Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
one MOSQUITO
CONTROL GROUP
LOCATES HERE
ICOntiHusd from First Pagel

rams headquarters are in the post
office building, at Lewes.
The lumber for each camp. eacl
reGuh ing approximately SUl,00D fee
of material, is to be provided by the
Government. Because of the millions
of ieet of this lumber already avail
able for conservation work the ma
terial is to be utilized, which will
greatly expediate the building of the
camps. Engineering officers will ar
rive in Lewes tomorrow to stake out
the locations.
In addition to the great benefit TO
be derived by the State from the
mosquito control work the towns
nearest the sites will profit through
the employment Of local labor. It
being estimated that around thirty
OF forty carpenters and from twenty
to thirty iaborers will be required
Immediately. The camp vii! also
need around $50 worth of groceries
a day, Mr.. Corkran stated, 70 sup
plement the government provisions.
In outlining the procedure of
mosquito control work. Mr.. Corkran
stated that no legislation is to be
sought as yet in regard to the pro-
posed drainage in obtaining permis-
sion to go into private lands to lay
bitches. Committees are being form
ed to go to the land owners for sign
ed permissions to draiu their marsh
es through bitches ten inches wide
and twenty inches leep. While pay
for the campers is still to be under
government control the Same as for
the forestry conservation work, an
appeal will be made to the people
of the State to recommend an appTo-
priation of enoug1 State funds to
provide fer overhead expenses In
connection with .iie direct )rf office.
Mr.. Corkran has just returned
from Washington where he present
ed the States project to Robert
Petchner, director of the Emergen-
" observation Boar1, and obtain
permission to divert the forestry |
workers to the mosquito control
movement. His argument was that |
the work coincided with the fores-
try conservation in that drainage |
prevented forest fires; thDt the un-
employment situation would be |
ke ped and that the new project (
was within the scope of public lem
eflt work. AS Delaware has no State
forests the utilization of the con-
servation units for a worthy State
movement was readily agreed to. |
Citizens of other sections of the
State are being assured by Mr..
Corkran that the mosquito eradica-
tion work is not to be confined to
the first area chosen, but that the
work will be carried on throughout
the entire Peninsula. Engineers
study of the area around Bethany
Beach must be completed, he said,
before operations can be started in
that section. A rise and fall of the /
tide in Indian River and Rehoboth
Bay must be had to secure proper
drainage, and this can only be Sc
cured through the widening of the
inlet 250 feet by Is feet deep.
The areas now chosen for drain
age under the first two contingent
of workers are as follows: At Lewes
from Rehoboth Bay to tie Broadkill
River, and beyond. and at Milford:
from Broadkill Beach northerly to-
ward Dover.
The mosquito control work was
instigated in this section a short
while back by Mrs. Henry B.
of Wilmington and Reho-
both, whose splendid efforts are be-
ing recognized by the present or
ganization. The town of Rehoboth
has already donated $1,000 for this
work. Mr.. Corkran, who became the
Governors choice for the director
ship of the project is thoroughly ia
miliar with the procedure having
been connected with such work in
New Jersey. He is a native of Della
ware and a graduate in civil engi-
neering at the University of Della
ware. He says that were the State
to finance this work at the rate of
the present government aid it would
cost approximately 100000.
Each camp will cover four acres
of land and will be completed by
November l before the companies
arrive.
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