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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20
Letter So By Robert Nelson Taylor

nine poStponementS, with the gal
lery" reduced from 5000 to about
5000, Survival Town in Yucca Flat,
New, was finally clobbered by an
atomic bomb of about twice the
force of that dropped on Hiroshima.
No doubt the experts are still
evaluating what happened. But
movie cameras housed in concrete
bunkers close to ground zero have
shown us houses being blown to
bits and the air filled with debris.
We have been told that frozen
foods withstood radiation effects,
but that every mannequin above
ground within three miles of the
blast was considered killed" or
seriously injured" We don't know
how many were tagged as radiation
victims.
But whatever has been learned,
or will be adduced to add to the
CHASTITY f1esh-and-b blood statistics
from Japan, we are prepared to
accept the word of a Civil Defense
spokesman that the only escape
from such a blast is TO get away
or dig in. We do not agree that
any vast number of city dwellers
would have the opportunity of
doing either.
Civil Defense remains, therefor
the prime responsibility of our
military planners, just as it always
has. And there is a way, we be-
lieve, by which our tacticians-if
they act soon enough-can remove
the cities of the world from the
category of bomb targets. The
strategic plan by which this may
be accomplished is the brain-child
of Col. Richard S. Leghorn, U. S.
Air Force Reserve, and appeared
recently in a copyrighted article in
US. News and World Report. Basic
ally the LeghOrn plan presents a
method of restricting the use OF
nuclear weapons to military targets
exclusively. 1t would be imple-
mented by a policy announcement
from the summit" that:
If we or our allies were attacked
by conventional armies, we would
employ tactical nuclear weapons
in the battle zone and the enemy's
rear areas.
If such attack were supported
by aircraft, we would employ hot
pursuit and nuclear attack on his
air bases.
If we or our allies were attacked
with nuclear weapons, We would
use the same method of destroying
the enemy's nuclear stock-piles.
Col. Leghorn's proposed an
nouncement from the President
would say, finally, 1.-The United
States unilaterally renounces H
bomb and A-bomb attacks on hos
tile cities, unless the cities of the
Free World are first attacked will
| weapons of mass effect"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20

Babson Park, Mass, May 10, 1855.
the parking insurance is for people
to stay at home and use the tele-
phone. In fact, the present in
crease in auto accidents and the
lack of parking space will drive
people to greater use of the tele-
phone. Otherwise, congestion will
so increase that we will travel
bumper to Jumper. When one
car stop, then all must STOP
The Merchants Opportunity
Every storekeeper should at once
install an extra telephone which
should be used only for incoming
calls. No one in the store, not even
the boss, should be allowed to
make calls on this extra phone.
1t should be reserved for Gus
toners Calls Only" When GUS
toners complain of finding it
busy, then a second such phone
should be installed.
Merchants should advertise more
and solicit telephone orders more.
Many customers now dread going
downtown to shop on account OF
the parking problem and the gen.
eral congestion. Hence, they stay
at home and the merchants lose
customers. Buying is being con-
stantly postponed. Therefore, in
their advertising, merchants should
urge people to use the telephone,
stating that special phones exist
for incoming call only.
Importance OF Habits
The present method of shopping
has been the custom for centuries.
1t has become an instructive habit
which will change only slowly,
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscella-
neous commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week:
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $3.50 to $1,000, mostly
$4,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: S21.00 to $1,000,
mostly s24.50 per cwt.
Rough and common: $3.50 to
$500, mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Monkeys: $3.50 to $3.50, most
ly $21.50 per cwt.
Medium: $500 to $24.OO, mostly
$21.25 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: $1,000 to $1S.75.
mostly $14.OO per cwt
Common: $10.25 to s11.75, mostly
$11.50 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: S8.25 to
$1,000, mostly 1915 per cwt.
STEERS
Good, light steers: $1,000 to
$20.50, mostly $1S.25 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: $500 to $500, most
ly $1,000 per cwt.
Beef type: $3.50 to $15.75, most
ly $14.50 per cwt.
BULLS
over 1000 pounds
Medium to good: $500 to $1,000,
mostly S15.75 per cwt.
500 to 1000 pounds
Medium to good: $1,000 to $16.75,
mostly S14.00 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(goOd quality
12O to 10 lbs: $3.50 to $17.25,
mostly $500 per cwt.
ITO to 240 lbs: 1850 to $1S25,
mostly Sits per cwt.
240 to $50 lbs: $500 to $3.50,
mostly S17.25 per cwt.
SOWS
(gO0d quality
200 to 300 lbs: $1,000 to $1,000,
mostly $11.75 per cwt.
800 to 400 lbs: $1,000 to $1,000,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20
Secret Of Evergreen
Pruning Is Making
The Correct Cuts

SECRET OF EVERGREEN 49, IL
Certain evergreens and conifers
can be safely pruned in May to
shape them and to promote BUSH
Ter growth. The secret is in where
to make the shearing cuts.
On such conifers Tor cone-bear-
ing trees) as pine, frs and spruce,
prune in late May. Cut back one
half to three-fourths of the new
growth of candles, advises Don
Cantwell. manager of Bartlett Tree
Expert Company. This will make
the trees more compact and pre-
vent them from becoming leggy.
When pruning yews, arborvitae,
chamaecyparis and juniper, leave
green foliage in back of the cut.
Hemlock, too, can be trimmed now,
but again do not cut beyond the
foliage. Shearing the tops of hem
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20

now be near its peak. Even bust
ness calls will be made more by
telephone and less by automobile.
1t takes time to change habits: but
the present habit of making both
personal and business calls by
travel may become a thing of the
past. All habits can be changed.
What About TelevisiOn!
Television is already taking the
place of the movies. When tele-
vision gets over its "teen-age"
period of Sowing wild oats" and
gets settled down to decent pro-
grams, many more families will
prefer TV to going out evenings to
a movie. When television is hooked
up with the telephone so we can
see with whom we talk, then auto
mobiles may be used only in emer-
gencies. In fact, the time is COM
ing when most of the better auto
mobiles will carry telephones.
These will be used not only in case
OF car trouble but also for bust
ness and social calls.
In short, / believe that the tele-
phone industry is headed for a
great future with tremendous
growth ahead This will come both
from an increase in population and
from much-increased use per
capita, especially among the
Younger generation. The telephone
can create greater sales, can save
more time. and can protect us
from unnecessary accidents and
other losses. | also believe that
telephone securities are among the
safest of all securities which give
good INCOME
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20
Only The Wise Stay Free

In our growing awareness of
the determined and all-too-success-
full efforts of the reds, the pinks,
the fellow-travellers and the starry
eyed One-worlders to NITRATE our
schools and poison the wells of
knowledge from which our mentally
thirsty children drink. We should
be forcibly reminded of the words
Of Thomas Jefferson. eff nation
expects to be ignorant and free"
he said, it expects what never
was and never will be-"
A great new educational effort
at the high school level, launched
by two great Americans, Repub-
lican Robert A Taft and Democrat
John w. Davis, in the closing weeks
of their dedicated lives, is gaining
momentum as Operation Free
DOM" The Institute of Fiscal and
Political Education, for which Mr..
Davis secured a charter under the
laws of New York shortly before he
died, is forging ahead to realize
the dream that was closest to the
heart of Senator Taft in the months
comprehensive text book on the
American form of government and
glObal Communism, the contrast
between them and the specific diff
ferences-both obvious and subtle
between these irreconcilable phi
losophies.
DIR. Kenneth Colgrove, Professor
Emeritus of Political Science at
Northwestern University, who has
been chosen for the task of writ
ing this encyclopedia volume, will
call it Communism and What
Makes 1t Tick" In approaching
this monumental work, the tenta-
tive outline for which includes
forty chapters, DR.. Coigrove's sim
certify and objectivity are seen in
his statement that a writer on such
a vital subject should always bear
in mind that no one person has a
monopoly on wisdom. Accuracy
is paramount Indoctrination
must be avoided"
And finally, we learn from Presi-
dent John Marshall Of the Institute,
noted Washington lawyer, descen-
dant of our first Chief Justice, and
intimate friend of both Taft and
Davis, that he and his trustees
intend to practice what we preach"
The new book will not be stuffed
down anyone's throat, teacher or
student. 1t will be available in the
spirit of that freedom for which
it speaks. No one will have to
take" it, like first-year Latin or
sulphur and molasses. But Ameri-
cans cropping for Truth will be
awaiting it-eagerly.
Everybody Wins-Every Year
No highway prize. not even the
famed Vanderbilt Cup, for which
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20
1881 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
May 16, 1855

Topeka, Kansas
May 16, 1855
Dear Friends:
Mother is here and are we en-
joying having heri Just a few days
before she arrived, the Likens-Fos-
ter office DIETER known as Leaky-
Faucets among current tenants)
who own this group of homes where
we live, notified us that we were
next on the list for three bedroom
house. Hayes and l were really
elated over the prospect of a larg-
er house with company on the way
TO boot, but the only hitch was the
house would be vacant ten hours
before mothers train would arrive
in Topeka!
Tuesday afternoon, the 10th, at
two in the afternoon, the three bed
room house across the street was
empty and we began our numerous
trips across the street with arm
loads of furniture, pictures, cloth
ing, toys. linens, etc. With each trip
another neignDor seemed to join
our caravan and by dinner we had
completely moved to 1851 Mayo. Liz
and Bill Wright, of l.. A, Cali
fornia, our neighbors here, asked
Us over for dinner that evening,
which was a great help. We re-
turned to our new home at dark
and hung our oil paintings which
my Aunt Jenney Salevan had done
of our homes in Milford, a still
| life picture which Uncle" Billy
n
and Mrs, and snow scene in oil
painted by Rae Wilkie and we
looked like we had lived here the
whole two years of our stay in To-
| peka.
We were at the depot in plenty
of time before the Rock Island Road
train arrived. Mother looked sc
sweet to me as she got off the train
She wore a pretty white hat, gray
suit and white Mothers Day orchid
She was just astounded to learn
that we had moved that day and has
remarked several times how "un-
ruffled" we seemed to be in our
new surroundings.
The following day, Wednesday
we attended the club luncheon al
| the Officers Wives club. 1t was
election day and l just HAD to be
there to see who would win the
various offices. / had lost my voice
due to the busy week and had to
sit at club mum" which irritated
me because / had so much to tell
mother and had different stories
to tell about each girl she met and
yet / couldn't say word above a
whisper. How frustrating for a
| womani
Two days after we had moved
into our larger house l invited
three tables of bridge in honor OF
Mothers visit here. My guests Went
across the street to our old house
found it empty, hunted for our cal
and guessed the party was across
the street. / just hadn't had time
to call the guests and notify them
our change of address. Neighbors
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market Information Supplied BY The Bureau Of Masts
stots Board Of Agriculture, Dover. Dslowurs

Over 400 lbs: $1,000 to s11.50.
mostly s11.00 per cwt.
BOARS
(goOd quality
Under $50 lbs. $500 to $500,
mostly s11.00 per cwt.
Over $50 lbs. $500 to $500, most
ly $500 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: s11.00 to $1,000.
mostly $14.50 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
(6 to 12 weeks 0ld)
Choice: $3.50 to $1,000, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: $500 to $500,
mostly $500 per cwt-
Common: $500 to $500, mostly
HORSES AND MULES
Work type; $500 to s10400, most
ly $4,000 per cwt
Butcher type: $500 to $500.
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
FOWL. Sl.l0 10 Sl.0u, lupStly $l.oo-
BOOSTERS: sl.10 to lao. mostly
s1.25.
LIGHT BREEDS
Guineas: s100 to s1.30, mostly
s115.
DUCKS
Muscovy ducks: $50 to $1.15.
mostly S.95.
Muscovy brakes: SLIPS to $l.55.
mostly $1.45.
RABBITS
Large breeds: $1.15 to $500.
mostly $1.50. so
Small breeds: s75 to s1O0, most
ly $.S5.
Young rabbits: .$.35 to $.55,
mostly s.45.
EGGS
Ungraded, mixed: SIS to $.36
per dozen.
\ Pullet: Sis to $.26 per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS, PRODUCE
Sweet potatoes: $1.2O to $1.40 per
* bushel.
Asparagus. $.35 to $40 per bunch.
Greens: $.25 to $50 per IS bushel.
Lard: $500 to $500 per SO lb. can.
Rhubarb: $40 to SIS per bunch.
Strawberry plants: $50 to SIS
per 100 plants.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20
Time To Think Straight

but the sooner shopkeepers deter
mine to change this habit, the
better off all will be. Otherwise,
our downtown retail sidewalks
may become as deserted on week
days as they are now on Sundays.
AS they have a virtual monopoly,
the telephone companies seem to
be little interested in helping shop
keepers in their present dilema.
This criticism is said to apply
especially to the big Bell Com
pannies These are rich and ruled
by f-s t fl d bureaucracies.
These telephone companies claim
that they have not phones enough
to take care of all the demands.
This is nonsense. If they would be
willing to buy more telephone
equipment from outside manufac-
turers and develop more efficient
installation crews, all demands
could be filled.
Avoid Being Killed
My appeal for a greater use of
the telephone is not solely to help
businessmen keep their customers.
| The telephone can also help us
to keep life. Hubert l.. Kerr has
recently stated that while only two
persons per 10000 die from polio,
yet, in the same ages, so young
persons per 100000 are being
killed by automobiles. AS these
figures become recognized, l fore
cast that people will visit less by
automobile and visit more by tele-
phone.
People will remain home more
and travel less. Travel by auto
mobile-except for business-may
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20
THE LAST STRAW
BETHLEH

BETHLEHEM, Pa. -(P)- 1t
wasn't the $25 that DR.. Nicholas
Fournoyerakis minded SO much-it
was the extra three cents postage.
The doctor, stationed at st.
Luke's Hospital, lost his wallet con-
tanning cards, licenses, visas and
addition important papers plus $25
in cash.
A bulky envelope containing the
wallet with cards but without
money was returned. arrived in the
mail some time after the loss 1t
carried Is cents postage but the
doctor had to pay an additional
three cents postage due.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20

| Americas bluebloOds fit, bled and
died in their imported racing cars
at the turn of the century, has
ever meant so much to SO many as
the Trailmobile Trophy-fOur feet
of cleaning pedestal, and Greek
columns surmounted by two
gallon loving cup.
On May IL, at appropriate cere-
monies in Minneapolis, this mon
umental trophy was presented by
the American Trucking Associ-
ations' Council of Safety Supervisors
as the top safety award Of the in
dustry for 1854. 1t goes, for the
second consecutive year to Pacific
Intermountain Express, of Oakland,
Cal. And if PIE can capture it
again in 1855, this massive memen-
to will become its permanent prop
erty.
The significance of the Trail
mobile Trophy goes considerably
beyond a contest among some 500
trucking firms and $4,000 deter
mined drivers, since the winner is
selected on the basis of his safety
record, personnel training in safe
ty and emergency assistance, spe-
cial safety equipment and Ito quote
the ruleS): records of cases where
assistance was rendered, and other
voluntary undertakings which tend
to increase safety, courtesy and
service to highway users general
ly."
During the past IA years, two
| firms, Consolidated Freightways, of
Portland, Ore, and Silver Fleet
Motor Express, of Louisville, Ky,
have won the award three years
in row, and taken their king-size
prize home for keeps. Since 1948,
Pacific Intermountain Express has
contested for the cup with F. j.
Boutell Driveway Co., of Flint,
Mich. And we are assured, if PIE
should be successful again next
year, Trailmobile' will come up
with a fourth trophy to keep in
high gear the truckers contest
for safety records, for Good Samar-
itanism and for setting for the rest
of us an example of good driving
and good citizenship on the high
wav
The records submitted by the
hundreds of contestants through
the years reveal innumerable cases
! of herOlSm . and thousands OF
instances of thoughtfulness and
assistance ELOQUENT testi-
mony that we have big brother
| on the road.
Time To Think Straight
| Whether it was the Dupose of
Uncle Sam or more specifically. Val
| Peterson, to scare IFS ont of our
| Indifference to Civil Defense, or
~eassure us ont of a fatalistic at
titude that there is no defense
against nuclear attack. we shall
probably never know But, after
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-05-20

lock, especially if it is used as
hedge, will promote bushy growth.
Forsythia, lilac, deutzia and
spirea should be pruned after they
have bloomed. Remove old leggy
stems. Remember when pruning
lilac to leave enough older growth
for next years flowers.
Evening star., 1955-06-07
Egypt Rejects Proposals
For ToIks With IsroeI

CAIRO. Egypt, June Z (R.-
Egypt has rejected a United
Nations proposal that her tor
officials negotiate directly with
Israel's to stop the continuing
clashes along the GAIA strip.
An Egyptian spokesman, Col
Salah Gohar, said last night his
government prefers to continue
negotiations through the U. N.
Mixed Armistice Commission
established by the 1948 armistice
Israel is boycotting the Israeli
Egyptian Commission, on which
a U. N. representative has the
tie-breaking chairman's vote.
. From Jerusalem. Israeli Pre-
mier Moshe Sharett messaged
u. N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold that Egypt's re-
lection of the proposed confer
ence of government officials
Evening star., 1955-06-07

lays her open to a charge ot
bad faith"
At U. N. headquarters in New
York, informed sources said the
United States. Britain and
France all are working through
their embassies in Israel and
Egypt in an effort to calm the
dangerous border situation.
Egypt has consistently opposed
any meeting of the Egyptian and
Israeli prime ministers or other
cabinet officials, contending such
negotiations would be a dis
guised form of peace conference.
The Egyptians say they won't
discuss peace terms until Israel
takes back nearly 100000 Pales-
tine Arab refugees scattered
through the Middle East.
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man, Bess, a prostitute"
He protested: "Here Is drunken
ness, quarrelsomeness and murder.
The whole utterly squalid and de-
PRAYED picture has no relief In I.
ercept the folk music Of the colored
people. It has no hopeful note in
it."
In the same letter to Dulles, he
House member demanded to know
whether State Department repre-
sentatives abroad gave cooperation
to a musical production sent over
seas by the Moral Rearmament
Mission.
Gwinn said that the MIRA must
cal, entitled 1.-THE Vanishing Is
land" played to overflow audiences
throughout Asia and Africa. He
declared: I'VE have never had such
q response to our best missionary
effort-certainly never to our po-
litical and military efforts"
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New Jersey

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limited States or by any state on
account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude." | believe
that the spirit if not the letter OF
this amendment is being violated
in Mississippi. The facts available
to the public point to the urgent
need of an investigation by your
Department to determine whether
this is the case" .,,
Congressman Williams said, !
want to commend the many leaders
who have expressed to me their
deep concern regarding the consti-
tut;onal rights of all citizens. l
share this concern with them and
believe we must be ever vigilant 70
protest and defend those rights, IN
order that true justice may be
available to every American. 1t
is my hope that Attorney Cen
eral Brownell, who is charged with
administering the laws OF the led
eral government, will Immediately
look into the question Of whether
the fifteenth amendment OF our
Constitution is being violated In
Mississippi"
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date" The Southern Association
is an all-white body.
The Association further implored
the United States Congress to "as-
sist the states through Federal Aid
to Education with the necessary
safeguards" against racial segre-
cation in public schools as ruled
by the Supreme Court May II,
1854 and May 81, 1866.
Declaring that the Association
is encouraged by the May 81 rul-
ing implementing the decision of
the Supreme Court, the Associa-
ton recommended to the controll-
ing boards of privately and pub
licly supported institutions that re-
strictive admission clauses, where
they exist, be eliminated from their
charters and all qualified students
considered for admission regard
less of race, creed or color.
c. w. Seay, principal, Dunbar
high school, Lynchburg, Virginia
was elected president of the Asso-
citation, succeeding DIR. Cornelius V.
Troup, president, Fort Bailey State
College, Fort Valley, Georgia. DR..
John Codwell, principal, Phillis
Wheatley senior high school, Hous-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-12-17
Reaching For The Headlines

The average individual in public life is constantly
torn between the basic need for of humility and
the temptation to reach for headlines On the hand
he hears the claors of the crowds to be their 'front.'
page champion, and the other he knows the made
quacies from which he continually suffers And there
are only few instances where humility and headlines
have meeting ground
There people who just must have their
in the They must have chief seat on the plat
form, appear the front of every picture and make
statements for publication. Their primary interest is
not probenl-solvng; it is making headlines.
When any person says does something significant
it deserves important place in the press This is al
together different from merely saying something in
order that ones might get into the
Of course, humility and false modesty two diff
ferent things False modesty is form of disguised
cOnceit. 1t is front that people put up to make
it appear that they Unassumng and unpreentous.
This is really worse than bare conceit.
But this temptation seizes upon sincere people, too.
Sometimes wel-meaning persons placed in positions
where they become regarded spokesman for their
people. And they expected to say something
everything whether not they have anything in par
tcular to The gradual temptation to the word
which has popular appeal = something that makes
And if one isn't careful, making becomes
important than getting at the heart of problems