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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-22
Roberts Wins
His Old Place
Among Elite
~ the Associated Press

Robin Roberts is back where
he belongs-among the elite Of
the pitching fraternity.
Once the premier pitcher OF
the National League. Roberts
got a taste Of how the other
half lives last year-he won
only 10 while losing 22-and
there were widespread rumors
that his days with the Phillies
were numbered.
The redoubtable right arm
which woVe six consecutive 20
game seasons betrayed him TO
such an extent in 1857 that he
finally spent time in the bull
pen. 1t was not until his last
exhibition start this spring that
the 3l-year-old Roberts was as
sured of a starting berth again.
That's nothing more than a
bad dream now. Robbie is
Philadelphia's fair-haired boy
again. He added another chap
ter to his brilliant career last
night, hurting the Phillies to
a 10 triumph over red-hot st.
Louis. Furthermore. he broke
up a scoreless duel with Sam
Jones with a ringing eighth
inning double that drove in the
lone run.
Giants Widen Lead
The Giants defeated Cincin-
natl, 5-4 in 10 innings, to in
crease their first-place margin
over Milwaukee to ga games.
Los Angeles made it two in a
row over the Braves, 81, and
Chicago beat Pittsburgh, 5-l.
The PhillieS moved into
fourth place by virtue of their
victory. Held to one hit through
seven innings by Jones, they
set up the winning run when
Willie Jones singled to open the
eighth. Chuck Essegian. at
tempting to sacrifice, forced
Jones, but Roberts cam e
through with his double of
the centerfield wall scoring Es-
Segian.
1t was Roberts first shutout
of the season and the 31st of
his career. Only Warren SPAIN,
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Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY EIoins townsend Dlcksrson

ually attends the convention, and
sure enough he was there. Wish he
had had time enough to visit us in
Topeka, too, but he didn't arrive
until late Friday.
From the convention arena we
went to the Hotel Mulenbach, where
Ed was staying. While we were
eating dinner in the hotel we were
discussing the pros and cons ON
transportation back east into your
blizzard. Plane flights were can
celled and everyone seemed quite
concerned about the possibility of
not being able to get home for sew
eral days. Hayes said, Wonder
what Jack plans to do" | quickly
said, He's going up north to see
the Boyds." Ed. and Hayes almost
choked, thinking / was switching
to my Brooklyn accent-boids for
birds. Actually, DR.. and Mrs. Boyd
are old friends of the Burris FAM
lily and | know thew when we were
neighbors of the Burris' at good
ole Slaughter Beach.
After dinner Ed. invited us to
see his room in the hotel. This in
vltatlon / had been waiting for.
Ed. S room was not just a hotel
room-he had President Truman's
suite. The hotel furnished this
suite for Mr.. Truman for special
occasions. Often he stayed there
during his term at the White House,
but more recently he occupied the
rooms when his book went on sale
and they had an autographing ses-
sion in the lobby and he stayed in
his suite the weekend his book
was released by his publishers.
The small vestibule leading to the
suite is lined with metallic cloth
and recessed in the walls are two
handsome ivory heads. The main
room is a mahogany panel living
room with comfortable leather up
hOlstered furniture around the
room. Off this room is one of three
baths belonging to the suite and
through another door you discover
a complete bar-replete with glass
es, bottles, refrigerator, sink and
completely encased by mirror walls
covered with murals.
One bedroom seemed typical of
any hotel room, but the other bed
room was really lovely. 1t must
have been called the emerald bed
room. The furniture was Italian
provincial. A green dressing table
and bureau that looked like marble,
but wasn't, or mosaic, but wasn't.
1t was lovely whatever it was made
from. The king size double bed,
an emerald green, had an tuffted
headboard with the same material
used for the bedspread. 1t was a
nice opportunity to see these rooms,
because l doubt that I'll ever oc-
cupy them at $4,000 per day!
I'll write to you again when
spring is just one week closer.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21

manship to mesmerize people tenn
porarily into buying what they do
not really need or desire, or what
they cannot truly afford to pay for; !;
in other words, what they ought
not to buy The best statesmen are
not necessarily fast takers. They
use their intelligence in analyzlng
the situations of possible customers
and in deciding where genuine
sales possibilities exist. They have
the imagination and the ingenuity
to demonstrate to the prospect how
their product is fitted to his require
ments and can furnish him real
benefits. These he'll appreciate when
they are shown to him,-and will
want. Salesmanship is fast becom-
ing a profession. actuated by pro-
fessionaI standards.
Good Statesmen Are Required
More than ever before. it is
necessary for the salesman to have
thorough knowledge of what he has
to sell. In many lines nowadays 1T
is indispensable to have an exten-
sive technical acquaintance with the
products offered. in order to explain
accurately just what kind of ser
vice they can be depended upon
to render. We hae envOled an econ
emy in which success in salesman
ship requires an amount of prep
aration and continuing study that
cur ancestors would not have
dreamed of as requisite for being
a mere salesman"
We have come a long way since
the time when persons of quality
found it obviously natural to look
down upon those who were engaged
lin trade. Salesmalship has be-
come a completely respectable oc-
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21
BABS0N DISCUSSES HOW TO CHECK UNEMPLOYMENT

cupation because countless intelli-
gent statesmen are taking their vo
cation seriously and dedicatins
themselves to it. They are realizing
that they are performing a great
serice to the nation as a whole.
Tt Is Not So Simple Now
One of the saddest plays eveI
produced in the theatre was "Tht
Death of a Salesman that is
as the story of an individual who
went down to utter defeat. Perhap'
quite unintentionally, howevr, i
symbOlizes something that neet
not be considered sad at all-the
death" of a certain conception o
craftsmanship. 1t makes us realize.
the day OF the drummer" who de
pended for success on backSlapping
telling funny stories, and beinf
"weli liked is truly past. Not. o
course, that personality is unim
pOrtant; it mas always counted anf
always wiIl-in craftsmanship as
in everything else That, however
must be a factor added tn actively
intelligent devotion to ones busi-
ness and all that it requires to be
up to date.
We cannot be saved by security" I,
which can be only relative and tenn
porary at best We can be saved
only by faith in the final analysis.
it is faith that makes a great sales
mana humble faith in his own
ability. faith in the value of what
he labors to sell. faith in our
economy.-and. most important OF
all. faith in God. Statesmen may
we'll be proud of their occupation.
for the maintenance of our way of
life is dependent upon them. We
need more praving statesmen.
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21
2S06 McAlister
Topeka, Kansas
February IL. 1858

Dear Friends:
According to all the news re-
ports you might be too snowed-in
reach the press in time for the
deadline. You really have had a
winter this year. And you know
I'm sitting out here green with
envy. It's four degrees above zero
this morning and about five snow
flakes a minute fall from the sky.
For a week we have had severe
weather. Tonight it's supposed to
go 10 below. I'm hoping this eX-
treme weather will soon sGhside.
The end of this month my Strategic
Air Command husband will be off
to the woods to subsist and warm
weather would surely help.
Valentine Day for our two chill
d-en not only meant school parties,
but it meant "Girl Scout Cooky
Day" Lynne, our eleven-year-old,
came home with a half carton of
mint cookies and put them up in
the cupboard so she would have a
nice supply of goodies on hand.
Dawn, our seven-year-old Brownie,
put her six boxes of cookies by the
front door, and at the designated
time-four o'clock-she was in her
Brownie dress, with her best
Brownie smile, and braved the ten
degree temperature selling her
cookies to all our new neighbors.
The day before Valentine Day we
had a guest from Delaware for din
ner. Our cousin, Ed. Murphy, call
ed from Kansas City to see if we
were home early Thursday morn
ing and we planned to meet his
train here in Topeka that evening
Dawn and Lynne saw Ed. two years
ago and weren't too sure which
cousin he was. Ed has brothers
Gene, Jimmy and Gilbert, and two
sisters, Frances and Evelyn, so il
was a little hard for Dawn, espe-
cially, to remember which Murphy
was coming for dinner. At dinner
that evening asked Dawn to tell
Ed. the name we had decided the
children should call their cousin
and she said, Cousin Murphy" II
will simplify things this next visit
home when we see the rest of the
family. She can't miss.
Sunday Ed. invited us all to come
to see his convention in Kansas
City. The children love to go
and gather all the LOOT from the
various booths. We were with Ed
again at one o'clock Sunday after
noon. Ed. works for General Pack
age Company and at this American
Poultry Fact Finding Conference
his company displayed their self
lock egg cartons. It's big ma
tional company and we could tell
that Ed. was we'll thought of by his
business associates. On the con-
vention floor we hunted for Jack
Burris from Milford, who also us
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21

Babson Park, Mass, Feb. 20.
everyone is aware of the fact that
employment has recently been
alling Off Despite attempts at ra-
ionalizatiOn of increasing unem-
)loyment as Seasonal or as oc-
urring only in certain industries"
We should face the fact that it is
llready more general than is
leathy for our economy 1t i'm
Dortant that this negative move
nent be checked as soon as possi-
lie Among many suggestions COM
ng to me, | especially recommend
he following by one of the Bah
on Institute professors, Louis Fo-
ey.
SaleSmanShip Is The Problem
There is only one way this
mounting unemployment can be
hecked That is by increasing con-
'umers' demands for the goods and
services that industry can pro-
luce. Factory wheel cannot keep
IN turning, and jobs for workers
,annot continue to exist. unless
heir product is being continually
old. Successful salesmanship is
-ital to the prosperity of all, in
cluding those in occupations not
directly connected with selling. SO
he threat of growing unemploy-
ment becomes primarily a problem
for statesmen of goods and of ad-
vertising.
In the buyers market IN which
we now find ourselves. statesmen
will need to exert themselves more
strenuously than they have been
accustomed to doing. This is not.
however, call for "high-pressure'
selling in the unfavorable sense. 1t
is neither honest nor effective sales
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21
PAYING THE FREIGHT

Sooner or later, this country is going tC
have to do something drastic about nOn-es
sential government spending. And-in the
light of growing military and other natlOna
security demands-it had better be sooner.
Naturally enough, there is wide diver
sity of opinion as to what is and is not non
essential. It's a case of one mans meat being
another mans poison. But there is at leaS
one important field in which there should bt
little controversy-that it in the field of gov
ernment activities which are of a CONNER
cial business character, which are cOmpeti
tive with taxpaying commercial business, anC
which would be taken over by taXpayin!
commercial business if the government call
ed it quits.
Many examples could be cited. One is O.
particular interest, due to the prospect O.
higher postal rates This is fOurth-class mai
the parcel post category. 1t completes di
rectly with both national and local private
parcel and freight handlers. If it didn't ex
ist, these handlers would do whatever job il
needed 1t has long operated at loss to the
poStOffice department-whichs simply means
that it is subsidized by all the taxpayers
whether they ever use it or not. 1t pays nc
taxes Therefore, in addition to feeding on
the u. S. Treasury, it eliminates revenue the
Treasury would overwise receive.
A powerful case can be made for the
proposition that government should not en-
gage in any activity of commercial business
type. Short of that, there can be no logical
excuse for the failure of government business
operations to pay the freight. And parcel
post isn't doing it.
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21
Letter BY Robert Nelson Taylor

to SOC per set. That's a small price
for the saving of even few lives
and one that motorists will be more
than willing to pay for the protec-
tion of themselves and their fami-
lies. And they have saved lives in
the seven efiective-license-p plate
states.
Does Anybody Care?
The revelations of the Mcclellan
committee-even in advance of the
long-awaited public airing of Wal
ter Reuther's interminable Kohler
feud-haVe been extensive and
shocking. A mere listing of the in
cidents of violence, thievery, rae
keteering and general skulduggery
revealed by the Select Senate COM
mittee would be much too long to
attempt here.
1t is a bad dream of payoffs in
union funds-$320,0 600 to Beck, more
/ to his pals and to big shots of other
unions in cash or in Accommodations
! of dynamiting, stink-bOmbing of
/
bribery, collusion with criminal
scum in gambling, blackmail, extor-
tion and rigging of union elections;
of Fifth Amendment witnesses, law
officers who looked the other way
and with the Kohler revelations
still to come.
But all such thievery and hood
lumiSm are child's play compared
to another pattern which the hear
ings revealed-the drive to estab-
lish union-dOminated government.
There are indications that Reu-
theirs UUAW has more or less
taken over the state government in
Michigan Jimmy Hoffa admitted
that Michigan Transfers had con-
tributed money in gubernatorial
elections in Kentucky, Kansas, Iowa
and Michigan.
The Mcclellan committee revela-
tions have forced the AFL-CIO to
set up its face-saving Ethical Prac-
tices Committee" and to kick out
the Transfers and couple of
other unions. But it still can't re-
move the rascals from these unions,
nor will it distrub the unions life
and-death economic power over
their members or seek to dampen
the unions growing political au-
thority and audacity
Plainly, the time for action has
come. No matter how shocked the
nation may be at what it has
learned, investigation without ac-
ton would be a good deal worse
than no investigation at all. allure
/ to act would confirm the belief of
reckless union leaders that they
are beyond the law 1t would aban-
don the American worker to ex-
ploitation of unionism. And it would
saddle upon the nation, even more
i firmly, a Lobar Trust more vicious.
more powerful and more irrespon-
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21
Slow Changes L Fast Cars

Slow Changes - Fast cars
Part of the price we pay for our
system of government, with its divi-
sion of authority between the
states and the federal government,
is the painfully slow process by
which improvements can be put
into nationwide practice. Even
though the advantages of a change
are obvious, years often are needed
to win public acceptance and arouse
action by the legislatures and gov
ernors of all the states.
How this time-lag operates is
illustrated by a recent news item
reporting that, starting in 1858,
North Dakota will become the
seventh state to issue reflective
plates for automotive vehicles This
is a step toward the reduction of
after dark rear-end collisions-One
of the most frequent types of traffic
mishaps-that seems so simple and
obvious that it is difficult to under
stand why all the states have not
adopted it.
Maine has been using reflective
plates since 1949. Since then they
also have been adopted by Della
ware, Louisiana, Wyoming, Mime
sofa, South Dakota and North Da-
kota A number of other states, in
cluding New York, are conducting
tests that may lead to their adop-
ton.
Because such accidents often are
caused by a car ramming from be-
hind another vehicle that has poor
warning lights, it is not surprising
that most rear-end collisions oc-
cur after dark 1t is then that
cars without lights or lights that
have failed are almost impossible
to see and the number of rear end
collisions increases.
By surfacing license plates with
a reflective material that can be
seen by an approaching car at
1000 feet, North Dakota is provid-
ing every vehicle with a built-in
safety device that is especially val
liable when rear lights are defec-
tive. A recent national check of
more than 1877 900 vehicles showed
that more than a fourth-26.6 per
cent-Of all defects were in rear
lights.
Law enforcement officers find the
reflective plates helpful, too. Lii
cense numbers are easier to spot
and it is easier for them to read
he plates of approaching cars at
hight Thus, they say, they can
heck more stolen vehicle numbers.
With their obvious value in en-
ihIing motorists to see a slow or
stopped vehicle in time to avoid a
collision. why are they not used
~ more states? They can be pro-
luced readily by the same state
agencies making non-refective
,lates, so the answer must be their
light additional cost-from Csc
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21

ments thrown away in the milling
process.
Starchy Cereals
Highly milled cereals that con-
tain only the starchy part of the
grain have become very popular in
this country. People seem to like
their pure white color and manu-
facturers like the ease OF market
ing. Grains that contain the fatty
material, of the germ spoil more
quickly and therefore have to have
more careful handling.
Learn to read the labels and un-
derstand them. Buy cereals that
say they are made from whole
grains. 1t make little difference if
a cereal is eater hot or cold, but
it makes lot Of difference if it
is a whole grain cereal or a milled
one.
Some cereals are not only highly
milled, but they are sugarcoated
as well. This adds nothing but cal
cries to their nutritional value.
Whole Grains
Not only breakfast cereals but
bread and flour should be whole
grain.
Teach your children from the be-
ginning to eat food that is good for
them from the nutritional stand
point.
You will be well repaid by a
healthy family and lower food bill.
IL every bite of food that goes
down the throats of your family
carries goodly supply of the "ac-
cessory foods" the vitamins and
minerals, you will not need to buy
expensive vitamin pills.
If you use some white flour. as
doubtless you will, add some wheat
germ to the white -four food or to
some other food Wheat germ tastes
good and adds lots of vitamins to
the diet
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21
~1e%N
HOLDER OF THE KEY

Will the current decline in business con-
tinue? Or will it level off? Or will new
upward surge set in?
To a very great extent the answers to
these and other such questions will be found
in the state of retail trade during the months
ahead.
This, i'm effect, was what Professor Nal
colin I. McNair, the distinguished Harvard
University authority on retailing, told the
recent convention of the National Retail Mer
chants Association. In his words: "The con-
sumner holds the key not only to the fortunes
of retail business in 1858, but in a larger
sense to the fortunes of the total economy.
This view has become a generally held
one The heavy stress used to be laid upon
production figures. But consumption figures
are equally important, and some think they
are more important. It's obvious that pro-
duction in any line can't hold up long unless
people buy the goods. So the volume of re-
tail trade directly determines what goes on
i'm the factories.
Retailers know that competition will be
tough this year They know that consumers
are doing more shopping around and more
planning before buying. Every merchant
will do all he can to offer the most attractive
inducements and the best buys possible. And,
it Is good to report, most retail spokesmen
seem reasonably optimistic about the sales
rrOSDpcts
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21

ducts. The packages blare out the
merits of their contents. But the
advertising experts are not salts
fed to confine their bids for your
purchase to the nutritive value OF
their products. All sorts of ap-
peals are cleverly used = cartoons
on the boxes, toys enclosed in the
package, coupons that can be re-
deemed for spoons or dishes or
what-have-you.
Don't forget that what you are
buying is material for sturdy bodies,
strong straight bones and rosy
cheeks.
Buy your grain products for their
nutritive value, not their pretty
packages.
Nutrition Values
What really makes one grain
product better nutrition than an
other?
Grains are all seeds of plants.
Nature puts into seeds the food
hat both the plants and man needs
0 grow we'll. But nature separates
the various food elements into diff
,rent parts of the seed. The central
md largest part of the seed con-
aims starch, the outside covering
contains mineral and B-vitamins.
n the heart of the grain is the
yerm of the seed. small in total
-olume of the seed, But large in
lutritive value Here is fat, protein
nd vitaminS.
Grains that are prepared for the
market by grinding up the whole
eed. starchy outside covering and
eerm make foods of great nutri-
ional value. But when only the
tarchy part of the grain is USED
he resulting food contains very
title but calories We need calories.
f course, but if we eat a lot OF
ood that contains only calories, we
lust supplement the diet with pills
, make up for the good food ele-
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21

nan class members doesn't dis
.ourage him. Nor does the fact
hat he must drive 20 miles from
lis hometown of Woodruff to at
end classes each day.
Before he resumed his educa-
ion after a 21-year lapse, Lowery
operated a farm tool leadership.
lie has four children, the youngest
ess than 2 and the oldest in the
Navy.
After high school he went to
work for steel plant in Gary, Ind.
After Is years he left that work
md acquired the leadership.
After eight years in business, he
made his decision to return to
Milford chronicle., 1958-02-21

school.
Although his studies are harder
than he expected. he finds the in
structors aren't like what
thought they'd be. They're friend
lier, more interested, than I'd ex-
pected"
Il especially enjoy the friendli-
ness and courtesy OF the younger
people," he said.
Lowery would like to teach busi-
ness education. But whatever he
does. he will have attained the goal
it was not too late to reach for
higher education.