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Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Guard Firing Blasts
From Heavy Artillery
Cottages In Bethany Beach Area
Are Shaken By Fire

Summer cottages located within
a tWO-mile radius of firing points
on the beach several miles from
Bethany Beach vibrated from the
cOncussiOn of heavy artillery late
Wednesday as 80 nm. guns were
fired by the 736th and 193rd AAA
Battalions of the Delaware National
Guard.
Although only several bursts
were fired for settling and calibra-
tiOn purposes, the bOmbardment
was a sample of the regular sched-
ule when the guns will be fired
on tOwed targets flown by pilots of
the 142nd Fighter Squadron based
at the New Castle County Airport
near Wilmington.
Firing of the batteries were al
brief intervals, and windows in most
of the buildings in the vicinity
ratified from the blasts. The roar Oi
the exploding shells could be heaTC
for miles, and drew throngs o.
startled bathers from adjacen
beaches. Many motorists, using the
Ocesn Highway between Bethany
Beach and Ocean City, Md, parked
their automobiles to watch the guns
! in action.
General Views Firing
The gun crews were under the
command of Major Joshua T. West
19Srd, and Lieutenant COlone
Frank T. Lynch, commanding Off
Ger of the 736th, which will go or
CONTINUED on page %
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Yank Win Streak
Is Finally Broken
Milford Nine Had Won Sixteen
Straight Before Their Defeat

After playing 16 games without
a defeat the Milford Yanks finally
lost one to a Philadelphia nine. It
was the Philadelphia Stars and
Satchel Paige that finally beat the
Yanks by a score of 9-8.
The great Satchel Paige took to
the mound for the first three inn
ings and gave the Yanks two runs
and three hits to tie the score at
%, but the Stars came back and
scored 2 in the fifth, 2 in the sixth
and 2 in the seventh. Then the
Yanks came right back to score 1
in their half of the sixth, 2 in the
seventh and eighth to make the
score 81. It was at this point that
the great crowd became qiuet and
every patron was on the edge of his
seat and wondering if the Yanks
might pull this one out after all.
Then in the Stars half of the ninth,
Little, the Stars center fielder, hit
his second home run to put the
Stars two runs ahead and that look
ed like the ball game, but the new
er say die Yank spirit again show
ed it's determination when in the
ninth Ramsey drove a hard one to
Smith, the Stars shortstOp, and
was safe at first, then Jones fol-
lowed with a double that scored
Ramsey from first. After this Maull
staruck out and Reed grounded to
short to end the ball game 9-S,
Stars Ovnr tho YaOkS
This Sunday, July 80, at s o'clock
D. m. at the Milford Ball Park the
Yanks play the Paramount Cubs of
Philadelphia.
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Withholding Tax
DeadIine July 81
Amount withheld April 1 To June
30, 1850 Must Accompany Return

All employers are required to file
with the State Tax Department on
or before next Monday withhold
ing tax form WI, Withholding
Agents Return of Delaware Income
Tax Withheld.
State Tax Commissioner Howard
S. Abbott said this week payment
of the tax withheld during the per-
iOd from April 1, 1850, to June 30,
1850, inclusive. must accompany
the return. The pre-addressed
form which was mailed to each
employer is required to be used.
No other form is required to be fl
ed at this time by employers ex-
cept where an employer has dis
continued his business in which
case he is required to file form
W-3, Reconciliation of Quarterly
Returns, and a form VIZ for each
employee.
The second quarterly installment
payment of 1949 income taxes are
also due next Monday. 1t was
pointed out by Mr.. Abbott that un-
less the installments are paid by
the deadline, the whole amount
becomes due Immediately. The
quarterly installment privilege was
used by $3.50 taxables to, whom
bills have been mailed for the
second quarterly payment.
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28

Mr.. Vaughn was elected chair
man of the State Board of We'll
fare at the reorganization meet
ing held on Monday in Legisla-
tive Hall in Dover. The new
chairman, who is the owner of
Dixie-Del Farms, near Lewes, is
a member of the Sussex County
Levy Court, and an official of.
several farm organizations.
Mrs. Alexis I. dupont Bayard
of Rockland was elected trea-
surer. The vice chairmen nam
ed for the three counties are:
John J. Hartnett, for New Castle;
Charles G. Moore, for Kent, and
Harry S. Smith, for Sussex.
The new members of the board,
recently appointed by Governor
Ebert N. Carvel, discussed their
responsibilities with the other
members at their first meeting
Kenneth G.. Lambert, executive
director, reported on the past
years operations.
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Employment In State
Is On The Increase
PayrOlls Also Jump AS Six Per
Cent Gain Is Noted

Employment in Delaware last
month was seven per cent above
the May level and six per cent high
er than in June, 1949, according to
statistics compiled by the Federal
Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in
cooperation with the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor.
Payrolls, the Federal Reserve
Bank and Labor Department sur
vey indicated, amounted to $1,449,-
600 in June. This was an increase
of seven per cent over the preced-
ing month and IL per cent above
the corresponding month last year.
A total of $4,000 persons were en-
ployed in the states manufacturing
plants. They worked 1,142,000 week
ly man hours.
With the base index of 100 for
the 1889 average, June employ
ment was listed as 14S; payrolls,
356; and man hours, 144.
The apparel industry showed the
greatest increase in these three
categories. Foods, metals, chemi-
Gals, and transportation equipment
all registered increases. Declines
were evident in textiles and lea
ther,
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
FARM MORTGAGE DEBT
HITS NEW HIGH in STATE

The farm mortgage debt in
Delaware is now approx
mately $11,OOO,OOO, according
to DR.. r. o. Bausman, head
of the Department of Agri-
cultural Economies at the
University of Delaware. That
is slightly in excess of the
debt following World War l
and sets a new high.
"This is an increase of IS
per cent since 1896" he says,
'and is the third largest in
crease of any state in the
country. The farm mort
gage debt in Delaware de-
clined following World War
/ until 1946 when it fell to a
low of $6,OOO,OOO.
DR.. Bausman points out
that some of this debt is due
to inflated land prices. Land
prices in Delaware are still
near their postwar peak;
roughly, double that of the
1858 period. However,
farm income in Delaware has
increased by 20 per cent
since 1946. This is the tenth
largest increase of any state
in the country. Some of the
Delaware debt has increased
values back of it in the form
of poultry houses, poultry
equipment, and heavy farm
machinery.
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Fair Labor Standards
Violated liz Region
Regional Director w. A.
Hargardine Says There
Are 600 ViOlatOrs

Acting Regional Director Will
liam A. Hargadine, Jr., disclosed
this week that the Wage and Hour
and Public Contracts Divisions of
the U. S. Department of Labor had
uncovered basic violations of the
Fair Labor Standards Act in this
region during the first six months
of this year in over 500 establish
ments. The region includes Della
ware, Maryland, and West Virgin
ia, as we'll as Pennsylvania.
He reported that his Office had
directed 1866 investigations among
firms covered by the Act, as well
as 81 firms engaged in filling pub
lie contracts for various govern
mental agencies. Mr.. I4argadine
added that his Office had received a
total of 642 complaints from indi-
viduals in this region charging vio-
latiOns of the Wage-HOur Law.
continued on page o.
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
DR.. Carl B. SculI
Passes In Dover
Prominent Kent County Physician
Headed State Medical Society

DR.. Carl B. Scull, Jr., AZ, presi-
dent of the Delaware Medical So
ciety, died at his home in Dover
of a heart attack Tuesday night.
The well-knOwn Dover practi-
toner, formerly court-appointed
Kent County physician, had been
in apparent good health until Mon
day night. when he suffered a
minor heart attack. Early Tues
day evening a second stroke occur
red, causing death at about 8
p. m.
DR.. Scull was a native of Della
ware, having been born at Wyom-
ing. November 4, 1902, a son of
Carl B., Sr., and Rebecca Ennis
Scull. He was a graduate of Caes-
ar Rodney High School, Camden
Wyoming, and of the University of
Pennsylvania and it's Medical
School. Immediately after his
graduation from medical school in
1923 he served a years interne-
ship at Allegheny General HOspi-
tai, Pittsburgh, Pa.
CONTINUED on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Youth Dies,
AreH1rt
In Accidents
NOrristOwn Boy Victim
Of Crash On Milford
RehObOth Highway
Last Sunday. Many
Others Hurt.

Ignazio Scott, 18, of Norristown.
Pa, injured in an automobile ac-
cident on Route Ia, the Milford-R Re
hobOth Beach Highway, last Sun
day, died Monday night in the Mil
ford Memorial Hospital. He suf-
fered a fractured skull and law
and internal injuries.
His death brings the highway ia
talities in Delaware this year to
80, compared with Al for the cor
responding period a year ago.
Two of the victims companions
were also injured, and confined to
the hospital. They are William
FuscO, 10, and William PuleO, 10.
both of NOrristOWn. Fusco received
a brain cOncussion and decorations
of the knee. Puleo received lacer-
atiOns of the face and bruises of
the left arm.
The car driven by Scott ran off
the road and struck a tree, police
said.
Herman Parsons, %, of Balti-
more, who received a fractured
breastbOne when the automobile he
was driving ran off Route 113 near
Milford last Saturday night is in
fairly good" condition at the
Milford Memorial Hospital.
Injured in the same accident
all passengers in Parsons car, were
John Kilroy, %, cuts on the left
hand; James William Kirk, 18
decorations of the left leg; Robert
Urquhardt, chest bruises; Frank
Van Rintelen, IS, laceratiOn of the
! chin and fractured shoulder bone
and Willis White, "a, fracture OF
the spine in two places. All are
residents of Baltimore.
(continued on page o.
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
New Sears Store
Nears Completion
New Dover Establishment viii Be
One OF PeninsuIa's Finest

One OF PeninsuIa's Finest
Very soon Sears, ROebuck and
Company shall announce the grand
opening of the new Sears on LOock-
erman street in Dover. Sears
friends and customers who have
watched the stores growth from the
time the transformation started to
its present near completion; have
contributed to it's construction with
both their labor and resources.
Sears believes that when it's doors
are open, the public will find its
expectations more than gratified.
Sears, ROebuck and Company in
Dover will be one of the Outstand-
ing stores on the Delmarva Penin-
sula. 1t is a structure of which
Dover and the peninsula may well
be proud, a manifestation of prog
ressive retail thinking and vision,
employing the most modern and
convenient shopping methods avail
able. Not just another department
store, but virtually a complete
community of stores, to fulfill prac-
Continued on page y
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
DIR. Jas. Beebe
Reelected Head
OF State Board
OF Education
Speicher Renamed Vice
President AS HOrner
And Terry Are Induct-
ed Into Office. Miller
Presided.

DR.. James Beebe of Lewes was
reelected president, and Jacob H.
Speicher of New Castle was re-
elected vice president of the State
Board of Education last Friday at
an organization meeting of the
board in Dover for the new fiscal
year.
Two new members of the board,
William H. HOrner of Laurel, and
Max Terry of Dover, we're admin
istered the oath of Office by DR..
George r. Miller, Jr., state super
intendent of public instruction, and
secretary of the board by virtue of
his position.
Mr.. HOrner served about a year
of an unexpired term before his
new appointment by Governor Car
vel, while Mr.. Terry was appoint
ed by the Governor to succeed Peter
S. Collins, of Magnolia.
In Posts Since 1914
DR.. Beebe and Mr.. Speicher have
held the offices of president and
vice president, respectively, since
December, 1914. and both are serv-
ing their third consecutive three
year terms on the board, their
present terms expiring next June
During two terms served on the
board prior to 1912, when he re-
turned as a member, DR.. Beebe was
president two of those six years.
Franklin Carroll, instructor in
vocal music at the Dover High
School the past two years and for
merly of Ivyland, Pa, was ap-
pointed supervisor of music fol
Kent County after resignation oil
Miss Alice E. Brown, Wyoming
from the position had been accept
ed.
CcontlnasA on page 12l
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28

The preliminary 1850 total is al
most 100000 larger than the
1910 census total, and represents
the greatest numerical gain for
any decade in American history.
The nations population has doub-
led in the last half century from
the 1900 total of 75,995,575.
New York retained it's rank as
the most populous state of the
union, with 14,743,210 inhabitants.
California moved from fifth place
in 1910 to second place in 1850,
with 10,472,34S, passing Pennsyl-
vania with 1O,4S6,956, Illinois with
1886, ,490, and Ohio with 1901, 1911
(eontinued on page I'D
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Kernels Meet Burton
Team This Evening
An Exciting Game Is Expected Be.
tween Local Ball Clubs

The "Kernals," a picked team
from the Is through Is year old
group of the Milford Teen-Age
School, will make their third ex-
hibitiOn start here at the Milford
Park this Friday evening, meeting
the BurtOn's team of the Milford
Softball League in a regulation
hard BALI game. In previous ex-
hiibtiOn games played the past two
Friday evenings, the 'Kernals"
have lost to Frederick of the Pen
insula League and defeated HOus-
ton of the mid-Delaware League.
While BurtOn's is a softball team,
it has in it's lineup quite a few
players who at one time or other,
were outstanding with local base
ball teams. BurtOn's, largely as a
result of acquiring additional
strength from the disbanded Caulk
team, has moved up into a contend
ing position in the sOftball league
standings in recent weeks and is
currently one of the circuits
strongest mines.
The "Kernals" were particularly
impressive in defeating a strong
Houston team recently and there
are quite a few promising young
ballplayers on the present team,
Bill Sisler, former minor league
player and manager, who is oper-
ating the local school, is pleased
with the progress made by mem
bers of the "Kernals" cast and pre-
diets future stardom for several
of these youthful players.
Teams from the Milford Teen
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Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Operating Ferry
At Indian RiUer
Engineers Replace Foot
Bridge Across Inlet
With Boat Service

Engineers on The Charles w. Gull
len Bridge at Indian River Inlet,
which has been closed to all vehic-
ular traffic since July 5, due to
repairs, on Tuesday removed the
narrow foot-bridge pedestrians
have been using, and the State
Highway Department has instituted
a ferry service to replace it. This
is for individuals only, and not for
automobiles and trucks.
Major Justus B. Naylor, Sussex
County Division Engineer, an
nounced that a 40-foOt cabin cruis-
er has been engaged for the tenn
pOrary ferry service. He pointed
out that this service is strictly
CONTINUED on page n
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Dover Man Wins
Photo Contest

Francis L. Turner, of 72O North
Bradford street, Dover, has been
named first place winner in the
1850 Delmarva Chicken Festival
Photographic Contest. In announc-
ing the results today, Contest Chair
man Kenneth Pfister, of Dover,
stated that Turner will receive a
$50 savings bond.
Winning entries in the contest
continued on page %
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Hold All Dairy
Judging Contest

The Sussex County All Dairy
Judging Contest was held on Thurs
day, July 13, according to Sam
Gwinn, All agent. The purpose of
the contest was to select a county
All Dairy Judging Team for par
ticipatiOn in the State Contest to
be held during the Kent-Sussex
Fair.
Twelve All boys from over the
Continued on page lOl
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28

Delaware tied with CONNECTICUT,
nationally, for first place in appli-
cation of enforcement standards in
state police traffic control work in
1949.
The presentation will be made by
Colonel Franklin M. Kreml, who
organized the Northwestern Uni
versity Traffic Institute and the
Traffic Division of the Information
al Association of Chiefs of Police
in Evanston, Illinois, in 1885 and
has been director of both organiza-
tions since that time. The Traffic
Division of the IACP has assisted
in traffic accident prevention ac-
(eontinued on page lOl
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28

exceed the al time high 1919 pro-
duction of 1S1 million pounds.
Egg production in 1850 is cur
rently exceeding the 1949 output.
The 1850 production may exceed
the 1949 record of 141 million eggs.
Broiler production during the
first six months Of 1850 was only
slightly below that for the CORE
spending period Of 1949. With fav-
orable price conditions, the 1850
production may approach the 1945
record Of 73 million birds.
The 1850 tomato crop of 10000
acres is about ten per cent larger
than the ten-year average, and the
(eontinusa On pags %
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
PIMA Announces Farm
Loan On Rye, Barley

Frank Vibbert, Sussex County P.
NJ. A. chairman, today announced
that there would be loans on rye
and barley stored on the farm eff
fective 30 days after the grain is
placed in storage.
Mr. Vibbert announced the fol-
lowing loan rates: Rye, grading u.
S. No. 2 or better, SLAP per bushel;
barley, u. S. No. /, $1.25 per bush
(conIinusd On page IO)
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Plane SpOtting
Program Lagging
Director Lee Says Too Few Have
Volunteered For Duty

The program designed to make
Delaware safe from enemy air at
tacks is tagging due to the fact that
ttOO few volunteers have respond
ed to the call for ground observers,
declared Major D. Preston Lee, di-
rector of the Delaware Office for
Civil Defense this week.
Major Lee said the number of
volunteers who have offered to
serve in the Ground Observer
Corps of the defense agency to date
was disappointing, and added
that the program would have to
be accelerated in view of the crit
ical situation throughout the world.
Chief supervisors of the corps
have been appointed in the three
counties, he said. They are: George
Weber, of Claymont, for New Cas-
tie County; George Arthur, of Mil
ford, for Kent County, and Wilson
Adkins of Seaford, for Sussex
County.
continued on page 10)
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Man Fatally Hurt
I'm Unusual Mishap
Charles r. Bethard, 20, OF Milford.
Victim OF Unusual Mishap


Charles r. Bethard. 20, of Mil
ford, was fatally injured Monday
afternoon of this week when his
right side was pierced by a crow
bar in a fall in barn near Ches-
void. He died before medical
assistance could arrive, according
to state police.
Bethard, police reported, was
standing on a rotted beam and was
working with the crOwbar when
the beam collapsed. Bethard in
falling to the floor clutched the
crowbar and upon landing on the
floor below the tool entered his
body.
Police said the victim was work
ing in a barn on the farm of Lin
ton Truitt at the time of the acci-
dent.
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Select Head For Calf
Show Ceremonies
VIM. T. Thompson OF Lincoln viii
Ofliciate On August 8

William r. Thompson, Lincoln,
has been named to serve as mas
ter of ceremonies for the second
annual Sussex County Calf Show
which will be at the agricultural
sub-station farm near Georgetown
on Wednesday, August 8.
The show will feature heifeT
calves resulting from the artificial
breeding program in the county.
Raymond M. Lank, president of the
Sussex unit of the Delaware Arti-
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Traffic Safety Awards WiN Be
Presented lit Luncheon On Aug.

Presentation the Traffic Safety Contest Award of the International
Delaware Police will
meeting Thursday August
the Gold Ballroom the Hotel DUPONT in Wilmington
a of National
Contest National
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Delaware Farm Production Now
approaching An AH Time High

Despite unavorabe weather conditions the 1850 production
Dr. r. O. Bausman
the University Of Delaware.
Fluid milk exceeded
that corresponding period 94 The 1850 production NAV
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
15O,5OO,OOO In U. S., Rise
Of 100000 In Ten Years

The population continental 15O5O0OO0
April this year. preliminary this
the Census Bureau showed This rounded total taking
about 100000 who travelling during the
aOn include about 100000 the
Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Groups Are Named To
Study Plant Potential
Plan Resurvey OF Industry Ii
Kent And Sussex Counties

A resurvey of all Kent and Sus-
sex Counties industrial potenti-
alities fsouth of the Chesapeake
Canal bridge was planned at the
July meeting of the Industry for
Delaware Council Thursday night
of last week at the Rehoboth COun-
try Club.
CONTINUED on page y
Milford chronicle., 1950-03-03
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When Il, confident Of quality-and
downright big value.
Milford chronicle., 1950-03-03
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A&P carries only fine quality beef, pork VEAL lamb
poultry They're always great values because A&P cuts
trims them to give you for your money, and prl
them as low as market costs permit.
Evening star., 1950-02-11
Some Russians Want Freedom
From Iron Hand of Police State

houses-in what is called the
forbidden zone" guarded con-
stantly by the MVD.
These privileged groups COM
prise the cream of Soviet society," ~
Mr.. Stevens writes. mot that the
Russians have even remote
counterpart of Western social life
| =
For leading citizens of a revo-
lutionary new society, their be-
havior patterns are surprisingly
conservative and conventional
Indeed, they are more restricted
and inhibited than their counter
parts in Western bourgeois coun-
tries"
This upper crust is we'll fed, we'll
paid, we'll housed. They live we'll,
if nervously, under the constant
vigilance of the secret police who
watch both them and those who
would dare approach them.
Peasants Squeezed BY Leaders.
Now, how about the other side?
Mr.. Stevens describes it thus:
So far as the peasant is con-
cerned, the Soviet government has
evolved techniques of squeezing
him far more thoroughly than
Czarist landlords did. Save in a
few pampered areas, "the peasant
has yet to reap most of the bene-
fits enjoyed by the urban intel
lectual and working class. The
money the peasantry collected
from high food prices in wartime
was cancelled by the currency
reform. Their obligations to the
state in kind and money have
been increased from year to year.
Consumer goods abundant in the
cities have yet to reach most rural
areas, and prices to the peasant
are higher"
And what of labor?
"The serfike bondage of the
Evening star., 1950-02-11

dustry and other forms of ma
tional wealth." he writes.
Thus the state dictates what an
individual thinks, reads, eats,
wears, where he lives, where and
how he works, whom he can
marry.
The state assumes the right of
calling him for a third degree, of
searching his home, or of COM
pletely shutting him up by the
simple expedient of arrest and
confinement, with no appeal.
In this state the Soviet citizen
is trapped, and "the methods of
the police state are nowhere so
revealed as in the treatment of
Soviet citizens who apply for per-
mission to go abroad" Mr.. Stev-
ems says.
The story of the Soviet wives
of foreigners is well known. EX-
cept for the lucky few who got
out during the war and the i'm
mediate postwar honeymoon per-
iod between East and West, all
of them are still there. The
Soviet wife of a foreigner is
nagged and pressed to a degree
that few have the moral stamina
to resist. Sooner or later most
file for divorce.
Foreigners Always Shadowed.
The foreigner in the Soviet
Union is constantly shadowed by
the MVD, none more than the
foreign diplomats. The foreign
press is subject to arbitrary and
capricious censorship from which
there is no appeal. Often, Mr..