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Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18

The following is g 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: $28.O0 to $4,000, mostly
$500 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $4,000 to $27.OO'
mostly $24.50 per cwt.
Rough and Common: $1,000 to
SIG 90. mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to $500, mostly
S11.5O per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $1,000 to $500, mostly
$500 per cWt.
Medium to Good: $1e.50 to S1S.25
mostly $11.00 per cwt.
Common: S8.75 to $1,000, mostly
1925 per cwt.
Gamers and Cutters: $500 to
$3.50, mostly $500 per cwt.
SlEEnC
Common to Medium: $1,000 te
$3.50, mostly S14.00 per cwt.
FEEDER HELPERS
Dairy Type: $500 to $10.75, most
ly $1,000 per cWt.
Beef Type: $1,000 to $500, most
ly $500 per cwt.
BULLS
over 1000 Pounds
Medium to Good: Slips to $17.O0
mostly STATS per cwt.
500 TO 1000 Pounds
Medium to Good: $10.75 to $14O0
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(gOOd quality
120 to 10 lbs, $12.75 to $15.25
mostly S14.00 per cwt.
10 to 24O lbs, s14.75 to $17.OO
mostly $15.25 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs, $3.50 to 1926
mostly S1450 per cwt.
SOWS
(gOOd quality
200 to 300 lbs. $3.50 to $15.25
mostly $13.75 per cwt.
300 to 400 lbs, $1,000 to S14.75
mostly 1850 per cwt.
Over 400 lbs, $500 to $3.50
mostly s11.00 per cwt.
B0ARS
(gOOd quality
Under $50 lbs, $500 to $500
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18

washington 25. D. G.
To qualify for Dietetie Intern
sbips. applicants must nave naa
snnropriate college education. 10
= written test is required. lnterns
win be given a 12-month training y
course after which they VIII ps sll
eibIe for promotion as Dietltian
S,itb the Veterans Administration.
Annlications will be accepted
tbrough March /, 1855 for the
classes Of interns beginning On
Iuiv / or September Is. 1856. Ap-
nIications must be filed with the
board Of Civil Service Examiners
ington %, d. G.
Further information ana apph-
cation forms may be obtained from
most post offices throughout tne
country or from the U. s. Civil Ser
vice Commission, Washington z9'
ID. G.
Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18
FOR LATER RETIREMENT

DR. Dana L. FarnswOrth, director OF
health services at Harvard University, urges
iife-lono preparation for retirement. But
while advising individuals to prepare tnen-
selves mentally for retirement, DR.. Farms
worth also recommends an effort by society
to utilize the knowledge and skills OF older
people.
lie explains that the enormous birthrate
of the past several years has produced,
sspopulafiOn glacier" which is now at the
eighth grade level in the school system 1hls
group however, will not be able to take over
major responsibilities until the mld-lSOO s..
Meanwhile certain fields will experience Sc
we're shortages of manpoWer because those
already trained will have to serve a vastly
expanded population. He points out that
"there are about 5000 more people every
morning FOR breakfast than there were the
day before" and that the abilities, skllls ana
experience Of older people will have TO De
harnessed to serve this growing population.
To encourage utilization OF the otaef age
group he recommends modification OF work
mems compensation laws AT present, some
companies are discouraged from hiring peo-
pie over AS or so, particularly those VINO nave
had some form Of disability, for fear OF Delng
held liable if they should suffer Illnesses.
Advice about hiring older people IS Delne
heard more frequently Of late. Its wisdom
is. generally recognized. Yet little IS pelne
done about it. Only in few scattered cases
has the requirement forcing employees tC
retire at 65 been modified. Even more rare
ly do individuals make adequate plans Iol
retiring.
Our society lis taking real risks byeeon
tinuing to ignore such advice
Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18

CLASSIFIED Ads Get Results
Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18
MIDDLE EAST AND RUSSIA

Concern is justly felt over Russia's sud-
den appearance as a Middle Eastern power.
The Kremlin has agreed to furnish arms to
Egypt and has made the same offer to Saudi
Arabia. Arms require special technicians to
explain their use and to keep them in repair.
These, of course, will be Russian. From
technicians it is not long step to the arrival
of trained military advisers who may make
over on Russian lines the armies of the Ara
bic nations.
Russia's material gifts viii be more than
repaid by the influence which her new friend
illness may be expected to create.
Even more disturbing than the Russian
lump to the center of the Middle Eastern
stage is the surprise which it has created.
Preoccupaticr with problems in the Far East
and with the affairs Of Germany and France
seems to have caught Western diplomats un-
awares. Now they viii be hard put to it to
regain quickly the important ground they
have lost
Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18
IIFFTIMFS OF STUDY

One thing is sure about the pfacClce OF
is field where education never
ends-where the educational process must
90 on throughout the physicians entire ac-
tive life.
That thought comes to mind on reading
the agenda for the American Medical Asso-
cations forthcoming clinical meeting IN
Boston.
This postgraduate education meeting is
expected to be the largest ever held, with an
attendance of 1000. About 200 scientific
papers and exhibits have been scheduled for
presentation. Papers will be given in three
lecture halls, offering the physician wide
variety of choice in subjects. Leading surg
cons and Obstetricians will be available Tor
individual problem discussions. Closed cir
cult televisiOn programs, originating IN
New England hospital, will bring live oper-
ations in color to the gathering place. More
than 80 motion pictures will be shown. And
there will be a technical exhibit with more
than $50 displays.
This is a major event. But in its pur-
pose and method it is certainly not unusual.
All over the country physicians meet-on
the regional, state, and local level-to dis
cuss and to learn. And their educational
pursuits are not limited to formal gather
ings The doctor, as a matter OF routine,
must spend many hours each week, above
and beyond the demands OF his practice,
! keeping up with medical literature. For new
1 horizons of knowledge are always being eX-
plared, and light cast into dark places.
/ Under our free system, doctors do this
voluntarily-nOt because anyone forces them
to. And the fruits are found In the fact that
we have the highest standards of medical
care Of any major nation on earth.
Milford chronicle., 1955-11-18
FOR ALL GOOD GIFTS

FOR~ALL GOOD GIFTS
At first, it was the homely gift. that
people were thankful for. The hams nangcc
ing high, the slabs of bacon, the strings OF
dried vegetables and fruits, the noble pile OF
root vegetables in the root cellar. Ihese
meant food grown this year to carry through
until next harvest. With barrel OF flour, a
hin of cornmeal some honey and tree sugar,
boxes of dried peas and beans,-let the biz
zard roar. With a good roof and blankets
from the wool of your own sheep, the WOOD
pile stacked high, security was yours.
Now we are thankful for different kind
of prosperity-for good houses and cars, for
good jobs which produce them. For all the
things that make life comfortable and pleas
ant, Americans are truly grateful they are
grateful. too that the many are comfortable,
and only the few are in trouble, with bad
health or no jobs or sadness OF some sort.
And they are especially glad that the many
have enough to see that the few are helpeos
that no one need stafve CT died for want OF
the little aid they need to get on their feet
again.
For America is very rich and very COM
Portable and moving in the direction OF ever
greater development of all the things that
make left seem worth while.
But it is still a very good idea to put at
2veryOne's place, on the groanlng and glan-
orous Thanksgiving table, the five grains OF
corn which remind us all of what we came
from and of the hard times our forebears
had in getting the nation started. For there
was a year when five grains Of corn were al
of the food left for every person in one OF
the struggling colonies. But they shared
alike and did their best. And then then
ship came in.
OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES
The imperialistic attitude which was
popular during the colonial expansion OF I'M
nineteenth century seems still to attlct tn'
French residents of Algeria and MorOcc.
and to be major cause Of the unrest Wnlcl
worries the French government. The Frencl
colonists immigrants in North Africa ana
mere drop in the population bucket, regar'
themselves as entitled to special privilege
which include social repression and ecOnoml
exploitation of the natives. These resident
are the chief source of opposition to the re
forms by which the Partisan parllamentaIj
leaders hope to help North Africa gam sell
regulation as well as social and economl
progress. The cOlOnists have many lnf1uer
tial connections in France so that the Ffenc
government whose tenure depends on malT
tanning shaky majority hesltates 70 oppos
them.
The mid-twentieth century has seen man
nations working towards selt-sutnclenc.
The colonists are rigid and unreallstlc IN u
dynamic democracy OF this century. lhe
opposition to North Africa's bid Tor lnd
-pendence will probably not succeed IN hoi'
ing the colonies for France. That the mCe
national and economic position Of France
iraperiled is due largely to the reactlonal
attitude Of colonial residents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28
On q Spring Morning

Warm sunlight qildS the
rambling country road,
Unnumbered blossoms deck
the apple trees
Whose radiant branches lift
their foWery load
To share its nectar Nth
poSSeSSiUe bees,
Its perfume Nth each sly,
li0ht-fngered breeze.
Labor 1t seems almost a trolic
non
With springtime bursting in
the toiler'S heart.
The shouting farmer guides
the stubborn plo,D,
And as he sees the torn earth
fall apart.
Dreams OF the hdrpeSt's
ouerdo,Cino cart.
But one i0ho has no urgent
D0rk to do
Perches at ease upon the old
stone t1dll,
Content to let the sky be
softly blue,
Content to hear the Udr-
bler's mddrignl.
And let bright moments DRIFT
beyond recall.
Inex Barclay Kirby
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28
C.&O. Canal Problem

In view Of the enlightened
interest of The Star in COM
munity affairs which I have
observed for IS years. your
editorial Of April "a on a park
way along the c & o Canal
was a real body blow to me.
The Stars position implies:
Cd If you don't start to oppose
any public proposal at an
early stage you have no moral
right to oppose it at all; ca a
public proposal that was
desirable at one time is
necessarily desirable Is years
later. Where does that leave
an embattled citizenry?
True, the conservationists'
overt opposition to the park
way is an "eleventh-hour"
development. That. however.
is only natural. There is no
permanent organization of con-
Servationists concerned with
Washington and its vicinity,
and while many of the con-
servationistS have had a vague
fear of the proposed parkway
they could not make an issue
of it until they had something
more specific to sink their
teeth into. That something
came with the inclusion in the
Interior Department budget
of funds to construct the
parkway. After all, the greater
threat to the canal for a long
time was a road along or over
the stretch from Great Falls
to Cumberland.
At the moment all the con-
servationists ask is that active
construction of the parkway be
delayed a little longer pending
a study of the recreational pos
Sibilities of the whole canal as
a unit. After such a study
the Capper-Cramton Act could
be appropriately amended.
This probably could be done
without losing the benefit of
what has been ACCOMPLISHED
under the act so far in acquir-
ing land or in making other
payments. For these lands can
be used to good effect to in
crease the recreational values
of a canal park removed from
the swish of traffic.
Constant SOuthworth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28
Justice Goes Hoywire

A New York machinist lost his job
because he refused to join union. In due
course, presumably according to law, a
State supreme court ruled that the ma
chinist had voluntarily" left his job with
out good cause, and that therefore he was
not entitled to unemployment benefits.
Three American citizens we're dis
missed from their jobs in New York with
the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization after they had
refused to appear before United States
loyalty board. DR.. Luther Evans, director
general of UNESCO, held that the attitude
Of the three was incompatible with the
high standards Of integrity required by
the organization. Now the Administrative
Tribunal Of the international Labor Or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28
Realism on Pay

With the further Qualification of
White House attitude toward the pay
question, it has become evident that Con-
gress is doing Federal employees a dis
service by holding out for increases that
are sure to be vetoed. For the stiffened
stand of the President against any postal
raise greater than 7.6 per cent and against
classified raise greater than per cent
makes 1t unlikely that a veto could be
overridden. And If veto cannot be de-
feated, valuable time is being wasted by
the Senate and House confereeS in their
efforts to reach a compromise between the
Senate-approved 10 per cent and the
House-approved 81 per cent.
It may seem puzzling to classified en-
ployes to have the President willing to
accept higher-percentage increase for
postal workers than for Federal personnel
generally. Actually however, the 7.6 per
cent figure for postal workers includes
an upward adjustment of pay in some
categories that would result from CLASH
fcation of the postal positions. The White
House points out that classified workers
already have received the benefits of re-
classification. Originally the administra-
ton had favored per cent increase for
classified employees, so that the per cent
level represents a small concession by
economy-bent presidential advisers.
Congress, mindful of the fact that it
granted itself substantial pay increase,
is UNDERSTANDABLE reluctant to hold the
line too low on postal and other workers.
But realistic law-making calls for approval
Of legislation that has a good chance of
final enactment. To ignore the veto warn
ings from the White House could well be
blow to the hopes Of the employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28

Failure to assume member
ship in the Organization for
Trade Cooperation would be
interpreted throughout the
free world as a lack of genuine
interest on the part of this
country in the efforts to ex-
pand trade"
There you have it! Once in,
the door would be shut and if
Congress undertook to reassert
its constitutional power to
regulate our foreign commerce
it could do so only at the price
of pulling the whole free
world" temple down on its
head.
Yet OTC would have no
supernatural powers and no
powers to punish any nation
or to enforce any agreement!
1t was thinking of this order
that lost us Berlin and China.
o. r. Strackbein.
Chairman, Nationwide Com
mittee of Industry, Agricul-
ture and Labor on Import
Export Policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28
Peipinq's 7entocIes

Red China's baneful and pervasive in
huence in the non-Communist areas Of
Asia has been effectively spotlighted by
what DR.. Lin Yutang has just had to say
about his experience in trying to found a
free university in the British Crown Colony
of Singapore. DR.. Lin, the distinguished
American-educated philosopher and au-
thor of best-sellers, has had to abandon
the project and head back for the United
States. And he has had to do so primarily
because of Peiping's ability to impose a
long-distance veto on his efforts
Thus, according to New York Times
report from Singapore, Dr. Lin has dis
covered that the colony's already-existing
Chinese schools are operating in an "at-
mosphere of intimidation and terror" Gre
ated by handful of professional students
taking orders from Peiping." AS he has
put 1t, it is an "ominous" fact that "the
invisible tentacles of the Communist octo-
pus" have long since obtained "strangle-
hold" on these schools and that the tenta-
Giles have now reached out to force a
parting of the ways between him and the
financial sponsors of the projected new
nstitution-Nanyang University. In short,
although geographically far removed from
this proposed educational venture, the Mao
Tze-tung regime--acting through its
agents-has had little or no trouble in
subverting it.
In these circumstances, DR.. Lin does
not seem to have exaggerated in declaring
that "Peiping has clearly won the first
round" in the battle for the minds of youth
in Singapore-where the Chinese consti-
t1te the overwhelming hllk of the nonu-
lation and where extreme leftists have
gained significant ground in recent cleo
tions Nor is 1t just this particular place
that Is threatened For the Communists
are probing for soft spots-for points vul-
nerable to subversion, If not direct aggres-
sion-everywhere in free Asia. and free
Asia must be on guard accordingly. DR..
Lin's experience adds up to merely another
in long series of warning signals on that
score.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28
DELAYED u. S. Raise

It seems to me an error for
The Star to editorialize that
blame for failure to obtain the
long sought pay raise for
Government employees should
rest on Congress and not the
President.
Congress has been over this
question many times in the
last 10 months and, having
reached a conclusion a per-
centage raise in excess of what
the President advocates is fair
and needed, its integrity
should be honored, for by
shaving the administrations
budget each year proof is
given of economy-mindedness
Questionable economy may be
the result of a low increase in
the year private industry will
make further inroads upon the
labor market with guaranteed
annual wage, the age-old Gov
eminent security advantage.
If, as reputed, the admin
istration stand on a 7.6 per
cent maximum is a result
of determination not to be
pressured into action, it is
unfortunate the Government
worker should bear the brunt
of such thought now, in con-
trast to the administration
having been pressured into a
needless tariff increase on
Swiss movements.
With the GS-5 as q basic
average, Government workers
have lost in the last 10 months
$500 as a result of no raise.
With a 10 per cent raise now
it would be 10 months before
that deficit were overcome.
With a 7 per cent raise a
longer 14.6 months.
John S. Wo0ds0n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28
Tariffs and Trade

Your editorial of April 20 on
the Presidents message to
Congress on the General
Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT) and the pro-
posed new Organization for
Trade Cooperation (OTC) as
the administering body for
GAIT, impels me to offer sew
eral observations. The issue of
whether the United States
should join the new organiza-
ton is important.
Much is made of the Presi-
dents statement that OTC
would have no supra national
power" that OTC would sim
ply provide a mechanism for
further trade negotiations and
a forum for the discussion of
mutual trade problems.
All this sounds very inno-
cent as does the whole of the
Presidents message.
Congress, it will be said,
could draw back at any time.
But could it? Read what the
President said in his message:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28
THIS Nd TIL AT
BY CHARLES (. TRACEWELL

Now the poor old bushmas-
ter has starved himself to
death, we may consider the
whole question Of keeping
snakes in captivity in ZOOS.
Probably eight out of every
10 visitors turn away from the
snake cages with a shudder,
and even refuse to look.
Maybe one out of 10 visitors
Is really fascinated.
The other one looks, but is
glad to get away to the lions,
bears, tigers and elephants,
and the funny old wart hog
with his unpleasant face.
Snakes, then, may be said
not only to leave most persons
cold, but to make them cold.
All they do in the cages is
lie about and look bored.
We see enough bored crea-
lures everywhere we go.
People are Gagged by their
own habits, limitations snakes
by iron bars and plenty Of
thick glass.
Monkeys have glass between
watchers and themselves to
protect them.
Fact!
These interesting animals,
beloved of all ZOO addictS, are
very susceptible to respira-
tional diseases.
Snakes just lie about, bulg-
ing with food.
Humans on diets would say
they eat too much.
Snakes are lethargic by
nature at certain times of
years.
The cut of the day doesn't
fool a snake.
A snake has his own weather
bureau, all ready to tell him
what's what in the serpentine
world.
'Rauwolfia serpentina
That's not. a dog bark, but
the botanical name of the very
latest favorite of the doctors,
a remedy for blood pressure.
Templeton Jones was walk
ing along one day, when he
saw a garter snake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-28
Arlington Schools

Inc Parents educational
Research Organization has
pointed out the proper way for
Arlington to improve its
schools. It's particular pro-
posal, to establish a minimum
requirement above the national
average for each subject at
each grade level and to hold
regular examinations to meas
ure achievement against the
requirements, will set a stand
ard for the teacher as well as
for the student. At present
there has been no accurate
way to tell how much the
teacher is accomplishing. This
permits and encourages time
wasting and trifling. Indiffer-
ence, reduced effort, permitting
students to use class time to
prepare other subjects, wasting
time in bull sessions" ram
bling off on a tangent during
class discussions, would be
things of the past. When the
goal is set the teachers can
and will reach it.
Virginia Grandmother.
The proposals Of the Par
ents' Educational Research Or
ganization inspired me to ask
Of my neighbors their opinion
Of the aims of this group.
was pleased to find that they
all heartily agreed with them.
Some felt that in the coming
school board elections the
candidates should be asked If
they would back the plan COM
pletely and accept 1t as their
platform.
Lille Miller.
In0Se OF us VINO nave SUI
fered long with Arlington
school policies. directed toward
lower standards to give more
time to unimportant material.
have been delighted to see an
effort by PERO to swing the
pendulum in the opposite di-
rection. I am not one who
wants to return to the little
red schoolhouse. but I most
certainly want to return to the
common sense policy of teach
ing reading. writing, grammar,
spelling. history. geography.
etc, in such a thorough way
as to make these needed COM
mon tools Of education COM
pletely familiar and useful to
the student.
Doris Hall.