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Milford chronicle., 1961-01-20
CHRONICLE DELAWARE FRIDAY JANUARY 90 1861
Jim Holland, Named
Commander Of Month
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James c. Holland of Blue Hen
Post No. 64S3, Milford; and Ed
win F. Cade of Virgil Wilson Post
No. 1861, Seaford, named as Com
manders of the Month for Decem-
Der. These, along with District
Commander Walter Williams, Will
mington, were also presented with
cash awards.
For Commanders Drew and Hol-
land it was repeat performance
inasmuch as each was also des-
i gn a t d Commander of the
Month" for November. Holland
and Drew, together with Comman-
ders Harry Shirley of Newman-Lee
Urban Post No. 1901, Clayton and
Maynard G. Reed of Dover Mem
orial Post No. 1862, were presen-
ted with $25 U. S. Savings Bonds
in recognition of membership at
taInment during November.
Special citations were also CIV
en- by Commander Clarke to Com
mander George S. Dougherty of
AIS, Newark, and Commander Ad-
olphus Powell of Sussex Memorial
Post No. 1922, Millsboro Comman-
der Dougherty's post has signed
up over $50 members for 1861.
Powell was cited as commander
of the first post to attain a 1861
paid membership in excess of its
1860 strength.
Delaware V.F.W. posts are now
engaged in a third contest that
will terminate on January "a and
a "mOp-up" contest is being plan
ned for February
AT Mondays meeting, plans for
Delaware participation in the an
nual VF.W Mid-Winter Confer
ence in Washington, DC, February
Al, were discussed This confer
ence, which will be attended by
Commander Clarke and other de-
partment Officers, will be high
lighted by an appearance before
the House Veterans Affairs Com
mittee the morning of February 7
and the annual Congressional Din
ner at the Park Sheraton Hotel
that evening. Senators William
and Boggs and Congressman Nc
Dowell will be guests of the Del
aware delegation at this dinner.
1t was announced that Depart
ment service Officer Herbert
Willis will participate in a region
al meeting of V.F.W. service Off
GERS in New York City February
.10-11
1t was also announced that
meeting for the purpose of dis
cussing the possibility of re-acti-
waiting the Past Commanders Asso-
citation will be held at the. Pugh-
Lenderman-Chalfonte Post Home
in Bellefonte the evening of Jan
uary 81.
This meeting to which all past
post commanders are invited, will
follow an earlier public meeting,
at $500 pm, same location; at
this earlier affair, Sgt. Robert
Regan of the Delaware State
Police will speak on Communism
and It's Effect on Youth"
Milford chronicle., 1961-01-20
VIVA PRESLEY!

SEATTLE (AP)-John F. Nc
Carthy, So, was listening to his
car radio and heard rock n roller
Elvis Presley for the first time
1t stirred him so much he was
arrested for doing 43 miles an
hour in a 30-mile zone. "It kinda
took my mind off things" Nc
Carthy told the traffic judge, who
reduced the fine from $24 to SIS.
Milford chronicle., 1961-01-20
The Past In Review
News As 1t Was Reported In The Chronicle
Forty Years Ago
Taken from the Jan. 81, 1921 Issue

Taken from the Jan. 81, 1921 Issu
Mr.. & Mrs. II. Rodney Sharp
and their family, Miss Ger
trude Brinckle and Baron De-
Vaux of New York City, left
for the Pacific Coast on
Thursday, January s, on an
extended tour of the Hawaiian
Islands and the countries of
Europe and Asia. They will
be gone one or perhaps two
years. Mr.. Sharp is a brother
to Mrs. Saunders VI. Truitt.
Fire was discovered on
Tuesday evening in the barn
of E. G. Adams of Bridgeville
by Robert Ricards when he
went to pat his auto away.
Mr.. Adams auto had frozen up
and had been running. On re-
turning he had thrown a blan-
ket over the engine and il being
hot, set fire to the blanket.
No damage was done other
than the burning of the blan-
ket.
Milford chronicle., 1961-01-20

Petroglyphs Tor carvings) done
by people known to
Psychologists can be found in
w n ton State Park in
Missouri.
Milford chronicle., 1961-01-20

Walt Whitman said that in
school he studied the four "R's"-
readin', 'riting, 'rithmetic and
reStin'.
Evening star., 1961-03-15
Manassas Artillery Horses Train
Amid Sound of Guns and Rebel YeIIs

So Mr.. Vail had to go look
for his animals. He found some
in Pennsylvania, some in
North Carolina, some in Ten
nessee and others in the south
western section of Virginia
They all are pretty "tippy'
horses, too, and have filled out
considerably since coming un-
der Mr.. Wallis care.
The job of breaking and
training 10 horses to pull can
non and not to be frightened
by the noise of battle would
stop most people.
First OF all, you have to
break them to harness, make
them work together in teams
and accustom them to the
sound Of firing guns. Then you
have to train them to respond,
as a team, to the commands
OF a rider on one horse, the
left or "off" member of the
team.
Some Of the horses Mr.. Vail
bought were heavier than
others and suitable to work as
wheel horses" or teams
hitched next to the wheels Of
the carriage and thus in posi-
ton to control the artillery
piece by means Of the tongue.
Some of the horses were
broken to work in harness, and
Mr.. Vail was able to use these
steady" animals to break
others.
I'm breaking a horse to har-
ness" he says, you want to
put him beside a heavy steady
Evening star., 1961-03-15
BY JAMES BIRCHFIELD
Star Staff Writer

When the North and the
South meet this July on the
field Of First Manassas, at
least one segment Of the mill
tary will be well trained.
For the last several months
now, in snow and zero weather,
the horses that will pull the
artillery pieces in the re-enact-
ment of the battle have been
undergoing a serious and COM
prehensive training program.
And they already are emerging
as first-rate artillery horses.
On an old dairy farm that
now forms a part Of the Manas-
sas Battle Field Park, Philip
G. Vail, an experienced man
with harness horses, has as
sembled the animals to pull
guns for both North and South.
He has 50 horses now and ex-
poets TO have close TO 70 in
time for the battle"
Mr.. Vail who operates the
Hay U Stables near Manassas,
was charged with buying and
training the artillery horses
last September. Since then he
has Travelled through four
States on buying expeditions,
and has kept up rigid train
ing program for the animals
purchased.
In this day of the automobile,
it is not easy to find horses
that will work well IN harness
and are both heavy enough to-
pull the guns and light enough
to be speedy.
Evening star., 1961-03-15
Arts Commission
Again DepIores
New Bridge

The network Of roads on the
Washington side Of the new
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge will
ruin the setting for the Ma
tional Cultural Center, the Fine
Arts Commission said today.
The commission said in a
special statement that it still
strongly opposed" the intru-
sion Of the new bridge and the
innerloop on the park land in
the area.
1T will now be impossible to
restore the park-like character
that has long been planned" in
the vicinity Of the new bridge,
the commission said. "Nor will
it be possible to develop the
plans for the National Cultural
Center in a setting worthy of
such an important project"
The commissions statement
was prompted by the design
submitted to it of a triple-deck
overpass to be built near the
Washington side of the Roose-
welt Bridge. The overpass will
feed innerloop traffic onto the
E street freeway.
The Fine Arts Commission
approved the District Highway
Departments design for the
overpass, but said it wished to
"disavow all responsibility" for
the disruption caused by con-
Struction in the area.
Evening star., 1961-03-15

animal. Then he can't do much
damage because the heavier
horse can hold him in place.
We didn't have much trouble
breaking our horses"
The winters heavy SHOWS
were somewhat of a blessing to
Mr.. Vail. too. He rigged up a
horse-drawn manure spreader.
A wild team, hitched to this,
couldn't do much running in
heavy snow.
I'VE did a lot Of pretty fast
manure spreading during the
winter" he says. Our teams
would be too fast for most
farmers, but that's what we
want. Artillery horses have to
be fast in a battle"
In breaking his horses to
gunfire Mr.. Vail started with q
20 caliber rifle, which he'd fire
at feeding time. Then he
swapped it for a shotgun, which
made a founder report, and
finally he got a small cannon
from the park to fire. near the
teams.
when the guns go off, the
horses don't even bat an eye."
he says. ,a.
The four men who help train
the horses have developed
pretty good Rebel yells. Mr.. Vail
encourages them to do a lot of
yelling when they round up the
horses from pasture.
II figure there was q lot of
yelling going on in Civil War
battles" he says, "and it's good
for the horses to be used to
the sounds"
Evening star., 1961-03-15
GSA Chief
Sees sTempos
Gone by IS

The Governments chief
housekeeper, Administrator
John L. Moore of the General
Services Administration, is out
to sweep away Washington
tempos within five years.
In an informal meeting with
the press yesterday, Mr.. Moore
said he wanted to get rid Of the
temporary buildings "as soon
as possible" ., ...-
If all goes well, the only
tempos remaining at tlSe end
Of 1865 will be those attached
to the Navy Munitions Building
on Constitution avenue and a
cluster known as TT at Nation
al Airport, he said.
In the way Of new quarters,
Mr.. Moore pointed to the sew
eral Federal office buildings
already under construction in
Washington or on the drawing
boards. He said F. o. B. 5, ac-
tually two buildings at the. in
tersection of independence
avenue and the Tenth Street
Mall in Southwest. may be-
come the home for much Of the
Navy.
F. o. B. 5, estimated to cost
$42 million includingsthe land,
is in the planning stage.
Mr.. Moore, So, was con-
firmed as administrator Feb
ruary 6. He said in the interim
he has been boning up on the
vast GSA operations.
Evening star., 1961-03-15

seats to the House Of Delegates,
The bill will go noW to, the
House floor, where it will face
strong opposition from the rural
areas, Since the bill is in the
form Of constitutional amend
ment IL VIII require e three
fifths vote OF both. houses OF
the, General Assembly 5sfor
enactuleF1t. e.
The measure is the so-called
.Northrop-Pine bill which was
drafted by Senator Edward s.
Northrop, Democrat Of Mont
gomery County. and Senator
James A. Pine, Democrat Of
Baltimore County. - h
The legislation would give
four more members of the
House to Baltimore County,
three each to Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties, four
to Baltimore City, two to Anne
Arundel County, and one each
to Charles. st.. Marys, Hartford,
Howard and Cecil Counties.
: The House Judiciary Com
mittee voted the favorable re-
port after House leaders en-
phasized that the bill is an
administration measure.
= The Governor has postponed
a test on another bill on which
he has a good deal of his pres
tige riding. This is the bill
to convert Frostburg State
Teachers College to a branch
Of the University of Maryland.
The Frostburg bill was sched-
uled to. come up in the House
Education Committee yester-
day, but Gov. Tawes asked
Committee Chairman Blair Lee
III, Democrat of Montgomery,
not to take 1t up yet. The
Governor apparently is not
sure that he has enough votes
Evening star., 1961-03-15

to get the bill out Of commit
tee with a favorable report.
The Governor. was advised by
House and Senate leadersyat a
meeting yesterday TO drop the
proposal which siae has strong
ly indofsed eat The request of
Western Maltyfaaid interests.
: He declined, however, to give
a positive answer in advance
of a second meeting scheduled
tomorrew to determine how
much support the administra-
tion may have
A bill which would prohibit
the use of professional strike
breakers in labor disputes was
approved, by. the Senate yester-
day and sent to the Governor.
Evening star., 1961-03-15

CLARKSBURG WAS more
than a Y in the road. There
was the old mill, some Of the
machinery still in place. And
there was the falls that
made it such a good millsite.
The dam had long ago been
swept away.
Underneath the falls was
the perfect swimming pool,
8 feet deep at the upper end,
shallow at the lower.
We scrambled up the shale
bank and dived in. The wa
ter was not only clean. it was
cool. 1t was always cool but
never real cold on sunny
days in spring and fall.
After World War I auto
mobiles were available. We no
longer walked it, but we got
there more often. The Trefts
and the Johnson boys and
the writer built a diving
board with concrete supports
16 feet above the pool. I
wonder that we were not
killed because the water be-
low sometimes became a bit
shallow.
Later a group of Buffalo
physicians did a very SEN
sible thing. They bought the
property and made 1t a club.
We joined. They added ten
mis- courts but they decided
and quite rightly that
the diving board was dan
gerous. They removed 1t.
Clarksburg has never been
the same since.
Evening star., 1961-03-15
18 Nursing Homes Given 90 Days
To Comply With New Sofety Code

in drawing up new require
ments for nursing home Ii
censes. One of the operators
asked the officials yesterday
how they could hire contract
orS to meet the 1861 code re-
quirementS and be certain the
new laws now under study will
not change the entire picture.
10 Days to Appeal
Edward A. Davies of the en-
forcement branch Of the Ii.
|censing department admitted
today that the serving Of
notices might force all Is
homes to register appeals with
the Board Of Appeals and Re-
view. The notices contained
the information that operators
can appeal within 10 days.
The violations filed yester-
day included: Lack Of fire
doors. stairways that were not
inclosed, insufficient numbers
Of exits from rooms and lack
Of fireproofing.
The violations handed Mrs.
Hunt, who operates q home at
1925 Georgia avenue NV, in
cluded lack of fireproofing, lack
of closed basement Stairways
and lack of fire protection on
some walls. Mrs. Hunt, con-
tending that these violations
were corrected in 1858, showed
newsmen the improved sections
Of her home yesterday.
Il asked the officials to ex-
plain why these were carried as
violations" she said. But they
said their job was just to hand
me this notice. I will fight this
action and will try to contact
Roy Walt, a former inspector,
who inspected this work every
day while it was being done"
Urged by Council
Mrs. Hunt asserted that newly
appointed inspectors apparently
are responsible for issuing the
on work already per-
formed.
Rigid enforcement Of the
new regulations affecting nurs-
ing homes was recommended
Evening star., 1961-03-15

by the District Citizens Ad-
visory Council after a fire at
the Mount Vernon Nursing
Home on February / killed
seven bed patients.
C. T.. Nottingham, superin-
tendent of the District Licenses
and Permits Division, said all
the nursing home owners will
be given 80 days to show evi-
dence that they are making a
genuine effort to meet the
standards set by the new build
ing code. An owner who starts
work within 80 days will be
given a longer period to COM
plete the job If District officials
believe he is doing his best to
meet the code requirements.
District officials said some
Of the homes can meet the
new building requirements with
only minor alterations but that
enforcement Of the new regu-
lations probably will put a few
OF the homes out of business.
All Homes Served
Mr.. Nottingham said yester-
day the notices fo2 the six
homes that had been un-
licensed last year would be sent
directly to Assistant Corpora
tion Counsel Clark King today.
Mr.. King had said he would
Immediately ask or summon
the owners to come in so that
he could give them their
notices directly.
However, today the Depart
ment Of Licenses and InSpec-
tions decided to have its own
inspectors serve the notices on
all 18 homes.
The changes in the 1861 code
now being studied include such
proposals as requiring installa.
ton Of sprinkler systems and
internal fire alarm systems and
banning housing Of bed-ridden
patients above the second floor.
j. j. Ilgenfritz, director of
the Department Of Licenses and
Inspections, is moving now to
require compliance with the
1861 code under orders from
the District Commissioners.
Evening star., 1961-03-15
The
Rambler
. Recuptures
CIorksbure, N. Y.
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

~ SNA4OA1AAA1 AA4AN4NcDA
Eighteen-Mile Greek is the
rather unimaginative name
Of a small stream which
flows westerly across the
southern part Of Erie County,
N. Y, from the Boston hills
to Lake Erie.
1T has a northern branch
and a southern branch which
join at McGee's Mills be-
tween Hamburg and the
mouth of the creek near
Derby.
Although the North Branch
and the South Branch have
similar origins, no two
streams could be more diff
ferent. After it leaves the
hills, the North Branch
meanders through an almost
level prairie. The South
Branch, with little falls over
breaks in its slate bed and
pools below. courses its way
through a picturesque de-
clevity named Eden Valley.
But that wasn't the biggest
difference. The crunching ice
in the spring thaws, an awe
some thing to watch even on
a little stream, had carried
away the dams at the mill
sites on the South Branch.
Two dams remained on
the North Branch where the
fall per mile was not as
great, Schoepflin's Mill Just
above Hamburg and the
Pierce Mill at Water Valley
below the town. I remember
seeing local wheat ground
into flour at both mills-but
that was a long time ago.
The result Of the dams was
that they backed the stream
a mile or two into a narrow
;stagnant pond. Green scum
would form on the surface in
August. Our swimming hole
was right below the house
but we didn't like it.
1t had the very inelegant
name, The Suck Hole. That
was to scare little boys. We
told them that there was a
subSurface current at this
bend in the stream that
would drag swimmers under
all but the strongest-and
hold them there. A sort of
home town CharybdiS for
the unwily Ulysses.
Evening star., 1961-03-15

WE USED TO PLAY an
other dirty trick on the, little
kids. We made them "chaw
raw beef.'
Every student Of the phys
ical properties Of cotton
especially the housewife
knows that if you tie a tight
knot In a shirt, then dip it
in water, the swelling Of he
fibers will make it very diff
ficult to unite.
We didn't like swimming
there much. The bank was
muddy, the bottom was
muddy, the water was mud
dysAnd we didn't like swim
ming with the water snakes.
Funny thing about the water
snakes perfectly harmless
on land but deadly if they
bite you in the water. At any
rate that's what we believed.
When we got out and
dressed we were dirtier than
before.
The nearest clean water
swimming was Avery Farm,
an estate on the Lake Erie
shore, 4 miles away, which
had been practically aban-
doned by a wealthy Buffalo
family.
We walked it-not oftener
than once a week.
Then about 1912 we dis
covered c Clarksburg. We
thought we discovered it.
We'd heard about 1t. Well,
Marco Polo had heard OF
Cathay.
It was 5 or 8 miles, but
once we got there, we never
walked to Lake Erie again.
Evening star., 1961-03-15
.WuyCIeored
To Transfer
Waterfront


The Redevelopment Land
Agency today formally agreed
to develop the Southwest wa
terfront in accordance with the
plan prepared by Mrs. Chloe
thiel Smith. The action clears
the way for the District Com
misSionerS to transfer the wa
terfron land area to the agency
The RLA'S action was taken
in response to a letter from
Chairman Walter N. Tobriner
of the District Commissioners,
who said a deed transferring
the land would be executed as
soon as RIA accepted the Dis
trict'S conditions.
These conditions were in
formally agreed to early in
January, and include a prom
Use that RIA later will turn
back to the District, without
charge certain lands that will
be developed for public use in
seven plazaS.
John r. Searles, jr., RIA ex-
ecutive director, said that as
soon as his agency receives
title to the land, it "immedi-
ately" will send out eviction
notices to 20 business firms still
using the waterfront, as we'll
as to the Capital Yacht Club
and the Columbia Yacht Club.
A spokesman for the land
said now that the
agency is assured title to the
land it expects to begin "by
early summer" construction of
3 new bulkhead. Likewise
made possible, he said, will be
early negotiations with pros
pective developers of water
lrOnG SUES.
Bulkhead construction will
be preceded by testing borings,
10 begin shortly, and by clear
ance Of the waterfront land.
The new bulkhead will ex-
,end approximately SO feet
beyond the present bulkhead
line, and will substantially in
crease the available water
front area.
Under the plan developed by
Mrs. Smith for the Federal
City Council, eight waterfront
sites having a total of about
II acres are created, with pro-
'ision for three sites on piers
% extend partly beyond the
water line.
Evening star., 1961-03-15

Each OF the Districts 18
nursing homes was told today
it viii have to begin meeting
requirements of the 1861 hous-
ing code within 80 days.
Two Department of Licenses
and Inspection officials, armed
with composite lists of viola
tionS, served notice of the ac-
tion this morning. The move
was. taken In an attempt to
clarity, the Inuddled enforce
ment Of housing code violations
against nursing homes.
Today's action put all nurs-
ing homes in the District on the
same basis. It apparently
scrapped previous District plans
to prosecute six nursing home
operators for operating without
licenses.
Following the visit by the Of
ficials this morning, at least
one home operator pledged to
fight the action. Mrs. Pearl A.
Hunt. president of the Districts
Nursing Home Association, said
the lists of violations contained
many items which already have
met with approval Of District
departments.
Cites Own Case
Mrs. Hunt, using her own
notice of violations as an ex-
ample, said that, of the seven
contained on the list, she had
already complied with five un-
der the pre-1961 regulations.
The District put all operators
on notice that they had to start
from scratch to meet 1861 re-
quirementS. The two homes
holding the only 1861 licenses
issued were told that these Ii
censes would be revoked if they
did not correct the violations
within the 90-day period.
The action seemed to be an
answer to complaints from
nursing home operators that
only certain homes were forced
to meet all requirements Of
health, building and fire laws.
The notices were served as
q subcommittee Of District in
spection officials was engaged
Evening star., 1961-03-15
Charges Dropped
At z Nursing Homes

Charges that two Fairfax
County nursing homes violated
the Virginia fire safety regu-
lations were dropped yester-
day in county court.
Assistant Commonwealth At
torney Thomas Lawson said
he had been informed that fire
sprinkler systems would be in
stalled at the Ayr Hill nursing
home in Vienna and the Lee
wood Lodge nursing home in
Annandale to bring both homes
into compliance.