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Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29
Twenty Years Ago.

'oken from the January z, 1912 Issr
Miss A. Blanche Derrickson,
formerly of Frankford, and
for the past 32 years MEM
ber Of the faculty at the Will
hanson School in Delaware
County, Pennsylvania, spent
a part of the Christmas hol-
idays with her brother-in-law
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
gan T. Gum on Thatcher
Street, Frankford. She was
enroute to her recently ac-
quired new home in st. Pc
tersburg, Florida. Her resig-
nation from the school as a
teacher became effective De-
cember 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Daniels,
Sr., announce the marriage of
their daughter, Irene Virginia,
to Mr.. David A. Houseman,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Houseman, of Glendale. De-
cember "a, by Rev. Ernest
Wright of Georgetown. The
young couple was attended
by Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Cow
erdale of Ellendale. Mrs.
Houseman is well known
throughout the state, having
entertained many organiza-
tions and groups with her
piano accordian. She is assO-
ciated with Masten Trucking
Company. Mr.. Housemdn is
associated with his father in
business at Ellendale, where
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29

Mr.. and Mrs. F. Leslie Bar
ker of Delmar, entertained the
latter's nephew, Dr. A. Lin
coin Dryden, Jr., instructor in
geology at Bryn Mawr Col
lege, during the Christmas
holidays.
Miss Ida Pusey, who is in
training for a nurse in the
Cooper Hospital in Camden,
New Jersey, spent a few days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Pusey and children at
Ocean View.
The State Board of Educa-
ton has confirmed the sale of
the old school building which
was sold to the town of Lin
coin for community hall,
and a number of the citizens
met on Monday evening to ar
range for future plans.
A dinner party was held
Sunday at the home of Cap
tain and Mrs. Quillen at Beth
ell. Guests were: DR.. and Mrs.
t. F. Cottingham of Seaford;
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Quillen,
Jr., and children of Philadel-
phia; Mr.. and Mrs. James E.
Quillen of Camden, n. j.; Mr..
and Mrs. w. G. Hurley, Mr..
and Mrs. R. P. Quillen of
B e h er and Miss Helen
Knowles of Seaford.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29

the young couple will live
after a ten-day trip to Flor
ida.
Graduated as full-hedged
apprentice seamen in the U.
S. Navy last Saturday at the
U. S. Naval Training Station,
Newport, Rhode Island, two
more Milford men are now
ready to take their places on
any of the ships or shore sta
tions maintained by the U. S.
Navy. Willard Paul Fisher,
Ill Franklin Street, an
Charles Peter Walius, r. D.
No. 1, are the two Milford
BIueiackets who have just
completed their basic naval
training.
Miss Lydia Bell Toadvine in
vited a group of girls to her
home on Lakeview Avenue on
Monday for a game of bridge
and refreshments. This group
of the younger set do not take
their bridge too seriously, con-
sequently they all had a grand
AFTERNOON of fun. The guests
were the Misses Jean Null
holland, Mary Pearce, Mil
dred Hammond, Barbara Mar
shall, Margaret Holzmueller,
Louise Murphy, Sue Munson,
Dorothy Pierce, Florence
Pearce. Jane Barnard and
Anne Townsend.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29
MILLSBORO

Church, Sunday, were presented by
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry E. Williams in
memory of their parents.
A bridal shower honoring Miss
Mary Lou Peterson was given by
Miss Elsie Cordrey at her home on
Friday evening. Miss Peterson Will
be married January 9th to Mr.
Dennis Hedtke of Minneapolis
Minnesota.
Students home for the holidays
were Pat Schumacher. Charles E.
Ellis School in Newtown Square
Pa; Harriet Nichols, Elaine Brit
tingham and Bob R k s.
Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. !;
| Grover Foster, Douglas Hudson,
David Shugard, Ronald Wootten,
Jack Windsor, Donald w ar d,
Elaine Bril-, Dorothy Hickman, and
Jack Bril-, University of Delaware ;
Buck" Goodwin, West Nottingham
Academy, Colora, Md; Diane Shu-
gard and Margaret Ann Tingle,
Delaware Hospital School of Nurs-
ing, Wilmington; Lois Mitchell and
Mary Ann Matthews, Madison Col
lege, HarrisOnburg, Va; Judy Hud-
son, Shepherd College, Shepherds
town, w Va; Jan Baker, Linden
Hall Academy, LititZ, Pa; Ewing
Timmons and Emory NJ it C h e |,
State Teachers College, Salisbury
Howard Hudson, Swarthmore Col
lege, Swarthmore, Pa; Pat Lingo
and Philip Messick. Frederick Col
lege, Portsmouth, Va; Daryl Nc
Cabe, Delaware Valley College,
Doylestown, Pa; Joshua Messick,
Wesley Junior College, Dover
Ruth Ann Kitchens Donna Law
son, Mary Lou Peterson, Pat Hy-
linski, Betty Lou West, Eta Hud-
son, Gerry Dorey, Terry Dorey
and Ralph Atkins, Goldey-Beacom,
Wilmington; and Josephine Peter
son, University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing, Philadelphia
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Jarvis, Sr.
and daughters, Jean and Jane. OF
Selbyville were entertained t
Christmas breakfast by Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman Jarvis, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs A Wayne Burton,
Mrs. j. A. Burton, and Mrs Chas.
R. Godfrey spent Christmas Day
with Mr. and Mrs Walter Kemp at
Stonehurst, Newport. Mrs Godfrey
was the Monday overnight guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward McIlyaine
at Stockley
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Letherbury
have returned to their home in
Easton, Md, after a visit with
their son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs Willis A. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Clifton of
Washington spent the h i a Y S
with Mrs. Clifton's parents, Mr.
and Mrs Arville Hall.
Bud" Timmons, who is station
ed at North Island, San Deigo.
California, is spending nineteen
days with his mother, Mrs Nina
Timmons. Also home for Christmas
was Mrs Timmons' daughter, Bill
lie Lynn, from Wilmington
Mr. and Mrs Enos Milligan of
Wilmington spent Thursday with
Mrs. Mae Carmine
Mr. Robert West of Philadelphia
visited his father. Mr.. Isaac West,
part of the holidays.
Mrs. John J. Davis has returned
from Nanticoke Hospital, Seaford
where she was confined several
days.
Mr. and Mrs Egil Garthe spent
the Christmas holidays with Mrs
Clara Young in Philadelphia
Mr. and Mrs. Davis Carlisle and
daughter, Mary Catherine. were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Benton Carlisle of George
town
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ferrier
spent the holiday weekend with
their son-in-law and daughter. Mr.
and Mrs John Fierro, and their
grandchildren, Donna Marie and
Johnny, Jr., in Wilmington.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29
The Past ] n Review
News As 1t Was Reported In The Chronicle
Forty Years Ago.
Token from the December 30, 1921 Issue

Token from the December 80, 1921 Iss,
Frankford now has electri-
cally lighted streets. Many of
the homes are also using cleo
tricity.
Miss Mary Grier had as her
guests for the Christmas
dance: Misses Louise Hurley
of Scaford, Katherine Penne-
will, Clara Frame, Pauline
Steele, and Helen Horsey of
Dover.
Thomas Bayard Heisel, as
sociate judge of Delaware
Courts, died at his home in
Delaware City, last Monday
afternoon, of valvular affec-
tion of the heart, following an
illness of six weeks. The we'll
known jurist was a lifelong
Democrat and one of the most
prominent members of the
Delaware Bar. He was SO
years old.
William Lank, Milton, is
clearing away the lot he re-
Gently purchased of Mrs. Sal
lie b. Massey, corner of I'm
ion and Magnolia Streets,
preparatory to the erection of
garage thereon. j. T.
Crouch and Son, the present
occupants of the building, will
remove to the building adjoin-
ing the Sussex Trust Company
on January 1st.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29

foods, meals will be more enjoy
able, and you'll be more likely to
get the foods needed for good nu-
triton
Would you like to attend a series
of meetings to learn how to count
calories, keep diet records, and
learn new exercises? If so, call
your County Home Demonstration
Agent and ask her to tell you
about Controlling Your Weight
classes
Remember, it's not the will
power but h e "won't-power'
which insures a trim figure.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29

Aaron Watson, Benjamin
Potter and William Swanson
left here for Jacksonville,
Florida, where they expect to
be employed this winter.
Prof. Lawton Moore has re-
signCd his position at the Har-
rington High School and has
left for mis- new position at
Lansing, Michigan, with the
State Board of Health.
Herbert H. Fisher, carpen-
ter living near Lewes, met
with a very serious accident
last week at Millsboro, when
the stage on which he was
working, gave way, letting
him fall a distance of twelve
feet. He was at work on the
Delaware Trust Bank in Mills
boro. He is slowly improv-
ing.
Delaware SpOrtSmen boast
of some valuable bird dogs,
but George Thomas, a we'll
known sportsman of Milford,
is the posse3sor of probably
the peer of them all for Deia-
ware. His setter Fannie has
aroused mucn interest in the
vicinity of Milford. Her fame
resrs on her calling the mas
ter" which is rarely heard OF
in cases of bird dogs.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Sharp
are the happy parents of a
baby girl, born in Milford
Memorial Hospital on Decem-
Der 80. She will be called
Gail Lynn.
Word comes from Mrs. Craig
Robertson t h t Lieutenant
Robertson won his wings on
December Is, at Lubbock
Field, San Antonio, Texas.
They spent Christmas at Sag
inaw, Michigan, and are leav-
ing this weekend for March
Field, Riverside, California.
Mrs. William H. Warren is
with them.
Corporal Maurice E. Bless
ing, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Blessing, Sr., of Houston,
has been transferred to the
1912th AACS Squadron from
Hill Air Force Base, Utah. He
is a graduate of Milford High
School. Corporal Blessings
present organization, t h e
1912th Airways, and Air
Communications Squad dron
(AACS), is a unit of the ma
jor communications system Of
the u. S. Air Force. It's mis-
sion is to guide military air.
craft to all parts of the world
by radio means through the
operation of communications
facilities and navigational
aids along thousands Of miles
of airways.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29
-OOO-
WASH EVERY MOUNTAIN

A n A H E NJ, Calf. (AP) -
c eaned many mountains or
washed down a few rockets lately ?
It's a daily job at Disneyland.
The parks maintenance chief
says he just rolls a fire truck up
to the attractions and aims its hose
at the daily collection of CRIME.
There are also more routin e
tasks waxing floors, apin g
gum, washing streets, picking up
paper.
Even the job of cleaning up af-
ter carriage-drawin horses has a
Walt Disney touch: Joe Wong. a
52-year-old comic, sings as h e
pushes his cart and shovel.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29
Ten Years AGO.

oxen from the January a, 1882 Iss'
Mrs. Alice Eypel of Milford,
has announced the engage
ment of her daughter, Miss
Beverly Ann, to Mr.. Henry S.
Saunders, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry S. Saunders, Sr.,
of Milford, on Christmas Eve.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Tuesday of this week mark
ed the passing of the penney
postcard, a fixture in Ameri-
can life for more than sew
enty-five years. After 1901
a. M, January 1st, the price
was raised to two cents in
the first Of a series of in
creases in postal charges de-
signed to bring in an addi-
tional 120 million dollars
year to help get the Post Of
fee Department out of the
red.
Flames following the ex-
plosiOn of kerosene hot wa
ter heater swept through the
three-story Indian River Ho-
tel last Friday morning
wrecking the interior and
causing damage estimated at
$4,000 to $4,000. George Cor
drey had taken over the man.
agement of the 15-roOm frame
hostelry only a week ago.
Curt Spicer of Oak Orchard is
owner of the property, 10
Gated on Indian River Bay
about ten miles south of Re-
hObOth Beach. :
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29
PROJECT COMPLETED

WINNIPEG, Man. (AP) = Ducks
Unlimited, a conservation organ
ization, has completed it's largest
project to date, the Cumberland
Marshes project in northeastern
saskatchewan. 1t is designed to
have a flooded area of almost
$4,000 acres and 500 miles o
Shoreline
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29
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ABSOLUTELY!

LARAMIE, Wyo. Up - A sign
on the cash register at a local
cafe reads:
Absolutely No Credit"
Just below it is a second sign,
reading:
"All Accounts Must be Paid by
the 25th of the MONTH
Evening star., 1961-06-07
Lawmakers Described as frustrated
At Lack of Line on Kennedy's Plans

get a line on what alterna-
tives are being considered or
in what direction the PreSi-
dent may be intending to go.
Senatorial complaints have
been strongly stated to the
departments Assistant Secre-
tary for Congressional Rela-
tions, Brooks Hays. He is
the former Arkansas Con-
gresham whose attempted
peace-making in the Little
Rock affair cost him his
seat. He is liked by his former
colleagues but regrettably his
peace-making talents are
again inadequate for the job,
and he seems to have no in
formation whatever about
what is going on, If anything.
Even the Sweet-natured
Senator Aiken of Vermont
became disguised recently
and exclaimed that White
House-Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee contacts had
never been worse. 1t is on
people like him that the
President must rely if he
really hopes to maintain BIZ
partisanship in foreign af-
fairs.
What the Senators fear is
that the only people who
Evening star., 1961-06-07
DORIS FLEESON

Within minutes Of his re-
turn from Europe, President
Kennedy began a series of
polite gestures toward con-
gresSional leaders.
His condolences regarding
his conversations abroad
should help to soothe their
complaints that all they
know about foreign policy
is what they learn from re-
porters. His apparent inten-
ton of keeping Secretary of
State Rusk at home for
awhile should also prove
helpful.
His former colleagues of
Senate and House know the
President as a lone wolf;
they do not really expect this
characteristic to change just
because he is in the White
House. Where they have
principally been frustrated is
in his failure to work
through the State Depart
ment channels to which they
also have access.
Senators have had little,
luck with the top echelonS
at State. They come, they
are polite and they talk, but
they have little to impart.
1t has proved impossible to
Evening star., 1961-06-07

selves at the close of the war,
he replies merely that we are
provocative" in not admit
ting that our rights are not
rights at all.
It is as though two men
tried to reach some compro-
mise on various issues be-
tween them, but the second
was willing to discuss matters
only by declaring again and
again that any point made
by the first was only raised
to make trouble"
The President, therefore,
has returned with two vital
purposes. First, he intends to
make absolutely clear to the
people, and more than once,
where we really stand with
our Russian antagonists in
the Cold War. Second, he in
tends to make every possible
appeal, over and over again,
to Congress and country to
forget all that divides us and
draw together on what must
unite us: The need for a gen.
uine strengthening Of our
whole national position, at
home and abroad.
He is determined to try to
develop a true bipartisanship,
or unpartisanship, on the
great affairs before this Ma
ton to a greater extent even
than did President Eisenhow-
er and to a far greater ex-
tent than did Presidents
Roosevelt and Truman.
It was no accident that
Mr.. Kennedy's first act on
touching down at an out
lying air field here was to
take into his helicopter to
the White House with him
the Republican leader Of the
Senate, Everett Mckinley
DirkSen of Illinois.
Mr.. Kennedy and Senator
Dirksen have not in the past
been exactly warm buddies.
But, fortunately, neither will
be prevented by that trifling
fact from encouraging and
assisting a responsible BIZ
partisanShip now.
Indeed, 1t may be predicted
Evening star., 1961-06-07
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Kennedy tells the Nation of his travels. It's true he
almost sat in Mrs Khrushchev lap but he wants it under
stood that at no time was he in Khrushchevs pocket.
Harry Truman signs on for 2s Tv shows He will
grapple with hstoy-and already odds are threeto-
one against history.
Republicans rtated. They say the people refuse to
blame Kennedy for things that go wong-and they insist
Eisenhower holds the patent on this arrangement
This is the time of year when the commencement
orator looks into of faces and wishes he had
gone into the cap-and-gown business.
The Vienna conference advanced the two-Chna policy
Khrushchev will keep Red China ally but he comedies
the West has quite dish in Mrs. Kennedy.
The Supreme Court whacks the Communist Party in two
decisions. The court admires the 15year-old anCo-
munst speeches Of Winston Churchl-and has followed
them with all deliberate speed.
Evening star., 1961-06-07
DAVID LAWRENCE
t Federal Power Over the States

Supreme Court has no such
power under our Constitu-
"An States are not required
by the Fourteenth Amend
ment to offer their citizens
the same public services and
facilities regardless of how
important and necessary
such services and facilities
may appear to be-"
The Florida brief goes on
to point out the variations in
laws between the States, in
both criminal and civil mat
ters, and the many deviations
as between forms of govern
ment among counties within
States. The brief adds:
"The Fourteenth Amend
ment does not guarantee
that all States shall have
identical laws, but it does
provide for the equal admin
iStration Of such laws as the
States may enact"
Finally the Florida Attor-
ney General quotes from a
decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States
(Bowman v. Lewis which
says:
THE Fourteenth Amend
ment does not profess to Sc
cure to all persons in the
United States the benefit of
the same laws and the same
remedies. :"
Certainly there are no uni
form State laws on all sub
jectS, nor for instance, stat
utes in all States forbiddins
the intermarriage Of certain
races.
1t could conceivably be
argued by the Federal Gov
ernment some day that in
termarriage of races is de-
sirable as a means of i'm
pressing the new African
states that the United States
has no racial barriers. Also,
it could be contended that
certain States don't appro-
pirate enough money for this
or that worthy purpose, or
that cities do not properly
take care of certain groups
of citizens, and that unless
the States come up to the
standards in such matters
set by a Federal dictatorship
in Washington, the States
will be accused Of being cir
rational" and of violating
the "due process" clause of
the Constitution. This could
reach into housing and ur-
ban development and put an
end to home rule by States
and localities in America.
(CopyrIght, 1851
Evening star., 1961-06-07
Khrushchev Position Now Believed
Excluding Any Rational Negotiation
WILLIAM S. WHITE

This country is between
a rock and a hard place
in the late Alben Barkley's
Kentucky phrase for a grim
and dangerous situation -
but at least it now will
shortly really grasp Just
where it is.
We have, of course, been
in no other kind of place for
a long time. But the great
and key difference, and
perhaps the only honestly
hopeful ray in all the clouds
above us, is that now the
people will know this far
more deeply than they did
before President Kennedy
met Nikita Khrushchev in
Vienna.
And the plain truth is that
even the President knows it
better than he did. For when
he actually engaged Mr..
Khrushchev head to head he
discovered in a uniquely per-
sonal way, through his own
eyes and ears, what had been
more theoretically and i'm
personally apparent before.
This is that NSr. Khru-
Shchev's line toward the
West has, if anything, aciu-
ally hardened rather than
softened since his blow-up
with President Eisenhower.
True, the Soviet dictator's
personal manners at Vienna
were not SO personally Of
fensive as in the past. But
the fact is-and this is stated
on undoubted authority-he
has now taken up a position
which if sustained will ex-
clude any possibility what
ever of rational negotiation.
For he now takes the view,
over and over, that the mere
sact of resistance by the
United States to any Soviet
action or policy anywhere
Berlin. Laos, or whatnot-is
in and Of itself simply pro
vocative" toward interna-
tional communism.
Thus, when we insist on
our established rights to q
place in Berlin, a place con-
ceded by the Russians them
Evening star., 1961-06-07
Conqress| Links With President

really have Mr.. Kennedy's
ear are his personal staff.
Such men are not available
to questioning by Congress;
cir give and take with
their chief is constitutionally
privileged, or so they have
always been able to main
tain. 9
To the political observer
no professors cabal seems
in evidence. What is clear is
that when the going is tough,
Mr.. Kennedy falls back on
his old friends and advisers
who have been rather rudely
termed the Irish Malta by
outsiders. The chief Of that
group is Kenneth O'Donnell,
special assistant and appoint
ment secretary, who accom-
panied him on the journey
just concluded.
These are the people who
listen when Mr.. Kennedy
talks to himself. If any Cab
met member or expert has
been able to crash the
charmed circle it is not
evident.
Just where the inner ten
sion between President and
Congress will break out is
unclear. A good guess is that
it will be when the negotia-
tionS on a nuclear test ban
break down, which should be
soon.
Evening star., 1961-06-07
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Kennedy Meets Soviet Hard Line

with total confidence that
the President will now seek
the assent Of leading Repub-
licanS to every major step
in the Cold War. 1t may be
predicted, too, that the White
House will discourage small
partisan political collisions
in nearly every area Of ma
tional concern for the fore
seeable future.
And there remains to re-
port one other important as
pect of the Presidents atti-
tude. While he intends to
warn the country unmistak-
ably Of the state Of this
world, he does not intend to
cry either panic or havoc.
For his meeting with French
and British leaders did genu-
inely cause him to revise
upward his private estimates
Of essential total Western
strength, if only 1t can be
put into true unison and so
maintained.
Evening star., 1961-06-07
RALPH McGILL
When Hitler Took Over Vienna

the days of protection by
Mussolini were ended. Hitler
was riding high. People did
not fail to note that a cold,
symbolic rain came down
with the night.
On the next day the peo-
pie voted. The polling places
were in schools. The efficient
Gestapo had prepared a card
index file on each person res
ident in the district. There
were even curtained booths.
But each ballot was num-
bered. And, of course, only a
person who wished to vote
"Nein" against the Anschluss
would wish to go into a booth.
It was much more healthy to
make a cross then and there
in the space designated by the
word "Ya."
That night three shaken,
weeping members of a family
said, 1--WE went there intend
ing to vote no. But we were
afraid. We were afraid"
They hated themselves for
it. But they were afraid.
That night, when the re-
suits were announced as SO
per cent "Ya," the bully-boy
toughs, with the swastikas on
their arms, fought. sang and
shouted in the beer halls.
Crowds of them marched
through the streets. arms
locked, with here and there
an excited girl marching with
them.
Hitler and his train depart
ed. He was planning then for
Czechoslovakia. The efficient
Gestapo and the administra-
tors remained. The terror be-
gan to clamp down.
This was Vienna at a peak
of Hitler's growing power
when everything seemed 60
ing his way. 1t was just %
years ago. At that time a rel
atively unknown Communist
functionary named Nikita
KhruShchev was learning how
to survive.