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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
PRESIDENCY
Two Remarks Set OFF
Furry Of Speculation
On Eisenhower's Plans

Participants in the great Amer
lean guessing game # "Wi' re
Run? took giant step last week.
But it was hard to tell ii the step
was backward, forward or circum-
ventive.
At least, however, the guessers
had more than ever before to go on.
The big clue was the only one
given by the President himself
since the September "a heart at
tack. In a Key West press con-
ference last Sunday he discussed
his future with newsmen. He made
two points. The first:
My mind at this moment is not
fixed. If it were, I would say so
right here this second. But my
mind is not fixed to such an extent
that it can't be changed"
And the second:
Now it is not merely what the
doctors say to someone else, what
the doctors say to me. it is very
critical thing to change govern
ments in this country at time that
1t is unexpected-we accuStom our
selves and SO do foreign govern
mentS, changing our government
every four years, but always some
thing happens that is untoward
when a government is changed at
other times. It is rather startling
thing. They tell me that even some
disturbance in the stock market at
the time I got sick-I didn't know
it till six weeks later-they told me
there was"
His words threw off their stride
politicians who have been saying in
recent weeks that the President had
made up his mind and that the de-
cision was to run. On the Hill there
seemed to be some shift in opinion r
away from rum following the press
conference. but predictions still
followed. basically, pro and anti
Ike lines.
More significant in his state
ments. perhaps. was the indication
that his decision would be based
on duty to the country rather than
to the party or his family. Duty,
he apparently believes, is not the
obligation to die for his country but
the obligation to see that the Gov
eminent has good, healthy leader
for four full years.
PTimories
GuesSerS tried to draw conclu-
sions last week from White House
reaction to news that the Presi-
dents name will be entered in
Illinois and New Hampshire pri-
maries. In the case Of Illinois. Pres
idential Press Secretary James G.
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AID
Presidents Program
Coils for Brood Help
To Stute Education

President Eisenhower on Thurs
day came up with a plea for ex-
panded Federal aid to education
that again. as in his farm message,
showed him moving closer to Dem
ocratic Party views.
He asked Congress to authorize
outright Federal grants totaling
$3.50, 000,0 900 over a flve-year Pc
riod to States on a dollar for dollar
matching basis. In addition, the
President urged that Congress au-
thorize the Federal Government
buy up to $3.50 million worth Of
local school construction bonds in
districts that have difficulty mar
keting such issues at reasonable
interest rates.
The 1856 Eisenhower education
program of $3.50 million to be spent
in each of five years when COM
pared to his 1855 proposal of 5000
million spread over three years.
brought him nearer to demands Of
the Democrats, who last year Of
fered bill for $16 billion in Fed
eral grants over four-year period.
The Democratic bill, reported out
last July by the House Committee
on Education and Labor, is now in
the Rules Committee. Democrats
are confident that this bill is the
one that will finally reach the floor.
But either bill seemed headed for
serious snag on the House floor,
where Representative Powell, Dem
ocrat from New York's Harlem.
seeks to ban payment of school -aid
funds to States that have not in
tegrated their school systems.
There were many, including some
Southerners, who said such a move
had good chance of success in
the House. But few observers on
Capitol Hill thought that the bill
would ever get through the Senate
in such form.
Meanwhile. every minute of every
day the increasing birth rate In
the United States is adding two
more future students to our popula-
ton. Every Is minutes, the need is
created for one more classroom and
one more teacher.
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Interposition

Except for the modern trappings
in the chambers. anyone in the
gallery audience on the sessions
first day might have felt the SEN
sation of being thrust by some
time machine back into history to
the days Of Patrick Henry. Thomas
jefferson and John Randolph Of
Roanoke.
On that day, Delegate John B.
Boatwright of Buckingham Coun-
ty, an unreconstructed member Of
the Byrd organization, resurrected
an ancient legislative device to
challenge the Federal authority. It
was O E1aneuver that had not been
used in 100 years.
Mr.. Boatwright offered Q Bill Of
Interpolation" that would place
Virginia In the position Of refus-
ing to comply with the Supreme
Courts decision until an amend
n1ent to the Constitution IL adopt
ed specifically prohibiting racially
segregated schools.
The word "interposition" was
coined by Jefferson In the Repuhli-
can fight on the Federalist Alien
and Sedition laws Of 1893. Jeffer-
son justified interposition on the
theory that the Federal Constitu-
ton was a compact entered into by
sovereign States. and that each
State thus was the final arbiter Of
what was legal In Federal law. Vir-
ginia's interpositionists Of 1856 fall
back on Jefferson as their mentor,
but do not mention that jefferson
later changed his mind and wrote
that interposition could only serve
as a method Of protest designed to
persuade Congress to change OBJ
jectionable laws.
The compoet Theory
Some 80 years after the Alien and
Sedition Acts. John C. Calhoun was
arguing the compact theory in be-
half OF notification by South Car
DINA Of Federal laws.
But the compact theory was done
in-and supposedly, interposition
with it-by the Civil War and the
Supreme Court decision in Terds
o. White in 1869. In this case, the
court held that the sovereignty Of
the United States as a Union did
not spring from the States, but from
the people. This meant, the court
said then and since. that the States
have no power to overrule the au-
thority Of the Federal Government.
Meanwhile, the Arlington School
Board voted yesterday to begin in
tegration at the elementary level.
But the move was hardly expected
to set pattern for the rest Of the
Old Dominion.
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Hagerty said, Mr.. Eisenhower will
ignore the move. That election u
simply a popularity contest, bind
ing on no one, and the President
will not be officially notified 1t II
going on.
Mr.. Eisenhower will get official
word, however, that his name has
been entered in New Hampshire.
Mr.. Hagerty indicated the President
would acknowledge the letter from
New Hampshire, but without saying
he would or would not run.
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK
Virginia Fights off |ntegration

Vginans at the polls and in their Legislature last week
launched attack against enforced racial
Indignation Of the Commemorative public schools
At the polls, voters decided than to to call
convention amend the State Constitution along the lines
suggested the Gray Report In the General Assembly,
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PoIicymokers Dig In
For Big Sc Race
On Arms Supremacy

The 1855 summer of smiles now
far behind them, American policy
makers were digging in last week
for a bigger and better arms race
in 1856 and. concurrently, for q
new competition against the Soviet
Union to gain favor with under
developed countries.
Secretary Of State John Foster
Dulles. holding his first news con-
ference of the year, ranged over
the whole spectrum of problems in
the faulty competitive co-existence
phase that has now started in our
relations with the Kremlin bloc.
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Deterrent

Two factors determine an en-
emy's respect for the United States
deterrent: Our capabilities and our
intentions.
Last week Americans were hav-
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State Population
Now Tops Vermont
Increases 3.7 Percent With TOP
Figure OF $4,000

The population of Delaware on
January 1 had grown to S9S, 600,
showing a 81 per cent growth in
one year, and has passed that of
Vermont by $4,000, it was estimated
this week. The estimate was pre-
pareG by the statistical bureau of
sne Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company from data published by
the Bureau Of the Census and the
National Office of Vital Statistics.
The last official figure, based
upon an actual count, was the to-
tai of 318,0S5 reported after the
decennial census taken in April,
1850. From that time through 1854
the rate of growth in Delaware's
population averaged 3.s per cent
q year.
The new estimate makes Della
ware more pOpulous than Vermont.
The 1850 census showed Vermont
ahead Of this state. with a pOpuIa-
ton Of 377,747 for Vermont as com
pared with DeiaWare's 318,085.
By the beginning of 1855, how
ever, DelaWare's estimated 379, 900
was 1000 more than the Vermont
figure for that time. And the new
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under social security coverage any
worker in a private home who is
paid cash wages of at least $50 by
his employer in any one calendar
quarter.
These new regulations went into
effect on January 1, 1855" the
manager stated. 'and they mean
that nearly all cooks. maids, gard
eners viii now be able to build up
the same type of old-age and sur
vivors insurance protection which
the factory and store worker ehas
had in the past.
Some domestic workers" Mil
bOuer went on, 'have been covered
by social security in the past four
years. but only if they worked for
their employer on at least "a days
in a calendar quarter and were
paid at least $50 cash in that quar-
ter by the employer. Beginning
January 1, 1856, the "a day re-
quirement was dropped, and now
any such worker who is paid at
least $50 cash BY an employer in
a three month calendar quarter
must be reported for social security
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President Proposes
Gas Tax Reduction

The House Agriculture Commit
tee has unanimously approved Pres
ident Eisenhower's proposal to re-
move the two cents a gallon Fed
eral tax on gasoline used by farm
ers off-the-highway.
In his nine-pOint farm program
the President said:
I recommend that legislation be
passed 10 relieve the farmer Of the
Federal tax on gasoline so used
Ton the FARM.
During a lengthy closed meeting,
the House Agriculture Committee
voted unanimously in favor Of the
proposal and communicated its de-
cisioa to the House Ways and
Means Committee, which viii han
die this legislation.
Farmers have long campaigned
for abolition Of the tax on gasoline
used for of-highway farm Dur-
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Local Guard Unit
To Get Skysweepers
Battery &C" viii Shortly
Be Equipped With
Army'S Latest Type OF
Aircraft Gun.

Milford's National Guard Unit,
Battery G. 193rd Anti-Aircraft Ar
tillery Battalion. viii shortly be
equipped with the Army's latest
type of antiaircraft gun, the Sky
sweeper. Capable Of efficient opera
ton against jet planes. the new gun
will automatically follow planes
across the sky, firing 75mm shells,
about three inches in diameter, at
a rapid rate.
The new gun includes its own
radar and electronic computer. The
radar follows the plane, while the
computer figures where it will be
by the time The shell reaches it,
and automatically aims the gun far
enough ahead Of the plane so that
by the time the she'll has reached
the proper teight, the plane will be
at the same spot.
In preparation for the new wea-
pom, the organization of the Del
aware National Guard was stream
lined on January l. While no units
will actually change their location,
many will receive new names.
MilfOrd's Battery G, 945th AAA
Bn (AW) (MBL) for example be-
came Battery G. 193rd AAA Bn
(75mm Cum. It viii continue to be
by 1st 1t. Robert L.
Young, of Lincoln. Delaware, who
is a Dairy Farmer in civilian life.
The reorganization is necessary
because the table Of organization
for Skysweeper -battalions calls for
only three firing batteries instead
Of four, as the present battalions
have.
The Skysweepers will 60 to two
battalons- 945th, in the south
ern part Of the State and the 193rd,
in the central part
"A complicated shuttle of battery
designations between the various
in lower Delaware will
locate. all the units Of battalion
in the area surrounding its head
quarters town, and leave two ex-
ira batteries in eastern Sussex
County as the nucleus for a new
battalion there. The streamlined
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Special Questions
In Population Survey

Special questions. designed to
provide information on the work
done by the Nations population in
1855 will be asked in the January
Current Population Survey, accord
ing to Supervisor Robert n. Schell-
er of the U. S. Census Bureaus dis
trict office at Baltimore, Maryland.
The work experience questions
will provide information on how
many people were full-time work
ers throughout 1855, how many
we're seasonal workers, and how
many worked the greater part Of
the year but only at part-time Jobs.
Persons who worked less than a
full year will be asked questions
to determine the reasons for part
year work. to flld out the time lost
because Of unemployment OF ill
ness and the time devoted to fam
lily responsibilities or school At
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Citizens Will
Hold Annual
Meeting Here
This Evening
Session VIII Be Held In
Community Building !;
Election Next Monday,
January % At The
Grange Hall.

The citizens Of Milford will be
given a chance to get a lot Of things
on their chests, literally, this eve.
ming When the annual Citizen
Meeting is held in Varney Audi.
torium on the second floor of the
Milford Community Building. The
meeting Of the New England public
session type is provided for in the
City Charter.
Beginning promptly at eight o.
clock, those present VIII first or
gaDize by the selection of a chair
man and secretary, who will con-
duct the meeting. Reports will be
given by the City Auditors, retiring
Mayor Edward g. Evans and City
Manager Stanford c. Marvel. Cam
didates will be nominated.
Plans for contemplated improve
ments in the City during the ensu-
ing year will be made at this meet
ing, witl those present afforded an
opportunity to make recommenda-
tions to their elected and appointed
officials.
The eliminating feature Of the
meeting viii be the forum hour, at
which time every citizen present
having either a grievance or de-
sirOus Of offering constructive cri-
ticism, will be granted the right Of
being heard. This type Of meeting
as far as can be learned is unique
in this part Of the country. but with
all the liberty allowed, the partici-
pants have never abused their pri-
vileges.
The City Election will be held
next Monday, January %, from
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Hugh MeKenna
Will Address
Local Jaycees
National President viii
Made Presentations At
Banqu Il In Milford
This Evening.

The city of Milford will be hon
Ored this week by a visitation from
Hugh McKenna Of Nebraska, the
National President of the United
States Junior Chamber Of Com
merce. In keeping with. presenta-
tons to be made nation-pide by
Junior Chambers of Commerce dur
ing Jaycee Week, the Jaycees here
have arranged through the state
organization to have their National
President present for the first time
here the Jaycee Distinguished Ser
vice Award to MilfOrd's Outstand-
ing Young Man for 1855.
Selection Of the recipient is being
made by a committee of local lead
ing citizens and the award must be
approved by the U. S. Jaycee
Awards committee before OFFICIAL
recognition can be given. The
award will be presented to the
young man from age 21-35 whom
the judges believe has contributed
most to the welfare of this COM
munity during The past twelve
months. The winner need not be a
Jaycee. Citizens in Milford have
been invited to submit candidates
and the local service clubs have
acted as collecting points for
names. The Jaycees believe that
a selfless attitude towards imprcv-
ing our community is a desirable
and worthwhile trait for young
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High School PTA
Met Wednesday Night
Group Voted TO Cancel state
National AffiliatiOn

Members of the Milford High
School Parent Teacher Association
voted Wednesday night to cancel
Sheir afiIiation with both the state
and national ongress Of Parents
and Teachers.
The spirited argument on the
motion to disaffiliate occupied the
bi-mOnthly meeting of the assOci-
alton for an hour and a half The
motion was made by Marvin Light
cap, Of near Lynch Heights, who
suggested that the association
needed it's money for other pur-
poses and should not send 25c per
member to the state and national
organizations.
Others cOntended that the Mil
ford membership fees sent out to
the other organizations came to
only about 50 year, and that the
real reason for the desire to dis
affiliate is the integratiOn dispute.
It was recalled that the president
OF the Della. Congress Of Parents
and Teachers expressed support Of
the position taken few months
ago by Robert T. Jaquette, presi-
dent of the Milford High School
PTA, who suggested it was time
for the PTA to speak out on the
issue.
When the motion was made at
the meeting. Mr.. Jaquette ruled
it out of order. He said the by
laws of the association stated its
amliation with the state and ma
tional PTA groups and that a
in the bylaws, requires no
.ice at one meeting of motion
10 amend, followed by vote at the
next meeting, two months later.
And it takes a two4thirds vote to
make the change after the notice.
The associations parliamen-
arian was asked to quote the
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State Police
Rockies To
Get Is Weeks
Ut Training
Will Begin Intensive.
Study OF Basic Prin-
ciples OF Work Begin
ming February 1st At
New Police Academy.

The first class Of state police re-
cruits to receive their training at
the new state police academy
alongside the approaches to the
Delaware Memorial Bridge will be-
gin an intensive 13-weeks course
on February /, continuing through
May 4 when graduation exercises
viii be held.
Another state police first that
will be recorded viii be the new
plan whereby the q rockies win
eat sleep and live together in the
barracks Of the academy i've days
a week, receiving weekend passes
to return to their homes during the
training period.
Rising before daybreak, the men
will 90 through a rigid schedule
that will cary them thrOugh-with
some time breaks-to 10 o'clock at
night. They will be required to re-
main at the training site from sun
day night until Friday afternoon or
evening. About FIVE men appointed
to the Delaware Memorial Bridge
police force viii undergo the train
ing course at the same time
It will be under the general di-
rection Of Capt. Cazenove G. Seitz,
training officer for the State Police,
assisted by several other police
specialists and lecturers. An Off
Ger will be assigned to remain ia
the barracks each night.
Living together for the 13 weeks,
rlr
another better. study together and
help one another with their train
ing problems during the evening
hours when they will be assigned
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nunureuS OF delaware farmers mar
vested over forty bushels Of beans
per acre. This increase in yield was
mostly due to improved varieties
such as the Ogden, Wabash, Clark,
etc. In 1856 seed of another new
enormously productive variety will
be available for the first time to a
limited number of Delaware farm
ers. Application for the seed may
be made through one Of Delaware's
oldest field seed dealers, Walton
Owens. Bridgeville.
Harvesting Of the new variety Of
Soy Beans was recently completed
on the farm just across the high
way bordering on the south side
and almost directly opposite the
Dover Air Base. Interested farmers
often stepped to inspect the grow
ing beans. The farm is being opera
ted BY Earl a. Wright, Seaford.
The new variety has been devel-
Oped through the efforts Of Mr.
Wright, who about five years ago
discovered what appeared to him
to be a very promising growing
plant. Seemingly it was a cross be-
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Poultry Day
At
University
Opening Day OF Farm
And Home Week Has
Been Set Aside For
Observance.

Poultry Day" at Farm and Home
Week on the University Of Delaware
campus next month will be Tues
day, February Z, the opening day
Of the three-day. celebration, an
aOunces DR.. g. Fred Somers. gen
eral chairman of the event and As
sociate Dean Of the College of Ag-
riculture.
Two University Of Delaware re-
search men and three visiting
speakers noted in the poultry world
will highlight the six sessions
scheduled for broiler growers and
laying-hOck owners during the day,
be said. DR.. Ray Smith, agricul-
tural economist at the University,
will appear twice on the program
m the morning when he gives poul-
trymen a rundown on the latest
figures on what poultry disease is
costing them; and, in the after
noon, when he gives a detailed re-
port on his widely-quoted study of
what's to blame for breast blisters
IN broilers.
Leading off the program Tuesday
morning will be DR.. M. S. Cover,
Of the University Of Delaware, who
will report on the puzzling arthri-
lis disease of poultry known as
synovitis. Final talk on the morn
ng program will be given by DR..
Erwin Jungherr, a visitor from the
University of Connecticut who has
made several basic contributions to
treatment Of poultry disease. DR..
Tungherr will report on the new
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c O-C h airmen Chuck
Wright, DOlphus Viii
kins { Say More DON
atiOns Needed; List
Aides.

According to Chuck Wright and
Dolphus Wilkins, co-chairmen Of
/ the 1856 March of Dimes in Mil
ford area, the drive for funds is
getting into high gear, but many,
many more donations are needed
to bring the drive up to last years
figure Of over $4,000.
The various Ward Captains have
been working hard, and the special
gifts solicitation which has been
undertaken by Dolphus Wilkins has
not as yet made a report Workers
have not completed their cards, but
hope to do so in the next few days.
The need for funds to continue
the work Of the National Foupda-
tiCn for Infantile Paralysis, so
much of which is spent here in our
own state and community, is be-
ing answered by the enthusiasm of
this group.
The following Wards and Area
Captains have announced their
aides as follows:
First Ward; Captain, Harvey G. |
Marvel. Aides: Massey Laremore, \
Norton Leverage, Mrs. Robert !
COrdrey, Mrs. W. D. Landlord, Ray /
mond Sparklin, Roy Kemp, Jr,
Grace Keene, Theodore BOOz, Mrs. |
o. r. BaFto, Dixie Burns, Irene
Short, Frances Frankel, Thelma
Steele, Georgia Deputy, Mrs. Will |
liam Townsend, Thelma Gillispie, 4
Tom Sharp, Gladys Gillispie, Pearl
Jannette Tingle, Dorothy
Lindale, Betty Pierce, Myrtle
Reedy, Mike Groverman, Clyde viii
kins, Mrs. Byron Cooper, HarlanI
Jester, Dorothy Hall, Dorothy Lew
Is, Margaret Donovan, Phyllis Fish
eT, Winnie Lynch.
Second Ward: CO-captains, Mrs.
Martha Prettyman ard Mrs. Clem
Roher. Aides; Mrs. George Draper,
III E. Y Prettyman, Mrs. David
Clements, Jr., Mrs. Edgar Isaacs,
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Kiwanis Club Held
Installation Tuesday
Annual installation was Held At
Boulevard Restaurant

On Tuesday evening, January
18th. the Milford Kiwanis Club
held it's 18th Annual installation Of
officers and ladies night at the
Boulevard Restaurant.
The installation was conducted
by 1t. Gov. Paul Lord for the XII
wants Eleventh Division. The 1856
officers Of the Milford Club are:
lanes G. D0wnham, President. Dr.
James r West, Ist Vice President;
irwin j. Bowman, 2nd Vice Presi-
dent; Louis Pikus, Treasurer; Rob-
ert Wink. Secretary. Directors for
the ensuing year are: Immediate
Past President, Wilmer C. Nauman,
IT.. Martin Gasvoda, Bennie Orkin,
Morris Rosker, Bryan Dorman. Sig
mund Kendzierski. Joseph L0f1and,
Jr.. and Nelson Wright