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Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
BABSON DISCUSSES VACANT LAND

Babson Park. Mass. May 90, 1854.
Old houses may now be a sale.
Women have gone crazy both over
One-stOry houses (ranch type) and
over ultra-wide skirts. There is a
style in houses, like styles in
dresses. Well-built and well-lUcated
large houses are now out of style.
How long it will be before women
get sensible and buy such houses
again is anyOne's guess.
Fear OF World War III
But one thing will always be
in style, and that is vacant land
whether small city lots that can
be used for parking, or fringe
acreage just outside cities and
towns. Thus far people have not
taken seriously the fear of World
War III, but now, with these
Evacuation Days, they are begin
ming to give up their rented city
houses and buy in the suburbs.
II World War III should really
look threatening you will see a
big boom in suburban property
twenty miles out. Unless the price
OF land is frozen, it could double
IN value in a few weeks. Well
drained and well located vacant
land should not now be sold.
Some Things Being OVerdOne
If World War III threatens.
farms outside big cities which can
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21

So far as overseas merchant shipping is
concerned, this country has two alternatives.
It can depend on foreign merchant fleets
to carry the load. The vast dangers in this
have been described by no less an authority
than President Eisenhower. In October.
1852, he said eve were caught fiatfooted in
both world wars because we relied too much
upon foreign owned and operated shipping.
Americas industrial prosperity and miii-
tary security both demand that we maintain
a privately operated merchant marine ade-
quate in size and of modern design to insure
that our lines of supply for either peace or
war will be safe. | consider the merchant
marine to be our fourth arm of defense and
vital to the stability and expansion of our
foreign trade"
The other alternative, is to carry out the
principles first laid down in the Merchant
Marine Act Of 1886 and reaffirmed bv the
government on many occasions since. This
means that American lines plvire the essen
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
Milford, Delaware
May 19, 1854

Milford, Delaware
May 10, 1854
Dear Friends:
All good things must come to
an end, and so did my wonderful
twelve days in Alabama with Hayes.
Friday week ago I was sitting
beside the Officers Club beautiful
pool while Hayes was having class
es. I had taken a dip in the pool
and when l came out this attrac-
tive girl next to me asked if the
water was cold. From that we con-
tinued to talk. / asked where she
and her hubby were stationed and
she told me Columbus, Ohio, but
that her home was in Pennsyl-
vania-Jersey Shore, Pa, to be
exact. l told her how odd, that
out of the forty-eight states my
home state should be Delaware.
Further condolences were: she
and her husband both worked in
Delaware at one time and for Du-
POnt, she was in the legal depart
ment and knew Doris Sockrider
Cnow Mrs. Joseph Lynam) and she
was shocked when I told her Doris
and l were good friends in school.
1t Just never ceases to amaze me
how every one in the world seems
to know some one that you know.
too. The big surprise of all was
when we found out that both of
our husbands were recalled. the
same year, the same month and
both from New Castle Air Force
Base. Later when we returned to
the Guest House, where we were
both billeted, we just stood in
amazement when our husbands
told us they had met at New Cas-
tie and here after three years we
land back at the same base to-
gether, sitting, side-b -by-side, at
Maxwell Officers Club pool.
Friday night the boys had a
formal "dining-in" at one of the
largest hotels in town, a stag af-
fair, and so most of the wives met
them later at the club. This Off
GERS club is one of the lOveliest I
have ever been in. A very spa-
cious, comfortable lounge with fire.
place, a glass enclosed patio that
OverlOOks the pool, several private
dining rooms. a lovely cocktail
room resembling a southern man
siOn's porch with white grill work
drawing your attention as Won en-
ter, an adequate dining room. ball
room, snack bar-just everything
one can imagine to make a club
complete. You know, too, this lux
urious club does not come out of
your pockets, but from Air Force
personnel stationed at Maxwell
who pay monthly club dues.
Saturday l teased HAYES and
told him he made me travel a
thousand miles just to act as his
secretary. There is much. much
work to be done at Squadron Off
GERS School and much of it must
be typed and abiding by very strict
forms. This was my Job on Satur-
day. We spent all that afternoon
in their excellent library: HAYES
doing reference work and me tvp-
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21

every chance of getting lost.
nevertheless, Messrs. Jenner and
McCarTan have presented a recon-
mendation worthy of very serious
study. Certainly our present diplo-
matte intercourse with the Reds
constitutes nothing more than A
One-Way pipeline of information we
don't want them to have. and orr
acceptance of this situation wear
in and year out can hardly increase
Communist respect for us.
And, while we're dreaming, we
might as well suggest that when
and if this resolution is implement
ed, we offer asylum to all those
diplomats" who desire to stay here
We might reverse the flow of that
pipeline-Overnight.
$&A
Life Begins At 75
The House of Representatives
thinks you should be over SIS to Sc
cure tax relief on your retirement
income, but the Senate Finance
Committee thinks you should have
this break regardless of age, Just
so long as you are retired.
Other items in the Administra-
tion's omnibus tax reform bill
(passed by the House in March,
with which the Senate committee
agrees substantially include more
liberal allowance on medical ex-
penses and contributions. Also that
automatic April first reduction in
corporation income taxes would be
wiped out by putting the rates
back where they were-and retro
actively.
Specifically, the House bill ex-
empts income up to $1,000 for any
retired person over IS, but earnings
from actual work amounting to
5000 or more would be deducted
from the $1,000 exemption. The
Senate committee (being older,
perhaps) would grant the exemp-
tiOn similarly. but without a mini
mum age requirement. And after
you are IS, the Senators think you
should be allowed to earn as
much as you want without penalty.
Thus, if the views of the upper
house prevail. the thing to do is
to retire early in life, rest up till
you're 75-and then really fly at it!
RSA
Men Wanted
After ten years of periodically
kicking it under the rug, we can
expect Universal Military Training
in modified fOrm-but soon. An
nOuncement of Assistant Defense
Secretary John Hanna that decline
in reenlistments forecasts a man
power crisis. is regarded as pre-
liminary to six months training for
at least 10000 draft eligibles be-
ginning January 1st, to be followed
by Reserve duty. Reserve ohliga-
tiOns of draftees after active SER
vice will also be enforced. The
New Look" is succeeded by the
New New Look.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News information Supplied BY The Bureau OF Muye
staio Board Of Agriculture Dover, DeluvOro

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscel-
laneOus commodities prevailing
last week. This report shows av-
erage prices received by Delaware
farmers for commodities that were
marketed throughout this week:
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEALERS
Choice: S27OO to $1,000, mostly
$4,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: $1,000 to $26.OO.
mostly $500 per cwt.
Rough and common: $500 to
$1,000, mostly $500 per cwt.
Monkeys: $1,000 to $24.OO, most
ly $1,000 per cwt
LAMBS
Medium: $27.75 to $3275, most
ly $4,000 per cwt.
COWS
(Slaughter)
Medium to good: $13.25 to S14.75.
mostly $14.00 per cwt.
Common: $1L00 to $1,000, most
ly $3.50 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: $500 to
$1O.75, mostly $40 25 per cwt.
STEERS
Good: $3.50 to $21OO, mostly
$21.00 per cwt.
Light steers: $14O0. to $21.OO.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
HEIFERS
(Feeder)
Dairy type: $825 to $14.5O, most
ly $12.25 per cwt.
Beef type: $13 so to $18:25, most
ly $17OO per cwt.
BULLS
lover 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $15.75 to $18.25.
mostly $16.75 per cwt.
$500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $1O.5O to S16.75.
mostly $500 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
Good Quality
120 to 40 lbs: $3.50 to S26 90.
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
40 to 24O lbs: $26.75 to S27.25.
mostly $2700 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs: $24.5O to $26.5O.
mostly $26.25 per cwt.
SOWS
Good Quality
200 to 800 lbs $1,000 to $3.50.
mostly $21.5O per cwt.
300 to 400 lbs: $3.50 to $23.25.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21

Over 400 lbs: $3.50 to $4,000.
mostly $1975 per cwt.
BOARS
Good Quality
Under $50 lbs: S14.OO to 500 25.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Over $50 lbs: $3.50 to $1,000,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: $17OO to S22.OO.
mostly $20.50 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
(6 to II weeks old
Choice: $14.00 to $3.50, mostly
$500 each.
Medium to good: $500 to $1,000,
mostly $11.O0 each.
Common: $500 to $3.50. mostly
$500 each.
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $4S.OO to $1,000, most
ly $4,000 each.
Butcher type: $1,000 to s41.OO.
mostly $4,000 each.
LIVE POULTRY
FOWL
Heavy breeds: $115 to $1.7O,
mostly S1.40 each.
Boosters: $1.OO to SLIPS, mostly
S1.15 each.
BANTAM CHICKENS
Light breeds: $50 to $11O, most
ly $50 each.
j.. Geese; $1.75 to $500. mostly
$l.75 each.
DUCKS
Muscovy; SIS to $1.SO, mostly
S105 each.
BRAKES
MuscOvy: $1.4O to $165 mostly
$1.40 each.
RABBITS
Large breeds: $1OO to $1.7O.
mostly S1.1O each.
Small breeds: $50 to $50. most
ly SIS each.
Young rabbits: $.35 to $50
mostly $40 each.
EGGS
ungraded. mixed $50 to S3S
per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Lard: $4OO to $50 per SO ID. can.
Country butter: $40 per 10.
quart. w Pi
Gre, Green tale: $50 to $40 per x
Sweet potatoes: $1OO to s1so
per Ss bushel.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
Now It's Going Professional

StenOgraphic minutes of that
March 10th closed meeting of the
Senate Investigations subcommittee
the one that first decided to con-
duct the Army-McCarthy hearings
in public have now been given to
the world.
Senator Everett Dirksen. Rep)
OF Illinois, in discussing the fur
ther ventilation of this whole con-
troversy," declared: "At the end of
it there could be only a couple of
things.
One would be to terminate the
committee service of Roy COhn, our
counsel, and probably the other
one would be to politely advise the
Department of Defense that by the
same token, perhaps the services
OF Mr.. Adams ought to be termi-
mated"
While we do not believe the loss
or either or both of these DubIic
servants would cause any outcrv
from the citizenry, and perhaps the
hearings might have been speeded
up If they had been dropped on their
heads at that time, it is now too
late to placate the public with half
way decisions or diversiOuarv
plank-walking. With this perfOr-
nance now in competition with the
movies, the purely synthetic TV
whodunnits and even baseball, the
curtain can not fall without a hero
and a villain-seniOr grade.
More recent Republican efforts to
choke off the public hearings and
conduct them in private without
the panOply of a super-collossal
were vetoed by Army Secretary
Stevens himself Excused after
thirteen days on the witness stand
because cf a virus infection. the
Secretary was contacted by phone
in his PentagOn Office-where he
had been watching the show. Joseph
N. Welch, Army special counsel.
reported Mr. Stevens as saving.
..... l continue in my view that
the proposed resolution (the Dirk
sen plan to shorten the hearings)
would not result in fairness"
Thus, what Senator Mccarthy
himself has referred to as a red
minnow burlesqUe" is to go On-and
on. But we now hear the subcom-
mittee has lifted it's ban on COM
mercial spOnsOrship-and that both
Abe and DumOnt hope to sell the
production on a full network basis.
Perhaps Secretary Stevens would
like to buy it for the Army Recruit
ing Service?
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
University ROTC
Students Honored
loontInued from flrst narel

CONTINUED from first page)
1903 by a group Of Baptists who had
settled on grant Of land known as
WEIGH Tract. The church was built
IN 1916. Local members Of the So
clety are Mrs. Fry, President; Mrs.
John C. Jewell, historian; Miss
M. Catherine Downing, registrar:
Mrs. N. B. Downing and Mrs. Clar-
ence Jester.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
First Anniversary
At Church OF God

Continued from Ilrst pageJ
will be present. One of Southlands
great singers will render special
selections. Also a feature will be
the Grandmothers Trio, Male Quar-
tets are expected to render a
number of Southern style hymns.
The evening service will be con-
dacted by the Rev. TulI pastor of
the church and for a guest speaker
he has secured the Rev. J. C. Byrd.
District Superintendent of Mary
land, Delaware, Eastern Va, and
Washington, ID. C.
The public is cordially invited to
Join with the Church in all these
worship services.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
VISIBILITY GOOD!

The evidence mounts that our nations
economy is accomplishing smooth transi-
ton from production for destruction-war
to production for plenty-peace.
There is every indication, say those who
study the economic trends and the facts and
figures, that this viii be on the whole good
year for everybody exceeded only by 1853,
which was a record year.
Despite the outlandish schemes of the So
cialistic and political spenders for throwing
the economy off course, despite the depres-
SION howlers, the signals are set for Full
Speed Ahead!
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
CLEAN THEFT

SAN RAFAEL, Calf - (Fl
Military policemen at nearby Ham
ilton Air Force Base took several
showers a day until they trapped
a thief. The man pleaded guilty to
rifing pockets when he heard a
shower running.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
SLAVE LABOR AMERICAN STYLE

This year the electric light and power in
dustry is celebrating Lights Diamond Ju-
bllee. In the brief span of Is years electric
service has been brought to SO per cent of
all occupied establishments in the United
States
The president of a major power company
recently talked about some of electricitys
achievements-in the home, in business, and
on the farm. He said "Truly, electricity has
become the servant of the American people.
1t =. asks no time off, never complains about
too many little and monOtOnous jobs, never
balks at herculean tasks, and unlike other
servants asks for very little pay There ap-
pears no limit to the way this servant can
serve, or to the size of the job, large or
small, that it can handle"
In the course of his talk, he also
dwelt on other achievements that have been
partially Obscured because of all the prOpa-
ganda on behalf of Socialized government
power. Since 1945, the investments of the
lnvestOf-oWned companies have more than
doubled-from $12,500,0OO to $25,5O0, ,OOO,-
600. Last year alone the industry added TO-
OOO,OOO kiiowatts of capacity, and at the end
OF the year its capacity was 17.6 pei. cent
greater than the demand. Further great ex-
pension is underway. Not one dollar comes
from the taxpayers. And-as contrasted
with tax-free sOciaiized electricity this prog
ress constantly adds to the taxable resources
of government.
The big point is plain. AS the spokesman
put 1t. 'InvestOr-OWned companies are will
ing, able and anxious to meet the challenge
OF eVer-groWing requirements for electric
service, no matter how substantial"
1~En
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE


One hundred and fifty-One years AGO TO-
day. April 80, American made one of the
greatest real estate buys in histOry-the
Louisiana Purchase In need of cash. Ma
pOeOn BOnaparte sold us the Louisiana Ter
rltOry for $15,000,O00! This windfall for
America included what are now the states of
Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, North
and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla
home, Montana, most of Minnesota, and
parts OF Wyoming and Colorado. When we
bought that immense piece of land in 1903
II was thought it might take a century to
settle 1t. AS it turned out, however, by 1848
Cne toe OF westward migration had rolled
beyond this vast area to the Pacific
The money paid for the Louisiana Pur-
chase was raised by Treasury securities sold
to Americans who had no hesitation about
subscribing to this loan. With interest ac-
rualS, the total cost came to S27, ,267, ,622 or
four cents an acre-withOut question one of
the greatest buys of all time. Through the
hard work and enterprise of the original
settlers of the Louisiana Purchase and the
men and women who followed them, the
states carved out of the territory have at
tanned prosperity undreamed of in 1903.
A striking Illustration of this is the fact that
IN one year, 1858, citizens of these 13 states
bought $713,276,000 in Series E and H Uni
ted States Savings Bonds, or &c times the
original cost of the area they live in!
Like their fOrefathers of 1903 who had
confidence in the future of the United States
and settled In the Louisiana Territory to
eventually make it great part of our nation.
Americans today are buying Savings Bonds
as a symbol of their faith in the still greater
future of our country.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
HE COULD FIX IT-GOOD

EXPresident Truman thinks there is a
cure for the creeping McKinleyism" of the
Eisenhower administration. His recipe for
full employment within year" is for the
Government to quick spend three billions
more on defense, public power, public works
roads, education health and housing. at the
same time cutting income taxes four and a
half billions year and raising wages.
There are still some other generous items
but you get the idea. AS we have mentioned
before, we think Harry is eminently qualified
to be an EX-preSident.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
ROOM AT TOP AND BOTTOM

Some seem to think that when business
becomes big, it has things all it's own way
and that it can adopt "like it or lump it,
policy toward consumers and the rest of
the business community.
A BrOOkings Institution report tells
very different story. Of the nations 100
largest industrial corporations in 1909. onlv
36 were on that select list in 1913. The re-
port observes that our economic system
'has its own actions and reactions and it's
own methods of furnishing the company that
ceases to be competitive"
There's plenty of room at the top for
concerns which give good service and please
the public-and plenty of room at the bottom
for those which fail to do that.
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
CHEMISTRY AND MODERN LIVING

Inc week beginning May 18th has been
designated as Chemical Progress Week. It's
purpose is to better acquaint the people with
a science and an industry which touches our
lives directly from the moment the alarm
clock rings in the morning until we switch
off the last light at night.
This is literally true. Almost everything
we use each day has been created, improved,
or IN some beneficial way affected by chem
lStry. The all-but-endless list ranges from
shaving creams, face creams, tooth brushes
and hair brushes through water, soap, cloth
ing, food, automobiles newspapers and mag
azlneS, furniture, and so on ad infinitum.
AND, surprisingly, the greater part of all this
chemical progress has been accomplished
since World War but moment in time.
as history goes.
The lifeblOOd of the chemical industry is
reSearch-the day-in-and-day-Out work of the
scientists in search of new products, new
ways to do things, new horizons of knowI-
edge. At the moment, the chemical industry
is conducting annually some S275, 900, 900
worth of privately-financed research-mOre
than any other of the nations industries. The
results are found in every facet of living
IN better health, longer life, more jobs and
opportunities
Perhaps chemistry's most salient achieve
ments have been in the fields of medicine and
agriculture. In the one, it is responsible for
gigantic strides in the eradication of dis
eases which once plagued mankind. In the
Other, 1t has immensely increased soil fer
tility and supplied potent weapons with
which to fight the raVageS of insects and
plant disease. No industry has brought man.
KIND more benefits in the space of one short
lifetime
Milford chronicle., 1954-05-21
Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson Tovlor

in May and June, we are rediscorpr
ing this ancient land again.
! The First Book of Kings. in the
Old Testament, records in Chapter
Ten, the visit of their Queen of
Sheba 1--WE would call her Queen
Sheba of EthiOpia) to King Solomon
a thousand years before the birth
of Christ. Chapter Eight of the Acts
of the Apostles recOunts the con-
version and roadside baptism of an
Ethiopian ambassador in the first
country of the Christian Era. Marco
Polo reported on the greatness and
the goodness of the EthiOpians, and
the Portuguese explorer, Vasco
da Cana, sailed around Africa
looking for their country.
Emperor Halle Selassie won our
complete sympathy and admiration
in 1885 by the way he stood up to
MussOlini's invasion of his country,
and by the spunky speech in which
he told off the League of Nations.
Collective security, he declared, is
something to be practised, not just
talked about.
Perhaps we can get him to make
that speech again, since he believes
as hrmly as ever in this principle.
ana was one of the first rulers to
send troops to fight beside Ameri-
can soldiers in Korea. That these
were fierce fighters is indicated bv
the fact that the Communists never
succeeded in capturing a single
one of them. No Ethiopian ever sur
rendered in Korea
EmpOrer Halle Selassie is coming
to America to see for himself the
country he has admired for most
OF his 81 years. His extensive tour
will include Washington, Princeton.
New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago.
the Twin Cities and other nearby
Minnesota cities, Spokane, Seattle.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Okla
homa City and Saltwater. Okla,
New Orleans and Fort Benning, Ga.
This will give millions of Ameri-
cans chance to admire him right
Dack and to ponder that a
mong nations, as with men. great
ness should not be confused with
size.
This Deserves Study
A bipartisan resolution before
the Senate, sponsored by Repub-
llcan Senator William Jenner and
Democratic Senator Pat McCarran.
asks that the Administration sever
diplomatic relations with Russia
and its satellites-who now con-
troll one third of the worlds popu-
lation and a quarter of its land
area.
The resolution further asks that
the U. S. call a meeting OF all the
Tree nations to work out a unified
plan to destroy the Reds fifth
column and to prevent further in
roads by international Communism
II passed, the document would
have none of the force of law. but
would merely record the sentiment
OF the Senate. It has been referred
however to the Foreign Relations
committee for study. and has