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Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
STATE HEALTH BOARD
ISSUES WARNING
Give Instruction For Handling OF
Wild Rabbits

The knowledge that there have
been cases of tularemia, rabbit. fe-
ver," on the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula
has caused the State Board of
Health to issue these warnings to
hunters, market men, housewives
and others who handle wild rabbits.
Never put your unprotected
hands, especially if they have been
cut or scratched, inside a wild rab-
bit.
2.-If possible, wear rubber gloves
when handling the uncooked flesh of
wild rabbits.
3.-If you do not have rubber
gloves at least wash your hands
we'll with soap and water after
handling rabbit flesh.
4.-The flesh of wild rabbits must
be thoroughly cooked; so well cook
ed that there is no red meat nor any
red juice near the bone.
5.-Do not use for food the flesh
of any rabbit found dead or which
acts as if sick before it is shot. The
rabbit which does not try to escape
is probably a sick rabbit.
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Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
5000 AUTO OWNERS
APPLY FOR LICENSE
Demand For All Numbers Great As
Time Limit Ends

While the 1885 automobile regis
tration tags did not begin in the
State until Monday morning more
than 5000 owners had made applica-
tion to the Motor Vehicle Depart
ment in Dover for their licenses.
About IS per cent of this number
have applied for tags without speci-
flying any particular number which
they would like to have. Approx
mately 20 per cent have asked that
the same number they hold this
year be allotted to them for next
year and approximately Is per cent
have designated the numeral they
would like to get.
The Motor Vehicle Department, it
was stated, has been having some
difficulty with automobile owners
who appear to be under the impress
sion that when they purchase a IL
cense tag it becomes their property.
This, il was pointed out, is not cor
rect as the license plate is simply
assigned by the State to the partic-
Hlar owner and such owner has no
property rights whatever in the tag.
The trouble occurred when some
owners. apparently thinking they
did have a property right in the
license plate, sought to transfer it
to another owner without the know
ledge or consent of the Motor We
hicle Department. This, It was stat
ed, is illegal and no such transfer
can he made.
Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
STATE OFFICIALS
STUDY RACING AS
REVENUE SOURCE
$15O,OOO.OO Income First
Year Is Estimated If
Tracks Are LegaliZed.
HORSE RACES ONLY
Condition Of Treasury
Seen Assuring Final
Adoption OF Bill
HORSE RACES ONLY

With State revenues dwindling
and the necessity of providing other
sources to meet the growing deficit
confronting them, State officials are
said to be looking hopefully to the
establishment of horse racing In
Delaware as one means of bolster
ing up the treasury through the
medium of taxes on this form of
sport. This was provided for in
bill which was passed at the last
session of the Legislature and which
will be submitted to the General
Assembly which will meet next
month for its consideration.
Because of it's financial value to
the State, adoption of the act is said
to be practically assured. 1t is an
amendment to the Constitution and
as such has to be passed by two
successive Legislatures. 1t was
adopted at the last session without
much opposition and it is under
stood a majority of those elected to
the next General Assembly are IA
vorable to the measure. Should it be
passed it would then be a law.
1t is estimated the proposed race
track bill will bring between $780,
900 and $4,000 into the State treas
ury the first year it is in effect and
thereafter the revenue from this
source will be on a par, at least,
with the revenue now received an
nually by Maryland from the tracks
in that State. The first revenue
would come from the tax specified
in the bill which is 20 cents on ev-
cry ticket of admission sold every
day a race meet would be held.
No provision is made in this act
for a tax on betting or the money
passing through the pari-mutuel
machines that might be used and X
the bill does become a Law. later
legislation will be necessary to leg
alize betting in some form or the
use of machines and in that meas
ure provision will be made for q
State tax either on the gross annual
amount bet or on the daily sum as
indicated by totalizers.
The bill was introduced at the last
session by Senator Van SAINT. 1t
provides for the creation of the
Delaware Racing Commission which
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1885 Fs,Ag CENSUS.
SOON TIE TAKEN
Every Farmer In Country
Will Be Covered; Taken
Every Five Years.

The 1885 Farm Census is coming
down the road and will turn in at
every farmers gate.
The first Census of Agriculture in
the United States was taken by the
Federal Government in 1910. The
last census was taken in 1880. The
number of farms reported in 1880
was 6,2SS,648. The next census Of
agriculture will be taken in 1885.
The law now provides that a census
of agriculture be taken every five
years.
The census of agriculture in 1885
will include the name and address
of the farm operator; farm tenure;
farm acreage, which includes all
crop land, all pasture land, and all
farm woodland; the total value of
the farm; the acreage and yield of
each of the principal field crops and
vegetables; the number Of trees and
the yield of each of the principal
fruits; the number and value of
each class OF live stock; poultry and
eggs; and farm population.
In order to secure complete and
accurate reports from each indiYid-
ual farm operator in the United
States. it will be necessary for ev-
cry farmer and all agricultural agen-
cies to cooperate with the Federal
Government in this census.
Schedules will soon be sent out by
the United States Department of
Commerce to every farmer in the
State and nation. Sample copies
have already been received by the
county agents. The federal bureau
of the census calls attention to the
fact that all inventory items will be
as of January 1, 1885, and that all
production items will be for the
calendar year 1884.
The individual farm operators re-
port is confidential government re-
port, and the information contained
in it will be so regarded by the Cen
sus enumerators. who will visit ev-
cry farm during the coming winter.
Never before" says the Depart
ment of Commerce, has census of
agriculture been of greater impor-
tance."
Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
BELIEVE new
ASSEMBLY SLATE
NEAR COMPLETION
L. L. MalOney Seen Repub-
lican Choice For Presi-
dent Pro TEN Of Senate.
OTHER JOBS
H. V. Lyons Expected To
Get Speakership After
Withdrawing Refusal.

With the exception of few of the
minor offices. the slate for the or
ganization of the General Assembly
which will meet in Dover on Janu-
airy has been tentatively completed
according to authoritative sources.
The Republicans will be in control
of the Senate and House by sub
stantial majOrities and although
there have been rumors of possible
places to be filled by each branch
it was stated there will be no con-
tests when the Republicans convene
Monday night, December 81, for
their caucuses.
Levi L. MaIoney, of Townsend,
elected from the Seventh Senatorial
District of New Castle county, is
said to be the choice for President
Pro TEN of the Senate. This office
was rendered Senator Carl Ray Van
SAINT, of Elmhurst, one of the two
Republican holdOver members of the
Senate. but he is said to have de-
clined in order to serve as chair
man of the finance committee and
possibly chairman of the budget
committee which is composed of
members of the Senate and House.
1t is understood there was some
to the President Pro Tenn
of the Senate also serving as chair
man of the finance committee and
that Senator Van SAINT preferred the
latter post. Senator Van SAINT was
chairman of this committee during
the last session.
Leon Black. of Milton, is slated
for appointment as secretary of the
Senate. 1t is understood to have
been agreed among the Republicans
that If the presiding officer of the
should come from New Cas-
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PLAY LECTURE
AT NJ. {. CHURCH
StereOpticOn Lecture On
''The FOOl' Will Be Civ
en- Sunday Evening.

A stereopticon lecture on Chan
ming POllock's great play THE
Fool" will be given in the Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church at 1880
O'Clock next Sunday evening by
Charles A. Haney, of Boston, Mass,
according to an announcement made
last Sunday by Rev. Frank Herson,
pastor of the church.
The lecture will be taken from
the moving picture version of the
play made by the Fox Film Com
pany and will be illustrated by sixty
beautifully cOlored slides which will
be projected on a large screen
erected in the church for the pur-
pose.
The play. which after a long run
on the Broadway stage and later
throughout the nation, was finally
made into a moving picture which
has become a classic. Few plays
that have ever been written have
had the setbacks and troubles ex-
perienced by "The Fool" II was
nearly ten years from the time Mr..
Pollock started to write it until the
time it was produced in the Times
Square Theatre as a legitimate
show. It was at first a decided fail
ure but Mr.. Pollock, who was con-
vinced that 1t carried a lesson of
permanent value, invited all Of the
ministers of New York City to at
tend a performance as his guests.
The effect was overwhelming. Real
izing that here was a play that all
should see. the clergy returned to
their churches and proclaimed it as
one of the finest things of its kind
that has ever appeared. The re-
sponse was electric. Adverse COM
ment by critics was forgotten in the
face of this wonderful endorsement
and almost over night "The Foor'
became one of the greatest Broad
way successes of years.
1t tells the story of young min
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Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
NATIONALEXPERT
STUDIES MILFORD
HOSPITAL NEEDS
OvercrOwded Condition of
Local Institution Shows
Need Of Change.
MAKE SUGGESTIONS
Following Report, Meth
Ods OF Improving Ser
vice Will Be Formulated

The OvercrOwded condition at the
Milford Emergency Hospital, which
has been a source of grave concern
for hospital officials during the last
year, has become so acute within
recent weeks as to constitute a
grave menace to the community, ac-
cording to information revealed at
the hospital today.
The institution which was con-
ceived quarter of century ago as
an Emergency Hospital" intended
only to care for cases which could
not be sent to Wilmington or Balti-
more, has grown to be much more
than an emergency hospital. During
the entire year of 1925, less than
$50 operations were performed. BY
the end of this year nearly three
times that number will have been
performed, many of which have saw
ed lives which would have been lost
had it been necessary to send the
patients to another hospital.
Thirty-seven beds have been
crowded into space which according
to hospital authorities should not
accommodate more than rs or 80
beds. According to the statements
of experts, the maximum average
that the hospital should be called
upon to care for should not exceed
is patients. During recent months
the average occupancy has been
around thirty patients per day and
on frequent occasions there have
been as many as 40 and AZ patients
in the hospital at one time.
The situation became so acute last
Monday that plans were made to
move the Office of the hospital tenn
porariIy into the Nurses Home, in
order to utilize the present office for
ward space. The doctors who have
been most cooperative under the
nevertheless COM
plain that many Of their patients
who require disqualification are not
sent to the hospital because space is
not available. !
, Mondays crisis was met when /
doctors who had called to prepare |
for the admission of three patients |
cancelled their arrangements on
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LARGE NUMBER OF
MEN NEMPLOYEDON
HIGHWAYS
Total OF 2247 Were At
Work On Projects Last
Week.
EXPECT FEDERAL AID
State Will Match Dollar
For Dollar In Getting
National Help.

The State Highway Department
set an increased high" in the en-
ployment of men for last week when
with 80 contracts under way it en-
ployed a total of 2247 unemployed
on it's work. This figures does not
include the regular department or
ganizatiOn but only those hired by
contractors under present building
projects.
Although there will probably be
no new contracts started until some
time in March, according to w. w.
Mack, Chief Engineer, the present
roads under construction together
with the continuation Of the North
East Boulevard through and outside
of Wilmington with the use of hand
labor will provide continuing work
through the winter for unemployed
until after Congress has met and
apportioned the amount to be given
to Delaware for road work. At
present there are not enough funds
on hand in the department to make
any new obligations until the ex-
tent of the federal appropriation Is
known; at that time the State will
be compelled to match this amount
with its own funds so that at pres
ent every dollar must be conserved
until the amount is made public.
In former years the State was al
lowed to make obligations for roads
contingent upon federal amounts
but with the road appropriations
made on a $3.50 allotment of federal
and State funds for 1885, the de-
partment will use only that money
made necessary for maintenance un-
til the spring.
There is every expectation that
about 100000 will be made avail
able at that time by the Federal
Government and the department
must have on hand q similar amount
to get its apportionment. Further
winter work than present obligated
contracts will therefor hinge upon
action taken this winter at Wash
ington.
Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
YOUNG PEOPLE HOLD
CONVENTION In MD.
"CreatIve Living" Theme OF Feder-
aIsburg Meeting

The Dover District Epworth
League and Young Peoples Conven-
tion met in session today at the NJ
E. Church in fredericksburg. Md. The
theme of the convention was "Crea-
tive Living" The following program
was carried out:
$3.50 D. m.-Devotional and busi-
ness period.
AIS p. m.-Group discussion:
ID My Relation to Christ, DR..
Frank Herson.
(2) My Relation to Others. Rev.
F. D. Milbury,
(Sl My Relation to Society, Rev.
E. P. Thomas.
(D Christian Recreation, Rev. C.
1. Carpenter.
(5) Pastors Relation to Young
People, Rev. J. H. Bishop.
$3.50 p. m.-Fellowship supper.
6:45 p. m.-Recreation, Prof. Her
man Elzey.
1880 p. m.--Address, Creative
Living" DR.. A. C. Goddard.
Benediction.
Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
CORN-HOG PROGRAM
FOR 1885 ANNOUNCED
Adjustment Payments OF SIC Per
Bushel On Corn And SIS On Hogs

An adjustment program for 1885
to be offered by the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration to corn
hog farmers has been announced. A
new contract for 1885 was endorsed
by a majority of more than two
thirds of all producers voting in the
cOrn-hog referendum in October.
The 1885 cOrn-hog production ad-
justment program, as in 1884, will
be voluntary and will be carried out
largely by the farmers themselves
through their community commit
tees and county control associations.
The corn provisions of the new
program are: The maximum corn
acreage that may be planted under
the 1885 contract is 80 per cent of
the average for the two years 1882
and 1888, or the same base as was
used in 1884. Individual signers may,
if they wish, hold out of production
anywhere from 10 to 80 per cent of
the two-year base average and re-
ceive corn benefit payments in pro-
portions
For complying with the corn con-
troll provisions of the new contract,
the individual signer will derive the
following benefits: (D a corn ad-
iustment payment; (2) unrestricted
use of the land shifted from corn
production; and CD eligibility to
In any government corn
loan program that may be available
In the fall of 1885.
The corn adjustment payment will |
be made at the rate Of 35 cents per |
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CITY COUNCIL WILL CARE
FOR LOCAL WILD LIFE
Will Cooperate With The State Game
Commission

The Milford City Council, cooper
ating with the State Game Commits
sion, have made plans to promote
wild life in this city. Silver Lake.
surrounded exclusively by city prop
erty, gives it many advantages rare
ly to be found. The feeding grounds
are exceptionally well located, and
the open water and shelter have ev-
cry advantage for the protection of
game life.
Feed has already been distributed
and will continue to be during the
winter. The citizens of Milford will
have an opportunity to subscribe to
the project. Swan, ducks. wild geese.
etc, will be liberated when the
signs are erected. Wild rice. celery.
and other paintings will be cared
for in the spring. Attention must be
given to vermin, also the household
cat and dog must behave. Crows,
too. are a menace to the nesting
birds in spring. We trust the fellows
with sporting blood will come to the
front. Herbert Buckalew, well
known locally as a student of wild
life, will have charge of the area.
Boating and bass fishing may still
continue. power boats only except
ed.
The residents surrounding Silver
Lake will take much pride in this
promotion. 1t will be a lot of work.
but ii can be done. Let all of the
have local pride enough to
help. William c. Smith has turned.
over his log cabin for the storage of
grain. tools. etc. and has also do
mated a boat for the use of Warden
Chief Foster spent Mon
day in Milford looking over the
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@P.C.LIQUOR
STILL ILLEGAL
First Repeal Year Shows
10000 Gallons Legally
Drunk In Delaware.

Repeats first anniversary has
passed-what is the story Delaware
has to tell?
About 10000 gallons of liquors
passed through legal channels to the
consuming public since Repeal Day
last December and an additional 9O,-
900 gallons roughly estimated, were
sold to the public by bootleggers.
The total receipts of the Liquor
Department from Repeal Day to De-
cember /, this year, will be about
$365,0O0 and by January, the Liquor
Commission will have turned over to
the State Treasury about $2S5,OOO
since December last year.
While there is no exact way OF
computing the activities of the boot
logging traffic in Delaware, officials
of the Delaware Liquor Commission
estimate that about As per cent of
all alcoholic beverages being con-
sumed by the public in this State is
handled by boOtleggers.
Since repeal, about $4,000 3l-gai-
lon barrels of beer and about 12,OOO
gallons of wine were sold to the
public. and there you have partial
picture at least of legitimate liquor
and beer business in the State dur
ing the first year of repeal.
The exact story of repeats first
year in this State will probably not
be told until Pierre S. DUPONT, State
liquor commissioner, presents his
detailed report to the State Legis-
lature next month.
Every available resource of the
State Liquor Department is now be-
ing used for its preparation. IL
promises to be one of the most in
teresting reports the Legislature is
to receive. Behind the mass of fig
ures, dollars and cents, will be the
sociological story of how Delaware
swung from an era of prohibition
and bootlegging to repeal.
Liquor department officials are
hopeful that the boOtlegger is on
the decline and they are joyful that
55 per cent of the liquor and beers /
being consumed today is legitimate. /,
One year of repeal finds legitimate /
liquor not only plentiful but rather
cheap, compared to those hectic
days of last December. One can now
buy a halfway decent drink for ten /
aents per two ounces. and a pipt Of !
nine year whiskey for $1.1O. Wines |
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BARKER'S LANDING
BRIDGE IS COMPLETED
Highway Department Will Soon BE
Ready To Open Span To Public :,

One Of the smaller although the
most modern bascule spans in Della
ware has just been completed over
the st. Jones River at Barker's
Landing, near Magnolia, on the Lit
tie Heaven concrete road which
eliminates the Dover traffic in trav-
cling through the State. The bridge
is now completed and part of the
road will be open to traffic in a
short time.
1t is a movable type bridge which
combines all of the newer electrical
features and a maximum of safety,
featuring a roll on control track.
In point of height it is equal to a
twelve story building from its tip to
the bottom piles when placed in a
vertical position. its measurements
are $50 feet total length, the length
of open span is IS feet, with width
of roadway of "a feet, sidewalks
feet and a clear channel of so feet.
The quantities used in the bridge.
which was constructed under the di-
rection of A. G. Livingston, bridge
engineer of the State Highway De-
partment, are 1910 cubic feet of
concrete; about 200 tons of struc-
tural steel; Is tons of steel rein
forcement; 5000 linear feet of tim
ber piles; 10000 board measure feet
of timber. The electrical equipment
cost $4,000.
This bridge typifies the best in
bridge construction and is among
those of the rocking chair type or
roll bascule spans. similar to that
at Laurel built in 1922; RehobOth in
1926; Broadkiln in 1927; Lewes in
1929; Milford and Newport in 1880.
Another type are those which swing
on hinges, one at SeafOrd built in
1925 and in Wilmington in 1927 and
the county bridges in Wilmington at
Third street and at Eleventh street.
The St. Jones River is quite an !
important tributory of the Delaware |
and is used considerably by boats /
carrying cargoes for Dover. MagnO-
liza, and Lebanon. the landing used /
being that of Barker's Landing !
where canning factories are located. !
Milford chronicle., 1934-12-07
LISTEN TO LEON" AT
HIGH SCHOOL DEC. fl-12
Tickets Can Be Secured From Any
school Student

Next Tuesday and Wednesday the
senior class Of the Milford High
School will present Listen to Leon"
farce comedy by Janice Gard. in
the high school auditorium. The
play will start promptly at Sis p.
m. Admission will be 20 and 35c, and
tickets can be secured from any
school student.
The play, abounding in many hu-
morous situations and side-splitting
laugh lines, concerns the exploits Of
Leon Bryan, a young doctor, who
has a habit of stretching the truth
as often as opportunity presents it.
self. This habit gets him into hot
water with half a dozen people, al
though he manages to extricate him
self by letting his vivid imagination
work overtime in his behalf. But
not before he has almost lost the
girl of his heart, Carolyn Jaminson.
and a fortune from his uncle. Alder
son Timmons plays the part OF the
not-so-truthful Leon, and Frances
Shockley that of Carolyn. Vivian
Shute is the girl friend of Icons
sweetheart, and Burton Colt has
very amusing role as Colonel Bryan,
a gouty and testy millionaire. Louise
Davis plays the part of Babe. Icons
stepdaughter. Burton Willis is Guis-
eppi; Edward PlOtts is Archie and
Fay Ferguson has a maids part.
A souvenir program will be given
out at the door. The committee that
arranged for this consists of Pris-
ella Nailor, Virginia Sockrider, Wv
ian Shute, Dorothy Josephs, Fay
Ferguson. Mary Vinyard, Madeline
Davis and Erwin Harder. Miss
Louise Hastings is the advisor of
this group. and is also tending to
the sale of tickets.
Under the supervision of Miss
Bancroft, art supervisor in the
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