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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-11-19
CARD OF THANKS
The family of
FLETCHER POLLARD

The FAMILY OF
FLETCHER POLLARD
wish to thank the many friends for
their cards, flowers, kilograms and
donation of cars. Especially to Rev.
Boyd for the comforting words.
Also DR.. X. l.. Pharr and en-
ployes for their kindness and atten-
ton.
Mrs. Edith Pollard, wife
Mrs. Rosa Mae Thompson,
daughter
Mrs. Emma Johnson,
mother-in-law
Mr.. Levi Thompson, son-in-law
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-11-19

In last weeks article on the death
of Johnnie Pierce, the name of his
son, Johnnie Pierce, Jr., was mad
vertantly omitted.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-11-19

Reginald Billiard, vet of World
War died at the Bahamas General
hospital and was buried in ST.
Joseph cemetery, FIR. Alban, OSB
officiating. Surviving are a brother
Mr. Phillip Billiard, a sister, Mrs.
Ellen Taylor, three nieces, Mrs
Smith, Mrs. Mena Smith and Mrs.
Ethel Thompson of Miami and
n ephew, ex-Sgt. H. r. Billiard of
Nassau.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-11-19

The 2Sth Annual Christmas Carol
Service of the Bahamas Brother
hood will take place on Sunday, De-
cember IL at Rawson Square. The
services are under the distinguished
patronage of His Excellency the
Governor.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-11-19

The Women's League celebrated
it's 18th anniversary at Wesley
church on October %. DR.. c. c.
Adams delivered an interesting mes
sage. The following day a social
evening was enjoyed.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-11-19

The pastor and members of Galilet
Baptist Church celebrated thell
Fourth Anniversary from October
81 to November 6.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW

Thurman Arnold, who gained national
reputation as "truSt-buster" during the
Roosevelt Administration, has urged Con-
gress to bring labor unions under the Fed
eral antitrust laws. His testimony was Civ
en- before Senate Committee which is in
veStigating monopolistic labor practices,
with particular reference to the coal indus
try and John L. Lewis imposition of three
day work week for the miners Mr.. Arnold
told the committee that the three-day week
was initiated to create a coal scarcity and
thus place the union in a favorable position
for "the next strike" He cited a list of
what he believes to be illegitimate labor prac-
tees, and said that "the most dangerous
of all' is the use of union power to fix prices
and limit production. Mr.. Arnold is not
salone4in these views. Senator Robinson, who
heads the Investigating committee, describ-
ed the imposition of the short work-week as
"a bold, overt act to control production and
prices" In an editorial dealing with the
problem, the New York Sun said that "our
present lawmakers have been remiss in fail
ing to make labor as we'll as management
equal under laws against action in restraint
of trade" And John d. Battle of the Ma
tiOnal Coal Association went straight to
the heart of the matter when he said, eff
the power rests with the union to decide how
many days an industry . can use it's IA
cilities to produce, then we have reached that
stage where all of us understand that we
live and function at the discretion of the
labor unions and that there is no equality
under the law" We learned long ago that
industrial and financial monopolies had to
be outlawed if the free enterprise system was
to survive. Now it is labor monopolies, with
their callous disregard of the public interest,
that menace our free institutions.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
THE SKUNK IN THE WoopPILE

The government is crying for money to-
meet its countless commitments, as well as
maintain the normal functions of governing.
To hold down the growing deficit between in
come and outgo, it follows a penny-wise,
pound-foolish policy. 1t saves pennies by
plnching on such vital and legitimate func-
tions as the forest service, coast guard, mar
ket roads, harbor improvements and SINH
lar activities which are strictly government
services of public character. Then it need
lessly wastes billions on such schemes as
public power developments which would
otherwise be carried on by highly taxed pri-
vate enterprise. Thus it destroys or pre-
vents the building of much needed taxpaying
industry. 1t is time the people awakened to
the fact that the promises Of politicians to
give them something for nothing in return
for their votes is polite method of swind-
ling them out of their eyeteeth through high
er ard higher taxes. Every day it becomes
more apparent that there is a well designed
Federal plan being promoted in Congress to
S0cialiZe the electric power industry of the
u. S. This is done under devious guises but
the end result is always the Same-tax-ex-
empt government monopoly, centralized po-
litical control of local resources, and loss of
home rule and taxation and regulation of
electric power. When is the Washington gov
ernment going to quit shouting benevolence
and Utopia via the specialization route and
settle down to the less spectacular chore of
maintaining the essential functions of gov
ernment? Why must any American enter
prise be sacrificed by the piecemeal adoption
of the British cialization-of-industry pro-
gram? Unless the people reject the encroach-
ment of the Federal government in local af-
fairs, state governments will soon be mere
collection agencies to dig up taxes to support
a gigantic Federal bureaucracy within their
borders. The raids on the public treasury
begin to smell.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
WHO GETS THE BENEFITS?

In 1948 one of the biggest automobile
manufacturers made profits of 9.4c per $1.OO
OF sales. This proft-less than 1O%-is the
incentive that keeps this business at work.
Let's look at the people it benefited. First
were the employees, who collected $1,343,-
100000 in wages and salaries. The next
group that benefited was Federal, state and
local governments that took $464, 100000 in
taxes. Finally the owners-434,OOO of them
received $211 100000. This is the way the
cash benefits from this company were shar-
ed: Owners, $1.00; Government Tax Collec-
tors, $2.18; Employees, $6.37. The customers
bought better automobiles than they could
buy forty years ago, and they paid only a
little more than half as much for them. Pro
fit keeps this company going The employees
receive the largest share of the benefit. Gov
ernment takes the next largest share. The
stockholders who put up the money to build
this corporation and who run the risk of
loss, receive the smallest share of all.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26

The wealth of this country is within State
lines-and there isn't State in the Union
that isn't able to take care of itself. Never
theless, Federal money grants for States are
on the increase. Five per cent of the Federal
budget for the fiscal year just beginning, to-
tails $2,458, ,2O2 900 and that sum has been
set aside for the States. Nobody kicks un-
less it is former President Herbert Hoover,
who has warned his country that huge Fed
eral grants to States may lead to dictator
ship" over the States. Former Secretary of
State Byrnes, long Democratic party stall
'wart, also hits the nail on the head in his
declaration that, 'too many people are try
ing to transfer huge powers to the Govern
welfare state" The United States is on
the worst spending spree in all history. And
we might just as well make up our minds
that the people are going to be taxed as they
never were before.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
Curriculum Changes
Made At FELTON,

The Board of Education announ-
ces the new scholastic wear will
start at FELTON, with a new super
vlsing principal, four other facul-
" changes, and a. commercial
course added to the high school
curriculum. Howard E. Henry will
be the new supervising principal.
He has had 13 years of teaching
experience and recently was asso-
clated with the International Latex
Corporation at Dover. Vernon Mel
er, a graduate of Trenton, N. J..
Teachers College, will be the in
structor in the new commercial de-
partment.
Duke University Degree
Mr.. Henry, who succeeds H. F.
Cooley as principal, did his under
graduate work at State Teachers
College at Trenton and received
his Master of Education degree
from Duke University in 1887. He
also did additional graduate work
at the University of Delaware.
He has had 13 years experience
in secondary school teaching at
Peddie Preparatory School, at Do
yer, Del, High School, and at
North Plainfeld High School,
North Plainfield, N. j. During his
10 years service at Dover, he de-
veloped courses of study in Eng
llsh designed to meet the needs of
vocational pupils enrolled there.
Mr.. Henry is a veteran of three
years service in the Navy during
World War II. He served as nayi-
CATION instructor for officers at
Princeton, N. j., and Plattsburgh.
N. Y; as aide to the assistant CEN
ter commander of Sampson Naval
Training Center, and as assistant
civil readjustment officer at Samp-
son Personnel Separation Center.
He was released to inactive duty
In 1S46 with the rank of lieutenant.
i following which he supervised 400
veterans in training at Cornell Uni
versity for the Veterans Admins
tration. During the past year he
has been associated with the Latex
Corporations credit and collec-
tions department.
/ AT present Mr.. Henry is living in
Dover. He has a wife and two
children.
Home Economic Teacher
Miss Rosemary Patterson will
succeed Mrs. Virginia C. Harring-
ton as home economics instructor.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26

Mrs. Sallie Tomlinson of East
Second Street, South Milford, open
ed at her home on Sunday even
ing last what she supposed was a
glass jar of preserves, but it was a
jar of brandy peaches which her
mother had packed thirty-one
years ago. The peaches were fine
ard delicious. COgnac brandy was
used to conserve the peaches when
they were packed thirty-one years
ago and they had kept perfectly.
And oh, my! The fragrance of that
jar of fruit was something delight
full. and two of the peaches with Il
small portion of the syrup" would
almost curl your hair. The sad part
of the story is, that Mrs. Tomlin-
son has no more of this fine luxury
from the past to even contemplate
it must forever remain a memory.
.
The news business of Milford
has been under the control of T.
H. Holcomb for many years and it
grew to considerable proportions.
He had sold the business to James
Salmons, Sr., who will take charge
the first of next September. He
Will use an auto for delivery OF
the Sunday papers as one of the
new innovations.
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Mack Lane, for 46 years a fish.
erman on Cedar Beach, has seen
two flood tides in that period. He
says two are enough. In one of these
the water came up to the top Of
the first floor; he was compelled
10 roost in the rafters for severa
hours. He is not great theologiar
but he says even at the worst, the
Good Man" knows what is best
for us.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26

other are kept open that good
work can be done, says Miss Wash
burn. There are many times in the
course of his school life when a
child stands in need of parents
and teachers who are working to-
gether.
Rarely do we find a child liking
all of his teachers. Some he will
find too hard, others too easy.
When children bring home con-
stant complaints about a teacher,
parents can play an important part
in meeting the problems, says Miss
Washburn. To lend an overly SYM
pathetic ear will only increase the
child's conviction that he has
cause for complaint. To turn a
deaf ear may make the child take
his next condolences elsewhere.
Perhaps this child is not going to
have the pleasantest possible win
ter with that teacher, but with the
right kind of parental comment he
or she can have invaluable ex-
perience in human relations.
In the course of his life, a child
will work with a great many people
with whom he does not feel congen-
ial. He is not really in school for
the purpose of liking his teacher,
nice though it is when he can. He
is there because the teacher can
help him to do the work which will
lay the foundations of his educa-
ton. To finish the years work
should be his first concern.
The school year has hardly start
ed before a teacher knows that
some of the children are going to
need more attention than others.
Children are, however, keen obser-
vers, and it will be remarked at
once if more of the teachers time
goes to one child than to another.
If child reports this to his par
entS, they can make it clear that
there must be some reason. Such
a child, for example, can be re-
minded that when he had the meas
les his mother paid more attention
TO him than to the other children
that things are always happen
ing which make it necessary to
spend more time now with one
child, now with another. He will
find that teacher will be just as
ready to help him over a bump
when he needs her.
Even though child spends part
of his time at school, concludes
Miss Washburn, part of it at home,
his life is one life. While he is
growing UP, he and his parents and
teachers work it out together.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
Thirty Years Ago 81 81 is Hsia o3d EsT GBfoaie: 5s aSs

The palatial residence of John
NJ. Reed, on the road leading from
Frederick to Magnolia, landmark
for many years IN that section, was
damaged considerably by fire on
last Saturday. In the absence of the
family which had gone to Dover,
fire was discovered to be burning
in the interior of the house by
some of the neighbors who gave
the alarm. Mr.. Reed was gotten on
the phone and he hurried home.
The Milford Fire Co., was called
and quickly responded and in an
almost incredible time the fire was
extinguished. The interior of the
house was considerably. damaged
and the furniture suffered greatly
from the abrupt handling of the
same.
The Snider Preserving Company
had just completed building a
smokestact at their works in Green
wood which is $50 feet high and is
probably the best constructed
smokestack in Sussex County.
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Much speculation is going the
rounds over the Kieffer pear crop.
Some farmers claim to have been
offered $1.O0 basket but they are
waiting, to see if the price will go
higher.
The Caulk Club team, after a
very successful home stay, hits the
road for two hard games that will
probably decide the independent
championship of the State. They
play at Delaware City, SATURDAY.
ana Grace at Wilmington, next Sat.
urday.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26

The large freishter Hamilton.
which was towed inside the old
Breakwater during the recent
windstorm, being disabled by the
shifting of her cargo, is now lying
ON the bottom and large force of
men are discharging the cargo to
barges.
The blacksmith shop of William
]. Wescoat at Prettyman's Corner,
about two miles from Lewes, was
blown over during the wind storm
on Wednesday. About a year ago
Mr.. Wescoat's wheelwright shop
was blown over by the wind.
The following report of the game
last Saturday between FELTON, and
Frederica was handed in by our
reporter of the baseball news;
from start to finish it was plainly
evident that FELTON, was outclassed.
Brittingham, Frederick pitcher
seemed at his best, while Meredith
twirler for FELTON,, worked slug
gishly. 1t was while he was in this
condition that our center fielder
Fisher, stepped to the plate and
batted two-bagger over the ced-
ar tree in center field. After this
everything wa very soft for Ere
derica. Our battery was perfectly
supported while many needless
errors occurred on Felton's part
1t was pitiable to note the anxiety
and effort displayed by FELTON, tc
score just once, but hard as it was
they failed utterly and they return
ed home to dream of a score of
to 0 in favor Of Frederick. We have
heard it was a sad evening in Eel
ton but our Steamer Frederick left
} her docks here Monday morning
en- schedule time.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
HOME Mg u
TOWn ;I!i:;l 49, q
HEpOR7ER - d
IN WASHINGTON
Farm Loan Tyres
lN WASHINGTON

THREE TYPES Of housing loans
= are available to farmers under
the 1949 housing act recently
passed by the 81st congress. The
farm housing program is. set up
under the Farmers Home Admins.
tration of the department of agri-
culture which already is in the
business Of making loans to farm
ers who have trouble obtaining
credit from private sources.
According to the provisions
Of the act all borrowers must
be approved by the county
farmers home committees COM
posed Of local farmers who are
now tied In with the existing
program. These committees
certify that the borrower is un-
able 20 get loans from private
sources and the loans rum to =
maximum Of IS years with in-
terest at 4 per cent.
Under this act only farm owners
are eligible for these loans,
although farm owners may obtain
loans to improve houses Of tenants,
or sharecroppers or for hired work:
ers.
First-For the larger farms
which are sufficiently productive to
enable the borrower to repay the
loan. The money may be used fol
improvement of the farm house OF
for outbuildings. Although as thi:
is written no top limit on size o1
loans has been set, they may av
erage approximately $500 pei
farm.
Second-Loans for farms which
are considered potentially ade
quate, and indicate that the farm
will be helped with aid of thu
loan. On this type of loan, pay.
ments for the first few years ar,
made easier and in certain casei
the government may overlook o
forgive" a certain per cent o
the first payments.
The third type of loan includes
grants and loans for very pool
farms which hold little hope of be
coming self-supporting. These vii
enable the poor farmer to inprov'
his house, eliminate unsanitar.
and unsafe conditions. Grant
under this type may be as high a
$500 with loans running up Il
$1,000.
The law provides that for the
first year rs million dollars will
be available for lending with
another two million for out
right grants. According to the
government experts probably
$4,000 farmers may avail them
selves of these loans.
The only fly in the ointment O
the measure is that the act merel,
authorizes the appropriations an
it is up to congress to make the ap
preparations each year if the pre-
gram is to be carried out as pro
vided in the original act. Firs
years appropriations likely will b
enacted.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
Public Power Issue

Western senators are split wide
open on the question of private
versus public power, or more
specifically the turning over of the
big public power dams Of the west
to the private power interests, as
result Of the battle on this ques-
ton both in the senate appropria-
tions committee and on the floor Of
the senate.
Senators Elmer Thomas of Okla
homa, and Pat McCarran of Neva-
da agreed with Senator Kenneth
McKellar, Tennessee, to turn the
electric production of government
built dams over to monopolistic
control Of private utilities. SEN
ators Joseph c. O'Mahoney of
Wyoming. and Carl Hayden of Ari-
zona, led the fight to continue gov
ernment transmission of electricity
produced at the dams to private
consumers.
How the other members Of the
2l-member committee voted is not
certain since there was mo record
vote" but Senator McKellar sue
ceeded in getting majority of the
13 Democrat and eight Republican
members to vote his way to turn
the electrical product of these
dams which belong to the people
over to the private utilities at vir-
tually their own price, since they
would be the only customers, and
the utilities would in turn sell L ts
the consumers at their own price.
This question Of public trans
mission Of electricity from the
public dams was an issue In the
last campaign and one of the
pledges of President Truman
was that the government would
build and operate the transmits
sion lines.
Whether this pledge shall be re.
deemed at the moment seems ques-
tionable and may not be known
until the closing hours OF this con-
gress.
Congressman Walt Horan, Of
Washington state, declares humid
midsummer in Washington, DC.
is neither the place nor time for
calm deliberation and careful de.
cision on matters of legislative i'm
portance to the United States, its
citizens or the world" John
Foster Dulles, new senator from
New York, delegate to the United
Nations, Governor Dewey's choice
for secretary Of state, boldly told
his Republican colleagues he wanted
place on the foreign relation.
committee.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
Czechs to Aid Warsaw

PRAGUE = (AP) = The Czech
government announced through its
press agency that it had recruited
167 boys and girls from all over
the country to ship to Poland as a
volunteer brigade in the recon-
struction of Warsaw" They will be
engaged in house building and in
road building.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
Fisherman Gets Snake

HELENA. Mont. -(AP)- James
Cline went fishing, caught no fish
and didn't want to return empty
handed. So when he saw a rattle
snake beside the trail as he head
ed home he lassoed it with his line
brought it to town and gave it to a
carnival
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26

Miss Patterson is a graduate of
DreXel Institute of Technology and
during the past two years was
home economics teacher at Sails
bury, Md
John ]. Corkery will succeed
Thomas Bowers as instructor of
physical education and social stu
dies. Mr.. Corkery was graduated
from West Chester Teachers Col
lege and has had teaching exper-
ience at the. Devereaux School
near West Chester, Pa.
Miss Grace l.. Dearstyne sue
ceeds Harold f. Haines at music
supervisor. She is a graduate of
Ithaca College, Ithaca, N. Y, and
formerly was instructor of music
at McGraw High School, McGraw,
N. Y.
Mrs. Marjorie Minner replaces
Mrs. Mary Grace Umphlett as
school nurse. Mrs. Minner is a
graduate of Delaware Hospital,
Wilmington, and is experienced in
both hospital and private nursing.
During the past year she has been
on duty at the Kent General Hos
pital, Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
Your Child Today:
How Get
Along Well With
Juniors Teacher
BY DAVID TAYLOR MARkE
AP Newsfeatures

Soon vacation time will be over.
Once again parents will have to
think of getting junior away to
school.
Some sensible advice for par
ents and children about getting
along with teachers just has come
to hand in the form of little book
to be published soon by William
Morrow & Company, New York.
Entitled children Know Their
Friends" it is written by Ruth
Wendell Washburn, child study ex-
pert who is at present consultant
in child development for several
schools in Massachusetts, psychol-
ogist of the New Hampshire Chill
dren's Aid Society and research as
sociate in clinical psychology at
Harvard University.
In any school situation, child.
parents, teachers together form a
triangle with the child occupying
the most important place at the
apex. 1t is only as the lines of
communication from one to an
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26

England, quite essentially during
the war. and unnecessarily since
the war. has practiced deficit fi-
nancing. and now Winston Church.
i'll says the nation has about
reached the national bankruptcy
stage that will result in chaos and
communism. This country fl
nanced much of the reckless spend
ing Of the Labor government. We
can either continue to do that or
possibly see all Europe go commu-
nistic. 1t is not bright prospect,
i the world communistic, with
country the one exception.
Milford chronicle., 1949-08-26
LET THE STATES ALONE

NGON&
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-10
Vivian Driycr'slN
Tops All BowIel-s
Tuesday Night

Easter Handicap Bowling tour.
nament announced Vivian .Drls~
er, 1859, was high scorer at ffrs
Navy Wives Tuesday rnoruinx
bowling st the q. s. Naval Sir
ton Bowling Alleys. Betty HART
man, l62. and Lucille Rlaix leo.
were runncrs-up.
Other players included the
Mesdames Judy Fauidx lorraine
Mcclure. Bea Holt. Marian wYck-
ham, Jeanne Reynolds. Malalena
Taylor. Vera Wood. Dorothy
Gravat, Barbara Mclean AMI
Enid House. .....s.s.
Bowling League Manager Vera
Wood and USo Noes Dirersor
Eileen coughlin were score
keepers. $3.50 :
All Navy wives are invited 20.
enter now, for the Easter Ham
Handicap Bowling Tournament
to be held next month. Minimum
entrance qualifications fog regis
trants, are three days bowling a
the Naval Station Alleys during
1919. as a basis for determining
handicaps.