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, 1951-07-05

tanning TV vehicle to national
fame.
Sparkling with comedy while
portraying a well-balanced
cross-section of Negro life, the
new show is also making history
in another direction.
Under the sponsorship Of the
Blatz Brewing Company, the
'Amos m Andy" TV series will
afford continuous and lucrative
employment on a coast-to-coast
television network for more
than a score of. versatile Negro
performers.
The show will be telecast each
week on the Columbia Broad
casting Systems national 'video
network.
Even before their world pre-
miere during the last week in
June, the three leading actors
, 1951-07-05

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His second catcher will be
Bruce Edwards, newly Of the
Cubs, and if any criticism results
from Sawyer's selections, it well
may start here. The selection
ignored both Walker Cooper Of
the Braves and Yves Westrum of
the Giants, who were favored be-
hind Campanella in the Fans
ballots.
Oldest National League players
in point of All-Star appearances
are Musial and Slaughter, who'll
be performing in their eight ALL
Star game. Reese has won sever
All-Star bids. Maglie, Westlake
and Dark are the newcomers to
this proud company.
, 1951-07-05

Seven Brooklyn stars arc on
the 25sman squad selected jointly
by the fans and by Philadelphia
Pills pilot Eddie Sawyer, who'll
manage the National League Club
in the 1851 renewal of baseball's
big July show.
What's more, Sawyer found.
himself unfettered by the Ameri-
can League agreement that each
Of the eight pitchers should come
, 1951-07-05

There's an outside chance He'll
start Blackwell, the Cincinnati
stringbean who went so marvellous
ly against the A. L. when he got
the All-Star starting nod four
years ago.
THE VOTE OF FANS had given
sawyer these eight starters, exclu-
sive of pitcher:
Gil Hodges, Brooklyn, first
base; Jackie Robinson, Brook
Ign, second base; Bob Elliott,
Boston, third base; Al Dark,
New York, shortstop; Stan Mu-
sial, S.. Louis, Richie Ashburn'
and Del Ennis, Philadelphia,
outfielders; Roy Campanella,
Brooklyn, catcher.
The first thing sawyer Gid in
putting the rest of the club togeth-
er was stick home run king Ralph
| Kiner of Pittsburgh, who'd lost to
Hodges in the first base balloting
, 1951-07-05

from a different club. Eddie
loaded his staff with two dodgers
Preacher Roe and Don New
combe-and two Giants-Sal Mag
lie and Larry Jansen.
Just for kicks, he threw in War
rem SPAIN Of the Braves, Robin
Roberts Of the Phils, Ewell Black
well Of the Reds and relief wizard
Dutch Leonard of the Cubs.
, 1951-07-05
New ~ Stars Rise on Amos n Andy
Negro Talent Hailed for Roles
In BIotz-Sponsored video Version
BY Chester L. Washington

HOLLYWOOD-The exciting task of bringing the
legendary. Amos m Andy" to television life has created
a galaxy of new stars in the world of show business-bril-
, 1951-07-05
N atiio'na| L~eagures May
Star ~Fuvorites
By EINSTEIN

lntefnaionaI News Service Sports Writer
NEW YORK July 5 ms The Dodger-Domin-
ated National League All-Stars, their complete roster
identified by old league headquarters, may sail into next
Tuesdays mid-season classic against the American League
as favorites for the first time since the war.
, 1951-07-05

on his list as an outfielder. Other
outfielders will be Enos Slaughter
and Wally Westlake of the cards,
Duke Snider of the Dodgers and
Johnny Wyrostek of the Reds.
Pee Wee Reese of Brooklyn,
Red Schoendienst of tht Cardinals
and Willie Jones of the Pills are
Sawyer's infield additions.
, 1951-06-13
President Trurnun
Speaks Tomorrow
Night to Notion

President Harry Truman
will speak to the nation over
a radio hook-up on Thursday
night at 1920 eastern daylight
time. He will also be televised.
MI. Truman will speak on
the necessity for extending
and strengthening initiation
controls. Everyone is being
urged by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee to write
to congressman and senators
to support strong price and
rent control since special in
terest Hobbies are very active
in Washington to weaken such
controls.
, 1951-06-13
Richurd Usher, YOUNG
Actor. to Nurrute
Virgin Islunds Show

Continuing their efforts to
bring the vast reservoir of Vir
gin Islands talented decend-
ants to their public, the Pro
fessional League added still
another name to those in the
cast of the Virgin Islands Fes-
tiVal. This time, it is a young
actor Richard Usher, who vii
be the narrator for the show.
Born in New York City, of
Virgin Islands parents, the
young thespian attended the
public schools of this city, and
later studied at the College of
the City of New York. He was
at one time a business mana
ger and director of the Clare
mont Players, a group intesest
ed in the legitimate stage. He
is currently a member of the
Penthouse Players, a troupe
of actors and dancers who are
exclusively trained and appear
under the direction Of ballet
Continued on page A
, 1951-06-13
U. S. Should Draw
A Line, Tell Russia No
Further. General Says

1t. General Albert Wede-
meyer told the Investigating
Committee of the US. Senate
that contrary to what Secre-
tary Acheson said, Generals
simo Chang Kai Shek was
chagrined at the deal given
his government at Yalta. He
said further that the U. S.
should pitch to win in Korea
or else take its team off the
field.
Wedemeyer also told the
Senators that the time has
come for the US. to draw a
line and tell the Russians that
thus far and no further even
at the calculated risk. Oh the
war in Korea, the General
said he would favor a truce
with the Chinese reds, if it
would bar any trickery or re-
turn to fighting. However, he
said, he was not confident Of
red China's sincerity in any
negotiation.
Earlier Wedemeyer propos-
ed throwing a ring Of air bases
around Russia as a safeguard
against aggression. -
, 1951-06-13
MdnY Important Items
Discussed by V. |.
Chamber Members

The Virgin Islands Chamber
of Commerce, which consists
of the Executive COMMITTEES of
the ST. Thomas and St. Croix
Chambers, held another quar-
terly meeting here on Monday
night in the Chambers office
at Christiansted.
Among the items discussed
were many of Importance to
the Islands and include: Tour
ist Promotion, Removal of fee
for cashing travellers checks;
Tax Exemption Law, Discus
sion of Tax, Structure of the
Islands; Seasonal Workers,
Fire Protection in the Virgin
Islands, Chamber of Com
merce of the Americas, In
crease Of Freight Rates, Public
Transportation controls and
and problems general to both
Islands.
Those attending from Saint
Thomas were Benjamin
Continued on page ~
, 1951-06-13
Pdrents Hedlth Orc.
To Celebrate 4th
Anniversary June Is

The Parents Health Organi-
cation of Christiansted will
celebrate their fourth Anniver
sary on Friday, June IS, 1851,
in the Lutheran Parish Hall at
9 p. M, it was announced
today.
A special program is being
arranged for the occasion. The
members have extended an
invitation to the general pub
lie to attend.
, 1951-06-13
V. |. Tourist Bourd
Asks Council to
Double Budget

A special committee from
the Virgin Islands Tourist
Board met with the Municipal
Council yesterday in connec-
ton with the possibility of
doubling the amount Of last
years 100000. Practically all
OF the additional funds would
be spent in the Islands instead
OF on outside advertising.
The Board is now concen-
trating on the length of time
the tourists remain in the is
lands. Mr.. Geoggel noted that
in St. Thomas they remain an
average of four and seven
-tenths days. Effort will be
made to have them remain at
least eight days next season
by providing more recrea-
tlonal opportunities
, 1951-06-13
General RidgeWuy
Says Navy Chaplain's
Letter Slunderous

General Matthew Ridgeway
has answered charges by Navy
Chaplain Otto Sporrer who.
ha dwritten that the Army Of
fcer corp is riddled with in
competence and that Army Of
ficers lacked courage, bravery
and interest in their men, in a
letter to Army Secretary
Frank Pace.
General RidgeWay said that
Chaplain Sporrer has SANDER
ed the reputation of many
brave and honorable soldiers,
dead and alive. Ridgeway said
the Navy chaplain's charges
are based on rumors, hearsaY,
speculation and half truths.
AT the Naval auxiliary Air
Station on Miramar, Califor-
MIA, Chaplain Sporrer said he
had given his word to refrain
from any further comment.
, 1951-06-13
Members of Csled Lutheran
Church Launch Fund Driue

A working committee Of
forty enthusiastic members of
the Lutheran Congregation,
gathered last night at the Lu-
theran parsonage, & completed
plans to raise $751; 900 for the
repair and rehabilitation of
the building and also the pur-
chase Of an organ. The project
was organized spontaneously
by the Church Council which
represents the membership.
!. The first part Of the project
was the publication Of a small
pamphlet for distribution
among the members called
."Our Church" with a photo
graph OF the building. Last
night each committee member
took on the assignment they
could handle best. Most volun
teered to visit other members
personally to ascertain the
contribution they can make:
Next, personal friends of indi
vidual members and also adj
mirers Of the two-century-old
, 1951-06-13

church will be contacted
either in person or by letter,
since in small communities
such as St. Croix; there is al
ways an unwritten "mu-
tContinued on page A.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29
Delaware Alters Owe
Chicago Trips to Industry

Delaware's delegation of eleven
state award winners is now in Chi
cago, representing the Diamond
State at the National All Club
Congress. All 48 states, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico, and Is foreign coun-
tries are represented there. Total
attendance of boys and girls and
All leaders exceed the 1000 mark.
These annual trips are made pos
sible by various industrial and COM
mercial organizations. They award
trips and scholarships to young
people all over the nation.
This years delegates, their win
ming project, and the company
sponsoring their trip are:
Betty Ann Carey, Bridgeville,
clothing, Spool Cotton Co.; Norma
Jane Adams, Bridgeville, canning,
Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp;
Sealina Bell, Dover, girls record,
Montgomery Ward & Co.; Alice
Mary Dennison, Yorklyn, dress re-
view, Simplicity Pattern Co.; Bev-
erly Short, Cheswold, food prepara-
ton, Nash-Kelvinator Corp; JOS
eph Workman, Delmar, garden, AL
disclaimers Mfg. Co.; Russell Lay
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Delaware farmers are, at present
against expansion in the services of
the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture.
The state report includes the
main points of county reports,
made by county agricultural mobil-
ization committees. Thirteen COM
munity meetings, with a total at
tendance of 404 persons, were held.
In general, said Ernest S. Matti-
ford, chairman of the state Agri-
cultural Mobilization Committee,
county reports expressed opposi-
ton to: ~ Direct payments to
farmers, in order to assure produc-
ers adequate returns, and (2) the
power of the USDA to acquire
lands.
Two county reports, Kent and
Sussex, expressed opposition to any
expansion in facilities of the USDA
at this time, but felt that the var
ious departments should continue
as they are.
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vesting, disease and insect control,
and fertilization. Modern chem
icals used on the farm are far more
complicated and selective in their
action than old type insecticides,
fungicides, and fertilizers.
Robert F. Stevens, extension hor-
ticulturist at the University of Del
aware, and secretary of the society,
says, "Old type chemicals were
made of raw materials, and were
characterized by general use for
many things"
''The new type chemical repre-
sents an amazing variety of ma
terials, and is often characterized
by one specific use, sometimes for
one crop only. This entails much
study and work for vegetable and
fruit producers. Up-to-date re-
search findings become more i'm
portant as the producers job be-
comes more complex"
Some of the talks dealing with
chemicals to be given at the meet
ing are: nutrient foliage sprays;
growth substances; potassium,
magnesium, and boron utilization
by sweet potatoes; asparagus pro-
duction; weed control; new insect
icides for bean beetle control; di-
sease control in tomatoes; reduc-
ing nematode damage; use of 2, A,
SIP and other growth substances
to control apple drop; and para
thion, benzene hexachloride, and
dieldrin in Delaware's spray sched-
ule.
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1876 Acre FARM

Promptly at 2:3o P. M, sharp,
1 will offer my Farm, consisting of
1876 acres,-120 acres tillable and
balance good woodland. with some
good saw timber; good room
House, with electric, good barn,
and barn under construction, 10x24
corn crib, 20x30 new chicken house,
16x20 utility building, new; tool
sheds, hog houses and other build
ings.
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PERSONAL PRoPERTY-CASH,
Day of Sale.
REAL ESTATE-109o must be
paid day of sale; balance within 80
days. Full possession of farm
within 10 days of sale if full settle
ment is made, otherwise the 1919
payment viii be held as non-com-
|pliance Of terms. A good clear
deed will be furnished at settle
|ment.
FRANK SNYDER
]. c. WALKER, Auctioneer
RUTH sCaIREINER, Clerk
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29
New Castle Tops In Corn;
Sussex Has Best Pasture

William T. Thompson, of Lincoln,
was named as both the state and
Sussex county winner in the Green
er Pastures Program by Governor
Gilbert N. Carvel. H.Wallace Cook
of near Glasgow, was announced as
the top winner in the Five-Acre
Corn Yield Contest. He produced
1855. 26 bushels per acre. Two hun
dred and fifty people attended the
Joint dinner meeting in Dover, No
vember 20.
other Greener Pastures winners
were: Sussex county-Tull Broth
ers, Seaford, End; Allison Davis,
Greenwood, Bird. Kent county-1st
Twin Allen, Camden; End Merrill
Jones, FELTON,; Bird, Virgil Pizer,
Wyoming. New Castle county
1st. Arthur C. Davis, Townsend;
End. Peter zeitler, Newark; and Bird
c. Douglas Buck, New Castle.
r. v. Stallard and w. 7. Splitter,
Seaford, won first in corn in Sussex
county, with 1873 bushels per acre.
Pippin Bros, Wyoming, were first
in Kent, with ia bushels per acre.
Governor Carvel presented a sill
yer coffee set to Thompson, as the
gilbert NICarvel Pastures Award.
A challenge trophy, also a silver
coffee set, was given to Cook by
Victor P. Kohl, president of the
Delaware Crop Improvement AS
ISOLATION, and last years corn yield
winner.
This was the second year for
both programs. This year there
were 1872 in the pastures program,
and IA in the corn yield contest.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29

ton, Laurel. poultry, Dearborn No
tors Corp; Robert Whaley, Laurel,
tractor maintenance, Standard Oil
Company; William Hartzel. Bridge
vile. field crops, International Har-
vester Mfg. Co.; Bryon Williams,
Dover, farm and home electric,
Westinghouse Educational Founda-
ton; William Hawkins, New Cas-
tie, home improvement, Sears, Roe
buck and Company.
Samuel Gwinn, state All Club
leader, and Mrs. Lillian Wilkins,
leader of the Bridgeville Live Wires
Club will chaperon the group. Mrs.
Wilkins was chosen because of her
outstanding 18-year record as q
All Club leader. She has had 100
percent completion of projects in
her club for the past three years.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29

National Hotel Association meet
ing in New York City recently. 1t
reached 10000 people in one day
only, during the three-day meet.
1t featured a model of the worlds
largest frying pan, and of Della,
the Delaware Chicken. A small
er wing Nof the exhibit featured a
rotisimat-an automatic chicken
barbecue device, operated by cleo
tricity. Fresh young Delaware
chickens were barbecued on this
daily, from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Otis Esham, Salisbury, Md, new
ly elected president of the festival,
commented, 1.-THE festival directors
have been working towards promo
tional activities other than the an
nual festival. This is another tang
ible example of how these activi-
ties are being developed. The hotel
people were an ideal group to con-
tact, and we hope to use the exhibit
to reach other large consumer
groups"
The State Poultry Commission
cooperated with the Delaware State
Grange last week, in furnishing
Delaware chickens for the Della
ware Day luncheon at the national
meeting in Atlantic City, N. J..
Background material on Delaware
chickens, and recipe leaflets, were
also distributed.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29

Advonee-Design features keep up
keep down. Come in and look over
the greet line of Chevrolet Advance
Design trucks first chance you get.
They'll do more work for your money
because lower maintenance costs ore
engineered in.
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FARMING IMPLEMENTS

MISUNDERSTANDING tractor, To-
20; Ford tractor and cultivators,
extra good condition; Mccormick
Deering two-bottom IA inch pillow,
McCormick-Deering double disc,
two-section drag harrow, David
Bradley corn planter, 2 riding cul-
tivators, walking cultivator, man
ure spreader, Accommodate
No. 6 moving machine, John Deere
mower, dump hay rake, grain drill,
wagon, cord wood saw, Mccormick
Deering feed grinder, corn shelter,
11s horse power gasoline engine,
timber wheels, so gal. drum, Paul
piston pump. About 800 bushels
CORN.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS-Electric
range, oil stove, burner and oven;
chunk stove, Coleman gasoline iron.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29
Poultry Groups Promote Delaware
obicIran IN Increase Marlrats

Chicken to Increase Markets
The state poultry groups, the
State Poultry Commission, and the
Delmarva Chicken Festival, Inc,
are carrying the story of Delaware
chicken to consumers all over the
nation.
The Delmarva Chicken Festival,
Inc, set up an exhibit at the 36th
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29

The majority of the speakers at
the Peninsula Horticultural Society
Salisbury, Md, December CT, will
discuss the use of chemicals in har-
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29
...fo do more work
for your money!

chevroIei's great engineered-in feu-
lures keep maintenance costs of rock
bottom. The famous 1o5-h.p. Lood-
mosfer engine is built for the hard
and long pulls. chevroIet's heovy-
duty frame, sturdy Transmission,
durable rear axle and other greet
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29

Hort Meeting Points Up Changes
in Chemical Uses
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1951-11-29

Farm Policy Review is
Anti-Goyernment Expansion
The Farm Family Policy Review
in Delaware shows that
Evening star., 1951-12-23
Russians Still Hold Their Christmas

roof as members of the family. with
the great wood-burning stove the
focus of warmth and life.
When the sun shines, the sky is an
inf1nity Of crystal blue, the snow re-
flecting an infinity of colors according
to the depth Of shadow and the angle
Of the sun. Then the cottages look
alive. Grouped around the village
church, with gilded onion cupola
flashing in the sun, and walls washed
in pink or pale green or blue, they
turn the bleak landscape into a
corner of fairy-land.
The Soviet revolution has not
changed this ancient picture. 1t has
twisted or hacked of the gold cross
on the church. 1t has turned the
church itself into a grain store. It
has provided club-room, made of
wood like the cottages. But it has
not changed the Russian peasants
attitude on life-and Christmas. 1t
would take more than the Kremlin to
deny the Russians their Christmas
trees: but the Kremlin does it's level
best to make sure that the Christmas
celebrations are not connected with
the birth of Christ.
Christmas Day is now treated like
any other working day, and the Soviet
Christmas is celebrated on New Years
Day. The presiding genius is Grand
father Frost, kind of glorified Santa
Claus, and every family that can
possibly afford it has a Christmas
tree. decorated with candles, as the
center Of the traditional ritual Of
present-giying. In the northern half
of the country, everyone has tree,
but on the treeless steppe-lands it is
not so easy, and often a tiny branch
OF spruce, up-ended in a pot and
painstakingly decorated with treas
ured scraps Of tinsel and colored
paper. has to serve instead.
At the New Year, the irrepressible
Russian love Of children finds its best
expression in tremendous children's
parties organized by schools, local
Soviets, trades unions, and local Com
munist organizations. run for days
on end.
The great annual City Of Moscow
Party Is one Of the sights of Russia,
and may go on for week. For once
the Communist functionaries, the
police officials, and all the bleak-faced
men and women who for the rest of
the year hold absolute and tight
Tipped sway over the masses from
whom these children spring, are able
to forget their doctrine, their direc-
tives. their suspicious and their party
line and relax-as Russians, even
official Russians, above all other peo-
pie know how-in the sheer delight
of childish high spirits.
At these parties, beside the games,
the dancing. the presents and the
food, there is also carol singing. But
the childish voices in their shrill, re-
mote unison are not celebrating the
birth Of Christ: they are singing OF
Evening star., 1951-12-23

Great Stain or the riches OF the
Kolkhoz from which, with the aid Of
Soviet science, all blessings spring.
How many Of these children know
the real meaning of Christmas? It
is impossible to tell, but certainly
more than one would expect. For
although the official celebrations fall
at the New Year, in thousands of
homes throughout the great, unspeak-
ing land the old traditional Christ
mas is not forgotten. Wherever
there are churches still functioning
services are celebrated with more
than the old traditional fervor. And
in the breasts of millions, who may
never openly confess their allegiance
to their old religion, Christmas Day
will not pass without a secret bless
ing-just as at Easter one may see
the most correct Government official
instinctively offering the traditional
bow and greeting: Christ is Risen"
Copyright. Observer Foreign News service.)
Evening star., 1951-12-23

and a school organized by UNRWA.
One of the school teachers, himself
refugee, took me to two large
tents which serve as a school for
nearly 500 boys. He showed me the
schools latest acquisition - some
rough wooden benches made in the
camps own carpentry shop started
for vocational training Previously
the boys sat on the floor.
Food Is Chief Concern
Some 300 children at time are
given extra food at school and at the
medical clinic when malnutrition
begins to threaten their health. All
children in the camp could do with
a good deal more food. and it is
heartrending sight to see the envious
eyes of those who are not getting
extra food watching the lucky ones
who are.
Apart from hunger, some of the
chief hardships are overcrowding and
lack of clothes and covering. In the
first tent I visited family of eight
three adults and five children
were housed in an area about six
feet by eight.
The bed covering for the whole
family in the cold winter of the
Palestine hills was two small blankets.
The hut visited housed family
Of six. It was neatly kept, with
few poor possessions Of bedding and
cooking utensils stacked on one cor
ner OF the bare floor. BY the doorway
without door-stood small thin
barefooted girl holding baby boy
almost as big as herself.
U. N. r. w. A. has provided some
shoes and material for clothes, es-
pecially for school children, and VOL
untary organizations such as religious
bodies are working hard to distribute
cast-off clothing collected in America,
Britain and other countries. But
much more is needed if many small
children are not to be cold and
hungry.
Copyright. Observer Foreign News service)