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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Z. c. Barnard Church School
Head To Celebrate
Of Scout Group 9th Birthday
Other Officers Elected
Monday Are VIM. Ber-
ry, Vice-Pres.; Major
Summers, Secy. Treas.

Following the regular weekly
dinner meeting of the Milford Ro-
tary Club ON Monday evening, a
reorganization meeting of the
scout committee was held This
committee represents the club in
the affairs of Troop No. 100, which
is sponsored by the Rotary Club.
Remsen c. Barnard was elected
chairman to succeed Senator Rob-
ert H. Yerkes. who has served as
chairman for the past two years;
William A. Berry. Jr., was elected
vice chairman, succeeding George
T. Macklin; Major Anthony Sum-
mers was reelected secretary and
treasurer. The members of the
committee are: Mr.. Barnard, Mr..
Berry, Senator Yerkes, Mr.. Mack
lin, ]. Herbert Nichols and George
Perry.
A full line of activities have
been planned for the coming year,
and the committee. the scoutmas-
ter, Marvin Calls. and his assis-
tants, Mr.. Nichols and Mr.. Shar-
man. are outlining a full program
for 1914.
Troop No. 100 has IS enrolled
members, seven of whom are new
boys. just enrolled during the past
two or three weeks.
The troop is now meeting in the
portable school building. next TO
the Baptist Church.
The Rotary Club is planning to
the boys at a dinner in
the near future.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Kent Poultrymen
Elect New Officers
f. G.. Barnard Is Named Chairman
OF Middle County Group

Officers and directors of the Caes-
ar Rodney Poultry Association
elected at the recent meeting of
this local organization included T..
C. Barnard, chairman; William L.
Fisher, vice chairman; William
Richardson, secretary-treasurer;
and Charles C. Marker, former
chairman, j. E. Leo Scanlon and
William H. Richter directors for
the coming year.
Respiratory diseases in poultry
fiocks were discussed by Karl See
ger. of the University of Delaware
Sub-StatiOn, who stated that bron-
chitis. laTyngotrachitis and coryza
are the chief respiratory troubles
affecting poultry, although there
are other diseases such as fowl pox,
fowl cholera, pullorum and fowl
paralysis which produce symptoms
similar to the above named poultry
diseases Mr.. Seeger explained how
these different diseases may be
transmitted from one flock to an
other by visitors walking through
the poultry houses, and he stressed
the importance of sanitary and
other precautionary measures in
preventing the origin and spread
of these diseases among poultry
fiocks.
Garry A. Miles, extension poultry
man of the University of Delaware.
discussed factors which influence
profit and loss in the poultry in
dustry, and offered timely recon-
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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Gas RGtiOns viii
NOIC Be Mailed
Local Boards Relieved OF
Actual Handling OF
Coupons

Gasoline rationing coupons will
he mailed TO motorists in Delaware
under a new OPA central issuance
system to be put into effect in a few
weeks.
This was announced this week by
Regional OPA Administrator Dam
iel p. WOolley at New York and con-
flrmed by Delaware OPA officials.
Just where the Delaware gas
coupons will be mailed from has
not yet been announced. Centers
will be set up, it was said, covering
the metropolitan areas in New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, and Maryland.
Under this central issuance plan,
1t is pointed out. local boards will
continue to pass on applications for
supplemental rations but will be
relieved of the risk of handling cou-
pons and will be able Ito give bet
ter Judgment in passing upon ra-
tion allotments."
After passing on eligibility and
the number OF coupons to be issued
a motorist. the local board will in
form the issuing center which will
mail the coupons, Woolley explain
od
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
State Goes Over TOP
In War Loan Drive
Report From Treasury Expected To ShOp That
$f3yOOO,OOO Goal Is Passed Due To Corporation
Purchases; E, F, G. And C Notes Lag; Milford
And SUSSEX County Fall Short of Quota, But
VIII Continue Drive Until March I.

The official figure that shows
Delaware has passed its $4,000. 900
Fourth War Loan goal is not ex-
pected to be announced by the
Treasury until late today.
The Delaware War Finance Com
mittee stated Wednesday it has
learned unOfficially that sufficient
bonds had been purchased before
the deadline on corporation special
issues to put Delaware in the vic
tory class but, the committee warn
ed, that purchase of the regular is
sues-the E, F, G. and c notes
still lags.
Describing the $14,O0O.OO0 900 ma
tiOnal campaign as "by all odds the
most successful drive the Treasury
has ever conducted" National Di-
rector Ted Gamble in Washington
predicted a final total of mot less"
than $16.25O, 100000.
Reports available on Sussex coun-
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18

ty discloses that $1.176,43O.75 worth
of bonds had been sold up to the
14th; the goal is $2.62S.OOO.OO. In
Milford the goal was $S10.0O0.00.
with between five and six hundred
thousand sold 1t is believed that
the goal in the city will be reached
by the end of February.
On the Kent side of Milford Chair
man w. F. McFaul stated that the
goal of s16O.O0O.00 had been reach
ed and passed by $75,OOO.OO. Lynch
Heights and Houston are included
with North Milford on the Kent
side.
The committee cO-chairmen. NJ
HasweIl Pierce and W. F. McFaul
and all the other committee mem
hers, are very appreciative of the
fine job done by the solicitors. the
Boy Scouts and the Business Girls,
and every effort will be made to
reach the goal of $S1O.0OOO0 by
March /.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
g
Troubles Due
27th
Change-Over To Tokens
Will Bring Two Sets
Of Values For Meats,
Fats, Etc.

The ration blues-and reds-are
coming back. -----
You're heading into the worst
storm of food rationing cOmplica-
tions thus far.
During the three weeks starting
February 81, you'll be wrestling
with two sets of values in figuring
how many points you have for meat
and canned goods.
There'll be brown stamps. red
stamps, green stamps. blue stamps,
red tokens and blue tokens.
But when those three weeks are
over, OPA believes food rationing
will be lot simpler for housewives
and stOrekeepers than it has been
so far.
It's the change-over to tokens.
Value OF Tokens
The fiber-tOkens. dime-sized. will
he worth one point each. You'll get
them in change for ration stamps.
There1l be two kinds of tokens. red
for meat and fats, blue for canned
and other prOcessed foods.
During the overlapping three
weeks. some of the old brown and
green stamps still will be good for
s. 5. . and l points as marked on
their faces.
New red and blue stamps in ra-
tion book No. will be worth 10
points each regardless of what fig
nres are printed on them.
So you can keep them straight
by the cOlOrs.
Here's the picture:
Schedule OF Points
Starting February 81. you'll get
30 points. for meat and fats every
two weeks (instead of 30 at the
present rate of 16 a week..
You'll have so points a month for
canned and other processed foods
every month Cinstead of the pres
ent 4S.)
To adjust for these changes. meat
point values will be lowered some
what and canned goods point val
ues will be somewhat higher.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Tentative Date
For Special
Session Set
For March 10th
Administration Plans To
Revise Minor Sections
Of Voting Law To-
Ease Absentee Ballot
ing.

A tentative date of Friday, March
10, has been set for the one-day
special session of the Delaware
Legislature at which the state ad-
ministration expects to revise min
or sections of the voting law to
ease absentee balloting by members
of the armed forces, it was discIos-
ed this week.
A definite date for the session
cannot be announced until Con-
gress has completed action on the
federal ballot legislation. it was
stated.
But with the federal legislation
now under study by joint con-
ference, it is expected by state
Republican leaders that final Con-
gressiOnal action will not be long
delayed.
Republican leaders. desiring to
make the session as economical as
possible. have discussed tentative
plans which would limit attaches
to only those needed
That a special session will be
hNAN nus bCCh iNNNplOu ny htpuull-
can leaders for several weeks with
out question. Among the changes
that will be sought is an advance
in the date of the printing of bal
lots. The present law states that
the ballots cannot be printed more
than 20 days before an election.
The recommendation made feder-
ally that the state ballots be print
ed As days before election, giving a
longer delivery period. will be ask
ed at Dover. it was learned
In addition. some effort may be
made to revise the registration law
so that postcard registration by
service men in distant places will
be possible.
Touching on the subject of a
special session in an address to the
Rotary Club luncheon recently in
the Hotel dupont. Wilmington, U.
S. Representative Earle d. Wiley
Of Dover said that Delaware could
easily call such a session andsmake
its election laws cover the emer-
gency.
Once again, Judge Wiley empha-
sized that service men have a right
TO vote the same type of state bal
lot that the citizens at home will
vote. and not merely a ballot in
which three or four national offices
alone are listed.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Rheumatic Fever Is
Enemy Of Childhood
Infection Often Strikes At The
Delicate Valves OF The Heart

Rheumatic fever is an enemy of
childhood. not only because of the
immediate illness, but because of
the damage often done to the heart
as a result of the disease. says the
State Board of Health. 1t cannot
be stated accurately just how fire.
quently rheumatic fever occurs.
because cases are not yet reported
to health departments as well as
are many other communicable dis
eases. Rheumatic fever is known.
however. to be a high cause of
death among children between the
ages of and Is. and its most SER
iOus after-effect is rheumatic heart
disease. which causes approximate
ly 10000 deaths annually in this
country.
The infection may strike at the
delicate valves of the heart. al
lowing blood to leak back in the
wrong direction instead of closing
tightly at the proper time, or the
heart muscles be injured by the
rheumatic infection.
Cause Unknown
The cause of rheumatic heart
disease is unknown though investi-
gators are studying the role which
may be played by the streptocOccus
germ. 1t is known that a child fire.
luently comes down" with rheu-
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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Nisi DEGREES Are
Granted In Sussex
Fifteen "KnOts" United At Present
Court Session

Nisi DEGREES in divorce have been
granted in Superior Court to the
following: Eleanor Marie Fiori
from Victor Fiori. Virginia w. Dur
ham from Walter ]. Durham, Ella
Layfield Maynes from William J.
Maynes, Estella V. Boyce from
Harris w. Boyce, Delema w. Bann-
ing from Stehman F. Banning, Da-
vid T. Wilson from Joannie C. Will
son, Harvey Gibson Walls from
Mary Ann Baker Walls, Charles Z.
Jones from Mary Wright Jones,
Alice NJ. West from Oliver ]. West,
Alfred Wiltbank from Eva II. Wilt
bank, Elizabeth Mitchell Headley
from Joseph John Headley. Marie
II. Jones from John Edward Jones,
all on grounds of desertion; Nellie
NJ. Laster from Roosevelt Laster,
extreme cruelty; Ruth B. Hill from
Victor Hill, Jr., adultry; Mary l..
Ingram from William T. Ingram,
habitual drunkenness.
The following were continued
for alias: Pearl Wilmington VS..
EuWdIu w HitliHStOl, EuWdTu w. II.
Campbell VS.. Evelyn T. Campbell,
Lula Tucker McCauley VS.. Earl G.
McCauley, Harvey M. Wilson VS..
Cora Wilson. Naomi NJ. Parkin VS..
Charles l. Parkin, oliver C. Slat-
cher VS.. Edna Hastings Slatcher.
Mary Elizabeth Whitley VS.. George
William Whitley, William X. Baker
VS.. Alice r. Baker. Ida NJ. Fassel
VS.. Conrad II. Fassel.
Final divorce DEGREES are expect (
ed to be granted during the term I
to the following: Anna B. jackson I
from William V. jackson, Irma L. 4
Hearn from John Charles Hearn,
Lewis from Duke l..
Lewis, Irene Rose Boehm from .
Marshall Boehm. Ethel .
Belle Mansfield from Clarence
Mansfield. Marian E. Crockett from
Harry o. Crockett. Mary Frances
Aydelotte from George s. Aydel-
otte. Virginia M. Stuart from Earl
&. Stuart, Noble r. Wilson from
Ida NJ. Wilson. William w. Morris
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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Neighborhood Leaders
Aid State Farmers
Volunteer Workers Are Great Help
To Extension Service

Somewhere in your neighbOr-
hood is a man or woman who knows
the answers to your farm problems
or knows where to get them. That
person is your ''neighborhOod
leader" a volunteer worker for the
Delaware Agricultural Extension
Service.
The Extension Service supplies
him with the best information
available on agricultural produc-
tiOn, obtained from national re-
search and from the Delaware Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station.
which works out problems pertain
ing to the particular climate. soil
and agricultural indus
tries of the state. The neighborhoOd
leader can supply this information
TO the farmers of his area to help
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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Only Irreplaceables
To Get Deferments
Draft Rules Ordered frightened,
Mobile Labor Crews Planned

Draft boards must cancel farm
deferments unless the registrant
lis in fact irreplacable," the War
Food Administration is planning an
emergency labor force. and civil
ians are in for a drastic cut i'm can
ned fruits and vegetables. the food
professors conference vas told tais
week by government officials.
Colonel Francis V. Keesling.
chief liaison and Legislative officer
of selective service, in a speech
prepared for delivery to the con-
ference said. local boards must
reappraise the situation and comb
over these occupational deferments
in the light of the present
circumstances, namely. whether the
farm registrant is in fact neces-
sary to the farm. regularly engaged
in farming, and is in fact ire
placeable."
This must be done to insure jus
tice being done to activities other
than farming. and to obtain the best
material for the armed forces while
at the same time cutting down the
number of pre-Pearl HarbOr fa-
theirs inducted. he said.
In another address prepared for
delivery, Colonel Philip q. BrutOn.
director of labor for the War Food
told the cOnferees
that the WA was planning mo
bile task force of 126.090 able-bod-
led, experienced interstate and for
eign workers. TO he shifted from
area to area Of critical need to
assist local labor forces in the
production and harvesting of es-
sential food and fiber.
To Help Packers
Colonel Bruton listed the follow
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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
See Shoe RGtiOniHg
Cut In Shortage
Lack OF Marketing Control
Blamed In Leather
Situation

A high War Production Board
official said last week that leather
supplies are becoming increasingly
acute and that it may be necessary
to cut further the present shoe ra-
tion of two pairs year.
He said the leather shortage re-
suits from a lack of government
control over the marketing of ami
mails which would assure leather
adequate and steady slp-
plies. There is no manpower prob
lem among mills, he said.
mo relief is in sight for the re-
of the year" he added. and
it therefore may be necessary ito
tighten the rationing program for
civilian shoes"
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Milford Unit Is First To
Receive Coveted "Dela-
ware Fighting Cock"
And Cloth Diamond
For GuidOn.

The first efficiency award made
by the Delaware State Guard has
been won by Company c of Mil
ford, it was announced this week
by Colonel J. Paul Heinel. COM
manding officer of the guard, at the
meeting of officers of the units
throughout the state, at the Will
mingtOn Armory.
The award was made on the basis
of charts prepared by the state
guard staff members on their in
spectiOns of the various companies
during the last three months. Col
onel Heinel explained that the rat
ings were made on military cour-
tesy and discipline, personal ap-
pearance, ability of officers and
commissioned officers to COM
mand and instruct, percentage of
attendance at drills. and progress
in training.
For its high ratings in those
fields the Milford company will get
temporary possession of the Del
aware Fighting Cock" and perma-
nent possession of a cloth diamond
both for the cOmpany's guidon.
The fighting cock is a metal fig
ure to be placed on top of the
guidon staff. 1t will distinguish the
current holder of the efficiency
award, to be made every three
months.
The cloth diamond is to be sewn
on the guidon, which is the triangu-
lar company flag, and will remain
as a permanent Evidence of the
award.
Company e is commanded by
Captain Joseph H. Prettyman,
First Lieutenant Lawrence C. Lap
etina. and Second Lieutenant Jacob
Fl. Roosa, Jr.
1t was also announced that COM
petitions will be held in rife shoot
ing for the men and pistol shooting
for the officers, with the final
rounds to be held on GoYernors
Day dining The guards summer
camping period at Fort dupont.
which has been arranged for July
30 to August s.
All the state guard outfits will
shoot by squads, and the best
squad will be selected for the COM
petition. plans for which were pre-
sented by Lieutenant-C Colonel Vic
tor Clark and Lieutenant John Cole.
There will also be a platoon COM
petition. The 10 best men from
each company will be chosen 10
each company in the final
championship to be held on Cover
nor's Day. The top 10 men will be
known as the governors ten" and
will represent the battalion in
matches with guard units from
other states.
The officers will compete with
pistols for an individual champion
ship. Training for the competitions
will be part of the winter and .
spring program of the guard, which
will hold firing practice in the ar
mories.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
OPA STAFFS GUESTS
HARRINGTON DINNER
]. H. Burgess, Public Relations
Executive, Master Of Ceremonies

Members of the Kent and Sus-
sex OPA stats, including members
of local rationing boards, panels,
and employees attended dinner
party Wednesday in the Harring-
ton Town Hall. Members of boards,
panel members, and employees in
New Castle county also attended.
J. Harvey Burgess, public rela-
tions executive of the state 0PA
office. was master of ceremonies. "A
program of entertainment was pre-
sented following the dinner. Infor-
NAL discussions were held on 0PA
problems in Delaware.
Elias Tingle, chief clerk Of the
rationing board at Frankford. and
j. Francis Blaine. state rationing
executive, we're in charge OF arr
rangements.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
r. E. A. Group
Elected New
Officers Here
On Monday
James w. w. Baker OF
Georgetown, President,
Paris C. Kirby Of Mil
ford, Vice President Of
Electrical Group.

Approximately $50 patrons of the
Rural Electrification Association
met at the community building,
this city. on Monday evening past to
elect officers and discuss business
methods for the year 1914.
Officers elected are President,
James w. w. Baker of Georgetown;
vice president, Paris c. Kirby, of
Milford; secretary and treasurer,
T.. Laird Kratz of Greenwood; di-
rectors, Norval Pepper, Seaford;
Francis L. Gum, Jr., Frankford; C.
Stanley Short, Cheswold, and
Thomas Chambers, Harrington.
The manager is Robert Jefferson.
Following the election of officers
and general discussion a picture
Soldiers of the Soil'' was shown.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Civilians Are Due
For Drastic Cuts
Fruits To BE Slashed 1870 And
Vegetables By 1870

Civilians are due for a AZ per
cent cut in canned fruits and 10
per cent cut in canned vegetables
this year. a War Food Administra-
tion official told the Food Process
ors' Convention this week.
C. w. Kitchen. deputy of the Of
flee of distribution of the VIA.
said new order signed last Friday
allots civilians II million cases of
IL canned fruit items for the 1914
As season as against 80 million last
year, and grants them 104 million
cases of IA vegetable items this
year as compared with 12S million
cases last season.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Orders Placed For
Conservation Aids
After 1914 AAA Program Was Set
After 1894 Program Was Set Up

Farm orders for 2.400 tons of
soil conservation materials were
filed in Kent and Sussex counties
within few hours after the Della
ware Agricultural Adjustment
Agency announced its 1914 conser-
walton materials plan and awarded
contracts to furnish the materials.
Orders have already been re-
ceived at the Sussex county AAA
Office for 1900 tons of hydrated
lime and 500 tons OF ground burnt
lime. Kent county farmers rushed
in orders for 450 tons Of ground
limestone, 200 tons of ground
burnt lime and so tons of 20 per
cent superphosphate.
These materials will be applied
to the soil to increase yields of
war foods and to build soil fertili-
ty. The cost OF the materials pur-
chased under the AAA contracts
will be deducted from. the farms
1914 AAA payment up to farms
production allowance.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Here Are Some Dates 1t viii
Pay You To Keep In Mind
ps now valid for meats and fats.

fTOWh staIhpS HOW VdlIu IUI lleds anu IdVs
February S0-Sta using brown stamps
day G. II and stamps.
February 26-Last brown v and brown stamps
February 27-Sta AS BIS CS
stamp worth 10 and expires May 90
Ration will be where change is required
Start using AS BIS CS and ES blue stamps for pocessd
food good points each and expiring May 20.
March 13- Last day Period 3 fuel oil coupons
March 20Last day and brown stamps, and X,
and green stamps
March sIIst 80 in Book for five pounds of
(ShOes-Book stamp IS and book stamp on "arplane"
sheet good indefinitely.
Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18
Seek $500 Captives
For Delaware
But War Prisoners viii Not BE
Utilized In Industrial Centers

Pointing out tha% employment
contracts for $500 prisoners of war
as workers have been submitted by
Delaware employers to the War
ManpOwer Commission and certified
to the regional Office. Director Ell
mer II. Smith stated this week that
no attempt will he made to place
them in industrial centers.
He further declared that the
Army will designate the areas in
which they can be employed.
Mr.. Smith. in speaking to the
Delaware Chapter. International
Association of Public Employment
Services at the Y. NJ. C. A. in Will
mington. said the contracts have
been certified to Frank l.. Mac
Nance of Philadelphia, regional di-
rector of the VINO for Pennsylva-
mia. Delaware and New Jersey.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-02-18

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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-18
PLANNING LEADER
WILL VISIT HERE

Walter H. Butcher Of Chicago.
executive director of the American
Society of Planning officials, will
come here soon to confer with the
City Planning board about the de-,
velopment of a master plan for,
Wilmington, J. Fred Rippy, Jr.r
board secretary, said yesterday. E
"The idea of Blucher's meeting
with the board" Rippy said, lis
for him to give some constructive
advice and suggest methods OR the.
proper procedure in working up the
city's master plan, which includes
development of traffic, parks and
Fairgrounds, housing, transit
routes, public works. zoning, and
other phases Of city betterment."
The finished aerial photograph
taken of the city about two months
ago by Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Of
by Fairchild Aerial Surveys, of
New York, is expected to arrive
here early this week. Rippy $ a id
the photograph would be useful in
city planning and of aid to the
engineering department.