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Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
opportunity
Days Now
InMilfOrd
Local Merchants Are Co
Operat ting To Make
Sales Fete Today And
Tomorrow An Out
standing Event.

despite many rumors to the con.
traiy, engendered no doubt by the
Korean situation, Milford's great
monthly sales event, "Opportunity
lays, will go on as scheduled to-
aay and tomorrow, Friday and Sat
urday, September / and 2.
rue majority OF the Milford mer-
ehailts are cooperating to make
tais sales fete one Of the most out
standing Of the series, which were
begun last April. Stores are well
stocked with fresh seasonal mer-
cnandise much of which has been
attractively priced for "Oppor-
tunity Days."
Nearly six pages of this issue of
the Milford Chronicle, which will
enter over 5000 homes in Lower
Delaware, have been used by Mil
Iord's enterprising merchants to
carry to the public their story Of
opportunity Days" savings.
shoppers who are interested IN
getting the most value possible
out of their dollar, will do well
to read the advertisements appear
ing in this paper. and to do their
shopping at the stores displaying
the big red lettered "Opportunitv
Days stickers. The merchants
displaying the stickers have gone
% great lengths to offer some real
honest TO goodness values for tho
sales event. For two days they are
showing a willingness to go below
heir regular money saving prices
IN listed items and further share
helr profits with their customers.
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01

Associate judges will be Essel
Farlow, Pittsville. Nd, who Is
serving as patrol judge at Ocean
Downs, and Cecil Wheatly, FEEDER
aisburg, Nd, who has been 4
Judge here since the inception Of
the Kent aud Sussex Racing Asso-
citation.
Harvey Griffith. Of Harrington
win again be chief timer, with Ell
bridge Lusby, Cecilton. and Ed
Leatherman, Of Philadelphia. re-
turning as official timers.
Dale Fetrow, Of Carlisle, Pa.
who is now starting horses 1t Oe-
can Downs, will return as starting
(continusa On Dago 10
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Hike Payments To
Aged By $146,OOO
5000 In Delaware Will Be Affected
By Change

An increase of approximately
$146,000 in Social Security pay
ments in Delaware will be made
next month under the terms of the
1850 amendments to the Social
Security Act which President Tru-
man signed into law Monday.
More than 5000 Delawareans
will benefit from the revised sched-
ule of payments, according to Rog-
er r. Minker, secretary of the VIII
mingtOn Social Security office He
said that the first increases will be
noted in the September checks
which are due to reach beneficiar-
les during the first week of Octo-
Der.
The automatic increases will
range from approximately so per
cent to approximately 100 per cent.
Mr.. Minker said. He pointed out
that under the old terms of the So
cial security law, the more than
5000 benefciaries in this area
would have received about $780,
500 for the month of September.
The former average primary
benefit Of approximately S26 a
month for a retired worker will be
increased to about S46 under the
new law. A widow with two chill
dren who had been receiving s55 a
month, will now receive about $11O
Under the new law the amount
OF earnings which a beneficiary
may make in a month. and still ac-
cept his insurance payment for that
month, is raised from s14.9O to $50.
tcuntinued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Delaware Cover
Girl For Magazine
Lorna EdWardsOn Chosen To Grace
IND Issue OF Delaware CaIvacade'

Lorna Edwardson of Dover. cbo-
sen Miss Delaware in the Delmar-
va Chicken Festival, is the "cover
girl" of the second issue of "Dela-
ware Cavalcade," the magazine
published by the Delaware State
Development Department.
The magazine, edited by E. Pres
ton Rutter, director of the depart-
ment, also contains an article nv
Z. A. Weslager which shows how
the increase in automobile owner
ship in the past 10 years has had
the eftect of pulling business to the
suburbs instead of to Wilmington
Ann Evans ClendanicI has con
trlbuted a poem Delaware
Speaks" while Jack D. Hunter de.
scribes the work of the Delaware
National Guard in "Our First Line
of Defense-The National Guard. p
and William P. Frank discusses
the newspaper of the New Castle
County Workhouse, "The Ria
House Gazette" /" in 'The Bic House
'Mouthpiece.'
Otser features are an article on
Ceramics" by Doris WahL a de-
scription of the making of mo-
ton picture at Kings College by
Z. r. Davis entitled Lord of All.''
and Delaware book reviews.
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Fire Fighters Hold
Meeting At Seaford

The August meeting of the Sus-
sex County Volunteer Firemen's
Association was held in the new
hre hall at Seaford last week when
the Seaford Volunteer Fire Depart
ment was host to county firemeb AT
a dinner served by the Ladies'
Auxiliary of Seaford, headed bv
Mrs. Irene Blades, the president
Col. Edgar S. Slayer, vice presi-
dent of the State Volunteer Fire
mems Association, who has been
recently named by Civil Defense
Director Preston Lee to head the
of fire companies of
he state for their part in the Civil
Defense program, was the speaker.
To Train Auxiliary Firemen
Colonel Slayer told fire fighters
hey will be charged with the duty
Il training of auxiliary firemen in
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Tax Collections
For Delaware IRE
AboyeU.S.Average
Increase During Fiscal
Year Ended June 80 Is
Greatest In America,
All Sources Covered In
Report.

State taxes increased moro
sharply in Delaware during tbe
nscal year just ended than In anv
Other state of the Union. the ne
partment Of Commerce reported in
week. " '"is
A walloping 58.7 per cent in
crease IN state tax collections sent
the burden Of state taxes in Del
aware, heretofore always below
tne national average, so far above
Cne national average that Della
ware came close to being the
heaviest taxed state in the nation
The figures are contained IN the
annual report Of the Department ~ os
commerce on state tax colIec-
uons. 1t is the only statistical
summary that compares tax col
iecuons, and their burden, in the
48 states.
All Sources Covered
All sources of state taxation are
covered by the figures. This in
cludes the state income tax. gaso-
line tax, alcoholic beverage tax
corporation license tax, automo-
pie licenses, inheritance, and gift
taxes. 9AD
On a per capita basis, the bill
ior state taxes in Delaware dur
ing the fiscal year that ended
June 80, amounted to S83.90 for
each man, woman, and child in
Delaware. In the previous fiscal
year, before the tax program of
Governor Elbert N. Carvel was
initiated, it had amounted to
$56.53.
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01

OF particular interest TO school
teachers, Mr.. HOdgson said, but
tnere Will also be classes in history
English. speech, psychology, agri-
cultural economics, and possibly
civil engineering. Courses will be
held at Dover, Milford, Greenwood.
Brldgeville an Georgetown. All the
courses will carry college credit.
or interested persons may enroll
without receiving credit if they
Two of the Dover classes will be
on Tuesday evenings, 1880 to To-
?. m.' beginning September 26th.
These will be General Psychology.
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Col. c. B. ShaRfer To
Head Disaster Group
RehObOth Man VIII Coordinate
Work OF Branch Areas

Col Carlton B. Shaffer Of Reho-
both has been appointed an execu-
tive vice chairman of the disaster
preparedness and relief committee
of the Delaware Chapter, Ameri-
can Red Cross. it was announced
this week by John N. Russo, com
mittee chairman.
Colonel Shaffer's principal duty
will be to assist branch areas in
Sussex County in establishing dis
aster services.
Mr.. Russo also revealed he Is
working for cooperation of the
Delaware Chapter with 16 other
Red Cross chapters in this region
in plans for adapting Red Cross.
disaster services for civil defense.
These plans will be discussed at
a workshop on that subject to he
held Sept. % at Reading. Pa. Chan
ters in southern New JERSEY Del
aware, nearby Maryland, and cas-
tern Pennsylvania.
(eontinued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Local Youth To Take
Bride In Honolulu
H. E. Walls, Son OF Mr.. And Mrs.
Bert Walls, VIII Marry Sept. 4

Judges on August 14th at Homo
lulu selected Marie S. Stevens. age
2l' of that City and Electronics
Technician 3rd class, Harry +
Walls, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Walls, of Milford, who is currently
serving with the Navy at that
Hawaiian base, as the couple hest
suited for wedding admist flow
ers to be held on September 4th.
during the first annual florists and
flowers growers show in Honolulu.
Mr.. Walls has sent his parents
many clippings from the Hawaii
Times, about the Forthcoming
event and Mr.. and Mrs. Walls. who.
would liked to have attended the
wedding, after investigation found
that all planes going to Hawaii.
were booked solid several weeks in
advance.
The winers will be showered
with gifts for their part in the
wedding, which is generally, from
continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
MILFORD no OBSERVE
LABOR DAY MONDAY

The majority of the stores
and manufacturing houses in
Milford will observe Labor
Day by being closed all day
Monday next, September 4th.
The business offices and
plant of the Milford Chron-
icle Publishing Company will
observe the holiday and will
remain closed all day Mon
day.
The banks in Milford. the
First National and the Trust
Company, are planning to
give their employees a long
holiday week end, closing
down on Friday and not re.
opening until Tuesday morn
ing, September 5th.
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
PIMA Reveals Storage
Facilities For Wheat

The Sussex County P. M. A. or
ice mas just announced that there
ls warehouse storage facilities for
approximately 100000 bushels of
wheat at Baltimore, Maryland, ac-
cording to Frank Vibbert, County
= N. A. Chairman. Terminal ware
houses that have storage facilities
are the Canton Elevator, Locust
Point Elevator and Port CoYington
tooutinusa On PAGE %
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Registration Data
From Election1 Dept.

Paul B. McCabe, secretary Of
the Department of Elections, re-
minds the citizens Of Sussex Coun-
ty becoming 21 years Of age be-
lore November Z, 1860, that he or
she must be registered in order
that he or she may enjoy the priv
lleges Of voting at the coming
general election in November.
Members Of the Armed Forces
CONTINUED on page q
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Milford Man Loses
Arm In Accident
Joseph MakaI Victim OF Mishap
At Steiner And Co., Plant

Joseph Makal, age 40 years, who
resides on the Cedar Beach road,
near Milford, lost his right arm in
an accident at Steiner and Com
pany's garnetting plant in Milford
late last Saturday afternoon.
According to information secur-
ed by Chronicle reporters, Makal,
who has been employed by Steiner
and Company for approximately
four and one half months. was
working on one of the machines
connected with the garnetting pro-
cess, when his arm was caught in
the machinery and before he could
be released was terribly mangled.
Makal was taken to the Milford
Memorial Hospital where his man
gled member was amputated. His
condition at present is reported as
fair.
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
University WiA Offer Extension
Courses In DOM State Toms

ast 10 extension courses will be offered SUSSEX
towns this fall by the University Delaware according to n
announcement today Hodgson universty exteno
tor Registration for will be held AZ Dover |
Z TO p m, Monday, September 1S e4 SONoOf
several OF the
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Totals A75

In the contest for the nomination
ior Levy Court Commissioner. cleo
tlon ofhcials reported the following
tcontinued on page o.
Milford chronicle., 1950-09-01
Completing Plans For Opening
Of Racing Season 1t Harrington

Dr. G. l. Cherry, Of Dover
m meet Of the Kent and Sussex Racing Association gets
LOT q nghLs OF harness racing at Harrington
Cnery an employe Of the State Of Health has been
sevsra @ pasrol judge and Judge for
Evening star., 1950-05-11
Teachers Divided on Whether 7eIevision Harms PUPILS

DR.. Hansen presented the polls
conclusions during a panel discus
sion on 'Television and It's Effect
on Our Children" held last night
in the Departmental Auditorium
in connection with the 37th annual
convention of the District Congress
of Parents and Teachers.
On the question of whether "in
general children are being harmed
by television." 49 per cent of the
teachers said yes, and a. per cent
said no. However. per cent of
fered no opinion, because mot
enough evidence of harmful effects
had come to their attention to
justify an opinion"
The survey indicated generally
that television apparently has as
many good points as bad, when it
comes to the elementary student.
Late Hours Cited.
DIR. Hansen's statistics were sup
plemented by DR.. Paul F. Douglass,
president of American University
and moderator of last nights
panel. He said there are about
10000 sets in the Washington
area. which represents 80 per cent
of the homes.
On the late hours, the school
sampling showed that rs per cent
Of the children were allowed to
stay up until 10 pm. or later
Evening star., 1950-05-11
New York Man Arrested
On Six Traffic Charues

A New York man posted $159.5O
collateral on six traffic charges
at the Silver Spring police sub
station last night after a s.
mile chase on Georgia avenue at
speeds which police said exceeded
IS miles an hour.
Carl o. Tulaszewski. 81, was
charged with exceeding 10 miles
an hour. no registration card, nc
operators permit. improper use
of a spotlight. failing to dim his
headlights and turning off the
lights on his car to avoid arrest.
A hearing will be held at 10 am
Tuesday in Silver Spring Police
Court.
Montgomery County Policeman
George w. Hef1in and Policeman
Thomas j. Harding said they no.
ticed Tulaszewski's 1949 station
wagon going south on Georgia
avenue at Aspen Hill at a high
rate of speed. Officer Heflin
said that as he turned the north.
bound scout car around to give
chase, Tulaszewski flashed the
spotlight in his eyes almost blind
ing him.
The policeman said Tulaszewsk
was arrested in Glenmont aftel
he had turned into a side stree
and turned off his lights.
Evening star., 1950-05-11
S3O,13S Tax Lien Filed
AGAINST Washie Bratcher

A Federal income tax lien fol
$30,138 was filed in District
Court yesterday against Everett
(Washie) Bratcher. So, former Or
chestra leader here, who served
40 months in prison for taking
benzedrine to avoid the draft.
Bratcher was said to owe $27.-
313 for 1943 and $2,S25 for 1941
His address was listed in the 1900
block of Twenty-first street NV
Bratcher, whose wife divorced
him while he was in prison, tool
the pauper's oath after his releas'
in October. 1948. and was not re-
quired to pay the $1,000 fine i'm
posed when he was sentenced.
Bratcher was convicted in Alex
andria of taking the drug thu
night before his induction exam
ination in 1943 for the purpos'
Of raising his blood pressure.
Evening star., 1950-05-11
Five Slightly Hurt as Auto
CoIIides With Pie Truck =

The driver and four passengers
of an automobile were slightly in
jured early today when the vehicle
collided with a pie truck at Massa-
chusetts avenue and Twentieth
street NV.
Treated at Emergency HoSpita,
and released were James j. Gross
"a, of 1886 e street s.W.. driver o1
the car; Walter Perryman, 81, oi
$40 Ninth street NV; Harvard
Turner, 27. of the E street ad-
dress; Louis P. Cornelius, %, ot
974 Ninth street NV, and Robert
c. Wilbourne, IS, of SO H street
S.W.
The truck was, driven by Howard
c. Ennis, IS, Of 1915 North Capt.
tol street, police said. Neither We
hicle overturned, but some pastry
was knocked from the truck.
Evening star., 1950-05-11

and. according to DR.. Hansen,
children of S, 6 or 7 ought to be
in bed by 8 pm"
The most frequently noted
harmful effects" of TV were
listed as "lassitude, drowsiness
and lack of interest,"" with lex
.citement and overstimulation'
close seconds. Several teachers
reported children falling asleep
in class from staying up too late
watching television.
AS benefits derived from video
teachers included increased inter-
est in news. travel and sports, and
help in vocabulary building.
Frequently mentioned by teach
ers," the report stated, was evi-
dence that watching television
gives children more to talk about,
broadens knowledge and concepts
and increases their range of in
terestS."
HOwdy DO0dy Commended.
One teacher reported an un-
usual benefit" Of TV:
Il shall never forget" she said,
the on-velvet feeling I enjoyed
two weeks ago. following Howdy
Doody's plea that his viewers CO.
operate with their teachers"
A widely shared opinion among
instructors was that "television,
properly handled and carefully
Evening star., 1950-05-11

District elementary scnooI teach
ers are almost evenly divided in
their opinions on whether tele-
vision is harmful to their pupils,
This was indicated in results
of an informal survey among 5000
children and more than 500 teach
ers, released last night by DR.
Carl F. Hansen. associate super
intendent of schools. Other re-
suits showed:
/. Fifty-six per cent of ele-
mentary students have TV sets ir
their homes, and another 35 pei
cent watch TV in friends homes
OF the total, more than hall
watch television to some extent
every night of the week"
2. Many children stay up toe
late watching video programs.
8. Failure to do homework ane
lack of interest in reading were
among the rarer harmful effects
listed by teachers.
4. Fifty eight per cent of the
teachers believe that children.
present use of television is con.
tributing to educational achieve.
'ment," especially in learning tt
read.
Beneficial. Say Parents.
5. OF 81 parents quizzed. the
overwhelming majority IS -
thought TV programs were bene-
fetal to their children.
Evening star., 1950-05-11
By George Kennedy
Stor $tqH Cegrespondsnt

OAKLAND, Md, May 1.-THE
glad cries of miners children fill
the air as they rotate their merry
go-'round swing near the Kemp
ton School in the warm May
sunshine.
Nearby at the tipple men are
hoisting machinery to the sur
face, prior to abandoning the
Kempton mine.
An engineer looks over at the
boys and girls playing and re-
marks:
They're the ones to be pitied.
They don't know yet what they're
up against. but they are the ones
who always get it. whether it's a
strike or a shutdown"
The 9 o'clock bell rings in the
school, and the children run in
side. There are So children in
Kempton School, and in the up
per grades they are taught geog-
raphy.
This subject now comes under
the head of social sciences"
Children no longer trace maps
and memorize borders and cap
itals. An attempt is made to ae-
quaint them with facts of eco
nomic Importance. .~
But economic facts change
faster than geography books are
published. Only a book compiled
in 1850 could put together all the
facts that are contributing to the
closing down of the Kempton
mine.
Threat From Afar.
AS they page their books and
come upon the map showing the
Persian Gulf, it is doubtful
whether the children or teachers
realize the Importance to Kemp
ton of Kuwait, a little sovereignty
ruled by a sheik. It's Importance
is this: Kuwait contains the larg-
est pool of oil in the world, and
last year it put % million barrels
into Atlantic Coast ports.
The bottom of the same page
is taken up with the map of
Arabia. But the book does not
tell the story of the Arabian Amer
ican Oil Co.'s contract with King
1bn Saud, which pays that medi-
eval monarch more than $40 mil
lion a year, builds modern high
ways across his desert kingdom
and last year added IL million
barrels to American oil imports.
The book does tell that Vene-
zuela is an oil producer, but is
unable to give the current figures
of importation of Venezuelan oil.
This has increased from 10 mil
lion barrels in 1916 to 102 million
barrels last year. Most Vene-
zuelan oil is refined on the islands
of Curacao and Aruba; and the
residual, the oil left after the ex-
traction of gasoline, is shipped to
the United States. This is fuel
oil, directly competing with coal.
In 1916 it totaled AZ million bar
rels; in 1949. Al million barrels.
But that's not the whole story.
All this importation of oil, which
added up to about 200 million
barrels last year, is only one-fifth
of the increased domestic produc-
tion-American oil from American
wells. This increase since the war
Evening star., 1950-05-11

second family. He had IL in his
first, but they are grown and
married.
once a farm boy starts work
ing in the Mines" he says, hes
through with farm life. There
are no paydays on the farm.
In the Office. the superintend-
ent, Harold Adams, a miner who
came up through the ranks. tells
the same sad story-oil.
DieselS Ordered.
Even the Western Maryland,
which exists by hauling coal. has
gone back on u.s." he says. "They
have ordered IA Diesel oil-burn-
ing locomotives"
The Vendix mine is owned by
the Johnstown Coal Co. of which
A. B. Crichton of Johnstown. Pa,
is president. The shutdown is final
AS in the case of the Ke.npton
mine. the machinery has been
hauled out of the mine, and the
rails taken up. Mr.. Adams doesn't
know what he is going to do and
what the men are going to do
The Vendix mine employed 200
workers. Only about three fam
lilies have moved from the hollow
since the closing.
We 60 to Shallmar, the little
mining village on the Potomac
which attracted so much atten.
ton last Christmas time wher
Ed Murrow. radio commentator
told his audience that children
there were fainting at school from
lack of food.
The Shallmar miners have had
eight days of work this year
which paid them about $120. They
are drawing total of about $10O
unemployment compensation at
$40 week. This is at the mini
mum. because they had only a
few days work in 1949. Only one
family has moved from the village
since Christmas.
Tere at Oakland, j. Edward Hell
big, president of the County Com
missioners says nothing can be
done for the miners.
The only solution to the prob
lem would be to attract indus
tries, and the county has nothing
to offer in competition with other
areas that are already semi in
dustrial.
He earmarked $4,000 of his
county road money for relief work,
he says, but that ran out April
Is, the day the Kempton mine
closed. He refused to put in for
a share of the Maryland 5000 900
emergency relief fund because
that was to be doled out, and he
would not go for the dole.
He told how unsatisfactory
some of the employables were.
He found that one of them had
used his work-relief pay to buy
a second jalopy; told the man he
would have to eat the automo-
biles when he asked for a pay
advance to buy food.
The writer remembered the
story OF a published picture of a
miners little girl crying because
none Of the shoes in a relief
contribution fitted her. The pic
ture was so appealing that news
paper readers sent the little girl
cash gifts that totaled $500. The
father used the money to buy a
Evening star., 1950-05-11

that it ever will be opened again.
A surprising thing is the re-
centness of big expenditures to
keep the Kempton mine in COM
petition. A foreman points to the
rolls Of rubber betting and the
steel rollers on which the belt
moved. This is the salvage of a
conveyor 1,700 feet long. installed
after the war at cost of $4,000.
A washing plant, which cost 81
million, was built by the company
to keep the product of its mines
and stripping operations in COM
petition. One of the disadvan-
tages of Maryland coal is that it
contains some slate and leaves a
large ash residue. This can be
corrected by washing. But the
loss from washing was much
larger than expected. The COM
pany sold the plant, presumably
at a big loss, and its new owners
operated it two weeks.
George Sewers, who is Al and
worked for the mine "a years, says:
"They ought to build a gas cham
Der for us old bucks and finish
us Off"
Company Houses Sold.
The men hanging about all VOL
unteer how long they have worked
at Kempton, and in every case it
is more than 20 years. They all
speak rather fondly of the mine.
There is lot of good coal in there,
they all say. They can't quite
understand it.
There are 100 company houses
perched on the northern slope of