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Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10
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q EIeIns ToNnsand pIlEar

huddled around the FIRE watching
red moon climb up into the 1th
OF July sky. Il was fun being to-
gether Rssin and on such wonder
tul night too Jean Dennis from
Salisbury came up for the aaair
and we were able 10 Introduce har
TO al our friends. Remember. she
came to visit us in Sacramento fn
May with Gladys Dickerson.
Saturday, the Fourth Of July.
was DaWn's third birthday. we had
planned to have just tie cousins
come down for q swim and fhor
have birthday cake and ice cream
Saturday was too cold to swim and
50 we had eight little ones shut np
IN the cottage waiting for the Marry
Dawn enjoyed it and If was her
cay 80 we should not complain
about little noise
sunday afternoon. Eileen and
Bill Spence and their two da-linr
children came down Tor swim
Ihat good old Bay and salt air ana
sun Shine must have done the friclr
because It wasn't long before Ne
we're back to that old bonfife nis
starting another fire ana eotting
OUT the left over dogs and start
ing another roast. The wind ear.
rleo the smell pretty weli beeanso
we soon had nice little catherine
ana an were quickly depoured
We've enjoyed being at the beach
again. Hayes says we're too con-
Neniently located. next fo TIE res
taurant, and Of course. i beo ~
cookin because Of It. i ienree it's 4s
my vacation, too. guess The
George Diapers live next rs ns ana
tney have said they felt sorrv for
Hayes going out for meals and
nave invited Us over there and
with both our mothers inviting ne IS
nome for dinner, too. neifbe@ - -
Us have suffered too badiv re-
still wonderful being ii Deiaws,e s 3
again, Come on down rs fhe beseb
and see just how much we're ensov.
ing the good old Eastern gb6re
Thanks for reading NE
Always.
q. 4. b.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10

and the President will have to ask
Congress for a higher debt limit
as a Christmas present. Georgia's
Senator George, however, thinks
the Senate won't like this, and that
the solons will look about for new
sources of revenue" He did not
give any examples-nOr can we, il
this nation is to maintain its time
honored slogan; Free Air"
The under-statement of the new
fiscal year, we believe, is Treasury
Secretary George NJ. Humphreys
comment that this deficit "empha-
sizes the need for continued stren-
uous efforts to get our fiscal house
in order"
Old-FashiOned -StreamIined
If you doubt that there's a reason
for everything, stop and reflect on
this: While marriages have been
declining, the birth-rate has been
increasing!
And the reason, of course, is that
America is beginning to have big
families again. A tremendous num-
Der of the new citizens comprising
the recOrd-breaking baby crops of
the past two years were second,
third, fourth or even fifth in the
family. That race-suicide the in
tellectuals were so fearful of a
few years ago, just isn't happen
ing.
Americas young parents, who
are so greatly to be admired, are
reminding the world these days of
the thing that made this nation
great . the devotion of this ma
tiOn to its offspring, and the urge
to give them better start in the
world than their elders had. It
should also be noted, however, that
the medical profession and Amer
ican industry have rewarded The
superior courage of these young
people, and Bringing Up Baby lust
isn't the chOre it used to be-. In
town or country nowadays, mo-
theirs have prenatal care. the babies
are born in hospitals; and today's
modern doctors, who are animated
by the same practical humanitari-
anism as Gheir horse-and-buggy
forebears. can treat many more pa
tients in the same long hours of de-
voted service.
The grocer too, looms large on
the young mothers horizon as a
child-care specialist. Today. whe-
ther she lives in a big city, a smart
suburb, in a remote village or on
q farm, HER grocer has those sci
entlfically-prepared strained baby
foods and chopped Junior" foods
the doctor ordered because
baby-fOOd specialists put them
there.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10
ToO Many COps4


A civilian Pentagon mail clerk,
beaten to death, lay stuffed in the
trunk of his own automobile in his
accustomed section of a Pentagon
parking lot until passers-by, dis
turbed by the smell, called on pO-
lice to investigate. When the pO-
lice became interested, four diff
ferent varieties, the Pentagon Po-
lice, the y. S. Park Police, the Ar
lington County (Virginia) Police
and the District of Columbia Police
plus Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation men, argued for four more
hours over who had jurisdiction in
the grisly matter while the broiling
summer sun continued 4. beating
down on the inadequately entomb-
ed remains.
Whether the car with it's grue-
some cargo had been in the Penta-
gon lot for. four days or something
less, seems still undetermined. But
John Samuel Johnson, the Negro
mail clerk, left his job in the Army
Adjutant Generals mail-rOom at
his usual quitting time on Thurs
day, to reappear in the CHASTITY man
ner indicated at IL a. m. the next
Tuesday.
1t is also interesting to note that
friends, who worked with johnson,
had hired a private detective to
search for him. What the four duly
constituted police organizations.
who fought so viciously for author
ity after the corpus-delecti was
presented to them, had been doing
in the meantime, has not thus far
been explained. Nor did we sup
pose, in these dangerous times, that
an unauthorized person could drive
a car into Pentagon parking lot
without at least Identifying him
self, or that a car could remain
on one Of these lots for as long as
four days without investigation.
But perhaps the OdOr in the north
parking lot was only slightly heav-
Ter than that of that holy of holies.
the PentagOn itself. Whatever DID
happen, by the way, to the inves-
tigation of BTigadier General Fran
els G. Brink, who either did or did
not shoot himself-but was found
very dead in his PentagOn Office
just a year ago?
Mutual Security At Work
About a year hence, that huge
new aluminium smelter at Kitimat.
British Columbia, which we have
mentioned from time to time, will
begin production of ingots, and
American producers (thus far AL
Goa and kaiser) as we'll as fabrica-
tors, will be among the initial Gus
TONERS.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10
Washington Letter : BY Robert Nelson TaYlol

The fact that these two compan-
les have contracted with Aluminium,
1t, the parent company Of the
Aluminium Company of Canada, for
10000 tons of primary aluminium
for delivery over the next six years,
suggests that our own Industrial
leaders think we'll of the idea Of
"stOckpiling kilowatts" - as dis
cussed in these columns a year ago.
We pointed out that electric pow
er is strategic enemy target in
America, where it energies our
whole economy and is a recognized
essential in the lives and OccupR-
tions of nearly all our people
and that aluminium ingots are es-
sentially 'packaged power" since
there are 10000 kilowatt hours of
electricity in every ton! Thus, the
ingots for Alcoa and Kaiser. plus
at least 10000 tons a year for
America fabricatOrs of the metal.
means that we have already safe
guarded our electrical potential by
something over three BILLION
kilowatts through 1858!
Such arrangements are examples
OF business craftsmanship of the
highest order, which we hope will
be observed and pondered in the
chancelleries of the free world.
Again the traditional gOOd-neigh-
bOrliness of the United States and
Canada points the way to mutual
security and defense and mutual
prosperity. Such understanding.
based on mutually profitable inter-
change of the respective abund-
ances of each country, is sound as
surance of world peace-whenever
this principle can be projected glo-
bally.
In the meantime, as we stOckpile
those plentiful hydrO-electric "kil-
Owatts from Canada" we'll be turn
ing those Air Force wings from
"cardboard''% into fightable alumni
mum.
With Our Fiscal CuIGurists
If you are one of those who swell
with national pride when you hear
of the superlatives we have all
managed to achieve, you'll thrill to
learn that in the Government fiscal
year ended June Both, we hung up
a new high in deficits. We managed
to go $780, ,OS3, ,669.43 in the hole,
deeper than we ever have before
without the aid of a World War.
Fhis now gives us a national debt
Of $266,12S,134,399.SO, and another
deficit like our latest one would
bring us above the authorized debt
limit.
Virginia's debt-conscious Senator
Byrd, however. expects we'll reach
this ceiling in another six months,
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10
Eisenhower Does Not Want A
Depression

Eisenhower Does Not Want A
Depression
The above more businesslike pro-
gram has caused Congressman to
get thousands of letters from read
ers complaining that applications
for loans were being turned down.
For fear that this. combined with
the droughts from which some sec
tions are suffering and the un-
settled foreign situation, might
bring about a depression, these
Congressman. have been pestering
the White House. Probably your
Congressman was one of these. Ike
in effect replies to them that he
will not resort to former careless
ness and will continue to handle
the Governments money as IL it
were his own; but if they want to
change the rules in fair and
honest manner he will abide by
them.
AS a. result, the Federal Reserve
Board, by changing the Reserve
requirements, has made it possible
for banks to loan more money.
Congress has also changed the law
enabling veterans to buy more
expensive homes with a down pay
ment which could be as low as 5es.
Congress is in the process Of also
lOosening up restrictions along
other lines. As a result, any farm
er, builder or businessman who
now has an honest need for funds
can-With reasonable security-get
a loan. There, however, must be no
politics connected with the loan.
What About Money Rates9
Some months ago, / forecast ia
this column that interest rates
would be higher All the large city
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10

banks have since then raised their
rate of interest. So have banks of
many smaller cities. Whether your
own local bank has raised it's in
terest rate since President Eisen-
hover was inaugurated, / do not
know. If, however, it has not al
ready done so, it should count
ten" before it does so now. One
thing is certain, when you now at
tempt to borrow money from your
local bank and are refused, the
bank can no longer blame it onto
the new Administration. hear this
is a popular excuse for turning
down loans or raising interest rates
by banks in Democratic eommun-
tiles!
When the new Administration
came into power you were Obliged
to put up margin Of 75g5 when
you bought listed stocks, in case
you did not pay in full. Soon this
percentage was reduced to 5Ogo.
which should have made stocks 90
up in price. but they did not rise.
This is a good illustration of how
prices are really controlled by fun
damental conditions and not BY leg
islation. The old Law Of Action and
Reaction still continues. "You can
lead the horse to water, but YOU
can't make him drink. AS to the
general business outlook, 1 am still
cautious; but II your local bank
doesn't loan money more freely to
good citizens it cannot blame the
Federal Reserve or Bureaucrats.
The reason viii be that business
men have decided to depend more
on honest work, intensive selling
and more advertising rather than
on borrowing money!.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10
Slaughter Beach
July 9TH, 1853

Slaughter Beach
July 7th. 1853
Dear Friends
A week ago today we moved to-
our cottage ~ the Bay, in all the
heat and thoroughly enjoyed being
there to sun, bathe. and entertain
friends who came down to visit
Thursday night 1t beean to storm
and this worried us, because we
had planned a hot dog roast for
the following night. What on earth
would we do with all those people
on a rainy night? We had ordered
all those dogs from my brother
in-law's market in Harrington and
If the roast was called because of
rain" we would certainly have
plenty of problems. We had lum-
Der from NJ. and III. lumber yard,
cases Of soft drinks, two tubs of
ice, a big tin Of potato chips. and
people coming from as far north
as Pennsylvania, as far south as
Salisbury, as far east as RehObOth
and as far west as "Hur-ring-
Well, about 8 O'Clock, there was
a grand breeze down there and the
sky seemed clOudless, so I thought
maybe everything would work out.
The next thing to worry about was
mosquitoes. Hayes is teased by all
of his family for being so lucky
and this night was no exception.
Before anyone arrived, two planes
buzzed over the beach and drenchad
the marsh and ME with d. d. T..
and everything was perfect for our
friends arrival ! yelled shot dogs
free" all evening long. but it
didn't make much impression /
guess cause we ended up with
dozens still left George Stokes
said / would have to fill my column
this week with various WAYS Of
preparing hot dogs for lunch. hot
dogs for dinner and hot dogs for
breakfast! Having no sense at all
about cooking, know only one
way to prepare them and that's
why you'll never get any recipes
from this column.
The party ended with all of rs
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10
N1aNG
sTIRRING THOUGHT

While the Government is holding billion
dollars worth of surplus wheat, it is fever
lshly building more storage capacity for the
additional quantities it must continue buying
to support the price to the farmer. To make
the picture worse, the outlook for using it at
home is pretty bleak, according to the ma
tons flour millers. In fact, the jolly miller
has become less jolly year by year since 1948
as the domestic demand for flour has. kept
shrinking. Today, they report 162 mills,
totalling quarter Of the nations capacity
Tor making -four are shut down.
The reason is simple to state-We don't
eat enough bread. In the Gay Nineties, the
average American ate 225 pounds of flour
n his bread, rolls, cake, macaroni if he
could get that much. Today, he is putting
away less than 130 pounds.
The solution is simple, too. All we have
5o DO TO make the miller jolly again is to
eat two more slices of bread day. For ex-
ample, that would just about use up the 126
mllllon bushels Of wheat Kansas expects to
harvest this year-and Uncle Sam wouldn't
nave % buy any Of it, either.
But when 95 per cent of our bread comes
out OF the commercial bread foundries these
days, the wonder is that it has remained an
article Of diet. And the task of persuading
every man, woman and child to eat two more
slces peT day sesv.s pretty grim.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10
OLD TRICK

Next time you hear someone damning the
real or alleged shortcomings Of American
business, and demanding more government
interference with the free enterprise system
as the cure, it would be well to remember 4
recent statement by Secretary of Commerce
Weeks.
This top-leyel official observed that. for
more than 20 years, private enterprise has
been "burdened by government, shaclled by
government, punished by government and
then blamed by government for not perform
ing as many miracles as it could have, had It
been free"
It's an old trick Of certain politicians to
throw monkey Wrenches into the wheels Of
progress and then blame everyone but them
selves for the results.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10

the usual time of for good behav-
ior
A large portion of the Monday
afternoon session of the court was
devoted to arguments in the case
Of Ernest Earl Pollard, indicted fOr
rape at the April term.
Deputy Attorney General Henry
]. Ridgely informed the court that
the state was ready to 60 to trial
with the case next Monday. How
ever, Herman G. Brown, defense
counsel, insisted that he wanted the
court TO act upon a petition to have
Pollard committed to the custody
Of the Commission for Feeblemind-
ed persons, which he presented to
the court Monday morning.
Mr.. Brown also presented several
motions in which he requested the
court to order the state to turn
over to the defense a list OF Wit
nesses to be used in the case and
also permit the defense TO exam
inc the states exhibits.
President Judge Charles S. Rich-
ards, who at that time was on tie
bench with Associate JUDGES
Charles L. Terry. Jr., and James r..
Carey, stated that the court could
not look with favor on a DELAY ip
the trial Of a case Of this nature
and then inquired from Mr. Brown
about his preparations for Offering
a defense in the case.
MT Brown later pointed out that
one examination made Of Pollard
at his request showed that the de-
Iendant had the body Of a 87-year-
old man but a mind Of a child sew
en- 70 nine years 81 age. Then tie
court ordered the attorney general
g nave an examination made 81
Pollard BY the state and ordered
the case continued until Septem-
Der I 4 for trial.
Judge Terry ia the meantime is
sued an order for a lieagine Oh rulv
Il 20 determine the 4ppIicatISa ~
nave Pollard committed to fhe
custody ef the Commission for
teebleminded Persons.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10
BABSON Has Some Good News

BABS0N PARK. Mass. July 10
Readers have already seen in the
newspapers that the Federal Re-
serve Board has reduced the re-
serve requirements which banks
must carry. This, directly or indi-
rectly, should help every reader Of
this column. wish to explain
what it means.
New Federal Reserve Ruling
For the past few years every
member bank has been required to
keep on hand a reserve of various
percentages, up to 2496. In other
words, when you deposited 800 the
bank heretofore has been able to
loan only about $50 of this money.
This amount varies with different
banks and merely use this figure
as a variable illustration. The
large city banks have one percent
age for reserves; those of the
smaller cities have another per-
centage; but every member of the
Federal Reserve System has a re-
QulIeu percentage.
During the Eisenhower Admins
tratiOn, when so much less Gov
ernment money has been freely
passed out by Government Bureau
Gratis, there has been Tightening
up all along the line. Farmers
have found it more difficult to bor-
row on crops; builders have found
It harder to get mortgages; and
every loan by local banks has been
scruunized more carefully. This
is all part Of an honest attempt
by the new Administration to pre-
vent imitation. In most cases, it has
not been due to any change Of
laws, but to a more careful hand
ling Of the Government funds.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10
8 True Bills Are
Returned In Kent
Little Business, However. Is Ex.
peeted At This Court Term

pected At This Court Term
The July term of the Kent County
Court opened in Dover or Monday
and indications are that there will
not be a large amount Of business
to be considered at this term. The
Grand Jury completed its work on
Monday morning by returning eight
true bills.
Jack McAlIister Of Milford, two
charges of assault and battery, both
on May is. one on Cleveland Davis
and the other on Lucille Davis Nc
Allister Freddie Cain, Franklin
Bernette Hannah. Rudolph Wo-
mack, George Smith and John G.
Hurd, all indicted separately for
the illegal operation Of still for
making alcohol. All were arrested
in April in connection with the
operation of stills south Of Dover.
John Legatess Jr., of Milford, break
ing and entering with intent to
commit larceny, with the alleged
ofense taking place at the Coffman-
Fisher Store, Milford, on May 26.
where articles valued at S22.32 were
taken.
OF the appes,i cases filed from de-
cision Of lower courts, one was
ordered dismissed the remaining
four were ordered continued until
the October term. One appeal case.
that had been continued from a
previous term. and which IS based
on the question Of the legality Of
the use Of radar by state police in
checking speed along the highways.
was scheduled for trial on Wednes-
day.
Raymond NJ. George johnson.
who this month win complete q
five-year sentence In the Kent
County Jail for assault and bat
tery, and who in March, 1861. es-
capped for a few hours while work
ing outside Of the jail. was SEN
fenced to serve one more dav al
the conclusion Of his term after II
was pointed out to the court that
he has already spent year and
four months il jail pass the time
he would have bees released with
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10

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
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week.
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $24.OO to S29.50, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Medium to good: $500 to $3.50,
mostly $2100 per cWt.
Rough and common: $1,000 to
$17.00, mostly $500 per cwt.
Monkeys: $1,000 to $4,000, most
ly $17.00 per ewt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: $11.25 to $3.50,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Common: $1,000 to $11.00, most
ly $1,000 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: S5.75 to
$9.75, mostly $500 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: $1,000 to $14.5O,
mostly $1,000 per cWt.
BULLS. lover 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $500 to S16.75,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
BULLS $500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $11.75 TO $1,000.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(gOOd quality
12O to 10 lbs: $1,000 to S26.5O.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
ITO to 24O lbs: $26.OO to S26.75
mostly $26.50 per cwt.
240 to $50 lbs: $25.OO to s26. 90.
mostly $26.00 per cwt.
SOWS
good quality)
200 to 300 lbs: $3.50 to S22.50.
mostly S2175 per cwt.
300 to 400 lbs: $500 to 500. 90.
mostly $21.O0 per cwt.
Over 400 lbs: $500 to S21. .25.
mostly $20.5O per cwt.
BOARS
(gOod quality
Under $50 lbs: S12.GG to $500.
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10

The true solution lies in persuading every
woman who can make real bread to up and
do 50. A new Era of Good Feeling not only
for the saddened millers, but for all of us,
would return on the first Saturday night that
the aroma Of fresh home-baked bread float
ed out Of the nations kitchens. Nor do we
exclude biscuits, dropped, rolled and beaten,
or cheese-straws, or doughnuts, or dumplings
with our stewing chicken or tender brown
crust on the meat pie and letus not forget
that under-coyer stuff is genuine strawberry
shortcake.
The world might well discover that the
mixing-spoon in the dainty hand Of a proud
cook is mightier than that atomic cannon
we've been Dragging about
Milford chronicle., 1953-07-10

mostly $14.00 per cwt.
over $50 lbs.: $500 to S1l.00.
mostly $11.00 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good $14.00 to $500.
mostly $500 per cWt.
FEEDER PIGS
Is to IL weeks odd
Choice; $500 to $1,000, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: $500 to $500.
mostly $500 per cWt.
Common: $3.50 to $4.75, mostly
$3.50 per cWt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $500 to S74.O0.
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
Butcher type: $4,000 to Ss1 90.
mostly $500 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: S1.20 to $500, mostly $50.
LIGHT BREEDS
Cockerels: $40 to SIS, mostly
$50.
DUCKS
Muscoyy ducks $40 to s1OO.
mostly $50
RABBITS
Large breeds: SIS to S1.OO, most
" $50.
Small breeds: $40 to s.s5. most
ly $50.
Young rabbits: SIS to s.85.
mostly $.35.
EGGS
Ungraded, mixed: $45 to s.56
per dozen.
Pullet: SIS to 1924 per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
cUCqMBERS: $50 to SIS per
IS bushel.
sQUAsHEs: $50 to $40 per
Is bushel.
APPLE: $50 to S1.25 per bushel.
COUNTRY BUTTER. $40 per lb.
SNAP BEANS :s55 to S1.OO per
5s bushel.
TOMATOES: $155 to $3.50 per
bushel