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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-27

$500 to 1000 students annually
during the next i've 70 10 years.
While vacant homes are moi
as plentiful As they were q few
years ago. real estate agents
report d still stable market,
New apartment building has
slowed considerably. but apart
ments still are available on
relatively short notice.
Tight zening Controls
All building in some 200
square miles 0f the county Il
under sonine controls adminis-
tered hy the county commits
sioners on the advice Of the
Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commits
sion.
Residents In most Of the
heavier populated areas receive
water and sewer service from
the WASHINGTON Suburban SAM
itary Commission. Homes out
side the utility's district use
water wells and septic tanks
inspected BY the county health
department.
A network Of telephone and
power lines cover the county
Gas pipelines do not 60 into the
southern areas. and many resi-
dents there use propane gas.
Roads in the county are con-
tinually improving. with new
dual-lane highways OF the
state Roads Commission ex-
pected to speed trafIic and help
eliminate tieups.
Sc Fire Companies
A county police force Of $50
men. coupled with state and
United States Park Police and
patrols Of several Of the 26
municipalities. oifer protection
round the clock.
Thirty-six volunteer IRE com.
panies and 80 rescue squads,
directed BY two control cen-
tiers. also are available ~ hours
q day.
Combined In one showcase
exhibit win be information de-
scribing park facilities and pro-
grams offered BY the county
recreation department. Opera
ton Of the library system and
the distribution Of over 100. 900
volumes In 10 branch libraries
also win be spelled out.
TOMORROW; Prince Gcorges
spends millions to keep schools
NJ 70 date.
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res fun 70 80 barefoot at
the beach. but you need shoes
for school. Give through the
U0F 70 support the Shoe and
Rubber Fund.
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PRINCE GEORGES SHOWCASE
Novel ExhibitotMd u.
Aimed at Newcomers
By JAMES B. ROWLAND

Prince County ocials and business
men are making aout attempt 70 win permanent resi-
dents the than 10000 Federal employees 70 be brought
into the county BY relocated Government Offices.
Interested groups already have talked directly with the
agencs 70 oer help IN famaflsng employees with Their new
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permanent residence.
One Of the major efforts will
be the opening Saturday Of the
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County Showcase. 10 run one
week ii the Cole Student Ac-
tivities Building At the univer-
eity Of Maryland.
m the building win be q
A.500-sQuare-foot array Of dis
plays and exhibits highlighting
what community interests be-
liese 10 be the best selling
points Of Prince Georges.
The Showcase win be open
free to the public on Saturdays
from 2 10 Q pm. Sundays from
] 10 $50 pm. and weekdays
from $50 to $50 pm.
The exposition. the first Of its
kind. is sponsored BY the Prince
Georges Chamber Of Commerce.
with the full endorsement Of
the county's governing Board
Of County Commissioners.
Showcase officials say the ex-
hiblts win be publicized among
employees Of the Government
agencies planning to move as
well as those which are even
slightly contemplating . relo-
cation.
ls.oeo to BE Affected First
Biggest Of the moves win be
that BY the National Security
Agency 70 Fort Meade. The re-
location Is expected to be COM
pleted BY January and increase
personnel on the military res
ervation to $1,000.
The same month the Air
Force Research Development
Command Is scheduled to move
its contingent Of 1900 person.
mel 10 Andrews Air Force Base.
The proposed John H. Towers
Field for the Navy at Andrews
Arb Is expected to require an
other 500 persons for main
tenance.
The Nays Photographic In
depreciation Center win move
It's s00-man operation In JAM
nary TO new quarters near the
Census Bureau buildings In
euitland.
Started Three Years Age
Relocation Of the National
Security Agency. started nearly
three years ago when some en-
ployes began moving into Prince
Georges County to be closer
10 the sprawling headquarters
Building.
The agency's personnel ONCE
has turned out q stack Of in
formation bulletins designed
TO help house-hunting en-
ployes choose q home best
suited to their needs. These
hnlletins were based on talks
with county officials and busi-
neSSrnen.
Bus loads Of NSA personnel
have Travelled back and forth
from the Fort Meade plant.
going through different sections
Of Prince Georges 10 give work.
krs Q view Of areas surround
ing the new ONCE.
County Showcase win consist
Of an arrangement Of pictures.
charts, maps. graphs and other
exhibits. Visitors to the free
exhibit win be able 70 use
nearby parking areas capable
Of holding up to $4,000 cars.
Schools Chief Concern
From the showcase visitors
will be given an idea Of exactly
what they can expect to ind
In the way Of homes. schools
and other facilities in the 49,
square-mile county.
The county government has
been funneling the largest part
Of the tax dollar-64 per cent
into the school system that
now has 81. 227 pupils and 2.i5o
teachers housed in lis schools.
Schools are expected to re-
main the chief concern Of the
county fathers. with enroll
ments expected to increase
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tions the county has 10 offer for
permanent residence.
One Of the major efforts will
be the opening Saturday Of the
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So Flre Cempanle.

TOMORROW; Prince George
spends millions to keep schools
NJ 70 date.
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Black and BEoss
Ensemble

Curtoin Screen IS 36"x3I
Velvet block. Bross poker end
brush ore conveniently
hung 10 screen. Andirons,
solid bross urn tops ~.
Excellent vclue. Just one Of
nnony items OF savings.
$zS.ss
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
Babson Discusses The Future OF Agriculture

Over Production Is A Temporary
Problem
Right now farmers are the vic
tins Of their own unusual ability
to coax record yields-per-acre
from the soil. Better seed. i'm
proved fertilization and irrigation,
and more efficient spreading, cul-
tivating, and harvesting machinery
have increased production. Dur
ing the war our farmers rose mag
nificently to the challenge to pro-
vide food and feed for our allies
and now they are temporarily in
trouble.
Future OF Agriculture
At present we are growing at
least 5 per cent more farm pro-
ducts than we can sell. In an
effort to keep our farm surpluses
from becoming too burdensOmer
the government spends huge sums
on price support programs, the
soil bank, and foreign distribution
schemes. All these measures have
helped to some extent, but they
are by no means cure-alls. am
disturbed by the fact that too many
farmers take undue advantage OF
this government help by deliberate
Iy overproducing. However, | am
firmly convinced that this over
production is a temporary problem.
Research Holds The Answers
Research has performed won
ders for all other industries. l fore
cast that it will also perform won
ders for agriculture. Chemistry
industry, and agriculture, working
together, gave US hybrid corn and
varieties of the soybean which
would grow in our country. This
combination sponsored the re-
search that produced a new dwarf
variety of castorbean said TO yield
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
POINT OF AGREEMENT

Secretary of Agriculture Benson is not
exactly an impartial observer of the Ameri-
can agricultural scene. He has been up to
his ears in controversy almost since the day
he took office The fact that he is a contro-
versial figure, however, should not be allowed
to detract from the excellent sense in his re-
cent analysis of the nations farm problem.
1t is Benson's view-and in this he finds
himself in agreement with many who differ
with him on other pOints-that our farm
problem rises mainly from the chronological
revolution in agriculture during the past
couple of decades. after many years of
working under the principle that farm pro-
ducts were scarce Benson said "and that
the emphasis should be on production, we
now face the fact that farm products are
abundant and that the emphasis should be
on uSe."
The secretary added that ''our abundant
farm supplies must not be locked up in stor-
age houses. They must be used by people
who need them at home and abroad" This
sums up rather neatly both the dilemma of
agriculture and the broad outlines of a So
luton to that dilemma.
There can be, and there certainly is, the
widest disagreement as to the details of
bringing that solution to pass. The fight
over method should not be allowed to obscure
this one central point on which men of wide
ly diverse opinion can agree-that abundant
production is now the rule-and there should
be increasing emphasis on finding outlets for
that abundance.
Americas farm problem could be greatly
eaSed if there were a concerted effort to find
new markets and new uses for the food and
fiber that our farm lands pour out in such
tremendous quantity.
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10

to increase tremendously il we are
to keep pace with progress, and
when the failure of our lottery
world peace could shut off i'm
ports, is Congress going to say
that thirty million dollars-a little
less than the cost of four jet bomb
ers-is too high price for sur
vival?
The merits of this case were sett-
led last year. When will Congress
decide to keep its word?
OUR SECOND REVOLUTION
The origin of steel goes back
thousands of year. The scimitars
of Damascus and the swords OF
Toledo have been famous for cen
turies. But, until a hundred years
ago, steel was mighty scarce and
precious commOdity-and reserved
largely for Sitting throats.
At this period in history, life in
America, apart from it's unprece-
dented freedoms, provided few lux
uries that were not available to
Romans, Egyptians and Greeks
twenty centuries before-plus many
hardships the ancients never
dreamed of. There were little
more than % million people in the
United States and eight out of ten
lived on farms or in small villages.
Considering there were 6,385,000
cows that had to be MIXED twice
a day-by hand-this was doubt
less a good idea.
But the country was bursting at
the seams The railroads were
reaching out-on brittle iron rails
-te span the vast and little-known
wilderness that lay between the
Mississippi Valley and the settle
ments on the Pacific Coast. Heavy
farm exports and gold from Cali
fornia were bringing prosperity.
Goal OIL" distilled from coal tar,
was becoming popular for illumi-
nation. In two more years, Colo
mel Drake would be drilling the
first oil well.
1t was at this juncture that Hen
ry Bessemer, in London, and Will
liam Kelly, in Eddyville, KY, sue
ceeded almost simultaneously with
the same idea-on which they had
been working for years. This was
the economical mass-prOduction OF
steel by blowing cold air into mol
ten iron. 1t has been known ever
since 1856 as the Bessemer pro-
cess, because the Englishman OBJ
tanned a U. s. patent ahead of Kelly
and let the world know about it.
Kelly proved priority of invention
in 1857, but never proved his claim
to fame.
This was the development for
which the world, and especially
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
Search Fails TO Produce
Blacksmith Replacement

DETROIT = Up - A blacksmith
who has never shod horse in the
So years he has practiced his craft
is having trouble finding replace
ment to fill his job at the Depart
ment of Public Works.
James M. Ferguson, 81, wants to
retire. The DPW has searched two
years and hasn't found a smith or
an apprentice to take over.
1--WE realized a long time ago that
Ferguson would be retiring and we
would have a hard time finding a
blacksmith to fill his job" DPW
Commissioner Glenn c. Richards
said. I'VE started looking two
years ago but it appears black
smiths are becoming scarce.
Ferguson repairs hand tools us
ed for street maintenance and
makes special tools and unobtain-
able parts for old machines. The
DPW employs three blacksmiths
Born in Scotland. Ferguson is
only 5-feet-4 and weights just 155
pounds.
"You don't have to be big to be
a good blacksmith" he said. What
you need is strength and skill"
Those you get through hard
work. l guess that's why they are
having trouble finding blacksmiths
today"
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
By EscluO Townssnd Dlcksrso

were placed on packets of seeds
vegetable or flower seeds). Not
only attractive and different name
tags, but useful and appreciated.
Geraniums and red checked table
cloths made the room very color
full. Miniature cherry pies, pecan
pies, hot dogs wrapped in dough
looking so delicious, made US all
make pigs of ourselves. Door prizes
for the day were many and varied,
but all were things to be used in
our gardens o. eating out of doors.
/ won a geranium, but others won
an out door tea cart, a barbecue
braZer, long wooden tcngs to use
in cooking, forks, cotton quilted
| gloves, BARBECUE cook book, hurri-
cane outdoor lamps and coffee
carafes. 1t was such a nice party.
Three of us went to the coffee
together and dressed for the day.
| dislike to get dressed in the
morning for an afternoon party,
but time was scarce / didn't have
any choice. AS / walked out my
front door in the morning / got
run in one of my seamless stock
ings. At the coffee the miniature
cherry pies were so crisp and good
that when took my first bite
plopl Right smack in my lap fell
the "gooie". red filling.
We were scheduled to be in
Lawrence, Kansas by one that
afternoon for an ear ring shower,
farewell luncheon. J. wore beige
linen dress (spotted by this time
with the pie) and had big pic
ture, linen hat pinned to my
head" l mean pinned to my head
because | still have the marks to
show for it. And yet, every mouth
full of food I took was sure that
ligen flying saucer on top of nay
head would land in the center of
the main course We had sherry
preceding the luncheon and then
in the dining room we were serv-
ed noodles with creamed chicken
and chestnuts, garden salad with
vinegar dressing and some calorie
loaded dessert made with french
pastry and filled with cottage
cheese and whipped cream. Might
not sound appetizing, but it was.
After the party l took the chill
dren out to a drive-in for dinner
and that evening Hayes co-pilnt's
wife and I went to bingo. Might
Just as well have stayed home,
since we didn't win. Just had
fun.
I'll write to you next week.
Always,
E. T. D.
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10

as much as 2,7O0 pounds per acre
if the sell is properly irrigated
and fertilized with nitrogen. Also,
new combine harvester-huller
has been developed which will ga
ther tall or short castorbeans with
out waste. | predict a profitable
future for castOrbeans, with out
put reaching as high as 100000
crop acres.
A stimulating flow of new re-
search ideas has emerged from
the recent annual Chemurgic Con-
ference of the Council for Agricul-
tural and Chemurgic Research.
This organization and others like
it are facing up to the real farm
problem, which is not Over-pro-
duction but NATURALIZATION and
waste
Industrial Uses For Farm Products
We should be proud of the pro-
gress agriculture has made in our
country. But there is still much
to learn about soils, irrigation and
weather. Crops such as castor
beans and sesame seed will become
big business before long and l
forecast that other big new cash
crops are coming. But / want now
to call special attention tc the
need for putting more farm pro
ducts and residues to work in in
dustry.
President Eisenhower is alert to
this need. Some months ago, he
appointed a Commission on in
creased Industrial Use of Agricul-
tural Products. Its report should
be made public within the next
month. l urge farmers to study it
carefully and to follow it up with
action. Over the long pull. am
bullish about farming in this coun-
fru
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
THIS PROMISE NEEDS KEEPING

Rejection by the House of a
thirty million dollar promise for
continued purchase and stockpil-
ing of strategic minerals-notably
Decentralization to stall in it's
tracks defense efforts to develop
the heat resistant metals we must
have for faster planes and light
weight radiation shielding essen
tial to atomic aircraft.
Back of this story is a perfect
example of the absurdity of pass
ing legislation requiring money to
implement it-and not providing
the money. Last year Congress
passed interim legislation author
izing so million dollars for the pur-
chase of strategic minerals, in
Guiding tungsten, the funds to
come from subsequent appropria-
ton bills. Just before knocking
off for the campaign, the solons
| provided twenty-One millions to
support these purchases for the
balance of 1956-with the promise
of thirty millions more as soon as
the new Congress convened in Jan
uary, with the balance to follow
in the 1858 budget
But the unforeseen economy
drive touched off by public resent
ment of President Eisenhower s
record-breaking budget, has caus-
ed the House to renege and cut the
minerals purchase item out of the
$685., 100000 urgent deficiency ap-
preparations bill which the Senate
| passed in February. A Senate ma
jority, outraged at what it con-
sidered a shocking breach of faith
on. the part of the House restored
this item by a roll call vote of 81
to II. But, the House cOnferees
again by-passed the promised funds
and the future of strategic metals
remains deadlocked
Under the original strategic min
erals legislation, the United States
had just reached the point of self
suff1ciency in domestic tungsten
supply when the House action had
the effect of wiping out this hard
won advantage. Thousands of hard
rock miners are idle today and
the mines are closing one by one
Just at a time when tremendous
increases in. our need for lungs
ten are being developed.
Without the Government pur-
chase program, America is at the
mercy of foreign producers since
the world price of these metals is
too low to support American wage
scales. Without the program there
is hardship for our miners and
loss to owners But, most import
ant of all. at a time when our
tungsten requirements are bound
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
A GOOD PRECEDENT

A retail association has summed up, in
clear and simple terms, some of the best
founded objections to the proposal that the
federal minimum wage laws be extended to
the larger retail stores of the nation. All re-
tailers, along with various other service in
dustries, have been exempt ever since these
laws came into being.
First, it is inevitable that, if the laws are
now applied to one major segment of the re-
tail industry, it will be just matter of time
until they are extended to all retailers.
Second, application of the laws to the
larger stores would require smaller retailers
competing for the same type of labor to meet
the federal rates. This is contrary to the
sound, long-established custom of permitting
local conditions to control wages in what is
an essentially local industry
Third, unemployment would increase for
those least able to find employment as re-
tailers would be forced to tighten up margin
al areas of operation.
Fourth, consumers would find higher
prices when they went to the stores, and this
would add to current infationary pressures.
All the evidence supports these conten-
tions. They indicate why past Congress after
past Congress has refused to extend the laws
to retailing. In doing that, the Congresses
established a sound precedent that should be
maintained.
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10

Babson Park, Mass, May 8.
MANY farmers write to me COM
planning about the cost-price
squeeze. They. are discouraged be-
cause for them the bottom seems
to have fallen out of the farm
market. sympathize with these
people, | suspect that many of
them have come upon hard times
because they are not farming as
we'll as they know how. Also, many
of them are not keeping abreast
of new ideas and new crops.
Trend Is Toward More
MechanizatiOn
Tremendous changes have taken
place in farming during my life
time. When l was a boy, horses
and mules furnished practically all
the power on farms. Even as re-
Gently as 1910, there was almost no
mechanization on farms. In that
year the total farm population was
32,O76, $50. By 1856, this had
dwindled to 25,058,000, a decline
of PIG per cent Most observers
estimate the present farm popu-
lation to be only 20,000,000. Thus
farmers and their families now
account for only 11.S per cent of
our total population compared with
34.9 per cent in 1910.
/ predict that machines will con-
tinue to displace men on Ameri-
can farms. Hence, the smaller COM
mercial farms will be hard put to
survive. However, l do not believe
farmers should be despairing OF
the future. A good living can still
be made on the farm by those who
open their eyes to progress. OBJ
viously, the trend is toward new
crops and greater mechanization,
and there is no sense in bucking
that trend.
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
1851 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
Nav 6. 1857

Dear Friends:
/ am writing my letter to you
this week sitting on my newly
built front porch. Hayes and Dad
DickersOn made the porch in Feb
ruary or March. The maximum of
temperature here today is sup
posed to be 20 degrees so l am out
here trying to get my first bit Of
sun. We have had one cold spring.
Hayes certainly had a nice one
and a half day visit at home. It's
nice the Piper Airplane factory is
in Pennsylvania. Maybe some time
again he can get in on another
trip transporting a new plane out
here to the midwest and get an
other free trip to Delaware. Tues
day morning Hayes was pleased
to have the opportunity of seeing
through the Piper factory and wat
ching the Pipers and Tri-Pacers
come off the assembly line
By noon Tuesday, Hayes and
Charlie Shellhouse were landing
at the Milford Air Park and were
met there by Hayes parents. Mr..
and Mrs. A d. Dickerson and by
my brother Ted Townsend and his
youngest daughter, Miss Betsy
Townsend. Hayes sister drove out
to meet Hayes, having heard he
was home, didn't see him and re-
turned home thinking it was a false
report that he was in Milford
Hayes has raved about the lovely
flowers and Towering bushes al
home, how lovely the dogwood in
the woods is this year, took great
pains to tell me about his mothers
home cooking and how luscious the
submarines were. He continued tC
rave about my brothers new boa
and how he enjoyed his ride in it
Now you know / could take JUS
so much of that and finally told
him to hush.
Wednesday while Hayes was
away, / had a busy day. Tina
morning at $3.50 I had been invited
to a scout meeting, which was Il
organize Dawn's first Brownie
troop. Dawn will be seven tbs
fourth of July. The meeting
could not attend, and did offer my
services as cO-leader.
AS a newcomer 'spotter" for oul
squadron l was supposed to be al
the Newcomers Coffee at the Off
GERS Wives Club by 9:45. A new
group. of girls will be responsible
for the June social activities sc
this coffee was little more spe.
cial then usual. Our name tags
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10

No exact analysis of Yemen's
mineral wealth can be made, how
ever, until teams of experts can
get into the country and survey it.
AS for agriculture, Yemen al
ready is the richest area in the
Arabian peninsula Yemenites are
among the worlds best mountain
farmers. They build beautiful rock
terraces on the mountain slopes to
prevent erosion.
ResOurcefuI Farmers
When necessary, they move rich
soil from one place to another to
grow crops in a congenial climate.
Near Sukhna, farmers carry soil
from the steaming hot coastal plain
to a point on the rocky mountain
slopes where climate and water
are adequate for coffee production.
Yemen's highlands get abundant
summer rains, and the whole area
abOunds in underground water re-
sources. Experiments in growing
citrus fruits, cotton and wheat have
been highly successful Yemen's
mocha coffee is world flmOus. The
country provides food for the Brit
ish-controlled Alden prOtectorates
to the south.
Yemen's highlands have an al
most perfect climate. the heat Of
the tropical sun mitigated by the
altitude and summer rains. In the
distant future. a Yemen opened up
to tourists might well become the
Switzerland OF Arabia.