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Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15
Investigator Says
US. School Need
More Than Money

consistently even during recent
years of huge enrolment increases.
Generally speaking, Mr.. Free
man contends, American teachers
are not Underpaid even though
their annual pay is lower than
such professions as medicine, law
and engineering.
Proportionately he asserts, tea
chers' salaries have risen more
than the national per capita in
come, more than the pay of other
public employees, and more than
the wages of workers in private
industry.
Too Much "FrOtho
Mr.. Freeman maintains that the
teaching profession itself is chief
ly responsible for U. S. education
al ills. He says the decline in edu-
cation has stemmed from introduc-
ton of courses in marriage and
family relationships. child devel-
opment, grooming, junior home
making for boys, teen-age prob
lens, beauty care, date behavior,
consumer buying, square dancing
and fly casting-courses which
have replaced rather than supple
mented basic courses in the cur
riculum.
The author also contends that
the "union-type" method of paying
teachers on the basis of seniority
without recognizing special skills
or qualifications has introduced a
serious handicap which cannot
easily be overcome.
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15
GEORGETOWN
Mrs. Constance Brown
Phone: Georgetown $500

The old Hoilymount School, in
decade ago in favor of the larger
central schools, began a bright new
life on Sunday when it was formal
ly dedicated as Christ's Church.
A group of residents of the area,
envisioning a non-denominationa
community church, aroused the in
terest that brought about the pur-
chase of the building from the
school board.
For months now, the prospective
members have been clearing and
beautifying the grounds and reno
waiting the interior.
Their plans were made public as
voters registration neared and it
was announced that the Eighth
Representative District would here
after register and vote in the Oak
Orchard Fire Hall after some eight
years of using the HollymOunt
School.
The Rev. E. L. Maddox is pastor
of the church and presided at the
service of dedication. Guest speaker
was the Rev. Mahlon Lewis, of the
Greater ST. Mathews Church, of
Philadelphia. He was accompanied
by members of his choir and con-
gregation.
All memorials and gifts in the
name of Christ were presented to
the church for dedication.
Visitors attended from Denton,
Nd, and from churches in the sur
rounding area.
Dinner was served after the SER
vice and a day of Christian fellow
ship was enjoyed. Those in charge
expressed appreciation for the CO.
operation received.
Mrs. Cora M. Rogers, of George
town, will marry Mr.. Harry P.
Truitt, of Berlin, Md, at the Pres
byterian Church in Berlin, Md, on
August 80.
Mrs. Rogers is nurse at the
Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Sea-
ford and Mr.. Truitt is employed at
the Berlin Milling Co.
The wedding reception will be
held at the American Legion Home,
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15
MILLSBORO
Mrs. e. e. Carey
Phone MiIlsbOrO k241

Flowers were placed in Grace
Methodist Church, Sunday, by Mr.
and Mrs. Granville O'Neal and fam
lily in memory of Mrs. O'Neal's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S. B.
Elliott.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles R. Godfrey
and Mr. and Mrs Elwood Godfrey
were in Bridgeville on Sunday to
visit with the Rev. George God
frey, who occupied the pulpit in the
Methodist Church.
Mrs. Sam Seidel and children of
Salisbury spent Sunday with Mrs.
SeideIs parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff
ford Cahall, at their cottage at
Fraim's Point.
Mr.. Lawrence Wardrop is a ma
tient in Beebe Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Hudson spent
few days last week in Atlantic
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Gregg, Jr.,
and daughters, Connie and Julie,
of Newark, are visiting Mrs.
Gregg's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Rust.
Mrs. G. Dale Lingo, ST., spent
Monday in Seaford with her daugh-
ter Mrs. Alfred Ellis, who recent
ly returned from Milford Memorial
Hospital.
Mrs. Wilbur Shockley of Bala-
Cynwyd, Pa, is spending the week
at her home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Rust of Will
mington spent a part of last week
with Mr.. Rust's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Rust.
The Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Murch
and children, with Mrs. George
Brewer and son, Lawrence, of
Georgetown, spent few days re-
Gently with Mr.. and Mrs. /. Scott
and children in Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Wilson, son,
Phillip, and daughter, Anne, of
Mansfield, Pa, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Lyle M. Ferris for several days
last week. Recent callers at the
Ferris home were Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Helm and Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Mcdaniel.
Miss Susan Hill of Woodstown,
N. j., is spending few weeks with
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Mitchell.
Mrs. Norris Goodwin entertained
several guests at a bridge-lunch-
con Wednesday at the Indian River
Yacht Club.
Jimmy and Donna Belts of Will
mington are spending this week
with their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter M. Belts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence War
drop, Jr., and daughter from New
York, have been visiting Mr.. War
drops parents at their cottage at
Oak Orchard.
Mrs. Fred Baker and Miss Pa
tricia Schumacher spent last
Thursday and Friday in Newark,
N ].
Mr.. and Mrs. Walden Wootten
and children of Salisbury visited
Mrs. Wootten's mother, Mrs. Ida
Wheatley, and aunt, Mrs. Elsie
Lingo, Sunday.
Mrs. Ethel Dodd and Bruce Car
mine spent the weekend in Reho-
both with Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
S. Goslee.
Mr.. and Mrs.. Winfield Weingar-
ten have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Willis A. Smith
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Baker
and daughters, Janet, Lora, and
Holly, arc spending the week in
Rehobotn.
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15

in Georgetown.
A northern wedding trip has been
planned.
A Wayne Burton, supervising
principal of the Millsboro School
was speaker at the meeting of the
Georgetown -Millsboro Rotary Club
at the Indian River Yacht Club re-
Gently.
Mr.. Burton sketched the history
of the Millsboro school system
from it's inception until the present
day and explained the methods of
financing both the regular school
work and new construction. He
compared assessment figures and
tax rates of various school dis
tricts.
Harry E. Williams was program
chairman for the evening and intro
duced Mr.. Burton.
Visitors were William d. King,
Frank Oliphant, Ray Lowe and Lin
wood O'Neal, all of Laurel, and
George Wharton, of Millsboro.
George H. Keen, superintendent
VI SCuOO1S anu SCCICldAy VI I1C
school board, has announced also
that with three recent additions,
the teaching staff for the Septem-
Der term is now complete.
A husband and wife team has
heen signed up though the hus-
band, Howard H. Hess, will not
take up his duties as business edu-
cation instructor until February
1, 1858. He still has six months of
military service to fulfill In the
meantime, Mrs. Grace r. Owen will
teach his classes.
Mr.. Hess wife. Mrs. Joyce M.
Hess, will teach elementary grades.
The third new member of the
staff is Miss Mary C. Boylan, for
secondary English.
John L. Briggs and Co., George
town has been awarded the con-
tract for construction of the four
classroom addition to the George
town School by the Georgetown
Special School District board of
education.
He submitted the low bid of $102,-
991. Other firms presenting bids
were Atlantic General Contractors,
Inc; Clute Brothers; Leonard Pc
yer, w. Reese Smith and James H.
Wood.
Mr.. Keen has also announced
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15
DRINKING DIVIDENDS


BOSTON = P) - Advice to a
drunk from the Massachusetts
Chiefs OF Police Association news
letter:
Since you cannot refrain from
drinking, why not start saloon
of your own in your own home?
Be the only customer and you will
not have to buy a license.
"Give your wife $55 to buy a
case of whisky. There are 240
drinks in a case. Buy all your
drinks from your wife at so cents
drink.
"In II days (when the case is
gomez your wife will have $50 to
put in the bank and $55 to buy
another case. If you live 10 years
and continue to buy your whisky
from your wife and die in your
boots, your widow will have $27 =
125.47 on deposit.
That's enough to bring up your
children, pay off the mortgage,
marry a decent man and forget she
ever knew bum like you"
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15
Bugs Are Keeping
Up The Pressure

Keep your spray gun handy or
the bugs will take over your corn.
cabbage, evergreens and just about
everything else, says DR.. Dale F.
Bray, chairman of the entomology
department at the University OF
Delaware.
On the cabbage front, DR.. Bray
says the cabbageworm and lOoper
are the main enemies. Malathion is
the most modern weapon land
should be used weekly or more
often if you still have trouble hold
ing the line.
If you prefer to eat your sweet
corn yourself rather than feed it
to the worms and beetles, you
should spray lnalathion on the
silks when they start turning
brown. If applied every four days
for a total of three applications.
you should not have any trouble
with sap beetles or corn ear worms.
In the battle to keep your orna-
rnentals you will have to face mites,
bagwOrms, boxelder bugs and fall
webworms, DR.. Bray said.
Mites can be controlled by either
kelthane or aramite but bagworms
are too large now too be completely
knocked out even with malathion,
so you should resort to hand to
hand combat, DR.. Bray said. Pick
them all off if you can find and
reach them.
Lead arsenate will work on the
bagworms if used early in the sea-
son but it is not very effective now.
If you sight fall webworms in
their tents, either lead arsenate
or malathion will force the enemy
from the field.
The red and black boxelder bugs
have a human-like habit of NOV
ing into the house when cold wea-
ther sets in so malathion or dield-
rim should be applied soon before
they have a chance to move in with
you, DR.. Bray said. finishing up
his advice on bug fighting.
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15

that the bid of the Mumford Sheet
Metal Co., Selbyville, has been
accepted for increasing the size OF
the hood in the dishwashing room
to improve ventilation.
Also accepted was the bid of the
Diamond Motors of Wilmington for
replacement of the 1947 Jeep used
for utility purposes.
Harold F. Wilson, chairman of
Safety Services of Area s. Red
Cross, has reported to the area
board that 141 children enrolled in
the swim classes sponsored by the
Red Cross and just concluded at
Trap Pond.
Area includes Georgetown, Mil
ton, Harbeson, Redden, Stockley
and Coolspring.
There were SO in the beginners
course; 42 in the intermediate
group and 10 in the swimmers
class. OF these. 80 passed the be-
ginners' course; Is the intermedi-
ate course; and six in the swim
mers' class.
j. Milton Meyer, Dagsboro, was
instructor and he was assisted by
Mrs. Raymond Rust, Mrs. Joseph
Hulinski and Mrs. Emory Schmertz-
Ter.
The expenses, born by the Red
Cross were $255.S5 which included
the instructors fee and transpor-
tation.
The Georgetown Church of God,
219 W. Market St, will hold a re-
vival from August IL to, Aug. "a.
The public is invited. Each night
the Rev. Donald j. Green will
preach at $780, There will be spe-
cial music. Mr. Green is home from
Lee College, Cleveland, Tenn. He
is a resident of Milford and has
spoken at the Milford Church of
God.
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15

New low rate makes electric heating
practical for modern homes on the
Delmarva Peninsula.
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15


Americans have given phenome-
nal financial support to their pns
lie schools in the last half century,
Mr.. Roger Freeman says in a re-
port on School Needs in the Dec
ade Ahead"
Mr.. Freeman points out the
amount of money going into school
funds has increased much more
rapidly since 1900 than has the
gross national product, national
income, personal consumption ex-
penditures or any other economic
yardstick!
Up so Times
He says that while the number
of children in public schools has
doubled since 1900, the amount
of money spent on schools las
multiplied 60 times.
Mr.. Freeman's report follows a
study for the Institute for Social
Research. His findings are direct
ly opposed to the claims of edu-
Gators that shortcomings iE the
public schools can be cured by
federal aid to education.
Pupil Ratio Down
Expenditure per pupil in dol
lars of constant value has doubled
every 20 years." Mr.. Freeman
states. Despite cries of over
crowding, he finds the ratio of pu-
pills to teachers has been declining
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15

Watch our September ods for spec
iol offers which will save you mon
ey and help you live better
electrically.
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15
WINS DEGREE

CONVICTION, Va. = Up Just
about the proudest of 1858 college
graduates is the Rev. Richard Guy
Sheltman, So. He got his A. B.
degree from Randolph Mason Col
lege SO years after beginning his
work in the college in 1922.
Financial difficulties forced him
to drop out of school. Came the
depression of the 1930's and it took
him 13 years to repay money he
had borrowed to go to school. In
1915 he decided to get that degree.
He used extension courses and
went to night school while serv-
ing as pastor of Mt. Carmel Meth
odist Church and working week
days as supervisor in the finishing
and dyeing room of rayon plant.
He passed his final examinations
with flying colors.
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15
FOR ATHLETES FOOT
USE Tai BECAUSE

II sIoushs efF infected skin. Exposes
more germs TO les killing action. lN
HOUR. IL not pleased with STRONG. in-
ssons drying TAI liquid. your 4se back
Of any drug store. Use T-4-L FOOT
POWDER soe-sivss q film Of unfisspsie
preteefion. Now at Rasains Pharmacy.
8-r-3f
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15

The National Bureau of Standards
has said that a wood siding of white
keeps a house cooler. White paint,
it reports, gives more prot iction
against the sun than aluminium, color
ed paints and other surfaces.
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15

If you are using an English recipe:
one saltspoonful may mean that as
much as y teaspoonful of the ingred-
tents is needed.
Milford chronicle., 1958-08-15

The blame for v. S. educational
ills lies with the schools rather than
the taxpayer, an independent In
vestlgator reports.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30

Thomas Starcher, who thought up
the whole idea last year. The re-
luctant organization, the Drama
Wing, performed before more
than 1000 persons with its first
play, Tomorrow Is A Day." dur
ing the 1888 school year.
Both plays are available for
the asking to any P-TA or other
civic group which is willing to
pay the expenses of transporting
the collegians from College Park
Ordinarily, the productions are
followed by a discussion period
in which the parents talk over
some of the questions stimulated
by the performance.
Due to the press of other bust
ness, the P-TA Council workshop
did not feel it had time for such
post-mortem. But Starcher
says, understandably, that the dis
cussions can be as entertaining
as the play itself.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30

out having to first go to Wash
ington. This would result in
cheaper, faster delivery and,
eventually, lower retail prices to
the consumer.
/ The zone stops just short of
Rockville to its southeast and
southwest boundaries. The ex-
panded zone, as proposed, would
include Gaithersburg and as far
north as Boyds and Germantown
to service expected industrial
sites adjacent to new U. S. 240.
May indicated that Rock
vile has a much better
chance than such far away
points as Laurel and Fairfax
because it is more intimately
associated with WashingtOn's
economic life.
But he added that many
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
Hope Brightens
On ICC Zone Case

Jurisdictions are located outside
of the Washington Commercial
zone and want to get in it,
The zone can be roughly de-
scribed as large wheel with
Washington for a hub. Only a
few common carriers in Washing
ton are allowed to trans-ship in
coming goods from Washington
to points outside the zone.
Inclusion of Rockville and
other points within the zone
would permit interstate shippers
to stop off to unload goods with
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30

The city of Rockville stands a
GOOD chance of being included
within an expanded Washington
Commercial zone, according to
Albert May, attorney and inter.
state commerce expert with the
firm of Macleay, Lynch & Mac
donald, of Washington.
May represented Rockville, Be
thesda and several other clients
in seven-day hearing before the
Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion that wound up last Tuesday.
Like Rockville, all of the other
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
~S1ech
For Free
P-TAs offered Drama
By College Players
By Bob Bernstein
staff Reporter

The University of Maryland
Drama Department has a cur
rent production that will never
make Broadway but should
be the hit of the year on the
P-TA circuit.
1t opened here in Rockville last.
week before a small but enthusi-
astic first-night audience at the
annual fall workshop of the Coun-
ty Council of P-TAs.
A half-hOur One-act presen-
tatiOn entitIe d "And You
Never Know" the playlet
dramatiZes the familial havoc
wrought by the jealousy of
12-year- old girl over
younger, prettier and more
talented sister,
AS a play, the production suf-
fered from many of the usual
opening night defects: notably,
some lapses of lines and some
awkward stage movements that
hadn't quite been set by repeti-
ton.
Nevertheless, the collegians
gave a sincere and sensitive por-
trayal that contained good deal
of humor and entertainment value
as well as a rather pointed mes
sage.
The m es sage, as might be
guessed, is that the green-eyed
monster remains a monster only
so long as he is nourished in a
den of secrecy.
Once exposed to the revealing
spotlight of frank discussion, he
can be seen in his true proper
tions and is no more frighten-
ing than the household pet.
Let it be said to the credit of
the production, however, that the
plot is not really quite that
| simple.
For one thing, the jealousy OF
the older daughter is merely one
of several conflicting emotions
that are marring the family
peace.
There is more than a hint,
for example, that the mother
actually does unknOwingly
favor her prettier and more
talented daughter.
And the mothers own rather
rigid personality-such as a be
lief that it is wrong" to dis
play ones feelings hampers any
easy solution.
Father, as fathers will, unwit
tingly furthers the impasse by
keeping so busy with his own con
fcerns that he fails to notice thu
presence of the monster in the
house.
But talk cures all and the little
group presumably lives happllS
forever after.
| Father and mother, as it hap
pens, are played by a real-life hus
band and wife team, Edward anc
Joyce Rizzo.
4 While both give capable anc
believable performances, the stal
of the show unquestionably is SUE
Guzzo, who injects charming
freshness into her role as the
unhappy daughter.
The skit is ably directed by E
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
S ENTlNEL soHTG0NFR5 eoSESq' ny.
thursday, October 30. l95s-DI

months will pass before any Com
mission decision can be expected.
A Commissioner examiner will
make his report some time after
the first of the year, following
submission of briefs by attorney
and opponents, If any, to the
plan.
Following the examiners re-
ports, all parties will have oppor-
tunities to file exceptions and
replies to exceptions. Only then
can the Commission be expected
to make a decision, which it is
possible, may be called up for
verbal argument before the en-
tire Commission.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30
PTA Role
Topic Of
Workshop

How can the schools P-TA
draw the line between its
legitimate concerns and those
that are strictly the business
of school administrators?
This was the central question
posed at the annual fall work
shop of the Montgomery County
Council of P-TAs held last week
at Richard Montgomery High
School.
The answer, as it turned
out, is not a clearly defined
one - although all concerned
agreed that cooperation and
mutual understanding pro-
vide the surest path to effec.
tiveness.
Discussing the problem wer e
DR.. c. Taylor Whittier, superin-
tendent of schools; Mrs. Fred L.
Bull, immediate past president of
the Maryland Congress of
Parents and Teachers; DR.. Mar
garet Conant, past president of
the Prince Georges County Com-
Gil P-TA; and Pat Holt, president
of the Montgomery County Coun-
Gil of P-TAS, moderator.
Mrs. Bull struck keynote of
the conference when she declared
that I'VE should be a fact-finding
and fact-facing organization"
One of the primary P-TA func
tons therefore is to hue the line
of "non-interference with the ad
ministration," she said.
DR.. Conant thought administra
tors could assist this goal in two
ways: by reducing their use OF
"educationaleSe" which otter
clouds the meaning of school in
formation, and by calling ir
parents more often on questions
of study and planning.
DIR. Whittier asked that
parents exercise restraint by
not attempting to usurp ad-
ninistrative functions.
1t must be recognized, he said
that individuals must be ad
ministratively responsible fol
certain actions and decisions"
The superintendent suggested {
three-point program by which
parent groups can help achieve
better schools:
. Build an adequate under
standing of what's going on anC
what ought to go on" in the class
room.
. Support the classroom teach
ers so that they will have tn,
needed confidence that will leaC
to the type of schools we want. ;"
. Put you own child in a fran,
of mind to benefit from schooling
see to it that he is ready t.
learn"
DR.. Whittier cautioned parent
that the surest way to lose th'
understanding of a teacher o
principal is to bypass him il
favor of a higher authority.
Parents often bring their re
quests directly to the schoo
board or superintendent, he SAID
"and then we only have to checl
Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-10-30

back with the principal for his
recommendation, anyway"
Within the P-TA organization
itself, Mrs. Bull said, members
should refrain from loading most
of the work, such as committee
chairmanships, on already over
burdened teachers.
Milford chronicle., 1958-01-17
Houston Al
Club Given
High Awards
Cardinals Repeat .Out-
standing Club" Honor
For Second Consecutive
Year; Awarded Silver
Cup.

Kent County's All Club achieve
ment winners were honored last
Thursday night at a banquet in
Caesar Rodney School, Wyoming,
held annually in recognition of club
members project efforts for the
past year.
Some 200 young members, par
ents, club leaders, and guests saw
awards presented to six state win
ners, four of whom were delegates
to the National All Club Congress
in Chicago in December Another
Sc awards were given for excellence
in the county.
A silver cup went to the Hous-
ton Cardinals All Club for repeat
ing last years homer as outstand-
ing club in Kent County. The clubs
dairy Judging team, tops in Kent,
received trophies donated by the
Farmers Bank of Dover. Team
members are Richard and Wayne
Simpson, and John, Benson, all of
Houston.
High-scoring individual dairy
Judging winners, given halter and
blanket prizes donated by the Brey-
CT Ice Cream Company, Philadel-
phia, were the two Simpsons and
Continued on page seyen)
Milford chronicle., 1958-01-17
Natl Officer
To Address S
Del. Changers
National Lecturer Will
Speak At State Leaders
vi Getting At Dover
Grange, Jan. 21st.

Edward F. Hotter, National
Grange lecturer, will speak at the
Delaware State Grange Leaders
Conference, Tuesday, January 21,
in Capital Grange Hall, Dover. He
will address the luncheon assem-
bly, and will sit in on the lecturers
workshop during the session which
runs from 10 a. m. to p. m.
Hotter, a former dairy farmer
from Frederick, Md, has been lee
turer of the National Grange for
10 years. He was secretary of the
Maryland State Grange for IL years
and for several years served both
as Maryland state master and nat
iOnal lecturer. He now works full
time in the National Grange Head
quarters in Washington, D. C.
The conference includes masters,
secretaries, lecturers, home eco
nomics chairmen, youth chairmen,
and juvenile matrons from the 25
subordinate and three pomona
Oranges in Delaware The respec-
tive state officers in charge of the
workshops are: William H. Nau-
dain, Newark, master; Bayard B.
Taylor, Wilmington, secretary:
Wills Passmore, Wilmington, lee
turer; Mrs. Edna w. Dukes, Town
send, home economics; Wallace y.
Caulk, Woodside, youth; and Mrs.
Austin Hufnal, Dover, juvenile ma
irons.
Members of Capital Grange will
serve the luncheon