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Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
CLIFTON'S CORNER
(Near Lewes


Mr.. and Mrs William W Clifton
and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Dillon
and daughter Dorothy on Septem-
Der 4 took e trip to New York. also
went across on the ferry TO the
Statute OF Liberty and went up in
IT, Sarah, Tommy and Dorothy
went up to the top. Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifton only went 10 the tenth floor
or as far as the elevator took them.
They also saw other sights Of in
terest- On September they went
to Williamsburg. Va. They saw the
colonial building was
colonial. even the people, men and
women were dressed that way, or
the ones who entertained visitors.
Everyone had wonderful time.
Several. from around here are
spending the evenings ut the Har-
rington race track
Mr.. and Mrs. William t. Baker
have moved to Chester.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
FLYING FOR Fun

TAMPA, Fla. - up - It's ra-
ther like the postman taking long
walk on his day off, but pilots of
the speedy Stratojet bombers at
MacDill Air Force Base here have
hobby of flying light planes.
The SAC (Strategic Air Com
mand) Aero Club at MacDill owns
four light planes, one of them a
four-seater.
Aero Club members rent the craft
on an hourly basis or by the week
if fiier can take off that long.
Money from the plane rentals keeps
up the planes and sweetens the kit
ty for purchase of more light craft.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
ALWAYS on DUTY

CHARLESTON, w. Va. ~ up -
Patrolman r. l.. Grouse isn't cop
who takes his work home with him,
he just can't seem to reach home
without working.
Grouse said he was enroute there
recently when he spotted three
youths fixing fiat tire. A check
of the car disclosed cartons of Gig
arettes, candy and chewing gum,
and the boys admitted a break-in
which had netted $50 in cash and
500 worth of merchandise.
Grouse was in his way home just
four days earlier when he arrested
a speeder on U. S. 35.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16

an employee of the Burris Company
of Milford.
Miss Jerry Strum, Irene Rash and
Margaret Handgees spent the week
end with Mrs w. Walters of Phil
adelphia.
Bernite Rash is on a Today leave
and with Mrs. Rash and two chill
dren will spend part of the time at
his grandmother, Mrs. Pearl Rash.
Mrs. Rash's Sunday guests were
her son. Nelson Rash. Harrington
and brother, Roy Kemp of Milford
Friday guests of Mrs. Hettie Pal
mer were Mrs. William Smith, her
parents and grandson, Bobby, of
Holmes, Pa.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
A DELEGATE

HOUSTON. Tex. -(P)- The hus-
band of local woman has just left
the house. His wife was washing
the breakfast dishes when the door
bell rang.
She thought her husband had for
gotten something and was returning
for it.
THAT you angel?' she called.
mo indeed" answered pleasant
voice, "but I'm from the same de-
partment."
The visitor was Episcopal Bishop
Clinton s. Quinn.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
SUB STAYS PUT

CHICAGO - Up - The subma-
rine that goes nowhere, the u. S. S.
Silversides, has a new skipper
Lieutenant Keith X. Nicolis, 80
commands the sub which is used
to simulate crash dives, maneuyers
and torpedo attacks but never
moves an inch from her berth al
the Naval Armory.
Evening star., 1955-06-20
Our Own Bridge Conditions

The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
Association has laid down certain condl-
tions that must be met If bridge Is built
across the upper end of Roosevelt Memo
rial Island The frantic study now un-
der way by District engineers is appar-
emily aimed at determining the feasibility
Of compliance with those conditions.
Speaking of conditions, our District
Commissioners are in duty bound to the
unrepresented people of Washington to
impose some of their own. Boiled down,
they would mean that the Commissioners
will not indorse any bridge-building plan
under which the extra cost Of this bridge
will be assessed against local taxpayers.
There was general agreement that If
q tunnel, instead of bridge, were built,
the extra cost of the tunnel would be an
appropriate charge against the United
States. The Budget Bureau was unwill-
ing to approve the extra cost Of tunnel.
The whimsical bridge route and
architecture proposed by the Theodore
Roosevelt Memorial Association will cost
substantially more than the bridge plan
already authorized by Congress. It is un-
thinkable that this extra cost should be
a municipal responsibility. It meets no
utilitarian need. It is being discussed
now as a method of overcoming certain
highly debatable esthetic considerations.
The Commissioners must be careful not
to permit themselves to be entrapped into
heavily obligating the people of Wash
ington to an extra expense which, If it
can be justified at all, is to be justified
only by the dubious claim of protecting"
certain national monuments from the So
called intrusion of necessary bridge.
Evening star., 1955-06-20
Too Quiet on Potomac?

II you take a good look at
the faces of the hordes of
tourists milling around Capitol
Plaza after visiting the sedate,
dignified halls of Congress,
you are apt to notice express
sions of disappointment: En-
tertainment not as spectacu-
lar as anticipated.
With the Davy Crockett
craze sweeping the Nation and
having read that Davy Crock
ett had been in Congress, they
hoped that Washington was In
tune with the country. We
cannot let them down! So, !
suggest we outfit our legiSla-
tors with Davy Crockett suits,
complete with coonskin caps;
our lady legislators with pio-
neer women costumes, COM
plete with sunbonnets and
shotguns - but blank car
tridges, please! Outfit our ex-
ecutives with Indian costumes,
complete with feathered head
dress and tomahawks. The
tribe could march in Lafa-
yette Square. perform a "cold
war dance" tie Willie Tax
payer to q tree and stage q
realistic act of scalping.
AS this is apt to shatter the
nerves Of the tourists, ! fur
Evening star., 1955-06-20
The Best Approach

President Eisenhower now has re-
ceived from Congress his number one
legislative request to implement our for
eign economic policy. 1t Is the measure
extending for three years the reciprocal
trade agreements law and giving to the
Chief Executive discretionary and limited
authority to cut most tariffs by max
imum of per cent each year.
AS finally agreed upon by both House
and Senate, the legislation is compro-
mise-not fully satisfactory to the ex-
treme ir-traderS" or to the extreme
"protectioniSts," but actually providing
the President with the tools he needs to
widen the broad avenue" of interna-
tional trade. Indeed, the complaints
from the bills most outSpoken critics so
completely countered each other that
there is reason to feel the adopted COM
promise represents sound balance. In
effect, this is the evaluation placed upon
the measure by Chairman Byrd OF the
Finance Committee. longtime friend
of the reciprocal trade principle and
leader in the Senate fight for adoption
of this years bill, the Virginia Democrat
described the House-Senate conference
version as "the best approach that could
be devised to continue our foreign trade
on basis of reciprocity and, at the same
time, protect in reasonable fashion the
proper interests of American industry"
Moves toward applying the extended
law are expected to begin almost imme-
diately, first in bilateral talks with some
Of the countries most willing to nego-
Evening star., 1955-06-20
Ohio Votes NO

ETeQ1CClO11S OF CTOuDle-lcSdl dIlO pO"
litical, If not economic-for the new
automobile wage formula already are
coming true. In Ohio, generally ranked
second to Michigan as the principal
center for the automotive industry, the
State Senate has voted down proposal
to allow workers to receive induStry-paid
unemployment compensation BENEFITS
without having counterbalancing
amount subtracted from their State-pa1d
unemployment insurance.
Since the UAW contracts with Ford
and General Motors call for approval OF
the dual payments in States where two
thirds of the affected workers are en-
ployed, this initial Ohio action poses a
serious threat to the new pactS. Ford
estimates that about 56 per cent of It's
hourly rated working force is in Michi-
gan, with an additional II per cent in
Ohio. No other single State, in combi-
nation with Michigan, could provide the
necessary approval for two-thirds Of the
working force.
Unfortunately, the Ohio vote ap-
pears to have been more political than
otherwise-the State Senate being d.
vided in this test on straight party
basis with 81 Republicans opposed and
II Democrats favoring the contract
formula. There are, of course, valid legal
and economic questions involved in this
matter. These should eventually be re-
solved, however, on legal and economic
grounds rather than upon partisan
political ones
Evening star., 1955-06-20
Song for q Voyuger

Nor calendar nor almanac
Need / to tell me tDhGt the day
And phat the year you aDent
diDdy.
Only knoW that you are far.
Taught by the dark hearts
lonely ,DdrS,
tnoD your journey 0Der old
Roads OF sea or grasses; told
By neither comp1sseS nor stars
Nor bird song nor design OF
1DingS,
But BY the bright Dain of the
blood
Pointing to the Pole Star,
Lore,
Do / perceive your DoyGgino.
Nor almanac nor calendar
Need / to tell me iDhat the year
or iDhat the day tDhen you
come back.
/ only knou you tDiu be here.
Frances Frost
Evening star., 1955-06-20

kins, empty match boxes, pa
per wrappings, ETC.. while rid
ing along the scenic country
side.
These Glitter jitters" help me
and my immediate family to
keep our roadsides clean. but
they also make me boil inside
when I see another person
committing the crime Of litter
ing.
For example. on a recent
Saturday morning I saw two
young men crumbling and
throwing away handbill ad-
vertisements. Their route OF
travel was marked by these
crumbled pages every 6 to 8
feet. Apparently they were be-
ing paid in accordance with the
number they disposed of. Later
that morning I saw hundreds
of these same handbills dane
ing in the breezes on a large
public parking lot in Silver
Spring. Obviously, many mo-
torists removed these flyers
from beneath their windshield
wipers and tossed them to the
ground without even reading
them.
AS part of the antilitter
effort, I wonder whether the
Montgomery County Council
could pass an ordinance for
bidding merchants from plac-
ing advertising circulars under
windshield wipers? Such an
ordinance would eliminate a
great litter potential. Further
more, I think such advertising
is obnoxious.
Erwin S. Baugher, jr.
Evening star., 1955-06-20
Vaccine View

According to The Star of
June Z, DR.. Jonas Salk is re-
ported as having told the
American Medical Association:
"Vaccinated children may get
an infection and act as car
riers of the disease to unvac-
cinated playmates, but the
likelihood is that they will be
less dangerous carriers than
the unvaccinated."
What kind Of vaccine is it
that is being given to children
and making carriers Of them?
DR.. Salk seems to feel they
may be less dangerous carriers
than those who in the past got
the disease naturally. I think
it is a horrible thing for a
responsible man to tell us to
vaccinate several hundred
thousand children and turn
them loose to infect millions
Of others who will be unable
to receive the shots.
I. for one worried patient,
don't think it fair that we
and our family doctor should
have to decide whether or not
to give our young ones the
shots and run the risk of in
fecting large numbers of par
entS and older children.
I feel the Polio Foundation
has done a very dangerous
thing in pushing a vaccine
which was not tested for the
very thing which is happening
and which I have just dis
cussed.
Audrey b. Oliphant.
Evening star., 1955-06-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

and the fact that we are in
curing q frightful penalty in
doing so does not help the tor
tured animals.
Very sincerely yours,
B. r. H."
Years ago, we were seated
in a bus going down Connecti-
cut avenue when we saw a dog
about three blocks down.
He had started to cross.
At the same time we no
ticed a car going past the bus.
It was plain that If both dog
and car kept on at the pace
set, the latter would strike the
former.
"That fellow" we said, "is
going to strike that dog unless
he slows down"
He never slowed down. and
struck the dog, as predicted.
The animal picked himself
up from the street and stag
gered over to the west side
into one Of the last of the
1orna @,o anvil Lots
1t was a totally useless. and
therefore cruel, kill. for un-
doubtedly the dog died. prob
ably of a ruptured liver.
Once we watched two squir-
rels in the merry springtime
gambol across Connecticut av-
enue. The female got across,
but the male was caught be-
meath wheels. Here, again, q
little forethought and human
decency could have saved q
forest romance.
Our world is bad enough as
it is without totally unneces-
sary destruction of life. We
almost killed off the countless
buffalo, estimated at 10 mil
lion. We completely destroyed
the beautiful passenger pi-
geons. estimated to have num-
bered 5 billion.
If we keep on killing. rae
coons to make politicians
hats, soon there won't be any
of these wonderful little an
imals-we mean the raccoons
left to wonder over. Only a
picture in a book.
Today, as long as we have
real life creatures, let us all
try to have some regard for
them and refuse to kill them
needlessly. To kill with indif-
ference is just the same, as far
as a poor creature is con-
cerned, as to slaughter it
with malice aforethought.
Evening star., 1955-06-20
Teachers No Ounce

The recent letter, Teacher
Boots One" illustrates how a
few people love to criticize the
teachers of their children. Just
think, a teacher wrote in a
memo to parents that May 81
was Memorial Day! My, Oh
my!
If the writer of that letter
would spend more time CO.
operating with the school, then
the larger issues Of education
could be realized better. Pos
sibly he'd like to join the
teaching profession so that
more children would be sure
Of days and dates"
Come. come, now. Let's be
thankful for our loyal, hard
working teachers even though
they miss Memorial Day by .
day.
q. william eimonds.
Evening star., 1955-06-20

ther suggest, as a sedative,
we erect a few wigwams
around the square, and hand
out nips of firewater, for free.
Why not?
All this for a bigger and
better Washington, our Ma
tional Capital, now and again
referred to as "Pandemonium
on the Potomac"
p, Turner,
Evening star., 1955-06-20
Nature All Wet?

Rock Creek is the prettiest park
OF all the parks you see;
It has a ZOO and golf course
And every kind of tree.
But featured at its very heart,
To meet those traffic hordes,
They carefully planned some
liquid traps
Those quaint and lovely fords.
We enter our park at a speedy
clip
In a four-lane handsome style,
Until we reach that sunken
road
And that bottleneck single file.
Just listen to that watery ripple
AS through the stream you
glide
Is there q better place to for
get
Your home and fireside?
So what If your car is turning
to rust
And your brakes have all gone
sour?
What harm can you do to that
car ahead
At less than i've miles per
hour?
Other cities have their park
ways,
All fast and keen as swords.
While we crawl through a
babbling brook
To patronize our fords.
The fords are pretty and nice
to see,
They're cool and very quaint,
But as for helping traffic move
You know dern we'll they amt.
d. C. McCutcheon.
Evening star., 1955-06-20
Acodion Anniversary

The 200th anniversary Of the expul-
sion Of the Acadians from Nova Scotia
invites questions as to what actually did
happen to them and why. Obviously,
the story is not quite as simple as it might
seem from reading Of "Evangeline"
alone. Published in 1847, the poem by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was in
spired by Nathaniel Hawthorne, who in
turn was indebted to Horace Conolly for
the central theme of the separated
lovers. None of these men made any
exhaustive study of the facts. Had they
done so, they would have found that
Acadia had been in dispute between Eng
land and France at least as far back as
1903. Under the Treaty of Utrecht in
1713 all Nova Scotia was ceded to Britain.
The area involved was of uncertain di-
mensions and this led to further contro-
verSy. The French tried to narrow the
territory to the peninsula Of Nova Scotia
while the English strove to widen 1t to
extend from the Kennebec to the st.
Croix Matters came to head In 1755,
when new colonial fighting broke out in
the so-called French and Indian War,
and the Acadians were both directly and
indirectly involved.
One difficulty promoted another
until Evangeline's compatriots looked
like 'fifth columnists" to the official rep
resentatives Of the British crown. The
latter unwisely thought to solve the prob
lem by deporting 1000 Acadians to other
colonies. Some we're moved to Maryland
and Virginia but soon were ousted. Dur
ing 10 long years the wanderers at
tempted again and again to obtain land
they could call their own. At last in
1766 considerable number of them were
given permission to settle in Southern
Louisiana, where, especially in the neigh
borhood of st. Martinville, they pros
pered. Their descendants are thrifty
farmers, stock raisers, merchants and
traders, who have maintained basic
pattern Of traditional French culture.
Unfortunately, the continued existence
of their community now is threatened
by Navy plan to build a $50 million jet
air base at New Iberia. Maybe the
Acadians are facing another deportation.
Evening star., 1955-06-20

The Atomic Energy Commis-
sion's advisory committee on
biology and medicine disagrees
with some of the worlds fore
most experts on human ge-
netics. After carefully review
ing the state Of our knowl-
edge" it has reported that
from the facts now available
there is no reason to believe
that there will be a notable
increase in human detectives
during the next century due to
increased radiation Of earth,
sea and air from present atom
bomb tests.
The number Of children born
each year who may get at least
one mutated gene, or unit OF
heredity, is placed at from
100 to several thousand"
Radiation Everywhere
The report of the commit
tee has just been revealed by
DR.. willard F. Libby, a mem
ber of the commission. It
stresses that the genetic ef-
fects Of an atom war could
be catastrophe. Bomb tests
and the limited medical and
industrial uses of the present,
however, only add a little to
radiation present everywhere
all the time, such as that of
cosmic rays and of natural
radioactive elements.
Every human being. DR..
Libby declares, is rather radio
active due to carbon and po-
tassium isotopes which form
part of the body. A person in
a crowd is being radiated quite
heavily from the people around
him.
There is no claim, however,
that the committee has found
q deflnitive answer to the
questions raised. Says the re-
port: Experiments on animals
and plants and observations on
man show that mutations
occur spontaneously at all
times. Most of these act un-
favorably on the development,
growth and well-being of indi-
viduals. The spontaneously
mutated genes have accumu-
lated in large numbers in all
human populations. Their
presence accounts to a consid-
erable extent for the fact that
at least / per cent of all new
born exhibit development alb
normalities, most of them to a
very slight degree but some in
a more serious way.
"Irradiation of animals and
Evening star., 1955-06-20
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
BY THOMAS R. HENRY
Report on Atoms and Genes

plants adds to the number OF
more or less detrimental muta-
tions. Human genes must be
considered as being equally
subject to the mutagenic ef-
fects Of radiation. A consider
able fraction Of the so-called
spontaneous mutations of man
are probably caused by the
natural radiation background
from cosmic rays. food and
soil.
"The radiation produced by
fall-out from atomic weapons
tests and peaceful applica-
tions Of nuclear energy will
result in additional mutations
of human genes. The number
cannot be estimated ac-
curately at this time. At the
current rate of irradiation
from fall-out. among the four
million children born each year
in the United States from 100
to several thousand may carry
as a result of this radiation a
mutated gene. A small per-
centage of these will produce
any noticeable effect in the
first generations. Only over
hundreds of years will the ma
jority Of these mutated genes
become apparent, in a few in
dividuals at a time, usually by
causing a less than normal
development or functioning Of
the person concerned. It will
be impossible to identify these
individuals among the large
number of similar ones af-
fected by genes already pres
ent in the population due to
accumulated spontaneous mu-
tations.
Increase Not Measurable
mo measurable increase in
defective individuals will be
observable at any time as the
result of current weapons tests.
The few radiation-induced
detectives will not change
measurably the number Of
about 10000 detectives who
will occur spontaneously
among the 4 million births
each year.
THE foregoing conclusions
apply only to the genetic ef-
fects Of tests carried out at the
present level and of foresee-
able peacetime uses Of atomic
energy. The genetic effects Of
a generalized nuclear war
would be one of the many
catastrophe consequences Of
such a disaster.
Evening star., 1955-06-20

tiate tariff revisions and later In multi
lateral consultation with members Of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
The President has emphasized that revi-
sions must be gradual, selectiye and
reciprocal" While opposing economic
nationalism and isolationism," he has
pledged no changes that would do serious
injury to our own economy. There will
be opportunity within the limits of the
new law for constructive review of the
whole range Of international trade
practices.
Evening star., 1955-06-20

@. What per cent Of the
people of the United States
still are not covered by some
form Of health insurance.
A.D.K.
A. About 40%. Authorities
point out that while 500 Of
the population has health In
surance in some form, only
one-fourth of families earning
less than $2.500 a year are
covered.
@. Is espionage accepted
under the rules of international
law?-G. T. S.
A. All the great powers and
many smaller ones have fully
organized intelligence services,
and espionage is tacitly recog-
nized under international law.
The use Of spies does not vio-
late the law Of nations, but
only the laws of the country
against which the spying II
directed.