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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-06-06
BY the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, June Ga Fed.
eral judge today sentenced Robert
E. Funkhouser to one year in pris-
on and fined him $4,000 on his
conviction Of trying to escape pay.
ment Of income taxes.
The 52-year-old Washington
real estate developer. accused oil
failing to pay $4,000 due the Gov.
eminent for ,1943-47, maintained
he had been a victim Of bad ad.
vice" from deputy tax collectors
who check his tax returns.
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut tol6
the gray-haired bespectacled de-
PENDANT: "Your trouble was moi
in the form Of your returns. but in
putting incorrect figures in your
returns"
Civil Action Planned.
Frederick ]. Green, jr., assistant
United States Attorney who pros
ecuted the criminal case. told the
Court the Government also
planned to take civil action fol
$4,000 owed by Funkhouser ir
taxes, interest and penalties FOL
1941- Al. Only the i've years be.
ginning 1913 were covered in thu
criminal action.
The maximum penalty was i've
years and $4,000 on each of thu
five counts-one count for each
year.
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SS Wy S2W
mer Trovel Sec
tion this coming
Sunday.
A wide ronse
Of stories on
pieces Of inter
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featured. Yos
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ways had been pleasant about it..
Even when Woodie was especially
difdcult around feeding time.
How could they have much fun
out there? An old peach basket
had been nailed to q telephone
pole. Liz had thrown the ball
(See CAMP FUND, Page A-eJ
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Taft Would Accept
Fair Compromise on
Contested Delegates
Senator Says He Wants
To Avoid Fight Before
Credentiul Committee
" The Associo,ed Press

INDIANAPOLIS. June 6.-Sen-
ator Taft. Republican. Of Ohio.
said today he is willing to COM
promise ION a fair basis" con-
tested delegations to the Republic
can National Convention.
Senator Taft, here to meet with
delegates to be chosen for Indiana
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Mexico Accepts BoIiviu Rule

MEXICO CITY, June 6 R.-
The Foreign Office announced to-
day that it is recognizing the new
government of Bolivia.
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Smyrna times., 1952-07-03
Deep Cultivation
Ruins Tomatoes

DO your tomatoes wilt right af-
ter you cultivate? You are prob
ably cutting off too many roots,
suggests Robert F. Stevens, horti-
culturist of the Delaware Agricul-
tural Extension Service.
Tomato plants at eight weeks
after transplanting have shallow
root system that extends three feet
or more out from the plant stem
(see diagram). The first few weeks
after transplanting, the root sys-
TEN takes up only small space
and cultivation can be fairly deep
in the center of the rows.
But from six weeks after trans
planting on, Stevens recommends
cultivating only one to one and a
half inches deep. You can see the
reason why in the above diagram.
1t pays to take time to adjust
the cultivator. Cutting off the
roots with too deep cultivation re-
duces yields.
Smyrna times., 1952-07-03

and plant and animal disease de-
velopments. In Delaware the men
responsible are: DIR. John w. Heu-
berger, head of the University of
Delaware plant pathology depart
ment; the University's entomology
department under Dr. L. A
Stearns; and DR.. Harry Mcdaniel
Jr., state veterinarian.
But the key link, says these of.
ficials, is alert farmers and pro.
ducers. If a disease or insect
should be successfully introduced
or spread, authorities must depend
on farmers to report anything un-
usual in their crops or herds.
Farmers are urged to report any
difficult or unusual plant disease OF
insect pest to their county agents
Immediately. Samples of the dis.
eased plant or an insect specimen
should be taken to the county
agent, but to no one else unless the
farmers in instructed to do so
Carrying or shipping increases the
possibility of spreading.
Smyrna times., 1952-07-03
Bulletin Points Up Need
For Herd Sire Improvement


"Seventy-nine percent of the
dairymen surveyed in New Castle
county indicated that their herd
sire ran with the herd most of the
year."
This fact, and others on the use
and cost of herd sires, shows up in
a new bulletin from the Delaware
Agricultural Experiment Station
In 1949-50 DR.. Samuel A. Dunn of
the department of agricultural eco
nomics surveyed a cross section of
New Castle county dairymen. His
results are published in ESB 294,
Dairy Practices, Costs, and Re-
turns in New Castle County, Del"
The survey showed that only 46
percent of the dairymen had the
services of registered bulls. That
means that over half of the dairy
men in New Castle county are u.s.
ing herd sires that have no pedi-
gree to indicate whether they could
improve the herd.
Only is percent of the dairymen
kept bulls away from the milking
herd at all times except for breed
ing. Only one-third of the dairy
men kept breeding date records
Twenty-Five percent of the farmers
let the herd sire run with heifers
under one year of age.
Costs figures on keeping bulls
show that in herds of rs or fewer,
it is cheaper to use artificial breed
ing than to keep sire. In herds
over 25, costs are equal.
Information from the bulletin
can be had by writing to the Bulle-
tin Mailing Room, Wolf Hall, Uni
versity of Delaware, Newark.
Smyrna times., 1952-07-03
IL 4-Hers HonOred With
Link Membership

Twelve older All boys and girls
were honored recently with men,
bership in the honorary All organ
ization, the Order of the Links in
the 4-H Chain of Delaware. The
twelve are:
Sussex county: Virginia Murphy,
Seaford Betty Ann Carey, Bridge
vile; Mrs. Franklin Nelson, Bridge
ville!; and Russell Layton, Laurel.
Kent county: Mr.. Clifton Hufnal,
Dover; Byron Williams, Dover;
Billy Vanderwende, Harrington;
and Jehu Davis, Milford. New
Castle county: Mr.. William Pier
son, Hockessin; Dorothy Pierson,
Hockessin; Marjorie Brown, Glas-
gov; and James Reynolds, Town
send.
The four initiates from each
county represent the four HIS
head, heart, hands, and health.
They are selected for outstanding
All records, and All Club leader
ship.
Smyrna times., 1952-07-03
State Has Defense Network
Against Biological Warfare

An important part of our nation
al Civilian Defense is the network
against possible biological warfare.
Biological warfare, if it comes,
is very apt to center on our agri-
culture, so the Civilian Defense Ad-
ministration has asked the u. S..
Department of Agriculture to be
responsible for a protection system.
The USDA has done this by ap-
pointing state agencies as detection
and reporting centers. These ag-
encies are on the alert for insects,
Smyrna times., 1952-07-03

plant, very close to the surface.
I'm the diagram each block indi-
Gates a square foot). Cultivating
deeper than one or one and half
inches. and closer than a foot and
a half cuts down on the tomato
plants intake of water and plant
nutrients. This in turn reduces
yields, especially in hot, dry wealth
er.
Smyrna times., 1952-07-03
Contour Farming

1t takes 10 percent less power to
farm on the contour than up and
down hill, says the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. So contour
planting saves on machinery and
fuel as well as the all important
soil.
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11

Oslowore Si0fe Champion Sets
Record Of 22.2 Tons per Acre.
------------=-
7 attribute my record yield TO
the spruY progrom used.
BY following q weekly DITHAllE
proerom, we controlled all Of the
major tomoto diseases and kept
the vines green until frost"
Fred w. Huus,
Middleton, Del.
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11

racks, Hawaii, for the week of June
9th. Pvt. King was honOred for his
IsOldierly qualities and potential
leadership. He was graduated from
Delmar High School and attended
Duke University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Pruitt and
daughter, of Wilmington, spent last
week here with Mr.. Pruitt's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Pruitt.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday, at 2 pm, in All Saints
Episcopal Church here, for Miss
Fannie Lynch, II, who died early
Thursday morning, of a heart at
tack, at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Susie Culver, on N. Second St. Miss
Lynch was a member of All Saints
Church and treasurer of the Unit
ed Thanks Offering for the
wOman's auxiliary. Surviving are
"a brother, DR.. S. Howard Lynch, of
st. Petersburg, Fla, and two sis
ters, Mrs. Culver and Miss Blanche
Lynch, Of Delmar DR.. Malcolm
Ferne, rector of All Saints Church,
conducted the funeral. Interment
was in Mt. Olive Cemetery here.
The portion of Maryland Ave,
extending between Spruce st. and
FOskey Lane and the improved
section of Foskey Lane extending
between R. R. Avenue and South
Second ST., in this town, are in the
process of being resurfaced. Work
lis being done by the Maryland
State Roads Commission.
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11

Dml.a ss.nsI u Us Rsl Oa ss sl.ssI I..Is. .sg..
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Baker have
returned from vacation in Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Stephens,
OF DavidvilIe, Pa, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Walter Griffin and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Cox and daughter, of Green
vile, Miss, are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. Ellis here.
The wedding of Miss Betty
Chandler Johnson, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer V. Johnson, of AS
Smith St., Salisbury, Md, and Mr..
Robert H. Smith, of Delmar, took
place at 400 pm, Tuesday in the
Bethesda Methodist Church, Sails
bury. A reception for the bridal
party and families followed at the
home Of the brides parents. Mr.
Johnson gave his daughter in mar
riage and her maid of honor and
only attendant was a cousin, Miss
Jean Scott BrewingtOn, also of
Salisbury. Mr. Oscar Brown, of this
town, was best man and Mr.. Jack
Johnson, brother of the bride was
an usher.
Following a wedding trip over
the Skyline Drive and Ocean City,
Md, the couple will reside at 410
Pine St., Delmar.
Both young people are graduates
of WicOmicO High School. Miss
Johnson also graduated from the
Pen. Gen. Hospital School of NuTs-
ing and is a member of the staff
there. Mr.. Smith is with Culver's
Mems Shop, in Delmar.
Mrs. J. T. Burkhardt, of Camden
Ave, Salisbury, is announcing the
marriage of her sister, Mrs. Georgia
Crooks, to Monroe Baker, of Dell
mar, on June oath, at $500 pm, in
the Sharptown Methodist Church
parsonage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Massey, of
Willards. brOther-in-law and sister
of the bride, were their attendants.
A small reception was held in the
Burkhardt home. After a wedding
trip to Niagara Falls and Chicago,
Mr.. and Mrs. Baker will live in Del
mar Mr.. Baker is employed by the
Penna. Railroad.
Private Robert c. King, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard w. King, 400
Delaware Ave, has been selected
"Trainee of the Week" of the 50th
Battalion, Hawaiian fantry
Training Center, Scheduled Bar
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11
DELMAR
By Mrs.
Ella N. Carmme

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. H. Locates have
returned from visit with friends
in Murfreesboro, N. G.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Insley have
returned from a two weeks trip to
Washington, d. c., and Silver
Springs They were accompanied
on the trip by their son and daugh-
ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Insley, of Washington and her
daughter, Mrs. Gladys Wilson and
two children, of Belleflower, Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Elsie Ellis and Mrs. Ella
Sample entertained their Sunday
School class Monday evening on
the lawn of the Ellis home on
Grove St., at their annual wiener
roast.
Mrs. R. R. Germans Sunday
School class held it's annual picnic
at RehOboth last Tuesday.
Mrs. Howard Waller entertained
her Sunday School class last week
and they decided to have their
sumner outing with dinner, at the
Majestic, in Ocean City, on July
9Th.
Bruce Phillips, Matthew Ayde-
lotte Jr., Buzz Hastings and Barry
Harrington are spending two
weeks at Rodney Scout Camp, at
Northeast, Md.
Mrs. Getty Browning had for her
holiday guests, Mrs. Charles Davant
Jr. and her two children Charles
Srd and Diane, of Bowling Rock,
N. G.
Mrs. Harry Conner and son are
visiting relatives in Ohio.
Mrs. Norman Hill is a patient in
Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Balti-
more.
Mrs. Mary White is at her home
on Jewell St., recuperating, after
spending sometime in Pen. Gen.
Hospital, Salisbury, where she un-
derwent surgery and treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Cook and Miss
Janice LOOckerman have returned
from a motor trip to Wilmington.
Washington and over the Skyline
Drive.
Mr.. Bailey Kellam is a patient
in Memorial Hospital, New York
City, where he underwent a major
operation on Wednesday of last
week.
The w. S. C. S. of Mt. Olive
Church is sponsoring two Delmar
girls, Barbara Moore and Barbara
Hastings, at summer school of Mis-
sions of the Peninsula Conference
Camp, near Centerville, Md
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Carmine and
daughters Brenda and Sharon, of
Lynchburg. Va, were guests Of Mr.,
and Mrs. V. J. Carmine on the Attn
of July.
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11
BROWNSVILLE

Robert Steward and daughter,
Mary, of Philadelphia, spent the
holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Anthony and daughter.
Mrs. Ray Cox and children spent
a few days with Mr.. and Mrs. Olin
Dill of Bowers Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Collision call
ed on Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Dukes of
Greensboro, Md, last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Clayton Brown and
children of PennsgrOve, N. j.,
spent the weekend with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Brown.
Diane and Nancy are spending a
week with their grandparents.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hates and
Lou FARRELL of FELTON, called on Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond WEIGH and fam
lily on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Barnes of
Texas and Mr.. and Mrs. Pernie
Griffith of Andrewsville spent last
Wednesday with Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
eTt Collins and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Carter of
Wilmington spent the three-day
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Anthony and daughter.
Mrs. Mabel Bullock is spending
week in Wilmington with Mrs.
Ruth Nelson.
Mrs. A. E. Carton of Milford Wis
tied with Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Welch and family on Monday
Visitors at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman Wix, Sr, Sunday
were Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Brown
and children. Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Groves of Church Hill, Md, Mr..
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11
HI. d. Clubs Prepare
For Citizenship,
Election Studies

Delaware Home Demonstration
Clubs are in tune with the times by
studying for citizenship and cleo
tion programs in their local meet
ings.
In three county training meet
ings, citizenship chairmen are
learning about Delaware voting
regulations, fundamental election
issues over the years and the pres
ent situation.
Leader of the training meetings
is DR.. Paul Dolan, of the Univer-
sity of Delaware political science
department. DR.. Dolan leads the
women in a discussion of the above
problems, following a basic out
line. Equipped with this outline,
and a list of recommended reading,
the women will prepare the topic
flor local fail meetings.
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11

and Mrs. Willis Hates and chill
dren, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Welch
and Mrs. Margarite Thawley and
Raymond and Sandra Buarque.
Visitors at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Brown during the hol-
iday and weekend were Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Brown and son of
CheswOld, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Brown and children, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Coverdale and son, Mr..
and Mrs. Cloid Fry and Mrs. Lulu
Nicholson of Virginia, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fletcher Price, Miss Blanche
Price.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Brown and
children visited Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Collins Sunday evening.
Robert Wix called on Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman Wix, Sr., Saturday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Collins and
family visited Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Collins Sunday afternoon of Cor
dOva, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11

Sussex and New Castle Counties
will have the topic as the main one
at their September meetings. Kent
County clubs will work the pro-
gram into their fall program.
Sussex citizenhiD chairmen met
last week at the Agricultural Cen
ter near Georgetown. Kent chair
men will meet with DR.. Dolan on
July Is, at 2 pm, at Oak Grove
Community House near Dover. The
New Castle meeting is set for July
IS, at 1870 pm, in Wolf Hall aud
itorium, on the University Of Del
aware campus.
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11
SMALL INDUSTRY less SAFE

NEW YORK = CP) Industrial
accidents cost the nation S2,6OO.-
100000 a year and most occur in
small manufacturing plants with
100 or fewer workers, reports the
National Association Of Mutual
Casualty Companies.
It said two-thirds of the indus
trial accidents, which resulted in
10000 deaths and injuries to o.
100000 persons, occurred in the
smaller plants.
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11
Inadenuafe Vision

Inadequate vision is a handicap to
four out Of ten grade school chill
dren.
Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11

'"After trying DTHANs on
tomotoes on my farm this
post season, ! ON s0tisAed
mat it is the
moteriuI 10 use.
IT gives complete disease
control and high Yields"
Edgar N. Morris,
Salisbury. Nd.
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Evening star., 1952-05-04
By chorles Cooke

From the backstage point Of
view, last weeks Carmen. at
the Capitol Theater, could be
summed up in two words-mass
apoplexy. Audience and crit
les acclaimed the performance
as brilliant. It is all the more
regrettable that the lives of
the participants were, between
3 and midnight on that memo
rable evening, shortened by ap-
proximately one decade.
Your reporter arrived at the
stage door Tuesday night short
ly before 8. He was prepared
to encounter the traditional
tension which, mercifully out
of sight of the audience, con-
tributes to the success Of any
major musical production. It
was Immediately apparent, how
ever. that the normal back
stage stress was aggravated to
stratospheric heights by two
things. First, the Metropoli-
tan's enormous scenery for
Carmen" lugged all the way
here from New York. swas far
too big for the Capitol stage,
the record Of the many vaude-
vile, theatrical and ballet pro-
ductions that have been success
fully mounted there notwith-
standing. Second, the Capitol's
dressing rooms are all on the
third floor, which is served by
only one understood elevator
with a maximum capacity of IL.
Gomy Crew
Carmen, backstage, is al
ways colorful. Probably no
other opus of stage or music
rounds up such a gamy COL
lection of factory girls, tarts,
dragons, gamins, smugglers,
cutthroats and hags. At the
Capitol, this exotic mob was
suffocatingly concentrated, con-
densed by the theater's rela-
Evening star., 1952-05-04
Carmen Was RoRooe Bocstoee but Every One Agrees Was Worth

Act III and Act Nv. things hav-
ing quieted down a bit, your
reporter asked a number Of the
leading members Of the COM
pany how they reacted, profess
sionally, to Washington.
Fritz Reiner, conductor: "The
acoustics are dull. There is no
reverberation. It is here not
good for singers or for orches-
ira. Take the Boston Opera
House; now there's"
Hide Gueden, Micaela: II
am SO happy tonight. The audi
ence is so close. It is like sing
ing in an intimate European
opera house. The acoustics are
a dream"
Richard Tucker. Don Jose: II
feel lousy. Congestion is bad for
singing and bad for acting.
Maybe about the time am
ready to retire, Washington will
have a real opera house?"
Robert Merrill, Escamillo: II
have never been so comfort
able. These smaller dimensions
give an intimacy the Met can
never have. The audience is
warm-what am ] saying? It's
hot! Anybody who says Wash
ington audiences are cold is
crazy"
Rise Stevens, Carmen: "In
my dreams I will see that stool
going end over end across the
stage and disappearing into the
pit-thank heaven it didn't hurt
any one. This audience is won-
derful, and feel inspired. But
my changes are so difficult that
had to climb three flights to
my dressing room twice, be-
cause I couldn't wait for the
elevator. I'm a little-er-
winded."
Reword
All around. it was a night
of considerable confusion. But,
on one point, there was no
confusion at all: When the cur
tain fell to an ovation for Fritz
Reiner and the cast, bringing to
a close the Metropolitan'S first
Washington engagement in 81
years, the headaches, exaspera-
tions. barked shins and collective
nervous breakdown suffered by
the famous company all seemed
more than justified.
There were several especially
memorable moments when the
two crews of stagehands were
Interestingly set off from each
other. To the Metropolitan's
crew, opera Is an old and tedi-
Gus story. Boredom always is
the order of the evening, un-
less there is work to do. But
especially during the Habanera,
the Toreador song and the
Aragonaise-it was touching to
see Bizet's score work it's potent
magic on the local Stagehand
crew, rapt and shining-eyed to
the last man.
And anyway, as Mr.. Defrere
remarked feelingly after the
last note had died away: mo
body got killed-except Car
men"