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Milford chronicle., 1952-09-19
Sussex Farm Bureau
VIII Meet Nov. z
Annual Business Meeting WIN Be
Held On That Date

The Sussex County Farm Bur-
eau, meeting in the V. F. w. Home,
near MillsbOrO, this week set No
vember 9TH. as the date for an an
nual business meeting, with place
Of meeting to be announced later.
James Baxter, Jr., president of the
organization, presided.
A nominating committee to Sc
lect officers for next year was
named and includes Edwin Viii
liams, Seaford; Granville Shockley,
Milford, and Walter Belts, Mills
borO.
New bylaws were adopted by the
group and proceedings will now
be taken to incorporate the Sussex
County Farm Bureau. Under dis
cussion during the meeting were
Ceontinued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-19
Milford Cub Pack
Will Meet Sept. 80
Session VIII Be Held In Audi
tOrlum Of The High School

In order to avoid possible con-
fiict with other meetings scheduled
for September oath, the regular
monthly meeting of Milford Cub
Pack No. 101 haG been moved back
to Tuesday evening, September 30th
and will be held in the auditorium
of the high school on this latter
date.
The Milford Cubs are currently
working on the September theme,
"The Mails Go Through, and will
present the results Of their efforts
in the form Of pageant at the
September SOth meeting Additional
details concerning the Pack meet
ing will appear in next weeks Mil
ford Chronicle,
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-19
BrOilers Are Selling We'll
At SelbyyilIe Chicken AUCTION

rate of 5000 minute through the
Shore Poultry Exchange at SebVe last y
roll Long for this poultry association The days sales
nearly chickens grown by fifty o. the penn
producers.
Last "Wednesday marked day Of selling through the Ex
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-19
Some Farm Employees Are NOw
Covered Under Social Security

Am required the social security the wages earned
my hired while he
This the question asking since their
closing required
All Delaware MbOuer
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-19
War against Traffic
Accidents Aim Of Safety Group

Nearly 10000 chldren-dead njured That's the
Der of traffic accidents in the United States
in
That Reynolds dupont President OF
the Delaware Safety Council today called aout on
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-19
Young Gunner Finds
Sussex Skeleton
Rifle Found Near Body With
Bullet Hole In Skull

An 18-yeRr-old gunner, hunting
squirrels, stumbled upon a skele-
ton in a wooded section of farm
owned by Thurman Adams, located
on the Old acknowledgements
Road, two miles north of Bridge
Vile this week. A bullet hole was
in the skull.
The youth, Charles Anderson Of
CONTINUED on page -
Evening star., 1952-06-25

1851 demonstration. 1921
Handsome table TV ID at
Lacy's. Sth g. z Sts. NV,
ID Ga. Ave-, 10 Silver
Spring and ID College
Park.
Evening star., 1952-06-25

I 81 demonstrator,
17CDB. ID Lacy's,
9Th g. e (1) Ga. Ave.
Cd College Park. (1)
Clarendon. Va.
Evening star., 1952-06-25

Brand New 1851 Model TAO with
large record storage, handsome
cabinet.
At All 7 Loey's Stores.
Evening star., 1952-06-25

These Are Trode-ins
ID at Lacy's 9Th & E
"a at Clarendon, Va.
ID at Ga. Ave, NV.
Evening star., 1952-06-25

1851 demonstration, 500.
Handsome mahogany cabi-
net at Lacy's Sth 81 E
and 1907 H St. NE.
Evening star., 1952-06-25

1881 demonstration,
model 29X25. % at
Lacy's Sth IL E Sts. NV.
(1) at 1907 H st. NE.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
County Becomes Big Business
In Ten Years of Progress
Dept. of Finance Report Shows

Assessed values Of real, bust
ness property public utilities and
other taxable properties in Mont
gomery County have shown size
able increase in the past fiscal
year, according to the year-end
financial statement of the County
just released by Director Of FL
nance Alex Hancock.
The assessed value of real prop
erty, the Director reported, at the
end Of fiscal 1862 was 1857 1885,
$50 compared with 1910, 124,S0O
in the preceding year. So-callcd
true" value was estimated as
S775,312,125 in Fiscal 1851 and
$816,191, 1913 in the last fiscal year.
At the same time assessed val
ues of business personal property
for individuals was $0,0j5,810 in
the past year compared TO ST.
$4,000 in Fiscal 81. The assessed
value Of corporations in the same
periods was $14,4OO,770 for Fiscal
1852 and $i2,I5l,7S9 in Fiscal
1851.
The Department Of Finance re-
ported also that the assessed value
NJ public. utilities GENERATING prop-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Parkway Okayed by State
Roads Commission This Week

while this new parkway is not
as important as other roads in the
overall highway planning of Mary
land, if it could be secured by the
state merely by the state furnish
ing the right of way-with the Fed
eral government defraying all con-
struction costs-it would be a very
worthwhile investment"
The stipulations coupled by the
Roads Commission with its endorse
ment include provision for connect
ing Maryland highways with park
way at reasonable points, access to
the Potomac for water mains and
other utilities and assurances that
the parkway will not become a bar
rier between the river and adjoin-
ing private land, thereby choking
off industrial development.
Disagrees With Board
Speaking for the Roads Com
mission, Chairman Mccain noted
Maryland's Board Of Natural Re-
sources has come out against the
parkway proposal and complained
it would play hob with fish and
wildlife and blocks off future indus
ties.
The Roads Commission cannot
concur with this, Mccain said, be-
cause it must look upon this pro-
Continued on Page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Mrs. Vernon Riley
Hostess Last Week
To HOmemakers

Mrs. Vernon Riley, newly elected
president of Rockville Homemakers
Club, entertained the club for it's
Christmas Party Thursday night,
December 18. A lighted Christmas
tree that reached from the floor to
ceiling of the living room greeted
the thirty members as they joined
one another to carry out a short
business meeting and to play
games for an hour.
Gifts were exchanged by the
members, after which hostesses
Mrs. Norman Ward, Mrs. Meredith
Johnson, Mrs. Morris Belkin, Mrs.
Lloyd Howes, Mrs. Paul S. Yokum,
and Mrs. A. r. Lofstrand, Jr.
served delicious punch with dec
GRATED cakes.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
New School
Planned i'm '53
For Rockville

Construction of a 10-classroom
school in Maryvale near MacAr-
thur Irive and Crabb Avenue is
expected to get under way early
next year.
Richard E. Carpenter, assistant
superintendent of schools in charge
of construction, said the Board
of Education is working up an
advertisement for bids on the build
ing and that bids will be received
by the Board, probably on January
%.
The new addition to Rockville's
school system will be located next
to acreage owned by the city
which is expected to be trans
formed into public recreational
area.
At the same time, Mr.. Carpenter
said the Board also is planning for
construction of an elementary
school in the West End of Rock
vile and that site is now under
consideration.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
parkway, proposed federal project
along the Potomac River from
Washington to Cumberland, has
been approved by the Maryland
State Roads Commission.
The Roads Commission said, how
ever, it endorses the parkway only
as long as there is an agreement
in advance that Maryland will have
easy access to the Potomac.
Russell II. Mccain, chairman of
the Roads Commission, said he
understands such assurances have
been given by the government.
The old canal, built more than
100 years ago and abandoned al
most before it was completed be-
cause of the great strides the rail
roads made about the same time,
runs along the Potomac for $50
miles from Georgetown, at the is
trict of Columbia Line, to Cum
berland.
Commissions Position Outlined
The proposal to build a dual ex-
pressway along the old canal and
develop the area with picnic and
camping grounds was put forward
several years ago.
The Roads Commission took this
position on the proposal in its an
noucement today:
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Maryland Roads Planners
DeUelOp r. Year Program

on the State system. In the new
road category would come many
miles of construction needed to
give US divided highways on major
routes between traffic-generating
areas. Some of these modern roads
have been started under the step
ped-up building program of the
last few years. A few are we'll
advanced. They should be COM
pleted. Only by carrying them on
to their planned destinations can
we get the maximum service from
them and realize the maximum re-
turn on the investment we already
have in them. Divided highways
are our most costly roads, for they
require wider rights of-way, over
passes and underpasses for cross
traffic, and interchanges where
heavy traffic streams merge. But
they are also the highways most
necessary to achieve modernization
of our overloaded State road sys-
TEN. We must have them. And
the plan will provide them.
The second program category
widening, Strengthening, strength
ening and resurfacing $3.50 miles
of existing roads--is fully as i'm
portant as the construction of new
roads in achieving the program
goal Of truly modern highway
system. If you read the second
article in this series you may re-
member that, in our present State
road system, there are $500 curves
too sharp for safety; 1900 hills
too long or too steep for free
movement Of heavy vehicles, and
1880 places where hills, hollows,
curves or other distractions inn
pose less-than-safe sight distances.
Those hazards must be eliminated.
Then there's that other table
also outlined in the last article
that shows there are 3,741 miles
Of State roads less than "a feet
wide but carrying traffic volumes
far in excess Of safe capacity for
that width. That mileage must be
improved. The program recognizes
that, and provides for the improve
ment.
It's a big job and it will take
lot Of man7house and materials
and money. But the thing is: we
need it. We need the roads that
it win give US because we need
the time and the money--and the
lives-that those roads will save.
The program proposed by the
State Roads Commission and the
CONTINUED on Page -
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
New Commissioner
OF Insurance Dept.
Named This Week

The State Insurance Department
Of Maryland has announced that
Governor Theodore r. McKeldir
has appointed the Honorable Char
les S. jackson, Baltimore business
man and banker as State Insur.
ance Commissioner for the remain
der of a four year term ending
the first Monday in May, 1866.
Mr.. Jackson is Vice-President
and Director of the Boots Air
craft Nut Corporation, Norwalk,
Conn, director and member of
the Executive Committee of the
Consolidated Gas and Electric Co.,
Baltimore, Nd, a director of the
Savings Bank of Baltimore, and
a director and member of the Ex-
ecutive Committee Of the Lyric
Company, Baltimore, Md. "
He was President of the Federal
Land Bank of Baltimore from 1882
to 1912, and President of the Fed
eral intermediate Credit Bank of
Baltimore from 1882 to 1888. In
the years from 1929 to 1882 he
had been secretary, then vice presi-
cent and secretary of both banks.
He attended schools in Parkers-
burg and the Virginia Military In
stitute in 1902, 1903 and 1904, and
graduated from the United States
Military Academy in 1908, remain
ing in military service until Feb
ruary, 1919.
During World War / he was at
tached to the air service. He at
tanned the rank Of major while on
duty in France.
Mr.. Jackson married Baltimor-
can, the former Edith Carroll Reed
er. They have two children, John
Jay and Carroll Shattuck, and
live at 1902 West Thirty-Ninth
Street, Baltimore, Md.
The new commissioner Is a Re-
publican and an Episcopalian. He
is a member Of the Maryland Club
and the Elkridge Club.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25

erty in the County was $1S,5O2,27O
in the fiscal year just over and
$14,A82,530 in Fiscal 1861. Do
nestle shares of public utilities
were assessed at S161, 02O in Fiscal
'52 and $l61,1S0 for the previous
year.
Bank and financial corporation
shares were listed as having an
assessed value Of S4,508,128 in
Fiscal 1852 and $3,974,A in Fiscal
1851. Mutual savings bank de-
posits were $3,737,550 in the past
year and $3,630,22O in 1861.
In the matter Of tax rates, the
Finance Departments report
showed that the County's tax rate
was jumped from $1.64 TO 500
in Fiscal 1852.
The report showed also that APP
proximately 9l-cents of the $1.G4
received ten years ago went for
schools. In Fiscal 1862 Si.5i of
the 500 rate went for the same
purpose.
Tax levies received by the
County in 1913 amounted TO 81
S29, 1861 compared TO 1884,
((tt5t1ftnfoI -. n...,. o.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Park Avenue
To Become
l-Way Soon
Regulation Will Be
Effective During
School Hours Only

Park Avenue in Rockville, from
East Montgomery to the Rock
vile Elementary School, will be
made one-way during school rush
hours, John Macdonald, City
Manager, said today.
Exact hours when, one-way reg
ulations will be effective have not
been decided, Mr.. Macdonald
stated, but it is planned to relieve
present congestion and hazardous
conditions on the street shortly
after the first of the year.
Traffic going into Park to de-
post or pick up students will leave
the school via the roadway which
runs over to and joins the street
going into Richard Montgomery
High School, Mr.. Macdonald said.
Also under consideration by
School Board officials and the
town, Mr.. Macdonald said, are.
plans for eliminating either buses
or passenger cars from the circle
at times when students either are
loading or unloading. " buses
are to load on the cifcle then
passenger cars will load or unload
outside the circle.
Mr.. Macdonald said it probably
will be necessary to have police
officers stationed at Park and
Fast Montgomery and at the School
when one-way plans are completed
until any confusion regarding the
change is ironed out.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25

When your family grows too big
for your house you have three
choices. You can rent bigger
house, buy a bigger house or build
additions to the one you have.
It's different with a highway
system. When you outgrow the one
you have there's only one course
open. You can't rent a new one
and you cans sell the old one to
somebody else. You have to live
with it and build additions.
Maryland has been. outgrowing
its road system for a long time.
More people are driving more cars
more miles every year. Our high
ways are getting more and more
crowded despite additions to our
road structure. We haven's built
the additions fast enough to keep
up with the family's growth.
Probably we never will unless
we plan ahead. And far ahead, too.
Road building takes time. The
roads we need today should have
been started long ago. The roads
we'll need tomorrow must be plan
ned now if they're to be ready
when we need them. When we
think about highway needs, there
fore, we have to think in terms
of time. What do we need when ?
That means planning. So the thing
we need most is a plan.
The State Roads Commission and
the Highway Advisory Council
have spent eighteen months devel-
oping a plan. It's a comprehensive
plan that covers what we need
now, what we'll need in the i'm
mediate future and what well need
after that-as far as 1865. It's a
realistic plan, with specific recon-
mendations for specific roads at
specific times during the twelve
year span it covers. It's a flexible
plan that can be adjusted to cover
conditions which, however stable
they may seem right now, could
change the nature of our road
needs.
The engineers who have planned
1t say it represents what we must
have. The financial advisers who
have reviewed its cost say we can
afford it. Both groups believe it
is a good plan, one that will work
If we adopt it and stick to it.
Under that plan we would, in
the next twelve years, build 300
miles Of new roads and we would
widen, resufface and generally
rbing up to acceptable standards,
some $3.50 miles Of existing roads
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25

Claude were born and afterward
came more sturdy grandchildren.
There were many years of activity
in home and church with their
family to keep them young.
Then theirs is the story of De-
cember "a, 1852. The Purdums
Urner, "a and Olea, 70, looking
backward over half a century,
the neat white house in Damascus,
warm with love and friendship,
the bright windows, crisp curtains
and thrifty house plants all speak
ing of care and thoughtfulness.
This Christmas Eve the Purdums
will entertain at an At Home from
2 to and from Z to 8. Some 400
of their friends will gather to
offer congratulations and to join
them in the hope of many more
anniversaries, the priceless gifts
in life's story.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Traditional Service
At Neelsville Church
On Christmas Eve

The traditional Christmas Eve
candle lighting and carol service
of the Neelsville Presbyterian
Church will be held at 10:45 pm.
Wednesday and will feature spe-
cial Christmas music by the choir
and Miss Janet Fletcher as soloist.
There will be brief Christmas
meditation by the pastor, Rev. AL
bert w. LEM. The Rev. James P.
Kerr of the Presbyterian Church
at Boyds also will participate. Mrs.
Kerr will play program of carols
on the Autoharp.
3 Christmas decorations and
greens will serve as background
for the traditional service. The
public is invited to attend.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Mrs. Wilson New
President of
Jr. WOman's Club

The Junior Woman's Club of
Rockville held its monthly meeting
Wednesday night, December 10, at
the Episcopal Parish Hall. Mem
bers of the Senior .Woman's Club
of Rockville were guests.
Due to the resignation of Mrs.
Ralph Murphine, an election was
held ond Mrs. Joseph Wilson was
elected president. Following the
election, Mrs. Wilson was installed
in her new office by Mrs. ]. AL
fred Kay, president of the senior
Woman's Club of Rockville.
Mrs. L. H. Mattingly, contact
chairman from the Senior Woman's
Club, assisted Mrs. Wilson, Mrs.
Thomas Pyles, vice president of
the Junior Woman's Club, and Mrs.
Robert Rapp, chairman of the
membership committee, in a short,
but impressive initiation ceremony.
Following are the new members:
Mesdames Frederick Dhyse,
Charles Field, Dorothy Haltiwang-
er, Robert Muller, Ralph Reid,
Arthur Snyder, Kenneth Squires,
William Witt, Girls Mannschreck,
Albert Shakan, William Wells, and
Miss Jean Ruhling and DR.. Helen
O'Brien.
The program was devoted to the
fine arts. The Choral Group from
Richard Montgomery High School,
under the direction of Mrs. Mary
deVermond, sang a program of
sacred and secular Christmas
songs, and Miss Jane Williams,
student at Bethesda-C Chevy Chase
High School, performed several
ballet numbers.
Refreshments were served from
a table attractively decorated with
a Christmas motif. Hostesses were
Mesdames Jack Jones, Harold
Knode, Reginald LOCKER, Ralph
Murphine, Thomas Pyles, Robert
Rapp, and Fulton Smith.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Snow Ball Set
For RMHS Gym

The first dance in the new Rich
ard Montgomery gym will be held
on Saturday, January 10. CO.
Sponsored by the Juniors and
Seniors the evenings entertain
will consist of skit starring Mr..
Newhose as Son Winter and Mr..
Hurley as Old Man Winter. The
fun starts at 500 pm. Refresh
ments will be served. Name of the
affair is a "Snow Ball"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Oldest Chevrolet
Dealer in State
Marks Birthday

Maryland's Oldest Chevrolet
leadership, Warfeld Chevrolet
Sales, Inc, Mt. Airy, quietly OBJ
served the 35th anniversary Of its
founding by Dealer II. Deets War
field on December 81.
Because Of the Christmas holt
days and preparation for the an
nouncenient of new models, Mr..
Warfield has postponed official OBJ
servance of the event until Feb
ruary when he is planning a spec
ial anniversary dinner for employ
ees and guests.
Warfield Chevrolet Sales, Inc,
has grown from a small operation
to an organization today employ
ing 20 persons and occupying
building comprising more than
$4,000 square feet of space under
roof.
During the 35-year history Of
the leadership, Mr.. Warfield esti-
mates that he has sold $4,000 new
and used cars and trucks.
This veteran automobile dealer
started out in the automotive field
as Service Manager for r. b. Cue,
Damascus, in 1913. In December
1917, he took over Mr.. Cues fran
chise and operated the Chevrolet
leadership in Damascus from 1917
through 1880. On December 4,
1880, Mr.. Warfeld moved his
leadership into new one-story
cement block building with brick
front in Mt. Airy, Md.
Construction Of new wing to
the main building was completed
in the summer Of 1861. This wing
is now being used TO house the
Parts Department Of the dealer
ship.
The firm operated as II. Deets
Warfeld from 1917 until about
four years ago when ii was incor-
porated. Present officers Of the
firm are: II. Deets Warfeld, presi-
dent Fuller Phoebus, Vice Presi-
dent, and Basil b. Burdctte, secre-
The Warfelds have two children:
II. Deets, Jr., who is currently
stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky,
assigned TO the Third Armored
Division, of the U. S. Army, and
Instoo
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25

Theirs is the story of two Christ
mas Ewes and the many years that
stretch between. One is December
"a, 1902, frosty day with snow
fakes in the air that makes light
blanket of white over the country
side. In the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Franklin Burdette of Batholows,
Frederick County, all is warmth
and excitement for daughter Olea
is being married by the Reverend
John Wright of Kemptown Meth
odist Church to Urner S. Purdum
Damascus. The bride came
y ,wnstairs radiant in white gown
,kimmed as Mr.. Purdum put it
much later with hundreds of yards
of white ribbon"
Theirs is the story of many
Christmas Ewes thereafter and the
joys that came to the Purdum
home. Two sons, Roscoe and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Holiday ClOsings

Banks, December rs and &c;
also January /; Court House,
December rs and rs, and Janu-
airy L; Post Office Closed Christ
mas day; open December rs
and q for usual hours; closed
January l.
Rockville Draft Board will be
closed December "a, 25 and 26.
School vacations begin Wednes-
day, December "a. Students re-
turn on January 5.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Back From Cruise

Returned to Charleston, S. C.
last week aboard the minesweeper
USS Wheatear after a months re-
fresher training cruise in Carib-
bean waters was James II. Belcher,
commissaryman third class, USN,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hicks +. Bel
cher Of Poolesville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Phyllis MarcucciO
Makes Drama Group

Miss Phyllis R. Marcuccio, Buck
nell University sophomore from
Rockville, has been elected into
active membership of Cap and
Dagger, dramatic group on cam
pus.
Miss Marcuccio, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. F. Marcuccio of Horner's
Lane, is enrolled in the liberal
arts course.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-25
Damascus Couple Celebrate
5Oth Anniversary Wednesday

"A AS Prancer Dancer Comet, Vixen and all the
Drought meriy to halt by old Saint Nicholas in Damascus
village on Christmas Eve this year, they will be bringing
to Mr. and Mrs Uer S. Purdum priceless Christmas gift
the opportunity to celebrate the anniversary of so years
happy life together.