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Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
THE FORGOTTEN "SOLUTION"

some day swamp our farmers and our tax
payers in a national scandal or farm de-
preston.
He added that he is submitting 9. to
the Congress new comprehensive farm pro-
gram, tailored to fit the use of our land and
the supplies Of each crop to the long-range
needs of the Sixties, and designed to prevent
chaos in the Sixties with program of COM
mon sense
We have had farm program after farm
prOgram-and about the only result has
been more SURPRISES, more spending, more
waste, more tax-subsidized reward for either
non-production or useless production.
Perhaps, ultimately, farming will be re-
turned to the framework of the free, COM
petitive enterprise system, where produc
ton is geared to consumption and the law
of supply and demand prevails in the mar
ket place. That's about the only solution"
we haven't tried.
NEW FIGHTERS
We have been under the impression for
many years that the future holds little for
fighter aircraft We have assumed that
within the next ten years rockets would al
most entirely replace the requirement for
manned aircraft in the sky.
This thought is being corrected by a re-
cent announcement in the Wall Street Jour
a contract for the development of new
fighter aircraft. 1t is estimated that as
much as S3,OOO,OOO,O00 may be involved
over five or six year period in the devel-
opment program of this new aircraft.
The air craft is to be a fighter with adj
Unstable wings. The addition of the adius
table wings will make the airplane far
more versatile machine than any conven-
tional fighter now in the sky.
One of the interesting technical prob
lens encountered will be the problem Of
making both wings fool-proof to work to-
gether. Mr.. Richard r. Hepp, Chief Adj
vance Assistant Research Engineer, at Lock
heed, stated eff one works and the other
doesn't, you are out of luck" Mr.. Hepp went
on to explain that in such an event the air
plane would roll out of control and prob
ably crash, it would be almost impossible
to fly if the wings were not in approximate
ly the same position during flight.
There is great speculation that if this
type wing is perfected that it will soon be
used for supersonic transport and even by
commercial air liners Some civilians felt
that it was going to be required simply to
avoid increasing the take off and landing
speed and distances of the jet transports,
which we will see in the future.
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09

Read The Classified Ads
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
WILL SOCIALISM BECOME
BAD POLITICS?

AS 1861 ended, the Edison Electric In
stitute, spokesman for the investor-owned
utility industry, issued a report on what
had happened during the year.
New records were achieved in power pro-
duction, capability and sales, despite the
business recession that characterized the
early months of 1861. During the year, too,
the utilities announced plans for an So bill
lion, 1O-year program to strengthen and to
expand their nationwide network of trans
mission lines.
A major current development is the COM
plete interconnection of the nations power
systems. By 1870, it is expected all the prin-
cipal power systems will be capable of oper-
ating on an interconnected basis.
Of no small moment, during the past
year the United States stretched its lead
over the Soviet Union in power-producing
capability. At years end our capability was
1901 million kiowatts-whereas Russia's
was 74.5 million.
Also, at years end, the utilities invest
ment in plant and equipment had reached
the huge total of $40 billion, of which So .4S
billion was spent during 1861. And these
utility companies ranked, and continue to
rank first among all the nations industries
in total taxes paid to local, state. and feder-
al governments. The 1861 tax bill was about
S2.45 billion. Putting it another way, about
"a cents out of each dollar an electric utility
took in from its customers went for taxes.
BY way Of sharp contrast, government-own-
ed and aforementioned power opera
lions paid only about three cents out of the
revenue dollar in taxes.
So much for few facts which under
line the remarkable and accelerated progress
these investor-owned, publicly-regulated,
heaviy-taXed utilities are demonstrating.
Who can say, in truth or in logic. that this
country has any need for socialized, tax
subsidized, tax-evading power? The day
may be near when advocating costly and
needless federal power projects will prove
to be just plain bad politics.
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY Elaine townsend Dickerson

boat as we'll
l have lived within two hours
driving distance of d. c. all my
life and this April will be the first
time | have even seen the Cherry
Blossoms that line the P o o m C
River. There is sprinkling of
publicity about it each day in the
papers and as time comes closer
I'll remind you of it again.
rummage around in stores full Of
old and assorted pieces that 1
thought I'd better. tell you abOut
the Thieves Market that is about
a mile from me- It's address is
3510 Richmond Hwy, on route /,
and about six miles below Alexan-
dria. | don't deceive you you'll
find everything there from mems
shorts to Cleopatria's chaise Much
of it you wonder why they even
keep, but then you'll see someone
with an arm load of junk yoT
wouldn't even haul to the dump.
| was there yesterday and a wOm-
an trying to decide which three
clocks out of six she wanted. They
were the kind with the time piece
in the middle of a fat mans abb
dOmen. The worse looking mon
strosities you ever saw, but she
was delighted to pay three dollars
a piece for the jewels.
There are chairs of every dis
cription, mirrors, china, busts OF
Martha and George, paintings that
need a good busting, silver, old
lamps and a grab-bag store that
houses everything from toys for
the children to wrapping paper
half price, for gifts One historian
from Alexandria, bought a scrap of
paper from Mr.. Henry Cohen (the
Owner) for twenty dollars The
paper was purchased believed to
be the original draft of Robert E.
Lees Farewell Address to his
troops upon his surrender to Gen
eral Grant. The paper was auth
entisicated by infra-red ray exam
ination, plus other tests and now
its value is in the 100000 bracket.
On holidays there are auctions
and weekend days you can buy
right from the floor The store
is open each day at ten am.
The 10th of this month one niece
of ours MARSHA Townsend) will
be Is and the following day a.
mother niece Jackie Dickerson)
will be 81 Makes me feel too old
to get around TO all these Wash
ingtOn activities.
Until next week
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
Babson Discusses The Big Question Confronting Investors
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use of microwaves are long years
ahead
Politics VS.. New Ideas
The newspapers devote many
columns to politics, and we are
inclined to overeStimate the i'm
portance of politics as our invest
ment statistics show that there is
little correlation between politics
and the stock market. My readers
had far better study the new ideas
being developed, such as fuel
Cells, new adhesives", and foods
from cellulose". New developments
now in test tubes and on drawing
boards have great profit posSibili-
ties.
Moreover, history shows that it
does not require much capital to
start a company with only an
idea. But it requires great pa
thence and persistence. Mr.. Clinton
Woods of 2S03 Goodwood Road,
Baltimore IA, Maryland has recent
ly published a book showing that
200 of today's biggest companies
started without capital. 1t is inn
portant to young people who are
willing to work and who have the
patience to wait l have given "a
way over 100 of these books to
help the right people, although
they can be bought from Mr..
Woods. These books are the best
investment that l know OF for any
one who doesn't want to pay out
more than $5.S5 (postpaid).
Next week | will discuss in my
column corporation bonds, NUM-
cipal bonds, us. Savings Bonds,
savings bank deposits, and prefer
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
Fun Still Besf Way To
Describe Little Girl
Fashions
BY JEAN SPRAIN WILSON
AP NeMSfeatureS Writer

Although fun is a. trite word to
use in describing grown-up fash
ions, it is still the most appropri-
ate one today for little girl styles.
Until very recently designers of
toddlers' play clothes didn't seem
to know what fun was They were
so determined to be practical that
they produced woefully stilted and
unimaginative ones.
For the active little adventures
they made sturdy rompers with
doubly practical patches at the
knees. They waterproofed the seats
of pants. And they carefully ar
ranged buttons and snaps and zip
pers so that toddlers could learn
self-reliance by dressing themsel-
yes.
Yet with the exception of half
heartedly appliquing a red apple
here and there, or adding a ruffle
somewhere else, the designers gave
up on the idea of making anything
merry, exciting, colorful, even
beautiful.
Mothers appreciated the practi-
cality, but they missed the fun
excuse the world of dressing their
little dolls for play That is they
did until recently. Today, they have
both
Now mothers are enjoying sec
ond childhOods by turning out
their offspring in play clothes as
quaint and imaginative as the char
acters in their story books. These
clothes are still sensible
Psychologically more appealing
to small fry, the bright colors of
their wardrobes also keep the little
charges in view from considerable
distances.
Instead of one-piece overaIls and
sun suits, there are two piecers
which make a judicial amount of
switching possible. For example,
smock-like toppers Chat button at
the shoulder to teach self-reliance)
guard lot of territory during a
finger painting session. Then
clean blouse can take its place
over the same pedal pushers.
Of course, toddlers romping ap-
parel is as washable as it ever was.
and much more ironable The de-
signs, such as pockets and appli-
ques are flat. And toppers cut as
A lines make it possible to iron
them flat on the board.
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
1924 Bound Break Lane
Alexandria, Va.


Alexandria,, Va.
Dear Friends:
Our friend the weather man said
We had between six and nine inch
es of snow this morning. | can
believe it, looking out my window
right now. It's a wet, wet snow and
power lines are down on the very
next street from the weight of it.
Near Key Bridge, across the Pc
tomac, they are diverting traffic
because of the water level. | love
a beautiful snow, but this one is
already messy.
Sunday afternoon as we drove
home from Delaware we could see
many men in their yards cleaning,
painting, caulking h eir boats
readying them for the warm
weather ahead This is not a job
for us since he have no type of
boat, but we do plan to rent one
and see the Potomac on the Po-
tomac, this spring. Incidentally if
you want to come to Washington
some weekend and would like to
do something a little different
with the children go to Lock 3,
one block south of Both and NJ.
streets, northwest in Georgetown.
Here each Saturday and Sunday
afternoon at two o'clock until
October, one can ride the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Barge. Oh,
yes, it is mule-drawn A National
Capital Parks naturalist or histOr-
ian accompanies each trip to in
terpret history of the canal and
tell noteworthy features seen.
| understand it is advisable to
the trip is two hours long one way
They don't advise taking children
along. The trip upstream ends at
lock 5, Brookmont, Md The return
trip begins at four. Adults on c
dollar round trip and children
under II $50
There are lots of ways of seeing
the area by water. One can 60
south of the national Airport to
the Washington Sailing Marine
land, rent a thirteen foot sailbOat
for $3.50 an hour fifty cents for
each additional person on boarO
We hope to do this sometime.
OF course the excursions to
Mount Vernon are pretty we'll pub
licized They leave from Maine
Ave, and n. ST S.W. at 10 am
and pm. $160 round trip for
adults and $50 for children. Add
to this to the $50 admission to
Mount Vernon four hours in len
9Th This boat had a snack bal
and there is free dancing on the
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
Milford New Century
Club News

At the regular meeting of the
Milford New Century Club March
5th, members viewed an exhibit of
nine paintings as they entered the
club room. These were done by
the art class under the direction
of Mr.. Howard Schroeder. NJ + s
Eugene Nelson, chairman of art
for the club had arranged the ex-
hibit and the contributors were
besides Mrs. Nelson, DR.. G. Ed
ward Kuhlmann, Mrs. Herbert
Griffith, Mrs. Douglas Fry, Mrs.
Lee Fernald and Mrs Henry Burk-
ett These made a fine supplement
to the needle-work shown later in
the program.
Mrs. Borden Smith presided at
the opening period of the after
noon at which time Mrs. George
T. Macklin led in the devotions.
Mrs. Willard Dufendach, substi-
tuting for Mrs. j. S. Willis intro
duced the speaker tor the day who
was Mr.. Willard Hickman, assis-
tant administrator of the Milford
Schools. Mr.. Hickman, an officer
of the newly organized M o
Historical Society, spoke on "Old
Milford, describing its early
homes, its schools and churches
He gave a comprehensive account
of Silver Hill the Thorne mansion,
of private and public schools and
the oldest churches. He urged club
members to cultivate an interest
in the community, suggesting a de-
tailed study of just one old house
as a project He concluded by in
viting club members to join the
Milford Historical Society.
Mrs. LaFay Smith, was chair
man of the Vogue sewing contest,
a national club affair The judges
were Mrs William Miller of the
local school faculty, Mrs. Joe Grit
fin and Mrs. Barbara Edwards.
Participants who modelled their
sewing were Mrs. Harry Mayhem,
Mrs ira Garbutt and Mrs. Carl
Morgan. All of the outfits were
beautiful and first prize vas a
warded to Mrs. Mayhem. t h S en-
semble, with it's amazing number
of accessories was a work of art
and dressed up" or dressed
down. as Mrs. Mayhem illustrat-
ed, could easily quality as an all
day outfit for a club woman. Miss
Norma Lee Hopkins modelled hat,
cape and gloves, also made by Mrs.
Mayhem.
Before adjournment gifts were
distributed to the contestants and
judges Also on exhibit were items
made to be sold at the sewing
booth at the May Hospital Fair
Local sewers have helped with
this sewing, planned by the sew
ing committee composed of Mrs.
Joseph ]. Pearce, Mrs. Carleton
Fooks and Mrs. Carl Morgan.
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09

BabsOn Park, Mass, March 8.
This question briefly is: Should we
buy the most popular stocks, or
should we buy those in little de-
mand?
Most Popular Common Stocks For
Investment
Probably drug stocks are the
most popular today. This is the
time of year when so many are
sneezing and your favorite drug
store is doing it's best business.
Also life insurance stocks are AL
ways attractive. Everyone is striy-
ing to live longer; while the doe
tors, the hospitals, and the govern
ment are helping them to. Conse-
quently, life insurance stocks are
high, and hence pay the smallest
cash yield of all groups. Investors
do not want to sell their life in
surance stocks, especially as the
companies constantly declar
stock dividends, which investors
like. They pay no taxes mon
these until they sell the stock re-
ceived.
Other popular stocks are those
OF companies making office eouip-
ment, due to the scarcity of good
office help. This scarcity is the
result of older, efficient workers
coming into Social Security IF
PRESIDENT Kennedy has his wav
TINS Will be increased to further
nelp the aged, the ill, and other
unfortunates. Companies selling
1000 are also popular. Everyone
must eat, and most people like the
great new self-service food w.
hets which are becoming a social
center where you meet your
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09

friends. OF course, the stocks of
these food chains are high; but
the population is constantly grow
ing. 1t may reach 200,00O,O0O in
five years.
Common Stocks Bought For
Speculation
These are primarily the "elec-
tronic and space" issues of COM
panies getting us. defense con-
tracts. l do not like these, even
though they are much lower l n
price than they were a while ago.
Sometime this nuclear weapons
race will end l do not even ex-
pect that any readers Of my col
umn will see world disarma-
ment". This is silly to even talk
about now. But the use of atomic
and hydrogen bombs to destroy
cities will be controlled, especially
before China gets them. AS this is
generally recognized, these stocks
will lose their present unjustified
glamour.
Unpopular common stocks are
the railroads, the cement compan-
les, the coppers and other metals.
I would keep out Of railroad stocks
(bonds are differenD but til e
world surplus of metals is con-
stantly becoming less. This, in a
way, applies to the making of alu-
minum. To make aluminium there
must be cheap and abundant cleo
trio power such as exists in At
ricia. I like to buy copper stocks
when they are cheap. The beams"
to and from satellites may some
day reduce the demand for copper;
but these beams and the universal
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
LETTER FROM A CUSTOMER

VARINA, NC. (AP)-C h arli e
Poe, operator of a supermarket
here, can testify that a mans con-
science can be burdensome thing.
He received a letter recently,
with a 81 bill enclosed
The letter read:
MIR. Poe, l went in your store
last Saturday to get out of the cold
weather. While | was in your store
l ate some stuff and didn't pay for
it. | ate some oranges, orangerines,
peanuts, pecans and one ruterbeg-
ger. -
Now my belly and my con-
science hurts me.
This one dollar will take care
of my conscience.
But my belly still hurts"
The letter was signed: "A
friend"
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
FORCE FEEDING

1928 billion dollars!
That's an unbelievable, incredible amount
of money.
It's more than anyone can even begin to
imagine in his or her widest nightmares.
But that's the amount of money the gov
eminent proposes to spend during the next
fiscal year.
In order to get us to swallow its spend
ing program, the government glamorizes the
medicine by labelling it free" Another
method is used to delude some of us: The
government says, '1t's good for you"
But there's one frightfu flaw in the
medicine mans spiel:
Every year that the dose is administered,
it's given for bigger and bigger programs
and it's the taxpayers money that's involv-
ed.
The free medicine from Washington is
myth-because there is absolutely no
free" money.
The only money that the Federal govern
ment has for its programs is that which it
takes from us in the form of taxes-or that
it borrows against your credit and ours, and
our children, and our children's children.
That's the price of having the medicine
man take care Of us from cradle to grave.
Let's tell our Washington representatives
to call halt to runaway spending and cut
back, and cut out, nOn-defense and non-es-
sential spending!
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09

THE "WHY" OF 1T

Someone said, 1--WE should all support the
Red Cross" Someone else asked, "Why?'
When it comes to marshaling answers to
that question, there is an enormous embar-
rassment of riches. The problem is not what
to say, but how to sum UP in brief space the
myriad ways in which this organization
serves people.
Listing the broad categories of activity
services to the armed forces and veterans,
disaster services, nursing, safety and the
ike-merely hints at what is accomplished.
Nor are the figures much help-so many mil
lion man-hours Cor, likely as not, woman
hours) spent at this or that work, so many
million blood donations, so many welfare
messages sent.
The essence of the matter is that the Red
Cross gives aid and comfort in countless
ways and to the full extent of its resources
1t does not ask about mans religion or his
color or his politics; it asks if he needs help,
and then it helps. We can all have part in
extending that help. That is the why of
giving generous support to the Red Cross
once again.
Milford chronicle., 1962-03-09
WHERE PRESIDENTS AGREE

To say the obvious, President Kennedy,
and former Presidents Eisenhower Truman
Roosevelt and Hoover have differed, often
profoundly, on many an important issue. But
all of these chief executives have been gen.
orally in agreement on one probem-that of
publicly built-whch means tax-built-fa-
cilities used by commercial transportation
agencies.
Specifically, they have all expressed their
belief that a fair charge should be imposed
to help pay the enormous bill incurred by the
building and the maintenance Of the facili-
ties in question.
To take just two examples, President
Kennedy has asked this Congress to approve
user charges for aviation and inland water
carriers, and on a prior occasion he urged
ga fairer ALLEGATION of the burden among
those who use the highways =" And then
President Eisenhower, in June Of 1860, rec
commended that ''The cost of Federal ser
vices which convey special benefits should
be recovered through charges paid by the
beneficiaries rather than through taxes on
the general public"
Many other officials and organizations
within and without the government-have
presented similar views. This does not mean
that anyone intends to ground the domestic
airlines or to shove the trucks and busses
off the roads, or remove the barges from the
waterways. Thesc modes Of transportation
But it does mean, in the name of justice to
the taxpayers as well as to the self-support
ing railroads with which they compete, that
they should pay reasonable and adequate
fee for the tax-built facilities they require.
5000
STOCK PILES
The nations war emergency stock pile,
which consists of about one hundred and
one strategic materials, now has total
value of SIT billion. This does not include
the farm SURPRISES, which total S54 billion.
Recently President Kennedy had some
thing to say about the stock pile. He said it
had become potential source of excessive
and unconscionable profits, and that he was
demanding congressional investigation.
He indicated that the stock pile was about
twice as large as would be needed in an
emergency.
While the President indicated that he
had taken steps to halt any new purchases
which were not needed, he also stated that
the stock pile would continue to grow be-
cause Of contracts negotiated prior to his
taking Office.
On the other hand the Republicans call
ed attention to the fact that the stock pile
had actually been public information for a
number of years, and that the President,
then Senator John Kennedy, had voted in
favor of spending more money to build up
strategic stores in eight out of nine roll
calls.
At any rate, the Republicans are going
along with the Presidents suggestion that
the matter be Investigated. Senator Sy-
mington has stated that his committee will
start hearings in about a month. Senator
Byrd has also revealed that he would con-
duct parallel probe to supplement the find
ings of the Symington committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-14

CHRYSLER'59 4-dr.: fully equip,
very clean: S1.795. Falls Church
Chrysler-Plymouth. JE. 2-2300.
CHRYSLER '55 st. Regis 2-dr
hdtp.; fully equip, with air cond.,
very clean; s795. Falls Church
Chrysler-Plymouth, JE. 2-2300.
CHRYSLER 80: r. and h.; very
clean inside and out; motor peri. ;
garage kept; very economical
transp.: lady owner; must sac,
Sl55. 232-2S15.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-14

CORVAIR 81 de luxe station wagon
powerglide. r. and h., dark blue
finish: this popular compact wagon
is like new In every respect. Cor
vair wagons are scarce and this
one will be sold today for only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-14

PLYMOUTH 80 convert, fully
equip, like new 1895.
Falls Church Chrysler- plymouth
| IF D-O1nn
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