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Smyrna times., 1960-01-07
Home Gardeners
Session Slated

There will be a special even
ing session for home gardeners
on this years Farm and Home
Week program at the University
of Delaware. 1t will feature
lawn seeding, pruning and shade
tree selection.
When the home owner seeds a
new lawn or reseeds an old one,
he usually selects seed accord
ing to price and gives little con-
sideration to how the lawn is
going to be used and cared for.
Prof. Claude E. Phillips, chair
man of the department of ag-
ronomy, University of Delaware,
will open the e S S ion with a
discussion on how to choose a
lawn seed mixture suited for
particular situations or uses.
The second section of the
program will be a demonstra-
ton on pruning trees and shrubs
covering the why, when and
how of pruning. Taking part
will be University of Delaware
staff members: DR.. Charles W.
Dunham, Extension Horticultur-
ist Robert F. Stevens and New
Castle county urban agent Rich
ard w. Harris.
M. M. Macleod, of Atlantic
States Tree Expert Co., Wilm-
ington, Del, will be the last
speaker. He will discuss selec-
ton of shade trees.
This special session will be
held in Agricultural Hall Audi
torium Tuesday evening, Febru-
ary 8, beginning at s p. IN.
Smyrna times., 1960-01-07

Clayton Fire Company joined
Smyrna firemen last Thursday
in fighting a stubborn blaze
which threatened for a time to
destroy the Fretz Market ad.
joining Thornley's Factory. Fire.
men were on the scene for more
than an hour before the flames
were subdued and the threat to
nearby buildings ended. Con-
siderable damage to stock is
repeatedly covered by insurance.
Davis H. Bell has been rec
commended as postmaster for
Smyrna by u. S. Senator James
H. Hughes. Hughes says he ex-
poets Bell to be confirmed short
ly after the Senate convenes.
Miss Louise Denney, daughter
OF the late postmaster Robert
H. Denney, is acting postmaster.
MIR. Bell is assistant cashier in
the Wilmington office of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Smyrna is having its full share
OF the snow and ice which grip
ped the East in the seasons
worst storm. Liberal applica-
tions of sand have eliminated
the danger of collisions due to
Skidding at intersections.
Smyrna times., 1960-01-07

Williams G. Rawlins, l9-year.
old youth of the Bethlehem dis
trict of Caroline County, Md,
met a horrible fate Christmas
afternoon when he burned to
death on a load of hay. Young
Rawlins had gone to a tenant
farm for the hay which was
loaded on a rick wagon, a skel-
eton frame holding several tons.
Near his home neighbors MOTTO
ed his two horses running wild
ly in front of a sheet of flame.
Rawlins was subject to epilepsy.
1t is thought he was smoking
when one of his attacks came
and his lighted pipe set fire to
the hay.
Capt. George S. Goldsborough
had an experience Christmas
which he will not soon forget.
He was on a fur-buying trip to
Bombay Hook Island and was
nearly lost in the storm which
developed. Snow was over the
fence-tops and huge trees were
bent and uprooted. After reach
ing a break in the road and
finding the ice would not bear,
he attempted to walk over the
marsh. His troubles began when
the tide rose, confronting him
Smyrna times., 1960-01-07
20 YEARS AGO

Two Dover women were pin
ned in their overturned auto
mobile for soome time Satur-
day night at the Mt. Pleasant
and State Highway intersection
until blasts from their horn
brought passing motorists to
their assistance. Miss Margaret
Hartnett, chief assistant in the
corporation department of the
secretary of states office, and
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Louise
Morris Hartnett, were trapped
when their car skidded on the
ice and upset in a ditch. Both
suffered cuts, bruises, and from
shock.
Miss Florence M. Jacobs,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Jacobs, Sr., of near Smyrna,
and Mr.. Franklin T. Cooke, son
of MIR. and Mrs. Thomas Cooke
of near Clayton, were married
Dec. 81 at Asbury Methodist
Church. The Rev. James w.
Colona performed the ceremony
witnessed by the immediate
family and a few friends. Mr..
Cooke is an employee of Wilson
Cabinet Company. He formerly
lived in Maryland.
Smyrna times., 1960-01-07
40 zEzzz AGO
Taken From Our Old Files OF CORRESPONDING Weet

with three feet of snow anc
eighteen inches of water. He
finally reached Woodland Beach
exhausted and nearly overcome
After an overnight stay, he sue.
ceeded in reaching the island
the following day and purchas-
ed 1000 furs.
The State of Delaware closed
the past year in excellent fin
ancial condition. All state of.
ficials were paid and balances
remained in the school and gen.
eral funds. The year was con-
cluded without the necessity of
borrowing from the $4,000 en-
ergency fund to pay current ex-
penses.
James Shorts, prominent
Kenton farmer, narrowly escap-
ed death Christmas Day when
thrown from his milk wagon.
The horses became frightened
by a gasoline engine, ran away,
and threw MIR. Shorts to the
hard street. He was found un-
conscious and carried to the of
flee of DIR. Frank Virden. He
was treated and moved to the
home of his cousin, George
Shorts.
Smyrna times., 1960-01-07

There will be eight papers pre-
sented on crabgrass.
Two new chemicals are ex-
tremely promising for crabgrass
control in lawns. He said they
would be on the market this
year for the first time. Both
are for pre-emergence applica-
ton in March.
Prof. Rain, o. M. Bundy and
w. F. Donnalley will report on
their research on nutgrass, a
serious weed in several veget-
able crops in Delaware. Prof.
Rain and Prof. D. ]. Fieldhouse
will report on their work with
herbicides for strawberries.
Frank B. Springer, agronomy
department, will present pap
er on the effectiveness of two
pre-emergence herbicid e on
corn in Delaware.
Smyrna times., 1960-01-07

in New York City, January 6-s.
Professor E. M. Rain, horti-
cultural department, University
of Delaware, vice president of
the organization, said he was
impressed by the large number
of reports on the program deal
ing with crabgrass control.
Smyrna times., 1960-01-07
Labor and Politics

think both labor and busi-
ness have a right to get into
politics. Rather than complain
about the political activities of
labor leaders, business men
should devote the same amount
of effort to politics to see that
their views are also adequately
representatives, Pres i d e n t,
Richard M. Nixon.
Smyrna times., 1960-01-07
Crabgrass Control
Conference Called

Staff members of the School
of Agriculture, University of
Delaware are making several re-
ports at the annual Northeast
ern Weed Control Conference
Evening star., 1960-03-29
Choice in Foggy Bottom

The Columbia Plaza project in
Foggy Bottom offers good illustration
of the advantages which may result
from holding public hearings before
as well{as after-deciSions are made to
proceed. with urban renewal planning.
Planning and urban renewal off,
cials, in this instance, are advocating
strongly the use of urban renewal pow
erS to bring about the unified develop
ment of an eight-acre tract near the
new State Department, including luxury
apartments and extensive parking fa-
cilitieS. The Commissioners Urban Re-
newal Council agrees with this approach.
Private interests, who say they have
plans of their own to rebuild the area,
vigorously object, and contest the need
for government action. other WASH
ington business groups back them up.
Before the Commissioners now is a re-
quest that they indorse an application
for Federal grants to plan the renewal
project. After completion of the plans,
the Commissioners would have to hold
a public hearing before any work could
proceed.
The trouble with this procedure
especially in view Of the bitter contro-
versy-is that the chance to dissent from
the government proposal comes awfully
late. Once urban renewal planning is
finished, there is natural reluctance
to scrap the investment. And during
the lengthy planning period, private
. development opportunities, for all prac-
tical purposes, are frozen. Financial
sources, for, example, Immediately lose
interest in such areas.
In the long run, we believe the
urban renewal proposal probably would
produce a better development. In this
instance, however, the arguments on the
other side of the fence at least are per-
suasive enough to receive the full con-
Sideration of the Commissioners before
a decision Is made to commit the area
to government renewal.
The best way to accomplish this is
with an informal public hearing imme-
diately. This, of course, would not elm
mate the need for later hearing on
the completed plan If the project goes
ahead Nor would this procedure be
desirable as a general rule, especially in
large projects where detailed planning
is required before issues are clarified.
The Foggy Bottom issues, however, are
sufficiently clear for the Commissioners
to make at least tentative decision
now as to whether the use of urban re-
newal powers in this project Is in the
public interest or not.
Evening star., 1960-03-29

No 'Phonyt

The facts as related by those in the
best position to know should put to rest
forever any suggestions that Joe Rosen-
that's famed Two Jima fiag-raising photo
was in any sense "a phony."
A tempest of some proportions
swirled up after this implication was
left by an NBC television show depicting
! the life of the late Ira Hayes, one of the
six Marines who participated in the flag
raising. The facts, as clarified by the
Associated Press and confirmed by a
Marine photographer who was present,
are that the scene caught by AP Photog-
rapher Rosenthal was the second of two
aag-raisings which occurred on Febru-
ary %, 1945, that it was completely un-
posed and that its only purpose was to
replace an original, small flag with a
larger one.
The courage of the Marines photo
graphed by Mr.. Rosenthal is in no way
leSsened, of course, by these facts. AS
possibly this Nations greatest war pic
ture, furthermore, it has attained an
Importance and stature which tran
scend the circumstances of the specific
scene it depicts. It's lasting significance,
to most of us, is in the symbol which 1t
has become for the victories which fol-
lowed each of the bloody island battles
of the Pacific war.
Evening star., 1960-03-29
End K.P.?-Horrors!

The motives of the Air Force in
making it possible for commanding
officers to end K. P. duties for enlisted
men no doubt are of the highest. Sensi-
tive about its criticized manuals covering
dog-washing, baby sitting and the like,
the service UNDERSTANDABLE wants to
avoid further complaints.
But those of us who have drawn
K. P. duty during our tours of military
service-and survived it-have come to
regard Kitchen police" work as an in
dispenSable aspect of military life. The
CT who looks upon K. P. as cruel and
unusual punishment for something he
didn't do should consider how cruel and
unusual would be the punishment if the
first sergeant were deprived of this ira
ditional disciplinary weapon. A sergeant
robbed of the pleasure of posting K P.
list would be a sorry sight-a broken
man, as broken as If he had lost his
below
The Army tried this business of
making K. P. optional with its COM
Evening star., 1960-03-29
No Stars in His Eyes

Just when some people we're Begin
ming to wonder what had become of
Richard M. Nixon, he pops up out in
Lincoln, Nebraska, with political speech
which makes a lot of sense. Whatever
one may think of the Vice President, and
there is rather wide range of opinion
in this respect, no one can accuse him
of being a Starry-eyed dreamer in a
hard-boiled political world.
To his fellow Republicans, Mr.. Nixon
said anyone who doesn't recognize "that
We are in for the fight of our lives must
be smoking opium" He does not derive
any great comfort from the preconven-
tion spectacle of Democrats chopping up
Democrats. When the time comes, he
warned, the Democrats will turn on the
Republicans with the same hatchetS they
are now using on each other.
Mr.. Nixon also offered some sage
advice when he said the G. o. P. must
not make the mistake of starting its
campaign too early and risk winding up
with nothing left for the stretch run.
The soundneSS of this will be self
evident to those who remember how
tireSome the same old political speeches.
can become in August, September and
October.
There is not much the Democrats
can do about this. Faced with a door
die fight for the nomination, there is
nothing left for them except to bring
their hopefuls to the center of the stage
and risk the consequence which is said
to attach to familiarity.
Mr.. Nixon, however, with no oppo-
sition for his party's nomination, can
pace himself and bide his time. We do
not think this means that he is marking
time. For he told his Nebraska audience
that he intends to carry the G. o. P.
campaign into every State, city and
town that limitations of time space and
physical endurance will permit" He will
take nothing for granted, but instead
will try to outwork, outtalk and out
fight the Democrats in every voting pre-
cinct. No doubt he is busily engaged
right now in planning and preparing for
this effort.
Nor is the Vice President toying with
any idea Of trying to make himself the
beneficiary Of the Eisenhower magic. OF
course, any boost from the President
will be more than welcome. But Mr..
Nixon noted that "a record is something
obuild on, not to stand on" which sug-
gests to us that the Vice President, in
stead of campaigning solely on the basis
of the past record, will have some ideas
of his own to put before the voters.
From time to time voice in the
camp of the political opposition has been
heard to say that any good Demo-
crat" can beat Nixon. This is the sort
of thing, presumably, which candidates
feel obliged to say. We doubt, however,
that any sensible Democrat is laboring
under the delusion that Mr. Nixon will
be easy pickings. II there are any who
think this, reading of the Nebraska
speech should disillusion them.
Evening star., 1960-03-29

The report of the Penn
sylvania State Advisory
Board on Problems of Older
Workers that is printed in
the Congressional Record
Appendix, February 8, 1860
should be very encourag-
ing to people over forty.
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,,
New York. Connecticut, Or
egon, Wisconsin and Rhode
Island have anti-discrimina-
ton legislation-making it
unlawful to discriminate in
employment on account of
age. Also, a bill has been in
troduced in the United States
Senate that would make en-
ployment discrimination on
account Of age a Federal
offense.
Some of the most desirable
people for executive posi-
tions are over forty years Of
age and usually workers ex-
pect to work until they are
at least sixty.
There is a desperate need
for Governor Lawrence's pro-
posal to require all private
pension plans to tie their
benefits into the public
Social Security system, there
by making all plans port
able and preserving the
workers credits as he moves
from job to Job.
Carolyn Conner.
Evening star., 1960-03-29

thy and encouragement to
the Negro demonstrators in
South Africa and in the
Southern States of our own
country are the same peo-
pie who, two years ago. were
condemning white demon
strators in Little Rock. They
applauded President Eisen-
hover for sending armed
troops into Little Rock to
quell the demonstrations of
those who protested compul-
sorry racial integration. Now
they denounce the use Of
force in quelling the demon
strations Of those protesting
compulsory racial segrega-
ton.
Defenders OF the Negro
demonstrators are now wav-
ing the Bible and are call
ing loudly for the overthrow
of established law and order
which they believe to be
restrictive. At Little Rock.
these same people were wav-
ing the Supreme Court de-
segregation edict and were
calling loudly for the pres
ervation of law and order.
1t seems that in the minds Of
these people it is virtue for
a Negro to protest a denial
Of what he believes to be
his rights. but a crime for
white Southerners to protest
a denial of what they believe
to be their rights.
Harvey H. Hewitt.
Evening star., 1960-03-29
Turmoil in Africa

In South Africa human hate
has erupted. The blood Of
black Africans has stained
the bosom Of Mother Africa.
Black Africans cry for free
dom; those who claim to be a
superior breed give death for
an answer.
The whole world stands
aghast. Is Hitler directing the
policy of South Africa?
All Christendom must now
and for all time protest
against mans inhumanity
toward man. Protest will not
be enough. Christendom must
stop this evil way of life.
If Christendom is to sur
vive, mans inhumanity based
on white supremacy must
cease Immediately in South
Africa and throughout the
world.
Phaon Goldman. former
director of Africa House here,
has resigned. Mr.. Goldman
must be commended for a
noble act that gives him the
mantle of dignity. He re-
signed because of the moral
issue involving the fight for
freedom of black people in
Africa as we'll as in the
United States.
Black leaders and the rank
and file of America can
emulate the actions of Mr..
Goldman and thereby start
the avalanche of the moral
law towards the rights of
mankind.
Africa House is sponsored
by the American African In
stitute. a nonproflt organiza-
tion, backed by American
business firms doing business
in Africa. The institute spon-
sors scholarships for African
students attending American
schools.
Evelyn o. Chisley,
Executive Secretary, Wash
ington Flower and Gar
den Guild, Inc.
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Many now giving sympa-
Evening star., 1960-03-29
Stamp of Disopprovol

A Star editorial supports
the administration request
for another hike in first
class postal rates: from &c
to SC on regular mail, and
from 7c to &c on airmail.
The Star urges the public to
accept these increases as a
legitimate cost Of service
charge. Only last year first
class rates were raised from
Sc to &c on regular and from
&c to 7c on airmail. Recently
there was a heavy boost in
parcel post rates.
Why should the major part
Of the proposed increases for
this year be placed on the
class of mail that even be-
fore last years advance was
paying its cost? Why not
put 1t where it more appro-
priately belongs-on the bulk
mail that is an unmitigated
nuisance to the public and
to the mail carriers? / have
yet to learn of anyone that
wants to have their letter
boxes filled with this stuff.
Another factor in the cost
OF mail service is the franked
mail for Congressmen. If
the senders of this mail paid
its cost personally there
would be less need for the
increasing burden upon the
general public.
Perhaps the most impor-
tant cause for the constantly
mounting cost Of the postal
service is the perennial de-
mands from the organized
postal employees for more.
more, more. They got a 10
per cent increase last year
and are after another 10 or
IL per cent this year. Their
lobby is one Of the most
aggressive that buttonholes
Congressmen. In this elec-
ton year the vote e-conscious
members Of Congress are
supporting the demands Of
the lobbyists while at the
same time talking eloquently
against imitation for the
benefit of the taxpayers who
must provide the money for
the salary increases for all
Government employees, Post
Office and others.
And so the cost Of living
goes spiraline upward and
the taxpayers dollars con-
tinue to shrink. Members OF
the taxpaying public are not
organized. They have no
lobby. But they do have
votes. And they can vote
against the spenders, come
November.
r. Mclean johnson.
Evening star., 1960-03-29
Who'll Inherit Earth?
Paul Chiera

Would it have been in the
interest Of permanent peace
and prosperity had the Brit
ish and other Caucasian en-
pires forgone their coloni-
zation of the underdeveloped
continents and, with foreign
aid. brought about an ex-
ploSive increase in native
populations such as their
descendants now propose, as
Christians" to, produce the
world over?
Which peoples shall inherit
the earth. those who can give,
or those who can only re-
ceive. charity? Is there no
quid pro quo among men at
peace under law and order?
Is life a contest in which
all human participants must
seek the same goal and sue
cess hinge on mutually be-
neficent attainmentS?
Can the earth, by Opera
tionS Research publicly sub
sidized on an exorbitant
scale, be transformed into an
endless frontier for the hu-
man species? Can we man.
age thus to beat all swords
into plowshares and find
enough for everyone every
where forever after? If we
as a nation accept such
materialistic ideals" what
will be the fate of our de-
scendants? Will we not have
fooled all of our own people
for all time?
Alden Potter.
Evening star., 1960-03-29
Mr.. K. Scores Aooin

Khrushchev & Co. have
persuaded" the Asian-Af-
rican bloc to protest before
the United Nations Security
Council the police action
taken in the recent South
African race conflict.
What a hornets nest will
be stirred up - what with
endless pickering. fierce de-
bates. hypocrisy and conflict
ing interests. How Khru-
shchev must rejoice over the
imminent split of the West
ern World.
But let us not lose heart.
When the matter of commu-
nistic invasion Of Hungarian
soil was discussed in the
United Nations. Khrushchev
insisted it was a purely do
IIleSIlC issue.
The Western World has no
ism to fall back on except
''nationalism" of its separate
free states. Let's hold tight to
this, for it seems to me that
the very foundations of life
and struggle, losses and gains,
and all meaning and fair play
are inextricably bound here.
without it, (nationalism)
even the Soviet-style COM
munism will fall apart. 1t can
be challenged. r e m e m b e r
Tito who wanted to be mas
ter of his house?" What
brand of communism will
Red China ally
espouse?
Evening star., 1960-03-29

manders, but it Just didn't work. The
officers corps regards X. P. as a neces-
sary aid to maintenance of discipline
to say nothing of the morale of the
sergeantS. And anyone who has served
as an enlisted man in any of the military
branches knows that the morale of
sergeant is far more important, or. at
least has higher priority, than the
morale Of the luckleSs doughheads whose
names are posted on the company
bulletin board.
Evening star., 1960-03-29

But when they returned to
America, besides the tears of
their nurse. they brought
with them the power to re-
learn their native American
quickly.
Jones says he is one who
never will be able to master
another language, and knows
it.
There are many like him.
For one thing, the average
American is quietly boastful
about his own tongue.
He thinks the language of
Shakespeare and Co. q very
good one, and sees, no need
to know another.
For another thing, the lack
OF boundary contacts, in most
instances, makes it unneces-
sary for an American, at least
q home-Staying American. to
learn how to talk another
tongue.
Today's dwindling of the
globe ensures that more
Americans than ever will
quickly learn how to talk in
other languages, and this is
a good thing.
y &&
One of Templeton Jones'
major regrets in life is that
he does not know how to read
French in French.
Good translations are good
translations. but this tongue.
OF all tongues, must be sa-
vored in the original and
Jones knew this well enough.
Too much has been writ
ten, perhaps, about the sheer
impossibility of putting one
tongue into terms of an
other.
To listen to some, you
might think there is no use
at all of reading a transla-
ton.
This is almost utter nom
sense. A good translation,
even of a poem, is much bet
ter than none at all.
At least it gives the reader
an idea, and he can 60 on
from there.
With the French language,
however, 1t is different. This
has a flair, or whatever you
want to call it, all its own,
and this is. indeed, not
translatable.
Temp Jones. student, won-
ders if Russian, too, is this
way. but somehow he doesn't
believe it is.
KOH-fee is too much like
coffee!
Evening star., 1960-03-29
Objective

William S. Whites recent
articles about life in Israel
we're unusually interesting. 1t
is heartening to know that the
West has a stronghold in the
Middle East, and Mr.. White,
through his objective report
ing, has added to our knowl-
edge of how the people of
Israel face up to their many
difficulties.
M A, Palmuuist,