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Milford chronicle., 1958-05-30

liam Johnson, Mrs. Willis Voshell
Mrs. W. H. Jump and Mrs. George
Kirkby.
Miss Betty Hayes left on Sunday
from the Dover Airport to fly te
Miami, Florida, where she will stay
at the Cadillac Hotel for two weeks
Miss Eva Watson spent Sunday
with Mrs. Marguerite G. Cooper.
Mrs. Minnie Armour spent sew
eral days of last week with Mrs
Maggie Hudson. in Milford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Obey F. Sapp spent
Saturday, in Wilmington, with their
sons, Frank and HummeI Sapp and
families.
Miss Grace Sharp of Wilmington
and mother, Mrs. Anna Sharp, OF
Harrington, were dinner guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Thistlewood
and family on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Yerkes
and son, Townsend, were callers
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Yerkes, Sr., on Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Hayes and
family were guests at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Case in Harr-
ington, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Walter Wharton
and Mr. and Mrs Obey F. Sapp
visited Rehoboth on Sunday after
noon.
Mr. Ray White, of Olean, N. Y, a
student at the u. of ID. spent the
weekend with Richard Simpson
Robert Reynolds, Jr., spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Reynolds, Sr.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kirkby spent
| Tuesday, in Philadelphia, while
there Mrs. Kirkby received treat
ment for her eyes which have been
troubling her very much recently.
We are glad to report Mrs. Clin-
ton Marvel, who has been in Mil
ford Memorial Hospital for about
week, is at home and recuperating
slowly. Mrs. Emma Bailey, of Mil
ford, is with her for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Coulbourne,
of Milton, are receiving congratu-
lations upon the birth of daughter
on Wednesday. She is the Coul-
bonrnes fifth, the other four being
boys. The grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. VIM Coulbourne of this town.
The new Miss has been named SUI
san Elaine Coulbourne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Gaby and
Mr.. Howard Clifton of Seaford, were
in Houston on Sunday afternoon
circling around calling on former
friends and relatives. They called
on Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Clifton and
also at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Coulbourne. Mr.. Clifton
was former merchant of our town.
The reception for Rev. and Mrs.
Kirwan was held in the Fire Hall,
on Saturday evening 1t was a very
crowd Guests for the evening we're
Rev. and Mrs. Douglas Milbury,
pastor of Calvary Methodist Church.
Welcome was extended to Rev. and
Mrs. Kirwan by the chairmen and
superintendents of the different de-
partments of the Church School
and organizations of the church.
Both the Junior and Chancel Choir
sang. Mrs. Agnes Webb was at the
organ for the congregational sing
ing. Mrs. Robert Yerkes acted as
POSTMASTER for the affair. Delicious
refreshments of punch and home
made cake were. served.
Milford chronicle., 1958-05-30
MILTON
Walter w. Crouch
Phone: Milton 1885

Private funeral services were held
on Wednesday afternoon from the
Short Funeral Home for Mrs. EN-
incline Gray Wagamon, wife of
Henry G. Wagam0n, who died sud
denly Sunday evening. She was the
daughter of the late Benjamin and
Annabelle Gray. Besides her hus-
band she is survived by two sisters,
Mrs George A. Lippincotte, of
Chestnut Hill, Pa, and Rehoboth,
Del; and Mrs. George G. Brasure,
Milton; 2 brothers, Jester A. Gray,
of Frederick; and Joshua B. Gray,
of Milton. Services were conducted
by the Rev. Conrad Hamer, pastor
of Goshen Methodist Church, Mil
ton. Interment followed in Odd Fell
lows Cemetery.
Charles A. Lofiand, IS, died Mon
day morning after a lingering ill
ness. He was retired chief engi-
neer for the United States Govern
ment in New Orleans, La, and had
served as chief engineer on the
Delaware Bay and Pilot Boat. He
was a member of the Junior Order
A. NJ. of Lewes; Endeavor Lodge,
No. IL, A. f. & A. M, Milton and the
National Association of Retired Civil
Employees, of Washington, ID. G.
A son of the late Elias and Eliza
Carey Lofland, of Milton, he is
survived by his wife, Estella ID. Lof-
land: a daughter, Mrs. Martha ID.
Palmer. Ephriam, N. j.; one son,
Charles S. Lofiand, New City, Ia;
two sisters, Mrs. Frances NJ West
and Mrs. May Yost, of Philadelphia,
Pa.
Services were conducted from the
William Short Funeral Home by the
Rev. Conrad Hamer at 2 p. M,
Thursday afternoon. Interment was
in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Members or Circle No. 2, Goshen
Methodist WSCS prepared and serv-
ed dinner for the bi-monthly meet
ing of the local Lions Club in the
Fellowship Hall. Mrs. Helen Bark
er is leader of the group.
On Tuesday evening Members of
the Goshen WSCS met in the As
sembly Room of the Church for
their monthly General Meeting. A
program of song service of Charles
Wesley's hymns was the highlight
of the devotional service. This was
Milford chronicle., 1958-05-30

Make a "dustless" duster by
soaking a cloth for several hours
in hot suds with q few drops of
turpentine, suggests Miss Patricia
A. Middleton, extension home man.
agement specialist at the Univer-
sity of Delaware. After being
wrung and dried, the cloth will
pick up dust, not spread it.
Milford chronicle., 1958-05-30

Nickel was first isolated as an
element only in 1851.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06
Welcome This Opportunity!

We suppose that If group of citi-
Gems came to Congress with the money
in hand for construction of National
Cultural Center and offered to build 1t,
provided the Government supplied an
appropriate site, there would be no ques-
ton concerning the acceptance Of such
q gift.
The question which seems to worry
some members of the House Subcommit-
tee on Public Works, which conducted
hearing yesterday on the legislation, is
whether, if the Government supplies
the site, the money to construct the
center will be forthcoming from private
sources.
We do not see why that question
should be of any immediate concern. If
the Senate-paSsed bill is approved by
the House and becomes law, availability
of the site will either produce the con-
struction funds from private sources, or
fail to produce it. If the money is not
Forthcoming, the Government will have
lost nothing. 1t will still retain the site,
and the site will be available for some
other need.
In other words, the Government
CANDLES nothing 1t stands to lose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06
Worth the Effort

The cause of speedy and effective
justice has been served by the belated
efforts at the Capitol to promote pas
sage at this session of legislation to
create 46 badly needed additional judge
ships. After languishing in committees
for most of the session, the judgeship
bill has been given new life by the
Senate and the House Judiciary Com
mitteeS, each of which now has approved
the measure.
Slow-motion justice is especially
alarming in the big cities, with the New
York area leading all others in the
backlog of cases. For example, it takes
about AZ months for an average civil
case to come to trial in Brooklyn. Too
often such delays result in failure of
essential witnesses to appear at the trial
or to recall details of incidents involved
in damage or other suits. Justice in
evitably suffers. Chief Justice Warren
and other judges have strongly sup
ported Attorney General Rogers urgent
pleas for prompt action on the new
judgeShipS.
Now that the judgeShip bill has
cleared the committees, we hope the
congressional leaders will see that it is
brought to a vote before this session
ends. And this should be done without
regard to partisan considerations. The
effective and efficient administration Of
justice is not, and should never become,
a partisan matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06
HoiI, AnqeIine!

The world could be an excruciat-
ingly dull place If there were no people
in it like 19-year-old Angelina Cleft Of
Waller, Texas While most Of us have
been brooding over such weighty and
dreary things as the Middle East crisis,
she has chosen to concentrate all her
thoughts and action-her whole vibrant
being-on purely personal matter Not
for her the great international issues
of the hour. Not for her the clamor of
foreign wars or rumors of wars or SIM
liar PARKWAY alarumS. Instead, for 10
days she has turned up at the White
House with a 10-pound chain padlocked
around her neck. And she has done this
solely and simply in an effort to make
the President do something about
court decision depriving her and her
family of some land that she thinks
she owns.
Well, Mr.. Eisenhower, who is
pretty busy man at the moment, has
done nothing for young Angelina, except
to make sure that the key to her paddock
the key which she sent to him at the
start of her protest-has been available
for her to pick up at any time. So she
has given up the fight. After 10 days,
which is rather long time in the life
of a growing girl, she has taken back
the key, unclaimed herself, and made her
last grand GESTURE gesture amount
ing to nothing less than the inspired
use of her own discarded shackleS to
shut tight, for brief spell, the main
gate of the White House. She has rea-
son to pride herself on this as a superb
personal exit from the Washington
scene. Indeed, long after the worlds
current commissions subSide, there will
be some among us who will remember
her, with kind of affection, as a
sweetly startling blonde who made life
seem a bit less tiresome and nerve
racking than 1t too often Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06
Delay in Prince Edward

Federal Judge Hutcheson's tentative
date-io65-fo the beginning OF school
migration In Virginias Prince Edward
County may or may not be consistent
with the concept Of AL deliberate
speed" Neither the Supreme Court,
which employed this ambiguous phrase
In its school decision, nor any appellate
court has ever undertaken 10 spell out
It's meaning.
Judge Hutcheson's Interpretation Of
It's meaning will not satisfy the partisans.
The NAACP, which wanted him to order
indignation in Prince Edward next
month, is expected TO appeal from the
ruling. The opponents Of integration
in the southside Virginia county viii
not accept mixed schools now, and we
know Of no reason to suppose that they
will be ready to accept them seven years
hence.
So what Judge Hutcheson's decision
really does is to postpone the day OF
reckoning. It does not solve the prob
lem. It merely makes 1t unnecessary to
attempt a solution now or in the imme-
date future.
There are certain advantages to this.
The school population in Prince Edward
is 81 per cent colored, as per cent
white. If ordered to integrate, the
county plans to close down all public
schools. A makeshift system Of private
schools would be set up for white chill
dren, but there would be nothing for
colored. So one benefit from delay will
be to keep the schools, white as well as
colored, operating. And in this connec-
ton, Judge Hutchinson made one par
ticularly pertinent observation. He said:
It must be ever borne in mind that
the children are those for whom the en-
tire educational system was devised and
their interests are not to be lost sight Of
in the conflict Of the adult world in which
they live
There does not now appear to be
any attainable method, assuming that
the drive for indignation is pressed, by
which, the adult conflict in Prince
Edward can be settled without an even
tual educational result which will be
harmful to the children Of both races.
We should think, therefore, that there
must be many parents in the county,
colored as well as white, who will well
come this breathing spell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06
Tribute to Dr.. Kopf

This is a tribute to the
greatest man / have ever met
DIR. Carl H. Kopf. He was
truly a man among men. In
his sermons to the meek. he
also had a message for the
rich, and the poor. When he
was talking to the entire con-
gregation, I among others felt
as If his message was to me,
and me alone. His was the
personality that could lift you
out of depths that seemed
impossible. He didn't have to
tell you what was wrong with
your life; you knew what was
going on and how to correct
it. The rest was up to you.
After you talked to a man
like this. an individual would
feel like his problems were
over. At any rate he had a
new outlook on life and could
face the world with renewed
hope.
DR.. Carl Heath Kopf was
truly q man, and / had the
pleasure of knowing him
personally. John H. Smith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
About q Weird South Atlantic Island

celery. grass and sedgcs. The
peat covering Of the rocks.
however, continues 20 the
tops OF all the peaks 80 that
vegetation Is possible az all
levels.
The center Of the island Is
an undulating plateau with
an elevation Of about 1000
feet - probably a. weird q
land as man ever has entered.
II is a plain Of bright yellow
and orange moss. covering
the peat bed like a blanket.
interspersed with small blue
lakes. The explorers called
this yellow land "albatross
plain" because Of the many
nests Of the wandering alba
tross around the edges Of the
lakes. It's breeding. II Is be-
lieved. probably Is confined to
this single land. The explor-
ers identified a total Of 20
species OF sea birds and ~ Of
these species were nesting.
Seals Only Mammals
The only mammals are fur
seals and elephant seals, both
typically Antarctic animals.
They counted 10000 Of the
former, including about 1.700
males more than six years
old. The island was first
known to the South Atlantic
sealers and the herd was
practically exterminated q
century ago. Now II seems TO
have entirely recovered and
eventually may prove q con-
siderable economic asset.
The island is approximate
ly 1900 miles west Of the
Cape Of Good Hope. Its
nearest land neighbor. $50
miles away, is desolate
Tristan da Cunha, q small
group Of volcanic islands
between Cape Town and
Buenos Aires, Cough Island
never has been inhabited
but in the heyday Of the
Antarctic sealers It was
visited frequently and It's
beaches we're used for pre-
pairing skins. In the past
century 1t has been visited
briefly only three or four
times, always by British
exploring parties returning
from the Antarctic.
The present expedition,
led by DR.. J. B. Meany Of
Cambridge, was supported
by the Royal Geographic
Society and the Scott Polar
Institute.
Apparently nobody ever
has been tempted to settle
on the cold. tempest-swept
island. 1t is classified as sub
Antarctic. It was taken over
by the British during the
War Of 1912 when it allegedly
was a haven for American
privateers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06
Chuk's Parade

We witnessed the parade
Of over so air-conditioned
buses plus q few brass bands
and bathing beauties, which
probably brought this blase
community closer to small
town enthusiasm than any
similar spectacle for some
time.
Against the background Of
Wolfson's handling of the
Capital Transit and occa-
sional threats Of taking the
Senators away from WASH
ington. 1t is a refreshing
novelty to have someone
demonstrate a genuine inter-
est in improving our city.
I propose a vote Of appre-
ciation to o. Roy Chalk.
Francis E. Simmons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06
THIS AND THAT
Bv CHARLES E TRAcEWELL

A darning-needle type Of In
sect sat on Templeton Jones
inner ONCE window sillJq5
Jones touched 1t tentative
ly on the tip Of its long tail.
The insect did not move.
Still, some way. it didn't
seem dead. There was an
authentic dead one, smaller
and fatter, on the sill. too.
Jones gave the big one
another touch.
Still no motion.
He opened the window
about 2 inches. and turned to
hang up his coat.
When he looked around, the
darning needle type Of in
sect was gone.
The cool fresh air Of
morning had galvanized it
into life.
Many odd bits Of insects
fly into Jones' Office at night,
attracted by the fiuorescent
lights.
These long tubes draw all
summer insects, including
various moths, and even the
Chinese praying mantis.
This latter is the large
mantis, now scattered all over
the United States.
The lure of the lights does
not appeal so much to this
one. What he is after is other
insects. He's a flying green
insect eater.
The mantis finds them
easy prey, as they batter
tn e m selves against the
cleaning tubes.
80 -
Temp Jones thinks people
should stop treating insects
as rubbish.
Instead Of brushing them
of onto the floor or stepping
on them, as most do on
ants without thought, the
observer should take the
opportunity for examining
them.
Insects of the millions Of
kinds, literally are odd and
amazing things.
It is impossible to under
stand how they were ever
conceived, and brought into
being, and how they manage
to live century after century.
Perhaps the best that can
be said is that the conditions
that brought them in the
first place still exist for their
benefit.
\ 4
Maydies, and devil darnine
needles, and moths and their
various forms
One looks a great deal like
a hummingbird.
Others are worm-lik'
caterpiIlars, noted for geor'
geous colors.
Summer brings great be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06

and wasp activity, to say
nothing of yellow jacket and
hornet.
Wasps offer some danger.
II one stings you. try to pull
out the stinger, after you
have flooded the place with
ammonia water.
Never be too harsh, how
ever. in trying to ind the
singer.
1T is best out, but lacerat-
ing the stung place viii do no
good.
It must be remembered
that any sting is worse the
closer it is to the eye.
So If q yellow jacket or
other insect stings you there.
the best thing you can do is
go to a doctor at once, not
later.
Spider bites, too, are no
fun, especially when delivered
with lethal punch by q black
widow spider.
This is the big black one
with red on its hind parts.
If you have any reason to
suspect that the spider that
bit you is this one, call the
rescue squad at once. Espe-
cially If the sufferer Is q
child, because the same
amount Of venom that can
put an adult in a hospital is
spreading all over the much
smaller body of a child. with
increased hurt.
Ordinary antiseptics will
do nothing toward mitigating
a black widow spider bite.
The mosquito we have with
us always.
Especially in these days Of
back yard summing, the mos
quito is q nuisance, and Of
fers some danger. Certain
people swell up alarmingly at
any mosquito bite.
New insect repellents are
said to be better than those
offered in the past, and
should be tried by back yard
suntanners, young and old.
The few seconds necessary
for applying them are well
spent. But keep the repel-
Tents out Of the eyes and
nose and mouth.
It is q strange thing that
makers Of suntan lotions have
not yet learned that many
people now use their own
back yards in lieu Of beaches.
They still put sweet smells in
the lotions, and these attract
insects, especially and natu-
rally the bees.
Some daring pharmaceuti-
cal manufacturer ought TO
make an ordorless suntan 10
ton or cream. instead Of
loading them with sweet
smells to attract the ladies
and the bumblebees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06

Like a landscape OF 100
million years ago Is Cough
Island In the South Atlantic.
A British natural history
survey OF this 32-square-
mile mass Of volcanic rock
has revealed a dense, almost
impenetrable jungle Of tree
ferns interlaced with vines
and trees with branches
spreading on the level Of the
ground.
Tree Fern Forest
The jungle grows on rock.
The island has essentially no
soil. The rock Is covered
everywhere with q layer Of
perpetually sodden peat moss
which supports all the other
vegetation. Quite similar. but
on q far vaster scale. must
have appeared the great tree
Germ forests Of the carboni-
ferrous geological period
which produced the present
coal deposits.
The dense forest. accord
ing 10 q report Of the expe-
dition Just published in the
Journal Of the Scott Polar
Institute Of Cambridge Uni
versity. extends upward for
about 1000 feet. Starting
from the shore one struggles
through a thick growth of
ferns about two feet high.
But this growth gets thicker
with altitude and changes
into the tree-fern forest.
Mingled with the ferns is a
bush-like growth Of q woody
species known by the scien-
tif1c name Of phylica arborea.
Its branches start to spread
out from the ground level
and interlace with trunks
Of the surrounding trees TO
form a dense thicket.
Despite the dense vegeta-
ton, Cough Island. the
British scientists found, is
essentially q flowerless land.
This is due chiefly to the
fact that there are very few
pollenating insects. All the
vegetation must have arisen
from seeds and spores
brought in by the winds OF
on the feet and feathers OF
birds. These, it has been
found, are most likely to
carry the spores Of ferns. The
carboniferous forests must
have been entirely flowerless
since blooms are believed to
have come into the world ir
the so-called eocene, OF
dawn. age about so million
years ago.
Above about 1000 feet, thu
explorers found, the fores
becomes more open anC
gradually gives way to oper
country where the chic
growths are crowberries, wilc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06
Political Factors

In 1858, liberal Republican
Ted Dalton came close to
pulling what would have been
the biggest upset in Virginia
political history. He polled
an amazing As per cent vote
against the hand-picked can
didate of one Of the Nations
most powerful political or
charlottesville Byrd ma
chine.
In 1857, however. Mr.. Dali
ton surprised no one at all,
including himself, by polling
only approximately 80 per
cent of the States votes. For
that year a new factor had
been introduced-Little Rock.
Now another liberal, DR..
Louise Wensel, who calls her
self an Independent Repub-
lican," has announced she
will try to buck the mighty
Byrd himself. In a senatorial
campaign in a normal cleo
ton year there would be little
sense in trying to evaluate
the significance of such an
entry-but this is not a nor
NAL election year. Little Rock
as a political factor has been
pushed into the background,
and all interest is now CEN
tered around the Democratic
organizations massive re-
sistance program and above
all the future Of public edu-
cation in Virginia.
The fact that massive re-
sistance Is doomed to be a
massive failure is becoming
increasingly evident. And the
showdown is little more than
a month away.
Will Virginia's people be
content with the closing Of
their schools? Possibly, ]
think, even probably, they
will If Mr.. Byrd's assistant,
Gov. Almond, chooses to
reopen them very soon. But
should he not choose to re-
open them, ! doubt very Sc
riously that a majority Of
Virginia's people will prefer
segregated ignorance over
partially integrated educa-
ton.
And this is where DR.. Wen
sci comes in. In the past
pages of history of cur Ma
ton there have been many
minority candidates who did
not always win and yet often
proved to be as influential
as the winners. DR.. Wensel's
very candidacy is nothing
more than a reaction against
a major policy Of the domi-
nant political organization in
this State, and any support
she gains viii be primarily
because Of her opposition tt
massive resistance.
c. J. Human.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06

der peoples eyes? H.C.
A. This is usually the re-
suit Of skin changes due TO
age. The skin under the eyes
is normally thin. AS it ages
it quickly loses elasticity and
fatty tissues. then begins to
wrinkle and bag" Occasion
ally O tendency TO bags"
seems to be q family charac-
teristic, which may appear
to some extent even In
young children Of that fam
lily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06

nothing. But n the pending center leg
Islation Is approved. II stands TO gain
another permanent improvement for
this American Capital which In time
could rank In Importance with the Ma
tional Gallery OF Art. The legislation,
IN short, provides an opportunity which,
II declined. may not soon knock again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-06

@. Does the redwood tree
have deep roots? LIP.
A. No. The root system is
shallow, but so widespread
that one trees roots may
spread over an acre Of
ground. The buttress forma-
ton Of the base Of the tree,
which develops over the CEN
turtles, enables it to with
stand storms and wind even
though the root system is
not q deep one.
q. What causes bags" un-