Milford chronicle., 1943-07-16
PAID LAWYERS TO HEAR
DOWN STATE AUTO CASES
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1T is not intended that the an
nouncement of these appointments
shall be utilized for the purpose of
securing compliance. They were
appointed not for the value of any
publicity but for the purpose of
speedily exercising the responsible
and essential functions provided in
ration order No 5. Appeals from the
decision of a hearing officer may
be made through the hearing COM
missioner in the same manner as
those from a board or panel to the
district director.
This change can in no way be
con aidered a reflection on any
board or panel and such changes
were made with full knowledge and
consent of all the boards affected. -
Mr.. Hardesty said.
Il should like to take this Oppor-
tunity to express my personal ap-
probation and that of my co-wOrk-
ers for the fine loyal service so
cheerfully rendered by the Della
ware local boards. panels, and as
sistants in their sincere efforts to
fairly and conscientiously admins
ter the rules and regulations gov
erning the operation of the OPA."
Board members in Sussex county
said that neither members of the
boards or members of the special
panels want to hear pleasure driv-
ing cases. In almost all cases the
board members and the panel MEM
bers know the individuals suspect
ed of pleasure driving by their first
names, and are usually familiar
with their day-to-day use of their
automobiles.
Board members said the ban was
especially unpopular in Sussex
county because of lack of bus or
train transportation.
Many of the motorists, it was
explained, own cottages at nearby
resorts and are in the habit of Wis
iting them each weekend and in
many cases, in the evenings during
the week also. Panel and board
members frequently know the con-
ditions which exist in respect to the
individual motorists.
Many poultry growers are dissat-
isfied with the OPA's ceiling price
of 2S1a cents a pound on broilers
and the investigation of the OPA
into black market operations in the
county and subsequent arrests of
both dealers and growers.
Mr.. Short, attorney of George
town. chairman of the Georgetown
board. said the boards have refus-
ed to handle any more pleasure
cases. We have to live in
this area after the war is over"
he commented.
Clinton Watson. chairman of the
board. said the board
members know everybody and
know them by their first names"
and do not like to sit in judgment
of friends and neighbors. The ra-
tioning business, he said, keeps the
board members busy.
In the first pleasure driving ban
the Frankford board handled cases
reported to them by police when
cars were stopped for speeding. No
cases have been handled by the
board in the present ban.
You can't tell young people to
sit in their back yards until the
war is over" Mr.. Watson said.
1t is against the boards wishes
to hear those cases." Ford NJ. Har-
rington of the Seaford board said,
on the Seaford boards
desire not to hear such cases. He
said the cases should be heard by
mot living in the neigh
Dorhood" Both board and panel /
members, he said, object to hand
ling them.
The dissatisfaction of the chick I
en- growers with the OPA ceiling
prices also makes it very bad for
of the pleasure driving
Dan," Mr.. Harrington said.
Mr.. Harmonson heard his first .
Eases in Georgetown last Friday /
and Mr.. Magee his first cases in (
on the same day.
Kent county boards have not re-
used to hear such cases, but have
their disinclination to
10 so, and their desire for applica-
ion of the new probationary sys-
EN- to their boards. Sussex county I
las four boards; Kent three, and !
New Castle four.