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Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27

Three of Milford's elderly
men died last week, leaving
their families and friends poor
er for their passing. Mr.. Ben
jamin Davis, 95; Mr.. Dorsey
Bowen, 73, and Mr.. William
Jones, II, all having been a
part of the business life of this
town. The years brought
along Interpretation for Mr..
Davis and Mr.. Jones, but Mr..
Bowen was still active. Mil
ford's oldest resident, Mr.. Will
liam Richardson will be 100
on June 25. At present he is
a patient in Memorial Hospital
and all hope he will reach the
century mark in good health.
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27
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Edited by VIRGINIA s. TOWNSEND

The private view of the John
Dickinson Mansion, which has
been completely renovated,
and will shortly become an
other OF the nations shrines,
will be held on Wednesday of
next week from two to five
o'clock, DIST. Invitations have
been received here for this
viewing and those invited are
eager to see the former home
of this "Penman of the Revo-
luton as he is often called.
The invitation has been issued
by the Public Archives Com
mission of which Mr.. Leon
deValinger, Jr., is the director.
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27
DAVIS

Benjamin F. Davis, 95, husband
of the late Angeline Davis, and one
of the oldest residents of Milford,
died at his home in Milford Sunday,
April %.
Mr.. Davis was a retired farmer
of the Milford area, and the largest
owner of residential real estate in
the City of Milford. He was a for
mer member of the State House of
Representatives and a member Of
Wildwood Methodist Church, near
Milford.
Services were held from the Ber-
ry Funeral Home in Milford at l
o. m. Thursday. with Rev. Robert
Green, pastor of Avenue Methodist
Church officiating. Burial was made
in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Mary D. Abbott, OF Milford; !;
two sons, Walter, of Lincoln, and
Harry J. Davis, of Milford: six
grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren two sisters, Mrs.
Lima Watkins and Mrs. Rachael
watkins, of Milford; two brothers,
George and Thomas Davis, OF Mil
ford.
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27

SCHOOL sPEAKER-Rev. Carl
Mcintyre, of Collingswood, n. j.,
will speak in the Milford High
School auditorium on Wednesday
evening, May End, at 500 p. m.
His topic will be 20th Century Re
formation. Everyone welcome.
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27

HEALTH BOARD MEETS-The
newly appointed Board of Health
of Milford held their first meeting
on Wednesday night, April Is.
Louis Carpenter, resident of the
Third Ward and living on N. E.
Tenth street, was elected presi-
dent, and DR.. Laurence L. Fitchett
was elected secretary of the board.
The other members are Frank Ell
ton, local florist, and living on N.
w. Front street, and Burton Mas
ten, of 800 South Washington
street
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27

CHICKEN & DUMPING SUP
PER - The Appel-Tucker V. F. w.
Post and Auxiliary will hold a
chicken and dumpling supper Sat
urday, April 28th, in the Glendale
School. Adults, $1.25; children, s.65.
BAKE-On May 1st in ire Social
Hall of Avenue Methodist Church,
Circle No. 4 viii hold bake and
food sale. preceding the regular
meeting of the WSCS, Pauline Lord
leader.
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27

BAND DANCE - Milford High
School Band Boosters Club will
sponsor a dance to be held on Sat
urday, April 2S, from to II p. m.
Admission, 35e. Come and dance to
the music of our swing band.
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27

NOTICE - An auxiliary of the
Slaughter Beach Fire Co., has been
started, and they are seeking new
members. The meetings are held
every second Monday night IN the
month, and the next meeting is
Monday, May IA.
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27

F interest to local
friends was the we'd
ding of Miss Joan
Valerie Pillin g,
daughter of Mr.. and
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27

ASSOCIATION HEAD = Walter
P. Kilkenny, 537 linton avenue,
Bronx, N. Y, has been elected
president of the Student Associa-
ton of Wesley Junior College, at
Dover. Announcement of Kilken-
ny's election was made today by
the retiring president of the asso-
citation, Orlando f. Kibbe, Bound
Brook, N. ]. He will take Office in
September for the 1956-57 academ-
ic year.
Milford chronicle., 1956-04-27

BEEF AND DUMPING SUP
PER-The Women of the Moose
will sponsor beef and dumpling
supper at the Moose Home, one
half mile north of Harrington on
u. S. Route Is, Saturday, April
28, from 4:30 until ZOO p. m.
Adults $125; children, 65e. Come
out and join the crowd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
Another Step
OnHighwoys

The greatest construction project
Of all time drew a little closer to
reality last week when a Joint COM
mittee Of Congress agreed on the
major terms of 1894 billion road
building program.
Complete congressional action is
expected sometime this week. The
agreement reached Wednesday
cleared the way for another con-
ference group to settle minor and
non-controversial points for provid-
ing the financing Of the program.
When the bill finally is signed
into law by President Eisenhower.
only action by the individual States
will be required TO start laying the
concrete and asphalt over more
than 10000 miles Of super-highway
linking almost every city over 50,-
900 persons. Eventually, there will
be six and eight lane highways
connecting most cities Of 100000.
The enterprises. overpasses, cleo
tronic devices and new safety
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24

mired L'Enfant's work. Mr.. Wash
ington wrote the Partisan engineer
that every mode has been tried
to accommodate your wishes on
this principle, except changing the
Commissioners (for Commissioners
there must be and under their
direction the public buildings must
be carried on or the law will be
violated)."
Thomas Jefferson, commenting
on L'Enfant's demands, said: THE
latter being impossible under the
law and former too arrogant to be
answered, he was notified that his
services were at an end"
Even Jefferson got into planning
Of the Capital City, but had a much
smaller layout in mind than that
conceived of by L'Enfant and
President Washington.
L'Enfant elaborated on the more
grandiose ideas of President Wash
ington. The extent to which he
did so was described in a report
to the President by DR.. David
Stuart. one Of the three Commits
sioners. He said. IF L'Enfant is
made independent of the Commits
sioners, then the Treasury Of the
Union will not be adequate TO the
expense incurred"
Whether the present planning
consultant will share the fate Of
L'Enfant. remains to be seen. but he
has been modifying his proposals
somewhat under constant fire. II
he continues to do so, one critic
finally declared, There might be a
chance Of acceptance" Of his pro-
gram Of ground rules under which
the city would grow in the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
LEAST COOPERATIVE?
White House Program
Is Logging in Congress

listed by the White House May "a
as legislative "highlights" have
been approved. These are the farm
bill and the measure for improved
medical care for military depend
ents.
Congressional Quarterly's box
score counts these two and also
gives the President credit for such
other major legislative items as the
Upper Colorado development plan
and the extension of excise and
corporate tax rates.
Among his "a victories were such
comparatively minor items from a
national point of view as an in
crease in the Federal payment to
the District of Columbia and pass
age OF a treaty on the importation
Of commercial samples.
The six requests fatty rejected
by Congress were all part of Mr..
Eisenhowers farm program, includ-
ing the soil bank prepayment pro-
vision and a limit on the amount
OF price support money one farmer
can receive.
Almost certain of passage before
the session ends are highway and
housing programs and the foreign
aid bill requested by the President.
But there is no guarantee their final
form will be entirely acceptable to
him. The outlook also is good for
two farm credit bills and three
health measures on the Presidents
list.
In the doubtful to uncertain
category are school aid, civil rights.
Federal pay raise and customs
simpliflcation bills. Seemingly dead
are measures for Hawaiian state
hood. immigration and refugee law
revision, postal rate increases and
Taft-Hartley Act changes.
Political implications
The showdown of the Presidents
program appears certain to revive
last springs Republican charges of
a "do-nothing" Congress. The claim
that Democrats blocked substantial
numbers Of Mr.. Eisenhower's re-
quests will be used as an argument
for electing a Republican Congress
in November.
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon
B. johnson has counseled both
parties to exercise patience and
avoid partisanship while Congress
is in session. Senator johnson May
"a predicted that when Congress
adjourns, 1t will have enacted a
program designed TO met the needs
OF the American people,.
An unofficial Democratic must
list" includes social security expan-
sion, more public housing. high
farm price supports, highway con-
struction, aid to schools. minimum
wage hike and public power projects.
Privately, some Democrats are
preparing stronger defense against
the "do-nothing" charge. They say
that any failure OF the Presidents
program should be blamed on a
lack Of effective leadership from
the White House and Congressional
Republicans.
CONGREGATIONAL quarterly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
MARYLAND
Jingle Of Coins Serves
As Potomac Foghorn

been offering legal" gambling and
liquor drinks for very long.
1t all started in 1949 when a
Colonial Beach hotel owner, with
the trepidation that all pioneers
must feel. set up few one-armed
bandits on a pier sliced in two by
narrow crevice, each side marked
to indicate the appropriate State.
Nothing happened and now the
game is on in earnest.
AT first, many objections were
heard from townspeople as the slot
machines cleared the way for hard
liquor bars. But the piers also at
tracted crowds and money to the
aging resort and gradually the OBJ
jections subsidized.
Today, civic and charity groups
hold their meetings amid the lux
urious appointments of these haunts
of mechanical fortune, and the
owner Of the Little Reno is direc-
tor and past president of the
Colonial Beach Chamber Of Com
merce.
No Trouble at All
Policing the piers would seem to
present some problems-since even
Charles and st. Marys leash their
liberality with such prohibitions as
those against allowing minors to
drink liquor and play the machines
but the law enforcement officers
charged with the responsibilities
claim that it's no trouble at all.
Charles County Sheriff Avery C.
Monroe said he seldom has to visit
the five places under him because
he has four deputies stationed reg
ularly on the Virginia shore. How
ever, the salaries of the deputies
are paid by the establishments they
are supposed to be policing, which
might tend to make them more like
store detectives or deputized
bouncers than regular law enforce
ment officers.
Sheriff Monroe said he knows of
only two or three recent arrests at
the piers opposite his county. land
they were just for things like dis
orderly conduct"
The Charles County slot machine
inspectors Office also says it finds
tranquility in its regular inspec-
tons" of the pier machines.
Sheriff Robert Miedzinski of st.
Marys County was asked what kind
IF Y1Iora tho NoleS pniI1t TovorV1 &c
He said. to tell the truth. he really
didn't know, because he doesn't
have a boat so he's never been
there.
II understand they try to keep
the peace, though" the sheriff
added. IF anybody makes trouble,
they bounce them out into Vir-
ginia where the law can get at
them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
BY JOHN sEMBoWER

CHICAGO.--If, when the smoke
clears. National City Lines, Inc,
should emerge as the owner of the
Capital Transit Company, bus and
trolley riders in Washington will
learn what it is like to have bus
drivers take over the company"
The most unique feature of the
family dominated company that
has bought the local transit sys-
tem--subJect, of course, to congress
sional approval-iS that ex-bus
drivers are in control. Eight of
National City's top executives pride
themselves on being former drivers.
Although there is complete con-
fusion over who will actually take
over the transit system when Capt.
tai Transit's franchise expires Au-
gust IA, at this writing National
City is the only candidate with
something on paper. For that rea-
son, WashingtonianS may be inter-
ested in learning something about
the men who run National City and
their attitude toward the transit
riding public.
The fact that the management
Of the company is composed mostly
Of former bus drivers does not
mean that the company tries to
solve transit woes from the stand
point of the driver only says E. Roy
Fitzgerald. 63-year-old president of
the firm at its headquarters here.
Mr.. Fitzgerald considers himself "a
peoples man" and a sort of special
pleader for the harried patron of
the company's A city transit oper-
ations all over the country.
Firm Approach
There is a firmness and lack of
sentimentaliy, however. to the
Fitzgerald approach which is born
of the experience Of five bus-driving
brothers dating back to the earliest
days of motor coach operation in
upper Minnesota.
Three of the brothers, E. Roy, So;
Ralph, 81, and Kent, 81, remain
the mainsprings of the company.
All are former "drivin men," Roy
having started in 1912 running a
bobsled for carrying mail, supplies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
DISTRICT
By HECTOR MCLEAN

The present conflict over revision
of Washington's coming regulations
is merely the latest outbreak of
warfare between Missionaries and
pragmatists which has haunted the
District since the city was first laio
out 164 years ago.
Today's clash is between the
businessmen and builders of Wash
ington and the Districts coming
revision staff headed by Harold M.
Lewis of New York. The business
contingent insists Mr.. Lewis plans
outlining what could be built and
where in the years to come-is COM
pletely impractical and ought to be
thrown out.
In 1892 Major Pierre Charles
L'Enfant, who had been appointed
by President Washington to lay Out
the city, was the focus of battle.
Both cases illustrate the role thai
"city planning" has had in the
history OF the National Capital.
L'Enfont Wos Fired
Although L'Enfant was so stub
born and idealistic that he finally
was fired. most of his planning for
the development of Washington
survived. He created a city of
grandeur and magnificent dis
tances which did not grow up to it
self for eight decades - durinf
which Washington was the butt o.
constant joking by diplomats ia
miliar with other capital cities.
Not until the administration o
Alexander Shepherd as governor o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24

President Eisenhower will have to
score the current session of Con-
gress as the least cooperative of
his administration unless there is a
last-minute reversal of form.
The latest Congressional Quar-
terly box score" on the Presidents
legislative record shows that, with
Congress less than four weeks from
scheduled adjournment, "a of Mr..
Eisenhower's PIT requests have
been approved, a score of only Is
per cent.
The box score of the PIT Essen
hover requests is result of a care
full check of legislation specifically
sought by the President. The break
down as of June 18: Approved by
Congresses. rejected-6, passed
by House and or Senate-52, some
progress in committee-77. set back
but still alive-11, no action-37.
The Is per cent approval the
Presidents program has won so far
this year is 10 per cent lower than
the comparable 1855 figure. On
June 20, 1855. Congress had passed
IS per cent of his program. The
final figure for 1855 was 46 per
cent.
About 25 more of the Presidents
requests are certain of passage this
session. That would raise his final
won-loSS record to at least .270.
Another 16 items are likely to go
through. Approval of these could
bring his session-end percentage to
at least $50. 1t could go higher If
Congress speeds up action on some
on-controversial items it has
ignored so far.
But odds are the 1856 session will
continue the past three years trend
OF diminishing success for the Pres
idents program. His score dropped
from 1877 in 1858 to SAT in 1854
and .463 in 1855.
Only Two 'Hishliehts'
The 1856 Congress may rate even
lower on Mr.. Eisenhowers own
score card. Only two of the 20 bills
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
School Aid Bill Cleared

In another committee action, also
on Wednesday. the House rules
group finally cleared for floor
action the Kelley school aid bill,
which will provide for SIG billion
over four years in grants to States
on a matching basis.
Strong opposition, mostly from
Southern Democrats and a few Re-
publicans, looms as the bills most
formidable obstacle. The South
erners' reservations are based on a
fear that the money. part of which
will come from the pockets of
Southern taxpayers, will be spent
only on those schools that are
racially integrated.
There was some basis for their
fear. Representative Adam Clayton
Powell. Democrat of New York. has
refused to back up in his plan to
offer an amendment to bar any of
the money from segregated schools.
With the racial issue involved it
looked as though the motorist may
get his super-highways long before
the school child gets his new school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24

and workers at construction camp
in Ontario; Ralph, a former auto
mechanic. being the trouble shooter
and doctor" for sick transit sys-
TENS. and Kent the operational
specialist
The other two, Ed, who died
several years ago. and John. who
died last year, were financial and
organizational experts All have
prided themselves on having no
hobbies whatsoever except running
buses, and trolleys.
The Fitzgeralds have few init
mate friends outside their i'm
mediate families, except for some
of the oldsterS among the original
stockholders who drop into the
Offices here for visits now and then.
1t is no pose OF stunt that the
company has "folksy" atmosphere,
but there is also some Of the Nordic
GOODNESS and efficiency Of the Scan-
dlnavian dominated Minnesota
area.
Although National City's stock is
listed on the big board in New York
and took a little Jump at news OF
the Washington developments. the
4,278 owners" of the system are
dominated by hard core of 285
original stockholders who are
mainly retired miners, small town
merchants, and former bus drivers
in Minnesota.
They Have Formula
If the transfer goes through,
Washington riders can expect to
see rather quick evidence of a
formula" being put into effect.
based upon a 25O-page manual
of operations which guides the
wholly owned companies mostly in
smaller metropolitan cities and the
dominated investment" COM
panies in Los Angeles, st. Louis.
Baltimore and Philadelphia. A
retraining program for the drivers
is one of the first steps.
There was time when a prompt
reduction to the nickel fare also
might have been expected, because
that was the National City's badge
of distinction in the late '30s when
1t expanded to take over systems
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
DISTRICT
Furore Over zoninq
Echoes 18th Century

the District In the early 1s70s did
the city begin to dig itself out Of
the mud Of unpaved streets and
bury its sewers underground.
And, it might be noted. this
came at the cost Of civic bank
ruptcy which led Congress to wipe
out the local home-rule govern
ment and put the city under presi-
dentially appointed commissioners.
L'Enfant's work here ended when
ne got into a row with the Dis
trict Commissioners Of that day,
who were to supervise construction
Of the first group Of Government
buildings. He demanded that
either they be fired or he be allowed
to act independently.
Too Much for Washington
This was too much, even for
President Washington, who ad-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
Men Behind National City Line.
Are Proud Of Being Ex-Drivers

in Galesburg, ILL.,: Joliet. H.; Tulsa,
sad Lincoln, Nebr. However, that
has gone the way Of rising costs.
and a current report Of the COM
pany tells of successful moves for
fare increases in the 15-2O-cent
zone.
The National City method
calls for "humanizing" the bus
drivers, and company legends tell
of drivers hating to help pas
sengers who drop parcels. One in
particular concerns a driver who
saw a woman drop her watch down
sidewalk grill and calamity dis
mounted to fish it out.
The manual does not encourage
talking with passengers. but per-
mits exchanges or pleasantries and
recommends pausing to let rum
ming bus catchers achieve their
goals. However, the Fitzgeralds
generally do not go for frills, and
their vehicles are on the austere
side in the way of appointments
and gadgets.
Cites 'DisiIIusionment'
Roy Fitzgerald answers reports
that his company is regarded as
tough in labor negotiations by
saying that he was one of the
earliest advocates of unionization
He attributes some of this "reputa-
ton" to a establishment" the
company had with arbitration some
years ago, leading to a refusal as
far as possible to arbitrate further.
He argues that the wage policy is
liberal, if you earn it,"
Nobody in the organization knows
the exact origin the well-pubIicized
understanding that whenever any
city wants to take over a line for
public operation, National City has
standing offer to step out if they
think they can do better, but it
does exist. Sacramento took them
up on it last year, but there are
few rumblings in that direction
elsewhere.
Roy Fitzgerald considers getting
along with the city fathers, the po-
lice who regulate the traffic, the
merchants, and the patrons as vital
to success. If there is conflict be-
tween theses the officials insist that
eehey side with the latter. The rest,
they say, is an engineering opera
ton, involving sufficiently frequent
busseS and up-to-date routings.
The Fitzgeralds and their oper-
ating associates believe that the
Nations transit systems may have
seen their worst days and are on
the mend. They attribute this to
awakening realization" of the
traffic congestion situation and the
strangulation of downtown shipping
areas.
They also see signs of the motor
ist abandoning at last "the tradi-
ton of the American cowboy always
taking his horse with him." and
more are leaving the car at home.
With their studies showing that
81 per cent Of all car-owning fami-
lies still are one-car families and
with two-thirds of the women still
non-drivers, they think the buses
are assured indefinitely Of sufiicient
patronage for profitable operations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-24
NEARBY VOTES

Votes OF Maryland ana Virginia
Senators on an amendment to a bill
enabling automobile dealers to bring
suit against automobile manufac-
turers in connection with termina-
ton of dealer franchises. The
amendments limited damages re-
coverable TO actual rather than
punitive damages, changed defini-
ton Of good faith" in the bill and
established the right Of manufac-
turer to assert in defense OF suit
the failure Of dealer to act in good
faith" Passed en- bloc ISL. June 10.
For: Beall CR.,. Md. Byrd ID, va.
fa.Lea Fora Butler r.. MOI, Robertson d..