Milford chronicle., 1948-03-12
THE DELAWARE REPUBLICAN po.


litical pot is bOiling-in fact it is beginning
to simmer over. On Wednesday evening of
last week the. Sussex County Republican
Committee meeting in Georgetown, adopted
resolutions which, in effect demanded that
the GubernatOrial nominee come from Sus-
sex. On Saturday morning the Wilmington
Morning News printed a first page article
in which it mentioned Hyland P. George, of
Dover, as being the choice of many New
Castle County Republican leaders for the
nomination of Governor. In this article they
spoke of the large Republican maiOrities of
BrandyWine Hundred, whose leaders, by in
ference at least, support George. Kent COun-
ty leaders for months past have been out
spoken for George.
Sussex County Republican leaders, in off
the record conversations, have been saying
that they will demand the nomination for
Sussex COuntian! Among the Sussex men
most prominently mentioned have been Jul
ian E. Townsend, of Georgetown; John S.
Isaacs former State Treasurer; former
State Senator Clayton A. Bunting, of Selby-
vile, and former United States Senator
John G. Townsend, father of Julian, also of
Selbyvile. Following the action of the COun-
ty Committee last week, it seems evident
that Sussex will go into the Republican Con-
VentiOn with fOrty-twO votes for Sussex
County candidates. Developments in the
near future will show whether these dele
gates will be split among several candidates
or whether they will be concentrated on one
man, AS of this writing it would seem that
all of the forty delegates from Kent County
will be for Hyland P. George. With such a
development, it is almost certain that the
seventy-eight delegates from Wilmington
and rural New. Castle County will name the
Republican GUbernatOrial nominee. The
next few weeks will see the battle for the
Governor nomination gain momentum 1t
will be an interesting primary campaign to
watch. Lower Delaware Republicans are in
for stiff battle-and soon.
5000
CHIEF ENGINEER w. A. McWilliams,
Of the State Highway Department, speaking
at a meeting of the Delaware Safety Council
directors in Wilmington on Monday, told of
a traffic survey now being made involving
widespread sampling of traffic factors in
Wilmington and vicinity. The cost of this
survey will be S45,000 and it will be ready
for analysis by the end of 1948. The survey
is probably needed in order that an intelli-
gent lOng-range solution of the ever-grOwing
traffic problem in the Wilmington area may
be accurately arrived at. Certainly the de-
mand on our highways creates a need for
continuous planning and concentrated effort
to improve them-tO remove bottle necks,
and to provide safeguards at danger spots.
While we have no quarrel with the nor
thern-state traffic survey with it's cost of
$45,O0O of public funds, it does occur to us
that during this year of 1948 the State
Highway Department could make a teeny-
Weeny survey to more accurately guage it's
recent decision against an automatic traffic
light at the Haven Lake Crossing at the in
tersectiOn of Routes IA and 113. The cost of
survey at this point is not such that the
Highway Department will be financially en-
barrassed should it embark upon such ven
ture. Now is the time to start such survey
Already rumOrs are circulating to the effect
that this may be made a local political issue
during this campaign year. Stranger things