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Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Houston Firenen
Purchase Pole, Flag
Nearby Company Goes Patriotic
In A Big Way

Houston, that thriving little vii
lage five miles west of Milford, has
reputation for doing things in a
big way, this especially being true
of the volunteer fire company there.
This group, numbering 40 active
members, headed by Eugene M.
Sharp, Jr., as chief, and housed in
modern two-story brick building
which is clear of Indebtedness, re-
Gently decided to show their pa
triotism by erecting a flag-pole
and flying the national colors.
The president of the company,
Emmett Harrington, Jr., and the
other officers of the organization,
namely, Vice-President Fred Hayes,
Secretary Francis G. Simpson and
Treasurer J. Benton Counselman,
met with the entire membership
and by a unanimous vote author
lied the purchase of the pole and
a handsome all-weather flag. A
few days ago the nag was run up
With appropriate ceremonies, and
the Houston outfit took its place
in the ranks of the other public
service organizations that have Sc
lected the present as the time to
show their colors.
The Houston company, like all
other volunteer companies in the
state, owes its existence to the aid
which is given each company by
the State, and to the efforts put
forth by the membership to raise
money. Each year, in the fall or
early winter, the members, with
their wives and even the children
cooperating, put on an old-fashion-
ed country supper, where every
thing is put on the table and all
you have to do is just eat. 1t is
from these suppers that a great
portion of the money paid on the
building has been raised. With
.wo pieces of motorized equipment
20 maintain in Al condition, it
Keeps the membership on the jump,
ind it is not unusual to find mem
1ers of the company soliciting
armers for chickens, potatoes, etc.
or the supper as early as Septem-
)er 1.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Capt. Arnold
Enters Plea
OF Not Guilty
Chester Skipper Held AS
Result Of John Fritz's
Death In Collision OF
Vessels In Bay.

Capt. George Arnold of Chester
Pa, pleaded not guilty and waived
hearing before City Magistrate
Harry B. Thaw and was held under
$4,000 bail on a charge of man
slaughter for the October term Of
court, as the result of the findings
of coroner's jury in Milford last
Friday.
The jury Investigated the death
of John Fritz of Allentown, Pa.
who succumbed in the Milford Me-
mortal Hospital July IL from injur-
les received when the RED Lion,
fishing party boat, captained by
Frank Badur of Smyrna, on which
he was a passenger, was struck by
the barge. Diana H" towed by the
tug boat Gladys of which Ar
mold was the skipper.
The collision between the two
crafts occurred in Delaware Bay a
few miles of shore.
The jury rendered a verdict that
Fritz came to his death as result
of collision between the foremen-
toned craft.
The collision was caused by neg
ligence on the part of the operators
of the tug, the jury found. 1t was
to this charge that Capt. Arnold
pleaded not guilty on the advice of
his attorney, Howard F. Long, Of
Philadelphia.
Badur, who has been held under
$4,000 bail on a charge of man
slaughter, awaiting of the verdict
of the coroner's jury, had this
charge against him nolle pressed
by the deputy attorney general for
Kent county, Colonel William ].
Storey. Held as material witnesses
each under $500 bail for court, were
William Kuhns, Sr., William Kuhns,
Jr., and Kenneth Kuhns, all of AL
lentown, neighbors of the deceased
man who were with him when the
tragedy occurred.
The inquest was conducted by
Sussex County Coroner H. o. Car
mean and was held in the Office Of
the Joseph Motor Company.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Governor To ReUieU
Milford Home Guard
Chief Erecutive Expected
To Visit City Within =
Neat Fe9U Weeks

At the weekly drill meeting We'd
nesday evening Of Battery C, Della
ware State Guard, it was disclosed
by the officers that Gov. Walter W.
Bacon and Adjt.-Gen. Paul r. Rim
ard are expected to review the unit
some time within the next two
weeks. The Governor, General Rim
ard, and visiting officers will be
greeted by the Battery Officers:
Capt. Anthony S. Summers, DR..
Willard r. Pierce, First Lieut.. j..
Holland Prettyman. and Second
Lieut.. Clement ]. Nevins. Inspec-
tion of the unit will follow.
The Milford unit is now nearly
at full strength with just a few
more openings available.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Dairyrnen Take Part
In 5-Point Program
DOwn.State Dairy Farmers Sup
piled With Informative Material

Kent and Sussex dairymen have
been supplied with six dairy farm
information letters since the first
of the year by agricultural agents
Wilson and Snyder. The letters
are part of the. Delaware Dairy
Feeding and Homegrown Feed
Production Program being directed
by a county farmer-committee, the
county agricultural agent and K.
w. Baker, University of Delaware
farm management specialist.
Establishing Permanent Pas
lures" is the title of Letter No. 6,
now in the hands of dairymen
whose names are on the mailing
list maintained by the county
agent. This latest letter in the
dairy series tells about pasture
seed mixtures to be used for sthe
different soils of Delaware. To
make location of different soil
types aaav, the letter include ..
big, clearly marked map showing
sections covered by diffedent kinds
of soils. The letter also relates
helpful hints about lining and fer
tilizing methods. And there are
facts in Letter No. about proper
pasture grazing, big part of es-
tablishing a permanent pasture.
Throughout the series of dairy
farm information letters the coun-
ty agent has emphasized the five
point Delaware program-grow all
of the high quality forage your
farm will produce economically;
feed dairy cattle all of the high
quality, homegrown roughage
they will clean up readily; by in
telligent culling, adjust the num-
ber of animals fed to normal for
age supplies and market demand;
feed grain to each animal according |
to forage consumption and to re-
sponse in production, keeping in
mind market demand, and rear
young stock to develop large ca
pacity for storage.
Letter Nos6 and all other letters
in the dairy farm series, plus a
handy, printed folder designed to
hold the letters, are available now
from the county agricultural agent.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22

wanted it understood that Delaware
was making no attempt to prevent
its people from enjoying their va
cations or depriving them of week
end trips they have planned.
1T is our intention in this re-
quest to assist in the conservation
program and at the same time to
delay by the fuel saving that will
result the time when rationing may
be enforced" he said.
Heavy Travel Period
I'VE realize that the next two or
three weeks will see the height of
our annual driving as our people
take their vacations. We want them
to enjoy these trips and we believe
that they will find them as pleasant
at As miles per hour as at 55," he
continued.
1T has been our thought from
the moment a gasoline curfew was
mentioned that sensible way of
conservation was to be found in
lower speeds. ..
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Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Winners Of
Road Contest
Prizes Named
Edward KINNEY, This
City;L. H. Webb, Bow
ers; J. H. Wilson, Re
h0bOth, Selected.

The three top prizes in the an.
nual highway Identification con-
test this year went to property
owners in lower Delaware.
The winners, each receiving $25
in cash and an American flag from
the Active Committee for Roadside
Identification in Delaware, were
announced Sunday night by Willard
Springer, .Jr., Judge. :.
The winners were:
Best kept and neatest private
farmyard and garden--John H.
Wilson, near Wescoat's Corner on
the Rehoboth Road.
Neatest roadside markell. H.
Webb, south OF Bowers Beach Road.
Best kept gasoline service sta
tion-Edward KINNEY, north Of
Milford.
Area of competition extended
south from st. Georges and inspec-
tions were made by Mr.. Springer
in company with W. S. Taber, state
forester.
Honorable mention was given the
Kitchens farm on Rehoboth Road
in the neatest private farmyard-
gardens class, and the Little Heav-
en- Market, at the junction of the
Magnolia and Dover Roads and du-
Pont Highway, in the neatest road
side stands class. The latter was
its class winner in 1910.
Mr., Springer said competition
was keen except in the service sta
tion class where little interest was
apparent. Members of the Active
Committee for Roadside Beautifica-
tion are Mrs. Pierre S. DUPONT,
Mrs. Henry B. Thompson, and Mrs.
Irenee dupont.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
DR.. Hynson Issues
Warning On Polio
Germs of Dread MaIady Particn-
larry Active In Aug.-Sept

August and September are the
months when poliomyelltis. better
known as lrfanttie paralysis. Is es-
pecially apt to be present, accord
ing TO Doctor T. e. Hynson, direc-
tor Of the division of communicable
disease. State Board of Health.
Symptoms of infantile paralysis
are colds, headache, nausea, vomit-
ing and weakness, particularly
where the child seems sicker than
the fever would indicate. The dis
ease should be suspected in the
case Of any child taken i'll now,
and there should be immediate
consultation with the family doc
tor, advises DR.. Hynson.
Keep children who become i'll,
however mildly, away from other
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Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Marriage License Sale
In Delaware Doubles

ior portion of the licenses issued
in New Castle county were for
Pennsylvania couples.
New Castle county issued '4,436
licenses and collected s11,87S in
fees, unprecedented figures. During
the 1939-40 business year the totals
were 1928 licenses and $4,194 in
fees.
Receipts for Kent county last
year were 1854 compared with $640
for the previous year and for Sus-
sex county $1,192 against 1886.
Marriage license receipts for last
month totalled $1,546 compared
with $s06 in July 1910, according to
DR.. Manning.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Date Selected
To Open Drive
In This City
For Park Fund
Money Needed To Com
plete Bathing Beach
And Playground Will
Be Sought Through
Badges.

The date Of August 80 to Septem
ber 6 has been set for the 81 drive
for funds to complete Milford's
recreation park and bathing beach
Badges carrying the drive story
will be sold during this week for 81
each with a goal of $4,000.
The money will be used for the
purchase of needed equipment for
which there are no federal funds
available.
While $S7,7OO was set aside by
the WPA for the completion of this
project, no one expected that this
sum would be expended, as the To-
cal association is compelled to fur
'nish 80 per cent of all building
material.
Rustic construction was agreed
upon in order TO keep the cost OF
material at a minimum.
The association has been assist
ed considerably by the cash cred
its received from the government
on materials furnished for the work
on the basis Of board foot contents
of each log contributed. This saving
was realized because of donations
Of timber by former Representative
John w. Burris. former Sussex
County Sheriff Robert ]. Clendaniel,
Representative Jonathan. S. Willis
and David Greene.
Among those instrumental in the
progress of the movement have been
Benjamin Ableman. representing
the WPA; p. A. Keys and Harwood
Jamison of the National Youth Ad-
ministration.
q All business, fraternal, mercan-
tile. and manufacturing concerns in
Milford viii be called upon to as
sist with the drive.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
And Pacific Produce
Purchases Tipped 2O% By Drive

sumner education activities that
marked the campaign will be con-
tinued at the request of growers.
Harvey Baum, vice president and
general manager of the commits
sion company, said in announcing
the final figures for the nation
wide drive.
The company's purchases for
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Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22

A 20.4 per cent increase in pur-
chases of vitamin-bearing fresh
fruits and vegetables for sale in
A & P Tea Company stores during
a ten-week national "Nutrition-for-
Defense" campaign was reported
today by the food chains produce
buying affiliate, the Atlantic Com
mission Company.
The extra sales effort and con-
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Methods Used In Grading Wheat
Explained At AAA Conference

This conference was arranged by
r. o. Stelzer, executive assistant of
the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration for Delaware and
Maryland, who is assisting county
and state committeeman in planning
and directing the farm program in
these two states. Kent county was
represented at this meeting by R.
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Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22

Methods used by the United
States Department of Agriculture
in grading wheat at terminal ele-
vators and grain storages were ex-
planned on Friday Of last week at a
conference Of Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration officials,
county agricultural conservation
committeeman, grain dealers, and
county agents held in Easton, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Factory Employment
Rises "a Pct. In State
July Wages Disbursements Soar So
Per Cent Above 1910 Figures

Employment in Delaware factor
les in July, this year, was "a per
cent above July of year ago, and
three per cent above June, this
year, a report of the Philadelphia
Federal Reserve Bank shows.
Wage disbursements in July this
year in Delaware factories were
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Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Quality Peaches Are
Now Being Harvested
Orchardlsts Are Engaged in Nov.
ing Bumper Crop; Prices Low

Delaware's share of the nations
66-million-bushel peach crop is
moving out of the States orchards
at harvest-time volume. Golden
Jubilees have already been market
ed. And now orchardists are pick
ing Hales and Elbertas.
Many of the fresh, fiavorful
peaches that are the pride of Della
ware fruit growers will be con-
sumed before they are of the trees
more than few days. Miss Pearl
Macdonald, nutritionist for the
University of Delaware Agricul-
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Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Kent Housewives Join
In Food Conservation
VIII Enroll As First Line Of
Defense

Our first line of defense in this
worldwide emergency is a we'll
fed, healthy people on the home
front. With this thought in mind
of a well-fed, healthy family, 1S
women in Kent county are enrolled
in the Homemakers Home Produc-
ton Contest. This contest, spon-
sored by the Extension Service of
the University of Delaware, has
been planned to stimulate interest
among Kent county families to
produce and use more food at
home.
Gardens, COWS, hogs and chick
ems, plus orchards form the bases
for a homegrown food supply.
Earlier in the season special help
was given the home production
contestants in the planning and
planting Of gardens. Planting of
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Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Temperature

Total Rainfall ........ .83
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
period:
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-22
Weekly Weather
Report For Milford
From Wednesday, August 13, To
Tuesday, August 10, Inclusive

Charles J. Holzmueller, weather
recorder for Milford, reports the
following atmospheric conditions
prevailed in this vicinity from
Wednesday, August 1S, to Tuesday,
August 10, inclusive:
Montana oil and mining journal., 1941-01-25
INCOME OF SIS

fContinued from Page One)
CIacier Production Winkler No. 2.
r MEL SEA 28-33-5W, made 11O
barrels in the first "a hours. 1t had
Sunburst sand with a showing OF
oil from 2S59 to 1882, the show
ing appearing at 1857 to 1872; up
per Cut Bank was from 29l4 TO
2945; lower Cut Bank, the main
nav. was from 2945 to 1854; Ell
lis shale was penetrated from 1854
ia 1856. Oil rose 1900 feet and it
swabbed 11O barrels in "a hours.
Casing was cemented at 2914. Sur
face elevation is 1909 feet
A p. Consolidated-Kiesel No. 8,
CsI. NWA 11-34-6W, us drilling
at 2S25.
Cobb-Farmers state Bank No. z,
Sc SEA NEA 1S-33-5W, drilling.
2725.
consolidated Gas-Frary Tribal
1Ot No. 1, NV NWA SEA 1892
5W is three feet in the Cut Bank
sand at 2795, due for completion.
Dakota-NiOntana Tribal 136 NO. =
SW SWH SEH 15-34-6W, is drill
ing at $3.50.
Glacier Production-O'Brien No. 4.
c sh SWA 32-34-5W is fishing
for lost string of tools at 2675.
Glacier ProductiOn-State 10 No.
o. CWL swl4 16-S8-5W, is drilling
ait 1850. er
NEI NWA 15-S4-6W, is drilling
at 241O.
McDonald-HendersOn Overcash
Tribal 100 No. 1, NV NWA NV a
2s-S2-5W. drilling, 1850. Colorado
was at 47O.
Reagan-TribaI 104 No. 1, Gel
SWANEA 22-37-7W, is moving in
rotary rig material.
Santa Rita-GOvernment (ShearOn)
No. 5, center Lot 1, Sec 7-32-5W,
drilling. 1870.
Tarrant Wiley-Jones No. 4. Sc
NWA SWl4 31-S4-5W, drilling,
1900.
Santa Rita-Jacobson (not Jack
son, as printed) No 2, NWA
NWA 17-33-5W, is drilling at 555
after cementing 10-inch pipe at
sos.
One new location was announced
this week:
Glacier ProductiOn-Williams No.
=, C NWA NEA 21-35-5W. 1t is
drilling at 14O feet having spudded
Jan. %.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1941-01-25

And then in twelve short years
it croaks.
The modest, sober, bone-dry hen
Lays eggs for nogs, then dies
at ten.
All animals are strictly dry
They sinless live and swiftly die.
But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked
Survive for three score years
and ten.
And some OF us, the mighty few,
Stay picked till we're ninety
two.
She has
An Ermine Coat-A Foreign Car
A Persian Rug-A Built-in Bar
A 1O-roOm Flat-And, I'll tell
you Sir,
She does it all on thirty-five!
And five years back
Some Teaching hick
Flunked this gal
In rithmetic
Dale Vaughn.
Magistrate-Have you anything
to say before 1 pass sentence?"
Burglar-"Yus, mu'lud. It's a
bit thick bein' identified by bloke
wot kept is head under the bed
clothes the whole time"
Sufferer have a terrible
Montana oil and mining journal., 1941-01-25
WACE-HOUR
lContinued fr0m PaEe onel

tions and has thus far held that the
law applies even to the drilling OF
dry holes. which produce nothing
to 20 into Interstate commerce.
The labor departments legal staff
has held with regard to the drilling
of dry holes that the wage-hour
law applies, saying:
"ln our opinion, regardless Oh
whether or not a producing wen
results, employees of a contractor
engaged in the drilling OF oil wells
having concurrent or continuous
contracts with an oil company or
companies or with independent
landlords. lessees or oil concerns,
are engaged in the production OF
goods for commerce or in processes
or occupations necessary thereto;
provided, of course. that such enter
prisers intend, hope or have reason
70 believe that the resulting oil, II
any will move in interstate COM
merce. Oil drilling operations
whether or not they result in pro-
ducing wells are, and have been'
of vital importance in the devel-
opment of the oil industry When
the oil industry is viewed as
whole, it Immediately becomes ap-
parent that knowledge as to the un-
productivity of sites is important in
eliminating costly expenditures in
the search of oil producing strata
or territory. Hence. we have
concluded that employees engaged
in drilling for oil under the circum-
stances previously outlined are COW
cred by the act as being engaged
in a process or occupation neces-
sarv to the production Of oil un-
der section 8 Cd thereof -
The coming conference will be
held in Hotel Rainbow ait 2 p.
m. Saturday, February 8, with oil
and gas operators from every field
in the state in attendance.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1941-01-25

/ toothaehe asd want something to
cure it."
Friend-''Now, you don't need
any medicine. had a toothache yes
terday and went home and my low
ing wife kissed me and 50 consoled
me that the pain soon passed away.
Why don't you try the same?"
Sufferer-''I think / will. Is
your wife at home nOw?"
"Officer, that prisoner is not in
toxicated; he has been drugged."
Sure he was drugged. / drug
i'm two squares to the station"
A girl has two very good reasons
for. or two very good reasons
against, knickers.
The preacher had been strolling
about the links, and wishing to
drive home a small moral lesson,
said mildly. Il notice that the
players who get the lowest scores
are not those who swear
why the hell should they?"
demanded the gloomy golfer as he
dug up some more turf.
The corpulent self-cOmplacent
Irishman sank into his most COM
Portable chair and remarked to his
wife, well, Kate me dear, life
to me seems to have been one long
run of prosperity First was
plain Hooley; then l married you
Montana oil and mining journal., 1941-01-25

The drilling of the TexacO-Tweedy No.
5, a north offset to the AronsOn brought
only chilling hopes The Tweedy look
ed like a failure when il was drilled
i'm but by skillfuI handling it was made
into small sub-average producer The
Texaco company drilled the south offset
a routine well, with little enthusiasm,
the Tweedy No. 5 missed the MouItOn
sand and had it's production in the Cut
Bank sand, which is not a prolific pro-
ducer in the area.
But in the Tweedy 5 there had been
found 5-inch streak of highly satur-
ated sand in the upper Sunburst-about
the Lander horizon. That sand was found
week ago in the Aronson No. and
The Texas company ran casing, determine
ed to test the showing which was very
good in the first foot Subsequent drill
ing, during the week, developed an 49,
foot sand, fully saturated with oil.
The hydrOstatic level for the district
has dropped from 1000 feet to around
200 feet and the ArOnson well had only
200 feet of oil but when the crew swab-
bed it, they were astonished to see the
fluid remain at the 7OO-foOt level, pro-
ducing nearly 600 barrels in the
first "a hours.
These wells viii ordinarily pump
about half as much as they swab. i'm
dicating that this well will produce
around 800 barrels per day. To the
owner of 10 royalty this means around
500 per month, which comes within
the rule of the kind of an investment
that is worth a lifetime of saving.
The Aronson pool doubtless extends
southwark, as it does not go northward.
The TexacO-Lander well now drilling to
the west will determine whether it goes
westward. The probabilities are that the
pool will be on the Aronson farm, along
the trend established by wells to the
north.
The Aronson royalty is futher proof
that patience is one of the most prof
liable assets of an investor in royalties
The man who buys a good title roy
atty in a known petroliferous area can sit
back with quiet confidence that produc-
tiOn will come In due cOure of time,
even i'm spite of a dry hole.
We congratulate our members who
have hung onto this royalty. 1t is one
OF the longest waits we have had in
Cut Bank field.
The development opens no new OPP
pOrtunities in Cut Bank. as this farm
is within the Indian reservation.
80 ~ ~ @g
Our attention asGnow diEscted to the
zrHcFr GoTnhn
Rita and others expect to develop the
Lander pools of the future, to care for
future market needs.
Amy who wishes to join ms I'm our
program Of royalty buying Is invited 20
write TO ms 1or fun information and of
fertng sheets descriptive OF ayailabIe
properties.