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Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
Governor Reluctantly
Agrees To c ON ply
With r equest OF
School Head Here.

Governor Ebert n Carvel has
reluctantly agreed not to appoint
Chester T. Dickerson, Milford
school superintendent, as a Judge
of the Family Court of Kent and
Sussex Counties.
Carvel made the decision after
Dickerson informed him he had
changed his mind about accepting
the ,500-a-year, 12-year job.
The Governor then announced
he will ask the Sussex County
Bar Association to recommend
three qualified attorneys willing
to accept the judgeship. He prob
ably will make his new selection
from among these names.
Dickerson telephoned Carvef to
say he had changed his mind
about accepting the appointment
after he learned that only about
one-fourth of the cases coming
before the court involves juve-
niles.
Carvel had said Dickerson's 35
years as a teacher and admins
traitor assured that he would do
an outstanding" job as a judge.
Dickerson informed Carvel that
he had decided, after reconsider
ing his acceptance, that he can
better serve the community in his
present position as MilfOrd's top
school officer
In a statement issued after
Dickerson's decision, Carvel said
that he sincerely regrets that
Mr.. Dickerson will not be avail
able for the appointment. l be-
lieve he has splendid qualifications
and would have made an excel
lent judge"
continued on page siX)
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
New Squadron Is
Welcomed To Dover

The 949Sth Air Force Reserve
Squadron, Delaware's oldest Air
Force Reserve unit, was officially
welcomed to Dover Air Force
Base last week by Colonel White
ford c. Mauldin, 1607th Air Trans
port Wing Commander.
Following the welcoming cere-
monies, the first training program
was inaugurated by Colonel Har-
ry S. Bishop. Air Force Reserve
Sector Commander. assisted by
Lieutenant Colonel Roy NJ
Scrutchfield, Staff Liaison Officer
Colonel Scrutchfield is a resident
Of Dover and has been active in
Reserve affairs at Dover AFB for
many years.
The Squadron, commanded by
Lieutenant Colonel William d..
Schfeinsberg, had been stationed
in Wilmington, Delaware, since It's
organization in 1948 The move to
Dover AFB is in line with current
Air Force Reserve policy of train
ing on or near active installations
wherever possible.
Continued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
AL Humes Is
Elected Mayor
OF Milford By
Big Majority
Vote On Mayor Was $50
To 332 With Humes
Carrying Every Ward
In The City; Two
COuncilmen Elected.

AlphonsO Humes, retired hard
ware man and former secretary of
Milford Council, was elected May
or of Milford on Monday evening.
Humes polled $50 votes to cap
ture the post held by Roy f. Pet
tyjohn, who was not a candidate
for reelection. Also seeking the
seat was Councilman Brainerd
Poore, who received 332 votes.
Two new councilmen were also
elected, David e. Clements, Jr.,
winning the seat in the Second
Ward, and James Cannon, Jr.,
capturing the post in the Third
Ward.
Clements defeated Leslie Blades
POS to 130. 1t was a close race
in the Third Ward where Cannon
polled Sc votes; Charles Bradley,
40. and Harrison Lynch, AS.
George Adams had held the
council seat in the Third Ward
but, like Pettyjohn, was not a can
didate for recollection.
Humes is eletced for a two-year
term. Councilmen in Milford are
elected for four years.
Widely known throughout Della
ware, Humes is a former moder-
ator of the New Castle Presbytery
and a past president of the Pres
byterian Men.
OF the 2,200 eligible voters in
Milford, only 1,076 visited the
polls.
Clements, a native of Kent
County, Maryland, has lived irf
Milford since 1928. He was grad
uated from the Milford High
School and attended the Univer-
sity of Delaware.
He was Lions District Governor
in 1860 and 1861 and has been
active in Milford and District Club
fund raising.
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
State Legion
A Auxiliary u y
Met Saturday
Group Was Entertained
At Dover Home OF
Mrs. George Ehinger,
Chairman.

Mrs. George Ehinger, Child We'll
fare Chairman for the American
Legion Auxiliary, Department of
Delaware, entertained Unit Pres
idents and Children Welfare Chair
men from throughout the state at
a luncheon at her home on Kings
Highway, Dover, Saturday.
Following the luncheon, a meet
ing was held in the Murphy
School. Mrs. Ehinger announced
the Child Welfare Theme this year
is: Americas Youth--Our Flu
ture", also the purpose of the Child
Welfare program is to preserve
the Integrity of the home and to
maintain the Whole Child Pro-
gram" and to cooperate with and
strengthen other sound agencies
Tor the good of children.
She also stressed the need of aid
for the handicapped children, also
substitution of youth OppOrtuni-
lies for Juvenile Delinquencies.
The Units were asked to sup
port the National Foundation,
March of Dimes, the Easter Lily
Sales and the Easter Seal pro-
grams. Also continued help for
the Children of Migrant Workers
by supplying playboxes for chill
iren from to 10 years of age,
First Aid Kits and fully equip
9ed Sewing Boxes are also need
ed
Mrs. Earl T. Paris, Lewes, Sus-
sex County Vice President, asked
FOR bibs and bed jackets for Stock
'ey. The bibs may be made of ter
ry cloth or flannel: the bed jack
cts may be made from mems dis
clrded white shirts.
Continued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
Semi Annual
Dollar Days
In Milford
February 2-3
Local Merchants Are
Preparing For Annual
Mid-Winter Sales Fete,
To List Bargains.

Milford merchants are fully pre-
pared for semi-annual Dollar Days
which are scheduled to be held
here on Friday and Saturday of
next week, February and 8.
The Milford merchants are put
ling forth a mighty effort to make
his years mid-winter Dollar
Days the greatest sales fete ever
held in Milford
Early next week they are plac-
ing in the mails several thou
sand circulars which will go into
many homes in the lower part of
The state.
PlaTs for Dollar Days have
been developed and carried to
fruition by Wayne Kline, chairman
0f the Mercantile Division of the
Chamber of Commerce and Robert
H. Yerkes, Sr., secretary to the
Board of Directors.
In addition to the circular, there
will also be full 6-page section
in the next issue of the Milford
Chronicle, consisting of 14,112
lines of advertising, devoted in
its entirety to the many fabulous
bargains being offered by the mer-
chants Time is, also being pur-
chased on the Milford radio sta
ton and the Georgetown radio sta
lion to carry the messages of saw
ings into all parts of lower Del
aware.
Every potential shopper in the
downstate area and in adjoining
Maryland is enjoined to come to
during Friday and Satur-
day. February 2 and 3, and see
for. themselves that the slogan of
the Mercantile Division of the Mil
ford Chamber of Commerce =
Shop and Save in Milford
gains Galore in Every Store-is
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26

hlel III ISL 10 lilc dCtiulAhC loi
Delaware Mother of the Year accOl
chairman for the American Mothers
In an announcement made thi:
who desire to nominate an entry
contact her at 1903 Pennsylvania
blanks. She also advised that the
entry blanks may be obtained from
any one of the following commit
tee members: Mrs. Paul Mitchell,
Hockessin; Mrs. Jesse Loven,
Odessa; Mrs. Joseph Ennis, Smyr-
ma; Mrs. E. w. Buchanan, Dover;
Mrs. George Till, Rehoboth Beach,
and Mrs. j. Fred Miles, Seaford.
Contest rules provide that NOM
inees should have the following
qualifications (Which are to be
verified by family members,
friends, organization officials,
church groups or other sources) !:
l. That she be successful mo-
ther as evidenced by the charac-
ter and achievements of her indi-
vidual children.
2. That she be an active men,
Der of a religious body.
Continued on page twelve)
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
Home Gardeners Plan
February Course

Home gardeners are urged to
attend a special program at the
University of Delaware Farm and
Home Week, February 6, z, and
s. Ed Ralph, Sussex Associated
County Agent, says afternoon and
evening sessions on February
will deal with topics of interest
to home gardeners.
Ralph urges them to attend
these sessions:
lis p. m. House Plants-How
to Select and Care for Them" -
James Rathmell, Pennsylvania
State University. Mr. Rathmelr is
Continued on page seventeen)
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
The Delaware Play
Festival 20 Years Old

The Delaware Play Festival, one
of the oldest regional play festivals
in the United States, will celebrate
it's 2Oth anniversary this year.
In continuous operation since
1910, except for three war years,
the venture is jointly sponsored by
the University of Delaware Dra-
matte Center and the Delaware
Dramatic Association.
DR.. C. Robert Kase, chairman OF
the dramatic center, announced to-
day that this years festival Will
be held March % and % in Mitchell
Hall. Up to IS schools and eight
community theatres can be enter
ed.
Over 20 different schools and
community theatres from through
out Delaware and neighboring
Continued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
New Dining Hall
Planned At Wesley

The contract for construction of
new dining hall and kitchen at
Wesley College, Dover, has been
awarded to Clute Brothers, Wyom-
ing contractors, DR.. Robert H.
Parker, president of the college,
announced recently The award of
the bid is subject to approval by
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency, DR.. Parker said.
The new building will have fa-
cilities to seat 32S in a single
sitting and complete, modern
kitchen, on the first floor. On the
lower level, it will contain small
Continued on page five)
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26

nually by coordinating the states i
Smith was highly complimented
for utilizing the professional SER
vices of local agents and brokers'
and their companies engineering
facilities in drawing up this pro-
gram which was effected by in
suring state-owned buildings un-
der the new Public Institutional
and Property Plan; by combining
all state-owned vehicles into a
single, xperience-rated fleet; by
similarly consolidating coverage
on such equipment as steam-ta-
bles, heating and hot water boil
ers and the like, and by CONSOLE
dating alf insurance appropriations
in single budget under his own
control.
Apparently the Delaware Com
sioner's plan has taken root
throughout the country, not only
CONTINUED on page eleven)
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26


from fires which accounted for
about so per cent of the reduc-
ton of 16 deaths last year as COM
pared with six in 1860 and five the
year before.
There were 10 fewer deaths
from home fires-nine in 1861, and
19 in 1860. There were 13 in 1859.
There was only one. death from
suffocation in the 1861 totals, as
compared with six in 1860 and five
the year before.
The largest category of deaths
again last year, as in preceding
years was falls. There were Is
last year, the same number as in
1860, and there were 80 in 1859
Other causes of home accidental
deaths in 1861 were: burns, one ::
poison, two; electrocution, two;
and hanging, one. The council
continued on page twelve)
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
Citv Council Held Partial
Reorganization Tuesday
NeU Mayor, Councilmen SlUorn In At Meeting At
Vale-WHliams Memorial City Hall; Certain
Officers Elected As PrOUided By Statute

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Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
Insurance Commissioner
Smith Gets Recognition

Smith Georgetown
compmenting him saving the
of million dollars
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
DeIu1Uure Set Excellent
Record For HON Safety

Deawareans reduction nome
reported yesterday
safety hal
fatal accidents IN 1901 as
before
Significant deaths
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
For Mother
of Year, Due March lst

acceptance of nominations for the
ding to Mrs. William n. Cam, state
Committee.
week, Mrs. Cam urged all those
for the 1862 statewide contest to
venue, Wilmington, for nomination
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Drive On to Restore Old Senate Rooms
By GRACE BASSETT
Star staff Writer

Senators today puzzled over
how they could convince the
House that restoring two his
Itoric chambers would inspire
Americans visiting the Capitol.
Plans for restoration we're
lost in the House two years ago.
Then, the Senate cleared an
appropriation to recreate the
Senate chamber where Daniel
Webster GRATED and the Su-
lpreme Court rooms where Oil
yer Wendell Holmes and John
Marshall sat.
Both these rooms are in a
center section of the Capitol.
Senator Stennis, Democrat
Of Mississippi, asked a Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee
for 100000 to tear out parti-
tions concealing the "tremen-
douS beauty" of these old
rooms.
II don't believe you could
find anything anywhere equal
to these old chambers for the
hundreds of thousands of peo-
pie, who could get, through
restoration, at least a glimpse
of the beauty that has gone
into making America great"
Senator Stennis said.
Presiding Senator Pastore,
Democrat of Rhode Island,
agreed. He recalled an elderly
constituent who had touched
every chair in the old Supreme
Court chamber, much changed
since its construction. Then
the elderly visitor broke down
and cried like a baby, Senator
PaStore said, to think that he
he had been given an oppor-
tunity to stand on such hal
lowed, historic ground.
But the Rhode Island Sena-
tor suggested that a more
modest sum to get the project
started with plans and specifi-
cations might be more practi-
cal.
I'm interested in results,
too. said Senator Stennis. He
left the legislative technique up
to committeeman.
Originally the Senate met in
a room of two-story height in
the old Senate wing of the
Capitol.
In 1906. the Supreme Court
which had been sitting in a first
floor committee room, was
promised a permanent cham
ber. President Thomas Jeffer-
son directed the raising of the
floor of the old Senate chamber
Evening star., 1962-04-26
86Cubon Refugees
Going to Jersey

MIAMI, Fla, April IS (AP).
- Eighty-six Cuban refugees
will be flown from Miami to
Newark, N. j., May / in the
fourth resettlement flight of
South Florida's thousands of
exiles from Castro Cuba.
A chartered National Air
Lines plane will take the group
to New Jersey in search of jobs
and new homes. The refugee
party is being sponsored by
the United Presbyterian Church,
Synod of New Jersey.
More flights are scheduled
during May and June. Groups
of exiles will leave Miami May
6 for Chicago, May % for Bos-
ton, and June 6 and Is for Los
Angeles.
Previous flights took exile
groups to Cleveland, Chicago
and Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Dick Clark Murries
Former Secretary

PHILADELPHIA, April 26
(AP) Dick Clark, star of tele-
visions American Bandstand,
married his former secretary,
Loretta Martin, in a quiet cere-
mony at Calvary Methodist
Church last night.
The Rev. DR.. Luther H. Ko-
tells performed the simple cere-
mony. Mr.. Clark's manager,
Edward L. McAdams, was best
man. Mr.. McAdams' wife was
matron of honor.
Mr.. Clark, 80, of suburban
Wallingford, divorced his first
wife last November after nine
years of marriage. It was the
first marriage for the Canadi-
an-born Miss Martin, 25, who
lives in Sharon Hill.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Bomb Scare Disrupts
Anti-Red Investigation

LOS ANGELES, April 26
(APO-A bomb scare yesterday
sent members of the House Un-
American Activities Committee
hurrying into the street where
$50 persons were picketing
them.
An anonymous caller tele-
phoned the switchboard at the
Federal Building and warned:
"A bomb has been put in the
building and will go off in 25
minutes. It'll blow you to king
dom come"
The four Congressman con-
ducting hearings here rushed
from the meeting room, de-
scended via a freight elevator
and left the building through
a basement garage.
All 2,100 of the buildings
employees and 700 visitors also
were removed. All filed back
Evening star., 1962-04-26

after authorities searched the
premises.
The committee heard IA
witnesses yesterday, including
Ben Dobbs, secretary of the
Communist Party in California,
and John Despol, administra-
tor of Local 2058, United Steel
workers of America.
Mr.. Dobbs said he refused
to testify and invoked the First
and Fifth Amendments of the
Constitution. The hearings are
closed and the committee has
declined to disclose its pro-
ceedings.
Picketing was orderly. There
were about $50 marchers, COM
pared to 400 Tuesday.
Officials estimated about 10C
picketers were against the
committee and so in favor ot
it.
Evening star., 1962-04-26

The Committee of 100 on the
Federal City yesterday opposed
plans of the District Highway
Department to accelerate
construction of two expressway
'projects-Routes 266 and 95.
Committee members urged
the National Capital Planning
Commission to reject as com
pletely premature" plans for the
two eXpressways.
The Route 266 project, the
so-called Potomac River free
way, would enter the District
from Virginia by way of a new
bridge at Three Sisters Island
and proceed to the central city
along the Georgetown water
front.
Route 95 would include, the
East Leg of the Inner Loop
and the Northeast F'reeway
1t would extend from the pro-
posed Interchange &C" at the
foot of Eleventh street NE.
north through the eastern part
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Bids to Be Sought
On 7 Road Links

The Maryland State Roads
Commission will advertise for
bids in May for two highway
projects in Montgomery Coun-
ty, one of which will become
part of the Capital beltway.
A 1.29-mile stretch of the
Cabin John parkway is de-
signed to link the beltway with
George Washington Memorial
parkway along the Potomac
River shore.
The second project calls for
construction of additional
ramps at the Germantown
interchange on Interstate High
way 10 between Washington
and Frederick. It is designed to
assist traffic movement to and
from the Atomic Energy Com
mission.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
McNumuru, Rusk
To Attend PurIey
By the Associated Press

Secretary Of Defesnse Nc
Namara will accompany Secre-
tary of State Rusk to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organi-
zation ministerial meeting to
be held in Athens from May 4
to 6.
The State Department dis
closed this yesterday in issuing
a list of the principal members
of the United States delegation,
headed by Mr.. RIsk. Others in
the group include Thomas K.
Finletter, the United States
representative to NATO, and
Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
NEW MISSION LATE IN LIFE
Stokowski Fornino
Another Symphony

NEW YORK, April 26 (AP).
Conductor Leopold Stokow-
ski has embarked upon a new
mission in a long and dis
tinguiShed musical career. He
is forming a new symphony
orchestra. D.
It is something he is pretty
good at.
A generation ago, he brought
the Philadelphia Orchestra to
prominence, a feat that linked
his name irrevocebly with
those of Arturo ToScanini and
Serge Koussevitsky as giants
Of orchestral mastery.
In this country he has con-
tributed to the development of
the Cincinnati Symphony, the
Houston Symphony Orchestra,
the Hollywood Bowl Symphony,
and the All-American Youth
Orchestra, formed here in 1914.
He has also conducted the New
York Philharmonic and the
NBC Symphony. among others.
In his native Europe, his
career has been equally broad.
The new ensemble will be
known as the American SYM
phony Orchestra, and during
its first season starting this
fall it will offer Monday night
concerts in Carnegie Hall once
a month. Tickets will be
moderate in price.
"The idea is great music for
everyone" said Mr.. Stokowski.
Mr.. Stokowski told a news
conference yesterday that New
York, which will get a new
orchestral hall at Lincoln
Center for the 1962-63 season,
can well stand another Or
chestra. It now has only the
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Kennedy to Receive
ADA Conventionists

President Kennedy will re-
ceive an Americans for Demo-
cratic Action delegation with
their national chairman n.
Samuel H. Beer, at noon to-
morrow as the organizations
18th anniversary convention
opens here
Jose Figueres, former Presi-
dent of Costa Rica, will speak
on the need for American lib
erals to get together with lib
erals in other countries at the
ADA banquet to be held at 7:3O
pm. Saturday in the Terrace
Room of the Shoreham Hotel.
The convention will continue
through Sunday.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Firemen Find
Five in Family
Shot to Death

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 26
(AP). The bullet-punctured
bodies of five persons, all men,
bers of the same family. were
found early today by firemen
who answered a call to the
home Of insurance salesman
Dewey B. York.
Mr.. York, 80, his wife and
their 3-year-old son, Don, were
found in bed in one room. Mr.
York's mother, Mrs. Lette
Plake, IA, was in bed in another
room, and Don's brother,
Benny, IA, was on the living
room floor.
DR.. w. j. Core, Davidson
County medical examiner, said
all five of the victims had been
shot. 1t. Howard Boyd of the
Nashville Fire Department said
the bodies also had been
SlaShed with a knife or other
sharp instrument.
The District Attorney Gen.
erals office said a .38-calibe1
pistol, believed to be the Staying
weapon, was found in the debris
of a bedroom.
1T was definitely a case of
arson to cover up MURDER" 1t
Boyd said. Authorities were
seeking a motive.
The four-room York home
in a modest residential Sec
ton of East Nashville, was only
slightly damaged by the fire,
which apparently started in a
stairwell into the basement.
Two billfolds found in the
back yard were studied for pos
sible clues, although police said
they doubted robbery was a
motive.
Evening star., 1962-04-26

Philharmonic and the Sym
phony of the Air, which has an
irregular schedule.
The first concert in Carnegie
Hall will be held October Is,
and there will be six in all. The
Carnegie Hall concerts will be
repeated in nearby areas, such
as New Jersey, Long Island and
Brooklyn.
A group of citizens has un-
derwritten the first year of
concerts. Mr.. Stokowski, whose
biographical sketch in Who's
Who lists him as rs years OF
age but who, many persons
think, is a dozen years older.
hopes the orchestra will be
able to expand in future years.
Evening star., 1962-04-26

up one level to make. two rooms,
one above the other, out of the
space.
The Senate sat in the upper
room, and the Supreme Court
in the lower, by 1910.
The British burned this Sec
ton of the Capitol in 1914.
They tried to destroy the court
room by setting fire to furniture
collected elsewhere and burned
by the bench.
But the chambers were re-
stored. Fairly complete records
Evening star., 1962-04-26

document the appearance of
the two rooms around 1860, the
period to be recreated by the
proposal explained by Senator
Stennis and Capitol Architect
j. George Stewart.
They hope to expose the
galleries where citizens watched
Senate debates of the last
century. These seats and sup
porting arches were blanked
out by walls, ceilings and floors
in the division of one chamber
Into two.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Michael Mok
Awarded $500
Lusker Prize

Michael Mok, a New York
newspaperman, today was
named winner of an Albert
Lasker Medical Journalism
award for his series based on
his personal experiences in a
mental hospital.
Mr.. Mok, on the staff Of the
New York World-Telegram and
Sun and a former reporter for
The Washington Star, was
cited for "his stories reflectlng
the highest, ideals Of crusad-
ing Journalism"
He entered the Kings County
psychiatric wards posing as a
patient to get his first-hand
accounts of the treatment of
mental patients and the con-
ditions facing the doctors, at
tendantS and their patients.
Mr.. Mok earlier had won the
Haywood Broun Award.
Other Lasker awards, which
include a $4,000 prize to each
winner, were announced. Gill
bert Cant, medicine editor Of
Time Magazine, was named for
his article on medical findings
on viruses. Television station
WEALTH, Baltimore, Md, af-
filiate of NBC, was cited for a
program on the problems of
mental retardation, written and
narrated by Rolf Hertsgaard
and broadcast on December II,
1861.
Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary
of Health, Education and We'll
fare, will address a luncheon
in New York on May 3 before
the Albert and Mary Lasker
Foundation. where the awards
will be presented.