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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Will Begin This Coming
Sunday Evening And
Will Continue Until
April 4th.

The Spiritual Life Mission. one
of the many Missions being con-
Quoted by Methodist Churches, will
begin in Avenue Methodist Church
Milford. Sunday evening, March
28, 1880 p. m, and continue each
evening until April 4, with the ex-
ceptiOn of Saturday night. The
Missioner ore guest preacher is the
Rev Joseph B. Dickerson, pastor
of McCabe Methodist Church, Will
mington, Del
Mr.. DickersOn is a native of
Milford. and may be remembered
as a football star on the local
High School team. He is a grad
uate of Washington College, and
Drew University and has been pas
tor of several churches in the Pen
insula Conference including Zion
Church, Cambridge, Md. Mr.. Dick.
erson was Superintendent of the
Salisbury District for several
years before being appointed Il
the pastOrate of McCabe Methodist
Church, Wilmington, by BishoI
Fred Carson.
McCabe Church has one of the
largest memberships of the church.
es in the Peninsula Conference
The guest preacher has Travelled
IN many places including the Holy
Land and was sent by the u. S
Government as religious speak
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Presbyterian Spiritual Life
Mems Club To Mission For
Hold Meeting Avenue Church
Rev. Robert S. Meyer,
Noted Underprivileged
Youth Worker, To Give
Address At Banquet.

The Mems Club of First Pres
byterian Church of Milford, is
planning to hold a Father and Son
Banquet at the High School cafe
terra on Wednesday evening.
April 7th, beginning at six-thirty
o'clock.
The group has secured as their
speaker. Rev. Robert S. Meyer of
Baltimore, Maryland.
Rev, Meyer has been actively
working with undeFpFivileged boys
ana juvenile delinquents for the
past seven years in the tough
section of the Monumental City.
He is pastor of the Church of
The Saviour and Director of the
McKimm Boys Haven. He also is
chairman Of the Community Cen
ter of this church which has a
very active Boys Club.
TIE Athletic Program of this
club is outstanding in the City
and their wrestling team recently
won the City-wide WRESTLING
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Easter Seal Campaign
Has $4,000 Goal

Delaware's 1854 Easter Seal
Campaign to aid the states handi-
capped children and adults, began
last Monday with a goal of $780,
600. It will continue until April
18th.
The funds received from the sale
of Easter Seals will be used again
to support the four point program
of the Delaware Society for Grip
pied Children and Adults through
out the state. Special committee
have been established in Kent,
Sussex, and New Castle Counties
to assist in the drive. More than
10000 letters containing sheets of
Easter Seals have been mailed, and
the coin containers have been dis
tributed to cities and towns
throughout Delaware.
The Easter Seal Campaign
Chairman this year is John G..
Leach, vice president of Goldey-
Beacon College in Wilmington. He
will be assisted by chairman in
each of the three counties.
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Communion Breakfast
At Georgetown Sunday
Men From All Over Dover
District Are
Expected

The men of Grace Methodist
Church, Georgetown, will serve a
Communion Breakfast" for men
in Grace Church Hall, on Sun
day morning, March %, at seven
o'clock The Communion services
in the church will be in charge Of
DR.. o. A. BARLEY, District Super
intendent of the Dover District
and Dr. Thomas c. Mulligan, pas
tor of Grace Church.
This will be the fourth in a
series of Communion Breakfast
Services, held in the Dover Dis
trict. The first was held in Mt.
Olivet Church, Seaford, on March
z; the second was held this past
Sunday, March IA, in Wyoming and
one March 81, next Sunday, the
service will be held in Grace
Methodist Church, Millsboro. Last
year the series of services had a
total attendance of SOS in the Dis
trict and the goal for this year is
700. The pastor of each host
church and DR.. BARLEY conduct
the service.
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Traffic Increases On
All Roads But One
Route 113 North Of
Milford Shows A
Decrease

An increase in highway traffic
at all but one of the traffic count
ing centers of the State Highway
Department was noted during Feb
ruary, over the same month Of 1858.
it was announced this week by
William J. Miller, traffic and plan
ming engineer for the department.
The only point to show a decrease
was along U. S. Route 113, north
of Milford.
The following recordings we're
made by the automatic counters:
U. S. Route 202, north of Tai
leyville. increase of 4.36 per cent
with the daily average 1857 We
hicles and the largest single day
Sunday, February %, with 1869
vehicles.
State Route 2, east of Newark.
an increase Of 1875 per cent, with
the daily average 1887 vehicles
and the largest single volume of
traffic occurring on Friday, Feb
ruaTy 26, with 8,O93 vehicles.
U. S. Route 13, north of Smyr-
ma, an increase of 5.37 per cent
with the daily average 9,7O6 and
the largest single day of traffic on
Sunday February %, with 1888
vehicles.
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Mrs. E.J.BOggs
AS
State Mother
OF The Year
Mother OF Governor Is
Chosen From A Num-
ber OF Delaware Mo-
theirs; Is Active In
Community Affairs.

Mrs. Edgar ]. BOggs of Ches-
void, mother of Governor J. Caleb
Boggs, and an active church, civic
and community worker has been
named Delaware's Mother of the
Year it was announced today.
Mrs. Boggs was chosen from a
number of Delaware mothers
whose names, biographies and ac-
tivities were forwarded to a selec-
tion committee of which Mrs. Will
liam N. Cam, Wilmington, served
as chairman.
This honor automatically places
Mrs. BOggs in the running for the
title of American Mother of the
Year, and she will be feted locally
and in New York City on May z
at which time the national title
holder will be announced. All
state and territory mothers select
ed will be guests of the American
Mother Committee of the Golden
Rule Foundation.
Serving on the selection com
mittee with the chairman were
Mrs. Joseph Ennis, Smyrna; Mrs
Jesse LOven, Odessa; Mrs. Paul
Mitchell, Hockessin; Mrs. Wilson
Vinyard, Milford; Mrs. E. w. Bu-
chanan. Dover, and Mrs. George
Till, Rehoboth.
Mrs. BOggs was cited to the com
mittee by letters from her pastor
Rev. Connie Dickens, Cheswold
Methodist Church; her family ply
sician, DR.. G. J. Prickett, Smyrna
and George w. Wright, a superin-
tendent of the Smyrna Special
School District.
Each pointed to outstanding
qualifications which they believed
should earn the titlea for Mrs
BOggs.
The new Delaware Mother was
praised for her exemplary com
munity life and for the manner in
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Recognition Day At
Houston Church Sun.
Rev. F. Douglas Milbury viii
Speak At Morning Service

Sunday, March 28th, will be
Recognition Day at Houston Meth
odist Church. Every member and
friend of the Church is invited to
the services of the day beginning
with the Church School at 10000
a. m. The Reverend F. Douglass
MilbuTy, Executive Secretary of
the Board of Education of the Pen
insula Conference, will visit the
School.
AT the morning worship service.
beginning at 11;00 a. m, the Pas
tor will be in charge. Both the
Senior and the Junior ChOirs will
sing. The Reverend F. Douglass
Milbury will be the guest preacher.
You will miss much if you miss
this service.
In the evening. beginning at
6:45 p. m, the NJ. Y. F. will meet.
Richard Simpson is the leader.
This is a service by the young peo-
pie for the young people.
The NJ. Y F. will assist with the
evening service which begins at
1880 p. m. A special program is
planned. The Mennonite Male
Quartet of the Mennonite Church.
Greenwood, will sing several Sc
Continued on page six)
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Blue Hen Post Has
Selected It's officers
For Ensuing Year
Local Veterans Select
Paul J. DuphiIy To
Succeed Walter Quer-
ing; Installation Due
Late In April.

Paul ]. Duphily, local young
businessman and World War III
veteran, was an unanimous choice
for commander at the Annual
Election Meeting of Blue Hen Post
#64SS, v. f. W., held Tuesday eve
ming, at the Post Home, here. ,Du-
phily will succeed Walter Quering
as head of the local v. F. w. unit
when newly elected officers Of
post and auxiliary are installed at
joint public installation ceremon-
les to be held here in late April.
The new cOmmander-elect serv-
ed Blue Hen Post as senior vice
commander the past year, and has
previously held the offices Of jun
iOr vice commander and trustee.
In his capacity as senior vice
commander, he was chairman Of
the ways and means committee and
also served as general chairman
for the highly successful 1853
Christmas Party for Underpri-
Vlleged Children. DTphily is pres
emily completing a highly success
-N@ ~ AAA 90 "a GDAACAAL VI li6 MIL
ford Veterans of Foreign Wars
Assn, Inc, and is past command
er of Puptent IA, NJ. o. C. other
affiliations include the Milford XII
wants Club, Carlisle Fire Com
pany and the Knights of Columbus.
Other officers, elected Tuesday
evening, include: Edgar Burl-
ingame. senior vice commander;
Eurie M. Savage, Jr., junior vice
commander; Ralph z. Scott, quar-
termaster; Vincent Mckay, Judge
advocate; Preston Cannon, chap
lain; Newton Brown, surgeon :
Clement J. Nevins, trustee (3 VI.
term); David S. Hugg, trustee Il
yr. term), and Donald Currie,
member at-large to board of direc-
! tors g yF terml.
Arrangements for the Joint in.
stallation are now being made b,
a committee headed by Command
er-elect Duphily, and will be an
nounced in the near future.
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Cub Scouts Complete
Study Of Nature

viii Display Their Collections,
Etc, Next Wednesday Night
MilfOrd's Cub Scouts will COM
plete the first phase of their cur
rent study of nature with display
of nature collections and other ex-
hibit materials at regular month
ly pack meeting the evening of
Wednesday, March 31st. Parents
and other adult guests will exam
inc this display material and par
ticipate in other phases of the de-
velopment of the Back to Nature"
theme.
During March, the more than
sixty members of Cub Pack #1O1
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26

years Miss Delaware in a contest
sponsored by the Wilmington
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Miss WoOdall is a talented organ
list.
On Tuesday, however, she will
become the guest of the Delaware
State Society in Washington and
will have headquarters at the Stat
Ter Hotel for the week. Once es-
tablished there she will attend a
round of fetes in connection with
the annual Cherry Blossom Fes-
tival. Representative Herbert B.
Warburton, State Society Presi-
dent, will be official host.
Delaware's Congressional dele
cation will have a luncheon i'm her
honor in the Speakers Dining
Room, House of Representatives,
at 1890 p. m, Tuesday, where she
will also be officially welcomed
by United States Senators John ].
Williams and J. Allen Frear.
On the same evening at $3.50
p. m, Barbara and her official
party, including her mother, Mrs.
Gilbert M. Woodall as chaperon,
will be guests az dinner in the
National Press Club Building.
sponsored by the Delaware Socie-
ty. The reception begins at $3.50
with dinner to be served at 1880
o'clock.
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Blue Gross Plan
Goes With Employees


Members of Blue Cross employee
groups who are layed off or
change jobs can take their Blue
Cross protection with them. it was
pointed out today by H. v. Maybee,
managing director of Group Hos
pital Service, the non-prOfit hos
pital and surgical-medical pre-
payment plan
1T is an easy matter to transfer
your Blue Cross membership" Mr..
Maybee said. "and thus to retain
the protection. This is particu-
larly important, he added, to per-
sons who are between jobs, and 10
whom the cost of hospital bills
would be especially burdensome.
Persons not connected with em-
ployee groups can easily arrange
to continue their Blue Cross mem-
bership and pay their dues direct
", instead of having them taken
out Of their pay. Later, when the
individual Is again employed. he
can readily transfer again to an
employee group.
TO arrange for transfer Of
Continued on page sixl
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Stewart Named
To New Post
By Educators
Popular Y Oung School
Executive New Assist
ant In Charge OF Sec
Ondary Schools.

DR.. Robert C. Stewart of Dover
was elected assistant superinten-
dent of public instruction in charge
of secondary schools at the meet
ing of the State Board of Educa-
tiOn at Dover last Friday. He sue
ceeds Dr. John Shilling who re-
tired last month.
DR.. Stewart has been director of
research and publications for the
State Department of Public In
structiOn since 1947 and has been
lecturer in educational research at
the University of Delaware since
1850.
He graduated from Northampton.
Pa, High School: Ursinus College,
and Penn State University. In 1912
he received his master of arts in
educational administration and su-
pervisiOn from New York Univer-
sity. In 1948 he received his doc
torate in education administration
at the University Of Pennsylvania.
DR.. Stewart was on the faculty
OF Northampton, Pa, High School
l936-46 and was assistant princi-
pal there the 1945-46 terms. He
served as administrative assistant
in the Educational Service Bureau
l946-47. During World War II he
was a quartermaster second class
in the Navy and was a teacher of
navigation on a destroyer. In this
capacity he travelled around the
world. He is married and has one
child.
The state board approved final
plans for a gymnasium at Harring-
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
1. E. BurrOugh
Is Appointed
New Secretary
OF Road Board
He Will Succeed Leroy
F. Hawke, Democrat,
Who Has Served In
Post Since July Of
1910.

Thomas E. BurrOugh of Odessa,
who had been acting state motor
vehicle commissioner for the past
several months, was named last
week as secretary Of the State
Highway Department to succeed
Leroy F. Hawke, of Wilmington.
Democrat, who had been secretary
since July, 1949.
In presenting the name of Mr..
Burrough to the State Highway
Commission at it's meeting in Do
yer for election as secretary, Hugh
F. Sharp, Jr., chairman, said:
In order to protect Mr.. Hawkes.
pension status, we are askinA him
to resign voluntarily though this
is all on a very friendly basis.
l want to say that Mr.. Hawke
mas been very capable secretary
and this is from a personal point
OF view since I became a member
OF the Highway Commission"
Mr.. Sharp also said that one of
the immediate projects of Mr.. Bur
rough will be TO mOdernize the Of
tice of the secretary who not only
keeps the official minutes of the
commission but also keeps tab on
the multi-milliOn dollar finances of
the Highway Department.
The changeOver is effective April
18th.
Evidently, the replacement of
Mr.. Hawke by Mr.. Burrough had
been discussed in executive ses-
sion by the Highway Commission
at its meeting last month when
other major changes in personnel
were announced, including the ar
pOintment of Charles T. Gallagher
as general manager of the Della
ware Memorial Bridge: Walter B
McKendrick, Jr., as assistant CHIEF
engineer of the Highway Depart.
ment. and Harvey Spicer of George.
town as permanent motor vehicl,
commissioner.
The replacement of Mr.. Hawk,
by Mr.. RnTrOLsh is in line will
what Mr. Sharp has on several Oc
casions characterized as "the or
derly transition of control of on,
administration over a previous ad
ministratiOn" in the Highway De
partment.
CONTINUED on page seVenl
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Lt.-COv. Rollins
Will Address
Local Jaycees
Here Tonight
Distinguished Delaware
an, Political Leader,
And Self Made Bust
ness Man Will Bring
A Vital Message.

The first annual Bosses Night"
banquet of the Milford Junior
Chamber of Commerce will be held
tonight, Friday, March 26, at GAS
o'clock at Anne's Restaurant, with
Lieutenant Governor John w. Roll
Inns, distinguished Delawarean pO-
itical leader and businessman
from LeWes, as guest speaker. A
brief biography Of Mr. Rollins fol-
lows:
John W. Rollins, who today is
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware,
and heads his own business en-
pire of dozen enterprises, was
born 81 years ago on a poor south
ern farm.
Today, John w. Rollins and AS
sociates is the parent company for
II other operations including five
radio stations, four automobile
dealerships, an electrOnies man
ufacturing plant, a cattle ranch in
Georgia stocked with pure bred
Polled Hereford Cattle, and ROI-
Inns Fleet Leasing, his favOrite en-
teTprise, which leases fleets Of au-
tomobiles, trucks, airpIanes and
boats to concerns all over the
country. John Rollins pioneered
in the field Of leasing automobiles
to companies for use by their sales
forces.
John w. Rollins thinks of him
self as a merchant of transpor-
tatiOn." He is feet 8 inches and
2lO pounds of unrelaxing vitality.
Basic are his pride in country, his
belief in the Importance of educa-
tiOn and his faith in the Oppor-
tunities for a man to succeed in
this country
Other guests, in addition to the
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Gov. BOggs, Proclaims
Cancer Control Month
Calls On All Delaware Citizens To
Mark Month OF April

Pointing out that progress is
being made in the control of can
Ger, but acknowledging that the
disease claimed 492 lives in Della
ware in 1853. Governor J. Caleb
Boggs called on all citizens to
mark April as Cancer Control
Month.
"The American Cancer Society
is daily saving lives through it's
program of research, education
and service. I urge every citizen
not only to supports the American
Cancer Society as generously as
they can, but also take advantage
of this opportunity to learn as
much as possible about this enemy
in our midst, Governor Boggs de-
claTed.
The full text Of his prOclama-
tiOn follows:
WHEREAS, mans cruelest en-
emy, cancer. took the lives of 492
citizens of this state in 1853: and
WHEREAS, progress is being
made in cancer control; the death
rate among women is declining.
and among meu. with the excep-
tion of lung cancer, the death rate
is levelling of; and
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26

Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower will
be the honor guest at the April
8th concluding event. Additional
important features Of the three
day sessions will be announced
later.
The Conference will be inaug-
urated officially the night of
April 9th at Constitution Hall,
with a dramatic presentation of
the Party's history and is connec-
ton to the nations progress. In
addition, representative Party off
icials will usher in the Confer
ence's consideration of this years
goals in legislation and at the
November polls. The Centennial
program will be preceded by din
ners of state delegations, with
their Congressional representatives
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Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
COP Women To Mark
The Party's Centennial
Conference Will Be Held In Washington April
6,7, 8. Twelve Hundred Delegates Will At
tend Under Leadership OF Miss Bertha S.
Adkins Assistant To National COP Chair
man.

The Republican Women's Centen-
NAL Conference, to mark the
Tooth anniversary of the founding
of the Republican Party and also
to highlight the underlying issues
and techniques for the so Congress
sional campaign will be held in
Washington, April 6-7-8. Twelve
hundred delegates under the lead
ership of Miss Bertha S. Adkins,
Assistant to the Republican Nat
iOnal Chairman, will be given COM
prehensive briefings on the party
programs and policies in prepara-
tion for their part in this years
campaign.
High government officials from
both the Cabinet anu Congress and
key Departmental experts on cur
rent problems will participate in
the April 7th and 8th sessions.
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26

dSSiSlGu III ll6 'OISdulhdJAUn. huS-
sell Layton, of Laurel, acted as
temporary chairman until after
election of a Board of Directors
and the officers.
Elected to head the AYP was
Frank Cooper, of Laurel. Other
officers are Harold Belts, Milton.
vice-president; Miss Alice Wheat
ley. SeafOrd, secretary and Rus
sell Layton, Laurel, treasurer.
These four will also serve as di-
rectors. Two other directors, Aus
tin Short, Georgetown, and Den
nard Hill, of Bridgeville, will serve
as directors for Sussex County.
on the state organization. Four
additional directors will be named
for other areas in Sussex County.
The president, Frank Cooper, will
also serve on the Board of Direc-
tors of the Sussex Farm Bureau
as soon as the necessary changes
in the bylaws of that body are
made authorizing the addition. An
Advisory Committee named com
prises Mrs. Baxter, Mrs. Edwin
Williams, of Seaford, president of
Associated Farm Women in Sus-
sex. Slaude Adkins, County An
Agent and Mrs. Nancy r. Shelton
County Home Demonstration Ag-
ent.
The AYP adopted a constitution
continued on page eight)
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26

- pAbpIteu 10 AufNlSM the COmmlI-
tee with specific information re-
garding their various communities
which may be evaluated with re-
spect to bring industry within their
boundaries.
Governor Boggs said that while
there was not one hundred per
cent response, fifteen organizations
had designated representatives and
he believes the few remaining will
name members shortly.
A meeting of the Industrial Com
mittee and LiaisOn Group, which
win assist the Delaware State De-
velopment Department In planning
publicity and promotion Of the
states assets, will be called at an
early date, the chief executive In
dicated
Names forwarded to Governor
Boggs by local organizations to
serve on the liais0n group are.
William 6. Davis. Dover Chamber
Of Commerce; Fulton j. Downing.
Harrington Better Business AssO-
citation John @ Roman. New cas-
tie Board of Trade. Robert E
Hickman, Wilmington. Delaware
State Chamber 2f Commerce. n.
a Foster plant manager. National
VuAeanized Fibre Company. New
ark Chamber Of Commerce.
Harold Smith Laurel Chamber
CONTINUED on page eight
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
A. N. Spaniel, Honored
By French Govt.
Chairman Of International Latex
Legion OF Honor OFFICER

The Government of France has
awarded the Cross of Officer of the
French Legion of Honor to A. NJ
Spaniel, chairman of International
Latex Corporation.
In announcing the award, Mr..
Henri Bonnet, Ambassador of
France in Washington, said:
Il have the honor to inform you
that, by decree of the President
of the French Republic, you have
been made an 'Officer in the Legion
of Honor.
continued on page eight
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
State Homemakers
Will Meet May 4
Annual Session win Be Held In
State Capital On That Date

The annual state meeting of
home demonstration clubs will be
held May 4, in Dover.
This date was set by the Del
aware home demonstration coun-
ell at a meeting last week. Mrs.
Edward KreWatch, of Delmar.
council president. explains that
the meeting will be a feature of
National Home Demonstration
Week, May 2-8.
AS in past years, several hum
dred members of home demonstra-
ton clubs, representing the 90
clubs in the state, will attend this
get-together, to hear outstanding
speakers on homemaking and fam
ily life. Chairmen in safety, health.
family life, citizenship and civil
Continued on page eight)
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
Democratic Club Here
To Join State Group
Decision Made At Meeting Held
The First Of The Week

The Kent and Sussex Democratic
Club of Milford voted this week
to join the State Federation of
Democratic Clubs and elected the
following delegates to the conven-
ton to be held in Dover on Satur-
day, April Srd: w. D. wilkins, viii
liam Morgan, Vinal Roberts, Ed
ridge Y. Prettyman and David A.
Clements, Jr. The alternates Sc
lected we're Mrs. Mabel Clogg, Mrs.
Carlton Clifton, Mrs. Nora Dono-
van, Frank Donovan and Thurman
Rodgers
Mrs. Constance Barto, Thurman
Rodgers and David A. Clements.
Jr., were named delegates to the
continued on page slx)
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-26
State Issues 1882
Driving Licenses
Motor Vehicle Office Issues Re.
port For 10 Weeks

A total of 1882 operators and
chauffeurs licenses have been is
sued by the State Motor Vehicle
Department during the first 10
weeks of 1854, according to a re-
port released on Tuesday by Har-
vey B. Spicer, motor vehicle com
missioner.
Mr.. Spicer reported that 1853
were operators and 1859 were
chauffeurs licenses. In addition.
continued on page sikh