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Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Rev. Defiant To Speak
On Higginbottom
Service HOnOring Pioneer Mission
airy VIII Be Held Sunday

Millions of Christians all over
the world know DIR. Sam lIiggin-
bottom, pioneer Agricultural Miss
ionary to India. The Allahabad
Agricultural Institute has farm
of 600 acres, with buildings and
equipment for a student body Of
40. 1t gives college degrees in
all branches of agriculture and in
home economics. Its work is rec
ognized by native Indian leaders
such as Ghandi and Nehru, as we'll
as by the highest government Off
Gals.
DR.. Higginbottom retires today
after Al years of service to India.
In recognition of his work. the
Presbyterians and IL other denom-
nations will raise fund OF $780,
900. This fund will supply build
ings and equipment to double the
student body.
Rev. John NJ. DeChant of the
Presbyterian Church will preach
Sunday on Dr.. Higginbottom's
work and life.
Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Health Aids Are
Given To Teachers
distribution OF Information Made
BY State Board OF Health

Under the title OF Health as I'M
pcrtant As the Three RS" an ex-
tensive exhibit of health education
materials was shown at the annual
convention of the Delaware State
Education Association last week in
Wilmington by Katherine Franklin.
director of the Division of Public
Health Information of the State
Board of Health. There was free
distribution of pamphlets and pos
ters designed to aid teachers in
presenting health subjects in their
classrooms, whether they were
teaching in primary school, gram
mar grades. or high school. Sub
jects ranged from traffic safety to
nutrition. dental health to commu-
nicable disease.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Count OF Absentee
Ballots Is Explained
Service Votes To BE Tabulated
Same Time As Regular Ones

The absentee ballots OF Delaware
men and women of the armed forces
will be counted at the same time
all others will be counted after
the close of the polling places on
election night.
The election night fluctuations,
however. will constitute only the
unofficial returns for counties and
the state. The official canvass will
be made, as in past years, by the
Superior Court of each county, sit
ting as a board Of canvass on
Thursday. November 0. two days
after election day.
Erroneous Impression
Secretary of State William J.
Storey made this explanation this
week to eliminate a wide spread
impression that the ballots OF men
and women of the armed services
will net be counted until Novem-
Der which is erroneous excepting
in so far as the official canvass is
concerned.
The clerk OF the peace of each
county, under the absentee voting
law, receives absentee ballots only
up to IL o'clock noon on election
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Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27

War Bond, turkey and many. other
valuable prizes.
Those who were fortunate
enough to attend the festival last
year remember the great time they
had. and this years festival prom
Uses to be head and shoulders
ahead of last years outstanding
event.
Come early and stay late and re-
member that the proceeds will he
used by the Kiwanians in this COM
munity to further their efforts in
boys and girls work.
The affair will be held in the
atmosphere of wide-open spaces.
Come dressed in your old garden
toys. for who knows you might be
called to catch the creased pig or
climb the creased pole or fish an
apple out Of the old swimming
hole.
Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Communication At
Temple Lodge Tonight
Special Program Has Been Arrang-
ed For The Evening

Temple Lodge, No. 8, A. F. and
A. NJ, of Milford, will hold its
regular communication this Fri
day evening. October 81, in the
temple on N. w. Front street.
Due to the fact that the evening
has been set aside for a special
program arranged by the enter
tainment committee no work is
scheduled. This committee is COM
posed of Past Masters M. HasweH
Pierce, Warren T. Moore and Past
Grand Master George T. MackIin.
Heading the program on Friday
night is Past Grand Master George
T. Macklin, who will deliver an
address on the first fifty years OF
Temple Lodge from its founding
in 1915 up to and including the
Civil War to 1865.
Past Grand Master Macklin has
conducted quite a bit of research
in preparing his address, using the
original minutes of Temple Lodge
as entered during those years.
Members Of Temple Lodge will
be surprised to learn how close
their lodge followed the English
customs in those days, that are
still used today in Masonic Lodges
in England. Another interesting
matter brought to light that will be
elaborated upon by the speaker Is
the comforting of degrees in those
days that are no longer conferred
by the Blue Lodge.
Worshipful Master Frank L.
Sapp will preside at the communi-
cation that will begin promptly at
eight o'clock He has requested
the attendance Of ali members of
Temple Lodge. Masons, whether
member of Temple Lodge or not,
are cordially invited.
Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
DR.. Geo. p. Jones,
Minister, Is Dead
Former Milford Avenue Church
Pastor Dies At 80 Years

The Rev. DR.. George Perry
Jones, so years old, member oil
the Peninsula Conference of the
Methodist Church, and a former
superintendent Of the Salisbury
District, died Saturday morning
October IA, at his home In Mystic
Conn. where he had lived since
retiring from the Peninsula Con-
ference in 1929.
The funeral was held on Monday
October 16, with services in the
First Baptist Church at Groton,
Conn.,, of which he was pastor en-
eritus. Interment was made at
Mystic.
Surviving DR.. Jones are his wife,
Mrs, Ida Matthews Jones, and two
children. Edward Matthews Jones,
of Mystic. and Miss Martha Jones,
of Pawtucket, r. /.
Dr. Jones was born in Somerset
County, Maryland, January 10,
1864. He entered the Peninsula
Conference. at that time the Will
mington Conference, in 1891, and
served as pastor of Chincoteague,
Va, Selbyville, Cherry Hill, Mil
ford, Townsend, Mddletown, Hur-
lock, Elkton and Brandywine
Church in Wilmington. He was SUI
perintendent of the Salisbury Dis
trict for six years. DR.. Jones also
served as treasurer Of the Confer
ence Claimants Endowment Com
mission several terms, and was
corresponding secretary Of the
same commission for two years.
DR.. Jones was a member OF
Lodge, No. 9, A. F. and A.
NJ, at Milford, OF the Delaware
Consistory. the Thomas ]. Shryock
Commandery No. IL, Knights Tenn
plar at Salisbury, Md, and OF the
Mystic Shrine.
Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Ordnance Company
Local To Hold Dance
Gala Affair WIN Be Held In Arm
DRY Here Tomorrow Night

An evening of fun and merri-
ment is scheduled for Saturday,
October 2S, at the Milford Armory
when employees of Milford Ord
nance Company and their guests
will dance to the music of George
Madden and his orchestra.
Included in the program are Paul
Jones, square and modern dancing.
A committee headed by Florence
Galloway. is making elaborate
plans for the affair.
Guest of the evening will be John
Kmetz, Of Washington, ID. c., pres
ident of District SO, United Mine
Workers Of America, who will adj
dress the gathering.
Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Democrat Speakers
Announced In Kent
Big Rally win Be Held Here On
Saturday. NOIembcr 4

Speakers for -four forthcoming
Democratic rallies in Kent county
have been announced by Willard
d. Boyce, chairman of the Kent
County Democratic Committee.
AT a rally in the fire house at
Frederick tonight, Friday, October
q. Wright C. Dizer, Wilmington,
will be the speaker; at rally in
the Harrington Century Club next
Tuesday night, lack w, Wells
will be the speaker; in the Hartly
fire house Wednesday night of next
week, u. S. Senator James M. Tun-
mel is to be the speaker, and in
the Smyrna Century Club on Thurs
day night, November 2, James NJ.
Tunnel, Jr.. will be the speaker.
State and county candidates will
attend the meetings.
The place and speaker for a rail-
" to be held in Milford on Satur-
day November 4, win be announced
later.
Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Kent G. O. p. House Nominees
Defend Their Assembly Record

go on record concerning an edi-
torial attack made upon them by
a Dover newspaper.
We are not ashamed of our Off
cial acts in the last session of the
Legislature. We acted in a man
ner we deemed to represent ma
jority of the residents of our re-
spective districts on all matters to
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Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Military Program
Presented At Rotary
Captain II. John AmatO, Flying Sur
geOn, Guest Speaker Monday Night

Captain r. John Amato. flying
surgeon. recently returned from
thirty months service in the South
Pacific. and now assistant flight
surgeon at the Dover Air Base, was
guest speaker on Past President
Harry ]. Pettyjohn's program at
Rotary Monday evening of this
week.
Captain Amato told of many of
his experiences in the South Pa
cific, flying with the men who wrote
and are writing one of the most
glorious pages in the history of
American Arms.
In introducing each of the speak
ers on the program, Chairman
Harry used the theme These
Changing Times showing how
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Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27

Howard f. Schweitzer of the
Fourth Representative District;
Benjamin f. johnson Of the Fifth
representative District; Thomas
E. Moore. Of the Eighth Represen-
tative District, and George A. Swain
of the Tenth Representative Dis
trict, all Republican candidates for
reelection as representatives in
the General Assembly, desire to
Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Sussex Home Makers
To Meet November I
DUPONT Home Economist
And Norwegian Refugee
To Be Speakers

The annual meeting of Sussex
county home demonstration clubs
will be held on Wednesday. Novem-
Der /, at the Jones Memorial Hall
in Georgetown. Since an unusual
ly interesting program has been
planned for this meeting this year,
the public is invited to attend
either. or both, of the sessions. ac-
cording to Miss Gertrude Hollo-
way. home demonstration agent.
Two speakers will headline the
afternoon program.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Gov. Bacon Stresses
The Small Number
Of State Employees
LIST PLACES FOR
"A" REGISTRATION

Registration places that
will be open for issuance of
A gas books-besides the
regular ration Offices.
In the area.
In addition to the ration
boards:
FELTON, Public School.
Frederick Fire House.
Bridgeville Fire Co. Bldg.
Elldendale Fire Co. Bldg.
Greenwood Fire Co. Bldg.
Carlisle Fire Co.. Milford.
Rehoboth Town Hall.
Moore's Garage in Lewes.
Milton Town Hall.
Millsboro Fire Hall.
Millville Fire Hall.
Selbyville Town Board Of
flee.
Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
Milford C. Of C.
HOnOrs Local
Guard Unit
Company C Entertained
At Banquet, Second
Award Of Merit Given
By Col. J. p. HeineI.

Members of Company c. the Mil
ford company of the Delaware
State Guard, were guests of honor
last Friday night at the fourth an
nual banquet of the Milford Cham
Der OF Commerce in the Varney
Auditorium Of the Community
Building.
The officers of Company C are
Captain ]. Holland Prettyman, who
thanked the chamber for their
thoughtfulness in extending the in
vitation and honor and Lieutenants
Laurence Lapetina and Jacob H.
Roosa.
The meeting was opened with
an address of welcome by Mayor
E. C. Evans. NJ. Haswell Pierce, a
past president of the chamber, was
postmaster.
President Gives Report
Edwin L. Fisher, retiring presi-
dent of the chamber. gave a report
of Milford's participation in the
war effort and revealed that indus
tries of the town had produced
$37, 100000 in goods under govern
ment contracts during the past ten
months and had used 100000 man
hours in this work. Citizens of Mil
ford purchased $1,250,000 in war
bonds during that period. Mr..
Fisher also told of improvements
secured for the city by the cham
Der. including the freezing plant.
and the dredging of the Mispillion
River. which is now going on. Con-
gresham Earle d. Wiley was par
ticularly helpful in securing the
necessary fund to carry out the
dredging improvement. Mr.. Fisher
also mentioned the Army Relief
Fund benefit movie, which the
backed and which secur-
ed s1.233.00 for the fund.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
High Land Values To
Be Serious Problem
II. A. johnson, U. Of d. Agricultur.
al Economist, Sizes Up Situation

zone of the most serious of our
postwar agricultural problems
will be the necessary downward
reimbursement of land values to the
point where capitalized or sales
values are in line with the earning
power OF the SOIL" says Hugh A.
Johnson, agricultural economist at
the University of Delaware.
MIR. Johnson points out that, as
in the last war, both numbers Of
transfers and land values have in
creased sharply. In Delaware,
where the general trend has been
about the same as for the rest Of
the country, voluntary sales per
100 farms have doubled since 1871
and 1912. A survey of land market
activity in Sussex County indicates
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Milford chronicle., 1944-10-27
State College To Play
Howard University

Dover At Homecoming Game
Coach Thomas Tank" Conrad's
Delaware State College Hornets
will meet the Howard University
Bisons in the Homecoming Game"
scheduled at Dover. Saturday, No
vember 4. Both Delaware and How
ard have returned to the gridiron
this season after an absence of one
year. Alumni of both schools
throughout this area will assemble
to witness the renewal OF this ira
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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
C. M. College
Begins 1914
Commencement

Kosciusko, Miss.-The following
commencement program for the
Central Mississippi College, Kosci-
usko, Mississippi, has been released
as follows:
Wednesday night, May 3rd, 800
p. m, Grammar School Department
play: Nobody's Darling; sponsor,
Mrs. c. A. Garland.
Thursday night, May II, 8 p. M,
Junior High School Department,
Drama: Truth Crushed to Earth
Shall Rise Again" Sponsor, Mrs.
c. A. Garland.
Thursday evening, 3 p. m. An
nual picnic.
Sunday, May IA, p. M, Bacca-
laureate Sermon, First Baptist
Church, by Pastor, Rev. R. c. Ing
ram.
Monday night, May IA, 8 p. M,
Primary Department, Sponsor, Mrs
D. D. Lynch and Mrs. Mary L.
Alick.
Tuesday night, May Is, p. M,
intermediate Department play: TOO
Much Of A Good Thing" Spon-
sor, Mrs. L. w. Henry.
Wednesday night May II, 8 p. M,
Glass Night Exercises; Play: Look
Me In The Eye" Sponsor, Mrs. Ma
bel Dunlap
On Thursday morning at II a. M
the Graduating Exercises will be
held, with the address being given
by Mrs. Leora NJ Farley, Jeanes
Supervisor, Attala County.
The class roll is as follows: Clara
Lloyd, president; Bernice Mercy
nolds, vice president; Louise Gee
secretary; Bernadine Jamison, as
sistant secretary; Velma Johnson
treasurer; Omeira Boxton, Mary R.
Griffin, Mary D. Munson.
At 3 p. M, Thursday, May 10, the
General Board will meet Chairman
Rev. J. w. Gayden, Prof. S. S
Lynch, president
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Farm Need 2
Million Boys,
Girls, Women

Of an estimated 100000 extra
farm workers needed this year, it
is expected that about 100000 will
be boys and girls under 18 years
of age and about 100000 will be
women, according to the War Food
Administration. The total to be re-
cruited, VIA said, is expected to
include many who worked on the
farm last year on acations and dur
ing spare time.
These extra workers, VIA said,
will be needed in 1914 to supple
ment the efforts of the regular
farm labor force in the production
of another record crop to meet
the increasing demands of war.
The regular farm labor force, num-
bering about 100000 persons, con-
sists of all farmers and members
of their families regularly employ
ed in farm work, plus their year
round hired workers.
VIA said the 48 state extension
services have set up $3.50 place
ment offices throughout the 1900
counties in the United States These
offices are designed to aid the
farmer in obtaining the necessary
labor he needs in connection with
planting, cultiating, and harvesting
his crops, and for care of his live
stock.
VIA reported that the 100000
goal for 1914 is an increase of
100000 Ger the estimated 100000
workers who supplemented the
regular force in 1943. Most of this
increase will have to come from
the ranks of women and youth,
since the number of available men
is not expected to be larger than
last year.
Of the 100000 different work.
ers who supplemented the regular
force in 1913, about 100000 were
youth and about 100000 were wom-
en-, VIA reported. The youth who
help with farm work become Vic
tory Farm Volunteers, while the
women workers make up the Wom-
ems Land Army.
Although workers needed to sup
plement the regular farm labor
force will be encouraged to make
their own arrangements with the
farmers. it is expected that the ex-
tension placement offices will be
called upon to recruit and place
at least 100000 or 1hore of the
estimated 100000 workers needed.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
House Wives
Advised On Fish
Varieties

The 1914 supply of fish will not
be sufficient to meet increased war
time civilian demands for protein
foods in addition to military and
lend-lease requirements, according
to the Office of the Coordinator of
Fisheries, Department of the Inter
ior, and the War Food Administra-
ton.
To increase the domestic supply,
Amrican housewives may substitute
fresh water varieties of fish, includ-
ing carp, bowfin, and buffalo fish,
or fillets of shark, or may use mus
sells, which are now coming in sea-
son and which in 1943 gained in
popularity as a food with Ameri-
cans, the Office of the Coordinator
of Fisheries said.
The 1914 pack of salmon, canned
fish leading in popularity with the
American consumers, will be nc
larger and possibly not as large as
in 1943, according to the Coordinat-
or of Fisheries.
The War Food Administration ex-
poets that meat will be produced
in c0nSi6erab1v larger quantities
than in 1913. Civilians are expected
to receive slightly more meat this
year than the 131-pound per capits
consumption in 1943 Most of the
increase, however, is likely to be
absorbed by the requirements OF
the military forces. the War Food
Administration said.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Men Over 29
Are Urged For
Essential Work

Employers are requested to en-
ploy in essential war work all men
above the age of 90, and if there is
any doubt in their minds in regard
to this, to contact the local selective
service board or the state director
in regard to this employment.
Selective service is processing for
induction, as rapidly as is consis-
tent with good operations, all men
under the age of 26 on or before
March "a, 1914, to be indicted on
or before July l, 1914 It is planned
to prepare for and start induction
of men between the ages of rs to
80 on July 1, 1914. There are many
men within the state of Mississippi
who have been qualified for class
IA, and even considerable num-
Der ordered for induction who are
above the age of %. It is not an
ticipated to use this group, and yet
selective service cannot reclassify
these registrants until they obtain
some essential war work.
Colonel L. w. Long, state direc-
tor, stated that selective service is
very anxious for every essential
employer. (either industry, agricul-
ture, or supporting activitieSJ to
cooperate in the plan of employing
discharged veterans of this war,
registrants who have been found
unfit for military service (class
IV-F and men over 20 years of
age. He further stated that for
the past ten months, all class 1V-F
registrants who have sought and
obtained essential employment in
Mississippi have been reclassified
into class warranting occupational
deferment, such as class ia, lib.
or nc. Men who are in Class Ia
cannot be reclassified by the local
boards at this time, but will be
reclassified on the basis of their
continued employment in essential
Warwork. The local selective SER
vice boards should be informed by
the registrant and the employer
when employment is started and
what it consists of.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
$685. State War
Mothers And
Babies Cared For

Care was authorized, under the
Emergency Maternity and Infant
Care program, for more than 1900
wives and infants of servicemen
in March, Katharine F. Lenroo,
Chief of the Children's Bureau, U.
S. Department Of Labor, reported
today. This was a monthly record
and brought the total to approx
mately 10000 for one year-from
the beginning of the program in
April, 1943, through March 81,
1914.
The medical and hospital care
which the government provides
under the EMIC program has been
highly praised as a morale factor
by Vice Admiral Ross T. McIn-
tyre and Major General Norman
T. Kirk, surgeons general of the
Navy and Army, respectively, Miss
Lenroot said. They joined recently
in expressing appreciation of the
contribution doctors, hospitals, and
nurses are making under this war
time program to instill greater
confidence in the country's fight
| ing men overseas.
About 10 percent of the cases
now being approved under the
EM1C program are for medical and
hospital care of infants, Miss Len
root said She pointed out that
servicemen's babies, when they be-
come sick, are eligible for this
care for one year even though
the mother was not cared for under
the program at the time of the in
fant's birth.
Many states, Miss Lenroot report
ed, are providing additional care
for these families through we'll
baby centers to which the mothers
/ are urged to take their infants reg
ularly.
1--WE intend to have a fine LOT
of healthy youngsters waiting when
their fathers come marching home,
she said.
The EMIC program provides care
for wives and infants of men in
the four lowest pay grades of the
Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Ma
rine Corps
The total for Mississippi in March
was ITO; total for state as of March
$685..
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-05-06
Ex. Board OF Miss. Federation
Meet At jackson College
Elect Delegates To
Southeastern Meet
Ruby E. Suits Lyells

Alcorn, Miss. - The Executive
Board of the Mississippi Fedora
ton Of Colored Women's Clubs met
on the campus of Jackson College
last Saturday. Mrs. E. B. Miller,
chairman of the Board, called the
meeting to order at 1915, and pre-
sided over the forenoon and after
noon sessions.
Development of the recreation
center at Clinton, Miss, was among
the major items of business pre-
sented by the chairman. The special
committee reported that several
camps have been scheduled for the
camping season, beginning June l.
Among the groups which have used
the Clinton facilities, booked this
season are: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
the William Johnson Bethlehem
Center of Jackson, and the Fellow
ship of Reconciliation Interracial
Work Camp.
Mrs. j. E. Johnson, Prentiss, and
Mrs. NJ. M. Hubert, Jackson, presi-
dents of the Southeastern and the
Mississippi State declarations, re-
spectively, spoke of the work of
their organizations. Seven delegates
were elected to attend the South
eastern Federation Biennial meet
ing in Memphis July and 10.
Those were: Mesdames E. Redmond,
Jackson; Strauther, Vicksburg; Rog-
ers, Canton; G. Williams, Oakley;
B. R. CHM, McComb; NJ Coleman,
Natchez; and R. c. Lee, Lexington.
Members of the Board of the South
eastern Federation are Mesdames
E. B. Miller, Yacoo City; Mrs. L. c.
Jefferson, Vicksburg; M. M HUI
bert, Jackson; E. H Harris, Brook
haven; M. J. Lyells, Alcorn, and
Miss F. O. Alexander, Jackson.
Several new members of the Ex-
ecutive Board present were: Pro-
fessors A. M. Rogers, Canton, and
NJ ]. Lyells, Alcorn, and Mrs. Ran
dolf.
Other members of the Board who
contributed to the discussions in
Guided NIesdames w. w. Blackburn,
JdVkson; D. t. Hall, Jackson; M
B. r. Warren, Vicksburg; D. B.
Reed, Laurel, and Mr.. L. c. Har-
per, Pinola.
Mrs. L. c. Jefferson, Treasurer,
reported that over $4,000 was col
lected during the meeting from
clubs which responded to the board
special request that each club con-
tribute $1,000 toward the develop
ment of the recreation center.