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Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
HOAIENIAKERS EXHIBIT HERE
Many Articles on Display in Win
dow in Fretz Building

Considerable interest has been
shown in the displays arranged by
two Home Demonstration Clubs in
the downtown windows in Smyrna
in observance of National Home
Demonstration Week. The work
is so varied and so excellent that
many women have asked how to
go about joining the clubs so they
may learn to do such handiwork.
The Smyrna Homemakers Club
used two windows in the Fretz
Building and among the articles
shown were hooked rugs, braided
rugs, patchwork quilts, crocheted
bedspreads, pillows, hand-woven
articles, canned fruits and veget-
ables. The Friendly Neighbors
Home Demonstration Club of
Blackbird and Taylor's Bridge had
colorful display in the Jones
window, with painted and decorat-
ed chairs, a bed-spread, home
made soap and furniture polish,
dresses, sun suits, hooked rug,
hand-woven bags, and canned fruit
and vegetables. The Kent County
agent at present in charge of the
work of the clubs is Mrs. Betty 10
Newcomb, a Smyrna resident and
a graduate of Women's College,
University of Delaware.
Hold Meeting To-day
The Smyrna Homemakers Club
will meet today, Thursday, May 16
at the home of Mrs. William Now
land with Mrs. George Fleming as
co-hostess. The topic for discus
sion will be "The Treatment of
Windows"
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
OPERETTA AT
SCHOOL FRIDAY
Honey Pirates" Operetta in
Two Acts Presented at
School Tomorrow Night
ADMISSION FREE

An operetta in two acts entitled
Honey Pirates" will be given by
the elementary school in the school
auditorium on Friday evening,
May II, at s o'clock. The produc-
tion is under the direction of Mrs.
Evalyn Stroup, teacher of music,
assisted by the following elemen-
tary teachers: Miss Bessie c. Mat
thews, Mrs. Doris T. Smith, Miss
Helen Scout, Miss Arie Hill, Mrs.
Ruth Piper, Mrs. Julia Slaughter,
Mrs. Pauline Matthews, Mrs. Ethel
Powell, Mrs. Lulu Ricards, Mrs.
Charles King, Miss Caroline Stats,
Mrs. Elizabeth Knots. The main
characters in the operetta are
Patricia Ryan, James Mood, John
Doughten, John Hopkins, Carol
Lee Green, Barbara Stats, Robert
Green, Bobby Reed, Philip Deamer,
Ronald Stevens, George Scuse,
Wayne Hutchins, Alice Mood, and
a supporting cast from grades 1
through 6. All parents, friends,
and patrons are urgently requested
to witness this production, admis-
sion is free. The date is Friday,
May II, the time s p. M, and the
place is the high school auditor
ium.
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Mrs. RidgeIy Nicl1erson, 7S, Died
at Residence of Her Son MAY IL

Mrs. Mary I. Nickerson, widow of
Ridgely Nickerson, age 73, died at
the residence of her son, Thomas
Wyatt Nickerson, Saturday, May
IL. Funeral services were held at
the w, A. FAIRIES and Son Funeral
Chapel, Tuesday afternoon, May
IA, at 200 o'clock, the Rev. R. w.
Kirwan, Clayton, in charge. Inter
ment was in Odd Fellows Gene
terry, Smyrna. She is survived by
two children; James 1. Nickerson,
Norfolk; Thomas Wyatt Nicker-
son, Smyrna, four grandchildren,
and the following brothers and sis
ters: Mrs. t. E. Sylvester, Clay
ton; Mrs. Alfred Rich, Philadel-
phia; William Mabrey, Clayton
and Raymond Mabrey, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
CLAYTON LOAN ASSO. MEET
Held Annual Stockholders Meeting
Tuesday, NAV 1-Officers Elected

AuOSuA'J, Nny lOmCcIS LltCt&u
At the Annual Stockholders
meeting of the Clayton Savings
and Loan Association held at the
office of the Secretary, Mr.. Seville
Keys, Tuesday, May IA, the fol-
lowing officers and directors were
duly elected. Walter R. Keys, pres
ident; John ]. Roth, vice-president;
Julian H. Dunning, secretary; Carl
A. Hurd, treasurer. Mr.. C. w.
Hall was elected director in place
of John j. Roth, term expiring in
194S. Mr.. Harry ]. Lower and
Mr.. John w. Urian were elected
for a term of three years, terms
expiring 1949. Seville Keys, who
has been secretary for the past
ten years, resigned. All payments
to the Association will now be
paid to the new secretary, Julian
H. Dunning, at his home on Wash
ington Ave-, Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
SCOUT TALK AT
ROTARY MEET
Frederic r. Wellington, Scout
Executive, Outlined Scope
of Activities of Adults
FORMING TROOP HERE

Frederic R. wellington, of Will
mington, scout executive for the
Delmarva district, Boy Scouts of
America, outlined before the
Smyrna Rotary Club last Thurs
day night at the Wayside Inn the
scope of the thousands of adults
who now participate in the scout
program. Many, he stated, take
active parts as counsellors. He
also cited that women are now
active in the family groups known
as cubs scouts. Smyrna, part of
the Dover district, has given many
boys of merit to scouting. The
Smyrna Rotary Club, long a spon-
sor of the Boy Scouts in Smyrna,
has reorganized the troop with
Ralph Peters as scoutmaster and
William Short as assistant. The
executives of the district council
are ready to assist in the planning
and carrying out of programs of
interest to boys. William e. Mat
thews, Jr., made the response and
thanked the speaker on behalf of
of the club. Millaway Broadway
was chairman of program. The
Rev. R. E. Green presided and AL
bert Newcomb led group singing.
Guests included the Rev. Essell P.
Thomas, Charles Burrous, Albert
Regenauer, and Charles Poore,
Junior Rotarian.
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
MILLER TOHEAD
STATE SCHOOLS
Former Superintendent of
Schools Here Elected to
Head State Schools
SUCCEEDS DR.HOLLOWAY

Former superintendent of the
Smyrna Special School District,
DR.. George R. Miller, school super
intendent of Salem, N. j., was
elected state superintendent of
public instruction for the next
school year by the. State Board of
Education last Friday, He will
succeed DR.. H. v. Holloway, Dover,
who will retire at the conclusion
of the present school year after
occupying the Office for the past
% years. DR.. Miller, who is So
years old, is a graduate of Easton,
Pa, High School, and Lafayette
College, and received his masters
degree at Columbia University, his
doctors degree at New York Uni
versity, where his thesis was on
"Adolescent Negro Education in
the State of Delaware"
In Smyrna From '37 to IA
Previous to 1880, he was teach
er, supervising principal and head
of the foreign language depart
ment at the Junior College of
Asheville, N. C. From 1880 to
1887, he was Kent County super
visor of schools, from 1887 to 1914
he served as superintendent of the
Smyrna Special School District,
and since 1914 has been superin-
tendent of the Salem, N. ]. schools.
DR.. Miller taught in summer
school at the University of Della
ware in 1881, and on a leave of alb
sence in 1886 taught full year in
the New York University depart
ment of teacher training. DR.. Mill
er was elected at an executive
meeting of the education board
following completion of its routine
agenda of business. All members
attended with DR.. James Beebe,
Lewis, president, presiding. His af-
filiations have been: Phi Beta Kap-
pa, Ihi Adelta Kappa, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, Masons, Delaware Con-
sistory, Scottish Rite of Freemas-
onry; Boy Scout Council, Rotary
Club executive committee, Y. M.
c. A. board of directors, American
Legion oratorical contest district
chairman, Salem City Library
Board, Salem Recreation Council,
American Association of School
Administrators, National Educa-
ton Association, Delaware State
Education Association, New Jersey
Educational Association, Salem
Educational Association; member
of Equal Educational Opportuni-
ties, and Inter- Cultural Relations
Committees of the National Edu-
cation Association; past president
of the Delaware State Education
Association; past president of the
Smyrna Rotary Club, and vice.
commander of David C. Harrison
Post, American Legion, Smyrna
DIR. Miller whose wife is a native
of Frederica, had expressed de-
sire to return Delaware.
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
Death of Mrs. Fannie Moore, 85

The funeral for Mrs. Fannie
Knots Moore, 85, was held from
the William A. FAIRIES and Son
Funeral Chapel, Smyrna, Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the
Rev. Wilson C. Moore of Dover,
officiating. Interment was in Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Camden. Mrs.
Moore, the widow of Thomas H.
Moore, died Wednesday, May 8, at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
May Green, West Philadelphia,
where she had been making her
home the past year. Other sur
vivors are two sons, o. Pierce
Moore, of Newport, and Owen K,
Moore of Smyrna; a brother, w.
George Knotts of Kenton; five
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
FIRE DRILL AT SCHOOL

612 Pupils and 80 Teachers Clear
Building in i Minute, ~ Seconds
Fire drills were conducted at
both the white and colored schools
during the past week by Superin-
tendent George w. Wright. The
white school, with 612 pupils and
80 teachers present, was cleared in
l minute 81 seconds from the init
ial sounding of the alarm. In the
colored school, with 136 pupils
and z teachers present, the build
ing was cleared upon the initial
sounding of the alarm in 35 Sec
onds. These fire drills are held
regularly in compliance with the
law, and the promptness in pupil
teacher response to these drills is
commendable.
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
TO BE HOST TO DOVER LODGE

Past Grand Master of Maryland
To Speak at A. #. & A. M. Meet
Union Lodge No. z, A. F. & A.
M, of Dover, will be the guests
this evening at 8 o'clock of the
local Masonic Lodge at their
rooms on South Main Street. Mr..
Harry Wright, Past Grand Master
of Maryland, of Preston, Md, will
be the principal speaker and an in
teresting talk is assured by this
noted orator. An interesting social
program has been arranged by the
committee in charge, and will in
clude musical selections on the ac-
cordian by Morgan L. Parry.
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
Poppy Day Saturday, May 25

Organization of the corps of vol
unteers who will distribute men,
orial poppies here on Poppy Day,
Saturday, May 25, has been COM
pleted, Mrs. Walter Downes, Pop
py Chairman of David G. Harrison
Unit of the American Legion Aux
iliary, has announced. The corps
is composed of members of the
Auxiliary, and young women from
Middletown, Townsend, Clayton,
and also the Girl Scouts.
Smyrna times., 1946-05-16
Regular Meeting Of w. S. G. S.

The regular meeting of the Wo-
mans Society of Christian Service
will meet in Asbury Methodist
Church, Tuesday evening, May FL,
at 8 o'clock. The program will be
in charge of Circle No. A, Mrs.
Thomas Jackson, leader, assisted
by Mrs. Norman Short. Devotions
will be conducted by Mrs. Clarence
Scuse.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Veteran Freed After Row
Over Boarders' Eviction

Roy Bell, %, a veteran of three
years Army duty in Europe, was &C
quilted in Municipal Court yester-
day OF two assault charges growing
out OF a quarrel which allegedly
started when he told four girls ano
a sailor they would have to move
out OF the boarding house at 1924
Massachusetts avenue NV, where
he was acting as manager.
Two of the girls, Miss Josephine
Syractse, 18, and Miss Norma
Bracken, 20, testified that on March
19 Mr.. Bell kicked them, beat them
and threw a 10-gallon coffee urn at
them in the dining room of the
house u hen they tried to discuss the
eviction notice with him.
Mr.. Bell, on the other hand, told
the cou II the two girls, in company
with twt others, attacked him after
he told them to move because they
were too noisy.
Henry Bourque, %, a radioman
&c, attached to the communication
section of the Navy Department,
said he was in the kitchen when
the fight started, but that he joined
IN ito protect the girls"
Evening star., 1946-04-12

Byrnes to order the expulsion from
this country of any enemy aliens
brought here from other American
nations during the war.
The proclamation said the aliens
would be allowed no more than 80
days to leave once Secretary Byrnes
determines their continued presence
Evening star., 1946-04-12

would prejudice "the future security
or welfare of the Americas"
The new regulations are in &C
cordance with recommendations
adopted by conference of the
American nations at Mexico City a
year ago.
Evening star., 1946-04-12

ton Hall at $3.50 pm May 9, it was
announced today.
The choir is directed by Charles
Dana Beaschler. Robert Nicholson,
Australian baritone, and William
Watkins, First Congregational
Church organiSt, will also take part.
Evening star., 1946-04-12
rs Symphony Members
To Appear With Choir

twenty-five members of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra will ap-
pear with the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church choir in con-
cert for overseas relief at Constitu-
Evening star., 1946-04-12
Truman Empowers Byrnes
To ExpeI Enemy Aliens

B, the Assocoied Press
A presidential proclamation yester-
| day empowered Secretary of State
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-21
The Highway Again

sWe'call the attention of the State Highway
Commission, and of Chairman Walter Spiva,
to- little highway accident we had down
here this week. Three young men from Mo-
bic, returning in an automobile, hit a dan
gsrous hump" that has developed in High
way 80 where the roadbed joins the Pasca-
gqula river bridge. The car was knocked out
Of control, crashed into the bridge rail, and
the men were painfully injured. The hump
has been caused by the settling of the APP
ptoach, so that the road now shoots up to
the bridge like a loop-the-loop. Most of US
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-21

or glass or ornithology. or half
a dozen other things. These folks
are a constant source Of wonder,
admiration and sometimes of
eavy to their friends.
On The other hand, there are
the dull people who learn slow
" all of their lives, and who do not
learn much. You meet these peo-
pie in every walk of life. II Is
not only the loafer or the vii
lage half-wit who belongs in this
class: it may sometimes be the
rich mans son, who has inherit
ed absolutely none of his fathers
ability. and who would probably
''starve to death" as the saying
goes if some capable man wert
not available to run the organ
izatiOn for him. This IS not al
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-21

here in Jackson county have hit this hump
often enough to know that a car must be
slowed down considerably below highway
speeds to avoid danger. But we are not the
only folks that use this heavily travelled high
way. The general public uses it too. People
are going to continue to hit this hump and
crash into the bridge.
1t only one more danger spot of a dozen
danger spots on a four mile span of road
between Pascagoula and Gautier-which is
the most dangerous stretch of highway in
Mississippi. How long, good members of the
highway commission, are you going to let
this road remain in such condition without
undertaking major repairs2
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-21
r. C. GulleY. Sr..
Succumbs Tuesday
In B~rookhuven

Robert c. Gulley, ST., died
Tuesday afternoon at the home OF
his son, George H. Gulley, in
Brookhaven after an illness of sew
eral months.
Mr.. Gulley had many friends in
Pascagoula where he managed the
Elks club for about two years
after his retirement from active
business. He is the father of R.
c. Gulley, Jr., prominent merchant
of Pascagoula and Walter R. Gull
ley, former mayor of this city.
He was born in North Carolina
but had made his home in Brook
haven for a number of years
where until his retirement, he
was engaged in the lumber bust
ness.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Thursday morning at 10 a. m.
in Brookhaven with interment in
the cemetery there.
He is survived by three daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Myra Hayworth of
Greensboro, N. c., Mrs. w. A.
Austin of Rawleigh, N. c., and
Mrs. Earl Hobbs of Brookhaven;
four sons, w. R., R.. c., of Pas
cagoula, Thomas of Little Rock,
Ark, and George H. Gulley of
Brookhaven; Is grandchildren
and five great grandchildren.
Mr.. R. c. Gulley and Rupert
Woodward, MI. Gullev's brother
in-law. went to Brookhaven Tues
day afternoon and driving up
Wednesday were Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Gulley and daughter, Ann,
and Mrs. r. c. Gulley and daugh-
ter, Marie.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-21

There T some individuals who
learn quickly and who range far
afield. They may be poor and
unedueated folks who are simp-
" noted for their ability to
build anything; to produce a
successful garden Of crop under
the most unfavorable conditions;
to build a house or take apart
and repair a truck motor, and
in general to be competent and
successful at anything they set
their hands to. There are others
of this sort, of more favored
circumstances in life and of bet
ter education. who become pro-
tieient or even experienced in
several fields-as professional,
men. as amateur musicians per-
hapS, or authorities on furniture
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-21

in Orange Grove a number of
years ago and we tried to draw
him out OF. TIE story of its con-
structios. since it is one of TIE
most attractive in this area.
But Uncle Gus reneged on that
one.
"You don't have time to hear
ali of that story now, he laugh
ingly told US, Come. around when
you have plenty of time. That
was some fight"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-21

The process Of learning some
thing, of mastering some process
which once seemed difficult. is
one of the great experiences in
lie. And the number of such
processes which the individual
masters from one stage Of his life
to another is a measure of how
completely. and generally of how
happily. he spends his allotted
span on earth. Some OF US are
mnre gifted. and some less gift
e. than the average run Of men.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-21

Out in Orange Grove, on the
eastern edge of Jackson County
and the State of Mississippi, we
visited this week with that sec
TONS patriarch and the county's
leading "elder statesman" He is
G.. A. Roberts, 81 years old,
who is known throughout the
county and a large part of the
state as Uncle Gus"
As Bernard Baruch of the Cen
trail Park bench fame has been
the adviser of presidents and
kings, so has Uncle Gus whose
desires range from service as a
humble constable to governor of
the state. He himself has served
as constable and members of the
board OF supervisors from his
district and the fact that he was
unsuccessful when he sought the
sheriff's job in this county did
not seem to lessen his political
prestige.
Uncle Gus was born at the Old
Roberts Ferry, near Hurley in
northeastern Jackson county, the
grandson of one of the original
Roberts settlers in this county,
who came here early in the 10Th
Century. He married his wife,
Alice Levonia johnson, just af-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-21

amended OPA bill" and claim he voted
for price control. not against It. That Is a
trick. good readers.
Senator Bilbo voted against keeping the
OPA in force as it now exists. He voted for
one amendment that would have killed 1t
lcompletely-removing price controls on
everything except metals. He voted for
every amendment to jack up the manufact-
urers' and the distributors profits. He voted
for every amendment that cut the heart out
sof OPA, and left it a lifeless carcass. Then,
when the actual price-control power of the
OPA had been killed by these amendments
he voted for, Senator Bilbo along with many
Others who wanted to hide what they had
actually had done, voted for the amended
OPA.,'s for an OPA stabbed to death oy
amendments. ,ees
We ourselves-here on the Chronicle-Star
ARE business men. We deal with business
men. We sell products on which price con-
trolls exist. If price controls. are removed, we
ourselves would be in a position to increase
book profits. But we do not like the idea of
a boom and initiation. We remember the last
depression and we don't want business to go
smash after a big wild boom. We think the
average sound business man has no complaint
with his present margin of profits. There
nave been no bank failures in two years. The
number of business failures per year has
fallen from $4,000 a year in 1899 to about
850-in the whole United States-in 1945. 1t
is not the little business men like us who are
clamoring for the removal of price controls.
1t is largely the tremendous manufacturers
the big operators. Bilbo's vote against price
control seems to US, in the long run, a vote
against the s%oundness of business, and there
fore against the little business man as well as
of the salaried man.
We expect the Senator to raise a lot of
smoke screens tonight. to crate and pound
the table. to- shout about the race question.
to shout about Communism. to shout about
the Yankees. He makes a fine speech and
we always enjoy seeing Bilbo on the stump.
But he is actually one of the worst public
servants we have ever had in Washington;
he has passed almost no legislation at all in
IL years except piddling bills effecting the
city of Washington-which is a long way
from Mississippi and its problems. In an ad
last week. the Senator Bilbo said he would
defend his brilliant record" He has no
brilliant record to defend.
Pascagoula, in actual proportions of its
population. is made up largely of shipyard
workers and other small salaried people.
There are also some 1000 veterans in this
county-many of them drawing and depend
ing on fixed service adjustment payments
of one sort or another and they will be hurt
by rising prices. And we ask our people to
search their souls whether they worked or
fought for a peacetime America to be deliver
ed once more into the hands of men like
Bilbo.
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determination to read, to study
and to think. Many a do-good
editorial writer, of course, pur-
sues this same argument and
completely glosses over the fierce
and remorseless social and econ
omic handicaps which r impos-
ed on millions Of people through
no natural fault of their own, and
which defeat their best efforts
to improve themselves. That is
a fact. and many of us share
responsibility for it, But not all
such efforts come to nothing
far from it. The fields of the ex-
perts are studded with self-edu-
Gated and self-trained men. One
thing that keeps many an indivi-
dual down is the lack of conf
dence. the failure to realize that
the drop of magic, the capacity
to learn, is in his makeup.
During the war, the army took
ten million young American
boys, from farm, from factory,
from office and from school
room, and it worked edueative
miracles with them. 1t made me
chanicS, machinists, communica-
tions experts, linguists, and even
scientists out of these men by
the millions. Boys with scarcely
any education, with no apparent
aptitude for anything, Wee
trained in a matter of months to
service the most complicated sys-
TENS of machinery devised by
man. Young men were taught in
months to do things which, be-
fore the war, they would have
believed themselves incapable of
learning in a lifetime. The spark
of inspiration was created by the
conditions of war; self-confidence
came to them because they wer
simply told to do the thing, and
along with hundreds of others,
working side by side with them,
they found that they could do
it.
If such incentive and such in
spiration could ever be created
amongst us as civilians in times
of peace, we should become cap
able of undreamed miracles of
achievement, as individuals and
as a nation. Perhaps someday
such a golden age will dawn for
us. II so, we must create it. 1t
will not happen by accident.
The late Chief Justice. of the
United States Supreme Court
once wrote this remark: Every
now and. then a great inca comes
into a mans mind and stretches
it. and it never shrinks back
again to its former dimensions"
Such an experience is not only
for the great and fortunate; it
is possible in the life of every
average man.