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Smyrna times., 1960-06-23
Southern States Shifts Personnel
To Fill Delaware Regional Office

Jack A. McHugh, currently
manager of the Southern States
Cooperative's seed and farm
supply warehouse, Seaford, has
been named manager of the or
ganization's regional Office,
which will be located at Sea-
ford, on July |.
McHugh replaces c. o. Mich
olson, originally named to man.
age the Seaford Office, who re-
signed recently. Under the re-
organization program McHugh
had originally been scheduled to
head up regional Office at Win
chester, Va.
Under the cooperative's reor-
ganization of its distribution
system, effective July l, the FIVE
state operating territory will be
divided into 10 regions. Each
region will have its own region
al headquarters and staff head
ed by a regional manager. The
old system had 40 operation dis
tricts with district manager
in charge of each.
Southern States operates in
Delaware, Maryland, West Vir-
ginia, Virginia, and Kentucky.
Replacing McHugh as manag-
er of the cooperative's ware
house will be Grover c. Carico,
of Clarksburg, w. Va.
McHugh was employed by
Southern States in February,
1851 as an assistant manager
of farm supply distribution. He
was named assistant manager
of the cooperative's warehouse
at Clarksburg in November,
1851 and became manager three
months later. He served as dis
trict manager from Nov. 1855
to Sept. 1857, when he was
named manager at the Seaford
warehouse. He is a graduate of
the University of Tennessee.
Carico, manager of the South
ern States seed and farm supply
in Clarksburg, w. Va. since
August 1855, is a native of
Grayson County, Virginia. Prior
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23

everything off the island in 1916
and, one year later, Congress
appropriated one million dollars
for construction of what was to
be the largest and most modern
us. fort of that era. Another
million dollars and ten years
labor were expended before this
bastion, the present fort, was
completed approximately one
hundred years ago.
Pressed into service in 1862
as prison for captured Con-
federacy soldiers, Fort Delaware
soon became famous-or infam-
ous-depending upon whether
one lives north of the Potomac
or is from a southern state.
Held 100000 Prisoners
AS many as 100000 prisoners,
mostly military, but some po-
litical. were at one time confin-
ed on the island. Crowded con-
ditions, producing filth and YER
min, caused outbreaks of con-
tagion and resulted in the
deaths of hundreds of prisoners
and their burial on the opposite
New Jersey shore, far from
home. After Appomattox, deci-
sion was made to transfer or re-
lease the prisoners who had sur
vived Imprisonment on Pea
Patch Island.
Tranquility came to the island
and its pentagon-shaped fortifi-
cation in 1865, with the depar-
ture of the last prisoner, and
little activity was apparent un-
til 1898 when the fort was re-
armed and refurbished for pos
sible Spanish-American War SER
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23

Thurs. Fri. Sat-, June %. "a. rs
Eve. shows at z and 8 pm.
Sat. matinee at 2 pm.
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23
LII Simple Rules
Make Moving Safe

The power mower is a safe
tool-if ii simple rules for safe
operation are followed-the Del
aware Safety Council declared
in an appeal to householders to
use mowers with care.
The ii suggestions for safe
operation of mowers are as fol-
lows:
l. Start Safely. Stand firm
ly. Make sure your feet are in
a safe place.
2. Keep In Step with your
mower for perfect control. If
you lag behind or let it pull
you, you won't be in full COM
'mand of the machine. Don't run.
3. Learn how to Disengage
the Clutch or stop the motor
quickly in case of any emerg-
ency. Stop the motor whenever
you leave the mower.
A. Keep the Way Clear OF
little tots and pets. Don't let
them play around the mower
while it is in operation.
S. Always Be Sure of your
footing and balance when now
ing on inclines. The sleeper the
incline the more care required.
6. Inspect The Lawn that is
to be moved before the moving
begins. Clear the lawn of all
stones, wires and other debris.
7. When Grass Is Wet or
when it is raining, it is best not
to use an electric power mower
unless you are certain the en-
tire mower and the cord are in
perfect order.
8. Disconnect the Spark Plug
Wire whenever you want to
work on the underside of a
mower. Tip mower over by
means of the handle. Don't
reach under the deck, chain
guards or belt guards of any
mower. Keep hands, feet and
clothing away from any moving
parts.
8. Keep Fuel Stored in an ap-
proved tightly sealed container.
10. Respect Your Power Now
er and teach this respect to the
younger members of the family
who use it. Teach them, too,
these simple safety suggestions
IL. Excessive cutting blade
speed is dangerous-do not
overspeed the engine by tenn
pering with the governor.
These IL suggestions, forming
a power lawn mower safety
code" were extracted by the
Council from a publication OF
the Lawn Mower Institute.
The Council has included the
code in a packet of safety ma
terial being sent to Delaware
industrial firms cooperating ir
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23

Delaware as tourist attraction.
While small museum is be-
ing established on the premises
and some rooms are being re-
stored, the fort will not be fully
restored. Instead, according to
the Development Department,
it will remain replete with emp
ty port holes, ramparts and bar
racks, and a parade ground that,
in the stiffness of night, may
seem to echo the sound of
marching feet from the distant
past.
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23
Nests AS Big AS Houses

The scrub fowls of New Gui-
nea, it is said, build nests de-
scribed as big as houses. The
ultimate size of it, however, is
not attained the first year. Mr..
and Mrs. Scrub Fowl, like many
human, go on adding material
to their mound year after year
until it becomes about Is feet
in height and $50 feet round
the base.
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23

vice. Aside from the firing of an
occasional salute from the forts
then new l6-inch disappearing
guns, the peace and quiet was
unbroken during the War with
Spain.
During 1918 Fort Delaware
was restored to "active duty"
and fully manned, only to be
virtually abandoned between
World Wars. The old fort saw
its last military activity in l94l
when a small contingent of
troops were stationed there.
Two years later, the big disap-
pearing guns were removed
from the fort for salvage as
scrap iron, and in 1914 the fort
was closed down. After being
declared surplus to military
need in l945, Pea Patch Island
reverted back to the State of
Delaware, which had ceded it to
the government more than a
century earlier, and was placed
under the jurisdiction of the
State Park Commission.
Society Formed
Aware of the historical signi-
f1cance of the old fort and
alarmed at the prospect of its
being abandoned and forgotten
by future generations, a group
of public spirited citizens organ
lied the Fort Delaware Society.
This group, with the coopera-
ton of the State Park Commits
sion, initiated cleaning up of the
area surrounding the Fort; es-
tablishment of boat service be-
tween the mainland and the is
land, and the publicizing of Fort
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23
BOD Stockholders
Hold Dinner Fete

A dinner meeting for stock
holders residing in the Smyrna
area was held by Bank of Della
ware at the Wayside Inn, Smyr-
ma, on Wednesday, June %. Ed
win P. Neilan, chairman of the
board and president of the bank,
spoke briefly regarding 6 the
banks progress and plans for
the future. Talks were also CIV
en- by representatives of the
travel department, the trust de-
partment, and the comptroller's
department. A colorful film on
Hawaii was shown by the banks
travel department.
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23

prom o ing off-the-job safety
among their employees. The off
the-job safety program is en-
phasizing vacation safety this
summer. The packet contains,
in addition to the power mower
code, material on highway safe
ty, boating, other outdoor re-
and vacation safety in
general.
Copies of the power mower
safety code or other safety ma
terial are available at the Coun-
cil's offices in the Dupont Build
ing.
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23
Ft. Delaware Grew
From Ship Wreck
Loaded With Peas

Grim and foreboding Fort Del
aware, one of the First States
greatest tourist attractions, was
re-opened to the public on May
%, and boat transportation to
and from Pea Patch Island, site
of the fort, and Delaware City,
on the mainland, is now avail
able each weekend and holiday
until October 2, advises the Del
aware State Development De-
partment.
Through arrangement with
the State Park Commission,
which operates Fort Delaware
State Park, Captain Walter Wis
owaty of Delaware City pro-
vides round trip transportation
at very nominal charge. A 35-
foot motor launch, having ship
to-shore radio and meeting all
US. Coast Guard safety require
ments, is used for trips to the
island, leaving the dock at the
foot of Clinton Street in Della
ware City at Commute intervals
between noon and $50 pm. on
Saturdays, Sundays and holi-
days. The trip takes about fif-
teen minutes each way.
New 450-Foot Pier
Completion last year of a new
450-foot pier on Pea Patch Is
land made possible resumption
of a regular boat schedule and
now, even at low tide, boats can
safely approach the new pier.
In 1855, before shifting silt and
mud made docking impossible
except at high tide, the old for
tress had 5000 visitors during
five open weekends. Several
thousand more visited the island
and fortress last summer when
boat transportation was re-
Sumed.
The approach of the centen-
nial years of the Civil War, in
which Fort Delaware played a
prominent though somewhat un-
pleasant role, is stimulating in
terest in the fort and thousands
of tourists are expected to visit
it this summer.
Despite the fact that it was
never called upon to carry out
its original mission-that of de-
Tending the water approaches to
Philadelphia and the Delaware
Valley-Fort Delaware has had
a long and colorful history.
Grew From Shipwreck
The original Fort Delaware, a
wooden structure, was built in
1913 on an island that tradition
ally grew from the shipwreck,
an a sand bar, in early colonial
times, of a boat loaded with
peas. In 1921, mason fort re-
placed the original frame struc-
ture and this, in turn, was re-
placed in 1888.
A great tidal wave washed
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23

to a accepting the Clarksburg
post, he was an assistant man.
ager of the Roanoke, Va. ware
house of the cooperative. He
was employed by Sout h e r n
States Cooperative in June,
1858; he is a graduate of Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute.
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23

Corbetf, one Of the FBIs "Ten
Most Wonfed Fugifives." is wonfed for
Escape from the California Institution
for Men. Chino. Colif.. where he was
serving yeors' to life sentence for
numbering an Air Force serseonf. A
Federal warrant was issued at Los An
seles. Colif.. on March Il. 1850.
charging him with unlowful interstate
flight to ovoid confinement for murder.
A white American. born on October
IS. 1873. at Seoffle. Wosh.. Corbeff
is feet inch to feet inches toll
and weighs I60 to ITO pounds. He
hos light brown hair. hozel eyes. fair
completion. medium build. and has
worked os clerk-typisf. loborer.
worehousen,on. laboratory feehnicion.
and olkyd-fesin cooker for point
manufacturer. His two upper front
teeth slonf inward and he wears
CLOSES, repeatedly being extremely
neorsishfed and copoble Of seeing
only close objects without them. He
hos mole under his chin and C.
shoped seor on his right thumb.
Corbeff. once premedicol student.
is interested in scientific moffers,
ovidly reods technical and iroveI
books. and is intensely interested in
firearms and forget procfiee. He re-
portedly hos superior general in
tellisenee and generally lives quietly
ond neofly but becomes errofic when
drinking alcoholic beverages.
Convicted Of seeond-desree murder,
he is considered armed and dangerous.
Anyone having information con-
eernins him should immediately notify
the neorest Office Of the FBI, the
telephone number Of which can be
found on the first pose Of local
telephone directories. epo ssr2oe-u
Smyrna times., 1960-06-23
A:k6
The
Bookshelf
TOWN HALL BUILDING

Smyrna Public Library
Hours: Tuesday and Friday
$50 500 pm.
Librarian:
Mrs. Louise Denney Clifton
New Books at Library
Splendid Misery, by Jack Bell
| Kid You Not, by Jack Paar
South of the Angels,
by Jessamyn West
The Death of Daddy o,
by David Alexander
The Girl Who Wasn't There,
by Thomas B. Dewey
Perle (My Life Story,
by Perle Mesta
Three Men On the Left Hand,
by Ilka Chase
A Distant Drum,
by Paul Horgan
Wake of the Wahoo,
by Forester Sterling
Thunderbolt, by R. S. Johnson
The Venus of Kompara,
by John Masters
Pilgrims in Paradise,
by Frank G. Slaughter
The Circus Kings,
by Henry Ringing North
The Lovely Ambition,
by Mary Ellen Chase
Grant Moves South,
by Bruce Cation
Evening star., 1960-09-12
SHEINWOLD
ON BRIDGE
Greet Trouble
With Open Arms
By ALFRED sHEINWOLD

Don't meet trouble half
way" says the old proverb. but
it isn't good advice for bridge
players. In some situations at
the bridge table the only way
TO save yourself is to meet |
trouble head-on.
South dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
NORTH
A8542
373
OAK 1898
%54
WEST EAST
AK1063 AJ9
QJ1092 1854
COS oJ743
400 %J1oS6
SOUTH
AAQ7
VAK6
062
%AK732
South West North East
IL Pass 10 Pass
2NT Pass 3NT All Pass
Opening lead: Heart queen.
West opened the queen of
hearts, and South counted his
tricks. He saw seven top cards,
with good chances for addi-
tional tricks in diamonds, clubs
and even spades.
South refused the first trick
but won the next heart and led
a diamond. This is where West
muffed his opportunity. He
played his low diamond, hoping
the bogeyman would go away
if he paid no attention to it.
There was no such luck. De-
clarer finessed dummy's eight
of diamonds. and the defenders
were washed up.
If East won with the Jack of
diamonds, declarer would get
four diamond tricks. This would
be enough for his contract.
Refuses Trick
East made a good try to re-
cover by refusing to take the
Jack of diamonds. This limited
South to three diamond tricks.
Declarer had a shrewd idea
of what was going on and
switched to clubs, ducking the
first round of the suit to West.
Back came q heart, and South
won.
Now South took the top clubs
and gave up a club to East.
There was no need to risk the
spade finesse after this, for
South was sure of three clubs,
three diamonds, two hearts and
one spade.
West could have done a lot
better If he had stepped up
with the queen Of diamonds on
the first round of that suit.
This would limit South to two
diamond tricks instead Of three
or four.
You might remember this
play the next time you hold
OK of a suit right under dunn
my's long suit headed by AK
10 or by A-J-10. Play the
queen first.
Daily Question
Partner opens with one heart
and the next player passes. You
hold:
A8542 273 1AK1098 IS 4
What do you bid?
Answer: One no trump
The spades are not worth men,
tioning, and the hand is moi
quite strong enough for a re-
sponse of two diamonds.
Evening star., 1960-09-12
WORD GAME
Find % or more words in
EN- Gu M b E r

meaning, ito burden. hinder. "
Average mark, 18 words; time
limit, 25 minutes.
Rules Of the game: / Words must be
OF four or more letters. =. Words
which acquire four letters by the ad-
dition of IS" such as bats" cats" "
are not used. g. Only one form Of a
word is used. 4. Proper names are
not used.
Answer to sUCCoRING
scoring, scorn, scour. scion, sign, sing.
snug, song, sour, Succor, suing, unco,
using, circus, cion, cisco, corn, cours-
ing coring, coins, coign, cousin, crus,
crocus, cursing, curing, curio, occurs,
onus, rings, rosin, rousing, ruins,
rungs. icon, incurs, Irons, nous giro,
grin, groin.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Dimes Drive Aided
By Teen Group

A total of $3.50, the largest
single amount collected by a
Teen Club in Montgomery Coun.
ty, was turned in to the March
OF Dimes Fund Drive last week
by the North Bethesda Junior
Teen Club.
Special March of Dime S
dances were staged as fund
raising ventures by the follow.
ing clubs: North Bethesda, New.
port, Montgomery Hills, Chevy
Chase, Sligo, Hillandale, East
Silver Spring, Garrett Park,
Hefner Park, Palisades, Poto.
mac Valley, Four Corners, Ar
gyle, Glenmont.Wheaton, Belt
western, Rollingwood and
Capitol View-Homewood.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
BY Blair Lee iii
Chairman, Montgomery
Legislative Delegation

Keep your eye on House
Joint Resolution No. 8, those
of you who are responsible
for, or interested in, the fl
nancial problems of the
counties and towns of Mary
land.
Introduced by Delegate Houck
ID, Frederick and myself, it
had already cleared the Ways
and Means Committee last Fri
day and probably will have
passed the House by the time
you read this column.
The resolution asks the Leg.
islative Council to arrange for
a survey and report on "the
respective financial resources of
the State of Maryland and its
political subdivisions with a
view to extending the resources
and improving the financial con-
ditiOn of the counties and mu-
inequalities i'm accordance with
some cOOrdinated and cOmpre-
hensive plan that will not harm
the States own financial cOndi.
ton"
The job would presumably be
assigned to the Councils Com
mittee on Taxation and Fiscal
Matters, and the Instructions are
to bring in a report in time
for the 90-day session in 1861.
The resolution also requests
the study committee to take
into account the findings and
recommendations of the Cover
nor's Commission on City-Coun-
ty Fiscal Relationships"
The latter is a group set up
last year by Governor Tawes
and is headed by former County
Commissioner Clayton Carter of
Queen Anne's County. AS its
name implies, it is wrestling
with a series of financial fric-
ton points between the coun-
ties and the municipalities.
One of the whereas" clauses
Of H. ]. r. 8 notes that there
has not been a truly compre.
hensive study of State aid,
shared taxes, and local taxing
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Inside Annapolis
By Blair Lee III

powers since the Report of
The Sherbow Commission in
1916 :"
State aid" is the term that
covers direct grants to the coun-
ties for specific programs, such
as the public schools, health,
welfare, etc.
Shared taxes" are collected
centrally by the State and dis
tributed, wholly or in part, to
the counties and towns under
a variety of formulate. For in
stance, each county gets back
about one quarter of the per-
sonal income tax revenue col
lected from its citizens.
Local taxing powers are sew
erely limited in Maryland, with
some exceptions in Baltimore
City and County. The main
source of local revenue is the
property tax, and it is begin
ming to hurt.
There has been a lot of con.
fusion about the ultimate use
of the $4S0,O0O.OO that Montgom.
cry County will receive as a re-
suit of enactment of the So
called James Committee bill.
The Committees idea was
that the money should go to
increase by $500 the salary of
every teacher who has complet-
ed ten or more years of serv-
ice in the school system. In
fact, the original version of the
bill requires exactly that.
But last December, when we
(the delegation met with the
School Board and the County
Council, an alternative course
was urged upon us.
The School Board people ask
ed that Montgomery County's
share of whatever was to be
approved at Annapolis - James
Committee bill, MSTA bill, or
any compromise between the
two - be exempted from any
requirement that the money ac-
tually go to the teachers on an
across-the- board basis.
We were told that this re-
quest was based on an agree
ment made last spring between
the County Council on one hand
and the School Board and the
Education Association 9TH e
teachers group on the other.
AT our December meeting, Ar.
thur Simonds confirmed this
agreement on behalf of the
teachers organization.
Please understand, there is
wrong or improper
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Staff Photo.

about the agreement, in my
opinion. 1t was part of Mr..
Simonds' successful campaign
for the big salary increase that
the Council granted last spring.
1t was quite natural that the
Council should want to be ex.
empted from any further man.
datory increase that might be
forthcoming from the State.
And it was quite proper that
Mr.. Simonds should agree to
use his influence to secure such
an exemption.
Governor Tawes, however,
was not a party to the agree
ment, and he was not willing to
support any radical departure
from the James Committees
basic premise that the raise
should go to the career teach
ers. The only deviation that he
would accept was one that
would permit part of Montgom.
cry County's money to go to
foot the bill for the county's
unique career recognition pro.
gram.
Career recognition" is a eu-
phemistic term used in Mont
gomery County to describe
what is known as merit pay"
everywhere else in the United
States. The local program
costs about S15O,O0O per year.
At this point 1 don't know
whether the Montgomery Coun-
ty exemption from the James
bill will survive or not. At any
rate, | would like the teachers
10 KNOW that the whole idea
came from the School Board
and from their own organiza.
ton and NOT from Senator
Northrop or from me or from
anybody else at Annapolis.
Governor Tawes has an
nounced that he will put $780,
600 in his supplemental budget
for acquisition of land at Seneca
Creek State Park - an amount
that ought to take care of the
more exposed portions of the
proposed remainder of the park.
This is truly good news.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-02-25
Religious Affairs
World Day
OF Prayer
To Be Noted
By KOkO Wittenburg
rN1....L r-ls.

Community services on World
Day of Prayer will begin a chain
of Lenten services throughout
the area next week on the first
Friday in Lent.
Churches in 145 countries will
pray and mediate together at
worship services sponsored by
the United Church Women.
Some of the community serv-
ices in the area include the fol-
lowing:
Warner Nj nj OriaI Presby.
terrain Church, 1923 Connecticut
ave.. KensingtOn, at 1880 am.
Bethesda Christian Church,
$3.50 Wisconsin ave-, Chevy
Chase, 1880 am.
Grace Episcopal Church, 1907
Grace Church rd., Silver Spring,
10 am.
Zion Lutheran Church, New
Hampshire and KingwOOd dr.,
TakOma Park, at 2 pm.
Hughes Methodist Church.
10000 Georgia ave-, Wheaton, at
8 pm.
TwinbroOk Baptist Church.
TwinbrOok pkwy., Rockville, at
1880 am.
The World Day of Prayer
services, written by the Central
Women's Inter-Church Council
OF Canada, will be conducted by
local groups of the United
Church Women in the area. The
public is invited to all services.
Double Lenten services will
be conducted by the Lutheran
Church of the Redeemer in
Damascus beginning on Ash
Wednesday, March 2. Great art
masterpieces will be discussed
at the midweek Wednesday SEES.
sionS at 8 pm. in the new
Damascus Elementary School
auditorium.
Sunday worship services at II
am. will also deal with Lenten
themes, with the Pastor Thomas
F. Sim preaching. Sundays
topic will be christian Ques-
tons of Today" answering
questions on Creation, Heaven.
and He'll.
st. Lukes Lutheran Church
of Redland is prepared to help
sinners worship Christ, the
Savior of the world, during the
Lenten season." says the Rev.
William H. Mercer, who has in.
vited the public to Lenten serv.
ices at 8 pm. Wednesdays. The
pastor will impersonate Cal.
aphas, Herod, Plate, and Simon
OF Cryene at the midweek serv.
ices.
A Missionary Institute pro.
gram at Ashton Methodist
Church will feature a talk by
former missionary, in Southern
Accompanying a talk by the
Rhodesia on March 10 at z pm.
Rev. Per Hassing, will be a film
on None Walks His Way
Alone"
Four delegates will represent
the Rockville Seventh-day AID.
ventist Church at the 18th bien.
NAL constituency convention of
the Potomac Conference of AID.
ventists in Washington Sunday.
They include Mrs. Florence
Bender, of Silver Spring; Eu.
gene Snedden, Silver Spring;
Stanley Watkins, Rockville; and
James Yuongberg, Silver
Spring.
Midweek Lenten Services at
the Crusader Lutheran Church,
Rockville, will begin March 2 at
3 p.m., with Pastor Paul X. Mil. (
helm delivering the sermon. The
pastor will talk on "Preview of
the Passion" at 8:45 and II am.
services this Sunday.