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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Second Largest Wheat
Crop Looming In u. S.
By Associated Press

The second largest wheat crop I'm
history is in prospect despite dry
weather in some midwestern pro-
ducing areas.
The Agriculture Department to-
day estimated the crop at about l.
192,000,000 bushels as of June /.
This is about 75,OO0,0OO bushels
more than forecast a month ago.
Last years crop of 1854 OOO, 900
bushels is the record. The long,
time average is 100000, 900 bushels.
A crop of the size indicated
would be large enough to allow this
country to share upwards Of 4OO.-
100000 bushels with shortage areas
abroad. Before the war, exports sell
dom were a third of that amount
Shipments overseas from last
years crop have set a record Of
about 4S5,O00.0O0 bushels.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Modern Milford
Theatre WHOPen
Thursday June n
City To Welcome New
Beautiful Theatre
With Parade And Off
cial Dedication Cere-
monies; Mayor To Cut
Ribbon At 1:SO.

The news that Schine's New Mil
tord Theatre will be formerly on
ened on Thursday, June "a. will
be welcomed by thousands of peo-
pie IN this vicinity who have been
watching the progress of this mag
n1tcent ediflce since excavation
started last June.
The construction substantially
hnlshed as this article is being
written now awaits the final deco
rating and installation of various
equipment and the usual clean-up
IN readying a new theatre for its
grand opening. Although MANY oh
stacles created by shortage of ma
terlal and manpOwer retarded the
progress of the theatre many times.
the Schine Company is to be hear
Cliy congratulated in having COM
pleted the construction in about
year of its starting date.
From the efforts of the MANY
mighty specialized artisans who
worked on the construction emer-
ges the most beautiful show place
on the Eastern Shore.
The exterior architecture of the
New Milford Theatre is of ultra
modern design-eight colorfuI
formica doors open into a lobby of
richly colored marble walls
AS one steps onto the soft spe-
clally designed carpeted floors the
quiet magniicence of the theatre
auditorium presents an amazing
sight of modern architecture. a
circular ceiling effect and pastel
colored walls softly lighted bv in
direct light fixtures reveal to one
that here is beauty beyond com
parison. 1900 luxurious comfort
able new type of lounge seats
make this the largest theatre on
the peninsula. In building such a
spacious theatre the Schine Com
pany has expressed their conf
dence in the future progress of
Milford.
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Milford Memorial Has
First Cancer X-Ray
Equipment Was Procured With
With Aid OF State Grant

The first X-ray equipment in
lower Delaware suitable for the
treatment of cancer will be INSTALL
ell in the Milford Memorial Hospital
with the aid of a grant from the
State Board of Health.
The hospital will spend about
$4,000 to set up the cancer treat
ment unit, it was revealed by
Charles E. Varney, administrator.
The State Board of Health will
provide $1,000 of the total to helm
equip the unit, which is expected to
be in operation in about so days.
The state funds will come from
the board of heath's cancer con-
troll appropriation for this year and
were approved for this purpose by
the board upon the recommended
tiOn of its cancer advisory commit
tee, headed by Floyd w. WOodcOck.
The feature of the new unit, to
be created in the hospitals X-ray
department, will be q deep-therapy
X~ray machine, which will be the
only such machine in lower Della
ware.
CONTINUED on page y
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Booster Night
At Ball Park
On June 18th
Will Be Under The SpOn-
sOrship Of Blue Hen
Post No. 64S3, V. F. w.,
Of Milford.

The first of series of special
nights" to be staged this summer
at the Milford Baseball park will
be held Monday evening June %.
when Blue Hen Post No. 6483, V. F.
W., one of the Milford areas larg-
est and most active organizations.
sponsors a Boosters Night'
there. Similar affairs will be held
at the local park under sponsorship
OF other organizations later in the
current season.
AS an extra added attraction at
the V. F. W.-sponsored affair on
June 2Sth, a table model television
set will be given away during the
course of the Eastern Shore League
game between the fredericksburg AS
and the Milford Red SOx. A band
concert and parade, featuring one
OF the peninsula's most outstanding
musical organizations, will proceed
the Federalsburg-Milford game. A
lorty-page souvenir program, con-
tanning pictures and material con-
cerning the fredericksburg and Mil
tord teams, is being printed at the
Milford Chronicle plant and will be
distributed free by the sponsoring
organization to all who attend the
W. F. W. Boosters Night"
The Blue Hen Posts share of the
proceeds from the game and from
the advertising revenue of the pro-
gram will be put n the post's
building fund for use towards con-
struction OF post home on the 18-
acre Haven Lake tract owned bv
the post. David S. Hugo is serving
as chairman of the Boosters
Night" committee with Ralph
Scott and George Stokes as CO.
chairmen.
Final plans for the public cam
palgn for funds for the post home
construction were made at a
funds-raising committee meeting
held the past Monday evening. Will
liam A. Lynch, chairman of the
committee, has reported that everv-
thing is now in readiness for an
all-out drive between now and July
1st.
The next regular meeting of the
Blue Hen Post membership will be
held next Thursday evening, June
24th at the Hotel Windsor
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18

type in this section and is the very
latest thing in controlled air con-
ditioning, Incorporating many fea-
lures not prevalent in most types
of cooling systems. Among the bet
ter features of this equipment is
the complete elimination of drafts
and dampness found in many other
types of air conditioning.
The entire installation is being
made with the use of local labor,
the elaborate duct work system
being fabricated here in Milford
by local workmen and the electrical
work is being installed by Lou
Ryder.
The management of the Shore
Theatre invites you to inspect the
system at any time and to avail
yourself of the opportunity to en-
joy your movies in the healthful
atmosphere of a scientifically cool
ed air-conditioned theatre.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Local Folk Making
Playhouse A Success
HenlOpen Theatre At RehObOth Is
"GOlng To The Front"

From Mayors down to the fisher
men, Delawareans and Maryland
ers are working hard to put across
the new HENLOPEN PLAYHOUSE
in RehObOth Beach. The HENLO-
PEN PLAYHOUSE is a straw hat
theatre sponsored by residents of
RehOboth and played for the en-
tertainment of Del-Mar-Va audien-
Ces. 1t opens on June 28th with
William Prince in John Loves
Mary"
Here is what's going on. A call
came into the HENLOPEN PLAY
HOUSE box Office yesterday from a
newspaper publisher in SeafOrd. He
wanted to know how ticket sales
were going because he feels that
everyone in Seaford is interested
in the success of the PLAYHOUSE.
He personally undertook to dis
tribute hundred posters through
Seaford. Colonel Shaffer, the May
or of RehObOth has commissioned
himself as employment officer for
two Delaware university students
who would like to study at the the
atre this summer. He is finding
part-time jobs for them so that they
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Blue Cross Plan Now
Available In Milton

An opportunity to join the Mil
ton community group of the Della
ware Blue Cross Plan will be af-
forded residents of that commun-
ity on June "a, 25 and 26, dates for
annual reOpening of membership.
Clyde Belts, Milton Lions Club
president, has urged club members
to make fellow townspeople aware
of the fact that the chance to Join
is extended only once a year. The
period also has been endorsed by
Mayor Dorsey BuTnham.
Ministers will remind their con-
gregations of the dates by special
messages at Sunday services.
Eligible for the hospital and
surgical benefits under the Blue
Cross Plan are all persons between
the ages of is and 65 and having
a Milton mailing address. Applica-
continued on page p
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18

0PNNAIy Vi SOSOOO OuOuGAS VI grain.
A Grain Drier, capable of drying
$50 bushels of grain per hour, pro-
vides an additional service hereto
fore not available for this COM
munity.
The storage units are built en-
tirely of reinforced concrete and
incorporate in their design the
most modern handling and storage
facilities. While not entirely COM
plete, it will be in operation by
June 25. This unit provides a most
complete Grain Elevator service.
facilities are being provided for
the fast unloading of trucks.
o. A. Newton & Son Company
has for years enjoyed a reputation
for handling the best in farm and
milling equipment, poultry and
orchard supplies and chemicals.
This new facility, added to the
steadily growing progressive firm,
was made to meet the needs of
their widely spread clientele in
Delaware and Maryland.
(eontinued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
66,565 In State
Get Tax Refunds

The refunding operation of over
payments on 1947 income tax re-
turns is completed for the District
of Delaware, Collector Norman S.
Collision of the U. S. Bureau of In
ternal Revenue said this week. A
total of 66,565 taxpayers have re-
ceived $3,149,518.8O in refund
checks since Jan. l.
The work is approximately six
weeks behind last years schedule
which the collector attributed to
the reduction in personnel last
July.
The office anticipates that an
proximately 5000 taxpayers will
file amended 1948 declarations of
estimated income tax and make
their payments by next Tuesday. A
number Of taxpayers have been
teontinued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Howard Furniss
Heads Lions Club
Local Business Man Is Also Zone
Chairman Of The Organization

-ON--A "'AAA~oo -"AM 10 AADU AUut
Chairman Of The Organization
In a spirited and closely con-
tested election that had two or
more candidates cOntesting FOR
each elective office, the Milford
Lions Club, one of the cOmmu-
nity's most active service groups.
selected its officers for the new
term that begins with the first
July meeting. Howard (Doc) Fur
Miss, local hotel operator, nosed
out Robert (Bob) Baynum in the
contest for election as club presi-
dent. Furniss, who has served as
first vice-president of the local
club during the past year and is
currently serving as zone chair
man, will succeed J. C. (Jake)
Butler as club president on July
8th.
Baynum. second vice-president
the past year, moves up to first
Vice-president, and Joe Kemp.
present third vice-president. adj
vances to the office of second vice
president. Hyman (Jake) Roosa
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
NeIU Opportunities
M Armed Forces
Special Assignments Com
piled By Recruiting
Officer

First, Sergeant Paul E. Peacher,
Recruiting MOO for Dover, located
in the State Armory, Dover, Della
ware, in answer to many questions
that have been asked concerning
enlistment in the new Regular
Army and Air Force has compiled
a list of special assignments and
opportunities now available to both
veterans and original enlistees.
According to Sergeant Peacher
the recruiters job has been made
much more complicated than in the
old days year or so back when
all that had to be done was to fill
out the application and forward
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Miss Doris Faulkner
Camp Otonka Director
Camp Will Open On Saturday,
June 26

1t has been announced that Miss
Doris May Faulkner, daughter of
Mrs. Helen M. w. Faulkner of Do
yer and Earl N. Faulkner of Ris-
ing Sun, Delaware, will be the di-
rector of Camp Otonka, the Y. w.
G. A. camp near DagsbOrO, Della
ware.
Miss Faulkner is a graduate of
Dover High School, attended Bea-
com College, and during the war
served in the Waves for a period of
three years. In Dover, Miss Faulk-
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Van Solver Co. To
Build New Store
Million Dollar Building Will BE
Located In Lower Merton

Mr.. J. B. Van Solver, Jr., Presi-
dent of the J. B. Van Solver Co., an
nOunced a few days ago that Van
Sewers will construct a One-mil-
lion dollar furniture store on the
Main Line in Lower Merton town
ship.
The building, constructed of Indi-
ana limestone and tan tapestry
brick, will comprise a book in
length. Facing City Line, the store
will exend from Byrn Mawr Avenue
to Hampton Terrace.
The store, a branch of the Cam
den plant, will provide 100000 so.
feet OF display space. A deluxe two
story Penthouse, complete with
bath and kitchen, will be feature
of the store.
CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Poultry Breeders,
Hatchers To Meet
Ginner Meeting Will Be Held At
Georgetown, June 21

The annual dinner meeting of
official Delaware Poultry Breeders
and Hatchers will be held in the
New Century Club, Georgetown. on
Monday, June 21st, starting at 700
p. m, according to J. Edward Nell
valne, Chairman of Committee on
Arrangements.
Mr.. Howard c. Pierce, Poultry
Research Director for the A. & p.
Food Stores, will speak on the sub
Ject "Whatthe Chicken -of-Tomor-
row means to the Consumer" and
DR.. H. L. Shrader, Senior Extension
Specialist with the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, will discuss
What the Chicken-Cf-T Tomorrow
means to the Poultry Industry"
continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Finance Group For
State Museum Named
Group Will Seek Fund Of
$4,000 To Restore
Building

The statewide finance commit
tee directing the campaign for a
$4,000 fund with which to re-
store and adapt the Old Dover
Presbyterian Church as a State
Museum was announced today CO.
incident with detailed announce
ment of the findings and recon-
mendations of an architects sur
vey of the 15S-year-Old structure
at South Governors avenue and
North street in Dover.
Continued ON page %
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Sunshine MinstreIs AT
Greenwood June 25th
Program Will Be Presented In
High School Auditorium

James l.. Smith. publicity chair
man of the Sunshine Minstrels an
nounces that due to the many re-
quests for a repeat performance
the show will again be presented
at the Greenwood High School on
Friday, June 25, at S:15 p. m. This
showing is being sponsored by the
w. S. G. S. of the Chaplain's Chapel
Church.
The admission will be fifty cents
plus ten cents tax for adults and
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Methodist Summer
School Opens July IL
viii Be Conducted At Wesley Jun.
iOr College In Dover

The Peninsula Conference w. S.
c. S. Summer School of Missions
and Christian Service will be in
session at Wesley Junior College.
Dover, from July 1916. The fac
ulty is composed of Miss Elizabeth
Johnson, Wilmington, who will
teach the study course, "Our Am
erican Frontiers;" Miss Dorothy
Nyland. $50 Fifth avenue, New
York, who will teach. "China, Twi-
light or Dawn" and Mrs. Milton
CONTINUED on page %
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Millsboro Damaged
By Freak "Twiste err
Business District Suffered $4,000
Damage On Wednesday

Millsboro late Thursday night
was still repairing damage ca used
by freak "twister" which struck
M1llsboro Wednesday morning,
blowing in windows and uprooting
large trees. A number of poFches
also were torn loose from houses
by the force of the storm which
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Rat Is Mans 5 Most
Deadly Enemy
Rodents Destroy More Than $780,.
OOO.OOO Worth OF Food Annually

VOVsVUV worm VI fOOu Annually
Startling as the assertion is, the
rat is mans most deadly enemy,
says the State Board of Health,
since it is estimated that rats de-
stroy more than $3O0,0OO,OOO worth
of food and property in this coun-
try annually. In addition, rats are
known as carriers of some of the
most dreaded diseases such as bu-
bonic plague, trichinosis and
Wells disease; while there is no
doubt that they also spread ty-
phoid fever, dysentery, endemic
typhus, and a miscellaneous group
of sO-called food poisonings. Some
are spread by the rats themselves
and some by the fleas they har-
Dor.
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Fisher APplian nces Instak New
Cooling System In Shore Theatre

Fisher Appliances, completing
staation of gigantic refrigeration aircondonng
in the locally owned Shore
According to Ed Fisher who sold and installed the
the supervision
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
o. Il. Mention And Son Company
To Open Modern Grain Elevator

o. A. Newton and Son
need Tor modern grain elevator in this
construction of such unit
Six sOs each IS it. height
and storage capacity we'll
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-18
Sussex County Well Represented
At Annndl 4-H Short Course

Sussex County Clubs represented at the Annual 4
short Course which closed yesterday University Delaware
according to William H. Henderson,
Thirteen clubs with total of II attended the
four day program ~ ~ ''
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Mrs. Hazel teek Dies;
Printer Auxiliary Head

Mrs. Hazel v. Leek, 10, president
of the women's auxiliary of the
Columbia typographical Union and
wife of James A. Leek, printer at
the Rufus H. Darby Printing Co.,
died yesterday at Casualty Hospital.
She lived at 1927 Queen street NE.
Mrs. Leek had been president of
the auxiliary for about two years.
She was delegate last year to the
convention of the International
Typographical Union and also was
active in other labor and women s
organizations. She was a member
of the Metropolitan Baptist Church.
A native of Stanardsville, Va,
she had lived in the District for is
years.
Survivors, besides her husband,
INCLUDE her mother, Mrs. Lena
Haney Of Standardsville: four sis
ters, Miss Margaret : Haney Of
Standardsville, Mrs. Reba Estes and
Mrs. Alfred Gregory. both of Rich
mond, and Mrs. John Graybill, 1899
Queen street NE; and four BROTH
ers, Hollis and Ludwick Haney of
Standardsville, Wade Haney of
Madison, Va, and Alvis Haney of
Charlottesville, Va.
Funeral services will be at 2 pm.
Tuesday at the Lee funeral home,
Fourth street and Massachusetts,
avenue NE. Burial will be in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Briggs Negotiators Agree
On 13-Cent Paw Raise
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, June 5.-Negotiations
for the Briggs Manufacturing Co.
and the CIO- United Auto Workers
have agreed on a 13-cent hourly
pay increase for $4,000 Briggs en-
ployes. a company spokesman said
today.
Walter B. Connolly. Briggs per-
sonnel director, said only disagree.
ment over vacation pay stood in
way of a complete settlement.
Emil Macy UAW secretary
treasurer. heading union negotia-
tors, said, however. the two sides
were apart on "vacatjh pay and
other issues" even though they have
agreed on 13-cent pay boost.
Negotiations have been going on
for several weeks.
Mr.. Connolly termed the points
Of agreement as following general
ly the Chrysler pattern The union
and Chrysler ended a strike of U.s.
0C0 production workers May 30 with
contract calling for a l3-cent
hourly raise and other concessions.
Mr.. Macy and Mr.. Connolly re-
porteG Briggs negotiations would be
resumed Monday morning. Briggs
average hourly pay is $1.5O.
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Housing Authority 10 Get
Extra Trucks for Cleanup

The National Capital Housing
Authority, in cooperation with the
District Division Of Sanitation, will
conduct an intensive cleanup cam
paign in all its 48 developments this
week.
Starting tomorrow, extra trash
trucks will be placed at the disposal
of the Authority. The streets sur.
rounding the property will be
cleaned and flushed.
For several weeks, the Authority
has been instructing its tenants
how to aid in the cleanup anG
Bernard E. Loshbough, deputy ir
charge of operations, says he expects
100 per cent cooperation from
tenants.
Evening star., 1948-06-06
Mrs. John Rawlings Dies;
Lived in Area 80 Years

Mrs. Mary Lee Leftwich Rawlings
II, a resident Of the Washington
area for more than 80 years. died
Unexpectedly yesterday at Warren
ton, Va, where she had lived for
the last several years.
Born in Nashville. Tenn, Mrs,
Rawlings attended the Nashville
College for Young Women and the
Cincinnati College of Music before
coming to Washington in 1914. She
lived at l02 Primrose street, Chevy
Chase. Md. for Is years until she
moved to Warrenton.
Mrs. Rawlings was active in
women,s work at Francis Asbury
Methodist Church and later In the
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church.
She was a member of the Cohsti-
tuition Chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, the Chevy
Chase Chapter of the YWCA, the
Chevy Chase Women's Club and the
Florence Crittenton Circle.
She is survived by her husband,
John w: Rawlings, and three grand
sons, Sumner Wood, jr., David E.
Wood, and Judson Rawlings Wood
all residents of Montgomery County
near Rockville.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1948-06-06
z Miners Sue UNIV
For S51,500 in Assault
Nv the Associated p,s.s


LEXINGTON, KY, June 5.-Two
Harlan County miners filed suit in
Federal Court today asking damages
Of $25,750 each from the United
Mine Workers of America. They
charged they were beaten for their
refusal to join In a walkout last
march.
The miners are E. J. Williams and
Richard Collins, who said they were
employed at the Woods mine of the
Harlan Wallins Coal Corp.
The men field petitions May %
with the National Labor Relations
Board at Cincinnati charging the
union with unfair labor practices
under the Taft-H Hartley Act.
They stated they refused to par
ticipate in the March strike. Union
officials had maintained the union
was not formally on strike.
Mr.. Williams and Mr.. Collins
charged that agents of the union
warned them not to work and act
ing on behalf Of the said labor
organization undertook to impose
a fine =. as a penalty for engag-
ing in work"
Mr.. Collins claimed that in re-
taliation for his failure to pay the
fine, agents of the union assaulted
him with deadly weapons, threat
ened his life. took him from his
automobile and threw him into a
creek.
Mr.. Williams charged agents stop
ped him from working, snatched
his miners light and forced him to
leave his employment. Both men
said their lives weree threatened.
Evening star., 1948-06-06
MurreII B. Frazier Dies;
Headed Wholesale Firm

Murrell B. Frazier, Sc, owner and
founder of the wholesale nut prod
ucts firm bearing his name. died
Friday at his home, 9707 Colesville
pike, Silver Spring, after long
illness.
Mr.. Frazier, a native of Baltimore,
had been engaged in his business,
Murrell B. Frazier & Son, 4424 Ar
kansas avenue NV, for Is years
He was a former member of the
Washington Board Of Trade and a
member Of st. Marks Episcopal
Church.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Louise D. Frazier; a son, Robert A.
Frazier, president of the firm, and
two grandchildren; two brothers
Edward Frazier and S. w. Frazier
of Washington, and sister Mrs.
Marie Purrnell, of Arlington.
Funeral services will be held at
the Warner E. Humphrey Funeral
Home in Silver Spring at 10 am.
tomorrow. Burial will be In Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-06-06
State Jobs Increase
AS U. 5. Cuts Payroll
BY the Associotsd Press

CHICAGO, June 6-Federal and
Federal government payrolls
have made sharp switch in rela-
tive size since the war.
At the height of Federal civilian
wartime employment, there were
more Federal workers than State
and local government workers COM
bined. Now Federal workers are
outnumbered nearly 2-to-1, the Civil
Service Assembly reported today.
Between January l, 1945, and Oc-
tober, 1947, the Federal civilian pay
roll shrank from 3,450000 to 2,0O2,-
600. During the same period, the
combined payrolls of State and To-
cal governments jumped from 81
l54,0 to 3,789,000.
The present division of State and
local employment is: Cities, 80 per
cent; school districts, Is per cent;
States, % per cent; counties, II per
cent, and townships and special dis
tricts, 9 per cent.
Between 1910 and 1948 the MONTH
ly payrolls of State and local gov
ernments have jumped from $780,
100000 to S72O,6OO, 900.