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Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
Excavation Work Started

On Monday morning the con-
tractors started work on the ex-
cavation for the base of the new
roadway on Commerce Street,
The first step toward the new
street was taken at East COM
merce Street and Route 13, the
Dupont Parkway, and it is ex-
pected that with good weather
the job of preparing for the lay
ing of the surface will proceed
rapidly. The two blocks between
the DUPONT Parkway and Main
Street will be the first to be COM
pleted.
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
Two Local Boys in Marines

Danford c. Bailey, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Clay Bailey, and Will
liam G. Knotts, Jr., son of Mr..
and Mrs. William G. Knots, Sr,
who have been members of the
U. S. Marine Corps Reserves, left
on Sept. 27 for basic training at
Paris Island. They will be on
active duty for two years.
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
Death of william w. Bailey

William w. Bailey, 73, died
Oct. 4, at his home near Blackbird.
He was a Delaware native and
farmed most of his life in the
Blackbird area. Surviving are his
wife, Mrs. Avis V. Bailey; four
children, Charles E. Bailey, Mrs.
Emma Shane, j. Wilson Bailey,
all of Blackbird, and Mrs. Ethel
Virden, Smyrna; a brother, John
Bailey, Smyrna; 13 grandchildren,
and six great grandchildren. Fun
eral services were held Monday
at 2 pm. in the FAIRIES Funeral
Chapel, with interment in Odd
Fellows Cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
No Need For Alarm

Several people have been con-
cerned about the fire burning on
the waste gas burner at the sew
age disposal plant, according to
Town Manager Rex D. Gilmore,
who points out that this is a
normal procedure in the opera
ton of the plant. The waste gas
es from the sludge digestion are
burned to consume the gas and
dispel gas odors, it is explained,
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
Death of Walter w. Maberry

Walter w. Maberry, 73, died
Oct. 8. For many years he was
a farmer in the Pearson's Corner
section, near Dover. He is surviv-
ed by daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth
M. Locker, Pennsville, N. j.; a
brother, Alex Maberry, Little
Creek; and a sister, Mrs. Howard
Reed, Middletown, and a grand
daughter. Services were held in
the FAIRIES Funeral Chapel Tues
day at 1 pm. The Rev. Walter
L. Beckwith, pastor of Asbury
Methodist Church, oficiated, and
interment was in Gracelawn Mem
orial Park, near Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
NAMED TO STATE POST
James L. Cubbage Named Patri-
otic Instructor of State VFW

David S. Hugg, commander,
Department of Delaware, veter-
ans of Foreign Wars, has ap-
pointed James L. Cubbage, of
Clayton, Patriotic Instructor for
the Department of Delaware
VFW. The Newnam-Lee-Urban
Post 1901, VFW, will hold a Hal
lowe'en dance on Oct. 26, with
prizes awarded for the best cos
tunes. The shotgun shooting
match will be held on Sunday.
Oct. IA at 2 pm. in the sand pit
in back of the Clayton Ice Plant.
Hams will be awarded to the
winner of each match.
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
Extension Glasses Cancelled

Gordon c. Godbey, director Of
the extension program of the I'm
iversity of Delaware, announced
this week that all extension
classes during the day and even
ing of Election Day, Nov. 6, will
be cancelled. These courses will
be made up at time mutually
agreed upon by the instructor and
class.
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
Gifts for Residents of stoclIey

The members of the Women's
Auxiliary of st. Peters Church
have provided forty-six gifts for
residents of the Hospital for the
Mentally Retarded at Stockley
whose birthdays occur during the
month of October. The women
will also sponsor a birthday party
at the hospital on the tentative
date of october IL. The project
was in charge of Mrs. Richard
w. Comegys.
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
HOLD SCHOOL
REFERENDUM
Citizens of District To Vote
On Questions on Saturday,
October 13 at Schools
ENROLMENT INCREASE

Pointing to a constantly in
creasing pupil population, the
Smyrna School Board with its
advisors presented the need of
additional building space and loc-
al funds to the community at
special meeting in the high school
library last week. Citizens of the
school district may vote on these
questions at the referendum this
Saturday, October 13 from 2 to
9 pm, Daylight Saving Time, at
any of the schools in the district.
Increases in enrolment have now
entitled the Smyrna School Dis
trict to 81 teachers, but officials
find it impossible to hire this
number since all classrooms are
presently in use. Fifty-two full
time teachers are presently en-
ployed in the district, an increase
of five over last years staff, and
every room in the elementary and
high school building is now in
use. The cafeteria is being used
this year for study halls which
overfowed the library. A room
formerly used as storeroom is
now in use as a classroom al
though it has no blackboard.
Further increases in enrolment
will necessitate the use of the
auditorium, where light is quite
inadequate, or the attendance of
students in double sessions. Mr..
C. L. Harmonson, legal advisor
to the board and resident of the
Smyrna Special School District,
pointed to the fact that the
Smyrna School District has one
of the lowest Indebtedness rates
in the state. The Smyrna Special
School District is allowed to bor-
row up to $88O,000 and even if
the proposed referendum is pass
ed the local debt will be only
1886, 900. Present taxes in the
Smyrna District stand at 21 cents
per $100 of assessed evaluation
and $500 capitation. Most spec
ial districts have tax rates of at
least 40 cents per $100 of assess
ed evaluation; in fact, Smyrna's
tax rate is the lowest of any
special school district in the
state. Mrs. Margaret M. O'Neill,
president of the board, introduc-
ed all members of the panel
which included Mr.. Harmonson,
attorney; Edward w. Hagemey-
er of Wilmington, vice president
of the Farmers Bank of the State
of Delaware; Henry T. Price,
Francis B. Gebhart, w. Howard
Nowland, board members; and
George v. Kirk, superintendent.
The entire panel laid emphasis
on the fact that the proposed
building program is an absolute
must" if Smyrna is to maintain
good school program. The cleo
, ton is open to all residents of
the district who are eligible to
vote in general election. A per-
son does not have to be register
ed to vote at a school election.
Each person is entitled to one
vote. Present plans call for con-
struction involving the expendi-
ture of $4,000 of which the
state will provide $144, 1000 and
the local district $4,000. If the
present referendum were to fail,
the local board could take no
further action for two years until
the next legislature passed legis-
lation regarding the next state
wide school building program.
The $24O,OO0 is expected to build
to elementary classrooms and
allow necessary alterations to the
present elementary school cafe
torium.
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
Firemen To Attend Church

Members of the Citizens Hose
Company and the Auxiliary win
attend the service at the First
Presbyterian Church on Sunday
at IL am. at the invitation of
the pastor, the Rev. o. c. Jones.
They win meet at the fire house
at 1890 am. and go to the
church as a group.
Smyrna times., 1956-10-11
LEGION AUXILIARY MEETS
Mrs. Grant Garis Reviews Trip
To National Convention

Mrs. Grant Garis Reviews Trip
To National Convention
The Auxiliary to the David C.
Harrison Post No. IA, American
Legion, met at the home of Mrs.
George Scout on Oct. 2. Mrs.
Grant G. Garis gave a review of
her trip to the national conven-
ton in Los Angeles. Mrs. Joseph
Behrens, chairman junior activi-
ties, met with the group which
plans to study children of foreign
countries. The auxiliary will hold
a rummage sale Oct. 1920. Five
new members have been received
into the auxiliary: Mrs. Paul B.
Grier, Mrs. George Pappas, Mrs.
Henry Bush, Mrs. Ollie Loose,
and Mrs. John McQuail.
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tonight has become q gigantic
courtroom.
The 167 million people Of
America constitute the vast au-
Idience, and the voters form the
jury.
The defendant is the Repub-
Ilican Party of America: Speci-
.fically, the administration of
Dwight David Eisenhower and
Richard Milhous Nixon, aided
and abetted as accessories be-
fore and after the fact by the
first millionaire cabinet in his
tory.
In this great symbolic court
room. and before the greatest
bar of justice ever assembled, we
now present a l0-count indict-
ment against the Republican
Party and its leadership!
On the basis of the evidence
presented and proof offered, you
will render your verdict in No
vember.
Let the counts of the indict-
ment now be read in the name
of the people:
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Count No. TO-
Summation

Count No. 10 is the genera
charge and summation on which
your verdict is sought to give
away the God-given resources Of
America
To forget the farmer, while
catering to the corporate
interests
To liquidate the gains OF
labor
To sacrifice the small bust
neSSman while substituting his
corporate competitor
To delegate the duties of the
Presidency
To tighten the tax load on the
few, while the living costs of
the many continue to mount
To prevent power from being
the property of the people
To follow a fantastic, frantic
and fatal foreign policy
To callously, circuituously and
CONTEMPORARY counterfeit and
'nullify acts and intent of
Congress
And otherwise to breach the
faith, the trust, and the con-
fldence of the American people
We call upon the people Of
America, welded as you are tt
the cause of social progress
dedicated to the cause of democ-
racy-and consecrated to the
cause of honesty. decency and
moralityin government-to rise
ups as one man and smite dowr
these y-changers who have
invaded and violated the peoples
temple of justice on, Capitol Hill
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Ishow scramble for power and
privilege?
I'VE can oIreody hear the od-
vonee rumbIins Of a greet
response :.
How long, o. how long? +:
From the great receSseS Of
American homes. farms. BUSH
nesses and Offices. we can already
hear the advance rumbling Of q
great response - its reverbera-
lions extending from the of year
Democratic victories in 1954-the
forecast of restoration Of the
people of this country to power
the election of a Democratic
President-and the election Of an
overwhelming Democratic House
and Senate to support him!
We are met tonight to chart
the pathway of our party and
our Nation in the future, with
the attic ndance of stalwart
Democrats representing every
State and territory that comprise
these United States. But there
hovers over this vast gathering
the memory of galaxy Of great
Democrats who have gone on be-
yond the hills last horizon-lead-
ers whose spirit the Republicans
fear as much today as they feared
their force Of personality when
alive.
The spirit Of the patron saint
Of our party, the sage Of Monti.
cello, is here tonight to remind
us that
"All men are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights and that among them are
life. liberty and the pursuit Of
happiness"
The spirit Of the eternally-
towering Andrew Jackson Is
here to admonish:
May He who holds in His
hands the destinies of nations
make you worthy Of the favors
He has bestowed, and enable you
with pure hearts and pure hands
and sleepless vigilance to guard
and defend to the end of time
the great charge He has COM
mitted to your keeping"
The spirit of Grover Cleveland
hovers about us to remind US
that "a public Office is a public
trust"
The spirit of the man from
See TEXT, Page AT
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Civil Rights

Democrats have never run
from a flght-nor from an
issue.
The issue of civil rights is
one among several of major con-
sequence that will be presented
in this convention and during
this coming campaign.
Any competent observer Of the
American social. racial, political
and economic scene knows that
civil rights, segregation and re-
lated issues will be to the fore
front in 1856.
Our platform and resolutions
committee has been charged
with bringing into this conven-
ton our stand on these issues
but there are three things in ad-
vance of this report that / want
to say:
First-Let those of you who
represent the minority groups
look to your memory and your
conscience to decide under what
national leadership-Democra
or Republican-you received the
greatest total benefits. includ-
ing the food your children craved
the Injuries their hearts desired
and the rights their dignity de-
manded.
Second-Let the South re-
member that whatever rights
have been in question. old man
history has proved conclusively
that the COP has never given
the South anything but a hard
way to go.
And third-The country needs
our party-and we need each
other--to win. There will be nc
unsolvable difference on this OF
any other subject at this 1856
harmonious. enlightened. practi-
cal progressive and victory
certain Democratic National
Convention!
We are Democrats and as
patriotic and loyal members OF
this great party. we must re-
spectfully resolve our problems
within the framework Of our
great party of the people.
AS we take the issues to the
people. there will be some Re-
publican orators who fear the
continuing spirit of Hyde Park
There will be some Republican
politicians who will wish that
the spirit of independence did
not include Independence, Mis-
souri,.
But thank God we still have
the spirit Of Franklin d. Roose-
velt-and we still have the
counsel OF Harry S. Truman.
Imagine either Of them--or old
Andy Jackson-sitting silent in
the midst Of Dixon Yates
scheme.
~. A ruthless inside group
/ seizino more power -"
Imagine any Of those great
Americans twiddling thumb:
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among the nations Of the world,
reversals Of decisions. and a gen.
eral drifting and lack of vision
that must be attributed in con-
siderable measure to the Presi-
dents appointee, the Secretary
of State himself, John Foster
Dulles. unquestionably the great
est unguided missile in the his
tory of American diplomacy.
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party before major decisions
we're made?
How long. o, America. will you
place trust in a party whose Vice
President said without challenge
from his own group and without
bipartisan consultation with the
Democrats-who also have sons
who have to fight these wars
I'VE must take the risk of put
ting American boys in the fight
ing in Indo-C China if there is no
other way?"
How long. o. how long?
How long. o, America, shall
we continue to condone the con-
duct of an administration that
cuts back the strength and size
of our military establishment in
order to give the appearance of
a balanced budget in the heat
of a campaign year-a cutback
so severe that an Army Chief
of Staff testified before a COM
mittee Of the United States
Senate that he felt he had been
called on to destroy rather than
build up a military establish
ment.
How long. o, how long will
the parents of America continue
in power a group whose Secre-
tary Of Defense within the past
week described the continent
shaking. headline-making Suez
Canal incident as "a small
thing" in the face even of con-
slant presidential conferences
over it? Is it the view of our
defense chief that the President
of the United States is devoting
his valuable time to small
things? Is it the defense chiefs
view that even he knows more
about such than his own asso-
Iciate. Secretary Of State Dulles?
Is it the view of the defense
chief that an incident which
could conceivably take lives of
American boys and lead us into
the final world war is a small
thing?
And how long is the Republic
can Party. which placed Dwight
D. Eisenhower on a history
weary treadmill of acquiescence,
going to keep him lashed thereto,
and straining thereon. while
rouStabouts of the deteriorating
administration engage in a side
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Count No. 7-NuturuI
Resources

Count No. Z charges that the
natural resources and public IA
cilities Of this country have been
made the subject of bargain
counter giveaways and adroit
maneuverings to the long-range
detriment of the happiness,
safety and welfare Of our people.
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Count No. 5-Secrecy
In Government

Count No. 5 charges that a
veil of secrecy has been thrown
around activities and affairs of
the administration now in WASH
ington to such an extent that
the legitimate inquiries of a
free people, a free press and a
free communications system are
denied without just cause or
proyocation
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Count No. 3-SmuII
Businessman

Count No. 3 charges that the
present national administration
has denied small business a
rightful share of the expanding
opportunities in America, in
favor of monopolistic mergers
and big business domination of
the economic scene.
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Count No. 2-The
Luborer

Count No. 2 charges that the
Republican Party has wilfully
and wantonly held the laboring
man of America in such Sus-
tanned contempt and has re-
Igarded him with such antago-
niSm that the vast gains of labor
over many tempestuous years
are now gravely endangered,
while the barons Of big business
in the national administration
look upon the laboring man as
IA sort of secondary citizen pos
sesSing no privileges and rights.
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Count No. 6-SpiIIwoy
OF Executive Power

Count No. 6 deals with the
most tragic giveaway and spill
way of them all-the action of
Gen. Eisenhower in announcing
delegation of the powers of his
Office into the hands of associ-
ates in violation of the spirit of
the Constitution of the United
States,
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The Verdict

We call upon the vast jury
of American voters to consider
your verdict and when you make
your report in November. I know
you will say:
1--WE, the jury, find the de-
PENDANTS guilty as charged. and
fix their punishment at banish-
ment from the American politi-
cal scene, exile from the seat of
our Government, and conSign-
ment to political oblivion for the
next four wears"
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Count No. 1.-THE
Former

Count No. in this 1O-part
indictment charges that the Re-
publican Party is guilty of ag-
gravated assault and battery
upon the political and economic
bodies of the forgotten farm folk
of America.
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Count No. A.
Corruption

Count No. 4 charges that the
Republican Party is guilty of
corruption in high places in
volving an unprecedented spree
of giveaways, grab and greed.
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The Indictment

BY its own conduct and on
its own record, the Republican
Party stands indicted by the
people Of America. and must un-
derso trial on the basis Of It's
record IN Office.
The United States Of America
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Count No. Giving
Costs

Count No. 8 charges that dur
ing the past three-and-a-half
years under Republican admin
istration, the take-home pay and
the keep-home income of the
average American family have
decreased in the face of rising
costs to the extent that making
ends meet is now main prob
lem for millions Of Americans,
and that Republican promises of
tax reduction were deliberately
altered to favor the corporate
interests.
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Count No. o-Foreiqn
Policy

Count No. 9 charges that the
Republicans have wilfully per-
mitted our foreign policy to be
streaked with INDIGESTION and
blurs. brink Of war disclosures.
q loss Of American prestige
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THE former doesn't belong
in the GiIded Old Porty -"

You cannot serve the people
when you are unable to break
through the barricades of fav-
oritism thrown up by an exper-
fenced general staff in behalf
of a chosen few.
The farmer simply doesn't be-
long in the @. o. P.-the Gilded
Old Party.
Let the statistical abstract Of
the United States tell the reason
why
Under a Democratic admins
stration in 1852. national farm
income cash receipts were 1927
billion. Under the Republicans
in 1855 ii had dropped to S29.2
billion.
Under Democratic administra-
ton in 1852. gross farm income
was 1868 billion. Under the Re-
publicans in 1855 1t had dropped
to 1929 billion.
Total net income Of farmers
in 1852 was Sl4.9 billion. BY
1855 under the Republicans II
had dropped to s1l billion.
The total farm mortgage debt
In 1852 under the Democratic
administration was SIS billion,
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Gov, Clements Keynote
Speech to Democrats

CHICAGO, Aug IA lPl-FollotUino is the tert of the
Democratic National Convention keynote speech By Co..
Frank Clement of Tennessee:
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Frank Clement OF Tennessee:
My friends mention without awe the name
leans: of the incumbent President of
we have assembled this the United States who holds
historic occasion in the 164h Office that springs from and be-
year Of glorious people
ence for the purpose Of en- of the Republican Party
gagng in deliberations setting Think then there
ALn okirnlL I'LL
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HOME OF THE WEEK
This Models Attic
Can Be Finished

living room, has matching steel
cabinets and sink. The dining
AREA in the kitchen is set off by
the picture window overlooking
the backyard.
From the kitchen we enter a
utility room. The door to the
back terrace and door to the
garage are both in this room.
The two bedrooms on the first
floor of the Arizona both have
cross ventilation. The master
bedroom has high windows on
one wall which permits easier
use Of space for furniture place.
Iment. The bathroom is COM
Ipletely tiled.
The furnace room is directly
under the stairs and is reached
from the kitchen. This houses
the radiant hot water heating
unit with copper tubing set in
the slab foundation.
The walls and ceiling of the
Arizona are insulated with rock
wool. The interior dry walls take
either paint or paper. Flooring
throughout is asphalt tile.
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By LARRY EIsINGER

This weeks Home of the Week,
the Arizona, is a two-bedroom
house with an attic that may be
finished into third bedroom.
There is no basement in the
house, but a good sized storage
room is provided at the rear of
the garage.
A f1oor-to-ceiling window to
the right of the homes front
door gives the living room max
imum of light, At the rear of
this room is an open stairway
that leads to the attic and the
door to the sundeck above the
garage.
The kitchen. in back of the
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CHEVY CHASE, MD.
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