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Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
December Draft
Quota 81 Men
viii Report On The Fif-
teenth OF The
Month

Delaware draft boards will call 81
men for induction this month, it
was revealed this week at Delaware
Selective Service headquarters.
The figure is nearly double the
total Of. Is young men called for
Army duty last month, when the
first inductiOns were made under
the peacetime draft law.
A spokesman at headquarters said
that the quotas Of the four local
draft boards have been sent to them,
and that the boards started send
ing out induction notices yesterday.
VIII Report Dec. Is
The men currently being sum-
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Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Praises Scouting
At Dover Dinner
Awards Given At District Dinner;
Re.eIect Area Head

Scouting ties the loose ends in the
hoy into the knots that make for
good citizenship and achievement,
with the same process worked into
the adults as the leaders of the boys,
DR.. William F .Dunkel, Jr., pastor of
Grace Methodist Church, Whining
ton, told scouts, scOuteTs, parents
and friends Of scouting at the an
nUal dinner meeting of the Dover
District, Del-Mar-Va Council Boy
Scouts Of America.
The affair was held last Tuesday
night in the social hal lOf the Dover
School with DR.. o. A. BARLEY as
master of ceremonies.
Merit Order Awards
Order of Merit awards were pre-
scented by A. G. Livingston to ClaT-
ence p. Weber, manager Of the Del
aware Trust Company, Middletown
and s. MarcellUs Blackburn, prin-
cipal of the Booker T. Washington
School, Dover. Special Recognition
awards went to Mr.. Livingston and
Mr.. BARLEY.
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Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Christmas Seal
Day Observed

Tuesday, December 7th, which
was Delaware Day, also marked the
forty-first anniversary of the issu-
ance of the first American Tuber-
culosis Christmas Seal by the late
Miss Emily P. Bissell On this date.
Miss Bissell herself purchased the
first Christmas Seal, which was a
Delaware Seal, at a booth which
had been erected in the old Wilm-
ingtOn pOstOffice. Seeking to raise
three hundred dollars ($3OO.OO) to
keep open the shack at Hope Farm,
Miss Bissell raised three thousand
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
LeWes Museum
Closes For Winter

After holding one of it's most
successful seasons of the spring.
summer and early fall, the histoT-
ic LeWes ZWaanendael Museum
closed Wednesday, December /. for
the winter months. It will reopen
on April 1, 1949.
Miss Catharine c. Maull, curator.
has kept a register of visitors since
last April 1 and announces that
more than $500 persons stopped IN
at the museum to inspect the his
toric collection of colonial relics.
special Sussex County old silver
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Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

OF some 270 Delaware freshmen
who now are enrolled in the first
year ROTC training, 191 are eIigi-
BILE to receive deferments which
will carry Oem through the sum-
mer until they are enrolled again
next fall. Colonel PendletOn said.
No student is to be drafted when
regularly enrolled during any
academic year.
There also are IT'S sophomOres
in the basic ROTC program at
Newark, of whom 118 are eligible to
receive summertime deferment. Col.
PendletOn said. All the latter must
indicate that they expect to enroll
for the advanced course in their
junior and senior years.
The quotas established for Della
ware ROTC students are part of a
Continued on page l4)
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
All Delegation
Back From Farley
State Group Returned To Homes
During Past Weekend

Delaware's delegation to the Ma
tiOnal All Club Congress returned
home this past weekend from
Chicago where they made a credit
able showing which netted 5000 col
lege scholarships for four members
OF the group. Eleven young people
from this state attended the con
gress as delegates.
Winners of the scholarships to
universities of their choice are:
Boyd Cook, New Castle County. ma
tional soil conservation award ::
Nancy Smith, New Castle County.
national room improvement award: ::
Mary Emma Moore, Kent County.
national canning champion; Hazel
Sapp, Kent County, national home
grounds Identification award.
The victorious delegates will be
honOred by their local clubs at
special achievement dinners within
the next few weeks. While in Chica-
go the group was entertained at two
world movie premieres.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Grange Leader Gives
Warning Of Panic
National Master GOsS Speaks Al
LeWeS Meeting

National Grange Master Albert S.
Goss of Washington Tuesday night
at the State Grange banquet at
tended by 400 in Lewes Fire Hall,
warned that "We have the makings
Of a good, healthy panic if we don't
look out and don't let them talk you
into blaming the farmer"
GOss proposed legislation to avoid
a repetition of 1920 when they
pulled the props out of farm econ
Omy." He said the nation is again
faced with the same conditions, in
creased production, higher costs and
imitation.
Sound economical principles in a
program to meet the present crisis
were advocated by the speaker, who
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Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

3A4tSs AnOlApSOHs treasurer, MrS.
Alice Thompson.
Canterbury-Pre Mrs. e.
Il. Richter; vice-president, Mrs.
Marion McGinnis; secretary, Mrs.
Lynn TOrbert; treasurer, Miss
Gladys FARRELL.
ChesWOld--President Mrs E. ].
Lafferty; vice-pTesident, Mrs. AL
bert Cote; secretary, Mrs. Harry
hnotts; treasurer, Mrs. Ida EN-
ofy.
barmington-President. Mrs. FL
mer Tull; vice-president, Mrs. Ar
thur Layton; secretary, Mrs. Hem
~ Stafford; treasurer, Mrs. Amos
Layton.
Fraziers President, Mrs. RaInb
kirdini Vice-president, Mrs. GEORGE
" Pippin; secretary, Mrs. Robert
(continusd % pass 10
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Senior Bazaar Will
Be Held Tonight
Annual Fpte Will BE Held In School
Auditorium

At 800 p. m. this evening, De-
Cember 10, the Senior Glass will
hold its annual bazaar in the Mil
ford High School Auditorium.
Lockwood "ROssy" Exley is in
charge of the entertainment. AL
though the seniors are exceedingly
clOse-mOuthed about the whole per-
fOTmance, it was learned that the
program will be chiefly of a mUsi-
cal nature. 1t will feature, along
with a few popular renditiOns, sew
eral songs from the Gay Nineties.
Those noted comedians, Maurice
Blessing, Raymond Spicer and How
ard Ennis, have turned out in grand
style to participate in the enter
(continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
LOCAL STORES WILL
BE OPEN EVENINGS
BEGINNING DEC. Is

In order that the multi
tudes of shoppers who make
Milford their shopping head
quarters, might be better
served during the Christmas
rush, the merchants of Mil
ford have unanimously
agreed to keep their stores
>Open in the evenings begin
ming with next Wednesday
evening, December Is, and
continuing until Christmas.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

The increase, amounting in the
overall to about $4,000 a year in
gross revenue, will net the COM
pany nearly $6OO,OOO after taxes.
and will apply to residence and
business telephones. Toll and
lOng-distance rates remain un-
changed.
This will be the first general
telephone rate increase in Della
ware since 1921. Meanwhile, there
have been several reductions in
local rartes and IA reductions in
toll and lOng-distance rates.
Some of the present and pro-
posed monthly rates in Milford are
as follows:
Present New
Rate Rate
Individual line residence. 80. .65 $3.50
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
GI Loans Nearly
Total p Millions
Program, However, Is Now Moving
At Slower Pace


While the CT loan program in
Delaware is moving at a much
slower pace than last year, the level
of loans to World War II veterans
has now reached nearly $22,OOO,OO0.
James F. MCDOnOugh, loan guar
anty officer for the Veterans Ad-
ministratiOn regional Office in Will
mingtOn, said recently that as OF
Nov. 25, a total of 3,699 loans have
been made, amounting to $21,965,-
$40. The VA has guaranteed rough
ly half this amount.
Home loans constitute the great
est portion of this tOtal-apprOxi-
mately O,O0O,OOO-with farm and
business loans making up the re-
mainder.
Total Rises Gradually
Last March. the home loan ag-
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Delaware ROTC Students Are
Appraised Of Draft Status

under which University
cve Seectye Service defeen during when
might established
Department of the Army Col Randolph Pendeton
the Universitys today
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
$4,000 Fire At
Selbyville Store
Furniture Company Wrecked BY
Flames; IL Companies Responded

Fire officials estimated total loss
at about $4,000 in a spectacular
blaze which swept through a two
story furniture store in the business
section of Selbyville last Thursday
morning. Eleven volunteer fire COM
panies fought the fire, origin of
which has not been determined.
The flames for a time threatened
apartments and other shops adja-
cent to the store.
The fire was first noticed when
smoke began to pour out of a Sec
Ond story in the Selbyville Furni-
ture Company operated by Elbert
Evans. The building is owned by
John H. Tyre, an uncle of Evans.
The local fire company was called
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Home Demonstrations In Kent
Elect officers For New Year

Kent have been elected
Tor l99 according to Mrs Violet Goodwill county demon
ton agent. They follows
AndrewviePrdent Mrs Hubert Cannon; vcepresdent
Earl hompson Mrs Frank secretary
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Increase In Telephone Rates
Due In Delaware February IS

Confronted steadily operations and contn
ing decline its earnings the Diamond Telephone
py
rns have been placed file in the
and they scheduled February Is
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ABUSES

Is state unemployment insurance becoming something Of
a racket in many instances? The official figures lead one to
that unSavory conclusion.
In 1916, a year of full employment, the ratio OF benefits
paid to contributions collected for the country as a whole was
1901 per cent. Eighteen states paid out more in benefits than
they received in unemployment levies, and three paid out more
than twice as much.
The experience in 1947 was a little better. But the ratio
of benefits paid to contributions collected was over 70 per cent
and several states paid out more than they took in.
1t must be kept in mind that this happened during years
when the national income, employment and production in gen
eral were at an al-time peak. In another depression with its
consequent mass unemployment, it is almost impossible to
visualize what would happen to the funds. Obviously, their re-
ceipt would be only a drop in the bucket compared to outgo,
and a stupendous burden would be placed on the taxpayers.
Those who have studied the matter are convinced that
many men are using the unemployment funds as a means of OBJ
tanning free vacations when they don't feel like working
that laxity either in the law OF in the administration of the
law is making this possible. That is an inexcusable abuse OF
a system which was set up to help those who were out of work
through no fault of their own and couldn't find a job after a
period of honest, aggressive searching. 1t must be stopped,
and it can only be stopped by action within the states so eff
fected.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
CALENDAR
JOINING Events =.

Friday, June II.

Friday, June II.
The Royal Neighbors of America
will meet at 8 o'clock at the Odd
Fellows hall for a regular business
meeting.
Monday, June IA.
The evening circle of the Woman's
Society of Christian Service will
meet at 8 p. M. at the home OF
Mrs. Fred S~cheidecker.
Friday, June IS.
Circles of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service will meet In the
afternoon as follows:
No. 1 at the home of Mrs Ken
reth Walker at 1:30.
No. 2 at Mrs. Arthur Callahan's
at 2 o'clock.
No. 3 at Mrs. T. S. Buford's at
2 o'clock.
No. a., not decided.
No. 5 at 2 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. Roy Roseberrry with Mrs.
A. H. Kremer as cohostess.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
Phony Check Artist
Diseloses Secrets
Of Forging Ahead

TACOMA, WASH. "A big-time
paper man" said that in almos;
every stable city you can get q
check forged by an expert-for 4
price.
Raymond Karasek, 81, should
know. He said he has netted more
than $3.50, 900 in the last seven years
by cashing phony checks. But he
said that now his ill-gotten gains
won't do him any good. He is in
the county Jail.
Karasek said there are many baS
check artists operating on a bigger
scale than he did.
eve call ourselves paper men,"
he said. eve don't carry guns or
pull holdups."
The first step in pulling a check
job, Karasek said, is to steal a bank
statement from a victims mailbox.
He said San Francisco is "a
paper mans paradise" and that
Chicago and Kansas City are easy,
too.
81 wouldn't give a nickel for Los
Angeles" he said. "The mail boxes
are too hard to OPEN
Texas is tough, he said, because
$50 many of the big-money people
live in the country"
Karasek said he usually tries to
cash a check when there is a oma
at the %teller's window, because it's
easier to get their minds on other
things"
He was captured here when he
tried to cash a check on the &C.
count of a bank cashiers husband.
The cashier was one woman who
not easily distracted.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
Professors Calculations
Fail TO Beut Speeding Rap

UPPER MARLBORO, MD.-Dr.
Haig Galajikain, a former Prince
ton university professor, called upon
"simple mathematics" in an at
tempt to beat a speeding charge,
but it didn't work.
It took him two hours to eXpound
his "simple mathematical formula
in Prince Georges county circuit
court before Judge Charles Mar
bury, who heard his appeal from
conviction by a magistrate.
DR.. Galajikain's argument went
like this:
The state trooper who spotted
him on the Observation-Disclosures
boulevard would have to have been
travelling at the rate of lat miles
an hour to make a U turn, accel-
crate and catch up with DR.. Gala
jikain's car IL miles from where
the two cars passed each other
that is, if the professor had been
travelling the 80 miles an hour
charged against him. That, he said,
was impossible"
Judge Marbury, who has studied
mathematics himself, reimposed
the $500 fine-plus appeal costs. He
said DR.. Galajikain, a resident of
Aberdeen, Md, had failed to take
some variables into consideration.
Shaking his head, DR.. Galajikain
remarked as he left the court
room: Its so simple. Speed times
time equals distance"
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
More Women Attempt Suicide
Than Men, Survey Reveals

EVANSTON, ILL. - More men
than m succeed in committing
suicide, a survey of 500 suicidal at
tempts shows. But there usually are
more attempts, both the hysterical
and fake kinds, among women, the
survey report adds.
The study was made by DR.. Alex
j. Arieff, of Northwestern university
medical school, and DR.. David P.
Rotman, director of the Psychiatric
Institute of the Municipal Court Of
Chicago.
In cases in the age group under
20, So per cent of the attempts were
historical or fake. In the 20-to-30
age group, 48 per CEN were fake,
while in the 50-to-70 age group,
only one per cent were fake at
tempts.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
SAYS NEW LAW NOT
UNDERSTOOD BY G.|.
Callaghan of Vet Welfare Com
mission Discusses Schedule
OF Training Wages

E. j. Callaghan, state service Of
ficer of the Veterans Welfare COM
mission of Montana, state approval
agency under G. l. training bill for
non-apprenticeable trades, e S
there seems to be some confusion
existing in the minds of veterans
taking G. l. training under public
law 346 in the non-apprenticeable
trades, as to increased benefits
granted by the recent passage of
public law SIP.
1t should be understood by the
t%rainee and the employer that the
monthly wages paid by the employ
err and the subsistence paid by the
Veterans Administration cannot eX-
coed $4,000 per month for a single
veteran, $4,000 per month for a
veteran with one dependent, and
$4,000 per month for a veteran
with more than one dependent.
The journeyman's wage listed i'll
the training program, signed by
employer and approved by the state
approval agency, states the begin
ming monthly wages to be paid,
periodical increases in the monthly
wage, and the journeyman's wage
paid to the trainee on the compile
ton of his training.
To secure full entitlement to the
benefits authorized by recent legis-
lation, the j~ourneyman's wage must
be at least $4,000 per month for
the single veteran, $4,000 per
month for the veteran with one de-
pendent, and $4,000 per month for
the veteran trainee with more than
one dependent. The wages paid by
the employer, combined with the
subsistence allowance, cannot X
coed the listed journeyman's wage,
regardless of the amount.
In arranging a training program
it is encumbent upon the approval
agency to determine as to whether
or not an establishment is physically
equipped and with sufficient per-
sonnet qualified to give the veteran
the training required to reach his
Job objective in the time period al
loted under the law authorized G.
l. training.
Wages paid by the employer
should be comparable with wages
paid n~on-veterans in similar occupa-
lions in the same community.
Employers who wish to revise
their wage schedule the veteran to
receive increased benefits, must d.
rect the request for such revision
to the state agency which approved
their establishment for training.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
Policeman ThWurfed in
Attempt TO Halt "HoldUp"

EVANSVILLE, IND. - When
an Evansville policeman saw a
man get out of an automobile,
hold his hands in the air and let
another man pull something out
of his pocket, he went into action.
But after some hurried ex-
plantations, the policeman went
on his way. The "holdup vic
tim" said he had been eating
some home-canned beets out of
a jar and got his hands all
sticky.
When the car stopped he got
out and held his hands in the
air while his companion reached
around and pulled out his hand
kerchief.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
Salesman Saves Gasoline
But II Costs Him Money

PROVIDENCE, R. mo sense
driving your automobile when you
can save gas and do your work on
foot, thought, Leon Chalon, 20, New
York salesman.
So he parked his car in front of
his hotel for five days.
Police tagged it daily the first
three days, once an hour the fourth
day and towed it away the fifth
day.
Chalon saved gas but the parking
fee was S48.20 in fines.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09

Electric Drill Born
Charles j. Van Depoele invented
the electric drill in 1885.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
Theta Rho Girls Club
Names Staff Officers

Officers for the ensuing term
were elected at a business meeting
Friday evening at the Odd Fellows
hall when the Theta Rho Girls club
named on the staff Virginia Harlan,
president; Charlotte Decker, vice
president; Pam ParOnto, recording
secretary; Joan Thayer, financial Sc
cretary, and Louise Crawford, treas
urer. Verna Leis presided at the
meeting.
Hostesses were Jean Wiser, Joan
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
The Counting Mirror

In colonial days a small hand mir
o was used by bashful SWANS to
help them propose. The young man
would place the mirror face up on a
table before the girl of his choice.
The young lady would answer yes
by smiling at his image in the mir
ror. If the answer were no." she
would turn the mirror.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09

Thayer and Mary Lou Wheeler. An
nouncement was made that at the
next meeting, June IS, both install
lation and initiation ceremonies will
be held.
Laurel outlook., 1948-06-09
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many
friends for kindness and sympathy
shown during our recent bereave-
ment.
Mrs. John c.. Nelson
and family.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1948-04-17
6milhen Kriee uno Srieoen

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oem iih ale boien @eliiite Der gmpo-
rung segen 8ott unb Seine 8eItoro-
nung 5ulammenbollten; ser 2iftor,
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8abg Der ben Wenl6engeiit uno
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1948-04-17

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oieie Soffnungen DerblaBt. Sas gro-
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Wtaht uno oes 3Donges angeiunnbt,'
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gen ariegsberbiinoeten einen 8iirtel
BON Warionettenit itaaten 5u erri6ten.
Die gan5e iibrige 8elt bat es als elm
gig oaItebenoes Ingebot erahtet, bub
oas 2aro, oas iib i'm 8eiis Der Mton1.
energie befinoet, iidr 81 elmer inter.
nationalen &ontrolle bereit erfldrtei
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tatlahliGer Smpoten5, liegen getpei-
le Dor, oaB GuBlano fortfubr I'M
ausbau uibtiger 3peige ieines Seer
melens, Dor ollem ieiner 2ltfttpoffe. &
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gemeille internotionale Gage llno l1Bt
ptele offenfllnoige 8eritoBe GuBlanbs.
gegen ben Solferfrieben rmertp1bnt..
$50 INNER neue 8oIfen allfiteigen,
tann man Die Sanb HuBlanos erfen-'
men. Oas gilt allb bon Den Gorgdn=
gen in 8ogota, Der Sauptitobt hes.
liioamerifoniihen Staates aoluntz
bien.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1948-04-17
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Der So5ialilten, in Ben orn nohiten
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gilo bat it'd in Ben leeten 8ohen
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lhen ShlagDorte 5leben nibt mebr
Die poroem, uno man rehnet nit
elmer Mebrbeit ser Hegierung lmo
Ser Sereitelung fomlulniltllher eln=
Ihlage, faas Sogliutti unO 8eloIie1
periucben iouten, Die @ablergebniiie
our6 einen @elpnltItreih 81 forrieie-
rem.
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init elmer rotten gtieoerlage ab5ufin=
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gntl6liebungen 9tublanos Ser font
muniitiihen @ablagitation peiteren
abbru6 getan. SSsm Golferbuno bot
8rompfo 5um oritten 0fal HuBlanos
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lambs 8olitif lit itets unberebenbar.
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