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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
State Continues All
Girls Record Program
Purpose Is To Encourage Girls To
BecOme Home Makers

Now in its 26th year, the Ma
tiOnal 4-H Girls Record awards
program is being continued in Dell
aware.
The purpose Of the program is to
encourage 4-H girls to become pro-
ticient in housekeeping skills and
managerial abilities that make for
comfortable satisfying home.
Awards for superior records on
county, state and national levels
are the same as provided by Mont
gOmery Ward last year, viz: gold
filled medals of honor, Chicago All
Club Congress trips, and 100000
college scholarships, respectively.
More than $15,00O.OO in college
scholarships has been awarded to
the national winners alonce since
the programs inception.
Last years state winner in Della
ware was Katherine A. Krewatch,
Delmar.
Members who won county medals
in 1947 were Hazel Sapp, Kent;
Dorothy Dempsey, New Castle.
County club agents will furnish
full information regarding this pro-
gram.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Jurors Are Drawn
In Sussex County
For General Sessions Court Con-
Vening On June 2S

Jury Commissioners of Sussex
county have drawn jurors for the
June Term of General Sessions
Court, which will sit June %. The
following have been selected:
District No. IN. G. Grover
man, John c. Truitt, George Wells
and Edward H. Trice, all of Mil
ford.
District No. Jacob Hatfield
and Mabel Farrow, Greenwood;
Hilda c. Owens, Bridgeville, and
William L. Morris, Greenwood.
District No. 3-Albert H. Mes
sick, Georgetown, r. D.; Lillian
Records, Seaford; Thomas Scott
Purse, Seaford, and Mabel K.
Lambden, Georgetown, R. D.
/ District No. Pauline c. White,
Laurel; Fred L. Ward, Laurel, and
Pearl V. Chapman, SeafOrd.
District No. 5-Hattie Barr, Del
mar; Lee Hastings, Laurel; How
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Committees Named
ByMethOdistB Board
Group Will Be Invested
With Power To FOrmu-
late Education Policy;
M. Haswell Pierce, Of
Milford, On Committee

A committee of six members to
formulate plans and suggestions
for carrying out the boards four
year plan of activity has been
named by the Rev. Otis P. Jeffer-
son, Seaford, president of the Board
OF Christian Education of the Pen
lnslua Methodist Conference.
The members of the committee
are: State Chemist, R. Earl Dickey.
Christiana chairman; the Rev.
Charles ClarksOn, North East, Md. ::
Lawrence c. Freeny, Salisbury,
Nd; the Rev. L. E. Warner, Wilm-
lngtOn; the Rev. J. Harry Wright.
Harrington, and DR.. T. c. Mulligan,
superintendent of the Dover Dis
trict of the conference.
Other committees appointed by
the board president are:
Executive committee, Mr.. Jeffer-
son, chairman; James E. Andrews.
HurlOck Md; Lindsay Greenplate.
Newark; Elvin H. Cacanagh, Will
mington; John Townsend, DeImar;
Paul Turek, Wilmington; DR.. Fred
LivingOOd, dean of Washington
College, Chestertown, Md; the Rev.
S. B. Bradley, Cambridge, Md; DR..
A. l.. Fleming, Salisbury.
Nominating committee, the Rev
David Baker, Milford chairman:
David Green, Delmar; the Rev.
Paul Mccoy, Easton, Md.
Camp Board of directors. w. r
Davis, fredericksburg, Md, chair
man; the Rev. w. P. Kesmodel.
Georgetown; the Rev. G. E. Leister
Centreville, Md; DR.. E. P. Thomas.
superintendent of the Easton dis
trict; the Rev. J. B. Vaughn, Hur-
lock, Md; Robert Godfrey, Mills
boro; the Rev. Richard NJ. Green.
Dover, executive secretary of the
board of education; Mr.. Jefferson.
Mr.. Andrews, Mr.. Greenplate and
Mr.. Cavanagh.
Rally Day committee, the Rev.
Charles Jarvis Selbyville, chair
man; the Rev. H. Kirby Krams.
MarshalltOn; Jacob Moore, Sea-
ford; Mr.. Greenplate, the Rev. Rob
ert Green, Crisfield, Md; Mrs. Har-
ry Hygate, Wilmington; the Rev. ].
B. DickersOn, superintendent of the
Salisbury district; the Rev. w. o.
Hackett, Georgetown; the Rev. J.
Robert Mackey, Salisbury, and Mr..
Mccoy.
Visual aid committee the Rev.
John Edward Jones, Berlin, Md,
chairman; Marvin Mckay, Wilm-
lngton; William B. Simpson, Cam
den.
Wesley Foundation committee
the Rev. w. P. Roberts, Whining
ton, chairman; DR.. o. A. Bartley,
president of Wesley Junior College,
Dover; Arthur Hudson, Selbyville:
Edgar Hubert, Cambridge Nd.
w. F. Messick, Salisbury; DR.. H. P.
Fox, superintendent of the Wilm-
ingtOn district.
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11

ial features for those few days will
include a trip to Longwood Gar
dens to see the pageant ''The Leg
end of Sleepy Hollow" and a trip
to historic New Castle. The pro-
gram has been arranged to include
some time for fun. A part for all
members attending the Short
Course, will be held on Friday
night, June 18th. This year the
party will feature "An information
al Night" Various clubs will give
stunts and skits, using native cos
tunes or some idea of another
country.
Thursday, June 18th, will be Visi-
tors Dav. ANY club member in the
County may visit the Short Course
at that time.
Those attending from Sussex
County. in addition to Maybelle liz
ron. Home Demonstration Agent.
will include the following:
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
New Milford Theatre
Will Open June 24
Announcement Made By District
Manager Harold deGraw


The new Milford Theatre will be
opened to the public on Thursday,
June "a, according to announce
ment made yesterday by Harold
deGraw, district manager for the
Schine Cifcuit in this area.
The theatre is the largest and
most modern on the Eastern Shore.
1t will seat approximately 1900
and will be equipped with the lat
est type air conditioning, sound
and projection equipment, and
Heywood-Wakefield seats. The new
Milford Theatre will be the last
word in comfort, beauty and safe
ty.
Mr.. deGraw stated that plans
are now being made for the open
ing ceremonies and that further
announcements on this gala event
will be made in next weeks paper.
The new Milford Theatre will
open approximately one year from
the date work started on the struc-
ture in June of last year. An aver
age of approximately so men, most
of them from Milford and vicin-
ity, have been working on the
construction since that time.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Army Worm Outbreak
Reported In Kent
Agent w. E. TarbelI Lists VariOus
Control Measures

The army worm has made its
appearance in the county again
attacking fields of barley, wheat
and young corn near Cowgilps
Corner and also it has been found
in a barley field between Rising
Sun and Woodside.
The control measure recon-
mended is to bait the infested field
with the following mixture: a IN
of paris green, 100 10 wheat bran
with sufficient water or molasses
to make a crumbly mixture. This
should be sown broadcast through
out the field either by hand or il
may be applied from a plane. If it
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
FALL Cedars Plans Complete
Harding Night For National
Big Success COP Meeting
Everything Is In Readi-
ness For Session Open
ing June Il, According
To Party Chairman.

PHILADELPHIA - Republican
chairman Carroll Reece announced
last week that plans for the Ma
tonal Convention in Philadelphia
starting June 21, are practically
complete.
In addition to Congressman 7
caleb Boggs, Delaware-at-Large
who will attend as an honered
guest of the committee, a limited
number of official invitations were
sent to other distinguished partv
members and visiting dignitaries.
Almost 100 per cent acceptance
has been thus far realized. With
1894 delegates and an equal num-
Der of alternates, state chairmen
and staff members of the national
committee, as we'll as 1900 men,
0ers of the working press, a total
attendance of close to 10000 is
anticipated.
Reece said that the convention
itself will not deviate in great de-
tail from former years, and, as in
the past, before the principal bus
mess of nominating candidates gets
under way, there will be the usual
preliminary work of organization
committee meetings, and platform
drafting-ordinarily requiring two
days.
While the committees are at work
and reports are being prepared
there will be constant general ac-
tivity on the convention floor in
the form of welcome addresses
awards to outstanding Americans
speeches and musical interludes.
Arrangements Committee Chair
man Walter Hallanan, West Vir-
ginia, has announced that Meyer
Davis and his orchestra will fur
niSh the music.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
State Farm Mortgage
Indebtedness High

The farm mortgage Indebtedness
in Delaware now amounts to
Slightly less than million dollars,
an increase of A per cent during
the past two years. This increase
in farm mortgage Indebtedness is
one of the largest in the country
and compares with an increase of
about 13 per cent in the Middle
Atlantic States, and only 4 per
cent for the United States as a
whole.
DR.. r. o. Bausman, head of the
department of marketing and
farm management at the Univer-
sity of Delaware. states that this
increased Indebtedness in Della
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
DaveHuggCets
Important VEW
Committee Post
Local Veteran Will Be In
Charge Of Program
For Eighteenth An
nual Encampment.

Lloyd w. Ricards, commander of
the Department of Delaware, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, has an
nOunced the appointment of Mil
ford veteran, David S. Hugg, ad-
jutant and public relations officer
of the Blue Hen Post No. 64S3,
V. F. W., Milford, to head the pro-
gram committee for the Eighteenth
Annual Encampment of the De-
partment of Delaware, to be held
in Dover on June 1S-19-20. Clar-
ence o. Bradley Of FELTON,, a char
ter member of the Clarence Vim
son Post, Camden and district COM
mander of District No. 8 (Kent
county,, Department of Delaware,
will head the general committee
for the encampment.
Hugg, a veteran of World War
II, is a charter member of Blue
Hen Post, and has served the local
post as trustee and athletic chair
man in addition to his present role
of adjutant and public relations
officer. He is currently serving
second terms as district junior vice
commander and as district athletic
officer. In the State Department,
Hugg has served as chairman of
the V. F. w, special events COM
mittee for Kent and Sussex coun-
ties, and as assistant public rela-
tiOns officer.
Hugg saw 10 months service Ov-
erseas during World War II as a
scout, squad leader, and patOon
guide with the 45th Infantry Di-
vision. Twice wounded, he was
awarded the Purple Heart and the
Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a sec
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11

who do general duty, there are Op-
Grating room nurses, nurse anes-
thetiStS, maternity nurses, and
many Others-to say nothing of
nurses in administrative, super
visory and teaching positions.
New drugs, new equipment and
new methods of treatment call for
nurses with specialized training
Some of the fields recently opened
up are those of cancer nursing,
tropical disease nursing, and psy-
chiatric nursing.
Industry, the Red Cross, schools
and camps, public health nursing
and the Army and Navy, all re-
quire additional nurses. With a
minimum of 10000 recruits needed
in the September 1948 classes to
overcome the nursing crisis which
is threatening the health of Amer
leans, now is the time for you to
enter the profession.
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Was One Of The Most
Outstanding Observan-
ces In Recent Year; S.
C. Pierce, Sr., w as
Chairman.

Another Harding Night" has
come and gone for the membership
of Evergreen Forest No. 49, Tall
Cedars of Lebanon. of Kent and
Sussex. counties. Nevertheless the
memorial in honor of the late Pres
ident in the Lewes Fire House at
Lewes on June 3, rates as the best
and most successful program car
ried out in recent years. Samuel
G. Pierce, Sr., chairman and his
committee, went to lot of trouble
to make the visit worthwhile. The
odore H. Harrington, Grand Tall
Cedar, presided, assisted by the
forest officers.
Not on the program a few of the
Forest officers had an inkling that
the newly-elected Supreme Tall Ce-
dar of the United States might
make the forest visit at this time.
The rumOr proved true for the new
Supreme Tall CedOr of the United
States, Herman B. Willaredt of
Mont Glare, Pa, a member of
Spring City Forest No. "a, who was
elevated to that position at the
Supreme Forest Convention in AS
bury Park, N. j., last week, hon
Ored Evergreen Forest No. 40 by
making his first visit in that ca
pacity to his Delaware friend. His
visit developed in this manner: The
Supreme Tall Cedar who is an in
surance auditor who travels the
Delmarva Peninsula extensively,
and is we'll known to all insurance
brokers, upon completing a busi-
ness trip decided to spend the day
with close friends on Lewes Beach
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Avenue Young People
To Present Concert
VIII Be Given In Salisbury Church
Tomorrow Evening

The Avenue Methodist Young
Peoples Choir of fifty voices will
present a sacred choral concert in
the Allen Memorial Baptist Church
of Salisbury on Saturday evening.
June IL, from z to s o'clock. The
concert will be broadcast bv
WBOC, Salisbury Radio Station.
The selections to be used i'm this
program were voted by the choir.
to be their favorite anthems. The
program is arranged to present
music Of each season of the choir
year. 1t will include the follow
ing:
Music of the Fall: "The Lost
Chord" Sir Arthur Sullivan; "The
Builder" Chas. Wakefield Cad
man.
Thanksgiving: "The Green Ca
thedral," Carl Hahn; Recession
al" Reginald DeKoven.
Christmas: "The Halleluiah
Chorus from the Messiah" Han
del.
Lenten Season: "I Walked To-
NoJ WhSA 2 Jesus Wdlh6O, " Edra.
"The Holy City" Stephen Adams.
Easter: God So Loved the
World" from 1.-The Crucifxion."
Sir John Stainer.
Special: Cathedral Echoes"
trumpet quartet, Briegel.
Mothers Day: "Bless This
House." Brake; For My Mother"
Albert Hay Malotte.
Memorial Day: zone Sweetly
Solemn Thought" Ambrose, the
double sextet; "The 23rd Psalm"
Malotte.
Music to close the choir year:
"The Lords Prayer" Malotte.
The solists with the choir will
be Miss Phoebe Houston, Miss Eli
leen Wharton and Jack Tease.
Members of the double sextet in
clude: first soprano, Eileen Whar-
ton, Phoebe Houston, Louise Nail
or, Claudia Beswick, Virginia
Scott; second soprano, Ethel Gle
ments, Alma Rust, Florence Lynch.
Patsy Grier; alto, LYDIA Wells,
Ccontinued on page 50
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Daily Vacation
School At Calvary
Session Will Begin Prompt
ly At 900 A. NJ; Will
Close 11:15 A. M.

Starting Monday, June II, and
closing Friday, June 25, a Daily
Vacation Bible School will be held
in the Calvary Methodist Church,
Milford. The sessions will start
promptly at 900 o'clock and will
close at 11:15. Children between
the ages of 4 and Is years are in
vited to attend.
The schedule each day will be
as follows:
900 a. m.-ChOrus singing.
go Ia. m.-WOrship.
$3.50 a. m.-CIass period. This
will consist of Bible memory work
and the teaching period by the tea
chers.
10:11 a. m.-RecreatiOn.
1926 a. m.-Class period. This
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
RoccOs Operating
Southern Grille
Well Known Restaurant Is Now
Under New Management

The Southern Grille on North
Walnut street, which for sometime
has been owned and operated by
Edward c. Evans, has been sold by
Mr.. Evans to Charles and Jane
Rocco, of Milford. Mrs. Rocco will
be remembered as the former Miss
Jane Harrington.
The new Owner-management has
made extensive changes and i'm
prOvements in the property. and
are now open for business.
They will specialize in Italian
American food. and will cater for
special parties, etc.
The Grille will remain open "a
hours daily and the Lantern Loft
will be available to special parties.
service clubs, etc.
The Grille is also the headuuar-
ters for Western Union and an ex-
perienced operator will remain on
duty during the hours the service
is available.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Food Spoilage Comes
With Warm Weather

Delaware hOmemakers, as we'll
as restaurant owners, are being
warned by the State Board of
Health to take precautions against
food spoilage now that the warm
er weather is here. Refrigeration
is the best way to prevent hot wea-
ther food infection, commonly
called food poisoning" say health
ollclals, since food that is kept
standing too long at ordinary kit
chen temperature may develop
polsons within a few hours. The
organisms which cause food to
spoil usually grow when food is
IN the in-between temperature or
just warm, and no OdOr, color or
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
G. S. Ingram ReOpenS
Store On June I8
Homemade Ice Cream Will
Be A Feature OF
New Store

Charlie Ingram, owner and oper-
ator of the Milford Lockers and
Food Center announced today that
he will open his food market next
Friday, June 18th.
The store, destroyed in the recent
fire at Mr.. Ingram's, has been COM
pletely rebuilt, restocked and mod
erniZed.
A feature of the new store will
be the homemade ice cream, and,
according to Mr.. Ingram, ice cream
will be given away free to every
one attending the opening on June
18th and 18th.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Mercantile Section
OF Chamber To Meet
Group Will Assemble Pursuant To
Call BY Chairman Harry Pierce

Purusant to a call by Chairman
Harry Pierce, the merchantile sec
ton of the Milford Chamber of
Commerce will hold a meeting on
Monday evening, June 14th, in the
Milford Community Building.
The meeting has been called by
chairman Pierce, to discuss sever
al important problems that are
presently confronting the organiza-
ton.
Harvey NJ. Phillips, Jr., President
of the Chamber and Robert H. Yer
kes, secretary of the Board of Dir
ectors, will be present at the meet
ing.
1t is expected that plans for the
l948 Christmas fete will be discus
sed at this meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Fire Threatened
Thawley's Garage
Good Work OF Carlisle Fire De-
partment Checked Blaze Quickly

OOOU WORK Of Carlisle Fire De-
partment Checked Blaze Quickly
Shortly after four o'clock last
Friday afternoon, the large mod
ern garage and show room of
Brown P. Thawley was threatened
by fire, which was extinguished by
the timely arrival and efficient
work of the Carlisle Fire Depart
ment before it went out of con-
troll.
Believed to have started from an
explosion of gasoline, the fire had
ignited the building proper, when
the firemen arrived, using water
from their new water tank truck
as we'll as chemicals, the firemen
had. the fire under control in less
than five MINUTES.
Mr.. Thawley, in an interview
with a member of the Chronicle
reportial staff, stated his loss was
in the neighborhOOd of $2,5OO.OO to
100000.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Blue Hen Post
Opens Fund Drive
Public Solicitation Is Now Under
Way; viii Build Post Home

William A. Lynch, chairman of
the finance committee of the Mil
ford Veterans of Foreign Wars AS
sOciatiOn Inc, has announced that
a public solicitation for funds with
which to build a spacious and we'll
equipped post home on Haven
Lake is now underway, and that
members of his committee will be-
gin a concerted drive this week
end. Chairman Lynch has pointed
out that while outright donations
will be accepted and appreciated,
it is not the intent of the commit
lee to ask for donations, but actual
loans will be solicited with promis-
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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
United States Is Facing Huge
Potato Surplus For Third Year
BY Associated Press

to
the next four months ' "0' U"ii"s
Potato supplies expected by Agriculture officials
10 start moving to market within volume far above
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Home Demonstration Clubs
Are Planning For Short Course

County Clubs be well represented
at the Annual Short Course held
Delaware Many of the prefer
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Specialization Is Now Common
In The Nursing Profession

Many
much the type of work But today
other
which registered professional
Valley frontiersman., 1948-07-09
Chamber Asks Anchorage
 To Be Guests

Anchorage Chamber of Com merce members will be invited to be the guests of the Valley Chamber of Commerce on Aug. 4, it was decided at last Wednes- days luncheon meeting. An An chorage representative will be asked to address the group. Fol lowing the luncheon, the visitors will be taken on a tour of the Valley, to be shown examples of the several types of farming practiced here.
 President Jack Maze appointed C. w. Peters and Clayton Ess- finger as a committee to plan the farm tour of the visitors. Rev. w. L. Zeile was placed in charge of the menu for the day.
 The invitation is proffered in an attempt to foster greater good will between Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley In keeping with that idea, Valley members of proposed joint committee of the two Chambers were appoint ed by MT. Maze. They were Ava Brooks, Don Irwin, Carl Ras- mussen, MT. Peters and Mrs. Ess- finger.
 It is hoped that the Anchor age members of this committee, first proposed by representative of the Anchorage organization, will be named during their visit here.
 MT. Zeile told Chamber mem bers that the new signs, recently purchased by the group, were at- tracting comment from visitors. He added that some attempt at
 Continued on back page)
Valley frontiersman., 1948-07-09

and 4-O Bronwen Courtney, (2) Helen Kay Carter;
 Boys and girls dash, ages 5, 6 and 7-CD Sally Carson, CD Marcia Alexander, (3) Janet Mack;
 Boys dash, ages 8 and 9-d) Ralph Cortney;
 Girls dash, ages 8 to 11-(D Carol Hilburn, (2) June Gersh- mel;
 Boys dash, ages 10, II, 12- CD Billy Nelson, CD Gene Dinkel and Mike Carson, (3) Larry Bry- ant and Gerald Sorenson;
 Girls dash, teen-age-(D Bar bara Carter and Charlotte Nell son, CD Pasy Carson, (3) Patsy Plack;
 Three-legged race for girls CD Barbara Carter and Charlotte Nelson, CD Rosemary Vickaryous and Patsy Plack;
 Three-legged race for boys CD Mike Carson and Billy Nell son, @ Don Dinkel and Benny Cottle, (3) Bob Gershmel and Gene Dinkel;
 Girls sack race-(D Charlotte Nelson, CD Barbara Carter (3> Rosemary Vickaryous,
Valley frontiersman., 1948-07-09
No Further News Given On Hospital

No further word had reached the Valley at press-time concern ing construction plans for the Alaska Native Service hospital, which will be located in Anchor age. Assistant Secretary William E. Warne's letter of announce ment, sent to Chamber of Com merce president Jack Maze last Saturday, has not been followed by further press releases con- corning the institution.
 As quoted in the Saturday ex- tra issued by the Valley Front iersman, MT. Warne stated that the advantages and disadvant- ages of each location and all other pertinent factors were weighed carefully in our desire to make selection in the best interests of Alaska and of the people served by the hospital. Following this detailed review of the possibilities, it has been decided to locate the hospital in Anchorage"
 It is understood that a letter containing similar information also reached Al Hagen, former Chamber of Commerce secretary, early this week.
 Anchorage earlier this year had offered a site east of the water tank as a possible loca- tion for the six million dollar structure. Estimates of land in- cluded in the offer vary from less than 10 acres to nearly IS acres. It is assumed that the building will be erected on this location.
 This institution is the largest of several planned for Alaska under an announced tubercu- losis control program of the Alas lza Native Service.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-07-09

Boys sack race-O Don Din kel, CD Rodney Cottle, (3) Rich ard Cottle and Mike Carson;
 100-yard dash for boys-U Don Dinkel, (2) Rodney Cottle, (3)Richard Cottle;
 Wheelbarrow race -O Don Dinkel and Benny Cottle, (2) Mike Carson and Dick Cottle, (3) Charlotte Nelson and Barbara Carter;
 Shoe race-D Don Dinkel, Dinkel, CD Charlotte Nelson, (3) Rosemary Vickaryous;
 Potato race-Q) Marva Alex ander, CD Bobby King, (3) Janet Mack;
 Women's nail driving contest ID Mrs. Kit Carson, CD Mrs. Pat Carter, (3) Mrs. Oscar John son.
 Members of the Susitna Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who were in charge of the days program, expressed their appre- citation to all who helped with the Fourth celebration. They al- ready arc making plans for an even better holiday next year, they declare.