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, 1962-08-24
Truvel Executives
Coming Here On
Truvel Tour

Embassy tours or New FORK
City and Trans Caribbean
Always are cooperating with
local tourist interests in entain-
ing more than 20 leading travel
executives early next week
august 1920.
The study tour" visit to the
fast-growing Virgin Islands
and San Juan will give the
visiting agents a chance to
sample first-hand the attrac-
tions which have made the
islands of st. Croix, St. John
and St. Thomas a popular
Caribbean travel objective I'M
der the American flag.
Travel executives from New
York, New Jersey, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Con-
necticut, Virginia and Ohio are
included in the delegation.
Supervising the group will be
Miss Audrey Symons, Sales
Managerf for Embassy Holidays
in New York City.
Scheduled to arrive in St.
Thomas at 6:57 pm. on Carl
bair from San Juan Monday.
the Study Tour delegates will
be transferred to their head
quarters at Bluebird's Castle
Hotel.
Bluebird'S Manager Milan
Clumidge will be host at a
breakfast work session Tues
day at Sam. The visitors will
meet with transportation Off
cials, local tour operators, re-
personalities of the hotel and
gift shop organizations. Mrs.
Carmen Simmons, Deputy
Commissioner of heDepart-
ment of Commerce, will ex-
plain the unique appeals Of the
Virgin Islands and the distinc-
tive attractions and p%ersonali-
ties to be found on St. Croix,
St. John and st. Thomas.
The group will depart for
a sightseeing and hotel inspec-
ton trip at 10 am. Tuesday,
pausing at the Caribbean
Beach Hotel, the Island Beach
, 1962-08-24
Dog Convention" or
Whut Hove You
Takes Over Our Town

Although there has been no
official announcement, the
town has the appearance of
being host to a Dog Conven-
ton"
Some fifteen male dogs and
their queen Miss Dog Con
vention, have been crowding
the ever commercial Market
Street in Christiansted. Not
only is traffic being disrupted,
but their fights and baccanals
have reached a disgusting
peak.
Irate citizens feel it is time
town officials take action 70
end these diStaSteful scenes.
, 1962-08-24
Airport Committee
To Meet On
Wednesday,. Aug. 29


The St. Croix Airport Com
mittee Of which Attorney R. Ell.
Amphlett Leader is chairman,
is scheduled to meet on We'd
nesday, August 20 in the Gov
eminent House here, it was
announced today.
The Committee will dis
cuss the Government brief
sent to the Civil AeronauticS
Administration requesting that
permission be granted anoth-
er airline to fly between San
Juan and the Virgin Islands.
The committee feels that
the brief would be more de-
tr1mental than helpful IN
getting this approval. The shut
tie service has proven to be
very unsatisfactory, as far as
St. Croix is. concerned. There
are al present fourteen flights
to st. Thomas, but only four
to St. Croix, according to the
visitors and travellers who use
the airline now serving St.
Croix.
The brief submitted by the
Administration is said to be
weak and apparently not in
tended to secure favorable ac-
ton at all, several citizens said.
DR.. Alonzo Moron will
be at Government
House August 30th
Dr.. Alonzo G. Moron Of the
Housing Administration, will
be in St. Croix at the office of
the Governors Representative
on Thursday of next week, Au-
gust 30th, instead of WedneS-
way, it was announced at
Government House.
DIR. Moron can be seen dur
ing the regular Office hours.
, 1962-09-11
NOTICE

Examination for the certifi-
cate of Certified Public
Accountant will be held in
November, 1862. Anyone inter
'ested in taking this examina-
ton should file their applica-
ton by September IS, 1862,
together with a certified
check or money order for
$500, with Mr.. Norman Cis-
sci, President, VI. Board of
Public Accountancy, Box D,
Christiansted, st. Croix, VI.
, 1962-09-11
CALL FoR,BIDs

Sealed bids, in quadruplicate
will be received at the Depart
n.ent of Property and Procure
ment, Division of Procurement
Christiansted, St. Croix, US.
Virgin Islands until 100 AN.
September IA, 1862.
, 1962-09-11
PICK UP TRUCK

The Government reserves
the right to reject any or all
bids, to waive any i~nformality
in bids, and unless otherwise
specified by the Government
or by the bidder, to accept any
item in the bid.
Copies of invitation to bid
may be obtained from the Df-
vision Of Procurement, Chris
tiansted, St. Croix, U. S. Virgin
Islands.
, 1962-09-11
ONE MORE FOR THE COMMONWEALTH

ONE MORE O THE COMMONWEALTH
FOLLOWING closely behind Jamaica, two other former
British colonies have now taken their places (s one) in the
Commonwealth. The largest and most important British col
ony in the West Indies, Trinidad will go into the Common
wealth with better economic advantages than any other is
land. However, there is need for much Improvement, and
loans and other economic aid may be sought from the United
States. Sugar, cocoa, coffee, asphalt, and now petroleum are
among its principal products.
BUT Trinidad-Tobag has a problem the dimension Of
which cannot be accurately measured. Like in many another
colony the race question is a burning and dangerous one
Only here it is more 50. Of its population Of over 100000
43 per cent are of Negro stock, SO percent Indian, 10 pei
cent mixed, and the remainder is Chinese. Because OF the
finely drawn lines, natives have to be placed in a mixed
category, and more problems are added.
THIS IS NO simple matter, for the solution cannot come
through legislation. Racial differences are drawn so fine that
even a so-called mixed" group gets a designation, and is
therefore identhable as such, and become a factor to be
reckoned with. This will take time, careful maneuvering, and
the greatest possible skill
S IN H case of Jamaica, this new member OF the
Commonwealth has a Prime Minister who has grown up with
the system, and has had an opportunity to help guide that IS
land to its present independent status. DIR. Eric Williams is .
brilliant scholar who now has the challenge to bring about
the social and economic reforms of which he had no doubt
dreamed for many years.
AS TRINIDAD and Tobago launch forth on their road
Of independence, everyone wishes the very best, realizing that
the road ahead is a difficult one. Yet there are encouraging
SIGNS. With its natural resources used to good advantage, and
with sound leadership, this new nation has a glorious oppor-
tmity to become a great force in the entire West Indies
!
, 1962-09-11
MARIO LEWIS

Commissioner Of Property &
Procurement
Fer:
Alphonso RomneY
District Supervisor
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21
National Examinations
For u. S. Cousf
Guard Academy

The 87th annual examination for
admission to the U. S. Coast Guard
Academy at New London, Connecti-
nedy as second to none of its sis
ter academies" will be held Feb
ruary Is and 19, 1863 in over $50
cities of the United States, its pos
sessions and selected cities abroad
Appointments as Ca e t, Uni
ted States Coast Guard, are made
solely on the basis of competitive
examination and prospective adapt
ability to military life There are
no Congressional appointments or
geographical quotas.
On his visit to the Academy s
famous training barque EAGLE
during its August 1915 stopover in
Washington, DC, the President
praised the Coast Guard as ct h e
Oldest continuous seagoing S r
vice.. He also noted that the Coast
Guard Academy attracts able
young men from all sections of the
country who love the sea and who
recognize that the Coast Guard
has a very special opportunity to
serve the American people and our
country, not only in wartime but
also in peacetime. And there is not
anyone who has sailed any of our
lakes, or oceans, who has not
at one time or another been the
beneficiary of the faithful service
of the Coast Guard"
An applicant must be a h G b
school senior or graduate, who has
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21

cermets, the researchers say. A
blending of ceramics (oxides) and
metals, cerfnets are strong, take
rapid and gradual heating and fun
ction at very high temperatures.
Plastic windows for schools hive
been approved by the New York
City Board of Standards and Ap-
peals. An estimated $5OO,000 is
spent each year for protection and
replacement of glass, in city
schools.
Safest cars on the highway may
well be those with gahdy paint
jobs such as yellow andE blue, ac-
cording to the American Medical
Association. A car decorated in this
fashion makes it easier for. other
motorists to, judge how far away
it is, says the ANA
Adopted children in the us. in
creased ia per cent between 1914
and 1860, reports the Children's
Bureau. About 100000 children are
adopted in this country each year.
Hot-air balloon pilots licenses
will be tougher to get from now
on. The Federal Aviation Agency
has ruled that candidates will have
to demonstrate safe and proper
plotting techniques. The FAA was
alarmed by hundreds of persons
who obtained the licenses as a
lark, never intending actually to
fly in a balloon.
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21
THE WEST MUST NOT DIVIDE

To foster the economic unity and politi-
cal strength of the Free World, the United
States must stand forthrightly for an inter-
national economy in which both trade and
investments can move freely across national
boundaries
That is the view of top officer of one
of our great oil companies. He supplemented
it by pointing out that it would be ironic if
the Common Market, which this country has
strongly supported, should turn into an eco
nomically exclusive club and a vehicle of
economic discrimination against outsiders.
Economic ompartmentalization and politi-
cal division of the Free World, he went on,
would be a crushing blow to the West in its
struggle against the Soviet economic often
sive.
Long ago, one of our wisest statesmen
said that nation divided against itself cam
not stand. Neither could a divided West,
faced as it is by an enemy bent on the de-
struction of all free institutions, and quick
to seize on any weapon that will contribute
to that end.
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21
Hospital Births

The following babies were born
in this hospital:
September IL
Mr.. and Mrs. John C. Taylor,
fredericksburg, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Wright
Ocean View, boy.
September Is,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Baker, Red
den, boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Williams
Lincoln, boy.
MIR. and Mrs. Elwood Wright
fredericksburg, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert EdgertOn
r., Milton, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Priestley
Cannon, girl.
September IA
Mr.. and Mrs. William Raymond
Greenwood, boy.
September Is
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Workman
Milton, girl.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wilhelm, Eas-
ton, boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Bailey
Milton, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Fenwick
Georgetown. boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pagden, Mil
ford, boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Towson
FELTON,, girl.
September 16
Mr.. and Mrs. Newal Isaacs
Georgetown, boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Norman
Milford, boy.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Rust, Farm.
ington, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Owens, Lin
coin, boy.
|. Mr.. and Mrs. William Lofland
Harrington, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Cox, Eel
ton, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Freddie Walker
Milford, girl.
September IL
Milford, boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Williams
Georgetown, boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Abrams
Seaford, boy.
September Is
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Scott, Har
rington, boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Wiley
Milford, boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Walls, Mil
ford, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Hayt, Mil
ford, boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Wisseman
Milford, girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wright, Mil
ford, girl.
September 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Dutton, Ell
lendale, girl.
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21

mon once on a text from Matthew,
Chapter 25, Verses 1897. 1t has
saved me much money and much
trouble. When selling property, l
will warrant the title against any
'tclolId" occurring during my own
ership; but will never give a full
warranty going back to the In
diansl
When you give your own note,
you can get out of it by paying
same. If you have bought some
thing which you know is a losing
proposition, you can sell it and
take your loss with Uncle Sam.
But when you endorse a note, the
note goes to a bank or to some
third party and passes entirely
out of your control. The endorse
ment may hang over you for years.
Endorsements have no time limit!
Beware of them!
BUY A LITTLE STOCK
If the stock of the corporation
for which you are going ito work
is listed on the New York or the
American Stock Exchange, buy
one share of it each month and
have it registered i'm your name =
not in your wife's name If the
stock is selling for more than you
can afford to pay each month, buy
share once every other month;
but buy it regularly and sys-
ematically.
If the stock is not listed, buy a
share of the stock of one of your
local banks each month. You can
tell the treasurer or some other
officer of the bank that l have ad-
vised you to do this; he will get
the stock for you. Have this stock
issued in your name so you will
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY eIoine townsend Dickersor

which made the evening for all of
US, but being with the crowd, see
ing the drill team and having all
the family together was fun, too.
We all had Mysteries over Dawn's
calamity though. Out of the corner
of my eye l saw something drop,
Dawn stoop down and then saw
her perpleXed expression. When |
asked her what was wrong /
though / would just die when she
told me she had dropped chewing
gum from her mouth, 1t landed on
the mans coat on the bench i n
front of us and as she leaned down
to retrieve it he sat down at that
untimely moment At the next ex-
citing moment in the game all eyes
in our row were blued or STUCK
to one spot and sure enough the
gum extended from the mans BEN
ch seat to his seat. At the next
opportunity Dawn reached down
and scraped off as much of the
gum from his coat on the bench
as she possibly could. Well prob
ably see most of the games t his
year and l hope we enjoy them
all as much as we did that eve
ming.
1t was the same evening, Friday
that / received a phone call from
someone who wanted to know what
l was doing about a quarter of a
century ago. Since we have been
in this area I've had several phone
calls from agencies trying to sell
me unusual items and 1 thought
the female voice on the other end
was at it again and yet it sounded
a wee bit familiar. One firm has
called me four times in the past
year trying to bury me. Free
burial plot. / was about to hang
up on the phone conversation and
then thought well it might be
who l think it is and IF it is I've
been waiting for about twenty
years for this very phone call.
Finally the lady said, "Do you re-
member Florence Packwood Will
hams?" And with this announce
ment I screamed This voice be-
lOnged to one of my very favorite
high school teachers, my Girl Re-
serve counselor, and the widow of
my algebra teacher. Miss P a c X
wood, now Mrs. Boiling, lives not
too far from us and teaches Eng
lish at Suitland Junior High School
and is seriously thinking about re-
tiring one of these days in our
fair city of Milford / do hope to
see her real soon and will tell all
of you about her when l do. She
still gets our weekly papers to keep
up on most of your news.
Until next week
Always
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21
1924 Bound Brook
Alexandria, Va.

1924 Bound Brook
Alexandria, Va.
Dear Friends:
With the arrival of fall the Air
Force Officers Wives club of the
Washington, DC, area lis getting
back into action. My participation
with the club this year is in the
capacity Of a reporter for the
clubs paper. Last Wednesday it
was my assignment to interview
Mrs. John Mckee General Mckee
is Vice Chief of staff of the Air
Force and as you know his i'm
mediate superior is General LIE
May
/ had a ten-thirty appointment
with Mrs. Mckee at their lovely
brick quarters at Boiling Air Force
base. Washington is not new tour
for them since this is their third
time to be stationed here. Mrs. Nc
KEGS hobbies are bridge and golf,
but she has had little time to pur-
sure either having just arrived here
from Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio
this past July. She had painted,
sanded and "antiqued" several
several pieces of furniture in their
living room and this she claimed
was her only claim to being a n
artist. The McKee's have tw o
sons, both college age. One son,
Christopher, plans to be physicist
and is a senior at Harvard. T e
younger son, Bill, is a freshman at
Yale this fall and is studying busi-
ness administration and engineer
ing.
Next month the Air Force paper
will feature an interview with JAG
queline Cochran, who will speak to
our club in October. Sorry | don t
have that assignment too, but l
will be there to hear her address
and will tell you about it then.
Friday night all of us, except
Leslie, drove to Springfield, Va,
for the first football game of
Lynne's senior high. We made a
special effort to go to this one
since Lynne was performing with
the drill team There are fifty
some girls in the drill team who
do precision marching on the foot
ball field at half time. They al !
wear like-costumes carry G i a n
paper pom-poms and take t h e
w h ole exercise very seriously.
More than two hundred girls tried
out for drill team and they elimin.-
ated and eliminated until the fifty
remained.
Mother Dickerson was here to go
to the game with us and she was
most interested in seeing Lyn n e.
Dawn asked me prior to the game,
What are they playing?" She
didn't know if it was baseball, bas-
ketball or what Our team wo n
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21
AreheoIogists Find
Ancient Apartments

The First Skyscraper City of the
Americas has been looted in the
Mexican province of Chihuahua by
a team of Arizona Psychologists.
DR.. Charles di Peso, director of the
Ariz., says Casas Grandes C'big
houses") was a city Of 5000 to
10000 residents living in apart
ment buildings four and five stor-
les high with running water and
bunk beds. For reasons unknown
the city fell upon evil days and
died out about 1900 AID, long be-
fore the coming of the Spaniards
in 1865.
alone, one million persons contract
measles each year and beteen 500
and 700 die from the disease. This
is far more than polio kills. Chill
dren under five are principal vic
tins.
A new ultrasonic flaw-detecting
car has been introduced in Chica-
go to probe the nations railroad
track with sound waves to uncover
minute flaws. The Railroad Indus
trial Service Company cars will be
able to check thousands of miles
of steel rail each year. Flaw infor-
nation is presented to the opera
tor of the car on cathOde-ray
memory" tubes that retain the
image long enough to record it
permanently.
The Technology to build more
powerful, faster-flying rockets is
available in the us. but materials
that can take the punishment
aren't, according to research
team at Georgia Tech. One answer
might be new material called
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21
STILL CAPABLE

Numbers of members of Congress, say
Washington reports, were amazed, even
dumb-founded, at the public response to the
proposal to apply withholding tax of 20
per cent on income from dividends and in
terest. The volume of Congressional mail
soared-and the overwhelming majority of
the writers were 100 per cent opposed.
That fact brought an interesting COM
ment from the Mason City, Iowa, Globe
Gazette: Zone thing the volume of protests
over the proposed withholding tax on in
terest and dividends has done is to point
out how widespread capitalism is in the
United States today"
Apparently a good many of us fail to
realize that ownership of stock, for instance,
is no longer the province of the few but of
the many. Stockholders in American cor
porations now number about 16 million.
Most of them are in the middle-income
bracket-and many are in the lower income
brackets. These people would have been hit
hardest by the 20 per cent withholding.
Their effective tax rate-which is the pro-
portion Of total income paid in federal in
come taxes-is far below 20 per cent. They
would have been deprived Of important in
come, and would have had to wait for pro-
tracted periods before obtaining overpay-
ment refunds.
On top of that, something like 127 mil
lion people have interest bearing savings
accounts-and, again, substantial portion
of lower income families are in this cate
CORY.
The American people are still capable
of kicking up their heels when a manifestly
unfair legislative proposal is made. That
was the case, happily, with the withholding
scheme.
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21
1924 Bound Brook
Alex, Va.
CQDfomhpr 10 1862

Dear Friends:
How often I thought of our Kan
sas friends on Sunday as we drove
home to Milford. We hadn't even
planned to come to Delaware for
the weekend but Hayes talked to
George Williams via ham set Sun
day morning and it seemed like we
were missing too much by staying
in Alexandria and by $50 we were
homeward bound.
1t takes two hours almost to the
very second and by 1880 / was
standing in the front door of
Avenue Methodist Church waiting
for the end of the service so l
could shock Mother. And shock
her / did. She certainly didn't ex-
pect us home because we had
talked earlier on the ham set (thru
Phone patch") and / gave no in
dication of our trip then.
| don't believe any of us have
enjoyed a ride more than that one.
1t was just gorgeous day and a
beautiful ride. Maryland farmers
had cut their tobacco crops and
the browning green leaves were
hanging high in the lofts of their
barns drying. Every water way we
passed over was checked with
boats, motor boats in the Potomac.
a variety of boats at the Severn
River at Annapolis and hundreds
Iof sail boats in the Chesapeake. /
noticed at several triangular state
parkways pyracantha bushes had
been planted and these areas we're
flamed with orange berries. At the
road side markets we enjoyed see
ing baskets of apples, vases of
gladiolus and giant Halloween
pumpkins. And right outside of
Harrington we were especially i'm
pressed with the fall colors in the
woods. oh! how 1 wished for some
of those Topekans to see how
lovely our east coast can be this
time of the year.
Well. of course we come home to
be in Milford for the 175th anniver-
sary. Our time was all too brief to
Milford chronicle., 1962-09-21

see even half of the tour. l hadn't
been in the Parson Thorne Man.
sion since l was a fifth grader and
that was WELL. let's face it, twenty
some years ago. Dorothy Watson
McKnatt lived there then and I
visited her. Surely hope that the
valiant efforts of the Historical
Society paid off" and that that
lovely old home can be restored to
its original beauty And while I'm
on the subject the cheapest way
you can help with this project and
something that will increase in
price or value each year is that
History of Milford booklet. Each
copy is only two dollars and 1
wouldn't take any price for mine
| talked to Mills Hurley during
one of my jaunts home and he said
he was working until the wee
hours of the morning on his his
tory portion and you can believe it.
The whole book is so interesting
and every copy should be gobbled
up. Former residents of Milford
would love a copy so, send one to
friend.
"The Towers" hadn't seen since
l took tap dancing lessons from
Mrs. Elliott coach Elliott's wife)
back ''in the olden days. had
never seen the T. C. Collins home
nor DR.. Wild Marshall's summer
home so these two I did get to see,
but many of the others 1 had to
foregO. l like to "snoop" like all
other females but time just didn't
permit me this time.
Dawn brought a friend over with
her this Sunday and Candy" Jae-
ger was anxious to see as much
of Milford as she possibly could.
One part of our home town that
wasn't on the official tour was
Submarine. This sandwich is part
OF being east again to our children
and so for our Sunday snack Cam
dy and all of us had sub
1t really was a nice day. Prob
ably was especially nice since it
was not planned.
Until next week
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson