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Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
Your Rose Bushes
Are Not Dead

Your rose bushes aren't dead al
though they may look that way,
says Robert f. Stevens, extension
horticulturist at the University of
Delaware.
MIR. Stevens explains that the
Arctic temperatures Delaware ex-
perienced this winter killed the
top sections of many rose bushes
but if you look closely you should
be able to find some live wood
near the base. If this is your situ-
alton. you'll have to be heavy
handed with the pruning shears
30 give your bushes a vigorous
start this spring.
All rose pruning should be done
before growth starts in the spring
with the exception of climbing and
rambling roses. These should be
pruned after they've bloomed.
The first step in pruning is to
trim all dead or weak canes back
to live wood just above an outside
bud If your bushes suffered a lot
of damage this winter, you'll have
TO trim them quite severely. If
your bushes weren't badly damag-
ed, you've a choice as to whether
to cut the canes way back or to
leave them fairly long. With Sc
we're pruning you get smaller
bushes but larger more perfect
flowers with longer stems. Higher
lighter pruning produces the OPP
posite effect. Whatever your
choice. try to keep the main canes
as near the same height as poss-
ible. This will produce a symme-
trical bush when growth starts.
Canes that cross each other or
are growing in odd directions
should be trimmed back in the
same manner.
All cuts should be made with a
sharp pair of hand pruning shears.
If your shears aren't sharp enough
you may crush the canes Or dam
age the bark. Cuts can he made
straight across in most cases but
/ if you want to trim near bud
without damaging it. slant the cut
downward and away from the bud.
All cuts should be treated with
wound dressing compound.
If you want to practice on the
University of Delaware's rose
bushes before tackling your own,
come to the rose pruning session
being held at Agricultural Hall al
200 pm. on March 25. The ses-
sion is being sponsored by the Ag-
! ricultural Extension Service and
Delaware Rose Society. Experts
from both groups will be on hand
to show you proper methods OF
pruning.
After the demonstration you'll
have chance to practice in the
University's rose garden. Planting
and fertilization of rose bushes
will also be discussed.
In case of rain. the session will
be held April s.
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
Federal Reserve Bank of Phiia.
From the March Business Reyiew
RI Good Year for District
Banks, But :"

sizes and shapes. A few are very
large with deposits close to or ex-
ceeding 81 billion. A few are very
small with deposits under 81 mill
lion. Most lean to the small side
with deposits running under S6 mil
lion.-
In 1860. the profit rates of in
dividual banks-the ratio of pro-
fits-after-taxes to capital accounts.
also showed considerable variety.
The rates ranged from a high of
slightly over 20 per cent to a low
of minus 81 per cent (the low
reflecting a loss rather than a pro-
fit. About one-half of the banks
in the district had profit rates a.
bove 6.6 per cent with the other
half below.
In 1860. the large banks did some
what better than the small banks.
Ratios of earnings and profits to
capital accounts generally increas-
ed as size increased
An analysis of bank profit rates
from 1945 to 1859 clearly shows
that, over the years, the size OF
banks has made difference. Over
the past three or four years, the
data suggest that the larger banks
have. for the most part. become
the more profitable ones. The lar
ger banks were not so consistent
ly more profitable" in earlier
years.
From the Bankers Point OF View
Coed Year, But.
Nineteen hundred and sixty was
better year than 1859 for district
banks: but from the bankers
point of view, there were a few
butts. Gross earnings increased.
But current expenses increased
also and by larger percentage.
Net profits rose by a substantial
amount.
But capital gains on securities
helped considerable and these
gains are of a nonrecurring nature.
The average ratios of profit to
capital accounts increased.
But not very much. This aver
age has demonstrated a suspicious
tendency to sag. The sag suggests
that. over the past decade, a con-
siderable number of banks have
experienced adverse movements in
their profit rates.
From the district bankers point
of view. 1860 will probably be con-
sidered a good year-but not
wonderful year. Bank
ers will not be singing songs a.
bout IL.
A median test was run on pro-
fit rate data in seven size classi-
fications of banks for the period
from 1916 to 1859. The test in
dicated that there is a significant
differen ce among profit rates in
different classifications. The hypo-
thesis that there is no significant
difference was rejected with a con-
fidence greater than SO per cent.
The observed Chi-square value,
with degrees of freedom, was 347
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31

2S06 Nc Alister
Topeka, Kansas
Dear Friends:
Hail. wind and tornado damage
is ahead of most Kansas for this
part of the year. Already we have
had wind damage by several shing
les being blown off our roof. Yes
terday we were in a hail storm,
but these were only moth ball size
and they are just "pickers" COM
pared to the real honest to goodness
ones. Tornadoes are flirting in and
out of the counties too so weather
will be the topic of one of my
letters to you soon.
Saturday while We were riding
we went TO a suburban shopping
center and showed Leslie the six
foot Easter Bunny. The bunny gave
Leslie an egg and she took 1t with
her mouth hanging open and her
eyes beaming disbelief. She return
ed to her older sisters later and
told them she had seen Santa Claus.
Last week was surely a big week
for Dawn. On Wednesday OF last
week she put on her first pair of
glasses and bifocals at that. She's
done very well with them. Since
she has myopia she said things in
the distance had more. color. OF
course they would if before, they
were only foggy images. Yesterday
she joined the First Methodist
Church here in town. It's bic
church with three thousand in its
membership. but we have felt very
welcome there and dread the time
when we will have to say goodbye
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
PRAISEWORTHY

Our hats are off literally to Bill Holstein,
Varsity Basketball Coach, for his gallant
support of "TIis Boys" who, he feels, like
all of the rest of us in Milford feel, were cer-
tainly misused when they were denied Con-
ference Championship rights.
We are sure, too, that Bills friends on
the faculty glory in his "spunk" for stand
ing up and speaking his piece.
Superintendent Chester T. Dickerson. all
his aides and the members of the local School
Board, are deserving commendation for hir-
ing a man with the pronounced leadership
ability of Coach Holstein, who is not afraid
of speaking out publicly when he senses an
injustice to a group of highly deserving
YOUTH
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31

mites body is not as curvacious.
If you find sawdust-like mater
ial being pushed out of the wood
in you house, chances are YOU have
some other kind of insect Termites
seldom break through the surface
of the wood in which they're hav-
ing a hearty meal.
Once satisfied. the termites will
leave your house the way they
came in and go back to their col
only for an after-dinner snooze. All
they ask is safe route to and
from the dining room. But they'll
be back as soon as they get hun
CRY again.
If you discover termites invad-
ing your cstle. consult a profess
ional pest-controi operator, DIR.
Bray suggests. This is particularly
true if you have concrete floors.
Don't push the panic button.
Bray warns. Termites work slowly
so take your time and ask the
pest control operator for referen-
ces and then check them out Also
ask him il he's a member of a
national or state pest control asso-
citation. Members of these organiz-
ations usually do a good job.
The University of Delaware has
a free fact sheet on termite con-
troll. Ask your county agent for a
copy or write to the University of
Delaware, School of Agriculture in
Newark
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31

Net profits were up at district
banks this past year Returns were
higher in 1860 than in 1859 be-
cause of a substantial increase in
earnings on loans and because a
number of banks appear to have
taken capital gains on the sale of
securities. Profits were higher de-
spite an increase in current ex-
penses and income tax payments.
Over the past decade, however.
many district banks have expert
enced rapidly rising expenses and
profit rates that show some signs
of sagging. In perspective, 1860 was
only a relatively good year.
The Year i'm Review
During 1860 there were a num-
Der of factors tending to decrease
bank profits in the district A S
business slowed down, time de-
posits increased significantly. and
interest paid on deposits for the
year increased about $50 million.
In addition, the movement of credit
market conditions from tightness
to ease contributed to declining in
terest rates on securities and loans.
But these factors were more
than offset by others. In line with
an easier Federal Reserve policy,
total earning assets and deposits
of banks expanded. Loans-t h e
more profitable part of the banks
business-increaSed substantially,
while securities increased by only
a small amount Though interest
rates on securities and loans peak
ed out during the year. the aver
age rate of return on bank hold
ings of both types of earning asset
was greater in 1860 than in 1859.
Earnings on loans increased by
over $40 million and this account
ed for most of the increase in
gross earnings. Net current earn
ings (gross earnings minus cur
rent expensesl increased by about
$13 million.
The drop in market rates on Sc
curities-and the rise in security
prices some banks to
augment their profits in still a.
mother way Country banks in par
ticular sold securities and took
capital gains. Total recoveries i'm
creased, and losses and charge-offs
fell Profits before taxes were a
bout S31 million higher in 1860
than they had been in 1859.
The tax bite in 1860. however
was about SIS million higher than
1t had been the previous year. This
cut after-tax profits down to $50
million or about sic million high
er than in 1859.
Losses on securities were also
reduced from the 1859 level
This reduction added substanti-
ally to the increase i'm before-tax
profits.
4 Better Year For Some Than For
Others.
There are almost 500 member
banks in the Third District They
constitute a varied assortment of
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
Cafeteria Menu

Cafeteria Menu
Tuesday; Milk, Meat Loaf, Mash
ed Potatoes. Butterd Peas or
Steamed Cabbage, Bread and But
ter, Fruit cup or Pudding.
Wednesday; Milk, Hot Ham sand
wich, tossed salad, Apple Crisp or
Apricots.
Thursday: Milk, Roast Beef, Cut
Green Beans, Mashed Potatoes, gra-
Wy, Hot Biscuits, Cubed Pineapple
or Baked Custard.
Friday; Milk. Fish Fillet. Scallo-
ped Potatoes, Mixed Greens, Bread
and Butter. Fruit or Jello.
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
CHRONICLE, DELAWARE MARCH 81
APRIL

April, formerly the second month in the
ancient Roman year, but now the fourth
month, has had the origin of its name lost
in the mist of antiquity Probably the most
common theory is that it is derived from the
Latin verb Aperire, meaning ito open." This
is an allusion to the opening of the buds and
flowers, which is beautiful process in April
interestingly, there is no agreement on
how April Fools Day began. This day. known
as All Fools Day, is with us nevertheless,
and is an occasion for practical Jokes. The
custom extends all over the world, curiously,
India, Europe and just about everywhere
else.
This year, on April End, Christians will
observe Easter which is a symbol of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ
Also, on the End the u. S. Mint was
established in 1892, and has been printing
money faster and faster ever since.
Richmond was evacuated on April 3rd,
1865, which signaled the fall of the Confed-
crate capital, and the end of the war, which
came about just six days later And April
4th is remembered as the day Thaddeus
Stevens was born, in 1892, and as the day
that the Continental Congress voted that
the flag of the thirteen United States should
contain thirteen alternate red and blue
stripes and thirteen white stars on blue
field, thus adopting our present flag design.
On April otn, 1orty-Iour years ago, the
United States declared war on Germany
That was in 1917 The war lasted nineteen
months.
This day was also set aside as Army
Day after the war. The Norman church was
established on April 6th 1880, while the
Greeks in the United. States celebrate April
9th as Greek independence Day.
April 7th is remembered as the day of
the first settlement on Ohio, at Marietta, in
1888. April 8th is remembered as the day on
which Clay and Randolph fought their fam
Gus duel, in 1926, and also as the day Ponce
de Leon landed on the coast of Florida, near
st. Augustine, seeking the legendary foun-
tain of youth, in 1913
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
Milford Hiqh
School News

The first annual Festival of the
Arts will be held in the Milford
High School gymnasium on We'd
nesday and Thursday evenings. 10
and 20 of April. This Festival will
be open to the parents and patrons
of the Lulu NJ. Ross and Lakeview
Avenue Elementary schools andthe
Lakeview Junior Senior Hig b
School from 700 to 1000 pm.
each evening. On display will be
some of the Art work, shop pro-
jects, and descriptive information
from the mechanical drawing and
other classes.
A feature of this festival will be
tape recordings of the vocal and in
strumental departments of all 3
schools. Pictures are being taken
of the musical groups and will be
shown while the taped music is
being played.
The Mispillion Chapter of the
National Honor Society is sponsor
ing the first issue of the "Mispill-
ion Light. a magazine devoted to
creative writing. both prose and
poetry. on the part of the students
in these schools.
The following students have been
placed on the Honor Roll for the
Fourth Marking Period:
Grade Z; Mark Amrhein. Wayne
Banning John Briggs. Nancy Cor
der, Beverly Sue Deeney. Rebecca
Dill. Mary Domke. Hans Feindt.
Carolyn A. Kirby, Ann Lankford,
Sandra McGee. 10 Ann. May. CAL
vert Morgan, Virginia Roosa.
Grade eight: Dora Alexander.
Beverly Ball. Nellie Burton. Gwen
dolyn Frankel. Joyce Gilmore. AL
den James. John T. James. Joan
Harrington. Linda Hayes. Ruth
Knicely. Linda Locates. Linda Lyn-
ch. A. Robert Masten. Mary Ann
Mazza. Sammy Pack, Kenneth Saw
yer, Marsha Lee Short. Elaine Van
Worst. Phyllis Walker. Ginger Webb
James Wilkerson. Susan Willis.
Grade nine; Patricia Achorn,
Jean Acko. Anthony Armenia.
Grace Began, 10 Ann Collins. Gail
Corder. Carol Dobson, Donna Fisc-
her, Lorraine Green, Shirley NJ
Hayes, Anne Hickman Bonnie
Hoey, Merry c. Hollis. Glenn In
gram. Judy jefferson. Lois A. Jes-
ter. Carol Kline. Ellen Kunkle
Eileen Newton. Sarah Penuel. Shir-
ley Postles. Dee Ridings. James
Rimmer. Rudy Roberts. Pit Saksen
Marsha Townsend, Henry Vinyard
Kay Vreeland. Frances Welsh.
Grade ten: June Buarque. Allen
Dallas. Carolyn Finnity. Donald
Gibson. Rachel Grier. Mary Ann
Kitchens. Mary Hudecz. Jules Jeff
erson. Sharon Kirby. Mary L. Lank-
ford, Ira Ted Lewis. Kave Mercer,
Lama Sharp. Laraine Williams.
Grade IL; Susan Achorn, Jacque-
line Belts. Virginia Boyce. Nancy
lClendaniel. Frances Dickerson. JOS
Lewis, James Stallings. Patricia
Marvel. Helene Western.
Grade -: Joyce Bennett. Eliza
beth Burris, Lisa Corder. Donald
Fisher. Sharon Hit. Walter Hughes
Kay Isaacs. Glenn Kenton. Kenneth
Kerr. George Thomas Leighty, Sue
McClung. Mary Ann Killen. Donna
Lingo Sue Metz, Sarah Milbury
Charles Pack, Lewis Paquette, Pat
ricia Rogers. Donna Steele. Caro-
Jean Strahle. Stroman Watford
Saralee Webb.
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
NO TIME no WORK

Some time ago, an interesting item was
published in The Chattanooga Times, and it
explained how the average person spends
his life.
To begin with, he spends one-third of his
life asleep. He spends another four years
talking with people, but women spend five
years in conversation with others.
man, it is estimated, uses about five
months of his lifetime trying to tie his shoe
laces. He spends five years washing and
shaving. and up to four years in smoking
UP quarter of ton of tobacco.
Telephone calls require one year of the
average life span, and some six months are
spent playing cards For some of the fair
readers, we would raise this to about six
years
Six wears are spent eating and drinking,
and three years are spent being sick. For
the average person, about five years are
spent in going to and from work, and this
1gure is likely to go up as more move to
the cities and as the cities grow larger and
larger.
The main point in all this tabulating is
that, after we spend all these wears doing
these things, very little is left for working.
The time consumed, in all the above pur-
suits approaches fifty years, and, therefore
probably less than twenty years are left for
working, when it is considered there are
many other time-consumers not included in
the above.
In all of the items listed, it NAV be seen
that the greatest opportunity for time-sav-
ing is to be found in the field of smoking
travelling to and from work ard tying ones
shoe laces. Also great deal of time can be
saved if one washed and shaved less.
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
Who Likes The Cold War?

am ashamed to say that many
people are learning to like this
Fcold war" Even labor depends
upon it for employment and en-
ployers feel il necessary for pro-
fits. They dreaded the cold war
at first = but now are getting used
to it and even depending on it,
Surely IL the cold war should stop.
there would be great increase In
unemployment. This is feared not
only by those now out of work. but
also by employers who are bene-
fitting from subcontracts and forced
sales. Talk with Dun & Bradstreet
II you think | am overly fearful; or
watch the "markdown" advertise
ments In the Sunday newspapers.
Most of the active stocks listed
on the New York Stock Exchange
are counting upon the "cold war"
TO continue. This Is dangerous
limb upon which TO depend Invest
ment counselors warn that tenn
porary market declines are to be
expected as necessary correct
ion or readjustment." but they con-
tinue to be fundamentally bullish
and look for even higher prices
after the corrections" are COM
pleted. They may be right for a
while; but the Law of Action and
Reaction which Sir Isaac Newton
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
NE@&E
FULL CYCLE

Massive federal programs of taxation,
benefits" and controls to protect all of the
people against all the rigors of living have
little respect for minority or individual
rights
Our forefathers fled from Europe seek
ing freedom from oppression. They asked
nothing but life, liberty and pursuit of hap
piness.
1t is alarming to read that some people
are now leaving the United States because
they feel they can no longer pursue these
goals here. According to an Associated
Press report seven Amish families near Can
ton, Ohio, have purchased farms and are
preparing to move to Canada. In the words
of AP the Amish are "a quaint religious
people who live the simple life without many
of the conveniences modern Americans rely
on They are leaving this country be-
cause they are opposed to compulsory social
security, and other structures of our modern
welfare state society.
At the risk of being anti-social one can
not help wondering what the pilgrims would
think of the present state of the Union.
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
on THE HOUSE

THOMAS. Okla. Up A cafe
here serves free coffee from to
4 pm. daily and the tab is picked
up each day by different group
of business men.
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31

The average age at which John
F. Kennedy's predecessors became
President was 55 years.
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31
SAFETY I'M THE HOME


Editors write editorials about safety in
the home and people continue to be injured
and killed in stupid accidents. Some of the
accidents are so unnecessary, and the result
of such carelessness, they belle description.
A man is electrocuted while using his
electric shaver in the bathtub. Another is
electrocuted trying to use drill while stand
ing in water man falls off a ladder, which
had not been properly propped at the bottom.
child takes poison some adult left within
reach.
Children lock themselves in abandoned
refrigerators, and smother. Women cut
themselves, slip or trip in high heels or burn
up the home by carelessness with cigarettes
on matches.
What good can one more editorial do
TO lessen the rate of serious and tragic acci-
dents in the home? 1t can make you think
about the problem, and take preventative ac-
tion, which will prevent accidents in your
home. You can check the bathtub mat You
can check the medicine chest. You can be-
come safety conscious-and that will be of
more value than anything else.
Accidents on the highways take some
$1,000 lives a year. Home accidents take a
similar toll. One hears much about careful
driving but comparatively little about care
ful living in the home. Yet it is Just as i'm
portant to be careful, living at home, as on
the highways.
In home accidents it is rarely the other
fellow who causes injury or DEATH as can
often be the case on the highways. In home
accidents there is usually no other fellow. 1t
the follows then, that safety consciousness
in the home can prevent more accidents than
on the highway.
Every home accident is preventable. Look
around your home today and prevent one |!
Milford chronicle., 1961-03-31

Babson Park. Mass. March 30.
Unfortunately. the cold war" is
developing into dangerous in
dustry. Too many voters are direct
ly or indirectly making money on
~
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Army Reserve
Gripes Scored

MADRID, Dec. IL (AP).-
Senator Goldwater, returning
to Washington tonight, leaves
behind a sharp criticism OF
United States Army Reservists
who complained because they
were called back to duty dur
ing the Berlin crisis.
The Arizona Republican, in
a news conference yesterday,
said those who complained
were "a bitching bunch of free
leaders," He noted that they
had signed UP to receive pay
for regular drills while in Re-
serve status. but then suuawked,
as he put 1t, when called to ac-
tive duty.
Senator Goldwater Is a brig
adler general in the Air Force
Reserve. He came to Spain with
Senators Cannon, Democrat OF
Nevada. and Miller. Republican
of Iowa, also Reserve officers
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Red Attack on General
Seen as Blast at NATO

/ the executive group of The Mill
tary Committee. Gen. Heusin-
ger was elected chairman Of
this group last December and
took office in March.
His office is in the Pentag0n,
and ne meets with representa-
tives OF the NATO armies al
most weekly.
This group advises the NATO
Standing Group. made up Of
military representatives of the
United States, Britain and
France. The Standing Group
gives broad strategic direction
to the military commanders,
such as Gen. Lauris Norstad d,
allied commander in Europe.
Gen. Heusinger's brother
Bruno is president of the West
German Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1961-12-12
Bad Engineering
Seen in Hospital
Fire FutuI to Is

HARTFORD. Conn. Dec. IL
tAP).-Investigators say faulty
engineering and apparent care
lessness may have been the
main causes of the tragic fire
at Hartford Hospital Friday.
Deaths attributed to the
blaze rose to 16 yesterday with
the announcement that Mrs.
Gladys Kokosa. rs. Of Hart
ford, had died of smoke in
halation. She died Saturday.
Investigators said the first
concrete results of their inquiry
indicate that a hospital en-
ploye may have thrown dis
carded X-ray film down the
chute in which the fire began.
It's possible, they said, that the
employe did not think the film
would burn.
The investigators speculated
that the highly flammable
film created such intense heat
that it turned on the water
sprinkling at the top of the
chute. The water. in turn, be-
came steam which built up to
the point that it blew out
through the chute door on the
ninth floor. they said.
1t was on the ninth floor
that all the dead and dying
were found.
Hartford Fire Chief Thomas
F. Lee described the vents
chute as bad engineering" He
said it was too small to handle
the pressure.
Evening star., 1961-12-12

most Of our fathers are with
United States military units OF
the United States Embassy in
Madrid we decided 1t was bet
ter to take the name Virginia