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Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27

ed for several weeks. This unex-
pected failure brought on the great
depression beginning in 1873 and
extending for some years.
Suddenly, on July 2, 1881, Presi-
dent Garfield was shot. This start
ed a chain reaction of selling. Dur
ing this second period, the great
banking house of Grant and Ward,
plus the two leading bulls" name
ly Henry Willard and James r.
Keene, announced their failures.
Depression, as usual, followed these
unexpected events. Business be-
gan to correct itself in few
years, however.
1892 was recorded as a year of
great prosperity, when suddenly
! the failure of the National Cordage
! Company was announced in May,
| 1893. This was then one of the ten
/ largest corporations and its stock
would today be included in the
BLUE Chip" group.
The following year the great
Pullman Strike occurred. This was
the first serious strike and it cast
/ great fear and gloom over the
country. This was accompanied by
series of crop failures and mort
gage foreclosures.
Again ia 1897 business steadily
improved and permanent prosper
ity was prophesied, accompanied
by stock splits. mergers, and large
security offerings. Suddenly, in
1908, there came another panic due
to the still mare unexpected cause
of "undigested securities" This
panic resulted in the investigation
of large life insurance and traction
companies which were then very
popular The final crash came with
| the San Francisco earthquake
which dragged prices way down.
Up to this time the national gov
| ernment had been friendly to bust
ness, with no commissions or other
retarding factors. The Supreme
Court had been content to decide
questions between the states. Sud-
denly in the early 1900's it issued
a decision forbidding the consoli-
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY Elaine Townsend Dieksrso

Let me tell you about the latest
home we saw this morning. You
see our search has even lapped
over into week days now. The house
is ranch type with three bed
rooms and nice closets in each. The
living room is a nice size with a
dining room in L shape off the liv-
ing room with a bookcase acting as
a room divided From the living
room you can also enter the kitch-
en- which, too, can be excluded
from guests eyes by using slid
ing door. The kitchen has cabinets
in profusion, lovely floors and built
in electric stove and built in oven
with electric timer. Off the kitchen
is a laundry room and storage
space. There are two baths in this
house with dressing table and linen
closets in each. This house really
looks good 10 us when we're so
near the eviction noticet Another
fact that it is located about one
half mile from where we live now
and Lynne and Dawn would both
be able to continue in their present
school. Almost all of the houses
have been bought by service peo-
pie and of course / like to live with
the military especially when Hayes
might be away for any leLsgth of
time. There are always other wives
lin the same boat" whose husbands
are TIDY, and misery loves com
pany.
Well, last week / day dreamed
with you about being sent to a base
in New England This week I'm
telling you about the houses that
we could buy here. You see Air
Force life is very unpredictable..
isn't it? But that's what makes ii
exciting to us.
III write to you next week.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
LETTERS FROM CAMP

This is the season when parents receive
letters from their children who are in camp
or, if bit older, are adventuring at summer
jobs far from home. Such communications,
even the "This is the letter you told me to
write variety, usually bring pleasure.
Yet the letters are likely to cause NOM
ents of discontinue also, especially when
they focus an all-too-revealing light on high
school graduates inability to write simple
sentence without error
When q lad recently capped and gowned
demonstrates that he doesn't recognize the
difference between a period and a comma,
parental wincing is in order The one who
really ought to vince is the boys English
teacher. And she should be joined by the
long succession of teachers, clear back to
kindergarten days, who supposedly were
training this boy to speak and write correct
ly.
Far from being rare, instances of young
people being unable to set down their
thoughts in passable English are common
place. They point to serious defects in our
present methods of teaching There is some
thing gravely wrong with system that grad
yates young people who, after 13 years of
formal schooling, cannot express themselves
in their native language.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27

BABSON PARK, Mass, July 81
Last night l finished Burton
Cranes Guide to National Econom-
les, entitled GETTING AND SPEN-
DING. It contains valuable statis-
tics and notes. His conclusion is
that if we will build up foreign
markets ito keep the world safe, .
prosperity should continue, with an
occasional dip now and then, for
an indefinite period. He does not,
however, mention unexpected
events" The very next day after
read this book, there occurred the
great Wanamaker fire in New York
City, which crippled its subway
system. The following day Ring
ling Brothers announced the sus-
pension at Pittsburgh, in the mid
die of it's season, of the Greatest
Show on Earth" Certainly these
were unexpected events, although
perhaps not great enough to dis
turb stock markets. However,
these events made me interested in
studying anew the action of the
stock market for the past one hun
dred years. This is what learn
ed.
Business was prosperous during
the Civil War and started to boom
directly afterward. The sudden
death OF President Lincoln, how
ever, caused stocks to tumble and
a year of depression followed.
Again business began TO boom
until 1869 saw the famous BLACK
Friday" come very suddenly due to
the corner on the gold market.
Stocks quickly rebounded, and
again investors were looking for
ward to several years OF prosper
ity when, in late 1871, the Chicago
Fire occurred. This was followed
by the great Boston Fire in No
vember. 1872. These caused an
other panic.
The market had just about re-
covered when the failure of the
great banking house of Jay Cooke
and Company was suddenly an
nounced. Then, for the first time,
the leading Stock Exchanges clos
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
Experiments By APP Lead To
New Chocolate Chiffon Cake

After months of experiments
Arp has succeeded in developing a
true Chocolate Chiffon Cake. 1t
has the smooth sweet taste of pure
imported chocolate at its delicious
best, and the lightness, delicacy
ard texture which makes Chiffon
Cake so delightful.
Consumers in the Atlantic
States area will have the first OPP
porlunity to try the new cake be-
fore it is extended TO other sec
tions of the country. Il is being
introduced now at local ARP
stores in an entirely new and at
tractive package under the Jane
Parker label at an Introductory
price of ACC for a large 16 ounce
cake Following the introduction
it is expected this size will retail
for 59c.
The new Jane Parker Chocolate
Chiffon Cake follows the introduc-
ton by Arp of an Orange Chiffon
Cake made with the pure Juice of
fresh oranges. Until Jane Parker
Orange Chiffon Cake was first
brought out by Arp, it was, 'lol be
lieved to be possible to make Chit
fon Cake in large quantities and
maintain the unique, delicate tex
ture characteristic of true Chiffon
Cake.
Only the finest of imported Dutch
cocoa is used and all other in
gradients in this cake also are of
the very best. Besides being delic-
ious, Chiffon Cake is also a cake
that will prove stimulating to the
creative urge of every housewife.
1t can be served iced with a simple
frosting, split and put together
with ice cream or whipped cream
or served with hot sauce. There
are 1901 dreamy, original desserts
that can be prepared in minutes
from this delicious Chiffon Cake.
For special parties and occasions
here are a few suggestions of how
this versatile cake can be used:
PARTY PEPPERMINT CAKE
Prepare Instant White Frosting
Mix according to package direc-
tions. Tint a pale pink and flavor
with peppermint extract Frost
Jane Parker Chocolate Chiffon
Cake and decorate with round choc-
olate waters.
CHOCOLATE BANANA SPLIT
Split Jane Parker Chocolate
Chiffon Cake in half Spread sweet
ened whipped cream between lay
ers, cover with slices of banana.
Place second layer on top, garnish
with quarters of -arronged
like spokes in a wheel.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
PRESIDENTIAL POUNDS OK'D

Americas best-known heart spe-
cialist, DR.. Paul Dudley White, who
remains a medical consultant to
the President, says his famous
patient is back to his West Point
weight" This, DR.. White indi-
Gates, 5 all to the good, that with
all men it is better to be lean than
fat, and that the ideal weight in
later life is that of the mid-twen-
ties.
Statistically, President Eisen-
howed weighed ITS pounds before
his heart attack of last September
"a. His post-Denver diet of 1900
calories a day brought him down to
10. At the time of his operation,
June 8, he was just under 10 and
dropped to 161. The Presidents
present weight is, 163 and half
pounds, although his diet has been
stepped up since the operation to
$500 calories.
Despite the slight gain in the
weeks since surgery, the Presiden-
tiaI physicians say they are not too
concerned about weight. But they
now say that the convalescence
period will run about twelve weeks,
or until late August.
With the adjournment of Con-
gress, President Eisenhower is ex-
pected to return to Gettysburg to
rest for his trip to San Francisco
where he is scheduled to accept the
Republican nomination.
The strains involved in attending
the Panama meeting of American
presidents, followed by those of the
closing sessions of Congress may
well constitute the severest tests
the Chief Executive has had to meet
since last September. With them
safely over, we shall all breathe
easier.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
100000 RED HERRINGS

The USSR's memorandum brag-
ging about its reduction of armed
forces by 1900, 0,000-and which has
been sent to all the NATO nations
has drawn stinging reply from
Prime Minister Louis st. Laurent
Of Canada.
The JOY of Canadians over this
colossal news, he declared, is
somewhat tempered by reflection
that these reductions would have
been more timely ten years ago,
when the Western powers demobil-
lied the great armies they had
brought together in the common
interest of the United Nations" Mr..
ST. Laurent added, in his note to
Premier Bulganin that when this
reduction is effected. the Soviets
will still have more divisions in
Europe than the free world.
Further, he might have asked just
who, from the West, is to be per-
mitted to count Red noses to see
that the cut has, in fact, been made.
And he might have also pointed out
the general awareness of the NATO
allies that the 100000 soldiers
who are doubtless sent home to
meet serious manpower deficiencies
on farms and in factories can be
brought back into uniform at the
snap of Kremlin fingers.
In discussing further cuts in US
military manpower presumably
the reduction of 100000 by 1860 as
advocated by Chairman Radford OF
the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Secretar
of States Dulles told his press con-
ference that this was matter for
the military experts, but pointed
out reasons to expect such a trend
He also took occasion to refer tC
the USSR as a "Johnny-come-late-
ly" in the matter of troop reduc-
tions.
But if this Russian move should
have the effect of reducing the mill
tary force goals" of NATO, par
ticularly the troop commitment OF
West Germany, and hasten further
drastic manpower cuts in US forces
at home and abroad, the Russians
will not mind name-calling-ever
by our Secretary of State.
In fact, as long as they can COM
mand the unlimited cannon-foddei
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
THIRTEEN WORDS

Now and then a matter of universal con-
cern is stated so clearly that it seems as if
the heart of humanity were speaking. This
does not happen often, but on those rare oc-
casions when it does, one should listen care
fully
When prime ministers of the British
Commonwealth nations concluded their meet
ings in London recently, they issued a state
ment which contained this thoughtful SEN
tence: "War would bring disaster for many
world war could mean destruction for all. .
Thirteen words only, but words full of mean
ing.
This short sentence might well be in
scribed in the halls where the worlds great
affairs are deliberated Better yet, it ought to
be craven in the minds of all those millions
whose fate is sealed by smch deliberations.
For in all the talk of cold war and hot war,
of containment and massive retaliation,
these 13 words should rot be lost sight of /:
War would bring disaster for many; world
war could mean destruction for all.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27

/ CHERRY DELIGHT
Cut a generous wedge of Jane
| Parker Chocolate Chiffon Cake for
each serving. Spoon cherry pre-
serves over cake-garnish with
whipped cream.
SUNDAE CAKE
Cut a generous wedge of Jane
Parker Chocolate Chiffon Cake for
each serving Place a small scoop
of vanilla and a small scoop OF
| chocolate ice cream on each side
of wedge. Pour chocolate sauce
over top-spf;nkle with nuts-gar-
nish with whipped cream and cher
ries.
cHOCOLATE-R rum DESSERT
Cut top off Jane Parker Choco-
late Chiffon Cake with a sharp
knife and hollow out cake leaving
an inch of cake on bottom and
sides. Mix cake crumbs with whip
ped cream which has been flavor
ed with rum extract Fill hollow
of cake-replace top-frost entire
layer with whipped cream. Chill
we'll
FuDDIN' cEkE
Split Jane Parker Chocolate Chif-
fon Cake. Prepare l package Va
nilla or Butterscotch pudding, cool;
add chopped pecans. Spread be-
tween layers. Sprinkle top with
confectioners' sugar.
CHOCOLATE FRUIT CREAM CAKE
Cut a generous wedge of Jane
Parker Chocolate Chiffon Cake.
Drain / small can mixed fruit.
Thin marshmallow whip with lit
tie of the syrup. Fold fruit in to
whip. Spoon over cake.
FROZEN DESSERT
Try a slice of Jane Parker Choe-
olate Chiffon Cake, A slice of ice
cream, topped with another slice
of chiffon cake. Place this in the
home freezer until time for serv-
ing. 1t can be served with choco-
late or other sauce.
ICE CREAM SHADOW CAKE
Cut Jane Parker Chocolate Chit
fon Cake in three layers. Spread
/ pint of ice cream (softened) be-
tween each layer. Use Peppermint,
Vanilla, or Chocolate ice cream as
preferred. Spread whipped cream
on top and sides of cake; freeze.
When ready to serve, remove from
freezer, and dribble cooled choco-
late sauce over top and sides OF
cake. Cut in wedges and serve. III
freezer isn't available, chill cake
and have cream whipped before fill
ing cake. Fill with ice cream,
spread with cream. Dribble sauce
over top area, sides and serve at
once.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
Delaware Farm
Labor Letter

Crew Movements
Potato crews have been coming
TO the area the past week, mostly
with incomplete crews. A good
market has made growers impa-
tient to start harvesting. Some
growers are confident that the price
will stay close to the current $500
per hundred and are delaying dig
ging expecting a larger yield of
number Is Most growers report
an excellent yield with good quail
ity. For most sections of the po-
tato growing area, there was am
pie rainfall so that irrigation was
reduced to a minimum. Most pack
ing is in 100 ID bags but growers
report that they expect calls for
smaller containers as the season
advances. Crews in Maryland and
Virginia were getting 32c to 35c
per hundred over the grader and
up to 40c for small packages and
are asking corresponding prices
here. We expect the harvest south
of Delaware to be completed next
week which should release more
workers. Bean pickers are in de-
mand both in Kent and Sussex
Counties. There has been short
age of these workers all season and
it has been getting worse. These
picker shortages made it look bad
for the tomato harvest. Let us
know your needs for tomatoes and
we will start work ON rounding up
workers. Also as suggested in our
last letter, if you plan late snap
bean planting and will need harvest
hands, be sure to let us know early
this looks like a labor shortage
year.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
July 23. 1856
1881 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas

Dear Friends:
The squeeze play is closing in
here day by day. | have written
YOU that all of these 450 houses in
this Air Force village are up for
sale. The details are too involved
to go into, but they just are unde-
sirable to us to buy. On week-ends
we are besieged by civilians from
town looking over the many prop
critics. Besides living in fear of
these prospective buyers we have
TO think about dozens of families
being moved here from the Air
Force Base at Ell Paso.
For the past three weeks, begin
ming early Saturday morning and
ending Sunday evening we have
seen practically every house in To-
peka that is up for sale. We have
been in projects that you can have
immediate possession of, we have
seen blueprints of 1rojects that
have not progressed even a foot
above ground, houses 10 years old
that looked like box and were
priced like castle, nice houses in
the wrong part of town and bad
houses in the good part of Topekal
And when we look at trailers you
know things are getting pretty
serious with us. My six foot hus-
band said he thought he could new
er live in mobile home.
We have been in Topeka for
three years and never intended to
buy home here, especially at this
late date. There are many families
who have been stationed at Forbes
for five and six years and | GER
tainly would hate to go home and
wait for Hayes for two or three
years. / love my home as you know
and | love seeing all of you, but we
like Milford when we all four can
be there together.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27

The propaganda balloons sent by Radio
Free Europe to the countries behind the
Iron Curtain must be effective. The Russian
agents who rule Czechosiovakia have appeal
ed to the International Civil Aviation Organ
ization, branch of the United Nations, to
take steps to stop them
Their argument is the menace caused by
the fact that each balloon is filled with hydro
gen. They are also said to be a hindrance
to air traffic.
AS the Communists are notoriously indif-
ferent to the welfare of anyone who is not
useful to them, these arguments sound like
hogwash. They admit that the messages
scattered by the balloons are picked up. They
say that the collectors use them to exc out
paper drives, but they seem to know pretty
well what messages the balloons contain. At
least they quote with Indignation from the
appeals to liberate themselves, addressed to
the captive peoples of Eastern Europe.
This Czech protest may be taken as a
sign that our balloon messages are making
trouble for the Russians.
&<e(S
LARGER FARMS-LOWER COSTS
The official in charge OF tractci and i'm
plement production of one Of the major mo-
tor companies recently had something
worthwhile to say about the farmer and his
future.
Of late, as he pointed out, the big prob
lemS nave Deen farm SurpluSeS and farm
prices. But our population is growing at the
tremendous rate of seven thousand day. AS
a consequence, it seems certain that demand
will catch up with production in a compara-
lively brief span of time-and that in some
instances heremay be shortages instead of
surpluses.
He also cited some bright spots in the ag-
riculture picture. Mortgage foreclosures of
farms are at an all-time low. more farmers
own their own farms than ever before, and
farmers debts are only about IL per cent of
their assets.
He then said Through the use of me-
chanized equipment, farmers can now oper-
ate larger farms and lower their production
COSTS But we are convinced that larger
farms do not mean that agriculture is going
entirely to the commercial farm. We believe
the family type farm will continue to be the
very backbone of American agriculture"
Agriculture has been going through an
adjustment which, in large part, was made
inevitable by the extremely high World War
III and Korean War production. Other busi-
nesses- and, today, agriculture is busi-
ness-have found themselves in the same
position and have had to deal with similar
problems. But it would be dire pessimist
indeed who could say that the long-range
outlook for American farming is other than
excellent.
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
THE HIGHWAYS OF THE SEA
What wins wars I?

An obvious answer comes at once to mind
gums, bombs, military aircraft, naval YES
sells, trained and courageous troops.
But that is not all of the answers by any
means. The very heart of warfare is supply
the ability to deliver the incredible variety
and quantity of things that any fighting force
must have if it is to survive, much less win.
This helps to explain something Secretary
of the Navy Thomas said the other day-that
World War III started to be won the day Am
erica began building merchant ships faster
than they were being sunk. And anyone who
has read Churchilps great war memoirs
knows that England was terribly close to de-
feat in the early stages-largely because the
toll the U1boats took of merchant shipping
could not then be adequately replaced.
Another top authority, Admiral Carney,
former Chief of Staff, has said Until and
unless the seas dry up, man will be confront
ed with problems of achieving his own cross
ing and denying the crossing of his enemy !;
for nowhere in the future can be discerned
any total substitute for the great highways
of the sea-"
Even if the seemingly impossible should
happen, and the chance of another war be in
some way wholly eliminated, we would still
need great and modern u. S. merchant ma
rine For our economic welfare which
means the welfare of the farmer, the worker,
the nufacturer-depends in large part on
a vast volume of foreign imports and exports
which can travel only by those highways Of
the sea
Milford chronicle., 1956-07-27
~ ~
FIRST LANDING

The first English landing in this country
was not at Jamestown in 1907, but across
the continent. Sir Francis Drake, the Eng
lisiS admiral whose achievements are one of
the giories of the English navy, beached his
ship, the Golden Hind north of San Francis
co in 1879.
There he cleaned the boat hull and gath
cred provisions for the rest of the voyage.
This was around the rest Of the world, across
the Pacific and finally home, the second such
voyage to be made after Magellan's.
A local society, the Drake Navigators
Guild, with Admiral Chester Nimitz as hon
orary chairman, has been formed to check
the precise location using all their expert
ence as navigators. They now believe they
have found the exact spot in brakes Bay in
Marin County. Thus a new spot of tourist
interest is created