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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
Health Officials
Are Discussing T.B.

Proposals for eradicating tuber-
culosis as a health hazard in Della
ware are being weighed by COM
mittee of nine health officials in
an effort to refine the existing de-
lection and treatment program.
A committee named by DR.. Floyd
/. Hudson, executive secretary of
the State Board OF Health, has dis
cussed the details OF the Arden
House Report. an elaborate plan OF
attack on TB, and has submitted
some recommendations to the State
Board of Health for consideration.
Members of the committee are
Chairman DIR. Edward f. Olivia,
health officer of New Castle Coun-
ty, DR.. Maynard Mrs. health off
icer Of Kent County, DR.. Nathaniel
Young, medical director of the EN-
lily p. Bissell Hospital. w. G An
derson, executive director of the
Bissell Hospital, Mrs. Elanor Bel
flint. nursing supervisor for Wilm-
ington, Mrs. Mary NJ. Klaes, direct
or of public health nursing of the
Continued on page six)
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Temple Lodge Making Plans
IN allati0n For Lincoln
Held June 18th Church Growth
Forrest E. Banning Was
Installed AS Worship
full Master; Hazard t.
Smith, Senior Warden.

At the regular meeting of Temple
Lodge No. 8. A. F. and A. NJ, held
June 20, Forrest F. Banning was
installed Worshipful Master. Mr..
Banning is associated with Select
ed Risks Insurance Company o I
Branchyille, New Jersey, OF which
he is their payroll auditor and in
spector in this area. Mr.. Banning
is the son of Mrs. Delema Banning
of Milford. He was born and rear
ed in the Milford area, attended the
Milford public schools. graduating
from the Milford High School In
the class of 1896 He is married to
the former Miss Virginia R. Deputy
of Milford. Mr.. and Mrs Banning
have two fine sons, Wayne Is and
Gary 10.
Mr.. Banning is a 80 degree Mas
on, a member of the Delaware Con-
sistory, Hope Chapter No. 7 Royal
Arch Masons, Evergreen Forest No.
40, Tall Cedars of Lebanon and the
Kent and Sussex Scottish Rite Club.
Other officers installed by Tenn
pie Lodge No. 9 were, Hazard T.
Smith, Senior Warden. John F.
CLOSER, Jr., Junior Warden, Rich
ard N. Downing, Senior Deacon,
James H. Postles, Junior Deacon,
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Area Dairymen To
Tour Wisconsin

Delaware and Maryland airy
farmers are invited to make an ed
vocational tour of Wisconsin's fam
GUS "dasryland".
The tour, to be held August $40
is sponsored by the Dairy Herd
Improvement Associations of the 2
states in cooperation with the Uni
versity of Delaware and the Univer-
sity of Maryland. 1t will include
visits to outstanding dairy farms in
the Badger State, as well as stops
at artificial breeding centers, a
cheese factory, a farm equipment
manufacturing plant. the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin campus, and 9TH
er points of interest to dairymen.
The tour leader viii be DR.. w.
r. Hesseltine, extension dairy spe-
cialist with the University of Della
ware, who sees 1t as an excellent
opportunity for local dairymen to
get first hand look at many new
ideas in dairy production that they
might otherwise only see in mag
azines.
Among the features to be studied
are automatic feeding s ystems,
loose milking, milking parlors, pipe
line milking systems, forage har-
vesting and storage, famous breed.
lines and COW families, and many
differenct kinds of time saving
CONTINUED on page six)
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Facciolo Constr. Co.
Gets Post Office Job

The Facciolo Construction Co. of
1902 West gath. Street, Wilmington
Delaware. was low bidder on the
new Milford Post Office, accord
ing to US. Representative Harris
B. Mcdowell.
The new building. according to
the advices from Washington office
of NJ. Mcdowell, will be located on
the Southeast corner of Causey and
Maple Avenues, and will consist of
a main building of 5,672 square
feet, a platform area of 500 square
feet, and 14,56S square feet of turn
ing and parking area.
The Facciolo Co., will get year
ly rental of $10,40000 under a
twenty year lease. with a privilege
of renewing at the end of that
period for ten more years. with A
additional five year options.
At the same time, Mr.. Mcdowell
reported that the contract had been
let to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Covell
of the Clayton area to construct
the new facility at Greenwood.
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Norm Staley Wins
Tidewater Contest

Norman w. Staley, of Whining
ton. has been selected the winner
of Tidewater Oil Company's 1860
suggestion award competition, con-
Quoted annually among the COM
pany's nearly 10000 employees in
the United States and abroad.
Staley. an operator in the desul-
furization area at the company's
Delaware Refinery, was presented
with a check for S465 in recogni-
ton of his achievement by vic e
President JIG Jimenez, general ma
mayer of Tidewater's eastern divi-
sion. The award ceremonies took
place at the company's eastern
headquarters in New York City.
Honorable mention for second
place in the company-wide compet-
ition was given to two western di-
vision production department en-
ployees who collaborated on cost
saving idea which earned them the
western division award for 1860.
Staley's company wide award
brought to $t.675 the amount he
has realized on his suggestion. His
initial award, based on a percent
age of the amount to be saved
through the adoption of his sugges-
ton, was 1890.
tcontinued on page seventeenl
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Scholarship
Announced By
Milford Bank
Wilmington Trust Com
pany, Trustee for Pow
ders and Hirsch Funds.
List Awards.

William G. Powders Scholarship
Awards for 1961-1962 have been
announced this week by the Wilm-
ington Trust Company of Milford,
as trustee as follows:
Renewal-Conrad NJ. Cohen, gra-
duate of Milford High School. Glass
of 1858, will be a senior at Western
Maryland Colleee,-W Westminster. Nd
studying for the ministry
New-Horace Terence Wiley. a
1861 Milford High School graduate
who will enter Wesley College in
the fall.
New-Frank S. Pettyjohn, a 1852
Milford High School graduate, who
be a junior at Hahaemann Medical
College, Philadelphia, Pa.
Daniel Hirsch Scholarship Awar-
DIS for 1961-1962 have also been
announced by Wilmington Tru
Company of Milford. as follows
Renewal-Ruth Ann Pfeiffer, a
1859 graduate of Milford High Sch
DOL, who will enter her junior year
at the University of Delaware, mai
oring in Chemistry.
Renewal-Richard NJ. Johnson, a
1858 graduate of Milford II g
School, now in his junior year at
the University of Delaware.
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Season For Deer
Hunting Jan. 1918

Upland game seasons and limits
for the 1861 license year were es-
tablished by the Delaware Game
and Fish Commission in regular
meeting this week. The Commiss-
ion is empowered by the General
Assembly to regulate seasons n d
limits following public hearing
held at least so days prior to
changing any rule or regulation.
The members of the Boardconsid-
cred both the points of view of
Delaware sportsmen along with re-
concentrations of the technical
staff and have set seasons practi-
cally in line with those of last
year with one exception. The shot
gun season on the whitetailed deer
will be January II and Is, 1862.
In Sussex County only it will be
legal to use dogs during. the two
day big game season.
The deer kill each year in Suss-
ex County since the initial shotgun
season in 1854 has averaged far
below the numbers taken in either
of our two northern counties.
This has been attributed to the
increased difficulty in hunting deer
in this more heavily wooded sec
ton of the state
In the last twenty four months
both the highway kill and the crop
CONTINUED on page fivel
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Congregation Will Cele-
brate Ground-Breaking
Ceremonies At The Ed
ifice This Evening.

This Friday evening, July Z, at
700 o'clock, will be the begin
ming of bring a dream into real
ity" for the Lincoln Methodist
Church as the congregation cele-
brates mountaineering ceremon-
les for the building of their new
Educational Wing.
DIR. Walter Stone, director of
Christian Education for the PEN
insula Conference of the Metho-
dist Church, will give the main
address. DR.. Roy Tawes. Super
intendent of the Dover District
and former pastor of Avenue
Methodist Church. Milford, viii
also be on hand to help the Lin
coin congregation begin the pro-
ject which has been in the talk
ing stage" for several years. The
Rev. Douglas Milbury of the Cal
vary Methodist Church, Milford,
and the Rev. Thomas Dahl of FL
lendale Methodist Church, will al
so be on hand.
The new building. which will
cost approximately S40,00a.0e, will
include eight Sunday School or
class rooms. as well as a study for
the pastor, a choir room and a So
cial hall. Mr.. r. Calvin Clendan-
lei is the architect for Lincoln
Church. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
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Revived Airnan
Succumbs At Base

An airmSn restored to life last
Wednesday by a dramatic open
chest heart massage died last Sun
day at the base hospital.
Airman Fist Glass Byrd f. Gran
than, 81. Frederick, had been re-
vived after severe electrical
shock. His death, Sunday was re-
ported at $3.50 am. by DIR. Paul
A. Stage. chief OF surgery.
Cause of death was listed as con-
gestive heart failure. Grantham did
not regain full consciousness, a
base spokesman said
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Annett Condemns
Kennedy Farm Bill

Agriculture in Delaware will be
doomed if the Kennedy Admins
tration's omnibus farm bill is en-
acted, State Rep. John H. Annett
{ R-Staytonville declared tn s
week.
Annett, who grows vegetables on
a 1,200-acre farm in Sussex County,
asserted the bill "is a bold scheme
to put all farmers under permanent
and strict production controls adj
ministered by the US Secretary
of Agriculture"
The Government, he said would
have control over what you plant
and in what part of the United
States you plant" Any cannery
could be closed. he continued, IL
the Secretary of Agriculture order
ed the commodities 1t cans to be
grown out of its area.
The omnibus farm bill, he said
was presented to Congress by Sec
rotary of Agriculture Orville Free
man. In addition there is a COM
panion bill in the House of Rep
resentatives.
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VIEW Aux, Chicks
Celebrate July 4th

The Ladies Auxiliary to the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, Blue Hen
Post No. 648 and the Blue Hen
Chicks. a junior girls VFW unit
sponsored by the local auxiliary
celebrated the fourth of July by
many flag presentations and the
presentation of a framed copy of
the Declaration of Independence to
Milford Public Library.
On Saturday, July /, 1861 the To-
cal auxiliary and junior girls par
ticipated in the annual carnival
held at the hospital for the mem
tally retarded located at Stockley.
Delaware. The group sponsored q
candy bar booth, and ring toss
game for the children to play. Fiji
teen American flags were presen-
ted to Mrs. Eileen Koontz, depart
ment of Delaware chairman for the
hospital and a teacher at the hos
pital for the classrooms. Fifty Am
erican flags were given to the Boy
Scouts at the Colony.
On Monday evening, July 3, 1861
six girls from the Blue Hen Chicks
accompanied by their leader. Mrs.
Clara Lafontaine, Sister Hilda Can
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Breakfasts commenced with the
o'clock newscast on Friday, June
80, and continued through Satur-
day and Sunday on pretty much
of an hourly basis. The program
is planned TO run through the La
Dor Day weekend
Speaking TO a group of traffic
and safety experts gathered to re-
view the program. George p. Ed
monds, chairman of the Board of
Wilmington Trust, pointed out
that this would not be a so-called
scare campaign. but instead an
appeal to drivers in their cars and
at home. offering positive sug-
gestions and reminder for accident
prevention. The messages refer
TO various situations which, ac-
cording to police statistics, are the
cause of most accidents.
The broadcasts. delivered by the
stations newscasters, will be OF
two types-one calling attention
to various mechanical and driver
failures which, with preventative
maintenance. can be avoided. The
other group consists of warnings
concerned primarily with bad
driving habits such as running
red lights. speeding. improper
passing, and the deadly combina-
ton of drinking and driving.
CONTINUED on page seven
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Dion Famous
Star Sings AT
Fair, July 29th
Laurie Recording Star
Will Be Part Of Out
standing Closing Night
Program This Year.

Saturday, July 20, closing night
of the Kent and Sussex County Fair
will have as its featured entertainer
Dion, the Laurie Recording Star.
At one time Dion was with the
tremendously popular sin G n &
group, Dion and the Belmonts, who
recorded such best selling hits as
81 Wonder Why, mo One Knows"
"Teenager In Love-, Where or
When" and others. This singing
group is no more. Dion has left TO
become a single. The boys parted
because their aims. their goals.
were better served by profession
al split.
Dion's first record as a single
for Laurie Records is titled Lonely
Teenager". 1t is a huge success.
In a very short time an album will
be presented for the public's ap-
praisal titled "Alone With Dion"
His selections are not rock n roll
from whose ranks Dion emerged.
They are up-temp standards with
Dion's stylized mark indelibly STAN
ped upon them. The album repre-
sents and emergence. Dion's emer-
gence as a performer, singer. as
a person.
Dion lives with his parents and
two younger sisters in Westches-
ter County New York. His hobbies
are Photography, swimming, Guitar
and Painting. He attended Theo-
dore Roosevelt High School and
went on the Drama and Dancing
Glasses.
Another recording for which hi
is well known Is Little Miss Blue"
With Dion will be appearing fol
the last time at the Fair the Man
hatten Rockets" whose show theme
will be Around the World in Sc
Minutes" Climaxing the Fair viii
be Gala Fireworks display. Fire
work features of the 1861 Fair viii
be an aggregate of Casting Acts
Comic Tumbling Acts. Risely Acts
Clown Acts, Clown Numbers. Ami.
NAL Parade and The Wild West
Show. The Finale will be the Am
erican Flag-0ld Gloryi
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State Senate
Orders Use OF
S0lOns Pass Resolution,
IL To 7, Directing Po-
lice To Show Contr0-
versial Film In Schools

The State Senate last Thursday,
passed 12-1 a resolution to auth
orize and direct" the state police
to show the controversial film "Qp-
Grafton Abolition" in all state pub
lie schools.
The resolution (SR 70) would al
so require showing of the film in
all private schools in the state
which request such a showing.
Senate Republicans protest
ed that the resolution might be ILL
egal without concurrence of the
House and the rule books seem to
uphold the view.
Senator James II. Snowden (R-
Wilmington said the measure or
ders a state agency to perform an
act and thus requires concurrence
of the House. He emphasized that
he is not taking sides in the dis
pute over showing of the film.
The film. prepared from film
clips OF the San Francisco riots in
1859 during a hearing of the House,
Un-American Activities Committee,
was put together under the direc-
ton of the Committee.
II contains several scenes pur-
porting to show that the student
demonstration was Communist in
spired. At one point, for instance, IL
states that University of Califor-
MIA student touched off the riot
when he took a policeman's club
and hit him over the head with It.
The student subsequently was &C
quilted.
The film had been shown to mem
bers of the General Assembly earl
Ter in the session.
CONTINUED on page I'VE,
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Lions Will
New
Officers Here
On July 18th
Installation Service Will
Be Held In Social Hall
Of Avenue Methodist
Church; Ralph Helm
Will 0fficiate.

New officers and directors OF the
Milford Lions Club will be INSTALL
ed at the regular meeting Thurs
day evening, July 18th. in the
Social Hall of Avenue Methodist
Church. The installation ceremony
will be conducted by Ralph Helm
of GAINESVILLE, Delaware, Past De-
putty District Governor of the 22nd
District of Lions International.
The new officers and directors
to be installed for the Club year
1961-1962 are: Fred Higman, Presi-
dent; Leroy Rust, first vice-presi-
dent; Don Jester, second yice-presf
dent; Spence Willis, third vice.
president; Len Donohoe, Secretary,
Joe McFaul, Treasurer; Harold
Johnson, Tail T'wister; Bill Dudley,
Lion Tanner; Gale Grover and Hugh
Martin, Directors. Chuck Hammond
is the Immediate Past-President,
and Ted Townsend and Roy Reich
hold are Directors, continuing to
serve their unexpired term of off
ice.
In addition to the installation
ceremony, Mr.. Helm will present
awards to charter members and to
members with fifteen or ten years
service to the Milford Lions Club.
The Fifteen Year Charter Chew
rons will be awarded to the follow
ing charter members: Robert Bay
mum, Garrett Grier, Paul Monroe,
Jake Roosa, Ted Townsend. Price
Webb
The Fifteen Year Monarch A
ward will be presented to the foil
owing men who have belonged to
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minutes Tor every working day.
THE American people are just
beginning to realize the enormous
cost of many of the new spending
programs of the Kennedy Admin
istration, Senator Williams said.
This was brought sharply to
our attention this week when the
Secretary of the Treasury told the
Senate Finance Committee that he
expected SO billion deficit in the
fiscal year just ending. The secre-
tary admitted. Senator Williams
continued, that 1913 billion of this
deficit was the result of the in
creasing spending policies on the
New Frontier.
1.-The Kennedy Administration
has been in power just five months.
During this time they have spent
Continued on page eleyen)
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(cnntinned On page fvel
Lewes Antique Show
Set For Next Week

Visitors to the Third Annual
Lewes Antique Show and Sale, to
be held in the Fellowship Hall of
Bethel Methodist Church, Lewes,
July u, Is and IA, will find sew
eral new faces among the twenty
four exhibitors.
According to Mrs. Molloy
Vaughn, chairman of exhibitors,
every one of the exhibitors has
selected items for display that will
appeal to the discriminating col
lector. with prices to match ev-
cry pocketbook.
Lovers of antique furniture will
be delighted with the large and
varied display of small and large
pieces of both light and dark
woods, in Victorian and Early AM
erican furniture One exhibitor
will feature Early Americana,
while another will include in his
very fine exhibit an Early Ameri-
can Carver chair, circa 100, and
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F atality Mars State
4th OF July Record

Delaware came within two hours
of recording its sixth consecutive
Fourth of July holiday period with
out motor vehicle fatality on
Tuesday.
More than 100 hours of the 102-
hour holiday period has passed
when-in the view of patrolling
state troopers pedestrian WI
thrown Sc feet to his death by an
automobile on Routh Il near Beth
any Beach.
Thomas E. Fowler, 80, of 119 N.
Dallas Street, Baltimore, was walk
ing along the paved portion of the
northbound section OF the dual
Ocean Highway with a woman
when he was struck.
State police said the car was
driven by Thomas F. Dillon, 81,
of Second and Market Streets, Lew
es.
Fowler's death brough the states
auto fatalities for 1861 to %, IL
fewer than the number killed thru
July of last year 1t was the first
Fourth of July holiday auto fatal
ity in Delaware since 1856.
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Home Canning Can
Cause Painful Hurts

Home canning can produce pain
full and serious accidents unless
sensible precautions are taken to
promote safety, Delaware house,
wives were warned yesterday by
Mrs. Ruth Cam, vice president for
home safety of the Delaware Safe
ty Council.
She called attention to five dan
ger areas in home canning.
First, said Mrs. Cam, beware of
boiling water and steam, which can
cause severe burns. 1t is prudent
to heat the kettle at the back of
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Members of the Delaware region
Ell and national Selective Service
system were on hand recently for
a retirement dinner honoring Brig.
Gen. Harry B. Van Solver.
About 100 people attended the
dinner in the Delaware Officers
Club. Greater Wilmington Airport.
General Van Solver retired recent
~ from the post OF state director
OF Selective Service. He has SER
we'd with the State Selective Serv-
ice since its establishment in 1910.
He received a retirement certifi-
cate and certificate OF honor from
the Selective Service plus a special
award for outstanding service sign
ed by President Kennedy.
His colleagues and friends pre-
scented him a lamp with the en-
craving: Brig. Gen Harry B. Van
Solver: scholar. gentleman. soldier,
June, 1861"
Brig. Gen. Victor ID. Washburn
OF Delaware was POSTMASTER.
The speaker was 1t. Gen Lewis
B. Hershey, national director of the
Selective Service. He traced the
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horse trailers behind them and
after long, tedious journeys. both
men and horses are tired.
They are assigned to the stables
which will serve as their head
quarters until August 3. Mean
while, there are innumerable tasks
that must be done by the horses
and the men in preparation for
the first bugle call to the mobile
starting gate. The horses must be
fed three times daily, shod, walk
ed, worked out. raced wide open
and rubbed down. The sulky and
harness must be constantly check
ed. tested and adjusted.
And everywhere there is the
smell of coffee, oats, leather and
fine horse flesh, all mingling into
a pleasant aroma. There are the
Continued on page eleven
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Jobless Pay
Hike UlVe en-
en- a [ c Ok
L a st W e e k
Measure Passed BY Up
per House Would Raise
Rate To $4,000 Per
Week; OutcO M In
House Is COnjectural.

The State Senate last Thursday
night approved legislation TO boost
the maximum Delaware jobless pay
benefits to $50 a week.
The legislation (SB 2l0). which
would put an estimated 100000 to
$1,200.000 more week into the
pockets OF the employed, won a
17-0 vote of confidence in the Sem
ate.
But not before ii was amended
by it's sponsor. Senator John f.
Reilly, Sr. D-Wilmington), to
knock enough people off the job
less rolls to almost pay for the
additional cost.
Reilly's amendment was adopted
13-4, with du Point. Manning. Nc
Cullough. and Snowden opposing
IL.
Essentially, 1t would prevent an
unemployed worker from collect
ing maximum benefits of 26 weeks
twice without going to work in be-
tween the benefit periods.
The bill last Wednesday failed by
one vote to pass in the Senate be-
cause of concern that II would for
ce a boost in the employment tax
on employers which finance the
UCC fund.
Reilly's amendment. however. ap-
parently removed the objection OF
opponents-at least none OF them
voted against the bill.
The maximum benefit OF $50
would put Delaware in the forefront
OF states in it's attempt to provide
carry over funds for a jobless
worker between jobs.
The bill as amended also sharply
limits payments of benefits to the
so called Cadillac trade persons on
involuntary retirement from private
companies who are seeking work
which Is most cases can't be pro-
yided
1t now goes to the House. where
the outcome is conjectural.