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Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
Washington Letter So BY Robert Nelson Taylor

drugs that have become ineffec-
tive, or downright dangerous.
Perhaps there are unwrapped
unsterile bandages, half a dozen
items that will be out of supply af-
ter one more use. How about the
basic items that aren't therefor
which you'd be searching franti-
cally in the emergency of sudden
| illness or accident
What brings to mind the medi-
cine chest and its possible condition
is the annual Sickroom Needs drive
of the Lysol people to help the
druggist help you to put the fam
| ily's arsenal of health" in shape
to resist most any sort of unex-
pected attack, and to take advan-
tage of the fabulous medicinal ad-
vances of modern science. For in
stance, the druggist can give you
medicine chest checklist that will
greatly simplify the task of making
inventory and, if you'll accept it,
some healthy" advice.
Did you realize, for instance, that
vitamins and wonder" drugs such
as penicillin, streptomycin, aureo-
mycin, ETC., should be kept in the
refrigerator? Have you pasted the
name and phone number of your
doctor and the number of the drug
gist on the inside of the medicine
cabinet door? Do you keep poisons
under lock and key so the kids can't
get at them? Do you know the signs
of deterioration in tablets, solu-
tions, suspensions, germicides,
salves?
There's live ammunition in that
family arsenal. The druggist can
help you keep it safe.
MIRAGE OR MIRACLE?
With four cuts in appropriations
acted upon by the House of Repre-
sentatives and a fifth recommended
by the House Appropriations com
mittee, total reduction of the Ad-
ministration' $718 billion dollar
budget presently in sight is some
what less than 800. million. witt
highway spending included. it's ac-
tually a 1875 billion budget)
This may be good start, but we
can hope the economy wave on Cap
itol Hill will receive fresh impetus
shortly when Virginia's Senator
Harry Byrd presents a budget OF
his own, 65 billions under the one
that came from the White House!
With tax receipts estimated at
1876 billions, budget of only 81
billion leaves some margin for debt
reduction and tax relief-even for
miscalculation of the take. And if
Senator Byrd, who is the soundest
money-man in Congress, has his
way, tax-cutting will start with
small business. Which, if anybody
should ask you, is where it will do
the most good!
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
1881 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
March rs, 1857

D1dA I'll GoS Acot
Dear Friends:
About Iwc weeks ago one of our
base doctors advised me not to
battle my children every night. Not
because the water supply was so
limited, but because there is so
little moisture in our air and our
skin is so dry it closely resembles
''peeling" that results from too
much sun in the summer time.
Well, this weekend put an end to
the lack of moisture in the mid
west.
A low pressure south of us, with
winds working counter clock wise,
dipped in to the Gulf and picked
up moisture. When it reached up
north here that moisture turned
into snow and deposited drifts up
to ten and twelve feet WEST OF
HERE. can only remember one
good snow in my 81 years and it
just infuriates me that / always
miss the big ones. Last night we
had no snow what so ever, but this
morning we awakened to find five
inches of wet snow in a 80 tenn
perature, here in Topeka
Suppose you've read and seen on
television various stories about the
snow, but the most interesting one
| thought was about five people
who were maroOned near Dodge
City in a grain elevator. Two of the
party were telephone men who
were able to keep in communica-
tiOn with Dodge City until tele-
phone wires were downed by the
storm. After "a hours without food
they questioned the town doctor
about eating some canned dog food
that happened to be in the eleva-
tor. The doctor queried, looked up
the brand name of the dog food
and told them it was all right. Af-
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
selling at 33, then sold at 8.
METHOD #2-BUYING INTO
NEW INDUSTRIES

Howard N. Feict, Jr., of the Bus
mess Statistics Organization of
Wellesley Hills, Mass, has made
an anlysis of what could have been
accomplished by investing only
$100 in automobile stocks in 1915
and then making twenty-five sue
cessive switches into various in
dustries, at the right time. This
results in most amazing figure of
over two billion dollars!
AS a practical matter, it would
have been very difficult to have
picked the right groups at the
right time; but if you chose 800
wrong and only 1919 right (pro-
vided all else was 1000 correcD, ,
the 500 coui3 have resulted in Ov-
er $20O,000,00O, disregarding both
taxes and dividends. Any Doubt
ing Thomas" may get a copy of
this analysis with list of groups
by sending two dollars to the In
formation Center, New Boston, n.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
A YOUNG MAN,S FANCY

Il
Our nomination for the youngs-
ter-most-likely-to-succeeG is the
thirteen-year- who is reportedly
going around with one of those size
able, long-spouted locomotive-type
squirt cans labeled "lawn-mower
oil'' and an offer to clean and lub-
ricate the family grass-cutter for
25 cents.
He is not only making money af-
ter school and Saturdays, but is be-
ing paid for conducting his own
market survey. He is finding out
who has power mowers, so he'll
know which households to solicit
for moving jobs a little later
without the risk of running into an
old-fashioned job you have to push!
In most communities, we under
stand, the kids keep tabs on the
yards where they see the gas and
electric grass buggies and compete
for the job of operating them
while pointedly ignoring the neigh
bors with the hand equipment. OF
course, most of the householders
bought the power mowers origi-
nally to outwit these little bandits
and do their own grass-cutting But
that has gotten tiresome and the
young capitalists are in demand
again.
Thus, the wheel of progress
makes another turn, and the man
who wants to be sure of having an
eager young beaver at his com
mand, is investing in the latest.
With this jet-age device, the young
lawn tonsorialist has only to sit on
a lush, padded, motorcycle type
seat cushioned by coil springs,
work his throttle and wend his way
via "aircraft-type" steering!
So far as we can see, there's just
one fly in the young lawn-jockey's S
ointment of bliss. The idea is ex-
citing the old-man himself like the
Christmas electric train! Even the
most enterprising youths may have
to. sulk another year before they
get to ride the sulkies up hills and
down dales.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
IMPORTANCE OF PATIENCE,
HOPE, AND DESIRE TO
RENDER SERVICE
themSeIVeS

The selfish, shortsighted person
seldoms makes much money in the
stock market, and keeps it only by
sheer luck. Most of the real for
tunes of today came from the fun
damental desire to render service
and give ''for value received" help
to: ID A panicky market or (2) a
new and useful industry. The first
can be accomplished by anyone with
patience and hope; the second
sometimes fails because of poor
Judgment or because one is too ear
ly or too late.
Both of the above two methods
Of making money require courage,
hope, and patience 1t takes cour-
age to sell stocks and store up cash
during a bull market when most
people are very optimistic; and it
takes COURAGE to buy stocks
again, one or two years later, when
most people are bearish. Further
more, the waiting period between
these right times to sell and buy
requires PATIENCE and hope.
However, the person who follows
either of the above methods renders
an important service; namely, his
selling helps make the boom less
dangerous, and his buying helps
checks the panic. For this service
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
HUNTERS TRICK

LA CROSSE, Wis. = Up = Clyde
Rains. 80. Onalaska, Wis, has been
fined $50 because he fished for
pheasants with a hook and line
baited with kernels of corn.
Conservation warden Dave Ham,
mes testified he discovered eight
baited fish hooks. each anchored
by thin copper wire, and arrested
Rains when he inspected the trap
line.
Rains was charged with attempt
ing to take pheasants out of season.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
FULL OPPORTUNITY

During the years of the Great Depression
in the 1930s, many college students or would
be students were deprived of higher educa-
tion because they could not afford it. In the
thriving 50s this is, generally speaking, no
longer true. Almost anyone who wants a
college education badly enough can now OBJ
tain it.
Not all countries are as fortunate as the
United States in this respect. A case in
point is West Germany where, it is reported,
some $4,000 out of 10000 university stu
dents were forced by financial reasons to
give up their studies last year. A correspond
ing percentage in this country would mean
that hundreds of thousands of students would
be forced to drop out for lack of money.
Happily, that is not the situation in the
United States Many scholarships, relatively
low tuitions in state-owned institutions, and
the high availability of summer jobs and of
part-time winter jobs combine to make it
possible for almost every determined young
person to acquire college education if he
has the mental ability to do SO. This is one
of the many ways in which our society helps
and encourages individuals to develop to the
full extent of their capabilities.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
LIVE AMMO!

AS if the atom bomb isn't enough
to worry about, there's the medi-
cine cabinet! Every household has
one, and most of them are poten-
TALLY deadly. Look in your own,
for example, and see how many
remnants of long-forgotten pre-
scriptions there are, how many bot
ties and jars that are by now un-
identifiable, and how many ancient
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
RESULTS OF CERTAIN
TRUSTEES

also have a copy of what E. L.
Quirin of Elm Street, Wellesley
Hills, Mass, who handles Trust
Funds minimum of $50,000) has
accomplished per $1,000. In II
years he has turned $1,000 in $7,256
for a local friend of mine. This
means an annual rate of interest
of from $3.50 to 409o. OF course. he
had the general market in his fav-
or much of the time; but it is an
other illustration of what intelli-
gent, supervised investing can the
oretically accomplish.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
SOIL BLOWS AWAY

A snow storm gave broad section of the
northern Midwest new covering of white
in mid-March. There is nothing remarkable
in that, but what followed was remarkable.
South winds filled the skies with dust from
fields hundreds of miles away, and before
long the new snow was covered with tawny
OVerlay.
This was a striking visual demonstration
of something that the Department of Agri-
culture has put into cold figures. The De-
partment has reported that in the Great
Plains area this season some 1885,, 900 acres
of land was damaged by blowing of the dry
soil.
This was considerable increase over last
year. The Department also estimates that,
as of March /, more than 28 million acres of
land was in a condition to blow, even though
there was quite bit of rain in southern por-
tions of the Wind-erosion area in February.
People who live in towns and cities may
conclude that such figures are of interest only
to farmers. The fact is that wind erosion of
the soil affects us all. Some of the effects are
felt rather quickly; others will be felt many
years hence if we thus allow our soil to be
depleted.
Much has been learned, since the great
drouth of the 1930s, about means of conserv-
ing this precious resource, the top SOIL These
conservation methods have been applied over
a wide area, but an even broader application
cf them is now called for. The United States,
though blessed with a vast acreage of rich
farm land, can not longer afford to be waste
full of this most basic resource.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
HOW TO ENCOURAGE MORE
INFLATION

The proposal to extend the federal mini
mum wage laws to enterprises, including the
larger retailers, which have been exempt
ever since the laws beginnings, should be
given careful examination.
Various authorities have recently point
ed to some of the dangers in this proposal.
For one thing, it would, beyond doubt, be
inflationary at a time when imitation has
again become a serious national problem.
Retail profit margins are exceedingly small
today, and the higher wage costs would have
to be reflected in higher prices.
For another the suggestion that the eX-
tended coverage be limited to larger stores
would be discriminatory to an extreme. This
has accurately been termed an anti-chain
store recommendation. 1t would mitigate
against fair and open competition in the re-
tail trades, and that always works to the
disadvantage of the consumer.
For the third thing, retailing and other
service businesses are essentially local in
character and must adapt themselves to
local needs, living costs, wage patterns and
other such considerations. If wage-hour
laws are needed, they can best be passed and
administered by the states. Twenty-nine
states have such laws now, and others may
adopt them this year.
There is still another point that should
be emphasized. Extending the minimum
wage would not be limited to raising the pay
of people now receiving less than ST an
hour to that level. Higher-wage employees
would naturally demand that their differen-
tials be maintained-and thus wages would
be showed up all along the line. This would
further intensity the infiationary effects of
the law.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29

BABSON PARK, Mass, March 80
Ninety per cent of investments
are made haphazardly Sometimes
they are made on the advice of en-
ployees of brokerage firms. It.,
however, will usually be found that
these men have been unable to
make and KEEP any money for
fbapoCaIuoc
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29

1t has made America a better ma
ton, a stronger nation, safer ma
ton. And it has made itself a rec
ognized and respected force for
good in America.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
ON CUTTING TIMBER

Timber resources in the United States
are one of our greatest sources of natural
wealth and landowners should exercise more
care in contracting for the removal of timber
from their property.
In doing so, they will benefit far more
than if they allow indiscriminate cutting, be-
cause a sapling can multiply in value ten
fold in just few years.
Anyone who has travelled extensively
abroad will have been impressed with the
conservation practices of such countries as
Germany. In Germany one can cut tree
but he must plant two others each time he
cuts one. In this way more trees are planted
than are cut each year and the resources of
the country are maintained
In many sections of the United States
cutting has been carried out with little re-
gard for conservation practices and the re-
moval of timber far surpasses replanting. We
suggest, then, that property owners give
sincere thought to the economics involved in
the removal of timber and require that tim
ber-cutting on their property be carried out
on selective and discriminating basis, saw
ing small trees as a source of income in the
years ahead and cutting only those trees
which are of appropriate size.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
KNOWING THE ANSWERS


One of the fascinating things about life
is the constant realization, among intelligent
people, that few arguments and issues are
ever black and white, and that few final con-
clusions or rules can be laid down in blanket
fashion to cover a mass portion of the pOpula-
tion on any major question.
What we are getting at is the fact that the
older and wiser one gets, the more he real
ICES his limitations. The wiser the man, the
more readily he realizes the comparatively
small quantity of knowledge at his command.
In talking with others, if you will note
their readiness to be positive about their
statements, or their conclusions, you can
usually determine the depth of their philo-
sophy and the amount of wisdom they have
acquired over the years. Those who always
feel sure they have the answers are most Of
ten the ones who are actually bewildered and
in need of further enlightenment
Likewise, those who should make an ef-
fort to improve their minds, and add to their
knowledge and education, are often the ones
who are completely content never to read
worthwhile books, look over the news intelli-
gently or try to draw conclusions of their
own.
Admittedly, we live in a complex world
and it is hard to know who is telling the truth,
who real. lows the score, what to read and
where to fin,i it. A general approach which
might be of value to readers is that which in
cludes keeping up with the news by devoting
a few minutes each day to a newspaper, lis
tening to several news commentators with
different political PHILOSOPHERS, and reading
a stimulating book every month or two Then,
weigh all the opinions and arguments, think
for yourself and make your own decisions.
&@@S%
TAX THE USERS
The Civil Aeronautics Authority expects
to spend a record 1886 million during the
next fiscal year on the nations airways sys-
tenn This is simply a reflection of the hard
fact that air traffic has become so great that
present facilities are inadequate and can no
longer be trusted to safely handle the job.
Almost nc one will dispute the need for
this kind of spending. But another point
arises-who, beside the general taxpayers,
should pay for it?
Commercial transport planes account for
80 per cent of the use of CAA-maintained
facilities. If these carriers pay their share
of next years CAA ALLEGATIONS, the bill will
come to $155 million. But last year they
paid only 500 million, all of it in fuel taxes.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the
situation is serious enough to have attracted
the concern of President Eisenhower 1t
quotes L. W. Burton of the Department of
Commerce as expressing the Presidents pol
icy in these words: "Where the government
renders a special service, there should be
tax on the users.''
That principle should apply in other
fields in addition to CAA-spending Of the
commercial carriers only the railroads Who'll
ly pay their own way All the others are
subsidized, directly or indirectly That is
mighty important matter, in the light of
such developments as the multi-billion dol
lar highway bill. It's time that the users of
goVernment-supported facilities = which
means taXpayer-SuppOrted-d more nav
ing
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-29
STASSEN,S LAST ROW2


Harold E. Stassen, in London to repre-
sent the United States at the United Nations
Disarmament Committee meeting, may be
performing his last service for this country
in this role. 1t will be remembered that
Stassen was an Eisenhower favorite just a
couple of years ago and that he was one of
the early strong boosters of Mr.. Eisenhower
in 1852
When Mr. Eisenhower was elected Presi-
dent, he was named special assistant to the
President in charge of disarmament and was
given a Cabinet-evel job. Last year, Mr..
Stassen headed an ill-fated move to knock
Vice President Richard Nixon off the vice
presidential ticket in San Francisco. Al
though Mr.. Stassen kept up his fight until
the last day of the convention, his effort
seemed to get nowhere and he succeeded in
alternating many Nixon supporters and many
of the party faithful.
In recent weeks, Mr. Stassen's status has
been altered which, to u.s. seems like a re-
buke. Whereas, heretofore he conferred with
President Eisenhower himself in his status
as assistant his Office has now been moved
into the State Department building and he
has been placed under Secretary of State
Dulles.
There are reports that Mr.. Stassen will
run for Governor of Pennsylvania next year
and certainly he has long nurtured political
ambitions. He was Governor of Minnesota
and later became President of the University
of Pennsylvania. He has campaigned for
Presidential nomination many times and if
he gets the Governorship of Pennsylvania, it
will only be another chapter in a turbulent
and highly-active political career.
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
Miss Carter
Ch OS en- L Or
Teacher Honor
Long Time Instructor
Named Teacher Of
Year" By New Century
Club Committee.

The Milford New Century CluE
announces that Miss Cordelia Z
Carter is the winner in the 'Tea.
cher of the Year. contest which
the club recently sponsored in the
Milford area as a part of the pro
gram suggested by the State Fed
Grafton of WOmen's Clubs. Miss
Carter is presently teaching a sec
tion of the sixth grade in the Am
erican Legion Building.
The basis for judgment set up by
the State Federation Of Women S
Clubs was as follows: Scholastic
qualifications, $3.50; humanitarian
attitude toward students, $3.50 /;
outstanding work beyond the call
of duty for sake of pupils, $3.50; in
terest in community, state and ma
tional affairs, 1870.
Miss Carter is a graduate of the
Bridgeville High School and of
West Chester State Teachers Col
lege, West Chester, Pennsylvania /;
after which she attended Summer
School Sessions at West Chester
and the University of Delaware.
She also took various extension
courses sponsored by the Univer-
sity before receiving a B. S. de-
gree in education from the Uni
versity of Delaware in 1851. She
Continued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
Volunteers Work
For Medical Center
Three Already Aiding StOckley
More Are Needed


Three volunteers are now at
work in the Medical Center at the
Hospital for the Mentally Retarded
at StOckley, Mrs. Madalyn Seeger,
cOordinatOr for volunteers, told
the monthly meeting of the Wo-
mans Auxiliary of the hospital
last Friday morning.
They are Mrs. LinwOOd Gallo
way, Georgetown; Mrs. John jan
kus, Bethany Beach and Mrs. Clar-
ence Dudley, also of Bethany Beach
Mrs. Seeger set forth the need
for more volunteers. They take
special courses before actually 60
ing to work. She explained that
some of the tasks performed by
these aides are feeding the patients,
helping them obtain proper exer-
else, reading to them, wheeling
them about the grounds when
necessary and other useful prof.
ects.
The coordinator said Giso that
the Nassau Home Demonstration
Club has now started sewing in a
room provided for this purpose at
the hospital.
The Sunshine Club of Milford.
she reported, donated 504 Easter
eggs for the holiday.
continued on page nine)
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
Ministerium
L S S u G S A n
''Open Letter
Call For Support By
PrOtes Church
Folk OF Billy Graham
Evangelistic Crusade e
In New York.

The following is an open Let
ter" to the Protestant Church folk
of the Milford Area:
On May 18th, 1857, the Billy
Graham New York EVangelistic
Crusade will open. Preacher Gra-
ham is an internationally and
doubtless, in view of his spectacu-
lar, universally prominent figure.
He is also, quite naturally, CEN
ter of controversy. The guns of the
critics, from one extreme vantage
to the other, are trained upon aim.
We of the Ministerium lind our
selves in agreement, although we
are bound to have certain reserva-
tions, that Billy Graham is serv-
ant of God, a mighty tool of the
Holy Spirit. We ourselves as min
listers of the Gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ earnestly pray for Mr.
Graham, particularly in this great
venture in the capitol of the world
New York City.
Furthermore, we urge the Christ
ian people of our constituencies tC
interest themselves in this cam
paigner and his campaign. Read
the synopsis of Stanley Highs bio.
graphy of Billy in the Mays Read.
er's Digest. Or better, get the
book itself and read it in it's en-.
tirety.
During the New York Campaign
we shall conduct a weekly prayer
group for the Campaign. This
continued on page s1x)
Milford chronicle., 1957-05-10
Sussex Tax Rate
Again Set At SOC
Levy Court Sets Same
Schedule AS For
Past 5 Years

Sussex County Levy Court set
the county tax rate at the same so
cents for each 800 of property
assessment as has been set for the
past five years. at it's meeting in
the Sussex County Courthouse last
week.
The 81 capitation tax was also
continued.
In the meantime, the Board of
Assessment has secured an exten-
sion of time in preparing the fig
ures for tax purposes. The new to-
tai of property evaluatiOn for the
county is not yet available, ac-
cording to H. Ernest COnwell,
clerk of the board
Though the assessment figure is
usually obtainable by May l, the
numerous changes made by the
outside appraisal firm are given as
the reason for the delay The time
extension is until the end OF June.
lcontinued on page tenl