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Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
Boat Parade
Feature OF
Big Thursday
Will Be Opening Attrac-
tiOn at Slaughter Beach
Homecoming Starting
August Sixteenth.

A Boat parade will be the fea-
ture attraction on Sunday, Aug
ust 16, the opening day of the
Slaughter Beach Big Thursday
Homecoming week, when craft
of all classes, large and small,
will assemble at Mispillion Light
at p. m. The parade will proceed
out the Mispillion to Delaware
Bay, across the Bay to Slaughter
Beach front, travel the full length
of the beach and return in the
same manner; then to the point
of assembly at Mispillion Light
and disband. The parade will be
paced by U. S. Coast Guard
cutter. Prizes will be awarded tt
the best decorated craft.
Judges of this event will bt
announced later. The judges stand
will be off shore from the Fire
House, which is the central point
of the beach. The, entire even
will be sponsored by the Milford
Harrington U. s. Coast Guard Flo.
tilla No. 16.
All local boat owners are in
vited to participate and their in
tentiOns should be registered will
an official or at Mispillion Light
The officers in charge are E(
H o eyer, commander. Pau
Lynch, vice commander, and Les
Jefferson, training officer.
Continued on page three)
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Truck ROadeO
Opens 3-Day
Meet Aug. 20
General Manager Of The
DMTA E. A. Yutzi An
nOunces Maryland Dri-
verS Are Entered.

Maryland drivers will be entered
for the first time in the annual Tri-
State Safe Driver Truck ROadeO
when the three-day contest opens
August 20 at the New Castle Coun-
ty Airport.
The announcement was made to-
day by E. A. Yutzi, general man.
ager of the Delaware Motor Trans
port Association, host for this
years contest.
The roadeo also will bring to-
gether top-f1ight commercial truck
drivers from Delaware, Pennsylva-
mia and New Jersey to compete for
state and tri-state titles.
Until now Maryland has held it's
own state truck roadeo, but this
year the Maryland Motor Truck As
sociation decided to drop the con-
test in favor of joining the tri-state
competition.
Despite the inclusion of the
fourth state, the roadeo will retain
it's tri-state title this year, Mr..
Yutzi said.
The contest, aimed at fostering
highway safety, is an exacting test
of driving skill, Judgment and mas
terry of the vehicle. All entries must
have accident-free records for the
preceding IL months.
The roadeo will be conducted on
an obstacle course to be set up at
Atlantic Aviation's concrete apron
at the airport. Here contestants
will put their vehicles through
backing, turning and parking prob
lens that duplicate situations the
drivers meet every day on the job.
The drivers knowledge of highway
regulations and safety techniques
will be measured through written
examinations.
Contestants from each state will
compete as a group for state cham
pionship in their truck class. On
the basis of their point showing, the
judges will select a tri-state win
ner.
Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
Bids Are Opened For
School Additions Here
]. Roland Dashiell & Sons
Of Salisbury, Maryland,
Successful Bidder

The Milford Special School Dis
trict Building Commission opened
bids for additions to the Lakeview
Avenue buildings consisting of two
biology laboratories, special edu-
cation classroom, farm shop labor
atory, paint room, and custodial
storage area and workshop in ad-
dition to connecting corridors and
alterations to the present agricul-
ture and industrial arts area at a
special meeting held in the Board
of Education Office on July Is, at
8 p. m.
The contractor submitting the
lowest proposal was ]. Roland
Dashiell and Sons of Salisbury, Md,
for the sum of $157,985. All con-
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Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
Kent-Sussex Guard
Units Will Honor
Col. Ralph S. Baker
Veteran Of Thirty Years
Service Will Be Hon.
Ored By Mass Parade
Of Units At Five p. MI.
Today.

Troops of the 160th AAA Group
will parade in honor of Colonel
Ralph S. Baker, who has command
ed the group since its activation,
on Friday, July "a, at 5 p. m. on
the parade ground at the National
Guard Camp, Camp Victor d.
Washburn, Bethany Beach. The oc-
casion for the parade Is that this
is Colonel Bakers last encampment
with the Delaware National Guard.
According to present regulations
he must retire on June 1, 1860. Col
onel Baker will review the parade
in company with Major General
Joseph H. Scannell, State Adjutant
General; Brigadier General John
B. Moore. Commanding General OF
the 261st AAA Brigade, and other
members of the State STAFF and
Second Army representatives.
The units parading will march
in the following order: 2S7th Army
Band, of Wilmington, commanded
by Chief Warrant Officer Edwin r..
Williams, Jr., a Provisional Bat
TALON, commanded by Major Dom
aid S. Robinson, composed OF
Headquarters Battery of 160th AAA
Group, of, Milford. 262nd Ordnance
Company (DS). of Wilmington. and
the 9Th AAA Detachment (RCAT),
of Fort Miles; 2Bn/198 Arty of
Dover and Harrington, commanded
by Lit. Col. Joshua T. West, of Do-
YER; the massed colors of the en-
tire group; 8 Bn/198 Arty of
Georgetown, Dagsboro. and Fort
Miles, commanded by 1t COL. Jer-
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States Resorts Are
Having Best Season
Are Planning Events For
Last Half OF The
Season

Delawares bay and ocean re-
sorts, enjoying their best season
in history, are currently complet-
ing arrangements for events that
will add to the enjoyment of vaca-
tionists visiting the areas during
the latter half of the SO season,
reports the Delaware State Devel-
opment Department.
Rehoboth Beach, referred to as
the Nations Summer Capital" due
to. the seasonal influx of visitors
from the Washington area, has a
variety of special events planned
including art tours and exhibitions,
and a two-day ocean swim involv-
ing regional and state champion
ship honors.
Attracting much attention on the
"art front" Is the 32nd Annual Art
continued on page ten)
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Greatest Semi-Annual
Sales Fete Will Be
Held With Many Lead
ing Stores Cooperating
On August Z And 8.

There are nearly a score of Mil
ford merchants cooperating 1909
with Milford's Semi-Annual Dollar
Days, scheduled for Friday and
Saturday, August and 8, the
greatest ever held in Milford.
Thousands of circulars will be
mailed to homes in lower Delaware
very shortly.
A four-page section of the Mil
ford Chronicle, Delaware's largest
weekly newspaper, will be devoted
to the advertisements of the mer-
chants who are literally going all
out to make the days" a success.
Starting soon, Milford's own ra-
dio station, WKSB, broadcasting
from Milford in the Heart of Del
aware, will carry the Dollar
Days" message from Milford to
thousands of listeners several
times each day.
Milford merchants are prepar-
ing for what is expected to be the
greatest influx Of shoppers in the
city's history, with an abundance
of fresh seasonal merchandise TAX
en- right out of regular stock and
reduced for Dollar Days only.
While two free parking lots are
always available to shoppers, one
located on North East Front
Street, with space for several hun
dred cars and the other in the
rear of the Windsor Building, with
entrance on South Washington
Street.
In order to take care of all who
desire to make Milford their shop
CONTINUED on page six)
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Trussem Pond Site
OF Cypress Swamp
Interested Folk Can Visit Area Lo-
Gated Near Laurel

There is no need for Delawar-
cans to travel all the way to Flor
ida to see a large cypress swamp,
advises the Delaware State Devel-
opment Department in pointing out
that Delaware has cypress swamp
of its own complete with cypress
trees towering majestically above
placid waters.
Trussem Pond, located in south
western Sussex County between
Trappe Pond and Laurel, contains
many find stands of cypress trees
which rise straight and tall to lofty
crowns throughout the 80 acres OF
the pond. The entire area is easily
reached from the DUPONT Parkway
(U. S. Route 13).
Trussem Pond. which adjoins
Trappe Pond State Park, boasts
fishing and boating as well as pic
and camping facilities. The
entire area is open to the public
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Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
Concert Date Set
At Harrington
Bands OF Special School District To
Play Tomorrow Night

The annual summer outdoor con-
cert by the bands of the Harring-
ton Special School District, ]. c.
Messner, superintendent, will be
presented tomorrow, Saturday, in
front of the Harrington Post Office,
at p. m.
The program will begin with a
short concert by the Senior Band
playing marches and concert num-
bers to include the French Mill
tary March of SaintSaens," the
"Children's Marching Song" and
the walls of Jericho.
The Grade School Band will fol-
low with several numbers that in
clude She'll Be Coming Round the
Mountain" marches, and hymns of
the Church.
The Junior High School Band
will later play standard marches as
well as patriotic numbers and nov
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poultry plant, helicopter weed and
brush control demonstration. hog
and sheep exhibits, homemaker
crafts demonstrations, fried chic
ken lunch and a watermelon break
are the main attractions. Special
buses will take visitors on tours of
the plots where they will be able
to see first-hand the results of ex-
periments such as variety testing
and fertilizer response, weed con-
troll and other cultural practices
and have a chance to talk with pro-
ject leaders.
Vegetables
Vegetable work to be reported in
cludes weed control in asparagus,
beets, carrots, peppers. cauliflow-
er, tomatoes and potatoes; tomato
variety trials to test yielding abil-
ity, quality and disease resistance
(continued on page twelve)
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w. w. Harrington rs
Dead At Age IS
Former Chancellor III a d
Long Public Career;
Native Of Kent

William Watson Harrington, OF
Dover, who served as chancellor of
Delaware from December, 1888 to
1861, died July 18 in the Delaware
Hospital, Wilmington. He was IS.
Mr.. Harrington entered the hos
pital six days before his death.
He was born at Pennington, Kent
County, on June 80, 1874, son OF
the late Charles ]. and Mary Eliza
beth Watson Harrington. +"
After graduation from Delaware
College, in 1895, with a bachelor
of arts degree, Mr.. Harrington stu
died law under Edward Ridgely at
Dover and at Harvard Law School.
He was admitted to the Delaware
Bar at Dover in October, 1893. and
practiced his profession there until
he was appointed to the bench.
Continued on page eleven)
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u. s. Incomes
Hit Record OF
1892 Billion
Commerce Department
List Substantial Gains
Month by Month /; Long
er Work Week Cited.
BY Associated Press


Rising wage and salary payments
pushed the personal income of Am
ericans in June up to a record rate
of 1882 $780, 100000 a year.
This total, reported this week by
the Commerce Department, repre-
sented a gain of $780, ,000, ,000, 900
from May.
Most of the gain-all but $780,
000, 0,00O-came from an increase in
hiring, rising wages and slightly
longer working week.
The increase was only about half
as great as the average of the past
few months, however, and some of
1t probably resulted from the steel
industry's all-out effort to get as
much metal made as possible be-
fore the ng-threatened steel
strike began last week.
The greatest factory payroll
gains were in the metals, machin-
cry, glass and clay Industries
Among the manufacturing por-
tions of the economy, the whole
sale trade and state and local gov
ernments showed the foremost in
creaseS.
Personal income, measure oi
the rate at which income is being
paid to individuals, has risen by
almost $4,000, 10000 since Janu.
airy.
If that rate could be kept up
personal income would be just q
shade under a 100000, 100000 an
nual rate by the end of the year.
But the monthly increases have
been progressively smaller this
spring. And the loss of earnings
arising from the steel strike-es-
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Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
DR.. Sam Gwinn l.
Asst. Extension Head

DR.. Samuel NJ. Gwinn has been
appointed assistant director of the
Delaware Extension Service in Ag-
riculture and Home Economies,
according to an announcement by
Dean George M. Worrilow of the
University of Delaware School of
Agriculture.
DR.. Gwinn, who has served as
state All Club leader since 1851.
has been with the Delaware Exten-
sion Service since 1948. He is a
graduate of the University of West
Virginia where he received his
bachelors degree in agricultural
CONTINUED on page ten)
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Hospital. Wilmington, who has a
national reputation in the field of
hospital administration.
The campaign dinner will be in
the Bethel Methodist Fellowship
Hall at Lewes at $3.50 p. m. Toast
master will be Mr.. Shaw, who is a
director of the Beebe Hospital and
executive vice president of its
board.
Head table guests, according to
the fund chairman, will include, in
addition to Mr.. Griffith and Mr..
Shaw: DIR. James Beebe, Sr., pres
ident of the hospital board of direc-
tors; Mrs. j. H. Tyler Mcconnell,
associate campaign chairman in
charge of the women's division; /;
Harry w. Lynch. chairman, special
gifts committee; Eugene d. Book
hammer, chairman, teams division; /;
Continued on page nine)
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Plans Underway For
Milford Dollar Days,
Committee Working
KENT COP WOMEN
BRAVE THE ELEMENTS

Despite a delay in starting
tn cir scheduled family
night" meeting in Wheeler's
Park, because of rain squalls
and an electrical storm, mem
bers of the Kent County Re
publican Women's Club and
their families gathered later
on Monday evening in the
park pavilion for the pro-
gram which was attended by
some 100 persons.
Mrs. Ruth Concilio of Do
yer welcomed the group and
introduced Clinton E. Wool
eyhan. president of the State
Federation of Young Repub-
licans, who described some of
the activities of the AYR's
recent national convention
in Denver, Colo.
Hostesses for the evening
were Mrs. Freda Cluley, Mrs.
Fred Walls and Mrs. Ger
trude Morgan, all represent
ing the Ninth District of Kent
County.
Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
Highway Dept. Lists
Sussex Road Program

The State Highway Department
at recent meeting has approved
the following roads in Sussex Coun-
ty for inclusion in the dirt road i'm
provement program when funds for
that purpose are made available by
the General Assembly.
Road GIG located along the nor
thern part of Sussex County and
extending from Tantrough Branch
to Route SO or the Shawnee Road.
Also the following roads in the
general Milton area:
Road 233 extending from Route
16 to Route IA.
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Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
1921 Took Chest
X-Rays In Kent
Large Increase In 1859 Is Noted
Over The Previous Yefir

The 1859 chest X-ray program in
Kent County resulted in 1921 per-
sons visiting the mobile units as
compared to 1899 in the 1858
program, according to figures an
nounced by the sponsoring agen-
cies, the State Board of Health and
the Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis
Society.
The number of machine days
this year was 39 and compared with
SO last year.
A summary of the figures by type
of location, with the 1858 compare
tive figures shown in parenthesis,
are: community units, 8,435 (8,028) +;
industry, 1915 (2,775); institutions.
so (46); schools, 1859 (245); Ma
tcontinued on page fivel
Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
Parade VIII Open
Ocean Downs Meet
Gala Fete Is Planned For Next
Monday Afternoon

A. downtown parade, featuring
prancing horses, beauty queens and
blaring bands will herald opening
day at Ocean Downs Raceway Mon
day afternoon, July 27.
Miss Maryland of 1859, Diane
White, on her return from Califor-
MIA competition in the Miss Uni
verse Contest will appear, as will
the peninsula's own Miss Del Mar
Va, Nina Lou Ringler of Selbyville,
the Chicken Festival Queen.
Behind Dale Fetrow's high-pow-
cred mobile starting gate will par
ade a group of the spirited trotters
and PAGERS which will grace the
raceway's 1859 meeting, driven by
reinsmen in colorful racing silks.
Actors from the Lighthouse Play
ers, the little theater group cur
rently presenting plays in Ocean
City, will take part in the parade.
continued on page eleven)
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Gov. Boggs Proclairns
Annual Fair Week
Urges Citizenry To Avail Them
selves OF Thrilling Exposition

In proclaiming the period July
27 through August ! as Fair Week
in Delaware, Governor ]. Caleb
Boggs urged Delawareans to avail
themselves of the educational and
entertainment facilities provided by
the Kent and Sussex Fair, which, !"
the chief executive said, "in effect
serves as the state fair of Della
ware"
Governor Boggs pointed out that
the Fair affords Opportunities for
our farmers and farm families, and
members of All Clubs, F. F. A.
Clubs, Oranges, and similar or
ganizations to exhibit the fruits of
their labor" and also causes those
living in urban areas to "recog-
nize the essential roles of our agri-
cultural citizens in raising the
standards of living in both our
state and nation"
In his proclamation, the chief
executive also praised the Fair as
IAN excellent means of publiciZing
CONTINUED on page eleven)
Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
Tickets On Sale For
All-Star Grid Game
May Be Purchased Locally At Der
ricks0n's Mems Store

Tickets for the fourth annual
Delaware All-Star High School
Football Game are on sale at Is
retail outlets throughout the state
The Blue VS.. Gold spectacle, in
volving 1859 graduates, will be
played Saturday afternoon, Au-
gust %, at the University of Della
ware Stadium. 1t will benefit the
Delaware Foundation for Retarded
Children. I'VE Play That They May
Learn" is the games slogan.
Tickets are on sale at these
agencies:
Observation-Disclosures Inn, Will
mington Sporting Goods, Bee Hive.
Newark - Jackson's Hardware,
Rhodes Drug Store, Louviers
Building.
Claymont-Yetter's Restaurant.
Smyrna-Golden's Pharmacy.
Dover-Maag's Sporting Goods.
CONTINUED on page three)
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Renfro Valley Barn Dance and
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry." In
1855 he went on the air for the first
time with his Country Music Pro-
gram the Jubilee" 1t is pres
emily the number one show of it's
kind. having been voted that hon.
or in a poll of television critics
and editors throughout the nation.
Earlier this year. Red signed a
lifetime contract with Decca Rec
ords :. a first" in recording his
tory. His sacred albums, like the
song of inspiration" portion of
his TV show, are great favorites
with people from all walks of life.
Red Foley's rib-tickiing old side
kick, Uncle Cyp Brasfield, is also
very popular in show business. He
has been a laugh-getting headliner
of ABC Television Jubilee u. S.
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Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
1959-1960 State
Hunting Season
Seasons Are Listed For All Types
OF Wild Life

When the 11Sth General Assem-
bly, invested in the Board of Game
and Fish Commissioners the power
to fix" and regulate seasons by
shortening, extending or closing
seasons. and to fix and regulate the
bag limit on any species of pro-
tected wild life or. fresh water
fish" 1t specified that the board
should hold a public hearing at
least sixty days prior to changing
any rule or regulation. The sew
enth annual public hearing was
held on April % in Dover with ap-
proximately 100 persons attending.
Everyone was given the oppOrtun-
ity to express his opinion on game
and fish matters in Delaware. There
was some difference of opinion on
seasons on upland game species
but there was no clear-cut express
sion of a need to change small
game seasons or limits.
CONTINUED on page nine)
Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
All Activities At
Kent : Sussex Fair

This years Kent and Sussex Fair
July 27-August / at Harrington
will offer many opportunities for
All Club members according to DR..
Sam Gwinn, Delaware State All
Club leader.
approximately 125 different pro-
ject classes are on the fair prem
ium list. Some of these are can
ming, frozen foods. baking, cloth
ing, home improvement, crafts.
eggs, vegetables, entomology. home
Identification, conservation and
farm and home electric.
Club members will also take part
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Lewes Horse Show
Sunday, July 18th
Many Fine Horses, Are Entered
For Showing

Among the many fine horses en-
tered in the Lewes Horse Show,
the Windy Hill Stables of West
Chester, Pa, will have on exhibit
ton the famous Quarter-horse "Par-
do, it has been announced by Hen
ry F. Hill. general chairman. This
famous stallion has taken many
grand championships throughout
the country and stands at stud at
West Chester.
Also being shown will be his
stable mate, the two year old stall
lion Bars Bailey. In the eleven
shows where this young horse has
appeared, he has taken nine first
place, 5 grand championships and
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Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
DHIA Supervisors
Report On Herds
Jesse Fash And John Benson Dis.
close Records For June

The Sussex County Dairy Herd
Improvement Association sum-
nary as reported by Jesse Fash
and John Benson, DHIA superyis-
ors for the testing circuits Nos. l
and II show "a herds with I'll cows
on DHIA test for the month of June
averaged TAG pounds of milk and
1872 pounds of butterfat per COW.
There were 230 cows that produced
over 1000 pounds milk and 210
cows that produced over 40 pounds
of butterfat during the month.
The five highest producing herds
listed for the month were owned
by Homer Bryan, Lewes; Roland
Russell, Bridgeville; Nailor Wells
& Sons, Milford; Eldred Cress, of
Continued on page sevenl
Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
Plans Announced For State
Farm Field Day August 5th

Detailed plans for the University
Of
division
Tours vegetable and field crop plots and the
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Beebe Hospitals $3.50, 900
Fund Drive Opens July 28


Tuesday July g. which about 200
be
Shaw H.
Milford chronicle., 1959-07-24
Red Foley viii appear At
Fair On July 10Th and 3Oth

From the Missouri ABCTvS his
his USA Jubilee Delaware
Wednesday Thursday
demand
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-07

to month payments to the school
board SO that the board OF super
vlsors could at all times control. as
far as possible. the unfortunate
situation which has developed in
this county
Gates stated that the answer to
the fund cutoff question would
answer any questions as to where
he would stand in the future.
Referring to local legislation,
Gates said, Due to the limitations
that are fixed by law, there is very
little local legislation that can be
passed by the board Of super
visors, other than legislation deal
ing with health and control Of the
violations Of motor vehicle laws on
the highways. For nearly II years.
the time that I have been men,
CONTINUED on page 81
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-07
ers AreHeard
Speakers Are Heard
Farm Group n icnic Dra,us 800

The fourth of July holiday, adj
dresses by State Senator Charles
T. Moses and John B Vance and
a review of progress Of the Prince
Edward School Foundation by Blan-
ton Hamburg brought out a crowd
of nearly 300 persons to the Prince
Edward County Farmers Union
meeting at Darlington Heights Sat
urday
The morning program in the ele-
mentary school auditorium was fol-
lowed by fish and chicken fry and
an afternoon period of recreation
and baseball
A. w. Lewis, county Farmer
Union president. presided during
the auditorium program. which in
Guided a program Of music pre-
sented by Brett Watson, Russell
Lee Scruggs and Mrs. Nat Brum-
mitt
Moses Address
Senator Moses, of Appomattox,
eAie 8 I , Spcdkcl, uSeu d
patriotic theme. reminding the audi
ence Of the cost Of American free
dom won 1888 years ago. Just as
there were great odds against those
early p atriots. each succeeding
American generation has always
found obstacles in the way" he
said.
The great American answer has
been individuality and a Jealous
concern for liberty" If we accept
all the federal enticements for Sc
curity and lose our individuality as
persons or states, then we're head
ing in the wrong way Senator
Moses declared.
He said conservation practices at
home and national policy to re
duce import duties on American
commodities abroad are two Of the