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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-03
By REJMAN MORN
Associate Press stafi writer

Senator Barry Goldwater Of
Arizona Is the runaway choice
IN q Nationwide poll Of Re-
publican presidential prefer
ences for 1864, taken by the
Associated Press smong Repub-
hcan State and county leaders
Of the 1.404 who answered g
QUESTIONABLE. l.194 or ISL per
cent voted Senator GoldwateE
the party's strongest candi-
date" against President Ken
nedy as Of today.
Fewer, however. believe SEN
Rtor Goldwater will be nomi-
mated. Here his vote was col
only ga per cent Of those who
replied.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
Of New York received S. votes
as the strongest candidate. ="
and Richard M. Nixon, the 1860
@. O.P presidential candidate.
received a.
Nixon Picked by 70
On the outlook for the NOM
nation, Mr.. Nixon had 70
votes to IS for Gov. Rookie
Teller. Moreover. Q stable num-
Der Of those who favor Sem
ator Goldwater for the nomi-
nation predicted that II q dead
lock develops In the nominal
ing convention Mr.. Nixon viii
emerge again as the @. o. P.
candidat4
The convention. scheduled to
open in San Francisco on July
Is, has q tentative apportion-
ment Of 1908 delegate votes.
The survey was started In
early October.
BY mail and telephone. As
ISOLATED Press correspondents
in so States polled 1881 Re-
publicans. including some city
and town leaders. In Alaska,
which has no counties. the ma
tional committeeman and COM
mitteewoman participated In
the poll.
OF the total queried. just
over Al per cent replied. Re-
publicans In New Jersey and
Hawaii declined to participate.
Opinion on 2 Points Asked
The QUESTIONABLE asked opin-
ions on two points:
/. who Is the strongest po-
tential @. o. P. candidate
against President Kennedy on
the basis of present conditioner
Why2"
2. Whom do you think the
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order to pressure Congress into
voting first for q civil rights
measure.
Representative Becker. Re-
publican of New York, said he
had a 'sneaky feeling that it
Is a delaying operation to keep
Congress in session until the
end Of this year to get other
bills through" He was refer
ting to the snail's pace Of ap-
pfopriations bills since January
and did not identify what
Other bills he had in mind.
=. Main Beneficiary
: Some colleagues commented
privately that they suspected
the civil rights bill might be a
main beneficiary In the House
They believed 1t would be
Helped by getting priority ovei
several regular appropriations
Hills which must be passed
before Congress adjourns.
EVEN II no bipartisan civil
rights bill had been approved
Jy the House Judiciary Com
mittee last week and even II
the Rules Committee slows II
down somewhat this month, its
progress already has been much
nster than Of most 1864 fiscal
year appropriations bills.
Only four Of those regular
hills have been enacted into
law. Two others have been
passed by the House and Sem
ate and await joint conference
meetings. Another three were
passed by the House but not
Yet by the Senate. Three more,
totaling Sill billion are yet to
come up to originate in the
Mouse.
Three Bills in House
The three still in the HOUSE
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@. O. P. Political Leaders
Vote $50 for GoIdwater

Hubert Humphrey. in the pri-
mary.
what do they say in New
Hampshire and Wisconsin
today?
OF 80 New Hampshire county
committeeman. 80 replied to
the QUESTIONABLE. OF these, %
picked Senator Goldwater as
the strongest candidate, and II
said they thought he would be
nominated. Two others said
they lean toward Senator Gold
water.
Mr.. Nixon and Gov Rookie
Teller each received two votes
as the strongest candidate, and
Gov. Romney had one. Three
said they thought Gov. Rookie
teller would be the nominee,
and Mr.. Nixon had one vote in
that column.
80 Reply in Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, 80 out Of ~
county chairmen replied to the
QUESTIONABLE.
OF these, % named Senator
Goldwater as the strongest
candidate. Gov. Rockefeller and
Gov. Romney each had one
vote. As to the probably NOM
inee. Is picked Senator Gold
water. and two mentioned Mr..
Nixon.
An unusual feature Of the
survey was the high percentage
of persons questioned-nearly
half-who permitted the use Of
their names. Generally, at this
stage. eight months before the
convention. politicians are wary
of speaking for publication
about their choices. Most Of
them prefer to wait to see
which way the prevailing polit-
ical winds are blowing.
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| party win nominate In 1884,
Why2"
Three other Republicans were
named several times IN an
swers to both questions Sen
ator Thruston B. Morton OF
Kentucky, Gov. George W.
Romney Of Michigan, and Gov,
William w. Scranton Of Penn
sylvania. Cited as potential
dark horses" were Henry Cabot
Lodge. the 1860 vice preSiden-
tial nominee. and Milton s.
Eisenhower. brother Of former
President Eisenhower.
Senator Goldwater topped
all the potential candidates on
both questions in every State
except New York. There. Gov.
Rockefeller received IS votes to
the Senator's 4 on the strong
est candidate question. and 10
to 2 on the probably nominee.
20 Answers In New York
Only 20 Of 50 who received
questionnaires in New York re-
turned them.
The response In California
also was inconclusive-l9 out
Of So polled. Most Of these, 16.
went to Senator Goldwater.
Mr.. Nixon. however, repeatedly
still has considerable support
in his home State. even though
he now lives in New York City.
New York has 90 delegate
votes and California IS.
On the strongest candidate"
question, Senator Goldwater was
the unanimous choice Of those
who replied in Alabama, Arr
iona, Louisiana, Mississippi,
South Carolina and Texas.
His vote in Oklahoma was
so to /. It also was lopSided
in Florida. Georgia. Idaho, n
linoiS, Indiana, Iowa. Mime
sofa. Missouri, Montana, Ne
braska, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota,
Tennessee. Virginia. West vir-
ginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
In some Of these States. how
ever. the returns were incon-
elusive. running less than one
third of the total polled.
In a presidential year. New
Hampshire and Wisconsin hold
the first primary elections
March 10 and April Z, re-
spectively, next year - and,
therefore. are closely watched
as potential political weather
vanes for the whole Nation.
Wisconsin Aided Kennedy
Gen. Eisenhower, although he
was still Stationed in Europe.
won a smashing victory in New
Hampshire in 1852. In 1860,
Wisconsin, often called "the
graveyard Of candidates" gave
Senator John F. Kennedy a
powerful boost by choosing him
over q Midwesterner. Senator
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Appropriations Committee are
the foreign aid bill as well IS
the military construction and
the public works bills contain
ing projects for many congress
sional districts. Before Congress
adjourns it also viii have to
pass a catch-all supplemental
money bill.
Ordinarily such q logjam Of
appropriations bills would side
track practically any other
major legislation so late in q
session. In this instance. how
ever, the pileup Is principally
in the Senate where the civil
rights bill apparently has a dim
chance Of adoption before 1854.
Moreover, the House would
not be unduly tied UP by the
remaining appropriations bills.
The foreign aid bill, for exam
pie, could be taken up soon
after final passage Of the
House-approved authorization
bill being debated in the Senate
this week.
Schedule Uncertain
Whether House leaders plan
to schedule the foreign aid
appropriation bill before dis
posing Of the civil rights bill
was uncertain yesterday. Some
members believed the aid bin
might be the last debated In
the House this year.
Failure to come anywhere
near enacting all the 1864
appropriations bills at the start
of the fiscal year, July /, has
forced Congress to pass three
stop-gap resolutions thus far
Ito continue financing Federal
departments and programs.
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Agency Funding Delay
Moy Speed Rights Bill
By ROBERT X. WALSH
Star staff Writer

: Congressional sowness in passing Federal budget bills for
the fiscal year which began four months could hasten
House action civil rights bill
Legislative leaders and Appropriations Committee members
declare planned that way They deny they deib
aey holding back departmental allotments In
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28

Youngsters get bird's-eye view of Smyrna
firemen battling marsh fire at Woodland Beach
Monday afternoon. The blaze was caused by
setting fire to dump and endangered six cot
tages and tavern Volunteers were at the site
over two hours.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
Nominations
To Federation
Posts Listed

Howard A. Casseday of VIII
mington's 9th Ward Democratic
Club was chosen Friday as
presidential nominee of the
Federation of Democratic
Clubs.
The committee also proposed
a resolution to amend the con-
stitution to permit the election
of a vice-president at large
who would, in effect, be the
presidential nominee next year.
G. Francis Downs of Clay
ton, assistant secretary of
state, was named as the first
vice-president at large. If the
resolution is passed, Downs
would be the next nominee for
president.
Under the proposed resolu-
ton, the vice-president at large
would be the assistant presi-
dent; and would automatically
become the presidential nomin-
ee when the presidents term
expires.
This years convention will be
held April 6, at the Dover High
School auditorium and will be
followed by the annual banquet
In the school cafeteria at6p.m.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
Outdoor Fires Keep Smyrna
Volunteers Busy Over Weekend

Large crews of volunteers of
the Citizens Hose Company
we're kept on the run over the
weekend, with three alarms on
Saturday and Sunday, TWO of the
fires caused by carelessly tos-
sed cigarettes and one by the
burning of trash.
Firemen numbering between
thirty-five and forty-five re-
sponded. Theywere called to the
properly of William ]. Dixon,
2l6 North School Lane at l:0l
pm. on Saturday for grass
fire caused by a tossed Gig
arctic.
Two alarms were sounded
within TWO hours on Sunday, the
first at l2:l5 pm. for grass
fires which started in field
near Walkers School and
spread to the woods on the pro-
perty of Eutice Waters; then
into field and woods owned by
Anthony Gajada, and thence to
that of Howard Slaughter.
The fire was believed start
ed by a tossed cigarette by a
passerby. Forty-three men an
swered the alarm. They we're
called again at 2:25 pm. Sunday
to the property of John Ellis,
Cumbush Road where a grass
fire resulted from burning
trash.
The family had left home and
the blaze was noticed by a
neighbor as 1t had reached the
Ellis home, and the alarm was
turned In by a member of the
B. T. Spencer family who lived
next door.
A false alarm was sounded
at l:30 pm. Friday, caused by
men working on the electrical
system at the fire house.
BURNER FLARE UP
The volunteers of the Cit
liens Hose Company were call
ed out at 3:25 pm. on Monday
for a marsh fire at Woodland
Beach which endangered six
cottages and the Blendt Tavern.
The blaze came within inches of
the properties. 1t was caused
by setting fire to the dump. The
firemen we're at the site approx
imately two hours. The call on
Sunday was the third for grass
fires over the weekend.
Communications between the
fire house and the men az the
scene we're difficult because of
extensive activity throughout
New Castle and Kent Counties
on the fire networks.
MARSH FIRE
Forty-four volunteers of the
Citizens Hose Company respon-
ded to an alarm at $40 pm,
Tuesday to Smyrna Landing
where there was flare-up from
flooded oil burner in a house
owned by Harry Marshall and
occupied by Frank Truax, The
men returned to the fire house
at 6:20 pm.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
Board Seeks
Van Casken
Applications

The Smyrna Board of Educa-
tion is now accepting applica-
ions for the Van Gasken Schol-
arship which is presented each
year through income from a
trust of the late DR.. Francis
Van Gasken in memory of her
father, John Van Gasken.
The scholarship, an outright
grant of approximately $500 is
awarded annually. Applications
should be addressed to william
W. James. Secretary, Smyrna
Board of Education, Smyrna,
Delaware.
The award is made to grad
yates of the Smyrna Public
School for pursuing advanced
study with preference being
given to women who desire to
study medicine. The grant Is for
one year with payment In two
equal parts.
The dead line for applications
will be April l9, 1868.
Detailed regulations con-
cerning the award are found In
the March lo45 minutes of
the Board of Education Meet
ing. Interested persons should
write a brief statment of their
educational background, and
future plans. The institution
they expect to attend must also
be indicated.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
Helicopter Aids
In Air Crash Rescue

A Dover Air Force Base
helicopter joined with two Navy
helicopters Monday, (March 25)
In a mission which possibly
saved the lives of two men.
The men we're In single
aircraft which went down Sun
day afternoon In a swampy
wooded area 10 miles southeast
of Melville, NJ. First notice of
the downed aircraft came Mon
day morning when a third per-
son aboard It made his way to a
highway mile and a half from
the wreckage.
Dover was asked for assist
ance at HISS am. Monday. Ten
minutes later an Eastern Air
Rescue H-43B was airborne.
When the H-43B arrived at the
scene two Navy helicopters
we're lowering nearby but they
did not have a medical techni- :
clan aboard to lower to the VIC
tins. A ground rescue party had
also reached the wreckage but
conditions prevented them from
moving the victims.
The Dover helicopter lowered
Airman First Class Clyde A.
McClurd, a medical technician,
who administered first aid to the
two men.
A litter was lowered and the
more seriously injured patient
was strapped in. Five minutes
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
Smyrna Area Woman Being
Held In Death of Husband

ned off the light and sat in the
chair.
He was pronounced dead by
DR.. Harold Laggner of Smyrna
at $3.50 pm. New Castle County
Coroner Robert Hutchinson took
the body to Wilmington General
Hospital where an autopsy Sun
day revealed death from gun
shot wounds.
According to police Webster
had a son and three daughters
by a previous marriage, who
we're not living with him.
Mrs. Webster's l6 and Is
year-old daughters we're living
at the house but weren't home
during the shooting. Both are
staying with friends near Clay
ton.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
KentOn
Approves
US. Road
Project

The Kenton town board agreed
Tuesday night to let federal
state highway project come
through the town.
"We're going through with
it," said Raymond Faulkner,
president of the town board
and owner of a store that will
be involved In the rebuilding
necessary for the road.
81 have never opposed the
street," he said, today, "but
didn't like some of the ways
they went about getting the
right of way"
The project, backed by the
State Highway Department is
to widen and improve Delaware
800 from the Maryland line
through Kenton. 1t will elimi-
nate dog-leg at the towns
main intersection, where Della
ware IA crosses 800, by widen
ing the road through town.
The town board had refused
to sign an agreement with the
highway department and the
department had decided to go
ahead with the work stopping
at the town line.
"We've got to accept the con-
tract as it is" Faulkner said.
He said that his gas pumps,
which figured in the opposi-
tion, will be moved far enough
back from the street to meet
federal requirements. F faulkner
said his store is one of several
structures that will have to be
moved back to permit the Wild
ened street.
The project should be out for
bids within TWO weeks. The fed
eral government will pay one
half the cost of the work.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28

later the helicopter sat down in
a vacant lost opposite the Mel
vile hospital.
Minutes later a Navy copter
landed In the same lot with the
second victim. They too had a
litter In which the patient was
strapped in.
The second Navy copter
picked up Airman McClurd from
the scene.
Other members aboard the
Dover flight we're: lst 1t. Frank
w. Larson, rescue crew COM
mander, Capt. Ronald hgra :
ham, supervisor, and Airman
Third Class Andrew C. Papar-
ella, crew chief.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
b of ID Adds
C.E. Palmer
To Staff

The Smyrna Office of the
Bank of Delaware has announced
the recent addition to its staff
of Charles E. Palmer, III.
MIR. Palmer was born in Sal
isbury, Maryland, but moved to
Delmar, Delaware, at the age
of five. He received his educa-
tion in the Delmar Public
Schools and graduated from
Delmar High School in 1860. He
also attended Goldey Beacon
School of Business, in Whining
ton, where he graduated with
degree in accounting In 1862.
A member of the National
Guard, MIR. Palmer served In
the active army for six months
following graduation from Col
dey Beacon.
MIR. Palmer is married to the
former Alcinda Wellborn, of
Wilmington, and is the father
of an infant daughter, Sherri
Lynn. The Palmers reside at
208 Commerce Street, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
over two hours.

room and get a % caliber re-
volver.
Her story to police continues:
When Webster saw her with
the gun he grabbed baseball
trophy and Mrs. Webster fired
one shot.
The TWO struggled for pos
session of the pistol and seven
more shots were fired into
Webster's chest.
State Police said that in spite
of the eight wounds Webster
managed to get the pistol and
beat Mrs. Webster on the head
repeatedly.
They said she left the house
then and surmised that Webster
followed her to the kitchen
where he closed the door, uur-
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
Kent Hospital
Head Rotary
Club Speaker

Maurice w. ]. Abrahams, ex-
ecutive director ofKent General
Hospital, and president of the
Dover Rotary Club was the
guest speaker at the dinner
meeting of the Smyrna Rotary
Club Thursday night at The
Wayside Inn.
He told of the management of
hospitals in ngeneral, and specif-
ically of the service dispensed
at Kent General.
Officers to serve during the
l963-64 club year were elected
as follows:
James H. Everett, president;
Coleman Metzler, vice presi-
dent; William Matthews, Jr.,
secretary; Leroy P. Piper,
treasurer;
DR.. Peter Schaeffer and
Charles Duff, directors. They
will be installed at a future
meeting.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28

A Smyrna area woman has
been charged with second
degree murder for allegedly
shooting her husband during a
quarrel last Saturday night.
Mrs. Ann Webster, who said
she was beaten by her husband
before he died, appeared at the
Dover state police barracks at
8:45 pm. Saturday. Police said
she admitted shooting her hus-
band, Arthur E. Webster, 81,
a half hour earlier.
Troopers found Webster Sit
ting dead in a kitchen chair at
the couples home on County
Route 485 TWO miles north of
Smyrna.
He had been shot eight times
with a ID caliber pistol.
Mrs. Webster was commit
ted to New Castle Correctional
Institution under $4,000 bail
by Magistrate Sudler King of
Middletown.
Webster was a part-time
dairy farmer and former semi
pro baseball player. He work.
ed for the Southern States CO.
operative at Middletown.
Mrs. Webster was treated at
Kent General Hospital, Dover,
for cuts on the head which re-
quired IA stitches.
She told police she and her
husband had quarreled when
Webster told her he was leav-
ing her. Police quoted her as
saying she went into the bed
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
Grange To
Hear Morris

Carlton Blendt, chairman
legislation of the Smyrna
Grange, will be incharge of the
program on Thursday which
will follow covered dish sup
per at $50 pm. at Odd Fellows
Hall.
The speaker will be Herbert
Morris of Wilmington, re-
presenting the Bell TELEPHONE
Company, who will show films
of three types of broadcasting,
and explain the educational pro-
gram.
The meeting will be open to
the public at $3.50 pm.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
To Erect
New Parking
Lot Sign

Smyrna Town Council auth
orized the erection of a sus-
pended double faced entrance
to the municipal free parking
lot in back of the old Post
Office.
Town Manager Rex D. Gil
more listed all dirt streets and
alleys, totaling $4,000 square
yards of alleys. After discus
sion on their importance it was
decided that the town could do
three a year, until all we're
taken care of, when they get
plans.
Council reviewed the JIM.
Cleminshaw appraisals on new
construction.
The Citizens Hose Company
was authorized to start their
siren program, which includes
three additional sirens, with
permission granted the firemen
to hook up as needed.
The men reviewed dog regul =
ations of Dover and Middletown
and will give more study to the
possible adoption of an ordi-
nance.
Harry Thompson represented
the Smyrna-Clayton Junior
Chamber of Commerce at the
ses sion, a continuing project of
the Jaycees.
Councilman Guy M. Edmond
son, Jr. suggested as a project
for service clubs that of COM
munity betterment, with emph-
asis on the cleaning up of re-
sidents' properties.
Smyrna times., 1963-03-28
State To
Reweigh
Prime Hook
Backing

Inc olate Game and Fish
Commission has agreed to con-
slider a request by Sussex Coun-
ty landowners that 1t withdraw
its endorsement of the proposed
federal Prime Hook wildlife re-
fuge.
After a sometimes-heated
hearing Tuesday night, atwhich
the property owners presented
their case, the board said 1t
would announce a decision "in
two or three days."
The commits sion last month
unanimously endorsed the US.
plan for an ll,000-acre refuge
at Prime Hook Neck in Sussex
County.
AT a hurriedly called meet
ing here March 20 In Smyr-
ma Elementary School, 100 Kent
landowners voted SO to | In
support of Gov. Ebert N. Car
vel's stand on the refuge and
voted unanimously against con-
demnation of land, either by
state or federal government.
The federal government isn't
condemning land around Prime
Hook but a few persons at the
meeting said they have been
told by federal representatives
they would If they can't pur-
chase land.
Carvel has taken stand
that the U.S.plan for Prime Hook
should be delayed until the pub
lie is convinced of its need.
Houston Wilson, Georgetown
attorney and Sen. Walter ].
Hoey, D-Milford, spoke to the
group against the federal plans.
Invited to the meeting pre-
sided over by REP. Glen Busker,
D-Smyrna, were landowners of
coast and marsh land In Kent
County east of U.S.l3.
Several persons In the audi
ence claimed that the govern
ment is also trying to purchase
land around Bombay Hook Re-
fuge east of Smyrna and fear
and opposition to possible con-
demnation of their land was
expressed.
The Game and Fish Board
delayed a decision Tuesday
night after its president, c.
Parker Wheatley of Laurel,
said he wanted to investigate the
situation.
The delegation of property
owners was led by Houston VII
son, Georgetown attorney, who
owns land at the refuge site.
Wilson cited four principal
arguments againt the federal
proposal as the drainage prob
lens involved, the price being
offered for the land, the po-
tential recreation facilities In
the area and the future value
of the beach to SUISSE County.
The foreseeable potential
value of the land that would be
lost to the county, Wilson said,
is a conservative" $40 million
based upon the value of the
ground.
He said a potential drainage
problem is chronic In the area
and the federal government has
not made good on a prom
Use to provide engineering data
on how 1t will handle the situ-
alton.
The land is now used for
bathing, fishing and duck hunt
ing, Wilson noted, and said 1t
is naturally adaptable for re-
creation. He called 1t a prime
area for future tourist attrac-
lions.
The US. plans we're defended
by Eugene Crawford chief of the
federal Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice and James w. Carr, realty
agent for the federal agency.
Crawford described the
Prime Hook area as ''bio-
logical chain" which must be
preserved to maintain the val
ue of the marshes for refuge.
Regarding drainage prob
lens, he and Carr said an en-
cheering survey would be made
before the land is developed.