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Smyrna times., 1960-03-03
Damaged Bridge
AT Reedy Point
To Be Restored

The study on the reconstruc-
ton of Reedy Point Bridge has
been completed and the report
recommends that the bridge be
restored to operating condition,
it was announced by Col. T. H.
Setliffe, District Engineer, US.
Army Engineer District, Phila-
delphia. The study was made by
Howard, Needles, Tammen and
Bergendoff, architect-engineer
firm of New York City, under
contract awarded by the Army
Engineers to prepare report to
include the extent of damage
and the most economical plan
of restoration. The report has
been reviewed by Col. Setliffe
and he has approved the recon-
mendations for repairing the
damage and restoring the bridge.
A new contract has been award
ed to the architect-engineers for
the preparation of plans and
specifications with a scheduled
completion set for March %. In
vitations to bid on the construc-
ton work will be issued shortly
after the plan and specifications
are completed. Target date for
the opening of the bridge to
highway traffic is late fall. Tenn
porary repairs are under way to
strengthen the bridge until the
repairs are made. c. B. Brown,
resident engineer, Chesapeake
City Suboffice of the Army En-.
gineers, is presently directing
operations to erect falsework
under the bridge to support the
damaged approach span trusses
This is one of the preliminary
steps in the reconstruction pro.
gram. The Reedy Point vertical
lift highway span near Delaware
River entrance to the Chesa-
peake & Delaware Canal was
severely damaged on December
'2l when the Swedish freighter
Svensksund struck the east side
of the south approach. Emergen.
cy repairs have been made tc
strengthen the bridge for the
protection of navigation while
the permanent repairs are under
way.
Smyrna times., 1960-03-03

nessmen and residents of Smyr-
ma and Clayton to work togeth-
er for eventual consolidation as
one community. upon the un-
tied good will of all our citizens
depends the business success
and prosperity of everyone in
this area, and for that reason
our organization has long work.
ed for consolidation" declared
the speaker.
New hope for the construc.
ton of the long-proposed Della.
ware-New Jersey Bridge at Will.
mington has been revived in
Congress by Representative B
Carroll Reese (Tennessee). Reese
said he had been requested tc
introduce the bill and had nc
further information at this time
The original plan met with op.
position from Philadelphia inter
ests and the War Department
on the grounds it might prove
an obstacle to naval and com.
mercial centers in the Pennsyl.
vania city.
Edward Hurlock, 81, retired
Pennsylvania Railroad employee
and former Philadelphian, died
March l at the home of his sis
ter, Mrs. Lucy Lattomus, on
South Main Street. He had work.
ed for the railroad for num-
ber of years until failing health
forced his retirement. He had
made his home in Smyrna since
that time. In addition to Mrs
Lattomus, a brother, Benjamin
Hurlock, also survives.
With only one contest remain.
ing to be played, Smyrna's vars
ity basketball team has estab.
lished seasons record of which
it can be proud. Under the
coaching of George Records and
Smyrna times., 1960-03-03
WOrld-Acclaimed
Movie On Doves
Shown To Lions

A film, The Mourning Doves,
which has won national and in
ternational awards, was shown
by Jay Harmic, of the Delaware
Game and Fish Commission, at
the regular meeting of the Smyr-
ma Lions Club here recently. He
was presented by William E.
Jones, program chairman. The
pictures showed banding of the
young birds, their nesting hab-
its, nests raided by bluejays,
squirrels, and black snakes. BY
trapping the doves and banding
them information is gained on
how long they live. Farm ponds
are added to wildlife habitat.
There were scenes of dove hunt
ing and migration. All of this nj
formation adds to the growing
fund of knowledge, the film re-
vealed. A brief talk on the legal
manner in which meetings are
made up was given by Francis
b. Gebhart, chairman Lions in
formation. w. ]. Houston War
rem, one of visiting delegation
from the Dover Lions Club
told of the Eye Bank, and of the
efforts made to sign up names
of those willing to leave theil
eyes after death to those who
need them. Other members of
the Dover Club who attended
were Ralph Warren, Maurice A
Frazier, Jr. and Harry w. Bind
er. Ernest Mattiford was a Wis
Smyrna times., 1960-03-03
Visiting Program
Given At FELTON,

The first Kent County Pomona
visiting program was held at
Trophy Grange, FELTON,, with the
program presented and arranged
oy Charles Maske, lecturer of
Bethesda Grange. The theme:
"Our Heritage" the symbol, "The
Old Oil Lamp" Francis Thomas,
master of Bethesda Grange, and
Mrs. Harold Powell presented
the lamp to Winfred Gruwell, of
Trophy Grange. A play, "An Ev-
ening at Home" the setting,
costumes, and furnishings of the
period of 1890, was presented.
A quilt was finished and dis
played. Music was furnished by
an old Regina music box and an
Edison phonograph. A history of
FELTON, was given by Mr.. Maske.
Others taking part in the play
were Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Thomas, Mrs. Charles Maske,
Mrs. Bertha Barber, Margaret
Thomas, Harvey Thomas, Mrs.
Nancy Powell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Weibel. The second visit
ing program will be held at Har-
rington Grange on March 7 at
8 pm. with Trophy Grange pre-
senting the program. Mrs. Will
liam Hufnal gave report on the
variety sale to be held at Car
rolls Market on Friday and Sat-
urday, March HIP, the pro-
Iceeds to go to the Kent County
Pomona Grange.
Smyrna times., 1960-03-03

several years.
The new gasoline street light
at Clements Corner in Clayton
is attracting considerable atten-
tion. 1t gives a very brilliant
light and is a great improve
ment over the old oil lamp in
use by the town which barely
shows which way the streets
run.
Howard R. Jones, for IL years
head prescription clerk in the
Clifton and Raymond Pharmacy,
has purchased the interest OF
Clarence B. Raymond, junior
member of the firm. Jones as
sumed possession March l. The
new firm will be known as Cliff.
ton and Jones Pharmacy.
Smyrna Town Councils out
going administration held its fin
al meeting Friday evening anc
heard a statement of accounts
for the fiscal year just ended
The council closed the year with
a remarkable record of improve
ments and economy. The bond
ed indebtedness in the past yeal
was lowered from $4,000 tt
$4,000. The total was agair
increased, however, to a new
high of $55, 1000, by a $2l, ,00(
expense for street improve
ments.
Smyrna times., 1960-03-03

John w. Tucker, Smyrna's
well-known clothing merchant,
defeated incumbent John c.
Stockly for election to City
Council in the annual town cleo
ton held here Monday. Stock
ly was defeated by the bare
majority of one vote. Aside
from this contest, the only dis
trict with a contest, the election
was unusually quiet. Only 35
votes were polled.
Yesterday was the official
moving day in Blackbird, Ken
ton, and Little Creek Hundreds.
All day there was a hustle and
hustle of heavily loaded teams
and caravans. The moving in
Smyrna was not so large as in
former years, but a number OF
changes were made in the coun-
try districts.
Trappers of Bombay Hook
brought 1000 muskrat furs to
Smyrna yesterday to be auc'
toned off to the highest bidder
in front of the Delaware House
Bidding was spirited. The furs
were bought by ]. Wesley Jones
| for 671a cents each, the lot
bringing $1,000. This has beer
a most profitable season fol
trappers along the marsh, the
fur market being the highest ir
Smyrna times., 1960-03-03

Francis Gebhart, the Smyrna
five has been victorious in 10 of
fourteen games. Sparkling the
teams successes are Ray Smith,
Bob Jacobs, Bob Lower, Nelson
Slaughter, Ace Carrow, Pete
Stats, Bill Bodley, Bit Good
ing, and Bill Hutchison.
Smyrna times., 1960-03-03

The city of Camden, Me. built
monument to the doughnut
hole. The statue honors Captain
Hanson Gregory, who invented
the doughnut hole in l847.
Smyrna times., 1960-03-03

itor from the Clayton Lions
Club.
Smyrna times., 1960-03-03
YEARS AGO

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and pitch security are to be achieved
Since resumption of school following the
Christmas holidays, the choir has been work
ing intenSively on its South American pro-
grams, which include the work of both North
and South American composers mainly con-
temporary.
I'VE received the invitation to 60 on the
Tuesday before Christmas says Dean Law
son, describing the choir's work to develop
three complete programs and a repertoire of
orchestral numbers in the relatively brief
time. The singers spent three days of their
Easter recess getting in 10 extra rehearsals.
Language professors at the university made
tapes pronOuncing the Spanish and Portuguese
words in the songs. The singers listened to
the tapes, and also had the help of choir men,
ber Barbara Pope, a Spanish major.
Dean Lawson applied the same principles
to the foreign words that he does to English.
Amor" he would pronounce Spanish
word. Lean little more heavily on the m"
The so singers selected for the trip from
the 150member choir were chosen from
starting point of seniority: Other considera-
tions included the relatively higher quality of
individual voices needed in a smaller chorus,
and ability to read music well enough to cover
the preparation work.
The choir already is fairly selective
group. From about $50 students auditioned
every fall, about As are chosen as new material
From there on, Dean Lawson notes, it is
matter of hard work.
There can be no real JOY in it unless there
is a sense of achievement as result of hard
work." he says.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-07-30
Chaplain Bob vaughn's Job In Navy
 Calls For Being All Things To All Men

and his lady, the family has found a home among a host of friends who both need and enjoy their un- common faculties for friendship. The other Vaughn family parts are Jeffry and Robbie, and a gentle German Shepherd named Pfleg- erin. Translated from the German this means Nurse. The boys were born five and seven years ago dur ing an exceptionally long tour of three years, in Boston.
 Commander Vaughn led up to this happy point with some inter- esting past history, My Dad is a retired Army chaplain who got into service because, at the out break of World War I, he urged the young men in his Louisiana congregation to join up; he urged
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Tickets On Sale
 For Cancer Drive

Tickets went on sale this week as the first step in a fund raising campaign for the annual cancer drive. The drive, which will open August 6, will continue for two weeks, closing August 20.
 A pair of binoculars and g. transistor radio will be given away at a dance to be held at the Elks club, Saturday, August 20. Ar engagements for the dance are in charge of MT. and Mrs. Charles Mcintyre.
 The local drive is in charge of Mrs. Al Hochberger. District rep resentative for the American Can cer Society is Mrs. Jack Hinckel.
 The slogan again this year is Fight Cancer with a checkup and a Cheek" The American Cancer Society has announced that 1,000,- GOO Americans are alive today who have been cured of cancer. A cured person by ACS standards is one without evidence of the disease at least five years after treatment. The Society claims that progress made is largely due to it's nation wide program of education, re- search and service.
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have lined his face with humor, sadness, love, compassion and faith.
 Bob Vaughn speaks his faith from the pulpit and f!S congrega- tion is warmed by it and imbued with it, so clearly is faith the power and life of the man. Some years ago." he told us one recent Sunday, q was chaplain in the carrier Kearsage. I love Navy pilots; there were a lot Of them aboard that ship and I made sure I was always on the flight deck when they were launching a strike or recovering aircraft. Down in my office one day 1 had a young lad who was sorely pressed by prob lem that took us quite a while to iron out. It was lunch time before I could get away, the planes had landed, and the squadron was seated in the wardroom when I entered. The officers were ordi- narily very friendly but they gave me such a cool reception that 1 asked what was the matter. One of them finally grumbled that it was all my fault My fault for what, I asked. It's all your fault that we got bent prop. You weren't there when we landed Now, this is amusing to you, but to those pilots, my presence on the flight deck was an act of faith"
 Though Bob Vaughn and his pretty little girl" came aboard only a short while ago as the new Naval Station Protestant Chaplain
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money but the youngster acted as though he had received a fortune.
 ''In Toledo, home of the famous Toledo blades, we watched the men at work making stilettos, lovely jewelry and other objects of great beauty. The men, who are true artisans, make their own indi- vidual designs and their work is exquisite. (We agree with Marie that the products are beautiful she brought us pendant from Toledo that is more than lovely).
 Portugal is advancing rapidly, and we found the people friendly and helpful at all times. The gov ernment began tearing down many old buildings in 1945 in Lisbon, and replaced them with modern apartments that now house 40,000 persons. Economical government built homes are also being con structed. Tenants pay one-fifth of their salary for twenty years, then become the legal owners. In the event a man dies before the end of the twenty year period, his widow is given ownership of the home at once. All factories are being moved out of the city into the country.
 "A few short hours after leav- ing Lisbon by jet plane we were back in the United States with memories of castles and palaces hundreds of years old, many other things new to us, yet really old, and we knew that we had seen places where history had been made"
 The Cardinals spent some time in Canada visiting relatives and old-time friends before returning to Kodiak.
 Listening to Card and Marie vividly describe the places they had visited, the food they had eaten, people with whom they had talked and the fun they had, we almost felt as though we, too, had shared some of their enjoyment.
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By Miriam J. Angell

Our world of specialists often requires that one man turn the screw, another tighten the bolt and still another push the button to set in motion the product the special istS have wrought. Yet another specialist deals with the mind of man. The Navy Chaplain is con- cerned with the mind and soul of man; he fulfills his purpose in being all things to all men.
 Chaplain and Mrs. Robert A. Vaughn once made some calcula- tions as to the number of people he has counseled during his 18 years with the Navy and they came up with the fairly astonishing figure of thirteen thousands. The years of being all things to all men
Kodiak mirror., 1960-07-30
By Betha Digree

"It was wonderful experience that we shall always remember and never regret" That was the way E. L. (Card) and Marie Cardinal described their ten-week vacation, most of which was spent in Eur ope.
 We enjoyed London but found the traffic rather confusing be- cause of the left-hand driving. We learned to be very cautious when crossing street after few mar row escapes. While in England we were fortunate enough to spend a few days at the home of friend who was on a trip. The house, which he turned over to us, is more than 200 years old Each room has its own fireplace as there is no central heating plant
 We really enjoyed seeing the beautifully landscaped lawns and gardens. We were, of course, thrill ed to be in London at the time of the marriage of Princess Mar garrett. We were lucky enough to have good seats while watching the procession through the streets.
 Some of the shop windows had fabulous displays, the best we saw anywhere.
 Paris had so much to offer to visitors It was great fun to sit at table at sidewalk cafe and watch the people passing by. (At this point Card remarked, "Especi- ally the pretty girls!)
 "There seem to be two prices on things in Paris One price for the people who live there, and another for the tourists. The latter is extremely high and Parisian shopkeeperS seem to have the idea that all Americans are wealthy. In one shop we were told You can afford it because you are capital ists,' when we decided not to buy something because of the price. We were charged five dollars when we sent two dresses out to be pressed at the hotel.
 People in Holland were very friendly. The streets and steps leading to the homes are all so clean. Steps are scrubbed every day, it seems. We attended huge flower auction where flowers are
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SOCIAL NOTES Homemaking Happening, About Town Gardening
Gardening

should move in here with me but Helen Parrish. Talk about being happy to see someone I knew {. Someone from home. Now we share our reading, our crochet patterns, even our eats. After all those months of suffering that Helen has gone through she is still the most cheerful and uncomplaining per son I've every met :" Our very best wises to both Mrs. Malutin and Helen Parrish and may they both soon be out of the hospital.
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Cardinals Tell Of European Travels

bought to be sent to all parts of the continent.
 "The people of West Germany live more like us than in any other country we visited, and they seem to be prosperous. The Autobahn, a six-lane highway built during Hitler's rule, was really impress Sive.
 Seeing the Vatican was the highlight of our visit to Italy but the cathedrals and other ancient buildings are beautiful as they are in all of Europe that we tour ed In Italy, tho, we were again called Capitalists.
 'In Venice we were fascinated by the glass blowers who fashion such lovely, fragile pieces of glass. And there, of course, rides in gon- dolas
 Spain is an interesting country in so many ways. Many of the peo- pie are dreadfully poor. LaborerS working on the highway were be- ing paid approximately eleven cents an hour. TWo-wheeled carts drawn by donkeys furnish the means of transportation for many things. We saw women unloading a ship load of sand. Large pallets were loaded with the sand then the women carried the pallets on their heads. We never did learn what the sand was used for, tho. All sorts of things are carried on the heads of the women, including jugs of wine and jars of water.
 "Of course we couldn't miss the bullfights, We became so excited that we found ourselves shouting with the rest of the crowd, and nearly falling out of our seats.
 "Old people and children, shab- by and weary looking, can be seen everywhere begging. In the coun- tryside one sees people picking up branches and twigS which they carry into town to sell for few cents.
 we spent many enjoyable hours Strolling through the streets just looking at the window displays. It was in Madrid that a handsome little shoe shine boy was thrilled when Card gave him twice the money asked for shoe shine. It amounted to 31a cents in American
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M rS. c. BurUn1 Visits Som Here

Mrs. Gladys Rogers Burum, Der kelley, Calif., arrived recently to visit her son, Cmdr. Roger Burum, and his family on the Naval Sta tion.
 The visitor will remain here un- til Cmdr. Burum, Legal Officer, is detached from duty at Kodiak the latter part of August. Cmdr. Burum's new duty station will be San Diego.
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so long and hard that the congre- gation asked him, Why don't you?' and he did. From there on our family lived on succession of Army posts. There was Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where I did a lot of growing up and was mascot to the first all-mounted Boy Scout troop in the world. After that we were in Arlington, Virginia for three years and then in the Philip pines; we had three Japanese in- vasion scares there and in 1883 we felt sure we would be evacuated to Corregidor. From 1884 until 1887 l was in college at Centenary in Shreveport, Louisiana, and got my BA there. What I really wanted to be was a flyer; spent couple months in Naval Flight School but my family put up such objection that I compromised and tried law school for two years at Texas Uni versity. From there I went to Duke for my Bachelor of Divinity degree. When World War II broke out the Chief of Navy Chaplains came by and recruited me and in 1922 I was commissioned Ensign Deck Volunteer Probationary U SN R, which meant I had to graduate from the Seminary. I did, by the Grace of God and hard run. After Navy Chaplain's School in Norfolk they gave me the rank of Ensign and sent me to the Coast Guard Training Center at Groton, Conn.,, where, one night at party met
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STONE FAMILY DUE HOME

MT. and Mrs. William Stone and daughters are expected to return home August 1 or 2. They have been Outside the past two months. Stone is the superintendent of the Kodiak Baptist Mission here.