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Evening star., 1948-01-04
Candy
tContinued From Page DID

One Of the debutantes for whom 9
dinner was given before the Thoron
dance was Miss Judy Gill. Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald H. McKnew entertained
for her at the Chevy Chase Club.
Among the guests was Miss Laura
Winslow, who was introduced to
society Friday at a colorful ball given
by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Winslow; Miss Betsy Mary De
Sibour, Miss Nancy Slocurn and
Miss Agnes Dunn. OF course, Miss
Susan McKnew, the hosts attrac-
tive daughter, was present.
Another dinner party was that OF
Evening star., 1948-01-04
Beale
CONTINUED From Pare d.,

New York and all under a deep
blanket Of snow. One of the novice
ski trails Is called Lords PRAYER
lift area" one of the expert trails,
"Pabst peril" Wonder what hap
pened to Pabst?
Everybody at the Peter Ansberry's
the other day was amazed at the
lush but effortless manner in which
they give a party. There are few
hostesses who could entertain about
so friends from to 6 and 200 more
from 6 to 8 with at least $50 re-
naming for supper. Such an oc-
currence would put most women in
a panic. but Julie never batted an
eye. There were people in lust
about every room in the house, with
an extra bar in the basement play-
room, one on the second floor and
snappy piano music on the first. or
course, no one wanted to leave.
Julie simply told her Guatamalan
Evening star., 1948-01-04
Becomes ENGAGED

The engagement of Miss Eleanor
Steuer to Mr.. Marvin H. Yago is
announced by Miss Steuer's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Steuer. Mr.
Yago is the son of Mr.. and. Mrs
Edward M. Yago.
Miss Steuer is attending George
Washington University, where the
br1degroom-elect also is a student
after serving with the Navy during
| the war, >,
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Blue Hen Post State Farm
Will Select Production
Heads Mar. % Goals Rise
DIR. Jas. r. West NOmina-
ted For Post COmman-
der For Another Time;
Planning Post Home,

Blue Hen Post No. 6483, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, will select off,
GERS for the current year at a meet
ing of local overseas veterans to be
held in the new post quarters in
the Hotel Windsor next Tuesday
evening, March 23rd. Successful
candidates will be installed in off,
ice at an impressive public cere-
mOny to be held sometime in mid
April.
At last weeks meeting of the
post membership, the following
were nominated as candidates for
election to post Offices: for Com
mandeT, DR.. James r. West; for
Senior Vice Commander, William
*. KentOn and Louis A. Pack: for
Junior Vice Commander, William
A. Lynch; for Quartermaster. ].
William Wells; for Post Advocate.
Charles }. Sigler and John HOl-
land, Jr.; for Chaplain, Martin
Hastings; for Surgeon, DR.. o. A.
James, and, for three-year Trustee,
David S. Hugg and Russell Evans
Additional nominations may be
made from the floor prior to the
Tuesday evening.
Louis A. Pack, chairman of the
post home committee, will have a
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Clarence L. OcheItree,
State Chairman, An
nOunced New Set-Up
On Monday.

Delaware farmers, still express
ing fears that their soil is being
worked too hard, are asked to in
crease production of rye, corn and
oats this year while maintaining
other crops at last years level by
the Department of Agriculture.
Clarence L. Ocheltree, Produc-
tion and Marketing Administration
state chairman, announced the
goals on Monday of this week. fol-
lowing the release of the national
production goals by the USDA in
Washington. Total acreage this
year is SS9,5OO compared to S24.5OO
last year. The average for the five
year period before the war, how
ever, was 100000 acres.
Concern by farmers all over the
country caused the USDA to re-
duce its 1948 national goals slight
ly Most of the trimming from
previous department recommends
tiOns were in corn, grain sOrghums
and sOybeans-all regarded as
crops that take a lot of fertility
out of the soil.
continued on page III
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Driver Dies
AS Auto Burns
In Span Crash
Redden Resident John
Jefferies Becomes 9th
ID elaWare Fatality
This Year,

A 5S-year-old Sussex county
resident was killed in an autOmO-
bile accident on Route %, north of
Georgetown, last Saturday night,
when he was trapped in a blazing
automobile.
The victim is John Jefferis, of
Redden, near Georgetown. State
police said he was riding down the
road shortly before II o'clock when
the car went out of control and
struck a bridge. The vehicle i'm
mediately burst into flames and
Jefferies was trapped inside the
car.
Before police could pull the man
from the car, Jefferies was burned
beyond recognition. He was burn
ed so severely that determination
of whether Jefreries died from in
jUries received when the car struck
the bridge or from burns, was i'm
possible, state police said. He was
not identified until Sunday after
an investigation by state police.
The troopers arrived at the
scene a short time before firemen
from Georgetown and Immediately
began efforts to remove the uncon-
sciOus man from the car The We
hicle was demolished in the acci-
dent before it caught fire, police
said, leading to the possibility that
Jefferies had died from the intur-
les received when the car struck
the bridge.
Continued on mage q
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Howard Killen To
Manage Team Here
Selected TO Pilot Local Entry In
Semi-PFO League

Howard Killen, former minor
league hUrIer, was selected as play
ing manager of MilfOrd's new semi
pro baseball club at a meeting of
team candidates and interested
fans held here Friday evening in
the Lantern Loft of the Southern
Grille.
The newly-elected pilot of the
club, which will be known as the
Milford Vets, was for several years
a standOut performer with some
of the peninsula's strongest semi
pro clubs and at one time was with
the Baltimore Orioles of the In
ternatiOnal League. A slender
right handler with a blazing fast
ball, Killen had spring tryouts in
the mid-193O's with both the Ath-
letics and the Phillies. Still pos
sessed of a strong arm, plus the
cunningness that comes with years
Of experience, Killen expects to
take his regular turn on the hill
for the Milford Club.
The new Milford Club will seek
entry into the Sussex Semi-PrO
League at league meeting sched-
uled for March 81, and it is most
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
M. c. Vaughn Named
Farm Safety Head
Former Sussex County Agent In
Important Post

b M. c. Vaughn of Dixie-Del Farms
near Lewes, former Sussex county
agricultural agent, was named
farm safety chairman for the
county at a meeting of the Della
ware Safety Council and Agricul-
tural Extension Service held in
Dover last week, according to VIM.
c. Sloan, assistant county agent.
Mr.. Vaughn will head a county
organization made up of cOmmu-
nifty chairmen representing all of
the communities of the county and
whose work will consist of record
ing all farm accidents and their
causes. This is an effort on the
part of the Safety Council and Ex-
tension Service to find the cause of
farm accidents and then assist in
every way possible to reduce the
number of accidents by helping to
remove the cause.
Sussex county has been divided
into is communities and each COM
munity will cover the area served
by its rural mail routes. Chair
men will be selected from each of
these areas as rapidly as possible
and they will in turn set up their
own community organizations to
assist them in gathering the infor-
nation on farm accidents and their
causes.
An organization meeting will be
scheduled for the last week in
March or early in April. at which
time final details of the program
will be discussed and plans COM
pleted.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Unit ChGiTBlen For
Red Cross SeIUinO
Complete Set-up Is An
nOunced By Mrs.
Douglas Fry

Mrs. Douglas Fry. chairman of
production for the Red Cross sew
ing, is pleased to announce the
following chairmen of local units:
Avenue Methodist Church, Mrs.
Wallace McFaul; Christ Episcopal
Church, Mrs. Pine, Mrs. COllel.
Mrs. Baker; First Baptist Church,
Mrs. Founders, Mrs. Austin; Mt.
EbOn Baptist Church, Mrs. Down
ing; Presbyterian Church, Miss
Barker, Mrs. Fry; Calvary MethO-
dist Church, Mrs. Swain; Church
OF God, Mrs. Tull, Mrs. Audie Sock
rider; St. Johns r. c. Church,
Mrs. Albert Peterman; Pilgrim
Holiness Church, Mrs. Cooper;
Shawnee Home Demonstration
Club, Mrs. TOOker; MillwoOd Home
Demonstration Club, Mrs. Edward
MulhOlland; Happy HOmemakers
Club, Mrs. Spencer Willis; HOus-
ton, Mrs. Wilbur Jump; Lincoln,
Mrs. Harry Beebe; Frederick, Mrs.
Edith Melvin; EllendaIe, Mrs.
Fred Ireland; st. Paul's Church,
Mrs Wimberly; African Methodist
Church, Mrs. Whalen.
Continued on page n
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
To Ask Draft
Boards About
Willingness
To Aid Again
Availability In Case
Wartime Service Is Re
vived Is Subject OF
Letters To 30 Former
Members.


The 80 members Of Delaware's
former draft boards have been ask
ed whether they would be willing
to serve again If the selective SER
vice system we're revived Briga-
der General Paul r. Rinard, the
adjutant general, revealed this
week.
Letters have been sent to the
former members of the 10 draft
boards by General Rinard, as a
step in the work of the Delaware
National Guards selectiVe service
section.
AS Washington observers specu-
lated that President Truman may
ask Congress for a revival of the
draft in his message to the Joint
session of Congress, General Rim
ard pointed out that the sections s
work is routine. The National
Guard headquarters had a plan for
Delaware's selective service sys-
tenn long before it was used to
draft men in World War II, he
said,
Lieutenant Colonel Walter L.
Tindall, Jr., is head of the section,
which is similar to selective SER
vice sections in National Guard or
ganizatiOns of other states. In
each case, the, sections are prepar-
ing blueprints for new draft sys-
TENS in their states, with details
on the number of draft boards re-
quired, their location, and suggest
ed membership.
CONTINUED on page q
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Health w ''''
TOBeObserved.
Here In April.
Plans For Observance
Are Revealed By DIR.
w. Marshall, Jr., Presi-
dent of Milford Board.

Chest X-Rays and blood tests
will be available to all youths and
adults residents of the City of Mil
ford during Health Week." which
has been scheduled for the week of
April 10, according to DR.. William
Marshall, Jr., President of the
Board of Health of the City of Mil
ford.
Cooperating with the City Board
of Health, the State Board of
Health, through it's executive sec
retary, DR.. Edwin Cameron, has
made available the Mobile Tuber-
culOsis X-Ray Unit, which, with
operating personnel, will be sta
toned in Milford throughout the
week.
According to the schedule, sew
eral industrial plants will be visi-
ted beginning April 10. Those re-
questing the service to date are the
L. D. Caulk Company, J. H. Null
holland Company, Sussex Poultry,
Milford Packing Company, Pearce
WOOlen Mills, E. F. Steiner Com
pany and the Milford Chronicle.
Following this, the Mobile Unit
Will be moved downtown where il
will be convenient to employees in
restaurants, drug stores and other
food handling establishments. The
latter part of the week has been
reserved for all other members of
the community over Is years Of age
who desire the service.
continued on page III
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
700 Attended Big
Girl Scout Rally
Kent-Sussex Troops Pres
ent AT Session Held
AT. Dover

Approximately 700 Girl Scouts
of Kent and Sussex counties and
nearby Maryland. gathered in Do
yer last Saturday for observance
of international friendship day.
The jambOree, held in the social
hall of the Dover School, marked
the anniversary of girl scouting.
The program included singing,
presentation of the cOlors with the
Milford senior troop as color
guard; donation by each scout of
one cent for each year of her age
for promotion of girl scouting, and
skits on different nations.
Troop representations of the ma
tions were: Bridgeville, The Meth
erlands; Clayton-Smyrna, England:
fredericksburg, Hawaii; FELTON,, Eng
land; LeWes, Holland: Milford.
Poland; RehObOth Beach, Canada !:
SeafOrd, Russia; Denton, England.
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Farm Electricity
Theme For Meeting
Sessions Are Being SpOn-
sOred Throughout
Sussex County

Electricity on the Farm" will
be the theme for a series of meet
ings which have been scheduled
throughout the county during the
last week in March and the first
week in April, according to Will
liam H. Henderson, county agent
These meetings will be jointly
conducted by representatives of
the Rural Electric Association,
Delaware Power and Light Com
pany and the Extension Service
and will be sponsored by various
farm groups in the areas where
the meetings will be held.
The schedule as developed to-
date include the following:
Monday, March %, Bridgeville,
Dublin Hill Community Hall.
Wednesday, March "a, George
town, Agricultural Center (Old
CCC camp.
Monday, March 20, Laurel, Broad
Greek Grange Hall.
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Louis Pack Invents
New Poultry Sizer
Invention OF Milford Resident Will
Soon BE On Market

The Albright Company, 10
North Franklin Street, Chicago,
will, in the near future, market a
new poultry sizing machine, which
automatically weighs and sorts
dressed chickens or turkeys into
ten predetermined weights.
The device consists of a scale.
which rides around a track. The
chicken is placed on the scale and
starts its trip around the track. The
scale automatically raises a lever
in proportion to the weight of the
chicken. This lever, moving with
the scale, passes a number of sta
tiOnary blades fixed at various
Aeights to correspond to different
weights.
The blades, on contact with the
lever, tip the scale, allowing the
chicken to drop into one of a num-
Der of barrels placed around the
track. The empty scale then com
pletes its trip around the track to
pick up another unweighed chic
ken.
AS the scale lever, at any given
Continued on page D
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Truman Calls For
Revival Of Draft
Chief Executive Denounces Russia AS Tvrant:
Says America Is Principal Protector OF
Free World; Warns Nation May Face
Greatest Risk During Next Year.

his voice, the President accused
"One natiOn"-Russia-of trying
to sabotage the peace and of seek
ing to spread tOtalitarian rule
over the still-free demOcracies of
Western Europe.
These countries, the President
said we must support with our
full military, economic
and moral"
Calls Situation Critical
He said the situation in Europe
is critical. And he warned that
the U. s., in the coming year, may
nave to take risks greater than
Continued on page y
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Della. Parks
Stake Races
Total 100000
Combined With Purses
Over $1,OOO,OOO Will Be
Distributed At Meet
Beginning May 20.

The stake program at Delaware
Park, where 1948 racing gets un-
derWay May 20, and continues
through July 5, has been increased
for the eleventh consecutive year,
bringing the total outlay to $780,
900 in added money. The cOmbina-
tiOn of purse money and added
money will bring the total distribu-
tion to over a million dollars for
the 80 day meeting, making the ses-
sion one of the richest in the
country.
The announcement was made
this week by Delaware Parks Rae
ing Secretary and Handicapped, ].
G. (GiD Haus, who pointed out
that part of the increase this year
was due to the addition of the new
$4,000 added National Maiden HuP-
dies, bringing the stake total to fif-
teen.
Delaware Parks minimum stake
value is $4,000, except for the two
jumping stakes where the added
money is set by the National Steep
lechase and Hunt Association and
is $4,000 in each case. The new
thTee-ply hurdles stake will be run
at Belmont Park, Delaware Park
and Saratoga. The previously es-
tabllshed Spring Maiden Steeple-
chase is run at PimlicO, Belmont,
and Delaware Park.
There will be eight stakes at $40
600, the Wilmington Handicap, for
three-year-Olds and upward, six
The Brandywine Handi-
cap, three-yeaT-Olds and upward.
one mile and a sixteenth; the Polly
DrummOnd Stakes, for two-year-
old fillies, five furlOngs; the Chris
tiana Stakes, twO-year-Old colts
and geldings, five furlongs; the
Tom ROby Steeplechase Stakes,
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Eighth Annual
G. OfC,. Dinner
In Milford
Well Attended
Splendid Program Was
Presented With C. M.
Welch, Jr., Serving AS
POSTMASTER; Officers
Were Installed.

The eighth annual dinner of the
Milford Chamber of Commerce was
held Wednesday evening of this
week in the Varney Auditorium Of
the Milford Community Building.
1t was the largest dinner meeting
ever held by the chamber with 10
present, including ROtarians, XII
Wanians and Lions.
Leonard w. Trester, director of
the National Chamber of Commerce
the announced speaker, was un-
able to be present due to illness.
and Roy Sabine, associated with
the National Chambers advertis-
ing for the past 20 years, delivered
the address. which was due to have
been delivered by Mr.. Trester. The
topic was "a Program for Ameri-
can Opportunity
Clarence M. Welch, Jr., a direc-
tor of the local chamber. served
very capably in the post of toast
master and introduced the main
speaker.
Gerrish Gassaway, manager of
the Chamber Of Commerce Of Del
aware, with headquarters in Will
mingtOn, installed the newly-elect-
ed officers who follow: President,
Harvey M. Phillips, Jr.; vice pres
ident, Irwin G. Burton; treasurer.
Wilmer o. LankfOrd, and secre-
tary, Robert H. Yerkes. Mr.. Gas
saway was accompanied to Milford
by Ed. Section and Walter Farrell
of the Wilmington Chamber.
Among the distinguished guests
present were William J. Storey.
Secretary of State; Mrs. Robert
Baynum, president of the Milford
Parent-Teacher Association; Mrs.
Mary Keller, president of the Mil
ford Business and Professional
Girls Club; Miss Doris Wilkins,
vice president of the club; Colonel
Thomas J. Kibler, retiring presi-
dent of the Eastern Shore League;
Dallas d. Culver, president of the
Eastern Shore League; Clayton
Sheedy, manager of the Milford
Red SOx; e. Roscoe Galloway, bus
mess manager of the Milford Red
IVA esAAA eNAAAA 1UAlIAlllA6s COdCu Oh
the Lynn, Mass, Red Sox.,
The invocation was given by the
Rev. David w. Baker, pastor of
Calvary Methodist Church, and
the address of welcome was given
by Harry E. Mayhew, retiring pres
ident of the Milford Chamber. Har-
vey M. Phillips. Jr., the newly in
stalled president, outlined a ten
tative program for the year in his
address. He urged the cooperation
of every single individual in the
organization.
DR.. William Marshall, Jr., pres
ident of the Milford Board of
Health, and chairman of the health
and sanitation committee of the
chamber of commerce, outlined a
program of health betterment for
Milford, which will in cooperation
with the State Board of Health. be
undertaken in April.
The splendid meal was served by
the Carlisle Fire Company under
the direction of Charles E. Varney
and Don HOlzmueller.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
1948 Potato Price
Support Program
Designed To Encourage Producers
To Market Better Tubers

A new provision in the 1948 DO
tatO price support program of the
Department of Agriculture is de-
signed to encourage producers to
sell only high quality potatoes,
with the hope that this in turn
will stimulate market demand. The
provision states that no grower
will be eligible for price support if
at any time during the season he
sells ungraded or field-run pOta-
toes, or potatoes of u. S. No.
grade or quality, size B, or u. S.
No. 2 grade or quality, regard
less of size. except to the Depart
ment of Agriculture or contracting
dealers.
G. f. Ocheltree, chairman of the
State PIMA Committee, who called
growers attention to the new pro-
vision, added that unless some
change is made the Department of
Agriculture will continue to sup
port potato prices at 80 percent of
parity until December 81, 1948.
That date marks the end of the
twO-year support period following
the termination of hOstilities, as
provided by the Steagall Amend
ment.
Other requirements which are
similar to last years support pro-
gram are compliance with the 194S
individual farm potato acreage
goals, and payment of a service fee
in connection with establishment
of eligibility. There is also a pos
sibility that growers may be re-
quired to enter into written agree
ments with the department cover
ing the three requirements.
The basic support price for
early and intermediate crop pota-
toes is $2.75 per pounds for U. S.
No. grade potatoes packed in
new burlap or cotton bags. and
loaded fob. at country shipping
points. This price extends through
out the end of July but drops to
S2.65 for the month of August.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19

A. r. TOmhaVe, head of the de-
partment of animal and poultry in
dustry of the University and chair
man of the Delaware Chicken of
Tomorrow Committee. reports that
both of the 3OO-fOOt-long houses
will be used i'm the contest. TO pro-
vide adequate space for each of
the competing lots of chicks the
houses have been partiOned into
15-by 2O-fOOt pens.
TOmhave says that each of the
pens will have the usual compile
ment of brOiler house equipment.
This will include one automatic
water, four small feeders to start.
and five larger feeders as the birds
become older.
Peanut hulls will be used for
litter in all the pens. Heat in each
pen will be supplied by coal burn
ing brOOders.
(continued on page -
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Vets Lose e
In Basketball
Finale Here
Local COurtmen Bow To
Smyrna, 42-37, AS Re
serves Win 1922 In Op-
ener Of Twin Bill.

With the playing of double
header here on the Milford High
School court the past Monday eve
ming the curtain fell on the local
basketball season. In the season S
finale here, the Milford Vets lost
a hard-fOught Mar-DeI League tilt
to the Smyrna Hornets, 42-37.
while the Milford Reserves wal
loped the Smyrna Reserves, 1922.
in the opening game.
Three field goals in succession
by Jacobs, shaTp-shOoting Smyrna
guard, decided the outcome of the
Vets-HOrnets tilt. Milford previ-
ously had come behind to tie the
score at 36-all with approximately
two minutes to go when Dick kim
mey capped a Vets rally with a.
scOre-tying field goal. LOrain Will
kins, with Is points and KINNEY
with 13, were the scoring leaders
for Milford, while Jacobs with is
and Bud O'Neill with IA points,
were standOuts for the third place
Hornets.
The Reserves played the best
basketball Monday evening that
they have displayed all season;
with a fast-breaking attack and
accurate passing, they rOmped al
most at will through the Smyrna
Reserves, a team that had beaten
the local quintet on two precious
occasions. Stan Carter, Bill Wat
son and Hal Davis paced the Mil
ford offensive with Is, ID and 12
points. respectively.
That the Mar-Del League is cas-
lily the class of peninsula indepen-
dent basketball has been concIu-
sively proven in the Y. M. C. A.
InvitiOnal Tournament which
CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
Police Quizzing Man
In Woman's Death

state police at Georgetown are
holding Ernest COvingtOn, of near
Eliendale, for questioning follow
ing an autopsy performed at the
Milford Memorial Hospital on the
body of Mrs. Bessie Waters, also
of near Glendale.
The autopsy revealed that the
woman whose body was found by
employees of the Isaacs Cannerv
at Ellendale last Sunday morning.
had died of a fractured skull. Gov
lngtOn was taken into custody for
interrogation although police said
to date no charge had been placed
against him.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-19
,URMAL LEGAL LOAD
RESTORED ON HIGHWAYS

William A. McWilliams,
chief engineer of the State
Highway Department, an
nOunced on Tuesday of this
week that the normal legal
load had been restored to
all Delaware highways, ex-
cept those specifically post
ed. Some of the roads are
still seriously winter dam
aged and the use of them to
carry the full legal load
would result in untold dam
age. Many of the other roads
have been repaired sufi-
ciently to carry the full
legal load thus the reason
for the removal of the ban.