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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
Celebration Tonight

The Coda Myerson Club,
Pioneer Women's Organiza-
ton, will hold its annual
Mothers Day celebration to-
night at 7:30 O'Clock at the
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Love Makes You Loyol

When they rush in excitedy to tell you those funny
stories you first heard and told mother when you
were about that age.
When they trail you from room to room describing
movie in vast detail
When you're facing unusually busy morning and
neghbor you wouldn't hurt for the world shackes you
to the phone.
ON rainy day when the dogs had pups, the sinks
stopped the washer won't work the children play
ing Indian with blanket eepees in the living there's
nothing to eat in the house but eggs and you're giving
yourself home permanent in your oldest blue jeans
your husband calls joyfuly to Buds in town
you remember old fraternity brother who thought you
were quite dish? Well be right ou!"
Beauty in Your Own Back Yard
The white chalkstripe of clohesne strung from pole
to pole the pins sti perched 1t like birds tee-
phone wire.
neighbor taking down clothes-reaching up with I'M
conscious fluid for the dazzling white sheets folding
them with practced swift economy Of motion and placing
them in the oblong sun-gided basket on the grass
Morning gories dancing on the white garage like
fragile blue cups of sky.
The Small Fry Ask
Johnny says it's over billion inches from here to
Florida. say it can't be How many inches is itP"
Watching huTrying stream-"What makes water go2
Does water push other wster?"
do castles have curtains?" do dogs get married."
do hills grow up to be mountans?" Can you
drown old umbrellas" Does God have a wife?"
Examining a caraway seed from a slice of bread--"If
I plant this seed then will bread grow?"
Wednesday Wo daughter asked the donee or not proves
problem-n of Love and Laughter" the Womens Section
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
Hundred Club
To Aid Needy

The One Hundred Club has
established a fund which will
enable needy retarded chill
dren to attend classes at the
nursery, occupational and
training center at the Home
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Rainy Day Ideu

Linen rainwear is the lat
est. Shower shedding linen
topcoat in a gay floral print
is teamed with color co-ordi-
mated linen dress for some
thing new in a rain costume.
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OF Love
and Laughter
They're Only Little Once,
End Thqt's q Lucky Thing
BY MARJORIE HOLMES

Two small naked boys splash wildly in the big white
tub their bodies shiny under the bathroom lights The
older fails the water and hurs II into his little brothers
excited uplfted rosy face. He doesn't mind blinking
rubbing his face and eyes, he shreks with delight and
tries vainly TO hurl the water back.
They thrash about grabbing for the soap: they
throw their sodden wash cloths Their hair pasters their
sire ming heads like the feathers Of drowned birds
Patiently and helplessy sit waiting with the towels
urging them 10 STOP 10 get out with kind Of rhythmic
hopeessness Finally pull the plug though they still
fail about like seals sliding down the tubs edge, trying
TO chin themselves the towel bars The younger laughs
makes faces initiates his big brothers every antic.
Finally, meaning business. you haul one bodily out
while the other hastily scrambles The older
suddenly longegged rangy and mby beside the youngers
chubby as-wth much cavorting he skechy dries
himself You grab towels and give both vigorous
rubbing from the head down. You don't risk turning them
loose with tacum powder not tonight Holding high the
give them each brief dousng and shoe them out
They're only little once" you remind yourself for
the tenth time. hopping up.
Thank RnodneSs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04

her on her day, Sunday, May
From the pot-pourri OF aft fro
oronces at Woodward 6 Lothrop:
A. Chanel No. 5, French perfume.
500, $50, 1880, 1000
3. Oirectoire by Charles Of tho
Ritz, Floreol tcoIoene). $50
Perfume. $50, 500, 1000, 27.5O
c. Mueuet des Bots lilly of the
Valley, by Coty, sproy mist. $50
Skin Perfume. l.5O
D. Fascinating Four" by Lucien
LeLone, lndiscreet, ToiIspin, ST.
rocco and BoIeIoiko cologne. $50
{. Joy perfume by Jean Potou,
from Poris.
1000, 1880, $500 and 1000
e. ShoIimor by GuerIoin, from
Poris. 600, 900, 1900, $500, 5000
6. Moonlight Mist by Helena
Rubinstein, Eau de Porfum.
3.75, ESQ and 1.5O
h. Spring Fancy by Prince Motch-
obeIli, Cologne Sproy Mist. 200
Cologne, 4-ounces. l.SO
Pleose add 1922 Federal tax
WGl-Cosnetics, lst Floor
.. also Chevy Chose and Corners
E. selections OF Alexandra
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Propose S. S.
Fund Hike To
Help Aged
Sen. C. P. Case OF New
Jersey Proposes Mea-
sure Calling For A 1O96
Increase In Payments.

Senator Clifford P. Case, (R-
N. j.. this week proposed 10 per
cent increase in social security ben
efits in double-barreled move to
help the nations aged and fight the
business recession.
Cases plan was given only slim
chance for passage this session.
But Democratic House leaders were
hopeful of pushing through a more
moderate plan to hike benefits for
those already on the social secur-
ity rolls to make up for rises in
living costs.
The Case Bill would boost the So
cial security tax on employees and
employers to per cent in 1860. It
would go up another one-half of 1
per cent every four years until
top of Az per cent was reached in
1872. For self-employed persons the
rate would go to Az per cent in
1860 and to 6% per cent in 1872.
The bill would increase from
$4,000 to $4,000 the earning base
on which social security taxes and
benefits are computed. Case said
about $900,000,OOO in additional
CONTINUED on page severn
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Sentence For Lonely
Hearts Killer Cut
Life Term OF Robert Brennan Il
COMMITTED By Gov. BOggs

Robert Vernon Brennan, who
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
when he was Ia years old for his
part in the famous Lonely Hearts
murder in 1949, has been given a
commuted sentence of 15 years by
Gov. j. Caleb Boggs-
The Governors action, following
the recommendation of the Board
of Pardons and means, it was said
that Robert could now be released
at any time. He has served more
than half of the new 15-year SEN
tence.
The Lonely Hearts murder was a
Delaware sensation for more than
a year, ending in the trial and con-
viction on charges of first degree
murder of Robert and his mother,
Mrs. Inez Brennan. Both were SEN
fenced to life.
Mrs. Brennan was found guilty
as an accomplice and the jury did
not recommend mercy for her as it
did for Robert. Both were charged
with killing Wade Woodbridge, an
elderly carpenter from Virginia,
who had come to the Brennan farm,
east of Dover, at Mrs. Brennan's s
invitation.
Robert admitted shooting Mr..
Woodbridge whose body was then
burned.
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Sears Holding
"Open House.
This Weekend
Public Invited To Visit
Store That Honest Val
ues And Fair Dealing
Has Made Successful.

Everyone is cordially invited to
visit Sears Catalog Sales Store on
North East Front Street, Milford
directly adjacent to the free muni
cipal parking lot today and to-
morrow and get free souvenir.
Mrs. Mary Keller, the store man
ager, will be on hand to welcome
all her many friends IN the newly
enlarged store. The improvements
have been made to better serve a
clientiel that is growing by leaps
and bounds, and many items have
been low, low priced for the three
day open house, which opened yes
terday.
Since its inception in Milford
about IL years ago. Sears has out
grown its original location, and
since its establishment at its pres
ent location, has been forced to ex-
pand its facilities three times to
meet its rapidly expanding sales
growth.
Today, there are IA employees
and as they are needed, additional
salespeople will be hired and train
ed in Sears sales methods.
According to Mrs. Keller, there
is reason for the popularity of
the Milford Sears Catalog Sales
Stores. She believes that Sears val
ues in good merchandise plus Sears
willingness to exchange or refund
for any purchases not satisfactory
to the customer, has caused more
CONTINUED on page fivel
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Have Been Added To
Volunteers Already So
Letting Ads For ALL
Star Football Game
Program. .

A total of sixty additional volun-
teer workers has been added to the
team of solicitors in behalf of the
Third Annual All Star Football
Game.
The ladies and gentlemen are
seeking advertising sponsorships
for the Souvenir Programs, to be
sold on August 2ofd when the two
championship teams from New Cas-
tie County, Kent and Sussex meet
on the gridiron at Newark.
The campaign for advertising is
scheduled to end the week of July
14th. The new volunteer workers
will supplement those appointed
earlier by Mrs. j. A. Frear, Jr., and
Mrs. T. W. Collins, Co-Chairmen of
the Gold Team solicitation, repre-
senting Lower New Castle, Kent
and Sussex Counties.
In announcing the names of the
new volunteers Mrs. Frear declared
Through the nnselfish interest of
these so additional workers, we will
have total of over 100 individuals
contracting potential advertisers
throughout all OF Delaware below
the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal And we are confident that
they will obtain the participation
of many additional business, indus
trial and professional organizations
in behalf of our Souvenir Pro-
gram"
The All Star Game will bring to-
i oh n n
lents to be found in scholastic COM
petition. throughout the State. The
event proceeds of which will do
much to aid the States mentally
Continued on page nine)
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Sussex House Fire
Loss Seen $22, 900
Henry /. Short, Jr, Loses Personal
Belongings And Home


Spontaneous combustion during
the afternoon heat last Saturday
was blamed for fire that destroy
ed the attic and second floor of a
house on the George
town Highway owned by Henry L.
Short, Sr., and occupied by his son.
Assistant Chief Lewis G. Collins
of Bridgeville set the loss at S2,-
900 for furniture end belongings
on the second floor and $4,000 for
the house. Mr.. Short said he had
about $500 worth of insurance on
contests, but that he did not know
the insurance on the house.
During the fire, the ground-foOr
ceiling collapsed but neighbors and
firemen carried out all furnishings
on this level before the debris and
water plunged down.
Henry /. Short. Lr., was hauling
hay near Glendale at the time and
his wife, Nancy Elizabeth, 81. was
visiting her mother, Mrs. Phoebe
West, in Georgetown, with the two
children, Debbie, 8, and Heidi, Is
months.
continued on page fve)
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Jaycees Are
A
Here
Have Signed Contract TO
Present Mills Bros.
Circus On Labor Day,
Sept. 1st.

Robert Corddry, president, an
nounced this week that the Mil
ford Junior Chamber of Commerce
has been fortunate enough to sign
a contract with the Mills Bros. Cir
Gus for two shows on Labor Day,
September /. The circus will show
on the same grounds used for the
Jaycee Carnival on Rehoboth High
way and Evans Street.
Mills Bros Circus is the largest
travelling fund raising circus on
the road and ranks second only to
Ringing Bros. Barnum and Bailey
Featuring three rings where TWEEN
ty-seven different acts, 16 imported
from Europe this year, can be seen
in a show taking two hours and in
a fire-proofed Bip Top seating
three thousand people.
Mr.. Corddry stated that the Mil
ford Jaycees are very pleased to
be able to bring this size circus to
the people of Milford and the sur
rounding s2=-eesas, Milford being the
only city between Wilmington and
Salisbury to show this Circus. The
local Jaycees had to guarantee
Mills Bros. a substantial amount
to show here and have to get this
guarantee and their profit from the
advance sale of tickets. BY buying
advance sale tickets you will not
only be helping the Jaycees but
will be making saving for your
self. Adult tickets are $110 in ad-
vance and $3.50 the day of the
show; children tickets are $50.
Tickets will be put on sale on July
25th and will be obtainable from
any member of the Jaycees and
several other locations to be an
nounced later.
The funds received from this
project will be used in the Jaycees
Civic projects, one of which is a
proposed Halloween Parade and
Street Dance with over one hun
dred dollars awarded to the best
costumed participants. Once again,
buy your Circus tickets in advance
TO help the Jaycees and yourself.
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Power Squadrons To
Hold Rendezvous
Annual Fete VIII Be Held July
18th AT Baltimore

District of the United States
Power Squadrons will hold its an
nual District Rendezvous starting
Friday. July 18th. at the Baltimore
Yacht Club, Baltimore, Maryland,
with Sue Island Power Squadron
as the hest squadron. Past Com
rnander Ted Carski of Sue Island
Squadron is Rendezvous Chairman,
and Commander Morton Kravitz of
Delaware River Squadron is Con-
test Chairman.
District is comprised of the 20
squadrons in Maryland, Southern
New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Virginia, and -he District
of Columbia. B. Leland Sinclair, of
Baltimore, is District Commander,
and he believes that this rendezvous
will be the largest in the Districts
history, Well over 200 boats and
1000 people are expected to attend
The District Navigator's Contest
will be held on Saturday, July 10Th
with each squadron entering a
team of three boats. The results of
this contest will be announced on
Saturday evening by the Contest
Committee.
CONTINUED on page fve)
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Milford Group
Is Active At
Port Knox, Ky.
Group From Area Is
Under The Leadership
Of Captain Wayne w.
Kline, Are Tankmen.

Captain Wayne w. Kline leads
Milford reservists of the 317th
Tank Battalion who are taking
part in Field Maneuvers at Fort
Knox, KY. Other Milford reserv-
lists in this group are: M/Sgt. An
thony Desmond, M/Sgt. Martin
Smith, SIC James Sharp, Sgt. Jehu
M. Davis, Jr., Sgt. Stephen Hayt,
Spa Parker l.. Turner, Sp3 Will
liam H. Davis, Pfc Robert W. Ham
mond and Pvt-2 Adrian l.. PaytOn.
More than 200 men from Del
aware are undergoing rugged field
training with the Army's most mod
ern weapons and equipment. These
citizen soldiers have again left
their civilian jobs to join in realis-
tic field Inaneuvers. The hot hills
of Kentucky provide the scene for
combined arms exercises under the
commond of Major Edwin Kelly, Jr.,
OF Bridgeville, Del. The use of tao
tical training under atomic con-
cepts is being stressed.
These local tank soldiers are
joined with hundreds of other re-
servists from West Virginia, Mary
land, Pennsylvania and Washing
ton, D. c. They wear the same uni
forms and receive the same pay
and privileges as members of the
Regular Army.
Capt. Kline, with the other re-
servists, will return to Milford on
July 13, 1876, to resume training
with pay once each week. Their
Units meet at Seaford and Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Accidents Happen AS
Motor Travel Increases

Vacation motor travel is big
business approximately "a per
cent of all vacation trips made in
this country are made by auto
mobile
That fact was cited this week
by two automobile club execu-
lives. who warned of the many
ss..a 1ss::<< accidents that can occur as
motor Aravel booms. They are:
Charles w. Lawson, executive Sec
retary of She Delaware Automobile
Association, and William p Mark
lcontRmed on page eleyen)
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Kent Republicans
Seek TIUO State Posts
Feel 1856 Showing Should
Get Them RecOgni-
ton

Kent County Republicans will
battle for two places on the state
ticket this year, it was learned re-
Gently.
They expect State Treasurer
Vera G. Davis to seek renomina-
tion and reelection and they are
prepared to support her. They re-
member that she ran very well in
1856 Mrs. Davis led the state tick
ct and was second only to Presi-
dent Eisenhower
But they want another job, either
state auditor or state insurance
commissioners, according to a party
spokesman.
The auditors office is now held
by Dale e. Wheatley, a Republican
of Seaford, who won in the Eisen-
hover vote parade in 1856.
continued on page nine)
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Harvey Spicer To
Seek Senate Seat
Popular Georgetown Mayor Seeks
To Represent 5th District

Harvey B. Spicer has announced
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for state senator from
the Fifth Senatorial District
His announcement followed un-
animous endorsement of his can
didacy at the meeting of the Ninth
District Republican Club at their
headquarters at Georgetown Tues
day night.
The Fifth Senatorial District in
cludes the Ninth and Tenth Repre-
sentative Districts, or the George
town, Milton, Lewes and Rehoboth
areas The post is now held by
Thomas L. Johnson, Rehoboth,
who said that he would not run
again.
Mr.. Spicer is the present repre-
sentative to the State Legislature
from the Ninth District, which is
Georgetown Hundred. He was re-
elected to his fourth term as mayor
on Saturday, June IA, and served
at one time as State Motor Vehicle
continued on page sevenl
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Local Gudrdmen IN
Leave Armory Sun.
Headquarters b attery.
16Oth Group Will Begin
Their Annual Summer
Field Training At Beth
any Beach.

Seventy-six members of Head
quarters Battery, 160th AAA
Group, commanded by Colonel
Ralph S. Baker, will begin their
Is day annual summer field train
ing on Sunday, July Is. The unit
will leave the Milford Armory at
1880 a. m, and will move to Beth
any Beach, Delaware. by motor
convoy Upon arrival at Bethany
Beach encampment site, the first
day will be devoted to setting up
group and battery headquarters
and supply facilities. An advance
detail under CWO Carter Minor,
Supply OFFICER, left today for Beth
any Beach and will secure bar
racks equipment and bedding for
troops when they arrive on Sun
day They will erect the tents which
will be used to quarter Battery Off
ice and supply. Personnel that de-
parted on advance detail are Capt
John Holland, Jr.. M/Sgt. Angus
tus Lindale, SP3 Robert Austin,
SP3 Robert Coleman, SP3 Wayne
Harrington, SP3 Alexander E.
Pierce, PFC Richard Argo, and
PFC Daniel Dohring. In addition
to advance detail, SIC James Haz-
zard, Mess Steward, departed to-
day to attend two-day food service
school which will be conducted at
Fort Miles. Delaware, in advance
of the opening of camp. Food SER
vice staff personnel of Second
Army will conduct classes on latest
change in mess hall and kitchen
operations.
After the first day. the unit will
settle down to on the job training,
continued on page fvel
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Sixty additional
Volunteer Workers
96 PCT. OF STATE
FARIS HAVE ELECTRIC

Electricity serves 96.1 per
cent of all Delaware farms,
Robert Jefferson, manager of
the Delaware Electric Co
operative, Inc, told fellow
Bridgeville Kiwanians in a
talk Electricity on the
Farm" Monday night of this
week.
Mr.. Jefferson said he sees
an even greater demand for
electricity in the future. He.
said 20 area homes are COM
pletely electrified including
heat.
Referring to his own CO.
operative which has its off
ices in Greenwood, the speak
er said the Delaware Electric
Cooperative, Inc, expects to
add a tenth station soon and
with the increase in capacity
of some of the other stations,
the total capacity will be
stepped up from the present
1920 kilowatts to 17,700 kilo-
watts.
The Cooperative has 2,052
miles of electric lines with
9,400 consumers in Kent and
Sussex counties, Mr.. Jeffer-
son said.
Guests included Clarence
Oceltree. president, and Wal
ter Mills of the Greenwood
Kiwanis Club; and Donald
Booth, Emory Wiley and
James Slacum, all of the Sea-
ford Kiwanis Club.
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Records Show
Last Delaware
Road
Death In 1856
State Can Well Be Proud
OF It's Highway Police
For X e eping De a tn
From Highways For
Seven Holidays.

Death not only took a holiday
in Delaware during the past July
4th weekend, records show he has
been taking them here for the past
seven consecutive holiday week
ends
+ Moreover, a look at the traffic
fatality figures for the Memorial.
Independence, and Labor Day week
ends during the past three years
reveals the last highway death oc-
Cured on Labor Day, 1855 In that
accident. 83-year-old Leonard Da-
cardi was fatally injured when the
car in which he was riding and a
truck collided on the Philadelphia
Pike at Claymont
The year 1856 was a bad one for
Delaware as far as fatalities were
concerned. Three persons died over
the Labor Day weekend, another
three on Memorial Day, and one
on independence Day.
Throughout the nation, accord
ing to the Associated Press, observ-
ance of this years three-day July
4th weekend cost the lives of 655
persons, most of them traffic VIC
Tins.
Fatalities from traffic niishaps,
always the major cause of holiday
deaths, were tabulated at $40, short
of the National Safety Councils
pre-holiday estimate of 80.
Although the traffic death toll,
compiled by the Associated Press
from p. m. (local time) Thursday
to midnight Sunday, stayed under
the Safety Council estimate, il
came within one of the 371 traffic
fatalities counted during the same
rs hour period of the tnree-day
Memorial Day holiday.
Both the number of deaths by
scoatinued on page sevenl
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
NeED Supervisor Is
Named For School
Will Supervise e Special
Schools And Classes
Throughout State

Mr.. Walter L. Kabis has been
appointed by the State Board of
Education TO serve as supervisor
of special schools and classes for
the trainable and institutional pro-
grams in the State Department of
Public instruction.
Mr. Kabis has had considerable
experience IN the field of education.
He taught for one year at AM
herst (Mass.) High School, thee
years in the East Orange (S. J.)
elementary schools, three years at
Milburn On. J) High School and
two years at Newark IN. J.) State
Teachers College. For the past ten
years he has been director of edu-
cation and recreation at the Cover
nor Bacon Health Center in Del
aware City.
He was born in Newark, N. j.,
and was graduated from the West
(contlnued on page nine)
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Summit Bridge Closes
On Tuesday July IS
Bridge Over d. And C. Canal WIN
Be Completely Inspected

Summit Bridge, over the Della
ware and Chesapeake Canal, will
be closed on July Is, from 8 a. m.
to p. m, according to informa-
tion given to the State Highway
Department by the U. S. Corps of
Engineers.
According to this information,
the Corps of Engineers plan to
make a complete check of the
bridge and the vibrations from the
effect of traffic moving over the
bridge would interfere with their
operations.
The State Highway Department
will arrange to detour traffic DUR
ing the period that the bridge is
closed and signs, stating that the
bridge is closed will be erected at
the connections of all highways
leading to the bridge.
A complete inspection of the
bridge at this time is deemed to be
very important by the Engineers
because of the failure of some
heavy trucks to abide by the load
limit regulations that have been
in effect for the bridge
continued on page sevenl
Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Al Tractor Contest
Viii Be Fair Feature

The annual State All tractor
operators contest will be top
feature of the 1858 Kent Sussex
Fair, July 21-26. according to Sam
Gwinn, state All Club Leader.
The contest is designed to give
All Club members an opportunity
to demonstrate their knowledge OF
tractor maintenance and skill in
operation.
The contest viii consist of
written and practical examination,
tractor safety and the operation &C
CONTINUED on page kenl