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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
TN THE AIR FORCE
By EIoIno townsend DlckeFson

WAS q woman whose husband "a
overseas. She is living oman allof-
ment and said she was stretcbins,
ner funds two more days until nav
gay. she was not depressing abont
Il, but It was just the fact thaf sba
wanted to help so much viii 49,
polio fund, and that she vas sione
without her husband and trving =,
balance her budget until nav 5av
one was my heaviest contributor
one mousse we went to had an enva-
iope pinned to the frOntadoor sra
mad March Of Dimes write, -
Il with the money enei6sas ~
mother gave her money and -
was leaving darling LITTLE how -
BOY scout uniform called Ia me
ana SAID, Here are some pennies
1 don't need" Boyl It was ! rongb
night on me. After each honss "a "a
have to get Strengthened IN for t :
next door. I really was imnraaseS
with my good neighbors last nigbt
One Of my neighbors called YES.
terday and wanted to know r. tbo
name Charles johnson fane balI
with us. Betty Burnham y sror,
Houston, Texas, and went "a school
with the Johnson's daughter mn
Johnson was formerly from Milford
and his sister is Mrs. chs Savsge
Il was nice to hear from them Ri.
ty and her husband and family bo,,.
Just been on leave in Texas ana
went to see the johnson and tbsv
told them Of our mutual friendsbin
ana believe showed Betty nv COLI
umn with the Topeka address.
Another nice connection win M,
column happened this week Mrs
Jeanette Hallowell Zeller. form
cry OF fredericksburg, Nd. and now
OF IT. Louis, wrote to tell me sba
reads my column in a remote sort
OF way. Lily Lord McCartnev once
q Milford girl, now OF Victoria
Texas, sends her copy to Jeannette
VINO forwards it to Norman Lord n
Lexington, Kentucky, most of the
time, and occasionally to Janis wiz
llams Hendrix who lives A Fort
smith, Arkansas: It was real nice
OF Jeannette to write. Her dad owns
a car leadership in Fredericksburg
believe, and Jeanette still re-
turns to the Eastern Shore. and
Rehoboth during the summer.
Now that is my news this week
! nope to see you in less than
tnree weeks. Keep your fingers
crossed for US. will you?
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
Behind The Big Grab

Seven Senators in Washington
have just filed report which blows
the lid off scandal that insiders
have known about for years. This
report tells the full story, for the
first time, of how Communists sue
cessfully sabOtaged America in 1945,
and how that Communist plan is
still in operation today.
In 1916 Harry Dexter White. v
Frank COe and other Treasury Off
Gals later identified as Russian
accOmplices in Senate hearings
helped cOncOct a scheme to con-
tiscate all German and japanese
property in the United States. This
Dig grab was something new in
American foreign policy. Up 60 1945
the United States had always re-
turned the property of enemy aliens
which had been seized during war
time.
AT the close of the war, the State
Department wanted to return these
properties, in accordance with in
ternatiOnal law and custom. A
small group of determined men in
the Treasury Department, by an
pealing to anti-German feelings.
managed to push the big grab
through.
Today, this shOrt-sighted action
Is turning thousands of people a.
gainst us in the very countries
which we need for defense against
Soviet Russian expansion. Although
we consider Western Germany.
under the leadership of Chancellor
Adenauer' to be a valued ally, we
are giving her citizens reason to
resent and even hate us, by our
hlgh-handed taking-Over of their
savings and investments in the
United States.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee
headed by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen
OF Illinois has made a seven-month
investigation of this whole sorry
situation. They turned up story
after story of individual suffering
They found mismanagement and
accounting methods in the
once of Alien Property, which
handles cOnfiscated properties. And
most alarming, they discovered that
cOnhscation was working against
American interests abroad. NOT
only by creating ill-will toward us
also by setting highly dangerous
precedent which could, in the future.
Jeopardize American investments
in foreign countries.
These gentlemen have done a
great service to their country nv
investigating fully and putting the
blame where it belongs, on a Com
munist conspiracy which succeeded
IN roofing many well-meaning
1t is now up to Congress
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
49,
LIFELINE

Rear Admiral Homer N. Wallin in talk
to a group of shipbuilders said, "Too bad,
isn't 1t, that for some strange and unusual
reason shipbuilding in our country is treated
IKE flre department, except that it isn't
maintained well between fire alarmsv
Our experience amply bears that out. It
has been our habit to enter a war with a
totally inadequate merchant fleet Then,
from sheer necessity, we must construct
shlpyards and build ships in frenzy re-
CARELESS Of the cost. The money waste to the
taxpayers is enormous. And, in the case of
another war, that might be the least of it.
For, IN these fast-moving days, it's hardly
likely that we'd have the needed time.
To say that we can depend on foreign
merchant ships is the height of foolhardi
ness-bOth theoretically and practically. No
major maritime power could afford so great
a risk During the Korean War the govern
ment withdrew 697 ships from its reserves
OF World War II vessels and chartered them
to American steamship companies. which
blanketed them into their fleets. Our ner-
chant ships carried 80 per cent of the SUN
plies sent to the Far East! No one else could
do it for us. But these war-built ships are
largely ObsOlescent and should be gradually
replaced through an orderly, lOng-term build
ing program.
line. - --'o- any q me-
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
New Home Club Is
Organized In County
CONTINUED from 4rst paeel

CONTINUED from fIrst page)
Maull, Mrs. Wayne Rollins and
Mrs. Harlan Paynter. The new
club will hold its meetings the
second Friday of each month. the
next meeting scheduled to be held
on February 18th, at 1880 D. m.
in the social hall of Epworth
Methodist Church.
According to Mrs. Ratliff, at the
end of the year 1853 there were
1857 members in % Home Demon
stration Clubs in Sussex County.
The new club in RehobOth boosts
the membership to $50 and there
are several other clubs in the
county which have added new
members since the first of 1854. so
that the number of women in Home
Demonstration Clubs is now around
the 900 mark.
The charter members of the
new RehobOth Club are: Mrs. Edna
Bandorf, Mrs. Ethel Ward. Mrs
Thelma Richardson, Mrs. Ella
Marvel Roach, Mrs. Henry Coach
man, Mrs. Walter r. Robinson
Mrs. Robert W. Palmer, Miss Ruth
Vaughn, Mrs. Richard Steele. Mrs
George w. Till. Mrs. Harland Pawn
ter, Mrs. Robert MauIl. Mrs
Charles Hearn, Mrs. Walter Fish
er, Mrs. j. Howard Link, Mrs. Cliff
ford Cortelyou, Mrs. Wayne RoI-
Inns and Mrs. Henry Coachman
Following the meeting. Mrs
Ella Roach, hostess, served re-
freshments to the group.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05

need to- feed milk to obtain essen
tial vitamins for animal nutrition
The former practice of running
certain nutrients through animals
twice before they could be used for
human nutrition" says DR.. White
Stevens, is now considered "un-
economical. He pointed out that
1t would take nearly all the milk
produced in the U. S. to provide
the ribohavin required by today's
reed industry. Today" he said.
"One of the fermenters can pro-
duce as much rlbofavin in few
days as a herd of 100 top-grade
COWS produce in a year."
Which is the sort of thing Nautilus
failed to anticipate.
Berlin Hair.Lift
The Big Four conference in
Berlin seems to be proceeding about
as expected, if not according to
agenda. For three straight DAVIS
Secretary of State John Foster Dull
les bluntly rejected Soviet efforts
to discuss Five Power Conference.
including Red China, and demanded
that the meeting get down to the
advertised subjects of German uni
ncatiOn and Austrian independence.
And after the third day of
speech-making was concluded, the
unsquelchable MOlotov presented
a resolution calling for a world
conference in 1854 within the
framework of the UN," but including
arms reduction and the problem of
atomic weapons.
NO action was taken, but Molotov
had gotten Red China back into
the discussion again, and had moved
boldly into the area of atomic
Weapons-so carefully avoided bv
President Eisenhower in his UN
proposal for nuclear stock-piling
for peaceful use.
Thus it's none too soon to con-
slider what our situation would he
If the Reds were able to prevail on
world public opinion to outlaw
atomic war. While the Russians pre-
vented this action in the UN pre-
viously by refusal to accept inspec-
ton, they might welcome it now.
For it is hardly possible that thew
TAIL to realize that superiority in
atomic weapons is the Equalizer"
OF the western powers. Restrict the
conflict to men-and-guns and we
face the prospect of about Is Ameri-
can divisions, and however many
western Europe can assemble,
standing against 1870 Russian divi-
sions. And as for Europe's contri-
button, you may recall that two
years ago, SO divisions were pro-
missed for NATO and never provided
Clearly, the Russians did not
invite the FOuC Power Conference
to talk about Germany and Austria
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05

but the goods are there and rightly
priced If you shop around. Just
the other day, for instance, I saw
a new combination food freezer
refrigerator offered at a saving of
700 under a month ago. But huv
these electrical appliances from
reliable stores and be sure to get
the standard guarantee. Now IS
the time to buy from a reliable
dealer a used car at a low price
These cars will sell for more money
IN the spring and early summer.
This is the time of year also whom
many types of soft goods can he
purchased economically. These in
clude sheets, pillow cases. and
towels. February traditionalJv is
month when household furniture
is offered at special prices; this
FEBRUARY should not be an excep-
tlon. | also must mention Orien-
tai rugs, prices of which have been
cut sharply I have seen some of
these items recently advertised as
selling at half former prices.
A Word To Merchants
Perhaps bring to your city the
stock of some Out-Of-tOwn firm that
is liquidating. Be not afraid to cut
your own prices for a short period
You will win custmers by it in the
end. Otherwise, don't today over
STOCK in anything except in parking
space which now is the best buy.
forecast you can purchase parking
space for customers cheaper now
when the ground is frozen, snow is
falling, and business is poor. "SelI
Merchandise-Buy Parking Space"
sho"'A be tho 1854 motto.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
Washington Letter - BY Robert Nelson Tuvlor

to set things right by passin,
legislation which will abolish tn,
big grab.
Such legislation will do more thar
restore German and Japanese pro
perry. 1t will restore American
honor, and that is a commodity we
cannot do without in these darl
days of cold war and international
suspicion.
Race Against Time
One hundred years ago, a philoso-
pher named Nautilus prophesied
that the human race would ulti-
mately reproduce itself out of ex.
istence. And when we learn that
today from rs to IS per cent of the
two billion people in the world
are suffering from lack of food
conditions grow worse by the
hour-it might appear that NAL
thus knew what he was talking
about.
According to DR.. Robert White
Stevens, a nutrition scientist, more
than half the worlds population
is slowly starving, or being ex-
posed to DEATH" half of the remain
der is ION the edge of bare sub
sistence," and the remaining 25
per cent, of which we are the best
fed, best clothed, lives 'in SUPER
abundance and plenty"
In an address to the State Agri-
cultural Commissioners of America.
DIR. White-Stevens reminded his
hearers that it was this tragic
difference between the "haves' and
the "have-nOts" that is the historic
cause of wars and that it
would take two-and-a-half times
as much farm land as the world
presently possesses to give every
human being a bare subsistence
ration of 1000 calories a day.
But DR.. White-Stevens still does
not agree with Nautilus. He thinks
we already have our feet on the
path that will ultimately nourish
the world with peace. The task, he
believes, will be up to such people
as Americas County Agents. "a
great host" Of such dedicated men
and women, he says, must go out
into the world and put the dis
coVeries Of research to work in
every starving corner of il.
Even here at home, he says, the
laboratory is 25 to so years ahead
of the average farm, although in
poultry production, for example, the
farmer is applying new ideas with
in year Of their discovery.
In animal production, the microbe
is already at work in turning out
nutrients. Huge quantities of anti
biotics, such as Aureomycin, are
IN use and have become as import
ant in the feed industry as they are
IN medicine. No longer do farmers
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05

Delaware is no exception in the general
DRIFT OF our times. Some in business have
inherited the firm from their fathers and
grandfathers and are apparently content to
accept their lot as state" or something they
can't help.
One thing that bothers us most is the
governments Encouragement of industry
with the younger people Those receiving
welfare are led to believe that whatever thew
get IS due on demand. Income tax affects q
young persons production when he adds
more than $500 to his parents income GfsS
enough to cause taxpayers to fight but those
same taxpayers for the most part have !
nand out for subsidy employment insur-
ance or some other GIMME that is not earn
cd 0y the sweat of their brow. We simpIv
cannot run our money through political
fingers and have more than we pay in that's
simple arithmetic
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
BABSON DISCUSSES WINTER MARKDOWVS

Babson Park, Mass, Feb. 4, 1854
Day by day, in buying power vour
dollar is getting to be worth more.
You have only to glance at the
advertisements in your daily paper
70 confirm this cheering fact. Mer-
chants all over the country arc
offering some of the best winter
markdowns that l have seen in
a long time.
Goods Galore
Thanks to this cOuntry's tremen-
dous productive capacity, which has
been greatly increased in recent
years, all kinds of consumer goods
nave been coming on the market in
unprecedented volume. The
ate Korean War did little to
1ampen the flow. AS a result, stores
have bargains in good
merchandise. Some of it has NOT
been moving too we'll, at least NOT
last enough to suit the store owners
Perhaps prices have been out of
line with the ideas of prospective
consumers. In a number of cases.
his undoubtedly has been true
Gut now the picture has changed.
Semi-annual stOcktaking clear
lnce sales are under way from one
md of the land to the other. Sales
1oors and store counters this win.
'er are loaded with bargains that
many can hardly afford to ignore.
uerchandisers are more than anxi-
'us to reduce stocks, and they we'll
Snow that the best way to do it
s to cut prices, even if profits are
pared to the bone. In some in
stances, they are doing exactly that.
Merchants like turnover" much
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
DELAWARE FARM MARKET News
Market News information Supplied BY The Bursuo OF Mo
State Beard OF Agriculture Dover, palu.-nra

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscel-
laneOus commodities prevailing
last week. This report shows aver
age prices received by Delaware
farmers for commodities that were
marketed throughout this week.
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $500 to $500, mostly
$4,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: S21.OO to S27.5
mostly $27.0O per cwt.
Rough and common: $1,000 to
$500. mostly S14.OO per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to $3.50, mostly
$14.00 per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $1,000 to $1S.75, mostly
$1S.75 per cWt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: SLIPS to S15.75.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Common: $3.50 to $11.OO, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: $4.75 to
1925. mostly $8.75 per cwt.
STEERS
Good to choice light steers:
$500 to S2O.75, mostly $3.50 per
cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: $3.50 to s14.5O.
mostly $11.00 per cwt.
Beef type: $1,000 to $500, most
ly $14.50 per cwt.
BULLS lover 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good; $14.OO to S15.25,
mostly $500 per cwt.
BULLS $500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good :$10.5O to S14.75.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(gOOd quality
12O to 40 lbs: S22.75 to S26.5O.
$500 per ,cwt.
40 to 240 lbs: $4,000 to S27.OO.
mostly S26.50 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs: S24.0O to S25.75.
mostly $25.25 per cwt.
SOWS (gOOd quality
200 to 800 lbs: $4,000 to S23.25.
$22.25 per cwt.
300 to 400 lbs: $19.75 to S22.75.
Splits per cwt.
Over 400 lbs; $500 to S21.OO
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
SUSSEX COP TO
Ask D&'ksen TO Speak
At Rally April 24tb

continued from first page)
series of meetings that are a part
of the sessions of the fun national
committee, Mr.. Richards will be
unable to attend the Lincoln Day
dinner in Wilmington tonight
when an estimated 1000 Republic
cans from all three counties win
hear U. S. Senator John ]. viii
liams.
Senator Williams and U. s. Rep.
Herbert B. Warburton, candidate
for the Senatorial nomination, are
scheduled for the principal speech
es. Clair J.. Killoran, chairman OF
the state committee. will be the
master Of ceremonies in the affair
scheduled for the State ArmOry.
Tenth and DUPONT Streets.
Another highlight OF this dinner
will be showing of a motion pic
ture in which President Eisenhow-
er makes Lincoln Day address.
Similar showings Of this film are
part Of Lincoln Day programs for
Republicans throughout the nation.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
351S Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
January 80, 1854
Dear Friends:

Dear Friends:
Did you see Dave Garroway on
television yesterday morning? He
has the most thorough news cover
age on TV we think. Yesterday he
said too many news programs, in
Guiding his own, have emphasized
the fact that n Americans went
pro-COmmunist in Korea. He stress
sed that fact that there were 10000
OF our prisoners over there who
were pounded with the Communist
doctrine day after day after day,
and the big news angle should be
the fact that 39,979 came home. We
cannot possibly fathom the life
those boy led over there-all we
know is our happy life here in the
United States. Being Americans we
naturally are sympathetic toward
the II who have gone the other
way, and feel remOrse for their
families.
Speaking of good Americans. we
surely have a nice bunch with us
here in our Air Force community
AS l have told you before this IL
the hardest month, financially for
people in the service. We are Maid
once a month, at the end of the
month and January being right az
ter Christmas and 81 days in length
is the toughest" one of the wear,
Last night, Gene Shirley, my south
ern neighbOr, and were recruited
to collect for the Mothers March
OF Dimes drive. / guess we had a
block half a mile long to cover on
either side of the street and I lust
shook my head over the whole deal
The school children had turned IN
their March of Dime cards in school
and all Air Force personnel are
assessed a certain amount to con-
tribute to funds of this kind. That's
something else civilians don't real
lze. YOU contribute to everything
IN the service or your commanding
officer wants to know why. Nom
CONS (nOn-cOmmissiOn Oficers)
pay so much, a set amount for sec
ond lieutenants, first lieutenants
captains, majors and on up, all nav
a designated amount. That's whv
thought our collecting would be
all in vain.
At every door last night some
amount was put in my March of
Dimes jar. These things are bad
for me because I cry at the drop
OF a hat. My heaviest contributor
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05

THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS

Now and then we read nostalgic ar
counts OF commodity prices of the past. Re-
production of old advertisements and menus
are particularly impressive in this regard,
For as a rule, the prices quoted are almost
unbehevably low in the light of present lev
els. 00'-'' 4o'-
:, It's only human to sigh with regret for
the passing of those good old days''. and tn
resent the living costs we must cope with
now. But there is another side to the coin
ana very important side. The fact is that
When prices are related to current wages
ana salaries and family purchasing power.
1t is found that in most cases we're Getting
better deal now than in the past
Take commodity which practically ev-
cry American family buys and consumes
every day-meat. Like everything else f
costs more than it did 10 or 20 or some other
given number of years ago. But, according
10 Department of Agriculture figures. we
nave been spending a smaller percentage of
our disposable income for meat than we did
In lS4l. And last year, believe it or not the
percentage of disposable income so spenf
was the smallest in modern history. save
curing wartime when widespread black
markets resulting from government CON
tfOlS made really accurate and reliable price
comparisons impossible
80 Tar as prices are concerned. the "'Oood
Old days" weren't nearly so good as MANY
believe. 90 iii''i'S
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
BoARs good quality

BoARS (good quality
Under $50 lbs: $500 to $4,000.
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
Over $50 lbs: $3.50 to $500.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
.-..-. SHOATS
Medium to good: $14.00 to S2f. 90.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS (6 to IL weeks old)
Choice: $3.50 to $1s 90, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Medium to good: $500 to $500.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Common: $500 to $3.50, mostly
$500 per cwt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $4,000 TO $500.
mostly $500 per cwt.
Butcher: $26.OO to $500, mostly
$1,000 per cwt
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: $1.20 to $1.7O. mostly $3.50.
LIGHT BREEDS
Bantam chickens: SIS to $50,
mostly $.25.
. Guineas: $50 to s1.15, mostly
Geese: $40 to $500, mostly .
$3.50.
DUCKS
Muscoyy ducks: $40 to S1.1O,
mostly S.95.
Musc0vy brakes: S1.4O To 81 20.
mostly S1.6O.
TURKEYS
Hen: $500 to $6.75, mostly Ss.25
RABBITS
Large breeds: $1.00 to $40.
Young rabbits: s.35 to $50.
EGGS
Ungraded, mixed: S.45 to $50
per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Apples: $1.7O to 1920 per busbeI
Sweets: $.55 to $1.20 per Il
bushel.
Lard; s4.75 to ss.25 per 50 Id.
Turnips; $50 to $40 per x
Country Butter: $.65 per pound.
Pop Corn: $50 to $50 per a
bushel.
walnuts: $50 to s1.oC per s
bushel.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-05
QUE FLAG ON We HIGH SEAS

The main problem of American merchant
shipping which follows the essential trade
routes OF the world is competition with for
elgn vessels can easily be described. The cost
OF building and maintaining ships in Ameri-
can yards is far higher than in Europe. And
american Seamen enjoy wages, working con-
dltlonS and other benefits which defy COM
parlson with those known abroad. Labor
costs on y. S. freighters are more than four
times as great as those on comparable YES
sells of Great Britain and other leading mari
time powers.
This is the reason why our merchant
marine must have government aid if it is to
survlve-aid which is extended, incidentally.
under unique repayment clause providing
that the money must be returned as earnings
permit.
Such aid has long been government pol
ICY. However, due to various legal and other
complications, the law is not working at all
effectively at present. The result is that
American shipbuilding is deep in the dol
drums. No new orders were received bv pri-
yate American yards in either August or
September, and all ships now being built are
due for completion by 1866 or earlier. Our
existing ships are becoming Obsolescent-
some rapidly.
This means that unless corrective. action
is taken the American flag will gradually dis
appear from the high seas, so far as the MGR
chant marine is concerned. That would inn
peril the national defense and undermine ,,;,r
economy. The problem IS important to all of
us-whether we live in the land-bound states
or on one of our sea frontiers.