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Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
DOUer Lady Selected
For Mother Of Year
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children: for her courage, cheer
fuIness, patience and understand
ing; for her religious activities;
and for her participation in and
support of the activities for pub
lie benefit.
Mrs. Mayer was particularly
cited for her successful efforts in
educating all three of her children
through college level following
the death of her husband, Henry
Mayer, a former Mayor of Dover
and civic leader. Each child, ac-
cording to the nomination and sub
sequent endorsements, has attain
ed a large measure of success in
his or her field of endeavor, re-
fiecting what was termed the "be-
nevolent influence of a loving mo-
ther and a wholesome family life"
The children are: Elizabeth Ellie
good Mayer, a Pratt librarian at
Baltimore, Md; Mrs. Mayer Thigh
man, receptionist and social secre-
tary to U. S. Senator ]. Allen Frear,
Jr., at Washington, ID. c.; and
Harry Mayer, Jr., Wilmington in
surance executive, who, a few
years ago, was designated as W4l-
mington's Young Man of the
Year.. Three grandchildren also
have been reported as having COM
piled outstanding records of ac-
complishment.
Mrs. Mayer was born August 8,
1880, at Cumberland, Nd, and re-
ceived her formal education at
Salisbury, Md She first came to
Dover as a young bride and short
ly thereafter became active in the
affairs of church and community
an interest that she has maintained
to the present.
Her religious activities include
membership for fifty-six years in
the Wesley Methodist Church,
where she sang in the choir for
thirty years and served as chair
man of music for fifteen years; !;
twenty years continuous member
ship in the Women's Society of
Christian Service; and active
membership in the United COun-
Gil of Churchwomen. In 1922, she
personally organized the Wesleyan
Juniors, a society of the younger
ladies of the Wesley Methodist
Church.
A charter member of the Kent
General Hospital Auxiliary since
1927 and it's president since 1854,
Mrs. Mayer organized the Kent
General Junior Board in 1948 and
the Surgical Dressing Group, there,
in 1854. Durin 1929 she served
as city and county chairman of the
membership drive for the hospital
Mrs. Mayer organized Dover's
first Community Concert Associa-
ton; served as its chairman for
seven years, and is presently serv-
ing as honorary chairman of the
same group. AS a committee mem
ber she also helped organize the
Theatre Guild in Wilmington and
the Living Shakespearean Theatre
in Stanford, Connecticut
AS an active Red Cross worker,
she has awards of merit dated
1947, 1949, 1866, 1857, 1858 and
1859. She was Special Gifts chair
man for the March of Dimes in
1856 and has also been active in
the Women's Field Army of the
American Society for the Control
of Cancer; the Heart Association; !;
and in Red Feather Community
Drives.
Mrs. Mayer has been an active
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08

Herbert Griffith, Mrs John Armand,
Mrs. Desmond Lyons, Mrs. Borden
Smith, Mrs. John Glenn and Mrs.
Forrest Webster Music for back
ground was played by Mrs. Robert
Rudolph. piano, and Mrs. Pack,
violin. Spring flowers for the meet
ing were arranged by Mrs. Haswell
Pierce and Mrs. Robert Rudolph.
Devotions for the day were given
by Mrs. Carl Morgan.
In compliance with the General
Federation to cooperate in a sec
ond nation wide all American Fam
lily Search to select fifty-one fam
lilies to represent each state and
the District of Columbia, the Mil
ford New Century Club has chosen
Mr.. and Mrs. John e. Burris and
their four children as its repre-
sentatives. This search is being
done in cooperation with the Book
of knowledge.
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
More Than 500 DeL0IUGre
Farm Leaders Heard
Benson
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ness. Egg production per hen was
low, some 110 eggs per year"
In those days the nearest thing
to a broiler was the spring
chicken" caught to order from
the farm flock.
Now annual egg production per
bird has risen from 11O to over
200 eggs per year and commercial
broilers produce most of our
chicken meat, Benson said.
The poultry industry is chang
ing and it is finding some difficulty
in adjusting, he said, Il am deep
ly, convinced that it is better for
farmers TO make adjustments for
themselves than for government to
attempt to make their adjustments
for them"
You cannot run the farms of
this nation from desk in Wash
ington". he said.
Speaking of last years egg price
. problems he pointed to the mer-
chandising campaign the Depart
ment of Agriculture helped carry
out.
But we did not, and must not,
put the government into the poul-
try business. The government has
been in that business before in
1850 for example,"
That program cost 100 million
dollars and failed to support egg
prices.
1--WE are helping the poultry in
dustry to help itself with construc-
, tive measures that give producers
freedom to make orderly adjust
ments."
Discussing bills recently intro
duced in Congress, Benson said,
you should know that these bills
provide for controls over the pro-
duction and marketing of virtually
every agricultural commodity, all
the way from dairy products to
poultry and eggs, greenhouse nur-
sery stock, fruits and vegetables
even mint"
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08

member of the Dover Century Club
for 56 years and has represented
this club in conventions of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs on both the East and West
Coasts and in Costa Rica.
In 1858, Mrs. Mayer was pre-
sented with the first and only hon.
Orary membership as an Alumna
of Wesley College and was cited
at the time for Fifty Years of ac-
tive and dedicated service to hui
manitarian causes.
Her other affiliations include
The Friends of Old Dover. Friends
of the Dickinson Mansion, Dover
Garden Club, Dover YMCA, Dover
Service Coordinating Council Dow
er USO and Better Government
League.
Assisting Mrs. Cam in making
this years selections were: Mrs.
E. w. Buchanan, Dover; Mrs. Jo-
seph Ennis, Smyrna; Mrs. Jesse
Loven, Odessa; Mrs. Paul Mitchell,
Hockessin; Mrs. William Money,
Laurel; and Mrs. George Till, Re-
hoboth Beach.
The Delaware Mother of the Year
contest was inaugurated in 1850
when Mrs. Jonathan Willis of near
Milford was selected Other state
winners have been:
1951-Mrs. William Riley Brown,
Wyoming; 1952-Mrs. Elizabeth
Shallcross, Odessa; 1953-Mrs.
Samuel ]. Stein, Seaford; 1854
Mrs. Edgar j. Boggs, Cheswold;
1955-Mrs. Morris L. Zurkow, Dow
er; 1956-Mrs. George F. Seitz, Sr.,
Wilmington; 1957-Mrs. Edgar F.
Isaacs, Sr., of near Milford; 1855
Mrs. George Ehinger, Dover; 1859
Mrs. E. Edward Thompson, Re-
hOhoth Roach
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
Development Dept. Makes
Some so Census
Predictions
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/, 1852
During this period, the number
of children under five in the state
increased from $4,000 to $4,000;
the number of youngsters five to
seventeen increased from $1,000
to los, 900. Those Delawareans in
the prime wake-earning bracket"
eighteen to forty-four, however,
increased only from 10000 to
161 900, and the middle-aged brac-
ket from (fOrty-five to sixty-four)
increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
The number of senior citizens
aged sixty-five and over increased
from $4,000 to $4,000.
In terms of the percentile distri-
button of age groups, more than
one eighth of Delaware's popu-
lation is now represented by chill
dren under five, 1878 per cent. Al
most another fourth, or 24.0 per-
cent are between five and seven
teen. Some $40 per cent are be-
tween eighteen and forty-four, 1910
percent from forty-five to sixty
four and 73 per cent are above
sixty-fiVe in age.
In 1850, only 10.8 per cent of
Delaware's population was under
five and 1872 per cent was in the
five to seventeen age group. On the
other hand, 80 percent were over
sixty five according to the 1850
census.
On the basis of the foregoing
statistics, the Development Depart
ment logically assumes that Della
wares big growth since 1850 has
been in the lower age brackets with
about three out of every eight of
today's Delawareans being under
seventeen years of age.
When these figures are coupled
with a longer life span and an in
creasing birth rate, it presages a
tremendous growth in Delaware's
population in the coming years,
even if there were no migration
into Delaware from other states
Such migration, however, is add
ing an estimated two percent to
Delaware's population every year
or 20 per cent every ten years ad-
vises the Development Department
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
Officers Elected
At Century Club
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luncheon at 1890 o'clock with the
hostess, assisted by members whose
names begin with DFHG. in charge
of arrangements.
1t was Drama Day at the club on
Monday. Mrs. Louis Pack had writ
ten a clever play entitled You've
Go To Be In Love To Paint" with
the members of her Paint Club
taking part. With easels, palettes
and paint and in their usual paint
ing garbs the play went along ex-
planning the fundamentals of sever
al schools of thought on painting.
Mrs. Eugene Nelson was a capable
instructor and the pupils were Mrs.
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08

The passage of such bill would
require the hiring of so large an
army of bureaucrats as to stagger
the imagination.
On the wheat problems he said,
"the costly wheat surplus is our
number one national problem in
agriculture; it reflects gross med
ding by obsolete governmental
law. To put it bluntly, we are in
mesa $1,000 a minute mess"
Congress drafted the program
and only Congress can correct the
situation, he said. Until Congress
acts, agriculture will be burdened
with too much government, too
much politics and too little COM
mon sense.
Dean George M. Worrilow of the
school of agriculture, University
of Delaware, was toastmaster al
the affair which he said was the
largest audience he had ever seen
representing agriculture in Della
ware.
Two University of Delaware stu
dents, Michael Timko, Harrington,
senior majoring in horticulture,
and Jeanne Carback, Seaford, a
junior in the school of home eco
nomics, were awarded 500 Grange
scholarships by DIR. John A. Per-
kins, President of the University
Three FLA members and three
All Club members were presented
with silver pins by the DPIA for
their poultry project work. Bruce
Richards, Frankford, was selected
state FLA winner and James Jes-
tice, Laurel, state All winner.
Other county FLA winners were
John Herring; Newark, and Wayne
Currey, Wyoming. County All
winners were Lea Tammi, Newark,
and Frederick Wiebel, Jr, Hartly.
Miss Nina Lou Ringler, Miss
Delmarva XII, and Miss Jarmon,
Delaware Grange Princess, pre-
sented Secretary Benson with a
turkey and several broilers. Miss
Lea Tammi, New Castle County
DPIA award winner, gave the
Secretary a basket of Delaware
eggs.
The Communist Party is outlaw
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
DeLGLUGre POIUer e Light
Plans For Huge
Expansion
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ture growth and expansion of the
Delmarva Peninsula. 1t is a con-
tinuation of our policy of always
meeting the needs of a growing
population and expanding economy
with ample service for everyone
everywhere on the Delmarva Pen
insula."
Population increases and greater
use of the company's services pres
sent a challenge, Mr.. Nelson point
ed out, but in any challenge there
is opportunity-an opportunity to
serve and grow with the area we
are serving.
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08
Georgetown Choirs To
Present "Crucifixion"
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Pauls Episcopal Church Choir.
Soloists are: Freeman Hudson,
Howard Smith, Harold White, May
Baker, Chris Mack, Wilson Boyer,
Beverly McIlvaine, Russell Plump
ton, Sigurd Christensen, c. Linden
McIlvaine, Jr., Loren Frye, and
Richard Davis. An offering will be
taken to help defray expenses of
the concert. The public is invited
to attend.
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08

Ghana. the new republic on the
Gold Coast of Africa, is about
twice the size of Mississippi. Its
population is estimated at five mil
lion.
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08

Delaware ranks last among the
so states in the value of it's min
eral production.
Milford chronicle., 1960-04-08

The Communist Party is outlaw
ed in Turkey.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1960-11-22
Earnest Glass

Funeral services for Earnest
Glass, So, viii be conducted at
? pm. Saturday from the AOH
Church of God. with Rev. r. F.
Sheriff., pastor. officiating. In
ternent in Mt. Hope
Cemetery
The body is at the McHa0ey
Funeral Home
Nj. Glass was born Dec. I9.-
1890 at Carlisle. He leaves a
brother. Dave Glass, 1103 n
Mathews. Urbana; a sister, Miss
Viola Glass, whose address is
not known, and a niece, Mrs.
Victoria Mcconnell, T peka,
Kan.
Mr.. Glass, who formerly re-
sided in Champaign, died Tues
day NOV. l. 1860 at the Vet
Grams Hospital, Danville, where
he had been a patient for a num-
Der of years.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1960-11-22

father of Walter Smith, C h a m
paign, died at II am. Monday IN
St. ELzabeth's Hospital. Danvile.
Funeral services will be at q
pm. Friday in the Greater Shiloh
Baptist Church at Danville. Burial
will be in Springhin Cemetery.
He leaves his widow, three sons,
Nathaniel Smith, Danville; Walter
Smith, Champaign, and J. c.
Smith, Detroit. Mich; three
daughters. Mrs. Clara Bell Davis
and Mrs. Marjorie Reed, both of
Danvllle, and Mrs Rosie Smith,
Chicago, two sisters. % grandchil-
dren and Z great-grandchildren.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1960-11-22
Mrs. Jackson Rites

Funeral services tor M S.
Blanche Wilson Jackson, 81, wife
of Clarence Jackson, 1903 Carver
Dr., conducted at Pill
Wednesday from the Salem Bap-.
list Church. Rev. Eugene Viii
hams, pastor, will officiate, and
burial will be in Mt. Hope Gene
terry. The body is at the Parker
and Son Funeral Home,
Mrs Jackson died at 10 80 pm.
Saturday at her home. Death was
due to a heart ailment, from
which she had suffered for some
time.
Mrs. jackson was born in Pur-
YEAR. Tenn, daughter Of Moses
and Dovie Lou Ella Littleton
Morris. She came 10 this com
munity Sc years ago. She leaves
her husband and one son, Gentry
REYNOLDS. Puryear, Tenn; a
brother, William Rove, Puryear,
Tenn. and a granddaughter, Re-
gina Rogers, East St. Louis.
Mrs. jackson was member
Of the Salem Baptist Church, and
of Victory Temple No. 500
Daughters of Elks and paugh-
ters of the Court of Isis No. 10,
and Of Deborah Chapter q, Or
der of the Eastern Star. She was
also a member of william F. Ear.
nest Post $50, American Legior
Auxiliary, and was patron o.
the Royalettes Climb.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1960-11-22
FRED SIMPSON, SIS,
DIES IN MICHIGAN

Fred D. Simpson. IS, former
resident of Champaign. died at 8
pm. Tuesday at his home in Lam
sing, Mich.
Funeral services at {
pm. Saturday at McHaney Funer
al Home with the Rev. Eugene
H. Williams, pastor of Salem Bap-
fist Church, officiating. Burial, ~
be in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Mr. Simpson was born March
8, 1895, at Fulton, Ky, the son
of Henry and Liza Simpson. He
came to Champaign in 1917 and
was employed at the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad shops.
He moved to Lansing in 1890
and was employed as night
Waterman at Knapp's Department
Store there for 80 years, He was
a World War l veteran.
Mr.. Simpson leaves two sisters,
Mrs. Ben Stovall. Champaign, and
Mrs. Lena Featherston, Fulton
Ky.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1960-11-22
MILLlNER SERVICES
MONDAY IN ST. LUKE

Funeral services for Phillip Mil
liner, 81, of 1902 N. 5th St,
at 2 pm. Monday in St. Luke's
CME Church with the Rev. NJ. A.
Crowder. presiding elder of the
denomination for this district, Of
Floating. Burial in Mt.
Hope Cemetery.
Campbell Funeral
Home.
Mr.. Milliner died Thursday IN
Burnham Hospital.
He leaves a son. Louis Milliner,
st. Louis. Mo. His wife, Pearl,
died in 1949.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1960-11-22
James Smith Rites


Graveside rites for James 7.
Smith, So, 7O8 N. Romine, Ur-
bana. were conducted at 2:3O pm.
Thursday at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
The McHancy Funeral Home IS IN
charge.
Mr.. Smith died at y .35 p. m.
Friday NOV. Il, 1860 after being
stabbed in a scuffle at the above
address, where he resided.
WALTER SMITHS FATHER
DIES IN DkkVlLLE
Green Smith Jr., SO, Danville,
Evening star., 1960-04-23
1Deterqents of Democracy

1t was not surprising to hear the
three out-of-poWer political leaders of
the United States, England and Canada
agree on the Importance of the oppoSi-
tion party'S role in effective government.
For deplorable as it is to be "out," politi-
cal hay must be reaped where it is found,
and Adlai Stevenson, Hugh Gaitskell
and Lester Pearson gathered in credit
able harvest in their talks to the Ameri-
can Society of Newspaper Editors.
There was considerably more to
their discussion than that, however
What the editors really heard was an
exceptionally lucid analysis of the
morals and purposes of political opposi-
ton, and the comments of these veteran
victims of political ShutoutS included
several thoughts worth contemplating
by Americans in the election year ahead.
To Mr.. Pearson'S mind, opposition
parties are the "detergents of democ-
racy" which cleanse and purify those
in Office" Their primary desire, of
course, in any country, is tc regain po-
litical dominance. But their means of
doing so is to criticize, and in this func-
tion there is public value too often
overlooked or minimized through a lack
of responsibility by both political par
ties. In America, this critical role is
less clearly defined and controlled than
in either England or Canada 1t exists,
nevertheless, and it inevitably is the
main source of information toward
which the electorate can look for guild
ance.
Mr.. Stevenson, never more at home
than in such discussion, projected the
same theme this way:
I do not believe free government can
survive on less than the truth. . We
are born to grow into truth by experience,
by learning and failing and learning
again. Truth is not birthright Since,
then, we are bound to err in our search
for truth, error must be made real to us.
Our mistakes cannot be left unchallenged,
or our own search for truth will be
checked.
The trouble is, of course, that the
truth" becomes somewhat garbled in
the telling, and neither the "inS" nor
the "outS" are likely to hew to high
principles of responsibility and mutual
respect. From his wealth of experience,
AAr. Stevenson knows this quite well.
And that is the reason he wisely urges
that the public itself must delve more
deeply into the morals of political
positions, and why he properly says
that the press has "a special RESPONSE
bility to police the duel and enforce the
standards of political performance and
accountability"
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Social Security Cost

Considering the amount of
Federal, State and municipal
taxes, along with nine cents
a gallon gasoline tax and
sales taxes, the amount de-
Quoted for social. security is
picayunish. To raise the So
cial security deduction a
trifle to take care of extraor-
binary and ordinary medi-
cal and hospital care of those
over 65 years of age would
hardly be a financial burden
to those Of us who are much
younger.
Young couples starting out
in life should not have the
specter of a sudden sickness
of parents or older relatives
burdening tn e m with ex-
ira financial responsibilities
when it is prolonged. 1t
seems. contrary to the view
you stated in your editorial,
many younger people have
an interest in this care be-
ing incorporated into the So
cial security system, when
people reach the age of IS,
other than the usual humani-
tartan motives.
DisSident Subscriber.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Facts at Last?

Before it tries to determine any
appropriate action" to require the hir-
ing of Negro electricians on Federal con-
Struction jobs here, the General Services
Administration had better skip the loose
talk and ascertain some facts.
The first apparent break in this lin
gering controversy occurred March 8,
when private contractors promised to
hire qualified" Negro electricians who
are referred to them. Since then,
total OF seven Negroes have been so
referred, by the United States Employ
ment Service and, acting as an inter-
eSted private agency, by the Washington
Urban League. None of them has been
hired. But are these men technically
qualified for specific jobs which may
now be open? Certainly we do not know,
and it is questionable to our mind that
either the Urban League or the USES
possesses the technical information to
make such finding.
GSA'S first chore, therefore, should
be to answer this question, utilizing
Whatever technical experts they need to
employ. If these applicants were quail
ifled for employment, the second queS-
tion to be answered, of course, is: Why
have they not been hired? Until these
facts are established it is ludicrous for
the GSA to engage in speculation about
such punitive actions as breaking off the
current construction contracts or BAN
ming the companies from bidding on fu-
ture Government iohS
AS the Federal Governments major
construction agency, the GSA should
have been digging actively into this sit
uation ever since the Presidents Com
mittee on Government Contracts made
an issue of it several months ago. In
stead, GSA has acted like player who
preferred to sit out the game on the
bench. Now that it has been showed
onto the playing field, the agency should
not stop at surface effects. Suppose one
or two Negro electricians are hired on
referral from the Urban League. What
will that prove? The real fault lies in
the discriminatory racial practices of
the local labor union which supplies the
regular electrician force for construc-
ton work here. And what will be done
about that?
Evening star., 1960-04-23
For Their Own Safety

Motorists generally should approve
of the stern traffic enforcement program
mapped out at an emergency meeting of
District traffic officials. For the planned
breakdown on dangerous drivers, espe-
cially the SpeederS, is designed for the
safety of all motorists and pedestrians
as well. The reckless few imperil not
only their own lives but the lives of
Others And this minority already has
created a real emergency in Washington
as the sharp increase in fatal accidents
here atteStS.
AS the death list reached 80 for a
period which brought only 81 deaths last
year, representatives of the Department
Of Vehicles and Traffic and of the Traffic
Co-ordinating Committee proposed a
Tightening up of the point system against
SpeederS and an increase in collateral
for various speeding offenses Under the
present point system a driver may have
his license suspended if he is convicted
OF three cases of speeding within 80
OF three cases of speeding. The new
system would bring suspension for two
such convictions. Three convictions
would mean revocation of his permit
to drive. The higher collateral plan
would ned the approval of the Municipal
Court. Higher collateral rates might
well help to curb the Speeders, but an
ever more effective deterrent would be
sitter penalties for those brought into
court.
Accident records show clearly that
the chief culprit in fatal crashes. is the
Speeder. An analysis of last years acci-
dents by the Travellers Insurance Com
panies has disclosed that speed was by
far the biggest cause of death and injury
on the highways. Anything that can be
done to bring some sense into the added
brains of those who make raceways of
our streets and highways will be a
contribution to the safety of all citizens.
Evening star., 1960-04-23
Support for Korea

l deeply appreciate your
editorial frankness and sup
port in Korea's newest trial.
AS you have pointed out, the
government was compelled to
defend itself. At the same
time, the government deeply
regrets the loss of even one
life. All the Korean people
are now uniting to the end
that such a tragedy can never
be repeated. And Korea
stands squarely with the
United States and the free
world, always. With such
understanding press support
in America, we can be assured
that communism will not
profit from what has hap
pened. Chi Whan ChOi,
Director, Office of Public
Information, Republic of
Korea, Seoul, Korea.