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Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

woes by provoking war will be tremendous. World
capitals will be filled with Uneasiness. Malenkov
is less moderate man than was Stain. However,
he will not "shOw his hand" until he is sure of his
power until he is forced to take action in order
to unite the masses behind him.
DEFENSE PREPARATIONS WILL CONTINUE
President Eisenhower is admirably equipped to
make prOpitiOus decisions during the stormy days
ahead. He knows how easily war could stem from
the situation which we will be witnessing over the
period Immediately ahead. Englind has, of course,
been more conciliatory toward Russian than we have
but this attitude may help the friction between
Russia and the United States during the difficult
times which lie ahead Restraint and extreme eau
ton must be used if we are to avoid extension of
the waT. The Soviet Union under it's precarious
new leadership, might decide suddenly to resort
to fu-scale war to unite its people. Hence, it may
be wise to lie low along the international fronts
until the situation becomes definitely clearer.
AS analyze the probabilities of the near term,
/ would say that there is a 6O-4O chance Of our
being able to develop a workable diplomatic pro-
which will enable us to get by without spread
ing the war. Above all, it would be extremely un-
wise for our people to be misled by early rumors
Don't rush to take radical action. Watch the stu
alton calmly, and look for the underlying trends
rather than the day-to-day switches in the inter-
national weather vane Those owning businesses
should keep firm rein over their inventories and
costs, but should not be stampeded into foolish or
rash moves which they may later regret
OUTLOOK FOR THE STOCK MARKET
All of the above indicates that there will be a
cooling off period and on the whole the near term
prospects for peace look better. If the American
people agree with me, the price of the war stocks
may fall off, which would mean a decline in the
Industrial Average Later the situation will have to
be reviewed in the light of MalenkOv's actions
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

views as to what should be included in this
law. They want to hear from the folks back
home because even Congressman can not live
and work IN vacuum. They want to hear
from their constituents and will certainly he
influenced by their views Your Congress-
men would like to see you and talk with vOu
on your labor vieWs-and the next best thing
is, OF course, e personal letter particularly #
you nave had personal experiences which
may illustrate point.
II you believe free speech in the labor
relations area should be maintained and not
limited, that compulsory unionship is WRONG
that laws should be written to deal with
union monopoly power and national emer-
gency strikes, that both employers and IN
ions should be equally responsible for living
up to their contracts, that secondary bOv1
colts and jurisdictiOnal strikes shOHld he
prohibited, or if you have other ideas on
what should be included in good labor law.
WRITE your Congressman today. He needs
your help. ''00"'
Sure, it takes time to write vour Com
gressmen-maybe twenty minutes or even
half an hOur-but remember your views
could influence your cOuntry's welfare for
life time. Pick up that pencil and paper now
and let your representatives in Washington
know how you feel.
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
BABSON Discusses Stain And MalenkOv

BABSON PARK, Fla, March 13-I personally
did not know Mr.. Stain but 1 knew the TOlstoy
family who very well acquainted with him
They have many times told me that he had very
little to say and that he felt there was no one in
Russia who could fill his shoes. All of this means
that there will be considerable of an inner conflict
amongst the leaders, though they outwardly
acknowledge Malenkov as the new Dictator. At the
present writing it is impossible to say how long
Malenkov will be able to hang on to his job. I,
however am assured that there is no danger of the
people starting a revolution If one comes it will
be palace revolution" started by the Govern
ment Army heads.
EFFECT ON THE SATELLITES
Of course, there have been many signs of in
ternal strife behind the Iron Curtain Violence
characteristic Of Russian politics in evidence long
before the rise of Communism, has marked the
struggle for personal power. The purges in the
satellite countries the elimination of the Moscow
doctors, have given strong evidence that Stalins
illness was we'll known by the ruling groups in the
Soviet Union. Now, despite Moscow's desperate
efforts to tighten the manacles upon the satellite
countries and the entire Soviet Bloc factions favor
ing TtOism may be encouraged. Freedom-lovers in
Czechoslovakia and Poland must already be filed
with new courage and hope
Meanwhile, uncertainty will rule until some
man of PROVEN power emerges in Moscow. Until
the new dictator shows thaS he can hold on to his
job there is no sense in specializing on what the
new policies and their effects upon the rest of the
world will be. do say this however: While Stain
is being eulogized publicly, one of the coolest and
crueest struggles for power in the history of the
world viii be going on behind the scenes The new
dictator will find himself in a vacuum into which
will rush all the elements of violence that Stain
has managed to hold in allegiance The temptation
to unity his people and take their minds off their
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
sTILL Ne SUBSTITUTED

General James A. Van Fleet, re-
tired commander of the U. S. Eighth
Army in Korea, has told various
Congressional committees what
they, and the rest of us have heard
before-alsO from competent wit
nesses. He told them that victory
is the only alternative to defeat in
Asia. An armistice with the Com
munists would have created an in
tolerable situation in Korea and
only prolonged the agony"
The General described the pres
ent situation as "One of our own
choice, and not one imposed by
the Communists. 1t is not a check
mate. 1t is not stale-mate. 1t is
a sit-dOwn."
In subsequent testimony. Cen
eral Van Fleet indicated that it
would be his plan to mount a mass
i've offensive, drive the enemy from
the long sacrOsanct thirty-eighth
parallel, back through North Korea
to the narrow waist of the penin-
sula. Here, he believes, a new and
shorter defense line could be manns
ed entirely by South Korean CROK)
troops.
Such smashing new drive would
require greatly increased American
FORCES, and apparently a tremend-
Ously stepped up supply of ammu-
milton. The General told the law
makers that the Eighth Army was
8 per cent above normal strength
in 1851, but IL per cent below nor
mai today, and as much as 20 per
cent below authorized strength in
some categOries. He had been told,
he said, by visitors" whom he did
not name that his command would
be built up to Is per cent above
normal, but it had never happen
ed.
There has been a serious short
age of ammunition ever since I've
been in Korea" he said, critical
at times, now serious in some
types, but not in all" This point
the General developed further in
secret sessions, and will probably
result in a Senate probe.
While the General was talking,
newspapers presented the latest
Korean casualty figures: 23,O69
dead, 94,863 wounded and 1890
Others" a total edging over the
100000 mark. And at the White
House press conference the Presi-
dent was asked whether he favored
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

Danes, the Greeks, the Italians and
various Others-but somehow, we
don't think they'd like it. And
maybe even we rich Americans
haven't enough of the stuff to take
care of everybody.
What all of us could do, of course.
would be to work a little harder for
the dollar, the pound, the franc and
the Ira we get. This country could
scale down some tariffs and clean
up our customs laws and proceed
ures so they'll work smoothly, anC
fairly, and FAST.
But, since our British guests
ARE asking nothing" perhaps no
one will even mention money.
PRIZE PACKAGE
The young Pole who sought sane
tuary in Denmark, and came in a
Russian MIG Is that he landed un-
harmed on a third as much run
way as this jet requires, delivered
a prize package. 1t is believed to
be the first fiyable MIG the free
world has laid hands on. Some
how, they always seem to disinte-
crate when anything happens to
them in action.
By the time the Danish had it
reduced to it's cOmpOnents, the
Poles hotly demanded its return.
The Danes were sorry, but it was
They didn't have
enough runway for a take-Off.
Such diplomacy!
WHATEVER IT Is-MAkE 1T
UNANIMOUS
Since the Republican platform
writer's decided in Chicago's heat
last June that it would be a good
idea to "repudiate" the secret
agreements of Yalta and POtsdam,
considerable cooling-off has occur
red.
Today Congress is wrestling with
the traditional difficulty of wiping
up split milk. Approval of the pres
ent resolution, which merely de-
cries ''perveTsiOn" of the agree
ments, could mean that Congress
now approves of The instruments
But perhaps the pro-
posed amendment is little help. 1t
disaVOws acceptance of the validity
of the dOcuments-an that might
nullify the resolution.
Unscrewing the inscrutable, you
might say.
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
473O FL CerritO
Sacramento Is, Calf.
March 6. 1879

Sacramento Is, Calf
March 6, 1853
Dear Friends:
One year ago today began writ
ing about our life in the Air Force
When l think of the weeks I'VE
wondered just what / would write
to you, it seems like a loOooone
year, but when I think about the
fun Hayes and and the children
have had in that space of time II
seems like a short twelve months
Last year we were in Florida
basking in the Tampa Sun, this year
we're in California and must be
honest; the weather for the past
three or four weeks has been per
fect' but this week we haven't been
able to sit in the sun because our
kindergarten girl had the flu. ]
hope I'm not being too optimistic
in saying, she HAD the flu.
Sunday week ago before the flu
made it's unwelcOme visit upon us,
we had a most welcome visitor
from Oakland. Florence e. Tease
(2208 Carroll Street, Oakland 6,
Calif) and Bill Moore drove up
from the bay area and spent about
four hours with us. Florence saws
she has gone home about every
other year since she has lived in
California, but it's Seen several
years since Hayes and have seen
her. She looked very much the
same, perhaps younger, and looked
so pretty this day in a very attrac-
tive blue knit suit. Bill is a young
attorney in Oakland, a tall, young,
handsome man that Hayes and /
liked instantly. We are sorry Oak
land is so far away, but even so
we want to get together again be-
fore we leave in June for our next
assignment.
Speaking of moving to a new
base. When a stranger moves to a
new town you'll agree that not
many towns turn out to welcome
the stranger en- masse. When an
Air Force wife arrives at a new
base even within as short a time
as two weeks after her husband
signs in at the base she is invited
to a newcomers party. The way
this is accomplished is merely by
the WOman's Club having slips of
paper in the Officers Club office.
AS the officer-husband makes the
rounds of signing in on the base, he
has to sign in at the club, pay dues
for himself and his wife, and there
signs a paper that reverts back to
the club secretary. Usually printed
or engraved invitations are sent re-
questing the wife's attendance at
a coffee (as it was in Mac Did or
an afternoon party, as it is here at
Mather. In a couple of weeks Eve
lyn Short Humphreys will be well
coined, I'm sure, in just such a fash
ion when she arrives at Clovis, New
Mexico, with her husband, 1t. Pat
Humphreys.
This past Tuesday was the after
noon set aside for the newcomers
party here. AS each one arrived she
was given a ladies' miniature paper
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
WEDDING PREVlEW IN
MINIATURE

BINGHAMPTON, N. Y. - up -
Eighteen-year-Old Mrs. John F.
Cook often gives her altar-bound
friends a previev- of their wedding
day by dressing up her miniature
7-inch dolls to duplicate the cos
tunes of the wedding party.
The planning is complete down
to flower girl, ring bearer and
preacher. She sews the dresses Of
scraps of cloth and lace in the
color to be used by the bridal par
ty. Bits of tulle, caught to pieces
Of colored pipe cleaner, form the
headdresses and wells. Her hobby
is usually a feature at pre-nuptial
showers.
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
coNVULsIoNs ARE
misunderstood

DALLAS = fF) - Many Of the
estimated 5000 adult Americans
who suffer convulsions have dis
eases that are durable, says DR.. J.
Grafton Love, neurosurgeon on the
Mayo Clinic staff at Rochester.
MINI.
There is misunderstanding on
the part of the lay public on convul-
siOns," he said. "They too often
call it epilepsy. We of the medical
profession prefer to use the term
'convulsive disorder until the cause
of the cOnvulsion is determined"
After 40, persons who start hay-
ing cOnVulsiOns likely are suffer-
ing from brain tumors, he said,
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
Letter -- By Robert Nelson Tuv1o,

extension of the draft from two
years to 80 or 36 months, as Van
Fleet suggested. He answered in a
firm, fiat negative.
At this writing, no one has an
nounced any new Korean plans.
But a remark of General Van
Fleets to the effect that the situ-
alton may have improved since his
departure, might suggest that there
are some new rules in force.
Also, the first visit of Nine.
Chang Kai-shew to Washington in
some years may nave more than
social significance.
#&m
ATs-ACRoss. ss.THE-sEA
Britain's Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden made headlines when
he stepped from plane at Wash
ingtOn's National Airport" we
are asking nothing from you," he
said.
U. S. spOkesmen also stressed
the point that no commitments will
be made by either Government in
the economic cooperation talks for
which Mr.. Eden and r. A. Butter,
Chancellor Of the EXchecQuer, came
to Washington. Specifically, we
are told, the visitors are here to re-
port to Secretary of Commerce Sin
clair Weeks, Budget Director JOS
eph M. Dodge and Chairman Will
liam McChesney Martin of the Fed
eral Reserve Board of Governors
on the recent British Common
wealth Ministers Conference. Then,
Mr.. Eden said, they will go home
and discuss it with their European
allies.
What the ministers talked about
OF course, is no mystery. They
talked about the program now de-
scribed as Trade Not Aid" and
the steps needed for expansion of
production and trade. But it should
be remembered that the British
recently presented to
U. S. officials a plan for a dollar
fund to stabilize the pound Sterl-
ing, and stabilize raw material
prices throughout the free world.
According to our financial gen
fuses, such a fund might cost us no
more than two to five billiOns-and
it might create confidence in Her
Majesty's currency. Not being a
genius, we don't know
what this might do to other peo-
pies money - the French, the
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News information Supplied BY The Bureau OF Murkess
Stufe Board Of Agriculture, Dover, Delaware

The following is 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.
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEALERS
Choice: $4,000 to $1,000, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: $1,000 to $2S.5O,
mostly $25.00 per cwt.
Rough and common: $1,000 to
$23.5O. mostly $500 per cwt.
Monkeys: $1,000 to $2S.0O, mostly
$500 per cwt.
COWS
(slaughter)
Medium to good: $14.00 to $17O0,
mostly $14.75 per cwt.
Common: $1,000 to $13.75, mostly
$12.75 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: $500 to
$11.5O, mostly $11.00 per cWt.
STEERS
Light steers: SLIPS to SPOTS,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: SLIPS to $500,
mostly $500 per cwt.
Beef type: $4,000 to $23.OO, most
ly $21.50 per cwt.
BULLS
(Over 1000 Ibs.)
Medium to good: $17.0O to $500,
mostly SITS per cwt.
$500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $12.75 to $16.75,
mostly $500 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(goOd quality
12O TO ITO lbs: S17.25 to $4,000,
mostly S19.75 per cwt.
10 to 240 lbs: $4,000 to $21.25,
mostly $2050 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs: $1S.25 to $19.75,
mostly S19.75 per cwt.
SOWS
(good quality
200 to 800 lbs: $500 to S18.25,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
300 to 400 lbs: S1525 to $3.50,
mostly $17.0O per cwt.
Over 400 lbs; S14.75 to $3.50,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
BOARS
(good quality
Under $50 lbs: $1,000 to $1S.75,
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
HELP WANTED

OF the many chores confronting the Els
enhower Administration, none is more es-
sentlal to national welfare, our defense. pros
perity and general happiness than to formu-
late labor laws that we can live with. The
President and Congressional leaders have
stressed the Importance OF such legislation.
and revision of the controversial Taft-Hart-
ley Act is now in the hearing stage in Con
gress.
This is the time, therefor when all of us
US snould realize that whatever our own Job
may be, merchant, farmer, banker. doctor
lawyer, clerk, mechanic, bookkeeper or house
wife, the labor laws of the u. S. are our laws.
They affect every one of us, whether we be-
long to union or not, whether we are an
employer or not. And no labor law can be
good for union and bad for the American
people, or .vice-versa. Such laws are everv-
oody's business, and deserve deliberate, care
Ful consideration, based on all the evidence
and experience in this field that we can pass
along to our legislators.
congressman very frankly want your
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13

mostly $11.OO per cwt.
Over $50 lbs: $500 TO S11 OO
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: $500 to S14OO.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
(6 to 12 weeks oId)
Choice: $500 to $500, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: $3.50 to $3.50.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Common: $500 to $500, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $44.OO to S85. 90. most
Iy $1,000 per cwt.
Butcher type: $4,000 to $4,000
mostly $500 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: $1.4O to $3.50, mostly 5000
Boosters; $1.25 to $1.75, mostly
LIGHT BREEDS
Bantam chickens: $.25 to $40,
mostly $.S5.
$11O.
Geese: $2.7O to $3.75, mostly s275.
DUCKS
MuscOvy ducks: S.85 to S1.25.
mostly $1.15.
TURKEYS
Toms: $3.50 to $1O.5O, mostly
Hens: $4.25, mostly s425.
RABBITS
,aI Large breeds: $1.1O to 1920.
Small breeds: $50 to $1.OO, most
ly $50.
Young rabbits: $50 to $50, most
ly S.S5.
EGGS
Ungraded, mixed: s.S71s to S.4S
per dozen.
Pullet: S.31 per dozen.
. MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Sweet potatoes: $3.50 to $500 per
5s bushel.
Lard: $3.50 to $500 per so Ib.
Turnipa: s.25 to $50 per x bu-
Greens: s.45 per busheL
Pop corn: $.S5 per e bushel.
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
FOR BETTER-OR WORSE

Blood is very special kind of sap," de-
clared Goethe. And it might be the kind that
is flowing in Moscow this season. Il wouId
0e very special" because it would flow from
the veins OF the mighty instead of the usual
00norS, the facelesS people, petty fifth-rate
ei!icIalS' chufcnmen, the Jews or some other
Out-Of-favOr minority.
Joseph ViSsariOnvich DzugashviH who
called himself Stain oman of steeD lived up
10 MS billing, and after numerous false
alarms, Outllved his widely accepted "immOr-
tallty. AS he died, millions of his follow
efS, whose priests he had killed, and whose
churches he had razed, prayed for soul he
never possessed. And as he died, ambitious
successors to his iron grip on half the world.
must surely have been plotting to seize the
mlgntleSt power any man ever held.
Announcements and editorials reminded
Jne people OF their allegiance to "the party
not to lOutish, fat-faced Georgi MalenkOv
the stOoge whom Stain had apparently noroi-
naCed as successor. Thus others must have
had dl11erent ideas. There are manv who
HlghC2 notably MOlOtOv, whom Georgi re-
placed in the affections of Stain. or LaVrenfi
Berla, chief of the $4,000 man secret nolice
ana RuSsla'S one man Murder, Incorporated
NOR should we leave purge-trial prosecutor
VlSnlnSky out OF the CORY picture.
90 Tar as any one can judge one of these
llotA M 0'N:0tS - dS POISONOUS as another from
our point OF view. The best we could hone
Tor would be Kilkenny cat struggle for pow
er that would keep all of them at each others
throats for some time to come, that could
csoncelVably give the satellites a chance at
freedom, give Chang chance to redeem
Ohlna ana leave Russia too disOrganized for
aggression. The desperate chance remains
that a successor who was free to act micht
decide another World War is Just the thing
TO unite his far-fung and jittery subjects.
<0SG0RS&
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
WHY NOT?

A sound labor law must aim at four
principles. First, it must preserve the ri0bt
OF employees to bargain Ollectivelv-incIIId-
ing the right to strike. Second, it must eouaI-
Iy preserve the right of individual EMPLOYEES
against the union so that the individual is
protected from any Observation-Disclosures
the right of worker, as it were. to strike
against the union" Third, it must pre-
serve the right of employers to bargain on
a basis OF equality with the union, free of
preJudiclal government coercion. Fourth. It
must protect the public interest
These principles are not anti-union or
pro-unlon, anti-business or pro-business
They are designed to fully protect the rights
Oh all and to make all equal in the ewes of
the law. y ~ -
AS matters stand now, with the closed
shop and its variant, the union shop. millions
OF worker cannot earn their living at their
trades unless they pay dues to a union. Mem
Dershlp In the union is not voluntarv-it is
compulsory This is simply the other ex-
treme from the yellow dog contracts" the
union busting" and the "blackballing" of
union members which have long been outlaw
ed by law and the weight of public opinion.
The right Of man not to Join union or
any other organization is as important as
the right to join it. ' 90
Milford chronicle., 1953-03-13
THE DIFFERENCE

=. Under Communism, the production and
distribution of most goods are state mono
pOleS: There is no competition as we know
1t. All the way from the factory to the retail
store, the state determines what the peOpIe
shall and shall not have and what thew must
pay. '''N' -''"''
What has been the influence of this svs-
tenn on the living standards of the peonIeN
as compared with those prevailing in the
United States? WV
The New York Journal American recent
~ answered that question by comparing the
amount OF working time various kinds of
american workers have to put in to earn
Cne money to buy commodities with that re-
qulred OF workers elsewhere. An American
auto mechanic, for instance, earns the price
OF pound of butter with % minutes of
laO0r-his Russian equivalent must work
more than hours. Our mechanic can bnv
SUIT with the fruits of three davs workGin
RUSSIA the figure is five weeks and 2 davs
"A little more than one days work will earn
Che price OF radio for the American-Tvan
would have to labor more than five weeks 70
get enough rubles to make the purchase,
-, 1t is characteristic. of a free economy
tnat 1t Sustains all the other freedOms-an1
gives us unequalled living standards at The
same time. In free economy, the factories
make what the people want. The retail
stores, all the way from a one-fanilv onera-
tl0n TO national chain. stock and advertise
what the people want. The public is boss.