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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Festive Holiday
Air Created For
Church Bazaar

AS Smyrna's best decorator
talent got together Monday
night, a festive, holiday atmos-
phere was created for the Holt
day Gift Bazaar being held
Thursday and Friday, Nov. 20
and 81 in the Century Club
House by Asbury Methodist
Church. Thomas c. Mulligan,
the high school art director, with
the assistance of Mrs. Robert A.
Mills, Mrs. William T. Keiser
and Mrs. Leroy K. Savers, drew
sketches, selected materials and
composed the festive character
of the ten booths. The displays
and decorations alone will make
a visit to the bazaar a pleasant
afternoon or evening. Earl c.
Ford, chairman, w. Leroy Wat
ers, Robert A. Mills and Med
ford L. Potter comprise the
booth committee. They worked
together with the decorations
committee and various booth
chairmen.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Grange Readies
Halloween Entry,
Hear U.N. Report

Forty members of the Smyrna
Grange attended the covered
dish supper Thursday night and
heard the program arranged by
the lecturer, Mrs. Norman Short.
E. T. Heinold, chaplain, 70 years
old, recited two selections from
memory, and there were read
ings by Michael McGrath, Mrs.
Edgar T. Heinold, and Mrs. Har--
old McGrath, and jokes by Mrs.
Arthur Short. James Fleming,
Jr. gave a report on his recent
trip to the United Nations in
New York with the civics class
of the John Bassett Moore High
School. He was also assigned
the preparation of an entry by
the grange in the Jaycee-spon-
Continued on Page Fourl
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Eagles Inactive
This Week; Dump
Middletown, 80

Smyrna High Schools football
Eagles will receive a breather
this week from the grinding
schedule which has seen them
post four victories in five con-
tests. An open date in the
schedule will give Coach Bill
Horney's squad an extra week of
preparation prior to the tough
test with the Lewes High Pirates
on Nov. 7. Last Friday the Red
and White smashed game but
outmanned Middletown eleven
for the second time this season,
this time by 80 score. Barry
Pritchard displayed his most
sparkling performance of the
year in leading the Eagles to the
scoreless rout of the Cavaliers.
The outstanding young quarter
back threw two touchdown pass
es and plunged for another I'd
to pace the Smyrna offensive.
Following the Lewes tilt, Hor-
ney's boys will engage Delaware
City away and Georgetown
(home) prior to the season finale
with Dover at home on Thanks
giving Day morning.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Mrs. Ralph Knots
Dies At Dover

Mrs. Thelma Macklin Knots,
81, wife of Ralph D. Knots, ST.,
of Dover, died Monday in Kent
General Hospital. The Knots
had resided for many years in
the Clayton area before moving
to the state capital about three
years ago. Mrs. Knots was the
daughter of Edward F. and En-
ma Walls Macklin. In addition
to her husband, she is survived
by two children, Ralph D..
Knots, Jr., Dover, and Mrs.
Frances Creedon, Dayton, O.; 7
grandchildren, one brother, Ry-
neer Macklin, Smyrna, and a
sister, Mrs. Roberta Fleming,
Clayton. Funeral services will
be conducted this afternoon,
Oct. 80, at ! pm. at FAIRIES Fun
eral Chapel. The Rev. Frank
Baynard, pastor of Ewells-St.
Paul Church, Clayton, will off
ciate. Interment will be in Glen
wood Cemetery, Smyrna.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30

At the regular meeting of
Smyrna Town Council Friday
night consideration was given to
a letter from the Delaware May
ors' Association in reference to
their annual meeting which will
be held in Dover on Sunday,
Nov. 2, which the mayor and
members of council were ur-
gently requested to attend. Due
to the Importance of the mat
tiers which will be discussed at
that meeting, including policies,
explanation of home rule, and
how proposed legislation will
affect each town and city, it was
decided that the town manager,
the mayor, and as many mem
bers of council as possible will
be present. Town Manager Rex
D. Gilmore was authorized to
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Death of Mrs. Margaret Brothers

Mrs. Margaret Brothers, 43, a
native of Townsend, died unex-
pectedly Sunday in the Della
ware H o spital, Wilmington,
where she had been admitted
five hours earlier. Death was at
tributed to a heart attack. Al
though she had lived in Will
mington for the past 20 years,
Mrs. Brothers was born in Town
send, the daughter of the late
MIR. and Mrs. Roy Greer. She
was known as one of the few
women bridge tenders in the
United States. She and her hus-
band, John, operated the cleo
trically-run bridge at the foot OF
East Seventh Street over the
Brandywine. Surviving are a
daughter, Mrs. Josephine Stoker
Deleon Springs, Fla; two sons
Martin Janeka, Smyrna, and
Robert Janeka, Harrington, and
one grandchild. Funeral services
were held yesterday afternoon
at the Daniels Funeral Home ir
MiddletoWn. Interment was ir
Warwick Cemetery.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Large Crowd Is
Anticipated For
Annual Halloween
Parade Tonight

Interest now centers on the
annual Halloween parade spon-
sored by the Smyrna-Clayton
Junior Chamber of Commerce
tonight, Oct. 80. The entrants
include a Color Guard from the
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post;
three units of the Citizens Hose
Company; two units of the Clay
ton Fire Company; and nine
masked units. There will be a
contingent of Cub Scouts in line,
and ten new cars entered by
dealers in this area. The Smyrna
Grange has entered a float, and
there will be many individuals
participating. The parade will be
spanked by the marching band
of the John Bassett Moore High
School. There will be three di-
visions, fancy dress, most orig
inal, and comic, with three priz-
es awarded in each category.
The judges include Capt. Robert
S. Damon, National Guard; ].
Wells Campbell, George V. Kirk,
William E. Matthews, Jr., Miss
Ruth Ellen Reihm, Mrs. Margar-
ct M. O'Neill, Thomas Mulligan,
and Charles M. Gee. The lineup
will start at 7 pm. and the par
ade will get underway promptly
at 7:30 pm. from the site at the
Smyrna Elementary School. The
parade route will be from School
Lane to Commerce Street, to
Main Street, to South Street, to
Market Street Plaza where the
Judging stand will be placed.
George E. Bryson will act as
master of ceremonies at the
stand. Entrants may get their
numbers at Wootten's, Golden
Pharmacy, or Vance Coles Bar
Der Shop today. No one will be
permitted in the line of march
who does not wear number.
Lee Gooden will furnish the
large truck used by the judges
and the Silver Eagles, youthful
boys club, will cooperate in the
affair by manning the amplify-
ing system and providing chairs
for the judges stand. The Jaycee
committee for the project in
cludes Carson Call, chairman;
Richard E. Ennis, Smithers
Snow, Jr., George D. Wright,
Brooks Banta, George Parker,
and Donald Morris. The rain
date is Monday, Nov. 8.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Elizabeth CarrOw
Begins Graduate
Work For COLLEGE
Teacher Degree

Elizabeth Carrow of 100 South
Delaware Street, has entered
Bryn Mawr College to begin
graduate work in American and
English literature on a Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship. She
graduated in June 1854 from the
University of Delaware. Miss
Carrow is one of the thousand
prospective college teachers in
the United States and Canada
who are entering graduate school
this fall as Woodrow Wilson
Fellows. Recognizing the critical
need for college teachers, the
Ford Foundation recently gave
the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Foundation $25,000,000 to aid
outstanding first-year graduate
students. Beginning next year
each fellowship will carry a liv-
ing allowance of $1,000 for
single students, with increments
for dependents, and will pay the
full cost of tuition and fees. In
order to be considered for a fell
lowship, a student must be NOM
mated by a faculty member.
Miss Carrow has taught tenth
and eleventh grade English in
the Newark Senior High School
since her graduation. In college
she served on the stats of the
campus newspaper and the col
lege yearbook and was poetry
editor for the undergraduate lit
erary magazine. She was elect
ed to membership in Kappa
Delta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi, and
for several summers she worked
as a reporter for The Smyrna
Times. She is interested in mu-
sic, playing the piano and sing
ing. Her interest in drama goes
back to the childhood days when
she and brother presented
original plays in an old barn.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30


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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Trooper Arrests
Smyrna Man On
Theft OF Truck
Tire At Big Oak

Alertness by an unidentified
state trooper investigating an
accident on Saturday resulted in
the arrest of two men on bur-
glarly charges and one on
charge of larceny of an automo-
bile. Detectives at Dover said
that an automobile operated by
Henry Bush, 35, of Wilmington,
accompanied by Ephraim Will
liams, 48, of Smyrna, was in
volved in an accident on County
Route l0l, the Cheswold-Pear-
sons Corner Road, when it slid
into a ditch. The trooper investi-
eating the accident noted a big
new expensive truck tire in the
trunk of the auto. Further in
vestigation disclosed that both
Bush and Williams were en-
ployed by the General Tire Com
pany at Wilmington. They had
stolen the tire and tube from a
barn-warehouse of the company
which is maintained on Route
Is at Big Oak, two miles south
of Smyrna. The car also had
been reported stolen by a Will
mington resident identified as
Fred Cameron. The men were
committed to Kent Correctional
Institution in default of $1,000
bail each by Magistrate Maurice
w. Carrow of Camden, on the
burglary charge. Bush was also
charged with larceny of the
automobile. He was fined $40
and costs or Is days on a charge
of driving without a license; $25
and costs or 20 days for driving
on the wrong side of the road;
and $40 or 80 days for speeding.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Longtime Local
Resident Praised

In recent column, 'Ramblin'
Round, by Joe Martin, writing
for the Morning News, mention
was made of the late George
Carter, long a resident of this
community, who lived on Car
ter's Road for many years. MIR.
Martin, in his reference to Mr..
Carter among other newspaper
men on the News-Journal pap
ers in days gone by, says: For
many years the king-pin of the
Evening Journal (owned by
Charles Edwards) was George
Carter. At first he was just a
reporter-but what a reporter.
Later he was managing editor
and editor. His long connection
on the Journal was broken by a
connection with the New York
Press, a lively, well-printed
daily, strongly Republican,
which apparently was organized
in the givorous but usually un-
successful fight on Tammy. Car
ter wrote a beautiful legible
hand, and could write much
more rapidly than most report
ers. He covered the General
Assembly among other duties
and frequently ground out six OF
seven columns as a days stint
and thought nothing of it"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Avoid Spiritual
Poverty, Jaycee
Official Warns

Showing a picture of the Sta
tue of Liberty at the conclusion
to slides taken on a world tour,
Thomas L. FaiX, national chair
man for education, U. S. Junior
Chamber of Commerce, said that
it is a symbol of the challenge
to use our influence around the
world, and avoid spiritual pow
erty although we have material
wealth, in a talk at the Twen-
tieth Century Club Thursday.
He attended the World Congress
of Jaycees in Tokyo, travelled
$4,000 miles, $4,000 by air, and
visited 16 countries, and was a
delegate on the Economic AT
fairs Commission at the World
Congress. Mr.. FaiX said that,
while in this country Jaycees
are training for leadership, in
the Far East the young men are
the leaders. In Hong Kong, ac-
cording to the speaker, the Jay
Gees built schools and hired
teachers, and it was a humbling
experience to realize that they
do more than here. He was inn
pressed by the beauty in the
midst of poverty, and the pic
lures showed the contrast be-
tween poverty and splendor,
and said that public education
is in the grass roots stage" The
youthful Jaycee told of his world
tour with the ethical and spirit
ual overtones and noted the diff
ference in the cultures of the
/ various countries. The slides in
cluded scenes taken in San
Francisco, Hawaii, Japan, the
Philippines, Hong Kong, Bang
kok, Siam, India, Beirut, the
Holy Land, Egypt, Italy, and
Brussels. He had on display ar
interesting collection of objects
of art from many countries. He
CONTINUED on Page Four,
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Town Crews Begin Work On Xmas
Decorations; Street Work Cited

make reservations. Mr.. Gilmore
gave a progress report on the
street work now under way, and
also on the town well house. The
concrete slab has been poured
at the we'll house, he said, and
the work there will be at a
standstill for about two weeks
until the concrete hardens and
the forms can be removed. Re-
ferring to the street program, he
noted that Union Street and East
Street had been completed and
a first coat laid in Parkway
Manor, and stated that all street
work in the program should be
completed next week. At the
corner of Delaware and Frazier
Streets the street was rebuilt
to eliminate storm drain pipes
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Indian Tepee And
Totem Pole Prize
Winners At Dance

Colorful and original cos
tunes were worn at the annual
Halloween masked dance given
by the Smyrna-Clayton Jane
Gees Saturday night at Town
Hall. Outstanding was the first
prize winner in the original
category, awarded to Mrs. Mar
tin Golden and Mrs. Leonard
Geissel, who impersonated a
seven-foot totem pole and an In
dian tepee, and received APP
plause at the un-masking. Sec
ond prize in that classification
went to Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Moore, impersonating lamp
post and a drunk. DR.. and Mrs.
Ray Summons won first prize in
the classification for prettiest
costumes, as a Sheik and his
lady. Second prize to MIR. and
Mrs. Richard Jones, as Scottish
Highlanders, in identical plaid
kits and authentic costumes.
In the funniest group the first
prize went to a threesome, de-
plotting a couple with child in
a baby carriage, Mrs. Walter
Downes, Mrs. Leroy Savers, and
Mrs. Ray Hudson; second prize
to George D. Wright, in a fe-
male impersonation. The judges
were Mrs. ]. Everett Lofland,
Mrs. Lee Slaughter, Mrs. Henry
c. Webb, the Rev. F. S. Ban
croft, Fred Harris, Jr., and
James Bradley. Music was pro-
vided by The Starlighters. The
committee in charge included
Mrs. George D. Wright, chair
man, Mrs. Golden, Mrs. Downes,
Mrs. George Bryson, Mrs. A. H
Hammond, and Mrs. 6. Edward
Wootten.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30

A record number of voters for
an off election year is expected
to go to the polls next Tuesday,
Nov. 4, when Kent County resi-
dents cast their ballots for a
Congressman-at-Large, United
States Senator, and various state
and county officials. Election
board members are readying all
facilities available for the crowd
expected to converge on the
polling places. On the state
level attention will be centered
on the race for the United States
Senate seat. Incumbent John j.
Williams, Republican of Mills
boro, is being opposed by Ebert
N. Carvel, former governor from
Laurel. The post of Congress
man is being contested between
the present holder, Republican
Harry G. Haskell, Jr., of Will
mington, and former holder Har-
ris B. Mcdowell, Jr., of Middle
town. The remaining top candi-
dates listed by the Democrats
are Michael A. Poppiti, attorney
general; Mrs. Belle Everett, state
treasurer; Ernest E. Killen, state
auditor; and Harry S. Smith, in
surance commissioner. The Re-
publican slate lists Januar D..
Bove, Jr., attorney general; Mrs.
Vera G. Davis, state treasurer;
Dale E. Wheatley, state auditor;
and Arthur Robert Hudson, in
surance commissioner. Locally,
the fight involving Henry T.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Record Off-Year Vote Expected For
Next Tuesdays General Election

Price, Smyrna, and George En-
niger, Dover, for State Senator
from the First Senatorial Dis
trict, has held the political spot
light. Ehinger, 69-year-old super
intendent of The Murph e y
School at Dover, has long been
active in community affairs. He
has served as a representative
in the General Assembly, presi-
ident of the Dover Rotary Club,
District Governor of Rotary In
ternational, and president of the
Dover United Community Fund.
He is a member of the school
board of the Dover Special
School District and is quite in
terested in child welfare. MIR.
Price, too, has a long commun-
ity service record. The 49-year-
old businessman takes an active
role in both church and civic or
CARNATIONS. He is president of
the Official Board and lay leader
at Asbury Methodist Church. He
has served on both the Smyrna
Special School District and the
William Henry School boards of
education. In addition to these
duties, he has been president of
the Smyrna Lions Club, a men,
Der of the State Department of
Public Welfare, a member of
Smyrna Town Council, and a
Levy Court Commissioner.
Charles c. King, Democratic
incumbent for the seat in the
State House of Representatives,
/ is opposed in his bid for re-elec-
ton by Republican j. Frank
Greenwell. Both candidates are
residents of Smyrna. Greenwell,
an accountant at Townsend
Brothers Chevrolet, Dover, is a
charter member of the Smyrna
Lions Club and a vestryman al
st. Peters P. E. Church. He
resides with his family at ia
S. Main Street. King presently
operates a meat and grocery re-
tail business in Smyrna. He is
a vestryman of st. Peters P. E
Church and former member Of
the Rotary Club.
D. Elwood Nuckols, Smyrna
is the Republican choice fol
Levy Court c ON m S S j o n e
against the Democratic candi
date, John G. Tarburton. In 9th
err county contests, Walter A
Handsberry, Democrat, opposes
A. Keith Webb, Republican, fol
Clerk of the Peace; Roy ]. Hon
ey, Democrat, opposes George ]
Pyott, Republican, for Recorder
of Deeds; Graften. R. Heather
Democrat, opposes w e b S t e
Phillips, Republican, for Regis
ter in Chancery and Clerk of thu
(Continued on Pare EiRht)
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1958-10-30
Temperance Union Elects

Members of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union met
Monday at Asbury Methodist
Church. officers for the next
year were elected. Named to
executive posts were Miss Julia
Griffith, president; Mrs. Laura
Myers, vice president; Mrs. Will
liam Anderson, recording secre'
tary, Mrs. Ernest Blendt, cores
ponding secretary; and Mrs.
Delsie Bessinger, treasurer. Dues
may be paid to any of these of
ficers.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-03-07
Education Needs
Honest Exam

TORRANCE, Calf. - MC)-
Faith, principles and discipline
are the needs of education to-
day - not mere expansion of
physical facilities, it was said
here.
Msgr. Martin McNicholas, for
mer superintendent. of schools
and archdiocesan vicar for re-
ligious, said "the real failure of
education lies in the fact that
the principles of the Founding
Fathers have been taken out of
the philosophy of education for
the past so years."
What is needed today, he
maintained, lis not so much ex-
pansion of educational facilities
that is a mere administrative
problem - but a thorough and,
honest examination and evalua-
ton of its philosophy and un-
DERIVING principles"
"We are afraid of real educa-
ton" he continued, because
we are afraid TO compel our
children and ourselves TO make
the necessary effort that intel
lectual discipline demands, and
ives are too cowardly to face
certain contentious issues de-
manded by an investigation of
the nature of the universe,
mans place in it and mans des-
tiny"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-03-07
responsibility
Weakens Fiction.
Critic Declares

IOWA CITY, Iowa One
great defect of current Ameri-
can fiction is not that its char
acters are sinners, but rather
that they sin unthinkingly and
lack a sense OF responsibility"
a priest-literary critic declared
here.
Jesuit Father Harold G. Gardi-
ncr, literary editor of America,
national Catholic weekly. made
this statement in an address at
the University of Iowa. His talk
was sponsored by the graduate
chapter Of the university New
man Club.
"AiI great literature is fill.
ed with sinners" Father Gar.
diner pointed out in snsIyrins
fke deficiencies of modern
American fiction. "Ail the
most horrible things have
been written about and yet.
by this strange alchemy of the
creative artist, these things
that are horrible in fhem-
selves turn out to be for vs.
csihsrsis, . basis Of hope,
basis Of striving for achieve
menf."
Il would like to see a book"
said Father Gardiner, lin which
sex is taken seriously. a book
which doesn't just talk about it
~that's easy TO debut which
takes sex as it is, as a means
of great glory, of great achieve
ment, or as a means of great
tragedy. Sex is ole OF the
dominant forces of our lives"
I'm so much Of current lit
erature, the sinner is . weak
little guy who hasn't got the
nerve to commit . good sin.
That may surprise you but,
from a literary point Of view.
it's true"
Father Gardiner distinguished
between two kinds of realism"
in American fiction-naturalis-
tic realism, introduced by Theo-
dore Dresser, and the ideals
tic realism which affirms the
existence of intangibles like
truth and virtue.
But realism of itself is mere
ly a technique, not a way of
thinking, said the priest. 1T US
es common and current SMILES
and metaphors, description TAX
en- from current events and so
on"
ut is when this writing"
he said, "is eonioined with The
nafuraiisfie frame Of mind
(which neither denies nor AZ
firms the existence Of infsnsi-
bles like truth and Justice and
faith and love and pesce) that
IL beeomexa 'nsfuraIisfie real
ISM Denyins this whole
world Of intangible values Is
the most unrealisfie type Of
approach. Such utter reslisfs
are In fact sentimentslists."
Father Gardiner said he be-
lieves naturalistic realism is
pretty well dead, for the pres
ent at least, on the American lit.
erary scene"
AS an example, he pointed to
"the new monstrosity of young
James Jones' Some Came Run
ming, which is a type of work
that simply doesn't appeal to
people today. The book is as
limp as a dead fish"
He said it is harder TO put
your finger on the nafuraIis.
tic realism that permeates
the recent b~est-selIer Of James
cezzens, BY Love Possessed,
because the book is . little
more senfeel. Mr.. .Couens,
though his English style has
been coming in for some re-
cent criticism, 1T least can
write an English sentence
now and then. Mr.. Jones, |
don't think, can.
Zone test / believe you can
always give to a book" said Fa-
Their Gardiner, "is to see the at
titude of the author on human
love as manifested in the sex
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-03-07
$500 Non-C Catholics
Attend Lectures

SAN ANTONIO - MC) -
Operation UNDERSTANDING" a
project originated by Auxiliary
Bishop Stephen "A. Leven, prov
ed a success during the month
of February, drawing an attend
ance of 1890 persons.
Bishop Leven designed the
program, with the assistance of
the local Court of the Catholic
Daughters of America and a
Knights of Columbus Council, to
invite and encourage Protestants
or other none Catholics to come
to a series of four lectures that
explained doctrines and devo-
tons of the Church.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-03-07
500 Million Program
Set By Notre Dame

NOTRE DAME, Ind. - The
University of Notre Dame has
announced a $66, soc, 900 devel-
opment program geared ITO con-
solidate and further its academic
excellence" during the next 10
years.
Father Theodore M. Hesburgh,
csc, university president, said
that more than two-thirds of the
projected goal will be devoted
to the university's internal
growth" with the balance ear
marked for new buildings and
additions to existing campus
structures.