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Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19

situation within the family which
precipitated placement may be
worked out in a much shorter time
and the child can return to his
parents after only a few months in
the Bureaus care For some chill
dren who come into the Bureaus
care, however, a return to their
own families does not prove to be
possible and for these children a
more lasting plan must be made.
If the parents do not wish to re-
linquish the child for adoption,
then continued care in boarding
foster home is provided on more
permanent basis by the State De-
partment of Public Welfare. Miss
Townsend reported that about 80
per cent of the children the Bureau
now accepts for care are newborn
infants. The majority of these are
children of unmarried mothers,
and most of them will be released
for adoption. These babies along
with some older children are
available for the families who turn
to the Bureau to adopt child.
Unfortunately the demand to
adopt white infants far exceeds
the supply of babies available for
adoption so that not all families
who apply are fortunate enough to
receive one.
While there are more than
enough families Offering to adopt
white children up to 4 years of
age, there are children over 4
years for whom suitable adopting
homes are urgently. needed. For
these older childreG, all of whom
have particular needs because of
their age and life experience, the
Bureau constantly seeks families
able to offer something unusual as
parents to these children. There
fore, for the older child the Bu-
reau will consider applications
from families with special quail
ties whether or not they have chill
dren of their own. Adopting fam
lilies for Negro children of all ages
are badly needed also, it was point
ed out.
In 1856, the Children's Bureau
will expend about $167 500 to pro-
vide services to families and chill
dren in Delaware and about SO
per cent of this amount is secured
through the United Community
Fund of Northern Delaware,
central fund raising organization
for twenty-eight agencies. The re-
mainder of the funds needed comes
from income of perpetual trusts
and enaowments, appropriations
from the Levy Courts of the three
counties, the Dover United Com
munity Fund and individual con-
tributions.
Although approximately q per
cent of the children for whom the
Bureau provides care in years
period are from Kent and Sussex
Counties, Miss Townsend said,
only about 31a per cent of the funds
received actually come from the
counties. This is the reason the
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
Complete Address Of Eli
zabeth Townsend Given
Before Local Century
Club Monday

The services of the Children's
Bureau of Delaware, d privately
supported, statewide child care
agency were presented to MEM
bers of the New Century Club of
Milford, at a meeting held on
Monday afternoon, October Is, by
Miss Elizabeth S. Townsend, ex-
ecutive director of the Bureau. The
Children's Bureau is currently
making it's annual county wide ap-
peal through a mail solicitation
for funds to help defray the costs
of providing its service to families
and children in Kent and Sussex
Counties.
Miss Townsend told members of
the New Century Club that the
Children's Bureau of Delaware was
established in 1918, and has been
working on behalf of children
throughout the state since that
time. The Bureau is one of three
adoption agencies licensed by the
State Department of Public We'll
fare in Delaware. Its two main
services are: to provide boarding
foster home placement on tenn
porary basis for any Delaware
child when such placement seems
in the child's best interest and
when there is a possibility that
| the child's own family will reas-
sumo responsibility for his care
within a reasonable period of time
or will subsequently release him
/ 70 q
| ton placement for any child under
the Adoption Laws of Delaware
when after careful study it is de-
| termined that the child is legally
free and physically, emotionally
and mentally suitable for adoption.
Although the direct care is offered
to the child, parents are helped to
| plan wisely for their children dur
| ing a period of crisis and for the
future in order to provide the
necessary love, physical care and
security the child needs. Couples
unable to have children of their
own are likewise helped TO have
families through adoption.
Many children from the state
pass through the. Bureaus care
each year. Each child is initially
placed in a temporary boarding
foster home where board is paid
for him and his clothing and med
icaf needs provided by the agency.
The length of time the child re-
mains in his boarding foster home
depends largely on his parents
plans for him. If his mother. for
instance, is i'll and needs to re-
main in a hospital or sanatorium
for some time. then the family may
] not be reunited for as much as
two years. On the other hand the
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
Weekly Tree Talk
How TO Get Rid of Tree Stump:N
Grubbing by Hand Best Method

How TO Get Rid of Tree Stump n
Grubbing by Hand Best Method
The one question that stumps
property owners is Whats quick
way to get rid of tree stump?"
The answer is: There is no quick,
easy way. There is no magic chemf-
cal that can be poured over a stump
to cause it to disintegrate over-
night
The best way to get rid of q
stump, says Don Cantwell, District
Manager of the Bartlett Tree Ex4
pert Co., is to grub it out by hand.
Since Fall is cool weather time, BET
gin it this Autumn.
There are some chemicals on the
market that are said to hasten
stump decay. Boring holes and ink
serting saltpeter have been tried.
But these methods are not too sucA
cessful.
Some persons try Burning
stumps. It may take days to keep
wood burning sufficiently TO desk
troy the stump of an old oak. Some
persons simply wait for the roots
to rot. This can be a considerable
wait. Some stumps take 8 TO 10
years TO rot; and there are others
that may not rot for a generation.
Mr.. Cantwell suggests stumps on
| lawns or near houses @be removed
even if it takes long grubbing BY
hand-because they are breeding
places for termites, carpenter ants
and wood-rotting fungi.
Termite invasion of certain
homes has been traced directly to
nearby stumps. Carpenter ants mag
attack weathered wood of build-
ings, fence posts, even outdoor
furniture. Spores from v'ood-rots
in stumps may escape to enter
cracks of neighboring trees, thus
increasing the incidence Of this
fungus infection.
For those who like old stumps
for old stuRlps' sake, stumps can
be hidden by training ivy to grow
over them. A tub-filled with gera~
NUNS may be set on top as decoA
ration. Stumps may be used as garr
den seats.
Some persons, using caution 70
avoid damaging an expensive saw,
cut the stump back to three or four
inches below ground Level, then
spread top soil over it again and
plant grass. But the underground
portion of the stump remains-to
lure fungi, termites and carpenter
ants.
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19

Children's Bureau is enlarging it's
letter solicitations each year in
the hope of securing more county
support.
At the present time 19 children
from Kent County are in the agen-
cy's care in either boarding or
adaptive homes Inqui eies about
the services are welcomed and
should be addressed to Children's
Bureau of Delaware, 1910 Della
ware avenue, Wilmington 6, Della
ware.
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
Veterans Administration A
IMPORTATION SERVICE
Questions and Answers

Q-I am the widow of a World War
III veteran, and am receiving
death compensation payments.
If | elect to receive benefits
under the new Survivors Bene-
fits Act, would / have the right
to revert back to the old sys-
tenn of compensation, if I de-
eide to do so at some future
time?
A-No. Once you have elected to
receive payments under the
new Survivor Ben afits Act, you
may not change back to COM
pensation payments. However,
if you decide to continue with
your present compensation
payments, you may at any fu-
ture time switch over to the
new system.
Q-I have not yet reached my 18th
birthday, but even so, VA has
approved my application for
War Orphans schooling. will
the increased death compensa-
ton payments made by VA in
my behalf be stopped2
The increased payments
will continue until you reach
your 18th birthday. OF course,
you also will receive your
monthly educational benefit
payments, at the same time.
But once you pass your 18th
birthday, the compensation pay
will have to stop.
Q-Is wartime service one of the
requirements for spe CT a
"wheelchair housing" grants
for seriously disabled veter-
ans?
Military service may have
taken place either in wartime
or peacetime, SO long as the
veteran meets other require
ments of the law.
Al am eligible for outpatient
medical treatment from VA.
Could I simply go to my own
doctor for this treatment, and
instruct him to send the bill
to VA?
You must obtain prior au-
thorization from VA for this
treatment.
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
THE NEW LEISURE

Ir one of his campaign speeches, Rich
ard Nixon forecast that the four-day work
week is on the horizon. He added, in effect,
that the way tC assure this is to continue the
Republican Party in power.
In one of his campaign speeches, Adlai
Stevenson advocated what amounts to a
guaranteed lifetime wage for all workers,
continuing on into retirement. He added, in
effect, that the way to achieve this is to re-
turn the Democratic Party to power.
The Portland Oregonian said of these
ideas: eve have no doubt that Americans
will continue to add to the material variety,
wealth and security of their lives. They will
surely some day reach and surpass the goals
set by Mr.. Nixon and Mr.. Stevenson. There
is healthy and growing awareness, how
ever, that such material progress is not with
out its troubles, that the exploitation of
physical and emotional pleasures puts a
strain on the intellectual, moral and spirit
ual values that there is a high price on
Utopia 1t is a simple fact that consider
able number of retired persons-a recent
survey says a majOrity--WlSh they had not
chosen or had not been required to retire"
In other words, we will need full measure
of wisdom if the enormous amount of leis-
ure time the candidates envisage is to be put
to constructive use-and is to contribute to
human happiness and achievement.
There is one more point that should be
stressed. Both Mr.. Nixon and Mr.. Steven
son, to their credit, have said that the prom
ised gains should be brought about within
the framework of our free enterprise sys-
TEN. Yet a great many of us think of such
gains in terms of legislative acts Of govern
ment-things which will be imposed by law
If that turns out to be the case, we will be
trading freedom and independence and self
respect for sheer materlaliSm. There could
be no worse bargain.
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
N&0 AZ
OF HOT, AND COLD

Sometimes it happens that campaign or
atory generates more heat than highland
there is a lot of it these days on the air and
in person.
Cold as they are, facts and figures may
well be studied, as the election approaches,
by every voter as he reads his newspaper
and receive campaign literature in his mail.
These facts and figures add up to 'the
record" AS Al Smith used to say, Let's look
at the record r"-and be sure it is in the
interest of every American!
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
1881 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
October IA, 1856

Topeka, Kansas
October IA, 1856
Dear Friends:
Our children had the very time
of their young lives last night. Our
baby sitter was sixteen years old
Yesterday and for her birthday
she was given coke-cake-dance
party at the Officers Club. All the
Dickersons were invited to the af-
fair that began at five and termin-
ated at $3.50. Hayes was the photo
grapher for the evening. / helped
cut the cake and our six and nine
year olds danced to rock n roll.
Ann Hansen, the guest of honor,
wore a lovely pink dress with a
pink and silver corsage; her three
tier cake was white with pink roses
and the table was covered with a
pink cloth and silver candlesticks
carried out the rest of the pink and
silver theme. The big thrill of the
evening for Lynne occurred when
Lynne was asked to dance by one
of the teenage boys.
Curfew came too early for our
daughters and Lynne was bemoan-
ing the fact that we had to leave
while some of the teenagers were
still dancing to the juke box. Hayes
was telling her that she was lucky
to have stayed as late as she did,
on the eve of a school night. She
retorted, well, Daddy, you just
don't know how quickly time pass
es when you're dancing" / glanc-
ed at my thirty-four year old hus-
band and saw him age ten years!
Since Hayes has a mission to-
night he had today off and the day
was spent in painting the outside
trim of our newly acquired house
7 will never. never criticize another
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19

The three-mile-limit Of control
of oceans around nation is being
widely challenged today, says the
National Geographic Society.
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
THE BIG BLOCK

Consider the plight of the nations A.
100000 small businesses which, in the words
of u Senate committee, form "the basis of
our progressive economy"
In order to grow, they need a tax sys-
TEN which permits growth out of earnings.
But in getting cash for expanding opera
tions, they face the block of the high, dis
crimiRatory Fedetal income tax.
The corporate tax rate consists Of 3096
on taxable income up to $4,000 and 529o on
all income over that. Even worse is the
plight Of the businessman operating small
unincorporated business as a sole proprie-
torship. Out of every dollar of net taxable
income above $4,000, he pays so cents or
more in taxes. Truly the tax system puts a
penalty on success!
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
SILENT CANDIDATE

Once a presidential candidate maintain
ed absolute silence on the issues. He was
following the admonitions of his chief sup
porter, Nicholas Biddle, president of the
United States Bank. Biddle said of "Old
Tippecanoe," William Henry Harrison, in
1886: "Let him say not one single word
about his principles or his creed. Let him
say nothing, promise nothing. Let no COM
mittee, no convention, no town meeting ever
extract from him a single word about what
he thinks now or what he will do hereafter.
Let the use of pen and ink be utterly for
hidden as if he were mad poet in Bedlam."
Though Harrison followed this advice
implicitly, he was not elected. He ran well
enough, however, to be renominated in 1910,
when the '1og cabin and hard cider" cam
paign elected him overwhelmingly over
President Martin Van Buren. This cam
paign made such hullabaloo that Harrison
did not have to express any opinions.
This campaign may have been the all
time low in our political history. Fortunate
ly, voters nowadays are rightly suspicious
of noncommittal candidates.
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
WORLD SERIES SLUMP
"Millions of man hours of work

Millions of man hours of work lnvOlv-
ing countless millions of dollars were lost
to the nations factories, stores and Offices
from coast to coast last week" So wrote
Sylvia F. Porter, financial columnist, on
the day that Don Larsen of the New York
Yankees pitched his no-hit, no-run perfect
dream game against the Dodgers. In brief,
the World Series caused a temporary buSi-
ness slump across the nation.
A manufacturer estimated that during
the period of the games and for one hour
afterward production losses on machines
ran to about Is per cent; incoming calls
were 80 per cent below normal, indicating a
considerable loss in sales. Trading on the
New York Stock Market fell between 20 and
80 per cent Department store sales were
off, Restaurants suffered because people ate
in tearing rush.
There were a few bright spots. Beer
sales were good. Television rentals increas-
ed. And the demand for baseball players to
appear on television shows and to endorse
products skyrocketed. Sports writer's esti-
900 from personal appearances, endorses
ments, banquets and lectures.
Actually, this was business slump which
the nation favored. Any effort at business
as usual would not only have been unpopu-
lar; it would have been as irrelevant as the
effort to sell bikini bathing suits to the Eski-
mo bellies.
Now that the series is over business is
out of the slump. But no statistician has as
yet calculated the number of grandmothers
who died on October but are now happily
arisen in good health.
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
POLIO INDIFFERENCE

A curious thing is happening, so far as
shots to prevent poliomyelitis are concerned.
All over the country, the program to bring
about universal vaccination is pushing up
against dead weight of Indifference
The causes of this indifference are hard
to pin down. But the fact of it is indispu-
table. Millions of persons to whom the polio
vaccine is now available are not getting it.
Though the bulk of these are adults, many
thousands of children-eSpecially older chill
dren--also are included.
Cost of the shots may have deferred some
adults. This can scarcely be true IN the case
of pregnant mothers, however, or IN the
case of children under 90 For those groups,
government vaccine is available without
charge and the only cost involved is the doc
tors fee. Thousands of children" the Ma
tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
said recently, "face the needless prospect of
a lifetime of crippling unless unused federal
funds for purchase of Salk vaccine in most
states are promptly put to the purpose for
which they were allocated."
In some states, doctors are being notified
that federally-purchased polio vaccine is
still available for the asking. The National
Foundation also is urging adults to be vacci-
mated, and has announced that it will spend
10 million dollars to buy shots for families
that cannot afford the vaccine. At least half
of the states have approved use OF CONNER
cial vaccine supplies for adults.
Where the vaccine is available, it is fool
ish not to use it. For though millions have
now been vaccinated all those not vaccinated
are still vulnerable to this terrible disease.
Common sense says If possible, be immun-
iZed
Milford chronicle., 1956-10-19
ATOMS FOR POLITICS??'

IrSC importance 10 say ABOUT the develop
ment of peacetime uses of atomic energy
and about the efforts to turn this develop
ment into an ironclad government mono
poly.
eff the government keeps a strangle hold
on atomic energy" says the Times, 'it will
keep, also, strangle hold on economic de-
velopment. More than any other single COM
modify, short of sheer military power, con-
troll of power supplies means control of the
whole economy.
"Our government, both in its .wisest and
most honest leaders, and in its most sincere
and humane businessmen, has in the last
two years made real and great strides to-
ward promoting atoms for peace But if
the attempt succeeds to drive private brains
and energy out of the atomic energy field,
it will be the end Of atoms for peace and
victory for atoms for politics.
atomic power, utterly ruled by politi-
clans, will be the greatest political tool of
our age"
TIE independent utility companies, ma
turally, are most directly interested in MAX
ing possible the production of power from
the atom on commercial scale. In pursuit
of that end, they are offering full coopera-
tiOn to the Atomic Energy Commission and
the other interested government agencies.
1t is unthinkable that these offers should be
rejected, that the vast resources and know
how of the industry be lost to atomic prog
ress, and that this enormous new energy
source become a political football.
<G@&Z
BIG JOB
Like a SNOWFALL rolling downhill, gath
ering momentum and size, Oil Progress
Week gets bigger and bigger and bigger
with each passing year." reports the. Ameri-
can Petroleum Institute. The 1866 observ-
ance-October 14-20-will outdistance its
predecessor in scope, size, and impact.
The Week is not designed to sell a ma
terial commodity. 1t is designed to sell an
idea-by showing the American people how
the old industry operates, all the way from
the fields where the crude oil is produced to
the corner service station, and by giving
them a better idea of the benefits that flow
from free, competitive enterprise.
Leaders of the industry will take to the
stump, and talk about oil and oil progress.
Displays, special events and exhibits will
reach virtually every community in this
vast country-these activities will be carried
out by local oil men in their own towns and
counties. A full color motion picture will be
shown in theatres, schools, on TV, and at
various public gatherings. In many COM
munitieS service station dealers will be sa-
luted as Ambassadors of good will" by
community organizations. There1l also be
such attractions as parades, beauty queens
open houses, speeches and rallies, and so on
and so on.
This is big job. 1t has to be, for it
deals with one of the biggest and most i'm
portant resources of our country-oil.
S%@&%
THE RTC ri OCK
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29

son Cohen, librarian and instruc-
tor at Jewish Theological Semi
nary, and DR.. Fischoff.
J. Dr.. Ellis Rivkin of Hebrew
Union Coilege-Jewish Institute of
Religion and DR.. Silberman will
serve as faculty of the B'nai Birth
Institute to be held at Camp B'nai
Birth. July 29-August S.
B'nai Birth Institutes of Juda-
ism are a method of adult Jewish
education which permits laymen
to meet with distinguished scho-
lars and experts in order to study
Jewish culture and religion. The
Institutes, which extend for
week or less, are generally held
in rustic areas. All B'nai Birth
members and their friends are
eligible to enroll.
Persons interested may obtain
further information by contacting
their nearest B'nai Birth District
headquarters or by writing to
Rabbi Harold Weisberg at l70l K
Street. N. W.. Washington 6. D. C..
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29

Many of them will teach at
Camp B'nai. Birth, Starlight,
Pennsylvania, where the greatest
number of B'nai Birth Institutes
are being held. One of these Insti-
tutes is specifically designed to
train study group leaders; B'nai
Birth member may enroll only if.
he or she agrees to organize or
lead study group in his home
community after the course is
frished. Scheduled for July 22-29,
the faculty members for this In
stitute are DR.. Lou Silberman,
occupant of the B'nai Birth Hillel
Chair of Jewish Literature at
Vanderbilt University, Rabbi Har-
old Weisberg, national director of
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29

the B'nai Birth Department of
Adult Jewish Education, and
three directors of B'nai Birth Hill
lei Foundations: Dr. Ephraim Fis
choff of Yale, DR.. Norman Frimer
of Brooklyn College, and DR..
David Lieber of Harvard.
Faculty for the first B'nai Birth
Institute of the year at Camp
B'nai Birth. July Ills. consists
of DR.. Simon .Rawidowicz of
Brandeis' University. DR.. Joshua
Trachtenberg of Bergen County
Reform Temple. Teaneck. N. j.,
and Rabbi Irving LeveY. director
of the B'nai Birth Hillel Founda-
tion at Princeton.
Faculty for the second Institute,
July 1922, consists of DR.. Abra-
ham S. Halkin of the College of
the City of New York and Jewish
Theological Seminary, Rabbi Ger
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-06-29
HendprsOnville, N. {.
North Carolina Institute
Engages 50 Scholars

Almost so noted scholars writer's religious leaders have
faculty
be held this Maurice Weinsen of Charlotte NJ Co. Chair
man of Birth Jewish Education Committee
They include rab of the three Jewish branches college
seminary professors Birth Fe Foundations
editors archeoogis
visiting lecturer Biblical archaeology
the Harvard Divinity School
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-10

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