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Milford chronicle., 1959-01-09
BUDGET FIGHT AHEAD

President Eisenhower departed from
precedent by announcing at least the broad
outlines of his budget three weeks before
the convening of Congress. There is little
mystery about why he chose to do so.
1t seems apparent that the President
who will have a powerfully Democratic Con-
gress to work with during his last two years
in office, hoped thus to enlist public sup
port for less federal spending. His budget
estimates indicate that he seeks to effect
thus, even though defense costs rise, by re
ducing civil government spending.
The reaction to the balanced budget
plan advanced by the President has been
about what might have been expected. The
Democrats, generally speaking, are not
pleased-and this is not entirely because they
want to spend a lot more money than. Mr..
Eisenhower wants to. They, and some liber-
al Republicans, fear that domestic cuts the
President has in mind are in areas they
consider especially important = education,
health, better housing, and so forth.
Questions being raised about the Presi-
dents budget proposals are by no means
entirely partisan. There are sound reasons
for asking whether it is realistic to speak
of the Eisenhower budget as balanced
when so much depends on greater tax in
come to match the outgo. Even in the un-
likely event that Congress approves new
round of postal increases, even if the gaSo-
line tax is boosted again, another deficit
year seems more probable than 5udgetary
balance.
One thing is certain: there is going to be
a prolonged battle over federal spending af-
ter Congress conveneS. The Presidents ad-
vance announcement of the budget will, if
sn1eq lB'n GTIsuSlu! '5uIql6ue
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-09

conduct of raffles and bingo games,
but never through direct public
solicitation. Obviously, the time and
screen, radio, TV and the sports
world are offered gratis at Variety
Club shows.
All this, we think, makes Variety
Week pretty important to every
body at least to everybody who has
ears and a heart for that universal
prayer: please take care OF my
baby =; to everybody who would
like to help the next time the near
est "Tent" puts on show.
HizzOn0r Said No
1t now appears that Teamster
President Jimmy Hoffna will not
add to his responsibilities the di-
rection of the police forces of New
York and points west.
You might say he decided against
it. So did New York's Police Com
missioner Stephen P. Kennedy and
New York's Mayor Robert Wagner
and the three monitors appointed
by the Federal District Court to
supervise the disinfection of the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters. This made it pretty unani-
mous-except for Henry Feinstein,
who was to have been Hoffa's po-
lice organizeri in New York, who
is president of a city employees
union and also city job-hoIder.
Mayor Wagner reduced Mr.. Fein-
STEMS ardor with the observation
that he might lose his $500 spot
on the city payroll Il he didn't be-
have.
Mr.. Hoffa seemed definitely to
regret that he had included the
guardians of the law in his ambi-
tious plan to add all civil servants
-at city, state and Federal levels
20 his million teamsters
He would now accept cops. he said,
'.only If thev come to us" In some
contrast to his defiant attitude in
Miami, when he announced this
ambition organizing drive and
Dragged that: I'VE have the
money, President Hoffa observed
piously: 81 do not believe that they
should have the right to strike, by
virtue of the emergency nature OF
their service to the public"
The picketing of Police Head
quarters, precinct house and other
Dolice buildings win be carried out,
but Mr.. Hoffa told Mr.. Feinstein
that he must not halt trucks max
ing police deliveries or otherwise
Interfere in the operation of the
Department as originally planned.
The pickets would now constitute
advertising in protest against
the Commissioners objection to a
uni6nized force. There are those.
of course, who consider thew will
be walking up and down in the cold
to save Jimmy's face.
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-09
BABSON DISCUSSES HEALTH

Babson Park, Mass, Jan. 8. Every
reader of my weekly column knows
two things: First, that / have just
returned from a 10000 mile trip
to Africa; and secondly, that am
not a physician and have not the
right to speak with authority on
health.
The Report OF Doctors
have had some. rheumatism in
my left leg, and Mrs. Babson has
had some bursitis in her shoulder.
We have been to nine doctors
and all have told US: Forget it.
Almost everyone your age has aches
and pains" The above doctors COM
ment may be true. but this is what
/ know After. two weeks on a
cargo steamer of the Farrell Lines,
during which time | had no mail,
no cables, and no telephone calls,
my rheumatism went away en-
tirely and Mrs. Babson had no
bursitis
exercised considerably, walk
ing on deck, and went to bed early
leaving my portfolios wide open. In
fact my cabin had good cross venti-
lation. During the time spent on
the ocean and in the wiIds of Afri-
ca we were free of all aches, we
late like pigs, and slept like ba-
bies". Upon returning home, found
my desk piled with mail; whether
my rheumatism will return do not
know! But my guess is that many
such aches are due to the un-
necessarily busy and nervous lives
we lead. Doctors should tell US to
take our religion more seriously
and practice more of Jesus teach
ings against struggles and worries.
Is Warm Weather Climate
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-09

tc= dry on a linei Finally, get an
indoor bicycle to ride, and dis
charge five of your six servants,
including the chauffer!" In about
week came a bill for one thou
sand dollars.
Something / Do Know About
Africa is most wonderful con-
tinent, rich in all natural resources
except oil. 1t has four strong banks
with hundreds of branches; these
pay AZ per cent interest on time
deposits Africa has wonderful
stores and factories of all kinds in
such cities as Cape Town, Johannes
burg, Pretoria, and especial Sails
bury, in Southern Rhodesia. In
johannesburg, sixty five years ago,
there were only few people and
they all lived in tents. Today the
population is six hundred thousand,
and there are dozens of skyscraper
buildings.
If were a young man, | would
seriously consider settling in
Africa for health and a fortune. /
would forget diamonds and gold,
but invest in either the copper in
dustry or the chemical industry.
? m sorry to say that Africa, unlike
Canada, is on the pound-shilling
pence basis, which handicaps Amer
leans who would like to invest
goes on the decimal system, like
Canada, there will be even greater
opportunities. for both investment
and profit. In conclusion, let me
say that one need not take sea
trips to Africa for either health
or investment. Many states in the
good old U. S. A. offer both to
those who are thrifty, honest and
patient.
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-09
1855 McAlister
Topeka, Kansas
January 2. 1859

Dear Friendss
Your "Air Force Family of Five
has been envelnped in mid-wes-
tern snow storm FOR the past three
days. Today they expect the high TO
be 25o and the low tonight to sink
to zero. We have 80 knot wind
from the north and more snow
swirling down from the grey sky,
landing on the seven inches of white
fun that has already accumulated.
It's lovely winter day-if you
can look at it that way, and I do.
How did you start the new year
Are you superstitious about a male
being the first to enter your house
during the new year? Sure I'm
gullible about all those silly sup
erstitions. but / don't really go all
out for them either. / would have
felt more at ease if a male had en-
tered our house first on January
ist. but since 1t was an 8-year-oid
neigh borhood friend of Dawn's
didn't push her back out in the
snow. / hate to hear of supersti-
tiOns because every new one / pom
der on and wonder just how it
will involve me and mine. For in
stance on TV I learned that the
Duchess of Windsor doesn't like
anything hung over bedroom door
knob-tie, slip, blouse. etc. It's not
very natty to do so anyway. but
it's done occasionally and when I
see such 1t kinda makes me souirm.
How about hat on bed? That's
real bad luck you know. We have
good friends here in town, owners
of very nice mems store. They're
older than we are and should have
better sense than believe in such
idiosyncracies, but he always de-
mands to take any wraps upstairs
for people when they are guests in
his house. Thus avoiding some nut
putting that dreaded hat on his
bedi
You know southern people
wouldn't think of letting January
1st pass bv without eating black
eyed "mollies" (or peas as they
call them). It's traditional they
say, but its superstitious too. Those
old mollies bring good luck!
We have a sixsome that plavs
poker together regularly and do
they give me fits over my supersti-
tionsi One night / caught one of
Fhe bows f1icking ashes in our kit
chen trash can. I made some re-
mark about it and they thought 1t
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-09
They Answer Prayers

The note of a ''heart-broken mo-
ther", pinned to the dress of the
tiny daughter she abandoned in the
lobby of Pittsburgh's Sheridan
Square Theater on Christmas Eve
Of 1928, supplies the charter, the
constitution and the rules-of-order
for one of the most unique, colorfuI
end energetic charity organizations
in the world Variety Clubs In
ternational ("The Heart of Show
Business"). And for the first time
in its 80 year history, this group OF
WoIJ u9WMoqs puBsnOql u9l 9Iuos
all branches of the entertainment
world, and who activate 46 tents"
or chapters, in the principal u. s.
cities and in Toronto, Mexico City,
London and Dublin, casts aside its
traditional modesty and in pro-
claiming January IL to Is as ssVari-
ETY. Week" calls public attention
o its dedicated work.
please take care of my baby,
said the note that stirred the eleven
Snowman founders of the first
Variety Club. "Her name is Cath
arine. / can no longer take care
of her. / have eight others. My
husband is out of work
have always heard of the goodness
Of show business and I pray to God
hat you will look out for her..
The club adopted the baby, NAM
ed her Catharine Variety Sheridan
and proceeded to adopt another
and another and another. Today.
Tent Number One in Pittsburgh
operates. among other noble enter
urises, the Rosetta Founding Home
where it originally placed Miss
Sheridan'l and whose humane and
sympathetic adoption program pro-
vides some 500 babies with fanai-
les each year.
Since its inception, Variety Clubs
International has Brought aid and
comfort and affection to hundreds
Of thousands of sick and under
privileged children. 1t has. spon-
sored childrens' hospitals and con-
valescent homes, clinics for treat
ment and research of cancer, cere-
hral palsy. polio, heart diseases.
rheumatic fever 1t has supported
orphanges. founding homes and
schools for handicapped children,
aided in the care and training of
blind children. the operation of boys
clubs. camps. Scout Troops and
Police Athletic Leagues.
Over the years the Variety Clubs
have raised and spent more than
SIS million with recent operations
running in the neighborhood of
three million dollars year. The
money is raised by the various
tents through benefit theatrical
performances and by collections at
shows and sporting events and the
Milford chronicle., 1959-01-09
HOUSTON
Mrs. Viola ThistIewOOd
Phone: GA 2-4944


GREAT WEALTH
Nobody ever added up the value of
smile,
We know how much a dollars
worth
And how much is a mile.
We know the distance to the sun
The weight and height of Earth
But no ones ever told yet
How much smile is worth
Church news for Sunday. January
IL Sabbath School at 10 a. m,
with Robert III. Yerkes, Sr.. General
Supt.; Alvin Brown, Junior Supt,;
Mrs. Charles Pearson, Cradle Roll
Supt.
The worship service begins at
II a. m. with the organ prelude.
Mrs. Agnes Webb at the keyboard.
Call to worship by the pastor, Rev.
Ray w. Kirwan. The Senior and
Chancel choirs will have special
selections and the minister will
deliver the message.
The Methodist Youth Fellowship
will hold its meeting at 6:45 p. m.
Church ushers for the month of
January are John Benson, Ray
mond Marvel, Wayne Simpson,
Francis Webb and Richard Simp-
son, Chief Usher.
The prayer meeting held at the
home of Oscar Blair on Tuesday
evening, of last week was very in
spring to those in attendance. An
other one will be arranged very
soon, time and place to be announ-
ed later.
The Methodist Men will meet in
he Fellowship Hall, Monday even
ng. January 26. beginning at 8
D. m. This meeting is open to all
men of the church and a cordial
invitation is extended to everyone.
The regular monthly meeting of
he Methodist Youth Fellowship will
,e held in the Firehall, Wednesday
,vening, January. 81. at 8 o'clock.
There were 40 young people out for
he Christmas dinner held on Mon
lay evening and the leaders and
members are most grateful to the
aides who prepared and directed
he dinner and to those who pre-
.9ared dishes for the young people
bring. All young people between
he ages of IL and % are invited
attend the meetings.
The reguar monthly meeting OF
he o. u. r. Sunday School Class
will be held in the Fellowship Hail,
following choir rehearsal, Wednes-
Law evening, January Is. All mem
,ers are cordially invited to attend. |
Mr.. William r. Pike of RID, Hous-
on. who underwent a very serious
.peration in Milford Memorial Hos
,ital has returned home and is
toing very nicely. His many friends
nd neighbors wish him very
.peedy recovery.
Mr.. William Blessing, ST.. who
as been confined with pneumonia,
sor the past three weeks, Is improv-
ID at this time.
We are very sorry to report Mrs.
Charles Koneman is quite i'll and
has been confined to her bed for
sver six weeks. She is allowed TO
If up from ia to hours daily
she is also allowed to have visi-
.ors which she appreciates very
much. We trust her heart condi-
ion will change for the better and
hat she will be able to be up and
round very soon.
Mrs. Viola ThistIewood and Mr..
md Mrs. L. Paul Greenlee visited
Miss Lizzie Woodruff at the Home
" MercifuI Rest, in Wilmington. on
yew Years Day. She was Just as
bright and cheerful az ever. She
enjoyed a very Merry Christmas.
.ver so many gifts and big show
" cards and several Towering
,lants. She wished to be remember
d to all inuuiring friends. Miss
lizzie was So years young on
Christmas Day and her eyesight
5 falling very badly. She has been
n the Home OF Merciful Rest for I
20 years.
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195SProfifs
OfDrugFair
Gain Sharply

Net profits Of s5lO,s64. after
taxes and depreciation. equiva-
lent to rs cents a share on
$4,000 shares of common
stock outstanding at the end
Of 1858. were reported today
at the annual meeting of Drug
Fair in Baltimore.
Milton l. Elsberg. president,
said 1858 sales totaled sls.-
1o8,341 and profits increased
% cents a share. compared
with 1857. The company,
which controls "a retail drug
stores in the Washington Met
ropolitan Area. has plans to
open Is additional stores here
before the end Of 1860.
Stockholders elected these
directors:
Robert Gerber, chairman Of
the board; Mr.. Elsberg, Mrs.
Rose Gerber, Irving F. Cohn,
Milton Lyons, David Gerber,
Mrs. Rita X. Elsberg, Alvin @.
Enrich. Sylvan Gerver.
All of the directors are resi-
dents Of the Washington area
with the exception of David
Gerber and Mr.. Cohn, who are
residents of Baltimore.
The following officers we're
elected:
Mr.. Elsberg, president Syl-
van Gerber, vice president N.Y.
ron Gerber, secretary; Mr..
Cohn, assistant secretary; Rob-
ert Gerber. chairman of the
board and treasurer.
The following were elected
assistant treasurers: Mrs. Rita
K. Elsberg and Elmer c.. Hill
man and Stanley C. Horowitz,
assistant treasurer and con-
troller.
The company approved a
change in its by laws to au-
thorize its next annual meeting
of stockholders to be held in
September 1860. 1t has adopted
liberal benefits for its employees,
including a profit-sharing plan
to which a substantial contribu-
ton will be made by June 80.
The directors authorized a
a cash dividend of 10 cents a
share to stockholders of record
July 3 and a stock dividend of
2 per cent to stockholders of
record July 3, payable on July
81. In March, the company sue
cessfully offered more than SIS
million of its securities to the
public for sale. The funds real
lied will be used for further
expansion.
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crucially important consumer
price index is out Of date.
There is a real possibility
that our index is not fully re-
f1ecting what is happening to
the living costs of actual peo-
ple," said Evan Clague. Com
missioner of Labor Statistics,
when J recently interviewed
him III New York. But we're
going to find out now just how
out of date this index is"
For in addition to voting the
Bureau of Labor Statistics an
extra 100000 to broaden and
modernize the current index
Congress is voting the bureau
another $230,000 to begin an
overhaul of the whole market
basket.
The planning for the over
haul the first in a decade, will
start this summer. Surveys of
the new families and prepare
ton of the new marketbasket
will run through 1868. The new
index will be ready in 1864.
What is the bureau going to
use its money to find out?
Surely, it will carefully re-
examine the typical" families
upon whose spending patterns
the index is based. Although
there has been considerable
antagonism to including in this
index any family not headed
by a wage-earner or clerical
worker, there is serious ques-
ton about the omission of so
many of the rest of us.
Vital Changes Due
Surely, the bureau will make
vital changes in the weights"
given to each of the items in
the marketbasket to reflect the
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Urban Renewal Featured
In FRB Monthly Review

In its Monthly Review for
May, the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond features a cover
picture, contrasting Washing
tons Southwest slums with the
new multiple apartment house
on Fourth and G streets S.W.
This apartment house was
built under the auspices of the
Reuevelopment Land Agency
here,
The issue is devoted to ur-
ban renewal. 1t points out in
the Fifth District, 43 urban
renewal projects are either
being planned. built or have
been completed. 1t said Mary
land is planning five urban de-
velopments, is in the process OF
constructing five and has COM
pleted two.
1T said those two are the
only completed projects in the
district. The IL Maryland
Projects are all in Baltimore,
which was zone of the Ma
tien's pioneers in urban re-
nswal and is the first in the
Nation to designate its entire
downtown district as a re-
newal area" 1t is now planning
a 1927 million project, Charles
Center. for the rivitalization
of % acres in the heart of the
downtown district, the bank
said.
Virginia has is projects,
seven in the planning stage and
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CHICAGO
LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, May Is tAP) (UsDAb.-
Hogs 10000; moderately active,
sows; mostly rs higher on butchers
weighing under go lbs. No. / butch
ers under 230 lbs. scarce; 1-3 mostly
2-s mixed grade i90-220 lb butchers
16.75-17.25; several hundred mostly
1-2 mixed grade these weights 1875
~. 80; and few lots mostly. Is 100
2l6 lbs. 17.50-17 90; forty-four head
lots Is 21o lbs. closely sorted 17,1S;
mixed grade 2-3 220-24O lbs. 1925
n 90: mixed 30 240-260 lbs. 1900
1880; and mixed 80 26-2S lbs. 1875
1925; small volume mixed 3 mostly
3s 2S-310 lbs 15.00-15.75: mixed
grade 330-425 D.. sows l3.25-1425;
small lots 3O0-330 lbs. 1425-I4.f5;
mixed grade 42S-55n lbs. ~ .00-13a5.
Cattle 10000; Gales 100; Prime
steers sow, weak; other steers over
LOO lbs rathr slow, about steady:
steers below LOO lbs and heifers
moderately active, fully steady: cows
steady: bulls, vealers and stockers and
feeders steady; high choice and mixed
choice and price steers 30 .00-32 90;
good to average choice 27.00-29 10:
standard and low good 24.50-26.75:
good and choice heifers 2B.00-29 80:
load mostly high choice around LOO
lbs 1915: utility and standard 2I:50-
$3.50: utility and commercial cows
16.25-19 so; utility and commercial
bulls % 1928 90; standard and good
vealers 26.00-35 90; few choice $500;
Gull and utility Is .O0-26 90: several
lots good 600-62S Id. stock steers
30.50-31 90.
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attracted 400 members and
their guests.
Tonight's banquet, at $50
o'clock, win climax the two
day meeting, which began yes
terday. The guest speaker at
the banquet is Maxwell M.
Eabb. former secretary of the
cthinet.
Today's sessions are devoted
to various phases of the BUSH
ness and its problems. Arnold
A. Schiffman. president, Retail
Jewellers Association. spoke on
What Our Association Is
Doing for the Jeweler." Del
bert Williams, West Virginia
branch manager of the Small
Business Administration and
hiRself a jeweler, had the
topic: "SBA and How 1t Can
Help Your Business"
Paul A. Tschudin, director,
Watchmakers of Switzerland, is
displaying a new film entitled
Time in Switzerland" Ber-
nafd Burnstine. executive sec
Rotary of the national associa-
ton, Is speaking on Current
Tax Problems of Our Industry"
William Wright, Silver Spring,
Md. jeweler and a vice presi-
dent of the Retail jewelers. Of
America, introduced the panel
discussion. Henry Brylawski,
executive secretary of the tri-
state association, who is a
Washington lawyer, is taking a
prominent part in the meeting.
Later today, elections for the
coming year will be held. The
associations present officers
ate: President, Melvin Foer,
Washington; vice presidents,
Paul Day, Wilmington. and
Richard Erlanger, Baltimore;
treasurer, Benjamin Blanken,
Washington; secretary, Edward
Killer, Baltimore. The chair
man. of the convention is Dom
aid Wolpe, College Park. Md,
jeweier.
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sidiary Of General Dynamic.
Corp.
In an address about mid
week. Air Force 1t. Gen. Roscoe
G. Wilson, deputy chief Of stan
for development, told Of a nu-
clear bomber, with a crew of
four or I'VE, due within the
foreseeable future.
About the same day, Boeing's
senior vice president, Wildwood
+. Beall, pictured, say five years
hence. a commercial jet trans
port with Mach 3 Cthree times
the speed of sound cruising
but one which may cost S25
million or more per plane.
Stuart G. Upton, president
of the Air Transport AssOcia-
ton, saw some gloom in the
air carrier picture. but he said
Il am confident that the next
five years will show greater
growth than in any decade in
the past"
y 4
The Associated Press long
time and able observer of the
automobile scene, David j. Will
kie, 70, singing his swan song
out of Detroit before his off,
cial retirement July /.
THE automobile 20 years
hence in all probability will be
a gasoline-propelled vehicle"
He admits the potentialities
of nuclear energy. gas turbines,
new types of long-life electric
batteries and electromagnetic
energy as auto power plants.
But his opinion is "unshaken"
that today's gasoline engine,
with refinements. will still be
the favorite in 20 years.
~
Jack DOherty, formerly with
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dramatic differences in the way
we're spending today as COM
pared with 1852.
The overhaul will take time
but, Mr.. Clague stressed, I'VE
are making a start. Well create
an index which will realisti-
cally reflect the economy whose
price movements we're meas
uring."
And in the meantime, Wen
have a broadened and mod
ernized index upon which to
rely. This is heartening, this
is progress.
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