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Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Wesley Drive
Spurred By
Big Pledges
Last Saturday
Jubilant Throng Told
$15O,OOO Of $5OO,OOO
Needed Is Already In
Hands Of The Solicit
ing Committee.

More than $50 jubilant Wesley
Junior College development fund
campaign workers were told last
Saturday night that S15O,000 of
their s500,00O drive has been
pledged.
The announcement was made by
William X. Patton, president of the
Farmers Bank Of the State of Del
aware, who is special gifts chair
man, at a kick-off dinner in South
Dover Elementary School.
Representing the Wesley Alum
nj Association, Friends of Wesley,
the Patrons and Founders of the
school and the Wesley Families
Association, the assemblage was
told by DR.. J. Paul Slaybaugh,
president, that the 1912 founding
junior college was now a strong
adolescent youth, full of vigor and
ready for service to young men and
women of the Delmarva Peninsula
and elsewhere"
They also heard an impassioned
plea from George S. Williams, exc
cutive secretary to u. S. Senator
John J. Williams and a graduate
Of the institution in 1897, for the
continuance of the educational in
stitution at all costs. II has served
the Peninsula under several names
for "a years.
What / learned at Wesley, -
said Mr.. Williams, has been my
guide throughout my life in
every position l have held. 1t was
simply this: "Have faith in your
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Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
State Turkey GrOWers
win Meet April rs
Session Will Be Held At
Wesley Hall
SeafOrd

Delaware turkey growers have
been invited to an April 25 meet
ing in Wesley Community Hall in
Seaford.
An announcement by Silas l..
McHenry. extension poultry spe-
cialist at the University of Della
ware, said the meeting will get
underway at 8 D. m. with a dis
cussion of brooding and rearing
turkey poults by DR.. John Scholes
of the Beacon Milling Co, Cayuga,
N. Y. DR.. Scholes will offer rec
concentrations based on latest re-
search and field observations.
Range rearing of turkeys will be
the topic of grower Baker Jones,
Elkton. Va. His discussion will in
clude housing, range equipment.
feeding, and management Jones
has a commercial operation in the
Shenandoah Valley and raises
tcontinued on page fve)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
VFW 70 Hold Po oultrymen
1857 Season Plan Booster
At Sc afford Day Dinner
State Commander Dave
Hugg Announces Vets,
Auxiliary Encamp-
ment June 14-15.

The Departments of Delaware,
Veterans of Foreign Wars and La
dies Auxiliaries, will hold their
1857 state encampments at Sea-
ford, June 14-15. Announcement
to this effect was made by State
Commander David S. Hugg at a
Council of Administration meeting
at the Sussex Memorial Post Home,
Millsboro, Monday evening.
Encampment plans, disclosed
Monday evening, call for parade
that will form in East Seaford and
proceed through the business sec
ton to DUPONT Field, where, wea-
ther permitting, Memorial exer-
cises, officially opening the en-
campment, will be held. Drum &
Bugle Corps and drill team COM
petition, under the lights, and a
short business session, in the Sea-
ford High School, will complete
Friday evenings program.
An all-day session, climaxed by
the election and installation of
officers for the 1888 term, is
scheduled for Saturday, June 18th.
The Annual Encampmenj Dinner
and a dance will be the closing
features of the conclave.
Comdr. Hugg has appointed Mil
ton Messick, of Seaford, as en-
campment chairman. Mrs. Mary
Reed, of Dover, is to be encamp-
ment chairman for the ladies units
In order that housing may be
found for the several hundred dele
gates and alternates and other
visitors, those planning to stay
overnight in Seaford are being
urged to make advance reserva-
tl0ns through either the Depart
ment Office, in the bravo Build
ing, Wilmington, or Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Jackson, encampment hOus-
ing cO-chairmen, at Seaford.
Pointing out that bingo, as play
ed in Delaware in the years prior
Continued on page fivel
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
State Firernen Seek
1858 Course Funds
Will Help To Implement Next
Years Program

A meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Delaware Volunteer
Firemen's Association was held
recently at the Dover fire house.
The recent state fire school came
under discussion, and due to its
outstanding success this year, with
457 in attendance, plans were made
for additional instructors for next
year. Granville White, Bridgeville,
state president, was in charge.
Wesley Robinson, Wilmington
Manor, chairman of the education
committee, pointed out that not
only are additional instructors
needed to cope with the interest,
but also, additional equipment to
provide training.
The association instructed the
law and legislative committee, OF
which Walter Handsberry is chair
man, to submit a re0Eest for funds
to the present Legislature.
iccntinued on page eleven)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
At A Cost Of Nearly
$4,000 VIII Be largest
Fund Raising Project
Ever Undertaken.

The Auxiliary of the Milford
Memorial Hospital is hoping to
raise funds for the purchase of
new dishwashing equipment for
the Milford Memorial Hospital.
To install the complete dishwash-
ing and sterilizing equipment, they
will have to spend nearly $4,000.
They hope they will receive active
support not only from Milford, but
from all the surrounding commun-
tiles who use the services of the
Milford Memorial Hospital. This
will be the largest fund raising
project the Auxiliary has ever
undertaken.
To help raise this large amount
of money, two local shops, Cooper
smiths and Derricksons have shown
their interest. in the hospital by
agreeing to put on a mems,
women's and children's fashion
show in the Milford Theatre on
Thursday evening, May 8. Tickets
FOR adults will be $1.00 and for
children, 60c. The theatre is be-
ing rented by the Auxiliary and all
funds will be used for the pur-
chase of the much needed dish
washing and sterilizing equipment.
Gerry Lorenz, the newly install
ed administrator of the Milford
Memorial Hospital, appealed to
the Auxiliary to provide this vital
equipment. The present dishwash-
sr is old, cannot be fixed, and is
completely inadequate. All of the
dishes are now washed By hand
and only put in the old dishwasher
CONTINUED on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Atoms For Peace"
Due Here Nay go
Travelling Exhibit VIII Visit
All Cities In The
State

The people of Delaware will
soon have the opportunity to get
a clear, concise picture of our ma
tion's "Atoms for Peace" programs
right in their home towns. The Oc-
casion will be the showing of the
u. S. Atomic Energy Commission s
newest travelling exhibit in Is To-
cations throughout the state, May
1-31.
The announcement of arrange
ments for the mobile unit was
made jointly today by A. Rodney
Schuman, state chairman for the
Delaware State Junior Chamber of
Commerce, and Gordon G. Godbey,
director of extension at the Uni
versity of Delaware.
The Atoms for Peace" mobile
unit is shown under the national
sponsorship of the National Uni
yersity Extension Association and
continued on page ninel
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
ReU. ScIterch Spoke
At Century Club
Lutheran Pastor Gave Stir
ring Easter Address
On Monday

A stirring Easter message was
given to the members OF the Mil
ford New Century Club on Monday
by the Reverend John NJ. Scherch,
pastor of the Reformation Lutheran
Church. It was the last meeting Of
the club until fall. Reverend
Scherch read the first ten verses
of the scriptures according to st.
Matthew as the setting for his talk
and then graphically related the
visit to the tomb cf the two Marys
and their emotions when they
found it empty. 1is wish was that
present day Christians might ex-
perience these; fear, joy, and ac-
ton of these women and that they
might endure to the benef1t or
mankind. He was presented to the
members by Mrs. Forrest N. Web
ster. A beautiful painting, the work
of DR.. Edward Kuhlmann, set the
CONTINUED on page fourteen)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
X-ray
Drive Here
W S Highly
y uC c G S S fu |
Drive Was Under The
Sponsorship Locally Of
Sakimas Tribe No. 10
Improved Order Of
Red Men.

The most successful free Chest
X-Ray drive in MilfOrd's history
ended Saturday, April II, at $500
p. m. The drive, under the local
sponsorship of Sakimas Tribe No.
10 of the Improved Order of Red
Men, lasted three days, during
which 1875 persons were X-Rayed
as compared to 1,422 in five days
last year. Another record was brok-
en- when 130 X-Rays were made in
one hour by the technician, Mr..
Millard Ellingsworth of Dover.
This large turn out of the local
aitizenry was the result of an in
tensif1ed public education program
put On by the Delaware AEti-Tu-
berculosis Society and Sakimas
Tribe No. TO- Both organizations,
back by several civic minded wo-
men and other local organizations,
used every means available to adj
vertise the advantages of the chest
X-Ray.
Deputy Great Sachem, Norman
w. Paris, Jr., of Sakimas Tribe
No. 10, acted as chairman of the
drive, and with the able assistance
of Mrs. BYRON Gibson, Hostess
Chairman, w2s significant in the
success of this program.
On Saturday, TIE Red Men,
dressed in their bright regalia,
capered up and down the streets
kidnapping" citizens whose ran
som fee was to get free chest X
Ray This, plus the many extras
afforded the public, caused the 1857
drive in Milford to be one of the
most unusual as well as the larg-
est.
Mrs. Victoria Worden of the Del
aware Tuberculosis Society
wishes to thank Mr.. Norman w.
Paris. Jr., for the commendable
job he did, ard the many hours of
hard WORK he contributed Mr.. Par
ris. in turn, wishes to express his
deep appreciation to Mrs Byron
Gibson, the Boy Scouts of Troops
CONTINUED on page sIx)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Rkoads To Retire
As Scout Leader
viii Finish AS President At Meet
ing, April Gath

Philip G. Rhoads will retire as
President of the Del-MarVa Coun-
Gil, Boy Scouts of America at its
Annual Meeting on Wednesday,
April oath.
Mr.. RhOads has served as COun-
ell President for three years. Ac-
cording to the Bylaws of the Del
Mar-Va Council, he must relinquish
his post at the end of this time.
The Nominating Committee will
offer the name of Scouter to sue
ceed Mr.. Rhoads.
Many important accomplishments
have been achieved during Mr.
Rhoads' term of office Probably
the most noteworthy is the build
ing of an entire new camp section
at the Rodney Scout Reservation,
North East. Maryland. Two years
ago some half-million dollars was
continued On page sevenl
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Soil Conservation
Award Judges Named
Appointments Have Been Made By
Isaac Thomas, OF Hartly

Judges have been named to de-
termine Delaware-New Jersey win
ners in the 1956-57 annual national
soil conservation awards program
sponsored by the Goodyear Tire
and Rubber Co.
The judges are Leo COtnoir, Jr.,
University of Delaware agronomist,
chairman; and Richard S. Snyder,
Delaware conservatiOnist with the
u. S. Soil Conservation Service,
both of Newark; DR.. LinwOod L.
Lee, U. S. Soil Conservation Ser
vice, New Brunswick, N. j.; and
Prof. Wallace Mitcheltree, Rutgers
University College of Agriculture.
They were named by Isaac
Thomas of Hartly, president of the
Delaware State Association of Soil
Conservation District Supervisors
and John Traino, president of the
New Jersey Association of Soil
Conservation Districts.
continued On page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Seek All-American
Family In Delaware

Delaware will be represented in
the national search for an ALI
American family by the Book OF
knowledge and the Boys Clubs OF
America, it was announced this
week by the Delaware State Devel-
opment Department.
For the past several weeks a
committee has been at work on an
individual basis, trying to sift out
standing families which would con-
sent to enter this high-level COM
petition, according to Miles L.
Continued on page ninel
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Sussex Judiciary
Has Formed Group
Morris GTOverman, OF Milford,
Heads County Magistrates

A permanent organization of
Sussex County magistrates was
formed recently at the Milford Ho-
tel with Morris GrOverman of Mil
ford as chairman.
The motion to form the group
was made by Magistrate William
J. Warren of Seaford. Mrs. Helen
E. Faust of Lewes was elected sec
retary.
The meeting heard talk by
Deputy Atty. Gen. Ralph S. Baker
Of Sussex County, who told the
magistrates that such a meeting
had been needed for years to clari-
fly procedures in the courts.
Mr.. Groverman told of a study
he made of the magistrate system
from its early history in Colonial
days. He said lhere was a need Tor
chief magistrate to assist and in
struct the magistrates.
Continued on page ffve)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Mrs. Williams
To Be HOnoreJ
By Fraternity
Wife OF Delaware's Sr.
..SolOn Will Get Degrees
On Sunday, April %,
/. Here.


Mrs. John j. Williams, wife of
Delaware's senior Senator in Con-
gress, will be the recipient of two
degrees bestowed upon her by the
members of. the Xi Gamma Chap
ter of the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
at a meeting in Avenue Methodist
Church on Sunday, April %, at two
O'Clock. Mrs. Williams is the. sec
ond person in Delaware to be
chosen International Honorary
Members of the organization. The
two degrees are the pledge and the
ritual of Jewels. The Sorority is
an international one, created for
young women in search of culture
and social activity which gives its
members an enriching and inspira-
tional experience as they meet to-
gether to enjoy and appreciate
the finer things of life. At the cere-
monial, local persons who will re
ceive the ritual of jewels degree
will be Mrs. Fern Jones, Mrs. Flea
nor Donovan, Mrs. MOllie Brown
Miss Svea Isaacs, Mrs. June Can
non, Mrs. Barbara Michel, Mrs
Madlyn Fry, Mrs. Louise Chalmers
and Mrs. Rhea Welch.
Mrs. Williams, who has lately
been elected the president of the
Congressional Club in Washington
an honor never before given to a
Delaware woman, is worthy
choice for this new honor, the Sec
ond to have it in Delaware. She
has been active in civic affairs in
her own community of MillsbOrc
and has continued many of heI
activities in Washington. A very
gracious and charitable person
who has a high standard of appre-
citation of the finer things, she i:
pleased with the honor the mem
CONTINUED On page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Hospital Auxiliary
Plans Purchase Of
Dishwasher
HIPPO PLANT PREY
TO SPECTACULAR FIRE

A spectacular fire that
could be seen for miles de-
stroyed the Hi-Pro Associ-
ates feather processing plant
near Frankford on Wednes-
day night. The value of the
plant and the machinery
was set at $125,O00 by off,
cials.
The company was involy-
ed in litigation over a per-
iod of more than a year be-
cause of odors about which
both Frankford and Days
boro residents complained.
Abraham Lovovitz of New
Jersey, president of the
company, and Gordon Mac
Lean of Millsboro, the man
ager, were indicted by the
February grand jury on a
charge of maintaining a
common nuisance and after
several postponements the
case was set for trial May /.
The cause of the Sre had
not been determined i2tse
Wednesday night.
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
County All Events
Planned For Sussex
Members Are Getting Ready For
Big Events In Sussex

Sussex County 4-H Club mem
bers will be busy during the next
two weeks getting ready for two
big events. These events are the
County Demonstration and Field
Day to be held Saturday, April q,
and Talent Contest, Public Speak
ing Contest and Dress Revue to
be held Saturday evening, May 4.
Bernardine Coleman. County All
Agent. says the County All dem
onstratiOn and field day on April
% will be an all-day event to be
held az Georgetown High School.
II will begin with demonstrations
at a. m. Demonstrations shoulc
be given by club members on some
phase of their project work. The
demonstrations can be in the fol-
lowing classes: Clothing, Dairy
Foods, Dairy Production, Home
Identification, Livestock. Poultry
Foods, Poultry Production. Soil
and Water Conservation, Tractor
Maintenance, Vegetables and Field
Crops. A county Individual and
(continued on page fivel
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Migration Questions
Are Due To Be Asked
VIII Be Sought BY Census Takers
In April Survey

Special questions on migration
will be asked in the April Current
Population Survey, according to
Supervisor John G. Gibson of the
u. S. Census Bureaus field Office
at Philadelphia, which will par
ticipate in the survey.
Similar migration questions ask
ed in the Current Population Sur
vey last March revealed that a to-
tel of 33.1 million persons changed
their place of residence in the Uni
ted States during the year ending
March, 1856. Of these movers. 22.2
million changed residence within
the same county, 5.S million moved
to a different county in the same
state, and 81 million were living
in a different state.
Young adults, 20 to "a years old,
tended to move the most, two in
continued On page seven)
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Gov. Boggs Comnends
VFW For Loyalty

Governor ]. Caleb Boggs COM
mended the Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States today
for their INSPIRED effort to pro-
mote good citizenship through 10y
atty Day activities" and urged that
schools, patriotic and fraternal or
gaRizations join them in their OBJ
serTance.
Loyalty Day is marked nation
wide by the VFW as a day to re =.
affirm faith in the American Wsy
of Life and to combat the influence
tacafipued On page flvel
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Aides Named
By lsaacs For
Cancer Drive
IN Milford
Local Goal Has Been Set
At $500; Ward Cap
tains Have Been Select
ed For City.

Edgar F. Isaacs, Jr., local chair
man for the 1857 Cancer Crusade
has announced the following cap
tains and workers for the Crusade
The goal locally is $2,500.
First Ward: captains, Horace
Wiley, A. E. Humes and Mrs. Hen.
ry Frankel; solicitors, Mrs. Car
son Ward, Mrs. Nelson Rosen-
zweig, Mrs. Alfred Shea, Mrs. Dear
Kimmel, Mrs. Robert Wall, Mrs
Gilbert Griffin, Mrs. Joseph LOT
land, Jr., Miss Doris Brown, Mrs
Alice Daino, Miss Isabelle Hauser
Mrs. Raymond Sparklin, Mrs. Ag-
nes Collins, Mr.. Roy Mccullough
Second Ward: captains, Mrs
Vernon Kerr and Mrs. Robert Mer.
Ger; solicitors, Mrs. Courtney
Burch, Mrs. R. J. Emory, Mrs. Rob
ert Foster, Mrs. Wayne Kline, Mrs
Charles Lundstedt, Mrs. w. Nc
Chimes, Miss Olive Miller, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Rogers, Mrs. Willard
Stayton, Mrs. Lloyd Truitt, Mrs
Frank Clendaniel, Jr., Mrs. Ray
mOnd Masten, Mrs John Hallett
Mrs. Chuck Wright, Mrs. James r
West, Miss Cordelis Carter.
Third Ward: captains, Mrs. John
o. Snyder and Mrs. Charles
French; solicitors, Mrs. Howard
French, Mrs. Harry Belts, Mrs
Margaret Miltiades, Mrs. Harlan
McColley, Mrs. George Adams
Mrs. William Wilson, Mrs. Carrie
Brown, Mrs. Joseph Dunn, Mrs
Clayton Lord, Mrs. Reedy Rogers
Sr., Mrs. Joseph Orkin, Miss Ber-
tha Cole, Mrs. Edward Williams
Mrs. Blanche Rogers, Mrs. Victor
LaMorge, Mrs. Max Orkin.
CONTINUED on page six)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Commission Splits
On Milford Project
0 To 3 Vote Approves SeabEry
Avenue Extension

Seabury Avenue. Milford, Is go
ing to be extended, but the State
Highway Commission was not
unanimous in its approval of the
project.
Seabury Avenue extension will
be about 2,20O feet long, running
over an old roadway on the prop
erty of Ruby r. Vale and past Mil
ford High School.
At a meeting of the commission
in Dover last week, Richard A.
Haber, chief engineer, said that
the traffic and planning division of
the Highway Department had made
a study of the proposed improve
ment. The division disapproved it
on the grounds that it would Gre
ate another crossing with busy
U. S. Route 113 at Milford, close
to an existing intersection.
The Milford Board of Education
had asked that Seabury Avenue be
extended to Route 113, as a means
of relieving congestion about the
school at starting and closing time.
continued on page si1)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
DR.. K. E. Appel To
Address State Group
Eminent Mental Health Leader Due
In State April 30th

One of the nations foremost
leaders in mental health, DR.. Ken
meth E. Appel, will address the
Tuesday, April 80, annual lunch
con meeting of the Mental Health
Association of Delaware.
A former president of several
major psychiatric organizations,
DR.. Appel is currently heading the
new National Academy of Religion
and Mental Health, and will bOr-
row from the purposes of this
group for his talk on Religion
and Psychiatry."
He was the 1854 president of the
American Psychiatric Association
formerly headed the American
Board of Psychiatry and Neurolo-
gy, and is presiden, of the joint
Commission for Mental Illness and
Health.
The annual meeting at noon in
the Hotel DuPOnt's Gold Ballroom
continued on page sikh
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Blue Hen Post
Officers Installed
Appointed Officers, Ladies' auxili-
ary Leaders Take 0fsss'e

Recently elected and appointed
officers of Blue Hen Post No. 64S3,
VFW. and its Ladies Auxiliary
were installed, recently, in we'll
attended and impressive cere-
monies at the Post Home, here. Ed
ard Clarke, of Dover, department
chaplain, installed Post Comman-
der Harold r. Welch and staff. and
Mrs. Verna Deeney, a past presi-
dent of the local Auxiliary, in
stalled President Helen West and
other Auxiliary officers.
Installed, along with Comdr
Welch, were the following: James
P. Gilmore, senior vice commander
David S. Hugg, Junior vice COM
mander; Paul j. Duphily, post ad-
vocate; Melvin Munson, chaplain
Phillip Andelora, surgeon; Glenn
ent J. Nevins, trustee; Charles Sig
Ter, patriotic instructor; Newton
Brown, officer of he Gay, and
Thomas Harrington, color bearer
other officers, unable to be present
Continued on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Lions Club Here
Nolninates Officers
Cal White Proposed By Committee
For New President


For New President
The first regular April meeting
of the Milford Lions Club was
held in Hollands Restaurant, on
Thursday, April II, with presi-
dent, Calvert Morgan, presiding.
The clubs nominating commit
tee composed of Dolphus Wilkins,
chairman, Dave Clements, Wilbur
Haight, Price Webb and Calvert
Morgan, announced the following
names as candidates in the coming
election of officers for 1957-58
For president, Calvin White; 1st
vice president, Tom Galloway ;
End vice president, Spencer Will
lis: 3rd vice president, Len Dono-
hoe and Eldridge Prettyman; Sec
retary, Fred Higman; treasurer
Leroy Rust and Fred Watts; Tail
Twister, Gil Griffin and Ed Wal
sen; Lion Tanner, jim Holland and
Preston Dyer: for two Directors
(2-year terms), Winifred GOOden
CONTINUED on page s1x)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19

best management is worked out
with the farmer, so that he can
work toward maximum profits.
Farmers and others interested
In the program are invited to go
along on the tour. since a good
cross section Of farm practices may
be seen. The complete schedule is
given below. but may be varied
slightly If other calls are added:
Thursday, April 25th: 1900 a. m.
Meet at Clark's Seed Store, Ches-
void; 7:05-Lewis Harrington, r.
ID. 4, Dover; 7:45-Paul Masten.
Kcnton; S:20-Clifford Clark, Ken
ton: 9:O0-Francis Downs, Clay
ton: $40 Albert Barthelmeh,
Clayton; 1O:3O-Fred VOshell. Ken
ton: 11:15-Rudolph Spinka. Hart
CONTINUED on page thirteen)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19
Kent Agent Answers
Garden Questions

Each week the county agent will
attempt to answer garden questions
which seem to be of general inter-
est. Many were asked at the short
course a short time ago, but addi-
tional questions are welcome at
any time. Just call Dover-2621 by
telephone, or drop a card addressed
to the County Agent, P. o. Build
ing, Dover.
Mrs. William Muller of Dover
has again kindly provided answers
for the following three questions.
CONTINUED on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1957-04-19

Mr.. Johnny Mallileau, one of the
Oldest harness drivers on the
shore. now retired and living with
his son in Dover has let it be
known that he will be on hand TO
serve in the stand and present
some prizes to the winners.
Ben Emory, chairman of the re-
freshment committee and the La
dies Auxiliary of the Post viii col
Iect admissions and provide a re-
freshment stand for the fans dur
ing the races. The proceeds to be
used for Child Welfare work by
the Post.
Many of the shores favorite
drivers will be in action with en-
tries from Jim Stokley, Emil Ad-
ans. Jack Boring, L. Canton, How
CONTINUED on page ax)