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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Kiwanis Booster
Night On July IA
Bathing Beauty Contest Will BE
Feature OF Program

The annual Kiwanis Booster
Night Wednesday, July 14th, will
be featured by beauty parade and
a swift ball game between the last
place Dover Phillies and the first
division Milford club. The gala
affair will be held in the Red SOx
Ball Park.
Beauties from all parts of the
Eastern Shore will participate for
the prizes and the title Miss XII
wants of the Seventh Division.
The response to the contest has
been most gratifying, and the night
is expected to be most outstanding,
The show will get underway
promptly at seven-thirty and all
contestants will receive a prize.
Proceeds will go into the Kiwan-
lis fund for underpriveleged chill
dren.
Tickets are Obtainable from any
Kiwanis member, Phillips Mems
Shop, Humes Hardware Store, OIL
at the Ball Park.
Monday night next will be OBJ.
served as merchants night anC
500 in cash will be given away
that night by the participating
merchants.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Big Air ShOUC At
NeU Castle Tomorrow
Modern Planes OF Air
Force, Navy, National
Guard Participating

Twenty-eight modern combat
planes of the u. S. Air Force, Navy
and National Guard will top the list
of aircraft taking part in the air
show this Saturday and Sunday af-
ternoon at New Castle County Air
port, six miles south Of Whining
ton on the dupont Highway.
Fastest of these will be four
Shooting Stars or single-engined
jet-propelled fighters of the Air
Force They have a speed in excess
Of 500 miles an hour.
Air Force fiers also will pilot
four Thunder Jet" fighters and
four twin-engined Mustangs" The
Mustangs" are long-range prOpel-
ier-driven fighters.
All will take part in simulated
combat flying and other thrilling
tactical demonstration with eight
Navy combat planes from the Nav
al Air Station at Willow Grove, Pa.
and eight National Guard fighters
Of the 142nd Fighter Squadron
based at the New Castle field.
In addition, there will be aeria
acrobatics by nationally knOwr
performers and ground exhibits oi
the fighting planes and other air,
Force, commercial airlines and thc
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season. This would be the second
largest crop on record, being top
ped only by the 1897 1927 900 bush
els harvested in 1916. Last year
the nation had shorl corn crop
because of midsummer drought.
Only 2,447,422,OO bushels were har-
vested. Grain men and Government
officials have considered this part
ly responsible for lower prOduc-
ton of meat and poultry this year.
"The corn crop was planted un-
der ideal conditions" Mr.. Calvin
said, land good weather coupled
with abundant moisture has been
favorable to rapid plant develop
ment. Growth is generally ahead
of normal, particularly so in states
west of the Mississippi River.
"In view of the splendid mOis-
ture condition and the high per-
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Daughter Of Mr.. And
Mrs. Raymond Tull
Had Been Wading
With A Group Of Chill
dren.

The drowning of a 16-yeaT-Old
Seaford girl marred the second day
of the three-day Fourth of July
celebration last Sunday as thou
sands flocked to shore points to
seek relief from a temperature that
touched SO degrees.
Blanche Tull, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Tull, of SeafOrd,
was drowned at about $3.50 o'clock
last Sunday afternoon as she was
wading with a group of children in
the Nanticoke River about six
miles from Seaford,
Mr.. Tull was fishing with three
friends, Paynter and Thomas Phil
lips and John Wooten, when the ac-
cident happened. The men were in
a boat on the north shore while the
Tull girl waded with her sister, Ar
lene Tull and Ann, Kay and Thorn.
as Phillips, Jr., on the south shore
Rescue Attempt Fails
The girl evidently waded to the
channel for she suddenly struck {
deep point and went under. Coming
mp she screamed and the younl
Phillips boy went after her HI
/ grasped her momentarily but sh'
pulled him under and he let go.
Meanwhile, the men pulled to thu
point in the boat. Mr.. Tull touched
her, but she slipped from his grasl
and went under the boat. She dit
not reappear.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
State Gains
Near Million
From 1913
Racing Meet
Estimated Tax Revenue
On Bets And Admis-
siOns Third Highest In
Tracks 12-Year His
tory.

Delaware's take" from the at
tendance and betting of race fans
at the 30-day meeting of the Del
aware Steeplechase and Race AS
sociatiOn will be the third highest
in the 12-year history of the STAN
ton track, it was estimated Tuesday
of this week.
At the end of a race year mark
ed by an attendance slightly less
than that of 1947-but with almost
half million dollars more handled
by the pari-mutuel machines-the
unofficial estimates of the states
share are:
A total of ,S7S.29. which in
cludes the 312 per cent tax ON the
total of $25,976,574 wagered, and
the 2O-cent admission tax on an
estimated 34O,966 paid entry tick
cts.
Above Last Year
This amount is $S,06S.11, higher
than was paid to the state last year
ranking third to the record of 81,
271, ,S6O.56 turned over to Delawar,
in 1916 and the $1,O46,1S7.S5 il
1945.
Pari-mutuel betting this yea
topped the 1947 record by $421, ,7Sf
This increase was reported de
spite a slight drop in attendanc
over 1947. Attendance for the NEE
Just ended was 3S2,939, or 100 les
than the 3S3,129 who saw the rae
ing last year.
Daily Betting Average
Of this years admissions tota
$40 1856 were tax paid entries, Will
41,973 were tax exempt tickets is
sued to the working press, stabl
handlers, pOckeys, owners, an
track employees.
The daily betting average wa
1855 1856, which compares with tn
average of $S51.S2 last year.
A holiday crowd of 24,58S sa
Mondays racing. Although not II
/ highest attendance of the meetin
the wagering tOtaled $1,37S,267. IL
highest betting Of any day tn
year.
, Largest crowd to attend the RAJ
ing this year was the 25.791 on M,
mortal Day. However, the bettin
mark prior to Mondays high ws
, $1,322,354 on June 10.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Dial Phone
Operation Due
Here In 1919
All Milford Service To Be
Changed; Lot For New
Control Office Pur-
chased From DR.. 0. v.
James.

All Milford telephone service will
be changed to dial operation some-
time next year, it was announced
today by Theodore w. Collins, local
of the Diamond State
Telephone Company.
Mr.. Collins said the company has
just completed the purchase Of the
lot of ground at 10S Montgomery
Avenue Milford, where it will erect
q new dial telephone central Office
building. The ground, purchased
from DR.. and Mrs. oliver v. James,
is so by 100 feet in size.
Present plans call for work to
start on the new building later this
summer and it is expected the
building work will be completed
next January. Installation of dial
switching equipment will then be
started and it is hoped that every
thing will be completed by the fall
of next year, Mr.. Collins said.
Various rearrangements of cable
and wire lines and the installation
of new dial telephones for all sub
scribers, will also be necessary, the
manager said.
Full details of the planned
building are not yet available" h
added, "but it is expected plans viii
be completed within few weeks
However, every effort is beini
made to expedite the change to dia
operation as much as possible"
When questioned, Mr.. Collin
stated that the new Milford install
lation cost will exceed the original
ly estimated figure of 1927, 1000.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Storm Caused Heavy
Damage In This Area
On Tuesday Evening
GUARD CONVOY TO
HEAD FOR CAMP
FRIDAY, JULY 3OTH

Between 500 and 1000
members of the 198th A.A.A.
Group, Delaware National
Guard, will start their trek
to Camp Duncan, Bethany
Beach, Friday evening, July
80, it was announced this
week.
Approximately 100 We
hicles, including weapon car
riers, jeeps, trucks, and half
travks, will be used to trans
port the guardsmen. Will
mingtOn units are expected
to start from the Armory as
early as 8 p. M. They will
join units from the New Cas-
tie County Airport, New Cas-
tie, and Newark, at a loca-
ton on the Dupont Parkway
to be designated later.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Group Hospital Paid
Out $4,000 In June
Hospitals And Doctors We're Re-
cipients OF Sum

More than $4,000 was paid out
by the Delaware Blue Cross Plan
during June to Hospitals and doc
tors for services to Blue Cross sub
scribers, officials of the plan an
nounced today.
OF this total more than $120,000
was paid to hospitals and in eX-
cess of $4,000 to doctors for sur
gieal cases. OF an aggregate of g.
832 hospital cases, there were 2,346
which required surgical care.
There figures represent the aver
age rate of monthly payment for
benefits this year, the announce
ment said.
Blue Cross headquarters, at 9O2
Orange Street, open Monday
through Friday each week for pay
ment of bills, information on bene-
fits and changes in membership
due to shift in place Of employment
or changes in the number of per-
sons to be covered by family con-
tracts.
The Blue Cross Office in Sussex
County is at 5 South Cannon Street
in SeafOrd. The telephone number
there is 3465.
Kent County residents may OBJ.
tain information by telephonine
Dover 1882. The Blue Cross repre-
sentative. Robert Krapf, may bt
contacted at that number.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Freak Storm AccOmpa-
MED By HI all And
''Twisters," UprOOted
Trees, Wrecked Roofs,
Damaged Cars; Pow
er Lines Blown Down.

Electrical storms, accompanied
by hail and, in one case, a twister,
swept over Delaware Tuesday af-
ternoon and night, leaving wake
of toppled trees and torn branches
broken power lines and property
damage.
Kent county appeared to suffer
the brunt of the storm, with the
twister moving along a narrow
path north of Milford, and heavy
hail causing damage to tomato
crops.
The storm carried over into July
the buffeting of Old Man Weather
against Delaware which began in
May, and continued through June.
The only apparent good resulting
from the storm was a drop in the
temperature.
The Old State House, State
House annex and Armory in Dover
were without electrical current
due to the burning out of the un-
der-ground cable supplying the
buildings. This is believed to have
resulted from a storm in the morn-
ing of the same day, during which
lightning struck the cupola of the
Old State House for the third time
since 1886 without causing fire.
Dover electric crews completed
the installation of temporary over
head wires, which caused the erec-
ton of three poles, from North
street to the State House. Power
was restored early Wednesday. It
will be probably six to eight weeks
before a new cable can be obtained
to replace the old, burned-0ut one.
The State House cupola repairs.
consisting Of replacement of sew
eral boards and uprights, started
Immediately. The cupola was hit
by lightning in 1885, again last
I year, and Tuesday.
Porch Roof Torn Loose
In the Milford area the storm
centered on the state highway
about four miles north of town. II
blew away a front porch of the
} Christopher Dunning home. The
roof of the porch fell on Cummings
car parked nearby and crushed it's
J top. A car owned by Burton Sharp
!, who lives nearby, lost its root
when the wind struck.
The wind also demolished a COW
barn on the farm of James Davis
The farm, located about a mile
/ from the Dunning property, is ten
anted by Robert wilkins. 1t also
} destroyed a fruit stand owned By
/ Mamie Scott at the Bowers Beach
intersection on the state highway
! 11S.
A bolt of lightning struck tn,
! home of John Longbotham, a
E Thompsonyille, hitting the chin
ney and tearing out section o
the roof.
2 Tree limbs were strewn over tn
/ highway and state highway crew
worked through the night to cleat
6 away the wreckage.
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09

who show promise of real leader
ship potentialities. Some 5000 po-
tential leaders a year will gradu-
ate from the stiff courses at Fort
Jackson, S. c., Fort Dix, N. j., Fort
Knox, KY, and Fort Ord, Calf.
Men are selected for the schools,
Sergeant Peacher explained. on a
basis of demonstrated capacity for
leadership. To be eligible, they
must score over 80 in their Army
General Classification Test and
pass strict tests as to character,
alertness and physical fitness.
"Once they have started the six
week courses" Sergeant Peacher
said, "the students learn to lead by
leading groups in classroom study,
patrol work, and athletics. Sub
jects studied include leadership
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Hazards Mounting
In Grain Harvesting

Harvest time is accident hazard
time on the farm" warns farm
safety experts of the Delaware
Agricultural Extension Service.
When grain harvesting machinery,
with it's high speed cutting mecha-
nisms, shafting, chains and gears
is operated in the rush of harvest" /"
the chances for accidents mount
rapidly. 1t is a season when haste
is often emphasized without neces-
sary caution.
The first step for safe operation
of harvesting machinery is to put
1t into good condition before the
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Food Preservation
Week July 19 To 24
HOmemakers Informed OF Program
BY Miss Gertrude Holloway

The week of July 19 to "a has
been designated as National Home
Food Preservation Week. Miss
Gertrude Holloway, extension nu-
triton specialist, University of
Delaware, informed homemakers
this week.
"a program of food preservation,
whether done at home or in COM
munity canning center, offers the
homemaker an opportunity to pro-
vide better nutrition to her family,
especially to increase consumption
of vitamin-rich fruits and vege-
tables and at the same time, to
help to reduce living costs and
combat imitation" Miss Holloway
says, THE special week has been
designated to emphasize the i'm
portance to homemakers of plan
ming how to take advantage of the
supplies of the various home and
commercially produced fruits and
vegetables that will be available in
seasonal abundance throughout the
summer and fall months. Foods in
excess of current consumption
needs thus may be saved for use
next winter by the family itself as
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
"Cale" BOggs
Is HOnOred By
Oldest Daily
Delaware Congressman
Selected By AIexandr-
la Gazette For His Dis
tinguished Year.

Mr.. Charles Farmer representing
Mr.. G. c. Carlin, Jr. President and
Editor of the Alexandria Gazette,
made the following announcement
last Friday.
Americas oldest daily newspap-
er, The Alexandria Gazette, a Dem
Ocrat newspaper, established 1874,
has selected ]. Caleb Boggs, Repub-
lican Representative At-Large,
State of Delaware, for it's first an
nual choice of "The Congressman
of the Year"
This choice was made after a
survey of the records and achieve
ments of freshmen Congressmer
irrespective of party affiliations.
Mr.. Farmer emphasized that the
decision was very difficult to make
as there are many first class meI
I in this Congress in both PARTIES
The prime requirements were serv
ice to the entire country in genera
and service to his State in particu
! lar combined with the Congress
mans activity record, that being
j his full attention to cOmmitte,
work, House deliberations, and hi
attendance record. Two other fac
( tors considered were the Congress
mans presence in Washington dur
ing legislative periods as well a
his attendance at meetings at hom
and the clOseness with which h
keeps in touch with the citizens o
his State.
Mr.. BOggs appeared as guest ol
the regular Farmer from Wash
ingtOn" Sunday broadcast whicI
quite appropriately was July 4 o.
Station WEAM at LAS p. m.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Young SeafOrd 4th Accidents
Girl browns Kill 225 In
In NanticOke United States
Traffic Mishaps Lea d
With 146; Only One Is
Due To Fireworks.
By Associated Press

The first twO-thirds of the three
cay independence Day holiday took
at least 225 lives in violent deaths,
but only one death was attributed
to fireworks.
The reported total Sunday night
showed 146 deaths in traffic acci-
dents, Sc drowning one caused by
fireworks, and % in miscellaneous
:nishaps since 6 p. m. local time
Friday.
The National Safety Council pre-
dicted the traffic death total will
reach 235. Last year 546 persons
died violently during the Fourth Ol
July period, including 264 traffic
ia drownings, five fireworks and
1853 miscellaneous.
The reported deaths this year b!
states CRATIC, drownings, fire
works and miscellaneous):
Alabama 2-3-0-O, Arizona 4-0-0-O
Arkansas 1000, California 12-1-O
1, Colorado 1000, Connecticut 2
DOL, Delaware 1-1-O-1 Florida
O-O-1, Georgia 2-O-0-O, Idaho 2-1-0
0, Illinois 6-4-0-1, Indiana 4-2-0-C
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
MilsbOrO Man
Victim Of
Auto Crash
On Tuesday
Victim Suffered Third
Degree Burns When
His Truck Ran Into
Rear OF Another Truck
And Caught Fire.

Norman Bowden. II years old, Of
Millsboro, one of FIVE persons in-
iured in two traffic accidents Tues
day and early Wednesday, died in
the Milford Memorial Hospital at
g.37 o'clock Wednesday morning.
Bowden suffered third degree
burns when the truck he was driv-
ing ran into the rear of another
truck and then caught fire. Bowden
was temporarily trapped in the
blazing cab.
His death brings the auto acci-
dent death toll for Delaware for
this year up to 81 compared with
20 for the corresponding period
last year.
Fred Allen, RehobOth Beach,
driver of the other truck, suffered
burns of the hands and arms in
trying to pull Bowden from the
latter's truck.
state police said BOwden was
driving on u. S. Route 113, one
quarter of mile south of Days
boro, at $3.50 p. m, Tuesday. His
truck ran into the rear Of that ol
Allen. Both were taken to the Mil
ford Hospital.
BOwden's truck was loaded will
baby chicks. It was badly damaged
and several hundred chicks wert
destroyed.
Troopers said one truck was at
tempting to pass the other. AlleI
jumped from his truck and ran t
BOwden's assistance. The Frank
ford Fire Company extinguishe'
the fire.
Nelson King and William S. Nc
Quay of Fehoboth Beach, an
Upfhan Sturgis, Onancock, Va
were injured when the truck il
which they were riding rammed
freight train at a Lewes erossin
early Wednesday morning.
King was driver of the automo
bile and Sturgis and McQuay pass
engers when it hit the freight trail
in Lewes. King sustained lacera
tions of the head and body. He AM
Sturgis and McQuay, shock an
bruises. All we're taken to the Bee
be Hospital, and King held TO
treatment.
Edward Van Pelt. Of RehObot
Beach, was engineer of the traiT
state police said.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Mobile X-Ray Unit
To Visit Greenwood
Service VIII Be Available To All
Adults July 13

The State Board of Health Mo-
bile X-Ray Unit will be in Green
wood on Tuesday, July 13, from 2
p. m. until p. m. according to Mr..
Robert Jester, President, Green
wood Kiwanis Club.
The x-ray service is available to
all persons l 5years of age or older
and residents of Greenwood and
nearby communities are urged to
take advantage of this opportunity
to- get chest x-ray. The Mobile
Unit will be stationed in the va
cant lot adjacent to George Hanks
Store, where ample parking space
is available.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Greenwood Fire Department are
assisting with the publicizing of the
survey and during the next few
days will visit many of the homes
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Linesman Is Killed
Near Harrington
Charles Harris Of Denton, Md, E.lectrocuted
Tuesday While Working On Power Line
Carrying $4,000 Volts Suffered Third
Degree Burns OF Entire Body.

Charles Harris, % years old, of
Denton, Md, was electrocuted on
Tuesday of this week while work
ing on a power line at a Delaware
Power and Light Company sub
station south of Harrington.
Harris, employed by Day and
Zimmerman Company of Philadel-
phia, which is building a line from
Harrington to Denton, was on a
pole with two other men when he
accidentally contacted the line car
rying $4,000 volts.
He was prevented from falling to
the ground by his safety belt. Com
paniOns managed to take him to the
ground and made an effort to revive
him. DR.. w. T. Chapman of Har-
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Fresh Air Riddles
VIII ArriUe July 20.
Group OF Sixteen Will
Spend Two Weeks In
This Area

Sixteen boys and girls of that
group known as the Fresh Airs
have been invited by kindly hosts
to spend two weeks in Milford,
Greenwood, Lincoln and their COM
munities. These children will ar
rive on July 20 and the following
fourteen days will be wonderful
ones for them to enjoy good food,
fresh air, the sight of trees and
fields and to come to know the
farm animals and barn yard fowls
that are almost entirely new to
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
State Agronomist
Heads Association
G. f. Phillips Elected President OF
North Eastern Group

Claude E. Phillips, head of the
agrOnOmy department and extern
sion agrOnOmist at the University
of Delaware, has been elected
president of the Northeastern
Branch of the American Society of
AgronOmy. This was announced at
the annual dinner meeting of the
Society held this past week in the
Old College Commons during the
three-day meeting of the group at
the University. Phillips succeeds
Assistant Dean Paul R. Miller of
the University of Vermont.
The new president of the Society
is a graduate of the University of
Delaware and has been a member
of the agrOnomy department staff
for the past % years.
This IS the first time that the ag-
economists have held their annual
meeting in Delaware and rs mem
hers were present from 12 north
eastern states and the District OF
Columbia to tour Delaware farms
and research stations to study soil
and plant production problems.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Peach Crop Periled
BY Brown Rot

0rchardists are warned that
brown rot disease will be a serious
threat to this seasons peach crop
unless immediate steps are taken to
prevent this disease with thorough
pre-harvest spraying.
Robert F. Stevens extension hor-
ticulturist and DR.. John w. Heu-
berger. extension plant pathoiogist,
say that brown rot is present in the
state and urge growers to start
spraying for brown rot three
weeks before harvest time and con-
tinue this practice through harvest.
Growers are advised to spray
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09

rington, was summoned and pro-
nOunced Harris dead.
Kent County Coroner John R.
Rogers, Jr., said Harris suffered
third degree budrns. His clothing
was burned from his body. Coroner
Rogers said death was accidental
and no inquest will be held.
Harris is survived by his wife
the former Miss Pauline Bullock OF
Denton; two children, Paulette and
Charles; his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Thurman B. Harris of Denton; two
brothers, Ernest and Winder Har-
ris of Denton; three sisters, Mrs
Dorothy Lord of Philadelphia
Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins and Mrs
Cathel Murphy, both of Denton.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Dairyman Cites
Improvement Needs

Delmar J. Young, University or
Delaware extension dairyman,
states that for continued efficient
production and general dairy herd
Improvement two additional Dairy
Herd Improvement Associations
are needed in Delaware.
At the present time he says that
there are four active Associations
with "a herds on test Total num-
ber of cows on test is approximate
ly 1000. The New Castle County
Dairy Herd Improvement Associa-
tion is composed of two circuits
while Kent and Sussex Counties
each have one Association.
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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-09
Highway Trailer
Park Is Opened

Indian River Inlet ParR the first
trailer park to be operated by the
State Highway Department, was
officially opened last Saturday.
The park is on the north side of
Indian River Inlet, just west of the
RehobOth-Bethany Beach-O C e a n
City highway. 1t was developed
primarily to meet the needs of fish
ermen and tourists, and combines
q modern restaurant with adequate
facilities for the accommodation of
25 trailers, including shower and
wash room building. Future plans
call for the installation of coin
operated laundry machines.
10 Acre Site
Situated on about 10 acres OF
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