Milford chronicle., 1962-04-06
DAIRY PRODUCTS STUDY

The nations dairymen are joining with
milk producers and professors in an effort
to determine the reason for the dwindling
per capita consumption of milk and it's pro-
ducts. They are making determined eff
fort to reverse the present trend
They recently announced in Chicago that
they are planning to step up publicity on the
good qualities of milk and its products to
emphasize the good, nutritive values receiv-
ed in the consumption of milk. 1t is an effort
to offset claims by some that milk products
are factor in increasing blood's cholesterol
level and may be factor in causing arters-
clerosis. This is disease that involves a
clogging of the arteries and often leads to
heart attacks.
1t is certainly undetermined what the
relationship is between heart ailments and
dairy products. Specialists in these fields
have not been able to determine positively
or negatively that there is a direct relation
ship between milk products and heart all
ments.
The dairymen plan to move on number
Of fronts to help brighten the picture of
dairy products. With the dairymen's associ-
alton, butter, cheese, ice cream and other
professors have formed special board to
work on the problem.
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POLL TAX
The poll tax has long been a controver-
sial issue in the United States Congress. Eff
forts by liberals in both parties have attempt
ed to abolish the poll tax for many years
This year, two senators have attempted
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senator and another a northern senator.
Senator Javits, Republican Of New York at
tempted to do away with the poll tax by
simply passing bill in both houses of Con-
gress banning the poll tax. He wanted to
proceed as quickly as possible, assuming the
risk of the bill being unenforceabe
Senator Shepard Holland, a Democrat
from Florida, proposed another method,
which was in the form of a constitutional
amendment, to do away with the poll tax.
Under Senator Hollands amendment, both
the houses of the United States Congress
would have to pass the measure by two
thirds vote. If both of these houses passed
the amendment by that vote, then three
fourths of the states legislatures must rati-
fly it before it becomes law. Admittedly, this
more.
The results of the poll tax measure mean
very little in the course Of the history of the
United States. However, the principals in
volved mean a great deal, and it is of some
satisfaction to see the proper action being
taken
NO LONGER A STEPCHILD
A report by an economics organization
says that the number of full-time workers in
food processing and distribution has increas-
ed by about 100000 in the brief span of
years since 1947. Moreover this year it is
expected that the number Of these workers,
plus those engaged in food transportation,
will equal the number of farm food produc-
ers-a circumstance which certainly would
have seemed impossible not so very long ago.
Among other things, these figures indi-
cate the changing nature of the food busi-
ness. The housewife today has an enormous
choice of foods with 'built in maid service"
foods which are ready to eat or virtually
so. She now needs to spend only fraction
Of the time preparing meals that she spent
few years back. And she's taken full ad-
vantage of this opportunity, which largely
accounts for the heavy increase in food in
dustry workers.
They also point to the ever-expanding
rule of retailing in modern life. This isn't
just true in foods. 1t is true in varying de-
grees of retailing in all it's many branches.
The store used to be considered something
Of a stepchild of the production system-it
was there it offered goods for sale, and that
was about the size of it. But now it is rec
ognized that mass distribution is the full
partner of mass production-one is as i'm
portant as the other, neither could exist
without the other. Stores show the same
kind of enterprise and will to progress that
successful manufacturers do to produce,
otherwise many factories would close.
All of us live better because of that.