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Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson Tavlol

tude of their awesome RESPONSE
bility-nOt only to the young men
who come before them, but to 100
million Americans who now realize
that freedom depends on the quality
of our air power.
aR0
DO We Get Out Or Get Under?
Public announcement by the
Atomic Energy Commission that
! lethal radioactive fall-Out from the
H-bOmb detOnated at Bikini last
year covered an area of 1000
square miles gives us the first fact
on which we can build some con-
ceptiOn of atomic war.
It will also needle the Congress
and the Civil Defense into tackling
their responsibilities to the Ameri-
can people a little more aggressive
ly Up to now, the pricipal activity
has been to scOld the public for its
apathy in the face of this new and
all-pervading horror.
But we do not think the people
have been apathetic to the techno-
logical possibility of Obliteration-
especially when it gives all the
advantage to an aggressor who
would strike first, which, histOri-
cally, we have never done. We do
not think Americans have for
gotten Pearl HarbOr. or have failed
to consider what a modern sneak
attack could do.
We do think the people have
been stOical. perhaps even fatalis-
tic in the face of Civil Defense
disOrganizatiOn and Congressional
preOccupatiOn. This situation is
well illustrated in the national
capital, which we would expect an
enemy to regard as a desirable
target. Civil defense in Washington
is in a stalemate, stymied between
two schools of thought. The author
tiles can not agree whether the
citizens should take shelter, or
whether they should evacute. No
doubt similar situations prevail
elsewhere. And certainly, under
present conditions. neither plan
could be effective in our big cities.
Perhaps the Acc should tell us
more about nuclear annihilatiOn.
Ueo
SOMETIMES, when our situation
seems pretty discOuraging, we get
a flash-back to thing-as-they- were
and feel better. Thus may it be with
the reunion in independence. Mo,
last week of former President
Harry Truman and his former
Secretary of State, Dean AchesOn.
Asked what he would do about
FOrmOsa, Attorney AchesOn said,
Il used to be paid for answering
such questions, but now, since no
one is going to take my advice, !
don't believe I'll answer"
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25

congestion, and a lack of sufficient
free parking, is just ahead of us.
This is being temporarily met
by building new Shopping Cen
ters." 1t is reported that Allied
Stores is to spend over 100000, 900
for this purpose. Shopping Centers,
however will be only a halfway
cure. Wanamakers, which was the
worlds largest department store
when l was a boy, has thrown in
the sponge in its fight against
automobiles and discount houses.
New Shopping Centers Just Ahead
Shopping Centers offer free park
ing and "self-service" but the
high rents may result in higher
prices. Anyway, customers who use
Shopping Centers are more depen-
dent on automobiles than if they
patrOnized the old downtown mer-
chants. In fact, if city officials
would treat their bus systems
fairly, the present downtown stores
could continue to give better SER
vice and perhaps undersell the new
Shopping Center prices. I don't
know. Different cities differ.
The next, or Fourth, Revolution
in retailing will be forced upon US
by the automobiles. Simple arith-
mettc proves that the present race
to make "the mOstest and the larg-
est" automobiles, with insufficient
increase in highways cannot con-
tinue much longer. It is true that
we are building splendid new toll
roads; but very little is being done
to avoid congestion in cities and to
help local merchants. Otherwise.
people may some day cease using
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
A Prayer For The Draft Board

High up on the list Of Americas S
unsung heroes are those patriotic,
patient unrewarded men who serve
on the local draft board. Theirs
is the unhappy job of saying which
young men must serve in the army
and which may be deferred.
To these men, most of them
fathers, and most of them ac-
quainted with the youngsters whose
immediate future is in their hands,
it is but natural to resist pressure
to defer some draftees-regardless
of the reasOns-when others must
go. Their understandable reluc-
lance, together with a spiraling
need of engineers in defense pro-
ductiOn, sharp decline in science
and engineering students since the
war, has brought about what Ad-
miral Dewitt c. Ramsey (USN
Ret), president of the Aircraft
Industries Association, calls a
"ManpOweT Paradox"
In an editorial under this title
in the current issue of the Asso-
citation magazine, Planes, Admiral
Ramsey points out that "at an all
time low" with respect to graduate
engineers and scientists there has
been "a sharp Tightening up of the
draft policy" on deferring such
desperately needed men.
In 1854, he says, the number OF
engineers entering industry was
less than half the number needed :
yet, in the same period, Selective
| Service figures show a sharp in
crease in the induction rate of engi-
neers, and that "in the past year
the number of OccupatiOnally de-
ferred registrants, excluding agri-
cultural, has been reduced 35 per
cent.
The aircraft industry, Admiral
Ramsey assures us, recognizes the
need for the Universal Military
Training and Service Act, and ap-
plauds the intent of Congress which
has stated that military service
should be shared generally, in ac-
cOrdance with a system of selection
which is fair and just. =" But he
goes on to quote the further words
of Congress: g. that adequate
provision for national security re.
quires maximum effort in the fields
of scientific research and develop.
ment, and the fullest possible utili-
zatiOn of the nations chronological
scientific. and other critical man.
| power resources"
Thus, we hope in this day. wher
the aerial weapons that are oul
first defense require five times the
engineering man-hours of even &
few years ago, that the long
suffering members of our draft
boards can grasp the full magni.
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25

automobiles for shopping. These
machines may remain in the garage
except for trips-as mothers sew
ing machine is now seldom used
More Advertising And TelephOnlng
1 forecast that this Fourth Revo-
luton will result in customers buy
ing from their homes soon by tele-
phone, and later by televisiOn.
Increased newspaper advertising
with more newspaper pictures of
products for sale, supplemented by
better telephone service, will be-
come the custom. People are now
sick of hunting for places to park
their cars when shopping. People
will think of the risk and gasoline
costs of driving to Shopping Cen
ters. The time may come when 8O@o
of the. shoppers will sit at home in
a comfortable chair, study the
newspaper advertisements, and do
their ordering by telephone.
Newspaper advertising and tele-
phones are the only cure for the
present increased automobile con-
gestiOn In fact. believe the stocks
of certain newspapers-which are
now temporarily in the dumps
plus stocks of telephone companies,
preferably the wide-awake Inde-
pendents, are among today's best
buys" local bankers please take
nOticeD Furthermore. 1 am in
vesting my hard-earned money in
United Stores" stocks (listed on
the New York and American Stock
Exchanges) A company has re-
Gently organized a new corporation
to profit from this coming Fourth
Revolution
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
See what we mean?

See what we mean?
Rnh
New Sheet For An Old Ghost
CIO President and auto union
leader, Walter Reuther, who should
know better, appears greatly dis
turbed over the fact that our tech
nOlOgy won't stand still. In Wash
ingtOn, before the Joint Committee
on the Economic Report, he painted
a black picture of "autOmatiOn",
forecasting the day when "elec-
trOnic control mechanisms" would
materially take over the Jobs of
his workers. The Administration, he
said, must do something about it.
Earlier, at the Los Angeles CIO
Convention, Mr.. Reuther had sung
the autOmatiOn blues, and Obedient-
ly, his followers had passed Reso-
luton 16, expressing fears of un-
employment, and asking Congress
to do something about it.
In Johnstown, Pa, the day U. s.
Steel told the Chamber of Com
merce that fear of autOmation was
Just plain silly" The dial phone,
he thought, is a perfect example.
And yet, while telephone autOma-
tiOn was increasing from 1910 to
1850, the number of telephone Oper-
ators increased by $4,000. Mr..
Fairless pointed out that while
autOmatiOn in the automobile in
dustry, (Mr. Reuther's own ex-
ample) had been rapidly advancing.
employment had doubled in IA
years. To build a 1855 car at
tOday's wages and with the tools
of 1908, he said, would cost over
S65,000. He didn't think, at that
rate there would be many cars,
many roads or many jobs in auto
factories. in the oil fields, or even
in the steel mills.
At an industrial show in Chicago,
Elmer F. Twyman, vice president
of The Yale & TOwne Manufac-
turing Company, urged the union
/ leaders to shed their pessimism
. . and to welcome the growth
of autOmatiOn and other new pro-
ductiOn tools as a boon to Ameri-
cas- working men and women"
Mr. Twyman looks to the new
technology for higher employment
and greater prosperity than we
have ever known. As the builder of
Yale Notwithstanding equipment
and thus one Of the best-knOwn
back-savers in industry, he looks
forward also to the reduction OF
work fatigue and industrial acci-
dents. "A healthier, less tired. more
alert population with adequate
leisure" he said, ." is capable
of reaching the highest level of liv-
ing imaginable"
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
City Council News

With Mayor Edward C. Evans
presiding, the City Council received
a report from Mrs. Mildred Web
ster, Chairman of the Building
Committee. Mrs. Webster reported
that the Building Committee had
reviewed the plans for the new
City Hall and after making a few
alterations in the plans as sub
mitted by Pope and Kruse, Archi-
tects, were now ready for the archi-
tects to proceed with the final
plans.
Vice Mayor Clayton Kirby re-
ported that the Police Committee Of
which he is Chairman have author
lied Chief of Police Powell and
1t. Downes to consult with City
Attorney Henry ]. Ridgely and as
certain the cost of making some
corrections in the Police Ordi-
nances.
The Council authorized Mr..
Pideelv tn proceed with legal mea-
sures to have seven buildings de-
molished. The owners OF these
buildings had previously been noti-
fed to tear down these buildings.
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
BabsOn Discusses Merchants, Advertising TeephOninq

BabsOn Park, Fla, Feb. "a. Mer-
chandising at the retail level has
already passed through Three
Revolutions since 1875.
Great Changes Since 1875
Preceding those days there were
no mail order houses or department
stores, few chain stores "a & P had
% stores which carried only tea,
coffee and crOckeW), but many
wholesale houses and independent
merchants. They were doing $50 of
the retail business. My father was
one of these in Gloucester, Mass.
The First Revolution in retailing
was brought on by the department
stores and mail order houses. This
made it unnecessary to visit several
different stores, if you lived in a
city while, if you lived in the coun-
try, you could shop by mail from
your farm. This Revolution was
desperately fought by the old-time
retailers. The Second Revolution
came with the chain stores, which
cut out the wholesalers. The de-
Dartment stores continued to buy
through wholesalers; but the chains
bought direct from the manufac-
turers. Hence, they fought by legis-
latiOn and taxation enacted at the
demand of the middlemen.
Discount Houses Now The Target
The Third Revolution is now on.
being caused by the discount
houses" " This is an effort to reduce
retail prices by cutting out the
bureaucracy, high rents, and un-
necessary overhead developed by
the department stores. But, a
Fourth Revolution, as a revolt
against parking meters, automobile
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
By Elalno Townsond DickoTson

I'd love to be there in Mothers
room and see her visitors, put flow
ers IN vases, run errands for her,
talk to the girls on the hospital
cart, help her write thank YOU
notes and the fun of all-taking
her home to Daddy, her cook
Edith Houston. and their yippinR
little dachshund "MaFmaduke'. And
then the visiting will begin all over
again with all the grandchildren
coming in and the neighbors, too
lts not much fun to be, sick. but
the recovery is nice.
Do you have a Brownie or a Cub
IN your family. Lynne is seven and
Just started scouts this year. The
hrst BIG ceremony is the time they
are invested into the scouts and
receive their Brownie pin and after
that time as / understand IT. thev
can begin to wear their uniform
You can imagine how anxious those
little ones are to wear a uniform
like the bigger children. For three
weeks now they have been trying
to schedule this "pinning" and each
day 1t was planned we have had 4
severe snow storm. Those Brownie
dresses have no style whatsoever.
but when your own little girl is
tucked inside them, they take on a
| special fare.
Have you read the article in
March Holiday about our Delaware2 ?
/ enjoyed it very much and can
promise you my neighbors will
have some forced" reading mate
rial the next few days. Mr.. James
Warner Bellah, the author calls us
"hardheaded," but says, too, that
we are "fine judges of food and
drink, honest at heart, courteous
! Ito minimum requirements) and
self-sufticient There are manv
interesting parts to Mr.. Bellah's
article and from it I learned that
at COOch's Bridge the Stars and
Stripes first flew in battle. some-
thing l did not know before. When
again return to Delaware 1 am
going to take a special trip to New
Castle so / can acquaint myself
with a little more of that towns
history that is referred to in this
article. There are interesting facts
about the duPOnts, picturesque de-
scriptiOns of RehObOth as we'll as
! photographs in color. Be sure to
read the article. 1t paints glowing
! pictures of our small state ana for
such price / can be called hard
headed.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
S51s Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
February q, 1855


Topeka, Kansas
February 21, 1855
Dear Friends:
You know we make out pretty
well being an Air Force family un-
til we have a week like this past
week.
My family of four thrives on
excitement, the unknown future as
signment, never knowing what
news each day will bring from the
base. Our life is far from routine.
or mOnOtOny. On Wednesday eve
ming of this week / desperately
wished that / was again a Milford
housewife and could be close to my
family in Delaware. Wednesday
night my Dad called me long dis
tance from his home. This is not
too unusual since this is Dads way
of correspondence" It's not as
lasting as letter. but quicker than
air mail and most pleasing for the
few minutes we catch up on each
others current news.
Weather here in the midwest is
usually one of our first topics, but
Wednesday night 1 didn't even get
chance to tell about the ice storm
we had just witnessed that day
Dad told ME Mother was i'm the hos
pital and would have a minor Oper-
alton the following morning.
Wednesday the 10th had been ra-
ther a. gay one in our household
That was the day Hayes captaincy
became effective 1 had made Z
cigarette box for Hayes in my GER
annie class and had his new ranl
and effective date glazed inside the
box. All such frivOlity was quickly
forgotten when / heard Mother was
in the hospital Thank heavens fol
a good father, a sister and a bro
ther to be able to lean on when ont
is 1900 miles from home. It's
great comfort, too, to have Hayes
family also in my home town
Hayes sister being a registered
nurse, went with Mother and stay.
ed with her until she was up anC
around again OF course, mucl
/ progress was noted two days after
the operation, so you see such con
sternatiOn on my part was not nee
essary, but you can't reason Will
yourself when your family is sicl
and you're away from them. How
grateful we ought to be for the
Milford Memorial Hospital and the
excellent doctors who are assOci.
ated with it.
Now you know what's wrong
with me, don't you? I'm missing
out on the activity in the hospital
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25

AS the owners have not complied
with the request Of Council, they
have turned this over to the City
Attorney.
Mr.. James r. Humes was ap-
pointed member Of the Building
Committee.
The Council adopted an ordinance
making 1t unlawful TO unload gaso-
line, naptha, Kerosene, distillate.
oil or other inflammable or explo-
sive oil derivatives from bulk stor-
age tanks between sunset and sum
rise without notifying the Police
Department before the unloading
starts, and to notify the Police De-
partment at the comDletion Of the
unloading.
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
REPoRT eARDs soUeHT

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. tP) =
A group Of Grand Haven parents
has petitioned the school board to
return TO the report card system
for pupils in elementary grades.
Report cards were abandoned in
favor Of a parent-teacher confer
ence system. The petitioners said
they wanted to see how Junior was
doing -On paper.
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
GOVERNMENT INHERITs MILLIONS

GOVERNMENT INHERITS MILLIONS
Newspapers recently ran a picture EMIT
ed "Heiress Counts Up Millions"
1t showed lucky girl standing beside a
safety deposit box Along side of her. taking
out the securities, were a tax examiner and
the state treasurer.
The headline should have read Estate and
Federal Governments Inherit MilliOns"-be-
cause they will get the lions share of the
money and the girl won't get a thin dime
until after their claims are satisfied.
The advocates of government ownership
of business who curse capitalism and pri-
yate profits never mention that government
Today through taxation skins the cream off
any profits or savings above the lower brack-
cts.
Tax exempt government business enter
prises could not operate as they do without
the taxes taken from the profits of private
enterprise.
It's time to get the shoe on the right
foot
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News nformuion Supplied BY The Burauu OF Markets
staio Beard of AsrIeyAurs, Dover. DsaNara

$16.75, mostly S14.25 per cwt.
Over 400 Pounds: $1,000 to $14.5O,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
BOARS
(gOOd quality
Under $50 Pounds: $500 to 1880,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Over $50 Pounds: $500 to $500,
mostly $500 per cwt.
PIGS
(6 TO 12 weeks old
Choice: $500 to $1,000. mostly
$11.00 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $500 to $3.50.
mostly $500 per cwt.
Common: $500 to $4.OO, mostly
$500 per cwt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work Type: $54.OO to $500.
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
Butcher Type: $500 to $4,000,
mostly $4,000 per cWt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: $115 to $19O, mostly
$14O.
Roosters: $1.1O to $14O, mostly
$14O.
LIGHT BREEDS
Bantam Chickens: SOc to 4Oc,
Guineas: as 85c to s1.15. mostly
csc.
Geese: $3.50 to $8.75. mostly
$500.
Muscovy Ducks: 75c to $1.1O,
mostly Csc
Large Breeds; SOC to s1.O5. most
ly soc.
Small Breeds: SOC to zoe. mostly
soc.
Young Rabbits; 25c to 4Oc. most
ly S5c.
EGGS
Ungraded, Mixed; CSC to 45c per
dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
LARD: S4.25 to $6.75 per 5O-ib
can.
GREENS: 40c per 5s bushel
TURNIPS: soc per e bushel.
SWEET POTATOES: 55c to $3.50
per "a busheI
COUNTRY BUTTER: SOc to 4Oc
per pound.
WALNUTs: 4Oc to soc per x
bushel.
Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25

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
ere for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week:
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $2S.OO to $500, mostly
$4,000 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $500 to $3.50,
mostly $24.OO per cwt.
Rough and Common: $500 to
$500, mostly $140O per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to $1700 mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $500 to $1,000. most
ly $4,000 per cwt.
Common: $1,000 to 1876, mostly
$16.75 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to Good: $11.OO to S14.OO,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Common: 1925 to $1O.75, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Gamers and Cutters: $3.50 to
$500, mostly $8.75 per cwt.
STEERS
Good: S15.25 to $21.OO, mostly
$500 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy Type: $5.75 to SLIPS,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Beef Type: $1,000 to $1,000. most
ly $500 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS
Good to Choice: $500 to $1,000,
mostly $500 per cwt.
BULLS
over 1000 pounds
Medium to Good: $12.75 to S16.5O,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
500 to 1900 pounds
Medium to Good: 1915 to 1880
mostly $14.00 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(gOOd quality
120 to 10 Pounds: $500 tC
| $1700, mostly $3.50 per cwt.
40 to 24O Pounds: SIPS to
/ $500. mostly $3.50 per cwt.
24O to $50 Pounds: $3.50 tC
$17OO, mostly $16.75 per cwt.
] SOWS
(gOOd quality
200 to 800 Pounds: $3.50 tc
$500, mostly $140O per cwt.
800 to 400 Pounds: $3.50 tC