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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
TRAFFIC HALTED
BY HEAVY SNOW
MONDAY NIGHT
Highway Crews Able To
Keep Only Portion Of
Main Lanes Open.
NEAR ZERO COED
Rural Sections Completely
Isolated; Trains Far
Behind Schedules.
NEAR ZERO COED

A heavy snow that was swiried
into huge drifts by northwest gale
making communication and trans
portation almost impossible isolated
Milford, as well as scores of other
towns and villages throughout Del
aware last Tuesday. Although the
principal arteries of travel were
kept open down State. up State
shifting drifts made automobile ira
vel impossible. All over the entire
State the secondary or rural roads
were impossible. and as the paper
goes to press few rural roads are IN
condition for extensive travelling
Hundreds of men employed by the
State Highway Department aided by
men from the county departments
found it an almost impossible task
to eOnquer the snow especially IN
the upper sections of the State where
roads were blocked by drifts that
reached depths of over nine feet.
Drivers of school buses that bring
scholars TO Milford from surround
ing districts found their routes in
the open rural sections blocked by
the drifts. The buses that bring pa
pers from Wilmington TO Milford
we're advised to discontinue tfelr
dowE State routes until roads could
Re permanently opened. Farmers
who bring their milk distance TO
the main highway to meet a pickup
truck, either found the trip lmpos-
sible or upon arrival learned tnat
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
COLLEGE ALUMNI
MEETS SATURDAY
Mid Year Reunion A t
Newark Will Be De-
lightful Affair.

The apparently insurmountable di-
mensions of time and space are ef-
fectively bridged by the General
Alumni Association of the Cniyer-
sity of Delaware.
Every alumnus. whether he grad
uated one or two score years ago
and regardless of where he lives.
has been sent a written invitation to
attend the annual mid-year reun-
ion to be held this Saturday at the
college in Newark From all over
the State grads will flock to the
scene of their student days To once
more clasp the hau1 of a former
classmate and talk about the good
cd days"
Invitations have been sent to
grads residing in practically every
state of the union and even tn alum
nj residing in Europe, South Amer
ica and in Asia. The associations s
mailing list includes over 1900
graduates of the State University.
A full day of diversion is promis-
ed every returning grad by the re-
union committee headed by Clifford
VI. Stelle, Jr.. II. The program be-
gins at noon Saturday and continues
without an idle moment until the
early hours of the following morn
ing. The affair constitutes a delight
full appetizer for the Centenary Gel
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
CORN-H0G ALLOTMENT
MEETINGS In KENT co.
First OF A Series OF Gatherings To
Be Held At Harrington

In order that the farmers of Kent
county may have the opportunity to
become acquainted with the objects
and purposes of the corn-hog allot-
ment plan, which is being conducted
under the direction of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration of
the United States Department of
Agriculture. series of community
meetings have been arranged by
County Agent Russell F.. Wilson for
the week of March 1. and all inter
ested farmers are invited to attend
to hear this Federal program ex-
planned.
The first of the series of meetings
will be held on Thursday afternoon.
March I. at 1880 O'Clock. in the First
National Bank building in Harring-
ton. in cooperation with ]. o. Nc
Williams. vocational agriculture in
structor in the Harrington High
School.
On the evening of March I, at
1880 O'Clock. similar meeting will
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
HIGH SCHOOL AG.
CLASS REPORTS WORK
Many New Problems Being Under
taken This Month

The month of January has been
one of great activity for the vOca-
tional agriculture classes of the Mil
ford High School. During this per-
iOd the group under the supervision
of the instructor. c. +. McCauley.
have completed the study of some
very important farming essentials,
and a great deal Of outside work has
been finished. Many new problems
are being taken up. The class has
had several visitors during the past
month; some of whom we're deeply
impressed by the manner In which
the novice farmers are handling
some of the more serious problems
Of farming. The work covered dur
ing the month of January was az
follows:
Selection Of Stock
A.-Types and breeds of swine
Lard Spotted Poland China.
Duroc-Jersey, etc.
2-BacOn-TamwOrth aud York
shires.
B.-SelectiOn of breeding stock
Points to observe In selecting boar
and SOW.
C.-Swine industry and survey.
D.-Types and breeds of cattle;
1-Origin.
2 Distribution.
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
MILFORD BASKETEERS
DROP TWO STRAIGHT
Girls Obtain Win Over FELTON, In
One Sided Contest

The Milford High girls basketball
team took a well played game from
FELTON, on the local court Friday
night, % to IA. This game was fea-
tured by the excellent playing of
Whaley and Dickerson and the stel-
Ter guarding of Ann Keller and Lily
Lord. With the same spirit dominat-
ing their play the girls met Lewes at
Lewes on Monday night. However,
they met a team equally as good as
their own and the additional height
which the girls from Lewes had
spelled the margin of defeat-the
score being "a to 10. At Lewes again
the work of Keller, Lord and Dick
erson stood out.
While the girls we're displaying
their best form of the season the
boys were exhibiting a complete re-
versal of form, losing to FELTON, 2S
to q and to the Lewes boys "a to
21. In the game with FELTON, the
shooting of the Buccaneers was very
poor; however, the real cause of
their defeat lay in the failure of the
players to secure the rebounds Of
fensively and defensively. Most of
the rebounds went into the hands of
the FELTON, players who played a
heads-up game.
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
SCOUT CAMP Align
GOESGOOD HERE
Charm a n HOIznueller
Expects To Go Over The
In A Few Days.

Rapid progress is being made all
through the Peninsula in the set-uT
of the Wilmington Area Boy Scout
campaign for $3O.65O for the annual
budget of the Council. A total of "a
towns and cities in Delaware and
the Eastern Shore Of Maryland are
now organized with a chairman and
a committee.
Over 200 workers met in Whining
ton Tuesday night to begin solicita-
ton there, while 40 Salisbury team
members received their instructions
at a meeting there on the same eve
ming. and expect to finish this week.
The Dover committee had nearly the
full quota of $500 i'm hand on Tues
day. All Delaware towns and most
Maryland committees expect to he
over the top on their quotas by the
end of this week.
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
COURT UPHOLDS
$165,OOO VERDICT
Judge Rodney At Georgetown Coin
cldes With Judgment

In a decision handed down at
Georgetown by Judge Richard S.
Rodney in the Superior Court. the
judgment obtained by Mrs. Annette
E. Emmerson, of Philadelphia. for
S165,O00 against the Universal Pro-
ducts Company, of Detroit. Mich,
will stand and there will be no new
trial granted. The suit was for roy
alties on a patent for a universal
joint. patented by the late husband
of Mrs. Emmerson and given to her
prior to his death.
The suit of Mrs. Emmerson was
for one of the largest amounts in
the history of the local courts. Her
husband, an inventor of note, in
vented a certain type of universal
joint used in the automobile indus
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
Tell Chief Executive CWA
Program Works Hard
ship On Farmers.
CANNOT MEET
SCALE OF WAGES
Efforts Will Be Made To
Devise Some Plan To
Meet The Situation.

Governor Buck and about fifty
Representatives of oranges and other
agricultural organizations from all
parts of the State at conference in
Dover last Monday afternoon dis
cussed the employment problem as
it relates to the farm. Efforts will be
made TO devise some plan to meet
the situation when employment
starts on farms in the spring and
especially as to wages to be paid.
The farmers said they find them
selves needing help and not being
able to get it because they cannot
compete with situation brought
about by the relief agencies. In view
of the fast approach of the time for
employing farm labor the opinion
was prevalent among those attend
ing the conference that a period OF
unusual dissatisfaction was near at
hand on the part of those who are
usually employed on the farms be-
cause under the CWA program this
class of labor has been paid as much
in two or three days as the farmer
is able to offer for weeks work.
It was further emphasized that the
idea of working two days and rest
ing for the balance of the week has
an appeal to the farm hand just as
il has to the mechanic.
Il was explained that when the
PWA policy was being discussed
last fall the farmer was told be
would have to swim for himself
and when the time came for. apple
.haryestife the trouble with farm Ia
Dor began as the price to be paid faE
help eouij not be met by the en-
ployer.
It was the consensus of opinion
among those present that further
consideration of the subject should
be taken up at grange meetings and
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
DR.. G. LAYTON GRIER
TOURS SOUTH AMERICA
President OF h.sIl.s CsRlk. tioHsa'sss
viii Fly 10000 Miles =

He's in the air again-Dr. G. Lay
ton Grier,s President of The L. ~
Caulk Company. This time instead Ot
merely duplicating recent 2i-hOur
hon from Philadelphia to San Fran
cisco, he is winging his way on a
twenty thousand mile tour of South
America. He will he gone until the
middle of April. His purpose is to
study dental conditions in Pan-Am-
erica.
DR.. Grier left the Camden airport
Saturday morning. His son. W. "
Grier. who was in New York. flew TO
the Camden airport to see his father
off. and Immediately returned by
plane to the big city.
DR.. Grier's first stop was Miami
Florida, which he reached Saturday
evening. The next morning tSun-
day) he took off for Havana. Cuba.
where he stayed until Wednesday,
morning. He then hOpped to Kings
ton. Jamaica. where he stayed over
night. On Washington's Birthday he
visited three different countries.
He left Kingston. Jamaica. at = a,
m.. landed at Santiago, Cuba, at H..
was off again at q: and landed in
Port au Prince. Haiti. at i:l5 p. m.
He stayed over night at Port au
Prince, and at $50 this morning
friday he will again be back in
the plane headed for San Juan. Por-
to Rico. His stops from here on in
clude st. Johns (Antigua), George
town British Guiana). Para. FOrta-
lezo and Port Allegro BRAZIL: Mon
tevideO Uruguay; BuenOs Aires
(Argentina); Santiago and Antofa-
gasta (Chile); Lima (Perua), Salin-
as (EcuadOrD. Panama city tPana-
mai. ChristObal Canal ZOnel, Me-
dellin and BOgota (COlOmbia). San
Jose Costa Rical. Guatemala city
(Guatemalal. Mexico City (MeXicol
and BrOnsville. Texas.
As the Caulk Company enjoys
big business i'm Latin-America. Or.
Grier expects TO contact the impor-
tant distributors of Caulk products,
and many dentists. in the seventeen
he will visit.
When in BuenOs Aires. Brazil. DR..
Grier hopes to talk to Admiral Byrd
in Little America by radio. Dr. Grier
Is dental cOnsultant to the Byrd EX-
pedition. Many of the materials be-
Ing used by Byrd Expedition were
made by the Caulk Company here in
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
DISCUSS NEED OF
AIRPORT IN MILFORD
Postmaster Murphy Urges ROtarianS
And Merchants To Work Harder

At their regular weekly luncheon
in the Hotel Windsor last Monday.
the Milford Rotarians. through ef-
fcrts made by c. f. V9rney who had
charge of the program for the meet
.ug: J. A. Thompson. of RehObOth,
who is well and favOrably known in
aviation circles on the Peninsula.
addressed the group on TIE necessity
Of an airport in Milford. outlining
his reasons for the same in com
plete detail. Postmaster VIM. Muir
rhy also CAV, fOrceGul address in
which he expressed the hope that
Milford merchants and rotarians
would endeavUr to PIT forth just d
tritie more effort in the future to-
ard the securing and maintenance
Of better business relations with the
general public and by so doing. oh
tain more business that would not
cuIy help them. but in turn would
help and beuefit all concerned.
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
7. c. Collins Heads
City Business Men
Association VIII Haze COrHiiOus GGrTettsOn OF VIII
nriRgtOn As Guest Speaker At A Mass Meeting In
The Community Building, Thursday, March First

Al a special meeting held Friday
evening, February Is. in the Coun-
Gil Chamber, twenty-seyen mer-
chants of Milford, assembled for the
purpose of organizing a Business
Mems Association, that would he ac-
tive In its work to better business
conditions in Milford. City Manager
Charles Banning presented r. A.
DerricksOn who acted as chairman
and temporary president. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
year 1884: President. r. Carlisle
Collins; sice president. AlphonsO
Humes; secretary. Harry J. Pierce;
treasurer, James A. Humes; public
ity manager. Robert II. Yerkes.
After the election of officers i'm
pOrtant matters were discussed by
the group. including plans for q
meeting to be held Wednesday eve
ming. February 81, at which time II
was thought advisable to have a
guest speaker. Mr.. DerricksOn sug-
gested COrniliOus GarrettsOn of Will
mington be invited. The suggestion
was accepted. Il was decided to hold
meetings the first and third We'd
nesday evenings i'm each month. Two
committees were appointed by
Chairman DerricksOn to visit mer-
chants and solicit their attendance
at the meetings. Following this a
resolution presented by AL Humes
was adopted which fixed the annual
dues at $500 charged to each con-
cern and each be entitled to one
vote. The meeting adjourned to meet
Wednesday, February 81.
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
MORE FEDERAL
FUNDSFOR STATE
Enough To Run State Re
lief Commission Until
About March First

The Federal government has Civ
en- Delaware $165.541 to be expend-
ed for unemployment direct relief.
This fund will enable the State
Temporary Relief Commission to
function until about March l. The
announcement of this fund was made
by Secretary of State Grantland who
returned from Washington last Fri
day night.
While in Washington Mr.. Grant
land also completed arrangements
for the continuance of transient re-
lief work until the end of March and
for such period thereafter as the
program may be necessary. not,
however, to exceed three months az
ter March. This work requires an
expenditure of approximately S12,5OO
a month. The money will be prOvid-
ed by the Federal Relief Administra-
tiOn.
Funds at the disposal Of the Tenn
pOrary Emergency Relief Commits
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
QUARANTINE ON DOGS
IN SUSSEX EXTENDED
Dogs May BE Hunted When Accom-
panied BY Owner Or Custodian

Owing to further outbreaks of ra-
bies in Sussex county. the State
Board of Agriculture. cooperating
with the State Board of Health and
the Game and Fish Commission. by
power of the Laws of Delaware. has
extended the quarantine ON all dogs
already effective in Sussex county.
The new territory includes that part
of Nanticoke Hundred north of the
Bridgeville-GeOrgetown highway. and
that section included in the area
within two (2) miles north of Far
mington. The regulation requires
that all dogs i'm quarantined area be
securely tied or confined on owners
premises. Dogs may he hunted when
they are accompanied by the owner
or custodian. such owner or custO-
dian to keep the dogs under his con-
troll at all times. Any dogs running
at large. unless accompanied by Ow-
ner or custodian will he killed.
The total quarantined area in Sus-
sex county comprise those sections
consisting of the town of Bridgeville,
the surrounding territory within
two mile radius of Bridgeville, all
territory between Bridgeville and
two miles north of Pennington. for
two miles each side of the Bridge
ville-Farmington State Highway.
that part of NanticOke Hundred
north of the Bridgevilie- e-GeOrgetown
highway. and all that territory CON
tanned in the area located within
two miles each side of the highway
from Greenwood to. the du Pont
boulevard at Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
Zero Temperature For Milford
Beginning February. 10, 1899

Charles J. Holzmueller. official
government weather recorder. OF
Milford. has prepared a schedule
showing the zero and sub-2erO tenn
peratures recorded at Milford be-
ginning with the year 1899 II will
be seen that in 1928 an official read
ing of 10 below was made at Mil
ford. This severe cold was in the
nature of FREAK storm. At Dover.
that day the cold was not severe
while In Wilmington It registered
about 20 above. At Bridgeville, how
ever, low Of II below was reported
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
STRYMEN TO
M IN HIGH
SCHOOL TONIGHT
H. S. Palmer, Extension
POultryman, Will Ex-
plain Hatchery Code.
OF VITAL INTEREST
Similar Meeting Was Held
At HartIy Last Friday
Evening.
DF VITAL INTEREST

For the purpose of discussing the
hatchery code, and the presentation
of some recent discoveries in the
prevention and treatment of poultry
: diseases, an important meeting OF
hatcherymen and poultry raisers
will be held in the vocational agri-
culture room in the Milford High
School this Friday evening, Febru-
airy %. at 1880 o'clock. to which all
; interested poultrymen in the south
ern section of Kent county and the
northern part of Sussex county are
cordially invited.
Fl. s. Palmer, extension poultry
man of the University of Delaware.
will explain the hatchery code
which has been signed by the Presi-
dent of the United States, and which
is now a law throughout the cOun-
try. In presenting this subject,
which is of vital interest to all poul-
try raisers and those persons who
are planning to hatch baby chicks
for sale in the future. Mr.. Palmer
will also submit a cost account sys-
TEN which has been suggested for
those who are affected by this hat
cherry code.
In addition to the discussion rel
ative to the code, the other impOr-
tant subject which will be presented
at this meeting will include talk
by Fl. r. Baker. poultry disease path
ologist of the State Board of Agri-
culture. in regard to some of the re-
cent discoveries in connection with
the prevention and treatment of
some of the poultry diseases which
are causing much concern amon-
the pouItrymen in this State and
throughout the country.
If time will permit, Mr.. Palmer
viii show a series OF slides fflus-
trating the type of extension work
which was accomplished in the State
last summer with reference to the
use of asphalt and asphalt saturated
felt i'm building new roofs on poultry
houses and in the repairing OF ola
roofs at a nominal cost.
Arrangements for this meeting
we're made by Kent County Agent
Russell +. Wilson in cooperation
with Sussex County Agent {. Rus
sell Snyder. and {. f. McCauley. vo-
cational agriculture instructor in the
Milford High School. and the meet
ing will be entirely educational since
il will have no relation whatever to
the enforcement of the hatchery
code.
A similar meeting was held in the
public school building in Hartly last
Friday evening with an attendance
of over sixty poultrymen and hat
cherymen, and in all probability
other meetings of like nature will
be scheduled in other sections of the
State.
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
GOVERNOR BUCK
CONFERS WITH
STATE FARMERS
MUST HAVE NEW DRIVERS
LICENSES BY MARCH |

Next Wednesday. February IS.
is the last day on which present
automobile operators licenses
can be used and everyone is ur-
ged to get their new Iicenses at
once and not wait until the last
few days.
Those who attempt to drive
car ON March / without new IL
cense will face arrest as every
effort will be made by the State
Police to check up all licenses at
that time.
There are no mitigating cir
CumstanceS surrounding the driV-
ing of an automobile without the
proper operators license as the
lack of a license shows a pure
disregard of the law and IN all
eases fines will be asked for each
violation.
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
SUSSEX FARES WELL
IN NEW ROAD WORK
OF The Projects To BE Let March :,
A Total OF Seven Are In County

In the requests that have been
placed for the receipt of bids March
for nine contracts. Sussex county
received the lions share from the
State Highway Commission with
seven projects located i'm that cOun-
ty. W. w. Mack. State Highway En-
gineer, explains that these seven are
all secondary road prOjects-links in
the joining of present concrete high
ways.
The first two bids are for fencing
OH the dual highway between Smyr-
ma and Dover. The others are:
Continuation of Stag road from
Whitesville to the MillsbOrO-Laurel
concrete road; Stag road from the
Maryland line east of Delmar to
connect with Whitesville at Pepper
Box School; continuation of Cedar
Beach sluag road connecting Fort
Salisbury with Milford.
Connecting the Old Furnace-Sea-
ford concrete road with the George
-BridgevilIe concrete road by
Stag road from COkesbury Church to
Old Furnace over the old dirt
GeOrgetown-Seaford road.
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-23
STATEMENT OF
ADAMS REFUTED
BY RELIEF BODY
All Members Of Group
Sign Statement Making
Exceptions To Remarks.
DENIESP POLITICS
Say Members Have Ad-
hered Strictly To Presi-
dents Request.

Refuting Congressman Wilbur l.,
Adams statement, published in the
Congressional Record of February 8,
that partisan politics has crept into
the State Temporary Emergency Re
lief Commission and Civil Works
Administration of Delaware, mem-
bers of these two bodies In session
I'm Wilmington last Friday. issued a
denial Of the charges and stamped
them as unjust. After citing Mr..
Adams statement which also includ-
ed demand for the dismissal of Wal
ter Dent Smith, Relief Director and
CWA Administrator for Delaware,
the statement read:
Therefore, this Commission takes
exception to the remarks made by
Congressman Wilbur L. Adams as
they appear in the Congressional
Records in that they feel they have
been unjustly criticized and that the
statements as set forth in his re-
marks are not based on facts. as no
member of this Commission deserv-
es such criticism unless substanti-
ated by facts.
AT no time since the inception of
the Civil Works Administration in
Delaware or the Temporary Emer-
gency Relief in Delaware has poll
ties entered in any way in the delib-
Grafton of the body or in its selec-
tion of the personnel for any of the
various areas i'm Delaware under its
control, and this Commission wants
TO reiterate its stand by again vOic-
ing resolution unanimously passed
at its first meeting tcopy herewith
enclosed) and subscribed to by each
additional appOintee since it was or
iginally adopted.
"And If there is anything to which
this fJ8ayp a8a adhered since It's IN
eeption II is to the quotation Of the
President of the United States as IL
appeared in the press relative to
politics i'm the carrying out Of the
Administration program. The COM
mission has backed the Administra-
tiOn program to the fullest extent
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