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Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
Up-Dating Graduation

1t begins to look as if graduating
from high school-that is, the mat.
ter of surviving the. actual com
mencement exercises-is going tC
be a lot easier than it used to be
A recently completed nationwide
survey of state Board of Education
indicates a definite and growing
trend against big-wigs and in favor
of graduates as speakers gen.
eral tendency, in fact, to permit the
wearers of the caps and gowns to
run their own show with mini
mum of official guidance.
A fairly typical view is that OF
State High School Supervisor, H
Maine Shoun, of Idaho, who thinks
that stiffly formalized exercises
have little effect on the lives of the
graduates and that they quickly
forget, or do not understand, the
ponderous words of the Very I'm
portant Orator. ST believe, he
said, that commencement exer-
cises planned and participated IN
by members of the graduating
classes are. best for them, for the
school and for the community"
Another hopeful sign for the
nations high, school seniors is
the realistic practice, recently
established in Massachusetts, OF
holding the commencement exer-
cises as soon as the years school
work is done-and considerably in
advance of the formal closing OF
the school. This puts the graduates
out in front of the upper-classmen
in the competition for summer jobs,
and gives them little more time
in which to earn (or add to) the
college nest-egg. And those who
plan to go no further and are seek
ing permanent jobs, the advan-
tage is probably even more signifi-
cant. To the boy or girl whose
school graduation, nothing is more
important at this jucture than get
ting started in the right kind of
work
Moreover, commencement plan
ming permeates the entire school
atmosphere, inescapably spilling
over into classes of the under
graduates. Seniors, un-busied by
completed school-work, have a cer-
tain distraction-value that could be
blunted or lessened by release
prior to regular school closing.
Seems to make good sense to give
the seniors this break.
Time" says the Montenegrin
proverb, "is sometimes a mother,
and sometimes stepmother. "
Massachusetts educators = whose
forebearers initiated public edu-
cation in the American colonies
obviously believe this depends on
how she is treated. And their con-
Germ for giving the best possible
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
Brighten the Holidays
With Christmas S1Ueets

1T WOULDN'T be Christmas
without holiday cookies. A ira
ditional Christmas confection of
Vienna may provide new note in
the cookie jar this year. Lillian
Langseth Christensen of New Mil
ford, Conn.,, author of the recent
ly published Look and Cook book
and recipe service, suggests the
following continental recipe:
SUGAR PRETZELS
619 cups flour
IL cups butter
IL cups confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup milk
eggs, beaten
l pinch salt
~ teaspoon vanilla for half of
dough
2 tablespoons cocoa for other half
of dough
Vegetable shortening for pans
White Icing:
q cup confectioners' sugar
a little hot water
l teaspoon lemon juice
Cream butter, ad sugar and stir
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29

well, add. eggs and milk alternately
with flour. Make a smooth dough,
fiavoring half with vanilla, the
other half with cocoa. Roll dough
into a sausage and cut into pieces.
one at a time, into long "sausages"
about II inch in diameter, keeping
the other pieces cool urtil used.
Cut into seven inch lengths. Lay
the two ends of a 7-inch strip a.
cross each other and twist once
to make a pretzel. Place the pret-
zels on a cookie sheet creased with
vegetable shortening. Bake in a
medium hot oven (375 degrees)
till done, about fifteen minutes.
Makes about 10 dozen pretzels.
Dip the pretzels in thin white
icing. To prepare it,, mix sugar with
lemon juice and put enough very
hot water to make thick, cream
like paste. Whip the paste well and
keep it liquid enough for dipping
and coating the pretzels. Dip the
pretzels while they are still very
hot, as this is the secret of making
the icing adhere.
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
Washington Letter = By Robert Nelson Toylo

Secretary Robert B. Anderson to
the effect that he'd try his best to
keep the Government out of the
red and not spend any more than
it takes in-but he couldn't promise
that we wouldn't have to raise that
$275 billion debt ceiling.
On balance, it seems clear that
we are going into what many will
call a crash program on mis-
siles-and which will be expen-
sive What is less clear is what
happened to the Administration s
idea of cutting out or deferring
entire categOries of (FederaD ac-
tivity" to offset the missile push
and as expressed by President
Eisenhower in his Oklahoma City
speech in recent days.
It's Not CiviI-And No Defense
Robert Moses, New York's sea-
soned planner and administrator
of vast parkway systems and public
housing developments, speaks for
the inarticulate and exasperated
says ouT present Civil Defense Ad-
ministration should be abolished.
CD Air Raid Drills, say Mr..
Moses in his report on the Civil
Defense Fiasco" in the December
Readers Digest, have been silly
80 per cent of the people have paid
no, attention to them, and evacu-
alton and dispersion plans are sc
much hogwash".
How can any honest minds
deny, he asks in the article con-
densed from Harper's, that civil
defense is branch of military de-
fense and that the Department OF
Defense is responsible for both?" II
is this department, he says, that
"is supposed to protect us against
attack and launch the counter
offensive"
Most specifically, we should take
heed of Mr.. Moses warning a.
gainst the staggering civil defense
proposal that is awaiting action
when Congress reconvenes. This is
bill to provide atomic shelters
for 135 million Americans at an
estimated cost of $24 billion-and
to set up, incidentally, a super
numerary Civil Defense Depart
ment to be headed up by a new
Cabinet Secretary!
To go along with the rabbit and
mole life" suggested by the Civil
Defense bureaucrats and their
dispersion philosophy" and "shel-
tire psychology Mr.. Moses points
out, we shall have to abandon all
property rights, competitive society
as we have known it-and of
course, "every personal exercise of
liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness.
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
BABSON DISCUSSES BEAR MARKETS

of a Bear Market was very high
interest rates. Today, however, we
are no longer on the Gold Stand
ard, but on a Political Standard
The government in Washington
cannot forever extend prosperity
but they can certainly stretch it
out.
Another system which has work
ed fairly well in forecasting mar
kets is the Dow Theory. This was
originated many years ago by one
of the former owners of the Wall
Street Journal. / presume any
reader can secure an explanation
of it by writing the Wall Street
Journal, in New York City. Just
now, however, this Dow Theory is
out of style.
l personally have been guided by
the Area Theory, so-called. Briefly
this means that as long as business
remains near its normal line of
growth we have nothing to fear,
except for some very unexpected
eventuality. When, however, busi-
ness begins to form an Area OF
Prosperity above the normal line
larger than previous areas, we
must be on our guard. When the
area becomes too large an Area
of Depression below the normal
line begins to develop. Stocks and
retail profits usually begin to de-
cline in the last part of the Pros
perity Area, and begin to come
back in the early part of the De-
preston Area. The word AREA is
used rather than high or low be-
cause if the area above or below
the normal line is deep. then it
will last a much shorter length of
time than if it is shallow. Contrari-
wise. a shallow area will tend to
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
2506 McAllister
Topeka, Kansas
November 25. 1857


Dear Friends:
In March, 1851, Hayes reserve
unit at New Castle Air Force Base
was activated and the outfit was
sent to Mac Dill AFB, Tampa, Fla.
Dawn then was only eight months
old and Lynne three and one half
years old. 1t was our very first
assignment in the Air Force, my
first time away from Delaware
TO LIVE in twenty-five years. Any
way, what ever the reason, the
friends we made at Mac Dill have
been very close friends all the
remaining years.
Last December we were home
for Christmas and if you'll re-
member, in one of my letters to
you / told you about our special"
luncheon at the Hotel Dupont.
Captain and Mrs. John Reilly, of
Norristown, Pa, and Captain and
Mrs. Edward Valiant, of Baltimore,
Md, were all hc:ee on leave at the
same time we were. We hadn't
been together, all of Us, since those
early days in our service life. Peo-
pie must have thought we hadn't
been together for a much longer
duration than it really was be-
cause we really had wonderful
time. After that leave the Reilly's
returned to Mac Dill (they have
been reassigned there) and the
Valiants and their two young
daughters reported to Elmdorf Air
Force Base, Alaska. Their trip up
by boat, their getting settled in the
north and their newest heir-to-be
have all been items of interest to
us in their recent letters.
Friday at the post Office in our
locality / asked the postman for
mail for Dickerson and he handed
me a tiny envelope, return address
Baltimore In the letter, Shirley
Valiant announced to us the news
that Ed had been killed five days
before in a plane crash near his
base. I had read in the paper over
the weekend (Hayes was in Mil
ford with you) about plane being
over due in Alaska and their send
ing out search planes. Later an
other news bulletin stated the
plane had been found, there were
some survivors, but Ed was not
one of the lucky ones. Shirley now
is in Alaska making final arrange
ments and will return to her home
in Baltimore. Ed was an easy go
ing, honey. nice kind of guy. He
had never been with Shirley when
the other two children were born
Che was in Europe on TDYS-tem-
porary duty away from home). For
this child's arrival he had planned
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29

Babson Park, Mass, Nov. 28
Most readers are anxious to know
whether we are now in a Bear
Market. This applies to retail
stores, real estate and commodity
prices, as well as to stocks and
bonds. Let me first say that every
thing points to good Christmas
business. Retailers who are at
their stores from opening to clos
ing and who attend to business
have nothing to worry about, at
least this year.
History OF Bear Markets
During my fifty years of watch
ing Wall Street, a part of which
time / spent on Wall Street, l have
witnessed five Bear Markets. Nat
urally they all follow Bull Markets
such as we have seen in the past
decade. In fact, there has been no
other Bull Market during these
fifty years as long and as profitable
as the one we have experienced
since 1912.
When Bull Markets increase and
become overextended, that is the
first indication of Bear Market.
Furthermore, such Bear Markets
ultimately include comm ID t y
prices and real estate activity, as
well as stocks and bonds. One type
of activity, however, may anticipate
or extend beyond another. The
bond market may now be at the
low point of its cycle, while the
stock market is still high. Stocks
are usually the first to collapse
and the first to come back, whereas
real estate is the last.
Different Rules For FOrecastlng
Bear Markets
When we were on a Gold Stan
dard, the best sign of the approach
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29

last longer. Thus, under the Area
Theory, you cannot make fore
cast as to the length of a period
of prosperity or of depression until
you know its height or depth.
Study The Public Pulse
During previous periods of pros
perity, a very small percentage of
the people owned securities, or
even real estate. Today, however,
markets can be. very much influ-
enced by the thinking of small in
vestors scattered throughout the
country,-that is, John @. Public"
Furthermore, owing to the strict
supervision of the Securities end
Exchange Commission, the bankers,
investment dealers and large in
vestors cannot form pools to in
fiuence the market as they did be-
fore the Roosevelt regime.
This was very clearly illustrated
during the second election of
President Eisenhower. Most stock
and business analysis felt that the
"bloom was off the rose" in 1855
and believed a Bear Market had
started. The tremendous victory of
Mr.. Eisenhower in 1856 entirely
changed the attitude of John @.
Public. This caused another uplift
to the market and an extension of
the Period of Prosperity. There
fore, the real criterion now of
whether or not we are in a Bear
Market is how you and your neigh
bors feel. If most of you have faith
in the present Administration, then
real Bear Market has not yet
started But, if you are fearful and
unhappy, my guess is that the Bear
Market has started in earnest.
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY EIoIns townsend DIcksrsor

to take leave and be nurse" for
Shirley and the little one. All chill
dren were crazy about Ed and his
own aSored him. Eds death was a
terrible shock to Hayes and me. He
was an excellent example of dedi-
Gated SAC career officer.
Speaking of SAC-when Hayes
returned from the competition at
Orlando, we Immediately began
moving into our new home and l
wrote you just short note that
week | haven't had time to tell
you that Hayes and his crew had
the best score in photography in
all of SAC crews at the compe-
tition. Naturally the boys were
awfully pleased, as were we wives
back home. While Hayes was in
Orlando he spent an evening with
Jack and Peggy Lingo. Jack, too, is
Major in SAC and is stationed at
Pinecastle AFB, in Orlando. We
saw the Lingos when Hayes went
to school several years ago at
Maxwell Field. Alabama. They are
from Lewes Delaware and Hayes
and I knew them in high school.
They have three good looking sons
and are just a nice family to visit
at any time.
Flossie and Bernard Clements
drove in our drive Wednesday even
ing about six They have been on a
business-pleasure trip to the west
coast and few commercial airlines.
When they landed in X. c. they got
rent-a-car and drove over. Our
visit with them just seemed to
evaporate. We had dinner, talked
and before we knew it, it was one
a. m. Hayes had tofy the follow
ing morning the Clements had to
get their flight from K c. at 9
a. m. Hayes had to fly the follow
shine Our visit seemed all too
brief, but we did appreciate the
extra trouble they went to. to in
clude us in their wonder full tip.
They visited plants in Washington,
Idaho and all of California. Ber-
nard has an excellent Job with Sea-
brook Farms, which you all know
is big frozen food industry. The
Diego, manv of the stars homes in
L. A., and thew. like us. were fas-
cinated with San Francisco. They
were awav from their three daugh-
ters about three weeks and loved
their trim. bnt were awfully anxi-
Gus to get back to Delaware. Now
must leave Won and get some of
the MUD ont Of nv new home. We
have no grassi And / see gran
ules of Kansas mud every time /
turn around.
I'll write to you next week.
Always
e. II. ID.
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29

break to their graduating high
schoolers is earnestly recommend
ed to every school board in the ma
tiOn.
Nor should it be forgotten that ii
is the local board that has the
authority to institute commence
ment reforms which it considers in
the best interest of the youngsters
who must so quickly prepare them
selves to take over where we
leave off.
Crash Program "Alm0st" Certain
If NATO commanders were to
take surprise clobbering-a the
Americans did at Pearl Harbor,
they would almost certainly fight
back"-and due to the scrambling
of NATO forces. American troops
would almost certainly" be in
volved, Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles told a Chicago press
conference.
1t was the SeC-etary's desire to
make it clear that field comman-
ders would take the initiative un-
der attack and not wait for a
declaration of war. He later, in
Washington, cleared up the appre-
hension that these officers would
order nuclear weapons into action
on their own. There had been, he
said, no new Interpretation of the
law that places authorization of
atomic attack solely in the hands
of the President. Even so, we sus-
pect they might, under strafiing,
use whatever came handy.
Meanwhile the Washington mis-
sile war gained momentum as De-
fense Secretary Neil H. McEiroy
declared we were in 'good shape
on intermediate range ballistic
missiles, and Rep. George d. Ma
hon, Texas Democrat and chairman
of a House Defense Appropriations
subcommittee said we weren't
either! He charged interservice
rivalry for our present situation,
in which we are undoubtedly
trailing Russia in both ICBM's and
IRBM's. But he also said with re-
spect to missiles: But !. we are
not falling on our face, / just want
us to go faster and sooner and
get more for our dollar"
Published reports that General
Maxwell d. Taylor, Army Chief of
Staff had urged the Joint Chiefs to
launch a six to seven billion dollar
crash program on anti-missile mis-
siles were met with PentagOn
statement that 1--WE know of no
dramatic proposals made to the
jos as published" Secretary Nc
Elroy denied that General Taylor's
program had been laid on his desk.
And through the smoke seeped
what are doubtless intended to be
soothing words from Treasury
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
PRICES UP AGAIN

The Government recently reported thai
consumer prices were the highest on record
and expected to continue their climb This
was the announcement from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, of the Department of Labor,
which reported the fifth successive monthly
increase in the u. S. Consumer Price Index.
AS the reader knows, one effect of this
rise is an automatic pay hike for almost q
million and half employees. For about a
million of this number, the pay rise will
amount to one cent an hour.
We are not opposed to the pay increase,
and if the cost of living cannot be held in
check, then pay increases are automatic.
However, it is a matter for concern when
pay increases continue to be granted auto
matically in time of highly threatening in
fiation.
The increases are highly infationary
themselves and it appears that we are in
something of spiral, which-if not checked
could lead to pretty rough bump in the
coming months or years.
1t should be recalled, too in this connec-
ton, that recent reports of increases in bus
mess during the past year do not make it
clear that about fifty per cent of the reported
increase is merely due to higher prices and
not actually to increased business.
1t is true that current imitation is not
exactly runaway imitation, although it seems
to be steadily creeping forward The regu-
larly-increasing cost of living and resulting
wage hikes will have to be accompanied by
increased production efficiency, general eco
nomic advancement in other fields, and a
broader economic base if an unfavorable re-
action is to be avoided.
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
PROHIBITION

IRONTON, Ohio - up - No pep
per is furnished with meals at City
Jail. Food is seasoned before SER
wing because it was found some
inmates were dumping large guam
titles of pepper in water and down
ing it as a kind of semi-intoxicating
drink.
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29

y
supercarrier stores which sell
everything from cashmere sweat
ers and jewelry to soap and ciga-
rettes laundries =. a tailor
shop :. a library :. hobby
shops places for church SER
vices of all faiths !. dozen dif-
ferent movies every night
Meet the Mayor
On this ship, the men response
ble-the mayor" and his principal
aide-are Captain Richard L. Kib-
be, native of Sullivan, ILL.,, and his
executive, Commander George C.
Duncan of Arlington, Va.
The captain almost never leaves
the area of the bridge while the
Forrestal is at sea. The "exec" di-
vides his time between the bridge
and the multitude of big and little
problems of "Forrestal City"
All hands-the officers and the
men-live at sea in a constant
world of clamor, of noise and hur-
rying that would mean sleepless-
ness for any but those hardened to
the life.
Except for the Forrestals exper-
fenced crew and airmen, a night
operation is a nightmare.
Elevators rumble up to the flight
deck, carrying aircraft. The night
is pitch black until the eye adj
iusts and can detect black shapes
moving about against a blacker
background.
Here and there the glowing red
eye of an electric torch flashes
briefly. Air crows come topside,
swathed in immersian suits, he'll
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
is 1T TOO LATE?

One of the vital questions which faces the
United States at this very moment is that of
industrial and defense disperal Although
some of our bases have been dispersed, very
little in the way of industrial dispersal has
taken place since the end of World War ii.
Now that it is self-evident that satellite
attack is feasible in the near future, one
wonders if Washington and the industrial
lists, who should be concerned, will not con-
slider proper program for the dispersal of
United States industry.
1t is hard to believe that the United
States has continued to concentrate its in
dustry and defense installations in spite of
the words of warning at the end of World
War ii and the obvious trend in warfare,
which showed beyond doubt that any new
war would bring rain of destruction from
the skies.
In preparing for surprise attack from
the air, it is obvious that dispersal is the first
order of business. The United States is far
more vulnerable to surprise aerial attack
with nuclear weapons than is the Soviet Un-
ion. There, defense industries have been dis
persed and many factories have been built
underground. The United States, on the other
hand, continues to build its skyscrapers and
erect defense establishments in metropolitan
and highly-congomerated industrial centers.
If we fail to disperse our industry, the
results may be staggering tragedy. If we,
in democracy, cannot act to meet the crisis
which evidently confronts us, then our dem
ocracy is failing and we are playing into the
hands of would-be aggressors and demon.
strating to the world a fault OF the capitals
tic system which could cost millions of lives
and even the very freedom and security we
cherish.
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
IF AT FIRST

CONVICTION, Ky. up Thomas
Mears. SO. couldn't get away from
this motorist
He did some fast stepping to
dodge the auto as it went past, then
yelled at the driver. The motorist
stopped, got out, punched Mears
in the face. and drove away.
Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
S&0s
FIXED IDEAS FAIL

In a struggle involving life and death sur
vival, two grave weaknesses are those of un-
derestimating your enemy and of fixing your
ideas in hard mold. During recent years,
these two weaknesses have cropped up in
many parts of America Some of the poten-
tialities of the Soviet Union were underesti-
mated. The shock of the sputniks- has made
this self-evident.
Also, we suffer from too many fixed at
titudes about Communism, about the differ
ence between hard and soft Communism De-
bate and discussion are frequently choked be-
cause of fixed ideas and, worse, fixed stereo-
types and prejudices. There are men who
have studied and fought Communism for two
or three decades, yet do not know everything
about Communism. But sometimes people
with fixed minds who may never have read a
basic book on the subject will shout and
drown out a reflective voice.
Will Communism die of its own weight
and inner contradictions? Serious men have
predicted this as possibility, but it does not
seem likely, surely not within any short time.
Is Russia changing? Unquestionably, yes.
But how? Change does not mean lberaliza-
tion. Wish-fulfillment thinking on Commun-
ism is just as dangerous as rigid thinking is
sterile. But in between, there are alterna-
tive views and many problems to which
reasonably satisfactory answers have not
been found.
At times, we must speculate and develop
hypothesis. Generally, the more we can see
this phenomenon clearly, the better we can
oppose it. But we must keep on top of events
retain our fexibility of mind, and recognize
that in Communism we have a complex, evil
changing, powerful movement against us,
and not something which can be exhaustive
ly described in a few StereOtypes. To be
against it, to fight it, you need more than
your prejudices; you need your head and
your heart and your will.