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Smyrna times., 1963-03-21

An Air Force pilot said "it
was like a ball of fire In my
lap" when lightning struck his
Globemaster during flight ov-
er Italy.
Capt. Jesse E. Scott told of
his reaction after returning to
the Dover base March IL.
The Flight left Adanna, Tur-
key, bound over the Mediter-
ranean Sea for Chateaurous,
France, with a nine-man crew
Feb. p. The aircraft had been
flying in turbulence on and off
for four hours when it was hit
by lightning.
81 first felt concussion and
then saw a flash which looked
like 1t was right In the cock
pit, !" Scott continued.
sit sounded as If my head
was inside a cannon when the
discharge occurred and my head
seemed surrounded by flames.
| was hit by the fiberglass
cover from the center wind
shield and it knocked my head
set off," Sgt. Kenneth ]. Skiles,
flight engineer, said.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21
Seni-Finalist
For Summer
AIS Program

AS a result of the prelimin-
ary selection for Americans
Abroad by the American Field
Service office In New York,
Smyrna's candidate, Nelson S.
Everhart, III, has been retained
as a semi -finalist for the sum-
mer program.
AFS does not guarantee that a
semi -finalist will be sent a.
broad. Selection of the can
didates is on nationwide basis.
Final selection is dependent
upon the families abroad who
offer their homes, as well as
the individual merit of the can
didates.
Placement for the summer
program will take place from
March through the end of May.
There is only one home
abroad available for every three
homes afforded the foreign STU
dents who come to our country.
If a home can be found for
him, Nelson will spend the COM
ing summer months as a MEM
Der of some foreign family.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21
Safety Committee To
Review Driver Program

privileges is adopted.
Lank said he has received
numerous phone calls since 1t
was disclosed last week that the
driving license of DR.. Hiram
Lasher, Millsboro veterinarian
and a member of the State
Board of Education, was re-
stored after only IA days of an
ordered o0-day suspension.
Lank said the license was
reinstated without the knowle-
dge of the safety committee.
"They can either keep or
scrap the policy of suspending
the licenses of speeders," he
said, "but whatever policypre
walls should be administered
uniformly throughout the state.
Lank said that at least two
members of the General AS
sembly--Senate President Pro-
tenn Curtis W. Steen, D-Dags-
boro, Senate Minority Leader
Reynolds dupont, R-Greenville,
have indicated they will attend
the meeting.
Lank said other Legislators
are welcome to attend If they
want to be on hand while the
policy that is to govern all
drivers is hashed out.
Also expected are Motor Veh-
icle Commissioner Russell w.
Whitby, the man who restored
Lasher's right to drive: 1t.
Col. Eugene B. Ellis acting
superintendent of state police;
William ]. Miller, Jr., highway
department director of opera
tions, and all staff advisers to
the committee.
Lank said officials of the
Delaware Safety Council will
attend and several other per-
sons with ideas on traffic and
highway safety have asked per-
mission to present their views.
Most of the meeting prob
ably will be given over to the
driver improvement program
and the problem of suspensions
and revocations, when to i'm
pose them and how long to keep
them In effect, Lank said.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21
To Sponsor
Detection
Center For
Employees

The International Latex Cor
poration and the Diamond State
Telephone Company are CO.
sponsoring a cancer detection
program next week for their
female employees and female
male employees and female
friends and relatives.
The program will be conduc-
ted In the Dover High Schools
auditorium next Wedne sday,
March 27 at 7:30 pm.
Doctor ]. F. Hays, medical
director for International La
tex and Doctor R. S. Ayerle,
medical director of the Diamond
State Telephone Company, will
conduct the program.
Included will be film slides
of patients with cancer and a
talk on the danger zones of can
GER by DR.. Ayerle. A movie on
the detection of cancer will
be shown.
The talk and film will con-
sumo about an hour and a half,
said E. P. Barrett, director
of industrial relations at La
tex. Barrett and William Beam,
the telephone company's Com
munity Activities Committees
chairman, are arranging the
program. Beam is also the
Diamond State Telephone Com =
pany's wire chief for all the
central offices in Kent County.
Barrett said that for many
years doctors have been eau
tioning us about the nations
Number 2 killer, and many
are becoming increasingly con-
vinced the best hope for immed-
late gains lies in greater use
of present diagnostic tools.
During 1868, cancer is ex-
pected to claim the lives of
275,000 Americans, 5000 more
than in 1861. Not only does in
creasing longevity expose more
of the population to cancers
dangers, but the rate of GER
tain types of cancer is tren-
ding upward" Barrett explain
ed.
The potential value of earl
Ter diagnosis is great. The
American Cancer Society be-
lieves $1,000 of this years
expected deaths might have been
prevented through earlier de-
lection and treatment. The pro-
blem has been In translating
potential into reality, he said.
Members of the American
Cancer Society of Kent Coun-
ty will also be present at the
program.
The program will be con-
cluded with question and an
swer session conducted by the
Doctors.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21
State To
Get Second
Sabin Dose
On Mar. 81

On Sunday, March 81. 1868,
from pm. to E p.m., the
second dose of Sabin Oral Vac
cine will be given to all Del
awareans from age three months
through forty years, at the same
locations scheduled for the first
dose, it was announced today by
DR.. Floyd |. Hudson, Executive
Secretary of the Delaware State
Board of Health. Those per-
sons who missed the first dose
on February II, may still take
the second on March 81, "Dr.
Hudson said. There will be no
charge for the vaccine, how
ever, a 25f donation will be
accepted to help pay part of the
cost.
"The "crash" immunization
program to wipe polio from
Delaware is sponsored jointly
by the Medical Society of Del
aware, the State Board of Heal
I'll, and the National Founda-
tion Chapters in Delaware. The
ultimate goal in 1909 immun-
iZation of all Delaware citizens
this year. The program will
not be repeated.
''It is essential that people
take the vaccine to protect
themselves, their children and
their community from the Grip
pling effects of poliomyelitis, +"
DR.. Hudson said. "The Sabin
Oral Vaccine gives eachperson
receiving 1t an excellent and
lasting immunity to polio. 1t
also prevents aperson from be-
coming a carrier since wild
polio virus is unable to grow
In vaccinated individual.
These are the advantages that
the newer vaccine has over the
shots of vaccine used In the
past. 1t is therefore, highly re-
commended that persons take
the new vaccine regardless of
how many polio shots they had
BEFORE" DR.. Hudson advised.
The Sabin Oral Vaccine will
be given in all public, private
and parochial schools on either
Thursday. March 28 or Friday
March 29. free of charge.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21
Carvel To
Send Refuge
Plea To
President

Gov. Ebert N. Carvel prom
ised at his news conference on
Tuesday that he will take the
battle of Prime Hook directly
to President Kennedy.
Insisting that he Is for con-
servation, Gov. Carvel express :
sed strong opposition to the
plan of the US. Department of
Interior to take hundreds of
acres of land from private own
ers for a game refuge.
81 do not think that Interi-
or Secretary Stewart Udall has
made his case here" "Gov. Car
vel told his press conference.
Prime Hook is In SUISSE
County along Delaware Bay and
1000 acres are involved. A
public hearing on the federal
proposal to establish a wild
game refuge there was held In
Milford on Feb. 81.
At his press conference, Gov.
Carvel outlined three major
reasons why landowners In the
Prime Hook area are opposed
to the federal plan:
IF ear that they will not get
adequate compensation for the
land that has been in their fam :
lilies for generations.
Uncertainty as to how the
federal government will treat
water levels which could ad-
versely affect nearby farms.
Cut off accessibility to the
area after 1t is established as
a wildlife refuge.
He also said that landowners
are not In favor of the whole
sale taking of hundreds of acres
of land by the federal govern
ment.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21

Windows In the pilots COM
partment we're shattered and
the planes radio components
we're burned, base officials
said.
Captain Scott and his crew
have been nominated for an
Air Force award In recog-
milton of their action in aver
ting diaster.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21
To Head Local
Cancer Drive

Mrs. Margaret M. O'Neill,
chairman, has announced that
plans have been set up for the
annual Cancer Drive in the
Smyrna-Clayton area whichwill
start April l6 at a kickoff lun-
cheon, and continue until May
A.
Mrs. Richard C. Price is
co-chairman; Charles M. Gee,
treasurer; Mrs. Ronald Nor
row, assistant treasurer; Rey-
nolds Pratt, chairman special
gifts.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21
Dover Base Plane Struck
BY Lightning Over Italy

Two of the planes four en-
gines we're finally restarted.
There was no confusion or
panic by any crew member,
Captain Scott said.
IL was thinking of how cold
the water was going to be-"
said End 1t. Robert w. Schorr.
The plane made an emergen-
cy landing at Naples, Italy.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21
Conduct Winter Bazaar

The Student Council at the
John Bassett Moore High School
planned and carried through the
Winter Bazaar, held In the old
gymnasium Friday night and
Saturday. There was dancing
on the stage of the auditorium
during part of the evening Fri
day, to music by the school
orchestra.
The bazaar was conceived
and executed by the students,
under the direction of their
advisers, with Hope Hutchison
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21

and George Wicks, as chair
men, and was the first venture
of its kind here. Charles V.
Williams, principal was the ad-
wiser.
Eleven separate groups
worked, erected the booths and
transformed the gym into a
colorful bazaar.
The organizations and school
clubs and their advisers from
the faculty taking part follow:
Senior class. Miss Jane Reed;
Continued on Page Four)
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21
Roberts
Right On
Levy Court
Disputed

The loser in the 1860 New
Castle County Levy Court ell
ection came forward this week
to dispute the right of the man
who defeated him to hold the
seat.
Democrat G. Lester Cleaver
filed suit Monday asking Sup
erior Court to make Levy Court
President Harry B. Roberts,
IT., Republican show by what
authority he holds his seat on
the county governmental body.
Basically Cleaver, who was
the incumbent Levy Court COM
mis- sioner when defeated by Ro-
berts, is legally challenging
Roberts contention that he is
a freeholder, a requirement to
hold Levy Court seat in this
county.
The suit, an action of quo
warrant, was filed at the office
of the Prothonotary by Cleav-
er's attorney, Harvey B. Rub
enstetn.
The attorney general, David
P. Buckson, is listed as the
nominal plaintiff in the case,
as required by legal procedure,
but Buckson made it clear that
he is no party to the action
otherwise.
Roberts declined comment on
the filing of the suit saying
he was not familiar with Its
contents since he had not yet
read it.
Cleaver alleges In the suit
that Roberts is not and has not
been freeholder within the
meaning of the law and there
fore cannot hold the Levy Court
office.
AS a result, Cleaver claims,
he rather than Roberts, is the
legal Levy Court commissioner
from the 3rd Levy Court dis
trict, comprising the lower five
hundreds of the county.
A freeholder under the law
is generally taken to mean the
owner of real estate. A con-
troversy arose last month when
it was learned that a search of
county records by a newsman
failed to turn up any evidence
that Roberts own lands In the
county.
Roberts, however, later pro-
duced deed to ol.7 acres of
land near Odessa which is own
ed by his wife. He said he had
an equitable interest in this
and adjoining lands which makes
him a freeholder.
The court case therefore is
designed to test whether or not
Roberts in the eyes of the
courts, a bona fide freeholder
in New Castle County.
Cleaver states In his suit
that:
"Based at least in part upon
a search of the public records
of New Castle County, my at
torney, Harvey B. Rubenstein,
has advised me, and therefore
upon information and belief |
allege, that defendant is not now
and has never been duly quail
ified under law to be Levy Court
commissioner from the Sd Levy
Court District of New Castle
County, in that he was not at the
time or election and /or at the
time of entering upon the office
and /or continuing thereafter a
bona fide freeholder of his dis
trict within the policy and mean
ing of" the law CTitle 9, Section
303).
In starting the suit, Ruben
stein formally asked the Su-
perior Court to permit the at
torney general to file the in
formation. He submitted pro-
posed order In which Roberts
would be directed to appear be-
fore the court.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21

The entire driver improve
ment program and particularly
the policy of license suspen-
sions and revocations will be
reviewed at meeting of the
state highway commits sion's
safety committee today.
Wilmington attorney Aubrey
Lank, Chairman of the COM
mittee, said he intends to see
that a policy of uniform appli-
cation of driving rights and
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21

A fraction more than 81 cents
of every dollar of Kent County
revenue is spent on welfare.
This is more than half mil
lion dollars.
No other county expense ap-
proaches this figure in the an
nual audit.
No other county expense fru-
strates county leaders as much.
Welfare costs more than is
required to operate county Of
fices.
No other county expenditure
causes such havoc in fin
nancing county expenses, be-
cause there is no way of pre-
dieting the payments.
Welfare is believed by many
county leaders to weaken the
power of county government,
and levy courts chafe under
budgetary limitations itcauses.
State welafre is run by the
State Board of Welfare and
aid payments to dependent chi
dren and general relief are au-
thorized by the agency. But by
state law the counties assume
the burden.
There is no way of knowing
exactly what these payments
will be, said Kent County
official.
Here is the county dollar
breakdown as members of the
Levy Court see it--for the fiscal
year ending last Nov. 80: All
welfare appropriations, $3.50, :
724.33, $40 per cent; depart
mental expenses, 87,068.29,
29.7 per cent; courthouse oper-
alton and maintenance, 500, :
$500, 90 per cent; debt SER
vice, $32,362.8O, 3.3 per cent;
Other appropriations, II, :
450, l.3 per cent. All other ex-
penditures, Sill, ,366.58, ID per
cent.
1t all adds up to a total out
lay from Dec. | in 1901 to
Nov. 80 Of 1866, ,487.66--nearly
million dollars--and more
than half Of it welfare.
The immense welfare load
borne by the counties reduces
the power of the levy courts,
some think. Fiscal control is
fiscal power, and the Kent Coun-
ty Levy Court is confined in
its economic movements since
more than SO per cent of its
budget goes to welfare.
In an apparent trend toward
active county government the
Kent Levy Court took office
In January tackling reassess-
menr, modern business ma
chimes for county offices, court
house expansion and planning
and zoning commissions.
But these cost money and the
debt limit set by the legislature
is near. The Levy Court must
go to the General Assembly to
extend this limit to put most
of above plans into effect.
Accountant Harold E. Rem :
ley, auditor this year, points
out that the State Board of
Welfare makes payments and
sometimes these can ruin a
county budget.
When this happens loans must
be taken out to finance normal
county expenses, Remley re-
members a study he did for for
mer Gov. ]. Caleb Boggs.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-21

GUESTS AT WHITE HOUSE LUNCHEON-President Ken
nedy host last Thursday twenty-five editors and publish
of Delaware and Maryland at White House luncheon
This of Of conferences with newspaper
called by the president exchange views state regional
and national problems
Ken Smith, third from right in above picture, of The Smyr
Times of the group from Delaware
The discussion ranged widely problems of unempoy
the program economic growth aid to small business,
Cuba subveson in Latin America and negotiations
for nuclear test ban
Kennedys chief concern that of rising
Evening star., 1963-05-20
By Ston Droke

bid Of two no-trump is highly
invitational, but not forcing.
With your CHASTITY hand you
cannot afford to accept any
invitations.
General Features corp)
Evening star., 1963-05-20

After years OF doing without
my proper share of sleep I can
at last report that the incom-
plete strip is more interesting
than the complete strip. Few OF
my readers can appreciate how
much painful research 1t took
to make this announcement.
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Opening lead: Heart queen.
South jumped TO six spades
TO avoid a complicated auction
with an inexperienced partner.
Fortunately, his partner showed
up with more than one ace.
The slam depended on guess
ing which opponent held the
queen Of diamonds.
The play would be easy II
dummy had four trumps and
only three clubs. South could
draw trumps, cash the top
clubs, ruff dummys other club.
Evening star., 1963-05-20
SHEINWOLD ON BRIDGE
Incomplete Strip Worth Examining
By ALFRED SHEINWOLD

cash another top heart, and
give up a heart trick.
The North South hand S
would then be completely
stripped. II diamond came
back, South would get a free
fineSse. If anything else, dunn
my could ruff while South dis
carded a diamond.
That's what bridge players
call a complete strip.
More Exciting
Since dummy has only three
trumps, South must rely on the
incomplete strip, more excit-
ing performance. South cannot
afford to draw all of the miss
ing trumps since that would
leave no trump in dummy for
the uff-discard play.
Instead, South wins the first
heart and draws only two
trumps. Then he cashes the top
clubs. ruffs a club, leads a
heart TO dummy, and ruffs an
other club. Finally, South
gives UP the heart trick. hop
ing that 1t must be won by the
player who is out OF trumps.
And so 1t turns out. II West
returns a diamond, South gets
a free finesse. II West returns
a heart, dummy ruffs while
South discards a diamond. De-
clarer gets to his hand with a
diamond TO draw the last
trump, and the slam is home.
Daily Question
Partner opens with two no.
trump, and the next player
passes. You hold:
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Answer: Pass. The opening
Evening star., 1963-05-20
WORD GAME
Find 10 or more words in
VEN Full

meaning "Vindictive". Average
mark is 16 words; time limit,
20 minutes.
Rules of the game: l. Words must
be Of four or more letters Q. Words
which acquire four letters by the
cats" are not used. 3. Only one
form of q word is used. 4. Proper
names are not used.
Answers to MANDAMENT
manned, name, made, mama, mate.
manta, madam, madame. mandate.
mama, maenad, mana, meant, meat,
mend, mead, meatman. adnate, amend,
amen, ament. ante, anna. anent, anita,
andante, Altman. named. neat, dame,
date, data, damn, daman dean, dent,
tanned. tandem, tanned, team tend.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1963-04-15

A man who usually takes a bus to
work oversight one morning and de-
cided to drive. AS he opened the ga
rage door he saw that the rear wall
the one his wife smashed when she
stepped on the gas pedal instead of the
brake-had not been repaired. He called
a carpenter after going back into the
house. ''You said that you would have
it fixed by noon yesterday, ne
stormed.
sLet me ask you one question, said
the carpenter quietly. did your wife
drive the car in the afternoon"
A swift-driving mOtOrist lost con-
troll of his car and ran into a tele-
phone pole. When he came to, he
was ON the ground, cIutching tele-
phone wires.
''Thank goodness" he murmured.
'It's a harp"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1963-04-15

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Simply slide tube end in coupling
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in Monfono by: Mountain Supply Coz
MissouIo; Morissette's, Inc.. Hardin;
and Yeoger Irrigotion Service, Conrod.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1963-04-15

A wife who devoted much of her time
to club and charity work came home
one night and found her husband darn
ing a pair of his socks. After watching
him for few minutes. she said: ''You
men will never learn You've got the
thimb1e on the wrong finger"
81 know he snapped back, lit should
be on yours.
The bank rObber showed a note
across to the teller which read:
s'Put the money i'm a bag, sucker,
and don't make a mOve.''
The teller pushed back another
note: 'sStraighten your tie, stupid.
They're taking your picture"
After busy morning spent trying to
catch tadpoles in a mudpuddle down the
road, little Ira came in and asked his
mother, ''Who am I?''
3sTarzan?' she guessed.
s"That lady down at the corner was
right" said Ira, amazed. ''She said
was so dirty my own mother wouldn't
recognize me-"
'sYOu haven't been salesman
very long," said a customer i'm a
large department store.
Puzzled, the salesman replied:
'HOw can you tell that, madam"
'sYOu still blush when you quote
the prices" she said
Evening star., 1963-01-22

the stakes program for the
May 9-July % meeting.
Thirty-four stakes will total
about $1,290,000 in added
money and approximately twice
this sum will be doled out in
the overnight" non stakes
races.
These figures can only be
estimated" lie Roy said, "as by
agreement with the horsemen
in California 40 per cent Of the
racing associations share of
the mutuel handle and breakage
goes into the horsemens' purse
account.
Last year we awarded a
total of $3,833,800 in prize
money and we are hoping to
exceed this record figure"
Four races for 100000 OF
more in added money again will
highlight the season. These are
the traditional $162,100 Holly
wood Golf Club July Is. the
Californian June /, the Holly
wood Derby July 6 and the
Hollywood Juvenile for 2-year-
olds July 20.
The $75,000- = added Sunset
Handicap winds up the meeting
Evening star., 1963-01-22
TVCoveruqe
Is Expanded
By Braves

MILWAUKEE,. Jan. % CAP)
The Braves, who ended q
nine-year holdout against tele-
vision last season, have an
nouced plans to telecast 2s
games, including five at home
In 1868.
Board Chairman William c
Bartholomay. leader of a Mid
west syndicate which purchased
the Braves from Lou Perrin for
SIS million a few weeks ago
said the five home games woulc
be telecaSt ION an experimental
basis"
Bartholomay said the games
will be telecast by Milwaukee
station WTMJ-TV, which plans
TO set up a Wisconsin network
Radio broadcasting rights To
all games at home and away
have been granted exclusively
TO station WEMP, which also
will arrange a Statewide net
work, Bartholomay said.
WEMP and radio station
WTMJ Of Milwaukee each have
broadcast all Braves games
since the club moved from
Boston In 1858. Perini, who
often expressed fear OF "over-
exposure" relaxed his TV ban
and permitted television OF is
road games last year, when
home attendance dipped below
the million mark for the first
time.
Bartholomay said that dates
Of games 10 be televised will be
announced later.
Evening star., 1963-01-22
WeightsListed
In Royal Palm

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. % (AP) -
Kenny Noe, jr., newly appointed
Hialeah Park racing secretary,
yesterday issued his first set of
weights for the $4,000 Royal
Palm Handicap for older horses
Saturday.
Noe assigned top weight of
1913 pounds to Ogden Phipps'
Hitting Away in the one-and-
one-half-mile tune up for the
richer Seminole and Widener
Handicaps next month.
The Argentine's Sensitive
drew 122 pounds, Sunrise Flight
120 and Porvenir I'd 199 pounds.
Other weights include Cat
eret, Ell Loco, Nickel Boy and
Royal Record, lit each; Jay
Fox, Loyal Son. Misty Day and
Try Cash, 116; Below Deck,
Dedimoud and Intercepted, lis;
Tutankhamen, ia; Pocosaba,
ll3; Eclater, Kilmoray, Rough
Note and Tin God, 112; Rob
Roy Sd, Ill; Fauve, Mister Pitt
and Wise Flushing, ITO; Com
109, and Tumulto, 108.
Noe succeeded the late M. C.
Ty Shea, who died January IL.