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Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12
Babson Discusses Canned Frozen, and Synthetic Foods

Babson Park, Mass, June IL,
1859. Less than 80 years ago prac-
tically all the citrus fruit shipped
out of Florida was whole fruit F"
The necessity of discovering some
way to cut heavy marketing and
transportation costs led to the for
nation of citrus cooperatives.
Growers pooled their resources.
With the aid of chemists and rep
resentatives of the canning indus
try, plus helpful state and federal
legislation, they developed methods
of canning appetzing orange, lem
on, grapefruit, prune, grape, and
other juices. Somewhat later, re-
search has succeeded in providing
us with the splendid frozen juice
concentrates.
What the citrus producers have
accomplished by working together
with the help of chemists and in
d u r ia S t s should encourage
other fruit and vegetable growers.
Although canned and frozen fruits
and vegetables have made great
strides in winning public accep-
tance, certain sectors of the over
all food industry are poorly or
ganized. Except for few large
operators, canning of fruit, vege-
table, and fish is being carried on
in h a azard fashion. Quality
needs to be made more uniform,
while processing and marketing
operations could profitably be
streamlined.
What's Ahead For Gamers?
Despite sharp increases in con-
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12
EXIT CREEK AND LATIN

Both Oxford and Cambridge, renowned
universities of learning in Great Britain,
have voted to drop the requirement for Latin
and Greek among entrants. While the gov
, erning party at Oxford may yet reverse this
decision, the larger victory obtained by the
anti-cassicists in the Cambridge governing
body, which acted after Oxford, constitutes
an indication that Latin and Greek are on
the way out.
This action at these two world-famous
universities follows similar action by many
universities in the United States and Eng
land. 1t is symbolic move, however, when
European universities such as Oxford and
Cambridge decide to do away with the Latin
and Greek requirement.
Perhaps the overriding consideration,
which doomed the classics as prerequisite
to entrance, is the current race for scientific
and nuclear knowledge.
Beyond any doubt, the world is moving
into the atomic age, and it would be ironical
if any university denied entrance to any
promising student, who might-for example
rate high in the sciences, because he lack
ed Latin or Greek.
Not only do we applaud this decision at
Oxford and Cambridge, and in U. S. univer-
sites, but we suggest that the curriculum of
too many colleges today is not upto-date, and
not in tune with the times, or with the pro-
fessional requirements which graduates will
find need for upon terminating their school
ing. AS simple example, there is not too
much value-in graduate school of journal
ism-in teaching students the history of the
linotype machine, and other development of
this kind. If he is to be an editorial en-
ployee, he should be given political science,
history, economics, and subjects of this kind.
In summary, university curriculum needs
constant modification and modernization,
and it is difficult for any college or university
to keep in tune with the times these days,
because of our rapid transition into the atom
ic age, although the example of Oxford and
Cambridge is what amounts to final proof
that change does come, and eventually all of
us must get into step with the march of
progress.
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12

sumption of frozen foods, the can
ned-food industry appears to be
maintaining it's relatively strong
position. Aided by population in
creases and higher personal in
come, Gamers have made good
postwar gains. During the next ten
years, I predict Gamers will have
to devote more time and thought to
their raw material sources. Tight
er control of paintings will be a
must" In the fruit groves or vege-
table acreage needed to assure
them of adequate supplies and to
enable them to compete with syu-
thetic pdoucts.
Gamers costs have been trend
ing upward for some years now.
They will rise at an even faster
rate during the next ten years.
Both skilled and unskilled labor
on farms and in the groves and
canning plants will command high
er wages. More money will be
needed for containers and for can
ming and freezing machinery re-
placement, although I do not now
foresee any early switchover to
aluminium cans However, food pro-
cessors are becoming more inter-
ested in synthetic foods and drinks,
such as Tang" put out by General
Foods as a substitute for orange
juice.
Frozen Foods Outlook
Vegetables are in Number One
place as far as frozen foods volume
is concerned. Other leading income
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12

producers are poultry, fruit juices,
prepared" foods, seafoods, eggs,
and meats. Frozen poultry and
prepared" foods of the frozen
variety are those which have al
ready been given certain prepara-
tory operations usually performed
by the housewife. They give her
more leisure time and thus will be-
come even more popular as flavor
and appearance are improved upon.
Frozen food producers are more
alert to the need for research than
are Gamers. All products will win
even wider acceptance as the re-
suits of research are transplanted
into more flavorful and /appetizing
products. Also, frozen foods vol
ume should make good gains as a
result of the greater availability of
m G. C h ic lily refrigerated rail-
road cars and trucks, retail display
cabinet space, and backroom re-
frigerated storage space.
"COntract" Farming
Will Increase
Farming is in the midst of a
great change. Gradually, agricul-
ture is being remade into a more
vital part of our industrial eco
nomy. Fruit and vegetable produc-
ton, canning, freezing, as we'll as
marketing, are becoming "big busi-
ness" on a huge assembly-line
basis under an advanced-contract
basis. But, of all the products to
watch, keep an eye on the purely
synthetic foods for they may take
the lead.
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY Elaine townsend Dickerso

! about these boys, too, celebrating
their graduation by Sa1voing their
dress hats up into the air, about
the new second lewies receiving
their first salute and about the bot
tom man in the class receiving the
loudest ovation from his classmates.
He hasn't anything to apologize
for. Anyone who graduates from
our three academies with a low
or high grades is held in the high
est esteem by his fellow country
men or should be.
Did you read in your eastern
papers about the hail in western
Kansas this week? 1t was We'd
nesday of this week that a tiny
town of 385 persons in Selden,
Kansas, had drifts of three feet of
hail stones. They weren't espe-
cially big, but the deluges of hail
lasted for two hours and the towns
streets were covered knee deep.
June the third and they had to call
out the county snow plows before
any one could circulate again. Roof
tops caved in with the weight, crops
were ruined. gardens were multi
ated, trees severely hurt and dam
age in the five mile square area
surrounding the town was estimat-
ed by insurance adjusters to be one
half million dollars. A new high
school costing 100000 received the
greatest damage The extreme
weight of the hail on the fiat roof
had caused the walls to spread at
the top! Sheeeeeeee! keep telling
you, you've never seen storms until
you've lived out here. Incidentally
we're beginning our seventh year In
this wild west country!
Until next week.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12

The experiment started at six
O'Clock in the morning. The child
woke up and bounced out of bed,
the man was wakened, and bounced
too-he too was full of vim and
vigor. The child ran over and
rocked in his rocking chair-the
man followed suit. A few moments
later the child was distracted by
the sight of his teddy bear under
his bed, he crawled after it, the
man crawled too.
Mother came in and dressed the
child, the man was allowed to dress
himself. They had breakfast and
went outdoors. The child rode a
tricycle., he lugged some lumber
and pide it up, he crawled through
big pipe, he picked up a shovel
and dug few digs. From to 10
a. M the child didn't stop for more
than a minute at time. From one
activity to another, he stayed at no
one thing more than few minutes.
At 10 it was juice time. Mother
called and the child bounced into
the kitchen, the man dragged him
self in. He was white with fatigue.
He couldn't go another stepi
Small Dynamo
Any mother of 2-year-old might
have told that researcher that no
adult can do what a 2-year-old can
do. Anyway he proved it.
The energy of a 2-year-old is
terrific.
His attention span is short, he
is easily distracted, the sight of
an object suggests it's use and in
a flash he is off to do it. A wall
has to be walked on, a pipe crawl
ed through, a ladder climbed, a tri-
cycle ridden, closed door to be
opened, an open one closed. Some
times a 2-year-old wants to do two
things at once and he becomes very
angry when he can't crawl through
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12

the pipe and carry a shovel at the
same time Such Illustrations may
end in tantrum-the kind the
adult can see no rhyme or reason
for.
The 2-year-old's play seems to
be desire to see how things feel,
he seldom is trying to accomplish
anything. If he sees hammer he
picks it up and pounds. He isn't
pounding anything in particular, he
is just pounding. His is a world
of action, of doing.
The 2-year-old is a great imi-
tator He picks up the telephone
and you can tell by the very into
nation of his voice who he is imi-
tating.
Independent Spirit
He wants to do things for him
self and without help. "Me-do-it"
is frequent refrain. He resents
interference even when he cannot
tie his shoes or button his jacket.
Occasionally in the midst of a de-
mand to be let alone with diff
cut task he will suddenly throw it
down and want to be cuddled.
Two is when a child learns mo"
and does he use it, 1t becomes the
most used word in the language.
Like the rest of his two-ness
"No" is part of the age. Parents
must take the "No" in their stride
and live through the stage. The
less of an issue is made of his ap-
parent refusals the better. A q
year-old often says NO, but goes
right ahead and does what Is ex-
pected of him.
Two is charming age to watch
from a distance. 1t is exhausting
to be the parents of 2-year-old.
But before you get to the state OF
the college athlete, we hope your
child has passed on to three.
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12

General Wilson's announcement
is, of course, symbolic of the times,
and just as the atomic submarine
has partially revolutionized sub
marine warfare, there is little
doubt that nuclear powered aircraft
will partially revolutionize aerial
warfare.
The Case of the Atlas
The Defense Department has re-
Gently announced that there has
been no change in the operational
schedule which was set up-some
months ago-for the intercontinen-
tai ballistic missile known as the
Atlas. This schedule calls for the
Atlas to become operational in
July.
While we pose as no missile or
rocket expert. it is obvious that the
present schedule is an absurdity.
The second Atlas-equipped as a
fully operational intercontinental
missile blew up in a test
firing at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Recent news make it almost GER
tain that we will not have ICBM's
operational by July, and proves the
| folly, if not deliberate mischief, of
Administration spokesmen testify
ing before Congressional commit
tees in January and February.
Obviously, the Administration
cannot maintain the confidence of
the people of the United States if
it is to be guilty of boasts, in de-
fense of attacks on it's program,
boasts which have little basis in
fact. 1t seems apparent that our
ICBM program is not only tagging
behind the Russian program in the
actual rate of progress achieved,
but also in the quantity production
of intercontinental ballistic mis-
siles.
The principle involved which is
more important, in the long run.
however, is the question whether
the Administration has misled
Congress and the American people.
defending its program or boasting
about hoped-for achievements when
there was no ethical justification
for such claims.
This issue is almost certain to be
kew one in the 1850 Presidential
campaigns, and if, after all, the in
tercontinental ballistic missile
known as the Atlas does not be-
come operational in July, it will be
another in a long series of unwise
boasts involving satellites. rock
cts and missiles, which have not
been fulfilled by Washington, to
the embarrassment of American
diplomats abroad, to the chagrin of
our allies, and to the disappoint-
ment, and shaken faith of millions
of American citizens
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12
2SO6 McAlister
Topeka. Kansas
June Z, 1859

Dear Friends:
Before many people were even
up in this Kansas world of ours, we
five Dickersons had already had our
swim in a local pool. Today is one
of those infamous hot, soaring mid
western summer days and since we
were all up at five a. m. with Leslie
we decided to beat the populace and
get our refreshing plunge in early.
Our 7-month-old, 1914 FOUNDER had
never seen such a big bathtub in
her life and she didn't cotton to it
too much"
Our papers here have been full
of "Able's birthright-buria in his
native, land" You see, the orbiting
monkey whose picture has been
splashed across all papers in the
world was born in Kansas and
when her death was announced,
these westerners demanded that
her body be returned to her Home
on the Range! The congressional
representatives put in their say
SOS too and the end result is she
will be here for "a viewing" and
then will have her final resting
place in the Smithsonian Institute.
read with envy the stories about
the Air Force Academy this week.
We know three couples living at
the Academy at Colorado Springs,
Colorado; the husbands are in
structors of the fine youths of AM
L.
it must have been to have Witness
ed the first June week at the Air
Force Academy. Enjoyed reading
about the thirty some weddings that
took place right after graduation,
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12
Looking at
WASHINGTON

in the United States. The latest
statements from Hoover and the
Senate subcommittee reveal the flu
tility of any such hope.
The current communist effort
will be directed towards members
of labor unions and young people,
in an effort to exploit communist
propaganda and distort the true
character of international COM
munism and it's consequences to the
people in those countries where it
now is entrenched.
While we are ready to admit
that the communist regime in Rus
sia has achieved impressive re-
suits in many fields, it is neverthe-
less difficult to see how an Amer
ican can pay allegiance to the in
ternational communist conspiracy.
For, although one admits the ma
terial, scientific, military, artistic
and other accomplishments of the
Russians, which are formidable,
international communism is irrevo-
cably dedicated to the destruction
of the United States as a demo-
cracy, and its way of life. Labor
ers, youths, or other Americans
who give comfort to such a design
are, in our opinion, as traitorous
as many who have been executed
for treason in the past 180 years.
NMcLeGT-P -POaUered
Aircraft Near
Lieutenant General Roscoe C.
Wilson, Deputy Chief of Staff for
Development, u. S. A. F., said re-
Gently the U. S. Air Force is now
working to produce a subsonic
nuclear-p powered aircraft, as a pro-
totype of a future weapons sys-
tenn.
This has been the ultimate goal
of Air Force planners, and the
announcement means that the Air
Force has overcome the last major
obstacle to the development of
such a plane-the protection of the
pilot from radiation. General Will
son admitted that the problem of
shielding pilots from radiation had
now been solved, and that the Air
Force was now ready to go ahead
and produce it's prototype.
Although no dates were given for
production of the prototype, it is
estimated that it will be some time
before the aircraft would be ready.
It is said that it will not necessar-
ily be larger than the B-52 heavy
jet bomber, which is now in SER
vice, but it will be able to cruise
anywhere in the world, and will
have greatly-extended range and
capabilities. 1t will, supposedly, be
capable of launching long-range
balIistic missiles, as well as bombs
and short-range missiles.
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12
Hofa's Threat

James Hoffa, president of the
Transfers Union, has, in effect
threatened Congress and the Uni
ted States. He has suggested, OF
limited, that a nationwide strike
might be his reply to certain labor
laws which might be passed.
This is the latest in a long SER
les of actions by Hoffa which dem
onstrate his tremendous power, his
arrogance, and the disproportion-
ate degree of exemption from gov
ernment supervision certain union
giants have obtained in recent dec
AIDES. Certainly Hoffa's threat of a
nationwide strike, as a reply to
what he feels is restrictive labor
legislation, is an interesting de-
velopment.
IF we are to reach the stage when
there is nationwide strike, when
, labor legislation not in accordance
with the wishes of union bosses is
passed, then we are advancing tC
a turbulent state in our democrat
ic life. Indeed, this raises the
question whether a stable govern
ment can effectively maintain eff
cheney, especially in a crisis, under
such conditions.
Hoffa's threat against Congress
will certainly act against his own
desires. 1t should make Congress
more aware than ever that labor
unions, and union leaders who have
grown perhaps more powerful than
any other people in the country
must face their obligations as Am
erican citizens, one of the respon-
sibilities of which is democratic
conduct, as prescribed by a demo
cratic government
HOOUer ON u. S. Communists
F. B. 1. Director j. Edgar Hoover
recently said that communists in
The United States were now emerg-
ing from their hiding places in a
renewed drive to recruit young
people and workers in vital indus
tries.
At about the same time, Senate
Internal Security subcommittee
warned that Moscow control of the
communists in the United States
was increasing. In this connection
it should be remembered that in
l943-when the United States was
aiding Russia in its desperate fight
against Hitler-Moscow announced
that it was abandoning the COM
munist international.
Americans took this to mean that
Moscow was relinquishing control
over the members of the commun-
ist party in the United States, and
would not attempt to exert CEN
tralized authority over the Party
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12
CHEAPER THAN THEY SEEM

Some things may be said to be cheaper
than they seem." That is, despite higher
price tags, they actually take smaller part
of our incomes than they used to.
For instance, the Department of Agri-
culture reports that in the past 10 years
spending for food has declined from 3O.5%
of total consumer expenditures to 26.7@o.
And spending for clothing and shoes has
declined from 1929 to $3.50. A compar-
able situation exists in other universally
used commodities sold at retail.
Various factors have made this possible
in an age of imitation. And one of the more
important of them has been the steady de-
velopment of efficient economical mass dis
tribution. Retailers, faced with the toughest
kind of competition, and with demanding
public which searches for the best buys,
have pared costs in every possible direction.
The savings, for the most part, have been
passed on to the customer in the form of
lower price or better quality. And retail pro-
fits remain very Iowa cent or cent and
fraction on each dollar in the case of food
chains, for example, and but few cents in
the case of other goods.
The result is that most of us eat better,
dress better, and live better than we ever
did before.
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12

watch at night, over 40 Newton
business places, carrying a ring of
keys, a f1ashlight and .32 Colt pis-
toll
She's never had to use the gun
and hopes she never has to but,
she says, when | find one of my
places open, l don't walk in empty
handed.
eff they think I'm afraid to use
the weapon, they have another
think coming. My father taught me
how to use a gun when l was just
a little girl. And l don't scarce"
Mrs. Cullinan checks doors to
see if they are locked, turns off
store lights, and looks for anything
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12

unusual Her day begins at p. m.
She starts out walking, but from
midnight to a. m, she patrols in
her car. She figures she walks
about 500 miles month and drives
another 1000.
Mrs. Cullinan became a mer-
chant policeman in 1888 with her
husband, John, who was Newton's
night chief of police in the late
1920s. She took over his downtown
beat during a five-year Illness that
preceded his death in 1855.
How long does she intend to
pound the beat?
"As long as | am able,v she says.
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12
PistOI-Packin Grandmother
Guards Stores By Night

NEWTON (H9-Mrs CuInan easily.
And in business
policeman
IS
a gray hair.
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Life's All Adventure
To Your TaUO- Yenr-OLd
BY DOROTHY v WHIPPLE, M. D.
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NSw%&
USE ALL THE TOOLS

Suppose you hired carpenter and then
learned that government policy would let
him use only his saw-no hammer, screw
driver, or other tools. That is analogous to
the situation in the transportation industry
Restrictions imposed by the Federal gov
ernment generally ban the railroads and
other carriers from using the whole range
of transportation tools-planes, trucks and
barges. They thus prevent the carriers from
offering fully co-ordinated service of max
imum public usefulness at minimum cost 1t
is true that the railroads own some trucks,
but their use is usually limited to movements
that supplement or are connected with pro-
viding rail service.
Airplanes, trucks, barges, and trains are
in reality only tools of the transportation
trade. Each has its own special advantages
each has limitations of one kind or another.
So, if the public is to get top service at mini
mum cost, the transportation business must
be free to diversity in the same way as other
businesses and to use all the tools.
In the case of the railroads, the restric-
tions also add up to severe injustice. The
heavy taxes they pay help build highways,
airways and airports, and improved water
ways used by their competitors. But they
are denied the right to make use of these
tax-built facilities themselves.
In sum, the country needs "One-P Package
transportation. The obsolete and destruc-
tive restrictions which stand in the way
should be repealed.
Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12
THE SENATE'S POWER


The recent behavior of the Senate with
regard to presidential appointments has in
evitably raised questions as to how far the
Senates power extends in this area. Three
appointments Lewis l.. Strauss as secre-
tary of commerce, Clare Boothe Luce as am
bassador to Brazil, and Ogden r. Reid as
ambassador to Israel-have been focal points
for discussion of this matter.
Reid's appointment has just been con-
firmed, despite strong opposition by Chair
man Fulbright of the foreign relations COM
mittee on grounds of inexperience, youth and
lack of special knowledge about the Middle
East. Mrs. Luce confirmed after period of
acrimonious questioning and debate, resign
ed before taking her post The Strauss ap-
pOintment is still being debated, though the
former Acc chairman has been serving as
acting secretary of commerce since last fall.
The cases mentioned are different in some
respects, but they all have bearing on the
question as to how much control the Senate
can rightfully exercise over presidential ap-
pointments. AS to diplomatic choices, there
is an apparent rise in the feeling that the
Importance of our dealings abroad makes
imperative the choice of able, well trained,
we'll Informed men in key posts. If this feel
ing prevails, the Senate will have to examine
diplomatic appointments with increased
care.
The feeling about Cabinet appointments
is less clearly defined. The Senate. in the
past has been inclined to accept the prin-
ciple that there should be freedom of execu-
tive choice. In the Strauss matter, it appears
to be fexing its muscles of advice and con-
sent more vigorously than before. How far
the Senate should go in this direction is a
moot point. 1t is an important question that
should be brought into the open and thorough
ly discussed.