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Milford chronicle., 1959-10-23
Gala Affair For Small
Children OF Sunday
School Will Be Held
Next Thursday Night.

A Halloween Mardi Gras for
children will be held in Houston,
Thursday, October 29, 1859, at $3.50
p. m. This event is for children
IL years of age and under who
come to the Houston Sunday
School. This will include children
from babies up to and including
boys in Mr.. Josiah Parvis' class
and girls in Mrs. Florence Thistle
woods class. All children wish
ing to participate in the parade,
have your parents take you to
the Houston Public School, where
committee from the OUR. Glass
will be on hand to tell you what
to do.
The parade will start at the
school ground and proceed east
on School Street to Broad Street
and south on Broad Street to the
Judges Stand in front of Daugh-
erty's Market. All contestants are
to remain masked until their num-
ber is called for prizes.
Prizes will be awarded for the
best couple, the best decorated BIZ
cycle, the best single boy under
8 years of age and over years
of age, the best single girls under
s years of age and over years of
age; the most original; the pretti-
est and the funniest.
After parading in front of the
judges stand, the contestants will
go into the Fire Hall where the
Judges will announce the winners
and prizes will be awarded. Then
refreshments will be served.
There will also be a Jack O'Lan-
tern contest. All pumpkins are to
be registered between 1 and 2 p.
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First District
r Republicans
Z or Rollins
Action Taken BY Sussex
Group Following Dis
cussion According To
President Ed Steiner
Tuesday Night.

The First Representative Dis
trict Republican Club of Sussex
County voted unanimously Tues
day night to ask former Gov. John
w. Rollins, of Lewes, to run for
Governor next year.
The action came after a discus
sion, according to Ed Steiner
President, of the urgent need for
a Republican legislature as well as
a Republican Governor to furnish
responsible, sane fiscal policy and
leadership"
A resolution adopted by the club
and the committeeman and women
of the First Representative Dis
trict said that Mr.. Rollins with
his tremendous background of
business success and his straight
forward approach to problems can
straighten out the chaos created
by Democrat rule of the state.
The resolution pointed out that
Mr.. Rollins was the first Lieuten-
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be taken from the book or Luke,
the Spiritual Life Study of the
year.
Mrs. Otis G. Webb, President of
the hostess society, will welcome
the assembly. Devotions will be
presented by Mrs. Byron Gibson,
District Secretary of Spiritual Life.
Mrs. Donzel Wildey is the days
soloist with Mrs. Carrie Jones at
the organ. The needs of the year
will be presented by the District
Officers and Secretaries of lines of
work under the direction of Mrs.
l. G. King, District Secretary of
Promotion. The Rev. Roy Tawes,
District Superintendent, will bring
the noontide greetings and pray
er. After the routine business,
there will be two presentations
concerning the work of the WSCS.
Mrs. Thomas Mylrea, Confer
ence Secretary of Christian Social
Relations, will give us, "A Look
at Rapid Social Changes.
Mrs. Howard Link, Conference
Secretary of Youth Work, will
present, Mans Need-God's Ac-
ton.
Mrs. Walter Palmer, Conference
President of WSCS, will speak on
MY Task.
The guest speaker of the meet
ing is Miss Rosemary Nixon, a
graduate of Central College, Fay
cite, Missouri. After receiving her
M. A. degree from Scarritt College,
she became a deaconess and went
to work serving the Woman's Di-
vision as church and community
worker in the West Washington
Group Ministry. "The Church at
Work in Town and Country Areas"
is her subject.
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Local Jaycees
4 n I ert aimed
National Head
Monday Night
Several New Members
Were Inducted By Ma
tional Officers During
Program At Lulu WI.
Ross School.


Nearly 125 Jaycees and guests as
sembled at Lulu M. Ross School,
Milford, Monday evening, for the
Delaware Junior Chamber of Com
merce banquet, held in honor of
Robert H. Clark, National Presi-
dent
Marshall Bruce, National Direc-
tor gave the invocation, which was
followed by dinner, the menu be-
cause of its uniqueness is pre-
sented as follows:
Seaford Tomato Juice, MilIsboro
Roast Turkey, Dover Dressing,
Milford Mashed Potatoes, George
town Gravy, Smyrna Cut Green
Beans, r h ob OF Cranberries,
Middletown Fruit Salad, Newark
Hot Rolls, Elsmere Butter, Brandy
wine Hundred Coffee, Wilmington
Ice Cream, New Castle Cookies.
Introduction of guest, Robert
Corddry, State Vice President; Ad-
dress, Robert H. Clark, National
President; Presentation of lugg-
age to Martin Golden, State Presi-
dent; Presentation of gifts from
Milford Jaycees to Mayor William
r. Murphy; Induction of nine new
members by National President
Clark and National Vice President
Howie Thomas. The members were
distributed as follows: Seaford, 2:
Millsboro, L; Milford, 8; George
town, l.; Rehoboth, 1. The Milford
new members are, Dick Caldwell,
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School Cited For Aid
To Blood Bank Drive
President McCIOskey Says Schools
Doing An Outstanding Job

Delaware schools were praised
today for aiding the fall member
ship drive of the Blood Bank of
Delaware, Inc.
Public, private and parochial
schools are doing an outstanding
job in distributing information on
the Blood Bank, said James F.
McCloskey, president I'VE are most
appreciative of the aid given by
school officials and teachers in
helping US reach the parents of
more than $4,000 Delaware school
children.
The information program has
been given official approval by
DIR. George R. Miller, Jr.. state
superintendent of the Department
of Public Instruction, and DR..
Ward l. Miller, superintendent Of
Wilmington city schools. Endorse
ment also was given by the Most
Rev. Edmond ]. Fitzmaurice, BIZ
shop of the Catholic Diocese of
Wilmington, to set up a program
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Geo. Warren Named
Census CreLO Leader
A ppOi n { m e n t Of Kent
County Man Made By
|. ]. G.. Gibson

Appointment of Mr.. George v.
Warren of near Magnolia as a crew
leader for the 1859 Census of Agri-
culture was announced today by
Field Director John G. Gibson Of
the Census Bureaus regional Off
ice at Philadelphia.
Mr.. Warren will direct force
of census takers who will canvass
all farms in Sussex and Kent Coun-
ties. Before assuming his post, he
will go to New Brunswick, N. J.,
where he will receive five days Of
training by a member of the Gem
sus Bureaus staff. Topics to be
covered include procedures for
recruiting of census takers, CEN
sus taker training, canvassing
methods, preparation and submis-
sion of reports, and the supervi-
sion of census takers to insure a
complete and accurate count.
The crew leader is one of the
key people in the field operations
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Parents COncLaUe At
II. of ID November ii
A b out Thousand Parents
Expected To Attend
Ninth Session

Preliminary plans have been
completed for the Ninth Annual
Parents Conference, Saturday,
November IA, which is expected to
bring about 1000 parents OF fresh
men students to the campus of the
University of Delaware.
Miss Margaret Black, counselor
in the dean of students office,
heads a student-faculty committee
charged with planning the activi-
ties.
The first parents conference,
held in January, 1852, proved so
successful that a second confer
ence was scheduled for the fall of
the same year. 1t was designed to
bring about closer relationship
and understanding among par
ents, students and university per-
sonnel. Response to these pioneer
ing efforts was so enthusiastic that
parents conference has become an
annual affair.
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Bishop McKinstry, TO
Speak In Dover Oct. Is
He VIII Address First COnvOcati0n
Of State Church Council

1t was announced here today
that the Right Rev. Arthur
R. McKinstry will be the guest
preacher at the First Annual Con-
vocation of the Delaware State
Council of Churches, on Sunday,
October 25th, at 1880 p. m. in Peo-
pies Church, Dover. This service
will mark the beginning of an Off
cial organization combining in CO.
operative effort all of the major
Protestant denominations in the
State of Delaware. 1t will be
worship service, with keynote
of praise and proclamation.
Bishop McKinstry served as BIZ
shop of the Episcopal Diocese of
Delaware from 1899 to 1856. Prior
to his coming to this state, he
was rector in the Episcopal
Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
During his years of active minis
try, he served for a time as Presi-
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Eugene Vernon
Heads Milford
Lodge
Well Known Local Busi-
nessman Will Direct
Destinies Of Crystal
FOunt For Next Six
Months.

Crystal Fount Lodge No. 10,
.LO.O.F. of Milford is passing an
other milestone in it's brilliant his
tory when it installs its recently
elected officers for the new term
on Monday evening, October 26th
in the Odd Fellows Temple on N.
Walnut Street.
The officers recently elected are
Eugene Vernon, Noble Grand; Roy
L. Hazard, Vice Grand; Clarence
Coffman, Recording Secretary /;
Henry w. Wilkins, Financial Secre-
tary; John G. Jester, Treasurer;
Trustees of the Building, Ernest
G. Macklin, James r. Deputy and
William Baker; Cemetery Board,
Harlan Jester, George A. Swain,
Lucius Fox and William V. Sipple,
Jr.
The installation ceremonies will
be conducted by Grand Warden,
Harry Cloud of the Grand Lodge
of Delaware assisted by a COM
petent staff recruited from the sew
eral Odd Fellows Lodges of Kent
County.
Eugene Vernon, the new Noble
Grand is a well-known business
man of this community, being own
er and operator of the Milford Bus
Center. Progressive with ideas of
modern trend he should fit into
the Noble Grand's position at a
time when his services can be OF
untold value to Crystal Fount
Lodge. A successful term is pre-
dicted for him.
To lend the evening that bit OF
socialibility that goes with an in
stallation in Crystal Fount, the
Noble Grand appointed Douglas
Ellingsworth, chairman of the en-
tertainment committee, who will
provide special refreshments fo1
the members and guests of the
evening.
Arthur Everson, the retiring
Noble Grand, leaves the office with
the thanks and best wishes OF
Crystal Fount members.
All Odd Fellows are cordially in
vited to attend.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-23
DAYLIGHT TIME ENDS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER. 25

This coming Sunday, Octo-
Der 25th, is the day you can
cash in that hour you've
been boarding all summer.
You may sleep an hour more,
or dance an hour longer, or
just sit in your garden and
lazily and happily watch the
so golden minutes slide by.
Although the lost hour is
officially regained at 2 a. m,
there will be no penalty for
setting the clock back an
hour Saturday night, if you
don't feel like sitting up and
waiting. We plan to do just
that and we mikht add that
we are mighty glad that the
advanced time is ending; we
don't like it now any better
than the first time it start
ed.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-23
Asa Bennett, Was
Buried Last Thursday
Former FrankfOrd State Senator
Was 79 Years Old

Funeral services were held last
Thursday for Asa Bennett, 79, from
his late home in Frankford. Mr..
Bennett was prominent civic
leader and tireless worker in Sus-
sex County.
He was born October 10, 1880,
near Trapp School which is near
Roxana, Baltimore Hundred, Sus-
sex County. He was educated in
public schools of Ocean View, the
University of Delaware and Gold
ey Business College, Wilmington.
He spent a few years in the u s..
Merchant Marines and taught for
two years in public schools of Sus-
sex County.
Mr.. Bennett served in the Della
ware State Senate as a clerk in
1903 and was elected a member of
the Senate in 1918. He assisted in
putting in operation the new in
come tax law for schools. He serv-
ed from May II, 1928 as a member
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HallOwe' 'en Sussex COP
Mardi Cras Women Aides
At Houston Are Selected
Mrs. Lillian Martin From
Milford Is One OF The
Countrywide Delegates
At Large To C0nclave

The Sussex County Republican
Women's Club has appointed dele
gates and alternates to the Mary
land-De1aware Regional Confer
ence of the National Women to
be held October % in the Hotel
Du Pont, Wilmington.
Delegates-at-large from Sussex
County are Mrs. Lillian Martin of
Milford, and Mrs. Otis H Smith,
of Lewes. Hostesses for the coun-
ty are Mrs. Mary Boggs and Mrs.
Charlotte Mach of the Third Dis
trict.
Mrs. Evadne Knapp Kemper of
Lewes is president of the Sussex
County club and other officers are
Mrs. Sybil Hammond of Milford,
vice president; Mrs. Winnie Ford,
of Seaford, corresponding secre-
tary; Mrs. Joyce Winslow of Days
boro; recording secretary, and
Mrs. Rubie o. Wheatley of Delmar,
treasurer. Miss Cornelia Hurdle,
of Lewes is publicity chairman.
The delegates and alternates
from the ten Sussex districts are:
First District, Mrs. Frank Grier,
Mrs. Freda Barbarika; Second,
Mrs. Ralph Scott, Mrs. Elmer X.
Hoch; Third, Mrs. Mary Boggs,
Mrs. Charlotte Mach; Fourth, Mrs.
Margaret Hastings, Mrs. Alex Sa-
dowski; Fifth, Mrs. Jonathan
Wheatley, Mrs. Ebo Chandler, Mrs.
Ebe P. West; Seventh, Mrs. HON.
er Pepper, Mrs. George Gray;
Eighth, Mrs. May Vause, Mrs. Jean
Johnson; Ninth, Mrs. Eban A..
Townsend, Jr., Mrs. Massie Lee
Smith; Tenth, Mrs. Margaret Fish
er and Mrs. Ann Snyder.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-23
Grants Introduce
Instant Credit Plan
New Credit. Service Does Away
With All Red Tape.

Beginning now the w. T. Grant
Company offers its customers a
brand new credit service, D. w.
Atwood, manager of the Grant
store at Milford, Delaware, an
nounced today.
The Company's instant Credit"
system is a regular 30-day Charge
Account, with two Company
developed features which make it
outstanding in the retail field. Gus
toner service at the point of pur-
chase is handled as fast as cash
because the instant Credit" Gus
toner does not have to wait for
charge-plate authentication by the
credit office, as is the case with
ordinary charge accounts.
A second feature which has
proven popular with customers
who have used the plan in a test
group of Grant stores during the
past two years is the automatic
running record of purchases which
the customer is given after each
purchase, letting her know at all
times how much she has spent
during the month. Gone is the
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Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland
and is divided into % Districts in
turn sub divided into 101 Locals.
Each local sends delegates to the
annual meeting according to the
number of its members and each
district is represented on the board
of directors.
The annual meeting is designed
to be both informative and enter
tanning, with report on the year s
work by officers and staff MEM
bers, a special women's meeting,
and a banquet on Thursday, Nov.
II. The delegates session at which
resolutions are presented and
voted upon will be held on Friday,
Nov. Is.
Banquet speaker this year will
be DR.. Earl L. Butz, dean of agri-
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Sussex County Home
Demonstration Day
Annual Affair VIII be Held At
Georgetown On October %

The annual Sussex County Home
Demonstration County Day will be
held. on October %, at the Grace
Methodist Church in Georgetown.
Sponsored by the County Council
and the Agricultural Extension
Service of the University of Della
ware, this event will be the 31st
for Sussex County homemakers.
Hours are from 10 a. m. to p. m.
Featured speaker for the day
will be Miss Beth Peterson, home
economist of the DUPONT Com
pany's Extension Division. Her
topic will be the "The New Ameri-
can Look in Living" at the after
noon session. Miss Peterson, of
Wilmington, Delaware, is an au-
thority on Chemical developments
as they affect the home.
She not only will show some of
the newest products from the re-
search laboratory, but also will
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Turkey Banquet Is
Set For October 29

The third annual Turkey Pro-
motion Banquet will be held in
the Centenary Methodist Church,
Laurel, on October 29, at GAS, ac-
cording to an announcement from
Sussex County associate county
agent, Raymond w. Lloyd.
The banquet is a Embarrassing
event sponsored by the Delaware
Poultry Improvement Association
to support the ''Eat-More-Turkey"
campaign.
Reverend Clarence r. Rain,
Temple, Pa, will be the speaker.
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Fire Damage.
Near $4,000
In Milford,
Rehoboth Fire
Fireman Overcome At
Steiner And Co Blaze;
White House At RehO-
both Is Prey To Flames.

Two Sussex County fires caus-
ed damage totaling nearly $4,000
last Thursday afternoon and even
ing.
Flames, smoke and water wreck
ed a section of the Steiner and Co.
Garnetting Mills in the heart OF
Milford, driving night shift work
ers into the street.
One fireman, William Grunden,
of Washington Street, Milford, was
overcome by heat and smoke on
the second floor and was carried
out. He spent the night in an
oxygen tent in Milford Memorial
Hospital and was discharged Fri
day
Earlier, at Rehoboth Beach, fire
destroyed the white House., one
of the resorts oldest cottages.
Damage in the fire was placed at
about $4,000.
Edmund F. Steiner, president
of the Milford firm, said the loss
could possibly climb as high as
$4,000 as two garnetting machines
were ruined with the motors put
out of commission. He said short
in motor, apparently caused by
frayed wiring, was believed to have
been the cause of the fire.
Employees who discovered the
blaze about 8 p. m. turned in the
alarm and brought members of the
Carlisle Volunteer Fire Company
to the scene. A call for standby
assistance was later sent to Ellen
dale and Houston.
Until repairs can be completed
Mr.. Steiner said the plant will be
reduced to about one-third its nor
NAL production of wool and Da-
cron. About 125 men are employed
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job.
Each numerator will be a local
resident: each will be required to
take a qualifying test for the job.
He or she will also get IL hours
of special training and swear to
keep all census information conf
Dental.
The Act of Congress providing
for the census prohibits making
census information for an individ-
ual farmer or farm available to
any tax or investigation agency, the
county agent explains.
Many facts and figures will be
needed for accurate reporting, so
the county agent urges growers TO
start assembling records now. He
says three kinds of information
will be needed for an accurate pic
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To Observe Prayer
Week At Harrington
Plans For o b ervance
Oct. 25-31 Made By Mrs.
Fred B. Greenly, Sr.

The Week of Prayer and Self
Denial at Asbury Methodist Church
in Harrington will be held dur
ing the week of October 25 to 31st
Mrs. Fred B. Greenly, Sr., Spirit
ual Life Secretary of the Woman's s
Society of Christian Service has
made plans for the observation of
the week.
On Sunday evening, October 25th,
at 1880 a special service will be
observed. Members of the w. S. C.
S. will take part in the program
and the choir will sing.
On Wednesday afternoon, Octo-
ber % from two o'clock until three
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Mrs. Allen Frear Is
Dover Concert Head
Wife OF Junior Senator First Head
OF Newly Formed Group

Mrs. ]. Allen Frear, Jr., has been
named president of the newly
formed Dover Community Concert
Association, it was announced to-
day.
Other officers of the association
are the Rev. Robert L. McKim,
vice president; Mrs. Myron Boone,
secretary; and George Ehinger,
treasurer.
Mrs. Frear announced that plans
for a membership campaign for
the 1959-60 concert season will be
made public shortly. Preliminary
organization plans have been un-
derway for several weeks.
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180th Anniversary
At St. Johnstown
Services AT Historic Edifice Due
This Sunday

Sunday, October 25, marks the
celebration of the 180th anniver-
sary of st. Johnstown Methodist
Church, located near Greenwood,
Del.
This church, which came into
being from a series of meetings
held at the home of William Laws
under the inspiring preaching of
Frances Asbury in 1779. The first
church building dates from 1886.
The present church building was
rededicated in 1873. We can find
that tell of the several visits that
in Asbury's journal quotations
that tell of the several visits that
he made to st. Johnstown's Church
to preach and to gain new con-
verts for the Church.
On October 25, the Rev. Thomas
]. Huntington, pastor of Grace
Methodist Church, Denton, Mary
land, for 29 years will deliver the
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Truck Safety Clinic
In Milford Oct. 29th

Truck company operators and
safety personnel from throughout
this area are urged to attend a
safety clinic in Milford on October
20 when federal safety regulations
and maintenance procedures gov
erning interstate trucks will be
demonstrated.
The clinic, sponsored jointly by
the Delaware Motor Transport AS
sociation and the Interstate Com
merce Commission, will open at
7:30 p. m. at the Masten Trans
portation, Inc, shops on Reho-
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Milford chronicle., 1959-10-23
Junior Lamb Show
Is Due November 7

Twenty-eight All and FLA mem
bers will bring their 56 lambs TO
the Harrington Fairgrounds Nov.
for the Delaware Junior Lamb
Show and Sale.
john H. Shropshire, extension
livestock specialist with the Uni
versity of Delaware, says the
youngsters will bring their lambs
in about $3.50 Saturday morning.
The lambs will be weighed and as
signed pens.
The showing will begin at 100
and the sale at 300.
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proVement OF a series OF dirt ROADS
and maintenance surface treatment
in Kent and Sussex counties.
The resurfacing projects pro-
vide for the Improvement of the
existing highway from Scott's
Corner to Greenwood, distance Of
3.6 miles, and from Bacon to
Whitesville, in the south central
portion of Sussex county, dis
tance of s2 miles.
The suburban development i'm
provement will be the reconstruc-
ton OF the streets, totaling 0.33
miles, in Stony Crest, develop
ment north of Wilmington.
The dirt road improvement pro-
jects have been placed in two con-
tracts. Both are located in Sussex
county. One project. having
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Milford chronicle., 1959-10-23
Completing Plans For
Vets Day At Bridge
Annual Joint DelaWare-New Jersey
Observance November 8th

Plans for the annual joint Della
ware-New Jersey observance of
Veterans Day Sunday November
8 at Delaware Memorial Bridge
Plaza were initiated this week.
julius ]. Alpern, state chairman,
who represents the Jewish War
Veterans, said that from early re-
ports there is every Indication of
a record turnout of veteran, aux
iliary and patriotic societies for
the occasion.
Mr.. AIpern announced that the
principal speaker for the occasion
will be Bernard Abrams, a Jersey
City, N. ]. attorney who was re-
Gently elected national commander
of the Jewish War Veterans.
1T is especially appropriate that
Mr.. Abrams be our speaker since
he comes from the neighbOring
state which has cooperated in
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Barratt's Chapel
Anniversary Sunday
Guest Minister VIII Be Rev. DIR
John N. Link Of Wilmington


Barratt's Chapel will celebrate
its 179 anniversary on Sunday, Oc-
tober rs, at 2:30 p. m. Guest min
lister will be the Rev. DR.. John N.
Link, superintendent of the Will
mington District. Mrs. Ruth Willis,
contralto, of Wye Mills, Nd, will
be the soloist. Rev. William o.
Hackett, president of the Histori-
cal Society of the Peninsula Con-
ference of the Methodist Church,
will preside, assisted by the Rev.
Roy L. Tawes. Superintendent of
the Dover District.
Barratt's Chapel, located on the
highway between Frederick and
Magnolia, has long been known as
the Cradle of Methodism." 1t was
here that the Sacrament of the
Lords Supper was administered
legally by an ordained Methodist
minister for the first time in Am
erica