Milford chronicle., 1956-11-02
VALUABLE CITIZEN DIES

Milford suffered loss of no small pro-
portions with the passing from this earthly
scene last Sunday evening of Charles E.
Varney. Since young manhood, when he mar
ried Miss Maria Draper of Milford and took
up residence among Delaware friends he had
been progressive and active participant in
community affairs. At the time of his death
he was business administrator for the Mil
ford Memorial Hospital, job that he hand
led efficiently and with credit to the institu-
ton. He owned at one time the Milford Ice
and Coal Company, one of the most success
full of its kind on the peninsula. His interest
and active participation in the affairs of the
Carlisle Fire Company helped to make il one
of Delaware's outstanding fire fighting or
ganizations. His interest in his church was
great and for years he conducted the choir
at the Avenue Methodist Church. Fraternal
organizations came in for their share of his
time, and they found an active worker for
their welfare in him. Milford has lost
valuable citizen with his death.
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FARM-CITY WEEK NOVEMBER 16
Last year saw the first observance of Farm
City Week. By any standard, it was great
success. Kiwanis international was the
spearhead group Some 400 national and re-
gional organizations participated through
their various local branches. Practically ey-
cry community in this country along with
More than 250,000 people were actually in
volved in carrying on the activities. Just
about everyone on the North American con-
tinent heard the Farnl-City Week story, due
to the excellent cOverage provided by news
papers, radio, and TV To frost the CAKE the
1866 observance of the Week was selected
for the distinguished public service award by
the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.
Now the second annual observance of the
Week is on the horizon-November 1922
is the time. Kiwanis will again do the spear
head work in most communities. And this
years observance, It would seem is to be
even bigger and better than last years.
The purpose of the Week is as admirable
as it is simple. 1t is to bring about better
understanding between the urban and rural
segments of our society,"" Through this un-
derstanding, it is hoped, will come the real
ization by farmers and urban people that
neither is self-sufficient; that the two groups
are interdependent, and that "every city or
house divided against itself shall not stand"
1t would take pages to list al the organi-
cations which are sponsoring the Week and
cooperating to put it over. There is ma
tional Farm-City Week committee, with 73
members, made up of representatives from
governmental agencies, service and agricul-
tural organizations, industry and business,
trade associations, farm publications, and so
on and SO on. Branches of such bodies will
carry on the observance on the local level.
These observances, naturally, will vary
somewhat from community to community.
But there is a general pattern which is ma
tional in its scope. Businessmen will tour
farms, rural residents will tour cities and
factories, and there will be joint tours with
both groups going together Meetings of farm
and city people will feature fellowship and
the exchange of pertinent information con-
cerning particular problems the two groups
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which city folk will spend a day on the farm,
and country people a day in the city. DEM
onstrations of new farming techniques will
be feature, along with displays of agricu-
tural products. Church services will be de-
voted to the Farm-City Interdependence
theme. Also, there will be what is known as
''high-visibility" projects AS an example,
last year Vermont country family changed
places with a New York City family for the
week, and pictorial, editorial and broadcast
coverage was given every phase of the life
of each group for the entire period.
Ali in all, it's big job-for big cause.
A TRAINED GENERATION
Driving an automobile comes close to be-
ing the most dangerous thing most of us ever
do in normal life Yet by a curious paradox
most of us have learned our driving skills
by naphazard, trial-and-error methods. Rel
atively few drivers have had formal training.
1t is finally coming to be realized that this
is nonsense. AS automobiles become nore
and more powerful and fast, the demand for
increased skill is rising accordingly. BY this
we mean not only the manual skills OF hand
ling the car, but skill injudgment, skill in
road behavior.
1t is encouraging, therefore, That behind
the-wheel driver training is being added to
the curriculum in many high schools. This
may bring about the first generation of driv-
ers really trained to handle the hard prob
lens of driving.