fine. In 1853 it's just plain
reckless. Certainly congressman
should have vacations, just like
anyone else who works for a living.
But nobody, except Uncle Sam,
shuts down the plant when it's
loaded with business. Didn't we
hear someone say, tits time for
change?"
AssAULT-BUT NOT BATTERY
! Secretary of State Dean Acheson,
/ in his recent testimony before the
J House Judiciary subcommittee ex-
plains the laxity of his department
in clearing subversiVe Americans
for employment by the United Ma
tions as a situation in which the
( hindsight of the probers is better
than was the foresight of State
/ Department personnel screeners.
! He also enunciated a viewpoint on
subversion that may possibly clear
up the whole slap-happy picture of
/ the State Department as a govern
ment-endOwed sanctuary for cur
iOus specimens.
The presence of dislOyal Ameri-
cans in the U. H., the Secretary ad-
mitted, gave the country "a black
eye" and had been "a blow to our
prestige" But he insisted that ne
tional security was in no way
threatened. Asked by Representa-
tive Heating, (Rep) of N. Y, if he
did not feel the presence of such
people was a security blow" Mr.
! Acheson replied, "No, sir, I do not
think it has anything to do with
security but it is a blow to the
prestige, reputation and interest of
the United States"
While he deplored the very ex-
! istence of such people and the fac
that they had slipped through the
! State Department screen, the Sec
/ retary explained that these char.
acters were incapable Of security
damage since they had no access
to confidential files and did not
/ handle secret matters or problems
of national defense.
So it apparently does not occur
to the trained diplomatic mind thai
a Communist or a fellOw-travelleI
might be useful in passing secrets
from the one who stole them to the
one who wanted them, to circulate
damaging misinformation, to us,
his position of trust to pry conf,
Dental information out of limo
cent, if careless higher-ups, or ever
to look in files he isn't supposed to
Mr.. AchesOn said how ever, thai
the Government is soon to tighter
up on prospective U. N. employees
with a full loyalty check. That, W.
think, is for sure. And about Jan
uary goth.
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of constantly improved labor-saving farm
machinery. The tractor is the symbol of an
agricultural revolution that has made farm
ing into highly efficient industry-and
along with the tractor have come hundreds
of other machines and attachments which
have brought more progress to the farm in
a comparatively few years than occurred
during all the preceding centuries. On top
of that, these machines do the work far more
cheaply than by any other method ever de-
vised.
The farmers best friend isn't the politi-
cian 1t is, instead, American enterprise,
American inventiveness, American ingenu-
ity.
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09
I'm TIE AIR FORCF F.'
By Eloins Townsend Dickersor

iar 2 car, their take home pay was
pretty good Anyway. we drove -
ana soon came to 4 sign thaf read
Chains Advisable" We topped "a
garage and asked about the sff-
uation. We we're warned fhaf soo,
we would see another sien tbsf
would notify that chains were ~
CURED ana after that poinf Il We
didn't nave chains, a man la "a blaer
car with red light and a bisring
siren would catch u with 81 anS
we'd shell out more than the 81 al
we could rent chains for. Soeofo
on the chains went and On we wasf
to D9nnar Summit
With each one thousand feet ~
altitude we climbed, my esrs and
tne chlidren's, opened and shut
and cracked Old Navigator Haves
didn't seem to be bothered I fold
my midnle aged baby sitter abonf
the enect the mountains had On my
ears and she said her little qirl
had similar discomfort q eonp1e
Of years ago when they went EAST.
asked her where in the east thew
went and she said. are nv homo
I in NORTH DAKOTA
Finally we stopped at Nvack
Lodge for lunch, which IS such
I beautiful place to stay ia the VIM
ter or summer time. 1t was near
this lodge that the train. The city
Of San Francisco was snowbound
last winter and the train load Of
people were dropped supplies of
food, medicine. and the Ike until
they all rould be reached and evac-
Iuated. Remember reading about IL
in all the papers last year?
+ we went from this lodge to Cis-
co Grove. Here we found 3 tobap-
gan and ski lift which makes the
Il resort and draws the crowd. Our
I toboggan was big enough for three
Hayes and ] took turns intermit-
tentiy as the third passenger. After
having fun on the t0boggan slide
we went across the street to the
ski lift. The highway running be-
/ tween the two lifts was coltinuius-
! ~ being cleared BY snow plows.
4 The banks on either side Of the
road were four and five feet high
and the lodges, stores, gift shops
fall had dug tunnels to their front
door. We three girls had never seen
snow like that Last year at the
height of the season they had be-
tween As and so feet-can you ina
ginel
Next time we go to Cisco Grove
we want to take skis along. There
were many using the ski lift We'd
nesday and their various colored
ski tOgs coming down the mountain
. should make pretty colored slides
since we took along our Argus C-S
/, fcamera.
Skiing is the quietest sport
have ever witnessed. ] can't quite
! describe it, but / remember stand
ing there watching and whispering
! to HAYES. The electrically run Ski
I lift takes the slkiers quietly up the
mountain and the snow carDeting
the ground brings them quietly
down again.
It was a day Of fun and beautiful
! scenery and the children and Hayes
, and can't wait for our next triI
2 to the snow.
r Always,
: E T. D.
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4730 El Cerrito Way
Sacramento Is, Calf.
January 2. 1853

af1N ia AULAAlU Way
Sacramento Is, Calf.
January 2, 1858
Dear Friends:
Mrs. Raymond Crist. III. her
husband, and their two children
came to see the Dickersons Decem-
Der S0th Of last year. Many Of you
do not even know who that may
be by that name. do youR Mrs
Crist is the former Pat Palmer.
Pat now lives at 1850 Moraga
Boulevard, Lafayette, California.
which is near Oakland and San
Francisco. We were here a couple
of weeks and received such a nice
letter from Pat, telling us how near
she was and how they would like
to see us again. Tuesday they were
on their way to the mountains for
a couple Of days Of fun in the snow
and stopped by our house.
Pat has been out here since 1947,
so you can see how long e has
been since we, and MOTT of you
have seen her. They have two
young children; John, who is
three, and Vicky, who is 1e
months. Even though Ray has been
in Milford we had not met before
since they made their trip bach
home at a time when we were 'tra.
Yelling" with the Air Force. It was
nice seeing them and now we have
tentative plans for seeing them il
San Francisco and taking a tour
of that interesting city, with Ray
as our guide.
Florence Tease lives not too fal
from the Crisis and we would like
seeing her again, too. / don't be-
lleye I've seen Florence since she
was WAVE during World War III
Wednesday, the last day OF thc
\ year, about 10 o'clock A. NJ, we de.
cided we had seen enough Of this
Sacramento rain and took of fol
DOnnar Pass and the snow. About
80 miles northeast Of here you car
find snow and lots of it. When W.
were in Tampa, Florida, my bridgl
club there had vivid tales abou
Donnar Pass Snow being al
even with the top Of the car, meet
ing huge log trucks on blinl
curves, and so on.
Before leaving Sacramento w
rented a toboggan here in town 70
$3.50 for the day. We knew tn
lodges in the snow region wOull
have them, too, but since this wa
vacation week we were afraid thei
supply would be depleted.
Baxter, California, was the snoy
line, we had been told, and sur
enough, when we reached thi
small mountain town we began see
ing snow. We also began seein
signs reading "ChGfhs For Rent
We didn't think We would bottle
with these, since we were onl
going in the snow belt far enoug
for the children to play on the tc
boggan (no one here has sled)
AS we began seeing snow alOn
the road, we started seeing line
of cars with several warmly dress
ed men, lined along the road mo
tioning us to pull over. We stOppe
being foreigners" and asked Wha
they wanted. Their winter occupa
ton was climbing under cars l
the dirty ice and snow and putin
chains on and taking them OF fC
DOnnar Pass motorists. At a DO
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09
Washington Letter : BY Robert Nelson Tu7lor

A BOW TO TRUMAN-5Y TRUMAN
History, we understand, is to be
boOned with another Farewell Ad-
dress" s"-this time from President
Harry S. Truman. 1t will presum-
ably be made from the White House
and carried into the homes of the
nation by radio and televisiOn. The
date, which will no doubt have to
be memorized by generations yet
unborn, along with October IL,
1892, December 21, 1920, July 4,
1875, November IL, 1918-Will be
January Is, 1858.
This, our retiring President re-
vealed at his latest press confer
ence, will be a report to the people
on the state of the nation, but is
not to be confused with his report
to Congress on the state of the
natiOn-which, we infer, will be
quite different, You are at liberty
to believe whichever of these i'm
Iperishable messages you choose.
But Congress is to hear still an
other address on the state of the
nation &. A.. to which the lawmakers
will no doubt give close attention
In the opening days of his admin
istration, President Eisenhower
will outline to the legislative
branch his policies and Objectives
so that all may know from the
! Head-Man himself that the happy
go-lucky, anything-fOr-a-pal, Uncle
j s-rich, the-GOvernment-is-my
Shepherd era is over.
If the Budget Message accom-.
panying President Truman's form.
al request for just under so billion
dollars is read to yaWning sOlOnS
and empty. seats on January 9th, il
will simply mean that everyone
knows the real thing, an Eisenhow.
eT budget, is yet to come.
New Years comes late in Wash
IingtOn-On January goth.
an&
WHAT DO you SEE IN YOUR
CRYSTAL BALL?
j We don't know whether there il
such a thing as a "jaundiced ear
or not. But if there is, we hav'
two of them-from listening to th'
annual crop of New Years predic
tors. For, even though we human
fortunately possess a safety-Valv
that allows much of what we hea
to go in one lateral Orifice an,
emerge from the other, a certain
amount may churn about in tn
think-tank for some time.
For instance, it seems general,
agreed among our soOth-sayer
that the cold war will stay in tn
ice-box during 1853; that the KOr
can struggle may break out of TIL
present clinch, but there will b
no knockout and no decision; tina
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09
NGON&
Easing ME PANGS

The price OF anything you buy and use
can only be accurately measured by the
amount of time you must work to obtain it.
Judged by that yardstick, one hours labor
by an Industrial worker today actually buys
more food than it did in 1948 or Zealand
much more than it did in 1897, 1927, or 1917.
In other words, the rise in wages has outrun
the rise in food prices.
Furthermore, the average American can
buy his food with much less Work-time than
his equivalent in the other major nations. 1t
takes the Britisher one and half-times as
long, the Frenchman three times as long,
the Italian almost four times as long, and the
Russian-the happy citizen of the workers
paradise more than five times as long.
What is true of foods is true of great many
manufactured articles as we'll
This does not mean that initiation has been
a good thing fer most or even a substantial
minority of our people. Many more factors
than the cost of commodities enter into the
economic picture-such as the fact that fam
lily debt has been rising sharply, and the aver
age tax bill is many times what it was in pre-
war days. What it does show is how efficient
ly producers and distributors have worked to
ease the pangs. of initiation. We see that In
every community in the land-where mer-
chants, ranging from the biggest chains to
the smallest Independents, are forced by COM
petition to continually try to offer more and
more inducements to the consumer.
Initiation is always destructive. 1t can be
ruinous. We have been mighty lucky in hav-
ing so excellent producing and distributing
system to help us fight it. Our job now is
to keep that machine running while attack
ing imitation at it's source, which in majOl
part is the long established spending anC
tax policies of the government.
NSSGORG
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09

StQio 1o0ro ~ AStiss
The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscella-
neous commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by DelaW2fe farm
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week:
LIVESTOCK PRICES
CALVES
Vealers: Choice, S36.5O to $45.OO,
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
Medium to Good: S2S.O0 to $500,
mostly 1880 per cwt.
Rough and Common: $1,000 to
$500, mostly $4,000 per cWt.
LAMBS
Medium: s25.OO per cwt.
COWS
Slaughter: Medium to Good:
s14.0O to S16.0G, mostly $l4.75 per
cwt.
ly $12.75 per cwt!
Gamers and Cutters: $11.OO to
$1,000, mostly $11.75 per cWt.
STEERS
Light: s2O.5O to $3.50, mostly
$23.25 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy Type; $1,000 to $3.50,
mostly $500 per cwt.
BULLS
(Over 1000 lbs.1
Medium to Good: S18.5e to $22.25,
mostly $20.50 per cWt.
(500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to Good: $13.25 to s2100,
mostly S16.50 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
tgood quality
i26 to no lbs, $500 to $780,
mostly $3.50 per cwt
10 tt 240 lbs, $19.25 to $3.50
mostly 1925 per cwt.
24O 20 $50 lbs, $1,000 to $lS.l5i
mostly S18.75 per cwt.
sOWS
Cgood quality
200 to 800 lbs, $140O to $1,000
mostly S14.00 per cwt.
300 to 400 lbs, S14.0O to S17.75
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
over AGO lbs, $3.50 to $3.50
mostly S14.75 per cwt.
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09
he FINDS INDIAN cAMPsrEs

PLYMOUTH. Mss. - tF) ~ For
mer Vice President Jesse Brewer
of the Massachusetts Archaeology
cal Society has a sjluple formula
Tor discovering Indisn campsites.
He has found 81 in a half century.
you've just got to think like an
Indian" says Brewer. 'They had
to be near good source Of fresh
water and they favored a south or
southeast slope to get the sun fair-
~ early in the morning The In-
dian. Just like everyone else. liked
to be comfortable. SO we put our
selves in Indians mOccasins, So
t0 sneak and poke around
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09
g tLEAs SAVE MONEY

TOKYO - (F) The u. S. Army
IS encouraging economy at the 'fox-
hole levels in Korea.
"a Far East Command spokesman
says the Army IS distributing post
card-size personal messages from
Army Secretary Frank Pace. Jr.,
telling every soldier What you
use IS costing you money
More THAI million dCllars worth
of money-saving ideaS Nave been
submitted by CTS durAssthe past
year. the spokesman says. Vie sae-
gesuons cram 68-page pamphlet
distributed throughout the COM
mand
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09

lure, Dover, DeIowuTe
BOARS
(good quality)
Under $50 lbs, $500 TO $1,000,
mostly $3.50 per cWt.
Over $50 lbs, $500 to $3.50,
mostly $500 per cwt.
sHOATs
Medium to Good: SS.0O to s14.OO.
mostly $1100 per cWt.
FEEDER PIGS
&c to u weeks old
Choice: $3.50 to $1,000, mostly
$3.50 per cWt.
Medium to Good: $500 to $500,
mostly $3.50 per cWt.
Common: $100 to $3.50, mostly
$3.50 per cWt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work Type: $500 to s480O,
mostly $4,000 per eWt.
Butcher Type: $21.O0 to $3100,
mostly s25.00 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: S1.10 to S1.7O. mostly s1.tO.
LIGHT BREEDS
Bantam Chickens: csc to 55c,
mostly SOC.
Guineas: soc to s1.O0. mostly 90c.
Geese: S2.25 to S4.00, mostly $780,
MuscOvy Ducks: 90c to S1.20,
mostly S105
Turkeys; $3.50.
RABBITS
Large Breeds: s1O0 to S1I0s
mostly S110
Small Breeds sOc to soc, mostly
75c.
EGGS
Ungraded, Mixed, 45c to 57lkc per
dozen.
Pullet: CSC per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Pop Corn: soc to s11o per g
bushel
Turnips. soc to 55c per y bu-
shell
Cabbage. s1IO to $3.50 per Bu-
shell
Walnuts $130 per IS bushel
Sweet Potatoes; $120 to $1.95
I per IS bushel
Lard: s2.25 to $3.50 per 5o-n
lcsn.
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09
Politics ISN'T THE ANSWER

During the recent campaign Democratic
Party speakers made claims concerning what
government has done to benefit agriculture.
it is not the Democratic or Republican par
ties which have provided farmers with the
power machinery, the new chemicals, and
the innumerable new methods which have
transformed the farm business The pro-
gress which farmers have made for them
selves, and to which industry has contributed,
promise that agriculture will have profit
able and self-reliant future, even without the
supports guaranteed by both parties.
Not so many years ago most people had
to give all their time and effort to providing
themselves and their families with food
and it took the most arduous kind of work
to accomplish that. Today a small proper
tiOn Of the population is able to produce
enough food to take care Of the entire nation,
and it does the job more easily and quickly
In the last 20 years alone, our population
has increased by 30,000,00O people-yet our
farm acreage has not increased, and there
are actually fewer farmers.
Democratic politicians and their prom
ises weren't responsible for this What was
largely responsible was The increased use
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09
ME PRICE On GOVERNMENT

One of the national paStimeS is to kick
about the amount of money we must spend
for food. 1t now runs in the neighborhood of
5000 year for the average family. But few
Of us seem to realize that taxes cost us SUBJ
stantially more. The tax levy, direct and in
direct, hits that average family to the tune of
about $1,t00 year
Furthermore, the food you buy-and all
other commodities in general Use-is sold at
the lowest price possible in the light of the
economic conditions of the time Producers
and professors and manufacturers must all
compete for business, and price is always
one of the biggest inducements. The same
thing holds true at the retail level, where
competition is wide open and exceedingly ag-
gressive. Merchants earn, as profit, only one
to four or five cents out of each dollar the
consumer. spends with them, depending on
the kind of goods involved. All the rest of the
consumer dollar goes to buy the goods, to
pay wages and taxes, and to meet other Oper-
ating costs.
It's safe to say that there is very little
waste in business tOday-competitiO holds
that to a minimum figure just as it holds
profits. In government, on the other hand
waste is rampant, as survey after survey has
shOWn-cOmpletely ducUmented reports indi.
cate that as much as S10,000,000, 900 a year
could be cut from the Federal budget without
harming any necessary activity. And it is ar
irOnical fact that the magnitude of govern
ment spending has been the main cause oi
price inflation-so we get it in the neck
twice!
gou're entitled to kick about prices. But
it's the part of wisdom to kick loudest about
the nrice of government.
Milford chronicle., 1953-01-09
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS

Market News information Supplied BY The Bureau Of Markets.
siule Beard of AgrieyIIgTe. Dover. Delaware
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1953-03-06
Prices and Politics

Much as Americans complain
about imitation, it is deflation that
packs the real political dynamite.
One might expect that some cas-
ing of the cost of living would
bring widespread satisfaction.
One might expect the Eisenhow-
er administrations position to be
improved. But actually the first
big cloud on the new regimes
political horizon comes from fall
ing prices farm prices.
It's a situation the Republicans
inherited from the Democrats.
Farm prices have been falling
for more than a year. One maj.
or cause is the decline in the
$4,000, 900. 900 export market as
other countries get back into
production. Cotton exports, fol
instance, were cut so per cent in
the last half of 1852, and prices
fell about $50 a bale. This could
mean a $3.50, 900, 900, 900 drop ir
the cotton farmers income.
Politically, such figures weigh
more than the fact that consum'
ers are mildly pleased because
they can now buy round steak al
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1953-03-06

So eentz 4 pound instead of $1.0s.
While housewives look a little
less grihl at the meat counter,
they don't for this cause write
their congressman pledging sup
port in 1854. But the senators
from cotton-growing states have
already heard from cotton grow
ers; many of them demand high
er price supports. =
Corn and wheat, two others
among the six basic crops whose
prices are propped at 80 per cent
of parity by federal loans have
had almost as severe a blow as
cotton. The administration ap-
peared to h ave a ready-made
storm cellar into which it could
retreat from the political lorna
does caused by falling prices.
This was it's promise to abide by
the present law providing for
crop loans at 80 per cent of par
ity through 1854.
! But most of the Republicans
had opposed this Democratic law.
They had favored flexible sup
ports which under some surplus
conditions would let prices fall to
rs per cent of parity.
Moreover, this administration
lis basically committed to fewer
economic controls, more free en-
terprise. Also in Secretary Ben
son it possesses a frank and cour-
ageous public servant. He saw
that sooner or later the problem
of artifically supported f a m
prices would have to be faced.
So in a speech at Saint Paul re-
Gently he warned that while price
supports should provide insur-