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Evening star., 1960-10-08
Khrushchev Is Getting
His Own DisneyIond

MOSCOW, Oct. 8 (AP).-
On his 1859 visit to the United
States, Soviet Premier Khru-
shchev got angry because Sc
curity problems prevented him
from taking in Disneyland--
the famed California amuse-
ment park.
There may be no connection,
but the Soviet Union has de-
cided to build its version of
Disneyland and Freedomland-
the big amusement park in New
York's Bronx.
Mr.. Khrushchev. while at
tending the United Nations
General Assembly in New York
indicated no desire to visit
Predominant. He probably
wouldn't have had any success
since his limits were the island
of Manhattan and Glen Cove
Long Island-again for security
reasons.
65O-Acre Park
Anyway, the Russians boast
their country-of- miracles park
will be three times as big as
Freedomland. It will be shaped
like the Soviet ,Union-on q
scale Of / to 5.000-and cover
$50 acres in a bend Of the Mos
COW River just outside the cap
ital.
The cost Of the project
scheduled for completion In late
1861 or early 1862, has not beer
disclosed. The outlay will be
reduced by appeals to children
students and technicians tc
contribute their labor.
The park is being planned fol
a daily attendance of $50, 900 ir
the summer and about half that
in winter.
Lunik Models
Since "our country Is truly
the country of Miracles" re-
ports the magazine Technique
for Youth. the parks primary
purpose will be to stimulate the
curiosity of Russian children
and educate them.
Evening star., 1960-02-28
NO LUCK" WITH HOUSE PLANTS?
Dom t blame yOurseLf-they may be
planted in the WrOng soil

post for long-lasting nutrition;
and round-grain sand granules
that help keep Living Earth
porous, like a sponge-prevent
it from packing, allow roots to
stretch out and breathe :. and
receive steady supplies of life
giving oxygen, moisture and nu-
triton. Good news, too, for busy
housewives is the fact that Liv-
ing Earth needs less watering
because it holds moisture longer.
And it's purified, of course, to
free it of any noxious weed seeds
or insects.
So, If you want your house
plants to perk up and grow
healthy, throw away that hard
packed dirt and replace it with
enriched Living Earth. And, re-
member, all plants need repot-
ting, too, when they outgrow
their pots. It's simple:
Evening star., 1960-02-28

According to recent survey,
most of Americas house plants
are planted in the WrOng soil. If
you're among the $3.50 who have
been using garden dirt and other
ordinary soils for indoor plant
ing, chances are your house
plants aren't doing as well as
they should.
Ordinary garden dirt - and
many of the low-priced CONNER
cial soils that are just dug up and
bagged-can't take indoor grow
ing conditions because Nature
didn't count on outdoor soil be-
ing used in the home. Indoor
heat dries it out, packs it down.
1t wears out faster indoors be-
cause house plants drain nutri-
ton from soil more rapidly than
plants grown outdoors.
Check your house plant soil.
If it is hard and caked; if it is
packed down and sunken in the
center-sometimes exposing the
roots; if frequent watering seems
to do no good and if the foliage
and flowers look peaked and
sparse the soil itself prob
ably is choking your plants.
Brick-hard, worn-out ordinary
dirt prevents moisture, nutri-
ton and oxygen from reaching
the roots.
Living Earth, the revolution
ary new indoor soil mentioned
on the next page, is specifically
developed to withstand the rigors
of growing conditions in the
home. Not an additive, not a
synthetic, this new indoor soil
is a complete MIXTURE from
many of Natures richest sources
-moisture-holding peat humus;
fine-grain virgin topsoil; rich,
coarse fibered mushroom COM
Evening star., 1960-02-28

and when to
repot plants.
These are just a
few of the ques-
tions answered
in Livin G
Beauty In Your
Home, the
free house plant
booklet that is
a t t ac h ed to
each packageo of
Evening star., 1960-02-28

TWNHE meanest umpire in the baseball league
Il was also terror at home He'd come home,
hit his wife, beat his boy and kick the cat.
One night, he happened to be in a demonstra-
tive mood and tried to get his boy to climb
onto his lap and listen to story, but the boy
couldn't get close to him.
The moral, if any, is that the son never sets
on british umpire.
DOY In the old days, did the knights fight
ID with battle-axes?"
Father: We'll, the married ones did"
TINE braggart was letting everybody know
L that he could bend a horseshoe with his
bare hands All of sudden, one farmer had
enough
That amt anything to brag about he
said MY wife can tie up ten miles oftelephone
wire with her chin"
AMERICANS should hardly be dazzled by
"A the enormous distances involved in
space travel The total mileage covered by
United States auto drivers last year was seven
times the distance to the sun
Evening star., 1960-02-28
FREE 28-PACE BOOKLET
IS HANDY GUIDE FOR
HOUSE PLANT CARE

How much light is right for
African Violets, Philodendron,
Gloxinia? How often should
house plants be watered? How
Evening star., 1960-02-28

Living Earth. Illustrated with
plant pictures in glorious color,
it is full of tips for complete in
door plant care that will help
you grow house plants green
house healthy. Your copy is
waiting for you with Living
Earth at your store.
Evening star., 1960-02-28

!. REMOVE the
plant by tapping
pot upside down
on edge Of table.
Gently break
loose soil away
from around the
root-ball.
z. COVER bottom
of new pot with
Living Earth.
Firm down, then
place plant in
position. Fill pot
with Living
Earth up to =
inch from top.
,. WATER thor
oughly until it
drips from drain
hole to settle the
soil. Keep out of
direct sunlight
for several days.
See the Living
Evening star., 1960-02-28
Mhieh most popular"
plants ore in your home?

In order of popularity, these
are the house plants most fire.
quently grown in American
homes, according to Flower &
Garden Magazine:
African Violet GloIinis
Phllodendron Palms
Ivy eyergTeenS
Begonia Trees (svocado,
Cactus elm, lemon
Sanseveria grapefrUiO
GeTanium Calsdium
Ferns Wandering lew
Coleus AmaTyllis
Vines Ii plant-Havsnan
Rubber Plant Spider plant
Today, more and more peo-
pie are using plants for decor
alton, even the giant" plants
previously seen only in offices
and other commercial build
ings Rubber Plants, Split
Leaf PhilOdendron, Dieffen-
bachia and other impressive
varieties. With new Living
Earth, you can grow even the
exotic plants you never dared
to try before, because it is
Natures perfect indoor soil.
Evening star., 1960-02-28

W7HEN a restaurant patron complained
w that his breakfast sausageS had meat at
one end but bread crumbs at the other, the
manager explained it was a matter of ex
pediency:
In these times of rising costs, nobody can
make both ends meat"
A MAN telephoned police station one night
IA and excitedIy reported that the steering
wheel, brake pedal and dashboard had been
stolen from his car A patrolman promised to
investigate. Then the telephone rang again.
Don't bother" said the same voice, Il got into
the back seat by mistake"
Evening star., 1960-02-28

A BEATNIK lived in a shabby room with only
IN a bed and single rickety chair, One
night, fellow beatnik dropped by and noted
two magazines lying on the floor. "Whadja
do, man." he asked. Hire decorator"
AN AMERICAN and Dutchman were talk
IA ing What does your flag look like?"
asked the American.
1T has three stripes" replied the Dutch
man. red, white and blue. We say they have
connection with our taxes we get red when
we talk about them, white when we get our
tax bills and we pay them until we're blue in
the face"
That's just how it is here" replied the
American only we see stars, too"
rs TWO fleas we're leaving a theater one
IA night, one said to the other:
Shall we walk or take dog?" JEAN GRANT
T0HEN there's the woman who calls her
Il husband Hydromatic because he's
shiftless
Thot'II Be the Doy
RvERIT2 VII KJNSON
Evening star., 1960-02-28

Earth House Plant booklet for COM
plete instructions for all plants.
Evening star., 1960-02-28

Whots YOUR fovoite ioks2 Send II to "AI in
Fun" eio Sunday, The Stor Moeo1ine. 225 Virginio
ovenvs Sc. for possible publication on this page.
SUNDAY. THE STAR MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON,
Evening star., 1960-02-28
All In Fun
Laughing It of
By EVELYN WADE
The Very Nerve!

II ATENT within me, I knOW I've knGck
- For ,OOrking sOith hammer and S0W and tack
/ yearn for a chance at chiSei and WreHch,
To pufter bit at my hubbys bench
But let me attack the simplest chOre-
He's doing it for me, sOith gT"ntings galore.
For he's firmly convinced that WOmen are fools
Nhen il comes to mdneUUering carpenters tools
An unjustifiabIe claim to GdU0nce
When you ponder this fact: if gaze him a chance.
The poor foolish feLIoW is sOilLing to bet
He'd be a sensation at cookery. yeti
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18
COP In Kent Made
Gains In Election

CONTINUED from page one)
two of their members in the Levy
Court, although countrywide Of
fees voted on at the 1914 election
had gone to the Democrats.
Again in the 1916 election, the
Republicans won the county wide
seats voted on and continued their
4-to-1 majority on the 1947 Senate
and 6-to-4 majority in the House
as well as holding on to two of
the Levy Court posts.
In 1948, however, the Democrats
began their resurgence and at the
1854 election the voters gave them
all the Senate and all 10 seats in
the House.
The Senate situation remained
the same in 1857, but the Repub-
licans had won in the previous
election four of the 10 seats in
the House.
The Democratic majority in the
Senate went down to 4-to-1 in the
1859 organization, which the Re-
publicans failed to change in the
past election, but the Democrats
had an 8-to-2 margin in the House,
had all the countrywide Offices,
and all three Levy Court seats in
1859.
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18
OPPORTUNITY is YOURS

We often hear these days that the best
time for making money was prior to the
time of high federal taxes. We hear that the
economy is .overstretched, that the great
booming period of growth passed years ago.
We hear that the great days of oppor-
tunity have passed. But it isn't true. They
are here today. The opportunity is anyone's
who will take the time and effort to take
advantage of the wonderful possibilities our
country offers.
Today there is no war. Jobs are rela-
lively plentiful. For the eager young man,
or old, who wants to work and who is will
ing to give full measure for his pay, he can
go up and up the ladder of success.
The country is still growing. In fact, we
will have family boom in the sixties-as
the war babies become of age and marry
and start families Demand will be great.
Our country is the greatest power in the
world today. This has only been true for
several decades. Thus the American today
is a citizen of the richest, most powerful
country in the world. And we have free en-
terprise-which allows everyone to start
or try to start-his own business, if he
wishes to do so.
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY eloine townsend Diekersor

evening Hayes must 60 to the
base to talk to the MARS men,
bers, since he is the director (last
May he took over this undertake
ing). Wednesday morning Lynne
receives her first bits of hard
ware on her teeth"-so you'll see
her in braces. Wednesday at noon
Dawn gets her hair cut and after
school Lynne has her piano les
sons. You know that is the kind
of mad whirl most Mamas live
in who have children-and three
daughters just seems to increase
the running here and there.
Thursday morning we must be
in Kansas City, Missouri, at twen-
ty of eight for the departure of
our flight The co-pilot on our
crew has offered to take us over
to X. C. which will alleviate stor-
ing the car. We will land in st.
Louis ard have an hour lay over
there and that will help break
the flight for the children. An
other part of the flight. they're
looking forward to is having
breakfast and lunch on the plane.
Hope Lynne will be able to eat
with those new braces,
II all goes as planned my bro
ther, Ted and his youngest daugh-
ter, Betsy, will meet us at the
airport in ID. c. oh! how we're
looking forward to seeing them
and all of our families and you!
/
to you = this is busy place. I'd
better get with it. Well see you
this week.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18
WARMER WEATHER

The experts constantly disagree about
the long-range weather trend. The latest
forecast is the kind we like to hear. 1t is
that we are in warming trend that will last
another 200 or 300 years.
This prediction comes from Professor
Erling Dorf, of Princeton University Pro
fessor Dork explains that we are in tenn
porary cooling cycle which will last until
about 1865. Then, after this is over, we will
return to the warming trend, which will
last for couple of hundred years-he says.
Dorf reads and studies weather trends
from the footprints left on rocks. Shapes
imbedded in rocks show what trees once
grew in various parts of the world. Dorf
says we will have warmer weather for the
next couple of centuries, after which it will
grow colder again.
He points out that winter temperatures
in Spitbergen, Norway, have been rising
since 1910 and that in these fifty years the
rise has amounted to 16 degrees. The port is
now free seven months year-whereas it
was free only three months a year in 1910,
Dorf points out.
We are in favor of the warming trend.
Old folks have been saying for years that
when they were young it used to be much
colder. We thought maybe most of this talk
resulted from better heating, better houses
and other improvements in the last few
decades, which make bitter weather more
bearable.
But the old folks were right-if Dorf is
right. 1t was colder. And it's getting warm
er over the years. And this is good news to
most of us.
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18

Babson Park, Mass, Nov. II.
Readers who are clients of invest
ment counselors, or who have
active banking houses or brokers
attending to their affairs, probably
have already been notified of the
possible advantage that can be
secured by taking tax losses.
No Lower Taxes In 1851
Both Mr.. Kennedy and Mr.. Nixon
promised greater expenditures, due
to increased defense needs, larger
welfare payments, and perhaps
unemployment aid. We cannot now
wait for the official statements of
the winning candidate, Mr. Ken
nedy. But we can assume that any
thing he recommends will be to
the interest of the many millions
who hold no securities, funds
for said payments to be raised
through inflationary measures or
increased taxes. Both could work
a hardship on investors.
In deciding what to do, divide
your 1860 sales of securities into
two groups: ID Those held longer
than six months; (2) those held
less than six months. Next, figure
out what will be your net long
farm oaiD or loss and what will
be your net short-term gain or
loss. Then offset net figures, re-
membering that one dollar of
short-term loss can wipe out one
dollar of long-term gain, and one
dollar of long-term loss can off
set one dollar of short-term gain.
More Details Regarding Long,
Term Gains
OF course, to take advantage of
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18

lieve my securities are all good.
On the other hand, here again one
must decide whether we are in a
bull market or in bear market.
If you believe we are in a bear
market it is better to take tax los
ses than it would be if you be-
lieved we were still in bull mar
ket. This is another reason for
seeking the help of an investment
counselor.
Certainly, this is a good time to
clear up your list and eliminate
the poorest investments. Keep your
stocks in the order in which they
are rated, and sell one or more OF
the poorest each year. Ordinarily,
it is better to sell these in Sep
tembar or October before the crowd
rushes to sell, as they may be do
ing this time of year. On the other
hand, most investors may have al
ready taken their. capital gains or
losses. If SO, the market may work
up from now to the end of the year
rather than continue to decline
until the deadline of December 80,
1860.
Waiting Thirty Days
Most investors seem to feel
that if they sell stocks to take a
tax loss, they cannot buy this
same stock back again. This, how
ever, is perfectly possible If you
will wait thirty days. If the stock
is fundamentally good, / am in
clined to buy the same stock back
even though, due to some special
homecoming event, it may have
advanced in price.
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18
BABSON DISCUSSES TAKING TAX LOSSES

tax losses one must sell the secur-
titles, and it may not pay to do this.
If an excess of long-term capital
gains results, you may reduce
this gain by 500 before figuring
your tax; and if the tax on long
term gains should exceed 25o of
the gains, you may use an alter
nate method of computing and
thus hold down your tax.
In the case of most readers, the
capital gains tax will be under 25%
of the profits realized. The alter
nate tax method is used only for
not taxable income of more than
$4,000 for a single person, $4,000
for the head of a household, and
$4,000 for a joint return.
What About ShOrt-Term Gains?
The above advantages apply only
to long-term gains; they do not
apply to the short-term sales cited
in item #2 of the third paragraph
of this column. Therefore, there
may be a real tax advantage in
letting your profits run over the
six-months period, even if it
brings you into another year. The
government permits you to carry
any unapplied capital gains losses
forward for the next five years. OF
course, securities should not be
sold merely to take a tax loss. If
the stock is one about which you
are still optimistic, the improve
ment in price may later provide
you with a greater gain than you
could get by taking a tax loss now.
DispOsing Of Your Poorest Issues
Personally l give little attent-
ion to taking tax losses if I be-
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18
Giant Eye SymboIizing Research Hope
Is Visited by Small Birth Defects Victim

The lights dim, and in
the darkened high-ceilinged
room a somber-faced little
boy stares at the pilot light
of a towering microscope.
This is the electron micro
scope at Ohio State University
Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, a
giant inquiring eye nine feet
tall, capable of magnifying the
human cell 100000 times.
The small boy with the
rather sad little face is Kevin
Sharp, 311 years, of Grove
City, Ohio, who wanted to see
a jumbo-sized version of the
toy microscope given him on
his last birthday by his doctor.
Kevin has to see his doctor
regularly because he is a vic
tim of spina bifida, or open
spine. He is paralyzed from the
waist down and cannot play
ball-or indeed play much at
anything.
Such mobility as he has is
made possible by his crutches
and leg braces.
Kevin's is one of the signifi-
cant birth defects the cause of
which is being pursued today
by The National Foundation
with New March of Dimes con-
tributions. Congenital malfor-
nations aff1ict 250,000 infants
annually in the United States
and are responsible for the
deaths of $4,000 babies each
year who are stillborn or die
within four weeks of birth.
The health organizations ex-
panded program also includes
arthritis and continued work
in polio.
In his excitement while
reaching for the eyepiece of
the vast instrument, Kevin
probably didn't know that in
the ultra-powerful lens of such
e1ectrOn microscopes, scientists
hope some day to pinpoint the
cause of the savage embryonic
mishap that crippled him be-
fore he was born. By compar-
ing normal and abnormal cells
under tremendous magnifca-
tion, researchers hope to dis
cover, for example, why Kew
ms spine never fused during
his mothers pregnancy, or why
some other little boy or girl is
born with excess fluid on the
brain-another battling birth
defect which The National
Foundation is studying.
"At his birth, doctors gave
Kelvin only a few hours to
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18
To Dedicate Nurses
Home At The Beebe

CONTINUED from page one)
ton of the first of two major
phases of the hospitals planned
expansion program which will en-
able us to serve even better the
increasing population of the area.
"The second phase will include
the construction of new hospital
wing and extensive modernization
of facilities within the existing
hospital"
The dedicatory program will be
held in the new nurses home, DR..
Beebe stated, and invitations to
attend are being extended to ev-
cry contributor to the recent fund
campaign, as well as number OF
special guests.
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18
COMICAL-BUT PERILOUS

With a bewhiskered egomaniac mobil-
izing his people against United States Sim
vasion" that is dismissed here as nonsense,
the Cuban situation is the stuff of comic
opera. The laughs would be unrestrained
were it not for the suffering and hysteria
that Castro has brought to his country
and for the irrational extremes to which he
has gone. With such a fanatic at the helm,
goaded by the Russians and the Red Chi
nese, there is always the possibility of an
explosion.
To set Castro straight on our intentions,
President Eisenhower declared that we
would defend the naval base at Guantanamo,
established by treaty. in 1903 and now a
focal point of anxiety. Some 1000 Cubans
work at the base, and sabotage is con-
slant possibility.
Cuban President OSvaldo Dorticos SAYS
that the Cuban people already have made
their decision to abrogate the naval base
treaty, but that abrogation will not be car
ried out through armed aggression because
we are not going to commit such stupidity"
Castro is not immune to stupidity however
His actions have caused such an exodus of
Cubans, many of them engineers and tech
nicians needed to operate seized properties,
that the dictator has been forced to restrict
travel
He has alienated the church and many
old comrades, lost the u. S. sugar market
and sapped the economy. But he rants on
about u. S. aggression and the coming
Invasion" He would be funny-if he were
not so dangerous.
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18
2S06 McAlister
Topeka, Kansas
November IA, 1860


Dear Friends:
We spent the evening with Air
Force friends last night and since
the wife was a former airline hos
tess on TWA and since our trip
on that airline takes place Thurs
day. the 18th, our evening talk was
consumed in eerie stories of the
experiences of her former life!
All | can think about this morn
ing is rough weather, air pockets,
Leslie performing" for all the
passengers, me regurgitating-
If you could see this house now
you would think we would never
arrive on Sussex soil Thursday
afternoon. The kitchen is loaded
with laundry, Leslie's room has a
suitcase full of her travelling
clothes, the children's room has
their Delaware clothes spread
out, and our room has suitcases,
clothes to be ironed and clothes
from the cleaners scattered here
and there. After l get this letter
to you done | must hang clothes
outside (it's a lovly 60 here) to
dry, must do some ironing before
packing, etc.
This afternoon Dawn has her
piano lesson, tonight Leslie's doc
tor that brought her into the
world is coming to get our pledge
for a new building fund to First
Methodist Church of Topeka. To-
morrow | must go to Junior High
School to confer with Lynne's tea
cher about taking her out OF
school for our jaunt and tomorrow
Milford chronicle., 1960-11-18

Ionic Council No. 13, d. of P,
met in their Lodge Hall on Mon
days Sleep with IS members pres
ent. Our New Pocahontas, Sister
Emma Horvat, conducted her first
meeting in very commendable
manner. Bro. Edward Jester gave
very good report from the Great
Council meeting.
Refreshments of ginger bread
with lemon sauce and hot coffee
and tea were served after the meet
ing.
On next Mondays Sleep, the
meeting will be called at 7:45 p.
m, due to visitors who will arrive
around SIS for a gift for the
Lodge. Come out and see this sur
prise. / know what it's going to be,
do you? Come see!