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Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
Babson Discusses Stock SpIitUps Government Bonds

stance, just before General Elec-
trio was split, it sold at about 125.
1t is now quoted at price of
around go, which looks lower to
most people. However, because
the stock was split 3-for-J, this
really represents price of $50.
The new lower price misleads in
vestors who did not know of the
split-up.
What Prominent Stocks Have
Done Since 1929
without taking any position as
to whether you should now buy
stocks,-or put your money into
Government Bonds and await much
lower stock prices,-f submit the
following interesting table, using
stocks which have not been split
since 1929, so as not to mislead
you.
Security For Government Bonds
Many prominent bankers and
businessmen believe. that the gov
ernment debt should be cut down.
They may be right; but | see no
vital reason for this. The U. S.
Government is a corporation with
definite assets. including about one
fourth of all the real estate in
the United Statesl | understand
that an inventory of these federal
holdings can he secured from Sen
ator Hayden of Arizona This re-
port shows that the government
has over 40O.000.O00 acres of land,
about 40C, COO buildings which cost
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY EIoins Townsend Dieksrson

Hammond's garage and. of course.
the lakes on Lakeview avenue.
We're anxious now to see the films.
Friday evening after Hayes had
returned home We were watching
television and in the middle Of
Person to Person" WEATHER
BULLETIN flashed on the screen.
II isn't very comfortable feeling
to wait for such a bulletin in Kan
sas. You just know they aren't in
terrupting a program to tell you
tomorrow is going to be baBny-
spring g-sunshiney-day Sure enough
we were in the path of another
tornado. From Salina to Leaven-
worth, Kansas, there were torna-
do warnings. The worse part of
it all is we don't have any place
to run to. We live in slapped
together Air Force village. No
Easements, no nothin'. They warn
ed that the tornado warning would
not be over until four in the morn
ing, this was about $50.
The first thing we thought about
protection we could offer it was
protection we COULD offer 1t was
our car port. Hayes drove Shasta"
(our 20-year-old Chevie) on the
open side of the car port to help
shield our station wagon. We then
went to bed Hayes went to sleep,
but I didn't. | used to play in
storms at Slaughter Beach when
I was a child and they never phas-
ed me one iota, but storms IN Kan
sas, you just don't fool with. The
only thing | can tell you to impress
upon you how bad the storm was
here, is that two KC-97s were roll
ed around out at the base. Their
wheels were checked and they
were loaded with fuel to make them
heavier, but they were still bat
tered by the storm.
Two weeks from this very day
we will be driving home to youi
It's just like looking forward to
Christmas. Keep your fingers
crossed for US that our leave
doesn't fall through.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04

over $4,000, 100000, very valuab
mineral rights. undeveloped warer
powers, and many other assets.
Furthermore, there are various
ways of figuring the government
debt. Also, in addition to it's power
to tax and the right to priat
money, which no other corporation
has, the Federal Government keeps
books in a very conservative man
ner. For instance, if a new Post
Office is built in your community,
it is not listed in the Capital Ac-
count. as every private corporation
would do, but is charged to Oper-
ating Expenses.
ssThe Fly In The Ointment
Although there is no lack of
security for Government Bonds and
no fear of present outstanding U. s.
Government Bonds defaulting on
their coupons, such bonds could
suffer from imitation. / refer to
the fact that the interest payment
on Government Bonds is fixed.
Hence if tie value of the dollar
declines, the price of long-term
Government Bonds might decline
correspondence. This danger can
largely be offset. however, by buy
ing shart-term Government Bonds.
Initiation is a danger which all
investors should carefully watch
and fight. This is especially true
in a democracy like ours, where
Cororaccrnou and Senators vote
for inf1ationarv measures just to
get reelected. SEch politicians are
selling our country down the
rivers, or. as the PihIe saws. 'sfor
a mess of pottage" know nothing
about the possibilities of World
War Ut: but if it comes. I fore
caet that our dollar will go TO
thirty cents. IN that case, most
Government Pond holders. YES
investors. employers. wageworkare.
and housewives toO-will suffer.
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
Weekly Tree Talk
Sprays Needed In War Against
Birch Leaf Miner

In the war of man VS.. insects,
birch leaf miners are trying to
get the upper hand by changing
their emergence habits.
A few years ago they "boiled"
out of the ground all at once, or
within a few days. Now they are
emerging over a 2-3-4 week period,
and often the first generation over
laps the second, reports Don Can't
well, District Manager of the Bart
lett Tree Expert Co.
For home owners with birch
has become a favorite little lawn
tree with many suburbanites), this
means mans attack on this pest
must be altered too. 1t will be a
little more troublesome. perhaps a
little more costly, to keep birch
leaves green this spring.
Unchecked, birch leaf miners
cause leaves of birches to turn
brown and become ansightly pap
ery-thin as though giant blow
torch has scorched the trees. They
do this by mining or eating the ten
der tissues between the top and
bottom side of the leaf.
The pests begin to appear in mid
May as tiny black flies which de-
posit eggs inside unfolding leaves.
From to 10 days later the eggs
hatch into hungry larvae which do
the damage.
Hold a birch leaf against the
light of the sky A grayish-white
dot in the leaf indicates the egg.
Wait until that dot has enlarged TO
about one-fourth inch in diameter.
This means the larva has emerged
and has just begun to feed.
Then spray with lindane, or
malathion, thoroughly covering both
sides of the leaf. Make sure the top
most branches are sprayed for it is
in the sunlit areas of TIE tree that
the miners do greatest damage.
The spray is insufficient for good
control because birch leaf miners
emerge over such a long period.
Repeat the application 10 days or
two weeks later A third applica-
ton at the same interval Is recon-
mended for optmum results.
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
CAPITALISTIC EXPLOITATION
II. S. STYLE

The classic complaint against capitalism,
from the age of Marx on down, is that it ex-
ploits the masses numerically to benefit the
few.
One wonders how that old dogma can be
squared with what is going on in this capi-
talist country.
u. S. News and World Report recently
ran an article on how the American worker
is making out. The subhead observes that he
spends more, owns more, lives better than
ever" The average family income is at a
record peak of $3.50 year. The family's
assets total $11,828. And the prospects are
for steady and continued Improvement.
The magazine sums up with these words: :
Fright now, the average working man holds
bigger stake in this nations economic we'll
being than ever before. He's living in bet
ter house, driving a better car, enjoying
more of the costly comforts than at any
previous time" That's what capitalist ex-
ploitation has accomplished!
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
Chemical Weed Control
I'm Peas Practical

Practical methods OF chemical
weed control is now available for
farmers who are growing peas. II
has been proven that weeds can be
satisfactorily controlled in peas by
using Premerge or Sinox Pc at 3
pintg in 50-75 gallons Of water per
acre. This application should be
made with ground spraying equip
ment when peas are 3 to 8 inches
tall and the weeds are II TO in
ches high Apply the spray when
the temperature is 65 TO 80 degrees.
Moed weeds, including Yellow
Rocket, or mustard. as ii is COM
monty known, are adequately con-
troliad with a single application.
With many new fields Of peas
planted in Sussex County this year,
the problem of weed control is
probably more important than In
previous years.
For further inforEation on cul-
tunaI practices for peas, contact
your County Extension Office,
GEORGETOWN.
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
X-Rays Safe, Assure Scientists

A-RayS SaEes assure SCIENTISTS
So much has been said and writ
ten in these opening years of the
Atomic Age about radiation dam
age and injuries sustained from
radioactive "fall-out", that some
times people are inclined to worry
about sUbjecting themselves to X
ray pictures or treatment. The fact
that x-rays are indeed nuclear
emanations, and hence radioactive
in some degree, such fears have a
logical basis and justifiably cause
people to wonder.
Radiation Protection in an
Atomic Age" was the subject in
recent one of the discussion
series called 1.-The Northwestern
University Reviewing Stand, which
provides some helpful. authoritative
and reassuring answers. Experts
on the program, who examined
the subject from both medical and
industrial viewpoints, included
three physicians and a radiation
physicist. -
DR.. Wendell G. Scott, associate
professor of clinical radiology.
Washington University of st. Louis
School of Medicine, stated fatty
that: . radiation in excess
is a hazard. However" he contin-
ued, "there are instruments we
use to measure the quantity of ra-
diation that is given to a patient OF
is being scattered about in an
area, so that we can put in the
necessary protective barriers and
reduce the exposure to very safe
level"
DR.. Lauriston S. Taylor, chief OF
atomic and radiation physics al
the National Bureau of Standards
Washington, D. c., declared that
with the growth of our
atomic energy program -. in the
past Is years, it still is regarded
among safety experts as one Of the
safest industries in terms of in
dustrial hazards of almost any
industry of which we know"
DR.. William Moss, director, de-
partment of radiation therapy
Veterans Administration Research
Hospital, Chicago, in speaking OF
the genetic aspects, said: -
there are effects of radiation that
can be passed on from one gene
ration TO another, but at the levels
with which we work now in medi-
| cino and ministry 7 don't believe
that this is a serious problem"
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
%~@$~
WHAT WE KNOW

81 do not profess to know the sentiments
of the people. Those of particular circle
in which one moves, are commonly taken for
the general voice." This shrewd observation
was made in the Constitutional Convention
by James Wilson of Pennsylvania, later JUS
tice of the Supreme Court, who is thought
by many historians to have influenced the
contents of the Constitution as much as any
one man.
Wilson exposed a common weakness. The
results of many elections have come as COM
plete surprise to some who listened only to
the opinions of their friends. Still others un-
dertake to speak for their states or the
groups to which they belong. Some time ago
an Illinois woman, active in politics, ex-
pressed herself on current issue thus, I'VE
women of Illinois believe" The issue was
hotly debated. There is no more reason to
think that the women were unanimous on
this subject any more than the men. The
lady was attributing her views to others
whose outlook may have been entirely diff
erent
1t is wiser if person does not take it
for granted that every one else shares his
opinions
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
Washington Letter : BY Robert Nelson Taylor

Last year, in the crowded neigh
borhoods of our big cities, 327
Salvation Army youth centers pro-
Vided spiritual guidance and recre-
alton to 3,930,131 boys and girls
and almost $4,000 spent healthy and
happy vacations at Salvation Army
Camps.
The Salvation Army locates miss
ing persons, aids unmarried mo-
theirs and performs many other
humane and spiritual offices-most
often to those who have no other
place to turn. But why say more
of this Army whose only COM
mand to all comers is: ASK, and
ye shall receive"
Retreat To Moscow
"Krush" and "Bulg" return home
to Moscow after having "been to
London to visit the Queen" (as the
nursery rhyme says) in some
thing less than a blaze of glory.
whether they are received as con-
quering heroes or blundering OATS,
the western world may not know
for some time. But the free world
does know that they carried back
little besides their soiled laundry
and a sense of failure.
They failed to drive a wedge
between Britain and the U. S.
They failed to gain any signifi-
cant trade concessions.
They failed to impress the
British that the USSR had re-
formed its evil ways.
They failed to stir interest in a
further summit" conference.
But they succeeded, with threats
and Dragging of their military su-
periority. to rouse the cold British
hostility to something nearer fury
And they succeeded in closing
the door on the expected invitation
to visit the U. S.
Never shake your fist at a
Russian, Party Boss Krushchev
warned the demonstrating crowds
in Manchester That was his in
depreciation. The banner that
seemed to blast his composure
read 'sHooray for Stalinl" In this
country we would consider that
in the nature of a Bronx cheer
And a Bronx cheer is much more
devastating than shaken fist.
1t is evident our British cousins
have found the proper reducing
agent for the ego of Soviet "lead-
ers"-even the new-style, late
model collective" type.
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
Salute To The Salvation Army

Salute To The Salvation Army
Everybody knows the Salvation
Army, yet nobody knows it. 1t is
known for action yet it fights SO
self-effacingly, on so many fronts,
that practically no one outside its
ranks can tick off for us the many
facets of its practical service in
Gods name.
From May goth through 9th, all
tiona1 Salvation Army Week, and
doubtless learn more about this
amazingly selfless organization
that began its work in the U. s.
with eight people rs years ago.
Today, there are 5000 officers in
the Army, nearly a quarter mil
lion members, and almost 1900
business and professional men and
women serving on its Advisory
Boards across the nation. And we
might add that not the least re-
markable aspect of Salvation Army
Week is the fact that there will be
no appeal for fundsl
The Army's best-known work,
perhaps is the rehabilitation of
homeless men. Conducted in 1855
through 110 social service centers,
it started 42,987 men on the road
back. It served 13,743,SS333 meals
to the. cold, hungry and homeless.
Additionally, it operated 1877 hotels
and lodgings that sheltered 2,473,-
OBS men and women who were
homeless and broke and provided
homes for low income people at
low cost.
Famous also for it's war and dis
aster work, its service units-more
than 5000 of them-accompanied
our armed forces in every part of
the national Civil Defense or
ganization-operating SO rolling
canteens, aided 103,971 victims OF
storms, floods, fires, explosions and
wrecks in 1855.
During 1855 the Salvation Army
visited 129,888 prison inmates, ex-
panded the work of its "Lifters
Club" and the Brighter Day Lea
que" which helps those returning
to society. Hundreds of prisoners,
paroled to the Salvation Army, are
helped to find jobs and adjust to
family life and freedom.
Oldsters, lonesome and frus-
trated, deprived Of family life, are
given companionship and oppor-
tunities for work and play and
earning through the Army's Col
den Age Clubs, and help is given
those needing institutional care.
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04

bdDSOH FdTk, MdSS., Mdy D. Oo
much appears in the newspapers
today about stock split-ups, / be-
lieye. readers will be interested to
know why they occur.
Large Stockholders win Die
Most of the split-ups are due
to the fact that some very large
stockholder has died and his stock
must be sold to help the executors
pay the estate taxes, which may
appropriate fifty per cent. As in
yestors are much more willing to
buy stocks at a low price, the
brokers strongly advise splitups in
such cases to help the marketing
of the stock. There is nothing un-
ethical about this. No stockholder
should basically be harmed or
helped by such action. If it's a
two for one" split-up, and if you
have ten shares of stock, you are
sent, without cost, ten shares more.
The capitalization is doubled, but
the assets are the same. Hence,
Theoretically the value of your
shares after the split-up should be
only one half what it was before.
However, owing to the gullibility
of investors and to their desire for
low-priced stocks, the sum total
of the "split-up' stock for a while
is usually worth more than before
there was any talk of any split.
In addition, new investors in a
split-up stock may be misisd by
the price of the shares. For in
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
April 80. 1855
1851 Mayo
Toneka. Kansas


Topeka, Kansas
Dear Friends:
Thursday morning was hot day
here, a record breaker, in fact. OF
"a degrees. / was out, hanging out
some clothes in the nice hot sun
shine when I heard the phone ring.
All / said was Hello" and / heard
Gene Shirley speak with her south
ern drawl, Turn on Strike 1t
Rich on Channel quickly"
threw the receiver down on the
table, turned on Channel and
Connie Townsend's (my niece) face
flashed on my screen.
Gene told me later that she heard
the emcee ask this group of scouts
what they were doing in New York
City and where were they from.
When the leader answered Milford,
Delaware, she said she couldn't dial
me fast enough. She never dream
ed that my brothers oldest child
was with the group. | missed most
of the program, but | did see Con-
ME real well and also saw Mrs.
Frank Lynch, Elaine Isaacs and
Mrs. Frank Clendaniel. Jean Glen
daniel was nice enough to let my
girls attend scout day camp last
summer and so / feel like / have
special interest in scouts at home.
That momentary visit with my
niece was just wonderfp1 1ud /
surely did appreciate Gene calling
me. Later / received two other
calls about the program. Lots of
our Air Force friends know Hayes
and my home town. We're pretty
good publicity agents for Delaware.
Last Friday do any of you re-
member seeing BAT contrails over
Sussex County? If you did you
were looking right straight up at
Hayes and his crew. For months
now he has tried to dc this mis-
sion over our home state but wea-
| ther or something else = cevented
| it becoming a reality until last
week. Hayes was photographing
from his high altitude picked out
from his high altitude packed out
the jetty at Slaughter Beach, Jim
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04

quality fuel, its added cost will be
more than Offset by the gains IN
performance and mileage.
I'VE are confident that this new
motor fuel, perfected by new re-
fining processes, will deliver the
efficiency and mileage that was in
tended by the automobile manu-
facturers when they designed their
new engines" Mr.. Hope said. And,
by marketing three-not two
grades of motor fuel, we will con-
tinue to provide the right fuel for
every car, and the motorist will
not be paying for unused quality"
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
STORY OF STORIES

ST. LOUIS - tP) - Police Ser
geant Vincent Syron and Corporal
Jonathan Painter completed an
unsuccessful. fioor-by-fioor search
of the 2S-story for two reported
providers.
Said Sergeant Syron. MAN, I'm
tired
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
is THIS BAD?

The Wall Street Journal has something
important to say about the farm problem
and the ever-changing agricultural scene.
"If turn-of-the-century politicians had
decided the village smithy must be preserved
as a way of life," the Journal observes, they
could have preserved it-for while anyway
by having the Government buy up all the
surplus horse Shoes" Instead, of course, the
blacksmith shops simply disappeared, and
the blacksmiths went into other lines of work,
as part of a normal and inevitable evolu-
ton.
There is a parallel in the current con-
cern over small or family farms These are
not disappearing. But their number is going
down-just as the farm population as
whole, regardless of the size of farms, is go
ing down. And here the Journal says: "Why
is the farm population =. declining? Be
cause for more than generation American
agriculture has been steadily producing more
and more with fewer and fewer hands. !.
"But is this ability to produce abund-
ance w h little manpower bad thing? Of
developed country in the world 1t is pre-
cisely the mark of a highly advanced tech
neogy and industrial civilization"
One tractor can do the work of many
men, So can the other machines now used
to cultivate, harvest, and conserve the soil
That means we need fewer farmers-and
that total farm income is divided among a
smaller number of people, with a larger pro-
portionate share going to each. Over the
long run, whatever the temporary difficulties,
the result cannot help but be enormously ben
efcial to all concerned. including the family
farm
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04
VETERANS BENEFITS

When anyone suggests a touch on the
brakes to control the rapid increase in the
cost of veterans benefits, someone else is
sure to charge that an "anti-veteran cru
sade" is in the making. 1t is not surprising,
therefore, that such charges have greeted
the report of the Presidents special commits
son on veterans pensions.
Yet veterans organizations and others
will be making a grave error if they turn
their backs on the report without giving it
a fair hearing. The problem is a serious
one. The cost of pensions, medical care and
disability compensation amounted to nearly
four and half billion dollars in 1865, and
it is rising. That is a tremendously heavy
tax burden, burden that falls not only on
the general citizenry but on some % million
veterans and their families. 1t is burden
that ought to be lightened before it gets out
of hand
The important thing to bear in mind is
that the question of reforming our system
of veterans benefits involves the entire ma
tion's welfare. 1t is most emphatically not
a controversy with veterans on one side
and non-veterans on the other The veterans,
who also are taxpayers, ought to be as con-
cerned as anyone about keeping the cost of
benefits down to a reasonable level.
General Omar Bradley, who headed the
Presidents commission, cannot fairly be ac-
cused of bias against the veteran. When
he says that military service sis an obliga-
ton of citizenship and should not be consid-
cred inherently basis for future govern
mental benefits" he is not minimizing the
veterans contribution to society. On the
contrary, this is statement of high prin-
ciple With which the great majority of vet
Grams would probably agree. a4.stFsa
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-04

Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Arizona sun., 1956-06-14

we work at, in the shops we
patronize, in the movie we at
tend, in the vacation we plan,
and in the schools to which we
send our children or to which
we ourselves go. In short, the
civil rights problem touches us
all in the most personal and
intimate details of our lives,
in one way or annther, depend
ing upon the racial, social and
economic group to which we
belong.
These aspects constitute the
real core of the civil rights prob
lem. Around this core are gath
cred the more dramatic mani
festationS-the legal and polit-
ical manifestations which fur
nish the major approaches to
the core and substance aspects
of it.
In our concentration on these
approaches, which are the OBJ
vious instruments of our efforts,
we must never lose sight of the
core and substance, Wich are
the end objects of these efforts.
In recent months the civil
rights problem has Sharpened
into a national crisis. This crisis
dominates our thinking today,
it dominates our political life,
too, unwilling as some are to
Continued on Page 81
Arizona sun., 1956-06-14
MRS. THOMAS FUNERAL TODAY

Funeral services were held
this morning at Ragsdale Chap
ell in the Valley for Mrs. Mary
Thomas who died last Saturday.
The Rev. G.. N. Hall officiated.
Burial 3Vas in Greenwood Me-
mortal Park.
Mrs. Thomas, who resided at
2545 East Mobile came to Phoe-
nix three years ago from Spring
field, Illinois.
She is survived by two sons,
and one daughter, Harvey OF
Phoenix, and Lester Brown and
Mrs. Gertrude Perry Of Gales
burg, Illinois.