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Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22
Washington Letter : BY Robert Nelson ToYlor

cluding milk that has been alb
stracted from the COW by mechan-
ical means or tampered with there
after
Fortunately, the normal human
being enjoys as large an eating
vocabulary as circumstances per-
NIT him to acquire. Hence the ever
present enthusiasm for new
things to eat or new ways of
life more interesting but gives
people an overwhelming community
of interest and quite lot to
talk about.
The latest innovation to come
to our attention is "soup-on-the-
rocks" Shudder if you like, but
try it anyhow. Here's how you like
it: Fill an old-fashioned glass
(or any other large glass; with
ice cubes. Open a previously chilled
can of beef bouillion mot con-
somme) with a beer-can opener,
your Boy Scout hatchet, or what
ever implement is handiest. Pour
over the ice. Hesitate moment
willie the soup gets clear and you
gather your courage-then drink.
It's really a wonderful concoction!
Obviously, this soup cocktail is
especially impressive in hot wea-
ther. And while we probably
shouldn't mention it, there is
health factor in addition to nutri-
ton. It's the most agreeable way
nf nrln tho
salt lost through perspiration.
Bottoms up,
One World? Already?
For Americans, the right to
travel is rapidly assuming the
eminence of the rights to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness-and the shelter of the Fifth
Amendment. The State Depart
ment, pressured by the courts,
has reversed its original refusal
of passports in several cases, and
is now about to loosen its pro-
ceures-considerab it seems.
Issuing one-way passports may
soon be the only way to protect
the nation.
Scoop!
In spite of all the cooling sounds
emanating from Moscow, it is still
something of shock to learn that
Premier NiEolai Bulganin, heir
(more or less) to the dread au-
thority of Lenin, Stain and Malen-
kov, is holding the press confer
ence in the history of the Soviet :.
the first since the revolution
against the Czarist regime in 1917!
Since the conference has not
yet been held as this is written,
now is obviously the best time to
comment on how we think it's go
| ing to be.
Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22

everyone to whom youth will lis
ten. It's too big for Uncle Sam.
Champ Again
Former World Heavyweight Box
ing Champion, Jersey Joe Walcott
who promised God when
finished fighting I'd dedicate my
life to young people, is doing
so. Now working on youth prob
lens as a special investigator for
the Camden, N. j. Police Depart
ment, he testified recently before
Senate Labor, subcommittee study
ing juvenile delinquency.
Qualified for his witness role
by poverty-stricken youth-much
of it fatherless-by his rise to the
top of his chosen calling, by his
present status as father of six as
well as his juvenile welfare work
in Camden; Jersey Joe gave the
Senators his recipe for youthful
guidance 1t took, he said, a lot
of love, a little strap oil' and a
proper chance to play and ''use
up that energy"
In his prepared statement, he
had acquainted him with 'strap
oil" in the woodshed, and the
mother who had taught him that
punishment follows crime. Both,
he said, had taught their children
to pray. Whatever they did was
for our good We need more old
fashioned fathers and mothers"
Jersey Joe remembers going
to bed hungry because there was
no food, he said But he does not
consider poverty an important fac
tor in Juvenile delinquency. Dis
elimination, he admits, plays some
part, ". but again, l say
its up to the individual. Some
people say if you're born in a
certain denomination, there's two
strikes against you. That may have
been so in another day, but
say it's up to the individual: II
you have perseverance, faith in
God, and ambition, you can be sue
cessful no matter what minority
group you belong to-"
AS champion of Juveniles,
Jersey Joe privately Arnold
Cream) has entered his greatest
career an example to his fellow
workers as we'll as the youngsters
Trial Is No Error
The human animal has pecu-
liar aversion fO ANYTHING that is
represented as being good for what
ails him. This is probably just as
we'll. Other wise, we'd be overrun
with nudists, subsisters on nuts
and berries, physical culturists
winging Indian clubs all over the
landscape and abstainers from
everything you can think of, in
Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22
GROWING PAINS
APP Newsfeatures

There's nothing exotic about a
compost pile - but it is an i'm
portant part of the garden and one
of the best investments in time
and energy.
Many times, in garden ihstruc-
tions, you are urged to use COM
post to enrich a section of soil
for certain paintings.
Where, comes the question, is
this obtained?
Your backyard is the best COM
post factory site. Tie raw materials
are there for use. The production
line is the garden patch. The ma
chinery is simple-a spade, a fork,
wheelbarrow and a little back
work on yoEr part.
All the garden provides grist for
your mill. Grass clippings, dead
flower cuttings, fallen leaves,
weeds (Which have not gone to
seed)-just about anything which
is green and ready for discard will
do, except diseased plants.
Tops Are Tops
One neighbor is so compost con-
scious that she insists on getting
the green's of carrot tops with her
grocery orders to provide more
material for the pile.
Creation of a compost pile is
about the simplest thing in the
garden book, yet it is overlooked
or ignored by many an otherwise
Green Thumb.
Here's how it goes:
Choose location in back
corner of the garden.
Figure on using an area about
four by six feet, although the size
is not standardized. Just be sure
you can work to the middle with
no trouble.
AS a base, use layer of soil
or some upside down sod from a
Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22
Trial Is No Error

to think that some day a manu-
facturer will need Only to put
his finger on a few buttons and
pushl If this were true, or close
to it., then we all ought to be
afraid because our way of life
depends on most of us having jobs
and working at them. If, however,
the future is anything like the
past, Automation could increase
employment and raise the stan
dard of living. There have been
all kinds of developments in iffice
machines in the last ten years,
vet the number of Office workers
has risen from 100000 to $780,
900 during this same period.
Even new telephone exchanges,
oil refineries, and electric gener-
ating plants, for example, now
look like a preview of the auto
matte world of tomorrow. A Wis
itor to a big generating plant sees
some gigantic pipes, an array OF
dials, and only one man who seems
to be in charge. There. is even
less to look at in a modern auto
matte telephone exchange. If you
have a chance, look at one of the
new "electronic brains" which can
do as much computation in, say.
four minutes as a large force OF
men with pencil and paper could
do in months. About all you will see
will be a row of machines look
ing like so many juke boxes and
flashing lights, and one or two
well-dressed young women pushing
buttons.
What Happens To The Workers
AS the change-over 30 auto
matte production spreads. it is GER
Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22
Outsmarted-TwO To One!

Whether or not the Moscow May
Day fly-over of advanced new
types of bombers and fighter
planes signalled the transfer of
air supremacy from the U. S. to
the USSR, this terrifying demon
stration should at least jolt us
into facing up to potentially
paralyzing defense weakness that
finds its roots in the American
schoolroom.
This is the theme of the editorial
Survival Arithmetic appearing
in the July issue of Air Review,
published by the National Security
Commission of The American Le-
gion. 1.-The Communists have not
failed to realize that the key to
chronological success lies in edu-
cation" say Air Review. 8. .
In 1928 they graduated only about
5000 engineers. In 1854 they
turned out a whopping $4,000. In
the United States the trend has
been in the opposite direction" F"
/ I'm 1850 we graduated $4,000 en-
gineers, and in recent years less
than half that number!)
AS the Legion sees it, the seeds
of career are planted early and
"our schools play most active
part in guiding our youth during
their formative years -. And,
the Importance of science in the
air-atomic. age of peril in which
we live, can not be too highly en-
phasized. Certainly algebra, geome-
try and physics are fundamentals
of science.
"Yet, the proportion of high
school students studying algebra
has dropped from SO per cent to 20
per cent in the last fifty years. The
proportion studying geometry has
dropped from 80 per cent to IL per
cent and in physics it has plunged
from 20 per cent to per cent!
The editorial makes the point
that this is due in part to the
increasing practice among high
schools of making science sub
jects elective; that teen-agers are
too immature TO make such far
reaching decisions, and lack ade-
quate advice and guidance.
1.-The task for Legionnaires, in
deed all Americans then, is to
/, counsel American youth in the
vital Importance of education for
their future as we'll as the future
security of the nation . Now,
air power is the first line of de-
fense. The endless frontiers of op-
portunity to all facets of industry
can not be over-emphasized to our
youth"
If you are parent, or teacher,
or big brother, or merely a good
American, this problem is for you.
1t is the moral responsibility OF
Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
Slaughter Beach
July l9, 1855
BY Eloins Townsend Dieksrson

Slaughter Beach
July 10, 1855
Dear Friends
My cousin and her husband have
just left our cottage here after
having had lunch ON our front
porch. Margaret Anne (Salevan)
and Frank Boan have just returned
to the States, after two years in
Hawaii, having been sent there by
the u. S. Coast Guard. They both
seem so glad to be on Sussex soil
again and to have their friends and
family meet their two and half
year old daughter, "Debbie". Sat
urday afternoon | was in Milford
buying groceries for the weekend
and while / spent a little time at
my parents home / was called to
answer the phone. A man talked TO
me from a pay station. Never hav-
ing received an overseas call l did
not know if it could possibly be
Hayes in Africa or not. AS soon as
| answered, the voice said, Elaine,
this is Dick Overdorf. We are in
Milford" Judy and Dick Overdorf
We ltlCl dfAPus iottNeAs ~ oN'
first base after Hayes was called
back into the Air Force. The Over
DORIS were our next door neighbors
and we have always felt very close
TO them. / Mad never had Thanks
giving or any other big holiday
away from my parents and on
Thanksgiving, 1851, Judy and DICK
asked ne over for a marvellous tur-
key dinner / had never cooked a
turkey to begin with and If we
had not received their invitation
we undoubtedly would have had
eaten at the club, / would have
cried homesick tears and the whole
day would have been a mess. Dick
and Judy were our neighbors for
year and then were sent to San
Antonio. Shortly after, we were
sent to Houston, Texas. l had heard
of the Alamo long, long before Dayy
Crockett made his debut on TV and
Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22
IS THIS ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM?

American businesses engaged in foreign
operations are pet hate of the communists
and their dupes. They are commonly de-
nounced as economic imperialists, bent on
ruthlessly exploiting the peoples and re-
sources of the world.
American oil companies which conduct
operations abroad are standard target.
That's quite logical-for oil is one of the
most important weapons In hot wars and
cold. The Iron Curtain nations would like
nothing better than to see the free world
short of oil. 1t would be a prelude to ruin
GUS economic and military decay.
Actually, the record of American oilmen
overseas is an inspiring one A first-class
example is found in the Saudi-Arabian de-
velopment, conducted by the Arabian Amer
lean Oil Company. Enormous problems had
to be faced and conquered-at tremendous
cost and effort. Success has been spectacu-
lar. Last year production was almost 34S,-
100000 barrels-an all-time record. Some
141 wells were yielding crude oil as 1894
ended. During the year the company spent
the equivalent of S50,000000 for supplies,
ocean and air freight charges, and related
expenses, using non-dollar currencies wher
ever possible.
Equally spectacular has been the social
and economic impact on a country which
had changed but little over the centuries
until the oil men came. The company has
undertaken great projects aimed at raising
health standards. 1t has introduced modern
farming methods and stimulated and en-
couraged local crafts and enterprises. AL
most .65 per cent of its working force of
II 1858 people is made up of Arab nationals.
They receive excellent wages, along with
food, housing, clothing and recreational ben
efits.
In short, American enterprise has
brought wealth and civilization to Saudi
Arabia-even as it has developed vast oil
resources the free world urgently needs.
INNL
Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22

Babson Park, Mass, July Il. Not
very long ago | heard man
in the automobile business say
I'm my lifetime there have been
bigger changes in industry than
took place in all of the years
before that. Here in America, es-
pecially, our way of life has
changed more within the memory
of many of us than in all the
generations before us.
Are We Going Too Fast?
This fast change scares lot
of thinking people Some feel that
they would have had fewer prob
lens to face if they had been born
= hundred years ago and they are
probably right. Others say they
would not want to be around a
hundred years from now because
things are changing too fast"
Some of the union leaders men
you might expect would move fast
themselves-als apparently are
frightened. They admit that the
high wages are developing a new
threat to labor which may throw
huge members out of work. This
threat is Attenuation, and they
say it may not only throw men
out of jobs, but there just may not
be any jobs OF course, / don't
believe this Rather, history shows,
"the more machinery, the more
jobs"-but very different jobs.
What Is Attenuation.
Attenuation is word that is
being used a great deal nowadays.
1t means using eIectronic machines
ir.s place of men Walter Reuther
AID others see this as real dan
ger TO full employment. They seem
Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22
THE TRULY LOCAL ADVERTISING
MEDIUM

"'All business is local. is still a 100 per
cent factual statement" says Editor and
Publisher. "The sale has to be made at the
local level. 1t takes the only truly local ad-
vertisiug mediunl-newspaper do the
selling job"
its community Its advertisements are read
because they appear beside the news and
other material that people are interested in.
That's why, despite the growth of other
forms of mass communication, the local
newspaper still tops the list.
Milford chronicle., 1955-07-22
HOT ICE CREAM

SAN DIEGO, Calf tP) -
Police on the trial of hot ice cream,
stolen from dairy truck, founc a
12-year-old boy trying TO sell some
of it. His chance customer was an
FBI agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-03
Check Count Against Lawyer
In Silver Spring Is Dropped

ton had been taken by him
self and States Attorney Alger
". Barbee after they had re-
ceived assurances that Quigley
voluntarily is filing papers In
regard to disbarment."
Mr.. Hardy added that Quigley
would not be permitted to prac-
tice law any place in the country
and that I'VE intend to see that
he no longer practices law"
Quigley was charged in a war
rant dated July 8, 1855. issued
on application of Anna B. Hig.
gins, of 1925 Chicago avenue
Silver Spring.
The elderly woman signed the
application in which she charged
that Quigley forged her name
to the check.
Detectives said the woman
told them she had retained
Quigley to settle an estate ir
New England and that she was
hospitalized with a broken hip
at the time the check was drawn
Mr.. Hardy said that the COM
plainant had gotten her money
back and in a letter to him re-
quested that the charge be
dropped against Quigley.
The Montgomery County Cir
cult Court and the Maryland
Court of Appeals today reported
that they had received no dis
barment papers involving the
attorney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-03
Fairfax Fair Ends
Tonight, 10000
Attendance Seen

The Fairfax County fair went
into its last day today, with Of
ficials estimating the total at
tendance would reach 10000
during the six-day event.
Today's events were highlighted
by baby show this afternoon.
Two magician acts were substi-
tuted today for grille shows
closed earlier this week by the
fair management.
Livestock judging was cli-
NAKED last night with a parade
of the champions and distribu-
ton Of $6,439 in prize money.
A 5-year-old girl was bitten
yesterday by a monkey brought
to the fair by a former employe
of the carnival unit. Theresa
Balzar of WOODBURY. road was
given a tetanus injection at
Alexandria Hospital for bites on
the abdomen and wrist.
Theresa returned to the fair
after treatment. The monkey
was impounded for IA days for
rabies observation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-03
Police Probe
Prison Staying
I'm Baltimore

BALTIMORE. Sept. 8 R.-
Homicide detectives tried today
to link a mysterious "object"
with the murder Of a prisoner
i'm the Maryland Penltertiary.
The staying yesterday touched
of a riot call which brought
squad cars screaming TO the
prison from every section Of the
city, but Warden Vernon L.
Pepersack said there was no
major disorder among the $500
Tor so inmates.
Mr.. Pepersack said tnvestiga-
tors last night discovered an
object" which might have been
used in the fatal stabbing OF
James Holly Brooks. colored. SO,
of Baltimore, serving three years
for burglary. The warden re-
fused to elaborate.
He said a guard found Brooks,
assigned to a walters detail,
slumped on the mess hall floor
shortly before the evening meal.
He had been stabbed in the back.
Officials indicated the riot call
resulted from a misunderstood
ing between police and the prison
switchboard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-03
Man Burned by Wire
Is Still on Critical List

Ileveler after the electrical con-
tact was made. witnesses said.
He swung the heavy piece away
from the workmen but to late
to avoid the injuries. His son
was among the injured.
The scene was Uttered with
pieces of charred clothing and
shoes knocked of the injured
men.
The six injured were taken to
Washington Sanitarium where
they were reported in serious
condition.
The Sligo Engineering Co..
contractors on the job, identified
the injured as Floyd Ambush.
another brother of the dead man;
William Davis and Eddie Dickens,
all colored, and Yose Lourenzo,
Yose Dago and George Manaia.
All six live in upper Montgom-
cry County.
The other five injured were
reported in good condition to-
day at the sanitarium. They
are:
Edward Dickens. SO, Of 743
Morgan street NV, Washing
ton; Floyd Ambush, 80, Of
Dickerson; William Davis. 40,
of Cedar Heights, Md, all
Icolored; George Manaia, Is. of
SIG Sligo avenue. Silver Spring,
and Richard Mason, So, of tbs
Fifty fifth street NE, Wash
ington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-03

A construction worker was still
in critical condition today from
an accident in which a fellow
worker was electrocuted and six
others burned yesterday at
Wheaton, Md.
Dead is Lawrence Ambush, 81,
colored, of Dickerson, Md.
Jose Laurence of 1913 Old
Bladensburg road, Wheaton, was
reported in critical condition at
Washington Sanitarium.
The accident occurred when a
power crane hit a high-tension
wire while the men were work.
ing on a road project. The con-
tact sent $4,000 volts of elec-
tricity through a suspension
cable into a piece Of equipment
on the road.
Montgomery County Police
Capt. c. E. Peters said the work.
men were guiding a concrete
leveler onto tracks in a new
roadway on Fern street and Old
Bladensburg road, two blocks
west Of Georgia avenue.
Leonard Ambush, Is, brother
of the dead man, said when the
crane touched the high tension
wire. there was a sound like a
cannon going of and then 1t
was like fireworks and the men
fell"
The crane operator, Louis
Manaia, So. Of 6l6 Sligo avenue.
Silver Spring, tried to raise the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-03
Hog
Raiser Indicted

A Bailey's Crossroads garbage
collector was indicted yesterday
by a special grand jury in
Loudoun County, Va. for feed
ing raw garbage to swine and
creating a public nuisance.
The special jury was i'm
paneled to investigate the COM
plants of 80 residents of the
Broad Run District against H. E.
Award. who operates a 300-aere
hog farm in their area.
Loudoun County Sheriff Roger
F. Powell said the Fairfax man
has been operating in Loudoun
for about a year. In that time
he has been convicted twice in
County Trial Justice Court on
public nuisance charges as a
result of his hog farm opera
tons, the sheriff said. A third
complaint in Trial Justice Court
is pending. Sheriff Powell said.
Award drew a suspended SEN
tence on the first charge last
February. was fined on the sec
ond charge early this summer
but appealed the conviction. The
appeal is still pending.
Sheriff Powell said raw gar
bage was hauled to Awards
farm and dumped on the ground
which slopes down to Broad Run.
Much of the garbage proved in
edible to the 300 hogs. he SAID,
and washed down into the
stream causing pollution.
In Virginia it is illegal to feed
uncooked garbage to swine, and
a private nuisance becomes a
public nuisance when it affects
five or more property owners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-03
|AF Sergeant Dies
In Farmhouse Fire

TEMPLEVILLE. Md. Sept. 8
R.-A sergeant stationed at
Dover Del, Air Force Base was
burned to death today when fire
destroyed a four-room farmhouse
about three miles northwest Of
Templeville.
State police and the Air Force
withheld the name of the victim
until his family is notified.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Coursey.
who rented the house, managed
to escape. State troopers took
them to the Queen Annes County
Jail at Centreville for questioning.
Mr.. Coursey, about 80. a truck
driver, said he was awakened by
dense smoke about l am. He
reused his wife, who was asleep
in another room, and they got
out.
Mr.. Coursey told Cpl. C. A.
Kirkpatrick of the State police
that he forced open the front
door, found the sergeant in the
living room. and tried to pull
him out. He said the airman
pulled away from him and flames
prevented him from making a
further rescue effort. Mr.. Cous-
Isey's hair wis singed.
When the fire. died down, in
Ivestigators found the sergeant's
body in a bedroom.
Mrs. Coursey told Cpl. Kirk
patrick she presumed the SER
|geant had gone to sleep on the
living room sofa with a cigarette
in his hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-03
Muchinist Found
Dead in Guruqe

A Navy Yard machinist was
found dead, apparently of carbon
monoxide poisoning yesterday in
his garage at 20 West Uhler ave-
nue., Alexandria.
The victim was Harry E.
Rodda, AZ. Police said his body
was found beside his car which
had stopped running and was out
Of gas. Police said the garage
doors were shut but not locked.
The body was found by the
victims mother who llye at II
West Uhler avenue. Police said
Mr.. Rodda's wife and children
were not at home at the time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-03
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The goth Division Asso-
citation today continues its
four-day convention in the
Hotel Washington. with
more than 800 veterans at
tending. (See Page A-5)
4 X X 4
The National Bar Asso-
citation closes its three1day
meeting of 500 delegates
with a business session and
election of officers in the
Willard Hotel today. (See
Page Bill.
u X X X
The Middle Atlantic Re-
gional Bridge Conference
goes into the second day of
a four-day session at the
Sheraton Park Hotel. About
500 members have gathered
for the annual conference.
X X Y 4
Sigma Alpha Rho Fra
ternity today will resume
business, in the second day
of a four-day gathering,
with more than 200 persons
included at meetings held
in the Willard Hotel.