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Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Output Of Poultry
Has Dropped Sharply
DelmarVa Production This Year
May Be Less Than Half OF Normal

Poultry production on the Del
marva Peninsula has been drasti-
cally cut in recent months, grow
ers and feed dealers said last Sat-
urday night, predicting that this
years output may slump to less
than half of the normal volume
Unusual risks in business, which
is highly speculative normally, and
actual losses by many growers are
causing the contraction.
Hatchery operators-at the start
of the chain of specialists in the
broiler growing industry-report
their production has been trimmed
to about so per cent of capacity,
with some operators temporarily
closed down.
Decline In Prices
The recent drop in prices, which
brought the selling price for live
broilers at the farm to 20 cents a
pound, resulted in losses to many
growers, operators in Sussex coun-
ty reported.
In the last few weeks, the mar
ket has climbed back to 33 cents a
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Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Harold !. Short Heads
State Turkey Growers
Group Maps Plans For New Year
At Annual Dinner In Georgetown

=
The annual dinner and business
meeting of the Delaware State Tur-
key Growers Association was held
in Grange Hall, Georgetown, last
Friday night with Molloy C.
Vaughn, president presiding.
Officers were elected for 1948 as
follows: Henry Isaacs Short, presi-
dent Gooden Pepper, Seaford, vice
president; William H. Henderson,
Georgetown, secretary treasurer.
Mr.. Molloy, of Dixie-Del Farms,
Lewes, was elected national direc-
tor representing the Delaware AS
sociation.
Mr.. Vaughn gave a resume of ac-
tivities of the association for the
past year. He said the Delaware
Association had cooperated fully
with the Eat More Turkey Cam
paign" and contributed their quota
of 1928. Plans for raising the quota
of 1858 for next year by the sale
of turkey stamps were discussed.
POultryman Speaks
J, Franklin Gordy, extension
poultryman of the University OF
Delaware, discussed the marketing
outlook for turkeys and methods
of Improving marketing conditions
DR.. John Hammond, currently with
o. A. Newton & Sons, Bridgeville
spoke on Growing turkeys most
economically in Delaware"
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Poultrymen To Meet
Here November "a
Education Topics viii Be Discuss.
ed At High School

A short business meeting of the
local chapter of the Delaware POul-
try Improvement Association will
be held on Monday, Nov. "a, at the
Milford High School. This will be
followed by a discussion of .educa-
tional topics, one of which will be
Radiant Heat for Brooding
Chicks"
Among those who will be present
at the session are Jack Bell, Ex-
tension Engineer of the University
of Delaware; Frank Gordy, Exten-
sion poultryman; Clarence Gassa-
way, broiler grower of Salisbury;
and Fred Hass, broiler grower of
Dover.
A question period on common
poultry diseases will be included
in the evenings program, and a
movie on some timely poultry sub
ject will be shown.
T. E. Founders, chairman of the
local and president of the D. P. l.
A., and Harold Short will be at the
meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON = Senator Taft
(R-Ohio) last Monday night de-
nounced as "a step toward COM
pletely totalitarian nation" Presi-
dent Truman's proposal for re-
vival of partial wage, price and
rationing controls.
Taft, candidate for the Republi-
can Presidential nomination, took
to the radio after Mr.. Truman of
fered his proposals to Congress at
an extraordinary session.
Reaction" cried Taft of the
Presidents price and wage sugges-
tions. He said the President wants
to "turn the clock backwards" and
is advocating a return to the days
of war, of the OPA, the War Labor
Board and the War Production
Board.
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Milford Will Play
Georgetown Today
Scholastic GridirOn Titular HOnOrs
Will Be Decided By Fray

The outcome of this evenings
game between two unbeaten schol-
astic gridiron rivals, Milford High
and Georgetown High, will go far
towards deciding the scholastic
gridiron titular honors for the 1947
season. The meeting of these two
traditional gridiron foes, which
will occur at Georgetown, is bound
to attract wide spread attention,
and favorable weather may we'll
bring out the seasons largest
crowd to date.
Both Milford and Georgetown
have compiled impressive records
this season. Coach George Keen's
Georgetown High Golden knights
having won nine straight games,
including Fridays impressive $40
win over Laurel, a team that one
week previous held Milford to a
TT stalemate. Numbered among
the teams humbled by Georgetown
are: Lewes (32-6), Rehoboth (13-0),
Caesar Rodney (33-19), Wicomico
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Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21

the canned tomatoes, tomato Juice,
concentrated orange juice, and the
nonfat dry milk, were acquired by
the Department of Agriculture
with funds specifically earmarked
for this purpose by the Congress-
ional appropriation for the Ma
tional School Lunch Program. In
the case of nonfat dry milk, schools
which receive this commodity will
be required to certify that none of
it will be used as a substitute for
normal purchases of whole fresh
milk.
Other foods allocated to Della
ware schoOls-Irish potatoes, sweet
potatoes, dried whole eggs, and
dried fruits-were acquired by the
Department of Agriculture under
its price support operations. These
foods are also being made avail
able to welfare institutions in Del
aware
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Services For
Warren Moore
Held Tuesday
G. o. p. Leader, Appoint
ed To Post Less Than
Two Months Ago, Sue
cumbs In Milford.

Warren T. Moore, 65 years old,
of Harrington, well-known1 Repub-
lican leader who was appointed to
the post of state auditor on Octo-
Der %, died last Saturday night,
November 10, in the Milford Mem
orial Hospital. He had been ad-
mitted to the hospital on October
81, following a heart attack.
Funeral services were held last
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
in the Asbury Methodist Church,
Harrington, with the Rev. ]. Harry
Wright officiating. Interment in
Hollywood cemetery, Harrington,
where a Masonic service was held.
Mr.. Moore was appointed to the
auditors post by Governor Walter
w. Bacon to succeed the late Ben
jamin I. Shaw. He was closely iden-
titled with Republican politics for
many years and also achieved
prominence as a banker.
Born In Wilmington
He was born in Wilmington on
July 10, 1882, the son of the late
William T. and Sarah Richards
Moore, but went to Harrington
with his parents when he was only
three years old. He attended school
in that town.
In business life he headed a Ford
agency in Harrington and main
tanned a fire insurance agency. He
also saw service with the U. S. Post
Office Department.
He was a director and vice pres
ident of the Harrington Building
and Loan Association and a direc'
tor of the First National Bank oi
Harrington. He also was vice pres
ident of the Harrington Fair Asso
citation and the Racing Associa'
ton
Continued on page 1O
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Six Billion
Cut IN Taxes
N ext Year
Held Feasible
Economic Development
Committee Would Con-
tinue Reductions Until
They Reach Fifteen
Billions.
By Ass0eiated Press

WASHINGTON, Nov. = Congress
sional tax experts received last
Friday a report from the Committee
for Economic Development saying
the u. s. tax load can be lightened
Sc. 900 900 600 in 194S without Jeo-
pardizing foreign aid or payments
on the national debt.
Chairman Knutson tR-Mlnr
turned the findings of the business
mems group over to consultants Of
of House way and means committee,
but said he still. plans to push his
own proposal to cut income taxes
by $4,000, 100000 at the regular ses-
sion of Congress.
The Committee for Economic
Development is headed by Paul e.
Hoffman, president of the Stude-
baker Corporation.
It's report called for new fed
eral budget policy and increasingly
sharp cuts in individual and cor
poration taxes until these total $15,-
600, 100000 below present levels
sometime in the 1950s.
The recommendation were quail
fed with the phrase unless infia-
tionary conditions make this un-
WISE"
Present System Criticized
The CED said the present tax
system "discourages new and inde-
pendent business and arrests the
growth of established business; .
therefore, it added, it is ga threat
to free country and a free so
ciety."
AS starter in tax reduction, the
CED suggested:
/. Reduce the present first brac-
ket rate of individuals (now 10 pei
cent on the first $4,000 of taxable
income to 15.2 per cent on the frs
$1,000: graduate the rates upward
until they reach 6T.3 at 500, 900 Of
fcontinued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Vets Lose Services Of
Two Leading Players
Doug Lynch, Lloyd Elton Out Of
Blue Hen Line-Up

Milford Vets titular chances in
the 1947-4S Mar-Del Basketball
League race received a setback last
week when Doug Lynch, regular
guard on last winters Vets quin-
tet, fractured his ankle in a pre-
season scrimmage. The injury to
Lynch deprives the Vets of early
season services of their two out
standing guards of the 1946-47 sea-
son, Lloyd Elton, also a guard, hav-
ing recently submitted to an alb
dominal operation which will like
ly keep him out of the lineup un-
til after the Christmas holidays.
Lynch, former outstanding
player with Milford High School
teams and the pre-war Milford Car
dinals, played in every one of the
Vets 95 games last winter, was a
tower of strength on defense, and
proved a dangerous offensive threat
with his generally successful long
Gcontinued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Big Ceremonial Held Here
By Tall Cedars Of Lebanon

well above the five hundred fifty
mark. The entire evening was not
ed by the spirit of good fellowship
that entered every phase of the pro-
gram.
Evergreen Forest Band somewhat
handicapped by the illness of sew
eral members, was up to it's usual
high standard. The Forest Rangers
Continued on page I'D
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
"TOtalltarian Step"

OF Mr.. Truman's price-wage pro-
posals, the senator said:
He wants price control against
the producer, wage control against
the working man, rationing against
the housewife and the restaurant,
every kind of control over the busi-
ness man.
'It means the setting up of a
federal bureau with literally hun
dreds of thousands of employees,
and agents prying into the daily
lives of millions of people.
1--WE know this is what it would
mean because we saw it happen
here. Such a proposal is not prog
ress, nor is it liberalism. 1t is re-
action and a step to completely
totalitarian nation"
CONTINUED on page 10)
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21

Evergreen Forest No. 40, T. C.
l.. of Kent and Sussex counties,
held their annual Down Home
Night" in the community building
last week with a gala program ar
ranged and staged by the member
ship. The highlight of the evening
was the initiation of eleven new
members bringing the grand total
of Evergreen Forest membership
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Students To Visit
Freedom Train
V. +. W., Legion, Has Arranged For
Transportation This Sunday

Pupils of the Milford schools are
eagerly awaiting the arrival of the
renowned Freedom Train at Dover
on Sunday. Through special ar
rangements of the V. F. w. Post
64S3 and the local unit of the Am
erican Legion hundreds of pupils
from the Milford High School and
the Benjamin Banneker School are
being transported to the Capital
city for the great event. 1t is most
regrettable that children under IL
cannot be accommodated at the
train, for these younger children
will perhaps derive a greater thrill
from the array of so many histori-
cal evidences of the greatness of
our land.
The responsibilities and privi-
leges of American citizenship have
Continued on page 50
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Services For Charles E. Holland
We're Held Here Last Sunda,

Funeral services for Charles Ed
ward Holland, another of Milford's
heroic. war dead returned for re-
burial in the soil of the native land
were held here last Sunday after
noon at the Lofland Funeral Home
with full military services follow
ing at the 1. o. o. F. cemetery here.
The Blue Hen Post;sNo. 6483, V. F..
W., was in charge of services at
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
the grave side.

the grave side.
Milford assumed an air of public
mourning Sunday with flags at
half-mast. All traffic was cleared
from the right side of Walnut
street from the funeral home to the
cemetery until the long funeral
procession had passed. On behalf
of the City of Milford, Mayor Ed
CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1947-11-21
Taft oS::: =: :: 8: Eruman
Plan Totalitarian

G. O. P. Senator Says Proposals Offered By
President Mean Police State" Calls 1t
Attempt To Return To OPA And Destruc-
ton Of Economic Freedom. Truman In
Turn Tells Congress Plan Of Limited Ra-
tioning, Wage, Price Curbs For Use If Vol
untary Action Fails To Block Initiation.
Evening star., 1947-12-05

naturally for generation or more,
hence the States program. which is
depending upon farmers and other
landowners to plant trees on the
other half of this acreage during
the period. Each planting is to be
carefully planned for the specific
purposes of timber production soil
erosion, wildlife conservation,
Christmas trees or windbreaks. 1t Is
q wise and ambitious program.
Two deer hunters, J. r. Lands
and N. C. Cope, while on recent
trip to the Belhaven section of East
ern North Carolina, their guns
cooked and expecting the deer they
were stalking to break cover any
minute, suddenly realized they had
a visitor behind them. They turned
quickly, and hair curled on the
backs of their necks. The visitor
was a husky black bear, strolling
along, watching the stalking, stop
ping when they stopped; greatly IN
terested in the progress OF the deer
hunt, With no trees to climb and
no place to run but toward the bear,
both hunters blasted away with IL
gauge shotguns loaded with 90 buck
shot, and ran anyhow" A hall
hour later they cautiously worked
their way back to find the two blasts
had killed the bear. Bruin weighed
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Boys Club Teams TiIting
For City Football Titles

The Districts two top so-pound
football teams, Georgetown Branch
of the Boys Club Of Washington
and Police Boys Club No. will
clash for the city-wide champion
ship tomorrow morning on the El-
lipse at 10 o'clock.
No. S, sparked by Fred Stone and
Bob Dewdney, took the Police Boys
Club League title with nine straight
victories. while Georgetown copped
the Boys Club Of Washington Con-
ference crown with six wins, one
loss and a tie.
Other games
sO-pound class-GeorEetown vs.. Alex
andria (Ellipse).
90-pound class-rrinidad vs.. Alex
pound class-Al Alexandri vs..
Georgetown Ellipse): Merrick VS.. Eastern
(Armory).
120-pound class-A sndria vs..
GEORGETOWN tEliipse); Merrick vs.. Eastern
140-pound class-Alexandria VS.. George
town (Enipse); Merrick vs.. Eastern (Ar.
mory).
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Shaw, 5. {. State End
Drills for Negro Bowl
Tuss|e Tomorrow

Undefeated football squads rep
resenting Shaw University of Ra-
leigh, N. c., and South Carolina State
College Of Orangeburg, reported here
today to complete preparation for
tomorrows first annual Negro Ma
tional Bowl game at Griffith Sta
dium, starting at 4:30 pm.
More than 10000 are expected to
sit in on what is believed to be the
first twi-night football bowl game
ever presented anywhere as the
teams square away in late afternoon
and play the second half under the
stadium's big lights.
The unbeaten and united Shaw
Bears were not scored on in their
first six games this season and fin
ished their campaign with a record
of nine victories and a total Of 28a
points against 80 for the opposition.
South Carolina State won six games
and tied two.
Twillie Bellamy, 197-pound half
back, is key man Of Shaw's backfield
and one Of the high scoring Negro
college football stars of the Nation.
George Turner, 225-pound triple
threat fullhack, and George Price,
185-pound quarterback, are num-
bered among the standouts on South
Carolina State
Evening star., 1947-12-05
World Roller Crowns
Sought by Skaters
In Big Meet Here

Mems singles events this afternoon
and tonight open the three day
world roller skating championships
at the new National Arena, Seven
teenth street and Kalorama road
NV. Women's singles champion
ships will be decided tomorrow,
while the pair and dance title events
60 on Sunday. Forty top-ranking
contestants representing five coun-
tries are entered.
Don Mounce, Reggie Opie and
Bill Scheurer are the first three
ranking American skaters bidding
for the mems singles honors today.
D. Castelar,, Italy; Fernand Lee
mans, Belgium; Karl Peter, Swift
zerland. and G. Donald Stirling,
England, also are outstanding in this
field.
Feminine skaters seeking singles
laurels tomorrow will include Ursula
Wehrli, European champion, from
Switzerland; June Heinrich, Char
lotte Ludwig and Violet Gargano,
United States; Jean Phethean and
Joan Atkinson, England; Elvira Col
lin and F. Vaken, Belgium. and r.
Franco, Deli Della and F. Grimaldi,
Italy.
Gritli Muller and Karl Peter,
European pair skating champions,
from Switzerland, are expected to
prove favorites in the couples
events, while American, British and
Belgian teams also will see action.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Rehiring Of Durocher
Seen as Hickey Calls
Dodgers Meeting
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

BROOKLYN, Dec. 5.-Leo Duroch-
ers return as manager OF the
Brooklyn Dodgers appeared immi-
nent today, with President Branch
hickey summoning his official fam
lily into a hurried conference.
Unless pressure OF events forces
Hickey to show his hand earlier
than planned, he is expected to time
the well-worn news for Monday re-
lease.
hickey insists that Durocher, who
got out OF Commissioner A. B.
Chandler's doghouse after q season.
long suspension ending with the
World Series, has not yet been
signed. However, in years Of less
storm and strife, Leo often waited
until opening day before formally
linking the papers. The important
thing Is a verbal agreement between
Hickey and the man many gagsters
call "his favorite reclamation prof.
ect"
There Is no doubt that the
Dodger managerial situation IS be-
coming much too hot to handle.
Persistent newspaper and radio
stories that Durocher was getting
back his old Job brought members
of the Dodger delegation scurrying
home from the Miami (FlaJ winter
meetings.
Burt Shotton, the man in the
brown felt hat who managed the
Brooks so successfully to the 1947
pennant, BUSTED into town from his
Barlow (Fla.) home. Shotton did
not appear at the winter meetings
of the minors at Miami, although
he normally doesn't miss them.
Hickey also summoned to con-
ference in his Office today the three
Dodger coaches, Clyde Sukeforth,
Ray Blades and Jake Pitler. He
made it clear, however, that despite
his desire to discuss the situation
with his 1947 staff, the decision on
the managerial appointment will be
his own.
Never has Shotton been quoted on
his 1948 plans, but those close to the
Dodger situation are sure that the
man, who reluctantly took the Job on
a days notice last April, would like
to return.
It Is Rickey's job to tell his '47
manager what is in store for him
in the coming season. There always
remains the possibility that he
might be chosen, but 1t is more
likely that he has been called In
to learn the Durocher story from
B. r. himself before he reads 1t in
the papers.
AS Is customary In Dodger an
nouncement, all moves have been
clothed in secrecy appropriate to an
atomic bomb spy story. A junket
to visit the spring training base at
San Domingo was arranged with a
stopover at the Miami meetings,
where most Of the interested parties
were to gather.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
with Bill Leetch

exactly 436 pounds, just 2 pounds
short of the record for this section.
The spotty fishing experienced
generally for the last two weeks in
the Chesapeake is puzzling the old
timers. The striped bass, which nor
mally can be expected to put up
real showing at this time of the
season, have proved extremely coy
and hard to interest In lures of any
sort, very few fish falling to any
of the anglers either in the lower
Potomac or down of Point Look
out. One hears Of occasional
catches, but when top-notch cap
tains like Roady Langley and Bill
Goldsboro find few If any fish, the
stripers are just not to be had ex-
cept by very lucky break. We are
inclined to believe that the contin-
ued presence Of alewives, vast
schools of which still are in favorite
waters, has a good deal to do with
this situation, and that as soon as
these bait fish move out to the point
where the stripers are hard put to
find sufficient food, angling will i'm
prove. However it is getting a little
late in the, season for many Of the
boat captains, who, even now, are
readying their boats for the winter
lay-up.
Great numbers of ducks are to be
found in the lower Potomac and on
the. Eastern Shore, which augurs
we'll for shooting during Maryland's
second season, opening at noon on
December %. Geese are extremely
plentiful. All the birds seem very
much at ease and not at all boat
shy. Here's hoping for a break.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Coast Loop
Continued From Page C-1.)

agreement, and present it again at
the executive session which winds
up the convention today.
Regardless of what the minors do
today, final decision rests with the
major leagues who meet next week
in New York.
Four Pei executives, Charles
Graham of San Francisco, Victor
Collins of Hollywood, William Starr
of San Diego and Jack Torrance Of
Seattle, as well as loop President
Clarence Rowland, spearheaded the
drive.
They pointed out that the popu-
lation on the Coast had increased
"a per cent since the war as COM
pared to only 2 per cent elsewhere.
This they attributed to the terri
tory's change from agriculture to
industry.
1--WE on the Coast have big time
sports in everything except base
ball." Rowland lamented. THE
people there are great baseball fans,
Last year we outdrew any other
minor league by 150,O0O,00O people
Collins pointed out that should
the Coast League be made major, it
would create about 400 additional
Jobs.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Notre Dame
(Contin1led From Page C.1.O

supposed to be tough in early sea-
son; they came from behind to tie
a good Rice eleven; they were bril-
liant in halting CALIFORNIA; Golden
Bears and then turning them to
rout, and they were good enough
to turn back a strong U. c. L. A.
challenge.
U. S. c. Has Good Backs.
Many observers believe U. S. c..
has played an all-round stronger
schedule this year than Notre Dame,
which is, of course. debatable. But
as one pointed out: ~. S. G. has
done Just about what 1t set out
to do"
Cravath has good running backs
in Don Doll, Jack Kirby. Ted Tame
hill, Mickey McCardle, Verl Lilly
Evening star., 1947-12-05

The Women's District Coli Asso-
citation Is going to have to reduce
the number Of contestants in its
major cup tournaments next year,
but the method Of cutting the fields
is a problem for the new admins
tration.
Mrs. W. F. Patterson Of Indian
Spring was installed as the new
president in the annual meeting
yesterday at Columbia Country
Club, succeeding Mrs. L. E. Hutch
ison of Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club. Mrs. Patterson said she
planned to call special December
meeting and other winter meetings
to discuss the business is too good"
theme.
It was pointed out that the asso-
ciation had 1877 class A members
last year with an average tourna-
ment entry of 95 and 1913 class B
players with an average tournament
entry of 80.
Fields in the COS are too big for
the dozen or more cup tournaments.
1t takes almost all day to complete
the events, some of the clubs are
complaining, and the woman golfers
maintain the events are losing pop
ularity because of the unWieldy
fields. In the Corby Cup last year,
an 18-hole medal event at Colum-
bia, a total of 124 class A players
entered.
While some members favor add
ing c class tournaments to the
schedule and thus reducing the
handicap limits in classes A and B,
a majority of the members present
yesterday seemed to favor making
classes A and B smaller and max
ing the high handicap golfers work
harder to qualify for tournament
play.
AS it is now, class A golfers are
from scratch to 18 and class B from
10 to 36. A suggested plan would be
to cut A from scratch to IS and B
from 16 to rs or 80
While sentiment was for reducing
the fields in the medal play tour
naments, Mrs. Patterson said one of
the objects of the WDGA this wear