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Milford chronicle., 1958-01-03
Conf terence Training Is
Music Group Planned For
Here Jan. 10 B Ga t S m e n
Is Being Sponsored By
Flotilla 13, Coast Guard
Auxiliary And Will
Start January Sth.

A training course in plotting and
seamanship for small craft boats
men is scheduled to be given by
Fiotit1a 13, Coast Guard Auxiliary,
star ting Wednesday, January 8.
Registration for so applicants for
the course will be taken on that
date in the Civil Defense room of
the Kent County Courthouse, Do
yer, at 7:30 p. m.
Planned as a ten-week course,
lessons will be given in water
safety, seamanship plotting, en-
gines, aids to navigation, rules of
the road, knots and spices, and
charts. Persons who took the
course given by the Flotilla last
year report that it is highly in
structive to the novice boatsman,
and that the dedicated men of the
Coast Guard Auxiliary who act as
teachers are well-qualified in their
field of instruction.
Flotilla 13 also has tentative
plans to organize new Flotilla in
the Milford-Harrington area. Pros
pective members must have COM
pleted a course such as is now be-
ing offered by Flotilla 13, and be
the owner of a power boat 14-feet
or longer. Anyone interested in be-
coming a member of the group is
asked to contact one of the Off
GERS of the Dover organization.
Officers of Flotilla 13, Dover,
are: e. H. Gafford, commander;
William Hallett, vice commander;
and Verne McGrew, training officer.
Milford chronicle., 1958-01-03
Winners Are
N a m e d In
Annual Light
Contest Here
First Prize OF $4,000
Went To William. Wix
On Old Shawnee Road;
Second To Richard
Hall.

William Wix, resident on the
Old Shawnee Road, won the first
prize of $4,000 in the annual
Christmas lighting contest spon-
sored jointly by the City of Mil
ford and the Milford Chamber of
Commerce.
The judges, six in number, spent
nearly three hours and travelled Sc
miles in reaching their decisions.
They stated that there were many
more participants this year than
last year.
The contest is sponsored each
year, with total of $4,000 in
prizes, in an effort to create a more
beautiful city.
Second prize went to Richard
Hall, on South East Front Street.
Mr.. Hall was first prize winner
last year. Third prize went to Sere-
ma Hayes of Cedar Neck. Mrs.
Hayes is also a first prize winner
in the past. Fourth prize went to
Norman T. Webb, Jr., on the New
Wharf Road; Fifth prize, to James
c. Downham, on Cherry Street;
and Sixth prize, to Austin Lofland,
on West Street. Seventh prize, A.
c. Davidson, Woodside Drive,
Evergreen Acres; Eighth Prize,
Bill Skip" Gillespie near Lynch
Heights; Ninth Prize, Watson Hall,
WoodsiGa Drive, Evergreen Acres;
Tenth Prize: Dryden Gillespie,
South Walnut Street extended;
Eleventh Prize: w. Dean Kimmel,
South Walnut Street; Twelfth
Prize, South East Front Street.
The City of Milford and the Mil
ford Chamber of Commerce are
deeply appreciative of the efforts
put forth by all who took part in
the Contest.
Those selected for honorable
mention follow: Clyde Draper,
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Picked
For Parish
At Seat ford
Rev. Chas. J. Mckinley
Of Salisbury, Md, Is
Named To Succeed Fa-
ther Powers, Deceased.

The appointment of the Rev.
Charles ]. Mckinley, currently first
assistant pastor of st. Francis de
Sales Catholic Parish, Salisbury,
Md, to be- pastor of Our Lady of
Lourdes' Parish, Seaford, effective
as of Thursday, has been made by
the Most Rev. DR.. Edmond j. Fitz-
Maurice, bishop of the Diocese of
Wilmington.
Father McGinley's appointment
was announced by the Chancery
Office of the diocese. He succeeds
the Rev. Daniel M. Power, who
died Saturday, Dec. 21, and who
had been pastor of the Seaford par
ish since it was established in jan
uary, 1945.
A native of Allentown, Pa, Fa-
ther Mckinley was educated for the
priesthood at ST. Charles Borromeo
Seminary, Overbrook, Pa, and at
Mount St. Mary's Seminary, EN-
mitsburg, Md.
He was ordained to the priest
hood for the Diocese of Whining
ton on May IA, 1910 in the Cathe-
dral of the Assumption, Baltimore,
by the late Archbishop Michael j.
Curley. Ordained with Father Nc
Ginley that day as the only other
ordinand for this diocese was the
Rev. William E. Jennings, now pas
tor of Immaculate Heart of Mary
Parish, Liftwood.
Father Mckinley was appointed
a short time after his ordination,
as assistant pastor, protein, of st.
Johns Parish, Milford. Later he
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Service At
Y alley Forge
January 5th
Lieut-GOv. David P. Buck
son Designa ted AS
Speaker By His Excel
lency Gov. ]. c. Boggs.

Plans have been completed for
the thirty-fifth annual Delaware
State Sunday service in Washing
ton Memorial Chapel, Valley
Forge, Pa, it was announced to-
day by the Delaware State Develop
ment Department.
Governor j. Caleb Boggs has
designated 1t. Gov. David P. Buck
son of Smyrna as the speaker for
Sunday, January 5. The service
will begin promptly at p. M, ac-
cording to DR.. John Robbins Hart,
rector of Memorial Chapel and
president of the Valley Forge His
torical Society.
AS in previous years, members
of the Delaware Chapters, Sons
and Daughters of the American
Revolution will form a motor pill
grimage to the American shrine.
Special music will be presented by
the choir of First and Central Pres
byterian Church, Wilmington, with
Wallace Heaton serving as dircc-
tor and organist.
The public is cord lily invited to
attend.
The custom of holding weekly
services dedicated to the states
was established in 1923 by the late
DR.. w. Herbert Burk, who was
largely responsible for having the
Memorial Chapel built on the site
where General George Washing
tons Continentals suffered their
greatest privation during the new
nations fight for freedom.
Delaware gets the signal honor
of holding the initial service each
year because it was first to ratify
the Federal Constitution. The
states are honored in tie order in
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Avenue Methodist Church
Will Be Host To Pen
insula Conference Insti-
tute Next Weekend.

The Avenue Methodist Church,
Milford, Delaware, will be host to
the Peninsula Conference Church
Music Institute, January 10, II, IL.
This institute is sponsored by the
Methodist Board of Education and
will include musicians, and church
school workers from all areas of
the Peninsula
A faculty of three persons will
be responsible for the three-day
program of intensive study in Choir
al work, music for the church
school, worship service procedures,
organ techniques, and other fields
related to the subject of music in
our churches. Professor j. Edward
Meyer of the Wesley Theological
Seminary will head the faculty.
Professor Meyer has been directing
such music Institutes for several
years throughout the eastern area
of our country.
contributions made possible in the
realm of religious training through
the use of music, the Methodist
Church is sponsoring training pc
riods for local musicians through
out the country. These sessions,
while dealing with Methodist ma
terials, will also present techniques
and PHILOSOPHERS which will be
beneficial to all musicians from all
denominations. 1t is with this pos
sibility that the invitation has been
extended to all churches within the
area to send representatives 70 this
music institute.
Continued on page three)
Milford chronicle., 1958-01-03

moderately lower prices were
blamed for most of the decline in
crop values in both states.
The value of Maryland crops
harvested in 1957-at 93.3 million
dollars-was off 20 per cent or 81
million dollars, compared with the
previous year. While most of the
decline in Maryland's 1857 crop
output was caused by unfavorable
weather, some of the drop was the
result of acreage cutbacks. Total
acreage of crops harvested was
down five per cent, compared with
1856. The combined acreage of all
crops harvested in Delaware in
1857 was down four per cent from
the 1856 level.
The summer drought cut the
yield of Delaware's corn crop from
a record-high. of SIS bushels per
acre in 1856 to only 26 bushels in
1857. Total corn production for
Delaware was 3,640,000 bushels,
only 81 per cent of last years rec
ord crop-and the smallest crop
cince 1943.
Summer drought also cut soy
bean productions sharply from the
record-high output of 1856. But,
with a record 10000 acres, the
states soybean crop of 2,992,000
bushels was the second largest on
record, even though the average
yield was SIS bushels per acre less
than 1856. The hay harvest was the
smallest since hafOrp the turn of
the century.
Total 1857 tonnage of vegetables
and melons-at $1,000 tons-was
off nearly a third from year earl
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Two Killed,
IL Hurt In
Car Accidents
Over Weekend
Highway Death Toll Has
Risen To 81 With The
Death Of William E.
Miller Of Dover.

Delaware's highway death toll
rose TO 81 over the weekend with
the death last Saturday OF William
+. Miller OF Dover, killed instantly
when a car in which he was a pas
senger struck a bridge abutment
on Route IA, four miles east OF
Milton. Another man died in Mary
land after being in an auto acci-
dent, and nearly a score OF others
were injured in other vehicle mis-
haps.
The driver of the car in which
Miller was riding, Robert A. Nor
row, q, OF 527 South State Street,
Dover. remains in critical condi-
tion in Beebe Hospital, Lewes.
Nathan Sipple Wolf, 23, of Wyo-
ming, is in poor condition in Kent
General Hospital, following an ac-
cident near Dover. last Sunday,
and a Wilmington pedestrian, Will
liam III. Wright. 56, of 601 North
DUPONT Street, Is in fair condition
at the Delaware Hospital after be-
ing run down by hit-run driver,
last Saturday.
w iliidll hti n diihg TO- VI Ahiio
boro, is in fair condition at Beebe
Hospital following an accident last
Saturday night near Millsboro.
In Easton, Md, 75-year old Per-
cy o. Hynson, OF Denton, died last
Saturday after being injured in an
accident last Friday night. His
death was not Immediately attri-
buted to the accident pending the
results of an autopsy.
Miller, "a. was a resident of 445
: River Road, Dover.
State police said he was killed
when a 1857 Chevrolet driven by
Morrow slammed into a concrete
abutment at the south end of the
Broadkill River Bridge, north of
Milton on Route IA.
Miller was hurled out the door
and across the highway. his body
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$10O, 900 Seaford Fire
Races Daley Co.
Spectacular Blaze Swept Through
Tobacco Company Plant

Flames, fed by cartons of match
es and numerous paper products,
caused damage estimated in the
neighborhood of 100000 at the H.
E. Daley Tobacco Company in Sea-
ford, in spectacular early morn
ing blaze New Years Day.
In Seaford the building of the
tobacco company which served as
combination office and ware
house, was termed complete loss.
Merchandise loaded in four of
the company's trucks parked out
side the building was also scorched
and badly damaged. Firemen play
ed water on the trucks but, al
though the flames did not reach
them, the intense heat and water
took their toll of the contents.
Volunteers from Seaford and
Blades were on duty throughout
the early morning hours at the
scene.
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Highway Dept.
Has Fourteen
Projects Set
Are Awaiting Favorable
Word From States Fis-
cal Officers Before Ad-
vertising For Bids.

The Highway Department has Ia
projects ready to advertise as soon
as the states fiscal officers, feel
ing that the finance crisis is over,
give their approval, it was an
nounced this week.
Richard A. Haber, chief engineer,
said that advertising for Sids
awaits also approval from the Fed
eral Bureau of Public Roads for
those projects that will include
federal aid funds.
Plans and specifications for most
of the projects are now available
at the departments offices in Do
yer for prospective bidders who
want to inspect them.
The projects now ready for con-
struction include many types of
work, including improvement of
suburban development streets,
modernization of some existing
highways, reconstruction of some
small bridges, the Improvement of
some existing dirt roads and the
parkway planting along two sec
tions of the dual highway, along
u. ). Route 10.
The suburban development street
improvements include the rebuild
ing of Atlantic, Alice and Lake
Streets in Richardson Park, streets
in Cranston Heights and Richard-
son Park and Marian Avenue in
Bellefonte, which will provide a
new access road from the Phila-
de1phia Pike to River Road.
The highway improvement listed
include the paving of area in con-
nection with the enlarged under
pass at Naaman's along u. S. Route
13, the reconstruction and improve
ment of Marsh and Edgemoor
Roads, leading from the Philadel-
phia Pike to the shopping center,
near Edge Moor, and the widening
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Ticket Committee Is
Named For Dairy Meet
Annual Membership Dinner
Will Be Held On
January 16

r. V. Stallard, Seaford, Chair
man of the Education and Promo
tion Committee of the Artificial
Breeders Assoc. today named the
following to distribute tickets for
the associations annual member
ship dinner meeting on Thursday,
January 16 in the Cokesbury Com
munity Hall starting at 700 p. m.
Greenwood-Bridg area: AL
lison Davis, Greenwood; Milford
Lincoln area: Hammond Bennett,
Milford; Ellendale-Milton George
town area: James l.. Brooks, Mil
ton: Lewes-Rehoboth area: Will
liam N. Hopkins, Lewes; Mills
boro Dagsboro Frankford Sell
byville Ocean View area: Eldred
Cress. Frankford.
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Tall Cedars Elect
Officers For 1858
Harry III. Dukes, Jr, Is Erected
Grand Tall Cedar

At the December Ceremonial of
Evergreen Forest No. 49, Tall Ce-
dars of Lebanon, the following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing
year: Harry II. Dukes, Jr., G.T.C.;
Harley w. Moore, S.D.G.T.C.; Ted
H. Palmer. J.D.G.T.C.; Edwin p.
Messick, Treasurer; Robert ID.
Prettyman. Scribe; and Edgar l..
Smith, Trustee.
The above Officers were INSTALL
ed by District Representative,
Charles Z. Saunders, in full form
and with appropriate remarks.
On account of the inclement wea-
ther the attendance was not up to
par, but those present were well
repaid by a tip-top show from Phil
adelphia, and plenty of refresh
ments.
The next Ceremonial will be held
at Milford on Wednesday evening,
January Sth, at $500 o'clock. Chief
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Avenue WSCS VIII
Meet Next Tuesday
First Session Of New Year VIII
Be Hei5 In Fellowship Hall

The first meeting of Avenue Wo-
mans Society of Christian Service
in the New Year will be held Tues
day evening, January z, at seven
thirty in the social hall of Fellow
ship Hall. The program is being
prepared by Miss May Watson, sec
retary of missionary education and
Mrs. Huntley foyer, District sec
retary of Status of Women. The
theme is Changing Pattern in a
Modern World, with special en-
phasis on Japan, the country that
is the subject of one of the study
books of the year. Miss Watson will
conduct a class on this subject
later IN the year. Mrs. Byron Glib
son will have the devotions for the
evening and the president, Mrs.
Herman Kopf, will preside. The
Woman's Society of Christian Ser
vice in the local church will take
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Milford chronicle., 1958-01-03
Silas Dukes Named
To Head County ASC
Laurel Man is Again Elected To
Head Committee

Silas Dukes, Laurel, was again
elected chairman of the Sussex
County Agricultural Sterilization
and Conservation Committee for
1858 at a meeting held yesterday
in Georgetown.
Other members of the Commit
tee are Rollie N. Lewis, Miilsboro,
Vice Chairman; Earl White.
Bridgeville, 1st alternate; Paul b.
Hastings, Georgetown, End alter
nate, and George Carey, Milford,
third member.
The chairman of each of the
five Community Committees elect
ed earlier this month made up the
Board to name the County Com
mittee members. The chairman
and the community they repre-
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Rev. l.. E. Windsor's
Wife Dies In South
Death Came Accident Near Holly
Hills, s. c., On Tuesday

Mrs. Mary E. Windsor, 81, of
Frankford, wife of the Rev. Les
ter E. Windsor, died Wednesday
night at the Regional Hospital,
Orangesburg, S. c., of injuries
suffered in an accident near Holly
Hills, S. c., on Tuesday of this
week.
Mrs. Dorothy Bunting Carmean,
so, of Frankford, was killed in the
car-truck accident. Mr.. Windsor,
who was driving the car, and
James w. Carmean, SIS, husband
of Mrs. Carmean, and their son,
David, were injured but are ex-
pected to be released from the hos
pital Saturday. Mr. Windsor and
Mrs. Carmean are brother and
sister.
Mr.. Windsor was returning from
a Florida vacation to attend the
funeral of his mother scheduled to
be held on Thursday.
Milford chronicle., 1958-01-03
-Four More Died Than
Reported Deaths In '56
May Not Be Final Figure
However AS One Re-
mains Critical

A total of 81 persons met death
in motor vehicle accidents on the
streets and highways of Delaware
last year-four more than in 1866.
The 1857 record shows an in
crease of 4.59 per cent over 1856
in highway fatalities.
The 1857 total so far recorded
may not be the final figure, for one
person severely hurt in 1857 ac-
cident in Kent County is still on
the critical list
The Delaware Safety Councils
statistics for the two years show
ed that the increase of four fatali-
ties in 1857 over 1856 occurred in
the Wilmington figures, while the
totals for the state outside Will
mington were the same for the two
years.
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Milford chronicle., 1958-01-03
Downstate Broiler
Financing Studied
Subject Is Being Studied BY Sew
eral Well Known Economists

Considerable information regard
ing the financing of broiler produc-
ton in lower Delaware has been
issued in new publication on a
study conducted by the Delaware
Agricultural Experiment Station
in cooperation with the Farm Eco
nomics Research Division of the
u. S. Department of Agriculture.
Doing the research was Frank
D. Hansing, research division agri-
cultural economist. Hansing work
ed closely with agricultural eco
nomists at the University of Del
aware, particularly DR.. William
E. Mcdaniel, chairman of the ag-
ricultural economics department.
Since much time was necessary
to collect, evaluate and compile
information, printing was only re-
Gently completed. Work first began
in 1865 On the fist study of this
kind in Delaware.
In explaining the report, DIR. Nc
Daniel said the study reveals that
the average investment in chicks
on feed, excluding investment in
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State Promotion
Group Meets Jan. 10
Session VIII Be Held In Dover
At New Hotel

Lloyd r. Leslie, president of the
Committee to Promote Delaware,
Inc, has announced that an i'm
portant meeting of the 20-man
group will be held in Dover at
1915 p. m, Friday, January 10.
The luncheon-meeting will be held
in the New Dover Hotel.
This will be the first session
since the name of the group was
changed from Delaware Industrial
Development Committee, Inc, to
it's present title, and Mr.. Leslie
says a number of important items
will appear on the agenda.
Among them will be a resolution
which is designed to increase at
tendance and create greater in
terest in the Committee. Mr.. Leslie
pointed out, saying that he hopes
most of the members will be pres
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Winterthur Lectsre
At II. OF D. Jan. 9th

Dean A Fales, Jr., secretary OF
the Winterthur Museum, viii give
the fourth lecture in the Winter
thur Lecture Series at the Univer-
sity of Delaware on January s in
Wolf Hall auditorium at S:15 p. m.
Mr.. Fales will speak on "The
Arts at Pleasant Hill". Pleasant
Hill, built in 1892, was the estate
of Joseph Barrell. a wealthy mer-
chant, in Charlestown. Mass.
Mr.. Fales received his ALB. de-
gree from Boston University and
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More Construction
AT Delaware Park

Following recent legislation in
Dover, the Delaware Steeplechase
and Race Association will push
ahead with all speed in construc-
tion and reconstruction at Della
ware Park, and will maintain its
1887 policy of paying no dividends
to stockholders. In statement to-
day following a special meeting of
the Board of Directors, Donald
Ross, President, said:
1.-The 1887 starting policy of no
dividends to stockholders has been
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Phila. Motorboat
Show Feb. 28-Mar. 8

A coed from a Philadelphia area
university or college will be select
ed as show queen to reign at the
23rd annual Philadelphia Motor
boat and Sportsmen's Show.
Nominees for the title will be
chosen at each institution on the
basis of athletic ability, scholastic
achievement and beauty, according
to Clinton w. Smullen, show sec
retary.
The show will be held February
2S-March 8 at Convention Hall of
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Milford chronicle., 1958-01-03
Dawson A. Carter
Wins Promotion
Milford Insurance Man VIII Go To
Wilson, North Carolina

Dawson A. Carter, of Milford,
superintendent of the Dover Dis
trict of the Home Beneficial Life
Insurance Company, has been pro-
NOTED to manager of the Wilson,
N. c. district, and will assume his
duties there about January 9th.
Mr.. Carter commenced work for
the company in 1945 as an agent
in the Dover District in and around
Milford. After a most enyiable rec
ord as an agent, he was promoted
to Superintendent in December of
1851. Since that time Mr.. Carter
has made an outstanding record,
increasing the company's insurance
in force IN this area by over ST.
100000. He has also qualified to
attend every convention that the
company has offered.
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Milford chronicle., 1958-01-03

A group of suggested resolutions
for preventing accidents in the
home was submitted by Mrs. Will
liam N. Cam, Vice President for
Home Safety. She urged safety
conscious people to do these things
at home:
Remove rubbish promptly, es-
pecially from cellar and attic.
Correct conditions leading to
falls on steps. floors, and rugs.
Make sure gas and electric ap-
pliances and fixtures are safe.
Use a safe step-ladder when
reaching up TO high places.
Keep all medicines, poisons, in
secticides, and cleaning fluids in q
safe place-out of the reach of
young children.
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Milford chronicle., 1958-01-03

Those named and the commit
tees they will serve ON are as fol-
lows:
Soybean Yield Program: Will
liam H. Prettyman, Jr., George
town; Clifton Parker, Selbyville;
Richard Seeley, Greenwood.
Corn Yield Program: Roland F.
Mumford, Seaford; Marshall Woot-
ten, Millsboro; Thomas T. Jones,
Milford.
Greener Pastures Program: John
r.. Hastings, Bridgeville: Woodrow
Murray, Dagsboro; Nailor Wells.
Milford
Mr. Evans stated that the COM
mittees would meet on January
18th at 1000 a. m. in the Capital
Grange Hall, Dover, with similar
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y
I'VE learned with a great shock
to our national pride that we could
fall behind the Communists in the
scientific race and the battle for
mems minds" he said.
And we learned that the days
ahead will be ones which will re-
quire a considerable amount of
hard work in order TO accomplish
those things which must be accom-
plished to guard our nadonal Sc
curity.
Mr.. Haskell stated that the great
est lesson we could learn from
1857 is that we nave been victims
of complacency and the false as
sumption that the triumph of free
dom over despotism is inevitable.
IF we believe that the triumph
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Special Attraction
At '58 Ice Follies
Figure Speed Skater, Andra Me-
Laughlin, Commands Attention

Andra Mclaughlin, of Colorado
Springs and New York, is perha ps
one of the best all-around skaters
ever produced in this country Not
only is she a great figure skater
but she excells at speed skating.
She also is a sensation when it
comes to interpretive dances on ice
In the all-new Shipstads and
Johnson Ice Follies of 1858. now
playing a limited engagement at
The Arena, Andra presents her
fsmed Hawaiian dance as feature
of Moonlight Romance. Later,
she does an original Bonga num-
Der which called for more than 100
hours of rehearsals during the past
summer.
This strawberry blonde" has
been a star in her own right ever
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