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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
OSTRICH WISDOM

1t is frequently said t h a t
American isolationism is d e a d.
Apparently there are isolationists
who haven't heard the news. We
note particularly a letter recently
sent to various Daughters of the
American Revolution by a promi-
nent lady Of Washington.
The letter states gravely that
the Marshall Plan, Atlantic Pact,
arms for Europe. reciprocal trade
treaties, etc., are all parts of a
sinister policy designed to in
volve America in world govern
ment."
If world government in place
of the present world anarchy
were really to be achieved by
these means. we should rejoice
without measure. Unfortunately,
the nations-and notably t h e
Soviet Union a n the United
States-are so far from surrend-
ering any fraction of h e ir
sovereignty in t h interests of
world law and order h a t these
piecemeal measures to bolster the
economic a n d military strength
of the free West have been
necessary.
The monumental confusion of
neoisolationism is beautifully H.
Illustrated in the Washington
lady's fear that I'VE will surrend-
er the right to do as we like with
our foreign trade" Every treaty
calls for US to surrender in some
respect the right to do as we like
in order to avoid the greater evil
we dislike.
If the isolationist insists the
United States has a sovereign
right" to ALLEVIATE and weaken
its friends through its ira d e
policies and to ensure the GER
tainty Of a to m c catastrophe
through t S refusal to cooperate
in measures that fall far short of
world government, we may grant
the point. It is, roughly. in the
same category as the right" to
commit suicide.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
Paslime Opens For Business
Under Management OF Bud WetzeI

The Pastime. under the man.
agement of Bud Wetzel, and
located in quarters next to Min.
yards Steak House on Highway
No. 2, opened for business early
this week. In addition to pool,
the business will be operated with
a complete line of candy, sof t
drinks a n d a complete line of
cigars and tobacco.
The building recently was COM
pletly remodeled and made spic
and span for its present use.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04

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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
Maps Described

Montana's 1850 highway maps
will bear a four-color photograph
of the Garden Wall in Glacier
National park, State Highway
Engineer c. E. S t a h | has an
nounced. Also included will be a
message from Gov. John w. Bon
ner and the customary maps of
Yellowstone and Glacier parks
and the principal cities of Mon
tana, plus a mileage t a b | e of
Montana routes.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04

Methodist Church

Sunday, 9:45, church school;
classes for all ages, DR.. Theodore
Crabbe, Supt.
Morning worship at II a. M,
Sermon by the Pastor. Theme;
Faith In Cod"
Wednesday, 1880 p. M, hour Of
prayer and Bible study. Junior
MYF at 4 p. m.
Edgar Smith. Pastor.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
Pennsy Station

The Pennsylvania station in New
York city handles daily an average
of $50 passenger trains. includinr
suburban, and more than 1000
passengers, the greatest number
for any passenger station in the
United States.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04

Volunteers are mighty important 10
the U. s. Savings Bonds Program.
During the fall when farmers are
bringing in their harvests, An outstand-
ing group Of U. s. Savings Bonds volun-
teers will be travelling the country tell
ing people about Bonds.
These volunteers are the cartoonists
who draw your favorite comic strips and
they will put on show in connection
with Treasury Department sponsored
art exhibit, 100000 Years Of Comics"
in several American cities. They are
freely giving Of their time and effort 70
continue telling their readers that U. s.
Savings Bonds are the safest and best
investment In the world.
US. Treasury Dspartmsss
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04

The Chinese are said to have in.
vented eyeglasses. According to
leeeHd, thev were used as early as
500 B. c. The World Book encyclo-
pedIa states that Marco Polo re-
ported that he say Chinese wear
in" glasses in China. about 1878
AID.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
legionnalres To Open Season
Sunday with Fast Duttenites

The Browning Legionnaires,
member Of tn e international
Basketball League, will play its
first game at the Browning high
school gym, meeting the ia st
Dutton team. The game will be-
gin at 2::30. The game will be pre-
coded by a preliminary.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04

Wanted-Webster dictionary
published between 1892 and 1896.
Inquire Lorenie Banks, P. O. Box
Sc, Browning, Montana.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-04
Assembly of God

Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Church service at II a. m.
Evangelistic service at 8 p. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednes
day at 8 p. m.
Rev. R. A. Murphey, pastor.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Presby teriian
Pastor Will Be
Guest Speaker
Rev. Kenneth M. Kepler
Will Address Harring-
ton And Milford Rota-
ry Clubs Monday Night

Rev. Kenneth NJ Kepler, the new
pastor of First Presbyterian
Church, this city, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at an intercity meet
ing of the Harrington and Milford
Rotary clubs, next Monday eve
ming at the Milford Community
Building.
Rev. Kepler, for. number of
years prior to the beginning of
World War II, was a missionary
in China, and returned to that war
stricken country after We Day only
to be forced out again, when the
Nationalists were overrun by the
Communists.
The clergyman is expected to
bring a vital and stirring message
on the Orient and the membership
of both service clubs are planning
for 100% attendance.
This past Monday evening Con
gressman j. Caleb Boggs of Della.
ware was the guest speaker at the
weekly dinner meeting of the Mil.
ford Rotary Club.
Congressman Boggs was present
ed to the group by Doctor Lesli,
M. Dobson, who had the program
for the evening. Solon Boggs tolt
of the many enjoyable legislativ,
experiences he has had while
member of the S0th and 81st Con
crosses.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
VFW Members Await
Opening Of Home
Group Anxious To Get Established
In Spacious Post Home

Members OF Blue Hen Post No.
64S3, V. F. W., and its Ladies Aux
iliary are eagerly awaiting an
nouncement of date on which the
new post home will be formally
opened. Construction work on the
new home, located ON the shores of
beautiful Haven Lake, just west of
the city limits, is nearing compile
tion and is now expected that the
home will be formally opened
within the next week or ten days.
AT recent post meeting, held
at the home site, Commander
Charles w. Sigler, Jr., appointed a
committee, consisting of Dave
Hugg, Eurie Savage, George Bay
mum, Ralph Scott and Jack Hol-
land, to meet with a similar COM
mittee from the Blue Hen Auxiliary
and plan for the opening day cere-
monies and program. Mrs. Alma
Rust, president of the Auxiliary
then appointed committee of Aux
iliary members, consisting of Aud
rey Savage, Mary Hugg, Mildred
Hall, Gertrude Carter and Nora
Jefferson. These two groups met at
the home of Eurie and Audrey
Savage the past Friday evening
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Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Veterans Diyidends
Have Been Setub
Compensation Will Be Based On Months Of
Service; $528.O0 Will Be Tops In Amount
Any Veteran Will Be Eligible To Receive

John F. Mcdonald, Delaware Vet
Grams Administration Regional In
surance Officer announced that
Carl r. Gray, Jr., Administrator
for Veterans Affairs, has made pub
lie the first Veterans Administra-
tion calculations on amounts pro-
posed to be paid nearly 100000
veterans in the $2S billion special
National Service Life Insurance
dividend.
Maximum possible amount that
any veteran can receive will be
$528. Other payments, based on age
groups will run to lesser sums. The
dividend will be paid on both term
and converted insurance policies,
and will be paid only for the period
that the policy was in force prior
to the policy anniversary in 1948.
No payments will be made for peri
ods of lapse, VA emphasized.
Mr.. Mcdonald said that the esti-
mated rate of the dividend was ar
rived at after long actuarial stud
les, and that the rate of payment
will be the same for both term and
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
City Championship
Ball Game Sunday
Big Crowd Expected To Attend
Fray Between A. c. And Yanks

Unless inclement weather inter-
feres, the baseball championship of
the Milford Area will be definitely
deoided this Sunday evening at the
Milford Baseball Park, when the
Milford A. C.'s and the Milford
Yariks clash in the third and de-
Gliding game of best-two-out-of-
three championship series" The
winners of Sunday evenings game
will not only receive recognition as
city champions, but will also be
awarded a handsome trophy, SYM
bolic of championship honors. One
of the seasons largest turnouLs
will most likely be present when
the A. C.'s and Yanks ring down
the curtain on the 1949 season.
There is much speculation among
local fans as to who will be the
pitching selections for Sunday eve-
ning's all important game, and ru-
NOR has it that each team will
import" an outstanding hurlel
from a distant point. Under the
terms of the agreement between
these inter-city rivals, each team
can add additional players only q:
replacements for regulars who are
either out with injuries or els'
have returned to school, and, mas
much as both teams have regular:
in these two catagories. replace
ments for these men have beel
made or else are being made.
i CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Henry Latchum Heads
Loan Association
Son OF Mr.. And Mrs. J. Harry
Latchum Assumes Post

j. Henry Latchum, formerly of
Charlottesville, Va, has been ap-
pointed manager of the Newport
News office of the Commonwealth
Building and Loan Association, it
was announced recently by Roy +.
Phillips, president
For the past two years, Latchum,
26 native of Milford, Delaware and
son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Harry Latch
um, has been commercial supervis-
or and personnel manager of the
Virginia Telephone and Telegraph
Company of Charlottesville and
Front Royal. Prior TO that time he
attended the University of Virginia
where he was graduated in January
1947 with B. A. degree.
During the past war Latchum
was in the U. S. Naval Reserve
stationed at Norfolk and San Diego
Calf. He completed a tour of duty
as an ensign aboard a destroyel
operating with Admiral Halsey's
Fifth Fleet in the Pacific. Theater
where he was awarded five battle
ribbons with five bronze stars anC
one unit citation. He was released
to inactive status with the rank o
lieutenant (junior 'grade) in Feb
1916, at which time he resumed hi
studies at the University of Virgin
ia.
Continued on page ID
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23

Racing Meet
Opens Oct lst
Record Number Is Ex-
pected For Continual
ton Of Spring Meet
Held Last May.

Around 450 horses are ex-
pected to participate in the Kent
and Sussex Racing Associations
fall harness meet opening here Sat
urday night, October /, for 20
nights. This meet will be con-
tinuation of the spring meet.
One reason for the record num-
ber of entries expected, is that
many stables will stay here to
train for the winter and to get
ready for next springs meet, the
first in the East. Entries include
many of the best drivers and hor-
ses in the East
The management of the Kent
and Sussex Raceway has gone all
out to make the horsemen's stay a
comfortable one. A large restaur-
ant will operate her for the first
time, during the fall meet and
winter training season. Also, at
considerable expense, the associa-
tion has just completed "a mile
practice track.
Joe McGraw, one of the nations
top presiding judges, will perform
in that capacity here, coming di.
rectly from a fair at Winston-Sal.
em, N. c. Dale Fetrow will be start.
ing judge here for the first timt
and will use his own starting gate
DR.. Harry Mcdaniel will again bt
the veterinarian. The patrol jud
ges and the marshall have not beer
selected, but the timers will agair
be Eldridge Lusby, Harvey Griffith
and A. e. Letherman.
tcontinued on page -
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Ebenezer Homecoming
This Coming Sunday
VIII Be Big Occasion For Rural
Sussex County Church

Ebenezer Methodist Church, for
merly a part of Rehoboth Charge
and later a part of the Nassau
Charge, will hold it's Annual Home
Coming Services next Sunday af-
ternoon, September 25th, beginning
at 2 P. M. Ebenezer Church is stu
ated about one mile south of the
Rehoboth Milford Highway and
from Five Points near Nassau. This
promises to be the biggest occasion
held here in many years and fine
program of singing and. preaching
will be heard. The guest speaker
will be the Reverend Clarence w.
Strickland of Rehoboth. The serv-
ices will open with good live song
service followed by an old fashion
ed class meeting and praise serv-
ice Ebenezer Church has been
painted on the exterior.
lcontinued on page %
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Buc's Have 8
Games On The
l949 Schedule
Milford Highlets Will
Open Season At Reho-
both Next Friday Eve
ming, Sept. 30th.

AS result of cancellation of
games with Bridgeville High and
High, the Milford High
Buccaneers currently have but
eight games on their 1949 gridiron
schedule. Bridgeville and Cam
bridge appeared on the Bucs' 194S
card, each being defeated by the
local schoolboy eleven.
The Milford High schedule, as it
now stands, calls for the Bues to
open the 1949 season away from
home, meeting the Rehoboth. High
gridders, on Friday, Sept. .30th, in a
night game at the Rehoboth Base
ball Park. The following Friday,
Oct. 7th, the local eleven makes
its first appearance before home
fans, meeting Seaford High here
under the lights of the Milford
Baseball Park.
On Friday, Oct 14th, the Bucs
will go to Salisbury, Md, to meet
the powerful Wicomico High elev-
en- in a night game at Memorial
Park. A strong Lewes High team
will be met in night game here
on Oct. 21st.
A traditional rival, Caesar Rod
ney, will be met in a daytime test
at Camden-Wyoming on the after
noon Of Oct. 2Sth, and another rival
of long standing, Laurel, will be
met under the lights at Laurel OF
Nov. 4th. Then will follow a two.
week layoff. unless Coach Barne.
Briggs is successful in his effort!
to lineup an opponent for Nov. 18th
which currently appears as an opel
date on the Milford schedule.
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Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Fall Fashion Show
At Greenwood School
Affair Sponsored By Bejamins'
VIII Be Held Next Wednesday

Fall Fashion Show with Novelty
Acts will be held Wednesday, Sep
tember 2Sth, 1949, at s pm. in the
Greenwood School Auditorium.
The Fashion Show is being
sponsored by the Benjamins' Store
of Salisbury, Maryland, and is for
the benefit of the Sunshine Glass of
the Greenwood Methodist Church.
The garments furnished by Benja-
Minis will be modelled by members
of the Sunshine Glass.
Those modelling for the Shows
are: ADULTS-Esther Lyons, Bet
ty Collins, Helen Reynolds, jean
nette Sadowski, Madeline Lord
Miriam Lord, Clementine Smith,
Jane Bostick and Belle Allen
TEEN-AGE GIRLS-Janice Smith
Barbara Davis, Betsy Lord, Dolores
Lyons, two Home Economics girls
from Greenwood, one Home Eco.
nomics.. girl from :. Harrington
CHILDREN-Johnnie Stevens, Do
lores Anthony, Elaine Anthony
jamie Christine, Judy Jones, Herba
Schulze, Vera Schulze, Carole
Schulze, Connie Schulze.
feontinued on page 81
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converted policies, as the dividend
is based on mortality savings since
there are no excess interest earn
ings.
In arriving at the dividend scale,
Mr.. Mcdonald said, standard insur-
ance practices were followed,
whereby dividends on a life insur-
ance policy represent a return to
the insured of the excess of pre-
miums paid over the amounts re-
quired to pay claims and set up
necessary reserves. This is not nee
essarly proportional to the pre-
MUM paid.
While portions of the premium
originally estimated as necessary
to pay claims may turn out to have
been too high and can return div
idend, the part of the premium that
goes into building up reserves can
not return a profit unless the fund
earns rate of interest higher than
that assumed in the premium CAL
culatiOns. This has not been done
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Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Naval Reserve Unit
Formed In Milford
Lieutenant w. o. Landlord,
Jr., Named Commanding
Officer Of Group

A meeting of members of the
United States Naval Reserve, call
ed under authorization by the
Commandant, 4th Naval District,
was held in Milford, at the l. d.
Caulk Co. Auditorium on Monday,
Sept. 10. Nineteen men from lower
Delaware, with wide variety of
naval experience in the last war,
attended and agreed to form Naval
Reserve Composite Unit. 81. Lieu
tenant Commander T. w. Hamilton,
Volunteer Reserve Program Officer
for the 4th Naval District, outlined
the requirements for recognition OF
this Unit by the Commandant in
order that members attending the
drills shall receive credit for adj
vancement in rank or rating and
towards ultimate eligibility for re-
tirement pay.
continued on page q,
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Fall Festival Opens
At Salisbury Sept. 20
Merchandise Valued At S1,500 VIII
Be Given Away During The Fete

Salisbury merchants are going
Mother Nature one better this year
they're adding dollar value to au-
tufnn leaves.
Leaves from trees and plants
growing ON the Eastern Shore will
be the motif in the first Fall Festi-
val sponsored by the Merchants
Division of the Chamber of Com
merce. 1t will open at noon, Thurs
day, Sept. 29th, and continue for
one week, until Thursday night,
Oct. 9Th.
Merchandise valued at $1,000 will
be given away for identification of
leaves and the best judgment of the
number of leaves located in the
Citizens Gas Co., window on, Main
Street. A grand reward of $500 will
be awarded, with other of $3.50,
S15t, $780,. several at $50 and $25--
all in certificates that can be re-
deemed in any of the SO cooperat-
ing stores There will also be a
first award of $50 for contestants
from each of the three states, Del
aware, Maryland and Virginia,
which make up Salisbury's trading
area.
Plans for the festival call for
leaves to be displayed in each of
the store windows, the contest CALI
ing for the Identification of 20
:, kinds of leaves. Each store window
will have only one variety of
leaves, After Identification of the
leaves, the contestants will esti-
mate the number of leaves in a
glass container located in the Citi-
zens Gas Co., window.
On September 20, the opening
date, stores will open at noon, at
which time the windows will be un-
relied and will remain open until
8 p. m. The stores will also open
the following Thursday at moor
and remain open until 8 p. m.
Entry blanks will be available al
any of the participating stores ant
no purchase is necessary to take
part in the competition. The confess
closes at 8 p. M, Thursday, Oct
9Th, with awarding of prizes sched
uled for Saturday, Oct. Sth at 9 p
M, on the Court House lawn.
continued on page ~
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Court Is Told
Mrs. Brennan,
Said She Shot
Hearts Victim
Police, H W ever, Aver
That She Did Not Sign
Statement; Defens e,
Expected To Begin
Case Today.

A statement in which police said
Mrs. Inez Gertrude Brennan. As,
admitted she shot, killed and buri-
ed Wade N. Woodbridge, 67-year-
cid Stone Mountain, Va, carpen-
ter, on her farm near Dover last
October 10 and later burned his
body was read in court jug. before
it recessed on the ninth day of the
lonely hearts" trial Wednesday.
The witness who produced the
statement, 1t. Winfield Cochran of
the State Police. said Mrs. Brennan
however, refused to sign the docu-
ment at the Dover station of the
police where she made it on April
is. He said the police did not be-
lieve the contents. He also testified
that she made a second statement
between midnight and / a. m. on
April 10. Her first statement COM
pared with the alleged confession
of Robert Brennan, her 16-year-old
son, finally led her to tell police
whatever the boys said was the
way it happened"
None Of her statements was sign
ed. Police obtained two confessions
from Robert on April Is and 16 in
which he said he killed Woodbridge
These were admitted in evidence
Tuesday.
Not Read Before Jury
The jury was not in the court
room when Mrs. Brennan's allege,
statement was read as Benjamin r
Donolow, defense attorney, begal
examining Cochran to determin,
whether the statements had beer
violated in securing it.
Lieutenant Cochran said tha
Mrs. Brennan, after stating sh,
killed Woodbridge, refused to sigl
her name to that assertion. He sal
he then took down a statement II
long hand from the women il
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Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Soybean Support
Price Announced
Loans And Agreements Available
From Harvest To Jan. 81, 1850

Price support of $2.11 a bushel
for 1949-crop green and yellow soy
beans grading U. S. No. 2 and con-
tanning not more than IA percent
moisture has been announced by
the u. S. Department of Agricul-
ture. Brown, black, and mixed soy
beans will be supported at s1.91
per bushel. Premiums and dis
counts will apply to other grades.
The price support, says Ernest S
Mattiford, acting director of the
Delaware Production and Market
ing Administration, is based on 90
percent of the comparable price for
all soybeans on September 1, 1949
To be eligible for loan or purchase
agreements, the soybeans mus
grade U. S. No. 4 or better, anc
must not contain more than Ia per.
cent moisture.
Continued on page ~
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Control OF Eagle
Poultry Plant Shifts
Mr.. And Mrs. Harry Landes Buy
Ont John s. Isaacs Interest

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Landes, who,
with John S. Isaacs, were original
owners of the Eagle Poultry Pack
ers of Frankford, have bought out
the interests Of Mr.. Isaacs and Will
resume operations later at the
plant which has been closed since
July 80.
The Frankford concern, said to
be the largest poultry processing
plant in the world, was opened in
1899 with the Landeses and Mr..
Isaacs as joint owners Of the COM
pany which now includes associa-
ted companies. The latter was sec
retary-treasurer.
Mr.. Landes stated that the
transfer was effected because of
Mr.. Isaacs' desire to retire and
turn to other business interests.
He did not give definite time for
resumption of operations.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-23
Annual Fete Will Open
With Greatest Show
Ever Offered On This
Peninsula.

What is believed to be the big
gest hillbilly show ever staged any
where on the Delmarvia Peninsula
will be offered at the Milford Base
ball Park next Tuesday evening as
the opening night attraction of the
Annual Firemen's Carnival, staged
each Fall by the Carlisle Fire
Company. The big show features
well-known radio, stage, and tele-
vision stars, and is expected to
draw near capacity crowd to the
specious Milford park
Two well-known radio attrac-
tions, Grandpaw Jones and his
Grandchildren and Jesse Rogers
and his '49ers, are featured on the
big jamboree, along with Slim
Stewart and his Plainsmen and a
host of other attractions.
Grandpa Jones and his Grand
children, the latter consisting OF
Ramona, Lenny Aleshire and Smit-
ty Smith, have long enjoyed fea-
tured billing on stage and radio and
their innumerable recordings for
King Records have been in great
demand by peninsular lovers OF
hillbilly music
Jesse Rogers ar1 his '49ers have
built up a tremendous following as
result of their appearing each
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
evening over an N. B. c. Television
network, the popular Rogers being
featured as the "Balladier." This
N. B. C. program originates tn the
studios of w. P. T. TT. ", Phil
adelphia, and is, in addition to other
regularly scheduled radio appear
ances of the group. Jesse Rogers
and the '49ers are also featured on
RCA-Victor records, and have made
personal appearances throughout
the East.
A former member Of Happy
Johnny's Original Gang, Slim
Stewart has built up a large radio
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