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Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
5000 In State Haze
Reached Voting Age
Census Bureau DisclOses
Substantial Gain In
Delaware

There will be 5000 more per-
sons of voting age in the state
Of Delaware this November than
there were on election day four
years ago, the Census Bureau esti-
mated this week
Using its proven methods Of esti-
mating populations, the bureau
said that in Delaware there will
be approximately 100000 persons
of 81 years or over in November,
1852, as compared with $4,000
persons in the same age group
four years ago. This is an increase
of 5000 or 3.6 per cent. For the
nation as a whole, the percentage
increase is also estimated at 3.6
In the 194S Presidential election
only 139,O73 men and women in
Delaware voted, or a percentage
of 65.5. Throughout the country
only 51.4 per cent Of the people
eligible to vote actually cast their
ballots in the 1948 Presidential
election.
At the same time, the bureau
reported, there were, by actual
count, 77,5S6 persons Of p or over
CONTINUED on page D
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
State Dentists To
Meet At St. Louis
DIR. Clyde A. Nelson, OF Milford, Is
A Delegate To 93rd Session

Delaware dentists will join
thousands of their colleagues from
all parts of the United States for
the 93rd annual session of the
American Dental Association in
st. Louis, September Sth through
11th. Attendance at the fOur-day
meeting is expected to exceed 12,-
900.
Heading the state delegation will
be two official representatives of
the Delaware State Dental Society
who will serve as members of the
A. d. A. House of Delegates, top
policy-making body of the dental
profession.
The delegates are DR.. Paul Mus
selman, of Newark, and DR.. Clyde
A. Nelson, of Milford.
Alternate delegates are Dr. Louis
Kreshtool, of Wilmington, and Dr.
Joseph Mach, of SeafOrd.
More than fifty of the nations
outstanding dental scientists will
present papers during the scien-
tific meetings which will. be held
at Kiel auditorium. A highlight Of
the program will be color tele.
vision of surgical procedures. II
addition, there will be more thar
200 clinics, $50 scientific and tech
nicAl exhibits and a continuous
program of films demonstrating
| the latest advances in dentistry.
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
Nurses Are Retain Ban On
Graduating Religion Plan
Y his Evening In S c hOOls S
Senator John J. Williams
Will Be The Principal
Speaker; ROtarians En-
tertained Group.

Graduating exercises for Milford
Memorial Hospital Ira in / n
School for Nurses will be held this
evening in Avenue Methodist
Church. The Honorable John j..
Williams, Senior United States
Senator from Delaware will be the
principal speaker.
Professional, Invocation, selec-
tions by Male Quartet, introduction
of guest speaker by G. Roland Mes
sick, president of the Hospital
board; address, Senator Williams;
presentation of Diplomas and Pins
bv DR.. James HOman and Mrs.
Alice Stevenson, director of nurs-
es; Florence Nightingale Pledge,
by the class; Solo, The Lords
Prayer, by Mrs. Diane Russell; {;
Benediction.
The class roll: Matilda Elizabeth
Hrupsa, FELTON,; Mildred E. New
/ berry, Greenwood; Betty Ann
Hastings, Laurel; Margaret Guer-
iney Seward, Centreville, Md; Viv-
ian Margaret Guengerich, Farming
ton; Emma Lou Reed, laurel
Pauline Catherine Hughes, FELTON,
Frances Ann Sapp, Houston; Eliz
abeth Mary Swartzentruber, Green
wood; Janet Anne Stack, Rhodes
dale, Md; Josephine Ann Mum
ford, Millsboro; Mary Jean Man
love, Milford; Barbara Fairfield
Lyons, Milford; Joyce M. Webb
Ennis, Glendale.
continued on page ~
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
DR.. ViLeisis Opens
Office In Milford
Will Conduct His Practice
At AIS North West
Front Street

DR.. Casimir Vileisis, well known
to people in the Milford vicinity
because of his service as medical
resident at the Milford Memorial
Hospital, has opened his own or
ices at 41S North West Front St.,
Milford, as a General Practitioner.
His office hours will be on Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday and FRI
day, two to four and six to eight;
on Saturdays, ten to twelve and
three to six.
Born in Lithuania in 1915, DR..
Vileisis received his degree in
Medicine In that country. He serv-
ed his internship at the University
Clinics at Kaunas, and completed
four years in Pediatric residency
at the same clinic. Following this,
he did two years work in Germany
in a Children's T. b. Sanitorium.
In 1916 he came to the United
States and served two years as in
tern at st. Mary's Hospital in
Waterbury; Connecticut From 1913
to 1852 he was at Milford Memorial
Hospital as medical resident.
DR.. Vileisis mas several members
Of his family in the United States.
His father was the first Lithuanian
Minister in Washington, d. c.,
coming to this country in 1921.
Married, DR.. Vileisis has two chill
dren, John, age 8, and Danga, age
/
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
State Board Of Educa-
ton Denies Milford
Ministerial A ssOCi a.
TONS Second Request.

A second request to permit Mil
ford School children to be released
during school hours for religious
instruction of their own choosing
was refused this week by the State
Board of Education meeting at
Dover.
Duplicating its action of last
November on the request of the
Milford Ministerial Association, the
board decided to adhere to its ban
against permitting any time on
from school schedules so that pu-
pills may attend their own denom-
national religious classes.
Previously permitted in Milford
for several years, the arrangement
was ordered stopped last fall after
Supreme Court decision left the
board facing the issue. The second
request, made by the Milford PTA
of which Wilson Goodrich is presi-
dent, asked the boards recOnsid'
GRAFTON in light of a recent U. S
Supreme Court decision which VI
held such a practice in New YorE
schools.
Raise Budget Request
/ In other action, much OF which
( had bearing on the Forthcoming
General Assembly and the educa
tional budget request, the boar'
this week:
1. Raised from $3.50 per unit o
school children go each for uppe'
grades and 25 for elementary lev
els) to S605 the appropriation foi
operating costs, and from $50 II
S55 the unit appropriation for capi
tai expenditures, to be the basi
for the 1953-54 budget request;
CONTINUED on page 50
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05

Over 200 delegates from Del
aware new car dealers and assO-
ciated enterprises, their wives and
guests, are expected to attend the
second annual convention of the
Delaware Automobile Dealers As
sociatiOn to be held on Monday
and Tuesday, September Sth and
9Th at the HenlOpen Hotel in Re-
hobOth Beach, it was announced
today by Irwin G. Burton, Presi-
dent of the Association.
DR.. Roy X. Marshall, one of the
nations outstanding scientists and
TelevisiOn teachers, will be the
guest speaker at the banquet to
be held on September 9th. DR.. Mar
shall is educational director OF
WILL and WFIL-TV, exercising
direct supervision over all their
educational radio and television
programs. including the Studio
SchOolhouse" series for in-school
audiences and the prize-winnins
"WFIL-TV University of the Air
series for adults.
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
Early Start
Planned For
Com m unitv
Concert Drive
Locally Will
Be Launched The Week
Of September 29th;
Membership Fee Will
Be Same AS Last Year.

The Milford Community Concert
campaign is scheduled for the
week OF September 29th. Materials
have been sent to workers, who
will start their solicitations at once
for new members and renew those
who have subscribed to the series
before. This gives the workers
time to have part of their service
accomplished and subscribers due
notice of the campaign. The men,
bership fee will be the same as in
previous years, $500 for adults
and $500 for students. All money
will be expended for artists and
incidental expenses. The AssoCia-
ton has a hold" on the CarOlers,
very fine quintet from Fred War
ing's "Pennsylvanians", we'll known
to radio and televisiOn audiences.
This group includes four men and
girl, with their accOmpanist.
They have appeared in Whining
ton at the Playhouse and were a
tremendous success. They are
young, the girl attractive, and
their program will appeal to the
musician, as we'll as the popular
music lover. Their program in
cludes many favOrites such as the
we'll known arrangements by War
ing. namely DRY Bones" and
others.
The subscribers are promised
three concerts, and this fine or
ganizatiOn will be one of them,
provided there is enough money in
the artist budget for this attrac-
ton and two other concerts. This
is the fourth season for the Com
munity Concerts in Milford and
the surrounding area. The COM
mittee is more than pleased with
the work of the outlying COM
munities, which include Dover
Georgetown, Wyoming, Smyrna
Houston, Greenwood, Harrington
IRehoboth Beach, Camden, Lincoln
! lFrankford. MillsbOrO, Viola, Mill
Vile, Bethany Beach. Frederick
Leipsic. Cambridge, Md, Clarks
Vile, Ocean View. Glendale. Mid
dletown. SeafOrd, Clayton. FELTON,
Lynch Heights ana DagSDOTO'
Workers are scattered through
out these towns, each giving free
Ilv of his time to make this com
munity enterprise a success. The!
are highly commended by the Off
GERS. Here is an opportunity t
bring to Milford the finest musi,
that Columbia Concerts can AFFORD
&, In the past, two artists who ap
= peared on the local programs, ar
r going to reach the top. Namely
. Sander, a pianist, who has beel
} recognized as one of the five grea
Dianists in the world, and Eileel
Farrell. who appears on televisiol
next Monday evening and is con
! sidered one of the finest dramau
sopranos in the concert field.
Continued on page q
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
CaleBOggs
A ddresse e S
Kent W ON en-
COP Candidate For Gov
ernOr Promises To
Name Women Advisory
Group For State.

U. S. Rep. ]. Caleb BOggs carried
his COP gubernatOrial campaign
to the Republican women of Kent
County Tuesday night of this week
with a promise that he will appoint
a "Women's Advisory Committee" "
if he is elected governor.
The meeting in Grace Fellowship
Hall of Wesley Methodist Church
in Dover was the focal point of
the Republican campaign in the
state and was arranged by the
Kent County WOmen's Republican
Club.
Mr.. BOggs questioned the part of
women IN the present Democratic
administration.
1T is embarrassing and unfortu-
nate" said the candidate for Gov
ernOr, ito hear the rumOr that the
present administration not only
reprimanded one of its woman ap-
pOintees to an important state off
ice for speaking her views, but
further has muZZled her and ad-
vised her not to express herself
except through the channels of the
state house advisers of Mcdowell
[ (Secretary of State Harris B. Nc
/ DowelD and company The truth
about this situation would be i'm
portant for all citizens to know,
he continued.
Mr.. Boggs pledged to give wOmeT
a more active role in government
and be "full-time", Governor /
he is elected. He said the members
of the Women's Advisory Commit
tee, among other committees, wOult
consult with and advise him. Th'
Kent County Republican womel
we're told that the advisory com
mittee would consist of represen
tatives throughout the state.
Continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
Isaac Newton, u, Of
Pennington, George d.
Wilson OF Perth Am
boy, N. j., Fatally In
jured; State Trooper
Clark Is Injured.

One man was killed and nine
others seriously injured in a two
car collision at FELTON, last Friday.
Isaac Newton, 70, Of Pennington.
was killed instantly at 3 D. m. last
Friday, when the car in which he
was a passenger collided head-On
with another car on Route 13. It
was the 57th fatality this year com-
pared with 4S this time last year.
According to state police at the
Dover station, Newton was killed
when a car operated by his son,
Harry Newton, A, of Bridgeville,
attempted to pass the car in front
Of him and in doing so collided
with an oncoming car driven by
James Reamy, 21, Of Chase City,
Va. Both vehicles were demolished.
The occupants of Reamy's car.
all injured, were removed to the
Milford Hospital. They are: Reaniy,
the operator, decorations of the
scalp, lip, both knees, and the left
shoulder: Norman Carter, 90, Of
Chase City, lacerations of the scalp
and fractured right wrist, and
Peter Ewaskow, 2S. Unionsville,
N. Y, possible chest injuries.
Two OF the occupants Of the New
ton car were removed to the Dela-
ware Hospital because Of the seri-
GUS nature of their injuries They
were Mrs. Myrtle Newton, 4S, and
her daughter, Rosalie, IA. Both suf-
fered fractured backs, and Rosalie
also sustained fractured pelvis.
The others in NewtOn's car we're
taken to the Kent General Hospital
in Dover. They are; The operator
of the car, dislocated hip and head
injuries; Harry Newton, 5r., 8
llacerations of the head; Betty
! Jean Newton, 3, fractured neck and
! fractured right thigh, and J2mes
w. Donovan, 46, possible head In.
juries and decorations Of the scalp
Funeral services. for Isaac 3
Newton, 20, Of Pennington, were
held at the Hardesty Funeral Home
in Bridgeville Monday afternoon al
2 o'clock
Mr.. Newton, who was killed in an
automobile crash, was born neal
Bridgeville, the son Of the late
Matthew and Elizabeth Benson
Newton.
He is survived by his wife. Mrs
Clara L. Newton, two daughters
continued on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05

Greater
III S. S.
Monthly Check Increases
Beginning This Month
With An Average In
crea sc Of 1875 Per
Cent.

Beginning with. this current
month, Delaware workers and
their families have greater flnan-
cial protection under social securi-
ty than ever before, according to,
Myron Milbouer, manager of the
Wilmington social security office.
Starting this month, retired
workers IS or over now receiving
Old-age insurance benefits will get
more money. Monthly checks to
survivors of most insured workers
who have died will also be in
creased. These larger monthly
checks are the result of the 1852
amendments. to the social security
law enacted on July 1S, 1852, Mr..
Milbouer explained.
Asked Just how much these in
.creases will amount to in dollars
and cents for workers and their
families now receiving old-age and
survivors insurance benefits, the
local manager pointed out that the
amount of the increase will vary
but that the new law provides
generally for a 12h9o increase
over the present payments. Most
people now receiving Old-age in
surance payments will get about
Sc a month more; some will gel
more, some less.
These increases will be made
automatically and will be included
in the September checks, sent Out
at the regular mailing early il
October, Mr.. MilbOuer added.
OF particular interest to workers
over IS who do not retire com
pletely is the fact that under th'
new law a person receiving old
age insurance benefits can carr
as much as SIS a month in wOrl
covered by social security and still
receive his monthly check. Thi
also takes effect in September
Persons over Is may, as before, re
ceive their monthly checks regard
less of how much they earn.
tcOntInueo on Daes o
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
Cut job Training
Aid By $1,000
U. S. Funds To State Set
At S158,653 For Year;
Slice Is Greatest

Federal aid to vocational train
ing in Delaware has been cut by
S6,O27.92 for the coming school
Federal funds of $15S.65S.S4 have
been aIIocated for the state, DR..
r. w. Helm, state director of vO-
cational education, has informed
the State Board for Vocational Ed
ucatiOn.
The decrease results from a
slash made by Congress in the ap-
preparation for the federal Ofice
of Education, DR.. Helm explained.
In the school year 1852, 1884,
6S1.76 was allOcated to Delaware.
The funds paid part of the cost OF
educating $50 vocational pupils.
The state paid $414,245.SO.
The 1852 funds were $1,5SS.S1
higher than the previous year
when the states vocational educa-
tion share was $163,14S.39 from
federal funds.
Greatest slash was for distrlbu-
Continued on page -
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
Lima Bean Crop
Endangered
By Disease e
DOwny Mildew May Play
Havoc On Delaware's
Principal V e egetable
Crop, Officials Say.

Delaware's principal vegetable
crop, lima beans, is being threat
ened by the spread Of the downy
mildew disease.
The first case of the disease was
detected downstate last Friday and
a report from the University of
Delaware's Agriculture Extension
office stated that it had spread to
all parts of the state.
Robert F. Stevens, assistant ex-
tension professor of horticulture,
said that a steady rain ot almost
any proportion during the next
few days would spread the mildeW
to most lima bean crops of the
state and cause considerable dam
age to the 40 per cent Of this
years harvest not yet picked.
Professor Stevens said that cool
weather and rain are conducive to
the spread OF the disease and that
only hot, dry weather could sue
cessfully stop the mildew.
The need for the hot weather is
somewhat OF a paradox Tor the
states growers. for that very type
of weather caused considerable
damage to lima beans during July
At that time, Stevens pointed out
the beans were at a stage of ma.
turity when they required more
moisture than usual, whereas now
at the end of the growing stage
the bean can withstand the hot, dr.
weather much better.
The horticulturist said that Del
aware has been fortunate in thl
past few years by having tn,
necessary hot weather during Sep
tember. However, he stated, tht
rain during the past week ha
alarmed some farmers.
lcontinued on page ID
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
Kent Welfare Office
At New Location
Lack OF Space In Former Quarters
Necissitated Change

The Kent County Office of the
State Department Of Public Well
fare finds it necessary to maintain
two separate offices for it's work
IN the county because of the lack
Of sufficient space in the building
at the corner of LOockerman Street
Plaza and Legislative Street. Effec-
tive September 1st, all of the pro-
grams Of the Public Assistance Di-
vision will be located in the base
ment of the Courthouse on The
Green where the General Relief
and Old Age Assistance offices
have been located for many years.
The change means that Aid to De-
pendent Children and Aid to the
Disabled services will also be To-
Gated in these same offices. Any
one wishing to apply for public
assistance of any kind should
make application at that Office in
order to speak with the proper
worker.
The Child Welfare Division will
carry on its work from the build.
ing at LOockerman and Legislative
Streets as at present and the office
of the County Supervisor, Miss e
Kathryn Pennypacker, will con
tinue to be located in the same
building.
Telephone connections for al
offices will be through Dover Sill
which means that the separate
telephone numbers for General Re
lief C4657) and for Old Age Assis
tance (202O) will be discontinued
Inquiries of a general nature car
always be directed to the Count!
! continued on pare "
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05

be inaugurated this year. 1t is also
to note that the num-
ber of student teachers in elemen-
tary education, which has been
constantly increasing in recent
years, now exceeds the number
seeking positions at the secondary
school level.
Following their practical duties,
the student teachers will return
to the campus between October
18th and 9th.
Elementary Student Teachers
And SCn9Ol
Patricia Adkins, Georgetown;
Doris Armentrout, Alexis l. du-
(cohtnued on ptse %
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
A Bigger Tax
Bite Awaits
lICitizens
Fiscal 50
Officials Say The Huge
S412 Per Capita Aver
age OF 1851 Will Be
Exceeded This Year
Due To Many Changes.

Federal, state and local taxes
cost an average of S412 in fiscal
1851 for every man, woman and
child, and the bite will be even
larger and deeper in the 1852 fis-
cal year, the census bureau report
ed recently.
A total of $63, $50, 100000 was
raked in at all levels of govern
ment during 1951-three times as
much as in 1912. Total levies for
fiscal 1852 were estimated at al
most $50 900 100000.
Census officials reported that
governments big operators in
more than tax eOllectiOns2also
took in 2O,00O,OOO,OOO from such
enterprises as liquor stores, insur-
ance trust funds, and various types
of utilities.
On the local level, tax collections
totaled $8,621 100000 in fiscal 1851
with property taxes providing all
except 81, 900, 100000 of this, Off
cials said. Collections, they added,
were eight per cent higher than in
1850.
Federal tax collections hit a
record of $50, ,1OO,OOO.OOO in 1851,
the Bureau of Internal Revenue
reported, but this figure was top
ped in fiscal 1852 when these col
lections reached $64,97O, 100000.
Fiscal 1851 ended June 80 of that
year. Fiscal 1852 ended June 50 OF
this year but all tax collection
figures are not in yet. However
the Census Bureau announced last
Saturday that state tax collections
in fiscal 1852 were $9,S3S, 100000.
Based on these figures now com.
ing in for fiscal 1852, the bureau
predicted a tax total approaching
$S0,OO0,0 100000.
City governments received near.
ly 40 per cent, or $5,S34 900 900. o.
the $S,621 900, coo collected locally
in fiscal 1851.
These local tax collections were
supplemented by $4,424.O0O,OO0 il
federal and state aid and $1.S71,-
100000 in payment of charges fol
such things as licenses, fines ant
services.
Local school districts receive,
about one-third, or $4,546,0 900, ,OOC
County governments took 1892,
100000, townships $677 100000, ant
special districts, including housing
authorities, drainage. irrigation an
fire protection districts, got SAIL
100000.
Public utilities operated by loca
governments collected $1,930,00o
600 in 1851 from sales of watel
gas. electricity, and transit serv
ices. the Census Bureau said. Locs
government insurance systems
mostly for employe retirement ha
revenues totaling 1921 100000.
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05

I no Persons il''j,=' s. Killed,
Several Injured In
Weekend Accidents
COMPLETING PLANS FOR
ZONING MEETING

Irwin G. Burton, chair
man of the Milford Zoning
Group, announced today that
plans are nearly complete
for the Citizens Meeting on
the proposed coming ordin-
ance. The meeting will be
held in the Milford Com
munity Building the evening
of Friday, September 18th.
At the meeting, to which
every citizen is urged to at
tend, the ordinance will be
fully explained by experts.
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05

will visit the farms in his CONF
munity and discuss with each
farmer the conservation practices
which will be most effective on
his farm. Before starting to visit
the farmers IN his community, the
committeeman will receive thor
ough training which will enable
him to assist the farmer in decid-
ing which practices should be
selected to meet the conservation
needs Of his farm, The committee
man and the farmer then agree on
which Of these practices il is most
important to carry out under the
1858 Conservation Program in or
teoatlhaed On pase Isl
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
OPS Director Sees
Fall Prices Going Up

With Labor Day comes the end
of vacations and the beginning Of
the fall and winter season.
This year the regional Office of
Price Sterilization looks for in
creased pressures on clothing and
general wearing apparel prices as
demand for them increases with
the return of cooler weather and
the approach of winter, Joseph J..
lennllnnaa On naaa lol
Milford chronicle., 1952-09-05
Cub Scouts Enjoyed
Thrilling Field Meet
A Good Time Was Had BY All
Despite The Excessive Heat

Despite excessive heat that made
necessary elimination Of several
events, Milford Cub Scout Pack
No. 101 staged a highly successful
track and field meet the past Sat-
urday afternoon on the Milford
school grounds. The meet, the sec
ond such event participated in by
the local Cubs this summer, pro-
duced several surprises and clear
ly demonstrated the progress made
since the initial meet held in late
June.
Den No. 2, which finished third
in the June. meet, carried on team
hOnors, nosing out Den No. 1,
.21 1f6 points to 19 points. Den No.
Is, which finished on top in the
previous meet. finished third with
l6 points, while Dens No. 3 and
No. 4 tied for fourth in. team scor-
ing with IA points each. Den No. 8
was sixth and Den No. z was
seventh.
continued on page 81