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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
CHICAGO
LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Feb. II (AP) CUspA)
Hogs $500; slow. steady to weak on
butchers. instances 25 lower on
weights under 230 lbs: sows steady tc
weak; trade closed fairly active and
July steady; shipping demand fair
butchers 134O-1375: mixed ID and
mixed 1-2 10000 lbs I3.65-l4 90;
few lots, Is and mixed IL most sorted
Tor grade 200-215 lbs 14.OO-l4.25: 9C
heao at 1925: several lots mixed 10
ana Is 23O-240 lbs 13.65-13.S5; mixed
2-3 and IS 250-2S0 lbs 1325-13.5O;
Few 81 lots IS mixed 2-3 and 3s .2s0-300 lbs
10 sows 1l.50-12 90: mixed 2-3 $50.
$50 lbs II .00-11.75.
Cattle $4,000; calves 100: slaughter
steers fully steady, weights 1,l25 lbs
Gown moderately active, 1,125-13OO
lbs slow. over 1900 lbs definitely slow
higher: cows active. steady to Is
higher: bulls and vealerS steady:
Stockers and feeders scarce, a few
sales steady: load Of prime 1,25O-lt
steers 70. rs; around a dozen loads
mostly prime 1,150-1, 300 lbs 2S.75.
% 90; prime 800 lbs 1925: most
LOO lbs sold up to 1925: numerou.
loads high. choice and mixed choice
and prime 1,150-1.35O lbs 81. 00-2S so;
good % 50.26.00: two loads prime
Liz ID heifers. 2s.25; a half a dozen
or so loads of high choice and mixed
ehoice and prime 900:1,075 lbs $3.50:
grades 530O-s5s5: utility and ND; sts EGG
ard 10000 90; utility and CONNER
cial cows l5.00-17.25: Gamers and
cutters. 13.5O-16.5O: utility and com
mercial bulls 10 5O-21 So veaiers
800 down; culls as low as 1900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
First Mortgages
Down Sharply Here

! Both the number and value
OF first mortgages or deeds of
trust declined during January
in the District of Columbia,
Deeds or property transfers
also decreased.
Justin D. flinders, executive
vice president of the Washing
ton Real Estate Board, reported
625 first mortgages amounting
to $17,593,852 in January, COM
pared with $40 first MORTGAGES
for $26,308,071 in January last
year.
The totals were we'll behind
858 mortgages for $24,902,2l6
in the preceding month of
December.
The District recorded ola
deeds or property transfers in
January, compared with l,172
in December and LIST in
January last year.
January foreclosures totaled
48, same as in the previous
month. but below Sc in Janu-
airy, 1859.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
Legislative Council
OF ABA to Confer

Approximately 30 bankers
from as many States will at
tend a meeting of the Federal
Legislative Council of the
American Bankers Association
here tomorrow and Friday.
Council members will review
the status of banking legisla-
ton and visit with members OF
Congress from their home
areas. They will meet in the
Willard Hotel.
Council Chairman NJ. Monroe
Kindred of Thomson, Ga, will
preside. The meeting will open
at 10 am. Thursday with a
report on pending banking bills
by Ben C. Corlett, senior vice
president. and Jerry o. Brott,
general counsel, both of the
ABA's Washington Office.
Representing the District of
Columbia, Virginia and Mary
land on the council are Barnum
L. Cotton, president, National
Bank of Washington; T. E.
Sebrell III, president. Clarendon
Trust Co., Arlington, and Har-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
Partner Shift
Announced
ByBache&Co

Henry E. Gray has been
named resident partner in the
Washington office of Bache g.
Co. to succeed Harry Kahn,
jr., who will become resident
partner in charge Of research
at company headquarters in
New York.
The change in partners was
announced today at a lunch
con at the Statler- Hilton Hotel.
Mr.. Kahn will leave a wide
circle of friends here to as
sumo the top research post in
the company. which is one of
the largest brokerage firms in
the Nation, with memberships
in all leading securities and
commodities exchanges.
Mr.. Gray comes here from
Tulsa. Okla, where he became
resident partner for Bache &
Co. in 1858 after serving as
resident manager since 1850.
Mr.. Gray is a native Of Pitts
burgh and a graduate Of Yale
University.
After serving as an artillery
captain in World War I, he
worked in various capacities in
Wall Street from 1920 to 1850
before joining Bache. During
his stay in Tulsa he married
the former Mildred Phillips of
Tulsa, granddaughter of Waite
Phillips, founder of Phillips
Petroleum Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gray purchased
a summer place at Rehoboth
Beach last summer and expect
to establish permanent resi-
dence here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
PEOPLE
BUSINESS

Walter o. Won HerbuIis was
elected president of the Ar
lington Apartment Owners As
ISOLATION and Jay Waldron
was named executive secretary.
Philip X. Reilly was named
manager of the development
department Of Atlantic Re-
search Corp. at Alexandria, Va.
Charles B. Somehow was
promoted to assistant to the
president of the National
Limestone Institute here.
G. Emerson Pray was elected
vice president Of Ling-Alter
Electronics, Inc, with offices
in the Investment Building.
I. V. Howells was named
manager Of the new National
Yellow Pages Service Office of
the Reuben H. Donnelley Corp.
at I'll l4th street NV.
John L. SchwarZ and Bernard
E. Tracht, regional vice presi-
dents. have opened a Washing
ton Office Of Medical Manage
ment, consultants for physi-
clans and dentists.
Richard M. WEIGH, past pres
ident Of the Washington Asso-
citation Of Plumbing Contrac-
tors, was named plumbing and
heating manufacturers repre-
sentative for Larry Hogan AS
sociates, public relations firm.
Larrabee Associates, adver-
Using agency, lists the D. C.
Academy Of Veterinary Medi-
cine as a new client.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
Pet Milk Split

ST. LOUIS, Feb. IT (AP)-
Directors of the Pet Milk Co.
voted yesterday a 3-for-2 split
OF common stock, provid e d
stockholders authorize an in
crease in the firms common
stock. The directors also voted
an increase from 271a to 30
cents per share on common
stock in the quarterly dividend
rate. the first payable April l at
the new rate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
Claude Hyson Honored
BY Mutual Aqency

Claude V. Hyson, vice presi.
dent Of the Mutual Insurance
Agency, Inc, was honored BY
associates on his 30th anniver-
sary with the firm at the Shore
ham Hotel last night.
Mr.. Hyson is convention
committee chairman for the
Virginia-District Association OF
Mutual Insurance Agents, which
will hold its annual Conven-
ton here in May.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
Bank Debts Show
Faster Trade Pace

Rejecting general bushes!
activity. Washington bank deb.
its in January totaled $780,.
10000, a gain Of 2.6 per cent
from a year earlier and A pei
cent above the same 1856
month.
The January total, disclosed
by the Federal Reserve Board
today, compared with $1,847,-
$4,000 in January last year
and contrasted with S805, 905,-
600 in January, 1850, just five
years ago.
The January volume was
down from the all-time peak
Of $2,172,809,000 in the preced-
ing holiday month of Deem
Der. However, it was the largest
for any January on record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
WINGS & WHEELS
BY CHARLES YARDRoUGH

ever admitted that route is be-
ing actively considered. All will
say that everything is consid-
cred If it is at all feasible.
The magazine makes a guess
that the 1862 Thunderbird
might be the car to re-intro-
duce remember the COrd?)
the front-wheel drive in this
country. In addition to the
Cord there was the 1904 pat
ent granted Walter Christie;
the Ruxton; the BucciaIi in
France and Avis in England.
None lived, but the French
CitrOen front-drive series has
been an obvious success.
+
Timely enough in all this
snow comes information on air
port runway lighting systems
to defy the weather.
The Garrett Corporations
AiResearch division tells Of
using a jet-plane starter cart
and small gas turbine engine
to melt the snow and ice of
lights at Fairchild Air Force
Base, Spokane.
Using it, one man now re-
quires 80 minutes to do the
job which formerly took q
men four hours.
In the "look-no-hands" tech
nique, General Electric is an
nouncing installation of new
runway lighting at IdIewiId
where heat Of the lights alone
is sufficient to keep of the
snow and ice.
A rally school for newcomers
with Bob ShentOn in charge
will highlight the Corvette
Clubs meeting next Wednesday
night at Loving Chevrolet, 1889
East-West Highway, Silver
Spring. The Federal
Aviation Agency is announcing
the new, 128-page edition Of
the Flight Information Man
ual pilots Bible" available
through the Government Print
ing Office for $3.50. Else
where on the bookshelves is
ArcO Publishing Company's
Moments That Made Racing
History" by Rodney Walker
ley $2.75 from Arco, 480
Lexington avenue, New York
II. -. The loud noise is BOOM
ing business at Friendship Air
port, where January traffic was
SO per cent over the passenger
figure Of a year ago. Old
friend John J. Ducas, executive
vice president of Gaynor &
DucaS, New York. is a new
member Of the Flight Safety
Foundations board of COVER
norS, along with Clare BoOthe
Luce and Charles A. Rhein-
strom, vice president of J.
Walter Thompson. Britain's
AvrO, announcing the new
AvrO 748 feeder liner-freighter-
executive, says its operating
costs compare with those of
the slower, more primitive
deg. The State of
Missouri has ordered 500
Dodge police pursuit cars. e.
Vienna, Austria opens its new
jet-age Schwechat Airport in
April, designed to handle UP to
10000 aircraft movements a
year, which is about what Ma
tional Airport handles in three
months. Racing Driver
Rex White, criticizing driver
license tests. says too many
Americans are good parkers
and bad drivers - put the
emphasis on how a man
handles a car at so miles an
hour and I'm willing to bet
not too many drivers are skillful
then"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17

March % to stockholders Of
record March 4.
He announced MergenthaleI
will not tender any Electric
Autolite shares in response tc
that company's offer to pur-
chase 100000 shares of its own
common stock.
According to earlier reports,
President Robert H. Davies Of
Autolite said tenders were being
invited to prepare for expansion
land Investigation of its &C
7tivities through acquisitions TO
be accomplished through ex-
changes of stock or for cash.
Previously it was Autolite'S
policy to acquire other busi-
nesseS only for cash because
the market price of Autolite
stock was substantially less
than book value"
However, it was found that
certain desirable acquisitions
we're not obtainable except for
stock"
Mergenthaler's 394,650 shares
of Autolite represent about IS
per cent of the total outstand-
ing shares of that company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
January Sales
Of D. 6. Hotels
Climb 10 Pct.

January sales of Washington
hotels covered by the account
ing firm of Horwath & Hor-
wath were 10 per cent above
January last year, the firm re-
ported today.
Room sales for the month
were IA per cent above a year
earlier, while restaurant sales
were up 7 per cent. Included
in the latter gain were 7 per
cent increases in both food and
beverage sales.
Hotel sales in leading cities
covered by the report averaged
l per cent above a year ago.
Room sales were up 2 per cent,
but restaurant sales were off
l per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
Mexico Project Set

M E xICO CITY, Feb. II
(AP). - Mexico's Presidential
Palace yesterday announced a
1860 public works program
costing $640 million. Donate
Miranda Fonseca, presidential
secretary, said it is the most
ambitious in Mexican history
Projects include new hospitals,
highways, identification, hous-
ing. airports. irrigation and
maritime development.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
Suburban Trust Adds
To Advisory Board

Four well-known area bust
nessmen have been added to
the advisory board to branches
OF Suburban Trust Co.
New members are: Durwood
L. Boeglen, executive vice pres
ident, Cushwa Brick and Build
ing Supply Co.; Vernon M
Briggs, builder and realtor;
Willard T. Charlton. Certified
Public Accountant, and Ray
mond A. DuFour, Washington
insurance executive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
Business
MergenthoIer Lifts
Dividend to so Cents,
KEEPS AutoIite Stock
BY DONALD b. HADLEY
Star Financial Editor

Mergenthaer Linotype Co. its quarterly dividend
to so share today and has
selling 1874 $50 shares of Electric Autoe Co. response
a call for tenders at $54 share.
President j. A. Keller pointed higher quarterly
compares with paid previously and will be paid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17

Prices quoted in dollars and thirty.
seconds
. Subject to Federal taxes but not to
State income taxes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17

per R. Clark, vice president
First National Bank, Baltimore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
TREASURY BONDS

NEW YORK, Feb. II CAP).-Yester.
States Government Treasury bonds:
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FOREIGN EXCH'GE

NEW YORK, Feb. II CAP)-Fore,vr
exchange rates Great Britain in dol
iars, others in cents and decimals of
a cent?:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
OVER COUNTER

Washington listings on overtime
counter markets furnished by the Ma
tional Association of Securities Dealers
as OF / pm. Wednesday. February II:
Milford chronicle., 1960-08-26
Square Dance
Time

How come midnight comes SO
soon after $3.50 when you are en-
joying yourself? 1t did not seem
we had been dancing any time to
that smooth calling of Bill Dams
when he told us to square up for
that last tip. And we had visitors
from all over this part OF the
country; the Park Promenaders
of New Jersey, the x Bar B Club
of Philadelphia, the Y : Knots OF
Chester, the Country Squares OF
Riva, Nd, the Thunderbirds of
Annapolis, and a couple from
Chadds Ford, who are members of
a new club in Wilmington. Lee
and Kate Billow were over and
Lee called one tip, which was en-
joyed by all. 1t just seemed like
one big happy family and we
were all sorry to see it end. But
it wont be long now until our re-
gular Fall season gets under way
and we will be back on twice a
month schedule. Starting Septem-
ber 18th and on the first. and
third Saturdays thereafter the
Billows will be back with us on
regular basis.
Don't forget about the First
Nighters' dance September 9Th.
Final plans are to be made this
week, and we will give you all the
details as to time and place in
next weeks column
Milford chronicle., 1960-08-26
CEDAR NECK
Urs. Serena Hayes
Phenes GA &47A

Grow In grace and in the kpowl-
edge Of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ.-I Peter 3:18.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The strong in Christ are depend
able laborers in His vineyard
Mrs. j. B. Barnes OF Springfield
Pa. returned home last week after
spending two weeks with her cou-
sin, Mrs. Granville Shockley and
family.
Miss Linda Rea Niblett spent the
weekend at Lynch Heights visit
ing Miss Carol Baxendale.
Saturday evening callers of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Mills we're Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Lane and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Roland Jackson, ST., and
Mrs. George Strahle.
Have you had a kindness shown,
Pass II on
Twas not given for you alone,
Pass II on
Let 1t travel down the years,
Let 1t wipe another's tears !.
Till In Heaven the deed appears,
Pass 1t Oh.
Paul Mills is doing very well
since he returned home from the
hospital in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Ellen Sapp is in Milford
Memorial Hospital recovering
from first and second degree burns
she received last Thursday when
Milford chronicle., 1960-08-26


| Alfred Iobbie OF Trevose. Pa, is
| spending this week as guest OF
Albert Baker and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James e. Mills.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Carter at
tended the Glover Farm" picnic
held at Wheeler's Park on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl McIlvaine OF
Harbeson were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Robbins
Webb and family.
Mrs. Grover Ashton and chill
dren were Saturday evening dinner
guests of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
| Lucius Webb.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tilghman Krauss
and children spent Wednesday al
Frontier Land, near Ocean City.
Md.
Mrs. Robert Osborne and daugh-
ters of Dover, and her house guest
Miss Sue Hastings of Lancaster,
Pa, were Thursday afternoon call
ers on Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Webb.
Mrs. Duane Lynn left on Monday
for Wisconsin to attend the Ma
tional Home Demonstration meet
ing.
A friend may well be reckoned
the masterpiece of nature.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Baker and
sons were weekend guests of Mr..
and Mrs. James e. Mills and son.
Miss Linda Hayes marched in the
big Thursday" parade at Slaugh-
ter Beach with the Blue Hen
Chicks"
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Bennett re-
turned home Monday evening after
few days vacation in New York.
Miss Alice Brown was dinner
guest of Mrs. Elizabeth Kemp on
Tuesday evening.
On Sunday evening Mrs. Eliza
beth Card rode down to Rehoboth
with Clifford Minner, Mrs. Sipple
and son Ed.
Miss Charlene 'Pritchett spent
last weekend in Dover as the
guest of Miss Kathy BLOW.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Steele and son
were vacationing in Bethlehem, Pa,
last week.
The Human Touch" is a hand
clasp.
Milford chronicle., 1960-08-26

Mrs. Bachelors parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Banks, with whom their
older daughter, Betsy, is spending
some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Houghton OF
Port Washington. Long Island
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
bur Shockley last week.
James Daisey of Chester spent
last Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph e. Daisey
Iva Lee Baker. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan Baker, celebrated
her sixteenth birthday Saturday by
entertaining many of her friends
at beach party at the summer
home of her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Allie Hudson.
Mr. and Mrs. C. j. Phillips and
their niece, Janet, from Goldsboro,
Nd, spent Thursday evening with
their son and ~daughter-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. John Phillips.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ayres have
been spending ten days in Atlantic
City.
Mary Ann Richards of Dagsboro
is the guest this week of Bonnie
Kay Baker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Godfrey and
sons of Newark spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Paul God
frey.
Luray Mitchell. daughter of Mr..
nd
tanned many friends and classmates
at party to celebrate her six
teenth birthday Friday night in the
American Legion Home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Mason, Jr.,
and daughters, spent the weekend
in Glen Burnie, Nd, with Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Mason, Sr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Boyce and
children of Valley Park, N j.,
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Leroy Daisey.
Mrs. John Collins, Jr., from New
ark, visited Mr. and Mrs. /. John
Collins over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reese White spent
the weekend in Rehoboth with Mr..
and Mrs. Reese White, Jr.
Mrs. Carrie Collins, Mrs. Louisa
Hancke, and Mrs. Viola Titus of
Wilmington, have been the guests
this week of Mr.. and Mrs. Willis
A. Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carmine and
son, Bruce, have returned from a
four-days' trip, which included
Washington, Fredericksburg Rich
mond, and Elizabeth City, N. C.
George Vincent Wood, 4th, OF
Wilmington, and Vicki Wood of
Lewes, spent last week with their
grandparents, DR.. and Mrs. G. v.
Wood. Mrs. G. " Wood, 3rd, joined
them the latter part of the week
Kendall Warrington, 3rd. re-
turned home, Tuesday. from Beebe
Hospital, where he was confined
for observation and treatment
Milford chronicle., 1960-08-26
Corn Picking Is
Job For Safety

"The mechanical corn picker can
be most dangerous Of farm ma
chimes and should be operated with
respect" declared William H.
Henderson, County Agricultural
Agent
1t is the corn picker's job to
save time. money and back-break-
ing toll. but it is the machine Op-
orators job to save his own life.
Each year the mangled fingers.
hands, arms and legs tell q sad
story Of unsafe practices in the
field. The National Safety Coun-
ell says that this heavy toll can be
reduced or even abolished il all
farmers using the corn picker will
observe the following few rules:
/. Stop the picker before oiling,
adjusting or unclogging. Make
shutting of the power" q habit
every time you leave the tractor
seat.
2. Keep shields in place. Never
operate the machine without safety
shields. Use tractor engine shields
Milford chronicle., 1960-08-26

fumes from the gas stove ignited
as she was about to light it. / visit
ed here on Sunday and foand heI
much improved.
George Strahle underwent sur
gerry on Tuesday at p. m. in the
Wilmington Memorial Hospital. We
sure hope they find his trouble and
he makes speedy recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Apple and
children, Charlene and Beverly of
Bethlehem. Pa. have been visiting
his sister. Mrs Joe Steele and fam
lily.
Herman Sharp, Jr., had birth
day on Thursday, August 25.
The strong in Christ are depend
able laborers in His vineyard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Jones and
baby daughter Adele Lisa returned
10 their home in Milford Neck after
spending four weeks with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Granville Shock
ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Baker called
on Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Warnock
and sons on Sunday
Albert Baker returned home on
Saturday after spending five weeks
with his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Baker and his uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Baker in
Trevose, Pa.
On Monday, Mrs. Florence An
drews went along to Philadelphia
with Mrs. Fannie Mae Mills as she
took her son Paul back to the hos
pital for his final discharge.
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