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Milford chronicle., 1961-02-17
FLIGHT By LANDMARKS

MADISON, Wis. (P)-- University
of Wisconsin graduate student has
found that at least one type of wild
bird. the bank swallow, finds its
way back home by remembering
landmarks.
Theodore Sargent of Harwich.
Mass, who is completing three
years research on the homing ha-
bits of birds, found that as long as
the swallows could see the sur
rounding terrain from their cages.
they had the homing tendency up
TO so miles from their burrows.
When the cages were covered.
the birds showed no homeward
orientation.
Milford chronicle., 1961-02-17
Ten Years AGO
Taken from February %, 1851 Issue

Taken from February %, 1851 Issu
Miss Frances Ingram of
Lewes. is making a visit to
Ojai, California, with her bro
ther-in-law and sister. Mr.. and
Mrs. Halsey Mac Donald and
family.
Irwin G.. Burton. owner-Oper-
ator of /. G.. Burton Co. Inc,
OF Milford, has purchased the
Chevrolet Agency at Smyrna,
formerly operated by w. T.
Doughten. The agency will be
operated as Irwin G. Burton
Inc. with William Harvey Will
lis as manager.
sss
Harry l.. Glasco. of N. Il. 9Th
Street. Milford, installer-re-
pairman attached to the Mil
ford central Office OF the Dia-
mond State Telephone Com
pany. who has driven company
motor vehicles a total of 200,-
600 miles without being respon-
sible for a single accident. was
honored Tuesday evening at a
special safety dinner meeting
in the dupont Country Club,
Wilmington. He was given a
wallet and pen and pencil set
on the completion of double
Milford chronicle., 1961-02-17

Clara Wiley of Greenwood,
Mrs. Randall Beebe of Wilm-
ington. left last week for
Meridian. Indiana, to visit their
sister. Blanche.
Eggs have been down TO 2S
cents per dozen this month in
Milford. They are much chea-
per to eat than meat and far
more healthy.
An up-to-date Gents furnish
ing store has been opened in
Frankford by Harley McCabe
and Norman Chandler. This has
been needed in that communi-
ity and so McCabe and Chand-
ler are hustling young men.
L. Finley Ross has Contrac-
tor John C. Burton remodeling
the building between the
American Stores Co. and Mrs.
Ida M. Lank in Lewes, and will
build an addition of twenty
five feet in the rear and has
rented it to Samuel c. Pierce
for an ice cream parlor. Mr..
Pierce formerly occupied the
Swandale Cafe on Second st.
and he is hustler and knows
the business.
Milford chronicle., 1961-02-17
State OAR To
Hold Annual Meeting
IN Wilmington
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by the Captain William McKen-
nan Chapter of Hockessin, Mrs.
Paul w. Mitchell. regent. Miss
Frazer is general chairman.
The Captain Jonathan Caldwell
Chapter will be represented by
Mrs w. ]. Dufendach, State Chap
lain; Mrs. John r. Jewell, State
Corresponding Secretary, and Mrs.
j. Raymond Bennett Elected del
egates and alternates include Mrs.
Clarence Jester. Mrs Leonard Ell
freth. Mrs. Fred Greenly. Mrs. Oh
ey Sapp, Mrs. J. S. Willis and Mrs.
Carleton Fooks, many OF whom
will attend Miss Elaine Downing
will serve as page
Miss Downing will entertain
some of the distinguished guests
Friday evening, February "a, for
dinner at the Hotel DUPONT.
Milford chronicle., 1961-02-17
TALENTED COPS

CHICAGO Up Chicago Police
are speedily developing person
mel system along modern lines.
If the cops need a hypnotist, a
pocket billiards expert or a pick
pocket, they soon can consult a
punch card system to identify
policemen with such skills.
The check list includes such ex-
ira duty skills as artist, electrician,
helicopter operator. hostler. pain
ter. printer and baker And the list
of hobbies includes boxing, billi-
ards, auto racing. hypnotism and
magic.
Milford chronicle., 1961-02-17
HOUSE HITS CAR

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (P)- A
house struck car here, damaging
the vehicle to the extent of about
5000.
The five-room bungalow was be-
ing moved under police direction
when it smacked into a parked car
on a street.
Milford chronicle., 1961-02-17

BAPFsTS TO USE EPISCOPAL cHuRCHBegnning next Sunday
members of the Harrington Baptist Chapel will
Episcopalan Church Fem
Stephens
remodelng the third of De-
cembr All labor and will
Lords The will begin
The intermediate girls
will the
1O2 Commerce Street for their opening exercises and classes
will church The worship
will be 1890 NJ ard the pastor the Rev H. Garland
Teach Me To Pray"
will instrumental
pastor will the Coming
this service will be What Will Happen When
Returns In The Air? The public is invited to attend
all of the of this church.
The Bapists meeting in the SevenDay Adventist
Church The grateful
them their church building for this period of time
Milford chronicle., 1961-02-17

Misses Gladys. Dorothy and
Doris. Hickman of Ocean View,
entertained on Sunday the fol-
lowing guests: Elwood Lynch
and Aldrid Rogers of Selby-
wille and Georgetown, respec-
lively, and now with Westing-
house Electric Company in
Newark, n. j., and Misses Del
ema Daisey and Hazel Hudson.
Vincent Dennis. who after
spending a two weeks vacat-
ion in Delmar, and Berlin, Md.
has returned to his duties as
Coast Guard at Bayshore, l.. /.
Mrs. Dennis accompanied him.
Milford chronicle., 1961-02-17

J. Ralph jefferson, of Smyr-
ma, was unanimously elected
state councillor of the Junior
Order of American Mechanics
at its 3Sth annual conference
at Middletown on Tuesday.
While burning sage from the
lot of Mrs. Sarah Mitchell on
Monday, the fire escaped and
burned over a portion of the
lands of Henry Aydelotte. r. c.
Steel and G. H. Townsend.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-06
POOlesville

new brick home on Hughes I'd,
Poolesville. Refreshments which
included a large cake frosted in
green, yellow and white to rep
resent a house were served to
IS guests.
The Oasis All Club met at
Poolesville High School Friday
afternoon with the president,
Joann Magaha, presiding. Twen-
ty-nine members were busily
engaged with their sewing prof.
ects. The younger members are
sewing aprons, while the older
girls are making dresses. Char
lotte Hayden served refresh
ments to the group. Julie LANCE
is the reporter and Christine
Knill is in charge of recreation.
The leaders present were Mrs.
Paul Caillet, Poolesville, and
Mrs. Stephen w. LANCE, Sell
man. This all-girls club meets
after classes at the school every
other Friday from $3.50 to $50.
Mrs. Hulett Register and two
sons, Craig and Gregory, Ports
mouth, Va, are spending some
time with her mother and broth
er-in-law and sister, Mrs. Ethel
Baker and Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood
Claggett, Beallsville. Mr.. Reg
lister, who is in the United
States Navy, is at present sta
toned at the Portsmouth Naval
Hospital. On March "a he was
promoted to lieutenant junior
grade.
Members of the Hook Craft
Guild from this area attended
the March meeting at the Silver
Spring Library. Reservations
must be made to Mrs. Albert
Cissel, ST., Jamestown, hospital
ity chairman, by April 10 for
the annual luncheon and meet
ing May 10 at the Jamestown
Presbyterian Church. Each
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-06

member was presented a copy
of Hints on Hooking Centers
of Flowers" prepared by Mrs.
Mildred B. Kohr, a teacher of
rug hooking and also member
of the Guild.
Mrs. ]. T. Fisher, New Wind
sor, is spending a week with
her daughter, Mrs. Charles Fritz
and family, of Poolesville. A
double celebration in the form
Of a family dinner was served
in honor of Mrs. Fisher, whose
birthday was March 81, and Mr..
Fritz's birthday, which was
March %.
A fire which could be seen
for miles consumed the large
vacant house on the former
Donaldson farm, originally
known as the Wilkerson Jones
farm, on Waesche nd. near
Beallsville at midnight Monday.
Firemen from both the Upper
Montgomery County and the
Hyattstown Fire Departments
responded.
Space Capers,' the eighth an
nual Variety Show, was present
ed at Poolesville High School on
the nights of March % and "a
and represented quite an ac-
complishment of local talent.
There were instrumental num-
bers, pantomime, songs,
dances, a number of skits and
a performance by a gymkana
group, all well received by the
audience.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-06
By Cattle C. Linthicum
Diamond 9-3332

A one-day all-expense paid
round trip was recently enjoyed
by Mr.. and Mrs. George A.
Savage and son, Michael, of
! Sellman, and James Shoemaker,
Rockville, who joined a number
of other Flying Traders from
! the Baltimore district sponsored
by the International Harvester
Company and Gaithersburg
Farmers Supply, Inc, Interna-
/ tional Harvester dealer in Mont
I gomery County.
7 Leavinf Friedship Airport in
Baltimore the large TWA Con-
/: stellation made a takeoff
! promptly at 7:05 am. for the
F. flight to Quad City Airport be-
! tween East Moline and Rock
Island, ILL.,
The first part of the tour was
through the East Moline works
where several models of COM
bines are built. The second half
of the tour was a visit to the
! Farmall works in Rock Island
where the party was conducted
through the foundry and saw
the pouring of hot metal into
molds to form the parts for
tractors. They also saw the trac-
tors assembled piece by piece
until the tractor came off the
assembly line painted, tested
and ready for the field.
Approximately II members
and guests of the Jacksonville
Women's Club drove to Wash
ington Wednesday where they
lunched at a Chinese restaurant
and attended the movie "Exo-
dus,' at the Uptown Theater.
This was in place of their regu-
lar monthly meeting. Mrs.
James H. Mann will entertain
the club at her home near Sen
eca on April u.
!. A lifelong resident of the
Poolesville area happily re-
ceived congratulations on his
birthday anniversary March u.
Mr.. George Remsburg is now
an active SO years Of age.
Ten members of the Daniel
LETTERS American Legion Post
247 were guests of Mrs. ]. r.
Lillard, jr., GAINESVILLE, Tuesday
night. The president, Mrs. Will
liam Seymour, Poolesville, pre-
sided over the business meeting.
In celebration of the 42nd ami
versary of the forming of the
American Legion Auxiliary,
Mrs. Lillard served a cake spe-
cially decorated for the occasion
with the American Flag and red
peoples.
The annual auction has been
planned for the next meeting,
April IS, at 8 pm. at the home
of Mrs. Stanley L. Umstead,
Beallsville. This is an open
meeting to which members may
bring guests and anyone inter-
ested is welcome to attend.
=
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Luhn
was honored at a housewarming
Monday, March 81. Miss Neville
Smith, Rockville, and Mrs. Har-
old c. Smith, jr., Poolesville,
llOsted the affair at the Luhn's
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-06

DIR. WILBUR II. GOSS, scientist, largely respon-
sble for the early development of the ramjet engine,
this week named Assistant Director of the APP
piled Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins Uni
versity.
In his new position DR.. Goss will have major
responsibility in the area of technical evaluaton of
research and development programs at the Laboratory
He will continue Supervisor of the Talos Missile
program.
The Talos system now in the fleet, was largely the
product of Dr. Goss leadership Dr. Goss also assisted
in the development of the Proximity (VT) Fuze He
of the fuze to point where production for fleet
could proceed
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-06
Annual Horse Show

The Bit and Spur Riding Club
will hold its annual horse show
this Saturday and Sunday at
the Meadowbrook Show Ring,
East West Highway, Chevy
Chase, Md. The show will start
at 9 am, each day.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-04-06

Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Luhn
was honored at a housewarming
Monday, March 81. Miss Neville
Smith, Rockville, and Mrs. Har-
old c. Smith, jr., Poolesville,
llosted the affair at the Luhn's
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Germans Jail
Spy in u. S. Job
KARLsRUHE, Germany

KARLSRUHE, any,
June IA (AP).-A German en-
ployed in the U. S. Army Ii
brary at Frankfurt was SEN
fenced today to three years in
prison on charges of spying on
United States forces for the
East German intelligence Serv-
ice.
The West German Federal
Supreme Court found that Kurt
Kuehn, SO, had received 10000
marks ($2,500) for supplying
the East Germans with over
10000 micro-photoed pages Of
United States Army manuals.
Kuehn also gave the East
Germans detailed descriptions
of % persons he thought suit
able for being contacted by the
East Germans as possible
agents, the court said.
An announcement on the
hearing, held behind closed
doors, did not indicate whether
any of the % had been con-
tacted by the East Germans.
His wife, Maria Kuehn, was
given q suspended four-month
prison term for keeping silent
on her husbands spying activi-
ties. He paid her 1000 marks
($400) for not giving him away
Evening star., 1961-06-14
South Wet Nam Asks
u. S. Train Its Troops

the letter, will hold a round
of talks this week with Secre-
tary of Defense Mcnamara,
Vice President Johnson, Secre-
tary Of State Rusk and Foreign
Aid Director Henry LabouisSe.
No Final Decision
Defense Department officials
said Mr.. Diem's request for
direct United States training
of Wet Nam forces is zone of
the things we are thinking
about" But no final decision
has been reached, they said.
Mr.. Thuan said he would like
to see the number of United
States advisers increased so
they could train South Wet
Mans 60,000-man civil guard
and the 40,000-man village
militia.
In direct training, he said,
United States military men
would be assigned to Vietna-
mese units for training and
would accompany them to
combat areas.
After an hours meeting at
the State Department yester-
day, Mr.. Thuan told newSmen
the situation is improving in
Wet Nam.
"Since Vice President john
sons visit in mid-May," he
said, I'VE have set up a new
military organization"
Mr.. Thuan said a Soviet air
lift of arms is under way day
and night at the port Of Hal
thong as well as Hanoi, the
capital of Communist North
Wet Nam.
New Military Setup
He said there have been
cases when planes of the In
ternational Control Commits
sion, charged with supervising
Wet Nam. have been unable to
land at the airports because of
the Soviet air lift.
Evening star., 1961-06-14
HiIIoryIs Ordered
ToLimitC CLIMBING

KATMANDU. Nepal, June "A
(AP).-Sir Edmund Hillary is
walking back to Katmandu,
under doctors orders never to
return to the extreme Hina-
layan heights where he won
fame. =.
Sir Edmund is returning from
a nine-month scientific expedi-
ton in the area near Mount
Everest, the worlds highest
peak, which he and Tensing
Norgay conquered in 1858.
Sir Edmund suffered a mild
cerebral stroke last month while,
in camp at 1880 feet on
Mount Makalu. Doctors with,
the party, which had tried uri-
successfully to climb the 81
790-foot peak without oxygen
equipment, sent Sir Edmund to
a lower elevation. Since then the
41-year-old New Zealander has
been ordered to remain below,
10000 feet.
Evening star., 1961-06-14
BIG EXPENSES
FROM LITTLE
ACORNS GROW
NOTTINGHAM, England

NOTTINGHAM, England
(AP).-The dollar-earning
acorn export business Of
Robin Hoods county has
closed, felled by govern
ment red tape.
The acornS were bought
mainly by members Of the
American Robin Hood and
Sherwood Forest Societies.
But six Ministry of Agri-
culture regulations had to
be filled in for every dozen
acorns exported. and every
acorn had to be sent to a
government laboratory for
examination.
It cost So to do all the
paperwork for q dozen lit
tie acorns-and Americans
paid only 81 Q dozen Tor
them.
Evening star., 1961-06-14
u. S. Stands
Neutral on
WestGuineu

United States officials say
this country has received no
formal request to help mediate
a dispute between the Neither
lands and Indonesia over con-
troll Of Dutch New Guinea.
Both countries claim sover-
eighty over the area, which the
IndonesianS call West Irian,
and both have sought to enlist
United States support for their
positions. This country has
taken a neutral position.
The State Department had
no comment yesterday on a
statement in Jakarta by Indo-
nesian Foreign Minister Su-
bandrio that ''the United States
has no objection If West Irian
is returned to IndoneSia."
However. United States Off
cialS said privately that they
feel q resolution Of the issue
would recude a lot Of tension
in the Far East.
Official circles said they
would like to see the territory
removed as a source Of friction
between the two countries.
which are both friends of the
United States.
Indonesia's President Sukarno
met here with President Ken
nedy for a series Of long talks
earlier this year, and officials
said they felt there was a better
understanding all around as a
result.
A joint statement issued by
the two Presidents made no
reference to the New Guinea
problem. It did say the two
leaders were opposed to colo
nialism in all its forms.
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Hospital Service
To Be Feature
Of D. Flag Day

Children's Hospital. for years
without a flagpole, was to for
mally accept a 35-foot wrought
iron pole and a 50-star out
door American flag in a Flag
Day ceremony today.
The presentation at the 2
pm. ceremony was to be made
by the Woodmen Of the World,
National Camp. No. 4.
An honor guard from Fo&
Myer was to raise the flag
while the Metropolitan Police
Band played the National An
them. Senator Hruska, Repub-
lican of Nebraska, was to ad-
dress the group in behalf of
Camp No. 4 with Rudolph
Kaufman, hospital president,
making the acceptance speech.
Children from the Harrison
Elementary School across the
street from the hospital were
scheduled to pledge allegiance
to the flag and sing America. "
The United States Marine
Band will present a special con-
cert at Z pm. tonight spon-
sored by the Women's Relief
Corps of the Grand Army Of
the Republic. The concert, fea-
turing patriotic selections, will
be held at the Capitol Plaza
preceding the bands second
concert of the season.
The regular concert will be-
gin at 8 pm. with James Erd-
man, trombonist, playing Rim
sky -Korsakow'S Concerto for
Trombone and Band and Rob-
ert Stuart, percussionist, play
ing zapateado by Sarasate.
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Four Arrested
In Bethesda as
Tire Thieves

-Four persons were arrested
by Montgomery County police
on tire theft charges yesterday
at the Cranson Rambler Co..
1882 Bethesda avenue, Be-
thesda.
Police said the four, Leroy ].
SWEENEY, 20. of the 1900 block
of I street NV; James w.
SWEENEY, %, of the 300 block
of Fourteenth place Me-; Eu-
gene A. Merritt, 20, of the 4400
block of Gault street NE, and
a 17-year-old Washington
youth, were caught near the
company at midnight Monday.
According to police, Pvts.
Ronald Wilson and w. P. Hun
ter discovered a car with its
trunk open parked in an alley
near the company while they
were on a routine patrol.
The policemen searched the
company's car lot and found
three of the men cEouched in
the area, they said. The ju-
venile was in the car. One tire
had been nearly removed from
an auto, investigators reported.
The company is around the
corner from the Montgomery
County Police Station in Be
thesda. The three adults were
jailed in lieu Of $1,000 bond
each, and the youth was held
for juvenile authorities. A pre-
liminary hearing was sched-
uled for June 20.
Evening star., 1961-06-14

mated Algeria politically and
economically. The rebels Of
fered the Europeans Algerian
citizenship and pledged, in
formally, that they would give
guarantees to those who re-
tanned their French citizenship.
Mr.. JOKE said the French
would maintain a team at
Evian and the rebels would dc
likewise at Geneva, across the
French-Swiss border, SD that
informal contacts could con-
tinue.
The French minister indi-
Gated that full-scale French
military operations would not
be resumed for the time being.
Asked what effect the adjourn
ment would have on the cease
fire, he said the two were not
directly connected.
Evening star., 1961-06-14

geria, the future Of Algeria s
European minority and the fu-
ture of the Sahara and its oil
riches.
The French announced on
May 20, at. the start of the
talks, that they were hating
offensive operations in Algeria
and appealed to the rebels to
join in a truce. The rebels re-
piled that a truce could re-
suit only from a political agree
ment and stepped up terrorist
attacks.
I'VE have not been taken
seriously" Mr.. JOKE said, add
ing that the rebels answered
Frances cease-fire call in a
vocabulary that I would not
want to repeat"
Sahara Is Key
The major clash centered on
the future of the Sahara, which
France contends is a separate
geographic and political entity.
The rebels Stiffly held TO their
original position that the Sa-
hara is a part Of "the Algerian
patrimony" and must be part
of the future independent
Algeria.
The French also demanded
ironclad guarantees for the
million Europeans in Algeria,
fearing reprisals against the
men who until now have dom
Evening star., 1961-06-14
New Uprisings Feared
As Algerian Talks Fail

Gated his government had
enough Of the rebel insistence
on getting all their demands
and their refusal even to open
an avenue to compromise.
Mr.. Joke said the risk of con-
tinuing the talks in the pre-
vailing atmosphere twas too
great" 1t was useless, he said,
ito clash all the time, to con-
tinue the sterile encounters"
The rebels moved promptly
to reap benefits from world
opinion because France had
broken off the talks.
Rebel spokesman Redha
Malek said the French dele
CATION had refused to set an
eight-day limit on the adjourn
ment or to meet today or to-
morrow with the rebels to con-
slider ways of easing the dead
lock.
Draw your own conclusions, I"
Mr.. Malek told newsrnen.
Mr.. JOKE said among the
essential problems" on which
the two delegations were far
apart were a cease fire in Al
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Youth Acquitted
In Fatal Shooting

A District coroner's jury to-
day acquitted a 16-year-old
youth in the fatal shooting Of
a 15-year-old friend.
He was cleared in Mondays
death of Thomas Bush, jr., of
619 Seventh street NE.
Police said Bush was shot
in the chest with a .22-caliber
rifle while standing in an alley
with a group Of friends in the
700 block of F street NE. He
was pronounced dead at Cas-
ualty Hospital.
Witnesses at the inquest tes-
titled that the 16-year-old was
showing the rifle to a group of
friends. including young Bush,
when the weapon was acciden-
tally discharged.
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Acc Aide Okoys
Atom Ship Trials
BY the Associated Press

The Atomic Energy Commits
sion's chief hearing examiner
recommended yesterday that
the Acc allow the Nations first
nuclear merchant ship - the
MS Savannah-to fuel up and
undergo sea trials.
The recommendation, sub
ject to the fulfillment of Ger
tain conditions, was made by
Chief Examiner Samuel w.
Jensen. He presided at public
hearings held earlier this
spring on the nuclear safety
aspects Of the vessel. It's con-
struction has been completed
at Camden, N. j.
Mr.. Jensen said, There is
reasonable assurance that the
Savannah, as now designed and
constructed, may, under we'll
prepared operating procedures,
be safely fueled and operated
for test and demonstration
purposes"