Milford chronicle., 1948-01-16
MILFORD CITIZENS will assem-

M1LFORD CITIZENS Will assemble at
the Community Building this evening at Z 80
o'clock to hear reports of City officials and
discuss town affairs at the annual Citizens
Meeting. Announcement of the candidates
who have filed for City offices will be made
at that time. On Monday, from noon to
o'clock In the evening, the polls will be open
for the election of Mayor and new members
to City Council. Present indications are that
the fight between Alex Rosa and G.. Van Nuis
Wilkerson for Mayor will be a hot one A
large percentage of the $500 eligible voters
: are expected to vote on Monday. A five man
contest is in prospect in the First Ward
where one member of Council will be elected
In the Fourth Ward, in which a Councilman
will be elected, John Jewell is unoppOsed.
Monday is your day for registering your
choice for the offices. Failure to.VOte at that
time means that you should keep quiet should
your particular man lose. Vote early
5000
WRITING UNDER THE HEADING
Along the Road" Mr.. Russ Newcombe, col
lumnist for the Sunday Star, of Wilmington,
last Sunday had this to say: Claude Tease,
Milford, and Jim Turner, Smyrna, are now
enrolled in the State Troopers School in Do
yer. Both are really taking the gumshoe
business to heart. When ] talked to them
the other day, both were provoked over an
editorial that ran in one of the dOwnstate
"A
lOus auto accident down state and put the
hooks into the state troopers Jim and
Claude feel that all the facts in the case were
not taken into consideration before the piece
was written and they feel that this is a bad
policy to follow"
The above is what the budding young
writer for the Sunday Star had to say Whe-
ther he was in a kidding mood, or whether
he was In dead earnest, he, himself, is using
poor judgment. In the first place he was re-
fering to a recent editorial which appeared
in the Milford Chronicle, in which we called
to the attention Of the State Highway De-
partment-get this, the State Highway De-
partment-the dangerous intersection at
Haven Lake, west Of Milford. Certainly we
did not put the hooks into the state troop
ers" as young Mr.. NewcOmbe directly
charges. They were mentioned only incl
IDENTIFY. This problem is not theirs-it is the
State Highway Departments baby. We ques-
ton very much whether young Mr. Tease,
resident Of Milford, ever gave this danger
spot any thought, and certainly we will not
concede that the young gentleman from
Smyrna has much knowledge of the cOndi-
tiOns there.
We have had sane letters from Major
Herbert Barnes, in command of the State
Police Force, and Mr.. w. A. McWilliams,
Chief Engineer of the State Highway De-
partment, In which they state that additional
studies of the conditions existing at this in
tersectiOn are being made. Major Barnes is
doing all that he can to learn the true con-
diti0ns existing there. His investigators
have been at work this week on this survey.
Chief Engineer McWilliams was instructed
by the State Highway Department at their
meeting last Thursday to look thoroughly
into the matter.
Another serious accident occurred at this
intersection shortly after noon last Sunday
AS a result of this Ernest HOey, of FELTON,,
was taken to the Milford Memorial Hospital
with fractured left leg. Young Mr. Russ
NeWcOmbe and the novice police Tease and
Turner to the contrary, this is a serious mat
ter. 1t is certainly no pleasure to the ChrOn-
lcle to dwell on the affair-bUt life and death
are not to be trifed with. We believe that the
proper authorities will remedy the condi-
tiOns there, if and when safety devices are
available.
HENRY WALLACE'S DECISION to
head third party ticket next November was
hardly bombshell. The former vice pres
ldent has been playing tag with the idea for
g long time and sending up the customary
trial balloons. He has been prodded by var
lous left of center" groups, and by those
VINO take much more lenient view of Rus
sla policies and intentions than do the Re
publican and Democratic leaders. What his
formal announcement has done is to open
UP q whole new chain of political possibili.
ties
It remains to be seen what luck Mr.. Wal
lace viii have in getting on the ballot in
the various states. Every state has different
laws in this regard, and the variations are
extreme. In Iowa, for instance, two voters
can call convention and place candidate
~ contention. In Massachusetts,, by con
trast, about $4,000 names are needed to rims
the bell The matter is further complicated
by laws concerning party afiliation and Other
tecnnlcalltles. Generally speaking, the DO
litical air is not favorable to third parties
The last effort by Representative Lempke