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Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
State Bankers Will
Meet At Rehoboth
First Post War Session Will Be
Held On September IL

Two hundred local bankers are
expected to attend the first postwar
fall meeting of the Delaware Bank
ers Association at the Rehoboth
Beach Country Club Friday, Sep
tember II.
Announcement of the meeting is
made by G. B. Meyer, secretary of
the association, assistant treasurer
Of the Wilmington Trust COMPANY.
who also announced that a feature
Of the program will be an address
by Earl Goodwin, noted radio news
commentator.
General chairman of the all dav
meeting will be Clifton f. Morris.
Jr., executive vice president of the
Sussex Trust Company, Lewes. AS
sisting him will be J. Gordon Nc
MILAN, president of the ClaymOnL
Trust Company, and Robert U:
Altemus, vice president of the Del
aware Trust Company. Presiding
will be the president of the Della
ware Bankers Association, Gordon
Willis, vice president of the Farm
ers Bank Of the State of Delaware.
Dover.
The business meeting of the
group will be held at a luncheon
at the HenlOpen Hotel, attended by
the executive committee of the
State Bankers Association together
with committee chairman and mem
bers of committees.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Democrats I'm
Sussex Will Go
To The Polls
L O mo OrrOW
No Contests Are Listed
For Primary; COnven-
ton Will Be Held In
Dover Next Tuesday
Night.

The Democrats Of Sussex COun-
ty will go to the polls tomorrow,
August 21st, to nominate candidates
for County Of1ces and elect dele
gates to the State Convention to be
held in Dover, next week. There
will be no contests for any of the
nominations in the County nor for
delegates.
Following are the candidates who
will be nominated for the County
Offices on the Democratic Ticket in
Sussex:
For Levy Court Commissioner
MOllOy c. Vaughn, LeWes, r. F. d. !;
Oscar H. Campbell, DagsbOrO CTwO
to be nOminated)
For Receiver of axes and County
Recommendation A. Jones, Del
mar.
For PrOthonotary-H. Edward
Maull, LeWes.
For Clerk of Orphans Court and
Register in ChanCery-James l..
Hastings, Laurel.
For COmptrOller-MOntilles J.
WeDD5 Greenwood.
For Sheriff-David H. Derrickson
Of Selbyville.
For COrOner-Dale S. Holt, Sea-
ford.
SENATORS - (2nd Senatorial
Dist R. Allen Cannon, Seaford !:
(4th Senatorial Dist, G. Frank Har-
TisOn, MillsbOrO.
REPRESENTATIVES, - Il s t
Dist.l William B Morgan, Jr., Lin
coin; (2nd Rep Dist Ralph COlli-
son, Bridgeville; (3rd DisO War
rem L. Allen, Seaford; (4th Dist.)
chester L. ONeaI, Laurel; 18th
Dist) Paul @. Spear, Laurel; (6th
Dist) Alton b. Cordrey, Millsboro:
tcontinued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Adv'd ROTC
Students To,
Get Draft
.Deferments
University Expected To
Get Authorization To
Accept Increased Total
Of UnderCIassmen.

The Army's policy of deferment
Tor college students will lapse next
June, except for veterans, National
Guardsmen, Officers Reserve Corps
members, and students who are ex-
pected to be in the advanced ROTC
course, Col. Randolph T. Pendleton
professor of military science and
tactics at the University of Della
ware said recently in explaining
deferment policies in connection
with ROTC.
Colonel PendletOn and William II.
Bohning, the university's registrar.
conferred over the weekend at
Governors Island, New York. with
Maj. Gen. Lawrence Jaynes. com
mand1ng officer Of this military dis
trlct, and with representatives of %
other ROTC colleges in this district.
Until next spring, Colonel Pen
dleton said, the Army's policy will
grant deferment to all students en-
rolling in college next month.
To facilitate operation of TIE poI-
icy toward advanced ROTE stu
dents, he said, it is Anticipated that
the University of Delaware and
other colleges offering ROTC train
ing will be authorized during the
coming year to accept increased
numbers Of underclassmen for fu-
ture training in the advanced
course. This latter course covers
the last two years Of college, and
ordinarily it enrOlls only a small
part of the entire male student
body, which is required to take the
hrst two years of basic military
training.
For the first time in history. said
Colonel Pendleton, students com
pleting their freshman year will.
next spring, be able to indicate
their desire to enroll for advanced
military work more than a year in
the future. Both freshman and SON
homOre students who indicate such
G. desire, and whose applications are
acceptable to the university's mill
tary department, will receive draft
deferments enabling them to re-
teontmuHd on pNgo o
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Milford Girl Wins
Beauty Contest
Miss Phyllis Isaacs Crown
ed Del-Mar-Va Carnival
Queen

Miss Phyllis Isaacs, of Milford
was chosen Miss Del-Mar-Va Car
nivaI Queen, last Tuesday night at
the SharptOWn Firemen's Carnival.
from a field of IA other entrants.
Wearing white, One-piece bath
ing suit, Miss Isaacs, 20 years old.
natural blonde, was the unahi
nous choice of the judges. She wins
$3.50 and an expenses-paid trip to
New York. Vital statistics: neck.
12", bust, 5215", waist, 24", calf. 13"
and ankle, 81z".
The judges, State Senator Leon
G. Bulow, of Sussex County, Miss
Jean WhelptOn, Delmar, and Mr..
and Mrs. Jay Phelps, Seaford,
agreed the job of picking a winner
was difficult, since all the girls in
the contest were real beauties.
Miss Loretta Baker, of Denton,
Md, was second place winner, and
was awarded a complete wardrobe;
Miss Barbara Rollins, Seaford, third
and check for $25; Miss Norma
Allen of SeafOrd, fourth, and Miss
Dolores Purcell, Salisbury, fifth,
received string of pearls and a
ballet outfit, respectively.
The other contestants were:
Shirley Adams, Delmar; Jean Dade
Owens, SharptOwn, Md; Dorothy
Bradley, EastOn, Md; Anne Mae
Pritchert, Frederick; Virginia Lee
Rayne, Hebron, Md; Dorothy
Brinsfield, EldOradO; Louise E..
Quillen, Laurel; Kitty Williams.
GalestOwn; Jane Windsor, near
Salisbury, and Betty Robertson,
Whitehaven, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Sussex Horse
Show Will Be
Held Sept. 5
Proceeds Will Benefit
Sussex Post No. 8, Am
eriCan L egiOn Of
Georgetown; Plans
Well Underway For
Fete.

Plans for the Horse Show to be
staged by the Sussex Horse Show
Association, Inc, on the grounds
Of the Sussex Airport, Sunday, Sep
tember 5, are progressing rapidly.
The show will be held for the ben
eft of Sussex Post No. 8, American
Legion, of Georgetown, whose
members are cooperating with the
association in putting the show
across.
J. Perry Graves and Dale Short,
of Georgetown, are serving as
horse show chairmen and also as
the entry committee. Hugh P.
Smith, heads the committee from
Sussex Post No. 8, assisted by
members of the Post.
The list of classes for the show,
as released by the committee this
week include the following;
No. open Pony Glass: Under
14.2, ridden by children 16 years
of age or under.
No. 2-Green Hunters: Open to
horses who have not won a first
place in the Hunter Division prior
to January /, 1948. Jumps not to
exceed 315 feet. Performance and
way of going to count 500, cOnfOr-
nation 400.
CONTINUED on page a
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

School Bus System
Transportation Chief AS
sents Survey Recently
Completed Show Need
For Change To Public
Ownership.

Public-oWned school buses may
soon replace the present school
transportation system provided by
private bus contractors through
out Delaware.
This became apparent this week
from the findings of a detailed sur
-vey of the states school bus pro-
gram made public by Preston C.
Eisenbrey, supervisor of transDOr-
tation for the State Department of
Public instruction at Dover.
I'VE must be prepared through
legislative appropriation to pUr-
chase and operate public-Owned
buses" Mr.. Eisenbrey warned.
Such a program, lie said, is be-
ing followed in almost all other
states, and ''in addition to being
found much more satisfactory, it is
proving to be more economical"
In his survey he found that due
principally to the increased cost
of equipment, few private con-
tractors can be interested in buy
ing a bus and operating it at a
reasonable price"
AS it is at present, Mr.. Eisenbrey
asserted, 1--WE must expect a sharp
increase in the cost of transpOrta-
ton"
The capital outlay necessary to
purchase a bus is almost prOhibi-
tive to the average person who
would be interested in driving a
bus, the report states.
Of the 219 buses operating on
school routes last year, 38 were
found through inpsectiOn of Della
ware State Police to be 1885 mod
els or earlier, 112 were models 1886
to 1914, and So were models 1945
or later. Mr.. Eisenbrey said.
TWenty-three of the older model
buses were declared unsafe by the
transportation division, and the
owners notified at the close Of the
school year." following cOnsulta-
tiOn of state school officials and
state police.
THE fact that the state police
report shows that they found 361
violations of state motor vehicle
laws and 533 violations of State
Board of Education regulations
would within itself be sufficient to
warrant more emphasis being
placed upon the enforcement Of
both state motor vehicle laws and
State Board of Education regula-
tiOns, which were designed Dri-
marily for the safety of the gen
eral public as we'll as school chill
dren," Mr.. Eisenbry commented.
Need Reasonable Return
I'm order to do this without SER
ious consequences, we must recog-
nize the fact that bus drivers will
have to be reasonably compen-
sated for what they are required
to do. This means that we must
expect sharp increase in the cost
Of transportation or be faced with
the problem of providing public
owned equipment"
Continued on page ~
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Registration
LSPrOClaimed
By Gov. Bacon
All Males 18 To Is Years
Must Register; Boards
Are Set Up; C. d. HOlz-
mueller Heads Sussex
Unit.

Governor Walter w. Bacon on
Monday of this week issued a proc
lamatiOn on the registration of all
male citizens of the state from Is
to rs years of age, inclusive, under
the Selective Service Act of 1948.
At the same time, DR.. Victor D.
Washburn, state director of Selec-
tive Service, disclosed the person
mel of the four local boards that
will serve the state and of the
board of appeal.
All but one Of the bOards-that
for rural New Castle Counts
complete.
21,OOO To Register
First task on their agenda is the
registration of approximately 21,-
600 young Delawareans in the per-
iOd from August 80 to September
Is. Only about 46O of these regis
trants are expected to be drafted
during the first year of operation
of the act, however.
In his proclamation, the Cover
nor called upon "the people of the
State of Delaware and agents of
the state, and any of it's political
subdivisions, to give all necessary
aid and assistance to the SeIective
Service local boards of the state in
conducting a successful registra-
ton"
Members of the local boards and
of the board of appeal were nom
mated by Governor Bacon and ap-
pointed by the President of the
United States.
DR.. BarSky Was Named
Dr. Washburn disclosed that the
late DR.. Joseph M. Barsky had been
Continued on page A.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

Oy NOuSIeSS IOr the National
School Lunch Program in the com
ing year, S58,8OO,OOO has been ap-
pOrtioned by the U. S. Department
Of Agriculture directly to partici-
pating states and territories. This
ALLEGATION is made on the basis of
a formula taking into account the
number of school children and the
per capita income in each state.
Delawares share of this total ST.
632, compares with S69,O35 receiv-
ed by the state under the initial
apportionment at the beginning of
the last school year. Last years
original appOrtiOnment was revised
several times during the year to
meet changing needs. A Congress
siOnal deficiency appropriation al
so resulted in additional funds for
some states. The National School
Lunch Act requires that these fed
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Blue Hen Post Gets
Community Plaque
Milford Overseas Veter-
ans Are SignalIy Hon.
Ored At Meeting Of De-
partment In Whining
ton.

Blue Hen Post No. 648S, Veterans
OF Foreign Wars, the Milford areas
largest veterans organization, was
signally hOnOred at a meeting of
the Department of Delaware. Y. f.
w., held in Wilmington on Monday
evening, when the local post was
awarded a Community Service
Plaque" designating Blue Hen Post
as one of three Delaware V. F. w.
Posts cited nationally in recOgni-
ton of an outstanding all-year-
around program of community SER
vice. The award did not exactly
come as a surprise to the local
overseas veterans group as identity
OF the three Delaware posts slated
to receive plaques had previously
been announced at the state en-
campment held in Dover earlier
this summer.
While Blue Hen Post has a con-
tinUOUs string of activities that
are of benefit to the community,
the ward was based principally
upon the fact that the local post
sponsors a Blood Donors Unit, and
also sponsors a community athletic
program. The Blood Donors Unit.
conceived by John Barcus, one of
the posts oldest members, has
been in operation for nearly two
years and has been credited with
possibly saving several lives as
well as contributing immeasure-
ably to the recovery of innumer-
able others who have received
needed blood from the V. F. W.
sponsored bank" Post members,
when called upon, donate blood
without thought of compensation
from either hospital or recipient;
furthermore, the post itself repays
from its treasury any member who
suffers loss of time from work as
a result of giving a blood transfu-
sion. This blood donors plan has
been so successful that other vet
Grams groups in various sections Of
the peninsula have set up similar
units modelled after the local unit.
Always interested in the we'll
being of the cOmmunity's youth,
Blue Hen Post has sponsored the
past two winters a communicable
basketball program, and, this sum-
mer is sponsoring a "hOme TALENT
baseball entry in the Sussex COun-
ty League. Blue Hen-spOnsOred
teams have all been well-equipped
and capably managed, and have
given good accounts of themselves
in competition with some of the
peninsula's strongest sports ar
rays. The Auxiliary to Blue Hen
Post participates actively in the
posts community sports program
by its sponsorship, each winter, of
a girls basketball team. All of the
posts youth and sports activities
are conducted on a nOn-prOft basis
with post and auxiliary personnel
contributing their services wher-
ever and whenever needed.
(continued on page y
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Get Children In Shape
For School Opening

Only a few weeks remain before
school reOpens and the State Board
of Health is urging parents to have
their children in the best possible
health before they begin a busy
winter of school routine. Well
children learn faster than do sick
ly ones, and they are less apt to
be seriously affected by the con-
tagiOus diseases of childhood.
While health officials are con-
cerned with the health of all school
children, they are especially inter-
ested that children entering first
grade this year have both physical
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Seasonal Bulletins
Offered HOrnemakers

A handful of publications for
homemakers, dealing with food
preservation, mildew, sewing and
other topics is being offered by the
Delaware Agricultural Extension
Service.
These free bulletins, which may
be obtained from the Extension
Service in Newark, or county ex-
tension offices in Newark, Dover
and Georgetown, are as follows:
Home Canning in Delaware: Lists
the procedures for canning fruits,
vegetables, tomatoes and juices, by
pressure Gamer, hot pack and cold
pack methods.
CONTINUED on page %
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Fans Ballot For Most
Popular 'Sox' Player
Novel Contest Being Sponsored BY
Hugg Insurance Agency

Milford baseball fans started bal
loting this week in a contest that is
to determine the most popular
member of the 1948 Milford Eas-
tern Shore League team. This no.
vel contest, sponsored by the Hugg
Insurance Agency, this city, will
run until the close of the regular
playing season, and identity of the
winner will be announced at that
time. A trophy will be awarded to
the member of the local team pOIl-
ing the greatest number of votes
in the contest.
Fans desiring to participate in
the "MOst Popular Player con-
test may obtain printed ballots at
either one of the two box offices at
the Milford park or at the Office
of the Hugg Agency, Is S. w. Front
street.
The Red SOx had their latest win
streak snapped Monday evening at
Salisbury, when the league lead
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Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Hospital For Vets
Is 2O36 Complete

Scheduled to be finished within
two years, the Veterans Hospital
at Elsmere has now reached a stage
of 20 percent completion, according
10 Rudolph Y. Taggart, resident en-
gineer at the construction site.
All construction work on the hos
pital is scheduled for completion
some time in March, 1850, Taggart
said.
Digging for foundations has been
completed, and 80 per cent of the
piles, to support the building. have
been driven.
All piles have been driven for
the center section and east wing
foundations, and foundation walls
have been rected for the two sec
tiOns of the building
First floor walls have been erect
CONTINUED on page q
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

D0 QuIJe variety or opinion as to
the respective merits of candidates
for some of the key positions.
At this writing, it would appear
that only two players, Dona Maxa
EastOn Outfielder, and Norm Eau
chin, Milford first baseman. have a
chance to be unanimous choices
at their respective positions. This
doesn't necessarily mean that
there are only two really outstand-
ing players in the league, but mere
iy is indicative of the close compe-
tttiOn for many of the positions.
While competition will be unusu-
ally close at most positions. at
least one post will be difficult to
NIL because of lack of outstanding
performers. This season, for the
first time in the history of the
Shore circuit, there is not a stand
Continued on page 49,
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Two Milford Children
Stricken With Polio
Howard w. Burrls, Kenny Hunt At
Doris Memorial Unit

Two Milford children are among
the thirty victims of Polio, now re-
ceiving treatment in the Doris
Memorial Unit of the Wilmington
General Hospital They are Howard
wilkins Burris, nine and a half
months old son of MIR and Mrs.
Jack Burris of Milford, and Ken
ny Hunt, fOur-year-Old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Floyd Hunt, also of this
city. Both children were stricken
within the week.
Of the thirty hOspitalized at Dor
is Memorial, five are suffering from
the bulbar form of the disease: 18
have paralytic polio and seven
have the nOn-paralytic variety.
Twelve are residents of Whining
ton and II of rural New Castle
County; four are Kent County res
idents and two are from Sussex
County.
There have been four deaths from
the disease since it started.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Farm Blaze Causes
$25, 900 Damage
Section Of Empty Poultry
House Owned By Harry
Pack Destroyed

A twO-alarm blaze last Sat-
urday night swept through empty
poultry houses on the Sussex POuI-
try Farm on Angola Neck, a few
miles south of RehOboth Beach.
causing loss estimated at $4,000
by fire officials. Cause of the fire
has not been determined
In addition to about 500 feet of
poultry houses, valuable equipment
also was destroyed. BY the time
Rehoboth Beach and Lewes Fire
companies arrived one section of
the extensive poultry plant was be-
Jond saving, but the volunteers
succeeded in checking the blaze be-
fore 1t reached another section con-
tanning most of the chicken stock.
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
28,747 Registered
Voters In Sussex
One More Fay Remaining To Regis
ter Oct 18th

According to the records of the
Department of Elections for Sus-
sex County, there are at the present
time, 28,747 registered voters in the
County. This figure includes the l.
323 voters who registered on July
l4th. In the year 1916 there were
approximately 32,784 on the regis
ters. Up until January 1st, of this
year, 1889 voters names were
stricken from the register for fail
ure to vote in the last five years and
an additional 772 names were re-
moved by transfer or failure to
change names after marriage. Since
January 1st, 4O8 names have been
removed from the registers, due to
death and transfers.
There remains one more regis
tratiOn day, before the election in
November. On October 18th, the
Registration Boards of each dis
trict will sit in their respective vo-
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Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Complete Plans For
Firemen's COnclave
Auxiliary Committees Have Been
Appointed For Annual Session

AAPPOAmNNW VI AuuWuA 0CO6AUM
The following committees for
the Firemen's State Convention to
be held in Laurel on September Is
and Is have been appointed:
Chaplain, Mrs. Mae Hudson, Re-
hObOth; pianist, Mrs. Mildred Nc
Lean, Delmar; auditors, Mrs.
DOwnes, LeWes, and Mrs. Kate
Austin, Harrington; resolution
chairman, Miss Josephine lori,
Minquadale; publicity, Mrs. Alice
Woodward, CranstOn Heights, Mrs.
Amy POynter, FELTON,, and Mrs.
Jean Greenabum, SeafOrd; men,
Orial chairman, Mrs. Helen Faust,
Lewes; convention chairman, Mrs.
Minnie Kyttle, Laurel; installation
chairman, Mrs. EuniCe Tull, Sea-
ford; hOstesses, Mrs. Mary Brit
tingham, Lewes, Mrs. Madeline
Powell, Bowers, Mrs. Nan Laws
Wood, Richardson Park, and Mrs.
Anna Scott, Laurel Auxiliary; spe-
Cial committee, Mrs. Mary Brit
tingham, Lewes, Mrs. Madeline
Powell, Bowers; and Mrs. Angie
Potter, Harrington.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Kent Democrats
Face Two Contests
levy Court Commissioner And ReU.
reSentatiVe Posts Listed


Kent County Democrats will have
two contests for district office NOM
nations to decide at the Kent
County Democratic primary on Sat-
urday. There are no contests for
delegates to the Democratic state
convention in Dover next Tuesday.
PrOthonOtary w. Marian Steven
son, secretary Of the Kent County
Democratic Committee, who re-
leased the list of candidates, an
neunced that the voting would take
place at the usual places in each
election district in the county.
Mr.. Stevenson's announcement
stated that in districts where no
contests existed the polls would
open at l p. m. and close at 2 p. m.
IN districts where contests existed
the polls would open at / p. m and
close at Z p. m.
OF the two contests chief interest
is conferred on the nomination for
Levy Court commissioner for the
Second Levy Court District. Charles
A. Kelly" Moore of Hartly, and
William NJ. Willis of West Dover
Hundred, are the aspirants for this
cffice.
The other district contest is in
tne Third Representative District
Where Allen Cook and David W..
hughes, both of the KentOn area,
aspire for the nomination for repre-
sentative .in the General Assembly.
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Boy Killed In Auto
Crash. Over Weekend
Robert VOgt, Greenwood, Victim ;
Another Accident At Haven Lake

Another Accident At Haven Lake
A boy was killed and several per-
sons were injured in automobile aC-
Cidents over the weekend in which
traffic to shore points was reported
to be heavy Saturday and last Sun
day.
The youth killed is Robert VOgt,
1, of Greensboro, Md, who died as
the result of an accident near Smy-
rna last Saturday night. VOgt was
riding as passenger in a tuck
driven by Charles Bradford, Il. Also
of Greensboro when the machine
ran off the highway on Route 1S,
north of Smyrna, and crashed into
tree.
Both were taken to the Kent Cen
eral Hospital in Dover, where Vogt
was pronounced dead on arrival
The hospital reported this week
that BradfOrd's condition is fair.
Five Hurt i'm Crash
Another truck was involved in q
head-On collision with an auto lasi
Sunday afternoon on Route IA. two
miles north of RehObOth, which had
one Of its heaviest days of the sea.
son last Sunday.
Five persons were injured in the
crash and were removed by ambU-
lance to the Beebe Hospital in Lew
es. They are: Mrs. Charles Ash
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