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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
American Women Tend
To WEIGH Less Today

80 years ago. Women now in
their 20's are about five
pounds lighter.
Short and medium height
men in their EOS and sos are
about five pounds heavier
now. Taller men haven't
changed as much in average
weight.
After age 80. the study finds,
the proportion among women
who are overweight is higher
than the ratio among men.
The figures warn of dan
gers of excess weight and
particularly hazards involved
with high blood pressure,
Men 20 pounds over aver
age weight, for example, are
found to have a 10 per cent
higher mortality. 1t is Is per
cent higher for men 25
pounds over average weight.
and so to rs per cent higher
death risk for men so pounds
over average bulk.
Aids Longevity
Losing excess weight con-
tributes to longevity. the sta
tistics show.
Fat brings increased risk
of diabetes, gall bladder or
digestive diseases. and heart
diseases. The more excess
weight, the greater the heart
death danger.
The new study finds that
an increase of 10 points over
average blood pressure at
given ages indicates the pos
sibility of shortened life, with
the danger increasing the
higher the pressure.
Blood pressure is measured
in millimeters of mercury
pressure.
The combination of high
blood pressure plus over
weight is found to be even
more dangerous in taking
years off life.
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READERS CLEARING HOUSE
Reader Tells Of Philadelphia Suburbs

Mrs T. NJ S. LaytonsUte; To Mrs. A. A. e. Falls Church
My husband and up in suburban Philadelphia and
without getting too involved perhaps give you little
information to help you in your thinking
really can't speak with authority about Philadelphia
place to work, although father-inaw has committed
daily for years and appears to have complaints
best speak of the suburbs the of the city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
most convenient to the two
mentioned above.

The school districts of Rad
nor and Lower Merton on the
Main Line are outstanding in
that department. The COM
munities of Ardmore, Haver-
ford and so forth are very
desirable and there is attrac-
tive new development going
on. In general, the develop
ment housing and small SUBJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20

Officers Wives Club is planned
for Thursday at Normandy
Farms.
The entertainment will be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20

a fashion show, and hostesses
for the day are Mrs. Wilbert
A. Block, and Mrs. Kenneth
P. Darling.
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Marine Corps
Military Sea
Transportation Service

The first luncheon of the
season for the Officers Wives
Club of the Military Sea
Transportation Service met
at noon today at the Army
Navy Country Club.
Mr.. Edward Burdette spoke
on the proper use of wines.
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Army Comptroller Division

Mrs. George H. Decker,
wife of the Army Chief of
Staff, will be the honor guest
of the Comptroller's Wives
Club when they meet for
luncheon tomorrow at Fort
McNair officers Club.
DR.. Raymond S. Sites, Ma
tlonal Gallery of Art, will
give an Illustrated lecture on
the Origin of Modern Art"
Air Force Medical Service
Corps
The first of the regular
luncheon series of the Air
Force Medical Service Corps
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Officers
Wives
News
BY EVELYN NJ. DENT
Contributing Writer

Mai. Gen. Robert w.
Colglazier, deputy Chief Of
Staff for logistics is to be the
guest speaker next Tuesday at
the Army Navy Country Club
when the Officers Wives Club
of the Corps holds its first
luncheon meeting Of the
season.
Among the honor guests
will be Mrs. Emerson C..
Itschner, and Mrs. Andrew
T. Mcnamara. Mrs. F. j. Nc
Morrow and wives of officers
of the Procurement Direc-
torate are the hostesses for
the day.
Marine Corps
Furs and furbelows will be
the center of interest tomor-
row at the Marine officers
Wives Club luncheon at the
Army Navy Country Club.
Honor guests will include
Mrs. Nathan F. Twining, and
Mrs. Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Mrs. Allan Shapley and wives
of the Divisions of Reserves,
Marine Corps, are hostesses
for the day.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY Elaine Townsend Diekerson

will exhibit again this year and
what his subjects will be. Ny pic
ture is of eleven colored people
farming in the south. viii be anx-
ious to see if his subjects again
this year are the same.
The other day when | worked at
Family Services out at Forbes AFB
l interviewed missile man. There
are, / believe, eight Atlas missile
sites under project around Topeka.
These are only in the event of
war and we all believe they will
never be fired. This poor soul was
sent here to help engineer the pro-
ject and he was in front of my
desk at FS seeking housing for his
family. / asked him how many
bedrooms he deemed necessary and
with this he passed on into reverie.
One does not come to Topeka ex-
pecting 3 bedrooms, large living
room, with fireplace, two baths.
fenced yard for two large dogs, etc.,
etc., etc. Sheeeeel And this fam
tasy to rent yet! I tried to bring
him back to reality and tell him
that this state capitol that we live
is the fourth highest town for rem
tails in the nation and even IL he
considered buying, his requisites
would come pretty plearly.
Our club pool is closed, is yours?
My, / do hate to think of waiting
another nine months before we can
swim again. Guess swimming is
my very favorite participating
sport. We do have a Y here where
| could swim in the winter, but
this is easier said than done with
a husband and three daughters to
take care of. This next week be-
gins the winter schedule-scouts,
piano lessons, games at junior high,
MYF meetings during the week,
school functions (an ice cream So
cial this Friday besides Hayes and
my interests. It's nice to be busy,
however
The weather man says it will be
100 here today. Guess it will be a
good Labor Day to stay in and off
the highways.
Until next week. -
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11

Mutual Funds. The Cycles mention
ed in the above paragraph may last
twenty years, with an average life
of about four years. But the Trend
of the Market may change every
thirty days. Another thing, we try
never to be wholly bullish" or
wholly bearish"; but to say that
there are a certain number of
"chances" out of ten that the mar
ket will advance or a certain num-
Der of chances" out of ten that it
will decline. We remember that
there is always a buyer for every
seller and that the reason the mar
ket goes up some months is be-
cause people are then more i'm
patient to buy than to sell. When it
goes down people are more i'm
patient to sell than to buy. There
fore, whatever the 20-year Business
Cycle may indicate, there are GER
tain times when one should buy
stocks rather than at other times.
This especially applies to those
who are buying primarily for in
come. Such people do not care to
wait and depend wholly on the long
Business Cycle; but then desire to
buy whenever they have money to
invest
Selecting The Best Stocks
60 The third factor of the Bah
son System is to select the stock
to buy, either for profit or for in
come. The careful investor should,
however, decide which of these two
aims is his real goal. All investors
should try to purchase safe securi-
ties, whether buying for income or
for profit, remembering that there
must be a buyer for every seller
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11
The BABSON SYSTEM OF INVESTING

and vice versa. The question of i'm
patience to buy or to sell is equally
important in selecting definite
stocks. At times Investors are more
impatient to buy some special pop
ular stock than to buy some other
less popular volume, remembering
that in "bear" market the volume
signifies one thing, while in a
bull" market it signifies another
thing. Let me say that for a profit
The Babson System demands the
purchase or sale of active stocks
as these will show the greatest in
crease in a bull market. On the
other hand, these same very active
stocks will decline the most in a
bear market. When the odds are
$3.50, then the investor must do
some guessing or remain out of the
market.
What About Bonds! a
We have not discussed bonds to-
day in this column. Bonds have a
maturity factor which stocks do not
have. Also, when buying preferred
stocks the investor should be sure
that they are nOncallable and their
dividends cumulative. To study the
outlook for common stocks, only
three factors have to be considered.
But when studying bonds or pre-
ferred stocks, a fourth factor is
necessary. This complicates the
situation.
For those who are expecting me
to make specific recommendations,
l advise against now purchasing
the present popular "electronic"
and space" stocks, but prefer,
safe growth stocks. These today
are the chemicals for profit, and
the public utilities for income.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11

If the compromise bill is too weak,
President Eisenhower is closer to
getting what he wants now, in the
way of labor reform legislation,
than he has been at any time dur
ing the year. Mr.. Eisenhower's
view, we believe, represents the
majority thinking in this country
TRUMAN ON IKE'S VISIT
Former President Harry S.
Truman has written that he fav-
ors Russian Premier Nikita
Khrushchev's visit to Washington
byt opposes President Eisenhow-
er's visit to Russia. The reasons
he lists for his opinion are inter
esting.
Mr.. Truman says the power and
leadership of the Presidency
should not be dissipated in cere-
monial visits where nothing is
likely to be accomplished. He does
not believe that Mr. Eisenhower
and Mr.. Khrushchev will make any
progress toward improving rela-
tions between the East and West.
Mr.. Truman says the commun-
lists will not, and have not, upheld
agreements they make when they
are not in their interests. There
fore, he says, little can be expect
ed of the meetings between
Khrushchev and Eisenhower. He
believes Khrushchev has a fixed
purpose and the same ambition he
always has had, and that niceties
and courtesies and ceremonial Wis
it's will not affect the goal OF Mos
cow one bit.
Mr. Truman also believes that
greater attention should be given
the United Nations, and that it
would have been a good idea for
President Eisenhower to have in
vited the heads of allied govern
ments and the Secretary General of
NATO to come to Washington prior
to Khurshchev's visit.
Primarily, however. Truman
fears that Eisenhower's visit to
Russia will be distorted for prop
aganda purposes beyond the actual
intention of the visit.
Mr.. Truman's views are but one
of a growing number of voices now
uttering warnings about the ex-
change of visits between Eisen-
hover and Khrushchev. All of
which makes it clear that Mr.. Els
enhower is squarely on the spot,
having taken on perhaps his most
difficult task thus far in his years
in the White House.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11
Looking at
WASHINGTON

This proposal is being put to
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson,
in the Senate, and Speaker Sam
Rayburn, in the House. Lyndon
Johnson, as a possible Presiden-
tial candidate, is in a delicate po-
sition, although it would probably
be in his interest to do everything
he could to oust Butler.
If the present National Chair
man is not removed from Office by
1860, chances are better than fifty
fifty that number of Southern
states will again vote for the Re
publican nominee, and it should be
kept in mind, in this connection,
that the South has not been solid
in the last three Presidential cleo
tions, practically half of the South
ern states having voted for the Re
publican nominee, or someone
other than the national Democratic
nominee, in each of the last three
Presidential elections.
LANDRUM AND GRIFFIN
The most impressive thing about
the House Labor Bill, which moved
through the lower body by an i'm
pressive 303-125 margin, is the fact
that it was written quietly, and
with a minimum of fanfare and
publicity.
The two authors of the bill, one
Republican, held many closed
hearings, and reporters and SEN
sational testimony were avoided.
The chairman of the House Edu-
cation-Labor subcommittee which
wrote the bill is Representative
Phil M. Landrum, of Georgia He
is the Democrat, and his counter
part on the committee, the Re-
publican, is Representative Rob-
ert P. Griffin, of Michigan.
Both Landrum and Griffin are
quiet workers, and do their work
in thorough, plodding, fashion. In
writing the recent Labor Bill, they
used the committees staff counsel
and took some forty days of testi-
mony, hearing approximately one
hundred witnesses.
Listening to both labor and bus
mess representatives they decided
and the subcommittee with them
that the major labor abuses in
volved in today's labor relations
problem are secondary boycotting
and blackmail picketing. Both
these Representatives believe the
Landrum-Griffin bill. as it passed
the House, virtually halts both.
It is evident, however, that the
American people are in the mood
for an effective labor reform bill.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11

mits his wife these expansive
dreams is wise indeed, because
chances are she will settle for
much less, and will have changed
her mind dozens of times before
the man has accrued funds for a
new project.
Here are some letters that show
how the wind is blowing in that
direction:
81 have a lovely little Louis XIV
bergere with soiled damask cover.
am devoted to the chair which
does not fit in with my other fur
nishings-Early American, French
Victorian Glove seat, Oriental
(Chinese Chippendale chair. My
husband suggests disposing of it
since we are going to do a new
color scheme, anyway. Our walls
are bright white and we plan to use
red and blue in new upholstery,
draperies, and perhaps a slip
cover for the large sofa. Do you
have any suggestions about dis
tributing these colors? Do you
think there is any way the chair
could be salvaged?"
These furnishings could live
happily ever after, since you have
gotten along well with them up
until now. Do something dramatic
in color and texture Of materials,
and everything should harmonic.
You could antique the frame Of
the French chair, for instance, in a
robins egg blue, and cover it in
the same shade of leather. If you
are a purist about antiques, skip
coloring the frame. and just re-
cover it. Lipstick red felt could
make a chaming contrast used on
the love seat and a white and blue
hubby weave fabric would be
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11

pretty upuOloISAg III
Chippendale chair. Or do your
large sofa in robins egg blue, the
French chair in white leather, love
seat in red, and Oriental chair In
blue and white.
Q-"Are there any rules about
planning kitchen? / have order
ed new appliances but l can't
quite figure out how to place
them"
Ats a good idea to have
range, sink and refrigerator close
together to save steps, but Ii there
is no room there should be coun-
ter space on either side of the re-
frigerator to break up the bulky
look. There should be work coun-
ter next to the sink, and IL possible
there should be window above or
near the sink. A kitchen viii need
an exhaust fan above the stove or
oven unless there is other ventila-
ton. It is considered bad planning
to have refrigerator and stove at
opposite ends of the room. Outer
space in a kitchen should be used
for food preparation, dining cent
ers, cook books.
OF have an early Chauncey
Jerome shelf clock, the outer sect
ion of which seems to be peeling
from the dry house we live in. 1t
seems to be running the clock. Is
there any way this could be re-
finished?"
Aft it is the one inch stripp-
ing that runs around the front Of
the clock, it could easily be re-
placed by a refinisher of antiques.
The stripping is veneer, and 1t
could be replaced entirely or
patched up in sections, depending
on the condition of the clock. The
rest OF the clock is solid wood.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11

Babson Park, Mass, September
10. Many have asked what is my
definite system of investing.
hesitate to put this down in writ
ing because it is easier to explain
than to perform! The Babson Sys-
tenn consists of three constantly
changing factors, as follows:
CapitaliZing The Composite
Business Cycle
Cd Th e composite Business
Cycle is a combination of a number
of seperate cycles. Most invest
ment advisors forget that each
commodity, each nation, and each
family has it's own special cycle.
There are hundreds of these cycles,
but we take about fifty and OBJ
serve when the declines of most of
them reach their low points at the
same time to turn upward. In other
words, if these different cycles
were drawn one over the other
every month, then-when most of
the cycles were at their low point,
that, according to the Cycle Theory,
is the time to invest. This Cycle
Theory, however, is only one of the
three tests, all of which are very
important.
Studying The Temporary Trend
(2) The Trend of the Market is
determined by studying the COM
bined earnings of the leading COM
panies, the prices of their stocks,
and other barOmeterS such as the
best-selling books and the charac-
ter of what appears in the movies
and on radio and television. Bank
statistics are considered, as well as
the honest opinion of various adj
visory services which accept no ad-
vertising and are not interested in
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11
IKE,S ASSURANCES

The main purpose of President
Eisenhower's trip to Europe, and
his visit to allied leaders in Ger
many, Great Britain and France,
was to assure these countries that
he would not deal unilaterly with
the Soviet Union and Premier Nj
kita Khrushchev.
No doubt President Eisenhower
has assured Chancellor KOnrad Ad-
enauer, British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan and President
Charles de Gaulle that he would
not negotiate behind their backs.
No doubt Mr.. Eisenhower intends
to hold, as he says, conversations
and not negotiations, with the Rus
sian Premier.
On the other hand, those who
have watched Nikita Khurshchev
in action know that he is an i'm
pulsive, dynamic talker, and that
he is likely to bring up whatever
subjects he chooses to bring up.
1t is not likely that he will be
awed, or even governed, by Presi-
dent Eisenhower's considerations
of his allies, in the topic which he
chooses to discuss.
Whether Mr. Eisenhower can
steer clear of any trips which
might be set for him is the key
to their meeting. President Eisen-
hover will have a tough job in
limiting his conversations with
Khrushchev or in controlling the
impetuous manner of his guest.
And, Eisenhower being an idealist
at heart, he may well be tempted to
come to some kind of agreement,
or tentative agreement, with
KhruShchev in the hope of better
ing relations between East and
West.
BUTLER AND THE SOUTH
Chairman Paul Butler, of the
Democratic National Committee,
has again indicated he will attempt
to hamstring the South in the next
meeting of the party's National
Committee.
Butler, it is reported, will at
tempt to remove the bonus clause
from Democratic convention dele
gate rules, and will attempt to bar
delegations to the 1860 convention
which do not guarantee to accept
the conventions nominees.
In response to this threat, one
National Committeeman. Denmark
Grower. of Georgia, has-appealed
to his Senators to persuade Demo
cratic Senators and Congressman
to bring pressure to bear on their
National Committee representatives
to oust Butler from his job.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11
2806 McAlister
Topeka, Kansas
Senfemher z. 1883

September z, 1859
Dear Friends:
In one of the national magazines
some company advertising their
wares wished us all Happy Labor
Day. The caption under the eye
appealing picture saluted every
one on the job on Labor Day.
Guess who was in the pictures
Hayes in his jet flying suite Tin
replica) and there sat Mama behind
the ironing board. Well, / shant
be caught behind any ironing board
on this Labor Day, but like any
mother of little ones / shall be
busy. Hayes is at work, too. Many
of the fellows at Forbes have today
off, but since our crew is smack
dab in the middle of the competi-
ton they are at the base mission
planning today.
The fourth mission in the End
Air Force Competition occurs Wed
nesday night so Don, Dave and
Hayes are busy trying to perfect
their scheduled mission. After
three runs they are still on top OF
all crews participating. A feature
story about the boys will run IN
our base paper this week and ]
will try to get picture of them
in their flying gear so you may see
them too.
Roy and Dale will be here this
week. Mid-America Free Fair be-
gins the 18th and the star attrac-
tions this year are the Rogers. We
had tried to settle on night to
attend the grandstand show when
Hayes might be able to join US
We had finally selected a night
when he might be here and were
about to purchase the tickets when
Dawn advised us she wasn't inter
ested in cowboys. Certainly, Lynne
wasn't and 'ten-month-old Leslie
could care less, so it will be just q
jaunt to the white way"-is thai
what they call it?
You remember last year at the
fair / found a picture / liked sc
much and for Christmas Hayes
surprised me with it, as a gift. The
artist is a federal prisoner at Lea
venworth. Am anxious to see if he
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11
POLL TAX AMENDMENT

The poll tax, once topic of national dis
cussiOn but for some time absent from the
front page, is looming up again. A consti-
tutional amendment abolishing it as quail
fication for voting has been sponsored by Sc
senators, almost enough to pass the Senate.
The proposed amendment will soon be
voted on by a subcommittee of the Senate
judiciary committee. If it gets out of this
bodys' clutches, it must be passed by two
thirds of both Senate and House, and rati-
fed by three-fourths of the states.
One reason why the movement for abo-
lition' of the poll tax has Jagged is that the
South, the home of this tax, has been elimi-
mating it state by state. Intended originally,
perhaps, as an easy way to keep the Negro
from voting, it has proved capable of appli-
cation to whites. Southern leaders became
more and more willing to give up the poll
tax, and the majority of the Southern states
have abandoned it. Only five states still en-
ploy it: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Texas and Virginia.
There seems to be good chance that the
other Southern states will put only token
obstacles in the way of the amendment. The
rest of the nation is not likely to object. So
the 23rd amendment to the Constitution may
be under way
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11
SEPTEMBER DAYS

Some of the first days in the month of Sep
tember are interesting from an historical
standpoint Beginning on the 7th, Labor
Day this year, that date is the birthday an
niversary of James Fennemore Cooper per-
haps the greatest American novelist of the
first half of the nineteenth century. He was
born at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1889.
The 9Th is remembered as the day Ger
many was admitted to the League of Nations
in 1926, which-after all-didn't amount to
much, and also is the day of the Galeston
tornado, of 1900. September 9th is remem-
bered as Admission Day in California, and
as the date on which the French stopped the
Germans at the Marine, in 1914, probably
preventing German victory that year.
The 10th is remembered as the day when
General Burnside occupied Nashville in 1868.
This time of the year is also remembered as
the time of the Jewish New Year, or Rosh
Hashana-the day often falling on or about
September 10TH
. The 18th is remembered for two battles,
the Battle of Brandywine, fought at Chadd's
Ford, Pennsylvania, which was General
Howe's third attempt, and a successful one,
to reach and take Philadelphia-the capital
of the colonies.
The Battle of Lake Champlain was also
fought on this date, in 1914.
The 18th is remembered as the date on
which the St. Mihiel Salient was attacked by
Americans in 1918, and it is remembered as
the anniversary of the Battle of North Point,
in the War of 1872, in Maryland. This battle
was fought the day before the bOmbardment
of Fort McHenry, the failure of which in
spired Francis Scott Key to write ''The Star
Cnanolad Rannero
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11
TOO.OLD2

Colonel John Paul Stapp thinks the sew
en- Astronauts, whose ages range from 80 to
81, are too old for space flight This may be,
considering that they'll probably start aging
mighty fast when the rocket begins to
rumble