Milford chronicle., 1949-07-01
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

The 9th annual meeting Of the
Delmarva Peninsula Fertizer Asso-
citation was held last weekend at
the George Washington Hotel in
Ocean City, Md, with Warner w.
Price, Jr., of Smyrna, the president,
presiding.
Guest speaker at the morning
session on Saturday was DR.. Vim
cent Sauchelli. of the research de-
partment of the Davidson Chemical
Corp. whose talk covered recent
research work in agricultural
chemicals, with particular respect
to work on radioactive isotopes.
He was introduced by Governor Ell
bert N. Carvel, of Delaware, vice
/ president of the association.
Russell Coleman, president of The
/ National Fertilizer Association, and
Cedric Gran; assistant to the presi-
dent of the American Plantfood
Council, gave brief addresses.
Among the other guests were state
agronomists and state chemists
from Delaware, Maryland, and vir-
ginia. A dinner-dance was held on
Saturday evening.
An emergency has arisen in the
New Castle County coroner's office,
with the prospect of bodies piling>
up in the county morgue-unable
to be buried without proper certifi-
cation of death by corOner's phys
ician.
Four Wilmington pathologists,
who have been performing autop-
sizes. for Coroner William Smith,
J, Jr., since January, have announced
that they will discontinue this SER
vice after July /. They have not
been paid for their work since last
January and the county owes them
total of $500.
!, Coroner Smith said that Abraham
} Hoffman, Levy Court attorney, has
: refused to sanction payment of the
J pathologists, on the grounds that
the law calls for coroner,s physi-
clan at an annual salary of $1,000.
The pathologists have been per-
, forming the autopsies on a fee basis
of $25 each.
On the other hand, Coroner Smith
{ said he has tried repeatedly to OBJ
| tain the services of a physician on
{ a yearly schedule "but they just
{ laugh at me when l mention the
salary.
While tomato growers have had
+. little trouble with plant diseases
so far this season, the danger OF
infection by any one of the four
: common diseases is increasing,
/ Kent County Agent William E. Tar
bell has warned
: Hot, dry weather has prevented
: the usual rapid spread of the dis
n eases, but a wet period of weather
would activate them, he explained.
|. Plant diseases cannot be cured, Mr..
:, Tarbell cautioned, but their spread
d can be controlled by spraying or
d dusting at regular intervals.
: Mr.. Tarbell has received spray
C recommendation from j.. w. Heu-
e berger, plant pathologist, and R.
Of F. Stevens, extension horticultur-
d, ist, both with the Delaware Agri-
Of culture Extension Service, who
urge starting of spray or dust treat
ments at this time and continuing
N at regular intervals.
IS SPRAY every 10 or DUST every
Ie seven days." the extension experts
d advise. Preferred materials for this
IS application, they say, are Parzate,
,r Dithane, Z7S, of Dithane D-14 plus
N zinc sulfate. If infection is general
d spraying every seven days and
busting every five days may be nee
" essary, the recommendations add.
le -
" Awards to members of the 194s
10 graduating class of Caesar Rodney
N High School have been announced
II by William Reilly Brown, president
TO of the Board of Education, and Su.
e. perintendent w. B. Simpson. They
follow:
Good citizenship award. Doris
st Reid; for best students in u. s
ar history, Mary Ann Lindale and oil
E. yer Hyler; prize of $3.50 for bes
s. student in senior English, Mary e
d. Shilling; essay contest prizes, first
ee $5, Phyllis Dutton; second, SIS, MarN
Ann Lindale. and third, 50, Mary
ad Shilling; senior science award. Da
vid Brown: honor society members
ok Evelyn Boone, Janet Dill, Phyllis
a Dutton, Marie Knotts,. Doris Reid
he Charles Rodriguez, Mary Shilling
ry and Joyce Taylor.
us All-school letters for outstand
rt- ing extra-curricular activities ov
er a four-year period went to Don
be aid Case, Charlotte Fields, Lloyt
lly Killen, Jeanette Melvin, irwin
y Moore, Charles Rodriguez. Evelyl
Spayd. Ged Storey, Betty Webb
William Webb, and Clara Yokois
ST. Miss Knots also was the WHINE
of of the 500 alumni scholarship. Ger
ng tificates of perfect attendance wen
lb. to seniors, Jeanette Melvin, eigh
years; Donald Case, seven years
hn Betty Caulk, Irwin Moore, and En-
nm ma Hutchins, each three years.
dr. -
20 Senator J. Allen Frear, Jr., las
~ =. Friday delivered the first sack G
~ helicopter mail ever handled by tn
Washington Post Office.
~ - In demonstration of the feas
~ aui bility of delivering mail by he'll
a. a. copter, the Delaware senator. VIII
az is a member of both the Senat
- - Post Office and District of Colum
80 80, bia committees took off in a he'll
ia" copter from Congressional Airpor
IS miles from the center of the cit,
He was accompanied only by tn