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La gaceta., 1942-12-26

gadas dobles hechas por un
shortstop, en- un juego, Phil Riz
zuto, de los Yankees; Temporal
das sin una jugada triple, 2; ma
por ndmero de carreras de un
juego, Rudy York, con 5.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Kent Poultry Program
Is Showing Progress
Directed By r. E. Wilson Work Is
Going Steadily Ahead

Farm flock improvement, produc-
tion costs, housing and manage
ment, and the eradication of pullor-
um disease constituted the poultry
program in Kent county this year
under the direction of County Agent
Russell E. Wilson in cooperation
with the Poultry Extension Depart
ment of the University of Della
ware, State Board of Agriculture
and members of the county poultry
advisory council.
One feature of the flock i'm
provement project included the
preparation of series of circular
letters by the poultry specialist for
mailing to all poultrymen contain
ing suggestions and recommenda-
tions in regard to various phases of
poultry management, disease con-
troll, feeds and feeding methods.
With each letter there was a card
on which poultry raisers could re-
quest certain bulletins and other in
formation, also indicate the recon-
mended improvement practices ex-
pected to be followed during the
year.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
18th Infantry Takes
Fifth Straight Game
Georgetown Soldiers Nose Milford
Cardinals 30 To 30

In their initial game with COM
petition outside of service teams.
the Headquarters Company team of
the Second Battalion, 18th Infan-
try, Georgetown, rallied strongly to
overcome a 10 point deficit at half
time and beat the experienced Mil
ford team 33 to 80. at the Milford
Community House, Wednesday eve
ming, December 2. Fine defensive
play on the part of the soldiers in
holding the Cardinals to a single
field goal and two foul shots in the
second half proved to be the mar
gin of victory.
Milford's tall center, wilkins, had
a field day in the first half, scoring
six fast baskets until Lieutenant
James Kellmurray, the Khaki's
coach, put Winnie Bray on him and
that stopped Wilkins scoring for
the evening. The soldiers scoring
was evenly divided and their team
work was superb. Dick Valencourt,
high scoring forward for Headquar-
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
List Dates For Sixth
Draft Registration
'Teen' Age Group In State To Begin
Appearing At Selective Boards

Governor Walter w. Bacon has
issued a proclamation fixing dates
for the sixth registration under the
Selective Training and Service Act
beginning today, Friday, Decem-
ber IL, at local draft board head
quarters.
Under the proclamation, the reg
istration of all youths who shall
have attained the eighteenth ami
versary of the day of their birth
during the periods indicated below,
will take place in Delaware between
9 a. m. and p. m. on the dates
shown as follows:
Those born July 1, 1924, but not
after August 81, 1924, will be reg
istered on any day during the week
commencing today and ending
Thursday, December II.
Those born on or after September
1, 1924, but not after October 81,
1924, will register on any day dur
ing the week commencing Friday,
December IS, and ending Thursday,
December "a.
Those born on or after Novem-
ber 1, 1924, but not after December
81, 1924, will register on any day
during the week commencing Sat
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Val Picinich Dies
At Home In Maine
Former Big League Catcher Man.
aged Club Here Two Years

Val Picinich, who for five of his
eighteen years as major league
baseball player caught Walter
Johnson's blazing fast ball, died OF
pneumonia last Saturday, December
5, at his home in Nobleboro, Maine.
He was 46 years old.
Picinich, personnel service and
morale director at the Bath (Me.)
Iron Works Corporation, was
stricken with bronchial influenza
several days before his death.
A catcher for the Pittsburgh
Pirates toward the close of his
active baseball career, Picinich
later managed farm clubs for the
Detroit Tigers and the New York
Giants and acted as a talent scout
for the Giants. Picinich managed
the Milford Giants for two years.
Got Offer From Connie Mack
Z He quite organized baseball sew
eral years ago and purchased a
chicken farm at NObleboro. On the
outbreak of war he obtained en-
ployment in the Bath Iron Works
electrical department and last jan
uary became director of personnel
service and morale. He coached the
company baseball team last spring.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Rev. DIR. Frank Herson
Century Club Speaker
Milford Clergyman Spoke On
"Christmas Meditation"

DR.. Frank Herson was the guest
speaker at the regular weekly
meeting of the Milford New Cen
tury Club on Monday. A Christ
mas Meditation" was his subject
and the basis for his expression of
gifts, old and new. Harking back
to the gifts of the wise men, DR..
Herson paraphrased gold of SER
vice, frankinsense of worship and
myrrh of love as the desired spirit
of giving. In choice words he
enumerated the highlights of each
month and called frosty, happy,
hurrying Christmas the best season
of the year. Mrs. Harry Brakeley
read an old Christmas hymn, by
Richard Watson Glider.
Monday being Delaware Day
there was tribute paid to it as
being the first state. The song,
"Our Delaware" was sung by the
members with Mrs. Elizabeth Riggs
at the piano. Mrs. Riggs also read
Delaware" a poem written by the
Milford Bard, John Lofand, which
was printed in the Gazette" of
October IS, 1925, and the poem,
Caesar Rodney's Ride" by John
Townsend. Mrs. Joseph J. Pearce
read Delaware. the First State;"
Mrs. ]. Burton Hendricks, Noted
Delawareans," and some traditions
of Delaware were told by Mrs. F.
Burgette Short The pledge of al
legiance to the Delaware Flag, as
written by DR.. M. Dalema Draper,
was then given.
In compliment to the new mem
bers, a short Christmas program
will be given next week and So
cial time will follow. Mrs. H. Con-
ner Mitten and Mrs. Raymond Mas
ten will be hostesses for the after
noon. Gifts for Delaware Colony
will be brought to the club at this
meeting. Mrs. Robert Griffith will
again take them to the Colony. This /
will be the last meeting before the
new year. There should be a good
for this social meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
TJUO State Soldiers
Killed In Action
Lost Lives In "WeStern
European Area;" Two
Seamen Missing

The death of two Delaware sol.
dieds in the Western European
Area" and two Sussex county mer-
chant marine seamen missing in
U-boat action, were reported this
week.
The dead are:
Private Herbert ]. TomInson, 2S
years old, of Wilmington.
Staff Sergeant George 1. Hilton,
formerly of MinqUadale.
Missing are:
Elmer Franklin Dukes of Frank
ford.
David Hannibal Webster of Har-
beson.
Died November s
Private Tomlinson was the son of
Joseph and Annie Tomlinson. His
mother was informed by the War
Department that the young man
died November 8 in the defense of
his country.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
To Include Women
On Kent Co. Juries
First TO Be Impaneled For Feb
ruary Court Term

Kent County Jury Commission
ers Walker L. Mifflin and Wilbur
E. Jacobs have decided to include
women on the jury panels for the
county courts because of the short
age of men caused by many enter
ing the military services or engag-
ed in essential war production
work.
Announcing the plan the first of
the week, Mr.. Mifflin said he has
learned that many women have eX-
pressed willingness to do jury duty
and have evinced a keen and intel
ligent interest in the responsible
ties of jurors.
Women so far have never been
drawn on jury panels in Kent coun-
ty. The first will be impaneled for
the February term.
Seventy-four more marriage Ii
censes were granted in Kent coun-
ty during the first II months of
this year than during the same
period of last year and 35 more
than in the IL months of last year,
according to records of the office
of Clerk of the Peace John c.
Slaughter.
August was the most marrying"
month of this year with So licenses
issued, while the highest number
issued for any month last year was
40 in April.
The total issued this year to the
end of November was AIS and last
year the total for the same period
was 344, while 3S3 were issued in
the ~ months of last year, 80 of
them last December.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
State Grange
Opposes Farm
Labor Unions
Resolution Opposing I'm
iOnizing Adopted At
Session Here; Bailey
Thomas New Master.

The Delaware State Grange,
meeting in Milford on Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week in the
68th annual convention, urged that
labor unions in the field of agri-
culture be opposed; that quick
freezing locker plants, on a COOP
erative basis be developed in the
state, and that the State Board of
Education be sent plans regarding
employment of youth, as a re-
serve supply of labor.
These were some of the high
lights of the two-day convention
which included election of officers
on Wednesday afternoon and their
installation in the evening in a
move designed to conserve trans
portation facilities. Usually, newly
elected officers are installed dur
ing January.
A. Bailey Thomas, of Wyoming,
who served this term as overseer,
was elected master. Mr.. Thomas
succeeds Clarence u. Jester of
Milford. The other officials fol-
low: Overseer, Paul Mitchell, Hook
essin; lecturer, Mrs. Huldah Will
lis, Milford; steward, Paris c. Kir-
by; assistant steward, Byard Tay-
lor, Richardson Park; chaplain,
Howard R. Moore, Milford, re-
treasurer, Margaret F.
Wilmington, reelected;
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
President Orders WPA
Ended February 1st
$4,000 Affected Throughout Ma
tiOn; 1856 On State Rolls

President Roosevelt last Friday
ordered extinction of the work pro-
jects administration of four
major New Deal relief agencies
which, since 1888, have spent al
most Is billion dollars to help lift
the nation out of the depression.
On October 81, there were 100000
persons on the rolls and 5,622 ad-
ministrative employees who will
lose their jobs as soon as the
agency is liquidated.
(WPA in Delaware which
once had a top enrolment of
4,S00, now employs 356. OF the
1856, nearly 95 per cent are GER
titled by relief, Benjamin Able
man, works administrator said.
1t also has an administrative
force of nine. Ableman said he
doubted if the trolley rail re-
moval project can be complet-
ed by February 1. WPA in this
state also has large project at
Fort DUPONT. Its writer's pro-
ject employing seven persons
will close December 81. The art
project recently converted in
to a work shop unit and en-
ploying 10 is also expected to
terminate after this month.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
AZ Corn Loan Program
Rates Are Announced
Those Eligible May Secure Loans
At $50 OF Parity

Under the provisions of the 194f
Corn Loan Program eligible corr
growers may secure loans at about
S5 per cent of parity in New Castle
and Kent counties, reports the Del
aware state committee of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Agency.
Under the loan program, New
Castle and Kent county farmers
may secure loans of SO and 81 cents
per bushed respectively. Both OF
these counties are classified as
commercial corn areas.
To be eligible for loans, farmers
must have complied with the 1912
corn allotment provisions.
Since Sussex county is classified
as a non-commercial corn area, the
1912 corn loan rate has been set
at about rs per cent of parity. This
means a loan rate of 73 cents per
bushel for farmers in Sussex coun-
ty.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
3 Local BOYS
Com m iSSiOned
2ndLieuten'nt
Geo. G. Russell, Jr., John
o. Snyder, Osborne X.
Walls Were Sergeants
On 'BObcat Island"

The three local boys who re-
turned from "Bobcat' Island in
the Southwest Pacific early in Sep
tember for officers training school,
were graduated from the Anti-Air-
craft Coast Artillery School at
Camp Davis, North Carolina, last
Thursday and received commits
sions as Second Lieutenants. They
are Lieutenant George G. Rus
sell, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George g. Russell, sos West
Front street. George will be sent
to his. new post in Rhode Island
Lieutenant John Olin Snyder, bro
ther- of Granville Snyder, East
Sixth street, has been assigned to
a regimentin North Carolina. Lieu
tenant Osborne X. Walls, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert F. Walls, 412
North Washington street, was Sc
lected to attend a 10-weeks course
at the A. A. Radio School, Camp
Davis, North Carolina. These boys
are spending 10 day furlough with
relatives and friends in the home
town-their first visit home in al
most a year and half. {:
All three boys were sergeants in
the 198th C. A. Anti-Aircraft Reg
iment.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Samuel Shannahan
Passes At Easton
Maryland Publisher Was Well
Known For PhiIantrOpies

Samuel E. Shannahan, editor oi
the Easton (Md.) Star-Democrat
since 1896 and widely known fol
his philanthropic activities through
out the State of Maryland, died on
Monday afternoon, December z,
following a heart attack in his Of
flee. He was 6S years old.
He was discovered slumped over
his desk by Ruth Startt, an office
employee, who summoned a physi-
clan. Mr.. Shannahan was taken to
his home where he died soon af-
terward.
On State Aid Board
Well known throughout the pen
insula, he was for Is years a mem
ber of the board of State Aid Char
tiles, and served as chairman for
six years.
He was treasurer of the Easton
Memorial Hospital and of the Tai
bot County Free Library. He serv-
ed as secretary of the Episcopal
Diocese of Easton and was treas
urer of the Trinity Cathedral. He
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Sugar Ration Book
Issuance Ends Dec. Is
Persons Who Do Not Have
This Book Not Eligible
For Number Two

Persons who have not yet OBJ
tanned War Ration Book No. l, COM
monty known as the Sugar" book,
were warned this week by James
L. Luke, Jr., State QUA director,
that December Is is the deadline
for getting it.
No one is eligible to receive the
second book unless they possess
the first one, Mr.. Luke emphasized.
Books may be obtained at ration
board offices throughout the state.
Some means of Identification, such
as selective service or automobile
registration card, must be fur
nished
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
New Dim-Out
Regulations
Must Be Met
By Everyone
Army Command Will See
Th a t New Require
ments Are Speedily
Complied With In Two
Lower Counties.

The new dim-out regulations that
effect every home, business, and
industrial establishment, including
even those working on defense pro-
jeets, which are situated in Sus-
sex county area, must arrange to
comply with the new requirements
that have been ordered by the
Army command.
While this section has been dim
med to a certain degree for many
months it is not sufficient, accord
ing to word received at the county
defense office, as there is still a
sky glow which can be utilized by
enemy crafts operating off these
shores Enemy airplanes on scout
ing or observation flights, can de-
tect this sky glow for miles which
enables them to secure direct bear
ings.
This glow must be eliminated and
all persons that use lights must
contribute to this cause, and suffer
some inconvenience.
These new regulations are not
issued by any local council, but
have been ordered by the Federal
Army Command, and the burden of
placing them into effect has fallen
on the various local defense coun-
ellis in this area.
The new regulations provide that
no light must be visable from its
source at a greater angle than As
degrees from the horizontal. In
simple words this means if a circle
was drawn around the bottom of
the light bulb extending from the
direction of the sky to the ground,
and then back to the sky, with the
bottom of the bulb in the center,
that no rays of light must be Wis
able for more than one-quarter of
this circle directly under the bot
tom of the bulb.
The bulb must be covered with
shade through which the light can
not shine, if an outside light, at
greater angle than that stated in
the above paragraph.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Ensign w. o. LGnkfOrd
Gets Service Rating
Milford Boy Completes
Rigid Course At Har-
ward University

Ensign Wilmer Ogden Lankford
3rd, of the Navy Supply Corps Re-
serve, son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. O.
Lankford, who reside at 105 Kings
Highway, Milford, is one of 80
young officers who graduated on
December 4, from the Navy Supply
Corps School at Harvard Univer-
sity. AS result of his successful
completion of the rigid four
months course, Ensign Lankford,
3rd, is no longer a Probationary
officer. He has received his Gen
eral Service" commission, and will
be assigned to duty at an important
shore activity.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Downstate Car Lights
Must Be Dimmed Out
Defense Council Makes 1t Manda-
tory To BlackOut Upper Lenses

The State Council of Defense on
Wednesday afternoon made it man
datory for motorists in Kent and
Sussex counties to blackOut the
upper half of their headlight lenses.
Meeting at the Chamber of Com
merce the council, which has dis
cussed the question of headlight
observation at several meetings,
adopted the ruling which had been
requested by the commanding Off
GER of the Second Defense Com
mand.
At a meeting two weeks ago the
council temporarily left interpreta-
tion and enforcement of the mil
itary request to the defense coordi-
nators of the two lower counties.
Announcement of the ruling was
made by Gerrish Gassaway, exec
utive vice chairman of the coun--
ell.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
MILFORD STORE TO
BE OPEN EVENINGS

Beginning Monday even
ing, December IA, Milford
stores will remain open in
the evenings until Christmas.
The merchants are doing
this in order that persons
employed during the day
time, may be given an OPP
portunity to do their Christ
mas shopping.
Local stores present a gay
holiday appearance, and are
well supplied with new holi-
day merchandise. However,
the supply of goods is lin
tied and. good advice is to
shop early and avoid being
disappointed.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
State Guard Prepared
For Any Emergency
Group Organized A Year Ago Has
Enrolment OF 400

Close of the first year of the
Delaware State Guard, organized to
protect the state during the alb
sence of the National Guard, finds
the new smilitary unit ready for
emergency action.
The battalion now has an en-
rollment of 470 officers and en-
listed men, equipped with uniforms,
limited amount of arms, and is
undergoing a progressive training
program.
Mission Is Outlined
Colonel ]. Paul Heinel, COM
manding officer, said the battalion
has had its mission outlined and
officers are receiving special train
ing in performance of their duties.
The remainder of this winter will
be devoted to passing this training
on to the enlisted personnel.
The Delaware State Guard was
in May of 1941. with $50
men. 1t had three companies, A
and Headquarters Detachment in
B, Dover, and C, Mil
ford.
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Mrs. Frank Elton Is
Three-Star Mother
Wife OF City Councilman Has
Three Sons In Armed Service

Mrs. Frank j. Elton, wife of City
Councilman Frank J. Elton, is be-
lieved to be the only three-star
mother residing in the Milford COM
munity. At present three sons are
serving in the armed service. Frank
]. Elton, Jr., is first class seaman
in the Navy, stationed in Cuba, and
recently spent a Today furlough
with his parents. Harvey is attached
to the Army Medical Corps, station
ed in California, while Lloyd is in
the Navy. and is stationed in Rhode
Island.
Lloyd and Frank were active in
sports while students at Milford
High School; both playing on the
varsity football team.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Dedicate Holiness
Parsonage Sunday
All Day Service VIII Mark Special
Event In Local Church

The congregation of the Pilgrim
Holiness Church of Milford has
purchased house and lot from the
Milford Trust Company, the same
being located on East Front
street, for a parsonage and will
dedicate it Sunday afternoon, De-
cember 13. Services will begin
promptly at p. m. Rev. H. d.
Dukes, superintendent, Eastern
District of the Pilgrim Holiness
Church, will be in charge of this
service. The evening service will
begin promptly at z o'clock. it will
be song and praise service fol-
lowed by preaching. Good music
and singing at each service. The
public is cordially invited to attend
these services. In the morning
church school will be held at $3.50
O'Clock, with sermon at II o'clock.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Delaware Dairymen Guiding
Important Wartime Industr,

Delaware dairymen are guiding
an industry that is producing one
of the most important foods in our
wartime diet. Food-for-freedom
goals for 1943 call for all the milk
this nation can produce. In 1912,
milk production will total nearly
12O million pounds-four per cent
more than in 1941.
Many difficulties face dairymen
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11
Group Marketing
Boosts Farm Income
Sussex Farmers Can Raise More
Cash BY Cooperation

Sussex county's 1865 farm op-
orators can increase their cash in
come as much as $135,000 a year on
fruits, nuts and vegetables alone
by working with retailers in de-
veloping group marketing pro-
grams, it was estimated today by
leading distributor of Oregon
crops.
with approximately $50 farm
ers in this county and more than
$4,000 farmers throughout Oregon
using farm marketing cooperatives
to streamline wartime distribution,
the general trend toward group ac-
tion in marketing is one of the most
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Milford chronicle., 1942-12-11

in their efforts, but in spite of
these one of the most critical needs
in 1943 will be for milk and dairy
products. Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard when he announced the
new Food-for-freedom goals recent
ly stated that the 1943 milk goal
had been set at 122 million pounds.
Milk producers in Delaware have
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FBI Police Meeting
At Dover Dec. 18th
Quarterly Conference Will Be Ad.
dressed By Firearms Instructor

E. A. Soucy. special agent in
charge Of the Baltimore Office of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton, announced today that an FBI
quarterly conference for police will
be held at Dover at 2 p. M, Mon
day, December IA, for the benefit
of all law enforcement officers in
the State of Delaware.
Charles M. Beall, Jr., firearms
instructor, Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, Washington, d. c., will
be present at this conference and
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