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Milford chronicle., 1963-04-19
Fence Talk

Hydroponics Is the science Of
growing crops without soil. Your
county agent rarely gets a call
about 1t. But on Monday there
were two.
It has only been In the last SO
years that nutrient solution cul-
turs was seriously considered on
a commercial scale. Il is used
for such crops as tomatoes, GU
cumbers, and lettuce. Flowers
are a greenhouse crop using the
method. Crewmen attempt to
grow rsdishes using hydroponics
combined with artificial lighting
on submarines, We are told.
There Isn't very much lit
srature on the subject. But
ran into one put out by the State
of Florida, Department Of Agri-
culture at Tallahassee. II is bull
letin $50, dated August 1858, and
Is entitled Hydroponics.
This can be a relatively mex
psnsive and cheap hobby. But
there are some words Of caution
for a commercial operation. A
lot Of labor and equipment Is
needed. The nutrient chemicals
are costly and tricky to handle.
In Delaware, one would probably
find 1t commercially practical
in the greenhouse outside of the
regular growing season. Good re-
tail outlets are needed to assure
reasonable profits.
Peace corps need farm me-
chanics Seven countries have
asked the Peace Corps for vol
unteers who know how TO operate
and repair farm machinery.
Especially needed are agricul-
tural mechanics who can offer
ingenuity and common sense A.
long with their knowledge, he sx-
planned.
Much Of this machinery has
Milford chronicle., 1963-04-19

soil information In addition tc
agricultural users are land
appraisers, realtors, builders,
engineers, city planners, forest
ers, nurserymen, Gamers, pipe
line manufacturers and insurance
companies.
A single copy Of fKnow Your
Soil" Is available free from the
Office Of Information, U. S. De-
partment Of Agriculture, WASH
ington IS, DC.
Farm tractor accidents now
take more than 1000 lives each
year. Fatigue Is often factor In
such accidents but excessive
speed Is still the No. / cause. De-
fective wheelbrakes, rough roads
or a quick turn can bring tragedy
If the operators speed is too high.
Teen-aged tractor operators
have far too many accidents.
Work with these young operators
and see that they receive care
full instruction and supervision
until they are fully qualified.
Extra riders also rank high on
the list as an accident cause.
Spring work often brings a rash
Of tractor accidents most OF
which can be avoided with care
ful operation.
Spring cleanup can make an
important contribution to the year
round fire safety Of your COM
munity. The Importance of clean
UP goes beyond eliminating the
breeding spots for fire in trash
and rubbish. It provides an op-
portunity for a thorough check
up Of fire hazards In and around
farm homes and buildings. It also
reminds us how fire defsnses can
be improved and strengthened.
&&%
Agrtculture'S contributions 9
Farm Index, publication of the
USDA's conomic Research
Service, lists seven major con-
tributions that agriculture has
made to the nations economic
growth since the turn of the
century. Here they are:
It's release Of workers Is q
direct contribution to Industry as
well as an indicator OF overall
economic growth.
Il has lowered food costs rela-
tive to incomes.
It has increased its purchases
Of industrial goods.
It has sustained output during
economic depressicns.
It has met wartime demands for
food.
Il has brought In high earnings
from exports.
And, 1t has assisted other coun-
tries in their economic develop
ment programs.
2 out Of 10 baby pigs Is lost
by the average swine producer.
This, you'll agree, Is too high a
percentage with today's narrow
profit margins. More could be
saved with use Of better manage
ment practices. The American
Foundation for Animal Health
recommends these practices to
cut down losses:
Immunize sows properly, give
her good rations and generally
keep her In good health. AS to
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its regular monthly meeting April
22, 1868. This is the fourth Mon
day. Our president has scheduled
the meeting at this later date.
Prizes will still be awarded to the
room that has the largest num-
ber Of parents In attendance.
Make It your business to attend.
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out magazine subscriptions DUR
Ing the magazine subscription
campaign held at this school. The
high salesman was Kristy Mos
ley. Her total sales were $36.94
During the campaign, $173.o 90 OF
subscriptions were sold.
The Banneksr P.T.A. will hold
Milford chronicle., 1963-04-19

Living better electrically : eff
ciently and economicaIIy-is a
dream that can come true foryo
as il has for more than a million
American families. And right now,
converting your present, old
fashioned heating system to total
electric home heating pays you
$500 in cash-plus unequaled
Milford chronicle., 1963-04-19
Now you enjoy the wonderful advantages of modern,
fameess electric heating and put money in your pocket

dividends in comfort, health, and
convenience.
The contract dealers listed here
are specialists who can COM
pleteIy convert your heating sys-
tenn - including insulation and
equipment. Too, they make all
financing arrangements for you.
See your favorite contract dealer
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meal, which they do. The remark
may even lend you certain cachet
Regarding maid, it helps lot
to have one in for the evening. She
will cost you at least SIPS an hour,
but trained one can lift a hercu.
lean load off your back. When she
arrives, first have her touch up the
place a bit, like picking up the
socks you left under the bed, and Civ.
ing the bathtub a final cleaning.
Have her set up a buffet table and
see that the food is ready. Finally,
don't let her get away without doing
the dishes and glasses.
You should set up a barrier in
the form of makeshift bar Ia card
table will do) that separates the
guests from the kitchen. On the table
place drinks, which you or the maid
can serve. This is a calculated move,
for if you allow some guests to help
themselves freely, you could find
some guest falling asleep, insulting
you, insulting another guest, or get.
ting into a one-sided harangue over
the comparative merits of JFK,
Rocky and Barry.
Regarding guests, make certain
you invite people who blend. If you
know Mrs. A. doesn't get along with
Miss X, better postpone one ofthem
Conversation sometimes is slow
to start, so the bachelor host should
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ACCORDING TO local legend,
Washington bachelors are swift
- in accepting hospitality, but not
quick to return it. According to the
tale, many never return any social
favorS at all. But the bachelor can
erase this social black mark with
very little effort, by putting on an
occasional dinner party of his own.
The bachelor may say, 1T would
mean would have to ask six or eight
people, and | can't afford to take
that many out to a restaurant"
The truth is, bachelor entertain
ing need not be expensive Primar-
lily all the unattached Washington
male needs is an apartment, just a
fair-Size one. He also needs glasses,
silver, plates, cups and saucers. He
should lay in a small stock of food
and liquor.
He should not invite more than
three couples plus a date for him.
self. A larger group jammed into a
small area will mean too much con-
fusion perhaps at the expense of in
tereSting talk.
Necessary food for dinner and
liquor for pre-prandials can be as
sembled for a total of about $50,
or around 1915 per person.
What about pre-buffet canapes?
Forget them. Tell your guests, if
they ask, that canapes spoil a good
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ReIiobIe Anti-freeze is non.evoporutins,
"perm1nenf-Npe" onti-freeze with an
ethylens sHeol base. Special ingredients
provide improved resistance ogoinsf rust
and eorTosion.
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New automatic heofer with forced
cir heating action 10 ideal. foe
wherever quick heat 70 pssdsd.
Three settings {. ehFome-plossd
heat reflector. U.L Approved. Get
yours now and sovs at Peoples low
price.
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mean nothing to him. They real
lie hours must mean nothing to
them. A staff member who can
work for a year for Lyndon john
son can stand any gaff.
The big, tall, thin man from the
rough Hill Country Of Texas is su-
persenSitive. He is thin-skinned on
personal criticism. He knows it
and I have felt he tries not to
show this breach in his armor but
it is going to be task for a man
sitting in the highest seat in the
Nation where everyone can take a
pot shot at him. He will be ac-
cused Of doing things he knew
nothing about. I trust he will be
able to laugh at those who criti-
CHE him Justly or unjuStly. 1t will
make life easier for him and I
fear there is little that Is easy
about the office of President of
the United States.
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eminent to reappraise their
budgets. President johnson, in
placing his ranch and personal
property in the hands of trustees,
included a proviso that the trus-
tees may not apply for any Federal
farm land or land subsidy under
any circumstances.
This simply reflected the Presi-
dents basic philosophy. That phi
losophy also is reflected, believe,
in the success Of Mrs. Johnson's
enterprises in the radio and tele-
vision fields. 1t detracts nothing
from her astute management of
those properties to say that she
looked to her husband for advice.
1t is my strong conviction that
the economic conservatism Of this
man will be reflected, as well, in
the conduct Of our Government.
Next to his lovely wife, his love Of
the United States Of America
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manently. Hunting guns come
under the same regulations.
British Certificate
Since its Firearms Act of 1887,
Britain has required every owner
Of q rifle or pistol to obtain a GER
tificate issued by local police. No
pawnbroker may accept q firearm
as a pledge, and the only excep-
ton to the certificate requirement
is an antique gun, such as q muz-
zle-loading fowling piece.
To be sure, a good many tro-
phieS of war such as nickel plated
Browning automatics and German
Mausers enter England in the
duffle bags of returning veterans.
They theoretically must be reg
istered, but Scotland Yard tacitly
admits many are not.
To overcome this problem, the
British police periodically declare
an amnesty when any subject
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West Virginia at 1OO Some Men Who Have Given Flavor

Belt" proudly made it possible
for the first Roman Catholic to be
elected President" the lamented
great President we deeply mourn.
In an address delivered last
April at Charleston on the Gen.
tennial's Forum of the Future
panel, our then Vice President
Lyndon B. johnson expressed his
interest and surprise at finding
that despite economic trends
downward twice as many persons
in West Virginia (were) owning
and holding stocks on the New
York Stock Exchange" as in his
own State Of Texas. And he went
on to suggest that the discourage
ing experiences of recent years in
certain areas of our economy
might justify West Virginians,
adopting the philosophy Of Mr.:
Dooley who said. Anyhow, there
is always one ray Of light ahead
we're sure to have hard times"
West Virginians this year have
used their first centennial Of
Statehood to take inventory and
to rededicate themselves to unfin-}
ished business. AS President john
son said in his Charleston address, .
their chief problems are not all
of their making but are national,
even international. And he might
well have added lust as they
were 100 years ago" For. as one
of our Centennial poets wrote
Our key has flung clear circle"
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States, they totalled a stagger-
ing 107.145, or more than double
all the other countries combined.
The law resulting from the
hearings was just about what the
Justice Department recommended.
a virtually confiscatory federal
tax Of 5000 on every sub-machine
gun sold. (also imposed on silen-
GERS and abbreviated shotguns)s
plus registration information that
scared the felons away from these
weapons permanently.
Today, Treasury officials with
responsibility for enforcing the
law have trouble remembering
any cases involving silencers. for
example. The last violator was a
petty midwest gangster who was
caught with a home made device
and convicted In 1856. He got g.
stiff penalty g years and $4,000
fine) and the silencer was an
amateurish job at that; 1t fell off
every time the gun was fired.
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. "West Virginia: Its Problems
and Progress 1863-1963" was the
subject Of an address at the
Library on Congress on Friday
night by Festus p. Summers,
professor Of History at the Uni
yersity Of West Virginia. It was
the occasion Of the opening Of
a special exhibit the Library
has set up in honor Of the
States anniversary. This IL
an extract from MIR. Summers
speech dealing with some men
in West Virginia's history.
=. And there are men to
match the mountains. In Ber-
kelley, now Jefferson County, after
the Revolution lived three Of its
generalS-Adam Stephen, Horatio
Gates, and Charles Lee. Stephen
was a native, Gates and Lee resi-
dents who had come as people
still do when they learn that
Shenandoah air is like the lightest
of wines. General Washington had
been their nemesis and the story
goes that once at Lees house the
host lifted his glass and said:
you, Stephen, distinguished
yourself by getting drunk when
you should have been sober. You.
Gates, were cashiered for advanc-
ing when you should have been
retreating, while I, your humble
servant, covered himself with
glory and laurels and was CASH
tered for retreating when he
should have been advancing"
West Virginia has produced
rare profiles; for example. Archi-
bald w. Campbell Of Wheeling,
who displayed great courage as
the editor Of the only anti-slavery
daily newspaper In Virginia before
the Civil War; who won new lau-
rels for his Insurgency In the
Republican national convention in
1880 with the memorable words,
81 always intend to carry my SOW
ereignty under my hat"
And our State proudly claims
another patriot, who stood up
when the chips were down-Peter
G. Van Winkle-one of the coura-
geous Republican Senators who
so molly sacrificed his political
future In defense of President An
drew johnson in 1868. Alphabet
cally the last Of the recusant sew
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public opinion to force through
restrictions on the American fire
arms trade. The biggest change
came in 1884 with the National
Firearms Act.
At that time the gangster wars
and crime bred by the Prohibition
era had brought widespread con-
Germ over the prevalence Of TOM
my-guns. silencers, sawed-off shot
guns, and other bizarre firearms.
According to testimony by the
Attorney General before the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee in 1884, the rate of man.
slaughter in the United States
had reached phenomenal proper
tons.
Homicide Figures
Between 1920 and 1881, total
homicides in France were 5,343;
in Great Britain 3,430: in Italy 49,
SAG: and in Germany 17,204.
In the same period in the United
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the nomination in Los Angeles.
the Kennedy boys had to ask Mrs.
johnson to wake him up at SOC
am. A setback is challenge.
His determination was never
more clearly demonstrated than
when he suffered a near-fatal
heart attack. Rather than bemoan
his fate, johnson obtained the
best scientific advice he could find
on how to make a comeback, set
himself a regimen which many
lesser men have failed to follow
to their own and their fanlily's
sorrow. Today the doctors tell us
no trace remains of that attack.
Many Of us feel the only thing
the Nation needs to fear is that
the magnitude of the job to which
he was catapulted is such killer
he might work himself to death
while he tries to do everything at
once in his own perfectiontSt
style.
These are personal impressions,
with no attempt to catalogue the
mans life or character that has
been thoroughly and adequately
done by many others. At the risk
Of being repetitious, this conclu-
sion: From the days when he was
a barefoot boy in the Texas hills,
Lyndon B. johnson has made his
own way. He knows how hard a
dollar Is to make and how easy It
is to spend. In that respect he IS
in close kinship with 95 per cent
Of the people Of these United
States. And 1t is my conviction
that his training and philosophy
will be profitable to our Nation ..
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BY HOUSTON HARTE

SAN ANGELO, Tex. - Let's
start with q platitude. Platitudes
often are distilled wisdom. To
learn the value Of q dollar, q man
must work for It. Lyndon johnson
has learned that lesson.
This Is a personal appraisal. To
make it personal, I met Lyndon
Johnson In the '30s. I had gone to
The author, a longtime close
friend Of President Johnson, is
h member Of Harte-HankS &
Co, publishers Of the San
tAngelo Standard Times, Corpus
Christi Caller Times, Abilene
.RepOrter-News, and several 9TH
Ter Texas newspapers.
------
Washington seeking q community
loan. Dollars were scarce In West
Texas in those days. So were hotel
rooms in Washington. I ended up
on a cot in q one-room apart
ment.
: There were three other cots in
the room. On one was Arthur Per-
~. who was Senator Tom Connal-
H's secretary. Until November %.
he was Lyndon Johnson's execu-
tive assistant. He'll be in the
White House office. On another
was Congressman Ewing Thoma-
sons secretary, Bob Jackson. He
is now editor of our newspaper in
Corpus Christi. Congressman
Richard Kleberg's secretary,
Lyndon johnson, was on the
third. When four men are on ad-
joining cots. they Just naturally
get to know each other.
You don't get the story Of q
mans life in one night. But you
do start a friendship. Over the
succeeding years. Lyndon johnson
and I became friends. learned
he had worked as hard to achieve
his place In life as any man you'll
ever meet. He labored on a road
gang as a boy. On q rock-strewn
family Hill Country farm he
helped make "the crop" He
sought and got a job as a janitor
to pay for his education. ALI these
Jobs he did we'll. Perfection was
his goal then as it Is now. These
stories have been told many times
since that black Friday, Novem-
Der %, 1868.
Reopproise Budgets
But the facts also reflect a pat
tern Of thought. Lyndon johnson
knows the value Of o dollar,
whether 1t be his own or the tax
payers. 1t should surprise no one
that one Of his first official acts
was to ask departments Of Gov
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Reopproise Budgets
By TRUMAN r. TEMPLE
Star staff Writer

Is Congress moving toward one
Of those rare occasions when 1t
thinkers with the citizens Constitu-
tionsl right to keep and bear
arms"7
Judging from the quantity Of
bills on the subject, plus hearings
begun last Friday with the broad
est kind Of franchise, the answer
is yes.
The nation has generally de-
manded some kind of new legisla-
ton after q Presidents assassina-
ton, and the death Of John F.
Kennedy has brought . surge of
emotional reaction against in
discriminate sales Of guns.
At least a dozen bills have been
introduced, most Of them in the
House. to impose controls on in
terstate traffic in firearms. The
wonder Is that they approach the
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may turn in his souvenir pistols to
the local police station, no ques-
tons asked. The weapons are
then sold and shipped out of the
country. International Arms Co.
in Alexandria, Va. received some
10000 from Scotland Yard last
summer, acquired through this
means.
Right to Keep Arms
America is not the only country
that has jealousy guarded the
right of its civilians to keep a
shooting iron in the frontier cabin
against intruders. Tiny Switzer-
land, squeezed between two pow
erful relationships in World War
II, underscores its ability to mo-
billie overnight with laws sane
tioning every soldier citizens duty
to keep his rifle at home along
with his knapsack.
1t takes a major sea-change in
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by thumbscrew, political tests or
prisons ="
West Virginia, too, has made its
contributions to art, literature,
music, science, technology and the
rest. We are proud Of the heritage
which nurtured Pearl Buck and
Melville DAWSON Post; Eleanor
Steber and Phyllis Curtin; William
L. Wilson, John Barton Payne
and Newton D. Baker; John w.
Davis and Dwight w. Morrow;
I. C. White, Mike Benedum, and
Walter Reuther.
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"A Porodoxicol Stote'

If man would only cease to in
woke the cruelty in nature to ex-
cuse his own! He forgets how inf
nitely innocently even the most
terrible happens in nature; she
does not watch it happen-she
hasn't the perspective for that;
she is wholly in the most dreadful,
even her fruitfulneSs is in it, her
generosity is, If one must put
it that way, nothing other than
an expression of her fullness. Her
consciousness consists in her COM
pleteness; because she contains
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Driving away from Capitol Hill
following his joint speech to Con-
gress, every one in the car in
which l rode praised his speech.
And it was a wonderful speech.
One man asked If did not think
it was the best speech he ever had
made. I said no, have heard him
make a dozen better speeches. All
wanted to know where and when.
Tokes Charge
I had to reply that Lyndon
johnson is without an equal in a
room with 10 to 20 people trying
to solve a crucial problem. He
takes charge in such a situation
in a manner that is not equaled
by anyone I have seen in action.
He knows the facts involved and
no one can present them in any
more convincing manner. If you
are fortunate enough to present a
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en- who voted mot Guilty" he too
looked beyond the next election
and deserves greater credit than
historians accord him.
A SIont on Loyalty
No figure on the West Virginia
political scene has shone brighter
then Charles J. Faulkner. ST., Of
MartinSburg. United States min
lister to France. who was marked
for arbitrary arrest following his
return to Washington In 1851.
Without evidence Of disloyalty
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We do not believe 1t mere COIN
cidence that out of the class of
registrantS for the armed forces
on June 5, 1917, West Virginia
supplied "a higher percentage of
fighting men than any State in
the Union, SAT per cent" We do
not think it accidental that fig
ures from recent survey of dis
tinguished college alumni by ma
tional weekly ranked West Virgin
ia University among the leading
six State universities. And we
think it in true character that
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beyond rulnor, the Government
I'm prisoned Faulkner without
charges, subjected him TO indigni-
ties, and promised release on con-
dition that he take an oath Of al
legiance. Faulkner replied to Sec
rotary Seward with words that
will live long. ITO take the oath
which you prescribe" he wrote,
would q. furnish no evidence Of
my loyalty. It might be proof Of
my subserviency and cowardice
Loyalty springs from the
heart; it cannot be manufactured
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everything, she contains the cruel,
too-but man, who will never be.
able to encompass everything. is
never sure, where he chooses the.
terrible let us say urder-of
already containing the opposite Of
this abyss, and so his choice. in.
the very moment of making him
an exception, condemns him to be
an isolated. one sided ere ature
who is no longer connected with
the whole. Rainier Maria Rilke in
a letter to Countess Aline Det-
richStein.