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Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03
Wide Social Security
Shift Is Sent To
Eisenhower
Continued from page Cue)

bill increases social security taxes
about SO millions a year starting
next January 1.
The employer and the employee
each would pay at the rate OF PA
per cent on the first $4,000 of an
nual earnings; the present rate
is per cent each. Self employed
would pay 3as per cent after Jan
nary / their tax is now 3 per cent.
This would mean a 1910 annual
tax increase for a person earning
$4,000 or more, and the same for
his employer. Self-employed would
pay $11.75 more if they earned at
least $4,000.
The first disability payments will
not go out until July, 1857. An est
imated 100000 persons are expect
ed to get about 800 millions the
first year.
The payments will run from $50
to- $1085O a month for those who
qualify, averaging about rs.
The lowered retirement age for
women is expected to bring about
100000 additional women on the
rolls in the first year-200,000 wild
ows, 100000 retired working wom-
en- and 100000 wives of retired
husbands.
Payments to these are expected
to total 400 million dollars in the
hrst year; they will begin in Dec
ember this year, assuming the
President signs the bill.
Widows would receive at age 62
the full rate of retirement pay
lnent to which they are now en-
titled at SIS.
However, working women would
get at age 81 only so per cent OF
their age SIS rate, and wives of
retired husbands 7E per cent. Ii
they choose to go On the rolls
before 65, their lower rate of pay
ment will continue for their life
| time.
The working women and wives
would get proportionately greater
payments for each month they
waited past 81.
Another important provision OF
| IiI6 Ulll WOuIO ChICAAO SOAARN =
social security coverage to about
225, 900 additional persons, most OF
them self employed professionals
Included in the new groups
brought under the system would
be 10000 lawyers, $4,000 den
lists, 10000 osteopaths, as well
as veterinarians, naturopaths, CHR
opractors and optometrists. The
osteopaths were included only at
the last moment after they had
reversed their previous stand and
asked for coverage.
This means that every important
group of self-employed and priv
ately employed persons in the ma
ton except medical doctors would
be under the system in the future
Also brought under coverage by
the bill are about 1000 employees
of the Tennessee Valley Authority
and 20 employees of Federal Home
Loan banks.
The bill changes the formulas
| 146 million dollars a year federal
grants to the states for relief pay
ments to needy aged, blind, dis
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03
Washington
Letter
@IN THE SWEAT OF THY FACE
I SHALT THOU EAT BREAD

~ Society reporters overlooked the
arrival at New York's Idlewild air
port the other day of Mr.. and Mrs.
Giovanni Ghersinich, their daugh-
dter Irma, 20, and their sons Gius-
ieppe, q, and Mario, rs. But it could
nweli be one of the big stories of
1856 in social progress.
hnl The Ghersinichs are the first of
g75 Italian farm families to be
brought to America by Catholic Re
1ulief Services OF the National Cath
Ollie Welfare Conference for re-
in Rock Hill, S. c..
p There, they are presently settled
/. on 4G acres of the 1000 acre tract
of the York County Farm Produce
Company along the Broad River.
In this unique and ambitious pro-
ject, worthy and landless Italian
families will have full opportunity
TO improve their economic, social
and spiritual lives through the
sweat of their own brows. The ref
ugees find the company-prepared
farm ready to co. Equipment,
livestock and operating capital, as
well as land, are available to each
new farm family, and balanced
against the full use of existing fam
Vily labor. AS returns from their
efforts exceed operating costs,
these families are expected to start
buying their land, and may expand
their holdings where their needs,
abilities and ambitions outgrow
the basic 40 acre units.
Thus, there is nothing Utopian
bor communal about this operation,
which is part of the Hickory
uGrove project of the Farm and
Family Foundation, the latter made
possible by the donations of inter
ested Americans, and which is un-
der the direction of Very Rev. Mau-
rice Shean, C.. o., Provost of the
Oratorian Fathers and of this new
community. Christian charity pro-
a Yides the way. supplies the initial
tneeds, purchasing and marketing
systems. These advantages must
be earned by the selected families
Through their own good character
"tand reputation for industry. From
thereon, their destiny is in their
own keeping.
Here, it would seem is the cpl
tome of what America means:
Give a man a chance-and expect
ghim to make good on it. Balanced
against their blessings, the Cher
\ sinichs, and those who will follow
them, have the responsibility of
living up to the tradition of free
dom.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03
100 MILLION TIMES NO!

aa The fears grows that when the
LIN General Assembly meets-a
lweek after our electiOn--the Red
carpet (call it a pun if you like)
I, will be spread for Communist Chi
! ma. and that the resistance of the
grWest-even US-will not be too
'Rspirited.
ia There are those in Washington
7 who do not want to hurt the feel
ings of Britain. who recognized Mao
.six-and-a-half years ago. and who
( is eager for an end to trade re
: strictions. There are those who are
!. soft on Communism and those who
'dare just soft
~. So far as the American people
are concerned. they are unalterably
opposed to recognition, as PreSi-
dent Eisenhower recently told the
- Canadian Premier and the Mexican
President at White Sulphur
Springs. American opposition has
been expressed in five unanimous
Congressional resolutions since
1851. A reaffirmatiOn in recent
weeks passed the Senate $50. the
House 1910.
The people should have an OPP
portunity of recording their re-
solve also. All that is required is
plank in both party platforms
fatty rejecting the thought of seat
ing Red China i'm the UN. II should
bring out a record number of vot-
prS
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03
TIME FOR CHANGE

ASSINIBOIA, Sask. = up - The
wooden sidewalks in this town have
got to go, town council decided. APP
plication will be made for approval
to issue debentures for $4,000 for
construction of concrete sidewalks.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03
HOMES FOR DOGS

McALES1'ER, Okla. Up Mrs.
Tom Garraro operates an unofficial,
one person humane society.
During a recent 6-week period,
Mrs. Garrard found homes for Sc
dogs.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03
VULNERABLE TARGET

WINDSOR. Ont. - Up - A soft
drink vending machine at theatre
here is having a hard time. For the
second time in a week thieves
smashed it and stole the coin box,
containing about $40.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03

head earlier than usual in the 1856
presidential campaign. Also un-
Orthodorx is the fact that these
polls are presently concerned with
vice presidential rather than pres
idential candidates.
Whether employed to serve the
weird purposes of President Eisen-
hower's Secretary of Peace" or
subsequently to give us (ostensibly)
a preview of our next Commander
in-Ghief, such opinion "sampling'
which may establish the nation S
favorite breakfast cereals a
fraud and a delusion when applied
to assaying political convictions.
People do not search their hearts
to accommodate pollsters. They do
when registering their votes in pri-
vacy.
In the case of Harold Stassen' S
furious polling, however, the mys-
terry lies not so much in the valid
ity of these ridiculous efforts as in
the question of who in the White
House started him on this curious
vendetta against Nixon. 1t is his
tory that he and the President dis
mussed the Stassen pro-Herteran-
ti-Nixon announcement before Mr..
Eisenhower left for his Panama
weekend, and that the President
gave his eager aide a yes-andnO
go-ahead. But the idea was OBJ
viously Matched before that. Fur
thermore, Mr.. Eisenhower could
quite logically sack Mr.. Stassen for
not resigning from the Cabinet be-
fore lighting this apparently anti
Administration firecracker. B u t,
while the President has been re-
ported as furiously angry over the
incident, he has not fired the cul-
prit and does not appear likely
to.
Whether the anti-NiXOn plot sue
ceeds or fails, however, what seems
reasonably sure at this writing is
that the forthcoming campaign will
not be the ho-hum, klein -a-walk
affair that had been anticipated. In
ripping the scab off the deep and
half-healed 1852 wound in the Re
publican party, Harold Stassen has
bucked up the Democrats no end.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03
MONSTER EGG

ASQUITH. Sask. up A
year-old goose on the farm of G..
c. Crockett laid an egg measur-
ing 13 by 91a inches. Crocketts
said they were going to try to hatch
it.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03

could use more,
so great is the
d e m a n d for
their services.
w h at is a
bookmobile? 1t
looks like a big
bus without
a n y windows,
but with two
doors - and a
bus-type cab in
front where the
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03

The bookmobile is not a new
idea at all, according to Miss
Genevieve Casey of the Detroit
Public Library. Before automo-
biles we're invented, horse and
carriage served to bring library
books to the public. Now Detroit
has several bookmobiles and
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03
LII WIND

The vicious and dangerous con-
cept that popularity poll can re-
liably establish the political wishes
of the voters is raising its ugly
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03
WOMEN AND WHEELS
Wheels Carry Books to
Army of Child Readers
BY Mary Lou Chapman

Who the nations children stopped reading
to watch television?
Detros bookmob service of the public library has proved
isn't long kids the bookthey read and read
read.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03

More than 100000 miles of rural
U. S. highways were surfaced from
1920 to 1885.
Milford chronicle., 1956-08-03

block long had formed outside.
One boy about twelve stacked
up six books, mostly about In
dams. We asked him how long it
would take him to read all those.
"Oh, I'll finish all these by next
week when the bookmobile comes
around again." he said, and aston
ished us by saying that he loved
to read. He was healthy outdoor
type, too, and what we want to
know is-when does he find time
to watch TV?
Business" Is Good
The bookmobile does more
business" than most of the city's
branch libraries. One day last
week, $50 books left the bookmo-
bile in the space of an hour and
a half, and 1.400 in all we're taken
out that day. Of course, about
the same number came back so
you can see the turnover is tre-
mendous. The central library has
a stock of 10000 books to choose
from, and new ones are added
constantly.
The bookmobile carries 1000
books for adults and 1,500 for
children, but children account for
two-thirds of the activity. So it
seems that children will read, and
read lot, as long as they can
get the books. That's where the
bookmobiles come in.
Fashion t0riter, artist, and TV
personality, Miss Chapman is a
native of Detroit and has spent
the last seUerGI years Working
,Dith automobile styliSts, design
ers and engineers at ChrysIer
Corpordtion.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23

frauds either by answering question
able advertisements in pulp maya
zines or by acting on the complaints
of customers.
All the evidence gathered is turned
over to the solicitor of the Post Office.
If the legal boys feel there is evidence
of using the mails to defraud, copy
of the charges and show cause"
order to appear before the solicitor is
sent to the promoter.
Usually, this is enough to cause the
health vampires to close up shop and
file an AFFIDAVIT to that effect with
the Post Office.
In the unusual case where wealthy
promoter feels he's onto something too
lucrative to let go without fight,
he'll come to the hearing with flock
of lawyers.
After hearing the evidence. the Post
Office can issue a fraud order which
denies the medical huckSter access
through the mails to his victims. And
prosecution by the United States
Attorney follows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23
Continued From Preceding Page

A similar case in point, according
to the Post Office, involved the trial
of a cancer quack in California. He
had been peddling miracle" clay
which guaranteed a cure for SIS
carton.
A hung jury resulted when one
witness for the defense testified she
had been cured by the clay. Less
than three weeks later she died.
The Government got a new trial.
made its whole case the transcript OF
the woman's testimony at the previ-
GUS trial and her death certificate
stating cause of death. He got year
in jail
Because of the expense involved
and the difficulty in getting witnesses,
only a small percentage of the cases
handled by postal inspectors ever go
to court.
Last year, for instance, there were
only 43 court orders, while 119. firms
went out of business at the suggestion
of the inspectors.
The inspectors track down the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23

Star Photos by Paul M. Schmick
THE ones we really go after are
the rackets that actually endanger
someone's health" explain the in
spectors.
In this category the most popular
are cures" for serious illness, such as
cancer or arthritiS.
The girl who buys suction cup
and steel exercisers in the hope Of
making like Marilyn Monroe probably
will just end up with some embarrasS-
ing bruises and a good set of bicepS.
But she may even do some permanent
injury to herself.
Permanent" dipilatories and i'm
potency "cures" come under this
grouping.
And, with Americas waistband
expanding, the inspectors say re-
ducing formulas and devices are
booming
All of which is to say that maybe
Barnum was right when he said there
is a sucker born every minute.
He didn't say that being a sucker
could kill you. But it's true.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-23

with pure radium" and having the
capacity to rejuvenate old people.
cure diabetes. goiter. eczema, rheuma-
tism. dementia praecox. or st, VituS
dance, sold for $1,000.
Used models fetched up to $500. Its
promoters are estimated to have
filched about 100000 from the public
before the Post Office put them out
of business.
THE difficulty in catching up with
and convicting these people," explain
the inspectors. sis in getting their
victims to testify against them"
Most people, they say, are either
too gullible or ashamed to admit they
were duped.
One practitioner" used testimonials
from users to push his medicine" for
treating pulmonary tuberculosis"
The Post ONCE discovered that, al
though so per cent of his patients
had died, the promoter was still using
their testimonials.
They had died, of course, of tuber-
culoSis.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19
INSTALLATION HELD
FOR P-TA OFFICERS

Mrs. Wanda Wilson was install
ed in the office of president at
the Palmer P-TA meeting held
on Tuesday of this week. Serving
with Mrs. Wilson, and also in
stalled in office will be Mrs. Cloy-
cine Driggars, secretary, and Mrs
Lois Weldon, treasurer. Dexter
Bacon, elected vice-president at
last months meeting, was unable
to be present for the installation
ceremony and will be installed in
office IN September. The April
meeting was the final meeting for
this school term.
Following the business meeting
and ceremony Territorial Police
Officer Sherman Barton showed
two films based on safety. A dis
cussion period followed the show
ing during which the driver in
struction courses for schools was
brought up. Nothing definite was
done but it was suggested that the
possibility of such a course in the
Palmer High School be explored
further.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19
FULL AGENDA FOR
HOSPITAL BOARD
NETTING FRIDAY

Among items to be discussed by
the Board of Directors of the VAL
ley Hospital Association at their
April 20 meeting will be the fin
ancia1 status of the hospital as
of March 81; renewed public re-
lations effort; fund drive report;
preparations for Hospital Week
as well as discussion on the dis
posal by sale Of the old hospital
building and a decision On the
Board vacancy. The meeting will
be held in the hospital dining
room, beginning at 8 pm.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19
KiManians Plan
Dinner-Pasty for
Minstrel Workers

Elks hall will be the scene of
festivity Saturday night when the
Palmer KiWanis club plans a din
ner party. Special invited guests
at the dinner will be members of
the Kiwanis Minstrel Show cast,
crew, ticket sellers, in fact
everyone that helped the local
club in the annual event. In adj
dition, Kiwanians will be permit
ted to invite guests. The dinner
menu will feature chicken chow
mein.
Lloyd Merely, 1t. Gov. Alaska
Yukon District, will be guest
speaker for the evening and
James Hurley will be master-of-
ceremonies. Dinner chairman for
the event is Kiwanian George
CroWther.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19
Fellowship Service
Planned al Local
bapiist Church

A fellowship supper is planned
at the First Baptist Church of
Palmer Saturday evening, April
II at $50 pm. in honor of the
Rev. Richard Miller, evangelist
who is visiting in Palmer next
week.
Rev. Miller will be the speaker
during the week of April % to
April 20. Services will be held
each evening at 7:30 pm. from
Sunday to Sunday. Regular Sun
day services will be held at the
usual morning hour.
Members of the Wonen's Mis-
sion Society will meet at l 80 pm.
in the church basement on April
%.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19
GRANGE POSTPoNES
APRIL 20 CARD PARTY

The card party, slated Tor FRI
day evening, will be postponed
from April 20 to April q, it was
announced this week, because of
the Beta Sigma Phi style show
which falls on that date. The April
27 party will be the final one for
this season, and all eard-player
fans are urged to attend for an
evening of fun.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19

I now state that this Constitu-
ton embodies the best innova-
tons of recent state constitution
al development. It's emphasis on
POPULAR control is most note
worthy, certainly an outstanding
feature. The Constitutional Con-
yention is to be congratulated for
its superior product. | could only
wish that the other states, espec
iany in the Midwest, would learn
a lesson from the people of Al
aska.
r. ALLAN DIoNIsOPOULOS,
Lecturer, Dept. of Government
Indiana University,
Bloomington, Ind.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19

MaIeskf

Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Maleski
Of Healy are parents of their
sixth child, a son, who was born
at Valley Presbyterian Hospital
April Il. The couple have named
their new child Daniel Joseph. He
weighed nine pounds, six ounces
at birth. MIR. Maleski is employed
as an engineer with The Alaska
Railroad.
Larson
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Larson
of Palmer are receiving congra-
tulations on the birth of twin
sons, born at Valley Presbyterian
Hospital April II. The couple
have not yet named the boys who
weighed six pounds, II ounces
and six pounds, three ounces at
birth. They are the seventh and
eighth children for the couple.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19

The proposed Constitution for
Alaska bids fair to become a
viable instrument and symbol of
popular government.
Frank w. Prescott, Chairman
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19

I am particularly glad to note
that authority over legislative
apportionment and districting is
placed in the hands of the execu-
tive and judicial branches of gov
eminent. Another conmendable
feature of the Constitution is the
power given to any voter to COM
pei the governor to reapportion
and to challenge the legality of
any apportionrnent act.
GUS TYLER, Director
Political Department
International Ladies
Garment Workers Union,
New York, N. Y.
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19

FHoNTIERsMAN cLASSIFIEDS
ALWAYS BRING RESULTS
The frontiersman. [volume] (Palmer, Alaska) 1952-2005, 1956-04-19

Department of Government
University of Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
STORES FOR RENT

UPPER CONN. AvE.--Near Nee
Zee use. APPROX. .le. It. < 65 It.
Reas. rent with heat furu. Con-
Sqlltt pick Taylor; SHANNON 4
81 n vi MA G-OHAh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
SHOPPING CENTER

NAYLOK SHOPPING CENTE Il
(Naylor I'd. near Alabama ave. s.e)
stors SO % y 5g T.. plus D, stST
redecorated. In successful l0-store
shopping center. including large
Food Fair Supermarket, Near large
new Sears, Roebuck lust opened.
Excellent for variety, hardware.
TV and appliances, childrens wear
and juvenile furniture. etc. Vac
NON e LUCHS CO.. Realtors. 124
18th st q W MA H-234h
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
Location
Counts

And you will agree that this beau
tiful wooded "a acre is difficult to
beat. Custom built 3-bedroom rambler
with extra-large rooms. spacious
living room with fireplace, separate
dining room. fully equipped kitchen
includes washer and dryer. Priced
to sell CT at S2O.950
ArfaX Realty ,JE 4-4900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30

ARL., 1908 Columbia pike-e-rm.
semidet. brick. between 2 shop
ping .centerg, equip, kit, full bsmt..
gas heat. for dr.'s once or any
other like business. Incl. liv. quar-
tiers. ia. S-i255.
Mr.. Goth AND PA. AVE.-ofice or
small store, plus storage; garage
also avail. Reas. rent. Ii. 4-7265.
1858 LIST ST. s.E.-one story high.
brick bldg, approx. 5000 sa, t.:
cement A., overhead drive-in dooFn,
small ONCE. Excel. for warehouse,
light mfg., etc. Call CO. 5-3633.
End COMMERCIAL. 5000 sa. a.:
downtown area. Light manufacture
ing, warehouse, etc. $3.50. ia.
SECOND COMMERCIAL - base
ments Il very large. suit. radio
repair, shoemaker, painter, etc;
only $40 mo, each, with heat fur
nished, See MR.. WALDRON. 1913.
9th st. NV, DI. 7-7557.
AUTO PAINT SHOP, equipped. ready
for use. Room for z cars: good
location, 600 N. Y. ave, NV. Call
MA. S-13s3.
1911 18th ST. N.w.-store and apt;
2-story bldg. IN thiCkly pop. area;
good, friendly business: rent. 500.
ME- S-OO4l Or I'm 3-lh0O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30

LoRCUM LANES TOP VALUE a
only S26,950. A few minutes to D, c
or Pentagon via Memorial parkway
3 bedrms.. lift. den, "a baths
formal din rm., fully equipped kit.
iull bsmt,, nm. rec. rm., gar, beauti.
tul tree-shaded lot. CT contracts &C,
cepted.
TO INSPECT: Out Memorial park
way, right on Lorcom lane to N
quincy ST., and right to 1855.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
OPEN TODAY
/ TIL 6

NEW BRICK CAPE COD in the
desirable Lorcom lane area Of N
Arlington: 4 bedrms... ga baths; lse
ny. rm. with firepl;; formal din. rm.,
dishwasher. disposal and table space.
full bsmt.. carDort. Asking S34. 800.
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TRADE

We can work out . trade for you
ranchers. Lse. iiv. rm. with fire-
place. with eye-level kit. and Ice
daylight bsmt. Driveway into l2x24
carport. Priced at a low S15,95O
Call today to inspect.
PLANTATION REALTY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30

5000 SO. TT. Bethesda ave, in
Bradley shopping area; adjacent
to A ~ P parking lot. Commercially
zoned, Call OIL. 4-745O.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30

ATTN. DELICATEssEN LUNCH-
fabric shopl-Two stores available
in proposed Wildwood Manor
shopping center on Old George-
town I'd. Bethesda, Nd. Construc.
tion to start soon. Leases signed
Stores, Peoples Hardware and I
others, Parking for over 500 cars.
Consult Leasing Dept, SHANNON
a. LUCHS CO., Realtors. 724 18th
st. NV. MA. 8-2345.