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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-07

This Is your chance 70 sound oG-and
~ Critic Bernie Harrison piu do his best
to ANSWER questions. Please keep letters
brief. Pen names iDin be used II desired.
Please, are actors used ON Trafic Court or
are they the real defendants? Is the finished
show taken in the courtroom during the actual
trial or is it rehearsal and do they use q,
written script?
Mrs Esther r., Herndon Va.
This must be the No. pHsslef locally. The
question keeps cropping up so here, once more,
are the facts: Actors play the roles IN the
staging OF trials" tOhich are adapted from
actual cases. The police and real Judges toho
cooperate, do so because the program does
ualuable public serptce job on traffic safety.
Actors are brieted on the facts of the case but
couch their ANSWERS and testimony In their
otun iDordS.
At the time of writing, suitable words
sufficiently strong to phrase my protest and yet
fit for printing, of the ABC network action
covering the Firestone program, do not appear
to mind. Will the few people who enjoy
watching program suitable for average intelli-
gence instead of one put on to attract the
mentalitieS between to years, please devote
minutes. just once, to writing to ABC-Tv,
West Sixty-sixth street, New York, NJ Y, pro-
testing the substitution Of cultural program
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-07
TeIeVue Mailbag

for another Of their penny gun-toting thrillers7
I am not against this type Of program when
given in reasonable doses; live and let live. I
AM against the constant encroachment Of the
few remaining decent programs. II Firestone
does go OF video due to network lack Of CO.
operation, will boycott Channel out Of
principle. I have sent carbon Of this letter
to ABC-TV.
A. d.
In fairness to ABc, II should be noted that
the sponsor has been unable to ind ,chGt he
considers suitable time on all three networks.
and NBC bounced Ftrestone frst, teir years
back, Nth Acc coming to the rescue. I don't
think boycott OF network Is the Gnss0er.
Letters, yes-but Firestone'S reported turndoiOn
fBr0adcasttnO MGgGzine) OF another spot offered
By ABC-l0:3O. Sunday nights-G good Uteicing
time II you check What's My Lines consistently
high ratings. indicates that there's little hope
of its return except on the Sponsors terms. and
that involves pet another principle, namely,
network control OF its otcn programmtng
schedule.
Sometime, would you please have picture
Of Hugh Downs on the front Of TeleVue? /
think Mr.. Downs has done q very good Job Of
substituting for Jack Paar.
think like yor think WIN try.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-07

I think like you think.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
New Chevrolet.
Old S m obile
|AtI.C.Burton' S
October 2-3
New First Completely
Designed Small Ameri-
can Car The Corvair
Will Also Be Display
ed.

The 1860 Chevrolet and the 1860
Oldsmobile will be on display at
/. G. Burton and Co., Inc, on Re
hoboth Highway, on Friday, Octo-
ber End and Saturday, October 3rd.
There is considerable excitement
for this year Chevrolet is bringing
out the first completely designed
small American car, the Corvair!
All of you will want TO see what
General Motors has been working
on and testing for five years.
small American car-the Corvair.
Mr. Burton hopes that all of you
will come to get your first glimpse
of the entire Chevrolet line for
1860 AS always, the whole garage
will be open for your inspection.
The cleaning new models OF
Chevrolet cars and trucks plus the
new Corvair, will be lined up for
you to look over. The 1860 0lds-
mobile with many new features in
cluding a newly designed economy
engine to give Is per cent greater
gasoline economy, will also be
making its first appearance. AS
further inducement for you to
come, two valuable wrist watches,
mans and woman's will be
door prizes. There will be gifts for
all and free grease ticket for
each visitor.
Friday, October End and Satur-
day, October 3rd will give you two
days to visit ]. G. Burton and Co.,
Inc, on the Rehoboth Highway and
see for yourself.
Mr.. Irwin Burton, Mr.. Arch
Mills, Mr.. Richard KINNEY. Mr..
George French, Mr.. Earl Williams
Mrs. Pete Wren, Mr.. Quinton Webb,
and Mr.. Norris Sherwood went TO
Hershey, Pennsylvania last week
to get their first glimpse of the
1860 line of Chevrolet cars and
CONTINUED on page nve)
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
c. Edgar Wood, Inc.
Gets Appointment
Local Insurance Agency To Repre-
sent Monumental Life

The Monumental Life Insurance
Company of Baltimore, Maryland
has appointed G. Edgar Wood, Inc,
whose principals are G. Edgar
Wood and Davis H. Wood, of Mil
ford, Delaware, as General Agents
for Delaware and the Eastern
Shore of Maryland.
Mr.. G. Edgar Wood, who heads
the Agency, said This appoint
ment launches an expansion of the
Agency's services to it's clientele
and to its affiliated Agents" The
Agency was founded in 1887 by
Mr.. C. Edgar Wood, after having
established successful sales rec
ord in Delaware for one of the lead
ing insurance companies. He is a
member of the Delaware Agents
Association and Kent and Sussex
Agents Association.
Mr. Davis H. Wood, who will be
Manager of the Life Insurance De-
partment for the Agency, is a
graduate of the University of Della
ware and National Underwater In
surance Course. He was Treasurer
OF Sigma M Fraternity, and is a
Lieutenant in the Delaware Ma
tional Guard.
The G. Edgar Wood, Inc, Agen-
cy makes its headquarters at 103
Church Avenue. Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
FLA Judging Teams
Have Been Announced
Several Milford Youth VIM Make
Trip To Richmends Va

According to word just received
from w. Lyle Mowlds, State Di-
rector of Agricultural Education,
Delaware T. F. A. will be repre-
sented by these judging teams at
the Atlantic Rural Exposition be-
ing held in Richmond, Virginia,
September 81, 1859 through 0cto-
Der 1, 1863.
Ronnie Webb, Francis Webb and
Everett Argo of the Milford Agri-
culture department will judge
Dairy Cattle. James Johnson,
James Moore and Randall Moore
will represent the Mif1sboro de-
partment in Poultry Judging, while
James Ashley, John Thomas and
Russell VandeWende will repre-
sent the Caesar Rodney School In
Livestock Judging. Accompanying
the boys will be NJ. M. Price, Jr., of
Laurel, William Jenkins, Mills
boro, and Alan Edsall of Milford
While at Richmond, the boys
will compete against F. f. A. boys
from all the Atlantic Seaboard
States.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Junior Bowling
League Is Underway
Young Set Got OF To Flying Start
Last Saturday

The new Milford Junior Bowling
League got off to big start when
they bowled for the first time Sat
urday, September 10. The league
is scheduled to bowl every Satur-
day morning at $3.50 O'Clock.
A few weeks before the league
officially opened, officers were elect
ed by the team captains. The off,
GERS are as follows: President,
Linda Grier; vice president, Rick
Goodrich. secretary, Terry Lynch;
treasurer, Bob Burris.
The league, which was formally
organized by Bill Dellinger, Jr.,
consists of fourteen team with
ages ranging from IL to II years.
The captains of these teams are
as follows: 1, Norman Hopkins;
2, Charles Pack; 8, Terry Lynch;
4, Priscilla Dickerson; 5, Ricky
Rosker; 6, Elaine Isaacs; z, Ray
Lynch; 8, Charles Loper; 8, Sharon
CONTINUED on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
DeImarva Well Drilling
Co. Head, Tells Archie
ology And History So
ciety OF County About
Condition.

Sussex County is sitting pretty
with good supply of water but
Wilmington will begin to worry
in 1870 where its water will come
from, e. r. Kaufman, president
of the Delmarva Well Drilling Co.,
told the Sussex County Archaeology
and History Society at its first
fall meeting in st. Paul's Episco-
pal Parish House last Thursday
evening
Mr.. Kaufman explained that
millions of years, ago various ice
ages deposited sand which acts
as a sponge for water but that in
Wilmington rock is already cropp.
ing out at the surface whereas a.
the southeastern tip of SUSSEX
County, around Fenwick Island
the rock is 5000 feet down.
He brought with him jars oi
sand which he had preserved from
his well digging operations and
colored slides of rocks which they
had encountered.
He explained that underneath
the layers of sand, is basement
rock. Then came the Cretaceous
age sand, some 130 million years
ago. He had samples in jars from
Eocene age SO million years ago;
the Miocene age 80 million years
ago, the Pleiocene age, IL million
years ago and the Pleistocene age
a million years ago, which is the
sand which retains the water in
Sussex County.
Much interest was shown by the
members of the society in the
marine fossil bits in the sand
which Mr.. Kaufman said came
from marine fossil bits in the
sand which Mr.. Kaufman said
came from Marine life not even
in existence today. He said that
some of the shell was found 400
and 500 feet down.
Continued on page seven1
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Fire Auxiliary
In Sussex Has
New Officers
Top Official Wants Her
Organization To Han
die It's Press Relations
with Justice To ALP.

Mrs. Emma Short, Georgetown, in
stalled last Thursday night at
Bethany Beach as president Of the
Sussex County firemen's auxiliary
is making sure that her organi-
zation handles its press relations
with justice to all"
She has appointed special
press representative for each news
paper interested.
In the past, especially with cOun-
ty groups such as the fire auxili-
ary, there has been pickering and
complaints that one newspaper
received earlier or more complete
reports than another, but under
this new system inaugurated by
Mrs. Short, each newspaper will
get special attention, presumably
with emphasis on features of par
ticular interest to the community
in question.
Mrs Shorts press represent
atives will be: Mrs. Norman Bat
chelor, Millsboro, daily papers
and Sussex Counties; Mrs. Emily
Mass, Seaford, for the Seaford
Leader; Mrs. Mildred Oldfield
Laurel, for the State Register
Mrs. Grace lie Cages, Delmar
for the Bi-State Weekly; Mrs
Marie Dickerson, Greenwood for
the Bridgeville News; Mrs. Anna
Clausen, Dagsboro, Delmarva News
(Selbyville); Mrs. Elsie Davis
Milton, the Towncrier and Mrs
Murray Joseph, Lewes, the Della.
ware Coast Press.
New officers installed in addi.
tion to Mrs. Short were Mrs. Mary
Dutton, Lewes, vice president
continued on page mD
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Fire Prevention
Week Is Proclaimed
Gov. Boggs Sets Period OF Obser.
vance October 4-1O

In proclaiming the period 0cto-
ber 4 through 10 as Fire Proven
tion Week" in this state, Governor
J. Caleb Boggs this week urged
that every man, woman and child
in Delaware accept as personal
responsibility the protection of
property and the exercising of eau
ton when dealing with fire..
The chief executive in calling
for everyone's participation in a
year-round fire prevention pro-
gram advised that such partici-
patton would make easier the task
assumed by volunteer and profes-
sional firemen, who, he said, have
consistently rendered heroic SER
vice in our behalf"
Governor Boggs also pointed out
that "of all the elements of danger
to which humanity is exposed, fire
annually infiicts one of the costli-
est tolls in lives and property"
and he said that many citizens are
affected either through personal
grief, financial loss or increased
CONTINUED on page f1ve)
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25


The final general session will
be held Friday at lis p. m. in the
p. S. DUPONT High School Audi
torium. David NJ. Green, President
DSEA, will preside. DR.. Ivan A.
Booker, Director, Membership Di-
vision, National Education Asso-
citation will deliver the principal
speech. His topic is 40 Years OF
Progress with the Professional
Association. Music will be fur
nished by the Wilmington Youth
Orchestra, Allen L. Richardson,
conductor.
In order to accommodate all the
delegates, another section OF the
final session is scheduled at the
Mt Pleasant Senior High School,
at lis D. m, w. Edwin Cline, vice
president, DSEA. presiding. The
speaker is Rear Admiral Robert
CONTINUED on page tenl
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
OAR Workshop
Will Be Held
Here Saturday
Newly Elected State Re
gent Miss NJ. Catherine
Downing OF Milford
Will Preside.

Miss M Catherine Downing, new
ly elected State regent of the Del
aware Society Daughters of the
American Revolution for the coming
term of three years, will preside at
the workshop meeting tomorrow.
The meeting will be held in the
Fellowship Hall of Avenue Meth
odist Church and will convene at
ten o'clock. The members of the
Captain Jonathan Caldwell Chap
ter will be the hostess for coffee
which will precede it. Miss Down
ing was the organizing regent OF
the local chapter
Brief opening exercises will begin
the program for the day. Miss
Downing will preside at this sess-
ion, and will welcome those who
attend. The purpose and proceed
ure of the workshop will be ex-
planned and group meetings will
be held in the several Sunday
School rooms. State chairmen will
meet with their respective chapter
chairmen, the state regents and
vice regents will meet with chapter
regents and state officers with the
respective chapter officers. Lunch
con will follow these discussion
groups in the social hall.
The afternoon session will i'm
mediately follow luncheon and will
be general report on the group
meetings of the morning and pre-
sentation of plans for the work of
the organization. Acting as guides
for the day will be the members of
the Thomas Mexican Society, Chill
dren of the American Revolution,
j. G. Caldwell and Company of
Philadelphia will send represent
ative group of insignia for display
at the workshop.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25

500 mentally retarded persons. The
funds will be added to those al
ready in hand to make possible the
construction of theraputic facili-
ties needed there.
Chairman for this years game,
Edward ]. Pechin, reported that
the larger amount this year was
chiefly due to increased sale of
tickets and increased sale of adver-
tising in the printed game program.
He said that Mrs. J. Allen Frear,
Jr. in Kent and Sussex Counties
and Mrs. willard B. Mcconnell in
New Castle and their hundred col
leagues did an outstanding job.
The program contained 148 pages
with advertising from firms all
over the state.
But again" Pechin said, sit was
the combined work of many in
dividuals and organizations that
made success possible. AS one COM
munity leader observed, the event
has become truly an all-state af-
fair. Next year is our fifth annual
game and we ought to do better
still.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
To Lay Cornerstone
At Methodist Home
Ceremonies viii Be Held
AT Site In Kennett
Pike Tomorrow

The Board OF Trustees of The
Methodist Country House an
nounces the cornerstone laying
ceremony which will be held Sat-
urday afternoon, September 26th,
at three o'clock, at the site of The
Methodist Country House, which
Is located on 3S beautiful acres of
land on the Ksnnett Pike opposite
Winterthur Museum about three
miles west of Wilmington.
Some of those participating in
the program will include the Dis
trict Superintendents of the PEN
insula Annual Conference, who are
The Reverend r. Jervis Cooke,
Wilmington District; The Rev.
erend Roy L. Tawes, Dover Dis
fcontinued on page tenl
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Red Cross First
Aid Began In
City Monday
OF This Week
Classes In Advance ID
Courses VIII Be Held
Every Monday Evening
From 7:3O TO 10 p. WI.
At Fire House.

Advanced courses in Red Cross
First Aid began at the Milford
Community Building. Milford, Della
ware. on Monday night, September
21. 1859. Glasses will be held each
Monday night from 1880 to 10 D. m,
1t was announced by Alexander W.
Rand. Director of First Aid and
Water Safety for the Delaware
Chapter of the American Red Cross.
The course is open to all per-
sons who have completed the Red
Cross Standard First Aid course
during the past three years.
The detectives of the course are
10 train as many individuals as
possible throughout lower Della
ware and the Eastern Shore of
Maryland in the skills and knowl-
edge OF helping themselves and
their neighbors in the event of a
sudden illness or accidental injury.
1t is hoped that members of the
various Volunteer Fire Companies,
Police Departments, Civil Defense,
School Teachers, Civic and Ofgani-
zation Club Members, Housewives
and others will take advantage of
this opportunity to learn more
about the latest techniques and
methods employed while giving
First Aid care.
Those who complete the Is hour
Advanced course successfully and
are interested in teaching First
Aid to others will be invited to at
tend the Red Cross First Aid In
structors Course (an additional Is
hours Of instruction). The instruc-
tors in charge are: Clifford M.
Thurman, Jr., and Thomas H. Legg,
Jr.. both of Wilmington. George
Won Goerres of Georgetown and
Herber Won Goerres of Harrington.
Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Kiwanis Club Starts
Teen Dances Tonight
All Dances VIII Start AT 7:30 In
stead Of 7:OO

The Milford Kiwanis Club will
start their Junior Teen Dances this
Friday night, September 25.
There have been two changes
this year involving the time and
age limit. AS you probably know
the kindergarten is using the
building this year and more time
will be needed to set up for the
dances; therefore, the dances will
start at 1880 p. m. instead of 700
p. m. They will end at 10:00 p. m,
sharp, as they did last year.
Due to our limited space we will
have to revert back to the original
age limit of ten through fourteen.
The admission viii still be 25c.
As in the past, the youth will
not be allowed outside of the build
ing once they are admitted until
they are called for at the door by
Continued on page sevenl
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Sussex County Rotary Head
Has A Good Will Visit
Water Supply Here Monday
]. Reynolds Pratt Of
Smyrna, Will Be Hon.
ored Guest Of Milford
Club; VIII Confer With
Officials.

The Rotary Club of Milford on
Monday, September 28 will be host
to ]. Reynolds Prat, governor of
the 764th district of Rotary Inter
national, who is making his an
nual official visit to each of the
Sc Rotary Clubs in New Jersey
and Delaware. He will address the
local club and confer with Presi-
dent George Metz, Secretary, Rob-
ert H. Yerkes, Sr. and committee
chairmen on Rotary administration
and service activities.
MFR. Pratt is a partner in the
firm of Wroten-Pratt Insurance
Agency in Smyrna, Delaware and
is a member and past president oi
the Rotary Club of Smyrna. He
was born near Smyrna and at.
tended Goldey Business College In
Wilmington. He is a Past Presi-
dent of Kent-Sussex Insurance As
sociation and the Delaware Asso-
citation of Insurance Agents. He
was elected as a district governor
of Rotary International for the
1959-60 fiscal year at Rotary's 50th
annual convention in New York
City last June. He is one of 261
district governors supervising the
activities of more than 10000 Ro-
tary Clubs which have member
ship of nearly 100000 business
and professional executives in 11s
countries throughout the world.
Wherever Rotary clubs are lo-
Gated, President Metz asserted in
discussing the governors visit
their activities are similar to those
of the Rotary Club of Milford be-
cause they are based on the same
general objectives - developing
CONTINUED on page f1ve)
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Diamond State Is
Now Tourists Delight
Fall Is Time For Travellers To See
Beauties OF First State


The traveller will find much to
see and much to do-on a Fall
visit to Delaware. "The Diamond
State, advises the Delaware
State Development Department.
Noting that the diamond State
is easily accessible by excellent
highways, one of which-the dual
ized DUPONT Parkway GU. S. Rte.
13)-offers the most direct route
from New England to Florida, the
state information agency is urging
the Fall traveller to include scenic,
historic Delaware in his or her
travel plans. Delawareans, too, are
urged to use the states unexcelIed
recreation facilities and to visit
some of DeIaware's many historic
spots during the Fall season.
Throughout rural Delaware, the
fields and woods are particularly
attractive in the Fall as the form
er lush green foliage gradually
gives way to the oranges. yeIlows,
browns and reds that make Fall
travel so pleasing to the eye.
Continued on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Tom DerricksOn At
NelC York City Meet
Series Being Held BY Ma
tional Retail CIOthiers
Board

Mr.. Thomas B. Derrickson, Der
rickson's Inc, Milford, Delaware.
as a member of the Board OF Di-
rectors of the National Association
of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers
is attending a series of meetings
in New York this week.
In addition to their own board
meeting, the retailers board is
meeting jointly with the board or
the clothing manufacturers asso-
citation and textile mill representa-
tives to discuss future fashion
trends in the clothing industry.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Church OF God
Will Dedicate
Education Bldg.
Public Is Cordially Invit-
ed To Attend Services
At Milford Church This
Coming Sunday After
noon.

The dedication of the Christian
Education Building of the Church
of God, the Rev. w. Edwin Tull,
pastor, will be held on Sunday af-
ternoon, September 81, 1859, al
2:S0 o'clock. The Rev. James A.
Cross of Cleveland, Tennessee,
General Overseer of the Church OF
God denomination, will be the
guest speaker. The public is in
vited to this service.
In announcing the dedication
Mr.. Tull and his congregation are
realizing a dream come true. The
Christian Education Building will
contain three nurseries, two off
ices, IL classrooms,- small audi.
torium-socia1 hall, kitchenette.
and storage closets and rest rooms
The building has been designed not
only to serve as a Sunday School
building, but for weekday Chris
tian Education activities.
Mr.. Cross, dedication speaker, has
travelled extensively, not only in
the United States but to many
parts of the world in connection
with his church work. He attended
Lee College, Cleveland, Tennessee
and graduated from Tennessee
Temple College of Chattanooga
This will be Mr.. Cross first trip
to. Milford.
The general contractor was
Robert L. zook. Harlan Jester was
the electric, plumbing and heating
contractor, R. Calvin Clendaniel is
the architect. However, under the
leadership of the pastor, much OF
the work in and around the Chris.
ton Education Building was volun-
teered by members and friends. Mr.
Tull wishes to express his deepest
appreciation to all who have help.
ed and contributed toward the new
huilCiing.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Is Prize Winners
At Swift, FELTON,
Group Selected From Among 1877
Plant Employees

John Hill. Manager. Swift and
Company Poultry Plant, FELTON,,
Delaware, announced 13 prize win
ners In the August Swift National
Letter writing contest.
The contest which emphasized
the Importance and relationship
between customers and jobs. En-
ployees wrote on the subject,
What the Customer Means to Me
and My job.
Major prize winners were: Norm
Wyatt, Dorothy Moore, Elsie NJ.
Tribbett, Fred Cashper, Jr., and
Kermit Mosley. Each received a
Swift Canned Ham. Other winners
were: Edward Murray, Thomas
Booker, A. r. Wiederkehr, Lee
Hicks, Mike Dabraski, Jr., Mary
Collins and Isaac Harris. These
received prizes of Swift Premium
81 isedBacon and Premium Franks
There are 167 employees at Fell
ton Poultry Plant.
Milford chronicle., 1959-09-25
Del. Ladies Attend
COP Natl Meeting
Mesdames Herb Calhoun, Frank R.
Grier At Indiana COncIaYe

Mrs. G. Herbert Calhoun of
Dagsboro, State President of the
Delaware Federation of Republi-
can Women's Clubs was in French
Lick, Indiana, September 1877 for
the Board of Directors and Re-
gionaI area meeting of the Ma
tional Federation of Republican
Women, and the Indiana FEEDER
alton State Convention. Sessions
were held at the French Lick
Sheraton Hotel, September 1917,
preceded by an Executive Com
mittee meeting in indianapolis,
September IA. The Regional area
meeting included members from
the Federated Republican clubs in
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Senator Thurston B. Morton (R.-
Ky.), Chairman of the Republican
National Committee, and Indiana
Continued on page 6ve)