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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-07

" oman Club Presents Cliff To SeniOrs
In recognition of the fact that girl in
class been citizen
WOman'S Club presented with monetary
graduation gift
The gift presented bv W. F. Smith chairman If
the civic committee OF Woman's Club
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
To Honor General
Moor At Camp
Parade And Lun c h e con
viii Feature The
Recognition

Major General John B. Moore,
who retired from the Delaware Ar
my National Guard last Friday af-
ter 80 years service and 10 years
as commander of the 261st Artil-
lery Brigade (Air Defense), will be
honored with parade and lunch
con at the Guards summer camp at
Bethany Beach on Monday.
Among units in the parade will
be Dover's Battery A, 2 Bn/198 Ar
tillery, the unit in which General
Moore began his National Guard
service in 1921 when it was known
as Battery G.. 198th Artillery.
Other outfits in the parade will
include Hq and Hq Btry, 261st Ar
tillery Brigade, and units from Will
mington. Dover. Harrington, Lau-
rel, Seaford and Lewes.
Following the parade, General
Moore will be honored by military
and civilian friends and associates
at a luncheon at the Holiday House,
Bethany Beach.
Attending will be most of the
states active and retired general
officers. members OF the brigade
stan, commanders OF the six Ma
tional Guard battalions attached to
the brigade, and a number of ci-
william friends of General Moore.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
Harrington Summer
Music School Open
Instructor Will Be Melvin
BrObst, School Music
Teacher

The Harrington Special School
District is again sponsoring a
summer music school for all child
rem of this district. The program
is sponsored by the Harrington
School Board of Education and is
under the direction of Mr.. Melvin
Brobst, school music instructor.
The program began immediate
ly after the close of school and is
at present in its fourth week, and
will conclude after six weeks of
instruction have elapsed. The en-
rolIment this year is the largest
that has ever been registered.
Daily classes are held each morn
ing from $3.50 AM. to 1915, and
instruction is given for beginners,
of which there are 40 participating,
as well as classes for intermedi-
ates and advanced players.
The total number of children
enrolled for classes are 125, with
80 students enrolled only for band
rehearsals, making a total of 127
children registered for the entire
program.
CONTINUED on page fvel
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
Wheat Allotments
Are In The Mail

Official notices of farm allot-
ments for the 1861 wheat crop are
being mailed to farmers this week,
according to William H. Reynolds.
chairman of the Delaware Agri-
cultural Sterilization and Conser-
walton Committee. The allotments
for Delaware farmers will be slight
" lower than their 1860 allotments.
since the allotted acreage for the
state runs 32,762 acres compared
with 34,182 acres in 1860, which is
reduction of 1.420 acres. The
farm allotments are based primar-
lily on past wheat production his
tory.
The chairman points out that all
growers who will produce more
than Is acres of wheat as grain in
1861 will be eligible to cast ballots
in the July 81 referendum on mar
keting quotas for the 1861 wheat
crop. Growers who will have small
er acreages and those who are TAX
ing part in the food wheat program
are not eligible to cast ballots,
since the wheat from such farms
would not be subject to marketing
quota penalties.
THE referendum will decide i'm
Continued on page eleven)
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Girl Scout Camping
Is In Full Swing
Debbie Walls OF Milford Is Attend
ing Camp Todd

On June 27, Girl Scouts began
the 1860 season at Camp Todd,
near Denton, Maryland. The rs
girls who are attending the first
two-week session, will participate
in program activities such as, hik-
ing, outdoor cooking, swimming,
water safety, life saving, camp
craft, arts and crafts, music, dane
ing, games, sports, flag ceremon-
les and campfire programs. A spe-
cial unit on nature is being direct
ed by Miss Katharyn Harmon of
Salisbury. Maryland
An appropriate feature for the
seasons opening on July 4 week
end, was a special flag ceremony
honoring the SO Star Flag. The
theme" "America-the melting pot
of the world" was used. The theme
was developed by learning and play
ing games that originated in differ
ent countries. In keeping with the
theme an International Dinner was
enjoyed by campers and stan. The
July holiday at Camp Todd clos
ed with an impressive campfire
program of songs and folk dances,
native to countries all over the
world.
Debbie Walls Of Milford, is at
tending the first session of Camp
Todd.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
Local Girls Husband
Honored In Georgia

The regents of the University
System of Georgia, June s, elected
DR.. Harry B. O'Rear as president
of the Medical College of Georgia.
Mr.. O'Rear won the unanimous
support of the regents who were
meeting in Atlanta. He had served
as acting president since July.
1858, and the regents wasted no
time in approving a report by the
education committee nominating
O'Rear on permanent basis.
The board had been advised by
those closely associated with oper-
ations that the Medical College
had gained stature as a research
center as well as continuing pro-
gram of physical growth during
DR.. O'Rear's two year administra-
ton as acting president.
The college now has under con-
struction two-million-dollar re-
search wing attached to Eugene
Talmadge Memorial Hospital In
addition, the college is seeking rs
acres Of property next to its cam
pus-under an urban renewal pro-
gram for further expansian.
DIR. O'Rear is a native of Jaspur,
and a graduate Of the
Continued on page sevenl
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
Tom Leighty Honored
BY New York Trip
Milford Youth Afforded Chance To
Observe The United Nations

Thomas Leighty, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George B. Leighty, of Milford,
was chosen to be sent to New York
for a weeks study of the United
Nations. This is an unparelled
opportunity for seeing the United
Nations in action, learning about
behind the scene functioning, and
understanding the relationships of
ones home community with the
affairs of the world.
The boy or girl selected must be
a sophomore or junior in high
school (Thomas was an "A student
and member of the Mispillion Chap
teri. Essay writing contests or
examinations are usually the basis
for selection, with such qualities
as character, leadership, scholar
ship, community SERVICE and gen
eral fitness being taken into con-
sideration.
They are sponsored with all ex-
penses paid by Odd Fellow and/o
Rebekah Lodges.
Thomas bus is one of eighteen
buses which will be starting from
all parts of the nation and Canada,
taking some 700 young people and
Continued on page six)
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SafeWay Is
Starting New
Store Here
This Weekend
Ultra Modern Building
Will Be Located IN
Northeast Front St.
Shopping Center

Safeway Stores, Incorporated,
the second largest food chain in
the nation, as most people in this
area know, is planning to open
an ultra-modern store in the new
shopping center on North East
Front street. Milford.
The Milford store, to be known
as store $40, will be $4,000 square
feet in area, and will be of con-
temporary design, with a brick
and glass store front.
Some of the store facilities, as
outlined to this writer by Gibson
Wright, of Safeway Public Rela-
tions Department, Washington, D.
c., will be automatic entrance
doors, six mechanical :. C b K
stands, meat packaging room in
the open, with the cutting room
enclosed and cooled for customer
viewing, complete air condition.
ing, check cashing booth, f1uor-
strip lighting, usual lineup
of ice cream, dairy, produce, and
meat cases.
According to Mr.. Wright, one of
the innovations in this store will
be mechanical pickup arrange
ment. This will consist of an end
less mechanical belt across the
front of; the lobby which takes
bags in tote basket
to the outside of the building,
where they are put in customers
cars.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
Rehoboth Art League
Plans Activities

The Thursday Evening Sketch
Group with Jon Smith, instructor.
as leader, began with a good start
last week, painting from cos
tune model, Mrs. Eleanor Graf.
of Mclean, Va. The six or eight
attending were artists of profess
sional caliber, and the sketches
Of pretty dark-haired Mrs. Graf
in her pink dress were charming.
At the Board of Directors meet
ing on the last Monday in June,
among those attending were Mrs.
Sanford B. Leach, of Washington,
one of the three committee women
for the Artists Annual Costume
Ball at the Rehoboth Beach Coun-
try Club on August r. They have
a gifted orchestra engaged, and
some especially intriguing plans
for their Merry Christmas" Ball,
one of which is an elegant little
crystal brooch, a sparkling Christ
mas tree itself which sponsors
may wear to distinguish their
costumes as something very spec
ial.
On the 18th of July. the Junior
Costume party, staged at the Stu
dio grounds by the enrolled art
(continueo on page 1vel
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08

Art McGinty, plant manager for
the DUPONT Nylon plant at Seaford,
attended the meeting of the Sussex
County Volunteer Firemen's Asso-
citation held in the new Bridgeville
Fire House last week.
He thanked the firemen for their
assistance at the fire in nylon waste
at the plant on June and made a
donation to each of the nine COM
panies that responded.
He said that he had been unable
to make an estimate of the fire
loss any closer than $500,000 to
100000 because of the special
problems involved.
Robert Bennett, president Of the
Bridgeville Fire Company. gave
the address of welcome. Town Of
ficials were introduced.
Miss Susan Richards, the new
Miss Delmarva, resident OF
Bridgeville, was introduced as were
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton
Richards.
Harold S. White, manager of the
Georgetown Office of the Diamond
State Telephone Company, intro
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
E ig h t, However, Were
Injure d During The
Period And Two Were
browne e d. National
Traffic Toll 432.

Delaware's death-free highway
holiday record for 1860 was main
tanned over the three-day Inde-
pendence Day weekend, while the
nation grimly counted a record
number of dead on the highways.
Delaware was one of only thrNe
states without a holiday traffic
death. The others were Alaska
and New Hampshire.
Nationally. the traffic toll climb
ed to 432 and was expected to
mount as late reports come in
or as those critically injured over
the Fourth die. The figure was a
record for a three-day Indepen-
dence Day weekend, eclipsing the
previous record of 407 set in 1855,
and far exceeding the number of
traffic deaths last Memorial Day,
367.
In Delaware there has not been
a holiday period traffic death
since last Labor Day, when two
were killed. There has not been a
Fourth of July fatality on Della
ware highways since 1866, when
four died.
Eight persons we're injured, DUR
ing the long weekend, however, in
accidents on Delaware highways.
In addition to traffic fatalities.
the National Safety Council re-
ported "a boating deaths, 121 dead
by drowning. and 100 deaths from
miscellaneous causes, for a total
of 696 accidental deaths from all
causes over the three-day period
which began at p. m Friday
and ended Monday midnight.
Delaware had two drownings,
but was free OF deaths in all
other catagories.
The weekend total fell short of
the record Independence Day hol-
iday toll of 491 traffic deaths dur
ing the four-day observance in
1850 and the record for any three
day holiday-609 traffic deaths
during the 1856 Christmas week
end.
CONTINUED on page fve)
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
DuPont's S At
Seaford Spend
Sl5,OOO,OOO
Payroll For Plant A
mounted to $14,243,29O,
Purchases $8OO,4OO In
Last Year

More than $15,OOO,O 900 was put
into the economy of the Seaford
area last year by the Seaford Du
Pont Nylon Plant through pay
rolls and purchases of goods and
services, Arthur j. McGinty, man.
ager, reported this week.
The plant payroll amounted to
$14,243, ,290, while purchases tot
tailed $SOO,40
Mr.. McGinty pointed out the
company's annual economic sur
vey showed $485,000 was spent for
goods and services with 103 Sea-
ford firms, while the balance went
to SO firms, all located within a
50-mile radius of the plant.
Approximately 5000 calls were
made at the plant by statesmen,
even though the two main ingred-
tents for making nylon are sup
piled by other Du Pont manufact-
uring units.
Purchasers from these callers
resulted in sales of hundreds of
the usual operating and mainten-
ance materials necessary for n.y.
Ion production, plus few unusual
items like fishing "sinkers".
The "sinkers' play their part
in making quality nylon by pro-
viding tension on the yarn once
it is ready to be wound on ship
ping packages.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
Sussex Firemen Are
Thanked For Action
The dupont Company Plant Manager At Sea-
ford Closed His Remarks To County Group
With A Donation To Each Of The Nine
Participating Companies That Helped
Fight The Recent Fire At The Plant

duced Robert Stigler, sales super
visor for the telephone company in
Sussex County, who discussed the
Group Emergency Alerting Sys-
tenn that the telephone company
has developed. This is the new
system that simultaneously alerts
group of firemen by a single
phone call.
Clarence Swatka of the New
Castle County Volunteer Firemen's 8
Association made a few remarks.
The county firemen went on rec
ord as endorsing William J. Hines
of Seaford. for the Office of second
vice president of the Delaware Vol
unteer Firemen's Association. The
election will be held at the state
firemen's annual convention in
Bridgeville in September.
The Rev. DIR. Thomas c. Multi
gan, Georgetown, gave the invo-
cation and the Rev. Edward Wilk-
kins, Bridgeville, gave the bene-
diction.
It was decided to hold the next
meeting in Glendale.
continued on page two)
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School Board
In Milford
ReOrganized
Last Friday
Max Corder Again I'm
animOus Choice OF
Group For President.
Summer Activities Of
School Listed

On Friday morning, July 1, 1860,
at 9:O5 the Milford Special School
District Board of Education or
ganized for the 196O-21 school year.
Previous to the organizing, Mr..
%. Joseph Penuel, who succeeds
Crerar Bennett, Jr., as a board
member, was administered the
oath of office as prescribed in the
Delaware Code.
Max r. Corder; president of the
Milford Board since 1855, was un-
animously reelected, as was G. A.
Robbins, vice president since 1866.
For chairman of the building
commission Mr.. Penuel was Sc
lected, and Mr.. Robbins, vice
chairman since 1855, was reelect-.
ed. Chester T. Dickerson is sec
retary of the Board of Education,
assistant secretary of the building
commission and superintendent of
schools.
Since all boards of education
in Delaware are required to have
a regular monthly meeting date,
the second Tuesday night of each
month at 500 p. M, in the Lake
View School, was set.
The summer playground pro-
gram, sponsored by the Milford
School District is now under
way. The average daily attend
ance has been rs.
The feature of the Tuesday
morning program is tennis irf-
struction by Woody Seldenick of
the Delaware Tennis Association.
Presently SO boys and girls are
enrolled.
Ladder tournaments in the fol-
lowing activities, with the cur
rent leaders in each division, are:
box. hockey, AL James; paddle ten
mis-, Jack Briggs; golf, John Hal
lett; croquet, Wayne Banning;
checkers, Al James; chess, Jack
Briggs; horseshoes, Bobby Fis-
cher; jacks, Elaine Cresson.
Tennis is beginning TO be an in
creasingly popular activity with
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Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
lisa Great Day
Sets Record In
ChriStiana
AT Del. Park
Two Year-Old Owned By
Logan Grier, Milford,
Broke Track Record
July 4th Before 29,O91
Spectators

(The following article compiled
by Turfman at Delaware Park tells
the Fourth of July story of LISA
Great Day, the marvellous two
year-old horse, owned by Logan
Grier of Milford The story orig
inally appeared in the Wilmington
Morning News, issue Of Tuesday,
July 5th.)
lisa Great Day staged a rousing
stretch run to win the $2S,6OO
Christiana Stakes and preserve
his unbeaten status 4th of July
before a partisan, cheering throng
of 29,901 in track record time at
Delaware Park.
Forced to swing wide at the
top OF the stretch, it appeared for
an instant that the w. Logan Grier,
drowned 2-year-old might have
lost just too much yardage. But
responding like a champion for
Jockey Bill Passmore, lisa Great
Day turned 1t on through the late
stretch to beat Carry Back by a
half length.
Another half length back came
AAko JOAlu ~. n. AHOuAOu Wv
cred Bridge in the driving finish
with Mr.. Thor fourth.
lisa Great Day ran the five and
a half furlongs in 1904 1/5, taking
a fifth of a second off a record
which had been established 16
years ago by Pavot and tied by
Northern Star in 1850.
Although he was carrying 125
pounds. eight more than he had
ever toted, the crowd made lisa
Great Day $3.50 for 81 favorite.
The show plungers created a
$2,2S4 minus show pool. Report
edly, one anonymous bettor wager
ed $4,000 to show on the unde-
feated colt and collected the min
imum $3.50.
The enthusiastic holiday turn
Continued on page two)
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
j. c. Penney Co. Gives
Journalism Grant
University OF Missouri VIII Con-
duct The Competition

A grant from j. c. Penney Co. to
the University of Missouri to con-
duct a national competition for
Journalism awards was announced
this week by University President
Elmer Ellis in Columbia, Mo.
To be awarded annually, the $27,-
900 grant will be used to stimulate
improvement of the quality of
women's interest pages in news
papers throughout the United
States and encourage interest in
fashion reporting, journalism Dean
Earl F. English said.
Honoring the Penney COmpany'S
founder, James Cash Penney, the
gift will be employed to establish
series of awards known as the
-. G. Penney-UniVersity of Mis-
Gcontinued on page nveJ
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
Republicans
To Convene
On August 81
Conclave Beginning IN
The Afternoon A I'd
C0ncIu ding In The
Evening Will Be Held
In The ArmOry

The Republican State Conven-
tion will be held in the Dover Ar
mory on August 81, the COP
State Committee decided Wednes-
day night of this week.
The actual business of select
ing the party's 1860 slate of can
didates will occur at a beat-the-
heat evening session.
After settling the convention
details several committee MEM
bers entered vigorous objections
to recent allegations that leaders
of the Delaware have Influenced
party workers against local
Rockefeller for President move
ment.
1t was Republican National
Committeewoman Mrs. G. Doug
lass (Polly) Buck who led the
CONTINUED on page fveD
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
Harry S. Smith
Announcement
For Governor
Present Insurance Com
missioner Reports En-
cOur a ement From
Folks Throughout The
State In His Quest.

Since the last election in Novem-
Der 1858, citizens of Delaware
from various walks and stations
in life, coming from all areas of
the state geographically, have
been urging me and encouraging
me to run for Governor.
After listening for consider
able time, l realized from the con-
tinuity of their expression and
from their willingness to assist me
in any way that would name,
that they really meant business.
merely stated, as / was quest
ioned later about my plans, that
/ would be. guided by what the
people of Delaware wanted, since
felt obligated to them because
of the strong vote of confidence
they had given me twice before.
/ Immediately began to sound
out Democratic Party leaders all
over the State. since through the
convention system they are usual
ly influential in picking delegates
to the State Convention, who in
turn choose nominees for the var
ious offices on a statewide level.
At first, / was told it was too ear
ly to formulate definite plans, with
which l agreed, but now / feel the
time has come for me to state my
position to all the people of Del
aware.
By the rotation system that has
been followed by the Democratic
Party for years, it is the turn of
Sussex County to name the candi-
CONTINUED on page f1ve)
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50 Star Flag
TO
City NJ a'y or
Roy E. Pettyjohn Re
ceives Gift From Hilda
r. Cannon On Behalf
OF City OF Milford.

The City of Milford was repre-
sented by the Honorable Mayor
Roy e. Pettyjohn recently when
a SO star American Flag was pre-
sented to the City by Hilda r.
Cannon. Sister Cannon was ac-
companied to the Mayors office
by Sister Mildred Hall, President
of the Blue Hen Ladies Auxiliary
64S3, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The so star flag was to be hois-
ted upon the pole overlooking
Memorial Plaza on July 4th.
Other flags to fly officially on
July 4th and previously presented
by Sister Cannon were those Of the
Milford Public Schools and the
Blue Hen Post 64S3, Veterans Of
Foreign Wars.
One hundred and twenty two
tray favors in patriotic design and
containing mints and one hundred
and twenty two Pledge of Allegi-
ance cards were sent to the Jewell
Nursing Home and the Milford
Memorial Hospital
Other presentations to be made
during independence week include,
anis' Youth building and a so star
and a framed copy of the Declar-
alton of Independence to the Xiv
anis' Yough building and so star
flag to the Cub Scout Pack 101.
Sister Cannon was the recipient
of the second place award for the
Americanism programs in the Lad
les Auxiliary Department of Del
aware at Rehoboth Beach on June
18th. She is currently serving as
Auxiliary Americanism chairman
for Blue Hen Auxiliary until a
permanent chairman can be named.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-08
LelUes antique ShOlU
Is Due July A-I5
Many Out-Of- State Exhibi-
tors Are Expected
At Annual Show

Visitors to the Second Annual
Antiques Show and Sale, to be held
in the Fellowship Hall Of Bethel
Methodist Church, Lewes, July IA
is, will meet, among the twenty
four exhibitors at the Show, old
friends who exhibited at the Lewes
Show last year, as well as other
Antiques Shows on the Peninsula.
They will also find exhibits of
special lines of antiques displayed
by exhibitors who will be appear
ing in this section for the first
time.
The exhibitors are: Louise Ben
nett, Silver Spring. Md; Tiny
House Antiques, Lewes, Del;
Maude E. Brewington, Salisbury,
Md; Hills Antiques, Harrington,
Del; Roy d. Cole, Moorestown, N.
j.; Fay H. Doney, Wilmington,
Del; The Pine Shop. Glassboro,
N. j.: Kittiwake House, Lewes:
The Mateykas, Wilmington Antique
Shop; SewelI p Moore, Palisade.
N. j.; The Corner Cupboard An
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State Highways
Death Free Over
July 18th Weekend
NEW FEATURE STARTS
IN CHRONICLE TODAY

Readers of the Milford
Chronicle will be carried
back into the past beginning
with today's issue and con-
tinuing for the balance of
July, with the reading of
81 Remember Milford" by a
native son, Mr.. George D.,
Truitt, a younger brother Of
Mr.. John G. Truitt of Mil
ford, who, in a delightful
and highly entertaining man
ner, tells about the Milford
of rs years and more ago,
as he saw it.
Mr.. Truitt, a resident of
Massachusetts, is the god
father of another Milfordian,
Rear Admiral ]. Lockwood
Pratt, now a Washington, d.
c., resident, and it was at
the urging of Admiral Pratt
that the facts were compiled.
Turn to the editorial page
(page 4) for a real treat.