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Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Girl Scouts Return
Home From Rehoboth
Enjoyed Week OF Camping On
HenlOpen Acres Sand Dunes

Troop No 6 of the Milford Girl
Scouts returned home this past
Saturday, after having spent a
week of successful camping on the
sand dunes beyond HenIOpen Acres
at RehOboth Beach.
The girls enjoyed such recrea-
tiOnal activities as bathing, beach
games, campfires, shopping on the
boardwalk, and visits to the Youth
Center.
Participation on committees
which were appointed for each day
to carry out the camp activities
will enable the girls to earn their
Campcraft and Outdoor Cook Bad
ges.
The "Slick Chicks" wish to ex-
press their appreciation to Mr.. JOS
eph Isaacs who generously furni-
shed the truck and driver and also
to the many others who contributed
materials and time which helped to
make this camping trip one of the
most successful ones the Troop has
enjoyed.
The members of the troop who
went on this trip were-Frances
Ann Abbott, Dorothy Mae Bennett,
Doris Davenport, Roberta Kennedy.
Dolores Lapetina, Alberta Peter
man, Paula J. Reed, Barbara Shea
ffer, Betty Mae Snowberger, Kay
Taylor, Helen Wilgus, Mary Jane
Water, Martha Wilson.
They were accompanied by their
leaders, Isabelle Kinks and Irene
Markert, as well as Dorothy r.
Markert who ably assisted the
leaders.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
BridgeUiHe Firemen
Buy NeJU Equipment
Committee Has Been
Appointed To Raise
Funds

The Bridgeville fire company has
purchased modern, fully equipped
ambulance to serve the citizens of
this and nearby communities, Jo-
seph f. Wiley, president of the
company, has announced. He said
plans are going forward for the
training of an ambulance crew and
assembly of equipment.
John r. Ricards has been ap-
pointed chairman of drive to
raise funds for the financing of the
project which will begin at once.
President Wiley appointed the fol-
lowing committee to assist: Ralph
Collision, Henry P. Cannon, II, Le-
Roy B. Truitt, Robert Bennett,
Coulter Passwaters, Edwin Taylor,
Robert Hopkins, Martin l.. Door
dan, Laurence Reynolds and Ralph
Davis.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
George NJ. Dunn Dies In
StantIy When His BIZ
cycle COIIided With
Truck At Blades.

Returning to his farm near Sea-
ford last Friday, George NJ. Dunn.
65, was killed instantly when the
bicycle he was riding and a truck
collided on Route 13 at Blades.
The operator of the truck, accord
ing to state troopers at Bridgeville,
was Samuel e. Vincent, IS. of Mid
dletOwn who was arrested on a
charge of manslaughter. His trial
is pending before Magistrate Lor-
EMO c. King of SeafOrd.
According to Coroner w. I. Coma
way of Sussex County, Dunn had a
5O-pOund bag of salt on the rear of
his bicycle and was travelling south
on the highway when the truck.
proceeding in the same direction.
apparently struck the handlebars of
the bicycle.
The coroner said that Dunn was
probably struck by the side of the
truck as the victum suffered a pune
tBred skull and broken hip. A ply
slcian was summoned and pronoun-
ced Dunn dead.
Dunn had purchased a farm on
Route 13 between SeafOrd and Lau-
rel last winter. A widOwer, he is
survived by several children, one of
whom lives in Chicago, another in
Pocomoke City. Md, and a third in
Laurel
The death brings the highway
fatality toll in Delaware this year
to 81 against 80 for the correspond
ing period year ago. 1t marked
the twenty-first passenger death in
rural Delaware this year. the same
total as recorded for the same time
in 1916.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Foreign Labor Supply
No Longer Available
First OF September Will Be Ear
Iiest Date For This Type OF Help

Farmers Urged To Make Needs
Known.
According to an announcement by
the p M, A. Office of the labor no
more foreign labor will be avail
able to farmers of Delaware before
the first of September and possibly
not then.
The foreign labor now under con-
tract to farmers in Sussex County
will continue until the end of their
contract period at which time they
will be removed from the area and
returned to their homes. Farmers
holding contracts for foreign work
ers to be delivered from this date on
should no longer count on this
source of supply. The migrant sup
ply up to the present has been
quite plentiful and numerous work
ers have been turned away to the
lack of need for them. 1t is quite
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Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Tax Return
From Track
Is $969,3O5
Official Disclosure Made
By Bryan Field; Daily
Betting Was Near The
Million Mark.

The states revenue from the re-
cent racing meet at Delaware Park
officially totals $969,305.1S, it was
disclosed last Friday evening by
Bryan Field, vice-president and
general manager of the Delaware
Steeplechase and Race Association,
after an audit of the tracks ac-
counts.
The total is the third highest in
the 11-year history of horse racing
in Delaware, being exceeded by the
returns of the preceding two years.
The largest part of the states
racing income is derived from the
three-and-One-half percent tax on
the total of $25,554,788 wagered at
the track during the 80 days of
racing. This comes to 1884,, 4,417.58.
The state also received $69,887 so
through its 20-cent tax on admis-
sion. The final segment of the
states return from racing comes
from the $4,000 paid by the racing
association for its license.
The federal government also gets
a share of the Delaware Park cash,
collecting $110,151.52 through it's
admissions tax.
The $25,0O0,O00 total of parimu-
tuel betting at the meet figures out
to a daily average of $851,826.26
bet by racing fans.
Mr.. Field also revealed that the
overall distribution of purses
amounted to $943,8O0, the highest
in the 11-year history of the track.
Mr. Field declared that the recent
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Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Weather Bureau Will
Be Ready In August
Will Be Installed At New Castle
Airport In Very Near Future

Installation of branch station of
the United States Weather Bureau
is about to be realized at the New
Castle County Airport, it was dis
closed recently by Don w. Martin,
port manager.
The mucn-sought weather sta
ton, one of the immediate goals OF
Delaware's Congressional delega-
ton, will be set up at the airport as
soon as space has been provided for
ii, Mr.. Martin said. He estimated
that the installation could be COM
plete by the middle of August.
The manager made this report
after telephone conversation with
an executive of the U. S. weather
service in Washington. Mr.. Martin
said he was informed that the bu-
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Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
NeIU II. S. Potato
Headache Looms
Shortage In PrOspe
After Overflow
Last Year
BY Associated Press

WASHINGTON-The lowly pota-
to may cause the government an
other headache this year.
There's a shortage in prospect.
Last year there were too many
spuds.
= The Agriculture Department has
forecast this years production at
351 100000 bushels. This is about
25,000,000 bushels less than were
produced last year and about 25,-
100000 bushels less than the coun-
try requires each year for food,
planting and other purposes.
Last year the government had to
buy nearly 1O0,0O0,OO0 bushels un-
der a law requiring it to support
grower prices. Many of these were
dumped.
Unless this years crop turns out
to be larger than indicated, supplies
may be very short late next winter
before the 1948 crop is available.
The department said the cool,
wet spring planting season had
kept this years potato acreage Is
per cent below last years.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
D. COOpersrnith
Passes AWAY
In Milford
Well Known Merchant
And Manufacturer Had
Been Ill For Sometime;
Owned Business Block.

David Coopersmith, 64 years old,
one of the best-known merchants
in lower Delaware and owner of
modern business block in down
town Milford, died at his home in
Milford, on Tuesday, July Is. He
had been in failing health for sew
eral years.
Mr. Coopersmith, who was a
charter member of the Milford
Chamber of Commerce and was an
active member of Temple Lodge
No. 9, A. F. and A. NJ, operated
dress manufacturing plant and
ladies shop in Milford for a num-
Der of years. He was a Milford
resident for 80 years.
The business block, which he
owned, houses the j. c. Penney
Company and w. T. Grant Com
pany stores, as we'll as his own
business enterprises.
A native of Russia, he came to
Cape Charles, Va, about so years
ago. Twenty years later he settled
in Milford and bought the old Ma
tional Hotel Building, historic
landmark in Milford.
He opened a department store in
that block about 1917, and in 1927,
he had the building torn down and
converted into a modern business
block.
In 1889 the entire block was de-
strOyed by Milford's most disas-
trous fire. Between that time and
when the new business block was
rebuilt in 1941, he operated his
dress manufacturing plant in the
old Milford ArmOry.
Mr.. COOpersmith. who was noted
for his philanthropic activities,
was a former member of the Mil
ford Rotary Club and was active in
building the Milford Memorial Hos
pital. A number of years ago, he
was active in the Carlisle Fire
Company of Milford.
He is survived by his wife; a
son, former Lieutenant-COlOnel
Martin Coopersmith of Washing
ton, d. c.. who received the Bronze
Star for heroism in France during
the war, and two daughters. Mrs.
Paul Cramer of Wilmington, and
Mrs. Zinna Aber of Milford
The funeral services were held
at his late home on North East
Front street with interment in Will
mington yesterday Thursday.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
vets To Hold
Big Cleanup
Session Here
Next Tuesday
Friends Of Blue Hen
Post Are Cordially In
vited To Assist In The
Brush Clearing Bee"
At Home Site.

DR.. James r. West, commander
Blue Hen Post No. 64S3, v. F. W.,
has announced that the Clean I'm
Meeting" originally scheduled for
July 8, and postponed because of
lnclement weather, will be held al
the post home site on Haven Lake
next Tuesday evening, July %,
weather permitting. On this oc-
casion, members and friends of
the Blue Hen Post will assemble
at z p. m. on the recently pur-
chased post property and rolling
up their sleeves, will jump to with
axes, rakes, shovels, and hoes in
an old-fashioned brush clearing
bee."
The past spring, the local over
seas veterans organization pur-
chased an 1S-acre tract, formerly
known as the Theodore Hudson
property and it is the plan of the
local group to build a spacious
post home there sometime in the
near future. The eastern end of
the tract faces beautiful Haven
Lake and there is considerable
light timber and brush along the
lake shore; inasmuch as this is
the portion of the tract selected
as the site of the future post home.
much of the light timber and all
of the underbrush must be clear
ed before construction can begin.
1t is hoped that much of this can
be cleared away at Tuesday eve
ning's meeting.
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Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Have Riddles Fit For
Reopening OF School
Child Conferences Are Held In
Milford Each Month

With school days about 8 weeks
away, parents should be consider
i. ing the health of their children in
preparation for the school year.
Well children learn faster than do
sickly ones and they are less apt to
be seriously affected by the contagi-
Gus diseases of childhood-from
colds to whoOping cough-some of
which occur in every school each
year, according to the State Board
of Health.
While the Board is concerned
with the health of all school chill
dren, 1t is especially interested that
children entering first grade this
year have both physical and dental
examinations and corrections made
of any defects found, BEFORE they
begin school. In this way they will
be able to start their school career
with as few handicaps as possible.
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Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Kiwanis Boosters
Night August End
Johnny Price viii Furnish Enter
tainment That Evening

The baseball fans of Milford are
going to have the opportunity to
see one of basebalPs top entertain
ers at the annual Kiwanis Club
Booster Mite to be held at the local
ball park Saturday, August 2, 1947.
Johnny Price is baseball's mira
cleman. He is the star of recent
NJ. G. NJ. movie shOrt-He has been
delighting fans all over the United
States with his unbelievable bat and
ball feats and his famous "Jeep"
act. The man with a million base
ball tricks. He is the hottest thing
in program exhibitions since the
famous team of Altrock and Shack.
In addition to this star attraction,
the "Red Sox' will play their arch
rivals Dover" on the diamond.
Get your tickets early as. this
will be Johnny Prices only ap-
pearance on the Eastern Shore
Tickets are available at u. H.
Humes and -Derricksons-
and Phillips.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Local Legionnaires
To Attend Session
Col Lank, Chuck Wright, Bill
Goodrich, Geo. Collins TO Attend

Goodrich, Geo. Collins TO Attend
1t was announced this week by
Post Commander Nelson M. Chuck
wright of the local Legion Post,
that Colonel William E. Lank. the
grand old man" of the American
Legion of Delaware, who in addi-
ton to being the oldest Legion
naire in the entire state, is also
one of the most active, would head
the Milford delegates and alter
mates to the American Legion Con-
vention to be held in Dover TODAY
(Friday) and tomorrow. Others
who will attend are: Delegates,
Nelson M. Wright, Bill Goodrich
and George F. Collins; alternates.
John Longbotham, William ".
Sipple, Jr., Sidney Schwach, and
Melvin ROsenweig.
The outstanding feature of the
convention this year will be the
banquet to be held at the Dover
High School this evening at seven
o'clock. The speaker will be Yam
It's Halbert Taylor, of Texas, who
rose from the enlisted ranks to be-
come a General, and one of the
Army's most efficient ones. Attach
ed to the Air Corps. Taylor was
decorated several times during the
past war for gallantry in action,
and is said by many to be one of
the finest speakers in the United
States TODAY.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
A. E. Hllnnes Is
Head
OF Board Here
Local Merchant To Again
Head Milford School
Group; Ed: Steiner Is
Vice President.

AT a recent reorganization meet
ing of the Milford Board of Edu-
cation, A. E. Humes was re-elect-
ed president and Edmund F. Stein
er, vice president. Mr.. Humes was
recently reelected to a three-year
term. John F. Roosa was also
sworn in as member of the board.
He is serving his first term as a
member of the board.
Teacher requirements are an
nounced as follows:
High school: Maurice Wheeler
to replace Miss Harriet Kocher;
Miss Regina Barlow to succeed
Miss Norma Hollis; Miss Iva
Short to replace Mrs. Sarah Webb;
Miss Pearl Hunsberger to replace
Miss Iva Short.
No vacancies reported in the ell
ementary school although it is ex-
pected that a fifth grade teacher
will be employed to teach an ad-
ditional class in that grade.
Miss ElOiuse Conte has been ap-
pointed to teach art in the ele-
mentary school and high school.
William G. Dix has been ap-
pointed to replace William John
son i'll School No. g.. which is to
be known as the Benjamin Ban
neker School. This name was for.
mally approved by the Milford
Board of Education after it had
been chosen by the P. T. A. OF
that school. Benjamin Banneker
was an outstanding Negro who iiv-
ed during the days of Thomas JEFF
ferson. He is generally recOgniz-
ed as having made the first, clock
in America.
A few other vacancies are to
be filled on the high school staff.
Contracts regarding plumbing,
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Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Milford Banker Is
Given Two Years
W. ShOckIey Daugherty Sentenced
In Federal Court Yesterday

W. Shockley Daugherty, former
assistant trust officer at the Mil
ford Trust Company, who confessed
to misappropriating the bank funds
in the amount of $9,582.9O, was SEN
fenced to serve two years in a fed
eral penitentiary yesterday morn
ing CThursday) by Federal Court
Judge Richard Rodney.
Daugherty surrendered to federal
authorities on Friday, June ,27, and
was Immediately taken to Whining
ton, where he pleaded guilty to the
charges and waived grand jury ac-
tion. He at that time was released
in $4,000 bond for his appearance
in court the following Monday, June
80. At that time he was sent to the
New Castle County Workhouse to
await sentence.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18

includes the employment service,
SAID the federal appropriation had
been slashed to $74.5S8-Or $5,935
less than the $SO,523 which the state
requested.
Ihe cut amounts to about IA per
cent-almost II per cent less than
the national average reduction for
service operations.
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
$50, 900 Received For
Nanticoke Hospital
Substantial Gifts Donated Toward
Building New SeafOrd Hospital

Gifts of $4,000 to the new Nam
ticoke Memorial Hospital to be
erected at Seaford were announced
recently by w. Allen Hastings,
president, at the building fund
headquarters, Alt High street, Sea-
ford.
For years the need for a mod
ern, thoroughly equipped hospital
to serve the people of southwes-
tern Sussex county, Delaware, and
parts of Maryland has greatly con-
cerned the citizens of this COM
munity," Mr.. Hastings said. "The
lack of hospital, conveniently To-
Gated to serve the Seaford area,
has now become serious and in
some degree a hazardous condi-
ton.
continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Scouts Are Enjoying
Camping Season
Instructions In ALI Phases OF Pro-
gram Now Going On

Two hundred and thirty-six
scouts from all sections of the Del
Mar-Va Council are now enjoying
the second period of the Rodney
Scout Camps thirtieth camping
season on the shores of Chesa-
peake Bay near Elk Neck, Mary
land. Instruction in all phases of
the scouting program given in the
scout method of learning by do
ing" is the main feature of the
camp program, with plenty of time
provided for swimming, boating,
and canoeing. To date. individual
scouts have passed a total of 269
requirements toward second class
rank, 81 requirements toward first
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
State Employment Service To
Close Local Office On July 81

Although Delaware's reduction
is less than the national average, a
cut in it's federal appropriation will
force the Delaware State Employ
ment Service to close it's Milford
office at the end of the month. it
was disclosed this week.
Albert Stetser. executive director
of the Delaware Unemployment
Compensation Commission, which
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
NEW RENT BUREAU
SCHEDULE Is SET UP

John l.. Walmsley, area
rent director for Delaware,
has announced that in order
for the public to make con-
tact with the rent bureau,
scheduled sittings have been
arranged in some of the
towns. A representative of
the rent office will be at city
hall, City Council room, Mil
ford, on the following dates,
during the hours of 10 o.
clock a. m. to IL, noon:
Wednesday, July %; We'd
nesday, August 6; Wednes-
day, August 20; Wednesday,
September 3; Wednesday,
September II; Wednesday,
October 1; Wednesday, Oc-
tober Is; Wednesday, Octo-
Der 20.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
DOVER DOLLAR DAYS
JULY 25th AND 26th

M. c. Thompson, chairman
of the mercantile section of
the Dover Chamber of Com
merce, and John J. Koski,
chairman of the special
committee in charge of the
event, are rapidly complet-
ing plans for Dover Dollar
Days on July rs and 26, Do
ver's first postwar special
sales effort. Every mer-
chant in Dover has been in
vited to participate in the
event and special insignias
Will be used to identify the
stores offering the specials
for this two-day period.
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Marked Increase In
Traffic In State
Increase OF 1874 Per Cent Is
Shown In June Over 1916

DOVER. An increase of 1874 per
cent in traffic over state roads last
month as compared with June of
last year is shown in a report of
w. B. McKendrick, Jr, assistant
chief engineer of the State High
way Department in charge of ira
ffic and planning.
The report, based on recordings
of automatic traffic counters, also
showed a decrease of O.58 per cent
as compared with June 1941, in
dicative of the fact that traffic has
not yet reached pre-war levels.
CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1947-07-18
Farmers Interested
In Flying Planes
May Form \. +. +. A. Chapter In
Harrington Section

Work is underway in the Har-
ringtcn section to form a local
chapter of the N. F. F. A, and is
receiving enthusiastic support from
flying farmers of this area, Atlee
Link, Harrington airport manager,
has announced. Among those TAX
ing an active part in the movement
are: George Bishop, owner of an
Aeronica, Howard Lyons and son
Luther, Cessna owners and Fred
Greenly, Jr., also included in the
group are Harold Mack. FELTON, and
Ewing of Smyrna. who keep an
Ercoupe at his farm airstrip, us
ing it extensively for business
flights.
Continued on page 81
Evening star., 1947-12-07
Beale
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be the main attraction at a small
gathering this afternoon at the
Georgetown home of her parents,
Caroline and Steve Dorsey. The
petite 8-month-old charmer will be
christened first at the Children's
Chapel in the Washington Cathedral
and afterwards will look her parents
friends over sometime between 4
and 7. Her godparents will be Caro-
lines twin sister, Mrs. John A. Red
field of Bloomfield, Conn.,; Mrs. Ed
ward G. Miller Of New York, and
Dottie Foote, Joe Stanley and Dick
Davis, all of Washington. Dick is
a handsome foreign service officer
whose last overseas post was Mos
COW; is now assigned to the State
Department.
Eulah Morgan has whipped off to
Texas, will go to Illinois to spend
Christmas with her family, then
probably breeze through here on her
way to Nassau. -. Bob Portner is
observing life at the moment from
a beautiful vantage point somewhere
near Diamond Head, Hawaii. And
word comes from Frankfort, Ger
many, that 1t. Gen. G. N. Macready
and his popular wife, Lady Mac
ready, who used to be here, are
now living in Bad Homburg, house
about the size of Grand Central Sta
ton that formerly belonged to
Prince Adalbert, one of the Kaiser's S
sons. Still hanging in the drawing
room are pictures of the Kaiser and
his family which, the general says,
he left up because in the light of
the recent Hitler regime the Kaiser
didn't seem like such a bad sort and
1t was rather pleasant to sit and
look at him.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-07-09
VOLUNTEERS PAINT
SHILOH PARK
ROUND HOUSE

Zion Park district acknow-
lodges with thanks, the crew
of painters who donated their
time to put two coats of white
paint on the "Stand." Paint
was given through the CO.
operation of Jabez Taylor of
the Christian Catholic Church.
Robert Ray of Phoenix, Ari-
IONA, directed the work with
the assistance of Jim McCon-
nell, a veteran painter.
Others who helped were
Ted Neave, Phil Pennington,
Neal Pennington, Harold and
Rod Zweizig, Julius Hoppe,
and Park Board President,
James Hotham. We are sure
that it was very much appre-
ciated by those who attended
the picnic in Shiloh Park on
july 4th.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-07-09
ZION-BENTON TOWNSHIP
HIGH SCHOOL APPROVED
BY NORTH CENTRAL
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evaluation of the school means
that the students are getting
comparable educational oppor-
tunities to those offered in 9TH
er schools of the middle west,
further it means that any high
school graduate from the local
school will be admitted to col
lege or university on the same
basis as those from any other
school.
In this report the main criti-
cism of the local school center
ed around the school plant.
The need for more room was
stressed especially for the In
dustrial Arts students, Music,
Chorus, Physical Education IA
cilities, Library and Cafeteria.
This is a problem which the
schol district must meet in the
immediate future if member
ship in the North Central and
what it means is valued.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-07-09
ZION SPORT NEWS

This summer the Zion Rec
reation Board is providing
many activities at Shiloh Park
for girls 5 to Is years old.
These activities take place
from 9 to II noon and from |
to 4 p. m. Children under 5
years of age should not come
unless accompanied by an old
err person.
Supervised play activities
are scheduled as follows: