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Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07
Caesar Rodney School
News

Caesar Rodney Students
Get New Facilities
| Caesar Rodney School students
will find many improvements and
additions to the physical plant of
! the school when they return to
classes on Monday, September 10.
They will occupy a three-rOOm high
school addition, finished with acus-
tical ceilings, special-pattern as
phalt tile floors and fiOurescent
lights.
Richard W. MacFaddin, director
of visual education, will be in
charge of the large first floor room
which is equipped with special cur
tains and electrical outlets for Vis-
ual education activities.
The second floor classroom will
serve as a social studies center
with Mrs. Jessie C. Duncan in
charge. Mrs. Dorothy B. Townsend
will be in charge of the new guild
ance Office which is also located on
the SECOND floor.
The third floor addition includes
a commercial classroom and a
smaller room to be used for ad-
vanced Office practice and training
with business machines. The activ-
tiles in this area will be presided
over by Maurice Daisey, head of
: the department.
The addition includes 20 new in
. lividual recessed wall lockers and
r a coat room for the convenience OF
: patrons of the school using the
auditorium.
o The shop area of the school has
Il been enlarged by the construction
d of a second room for auto mechan-
= les, thereby doubling the space in
this field. In addition to auto me-
chanics these facilities will be used
for motor instruction for third and
l. fourth year farm shop. Miller Gibe,
Id head shop teacher, will have charge
al of instruction of both groups. The
n heating system in the shops has
as been mOdernized with the instaIla'
n ton of new ceiling units.
n Edwin F. Englehart, director o.
at instrumental music, will have
mt suite of three new small rooms a
mt his disposal. One room will serv'
by AZ an office, one as an instrumen
'er storage room, and the third is
n small individual practice room. Al
re teratiOns have been made to on
of the stage dressing rooms to Joll
ol. it to the music suite.
les New oil-fred boilers with a vac
eIt uum return sy item replace the an
ent tiuuated coal-fired gravity retur
ne system in the original building. Fo
IL safety these boilers are housed
las a separate boiler room to the res
OF of the building instead of beneat
MS, the classrooms. Included IN u
.an new boiler room is a gas-hred II
lsi cinerator for the disposal OF was
ne paper and garbage. !,
ol The space formerly used for u
MS boiler room has been remodeled
ue- increase the seating space IN q
lasI cafeteria. The dishwahing equi
Ihe ment has been relocated to enlar
ses' .S the cafeteria kitchen and a secol
tne steam serving counter is being !
was stalled to enable the cafeteria
: - feed more students in a shor'
q 20 time.
- other changes include a new
w. fice and conference room IN the
- brary, alterations to the main
,sa.S was Ace. and the repainting OF the
@ Eao ditorium and nurses room.
pIO BECAUSE OF a steel shortage, 81
.ll.g 1l1I, nrogress is being made on the gy
: ~ 81 nssi1m and the elementary scnc
duA
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07
Eastern-SusseX
SOrOptimist Club
Sponsors Student

Miss Doris Brown, Of Milford
this week entered the Milford
Memorial Hospital School OF Nurs-
ing under the sponsorship OF the
Fastern-Sussex Soroptimist Club. a
service organization of Business
Women with headquarters at Re
hOboth.
Miss Brown, member Of las
vaar's graduating class, is the
daughter of Mrs. Jessie Brown, o.
Milford snd is the first to receive
this award in this section.
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07

ACK to School! Luck
lily, not this week
but surely on Mon
day morning, bright
- and early. How diff
ferently the fact affects the
Students! The young ones love
the thoughts of a return to
classrooms, classmates and
books. Perish the thought, say
the older ones, who really ap-
preciate that there is a hard
grind in the months ahead. And
what does it mean to the
adults? Well, to those who
have been in town most of the
summer, it means a return of
old friends, open houses and
at night, lighted windows. Fall
is nice.
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07

Peanuts contain materials used
in the manufacture Of explosives.
insulation, fuel, artificial wool and
fertilizers.
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07

Farm real estate in the United
states is estimated to have 9 totaA
value Of about $69. .OO0,00O,OO0.
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07

More than 100 varieties of dates
grow near Medina in Saudi Arabia.
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07

The U. S. Army, 176 years old.
is the oldest of the U. S. armed
services.
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07
NELSON

George S. Nelson, aged 81 years
native of Ocean View, died on sat
urday last following an illness OF
several years. He was a son OF the
late John and Elizabeth Pusey
Nelson, of Ocean View. He is sur
vived by a daughter, Mrs Mattle
Mowrer' of Havertown, Pa, grand
children. 2 great-grandchildren and
2 sisters: Mrs. Cad Evans, of Ocean
View: Mrs. Ida Walls, Frankfort
and Mrs. ALA Mae Phillips, OF Sell
byville. Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at 2:SO o'clock
in ocean View Christian Church.
where Mr.. Nelson had been a mem
ber for about so years. Services
were conducted by Rev. w: T. Wea-
yer, pastor of the church. Inter
ment in Bethel Cemetery in Ocean
View.
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07

Miss Ruth Clements was one
of the four bridesmaids who at
tended Miss Joyce Parks Hilty
of Georgetown, who on Satur-
day was welded to Mr.. Robert
L. Richards. Jr., of Whining
ton. The ceremony took place
in Wesley Methodist Church at
two o'clock. The young couple,
are both graduates of the Uni
versity of Delaware. Miss Glenn
ents has been spending the
summer at Lewes Beach and
will begin her physical educa-
ton teaching in the George
town Schools next week.
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07
OBITUARY
ELLIOTT


Mary B. Elliott, wife of Joseph !
G. Elliott, formerly of Milford, Del (
aware, died September at her
home, 2 Allan Lane, Collingswood, j
N. j., after a long illness. Mrs.
Elliott is survived by her husband. I
two children, Mrs. Elliott Peitrce
and Joseph G. Elliott, Jr.: aud a
grandson, Richard w. Pearce.
WILEY
Robert J. Wiley, aged 76 years,
died at the home of son, Alton
Wiley, in Milton, on Sunday last.
following an illness of several
years. Born in Milton, he was a son
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Will
ley. He is survived by two other
sons, Homer Wiley and Lawrence
Wiley, also of Milton and bro
theirs, Andrew Wiley and Wilbert
Wiley, both of Georgetown. There
are also 10 grandchildren and Il
great-grandchildren Funeral serv-
ices were held in the Wilson Funer-
al Home, in Milton, Wednesday az
ternoon at 2 o'clock. Services were
conducted by Rev. Elmer ]. Hook
ing, pastor of Pilgrim Holiness
Church, in Milton. Interment wa
made in Odd Fellows Cemetery, II
p Milton.
; PUSEY
) Mrs. Ida Florence Pusey, aged 6
years, wife of William E. Pusey
Sr., of S. Railroad Avenue, George
6 town, died late last Saturday aftel
: noon in Milford Memorial Hosp
/. tai, where she had been a patieI
d for about three weeks. She had bee
in poor health for several P&pth
Born in Georgetown, she was
4, daughter of the late Walter s. an
It Annie Lawson Johnson. Besides h'
s. husband she is survived by a daugl
h ter, Mrs. Beatrice P. Simonds al
a son, William E. Pusey, Jr., bo
of Georgetown and the folloWlI
ID sisters and brothers: Mrs. b
le Conoway, Wilmington, North Car
s. lima: Mrs. Mildred P. Littleto
ar Georgetown; Fred w. JOhnso
Philadelphia; Frank G. Johnso
MillsborO and Freeman r. JohnsC
rt Georgetown. Well known in W
e. mems fraternal circles, Mrs. Pus
lg was a member and Past Wort
.ir Matron of Georgetown Chapter !
9, Order of the Eastern Star and
member and Past Noble Grand
ce Mary Rebekah Lodge No. Is, IOC
to Funeral services were held in
ng James Funeral Home, in Mil
M boro. Wednesday afternoon at 2
IN clock. DR.. Thomas c. Mullig
pastor of Grace Church, GeOri
mn town, and Rev. M. Eugene Hung
no ford, of Georgetown, Md, form
M pastor of Grace Church, cOnduc
NIX the services. Eastern Star ri
ls- were conducted by GeOrgeto
Chapter No. 8, OES. Interment
Union Cemetery, Georgetown.
'nu i tive pail bearers were Crawford
lo oi,. Bailey, Ralph L. Swain, Fred
Ell Ell Lynch, Robert Mackey, Paul q
lnu frev and Elton Lynch. Honor
De nall bearers were John r.
COmpte. of Lincoln; Fred Warri
ton. of Harrington; Horace II
Oh man, Georgetown; John !. Sh
,as ,,as Oak Orchard: Harry E. Hudson
nee Charles P. Greene, Georgetown
City MET.CON
George S. Nelson, aged 81 "
ond native of Ocean View, died on
:
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07

Miss Catherine Downing,
Regent of the Captain JOno-
than Caldwell Chapter, Daugh-
ters of the American RevOlu-
ton, will entertain the mem
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07

LANK HONORED-ColOnel Will
liam r. L.ank, Milfords Grand Old
SOLDIER. was accorded additional
bonors Tuesday evening with an
nouncement of his appointment al
a national aide-de-camp to the com
mander of the M. o. c., and presen
tation of a properly enscribed ha
from members of Fiddlers Pupten
No. a. Milford. The announcement
and presentation were made b
Clement Nevins, presiding Onice
of the local M. o. c. unit, and hlgh
lighted a Coolies meeting held her
at the VFW Home.
Eighty-eight years young, Co
Lank's service to his country date
back to the days of the Torbel
, Guards, predecessors Of the preseI
Delaware National Guards, an
!; !; carries through the Spanish-Amer
can War and World War l. He ms
long been an active member
d numerous veterans organization
Including the Spanish America
Il War veterans, Veterans OF Foreia
5. Wars. and the American Legion. +
r. is a charter member and OFFICER
|; the local M. o. C. puptent, and b
s. appointment as national aided
N camp was first authorized Ia
s. Spring upon the occasion Of {
visit to Milford of P. w. Grave
Id then supreme commander Of t
g. M. o. c.: this appointment "
confirmed during the recent M. Q.
nd encampment in New York and
will now serve as honorary aide
the new M. o. c, commander,
Z, J. Cow.
~ Tuesday evenings meeting Y
also highlighted bv reports OF r
an ]. Duphily and Ralph Scott on p
his ceedings Of recent national encan
ment: discussion Of plans for +
at activities of the local Coolies,
tn. adoption Of a resolution congratu
ev. ting Rev. A. ]. White, Hlne I
,pe Post Chaplain. upon his election
the office OF National Chaplain
Milford chronicle., 1951-09-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward MulhOlland'
sr and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dish
aroon have returned from a week S
vacation at the Sea Side Hotel IN
ocean City, N. ]. They also visited
otbor summer resorts at Atlantic
Cftv Cape May, wildwood, Egg
Harbor. Asbury Park, Ocean View
and many other places of interest
A fine trip was enjoyed by the TWO
cOmnles.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

Cancelled as train. crews Joined
SWitchmen in the walkout.
A Pennsylvania Railroad spokeS-
man estimated that 1000 carloads
of freight and 2,750 cars of coal
were tied up in PRR yards there
and 10000 carloads of freights
consigned to the east were stalled
in Chicago, Detroit and Pitts
burgh.
The mail embargo is an exten-
sion throughout the Nation of the
ban which Thursday was made
applicable to only IA northeastern
States, the District, Chicago anc
st. Louis.
Except for deliveries inside the
city, or to its rural routes, post
Offices now will accept only first
class mail Qetters and postcards
weighing less than eight ounces
newspapers and emergency pack
ages such as medicine, drugs, Sc
runs, dentureS, eyeglasses and sur
gical instruments.
The new order also cut the ac-
ceptable maximum weight of air
parcel post from 10 ounces to two
pounds.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

were above parity at some time
during the base period of Decem-
ber 10 through January 25.
The effect of price controls on
Washington will be discussed in
the District Round Table program
tonight at 10 o'clock over Station
WWDC.
Participants will be Robert j.
Wilson, vice president of the
Washington Restaurant Associa-
ton; Anthony Pritchard, execu-
tive secretary of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association,
and a representative of the WASH
ington Board of Trade.
Jackson Brodsky of the District
Bar Association will be the mod
orator. The program is sponsored
by the association junior bar
section.
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Ry MoIeoIm Lomborne Jr

Food prices in Washington
stores reached an all-time high
on January Is, soaring 2.5 per
cent above the previous record of
June 1948.
The latest survey of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, released yes
terday. disclosed a 2.6 per cent
rise in retail food costs between
mid-December and mid-January.
The report was still 10 days shy
Of the price freeze ordered by the
Office of Price Sterilization. A
further increase in prices during
that period was a virtual GER
tainty.
Preliminary food price index
for January Is was 220.8, which
was 1876 per cent above a year
earlier and 82 per cent. above
June 1850, just before the Red
invasion of Korea.
The BIS said prices of 40 of
SO foods surveyed showed in
creases, one as high as 48 per
cent.
Eggs, Sugar Declined.
About the only price declines
OF any Importance were eggs.
which fell 800 per cent after
reaching record highs, and sugar.
down is per cent.
BY groups, fruits and vege-
tables averaged IA per cent higher:
fats and oils, 109 per cent; cereals
and bakery products. So per cent;
meats, poultry and fish, per
cent, and dairy products, 3.9 per
cent.
In the meantime, the District
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Police Squad Uses
Secret Password to
Raid Apartment

Police raiders used an under
cover mans password yesterday to
arrest two men on gambling and
narcotics charges.
A squad of men under Capt.
Thomas Rasmussen of the 10th
Precinct and Detective Sergt. Will
liam L. Taylor of the Narcotics
Squad followed the undercover
man into a basement apartment
in the 1400 block of Girard street
NV, after he had mentioned
Tom" to the man at the door.
Inside they arrested Alvah K
Randall, AZ, of the 1900 block ot
L street Sc, and Barney Munitz
80, of the Girard street address
Both were booked on charges O.
setting up gaming table, operat.
Ing a lottery, possession of LOTTERY
slips and violation of the narcotic!
act.
The raiders said they found 8
small bottle containing five heroir
capsules under a couch.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

ing job seekers and businessmen
asking for copies of the order.
The office had not received a
single written complaint of price
violations during the week, a
spokesman said.
Telephone Complaints.
However, there have been a
number of phone complaints, par
'ticularly from retailers, of meat
oyercharges.
This problem is receiving seri-
GUS study by the national Office
which is considering, among other
things, licensing program for all
slaughterers and placing them on
production quotas.
In move to clear up doubts
by some dealers, OPS explained
yesterday that wholesale and re-
tail pork prices were under cell
ings since the price of live hogs
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Steps Taken 10 Avert Shortage Of Gas

The Washington Gas Light Co
has resumed gas manufacture al
its standby plant as. q precaution
against the possibility of natu-
raj gas shortage because of cold
weather demands, officials an
nounced last night.
There have been. reports from
other sections of the country OF
a natural gas shortage because of
the weather, particularly in the
Midwest.
Officials here said the manu-
factured gas is being mixed with
the natural gas throughout the
system here. The standby plant,
kept in condition for just such
emergencies, is at Twelfth and N
streets Sc. and manufactures. gas
from oil, officials explained.
The Atlantic Seaboard Corp. at
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Aircraft Carrier Turuwo
Is Out of MothbuIIs
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The 27,-
000-ton aircraft carrier Tarawa
named for one of the Marines
bloodiest victories in the Pacific
rejoined the fighting fleet today
after 19 months in mothballs.
High Navy officials, including
Secretary of the Navy Matthews,
turned the powerful flattop over
to Capt. John H. Griffin at re-
commissioning ceremonies at the
New York Naval Shipyard,
Brooklyn.
Among those attending were
Marine Maj. Gen. Julian c. Smith
and Mrs. Smith. Gen. Smith and
his I'd Marine Division took Ia
rawa in furious engagement.
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Coffins 10 Be Carried
Past White House 10
Protest Executions

Collins will be carried to the
White House in a demonstration
this afternoon to protest the elec-
trocution of four of the Martins
vile Seven" Aubrey Grossman,
national organizational secretary
OF the Civil Rights Congress, an
nounced in Richmond.
Mr.. Grossman said several
thousand" demonstrators will
gather at 2 pm. at the Vermont
street Baptist Church in a cam
palgn to save the three survivors
scheduled to die tomorrow.
Listed as Subversive.
He said four coffins will be car
rled past the White House in pro-
test against President Truman's
refusal to intervene in the cleo
trocution Friday of four of the
negroes convicted of rape.
The Civil Rights Congress has
been listed as subversive by the
Attorney General.
In Richmond, a memorial serv-
ice for the men will be held this
afternoon in the Third Street
Bethel A.E.M. Church, the As
sociated Press reported.
Mrs. GrosSman said Mrs, Fran
els Grayson-wife of one of the
men still awaiting electrocution
Tor the rape of Martinsville
white woman in 1949-wouId
come to Washington today.
Governor Unavailable.
The committee said late yes
terday that Mrs. Grayson and
her children had gone to the
Governors mansion in the hope
OF visiting Mrs. John Battle, wife
OF the Governor. Gov. and Mrs,
Battle were unavailable to callers
or telephone messages.
" Meanwhile, the vigil of prayer"
continued on the cold, windy
lawn of the Capitol here. From
Two to four persons kept the vigil
In shifts, Bible before them.
Gov. Battle has observed re-
peatedly' that all seven of the
men admitted raping the woman
and he described the incident as
one OF the Nations worst crimes
He said they received fair trials
and that most of the protests
against the executions were Com
munlSt-inSpired.
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Boby Girl Found Dead,
Fuce Covered by Pillow

A baby girl was found dead in
her crib yesterday by her mother,
Mrs. Patricia O'Mara, of 1866
Kenyon street NV, police re-
ported.
Believed a suffocation victim,
the little girl, Robin Lynn, 10
months old, was removed to the
District Morgue after being pro-
nounced dead at the home. Po-
lice said a pillow was over the
child's face when she was dis
covered by her mother at 2 pm.
An autopsy was ordered.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

Rockville, which supplies natural
gas to the Washington area from
Kentucky and West Virginia
fields, said there is no shortage in
sight here. But it said it had
asked the Washington Gas Light
Co. to manufacture some gas here
to help out" The company said
it has curtailed natural gas to
industries in it's service area, but
that none are affected in this
region. 1t said there is no natural
gas shortage for domestic heat
ing and cooking.
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Embargo
Continued From First Page.

ploy 1000. The Pillsbury Mills
of Springfield, H., began laying
off 1900 employees.
Fruit and vegetable growers ir
Southern California say they face
losses mounting into millions o1
dollars. The big lettuce crop, de.
pendent on rail shipment, is be.
ing harvested.
Maryland Affected.
Closer to home, the strike has
drastically cut into production o1
Maryland's varied industries
Shipments of raw materials tc
the Sparrows Point mills Of Beth
lehem Steel have practically
halted. The sea food industry is
hard hit and on the Eastern
Shore. poultry raisers are wor-
ried about getting feed for the
fowl.
The situation was worsening in
the New York area, with commut-
ers being hard pressed. and seven
more long distance trains being
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Chinese Used as Fodder
For Suns, Chiunq Soys
BY fhe Associoted Pres,

IAIPE1, Formosa, Feb. 3.-Gen-
efallsslmo Chang Kai-shek de-
clared tonight that Chinese main
lana farmers were being forced
into the Chinese Red army for
service in Korea and Indo-China
as cannon fodder for the Rus
sian aggressors."
Inc Nationalist Chinese leader
made his statement in a broad
cast to farmers commemorative
Farmers Day" He did not ex-
pand it.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

| clergyman of
t h a t country
! ever to be in
vited as guest
chaplain to the
Senate. T h e
Rev. Mr.. Tani-
moto was one of
the chief char
acters in a book
about the atom
bombing of Hi
roshlma. The
clergyman. be-
sides his Senate
appearance, has
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Questions by Latin
Prove All Greek to
District Price Office

A man, presumably a
Latin American, called the
District Office of Price Sta
bilization with some questions
that stumped the staff.
He wanted to know if he
could raise his fee for new
classes in Spanish he was
about to start. And. not being
a citizen of the United States
in any event. wasn't he ex-
sempt from the freeze? the
caller asked.
The man was referred to
thes national Office where his
case sWas taken under consid-
Grafton.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

first week In business at 80 Sixth
street sN.Wa estimated they had
received between 400 and 500 tele-
phone calls from persons seeking
information on the order, making
complaints of alleged violations or
asking about jobs.
In addition the Office had be-
tween 200 and 300 callers, includ-
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Food Prices Soar to New Record gh Further Rise Seen

OPS prepared to sign UP at least
six enforcement men early this
week, possibly tomorrow, and get
down to the serious business OF
policing the price order issued
January 26. +
Officials, looking back On tfeir
Evening star., 1951-02-04

number of talks before District
religious groups. ~
The clergyman was graduated
from the theological school OF
Emory University in Atlanta. He
is pastor of the Hiroshima Metho.
dist Church.