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Milford chronicle., 1954-11-12
Civil Defense Notes
tCD FIre and PoIIee DIvIsIonsl
By D. PRESTON LEE

Bf ID. PRESTON LEE
State Director Of Civil Defense
Men who have lived through the
terror Of an air raid viii tell you
the big dangers from a bomb drop
are the initial blast and then fire.
Even the radio active perils of an
A-bomb. the experts say, are sec
Ondary to those from the blast and
fires.
Vital, then, to any Civil Defense
is a fast-mOving, well-cOOrdinated
fire fighting corps.
Under Delaware's CD plan, the
states So volunteer fire companies
with their 5000 trained men, plus
the Wilmington Fire Department,
are tied together into a statewide
team.
Each cOmmunity's first respOn-
sibility, Of course, will be to it.
self. But when it's own freight
ing facilities are Overtaxed in an
emergency, it may call on the
County CD fire director, who will
dispatch all available aid. If the
emergency is grave enough, the
state CD fire chief may be notified
to draw on all other resources.
Every company, therefore, can
expect calls for outside assistance.
But no matter how great the de-
mand for such aid, each volunteer
company will keep at least one
piece of equipment on hand for
local protection.
TO work with sureness and fex-
ibility, the states fire defenses
must be linked by instantaneous
communications This, in large
part has been accomplished.
Through CD state and federal
matching funds, every volunteer
fire company in the state has been
equipped with at least one mobile
FadiO-transmitter. Sixty-watt base
stations have been set up in the
three counties. Trained personnel
are ready to man this "state fire
radio net" In this way, the state
CD fire chief, stationed in the con-
troll center at Delaware City, can
draw instantly on men and equip
ment in any part Of Delaware.
Wilmington fire. companies,
however, are not yet tied in with
CD's fire radio net. although match
ing funds for radio equipment have
been available.
Despite the best laid plans, a
sudden attack may wipe out much
valuable fire equipment even be-
fore 1t can be moved from the en-
! gine houses. To prevent this, a
pTe-attack dispersal plan has
been worked out.
If there is sufficient advance
warning, certain Wilmington com
! panies will leave the city and
gather in two rendezvous areas
Delaware Park and the Brandy
wine Harness track. A third group
of companies will remain on duty
in the city Off-duty firemen will
Milford chronicle., 1954-11-12
ROTTEN BREAK

RICHMOND, Va. - up - John
Robert Harris, Jr., was convicted
Of reckless driving. The principal
evidence against him was the neat
clipping off of a telephone pole.
Harris appealed.
He said he swerved to avoid an
other car and his speed was less
than rs miles an hour. The pole
broke, he said, because it was rot
ten. After examining a section of
the pole. the Judge smiled and ac-
quilted Harris.
Milford chronicle., 1954-11-12

forces. others to state mobile sup
port units. The remainder will
work directly with the state police.
They will be called out in an emer-
gency to direct the flow of traffic
on major arteries and especially to
insure the movement of military
vehicles.
Milford chronicle., 1954-11-12
INsTALlMENT BABIES

KALAMAZOO. Mich. - Up -
You can have babies by the INSTALL
ment plan in two Kalamazoo hos
pitfalls. Under a new system pros
pective parents can start payments
as soon as a woman becomes preg-
nant, and the bill is paid by the
time baby arrives.
Milford chronicle., 1954-11-12
New Antibiofic S1raV Knocks Out GRID.

VETSTREPo Spray is the simplest and most conven.
lent product for treating seezing, wheeling birds
that have Chronic Respiratory Disease. It's easy to
uae-a single aeTOso can treats 100 birds in only 80
seconds. There isno measuring, no handling of BIRDS
and no special equipment. just press the button and
the spray does the work
VETSmEP Spray cuts GRID. deaths quickly be-
cause It contains dihydrOstTeptomyc the powerful
anti0iotc Chickens breathe the antbiotic mist into
their lungs and air sacs Germ-liIing action starts
promptly. One flock treatment usually is enough
For the intestinal stage Of GRID, shown by loose
droppngs, use VETSTREP Gragules in drinking water.
Evening star., 1954-02-17

Any morried women n years who is citizen and
Pemenent resident OF the United States, Territory Of Hoo
District OF Covmbo the Dominion Of cunodo the
contest except employees members Of the omies Of
women under eontro with business ogsnts
The ofeo entry bonk printed obevs be deposited at
the eontestons oco Independent svpermarke or other esto
hmsn displaying the offu Mrs America headquarters poster
before closing time February H. 1854 All questions on the
offieioI entry blank must be answered.
g. Winner will be chosen the basis Of homemoknu obi
personality character The decisions ef udoes
will at oil times be fino. = -.
Each eonsstun must otoh the entry blank her fcvers
not less than 81 BY st. Photographs will not BE- returned
Evening star., 1954-02-17

(From D. c. Bureau of vital Satisfies
BOYS.
George and Ethel Brsh.
Joseph and Rose Cooksey.
Floyd and Mary Dean.
Norbert and Jacaueline Dubois.
Eugene and Joan Gould.
John and Helen Ladd.
John and Barbara Loenichen.
Clyde and Carolyn Martak.
Russell and Jean Mcmillan.
George and Marjorie Richardson.
John and Fay Ryan. jr.
John and Mary Talbot.
John and Mildred Tickel.
Grayson and Josephine Turner.
Willie and Alberta Atkins.
Robert and Esther Linder.
Roy and Bernice Smith.
George and Mary Wood.
Ralph and Frances Colgain, 1r.
Robert and Ann Cooper
Albert and Margaret Dietl.
Joseph and Mary Gallagher.
Joseph and Mary Koening.
John and Margaret Law.
Garland and Mary Mccoy.
James and Beverly O'Connell. jr.
Vincent and Georgia Sherman.
Ray and Ruth Thomas.
William and Mary Turner.
Francis and Beatrice williams.
Coy and Leuridean Bloomfield.
Willie and Kathryn Goodwin. jr.
James and Mary Queen.
David and Alice smith.
GIRLS.
James and Mary Barnett.
Morton and Esther Cohen.
Frank and Catherine Danuel
Charles and Mary Foley.
William and Maxine Hamilton.
Joseph and Mary Harmon.
William and Barbara jackson,
Florien and Betty LaBorde.
Selig and Rita Lenga
Lloyd and Betty McAllister.
Thomas and Annie OBarr.
Harry and Maryjane Ryan, jr.
George and Ruth Simball.
Norman and Waya-Dawn Snow.
Morris and Marie Tretick.
Nathaniel and Josephine Black.
Otis and Anna Ducker.
Leon and Carrie Johnson
Moses and Anna Sansbury.
Roscoe and Helen Sneed.
SamCel and Betty Braunstein.
Alexander and Mary Dunbar.
Alfred and MaTsaret Hamblin.
Edward and Marion Hart.
George and Valera Kennedy.
Larry and Frances Lawson.
Louis and Grace Mason.
Daniel and Julia McBriden,
Broodie and Phyllis Posey.
Earl and Clara Ross.
John and Frances Shinholser.
Robert and Mary Smyers,
William and Aurora Stevenson.
Dennie and Carrie Cherry.
Percy and Eyelin Harris
Elmer and Evelyn Powell.
Theodore and Beulah Simons.
Robert and Fannie White.
Evening star., 1954-02-17
Winchester Man Heads
Motor Court Operators
" ih0 ASsoeiated PFoss

FREDERICKSBURG, Feb. II.
L. v. Watson Of Winchester
yesterday was elected to his sec
ond term as president of the Vir-
ginia Motor Court Association,
Inc.
Other officers are S. Cooper
Dawson of Alexandria, vice
president; Arthur M. Wood of
Stafford, secretary, and A. M.
Helslander of Williamsburg,
treasurer.
Evening star., 1954-02-17

s. eoeh eonteoni shal furnish additional
fon concerning herself and her homemakns oblites.
g. Contestonis o make persono oppeor
onees as moy be required and demonstrate their homsmokns
obiy by answering home mokng qvzzes tokina por, in
cooking sewing laundering and similar homemakne contests
J. Winners OF loeo contests will participate the State contests
ond winners Of he Stote contests will participate the final
contest be held Enor VIlcoe Fcrido from Anr 81
through April Is, 1854. -
B. Contesionts must enter agreements with Mrs. America
tne concerning pesono
moss In the eontsstont shoI Stots elm
incfon contest the fincl
g. voofion Of Of The rules Of The ony
agreement concerning the shall void any owodsd
70 eentsant and such title moy be 10 oness con-
iestanf.
Evening star., 1954-02-17
Episcopal Benefit Dinner

Christ Episcopal Church.
Washington Parish, will hold a
turkey dinner from 4:30 to 1880
pm. tomorrow in the church.
$40 G street Sc. Proceeds will
go to the restoration and renova-
ton fund of the historic church.
Evening star., 1954-02-17

Use your Shopping Plate and ehoree your purchases
DioI MA $500 for 24-hour phone service
Evening star., 1954-02-17
Births Reported

trrom D. c. Bureau of vital satisfies,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
4,e BILLION PEOPLE
BY 2004, fewer
FOOD SHORTAGES

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
World population will double in the
next so years, reaching 4.8 billion
people. But hunger needn't be as
acute as it is now. That's what DR..
F. T. Wahlen of United Nations Food
& Agriculture Organization told the
first national conference on FAC
here, September 16.
Potential production, Wahlen said,
can prevent starvation. The world, he
said, should be less concerned with
farm SURPRISES than with starting
early enough to meet doubled world
population.
Fred J. Rossiter of USDA's foreign
agricultural service backed Wahlen's
statement. The latest FAC survey
he said, shows food output growing
so a year while population is in
creasing ~ a year.
Some pockets" of farm crop sur
pluses are caused by postponed buy
ing of wheat, rice, and other staples,
Rossiter said. Consuming countries
are using up their reserves, gambling
that a situation like the Korean war
won't occur Then they stockpiled
foodstuffs to prevent famine.
Cove Hambidge, director of FAO's
North American office, said the big
gest lob, next to expanding food out
put, is gearing each nations economy
% its people can afford to buy the
food their farmers can produce.
Representatives of 80 national
groups met at the conference. They
named DR.. James Gwinn of Maryland
chairman. It's executive
committee includes John Lynn Of
American Farm Bureau Federation,
Mrs. Robert Lamkin Of American AS
ISOLATION Of University Women, Wal
lace J. Campbell Of the Cooperative
League, Roy Battles Of the National
Grange, Charles Jackson of National
Fisheries Institute, and Tom Gill of
the Society of American Foresters.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

BILLINGS-"The second best years
Of our lives" are all farmers and
ranchers can expect from the admin
istration's new sliding scale farm pro
gram, James G. Patton, National
Farmers Union president, declared
here Wednesday.
Patton spoke at the last of a series
of three regional state farm rallies
sponsored this week by the Montana
Farmers Union.
He said he had come to the con-
clusion that "cattle producers can
expect no help whatsoever from this
administration. Last year we spon-
sored the cattlemen's caravan to
dramatic the desperate plight of
cattle producers. We were told, by
no less a parsonage than Secretary
Benson himself, that the slump in
cattle prices was only temporary;
that it would soon correct itself.
"Since this cheerful assertion, thou
sands of small cattlemen have gone
broke. Thousands of others, particu-
larry in the drouth area, are hanging
on by the skin of their teeth.
"The administration last year
promised to study the situation.
Well, it has studied it for year
and cattle are still selling for seven
cents and the life savings and work
of thousands of farm families have
been wiped out.
81 would hesitate to say whether
this refusal to act in the face Of dis
aster is part of a calculated scheme
to wipe out thousands of family size
farms and ranches, replacing them
with supposedly more efficient giant
operations. But even if it is not cal
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
TERMS ADMINISTRATION FARM Aid AS
BUREAUCRATIC CLAPTRAP"

culated scheme, it is having the same
effect.
"The only kind of drouth aid the
farmers Of this nation are getting
from the department of agriculture
comes wrapped in package labeled
bureaucratic claptrap.' The depart
ment is using words and phrases that
require couple of Philadelphia law
yers to figure out, and when they
finally decipher the meaning, it adds
up to nothing more than the hollow,
empty promise that the situation will
be studied
"What this really means is that
drouth hit farmers and ranchers are
being left to figure out their own eco
nomic salvation or go broke.
"The drouth and the depression in
the livestock industry are no less a
disaster than flood or a hurricane.
Yet we learn that the president is
somewhat 'vexed' by requests for
drouth aid
"Well, know thousands of farm
ers and ranchers who are more than
vexed. They're downright angry"
Patton said that farmers suffered
? disastrous defeat" when the 83rd
Congress passed the sliding scale sys-
tenn of price supports. "This action
deliberately lowered farm prices de-
spite the fact that they have already
dropped 20 per cent since 1862.
"Such lawmaking is inexcusable
Such laws must be repealed and re-
nlaced with programs which will bene-
fit, not penalize, this nations farm
families.
OTIS going to take new Congress,
composed of men and women who
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
NATIONS FARMERS RECEIVING A DRUBBING
A. HANDS OF 83RD CONGRESS

hands of a WashingtOn-hired mana
ger"
In other charges, Patton said that
the soil conservation program has
been dangerously reduced" that
farmers hit by drouth have been zig
nored and left to work, out their own
destiny or go broke, and that the
public power and rural identification
programs are being emasculated."
Patton said his organization sis
in the period of its greatest growth.
Four new states have been chart
cred this year. Significantly, two
of them-Indiana and Illinois
were in the heart of the corn belt.
The other new states are Utah and
Virginia.
This entrance Of new states, and
the rapid growth of membership in
older states, indicates that farmers
are turning to the one farmers farm
which will represent
them as they wish to be represented.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

during. the last session of Congress
was in the defeat of the private utili-
ties attempt to grab off the tremen-
dous potentials of atomic energy.
Through the efforts of Farmers
Union and other concerned organiza-
tions,. we prevented what may well
have been the greatest safe-cracking
job of all time.
Atomic energy will provide cleo
tricity at amazingly low cost-no
one knows just exactly how low.
Through the efforts of such men
as Senator Murray of your own
state, the atomic energy bill pro-
vides that municipalities and REA
co-operatives will get preference
to this important source of power.
Stating that, although the farm
srs of this nation were defeated in
heir efforts to secure for them
elves a fair price support program"
Patton said, they did get their foot
n the Atomic energy door.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

WOLF POINT-American farm
families received a drubbing al the
hands of the S3rd Congress and the
only way they can recover SIS to
see that a new kind of Congress
goes back to Washington next Jam
uary," James C. Patton, president
of the National Farmers Union, de-
clared here Monday evening.
In the second of a series of three
state regional meetings sponsored by
the Montana Farmers Union, Patton
charged that "the flexible price sup
port program passed by Congress and
signed by the president can cost farm
ars more than So billion in income
in 1855.
The Secretary of Agriculture says
that this is "a step in the right direc
ton say that it's a step toward
full-scale agricultural depression in
this nation which can well topple our
en- ire economic structure.
"a new Congress can undo the
handiwork Of the 83rd Congress. But
before it can act, it must have men
who are willing to go down the line
for the family farmers Of this ma
ton.
Il am certainly not telling you how
to vote. That is your personal affair.
But if l were a resident of Montana,
instead Of Colorado, l would cast my
vote for Jim Murray and Leroy An
dersonl
Patton charged that the sliding
scale system of price supports "was
formulated in the LaSalle street Of
fees of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, and pushed through Con-
gress by a band of food professors
and spectators.
''The National Republican COM
mittee used threat and intimidation
to swing Congressman over to the
administration side. They threat
ened to withhold campaign funds
unless certain Republican congress-
men climbed on the sliding scale
bandwagon.
"They succeeded in passing law
which tries to make food scarcity a
virtue, law which is the first step
toward the ultimate elimination of
all farm programs.
81 do not believe in such anti-farm-
er measures. 1 do not believe that in
an enlightened democracy it is either
or in the public interest to
permit farmers to be penalized in the
market place because, at the end of
the season, they have produced an
abundant supply of particular crop"
Patton also charged that the farm
2r elected committeeman system is
n the first stages of liquidation.
He said: "By executive order, this |
administration has stripped the COM
elected by their neighbors
If their administrative authority and
his authority has been placed in the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
WHO LOST IN FARM
PRICE SUPPORT FIGHT?

metropolitan newspapers pro-
claimed the sliding scale as a great
victory for the administration. Well,
if Mr.. Eisenhower and Mr.. Benson
were the victors, who were the van
pushed?
at seems to me that only farmers
themselves can fulfill the role of the
defeated.
81 know one farm organization
which isn't going to take this defeat
lying down. We're going to fight back
with every resource at our command.
We're going to make sure that farm
ers who go to the polls this November
know full we'll how their Senator and
Representative voted on farm price
in August
''The only solution to the slid
ing scale is a new Congress-one
that will undo the wrong the S3rd
Congress did. Here in Montana you
have some very able congressional
representatives Three in particular
have served the family farmers of
this state and nation well. They are
Senators Murray and Mansfield
and Representative Metcalf.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

will go down the line for farm fami-
lies, to undo the great harm done by
the 83rd Congress. It's going to take
such men as Senator Murray, Repre-
sentative Metcalf and Leroy Ander-
son.
"They have a lot of work cut out
for them. Not only will they have to
restore fair farm prices, but they
will have to restore farm programs
such as REA, soil conservation, and
the democratically elected committee
man system which have been virtually
emasculated by this administration
and the last Congress.
Farmers Union is not going to
turn the other cheek. We're going to
fight back. And the best place we
know to fight is at the polls this No
vember."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
If need BE, MINE-MlLL Will GO
TO COURT over TRAVIS CASE

the affidavit case" of M. r. Travis,
the unions secretary-treasurer.
1--WE agree with the AFL Executive
Council and AFL President George
Meany that President Eisenhower is
directly responsible for the anti-labor
policy of the NLRB since he became
President" the union said. "This
preliminary, or intermediate ruling
of examiner Downing is part of the
anti-labor pattern which the NLRB
has been following against all unions
CIO and independent"
I'm the first place, the public
should understand that our Union
today remains the legally-certified
agent of our more than
10000 members in the United States"
it said. Some of the newspaper
stories based on the statement issued
by NLKB examiner Downing Satur-
day mistakenly limited that we were
de-certified, or that we were
about to be de-certified.
I'm the second place, we call at
tention to the fact that when Down
ing held his so-called hearing, the
prosecution devoted its entire case
to the argument that in resigning
from the Communist Party, Travis
used an ancient language called
Aesopian understanding to the
secution-meant the opposite of
what it said.
yet Downing now ignores this
whole Aesop business-because of
course it won't stand up, since the
was as plain and straight
Onward as a homerun hit by Willie
Nays. Downing dumps the Aesopian
lonsense. and instead invents a new
,iece of nonsense which says black
S white and white is blackstone
hing the prosecution failed to men
ion during the hearing.
'In the third place, Downing clear
Y denies due process when he sug-
-ests that the membership may have
nown, or should have known, that
'ravis falsified his affidavit. Down
ne refused to permit any of the mem
ership Of the union to testify before
i'm, - he is in no position to know
nything about the opinions, beliefs,
understandings or random notions of
he membership.
Finally, it goes without saying
hat we intend to exercise our right
0 appeal this nonsensical recommen-
ation to the full National Labor Re
atoms Board. More than that, we
ltenI to renew our demand, made
epeatedly since this business began
lore than months ago, that hear
1g be held in cities where our Union
as membership, with a full oppor-
unity for every member who wants
D testify to do so.
"This case will be decided, in the
nd, by the courts" the statement
Oncluded.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
But II Was Fixed!
BY Labor's Daily News Ser

CHICAGO-When Mayor Martin
H. Kennedy welcomed a labor con-
vention to Chicago, the public ad-
dress system went sour and his voice
faded out.
Some 5000 electricians were avail
able in the house to fix it though. 1t
was the convention of the AFL Elec-
trical Workers. Who did fix it? a
union electrician who was not a dele
gatel
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24

DENVER Exactly what we eX-
pected," was the comment of the In
ternational Office of the Mine, Mill
and Shelter Workers Union Monday
concerning the recommendation last
Saturday by an NLRB examiner in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
CHEAP POWER MAY WE'LL DETERMINE
AMERICAS ROLE in WORLD affairs

Observation-Disclosures future role in the world may very
we'll depend abundant supply of cheap electric
James G. Patton National Farmers Union president declared
here last Saturday night.
Patton spoke the first series of three state regional
meetings sponsored by the Montana Farmers Union.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-24
REPUBLICAN SENATOR SAYS:

81 am more strongly convinced now
than ever that the Benson plan for
lowering price supports will be dis
astrous TO agriculture and will not re-
duce consumer food costs to any ap-
precisbIe degree.-SEN. MILTON
YOUNG (R-N. d.