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Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Negative Rule
VI as Sought
ByCarvel
Young Charges
He Asserts Chief Execu-
tive Asked Him For
Opinion Against $780,
900 For Flood Control
In The Brack-Ex Sec
tiOn In New Castle
County.

Atty.-Gen. H. Albert Young Mon
day night accused Governor Car
vel of asking him for an opinion
finding that the Governor could not
make funds available for ending
floods in Brack-Ex in New Castle
County.
In a lighting speech to the Re-
publican First District Committee
at $40 King Street, Wilmington,
Mr.. Young also quoted from a syn
dicated New York cOlumnist who
said Monday morning:
Mob money moving into Della
ware to help defeat crime crusad-
ing Senator John J. Williams (R) -
If these mobsters," Mr.. Young
commented, If these gangsters are
going to try to align themselves
with the Democratic Party to de-
feat as great a man as Senator
John Williams we in the attorney
generals office are going to search
them out as they come into Della
ware and wipe them out.
Gas a law-enforcement officer
I've had some experience with
these mObs. l have some knowledge
of them. Thanks to our diligent
police we've gotten rid of them;
we've sent them back when they
tried TO take over Wilmington.
you can say, wherever you go,
in your homes, your clubs, your
schools, your houses of worship
that there's no more loyal, honest,
industrious and vigorous man than
John Williams. We are going to
send him back to Washington.
Cheered and applauded half a
dozen times in the course of his
speech, the third in the Monday
night series organized by EllwOod
S. Leach. chairman of the COM
mittee, Mr.. Young ripped both
Governor CarVel and Senator Will
liams' opponent. 1t. Gov. Alexis I.
dupont Bayard.
OF the Governors request for a
negative opinion on the Brack-Ex
matter, Mr. Young said the Gov
ernor had called him a while ago
and told him that the people in
Braek-Ex wanted the state to fix
up the food conditions.
They want me to spend
$3O,000,'" Mr.. Young said the Gov
ernor told him. "'But / want you
to put it in writing that I don't
have the authority, the Governor
is alleged to have said
Dir. Young said that the Governor
told him that the State Highway
(cOntinued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Representative Women
From Kent And Sussex
Met With Philadelphia
Store Executives Last
Thursday In Dover.

Friendly relations were well es-
tablished on Thursday of last week
when four, of the personnel of the
new Strawbridge and Clothier
Store at EdgemOre met with rem
resentative women from Kent and
Sussex Counties at a luncheon AZ
Dinner Bell Inn IN Dover. Mrs.
Ella Waters of the main store i'm
Philadelphia and Mrs. Dorothy
Taylor of the new store greeted
the women and talked later at the
luncheon, telling of the many serv-
ices at the new store in Merchan-
disc Mart above Wilmington. Also
present was Isaac Clothier. 3rd.
whose field is the stores in Ard
more and JenkintOwn, adding the
new store as his supervising re-
spOnsibility and Win. Hammock.
manager OF the new store. MANY
features of the new establishment
such as decor, windows, entrances.
parking for 5000 cars and the gen.
eral information of the opening on
October 1st were explained by the
four members of the store person.
mel The hours will be from $50
to $3.50 each day and on Wednes-
day and Friday evenings the store
will remain open until o'clock.
Four ladies from Milford attended
the luncheon. They were Mrs. Rob-
ert Rudolph. president of the Mil
ford New Century Club, Mrs. Lii
liam Martin, president of the Re
publican Women's Club of Sussex
County, Mrs. Wilson S. Vinyard
Kent County vice president of the
Federate Clubs and Mrs. G. Mar
shall Townsend of the Milford
Chronicle.
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
John ]. Williams
Vas Speaker 1t
Rally In Milford
Delaware SOlOn Told
Cheering Group At
Community Building,
Wednesday Night That
He Was Convinced OF
Sen. NixOn's Honesty.

U. S. Senator John ]. Williams
making his first public statement
on the Democratic attack on Vice
Presidential candidacy of Senator
Richard Nixon, told an enthusiastic
crowd of Republican and Indepen-
dent voters here, at the Community
Building Wednesday evening. that.
IN his opinion, there was now mo-
question as to Senator Nixon's hon
esty and integrity, and praised
the courage Of the Republican Vice
presidential candidate in exposing
his official End public life TO pub-
lie view in an unprecedented ma
tion-wide radio and teleVision hook
up Tuesday evening.
Delaware's crusading U. S. SEN
ator, now seeking reelection.
stated that he hoped the present
Democratic administration would
now take much interest in having
the Justice Department investigate
the activities of known crooks and
racketeers as the administration
had in calling attention to the So
called Nixon Fund. Senator viii
iams went on to praise Senator
Nixon for his investigation and ex-
posure of Alger Hiss, whom VIII
llams referred to as 'the biggest
traitor in American history Will
liams pointed out that the admin.
istratiOn had attempted to defend
Hiss, that President Truman had
even gone so far as to speak al.
the investigation of Hiss as a "red
herring" and that efforts had been.
made then to hinder, and smear
Senator NiXOn's efforts. Williams
went on to cite examples of how
the administration had repeatedly
attempted to hinder his own efforts
to investigate and expose corrup-
ton and graft in high places. He
also told of how Secretary of Agri-
culture BrannaB had just recently
termed the loss of $10.OO0, 900
worth of government purchased
grain conversion" and had stated
that ''rats could do that much dam
age. Senator Williams advised
that his answer to this is that ain
Lower delaware when rats get bad
they start catching and destroying
the rats.
In closing, the G. o. p. senatorial
candidate told his audience that il
they wanted continuation of a
false war-scare prosperity and
wanted continuation of corruption
and graft in government, they
knew what to do; but, If they
wanted the mess cleaned up. want
ed peace, and a return to sane,
economically sound government,
they must vote for the ticket
headed by ike" Eisenhower and
"Dick" Nixon.
Wednesday evenings rally here
was arranged by Robert H. Yerkes,
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Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26

standing service to State and Ma
ton.
A former majority leader of the
House of Representatives. Noble
5. Warren, of Dover. is seeking
election to the office of prothono-
tary; a World War veteran. Mr..
Warren was a sponsor of the Mill
tary Pay Bill and various educa-
tional measures while serving in
the Delaware Legislature in the
1949 session and in two special
sessions. Ebe J. Bishop, former
Dover businessman and now a sue
cessful operator of a farm near
Little Greek, is making his initial
bid for office in seeking election
to the office of County comptroller.
Nathaniel W. Taylor, Jr., a
young businessman and farmer,
residing near Dover, is his party's
candidate for Sheriff, while Ed
ward T. Pardee, Sr., a farmer re-
siding near Frederick and a form
er member of the Delaware Legis-
Continued on page -
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Milford COP Women
Held Successful Bake
Total OF $113.34 Sold Here; Conn
ty Raised Over S59OOO

The bake which was held on Sep
tember 18th, at the Amber Shoe
Store in Milford, under the auspices
of the Kent County Women's Re-
publican Club was very successful.
The chairmen, Mrs. John Long
bOtham and Mrs. Wilbur jump.
wish to take this means to thank
everyone who in anyway helped to
make it a success, $11S.34 being
realized.
If there is anyone who would
like to contribute to this fund
which will be used for T. V. and
radio time, also renting of places,
for meetings, postage, telephone
and other prediction expenses.
Mrs. Wilbur Jump has been au-
thorized by the state treasurer.
Robert H. Richards, to receive
such funds.
AT Smyrna the ladies netted
Sl26.26; at Camden Wyoming, S152:
at Dover, Magnolia, CheswOld,
$2O0.35, thus making the grand to-
tai more than $59O.OO-an excellent
performance for a One-day stand.
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Boy Scout
Campaigns L
Going " ell
G gorge T.
Macklin Announces He
Is Well Pleased With
Progress To Date.

Mr.. George T. Macklin, City
Chairman for Milford announced
today that excellent progress has
been made thus far in the Boy
Scout Finance Drive.
Mr.. Macklin stated that he felt
excellent progress had been made
in view OF the fact that the Cam
paign has only been underway one
week and THAI we are well on our
way to reach the goal for Milford
of $50 Contributors.
Mr.. Macklin declared that the
Boy Scout Movement has Contrib
uted a great service to the COM
munity of Milford. He further said
that the Scout program supplies a
vital need of boys for adventure.
Scouting aims to Promote in Boys
the ability to do things for them
selves and others, to be square in
their dealings, and to stand ready
to give helpful service at all times.
Those that know the Boy Scout
Program know that Scouting has
for more than forty years carried
forward program, attractive to
boys, which has produced a genera
tion of several million men of good
moral character, men of whom
America can, be justly proud Many
of these Scouts of yesteryear are
men of prominence today in ali ma
jor fields of business and the pro-
fessions.
The Scouts of today are Ameri-
cas- leaders Of tomorrow. We must
do all in our power to support
Scouting so that more of our boys
may become members.
In the words of one of our great
tcontinued on page %
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26

Rev. w. Edwin Tull, pastor of
the Church of God, Milford Del
aware, has been appointed again
to serve this local church He
recently returned from Indian
napOlis, Indiana, where he at
tended the International Assem-
bly, of the Churches of God.
The Church of God has pro-
gressed steadily since Rev. TuII
came to this city seven wears
ago. and at this time the present
church building, located on N
Washington Street, is up for
sale and a new building is be-
ing constructed in the 500 block
of N. Walnut Street. The con-
tractor, Mr.. Robert Zook, the
pastor and members of the
church cordially invite the com
munity to look the new work
over at any time. Those making
contributions will be given a re-
ceipt for same and acknowledged
promptly.
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Cub Scouts Will
Present Pageant
VIII Be eliminating Feature OF
Summer Program

Milford's Cub Scout will bring
their summer program to a fitting
climax, next Tuesday evening, by
presenting a pageant and receiv-
ing achievement awards as part of
Milford Pack No. 1O1's September
meeting. The program, to be pre-
sented at the auditorium of the
Milford High School, beginning at
7:45 p. m, will have more than fifty
Cubs as participants and will be
witnessed by parents and friends
Of the Cubs.
During the month of September,
the local Cubs have been working
on the theme THE Mail Goes
Through, and the development of
this theme will be presented in
pageant form Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Jane Smith, one of the mo-
theirs of Den No. 2, has been work
ing long and hard the past several
weeks doing research and writing
a history of the mail service; this
condensed history is to be used in
the narration that will develop the
pageant theme.
Each of the Milford Packs seven
"Dens" are to have a part in the
CONTINUED on page ~
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Dover Century Club
Fashion Show Oct. 8

The Dover Century Club will hold
a fashion show on Wednesday, Oc-
tober 8 at 8 p. m. in Grace Fellow
ship Hall. Focus on Fashions" is
the theme chosen for the collection
which features fashions for wo-
men, teen-agers and children. The
show will be presented by Eman-
uels and an interesting highlight
of the show will be collection OF
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26

MN covers the queen contest.
These films are available to any
organization or group that might
be interested in viewing them.
Bookings for the showing of
films are being made by Mr.. Earl
S. Hawk of Greenwood, Del. When
making requests for the showing
of these films. the following infor-
nation should accompany the re-
quest; Date. Day and Time which
film or films are wanted and make
and model of protector to be used.
Speakers viii also be available
where wanted, to groups of 90 or
more persons. They will give a 10
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
DAYLIGHT TIME WILL
OFFICIALLY END SUNDAY

This coming Sunday, Sep
tember 28th, is the day you
can cash in that hour you've
been boarding all summer3
You may sleep an hour more,
or dance an hour longer, or
just sit in your garden and
lazily and happily watch the
so golden minutes slide by.
In a word, neighbOr, Day
light Saving Time ends Sep
tember 28th.
Although the lost hour is
officially regained at 2 a. m,
there will be no penalty for
setting the clock back an
hour Saturday night, if you
don't feel like sitting up and
waiting. We plan to do just
that.
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Millions Dept. Store
Is Four Years Old

Milton Smith, owner and opera
tor OF Milton's Department Store on
North Walnut Street, Milford, is
being congratulated by his many
friends and customers this week
on the observance of his fourth
anniversary.
In observation of his fourth
year in Milford, Mr.. Smith is run
ming a Fourth Anniversary Sale.
continued on page s.
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
192,595 Voters Are
Now Registered
Number Is A Boost OF 1885
Over 1880 Figure

Delaware has 192,595 registered
voters, an increase of 1895 over
the number registered for the 1850
national elections, with one more
supplemental registration date
scheduled for districts throughout
the state on October 18th.
This compilation of figures was
announced this week by the direc-
tor of department of election in
formation and shows increases in
both Wilmington and rural New
Castle County. but drops in total
registrations in Kent and Sussex
Counties to date.
Robert J. MeFann, the depart
ment director, operates out of the
office of Secretary of State Harris
B. Mcdowell.
(continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Draw Jurors For
Kent County Court
Fifteen Women Are Selected On
Petit And Special Panels

A total of Is women were en-
paneled for jury duty at the Octo-
Der term of the Kent County
Courts by Jury Commissioners
Walker L. Mifflin and Wilbur E.
Jacobs. The court term will con-
vene on October goth.
Ten of the women are on the
regular panel of petit jurors, while
the remaining five are on the spec-
lal jury. The list of jurors follows: ::
Petit judy-First district: How
ard Jones, John Hurd and James
S. Truax. Second district: Charles
Lee Sipple, Olih Raughley and John
" Vane. Third district: Leland
Massey, John Hopkins, and William
Jones. Fourth district: Miss Anne
McCarraher, Ralph Thompson and
Mrs. Martha Campbell.
Continued on page 50
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
DHIA Board Accents
Natl Awards Program
Alden p. Short, President, Outlines
Anticipated Program

For the first time, Delaware's
Dairy Herd Improvement Associ-
alton will take part in a national
production awards program. The
acceptance was made at a recent
meeting Of the One-year-old State
Board of DHIA Directors.
"This is the first year Delaware
is actually eligible to take part in
this program" says Alden P. Short.
Georgetown, new board president.
Minimum requirements were at
least 100 herds on test, at least
five supervisors, and a state or
ganization or advisory board. With
the formation Of our state board
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Mary Ann Simpson
Gets Scholarship

Miss Mary Ann Simpson Of Cam
den is the recipient Of the Kent
County Home Demonstration
Scholarship for the second year.
Miss Simpson Is a sophomore en-
rolled in the School Of Home Eco
ncmics Of the University Of Della
ware Her major is Home Econo-
mics Education; she plans to teach
after her graduation.
CONTINUED On pags D
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26

70 speak each evening. DR.. L. K
Anderson, known across this land
for his missionary work in Africa
and South America, is coming to
speak on Africa. DR.. A. Campbell,
President of the largest Presby-
teriau Theological Seminary in the
world. in Korea, will tell of the
work in that land.
There will be other speakers
on South America-On work among
alcoholics, on Leprosy Missions.
The public is cordially invited and
welcomed, and urged to save the
dates. Of October goth to gath i'm
elusive.
teanfinusd on page .
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26

broom as symbol of his cam
paign; Senator Williams went on
to say that, while he was "using
the same slogan" this campaign,
he had replaced his broom with a
shovel for everyone knows that
it is almost impossible to clean up
a stable with just a broom.
Senator Williams reviewed brief
ly his activities in exposing cor
ruptiOn and graft in high places,
his attention was first at
tracted to the need for such ex-
posures when he learned in March
l949 that a certain government
corporations books were padded
CONTINUED ON page l6)
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Jersey Honemakers
Visit University
Extension Groups Tour University
Farm And Agricultural Hall

About 200 homemakers from
Camden, N. j., were guests of the
University of Delaware Agricultur-
al Extension Service Tuesday at
Newark.
The women are members of home
economics extension groups in
Camden County, Their home agent,
Mary NJ. Leaning, spoke for them.
saving, "We felt we wanted to be-
come better acquainted with our
neighbOrs. Many Of them are in
the radio and televisien radius of
Delaware's Extension Service pro-
gram, so We thought " I'D like to
make our air acquaintance a real
one"
The group was given official well
comes by Miss M. Gertrude HolIo-
way, State Home Demonstration
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Social Security Keeps
Records Up To Date
Despite Hundreds OF Changes,
Checks Are Kept Flowing Orderly

The Wilmington Office of the So
cial Security Administration makes
hundreds of changes in its records
each month. in order to keep old
age and survivors insurance checks
in the right amount flowing regu-
larly to Delaware beneficiaries.
The changes in these records are
necessary for a number of rea-
sons, Myron Milbouer, MANAGER Of
the Office in the Old Custom House
Building, Sixth and King Streets,
said. "Beneficiaries who move must
report their new address, so that
future checks will reach them at
the new locations without delay.
Again, whenever beneficiaries die.
a record must be made to terminate
their benefits. Also. a change in the
Continued on page ~
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Films Of Delmarya Chicken
Festival Ready For Showing

% ne 6-mm color films Of the activities Of the Demarva
Fesuva had prevew showing
County officers of Poultry improvement Association
Ihe hsthree in nnmbercover the the
festival I-mnute film
ACTIVITIES Amnnte film the sO-mnnta
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Sen. Williams Gives The COP
Il New Symbol 1T Local Meet

Senator John Williams candidate for reelection
epuDHcah Fary Symbol at meeting held here
d orange Hail. Friday Speaking
uc g. o. p leaders the
sussex County, Deawares cruadng
IN 1916 on slogan Let's Clean Up the
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-26
Presbyterians Plan
To Hold Fall Conference

0e the most unusual opportunities in its 100 history
onered TO- the Presbyeans
Missionary Conference in October AS Bbe
teacher one Of the best known Bible teachers
consented to while several outstanding
only IN the land where they but in other
The daily record., 1952-01-24

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Yosemite Hand
Plays Tonight
For ~" Ounce

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Yosemite Nisi hnuor tne U>0 ~.
CA tonlahi and furnish me music
Cor me " regular Monday night
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thru Chief Albert KeIIy M me feer.
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