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Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Women To
Meet Here Feb. 9TH
Mispillion Club To Gather At
Elementary School

The Mispillion Business and Pro-
tessional WOmen's Club of Milford
will hold its February meeting on
Wednesday evening, February 4.
1851, at the Lakeview Avenue FL
ementary School at 8 D. m.
Anyone wishing to learn moro
about the club and interested i'm
joining will be welcome at the
meeting, as well as the. charter
members.
The charter was closed with Is
charter members. The charter
members are as follows.
Mrs. Zena Aber, Mrs. Margaret
Argo, Miss Keturah Beideman.
Mrs. Mary Berry, Mrs. Elizabeth r.
Bradford, Mrs. Mildred Burton.
Margaret L. COrdrey, Miss Leola
Davidson, Mrs. Helen M. DEPUTY.
Mrsl Eleanor M. Donovan. Miss
Ruth Foster, Mrs. Laura v. Gooden
Miss Pansy Hawley, Mrs. Helen
HOut, Mrs. Mary Keller, Mrs.
Helen Kern. Mrs. Ray P. McFaul,
MISS Jessiefy Macklin, Mrs
Rosanna B. Marshall, Mrs. Emma
Lipman, Mrs. Lillian I. Martin.
Mrs. Evelyn I. Morris, Mrs. Mar
garet M. Shlor, Mrs. Esther n
Taylor, Mrs. Mildred Webster.
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
100 Tickets
Allotted For
Big Ball Game
Funds From Sale Will Be
Credited To Local PO-
lilo Drive, Chairman
Grier Says.

Garrett L. Grier, general chair
man of the 1851 Milford Area Polio
FUnd Drive, has announced that 100
tickets for the big benefit basket
ball doubleheader, scheduled for
Dover Field House on the evening
OF Wednesday, February z, have
been allotted to Milford and that
proceeds from sale Of such tickets
here will be credited to the local
drive. Chairman Grier also adj
vised that these tickets could be
obtained from Coach Robert Bech-
er at the high school; from Mrs.
Anne T. Minner at the Milford
Chronicle Office; from David Hugg
at the Hugg Insurance Agency;
from Nelson Griffith, at GrifRth's
Barber Shop, and at the Office of
the Grier Lumber Company.
The February benefit double
header will pit lower Delaware,s
two most outstanding community
teams against Wilmington's best
quintets. Attempting to uphold the
basketball prestige of the down
state area will be the Harrington
LegiOnnaires, playoffs winners in
the former All-Delaware League.
and the Georgetown Countyseaters
last years pennant winners in the
Eastern Shore Basketball League.
Harrington offers several stars well
known to local fans; included are
Clayt Downes, Paul Martin and
Jack Dill, who formerly were
among the scoring leaders in the
former Mar-Del and All-Delaware
circuits, and who currently are
near the top in the Eastern Shore
loop. In Joe G1ifith, Georgetown
ofers a former Milford star, who
has been regarded as being one of
the best all-arOund players ever
developed on the peninsula. Other
well known sharpshOoters with the
countyseaters are Bob SnOwden.
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
School Art Dept.
To Have Show Feb. 8
Miss EIOise C0nte, Art Instructor.
Is Arranging For Exhibit

The art department of the Mil
ford High School is issuing this in
yitation to the friends of the school
IN town and the community to at
tend showing of reproductions of
Famous contemporary painting dis
played in the school cafeteria on
Friday, February 8, from 2:SO until
6 p. m. The prints are in color of
the gelatone type of printing, which
is the most expensive type of pic
ture printing. There will be a few
silk screens in the exhibit. Some
OF them are even imported. But
all are in a wide range of prices
suitable for all. The exhibit comes
from Raymond and Raymand of
New York City, and orders will be
taken for prints, the sample Of
which will be hung in the exhibit
for selling. An evenings showing
will be held on Thursday. Febru-
ary 8, from z until 10 D. m. This
will be for teachers and those of
the public who cannot attend the
Friday exhibit. The prints will be
shown the pupils also and this
VIII take IN most of those inter-
ested in art. This exhibit is being
arranged by Miss Eloise Conte. art
instructor in the schools, who has
invited teachers from nearby
schools to attend the exhibit.
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Aged Woman Killed
By Auto In Yard
Mrs. Emma L. Timmons, DagsbOrO,
Strack As Car Runs OF Road


Mrs. Emma L. Timmons, rs, Of
RID Dagsb0rO, mother Of Chief OF
Police Fred b Timm0ns OF Mills
boro, was fatally injured last FRI
day night when struck by car
that turned over in the yard Of her
home after running out of control
on Route 331 which passes in front
Of her property.
According to state troopers at
Georgetown, Mrs. Timmons with
her husband, Edward TimmOns,
was returning to their home after
a visit to a neighbor across the
road when the accident occurred
Tiinmons, who was walking ahead
of his wife, escaped injury.
The car police reported, was
operated by George Handy Powell
"a. Of Selbyville, and was travel
ing around curve On Route S31
the Millsboro-Dagsboro Road about
two miles south Of the limits OF
MillsbOro, when the driver lost con-
troll Of the vehicle. Police said the
car ran of the highway, turned
over and finally came to rest in the
yard about 80 feet from the road
Mrs. TimmOns was struck BY the
careening ear and suffered internal
Eluries. Powell was not injured
The victim was taken to the. Office
Of DR.. G. " Wood Of Miilsboro and
pronounced dead.
Police said Powell is being held
for investigation and will likely be
arraigned before Magistrate oscar
3. King Of Georgetown on a charge
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Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
UppOr tunltY
Days Will Be
Held Today
~ Mn n we no - var
Q IN OrrO w
Merchants Fully Prepar-
ed For Resumption Of
Monthly Bargain Fes-
tiyal; viii Be Continu-
ed 1'ill Further Notice.

Beginning today and continuing
through tomorrow, local merchants
will hold the first Opportunity
Days" Of 1851 and the first in two
months. Present plans call for
some wonderful shopping oppor-
tunities for the thrifty housewife.
The rDays". a brainchild Of the
local Chamber of Commerce, be-
gan last April and since their in-
cepti0n have been well received by
the thousands Of shoppers who
make Milford their shopping head
quarters.
Thee Days" are designed to offer
to the shopping public an oDpor-
tunity to obtain a series Of feature
items each month at near cost,
thus af5ording the purchaser a real
saving opportunity, thus the name
Opportunity Days"
During December, the Days
We're not held, and in January, be-
cause the last Friday and Satur-
day, the customary days for hold
ing the sales fete, came on the 26th
ana 9th Of the month, and for
many merchants the middle Of in
Ventory, it was decided to hold the
Days" the first Friday and Satur-
day in February or namely Febru-
ary End and Srd. However, next
Opportunity Days" after today
and tomorrow, will be held the
last OF the month.
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
D G m OCra tS
Deny Sussex
COP Claim
On Election
Candidates For County
wide Offices Filed An
swer To Republican
M andamu In State
Supreme Court.

The successful Democratic cam
dldates for country offices in Sus-
sex County at the election last No
vember, in answers filed in the
State Supreme Court Monday af-
ternoon Of this week dispute con-
tentions Of the defeated Republican
candidates that the ballots cast in
the second election district. Third
Representative District, Seafor6.
should be rejected.
The answers were filed otter the
court. with Chief Justice Charles
s. Richards. Judge Charles &,
Terry, Jr., and Vice Chancellor
Collins ]. Seitz sitting, first grant,
ed motion of James Nj. Tunnel.
Jr., Georgetown, that the Democ-
ratio candidates, now in office and
represented by him, be permitted
TO intervene in the mandamus pro-
ceedings instituted early last
month.
The contesting Republican can
dldates, through their counsel, Dam
lei J. Layton, Jr., Georgetown, con-
tend that about 284 votes were IL
legally received by the election Of
fieers at Seaford after the closing
hour of p. m.
2S4 Votes Involved
They asked that the Supreme
Court direct the Sussex COUNTY
Board of Canvass - Chancellot-
Daniel F. Wolcott and Judge James
3. Carty--tO reconvene and not in.
ciude the 284 votes in the official
count, or, If the alleged illegal votes
cannot be separated from the valid
votes, count none of the votes cast
in the district.
The answers filed this afternoon
by Mr.. Tunnell aver that the can
yass board acted correctly in refus-
ing to grant a petition of the RI
publican candidates that the ilIe-
gal or, il necessary, all the votes of
the district, be rejected. Further
they say the board lacked iurisdic.
ton and the remedy lay In the .Sns.
/ sex county Superior Court.
The answers maintain thai .seloe-
ing" of the election means prevenf-
ing the electors from voting aftar
tne closing hour of 6 p. m. unless
they were at the polling place
awaiting to vote prior to and at the
closing hour"
This meaning is independently
established both by a thorough
reading OF the text of the electIon
statutes Of the state and long
standing custom and practice in
Sussex County determining the
meaning thereof as applied to Sus-
sex County" It is argued.
Standing In Line
The defense maintains that no
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Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Milford OAR
Chapter Holds
Anniversary
Members Met At Wonder
Bar Dining Room On
Last Saturday After
noon.

The Captain Jonathan Caldwell
Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri.
can Revolution, celebrated the sec.
ond anniversary of it's founding on
Saturday, when the members met
in the dining room of the Wonder
Bar at Harrington. Luncheon, as
arranged by Mrs. Willard J. Dufen-
dach, Mrs. Edmund Harrington and
Mrs. William Sheath, was nicely
appointed with red, white and blue
bouquets for the long table and
corsages for some of the guests
Miss Catherine Downing, the re-
gent, presided at the meeting
which followed the luncheon
Members brought guests for the Oc-
casiOn. Invocation was made by
the chaplain, Mrs. j. Raymond
Bennett, which was followed by the
customary chapter opening. State
guests included Mrs. George r.
Miller, state regent; Miss Elizabeth
Elliott, of SeafOrd, state recording
secretary; Mrs. j. Edwin Dutton
state chaplain. In welcoming the
members and guests Miss Downing
spoke of the growth of the local
chapter and expressed the belief
that it had been built on a good
foundation for the future. Mrs
Miller spoke to the group, congrat-
plating the members of their pres
ent achievements and wished much
for them in the coming years. Mr.
Melvin BrObst, of Harrington, in
structor of music in the schools
there, provided pleasant inter-
lude when an ensemble of high
school girls played two numbers.
The speaker of the afternoon was
Miss Elizabeth Elliott, who recount
ed for those present the importan,
happenings of a trip to Munich,
Germany, last summer when she
was the guest of her niece, Mrs.
Ridgely Vane, and Captain Vane,
who are living in occupied terri
tory. Interesting were the accounts
of her flight to Rome during the
Holy Year, the visit to Switzer-
land, and hearing the performance
of Wilhelm Tell" and her attend
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Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Job Plums In
OPS Grabbed
By Democrats
Political Pressure Is De-
MED But most All ST.
900 To $4,000 Field
Posts Are GObbled Up.
BY Associatad Prass


Most of those $500 to $4,000
field jobs in the Office of Price
Sterilization (0PS) have gone to
Democrats, but Price Director Mi
chael v. Disable said on Tuesday
no political pressure is being
brought on him to appoint anyone
He denied to reporter that new
employees of his agency need any
clearance from the Democratic Ma.
tiOnal Committee, but acknowledg-
ed the national and state Democra-
tic committees have made recon,
mendations.
This was confirmed by the Dem
ocratic National Committee after
check showed that of the 13. region
al price enforcement directors an
nOuneed last weekend, nine de-
scribed themselves as Democrats
one as an independent Democrat
one as a "nOn-active" Democrat
one as having mo politics." and one
could not be reached. These Jobs
pay $4,000 year.
The check also showed that OF
the "a district directors so far ap-
pointed, 20 are Democrats, one in.
dependent, one unaffiliated, one de-
clined to state affiliation, others un-
known. These directors will re-
ceiye from $1,000 to $4,000.
None Of the regional or district
directors has been appointed as vel
on permanent basis. All hold "act-
ing" titles.
The Democratic committee said il
asked Democratic senator's anC
state committeeman for recon.
mendations for these field jobs anC
they were passed on to the stabili.
zation office in Washington. It saiC
no clearance was exercised, how.
Continued on page %
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Ticket Sale
on For Lions
Club Minstrel
May Be Purchased At
BreretOn's Or Bryan's
Drug Stores; All Down
Stairs Seats Reserved.


Tickets for the annual Liens Club
Minstrel Show went on sale Tues
day morning. All downstairs seats
are reserved. Tickets may be
bought from any mtmber of the
Lions Club or at Breretons or
Heath's Drug Stores. Prices are:
reserved seats $1.0O; adult, gener-
al admission, 7Sc; children, general
admission, 60c, all tax included
Reserved seat tickets are temper
ary tickets which may be exchang-
ed anytime after February 12, al
the theatre for reserved seats.
Interlocutor for the show is
Capt. Eddie Isaacs, Of the Delaware
State Police. End men are Walter
Muncy, Heyman Roosa, Joseph Nc
Faul, William Slee, Alfred Bevin,
Skip Gillespie, Howard Furniss and
Thomas Galloway.
Programs are not yet complete.
The performers so far engaged are
Lyman Fox. tap dancer; Sterling
Simon of Dover, steel guitar; and
the Sus-CO Del quartet, male
quartet from Georgetown.
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Sentences Melted Out
In Sussex Court
Judge James B. Carey Presided At
General Sessions Court

In General Sessions Court at
Georgetown last Friday morning,
Masten Earl Davis, of Lewes, was
sentenced to serve one day in Jail
and pay the costs of prosecution,
BY Jueee James B. Carey. Davis, a
native Of Virginia, previous to his
arrest last August, was employed
by a dredging company at Lewes
He was indicted and tried in the
October Court, last year on a charge
Of larceny of check, but was freed
on a directed verdict, only to be
Immediately re-arrested on a charge
Of issuing worthless checks and
held for court. The one day SEN
tence by Judge Carey was imposed
after Davis agreed to make resti-
tuition on the worthless checks and
in view Of time already served.
Paul Laws, Of Bridgeville, ar
raigned on a charge Of assault and
battery on five months old Steven
Austin, Jr., drew a sentence of
costs and three years.
Sentences of two years each were
imposed on ElWoOd Howard Davis
Jr., Of Milton, and Carroll Rows
also Of Milton. Davis pleaded guilty.
TO the larceny Of a Chevrolet car
owned by Russell Gooner, on jan
uary -, this year. The car, con-
siderably damaged, was recovered
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Fire Recorder Has
Presented ,5OReport
Figures R elea sed By
COunty Official G. 7.
White Shows Increase
OF $1O2,7S8.5O In 1850
Fire Loss Over 1949.

The report Of Fire Recorder Gran
vile 7. White given at the meeting
OF the Sussex County Volunteer
Firemen's Association in Millville
Fire Hall last week was of espe-
ciai importance. Mr.. White read the
annual report for 1850, which repre-
sents reports from all of the II
volunteer companies in Sussex
County. This is the third successive
year that Sussex companies have
reported 1000 and Mr.. White was
given a rising vote Of appreciation
Tor his work in connection with OBJ
tanning the important information.
Tie report reveals an increase of
SlO2,788.50 in fire losses in Sussex
County over the losses Of 1949, when
the total loss was listed as 1924
944.5O. For 1850 the total loss re-
ported was $727, 7,733.OO. During 1860
there were nine persons who died
IN fires, compared to two who lost
their lives in 1949 fires. Towns with
death losses were listed as Laurel.
q; Seaford, q: Bridgeville, 4, and
georgetown, /. A comparison of
total number of alarms also showed
an increase-in 1949 there were $50
and in 1850 total of 867, divided as
follows: Town, 800; rural, 461, and
n false alarms. Chimney fires to-
falling 191, led in types of fires:
others listed were: dwellings, 1853
grass, 141; woods, go; auto, So:
mercantile, S8; chicken houses, %;
miscellaneous causes, 81. During
1850, 11,4S8 volunteer firemen in
Sussex County spent a total of
74,416A hours in service, travelling
7,1I418 miles. Mr.. White also gave
a report of services of ambulances,
seven in number, maintained by
sussex Fire Companies. There were
a total Of 748 trips made, covering
44s115 miles; 1,431 men spending
l,766M hours in service, or a tCtaII
of 3,532z5 man hours. There was
an Increase Of mileage in 1850 over
l949, amounting to 1857 miles. and
125 more trips made.
The December 1850 report listed
as S58,390 loss with insurance cow
erage of $12,155 and total net loss
of $46,235 Companies listed as
having the greatest loss in Decem-
Der, 195O-Lewes, $35,030 and
Georgetown as company responding
to most alarms, IL in number.
During the business session, pre-
sided over by Ellis Kyttle, of Lau-
rel, reports or legislation concern
ing firemen were given by Colonel
Slayer; firemen's duties in connec-
tion with the Civil Defense set-up
were related by Colonel Slayer, who
is Civil Defense Coordinator of Vol
unteer Firemen in Delaware and
Herald Brittingham, of Lewes,
president of the Delaware Fire
Chiefs Association.
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Young Republicans
Lincoln Day Dinner
State Wide Affair To Be.
Held At Georgetown
Friday, Feb. 9Th

The State Federation of Young
Republicans, comprising groups in
New Castle, Kent and Sussex
Counties. are sponsoring a state
wide Lincoln Day Dinner, to be
held the evening of Friday, Febru-
sry 9th in Jones Memorial Hall,
Georgetown.
A prominent speaker from Wash
ington, D. c. will address the group
Tickets at $3.50 each may be OBJ
tanned from Polk Spicer, president
Of the Active Young Republicans of
Sussex; at the Republican head
quarters in Georgetown; Harry
CULLEN, president of the AYR in
Kent County; Republican Head
quarters at the Hotel Richardson
IN Dover, and at Republican Head
quarters in the Hotel Rodney.
Wilmington.
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02

marFa peninsula, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey sharing in the bargains
which more than $50 wilmington
merchants win offer ID that one big
sales event
February z will be the bargain
day when Wilmington merchants
viii offer, for that day only, what
they consider as exceptional and
money-saving opportunities to the
thrifty to purchase strictly sea-
sonal merchandise of all kinds.
This big sales event. now Gus
tom ii nationwide merchandising
but which was born III Wilmington
about 40 years ago, win be held
tconilnued % paEs 1sJ
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Cancer Not Catching,
Nor Is 1t Inherited
Scientific Research DisclOses Two
Important Facts About Malady

Scientific Research DisclOses Two
Important Facts About Malady
Cancer is a disease Of body cells.
1t is not "catching"-nor is it in
herited from parents-that much
we know. Cancer starts when a few
abnormal cells begin to multiply
and, taking food from normal
structure, spread to other parts Of
the body. At present, certain types
of growth cannot be cured, but one
third of early diagnosed cancer can
be cured. 1t is believed that an
other third could be cured if dis
covered and treated in time. Last
year, there were 45O (estimated)
cancer deaths in the State of Del
aware. It would be decidedly worth
while to save a third.
Doctors do not really know why
cancer starts. 1t appears most fre-
quently after the age of 35. 1t
can start in any part of the body,
but some locations seem to be more
susceptible than others.
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Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Gaping Ceremonies
For Nurses, Feb. 9th
Rev. w. f. Tull VIII Give The Ad.
dress In Avenue Church

Gaping ceremonies of the Mil
ford Memorial Hospital Training
School for Nurses, will be held in
Avenue Methodist Church, next
Thursday evening, February 9Th.
The following student nurses will
be capped, ceremony coming at
the end of their first five months of
training: Misses Diane Russell,
Fannie Collins of Laurel; Jean
Sapp, Houston; Jane Savin, Wini-
fred Greenly and Charlotte Kern,
Milford; Jean Ventura, New York
City and Mary Yoder, Grantsville,
Maryland.
The program follows:
Professional: Onward Christian
Soldiers; Presiding, Mr.. Roland
Messick; Music, Hymn To Music, 4"
Chorus Student Nurses; Invocation,
Rev. Roy Tawes; Address, Rev.
William Tull; Music, my Task" "
Chorus Student Nurses; Gaping,
Mrs. Alice Stevenson, Director of
Nursing; Flor ence Nightingale
Pledge, Glass; Music, Lords Pray
er," Miss Diane Russell; Benedic-
ton; Recessional.
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02

DeTj only HVe nave notified The
State office Of Civil Defense in the
Wilmington Armory that division
chiefs have been selected to head
the various groups which are
deemed necessary to implement a
realistic civil defense program.
Major Lee revealed this situation
in a letter to Mayor William J.
Storey of Dover, president OF the
Delaware Mayors Association, in
which Major Lee also said that
while neither the Federal nor
State Government wants to over
burden small towns and communi-
ties with civil defense expenditures,
CcOntinued on pags lsl
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
w. I. Thompson Head
OF Dairy Breeding

William 7. Thompson, Lincoln,
was elected President Of the Sus-
sex County Unit of the Delaware
Artificial Breeders Cooperative at
the annual meeting Of the associa-
tion last night.
Mr.. Thompson succeeds Raymond
NJ. Lank Oh Milton, who has served
the organization as its president
for the past three years.
Continued on page IS)
Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Air Reserve Unit
Formed At Dover

Nineteen former Air Force veter-
ans formed the first downstate re-
serve air fight unit Monday under
the Volunteer Air Reserve Training
program. Major Roy M. Schuteh-
field was named commanding Off
Ger Of the unit.
The new unit, which will enable
air force veterans to keep abreast
with modern Air Force tactics and
continued on page 81