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Show i!iiHi!ii!j!!ir!!;!!:!i!i!i::!:iiiii;!!i;j (ltd 9 okeaad By SECOND-GUESSER llllllll!!i!l!li!lii!IilIllilllI!liliS!lil!i!ll This election should about finish off the Gallups and Ropers and other pollsters. Still nursing nurs-ing their burnt fingers from the 1948 fiasco, when they predicted 'the downfall of Truman and saw him ride jauntily back to the White House, they were overly cautious in prognosticating this election, and favored Ike "by a few percentage points," and solemnly sol-emnly declared that Stevenson was creeping up on the General and might catch him before election elec-tion day. If Stevenson did any "gaining" on Eisenhower, he mnst have started from zero. Another thing the election proved the South is still the South, and when anyone starts messing around with their tradi-uons tradi-uons and tneir ideas, he's going to get slapped down. Hoover was elected in 1928 when the religious issue was injected into the campaign, and Eisenhower invaded the Solid South when Truman messed around with State's iiights, and the oil fields along the coast. The Rebels might even have stomached the disclosures of pollution in Washington, Wash-ington, but when Damyankees at the Chicago convention told tne Southerners they couldn't vote at the convention unless they agreed to accept any candidate candi-date hte Northerners rammed down their tnroats, that was going go-ing too far. And that Chicago strategy that lost the Demos a few Southern states was wholly unnecessary for the candidates they chose were quite acceptable to the Rebels. Along with many many other guys who seldom vote a straight ticket, we honestly be-. be-. lieve that Stevenson is among the stronger men of the Democratic Demo-cratic party. It just wasn't -their turn. With the election over and the GOP sitting firmly in the driver's driv-er's seat and controlling both the Senate and the House, we can expect a different brand of government. Controls over our retail prices, support for farm prices, low metal prices, and our foreign relations, etc., will not change over night, or as soon as Ike moves into the Pennsylvania Avenue mansion. But we think the average individual should let his senators and representatives representa-tives know, without delay, that we expect a firmer hand in controlling con-trolling the controls. Let's not drop farm price supports and aid to Europe and price controls like the hot potatoes they are, but let's do have an immediate beginning be-ginning of the tapering off, and return to the businessmen the operation of the businesses of the nation; let the defeated politicians politi-cians and bankrupts find a job in industry instead of putting them on the public payroll to ride herd on successful businessmen. business-men. And let's have a FIRM foreign Policy, molly-coddling no one. If our serjatOfs and representatives representa-tives know that the voters who elected them are going to insist on economy and efficiency, they will start planning early for carrying car-rying out such a program. Without su.ch a program, our . taxes will continue to rise and our governmentbecume more and more unwieldy and topheavy. Pheasant season starts at j (Continued on Page Two) larger papers and mail them first class air mail on our regular regu-lar mailing date. Clarence Grayson comes up with a good idea on protecting :he new oiled road in South Milford. Mil-ford. Mr. Grayson advises laying lay-ing several old tractor or other tires along the edge of the roadway, road-way, stretching these across the oil when moving cats or other cleated vehicles. Sounds right sensible, and the old tire arent as likely to "disappear" "dis-appear" as the planks that Sim Murdock suggested a couple of weeks ago. "Lose inches by exercising." Sounds like an ad for a rolling pin for the stomach and hips or a special type of girdle or something. some-thing. Several ladies who consider con-sider themselves a little on the wrong side of the scales are thinking of organizing special reducing, classes under the direction direc-tion of Phys Ed Instructor Mrs. Phyllis Tracy. Phone 190-M for more information. Here's More About I DUNNO Continued from Page One : noon Saturday, with three a I day limit. And more and more farmers are purchasing "No Trespassing" signs. If the trend continues, in a few years hunting will only be peimitted in unimproved sagebrush sage-brush areas. On the other hand, if the hunters act like sportsmen for a few years and show by their actions that they realize it's a privilege and not a right to hunt on private land, there'll be a different picture. The landowners will gradually cease posting their lands, and in a few years South Milford will again be an open-area mecca for pheasant hunters. Claude Horton is wearing a grin as big as a wave on a swill bucket and Hy Tolley is haunting haunt-ing the back streets. Hy oughta know better ,but he bet on Stev-ensonto Stev-ensonto win and now he has to wear a frock coat, striped pants and derby hat every day for a week. We have a couple of hundred copies of our Milford Valley edition, ed-ition, if any local residents wish to mail them to friends. Price on the edition is 25c, wrapped for mailing, or addresses may be left at The News office and we will mail them. Milt Pool and Gordon Murdock Mur-dock have just completed a new sidewalk in front of their business busi-ness establishments. In addition addi-tion to improving the appearance of that section of Main Street, the smooth sidewalk will make snow-shoveling a lot easier or maybe they thought about that! We've been forced to discontinue discon-tinue our half price subscription rate for service men too many increases in newsprint and other costs. Several subscribers have the paper sent airmail to service men overseas, resulting in from one week to 10-day delivery of j their home-town newspaper. If other tubscribers wish to have the paper sent air-mail we will be glad to make the special mailing. We attach the stamps 6c some weeks and 12c for the |