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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Tax Collector Sets
Sussex County Dates
VIII Sit In Milford On Monday,
August 22Rd

Milton A. Jones, receiver of taxes
for Sussex County, in order to facil-
itate payment of county taxes has
announced that he will sit in vari-
Gus towns of the county during the
remainder of August and in Sep
tember. Following is the schedule
of dates and places where Mr..
Jones will be between the hours OF
8 a. m. and 2:3O p. M, DIST:
Milford, Aug. %, Milford Trust
Company; Bridgeville, Aug. %,
Bridgeville Trust Company; Green
wood, Aug. "a, Greenwood Trust
Company; Seaford, First National
Bank, Aug. 25 and Sept. 20; Laure,
Peoples National Bank, Aug. 26 anC
Sept. 81; Delmar, Aug. 80, gas off
ice; Millsboro, Aug. 80, MillsbOrC
Trust Company; Milton, Aug. 81
Sussex Trust Company; Lewes
Sept. 1 and Sept. %, Sussex Trust
Company; Oak Orchard, Sept. 2, a
Spears store, and Rehoboth Sept
%, Rehcboth Trust Company.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
$4,000 Given
Back To State
.By W idOw W
Check Signed By Mrs.
Fanny Scott Accepted;
New Suit In Sons
Death Expected.

Legal entanglements were clear
ed in Rehoboth, Monday, in the
$40 900 check case of Mrs. Fanny
M. Scott of Rehoboth, when the full
amount of the check was turned
over to the state and accepted by
Deputy Atty.-Gen. Daniel ]. Lay
ton, Jr., at the Rehoboth Trust
Company.
Howard M. Thompson, attorney
for Mrs. Scott, said that last Fri
day two powers of attorney were
signed to the Rehoboth Trust
Company by Mrs. Gladys Scott
Hayden and her sister, Miss Ann
Scott, daughters of Mrs. Fanny
Scott, to transfer the money in es-
crow fund to their mothers ac-
count
Check Drawn To State
"a check was then drawn by Mrs
Scott to the State of Delaware, and
both the powers of attorney and the
check presented to Mr.. Layton.
These today were presented to the
Rehdboth bank by the deputy at
torney general, and a certified
check for $4,000 secured, to bt
turned over to State Treasurer
Willard D. Boyce."
In the meanwhile, Mr.. Thompson
has requested State Rep. Kennetl
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All Members To
Attend Camp Barnes
Girls And Boys VIII lie Afforded
Opportunity To Enjoy Camp Life

This year for the first time, Del
aware All members will be given
an opportunity to go to All
Camp. Girls camp will start Mon
day, August 22nd at 800 a. m,
with registration cOntinuin g
throughout the morning. 1t will
close Saturday, August 9th at
10000 a. m. Boys camp will start
at 900 a. m, Monday, August 29th
and will close at 10:0O a. m. on
Saturday.
The Camp is planned to give
boys and girls a good time, as well
as educational and recreational ex-
perience away from home. The
crafts, sports, nature, and other
activities will teach new skills anC
abilities, as well as providing al
opportunity for leadership develop
ment.
The camp will be held at CamI
Herbert Barnes near Roxana OIL
! Millers Creek. The campers viii
sleep in three dormitories holdin;
about 35 people each. There is alst
dining hall, recreation hall ant
facilities for swimming. Plenty o
good wholesome food will be serv
ed by an experienced cook. Ever,
precautiOn will be taken to insur
the health and safety of the camp
ers at all times. A camp nurse will
be on duty the entire week. and
local physician will be on call il
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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Youth Is Being Question
ed In Connection With
Attempted Safe Rob
berries At Five Milford
Business Houses.

A young Milford resident was ar
rested this week by Milford police
and several more suspects are be-
ing sought as authorities redoubled
their efforts to solve the latest
wave of forced entries and attempt-
ed safe-robberies last Saturday
night Of five Milford establishments
in each of which the thieves tried
to loot the safe.
Capt. Samuel G.. Powell, chief OF
police at Milford, declined to di-
vulge the name of the young man
under arrest, explaining that the
prisoner is being questioned"
carefully by police" He was arrest
ed in Milford during the afternoon
on Monday.
Meanwhile, the arrest of the
other suspects is expected soon,
police said Captain Powell revealed
that some of the suspects may "be
from other towns" since the Mil
ford community has "quite few
itinerants."
The new wave of forced entries
and attempted safe-looting, which
occurred last Saturday night, came
after the arrest last week of two
brothers on charges of breaking
and entering and robbery. Will
their arrest, police believed thel
had cleared up the wave of saf'
robberies and similar crimes in the
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Outdoor Concert
Here This SundGy
Community Band, Double
Quartet Will Perform
At School

An outdoor concert will be given
by the Milford Community Band
and the Milford Double Quartet.
this Sunday evening, August 21st,
at T:30 p. m, behind the Milford
High School.
The Band will feature several
marches bY the late March King.
John Philip Sousa, along with sew
eral other of our countries finest
marches. The intermediate Band.
composed of most of the students
from the Summer Band School will
perform several selections.
The Milford Double Quartet will
be the main feature of the evening.
They will sing a very interesting
group of selections including Negro
spirituals, several songs. popular
in summer camps and one operatic
selection. The members of the
Double Quartet are Mrs. Gilten-
! both, Mrs. Homan. Mrs. Glasmier
Mrs. Lambert, Mr.. Frick, Mr.. Bax-
ter, Mr.. Glasmier and Mr.. Nichols
Mr.. Brobst will be at the piano.
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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
3 Die, 6 Hurt In
Series Of Weekend
Auto Accidents
Sc afford M an Killed
When Car Strikes
Ditch, Overturns Near
Bridgeville; State
Highway Toll Is Now
FOrty-Eight.

Three persons died Sunday as
the result of automobile accident
in Delaware and nearby Maryland
five others were injured, two seri-
ously injured in accidents in the
same area over the weekend.
The dead:
Harold Brinsfield, 80, of Seaford,
fatally injured near Bridgeville Sat
urday night.
Mrs. Nancy Catlin, 81, of Prime
ess Anne, Md, killed in a head on
collision near that town.
Charles L. Allison, 81, Of Norfolk
Va, who received fatal injuries in
the same accident.
Brinsfield died at 5, a. m, Sum
day in the Milford Memorial Hos
pital from a fractured skull and
shock. State police said the car in
which he was riding failed to make
turn as it approached a dead end
where Dublin Hill Road intergects
With Route 404, two miles north
west of the Bridgeville.
Car OVerturnS
The car operated by Gilbert
Payne, Jr., %, of R. d. /. Rosedale
Md., struck ditch and overturned
several times in an adjoining field.
Injured in the mishap were:
Leroy Brinsfeld, 26, brother of
the man killed, who suffered a
fractured pelyis, decorations of the
head and brush burns; Anna NAV
Glimes, 21, of fredericksburg. Md
possible fractured skull, fractured
pelvis, and numerous decorations
OF the face and head; and Anna
Jane Antonio, "a, also of Federals-
burg, contusions of the face.
State police at Bridgeville said
Payne was the only occupant of the
car to escape injury All the vic
tins were removed to the Milford
: Memorial Hospital, where the in
; jured Brinsfield and the Chimes
> girl were held for. observation.
Two Killed In Crash
Mrs. Catlin and Allison were the
{ victims of an accident on Route
: Is, one mile south of Princess
: Anne, at 10:45 a. M, Sunday. The
woman, Princess Anne telephone
operator, died almost instantly
| while the Virginia man succumb.
2 ed in the Peninsula General Hos.
pital in Salisbury, four hours later
: DR.. Henry Lankford, Somerse
= County medical examiner, annouR
D ced that Mrs. Catlin suffered +;
fractured skull and broken neck
i Allison died from a crushed chest
: DR.. Landlord disclosed.
G Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Will Open
Fund Campaign
Annual Solicitation To, Finance
1850 Program Due Oct. IL


The annual drive for funds by
the Dover District of the Del-Mar-
Va Council, Boy Scouts of America,
will open Oct. II, it was announced
this week by William E. Matthews
of Smyrna, chairman of the district
committee.
Towns to be included in the cam
paign are: Milford. Harrington.
FELTON,, Sandtown, Viola, Bowers,
Magnolia, Woodside, Wyoming,
Camden, Little Creek, Hartley
Cheswold, Leipsic, Knton, Clayton
Smyrnae, Woodland Beach, Town
send, Blackbird, Middletown and
Odessa.
The members of the district COM
mittee and executive board mem
bers responsible for the develop
ment of campaign plans include
Mr.. Matthews, John G. Parks, DR.
o, A. Bartley, Lawrence G. Ford
John Berger, c. j. Prickett, Ellis K
LaCrone, F. Kenneth Tuller, George
Ehinger, Wallace ]. WoOdfOrd
Arthur A. Livingston, and DR.. II. V
Holloway.
Community chairmen will be an
nounced at later date. This driv'
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be about 10000 tons-the smallest
since 1899 and 5000 tons under the
average yield. The effect of the
dry weather, particularly as it af-
fected late cuttings, is evident in
the yield of 1.25 tons per acre, COM
pared with the 10-year average of
1.30 per acre.
Additional evidence of the hot,
dry weather is pointed out in the
report on Delaware pasture land,
which declined Is points in July.
This brings the total down to only
40 per- cent of the potential acre
age compared to 96 per cent last
year and a 10-year-average of SO
per cent.
These losses are offset somewhat
by gains in other crops. Two rec
ord crops, oats and barley, were
recorded this year.
Oats, Barley Good
The production of 217,000 bush
els of oats compares to last years
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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
State ePOultry
Board Nam ed
By Carvel
Commission To Under
take Studies And Ex-
periments Benefic-
ial To Industry.

Governor Carvel Monday of this
week announced his appointments
to an eight-member Delaware State
Poultry Commission created by the
1949 General Assembly to promote
the poultry industry in the state
and to undertake studies and ex-
periments deemed beneficial to the
industry.
In accordance with the provisions
Of the bill, which was sponsored by
speaker of the house, H. H. Lawson
of near Millsboro, the commission
members are named as representa-.
tiVes of various divisions of the
business and, originally, for terms
of varying lengths.
Those named, the divisions of the
industry they represent, and theil
terms are:
Harry Pack, Milford, poultr!
dressing plant, four years;
B. V. Carmine, Laurel, hatcher
les, two years;
Frank Attix, Kenton, live poul
try buyers, two years;
George Simpson, Houston, Della
ware Poultry Improvement Asso
citation, one year, and
All representing the Delawar
Feed Dealers Association I'D
gar Timmons, Milford, three years
Philip Birmingham, Laurel, on
year; Curtis w. Steen, DagsbOrC
three years, and John C. Hammond
Bridgeyille, four years.
Subsequent appointments to fl
vacancies due to expiration c
term, death, resignation, or remoV
al from office, will be for fOu
years.
The bill setting up the commits
sion carries appropriations of $40
900 for each of the fiscal year.
1949-195O and 1950-1951. The con
mission is authorized to emplo
technical assistants, secretarie
and other consultants which,
its opinion, are deemed necessar
Authority Outlined
, The legislative act provides tn;
r the commission shall have full al
: thority to execute contracts for tt
: preparation, publication, and di
I semination of information for Il
!, promotion of the poultry industl
in the state
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Ayrshire Contest
Deadline Sept. 1st

The deadline for entering the
Ayrshire contest for youngsters
has been extended to September 1,
1949, it was announced today by c.
M. Rodriguez, president of the Ayr
shire Breeders Association.
The original deadline for enter
ing the contest, which is open to
all American boys and girls under
eighteen, was August Is, but at the
request of hundreds of busy farm
youngsters, it was decided to ad-
vance the date to September l.
Awarding of the two pure-bred
Ayrshire calves for the best letters
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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
SUSPECT Is Held m
Theft Series Here
Over The Weekend
PROF. HEM NAMED
TO IMPORTANT POST

Prof. R. w. Helm of the
University of Delaware was
named chairman of the Del
aware Committee for EN-
ploy the Physically Handi-
capped Week to be held Oc-
tober Q to s. The appoint
ment was made by Governor
Carvel.
Professor Helm, for the
past 81 years state director
of vocational education, has
been executive officer Of the
Rehabilitation Division of
the State Board for Vocation
al Education since the di-
vision was organized in 1899.
He will attend a meeting
of the national committee for
Employ the Physically Han
dicapped Week in Washing
ton August 80, with the first
state meeting scheduled for
September 1.
The state committee conl-
prises all state agencies
dealing with the problems of
the employment of physi-
cally handicapped persons.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Howard Derrickson
Dies At Rehoboth
Resort Druggist Formerly In
Business At Milford

Howard ]. DerricksOn, 81, owner
of the Center Drug Store in Reho-
both, died suddenly Tuesday fol-
lowing a heart attack at his store
on Rehoboth Avenue. He became
i'll shortly after opening the store
and was beyond aid when a physi-
clan arrived.
Mr.. Derrickson was son of the
late Joshua and Elizabeth Ham
mond Derrickson of Philadelphia
He came to Rehoboth from Milford
where at one time he operated 8
shoe store. Later he worked fol
D. Coopersmith Store in charge Of
the shoe department.
After coming to the resort he
opened a drug store in the Center
Theatre building of his son, Viii
/ liam B. DerricksOn. He was a mem
ber of Temple Lodge, AT and AN
of Milford, and Evergreen Forest
Tall Cedars of Lebanon.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs
Florence Derrickson, Rehobotl
Beach; four sons, all in business il
this area: William b., Capt. Harr.
E. Derrickson, commander of Re
hoboth CAP Squadron; j. Edwa;I
Derrickson, associated with hi
father in business; Howard j
Derrickson, Jr., Lewes; four bro
theirs, Leroy and James, Philadel
phia; Harry j., Harrisburg, Pa
and Clarence, Milford; two sisters
Mrs. Florence Nesbit and Mrs. Eve
lyn Crawford, Philadelphia.
Funeral services will be hel
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in tn
Lofland Funeral Home at MilfOr'
Interment will be in Odd Fellow
Cemetery, Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Football Practice
Soon At u Of D
Big Squad win Report For Work
Ont August 30

Fifty-five candidates for the 1949
University of Delaware football
team have been invited TO the OPP
ening of the faif practice session
by Head Coach Bill Murray. The
Birds will begin their two-a-day
grind on August 20, and continue
until the opening of the fall term
two days prior to their opener with
the Cadets of Penn Military Col
lege on September "a at Whining
ton Park.
Murray plans on installing the
two-platoon system for the first
time this fall. Pointing to the re-
cent change in collegiate rules per-
hitting unlimited subs at an ex-
change of the ball, Murray is get
ting on the bandwagon after two
years of usig the plan only as fal
as the backfield was concerned
With seventeen lettermen and si2
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Will
Hold Banquet
On Sept. 18th
Association
Will Honor Ladies At
Their Tenth Annual
Affair At Ocean City.

The Delaware Motor Truck AS
sociation will hold it's 10th annual
banquet and Ladies Night on Sat
urday, September IL, at the Com
mander Hotel, Ocean City, Md.
This annual affair given by truck
owners from all over the Eastern
Shore has grown into the largest
meeting of truck owners and
dealers, parts and tire people,
truck users and insurance men in
this vicinity and everybody who is
anybody in the trucking industry in
the Delaware, Maryland, Southern
Pennsylvania and Southern New
Jersey will no doubt be present
when the call for dinner is sound
ed.
Each year at this time the truck
owners and their ladies gather for
their annual banquet to which are
invited their suppliers and friends
of the trucking industry. The affair
is usually a jolly one with business
troubles forgotten and old ac-
quaintences renewed. Much bust
ness is done during the session
however, and many a new truck
is sold during the evening.
Both Governor Carvel of Della
ware and Governor Lane of Mary
land have been invited to the af
fair, together with the Congress
ional Senators and Representative!
of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
Governor Carvel, U. S. Senate
Williams and Representative Bogg
all of Delaware, have never misset
a session with the truck owner
and no doubt will be present a
this affair.
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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19

DR.. Mills outlined plans that
could be followed in a campaign to
exterminate rats, but stated that
any intensive short drive should be
followed up with an extended cam
paign.
Outlines determination Plans
He told of the places where rats
were most likely to congregate, and
of the many different means used
for their control.
He especially emphasized the inn
portance of the physical efforts in
such a campaign, and Of the gen
eral sanitation that should be fol-
lowed. He urged that dumps and
garbage deposit spots be cleaned
up and that holes in buildings be
plugged. He advised that all food
that rats use be kept under cover
He told of the various chemicals
! Continued on page i2)
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Del. Electric Coop.
Elects Officers
Session OF Group Held At Fair
Grounds On Wednesday

The Delaware Electric Coopera-
tive met at the Harrington Fair
Grounds, Wednesday, August II,
with a good attendance.
The following directors were
elected H. Lloyd Jones, Smyrna
Kenneth Meredith, Dover; &c. Arth-
ur Taylor, Harrington; Paris c
Kirby, Milford; E. Laird Kratz
Greenwood; Gooden Pepper, Sea.
ford; Alden P. Short. Georgetown
Henry C. Johnson, Jr., Selbyvillei
and Walter H. Lank, Milton.
Following the election, the board
organized as follows: President
Paris C. Kirby; vice-president, c
Arthur Taylor; Secretary, e. LairC
Kratz; Asst. Secretary, Alden P
Short; Treasurer, E. Laird KratZ
Asst. Treasurer, Alden P. Short.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Home Coming Sunday
At Conley's Chapel

The annual home coming cele-
bration will be held, at Conlev's
Chapel next Sunday, August 2Ist
with services morning and after
noon beginning with the SUNDAY
School at ten o'clock. Mr.. and MRS
Beldin Sterling of Crisfield. Md
well-known Gospel singers will he
present and will sing. at all the
services. Conley's Choir and Mems
Chorus will also sing some seIec-
tions. AT the morning Worship SER
vice to begin at eleven O'Clock. the
Minister of the Church, F. Charles
Louhon' Jr., will preach the SER
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D, P. |. A. Poultry
Tour Sept. 18th

September 18th is the day that
has been set for the Delaware Poul-
try improvement Association an
nual poultry tour. This tour is
sponsored by the association for
its members and anyone interested
in the poultry industry. According
to VIM. H. Henderson, County Ag-
ricultural Agent, an interesting It'll
nerary is being worked out with
the officers of the association. 1t
will include visits to poultry farms
with new housing, central heating
systems, automatic feeders and
other points of interest in good
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Bids On Highway
Projects Opened
Globe Co. Offers Low. Bid For Con.
StructiOn OF State Rd. Police Sta.

Bids were received by the State
Highway Department Wednesday
for the construction of a road in
southern Kent County and the erec-
ton of a new police station at
State Road, New Castle County.
Their were a number of bids sub
mitted on each project.
George and Lynch, Wilmington
were low bidders on the constEuc-
ton of stabilized and surface
treated road, 20 fit wide, from Eel
ton to Masten's Corner, a distance
of 6.208 miles. Their price was
$131, 800. Other bidders and their
estimates. were as follows:
Standard Bitulithic Co., New
Yorkcity, $133, ,6SS.S5; Joseph Sim
cone, Wilmington, $135, ,O86.25 :
Pleasanton and Edgell, Dover
$142,345.50; James Julian, Els.
mere, $146,964.5O; Henry Eastburr
& Sons, Newark, $152,104.5O; Will.
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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19

results of this annual poll will be-
announced on Thursday, August
25th, by Harwood X. Strange, of
Seaford, the president of the
scribes group.
With only six clubs competing in
the present version of the penin-
sulas only pro baseball circuit, it
was necessary to make some
changes in the balloting procedure.
For voting purposes, the twenty
one active members of the Eastern
Shore Sportswriters Association
have been divided into seven
groups, one group representing
each of the six Delmarva COM
munities holding league franchises,
while the seventh group comprises
those Association members resid-
ing in communities no longer ac-
lively represented in the Eastern
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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Ag. Short Course At
University Of Del,
Five Week Program Set Up To
Aid AgricuIturists

The University of Delaware will
offer a five-weeks practical short
course in agriculture this fall
from November IA to December 16.
This new course is set up to pro-
vide the latest information con-
cerning agriculture so that the
men and women who take the
course will be better suited to
make a success of farming and al
lied fields.
Prof. w. C. Skoglund is director
of the short course. Complete
specialized courses in Dairy, POul-
try, Horticulture and Crops and
Livestock Farming will be offered
Experienced teachers on the col
lege staff plus outstanding leaders
in various farm enterprises will
teach the short course classes
Practical lectures will be supple.
mented with a liberal amount ot
demonstrations, laboratory eXer'
cises and visits to outstanding
farms and agricultural concerns.
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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19


cries and about 40 flock owners co-F
operated with this statewide activi-
ty Chicks and eggs We're from Pull
lorum clean fiocks and the eggs
donated were hatched in machines
at the University Farm near New
ark.
Progress reports of results Of
the first two weeks of the 12-week
growing period of the contest have
been received from nearly all boys
and girls enrolled. The average
mortality for the first two weeks of
the approximately 5000 chicks
started was AZ per cent. Aside
froma few instances where rats,
weaseIs, and other predatory ami
mails broke into the fiocks, the NOR
tality was under two per cent
which is an exceedingly fine liy-
ability record.
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Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Kent-Sussex Drive On Rats
Starts November II lit Milford

representatives of both Kent and Sussex
held last Thursday
at of Marshall decided to
the week November H.
introduced Ernest Mills, assistant
agent Of U. S rodent division.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Scouts Checking
Mar-Del League Play
MilfOrd-FeltOn Game Being Observ-
ed By Big Time Talent Men

AS the Chronicle prepared to go
to press Thursday, the Milford and
FELTON, Mar-Del League clubs were
preparing to meet here Thursday
evening with scouts from at least
two major farm systems expected
to be in the stands, observing the
play of some of the more youthful
members of both teams. One MEM
Der of the FELTON, team, shortstop
Jack Courtney, has already been
signed for 1850 tryout with ma
jor system farm, and the same
system is reported as being inter-
ested in other young players with
both the Milford and FELTON, clubs.
FELTON, and Milford are the only
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Junior Chicken Contest Reports
Excellent Progress Being Made

Delaware girls busiy engaged
those hachemen and
possible
girl deing hatch
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-19
Shore Sportswriters Preparing
To Select AIl-Star Performers

the Eastern Shore sporswriers Association will
which Shore
Tom
of
ballots are part week The
Evening star., 1949-03-13

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for biscuits! You measure out
six ingredients at once when
you measure out Bisquick. We
mix all six for you: Home-type
ingredients (including a spe-
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FLOUR, proportioned just
right. That's why you get such
delicious biscuits every time.
Q IL mixes IN one! That's
what Bisquick is. A mix for
biscuits-also dumplings,
wafies, pancakes, hot rolls,
etc. Directions for IL bakings
on every box. Tested by our
General Mills food staff. Do
try Bisquick! Betty c.oeler" i,
trade name Of General Mills, Inc.