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Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
I'm THE AIR FORCE
BY EIoine townsend Dickersor

] am, so what would you suggest
THE Happy Farmer" or Wood
land Waltz" or the Busy Saw
mill"? Nothing too teary about
them!
This week my good friend from
Ohio, Wilma Longman, and | have
been turning old fashioned CHM
ney fiues into Santa faces and top
ping the face with red corduroy
belled hat and filling the fiue with
Christmas candy. 1t took US a full
day to finish an even dozen of the
jolly little men. Next week we are
making candles-the art of which
l understand is simple, but l
haven't mastered it yet. The fol-
lowing week we will make cook
les (send me some good recipes,
will your and l plan to send some
to Hayes on a plane that is head
ed in his direction.
Near my mothers birthday, which
is December 14th, they are hav-
ing another Holiday Homes Tour
in Topeka and l plan to. go this
year anu VIII write anu tell you
about the lovely homes we will
visit and how the decorating COM
mittee prepared them for the ad-
vent season.
Incidentally, did you have cram
berries Thursday? We went to the
Officers Club with friends of ours
(Leslie's debut at the club-she
was a 13 month old dolD and there
on this beautifully decorated table
sat the detected cranberry sauce
and nary soul dipped spoon in
the dish to eat it with his turkey.
/ missed them terribly, but Hayes
shook his head when | suggested
eating them when we had our hol-
iday dinners with him before he
left and l thought 81 just better
not" Next year l hope their stig-
ma has been completed erased and
we can again place them proudly
beside the fat, golden Drowned
bird.
Until I write to you again, when
that many more shopping days will
have disappeared from the calen-
dar.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
Eastern Forests Show
So Million Income

Nearly one-half million dollars
will be distributed to state treasur-
| les as their share of 81 million in
receipts obtained through the sale
of timber and other resources on
national forest land in the Eastern
Region of the u. s. Forest Service
during fiscal year 1859, according
to Regional Forester Hamilton X.
Pyles at his headquarters at Upper
Darby, Pa.
In accordance with federal laws,
25 percent of the receipts from the
seven national forests in the East
ern Region is returned to the
states within which the forests are
located. The money is earTnarked
for construction of schools and
roads in the counties entitled to
share in it. Over and above the rs
percent of income distributed to
counties each year, the Federal
government, through the Forest
Service, pIows back another 10
percent of annual income for roads,
trails, bridges, water control, and
other physical development needs
These roads and trails not only
aid in fire protection, timber har-
vest and other administrative re-
quirements, but most of them are
useful to residents and visitors who
wish to make use of the recreation
al opportunities made available on
national forest land. At the time Of
purchase by the Federal govern
ment, most of the lands compris-
ing the national forests in the East
were cut over and badly in need of
scientific management and protec-
tion. The steadily rising income
through the sale of national forest
timber reflects the fact that these
lands are beginning to produce
equality lumber on a sustained
yield basis.
The sum of SASS, 5,931.45 will be
distributed among seven states as
follows: Kentucky Cumberland
National ForesD-S67, ,20.S7; Maine
white Mountain National Forest)
$50, ,166.18: Pennsylvania National
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
CALLED TO SEMINARY

New York (P)-The Rev. DR..
George Arthur Buttrick, member
of the Harvard faculty, will join
Union Theological Seminary here
next fall as the Harry Emerson
Fosdick visiting professor.
Dr. Buttrick is the first Ameri-
can chosen for the Fosdick pro-
fessorship which brings to the
seminary each year an outstanding
religious leader to share in the
teaching of the~Union students and
to serve as a visiting lecturer in
other institutions.
At Harvard, DR.. Buttrick has
been chairman of the board of
preachers and Plummer Professor
of Christian Morals for the last
five years. He went to Harvard
after 27 years as pastor of the Mad
ison Avenue Presbyterian Church
in New York City.
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
Looking at &
WASHINGTON @Sakfl

but he is still a favorite of many
| in the party.
MEANY'S PLAN
President George Meany, of the
American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tion, has proposed that President
Eisenhower hold top-level con-
ference of industry and union lead
ers.
Meany's proposal is one designed
| to find ways of safeguarding the
country against crippling strikes.
President Eisenhower has accepted
the proposal, in general, and has
| instructed Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell to work out ar
rangements with both groups.
Meany had said that a conference
under White House auspices would
help reduce the likelihood of re-
currence of the costly steel strike,
and spread of this conflict to
other basic industries. Meany said
he considered such conference
most urgent" in light of the in
creasing Soviet economic threat.
Another consideration in Meany's
evaluation of the urgency is the
growing threat that Congress will
step into the steel crisis and enact
legislation which labor might not
favor.
Although President Eisenhower
has avoided a specific commitment
to the meetings, concerning time
and place, ETC., he viewed the pro-
posal with favor, and-awaiting a
report from his Secretary of Labor
plans to follow it up. Moreover,
he promised to communicate with
Meany further, when Secretary of
Labor James P. Mitchell had work
ed out details for the conference.
THE SPACE CAPSULE
The Air Force has once again
failed to catch a space capsule
which supposedly elected from a
missile falling back to earth.
This is the fifth failure in five
tries, and presents a rather dismal
picture-as far as the capsule
catching Air Force experiment is
concerned.
The reader may not be aware
that a group of Air Force pilots,
planes and equipment has been
employed for some years in Hawaii
training for this very stunt Al
though some experts called this a
wild dreaming from the beginning,
the Air Force put money into this
project and has. kept men and
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
By Roger w. BabsOn

supposedly molten metals of var
ious kinds. All we really know is
that the core of the earth is cover
ed with a she'll of granite or other
material The oil that we use to
heat our homes and the gasoline
with which we operate our cars
have been collecting on the out
side of this crust. No one has
known what was under the crust
until the Russians recently crack
ed it 1000 feet deep in the Ukraine.
Hearing of this work, the st. JOS
eph Lead Company and the Bethle-
hem Steel Company made study
of what was under the crust in this
country. So far they have found
that the crust is the thinnest about
26 miles from Salem, Missouri,
where they broke through the shell
which was about 10000 feet thick
In accordance with borings prev
iously made, they found a great
bed of iron ere with copper, urani-
um, and even traces of silver and
gold. Here | come to the exciting
piece of news that / spoke of
above.
WHAT ABOUT THE CRUST?
The crust of the earth consists
mostly of granite of various thick
nesses, varying in depth below
the surface of ground. In New
England the crust comes to the
surface, while in Florida one must
drill through an overlay of sand,
ETC., more than 10000 feet before
coming to the crust There still
may be valuable ore under the
crust in Florida; but the process
of getting it out would be very ex-
pensive under present known meth
ods of extraction. The Russians
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
THE DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATES

While Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's chances for the presiden-
tial nomination have apparently
increased in recent weeks and
months, to the dismay of support
ers of Governor Nelson Rockefeller,
of New York, a more confused sit
uation has enveloped leading DEM
ocratic candidates.
1t is probably the majority opin-
ion in Washington that the chances
of Senator Stuart Symington, of
Missouri, have improved in recent
weeks and months. Symington was
considered the leading dark horse
candidate for a long time, and he
is now considered a really hot dark
horse, or even a strong contender
from the very beginning.
This is an interesting develop
ment because it reflects the squab-
bles and handicaps of other candi-
dates. While Senator Wayne Morse,
Oregon Democrat, is lambasting
Senator Hubert Humphrey, of Min
nesota, or. Senator Jack Kennedy,
of Massachusetts, and while Ma
jority Senate Leader Lyndon john
son, of Texas, is being attacked by
some of the liberals in the Senate.
Symingt0n stays largely aloOf
from these little political wars.
Symington's main attack on the
Administrator has been in the
field of rockets and missiles. For
a number of years now he has crit
icized the Eisenhower Administra-
ton for tagging in its rocket and
missiles efforts, in comparison to
progress achieved in the Soviet
Union.
Symington's criticism is remin-
iscent, to a slight degree, of that
of Churchill and Anthony Eden in
the thirties in Great Britain. And
since Symington is an ex-Secretary
of the Air Force, he commands the
respect of a number of people in
the field of defense. Unquestion-
ably, he has been right in some of
his criticism, and since this field
may be one of the most fertile for
Democrats attacking the Republi-
can record in 1860, SymingtOn's s
record on this score is significant.
Along with Symington, the
chances of AdIai Stevenson, who
was twice nominated and defeat
ed, have also appeared to improve
in recent weeks and months. Ste
venson has reverted to his 1852
strategy, that OF being hard to get,
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04

equipment tied up, training, and
still persists in. the theory that
something might come out of all
this.
Even if the Air Force managed to
catch capsule in the near future,
we think that any man would be a
fool TO rocket off into outer space,
on the assumption that he would
be caught in the air after election
from the nose of the missile.
Chances would seem to be very
poor, even if the Air Force, by luck
or training, should catch all of
these missiles soon.
In short, it seems that a more
fOol-proof system of recovering the
space man must be devised
SYMINGTON'S FARM PROGRAM
Senator Stuart Symington, one of
the leading Democratic presiden-
tial nominee candidates, has out
lined his farm program. 1t comes
only a few days after Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Benson offered
the new Administration program.
Symington's program, in brief,
covers six major points.
1t would give farmers a greater
voice in farm policies. 1t would
institute modern production and
supply control measures to balance
farm production with market re-
quirements.
1t would set price supports in re-
lation to the cost of production, in
creased efficiency and more mod
ern chronological methods.
It would maintain long-term
conservation programs. so that
land unneeded and unsuited to eff
cient production was used for COW
er or reforestation.
It would establish a food pro-
gram to ensure an ample supply
of foods for use here and for for
eign-policy purposes abroad.
And, finally, it would create a
special agency within the Depart
ment of Agriculture to deal with
programs of the nations farm fam
lilies of low income.
Symington outlined his farm pro-
gram at the recent National
Grange convention. Perhaps the
most interesting of his proposals
was the last one mentioned, the
creation of a special agency which
would deal with problems of the ma
tion's lOw-income farm families.
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
BENEFIT SALE

HUNTLEY. I'll. {P)-Twenty-six
Huntley High School Future Farm
-ers of America, an English teacher
and the football coaches from Hunt
ley and nearby Hebron sold"
themselves for more than $500.
The money was donated to the
Larry Radloff Trust Fund. Larry, Is,
suffered broken neck in a foot
ball game between Huntley aud
Hebron and is completely paralyz-
ed.
The boys and the instructors sold
for days work To the
highest bidders. and did everything
from carpentry work to cleaning
pig pens
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
Every Readers Land Is Underlad With Valuable Metals

are said to be pumping this metal
to the surface. The crust is sup
posed to be the thinnest in Central
America on lands owned or leased
by the United Fruit Company. Let
me, however, emphasize that wher-
ever you live your land or farm
may be underlain by. most valu-
able metals.
The major metal which under
lies your land is probably iron ore,
but it may be uranium or even gold.
If your state or county has not al
ready made proper geophysical
surveys, you should insist that it
do so at once. In short, my Eek
citing news" is that you may be
living on most valuable body of
ore. Hence you should not sell
your land without an aeromagnetic
survey which will tell you ID the
distance from your doorstep to the
top of the crust, (2) the thickness
of the crust, and 60 what is under
it.
WHAT THIS ALL MEANS
no YOU
| have often advised my readers
to be slow in selling raw land
especially near the seacoast, navi-
gable rivers, or other chief outlets
to markets. Since my trip to Rus
sia l feel more strongly about this
than ever. Houses can be improv-
ed or rebuilt, but only God can
make more land and put great
wealth undersit. Let me repeat that
such wealth is already under the
land where you live. It's value de-
pends upon the distance down to
the crust and the thickness of the
crust at your place of residence,
together with the outlets to the
nearest market.
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04

BA3SON PARK, Mass, December
4-This week I want to write on
the most exciting piece of news
which | learned while visiting Mos
COW, Russia. 1t should interest
every reader in every state wher-
ever he may live.
WHAT RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
ARE DOING TODAY
While Mr. X has been feeding
us with, news about flying to the
moon,", his scientists have been at
work breaking open the crust OF
the earth and finding out what is
under it. In fact, whenever Mr.. K
tells US what he is doing, it is not
important. The things which are
important. Mr.. X does not tell US
about. 4
l have already told you about
the one million scholars who are
in Moscow's schools today. All are
given equal opportunities but the
number. is sifted and boiled down
to about 5000 who are trained tC
be scientists. These are given in
tensive training. in mathematics
physics, and chemistry. About two
thirds of them are concentrating
on rocketry and submarine missil-
ry. They are told not to be con-
tent with hitting any one city, but
to pinpoint a definite building in
that city. The other third of these
students study the crust of the
earth and what is under it.
A LESSON IN GEOLOGY
Originally the. earth was a form
of gas which, through millions OF
years, gradually turned into a solid
mass. What is inside this mass is
now one of the problems of the
Gravity Research Foundation OF
New Boston, New Hampshire. 1t is
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
28O6 McAlister
Topeka, Kansas
November 29, 1859

November 29, 1859
Dear Friends:
Well, it's getting the time of
year when / get disgusted with
my neighbors. Not just native
Kansas neighbors, but Air Force
families, too. Do you know that in
a matter of few days we will see
Christmas trees in living room
windows? Our family tradition has
always been to "erect" our tree
Christmas Eve and then after we're
in bed, like magic, Santa trims it
for us. l tell this to these "for-
eigners" and they say, like cynics,
How nice" And you know in
wardly they're thinking what a
queer custom we have. I'm telling
the truth when l say a neighbor a
block away has her front door dec
GRATED with her Christmas theme
this weekend and / have hardly
swallowed my Thanksgiving tur-
| key.
Last year when Hayes and l
went to the local stores for our
Christmas tree they were gone! l
almost panicked and then relaxed
and thought well, if worse comes
to worse we can go in the woods
or to a nursery and get one" But,
heaven forbid here in this country.
Evergreens are scarce as pure cram
berries and you pay dearly for
them. We finally bought dried up
evergreen, sprayed it gold and it
was really the loveliest one we ever
had. Hayes will not be with us
Christmas and | shall have to real
| ly be on my toes to get tree ahead
of the early birds. Guess / shall
get my tree weeks ahead of Christ
mas Eve like the others, only
shall sit mine in a bucket of water
in the garage until the proper mo-
ment.
We want to send tape to Hayes
| for Christmas and tell him Merry
Christmas by tape recorder rather
than just words on paper. Lynne
is practicing a piano rendition of
White Christmas, but the other
night while she played / cried as
I listened from the kitchen and
her daddy is just as sentimental as
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04

ROTARY SP EAKER II NEXT
UESDAY-Richard Hallock Da-
Wis. director of the Office of So
Wet Union Affairs of the State
Department, will be speaker at the
dinner meeting of the Rotary Clubs
of Sussex County in Jones Memoir
ial Hall, Georgetown, Tuesday, De-
cember 8, at 6 p. m.
His subject will be Foreign At
fairs and he will speak particu-
larly about Russia.
The clubs attending, with their
ladies, will be those Of Group 2,
764th District, including Rotary
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04

Clubs in Lewes, Selbyville, Laurel
and Milford as well as the host
club, the Georgetown Millsboro
Club.
u. s. Senator John j. Williams.
member of the Georgetown-Mills-
boro Club, will introduce Mr.. Da-
Wis.
Mollay c. Vaughn, governors
representative for Sussex County,
will preside. Among special guests
who will attend will be District
Governor j. Reynolds Pratt, Smyr-
ma, and Past District Governor
George s. Williams, of MilIsboro.
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04

Forest) - s114,01101; Vermont
Green Mountain National .Forest)
-$32, ,96982; Virginia George
Washington National Forest and
Jefferson National Forest)-$65,- :
643.50; West Virginia George
Washington National Forest and
Monongahela National Forest)-
$115,934.54.
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
YARDSTICK OF NATIONAL WELL
BEING

There's great deal of controversy over
Russia's economic and scientific achieve
ments. But one thing is sure-the Soviet
leaders are masters of propaganda. The Rus
sian people are deluged day and night with
words designed to make them believe that
communism does more for the masses than
any other system. And Russian visitors to
this country, from Khrushchev down the
line, take every conceivable opportunity to
try to "selP' Russia's progress and superb
ority.
WE'LL no one can blame them for that
it's their job as dedicated communists. But
when we get down to facts, the picture takes
on very different hue.
There's only one way to judge the ma
terial well-being of people-and that is by
the yardstick of how much the average mans
income will buy in the market place. With
one months wages, an American can buy
612 suits and "a pairs of shoes. With one
months wages, on the other hand, Rus
sian can buy half of suit and single pair
of shoes. The situation is comparable in the
case of most other consumer goods beyond
the bare-necessity level
In Russia, the government produces prac-
tically everything and practically everything
is sold in government stores. Government de-
cides all questions-what shall be produced
and sold, of what quality, at what price.
There is no competition.
In America, on the other hand, there's
competition every inch of the way from the
source of raw materials to the finished goods
offered at retail. The producer or retailer
who is able to offer the widest choice and
best quality at least cost gets the trade. And
that's one of the main reasons why the Am
erican worker, with his months pay, can buy
so many suits and shoes if heso desires-and
the Soviet worker so few.
Mass merchandising methods, pioneered
in the United States, give customers super
services in foods and all manner of personal
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
: GOODWILL is THE ANSWER


other growing pains, the community will ben
eft if parties to disagreements maintain an
attitude of goodwill toward their fellowmen.
1t should always be remembered that in
this community, as in every other community,
we must live and work together, day by day.
Statements rejecting bitterness or selfish
views do not accomplish anything in the way
of harmony, progress or better living and
working conditions.
On the other hand, if ones views are ex-
pressed through the medium of goodwill and
fairness, even divergent views can be ex-
pressed without stirring antagonisms, per-
sonal resentment and bitterness. This is
something all of our citizens should keep in
mind, in seeking to make this community
better place in which to live and work.
1t should also be remembered that one
loses his effectiveness by assuming an extre-
mist or radical, approach to any problem.
A patient, fair-minded approach will usually
develop support among the majority of fNciti-
ZenS, who almost always favor moderation.
On the other hand, extremist views ALLEVIATE
potential support, cryStalize opposition and
accomplish the exact opposite purpose from
that intended.
HOW IMPORTANT ARE. POWER COSTS?
Despite all the political talk that sur
rounds electric power development nu-
tablished the fact that location of an indus
try depends on markets, skilled labor avail
able, transportation and rates, equitable tax7
alton and dependable electric power but hard
ly at all on the cost of electric power, except
for those industries that provide very few
jobs"
That Illuminating statement leads off an
important article in the Oregon Voter. The
magazine then goes on to present some facts,
based on U. S. Census reports on manufac-
turing industry covering Comparatively re-
cent year.
In that year, employment in manufactur-
ing totaled 1851 ,430 The average cost of
electric power for all manufacturing was
eight-tenths of one per cent-less than a pen
ny on the dollar-of the total cost of the pro-
duct or the shipment value of it.
There were, however, some industrial
groups in which electric power cost was more
than four per cent. They included manufac-
ture of ice some chemicals and gasses, GER
tain electrometallurigical products, etc. And
they provided employment for only 228,716
out of the total manufacturing work force of
15,647 ,430. AS the Voter emphasizes, these
"are the only industries in which power cost
would be major factor in determining plant
location and in some of these the cost of
power is relatively unimportant in relation
to other factors of cost"
There is the answer to the claim, made
by socialized power groups, that the cost of
electricity is one of the really big factors in
determining where productive industry To-
Gates.
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04

Alaska has eight mountains high
er than any. mountain in the old
Milford chronicle., 1959-12-04
BIGGER FIGHTS AHEAD

This years battle of the federal budget
has been only a foretaste of bigger future
fights. That prophecy comes from man who
knows-U. S. Budget Director Maurice
Stans.
Writing in Nations Business, he says
that q. under legislative commitments al
ready made, we are headed straight toward
a budget of $50 billion or more in 1861" He
predicts higher costs for example, on the pub
lie debt, farm programs, veterans benefits,
water resources, outer space, aviation and
science education.
Moreover, the Legislative commitments
already made" don't begin to complete the
problem. Coming Congresses, like all Con-
crosses, will be deluged with proposals for
new and increased spending.
If ever the American people should ac-
lively support the economizer in Congress
and the Executive branch, this is that time
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tional Law Association. His
organization has been infiuen.
tial since 1926 in settling dis
putes throughout the world
There's q necessity to promote
within the business community
arbitration for settling disputes
between governments and for
eign traders" he said.
The congress, at the Shore.
ham and Sheraton Park Hotels
has been arranged by the Unit.
ed States Council of the ICC
1t will end Saturday, and may
not be held again in this coun.
try for 20 or 80 years.
II certainly don't hope to &c
through another one as an of.
fetal" said one member of thu
councils staff.