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Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06
NILLSBORO


AT the ice cream festival being
held at LCar Church on Thursday
night Aug 5th. Homemade cakes,
candy and other good things viii
be offered for sale. Do not forget
the date.
Mrs Sallie "a. Davidson celebrate
ed her list birthday anniversary
last Sunday, and because Of a re-
cent illness, the plan of celebration
for the last ~ years was abandon
ed, and a family reunion was held
at her home instead Of a beach. The
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren who called on Mrs.
johnson asst Sunday afternoon and
evening were Mrs. Edward Rust,
Mr. and Mrs Thomas Rust and dau-
ghter, Vivian, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford
Rust and sons, Gerald and Virgil,
Mrs BOnard Carmine, Mr.. and Mrs
Philip Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Ira
Betts and children, Aliene and Nor
man. Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Rogers and
children, Philip and Francis Marie,
Mr. and Mrs. Farris EllingswOrth,
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey johnson, Mr.
and Mrs. Granville Johnson. Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Neely, Mrs. John
Moore and son Arnold, Henry
Johnson, Misses Jeanne Neely and
Margaret Knapp.
Miss Barbara Mitchell entertain
ed at a bridge luncheon last Sat
urdag afternoon in honor of Miss
Dorothy Long, of Selbyville. The
other guests were Misses Ruth
Gardner, Elinor Dobson, Peggy Di-
vibliss, Of stratford. Conn, Mary
Lou scott Barbara Lee Hudson,
Bette Jean Dukes, Betty Brown, Of
SelbyVile, Hannah Parsons, and
Mrs. Caroline Steele, Of Oceon View,
Mrs. DOttie Lewis, Newark, Miss
Nary GOrdy, laurel, Miss JOanne
Marshall, Lewes, Miss ElinOr Nor
risl Baltimore, Miss Jane Brooker,
Queenstown, anu Mrs Armel Long.
Mn. and Mrs. Raymond Baker are
the parents Of baby daughter,
born last Saturday in Beebe Hosp
ital, LeWes.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Folkert, of
Baltimore, Mr.. and Mrs. Barnard
Jones, Of Atlanta, Ca, have been
guests of Mr.. and Mrs III. b. Nit
chell
Mr.. and Mrs. William Elings-
worth and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Franklin are on a trip through
New England and Canada,
Tam Monroe celebrated her 4th
birthday last Thursday and enter
tanned at a party these guests: Pat
riCia Schumacher, Mary Lou and
Josephine Peterson, HARRIET Mich
OILS, jamie Yutzi, Susan and Bonnie
Outten, Lois and Dianne Mitchell,
Sandra Loss, Eta Marie Hudson,
and Pat Lingo.
MILTON FIREMEN'S CARNI-
VAL, August 10 to %. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06

sand on all and sundry. And leav-
ing the gritty impressions of Young
bodies succeed with sand in in
artistic distribution, of wet. dishev-
eled hair, and a car backing around
recklessly to begin further assault
upon the ribbon of concrete that
is provided for the faciIitation of
men from Bowers to various des-
tinations and distinies.
THESE couples are not the ones
Tot whom the real Big Thursday
exists. They are interlopers. Like
Alice in Wonderland, with so many
things to see, the Big Thursday
crowd is too preoccupied to resent
these youngsters with their rest
less schedules.
Like all really big things, be
they persons, planets or days, Big
Thursday moves implacably ahead,
becoming more stuffed with meet
ings, conversation pieces, eating,
sun bathing, gossip and guessing
how long it will be before those
tiny thunderheads will turn into
predictions Vindicated
Politicians, like bees with fat
cigars in their faces, buzz from
one group to another, leaving the
pollen of their ideas, hoping it
will bear fruit to their liking.
With the same implacableness
that the visitors and residents de-
mOlish food, regulations and lit
ter the beach with remnants of
their appetites, implacable Time
demOlishes the day. From four p.
m. on, the day begins to disinte-
CRATE.
A family starts loading it's car.
A teen age boy gFoans with Sec
Ond-degree burn, and looks like
one par-bOiled boy. His small fry
sister is suffering from the mis-
.cegenatiOn of root beer, peanuts
and sour pickles, topped by a nut
and whipped cream sundae. Fa-
ther and mother are suffering from
one par-bOiled boy and one sick
girl, and from a still small voice
that tells them they should have
known better than to have given
junior and sister the run of the
beach, and a run on their pocket
books.
There goes a New Jersey car
loaded with several small tykes
still wearing their wet bathing
suits and waving sloppy chocolate
ice cream cones under the nose of
a dOlOrOus ScOttie. The woman at
the wheel is Aztec bronze, all but
for a V-shaped halo around each
eye, where a pair of mOdernistic
sun glasses give her the appear
ance of some grOtesQue form of
undersea life when she prOmenades
on the beach, acting as dry life
guard for her many charges. She
now leaves us with the impression
that she was removed from the
oven before being properly tested
with a broom straw for even bak-
ing.
About now the fishermen are
returning. The Mary w and the
Susan r slander the air with their
tart choking gasps and tie up at
the dock. Aboard the Mary w four
veteran fishermen from Philadel-
phia look glumly at the spectators
lining the rail. Four pairs of dis
illusiOned eyes tell the story of an
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06
Fair rPrize Lst
POULTRY DEPARTMENT

The Poultry Department at the
Kent and Sussex Fair was one of
the largest departments on the fair
grounds this year. There were 4O7
entries and 1876 different breeds.
W. d. Scott was the superinten-
dent of the department. Henry w.
Sterling of BOrdentown, N. j.. was
the judge. He placed the following
awards:
Classes
Barred Rocks, r. NJ. Heald. West
Chester, Pa. First cockerel. first pull
let, Albert j. Folk, Newark First young
trio, Joseph Tharp, Christiana Second
young trio, Partridge Rocks, Columbia
Rocks, Blue Rocks. all awards to Hem
ry Miller, Lebanon. Pa.
White Rock-All awards to Charles
Moore, Bear
Silver Wyandotte. Golden Wyan-
dotte, Partridge WyandOtte Columbia
WyandOtte, Black Java, Dominic s.
Z. X. /. Red, R. G. r. /. Red, Buckeye,
Jersey Giants-All awards to Henry
Miller, Lebanon, Pa.
New Hampshire, first young trio
All awards to Chas. Moore, Bear
Light Bahama, first cock, Henry
Miller, Lebanon, Pa; second cock, to
Mrs. w. E, Larkin, FELTON,. All other
awards to Henry Miller.
Dark Bahama, Buff Cockrin, Black
Cockrin, Blue Cockrin. White Leg
horn, Black LeghOrn-AIl awards to
Henry Miller. Lebanon, Pa.
Brown LeghOrn, Buff LeghOrn, Black
LeghOrn, Columbia LeghOrn, Blue Leg
horn, Red LeghOrn-All awards to
Henry Miller, Lebanon.
5. Z. White LeghOI'n, first cock, sec
Ond cOck-All awards to W. r. Lank.
David DiOmick, Newark. Second Young
trio, all awards to Robert Folk, New
ark.
Minerva. Black Spaniel, Blue Col
umbia, Ancona Red Caaps. White Or
pezinton, Blue OTph., Black Orph, all
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06

morning mist, presaging, some say,
nasty weather. The old timers pre-
dict a storm in the afternoon. They
/ remind anyone who will listen that
in spite of rain, and on two Occa-
siOns hail, on other Big Thurs
days, the turn out of guests will
not be reduced. While the small
fry move away to chunk the fiddler
crabs or to make bigger plans for
the day than will ever mature, the
summer visitors go back to their
cottages for breakfast, or hang
around to watch the visitors who
come, not for the fishing, but for
the renewal of old friendships, the
sight and sound of those they see
only annually.
On most Big Thursdays, the
crowd arrives in dribbles. A swim
ming party from upstate, a fam
! lily with it's picnic equipment from
Magnolia. A farmer with a party
of neighbOrs from near Harring-
ton or FELTON,.
No sight / have seen is quite like
one of these gatherings to partic-
ipate in the dOings of a day at Bow
ers It's crowd is not like COney
Islands. Rarely does one see the
/ features of a newly arrived or pres
ent generation foreigner. 1t is not
an all-Delawarean crowd, but it
appears to be an all-American one.
( There goes a skinny little girl,
blond pig-tails tapping, her back
land pipe-stem legs stewed a tOma-
to red. She's from Chester, the
Bowers gossip says. There, with
the baby in arms strides a fat mo-
ther, sans girdle, carrying a para
sol, stopping to kick the sand out
of her Open-tOed sandals. She got
out of that Maryland car.
Here in the shade of a dOck-side
store sits a middle-aged man and
woman from Cape May, N. J. This
/ makes their seventh Big Thursday,
they tell casual listeners. Nobody
] thinks to ask why. They appear to
have no famillars in the moving
crowd. They sit beaming impair
TALLY on each and every newcOm-
er, like a benign self-appOinted
welcoming committee. The woman
/ lrescues a tiny bare-fOOted tot from
the splintered planking near the
rail- It's mother mods her thanks
indifferently.
Frequent meetings of old friends
occur at the dock and on the few
streets available for parking, and
down on the beach. Like BrOwian
movement in a microscopic field,
as the sun gets higher and the old
timers begin to doubt immediate
evidence of the validity of their
weather forecast, little knots of
humans cOngregate here and there,
standing or sitting, then break up
and regrOup in other places.
From food hampers, kits and
plain paper bags, women are con-
tinually handing out sandwiches,
cakes, bananas and peaches. Under
the few weatherbeaten trees that
survive at the fringe of the beach
several parties have spread out at
long tables, prOvisiOned with fried
chicken, deviled eggs, potato sal
ad, tomatoes, and many more foods
that are standard in the punish
ment of human digestion for a day
on the beach.
Swimming parties are in evil
dehce up and down the beach
! Here there is evidence that a cOu-
pie are merely filling in a packed
daily schedule by running into the
water, splashing around for less
than five minutes, then dashins
like mad to their car, kicking we
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06
BLANCHARD'S STATION

Several from our community at
tended the Harrington Fair last
week.
After visiting here with their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. H.
ZOtt for several weeks, Myrna and
ROnnie Savage returned home to
Chester Sunday with their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Darwin Savage. Miss
Shirley ZOtt also went with them
for a visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Calhoun
have recently returned to their
home here after a two weeks visit
with their daughter at her cottage
at Kits HummOck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Marvil and
family returned to their home Sat
urday in Chester after spending
their vacation here for ten days.
Arthur Marvil spent the week
end with relatives in Chester.
Lloyd ZOtt accompanied Mr.. and
Mrs. Lester ZOtt to Atlantic City
for the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert Edgell
are spending this week in a cottage
at RehObOth Beach.
William Hewlett, 7whO is vice
president of the Greenwood F. F.
A., was a judge at the Harrington
Fair and won hOnOrs as we'll as a
trip to the convention in Michigan
next December.
Several folks here were sorry to
hear of the death of Rev. DR.. Frank
HersOn of Milford.
MILTON FIREMEN'S CARNI-
VAL, August 19 to %. Ii
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06

years wait for next Big Thursday.
But whatever happens at Bowers
this Big Thursday would be worth
recording. We can wish that it had
been done years ago right on the
spit, without reliance on memory.
The foregoing is a synthesis of
what I remember from boyhOOd at
tendance, and what I have been
told by those who remember going
to Bowers for Big Thursday since
1888.
Copyright. 1913. H. ]. Dodd
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06
REPUBLICAN
PRIMARY ELECTION
FOR 8USSEX COUNTY


Pursuant to a call by the Republi-
can County Executive Committee Of
Sussex County, the Republican voters
OF Sussex County are requested to as
semble at the usual voting places in
the several election districts. between
the hours of 1 and p. NJ. (E. S. T.)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2Sth, 1948
For the purpose of Nominating the
following Candidates:
Two candidates for the Office of
Levy Court Commissioner for Sussex
County; a candidate for the office of
Receiver of Taxes and County Trea-
Surer for Sussex County; a candidate
for the office of PrOthonOtary for
Office Of Clerk Of the Orphans Court
and Register in Chancery for Sussex
county; d candidate for the office Of
COwntrOller for Sussex County; a
candidate for the Office of Sheriff for
sussex County,; a candidate for the
Office of Coroner for Sussex COuaty.
The voters of the Second and Fourth
Senatorial Districts will at the same
time vote for a candidate for the office
of State Senator for each of said Sem
atOrial Districts.
And further. the said voters of each
Representative District will select
candidates for the office of Represen-
tatiVe in the General Assembly for
each Of the ten Representative Dis
tricts.
An persons who believe in the prin-
ciples of the Republican Party and
endorse its policies, and were regis
tered on or before July 14th, 1948, shall
be entitled to vote.
NOTICE:
All persons who desire to become
candidates for any of the offices above
named are required by law to notify
in writing John G. Lank, Secretary
Republican County Executive Com
mittee on or before 1900 o'clock noon,
of AUGUST 18TH 1948
All candidates who wish to with
draw their names. in order to have
their filing fee returned, must notify
the Secretary in writing on or before
AUGUST 23rd, 1913, at 500 O'Clock
p. M.
By order of the Republican County
Executive Committee.
bANNES W. MARVEL Chairman
John Q. Lanlkf Secretary
August 2, 1913. a62t
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06
80 n stran HaheIne

Il is estimated that every man,
woman and child who lives in city
areas rides streetcar, trackless
trolley or bus at least 265 times a
year.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-03-29

Chamberlayne avenue and has 9
depth of 220 feet. It will be beau
tifully Handicapped and will con-
tain parking areas.
Services offered to the public
will include places for meeting, es-
pecially large public functions,
concerts, plays, ETC., regular meet
ings of franternal organizations
and various groups. Mr.. Norrell
said. The building will also serve
as headquarters for Al affiliated
grand lodges in the state.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-03-29
Masonic Temple
Concluded from page -

Masonic en1ple-
Concluded from page -
ization.
The structure, plans for which
have already been completed, will
be located on Chamberlayne ave-
nue. just off from the heart of old
Jackson ward, thickly populated
Negro section and near Gilpin
courts.
The site of the temple has been
purchased by the lodge and con-
struction work is scheduled to
start in the Spring Of 1949. 1t will
be named the Prince Hall Mem
orial Masonic Temple and Shrine
in honor of the founder of the
Masonic order among Negroes,
Mr.. NOrrell SAID.
In addition to the spacious au-
ditorium, the temple will contain
a gymnasium and club rooms in
the basement o fthe three-story
structure with executive offices
and lodge rooms on the second
and third floors.
Plans call for a fireproof struc-
ture with a steel and concrete
shell, Mosaic front of golden cast,
all aluminium window frames,
glass enclosed fire escapes, CEN
trail fan heating system, overhead
heating in the auditorium, convec-
tor radiation and indirect fluor-
escent lighting.
The site measures 1876 feet on
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fielder to make the ~tufzstiles click
who overdid the thing and signed
two Negro players, the Cleveland
team in the American league SEN
sibly took on one good Negro
player and although he was not a
regular last year, there r hopes
for his this year.
Brooklyn follows an accepted
pattern with these players. The
fellows are given an opportunity
to accustom themselves to organ
lied baseball methods and tactics,
which differ from those Of the
Negro leagues just as night diff
fers from day. Not all of the
Brooklyn players of darker hue
are in the upper brfacket leagues
| either, they have some men way
down in the scale, prepping them
for future use.
Mr.. Hickey may develop them
into players who in the future,
"may fit" into the Yankee and
| Giant scheme of things-selling
them to these teams with heavy
bankrolls at a nifty profit. Then,
of course, Mr.. Hickey will be
blamed by peahead sports writers
for his sagacity and business
practices.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-03-29
Dayton Fans
(confiprdo from mage IL

~
(continude from page ~
Of 1947, the New York Black
Yankees and the Philadelphia
Stars.
Other top notch teams of the
Negro Southern loop namely, the
Atlanta Black Crackers, Chatta-
nooga Choos, Nashville Cubs and
the Fl. Wayne Zollners Of national
fame, will also show here in Day
ton.
Fans are in for a real treat at
the ball park this season since it
has been revised to give the ap-
pearance Of the "New Look" since
becoming the property of the Day
ton Indians, the class A club of
the Cleveland Indians of the
American league. The diamond
has been moved some 10 feet from
the grand stand in order to make
room for more box seats and bet
ter seating capacity all around.
All service facilities such as the
rest rooms, dressing rooms and
press box have been revamped and
the fans and players will be re-
ceive better accommodations than
in the past seasons. No definite
date has been mentioned for the
opening date Of the Negro cards
but the Daily Express will be on
hand to give this information to
the fans when the time is known.
All games will be covered by
yours truly and every detail pub
lished for your information.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-03-29
Wa3ch for the opening date in
Ohio's only Negro daily.
(IO,

Wv So 2
Concluded from page p
Point VITO is based on the idea
of raising the lowest pair worker
to U. S. minimum pay standards.
Under the promotional policy
now in use 10 per cent of the non
citizens may be promoted to posi-
tons paying more than the maxi
mum but so far only n per
cent have been so advanced.
The subsistence proposal is
based on the fact that about half
of the non-citizens must live out
side of the zone, yet pay much
higher rent without the benefit
of better conditions. This subsist-
ence would ~equalize the living
conditions of nonresident workers
with those o PRESIDENT employees.
In asking for an increased pen
sion for silver employees, Richard
son pointed out that they are now
limited to only $25 a month. This
will not take care of them in the
Panama, he said, and non-workers
are not allowed to live in the
zone. He added that this pension
should be tripled at least.
Finally, Richardson added to his
program a system which would
introduce the recent recommends
tons of the Presidents commit
tee on civil rights allowing:
/. Equal pay for equal work.
2. Equal opportunities for jobs
and promotions.
8. Equal housin, health, recrea-
tional and educational facilities.
He concluded his suggestion by
saying, Favorable action on the
recommendations we made will go
far towards convincing the ''sil-
yer" workers, the peoples Of Latin
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concluded from page u
use a Campanella-and the Giants
could use most anything.
That the Brooklyn team con-
tinues to get ball players is no
miracle nor is it any mystery. They
Just go out and look them over
in an approved fashion. Unlike
the St. Louis Browns, who re-
sorted to using a one-ared out
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-03-29

America and decent people every
where that the United States does
mean what it says in its official
statements on the rights of racial
minorities."
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-03-29
CLASSIFIED ADS

FOR RENT unfinished rooms,
Call AID 1896. At
Evening star., 1948-03-07

day? No willing, no fading. How en-
chanting the prospects How wonderful
that here, at long last, is formula Offering
a bright answer to William Cullen Bryants
infinitely sad lament:
Where are the fo1Ders, the fair young
fo1DerS,
That lately sprang and stood
In brighter light and softer airs, a
beauteous sisterhood?
There is but one flaw in the Joffe process
Although it inmortalizes the color, the
form and the look of freshness, it fails to
retain the fragrance. In this day and
age, however, we can be reasonably sure
that some genius will soon discover how
to take care of that. Despite the atom
and Omar's dictum, the development
plainly promises to add to the sum total
of human happiness by making it possible
for all of us to convert any and every
flower into "a thing of beauty and JOY
forever. What the world needs Is more
of this kind of progress.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

broadcast to the waiting world: II wish to
live as free man. And want my nation
to be community of free men,"
So truth and base falsehood have been
contending on the speaking air as March
arrived like roaring lion in national and
international affairs.
There still is something awesome in the
thought that the whole world now is one
whispering gallery The daily worldwide hook
UP is a solemn phenomenon. But there is 4
broadcast that is even more solemn and sig
ni1cant 1t originates with a station that
never breaks contact and which never signs
off, 1t is Station YOU.
The most important thing that any indi-
vidual can contemplate is what that privately
owned and operated station is saying to other
lives. The Station YOU controls influence
waves whose lines go out to the ends Of
the earth.
When we least expect it, we are touching,
turning, tuning other lives all the while. We
imagine that, in any experience, what we do,
how we act, what we say are our own con-
Germ. But, no! Always others are tuning In
on our lives. We assume that we are singing
or sobbing to ourselves; but we are singing
or sobbing to an unseen audience. We are
on the air. It does make a tremendous diff
ference what kind of program we are sending
out. We sob and we broadcast sobs; that is
Evening star., 1948-03-07

One thing is certain and the rest is lies:
The fo,Oer that once has blo,pn for
eUer dies.
Quite obviously, when he penned those
dogmatic lines in his Rubaiyat long, long
ago, Omar Khayyam went off the deep
end. At any enthusiastically enough
he failed to foresee the work of the
brothers Philip and Sidney Joffe, the New
Jersey doctors who have just announced
the discovery of a secret formula guaran-
teed to keep cut flowers looking fresh and
alive for ages and ages.
The formula, based on experiments with
chemicals said to have been used by
mummy experts in ancient Egypt, is re-
ported to be so foolproof that the Nations
department. stores will soon be selling it
to the public. Then all of us, rich and
poor, gardeners and nongardeners alike,
will be able to fill our apartments and
homes-at negligible cost-with permanent
and beautiful arrangements of some of the
loveliest and most colorful things the earth
has to offer, whether it be the pansy, the
violet the gardenia, the orchid or the red
red rose.
To florists and makers of artificial flow
ers, this news may seem to have the ring
OF doom in it. Possibly, too, but with
much less reason, some of our more timid
and progress-fearing garden-lovers may
look upon it as a dismal development
threatening to put an end to the pleasures
of growing things in the backyard. Such
gloomy thoughts to one side, however
what about the sweet young maid whose
first orchid from her first beau now will
be hers to have and to hold looking as
good as new always? And what about the
bridal bouquet that will still be standing
crisp and lovely on the golden wedding