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Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16

days at least before a proposed
sale.
In the House, Mr.. Quigley and
Rep. Charles p West (D-GumborO)
answered present on the roll call
and Rep H. Clifford Clark ID
Kenton) voted no. This made the
tally 80 yeas, one nay, and two
present.
Before the measure was called
up in the House by Rep. Paul E.
Shockley (D-Wilmington) Mr.. Quig-
ley had announced 81 was instruct
ed by the majority opinion of the
Democratic caucus to disclose that
the majority is prepared to act on
one bill only-the bond bill".
Rep. James H. Snowden (R-Wil-
mington), the minority leader, ask
ed if Mr.. QuigleY was making q
motion. He said he thought it would
be correct if a motion was made
continued on page f1ve)
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Second Annual Game For
Benefit Of Retarded
children Win Be Play
ed AT University Sta
dium.

Interest and enthusiasm is at q
fever pitch in the two encamDments
of the All-Star gridders who are
preparing for the second annual
Delaware All-Star football game
that will be played at the Univer-
sity of Delaware Stadium on Sat-
urday afternoon, August gath, for
the benefit of the Delaware Foun-
dation for Retarded Children, Inc.
Tie coaching stats of both teams
az highly enthused as to the out
look and both are predicting a win
ner in the second annual classic.
Gold team-the down-state arr
ray--fs tNaining at St Andrews
team upstate eleven-at Sanford
Prep. near Wilmington. Bill Horn
ey, popular Smyrna High coach
who has compiled an impressive
14-1 record during the past two
years since he took over the Eagle
coaching reins, heads the coaching
staff 0f the Colds. He is being
assisted by Ed Schwarz, former
Maryland lineman aad current Do
YER High mentor, and Don Miller,
former Little All American at Dell
aware and coach of the 1856 un-
beaten Newark Yellowjacket team.
Dim Montero Salesianum coach
'Slla coached at Washington Col
lege, is coaching the Blues" with
Jesse Malin. Con1sd High mentor,
and Jimmy Hagan of the Sallies'
staff as his aides.
First few days have been spent
conditioning the gridders but
hey began contact work yesterday
md it will be steady grind from
here on out to the eve of the game.
The coaches have expressed much
satisfaction with the fine condition
Of the players at the time of re-
porting to the camps and it has
/ taken little work to get them ready
for the heavy contact work.
Both squads-twenty-s men
strong-are well fianked by the top
scholastic stars that graduated last
June, many Of which were on the
All-State selections. There were
two late changes in the rosters.
Jack Connor, Seaford speedster
(continued on page elevenl
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Convention Units
Have Been Named
Sports Federation To Open
Annual Session CT
Sept. 29th

Appointment of six committees
of the Delaware Federation OF
Sportsmen and Conservation Clubs
20 assist in preparations for the
tenth annual convention of the fed
GRAFTON at the Star of the Sea Ho-
tel, Rehoboth Beach, September 29
and 80, was announced this week
by John A. Tunstall, secretary.
James G. Donovan, Dover, fed
Grafton president, appointed the
committees. They are:
Nominating: E.. Robert Gardin-
er, Brandywine Hundred Rod and
Gun Club; Milton Slick, West End
Rod and Gun Club, and John G.
Armstrong, Delmarva Sportsmen's s
Association.
Credentials and reception: Ray
G. Mcdowell, Delaware Canoe
Club; Carroll w. West, RehobOth
Beach Sportsman Club; William
Baxter, Jr., Ducks Unlimited.
Resolutions: Chester Brantley
Outdoor Sportsmen's Club of Rich
ardson Park, federation vice presi-
dent; Mr.. Mcdowell, asld Leigh
Monhollend, West End Rod and
Gun Club.
Awards, programs, and enter
tainment: Anthony ]. Ferrara, Du.
Pont Fish and Game Association
Frank Friedel, BridgeviIle Anglers
Club, and John c. Poore, Eastern
Beagle Club, Newark.
Speakers: ]. Gordon Armstrong
Bay View, and Arthur Chandless
Brandywine Hundred Rod and Gun
Auditing: Otho Onley, Brandy.
wine Hundred Rod and Gun; Irving
II. Carton, Delmarva Sportsmen's
Association, and Thomas F. Bay
ard. West End Rod and Gun.
CONTINUED on page threel
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Here's How New
Asiatic Flu Feels
Symptoms Same AS "0ld' Type;
Fatalities Less Likely


If you come down with Asiatic
flu this fall, you'll feel just like you
do when you catch the ordinary
kind of flu.
The first warning probably will
be a slight chill. Then your tenn
perature will shoot up to 102 or
perhaps as high as 104. You'll have
a sore throat, cough and headache;
your muscles and joints will ache
all over.
You'll feel miserable for four or
five days until the fever subsidies;
weak and rundown for several
days after that.
Like the usual fiue, it is rarely
fatal. There have been only three
deaths in 10000 cases in this coun-
try so far.
If an epidemic of Asiatic flu is
sweeping through your community
when you get the symptoms, you
can be reasonably sure that's what
you've got. You needn't look for
CONTINUED on page f1vel
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Costs Given
On Surfacing
Dirt Roads
In Delaware
Engineer Richard A. Ha-
Eer Says Extra $1O,OOO,.
900 To Be Needed For
Completion OF State
wide Program.

The 10-year program voted by
the 1866 General Assembly to hard
surface all 1,623.86 miles of dirt
roads in the state will cost about
100000.
Richard A. Haber, chief engineer
of the Highway Department, made
public d number of facts about the
program including the information
that it costs more per mile to inn
prove a dirt road in New Castle
County than it does in the other
counties.
During the current fiscal year,
which started July l, the Highway
Department will seek to improve
55.13 miles of roads to meet the
mileage required under the 1856
law.
When the law was approved il
was estimated there were 1885
miles of such roads in New Castle
County, 523.3 in Kent, and 951.s
in Sussex. The mileage to be i'm
proved each year totalled 1928
During the three years-includ-
ing the present year-that the pro-
gram will have been in effect, the
total of 487.14 miles will have been
rebuilt.
Innovations introduced by Mr.
Haber have c.;t the costs, but il
still costs S18,2OO per mile in New
Castle County, s14,4OO per mile in
Kent, and $4,000 per mile in Sus-
sex.
BY the close of the last fiscai
year the sum of $2,O63, ,SO3.42 had
been paid for dirt road work. Con
tract obligations outstanding or
June 80 amounted to $2,881, ,144.56
Contracts awarded in this fiscal
years have totalled $1,389, ,72O. so
With an allowance of S154,44O il
federal aid, the amount obligated
at the moment is Sails, ,407 .16
This total, with the funds already
paid for completed work, plus
$3O9,O1O53 for right-of-way and
engineering expenses, bring the
total cost, to date, to $6,489, ,22I11
Mr.. Haber said the 1859 General
Assembly will be asked for $10.-
100000 more in bond issues to fin
'sh the job.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
$15I,50O Is Asked
In Dover Srnash-up
Kent County Motor Co.. j. Gordon
Smith Are The Plaintiffs

A s151, 500 damage suit has been
filed in Superior Court, Dover, by
the Kent County Motor Company
and j.. Gordon Smith, head of the
firm, as an aftermath of 3 truck
automobile accident at the inter
section of U. S. Route 13 and South
State Street, extended, Dover, last
January Is.
The defendants are Miller Motor
Express, Inc, Charlotte, N. c., and
William Burleigh Tapman, Hall
wood, Virginia.
Mr.. Smith, who is chairman OF
the State Highway Commission
asks s15O,000 damages and the
Kent County Motor Company, own
er of the car operated by Mr.. Smith
at the. time of the accident, $500
Mr.. Smith seeks damages for in
juries received in the accident, the
expenses involved in medical treat
ment, and for loss Of time from his
business duties.
icontinued on page six)
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Mother Who Left
Riddles Is Jailed
Sussex Woman Draws 6
Month For Negligent
Act

saa-s. Helen F. Baker, %, joined
her husband in prison on a six
month sentence handed down by
Juvenile Court Judge w. Marion
Stevenson last Thursday for aban-
doning her five children in an act
the Judge called below humanity"
Her husband, John, is serving
term for violation of probation soii-
lowing a larcency conviction.
Mrs. Baker was convicted last
week of abandoning her children,
the youngest months old, in the
woods near the home of her mo-
ther-in-law, Mrs. Lena Baker, in
the Greenwood-Ellendale area, on
July 27.
Judge Stevenson said, Even a
cat will carry its kittens from place
to place and stand by them
The parents are in the George
town Jail. Mrs. Baker will probably
spend her six months in the New
Castle County Correctional Insti-
tuition, while her husband will be
sent to the Sussex Correctional In
stitution.
The parents are in separate Sec
tions of the Sussex Correctional
Institution. The children have been
farmed out to several foster par
ents by the State Department of
Public Welfare.
Mrs. Baker had pleaded not guilty
last week. Among witnesses was
her 7-year-old son.
A pathetic picture was painted
by the grandmother who described
the five children emerging from
the woods near her home, dirty and
Continued on page six)
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Former Civil Defense Di-
rector Appointed Asst
Adjutant General By
Maj. General Scannelh

The appointment of Col. d. Pres
on Lee as Assistant Adjutant Gen.
sral of the Delaware National
Guard effective today, has been an
nounced by Major General Joseph
y. Scannell, Adjutant General OF
he State of Delaware.
Colonel Lee, whose resignation
as State Director of Civil Defense
vas effective today, has been active
n the Military service for nearly
30 years. He has served in the CIV
il Defense cost for seven years.
He began his military career as
Cadet in the Citizens Military
Training Corps in 1929, completing
the four year course of instruction,
IN 1888, he enlisted as private in
the Delaware National Guard and
one year later, while Sophomore
at the University of Delaware, he
was commissioned a Second Lieu
tenant.
He was inducted into active Fed
eral service in January 1941, and
served through World War II. Dur
ing this period, he commanded an
isolated artillery outpost in Green
land. His last active duty assign
ment terminated in May 1850, while
he was serving as assistant G-3 OF
the First Army. While serving in
this capacity, he assisted the States
within the First Army Area to or
ganize Civil Defense.
He was appointed to the tor
State Civil Defense post on June
| 1, 1850.
Colonel Lee is a graduate of the
University of Delaware, the Coast
Artillery School, the Field Artil-
lery School, and three Civil Defense
Staff College courses. He was al
Continued on page nine)
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Architects Are
Selected TO
Develope The
Wesley Campus
Larson And Larson, Of
Winston-Salem, N. c.
Have Contracted For
The Development OF
The Dover College.

The firm of Larson and Larson,
of Winston Salem, North Carolina,
Internationally known college arc
hitects, have contracted for the de-
yelopment of the Wesley College
campus in Dover, the Reverend
Howell o. Wilkins, president of the
board of trustees of the college, an
nounced this week.
Retention of the firm, specialist
in campus planning, came as the
result OF a meeting last month of
a special committee of the Uniyer-
sity Senate of the Methodist Church
invited by the trustees of the col
iege to assist with the planning and
development of the institution.
Among the more than 25 insti-
tutions of higher learning waich
Larson and Larson have served
over the years, that to receive the
greatest public notice recently is
the new Wake Forest campus, re-
located by the firm from Wake
Forest, N. c., to Winston-Salem
last year. Other campus develop
ment programs which they have
undertaken still in progress are:
Bucknell University, Coe College,
Colby College, the Institute for Ad-
vanced Study, Lehigh University.
PfeifEer College, Saint Dunstan's
University, and Upsala College.
Reverend wilkins, commenting
on the action today said that the
trustees of the college were in
unanimous accord with the move.
This is a red-letter day in the
history of this institution. It means
chat in the physical development
Of the Wesley College campus, to-
ward which so many people on the
Delmarva peninsula have been
working so long, we are going to
have what we believe to be the
finest minds in college planning
working with us. 1t is very excit-
ing, and we are all deeply gratified
that Larson and Larson have
agreed to help as.
scontinued on page ten)
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Ferguson To Become
State Police Head
VIM Succeed Shew On The Latter's
Retirement Next May

John P. Ferguson, AZ years old,
of Swanywick Gardens, south of
Wilmington, was selected Wednes-
day of this week by the State High
way Commission to succeed Col.
Harry S. Shew as superintendent
of the State Police when he retires
next May.
"a a semi-sGTprise move, the
Highway Commission-with two
members registered as not voting
promoted Ferguson from the rank
of staff captain to lieutenant col
onel.
He was designated also as as
sistant to Colonel Shew but no
mention was made of any increase
in salary for the time being.
The two highway commissioners
who asked that they be recorded
in the minutes as not voting were
Hugh r. Sharp, Jr., and DR.. ].
Draper Brown, both of near Will
mington.
The other 10 commissioners vo-
ted in favor of the promotion and
selection of Colonel Ferguson as
the successor to Colonel Shew next
Continued on page eight
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New Pupils
Registration
Day Set For
Tuesday Next
May Also Enroll The Fol-
lowing Day Wednesday,
August 21, Between The
Hours OF 9-12 And
1-3.

All pupils who plan to attend the
Milford Schools for the first time
are urged to enroll on Tuesday,
August 20, or Wednesday, August
21, between the hours of 9:O0-l2:OO
a. m. and 1:0O-3:O0 p. m. Those pu-
pills enrolling at the Lakeview Ave-
nue. Elementary School are to re-
port to that Office where Mr.. James
r. Kerr, Elementary Principal,
will be glad TO receive them. Mr..
James Atkinson will be at the Lake.
view Avenue High School office to
aid new students who should at
tend classes in grades seven
through twelve.
Those pupils who should enroll
at the Benjamin Banneker School
are to report to the office of Mr..
Charles N. Goslee, Principal, for
information and instructions. The
BENJAMIN Banneker School is To-
Gated at North and Church Streets
where this summer two new and
modern classroOms for grades one
and two have been accepted and
put in readiness for September
GAu5btS ny LHC MiAlOAu oCAAOOi
Building Commission.
Since classroom space is at such
a premium, all parents of new stu
dents are asked to not delay enroll
ing their children beyond August
20 and 21. If possible each new
student should bring with him his
report card from the school which
he last attended
On Tuesday night, August 13,
1857 at 1880 p. m, bids for additions
to the Lakeview Avenue School
buildings consisting of instrumen-
tai and vocal music rooms, general
shop, home making area of three
classrooms, and cafeteria addition
were opened with amounts as fol-
lows:
Organizations Clute Brothers,
Wyoming, Del.-Base bid, $285, 900;
alternates - $10S, ,574.00; total II
$393, ,574.00 James 2. Wood, Dover.
Del.-$284. 900; S107 10000; $780,
10000; ]. Roland Dashiell e Sons,
Salisbury. Md $2S2,250; $780,
$50; 1888 $50.
All bids we're referred to Mr.
Moeckel of Whiteside Associates
and Mr.. A. j. Taylor of the Del
aware School Auxiliary Associa-
tion for checking and further re-
concentrations.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
Bond Sale Funds
Needed By Schools
MiIferd Is Among is That win
Need Cash

Eighteen school districts will
share the money to be received
from the states sale of bonds later
this month, a survey discloses.
The state will sell s21 900, 600 of
bends, of which S9,000,000 is for
school construction and carries an
interest limit of three per cent.
School districts that are count
ing on shares of the states s9,000,-
600 school bond issue, and the dates
when they are expected to run out
of funds now on hand, are:
Alfred I duPont-seeking ST.
100000 10 carry it through April on
construction Of the Faulk Road
high school and completion of the
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Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
Delaware AU-Star
High School Grid
Game, august 24th
81 TEACHERS NEEDED
IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

A total of 81 teachers are
needed in the secondary
schools throughout the state
at the present time, accord
ing to DR.. Howard E. Row.
Assistant State Superinten-
dent of Public instruction in
charge of high schools.
DIR. Row explained that
these totals are subject to
change each day as some of
the schools procure teachers
to fill the vacancies on their
instruction staff.
There will be no delay in
school activities for the
opening of the school due to
any of these vacancies, DR..
Row explained, and added
that arrangements would be
made within the staff at any
school to cover a vacancy.
According to information
received by DR.. Row, the
schools are facing some real
difficulty in filling vacancies
for industrial arts, agricul-
ture and art.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16

The authoritative estimates on
the damage to the crops were made
by Creighton N. Guellow in the
August report of the Maryland
Delaware Crop Reporting Service
of the University of Maryland.
Guellow said the worst drought
in this area since 1880 has reduced
Maryland corn production to a
little more than half of last years
bumper crop. Production is now
placed at is million bushels. COM
pared to % million bushels last
year.
The Delaware corn crop win be
about 3 and one half million bush
els, only one-third Of last years
output
w. H. Schabinger, New Castle
Continued on page elevenl
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Kent 4-H'ers To
Attend Camp Barnes

A total of 6s county Alters will
attend All camp at Camp Barnes
during the weeks Of August 19 to
"a. and August 26 to 81, Marion
Macdonald, county All Club Ag-
ent, reported today.
The theme of this years camp
program will be rs This You p
The Agent said the purpose Of the
program is to give campers a look
INSIDE, themselves to find oppor-
tunities for self-betterment. The
camp also will allow l-H'ers to
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early spring grazing, seeding of
permanent pasture mixtures, seed
ing of alfalfa and other perennial
hay crops, harvesting of drought
damaged corn into silage-even in
temporary plastic silos, recon-
nAendations for weed control such
as chickweed, wiregrass, Johnson
grass, and crabgrass. Scheduled
visits are made to cooperating
farms in order to tailor crop prac-
tices to individual farm needs.
Farmers and others interested in
the program are invited to go along
on the tour, since a good cross Sec
ton OF farm practices may be seen.
The complete schedule is given be-
low. but may be varied slightly if
other calls are added:
(continued on page twelve)
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
Cannon Employees
Back From Training

Three employees of H. P. Cam
non & Son, Inc, have returned
from leaves of absence granted
them for military training pur-
poses.
Army Reservist Edwin ]. Kelly,
a member of Cannon's sales de-
partment, attended a two-weeks'
summer training period at Fort
Knox. KY. Major Kelly is execu-
tive officer Of the 317th Tank Bat
TALON, which has its headquarters
at Seaford.
CONTINUED on page s1xl
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
Census Bureau Seeks
Polio Information

Special questions will be asked
in the August Current Population
Survey to find out how many per-
sons have received polio immuniza-
ton shots and how many expect
to receive them, according to Super
visor John G. Gibson of the Census
Bureaus regional office in Phila-
delphia which will participate in
the survey.
This information is being col
lected by the Census Bureau for
the u S. Public Health Service to
CONTINUED on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16

Neck, n. j.; Cedar Lane Farm, Old-
wick, N. J.; Piney Hill Farm,
Washington, N. J.; and Reidina
Farm, Newtown, Pa. The state
dairymen also heard about the
farms production testing, classi-
fication and advertising programs,
pasture and forage cropping sys-
TENS, harvesting methods and feed
production programs, feeding and
management programs and details
of milk sales.
One highIight at Marlu Farm was
a discussion of Marlu Milady, new
national milk champion, with "a
e19 pounds of milk and 1,i97
pounds of butterfat. The champion
Jersey COW was MIXED three times
a day, for 365 days, ending last
CONTINUED on page twelvel
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
Sweetheart Bakers
Sponsor New Contract
Salisbury Mayor ROllie Hastings
Presented Prizes To Winners

On Thursday afternoon, August
s, Mayor Rollie Hastings of Sails
bury awarded the prizes to the
winners in the Sweetheart Bakers
coloring and essay contest. In max
ing the presentations, Mayor Hast
ings welcomed the winners and
commended them on the very fine
work they had done on their win
ming entries.
The first prize winners, Vivian
Master, Camden, Del, and Milton
Moore, Quantico, Maryland, each
received a bicycle. Second prizes
were won by Charlotte Colbourne,
Pittsville, Maryland, and James
Edward Andrews, Jr., Delmar, Del
aware. These were automatic rec
CONTINUED on page SIKH
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
Asst. Ag Secretary
To Speak In State
Soil Conservation Members For
Eastern Area To Hear Peterson


Erwin L. Peterson, assistant sec
retary, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, will be the keynote speak
er August 19 at a two-day Will
mington, Del, meeting Of the north
east area members of the National
Association of Soil Conservation
District Supervisors.
Peterson will be asked to make
a policy statement on new farm
programs, according to Delaware
association secretary George K.
Vapaa. The department secretary
will give his address that evening
at a banquet in the Hotel Rodney.
Dean George NJ. Worrilow, School
of Agriculture, University of Del
Continued on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
Smallest Corn Crop In Years
Is The Present Prediction

Deawares will be the smallest Il est
Putting University states
alone the drought drought shows
of
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
DeIasUdre DGirynaen Tour
Farmers m Nearby States

Sussex County daymen last Friday
Association
outstanding registered herds Of four dairy breeds
heer raising
studied Farm N Homny Farm,
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-16
Kent County Farmers wiz
Receive Visits During Aug.

will be visited during three days
according to
by George the agricultural agent
added drought conditions that
hnd most livestock producers short and
seedlings late fall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-10
= TH0S. J. OWEN 4 SON. AnetiOneeTSIt,
iii Z st. NV.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE

T TEsTE sI SAFE OF ,yyA LyAsLE
BUILDING BEING KNOWN AS
PREMISES NUMBER 1855 CO.
LUMBIA ROAD. NORTHWEST.
BY virtue OF a certain deed Of trust
a T0io q Sol ,h ct &c., Of the Land rec
and at the request Of the party
secured thereby, the undersigned
trustees will sell, at public auction
IN front Of the premises. on WE'D
NESDAY THE SIXTEENTH DAY
Ok TE, sANuA ny, Ar Az; ls55' At ONE
lowing described land and premises,
situate in the District of Columbia.
and designated as and being Lot
70 in Rabbits subdivision of lots
in Block. "a Columbia Heights"
as per plat recorded in the ONCE
Of the Surveyor for the District OF
GfS,il1mbia in Liber County 0 at
poses Of taxation as Lot 20 in
TERMS: Sold subject to a prior
building association deed Of trust
for approximately So. 69517 fur
Their particulars Of which will be
purchase price above said trust 10
s5o6.00 required. conveyancins.
recording. etc, at purchasers cost.
Adjustments made as Of date Of
sale. Terms to be complied with
within thirty days. otherwise de-
post forfeited and the property
the discretion of the trustees.
ALLAN BRUCE,
ja5,s.10,12,15 Trustees.