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Arlington Stresses
Community Beliefs

Arlington School Board members should believe in
munity responsibility for public education the five incumbents
agreed today
The county board had voted unanimously Saturday TO
require such belief from all they appointed to the
school board
The action pointed the contrast between the county
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-14
Bryan to Rule Quickly
On Student 7 transfers.

Federal Judge Albert Bryan said today decide
Immediately whether to order admission Of Negroes
to predominantly white schools in Arlington
At hearing in Federal District Court in Alexandria the
Arlington Board did oppose efforts of the children
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-14
Robbery Plot Smashed
AtCond|e|ight Theoter

plot to rob the candlelght Theater NV
was broken up last night by small of detectives who
had staked OUT the place for three weeks because Of
They arrested waiter who Robbery Squad Capt Nunzo
Bonaccorsy said the finger man" and others
came into the theater-reSaurant with pistol and map.
Capt Bonaccorsy said at least Is detectives
Evening star., 1959-12-20
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Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30

Through the years, some of the
furnishings were given away and
others stolen by vandals The house
grew shabbier and more gaunt
as time passed and strangers pass
ing through Georgetown on the
Lewes highway, of which Market
Street is part, commented on the
tragedy of so fine a mansion go-
ing to ruin.
The owner, Mrs. Mary L. Robin
son, is now in a nursing home at
Seaford and turned over her af-
fairs to the Farmers Bank. They
boarded up the windows but de-
termined that it would not be
possible to rehabilitate the man
sion from its stage of deterioration.
Crowds gathered for the burn
ing, many of them watching ii
only as magnificent blaze that
was eliminating a public eyesore
and danger spot, but few who
remembered the old days when
the house was show place, stood
silently by as the flames reduced
to ashes a symbol of former gra-
cious living in Sussex County.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30

Delaware Memorial Bridge Plaza.
AS state VFW Officers, Messrs.
Hugg, Nevins and Gilmore, will
also have active roles in the De-
partment of Delaware meeting at
Dover the evening of Monday,
November 8.
On Tuesday, November 10, at
1880 p. M, Blue Hen Post will be
host to members of the Ladies
Auxiliary and the Blue Hen Junior
Girls Unit at an informal Vet
Grams Day observance at the Post
Home. Past Commander Nevin
heads the committee on arrange
ments for this affair. Blue Hen
Chicks participation will be under
direction of Mesdames Elwood
Montgomery and Roy Lafontaine.
On Wednesday, November II, at
8:45 a. m, post and auxiliary will
present a special Veterans Day
program at an assembly at the
Milford High School. Post Patri-
otic Instructor James P. Gilmore
will be in charge of this program.
On Monday, November Is, Blue
Hen Post will be host at a regular
monthly meeting of District #3
of the Department of Delaware,
VFW.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30

counted only three automobiles, but
saw five homemade wagons with
the shafts made of poles cut from
forests and the harnesses of the
faithful horses made of worn-out
iron tires from broken cartwheels.
Yet Warsaw is now mostly rebuilt
and l. should be proud to live in
it.
Last week, in Germany, I was
amazed at the energy of the Ger
mans and noted their great activ-
ity. / wondered why this energy
was not used to curb Hitler in his
wickedness. 1t almost seems as if
vast number of Germans-in their
own .minds-hoped that Hitler
would win l further feel that
many Germans believe another
Hitler" will arise who will have
all of his energy but who will be
without his sins!
Each of my readers-many of
whom are loyal United States citi-
zens, even though perhaps of Ger
man descent-must decide for him
self, this is my reaction: AL
though | came to Central Europe
an optimist, hoping to find some
attractive German stocks and
bonds to recommend, am return
ing home pessimistic. The fire ig-
nited by Emperor Wilhelm II and
his Prussian followers may be yet
smoldering. Wise are those who
now invest their money only in the
United States of America or in Can
ada.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
Many Activities
Planned By Milford
V. F. w. Groups

The next several weeks promise
to be busy ones for members OF
Blue Hen Post #6483, v. F. W.,
and affiliated organizations. In
addition to the annual membership
drive, now well underway, and to
planning for the annual Christ
mas Party for Underprivileged
Children, members of post, ladies
auxiliary, moo. and junior and in
other V.FW. sponsored events.
A benefit dance will be held al
the Post Home this Saturday
evening with the music by the
Lew Startt Orchestra. Earlier in
the evening, Junior Girls and Cub
Scouts will participate in Milford's
annual Halloween Parade.
Plans for Auxiliary participation
in a large number of November
events will be discussed at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Ladies Auxiliary Monday evening
at the Post Home. Reports on
currently underway will also be
projects recently completed or
given. Mrs. David S. Hugg, presi-
dent of the ladies unit, will preside.
On Tuesday evening, November
3, members of Puptent H4, Moo.
in regular meeting at the Post
Home, will complete planning for
participation in the annual Moo
Pilgrimage to the National Gene
terry at Arlington. William P
Haughey, as ranking officer of the
local moo. unit, will head up the
large Milford Area delegation that
will visit Washington and Arling-
ton, November 7-8.
Next Wednesday evening, the ini-
tial meeting of joint committee
for planning for the 10th Annual
! V.F.W.-sponsored Milford Area
Underprivileged Children's Christ
mas Party will be held at the Post
Home beginning at 9 o'clock.
Post Commander David S. Hugo
will be the principal speaker at a
luncheon meeting of the Conven-
tion of Patriotic Societies in Della
ware in Wilmington next Thurs
day at noon.
On Thursday evening, the regu-
lar monthly meeting of the Board
of Directors, Milford VFW Asso-
citation, will be held at the Post
Home, while Post and moo. teams
are engaged in bowling league
competition.
Post members, under direction
of Membership Chairman, Newton
Brown, will conduct a ''blitz" the
eyening of Friday, November 6,
beginning at o'clock.
On Saturday, November z, Com
mander Hugg will represent Mil
| ford VFW units at the all-day
Delaware Conference on Children
and Youth at the Dover High
School. The following day, Com
mander Hugg, Past Post Comman-
ders Clement J. Nevin and James
P. Gilmore, and John NJ Short and
William Stevens will represent
Blue Hen Post at the annual state
wide Veterans Day ceremonies at
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
Georgetown Fathers"
May Buy Water Co.

The Georgetown Town Council
in considering buying the George
town Water Co.
Discussions have been held be-
tween members of the council and
officials of the water company and
the town has had an appraisal
made by competent consulting
engineering firm.
Lawrence c. Elliott has been ap-
pointed a special attorney to ne
gotiate with the directors of the
water company to arrive at an
agreeable purchase price.
The Town Council has declared
a holiday on parking meters be-
ginning December l and continu-
ing through January 1, 1860. No
bags will be put on the meters,
but notice will be kept on the ra-
dio and newspapers and through
advertising carried by merchants.
Bags have not proved successful
in the past due to weather condi-
tions and children tearing them off
The Town Council has also
asked for cooperation of the towns
people in dumping far back in the
town dump. In a statement, the
council said, ''The town dump has
become a serious and costly main
tenance problem to the town, due
to not carrying the rubbish into
the dump but dumping in the en-
frances and closing them up. If
anyOne has auy SUGGESTION we
would like to hear from them"
The Boulevard Auto Sales Co.,
Inc, was low bidder for the new
police car and given the contract.
A demolition permit was given
to Clyde Joseph to remove the old
Dorman house on The Circle.
Contracts have been let for i'm
provements to North Front ST.,
to include drainage and curbing.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30

WARSAW, Poland, October 80 -
Warsaw is the capital of Poland,
located not quite midway between
Berlin and Moscow. / will not now
discuss the government of Poland,
although it claims to be free de-
mocrecy with officials and 'sparlia-
ment" elected by the people; yet
$3.50 of the property is owned by
the municipality or state and prac-
tically all the people work for the
government. It's much like Russia
in many ways; but its people claim
not to be Communists. The Polish
people take part in no propaganda,
but ask only to be let alone and
left free to run their own affairs.
They claim to be 1000 neutral, but
surely appear friendly toward the
Russians yet hate the Germans who
bombed them numerically during
World War ii.
HISTORY OF POLAND
The city of Warsaw was founded
in the tenth century and Sunday I
attended a church dating back to
1887, although Christianity was for
mally introduced into Poland in
962 and was actively practiced in
Warsaw in 1241 when the Polish
armies repelled the Mongol hordes.
In fact, the whole of Southern Eu-
rope owes its freedom to the armies
of Poland. Again it was the Pol
ish armies which stopped the Turks
from overrunning Europe in the
18th century. The whole of Europe
owes a great debt to the Polish
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
ELECTING PRESIDENTS

Our system of electing Presidents is
somewhat unique, as we all know, but one OF
the features of that system since 1861-65 has
been the flat rule that no Southerner could
be elected President.
The reason why no candidate from the
South, or from small state, has a chance
these days lies in the electoral college system.
That system provides, among other things,
that the candidate with the largest number
of votes in the respective states wins all the
electoral votes.
Since it takes less than 300 electoral votes
to elect a President, one can readily see how
the big electoral vote blocs are "musts" for
Presidential candidates. Therefore, they go
into these big, key states and promise the
pressure groups and the factions which con-
troll the actual balance of power anything
to win the entire bloc of electoral votes.
1t is surprising how many of the key
states vote almost evenly, year after year, so
that the small pressure groups, the factions
which control only small total of votes, are
able to swing the balance of power to the can
didate of their choice.
The remedy which would alter all this,
and would make it possible for candidate
from small state, or from the South to be
nominated, is a change in the Constitution
which would allow the electoral vote to be
slit in the various stateS-according to the
democratic principle of awarding the candl-
dates the same number of electoral votes,
proportionally, that they deserve according
to the total popular vote.
1t would allow the Republican party to
take an interest in the South, for its votes
there would actually count.
In fact, it is easily possible under our sy-
stem for a President to be elected who re-
ceived fewer votes than his opponent-and
this has happened in several Presidential
elections under the present electoral college
system of choosing Presidents.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
IN THE AIR FORCE"
BY Elaine townsend Dickerson

have a higher altitude to eject
than the two pilots since the latter
leaves the plane from above and
the navigator and fourth man eject
from below. The navigator and the
fourth man were found in the
plane. An investigating crew will
know exactly WHY after studying
the wreckage.
guess any funeral could be call
ed Impressive are to me
certainly, but military funeral is
more so. The navigator in this
crash was friend of ours. His
wife and two children we have
known since they arrived here
three years ago. Upon their ar
rival in Topeka they lived on a
farm and tended to the stock and
cared for the farmers garden while
they were on a summers vacation
just to have a place to live and to
be together as a family. This l
am sure the wife will be grateful
for for years to come. / should
never attend funerals. | am overly
sympathetic. l cry when l see
neighbors offering help to a new
neighbor, l cry when l see a strange
child lost from his mother in
store, / cry in church when the
choir sings. l am mess at we'd
dings.
Yesterday at Bob's funeral the
preachers appropriate words to
the families, the rows and rows OF
SAC airmen and officers paying re-
spect to their comrades in arms,
seeing the widows and their chill
dren, listening to the Kansas wind
howl outside the chapel and finally
listening to the bugler blow taps
was just more than any human
could endure. Even as the flag
bearer passed my pew / noticed
tears brimming in his eyes.
Each Strategic Air Commands
base has banner stating Peace
is Our Profession" This crew was
keeping proficient in their job for
peace. They gave their lives for
their country.
Until next week
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
2SO6 McAlister
Topeka, Kansas
October u. 1859

Topeka, Kansas
October 81, 1859
lDear Friends:
This has been a difficult week
for many reasons. A week that has
taken pounds off Hayes and me.
Tonight is the peak of six months
work for Hayes and his good crew.
Tonight in Orlando, Florida, his
crew flies their one and only mis-
sion in the Strategic Air Com
mand's yearly competition. In
other years they have been able to
take an average of several missions
to compile their scores, but to-
night it's the results of one mis-
sion, three bombs, that brings
climax to months of work and
preparation.
This will be long night for them
and for all the wives back home.
1t is not. only the three crew mem
bers and wives who are anxious,
but it's the maintenance men who
have worked long hours to keep our
RB-47 in top performing condition.
Today the wing personnel will be
breathing down Hayes, Don's and
Dawes necks as they do their last
minute plotting, checking their pho
tographs to pinpoint their targets.
l don't enevy them their position.
Whoever wins receives an on the
spot promotion as do the mainte-
nance men who helped on the
ground. / am not the only one who
will be most happy to see this week
| be at an end.
Another upsetting part of this
week occurred the night before the
boys left for Florida. A flash came
on our TV set about eight in the
evening stating that one of the AIS
from Forbes had crashed in Miss
ouri. AS more details became avail
able we learned that two of the
crew members had parachuted out,
but two others had gone down with
the bomber. In a jet, split second
timing counts in getting out of a
doomed plane. One little mistake in
ejecting from your position in the
plane and your life is involved in
a matter of seconds. The two men
in the bottom of the nose must
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
NOVEMBER. 1859

Once again, the next to the last month
of the year has sneaked up on us.
Perhaps the most memorable date, for
most Americans, is November 18th, when
the Armistice ending World War | went into
effect at eleven o'clock on that morning, in
1918. World War |, with its slaughter of
the masses of infantry, brought about the
recognition of Unknown Soldiers.
In France and Great Britain, an Unknown
Soldier was buried with appropriate honors,
at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and in
Westminster Abbey, in London in 1920. The
next year, on Armistice Day, the body of an
unknown American soldier was buried in
Arlington Cemetery.
Thanksgiving Day, of course, is the prin-
cipal holiday of November, and the grand
est of the autumnal season. 1t is, in reality,
a national religious festival in Thanksgiving
for the many blessings bestowed upon us.
November, then, is nostalgia, thanks
giving month, when the end of the old year
comes into sight.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
Old Tunnel Place
Burned At Georgetown

A bit of the treasured past of the
area went up in smoke Monday
night as the Georgetown Volun-
teer Firemen burned down the
huge old Tunnel place" on E.
Market st.
The 14-room, three-story house,
center of much activity at the turn
of the century, was first leveled
by bulldozers of the Melvin Joseph
Construction Co, and then burned.
1t made a spectacular bonfire,
seen for many miles. The firemen,
under the direction of Fire Chief
Robert Vanaman, Jr., stood by to
control the blaze and protect
neighboring property.
The house had been unoccupied
for about 10 years and much OF
the ola grandeur still remained in
the form of marble fireplaces and
an enormous old square piano.
1t was a wooden structure with
several spacious verandas and the
ornate trim of the 18th Century
1t was built in 1877 by Wilbur Tun-
nell who was cashier of the Far
mers Bank in Georgetown. He
added one of the wings and later
his daughter, Mary, had a match
ing wing built on the other side.
When he died, Mr. Tunnell left
the house to his daughter. She
married DIR. Oliver ID. Robinson
and moved from her family home
to his home on w. Market ST.
Out of sentiment, she simply
turned the key in the door of hel
old home, leaving it fully furnish.
ed.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
Junior Red Cross
Enrolment To Start
In Schools Nov. End

The annual Junior Red Cross en-
rollment in Delaware public, pri-
vate and parochial schools will be-
gin on Monday, November 2 it was
announced today by Mrs. Herman
R. Phillips, chairman of the Junior
Red Cross of the state chapter.
For the next two weeks, stu
dents in schools throughout the
state will be given the opportunity
to join this nation wide organiza-
ton whose program is designed to
give young people the chance to
express themselves through ac-
tivities that will promote their
own educational growth and pro-
vide valuable service to the COM
munity.
"The Junior Red Cross special
ICES in promoting the humanitarian
ideals of the Red Cross through
programs and activities carried
on at local, national and inter
national levels" Mrs. Phillips said
Mrs. Phillips stated that the
Junior activities are a supplement
to the school program More than
200 teacher-sponsors in Delaware
will guide the students in their
projects.
Among the Junior Red Cross ac-
tivities are:
The gift box program, in which
schools prepare and send small
colorful boxes filled with articles
ranging from toys to health items
through which needed school and
health supplies are sent by Ameri-
can high school students to young
people in other lands whose school
systems have been upset by wars
disasters and other calamities.
The school album program
which tells through drawings
photographs and essays the life and
activities of the towns in which
American youngsters live.
Mrs. Phillips said that, for the
first time during the past summer
the Junior Red Cross sponsored
a program in which Juniors serv-
ed as volunteer aides in the Della
ware Hospital: This volunteer pro-
ject for teen-agers was highly sue
cessful and it is planned to expand
it next summer, Mrs Phillips
pointed out
The Juniors also take part in
the various programs of the Red
Cross at the Chapter House. GIG
Gilpin Avenue. which include First
Aid and water safety, disaster
home nursing and staff aide SER
vice.
Every year outstanding Juniors
are selected to attend Junior Red
Cross training centers held
throughout the country. The Della
ware Representatives at the leader
ship training center at The Peddie
School, Hightstown, n. J.. in
August were Susan Casey, Pat
O'Keefe and Philip Houghton, all
of Wilmington.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
HALLOWEEN. 1859

The approach of Halloween reminds us
that there are practical jokers who delight,
whenever they can, to scare the wits out of
other people, This may be all right with
some individuals, but there are persons, es-
pecially among the young, whose health can
be badly damaged by practical jokers and
their thoughtless pranks
Parents who think they know their chill
dren pretty well realize that the urge to de-
Struction ranks right alongside hunger as a
youthful motivation, and they, therefore,
aren't too much surprised at anything that
may happen around the end of October.
The witches, ghosts, goblins and other
malevolent spirits, they know, can often
turn into destructive elements unless they
are wisely counseled and closely guided.
What can adults do to prevent the use
less destruction and unhappy consequences
which sometimes follow a night of merry
making? Well, there are the old time-hon-
ored tricks of giving parties, arranging par
ades and moving everything movable from
the outside into the garage or even the liv-
ing-room. Protection may also be bought
by providing large quantities of "treats, "
to take the place of the threatened ''tricks. :"
For the more serious problems of wanton
destruction, however, such as window-break-
ing, furniture burning, false alarms, and
such the police authorities will have to take
over.
With little bit of forethought on the
part of the adults there can be heaps of fun
for young and old and less remorse on the
morning after for unthinking "pranks" COM
mitted the night before.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

There are few striking differences be-
tween the two major political parties in the
United States. This is not at all the situation
in Great Britain, where the split between
the attitudes and program of the Conserva-
tives on the one hand and the Laborites on
the other is both wide and deep.
1t is this split which lends special import
to the Conservative party's smashing tri-
umph at the polls. By not only returning the
Conservative government to office but CIV
ing it far greater majority in the House of
Commons, the British people have come out
solidly in favor of moderate, gradual app
roach to world and domestic problems.
Britons turned their backs on Labor's
proposals for sweeping economic changes, in
Guiding standardization of the steel indust-
ry and naturalization of road transport
They did not rise to the bait of Labor pro-
mise that some purchase taxes would be abol-
ished. Nor did the voters approve of Labor's
foreign policies, which embodied the contro-
versial Gaitskell plan for disengagement in
Central Europe.
BY margins which leave no room for
doubt, the British people gave Harold Mac
millan's government vote of confidence. 1t
appears to be vote for continued stability
and steady progress as against dramatic act
ion either at home or abroad.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
WANTS A NEW NAME

MILWAUKEE, (P)-People have
so much trouble pronouncing
George Gaieck's name he doesn't
even know he is being PACED That
was the reason Gaieck gave in pc
titioning Circuit Court to change
his name to Nolan.
Milford chronicle., 1959-10-30
SHORT CIRCUIT

NORMAN, Okla. (E) = Firemen
answering an alarm at the electric
company building found a short in
some electrical wiring.