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Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
Completing Plans For
Old Dover Day
Residents VIII Assume Colonial
Attire For Tomorrow


Attired in their colonial cos
tunes, school boys and girls who
will take part in the folk dances.
minuet, and Old-fashiOned games
as one of the most colorful fea-
lures of Old Dover Day which will
be held tomorrow, Saturday. Nav
1, have been busily engaged in
rehearsals on the Dover Green
this week
The children are being coached
by Mrs. Oliver w. FarrOw, dance
chairman for the observance, and
Miss Patricia Fleet, dance in
structOr, with the assistance of
Mrs. FarrOws twin daughters.
Mary and Clara both of whom.
only a few years ago were them-
selves little participants in the
dances and the games.
The schedule of events in that
phase of the Old Dover Day pro-
gram is: Maypole folk dances.
minuet, and games on the Dover
Green at IL a. m. and $3.50 p. m.
and in the garden of Mrs. A. B.
Richardson, State and Budd streets.
at noon; quadrille and folk songs.
The Green, l p. m, and quadrille,
The Green, p. m. A separate event
of pageantry will be the crOwning
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Spring Cleanup Time
May 3-17 In Delaware

Alarmed by the spread of SPRING
time accidents in rural areas,
county farm safety committees in
Delaware have announced May 3
to II as Spring Cleanup Time"
in the Diamond State.
The committees report that
springtime is the most dangerous
time of the year in rural Della
ware. According to recent sur
vey, most of the accidents are falls
around the house and barn.
The danger lies in boxes and
trash on steps and stairways- plus
objects left lying around where
people stumble over them. Falls
in the home injured more people
than any other single cause of ae-
cidents.
The accident survey was made
by $50 reporters in S. communities.
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Milford Scout
Trip Marred
By Accident
Llewellyn Evans, Is Year
Old Explorer Scout,
Suffered Broken Leg
At Fort Delaware.

The annual overnight visit to
historic old Fort Delaware and
Pea Patch Island by Scout Troop
100, Of Milford, the past weekend,
was marred by an accident that
resulted in a broken leg for Lew
ellyn Evans, Is year old Explorer
Scout. Evans one OF the older boys
in the party, sustained a fall Sat
urday evening and suffered a frac-
tUre of the left leg, necessitating
his being brought back from the
island to Milford Memorial Hos
pital.
The group of more than 40 Scouts
was taken to the island Saturday
afternoon, after a trip in private
cars from Milford to Delaware City.
After reaching the island. the
CONTINUED on page four)
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Jdycee's Teen-Age
ROad-e-O VIII Be
Held On May 5th
Many Cash Prizes Will
Be Presented At Event
To Be Held At Milford
High School.

Six cash prizes with a total value
of 10000 have been announced for
the Junior Chamber of Commences s.
first annual Teen-Age Road-e-o
which is being held on Wednesday.
May 9Th at the High School. The
winner of the first prize will be
presented with a $4,000 United
States Savings Bond, while the End
and 3rd place winners will receive
a $4,000 and S25.a0 bond respective
ly. The fourth, fifth, and sixth
place winners will receive cash
prizes of $500 each. In addition,
the first three award winners will
be presented with suitably inscribed
plaques in recognition of their
achievements in skillful driving.
Fourth, fifth and sixth place win
ners will also be presented with
certificates ascribing to their driv-
ing ability.
The first three award winners
will represent Milford in the state
finals to be held during the month
of June in Dover. Last week it was
CA NAANOuoAg dLAiOUuCEu llAdL OILY
the first prize winner could enter
the state finals. Three top winners
will be selected in the State Jaycee
Road-e-O, with the first prize award
representing the state in the
national unals being held in Wash
ingtOn. D. G. during the month Of
August. Second and third pace
winners will serve as alternates.
Participants in Milford's driving
Road-e-o. will be privileged to drive
each of the following makes Of
cars loaned by Milford dealers: a
Ford, from Bsyard v. Wharton, Co.,
a Chevrolet from 1. G. Burton. Co.,
a Plymouth from JOseph's Motor
Co. and q Mercury, this being
loaned by Webb's Garage, Milford s
new Mercury dealer.
All participants in Milford's Teen
Age Road-e-O. must be under 20
wears of age and attend Milford
High School: have a learners per-
NIT or a drivers license. and moi
have had a driving violation siz
months prior to the contest
(continued on page FOUR
Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
BPW Group Elects
Officers In Sussex
Delegates Also Selected To Attend
State Convention

Members of the Sussex County
Business and Professional WOmen's s
Club viewed two health films "The
Inside Story" and "The Warning
Shadow, in the meeting recently
held in the Sunday School rooms
of Wesley Methodist Church. Miss
Sara Jane Murray, Health and Safe
ty chairman arranged the program.
The films were shown by Miss
Phyllis Richardson, secretary of the
Public Health Division of the State
Board of Health. DR.. William
Cooper, surgeon on the staff Of
NanticOke Memorial Hospital in
SeafOrd commented on the films.
gave some pertinent information
on tuberculosis and cancer, which
were the subject matter of the films
shown. He also answered questions
on both diseases as to detection
and possible prevention and treat
ments. Miss Richardson announced
the dates for Cancer Clinics in
Georgetown, at the Health Unit
the End Friday of each month and
the TB clinics on the End Wednes-
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tehtihg area on the north side of
the Inlet will be discontinued but
the tenting on the south side of the
Inlet is being enlarged.
At the present time work is be-
ing cOmpisted on some Of these
tenting areas Those on the ocean
front are being leveled and the
sand dixie between the Inlet and
Coin Road has been completed.
These picnic sites and tenting
areas have been used by a large
number Of persons for recreation
purposes during the summer
months, particularly during week
ends and there have been instances
Of groups remaining in the area
for a number Of days.
Receptacles for depOsiting rub
bish and refuse will again be plac-
ed at convenient points in all Of
the recreation areas along the
ocean front and efforts viii be
made 70 have the persons using the
picnic sites and tenting areas use
these receptacles for their refuse.
The Highway Department has
continued on page ten)
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Changes Contemplated
In Rural Routes
Congressman WarburtOn, Advised
Of Postal Dept. Inspection

Representative Herbert B. War
burton (R.-Del) this week an
nounced that the Post Office has
advised him of the results of it's
inspection of rural service facili-
ties involving the rural carrier va
cancy on the Milford Rural Route
No. l. The Department automatical-
ly conducts inspections of this ma
ure when carriers vacancies occur.
The Post Office Department In
spectiOn Service has recommended
that Houston rural route No. 1 and
Frederick rural route No. / be dis
continued. The territories now ser
we'd by these routes would, under
the recommendation. be transferred
to the Milford Post Office; Milford
rural Route No. 2 would be de-
creased in length from $3.50 miles
to $3.50 miles, and Milford rural
continued on page rodr)
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der the DUPONT Companys plan of
Awards for NO-Accident Records"
The record in this case was an
proximately 1,4S8,OOO safe hours of
work over a period of LIB days.
Attending the rally were 200 con
structiOn workers. who are expand
ing the Seaford Nylon Plants IA
cilities, and many guests.
Earle F. McSpadden, field pro-
ject manager for construction
forces, accepted the award on be-
half of the many hundreds of peo-
pie who had contributed so much
toward its attainment.
In congratulating the construc-
tion forces on their safety accom-
plishment Mr.. Weisbrod requested
that the same sense of safety re-
spOnsibility which has thus far
been shown by them be maintained.
not only in the course of future
work on the job, but also while on
the job. For only when safety
comes first, regardless of other
considerations, may a construction
continued on page nineteen)
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Events Listed For
Chicken Festival
tentative Calendar Of Events Has Been Set
UpFor Fete Which Will Be Held In George
town, June FL, 22 And 23.

The Board of Directors of Del
marva Chicken Festival, Inc, to-
gether with Glen Grain, of George
town, general chairman for, the
1854 Festival and committees met
recently and heard reports on pro-
gress of plans to date and outlined
a tentative calendar of events for
the Festival which will be held i'm
Georgetown, June 21, % and %.
The tentative plans as outlined
promise three full days for the
many thousands of visitors, exhibit
tors and participants in the various
events.
The opening ceremonies have
been scheduled for 1870 p. m. at
the east entrance of the George
town High School, with Harold
Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
Junior BroiIer
Project Continues
Program, Sponsored By DPIA,
Becomes Big Business


Poultry growing becomes big
business for many boys and girls
who enroll in the Delaware Junior
BrOiler Program.
For several years this program,
sponsored by the Delaware POul-
try Improvement Association, has
encouraged the young poultry own
ers to grow a good flock, keep
records, and follow good manage
ment practices
The Junior Broiler Program will
be held again this year, announces
Ralph O'Bier, Laurel, chairman of
the DPIA's education and research
committee. All boys and girls are
eligible to enter, if they are over
10 years of age and have not
reached their goth birthday by
January /, 1855.
The committee has prepared a
list Of rules and regulations and
an entry card These may be Sc
continued on page aeven)
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Supreme Court
Decision Will
Allow Scho0I
Bldg. Program
Plans For $17,OSO,OOO Ex-
pansiOn Can Now Get
Under Way; Opinion
Written By Court Cow
ers FOrty-nine Pages.

The pathway was cleared by the
state Supreme Court this week for
Delaware's $17,0OO,OOO new school
building program to get under way
and Tor the New Castle County
Board Of Assessment to submit it's
reassess1nent figures to the Levy
Court to set the new tax county
tax rate.
Ele states high court ruled that
there was no legal merit to the
cgse of Mrs. Marjorie C. Brennan,
a taxpayer in the Mt. Pleasant
Special School District, who chal-
lenged the legality Of school bond
and school tax increase referenda
in the district.
Mrs. Brennan also contested the
property valuations submitted to
the assessment board by the ]. M.
ClemshaW Company of Cleveland,
Q. The Supreme Court, in a AZ
page opinion written by Chief JUS
tice Clarence A. Switzerland and
eoncurred in by Associate Justices
Daniel 0. Wolcott and James M.
Tunnel. Jr., upheld in the county
on the latter question.
Local school districts have until
June 80 to sell bond issues for
construction purposes and deposit
the money in the Farmers Bank of
the, State of Delaware.
The County Assessment Board
must submit its new assessment
figures to the Levy Court by Satur-
DAY and the latter agency must set
the new tax rate by May is.
Recognizing the cOuntry's fnan-
cial problems presented by the suit,
the opinion explains that: "Conse-
quently, in the labor of briefing,
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Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
GOVERNOR BOGGS is
AT WASHINGTON MEET

Gov. j. Caleb Boggs is at
tending the Governors Con-
ference, called by President
Dwight ID. Eisenhower.
which is being held in Wash
ington this week.
The Governor was advised
that the purpose of this con-
ference was to consider
foreign policy developments,
national security, civil de-
fensG intergOvernmental re-
latiOns, tax and fiscal prob
lens, and national economy.
Speakers at the confer
ence will include President
Eisenhower. members of his
cabinet, and other high rank
ing government officials.
One of the important mat
ters discussed was Safety.
and Governor BOggs Joined
Delaware into the 24-state
Safety Drive.
Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30

w. T. Purnell as chairman and
music to be furnished by a well
known band. At LAS time is set
for an official visit to the Equip
ment Show in the school building.
The Equipment Show will feature
all the latest in equipment used
by the poultry industry on the
Peninsula as we'll as exhibits of
all sorts of poultry products, the
latest in scientific medicinal aids
for poultry together with other in
formational material of value to
the entire industry.
The Queen Contest to select Miss
Delmarva VII will be held in the
high school auditorium at PAS
p. m.
Continued on page nineteen)
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Local Vet Groups
Planning Activities
Carnival At Delaware Colony,
Program At Brack.Ex Listed

Carnival At Delaware Colony,
Program At Brack.Ex Listed
According to Mrs. Hilda Cannon,
hospital chairlady for the Auxil-
iary to VFW Post No. 6483 and
for COotiette Club No. 498, both of
Milford, these two organizations,
along with the Milford Coolies,
will participate in a carnival to
be staged at Delaware Colony at
Stockley, on Saturday, May 8, be-
ginning at 1890 p. m. The Mil
ford groups will expand their ac-
tivities of previous years by this
year Operating two booths;
the VFW Auxiliary will operate one
booth at the Delaware Colony car
nivaI" and the Coolies and CoOti-
cites will operate another booth
jointly.
CONTINUED on page sikh
Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
Ladies AuxiIiaries
Meet In Sussex
Annual Banquet Held At LeWes
Fire Hall Recently

The Ladies Auxiliaries Associ-
alton of Sussex County Volunteer
Ffremen held its annual banquet in
the Lewes Fire Hall, recently, with
l55 in attendance from all sections
of the county.
DR.. Thomas c. Mulligan, pastor
of Grace Methodist Church, in
Georgetown was the main speaker.
Mrs. Martin Uhler, president of
the State Auxiliaries Association
extended greetings to the group
(continueu on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
Delegates Named For
National All Camp
Sessions Will Be Held In Washing
ton, d. e., June IS To %

Four of Delaware's finest All
members will attend the gath Nat
ional All Club Camp in Washing
ton, D. c., from June 16 to %.
Chosen for this honor because
of their outstanding records in All
work are: Dolores Lloyd, a men,
Der of the Korner Ketch All Club,
Newark; Grace Warrington. of the
County Seat Girls All Club.
Georgetown; Fred Grampp, of the
Oak Grove Blue Hens All Club.
Dover; and Joseph Workman, of
Continued oa page five)
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WV Dance Proceeds
TO Aid Youth Work
Annual FrOlic Will Be
Held AT ArmOry
This Evening

Proceeds from Milford's Annual
Spring Dance, to be held here at
the Milford Armory, this Friday
evening, will, according to Off
cials of Puptent "a, M. o. c.. be
used to improve Memorial Park.
Milford's Swimming and Play Area.
The Coolies, sponsors of Friday
evenings dance, three years ago
developed Memorial Park on the
v. +. w. property on the west shore
OF Haven Lake, here, and dedica-
ted 1t as a Giving memorial to
the areas war dead.
According to the Coolies, an ex-
pansion Of facilities and Of use of
(continued on page severn
Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
Races AT Georgetown
Speedway Tonight
NASCAR Sponsored Races Called
Last Friday Because OF Rain

The first stock car program of
the 1854 season scheduled at the
Georgetown Speedway for last
Friday night will be presented this
week on Friday, April 80 at $3.50
p. m. Due to the heavy rains in
the Delaware and Maryland area
last Friday the races had to be
called at 6:t5 p. m. The entire
slate that was on for last week
will be presented this Friday night
including the presentation of tro-
phies to J. r. Jones of Salisbury.
Md, as the 1853 Sportsmen Champ
and to his car owners, the Trice
Brothers of Salisbury, Md. A tro-
ply will also be presented to Lou
Johnson of Wilmington, Del. as the
continued on page nineteen)
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ARltrGck Unit VIII
Train With Navy
Battalion Activated This
Month Has Summer
Plans

AS BELTS an Army Reserve unit
that moves. on the water. Della
wares 54Oth Amphibious Tractor
(Amtrack) Battalion, activated in
April at Georgetown, Dover, and
Fort Miles, is going to train this
summer with the Navy
At a joint conference of Navy
and Marine Corps training officers
held April % at Norfolk Naval Air
Station, Norfolk, Va, Lieutenant
continued on page seven)
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Dates Have Been Set
For Short Courses
HOmeHlakers. June rs To 10: All
Clubs June q To 80

Dates have been set for two ira
ditional June events sponsored bv
the Extension Service at the Uni
versity Of Delaware. They are the
annual short courses for home
makers and for 4-H members.
The hOmemakers will convene
on the University campus from
June is to 10. This three day out
ing is open to all women. Within
a few weeks, county home demon
stration agents will be able TO fur
nish details on the program and
registration.
Highlights of the women's pro-
gram include speakers on current
events, china and millinery; a tour
Of the Brandywine Valley; musical
continued on page nineteen)
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Spring Festival At
Elementary School
viii Be Presented In School
Auditorium, Friday, May

The fifth and sixth grades Of the
Milford Elementary School will
present their annual spring festival
in the High School Auditorium on
Friday, May 7th at 500 p. m.
Peer Gynt, a muscal play adapted
form the poem of Henry Ibsen, with
incidental music of Edward Grieg,
will be presented by two sections Of
the sixth grade. A double cast has
been chosen, one of which will per-
form when the festival is given for
the students.
CONTINUED on page five)
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Highway Dept. Reodying
Picnic Sites On Ocean Front

Preparations Highway Depart
Tor the the
'front.' between Dewey
acuVly being cenered Indian RiverI
renting will be permitted beginning
@ heybox Road the south side Of the
Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
Celebration HeJdLGSt Week
On SGtetyAtDu POntPJant

SAFETY celebration commemoratng the winning the
Award was held Thursday April
of the dupont Companys Engineering Denar
ment for their Safety Achievement
william o. WesbrOd assistant President
walt presented the award the SeafOrd Nvon
Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
State National Guard VIII
March OnATn1edF Forces Day

Delaware National Guard will be well represented at the Armed
Forces Day activities the Air
May 5 according Major Edward
National Guard
officer Major E1irsch
Commanding Officer Artillery Group
Milford chronicle., 1954-04-30
Financial Aid To
Needy Cancer Patients
Is An Important Service OF The
State Society

Finacial aid to needy cancer pa
tients is one of the most important
services for which the Delaware
Division, American Cancer Society,
is currently asking the public for
contributions in the 1854 Delaware
Cancer Crusade, it was pointed out
yesterday by Samuel B. Bird, State
CONTINUED on page eleven)
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-03
The Story of The Christmas Seals

| TAsN
 Look at your Christmas Seals.
 The 1854 Christmas Seals were designed by Jorgen c. Hansen, and will be used, with slight variations by the voluntary tuberculosis as- sociations of the United States, Canada and Bermuda.
 Across the entire sheet of one hundred Seals dance rows of child ren holding hands among brightly lighted Christmas trees. This motif with it's typically Scandinav n feeling was achieved by the use of two coordinated Christmas Seals, one with red, the other with a green background.
 The gay scene is based on the Christmas Eve celebration of the artists boyhood in Denmark. After traditional dinner of rice DOT ridge and roast goose, all the mem bers of the family join hands and dance around the tree singing the old carols.
 To Hansen, his Christmas Seal
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-03

that they had been studying "sea train" possibilities, and immediately after the hearing they announced they had engaged Leslie M. Rudy, transportation consultant, to com plete the study.
 Two other steamship operators, Coastwise Line and Luckenbach Steamship Company, testified at the hearing that they also are studying sea train" operations to Alaska.
 Coastwise has been running a cargo service to Alaska from Pacif- ic Coast ports for several years; Luckenbach is newcomer to the Alaska field.
 Not present at the hearing were representative of Alaska Freight Lines, Inc, barge-truck-trailer operator whose innovations in car go handling are responsible for the sea train" approach.
 Alaska Freight in 1850 began carrying loaded truck trailers to Alaska on deep-sea barges pulled by powerful tugbots. It sets the trailers ashore at Seward and pulls them up the highway system for delivery in Anchorage and Fair banks within seven days aft CT they leave Seattle.
 This new cargo service now car ries close to half the freight mov- ing to interior Alaska and it's roll-on, roll-off feature is the basis of sea train operations
 As for the now-defunct passen- ger service. to Alaska there is virtually no hope that it will be resumed in. time for the busy May-to-October Alaska tourist sea- son - the one period of the year when passenger ships ran fully occupied
 Representative Pelly proposed to the hearing that the Alaska Rail. road, an Interior Department az. ency, might charter and operate the Alaska Steamship Company's four passenger ships.
 This suggestion is considered a "last straw" and action on it by the Interior Department if any - is not expected without action by Congress upon it's convening January 1.
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-03

children are "the healthy, happy children Einar Holboell dreamed of when he (first) proposed a Christmas Seal to fight disease
 Einar Holboell was Danish pos tai clerk who gave his spare time to sick chrild d n. Just before Christmas of 1903, Holboell wished that all the pieces of Christmas mail he handled daily could mean one penny for each to help the children he loved. At the Christ mas season 1904, the first four million stamps bearing the portrait of the late Queen Louise were sold in post offices throughout Den- mark. In 1907 the idea spread to America.
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-03

Fifty years ago when the Ma. tional Tuberculosis Association was founder. TB was the worst killer in the United States. Great pro- gress has been made in our coun- try, but TB kills about four mil lion people in the world every year. "f. "f
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-03

Everyone who buys Seals helps combat tuberculosis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03

the Lord that we are reconciled
to one another. Therefore, we
would welcome and indeed would
urge face-to-face talks with our
fellow Christians in other
churches looking toward the time
when all sincere Christians will
be welcome around common
table"
"Open Communion" Problem.
The statement undoubtedly
was looking toward the World
Council Of Churches second as
sembly at Evanston. H., August
1881. One of the major issues
there is the question Of the
unity of the churches in the
worship of Jesus Christ and their
disunity among themselves. The
problem of "open communion"
(some churches do not allow
members of denominations hold
ing different theological views
to partake of the sacrament Of
holy communion with them) is
one of the issues contributing to
disunity among denominations.
A strong feeling favoring the
unity movement among Protest
ant churches pervaded the re-
port. It pointed out that one
Of the "singularly significant"
facts about the Christian Church
''in our time is the ecumenical
movement" and declared that
Reformed Churches throughout
the world welcome every man
Hesitation of ecumenical concern
and cooperation" The report
also asked Gods blessing upon
the coming second assembly at
Evanston"
The election of new officers of
the World Presbyterian Alliance
will be held tomorrow. The
meeting, usually held every five
years. will end Thursday with
a reading of the alliance mes
sage to the delegates.