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Milford chronicle., 1959-04-10
OBITUARY
ROSS

ROSS
Mrs. Mary j. Ross died in Will
mington on April z, after long
illness. Services will be held Sat-
urday at 2 D. m. at Bethel Church,
Milford. Friends may call at Reese
Funeral Home Friday evening 7-9.
Survivors include husband, Cau-
sey Ross; two children, Aurelia
Johns and Willis Baynard; mo-
ther, Mrs. Alice Baynard; three
sisters and five brothers.
BLAKE
Mrs. Amanda A. Blake, 81, died
in the Messick Nursing Home, Har-
rington, April A. She was the widow
of the late Rev. Dorsey Blake, for
many years prominent pastor in
the Peninsula Methodist Confer
ence.
Services were held from the Rog
ers Funeral Home, Milford, Tues
day, at 2 p. m. The Rev. DIR. John
Trader, pastor of Wesley Methodist
Church, Dover, assisted by Rev.
Gordon Stapleton, Pocomoke City,
Md, officiated Interment in Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Milford.
She is survived by three sons,
Dorsey, Jr., West Grove, Pa, Cecil
of Cambridge, Md, and John of
Stewartstown, Pa, two daughters,
Mrs. Claude w. Gibson, Lewes, and
Mrs. Vernon Reed, Milford, a bro
ther, Harold F. Rogers, Kingsyllle,
Tex, IL grandchildren and IL
great-grandchildren.
DONOVAN
Mrs. Mary M Donovan, 70, widow
of Willard H. Donovan, of the Mil
ton area, died April at the home
of her son, David w. Donovan, in
Milton.
She was the daughter of the late
David H. and Lettie Stevenson
Marvel. In addition to her son she
is survived by daughter, Mrs.
Lloyd M. Tyndall, Milton; four
grandchildren; two great-grand-
children; and a brother, John r.
Marvel, Milton.
Services were held Wednesday
at p. m. in the William M. Short
Funeral Home, Milton, with the
Rev. Conrad Hamer, pastor of
Goshen Methodist Church, officia-
ting. Interment in the Sand Hill
Methodist Church Cemetery.
JACKSON
Mrs. Annie Jackson, age 81,
passed away in the Milford Memo
rial Hospital on Tuesday, April
7th, after a long illness. Mrs. Jack
son was a lifelong resident of
Milford, and resided at 715 S. e.
Second Street.
She is survived by two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Anna Carruthers, Mil
ford, Mrs. Frances flasher, Mill
vile, N. j., one son, Willard, of
Milford; one sister, Mrs. Eva Riff
enburg, Ogden, Pa, six grand
children, and seven great-grand-
children.
Funeral services will be held on
Saturday, April IL, at 2 p. M, from
the Lofiand Funeral Home, Milford.
The Rev. Edwin Tull of the Church
of God, Milford, will officiate. In
terment will be made in Odd Fell
lows Cemetery, Milford. Friends
may call at the funeral home on
Friday evening after 700 p. m.
Milford chronicle., 1959-04-10
Weekly Weather
Report For Milford

John e. Barcus, weather record
er, reports the following weather
conditions for Milford as recorded
on instruments located on Lake
view Avenue for the week begin
ming Thursday, April and end
ing Wednesday, April 8 inclusive:
Milford chronicle., 1959-04-10

Colorado has a new state law for
the aged which guarantees the
states pensioners 500 a month,
plus disqualification and nursing
home costs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
DORIS FLEEsON
Dulles and the NATO Talks

NATO, to be sure, but their
main purpose is to be in
formed on this spring and
summers meetings which
may decide Western Europe's
future for a generation or
more-or, equally, postpone
decisions.
They are not likely to
learn as much as they would
like to know. And the reason
for that is the ghost of Sec
rotary Dulles which hangs
over Washington despite his
corporal presence in Hobe
Sound. There is still no one
in the Capital who can speak
for him with authority. Act
ing Secretary of State Herter
has the title but not the
power. Neither does anyone
else in tire Department of
State.
Neither does anyone know
at this hour who will ne
gotiate for the United States
in the May meetings at &C.
neva. Thus a good deal of the
future Of the nations may
hang on the will of an all
ing man at Hobe Sound.
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Richard Law Repeal
Advocated in France

PARIS, April / (NANA).-
Stern new measures against
prostitution ordered by the
French government. have had
the unexpected result of STIR
ring demands for the revival
Of legal brothels, banned here
since 1916.
A number of leading news
papers. legal authorities, physi-
clans and social workers have
Joined to urge repeal of the
so-called Marthe Richard law
named for its parliamentary
sponsor which abolished
Frances traditional system of
inspected and medically con-
trolled "maisons de tolerance. /"
Criticism of the Richard
law, as either unavoidable or
unwise, has existed from the
start. In recent years, as it
became only too apparent that
prostitution had not disap-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
FEVER

Ike signs bill extending unemployment pay White
House motto looking ahead to January TO- 1861 who
it can't happen here?"
First Democrat: Speaking of the presidency hear
Jack Kennedy may for broke" Second Democrat: with
his dough- it'll take him 10 years to make it,
Democrats accuse Ike of paralysis in foreign policy Six
years OF diplomacy-and not single to show for it,
Senator Young reveals he $235OO0 in stocks He's
the Democrats idea (stocks), average Dow
jones' man.
Office glossary: typist-A girl who knows how to
type her own name-and file it under somebody else's.
Real estate agents thankful for the big population
increase Now there are two born every minute
The Government says Americans smoke cigarettes
than ever It's this terrible tension not knowing whether
Rockefeller running for Presidentor Vice President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01

tutes and those who live of
of them.
1t was not long before hun
dreds from the provinces began
an exodus toward Paris. They
apparently were under the
impression that the law would
be less vigorously enforced
there or. anyway. that it would
be easier to evade once within
the big city labyrinth. They
were mistaken. At the latest
check, the tide is thought to
have been stemmed, and the
authorities have succeeded in
sending many of the girls back
where they came from.
Critics of the Richard law
have often pointed out that,
while it provided means for
rehabilitating girls, only a
small number ever took ad-
vantage Of this opportunity to
achieve responsibility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
Need for u. S. ,MissiIe-Rottiing'

He has simply said we would
not retreat an inch and would
fight only II we were at
tackled. This is not only the
proper phrasing for diplo-
matte purposes. but 1t also
serves to keep the argument
on the wave lengths Of peace
so far as America itself is
concerned.
Somehow the people be-
hind the Iron Curtain ought
to be informed that the de-
bate inside the United States
Is primarily political and that
there isn't the remotest in
tention here Of attacking
them. America, to be sure
in case Of attack-does not
intend to wait until the FIRST
blow arrives before putting
into effect its interceptive
devices far distant from our
own territory. This can be
said without any threats or
buster, There is. moreover, q
legitimate need for outlining
to the American people the
military capacity of this
country to infiict retaliatory
blows. Congress must be given
the facts upon which to base
its judgment, but there is no
need for politicians to assail
the expert jud m emit Of
Americas military lea d ers
and to engage in a debate
in terms Of international
threats.
The current debate in
Congress has much to do
with nondefense spending.
For, If those who are arguing
for more and more deficits
can convince public opinion
that all that has been said
about q balanced budget is
irrelevant, the end result will
be to open the gates to fur
ther spending. It is not un-
/ realistic to say that the
"spenders" are using the al
legged inadequacy of defense
appropriations to obscure
their real purpose, which is
to increase nondefenSe
spending. This category of
expenditures. by the way, has
been steadily increasing in
recent years.
It's too bad that, to offset
political sniping, there has to
be "missile-rattling." For it
makes difficult the eask of
winning the peoples behind
the Iron Curtain to our point
Of view on world peace.
(copyrisht, 1887
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
Defense Chiefs Reminders Of Strength
Aimed to Offset Attack by Spenders

lie men in issuing depreca-
tory statements which, on the
one hand, accuse the in
cumbent administration Of
neglect. but which, on the
other hand. inevitably re-
suit In counterassertions by
the military chiefs themselves
in phrases that naturally
arouse bad feeling between
peoples theoretically prepar-
ing to fight each other.
If the Soviet people think
they are doomed to destruc-
ton, they will tend to forget
the hardships imposed by
their tyrannical government
and win rally behind it in
desperation.
When Khrushchev. in one
Of his vodka outbursts, said
to Western diplomats in Mos
COW a few months ago, I'VE
will bury you" his boast was
reported by the press of the
world. 1t aroused, particularly
in the United States, a feel
ing that we were being
threatened.
The same reaction can en-
sue within the Soviet Union
from the reading Of many Of
the comments on our defense
capabilities which are be-
ing printed rather widely this
week. Our military men and
the Secretary of Defense
have been describing in their
public statements the terrible
destruction which our own
military apparatus can in
IllcJ on the enemy, II at
tackled. The Soviet press
usually omits the words "if
attacked"
No nation likes to be
threatened by any other ma
ton. Threats produce a jingo-
istic spirit and tend to arouse
patriotic feelings. Khru-
shchev. Of course. did not do
the cause of peace any serv-
ice by his recent ultimatum
demanding that the Western
troops be withdrawn from
West Berlin by May 81. He
has since modified his posi-
ton in the face of world
wide condemnation.
President Eisenhower has
handled himself superbly. He
has uttered no words of blus-
ter about our military power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Authority in FoII-Out Problem

lack of concern for public
health.
And H-E-W on its side is
not simply seeking to enlarge
its vast bureaucracy. It
merely holds the less than
revolutionary view that the
best place to protect the
public by setting the safety
standards is the Public Health
Service.
H-E-W seems to have the
better case. For the Atomic
Energy Commission would be
more than human if it did
not tend to play down any
factor, including health, that
would retard atomic develop
ment. Moreover, the commits
sion's medical units, superb
though they are, are far down
in the commissions hier-
archy.
And the commissions de-
termination to continue to be
the final authority on what
atomic work is safe, and
where, might UNDERSTANDABLE
rest most of all upon this
factor: A fear that public
concern over atomic danger
to health could become public
hysteria if evaluations of that
danger were handed over to
some wholly independent
source like the Public Health
Service.
Such a hysteria might con-
ceivably rise high enough to
force limitations on the
whole program that would be
militarily unacceptable in the
kind Of world this is. But it
increasingly appears that the
conclusive point is this: Right
or wrong, commission esti-
mates Of radiation and fall
out perils will never be
convincing to millions. It
would be worth taking great
risk to put an end to this
skepticiSm. once and for all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
DAVID LAWRENCE

They used TO call 1t "saber-
rafting" But since the saber
h outmoded. the appropriate
term nowadays would be
''missile-rattling."
The idea Is TO scare an
other government which
might be thinking of an at
tack on your country. though
the justification is always
supposed to be reinsurance to
ones own people.
But, so far as the United
States Is concerned, there is
an altogether different rea-
son why the military chiefs
and the Secretary of Defense
find it necessary to 60 around
the country these days telling
the people we can "fiatten
Russia" 1t has to do with
the low state of American
politics.
For months now, the Amer
lean people have been told
that the Soviets are ahead
Of US" or that there is a
Dangerous gap" This might
make pleasant reading in
Moscow, but the ostensible
purpose of the politician Is
patriotic. He has convinced
himself that he is not thing
ing Of his own ambitions, that
he is not playing politics with
human fears, and that he is
alerting his country to its
own lack Of preparedness.
But. unfortunately, this is
not the whole story. A care
full examination of the facts,
as developed in testimony be-
fore congressional commit
tees, would indicate that all
the military chiefs have
agreed that our armed forces
and weapons today are Ca
pable Of administering in
credible destruction on the
potential enemy and that
plans have been made to
maintain adequate strength
for the future.
1t has been easy enough
to get these military facts,
but this wouldn't satisfy po-
litical ambition. 1t might be
thought that in free America,
whose proud claim has al
ways been that partisan
politics ends at the waters
edge" there would be more
restraint on the part Of pub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
European Alliance Viewed as Hurt More
BY Absence Than Is Sooin Itself

Missing from the celebra-
tons Of the 10th anniversary
Of NATO's birth is Spain,
which should be q member of
that defense organization.
This was recognized by the
Senate some time back when
1t passed a sense Of the Sem
ate" resolution suggesting
SPANS admission.
Last week Senator Styles
Bridges, the senior Republic
can in the Senate, asked in
a speech on the floor that
serious consideration be given
to inclusion Of Spain in the
European defense organizal
ton. The State Department
has favored such inclusion
for some time: so did most
Of the other major members.
But admission TO the NA1NO
"club" can be denied bv one
single black ball. 1t was cast
by Iceland which objected to
SPANS participation in the
Western defense system be-
cause that country was under
a fascist regime"
The words fascist" and
"fascism" have been applied
indiscriminately in the So
Wet lexicon to all who oppose
the democratic" views Of in
ternational communism. The,
government Of the small but
strategically important island
Of Iceland is leaning to the
left, more from fear of the
might Of the USSR than
from conviction. But. it
used the current Soviet ex-
preston when it remained
adamant on the matter of
SPANS entry into the NATO
family.
The rest of the NATO
members, particularly those
who will have to bear the
brunt in the event Of a show
down, are anxious to have
Spain included in the alli-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
Beef Producers
To Visit Farms

The second annual field day
for Maryland beef cattle pro-
ducers. including visits to three
farms, will be held Saturday.
The tour will begin at 9:45
am. at the Mount Airy Stock
Farm near Clear Springs. At
1915 pm. the Renwood Farm
near Hagerstown will be visited.
The last stop will be made at
the Spring Meadow Farm at
Smithburg at 2:45 pm.
At each farm discussions and
demonstrations will be held.
with specialists from the Uni
versity of Maryland College Of
Agriculture, county extension
agents and representatives Of
industry participating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
BROWN
Spain Should Be NATO Member

our bases. But II the Alge-
rian rebellion is protracted.
the rule Of the Sultan will be
threatened and we may be
forced out. These were among
the considerations which
prompted us ~ approach
Spain in 1853 with the sug-
gestion that we establish air
and naval bases in its terri
tory. The resulting agree
ment brought som e hing
which is tantamount to an
alliance between the United
States and Spain.
President Eisenhower and
the Joint Chiefs of Staff have
repeatedly stated that we
cannot possibly match the
Russians in ground forces.
We have today is divisions
to the Soviet Unions lT6.
But our allies in the Far and
Middle East have a sizeable
number Of infantrymen under
arms. Not so in Europe.
Besides our five divisions,
there are fewer than 10
others available for immedi-
ate action between the Elbe
and Rhine. The Italians are
developing an imposing mill
tary defense. Their role is
confined, however, to only
one particular area.
Spain could provide with
ease Is full-strength divi-
sions available for the defense
of Western Europe as well
as the Mediterranean. These
men are conscriptS who serve
in the Spanish army between
two and three years. But ex-
cept for one division all are
equipped with world
War II arms. And Spain.
not being a member of the
NATO, cannot benefit mill
tarily from the United States
as the NATO members do.
We want Spain in the
NATO. Some of the major
members want her, too. Yet
she is being kept out to the
detriment of the NATO more
than to her own. =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
Leaders Planning for Coming Meetings
Seen Colored by Spirit of Secretary

A pale. wan, lighter, but
still indomitable Secretary
: Dulles is now at Hobe Sound,
Fla. a rich and heavily Re-
publican retreat, to recuper-
ate from the heavy burden of
his recent treatments of can
Ger. If will can win from such
an implacable enemy, the
ailing Secretary of State will
be a victor.
Close associates of Secre-
tary Dulles say they have
never encountered an equal
will to live. AS any doctor
knows, this is a powerful
factor in recovery from any
serious illness. He feels him.
: self needed. in fact indis-
pensable, in this present
crisis over Berlin and the
West.
This accounts for his re-
luctance to shift his burdens
to anyone else in his hours of
travail. President Eisenhower
has left to him the choice of
his coming or his going. and
he has chosen to take his
chances at continuing his
one-man diplomacy.
The Russians have
accepted May IL as the date
for a foreign ministers meet
ing at Geneva to plan a sub
seouent meeting at the sum-
NIT. 1t came as a surprise that
the Soviet Union attached no
codicils to its acceptance. 1t
agreed to meet with no ifs,
ands or butts.
Regardless Of the fact that
the Soviet Union has now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01

agreed to the Geneva meet
ing, there is no such clear
agreement among the West
ern allies as to what the
foreign ministers are sup
posed to do before there can
be final meeting at the sum-
NIT. President Eisenhower
still wants enough agree
mentS to come from the
Geneva talks to warrant a
subsequent meeting of heads
Of state. The British appar-
emily would be grateful if the
foreign ministers could reach
agreement only on agenda for
the summit meeting. This in
itself may be no easy task.
1t could well be that fail
ure to agree on the scope Of a
summit conference, whether
it includes only the future of
Berlin, German unification,
or the whole problem of Eu-
rope, including the Soviet
satellites, would founder the
final conference at the out
set.
The 10th anniversary of
NATO is being celebrated in
Washington this week. NATO,
which was called into being
because of the Soviet threat
to Europe, is today a work.
able and largely reliable
entity. But the celebration
here, as noteworthy as it
might be otherwise, has been
an excuse for a remarkable
assem- blage of Western
European ministers. They
have arrived in the name of
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ance, even II some Of the gov
ernments may have some
reservations about the Ma
drid government. But to the
United States in particular.
SPANS adherence to the
NATO is Of paramount i'm
portance. This for three rea-
sons; one theological and the
two others practical.
Ideologically. regardless Of
what political fermentation
may exist in Spain today. its
people are strongly opposed
to the Communist tenets.
They will oppose with the
same determination as shown
in the past any Red infiltra-
ton or attempt to change the
present regime to suit Mos
COW.
From the practical point of
view, Spain offers us invalu-
able real estate and potential
manpower. We already have
five air bases and three naval
bases in Spain. The Spanish
government was more than
cooperative with us when
we suggested that we would
like to base some of our fast
est and most powerful air.
craft in their country as well
as create important bases
for our naval forces. This
brought about an agreement
and SPANS participation in
military and economic aid.
But the advantages we OBJ
tanned in establishing those
bases far outstrip the more
than 81 billion economic and
military aid we have given
Spain over the last five years.
We don't know how much
longer we shall be able to
keep our air bases in Moroc-
CO. If the Algerian strife ends
soon with a victory for the
French the chances are that
the present Moroccan regime
will survive and we can keep
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-01
German Force Grows

BONN, Germany. April
(AP)-West Germany's armed
forces will total 20l.700 men
by April 6, the Bonn Defense
Ministry announced yesterday.
The army will have 123, 900,
the air force 1900 and the
Navy 1900 men. The rest
viii serve in territorial defense
units.
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Yeor-Long Contest on Issue Continues
Between ACC and H-E-W Department

For more than a year a
profound struggle has been
going on between two Gov
eminent agencies over which
should have final authority
for protecting the American
people from radiation and
atomic fall-out.
r. The great question touches
our lives as could no other
except the issue of war or
peace itself. On one side is
the Atomic Energy Commits
sion. On the other side is the
Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare.
The only umpire available
is the Bureau of the Budget.
Budget" which is essen
TALLY a lofty bookkeeping in
strument for the President
to determine what outlays
should be asked Of Congress
for what departments. is not
eager to make the hard
decision.
President Eisenhower, him.
self, this correspondent is
told on good authority, is
staying out of it"--though
to an onlooker it Is difficult
to see why. In the meantime,
Congress is going to be asked
to step in and decide what
the administration seems I'M
able or unwilling to decide.
Both sides even now are
cautiously seeking congress
sional support; some ex-
tremely high-principled lob
bying and counter-lo lobbying
is going on.
The first and basic ques-
ton comes to this: Should an
agency primarily interested
In developing atomic weap-
ons and atomic power-the
Atomic Energy Commission
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continue to decide how much
radiation and fall-out is toll
cradle? Or should this respon-
sibility now be passed to the
Federal Public Health Serv-
ice-a division of H-E-W
whose sole interest is simply
the public's health?
But a second great ques-
ton is bound up in the first.
For much more than health
is involved here. True, radia-
ton and fall-out, when the
human intake passes a GER
tain point, become deadly
poiSons to those alive and
those yet unborn. But radia-
ton and fall-out are un-
avoidable Accomplishments to
the immensely useful devel-
opment of atomic power and
to the necessary continued
development of atomic weap-
onS in an era of unceaSing
danger from the Soviet
Union.
Thus, this Government
must maintain a desperate
balance between the demands
OF the peoples health and
the demands of military
safety for the whole free
world.
Ordinarily, when two Fed
eral agencies are contesting
for jurisdiction. it can be put
down simply that two top
bureaucrats are engaged in
rival empire-building. So to
define the present contro-
versy would be too crude.
The Atomic Energy Commits
sion has strong claims to
maintain an authority in the
health field it has held from
the very start. And it cannot
nationally be charged with a