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Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23

The july 5OGh race Will md
more than forty OF the best ANA
teur and sportsman class cars IN
the Mid-Atiantic section Of the
country, lined up for the starters
dag when the races begin at $3.50
P n. The races viii be sanctioned
by NASCAR and win feature a
25-lap main event over the clay
banked half-mile oval located Just
south Of Georgetown on Route 113.
In addition to the main event
the July 30th races win feature
three preliminary races as well as
9 consolation event. Trophies will
be awarded to the winners in all
FIVE events. All the trophies have
been donated BY local business
men and win be presented after
the races. Charles Herbert, owner
and manager Of the Georgetown
Speedway has donated the use Of
the track 70 the Police Chiefs
Association.
For the first time the boys Nho
are at camp viii take an az
tive part ID selling tickets. Each
day nine boys accompanied By
three counselors, state police
officer and a local police officer
viii make a house-t0-h house cam
vass.
The towns and the dates the boys
viii be IN each are as follows
continued on page fourteen)
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
1854 Cancer Crusade
Highly Successful
State Total Was s94,S49.95; Sussex
County Did Well

The 1854 Delaware Cancer Cru
sade resulted in total contributions
of $94. .349.95, which is the greatest
amount ever contributed by the
people Of Delaware to the Ameri-
can Cancer Society.
This was reported by Samuel B.
Bird, Chairman of the Crusade,
who pointed out that last year,
when the previous high figure was
set, the total was slightly under
$93, 10000.
The Delaware Division, Ameri-
can Cancer Society, will make
plans to put the contributions to
the best possible use in the fight
to control cancer, Mr.. Bird said
He added that the 1854 results
show again that Delawareans are
vitality concerned with the cancer
problem and are determined to do
their share to have it solved.
AS it has been for many years.
Delaware was one of the first
states to reach its quota and it is
believed that per capita contribu-
tiOns here will turn out to be
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Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23

to be shown at Field Day. The
primary detectives af such an ex-
pertinent are to. determine the effect
Of irrigation on the yield and quail
ty Of the fruits and to investigate
just how often 1t is necessary to
apply water.
The experiments involve ne
irrigation treatments. This includes
four levels Of irrigation which
range from no irrigation to a treat
ment where the soil is maintained
at a high level Of available mois-
ture. The fifth treatment involves
no irrigation until harvesting be-
gins and then high moisture level
is maintained.
The drought which this area has
had this year has resulted III very
pronounced differences between
irrigation treatments By August
the heavily irrigated plots viii have
received five irrigations. These irri-
cations have resulted in greatly
increased plant growth, increased
fruit set, and increased fruit size.
AT present the most outstanding
differences are In regard to BIOS
som-end rot The plots which have
not been irrigated have suffered
terrific losses from blossom-end rot
while the plots which were kept al
high moistuae level have had nc
damage. However. even the plots
CONTINUED on rage fifteenl
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
CheStertOWn
Plant Not To
Be Replaced
Employed Over 275 PeO-
pie With Weekly Pay
roll Over $4,000.

The Kent Manufacturing Com
pany win not rebuild its explosion
wrecked plant at Chestertown,
Mayor Philip G. Wilmer, president
Of the drm. said today.
Eleven persons died and at least
30 were injured last Friday when
series Of explosions shattered 80
Of the S. buildings spread ont
oa g fve-aere site at the edge Of
ghestert0wn. The plant manufac-
tured detonators and training
bombs for the government and
was one Of the nations largest
producers Of fireworks.
we haVa decided one thing
that the plant will not be re-
bnilt on its present Site" Mayor
Wilmer said. We have made no
plans for rebuilding IN a different
location or a different town.
Mayor Wilmer declined to esti-
mate what impact the decision
might have on Chestertown's econo-
my.
The plant he said, employed 275
E~A aeA-o etA-A A1a q MDCAlI UayIOlA
Of $4,000 to $4,000. Founded IN
1912 to work on war contracts, the
firm was devoting 75 per cent Of its
production at the time Of the dis
aster tct government work. he said.
The existing plant location will
probably be Sold" Mayor Wilmer
said. He declined to estimate its
value.
Other OWner-OfieGrs Of the flrm
are Anthony Fabrizi, vice presi-
dent DR. Joseph McLaih, secretary,
and Charles Eshman. treasurer, all
Of ElktOn.
Mayor Wilmer said he doesn't
expect a full report on q damage
survey he ordered undertaken by
Police Chief Harold Hadaway for
several days. Police are making q
E doOr-to-door check Of business
places and homes throughout the
town to determine Just how much
damage was caused outside the
plant where the toll was estimated
CONTINUED on DaRe nvel
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
Eleven Workers OF Fire
Works Plant Killed By
Series OF Blasts Last
Friday.
Few Identified
Following Tragedy
Five OF Victims Who
Were Partially Identi-
fed Were Given A Mass
Funeral On Tuesday.

Eleven workers OF Kent Manu-
featuring Company plant, on the
outskirts of Chestertown, were
blown to their deaths last Friday
at 1924 a. m, when a series Of
violent explosions all but denolish-
ed the fireworks plant which also
had an extensive operation in gov
ernment explosive contracts.
4he dead, ten women, and one
man, included six who were posi-
lively identified, and the bodies re-
leased to far5ilies on Saturday last,
as well as FIVE who were only par
tally identified and who were to
be given mass funeral Tuesday.
Those who were identified are:
Nelson Lord, 20, a bridegroom OF
three weeks, a resident Of Chester
town only since his marriage.
Mrs. Mary e. Fallowfleld, 81. wife
Of Harry w. Fallowdeld, q member
Of the ChestertoWn City Council.
Mrs. Nellie b. Starr, AZ, wife OF
Russell Starr, Chestertown.
Mrs. Tina Mae Taylor. Al, OF
Chestertown.
Mrs. Magdaline Seller, 81, Of Hen
derson, Md.
Mrs. Eva L. Fisher, 65. Of Chess
tertoWn.
Those whose bodies were only
partially identified before the
families agreed on a joint burial
service, with five separate coffins
in five separate graves under one
/ monument were.
Mrs. Ida B. Mench. 57, Of Rock
Hail.
Mrs. Marguerite Emma Bachelor
so, CT Worton.
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Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23

$4,000 in stakes and early closers,
plus a generous distribution Of
overnight purses.
The liberal purse disbursements
have attracted some 600 top trOt-
ters and PAGERS from the United
States and Canada, including a
great number of famous stables
from Maryland's Eastern Shore Dis
trict. Among the Eastern Shore
drivers who will compete are Olin
Davis of Clayton, Del, who cap
tured the driving crown at last
years meet; Johnny BelOte, Of
Birds Nest, Va, driving champion
at this years Laurel Raceway meet;
Johnny Amato, William Hudson, Jim
Stokely, Carl Thompson and many
others.
Also back in action will be such
popular veteran campaigners as 81
year-old John Mallilieu Of Harring-
ton, Del. and 75-year-old William
E. Miller Of Oxon Hill, Md.
In addition, the $4,000 Trot and
$4,000 Pace of the Ocean Downs
Raceway Stake No. 1, richest in the
history Of the seashore oval. have
drawn 2-year-old nominees from
the nations most famous stables.
Presumably the country's top
drivers will be down to drive them,
including Billy HaughtOn, Amer
ica's No. driver, and Del Miller,
{ CONTINUED on page fourteenl
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
Two Boys Die
In Weekend
Auto Crashes
Youths Killed In Sussex
One When He I'rOve
His Uncles Car Without
Permission.

Highway fatalities in Delaware
this year mounted to "A with the
deaths of three persons, two of
them boys over the weekend. At
this lime last year the toll stood
at 55.
The past week-end's victims
we're:
Richard Carlton Mears, IA, of
Houston, killed last Sunday. when
the automobile he was driving
without permission of his uncle
and guardian overturned six miles
east of Greenwood.
Ralph Daniel Roswell, IL, Of
near Delmar, killed last Saturday
night when the bicycle he was rid
ing was hit head-On by an autOmO-
bile on the Delmar-Sharptown
Road.
Robert J. Griggs, A, of 1898
North Maschier Street, Philadel-
phia, killed last Saturday night
when he fell from the back of a
truck on the DUPONT Parkway at
Hare's Corner.
Mears. who lived with an uncle,
Donald Brown, farmer of Houston,
took the automobile while his uncle
was asleep, state police said.
The accident occurred on a
slight curve on a dirt road be-
tween Staytonsville and Williams
Vile at 1880 p. m. last Sunday
afternoon. AS the car started
around the curve it skidded in loose
gravel and overturned. Mears' head
was out the window and was
crushed beneath the car when it
overturned.
William Clinton Doughty, IA, of
Houston, whom Mears had picked
up, was uninjured.
Mears was pronounced dead at
the Milford Memorial Hospital
where he was taken in the Bridge
vile ambulance. The boy came to
Delaware from Virginia.
Funeral services for young Mears
were held on Wednesday of this
week at the Lofland Funeral Home,
CONTINUED on page eight
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
North Beats South
In Pony League Fray
Jack Willis Stars For Winners
With Heavy Bat


The North emerged victorious
over the South in the second annual
All Star Pony League game to
even the series at one win for each.
Bob Kitchens opened the fray
with single; Joe Wheatley was
hit by pitcher AT this point, with
one out, Jack Willis hit for the
circuit to give the North a big
three run lead. Bob Lank came IN
on Mike Mclaughlin single. Al
barrage of four hits coupled with
two errors on the South's part pro-
duced two more runs for the North
in the third Ronnie Scott's triple,
followed by Ronnie Hastings single
gave the South another run in the
third to make the score stand st
North 5, and South 2. The North
widened the gap by adding two
runs in the fourth. From then on
runs became scarce until the
ninth. when the North added three
ruEs on Joe Wheatley's walk, a
wild pitch, three successive singles
by Jack Willis, Jack Smith. and
( Rob Porter. and Willis successful
'steal home" The South fought
tcontinue1 on page sevenl
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
Extension Exhibits
At Fair Next Week
Several Interesting Projects win
Be On Display

Exhibits and displays in dairy,
entomology, agronomy. home eco
nomics and safety will be in the
Extension Building at the Kent
Sussex Fair during the fair week
July 25-S1, for the interest Of the
public.
The dairy display loaned by the
United States Department Of Agri-
culture will stress primarily the
Importance Of culliES the dairy
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Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
Legion To Install
Officers July 29th
Ceremony WIN Be Conducted AZ
Georgetown Legion Home

Harry Zerby Of Georgetown.
newly elected commander of the
Department Of Delaware, Amer
ican Legion, and other newly
elected and appointed oficers of
the department, will be installed
at $500 D. m. next Thursday. July
SS, at the commander-elect's home
post, sussex Post No. s, Georgetown.
Thomas w. Mulrooney, retiring
department commander, will install
the new officers.
List Of Officers
Besides Mr.. Zerby they are:
Morris Wasserman OF Joseph
B. Stahl Post, frst vice commander
William Jenkins Of Dunleith Post,
second vice commander; Paul Had
ley Of Henlopen Post, Rehoboth
Beach, chaplain; William Marvel
Continued On page fiVel
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
Wheat Polling
Places Announced
Kent Growers WIN Cast Votes
Today At Nine Spots

Today Friday, July 90, at nine
different polling places, wheat
growers Of Kent County will vote
for or against marketing quotas for
the 1855 crop.
The referendum. according to ].
Leon Tarburton Of the Kent County
Agricultural Stabilization and Con-
servation Committee will determine
whether or not the quota program
now in effect will continue for next
years crop.
Two-thirds OF those who vote
must approve quotas before they
can be put into operation. The cur
-Ccontinued on page eight)
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
Kent-SuSSer Fair To
Open Nest Monday
Lower Delawares Summer Extravaganza
Will Feature Irish Horan And His Lucky
He'll Drivers On Opening Night.

The S5th underway m
Monday July 2h with Irish HOran Thrill Show featuring
Spills
Tuesday July 9th will Chldrens primary
school
attractions and all
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
DOILGrDays In Milford
WILDE HeIdAug. g z
Merchants Are Busily Planning For The Great
est Bargain Days In The City's History.
Special Promotion OF Fete Planned.

Firmly believing that Dollar successful II thew
are properly organized and advertised that goodness
down to earth values the public majority the
in this city planning greatest bargain festival in ord
long history
and u -
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
Ocean DOIUns RGceIUGy To
Open Season On July 3Oth

Raceway night parmutue
harness track located OF Route SO between Ocean City and Berlin Nd
will 2Onigh Friday night Juy BOZ
Under Conley General Manager s. Rudy
Bngham popular has been improved and
Offering
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
Stock Car Races July 3Oth
WiI Benefit Camp Barnes

The Camp Barnes Stock by Delaware
July 30th
This viii be the 4h profits
VIII 30 to Camp Barnes which annually
az parts Of Delaware free q charge for period
Milford chronicle., 1954-07-23
Irrigation Experiments On
Exhibit At Farm Field Day

vegetables during the hot
months problem being worked University
Field Day,
Delaware
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
Aide Says Stevens Hasn't Quit
And Doesn't Intend to Do So
Official, Resiening, +,
Says Boss Didn't Get
Adequate Support
By John A. Gle.

An aide to Army Secretary
Stevens said today the Secretary
"has not resigned and has no
intention of resigning."
The denial came following the
protest resignation of John F.
Kane, $10,000-a-year special
assistant to the Secretary, who
quit with a letter charging that
MIR. Stevens failed to get ade-
quate support from superiors in
his argument with Senator Nc
Carthy.
Mr.. Kane said i'll health was
one reason for his resignation,
but he declared:
However. despite this, would
stay on and try to help you in
some way OF other if l could feel
that you are receiving full fight
ing support in the gallant battle
you are trying to put up for the
Army.
Il do not feel that you have
received that kind of help and ]
feel that you and the Army need
it very badly
Reached at Episcopal Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital
where he is a patient, Mr.. Kane
said he did not mean that any
one in the Army itself had failed
to support Mr.. Stevens.
Mr.. Kane wrote: II know
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
Seat Pleasant Man Dies
In Fire in Bedroom

A Seat Pleasant (Md) man
died today, apparently asphyxi-
ated when a cigarette started a
fire after he fell asleep in bed,
Prince Georges police reported.
Pvt. Thomas Wyatt identified
him as Asa Irving Grimes, 81,
of Z Sixty-eighth avenue.
The policeman said Mr.. Grimes
was discovered in his smoke
filled bedroom by Francis Craw-
ford. SO, of 1854 @ street NV.
Mr.. Crawford and Charles
CLANCY, As, also of the @ street
address. spent the night in the
Seat Pleasant residence, the
policeman said.
Mr.. Grimes was pronounced
dead at the Gasch funeral home
by DR.. James I. Boyd, county
medical examiner.
DR.. Boyd was to rule on the
cause Of death later today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
Congress Pension Bill
Signed by President
BY the Associated Press

President Eisenhower today
signed without comment a bill
liberalizing pensions for members
of Congress and their employees.
The Senate passed the bill on
February rs by a 61-30 vote
despite a protest by Senator
Williams. Republican, of Della
ware that it amounted to "a
bonus of $500" for all partici-
pants. who pay 6 per cent of
their salaries into the retirement
fund.
The measure had been passed
by the House on a voice vote.
1t permits retirement at age so
after 10 years of service with
the rate Of payment slightly less
than those provided under pres
ent law for persons retiring at
age 81. Retirement now is
permitted after six years service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
BY the Assoeioted Press

EUREKA, Calf, Mar. g.
Railroad crews today pitted
around the-clock shifts and all
available mechanical equipment
against millions of tons of earth
in a mile-long dirt glacier"
grinding toward the Northwest
ern Paciflc's Eel River Canyon
main line at 40 feet a day.
The glacier" of unstable
earth and clay-6.0O0 feet long
and 1000 feet wide in spots
began moving on the railroads
north-south main line 60 miles
southeast of here Is days ago.
Since then, men using bull
dozers, power shovelS. cranes and
other machines have been
forced to move 600-foot stretch
of track sidewise an average of
IL feet day to escape the NOV
ing mountain. Each time, newly
laid and then abandoned sec
tions Of roadbed were engulfed
by the advancing wall Of earth
and boulders. despite the efforts
Of other crews-working under
floodlightS ut nisht-who daily
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
Rail Men Bottle Dirt Glacier
AS Mountain Moves on rack

have hacked off 10 to 20 foot
deep outcroppings.
The railroads vice president
and general manager, G. l.. Nor
rison said he can not estimate
when-or if--the moving mass
OF earth. which towers to 100
feet above the railroad right of
way. can be stopped.
The glacier" blamed to poor
drainage in q giant clay bank
forming the upper part of the
canyon wall, existed when the
rail line was built 40 years ago
and has approached the tracks
several times before.
In 1888. 1t cut the line 70 days.
but was halted by an elaborate
drainage system installed above
the tracks to dry up the lower
earth and create a buttress
against the clay above.
But, Mr.. Morrison said, the
pressure of the upper clay ap-
parently overcame the resistance
Of the drier earth and the "gla-
cier" started moving again.
The rail line cannot be moved
out Of the canyon without re-
locating some 200 miles Of track.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
Wreck Of U. 5. Plane
Seen in French Alps
oS the Associated Press

NICE. France. Mar. 6.-Police
headquarters in Nice said today
the wreckage of a missing United
States Air Force CAT had been
spotted in the mountains behind
this French Riviera city.
The plane was carrying 20 per-
sons when it disappeared Thurs
day on flight from Rome to
Bitburg. Germany.
The police said q wing Of the
plane had been spotted by a
French farmer. Etienne Gallean,
through field glasses, and that
they had confirmed his report.
The plane was identified by
markings.
The plane. mostly buried in
snow. was at 1900 feet in the
Alps. 10 miles southwest of the
ski resort of Auron.
The wreckage was located only
miles south of where an Air
France passenger plane bound
for Saigon. Indo-China. crashed
last year. killing famed pianist
jacques Thibault.
Police said as far as they could
learn there was no sign of life
around the wreckage. They
added there were indications the
crash had caused several ava
lanches.
Police Immediately began or
ganizing foot parties to go to the
scene, which they said was in a
region very difficult to reach.
Aboard the plane were Is
American servicemen returning
from duty or leave in Italy or
Tripoli, three American civilians
and a crew of four.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06

three women and two men. One
of the men was Albizu's body
guard, Jose Rivera Sotomayor.
When Albizu was found up
stairs, overcome by tear gas
fumes, he gasped: Il am asphyX-
lasted"
The women arrested were
Doris Torresola, a party secre-
tary and sister of Griselio Tor
resola, killed in Washington
when the nationalist tried TO
asSassinate President Truman
in 1850; Carmen Perez and
Isabel Rosado.
One excited Nationalist was
arrested when he threatened
police on the street with a gun.
Other arrests were made else
where across the island. The
clash ended in a blaze of fire,
started by the nationalist inside
the party leaders apartment.
The flames were put out.
Governor Meets Press.
The Governor quickly sum-
moned news conference to dis
cuSs the days events. He re-
called his pardon of Albizu last
September when the Nationalist
leader was released from jail.
Gov. MunoZ said the pardon had
been violated. He said the Ma
tionalist chief could advocate in
dependence peacefully but not
urge acts of violence. Albizu has
publicly praised the "heroism' of
the four Puerto Rican National
lists who shot up Congress.
Asked whether today'S arrests
were connected with the WASH
ington shootings, the Governor
said:
"Since those who carried out
(See PUERTO RICO. Page A-3D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-06
Virginia Senate Votes
.25-11 for frightened
Right-to-Work Law
Fenwick Changes His
Stond and Books Bill;
Reciprocity Plan Killed
By Alex R. Preston
Stor SioFf Correspondent

RICHMOND. Mar. 6.-The
State Senate today gave final
approval to legislation putting
more teeth in the right-to-work
law. The vote was 25 to IL. with
Senator Charles r. Fenwick. of
Arlington. changing his vote
from against to for the bill.
The measure was advanced
yesterday by a preliminary Sem
ate vote of Is to IA. The vote
came after a floor fight in which
an Eastern Virginia Senator i'm
piled that the Governors in
dorsement of the bill was as
much a broken campaign promise
of last year as was Gov. Stanley's
reversal in recommending a l.
cent gasoline tax raise. The bill
now goes to the House.
Earlier the Senate killed, IL
to 81. the Fenwick bill t0 repeal
reciprocity agreements with other
States on the 2 per cent gross
receipts tax on truckers. OPP
ponents of the bill read letter
from Maryland's motor vehicle
commissioner threatening retail
alton against Virginia If the bill
were enacted.
Amended Version.
The right-to-work bill was
amended yesterday to permit
unions the peaceful and orderly
solicitation and persuasion i.
OF others to join union, I'M
accompanied by any intimida-
ton. use of force, threat of use
of force, reprisal or threat of re-
prisal, and provided that no such
solicitation or persuasion shall
be conducted so as to interfere
with, or interrupt the work of
any employees during working
hours"
Attacks on Gov. Stanley's in
dorsement of the right-to-work
amendments heretofore had been
directed principally from legis-
lators from the southwestern
part of the State who commended
he had broken a campaign
promise.
The latest assault came from
an Eastern Virginian, Senator
Victor Wilson of Hampton, who
said that, during Mr.. Stanley's
campaign, I'VE relied on" state
ments that no labor legislation
nor increases in taxes would be
sought.
Calls Bill Unnecessary.
Senator George M. Warren of
Bristol. branded the legislation as
unnecessary" Labor relations
IN Virginia have been quiet dur
ing five sessions of the General
Assembly since the original
right-to-work law was enacted
in 1913, Mr.. Warren said.
At recent public hearings on
the new legislation, he added,
"only the representatives of
(See ASSEMBLY, Page A-2D