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Evening star., 1953-06-03
Willard W. Gatche|I
Named FPC Counsel

The Federal Power Commits
sion announced yesterday that
Willard w. Gatchell, 81, native
Washingtonian, has been ap-
pointed general counsel.
Mr.. Gatchell received his law
degree from George Washington
University in 1927 and later took
postgraduate work at Cornell
Law School in 1945.
He started his Government ca
reer as a clerk in the War De-
partment in 1916. He has been
with the FPC. except for a brief
period in 1945-1946, since 1881.
As general counsel, Mr.. Catch
ell succeeds Bradford Ross who
Evening star., 1953-06-03
u. N. Lowers Dinner

The United Nations League of
Lawyers will hold a dinner at
$50 pm. tomorrow at the Army
Navy Club. Seventeenth and Eye
streets NV. Hector D. Castro,
Ambassador Of Ell Salvador and
president Of the league, will
speak.
Evening star., 1953-06-03
AmpIifiers Aid Cnhles

NEW YORK.-Amplifiers have
been built into modern subma-
rine telephone cables which are
designed to operate for many
years under conditions Of enor-
nous water pressure.
Evening star., 1953-06-03
Oil Requirement Dropped

French obligation to purchase
Venezuelan petroleum products
has been eliminated from provi-
Sions Of revised trade agree
ment
Evening star., 1953-06-03

RCA Victor does what no other maker can do provides
nch television handsome advanced in perform
yet low priced that the supply has equaed
the demand since this first introduced Here it is
again at Georges, famyszed televson with all the great
advances of the RCA Laboratories, including Magic Mon
itor' circuits. If you RCA Victor TV at a price you
afford hurry to Georges quantities
limited!
Evening star., 1953-06-03

Spillpruf Cutex comes in all the
newest, prettiest shades lots Of
radiant reds, romantic pinks, VIZ
brant wines! You'll want severall
Only 25t and 15e plus tax.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Poppy Days
Are Coming
Up In Milford
Veterans Of Foreign
Wars And Legion Have
Named Aides To Con-
duct Sales OF Flowers.

Two young Milford businessmen,
Harry Eypel and Harold Bruner,
have been named by Commander
Walter Quering to serve as CO.
chairmen of the v f. w. Poppy
Sales Committee for the Milford
Area, and, as such, will direct the
1853 Buddy Poppy Sales Campaign
that begins here on May 22nd. Ey-
pei and Bruner, World War II vet
Grams and members of Blue Hen
Post No. 6483, V. +. W., will, as in
years past, be assisted by volun-
teer workers from the local post
and its Ladies Auxiliary; the la
dies group will again be headed
by Mrs. Mildred Hall, who has
served in similar capacity during
previous highly successful Poppy
Sales Campaigns.
Saturday, May 2Srd, has been
designated as the official Poppy
Day and the greater part of 25OO
of the little cOlOrful Flowers of
Remembrance" will be offered for
sale in the downtown business
area that day beginning around 9
a. m. However, the campaign will
actually get underway on the day
previous, May 22nd, when poppies
are offered for sale in industrial
plants and other business places
that will be closed on the 2Srd.
Last year, post and auxiliary
members, assisted by Cub Scouts.
sold 1000 pOppies in just a matter
CONTINUED on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
School Elections
Held In SUSSEX
InCumbents Win At Lord
Baltimore, RehObOth
And SeafOrd

There were eight school board
elections in Sussex County last
Saturday, with contests featured
in seven.
Only in Lewes, where Glenwood
Harrington, insurance broker and
immediate past president of the
Lewes Parent-Teacher Association,
was elected to the board vacancy,
was there no contest.
At RehObOth Beach, ]. Arthur
Downing, a member of the school
board there for over 16 years, was
reelected by a to 1 vote. He
pOlled las to As for his opponent,
George L. TObin, Mr.. Downing,
former RehOboth Mayor, also has
served as president of the RehO-
both board.
3 Vie At Georgetown
There was a three-way contest
at Georgetown with 704 votes cast,
of which 81 were thrown out as
improperly marked. Joseph r. Pit
tard, a brother of Sheriff Arthur
Lee Pittard, won with 304 votes.
Irwin r. Murray received 261 votes
and Rodney M. Wilgus, Jr., 108.
Election officials were w. Burton
Macklin, Mrs. Charlotte Dennis,
William G. Lambden, Mrs. Betty
Kitchens and Mrs. Olive Holson.
Four votes were thrown out of
435 votes at the John M. Clayton
CONTINUED on page two)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
2 Kent County
Boys Drowned
Last Week
Henry M. Smith, West
Dover, Zack VOshell,
Of Near Smyrna Wad-
ing, Fishing Victims.

Funeral services for 12-year-old
Henry Macarthur Smith, who
drowned in the st. Jones River
last Friday, were held at 2 D. M,
Monday, at the TOrbert Funeral
Home, Dover, with the Rev. Robert
w. Duke, pastor of Peoples Con-
gregatiOnal-Christian Church, Off
ciating. Interment in Barratt's
Chapel Cemetery near Frederick.
The boy, the son of Mrs. Violet
May Knight of West Dover, drown
ed near the rear of the Dover Ele-
mentary School while wading with
a classmate.
Police said the boy stepped into
a hole along the edge Of the river.
Henry had gone to the stream
with Ronald Fretz, also II, after
school. Both boys were in the fifth
grade.
Dover city police said the Smith
boy dOnned a bathing suit before
stepping into the shallow water
with ROnalds and the two began
Wading along the bank of the river.
They had entered the water from a
point in the rear of the school and
had waded about $50 feet when the
Smith boy started to throw his
hands in the air, and then began
to beat the water frantically.
He suddenly disappeared, appar-
emily stepping into a deep hole and
the Fretz boy, frightened, scrambl-
ed up the bank and raced toward
the school to notify the bus driver.
AS the latter was going to inform
town police, a call from the Dover
power plant about the accident was
received at police headquarters.
The drowning occurred about 200
feet from the Kings Highway
Bridge and near the power plant
about 1886 p. m.
Police summoned Dover firemen,
Continued on page sikh
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Reasons For
Bond Issue
On May 29th
Are Explained
Money Sought Through
Referendum Will Be
Used To Expand Water
And Sewage Facilities
Growth OF City Cited.

In order to clarity questions re-
lating to the proposed bond issue,
for. the benefit Of those who did
not attend the public hearing on
same on April %, 1858, the pro-
posed bond issue will provide a
sum OF 100000 in six hundred
bonds Of $1,000 each, to be retired
over a thirty-year period at the
rate Of $4,000 each year.
This money is for three pur-
poses: (1l to expand the sewage
disposal plant by providing two
additional sedimentatiOn tanks, two
digestOr tanks, and four sludge dry
ing beds. The cost of this is esti-
mated to be 100000 and is an
absolute requirement that this be
done by order of the Delaware
Stream Pollution Commission. The
fine that can be levied by the state
for not complying with their order
is $100 per day. The facts are that
the local plant has not been ade-
quate for years, and is entirely too
small to take care of the sewerage
load Of the city, as it was designed
originally for a population of 5000
people, at 100 gallons each per day
or 100000 gallons per day. The
population today is about $500,
and the plant is pumping about
100000 gallons Of water daily, with
out counting water and sewage
from several Industries in town
which add another half million gal
Ions per day. The digestion tanks
and sludge beds are also too small
to handle the lead today. The city
has been accused Of polluting the
Mispillion River for years and the
state has ordered this stopped.
With the expansion of the city in
the last ten years, no sewer Or wa
ter lines were provided for all the
new homes, and even in the older
part OF the city in the Third Ward
(cOntinued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Guard
Unit Plans
Fine Program
Milford Battery Will
Hold "Open House" On
Saturday At ArmOry
On North Walnut St.

Armed Forces Day will be an en-
Tightening occasion for the citizens
Of this community this Saturday,
May 10th, when Battery c, 945th
Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion,
local National Guard unit, presents
an elaborate program and "Open
House" at the Milford ArmOry
starting at 100 p. m, DIST. Capt.
Finley B. Jones, Commanding Off
eer of Battery G, extends an invi-
tatiOn to all citizens of this COM
munity and urges them to visit the
Armory and observe the County
Fair" demonstrations to be pre-
sented.
The past year has been one Of
great accomplishment by Battery
c. They received a Superior rating
at the recent Army Inspection con-
Quoted by Inspectors from Head
quarters. Second Army, Fort
George G.. Meade, Maryland. This
is the first time that Gun Bat
terry in Delaware has received this
outstanding rating and one for
which the citizens of this cOmmuni-
ty should be justly proud. Eisen-
hover Trophy has been recently
awarded to the unit as the out
standing National Guard unit of
the State. Last summer at the
Camp the unit received the Capt.
David A. Benson Trophy for eff
cheney in Gun drill, speed, and ae-
curacy in firing. On Wednesday
evening thirty-eight members OF
Battery G donated blood to the Red
Cross blood donor program, an
other first among National Guard
units in the State. Many other
concentrations have been received
by the unit during the past year
which reflects great credit upon
Milford and the surrounding area.
Armed Forces Day is set aside
each year as an occasion when
the citizens of the community are
given an opportunity to see all the
latest types of equipment as well
as to observe the training that is
offered to the National Guardsmen.
Continued on page two)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
This Is Year of The
II Year Cicad0
Brood x Is Due To
Appear In A
Short Time

A little advance warning may
head off wild excitement this
month, over the 17-year periodical
cicada. One of the largest brOods
technically known as brood x, is
scheduled to appear in the east
in late spring and early summer,
says the U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture.
Brood x is the largest single
brood in the east, and has been re-
ported from Alabama northward.
through to Vermont, and as far
west as eastern Illinois, and even
Wisconsin.
The noisy insects seem to come
by night, as If from nowhere. One
morning, you can find the cicada's
pupal cases on tree trunks, tWigs,
and leaves. There viii be the new
cicadas, milky white and red-eyed,
nearby. The males appear first. and
Continued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Community Calendar
For Coming Week
Events Listed For The Period From
May 16 To May q

The Milford Community Calendar
for the period from May 16 to May
21, follows:
Saturday, May rs
500 p. m.-Milford Grange,
Grange Hall.
Sunday, May ~
1880 p. mn. Y. r. A. Direc-
tors, Lyn Taylor's home.
Monday, May Is
$3.50 D. m. - Baseball Milford
High VS.. Dover High, at home.
6:15 p. m.-Rotary, Community
Building.
1880 p. m.-Odd Fellows. Odd
Fellows Hall.
$500 p. m.--American Legion So
cial Meeting, Legion Hall.
$500 p. m.-Daughters of Poca-
hontas, PoeahOntas Hall.
8:15 p. m.-Kiwanis Sing. Sea-
ford Choir, High School Auditor
ium.
Tuesday, May 19
$3.50 p. m. Baseball. Milford
High, at Georgetown.
500 p. m. ~ Baseball. Little
Continued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Over $50 Young Men And
Women Have Been
Aided. DeadIine Set
For Monday, June 1st.

The Milford Trust Companv
trustee under the will Of L,oude,.
N. Hearn, is pleased to again in-
Yite applications for benefits from
the Hearn Educational Fund and
the trustee announces that since
1888 when the trust fund was Gre
ated that over $50 separate awards
have been made by the trustee for
the assistance Of worthy and de-
serving white boys and girls of
this community in securing a high
er education.
The following statement is made
by the trustee, which is self-ex-
planatory:
Resolved, That the Milford Trust
Company as trustee of the Hearn
Educational Fund, established nm
der the will of Louder N. Hearn.
authorizes the following announce
ment:
The will Of our late fellow towns
man, Louder N. Hearn, provided
for a trust fund, of which the Mil
ford Trust Company is trustee. to
be know as the Hearn Educational
Fund of which the income is To
be used in helping and assisting
the worthy and deserving white
boys and girl Of this vicinity in
securing an education. Mr.. Hearn,s
will stipulated that the trustee was
to use its judgment in the distri-
button Of the income so as to do
the most good.
Pursuant to the terms of this be-
quest the Milford Trust Company
invites applications for the inan-
clal assistance Of the Hearn Edu-
Continued on page fivel
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Poore's To Hold
Cooking School

J. B. Poore and Sons, local Hot
Point dealer, and the Delaware
Power and Light Company, will
hold a cooking school at Milford
Grange Hall on Tuesday evening of
next week, May 18th. The school
which promises to be both inter-
esting and entertaining, will begin
promptly at eight o'clock.
Miss Barbara Gray, who is a
Nationally known Home EcOnom-
ist, associated with the Hot Point
Company, will preside over the
school.
Brainard Poore, of the co-spon-
soring Poore firm, stated today
that there will be no admission
charge whatsoever, and he extends
cordial invitation to everyone
on behalf Of his firm, Hot Point
and Delaware Power and Light
Company, to attend the school.
There will be door prizes.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
New Church OF God
Opens On Sunday
Special Services Planned; Friend
Of Church Collecting For Organ

VI OHuEcH COllecClhg FOR organ
This Sunday, the doors of the
new Church of God will swing
wide to welcome one and all. Since
August last, the people have look
ed forward with great anticipation
to this day. The Rev. w. E. Tull,
pastor of the Church, will bring
the first message at eleven o'clock.
At 1880 p. m, the Rev. Byrd will
speak. At this service, special
singers will render selections.
Then a great Youth for Christ
service will begin at 1880 D. m.
The pastor and the members
join together in thanking everyone
who have helped in any way to
erect this structure.
A group of persons interested in
Rev. Tull and his church, who have
organized a committee known as
the Friends of Church of God Or
gan Committee, composed of per-
sons frn!E several communities in
this area, are busily soliciting
funds for a new Hammond Organ.
locally, the member Of the COM
mittee are; Charles E. Banning,
DR.. S. M d. Marshall, C. Don
Holzmueller, Tom Derrickson, Ed
Messick, Frank r. Grier, Robert
H. Yerkes, Earl Williams and Sen
atOr John M. LOngbOtham; Hous-
ton: Eugene NJ. Sharp, C. Walter
Wharton; Harrington: Fulton ].
Downing, Archie Feagan and Fred
S. Bailey; Lineoln-Ellendale: Ar
thur Webb and Fred Ireland.
Because it is physically impossi-
BILE to contact every person in the
area for a contribution and because
that is really not the intention of
the committee anyway, persons
who wantotO donate can mail their
checks, made out to the Church
of God Organ Fund, to any of the
aforementioned gentlemen. The
committee, with the support of the
interested persons in this area,
who are legion, expect to have the
necessary funds in hand in another
week.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15

N. carver ana OlneF officials joined
in a broadcast that marked the
initial use Of the network, which in
the future can be called upon for
any emergency.
The network was set up under
the direction Of the State Depart
ment Of Civil Defense and has won
the hearty support Of all accredited
volunteer companies according to
Col D. Preston Lee, state director
Spesking from the Kent County
Base. station, located in the Robbins
Hose Company headquarters. Do
yer, Governor Boggs paid tribute to
the "foresightedness and initiative
Continued on page two)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Gov. BOggs
Dedicate eS
Youth Center
Chief Executive Offici-
ates AT New COnserva-
ton And Recreation
Spot At Petersburg

More than 800 Delawareans
gathered at the Petersburg Wildlife
Area last Sunday afternoon and
participated in ceremonies dedica-
ting the new Conservation and
Recreation Center, built by inter-
ested citizens for use by the youth
of the state.
Speaking from the rOOf-tOp plat
form, while a brilliant sun beat
down upon the guests, Gov. ]. Cal
eb BOggs officially accepted the
building in behalf of the boys and
girls of the state. Scores of people
stood under the protective leaves
of giant elm tree near the struc-
ture, said to be the largest tree
of its kind in the state, and heard
their chief executive extoll those
who planned and executed the CEN
ter.
Participating in the program
were Girl and. Boy Scout troops
from Frederick, FELTON,, Dover, and
Milford, officials of the Game and
Fish Commission, Kent County
service clubs, and a dozen or more
state and county officials.
Ralph Kellam of Wilmington,
originator of the plan to set aside
10 acres of the Petersburg Wildlife
Area and develop a center where
children could get back to nature
occasionally, was praised by Gov
ernOr BOggs, U. S. Senator ]. Allen
Frear, Jr., and others, for his vision
and work in bringing the center
into being. The project reached
it's first stage of completion just
two years later after it was only a
fgment in Mr.. Kellam's imagina-
tiOn.
MOdestly, Mr.. Kellam later de-
CONTINUED on page eight
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Harrington Moose
Lodge Holds Meeting
New Officers Preside At Session:
Held Banquet Last Saturday


The following officers for the
coming year conducted their first
meeting at the Harrington Moose
Lodge:
Governor, Clayton Lord, Mil
ford; Jr. Governor, Albert Hunni-
cutt, Milford; Prelate, John Sc
mans, Camden; Secretary, B. Nor
man Hopkins, Harrington; Trea-
surer, G. e. McWilliams, Harring-
ton; Sgt. at Arms, Merrill Wander
wende, Harrington; Inner Guards,
Curtis Melvin, Harrington; Outer
Guard, Harry Spicer, Harrington
Jr. Past Governor, BENJAMIN
Moore, Jr., Harrington; Past Gov
ernor, William Fleischauer, Sr.,
Pennington.
Governor Lord appointed the fol-
lowing Committees:
Auditing: James Ryan, Robert
SalmOns, Kenneth Tatman (chair-
mani; Civic: Curtis Melvin; De-
gree: William Fleischauer, Sr. .;
Endowment: B. Norman Hopkins
Delinquent: William Fleischauer
Srs Albert Hunnicutt, John Sc
mans; Investigating: Roy Robin
son, Max Fineman, BENJAMIN
Moore, Jr.; Membership: B. N.
Hopkins, Merrill Vanderwende,
Edward Semans; Publicity: B. N
Hopkins; Refreshments: Raymond
Vanderwende, William Barlow
Grover Lord; Ritual: B. N. Hop
Continued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15

red to the Senate and little Difficult
ty is expected in securing its pass
age there since the Republicans
hold a 10 to seven edge.
AS Mr.. Christie discussed the bill
it would Sharply increase the
amount of tax payable" and it ex-
cludes the exemption for federal
income tax except for the first
$500 paid. The increase "is consid-
cradle on incomes over $4,000" and
the bin also ups the tax paid in
the lower brackets, he said.
Withholding Provided
Listing the main points of the
measure, Mr.. Christie said it pro-
vides for Withholding of tax; it
provides for a tax on incomes
earned in the state by non-resi-
dents; it taxes pensions. now nom
Continued on page six)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
State Farmers Get
$437, 900 From Govt.
Costs Delaware, However, $685..
200 To Get 1t

A total of $437, 900 was paid out
to 4,14S Delaware farmers through
the 1851 Agricultural Conservation
program project for which Del
aware taxpayers paid an estimated
$S,035, 200, according to a study re-
leased this week by the Whining
ton Chamber of Commerce.
The farmers received an average
of $1O6,5O each.
The estimate on the cost of the
program to Delaware taxpayers
was based on the fact that 1.12
per cent Of the total 1851 federal
taxes were paid by Delaware tax
payers. This percentage was ap-
piled to the $271 100000 total cost
of the agricultural conservation
program in 1852, which the cham
Der said is the latest year for
which statistics are available.
The chamber called the program
'unneeded." In support of this
conclusion, the chamber cited the
fact that two major farm organiza-
tiOns, the American Farm Bureau
and the National Grange, have
continued on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Seek applications
For Louder Hearn
Scholarships Here
SENATE PASSES BELL
FOR NEW STATE JUDGE

The Senate last Friday
passed and sent to the
House a bill to create 80
new federal judgeships, in
cluding a third judge for the
U. S. District Court Of Del
aware.
President Eisenhower
would appoint the new
judges.
The measure, sponsored
, by Senator Pat McCarran
(D-Nev), provides four addi-
tional circuit judges and 35
new district judges, includ-
ing one for Delaware and
another for Eastern Pennsyl-
Vania.
AS a U. S. Representative.
Gov. J. Caleb BOggs made
several attempts to have a
similar bill passed, mainly
on the tremendous percen-
tage of business litigation
handled by the two present
judges of the Delaware
court, brought on by the
number of firms chartered
here.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Hike
In State Income Tax
Measure To Raise $lO,OOO,OOO Additional
State Revenue Passed By 1914 Vote In
Lower Chamber; Little Difficulty In Pass
ing Measure Through Senate Is Expected.

The income tax bill recommend
ed by the Boggs' Administration,
designed to raise at least $1O,0OO,-
600 a year in additional revenues,
passed the House Wednesday. after
noon by a vote of 18 to IA.
Debate on the measure, which
found the Republican majority in
solid support while the Democrats
were opposed, was comparatively
brief. Three Democrats were alb
sent as the vote was taken.
Called up by Rep. Stephen E.
Hamilton (R-WilmingtOn), who Of
fered an amendment covering two
minor items, the bill, the key to
the administrations new revenues
program, was explained by Andrew
ID. Christie, director of the Legis-
lative Reference Bureau.
The measure is being transfer
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Presbyterian Women
To Hold Banquet
Association VIII Be In Charge OF
Mother And Daughter Affair


On Thursday evening, May 2tst,
Group No. of the Presbyterian
WOman's Association will be in
charge of a Mother and Daughter
Banquet for the members of the
association.
Mrs. Milton Dill, who is in
charge, has planned this special
occasion, so that no one will have
to bring her table service or a
covered dish.
Following the dinner theR pro-
gram committee has planed to have
a chalk artist, Miss Sarah Yardi,
a professional artist from Alden,
a suburb Of Philadelphia. In addi-
ton to her regular art work, Miss
Yardi likes to use her talents as a
means of bringing the Christian
message to the hearts of many
American people.
We are quite sure her program
will be quite unique and inspiring
and we do hope to see many of the
members of the association in at
tendance. So bring your mother
or daughter and if you don't have
either, then contact your group
leader, Mrs. Milton Dill and your
reservation will be made and a
guest provided, if you prefer one.
Milford chronicle., 1953-05-15
Alumni Variety Show
Next Friday, May q
Will Be Presented In Milford High
School Auditorium

The Milford High School Alumni
Associations second variety show
is to be presented on Friday, May
22nd, at S:15 D. m, at the NJ. H. S.
auditorium.
Tickets are now on sale, and may
be purchased at Wallis Children's
Shop, Scott's Variety Store, or the
Pierce Hardware Store.
The show is put on for the bene-
fit of the associations scholarship
fund, and proceeds will go towards
granting 5000 scholarship to an
outstanding member of this years
graduating class at Milford High.
Chester c. Coffin is directing the
show, while George c. Messick and
John Bunnell, Of the M. H. S. mu-
sic department, are assisting with
choral and instrumental work.
Clarence NJ. Welch will act as
master Of ceremonies of the eve
Continued on page six)