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Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
WOMEN NAMED

WOMEN NAMED - Governor J.
Caleb BOggs met this week with
his YOmen's Advisory Committee,
and the group elected it's officers
in the chief executives Dover Office
in Legislative Hall.
Mrs. John G. Leach, Wilmington,
was named chairman; Mrs. Inez
Burton, New Castle, vice chairman,
and Mrs. Newlin Booth, also of
New Castle, will be secretary. Mrs.
Vera G. Davis, was designated as
honorary chairman by Governor
BOggs.
Following the organization meet
ing the Is ladies were the Cover
nOr's guests at a luncheon at Din
ner Bell Inn.
The next meeting was scheduled
for January 26, 1854. as a dinner
meeting. to be guests of Mrs. Davis
in Dover, with the committee con-
ferring and meeting in the evening
after the dinner.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
FINE PAINTING

FINE PAINTING - One of the
highlights of the new Farmers
Bank of the State of Delaware is
a picture of Henry M. Ridgely, first
president of the Farmers Bank of
the State of Delaware. Already in
the new directors room at it's focal
point is this beautiful picture of
the banks first president. The ar
tist Oliver Peets has so finely de-
picted this great man standing in
1907 in front of the hearth in the
Ridgely Home arranging and dis
cussing the formation of Della
wares oldest and outstanding bank.
The directors room arranged for
the convenience of the banks q
directors, has magnificent red lea
ther chairs and a mahogany table
of great interest due to it's size
and length. All of these are to be
on display at the preview for the
directors and stockholders on
Thursday, November 5, and for the
public on Friday, November 6, from
/ 3 to s p. m.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06

BAKE-On November 7th, at 10
a. m, the Boy Scouts of Troop 102
will hold a Bake at the Parking
Lot on Walnut Street. Come to the
tent and get your goodies for the
weekend.
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Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06

BANK FUNCTIONS - The latter
part of this week all roads will lead
to Dover for the opening of the
beautiful new building of the main
office of the Farmers Bank of the
State of Delaware. The schedule
for the functions are:
Thursday, November 5: 4 to z
p. m, preview of the bank for the
directors, stockholders, bankers
and others.
Friday, November 6, 8 to 8 p. m,
preview for the public. All are in
vited
Monday, November 8, the bank
opens in its new building all under
one roof, after over a year and a
half.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
Local Happenings

CARD PARTY-Save November
18th for the Milford New Century
Club card party Nice plans are
going forth for that evening.
XMAS CARDS-Buy your Christ
mas Cards and Novelties from the
Blue Hen V. F. w. Auxiliary. Call
Beatrice Kniceley, 4415, for further
details.
SUPPER-The Kent and Sussex
Democratic Club will have a chick
en- and dumpling supper on Thurs
day evening, November 10, 1858,
at the POcahontas Hall, Second and
Washington Streets, Milford, Del
aware. Serving time, to 8 p. m.
Adults, $1.25; children, SIS.
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Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06

CLASS MEETING The Late
Disciples Sunday School Glass
will meet on November 10th, at
the home of Mrs. Doris Davidson,
at 500 p. IN. All members are
urged to be present. Don't forget
to bring your Quilt squares with
names on them.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06
DONOVAN

Funeral services for James l..
Donovan of Philadelphia, formerly
of Milford found dead in his apart
ment on Monday, November End,
were held on Thursday afternoon,
November 5th at two o'clock from
the LOfland funeral home in Milford.
with Rev. Donzel Wildey pastor of
Calvary Methodist Church oficiat-
ing, with interment in Oddfellows
cemetery.
Mr.. Donovan was never married
and he and his stepfather Robert
%. Ford, lived together in Philadel-
phia On 1920 South 69th st. He is
survived by one sister Mrs. Edward
Murphy of Atlantic City and one
brother, Grover Donovan of Milford
in addition to his stepfather. Death
was attributed to a heart attack.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06

KIWANIS - Members of the
Lewes Kiwanis Club have nominat-
ed DR.. H. G.. Kicker, veterinarian,
for president to succeed Branch C.
Morris. Formal election is schedul-
ed November IL. Installation takes
place in January.
Other officers nominated, as pre-
sented by Hubert o. Noble, chair
man of the nominating committee,
are: Eugene P. Russell, vice presi-
dent; James T. Lynch, lieutenant
governor of the Eleventh Division,
as secretary, and John A. McManus,
treasurer. Seven directors will be
chosen from the following nomi-
nees: DR.. ]. A. Vansant, Francis
Short, Colonel E. S. Slayer, DR.. w.
c. PrOuse, E. S. Berger, John w.
Roberts, Norman R. Lewis, Will
liam F. Henning, James w. Travis,
and DR.. Carl G. Pierce. Guests at
the dinner were Thomas Rogers,
Rehoboth; Daniel G. Anderson, Re-
hoboth, and James Ortop Marshall,
Jr., Lewes.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-06

COLLEGE BOARD MEETS-The
board of trustees of Wesley Junior
College met at the college on Mon
day, October %. A good attend.
ance, including all the officers Of
the board, heard encouraging re
ports on the schools enrolment
and no changes in the faculty and
staff. The prospects of sufficient
income to meet the colleges cur
rent financial situation was assur-
ed.
The following men were elected
to serve as officers of the Wesley
Junior College Board of Trustees
for the next year: President, Hon.
Wilmer Fell Davis of fredericksburg,
Md; vice president, John Holt, Sal
isbury, Md; secretary, Dr.. William
Simpson, Camden; treasurer, Rev.
L. E. Windsor, Wilmington.
BOGGS TO SPEAK - Richard
Sipple of Frederick, president of
the Kent County AYR, has announ-
ced that Governor J. Caleb BOggs
of Dover will be guest speaker for
/ its regular monthly meeting on
Thursday evening, November II, at
o'clock. The meeting will be held
at Legislative Hall, Dover.
Refreshments will be served at
the close of the meeting.
Mr.. Sipple states that the meet
ing will be open to all interested
/ persons
Evening star., 1953-08-16
BY Doris Kanier

THE DAY they met in a
Il Fourteenth street camera
shop, Ralph E. Lawrence and
]. Donald Sutherland became
partners. Mr.. Lawrence, a
wholesale canned goods dealer,
and Mr.. Sutherland, an in
surance broker, deciding to
combine hobbies, formed their
partnership beside a birds
nest on the Soldiers Home
Grounds.
Together, they recently
gained international recog-
milton in the field of amateur
movie making.
Mr.. Lawrence's hobby was
photographing birds. His pic
lures of robins and prothono-
tary warblers have appeared
in national magazines and in
exhibits in several countries.
The day of the camera shop
meeting he was so excited
over a 4ed-headed woodpecker
whose nest he had just dis
covered that, while waiting for
films, he described it in glow
ing terms to Mr.. Sutherland.
A moving picture enthusiast,
Mr.. Sutherland was interested,
but more in the movie posi-
bilitieS than in the bird. He
wondered why Mr.. Lawrence
did not take movies. why,
motion pictures are birds
natural Photographic medi-
um," he said in a discoverer's
tone.
The two men left the shop
with an extra roll of color
movie finland went to the
Soldiers Home Grounds. Since
that spring afternoon five
years ago, bird cinematogra-
ply has been their speciality.
Mr.. Sutherland, who had
been a member of the Wash
ington Society of Amateur
Cinematographers since it
was formed in 1887, and who
once served as its president,
persuaded Mr.. Lawrence to
join the group.
Each, with the specialized
help of the other, began film
ing birds in color and action.
1t took five years to make the
films which, separately, take
SIS minutes to show, and
Evening star., 1953-08-16

which, combined and titled
Birds of Washington" take
an hour and a half.
Except for a sequence of
water birds taken at Cape
May, N. j., the pictures, which
include so species of birds,
were filmed within an hours
drive of Mr.. Sutherland'S
home, 1915 Rittenhouse street
NV.
You don't have to go to
some exotic place like South
Africa to film colorful BIRDS"
Mr.. Sutherland says in a COM
mentary on his film. Some
of the pictures-like the one
of that purple grackle there
were taken not more than
10 feet from this living room"
Most of the birds were filmed
in Washington parks and
school grounds, Arlington,
Alexandria and Seneca
Swamp, Md.
It took days of waiting and
sometimes three years of
coming back to the same spot
to complete sequences of both
male and female of a par
ticular species.
The main problems they
encountered, Mr.. Sutherland
says, were getting close enough
to the birds (even with tele-
photo lenses, getting sufd-
cient light on birds and nests
for good color rendition, and
capturing natural actions of
wild birds in their habitatS
without running up the cost
way beyond bird-flight level.
Their wives helped out with
lighting, accompanying their
husbands on bird trips and
carrying large plate-glass
mirrors to reflect sunlight
into secluded shady places.
Separately, Mr.. Lawrence's
film, Natures Free Show"
and Mr.. Sutherland's "Adven-
lures in Birding" have been
shown more than $50 times
before groups including the
Cosmos Club and the Smith
Sonian. Institution here and.
in various other cities.
On what they recall as a
Spur-of- -the-moment idea, the
men entered the combination
Kodiak mirror., 1953-02-28
latter 10 the Editor

y m Fnt be interested ia know ng why 1 will vote agains the proposed Kodiak Public Utility District.
 First, l wish it to be knowl that 1 was one of the 6( slgners of the petition askina for this election. The reason for this is because I feel thaf everyone should have right to vote for or against some thing that might effect their way of life or their pocket book. But the signing Of said petition did not obligate me in any way to the way 1 sign the ballot.
 For the past few years most of us have been lamenting the high taxes. The proposed P.U.D. would allow five per- sons, the directors, to assess everyone in the district an ad- ditional 10 mills over and above the present rate, which IS 10 mills.
 They would have to appoint or hire an assessor. If the val uation he placed on property was higher than those made in the past it would mean we could be paying double the present rate on a higher figure.
 All this would require bookkeeper, records, an office, office machines, notices to be mailed and other necessities that would be paid for from taxes. Add all these expenses to that of an assessor and it appears to me that if taxes were raised, they would prob- ably be raised the limit.
 
 Regarding the roads and atreets of a P.U.D. I find that the Alaska Road Commission will continue to maintain al l roads that has already been built. Any new roads or streets that the Alaska Road Commis- sion are asked to build by a P.U.D. probably will be con- structed, provided, they have the time and equipment avail able and are reimbursed by the P.U.D.
 The P.U.D. would be re- sponsible for all maintenance and repairs except Of roads built by the ARC before the BUD. was formed.
 I understand the P.U.D. will give us bargaining power. With whom? Surely not the ARC. They have certain regu- lations they must follow re gardless of the persons deal- ing with them.
 Perhaps we can bargain with the city. But about what? Perhaps water. They now SUD- ply water on Mission Road and some residents on Mill Bay Road.
 Perhaps the bargaining would be about fire protection. We should give thanks to the city of Kodiak for the protec- tion we do have.
 I have been informed that
Evening star., 1953-04-16
Heavy Cut Expected
In Extra Fund Sought
For D. {. Operation
By Don S. Warren

Some heavy reductions are ex-
pected to be recommended by
the House Appropriation Com
mittee tomorrow in the $3,871,-
931 supplemental funds request
ed by the District government.
These extra city funds are a
small part of government re-
quests for supplemental appro-
priations now awaiting action by
the House.
Best chances seemed to be for
the appeals of school officials
for an additional $50, to hire
substitute teachers and for an
extra S., 1000 for the District Vet
erans' Services, both already suf-
fering from earlier forced saw
ings.
In addition there seemed fair
chances for approval of some
other items, or parts of them,
where the city already has in
Cured obligations under con-
gressional acts.
But all through the closed
hearings, released today by a
House subcommittee, the econ
omy pressure was dominant.
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, super
intendent of schools, for in
stance, was asked about using
savings to pay for extra needed
substitutes.
DR.. Corning said there never
had been enough money for sub
stitutes, but that the past year
was the first time real trouble
had arisen. AS he put it, last
year there were no savings that
could be transferred to this pur-
pose.
Under congressional decisions,
he said, otherwise available saw
ings were needed to cover legis-
lated salary increases.
The biggest District supple
mental request was for $2.5 mil
lion for completion of the Piney
Branch relief sewer, to prevent
flooding of streets and base
ments in and near the Fifth and
Ingraham streets area.
1t was supported by several
District officials, but members of
the District subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee
wondered if this was an emer-
gency request. Under the pro-
posal, good part of the sewer
money would not be spent until
the 1855 fiscal year.
Evening star., 1953-04-16
Hyde 10 Push Bill
For Daylight Saving

Congressional advocates Of day.
light saving time for Washing
ton are getting anxious, with
only nine days remaining before
other metropolitan areas will ad-
vance the clock.
Representative Hyde, Repub-
lican of Maryland, said he would
raise the issue today at meet
ing of the Judiciary Subcommit-
tee of the House District Com
mittee.
This meeting was called by
Representative O'Hara, Repub-
lican of Minnesota, to discuss
District rent control extension.
Mr.. Hyde said he realized the
meeting was not intended to
cover the daylight issue.
But time is getting awfully
short" he said. $50 I shall make
the effort to bring it up"
Mr.. O'Hara, although an op-
ponent of daylight time, has said
he is willing to have his subcom-
mittee review the issue. So has
Chairman Simpson of the full
District Committee, but as yet
no date has been set for such
action.
Evening star., 1953-04-16
Professional Advice Sought
OnSchooI Cafeteria Operation

The District school system is
asking some professional restau-
rant men to decide how the food
in school cafeterias stacks up.
The Board of Education voted
yesterday to ask the Washing
ton Restaurant Association to
survey public school lunchrooms
Vice President Albert E. Stel-
mem, who proposed the survey
said the purpose was to see
whether the food being served
in the 38 lunchrooms is proper
and whether we're getting the
values we should"
The action follows a series of
student boycctts against cafe
terra food and complaints from
parent groups.
Cafeterias were brought under
a new centralized management
last December, and school Off
cials have had many complaints
against the new menus, quality
Evening star., 1953-04-16
House Unit Will Take Up
Two District Bills Soon

Chairman O'Hara of the
House District Judiciary sub
committee said his unit will take
up for consideration rent control
extension shortly and daylight
saving for the District reason
ably soon."
The Minnesota Republican
made this announcement after a
meeting of a few members of his
subcommittee which lacked q
quorum to act on anything.
The District Commissioners
had been invited to discuss their
position on extension of rent
control but were unable to at
tend because of a White House
appointment.
Mr.. O'Hara said his Subcom-
mittee was informed that a
House Committee had favorably
reported bill on extension of
national rent control, and he
wanted to make a study of that
before another meeting of his
subcommittee on the subject.
Mr.. O'Hara, an opponent of
daylight saving, said this sub
ject will be taken up at a later
session but he would not promise
when. Two bills for District
daylight saving are pending be-
fore his group.
Evening star., 1953-04-16
Teacher Loses Plea
To Regain Post on
Junior High Staff

A District teacher has lost an
appeal to the Board of Educa-
ton against his transfer from a
Junior high to an elementary
school.
Two months ago, John A. Mills.
fifth-grade teacher at Kimball
Elementary School, told the
School Boards Complaints and
Appeals Committee he was un-
happy in his present job.
Switched in Shuttle.
A former junior high teacher,
Mr.. Mills was switched last fall
as part of a teacher shuttle in the
white schools designed to release
money for use in the shorthand
ed colored division. His supe-
riors wouldn't reconsider, so Mr..
Mills went to the committee.
The 37-year -old former his
tory and geography instructor
also accused officials of skipping
over his name on a 1851 eligibil-
ity list for another junior high
post. But the school board yes
terday turned a deaf ear to this
charge as well as the transfer
matter.
Asked what he planned to do
next, Mr.. Mills said he would
consult his attorney, William E.
Owen.
Other Personnel Matters.
On other personnel matters,
the board yesterday:
Authorized Supt. Hobart M.
Corning to seek funds to hire
assistant principals for grade
schools with "a or more teachers,
as well as vocational highs hav-
ing evening schools.
Approved proposed legislation
for a 10 per cent teacher pay
raise. The new schedule would
give the superintendent a salary
of $17,500 per year, compared
to his present $4,000.
Approved assignment Of Mrs.
Nita A. Pickett, teacher at
Thomson School, and Miss jean
eta M. Wright. teacher at
Roosevelt High, to teach in Eng
land on an exchange basis next
winter.
Approved the retirement of
Mrs. Adelaide D. Ewell, teacher
at Hine Junior High; Mrs. Alma
r. Hooks, teacher now on leave,
and Miss Mildred j. Nichols,
teacher at Rudolph School.
Evening star., 1953-04-16
Pair Held for Assault
On Young Woman
In Parked Car Here

Police today arrested two men
in an early morning assault
on an attractive 24-year-old
brunette on a dead-end street
near the Australian Embassy.
They were:
Walter w. cambridge, q, of
the 870O block of Garfield street,
Bethesda, a painter, who was
charged with rape.
Edward A. Cox, %, of the 1900
block Of @ street NV, a vet
eran just out of the Army, who
was charged with assault with
intent to rape.
$4,000 Bond Set.
When the case was brought
before Municipal Court Judge
Thomas c. Scalley later in the
morning, bond for Bainbridge
was set at $4,000 and for Cox
at $4,000. The hearing was CO.
tinued until April 80 at the re-
quest of Defense Attorney
Charles E. Ford.
The men were caught by police
around dawn, several hours after
the attack was supposed to have
occurred. They were traced
through the license tags Of the
1858 automobile they were driv-
ing.
The woman told police one of
the men attacked her in the back
seat of the Car while the other
one sat behind the wheel.
She told police she met the
men at the Kit Mar Bar,
Fourteenth street and Florida
avenue NV, while she was with
a woman friend. The pair VOL
unteered to take her home after
the bar closed.
The victims story is that they
first went to a yacht, moored
in the Washington Channel at
a Maine avenue dock. She stayed
on deck while the two men went
below for a few minutes. Then
they drove to a dead-end street
near the Australian Embassy.
Fought Advances.
Police quoted the woman as
saying she tried to get them to
take her home and fought of
advances of one while they were
riding.
After the assault in the parked
car. the woman said she broke
away and ran to Massachusetts,
avenue. There she hailed cab
and went to her home in the
4800 block of Fourteenth street
NV.
She called police after ar
irving home and gave them the
license tag numbers.
Evening star., 1953-04-16
Boy, 8, Found Safe in Fairfax
After Night-Long Search

An 8-year-old boy, sought
since yesterday afternoon in the
Lake Bancroft area of Fairfax
County, Va. was found un-
harmed today several miles from
where searching parties had
been securing the woods and
lake shore.
He is Hugh Hughes, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. David Hughes, 500
Knollwood drive, Parkwood de-
velopment. The father is a
State Department employe.
A Fairfax County police cruiser
found the boy in development
in the Sleepy Hollow-Annandale
area.
Police Pvts. Thomas Thomp-
son and Elbie Auterback said
the boy was still clutching his
Evening star., 1953-04-16

and size Of servings, pay cuts
suffered by some workers and
administrative changes.
Menus have been revised and
officials have promised efforts to
step up the quality of some items.
A system of one manager for a
pair OF schools also is to be
dropped eventually in favor of a
single manager for each school.
Mr.. Steinem has been an ad-
vocate of hiring an experienced
restaurant man to run the cafe
system. Miss Aleta Logan, cafe
terra director, who came here
from post at the dining halls at
Yale University, has a masters
degree but has had no business
experience.
Mr.. Steinem made no refer
ence to this subject yesterday.
But he declared he was very
much interested in finding out
how we're getting along" and
whether the new system lis on
the right track"
The board backed him unani-
mouSly on the understanding
that the two associations be per-
suaded to do the job free of
charge.
Evening star., 1953-04-16
2 Robbers Convicted
In Less Than Minute

A jury yesterday took less than
a minute to convict two robbery
suspects who had been captured
by police five minutes after the
crime.
Convicted were Jack H.
SchowerS, 81, Of the 1000 block
of Third street NE. and Ray
mond Thomas, 81, of the 1900
block Of Seventh street NV,
both colored. Both were found
guilty, in the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia, of
taking $87 at pistol point from
a cleaning establishment in the
1900 block of Twenty-f1rst street
NV, last January "a.
Detectives James A. Roache
and Thomas Herlihy were in a
police cruiser two blocks away at
the time.
They rushed to the scene, dis
covered the escape route taken
by the fleeing men and radioed
officers IN a nearby scout car
who picked up the fugitives.
The jury received the case at
2:30 pm. The men were prose-
cuted by Assistant United States
Attorney B. Michael Landesman
Evening star., 1953-04-16
Teachers Oppose
Service Pins, So
Board Ends Plan

District school authorities have
bowed to the will of the major
ity-teachers won't get any more
service buttons.
Last fall the Board of Educa-
ton approved the awarding of
buttons to veteran teachers for
long service. The school system
spent $1.519 for the first batch.
Yesterday Supt. Hobart M.
Corning asked for 5000 to buy
some more. Another ATT teach
ers became eligible this year. But
the superintendent also reported
81 per cent of the teachers in a
survey said they'd rather not
have any. -
The board promptly voted to
abandon the whole idea.
Evening star., 1953-04-16
7 Boys, 9 and 10, Seized
On Way 10 Store Break lin

Police today held two boys, 9
and 10 years old. who admitted
they were on their way to break
into Northwest stationery
store for the fourth time.
Their loot on three previous
visits to the store at 1924
Eighteenth street NV. included
seven dozen small flashlights
which they said they distributed
among their friends.
The pair was arrested at 1:30
am. by Detective Clarence w.
Knott. who had been watching
the place after the break-ins
earlier this month. They told
Juvenile Squad Detectives c. H.
Calderwood and Edward E.
Proudfoot they had broken into
the store on the 4th, the 7th
and 18th of this month. Both
boys are colored.
Another 14-year-old boy was
arrested in the 1900 block of Half
street S.W. by Pvt. Merlin L.
Lucas, who saw the youth car
rying two automobile steering
wheels and an estimated $40
worth of new auto seat covers.
Evening star., 1953-04-16

schoolbooks. He was soaking
wet from the early morning rain
and told them he was hungry as
well as scared"
He spent the night in the
woods, he said, and tried knock
ing on several doors after he
emerged from the woods this
morning, but failed to arouse a
response.
A Civil Air Patrol plane was
in the air over the area and two
helicopterS had been requested
from Fort Belvoir to join a
search party that numbered al
most $50. It was made up of
f1remen, rescue squads and police
from virtually all units in the
general area. One bloodhound
was sent into action before dawn
today.