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Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
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DR. EDWARDS tkuHL MANN


become stuff" when they crowd
Christ and the meaning of His
birth out of the lives of Christian
people. The travesty of the mod
ern Christmas is that too often
they do this.
l believe you will share with
me the wish that the observance.
of Christmas might be confined
again to a single day, December. 25.
AS we have it now Christmas dec
orations and Christmas merchan-
disc seek our attention before the
last of the Thanksgiving turkey
has been eaten. Like a river spread
over too wide an area becomes
shallow, and inert so our Christ
mas observance spread over three
or four weeks becomes shallow
and pointless and leaves many so
weary of it all that it is not un-
common to hear people say the day
after Christmas. Thank good
year" What a travesty this is on
the most important holy day of
the yeari How little there is left
of the joy that should be ours as
each recurring Christmas we rem
ember that unto you is born this
day in the city of David a Savior,
which is Christ the Lord"
With this in mind let us SER
iously try this year to find our way
out of this confusing welter of
things that have become part of
a modern Christmas and let us
strive to catch again its spirit of
worship and praise. In accent of
this thought l offer now a poem
by Grace Noll Crowell:
This would | keep forever in my
heart
Among the things the ruthless
years may leave
The glad excitement, wonder and
delight
OF Christmas eve.
This would / hold untarnish-
ed through the years,
Although the roads take may
lead me far,
The radiant, molten glory of the
light
VI one WnlLes SUdf.
And oh, to keep the breathless-
ness, the thrill,
The hearts swift running out to
meet surprise,
Never to lose entirely the light
OF childhood from my eyes.
Never to lose the Christmas morn
ing joy,
And never the quick, bright eager
ness to give
o God, someway let my spirit
keep the shine
Of Christmas while | live.
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY Elaine townsend Dickerson

Mrs. George Jester is also in the
Milford Memorial. Do hope by now
both of them are back in their own
homes.
Last year I made cookie dough
to send far overseas. My good
friend, Wilma Longman and | (she
is now in Puerto Rico with her
husband) spent many hours in the
kitchen Christmas of 1859 making
Santa's out of lamp chimneys and
whipping up home made candles.
We boxed the latter up for Hayes,
too, and never dreamed the crew
and other crews would use it to
shave by when power failed in that
far away post they called home
base" last season.
And thinking of candles, my mind
thought about ways to decorate our
Parkland. South candle. Our COM
munity consisting of our streets)
has an active association. Every
house in this area has been artis-
tically decorated and prizes will be
awarded to the most talented. Each
home owner bought candles from
the committee and these will be
placed in the grass strip nearest
the road. They are about a yard
tall and can of fuel is placed in
the top, the wick is lighted and it
makes a very pretty night display.
Everyone has decorated their can
die to correspond to their own ex-
terror house decorations and the
effect has been most appealing.
And then thinking of appealing
items there is one dark-eyed little
two-year-old one here in our house
hold. We have a Nativity scene in
our living room that seems to mag
nitize those fat little fingers. For
hours the other day l searched the
house over for Joseph and finally
found him wrapped in swaddling
clothes lying in Leslie's dolls bed,
Can't you just envision the wreck
this house will be in the morning
of the 25th with THAT blond busy
body around?
Now / just must leave you. There
is a toy Dawn wants l haven't
found yet, must call about a mike
that Hayes expects for Christmas
that hasn't arrived in the electrical
shop yet, am planning to bake, an
other batch of cookies this morn
ing, so I really must run.
Do have a Merry Christmas. I'll
be thinking of you-all of you.
Always,
Elaine Townsend DickerSOn
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
Calvary Methodist Church
Rev. r. Douglas MilbUry, Minister
Sunday, December 25

900 a. m. Methodist Mems Hour
over Station WKSB.
9:45 a. m. Church School for all
ages. We will be looking for you
to be with us.
11:OO a. m. Nursery for small
children. Hostess-Mrs. Martin
Coverdale.
11:OO a. m. Morning Worship.
Mr.. Milbury will preach on "The
Word Became Flesh" Just as Je-
sus came down to earth and lived
as God wanted Him to, so are we
TO SO live as to remind people of
Christ each day.
Music-The Junior Choir will be
singing "Mary's Carol" The Adult
Choir will sing the anthems I'm
the Bleak Winter" and 20,
Holy Night, under the direction
of Mrs. Marie Giltenboth and ac-
companied at the organ by Miss
Sally Milbury.
Greeters and Ushers-The greet
ers for this Sunday will be Mr..
and Mrs. Stephen Roberts. The
ushers are Leslie Greenly, Town
send Holston, James Mayhem, Will
liam Schuler, Jr., Harvey Warner
and William Craig.
Evening Christmas Worship i'm
the home with the family.
1900 p. m.-Christmas Eve.
Communion will be observed.
11:00 p. m.-Christmas Eve. Late
Christmas Service.
Activities for the Week
Tuesday, 500 p. m. Meeting of
officers and teachers of the Church
School at the church.
Wednesday, 900 a. m. Prayer
Group meets with Mr.. Milbury in
the Church Study. 1880 p. m. Mid
week hour of prayer.
Thursday, $50 p. m. Junior
Choir rehearsal. 7:45 p. m. Adult
Choir rehearsal. 200 D. m. Prayer
Group meets with Mrs. Viola Rob
erts, los Elm Street.
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
Wrong Prescription

In recent month, new housing
starts were below the number for
the comparable month a year earl
ier. This, in the view of some
people, was almost disaster. The
solution they demand is for the
government to start pumping a lot
of "cheap money" into the housing
field before catastrophe arrives.
Well, there is evidence that the
relatively modest decline in home
building is simply the result of the
fact that supply and demand are
pretty we'll in balance. The short
age that was caused by war and
the population boom has been
largely made up.
This aside, the head-shaking
over the housing situation is symp-
tomato of a much bigger illusion
that seems to possess many of us.
should grow all the time, with
never a pause, much less tempor-
ary setback. Those who support
that illusion suffer from shock
whenever an economic indicator of
any kind fails to soar higher and
higher, month after month, year
after year. And their prescription,
in all too many cases, is that gov
ernment should be the doctor.
The fact is that there are limits
to what any people can consume.
whether it is houses or groceries.
Another fact is that national cow
til must be measured over a period
of time-not on a day-by-day, item
by-item basis that if we trou-
bile to do this we will see that
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
Historic Christ Church
Holds Vestry Meeting

At the 125th Annual Parish
Meeting of Christ Episcopal
Church held in the parish house
on Sunday, December 18th, DR..
John Glenn and Mr.. Horace Rid
ings were elected to the vestry to
serve a term of two years. Re-
elected for a second term of two
years were Mr. James Humes and
Mr. Russell Kirby. Parishioners
braved hazardous driving condi-
tions to attend this important an
nual parish meeting. Those pres
ent were privileged to see docu-
ments dating back to the 1700's
and a Georgian Silver Chalice that
was recently discovered in the
church.
The speaker of the evening was
the Rev. Philip Dunning of the
Wilmington Council of Churches
who spoke on the differences of
parish ministry and an institution
al ministry. Mr.. Dunning pointed
out that his work with the Council
of Churches has shown him that
Protestant Churches are more SIM
liar than is generally understood.
He made an appeal for all Chris
tians to work together, not in a
single super church" but in a
denominational United Christian
Effort.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Marjorie Cresson and her
daughter Elaine.
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
NAaA
Reformation Ev. Lutheran Church
Services held each Sunday in fks Grange
HuIl on S. e. Second Street
Rev. Paul L. Buehrle, Pastor
Sunday, December rs

Sunday, December IS
Whoever enters this church to
worship God and to adore His Son
as the Saviour of the world is
doubly welcome, and cordially in
vited to come again.
The Nativity of Our Lord =
Christmas Day.
The Sacrament of Holy Com
munion-Christmas Eve at 1880
o'clock.
Sunday School for all ages at
9:45 a. m.
The Service nursery provided)
at 11:00 a. m.
Tuesday: Finance Committee
Meeting at 1880 p. m.
Thursday: Senior Choir rehear-
sal at the parsonage at 500 p. m.
Saturday: Junior Choir rehear-
sal at the parsonage at 10:30 a. m.
The central fact of Christmas is
the revelation of God in Jesus
Christ. The angels adored and
worshipped Him; the shepherds
and wise men knelt before Him in
awe and reverence. Christmas is
a festival of joy and a time for
alteration and worship. Christ is
born for u.s., and with Mary and
Joseph, with the shepherds and
the wise men we wend our way to
the manger to stand in awe and
worship at what God has done for
us.
Will you take the time at Christ
mas to worship?
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
A Zoo With One Cage

A detailed history of transpor-
tation regulation in this country
would fill many big book. But
the substance of it can be des-
cribed briefly-and the East Liv-
erpool, Ohio, Review, has done
Just that in recent editorial
'Ihe Review says: "In 1887, rail-
roads and Conestoga wagons had
all long-distance transportation tied
up-and no one wanted to regu-
late the wagons. So the new Inter
state Commerce Commission con-
centrated on railroads. That was
all right, until competitors came
along. The railroads then began
to wonder why their competitors
shouldn't be regulated and taxed on
the same basis as they were regu-
lated and taxed.
''In the meantime, the ConestOga
wagons had evolved into over-the-
highway trucks. Airplanes had
been added in the sky, and water
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
2S06 Nc Alister
Topeka, Kansas
December 10, 1860

Dear Friends:
Does your mind wander during
Christmas? | swear the other day
I was making cookie dough and
thought of everything from Leslie
and the Wandering Jew to ice
skating on the ponds at home
when l was a little girl.
When we were home last month
I saw Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Steiner at
the funeral of Mr. John Barcus
land what a good friend Mr.. Bar
Gus was to us-our first real home
we rented from him at Slaughter
Beach and for five months we had
a castle on the sands. Not really
because it wasn't a luxurious place,
but the fun we had at Slaughter
Beach that summer we have re-
lived over and over. Hayes and l
will always be grateful to Mr..
Barcus for our happy summer of
years ago. Wellll1l-you see how
and Mrs. Steiner. They said they
had seen our 131a-year-old Lynne
downtown and she had reminded
them so much of me at that age
Their minds particularly were re-
minded of the time I was skating
on the lake and my brother, Ted,
had to retrieve me from the back
part of the lake where it was be-
lieved the ice might not be too
safe.
And then thinking of home l
thought about Olmstead and Nc
Kone and how they must long for
home this Christmas time. They are
the boys who are imprisoned in
Russia on a trumped-up dream of
the Kremlins. This weeks issue of
LIFE has many pictures in it of
the two wives and their children.
It's harder even for the other wives
-Goforth, Phillips and Posa, who
are spending this year completely
minus any word from their hus-
bands. These three men were on
the crew, too, but have only been
listed as missing.
And then as I mixed that cookie
dough I thought how lucky l was
to have Hayes home this year, how
pleased we were to have the chill
dren we'll and how sorry / felt for
those who had to be in the hospital
this holiday season. An old family
friend, DR.. Sam Marshall, is in our
hospital at home and we heard that
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
First Presbyterian Church
Rev. James III. Lappen, Pastor
sunday, December =

This Sunday the brightest and
happiest Sunday of the Christian
year, it is hoped that everyone will
attend church to worship the One
Who was born that first Christmas
many centuries ago. May our re-
joicing be centered in the person
of the Son of God Who came into
the world to lay down His life as
a ransom for all.
The Sunday School will meet at
9:45 a. m. Begin Christ's birthday
by being present at this service.
The Morning Worship Service
is at 1900 a. m. Rev. James H.
Lappen, pastor, has chosen for his
sermon You Shall Call His Name
Jesus" The Adult Choir will pre-
sent Praise My Soul, the King of
Heaven by Young. During this
service, a nursery is provided for
pre-school children.
Westminster Fellowship will not
meet.
There will be no Evening Ser
vice.
Tuesday: The Executive Com
mittee of the Women's Association
will meet in the Church Parlor at
8 p. m.
Thursday: There will be no
Prayer Meeting. The choirs will
not meet this evening but will be-
gin rehearsals on January II.
Saturday: There will be a
Watch Night Service. 1t will be a
service for the entire family. There
will be Disney film, a Christian
film, refreshments, and a closing
service of worship. All members
and friends of the church are well
come.
Keep in mind the Communion
Service to be held at the morning
worship service on January 1.
May everyone have a blessed and
joyous Christmas!
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23

ways had been added on land.
They were relatively free from
regulation and taxation
1T was as though only one an
imal in a zoo was kept in a cage
and the others allowed to live in
what zoo keepers called their nat
ural habitat"
No one is trying to get rid of
trucks or airplanes or inland
waterways. They fulfill important
functions and they're here to stay.
The need is very different-it is
simply to free the railroads of tax
and regulatory shackles that are
destructive relics of an age that
has gone forever. Then each kind
of carrier will get the traffic
which it can best handle, due to
its own inherent advantages
the shipping and travelling public
will get top service at minimum
cost.
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
Church of God
Rev. w. Edwin TuIl. Pusfos


1t is not enough to prepare your
home and pantry for Christmas
Let every heart prepare Him
room"
Christmas time is the gift CIV
ing time. We are all concerned
as to the proper gifts to give, and
anxious to know what we will re-
ceive. Would not it be fitting for
us to be especially mindful of
Gods great Gift to us in the form
of His Son? And have you accept
ed this gift?
For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord
Romans 6:25.
9:45 a. m Sunday School. Study
the true meaning of Christmas to-
day in Sunday School. Wouldn't
this be a wonderful day for your
entire family to be in church?
11:00 a. m. Morning Worship
Thanks be to God for His un-
speakable gift. p Corinthians
9:15. The reason we have Christ
mas and Christian churches is be-
cause of Christ, Gods Greatest
Gift to the world! You can show
your appreciation to God for His
Gift by attending His house on the
cOmmemoration of His Sons birth
day. "The Message of the Angels,
taken from Luke 2:10, will be the
subject of the sermon that Pastor
Tull will deliver this Christmas
morning. Two nurseries will be
open for children through three
years of age. The kindergarten
will be open for four and five year
olds. There will be Junior Church
for children six through twelve.
If you do not attend church else
visit with us.
700 p. m. Evening Worship.
Come and celebrate the Saviour's
birth by worshipping Him in His
house on Sunday evening. The
Youth and Adult Choirs will pre-
sent their annual Christmas can
delight service. Mrs Juanita
Donovan, director
Choral selections will consist of
most of the favorite Christmas
carols with two songs from a Ro-
deheaver Company arrangement
Christ Our King" by Roberts and
Jones, and why? Because" by
Miles. Featured among the selec-
tions given by the choirs, will be
the Junior Choir. a girls trio with
Cathel Donovan, Ellen Stuart and
Faith Kenton; a mems trio with
Bill Drummond, Leon Donovan,
and Jerome Mueller; and a solo
by Leon Donovan. An arrange
ment of 20 Holy Night" will be
given by Helen Poore, soprano;
Pat Mueller, alto, and the choirs.
Miss Dorcas Tull will be organist.
Mid-Week Activities
Monday, 1870 p. m. Ladies' pray
er meeting at the church.
Tuesday. 1880 p. m. Mid-week
prayer service at the church.
Wednesday, 500 p. m. Youth
Choir practice at the church.
Thursday. 1880 p. m. Young Peo-
pies Endeavor, and Bible Study
for adults.
We wish you the Joy and Peace
which comes from God alone
through Jesus Christ this Christ
mas.
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
VA
First Bopfisf Church
NJ. w. 2nd & North Sis.
Rev. Thomas 9. Harris. Posfor
Christmas Sunday

Christmas Sunday
10:30 a. m. Family Worship Ser
vice; special service of worship
for every family. The Church Choir
will bring special selections and
Rev. Harris will speak briefly on
the topic: "A Child Is Born" Fol-
lowing the Family Worship, Church
School classes will meet and be
dismissed promptly at the noon
hour. Visitors are invited.
200 p. m. The "Laymen's Hour"
program will be broadcast this
hour over Radie Station WKSB.
300 p. m. Rev. and Mrs. Harris
invite members and friends of the
church to visit the church parson
age at 506 North Washington ST.,
any time on Christmas Day and
throughout the Christmas season.
The Weeks Activities
Tuesday, 500 p. m. Christian
Education Committee and Sunday
School teachers meeting in the
church.
Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. Annual
business meeting and election of
church officers. Every member and
friend of the church should be
present for this vital aspect of the
church's program.
Friday, 700 p. m. Church Choir
rehearsal at a new time in the
sanctuary.
Saturday, $50 p. m. Watchnight
Service; the great motion picture,
Martin Luther" will be presented
at this time, followed by a service
of song, brief message, and pray
er as the New Year dawns. Re
freshments will be served.
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
CHURCHES in MILFORD
.Yenue Methodist Church
Rev. chos. !. Carpenter, D. D., Minister
Sunday, December IS

Sunday, December 25
900 a. m. Methodist Mems Hour
Broadcast over Station WKSB.
9:45 a. m. Church School. Chas.
Lurwick, superintendent; Alton
Maull, assistant superintendent.
Bible graded classes for all ages.
10:45 a. m. A nursery is con-
Quoted by Mrs. Elsie Nelte for
children six years of age and un-
der.
1900 a. m. Christmas Worship
Service. Celebrate the Birth of
our Saviour by worshipping to-
gether as a family. DIR. Carpenter
will speak on the subject-"The
Challenge of Christmas" The
Sanctuary Choir will sing Re
joice o Earth" Gloria in Excel
sis'D by Mendelssohn. The Inter
mediate Choir will also sing at
this service.
Greeters: Mrs. Arthur Hall and
Mrs Harold Wall.
Ushers: Burton Willis, Paul
Parsons, Harry Rust, Craig Rob
ertson. Head Usher-Harry Her
rington.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Ser
vice-The Christmas Eve Candle
light Service will be held at 500
d. m. in the Sanctuary. Music by
the Sanctuary Choir.
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
Obituary
WARREN


Funeral services were held We'd
nesday at pm, from the Berry
Funeral Home, Milford, for Charles
H. Warren, "a, of Carlisle Lane, a
retired railroad engineer. The Rev.
Douglas Milbury, pastor of Calvary
Methodist Church, oficiated. In
terment was in Odd Fellows Gene
terry, Milford.
Mr.. Warren was pronounced
dead on arrival in the Milford
Memorial Hospital early last Sun
day morning. He had been taken
there by police who found him
dead in the living room of his home.
Mr.. Warren, who retired from
Pennsylvania Railroad, is survived
by one niece, Mrs. Florence Harrs
ington Deputy, Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
Two Old Adages

The old adage tells us that when
the cats away, the mice will play"
A rough paraphrase would be
that when the attention of the
people S distracted, minority
groups may be able to slip over
some legislative fast ones.
Today the distractions are un-
precedented in scope, urgency and
complexity. The boiling world sit
uation alone assures that
AS a consequence, many of us
may fasten our eyes on these huge
and comparatively new problems
and controversies in doing
that, fail to keep a watch on
movements here at home which
present a very real and present
danger to our liberties, our pock-
etbooks and our system of gov
ernment.
Take, for instance, the public
vs-private electric power issue. 1t
played a minor role in this years
political campaigns. But there is
not a shadow of a doubt that
every effort will be given to furth-
ering socialiZed power in coming
Congresses, just as in past Con-
crosses. The fact that there is no
earthly need for government in
the power business, and that it
would unnecessarily consume
huge sums of tax money, while
destroying tax-paying industries,
will not deter the zealots Indeed
it is only logical that they will
press harder than ever at times
a multitude of. other issues and
problems grip the public atten-
tion.
So another old adage applies
eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty. And today we need to be
more Vigilant than ever before.
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
THE TRAYESTY OF A MODERN
CHRISTMAS
"TO Bethlehem hasten with joyful
accord
O come We, come hither to worship
the LOrd.c

After an exceedingly mild Novem-
Der the coming OF colder weather
reminds us that winter is here
and that another Christmas holi-
day season stands waiting at the
door. In a few days we will be
hearing again, in our respective
houses of worship, the glad mess
age that unto you is born this
day in the city of David a Savior,
which is Christ the Lord" Too bad
| things pluck at our sleeves for
attention that the real meaning of
the birth of Christ is given little
thought by many and that by
others it is ignored entirely. The
Savior is crowded out of the day
that should be preeminently his.
To carry this thought a bit far
ther let us walk down the streets
of our city. Two symbols of the
Christmas season attract the eye
an Illuminated Santa Claus and a
twinkling star. The first has no
religious connotation of any kind.
1t has a secular, perhaps even a
pagan origin, and associates itself
in no way with the birth of Christ,
the Christ of whom the star is an
expressive symbol
Santa Claus has many devoted
followers. He represents the secu-
1ariZed and the commercialized
Christmas observance of our day
and so completely absorbs the
time and attention of most people
that when Christmas morning
dawns the day has lost its true
meaning. In this way Santa Claus
has come to outrank the star and
the Christmas of buying and selling
has made secondary the Christmas
of worship and thanksgiving.
Here / think of the time the
Jewish people of long ago gather
ed at Mizpah to select their first
king The choice was made by lot
and the lot fell upon young man
by the name of Saul. He was sent
for, but they could not find him,
for, as the Bible states it. he was
hidden "among the stuff" And
many bewildered people of our
day do not find the Christ as this
season because of all the stuff"
that has come to be an intimate
part of the observance of His birth
day Many gifts, many decorations,
holly and mistletoe and tree, gay
festivities, tables heavy with food
all these innocent in themselves
Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
St. Johns CufhoIie Church
Rev. John a. Corriaon. Pastor
Sunday, December 25

Sunday, December 25
Besides the Christmas Eve Mid
night Mass there will also be the
usual Sunday morning masses at
1880, 900, and 11.00. During the
900 o'clock mass the newly form
ed children's choir will sing the
traditional Christmas hymns.
There will be no Confraternity
classes of religion held this week
for any of the children.
Because of the holidays there
will be no evening devotions this
week.
During this week mass will be
offered each morning at 500 from
Monday until Saturday.
Confessions will be heard on
Saturday evening beginning at
1880 o'clock.