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Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19
WASHINGTON LETTER
Brace Yourself


Following the fifth of the secret
Geneva meetings of U. S. Ambass-
ador u. Alexis Johnson and Red
China's Wang Ping-nan, word fill
tered out of the Communist camp
that freedom for the 40 American
civilians held in Red China was
near" and required only the clear
ing up OF details.
A u. S. spokesman would neither
confirm nor deny this report. But,
if il is true, we wonder what price
we are paying to spring these poor
compromise with the Reds, and
softened up to accept considerable
devils at long last. In view of the
secret nature of these meetings,
the recent feeling in official Wash
ington that the public has been
the fact that there's no Congress
in session to raise protest, the
appeasement tab may be pretty
steep.
Various congressman, especially
those who had had word from their
constituents, expressed fear during
the closing sessions lest the Ad-
ministration "let it guard down" In
dealing with the Communists. In
supporting a bill for the addition
of another Deputy Under-Secretary
in the State Department, Chairman
James P. Richards of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee launched
into discussion of brain-washing
and his '1ack of confidence in the
new face of the Communists. He
outlined the Reds "charm cam
paign the anaesthetic by which
to put the free world to sleep while
they reform their lines"
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News Information Supplied BY The bursov Of Masts
ssote Boord OF Agriculture, Dover. Dslowurs

800 to 400 lbs, $1,000 to 1915,
mostly s11.75 per cwt.
Over 400 lbs, $3.50 to $11.50,
mostly s10.50 per cwt.
BOARS
(good quality
Under $50 lbs, $500 to S11.00,
mostly s11.00 per cwt.
Over $50 lbs, $3.50 to $3.50.
mostly $500 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to Good: $500 to s14.50.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
C. to 12 weeks old
Choice: $500 to $1,000, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $500 to 800,
mostly $500 per cwt.
Common: $500 to s4.00, mostly
HORSES AND MULES
Work Type: $4,000 to S65.00,
mostly $65.00 per cwt.
Butcher Type: $500 to $44.0O,
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
Heavy Breeds
Fowl: s1.10 to s1.35, mostly $1.2O.
Roosters: $50 to $1.05, mostly
$50.
Light Breeds
Cockerels: s.25 to $.45, mostly
s.35.
DUCKS
Muscovy Ducks: $50 to- $.95,
RABBITS
Large Breeds: $50 to s1.20, most
ly $50.
Small Breeds: $50 to SIS, most
ly $50.
Young Rabbits: s.25 to .$.45.
mostly $50.
EGGS
Ungraded, Mixed: $40 to $.67
per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Watermelons: s.I6 to S.25 each
Lima Beans: s190 to $2.1O per
"a bu
, Country Butter: $50 per lb.
Apples: $50 TO s.S5 per 81 ou.
tomatoes: s.25 to $50 per rs bu.
Pepper: 500 per 5s bu.
Peaches: S1.00 to $3.50 per Is
Cantaloupes: SIS to s1.1o per
"a bu.
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19

New York City, August Is. What
is the truth about the stock mar
ket? Is it very Nhigh or is it not?
Should stocks. be sold now? Should
investments be made now? These
are questions which this column
will try to answer this week.
Truth About The Market
Unfortunately, the stock market
is judged by the Average Daily
Price of Thrifty Industrial Stocks.
1t is true that this list, after ad-
justments for splits, mergers,
ETC., is near it's all-time high. To
be specific, these 80 stocks are
now at about $50 compared with
$50 a year ago, 3S1 in the Fall of
1929; and Al at their all-time low
of 1882. But when averaging all
stocks listed on the New York
Stock Exchange, / find that all
are not too high, based upon earn
ings.
/ especially want readers to re-
member the above, when this In
dustrial Average begins to slide
Oft as it surely will someday. Don't
then think that business is going
on the rocks and that our pros
porous days are over. Just as a
high Industrial Stock Average does
not now give you more customers
and profits, so your business can
continue good later when these
Thirty Stocks slump. Protect your
inventories. keep your people en-
ployed, and continue your adver-
tisirg. whatever these Thirty
Stocks do.
/ Most Gains In Very Few Stocks
/ Not only are these Thirty Stocks
an unfair measure of the entire
market, but an analysis of even
these Thirty" is important. Fol-
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19
1881 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
August Is, 1855

Dear Friends:
Hayes said on the phone to his
parents after his arrival. Elaine
and the children were right beside
the plane when | arrived" Sounded
like an easy accomplishment, but
what an ordeali
AS you know we arrived here
Monday evening, in Topeka. Tues
day and Wednesday / sweap out
crickets, made beds, did at least
five washes, shopped for Hayes
favorite foods and visited with
neighbors that l hadn't seen for
the past three months.
Thursday morning about $3.50 l
received call from a sergeant in
Hayes orderly room telling me
that the AZ Hayes was on should
arrive at 12:37 noon. / began lay
ing out my clothes and the chill
dren's so we could jump right in
them when the time arrived. Poor
Lynne and Dawn weren't allowed
to use the clean towels in the
bathroom, not allowed to play
with their toys and mess up the
house. l watched for one grain of
sand to land on my newly cleaned
rug. / wanted the house to just
shine when "the ole Boy" arrived
incidentally if you need a new
rug in your house ask about Du-
points new fiber 'E". 1t looks just
like a wool rug, but it's washable
and how well it wearsD
Later the phone rang again and
it was the Dependence Assistance
volunteer calling to tell me that
my husband would arrive at 1 1:2t
that afternoon. / was baffled with
two times given me for his ETA
but decided we'd go about 1915
just in case the earliest hour
was correct. Time seemed forever
and then the pilots wife called and
said our crew would land at the
12:37 ETA. By then it was 11:3(
and the girls and J really scurried
lived in fear of my car battery
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19

instance, one day recently this
Thirty Stock Average went up (the
newspapers broadcast Highest
Prices Ever Known"O, when ac-
tually more stocks made new
lows" for the year than made new
highs" The concentrated buying
by Pension Funds and Investment
Trusts, of a few stocks like Gen
eral Motors, Du Pont, and East
man Kodak, ran this average up so
it was useless as a true measure
of the stock market or of business.
The Average of 265 Common
Stocks issued weekly by the SEC
is far better barometer. Besides,
the SEC divides it's list into six
divisions, viz: ID Durable Pro-
ducts, (2) Non-durable Products,
(3) Transportation, (4) Public
Utilities, go Trade, Finance, &
Service, and (6) Mining. An analy-
sis of these 265 shows also that
while the high-priced stocks were
gaining in price an average of so.
the low-priced stocks lost 10.
Probably many readers of this
column will say: "All other stocks
have gone up but mine" But
reply: What of it? You seldom
take profits when your stocks do
go up. Like a hog you always
wait for higher prices before sell
ing, and then you wait too long
and your profit is lost"
Buy For Income
One big day when the Thirty
Stocks were jumping, of the 1921
stocks traded, 636 closed lower
while only 361 closed higher, and
234 closed unchanged Many OF
these last 234 were investment
stocks which people buy to hold
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19
Jack-Of-A

"Uncle Sam, shoemaker, should
stick to his last, and in this case
case the last of political govern
ment is foreign affairs. If he does
mt, it may be the last of free
government and free men,.
This is the conclusion of w.
Alton Jones, board chairman OF
Cities Service, as expressed in an
editorial in the magazine Service,
in which he points out the extent
of Government competition with
private business.
Mr.. Jones reminds us that in
spite of the extraordinary efforts
now being made to get the Govern
ment out of business, it still Oper-
ates $500 institutions in direct
competition with tax-paying pr1-
vate enterprise. "Bureaucrats," he
says, "have a craving to run gro
Gerry stores, manufacture kilowatts
and operate coffee-roasting plants.
As aFreSult, international affairs
such as Potsdam, Yalta and Teher-
an, and pacts and coalitions, all get
less attention than they deserve.
Business can not do the job OF
politics, and vice-versa," says
Mr.. Jones. The business man must
make quick decisions to stay In
business, while the statesman is
incapable of businesslike methods
because of the limitations placed
on government-for our protection
against tyranny. With government
checks and balances" are proper
Government shouldn't cut corners,
says Mr.. Jones. There must be
debate. Even red tape. Mussolini
Hitler and Stain cut corners.
But whether in its proper sphere,
or in the sphere of business,
Government agency rarely re-
treats; it looks continually fol
new prospects. AS an example
"the prospect of fixing the price
of natural gas at the wellhead,'
says Mr.. Jones, shows the Govern
ment urge to take on more domes-
tic business responsibility
Quemoy, Peking, Moscow and TWEEN
ty other political centers ready t6
blow their tops"
Natural gas would be, of course
only the beginning of Government
pricing of all natural resources
including garden-sass. With such
start, the economy would be wei
| under federal operation and require
bureaucratic management of pro-
ducts and services, as well as
wages, hours and employment. Ii
Italy and Germany, this was called
Fascism. In more than half the
world today it is called Commu-
nism.
| We don't want it. But it will take
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19

Particularly outspoken among
those who added their comments
was West Virginia's Rep Robert
G Byrd who declared that
the issue of freedom and justice
are on a par with the issue Oh
neace. and the American people
are not willing to subordinate the
ono 10 the other" 1t was 'dis-
heartening" he, said, ito flnd our
Government virtually blackmailed
into sitting down with the spokes-
men for Red China" and :" 4. not
calculated to increase our pres
tige in the world.
"Why should we make the nrst
move to begin talks?", asked Mr.
Byrd. "And why should we taih
at all? | say that 1t Is time to cut
ont the talk and turn on the heat
We have turned the other chesk
long enough
Rep. Thomas ]. Dodd, of Con-
necticut. said: Anxious as l am
TO return to my home, / earnestly
believe that this Congress should
remain i'm session and fined out
what is being said in Geneva by
Mr.. Ural Alexis Johnson to the
Red Chinese Ambassador.
"When we return next January
the opportunity to do something
about commitments made in Swift
zerland this week will have passed
us by"
AS we have been saying for
years, Congress in these times
should be a year-round institution.
We have no other brake on secret
diplomacy. But they went home
next day.
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19
Washington Letter : By Robert Nelson Taylor
.GnADER>

say, not later than the end of
November whether or not he would
seek the Democratic nomination.
He also said he wasn't afraid of
Ike, either. The President, at his
press conference of August 4th,
told reporter his question on
running had extended the "mor-
atorium" on answering to a year
from that date.
In Chicago, Governor George
Bell Zimmerman, Jr., of South
Carolina, successor to Strom Thur
mond, the States Rights candidate
of .194S, foresaw definite, strong
possibility" of a third party in the
1856 race.
In view of the probability of a
real brannigan for the Democratic
nomination, the strong possibility
that President Eisenhower will
withdraw, and widespread lack of
enthusiasm for both parties-es-
pecially in the South-a third par
ty could be a real threat. And there
must be a third party or realign-
ment-SOOn.
The Nightmare Continues
Americans again are in the
doghouse in Korea. After going to
the rescue of Korea against Red
Chinese aggression, and accepting
United Nations domination in re-
turn for the aid of token forces
from other UN nations after
accepting UN orders not to win
the war, and firing one after
the other, two commanding gen
erals who could not understand
that kind of fighting after ac-
cepting a truce that left Korea
divided as before and swallowing
the Red Chinese contention that
Czechs and Poles are neutrals and
suitable for appointment to the
Neutral Nations Supervisory Com
mission American soldiers
have been fighting off Korean mobs
with baseball bats, tear gas bombs
and high pressure hoses.
Having accused the Czechs and
Poles of espionage and sabotage
the South Korean Government de-
manded withdrawal of these "neu-
trail truce commissioners from
the country and mobs numbering
as high as 1000 undertook to i'm
plement the order. The unpleasant
duty of protecting the "neutrals'
fell, of course, to American troops
This is part of the farce of main
tanning an armistice agreement
that the Reds have been ripping to
shreds since the day it was signed
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19

neOuS COnlmOQlIl6S prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received bysDelaware farm
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week:
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $23.O0 to S3050 mostly
$2S.00 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $500 to $1,000,
mostly per cwt.
Rough and Common: $500 to
$500, mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to 1850, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Medium: $1,000 to $4,000 mostly
$500 per cwt.
Common: $1,000 to $500, mostly
$13.75 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $1,000 to $15.75,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Common: $1,000 to $11.75, most
ly S11.25 per cwt.
Gamers and Cutters: $6.25 to
1915, mostly $3.50 per cwt.
STEERS
Common to Medium: $1,000 to
s16.75, mostly $11.50 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy Type: $500 to 1890, most
ly $1,000 per cwt.
Beef Type: $1,000 to s17.O0 most
ly $14.50 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS
Good to Choice: $1,000 to $16.50
mostly $15.25 per cwt.
Over 1000 lbs.
Medium to Good: $14.00 to $500
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
500 to 1000 lbs.
Medium to Good: $1,000 to $21.O0
mostly $14.00 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(gOOd quality
12O to 10 lbs, $16.25 to s17.00
mostly $16.75 per cwt.
10 TO 240 lbs, $17.00 to s17.25
mostly $17.00 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs, $1,000 to $500
mostly $16.75 per owt.
SOWS
(g0od quality
200 to 300 lbs, s11.00 to S14.5O
mostly $12.25 per cwt.
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19
oN
NEW NAMES FOR OLD

"Rat-catcher" is a word Immediately un-
derstood, but not particularly glamorous.
The trade has therefore preferred to use the
more Notwithstanding "exterminator." 1t
is also more accurate, because other pests
than rats fall within the scope of the opera
tors. The new term is said to have been first
used by the late Nathan N. Sameth of New
York City.
Sameth followed trend that has become
popular of late years, that of changing old
names for occupations with new ones. "Un-
dertakers" have become "ss1orticians," beau
ty shop operators are now "beauticians," and
SO on.
Gas and oil stations sometimes adopt the
designation 'slubritorium' or "mototeria.
Maybe the old-fashioned editor should de-
scribe himself as news and information spe-
cialist" He probably won't, however. He's
too proud of being a plain newspaper man.
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19

In 1910, 1873 per cent of Ameri-
cans 1S to q years old were at
tending college compared to "a per
cent in 1853.
Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19

200 to 300 lbs, s11.00 to S14.5O,
mostly $12.25 per cwt.
Evening star., 1955-09-12
AustroIiu Aids
Flood Victims

Australian Foreign Minister
II. G. Casey announced today
that Australia win contribute
$50, 900 for relief of flood VIC
Tins in the United States.
Mr.. Casey said he would ask
President Eisenhower to desig-
nate the organization which
should receive it. Mr.. Casey ex-
planned that Australians know
from experience the devastation
that floods could cause and have
been shocked at the scale and
suddenness Of the disaster which
recently struck New England.
An Australian gift to these
victims, MIR. Casey said. would be
a token Of Australian sympathy
for food victims and apprecia-
ton for cooperation Australia
has received from the United
States in the past,
Mr.. Casey arrived In WASH
ington last night en- route to the
United Nations General Assem-
bly, session which conyenes in
New York September 20. On
September "a he will participate,
along with the Foreign Ministers
| of New Zealand and the United
States, in a meeting of the
ANUS council. which directs
the affairs of the Mutual De-
fense Treaty among the United
States, Australia and New Zea-
land.
Evening star., 1955-09-12
French Cabinet Tackles
Morocco Peace Today

PARIS, Sept. IL R.-Premier
Edgar Faure today tackled the
most potent political opposition
at home to his new. deal for
Morocco. President Rene Coty
summoned the full cabinet to
pass on the home rule agree
ment worked out with the pro-
nationalist former sultan. Mo-
hammed Ben YousSef.
Across the Mediterranean the
North African protectorate
tensely awaited the outcome Of
the cabinet session, The French
showered the Arab quarters of
the chief cities with leaflets,
bluntly warning that they would
permit no repetition of the up
rising August 20-21 in which
more than 1000 died.
Heavy detachments of troops
patrolled Casablanca and other
major cities to counter any vio-
lence that might be touched of
by one nationalist groups call
for general strike.
Mr.. Faure was determined to
get cabinet approval for his
Moroccan settlement today, the
target date he assigned himself
a month ago. However, some
right-wing cabinet ministers
were expected to oppose at least
some portions Of the accord.
The rightist opposition threat
ened not only the future Of
Morocco's nine million Moslems
and half a million European
Evening star., 1955-09-12

residents, but that of Mr.. Faure's
government as well. Although
Socialist votes probably ensured
National Assembly approval of
the settlement, a walkout by the
right-wing ministers would vir-
tually force the Premier to re-
sign when Parliament reconvenes
next month.
Mr.. Faure and the rest Of his
committee Of flve" ministers
who have been handling the
Moroccan problem last night en-
dorsed the agreement their
special envoys. Gen. Georges
Catroux and Henri Yrissou. ne
gotiated last week with Ben
Youssef in Madagascar.
The accord provides for re-
placement of Sultan Mohammed
Ben Moulay Arafa by a three
man regency council. return OF
the former sultan to France un-
til his right to the throne Is
settled. and formation oi
"a representative Moroccan gov
Iernment to negotiate a new po'
Ilitical, economic and cultura
partnership with France.
In Paris. some 400 air forcs
Ireservists called UP for NORTH
African duty battled military po'
lice at a railroad station for mor'
than two hours yesterday to pre-
vent being shipped to Marseille
their port of embarkation. mo
rocco for the Moroccans." the!
shouted
Evening star., 1955-09-12

servicemen have been stationed
at Naples and Leghorn for sew
eral years, and there has been
q minimum of friction betweeen
American and Italian authors
ties.
Based ut Leghorn
The new task force will have
its headquarters for the time
being at Leghorn. on the north
west Italian coast. 1t has been
the chief supply port for the
American forces in Austria.
Eventually Gen. Michaelis
will move his command to Vi
|cenza, SO miles west Of Venice
at the foot of the Dolomites.
First, however, barracks must be
readied In that area Of severe
winters.
SETAF is part Of the allied
land forces in Southern Europe,
commanded by Italian 1t. Gen.
Clemente Primieri. Informed
sources said the unit would have
much autonomy, reporting de
rect to Washington on such
matters at promotions, supplies
and the like.
Evening star., 1955-09-12

Chungking when arrested In
1850: Guilty Of collecting In
telligence in the sikang area and
conducting espionage" Sentenced
to five years.
Mr. Buol. "a, Of Stockton,
Calf, operations ofhcer for the
American-owned Civil Air Trans
port when he was seized at the
Mengtze airstrip. lao miles south
Of Running in Yunan Province
In January. 1850: Sentenced to
expulsion from China for intrud-
ing into China on broad an air.
craft to conduct military espion-
age"
Dilmas T. Kanady, a Houston,
Tex, cotton man who was jailed
by the Reds in October. 1850:
Sentenced to "a years i'm
prisonment and immediate ex-
pulsion from China for hiding
arms. forging financial accounts
In an attempt to evade taxes,
and making black-market for
eign exchange transactions with
American bank notes"
Charged With Sabotage
Miss Dorothy Middleton. ~.
formerly of Cicero. NJ. adopted
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Hines Of Lakeland, Fla, a Pres
byterian missionary at a leper
colony when arrested in Febru-
ary, 1851: Sentenced to expul-
sion from China for conducting
sabotage"
Miss Sarah Perkins, SO. a ma
tive of Georgia and q Presby-
terian missionary and nurse at
a leper colony: The same sem
tence as Miss Middleton.
The Rev. Frederick D, Gordon,
So. Of Somerset. Ohio: Ordered
to leave China within q pre-
scribed period =. because he
has shielded counterrevolution-
airy elements"
The Rev. Joseph e. Hyde. AZ
Of Lowell, Mass: Ordered to
leave China within a prescribed
period because he had conducted
reactionary propaganda and
concealed a military signal
pistol"
The Rev. James Joyce, So
of Clinton, Mass: Ordered to
leave China within a prescribed
period because he has col
lected information about Chi
nese airfields."
The latter three are Roman
Catholic Dominican priests who
have been under house arrest.
Evening star., 1955-09-12
North ItoIy NATO Unit
Set Up by U. S. Troops

ROME, Sept. IL pa new
NATo command came into being
In North Italy today after quiet
diplomatic agreement between
the United States and Italy.
The new OUTFIT is SETAF--
Southern European Task Force.
It's. commander is Brig. Gen.
John K. Michaelis, World War
IN aide to President Eisenhower
and famous Korean war COM
mander of the 9th "Wolfhound"
Regiment.
Gen. Michaelis' force is being
formed Of United States troops
shifting from Austria to italy to
help strengthen the NATO de-
|fense line weakened by the pull
out of Western occupation forces
from Austria.
In recent weeks American and
italian diplomats quietly reached
accord on the 1851 status Of
forces agreement drawn up by the
INATO powers In 1851. Italy.
Portugal and Iceland are the only
three Atlantic allies which have
never ratified the agreement. The
italian Senate has approved it
but the Chamber Of Deputies has
never taken action.
Italy Set to Conform
Informed sources said Italy now
has agreed to conform to the
agreement even before it is rati-
fled. The Italians also promised
to push its ratification through
the lower house soon after it re-
convenes September 81.
The agreement provides for
trial of NATO servicemen In
courts of their own nations for
loffenses committed abroad
while on duty. For offenses Oh
duty, the host nation can waive
its right to prosecute and let
the soldiers own government
do it.
Because some Congress men,
bers feel American military
courts should be the only ones
with jurisdiction over United
States soldiers, Italian approval
of the agreement was considered
essential before announcement
lof the new unit. Actually
several thousand American