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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07

Ray Twynham says he in
vited some Washington
friends down to his home
near Manassas, Va, and
told them to call Union Sta
ton and check on the train
schedule.
sour friends called for
this inform a atom" Mr..
Twynham writes, and the
young lady who answered
suggested that they 60 by
bus.
"My friend finally con-
WINGED her there were no
buses available, and per-
suaded the young lady to
tell what the train schedule
was. Her reply was: !
"'Well, we have a train
that goes there, but you
might as well 60 BY pogo
Stick-it takes so long"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
Street Scenes

A Park Service power mower
near the Navy Building with
a rear-view mirror. ..
Employees Of an air-condi-
tioning firm on Seventeenth
street NV. perspiring in the
open-wtndowed building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-15

WHEN StalwartS of the
w Fiji Island police force
get into dress uniform for
special occasions, they're the
South Pacific equivalent Of
the Grenadier Guards, Their
navy blue jacket is similar to
the British battle jacket, but
the rest is pure PolyneSian.
They wear white SarongS
fringed at the bottom. and
scarlet cummerbundS. Bare
feet and a natural mop of
woolly hair complete the
get-up.
Besides learning police pro-
cedure, each recruit is indOc-
trinated in care and wearing
of the uniform. with special
attention to the l0-foot cum
merbund They wrap one end
around a pole and the other
around their waist. then spin
toward the pole, When Fiji
recruit thinks he's achieved
the neatest wrap-up, he
checks it with Sergt Maj
Lesi Leonewai, a GUNNER
bund wrapping expert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-15
California; coLorful orange groves
A FULL WEEKS VACATION IN
CALIFORNlA-ONLY s257s DOWN

Fly American Los Angeles See Hollywood studios Beverly
Hills and fabulous Dsneyand Visit San Mob HILL Fhermans
Wharf and Chinatown after dark Total double with
$2525 Only $2575 down 500 monthly for IL with
Americans Go NoPa Later Plan Includes roundp fare travel
hotel accommodations and sightseeing
pdckdged
nedres Inc AHines ticket office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-15

There's no need to wait for the California vaca-
ton you've always dreamed about Not when you
can fly norc on Americans DC-6 Aircoach for as
little as $50 each way with round "trip Excursion
Fares MONDAY through Thursday, good for
thirty days. Use our convenient Go Now-Pay
Later Plan on your fare or entire vacation.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23

Sometimes it's too late. The tree
may not be worth saving it may
be too far gone. It's costly job
just to take down a dead tree
There are some things. however.
tree owners can do. First. ase must
''live" with these trees for 4 year
or two to determine whether they
will make a comeback.
At the same time he can apply
two immediate First Aid steps:
Pruning and feeding
A severe pruning job may be re-
quired, and The tree may not look
pretty for the next year or so.
Feeding. plus aeration punching
holes in soil through fiIs) very
likely will accelerate the trees
recovery. With valued trees such
as elms, spraying to fend off ma
licious leaf-feeding pests and dis
eases is also recommended.
Watering during drought is ur-
gent
The appalling loss of trees to
construction damage could be
eserIed, however. If tree special
lists were consulted before building
began to determine which trees to
save and then to safeguard them
along the way.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23
TN THE AIR FORCE"
By Elaine Townsend Dicksrson

Mr. Jones and Mr.. Pierce left
Thursday afternoon with the Ma
son to go to Leavenworth and SC
Thursday evening their wives were
free to visit with me. Mrs. Jones
was the former Miss Helen Pierce
of Milford, and lived two blocks
down the street from me all my
life.
We drove around town and then
ate at the officers Club at Forbes.
1t was five cent beer night at the
club and | teased the ladies about
spending the evening at the club
and taking advantage of the reduc-
ed prices. Instead, we came to our
home and spent some time with
Lynne and Dawn before saying
goodbye at the Jayhawk Hotel. 1t
was so nice seeing them and
through them catching up on all
YOU have been doing lately.
Friday afternoon I substituted in
Ellie Maynard's bridge club. The
afternoon was filled with interest
ing conversation. Ellie has lovely
silver purchased in England while
she and her HUSBAND d d we're stationed
there for three years. A camen seat
"a. F. people use them for TV
seats) bought by her husband in
Africa last summer brought about
conversation from Helen King, who
lived in North Africa with her cap
tain-husband. (Helen's husband in
cidentally was Milford's s John Gey-
er's command officer while he was
stationed here at Forbes.) Helen
brought roars of daughters whsn
she told about taking trips around
the Mediterranean Sea and spend
ing her sight seeiug hours hunting
for P. ks and commissaries (ser-
vice stores). Things were scarce in
Morocco and she was so hungry
for Jello. And so in Italy, France.
ETC., Helen sees herself diligently
searching for American foodstuffs.
Another girl brought obs and abs
from all of us when she donned an
unusual looking coat and we were
told ii was kankareO and she had
made the dark skin into a very at
tractive jacket and had sewn black
beads on the cuffs for decorations.
This skin her husband had brought
to her from trip down under. It's
fun to hear all their stories and
sometimes / hope SAC viii provide
! me with ammunition to add stories
of my own from other countries.
Until the next Chronicle.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23
BABSON DISCUSSES SHORTER WORK--WEEK

Headquarters are at 1S1 Varick
Street, New York City. 1t paid $3.50
last year and sells at about $32.
The ADo-It- Yourself Business
All companies catering to the
sdo-it-yourself" trade should benefit
from the shorter work-weeN I es-
pecially have in mind me american
Machine & Foundry Company. 261
Madison Avenue, New York City.
and the Black & Decker Manu-
featuring Company, of Towson.
Maryland. These have fitted up
many of the tool farms" which
have been bsilt in the Easements
of houses and ISsrns. Furthermore.
American Machine & Foundry
makes bowling alley equipment and
is becoming an importantN factor
in automation. guided missiles and
atomic-energy reactcr equipment.
Another group which should
benefit are companies which cater
to the painting Of walls of homes
with rollers. My favorite corpor-
alton here is the Glidden Company
of Cleveland, but there are many
others.
If you want to benefit from all
phases of the sdo-it-yourself' move
ment. buy the stocks Of the United
Stores Corporation, having 460
stores retailing, at low prices, most
Of these products. I especially
recommend the End pfd.. at SO
sII. and the common around s5.
ALTHOUGH EHE STOCKS Or
THESE TEN COMPANIES SHOULD
PROSPER BETTER THAN MIST
OTHER COMPANIES DURTNG A
BUSINESS DEPRESSION. YET NO
STOCKS WILL THEN BE FOOL
PROOF AS TO PRICE.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23
Weekly Tree Talk

From thousands of new lone
owners across the country cones a
ehorused cry, What can be done
% save our trees %
Months or a year or two after
they moved in new homes, their
trees begin to die. The damage
was done during construction of
new developmeDfs.
It's the old stery Of buIIdozer
blight" Of packing soil around
tree roots, Cf changing the grade
md water taole by excessive soil
dIl around the tree
/ Each such damaged tree must he
treated as an individual case, says
Don Cantwell of the Bartlett Tree
Expert Company. No two are alike.
What may have happened to one
during construction may not have
occurred to another.
No one knows, months or years
'ater. how many vital tree roots
were ripped up by buIldozer wien
the land was cleared for houses.
No one knows how many heavy
trucks and machines packed soil
around the roots. No one knows
how the water table was altered.
or how much soil was piled over
the roots area to build up the grade
but at the same time to damage the
tfee. deny 1t aerafion, moisture.
even food.
These injuries are undetected un-
I'll the home owner calls in a tree
specialist in desperti1n.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23
SHARING THE WEALTH

A wage-profit study made by the Nationa
Association of Manufacturers reveals some
striking facts Between 1850 and 1855, wages
and salaries increased by 80 per cent in this
country The 1855 figure was an all-tiine
high - S124,000,000,0 900, exclusive of gov
ernment payrolls-and resulted from the
greatest number of people working at the
highest pay rates in our history.
In the same period of time, however, the
profits of corporate industry showed a slight
decrease-from S22, 100, 100000 in 1850 to
81, 800, 100000 in 1866.
This doesn't mean that industry at large
IS complaining about the profit picture. But
it does emphasize something everyone IN the
country should know-that, in a free enter
prise economy, the greatest rewards of prog
ress go to the masses of working people.
Actually, in typical industries, profits are
among the smaller items in the financial
statements. They are always dwarfed by pay
rollS-and in some cases are far below taxes.
To put it another way, capitalism has
done an extraordinary job Of sharing the
wealth American purchasing power ID con-
centrated in the hands of the millions-not in
the hands of the few. Freedom and abund-
ance go hand in hand.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23
WHAT THE SOCIALISTS WANT

The debate over public-vs-private electric
power development is often fogged by sta
tistical arguments and other considerations
which obscure the main point.
That point is basically as simple as two
and-two Secretary of Commerce Weeks
covered it with admirable brevity when he
said: "The socialists want Federal power
monopoly. The thought of private capital
venturing into this field is anathema to them.
That's what is back of the Dixon Y ates pow
er controversy-that's all there is to the
struggle for Federsl development on the
Snake River where private capital after au-
thorization by this administration has mov-
ed in to do the job.
For those of as who aren't socialists and
don't follow this phase OF the socialist line,
private power development is as logical and
desirable as private farming, private retail
stores, private enterprise in all the thousand
and-one fields. Private power pays taxes,
big ones-about % per cent of all its reve-
nues. The sociaKzed systems either pay no
taxes at all, or small sums in lieu Of local
taxes. Private power development is finan-
ced by the assets and savings of individuals
and institutions, provided voluntarily. Pub
lie power is subsidized ed-involuntarly-by all
the taxpayers. Private power rates are gov
erned and established by public service COM
missions. and usually allow return of about
six per cent on the investment. Public power
rates, more often than not, are affected by
political infuences-which means that more
taxpayer subsidies are needed to keep the
government in business in competition with
its own citizens.
Can private power swing the biggest jobs
Well, group of private power companies is
now completing a $4OO,OOO,OO0 project in
Ohio to service an Atomic Energy Commits
sion plant. Another group has been trying
for years to get the go-ahead on $400 000-
900 development on the Niagara in New
York. The Snake River project is in the
$200,000,00 bracket.
AS Secretary Weeks said, "The socialists
want federal power monopoly" No one
else does
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23
iva Financing Bin Discussed

Financing the expansion Of the
Tennessee alley Authority becomes
a more heated problem each day.
1t is agreed the people of the
valley need more power as the
economy grows, just as any other
region.
Since 1888, IVA has been financed
by the taxpayers.
Now IVA is being asked to sup
port itself. One of the proposals
to get IVA away from the Federal
Treasury and off the backs of the
backs of the taxpayers, is to per-
nit IVA to issue its own revenue
bonds. This requires Congressional
approval. & bill that would make
this possible is the Kerr Bill, which
sounds good on the face of it.
But there are jokers in it. For
although most of US consider a
debt as something we should pay,
under this bill 81 500, 0,000,000 owed
by IVA to the Treasury could be
forgotten. The taxpayers again
would be the loser. n
IVA would be able to start over
again to spend and spend !.
without having to account to Con-
gress and the people.
AS Senator Edward Martin points
out in analysis of the Kerr Bill
in the Congressional Record, IVA
would be free to use whatever reve-
nue. it got from its power oper-
alton for any purposes it desired
without the consent of Congress.
The Kerr Bill also would permit
IVA to issue revenue bonds at
will for almost any purpose it saw
fit without Congressional consent.
All it would need would be the
OK of two members of the iva
Board.
If they issued too many bonds
and couldn't meet their payments,
it is understood Uncle Sam would
have to stand behind them.
What does the Governments f.
nancial watchdog think of this
brand of finance? The Controller
General-the Governments expert
on financial affairs makes the fol-
lowing recommendations
That IVA be required to get the
Congressional approval of each
new power-producing project, a
ceiling be placed on the to.dI a.
mount of bonds which can BE out
standing at any time, IVA be
subjected to geographical limita-
tions, the Secretary of the / tea
sury have authority to approve in
advance all terms and conditions
under which bonds are to be issued
and that provisions be made for
definite plan for repayment of
he investment made by the Gov
arnment in IVA.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News information Supplied BY The Eueuu OF Markets
sfofe Bourd OF Agriculture Dover DeIowrre

300 to 400 lbs: $500 to s9.75.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Over 400 lbs: $500 to $500,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
BOARS
(gO0d quality
Under $50 lbs: $3.50 to $7.25,
mostly 1915 per cwi.
Over $50 lbs: $500 to $5.75,
mostly $5.75 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium TO good: $500 to $500,
mostly $500 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
(6 to 12 weeks oId)
Choice: $500 to $500, mostly
$3.50 per cwt-
Medium to good: $3.50 10 $3.50,
mostly $6c0 per cwt.
| Common: $500. to $500. mostly
$3.50 per. cwf
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $4,000 to $1,000.
mostly $4,000 per head.
Butcher type: $4,000 to $4,000,
mostly $500 per head.
LIVE. POULTRY
Heavy Breeds
Fowl: $50 to s155, mostly $1-35
BOOSTERS: S1.00 to $1.40, mostly
s1.40.
Light Breeds
Guineas: s1.0O to $3.50, mostly
SIPS.
Bantam chickens: $50 to $40.
mostly $.45.
DUthS
Muscoyy ducks: SIS to $1.10.
mostly $50.
Muscovy brakes: $1.s0 to $3.50,
mostly $3.50.
RABBITS
Large breeds: s1.O0 to $50,
mostly s1.25.
smel breeds: $50 to sos. most
ly SIS.
Young rabbits: $50 to s.55. most
ly $40
Ungraded. mixed $50 to $40
per dozen.
Pullet: y.2e to s.2s per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Lard: $500 to $500 per so lb. can.
Strawberry plants: $500 to s4,o0
per 1000 lbs.
Sweet potatoes: s109 to $1.50
per bushel.
Greens: $50 to s1.0O per * bu.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23

facturers of baseball. basketball,
football, golf, tennis and skiing
products. Headquarters in Cicopee,
Massachusetts,. Last year their
stock paid $3.50 (and $50 stock and
aow sells at about s19.
Brunswick-B Bake -Collender, larg-
est manufactures of bowling alleys,
billiard tables. and gymnasium e.
uuipment Main office in Chicago.
Common paid s025 (plus $50 sfock)
last year and sells around SIS.
Stanley Warner Corp, one of the
best movie theater companies, in
terested in Cinerama. Subsidiary
manufacturers latex products. Off
ices are at 1855 Broadway. New
York City. It paid S1.00 last year
and sells around SIS.
Manhattan Shirt Co, one of the
largest manufacturers of shirts, for
both men and women. and of other
forms of clothing such as pajamas.
neck wear and sDortswear. Head
office is at 444 Madison Avenue.
New York. Stock paid s185 last
year and sells around S37.
Mccall. one of the leading pub
fishers Of fashion magazines: also
controls REDBOOK. Tt operates a
large pattern business and
does a large amount of printing for
READERS DIGEST, NEWSWEEK.
u. S. NEWS, etc. Mccall should
benefit from a shorter werk-week
for women. 1t paid sf20 last year
and sells at about S21.
American News Company, large
distributor of magazines. news
papers and paper-covered books II
has valuable concessions at rail-
road. airplane and bus terminals,
serving tourists. Reading will in
crease with the shorter w0rk-week.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23

Babson Park, Mass, March 22
Today's news features on automatic
factories, cheap atomic power. and
political uncertainties are grist for
he labor unions. Their leaders are
saying these things will cause un-
employment and that the only cure
for unemployment is a shorter
work-week. Talk is of 30-hour
week; but my guess is the first
move will be to 36-hour week.
hen a 32-hour week.
What About Automatic Factories
Factories have constantly be-
come automatic for the past fifty
years. The great advance, however,
has come with the development OF
electronics Some industries, such
as the oil-refining industry, have
already become eighty per cent
automatic; it has had no unem-
pleyment and is paying the highest
wages ever. Union labor leaders
cannot yet show that the automatic
factory is causing unemployment.
In the long run, automation may
bring a shorter work-week: but the
change will be slow. The re-
building of a manufacturing plant
to be self-operating is very ex-
pensive. Thousands of consoli-
dations must take place before
such revolutionary changes will
come about. There. however, will
be more opportunities for new COM
panies which can start from the
ground up with the very latest
automatic machinery. However, my
chief purpose this week is to sue
gest certain industries which should
definitely benefit from a shorter
work-week
Leisure Beneficiaries
Best known is Spalding a G.
q Bros. one of the largest manu-
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23

The following is 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 through this week
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEAL CALVES
Choice: S28.00 to $500, mostly
$4,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: $4,000 to S27.50,
mostly $24.00 per cwt.
Rough and common: $1,000 to
$500, mostly $500 per cwt.
Monkeys: $2.}9 to $500. mostly
SLIGO per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $2375 to $3.50, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: $1,000 to $1450
mostly $500 per cwt.
Common: $1,000 to $11.o0, mostly
$11.25 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: $500 to
$3.50, mostly 1925 per cwt.
STEERS
Medium: $3.50 to $3.50, mostly
1880 per cwt.
Light steers: $1,000 to $780,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
FEEDER HETFERS
Dairy type: $500 to $1,000, most
ly $11.50 per cwt.
Beef type: $1,000 to $1,000, most
ly s14.e0 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS
Good to choice: $500 to $15.25,
mostly S14.50 per cwt.
BULLS
over 1000 pounds
MEDIUM to good: $1400 to S16.25,
mostly $500 per cwt.
800 to 1000 pounds
Medium to good: $13.00Ito $17.25,
mostly $14.00 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HeGS
(g0od quality
120 to ITO lbs: $1f.25 to $12.25,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
10 to 240 lbs: S1150 to S13.25,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
go to $50 lbs.: s10.50 to $11.25,
mostly SLIPS per cwt
S0WS
(goo6 quality
200 to 300 lbs: 1915 to $3.50,
mostly $500 per cwt.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23
Washington Letter : By Robert Nelson roylor

each of the three leading candidates
for President would receive a share
of the states electoral vote ex-
actly proportional to his portion
of the porular vote.
But, if a state legislature prefers,
it may adopt the Mundt-C -Coudert
plan providing for the selection of
elector in the same manner in
which its senators and represen-
tatives are chosen"
Without going into the relative
merits of the two options, selection
of either would free the nation
once and for all from the present
vicious ,unrepresentative and un-
3em mocratic system by which the
winner Of the narrowest majority
in any state wins all the electoral
votes of the state. It should free
the states from the grip of its big
cities, and politics of much of its
skulduggery.
"If Caesar Was Ambitious y
We don't know who's right in the
dispute, but the unions had better
go slow in their plans to picket
Madison Square Garden when Ring
ing Brothers, Barnum and Bailey
Circus opens its 1856 season in
the New York arena on April 4th.
AS matters stand, the Transfers
Union and the American Guild of
Variety Artists have announced they
will picket the biggest show on
earth to protest the management's
refusal to sign contracts covering
its 900 performers, roustabouts
and drivers. Further, the Guild will
seek to prevent various stage,
screen and opera stars from per-
forming in the opening benefit show
for New York's Police Athletic Lea
que.
Executive Director Michael B.
Burke says neither union has any
members in the circus, but would
ike him to deliver" these people
who have shown no desire to join
up. He says the show will open.
The union leaders say it won't.
If Mr. James Hoffa, number two
man of the 1,400 900 member Team
sters' Union, and who is taking j
personal interest in the matter,
now feels he is big enough to close
the circus in the faces of Ameri-
cas- kids, he is riding to a fall in
deed.
Milford chronicle., 1956-03-23
PRESERVE COMPETITION-NOT
COMPETITORS

The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed
in 1890. The Clayton Act, which supple
mented it, came into being in 1914.
"Since 1890" as Nations Business points
out editorially, "the surrey with the fringe
on top has become the fOur-doOr hardtOp."
In other words, times have changed to an
almost unbelievable extent. Yet these old
laws remain on the books-to the confusion
both of those who must enforce them and
those who must operate under them. The
magazine urges new law, which will recog
nize present-day business realities. And in
framing this law it adds, one objective
should be kept firmly in mind: I'VE are try
ing to preserve competition-not competi-
tors"
That is a vital objective indeed. There
are vast dangers in the idea that bigness in
itself is bad and monopolistic-and that all
kinds of projections must be devised in law
to keep the small in business. One example
of this attitude was found in the campaign
of twenty years ago to penalize the chain
retailing systems with punitive class taxes
and other restrictions aimed purely at growth
and size. Had that campaign succeeded, pro-
ducers would have been deprived of markets
and consumers would have been deprived
of the economies mass-distribution makes
possible We would have turned the clock
back, at an almost unimaginable cost to the
nation.
Bigness is not good in itself-or bad in
itself. Smallness is not good in itself-or
bad in itself. The measuring stick has moth
ing to do with size. What counts is per-
formance, service, and ethics. That is true
of stores, factories, farms, and all enter
prise.
1S~@&Sx
MILLIONS NEVER SAW AN ELEPHANT!
Some may wonder why the circus keeps
coming back year after year. After all. the
acts and the animals and the clowns and al
the rest of it are pretty much the same
One reason is that great new audience
comes into being in this country each year
Last year. for instance, 100000 babies were
born-and none had seen an elephantl
In other words, the circus comes back
because the American scene is forever
changing. There's lesson in that for mer-
chants and all other business people. They
must keep on selling their wares and attrac-
tions to their new customers as we'll as their
DID, And they must help SELL too, the philo
s0phies and ideals, based on freedom, that
have made this country what it is. For the
new faces need to learn about them--and al
the rest of us need to be constantly remind
ed.