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Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
M c | h O dists
Plan Crusade
f or Christ
Plans For Intensive Drive
On Evangelism Will Be
Launched At Harring-
ton This Sunday.

A United Methodist Witness to
Tell the Heart of Delaware about
Christ" will get under way Sunday
afternoon, March 3rd, as laymen
from ten Methodist churches gather
at Asbury Methodist Church in Har-
rington for training in Visitation
Evangelism. Mr.. Willard Hickman
of Milford, and chairman of the
united effort, states that these lay
men will be visiting four Nights,
March through z, on the pros
poets of the respective churches.
The program will continue
through periods of instruction for
new members, and general visit
ing of the church membership and
reach a climax during the week of
March "a through 20, when the
churches will unite in a combined
series of public services in the new
sanctuary of the Calvary Methodist
Church in Milford. Speaking each
night will be the Rev. Leslie j
Ross of the staff of the General
Board of Evangelism of the Metho-
dist Church.
Mr.. Ross has conducted similar
programs in communities all across
America. The Rev. Joseph Vaughn
of Houston will lead the congrega-
tional singing, and the choirs OF
the churches will combine to pro-
vide special leadership in music
each night.
Serving as local leaders with Mr.
Hickman as chairman are Mr.. Will
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Antique Show Has
Opened AT Wesley
Many Dealers Are In Attendance
At Dover Exhibit


The fifth annual Wesley College
Antiques Show and Sale opened to-
day in the college gymnasium with
IS well-known middle Atlantic
area antiques dealers in attendance.
Early counts indicated capacity
attendance for the three-day show,
as several hundred people assem-
bled for the opening event, a 'cof-
fee preview" sponsored by Kent
County alumnae. Mrs. j. Edgar
Boggs, Cheswold, and Mrs. Harry
R. Jackson, Dover, were co-chair-
man of the event. Members of their
coffee committee included Mrs. o.
w. Farrow, Dover, Mrs. George w.
Wright, Smyrna, Mrs. Don V. Wells,
Dover and Virginia Beach, Va,
Mrs. Eva Frear Wilson, Dover, and
Mrs. Ralph G. Wilson, Dover.
Among the dealers exhibiting
are:
Pennsylvania: Kenneth A. Wood
row, Farm Bell Antiques, West
Chester, furniture, silver, brass;
the Purple Lady, Wynnewood, Pa,
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Red Cross Fund
Drive For Area 6
Was Started Today
Milton Dill. Is General
Chairman For The Eff
fort Which Sets Its
Goal S3,700.G0.

To finance its ever growing SER
vices in this country and around
the world, the Red Cross will
launch its annual campaign today,
Friday, March LIST, for memberships
and funds again. Area No. 6 is this
community's particular concern
and the quota has been set for So
700. Milton Dill is the general
chairman for this effort Just as
there is a general increase in pop
ulation, in every town and suburb
so the Red Cross must be prepared
to administer to these people
should there be disaster and need.
Mrs. George Baynum, local
Home Service chairman, reports
that she has spent in 1856 the sum
of $1,000 to alleviate suffering and
need and has brought help to those
who have required assistance. So,
funds that accumulate in the cam
paign are used locally as the situa-
tons arise. Mrs. Chnck Wright is
Junior Red Cross chairman and is
busy with roll call in the thirteen
schools in the area as well as SUI
pervising work that Girl Scouts do
annually for hospitals.
This Sunday will be Red Cross
Sunday in the churches when
some emphasis will be placed on
the work of this humane organiza-
ton. Workers are always needed
and those who would like to help
this year may call Mrs. Charles
Swain for instruction. Mrs. Carl
Colell continues to be chairman of
production, A. E. Humes disaster
chairman, David S. Hugg, safety.
and Mrs. Pauline Hammond, home
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DR.. VI. Il. I arun1ianz
MSpeak To WSCS
1T Avenue Church
Eminent Mental Health
Specialist viii Speak
To Milford Group Next
Thursday Night.

DR.. M. A. Tarumianz, superin-
teDdent of Delaware State Hospital
Bacon Health Center and The Hos
pitai for the Mentally Retarded al
Stockley, will address the members
of Avenue Woman's Society OF
Christian Service on Tuesday eve
ming, March 5, at seven-thirty in
Fellowship Hall of the Church
Calvary Woman's Society of Christ
ian Service will be guests. Mrs
Herman Kopf, vice president, will
preside.
Conforming to the program sub
ject of the Society, DR.. Tarumian2
will speak on 1.-The Church and
Mental Health. Recognized, nat
ionally, as one of the best authori-
ties on the treatment of the men,
tally sick, and being a Christian
his address is awaited with expec-
fancy and interest.
With the percentage of patients
increasing in the past few years
and the cost of the care of such
patients in taxes going up, the con-
Germ, that psychiatrices, trained
workers and hospitals are not keep
ing apace with the oncoming thou
sands who will need that care, is
mounting. If there is a help that
churches can bring to the situa-
tion now is the time for it, and DR.
Tarumianz may speak of this in
his message Tuesday evening. The
public is cordially invited to be
present from the surrounding COM
munities as well as in town. The
business meeting of both societies
will follow the address and the fell
lowship hour will conclude the eye-
ming
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
Jim Baxter
Wins State
1 arm Title
Georgetown Area Agri-
culturist Is The Choice
For States Outstanding
Young Farmer Of 1857.

A 33-year-old farmer-business-
man from Georgetown has been
m Delaware's outstanding
young farmer for 1856 by the State
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. James H. Baxter, Jr., re-
ceived the award Feb. 20 at BAN
quet in honor of the three top state
winners in Dover. He will compete
in the national contest April Is and
16 in Durham, North Carolina,
where the four outstanding young
farmers in America last year will
be selected.
Mr.. Jacob Zimmerman, Dover,
was named second place winner
in the state contest, with third
place going to Mr.. Edwin Ely of
Bear All three winners were pre-
sented with plaques by Mr.. Robert
Moore, co-chairman of the out
standing young farmer committee
fer the Junior Chamber.
Mr.. Baxter, a 121st Calvary Troop
veteran of combat in Europe dur
ing World War III, was chosen for
the honor because of demonstrated
interest in his community through
leadership and participation in ag-
ricultural and other organizations
He was selected also because of his
proven ability as a good farmer and
farm machinery dealer.
His leadership ability was first
demonstrated during his high
school years. Mr.. Baxter was presi-
dent of his senior class, vice-presi-
dent of his junior class, and was
president and vice-president of the
Georgetown chapter of the Future
Farmers of America.
Entering farming in 1912, he
rented 20 acres of land while g
student at the University of Del.
aware. Then in 1914 he purchased
SO acres of cut-0ver woodland neal
Georgetown. He cleared the LAND
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Years Plans For
Girl Scouting
Set-Up For Current Year Outlined
At Recent Meeting

Plans for year of Girl Scout
ing were outlined at recent meet
ing held at the home of Mrs.
Charles Lundstedt, vice president
of the executive board of the Mil
ford Girl Scout Leaders Club. Those
who attended the meeting were
Mrs. Leslie Dobson, Mrs. Eurie
Savage, and Mrs. Ira Garbutt. The
most important event that the Girl
Scouts celebrate nationwide is the
anniversary of the founding of
Girl Scouts in the U.S.A 1t always
includes March II, anniversary of
the day in 1912 when Juliet Cor
don Low called together the little
group of 81 girls in Savannah, Geo.
rgia. who voted to set up the first
Girl Scout Troop. This year the
Girl Scouts are marking a double
anniversary, their own 45th birth
day and centenary celebrations for
the man whose ideas on women's
educations shaped the lives of IL
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Dairy Committees
Have Been Named
President Howard Il. wilkins Has
Announced Aides

Names of committee members
were announced this week by How
ard e. wilkins, Lincoln, President
of the Sussex County Dairy Herd
Improvement Association, to help
with the details of holding the or
ganization's annual membership
meeting.
The meeting which will be held
in the Coolspring Community Hall
on Thursday, March 7th, will be
preceded by a dinner which will be
served at 700 p. m. by the ladies
of the Coolspring Presbyterian
Church.
Committees named and the mem
bers are as follows:
Program: William N. Hopkins
Albert Lank, Stephen Vaughn
Z Tickets. James Hudson and Dudley
Walker; Nominating: Earl Tull
Jr., Roland Russell, Thomas t
Jones; Auditing: Medford Calhoun
Clyde Belts, w. It. McAllister.
continued on page f1veI
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Regional Poultry
Meeting Scheduled
Peninsula Poultry Invited
To Attend March
9Th Session

Delmarva peninsula poultrymen
have been invited to a regional
poultry meeting March 6 at the
Elks Club in Salisbury, Md.
According to Silas McHenry, ex-
tension poultry specialist at the
University of Delaware, broiler
growing, egg production, and in
dustry problems will be covered.
DR.. Alfred Van Wagenen, manag-
ing director of the Northeastern
Poultry Producers Council, Tren-
ton, N. j., will discuss government
production controls after registra-
ton at 900 a. m Herman Miller,
director OF The poultry branch, u. S.
Department Of Agriculture, Wash
ington, D. c., will outline the eff
fects of mandatory poultry inspec-
ton on producers.
Using forced ventilation to keep
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S e a | t G S t
+ pert Is
Dairy Speaker
DR.. Roy f. Davenport,
Addressed $50 Dairy
ers At Hig h
School Last Thursday.

Additional stability for the Phila-
deiphia milk market as the result
of proposed new methods of paying
for their milk was forecast in Mil
ford recently by a representative
of the Sealtest Supplee Division of
National Dairy Products Corpora
ton.
In an address before $50 dairy
farmers and their families in the
Milford High School, Milford, Del
aware, at 8 o'clock, Sealtest's field
service director, DR.. Roy F. Daven-
port, recommended the adoption of
market pool payments as a means
of guaranteeing the consumption
of the annual surplus of milk. I'M
der this system the farmers would
receive weighted average price
based on the form in which milk
is sold by ALL dealers operating
in the market. The present handler
pool practice has farmers reim-
bursed according to the way their
INDIVIDUAL dealers dispose of
the milk.
The speaker pointed out that un-
der a market pool system all of the
farmers regularly supplying the
market share equally in the. bene-
fits of higher priced fluid milk sales
and the burdens of the surplus. In
a like manner, all dealers in the
market are required to pay the
same weighted average price for
each area. The competition for
farmers then becomes one of SER
vice rather than price. DR.. Daven-
port said that the proposed market
pool arrangement would not affect
the consumer.
1.-The use of a market pool will
not only be a more equitable way
of paying producers. but it will
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Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
University VIII
Offer Safety Course

A special summer school course
entitled Problems in Safety Edu-
cation" will be offered for the first
time during the 1857 summer
school. DIR. ID. Kenneth Steers of
the Department of Physical Educa-
ton and Athletics will serve as in
structor.
The course is designed for teach
ers and administrators who will be
asked to consider the nature, con-
tent and scope of safety and its re-
lationship to the home, the school
and the community. The develop
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s ak p clio
Y accine Now
Az ala bic
Assembly Measure Re-
Gently Signed Into Law
By Gov. Boggs Pro-
vides For Everyone.

The measure to provide the Salk
polio vaccine to all Delawareans
has become law. Supported by the
Medical Society of Delaware and
the State Board of Health, the bill
passed rapidly and unanimously
through tie General Assembly, and
was signed into law by Governor
Boggs, who expressed his hope
that all citizens of the state under
IS years of age will help to eradi-
cate paralytic poliomyelitis by re-
ceiving the vaccine.
The new law permits the Board
of Health to provide inoculations
to all citizens of the state. Previ-
ously, the limited supply of the
Salk vaccine made a priority sys-
tenn necessary, and the agency was
authorized to give the shots only
to those under 81 years of age and
to expectant mothers.
The State Medical Society prais-
ed the bills passages as fine ex-
ample of bipartisan cooperation in
the public interest. DR.. Roger Muir
ray, Society president, said that the
action was a major contribution to
public health and good preventive
medicine. 1.-THE bipartisan support
our program has received, he said
will, we hope, be the beginning OF
a general civic effort to eradicate
paralytic poliOmyelitis. As doctors
we have seen the misery that polio
can pauGp and il iS most imnOrfant
to us that everyone, particularly
young adults, be made aware of the
Importance of receiving the vac
cine"
Present for the signing of the
bill in the Governors office were
DR.. Floyd I. Hudson, president OF
the Sussex County Medical Society
and executive secretary of the
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Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
Musical Program
At Century Club
Mrs. August f. Fax Is
Chairman For The
Day

The sixth grade of the Milford
Elementary School will add much
to the program of Music, the sub
ject on the next meeting of the
Club on Monday, March 4. Mrs.
August f. Fax is chairman for the
day The program will include a
group of Mexican songs and
rhythms, two old time favorites,
and American music recently used
in connection with the celebration
of the birthdays of the nations he
roes, Lincoln and Washington. An
accordion solo will be played by
Chester Long and piano solo by
Lama Sharp. Mrs. Elizabeth G.
Bennett, the music teacher in the
schools, will be present and will
direct the program. She will be
assisted by two sixth grade teach
ers, Miss Cordelia Carter and Mrs.
(continued on page fivel
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
CARPENTER Returns
From s. s. Meeting
Local Southern States Head At
tended Three-Day Meeting

w. Cecil Carpenter of Southern
States Milford Coop, has returned
from a three-day farm service con-
ference at Salisbury, Md, which
was conducted by Southern States
Cooperative for managers and en-
ployees of its local cooperative
service agencies.
The meeting was especially de-
signed to help agency personnel be-
come better acquainted with the
products and services of the CO.
operative SO they in turn will be
better equipped to service Southern
States $4,000 members. The con-
ference was conducted by officials
and top distr. button and purchasing
men from the cooperative's central
offices in Richmond, "a.
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1866 Outstanding Year
For Phone Company
Full Demand For Service
From Public Was
Met

The year 1856 was an outstand-
ing one for the Diamond State
Telephone Company, says W. ID.
Gillen, president, in the company's
annual report issued today.
I'VE kept pace with the fast
growing economy of the state by
meeting the full, demand of the
public for telephone service" says
the report. More telephones were
added than in any previous year in
our history. At the end of the year
we were on ready-to-serve basis
throughout the state, installing SER
vice upon request. We furnished
high quality service at a cost that
was low in relation to its value.
I'VE take great satisfaction in
these accomplishments but we are
greatly concerned with the fact
that we are not earning an ade-
continued on page aeven)
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Travel Forum Is
Set For March Is

Residents of lower Delaware will
have an opportunity to learn of
outstanding events and tours sched-
uled in the State at a "Springtime
in Delaware" Travel to be held In
Grace Church Hall. Georgetown, at
g p. M, March Is, it was announced
today.
The Forum will be jointly spon-
sored by the Delaware Travel
Council and the Sussex Countian.
Georgetown's weekly newspaper,
according to acting president,
James c. Stewart
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ment or the PRySlcally handicap
ped, and held monthly clinics at
which such persons were il terview-
ed with the intent of securing en-
ployment for them.
Some So men in industrial and
business life formed a reservoir
from which the Governors Commit
tee could call a group every four
weeks and conduct workshop elm
les. This program was drawn to
the attention of the Presidents
Committee in Washington stree
Delaware was the First State to
promote it, and now other states
are adopting the idea.
James III. Sears of the E. l. du-
Pont de Nemours Co., Inc. who
succeeded Mr.. Turner as state
chairman, said that the former was
Continued on page sixteen)
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over trucks, putting kerosene in
the milk and otherwise preventing
the moving of milk
He said that government would
probably move in to get milk to the
babies and from this, he remarked,
Il don't know what's going to hap
pen"
Discussing the broiler industry
in Sussex County, he said that
whereas broilers were originally
raised by individual farmers, now
they are raised on a contract basis
and a good organizer could get
them to organize.
He gave the profit and los"
system as the truly American sys-
tenn and said that unfortunately
where there were profits, there
must be some losses.
lcontinued on page five)
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Local Polio DriUe
Totals So, 75A. II
Results Have Surpassed All Expectations Ac
cording To Co-Chairmen Wilkins And
Fisher; More Money Still Expected.

The co-chairmen of the highly
successful 1857 polio fund drive in
Milford, Dolphus Wilkins and Ed
win l.. Fisher, are pleased to an
nounce' that the drive has surpass-
ed all expectations with a grand
total to date of S3,75411. This ex-
.ceeds the general quota by
According to Messrs. Wilkins and
Fisher, a check for $1251.37 goes
to Kent and a check for $2,502.74
will go TO Sussex.
The work of the over $50 cap
tains and workers according to the
drive chairmen made the success
of the drive possible. Cited for par
ticular praise was the fine effort
put forth by the Milford Lions Club
which group took over the special
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
Tuesday, March s
State Seabee Day
Fifteenth Anniversary Pr0clama.
ton Is Made BY The Governor

The United States Naval Con-
struction Battalion is marking its
fifteenth anniversary this year, ac-
cording to Governor j. Caleb
Boggs, who has proclaimed Tues
day, March 5. as Seabee Day in
Delaware.
Recognition is given to the fight
ing builders of World War ii, Ko-
rea and more recently for their
construction work in support of
Operation Deep Freeze in the An
tarctic, because of the new concept
they brought into modern fighting
methods, Governor ,Boggs declared.
THE Seabee Can Do spirit ex-
tends into peacetime." Governor
Boggs said in his proclamation,
through their establishment of Re-
serve components to be ready for
any emergency"
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Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01

gifts for the drive, under the lead
ership of Joe Kemp.
The March of the Mothers was
another highly successful phase of
the fund raising eff5rt, and some
funds are still coming in accord
ing to the chairmeu.
A new form of fund raising,
"Coffees', a large number of which
were held, were also contributory
20 the success of the drive.
According to Chairman Wilkins,
free Salk Polio shots will be ad-
ministered to any six months to
45 years person who present them
selves at the second floor of the
Milford Community Building, Mon
day evening, March IL, between the
hours of $50 and 7:30.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
Andrew Christie
VIII Speak Here
Director OF Legislative Reference
Bureau Due Here On Monday

Andrew Christie, prominent
young Wilmington attorney, and
Director of the Legislative Refer
ence Bureau, will speak in Mil
ford next Monday evening.
Mr.. Christie, who will speak on
Legislation pending before the
present session of the General AS
sembly, will deliver his address I'M
der the auspices of the Milford
Community Forum.
The meeting which is scheduled
to begin at o'clock will be held
in Varney Auditorium, Milford
Community Building, second floor.
The general public is cordially
invited to attend this meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
Junior Rroiler
Contest Due March 6
State Young Folks WIN Be Offered
A Chance To Compete

Delaware young people will get
the annual Junior BrOiler Pro-
gram under way March 8, when
they will try TO raise better quality
birds than commercial growers.
Silas McHenry. extension poultry
specialist at the University of Del
aware, reports that the six top
winners will display their dressed
birds with those of commercial
operators at the Delmarva Chicken
Festival June II and 13 at Laurel.
The winners will be invited to the
festival as guests of Delmarya
Poultry Industries, Inc.
The first place winner will re-
ceive s25 and a trophy, with second
through twentieth place winner re-
ceiving $50 to SIS. In addition to the
cash awards, certificates of merit
will be presented to the first four
Continued on page six)
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01


Other features of the week in
clude a statewide window display
contest and a TV appearances on
Station WPFH, Wilmington, by the
University of Delaware All Club.
More than 100000 members of
about 10000 All Clubs will be cele-
brating the week in America. Civic
and service clubs, schools, church
es, farm organizations, and other
groups will arrange for talks by
Alters and programs participated
in by leaders, extension agents, and
others who help with club work.
Six outstanding All Club men,
bers from California, Tennessee,
Indiana, North Carolina, and Geor-
gia, and two leaders will spend
part of National All Club Week in
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Sussex Democratic
Women Reorganize
Mrs. Irwin R. Murray, Georgetown,
Is Elected President

At a reorganization meeting OF
the Sussex County Democratic Wo-
mems Club, held in Democratic
Headquarters, Georgetown, last
Thursday night, Mrs Irwin r. Muir
ray, Georgetown. was elected presi-
dent.
Mrs. Edna Brasure, Milton, foun-
der of the club and president since
1852. called the meeting and an
nounced that she was stepping
Continued on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1957-03-01
SUSSEX COuntyFdrn Bureau
Held Banquet On Monday

Herbert Voorhees, president of the New Jersey Farm Bureau told
milk
turning
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National Al Club Week
VIII Be Observed Mar. 90

National 4H Club through in
Delaware
Macdonald, County HI
Hghlght of the will
Caleb During flag fly the capitol
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Natl Group adopts Bogg's
Ne,U Handicapped Program


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