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Milford chronicle., 1954-06-04
EISENHOWER'S LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM


days. So, inevitably, many important de-
velopments that would make the headlines
in quieter eras are Obscured. This isn't the
fault Of the newspaper and newsmagaZine
editors and the radio and TV reporters.
There simply isn't enough space and time to
go around adequately.
To take one example, it's probable that
relatively few people know how well, or how
badly the Presidents Umbrella legislative
program has been faring. 1t has been over
shadowed to the point of disappearance by
such misunderstanding events as the In
dO-China tragedy, the bitter Mccarthy
Army fight, the 'imbroglio at Geneva, and
the Supreme Courts historic decision in the
school segregation case.
Yet that prOgram-negatively or posi-
lively, directly or indirectly-Will affect eV-
cry farm, family and business in the coun-
try.
To begin with, there is no chance and
never was that Congress will approve all of
the program. For one thing, it is too extern
sive to be debated and digested in one year.
and for another it enviOns great new de-
partureS in policy which inevitably stir up
strong opposition. Two prime examples of
this can be cited. One is the proposal for
Taft-Hartley changes, including the plan
for having the rank and file of union mem
bership vote on proposed strikes This has
been buried in the Congressional deep
freeze. The other is Secretary BensOns eff
fort to do something definitiye about farm
policy and surpluses, of which the key re-
fO19assNould beato replace the presentsrigidz
parity formula with a subsidy based on a
sliding scale Some farm leaders and organ
izatiOns have agreed with Mr.. Benson that
an overhaul of the law certainly is in order.
But it is very doubtful if anything really
effective will be done in this election year.
By and large, the new tax bill is real
Administration victory. There will be MANY
changes and compromises, as everyone ex-
pected. But some tax relief has been given
to individuals and to enterprise, and more
is promised. One important qualification,
which isn't the Administrations fault or
anyone else's, must be added, however. The
Asia situation could lead to upping military
and allied appropriations to far higher
level, and that would directly influence fu-
ture tax rates and policy
Approval of the st. Lawrence Seawav
though many question its wisdom, was a
demonstration of White House strength.
And there is a good chance that the Presi-
dents foreign trade program has good
chance of enactment, though there probably
will be many notifications which various
lawmakers and industrial leaders think nee
essary in the interest of American enter
prise and labor.
A notable feature of all this has been the
Presidents refusal, with very few excep-
tiOns, to attach the must" label to his pro-
pOsals. He clearly believes that it is his
duty and prerogative to suggest and to lead,
but not fatty demand. And that in itself
will be campaign issue next November.
with the Republicans saying it is the proper
attitude under our Constitutional system and
the Democrats saying it is a sign of weak
ness.
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-04
WORTH MORE THAN s64

There seems a faint chance that Sena-
tor John L. Mcclellan, (Dem) of Arkansas,
may have inadvertently put the Senate In
VestigatiOns subcommittee back on the track.
Referring to the transcript of an FBI let
ter, which Senator Mccarthy told the world
via the televised hearing-he had gotten
from an Army Intelligence officer, the Ark
ansan declared that Senator Joe had en-
plOyed criminal means" of obtaining secret
information. Both the Wisconsin Senator
and his Army informant, he said, had COM
mitted a "crime."
Senator Mccarthy reminded his fellow
committee member that every officer of the
U. S. swears to uphold and defend the Con-
stitutiOn of the United States against all
enemies, foreign and domestic. This oath,
he declared, towers above any presidential
directive" He added, "If any administration
wants to lndlct me, they can go ahead and
indict"
If your memory is long enough, YOU will
recall that the present Brannigan grew out
OF the Mccarthy subcommittee efforts to
dig subversiVeS out of the Army's hush-hush
Fort Monmouth radar laboratories. In his
first days testimony, Roy COhn, the subcOm-
mittee's counsel stated: Before we began
our investigation, the number of suspen-
siOns there was zero. After our investiga-
ton, the number was 35."
Ai"S' OTAeCOi NICOleIIoH OIILgS MS col
leagues back to the very question that sealed
the lips of General Zwicker-which sent the
Mccarthy blOOd-pressure skyward - and
which first drew Army Secretary Stevens
into the hasSle. Just what does that oath
mean? Must an officer of our armed forces
place his duty to a superior above his obli-
cations to his oath? Must he remain silent
in the face of treason if a superior fails to
act? Or failing in his effort to go through
channels" should be reveal what he knows
to duly authorized Congressional investiga-
tors-whO are equally the defenders of Am
erica
The question still needs an answer.
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taxes is in the higher brackets. Mr.. HazIitt
believes that if the income tax were cut to
maximum of so per cent it would within a
few years 4. F. yield more revenue from net
incomes above $4,000, not less"
Mr.. Hazlitt clearly describes the greatest
danger of cOniscatOry tax rates in these
words: "The worst harm is that they dis
courage the most productive people from
producing and earning what they would
otherwise produce and earn. They deprive
the nation of this production and of the
new enterprises that would otherwise be
launched"
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SOCIALISTS NEVER GIVE UP

The socialists, and those who follow the
socialist line in whole or in part, may suffer
set-backs-but they never give up. They
keep right on working, with undiminished
zeal, to bring about an era in which the gov
ernment will own and boss and run lust
about everything.
Next November, if the sponsors of an
initiative petition are able to get enough
signatures, the voters of Idaho will be called
upon to pass on a measure whose obvious
purpose is the total specialization of electric
power and communications systems in the
state. The petition, incidentally, runs to
some 5000 words, and it is an extraordinary
voter indeed who will read and understand
it.
This is one of the most drastic and far
reaching specialization moves ever proposed
IN the USA. Signatures are being obtained
largely through the indefensible claim that
through operation of the act the signer can
assure himself a saving of 40 per cent both
on power bills and telephone bills Natural
ly, it says nothing of the big tax losses which
would fall back upon the taxpayers.
Even that isn't all. The language of the
act is so broad, that it could be construed as
authorizing the state to enter the telegraph.
radio and televisiOn fields as well-perhaps
even into the news press and newspaper
fields.
Many people sincerely feel that in the
last year or two a real brake has been ap-
Piled to the socialist drive, and that our
worries in this regard are pretty we'll over.
Ihls Idaho situation shows how mistaken
and how dangerous that point of view is.
And 1T shows further that, today as in the
past. eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-04

Over 400 lbs: $17OO to $19.25.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
BOARS
Good Quality
Under $50 lbs: $14.75 to $3.50.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Over $50 lbs: S13.75 to S14.5O.
mostly $1S.75 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: S14.OO to $1,000.
mostly $500 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
C6 to IL weeks old
Choice: $1,000 to $500, mostly
$500 each.
Medium to good; $3.50 to $11.5O,
mostly $1,000 each.
Common: $500 to $500, mostly
$3.50 each.
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $4,000 to $1O5.OO.
mostly S650O each.
Butcher type: $500 to $500.
mostly $280O each.
LIVE POULTRY
FOWL
Heavy breeds: $1.25 to $155.
mostly $1.S0 each.
Boosters: $1.1O to $3.50, mostly
$1.25 each.
GUINEAS
Light breeds: $.45 to SIS, mostly
$50 each.
DUCKS
MuscOvy: $50 to $12O, mostly
$1.00 each.
BRAKES
Muscovy: $1.35 to $16O, mostly
S1.50 each.
RABBITS
Large breeds: $1.OO to $1.5O.
mostly S1.10 each.
Small breeds: $50 to $50, most
ly SIS each.
Young rabbits: $.25 to $50, most
ly $50 each
EGGS
Ungraded. mixed: $50 to $44
per. dozen
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Strawberries: $.25 to $40 per at.
Strawberries: $5.25 to $1,000 per
crate.
basket.
Peas; $1.6O to $3.50 per 5s bas-
ket
Cabbage: $50 to $40 per q bas-
ket.
Gooseberries: $40 per at.
Lard: S4.00 to $500 per SO 10.
can.
Sweet potatoes: $1.OO to $1.7O
per 5s basket.
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&6NNG
NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

1t is widely felt that the now omnibus
type tax bill passed by the House and now
before the Senate is, in many respects, a
pralseWOrthy step in the right direction.
However, the measure is a long and complex
one, and 1t contains certain changes in tax
law and procedure which leading experts
feel would impose a serious and unnecessary
burden on business.
One OF these involves a stCp-up in cor
pOrate tax payments. All corporations with
an income tax liability in excess of S5O.OOO
would be required to prepay their tax in
part. Without going into the technicalities.
the result would be that the corporations af-
fected would have to pay the equivalent of
Ito per cent Of their normal tax liability in
each OF five years beginning in 1855. To all
lntentS and purposes, that is as if the pres
ent corporate tax rate of So per cent, which
IS cerainly extremely heavy, was raised to
57.2 per cent.
This would be very difficult for certain
important types of business, such as re-
failing, where the years profit or loss de-
pends on fourth quarter results. Taxes
would have to be paid on profits not earned
at the time of payment. Thus, working CAP
ltal would be reduced when it was most
needed
Major business organizations, such as the
American Retail Federation, the National
Retail Dry Goods Association, the Chamber
OF Commerce and others, have vigorously
protested this proposal. The country wants
and needs maximum business activity and
anything inimical to that is certainly not
in the public interest.
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-04
BABSON DISCUSSES JUNE GRADUATES

BABSON PARK, Mass, June A.
Labor leaders have forced employ
ers to resort to unprecedented re-
search. This research is teaching
employers that they can get on
without routine workers. This
should be a warning to those now
graduating from high school or
college.
PUSH-BUTTON AGE
The development of electrOnics
furnishes the basis of modern au-
tomato machinery. A simple il
lustratiOn is the electric eye,"
which opens doors at the correct
time without any help from you.
Another illustration is the rec
Ord-changer and turnover on our
monographs, including the auto
matte stopping of the machine. The
most complicated are the new mis-
siles" which chase and catch an
airplane without any human di-
rection.
This same electrOniC principle is
being applied to operation of a
factory by a dozen employees, in
contrast to the 400 formerly re-
quired. AS their chief duty will be
to press push-buttons," this can
be done by women as well as by
men. Labor does not realize the
great changes ahead. Employers
will always need human help; but
not for many present-day jobs.
They will want the intelligence and
Judgment of high school and col
lege graduates.
SERIOUS BLOW TO RUSSIA,
CHINA AND INDIA
Russia has been depending on
her massed armies to Overrun Eu-
rope the first day of her attack.
AS the Free Nations Of Europe
learn to use atomic weapons, wars
Milford chronicle., 1954-06-04

Insects cost the United States
four billion dollars year. ento-
mologists say.
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PresbyteriGRS Plan
Daily Bible School

'continued from flrst page)
Byron Cooper. Mrs. George Cilten-
both, Mrs. Richard KINNEY. Miss
Edna Barker, Miss Audrey Hall.
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counters, 20% by push-button ven
dlng machines. to which | have
previously referred, and 1OGs by
highly-paid, intelligent salesman
and clerks who secure new GUS
toners. Such qualifications must
be had by the June graduates who
are to get good jobs. The field of
advertising and selling is yet in it's
infancy, with marvellous pOssibili-
ties for those who properly train
therefor.
l FORECAST THAT THIS
CHANGE MEANS:
Cd Manual and routine labor will
gradually become obsolete.
Cd To keep employed those un-
able to do anything else, their
hours of work will constantly
he decreased with the same
take-hOme pay. This will boost
the Build It YOURSELF In
tries!
90 The pay increases will go to
the serious and intelligent en-
ployees. There will be no limit
to the salaries OF those who
have the needed character
brains, loyalty, and initiative
C4) The great U. S. problem will
not to be to raise crops, or to
build homes. or to manufac-
ture merchandise, but to get
people to buy. Hence, instead
OF sIbsid'2ing farmers, we will
subsidlze merchants and sales
men.
(5) | am advising young men tc
become expert machinists, in.
stead of lawyers; trained out
side statesmen, instead of in
side pencil-pushers; and af-
ter graduation this June, to
attend night school in prep
aration for the NEW AGE.
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Man Shot and Stabbed
In Row With Relatives

A 34-year-old man was shot
and cut last night after an argu-
ment with a relative who was
helping tend his sick child, police
reported.
Thurman Dixon, a.. colored, of
the 600 block of Twenty-fourth
street NE, was in serious condi-
ton at District General Hospital
with bullet wounds in the chest
and arm, and stab wounds.
Held on charges of assault with
a dangerous weapon were James
A. Vanier, 38, colored, of the 1900
block of H street Me-, and his
wife Mary. 81.
Police said Mrs. Vanier, related
through marriage to Mr.. Dixon,
was at his home helping with
the sick child. An argument de-
veloped and she slashed him with
a butcher knife, detectives said.
Later, she returned with her
husband. who brought with him
a .32-caliber automatic pistol.
Detectives said that a scuffie fol-
lowed and Mr.. Dixon was shot
twice.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. CO. Ash
I.

tied in the upper branches, bodies
in piles of debris, and some
caught on barbed-wire fences.
II believe there are lots Of
bodies under the mud of the
adobe huts and in the wreckage
of the houses" he said.
Everybody had plenty of warn
ing that the flood was coming
early yesterday and no one in
Eagle Pass, town Of about
LOO, was lost.
"But in Piedras Negras," j. r.
Sandifer of the United States
immigration Service said, mo-
body believed the warning. They
wouldn't get out and those adobe
houses plain disintegrated."
Mr.. Walker said:
You see that levee over there
what is left of a levee? You
see how it starts at the river
and curls around the town. kind
of like an arm? They built that
levee after a big food in 1882
and they put their faith in it.
And it failed them
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Houses at Piedros Negros
Melt Like ToyHuts in Flood

trudge back to their ruined
houses in search Of the dead.
At least one-half Of Piedras
Negras-the half farthest from
the river-still is flooded. The
downtown section is in better
shape. It is high. on the edge
of the Rio Grande, and the
water has receded from its white
brick, two-story buildings with
spires and shutters OF red and
blue.
Cars move through the paved
downtown streets and merchants
sadly take up the job of getting
back to ruined businesses.
Away from the business Sec
ton, the paving plays out and
the streets are loblollies of sticky
mud down which no automobile
can travel.
These are the sections where
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mounting health problem. Mayor
Joe C. Martin hoped to turn on
the water today. but said the
river would have to drop five
feet before anything could be
done. Such drop seemed out of
the question before late tonight.
Meanwhile, the city was get
ting water from an uncontami-
mated reservoir by Is busy tank
trucks.
Nowhere was a dollars-and-
cents estimate of damage avail
able from an official source.
Mayor Martin, at Laredo, said:
obviously, the damage is ire
mendous. So far we have con-
centrated on the safety of the
people, and we will worry about
business later"
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water. About 80 per cent of the
homes in the city Of $4,000 were
flooded. Half of those were de-
Stroyed.
Toll May Not Be Known.
Daylight-possibly today, per-
haps next week-nay bring a
more startling toll of death. But
the true death count conceivably
may never be known.
From what I hear. there may
be anywhere from 200 to 500
dead" said H. G. Walker, United
States Public Health Service Off
cial here to help in rescue and
rehabilitation.
mo one will ever know" Mr..
Walker continued. There are
five and six kids in every Mexi-
can family, and they take care of
their own. If they find a drowned
kid, they bury him pronto.
SO who knows how many are
dead? No one will ever know
for sure"
United States Consul Charles
Falifierro in Piedras Negras
doubted a death toll as high as
500, but SAID, "It is entirely
possible"
There's no doubt that some
bodies were washed down the
river and we'll never know how
many" he said
Homeless Go Into Hills.
Although no dead were re-
ported at Laredo, Associated
Press Reporter Dave Cheavens
said there was no water, no
power and shortage of medical
supplies at NCevo Laredo. There,
too, homeless refugees huddled
in the hills where the PAN
American Highway points south
ward.
Laredo, a city Of about 5000,
was isolated nearly all day yes
terday, but late in the day limit
ed traffic was allowed out of the
city over a State highway COW
cred by two feet of water. BY
nightfall tonight, it was expect
ed that auto traffic might be
approaching normal.
The Red Cross began giving
typhoid injections to an esti-
mated 5000 persons at Laredo.
They were from the 1900 fam
lilies forced from their homes by
the floodwaters.
Laredo had no municipal
water and was faced with
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adobe houses melted like toy
mud huts made by children.
Open cesspools peck the town
like sores. There is no pure
water in the town.
H. G. Walker. a United States
Public Health Service officer
from Eagle Pass who has in
spected Piedras Negras. said:
Sanitary conditions are hor-
rible. The water system was
never adequate and now there
is none at ALL"
Manuel Olivares, a lumberman
Of Piedras Negras, told the story
Of the city's tragedy with tears
in his eyes.
II heard hundreds crying for
help in the dark. but ] couldn t
help them" he said. You could
hear people shouting for help,
but you couldn't see them. You
could hear houses collapSing
then screams then moth
ing"
Mr.. Olivares said destruction
was everywhere. There were
bodies in trees. some of them
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Al Least S. Are Dead
In Rio Grande Flood;
Toll May Rise Today
BY the Associoted Press

EAGLE PASS, Tex, July / (P1.
AT least SIS persons are dead in
the Rio Grande's most devastat-
ing flood in history. but the death
toll may rise today.
Across the river from here, at
PiedraS Negras, Mexico, it was
feared hundreds may have died
in the collapsed adobe huts of
the poor.
OF the counted dead, 80 were
at Piedras Negras. Nearly 100
miles north of the river, at Ozona,
Tex, one of the flash floods
which fed Rio Grande's swollen
stream Monday killed at, least 16
others. Another died in a Pecos
River flood.
Other Towns Are, Safe.
Upstream at Del Rio, Tex, and
Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, and
downstream at Laredo, Tex, and
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, there were
few casualties and no deaths
from the flood. Adequate warn
ings and other safeguards plus
organization paid off, officials
said.
Receding flood waters today
showed that three spans of the
international Highway Bridge
at Laredo were washed out COM
pletely. It's the main connection
on the Pan-American highway
down into Mexico. The railroad
also was washed out. The river
crested yesterday at 62.21 feet
at Laredo-10 feet above the
previous record crest of Septem-
Der, 1892.
Large numbers of sick and in
jured were making their way
toward makeshift hospitals last
night in Piedras Negras. Sixty
five injured were in a temporary
medical shelter, and more moved
in every minute.
At least $4,000 were homeless
and some 1000 refugees hud-
died in the hills of Coahuila
with no shelter, no food and no
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BY The Assoeiufsd Press

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico,
July This was q town of
sorrow and uncounted dead last
night.
The greatest flood in the his
tory of the Rio Grande rolled
down on Piedras Negras and
past the levee that curled around
it like a protecting arm.
Thirty EIGHT persons are known
dead. But few believed last
night these were all the dead.
Unconfirmed estimates ranged up
to 500.
Last night camp fires f1ickered
on the rough, mesquite-covered
hills around what was a thriving
farm town of $4,000 across the
Rio Grande from Eagle Pass,
Tex.
These were the fires of the
! homeless, people who daily
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Israel President Receivers

JERUSALEM, June 80 (P).-
Israel President Izhak Ben-Zvi,
who underwent an operation 10
days ago, left the hospital today
to begin two weeks of GONZALES
cence leave from official duties.
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No FASHIONED heainess!

Light. ;. Light -. is the appetizing
word for this new kind of mayon-
naise. It's Mrs. Filbert's own idea.
Delicate egg whites, foamy egg
yolks are whisked in. The salad oil
is so fine and thin it fuffs away
you taste the richness, neper the oil!
Smooth, smooth with soft-Aavored
spices. the gentlest vinegar. There's
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real lemon juice. And only the
lightest colored, lightest tasting
egg yolks are choice enough for
this more delicate flavor.
My whole idea in my new igbf
Mayonnaise is to please your light
er taste says Mrs. Filbert. Eat some.
Deiicioas. You'll never want old
fashioned heavy mayonnaise again!
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$40 Seventh 81. NV
Open Thursdsy III 8 P.M.
Arlington, Va.
5000 Wilson Blvd.
Open Tkurs. end Fri.
10 A.M. 10 $50 PA.
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Let the children have boar
races with these Lasting toys.
Sturdy metal construction
with . long running wind
up motor.
Evening star., 1954-04-28
Air.Force
Ball
Is Friday

A curtain of secrecy has gone
down around the gymnasium at
Boiling Air Force Base where the
Air Force Spring Ball will be
held this Friday.
According to Mrs. Bernard A.
Schriever, chairman of the ball,
the decorations which are now
being put up will be fabulous
but no one is going to be per-
mitted a sneak preview.
The dance is sponsored by the
Air Force officers Wives Club
Of Washington and all proceeds
go to the Air Force Aid Society
which extends assistance to Air
Force personnel and their de-
pendents in time of emergency.
Music for the 9 o'clock event
will be provided by Major Glenn
Miller's Air Force Band, "The
Airmen of Note" under the di-
rection of Warrant Officer Fred
Kepner. They were recently fea-
tured in the movie. '"The Glenn
Miller Story"
Tickets are now on sale for
$3.50 per person. All those wish
ing to attend may call Mrs. K.
H. Gibson at Temple 6-5666 or
Mrs. Clayton Claassen at Jeffer-
son 2-3034.
Evening star., 1954-04-28
Conodo's Governor General
To Be Guest Of Eisenhowers

Richmond to attend services at
st. Paul's Church. This will mark
the 165th anniversary of the
Richmond Light Infantry Blues.
The members of the Women's
Division of the American Foun-
dation for Korea will be received
for tea on May IL by Mrs. Eisen-
hover.
Also coming up but with no
dates definite as yet are a tea
for the wives of Representatives,
the annual Veterans garden
party and a luncheon for the
Senate.
On top of all this Mrs. Eisen-
hover is greeting members Of
various groups and posing for
pictures for many charitable or.
ganizations almost each day.
There is no time of for Q
Presidents wife.